It can also be deadly. A friend of mine gave me the Chicken Pox which, within 2 weeks, lead to bacterial endocarditis, spinal meningitis, pneumonia and Reye's syndrome. Note that the US didn't start using the Chicken Pox vaccine until 1995; it hit me in the 1970's. Fortunately my parents found the doctors I needed and I'm alive today.
I wonder how many children die every year because other parents don't want to get their children vacinated.
Dear parents, please stop fucking with herd immunity!
They are organic. Organic signifies no pesticides/etc. Genetically modified is just creative breeding (with some other species of course), but there is nothing *unhealthy* sprayed on them or added to the soil.
Seems like the local IT would rise up in opposition.
Are you kidding? All that spectrum no longer being used? We could have wireless internet at gigabit speeds on mountain tops! And thanks to the ban on EM radiation, no-one will be allowed to use the equipment needed to detect that we're doing it!
I'm not going for "better", I'm going for "correct". If the article author can't come up with an accurate logical premise, they shouldn't be using it as an argument. Especially being a lawyer.
I'm IN Canada genius. And the incident I was referencing (with the 1,000,000 cost) also hapened in Canada to a Canadian. She even had their seatbelt on at the time. Her leg was crushed requiring many recontructive surgeries and the loss of several months pay due to the inability to continue working as a waitress with a shattered leg.
HP ProBooks barely get 2 hours. The system76 machines are also limited in their battery life. You also need to cut the "advertised" battery life to about 50-75% to get real-world values (which knocks out the ZaReason ones as well). For comparison, I currently get at least 6 hours out of the x220 I did end up purchasing, and I haven't even bothered with power management software other than powertop yet.
A lot of employment contracts actually restrict what type of companies you are allowed to work for for a specified duration of time after your current employment ends. This is to prevent trade secret/etc from falling to competitors and IS perfectly legal as long as the restrictions are reasonable (not 10 years and the limitations not overly broad). Some jurisdictions also require that the limitations be for within a certain area (5Km from previous employement, etc).
VoIP wiretapping is easy if you you run the VoIP server the person is calling - how do you think all those wonderful call centers record your conversations "for training purposes" ?
Have you noticed that most of the landline companies and most of the cellular companies are actually the SAME companies? Why would they compete against themselves?
Actually no. It's like posting a bunch of recipes in post-it form on the community bullitin board, where anyone *can* find them, but won't unless they look. Then going around 10 years later and demanding money from anyone making those types of cookies, whether they evere even saw your post-its or not.
The summary contains a HUGE oversight.
why it would be A-OK for dozens of already megarich corporations to get even richer adopting technology they did not invent
Just because someone else invented something before you does NOT mean you did not ALSO invent it. His reasoning only makes sense if everyone already knew it had been invented. If I come up with a really good cookie recipe but only publish it in one recipe book (that few people bought), I can't really go after you if you happen to come up with a similar recipe without having ever seen mine!
I'm talking about Canada here, so it may be different elsewhere: If a contract is found to be overly biased to one side or includes any pieces not allowed by law, the ENTIRE contract can be deemed invalid in court, not just the offending part. By adding that simply line, they can say "that part of the contract doesn't apply to you" and avoid having the contract thrown out in court.
IANAL, but the "all or nothing" part was explained to me in a college law class.
Did you really just compare mass-renaming of files to common text editing? One is a something mostly used by server admins, the other is done by minimum wage secretaries. Not to mention his example was probably type out in less time that most office computers (that was your example, correct?) take to OPEN word. 2 more minutes and you could easily bullet-proof that code to accept anything short of unicode.
Easy fix for the "duplicate" issue.
for i in * do echo $i | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]; done | sort | uniq | grep -v "^1 " ||
That line will spit out any name that appear twice. If any are found it will stop the next command from running. And yes, I did that almost entirely from memory.
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It can also be deadly. A friend of mine gave me the Chicken Pox which, within 2 weeks, lead to bacterial endocarditis, spinal meningitis, pneumonia and Reye's syndrome. Note that the US didn't start using the Chicken Pox vaccine until 1995; it hit me in the 1970's. Fortunately my parents found the doctors I needed and I'm alive today.
I wonder how many children die every year because other parents don't want to get their children vacinated.
Dear parents, please stop fucking with herd immunity!
ButButBut, he didn't BUY the seeds, he LICENSED them!
They are organic. Organic signifies no pesticides/etc. Genetically modified is just creative breeding (with some other species of course), but there is nothing *unhealthy* sprayed on them or added to the soil.
Why not?
Because it is pandering to a false belief (that wifi harms people).
You do know which group we are talking about here don't you?
Seems like the local IT would rise up in opposition.
Are you kidding? All that spectrum no longer being used? We could have wireless internet at gigabit speeds on mountain tops! And thanks to the ban on EM radiation, no-one will be allowed to use the equipment needed to detect that we're doing it!
I'm not going for "better", I'm going for "correct". If the article author can't come up with an accurate logical premise, they shouldn't be using it as an argument. Especially being a lawyer.
I'm IN Canada genius. And the incident I was referencing (with the 1,000,000 cost) also hapened in Canada to a Canadian. She even had their seatbelt on at the time. Her leg was crushed requiring many recontructive surgeries and the loss of several months pay due to the inability to continue working as a waitress with a shattered leg.
HP ProBooks barely get 2 hours. The system76 machines are also limited in their battery life. You also need to cut the "advertised" battery life to about 50-75% to get real-world values (which knocks out the ZaReason ones as well). For comparison, I currently get at least 6 hours out of the x220 I did end up purchasing, and I haven't even bothered with power management software other than powertop yet.
NoNoNoNo, The problem is submitting a report. Kind of useful when you think about it!
Simon Frase University?
Please cite an API released by Microsoft in the last 5 years that uses Hungarian notation.
You must be one of those people who are trapped in 1995, and make jokes about Windows giving a RSOD.
There, happy?
If you're using drop-downs and text-boxes, you aren't really programming now are you?
A lot of employment contracts actually restrict what type of companies you are allowed to work for for a specified duration of time after your current employment ends. This is to prevent trade secret/etc from falling to competitors and IS perfectly legal as long as the restrictions are reasonable (not 10 years and the limitations not overly broad). Some jurisdictions also require that the limitations be for within a certain area (5Km from previous employement, etc).
VoIP wiretapping is easy if you you run the VoIP server the person is calling - how do you think all those wonderful call centers record your conversations "for training purposes" ?
Have you noticed that most of the landline companies and most of the cellular companies are actually the SAME companies? Why would they compete against themselves?
There's no such thing as a free call, unless you're using a gifted solar powered HAM radio.
The summary contains a HUGE oversight.
why it would be A-OK for dozens of already megarich corporations to get even richer adopting technology they did not invent
Just because someone else invented something before you does NOT mean you did not ALSO invent it. His reasoning only makes sense if everyone already knew it had been invented. If I come up with a really good cookie recipe but only publish it in one recipe book (that few people bought), I can't really go after you if you happen to come up with a similar recipe without having ever seen mine!
I'm talking about Canada here, so it may be different elsewhere: If a contract is found to be overly biased to one side or includes any pieces not allowed by law, the ENTIRE contract can be deemed invalid in court, not just the offending part. By adding that simply line, they can say "that part of the contract doesn't apply to you" and avoid having the contract thrown out in court.
IANAL, but the "all or nothing" part was explained to me in a college law class.
Did you really just compare mass-renaming of files to common text editing? One is a something mostly used by server admins, the other is done by minimum wage secretaries. Not to mention his example was probably type out in less time that most office computers (that was your example, correct?) take to OPEN word. 2 more minutes and you could easily bullet-proof that code to accept anything short of unicode.
Easy fix for the "duplicate" issue.
for i in * do echo $i | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]; done | sort | uniq | grep -v "^1 " ||
That line will spit out any name that appear twice. If any are found it will stop the next command from running. And yes, I did that almost entirely from memory.
upsidedownternet meet canuckernet!
with money "stolen" from the government through tax evasion and could have been spent on saving lives (hospitals, etc) decades earlier.
Hey, if CSI can have 2 people typing on 1 keyboard, slashdot can surely have 1 person typing on 2 keyboards!
Yes, but will they lower the price, or do you just get a second iPhone given to you to use as a paperweight?
Come one, come all, step right up. Hit all the soldiers and win a free fully-loaded robo-pet!