What if in the future it were possible to read thoughts or extract memories by means of brain scans? Would any sane person think the authorities have any rights to invade people's own thoughts? The privacy of one's own thoughts is essential to living a human life.
While the sanity of the "Think of The Children/If You Have Nothing To Hide" group is debatable, they would with little doubt have a simultaneous orgasm the moment that became reality.
Gah! I just had a very very nasty mental image of a million Becks, Palins, Bushs' and so forth. *shudder*
I now hope that if the tech to extract memories become reality that it also will be possible to erase them for desperate times as this.
What prompted my reply was that Germans too like free spech as can be assesed from reading the summary. Something the poster I replied to overlooked and responded with the usual BS about the US having/liking free speech and Germany and/or EU not.
over 140,000 signatures of people opposed to it
I am fed up with us regular people on each side of the pond "shouting" our free speech is better than yours, you don't even have free speech.
Time to wake up and realize that things are becoming pretty bad on both sides of the pond. The sooner we all realize that neither system is perfect and leave a lot to wish for, we can actually deal with our problems rather than just as our respective governments wants us to, indulge in useless finger pointing!
Now there are 23000 meters in San Fran that may need to get new software..
A valuable lesson they will learn from. Hopefully.
Would it have been better to have a system with a few hackers taking advantage and skipping some parking fees, versus a now-comprimised system (or one that begs to be comprimised by publicity and the copy-cat nature of hackers and hacker upstarts) that may be rendered useless?
Only the harshest of lessons work with stupidity on such a grand scale.
Sure if it only is for your self it probably would not make that much sense to buy one of the more expensive ones but I saw a USB one going for 72$, seem quite a reasonable investment for unlimited parking to me. And, if you start massproducing cards and selling them for let's say 5 buck a pop it should not take long before you do break even on a fluke 225.
Then chuck out the propriety code and make it work with open standards..
Which may not be an option, the important parts of the code may be covered by a software patent with USPTO. Seing how this relates to RIAA's saying "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" albeit on a much greater scale than your mp3 stopping working on day, and quite possibly software patents I can't say that I am not following this with a certain amount of confusing pleasure.
Which of course is why they are going pay an army of lawyers a dump truck of money to maybe solve a problem that a couple of programmers could do at a presumably significantly lower cost.
Had pissdrunk clients calling you weekends as well as weekdays around 3am on a regular basis to ask for status reports? Or, how about clients somehow figuring out that you are on vacation in their country and city that calls your hotel being upset that you did not let them know, insisting on taking you out for a dinner that of course ends up being work related?
On January 19th, a Florida state appeals court decided that minors could be prosecuted for child pornography even if the subject of that pornography is him/herself. The case involved two Florida teens who took pictures of themselves involved in sexual behavior. The photos were intended for their own personal use and neither teen shared the photos with anyone else. From Police Blotter:
On March 25, 2004, Amber and Jeremy took digital photos of themselves naked and engaged in unspecified âoesexual behavior.â The two sent the photos from a computer at Amberâ(TM)s house to Jeremyâ(TM)s personal e-mail address. Neither teen showed the photographs to anyone else.
Court records donâ(TM)t say exactly what happened nextâ"perhaps the parents wanted to end the relationship and raised the alarmâ"but somehow Florida police learned about the photos.
Amber and Jeremy were arrested. Each was charged with producing, directing or promoting a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child. Based on the contents of his e-mail account, Jeremy was charged with an extra count of possession of child pornography.
As for environmental impact of organic farming, from what I know, in order to get the same amounts of overproduction, subsidized with tax money we'd need to expand existing farms much more because organic farms give lower yields.
For example, "organic" farmers tend not to use pesticides, but faced with threatened loss of crops, they may change their mind. If certain patterns of pesticide use cause more harm than good and there is a way to remedy the situation, the people concerned about it can seek regulatory solutions. I don't believe that paying extra for food will benefit anybody but those who sell it.
So "they may change their mind" and the author "don't believe that.."
Yup, you sure have convinced me that concern with pesticides is not a reason to opt for organic foods.
Is that because you are infected with the deadly Microsoft-Hater Disease that Linus warned about? Sounds like it!
Strange, to me it sounds as if the poster is doing what little he can as an individual to prevent a proprietary format from dominating the web as Flash have done for too long.
Sad. Seriously. You have contracted Microsoftitis. Seek help.
In all fairness, you could have used the current 2nd hit from the google search which with just one additional (obvious) click would lead you to this image, where the 1st search results displyed are:
Bing: Why is Manhattan so expensive? Regulation and rise in house prices
Birds have been shown to react to magnetism, why not humans?
Sensitivity to magnetic fields are rather important for birds to navigate, for humans it is not. 99,9999999% of pigeons survive getting dropped from 500 meters above a parking lot, why not humans?
Gimme a funnel, some handcuffs, 5 liters of hard liquor and a few hours and by your logic I can have sex with anyone I want and it won't count as rape.
Actually your logical conclusion that it won't be counted as rape is correct, it will be seen as necrophilia.
However, Opera have in the past threatened to sue Microsoft a but Microsoft settled before it ever reached court.
The background to the suit were that if you visited the MSN website with Opera identifying itself as Opera you got served a broken web page, this is what lead Opera to introduce the feature of identifying itself as other browsers.
The reason for this change were that if visiting the very same site with the very same version of Opera but identifying as IE the page displayed correctly!
A fact that unfortunately is omitted in the below article, but I'm sure you are capable of doing the research yourself in the case you don't bellieve me.
Slashdot Mirror
And yet you keep on coming back. Say more about you than the rest of us.
I'm getting to like the new ribbons, but sometimes the location of a function seems a tad obscure....
So, instead of finding function X in obscure location Y, now you instead have to find it in obscure location Z? ;-)
What if in the future it were possible to read thoughts or extract memories by means of brain scans? Would any sane person think the authorities have any rights to invade people's own thoughts? The privacy of one's own thoughts is essential to living a human life.
While the sanity of the "Think of The Children/If You Have Nothing To Hide" group is debatable, they would with little doubt have a simultaneous orgasm the moment that became reality.
Gah! I just had a very very nasty mental image of a million Becks, Palins, Bushs' and so forth. *shudder*
I now hope that if the tech to extract memories become reality that it also will be possible to erase them for desperate times as this.
Ah, yes of course no politician have ever accepted unregistered gifts aka bribes. Eh?
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo *Click*
over 140,000 signatures of people opposed to it
I am fed up with us regular people on each side of the pond "shouting" our free speech is better than yours, you don't even have free speech.
Time to wake up and realize that things are becoming pretty bad on both sides of the pond. The sooner we all realize that neither system is perfect and leave a lot to wish for, we can actually deal with our problems rather than just as our respective governments wants us to, indulge in useless finger pointing!
I suppose Germans don't value free speech as much as the Americans.
"Brett Bursey" learned the hard way what the price can be for exercising your "right" to free speach in the USA.
Now there are 23000 meters in San Fran that may need to get new software..
A valuable lesson they will learn from. Hopefully.
Would it have been better to have a system with a few hackers taking advantage and skipping some parking fees, versus a now-comprimised system (or one that begs to be comprimised by publicity and the copy-cat nature of hackers and hacker upstarts) that may be rendered useless?
Only the harshest of lessons work with stupidity on such a grand scale.
Should have been 25 buck a pop and Fluke 125.
Sure if it only is for your self it probably would not make that much sense to buy one of the more expensive ones but I saw a USB one going for 72$, seem quite a reasonable investment for unlimited parking to me. And, if you start massproducing cards and selling them for let's say 5 buck a pop it should not take long before you do break even on a fluke 225.
Then chuck out the propriety code and make it work with open standards..
Which may not be an option, the important parts of the code may be covered by a software patent with USPTO. Seing how this relates to RIAA's saying "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" albeit on a much greater scale than your mp3 stopping working on day, and quite possibly software patents I can't say that I am not following this with a certain amount of confusing pleasure.
Which of course is why they are going pay an army of lawyers a dump truck of money to maybe solve a problem that a couple of programmers could do at a presumably significantly lower cost.
Didn't think so.
On January 19th, a Florida state appeals court decided that minors could be prosecuted for child pornography even if the subject of that pornography is him/herself. The case involved two Florida teens who took pictures of themselves involved in sexual behavior. The photos were intended for their own personal use and neither teen shared the photos with anyone else. From Police Blotter:
On March 25, 2004, Amber and Jeremy took digital photos of themselves naked and engaged in unspecified âoesexual behavior.â The two sent the photos from a computer at Amberâ(TM)s house to Jeremyâ(TM)s personal e-mail address. Neither teen showed the photographs to anyone else. Court records donâ(TM)t say exactly what happened nextâ"perhaps the parents wanted to end the relationship and raised the alarmâ"but somehow Florida police learned about the photos. Amber and Jeremy were arrested. Each was charged with producing, directing or promoting a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child. Based on the contents of his e-mail account, Jeremy was charged with an extra count of possession of child pornography.
Source
Shouldn't we defend ourselves against them it the lawmakers obviously don't?
Hear, hear bring out the pitchforks and torches, burn down every brewery, distillery and liquor shop as they are major accomplishes in sex offences.
As for environmental impact of organic farming, from what I know, in order to get the same amounts of overproduction, subsidized with tax money we'd need to expand existing farms much more because organic farms give lower yields.
There, fixed that for ya.
It also addresses pesticides directly.
I suppose this is what you are referring to:
For example, "organic" farmers tend not to use pesticides, but faced with threatened loss of crops, they may change their mind. If certain patterns of pesticide use cause more harm than good and there is a way to remedy the situation, the people concerned about it can seek regulatory solutions. I don't believe that paying extra for food will benefit anybody but those who sell it.
So "they may change their mind" and the author "don't believe that.."
Yup, you sure have convinced me that concern with pesticides is not a reason to opt for organic foods.
Duh!
This far the only whining no namers are the AC's -I'm looking at you- who bitch about thatkid saying that he is cancelling his Yahoo account.
Is that because you are infected with the deadly Microsoft-Hater Disease that Linus warned about? Sounds like it!
Strange, to me it sounds as if the poster is doing what little he can as an individual to prevent a proprietary format from dominating the web as Flash have done for too long.
Sad. Seriously. You have contracted Microsoftitis. Seek help.
Bing: Why is Manhattan so expensive? Regulation and rise in house prices
Google: Why Is Microsoft Office So Expensive.
Birds have been shown to react to magnetism, why not humans?
Sensitivity to magnetic fields are rather important for birds to navigate, for humans it is not. 99,9999999% of pigeons survive getting dropped from 500 meters above a parking lot, why not humans?
Gimme a funnel, some handcuffs, 5 liters of hard liquor and a few hours and by your logic I can have sex with anyone I want and it won't count as rape.
Actually your logical conclusion that it won't be counted as rape is correct, it will be seen as necrophilia.
They just sued.
No they didn't. They filed a Antitrust complaint, big difference.
http://www.css3.info/opera-files-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft/
However, Opera have in the past threatened to sue Microsoft a but Microsoft settled before it ever reached court.
The background to the suit were that if you visited the MSN website with Opera identifying itself as Opera you got served a broken web page, this is what lead Opera to introduce the feature of identifying itself as other browsers. The reason for this change were that if visiting the very same site with the very same version of Opera but identifying as IE the page displayed correctly!
A fact that unfortunately is omitted in the below article, but I'm sure you are capable of doing the research yourself in the case you don't bellieve me.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39155572,00.htm
Recommended reading (PDF)