Yeah... Department of Homeland Security basically just means FBI. (okay, DHS is a more than just FBI, but the FBI would have had jurisdiction in this case pre 9/11.)
Well, that's close, but it's imbedding a still image into video (and similar to the first down line drawn on in football) which is slightly easier than embedding video into video.
Software like this could also be used for a false alibi. "But your honor, I was in New York at the time, and here is security footage from The Ritz to proove it."
These laws actually help parents/guardians make those decisions. If the guardian wants a kid to see a particular movie which is say, Rated R, then that parent has to go out and get it for the kid. Otherwise the kid could just take their allowance/paper route money whatever and buy it for themselves. Sort of like underage drinking laws, its acceptable as long as the parent(guardian) physically hands the drink to the minor. And the kid doesn't drive with ANY alcohol in their system.
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Lets see, the first thing she noticed was your unmatched socks. She eventually married you. That really doesn't sound like a convincing argument for guys making sure that their socks are matched. Assuming that they want a girl to eventually marry them.
in these two clouds is supposed to be exactly the missing half of all ordinary matter in the universe
Not exactly. They were saying that if the distribution of matter that these clouds represent is consistant throughout the universe, then all of this type of matter will make up the missing half of normal matter.
And as for points 1 and 2, a chaotic system does allow for local accumulations of enthalpy (order) as long as the state of the entire system tends towards entropy (chaos.) The order shown by organic life on earth is more than offset by the entropy from the sun's reaction which powers life.
I've always viewed the "...recommends WIndows..." as just a sort of advertising. I don't know if Dell/whoever gets paid to put that up or a discount on volume liscensing, but I'm pretty sure that Microsoft doesn't say that they just won't deal with the OEMs if they don't put that up. Now that... that would be annoying.
I don't see it to be much different than a beer company giving neon signs to a bar for display (In this case the beer company is paying for the sign, and the bar gets something to put on their wall.)
God you're right. I really really really hope they never make a book version of Waking Life. Say what you will about the movie, but a book would just be trite and boring. I don't see how one could work in the dreamlike nature provided by the animation style.
Ahh, but this is a radio show converted to a book converted to a movie. How many failed radio shows -> movie do you know of? Hmm... maybe a TV show adaptation would be more appropriate here to maintain the serial nature. Or maybe I should just go watch Red Dwarf.
I'm just wondering... does this $249 indicate actual per unit incremental costs, or does it also include some fixed costs (research, costs of running factory, etc?)
If the price is purely the incremental cost, then you would indeed be screwing Microsoft buy buying an Xbox. However if the price includes a portion of the fixed costs, then buying an Xbox is simply helping them to recoup their investment.
Not necesarilly... a time machine might be more along the lines of a temporal teleporter. I.E. once a time machine is built, you could send someone forward or backwards through time to another time machine, but not to a period of time before the time machine is invented in the first place. Therefore once the device is fist built, we would have access to all future knowledge, but not necesarilly past knowledge.
And while you're at it, why not actually educate the youth and make sure that they have the proper skills to be "productive members of society" and don't land in jail in the first place.
And I mean more than just reading, wrting and arithmetic. Bring back some of the tech and trade skills to school. Shop: Auto, wood, metal. "home ec" can lead to a succesfull career as a chef, baker, etc. Of course, offer programming classes and other high tech fields should be offered at some level.
Offer classes which may interest the large chunk of people who probably aren't interested in the standard curriculum. Show them that there are careers out there that are important, rewarding and, well, legal.
Yes, some students will still fall through the cracks. But I believe that in the long run, proper education will go a lot further in preventing crime than punishment ever will.
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Well, according to the article and other sources ALTRIKS is doing some illegal things... such as harvesting email records from whois queries and installing malware on people's computers without their express permission. If the president authorized these actions, that would indeed make him a criminal.
Now and if this is all wrong and all of the sources (including Spamhaus and ALTRIKS OWN WEBSITE) that list ALTRIKS illegal operations is just part of a massive campaign by the defendant to defame ALTRIKS, then I'm fine with the defendant being penalized. Then he would also be able to get busted for hacking into ALTRIKS own web site.
Then please, if you have recieved unsolicited e-mail, please click HERE and enter any information pertaining to these unsolicited a-mails. Be sure to have your credit card, social security number and mother's maiden name handy.
The wording in the article was slightly misleading.
The activities of Atriks... sending commercial email, meet the requirements of the CAN-spam Act."
What this line meant is that the activities of Atriks meet the requirements of being spam. If you look a little later in the article:
Anti-spam foundation SpamHaus has listed Atriks on its register of known spam operations (ROKSO), which states the company has violated the act by using misleading subject lines.
And...
SpamHaus also says it has had complaints that software is being installed by Atriks on users' computers without their permission - which is a felony.
Anti-spam foundation SpamHaus has listed Atriks on its register of known spam operations (ROKSO), which states the company has violated the act by using misleading subject lines.
SpamHaus also says it has had complaints that software is being installed by Atriks on users' computers without their permission - which is a felony.
These spammers were not within their rights according to CAN SPAM. That aside, I hope that some legitimate bulk email house (If such a thing exists) never gets the opportunity to try something like this in court.
That grievance should be a reasonable one. I should not be able to sue someone for saying that I am wearing a blue sweater when, indeed, I am wearing a blue sweater.
Maybe the judge took the case so he can award the defendant legal fees in the counter suit I hope he is taking up. Yeah... or maybe this Jay guy should sue the spammers for defamation, claiming that falsely claiming the he is defaming them is hurting his public image.
I haven't actually seen the specifics (except for what's in the article) but these guys are listed as known spammers, using underhanded and illegal tactics to get their emails through. They do not appear to be a legitimate advertising firm.
I also believe that an autobahn style speed limit setup would be extremely efficient. Something like right lane, 40-50MPH so people can safely merge and for those who do not want to travel all that fast. Middle lane, 60MPH or whatever a good cruising speed is. Left lane, AT YOUR OWN RISK. For passing, or those who really want to go fast. Then in each particular lane, the speed limit is enforced AT the limit, not 10MPH above. In the left lane, failure to pull over to a slower lane to let someone by who is going faster than you carries a big fine in addition to being an annoying and dangerous practice.
The problem is that the US has sued and sued so many times that the government no longer has the ability to allow people to do things which have the image of being dangerous.
I'm not quite sure about the sweatshop type model, but I have read about a few places that have a lot of people just clicking on ads for a few hours a day. I guess it's similar to the "hit the monkey and win" type ad click racket, except people actually get paid a small amount for a lot more clicks.
Or it could even be something like free internet access if you just click on banners for X amount of time per day. I think the reason that they don't simulate it with software is that actual people clicking on the banners makes it a lot harder to track than some script.
This looks similar in some ways to pyramid scams. Someone loses out, except this time it might be the actual advertiser which _GETS_ the fraudulant clicks in the first place. I'm sure that the advertisers would eventually catch on and yank this out from under people's noses. Maybe even sue those who run the clickfraud for... well... fraud.
Thats not proven and prolly not true as modern people tend reproduce less often as they are more successful
From an ecological point of view, this actually makes sense. Sometimes fitness is not about having the most kids. Evolutionary fitness is defined something like the number of your offspring who can grow up and have offspring. Often times simply having lots of children does not ensure that they will be able to grow up and have offspring of their own.
And then there are pressures that are on an entire population rather than the individual. Breeding too fast can make to size of the population grow at such a rate that not everybody can be taken care of. So various techniques are used to ensure that energy is not wasted on producing offspring t hat die before they can reproduce. Instead energy is focused on properly rearing a small number of children who have a much higher likelyhood of having children of their own. E.G. having enough money to send all of your children to college so they can (hopefully) get a good education and then a stable job which will attract a longtime mate (what we call spouse) may in fact make you more "evolutionarilly fit" within the constraints of modern society than popping out so many children that you can hardly feed them, much less put in the time to make sure they get a proper education and then attract a fit mate.
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Yeah... Department of Homeland Security basically just means FBI. (okay, DHS is a more than just FBI, but the FBI would have had jurisdiction in this case pre 9/11.)
Well, that's close, but it's imbedding a still image into video (and similar to the first down line drawn on in football) which is slightly easier than embedding video into video.
Software like this could also be used for a false alibi. "But your honor, I was in New York at the time, and here is security footage from The Ritz to proove it."
Unless you're already creepy, like Michael Jackson.
These laws actually help parents/guardians make those decisions. If the guardian wants a kid to see a particular movie which is say, Rated R, then that parent has to go out and get it for the kid. Otherwise the kid could just take their allowance/paper route money whatever and buy it for themselves. Sort of like underage drinking laws, its acceptable as long as the parent(guardian) physically hands the drink to the minor. And the kid doesn't drive with ANY alcohol in their system.
Actually, god wasn't in the pledge of allegiance untill the 50's with Senator Joe McCarthy.
Lets see, the first thing she noticed was your unmatched socks. She eventually married you. That really doesn't sound like a convincing argument for guys making sure that their socks are matched. Assuming that they want a girl to eventually marry them.
in these two clouds is supposed to be exactly the missing half of all ordinary matter in the universe
Not exactly. They were saying that if the distribution of matter that these clouds represent is consistant throughout the universe, then all of this type of matter will make up the missing half of normal matter.
And as for points 1 and 2, a chaotic system does allow for local accumulations of enthalpy (order) as long as the state of the entire system tends towards entropy (chaos.) The order shown by organic life on earth is more than offset by the entropy from the sun's reaction which powers life.
To be able to add the future ability to differentiate between a hotspot and a microwave?
I've always viewed the "...recommends WIndows..." as just a sort of advertising. I don't know if Dell/whoever gets paid to put that up or a discount on volume liscensing, but I'm pretty sure that Microsoft doesn't say that they just won't deal with the OEMs if they don't put that up. Now that... that would be annoying.
I don't see it to be much different than a beer company giving neon signs to a bar for display (In this case the beer company is paying for the sign, and the bar gets something to put on their wall.)
God you're right. I really really really hope they never make a book version of Waking Life. Say what you will about the movie, but a book would just be trite and boring. I don't see how one could work in the dreamlike nature provided by the animation style.
Ahh, but this is a radio show converted to a book converted to a movie. How many failed radio shows -> movie do you know of? Hmm... maybe a TV show adaptation would be more appropriate here to maintain the serial nature. Or maybe I should just go watch Red Dwarf.
I'm just wondering... does this $249 indicate actual per unit incremental costs, or does it also include some fixed costs (research, costs of running factory, etc?)
If the price is purely the incremental cost, then you would indeed be screwing Microsoft buy buying an Xbox. However if the price includes a portion of the fixed costs, then buying an Xbox is simply helping them to recoup their investment.
Then shouldn't they have come back already?
Not necesarilly... a time machine might be more along the lines of a temporal teleporter. I.E. once a time machine is built, you could send someone forward or backwards through time to another time machine, but not to a period of time before the time machine is invented in the first place. Therefore once the device is fist built, we would have access to all future knowledge, but not necesarilly past knowledge.
Does it just insulate the battery?
No... it just pads the manufacturer's waller.
NO No No... that's "Stage 2 oxidation based weight reduction system." (IIOBWRS).
And while you're at it, why not actually educate the youth and make sure that they have the proper skills to be "productive members of society" and don't land in jail in the first place.
And I mean more than just reading, wrting and arithmetic. Bring back some of the tech and trade skills to school. Shop: Auto, wood, metal. "home ec" can lead to a succesfull career as a chef, baker, etc. Of course, offer programming classes and other high tech fields should be offered at some level.
Offer classes which may interest the large chunk of people who probably aren't interested in the standard curriculum. Show them that there are careers out there that are important, rewarding and, well, legal.
Yes, some students will still fall through the cracks. But I believe that in the long run, proper education will go a lot further in preventing crime than punishment ever will.
Well, according to the article and other sources ALTRIKS is doing some illegal things... such as harvesting email records from whois queries and installing malware on people's computers without their express permission. If the president authorized these actions, that would indeed make him a criminal.
Now and if this is all wrong and all of the sources (including Spamhaus and ALTRIKS OWN WEBSITE) that list ALTRIKS illegal operations is just part of a massive campaign by the defendant to defame ALTRIKS, then I'm fine with the defendant being penalized. Then he would also be able to get busted for hacking into ALTRIKS own web site.
You would love it if you got emails like that?
Then please, if you have recieved unsolicited e-mail, please click HERE and enter any information pertaining to these unsolicited a-mails. Be sure to have your credit card, social security number and mother's maiden name handy.
The wording in the article was slightly misleading.
The activities of Atriks... sending commercial email, meet the requirements of the CAN-spam Act."
What this line meant is that the activities of Atriks meet the requirements of being spam. If you look a little later in the article:
Anti-spam foundation SpamHaus has listed Atriks on its register of known spam operations (ROKSO), which states the company has violated the act by using misleading subject lines.
And...
SpamHaus also says it has had complaints that software is being installed by Atriks on users' computers without their permission - which is a felony.
Or maybe I misinterpreted the article...
From TFA:
Anti-spam foundation SpamHaus has listed Atriks on its register of known spam operations (ROKSO), which states the company has violated the act by using misleading subject lines.
SpamHaus also says it has had complaints that software is being installed by Atriks on users' computers without their permission - which is a felony.
These spammers were not within their rights according to CAN SPAM. That aside, I hope that some legitimate bulk email house (If such a thing exists) never gets the opportunity to try something like this in court.
That grievance should be a reasonable one. I should not be able to sue someone for saying that I am wearing a blue sweater when, indeed, I am wearing a blue sweater.
Maybe the judge took the case so he can award the defendant legal fees in the counter suit I hope he is taking up. Yeah... or maybe this Jay guy should sue the spammers for defamation, claiming that falsely claiming the he is defaming them is hurting his public image.
I haven't actually seen the specifics (except for what's in the article) but these guys are listed as known spammers, using underhanded and illegal tactics to get their emails through. They do not appear to be a legitimate advertising firm.
I also believe that an autobahn style speed limit setup would be extremely efficient. Something like right lane, 40-50MPH so people can safely merge and for those who do not want to travel all that fast. Middle lane, 60MPH or whatever a good cruising speed is. Left lane, AT YOUR OWN RISK. For passing, or those who really want to go fast. Then in each particular lane, the speed limit is enforced AT the limit, not 10MPH above. In the left lane, failure to pull over to a slower lane to let someone by who is going faster than you carries a big fine in addition to being an annoying and dangerous practice.
The problem is that the US has sued and sued so many times that the government no longer has the ability to allow people to do things which have the image of being dangerous.
I'm not quite sure about the sweatshop type model, but I have read about a few places that have a lot of people just clicking on ads for a few hours a day. I guess it's similar to the "hit the monkey and win" type ad click racket, except people actually get paid a small amount for a lot more clicks.
Or it could even be something like free internet access if you just click on banners for X amount of time per day. I think the reason that they don't simulate it with software is that actual people clicking on the banners makes it a lot harder to track than some script.
This looks similar in some ways to pyramid scams. Someone loses out, except this time it might be the actual advertiser which _GETS_ the fraudulant clicks in the first place. I'm sure that the advertisers would eventually catch on and yank this out from under people's noses. Maybe even sue those who run the clickfraud for... well... fraud.
Thats not proven and prolly not true as modern people tend reproduce less often as they are more successful
From an ecological point of view, this actually makes sense. Sometimes fitness is not about having the most kids. Evolutionary fitness is defined something like the number of your offspring who can grow up and have offspring. Often times simply having lots of children does not ensure that they will be able to grow up and have offspring of their own.
And then there are pressures that are on an entire population rather than the individual. Breeding too fast can make to size of the population grow at such a rate that not everybody can be taken care of. So various techniques are used to ensure that energy is not wasted on producing offspring t hat die before they can reproduce. Instead energy is focused on properly rearing a small number of children who have a much higher likelyhood of having children of their own. E.G. having enough money to send all of your children to college so they can (hopefully) get a good education and then a stable job which will attract a longtime mate (what we call spouse) may in fact make you more "evolutionarilly fit" within the constraints of modern society than popping out so many children that you can hardly feed them, much less put in the time to make sure they get a proper education and then attract a fit mate.