In the battlefield of the kind US soldiers face in the Middle East, I think it would be a tad cumbersome to verify the combatant down your gun sight isn't a citizen before pulling the trigger.
Likewise, if a US citizen defects or otherwise joins the 'enemy' in the fight against US forces, then there is no distinction between the citizen and non-citizens in the target zone.
How it differs from an extrajudicial killing is dubious though, I agree.
I use it as a means to quickly learn the essence of a chapter whose homework problems are due in only hours, the subject matter of which I haven't yet learned (e.g., due to skipping class). It's a quick and easy way to cut through a lot of a textbook's fluff and get to concrete examples of common problems and have the critical formulas for solving these problems displayed clearly.
As an aside, when I had a class freshman year on electrical engineering, the chair of the department actually suggested we heavily use wikipedia to improve our understanding of the topics at hand.
Aside from the obvious arguments on the complete invasion of privacy, junk DNA is just DNA that we/think/ does not actually express itself with any observable or measurable trait. However, it's quite possible that how a gene expresses may be discovered at a later date. Imagine it's discovered that certain thinking patterns or genetic disease with high cost of treatment have a correlation to certain sequences of formerly junk DNA. In insurance company or government hands, I don't see how that information would be used in anything but an oppressive manner.
And of course, the particular set of digits which result from one's DNA profile is condition of the enzyme used to slice up the DNA sample. With that large of a sample space false positives are all but assured.
It's a great change, but I'll be curious to see how many LGBT users actually opt to specify such in their profiles. Knowing the user population of Xbox Live, it's pretty reasonable to assume that such users would be subjecting themselves to severe denigration by other users on the service.
Likewise, I fully expect LGBT users who identify themselves and who receive such responses from other users to cry foul at Microsoft for not doing enough. That isn't to say Microsoft is doing enough to police Xbox Live (the service is a festering cesspool of bigots and homophobes), but I don't feel as though there are many more policing options open to Microsoft on the service, and I don't see this move making good business sense. More importantly, I see the new freedoms of expression to be lightly used at best for the previously mentioned reasons, and it's most likely it'll be used by trolls and bigots in an effect to mock LBGT users, effecting the opposite of the intended result, and stymieing users' desire to express themselves on the service in the process.
Parent's comment is more like building a car but still retaining the rights to the processes and machinery used to build the car, should some other customer want a different type of car. Customer still has their car, and can modify/break/total/transfer the vehicle if they wish, but the manufacturer isn't competing with themselves by selling you the machinery to build cars along with the car.
Of course being hosted in the United States is one problem if you want to be an indiscriminate whistle-blower, but an even more serious problem is picking a registrar hosted in the United States. Not only are you and your server host accountable to the DMCA, but so is the company that has the permanent on-off switch to your site's name.
When I registered domain names that I thought might ever contain the slightest bit of content that could get me in hot water via the DMCA, I made sure to register my domain names through a registrar which hosts much more notable sites with content in contravention of DMCA. So, I ran a whois on the most notable site I could think of which completely disrespects copyrights (ThePirateBay), and registered my domain names at Key-Systems, http://dd24.net/ being their consumer-facing site. They might be a bit more of an expense (being that I incur a foreign transaction fee with every registration/renewal), but I think the peace of mind in knowing you won't be losing your domain name due to copyright disputes is very worth it.
The Xbox 360 HDMI kit pavon is suggesting comes with an HDMI cable AND an adapter for optical and RCA audio out, for when your speakers are not integrated into the display device. HDMI audio signal means nothing if there are no speakers to play it out of. I believe this is what pavon means when he says "older televison", and this obviously also applies to most monitors.
Users are almost never banned for a first offense, especially when the offense is a Gamertag deemed 'inappropriate'. The user was subject to a FNC (forced name change), as is standard practice when dealing with Gamertags deemed inappropriate. For understandable reasons, 'gay','lesbian' and related words are banned from Gamertags, as they're usually used as epithets on Xbox Live (you know what I mean if you've been into enough Halo 3 matchs online with people you don't know). But, they're working on a way to allow people to express their sexual orientation in their bio and the like, as stated by the manager of the policy team (Stepto) via twitter: http://twitter.com/Stepto/status/1250237116.
Nope. They have two packages, one at $30 or $40 per month for a 5 GB cap, and one at $60 per month for no cap. I chose sprint specifically because of this; Verizon and several other carriers offered the same price $60 price point for the 5GB cap offer.
Until recently moving off to college, I have lived in a rural area. For the four years of living in this area, I used ISDN for data only, while also having two separate landlines for voice-only use. Let me tell you, for the price of the line installation, monthly line fees, monthly per-dial fees, and shoddy service with a very low cap, ISDN is not worth it. It exceeded $100 per month.
I've just recently switched to Sprint EVDO for data service, and the quality is amazing. In spite of having virtually nil DSL penetration and absolutely no cable, this area has full cellular coverage, and I get fairly decent speeds around 1mbit, which is a godsend compared to 112kbps. I think cellular networks should be the platform on which to deploy more rural services, while deep penetrating but expensive, antiquated services such as ISDN and T1 should be put to rest.
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In the battlefield of the kind US soldiers face in the Middle East, I think it would be a tad cumbersome to verify the combatant down your gun sight isn't a citizen before pulling the trigger. Likewise, if a US citizen defects or otherwise joins the 'enemy' in the fight against US forces, then there is no distinction between the citizen and non-citizens in the target zone. How it differs from an extrajudicial killing is dubious though, I agree.
I use it as a means to quickly learn the essence of a chapter whose homework problems are due in only hours, the subject matter of which I haven't yet learned (e.g., due to skipping class). It's a quick and easy way to cut through a lot of a textbook's fluff and get to concrete examples of common problems and have the critical formulas for solving these problems displayed clearly.
As an aside, when I had a class freshman year on electrical engineering, the chair of the department actually suggested we heavily use wikipedia to improve our understanding of the topics at hand.
Aside from the obvious arguments on the complete invasion of privacy, junk DNA is just DNA that we /think/ does not actually express itself with any observable or measurable trait. However, it's quite possible that how a gene expresses may be discovered at a later date. Imagine it's discovered that certain thinking patterns or genetic disease with high cost of treatment have a correlation to certain sequences of formerly junk DNA. In insurance company or government hands, I don't see how that information would be used in anything but an oppressive manner.
And of course, the particular set of digits which result from one's DNA profile is condition of the enzyme used to slice up the DNA sample. With that large of a sample space false positives are all but assured.
It's a great change, but I'll be curious to see how many LGBT users actually opt to specify such in their profiles. Knowing the user population of Xbox Live, it's pretty reasonable to assume that such users would be subjecting themselves to severe denigration by other users on the service. Likewise, I fully expect LGBT users who identify themselves and who receive such responses from other users to cry foul at Microsoft for not doing enough. That isn't to say Microsoft is doing enough to police Xbox Live (the service is a festering cesspool of bigots and homophobes), but I don't feel as though there are many more policing options open to Microsoft on the service, and I don't see this move making good business sense. More importantly, I see the new freedoms of expression to be lightly used at best for the previously mentioned reasons, and it's most likely it'll be used by trolls and bigots in an effect to mock LBGT users, effecting the opposite of the intended result, and stymieing users' desire to express themselves on the service in the process.
Parent's comment is more like building a car but still retaining the rights to the processes and machinery used to build the car, should some other customer want a different type of car. Customer still has their car, and can modify/break/total/transfer the vehicle if they wish, but the manufacturer isn't competing with themselves by selling you the machinery to build cars along with the car.
Of course being hosted in the United States is one problem if you want to be an indiscriminate whistle-blower, but an even more serious problem is picking a registrar hosted in the United States. Not only are you and your server host accountable to the DMCA, but so is the company that has the permanent on-off switch to your site's name. When I registered domain names that I thought might ever contain the slightest bit of content that could get me in hot water via the DMCA, I made sure to register my domain names through a registrar which hosts much more notable sites with content in contravention of DMCA. So, I ran a whois on the most notable site I could think of which completely disrespects copyrights (ThePirateBay), and registered my domain names at Key-Systems, http://dd24.net/ being their consumer-facing site. They might be a bit more of an expense (being that I incur a foreign transaction fee with every registration/renewal), but I think the peace of mind in knowing you won't be losing your domain name due to copyright disputes is very worth it.
The Xbox 360 HDMI kit pavon is suggesting comes with an HDMI cable AND an adapter for optical and RCA audio out, for when your speakers are not integrated into the display device. HDMI audio signal means nothing if there are no speakers to play it out of. I believe this is what pavon means when he says "older televison", and this obviously also applies to most monitors.
Except the data has to enter the Internet somewhere, on some company's network, and that company can always be slapped with an injunction.
Users are almost never banned for a first offense, especially when the offense is a Gamertag deemed 'inappropriate'. The user was subject to a FNC (forced name change), as is standard practice when dealing with Gamertags deemed inappropriate. For understandable reasons, 'gay','lesbian' and related words are banned from Gamertags, as they're usually used as epithets on Xbox Live (you know what I mean if you've been into enough Halo 3 matchs online with people you don't know). But, they're working on a way to allow people to express their sexual orientation in their bio and the like, as stated by the manager of the policy team (Stepto) via twitter: http://twitter.com/Stepto/status/1250237116.
Nope. They have two packages, one at $30 or $40 per month for a 5 GB cap, and one at $60 per month for no cap. I chose sprint specifically because of this; Verizon and several other carriers offered the same price $60 price point for the 5GB cap offer.
Until recently moving off to college, I have lived in a rural area. For the four years of living in this area, I used ISDN for data only, while also having two separate landlines for voice-only use. Let me tell you, for the price of the line installation, monthly line fees, monthly per-dial fees, and shoddy service with a very low cap, ISDN is not worth it. It exceeded $100 per month. I've just recently switched to Sprint EVDO for data service, and the quality is amazing. In spite of having virtually nil DSL penetration and absolutely no cable, this area has full cellular coverage, and I get fairly decent speeds around 1mbit, which is a godsend compared to 112kbps. I think cellular networks should be the platform on which to deploy more rural services, while deep penetrating but expensive, antiquated services such as ISDN and T1 should be put to rest.