Unless the rules have changed, the FCCprohibits telephone aggregators from blocking "950" and "800" access to long distance carriers. The definition of aggregators include hotels and motels, hospitals, universities, airports, gas stations, pay telephone owners, and others. The FCC Report and Order can be read here.
Ursula K. LeGuin C.M. Kornbluth Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore Frederic Pohl Harlan Ellison C.S. Lewis Octavia Butler Stanislaw Lem Stanley Weinbaum -- A Martian Odyssey
Many great SF books are out of print. A used SF book store is worth visiting for a wider selection of books.
The point was, that unlike most civilised countries, the United States does not seem to understand that the government's jurisdiction ends at the border. If I had been living on Mars, the IRS would still have wanted their cut.
I was told that the only way I could avoid paying income taxes was to renounce my citizenship.
One of my first jobs was outside the United States, in a part of the UK. I was surprised to learn that both the federal and state government expected me to pay income taxes on money earned outside the United States, even though I was a legal resident of the UK.
I don't get it. This is a Canadian company, operating in Canada, subject to Canadian law. Why should they give a shit about the opinion of a United States court?
Sure, you can say whatever you want, but people should also be able to stop you if it's harmful.
A popular sentiment among censors.
Freedom of speech isn't about speech that offends no one. It is about speech that large segments of the population find offensive or harmful. That includes "racist speech", a category that broadens with every passing year.
Funny, I've got a pile of DVDs here and not one of them has a license agreement. Just the usual "FBI/Interpol will kill all pirates" video screen when the disk is inserted into a player.
Assuming this technology is developed, who is going to pay for the processor, CPU cycles, energy and hardware maintenance? What can the virtual person produce that justifies the cost of its existence?
The major advantage of a graphical user interface is that it is graphical. Shortcuts may be useful to the expert but they are of limited value to the casual user. There is also the danger that they can become too complicated, the GUI equivalent of control-alt-meta-cokebottle.
Invented by Lee De Forest in 1906. This invention moved the world into the electronic age. Amplifiers and oscillators quickly followed. The Bell System used it to amplify long distance phone calls. It was central to the development of radio technology. Much of today's electronic technology can be traced back to the invention of the Audion and the first vacuum tube circuit designs.
C is not going to disappear for a very long time, no matter how wonderful the language fad of the year is. A huge amount of time and money has been invested in C. Among the professional programmers that I work with, C is the one language that almost everyone knows. It is also the only language that is available on most processors and operating systems.
FORTRAN was old when I wrote my first computer programs, many years ago. Even though its popularity has waned, I still know programmers and scientists who write everything in FORTRAN.
I'm sure that some new language will eventually replace C and C++. That day is likely to be decades away. People forget how long it took for C to become a popular programming language. See Dennis Ritchie's paper on the history of C.
As a side rant, whatever happened to languages that could be completely described in a thin book such as Niklaus Wirth's "Pascal - User Manual and Report" and Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language". Too many languages and operating systems have become unmanageable waste dumps of "features".
Shooting people is illegal, so therefore owning, manufacturing, or designing handguns should be illegal.
Where I live, if you break into my home or assault me with a deadly weapon, I can legally shoot you I could also shoot you if you were committing a violent felony such as rape, murder or arson.
We currently have a piece of dreck known as the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act" as law in the USA. I propose the "Jon Johansen Copyright Termination Act". It would amend US copyright law to conform to the minimum requirements of the Berne Convention. Copyrights on movies would expire 50 years after creation or initial exhibition to the public. Other works would be protected for the life of the author plus fifty years.
Jack Valenti might have to get himself a real job.
Would you rather vote for someone who didn't censor but (let's say) raised taxes to pay for schools, or someone who did censor but would cut your taxes?
I would have to look at their stands on the issues that are important to me and vote for the candidate who was the best match. Currently, that tends to be Republican candidates.
To answer your question, I would vote for the candidate that opposed censorship. I am a strong supporter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including the second, ninth and tenth amendments.
The "religious right" is not a major voting block in my area. The local Democrats are falling over themselves in their attempts to "protect the children". Unfortunately the Democrats have a lock on most of the elected offices in my area, so a vote for a Republican is usually a protest vote.
It could be worse, I used to live near the "Peoples Republic of Takoma Park", which banned the production, storage and use of nuclear weapons within the city.
There are many different types of Republicans and Democrats. I'm a libertarian Republican and as far as I am concerned, ASU students can fuck their brains out if they wish. They are legally adults and the state has no business telling them what to do. In my area, there are plenty of fascist Democrats who have turned the public schools into minimum security prisons and are just as sexually repressed as any member of the Christian Coalition.
The law enforcement view seems to be that anything that does not involve listening to the conversation can be done without a search warrant. A pen register can be installed with a court order based upon suspicion of criminal activity (18 USC 3121) .
I'm not familiar enough with DCTs to make a judgement on the originality of the design. However, the approximation of functions with computationally simpler operations is an old idea. I've used it for PID (proportional, integral, derivative) controller software on slow microprocessors. It is a common technique in missile guidance systems and computer graphics.
Floating point arithmetic is replaced with fixed point or integer arithmetic. Multiplies and divides are replaced with shifts, adds and subtracts. Constants are rounded off to an integral power of two. Complex functions are replaced with lookup tables or simple approximations. The trick is knowing how much can be discarded while still getting acceptable results.
What is the advantage of this over the old device that uses high pressure air? If you have been in the U.S. military, you are familiar with the vaccine "guns" used for mass immunizations of military personnel.
This gives each and everyone of us the potential to become a one-man international Mafia. Stop this? All govt's combined do not stand a chance.
A government or private party can ruin your life or make you feel their pain if you traffic in the "wrong" information.
The Church of Scientology has been vicious in protecting their allegedly copyrighted secret scriptures and harassing their perceived enemies.
The U.S. Government spends plenty of money on investigating, prosecuting, and sometimes entrapping, people who possess or traffic in child pornography. They make no distinction between harming a child through sexual abuse, which should be a crime, and photographs, computer graphics, drawings or paintings, which someone judges to have sexual content, even if no child was involved in their creation.
Registry rot is one of the main reasons that I end up reinstalling the operating system. Sometimes I think the registry was designed by the same people who designed those Mission Impossible tape recorders.
You might want to think before you make rude comments about journalists and "experts".
"Format C:" is a perfectly reasonable course of action if the system is configured with the operating system in a dedicated partition with the user's data and applications in other partitions. I've often used this setup on test systems that may need to have the operating system reinstalled on a regular basis. Killing the whole partition is faster than deleting all of the files, including any read-only, hidden and system files.
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Unless the rules have changed, the FCC prohibits telephone aggregators from blocking "950" and "800" access to long distance carriers. The definition of aggregators include hotels and motels, hospitals, universities, airports, gas stations, pay telephone owners, and others. The FCC Report and Order can be read here.
C.M. Kornbluth
Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore
Frederic Pohl
Harlan Ellison
C.S. Lewis
Octavia Butler
Stanislaw Lem
Stanley Weinbaum -- A Martian Odyssey
Many great SF books are out of print. A used SF book store is worth visiting for a wider selection of books.
I was told that the only way I could avoid paying income taxes was to renounce my citizenship.
One of my first jobs was outside the United States, in a part of the UK. I was surprised to learn that both the federal and state government expected me to pay income taxes on money earned outside the United States, even though I was a legal resident of the UK.
I don't get it. This is a Canadian company, operating in Canada, subject to Canadian law. Why should they give a shit about the opinion of a United States court?
He was trying to insult pedophiles, sexists and criminals.
The story was also extensively covered in the Washington, D.C. area newspapers.
A popular sentiment among censors.
Freedom of speech isn't about speech that offends no one. It is about speech that large segments of the population find offensive or harmful. That includes "racist speech", a category that broadens with every passing year.
Funny, I've got a pile of DVDs here and not one of them has a license agreement. Just the usual "FBI/Interpol will kill all pirates" video screen when the disk is inserted into a player.
Assuming this technology is developed, who is going to pay for the processor, CPU cycles, energy and hardware maintenance? What can the virtual person produce that justifies the cost of its existence?
The major advantage of a graphical user interface is that it is graphical. Shortcuts may be useful to the expert but they are of limited value to the casual user. There is also the danger that they can become too complicated, the GUI equivalent of control-alt-meta-cokebottle.
Invented by Lee De Forest in 1906. This invention moved the world into the electronic age. Amplifiers and oscillators quickly followed. The Bell System used it to amplify long distance phone calls. It was central to the development of radio technology. Much of today's electronic technology can be traced back to the invention of the Audion and the first vacuum tube circuit designs.
Edison liked to refer to electrocution as being "Westinghoused", a clever bit of FUD that never caught on with the public.
FORTRAN was old when I wrote my first computer programs, many years ago. Even though its popularity has waned, I still know programmers and scientists who write everything in FORTRAN.
I'm sure that some new language will eventually replace C and C++. That day is likely to be decades away. People forget how long it took for C to become a popular programming language. See Dennis Ritchie's paper on the history of C.
As a side rant, whatever happened to languages that could be completely described in a thin book such as Niklaus Wirth's "Pascal - User Manual and Report" and Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language". Too many languages and operating systems have become unmanageable waste dumps of "features".
Where I live, if you break into my home or assault me with a deadly weapon, I can legally shoot you I could also shoot you if you were committing a violent felony such as rape, murder or arson.
Jack Valenti might have to get himself a real job.
I would have to look at their stands on the issues that are important to me and vote for the candidate who was the best match. Currently, that tends to be Republican candidates.
To answer your question, I would vote for the candidate that opposed censorship. I am a strong supporter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including the second, ninth and tenth amendments.
The "religious right" is not a major voting block in my area. The local Democrats are falling over themselves in their attempts to "protect the children". Unfortunately the Democrats have a lock on most of the elected offices in my area, so a vote for a Republican is usually a protest vote.
It could be worse, I used to live near the "Peoples Republic of Takoma Park", which banned the production, storage and use of nuclear weapons within the city.
There are many different types of Republicans and Democrats. I'm a libertarian Republican and as far as I am concerned, ASU students can fuck their brains out if they wish. They are legally adults and the state has no business telling them what to do. In my area, there are plenty of fascist Democrats who have turned the public schools into minimum security prisons and are just as sexually repressed as any member of the Christian Coalition.
My bet is that the smart fellow with the net has an unfortunate "accident" and the other nine men go back to fishing with spears.
The law enforcement view seems to be that anything that does not involve listening to the conversation can be done without a search warrant. A pen register can be installed with a court order based upon suspicion of criminal activity (18 USC 3121) .
Floating point arithmetic is replaced with fixed point or integer arithmetic. Multiplies and divides are replaced with shifts, adds and subtracts. Constants are rounded off to an integral power of two. Complex functions are replaced with lookup tables or simple approximations. The trick is knowing how much can be discarded while still getting acceptable results.
What is the advantage of this over the old device that uses high pressure air? If you have been in the U.S. military, you are familiar with the vaccine "guns" used for mass immunizations of military personnel.
A government or private party can ruin your life or make you feel their pain if you traffic in the "wrong" information.
The Church of Scientology has been vicious in protecting their allegedly copyrighted secret scriptures and harassing their perceived enemies.
The U.S. Government spends plenty of money on investigating, prosecuting, and sometimes entrapping, people who possess or traffic in child pornography. They make no distinction between harming a child through sexual abuse, which should be a crime, and photographs, computer graphics, drawings or paintings, which someone judges to have sexual content, even if no child was involved in their creation.
Registry rot is one of the main reasons that I end up reinstalling the operating system. Sometimes I think the registry was designed by the same people who designed those Mission Impossible tape recorders.
"Format C:" is a perfectly reasonable course of action if the system is configured with the operating system in a dedicated partition with the user's data and applications in other partitions. I've often used this setup on test systems that may need to have the operating system reinstalled on a regular basis. Killing the whole partition is faster than deleting all of the files, including any read-only, hidden and system files.