Computation doesn't have anything to do with it. When a person enters the country, the U.S. scans their passport and takes a photograph. When the person leaves the country, they scan the passport again and up on their screen pops the picture taken when that person entered. If the person leaving doesn't look like the one who came in, then there's a problem.
The 9/11 hijackers were known by the CIA to be terrorists or at least to have attended meetings with terrorists who were under CIA surveilance. Presumably, if a photograph and thumbprint database were in place, FBI or CIA searchers (whether banks of humans looking at computer screens or electronic scanning AI machines) could look for known terrorists even if they entered with fake documentation.
The most important thing a database of photographs and thumbprints could do is accurately match those entering the country with those leaving the country.
As for people entering the country illegally and committing a terrorst act, there haven't been enough terrorist acts on U.S. soil for that to be statistically significant.
The Japanese have built up quite a military, mainly to defend themselves against the potential threats of North Korea and China. Their military (especially their navy and air force) is quite high-tech and well-funded. Because of their large military strength, the international community (especially the U.S.) wants them to help out with expensive international peacekeeping missions such as those sanctioned by the U.N. Unfortunately Japan's constitution (which the U.S. helped draft in something like 7 days after WWII) prohibits them from participating in any non-defensive foreign military action. There is quite a lot of discussion in Japan about changing the constitution and there was also quite a lot of commotion (both excitement and protest) at Japan sending a handful of troops to help out in Iraq after the war was declared over.
Constitutional ammendments have been overturned parts of the constitution or ammendments before. Examples: Slavery, age 18 for voting, women voting, prohibition of alcohol. So even if it passes now, it could easily be overturned later.
Personally I don't think the government should get itself involved with marriage at all, even for straight people. The biggest case for it is when someone wants to have a foreign national as a spouse and receive permanent resident status from the government. Everything else isn't the government's business and can be settled by private arrangments (wills, non-government health care, hospital visitations, power of attorney, etc).
You're not too quick, it seems. The company (Dell in this case) can offer the product for $279 if they offer it with a rebate. They know that they'll only pay out maybe 50% of the rebates. If they just gave everyone the discount, they know that they could only offer the product at $279 + $50 (i.e. 50% of the $100 rebate). So they would have to advertise it as being $329. If some other company offers a similar product at $279 (after $100 mail-in rebate), more people will go to buy the "$279" one and they'll lose sales.
That's the secret. Rebates are a trick of statistics.
Regarding number 3, it sounds to me like the drive will still read all the data from the disc, but that data will be encrypted. That is all I meant by my post. Asking the drive to do decryption may speed things up a bit, but it is not necessary.
The information in the drive is actually just a number that says what region the drive is supposed to be. The drive will still read all of the information off of the disc. A software player is supposed to read the variable from the drive and refuse to play an out-of-region disc. All licensed players are required to do this. However, it is true that Linux/BSD/etc players that are totally unlicensed won't care what this variable says.
I've actually used a locked region 1 dvd-rom drive to rip region 2 (Japan) DVD's with no problems. DVD Decryptor doesn't care at all either.
It is an ARM processor, like the ones Palm5 devices use. The i.MXL processors are ARM architecture devices. Interestingly, the Sony Clie TJ27 and TJ37 devices use the same 200MHz i.MXL processor. See this page.
Order the black one. It's basically a thinkpad laptop keyboard in an external case. It has connectors for both keyboard and mouse (the finger-stick thing and two buttons).
It's expensive though, $99.
Personally, though, I prefer either my Happy Hacking Keyboard (small, original, non-Lite) or my Sun Type 6 USB keyboard.
Bush and crew, if you want re-election, look here: Barratry is bad for business! Tell Ashcroft to stop worrying about abortion doctors and start protecting American jobs and investors!
Unfortunately, it's not against the law what SCO is doing.
Aw, the bank teller was probably just trying to make conversation. They probably get bored standing there taking people's deposits and withdrawls all day. Anyway, it's not like he or she was a government official, although I think they are required to report certain transactions to the IRS, such as large deposits of cash.
3. Make enough money on Product so that they can stay in businness and produce product "V2" that actually does have features X, Y, and Z (or maybe just X and Y).
You ship the product when marketing decides it needs to be shipped, not when it's done. You make all the required features exist so that the bullet points are covered in the specifications, even if they don't work right all the time. The fixes come later, in the order of the number of complalints.
It sucks, but that's the way it is. Your product is either first, or it needs to be 10 times better than the other guy's product.
dozen people walking out of a computer shop at 5AM and load computers into their cars.
Yeah, that would look a little suspicious.
But anyway, they got a call and they investigated it. If the next day, the store owner calls the police and says, "hey we had $50,000 worth of computer stuff stolen", they've got a suspect.
My original point is that if the police are investigating a documented report of suspicious activity, then they have a right to go to the scene and question people. On the other hand, if they're just hanging out on the street stopping people for no reason (e.g., fishing), then that's not only a waste of their time, but it's also unreasonable search. On another hand though, if a cop is just driving around and he sees a crime being committed (say someone smoking pot in public), they can stop the person and make an arrest or issue a citation.
The police are far more aware of the laws than the average citizen because if a policeman screws up, the jailer, district attorney, and judge will be upset at him for wasting everyone's time.
They didn't arrest him. They didn't force him to go back inside. They just asked who he was and they made a judgement that he wasn't the one they were looking for. It is suspicious to go out at night in an area where there are crimes being committed.
Say someone phones in a stabbing. Is it wrong for the police to stop a man standing around on the street soaked in blood holding a knife and ask him for ID?
The arcade operator can set the difficulty level based on the level of people who play the game. It was probably set to easy. But even if it's set to difficult, playing against the computer is no challenge compared to playing against a moderately skilled human.
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Computation doesn't have anything to do with it. When a person enters the country, the U.S. scans their passport and takes a photograph. When the person leaves the country, they scan the passport again and up on their screen pops the picture taken when that person entered. If the person leaving doesn't look like the one who came in, then there's a problem.
The 9/11 hijackers were known by the CIA to be terrorists or at least to have attended meetings with terrorists who were under CIA surveilance. Presumably, if a photograph and thumbprint database were in place, FBI or CIA searchers (whether banks of humans looking at computer screens or electronic scanning AI machines) could look for known terrorists even if they entered with fake documentation.
The most important thing a database of photographs and thumbprints could do is accurately match those entering the country with those leaving the country.
As for people entering the country illegally and committing a terrorst act, there haven't been enough terrorist acts on U.S. soil for that to be statistically significant.
The Japanese have built up quite a military, mainly to defend themselves against the potential threats of North Korea and China. Their military (especially their navy and air force) is quite high-tech and well-funded. Because of their large military strength, the international community (especially the U.S.) wants them to help out with expensive international peacekeeping missions such as those sanctioned by the U.N. Unfortunately Japan's constitution (which the U.S. helped draft in something like 7 days after WWII) prohibits them from participating in any non-defensive foreign military action. There is quite a lot of discussion in Japan about changing the constitution and there was also quite a lot of commotion (both excitement and protest) at Japan sending a handful of troops to help out in Iraq after the war was declared over.
Constitutional ammendments have been overturned parts of the constitution or ammendments before. Examples: Slavery, age 18 for voting, women voting, prohibition of alcohol. So even if it passes now, it could easily be overturned later.
Personally I don't think the government should get itself involved with marriage at all, even for straight people. The biggest case for it is when someone wants to have a foreign national as a spouse and receive permanent resident status from the government. Everything else isn't the government's business and can be settled by private arrangments (wills, non-government health care, hospital visitations, power of attorney, etc).
You're not too quick, it seems. The company (Dell in this case) can offer the product for $279 if they offer it with a rebate. They know that they'll only pay out maybe 50% of the rebates. If they just gave everyone the discount, they know that they could only offer the product at $279 + $50 (i.e. 50% of the $100 rebate). So they would have to advertise it as being $329. If some other company offers a similar product at $279 (after $100 mail-in rebate), more people will go to buy the "$279" one and they'll lose sales.
That's the secret. Rebates are a trick of statistics.
Regarding number 3, it sounds to me like the drive will still read all the data from the disc, but that data will be encrypted. That is all I meant by my post. Asking the drive to do decryption may speed things up a bit, but it is not necessary.
The information in the drive is actually just a number that says what region the drive is supposed to be. The drive will still read all of the information off of the disc. A software player is supposed to read the variable from the drive and refuse to play an out-of-region disc. All licensed players are required to do this. However, it is true that Linux/BSD/etc players that are totally unlicensed won't care what this variable says.
I've actually used a locked region 1 dvd-rom drive to rip region 2 (Japan) DVD's with no problems. DVD Decryptor doesn't care at all either.
It is an ARM processor, like the ones Palm5 devices use. The i.MXL processors are ARM architecture devices. Interestingly, the Sony Clie TJ27 and TJ37 devices use the same 200MHz i.MXL processor. See this page.
Anyway, stop spreading wrong information.
This happens all the time with porn sites.
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1. Steal someone's porn content.
2. Set up another web site
3. Profit.
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Order the black one. It's basically a thinkpad laptop keyboard in an external case. It has connectors for both keyboard and mouse (the finger-stick thing and two buttons).
It's expensive though, $99.
Personally, though, I prefer either my Happy Hacking Keyboard (small, original, non-Lite) or my Sun Type 6 USB keyboard.
"Nomatter when I buy it, I can guarantee I'm getting soaked. Nevermind."
Unless you bought it in 1991-1994 (or there abouts).
Bush and crew, if you want re-election, look here: Barratry is bad for business! Tell Ashcroft to stop worrying about abortion doctors and start protecting American jobs and investors!
Unfortunately, it's not against the law what SCO is doing.
Aw, the bank teller was probably just trying to make conversation. They probably get bored standing there taking people's deposits and withdrawls all day. Anyway, it's not like he or she was a government official, although I think they are required to report certain transactions to the IRS, such as large deposits of cash.
It is possible that SCO offered an unlimited license to EV1servers.net for some nominal amount of money, perhaps $1.
We don't really know what the deal was. Of course, even if they paid only $1 for a license, it was more than what that license is really worth.
Today building such a bug is still a difficult task, but it's getting easier.
Hopefully defending against an epidemic set forth by the release of such a bug will become easier too.
3. Make enough money on Product so that they can stay in businness and produce product "V2" that actually does have features X, Y, and Z (or maybe just X and Y).
Hopefully that staves off 4 for a while.
Worked for TiVo, sort of.
You ship the product when marketing decides it needs to be shipped, not when it's done. You make all the required features exist so that the bullet points are covered in the specifications, even if they don't work right all the time. The fixes come later, in the order of the number of complalints.
It sucks, but that's the way it is. Your product is either first, or it needs to be 10 times better than the other guy's product.
I don't think Ars Technica counts as mainstream media.
Why not watch the fansubs AND buy the DVD's when they come out?
No, it is the "Business Time Machine" that they wanted to use to go back in time to undo their poor business decisions.
Oh yeah, well I've got a 4 digit user ID (8276) over there. Nya!
dozen people walking out of a computer shop at 5AM and load computers into their cars.
Yeah, that would look a little suspicious.
But anyway, they got a call and they investigated it. If the next day, the store owner calls the police and says, "hey we had $50,000 worth of computer stuff stolen", they've got a suspect.
My original point is that if the police are investigating a documented report of suspicious activity, then they have a right to go to the scene and question people. On the other hand, if they're just hanging out on the street stopping people for no reason (e.g., fishing), then that's not only a waste of their time, but it's also unreasonable search. On another hand though, if a cop is just driving around and he sees a crime being committed (say someone smoking pot in public), they can stop the person and make an arrest or issue a citation.
The police are far more aware of the laws than the average citizen because if a policeman screws up, the jailer, district attorney, and judge will be upset at him for wasting everyone's time.
They didn't arrest him. They didn't force him to go back inside. They just asked who he was and they made a judgement that he wasn't the one they were looking for. It is suspicious to go out at night in an area where there are crimes being committed.
Say someone phones in a stabbing. Is it wrong for the police to stop a man standing around on the street soaked in blood holding a knife and ask him for ID?
Blackdown's JRE is just the Sun JRE ported to x86/Linux with a few extra optimizations. It is NOT a "from scratch" implementation.
The arcade operator can set the difficulty level based on the level of people who play the game. It was probably set to easy. But even if it's set to difficult, playing against the computer is no challenge compared to playing against a moderately skilled human.