As opposed to processes which may or may not suck but which cannot be measured because of the lack of documentation? In defense of ISO 9000, documentation allows reversions and enables organizations to learn from mistakes. I think of ISO 9000 as CVS: the code may be retarded, but CVS allows you to follow the progression of code so you can change it.
> She hired a lawyer in hawaii and filed suit there after renting a house that her lawyer found her for residency reasons.
This is a good yarn, but sounds improbable. The corporation would have been near impossible to sue there because it's headquarters weren't in Hawaii. Furthermore, the corporation could have had the case transferred to another venue because Hawaii is an inconvenient forum. Renting a house there is not enough to establish domicile since the rental was done in preparation for the lawsuit.
The similar case of Moore v. Regents of University of California has decided on this question. A man was ill with hairy cell leukemia and his spleen was removed in the course of treatment. The hospital did research on his spleen and he sued, claiming that he had a property interest in the removed spleen. The court disagreed with him and ruled that there was no such property interest once the part was removed.
This is hardly as bad as you would think it is. Federal rules of discovery allow only seven hours of deposition per witness before the deposing party requires leave of court. (That assumes the opponent does not consent to the extension.) It is not unprecedented to see witnesses stall during depositions. Mr. Wilson has four hours of questioning left, and that'll go really quickly. Witnesses are instructed before depositions to ask the questioner to clarify each question so as to remove all ambiguity. Then they take sips of water, they get water, they get Coke. Then they have to look for a bathroom. Sometimes, they... speak... really... slowly. Or they suddenly go deaf and require even the most well-phrased question to be repeated in the exact same way because otherwise they'll get "confused" over the two phrasings. It's annoying when a witness stalls but damn, does SCO have it coming here.
SG-1 is probably at its best when the cast & crew isn't taking itself too seriously.
My favorite episode was the one where time cycled itself so O'Neal just did all the things he wanted to do. Of course, it was an obvious opportunity to make out with Carter without consequence. But the image of him smacking golf balls off into the Stargate was just perfect; imagine being on the other side of the Gate and having these golf balls fly out and whack you.
Trademarks are granted protection only within the field occupied by the originator of the term. The concept of trademarks is to protect consumers against confusion by the unscrupulous. Such protection provides an incentive for originators of the trademark to police the term, and more importantly, to build up a brand. Therefore, Windows has a trademark over "Windows" for "windowing operating systems". Microsoft can't sue me for using "Windows" for my shoe company, for instance.
The Fifth Amendment to the American Constitution prohibits a government actor from compelling a person to make self-incriminating statements. Papers and other writings previously authored by a criminal defendant do not constitute such a statement, though it may be self-incriminating. In a recent case, the NY Court of Appeals ruled that tattoos of a criminal defendant can be admitted against him over his objection to prove he subscribed to white supremacist beliefs because such evidence was not a protected statement.
To answer the second question, namely, whether destroying the device violates the law. In short, it depends. Destruction motivated by a desire to hinder justice is illegal. If the car was involved in an accident, or there was another reason to believe that the device in the car would be important in a civil matter, destruction of that device would lead to sanctions. Civil liberties sell great here on Slashdot, but imagine if your child or family member was hit and injured by a guy who was street racing. The prosecution needs to prove speeding or reckless driving to convict the defendant on the most serious charges. Would you say that getting data from a device in that case would be wrong? In this particular case, the argument "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" flies pretty well because the information on the device could exculpate the defendant as well.
Tankersly is a left-handed relief pitcher on the Florida Marlins. His pickoff move is average but guys run on him all the time. Why? Tankersly looks towards first when he is pitching, but looks home when he's about to check the baserunner. So the runner goes when he sees Tankersly look over, and Tankersly gets to see the runner take second on him.
Computers would recognize this pattern and can perfectly randomize whether it would look home before checking the runner at first. Humans have problems and fall into patterns.
Technically, the company is correct. Generators produce electricity by moving metal through a magnetic field. The trick is making the metal move through the magnetic field.
Personally, I'm going to use my perpetual motion device to run my Pentium IV Extreme computer powered by Windows Vista while I play Duke Nukem Forever on the Phantom Labs produced graphics card.
I believe that distributing sensitive information over different servers is a great idea in security in that it allows variety in platforms. Some of the nodes can run Linux, others BSD, and some can run Windows. The servers would be in physically disparate places on different power grids/internet lines. You don't have to put all your eggs in one basket. A hacker would have to compromise many more operating systems in order to get your information. The same is true of any flaw that could kill your data: it has to run across different locations and platforms. Hey. Security through diversity!
This router isn't running a GPU or an Intel Pentium IV Extreme just to route packets and download torrents. I haven't looked yet, but Asus engineers probably have dedicated chips doing all that stuff.
Computers and electronics tend to die in infancy and not in old age. Installing Gentoo is basically a stress-test for a system, especially if you are compiling all the software. I'm guessing something died, since software usually does not kill hardware in this day and age.
The big deal with TATP is not that it is a liquid. Rather, the fear stems from the fact that unlike most other explosives, TATP does not contain the nitrogen current bomb-sniffing technology detects. The stability of the compounds is almost irrelevant because detectability by modern airport systems is more important. Furthermore, TATP precursors such as acetone and bleach are themselves difficult to detect using dogs, X-rays, and sniffers. Regardless of the difficulty of synthesizing TATP on an airplane from precursors, the plotters relied on brute force: not only did they plan to attack many airplanes at the same time, they planned to attack each plane multiple times with a group of terrorists/chemists.
That's why airines screen luggage now. The fear is that terrorists are moving to explosives which are not based on nitrogen-contained compounds now being screened for. TATP, the agent allegedly chosen by the London airline terrorists, does not contain nitrogen and explodes in an endothermic reaction. C4 in a luggage is not a huge fear because it is being screened for, and that was because someone blew up an airplane to make their point.
Most of the "pirates" will update OS X Leopard onto their pre-existing Mac systems. Apple does not sell clones anymore, so this means Apple already sold a computer to the pirate, why do they care? Zealots downloading and installing this version probably will buy a new Mac anyway.
The guys running the computer place in my neighborhood has it figured out: hot high school girls. Apparently, they get paid 15 an hour, which is decent, but obviously draw in the entire geek crowd (especially from their high school). They sell computers, too.
The logic is stupid. Are we going to sue Symantec because they profit from malware and viruses? We provide tools that have many uses, one of which is illegal. What the hell is their point?
Proponents of the stem cell ban are spreading FUD all over the place. A few weeks ago, I saw a senator giving a demonstration of how useless the embryonic stem cell research was even if it was allowed. He said that there were zero published reports of embryonic stem cell success in humans as compared to a certain number of adult stem cell studies. Of course, the doctor/senator forgot to mention the entire ban using federal money on embryonic stem cells (except for a few contaminated samples that aren't fit for use in humans.) Sigh.
No one wants to sleep in a war zone IF THEY HAVE A CHOICE. The Israelis can afford bomb shelters so they can sleep at night, safe from the rockets. But the Lebanese have no such choice. They have to live somewhere, and the terrorists are going to shoot rockets from wherever that is. Furthermore, the terrorists are going to run away and leave the launchers while the civilian is sleeping or making lunch or feeding their baby when retaliation comes. Killing civilians for what a terrorist did makes no sense. Well, it makes sense if you assume that all Arabs are terrorists, and that is the assumption many pro-Israel folks are making. Look at the numbers of civilians dead on both sides: the Lebanese are getting creamed.
There is a huge fuss about how the Israelis are giving the Lebanese a chance to leave. Therefore, anyone remaining in the targeted areas are terrorists. That is ignorance of reality. The roads are all bombed out, there's no electricity, cars, or gas (ironic, huh) and some families may want to bunker down if they have elderly or young. It's kind of like a suicide bombing organization telling Israelis to get out of discos because they are going to have an operation against soldiers hanging out there. Clearly, Israelis are not consenting to get blown into pieces by staying out, and the terrorist act wouldn't be any less atrocious because of the warning. Therefore, telling the Lebanese to get out of their own homes does not mitigate the objectionability of what Israel is doing.
One difference, two words: Pearl Harbor. The Iraq war lays on the thinnest of pretenses. Furthermore, American soldiers in World War II did not haul off captured Japanese POWs and claim they were not to be accorded the protections of the Geneva Conventions. In fact, that was kind of what the Japanese did to us. Back then, the United States never took an official position that torture of enemy soldiers was okay. Nowadays, we make a whole bunch of names up and call it something else. It's funny how conservatives, who hated all the PC terms liberals came up with are now struggling to come up with terms of their own.
To get evolved out, a gene would have to kill the carrier before reproduction age. Men used to live short lives, and the diseases prevented by the genes weren't weeding cavemen out as much as the sabretooth tigers and infections were. Furthermore, the diseases caused by the genes, such as diabetes, heart attacks and asthma, probably were not a huge problem in a pre-industrial society that did not have excess carbohydrates, processed sugars, and artificial pollutants. Evolution isn't a process where a divine being aspires towards perfection. It is trial and error. If there is no selective force, then imperfection remains. That's what is happening here.
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As opposed to processes which may or may not suck but which cannot be measured because of the lack of documentation? In defense of ISO 9000, documentation allows reversions and enables organizations to learn from mistakes. I think of ISO 9000 as CVS: the code may be retarded, but CVS allows you to follow the progression of code so you can change it.
> She hired a lawyer in hawaii and filed suit there after renting a house that her lawyer found her for residency reasons.
This is a good yarn, but sounds improbable. The corporation would have been near impossible to sue there because it's headquarters weren't in Hawaii. Furthermore, the corporation could have had the case transferred to another venue because Hawaii is an inconvenient forum. Renting a house there is not enough to establish domicile since the rental was done in preparation for the lawsuit.
Unless you were trying to threaten someone without killing them. Was the device even lit?
Plan B just went OTC.
The similar case of Moore v. Regents of University of California has decided on this question. A man was ill with hairy cell leukemia and his spleen was removed in the course of treatment. The hospital did research on his spleen and he sued, claiming that he had a property interest in the removed spleen. The court disagreed with him and ruled that there was no such property interest once the part was removed.
This is hardly as bad as you would think it is. Federal rules of discovery allow only seven hours of deposition per witness before the deposing party requires leave of court. (That assumes the opponent does not consent to the extension.) It is not unprecedented to see witnesses stall during depositions. Mr. Wilson has four hours of questioning left, and that'll go really quickly. Witnesses are instructed before depositions to ask the questioner to clarify each question so as to remove all ambiguity. Then they take sips of water, they get water, they get Coke. Then they have to look for a bathroom. Sometimes, they ... speak ... really ... slowly. Or they suddenly go deaf and require even the most well-phrased question to be repeated in the exact same way because otherwise they'll get "confused" over the two phrasings. It's annoying when a witness stalls but damn, does SCO have it coming here.
SG-1 is probably at its best when the cast & crew isn't taking itself too seriously.
My favorite episode was the one where time cycled itself so O'Neal just did all the things he wanted to do. Of course, it was an obvious opportunity to make out with Carter without consequence. But the image of him smacking golf balls off into the Stargate was just perfect; imagine being on the other side of the Gate and having these golf balls fly out and whack you.
Trademarks are granted protection only within the field occupied by the originator of the term. The concept of trademarks is to protect consumers against confusion by the unscrupulous. Such protection provides an incentive for originators of the trademark to police the term, and more importantly, to build up a brand. Therefore, Windows has a trademark over "Windows" for "windowing operating systems". Microsoft can't sue me for using "Windows" for my shoe company, for instance.
The Fifth Amendment to the American Constitution prohibits a government actor from compelling a person to make self-incriminating statements. Papers and other writings previously authored by a criminal defendant do not constitute such a statement, though it may be self-incriminating. In a recent case, the NY Court of Appeals ruled that tattoos of a criminal defendant can be admitted against him over his objection to prove he subscribed to white supremacist beliefs because such evidence was not a protected statement.
To answer the second question, namely, whether destroying the device violates the law. In short, it depends. Destruction motivated by a desire to hinder justice is illegal. If the car was involved in an accident, or there was another reason to believe that the device in the car would be important in a civil matter, destruction of that device would lead to sanctions. Civil liberties sell great here on Slashdot, but imagine if your child or family member was hit and injured by a guy who was street racing. The prosecution needs to prove speeding or reckless driving to convict the defendant on the most serious charges. Would you say that getting data from a device in that case would be wrong? In this particular case, the argument "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" flies pretty well because the information on the device could exculpate the defendant as well.
Tankersly is a left-handed relief pitcher on the Florida Marlins. His pickoff move is average but guys run on him all the time. Why? Tankersly looks towards first when he is pitching, but looks home when he's about to check the baserunner. So the runner goes when he sees Tankersly look over, and Tankersly gets to see the runner take second on him.
Computers would recognize this pattern and can perfectly randomize whether it would look home before checking the runner at first. Humans have problems and fall into patterns.
Technically, the company is correct. Generators produce electricity by moving metal through a magnetic field. The trick is making the metal move through the magnetic field.
Personally, I'm going to use my perpetual motion device to run my Pentium IV Extreme computer powered by Windows Vista while I play Duke Nukem Forever on the Phantom Labs produced graphics card.
I believe that distributing sensitive information over different servers is a great idea in security in that it allows variety in platforms. Some of the nodes can run Linux, others BSD, and some can run Windows. The servers would be in physically disparate places on different power grids/internet lines. You don't have to put all your eggs in one basket. A hacker would have to compromise many more operating systems in order to get your information. The same is true of any flaw that could kill your data: it has to run across different locations and platforms. Hey. Security through diversity!
This router isn't running a GPU or an Intel Pentium IV Extreme just to route packets and download torrents. I haven't looked yet, but Asus engineers probably have dedicated chips doing all that stuff.
Computers and electronics tend to die in infancy and not in old age. Installing Gentoo is basically a stress-test for a system, especially if you are compiling all the software. I'm guessing something died, since software usually does not kill hardware in this day and age.
The big deal with TATP is not that it is a liquid. Rather, the fear stems from the fact that unlike most other explosives, TATP does not contain the nitrogen current bomb-sniffing technology detects. The stability of the compounds is almost irrelevant because detectability by modern airport systems is more important. Furthermore, TATP precursors such as acetone and bleach are themselves difficult to detect using dogs, X-rays, and sniffers. Regardless of the difficulty of synthesizing TATP on an airplane from precursors, the plotters relied on brute force: not only did they plan to attack many airplanes at the same time, they planned to attack each plane multiple times with a group of terrorists/chemists.
Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down over Lockerbie, Scotland in a similar fashion. The bomb was disguised as a boombox and its plastic explosives were shaped as "batteries". There was about 12 to 16 ounces of explosive and that was enough to bring down a crowded airliner.
That's why airines screen luggage now. The fear is that terrorists are moving to explosives which are not based on nitrogen-contained compounds now being screened for. TATP, the agent allegedly chosen by the London airline terrorists, does not contain nitrogen and explodes in an endothermic reaction. C4 in a luggage is not a huge fear because it is being screened for, and that was because someone blew up an airplane to make their point.
Most of the "pirates" will update OS X Leopard onto their pre-existing Mac systems. Apple does not sell clones anymore, so this means Apple already sold a computer to the pirate, why do they care? Zealots downloading and installing this version probably will buy a new Mac anyway.
The guys running the computer place in my neighborhood has it figured out: hot high school girls. Apparently, they get paid 15 an hour, which is decent, but obviously draw in the entire geek crowd (especially from their high school). They sell computers, too.
The logic is stupid. Are we going to sue Symantec because they profit from malware and viruses? We provide tools that have many uses, one of which is illegal. What the hell is their point?
Proponents of the stem cell ban are spreading FUD all over the place. A few weeks ago, I saw a senator giving a demonstration of how useless the embryonic stem cell research was even if it was allowed. He said that there were zero published reports of embryonic stem cell success in humans as compared to a certain number of adult stem cell studies. Of course, the doctor/senator forgot to mention the entire ban using federal money on embryonic stem cells (except for a few contaminated samples that aren't fit for use in humans.) Sigh.
No one wants to sleep in a war zone IF THEY HAVE A CHOICE. The Israelis can afford bomb shelters so they can sleep at night, safe from the rockets. But the Lebanese have no such choice. They have to live somewhere, and the terrorists are going to shoot rockets from wherever that is. Furthermore, the terrorists are going to run away and leave the launchers while the civilian is sleeping or making lunch or feeding their baby when retaliation comes. Killing civilians for what a terrorist did makes no sense. Well, it makes sense if you assume that all Arabs are terrorists, and that is the assumption many pro-Israel folks are making. Look at the numbers of civilians dead on both sides: the Lebanese are getting creamed.
There is a huge fuss about how the Israelis are giving the Lebanese a chance to leave. Therefore, anyone remaining in the targeted areas are terrorists. That is ignorance of reality. The roads are all bombed out, there's no electricity, cars, or gas (ironic, huh) and some families may want to bunker down if they have elderly or young. It's kind of like a suicide bombing organization telling Israelis to get out of discos because they are going to have an operation against soldiers hanging out there. Clearly, Israelis are not consenting to get blown into pieces by staying out, and the terrorist act wouldn't be any less atrocious because of the warning. Therefore, telling the Lebanese to get out of their own homes does not mitigate the objectionability of what Israel is doing.
One difference, two words: Pearl Harbor. The Iraq war lays on the thinnest of pretenses. Furthermore, American soldiers in World War II did not haul off captured Japanese POWs and claim they were not to be accorded the protections of the Geneva Conventions. In fact, that was kind of what the Japanese did to us. Back then, the United States never took an official position that torture of enemy soldiers was okay. Nowadays, we make a whole bunch of names up and call it something else. It's funny how conservatives, who hated all the PC terms liberals came up with are now struggling to come up with terms of their own.
Bill Gates has donated more to charity than either Rockefeller, Vanderbuilt, or Carnegie. And that's adjusted for inflation.
To get evolved out, a gene would have to kill the carrier before reproduction age. Men used to live short lives, and the diseases prevented by the genes weren't weeding cavemen out as much as the sabretooth tigers and infections were. Furthermore, the diseases caused by the genes, such as diabetes, heart attacks and asthma, probably were not a huge problem in a pre-industrial society that did not have excess carbohydrates, processed sugars, and artificial pollutants. Evolution isn't a process where a divine being aspires towards perfection. It is trial and error. If there is no selective force, then imperfection remains. That's what is happening here.
Uh, mods, parent was joking. He is not planning to use Google to track dupes on slashdot, so mod "funny" not "interesting".