No joke. A friend of mine is an electrician. He was tired of his yellow or orange extension cables going missing from job sites. What did he do? Started buying purple and pink ones. Instead of 2 or 3 going missing a year, he has had one "walk away" in the last 6.
"Summary: Amid the latest "sexting" controversy, here is a proposal for a scientifically objective method to determine whether a picture constitutes child pornography. This is a harder problem than it seems, but not for the reasons you'd think. And it raises questions about how the same scientific principles could be applied to other matters of law."
That's the first paragraph. It mentions the word right off the bat. Surely a quick (sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit pics via camera phone) wouldn't have been too much of a pain. As it is I stopped reading the rest of the sentence and Googled it.
Even better, BIOS updates should be disallowed when the jumper is removed. That way we know anyone carrying around a jumper in the pocket is likely a hacker and we can throw them into PITA prison.
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That's a problem... at the national level. What needs to happen is people need to stop focusing on Washington and focus on their own back yard. Vote out local/state Reps/Dems; Weaken their community from the ground up.
You can't stop this in one fell swoop come an election year.
For 1,999 I'd hope with comes with 2 batteries and a butler to swap it out for you.
They've seriously overpriced this thing. Apple gets away with it because, well, they're Apple and they don't care. A Vista laptop with meh specs will not sell when there are 100s of other options for 1-1,500 less.
Most of the people I know in their late 20's (including myself) are done with college (including grad school), have homes, have or are planning to have kids, more concerned with paying bills and beginning to save for retirement than they are with being a super genius.
So my question, is this hard biological evidence or psychology/sociology? I find it hard to believe that, at 27 (give or take) a switch is flicked that starts a downward spiral.
I'm wondering if the GP is talking about the lock-in of the hardware which != DRM
It is funny/sad though how Jobs/Apple supposedly bullied the music industry into letting them drop DRM, but believes it has the right to tell people what to do with their iPhones.
I have to agree with you there. Every time I goto a Blockbuster in my city I'm usually waiting in line to check out, popular movies are flying off the shelves...
The thing with Blockbuster is... you pay when you rent. With Netflix you may not rent for a month, but you still pay. I reckon there are plenty of people that don't like the nickle and diming that we're taken for and stick with the tried and true.
Not to condone some of Blockbuster's BS over the last few years, but I don't think they'll vanish any time soon. I'm sure that sits just fine with Blockbuster, but also the media companies. They want people to want those lil discs.
No doubt. It is still the best deal out there. I have Blockbuster, my friends all seem to have Netflix. They also seem to whine about waiting for the mail, whereas I can goto the store, turn in my mailer flick and come home with one that day.
Netflix is like Google around here. Its virtues extolled by zealots what turn a blind eye to their shenanigans as it suits them.
The research itself was never banned, and apparently thrived on private funding.
Thus allowing those with the means to afford the funding the rights to squander any breakthroughs for themselves (patents on treatments and methods of research similar to "DNA patents", etc). Seeing as how I don't have a few million laying around to throw at this, I don't mind federal money going towards it, so long as the research is openly accessible.
We'd have all the transparency with much less expense to individuals if we didn't have to PAY for these federal agencies in the first place. Let us give the money to the state rather than this cluster fuck in D.C.. At most the fed should have an agency that acts as a liaison between states for interstate crime/commerce and establish a few frameworks for open commerce and things like patents/copyright/etc. Then focus on global affairs, defense, all that noise. Giving them the authority to police within a states borders is helping them consolidate central authority.
What needs to happen is people need to get the state governments to tell the feds to fuck off more regularly. The only recent thing I can remember where any states have said "No." is over Real ID. States like Cali, that pay 100's of billions in federal taxes and get a miniscule return from them need to tell Congress to get stuffed.
I'm going to bring a lawsuit against every city and citizen of those cities that has active prostitutes on the streets. Afterall it's their tax dollars that created and maintain those streets, thus giving a place for prostitutes to congregate and "work".
The economy that is. Or rather, should it be saved? If it means we still have ridiculous copyright and patent laws on the books? Government granted monopoly of what should be public infrastructure (cable/data/phone lines)? No real barrier for lobbyists to buy off our politicians?
Our economy woes are entirely thanks to big business and lazy, greedy politicians. What exactly do they want to "save"? They legislated and lobbied their way into a system that benefited them at the expense of true progress and the average Joe the Plumber.
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No joke. A friend of mine is an electrician. He was tired of his yellow or orange extension cables going missing from job sites. What did he do? Started buying purple and pink ones. Instead of 2 or 3 going missing a year, he has had one "walk away" in the last 6.
"Summary: Amid the latest "sexting" controversy, here is a proposal for a scientifically objective method to determine whether a picture constitutes child pornography. This is a harder problem than it seems, but not for the reasons you'd think. And it raises questions about how the same scientific principles could be applied to other matters of law."
That's the first paragraph. It mentions the word right off the bat. Surely a quick (sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit pics via camera phone) wouldn't have been too much of a pain. As it is I stopped reading the rest of the sentence and Googled it.
a summary that long dedicated to whatever the fuck it is and no actual definition.
at first I thought it might be a "sex sting". turns out it is sending pics of your "naughty bits" via camera phone.
Along those lines, I'd recommend SliTaz
Even better, BIOS updates should be disallowed when the jumper is removed. That way we know anyone carrying around a jumper in the pocket is likely a hacker and we can throw them into PITA prison.
PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Screw that. I want my memory cloth Batman cape!
That's a problem... at the national level. What needs to happen is people need to stop focusing on Washington and focus on their own back yard. Vote out local/state Reps/Dems; Weaken their community from the ground up.
You can't stop this in one fell swoop come an election year.
For 1,999 I'd hope with comes with 2 batteries and a butler to swap it out for you.
They've seriously overpriced this thing. Apple gets away with it because, well, they're Apple and they don't care. A Vista laptop with meh specs will not sell when there are 100s of other options for 1-1,500 less.
soon, though, cam companies will build in their own wi-fi, so this 'card stuff' has limited time before its irrelevant.
And we'll all throw the perfectly good cameras we own in the trash bin in order to upgrade?
Most of the people I know in their late 20's (including myself) are done with college (including grad school), have homes, have or are planning to have kids, more concerned with paying bills and beginning to save for retirement than they are with being a super genius.
So my question, is this hard biological evidence or psychology/sociology? I find it hard to believe that, at 27 (give or take) a switch is flicked that starts a downward spiral.
I'm wondering if the GP is talking about the lock-in of the hardware which != DRM
It is funny/sad though how Jobs/Apple supposedly bullied the music industry into letting them drop DRM, but believes it has the right to tell people what to do with their iPhones.
I have to agree with you there. Every time I goto a Blockbuster in my city I'm usually waiting in line to check out, popular movies are flying off the shelves...
The thing with Blockbuster is ... you pay when you rent. With Netflix you may not rent for a month, but you still pay. I reckon there are plenty of people that don't like the nickle and diming that we're taken for and stick with the tried and true.
Not to condone some of Blockbuster's BS over the last few years, but I don't think they'll vanish any time soon. I'm sure that sits just fine with Blockbuster, but also the media companies. They want people to want those lil discs.
No doubt. It is still the best deal out there. I have Blockbuster, my friends all seem to have Netflix. They also seem to whine about waiting for the mail, whereas I can goto the store, turn in my mailer flick and come home with one that day.
Netflix is like Google around here. Its virtues extolled by zealots what turn a blind eye to their shenanigans as it suits them.
How about this for prior art?
If all your money goes into taxes you have less to put into the economy to buy $NEW_SHINY_THING
I prefer people that are honest even if it means they be blunt in their words. One of my favorite quotes evar!...
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw
The research itself was never banned, and apparently thrived on private funding.
Thus allowing those with the means to afford the funding the rights to squander any breakthroughs for themselves (patents on treatments and methods of research similar to "DNA patents", etc). Seeing as how I don't have a few million laying around to throw at this, I don't mind federal money going towards it, so long as the research is openly accessible.
We'd have all the transparency with much less expense to individuals if we didn't have to PAY for these federal agencies in the first place. Let us give the money to the state rather than this cluster fuck in D.C.. At most the fed should have an agency that acts as a liaison between states for interstate crime/commerce and establish a few frameworks for open commerce and things like patents/copyright/etc. Then focus on global affairs, defense, all that noise. Giving them the authority to police within a states borders is helping them consolidate central authority.
What needs to happen is people need to get the state governments to tell the feds to fuck off more regularly. The only recent thing I can remember where any states have said "No." is over Real ID. States like Cali, that pay 100's of billions in federal taxes and get a miniscule return from them need to tell Congress to get stuffed.
You forgot the part about it somehow, some way, being litigated to death and never seeing the light of day.
I'm going to bring a lawsuit against every city and citizen of those cities that has active prostitutes on the streets. Afterall it's their tax dollars that created and maintain those streets, thus giving a place for prostitutes to congregate and "work".
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't the First Amendment only apply for to government bodies?
Huge debt we "just got saddled with"? You haven't been paying attention much for oh, say the last 30 years.
The economy that is. Or rather, should it be saved? If it means we still have ridiculous copyright and patent laws on the books? Government granted monopoly of what should be public infrastructure (cable/data/phone lines)? No real barrier for lobbyists to buy off our politicians?
Our economy woes are entirely thanks to big business and lazy, greedy politicians. What exactly do they want to "save"? They legislated and lobbied their way into a system that benefited them at the expense of true progress and the average Joe the Plumber.
e wheels on the bus go round and round?
I hadn't heard