Are you really pissing and moaning because law enforcement wants to be able to get a certain level of appropriate information from all driver's licenses? Gimme a break. The only people I can see having a true complaint are the drivers who want to hide their tickets in one state from LEOs in another state.
15-20 years ago there wasn't even routine information sharing between states on driver's license statuses, arrest warrants and criminal histories. The FBI, through NCIC (National Criminal Information Center) implemented the III (Interstate Identification Index). Initial response from many individual states - pissing and moaning about cost and the loss of their independence. Right - you now have to standardize terminology and call a Burglary a Burglary instead of Breaking and Entering. The world's coming to an end! The upside - Felony arrest warrants from California were now eaasily accessible in New York. Down side - ummm, wait a minute it'll come to me... or not.
Is it possible that this information could somehow be abused? Of course. Its possible to abuse any sort of personal information. Is it likely to bring 1984 crashing down around our ears? Hardly.
Its funny that as geeks we ridicule security through obscurity while supporting the rights of individuals to hide their poor driving records because of fears about 'Big Brother'.
Incidentally, I don't think the 5th Amendment should be scrapped. I just think we should get a clue from the Brits - you can't be forced to testify against yourself but your refusal to answer questions can be considered by the jury during deliberations.
Heiroglyphics and cuniform is still readable after millenia, and requires only our eyes to decode. A hard drive without a compatible computer to run and decode its contents is useless.
The only problem with that is finding the hieroglyph and cuneiform drivers for my brain.
I sent the following messages to Ohio DJFS through their general feedback form form and to the Office of Governor of Ohio. Even though I am a resident of Virginia, the world has grown much too small for us (read: geeks, nerds, techies, etc) to ignore such blatant stupidity. Use those keybords, boys and girls! The more the merrier!
To Ohio DJFS:
If there is a more direct way for me to contact Mr. Hayes, I would be glad to use it, but I'm unable to locate it on your web site.
With regards to the recent termination of Charles Smith, as publicized in several news articles (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.s sf?/base/news/1097228025306530.xml) for one, I am more than a little shocked that a Department Head in the State of Ohio would slander an employee in such a manner. If the quote "I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning" is correct, it is my fondest wish that Mr. Hayes be publicly reprimanded by Governor Taft and removed from his position. Even assuming that Mr. Smith's termination was somehow justified (and unless there is a long history of similar offences, I suspect that it is not) there can be no justification for such remarks to be made, and most CERTAINLY not in public.
Shame on you Mr. Hayes for the discredit you bring to yourself, the employees of DJFS and the office of the governor. Shame.
Office of the Governor:
Governor Taft,
I am sure you are already aware - or soon will be - of the shameful actions of Tom Hayes, the director of ODJFS with regards to the termination of Charles Smith, a computer programmer on the DJFS staff as chronicled in several news articles (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.s sf?/base/news/1097228025306530.xml), for one. Whether or not Mr. Smith's dismissal is justified (and on the surface it certainly does not appear to be so) the remark attributed to Mr. Hayes following Smith's termination leaves me shocked and aghast. If Mr. Hayes was correctly quoted "I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning" is correct, it is my fondest wish that Mr. Hayes be publicly reprimanded by your office and removed from his position. There can be no justification for such remarks to be made, and most CERTAINLY not in public.
I believe - and certainly hope - that you will hear from the technical and scientific communities, both loudly and publicly, about Mr. Hayes' appalling action. I see no possible way for someone so callous, unthinking and uncaring as Mr. Hayes to serve successfully as the director of an agency like DJFS.
Since I haven't gotten past these problems, it's hard to take a position on this "death & scandal" subject matter that you speak of.
If you're going to get your panties in a wad over grammar and spelling, perhaps its worth pointing out that you should have said "...subject matter of which you speak." Not that I disagree with you, but really...
Not a bad read for anyone interested in science. In addition to revealing their stances on the individual areas of science in question, the answers also give some indications on how the candiates see science's impact on the US and global economies, the environment and even US interations with other nations. Actually more information than you might expect out of campaign rhetoric.
I was amused that most of Kerry's responses mentioned John Edwards, but Cheney is not mentioned ONCE in Bush's answers. I suppose that makes sense for the questions about energy policy...
Its clear that the candidates don't ever plan on using these responses verbally. I'd love to see W try and pronounce "carbon sequestration". (In the Bush response to question #12.)
"May 2002
Next generation PDAs
"Aside from the Springboard expansion slot, the $999 Handspring Visor Pro's standout features include an LED alarm option and a backlit, 16-greyshade screen.""
Strikes me as kind of odd for someone to imply I'm wound too tight when I was telling someone else to lighten up. Perhaps you speak a different English than I do, where words don't mean the same thing. Anyway...
I stand by my original post. You're essentially making the same statement as the parent did, and its just wrong.
Parking in a big space via Linux is to parking in the real world
what
downloading a 10K text file is to downloading Windows XP SP1.
Starting with one you'll eventually develop the capabilities needed for the other, but not by 5:00 today. It won't work as it, but its a reasonable start on the journey.
Hell, even I could park in that spot. They did a good job, but until they can park in a spot 8 inches longer than your car like in NYC, it doesn't have so much practical purpose.
Hell, I can carry a disk between computers faster than that 300 baud modem. If it can't transmit data any faster than that, it doesn't have much practical purpose. What's that? It'll get faster once people start using it and the technology improves? Huh. Who'd a thunk it?
Oh you poor thing... A six-digit salary? How do you survive?
Lighten up - hes earning less than minimum wage. Assuming he FT, minimum wage is just over $10K annually. He wasn't specific, but at six figures he can't be earning more than $9,999.99.
Depending on how their assets are liquidated, someone even worse than Darl and Co. could get hold of them.
Assuming, of course, that its possible to FIND someone even worse than Darl and Co... I mean someone real - Darth Vader, Voldemort and Hannibal Lechter don't count kiddies.
I say give them a DOS machine (like a 386) and a high-speed connection that only connects to playboy.com. Just make sure the only browser they have access to is LYNX.
From the PopSci article - In the case of the supercavitating torpedo described in this article, skeptics ask where the need is. "If we ever face a hostile navy again I'd like to take a look at it," says Thompson. "Obviously it's an improvement over what we have, but what's the enemy? It's not enough to have a weapon that can use new technology creatively. It needs to answer a valid military need or threat."
He obviously doesn't read/. or he would know that that sneaky Swedish Navy is up to no good. We may need those torpedoes!!
I'd much rather see true cinematic accomplishments (like the ones the article mentioned: Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, etc) restored in this way, not cheesy predictable spy flicks.
I would imagine that, as with anything else that has components that can be categorized as either "good" or "popular", sales of the "popular" stuff will subsidize the production of the "good" stuff.
Face it - they're going to sell more copies of "Dr. No" with Ursula Andress wearing the New & Improved High Resolution Digital Bikini than they are of Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly and the Incredibly Vivid High Resolution Raindrops.
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15-20 years ago there wasn't even routine information sharing between states on driver's license statuses, arrest warrants and criminal histories. The FBI, through NCIC (National Criminal Information Center) implemented the III (Interstate Identification Index). Initial response from many individual states - pissing and moaning about cost and the loss of their independence. Right - you now have to standardize terminology and call a Burglary a Burglary instead of Breaking and Entering. The world's coming to an end! The upside - Felony arrest warrants from California were now eaasily accessible in New York. Down side - ummm, wait a minute it'll come to me... or not.
Is it possible that this information could somehow be abused? Of course. Its possible to abuse any sort of personal information. Is it likely to bring 1984 crashing down around our ears? Hardly.
Its funny that as geeks we ridicule security through obscurity while supporting the rights of individuals to hide their poor driving records because of fears about 'Big Brother'.
Incidentally, I don't think the 5th Amendment should be scrapped. I just think we should get a clue from the Brits - you can't be forced to testify against yourself but your refusal to answer questions can be considered by the jury during deliberations.
Let the flaming begin!
Which of course leads us to the problem outlined in "Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly"
Apple? Asimov beat them to it by quite a while - I, Robot.
The Electric Grandmother was a TV-movie taken from a Ray Bradbury story.
The only problem with that is finding the hieroglyph and cuneiform drivers for my brain.
To Ohio DJFS:s sf?/base/news/1097228025306530.xml) for one, I am more than a little shocked that a Department Head in the State of Ohio would slander an employee in such a manner. If the quote "I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning" is correct, it is my fondest wish that Mr. Hayes be publicly reprimanded by Governor Taft and removed from his position. Even assuming that Mr. Smith's termination was somehow justified (and unless there is a long history of similar offences, I suspect that it is not) there can be no justification for such remarks to be made, and most CERTAINLY not in public.
Shame on you Mr. Hayes for the discredit you bring to yourself, the employees of DJFS and the office of the governor. Shame.
If there is a more direct way for me to contact Mr. Hayes, I would be glad to use it, but I'm unable to locate it on your web site. With regards to the recent termination of Charles Smith, as publicized in several news articles (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.
Office of the Governor:
Governor Taft,
I am sure you are already aware - or soon will be - of the shameful actions of Tom Hayes, the director of ODJFS with regards to the termination of Charles Smith, a computer programmer on the DJFS staff as chronicled in several news articles (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.s sf?/base/news/1097228025306530.xml), for one. Whether or not Mr. Smith's dismissal is justified (and on the surface it certainly does not appear to be so) the remark attributed to Mr. Hayes following Smith's termination leaves me shocked and aghast. If Mr. Hayes was correctly quoted "I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning" is correct, it is my fondest wish that Mr. Hayes be publicly reprimanded by your office and removed from his position. There can be no justification for such remarks to be made, and most CERTAINLY not in public.
I believe - and certainly hope - that you will hear from the technical and scientific communities, both loudly and publicly, about Mr. Hayes' appalling action. I see no possible way for someone so callous, unthinking and uncaring as Mr. Hayes to serve successfully as the director of an agency like DJFS.
And no, I am not related to Mr. Smith of Ohio...
If you're going to get your panties in a wad over grammar and spelling, perhaps its worth pointing out that you should have said "...subject matter of which you speak." Not that I disagree with you, but really...
Anyone seen Steven Spielberg around? This sounds strangely like the opening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
I was amused that most of Kerry's responses mentioned John Edwards, but Cheney is not mentioned ONCE in Bush's answers. I suppose that makes sense for the questions about energy policy...
Its clear that the candidates don't ever plan on using these responses verbally. I'd love to see W try and pronounce "carbon sequestration". (In the Bush response to question #12.)
I just read through all of the questions and answers using Firefox 0.9 on WinXP and didn't have any trouble.
Ummm, $999 Handspring Visor Pro? Methinks not...
Ooooo - sounds like a DMCA violation to me...
I stand by my original post. You're essentially making the same statement as the parent did, and its just wrong.
Parking in a big space via Linux
is to
parking in the real world
what
downloading a 10K text file
is to
downloading Windows XP SP1.
Starting with one you'll eventually develop the capabilities needed for the other, but not by 5:00 today. It won't work as it, but its a reasonable start on the journey.
Hell, I can carry a disk between computers faster than that 300 baud modem. If it can't transmit data any faster than that, it doesn't have much practical purpose. What's that? It'll get faster once people start using it and the technology improves? Huh. Who'd a thunk it?
Sheesh, people, lighten up. Proof of concept.
Lighten up - hes earning less than minimum wage. Assuming he FT, minimum wage is just over $10K annually. He wasn't specific, but at six figures he can't be earning more than $9,999.99.
One word - GATTACA
Assuming, of course, that its possible to FIND someone even worse than Darl and Co... I mean someone real - Darth Vader, Voldemort and Hannibal Lechter don't count kiddies.
Clap Off! (clap clap)
Clap On, Clap Off, the Clapper!!
I say give them a DOS machine (like a 386) and a high-speed connection that only connects to playboy.com. Just make sure the only browser they have access to is LYNX.
He obviously doesn't read /. or he would know that that sneaky Swedish Navy is up to no good. We may need those torpedoes!!
Security through obscurity?
But, if you're releasing oxygen, why would you hold your breath?
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OK, OK. If The Oak and the Reed was too touchy-feely, try this explanation of strength/hardness, deformation and breaking-points.
OK, read this. The Oak and the Reed
Same thing applies in other areas, e.g. tall buildings sway slightly in strong winds or mild earthquakes.
I would imagine that, as with anything else that has components that can be categorized as either "good" or "popular", sales of the "popular" stuff will subsidize the production of the "good" stuff.
Face it - they're going to sell more copies of "Dr. No" with Ursula Andress wearing the New & Improved High Resolution Digital Bikini than they are of Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly and the Incredibly Vivid High Resolution Raindrops.