I have no clue where your conclusions came from. Digitalized receipts? The point I got was Google's aim is intercepting more information in the typical transaction, which they will no doubt surrender to the government at the mildest accusation or repackage as customer profiling data for other merchants.
You understand that countries don't magically become authoritarian, don't you? You look at just about any "make law enforcement easier" law we pass, and soon some overzealous DA is stretching it like taffy. Hell, we've got prosecutors out here trying to get the sex offender registry to include prostitution johns!
Better yet, post a rumor that mGive has nude Natalie Portmann pics on their website, and watch as their servers are/.'d to steaming piles of goo. Not one dime will get through!
Huh? So, I guess texting $10 for aid relief made less sense than Googling for some victimized survivor and mailing him a $10 bill? Besides volunteering your time, what would you consider more effective? The whole point of aid organizations is that they "organize aid."
It's considered entrapment if they don't. If you read your local paper, you'll see checkpoints published. Of course, law enforcement is constantly trying to push the limits. After our local PDs started ramping up DUI checkpoints, they started restricting information on locations, shortening the lead time for announcements, etc.
Totally different circumstances. In this case, Iran phishing for certs is a terrorist act. In the other, the Israelis and we were liberating the...uh...oppressed alpha and beta particles from your research facilities.
There are three huge problems with what you just stated. First off, our recent Free Market system is exporting jobs overseas. Second, we're importing even more illegal immigrants to do labor work that Americans used to do. So, jobs aren't disappearing due to "efficiency," the Free Market is just handing them over to foreigners.
Finally, there are a lot of jobs disappearing because of cuts and shifts in government spending. Our infrastructure is being horribly maintained and not keeping up with the pace of other countries because these future proofing programs are easy to cut without the impact being immediately felt. Hell, even the IRS auditors that we keep cutting (who generate about 10/1 revenue for money spent on them) do work we need.
It's really simplistic to think that jobs are disappearing because the Coca-Cola plant has an automated bottle capper.
Maybe the infrastructure for downloading music for free is too entrenched, but I'm glad to see this starting to happen; not just for my savings but for the artists. The publishing industry might have legitimate costs, but when I read that Konrath [sic] article I was horrified by the crappy cut the authors were getting. I thought only unsaavy or unestablished bands were getting exploited like that.
Wow...just...wow. That first image is like a microcosm of our country's changed views on the market place. Reminds me of a matching graph from Discrete Math II.
Silly boy. It's cheaper and more effective to spend $100 million on an ad campaign telling people how much better coverage is than spending $1 billion to make it actually better.
You can get a business/management degree from practically anywhere, then get employed with a pretty good salary for some chain store or franchise for good money. Not to offend those with those degrees, but the classes are also easier which means you have the time to work a job to help support yourself through school. When I was under the engineering department in college, I learned that the hours necessary for studying/homework were too much to work a job to pay my bills. The department's head adviser even told me that no one had graduated otherwise.
The alternative is to get into a technical program that will probably be at a bigger (read: more expensive) college with a $300/semester engineering fee where you're going to need a sponsor to finance your education and living expenses (be that a parent or spouse).
Just my personal experience, but I'd call this a financial issue.
IANAL but I've always questioned the core illegality of being caught in a sting that isn't *really* illegal. By that I mean, he wasn't really engaging in a conversation with a 13 year old. All he actually did was talk dirty to an adult. Same with drug busts with fake cocaine or whatever. Have I truly committed a crime if I exchange a suitcase full of cash for bags of sugar?
Another problem I have is who these guys are catching. I watched a lot of To Catch a Predator and, while some guys seemed like Predators with a capital 'P', most of them seemed like total losers who figured they'd hit pay dirt for the first time in their lives ("omg a girl wants to have sex with me!"). Most were either really awkward or borderline mental cases. Are those the guys we're concerned about? I'm worried about the manipulators sophisticated enough to groom their victims; not send a JPG of their penis 2 minutes into an online conversation and then think they're going to get laid.
Judith Miller. To paraphrase a surprisingly insightful comment from Ben Affleck, the NYT might be revered by older generations who lived through their glory days, but as someone who started following politics around Clinton's impeachment, the first thing I saw them do was sell a bullshit war and quite probably staff CIA-friendly propagandists.
LOL like THAT will happen! Why should you expect this free download to be treated any differently than any other? Contrary to rationalization, movie and music downloaders aren't making a political statement. They just want shit for free.
I'm not a Hollywood insider, but I think the problem with Sci-Fi movies is the conflict between directors and producers. Sci-Fi movies are so expensive to produce you invariably end up with the accountants breathing down your neck to meet deadlines and keep things safe and accessible to the public. Hollywood knows how to make slick looking movies, but it always seems like the movies that fail do so because the storyline was altered for mass appeal.
Gotta have a cheesy love interest, tried and true plot elements, etc. And, it always seems like the sci-fi movies that I like never get much advertising; probably because they've already had such a big hit on the bank account. Hell, I never even heard of Pandorum until I saw it sitting on a shelf at Blockbuster!
And, what if your thinking is skewed with false information? Hmmmmm? Trust me, I debate people all the time with negligible knowledge of our own history.
You can't blame our citizens. Much of our education is propagandized. If you're curious, do some googling on how Conservative Texas school districts influence what's taught in public schools around the country. A few months ago, they were trying to get Thomas Jefferson scrubbed from history; and he's a Libertarian hero!
I disagree STRONGLY. Part of what the government has started to do to get around federal laws against data aggregation is to license access databases run by private entities. It's effectively the same thing, but legally not.
The worst thing that a private company can do to you? Surrender ALL of your records, communications, and travel history to the federal government the instant you are merely accused of a crime.
I like the concept, just not the application
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Knowing the difference in signal strength along 100 feet of sidewalk is pretty useless. Just throwing out an idea, I think it would be neat to use a NASA-ish artificially colored satellite view of a city. At different points; record say three different metrics; secured network strength, open network strength, and say number of networks. Assign each an RGB component and color your maps that way. You'd be able to quickly look at a map and determine based on color and intensity the approximate characteristics of WIFI all over a map.
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I have no clue where your conclusions came from. Digitalized receipts? The point I got was Google's aim is intercepting more information in the typical transaction, which they will no doubt surrender to the government at the mildest accusation or repackage as customer profiling data for other merchants.
You understand that countries don't magically become authoritarian, don't you? You look at just about any "make law enforcement easier" law we pass, and soon some overzealous DA is stretching it like taffy. Hell, we've got prosecutors out here trying to get the sex offender registry to include prostitution johns!
You probably made more before the sex change I bet, Tom...I mean Barbara.
Better yet, post a rumor that mGive has nude Natalie Portmann pics on their website, and watch as their servers are /.'d to steaming piles of goo. Not one dime will get through!
Huh? So, I guess texting $10 for aid relief made less sense than Googling for some victimized survivor and mailing him a $10 bill? Besides volunteering your time, what would you consider more effective? The whole point of aid organizations is that they "organize aid."
It's considered entrapment if they don't. If you read your local paper, you'll see checkpoints published. Of course, law enforcement is constantly trying to push the limits. After our local PDs started ramping up DUI checkpoints, they started restricting information on locations, shortening the lead time for announcements, etc.
In this sense, "investment" means future-proofing. If you drop $700 now, you won't likely be replacing your $200 card in 2 years.
So, did you ask her out?
They'll unleash a balrog that decimates civilization. No thanks, Mr. Smarty Pants scientists...
Totally different circumstances. In this case, Iran phishing for certs is a terrorist act. In the other, the Israelis and we were liberating the...uh...oppressed alpha and beta particles from your research facilities.
There are three huge problems with what you just stated. First off, our recent Free Market system is exporting jobs overseas. Second, we're importing even more illegal immigrants to do labor work that Americans used to do. So, jobs aren't disappearing due to "efficiency," the Free Market is just handing them over to foreigners.
Finally, there are a lot of jobs disappearing because of cuts and shifts in government spending. Our infrastructure is being horribly maintained and not keeping up with the pace of other countries because these future proofing programs are easy to cut without the impact being immediately felt. Hell, even the IRS auditors that we keep cutting (who generate about 10/1 revenue for money spent on them) do work we need.
It's really simplistic to think that jobs are disappearing because the Coca-Cola plant has an automated bottle capper.
Maybe the infrastructure for downloading music for free is too entrenched, but I'm glad to see this starting to happen; not just for my savings but for the artists. The publishing industry might have legitimate costs, but when I read that Konrath [sic] article I was horrified by the crappy cut the authors were getting. I thought only unsaavy or unestablished bands were getting exploited like that.
Wow...just...wow. That first image is like a microcosm of our country's changed views on the market place. Reminds me of a matching graph from Discrete Math II.
Silly boy. It's cheaper and more effective to spend $100 million on an ad campaign telling people how much better coverage is than spending $1 billion to make it actually better.
You can get a business/management degree from practically anywhere, then get employed with a pretty good salary for some chain store or franchise for good money. Not to offend those with those degrees, but the classes are also easier which means you have the time to work a job to help support yourself through school. When I was under the engineering department in college, I learned that the hours necessary for studying/homework were too much to work a job to pay my bills. The department's head adviser even told me that no one had graduated otherwise.
The alternative is to get into a technical program that will probably be at a bigger (read: more expensive) college with a $300/semester engineering fee where you're going to need a sponsor to finance your education and living expenses (be that a parent or spouse).
Just my personal experience, but I'd call this a financial issue.
There's a pretty big difference between self-sacrifice and suicide.
I imagine God wants to keep a close eye on those hooligans today of *all* days.
IANAL but I've always questioned the core illegality of being caught in a sting that isn't *really* illegal. By that I mean, he wasn't really engaging in a conversation with a 13 year old. All he actually did was talk dirty to an adult. Same with drug busts with fake cocaine or whatever. Have I truly committed a crime if I exchange a suitcase full of cash for bags of sugar?
Another problem I have is who these guys are catching. I watched a lot of To Catch a Predator and, while some guys seemed like Predators with a capital 'P', most of them seemed like total losers who figured they'd hit pay dirt for the first time in their lives ("omg a girl wants to have sex with me!"). Most were either really awkward or borderline mental cases. Are those the guys we're concerned about? I'm worried about the manipulators sophisticated enough to groom their victims; not send a JPG of their penis 2 minutes into an online conversation and then think they're going to get laid.
Judith Miller. To paraphrase a surprisingly insightful comment from Ben Affleck, the NYT might be revered by older generations who lived through their glory days, but as someone who started following politics around Clinton's impeachment, the first thing I saw them do was sell a bullshit war and quite probably staff CIA-friendly propagandists.
LOL like THAT will happen! Why should you expect this free download to be treated any differently than any other? Contrary to rationalization, movie and music downloaders aren't making a political statement. They just want shit for free.
I'm not a Hollywood insider, but I think the problem with Sci-Fi movies is the conflict between directors and producers. Sci-Fi movies are so expensive to produce you invariably end up with the accountants breathing down your neck to meet deadlines and keep things safe and accessible to the public. Hollywood knows how to make slick looking movies, but it always seems like the movies that fail do so because the storyline was altered for mass appeal.
Gotta have a cheesy love interest, tried and true plot elements, etc. And, it always seems like the sci-fi movies that I like never get much advertising; probably because they've already had such a big hit on the bank account. Hell, I never even heard of Pandorum until I saw it sitting on a shelf at Blockbuster!
And, what if your thinking is skewed with false information? Hmmmmm? Trust me, I debate people all the time with negligible knowledge of our own history.
You can't blame our citizens. Much of our education is propagandized. If you're curious, do some googling on how Conservative Texas school districts influence what's taught in public schools around the country. A few months ago, they were trying to get Thomas Jefferson scrubbed from history; and he's a Libertarian hero!
I disagree STRONGLY. Part of what the government has started to do to get around federal laws against data aggregation is to license access databases run by private entities. It's effectively the same thing, but legally not.
The worst thing that a private company can do to you? Surrender ALL of your records, communications, and travel history to the federal government the instant you are merely accused of a crime.
Knowing the difference in signal strength along 100 feet of sidewalk is pretty useless. Just throwing out an idea, I think it would be neat to use a NASA-ish artificially colored satellite view of a city. At different points; record say three different metrics; secured network strength, open network strength, and say number of networks. Assign each an RGB component and color your maps that way. You'd be able to quickly look at a map and determine based on color and intensity the approximate characteristics of WIFI all over a map.