The very fact that MNOs are writing laws for the world's governments puts ME squarely against it
Not to be a douche or anything, but what do Mobile Network Operators have to do with this? It's not 3, T-Mobile and Verizon who are writing an ACTA that allows the MPAA and RIAA to rape us all...
Well, once you start living in houseboats, you need to move all your prisoners to prison boats. This will in turn just create more pirates, and as we all know, pirates combat global warming!
The fact that the sun came up three weeks ago isn't news anymore, just like the fact that someone rammed themselves into a pole on the luge course two weeks ago isn't. The "news" value of the video is gone; it is solely the gruesome nature that remains as a draw.
Excellent. We can now burn all copies of the moon landings, the JFK assassination, Ronald Regan being shot, the Berlin Wall being torn down, the Tiananmen Square protests, the Tehran protests, the September 11th attacks, the July 7th bombings...
You have to keep in mind that the Canadian lugers had been practicing on the course for two years prior to the games, without serious incident.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the fact that they had two years to practice on it, gave them plenty of time to run through the course a lot slower to build up knowledge of the track, compared to the non-Canadians who had one or two shots at figuring out just how to get through the course.
eBay says they installed 5 of the devices (at $700-800k each) nine months ago and have saved $100,000 since.
Now, maybe it's just me, but the likelihood of a large tech company buying something like this (they're beta-testers) with no gain sounds unlikely.
We are told that each unit costs around 700,000 dollars. The guy from eBay didn't say "we paid 700,000 for one". Just how much they're saving in energy costs. For all we know, eBay is an investor in the BloomBox and working as unpaid quality testers. I.e. they invest 50 million dollars in the company, and in addition to 50 mill in stocks, they get to buy some test units at a significant discount. Same for Google and FedEx. Who knows.
They could have caught him cutting open his little sister for all I care.
The school claims the system was only used to locate stolen laptops. If the kid's laptop had indeed been reported as stolen to the school, all 'bad things' that it caught (like him masturbating) isn't the school's fault.
If it HADN'T been reported stolen, then they have no 'get out of jail free card' on seeing him cutting open his little sister. They're still guilty of illegal wire tapping and if they've done it once, it really should be up to them to prove, no-one has been using the system to spy on people.
Just make a "no party" clause with huge monetary penalty for breaking.
Define party.
I can have 25 friends over and make no noise, whereas my neighbour can't even be on his own without having his stereo thumping through the night. This has resulted in some interesting situations, where the police have been called to quiet things down, and they'd come knocking on my door because there were a ton of people milling about.
Get a large group of people to hassle those stores. Get them to pick up a lot of items that they genuinely want to buy, pull out the non-Visa credit/debit card and try to pay. When they say 'Visa only', you go 'oh... well, then I can't buy anything' and leave.
That leaves them with the hassle of having to restock the items you picked, clearing out the check-out line and having fewer items on the shelves. Of course, if they decide to budge, then you buy the stuff. If you get a few thousand people to do this daily, the added costs of extra personnel and fewer sales will make a very large dent in their profits.
And of course, sex offenders should not be allowed employment that brings them into contact with children
A noble idea, but in a society where taking a piss outdoors in your own garden can get you labelled a sex offender, it's a bit much to say that they SHOULD not be allowed.
That doesn't mean that all responsible parties (including PTA members) oughtn't be put up on charges of child abuse, conspiracy charges (colluding to do something illegal), manufacturing child pornography etc.
These monsters were ACTUALLY RECORDING VIDEO AND AUDIO OF CHILDREN WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT!
There is no consent in child pornography. If the students are under 18, they cannot consent, and if they are 18+, it's not child pornography. But it will definitely be a violation of various other things.
School officials might avoid child porn charges if they prove they didn't see any lewd images,
First of all, you cannot prove that. Secondly, they knew the software was there, making them guilty of TRYING to produce child pornography.
Seriously. If they "happen" to have pictures of some kid "behaving improperly", they will definitely have pictures/movies of everything else that kid has been doing.
If I were one of those students and under-aged (18), I'd claim that they were guilty of producing child pornography because I had been naked in front of my laptop.
Hell, I'd go as far as to tell them that I have masturbated in front of it.
Fuck them and whomever came up with that idea, that includes IT personnel, school administrators, PTA and whoever else have have even a superficial finger in this and haven't said 'no'.
In fact, if I couldn't jailbreak my phone I wouldn't have purchased it in the first place since in its default state, it's a pretty crappy device for my needs.
Here's a rather silly question - why did you buy it in the first place?
However, in daily life, it's rare for any extremely difficult conversion to come up.
Not particularly. Any area becomes a conversion nightmare.
If you want to tile a room that's 6' by 4'3", how big an area are you tiling? If we do gross simplification, that's 180 cm by 130 cm = 23,400 cm^2 or 1.8 m by 1.3 m = 2.34 m^2.
Imperial you can either do it as (6 foot * 12 inches/foot) * (4 foot * 12 inches/foot + 3) = 3,672 inch^2 OR 6 foot * 4.25 foot = 25.5 foot^2 OR 2 yard * 1.4167 yard = 2.833 yard^2. But you pretty much need a calculator to translate from one to the other.
Most of us have watched the fatty squeezing down the aisle and dreaded the idea of them sitting next to us. Why should I have to put up with someone like him taking up my space on an already cramped airline seat?
Most of us have also smelled the skinny person walking down the aisle, dreading that we'd be spending time within 5 rows of him/her let alone next to us.
Why should we have to put up with the person making us want to vomit or have an allergic reaction to their shower of perfume?
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Not to be a douche or anything, but what do Mobile Network Operators have to do with this? It's not 3, T-Mobile and Verizon who are writing an ACTA that allows the MPAA and RIAA to rape us all ...
You forgot to add, that the ACTA is designed to make every country behave like That Texas District.
Well to be fair, how many of Microsoft's patents covers software? And how many of IBM's patents covers software?
IBM gets a crapload of patents every year, but since IBM has a huge hardware division most of those patents are probably hardware related.
Well, once you start living in houseboats, you need to move all your prisoners to prison boats. This will in turn just create more pirates, and as we all know, pirates combat global warming!
Perhaps, just perhaps, the fact that they had two years to practice on it, gave them plenty of time to run through the course a lot slower to build up knowledge of the track, compared to the non-Canadians who had one or two shots at figuring out just how to get through the course.
Keep in mind that it's possible for a 15-year-old to be a mother, 30-year-old to be a grandmother and a great grandmother at 45.
And since there are women who have given birth at 60, you could technically be a great great grandmother at 60 AND have a kid who is younger.
Tacky, perhaps, but from a biological perspective you've certainly been successful.
Now, maybe it's just me, but the likelihood of a large tech company buying something like this (they're beta-testers) with no gain sounds unlikely.
We are told that each unit costs around 700,000 dollars. The guy from eBay didn't say "we paid 700,000 for one". Just how much they're saving in energy costs. For all we know, eBay is an investor in the BloomBox and working as unpaid quality testers. I.e. they invest 50 million dollars in the company, and in addition to 50 mill in stocks, they get to buy some test units at a significant discount. Same for Google and FedEx. Who knows.
They could have caught him cutting open his little sister for all I care.
The school claims the system was only used to locate stolen laptops. If the kid's laptop had indeed been reported as stolen to the school, all 'bad things' that it caught (like him masturbating) isn't the school's fault.
If it HADN'T been reported stolen, then they have no 'get out of jail free card' on seeing him cutting open his little sister. They're still guilty of illegal wire tapping and if they've done it once, it really should be up to them to prove, no-one has been using the system to spy on people.
Define party.
I can have 25 friends over and make no noise, whereas my neighbour can't even be on his own without having his stereo thumping through the night. This has resulted in some interesting situations, where the police have been called to quiet things down, and they'd come knocking on my door because there were a ton of people milling about.
Don't be silly. The bird might have been a roc!
Vote with their feet.
Get a large group of people to hassle those stores. Get them to pick up a lot of items that they genuinely want to buy, pull out the non-Visa credit/debit card and try to pay. When they say 'Visa only', you go 'oh ... well, then I can't buy anything' and leave.
That leaves them with the hassle of having to restock the items you picked, clearing out the check-out line and having fewer items on the shelves. Of course, if they decide to budge, then you buy the stuff. If you get a few thousand people to do this daily, the added costs of extra personnel and fewer sales will make a very large dent in their profits.
I thought you were kidding, but that has happened in London
A noble idea, but in a society where taking a piss outdoors in your own garden can get you labelled a sex offender, it's a bit much to say that they SHOULD not be allowed.
That doesn't mean that all responsible parties (including PTA members) oughtn't be put up on charges of child abuse, conspiracy charges (colluding to do something illegal), manufacturing child pornography etc.
That would be ILLEGAL behaviour, not inappropriate.
The school has no say in what is inappropriate behaviour in a student's home.
And even if they had caught a student raping and killing a 9-year-old kid via the web-cam, that wouldn't make the monitoring any more acceptable.
There is no consent in child pornography. If the students are under 18, they cannot consent, and if they are 18+, it's not child pornography. But it will definitely be a violation of various other things.
First of all, you cannot prove that. Secondly, they knew the software was there, making them guilty of TRYING to produce child pornography.
Seriously. If they "happen" to have pictures of some kid "behaving improperly", they will definitely have pictures/movies of everything else that kid has been doing.
If I were one of those students and under-aged (18), I'd claim that they were guilty of producing child pornography because I had been naked in front of my laptop.
Hell, I'd go as far as to tell them that I have masturbated in front of it.
Fuck them and whomever came up with that idea, that includes IT personnel, school administrators, PTA and whoever else have have even a superficial finger in this and haven't said 'no'.
No, he's not an experimental scientist. See The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization
That's commonly referred to as bang-head I believe. It's a side effect of the nitroglycerine.
Not so much for modern explosives, but in the old days of gun powder, fire ants were a real danger ;)
Here's a rather silly question - why did you buy it in the first place?
All of a sudden I had this really cool image of two galaxies colliding, one made of anti-matter the other of regular matter.
Biiiig badaboom!
Screw the TV, I want to plug it into a projector for use in presentations.
Not particularly. Any area becomes a conversion nightmare.
If you want to tile a room that's 6' by 4'3", how big an area are you tiling? If we do gross simplification, that's 180 cm by 130 cm = 23,400 cm^2 or 1.8 m by 1.3 m = 2.34 m^2.
Imperial you can either do it as (6 foot * 12 inches/foot) * (4 foot * 12 inches/foot + 3) = 3,672 inch^2 OR 6 foot * 4.25 foot = 25.5 foot^2 OR 2 yard * 1.4167 yard = 2.833 yard^2. But you pretty much need a calculator to translate from one to the other.
Most of us have also smelled the skinny person walking down the aisle, dreading that we'd be spending time within 5 rows of him/her let alone next to us.
Why should we have to put up with the person making us want to vomit or have an allergic reaction to their shower of perfume?