Presuming you don't necessarily mean that, but this is/. , so have to examine.
Let's assume that the prisoners in question are young (so as to be physically capable of the trip), so we'll start at age 25. Let's also assume that their life expectancy in prison is 50 years. So, the math at that point is fairly simple, so long as we don't calculate for the additional expense of medical care that geriatric prisoners incur in their waning years.
Using the report at http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/statsbrief/cost.html/ as our guide, let's assume that your average prisoner costs $55/day to house and feed.. So, discounting any other costs and inflation, the cost of keeping an average prisoner in jail for 50 years is around $1,000,000 (based on $55/day * 365 * 50).
Not sure, by that standard, that it would be cheaper to shoot them into space on a one-way trip to Mars, given the cost of fuel and the various other things to keep them alive. I mean, yeah, you get free labor and all, but unless the plan is to send them up as mere lab rats or unskilled labor, you'd presumably have to teach them to do stuff that they may not know, unless you pick an exceptional prisoner (someone w/ an MD or something like that..
Still, probably a good cost:benefit ratio, all told.
The fact that it is 67 million IPs versus 67 million customers means that it could potentially INCREASE the number of customers impacted, based on the presumption that more than one user (via NAT) is in a given location served by a single IP address.
Wouldn't that make the theoretical (theoretical since, as many have already pointed out, the assumption is that the vast majority of Wikipedia users are not making edits..) impact greater?
I looked at those ranges in bluetack, and I think it is fair to say that the majority of those users potentially impacted are Verizon customers, with a smattering of Comcast and others.
Just in case anyone wants to actually read it:
Section 701 of Title 18 of the US Code
Section 709 of Title 18 of the US Code
Section 712 of Title 18 of the US Code
The phone had virtually no in-store presence, and the staff at the two (corporate) T-Mobile stores I tried basically said that since they don't have one to show and cannot give accurate advice on it, there was no reason for anyone to buy one.
Also, apart from the Blackberries they sell and a few other random (non-smart) phones, none of them offer UMA, which is a deal-breaker for me. Without the UMA option, my signal strength in the two places I use it most (at home and at work) is essentially zero. So, I'm a long-time (going on 10 years now) T-Mobile customer (and was a VoiceStream one before Deutche Telecom bought them and renamed them T-Mobile) kept in place by "Golden Handcuffs", namely a plan they do not offer anyone but that is too good to pass up.. I pay $45/month for 1000 Minutes/Unlimited Texts/Unlimited Data (Via the Blackberry data plan) and free nights and weekends.
If I read the opinion correctly, the fact that the messages were examined for a non-disciplinary reason (in this case, to ascertain if the upper limit on characters sent per month was sufficient to encompass all of the required official communications) made it legally "ok" for them to do so. If the rationale behind the examination was for a disciplinary or other reasons, the search would not have been reasonable.
That said, I read the entire opinion, and there is a nuance in what was decided that seems to have been overlooked here, at least thus far.
In the case in question, the police officer named in the suit was using his work-issue pager to send personal messages, but the initial inquiry was a result of the good-faith request of the police chief to check into whether the issue was that the number of characters per month (set at 25,000) that had been contracted with Arch Wireless was sufficient to the task. Only upon examination of the details of those transmissions did the personal nature of them come into focus.
If I read the opinion correctly, the fact that the messages were examined for a non-disciplinary reason (in this case, to ascertain if the upper limit on characters sent per month was sufficient to encompass all of the required official communications.
I have to imagine that there are a subset of fatal traffic accidents out there that would not have been fatal had the vehicle(s) in question been traveling at the posted speed limit.
You know, I've always heard that, but it took some perspective as an adult to realize what unrealistic crap that is.
Unless you happen to live in an area with an excellent public transportation system, and also happen to work somewhere with one, it seems like driving is positively necessary to, you know, pay the bills and all.
You might argue that one could walk or ride a bicycle or something, but that simply does not reflect the way that the vast majority of people get around. The average commute in the US is 16 miles. That is a distance that is not casually covered in anything but a motor vehicle.
T-Mobile has one thing that none of the other carriers seem to, which is UMA support.
While I agree that they seem to have the smallest network footprint among the three or four "Major Carriers" in the US, the fact that I can use WiFi instead of the cellular network overcomes pretty much all of those concerns for me.
For example, when I'm home (in a rural part of Chester County, PA), my cell signal from T-Mobile is only around 1 bar (of 5), but as I have a WiFi network at home, it doesn't matter at all. Also, I travel overseas quite a bit, and the fact that a call from, say, France, is treated as a local call (so long as I'm connected via UMA) overcomes just about any reticence I'd have over using T-Mobile.
The real shame is that none of the other carriers seem to offer this option, and the majority of the T-Mobile phones no longer offer it either. I've stuck with my Blackberry mainly because of its UMA compatibility. If any of the Android phones (notably the Nexus One) or the iPhone offered this, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
I don't know how (or IF) this would skew the numbers involved, but if you just navigate to the page and start it up, then switch tabs or whatever, PacMan moves one dot to the left and gets stuck on a wall.
I've had it running with this in the same position for several hours now, and the ghosts circle but NEVER kill it.
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Actually, it was "invented" by a German in 1918 and proposed for the US in 1921.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/04/value-added-tax-opinions-columnists-bartlett.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=GvWYhJI1UVoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (page 4)
Presuming you don't necessarily mean that, but this is /. , so have to examine.
Let's assume that the prisoners in question are young (so as to be physically capable of the trip), so we'll start at age 25. Let's also assume that their life expectancy in prison is 50 years. So, the math at that point is fairly simple, so long as we don't calculate for the additional expense of medical care that geriatric prisoners incur in their waning years.
Using the report at http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/statsbrief/cost.html/ as our guide, let's assume that your average prisoner costs $55/day to house and feed.. So, discounting any other costs and inflation, the cost of keeping an average prisoner in jail for 50 years is around $1,000,000 (based on $55/day * 365 * 50).
Not sure, by that standard, that it would be cheaper to shoot them into space on a one-way trip to Mars, given the cost of fuel and the various other things to keep them alive. I mean, yeah, you get free labor and all, but unless the plan is to send them up as mere lab rats or unskilled labor, you'd presumably have to teach them to do stuff that they may not know, unless you pick an exceptional prisoner (someone w/ an MD or something like that..
Still, probably a good cost:benefit ratio, all told.
Agree with your two latter points, but curious..
The fact that it is 67 million IPs versus 67 million customers means that it could potentially INCREASE the number of customers impacted, based on the presumption that more than one user (via NAT) is in a given location served by a single IP address.
Wouldn't that make the theoretical (theoretical since, as many have already pointed out, the assumption is that the vast majority of Wikipedia users are not making edits..) impact greater? I looked at those ranges in bluetack, and I think it is fair to say that the majority of those users potentially impacted are Verizon customers, with a smattering of Comcast and others.
All of your questions, answered:
http://xkcd.com/792/
Just in case anyone wants to actually read it:
Section 701 of Title 18 of the US Code
Section 709 of Title 18 of the US Code
Section 712 of Title 18 of the US Code
Cheap AND easy?? You can count me in!
Watch Out!
Paramount might feel the need to sue over your unlicensed use of their intellectual property.
Hey, that's the combination on my luggage!
Ok, that thing is awesome!
Mod parent up!
And thus the obligatory "Slashdot automobile analogy" requirement is fulfilled.
It was a case in Dover, PA.
The "Intelligent Design" folks had their collective asses kicked.
The phone had virtually no in-store presence, and the staff at the two (corporate) T-Mobile stores I tried basically said that since they don't have one to show and cannot give accurate advice on it, there was no reason for anyone to buy one.
Also, apart from the Blackberries they sell and a few other random (non-smart) phones, none of them offer UMA, which is a deal-breaker for me. Without the UMA option, my signal strength in the two places I use it most (at home and at work) is essentially zero. So, I'm a long-time (going on 10 years now) T-Mobile customer (and was a VoiceStream one before Deutche Telecom bought them and renamed them T-Mobile) kept in place by "Golden Handcuffs", namely a plan they do not offer anyone but that is too good to pass up.. I pay $45/month for 1000 Minutes/Unlimited Texts/Unlimited Data (Via the Blackberry data plan) and free nights and weekends.
But wait, isn't the Earth only 6000 years old?
Stage a coo? As in a pigeon call?
If I read the opinion correctly, the fact that the messages were examined for a non-disciplinary reason (in this case, to ascertain if the upper limit on characters sent per month was sufficient to encompass all of the required official communications) made it legally "ok" for them to do so. If the rationale behind the examination was for a disciplinary or other reasons, the search would not have been reasonable.
That said, I read the entire opinion, and there is a nuance in what was decided that seems to have been overlooked here, at least thus far.
In the case in question, the police officer named in the suit was using his work-issue pager to send personal messages, but the initial inquiry was a result of the good-faith request of the police chief to check into whether the issue was that the number of characters per month (set at 25,000) that had been contracted with Arch Wireless was sufficient to the task. Only upon examination of the details of those transmissions did the personal nature of them come into focus.
If I read the opinion correctly, the fact that the messages were examined for a non-disciplinary reason (in this case, to ascertain if the upper limit on characters sent per month was sufficient to encompass all of the required official communications.
I am the master of the twit.
Remember this fucking face. Whenever you see twit, you'll see this fucking face. I make that shit work.
It does whatever the fuck I tell it to. No one rules the twit like me. Not this little fuck.
None of you little fucks out there. I AM THE twit COMMANDER! Remember that, commander of all twits! When it comes down to business, this is what I do
Or maybe Whistler's Mother, which was around in 1871..
I have to imagine that there are a subset of fatal traffic accidents out there that would not have been fatal had the vehicle(s) in question been traveling at the posted speed limit.
Unless you happen to live in an area with an excellent public transportation system, and also happen to work somewhere with one, it seems like driving is positively necessary to, you know, pay the bills and all.
You might argue that one could walk or ride a bicycle or something, but that simply does not reflect the way that the vast majority of people get around. The average commute in the US is 16 miles. That is a distance that is not casually covered in anything but a motor vehicle.
I'm not trying to troll here, it just seems to me that there are many reasons a jurisdiction might set a speed limit to a specific number.
I don't imagine that it is outside the realm of possibility that a jurisdiction might set an artificially low speed limit to:
1. Generate ticket income.
2. Increase gas mileage.
3. Reduce CO2 emissions.
4. Encourage use of public transportation.
While I agree that they seem to have the smallest network footprint among the three or four "Major Carriers" in the US, the fact that I can use WiFi instead of the cellular network overcomes pretty much all of those concerns for me.
For example, when I'm home (in a rural part of Chester County, PA), my cell signal from T-Mobile is only around 1 bar (of 5), but as I have a WiFi network at home, it doesn't matter at all. Also, I travel overseas quite a bit, and the fact that a call from, say, France, is treated as a local call (so long as I'm connected via UMA) overcomes just about any reticence I'd have over using T-Mobile.
The real shame is that none of the other carriers seem to offer this option, and the majority of the T-Mobile phones no longer offer it either. I've stuck with my Blackberry mainly because of its UMA compatibility. If any of the Android phones (notably the Nexus One) or the iPhone offered this, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
I don't know how (or IF) this would skew the numbers involved, but if you just navigate to the page and start it up, then switch tabs or whatever, PacMan moves one dot to the left and gets stuck on a wall.
I've had it running with this in the same position for several hours now, and the ghosts circle but NEVER kill it.
Nowhere in TFA does it explain what you get for the $20-$30 that will be forked over to Walgreens.. Does that just buy you a tube and an envelope?
And to prevent Poor Jenny from getting called all day and night. Tommy TuTone, anyone?