Even sitting in a public library, he's got a roof over his head, and a climate controlled place to be. Assuming he's on the street there are still shelters, and food.
I suspect that most people in this country have forgotten what "hit and miss basic survival" really means. It means potentially dying in some pretty gruesome ways, not whether or not you're going to be able to buy that latte and talk on your iPhone.
If the climate change science is accurate, he might actually get a chance to find out what "hit and miss basic survival" really means, ie did I hit that feral dog with a rock, or is it going to rip out my throat.
FWIW, I did the legwork, and by my count there are probably about 20 albums in the list that are still making money. So maybe 7%-10%? Doesn't seem like a lot, but I also suspect that most people wouldn't care to listen to the rest.:) This was probably true at release in some cases, you could probably double the number of money makers at time of release.
Might be like being German, and being called Adolf 60 years ago, but that doesn't mean that another Osama bin Laden didn't ask to have him name removed....
I was not a big fan of the respawning, or randomness of much of the game. In a lot of ways it felt like a MMORPG without the MMO. I would have like a lot more scripting, and more interesting opponents.
If the government was doing this it would be more than one, wouldn't be demoed to the public, and would be abused by the police to stalk ex-girlfriends. I suspect that in these guys hands it's slightly safer, though all bets are off if News Corp gets their hands on it.
Depends on whether or not those people were actually run through the system or the computer flagged it, and the operator said "No". Also, just because they weren't arrested doesn't mean that those people weren't perpetrating fraud, those were just the people they were able to track down, and arrest.
Last year, the facial recognition system picked out more than 1,000 cases that resulted in State Police investigations, officials say.
I sincerely doubt they're sending out 1,500 a day, it's probably either a misquote, or the total for ALL reasons. If it was true, that would mean that 390K people would get these every year, or about 10% of all Massachusetts drivers, not including all the people who have their license revoked for other reasons, like DUI, etc. Doesn't seem like a valid statistic to me.
Further the guy filling the lawsuit is estimating (to his benefit) hundreds over a period of 5 years, so maybe tens per year. (In state with 4.5 million licensed drivers)
So yeah, still sounds like a pretty darned good system to me.
After RTFA it appears that they're sending out maybe 1,500 of these every year, of which there are now 2 known problems, and his complaint is that he went without his license for a week or so while he cleared his name. Now he's sueing the state, for undisclosed sums, but even he would be hard pressed to really say he was out much other than a weeks wages.
Given the 0.0013% failure rate, which results in a minor inconvenience this sounds like a VERY good system.
I checked the "Do Not Track" checkmark, and honestly didn't expect ANY of the advertisers to respect the completely voluntary setting. The fact that any of them, let alone 50% are actually respecting it is a big improvement.
Why are so many things justified with the already unjustifiable cost of a Latte? Just as two wrongs don't make a right, two prices that are too high, don't make the second any cheaper.
The real privacy control is "don't post it on the Internet in the first place".
Privacy controls, even if they were strong, don't exist.
I think you mean perfect privacy controls don't exist. It is possible to make some things harder than others, much in the same way that a door with a lock is more of a deterent than a door without one. Right now Facebook doesn't even have a decent lock.
They should have announced real privacy controls, and a google+ circle clone. Instead they've added an unnecessary feature designed to distract people from their true problems. Right now they have an approval rating slightly better than the IRS.
I suspect that the stated 750 million users will be their high point, and it's all MySpace from here on out.
You could be correct, we won't know until we try.
Also Facebook's UI was a huge improvement over MySpace's, which was a throw back to the early early days of the 'net when everybody designed their own webpages. Only instead of it being a bunch of geeks, it was the high school dropouts you hadn't spoken too since, well, high school.
At least with Facebook the glitter patrol is dimmed a bit.
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I suspect that most people in this country have forgotten what "hit and miss basic survival" really means. It means potentially dying in some pretty gruesome ways, not whether or not you're going to be able to buy that latte and talk on your iPhone.
If the climate change science is accurate, he might actually get a chance to find out what "hit and miss basic survival" really means, ie did I hit that feral dog with a rock, or is it going to rip out my throat.
FWIW, I did the legwork, and by my count there are probably about 20 albums in the list that are still making money. So maybe 7%-10%? Doesn't seem like a lot, but I also suspect that most people wouldn't care to listen to the rest. :) This was probably true at release in some cases, you could probably double the number of money makers at time of release.
Surprisingly enough you need to be more than an HTML based Gopher, with a 2nd rate search engine.
Another human invention that's been around since the dawn of time!
Might be like being German, and being called Adolf 60 years ago, but that doesn't mean that another Osama bin Laden didn't ask to have him name removed....
There are no companies (users in Facebook speak) actively mining your content on Google+.
Just like RL, it depends on who you're fracking, how they feel about it, and what the side-effects are.... :-)
And how do you heat your home in the winter?
Doesn't seem to happen here on Slashdot, and everybody knows the names of the editors.
I was not a big fan of the respawning, or randomness of much of the game. In a lot of ways it felt like a MMORPG without the MMO. I would have like a lot more scripting, and more interesting opponents.
If the government was doing this it would be more than one, wouldn't be demoed to the public, and would be abused by the police to stalk ex-girlfriends. I suspect that in these guys hands it's slightly safer, though all bets are off if News Corp gets their hands on it.
I believe this is step 2
Really if a bunch of vigilantes can do it, imagine what the gov't sponsored Chinese hackers can do!
Depends on whether or not those people were actually run through the system or the computer flagged it, and the operator said "No". Also, just because they weren't arrested doesn't mean that those people weren't perpetrating fraud, those were just the people they were able to track down, and arrest.
After RTFA it appears that they're sending out maybe 1,500 of these every year, of which there are now 2 known problems, and his complaint is that he went without his license for a week or so while he cleared his name. Now he's sueing the state, for undisclosed sums, but even he would be hard pressed to really say he was out much other than a weeks wages. Given the 0.0013% failure rate, which results in a minor inconvenience this sounds like a VERY good system.
I checked the "Do Not Track" checkmark, and honestly didn't expect ANY of the advertisers to respect the completely voluntary setting. The fact that any of them, let alone 50% are actually respecting it is a big improvement.
Why are so many things justified with the already unjustifiable cost of a Latte? Just as two wrongs don't make a right, two prices that are too high, don't make the second any cheaper.
I think you mean perfect privacy controls don't exist. It is possible to make some things harder than others, much in the same way that a door with a lock is more of a deterent than a door without one. Right now Facebook doesn't even have a decent lock.
Thanks, I didn't realize that. I cancelled my account a year or so ago over all the privacy problems.
They should have announced real privacy controls, and a google+ circle clone. Instead they've added an unnecessary feature designed to distract people from their true problems. Right now they have an approval rating slightly better than the IRS. I suspect that the stated 750 million users will be their high point, and it's all MySpace from here on out.
You could be correct, we won't know until we try. Also Facebook's UI was a huge improvement over MySpace's, which was a throw back to the early early days of the 'net when everybody designed their own webpages. Only instead of it being a bunch of geeks, it was the high school dropouts you hadn't spoken too since, well, high school. At least with Facebook the glitter patrol is dimmed a bit.
I'm sure you do!
Wouldn't have matter, if you RTFA you'd know he was not the portion of the contract that allowed them to take back his options.
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