My first HP (got as a high school graduation present in '87) was an HP41CV. I still have it at home and it still works great. My current calculator is an HP42s. I'm an Engineer and both do a perfectly adequate job for me (maybe I'm a poor engineer that I don't need any more 'power').
This is apparently pretty common. Since about 1989 all of Southern Companies 500KV transmission lines have had fiber in their static wires, through which they've sold bandwidth to the likes of Sprint, MCI, etc, as well as used it for their own internal communications.
This is what happens when we relinquish our responsibilities to the government.
The correct way to deal with the PIII serial number issue is simply not to buy a CPU that you feel comprimises your privacy. Believe me, when Intel figures out that the reason their latest and greatest isn't selling is because consumers don't like this 'feature' they'll take it out. I don't care what other motives Intel has for having it in there, they are still driven by the bottom line.
When we allow the government to 'protect' us like this we are surrendering a little more of what freedom we do have left. Enough is enough.
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Governments should tax things ONLY to raise revenue.
Where did this idea that Governments should use taxes as tools of social engineering ever get started?
The software has already been tested with air traffic controllers."
Please excuse my ignorance, but are air traffic controllers who we want beta testing new software?
My first HP (got as a high school graduation present in '87) was an HP41CV. I still have it at home and it still works great. My current calculator is an HP42s. I'm an Engineer and both do a perfectly adequate job for me (maybe I'm a poor engineer that I don't need any more 'power').
This is apparently pretty common. Since about 1989 all of Southern Companies 500KV transmission lines have had fiber in their static wires, through which they've sold bandwidth to the likes of Sprint, MCI, etc, as well as used it for their own internal communications.
Not New.
Personally I think Internet-voting should be avoided until it's implemented by an open zero-knowledge protocol and checkable afterwards
Well, most voters already have "zero knoledge" of whatever it is they're voting for anyway...
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This is what happens when we relinquish our responsibilities to the government.
The correct way to deal with the PIII serial number issue is simply not to buy a CPU that you feel comprimises your privacy. Believe me, when Intel figures out that the reason their latest and greatest isn't selling is because consumers don't like this 'feature' they'll take it out. I don't care what other motives Intel has for having it in there, they are still driven by the bottom line.
When we allow the government to 'protect' us like this we are surrendering a little more of what freedom we do have left. Enough is enough.