people don't want the taxes and don't want to spend the money start selling off 'unused' roads. Let the people who complain that the roads are in such bad shape actually pay for them themselves. I think it would be kind of neat to have the state just handle the inter- and intra state system. Let the counties/cities/homeowners determine what is next important. Heck, the rail companies already do this!
Maybe it is time for telco serive or at least the lines to be government regulated-sort of like the roads. Since EVERYONE uses highways as a metaphor, why not let the government/states/local governments create the telco highway landscape? Then the phone companies can complete on service and price vs who gets to tear up your lawn.
and recall, it is just a theory. That is why the fact$ that the u$ government u$e$ effect every deci$ion. $ince the phone companie$ are trying to make life better for you, the lea$t you could do i$ $pend $ome of you money on them. Time to take another look at neighborhood wiring...
So...what if someone covers your plate with something and you don't notice? Heck, I had my plates stolen from my car in a police parking lot. I didn't notice till a nice officer coming into the lot said I had to get plates to drive. I got out and saw my front plate was gone!
Yup. Allow groups to watch the watchers. Run stats on who is being watched, where things are being watched. I guess I don't mind the government doing something like this as long as it is 'open' - which will never happen with who we have in the White House and as Att. General. I mean, if the government won't let us know who they are looking at at libraries...
would be a coverage map of US of each of the companies. Numbers mean little, it is coverage that matters. Anyone know of anything like it? Wanna create it?
There are 4 people in our house and 4 PCs (not counting the laptop). Most of my techie friends also have a 1-1 correspondance. Wait, my sister lives alone and has one.... my niece lives with 3 other folks and they have 3.... hmmm I think I suspect a pattern. Computers are addictive and they are NOT really a spectator sport. My girls got tired of watching each other playing on our PC so we got them thier own. They 'parallel play'.
Wonder how I can increase the pickup range of these things. I have a DVD screen in my van that has RCA jacks available. This would be neat to hook up the receiver and drive around. I know what I will be doing tonight!!!
Many years ago when I was a mere IS lacky at a credit union an audit came up which FINALLY recognized that credit unions had IS departments. The CU software we used stored all of the user passwords in a file on system which could be retrieved and seen (mainly by us IS folks - but then again, we had access to the HW). One of the auditors asked for a printout of all the passwords to make sure people were following the password procedure (ie no "password", names, birthdays, etc). I told him no. He called his boss, the BIG Auditor. HE told me to give it. I again said NO. HE called the CIO/CFO of the CU to make me give it to them. I did - then I sent out a company wide e-mail announcing what I did and told people to IMMEDIATELY change thier password. That lit a fire under the auditors butts. I was called into a meeting with the auditors and the top execs at the CU. We had a nice chat about security. In the end, the Auditors didn't get another printout. Oh, and when the auditors left for the day I took the password printout off of the desk of the one who requested it and put it through the shredder.
first is starts out reading the paper, then it can do facial recognition WITHOUT the user knowing! Though there would be good uses for this (ie ATMs/Pharmacys/etc) there are downsides too. Just another small step for Big Brother.
I hope to see more authors here! Too bad PKD is dead. I guess I will have to live with "What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick" which is a great read!
It works until on of your e-mailers leaves your messages on a message that they forward. I had a relatively quiet e-mail account. My grandmother-in-law e-mailed everyone a message. That message went out NOT cleaned up (ie all the old addresses left in). Seems the spammers look everywhere!
Since most search engines now do images, will they be required to block them? I guess the next step is to have the phone company block calls to porn distributors and the post office to stop delivers for porn, and the highway department to stop drivers from using the road to deliver porn, and FCC to stop porn transmission over radio/ham.... and so on. I hate it when the government goes after the MODE of transport vs the villians. How do these people stay in office?
There are some people that I have had this discussion with and once you start extrapolating into other areas that they didn't think of they back off thier original arguement. Hasn't anyone talked/e-mail/wrote thier representatives explaining this crap to them? ARGH!
Drop the internet sales tax idea completely. Want a package shipped to use? Delivery tax. Road Tax. What to connect to the net? line tax. Connection tax. Why not have all these 'toll roads'? It would make the people who are using the products/services pay for things.
I've stated it before and I will again - it is boring! I got to use one on my Disney cruise. I would rather walk or ride a bike. They are dangerous as well. If I wanted to stand all day I'd work a counter job. The segway takes away ANY activity that a person might get on thier job. I would rather pay $500 for a gas powered scooter than $5k for a moving floor.
I think they should be banned! I was on a Disney Cruise. They had opportunites for passengers to ride one for a mere 15 minutes - after about 1 minute of instruction. It took place on the sports deck, an enclosed area, so you figure you could not get into too much trouble. Right. After a few minutes of getting the hang of it I started pushing it. I got it going as fast as I could in the short space then cranked a turn. I was flipped off and the Segway kept going! It finally 'fell' and stopped over 20' away from me! The next guy after me wiped out 3 times doing some turns and such. I would NOT want to get hit bu one of those things. They should NOT be allowed on the sideway.
All he did was take what was available for a person of limited sight and make for one with normal sight. A co-worker of mine has a son who has limited vision and uses a tool called Zoom Text to do exactly this.
All we had to do to get 'approval' was do proof-of-concepts. Now that HP Omniback (aka DataProtector) supports Liunx, SAP runs on Linux, and we can do 95% of our job on the desktop using Linux we are past the sneaking in. Linux is still a pain to configure due to the many flavors. I also wish tools/applications would install easier. We'd don't have DLL hell as much as we used too - now we have gcc hell!
I can not recall the last music CD I bought. I have in turn bought a DVD or two a month. The crap they are putting out as music makes me not even listen to the radio anymore (except National Public Radio). I don't know now if I will ever go back. In fact, may daughter would rather spend her allowance on games (PC/gameboy) than music. So much for $$$ from our family!
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Doesn't seem to work in all cases. What about where the car owner gets a ticket for running a red light case some camera took a photo of it.
people don't want the taxes and don't want to spend the money start selling off 'unused' roads. Let the people who complain that the roads are in such bad shape actually pay for them themselves. I think it would be kind of neat to have the state just handle the inter- and intra state system. Let the counties/cities/homeowners determine what is next important. Heck, the rail companies already do this!
Maybe it is time for telco serive or at least the lines to be government regulated-sort of like the roads. Since EVERYONE uses highways as a metaphor, why not let the government/states/local governments create the telco highway landscape? Then the phone companies can complete on service and price vs who gets to tear up your lawn.
and recall, it is just a theory. That is why the fact$ that the u$ government u$e$ effect every deci$ion. $ince the phone companie$ are trying to make life better for you, the lea$t you could do i$ $pend $ome of you money on them. Time to take another look at neighborhood wiring...
So...what if someone covers your plate with something and you don't notice? Heck, I had my plates stolen from my car in a police parking lot. I didn't notice till a nice officer coming into the lot said I had to get plates to drive. I got out and saw my front plate was gone!
Yup. Allow groups to watch the watchers. Run stats on who is being watched, where things are being watched. I guess I don't mind the government doing something like this as long as it is 'open' - which will never happen with who we have in the White House and as Att. General. I mean, if the government won't let us know who they are looking at at libraries...
would be a coverage map of US of each of the companies. Numbers mean little, it is coverage that matters. Anyone know of anything like it? Wanna create it?
How do you find what you do surviving the likes of DCMA/Patriot Act II/etc???
There are 4 people in our house and 4 PCs (not counting the laptop). Most of my techie friends also have a 1-1 correspondance. Wait, my sister lives alone and has one.... my niece lives with 3 other folks and they have 3.... hmmm I think I suspect a pattern. Computers are addictive and they are NOT really a spectator sport. My girls got tired of watching each other playing on our PC so we got them thier own. They 'parallel play'.
Wonder how I can increase the pickup range of these things. I have a DVD screen in my van that has RCA jacks available. This would be neat to hook up the receiver and drive around. I know what I will be doing tonight!!!
I'd buy them then fire everyone less the coders... heck, I'd fire the lot of them. Then open the SCO source as GPL!
Many years ago when I was a mere IS lacky at a credit union an audit came up which FINALLY recognized that credit unions had IS departments. The CU software we used stored all of the user passwords in a file on system which could be retrieved and seen (mainly by us IS folks - but then again, we had access to the HW). One of the auditors asked for a printout of all the passwords to make sure people were following the password procedure (ie no "password", names, birthdays, etc). I told him no. He called his boss, the BIG Auditor. HE told me to give it. I again said NO. HE called the CIO/CFO of the CU to make me give it to them. I did - then I sent out a company wide e-mail announcing what I did and told people to IMMEDIATELY change thier password. That lit a fire under the auditors butts. I was called into a meeting with the auditors and the top execs at the CU. We had a nice chat about security. In the end, the Auditors didn't get another printout. Oh, and when the auditors left for the day I took the password printout off of the desk of the one who requested it and put it through the shredder.
first is starts out reading the paper, then it can do facial recognition WITHOUT the user knowing! Though there would be good uses for this (ie ATMs/Pharmacys/etc) there are downsides too. Just another small step for Big Brother.
They did. They upgraded to XP and all the other requirements to make it work.
2003-03-11 15:43:20 EU experts believe Microsoft in violation (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
*sigh*
I hope to see more authors here! Too bad PKD is dead. I guess I will have to live with "What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick" which is a great read!
It works until on of your e-mailers leaves your messages on a message that they forward. I had a relatively quiet e-mail account. My grandmother-in-law e-mailed everyone a message. That message went out NOT cleaned up (ie all the old addresses left in). Seems the spammers look everywhere!
So how can I help my ISP run cable to my house? They HAVE to be allowed to run thier own fiber or it isn't fair!
Since most search engines now do images, will they be required to block them? I guess the next step is to have the phone company block calls to porn distributors and the post office to stop delivers for porn, and the highway department to stop drivers from using the road to deliver porn, and FCC to stop porn transmission over radio/ham.... and so on. I hate it when the government goes after the MODE of transport vs the villians. How do these people stay in office?
There are some people that I have had this discussion with and once you start extrapolating into other areas that they didn't think of they back off thier original arguement. Hasn't anyone talked/e-mail/wrote thier representatives explaining this crap to them? ARGH!
Drop the internet sales tax idea completely. Want a package shipped to use? Delivery tax. Road Tax. What to connect to the net? line tax. Connection tax. Why not have all these 'toll roads'? It would make the people who are using the products/services pay for things.
I've stated it before and I will again - it is boring! I got to use one on my Disney cruise. I would rather walk or ride a bike. They are dangerous as well. If I wanted to stand all day I'd work a counter job. The segway takes away ANY activity that a person might get on thier job. I would rather pay $500 for a gas powered scooter than $5k for a moving floor.
I think they should be banned! I was on a Disney Cruise. They had opportunites for passengers to ride one for a mere 15 minutes - after about 1 minute of instruction. It took place on the sports deck, an enclosed area, so you figure you could not get into too much trouble. Right. After a few minutes of getting the hang of it I started pushing it. I got it going as fast as I could in the short space then cranked a turn. I was flipped off and the Segway kept going! It finally 'fell' and stopped over 20' away from me! The next guy after me wiped out 3 times doing some turns and such. I would NOT want to get hit bu one of those things. They should NOT be allowed on the sideway.
All he did was take what was available for a person of limited sight and make for one with normal sight. A co-worker of mine has a son who has limited vision and uses a tool called Zoom Text to do exactly this.
All we had to do to get 'approval' was do proof-of-concepts. Now that HP Omniback (aka DataProtector) supports Liunx, SAP runs on Linux, and we can do 95% of our job on the desktop using Linux we are past the sneaking in. Linux is still a pain to configure due to the many flavors. I also wish tools/applications would install easier. We'd don't have DLL hell as much as we used too - now we have gcc hell!
I can not recall the last music CD I bought. I have in turn bought a DVD or two a month. The crap they are putting out as music makes me not even listen to the radio anymore (except National Public Radio). I don't know now if I will ever go back. In fact, may daughter would rather spend her allowance on games (PC/gameboy) than music. So much for $$$ from our family!