Wouldn't they claim that since it was accidental and no intention to violate rights can be proven that they can't possibly be expected to ignore evidence that jumps out at them, similar to finding a gun in a pile of trash that an animal had strewn about?
And no I can't cite specific references but I assure you I learned about them from reputable sources on television and internet news sites. I hope you are right that they would not be able to weasel their way past the spirit of the law.
Through Hawking Radiation. Here is the scoop, assuming I understand it well enough to relate it to others.
There is something called Zero Point Energy which was once considered fringe science and many of the claims regarding it still are. However, it has been verified through experiment to exist. Google for info on the Casimir Effect for more info. Basically ZPE is a steady "foam" of subatomic particles that pop into and then back out of existence. It appears in pairs of particles with corresponding anti-particles which almost immediately annihilate each other so that the net effect is zero. This is similar to a wave in a spring. There can only be a compression if there is a corresponding expansion. The length of time these "virtual particles" can exist and the separation between them is limited by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that any particle cannot be known to exist at any certain point in space at any certain time. In other words there will always be some fuzziness in regards to its position no matter how precise of measurements you are able to take. This is why quantum mechanics must calculate all the possible paths that a particle *can* take before determining which path (or position at a specific time) is the most probable. It is not intuitive but has been proven that photons (and particles due to particle-wave duality and the DeBroglie wavelength) can teleport and the shorter the distance the more likely it is to occur. I went on about Uncertainty because I am not sure whether the Zero Point foam happens more frequently near existing particles such as a massive object like a blackhole or if the foam is uniform throughout the universe, and the time-distance relationship governed by Heisenberg's principle might be the reason.
Regardless, what happens is: due to the distance separating the particles from the anti-particles some of the virtual particles at the event horizon escape from the gravity well while their anti-particles get sucked in. The anti-particles (with negative energy) end up annihilating some of the energy within the black hole making it slightly less massive while the escaped particles appear as radiation to the outside universe. But if the opposite occurs and the real particle is captured and the negative energy particle escapes then it would soon be annihilated so that no outflow of negative energy could be observed. Hawking didn't really explain that part very well in his book, 'The Theory of Everything'. The positive energy which gets radiated in this way just happens to match the energy that a blackbody would be expected to radiate where the virtual temperature varies with the mass of the blackhole.
would expand the range of crimes for which felons must submit DNA samples to the state's database to include nonviolent offenders, juveniles and uncharged suspects.
So when all white or black or hispanic males, ages 25-32, in the City of Los Angeles fit the description of a suspect then anyone of them can be forced to be DNA fingerprinted?
He dismissed the ACLU's concerns about invasion of privacy as "a straw man argument," pointing out that the measure has extensive protections that purge DNA information when a suspect or convict is exonerated.
I hope someone will look very closely at these "extensive protections". There have already been many cases where police have demanded DNA samples from innocent people. The DNA test exonerated them but the police refused to then destroy the DNA fingerprint. Also I have no doubts that the police would run blanket checks against other cases in which the innocent donors are not suspects. When a match comes up positive they will claim that it was done "accidentally". I bet that DNA fingerprints would never actually get purged either due to "computer errors".
Quick question...since personal shredders are only $30, why does your company use the shredding service at all?
$30 personal shredders won't handle many items such as old badges, bernoulli disks, floppies, backup tapes, CD's, last year's Xmas fruitcake, whistleblowers, etc.
By the way, the Pan-American highway has a small gap due to a nature preserve so your rally race would need to board ships. It is called the
Darien Gap and is about 50 miles wide so it could also be closed with a tunnel. But I doubt if the economic incentive is there to do that way. More likely the rainforest will be sacrificed.
Maglev transportation has been something people have talked about for like 3 decades now and it still hasn't been fully realized in the way it's been portrayed. I doubt it ever really will be.
One fact that I haven't seen any other posters mention so far is that MAGLEV is about to become much cheaper to operate than it ever has been since its invention. Why? Because of high temperature superconductors.
The power required to create the magnetic fields using standard old school technology had to include losses in the electromagnet itself. The energy put into lifting the train and stopping it should always be recoverable, but with superconductors there is no power loss due to resistance in zillions of copper windings. So theoretically the largest loss would be from wind resistance. In practice though there will be other costs such as refilling the liquid nitrogen.
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How often do you sit down for a relaxing session at your PC, only to discover you can't find that file you saved six months ago but forgot the name of it.
Never, everything goes under/home/username or in my home directory on a NetWare server which is soft linked to an icon on my desktop.
Or to go into Word and realize several dreary tasks could mre easily be put into macros if only you knew how?
Never had the need for anything that fancy, but I look forward to the day.
Or you decide to browse the Web only to be "attacked" by pop-ups and extra windows? AAUGHH!
It doesn't happen. I run Mozilla.
I can control cookies too. w00t!
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It is a thermostat not a thermometer (/nitpick). Wowbagger does seem to think every machine is a robot doesn't he? But the property a robot has which makes it specifically a robotic machine is to be capable of being programmed to perform general tasks. The range of programmed motions for a true robot is virtually infinite. In other words, if the dishwasher were actually a robot then I would be able to reprogram it to turn on and off the water pump, heating element, and any other actuators it was equipped with at varying intervals, in any order, and possibly in response to inputs such as encoder feedback from servos or contact switches.
You are right that privacy is a right but why do you say it is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights? The fourth amendment specifically states that your right to keep your self, house, papers (18th century equivalent of data), and effects secure shall not be violated. How could the Right of Privacy have been defined any clearer?
Unfortunately only the government itself and those acting "under color of law" are restrained by the amendment, unless a law is in effect in your jurisdiction providing relief from violations of your privacy by other individuals. However the Privacy Act was supposed to provide something like that. By releasing private information such as the coal miners' social security numbers, the government becomes an "enabler" of 4th amendment right violations by others which it is precluded from doing.
When the Supreme Court failed to uphold the spirit of the 14th amendment in Plessey-Ferguson 1896 the consequences were unforeseen and far reaching. That case was given little attention at the time but was used for the next 60 years to bless segregation and Jim Crow and was only overturned through a dubious reinterpretation of the Interstate Commerce clause. If the Supreme Court fails to uphold the spirit of the 4th amendment now then the consequences will likely be just as dire.
if you take a look at Microsoft's [checkered] past, you would see that as a company, they have made many computer and software donations to schools. Yeah, it's Microsoft software for the most part, so start the conspiracy ranting as you will.
It is not 'conspiracy ranting' to complain that Microsoft claims tax write offs of full retail price for software donations which cost them nothing more than a few cents for a bulk produced CD.
one might say that their donations have gone a long way to bolster support for computers in the classroom.
Actually, I would only say that their "donations" have bolstered lock in to their platform and increased sales of their other products. This comes at the expense of teacher's and administrator's jobs and the childrens' educations.
IHBT.IHL.HAND.
The author of the review seems to think the problem is selling enough of these laptops to interest hordes of software developers: 'And as with any new technology, Sharp faces a chicken-and-egg challenge: Selling enough units to make it worthwhile for software makers to 3-D-enable their apps, and having enough compatible apps to make the 3-D machine worth buying. (Sharp says there are hundreds of titles that are 3-D enabled.)'
There should be hundreds of titles already since anything already written to Direct3D would work and they could jumpstart sales and ramp up production volume by selling lower priced standalone LCD screens with this technology built in. Whatsmore, DDD's homepage says that they offer:
* Custom development and licensing for organizations seeking to deliver professional and consumer 3D products and services based upon DDD's technologies and intellectual property library.
so the license with Sharp is not exclusive which means there could be 3D LCDs at competetive prices someday. But I expect DDD to keep licensing out of the reach of the Asian CE sweatfactories for a little while longer to protect their in house products and allow them to milk the vertical markets. Maybe by Christmas next year...
I'd bet AOL and its "partners" use cookies to track users and target ads. If the former owners give the FBI their account info such as an AOL account name then they should be able to pick up the cookie trail and follow the ip address to the phone line.
So why has SCO made the claim that they can sue end users but that they have no current plans to do so. Also why did Redhat suddenly get out of the desktop market? Why is it that the company which jumped into the Linux on desktop market used to own Unix and retains rights to use the code?
In particular, read: 'In 1999, Borland and Microsoft settled the lawsuit in a private agreement. Microsoft made a $25 million investment in Borland, and the companies entered into a $100 million alliance through which Borland would license core Microsoft technology. Borland continues to license core Microsoft components, becoming the first and only licensee of.Net Framework last year.'
This is similar to Corel dropping both its Linux distribution and WP Office for Linux after Microsoft "invested" money in it and also to the way Linux is no longer a supported guest OS on Connectix. Microsoft is preventing competition by buying the influence needed to destroy promising Linux technologies before they come to fruition.
If that's such a safe thing to do then how about posting the address of the building so the local l337 punkz can drive by and make sure you've installed your Blaster/Nachi patches.
No Wuphonsreach, it is not impossible for someone to prove to another who they voted for. It can easily be done with a videocamera. Your argument is ridiculous. But thanks for the belly laugh.
Making murder impossible would require severe curtailments to our civil rights but I am sure that someone with your attitude would support it anyway. But I, like the patriots who founded this country, would rather guarantee my freedom at the cost of some safety.
(incidentally this is a bit of a problem for linux on the desktop front: the crazy apps like "BeeKeeper Ranching and Honey Tracking" are what keep most businesses from switching on the desktop).
Well the only thing I have seen that could bring that kind of RAD development to Linux was Kylix from Borland. Unfortunately, the product has languished recently even though it was so promising. I wonder if a $25M investment and a $100M.net agreement could have anything to do with it.
By your argument we shouldn't have laws against anything cause 'someone holding a gun to your child/wife/relation's head doesn't really care about legal vs illegal'. That is nonsense.
The only certain way of making a voting process accurate and not subject to fraud is if you do away with the secret ballot.
I believe that Quinn is correct in saying, 'A voter-verified audit trail is the only way to 'prove' the system's integrity to the vast majority of electors, who after all, own the democracy.' However I don't believe that means we have to do away with the secret ballot.
I would like to see a system where what prints out after you vote is a GUID, globally unique identification number. You can use that number after the election is closed to verify on-line that the vote associated with that number is how you voted, however there would be no way for a third party to connect any particular voter with a particular GUID, so no one can look on-line to see how his neighbor or wife voted unless they provide their GUID number to him. Each voter could do what they want with their GUID. They might lock it in a safe-deposit, shred it, incinerate it, or laminate it and display it in front of their home. Their own choice. However, it must be made illegal to coerce anyone to reveal their GUID so there could not be 'Free Beer for Anyone Who Voted Republican Night' at the local VFW hall.
With the voters auditing the election themselves, detecting fraud might then be as simple then as counting how many people actually voted to prevent ficticious persons from being fabricated to skew the tally.
I could loose $4900 tomorrow and the FBI won't do jack shit. Some FBI nerd gets a scam email any moron would know not to answer, and they call out the swat teams. Faaaaantastic.
I think you missed the point here. This con artist got caught. It is news because we can all take revenge on spammers vicariously through reading this. It feels better than the end of a bruce willis movie.
the core O/S is performing operations that should be in apps, and the apps are doing the work of the O/S.
That's the easiest way to illegally tie the two products together. The DOJ under Asscroft will never question the practice, and even after Bush loses the coming election it would take years for it to wind through the courts (yet again).
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Wouldn't they claim that since it was accidental and no intention to violate rights can be proven that they can't possibly be expected to ignore evidence that jumps out at them, similar to finding a gun in a pile of trash that an animal had strewn about?
And no I can't cite specific references but I assure you I learned about them from reputable sources on television and internet news sites. I hope you are right that they would not be able to weasel their way past the spirit of the law.
Through Hawking Radiation. Here is the scoop, assuming I understand it well enough to relate it to others.
There is something called Zero Point Energy which was once considered fringe science and many of the claims regarding it still are. However, it has been verified through experiment to exist. Google for info on the Casimir Effect for more info. Basically ZPE is a steady "foam" of subatomic particles that pop into and then back out of existence. It appears in pairs of particles with corresponding anti-particles which almost immediately annihilate each other so that the net effect is zero. This is similar to a wave in a spring. There can only be a compression if there is a corresponding expansion. The length of time these "virtual particles" can exist and the separation between them is limited by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that any particle cannot be known to exist at any certain point in space at any certain time. In other words there will always be some fuzziness in regards to its position no matter how precise of measurements you are able to take. This is why quantum mechanics must calculate all the possible paths that a particle *can* take before determining which path (or position at a specific time) is the most probable. It is not intuitive but has been proven that photons (and particles due to particle-wave duality and the DeBroglie wavelength) can teleport and the shorter the distance the more likely it is to occur. I went on about Uncertainty because I am not sure whether the Zero Point foam happens more frequently near existing particles such as a massive object like a blackhole or if the foam is uniform throughout the universe, and the time-distance relationship governed by Heisenberg's principle might be the reason.
Regardless, what happens is: due to the distance separating the particles from the anti-particles some of the virtual particles at the event horizon escape from the gravity well while their anti-particles get sucked in. The anti-particles (with negative energy) end up annihilating some of the energy within the black hole making it slightly less massive while the escaped particles appear as radiation to the outside universe. But if the opposite occurs and the real particle is captured and the negative energy particle escapes then it would soon be annihilated so that no outflow of negative energy could be observed. Hawking didn't really explain that part very well in his book, 'The Theory of Everything'. The positive energy which gets radiated in this way just happens to match the energy that a blackbody would be expected to radiate where the virtual temperature varies with the mass of the blackhole.
So when all white or black or hispanic males, ages 25-32, in the City of Los Angeles fit the description of a suspect then anyone of them can be forced to be DNA fingerprinted?
He dismissed the ACLU's concerns about invasion of privacy as "a straw man argument," pointing out that the measure has extensive protections that purge DNA information when a suspect or convict is exonerated.
I hope someone will look very closely at these "extensive protections". There have already been many cases where police have demanded DNA samples from innocent people. The DNA test exonerated them but the police refused to then destroy the DNA fingerprint. Also I have no doubts that the police would run blanket checks against other cases in which the innocent donors are not suspects. When a match comes up positive they will claim that it was done "accidentally". I bet that DNA fingerprints would never actually get purged either due to "computer errors".
$30 personal shredders won't handle many items such as old badges, bernoulli disks, floppies, backup tapes, CD's, last year's Xmas fruitcake, whistleblowers, etc.
Actually the earths rotation is slowing due to internal friction caused by the moon and tides.
By the way, the Pan-American highway has a small gap due to a nature preserve so your rally race would need to board ships. It is called the Darien Gap and is about 50 miles wide so it could also be closed with a tunnel. But I doubt if the economic incentive is there to do that way. More likely the rainforest will be sacrificed.
One fact that I haven't seen any other posters mention so far is that MAGLEV is about to become much cheaper to operate than it ever has been since its invention. Why? Because of high temperature superconductors.
The power required to create the magnetic fields using standard old school technology had to include losses in the electromagnet itself. The energy put into lifting the train and stopping it should always be recoverable, but with superconductors there is no power loss due to resistance in zillions of copper windings. So theoretically the largest loss would be from wind resistance. In practice though there will be other costs such as refilling the liquid nitrogen.
Then Paul Twomey should send Kofi Annan a 200 foot high message through the Hello World project. Here are webcam pics of the four displays in different parts of the world. One is in Geneva.
Never, everything goes under /home/username or in my home directory on a NetWare server which is soft linked to an icon on my desktop.
Or to go into Word and realize several dreary tasks could mre easily be put into macros if only you knew how?
Never had the need for anything that fancy, but I look forward to the day.
Or you decide to browse the Web only to be "attacked" by pop-ups and extra windows? AAUGHH!
It doesn't happen. I run Mozilla.
I can control cookies too. w00t!
But frankly Linux also has some annoyances. Care to list any?
It is a thermostat not a thermometer (/nitpick). Wowbagger does seem to think every machine is a robot doesn't he? But the property a robot has which makes it specifically a robotic machine is to be capable of being programmed to perform general tasks. The range of programmed motions for a true robot is virtually infinite. In other words, if the dishwasher were actually a robot then I would be able to reprogram it to turn on and off the water pump, heating element, and any other actuators it was equipped with at varying intervals, in any order, and possibly in response to inputs such as encoder feedback from servos or contact switches.
You are right that privacy is a right but why do you say it is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights? The fourth amendment specifically states that your right to keep your self, house, papers (18th century equivalent of data), and effects secure shall not be violated. How could the Right of Privacy have been defined any clearer?
Unfortunately only the government itself and those acting "under color of law" are restrained by the amendment, unless a law is in effect in your jurisdiction providing relief from violations of your privacy by other individuals. However the Privacy Act was supposed to provide something like that. By releasing private information such as the coal miners' social security numbers, the government becomes an "enabler" of 4th amendment right violations by others which it is precluded from doing.
When the Supreme Court failed to uphold the spirit of the 14th amendment in Plessey-Ferguson 1896 the consequences were unforeseen and far reaching. That case was given little attention at the time but was used for the next 60 years to bless segregation and Jim Crow and was only overturned through a dubious reinterpretation of the Interstate Commerce clause. If the Supreme Court fails to uphold the spirit of the 4th amendment now then the consequences will likely be just as dire.
It is not 'conspiracy ranting' to complain that Microsoft claims tax write offs of full retail price for software donations which cost them nothing more than a few cents for a bulk produced CD.
one might say that their donations have gone a long way to bolster support for computers in the classroom.
Actually, I would only say that their "donations" have bolstered lock in to their platform and increased sales of their other products. This comes at the expense of teacher's and administrator's jobs and the childrens' educations.
IHBT.IHL.HAND.
I think he would need a compass too, would he not?
There should be hundreds of titles already since anything already written to Direct3D would work and they could jumpstart sales and ramp up production volume by selling lower priced standalone LCD screens with this technology built in. Whatsmore, DDD's homepage says that they offer:
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* Custom development and licensing for organizations seeking to deliver professional and consumer 3D products and services based upon DDD's technologies and intellectual property library.
so the license with Sharp is not exclusive which means there could be 3D LCDs at competetive prices someday. But I expect DDD to keep licensing out of the reach of the Asian CE sweatfactories for a little while longer to protect their in house products and allow them to milk the vertical markets. Maybe by Christmas next year...I'd bet AOL and its "partners" use cookies to track users and target ads. If the former owners give the FBI their account info such as an AOL account name then they should be able to pick up the cookie trail and follow the ip address to the phone line.
So why has SCO made the claim that they can sue end users but that they have no current plans to do so. Also why did Redhat suddenly get out of the desktop market? Why is it that the company which jumped into the Linux on desktop market used to own Unix and retains rights to use the code?
or at a railroad crossing!
In particular, read: 'In 1999, Borland and Microsoft settled the lawsuit in a private agreement. Microsoft made a $25 million investment in Borland, and the companies entered into a $100 million alliance through which Borland would license core Microsoft technology. Borland continues to license core Microsoft components, becoming the first and only licensee of .Net Framework last year.'
This is similar to Corel dropping both its Linux distribution and WP Office for Linux after Microsoft "invested" money in it and also to the way Linux is no longer a supported guest OS on Connectix. Microsoft is preventing competition by buying the influence needed to destroy promising Linux technologies before they come to fruition.
If that's such a safe thing to do then how about posting the address of the building so the local l337 punkz can drive by and make sure you've installed your Blaster/Nachi patches.
No Wuphonsreach, it is not impossible for someone to prove to another who they voted for. It can easily be done with a videocamera. Your argument is ridiculous. But thanks for the belly laugh.
Making murder impossible would require severe curtailments to our civil rights but I am sure that someone with your attitude would support it anyway. But I, like the patriots who founded this country, would rather guarantee my freedom at the cost of some safety.
Well the only thing I have seen that could bring that kind of RAD development to Linux was Kylix from Borland. Unfortunately, the product has languished recently even though it was so promising. I wonder if a $25M investment and a $100M .net agreement could have anything to do with it.
By your argument we shouldn't have laws against anything cause 'someone holding a gun to your child/wife/relation's head doesn't really care about legal vs illegal'. That is nonsense.
I believe that Quinn is correct in saying, 'A voter-verified audit trail is the only way to 'prove' the system's integrity to the vast majority of electors, who after all, own the democracy.' However I don't believe that means we have to do away with the secret ballot.
I would like to see a system where what prints out after you vote is a GUID, globally unique identification number. You can use that number after the election is closed to verify on-line that the vote associated with that number is how you voted, however there would be no way for a third party to connect any particular voter with a particular GUID, so no one can look on-line to see how his neighbor or wife voted unless they provide their GUID number to him. Each voter could do what they want with their GUID. They might lock it in a safe-deposit, shred it, incinerate it, or laminate it and display it in front of their home. Their own choice. However, it must be made illegal to coerce anyone to reveal their GUID so there could not be 'Free Beer for Anyone Who Voted Republican Night' at the local VFW hall.
With the voters auditing the election themselves, detecting fraud might then be as simple then as counting how many people actually voted to prevent ficticious persons from being fabricated to skew the tally.
I think you missed the point here. This con artist got caught. It is news because we can all take revenge on spammers vicariously through reading this. It feels better than the end of a bruce willis movie.
That's the easiest way to illegally tie the two products together. The DOJ under Asscroft will never question the practice, and even after Bush loses the coming election it would take years for it to wind through the courts (yet again).