The law covers semi-automatic weapons with certain characteristics; guns are allowed only one of these: Pistol grip, collapsable butt-stock, flash suppressor.
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Having read articles (I might even have one handy) about police who've emptied 9mm handgun clips into bad guys, only to be taken out with a single shot from a.22 pistol (the bad guy later bled out and died, but his blood pressure was high enough for him to return fire for at least 30 seconds), near-lethal force means you drop your attacker and hope he lives. If he's on his feet coming at you, you're still defending yourself.
Those same articles reccommend shooting for the pelvis instead of the chest. Still a wide target, but if you break the pelvic bone, your attacker's body will not support their weight and they will fall. A man with a lethal wound to the chest is not necessarily going to stop coming at you until he bleeds out.
We didnt have the technology to block them at the time, but we did have a monitoring system that would trigger an alert to appropriate person if a new storage device/drive showed up on a workstation.
How did this work, pray tell? Was it a custom app?
This is for dormitory students who would have access to the university's bandwidth, most likely. The money for this would likely come out of those fees. Students already pay for things like phone service, internet access, cable tv, and more.
With a total undergraduate population of 15,800, you can rest assured that the final tally will come to less than $2.4 million. But that's not the point.
The point is, this has nothing to do with academia. This service won't help you get your Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. It won't help you at all. It reminds me of that futurama episode where they go to Mars University:
Fry: I'm a certified college dropout.
Leela: Please. Everyone knows 20th century colleges were basically expensive daycare centers.
Would you send your kid to that college? Would you want to go to that college? Maybe.
I'll be happy when I can take my cordless phone several miles from the base station via wireless repeating, and act as a wireless repeater for other phones.
And there's the hook. Not only do you lose access to everything unless you start paying (genius on Napster's part, BTW), but since you can get all this music easily, quickly, and for free, you won't bother to download actual music while you have a fat pipe.
Perhaps, but how can it be proven? In the US, the standard is: prove me guilty, or else I'm not guilty. So proven not guilty is taking it too far. In theory, a jury could acquit you from a crime (by stating that you are "not guilty") and it wouldn't constitute proof.
Otherwise, how did OJ lose the civil suit against him for the murder of his wife? A jury "proved" he was not guilty.
The RIAA doesn't (or, at least, shouldn't) care about two people transferring 256MB worth of music. They (should) care that I can bring my 40GB MP3 player over to my friend's house, where I can offload 500+ hours worth of music in 15 minutes. At that point, music becomes a commodity and not something that is worth $15/60min (or $1/4min if you're using online services and buying by the track).
They should care that HDD space is approaching $.50/GB and storage costs for their music (uncompressed, assuming 650MB per CD) are $.33/CD. That's deep into commodity territory.
If I gave you 500 hours' worth of music, how long would it be before you bought another CD? Versus 256MB.
As far as I'm concerned, the RIAA needs to be working on making the moral argument, not a technical one.
I don't think it's racism per-se. The product of a need to lower customer service costs is two things: you get non-native english speakers, and less knowledgeable support staff. This is not to say that Indians suck at fixing computers, but rather, the drive to lower costs ends up hurting the customer. If you can save 50% by going to India, that might be worthwhile. But if you save another 20% by hiring Indians and then not training them, then you're hurting the customer. Likewise, if you fail to properly train (or hire competent) employees here in the US, the customer support will suck. But at least here you don't have the added barrier of language, as well as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. And I've found that here you can almost always complain or whatever and eventually you'll get someone who is competent. If the support is outsourced(to wherever), you might not be able to do that.
Racism? You brought it up, not me. Not anyone else I've read here either. Racism isn't saying that Indian tech support sucks any more that it's saying that Korean cars suck. I'd rather talk to some guy with an accent who was competent than someone who spoke unaccented english who didn't know a bit from a byte, and I don't think you'd find a single person here who would disagree. It's not about race, it's about quality of service.
Solution: if a customer wants a level 2 tech, they have to answer a question first. Something simple enough, but that demonstrates that they know more about computers than the peons at level 1. IE: get me your IP address without any help. Tell me how you can eject a CD-ROM and a paperclip. Simple.
At issue is the fact that someone who may know nothing about computers would try to fool you into thinking something just so that they can get you off the phone. It's one thing if they lie to clueless users to get them to follow along, but when they just make crap up because they're flying by the seat of their pants, everyone suffers. That's the problem with tech support today. 99% of the calls they get are from clueless n00bs, so they think it's OK to have clueless n00bs answering the phone. Very frustrating for those of us who know what we are doing.
Most companies strive to break-even in their customer service departments, so cost-cutting through tactics like this is merely a way of life.
Not HP. The corporate CSR account I worked on had 50% profit margins. I believe HP bought Compaq for their services division. God knows they're not growing the brand or using it's IP (DEC).
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OK since I'm not sure where we stand on this, let this website guide us both:
Explaining the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban
What? Who are you? The grandparent was clear enough. You can buy AK47s that look like AK47s. They're not even that expensive...
The law covers semi-automatic weapons with certain characteristics; guns are allowed only one of these: Pistol grip, collapsable butt-stock, flash suppressor.
Having read articles (I might even have one handy) about police who've emptied 9mm handgun clips into bad guys, only to be taken out with a single shot from a .22 pistol (the bad guy later bled out and died, but his blood pressure was high enough for him to return fire for at least 30 seconds), near-lethal force means you drop your attacker and hope he lives. If he's on his feet coming at you, you're still defending yourself.
Those same articles reccommend shooting for the pelvis instead of the chest. Still a wide target, but if you break the pelvic bone, your attacker's body will not support their weight and they will fall. A man with a lethal wound to the chest is not necessarily going to stop coming at you until he bleeds out.
Sounds like you ran a pretty tight ship.
We didnt have the technology to block them at the time, but we did have a monitoring system that would trigger an alert to appropriate person if a new storage device/drive showed up on a workstation.
How did this work, pray tell? Was it a custom app?
Already solved.
With a total undergraduate population of 15,800, you can rest assured that the final tally will come to less than $2.4 million. But that's not the point.
The point is, this has nothing to do with academia. This service won't help you get your Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. It won't help you at all. It reminds me of that futurama episode where they go to Mars University:
Would you send your kid to that college? Would you want to go to that college? Maybe.
tablet PC screaming for a mobile keyboard
I hope you like wires...
I'll be happy when I can take my cordless phone several miles from the base station via wireless repeating, and act as a wireless repeater for other phones.
Brilliant sir. Brilliant.
Yeah, but that was more of a crazy thing than a Muslim thing...
And there's the hook. Not only do you lose access to everything unless you start paying (genius on Napster's part, BTW), but since you can get all this music easily, quickly, and for free, you won't bother to download actual music while you have a fat pipe.
And by actual music I mean music without DRM.
I'm sure that's what he meant. The rest of his comment supports it.
The Real Domestic TerroristsThis guy was arrested, put in jail for a year, his wife and kids deported, then found innocent and set free.
It's gotten pretty widespread press this week. Democracy Now | Jury Acquits Idaho Webmaster Charged With Terrorism For Hosting Anti-American Websites
Dude, you can get arrested for this shit. You could even get CmdrTaco in trouble. Haven't you been watching the news? Patriot act.
exactly.
Perhaps, but how can it be proven? In the US, the standard is: prove me guilty, or else I'm not guilty. So proven not guilty is taking it too far. In theory, a jury could acquit you from a crime (by stating that you are "not guilty") and it wouldn't constitute proof.
Otherwise, how did OJ lose the civil suit against him for the murder of his wife? A jury "proved" he was not guilty.
And the majority that hadn't committed the crimes would vote to implement the system--child molesters begone!
The RIAA doesn't (or, at least, shouldn't) care about two people transferring 256MB worth of music. They (should) care that I can bring my 40GB MP3 player over to my friend's house, where I can offload 500+ hours worth of music in 15 minutes. At that point, music becomes a commodity and not something that is worth $15/60min (or $1/4min if you're using online services and buying by the track).
They should care that HDD space is approaching $.50/GB and storage costs for their music (uncompressed, assuming 650MB per CD) are $.33/CD. That's deep into commodity territory.
If I gave you 500 hours' worth of music, how long would it be before you bought another CD? Versus 256MB.
As far as I'm concerned, the RIAA needs to be working on making the moral argument, not a technical one.
What, only 2 dimensions?
I *just* clicked on the link.
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DL Speed: 175K/sec.
300K/sec.
In the time it took me to write this post, I've gotten 50%.
Masochist? More like Superhero.
I don't think it's racism per-se. The product of a need to lower customer service costs is two things: you get non-native english speakers, and less knowledgeable support staff. This is not to say that Indians suck at fixing computers, but rather, the drive to lower costs ends up hurting the customer. If you can save 50% by going to India, that might be worthwhile. But if you save another 20% by hiring Indians and then not training them, then you're hurting the customer. Likewise, if you fail to properly train (or hire competent) employees here in the US, the customer support will suck. But at least here you don't have the added barrier of language, as well as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. And I've found that here you can almost always complain or whatever and eventually you'll get someone who is competent. If the support is outsourced(to wherever), you might not be able to do that.
Racism? You brought it up, not me. Not anyone else I've read here either. Racism isn't saying that Indian tech support sucks any more that it's saying that Korean cars suck. I'd rather talk to some guy with an accent who was competent than someone who spoke unaccented english who didn't know a bit from a byte, and I don't think you'd find a single person here who would disagree. It's not about race, it's about quality of service.
Solution: if a customer wants a level 2 tech, they have to answer a question first. Something simple enough, but that demonstrates that they know more about computers than the peons at level 1. IE: get me your IP address without any help. Tell me how you can eject a CD-ROM and a paperclip. Simple.
I got calls from people too lazy to use Help all day long. I broke out help, quoted it, and they were happily on their way.
At issue is the level of training provided.
At issue is the fact that someone who may know nothing about computers would try to fool you into thinking something just so that they can get you off the phone. It's one thing if they lie to clueless users to get them to follow along, but when they just make crap up because they're flying by the seat of their pants, everyone suffers. That's the problem with tech support today. 99% of the calls they get are from clueless n00bs, so they think it's OK to have clueless n00bs answering the phone. Very frustrating for those of us who know what we are doing.
Most companies strive to break-even in their customer service departments, so cost-cutting through tactics like this is merely a way of life.
Not HP. The corporate CSR account I worked on had 50% profit margins. I believe HP bought Compaq for their services division. God knows they're not growing the brand or using it's IP (DEC).