At least the publicity will give this guy has a shot at benefiting from outside pressure like the guy who was sentenced to death for converting to Christianity.
It's not terribly difficult to just cut an undersea cable. The difficulty is in doing it surreptitiously. The Vietnamese salvagers did it by hauling the cable onto their ship first. The US is the leader in undersea cable tapping and cutting. They are probably the only ones who have invested the effort to make their attacks look like shark bites.
How apropos. And the fine for shoplifting the same album will remain somewhat less than $1000 of course. Weren't we supposed to have a prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in our constitution. There nothing American about subjecting people to a life of penury because of a petty crime. That is one of the reasons why we revolted on the British. This is also a reason why the second amendment was installed.
The easy solution is to become a terrorist. Then the FBI will staunchly stand up for your fourth amendment rights and avoid searching your computer even if you are a suspicious non-citizen with an expired visa.
The power of DOCSIS 3 is not that consumers will be able to utilize all their bandwidth for downloading from the internet at large. Rather, it will be used internally by the cable companies for HD video on demand.
In the DSL arena there is ADSL2+ and VDSL which have lower absolute bandwith but that bandwidth isn't shared with your neighbors as is the case with cable so the end result is a wash aside from the distance issues with DSL.
On the wireless side of things, there is no way any service can compete with the hardwired services on speed. At some point the wireless systems have to connect to the hardwired network and that is the point where the bandwidth will be severely restricted. The telcos will treat these new providers the way they do the current CLECs.
Option base only affects arrays. You're still SOL with collections and other indexable objects. The most annoying thing about VB/VBA is that there are inconsistencies in the indexing used in certain places. This is really a hassle when dealing with system calls into the zero-based Win32 land.
There has to be a money trail leading back to Microsoft. There always is when someone else is pumping their FUD. It may be indirect or a promise for future investment but it has to be there. No rational analyst can conclude that a standard that says things like "format the way Word95 does it" is worth promoting as a common document format.
It really annoys me that the industry moved toward the oversized SUV machines and doesn't offer a good selection of truly portable computers. If you want small while still retaining a usable keyboard look toward something like a Fujitsu P1610/20. For *nix users these are some of the few notebooks that have three mouse buttons for X goodness. I have a P1510 and I can get 6 hours out of the extended battery with my underclock and undervolt setings.
Americans are no saints when it comes to butchering foreign words but the British are the worst offenders with their silly jag-you-ares and sam-you-rais and various other rubbish prononounciations.
The situation in the US isn't quite what you describe. While it is true that "college" is often used as a synonym for "university" that isn't always the case. A university is a union of multiple colleges. When you enroll, you join one of the colleges. It isn't far from the truth for a university student to describe themselves as going to college. Also, some smaller schools have a singular focus to the curriculum and consist of a single college or are labeled a technical institute. "University" is not an appropriate appellation for these schools, "college" is.
Actually, I'm sure that many a Linux coder has been supported by ingesting large amounts of high fructose corn syrup. So your quip isn't as far from the truth as you might expect.
Yes. What this really means is that the congressmen reached their minimum hooker threshold from the lobbyists and now they have to act to repay their kind gesture.
Exactly what "civil liberties" are we losing here, anyway?
Others have already brought this up in the thread but it's worth repeating. This system will give the federal government a massive centralized database used to control the freedom of movement of every citizen. Rest assured, the government will manage to fuck this up and some people will get screwed over and denied the ability to carry out their personal business because someone else who shares their name is in a watch list. We've alreay seen this problem with the do-not-fly list. Then, when you do get unfairly flagged on these lists you have no reasonable recourse to have it corrected. You've already become an untrusted entity not worthy of timely service from your own government.
And BEFORE THEN. Vote now! Otherwise we usually get stuck with a lesser of two evils thing in the general election.
Well, in most states you can't vote in primaries if you aren't a party member. It's not enough to be an unaffiliated citizen if you want to participate in our selection system. Likewise, if you have any aspirations of getting into the electoral college, you have to sell your soul to one of the two controlling parties before you will even be up for consideration.
Getting stuck is only really a problem on boulevards or roads with other types of barriers between opposing traffic directions. With no obstructions, an emergency vehicle can go around the backed up cars by driving on the wrong side of the road through the intersection.
The RIAA's primary purpose is lobbying, and I guess the lobbying it does just isn't worth the money being spent on them.
Huh, and here I was thinking the RIAA was supposed to be a standards body promulgating a common equalization curve for grooved recordings. Will wonders never cease.
Really, this sort of behavior boils down to tribalism. People have a need to identify themselves as part of a group and what better way to do that then to contrast yourselves with those who are outside of your group. This is why some people glom onto fanatacisim for professional sports teams or fall victim to fashion trends. It's all about establishing your group identity. The Japanese have a notably complex system of in-groups and out-groups and expected behaviors when interacting with people in and out of your many groups.
The foaming at the mouth evangelicals love to portray themselves as under perilous attack by secular heathens despite the fact that North America has an overwhelmingly Christian culture and it isn't going away anytime soon. This is all part of the rhetoric established from the time that Christians really were a minority group who had to withstand the oppression of other dominant groups. Just once, I whish these fools could put themselves in the shoes of a Hindu or Buddhist immigrant to realize what it truly feels like to be a little fish in a bowl of sharks.
Of course this is one of the many problems with modern Christianity: it is permeated with an air of anti-intellectualism. You shouldn't try to question the "truth" as given to you by people serving as intermediaries for God (or direct from the KJV Bible for the literalists). To do so would be to admit that you don't have enough faith and without faith you're going to hell so just shut up and believe everything we tell you to believe in. We have things like idiot Protestants claiming that Roman Catholics aren't real Christians. (WTF?) People like Pat Robertson are lionized by millions and yet he openly expresses hatred for non-Christians. Somehow these people can claim to be followers of Jesus and yet they conveniently fail to realize the core meaning his teachings.
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At least the publicity will give this guy has a shot at benefiting from outside pressure like the guy who was sentenced to death for converting to Christianity.
It's not terribly difficult to just cut an undersea cable. The difficulty is in doing it surreptitiously. The Vietnamese salvagers did it by hauling the cable onto their ship first. The US is the leader in undersea cable tapping and cutting. They are probably the only ones who have invested the effort to make their attacks look like shark bites.
How apropos. And the fine for shoplifting the same album will remain somewhat less than $1000 of course. Weren't we supposed to have a prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in our constitution. There nothing American about subjecting people to a life of penury because of a petty crime. That is one of the reasons why we revolted on the British. This is also a reason why the second amendment was installed.
Many of the users of autoadmit do use Tor now.
Then the lawyers should submit a FOIA request to the NSA to get the IPs.
It's good to see that the Iraqi Information Minister has found a new job.
The easy solution is to become a terrorist. Then the FBI will staunchly stand up for your fourth amendment rights and avoid searching your computer even if you are a suspicious non-citizen with an expired visa.
So Vista will be the Windows 3.0 of the post-NT era.
The power of DOCSIS 3 is not that consumers will be able to utilize all their bandwidth for downloading from the internet at large. Rather, it will be used internally by the cable companies for HD video on demand.
In the DSL arena there is ADSL2+ and VDSL which have lower absolute bandwith but that bandwidth isn't shared with your neighbors as is the case with cable so the end result is a wash aside from the distance issues with DSL.
On the wireless side of things, there is no way any service can compete with the hardwired services on speed. At some point the wireless systems have to connect to the hardwired network and that is the point where the bandwidth will be severely restricted. The telcos will treat these new providers the way they do the current CLECs.
I'm voting for Colbert, paragon of truthiness. He's the most honest of the bunch.
Option base only affects arrays. You're still SOL with collections and other indexable objects. The most annoying thing about VB/VBA is that there are inconsistencies in the indexing used in certain places. This is really a hassle when dealing with system calls into the zero-based Win32 land.
There has to be a money trail leading back to Microsoft. There always is when someone else is pumping their FUD. It may be indirect or a promise for future investment but it has to be there. No rational analyst can conclude that a standard that says things like "format the way Word95 does it" is worth promoting as a common document format.
It really annoys me that the industry moved toward the oversized SUV machines and doesn't offer a good selection of truly portable computers. If you want small while still retaining a usable keyboard look toward something like a Fujitsu P1610/20. For *nix users these are some of the few notebooks that have three mouse buttons for X goodness. I have a P1510 and I can get 6 hours out of the extended battery with my underclock and undervolt setings.
Good. Can we have our zero-based arrays back now?
Americans are no saints when it comes to butchering foreign words but the British are the worst offenders with their silly jag-you-ares and sam-you-rais and various other rubbish prononounciations.
Finally, we will be able to see a glimpse of the world as it really exists when the compositited together people start walking through each other.
The situation in the US isn't quite what you describe. While it is true that "college" is often used as a synonym for "university" that isn't always the case. A university is a union of multiple colleges. When you enroll, you join one of the colleges. It isn't far from the truth for a university student to describe themselves as going to college. Also, some smaller schools have a singular focus to the curriculum and consist of a single college or are labeled a technical institute. "University" is not an appropriate appellation for these schools, "college" is.
Actually, I'm sure that many a Linux coder has been supported by ingesting large amounts of high fructose corn syrup. So your quip isn't as far from the truth as you might expect.
Yes. What this really means is that the congressmen reached their minimum hooker threshold from the lobbyists and now they have to act to repay their kind gesture.
Exactly what "civil liberties" are we losing here, anyway?
Others have already brought this up in the thread but it's worth repeating. This system will give the federal government a massive centralized database used to control the freedom of movement of every citizen. Rest assured, the government will manage to fuck this up and some people will get screwed over and denied the ability to carry out their personal business because someone else who shares their name is in a watch list. We've alreay seen this problem with the do-not-fly list. Then, when you do get unfairly flagged on these lists you have no reasonable recourse to have it corrected. You've already become an untrusted entity not worthy of timely service from your own government.
And BEFORE THEN. Vote now! Otherwise we usually get stuck with a lesser of two evils thing in the general election.
Well, in most states you can't vote in primaries if you aren't a party member. It's not enough to be an unaffiliated citizen if you want to participate in our selection system. Likewise, if you have any aspirations of getting into the electoral college, you have to sell your soul to one of the two controlling parties before you will even be up for consideration.
Getting stuck is only really a problem on boulevards or roads with other types of barriers between opposing traffic directions. With no obstructions, an emergency vehicle can go around the backed up cars by driving on the wrong side of the road through the intersection.
The RIAA's primary purpose is lobbying, and I guess the lobbying it does just isn't worth the money being spent on them.
Huh, and here I was thinking the RIAA was supposed to be a standards body promulgating a common equalization curve for grooved recordings. Will wonders never cease.
Not to worry. Some of them will have well connected fathers who can get them into Yale and have a shot at a Presidency.
Well said. You have my applause.
Really, this sort of behavior boils down to tribalism. People have a need to identify themselves as part of a group and what better way to do that then to contrast yourselves with those who are outside of your group. This is why some people glom onto fanatacisim for professional sports teams or fall victim to fashion trends. It's all about establishing your group identity. The Japanese have a notably complex system of in-groups and out-groups and expected behaviors when interacting with people in and out of your many groups.
The foaming at the mouth evangelicals love to portray themselves as under perilous attack by secular heathens despite the fact that North America has an overwhelmingly Christian culture and it isn't going away anytime soon. This is all part of the rhetoric established from the time that Christians really were a minority group who had to withstand the oppression of other dominant groups. Just once, I whish these fools could put themselves in the shoes of a Hindu or Buddhist immigrant to realize what it truly feels like to be a little fish in a bowl of sharks.
Of course this is one of the many problems with modern Christianity: it is permeated with an air of anti-intellectualism. You shouldn't try to question the "truth" as given to you by people serving as intermediaries for God (or direct from the KJV Bible for the literalists). To do so would be to admit that you don't have enough faith and without faith you're going to hell so just shut up and believe everything we tell you to believe in. We have things like idiot Protestants claiming that Roman Catholics aren't real Christians. (WTF?) People like Pat Robertson are lionized by millions and yet he openly expresses hatred for non-Christians. Somehow these people can claim to be followers of Jesus and yet they conveniently fail to realize the core meaning his teachings.
Hong Kong dollars are still bank issued. The bills have different logos for the bank they came from.