Quite true... and with raising the age a person can be licensed to drive (used to be 14 in quite a few states of the US, it is now almost universally 16, with a few holdouts that allow restricted licenses a bit younger).
If the question asked were "Should the President have an 'Internet Kill Switch' available to stop the spread of information?" I am guessing people would have answered differently.
He's also wrong on many details. The one that's most jarring to me is:
"... Herman Hauser, who had started Acorn computer over in the U.K. out of Cambridge university. And Herman designed the ARM processor, and Apple and Olivetti funded it."
Herman Hauser was a VC. He was one of the people who set up Acorn, but he didn't design the ARM CPU. The ARM CPU was principally designed by Sophie Wilson (instruction set) and Steve Furber (hardware architecture). Herman Hauser bankrolled it, he didn't design it.
Here is where the geeks (engineers, programmers, etc) don't see the viewpoint of the suits (marketers, C-suite people).
He PAID for it, so it is HIS, all the work is HIS. HE did it, 'cause he financed it.
That is just how suit-thinking works, and it is why geeks and suits are never going to see eye-to-eye on IP.
But, the brochures were glossy! And loaded with full-color pictures!
It's like our climate-controlled server room here... management thought that having a whole room, UPS, air-con unit, was a WASTE... after all, it only kept those silly beige boxes coddled (the server farm that crunched their marketing and accounting data).
Then, we installed a new batch of routers and switches as part of a network upgrade. These were equipped with DAS BLINKENLIGHTS! Suddenly, the server room was terribly important, it housed the racks of high-tech flashing lights that management didn't understand, but found terribly impressive.
Moral of the story: Substance is NOT important to the masses, but FLASHY is.
This story makes me miss my Hewlett Packard calculator, an HP-41cx (with accessories of a mag card reader and a printer). When I studied engineering, there were two broad groupings of calculator recommended, especially when you got to classes on circuit theory: Some Texas Instruments grouping I don't remember, and the HP-41 series. Literally the recommendation was use one or the other, or you will likely fail this class due to lack of computation speed on exams.
Hewlett Packard seems to have become irrelevant in the marketplace. Very sad, long live RPN!
That left just Texas Instruments for the serious calculators that aren't full-on computers.
Sure, Casio had "scientific calculators", but they just weren't quite up to the demands back in the eighties (yes, I'm old).
It's nice to see this market getting another player, although in my mind "color graphing" is a gimmick, not a real feature!
Skyscrapers may be vastly more affordable if built from interlocking modules on the ground that could be airlifted into place. Would such a structure be feasible (I'm not an architectural nor a mechanical engineer)?
As pointed out by somebody else, if anybody (these people aren't the first with this idea) could get this to market, it would be a boon for the growing wind turbine industry.
Right. Ask the people ACS:Law about the power of weak social media. Anonymous poked their buttons, were dismissed as "trivial", then they stepped it up and exposed weaknesses in ACS:Law that is still having repercussions for the organization.
Twitters exposing election fraud in more than a few countries hasn't made the news either.
I think people are either foolishly underestimating the power of people who can communicate or purposely trying to trivialize in the vain hope of preventing people from using their "mob power".
Almost no race technology makes it into contemporary cars. Pretty much everything in racing is designed to last a race or two and then be replaced, so it's designed for minimum weight and maximum power output, and only enough longevity to make it through the necessary races
Nope, never. Except for:
Electronic ignition Electronically-controlled fuel injection Rack-and-pinion steering Disk brakes Electric radiator fans Variable valve timing Radial tires And about everything else that is now considered "normal" on a car...
No, it doesn't have much to do with the group I hang with: out here, people really are taller and bigger than the average (don't ask why, I don't know).
When I go to (say) the coasts of the US (NE corridor or California) I'd find myself having a good head's view over the crowds - I am 'quite tall' there, whereas here, I'm relatively normal. (Hell, due to a slight build, I'd even be considered small.) I'm not "the tall guy", I'm "the skinny guy".
I'll second all of the above. The country was settled by people of different ethnicities area by area. California and New England are shorter than the people in the midwest.
I don't know if this is because of the backgrounds of the people settling in different regions of the USA or if it is because in the midwest we grew up on hormone-laced beef, but it is a phenomenon that is at least correct from a biased viewpoint (mine).
Police in my area will routinely pull up behind a motorcyclist and flip on their lights/siren, then flip them back off if the motorcyclist starts to pull over.
Often, the motorcyclist comes to a stop and gets to inquire the reason for the stop, inevitably, the reason given by the police is "I wanted to see if you would run."
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not trying to minimize molestation,
*grin* Are you trying to maximize molestation? more, More, MORE!
S'okay, I know you meant "I'm certainly not trying to trivialize molestation,"
Yes, you are correct, in the vast majority of cases where children are molested by adults, it is by either a family member or friend of the family, not some stranger the parents/guardians don't even know about.
What do you think that keyboard you type on is made of?
I don't know about your keyboard, but mine has the main body of the keyboard painstakingly shaped from the horn of a rhinoceros. The keys carved from ivory obtained by hunting elephants for their tusks. The ink to label the tops of the keys comes from finely dicing baby octopuses then running them through a centrifuge. The springiness of the keys is particularly effective, to get the proper resistance for each key the sinews of baby seals is used.
It wouldn't be too easily abused if it did one or more of the following:
Required at least two people who had been given "declare dead" rights to declare the death
Sent an e-mail to the account holder's registered e-mail address with a link to an "I'm not dead" page, no response in, say, 72 hours and the account goes "dead" (although it should still have the "dead" status be revocable after the 72 hours have expired)
I don't really know why this would be a problem for Twitter, though. It isn't like the dead person is going to be texting Twitter, so there shouldn't be any updates being posted?
[blockquote]If that isn't your car, why does it have your license plate?[/blockquote]
It's actually become a rather common pranking/harassment tactic in some areas, particularly with high schoolers who are irritated at one of their teachers.
The basketball coach kicked you off the team 'cause you were late to practice one too many times?
He drives a blue sedan with license plate Oklahoma plate SAM 123, so you get a piece of paper and some felt tip markers, dummy up a SAM 123 license plate, tape it over the real license plate of any blue sedan that is close at hand, then go run some red lights...
The primary difference between a contract written by a lawyer (or a legal department/team) and one without it is this:
The contract written by lawyers is easier to get out of. Lawyers put in lots of fiddling language that they can argue the exact meaning of if there is a dispute, drawing out a resolution for years.
If a contract was prepared without lawyers, the intent is generally quite obvious. This makes the contract far more ironclad, and possibly painful if somebody changes their mind later and wants out of the deal.
Much like a check, a bill-of-sale, a will, or any other legal document, what you need for it to be binding is:
consideration, usually a dollar amount (hence the common "$1" in many contracts for an exchange of services - the dollar amount guarantees a consideration contains value)
a date specifying when the document is being executed (useful as later documents can supercede earlier ones)
what services/goods are being delivered by whom and to whom
signatures of the people being obligated to pay or provide goods/services
optional, but helpful: signatures of witnesses to the document being executed (preferably notaries, who have been trained to attest that "yes, the signers provided documentation establishing their identities, their legal status as adults, and that they signed of their own volition")
Believe it or not, there are people in this world who are just as law-abiding as you may be, but who don't want our every action cataloged by those in government.
There is no reason that anybody needs to know where I am, when I'm asleep, or when I poop, despite what the people pushing for National Healthcare might think (when you poop could be important, if you're constipated it'll cost us all more money to pay for your healthcare).
"for the purpose of privacy"
IS NOT
"for the purpose of illegal activity"
No matter what those in power would rather you believe.
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Quite true ... and with raising the age a person can be licensed to drive (used to be 14 in quite a few states of the US, it is now almost universally 16, with a few holdouts that allow restricted licenses a bit younger).
In most states, employment is "at will".
You can be fired for showing up at work early, because you boss doesn't like the color of your shoes, or just for the heck of it.
If the question asked were "Should the President have an 'Internet Kill Switch' available to stop the spread of information?" I am guessing people would have answered differently.
Here is where the geeks (engineers, programmers, etc) don't see the viewpoint of the suits (marketers, C-suite people).
He PAID for it, so it is HIS, all the work is HIS. HE did it, 'cause he financed it.
That is just how suit-thinking works, and it is why geeks and suits are never going to see eye-to-eye on IP.
But, the brochures were glossy! And loaded with full-color pictures!
It's like our climate-controlled server room here ... management thought that having a whole room, UPS, air-con unit, was a WASTE ... after all, it only kept those silly beige boxes coddled (the server farm that crunched their marketing and accounting data).
Then, we installed a new batch of routers and switches as part of a network upgrade. These were equipped with DAS BLINKENLIGHTS! Suddenly, the server room was terribly important, it housed the racks of high-tech flashing lights that management didn't understand, but found terribly impressive.
Moral of the story: Substance is NOT important to the masses, but FLASHY is.
People who have no concept of an infinite number of anything are SO amusing: "they lost one 9 at the end of the series"
Please tell me you were joking?
This story makes me miss my Hewlett Packard calculator, an HP-41cx (with accessories of a mag card reader and a printer). When I studied engineering, there were two broad groupings of calculator recommended, especially when you got to classes on circuit theory: Some Texas Instruments grouping I don't remember, and the HP-41 series. Literally the recommendation was use one or the other, or you will likely fail this class due to lack of computation speed on exams.
Hewlett Packard seems to have become irrelevant in the marketplace. Very sad, long live RPN!
That left just Texas Instruments for the serious calculators that aren't full-on computers.
Sure, Casio had "scientific calculators", but they just weren't quite up to the demands back in the eighties (yes, I'm old).
It's nice to see this market getting another player, although in my mind "color graphing" is a gimmick, not a real feature!
Skyscrapers may be vastly more affordable if built from interlocking modules on the ground that could be airlifted into place. Would such a structure be feasible (I'm not an architectural nor a mechanical engineer)?
As pointed out by somebody else, if anybody (these people aren't the first with this idea) could get this to market, it would be a boon for the growing wind turbine industry.
See, it's people like you, that "use" Facebook but don't know how to use it, that give it a bad name.
If you don't want to see Farmville, Mafia Wars, whatever, "Hide" that app, you'll never see another post about it.
Right.
Ask the people ACS:Law about the power of weak social media.
Anonymous poked their buttons, were dismissed as "trivial", then they stepped it up and exposed weaknesses in ACS:Law that is still having repercussions for the organization.
Twitters exposing election fraud in more than a few countries hasn't made the news either.
I think people are either foolishly underestimating the power of people who can communicate or purposely trying to trivialize in the vain hope of preventing people from using their "mob power".
Nope, never. Except for:
Electronic ignition ...
Electronically-controlled fuel injection
Rack-and-pinion steering
Disk brakes
Electric radiator fans
Variable valve timing
Radial tires
And about everything else that is now considered "normal" on a car
I'll second all of the above. The country was settled by people of different ethnicities area by area. California and New England are shorter than the people in the midwest.
I don't know if this is because of the backgrounds of the people settling in different regions of the USA or if it is because in the midwest we grew up on hormone-laced beef, but it is a phenomenon that is at least correct from a biased viewpoint (mine).
There is no reason passengers should be prohibited from talking on phones nor texting, though.
Police in my area will routinely pull up behind a motorcyclist and flip on their lights/siren, then flip them back off if the motorcyclist starts to pull over.
Often, the motorcyclist comes to a stop and gets to inquire the reason for the stop, inevitably, the reason given by the police is "I wanted to see if you would run."
"... embed it in a carbon nanotube matrix, and it really is that simple ..."
I swear, what are carbon nanotubes NOT good for?
I know this is Idle, but still.
Newspapers: New York Times, Washington Post.
Tabloids: New York Post, Washington Times.
If this is a real story, is there a real paper carrying it somewhere?
Sort of, here's a United Press International feed: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/09/19/Immigrant-opossums-adapt-to-Brooklyn/UPI-90141284911712/
*grin* Are you trying to maximize molestation? more, More, MORE!
S'okay, I know you meant "I'm certainly not trying to trivialize molestation,"
Yes, you are correct, in the vast majority of cases where children are molested by adults, it is by either a family member or friend of the family, not some stranger the parents/guardians don't even know about.
Damn it, we've been doing this rocketry thing the hard way.
The easy way is just to "ignore gravity"!
(Yes, I know what you mean, but it is more fun this way :)
Pack it as checked baggage, that goes in the luggage/freight compartment, not as a carry-on that goes in the passenger compartment.
IANAL, nor an airport security person, but I do have a small collection of swords, knives, daggers, etc.
I don't know about your keyboard, but mine has the main body of the keyboard painstakingly shaped from the horn of a rhinoceros.
The keys carved from ivory obtained by hunting elephants for their tusks.
The ink to label the tops of the keys comes from finely dicing baby octopuses then running them through a centrifuge.
The springiness of the keys is particularly effective, to get the proper resistance for each key the sinews of baby seals is used.
Nice, a Forskningsassistent.
Reading that as if it were English, I'd hire her as my Forking Assistant. {Beavis/Butthead laugh optional}
I don't really know why this would be a problem for Twitter, though. It isn't like the dead person is going to be texting Twitter, so there shouldn't be any updates being posted?
[blockquote]If that isn't your car, why does it have your license plate?[/blockquote]
It's actually become a rather common pranking/harassment tactic in some areas, particularly with high schoolers who are irritated at one of their teachers.
The basketball coach kicked you off the team 'cause you were late to practice one too many times?
He drives a blue sedan with license plate Oklahoma plate SAM 123, so you get a piece of paper and some felt tip markers, dummy up a SAM 123 license plate, tape it over the real license plate of any blue sedan that is close at hand, then go run some red lights ...
Much like a check, a bill-of-sale, a will, or any other legal document, what you need for it to be binding is:
It isn't rocket science.
"for the purpose of illegal activities"
Why would you assume this?
Believe it or not, there are people in this world who are just as law-abiding as you may be, but who don't want our every action cataloged by those in government.
There is no reason that anybody needs to know where I am, when I'm asleep, or when I poop, despite what the people pushing for National Healthcare might think (when you poop could be important, if you're constipated it'll cost us all more money to pay for your healthcare).
"for the purpose of privacy"
IS NOT
"for the purpose of illegal activity"
No matter what those in power would rather you believe.