>a user could have typed the message in themselves
They set up a template so that, in the stress of the moment, the person sending the message wouldn't forget to include some important detail (e.g., location of the emergency, what to do, etc.)
I'm going with [citation needed] on this. The US constitution explicitly forbids this. This isn't even in an amendment - it's in the original document:
Clause 3: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
To be fair, seizing of laptops only applies when the traveler is crossing the border. SCOTUS has generally applied the 4th amendment very loosely when it comes to border crossings - just about anything is reasonable.
True, and AC posted links to the Apple store which has the various adapters. The VGA adapter seems to have pretty strict limits on what it can show (basically, only non-protected content), so GP's worry about closing the analog hole has some basis in reality (though it is, of course, overstated). The comments about the other analog adapters don't seem to mention these limits, which is odd. The HDMI adapter can apparently show anything.
The Yahoo article and the ITWorld article conflict. Yahoo/AP says Comcast can't throttle traffic, but ITWorld says Comcast can throttle traffic but not block sites entirely. Another poster found the DoJ press release (from Jan 18!) at http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2011/266149.htm which says:
In accordance with recently established Open Internet requirements, Comcast is prohibited from unreasonably discriminating in the transmission of an [online video destributor]'s lawful network traffic to a Comcast broadband customer. Comcast must also maintain the high-speed Internet service it offers to its customers by continuing to offer download speeds of at least 12 megabits per second in markets where it has upgraded its broadband network. Additionally, Comcast is required to give other firms' content equal treatment under any of its broadband offerings that involve caps, tiers, metering for consumption or other usage-based pricing;
What is 'reasonable' will, of course, be up for interpretation, but the prohibition is better than nothing.
Don't know about charging more, but yes on the 'deliver at lower priority' part: FTFA: "The DoJ did not require and Comcast did not promise to not throttle or slow traffic from Netflix -- or a business customer's videoconferencing provider -- if Comcast thought it needed to do so to keep its network running to its satisfaction."
But then TFA goes into how too much traffic will overwhelm the network and harm small businesses, in some unspecified way.
Will there be a recall or devaluation of the older-series notes?
There will be no recall or devaluation of the older-series notes, which will be removed from circulation as they wear out. Older worn notes will be replaced with the new notes.
Which is not nearly the same as an expiration date.
Amazon is going to have a problem on their hands if they stop offering this service to Prime customers a few months from now. I can't believe that Amazon would entice people with a service, have them fork over cash, then say, "we have altered the deal..." Yet it appears that's exactly what Amazon is considering. I just read the Prime Terms and Conditions, which include this gem, "We may remove access to Prime instant videos as a Prime benefit at any time." Somehow, this little tidbit didn't make it to the letter from Bezos on the Amazon home page. The letter mentions how this service is a reason to sign up for Prime.
If I were a class action lawyer, I'd start working on the paperwork for the lawsuit now, so that it will be ready if/when Amazon decides to pull the plug. I'd sign up for a Prime Membership so that I could be the lead plaintiff in the suit instead of wasting time trying to find somebody else.
I think there's a pretty low correlation between the per-diem for a juror and whether that juror is willing to sell his vote. I don't know what the going rate is for a juror's vote, but I would think that it dwarfs the per-diem. I can't imagine anybody thinking, "I was going to accept this offer of $20000 cash to vote not guilty, but now that the per-diem is $100 instead of the old $50, I've changed my mind."
Of course, the OP makes it sound like the price of the vote may be as low as the cost of WiFi internet access.
Do you really think that the company that accepts your order at Amazon.com is the same that fulfills it?
Sometimes not, but when an item's description says "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com", then yes.
Amazon "Seattle" is able to close the Texas facility because they fully own and control it. Amazon has a physical presence in this state, like it or not. If this facility was owned by a truly independent entity, then Amazon HQ would not be able to move it.
If Amazon wins this case, then I'd bet you'll see lots of businesses pull the same trick - there's no reason brick-and-mortar stores couldn't do it, too. The store owner could just set up a website where a customer can order items from the 'sales office' in another state and pick them up at the local, "independently operated we don't sell the stuff we just fulfill the order" store.
Even absent OPEC, the Saudi Arabian leaders also have a vested interest in not admitting production has peaked. What leader / dictator wants to go before his country and say, "Sorry, but the party is over. Hard times ahead. Please don't revolt!"
It's been a while since I've made or received a collect call, but IIRC the person who received the call was given the option to decline the call and the charge, correct? So if they couldn't afford to take the call, why didn't they refuse it?
I second the doubting of the "I didn't know the university was fake" argument:
Investigations by US authorities found that while students were admitted to residential and on-line courses of the university and on paper lived in California, in reality they worked illegally in various parts of the country as far as Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
"Starting in April, one of student assistants Anji Reddy, who worked in TVU administrative office, teamed with another student Ram Krista Karra, who also has a consultant company, conducting a large cheating scheme by asking students to make tuition payment into Ram Krista Karra's personal account in exchange for student I-20 and CPT approval. TVU has fired these two individuals," the email said.
So we've got a bunch of people who are supposed to be attending university in California but who are actually working in other states (the visa only allows on-campus employment of less than 20 hours per week) and are paying into someone's personal account. Either these students are the most naive, trusting bunch of people on Earth, or some (or more likely, all) of them were in on the scam.
As a general rule, cars have been getting more and more reliable every year. They don't make them like they used to, and that's a good thing. Are there still preventable defects in cars? Sure, but they're getting fewer and farther between.
I agree that the tie was not worthy of mention, but to be fair, the ZDNet writer didn't call the tie an outrage. The outrages were in point 8, but the tie was point 10.
FWIW, since Chrome on Windows re-uses some (maybe all?) of IE's networking layer, you can use Chrome instead of IE to reproduce this. There is a caveat - you need the "Update Root Certificates" program which was included in Windows XP SP2.
First, aside from opening the airport, their government hasn't had a chance to react. They'll probably bomb the heck out of Chechnya again, just to make a show of it. To your point, though, that's pretty much SOP anyway, bomb or no bomb. Second, the Russians are running out of civil liberties to take away. As the case of Khordovsky has shown, if they can't find a charge against you, they'll make one up. It's not as if freedom of the press (where press==television) is something that Russia encourages. Try starting a anti-Putin television station in Russia and see how long you live.
That sounds a little dodgy. APC introduced its first UPS in 1984 (from http://www.apc.com/corporate/history.cfm ). I think data centers were kept at lower temperatures well before 1984. I think it's more likely that APC specified a given volt-amp performance at 65 degrees because that's the temperature data centers were usually kept at anyway.
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>a user could have typed the message in themselves
They set up a template so that, in the stress of the moment, the person sending the message wouldn't forget to include some important detail (e.g., location of the emergency, what to do, etc.)
Did you see where the summary said, "voted 15-8 along party lines"? How does that support your thesis that every politician comes from the same party?
I think this is what you're looking for. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1831452&cid=33967886
To be fair, seizing of laptops only applies when the traveler is crossing the border. SCOTUS has generally applied the 4th amendment very loosely when it comes to border crossings - just about anything is reasonable.
True, and AC posted links to the Apple store which has the various adapters. The VGA adapter seems to have pretty strict limits on what it can show (basically, only non-protected content), so GP's worry about closing the analog hole has some basis in reality (though it is, of course, overstated). The comments about the other analog adapters don't seem to mention these limits, which is odd. The HDMI adapter can apparently show anything.
In accordance with recently established Open Internet requirements, Comcast is prohibited from unreasonably discriminating in the transmission of an [online video destributor]'s lawful network traffic to a Comcast broadband customer. Comcast must also maintain the high-speed Internet service it offers to its customers by continuing to offer download speeds of at least 12 megabits per second in markets where it has upgraded its broadband network. Additionally, Comcast is required to give other firms' content equal treatment under any of its broadband offerings that involve caps, tiers, metering for consumption or other usage-based pricing;
What is 'reasonable' will, of course, be up for interpretation, but the prohibition is better than nothing.
Don't know about charging more, but yes on the 'deliver at lower priority' part: FTFA: "The DoJ did not require and Comcast did not promise to not throttle or slow traffic from Netflix -- or a business customer's videoconferencing provider -- if Comcast thought it needed to do so to keep its network running to its satisfaction."
But then TFA goes into how too much traffic will overwhelm the network and harm small businesses, in some unspecified way.
New money already has an expiration date.
Wrong. From moneyfactory.gov:
Which is not nearly the same as an expiration date.
Because the F-111s are no longer flying, for one. US retired them 14 years ago, says the Wikipedia article.
Amazon is going to have a problem on their hands if they stop offering this service to Prime customers a few months from now. I can't believe that Amazon would entice people with a service, have them fork over cash, then say, "we have altered the deal..." Yet it appears that's exactly what Amazon is considering. I just read the Prime Terms and Conditions, which include this gem, "We may remove access to Prime instant videos as a Prime benefit at any time." Somehow, this little tidbit didn't make it to the letter from Bezos on the Amazon home page. The letter mentions how this service is a reason to sign up for Prime.
If I were a class action lawyer, I'd start working on the paperwork for the lawsuit now, so that it will be ready if/when Amazon decides to pull the plug. I'd sign up for a Prime Membership so that I could be the lead plaintiff in the suit instead of wasting time trying to find somebody else.
I think there's a pretty low correlation between the per-diem for a juror and whether that juror is willing to sell his vote. I don't know what the going rate is for a juror's vote, but I would think that it dwarfs the per-diem. I can't imagine anybody thinking, "I was going to accept this offer of $20000 cash to vote not guilty, but now that the per-diem is $100 instead of the old $50, I've changed my mind."
Of course, the OP makes it sound like the price of the vote may be as low as the cost of WiFi internet access.
Sometimes not, but when an item's description says "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com", then yes.
Amazon "Seattle" is able to close the Texas facility because they fully own and control it. Amazon has a physical presence in this state, like it or not. If this facility was owned by a truly independent entity, then Amazon HQ would not be able to move it.
If Amazon wins this case, then I'd bet you'll see lots of businesses pull the same trick - there's no reason brick-and-mortar stores couldn't do it, too. The store owner could just set up a website where a customer can order items from the 'sales office' in another state and pick them up at the local, "independently operated we don't sell the stuff we just fulfill the order" store.
Even absent OPEC, the Saudi Arabian leaders also have a vested interest in not admitting production has peaked. What leader / dictator wants to go before his country and say, "Sorry, but the party is over. Hard times ahead. Please don't revolt!"
The hedge fund in question is actually in Stamford, not Greenwich (they share a border).
I read about this in a Craiglist post ages ago. (Seriously, the "Best of Craigslist" list is hilarious, but some language is NSFW).
It's been a while since I've made or received a collect call, but IIRC the person who received the call was given the option to decline the call and the charge, correct? So if they couldn't afford to take the call, why didn't they refuse it?
Consider also a related article which gives the university's side of the story
So we've got a bunch of people who are supposed to be attending university in California but who are actually working in other states (the visa only allows on-campus employment of less than 20 hours per week) and are paying into someone's personal account. Either these students are the most naive, trusting bunch of people on Earth, or some (or more likely, all) of them were in on the scam.
As a general rule, cars have been getting more and more reliable every year. They don't make them like they used to, and that's a good thing. Are there still preventable defects in cars? Sure, but they're getting fewer and farther between.
I agree that the tie was not worthy of mention, but to be fair, the ZDNet writer didn't call the tie an outrage. The outrages were in point 8, but the tie was point 10.
FWIW, since Chrome on Windows re-uses some (maybe all?) of IE's networking layer, you can use Chrome instead of IE to reproduce this. There is a caveat - you need the "Update Root Certificates" program which was included in Windows XP SP2.
This page has a nice writeup of the problem and mentions that Vista or higher behave differently (not really better, just differently).
First, aside from opening the airport, their government hasn't had a chance to react. They'll probably bomb the heck out of Chechnya again, just to make a show of it. To your point, though, that's pretty much SOP anyway, bomb or no bomb. Second, the Russians are running out of civil liberties to take away. As the case of Khordovsky has shown, if they can't find a charge against you, they'll make one up. It's not as if freedom of the press (where press==television) is something that Russia encourages. Try starting a anti-Putin television station in Russia and see how long you live.
I'm not so sure about that. I've seen articles in respected publications that dolphins intelligence has been consistently overestimated.
That sounds a little dodgy. APC introduced its first UPS in 1984 (from http://www.apc.com/corporate/history.cfm ). I think data centers were kept at lower temperatures well before 1984. I think it's more likely that APC specified a given volt-amp performance at 65 degrees because that's the temperature data centers were usually kept at anyway.
That's a different exploit. The new one at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2490606.mspx affects the graphics rendering engine, the one you linked to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2488013.mspx refers to CSS.