1) The article mentions several times othe states and that this is a problem in third world countries, the only real problem in California as far as this article is concerned is that this woman was found with it there.
2) Several people in the commens state the this is less of a problem in the U.S. EXCEPT for organic/natural animal farming. My wife and I are amongst thousands world wide that are living proof that antibiotics gone wild are a problem, we both contrated MRSA, MRSA is directly caused by over use of antibiotics in the wild. Also thousands of people are diagnosed as lactose intollerant, except the real problem is not that that they are lactose intollerant, they are intollerant to the antibiotics and sterroids being passed through the milk. If my wife consimes U.S. conventionally grown beef or dairy products she has a harsh reaction, if she consumes beef or dairy products that are organic or does not contain large doses of antibiotics and rBst, she has not problems.
3) Read the frackin' articles, they tend to tell you a little more that what the miniturized, shrunk down snippet on the RSS feed.
Back when I was in 6th grade, I wrote a program that was similar to a basic word processor. It took me 300 lines of TI Basic, it had simple drawing abilities, placed characters on the screen as like a type writer wrote (character, pause, pause character...), purposely slowly and methodically and occasionally with sound effects and stores the data file information as Hex. Much of the code was purposely Spaghetti Code as it had a cute Easter Egg that I only wanted access in certain situations. I wrote that in 1981, Last year (early part of 2010) I pulled it off of a 5.25 floppy, using Linux as a text file then converted the stored info to recreated the original program & one of the sets of the data files. I was elated to see the hours of work and research I put into it back then and to remember how I retrieved the Easter Egg. I tried to get it to run on a TI99/4a emulator with out much luck. Perhaps one day I will.
Poking fun at California for having Schwarzenegger, I guess no one has ever heard of Jesse Ventura or maybe an even more obscure actor have just as a trivial role in history, Ronald Reagan.
This is nothing new, almost every state has a law called "To fast for conditions" where no actual speed is required, only the inclination by the police officer to believe that the rate of speed that you were traveling was not conducive to save travel. The only reason for a radar/ladar etc.. is to provide supporting proof to a judge that you were speeding, the officer's word is actually good enough. The only time a radar (etc...) comes in handy is if the officer is trying to prove the difference of "To fast for conditions" and "Reckless".
Many departments:
- Certify their police cars' speedometer to "pace" your speed, again only as additional proof. - As part of an officer's radar/ladar certification require the officer to estimate a vehicles speed within a few MPH of its actual speed. - Utilizes "Time over Distance"; two pre-measured marks and the officer times you as you cross them.
As for someone asking will the judge accept GPS information, that is also an individual judge by judge decision, but you need to be careful of trying to use a GPS to disprove a ticket.
You: "Your Honor, Officer Dudley claimed I was traveling at 25MPH over the speed limit, but according to my GPS I was only traveling 50MPH".
Judge: "I'll accept your GPS as evidence, but the speed limit in that area is 30MPH, you are here-by fined for Reckless, and your driving privileges are suspended for 6 months. Thank you for your bit of evidence."...and yes, I've been in court where the defendant has had this happen to them.
While I do not necessarily agree with the last part (self-incrimination), the moral of the story if make sure you have all your ducks in a row.
Its fucking cool technology. Don't let fanboyism ruin this. Its a big table, its expensive. But its still fucking cool. Have you forgotten you are nerds? Who gives a shit how useful it is? Aren't people always arguing pro research that isn't about making a buck. Now when 'evil' microsoft does something all nerds like (making cool shit without having purely profit in mind) what happens? You bash it? I expect better:S
Exactly, geeks and Hackers sometimes just make stuff hppen as a proof of concept for later work to be built upon (or not).
But could you just imagine this:
Your kid is surfing porn, you walk in, he throws down a sheet of paper to cover the area he's been viewing and voila he's been hard at work on his calculus the entire time. Or you are at a work, conducting a meeting viewing porn on a sheet of paper while the rest of the staff is looking at boring/drab stat charts showing costs vs revenues.
Seriously though, let MS do all the leg work on this, someone will reverse engineer it/open source it and we can all reap the benefits. Just look at Linux, it takes bits and pieces from other OSes that is liked and incorporated it into itself eventually and now it has many advantages over all the other OSes out there (and there is more than just Windows and OSx). Let this be just another thing that some BIG company (MS) starts that we (the people) will benefit from the Open Source Community and reverse engineers get to work on it.
It is a simple process called culling of the herd. If the dumb sod is to stupid to look and see a very large public buss coming down the street, then they deserve the the end result. The only unfair part is now the city gets sued by the fools family. NY should simply state: "Any person struck by a vehicle while using an electronic device is at fault and must pay for any damages done by his/her actions (or lack thereof)."
I received the same letter from the VA. A bit over a year earlier I received a letter from B of A claiming that a large number of Gov't credit card holders (which I am forced to have by regulation by the way) also had their privacy information "lost". The Dept of the Navy also has a large number of their members ID info "lost by accident" (thank God it wasn't lost on purpose).
My ID info has been stolen 3 times in just over a year, all having to do with some Gov't relation (B of A Gov't credit card, VA and DoN). Not once was any real help provided, I was just told "You should subscribe to a credit protection agency" and "Watch your credit reports".
The real bitch of it all is that I as a service member can not go after any of these entities via a law suit as I am forbidden to do so by law, my wife must actively pursue it on my behalf only if she can prove that a particular instance of an fraudelent credit issuance is due to a particular ID theft. Try to prove that on your own.
Companies and the Goverment agencies that hold this information truly need to be held responsible for the data that they loose.
How long do you think it will be until someone hacks it and it starts playing its own little version of pop-ups. I can just see it now, little Johny sitting there with a teddy saying "Ooooh baby...yeah. that's the right place...ohhh yea....." as it's performing acts on another teddy bear on the bed.
After toying in the computer field since age 12, writing applications and working for several companies including software developers, I walked away from it at age 35 and joined the military and now only work on computers (repairs, no longer coding) for fun, my job in the military has nothing to do with computer (unless I get to blow one up). I was no longer satisfied with working on computers and technology for a living, it took all the fun it used to be out ot it for me. That being said, I had a plan though, I had the military, which I enjoy (most of the time). My wife and I took a HUGE hit int the financial areas, my pay was significantly less and she (also in the IT field) had to do the job search once we arrived at our current location. Now she's having a difficult time with job satisfaction. Quite honestly, if the company isn't "dirty" in the way it dealed with it's vendors and customers (and finances), then the company treats Tech Support like the "Devil's Spawn", with hatred and contempt.
I guess what I'm trying to tell you is that, only you can weight the pros and cons of leaving a company for any reason, don't listen to what other's have to tell you (unless you ask them). As long as you can keep your head above water financially, taking into account life style changes, then do what every you fel the need to do. I went from a nice paying software develpment company in the SF Bay area making tons of contacts "networking" in other companies (IT and other), to moving to San Diego, driving small boats real fast, shooting weapons and blowing things up ( as well as going to war:( , not so fun ). DO what your life feels is right...If there are others in your life who are important (wife, kids...) get their support also.
Completely agreed. Also a member of the US military, I absolutely despise dealing with B of A.
It is also my understanding that it was illegal for a government entity to force its member is into a private contract. If you do research on your credit report you will find that this "Govt. Credit Card" reflects in your credit report. So if there are any errors or charges not paid (you being in a remote location, like in my case) you can end up with black marks on YOUR credit rating due to a contract you are forced to be in.
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1) The article mentions several times othe states and that this is a problem in third world countries, the only real problem in California as far as this article is concerned is that this woman was found with it there.
2) Several people in the commens state the this is less of a problem in the U.S. EXCEPT for organic/natural animal farming. My wife and I are amongst thousands world wide that are living proof that antibiotics gone wild are a problem, we both contrated MRSA, MRSA is directly caused by over use of antibiotics in the wild. Also thousands of people are diagnosed as lactose intollerant, except the real problem is not that that they are lactose intollerant, they are intollerant to the antibiotics and sterroids being passed through the milk. If my wife consimes U.S. conventionally grown beef or dairy products she has a harsh reaction, if she consumes beef or dairy products that are organic or does not contain large doses of antibiotics and rBst, she has not problems.
3) Read the frackin' articles, they tend to tell you a little more that what the miniturized, shrunk down snippet on the RSS feed.
Back when I was in 6th grade, I wrote a program that was similar to a basic word processor. It took me 300 lines of TI Basic, it had simple drawing abilities, placed characters on the screen as like a type writer wrote (character, pause, pause character...), purposely slowly and methodically and occasionally with sound effects and stores the data file information as Hex. Much of the code was purposely Spaghetti Code as it had a cute Easter Egg that I only wanted access in certain situations. I wrote that in 1981, Last year (early part of 2010) I pulled it off of a 5.25 floppy, using Linux as a text file then converted the stored info to recreated the original program & one of the sets of the data files. I was elated to see the hours of work and research I put into it back then and to remember how I retrieved the Easter Egg. I tried to get it to run on a TI99/4a emulator with out much luck. Perhaps one day I will.
Poking fun at California for having Schwarzenegger, I guess no one has ever heard of Jesse Ventura or maybe an even more obscure actor have just as a trivial role in history, Ronald Reagan.
This is nothing new, almost every state has a law called "To fast for conditions" where no actual speed is required, only the inclination by the police officer to believe that the rate of speed that you were traveling was not conducive to save travel. The only reason for a radar/ladar etc.. is to provide supporting proof to a judge that you were speeding, the officer's word is actually good enough. The only time a radar (etc...) comes in handy is if the officer is trying to prove the difference of "To fast for conditions" and "Reckless".
Many departments:
- Certify their police cars' speedometer to "pace" your speed, again only as additional proof.
- As part of an officer's radar/ladar certification require the officer to estimate a vehicles speed within a few MPH of its actual speed. - Utilizes "Time over Distance"; two pre-measured marks and the officer times you as you cross them.
As for someone asking will the judge accept GPS information, that is also an individual judge by judge decision, but you need to be careful of trying to use a GPS to disprove a ticket.
You: "Your Honor, Officer Dudley claimed I was traveling at 25MPH over the speed limit, but according to my GPS I was only traveling 50MPH".
Judge: "I'll accept your GPS as evidence, but the speed limit in that area is 30MPH, you are here-by fined for Reckless, and your driving privileges are suspended for 6 months. Thank you for your bit of evidence." ...and yes, I've been in court where the defendant has had this happen to them.
While I do not necessarily agree with the last part (self-incrimination), the moral of the story if make sure you have all your ducks in a row.
Its fucking cool technology. Don't let fanboyism ruin this. Its a big table, its expensive. But its still fucking cool. Have you forgotten you are nerds? Who gives a shit how useful it is? Aren't people always arguing pro research that isn't about making a buck. Now when 'evil' microsoft does something all nerds like (making cool shit without having purely profit in mind) what happens? You bash it? I expect better :S
Exactly, geeks and Hackers sometimes just make stuff hppen as a proof of concept for later work to be built upon (or not).
But could you just imagine this:
Your kid is surfing porn, you walk in, he throws down a sheet of paper to cover the area he's been viewing and voila he's been hard at work on his calculus the entire time. Or you are at a work, conducting a meeting viewing porn on a sheet of paper while the rest of the staff is looking at boring/drab stat charts showing costs vs revenues.
Seriously though, let MS do all the leg work on this, someone will reverse engineer it/open source it and we can all reap the benefits. Just look at Linux, it takes bits and pieces from other OSes that is liked and incorporated it into itself eventually and now it has many advantages over all the other OSes out there (and there is more than just Windows and OSx). Let this be just another thing that some BIG company (MS) starts that we (the people) will benefit from the Open Source Community and reverse engineers get to work on it.
It is a simple process called culling of the herd. If the dumb sod is to stupid to look and see a very large public buss coming down the street, then they deserve the the end result. The only unfair part is now the city gets sued by the fools family. NY should simply state: "Any person struck by a vehicle while using an electronic device is at fault and must pay for any damages done by his/her actions (or lack thereof)."
I received the same letter from the VA. A bit over a year earlier I received a letter from B of A claiming that a large number of Gov't credit card holders (which I am forced to have by regulation by the way) also had their privacy information "lost". The Dept of the Navy also has a large number of their members ID info "lost by accident" (thank God it wasn't lost on purpose).
My ID info has been stolen 3 times in just over a year, all having to do with some Gov't relation (B of A Gov't credit card, VA and DoN). Not once was any real help provided, I was just told "You should subscribe to a credit protection agency" and "Watch your credit reports".
The real bitch of it all is that I as a service member can not go after any of these entities via a law suit as I am forbidden to do so by law, my wife must actively pursue it on my behalf only if she can prove that a particular instance of an fraudelent credit issuance is due to a particular ID theft. Try to prove that on your own.
Companies and the Goverment agencies that hold this information truly need to be held responsible for the data that they loose.
How long do you think it will be until someone hacks it and it starts playing its own little version of pop-ups. I can just see it now, little Johny sitting there with a teddy saying "Ooooh baby...yeah. that's the right place...ohhh yea....." as it's performing acts on another teddy bear on the bed.
Have you seem the terrible movie called AI? ....Teddy?
After toying in the computer field since age 12, writing applications and working for several companies including software developers, I walked away from it at age 35 and joined the military and now only work on computers (repairs, no longer coding) for fun, my job in the military has nothing to do with computer (unless I get to blow one up). I was no longer satisfied with working on computers and technology for a living, it took all the fun it used to be out ot it for me. That being said, I had a plan though, I had the military, which I enjoy (most of the time).
:( , not so fun ). DO what your life feels is right...If there are others in your life who are important (wife, kids...) get their support also.
My wife and I took a HUGE hit int the financial areas, my pay was significantly less and she (also in the IT field) had to do the job search once we arrived at our current location. Now she's having a difficult time with job satisfaction. Quite honestly, if the company isn't "dirty" in the way it dealed with it's vendors and customers (and finances), then the company treats Tech Support like the "Devil's Spawn", with hatred and contempt.
I guess what I'm trying to tell you is that, only you can weight the pros and cons of leaving a company for any reason, don't listen to what other's have to tell you (unless you ask them). As long as you can keep your head above water financially, taking into account life style changes, then do what every you fel the need to do. I went from a nice paying software develpment company in the SF Bay area making tons of contacts "networking" in other companies (IT and other), to moving to San Diego, driving small boats real fast, shooting weapons and blowing things up ( as well as going to war
Good luck.
Completely agreed. Also a member of the US military, I absolutely despise dealing with B of A.
It is also my understanding that it was illegal for a government entity to force its member is into a private contract. If you do research on your credit report you will find that this "Govt. Credit Card" reflects in your credit report. So if there are any errors or charges not paid (you being in a remote location, like in my case) you can end up with black marks on YOUR credit rating due to a contract you are forced to be in.