This is trolling, correct? "If not showing the event is not harmful, then it is right and proper for it not to be shown - because it is embarrassing to her." Wow.
I have never participated in "Second Life," but understand that it wants to mimic the real thing. In real life, if flying penises attacked someone on camera, I think that any attempt to repress the footage would be a task beyond any force known to man (yes, even Ted Turner).
I remember being very thankful that thumb drives caught on. Over the years, I have been asked to recover data off of CDs that were cracked and 3.5" disks that had been put though heck. 3.5" disks were the worst. People would bring them in full of sand or with seriously damaged outer shells. With flash drives, I have seen them crushed, run through a washing machine, and partially melted by fire - but was able to recover the data most of the time. They are a huge improvement over the old storage media.
Now, we are talking about replacing hard drives. People drop laptops, they operate them in heat, and even drop stuff onto them. Breaking your laptop is bad, but many will agree that the data can be worth far more than the hardware. With any luck, flash memory will prove to be more durable, faster to access, and require less power. I am sure Toshiba will look at the technology for toughbooks, as will anyone who needs to store data on gear that will take a beating. It would make jogging with your video iPod a lot less worrisome, wouldn't it?
The idea of only using flash for the operating system, while storing data on a regular hard drive is the wrong way to go. Granted, they are looking at just speed enhancements, but I want all the goodies for my data as well.
I transitioned to CFLs a few years ago and have successfully convinced a few friends to do so.
Some bulbs do seem to take a minute to reach full brightness, but I can deal with the delay in trade for saving energy. You will not always get everything you want, right now. If a little patience is the fee for "doing my part" - then so be it.
Also, I am active military and move every three years or so. As a result, when we move somewhere new, I remove all the regular light bulbs that are in place and store them (I have a plastic container with some cut down Guiness 6-pack boxes that I store the bulbs in). Then I put in the CFLs. When we move, I reverse the process and the CFLs all go into the plastic container, along with some tissue padding.
My experience with the CFLs is that ones that are turned on and off very often (multiple times a day) experience higher failure rates than expected. Longer than regular light bulbs, but after three years I had replaced 3 out of 4 bulbs in a kitchen light fixture that takes "normal" 60 watt bulbs (replaced with 13 watt CFLs). The white globes used in bathroom vanities saw the same failure rate.
I dealt with this same issue on a message board. For years it did not require registration to post and with a small cadre of level-headed moderators we had a lot of fun. It was good for everybody, from regulars to one time guests who just wanted to ask a question.
Then, about two years ago (I think), the message board spammers began to get exponentially worse. Poker spammers were most of it, but I also saw a number of porn site spammers and some guerilla marketing campaigns that were awful. The evening that the one "documentary" on M. Night Shyamalan played on SciFi a huge number of posts and threads from "people who watched the film and wanted to talk about it" appeared. Obviously a bot network, because there were easily a hundred posts and the IP addresses were checking out as valid.
I tried everything to avoid registration. Banning IPs was useless, because they were bot networks. I made rules to discard posts that matched known spams - new, different ones came in. I discarded multiple posts or duplicate posts - the bots made posts that were different. I made rules to discard posts with certain URLs - no good, way too many URLs were rolling in. I changed the name of post function files in the Phorum message board - the bots adapted or were adapted. I made rules to prevent multiple posts within a certain period by the same host - the bots slowed down their posting. They posted with http code, they posted with bbs code, they posted plain text. In the end, after about two months of too much effort, I enforced registration. The problem has been solved ever since.
As a result of the registration I am certain my message board is not as robust as it once was. The simple fact is that registration drives away people who could become good members of the community. Another simple fact is that I have seen a number of boards turned into useless crap by spambots.
I dislike CAPTCHA, so registration was the lesser of two evils. However, if there is a mod so that Phorum can enforce CAPTCHA for guests, thus allowing them to post without registration, maybe I should check it out.
Cutting off email after a unit suffers casualties doesn't block cruel hoaxes. It's only when nobody died (when email is not cut off) that it's a hoax.
If the next of kin can discount the email as false, since that is not how casualty notification is done, then it prevents the hoax from being effective.
I am a bit mystified why this would surprise anyone. Maybe those who spent zero time actually considering it are typing out a knee jerk reaction. Anyone who considers the whole picture will say, "Yeah, I suppose so."
The networks that the Marine Corps is running in Iraq have a primary focus: The Mission. That is supporting the forces there, allowing information to organized and passed quickly between those who need to coordinate their work. Marines are permitted to use the network for personal reasons when it does not affect the mission in any way and that use is subject to a number of restrictions. No viewing, transmitting, or storing obscene material, hate speech, chain letters, etc. The normal list of rules for the network is about two pages, courier new type, 10 pitch - including spaces for the user to fill in their name, rank, billet, sign (etc.) and for the approving officer to validate that the Marine needs a network account.
There can also be several layers of filtering for access. There could easily be several firewalls between a user and the Internet. We had one at our division level, then another at MEF. There is usually a something of a standard list of which sites are blocked, but each little network could be unique. We had a problem with idiots downloading large files from one or two Internet sites. It was affecting the performance of the whole network. Not only did I go find those users (and their Staff Noncommissioned Officers), but we cut access to the problem sites.
Oh, and when the unit suffers casualties, the Data Chief cuts access to email and the Internet for everyone except a list of critical users. That stays on until the families are notified by the Marines (in the US) who perform the casualty call. The last thing a parent, wife, or fiancee needs to get is an email with a subject line of "John is dead." That would also leave open the door for cruel hoaxes.
The point is that the Marine Corps allows Marines to use the network, in a limited fashion, for reading their personal email and accessing websites because it is good for morale and we usually have the bandwidth to support it. However, it is a military asset, just like a 7-ton truck. If the truck is being used by someone to clean out their garage, when it is needed to move supplies, there is obviously a problem.
I see that the voice talents seem to be the same people. This immediately looks good, but I have found that this is not always the case. Anyone else who has listened to the BBC "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" show probably knows what I mean. The first two series were done within a short time of each other. They also had Douglas Adams' input. The third (and others) were made about twenty-five years later. They are nothing like the first two; I never listen to the CD of the third series that I purchased. Most of the major voice talents are the same. Including Zaphod, who sounds like a roaring drunk in rehab, in the new series. And, possibly most of all, the performances do not have any of the charm and energy that the first two exhibit.
The choice of director is heartening and seems like a good choice, but I did not watch the clone wars series so I have not seen Tartakovsky do anything that did not have a strange sense of humor. That could work for Aughra, but Jen and Kira were pretty straight forward. The reason I am concerned is that Jean-Pierre Jeunet does good on movies like "Delicatessen" and "Amelie," but totally missed the mark with "Alien: Resurrection." There are other examples of directors who seem to have a certain type of movie pegged (and do great making those movies) and cannot adjust to something different.
Let us just hope that the script is good and everything comes together.
I loved what the old DOD instruction said. It was something to this effect:
"In an approved facility (EG, one with cement floors) and wearing proper safety gear (EG, goggles and hearing protection) strike the hard drive repeatedly with a heavy object (EG, a sledgehammer) until it is totally crushed."
I still use that method of destruction today. Heck, the Marines love it when you tell them to take the hard drive out back and attack it with a pickax.
Six degrees of separation my butt! From what Lucas has shown us, it is more like one or two in the "Star Wars" universe. Between the droids being around young Anakin and now the Millennium Falcon showing up, I have lost track of how many times things are tied in together. I am surprised that the Ewoks did not turn out to be Chewbacca's midget children that he never knew about.
..if this person knows something. They are suddenly selling a number of jet aircraft and at rock bottom prices. I'd better go and check if Martha Stewart sold her jets today. Might be time to get rid of the Veritech.
I doubt that they are actually hacking into the computer. More likely, Icarus checks to see what ports are open on a computer and then makes a determination which services (where services might be a worm, P2P, etc) are associated with those ports.
Colleges do not have the money to support servers (which is what P2P makes a computer, really) on their network. The college network is there for students to do research. If 90% of the resources are sucked up by P2P, I can see their point. Want to be a P2P junkie? Fine, get your own personal setup on dial-up, cable modem, or DSL.
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I tend to stay away from websites for a couple of reasons:
The pages are poorly organized or poorly laid out. The navigation is terrible. And the big issue: The person cannot spell, has no idea what grammar means, and resorts to using four-letter words over and over.
Honestly, basic writing skills go a long way. I want to read something written by someone who has a brain. If they cannot even run spell check on their article, why should I care to read it?
Another thing to remember is that some websites are niches. I do not know how many sites I have run across that are fan sites for old television shows. For some reason a question comes up about the show and I go looking through Google for information. Those small fan sites can be awesome resources - when you have that particular need. I have seen counters in the double digits on sites that were virtual shrines to a children's show.
Ditto with information on other little things, like short stories by a certain writer. I do not need the information constantly, nor is there a lot for me to talk about Joseph Payne Brennan, but I wanted to find out about compilations of his work. A quick search turned up the names of his books. This is certain to work for writers many times more obscure.
I would ask how much "crushing guilt" police officers feel when someone dies needlessly in a "bad" (read poor) neighborhood because it took 30 minutes after a 9-1-1 call for police to arrive? Or how much guilt they feel when they pull over a completely innocent citizen because they're the "wrong" color to drive in a particular neighborhood (or even down the Interstate in the "wrong" county)?
Odd, the last time I checked, police officers were human beings. They are not one broad swathe of emotionless robots. They are drawn from the citizens, which is the usual mire of good and bad. We put them through tests to hopefully weed out the bad ones, but some slip through.
My sister served on the police force in a small city for a while. Want to know why it takes them longer to arrive in a bad neighborhood, compared to a good neighborhood? Because they have to put on extra protective gear and get backup. One night they went into a "bad" neighborhood in response to a rape (in progress I think). They could not immediately get to the scene because their vehicle was pelted with bricks and bottles. Her and her partner were injured. On the other hand, if the police were to come to the street where I live, I am certain we would either stay out of the way or tell them what was going on.
The "wrong color in the wrong county" bit is annoying. Does it happen? Sure, but not as anywhere near as often (in my experience) as people seem to say. Is it right? Heck no. I would like to think that we are slowly evolving past that sort of thing.
Here is a question though: if a group of bald white men were slowly cruising around predominately African-American neighborhoods, wouldn't you want the police to make sure it was not a bunch of skinheads looking for a target? Listen to the heart of what I am saying: it is out of the ordinary. A professional officer checking in to see if the driver is lost, looking for a specific house, or looking for trouble, seems like common sense. If a bunch of guys in a big truck were to start cruising around my neighborhood, I would probably ask them if they needed assistance. If they are lost, I can help them get to where they are going. If they are looking for a house to empty while the owners are out, they know someone has taken an interest in them.
Humans can choose to be animals or they can choose to be people. If you act like a beast, you reap the rewards.
What are you doing buying a Ford car anyway? Ford trucks on the other hand, had nothing but good experiences. My current is a 1995 F150 that runs great - just gets the regular maintenance.
I was thinking that, at the price, the main use for this would be DJs and dance clubs. Unfortunately, having "perfect" sound for those is not all that needed: people's bodies do a good job of absorbing/redirecting sound too.
How in the heck could this "prove interesting?" If the domain was registered in 1994 and the trademark was not filed for until 1996. Not to mention that this has not affected the case up to now, the thief ran away to Mexico, and the Supreme Court is likely to refuse to consider it - I fail to see the interesting part.
What it does remind me of is the "Famous Monsters of Filmland" ugliness. Forrest Ackerman won the court case hands down, but Roy Ferry continues to flaunt the law. Do not buy the magazine, unless the rightful owner gets his baby back. Here is a link to Ackerman's site: http://4forry.best.vwh.net/
There is a short description of the case on the site. This is even more tragic thant the Sex.com case, because there is no sex.com - it is all about a man who loves science fiction and monsters and another man who is a huge bastard.
This story keeps coming back to Slashdot, and every time it's "the poor consumer being ripped off by those bastard printer manufacturers." Does no-one actually bother to analyze the economics here?
My GOD! You are right! We always seem to get stuck on the ethics of such behavior.
Just because something is good for business does not make it acceptable.
Which will not matter one bit until all the electricity is on and some sort of infrastructure is set up. From what I understand, very few Iraqis had access to the Internet.
Great idea, so then the kid's parents have to deal with the charges for unauthorized access to a computer system. I guess that would remove the problem, if the expel the student.
How about informing the school about FERPA and the possible security problems with their authentication system? Sounds like a good project for the school paper (assuming they have one) if first attempts fail.
Yes, but I will bet that there are at least a dozen other lawn care companies that you can pick from in the area.
Also, depending on your needs, that part of the contract can be modified to fit a certain time frame or set of conditions to cancel - it is not set in stone like the Microsoft one appears to be.
And a last thing, "Pedros Lawn Care" sure as heck will not stop by your door one day and say that they no longer support the current version of your lawn. "If you want us to trim that shrub, you need to upgrade your lawn to GreenGrass V1.2. We can arrange that for you for a modest fee. Of course, that means a new lawn maintenance contract..."
Depending on how you define "global", potentially 1948: Read Article 19 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights [un.org]. Though the UN declaration is pretty damned modest, it does include freedom of expression.
And we all know how effective the UN is at making nations listen. Come on, this is the same forum that had China saying that the U.S. is a human rights nightmare.
Not to say that we haven't gone the wrong direction in that respect (at times), but for China to start pointing fingers is silly.
PER TITLE 17 - UNITED STATES CODE - SECTION 107 "Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include - 1 the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; 2 the nature of the copyrighted work; 3 the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and 4 the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors."
Now, all the being said, private letters are published all the time. Just look at the glee that websites take in posting "Cease and Desist" letters from lawyers. And they do it all the time. Funny, if there was a leg to stand on, I would think that a law firm would try and use that to get the letters yanked.
How is this so? Check condition #4 of fair use. I think that is key here.
Going after the people who hire spammers is a good idea. If they know that their company will be held liable for spam, they will not hire anyone.
I play the same game with junk fax idiots. I call each and every company and talk to a company officer about the TCPA violation. At the end I make sure to remind them that they have been informed their advertiser is willfully breaking the law. Then I forward a letter to the FCC (copies of faxes included) asking for action to be taken against the parties.
Eventually a federal law will be passed about spam. Then there will have to be some work to get other countries oboard with mutual enforcement agreements.
Of course, the other option is overhauling how email works. 1/100th of a cent for each email? Sure.
You mean to say that it is totally impossible for Microsoft to fix this problem? Actually, I think your position is the following: "Microsoft says that it is too difficult for them to fix and I believe them, because they are an upstanding company that only tells the truth."
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This is trolling, correct? "If not showing the event is not harmful, then it is right and proper for it not to be shown - because it is embarrassing to her." Wow.
I have never participated in "Second Life," but understand that it wants to mimic the real thing. In real life, if flying penises attacked someone on camera, I think that any attempt to repress the footage would be a task beyond any force known to man (yes, even Ted Turner).
I remember being very thankful that thumb drives caught on. Over the years, I have been asked to recover data off of CDs that were cracked and 3.5" disks that had been put though heck. 3.5" disks were the worst. People would bring them in full of sand or with seriously damaged outer shells. With flash drives, I have seen them crushed, run through a washing machine, and partially melted by fire - but was able to recover the data most of the time. They are a huge improvement over the old storage media.
Now, we are talking about replacing hard drives. People drop laptops, they operate them in heat, and even drop stuff onto them. Breaking your laptop is bad, but many will agree that the data can be worth far more than the hardware. With any luck, flash memory will prove to be more durable, faster to access, and require less power. I am sure Toshiba will look at the technology for toughbooks, as will anyone who needs to store data on gear that will take a beating. It would make jogging with your video iPod a lot less worrisome, wouldn't it?
The idea of only using flash for the operating system, while storing data on a regular hard drive is the wrong way to go. Granted, they are looking at just speed enhancements, but I want all the goodies for my data as well.
I transitioned to CFLs a few years ago and have successfully convinced a few friends to do so.
Some bulbs do seem to take a minute to reach full brightness, but I can deal with the delay in trade for saving energy. You will not always get everything you want, right now. If a little patience is the fee for "doing my part" - then so be it.
Also, I am active military and move every three years or so. As a result, when we move somewhere new, I remove all the regular light bulbs that are in place and store them (I have a plastic container with some cut down Guiness 6-pack boxes that I store the bulbs in). Then I put in the CFLs. When we move, I reverse the process and the CFLs all go into the plastic container, along with some tissue padding.
My experience with the CFLs is that ones that are turned on and off very often (multiple times a day) experience higher failure rates than expected. Longer than regular light bulbs, but after three years I had replaced 3 out of 4 bulbs in a kitchen light fixture that takes "normal" 60 watt bulbs (replaced with 13 watt CFLs). The white globes used in bathroom vanities saw the same failure rate.
I dealt with this same issue on a message board. For years it did not require registration to post and with a small cadre of level-headed moderators we had a lot of fun. It was good for everybody, from regulars to one time guests who just wanted to ask a question.
Then, about two years ago (I think), the message board spammers began to get exponentially worse. Poker spammers were most of it, but I also saw a number of porn site spammers and some guerilla marketing campaigns that were awful. The evening that the one "documentary" on M. Night Shyamalan played on SciFi a huge number of posts and threads from "people who watched the film and wanted to talk about it" appeared. Obviously a bot network, because there were easily a hundred posts and the IP addresses were checking out as valid.
I tried everything to avoid registration. Banning IPs was useless, because they were bot networks. I made rules to discard posts that matched known spams - new, different ones came in. I discarded multiple posts or duplicate posts - the bots made posts that were different. I made rules to discard posts with certain URLs - no good, way too many URLs were rolling in. I changed the name of post function files in the Phorum message board - the bots adapted or were adapted. I made rules to prevent multiple posts within a certain period by the same host - the bots slowed down their posting. They posted with http code, they posted with bbs code, they posted plain text. In the end, after about two months of too much effort, I enforced registration. The problem has been solved ever since.
As a result of the registration I am certain my message board is not as robust as it once was. The simple fact is that registration drives away people who could become good members of the community. Another simple fact is that I have seen a number of boards turned into useless crap by spambots.
I dislike CAPTCHA, so registration was the lesser of two evils. However, if there is a mod so that Phorum can enforce CAPTCHA for guests, thus allowing them to post without registration, maybe I should check it out.
Cutting off email after a unit suffers casualties doesn't block cruel hoaxes. It's only when nobody died (when email is not cut off) that it's a hoax.
If the next of kin can discount the email as false, since that is not how casualty notification is done, then it prevents the hoax from being effective.
I am a bit mystified why this would surprise anyone. Maybe those who spent zero time actually considering it are typing out a knee jerk reaction. Anyone who considers the whole picture will say, "Yeah, I suppose so."
The networks that the Marine Corps is running in Iraq have a primary focus: The Mission. That is supporting the forces there, allowing information to organized and passed quickly between those who need to coordinate their work. Marines are permitted to use the network for personal reasons when it does not affect the mission in any way and that use is subject to a number of restrictions. No viewing, transmitting, or storing obscene material, hate speech, chain letters, etc. The normal list of rules for the network is about two pages, courier new type, 10 pitch - including spaces for the user to fill in their name, rank, billet, sign (etc.) and for the approving officer to validate that the Marine needs a network account.
There can also be several layers of filtering for access. There could easily be several firewalls between a user and the Internet. We had one at our division level, then another at MEF. There is usually a something of a standard list of which sites are blocked, but each little network could be unique. We had a problem with idiots downloading large files from one or two Internet sites. It was affecting the performance of the whole network. Not only did I go find those users (and their Staff Noncommissioned Officers), but we cut access to the problem sites.
Oh, and when the unit suffers casualties, the Data Chief cuts access to email and the Internet for everyone except a list of critical users. That stays on until the families are notified by the Marines (in the US) who perform the casualty call. The last thing a parent, wife, or fiancee needs to get is an email with a subject line of "John is dead." That would also leave open the door for cruel hoaxes.
The point is that the Marine Corps allows Marines to use the network, in a limited fashion, for reading their personal email and accessing websites because it is good for morale and we usually have the bandwidth to support it. However, it is a military asset, just like a 7-ton truck. If the truck is being used by someone to clean out their garage, when it is needed to move supplies, there is obviously a problem.
I see that the voice talents seem to be the same people. This immediately looks good, but I have found that this is not always the case. Anyone else who has listened to the BBC "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" show probably knows what I mean. The first two series were done within a short time of each other. They also had Douglas Adams' input. The third (and others) were made about twenty-five years later. They are nothing like the first two; I never listen to the CD of the third series that I purchased. Most of the major voice talents are the same. Including Zaphod, who sounds like a roaring drunk in rehab, in the new series. And, possibly most of all, the performances do not have any of the charm and energy that the first two exhibit.
The choice of director is heartening and seems like a good choice, but I did not watch the clone wars series so I have not seen Tartakovsky do anything that did not have a strange sense of humor. That could work for Aughra, but Jen and Kira were pretty straight forward. The reason I am concerned is that Jean-Pierre Jeunet does good on movies like "Delicatessen" and "Amelie," but totally missed the mark with "Alien: Resurrection." There are other examples of directors who seem to have a certain type of movie pegged (and do great making those movies) and cannot adjust to something different.
Let us just hope that the script is good and everything comes together.
I loved what the old DOD instruction said. It was something to this effect:
"In an approved facility (EG, one with cement floors) and wearing proper safety gear (EG, goggles and hearing protection) strike the hard drive repeatedly with a heavy object (EG, a sledgehammer) until it is totally crushed."
I still use that method of destruction today. Heck, the Marines love it when you tell them to take the hard drive out back and attack it with a pickax.
Six degrees of separation my butt! From what Lucas has shown us, it is more like one or two in the "Star Wars" universe. Between the droids being around young Anakin and now the Millennium Falcon showing up, I have lost track of how many times things are tied in together. I am surprised that the Ewoks did not turn out to be Chewbacca's midget children that he never knew about.
..if this person knows something. They are suddenly selling a number of jet aircraft and at rock bottom prices. I'd better go and check if Martha Stewart sold her jets today. Might be time to get rid of the Veritech.
I doubt that they are actually hacking into the computer. More likely, Icarus checks to see what ports are open on a computer and then makes a determination which services (where services might be a worm, P2P, etc) are associated with those ports.
Colleges do not have the money to support servers (which is what P2P makes a computer, really) on their network. The college network is there for students to do research. If 90% of the resources are sucked up by P2P, I can see their point. Want to be a P2P junkie? Fine, get your own personal setup on dial-up, cable modem, or DSL.
I tend to stay away from websites for a couple of reasons:
The pages are poorly organized or poorly laid out.
The navigation is terrible.
And the big issue:
The person cannot spell, has no idea what grammar means, and resorts to using four-letter words over and over.
Honestly, basic writing skills go a long way. I want to read something written by someone who has a brain. If they cannot even run spell check on their article, why should I care to read it?
Another thing to remember is that some websites are niches. I do not know how many sites I have run across that are fan sites for old television shows. For some reason a question comes up about the show and I go looking through Google for information. Those small fan sites can be awesome resources - when you have that particular need. I have seen counters in the double digits on sites that were virtual shrines to a children's show.
Ditto with information on other little things, like short stories by a certain writer. I do not need the information constantly, nor is there a lot for me to talk about Joseph Payne Brennan, but I wanted to find out about compilations of his work. A quick search turned up the names of his books. This is certain to work for writers many times more obscure.
I would ask how much "crushing guilt" police officers feel when someone dies needlessly in a "bad" (read poor) neighborhood because it took 30 minutes after a 9-1-1 call for police to arrive? Or how much guilt they feel when they pull over a completely innocent citizen because they're the "wrong" color to drive in a particular neighborhood (or even down the Interstate in the "wrong" county)?
Odd, the last time I checked, police officers were human beings. They are not one broad swathe of emotionless robots. They are drawn from the citizens, which is the usual mire of good and bad. We put them through tests to hopefully weed out the bad ones, but some slip through.
My sister served on the police force in a small city for a while. Want to know why it takes them longer to arrive in a bad neighborhood, compared to a good neighborhood? Because they have to put on extra protective gear and get backup. One night they went into a "bad" neighborhood in response to a rape (in progress I think). They could not immediately get to the scene because their vehicle was pelted with bricks and bottles. Her and her partner were injured. On the other hand, if the police were to come to the street where I live, I am certain we would either stay out of the way or tell them what was going on.
The "wrong color in the wrong county" bit is annoying. Does it happen? Sure, but not as anywhere near as often (in my experience) as people seem to say. Is it right? Heck no. I would like to think that we are slowly evolving past that sort of thing.
Here is a question though: if a group of bald white men were slowly cruising around predominately African-American neighborhoods, wouldn't you want the police to make sure it was not a bunch of skinheads looking for a target? Listen to the heart of what I am saying: it is out of the ordinary. A professional officer checking in to see if the driver is lost, looking for a specific house, or looking for trouble, seems like common sense. If a bunch of guys in a big truck were to start cruising around my neighborhood, I would probably ask them if they needed assistance. If they are lost, I can help them get to where they are going. If they are looking for a house to empty while the owners are out, they know someone has taken an interest in them.
Humans can choose to be animals or they can choose to be people. If you act like a beast, you reap the rewards.
What are you doing buying a Ford car anyway? Ford trucks on the other hand, had nothing but good experiences. My current is a 1995 F150 that runs great - just gets the regular maintenance.
I was thinking that, at the price, the main use for this would be DJs and dance clubs. Unfortunately, having "perfect" sound for those is not all that needed: people's bodies do a good job of absorbing/redirecting sound too.
How in the heck could this "prove interesting?" If the domain was registered in 1994 and the trademark was not filed for until 1996. Not to mention that this has not affected the case up to now, the thief ran away to Mexico, and the Supreme Court is likely to refuse to consider it - I fail to see the interesting part.
What it does remind me of is the "Famous Monsters of Filmland" ugliness. Forrest Ackerman won the court case hands down, but Roy Ferry continues to flaunt the law. Do not buy the magazine, unless the rightful owner gets his baby back. Here is a link to Ackerman's site:
http://4forry.best.vwh.net/
There is a short description of the case on the site. This is even more tragic thant the Sex.com case, because there is no sex.com - it is all about a man who loves science fiction and monsters and another man who is a huge bastard.
SCO Guy: "Mike, could you hand me my notes? Oh, look at that, 'Annoy world - get DOS'd.' Even had it underlined!"
This story keeps coming back to Slashdot, and every time it's "the poor consumer being ripped off by those bastard printer manufacturers." Does no-one actually bother to analyze the economics here?
My GOD! You are right! We always seem to get stuck on the ethics of such behavior.
Just because something is good for business does not make it acceptable.
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Which will not matter one bit until all the electricity is on and some sort of infrastructure is set up. From what I understand, very few Iraqis had access to the Internet.
Great idea, so then the kid's parents have to deal with the charges for unauthorized access to a computer system. I guess that would remove the problem, if the expel the student.
How about informing the school about FERPA and the possible security problems with their authentication system? Sounds like a good project for the school paper (assuming they have one) if first attempts fail.
Yes, but I will bet that there are at least a dozen other lawn care companies that you can pick from in the area.
Also, depending on your needs, that part of the contract can be modified to fit a certain time frame or set of conditions to cancel - it is not set in stone like the Microsoft one appears to be.
And a last thing, "Pedros Lawn Care" sure as heck will not stop by your door one day and say that they no longer support the current version of your lawn. "If you want us to trim that shrub, you need to upgrade your lawn to GreenGrass V1.2. We can arrange that for you for a modest fee. Of course, that means a new lawn maintenance contract..."
Depending on how you define "global", potentially 1948: Read Article 19 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights [un.org]. Though the UN declaration is pretty damned modest, it does include freedom of expression.
And we all know how effective the UN is at making nations listen. Come on, this is the same forum that had China saying that the U.S. is a human rights nightmare.
Not to say that we haven't gone the wrong direction in that respect (at times), but for China to start pointing fingers is silly.
Uh, let me include some actual law here:
PER TITLE 17 - UNITED STATES CODE - SECTION 107
"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
1 the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2 the nature of the copyrighted work;
3 the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4 the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors."
Now, all the being said, private letters are published all the time. Just look at the glee that websites take in posting "Cease and Desist" letters from lawyers. And they do it all the time. Funny, if there was a leg to stand on, I would think that a law firm would try and use that to get the letters yanked.
How is this so? Check condition #4 of fair use. I think that is key here.
Going after the people who hire spammers is a good idea. If they know that their company will be held liable for spam, they will not hire anyone.
I play the same game with junk fax idiots. I call each and every company and talk to a company officer about the TCPA violation. At the end I make sure to remind them that they have been informed their advertiser is willfully breaking the law. Then I forward a letter to the FCC (copies of faxes included) asking for action to be taken against the parties.
Eventually a federal law will be passed about spam. Then there will have to be some work to get other countries oboard with mutual enforcement agreements.
Of course, the other option is overhauling how email works. 1/100th of a cent for each email? Sure.
You mean to say that it is totally impossible for Microsoft to fix this problem? Actually, I think your position is the following: "Microsoft says that it is too difficult for them to fix and I believe them, because they are an upstanding company that only tells the truth."
Wow. Just plain wow.