If you have a system that runs for years between crashes, you need people who've been around for a few years to deal with it. That's the problem. We certainly don't go for years. We schedule 2 IPL's per year. As for POR (Power on reset), we last did that when coming back up after 9/11 on return from running at recovery site.
"If IBM wants to sell mainframes, they need to give away training."
They DID give away the training at one time. When IBM had a lease only policy, a company paid one price and received the systems, education, OS. Uncle Sam wouldn't let that continue.
First, I could care less about new technology as long as it works and one doesn't throw out the old technology just in case it doesn't work. If you don't have those zero's and one's I don't care if you have a new cellphone or an old one. Unless your backhaul is twisted pair, crossbar, and strowger switches, you ain't going to make a call, period, unless those zeroes and ones on those internal closks work.
As for not flying over the ocean, you obviously don't have a clue. If GPS goes, you better have your old trusty techonology like that INS or your pilot doesn't have a clue where he is. In your case, I don't care, but I would have concern for the passengers in the other planes.
As for dickhead, moron.... nice words for mr. anonymous. obviously you weren't one of the ones that 'built the f****** things' since they DO actually work.
IMHO they POSSIBLY could patent their search algorithim to find such numbers, but not the display method of placing a box around them, since that could be considered 'obvious'.
I'm an old timer here. I don't see a process of determing numbers or highlighting them new. I can recall similar functions back almost 30 yrs ago, IBM 3270 green screens. Though we did only numbers, the rest would be pretty easy to incorporate.
And the routine and instruction in assembler is quite easy: TRT (translate and test) instruction to find numeric byte. Preceded by space, that's start of your numeric field. Insert attribute to hightlight. TRT instruction to find non numeric character excl - and +. if . , and next next not space, go again. If non-numeric or it's . or , and next is a space, you're at the end insert attribute to go back to normal display. Repeat until end of string passed.
That's pretty much from memoery, but WOW, that was hard wasn't it. Sheesh.
That won't work in applications where countrywide synchonization with a precision in fractions of seconds is needed, such as some same-frequency-broadcasts or GSM networks. On the other hand, those probably already have real solutions for this problem, instead of a kludge.
Bingo. You mean synchronization with precision like that which has been used for decades by the telco's (read: ITU jourisdiction). This is a problem what isn't one. Time is relative (sorry, couldn't resist.) I can't believe anyone, let alone Naval Observatory dude thinks in terms of sync to, essentially, a wall clock. That's why internal clocks are used. The time representation for someone looking at the 24 hr clock is simply a representation of an internal clock converted to something us dumb humans can relate to. Is this guy an idiot or what? If he'd been around many years ago, there wouldn't be binary systems, we'd all have to be on decimal systems, becuase he probably couldn't count either (That'll be his next recommendation.) And what happens when they try and add the 'leap hour'? I'm sure he looks at it like the deficit... he won't be around when it has to be taken into consideration. But I guarantee it'd make the millenium 'bug' (ie, original laziness) look like a cakewalk. As for 'nobody uses a sextant' since we have good old GPS, tell that to the sailors not too many years ago who lost all nav equip and used hmm... a sextant. One NEVER abandons the ability to utilize alternate means of problem resolution. He figures there's no possibility GPS could ever fail or be subverted? Bad mistake. That's what kills people, not leap seconds. He'd probably be the one to say take INS out of planes since GPS works. Right. I'll never fly over the ocean if he's that ignorant.
My thoughts exactly. I build up huge collection and have industrial accident. They're all no longer usable? I can't buy a gift? Say I'm a family of two adults and two children. Everyone has to purchase their own copy of a movie they want to watch or the purchaser has to be there for anyone in the family to watch it? Gee, sorry all... I'm going out of town on business. you can't watch your DVD. Sorry kids, we have a lot of movies but you can't watch any until I'm home from work or back from the store.
I think the big one pits the industry against itself. There goes Netflix and Blockbuster. You wouldn't be able to rent DVD's. And how much do they spend on purchases from the studios?
This definitely fits in the truly absurd category but you can bet your bottom dollar the guy is on his way to the patent office. This is so laughable the MPAA will probably actually try and latch onto it. (And I'm BIG anti-piracy person, but this is outright lunacy.)
Essentially, this is like Ford telling people not to take pictures of their own cars because the designers (read: the company) still own the copyright to the design.
The Ford, like the art, would have restrictions on duplicating the actual piece, ie, a new Ford identical to a Ford or the work of art, identical to the one donated. But not taking pictures is absurd. Artichects generally retain rights to their work. That'd be like saying one could not publish a book of the Chicago skyline because the Sears Tower architects probably still have rights to their work or New York City because Citicorp building architects have rights to those designs. It's in plain view, in a public space. I think this even does back to that old 'Indiana Love' sculpture where 'L O V E' was in a sculpture with LO on top and VE on bottom. The sculpture likely grained significantly from licensing the reproductions which were all over the place. But pictures? Those were all over as well, from news to coffee table books. Pictures of the Louvre are in so many books one can't count, including the I.M. Pai addition. I'm sure he has rights to the design. I doubt he's collected a cent on picture of his work. I have to believe the person at Chicago Parks is ill informed. It seems there've been too many rulings in the past by the Supremes on things viewable in public. (A new work in Central Park just started this weekend; Cristo, I believe. I'm sure there will be pictures all over the place. I haven't seen any indication there's a restriction on that.) So much for artists love of art and wanting their works to be seen and known.
Yes, the "victim" was not a nice person, but he never actually committed any crimes and people did in fact steal from him
Are you sure? IANAL, so possibly one can answer. Isn't conspiracy to commit a crime in itself a crime, even if the actual crime is not perpetrated? (ie, consipiracy to commit fraud/theft, etc.) It sure seems on the surface he's certainly guilty of that. So he got stung for 1000 while trying to 'steal' millions. No sympathy here. Possibly the comment the victim is a scumbucket is irrelevant may be correct. But the victim is potentially as much a criminal as the scammer and willinging pursued that activity. I don't see that as irrelevant.
Depending on the tides, the power may or may not be available during periods of peak demand, so you still need either an alternative source of power or a means of storing the power until it's needed.
You are correct, and this is where the article seemed to fail. It mentioned fuel cells to 'store' power during the reverse flow time, which didn't make sense. Fuel cells could, however, be used for supplemental/alternate power source during those periods. One way power has been 'stored' is to pump water uphill to a resevoir and releasing it and using turbines when needed. (Though maybe not room for resevoir, possibly a water tower would provide the same purpose.)
Unfortunately, I can't remember for the life of me what the judge ruled on this motion, but it is very similar to what we're dealing with here
IANAL but going on recollection, if it's the same case, I believe it got through at least the appeals court. In trying to keep evidence in case I believe an attempt was made to say it was similar to listining in on a wireless phone, which I think has been premitted. I believe it was determined a search warrant was required as the ultrasound device, in essence, had the police crossing the threshold and 'entering' the premises without a warrant. (Different than a phone where the radio waves escaped the presmises and were available without crossing such a boundry.)
I prefer to think of it like changing a telephone number rather than changing a mailing address. In many cases, the telephone company let's you take your number with you when you move, not because you LOVE the number, but to make it easier for people to contact you
I'm inclined to disagree. Trying to take your IP ranged carved out of a ISP's registered IP's is like trying to take your phone number to another area code. That doesn't happen with number portability and shouldn't happen here. I think it'll just go away when the judge gets a little more data. Or, maybe he can find a way to just gracefully bow out of a hornet's nest saying his court doesn't have jurisdiction on this one.
Do you have health care coverage? Do you have parents or grandparents that are retired and have social security? These are socialist ideas, a purely capitalistic society would not provide anything for anyone without pay.
IMHO, both of your examples don't hold water. On the social security one, the 'real' social security is based on contributions being caiculated so the contributions and interest for person 'x' are sufficient to cover the distributions of said person during retirement. There are two problems. The PROBLEM is that Congress let it become backed by 'IOU's and spent the money, instead of requiring the program to be administered under the same regs they'd require for any similar fiscally sound private program. That's the reaons one hears how it'll take 'x' workers to pay benefits for 'y' retirees, not because it isn't designed as a self sustaining program. Additionally, under the collective term 'social security' are programs that were never designed to be under that progam (the 'old age and survivors' trust which is what actually covers those montly social security checks). One example is supplemental security income which is now under the 'social security' umbrella but essentially moved there from HEW in the 60's during LBJ's 'great society'. (IMHO, pre-enron type accounting so it didn't look like as much was being spent on social welfare progams as they were actually spending.) Additionaly, health care insurance is about as capitalist as one can get. It's a method of using a pool for establishing determined risk and underwriting criteria to - using a more modern term - hedge against health care costs. It's essentially no different than the wall street type today using derivitives or other financial instruments to hedge against losses on the street today. That's about as 'capitalistic' as one can get. Where it fails to meet the capitalism test is again the way hospitals are permitted by regulation to recover costs from areas where they're required to provide services to those without coverage. One reason you might be billed a huge amount for a simple aspirin in a hospital.
No, this ploy is just part of the anti-Linux conspiracy, nothing more. Why do you think MS has allowed all of the security holes for so long?
I'm not generally the conspiracy theory type. I don't think MS left security holes to force the issue, but IMHO, I think they ignored them to keep getting the next bells and whistles out for the income stream; buying or writing and bundling anything starting to get a foothold that might provide any competition from the OS down to the application. (I still get angry thinking back to the mid 90's when people kept saying MS should fix security on 9X which was a single user system and not designed with the security necessary once the internet came into play. They ignored it for years.) But I would, again IMHO, think the comment programmers should be sued plays into a intent to squash open source. Their EULA's will try and protect them from the corporate side and they'll likely indemnify any programmer working for them. On the other hand, that pretty much leaves the indivudual open source programmers to twist in the wind if they make a mistake. That's quite a switch for a group who've said for years they should be treated differently because one simply can't create a system without any bugs and therefore they shouldn't be held to warranty standards as, for example, the manufacturing sector.
The chain's corporate HQ could sue the franchise holder for damaging the corporate name through his illegal actions. Reimbursing this lady is necessary, but it is no longer enough by itself. I would agree reimbursement is not enough. But I think Corporate should go a step further. Instead of suing, they should very publically revoke the franshise agreement. There are generally some pretty strong conditions on tarnishing the brand. If it was 'common knowledge' as the story indicates that this store didn't do checks (making it a common, recurring practice), etc, and then in this case knowingly sold stolen property (back to the original owner), I don't think they'd have any problem terminating their agreement.
Wow. How long before pilots aren't necessary at all?
The simple answer? never.
The hardest part of programming is coding for the exception, not the norm. At best, a computer to eliminate the pilot will code based on.... flight charactistics of the plane.
Thankfully, planes can't read.But pilots have certainly exceeded the envelope in emergencies, and stayed aloft. And when needed, pilots have done what developers and engineers would say just isn't possible. (Therefore, it wouldn't be coded in that computer pilot replacement.) Going inverted wouldn't be in the charactistics. But it's happened. Loss of all 4 engines in a 747 is impossible, but it's happened (and more than once). Maybe the best example? United 232. The events leading up to it would have probably just been considered impossible. Any flying as done by Capt. Haynes and crew had never even been tried in a simulator to that point.
Second reason? I don't know of any computer that can fly VFR if it has to:)
I'll admit, this is such a dumb idea, it goes beyond any semblence of being reasonable.
We see these restrictions all around us. Water drums near highway barriers. Curbs on sidewalks. Large rocks surrounding bridge supports. Pilots are just beginning to benefit from the fact that these influences can be virtual.
But if you run into a situation driving, one may HAVE to be able to drive over the curb to avoid an accident. The curb doesn't say you can't go over it, you just know you're not supposed. You would have a similar computer in your car.. not telling you what you couldn't do, just not allowing you to go over that curb to avoid, say, a head on collision? You can't restrict that option in an emergency.
TCAS is nice. Ground proximity warnings are nice. But there's one PIC, and it can't be a computer. Your comment stating The computer won't dictate what you have to do, just what you can't. is actually backwards. An autopilot doesn't tell a pilot what the pilot can't do, instead tells a pilot when IT (the computer) can't do what it's been told (i.e. disengages if it can't maintain.
If I'm on a plane and the pilot is going to squak 7700, then he damn well better have ALL options open to him.
won't they bring that flavor to the workplace as well? Feel's like this is the death of redhat
I agree. I have clients using multple small servers, and all have subscribed to the 'redhat network' for updates. But if they see this pricing, which quadruples x86 and skyrockets any Opteron support, they'll go back to Windows, as it'll be cost effective. Several have been willing to try RedHat and have been satisfied, but still have their Windows servers gathering dust 'just in case' as some still see Linux needing to prove itself. This will be the end of RH in those sites. They'll dust off the boxes and bring back windows or minimally look for another Linux flavor. I see Redhat with a 4th quarter and possibly 1st quarter of high revenue as people go ahead and buy. But as they make their later decisions, a lot of Redhat customers are going to depart. (I had one guy call me, who said he'd just paid for his red hat network support, and that will be dropped. It's a little suspicious to sell a full year of support when they knew they had no intention of providing that support).
The judge wondered if it would effectively extend copyrights to keep such works out of the public domain. Zacharia said it would not, because the copyright had expired. "But it's encrypted. If it doesn't stop being encrypted, it's still encrypted," Illston said, adding that such protected works still couldn't be legally copied.
A judge with a clue?
A very intresting clue. One I certainly hadn't thought of. It essentially makes copyright permanent. Even after expiration of copyright, the holders of original masters end up with exclusive rights. As each new technology comes out, super-dvd, super-hot-dvd, dvd-22nd century, they create new product, and sell it. All encrypted, nobody has the right to circumvent to copy. Not quite what the founders had in mind. Only those with 'old technology' ie, vhs, etc, would have something to 'copy' and that couldn't match anything once original works were digitally remastered a first time. I think those MPAA member film vaults just increased in value. Whichever whay the judge goes, it shows there are some on the bench with some long range insight.
Do most Swedes dunk in ice-cold water after a sauna, or are there some people who can't tolerate it? I think if I went there, I could handle the nudity part, but then I'd have to pass on the cold water which might actually be more embarrassing if everybody else is doing it.
I got used to sauna's when staying (for a change) at a great hotel week after week years ago. I'd work out a bit at night (they had a huge gym) and after I'd messed myself up a bit, hired one of their trainers a few times to get some routines that wouldn't bother a pulled muscle. He suggested the sauna as well. (Finnish? Swede? I don't know, he came with the accent, but I don't know which one.) No cold lake with ice, but ice cold shower afterwards. (actually, alternating showers afterward but first was ice cold). The nudity wasn't a bid deal but the ice cold shower. That DID take some getting used to. But that's the one time I missed a place when the assignment was done after spending about six months there. I never had a period of time where I'd slept better (being the insomnia type usually) and also had more energy during the day.
I wonder if it's a little too sensitive when it's nailing radiation therapy patients, though. That seems excessive.
I'm not sure I'd agree. If one goes on the assumption that someone transporting it FOR other than legit reasons, then I'd guess they would be trying to shield it and a very small leakage would be something to look for.
It's just a rough situation for all involved. I do sympathize with the guy getting strip searched multiple times, but it's understandable. The law enforcement folks have to have a rough balancing act, knowing on one hand they may have someone wanting to destroy everything and reacting to that, while on the other, being 'considerate' enough (ie, not pounced on by 30 gun drawn agents or stripped in the middle of Penn station or in 20 deg. weather outside a tunnel), if that's the word, to realize most they are going to stop are just people with some already less than pleasant circumstances in the case of iodine or radiation seed implants. Doesn't make it easy for the police.
While it'd be nice if it hadn't necessarily been made public, I am actually more comfortable. Taking those bridges and tunnels, I see the PA trucks there, ever present, but have wondered if these guys don't eventually start letting their guard down just from the aspect of a boring patrol and the repetitive 'non-event' routine. I'd hoped and kept thinking they've got something that's either scanning plates, faces, etc, and the radiation detection is all the better. Some may think it's overboard (and I'm a BIG one on preserving the individual rights), but it's non-intrusive and hell, my ezpass clocks me going through every time anyway so it's no big deal. In fact, I might not be in quite the rush getting through the tunnel. (I'm not paranoid, I've just thought ever since '93 that there isn't much in a tunnel for sightseeing purposes so going 'slow' isn't a high priority!)
The 'caps' presents a diverse perspective from the chant that ISP's have been using to get people to broadband.. they keep saying they want that 'killer application' that'll get people over to broadband. They talk in terms of video and streaming data, etc. Then on the other hand, they set up roadblocks to insure that, from the viewpoint of the 'masses' that they'll avoid that app becuase it'll cause them to go over their monthly 'allocation'. They can't have it both ways.
It's absurd notion. The telco's have planned and set capacity on the voice networks over the years to insure that they have enough capacity for calls, utilizing studies to know what they need in a switch knowing that some percentage of people will make short calls and others till hang on the line telling their life story to every person they talk to. In the states where the PUC's still insure flat rate service, the system works and there's sufficient capacity for all.
The ATTBI's and Comcast's (now one in the same, both with the split personailty) want to change that. They, of all organizations, should be precluded from doing so since they STILL have the wired monopoly protected by government entities.
BUT... if they DO want to implement caps, then I want the 'minimum' cap implemented so I get a REFUND every month, since I'm a user who wants the speed when I'm online, but probably hit that cap once a year at most. If they're segregating and using a 'usage' table to set rates and for network planning, then as a 'minimal user', I and everyone else, should get a rebate. After all, we're the opposite of the 'excessive user', in that we're using the service less than their 'average' user and therefore should get a 'minimum user refund'.
SOAPBOX... this is why if we're going to deregulate and NOT have PUC established rates, then there should be NO availability of ANY protected government monopoly. The cable companies should NOT be premitted exclusive franshise rights in any area and each RBOC should be forced to split into two entities, the non-refulagted voice capacity/switches, etc, and the regulated entity that provides ONLY the last mile and CO physical space. Every competitow (including the RBOC's) would then be forced to pay the same rates for CO space and last mile 'usage' and the competiton would be real). Where's Judge Green when you need him.! OFF-SOAPBOX
I'm not sure that's completely relavent. I wasn't following foreign policy very closely at the time, but i doubt Iraq entered into any cease-fires because they felt like it. If we are going to insist on writing whatever self-serving* rules we want, people will probably agree to play by them as long as we hold a gun to their head, but not much longer. We can come back with the gun 10 years later, but i think we'd be better off coming up with a set of rules that everybody agrees with.
It was a war. They lost big time. The cease fire isn't meant to come up with terms they both agree to, it's to come up with terms the world (it was UN decision) could live with vs. continuing to pummel Iraq and terms Iraq would agree to to keep from continuing to be pummeled. Iraq agreed with them, period. The lack of a cease fire would have simply meant Iraq would have had to completely and unilaterally surrender (which would have been preferable, IMHO). I really didn't see any need for this new UN stuff, they violated the cease fire.. as far as I'm concerned that means the 'war' from '91 was still on.
That being said, I don't think Poindexter belongs anywhere NEAR the government or holding any position within it. Period. Iran Contra should have sealed his fate. And this idea only seems to continue to highlight that he doesn't understand the military serves the civilian population. That's the reason the military is permitted no operational capabilities in the U.S. except under rare rare rare circumstances. And it should stay that way.
Currently, power is shared between Republicans and Democrats. Neither would be happy if the system would allow more than 2 parties to exist, so neither will ever agree to a substantial reform.
True. Though I have a feeling plurality voting (as it currently is) is the best potential for 3rd parties to win elections within a state. But forget change anyway. Hell, in New Jersey if one person wins a primary but thinks he'll not win the general election, he can just quit and let the party bosses determine who'll run. Talk about the total loss of the electorate in THAT process. That process, taken to extremes, can literally negate the entire primary process forever. Democrat 'bosses' put up their 'liberal' to win the party base, knowing they'll quit and let the bosses select their own middle-road person to compete in the general election. Repubs 'bosses' get their 'conservative' person to run in the primary and win with the party base, knowing that person will quit and let them put up the middle road person the 'bosses' want for a general election. Might as well skip primaries.
FYI, he didn't sue to get access to the information he needed to do his job, he sued to get access to the information without having to sign a NDA. Basically, the info was available to him for internal purposes, but they would then not have allowed him to divulge what he learned to the masses. He sued to have the ability to inform the public about some of ICANN's internal mechanations.
I am inclined to agree only partially. I believe the story goes he DID initially request financial information and was REFUSED. Later, when he continued to press his case, it was then that they came up with the idea that he'd have to sign a NDA.
I believe ICAAN has a problem of many boards and management. Management (Lynn), IMHO, is running over the board. The management is to MANAGE the institution. NOT make the policy, which it seems has continually been done. As far as the financial information, it should be made PUBLIC. The only thing an institution in a position such as ICAAN should be able to retain as private should be individual salary and pay data (which should be divulvged as an aggregate) of those some 'n' levels under the senior management. Also private should be any data pertaining to legal actions in which ICAAN may be involved as such disclosure could impact any pending litigation. Other than that, they should be as transparent as glass. They have gotten away with things in the past but with the cry for transparancy and the 'enron mood', that may well be difficult in the future. However, they seem to feel they are not accountable to anyone, so it'll probably take an act of Congress (literally) to get anything done.
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It's not worth the chance, either way. Just go get a booster right now, if you haven't been vaccinated since school days.
Some of are old enough that we actually HAD mumps, measles, and chicken pox by the time we were 5 or 6 to gain our immunity . No booster required .
If you have a system that runs for years between crashes, you need people who've been around for a few years to deal with it. That's the problem.
We certainly don't go for years. We schedule 2 IPL's per year. As for POR (Power on reset), we last did that when coming back up after 9/11 on return from running at recovery site.
They DID give away the training at one time. When IBM had a lease only policy, a company paid one price and received the systems, education, OS. Uncle Sam wouldn't let that continue.
First, I could care less about new technology as long as it works and one doesn't throw out the old technology just in case it doesn't work. If you don't have those zero's and one's I don't care if you have a new cellphone or an old one. Unless your backhaul is twisted pair, crossbar, and strowger switches, you ain't going to make a call, period, unless those zeroes and ones on those internal closks work.
As for not flying over the ocean, you obviously don't have a clue. If GPS goes, you better have your old trusty techonology like that INS or your pilot doesn't have a clue where he is. In your case, I don't care, but I would have concern for the passengers in the other planes.
As for dickhead, moron.... nice words for mr. anonymous. obviously you weren't one of the ones that 'built the f****** things' since they DO actually work.
I'm an old timer here. I don't see a process of determing numbers or highlighting them new. I can recall similar functions back almost 30 yrs ago, IBM 3270 green screens. Though we did only numbers, the rest would be pretty easy to incorporate.
And the routine and instruction in assembler is quite easy:
TRT (translate and test) instruction to find numeric byte. Preceded by space, that's start of your numeric field. Insert attribute to hightlight. TRT instruction to find non numeric character excl - and +. if . , and next next not space, go again. If non-numeric or it's . or , and next is a space, you're at the end insert attribute to go back to normal display. Repeat until end of string passed.
That's pretty much from memoery, but WOW, that was hard wasn't it. Sheesh.
Bingo. You mean synchronization with precision like that which has been used for decades by the telco's (read: ITU jourisdiction). This is a problem what isn't one. Time is relative (sorry, couldn't resist.) I can't believe anyone, let alone Naval Observatory dude thinks in terms of sync to, essentially, a wall clock. That's why internal clocks are used. The time representation for someone looking at the 24 hr clock is simply a representation of an internal clock converted to something us dumb humans can relate to. Is this guy an idiot or what? If he'd been around many years ago, there wouldn't be binary systems, we'd all have to be on decimal systems, becuase he probably couldn't count either (That'll be his next recommendation.) And what happens when they try and add the 'leap hour'? I'm sure he looks at it like the deficit... he won't be around when it has to be taken into consideration. But I guarantee it'd make the millenium 'bug' (ie, original laziness) look like a cakewalk.
As for 'nobody uses a sextant' since we have good old GPS, tell that to the sailors not too many years ago who lost all nav equip and used hmm... a sextant. One NEVER abandons the ability to utilize alternate means of problem resolution. He figures there's no possibility GPS could ever fail or be subverted? Bad mistake. That's what kills people, not leap seconds. He'd probably be the one to say take INS out of planes since GPS works. Right. I'll never fly over the ocean if he's that ignorant.
My thoughts exactly. I build up huge collection and have industrial accident. They're all no longer usable? I can't buy a gift? Say I'm a family of two adults and two children. Everyone has to purchase their own copy of a movie they want to watch or the purchaser has to be there for anyone in the family to watch it? Gee, sorry all... I'm going out of town on business. you can't watch your DVD. Sorry kids, we have a lot of movies but you can't watch any until I'm home from work or back from the store.
I think the big one pits the industry against itself. There goes Netflix and Blockbuster. You wouldn't be able to rent DVD's. And how much do they spend on purchases from the studios?
This definitely fits in the truly absurd category but you can bet your bottom dollar the guy is on his way to the patent office. This is so laughable the MPAA will probably actually try and latch onto it. (And I'm BIG anti-piracy person, but this is outright lunacy.)
The Ford, like the art, would have restrictions on duplicating the actual piece, ie, a new Ford identical to a Ford or the work of art, identical to the one donated. But not taking pictures is absurd. Artichects generally retain rights to their work. That'd be like saying one could not publish a book of the Chicago skyline because the Sears Tower architects probably still have rights to their work or New York City because Citicorp building architects have rights to those designs. It's in plain view, in a public space. I think this even does back to that old 'Indiana Love' sculpture where 'L O V E' was in a sculpture with LO on top and VE on bottom. The sculpture likely grained significantly from licensing the reproductions which were all over the place. But pictures? Those were all over as well, from news to coffee table books. Pictures of the Louvre are in so many books one can't count, including the I.M. Pai addition. I'm sure he has rights to the design. I doubt he's collected a cent on picture of his work. I have to believe the person at Chicago Parks is ill informed. It seems there've been too many rulings in the past by the Supremes on things viewable in public. (A new work in Central Park just started this weekend; Cristo, I believe. I'm sure there will be pictures all over the place. I haven't seen any indication there's a restriction on that.) So much for artists love of art and wanting their works to be seen and known.
Are you sure? IANAL, so possibly one can answer. Isn't conspiracy to commit a crime in itself a crime, even if the actual crime is not perpetrated? (ie, consipiracy to commit fraud/theft, etc.) It sure seems on the surface he's certainly guilty of that. So he got stung for 1000 while trying to 'steal' millions. No sympathy here. Possibly the comment the victim is a scumbucket is irrelevant may be correct. But the victim is potentially as much a criminal as the scammer and willinging pursued that activity. I don't see that as irrelevant.
You are correct, and this is where the article seemed to fail. It mentioned fuel cells to 'store' power during the reverse flow time, which didn't make sense. Fuel cells could, however, be used for supplemental/alternate power source during those periods. One way power has been 'stored' is to pump water uphill to a resevoir and releasing it and using turbines when needed. (Though maybe not room for resevoir, possibly a water tower would provide the same purpose.)
IANAL but going on recollection, if it's the same case, I believe it got through at least the appeals court. In trying to keep evidence in case I believe an attempt was made to say it was similar to listining in on a wireless phone, which I think has been premitted. I believe it was determined a search warrant was required as the ultrasound device, in essence, had the police crossing the threshold and 'entering' the premises without a warrant. (Different than a phone where the radio waves escaped the presmises and were available without crossing such a boundry.)
I'm inclined to disagree. Trying to take your IP ranged carved out of a ISP's registered IP's is like trying to take your phone number to another area code. That doesn't happen with number portability and shouldn't happen here. I think it'll just go away when the judge gets a little more data. Or, maybe he can find a way to just gracefully bow out of a hornet's nest saying his court doesn't have jurisdiction on this one.
IMHO, both of your examples don't hold water. On the social security one, the 'real' social security is based on contributions being caiculated so the contributions and interest for person 'x' are sufficient to cover the distributions of said person during retirement. There are two problems. The PROBLEM is that Congress let it become backed by 'IOU's and spent the money, instead of requiring the program to be administered under the same regs they'd require for any similar fiscally sound private program. That's the reaons one hears how it'll take 'x' workers to pay benefits for 'y' retirees, not because it isn't designed as a self sustaining program. Additionally, under the collective term 'social security' are programs that were never designed to be under that progam (the 'old age and survivors' trust which is what actually covers those montly social security checks). One example is supplemental security income which is now under the 'social security' umbrella but essentially moved there from HEW in the 60's during LBJ's 'great society'. (IMHO, pre-enron type accounting so it didn't look like as much was being spent on social welfare progams as they were actually spending.)
Additionaly, health care insurance is about as capitalist as one can get. It's a method of using a pool for establishing determined risk and underwriting criteria to - using a more modern term - hedge against health care costs. It's essentially no different than the wall street type today using derivitives or other financial instruments to hedge against losses on the street today. That's about as 'capitalistic' as one can get. Where it fails to meet the capitalism test is again the way hospitals are permitted by regulation to recover costs from areas where they're required to provide services to those without coverage. One reason you might be billed a huge amount for a simple aspirin in a hospital.
I'm not generally the conspiracy theory type. I don't think MS left security holes to force the issue, but IMHO, I think they ignored them to keep getting the next bells and whistles out for the income stream; buying or writing and bundling anything starting to get a foothold that might provide any competition from the OS down to the application. (I still get angry thinking back to the mid 90's when people kept saying MS should fix security on 9X which was a single user system and not designed with the security necessary once the internet came into play. They ignored it for years.) But I would, again IMHO, think the comment programmers should be sued plays into a intent to squash open source. Their EULA's will try and protect them from the corporate side and they'll likely indemnify any programmer working for them. On the other hand, that pretty much leaves the indivudual open source programmers to twist in the wind if they make a mistake. That's quite a switch for a group who've said for years they should be treated differently because one simply can't create a system without any bugs and therefore they shouldn't be held to warranty standards as, for example, the manufacturing sector.
The chain's corporate HQ could sue the franchise holder for damaging the corporate name through his illegal actions. Reimbursing this lady is necessary, but it is no longer enough by itself.
I would agree reimbursement is not enough. But I think Corporate should go a step further. Instead of suing, they should very publically revoke the franshise agreement. There are generally some pretty strong conditions on tarnishing the brand. If it was 'common knowledge' as the story indicates that this store didn't do checks (making it a common, recurring practice), etc, and then in this case knowingly sold stolen property (back to the original owner), I don't think they'd have any problem terminating their agreement.
The simple answer? never.
The hardest part of programming is coding for the exception, not the norm. At best, a computer to eliminate the pilot will code based on.... flight charactistics of the plane.
Thankfully, planes can't read.But pilots have certainly exceeded the envelope in emergencies, and stayed aloft. And when needed, pilots have done what developers and engineers would say just isn't possible. (Therefore, it wouldn't be coded in that computer pilot replacement.) Going inverted wouldn't be in the charactistics. But it's happened. Loss of all 4 engines in a 747 is impossible, but it's happened (and more than once). Maybe the best example? United 232. The events leading up to it would have probably just been considered impossible. Any flying as done by Capt. Haynes and crew had never even been tried in a simulator to that point.
Second reason? I don't know of any computer that can fly VFR if it has to
We see these restrictions all around us. Water drums near highway barriers. Curbs on sidewalks. Large rocks surrounding bridge supports. Pilots are just beginning to benefit from the fact that these influences can be virtual.
But if you run into a situation driving, one may HAVE to be able to drive over the curb to avoid an accident. The curb doesn't say you can't go over it, you just know you're not supposed. You would have a similar computer in your car.. not telling you what you couldn't do, just not allowing you to go over that curb to avoid, say, a head on collision? You can't restrict that option in an emergency.
TCAS is nice. Ground proximity warnings are nice. But there's one PIC, and it can't be a computer. Your comment stating The computer won't dictate what you have to do, just what you can't. is actually backwards. An autopilot doesn't tell a pilot what the pilot can't do, instead tells a pilot when IT (the computer) can't do what it's been told (i.e. disengages if it can't maintain.
If I'm on a plane and the pilot is going to squak 7700, then he damn well better have ALL options open to him.
I agree. I have clients using multple small servers, and all have subscribed to the 'redhat network' for updates. But if they see this pricing, which quadruples x86 and skyrockets any Opteron support, they'll go back to Windows, as it'll be cost effective. Several have been willing to try RedHat and have been satisfied, but still have their Windows servers gathering dust 'just in case' as some still see Linux needing to prove itself. This will be the end of RH in those sites. They'll dust off the boxes and bring back windows or minimally look for another Linux flavor. I see Redhat with a 4th quarter and possibly 1st quarter of high revenue as people go ahead and buy. But as they make their later decisions, a lot of Redhat customers are going to depart. (I had one guy call me, who said he'd just paid for his red hat network support, and that will be dropped. It's a little suspicious to sell a full year of support when they knew they had no intention of providing that support).
A judge with a clue?
A very intresting clue. One I certainly hadn't thought of. It essentially makes copyright permanent. Even after expiration of copyright, the holders of original masters end up with exclusive rights. As each new technology comes out, super-dvd, super-hot-dvd, dvd-22nd century, they create new product, and sell it. All encrypted, nobody has the right to circumvent to copy. Not quite what the founders had in mind. Only those with 'old technology' ie, vhs, etc, would have something to 'copy' and that couldn't match anything once original works were digitally remastered a first time. I think those MPAA member film vaults just increased in value. Whichever whay the judge goes, it shows there are some on the bench with some long range insight.
I got used to sauna's when staying (for a change) at a great hotel week after week years ago. I'd work out a bit at night (they had a huge gym) and after I'd messed myself up a bit, hired one of their trainers a few times to get some routines that wouldn't bother a pulled muscle. He suggested the sauna as well. (Finnish? Swede? I don't know, he came with the accent, but I don't know which one.) No cold lake with ice, but ice cold shower afterwards. (actually, alternating showers afterward but first was ice cold). The nudity wasn't a bid deal but the ice cold shower. That DID take some getting used to. But that's the one time I missed a place when the assignment was done after spending about six months there. I never had a period of time where I'd slept better (being the insomnia type usually) and also had more energy during the day.
I'm not sure I'd agree. If one goes on the assumption that someone transporting it FOR other than legit reasons, then I'd guess they would be trying to shield it and a very small leakage would be something to look for.
It's just a rough situation for all involved. I do sympathize with the guy getting strip searched multiple times, but it's understandable. The law enforcement folks have to have a rough balancing act, knowing on one hand they may have someone wanting to destroy everything and reacting to that, while on the other, being 'considerate' enough (ie, not pounced on by 30 gun drawn agents or stripped in the middle of Penn station or in 20 deg. weather outside a tunnel), if that's the word, to realize most they are going to stop are just people with some already less than pleasant circumstances in the case of iodine or radiation seed implants. Doesn't make it easy for the police.
While it'd be nice if it hadn't necessarily been made public, I am actually more comfortable. Taking those bridges and tunnels, I see the PA trucks there, ever present, but have wondered if these guys don't eventually start letting their guard down just from the aspect of a boring patrol and the repetitive 'non-event' routine. I'd hoped and kept thinking they've got something that's either scanning plates, faces, etc, and the radiation detection is all the better. Some may think it's overboard (and I'm a BIG one on preserving the individual rights), but it's non-intrusive and hell, my ezpass clocks me going through every time anyway so it's no big deal. In fact, I might not be in quite the rush getting through the tunnel. (I'm not paranoid, I've just thought ever since '93 that there isn't much in a tunnel for sightseeing purposes so going 'slow' isn't a high priority!)
The 'caps' presents a diverse perspective from the chant that ISP's have been using to get people to broadband.. they keep saying they want that 'killer application' that'll get people over to broadband. They talk in terms of video and streaming data, etc. Then on the other hand, they set up roadblocks to insure that, from the viewpoint of the 'masses' that they'll avoid that app becuase it'll cause them to go over their monthly 'allocation'. They can't have it both ways.
... this is why if we're going to deregulate and NOT have PUC established rates, then there should be NO availability of ANY protected government monopoly. The cable companies should NOT be premitted exclusive franshise rights in any area and each RBOC should be forced to split into two entities, the non-refulagted voice capacity/switches, etc, and the regulated entity that provides ONLY the last mile and CO physical space. Every competitow (including the RBOC's) would then be forced to pay the same rates for CO space and last mile 'usage' and the competiton would be real). Where's Judge Green when you need him.! OFF-SOAPBOX
It's absurd notion. The telco's have planned and set capacity on the voice networks over the years to insure that they have enough capacity for calls, utilizing studies to know what they need in a switch knowing that some percentage of people will make short calls and others till hang on the line telling their life story to every person they talk to. In the states where the PUC's still insure flat rate service, the system works and there's sufficient capacity for all.
The ATTBI's and Comcast's (now one in the same, both with the split personailty) want to change that. They, of all organizations, should be precluded from doing so since they STILL have the wired monopoly protected by government entities.
BUT... if they DO want to implement caps, then I want the 'minimum' cap implemented so I get a REFUND every month, since I'm a user who wants the speed when I'm online, but probably hit that cap once a year at most. If they're segregating and using a 'usage' table to set rates and for network planning, then as a 'minimal user', I and everyone else, should get a rebate. After all, we're the opposite of the 'excessive user', in that we're using the service less than their 'average' user and therefore should get a 'minimum user refund'.
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It was a war. They lost big time. The cease fire isn't meant to come up with terms they both agree to, it's to come up with terms the world (it was UN decision) could live with vs. continuing to pummel Iraq and terms Iraq would agree to to keep from continuing to be pummeled. Iraq agreed with them, period. The lack of a cease fire would have simply meant Iraq would have had to completely and unilaterally surrender (which would have been preferable, IMHO). I really didn't see any need for this new UN stuff, they violated the cease fire.. as far as I'm concerned that means the 'war' from '91 was still on.
That being said, I don't think Poindexter belongs anywhere NEAR the government or holding any position within it. Period. Iran Contra should have sealed his fate. And this idea only seems to continue to highlight that he doesn't understand the military serves the civilian population. That's the reason the military is permitted no operational capabilities in the U.S. except under rare rare rare circumstances. And it should stay that way.
True. Though I have a feeling plurality voting (as it currently is) is the best potential for 3rd parties to win elections within a state. But forget change anyway. Hell, in New Jersey if one person wins a primary but thinks he'll not win the general election, he can just quit and let the party bosses determine who'll run. Talk about the total loss of the electorate in THAT process. That process, taken to extremes, can literally negate the entire primary process forever. Democrat 'bosses' put up their 'liberal' to win the party base, knowing they'll quit and let the bosses select their own middle-road person to compete in the general election. Repubs 'bosses' get their 'conservative' person to run in the primary and win with the party base, knowing that person will quit and let them put up the middle road person the 'bosses' want for a general election. Might as well skip primaries.
I am inclined to agree only partially. I believe the story goes he DID initially request financial information and was REFUSED. Later, when he continued to press his case, it was then that they came up with the idea that he'd have to sign a NDA.
I believe ICAAN has a problem of many boards and management. Management (Lynn), IMHO, is running over the board. The management is to MANAGE the institution. NOT make the policy, which it seems has continually been done. As far as the financial information, it should be made PUBLIC. The only thing an institution in a position such as ICAAN should be able to retain as private should be individual salary and pay data (which should be divulvged as an aggregate) of those some 'n' levels under the senior management. Also private should be any data pertaining to legal actions in which ICAAN may be involved as such disclosure could impact any pending litigation. Other than that, they should be as transparent as glass. They have gotten away with things in the past but with the cry for transparancy and the 'enron mood', that may well be difficult in the future. However, they seem to feel they are not accountable to anyone, so it'll probably take an act of Congress (literally) to get anything done.