...You're not _forced_ to eat everything on your plate...
A lot of parents would consider themselves failures if you didn't at least feel that way. Of course you could combat that nagging voice in the back of your head by being creative. I order from the restaurant known for not giving you your money's worth when I feel I need to limit my food intake.
That sounds like a good idea. I've been told, repeatedly, that the problem with textbook prices is a royalty issue. Getting the examples and articles written by people who went to school longer than the intended audience has been alive isn't cheap.
If people were to donate the content book prices would be down around the price of printing. Once the content is secured and the machinery is in place actually churning out the books is an almost negligeable expense - from what my friends in publishing tell me. Even if that's not the case the institution in question could just make ebooks and buy OLPC2s for about the same initial cost.
The, "FRANK@SHOE..." line is possibly an alternate translation just stuck in there to confuse wannabe cryptoanalysts. The self referential description could be an homage to mr. Shoemaker, not a dig.
In summary: photons for short distances, since interference isn't a factor and nothing for long distances since lag time makes meaningful communication impossible. ... Ansible, anyone?
I for one don't want to be carrying around a billion light-years of solid lead worth of mass in my back pocket to be able to pick up a signal.. this seems like a problem with physics, not with how advanced the tech is.
Any civilization advanced enough to colonize the galaxy probably has figured out how to negate - or at least deal with - the mass of these pocket-blackholes they'd have to carry around.
Did they have reason to believe that the man would have been treated this way? I don't know much about the conditions of jails in most other parts of the world. I suspect that jails in, say, Belgium are fairly clean and suspects' rights are generally respected
"...Alain Grignard, an OCSE prisons specialist who has evaluated Guantanamo on several occasions, including earlier this year, has concluded that Guantanamo's facilities and cultural sensitivity to Muslims is superior to that found in Belgian jails...."
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/clive_stafford_smith/2006/06/cultural_sensitivity_guantanam.html
Takes one to know one. Next you'll tell me the AIDs sufferer who came to my high school had no right to warn us of the dangers of wanton promiscuity and intravenous drug use?
I dunno, I could think of a few people who I wouldn't have issue hearing were being beaten, jailed, etc. The difference here is that a man was put in that situation - by Google, who of all entities should know the consequences of their actions considering that their core competency is data mining and appropriate ad placement - over an image. Something the majority of google's product/customer base would take issue with and perhaps even consider, "evil". Most westerners (and probably other people too, but I can only speak about what I'm familliar with) believe that in a perfect world there would be nothing you could say that any of us would want you to be placed in an indian-fetish-dungeon over. Google, as an American company, should respect that.
There are certain crimes which are so emotionally charged people will vehemently support lawmakers going to any length to prevent them. Going back to the speeding - What percentage of speeders are in fatal collisions? I don't remember exactly, but it's less than 1, yet still it's probably the most prosecuted crime in the US.
What percentage of people who possess child porn actually paid for it, thus supporting the child-pr0n industry? What percentage of those in possession of child porn eventually decide to go out and abuse children? I'm hypothesizing it's not a great number, but I would appreciate it if anybody with hard facts on the issue could confirm or disprove. Even so, many parents appear to feel it's the biggest threat their children face and no price is too high if it reduces the risk one iota.
IANAL, but AFAIK there's no law against transmitting footage of a crime being committed. Though, in most jurisdictions I'm aware of, if you didn't report it to the proper authorities you'd become an accessory after the fact.
My guess is they're tacking this on so there's no dispute about going in and seizing all the equipment used in the production and broadcast of the video even if the actual owner of the that equipment wasn't involved in the crime.
Friend or foe? This could get really interesting. Is it possible for a spammer to hurt myspace enough you'd pardon him for spamming? Is it possible for myspace to hurt spammers enough that you don't mind that it's myspace who's doing it? Personally I think spammers hurt society in general and me in particular more than any one website could and am curious what your situation might be that you've got such a vendetta against myspace.
Use their awesome technology to just remove people from streetview entirely? If they removed cars and people it would be a lot easier to view the actual streets (and stuff that should be on a map.).
< hat tinfoil=yes > Most likely this is just a public beta for their super-secret face recognition technology so they'll be able to track all our movements over the web.</hat >
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...You're not _forced_ to eat everything on your plate...A lot of parents would consider themselves failures if you didn't at least feel that way. Of course you could combat that nagging voice in the back of your head by being creative. I order from the restaurant known for not giving you your money's worth when I feel I need to limit my food intake.
That sounds like a good idea. I've been told, repeatedly, that the problem with textbook prices is a royalty issue. Getting the examples and articles written by people who went to school longer than the intended audience has been alive isn't cheap.
If people were to donate the content book prices would be down around the price of printing. Once the content is secured and the machinery is in place actually churning out the books is an almost negligeable expense - from what my friends in publishing tell me. Even if that's not the case the institution in question could just make ebooks and buy OLPC2s for about the same initial cost.
In the movie they used amphibians.
That's OK, Apple doesn't want your... our business anyway. They've got a good thing going.
The, "FRANK@SHOE..." line is possibly an alternate translation just stuck in there to confuse wannabe cryptoanalysts. The self referential description could be an homage to mr. Shoemaker, not a dig.
Because it makes us feel like big smarties?
I'm pretty sure they will now.
Any civilization advanced enough to colonize the galaxy probably has figured out how to negate - or at least deal with - the mass of these pocket-blackholes they'd have to carry around.
"...Alain Grignard, an OCSE prisons specialist who has evaluated Guantanamo on several occasions, including earlier this year, has concluded that Guantanamo's facilities and cultural sensitivity to Muslims is superior to that found in Belgian jails...."
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/clive_stafford_smith/2006/06/cultural_sensitivity_guantanam.html
See? They should have Googled it.
Pot, meet Black Kettle.
Takes one to know one. Next you'll tell me the AIDs sufferer who came to my high school had no right to warn us of the dangers of wanton promiscuity and intravenous drug use?
I dunno, I could think of a few people who I wouldn't have issue hearing were being beaten, jailed, etc. The difference here is that a man was put in that situation - by Google, who of all entities should know the consequences of their actions considering that their core competency is data mining and appropriate ad placement - over an image. Something the majority of google's product/customer base would take issue with and perhaps even consider, "evil". Most westerners (and probably other people too, but I can only speak about what I'm familliar with) believe that in a perfect world there would be nothing you could say that any of us would want you to be placed in an indian-fetish-dungeon over. Google, as an American company, should respect that.
Well, is there a correlation between slash-dotters that view porn and slash dotters that have sex?
The age of consent in Japan is pretty low. Are you measuring child-molestation by your standards or their standards?
There are certain crimes which are so emotionally charged people will vehemently support lawmakers going to any length to prevent them. Going back to the speeding - What percentage of speeders are in fatal collisions? I don't remember exactly, but it's less than 1, yet still it's probably the most prosecuted crime in the US.
What percentage of people who possess child porn actually paid for it, thus supporting the child-pr0n industry? What percentage of those in possession of child porn eventually decide to go out and abuse children? I'm hypothesizing it's not a great number, but I would appreciate it if anybody with hard facts on the issue could confirm or disprove. Even so, many parents appear to feel it's the biggest threat their children face and no price is too high if it reduces the risk one iota.
Where do I apply to become an FBI Child Porn Downloader?
IANAL, but AFAIK there's no law against transmitting footage of a crime being committed. Though, in most jurisdictions I'm aware of, if you didn't report it to the proper authorities you'd become an accessory after the fact.
My guess is they're tacking this on so there's no dispute about going in and seizing all the equipment used in the production and broadcast of the video even if the actual owner of the that equipment wasn't involved in the crime.
How many people are going to start anoni-faxing their own lame codes to Fermilab now that this is causing such a stir?
Yay biodiesel!
Friend or foe? This could get really interesting. Is it possible for a spammer to hurt myspace enough you'd pardon him for spamming? Is it possible for myspace to hurt spammers enough that you don't mind that it's myspace who's doing it? Personally I think spammers hurt society in general and me in particular more than any one website could and am curious what your situation might be that you've got such a vendetta against myspace.
What's to stop him from starting over again if you don't find the actual guy and put him in jail?
Use their awesome technology to just remove people from streetview entirely? If they removed cars and people it would be a lot easier to view the actual streets (and stuff that should be on a map.).
< hat tinfoil=yes > Most likely this is just a public beta for their super-secret face recognition technology so they'll be able to track all our movements over the web.< /hat >
Methinks they were waiting for 04-01-2009
They let Chinese people read /. ? (just a joke in case anyone is itching to use some mod points.)