Thanks for the moonbat viewpoint. I guess you can say the 9th is "upheld" if one of its rulings isn't granted certiorari. That is, if you want to ignore the usual interpretation of "upheld". But I guess using correct terminology would be "hypertechnical reliance" as the Florida Supreme Court would probably put it.
San Diego installed red light cameras years ago. The cops were all for it until they started getting hit with $371 fines themselves. Interestingly, the city had to turn the cameras off for a time when some enterprising folks discovered that the yellow light times had been deliberately shortened to entrap more people. There were a few other discoveries too, such as the cameras being run by a private company (Lockheed Martin at the time), and the cop who was supposed to "review" the tickets before they went out going on vacation and signing a bunch of blank forms so Lockheed Martin could cite people while he was gone. And then there were the threats by Lockheed Martin to sue people who wanted to subpoena the schematics, software, and calibration records of the cameras so they could contest their tickets.
I don't know by when it'll happen, but my assessment of human nature tells me that when we're able to drive inputs to our senses via computer, and are able to create completely real universes to drive those inputs, people will check out of the real physical world in favor of worlds they can construct for themselves. We've already got that to a large extent with some gamers who spend every possible minute in alternate realities like Second Life, World of Warcraft, or Everquest. Imagine how many more people would never emerge if the alternate reality were completely immersive and they could arrange it to their liking? And it wouldn't necessarily just be the furniture: if you didn't want the nuisance of real people occupying it it with you, you could create artificial people who would always be pleasureable to be around and keep you from being lonely.
I can't decide if this would be good, bad, or somewhere in between. It would essentially be creating a Heaven for yourself. Your body could physically reside in the worst hellhole on earth, you could be crippled or handicapped beyond repair, yet you'd be able to live the lifestyle of a god. Might be nice.
Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever attempted to put together malware-like programs that actually FIX the problems that real malware exploits? Maybe even expunging already-installed malware in the process? It sure seems leaving security up to the users isn't working.
In 1980 the BBC reported that Big Ben, in order to keep up with the times, was going to be given a digital readout. It received a huge response from listeners protesting the change. The BBC Japanese service also announced that the clock hands would be sold to the first four listeners to contact them, and one Japanese seaman in the mid-Atlantic immediately radioed in a bid.
- Museum of Hoaxes #35 (Google cache. Real site seems to be down today. One guess as to why.)
Being an American, I plead ignorance regarding the EU constitution, but, A) Did it ever get ratified, and B) can this move possibly be legal under that document? If so, I'd say it's time to give it its first amendment (irony intended).
The plaintiffs also contend that the company and its executives participated in a "widespread, long-running scheme to defraud" shareholders and inflate Dell's stock price, said Lerach, head of law firm Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP in San Diego.
This is the firm that's made a tidy living sueing the hell out of public companies whose stock drops suddenly. Guess the stock market is doing so well that they've decided to sue for prices going in the upward direction as well. Usually the target settles out of court because winning the legal battle would cost them more. A few years back they sued a company whose stock I own. In that case the company fought them off, but it cost me and the other stockholders (in whose names Lerach was sueing, thank you so much) several million. May Lerach and his ilk rot in hell.
Would it be a 'bribe' for me to hire a criminal defense attorney and experts to poke holes in the prosecution's case if I were accused of a crime? That's how I see what's being described here. This is a company being accused of environmentally inimical behavior and wanting to find out if there are flaws in the case being made against it.
While the media has clearly been irresponsible in recent years and all-too accommodating for the abuses of power with which the country must now grapple, I tend to doubt that the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine would be either constitutional or even a good idea.
In the days before the Supreme Court upheld "Campaign Finance Reform" (in which it's illegal for independent broadcast advertisments to name or show the likeness of a candidate) I might have agreed with you. Now, I'm not so sure.
I entered a bunch of my CDs into the music CD database CDDB (now Gracenote), thinking that the database's contents would remain public domain or at least freely usable. Then it was sold and the company that owned it forbade access by media applications without a fee. Thousands of people like me voluntarily built that thing, and now they wanted to sell it back to us. Any organization asking for my help on future projects had better have an ironclad guarantee that my work product will remain free to users.
as well as the '90s invasion of Usenet by AOL subscribers. Whatever its disadvantages, I think the Morse requirement filtered out dilettantes, who wound up as faux Southern rednecks over on the Citizens Band freqs. 10-4, good buddy?
Looks like the people who are always bleating about "equal time" only mean it when that translates into more time for them. Fox News comes along and goes against the prevailing spin and you'd think it was a rip in the fabric of space/time. The Pentagon decides to put up a web page that contradicts mainstream media coverage and it's the establishment of a Ministry of Propaganda. Just what is it about counter-argument that makes people lose their minds like this? Afraid that maybe their ideas can't be defended?
Wasn't a big reason this was enacted because the feds couldn't get the governor of Louisiana to authorize deployment of the National Guard or request federal assistance during Katrina until it was too late for them to do any good? The Bush administration got a lot of flak for not doing enough to help out. If you want the feds to be able to do more in an emergency, don't you have to give them these sorts of powers? Otherwise, they have to resort to begging local politicians to request their assistance so they can act.
Probably the longest-lasting human artifacts would be purely-ceramic items like toilets and sinks (yes, and pottery, but there'd be a lot more toilets and sinks). They're essentially impervious to anything but crushing, so unless they're located near a subduction zone where they'd get sucked down into the earth by plate movement eventually, they'd be around for a very long time. Sort of humbling to think that mankind's most durable legacy would be millions of crappers.
How about, instead of completely removing offending videos (of course, I exclude videos that violate laws like child porn in this proposal), YouTube simply moves them behind a page that warns the viewer? "THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN FLAGGED AS OFFENSIVE/INAPPROPRIATE/VOMIT-INDUCING BY 12345 YOUTUBE MEMBERS. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK". If you go ahead and view it anyway, you were warned.
What massively parallel tasks would possibly need 80 cores?
Just as Gates couldn't imagine what anyone would want with more memory than 640KB, we can't imagine what people will do with 80 cores. I'm confident in predicting that they'll find ways to use every bit of that capacity and demand more.
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If candidates wanted the debate released to the public, wouldn't it have been more useful to make that part of the terms up front?
Thanks for the moonbat viewpoint. I guess you can say the 9th is "upheld" if one of its rulings isn't granted certiorari. That is, if you want to ignore the usual interpretation of "upheld". But I guess using correct terminology would be "hypertechnical reliance" as the Florida Supreme Court would probably put it.
... the 9th rules in your favor. More of its rulings are reversed than upheld.
... use the name 'Bill'.
San Diego installed red light cameras years ago. The cops were all for it until they started getting hit with $371 fines themselves. Interestingly, the city had to turn the cameras off for a time when some enterprising folks discovered that the yellow light times had been deliberately shortened to entrap more people. There were a few other discoveries too, such as the cameras being run by a private company (Lockheed Martin at the time), and the cop who was supposed to "review" the tickets before they went out going on vacation and signing a bunch of blank forms so Lockheed Martin could cite people while he was gone. And then there were the threats by Lockheed Martin to sue people who wanted to subpoena the schematics, software, and calibration records of the cameras so they could contest their tickets.
I don't know by when it'll happen, but my assessment of human nature tells me that when we're able to drive inputs to our senses via computer, and are able to create completely real universes to drive those inputs, people will check out of the real physical world in favor of worlds they can construct for themselves. We've already got that to a large extent with some gamers who spend every possible minute in alternate realities like Second Life, World of Warcraft, or Everquest. Imagine how many more people would never emerge if the alternate reality were completely immersive and they could arrange it to their liking? And it wouldn't necessarily just be the furniture: if you didn't want the nuisance of real people occupying it it with you, you could create artificial people who would always be pleasureable to be around and keep you from being lonely.
I can't decide if this would be good, bad, or somewhere in between. It would essentially be creating a Heaven for yourself. Your body could physically reside in the worst hellhole on earth, you could be crippled or handicapped beyond repair, yet you'd be able to live the lifestyle of a god. Might be nice.
Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever attempted to put together malware-like programs that actually FIX the problems that real malware exploits? Maybe even expunging already-installed malware in the process? It sure seems leaving security up to the users isn't working.
If 3d printers are able to work with steel, I'm betting a lot of people will manufacture weapons.
Thanks a lot, Pirate Bay!
- Museum of Hoaxes #35 (Google cache. Real site seems to be down today. One guess as to why.)
Being an American, I plead ignorance regarding the EU constitution, but, A) Did it ever get ratified, and B) can this move possibly be legal under that document? If so, I'd say it's time to give it its first amendment (irony intended).
I have that one on a laminated pocket card they issued me the first day of Programming School.
If he compromises a system in order to read it, he's got all that he needs to plant the evidence.
Unfortunately, no. I've long wanted a "loser pays" provision in US tort law, but the plaintiff's bar always manages to head off such a measure.
This is the firm that's made a tidy living sueing the hell out of public companies whose stock drops suddenly. Guess the stock market is doing so well that they've decided to sue for prices going in the upward direction as well. Usually the target settles out of court because winning the legal battle would cost them more. A few years back they sued a company whose stock I own. In that case the company fought them off, but it cost me and the other stockholders (in whose names Lerach was sueing, thank you so much) several million. May Lerach and his ilk rot in hell.
Would it be a 'bribe' for me to hire a criminal defense attorney and experts to poke holes in the prosecution's case if I were accused of a crime? That's how I see what's being described here. This is a company being accused of environmentally inimical behavior and wanting to find out if there are flaws in the case being made against it.
In the days before the Supreme Court upheld "Campaign Finance Reform" (in which it's illegal for independent broadcast advertisments to name or show the likeness of a candidate) I might have agreed with you. Now, I'm not so sure.
1. Where do you live?
2. Do you own any guns?
/Yeah, I'm kidding.
// As far as you know
I entered a bunch of my CDs into the music CD database CDDB (now Gracenote), thinking that the database's contents would remain public domain or at least freely usable. Then it was sold and the company that owned it forbade access by media applications without a fee. Thousands of people like me voluntarily built that thing, and now they wanted to sell it back to us. Any organization asking for my help on future projects had better have an ironclad guarantee that my work product will remain free to users.
as well as the '90s invasion of Usenet by AOL subscribers. Whatever its disadvantages, I think the Morse requirement filtered out dilettantes, who wound up as faux Southern rednecks over on the Citizens Band freqs. 10-4, good buddy?
Get off my lawn.
Looks like the people who are always bleating about "equal time" only mean it when that translates into more time for them. Fox News comes along and goes against the prevailing spin and you'd think it was a rip in the fabric of space/time. The Pentagon decides to put up a web page that contradicts mainstream media coverage and it's the establishment of a Ministry of Propaganda. Just what is it about counter-argument that makes people lose their minds like this? Afraid that maybe their ideas can't be defended?
Wasn't a big reason this was enacted because the feds couldn't get the governor of Louisiana to authorize deployment of the National Guard or request federal assistance during Katrina until it was too late for them to do any good? The Bush administration got a lot of flak for not doing enough to help out. If you want the feds to be able to do more in an emergency, don't you have to give them these sorts of powers? Otherwise, they have to resort to begging local politicians to request their assistance so they can act.
Probably the longest-lasting human artifacts would be purely-ceramic items like toilets and sinks (yes, and pottery, but there'd be a lot more toilets and sinks). They're essentially impervious to anything but crushing, so unless they're located near a subduction zone where they'd get sucked down into the earth by plate movement eventually, they'd be around for a very long time. Sort of humbling to think that mankind's most durable legacy would be millions of crappers.
How about, instead of completely removing offending videos (of course, I exclude videos that violate laws like child porn in this proposal), YouTube simply moves them behind a page that warns the viewer? "THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN FLAGGED AS OFFENSIVE/INAPPROPRIATE/VOMIT-INDUCING BY 12345 YOUTUBE MEMBERS. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK". If you go ahead and view it anyway, you were warned.
Just as Gates couldn't imagine what anyone would want with more memory than 640KB, we can't imagine what people will do with 80 cores. I'm confident in predicting that they'll find ways to use every bit of that capacity and demand more.