In a very real sense, all men of fighting age should be required to own an automatic assault rifle, and be expected to drill and practice with it.
The Second Amendment doesn't say "firearms", let alone "the most technoloically available firearms". It says "arms"; Congress can ban guns and say "everyone is permitted to carry a club" and that would not violate the Second Amendment. I don't think the Founders were thinking of assault rifles when the Bill of Rights was written.
If they were intellectually consistant, they would support concealed-carry laws and such as well -- equally "unpopular" and equally a "civil liberty". Instead, they support things that get them on TV and agree with their agenda. The ACLU is a Hollywood leftist organization, period.
Even if the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own guns, I don't see how that equates to carrying a concealed weapon.
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Just when you thought the dumbest person in the known universe had alreday come to/., this guy shows up.
Dmitry didn't break any laws. The DMCA wasn't broken until the software was sold in the US, an activity that Dmitry wasn't involved in. He came to the US not to "make a big deal about it" nor because he thought he could get away with anything. His company sent him to DEFCON, the same way if your company thinks that sending you to a conference will strengthen their position, away you will go.
Keep in mind that if any of the e-Book programmers go to Russia, the Russian authorities could now arrest them because it is illegal to not allow the consumer to make a personal back up.
And, lastly, Dmitry was not being arrogant: he was doing his job. What would you say if he had instead been working for his Government breaking the encryption algorithms of other nations? Would you say he is "a hacker and a loser" then?
The way it was reported (here) was nearly as bad though - it neatly encapsulated the story into a short little sound bite so that everybody who reads the headlines sees it and assumes they know the whole story.
Of course, anyone who reads/. regularly should know that the headline is always an exageration of the lined-to article. This is also true for print and broadcast media: you make a catchy headline/soundbite to grab attention. It's nothing new.
Of course, it has been shown that drug companies great over exagerate the costs of research, usually includin other unrelated costs when reporting the figures to the government.
It does not belong to the message board, it belongs to a third party who wishes to remain anonymous. You could try to sue the owner of the message board to release the name of the person who made the postin but, as this story shows, that isn't neccessarily going to work. And a supoena does you no good if the board owner does what one poster mentioned and deletes his logs.
So it really is in posistion 242424 if you count the 3 and the decimal point, and don't count from 0. (yeah, crazy idea, isn't it?)
Counting the 3 would place it position 242423, no one in their right mind would akchilly count the decimal point as a position. It's only a placeholder to show where the ones and tenths positions are.
When the zero-tolerance policy has been enforced to its fullest extent students will be sitting in empty room with their hands tied behind their backs.
In my senior year, someone got expelled for having a keychain-sized utility knife that he used at his after school job. The knife was attached to his key chain, which he had removed from his back pocket and placed on the library table in front of him because sitting on a bunch of keys is uncomfortable. The librarian saw the utility knife while walking past the desk and the kid was expelled. This was someone who had about four months before he was to be graduated.
Absolutely! I have only tried this and Bearshare; and although Bearshare has a preferable interface, WinMX actually works everytime I start it. Bearshare fails to connect to the server everytme I start the program except the first
I only wish I could get it to remember which files I was downloading if I exit and reload the program in the middle of a download. As it is, the transfer window is cleared when I start WinMX.
According to CERT, Code Red resides entirely in memory, thus the best you could do as far as detection by harddrive scanning is to grep the server logs for the indication string. Howerver, CERT says that presence of the string is only proof of an attempted infection, not infection per se.
I am very interested in knowing how much press this is getting in "foreign" countries. Especially over in Russia. Are there any/. readers who are in Russia or get Russian TV/newspapers?
Coke's formula is a trade secret. Not patented or copyrighted or anything. And violating copyright is not a jailable offense.
And the reason it isn't patented is because if it was, then it would eventually enter the public domain. As another poster on your level said: formulae are not subject to copyright; they can, however, be patented.
And the situation was NOT illegal - this man was NOT subject to the american laws he's accused of breaking, our laws end at our borders.
That's what I keep trying to tell people when I describe the situation to them: I get blank stares. Of course, the FBI as now set a precedent where if the programmers for Adobe e-book technology go to Russia, they could be arrested because it's illegal to sell software and not allow the end-user to make at least one backup.
I'm sure NBC/CBS cares that you don't know which channel you're watching. Us TV Stations spend a lot of time and effort giving themselves a sort of brand image with "Fall Lineups", "Tuesday Action Nights" or whatever. They also spend a lot of time and effort scheduling their lineup so that when they catch viewers they can keep them.
Just as long as they don't pull a Howard Beal(guy from Network, believe that was his name) to pull in ratings I'm fine.
Of course they probably care even more about the fact that viewers won't be watching adverts, for obvious reasons.
If they're smart, they would continue broadcasting ads as they have and charge advertisers more due to "the increase consumer demand for network television". From that last sentence in the article, I would say that advertisers are showing their usual level of intelligence.
I think the 'one channel reporting the news' concept is a little dangerous- you think a single news channel would really be more consise, clear, and unbiased? Imagine if you could only go to CNN for all forms of news; no slashdot, BBC, etc.
Indeed, a single news source will result in more biased news, with lower quality reporting.
Perhaps if you can't take the responsibility to educate yourself about what your child can get into on the internet and how to monitor/restrict what can be accessed, then you shouldn't let him/her have that aceess. There is no requirement for children to be connected to the internet, you should either take the responsibility or not allow it your house, don't force adults to sacrifice their rights so that you don't have be bothered with it.
I'm not a big MS fan either, but I, like you, use Windows. I use it because it's what I have to use at school/work and because at home I am an avid gamer. I would like to say that since upgrading to WindowsME (which I didn't buy, I copied it from a borrowed disk) I have had the usual number of occurences of the Blue Screen of Death yet I have only had it occur once that I was not able to recover without a reboot.
Yeah, but you can keep only so many backcopies before you have to throw away the old ones to make room for the new ones. And the less popular the periodical the more likely it is that it will have less room so that one with more readers will go back further. Byte moves aside for People and Science makes room for Rolling Stone. The local newspapers are only kept for a year, but we have shelves of the Wall Street Journal.
And what about physical damage? You can make off-site backups if the periodicals are kept on disk, but hardcopies have no such protection from fire or flood or any other distaster that can befall the average public library. Then you'd have to send patrons who want articles from lost materials to another library, or place an order for it.
I'm not saying we shouldn't continue stocking periodicals, just that a library is not the perfect archival system. Just look at the Library of Alexandria.
Did you even read the press release? Roxio refers to it has a patent case. Gracenote had obtained a patent for CDDB from the USPTO. According to Roxio, this patent was obtained illegally and then used to enforce a monopoly and to impose "supracompetitive prices" on customers who had been assured that the service would be free.
People are saying driving and talking on a cell phone is dangerous. How about driving and having the morning paper or a sales report being beamed onto your eye
Better than the idiots I see on Rt 128 witht the Boston Herald spread out over their steering wheel while they have a coffee in one hand and a bagel in the other.
Uhm, yes, the public does. Let's list some obvious examples: 1) State schools are cheaper to in-state students 2) State-funded scholarships and grants 3) Federally-funded scholarships, grants, and deferments.
1) Not by much.
2) $125 for a semester that costs $2500.
3) If you're lucky; the best most people get from the Feds is a load that pays most of the tuition, you're still paying a good portion upfront.
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Since the entity referenced by either of these methods is indistinct, the use of plural is entirely appropriate.
The entity referenced is "the instructor", thus there are a distinct number of entities and use of the plural is inappropriate.
Simply by using "he/she" you ensure that the group referenced includes at least two people (apologies to the minority to which he/she is a valid singular label).
Wrong, "he/she" translates to "he or she" not "he and she" therefore it always refers to a singular entity.
Since the entity referenced by either of these methods is indistinct, the use of plural is entirely appropriate.
Simply by using "he/she" you ensure that the group referenced includes at least two people (apologies to the minority to which he/she is a valid singular label).
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The Second Amendment doesn't say "firearms", let alone "the most technoloically available firearms". It says "arms"; Congress can ban guns and say "everyone is permitted to carry a club" and that would not violate the Second Amendment. I don't think the Founders were thinking of assault rifles when the Bill of Rights was written.
If they were intellectually consistant, they would support concealed-carry laws and such as well -- equally "unpopular" and equally a "civil liberty". Instead, they support things that get them on TV and agree with their agenda. The ACLU is a Hollywood leftist organization, period.
Even if the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own guns, I don't see how that equates to carrying a concealed weapon.
Dmitry didn't break any laws. The DMCA wasn't broken until the software was sold in the US, an activity that Dmitry wasn't involved in. He came to the US not to "make a big deal about it" nor because he thought he could get away with anything. His company sent him to DEFCON, the same way if your company thinks that sending you to a conference will strengthen their position, away you will go.
Keep in mind that if any of the e-Book programmers go to Russia, the Russian authorities could now arrest them because it is illegal to not allow the consumer to make a personal back up.
And, lastly, Dmitry was not being arrogant: he was doing his job. What would you say if he had instead been working for his Government breaking the encryption algorithms of other nations? Would you say he is "a hacker and a loser" then?
Of course, anyone who reads /. regularly should know that the headline is always an exageration of the lined-to article. This is also true for print and broadcast media: you make a catchy headline/soundbite to grab attention. It's nothing new.
Of course, it has been shown that drug companies great over exagerate the costs of research, usually includin other unrelated costs when reporting the figures to the government.
Counting the 3 would place it position 242423, no one in their right mind would akchilly count the decimal point as a position. It's only a placeholder to show where the ones and tenths positions are.
42424242 at position 242424.
Akchilly, according to the pi search page, it appears at position 242422, placing it two positions ahead of where you claim.
Yeah, I'm just crazy enough to double check.
They're most likely the ones doing the luring.
I only wish I could get it to remember which files I was downloading if I exit and reload the program in the middle of a download. As it is, the transfer window is cleared when I start WinMX.
And the reason it isn't patented is because if it was, then it would eventually enter the public domain. As another poster on your level said: formulae are not subject to copyright; they can, however, be patented.
And the situation was NOT illegal - this man was NOT subject to the american laws he's accused of breaking, our laws end at our borders.
That's what I keep trying to tell people when I describe the situation to them: I get blank stares. Of course, the FBI as now set a precedent where if the programmers for Adobe e-book technology go to Russia, they could be arrested because it's illegal to sell software and not allow the end-user to make at least one backup.
Just as long as they don't pull a Howard Beal(guy from Network, believe that was his name) to pull in ratings I'm fine.
Of course they probably care even more about the fact that viewers won't be watching adverts, for obvious reasons.
If they're smart, they would continue broadcasting ads as they have and charge advertisers more due to "the increase consumer demand for network television". From that last sentence in the article, I would say that advertisers are showing their usual level of intelligence.
I think the 'one channel reporting the news' concept is a little dangerous- you think a single news channel would really be more consise, clear, and unbiased? Imagine if you could only go to CNN for all forms of news; no slashdot, BBC, etc.
Indeed, a single news source will result in more biased news, with lower quality reporting.
And what about physical damage? You can make off-site backups if the periodicals are kept on disk, but hardcopies have no such protection from fire or flood or any other distaster that can befall the average public library. Then you'd have to send patrons who want articles from lost materials to another library, or place an order for it.
I'm not saying we shouldn't continue stocking periodicals, just that a library is not the perfect archival system. Just look at the Library of Alexandria.
Better than the idiots I see on Rt 128 witht the Boston Herald spread out over their steering wheel while they have a coffee in one hand and a bagel in the other.
1) Not by much.
2) $125 for a semester that costs $2500.
3) If you're lucky; the best most people get from the Feds is a load that pays most of the tuition, you're still paying a good portion upfront.
Since the entity referenced by either of these methods is indistinct, the use of plural is entirely appropriate.
The entity referenced is "the instructor", thus there are a distinct number of entities and use of the plural is inappropriate.
Simply by using "he/she" you ensure that the group referenced includes at least two people (apologies to the minority to which he/she is a valid singular label).
Wrong, "he/she" translates to "he or she" not "he and she" therefore it always refers to a singular entity.
Since the entity referenced by either of these methods is indistinct, the use of plural is entirely appropriate. Simply by using "he/she" you ensure that the group referenced includes at least two people (apologies to the minority to which he/she is a valid singular label).