I mostly agree, but I think there's an intermediate goal of having the US withdraw its support for Israel, so that they can wipe out Israel. Why they think Israel would sit idly on its nuclear weapons while this happens is a mystery to me.
I don't think the final objective is wiping out just the US and Israel, but rather all infidels.
If the child has not yet reached the age where they are allowed to engage in activities without parental or some other form of supervision, then they are too young to need a cell phone. Consequently, this age will probably fall somewhat in line with the legal driving age most of the time.
Holy sheltered kids, Batman! I can remember going over to friend's houses unsupervised in 6th grade. I let my (soon-to-be) 2nd grader go around the block now on his bike (I live in a pretty safe suburban neighborhood). Kids need their own space. Having Mom and Dad watch their every move will not help their development.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Civil disobedience is when you publicly violate the law and accept or even invite punishment for it. Using a file sharing network to share copyrighted materials is not civil disobedience; it is breaking the law and hoping not to get caught. Big difference.
>Really, nobody has a problem with buying music, just the price.
What does this mean? People don't have problems buying things that are free?
>The market is speaking, adopt or die. Laws fail when the fly in the face of what the majority want.
What makes you think that a majority of people (not just Slashdot users, the rest of society) want file sharing of copyrighted materials to be legal? What is preventing the majority from acting?
The story submitter took one word, fastest, and used it out of context.
Article: "the carbon-fiber craft is one of the lightest and fastest in its class"
Story: "BusinessWeek looks at the world's fastest kayak"
Neither the MIT-educated engineer or the BusinessWeek writer said it was the fastest; the story submitter (who presumably did not go to MIT) did. So you shouldn't wonder about what kind of people go to MIT, but instead should wonder about those who submit (and edit) Slashdot stories.
>Of course, they could simply make the user used to connect to the database unable to modify those tables. There's no reason for them to have that access.
Yes, this is a good idea. Even if the database user had read-only privileges, though, SQL injection might allow attackers to run "unapproved" queries. For example, an outer join over all the elements might bring the database server to its knees (if the Slashdot effect hasn't done that already). So you'd want both - defense in depth is always a good idea (I don't mean to suggest that you believe otherwise).
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http://debugmode.com/wink/ Wink is sweet. Version 2.0 does audio, too. Huge time saver for demoing problems. Freeware, too. Plus, you can create EXEs for users who don't have Flash.
(e)Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Other Government Activities.-- This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, information security, or intelligence activity of an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or a person acting pursuant to a contract with the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State.
So the DMCA authors did think of this. They didn't necessarily mean to give the NSA free reign to read your emails (the authors were probably thinking of foreign communications), but they certainly created a big exception for the three letter agencies.
If there's no shield law, meeting with sources in secret isn't going to help. If you know their name, and you're compelled to testify, you have to give it up or go to jail. It doesn't matter if you met with them in person, over a disposable cellphone, via IM, etc.
>Insurance - especially car insurance, which one is required by law to carry - is forced extortion. I have seen denied claims, paid claims with increased premiums that beyond-covered the paid-out claim, my own insurance premiums rise after my car was hit while parked, etc., etc., etc.
At the risk of nitpicking, in the four states where I've registered car insurance, only liability insurance was required. Comprehensive and collision coverage is not required by law, though it will be required by contract if you're leasing or still paying off your car. I typically drop comp & collision coverage when my car gets below $10K in value.
If this datacenter has any customers after having two generator failures in less than twelve months, I'm going to move to L.A. and start selling datacenter services. Apparently, folks in L.A. just aren't that bright. Seriously, why would anyone stay there?
but the big drug companies went to the FDA against the doctor who had a good success rate for curing colon/stomach cancer because one of the chemicals used was not FDA approved
This sounds FUDish, unless the doctor was trying to market the treatment. IANAMD, but I thought doctors could prescribe any legal treatment, regardless of FDA approval. (By legal, I mean they can't prescribe some controlled substances like cocaine, heroin, etc.) For example, chicken soup is not FDA-approved, but the doctor can prescribe it for you. FDA approval is approval for marketing the treatment.
I disagree. From a US perspective, Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Discover have approximately 100% penetration. OK, there's a few people (privacy nuts, mostly -- no offense) who don't have a CC, but you're far more likely to find someone without a bank account than you are to find someone without one of these credit card accounts. I've never heard of Delta, Maestro, Visa Electron, or Solo.
A bank account may be more useful for sellers (how exactly do you add money to your Visa account, anyway?), but I don't know why a buyer would prefer to have eBay withdraw from a bank account. I know people can go both ways, so to speak, but for people who mostly buy, I think Checkout is fine.
I've never heard of them before, but if Best Buy's "Geek Squad" people are as incompetent as they appear to be on this thread, I'd leave a virtual copy of my business card on the customer's desktop, with rates for repair.
The Geek Squad guys may not know much about computers, but I bet they'd figure out when one of their subcontractors is trying to cut out the middleman, and that would be the end of your relationship with Geek Squad.
Since none of the issues important to the PP are decided at the local level, can you explain how a PP mayor would govern differently from a non-PP mayor? You'd need to broaden the PP's platform to include issues that have some local effect, such as free municpal Wi-Fi.
I think that starting a 527 committee and/or hiring a lobbyist is a better idea. Put together some well placed bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions to existing Congressional representatives (since your chances of getting one elected are, to a first approximation, zero) to get them on your side.
Tracking someone is already easy to do. Yes, Verizon makes it easier for a stalker by doing the method you mention, but it'd be kind of silly. What's the battery life of a typical cell phone? A week, maybe? Also, there's the not insignificant chance that the target would find the cell phone.
Over the next year, people in these categories will be issued new "I-94" visa cards embedded with an RFID tag... Homeland Security Department requires that the I-94 cards be carried at all times.
whereas the article in the/. story discusses the CEO of the chip company who wants to implant chips in people.
Implanting chips in people != implanting chips in visas, even if you have to carry the visa (tinfoil, anyone?)
IANAL, also, but I think the best model to follow w.r.t. talking about prices with your competitors is the "Fight Club" model: the first rule about talking about prices with your competitors is that you do NOT talk about prices with your competitors.
>Moscow Southwest regional prosecutor's office has apparently decided that a loophole in Russian copyright law... allows Allofmp3.com to continue operations
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>they just pay a lump sum to a collection agency
I think you misspelled "regional prosecutor".
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Re point 1, in the New York City metro area (where Vonage is), a six figure salary for ordinary technical managers is quite common. Of course, the six figure range is pretty large...
Re point 2, yes, the landline phone market is pretty saturated, so they'll have to take customers from RBOCs. No news there.
Point 3 is rather obvious.
I didn't RTFA, so I'm not sure if the shares cost $100 each or if you have to buy at least $100 worth of shares, but if it's the latter, you should know that $100 is nothing in the stock market. You're going to pay about $20 to a broker to sell the shares, so there's no point unless you're going to put in a couple grand (IMHO).
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I think they want fewer Firefox developers, and the way to do this would be to get hire them away. They have done this before (Borland comes to mind).
I don't think the final objective is wiping out just the US and Israel, but rather all infidels.
Holy sheltered kids, Batman! I can remember going over to friend's houses unsupervised in 6th grade. I let my (soon-to-be) 2nd grader go around the block now on his bike (I live in a pretty safe suburban neighborhood). Kids need their own space. Having Mom and Dad watch their every move will not help their development.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Civil disobedience is when you publicly violate the law and accept or even invite punishment for it. Using a file sharing network to share copyrighted materials is not civil disobedience; it is breaking the law and hoping not to get caught. Big difference.
>Really, nobody has a problem with buying music, just the price.
What does this mean? People don't have problems buying things that are free?
>The market is speaking, adopt or die. Laws fail when the fly in the face of what the majority want.
What makes you think that a majority of people (not just Slashdot users, the rest of society) want file sharing of copyrighted materials to be legal? What is preventing the majority from acting?
Article: "the carbon-fiber craft is one of the lightest and fastest in its class"
Story: "BusinessWeek looks at the world's fastest kayak"
Neither the MIT-educated engineer or the BusinessWeek writer said it was the fastest; the story submitter (who presumably did not go to MIT) did. So you shouldn't wonder about what kind of people go to MIT, but instead should wonder about those who submit (and edit) Slashdot stories.
OK, then call it pirating. Problem solved.
Yes, this is a good idea. Even if the database user had read-only privileges, though, SQL injection might allow attackers to run "unapproved" queries. For example, an outer join over all the elements might bring the database server to its knees (if the Slashdot effect hasn't done that already). So you'd want both - defense in depth is always a good idea (I don't mean to suggest that you believe otherwise).
http://debugmode.com/wink/ Wink is sweet. Version 2.0 does audio, too. Huge time saver for demoing problems. Freeware, too. Plus, you can create EXEs for users who don't have Flash.
So the DMCA authors did think of this. They didn't necessarily mean to give the NSA free reign to read your emails (the authors were probably thinking of foreign communications), but they certainly created a big exception for the three letter agencies.
I see it as more like gorilla vs. dinosaur.
If there's no shield law, meeting with sources in secret isn't going to help. If you know their name, and you're compelled to testify, you have to give it up or go to jail. It doesn't matter if you met with them in person, over a disposable cellphone, via IM, etc.
I disagree. Anti-evolutionists have all the documentation they need to discredit carbon dating.
At the risk of nitpicking, in the four states where I've registered car insurance, only liability insurance was required. Comprehensive and collision coverage is not required by law, though it will be required by contract if you're leasing or still paying off your car. I typically drop comp & collision coverage when my car gets below $10K in value.
If this datacenter has any customers after having two generator failures in less than twelve months, I'm going to move to L.A. and start selling datacenter services. Apparently, folks in L.A. just aren't that bright. Seriously, why would anyone stay there?
I'm not an expert in statistics, but I'm pretty sure that a sample size of 1 is not usually considered enough. Best to get 2 or 3 samples.
This sounds FUDish, unless the doctor was trying to market the treatment. IANAMD, but I thought doctors could prescribe any legal treatment, regardless of FDA approval. (By legal, I mean they can't prescribe some controlled substances like cocaine, heroin, etc.) For example, chicken soup is not FDA-approved, but the doctor can prescribe it for you. FDA approval is approval for marketing the treatment.
A bank account may be more useful for sellers (how exactly do you add money to your Visa account, anyway?), but I don't know why a buyer would prefer to have eBay withdraw from a bank account. I know people can go both ways, so to speak, but for people who mostly buy, I think Checkout is fine.
The Geek Squad guys may not know much about computers, but I bet they'd figure out when one of their subcontractors is trying to cut out the middleman, and that would be the end of your relationship with Geek Squad.
I think that starting a 527 committee and/or hiring a lobbyist is a better idea. Put together some well placed bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions to existing Congressional representatives (since your chances of getting one elected are, to a first approximation, zero) to get them on your side.
Tracking someone is already easy to do. Yes, Verizon makes it easier for a stalker by doing the method you mention, but it'd be kind of silly. What's the battery life of a typical cell phone? A week, maybe? Also, there's the not insignificant chance that the target would find the cell phone.
ClearChannel is entitled to a return on its investment, is it not? </sarcasm>
Implanting chips in people != implanting chips in visas, even if you have to carry the visa (tinfoil, anyone?)
IANAL, also, but I think the best model to follow w.r.t. talking about prices with your competitors is the "Fight Club" model: the first rule about talking about prices with your competitors is that you do NOT talk about prices with your competitors.
>Moscow Southwest regional prosecutor's office has apparently decided that a loophole in Russian copyright law ... allows Allofmp3.com to continue operations
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>they just pay a lump sum to a collection agency
I think you misspelled "regional prosecutor".
Re point 2, yes, the landline phone market is pretty saturated, so they'll have to take customers from RBOCs. No news there.
Point 3 is rather obvious.
I didn't RTFA, so I'm not sure if the shares cost $100 each or if you have to buy at least $100 worth of shares, but if it's the latter, you should know that $100 is nothing in the stock market. You're going to pay about $20 to a broker to sell the shares, so there's no point unless you're going to put in a couple grand (IMHO).