You should care because it treats literally every vehicle the camera passes as a suspected criminal. If you aren't doing anything wrong then you've got nothing to hide^w^w^w^w^w you should be outraged at being treaded like you are. This technology would be akin to searching every vehicle on the road simply because they're on the road and I, for one, like my Fourth Amendment very much, thank you.
They are not searching your vehicle, they are just scanning the plates. If you are not wanted (Or atleast your car is not), you could put whatever in your car and as long as you did not get pulled over, you would be good. When your vehicles plates are scanned, your car is not being searched.
I don't think people are being treated like criminals in this case. The whole point of a license plate is that your car can be traced without pulling you over and without you ever knowing.
This whole thing makes me nervous. I really don't see any problem with the cops scanning license plates on the freeway/highway/streets (This is public property). However, I do see a problem with scanning plates of people who's cars are parked on private property. Pulling a ladies car from her drive way is pretty fucked up. In all honesty, I would have to see the rules on what they scan, what records they use and how long they retain the data on scanning. However, I don't want private companies having access to this data. It's not their business to know where I travel and when.
Yep, a neat idea, but really, just Gun Control with Encryption. How do I know the Government do not have the encryption keys and some how they don't disable my bullets when they want? There are much better methods of gun safety that are not this complex.
Here are the only ways I am ever going to use this, if the police and the bad guys do it first. As soon as the police and criminals sign up for Gun Control, I will.
Agreed. I have always thought that someone could do pretty well selling hard to find items food items. There are probably a bunch of people who love food or food items that you just can't get where they currently live. I know there are a bunch of companies that do such on Amazon.com.
For example, I listen to Howard Stern and one his side kicks, Artie Lange, likes "Devil Dogs". I have never seen these things and it turns out you really can't get them on the West Coast. However, a quick search and I found a couple of places that will ship them out to me.
Verisign is the choice since they are the most well known.
Simple, if you customers can't shop on your site because there is some problem with the SSL, they will simply go somewhere else. They won't care about Verisign being evil, they won't care how doing business with them is wrong, they won't care what excuses you could give them. They simply will go somewhere else.
You are in the business of selling, not in the business of being moral and trying to explain it to someone else who may not agree with you. Most non-computer geeks types could give a fuck less on why you think Verisign is evil.
I don't get the anti-Gold Farmer stance of many players and Blizzard. If I got seriously into any MMORPG, I would buy the local currency. The last thing I want to do after working all day doing borning work is to come home and end up playing a borning game where I have to spend a 100+ hours to get a half way decent character that can do somewhat fun quests.
MMORPG should just sell the gold directly to the players and set up in game to real world money exchanges and let the players decide if they want to play the game that way. They could set up realms where it is not allowed or is limited. If someone wants to spend all day farming items and selling them to rich Americans, then all the power to him. I would rather send the guy a couple of hundred dollars than piss away a 100 hours of play time building up a character.
HD radio does not matter because the content still sucks. 18 minutes of commercials during 60 minutes of play is not good, no matter how good it sounds.
Satellite is still better because I can get it anywhere in the US, Canada and Northern Mexico (Assuming you are in the US), you never have to hunt for "good" stations while on the road, there are no or very few commercials (Howard Stern is 3 or 6 minutes per hour, if that) and the content is MUCH MUCH better.
The problem is that normal radio or HD radio is pretty much broadcasting crap. No matter how good it sounds, it is still crap.
Can Chinese Gold Farmers sell gold on US Servers? If not, there is the reason why they play on American Servers. So they can Gold Farm and sell on American servers and get paid much more than if they Gold Farm on Chinese servers.
Okay, so what's wrong if Microsoft does not want to sell Windows to the Korean market? If I make a product, I don't have to sell it to you.
I think this is a great chance for Linux on the desktop to get a toe hold. All those complaining sound like the people who wish for something, then complain when they get it.
As a person who was a contractor at HP, I am glad to see these HP employee's get laid off. Never in my life have I dealt with such a group of arrogant and hostile to contractors group of people in my whole life. It was a company of "we're better than you, you God Damn contractors". We ran just about every support division, but those fuckers never said thank you or even acted nice toward us. It was a company of Us vs Those Contractors. They were always busting our balls and threating to have us fired or laid off. I never had a vacation because we did not have the same benefits as them but did the same work.
I would like to say to all you HP employees, karma is a bitch.
Can you join a Nazi party in your Country? Many European Countries you can not, in the US, you can. Can you buy a copy Mein Kamf? Many Countries you can not, in the US, you can. Can you buy anything that is printed? In the United Stated, bomb making books are printed and sold, legally. Are your basic rights outlined in your constition? Freedom of Speech, Right to Assemble, Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Religion are the basic foundations of this Country are protect by our Bill of Rights.
Europe and other countries can bash us for many reasons and in some areas are more free than we are, but in the Big Picture, we are more free than anyone else.
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I just had to respond to this since it was the most retarted thing I have ever read.
Slavery is wrong, period. These kids are being sold in to slavery where there are beaten, abused, sexually exploited, and when they get too big to ride the camels, they are sold off to some other low life who does worse things to them. You think the men who buy these kids setup college funds for these poor kids? Nope, they sell them off when they have no use for them, and if no one will buy them, they kick them out onto the streets or they kill them.
Now, that your island is plain fucking lame. If I had a kid and I had a choice between starving with my kid and selling them off to be abused, exploited, and/or raped, I would pick starving to death with them. Yes, that sucks too, but I would die with my kids, in my arms, knowing how much I love them, rather than have them turned into 14 year prositute who will die of AIDS at 15.
All I have to add is, if the other billion people in your country think that way, you should call up the Queen of England and ask her and the British to come back and run your country, again.
The first time someone connects to send mail, you issue a 4xx error message. If they reconnection in the next 5 minutes, you issue another 4xx error message. If they connect a second time after 5 minutes, then you take the mail. I bet that fixes 90% of the spam from hijacked machine.
There can not be any/. comments in that document because I did not see "First Post!", "In Soviet Russia...", anything relating to hot grits or Natalie Portman.
As a fan who listens to him every morning, TiVo's his E! show and goes to his Las Vegas Show every year to see him live; I welcome Stern moving to a form where no one can or will censor him. Let's face it, he is being targeted because he is Stern. The Stern Wannabe's get away with a lot more than he has ever tried, especially Latino radio (They do stuff that Stern would get multimillion dollar fines for).
All I know is, come X-Max of 2005, this kid is asking for a Sirius radio player.
I worked at Amazon in 2001 when Amazon switched from Solaris/Tru64UNIX to HP Netservers running Redhat Linux, if Amazon hadn't done this the company probably would have gone out of business as the IT costs of the proprietary UNIX systems were too high. Were there problems with this transition? Well yes there were, we used to joke that the website for HP's technical support for RedHat on the Netservers was www.google.com, because God knows that HP was clueless about Linux at the time. But as time passed we killed off a lot of the bugs that the system had and ended up with a very reliable infrastructure.
Yep, I also worked at Amazon.com during the Dec Alpha to Linux migration and I have to totally agree. But you have to remember that the reason Linux worked so well for Amazon.com was that the DEC systems were a nightmare. The NFS bugs and the constant rebooting of the dev servers drove everyone crazy. There was really only one direction to go, and that was up.
I know that when we switched to Linux (Still have my T-Shirt with Tux sitting in a Amazon.com shopping cart) that it was a nightmare for sometime. Redhat was of no use and neither was HP (They were such clueless morons). In fact, the only reason that Linux worked at Amazon.com and still does is the pure technical talent at Amazon.com. Corddry, myself the other members of the "Linux Swat Team" could solve any Linux related problem in no time. The best part was that we were given huge amount of freedom to fix problems. When the Redhat kernel would crash ever other day, I simply put a stock kernel with a few patches on a couple of machines in a production enviroment and increased the uptime from from 48 hours to 7 to 10 days (There were HIGH use, HIGH end servers. They did not sit idle but supported a lot users at one time, and we were using those fucked up kernels in the 2.4.x line. You know, where they changed the memory manager in mid-line).
If you read between the lines of this article, what it is saying is this; "We have no skilled Linux people, so our Linux enviroment sucks." A place like Amazon.com can make Linux work because the people who work there are so good.
From Harris.com The system offers unprecedented voice quality, touch-screen technology, dynamic reconfiguration capabilities to meet changing needs, and an operational availability of 0.9999999.
Less than a one percent uptime!?!?! No wonder the thing crashed, it suppose to do that, ALL THE TIME! Bill Gates must be proud.
I don't see any mention of her being his girlfriend. The candid photo slyly inserted into the mix implies that this is so, but never says it...
Nice of him to mention her name in the text as well. The picture by itself might have been too subtle.
Your right, but if you look around his site, you can find this pic of her in a bikini top on their trip to Mexico. I am leaning that she is his girlfriend.
No, if someone claims he has an 800 number and he doesn't, then he's lying. He should have been more accurate. Moore did not say anything that wasn't true, so he's not being deceptive. He could have given the 877 number, but he has no moral obligation to.
Actually, he does. 877 numbers are toll free. 800 are also too free, but since 800 was in use before 877, it is common to use the term "800 number" meaning toll free. Both are one in the same.
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You should care because it treats literally every vehicle the camera passes as a suspected criminal. If you aren't doing anything wrong then you've got nothing to hide^w^w^w^w^w you should be outraged at being treaded like you are. This technology would be akin to searching every vehicle on the road simply because they're on the road and I, for one, like my Fourth Amendment very much, thank you.
They are not searching your vehicle, they are just scanning the plates. If you are not wanted (Or atleast your car is not), you could put whatever in your car and as long as you did not get pulled over, you would be good. When your vehicles plates are scanned, your car is not being searched.
I don't think people are being treated like criminals in this case. The whole point of a license plate is that your car can be traced without pulling you over and without you ever knowing.
This whole thing makes me nervous. I really don't see any problem with the cops scanning license plates on the freeway/highway/streets (This is public property). However, I do see a problem with scanning plates of people who's cars are parked on private property. Pulling a ladies car from her drive way is pretty fucked up.
In all honesty, I would have to see the rules on what they scan, what records they use and how long they retain the data on scanning. However, I don't want private companies having access to this data. It's not their business to know where I travel and when.
Yep, a neat idea, but really, just Gun Control with Encryption. How do I know the Government do not have the encryption keys and some how they don't disable my bullets when they want? There are much better methods of gun safety that are not this complex.
Here are the only ways I am ever going to use this, if the police and the bad guys do it first. As soon as the police and criminals sign up for Gun Control, I will.
Agreed. I have always thought that someone could do pretty well selling hard to find items food items. There are probably a bunch of people who love food or food items that you just can't get where they currently live. I know there are a bunch of companies that do such on Amazon.com.
For example, I listen to Howard Stern and one his side kicks, Artie Lange, likes "Devil Dogs". I have never seen these things and it turns out you really can't get them on the West Coast. However, a quick search and I found a couple of places that will ship them out to me.
Verisign is the choice since they are the most well known.
Simple, if you customers can't shop on your site because there is some problem with the SSL, they will simply go somewhere else. They won't care about Verisign being evil, they won't care how doing business with them is wrong, they won't care what excuses you could give them. They simply will go somewhere else.
You are in the business of selling, not in the business of being moral and trying to explain it to someone else who may not agree with you. Most non-computer geeks types could give a fuck less on why you think Verisign is evil.
I don't get the anti-Gold Farmer stance of many players and Blizzard. If I got seriously into any MMORPG, I would buy the local currency. The last thing I want to do after working all day doing borning work is to come home and end up playing a borning game where I have to spend a 100+ hours to get a half way decent character that can do somewhat fun quests.
MMORPG should just sell the gold directly to the players and set up in game to real world money exchanges and let the players decide if they want to play the game that way. They could set up realms where it is not allowed or is limited. If someone wants to spend all day farming items and selling them to rich Americans, then all the power to him. I would rather send the guy a couple of hundred dollars than piss away a 100 hours of play time building up a character.
3 or 6 minutes of commericals per hour, if that (That's worst case). It is really less than that and the guy has to take a break.
I don't think much of it to be honest and I listen every day.
It's also $13 per month not $15.
HD radio does not matter because the content still sucks. 18 minutes of commercials during 60 minutes of play is not good, no matter how good it sounds.
Satellite is still better because I can get it anywhere in the US, Canada and Northern Mexico (Assuming you are in the US), you never have to hunt for "good" stations while on the road, there are no or very few commercials (Howard Stern is 3 or 6 minutes per hour, if that) and the content is MUCH MUCH better.
The problem is that normal radio or HD radio is pretty much broadcasting crap. No matter how good it sounds, it is still crap.
Yawn...saw it at Burningman two years ago.
Can someone fill me in on what Gold Farming is?
Can Chinese Gold Farmers sell gold on US Servers? If not, there is the reason why they play on American Servers. So they can Gold Farm and sell on American servers and get paid much more than if they Gold Farm on Chinese servers.
Okay, so what's wrong if Microsoft does not want to sell Windows to the Korean market? If I make a product, I don't have to sell it to you.
I think this is a great chance for Linux on the desktop to get a toe hold. All those complaining sound like the people who wish for something, then complain when they get it.
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As a person who was a contractor at HP, I am glad to see these HP employee's get laid off. Never in my life have I dealt with such a group of arrogant and hostile to contractors group of people in my whole life. It was a company of "we're better than you, you God Damn contractors". We ran just about every support division, but those fuckers never said thank you or even acted nice toward us. It was a company of Us vs Those Contractors. They were always busting our balls and threating to have us fired or laid off. I never had a vacation because we did not have the same benefits as them but did the same work.
I would like to say to all you HP employees, karma is a bitch.
Simple test to see which country is more free.
Can you join a Nazi party in your Country? Many European Countries you can not, in the US, you can.
Can you buy a copy Mein Kamf? Many Countries you can not, in the US, you can.
Can you buy anything that is printed? In the United Stated, bomb making books are printed and sold, legally.
Are your basic rights outlined in your constition? Freedom of Speech, Right to Assemble, Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Religion are the basic foundations of this Country are protect by our Bill of Rights.
Europe and other countries can bash us for many reasons and in some areas are more free than we are, but in the Big Picture, we are more free than anyone else.
I just had to respond to this since it was the most retarted thing I have ever read.
Slavery is wrong, period. These kids are being sold in to slavery where there are beaten, abused, sexually exploited, and when they get too big to ride the camels, they are sold off to some other low life who does worse things to them. You think the men who buy these kids setup college funds for these poor kids? Nope, they sell them off when they have no use for them, and if no one will buy them, they kick them out onto the streets or they kill them.
Now, that your island is plain fucking lame. If I had a kid and I had a choice between starving with my kid and selling them off to be abused, exploited, and/or raped, I would pick starving to death with them. Yes, that sucks too, but I would die with my kids, in my arms, knowing how much I love them, rather than have them turned into 14 year prositute who will die of AIDS at 15.
All I have to add is, if the other billion people in your country think that way, you should call up the Queen of England and ask her and the British to come back and run your country, again.
I totally agree with the submitter!
And, Governor, that sucking noise you hear, are Internet jobs running out of the state!
The first time someone connects to send mail, you issue a 4xx error message. If they reconnection in the next 5 minutes, you issue another 4xx error message.
If they connect a second time after 5 minutes, then you take the mail. I bet that fixes 90% of the spam from hijacked machine.
There can not be any /. comments in that document because I did not see "First Post!", "In Soviet Russia...", anything relating to hot grits or Natalie Portman.
As a fan who listens to him every morning, TiVo's his E! show and goes to his Las Vegas Show every year to see him live; I welcome Stern moving to a form where no one can or will censor him. Let's face it, he is being targeted because he is Stern. The Stern Wannabe's get away with a lot more than he has ever tried, especially Latino radio (They do stuff that Stern would get multimillion dollar fines for).
All I know is, come X-Max of 2005, this kid is asking for a Sirius radio player.
Atleast they are not researching the Omega Particle!
Now, I can sleep better at night!
I worked at Amazon in 2001 when Amazon switched from Solaris/Tru64UNIX to HP Netservers running Redhat Linux, if Amazon hadn't done this the company probably would have gone out of business as the IT costs of the proprietary UNIX systems were too high. Were there problems with this transition? Well yes there were, we used to joke that the website for HP's technical support for RedHat on the Netservers was www.google.com, because God knows that HP was clueless about Linux at the time. But as time passed we killed off a lot of the bugs that the system had and ended up with a very reliable infrastructure.
Yep, I also worked at Amazon.com during the Dec Alpha to Linux migration and I have to totally agree. But you have to remember that the reason Linux worked so well for Amazon.com was that the DEC systems were a nightmare. The NFS bugs and the constant rebooting of the dev servers drove everyone crazy. There was really only one direction to go, and that was up.
I know that when we switched to Linux (Still have my T-Shirt with Tux sitting in a Amazon.com shopping cart) that it was a nightmare for sometime. Redhat was of no use and neither was HP (They were such clueless morons). In fact, the only reason that Linux worked at Amazon.com and still does is the pure technical talent at Amazon.com. Corddry, myself the other members of the "Linux Swat Team" could solve any Linux related problem in no time. The best part was that we were given huge amount of freedom to fix problems. When the Redhat kernel would crash ever other day, I simply put a stock kernel with a few patches on a couple of machines in a production enviroment and increased the uptime from from 48 hours to 7 to 10 days (There were HIGH use, HIGH end servers. They did not sit idle but supported a lot users at one time, and we were using those fucked up kernels in the 2.4.x line. You know, where they changed the memory manager in mid-line).
If you read between the lines of this article, what it is saying is this; "We have no skilled Linux people, so our Linux enviroment sucks." A place like Amazon.com can make Linux work because the people who work there are so good.
PS> I worked there from 2000 to 2002.
From Harris.com
The system offers unprecedented voice quality, touch-screen technology, dynamic reconfiguration capabilities to meet changing needs, and an operational availability of 0.9999999.
Less than a one percent uptime!?!?! No wonder the thing crashed, it suppose to do that, ALL THE TIME! Bill Gates must be proud.
I don't see any mention of her being his girlfriend. The candid photo slyly inserted into the mix implies that this is so, but never says it...
Nice of him to mention her name in the text as well. The picture by itself might have been too subtle.
Your right, but if you look around his site, you can find this pic of her in a bikini top on their trip to Mexico. I am leaning that she is his girlfriend.
No, if someone claims he has an 800 number and he doesn't, then he's lying. He should have been more accurate. Moore did not say anything that wasn't true, so he's not being deceptive. He could have given the 877 number, but he has no moral obligation to.
Actually, he does. 877 numbers are toll free. 800 are also too free, but since 800 was in use before 877, it is common to use the term "800 number" meaning toll free. Both are one in the same.