Maybe I'm missing something here, but if I were Big Brother, I wouldn't be very happy with RFID as a means of tracking. As a personal user of RFID as a means of access to my work location, it's tracking ability seems limited. The range on the devices is pathetic (on the order of inches or centimeters, not feet or meters), so the number of readers required to effectively 'track' someone would be astounding, even for government.
Now, if they could just create an RFID tag readable by satellite, that would be something I could get excited about!
"Point the cops and or feds at that contact, and see what happens."
That of course, is predicated on your business being 100% legitimate. I'm not sure about this individual case, but I'm sure not all the online gambling sites are uh, trustworthy. That would be a major roadblock to involving the authorities.
Personally, I don't understand why connectors aren't more asymmetrical.
We know the trapezoid works well (video and serial ports).
Coaxial is easy to use.
Power cables are easy to determine the correct orientation.
L-shaped connectors would be nice.
But USB (& PS/2, et al.) you have to look INSIDE the end of the connector (or rely on poorly designed plastic labelling) to determine the correct orientation on the first try.
Isn't part of the point of the 4th & higher gen languages that they are customized to a specific application. TFA gives MATLAB and Mathcad as examples. I don't think a 'generic' 4th lvl language would be helpful or even possible.
"...bills preserving their effective monopolies..."
You know, 'effective monopolies' are not necessarily a Bad Thing(tm). Imagine a world where electricity and landline telephone service still had the 'last mile' problem that current high speed internet service has. When an endeavor is not profitable on its own merit, sometimes the government does have to get involved for the benefit of the people. For that matter, many places electricity is still a regulated industry, because it's such a fundamental service that we cannot afford for anyone to be without it. Left purely to 'market forces', many places would never have gotten wired.
The claim "intelligent design is a valid alternative" is LOGICALLY FLAWED, and here is why:
You have the assumption that the universe is logical. This is not necessarily the case. Furthermore, you assume that even if the universe is logical, that we as humans fully comprehend the logic to which the universe conforms. Again, a flawed assumption.
Oh, that's good. Claim it does nothing, then disprove yourself by admiting it does make it at least a little harder.
No, this does not fix the problem by itself. Anyone who expects Microsoft to release a singular hotfix that solves all of their problems, I want to know what medications you are taking, and where I can get some!
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"Freedom of Speech"
First of all, the only protection that is guaranteed you here is that the gov't will make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
Google, as influential as they might be, are not the government (insert 'Do No Evil' joke here). Therefore, they are not bound to this "Freedom of Speech" argument.
Secondly, "Freedom of Speech" is not this universal, higher-being ordained preserve at all cost idea that we have transformed it into.
Freedom of speech does not give you the right to spray-paint your slogan all over my front door, nor, in this case, does it give you a 'right' to be listed on Google. Nor do you have a 'right' to have your name printed on the front page of your local paper in 36pt font.
Not being listed in Google does not amount to censorship in any definition of the word. The net existed before google, and people still managed to find web-sites. Google gives (through PageRank or whatever mechanism they choose) free advertisement to 'good' sites. They have every right to only display sites that pay money, if they so desired. You have absolutely zero (0) 'rights' to be listed for free on Google.
Trotting out the Freedom of SPEECH argument is nothing more than whining about Big Brother coming to get you because what you have to say isn't worth hearing. Guess what? If you want to be heard, say something that's worth listening to. All that glitters is not gold, and much that is said (or printed) is worthless drivel. Much like this post.
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You fail to understand that google is incapable of actually censoring anything. Them not displaying a webpage in their results does not, indeed, remove it from the web.
Google's primary responsibility now is to it's shareholders, which means increasing the chance that you and I find exactly what we are trying to look for, and not to unabashedly display every peddler that serves up content over http.
Not to mention the electricity blackout in the eastern US a couple years ago...more than a couple elderly persons expired due to lack of air-conditioning caused (in part) by 'My Doom(tm)'.
Besides, you're paying for the spam/virus bandwidth in your monthly fees. Which is more expensive, bandwidth or forcing spyware-checks?
As long as you sign on the dotted line that you understand I am not liable to support the data or explain the results you get out of your exploration, nor am I required to investigate and figure out why your VBA doesn't do what you expected it to do, that's fine. But, in the end, I know ahead of time that's where we're going to end up...me trying to debug your VBA code (has happened IRL one too many times...)
They don't have any vested interest seeing as how they manufature Duck(R) brand duct tape... seems there was some historical usage of duck tape (back to WWII) but it seems the proper usage now is duct tape.
If you're turning a 4-way box into 8-way, your costs aren't anywhere near related to the hardware. You're going to be running per CPU licensed software, and likely dual-core will not help in this regard. Sorry about your luck.
Duct Tape can be used for all sorts of neat things... duck tape, otoh, should only be used on Ducks. Well, I guess I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
The design document was rumored to be a cross between a unicorn and the dodo bird. What would a bird need with a big pointy horn on it's head? I don't know, but then, I've never seen one of these rumored documents, so I can't say for sure.
Yeah, but do you really want to pay for your broadband and their broadband (through taxes). Might as well have the city foot the bill for electric, gas (natural, unleaded and diesel), telephone, cable, netflix, mmorpg's, and iTMS while you're at it. There is no such thing as 'cheap' wifi...it's just how/when you pay for it. Only advantage to municipal is that your payments (sales tax/income tax/property tax) are federally tax deductable.
This behavior is nothing new. It's happened for the last 200+ years. Look at the regulated utility industry, with government mandated rates of return on capital investment.
This article is bound to spark fierce debate here, in fact, I wish I could mod the whole article -1 Flamebait.
I predict a war between the 'Free Open-Source' ideal, which the Slashdot collective so readily promotes, and the 'Anti Big-Brother' ideal, which is so often bashed. I mean, how much easier could we make it on gov't to spy on us, than adopt them as our ISP???
Gov't running an ISP is a bad idea, if solely because they have no motivation to provide QOS or any future upgrades. Image the local levies coming for internet service upgrades...
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but if I were Big Brother, I wouldn't be very happy with RFID as a means of tracking. As a personal user of RFID as a means of access to my work location, it's tracking ability seems limited. The range on the devices is pathetic (on the order of inches or centimeters, not feet or meters), so the number of readers required to effectively 'track' someone would be astounding, even for government.
Now, if they could just create an RFID tag readable by satellite, that would be something I could get excited about!
Clippy says, "I see you're trying to install Malware. Let me help you..."
The statement did not intend that the set of vulnerabilities that were fixed encompassed the entire set of possible javascript vulnerabilities.
The actual intention was the reverse, the set of vulnerabilities that were fixed all belonged to the set of possible javascript vulnerabilities.
To that end, the preview button could be placed on TOP of the submit button. Surely that would increase the percentage of previewed posts.
Hmmm...you must be running an old version of MSIE, then. Just checked the page (IE6, XP Pro) and it works just fine. Smoking something strong, are we?
"Point the cops and or feds at that contact, and see what happens."
That of course, is predicated on your business being 100% legitimate. I'm not sure about this individual case, but I'm sure not all the online gambling sites are uh, trustworthy. That would be a major roadblock to involving the authorities.
But USB (& PS/2, et al.) you have to look INSIDE the end of the connector (or rely on poorly designed plastic labelling) to determine the correct orientation on the first try.
No way to do it by feel, except trial & error.
Isn't part of the point of the 4th & higher gen languages that they are customized to a specific application. TFA gives MATLAB and Mathcad as examples. I don't think a 'generic' 4th lvl language would be helpful or even possible.
"...bills preserving their effective monopolies..."
You know, 'effective monopolies' are not necessarily a Bad Thing(tm). Imagine a world where electricity and landline telephone service still had the 'last mile' problem that current high speed internet service has. When an endeavor is not profitable on its own merit, sometimes the government does have to get involved for the benefit of the people. For that matter, many places electricity is still a regulated industry, because it's such a fundamental service that we cannot afford for anyone to be without it. Left purely to 'market forces', many places would never have gotten wired.
"warning authorities when a sex offender is someplace he shouldn't be"
Correction:
2005.05.02-15:52 WARNING: Jackson, Michael has entered Neverland.
All the incidents were reported to have happened at the ranch, right?
The claim "intelligent design is a valid alternative" is LOGICALLY FLAWED, and here is why:
You have the assumption that the universe is logical. This is not necessarily the case. Furthermore, you assume that even if the universe is logical, that we as humans fully comprehend the logic to which the universe conforms. Again, a flawed assumption.
Oh, that's good. Claim it does nothing, then disprove yourself by admiting it does make it at least a little harder.
No, this does not fix the problem by itself. Anyone who expects Microsoft to release a singular hotfix that solves all of their problems, I want to know what medications you are taking, and where I can get some!
"Freedom of Speech"
First of all, the only protection that is guaranteed you here is that the gov't will make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
Google, as influential as they might be, are not the government (insert 'Do No Evil' joke here). Therefore, they are not bound to this "Freedom of Speech" argument.
Secondly, "Freedom of Speech" is not this universal, higher-being ordained preserve at all cost idea that we have transformed it into.
Freedom of speech does not give you the right to spray-paint your slogan all over my front door, nor, in this case, does it give you a 'right' to be listed on Google. Nor do you have a 'right' to have your name printed on the front page of your local paper in 36pt font.
Not being listed in Google does not amount to censorship in any definition of the word. The net existed before google, and people still managed to find web-sites. Google gives (through PageRank or whatever mechanism they choose) free advertisement to 'good' sites. They have every right to only display sites that pay money, if they so desired. You have absolutely zero (0) 'rights' to be listed for free on Google.
Trotting out the Freedom of SPEECH argument is nothing more than whining about Big Brother coming to get you because what you have to say isn't worth hearing. Guess what? If you want to be heard, say something that's worth listening to. All that glitters is not gold, and much that is said (or printed) is worthless drivel. Much like this post.
You fail to understand that google is incapable of actually censoring anything. Them not displaying a webpage in their results does not, indeed, remove it from the web.
Google's primary responsibility now is to it's shareholders, which means increasing the chance that you and I find exactly what we are trying to look for, and not to unabashedly display every peddler that serves up content over http.
Not to mention the electricity blackout in the eastern US a couple years ago...more than a couple elderly persons expired due to lack of air-conditioning caused (in part) by 'My Doom(tm)'.
Besides, you're paying for the spam/virus bandwidth in your monthly fees. Which is more expensive, bandwidth or forcing spyware-checks?
As long as you sign on the dotted line that you understand I am not liable to support the data or explain the results you get out of your exploration, nor am I required to investigate and figure out why your VBA doesn't do what you expected it to do, that's fine. But, in the end, I know ahead of time that's where we're going to end up...me trying to debug your VBA code (has happened IRL one too many times...)
They don't have any vested interest seeing as how they manufature Duck(R) brand duct tape... seems there was some historical usage of duck tape (back to WWII) but it seems the proper usage now is duct tape.
If you're turning a 4-way box into 8-way, your costs aren't anywhere near related to the hardware. You're going to be running per CPU licensed software, and likely dual-core will not help in this regard. Sorry about your luck.
Duct Tape can be used for all sorts of neat things... duck tape, otoh, should only be used on Ducks. Well, I guess I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
At least with Duct Tape, the light side and dark side are always in equal proportion.
Actually, I think it was "Fly, you fools!"
The design document was rumored to be a cross between a unicorn and the dodo bird. What would a bird need with a big pointy horn on it's head? I don't know, but then, I've never seen one of these rumored documents, so I can't say for sure.
Yeah, but do you really want to pay for your broadband and their broadband (through taxes). Might as well have the city foot the bill for electric, gas (natural, unleaded and diesel), telephone, cable, netflix, mmorpg's, and iTMS while you're at it. There is no such thing as 'cheap' wifi...it's just how/when you pay for it. Only advantage to municipal is that your payments (sales tax/income tax/property tax) are federally tax deductable.
This behavior is nothing new. It's happened for the last 200+ years. Look at the regulated utility industry, with government mandated rates of return on capital investment.
This article is bound to spark fierce debate here, in fact, I wish I could mod the whole article -1 Flamebait.
I predict a war between the 'Free Open-Source' ideal, which the Slashdot collective so readily promotes, and the 'Anti Big-Brother' ideal, which is so often bashed. I mean, how much easier could we make it on gov't to spy on us, than adopt them as our ISP???
Gov't running an ISP is a bad idea, if solely because they have no motivation to provide QOS or any future upgrades. Image the local levies coming for internet service upgrades...
That follows the standard IT software design lifecycle
1) Set the release date.
2) Code.
3) Act like you're testing.
4) Gather requirements.
5) Release software.
6) Bolt on functionality to 'meet' requirements.
7) ???
8) Profit!!!