Woohoo, it'll only be a matter of time before my IQ qualifies me for Mensa now because yes people are getting dumber and that was the point I was trying to make by equating 100 IQ with only 20% of the population.
I have no clue how someone can be pro-environment and anti-nuclear power. At least in the short term. Nuclear technology has advanced so rapidly and there are even designs for nuclear reactors where the capacity to 'meltdown' is virtually impossible to achieve.
As for solar plants, you seem to be thinking in terms of conventional power stations. The enviro-nazis have this one right, if you incorporate solar panels onto each home then the power load the house puts onto the grid is reduced by a good deal during the daylight hours when businesses and manufacturers are guzzlinig down electricity. As for large commercial outfits that generate solar power, they can hit higher efficiencies by concentrating solar power using things like Fresnel Lenses and Mirrors. Last I checked California has a large amount of desert land that people probably dont want to live on. Why not use some of that land to generate solar power.
Sadly, the litigation from USCG is going to cost him, so that $20/copy will hopefully cover his own costs, but I doubt it. USCG has every reason to press him as hard as they can, although I would hope that a decent judge would throw out the suit with prejudice. Sadly, that's unlikely to happen.
The free advertising exacerbates the problem as each of the other USCG litigants now has a $20 defense package available to them. Would USCG find an insane jury (possible, if it gets to trial) and some theory of law that multiplies the damages, then our courageous lawyer gets a multiplier to the damages for each $20 defense package sold.
The whole thing is fucking insane.
Except that unlike a copyright suit which the plaintiff has a (presumably) reasonable claim to damages. The $20 package is entirely copyright the guy who put it together. Also the guy is a lawyer and presumably capable of giving general legal advice in this fashion. I look at this as the equivalent of those 'Legal Will Kits' .
Basically the guy's $20 package probably educates the person being sued. They know that they should not pay these guys a dime and consult a lawyer and shines a light on their tactics in such a way that the layman can comfortably talk with which ever lawyer they retain to defend themselves.
Really if the legal letters include the term 'fine' I'd argue the same thing in a court of law. They'd be guilty of impersonating an officer of the court.
Yet everyone that has an IQ over 100 can see the 'terror threat level' is total bullshit... It's the other 80% of the population under 100 that is too stupid to realize these facts.
Before 9/11 this was an issue. Post-9/11 I dont think there is a real credible threat to air travel by someone's shoes, a person carrying a lighter or having a bottle of shampoo.
If anyone is acting suspicious or tries to take over the plane you got what is it 5 terrorists say vs 100-200 passangers. It used to be the passangers feared being shot as hostages. Now they have a more reasonable fear of being used to run into buildings and most people put in that situaationof their life or thousands of lives will usually step up. After all at that point you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by resisting.
Advantage of ARM over X86 is lower power consumption. They are prsumably at a point where they can replace an X86 with an ARM processor and both will be able to do the job. It's just keeping an ARM one on 24/7/365 is cheaper on the electric bill than a X86... At least that is how I understand it.
ARM Processors are in Netbooks and soon will be in Laptops. These devices get huge gains in battery life from low wattage CPUs. Also the more 'green'/energy conscious among us have started using ARM processors in personal servers and even some desktop machines (at least those ones which are not required to play heavy 3d games and stuff). Thus coming out with devices that can addrses 64-bits is not necessarily counter productive as they are likely aiming for a bigger segment of the netbook/notebook/desktop market.
Perhaps this will encourage them to leave their hardware designs more or less 'open' in the future. Seeing as how the Kinect has become the cornerstone of many projects across the internet. I'm sure Microsoft is makng a mint selling these things even if people are using them for hacking and stuff like robotics sensors.
Interesting Theory... If the Copyright Lobby makes it a legal precedent that copying = theft then you could very easily claim the government is stealing from you as they are accessing copyrighted material without consent of the rights holder. Something that would make them look very hypocritical to do while trying to support content providers to prevent people from doing similar.
Technically if the passwords/encryption codes were in your head you could make the case it's against the 4th amendment but clearly the contents of the machine and cell phones were not worth the potential stay in jail and court case. Unfortunately, I suspect that would be up to someone with child porn or something equally threatening to ones personal or professional life.
Yes but a cell phone makes you 4 times more likely to get into an accident. Conversing with someone in the car does not presumably because both sets of eyes are able to see the road and therefore the passanger usually knows when to STFU and let the driver concentrate.
If GPS knows you are at location A then 1 second later you are at location B, it candetermine acceleration and velocity. Typically my GPS on my phone is 'accurate to 3 meters' thereabouts. Sufficiently accurate to determine between being rouchly stationary or walking and going 60MPH down the highway.
I don't accept blocked/800/877 and Unavailable caller ID.
You might want to include 888 and 866 numbers in there too. Also the next block of area code toll free numbers is expected to be 855 so preemptively blocking those ones may be advisable as well.
"The true cost of piracy would probably be better estimated by figuring the average purchase rate for game players and then multiplying that by the percentage of people who pirate games. It gives much lower but more accurate and realistic numbers."
But thats exactly what industries DO NOT WANT... accurate and realistic numbers. It is far easier to throw out a 5 trillion dollar amount out there because the dartboard said so than to actually do work figuring it out.
If they dont have the money to pay this person, they certainly wont have the money to pay the 2-3 people that they would likely have to hire to replace this person.
If I were the person and I truly knew the company was cash strapped I'd accept things that arent immediate money... like stock options, extra vacation time, setting your own hours or telecommuting for some of those 60-80 hour weeks. The latter could save you huge $$$ in terms of gas expended commuting.
Except that would require the school/teachers have Microsoft Word and open office and be smart enough to open the right one in the right program... Then theres the oddball who submits in some ancient word processing format.
I hope you dont give that access to your US employees. They could be compelled to access this information for the US Government and be prevented from telling you about it because of those national security letters.
You're also forgetting the fact that the shockwave produced would travel 4x or more distance underwater killing all animal life in the gulf. Fish, Dolphins, Whales or whatever.
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Woohoo, it'll only be a matter of time before my IQ qualifies me for Mensa now because yes people are getting dumber and that was the point I was trying to make by equating 100 IQ with only 20% of the population.
I have no clue how someone can be pro-environment and anti-nuclear power. At least in the short term. Nuclear technology has advanced so rapidly and there are even designs for nuclear reactors where the capacity to 'meltdown' is virtually impossible to achieve.
As for solar plants, you seem to be thinking in terms of conventional power stations. The enviro-nazis have this one right, if you incorporate solar panels onto each home then the power load the house puts onto the grid is reduced by a good deal during the daylight hours when businesses and manufacturers are guzzlinig down electricity. As for large commercial outfits that generate solar power, they can hit higher efficiencies by concentrating solar power using things like Fresnel Lenses and Mirrors. Last I checked California has a large amount of desert land that people probably dont want to live on. Why not use some of that land to generate solar power.
The free advertising is great. That good old web.
Sadly, the litigation from USCG is going to cost him, so that $20/copy will hopefully cover his own costs, but I doubt it. USCG has every reason to press him as hard as they can, although I would hope that a decent judge would throw out the suit with prejudice. Sadly, that's unlikely to happen.
The free advertising exacerbates the problem as each of the other USCG litigants now has a $20 defense package available to them. Would USCG find an insane jury (possible, if it gets to trial) and some theory of law that multiplies the damages, then our courageous lawyer gets a multiplier to the damages for each $20 defense package sold.
The whole thing is fucking insane.
Except that unlike a copyright suit which the plaintiff has a (presumably) reasonable claim to damages. The $20 package is entirely copyright the guy who put it together. Also the guy is a lawyer and presumably capable of giving general legal advice in this fashion. I look at this as the equivalent of those 'Legal Will Kits' .
Basically the guy's $20 package probably educates the person being sued. They know that they should not pay these guys a dime and consult a lawyer and shines a light on their tactics in such a way that the layman can comfortably talk with which ever lawyer they retain to defend themselves.
+1 Awesome
Really if the legal letters include the term 'fine' I'd argue the same thing in a court of law. They'd be guilty of impersonating an officer of the court.
Yet everyone that has an IQ over 100 can see the 'terror threat level' is total bullshit... It's the other 80% of the population under 100 that is too stupid to realize these facts.
Before 9/11 this was an issue. Post-9/11 I dont think there is a real credible threat to air travel by someone's shoes, a person carrying a lighter or having a bottle of shampoo.
If anyone is acting suspicious or tries to take over the plane you got what is it 5 terrorists say vs 100-200 passangers. It used to be the passangers feared being shot as hostages. Now they have a more reasonable fear of being used to run into buildings and most people put in that situaationof their life or thousands of lives will usually step up. After all at that point you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by resisting.
Advantage of ARM over X86 is lower power consumption. They are prsumably at a point where they can replace an X86 with an ARM processor and both will be able to do the job. It's just keeping an ARM one on 24/7/365 is cheaper on the electric bill than a X86... At least that is how I understand it.
Except you overlook one thing...
ARM Processors are in Netbooks and soon will be in Laptops. These devices get huge gains in battery life from low wattage CPUs. Also the more 'green'/energy conscious among us have started using ARM processors in personal servers and even some desktop machines (at least those ones which are not required to play heavy 3d games and stuff). Thus coming out with devices that can addrses 64-bits is not necessarily counter productive as they are likely aiming for a bigger segment of the netbook/notebook/desktop market.
Perhaps this will encourage them to leave their hardware designs more or less 'open' in the future. Seeing as how the Kinect has become the cornerstone of many projects across the internet. I'm sure Microsoft is makng a mint selling these things even if people are using them for hacking and stuff like robotics sensors.
Interesting Theory... If the Copyright Lobby makes it a legal precedent that copying = theft then you could very easily claim the government is stealing from you as they are accessing copyrighted material without consent of the rights holder. Something that would make them look very hypocritical to do while trying to support content providers to prevent people from doing similar.
Technically if the passwords/encryption codes were in your head you could make the case it's against the 4th amendment but clearly the contents of the machine and cell phones were not worth the potential stay in jail and court case. Unfortunately, I suspect that would be up to someone with child porn or something equally threatening to ones personal or professional life.
Yes but a cell phone makes you 4 times more likely to get into an accident. Conversing with someone in the car does not presumably because both sets of eyes are able to see the road and therefore the passanger usually knows when to STFU and let the driver concentrate.
False.
If GPS knows you are at location A then 1 second later you are at location B, it candetermine acceleration and velocity. Typically my GPS on my phone is 'accurate to 3 meters' thereabouts. Sufficiently accurate to determine between being rouchly stationary or walking and going 60MPH down the highway.
1 year, it should be more like 10 years per infraction.
Without guys like this Mythbusters would have run out of material a long time ago... Why not look at it as a positive :)
Which subsequently turned around a few years later and started doing the same thing themselves?
I don't accept blocked/800/877 and Unavailable caller ID.
You might want to include 888 and 866 numbers in there too. Also the next block of area code toll free numbers is expected to be 855 so preemptively blocking those ones may be advisable as well.
Innocent until Proven Guilty. If they cannot prove you guilty they cannot hold you indefinitely.
Looks like the industry shills are out in force.
"The true cost of piracy would probably be better estimated by figuring the average purchase rate for game players and then multiplying that by the percentage of people who pirate games. It gives much lower but more accurate and realistic numbers."
But thats exactly what industries DO NOT WANT... accurate and realistic numbers. It is far easier to throw out a 5 trillion dollar amount out there because the dartboard said so than to actually do work figuring it out.
If they dont have the money to pay this person, they certainly wont have the money to pay the 2-3 people that they would likely have to hire to replace this person.
If I were the person and I truly knew the company was cash strapped I'd accept things that arent immediate money... like stock options, extra vacation time, setting your own hours or telecommuting for some of those 60-80 hour weeks. The latter could save you huge $$$ in terms of gas expended commuting.
Except that would require the school/teachers have Microsoft Word and open office and be smart enough to open the right one in the right program... Then theres the oddball who submits in some ancient word processing format.
Just do like South park and declare shenanigans. Then you get a bunch of sticks and beat the people who ripped you off up or something :P
I hope you dont give that access to your US employees. They could be compelled to access this information for the US Government and be prevented from telling you about it because of those national security letters.
You're also forgetting the fact that the shockwave produced would travel 4x or more distance underwater killing all animal life in the gulf. Fish, Dolphins, Whales or whatever.
Thats why you set up a send and receiving station on both ends. Just like how you have transmit and receive wires in your Ethernet cables.