Rember how pissed-off these made US businesses, who resented being pressured to comply with EU laws regarding data outsourced from the EU (or otherwise concerning EU citizenry?)
Now it seems that this model is not such a bad thing. Interested US parties (some hospitals, at least) now seem to be pushing for a model whereby they can enforce US data-protection laws on data concerning US citizens when it goes overseas.
We're also quite interested in Bin Laden, who is often reported to be in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Pakistan is far from transparent to western intelligence and law enforcement.
From Booklist
It's enough to make your head hurt, this very conscious, contemporary, intellectual interpretation of Keats' "Beauty is life, life, Beauty." On the other hand, social scientist and author (The Future and Its Enemies, 1998) Postrel brings together some very compelling arguments, insights, and examples about the value of aesthetics today. Nothing is quantified; instead, she points to qualitative examples like the GE Design Center in Selkirk, New York, devoted exclusively to the creation of new plastic forms. To Starbucks and the iMac, each a symbol of looks that sell--at a higher price. And to the 1,500-odd different drawer pulls available at the Great Indoors. Aesthetics is how we make the world around us special, a feature recognized as early as 1927, when adman Ernest Elmo Calkins opined about "Beauty the New Business Tool" in the Atlantic. It enhances communications (cf. PowerPoint) and identities (Hillary Clinton's hair). Ask any Afghan woman who risked prison to style her hair and paint her face; aesthetics is at one with life. Barbara Jacobs
Copyright (C) American Library Association. All rights reserved
From Publishers Weekly
At the Great Indoors, a hugely successful department store chain, customers can choose from among 250 lavatory faucets. If that represents too little variety, there are more than 1,500 distinct models of drawer pulls. Like it or not, we live in an age where we can minutely dictate every aesthetic choice, to an extent our ancestors would certainly have found disturbingly wasteful and superficial. It is this censure that New York Times economics columnist Postrel is dead-set on dismantling. Aligning herself against "pleasure-hating" modernists like Walter Gropius and Adolf Loos, Postrel adopts the position that fashion has meaning. One of her argument's charms is that she allows Joe Q. Ray-Ban his own justification for his purchase ("I like it") against the interpretations of theorists who insist an interest in surfaces is linked with deception, status or falsehood. Postrel's apt example of the proliferation in toilet-brush design is an effective rebuttal against such theorists-after all, nobody buys a sleek toilet brush to impress neighbors who will never see it, so aesthetics must constitute much of the rationale. Increasingly, form is simply part of the function. Postrel begins by explaining that appearance has a meaning commensurate to loftier values, then examines the many manifestations of this truth. While her argument is intellectually sophisticated, Postrel's journalistic training ensures the examples she cites are well-chosen and the prose remains crisp and readable. Gracefully representing one endpoint of a certain debate, this ambitious book may someday become a classic of the genre.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
ceramic tiles are made of expensive raw materials, either. The process of manufacturing and installation is expensive, however. How much would his tiles save?
(I know he calls it a paste. but if you look at the pictures the material he tests is has been cured into tiles.)
They're not talking about "Cigarette Burns" before reel changes, but unique marking codes indended to allow one to deduce which theatre allowed a given MPEG or DIVX to be made.
it is intended to allow the studios to determine which movie house (or which projector?) the pirated copy came from.
So the solution is not to perform a multipass scan to work around the dots, but to remove the dota altogether.
I'm sure that one *could* detect
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the LEDs, but why? Unless one suspected that Randy was using them to communicate important information, who would bother? As described, their blinking seemed inoculous.
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Root is in the book. His lifeline seems to fit SF much better than other genres, except fantasy.
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in the hammock, above the skerries.
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WARNING: Cryptonomicon spoiler. If you have not read Cryptonomicon, please skip the rest of this comment.
I loved Cryptonomicon, but there was one little thing bugging me. When Randy, in jail, decrypts the WWII radio transmissions that mentioned the location of Golgotha, why did that message have English plaintext? Wouldn't the Japanese have used Japanese, which Randy does not speak?
The only 3 reasons that I can think of are: 1) Mr. Stephenson didn't want to confuse the reader by switching languages, the crypto was potentially confusing enough, 2) The messages were sent by the Conspiracy, in English, and I didn't notice that in my reading, 3) Mr. Stephenson made a mistake.
Reason #2 seems most likely to me, but I didn't get that from reading. Do you, dear Shashdotters, have any insight?
When a pager beeps or vibrates, you can (depending on the model) just look at the top screen as its clipped to your waist to see the number, your hand doesn't have to touch the pager.
that the logos were fuzzed out because the vendors didn't want to pay COPS (or whoever), and COPS or MTV didn't want to give "free" promotion to these brands. Is that not the case?
Were this a Haxor attack, there would be criminal liability. I'm willing to believe that it was a simple mistake, with no criminal intent, but would NetGear be liable civilly?
The purpose of this spam seems to be the distributed harassment of FederalFundingProgram.com, whoever they are. Send this spam to 10^n people, and a reasonable number of nastygrams and crank emails will return to the target.
Well, as you mentioned, the shuttle speed (in atmosphere) does matter, as that sets the speed of the thousand mph wind that accelerates the ice-encased foam.
Well, she's right. There is a TCO - the cost of your labor.
So give her estimated labor costs of installing and supporting MySQL vs cost of purchasing, installing and supporting Oracle. Don't forget hardware costs.
The purpose of this clause, I think, is to allow them to hold someone responsible if they find that file-sharing has happened, and trace communications back to your node.
If you did it, they throw the book at you. If you say "wasn't me, I was proxying/forwarding for some anonymous other person", they nail you for concealing the source of a communication.
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Rember how pissed-off these made US businesses, who resented being pressured to comply with EU laws regarding data outsourced from the EU (or otherwise concerning EU citizenry?) Now it seems that this model is not such a bad thing. Interested US parties (some hospitals, at least) now seem to be pushing for a model whereby they can enforce US data-protection laws on data concerning US citizens when it goes overseas.
We're also quite interested in Bin Laden, who is often reported to be in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Pakistan is far from transparent to western intelligence and law enforcement.
while we're copying other people's reviews:
From Booklist
It's enough to make your head hurt, this very conscious, contemporary, intellectual interpretation of Keats' "Beauty is life, life, Beauty." On the other hand, social scientist and author (The Future and Its Enemies, 1998) Postrel brings together some very compelling arguments, insights, and examples about the value of aesthetics today. Nothing is quantified; instead, she points to qualitative examples like the GE Design Center in Selkirk, New York, devoted exclusively to the creation of new plastic forms. To Starbucks and the iMac, each a symbol of looks that sell--at a higher price. And to the 1,500-odd different drawer pulls available at the Great Indoors. Aesthetics is how we make the world around us special, a feature recognized as early as 1927, when adman Ernest Elmo Calkins opined about "Beauty the New Business Tool" in the Atlantic. It enhances communications (cf. PowerPoint) and identities (Hillary Clinton's hair). Ask any Afghan woman who risked prison to style her hair and paint her face; aesthetics is at one with life.
Barbara Jacobs
Copyright (C) American Library Association. All rights reserved
From Publishers Weekly
At the Great Indoors, a hugely successful department store chain, customers can choose from among 250 lavatory faucets. If that represents too little variety, there are more than 1,500 distinct models of drawer pulls. Like it or not, we live in an age where we can minutely dictate every aesthetic choice, to an extent our ancestors would certainly have found disturbingly wasteful and superficial. It is this censure that New York Times economics columnist Postrel is dead-set on dismantling. Aligning herself against "pleasure-hating" modernists like Walter Gropius and Adolf Loos, Postrel adopts the position that fashion has meaning. One of her argument's charms is that she allows Joe Q. Ray-Ban his own justification for his purchase ("I like it") against the interpretations of theorists who insist an interest in surfaces is linked with deception, status or falsehood. Postrel's apt example of the proliferation in toilet-brush design is an effective rebuttal against such theorists-after all, nobody buys a sleek toilet brush to impress neighbors who will never see it, so aesthetics must constitute much of the rationale. Increasingly, form is simply part of the function. Postrel begins by explaining that appearance has a meaning commensurate to loftier values, then examines the many manifestations of this truth. While her argument is intellectually sophisticated, Postrel's journalistic training ensures the examples she cites are well-chosen and the prose remains crisp and readable. Gracefully representing one endpoint of a certain debate, this ambitious book may someday become a classic of the genre.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Humor, or clever flamebait. In any event, I applaud.
(I know he calls it a paste. but if you look at the pictures the material he tests is has been cured into tiles.)
They're not talking about "Cigarette Burns" before reel changes, but unique marking codes indended to allow one to deduce which theatre allowed a given MPEG or DIVX to be made.
So the solution is not to perform a multipass scan to work around the dots, but to remove the dota altogether.
the LEDs, but why? Unless one suspected that Randy was using them to communicate important information, who would bother? As described, their blinking seemed inoculous.
That makes a lot of sense.
Root is in the book. His lifeline seems to fit SF much better than other genres, except fantasy.
in the hammock, above the skerries.
I loved Cryptonomicon, but there was one little thing bugging me. When Randy, in jail, decrypts the WWII radio transmissions that mentioned the location of Golgotha, why did that message have English plaintext? Wouldn't the Japanese have used Japanese, which Randy does not speak?
The only 3 reasons that I can think of are: 1) Mr. Stephenson didn't want to confuse the reader by switching languages, the crypto was potentially confusing enough, 2) The messages were sent by the Conspiracy, in English, and I didn't notice that in my reading, 3) Mr. Stephenson made a mistake.
Reason #2 seems most likely to me, but I didn't get that from reading. Do you, dear Shashdotters, have any insight?
When a pager beeps or vibrates, you can (depending on the model) just look at the top screen as its clipped to your waist to see the number, your hand doesn't have to touch the pager.
that the logos were fuzzed out because the vendors didn't want to pay COPS (or whoever), and COPS or MTV didn't want to give "free" promotion to these brands. Is that not the case?
Were this a Haxor attack, there would be criminal liability. I'm willing to believe that it was a simple mistake, with no criminal intent, but would NetGear be liable civilly?
The purpose of this spam seems to be the distributed harassment of FederalFundingProgram.com, whoever they are. Send this spam to 10^n people, and a reasonable number of nastygrams and crank emails will return to the target.
but the moderators missed the humor. (The joke relates to the whole SCO / Linux IP lawsuit thing. You see...nevermind.)
Well, as you mentioned, the shuttle speed (in atmosphere) does matter, as that sets the speed of the thousand mph wind that accelerates the ice-encased foam.
credit reports, in which case they *do* know your income, pretty much.
It's like asking "How will this affect HBO's fall lineup?"
One could easily make the case that, given the content of much of the net, an offer for net access is provocative to you.
The USPS will take your word for it, if you claim that the ad bothers you.
So give her estimated labor costs of installing and supporting MySQL vs cost of purchasing, installing and supporting Oracle. Don't forget hardware costs.
If you did it, they throw the book at you. If you say "wasn't me, I was proxying/forwarding for some anonymous other person", they nail you for concealing the source of a communication.
I'm sure it was in Neil Gaiman's books (was that line spoken by the voice in the desert?), but I don't think that that was the original source.
the original source for that quote is Paul Ambroise Valéry.