When will they learn that lack of sales != piracy? Lack of sales implies that people are not willing to pay the price you want for what you have to offer. This may be a direct cause of a tanked economy or your product sucks. There are plenty of reasons why your product will not sell piracy is not one of them.
Yep you make perfect sense, up until the time that someone takes their life because they have been diagnosed with cancer, quits their job to live the rest of their life, or does anything they would not have done that adversely affects the rest of their life if they did not have cancer. If you apply this 90% accuracy to screenings at airports, or the RIAA then chances are you wold outraged that your rights are being trampled on. Don't get me wrong I think that there is good in screenings, but we must educate people about possibility and probability of false positives, with knowledge comes responsibility.
increase the road tax for gasoline. This is a tax already implemented that require no new technology and does not track my movements. Or yearly national vehicle tax that is based on vehicle weight (either full load or empty). There are an infinite number of ways to collect the money necessary to facilitate the growth of the gov't I mean maintain our public roads that do not include tracking my whereabouts.
Even at a large multinational there is a direct chain of command that stops with the president or the board, in the US there are 536 people who sit on the board when you have a gov't contract or are a gov't agency and each one of those 536 people have multiple Brunos to keep happy.
I still am amazed that anyone else is shocked that a private company can do something for cheaper than the gov't. In the company there is one boss and he sets the vision of the company. Unfortunately for gov't work, there are 536 bosses and all of them have the ability to over rule the other. This is why most gov't projects cost more than the original contract. In the case of this company their goal is a rocket and currently no one is interfering with that goal. Wait until NASA finally orders their first rocket from them, and all of a sudden NASA wants Y spec instead of X spec, we will then see the cost go up.
The argument remains, if I the consumer RTFM, no where in there will I see anything saying do not reinstall your OS. In fact I will find instructions on how to restore the OS if my computer becomes inoperable. So I the informed consumer who RTFM follows the instructions to reinstall the OS from either the restore partition or the restore DVD that is 3 yrs behind the current patches. Then the first thing I do is download all the patches, but by the time the download is complete it is too late and someone has already taken advantage of my machine. It is not my fault if someone steals my car and commits a crime with it. It should not be my fault if someone Hijacks my computer and uses it to commit a crime. THe difference is that it is harder to tell your computer has been hijacked, when your car is hijacked, you tend to notice it in a reasonable amount of time and report the crime. Now my university, constantly monitors network traffic and if your machine's activity raises a red flag they will shut you down, and then knock on your door 5 min later. (I am not sure what the critera are for a "red flag" to be raised, I doubt though they look at every packet being sent. Probably the amount of trafic on the switch, compared to the average. Then they may look at where your connected to.) I have to assume that if a university can tell your machine is infected, then an ISP could implement the same technology/ methodology. However, just because they could does not mean they should, after all we should be careful of what we allow to take place in the name of security.
I am not saying that what the big ISP's are doing is right, but I do not want the govt to have direct control over my packets. The duality that we live in (in slashdot world) is amazing. We hate big govt when it comes to certain issues, and yet when it comes to beating big ISP's into the ground we have no problem with a larger govt. For me it is a matter of principle anything that makes the gov't larger than it needs to be is bad. You can choose to not buy the ISP's services. I'll let you figure out what a need is.
You are doing experiments to get a PhD, the last thing you want to do is waste your time making sure the code is right to either a) run the experiment or b) analyze the results. The only time you will want to code is when you want to do something that the software will not do for you. If you are shocked by the lack of open source software, then why are you not shocked about all the name brand lab equipment?
My dad is a licensed HVAC contractor the way the laws are written in this state, if he does not have an invoice for every atom of cooper on his truck he can be charged with cooper theft. I hardly think that such a law is a solution. If we attempted to solve the problem, people who have nothing better to do than steal cooper to get their next fix. Then we would not have to have such stupid laws. No I do not have a solution, but making my father have a invoice for all the cooper on his truck is silly. The problem with being a licensed something or another is that it is easy to forge such documents. Unless there was a nationwide database of licensed somethigns or anothers, but then you get into the issue of privacy. You can have maximum freedom or maximum security but you can not have both, and any attempt to have more of one will result in you having less of the other. So be careful what you want in the terms of security without looking at what you will need give up in the means of freedom.
It takes a special set of skills to corrupt a single human being, it takes another set of skills, not that special, to corrupt an entire battalion of robots, that are all identical. Did I mention sharks with lasers?
This has already been covered, but it is easy to get large amounts of chemicals without the MSDS and by paying cash. Then you are free to put them in your car and take them where ever you please.I bet you can find oxidizers next to organics on every cleaning aisle in the world! Education and freedom is the answer here, lack of education and criminalization will only lead to things like this: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl042908tpmethexplode.b13959fe.html
No I think he knew a large out of control Federal gov it was comming, he even warned the states against letting it happen,he just did not have a means to prevent the problem from happening. Now 225+ yrs later the problem is real and a solution still does not exist. We can reboot, recompile, and recode, but until we drastically change the code the end results will always be the same.
only free until the cable company nails you to the wall for stealing cable. You pay only for the internet part of what is in that pipe line, you have no rights to the TV part.
then more electricity will be generated (assuming capitalism is still alive in the US). It does help to solve the US' dependency on foreign oil. Although is the US people would stop demanding everything be made out of plastic and return to metals and natural fibers then our dependency on foreign oil would drop even more. It is a good start, at solving some of the problems, but it does not solve all the problems and EV's do have one large problem, how do you dispose of the energy storage devices?
what is going to happen for the next 100 or 101, depending on how you count. Give me a break and maybe you could use data from the last 20 to infer about what may happen in the next 100. Don't RTFA, all they want is advertising money, and getting a server/.'ed for the fame of it all. Wake me up when there is news that matters!
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When will they learn that lack of sales != piracy? Lack of sales implies that people are not willing to pay the price you want for what you have to offer. This may be a direct cause of a tanked economy or your product sucks. There are plenty of reasons why your product will not sell piracy is not one of them.
Yep you make perfect sense, up until the time that someone takes their life because they have been diagnosed with cancer, quits their job to live the rest of their life, or does anything they would not have done that adversely affects the rest of their life if they did not have cancer. If you apply this 90% accuracy to screenings at airports, or the RIAA then chances are you wold outraged that your rights are being trampled on. Don't get me wrong I think that there is good in screenings, but we must educate people about possibility and probability of false positives, with knowledge comes responsibility.
High usable energy density == unstable. This goes back to engineering and customer demands, your options are size, saftey, and battery life pick two!
increase the road tax for gasoline. This is a tax already implemented that require no new technology and does not track my movements. Or yearly national vehicle tax that is based on vehicle weight (either full load or empty). There are an infinite number of ways to collect the money necessary to facilitate the growth of the gov't I mean maintain our public roads that do not include tracking my whereabouts.
A prosecutor that is bank rolled by the RIAA will.
Even at a large multinational there is a direct chain of command that stops with the president or the board, in the US there are 536 people who sit on the board when you have a gov't contract or are a gov't agency and each one of those 536 people have multiple Brunos to keep happy.
I still am amazed that anyone else is shocked that a private company can do something for cheaper than the gov't. In the company there is one boss and he sets the vision of the company. Unfortunately for gov't work, there are 536 bosses and all of them have the ability to over rule the other. This is why most gov't projects cost more than the original contract. In the case of this company their goal is a rocket and currently no one is interfering with that goal. Wait until NASA finally orders their first rocket from them, and all of a sudden NASA wants Y spec instead of X spec, we will then see the cost go up.
The ball and chain is a joke as it has little educational value, however the shower curtain is pretty useful and has educational value.
I had often heard to avoid Elsevier publications as a place to publish.
The argument remains, if I the consumer RTFM, no where in there will I see anything saying do not reinstall your OS. In fact I will find instructions on how to restore the OS if my computer becomes inoperable. So I the informed consumer who RTFM follows the instructions to reinstall the OS from either the restore partition or the restore DVD that is 3 yrs behind the current patches. Then the first thing I do is download all the patches, but by the time the download is complete it is too late and someone has already taken advantage of my machine. It is not my fault if someone steals my car and commits a crime with it. It should not be my fault if someone Hijacks my computer and uses it to commit a crime. THe difference is that it is harder to tell your computer has been hijacked, when your car is hijacked, you tend to notice it in a reasonable amount of time and report the crime. Now my university, constantly monitors network traffic and if your machine's activity raises a red flag they will shut you down, and then knock on your door 5 min later. (I am not sure what the critera are for a "red flag" to be raised, I doubt though they look at every packet being sent. Probably the amount of trafic on the switch, compared to the average. Then they may look at where your connected to.) I have to assume that if a university can tell your machine is infected, then an ISP could implement the same technology/ methodology. However, just because they could does not mean they should, after all we should be careful of what we allow to take place in the name of security.
I am not saying that what the big ISP's are doing is right, but I do not want the govt to have direct control over my packets. The duality that we live in (in slashdot world) is amazing. We hate big govt when it comes to certain issues, and yet when it comes to beating big ISP's into the ground we have no problem with a larger govt. For me it is a matter of principle anything that makes the gov't larger than it needs to be is bad. You can choose to not buy the ISP's services. I'll let you figure out what a need is.
Knock Knock Who's there We do not have to tell you that under the patriot act!
you mean to say that everyone doing the same thing is bad? 1st post?
You are doing experiments to get a PhD, the last thing you want to do is waste your time making sure the code is right to either a) run the experiment or b) analyze the results. The only time you will want to code is when you want to do something that the software will not do for you. If you are shocked by the lack of open source software, then why are you not shocked about all the name brand lab equipment?
There are plenty of adult book/toy/leather stores right on the boarder of SC on I-95.
How did we go from DOD erasure to removing the platters to make a tree? The data could still be recovered in its current tree state!
what is next ASCII art?
My dad is a licensed HVAC contractor the way the laws are written in this state, if he does not have an invoice for every atom of cooper on his truck he can be charged with cooper theft. I hardly think that such a law is a solution. If we attempted to solve the problem, people who have nothing better to do than steal cooper to get their next fix. Then we would not have to have such stupid laws. No I do not have a solution, but making my father have a invoice for all the cooper on his truck is silly. The problem with being a licensed something or another is that it is easy to forge such documents. Unless there was a nationwide database of licensed somethigns or anothers, but then you get into the issue of privacy. You can have maximum freedom or maximum security but you can not have both, and any attempt to have more of one will result in you having less of the other. So be careful what you want in the terms of security without looking at what you will need give up in the means of freedom.
It takes a special set of skills to corrupt a single human being, it takes another set of skills, not that special, to corrupt an entire battalion of robots, that are all identical. Did I mention sharks with lasers?
This has already been covered, but it is easy to get large amounts of chemicals without the MSDS and by paying cash. Then you are free to put them in your car and take them where ever you please.I bet you can find oxidizers next to organics on every cleaning aisle in the world! Education and freedom is the answer here, lack of education and criminalization will only lead to things like this: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl042908tpmethexplode.b13959fe.html
In theory yes....
No I think he knew a large out of control Federal gov it was comming, he even warned the states against letting it happen,he just did not have a means to prevent the problem from happening. Now 225+ yrs later the problem is real and a solution still does not exist. We can reboot, recompile, and recode, but until we drastically change the code the end results will always be the same.
only free until the cable company nails you to the wall for stealing cable. You pay only for the internet part of what is in that pipe line, you have no rights to the TV part.
then more electricity will be generated (assuming capitalism is still alive in the US). It does help to solve the US' dependency on foreign oil. Although is the US people would stop demanding everything be made out of plastic and return to metals and natural fibers then our dependency on foreign oil would drop even more. It is a good start, at solving some of the problems, but it does not solve all the problems and EV's do have one large problem, how do you dispose of the energy storage devices?
what is going to happen for the next 100 or 101, depending on how you count. Give me a break and maybe you could use data from the last 20 to infer about what may happen in the next 100. Don't RTFA, all they want is advertising money, and getting a server /.'ed for the fame of it all. Wake me up when there is news that matters!