Not wanting to or it being hard isn't an excuse to not comply with a valid FOIA request. Finding email correspondence is a pretty routine thing that they should be able to handle. If we truly had checks and balances in the system they would be punished for failure to comply.
I rooted my last phone for a while. My phone really couldn't handle the newer stuff since it was not powerful enough. I'm at a point where I really am not going to take the time to worry with rooted every device I get. It would be nice to get updates directly from Google or if the carriers would update timely. It just isn't important enough to dedicate my limited time to rooting and updating myself.
Normally I would agree with this. However, the military in general slants a specific way politically which makes it less likely to have a fair and impartial jury relative to what sampling of the general population would provide.
The UCMJ is not bad overall. It does have some screwy things that crop up here and there though.
I'd rather the content creators and the distribution stay separate. This goes even for companies that I enjoy such as Netflix. There is just too much conflict of interest down the road when one company is both.
It would be interesting for the school to charge directly for it. For tax purposes you are allowed to include costs for tuition but not for books. If it is a fee charged by the school it could then be allowed for taxes. If you are going to get raped over the prices of books it would be nice if they were deductible.
I'm torn on what I would do in this situation. A hammer would probably be the first course of action on it assuming I didn't ask the mechanic to drill through the middle of it to begin with. Keeping it or trying to sell it is just stupid. They would just intercept it somewhere along the way and it would be gone. Putting it somewhere else isn't clever or funny, it is the same as just handing it back to them.
The smartass in me would love to have the scenario where when they came asking for their "expensive" toy to tell them to pay him $500 or something for it. That would get into selling stolen goods though and is therefor no good as well.
In any event, why in the hell would he have spoken to the FBI when they showed up? Why would anyone talk to the FBI without a lawyer unless they were reporting a crime (and maybe need one even then)? Any authority figure telling me I don't need a lawyer is the equivalent of a neon flashing sign saying "don't say another word until you've spoken with a lawyer."
They need to treat ISP companies like they do the telecos. Aren't the teleco's required to lease at wholesale prices their lines to any other teleco to provide service? This would get us out of the one or two providers per area problem and add competition. Another alternative would be to have the municipalities treat the 'last mile' cable the same as other utilities and lease the lines to whomever would like to provide service. The lack of real competition and lack of anyone being able to deploy wire to the homes is what keeps this situation like it is.
I play games to have fun. Part of that fun when playing with others is an even playing field. Games, unlike life, have rules to make things fair. Buying your way changes that. I do not play games that put the unfairness of life back into a game. For now, there are still plenty of other games that play within the sandbox just fine that will get my time/attention/money and I can ignore games that do this.
I locked my parents' computer down to a user account only. The amount of trips I've had to make to fix it since then have drastically been reduced. I do have to remote in and install something every now and then for her, but I can then make sure they don't end up with toolbars and other crap.
Two weeks after I did this my mom called and wanted me "to install facebook." While I found this funny and explained to her it was a webpage that didn't need to be installed, she actually had a file she got emailed called install_facebook.exe she was trying to run. I am so glad I had locked it down to not allow her to install anything.
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Perhaps the variety of bullshit crap they pull has eroded the public trust in the department. Many of the police in the jurisdictions around Austin end up on the poop list of most of the civil rights organizations for a reason.
The most recent story I recall had one of the news stations showing a ton of cops rolling through red lights over a 24 hour period (think one light had 13-15 cops run the light). None were responding to a call and only a handful actually flashed their lights. In any event, when not responding to a call they are forbidden to do what they did. Acevedo basically said he wasn't going to discipline anyone over it and the public should not worry about it since cops have a rough job.
Crap like this is what leads to the comments he doesn't like and rightfully so. If he quits acting like a tool maybe some of this will decrease.
If you read the article, it says something about them thinking some of it is departmental employees. It sounds more like they are on a witch hunt than any real "eroding of public confidence" claim.
The person above that mentioned virtualization probably has the best idea.
We have a machine at our office that is 8 years old. It is not connected to the internet or network. Its sole function is to run our dated door lock system. The software runs on Windows 98. It will not run on an XP machine. The upgrade to the software is $3,400. Management is not willing to spend that money just to lock/unlock the doors. We have no backup and it took us bit to get a usb drive up and running on it so we could back anything up. Ultimately we decided to get a new xp machine for it and just run a virtual instance of Win98. It works like a champ and we can simply save the virtual state for backup to a file.
The article says this is in committee and probably won't see action before congress lets out for the session. So, this is just another bill destined to die in committee. I'm glad someone is willing to try and push this though. We just need more people to support this so it can move from concept in committee to law. This is the tragedy of this story, but the fact that someone is still trying is better than nothing.
Like others have said, the searches are a huge waste of government resources. They might catch the random computer-ignorant kiddy porn collector, but they aren't going to magically stumble onto some great conspiracy with a random laptop check.
I think the point is there have been several games in the past that were going to just publish with SOE and maintain all control of development. These all ended up with SOE doing the development. They can say what they want, but their track record speaks differently.
I've been a FF fan since the very early FF games. There isn't any knowledge of the story since each game (barring a couple of direct sequels/prequels) has its own world and story. There are simply themes and character names that appear typically across the board.
For me, the story, music, and characters bring the story to life. It is much the same as reading a good book or watching a really good tv series. Just like some authors prove themselves time and time again that what they write is good, the FF games have shown that they can create good characters with a good story. Some of their games are better than others, but overall they have all been enjoyable.
I haven't been a huge fan of the direct sequels (FFX-2), but some things have potential. I both liked and disliked having the same license board in FF12. It would be neat to be able to have specialized boards for different character types. I don't know that I'd spend $40-60 to buy the same game again just for it though.
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Oh please yes! Get the Google employees here in the suburbs so they expand Google Fiber out to where I am.
Not wanting to or it being hard isn't an excuse to not comply with a valid FOIA request. Finding email correspondence is a pretty routine thing that they should be able to handle. If we truly had checks and balances in the system they would be punished for failure to comply.
Make it a percentage of executive pay.
I rooted my last phone for a while. My phone really couldn't handle the newer stuff since it was not powerful enough. I'm at a point where I really am not going to take the time to worry with rooted every device I get. It would be nice to get updates directly from Google or if the carriers would update timely. It just isn't important enough to dedicate my limited time to rooting and updating myself.
Maybe in 2-3 years the wireless carriers will even update their software to 4.1. Most phones being sold now still are on 2.3.
Normally I would agree with this. However, the military in general slants a specific way politically which makes it less likely to have a fair and impartial jury relative to what sampling of the general population would provide. The UCMJ is not bad overall. It does have some screwy things that crop up here and there though.
The article reads much like the tactics used by the RIAA as well. File suit with instant offer to settle for way, way less than the cost to fight.
sent out a ton of invites to those listed above
I'd rather the content creators and the distribution stay separate. This goes even for companies that I enjoy such as Netflix. There is just too much conflict of interest down the road when one company is both.
"Egypt called up the 5 or 6 ISPs in the country and said "SHUT. EVERYTHING. DOWN"" So, Egypt is Madagascar now?
It would be interesting for the school to charge directly for it. For tax purposes you are allowed to include costs for tuition but not for books. If it is a fee charged by the school it could then be allowed for taxes. If you are going to get raped over the prices of books it would be nice if they were deductible.
I'm torn on what I would do in this situation. A hammer would probably be the first course of action on it assuming I didn't ask the mechanic to drill through the middle of it to begin with. Keeping it or trying to sell it is just stupid. They would just intercept it somewhere along the way and it would be gone. Putting it somewhere else isn't clever or funny, it is the same as just handing it back to them. The smartass in me would love to have the scenario where when they came asking for their "expensive" toy to tell them to pay him $500 or something for it. That would get into selling stolen goods though and is therefor no good as well. In any event, why in the hell would he have spoken to the FBI when they showed up? Why would anyone talk to the FBI without a lawyer unless they were reporting a crime (and maybe need one even then)? Any authority figure telling me I don't need a lawyer is the equivalent of a neon flashing sign saying "don't say another word until you've spoken with a lawyer."
or we could just declare ISPs to be telecoms like they are and be able to enforce against them the same as we do for the other companies
They need to treat ISP companies like they do the telecos. Aren't the teleco's required to lease at wholesale prices their lines to any other teleco to provide service? This would get us out of the one or two providers per area problem and add competition. Another alternative would be to have the municipalities treat the 'last mile' cable the same as other utilities and lease the lines to whomever would like to provide service. The lack of real competition and lack of anyone being able to deploy wire to the homes is what keeps this situation like it is.
I play games to have fun. Part of that fun when playing with others is an even playing field. Games, unlike life, have rules to make things fair. Buying your way changes that. I do not play games that put the unfairness of life back into a game. For now, there are still plenty of other games that play within the sandbox just fine that will get my time/attention/money and I can ignore games that do this.
I locked my parents' computer down to a user account only. The amount of trips I've had to make to fix it since then have drastically been reduced. I do have to remote in and install something every now and then for her, but I can then make sure they don't end up with toolbars and other crap. Two weeks after I did this my mom called and wanted me "to install facebook." While I found this funny and explained to her it was a webpage that didn't need to be installed, she actually had a file she got emailed called install_facebook.exe she was trying to run. I am so glad I had locked it down to not allow her to install anything.
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He claims that 'such posts erode public trust in the department.'
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Perhaps the variety of bullshit crap they pull has eroded the public trust in the department. Many of the police in the jurisdictions around Austin end up on the poop list of most of the civil rights organizations for a reason.
The most recent story I recall had one of the news stations showing a ton of cops rolling through red lights over a 24 hour period (think one light had 13-15 cops run the light). None were responding to a call and only a handful actually flashed their lights. In any event, when not responding to a call they are forbidden to do what they did. Acevedo basically said he wasn't going to discipline anyone over it and the public should not worry about it since cops have a rough job.
Crap like this is what leads to the comments he doesn't like and rightfully so. If he quits acting like a tool maybe some of this will decrease.
If you read the article, it says something about them thinking some of it is departmental employees. It sounds more like they are on a witch hunt than any real "eroding of public confidence" claim.
I'd rather him win his appeal and be charged in the UK. Let them try him and lock him up. I'd rather not pay for his club-fed stay.
The person above that mentioned virtualization probably has the best idea. We have a machine at our office that is 8 years old. It is not connected to the internet or network. Its sole function is to run our dated door lock system. The software runs on Windows 98. It will not run on an XP machine. The upgrade to the software is $3,400. Management is not willing to spend that money just to lock/unlock the doors. We have no backup and it took us bit to get a usb drive up and running on it so we could back anything up. Ultimately we decided to get a new xp machine for it and just run a virtual instance of Win98. It works like a champ and we can simply save the virtual state for backup to a file.
I'd say they have a beta tester group the size of about 90% of the total market. Oh, you weren't referring to their "release" version....sorry.
Couldn't movie trailers be considered prior art to nullify this?
The article says this is in committee and probably won't see action before congress lets out for the session. So, this is just another bill destined to die in committee. I'm glad someone is willing to try and push this though. We just need more people to support this so it can move from concept in committee to law. This is the tragedy of this story, but the fact that someone is still trying is better than nothing. Like others have said, the searches are a huge waste of government resources. They might catch the random computer-ignorant kiddy porn collector, but they aren't going to magically stumble onto some great conspiracy with a random laptop check.
I was pleasantly surprised to find the same email (and submitted to Slashdot) on this. I look forward to continuing to use this feature.
I think the point is there have been several games in the past that were going to just publish with SOE and maintain all control of development. These all ended up with SOE doing the development. They can say what they want, but their track record speaks differently.
I've been a FF fan since the very early FF games. There isn't any knowledge of the story since each game (barring a couple of direct sequels/prequels) has its own world and story. There are simply themes and character names that appear typically across the board. For me, the story, music, and characters bring the story to life. It is much the same as reading a good book or watching a really good tv series. Just like some authors prove themselves time and time again that what they write is good, the FF games have shown that they can create good characters with a good story. Some of their games are better than others, but overall they have all been enjoyable. I haven't been a huge fan of the direct sequels (FFX-2), but some things have potential. I both liked and disliked having the same license board in FF12. It would be neat to be able to have specialized boards for different character types. I don't know that I'd spend $40-60 to buy the same game again just for it though.