It doesn't intrinsically violate someone's civil rights but what about feedback loops?
If someone commits a crime in your neighborhood and it gets more policing then the policing will catch more criminals and by extension increase policing. Rinse and repeat until it reaches equilibrium.
For instance it would suck if your street through ticket based feedback became a speed trap and you had no choice but to go through it every day.
The problem with your argument is that you presume that increased policing will somehow increase crime. A more likely scenario would be a system where increasing police density in an area leads to the criminal activity moving to the surrounding areas. This will continue until two migration fronts converge, at which point the area of convergence gets a boost in police density.
Thing is, they were taking the enrollment slots that would otherwise have gone to people who passed without cheating. In a nation that recognizes a corporation's claim on a certain sequence of bits, you have a strong argument that a person can claim ownership to something else abstract such as enrollment in medical school, and therefore theft might well stick.
On a slightly less philosophical note, "cheating" is pretty much implicitly and quite likely explicitly against the terms of use for the intellectual property contained within the test.
Of course, this is a system has a part in ensuring the continuity of respiration for soldiers (as well as the discontinuity of respiration for soldiers on the other side), so being prepared for an unlikely scenario is a bonus.
The person the bike was received from was "a guy [J.J.] knew only as 'Skye' ". The nonstandard spelling suggests a screen-name.
Interestingly, the appeal doesn't reference Kevin Mitnick's trial (although I'll be surprised if that one wasn't brought out as a precedent somewhere).
(...) both of which messes with the ranking system and in turn, causes all kinds of weirdness with their online matchmaking.
Elaboration on this, although most of it has been alluded to in a sibling; This doesn't simply mean that the cheating player gets his hindquarters handed to him by vastly superior players when not cheating, but also that said vastly superior players' enjoyment is curbed because they were looking for someone to give them a challenge, and instead end up with their time wasted in a manner not of their own choosing, i.e. curb-stombing an outclassed opponent when they wanted a genuinely challenging match.
I have no doubt this will make them money, but it will also make them look much worse on traffic accident statistics vs. other states.
Not necessarily. If they really do check that the car's performance is up to the task of doing 90mph on the freeway without endangering the passengers or other road users, it will be the exact opposite; It won't make them look much worse on traffic accident statistics, but it won't make them all that much money either.
Also, whenever there's a needless or stupidity-induced call for a helicopter, kick the caller and their party out of the park. See how long this keeps up when the park service doesn't just do expensive water shipments whenever you're a little short.
to answer your questions:
-the numbers are on a do not call list, so the companies haven't got the slightest right to call them, it's illegal in fact
In this scenario, yes; to be entirely honest, I'm not entirely sure--haven't looked yet--but I'm willing to place a bet that if an unused number is on the United States' Do Not Call list, it doesn't mean a whole lot because a subscriber did not request it, rendering that fact moot. Might be different in the UK, I don't live there, and in many facets their laws and trends are different from those in the US.
The number still belongs to someone, or they wouldn't be allowed to hook up a honeypot system in the first place, ergo they are allowed to request that it be put on the Do Not Call list. They'd just have to take it off the list when they sell the number on to someone else if the subscriber requested it.
The game industry now more than ever needs to find ways to ad value. If they wanted to tackle piracy they would just about be packaging hats and tshirts with the latest game releases. Not so long ago I picked up an old 90's DOS game called Inferno http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(video_game)at a lawn sale, which came bundled with a rather thick graphic novel providing backstory. I believe this may have been a first in the industry. This was very cool in a period when the industry was experiencing huge growth. I have seldom seen the same thing since.
This almost begs an experiment; make the disc image of a game available on the Internet a few months after release. From that point on only sell "deluxe" packs of the game, with thick four-color manuals, posters, figures and whatnot, combined with spiffy cover and label art. My hypothesis is that this would bring in more net profit in the long run compared to the way the game industry currently does it. This would be because the free downloaders would know they aren't getting what their money could buy, whereas now they are only missing some metaphysical addition that only the game industry seems to care about.
Here's an interesting question; what is the highest rate a private person can refresh a website in? Just set the code to refresh the page at that rate and get your friends together, and voilá, a technically legal DDOS. Better yet, release your own version of Lynx or something that comes with an "auto refresh every N seconds" function.
Which begs yet another question; Why exactly shouldn't a bullied kid hit the bully back, if he's going down for fighting anyway? The way I see it, fight back and you'll get detention for fighting. Don't fight back, and you still get detention for fighting and the bully will be coming for you again sooner or later.
Now that's what you need to teach bullied kids, not some crapola about reading social cues.
I wonder, how long until spam joins communism, terrorism and drugs as The Enemy that must be stopped no matter the cost. I've got nothing against stopping spam per se, but if somebody starts putting together anti-privacy laws on the basis that "only spammers have something to hide", it's really going to suck on so many fronts. Think about it; how many perfectly reasonable anti-terrorism measures are dismissed as superfluous and ridiculous by association with such measures as confiscating of water bottles, knitting needles, and T-shirts with the word "Terrorist" on them?
Except that now most of the people downloading it will hopefully save the file on their computer, so they won't be coming back tomorrow to download the 1.8 megabytes again if they decide to have another look at the doc.
On the other hand, the watch is said to send an alert signal if forcibly removed. I'm guessing that the system will be swamped with false alarms by bedtime. That, or the child-abducting pedophiles prowling the streets will get a hold of the manual to figure out the correct way to remove it without sending an alarm.
And they'll find these kids by cracking the tracking system./alarmism
a simple compression algorithm. The parameters to this algorithm would be kept secret by the BBC
My GOD! Hackers will *NEVER* figure this one out!
The real killer, however, is that it probably isn't quite trivial to install the circumvention software on the actual TV set. So, even when it is cracked, as well as in the meanwhile, the majority of HD TV owners are going to have to shell out for new hardware.
But... That Gandalf guy is a bad Dumbledore ripoff, the beginning (after the cliche prologue battle between good and evil) was ripped straight out of Willow, and I bet whoever wrote the novelization didn't even see the movies!
That's pretty much what I'm wondering about. If the fatigue is caused by having to move slower for the sensors to catch up, and it's the exoskeleton carrying the weight, does that mean you would get about as tired walking a hundred meters holding your arms up as if you walked a hundred meters holding 300 pounds overhead?
The question, in regard to unschooling, isn't whether or not it's an effective technique when done right. The real issue is can or will parents do it right. It's like homeschooling in this regard; when a competent parent takes the time to teach his/her/it's child, s/h/it can progress at just the rate that's good for the kid. It really boils down to whether or not the parents can be bothered to study the subject matter in sufficient detail to actually teach their kids, not to mention learn the methodologies of unschooling.
Hear, hear. It's entirely possible that it'd be cheaper and more technologically feasible to send a two-way expedition than to send the amount of people and equipment needed to found a viable colony. It's quite a bit greater challenge of engineering to colonize a planet with an unbreathable atmosphere than to colonize a new continent.
The intriguing thing about this is that if I'm wrong and it's cheaper to establish a long-term colony, it would most likely be populated by people with above average IQ's. Unless the terrestrial laws of genetics don't apply on Mars for some hinky reason, we could end up with a race of ubermensch whose only weakness is inability to function in terrestrial gravity in a few generations. It would be seriously bad if they got bitter about the original world being left to a bunch of idiots, and decided to do something about it. Que "I for one" jokes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't it use to be the same for driver's licences? It might be that when "flying cars" or whatever you want to call them start working their way into the mainstream, so will flight schools.
I'm sure that if you had asked someone in the late 19th century, they'd have told you that a car going as fast as 60 miles per hour would be so hazardous a contraption as to require a skilled racer to drive.
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i still don't get it.
Sorry, but you haven't been set up to feed that straight line.
It doesn't intrinsically violate someone's civil rights but what about feedback loops?
If someone commits a crime in your neighborhood and it gets more policing then the policing will catch more criminals and by extension increase policing. Rinse and repeat until it reaches equilibrium.
For instance it would suck if your street through ticket based feedback became a speed trap and you had no choice but to go through it every day.
The problem with your argument is that you presume that increased policing will somehow increase crime. A more likely scenario would be a system where increasing police density in an area leads to the criminal activity moving to the surrounding areas. This will continue until two migration fronts converge, at which point the area of convergence gets a boost in police density.
Thing is, they were taking the enrollment slots that would otherwise have gone to people who passed without cheating. In a nation that recognizes a corporation's claim on a certain sequence of bits, you have a strong argument that a person can claim ownership to something else abstract such as enrollment in medical school, and therefore theft might well stick. On a slightly less philosophical note, "cheating" is pretty much implicitly and quite likely explicitly against the terms of use for the intellectual property contained within the test.
Of course, this is a system has a part in ensuring the continuity of respiration for soldiers (as well as the discontinuity of respiration for soldiers on the other side), so being prepared for an unlikely scenario is a bonus.
The person the bike was received from was "a guy [J.J.] knew only as 'Skye' ". The nonstandard spelling suggests a screen-name. Interestingly, the appeal doesn't reference Kevin Mitnick's trial (although I'll be surprised if that one wasn't brought out as a precedent somewhere).
(...) both of which messes with the ranking system and in turn, causes all kinds of weirdness with their online matchmaking.
Elaboration on this, although most of it has been alluded to in a sibling; This doesn't simply mean that the cheating player gets his hindquarters handed to him by vastly superior players when not cheating, but also that said vastly superior players' enjoyment is curbed because they were looking for someone to give them a challenge, and instead end up with their time wasted in a manner not of their own choosing, i.e. curb-stombing an outclassed opponent when they wanted a genuinely challenging match.
Because then somebody would just hack around that.
I have no doubt this will make them money, but it will also make them look much worse on traffic accident statistics vs. other states.
Not necessarily. If they really do check that the car's performance is up to the task of doing 90mph on the freeway without endangering the passengers or other road users, it will be the exact opposite; It won't make them look much worse on traffic accident statistics, but it won't make them all that much money either.
Also, whenever there's a needless or stupidity-induced call for a helicopter, kick the caller and their party out of the park. See how long this keeps up when the park service doesn't just do expensive water shipments whenever you're a little short.
to answer your questions: -the numbers are on a do not call list, so the companies haven't got the slightest right to call them, it's illegal in fact
In this scenario, yes; to be entirely honest, I'm not entirely sure--haven't looked yet--but I'm willing to place a bet that if an unused number is on the United States' Do Not Call list, it doesn't mean a whole lot because a subscriber did not request it, rendering that fact moot. Might be different in the UK, I don't live there, and in many facets their laws and trends are different from those in the US.
The number still belongs to someone, or they wouldn't be allowed to hook up a honeypot system in the first place, ergo they are allowed to request that it be put on the Do Not Call list. They'd just have to take it off the list when they sell the number on to someone else if the subscriber requested it.
The game industry now more than ever needs to find ways to ad value. If they wanted to tackle piracy they would just about be packaging hats and tshirts with the latest game releases. Not so long ago I picked up an old 90's DOS game called Inferno http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(video_game)at a lawn sale, which came bundled with a rather thick graphic novel providing backstory. I believe this may have been a first in the industry. This was very cool in a period when the industry was experiencing huge growth. I have seldom seen the same thing since.
This almost begs an experiment; make the disc image of a game available on the Internet a few months after release. From that point on only sell "deluxe" packs of the game, with thick four-color manuals, posters, figures and whatnot, combined with spiffy cover and label art. My hypothesis is that this would bring in more net profit in the long run compared to the way the game industry currently does it. This would be because the free downloaders would know they aren't getting what their money could buy, whereas now they are only missing some metaphysical addition that only the game industry seems to care about.
To Mr. Abbot, I have only one word: "Finland"
Wait, salmiakki-flavored squid? That might actually work. At the very least it would have the "tastes unlike anything else" bonus to it's popularity.
Hey, the Japanese eat fugu just for the kick of not knowing if the chef accidentally laced the fish with powerful neurotoxins.
Here's an interesting question; what is the highest rate a private person can refresh a website in? Just set the code to refresh the page at that rate and get your friends together, and voilá, a technically legal DDOS. Better yet, release your own version of Lynx or something that comes with an "auto refresh every N seconds" function.
Which begs yet another question; Why exactly shouldn't a bullied kid hit the bully back, if he's going down for fighting anyway? The way I see it, fight back and you'll get detention for fighting. Don't fight back, and you still get detention for fighting and the bully will be coming for you again sooner or later.
Now that's what you need to teach bullied kids, not some crapola about reading social cues.
I wonder, how long until spam joins communism, terrorism and drugs as The Enemy that must be stopped no matter the cost. I've got nothing against stopping spam per se, but if somebody starts putting together anti-privacy laws on the basis that "only spammers have something to hide", it's really going to suck on so many fronts. Think about it; how many perfectly reasonable anti-terrorism measures are dismissed as superfluous and ridiculous by association with such measures as confiscating of water bottles, knitting needles, and T-shirts with the word "Terrorist" on them?
Except that now most of the people downloading it will hopefully save the file on their computer, so they won't be coming back tomorrow to download the 1.8 megabytes again if they decide to have another look at the doc.
My sentiments exactly. Imagine if they were throwing out everyone paying attention to the odds in poker.
For that matter, if the outcome is deterministic and unfavorable, why have the game in the casino in the first place?
On the other hand, the watch is said to send an alert signal if forcibly removed. I'm guessing that the system will be swamped with false alarms by bedtime. That, or the child-abducting pedophiles prowling the streets will get a hold of the manual to figure out the correct way to remove it without sending an alarm.
And they'll find these kids by cracking the tracking system. /alarmism
a simple compression algorithm. The parameters to this algorithm would be kept secret by the BBC
My GOD! Hackers will *NEVER* figure this one out!
The real killer, however, is that it probably isn't quite trivial to install the circumvention software on the actual TV set. So, even when it is cracked, as well as in the meanwhile, the majority of HD TV owners are going to have to shell out for new hardware.
But... That Gandalf guy is a bad Dumbledore ripoff, the beginning (after the cliche prologue battle between good and evil) was ripped straight out of Willow, and I bet whoever wrote the novelization didn't even see the movies!
That's pretty much what I'm wondering about. If the fatigue is caused by having to move slower for the sensors to catch up, and it's the exoskeleton carrying the weight, does that mean you would get about as tired walking a hundred meters holding your arms up as if you walked a hundred meters holding 300 pounds overhead?
The question, in regard to unschooling, isn't whether or not it's an effective technique when done right. The real issue is can or will parents do it right. It's like homeschooling in this regard; when a competent parent takes the time to teach his/her/it's child, s/h/it can progress at just the rate that's good for the kid. It really boils down to whether or not the parents can be bothered to study the subject matter in sufficient detail to actually teach their kids, not to mention learn the methodologies of unschooling.
Hear, hear. It's entirely possible that it'd be cheaper and more technologically feasible to send a two-way expedition than to send the amount of people and equipment needed to found a viable colony. It's quite a bit greater challenge of engineering to colonize a planet with an unbreathable atmosphere than to colonize a new continent.
The intriguing thing about this is that if I'm wrong and it's cheaper to establish a long-term colony, it would most likely be populated by people with above average IQ's. Unless the terrestrial laws of genetics don't apply on Mars for some hinky reason, we could end up with a race of ubermensch whose only weakness is inability to function in terrestrial gravity in a few generations. It would be seriously bad if they got bitter about the original world being left to a bunch of idiots, and decided to do something about it. Que "I for one" jokes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't it use to be the same for driver's licences? It might be that when "flying cars" or whatever you want to call them start working their way into the mainstream, so will flight schools.
I'm sure that if you had asked someone in the late 19th century, they'd have told you that a car going as fast as 60 miles per hour would be so hazardous a contraption as to require a skilled racer to drive.