You seem to completely miss the idea that Bait and Switch is actually illegal and that there are "Truth in Advertising" laws that forbid a company from improperly representing their product. Try again.
One senator cannot bring impeachment to the President. He needs support for it, and I'm willing to bet money that he doesn't have it. Somehow, people (senators, representatives, and the people) are blind to it.
Libraries frequently allow people to check out a book and take it home to read. While that doesn't imply a copy is made, it does negate money the publisher would have received if you had purchased the book. Also, go into most of the big bookstores (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc) and look around. While I'm sure they'd prefer you not stay there all day reading a book, they provide places for you to sit and read. If their entire goal was to get you to buy, they would not provide such places to linger and patrol the store to ensure you were not reading the book before buying it. Again, this fails the 'make a copy' test, but it goes against your notion that a bookstore would not let you read an entire book and pay for it later.
That said, yes, the danger of copyright infringement is not that you are stealing and denying the rightful seller their ability to reproduce their product, but rather cutting down the seller's prospective sales base. It's a bizarre kind of situation, though, as some people infringing on the work consider the value to them as $0, meaning they would not pay for it if that were their only option. Is that a lost sale?
I don't know about you, but I would demand that they get that warrant first. Why? Because simply submitting to searches without oversight sets a horrible precedent that will eventually whittle away at your right not to be compelled to testify against yourself and your right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure. They have the tools by which to get the information they require, WITH OVERSIGHT, so make them use it.
I'm going out on a limb here, since I have not ever looked at tax maps, nor did I RTFA. However, contextually speaking, the maps in question would appear to contain information concerning property taxes and not the income of individual families living on that property. While one could infer some correlation between property tax and family income, it isn't as if these maps contain the information you seem to think it does.
Besides, I don't care. If these are documents produced by the government, whatever information they have on them, they should be in the public domain. If it is too dangerous for anyone to have, then perhaps the government shouldn't be making the documents. The threat from having our government not provide total transparency of their operations to the people is far greater than any terrorist threat you might perceive. Not sure why that is such a hard concept to grasp.
Unless you buy equipment capable of both IPv4 and IPv6 and use that for new installations. Then you would still have to replace only the current equipment that cannot handle the IPv6 schema.
Dark matter doesn't specifically refer to 'unlit' matter or matter that doesn't produce it's own radiation. Keep in mind that, even after the sun stops shining on one side of the Earth, it still radiates in the Infrared range and is therefor not 'dark'. In order for it to be classified as baryonic dark matter, it would have to pretty much be so far removed from any radiating source (ie: between galaxies) that it would never absorb enough energy to radiate back.
Most Dark Matter is thought to be non-baryonic, as in neutrinos or other subatomic particle not made up of 3 quarks.
It would be nice if everyone could just mind their own business, but I seem to recall that a semi-popular US Presidential candidate is backing a movement in Georgia to have the State's constitution amended so that it defines a 'person' (legally) as beginning at the moment of fertilization. While they say that they don't have any intention of going after birth control methods that prevent a fertilized egg from implanting, there is nothing codified in the amendment that states that. Since standard laws are easier to pass than amendments, if this amendment passes in GA and some lawmakers wish to go against what is being said now, they could make many widely used birth control methods illegal because it would 'commit murder' of a 'person'.
The law takes no view on whether you are Catholic or not, whether you listen to the Pope or not. However, religiously motivated acts like this, however well intentioned, is the result of religious people trying to force their ethics on others. If you don't want to do it, fine, don't do it. Do not dictate to others that they cannot and try to take the high road of morality.
I suppose that plays into the whole 'police state' notion. When the police run the state, the term freedom is pretty much forgotten. When freedom is present, it seems like the police complain about their ability to do their job. Frankly, I'm with the parent in that I'd rather have the police wringing their hands about how they're going to their job while respecting my rights. Beats having no rights and being questioned by the police for chewing gum at the wrong time.
I also played with IE7 soon after it came out. Having had bluetooth enabled on my laptop, when I installed IE7, I started getting script errors whenever I tried to use the bluetooth network or access any Explorer page that dealt with those drivers. Needless to say, I rolled back to IE6 as function was better than form on system components.
Besides, I can't stand the look of IE7. Was it truely necessary to butcher what had been, til now, the programming standard that the file menu bar goes at the top?
Does it matter if it burns or explodes? Either case is likely to endanger people inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle and cause death if the person(s) aren't removed from the vehicle or the fire controlled before it reaches the fuel.
Just has to do with coding methodology. strcpy is insecure, strncpy is more so. strncpy(src, dst, sizeof(dst)) is more secure than strncpy(src, dst, size_of_dst). Those are easy to fix security bugs. Other security bugs are harder to find as you have to trace the myriad of states the app can be in during mem writes.
I'm reminded of the Star Trek: TNG episode "Ship in a Bottle". Moriarty, a simulated character, is made (with outside interference) to understand that reality is bigger than what he can see. Ultimately, he is tricked into believing he escaped from what he knew into the bigger world, which is only another simulation wrapped on top of what he expected to see. Either way, it reaffirms the idea that a simulation could not itself notice that there is a boundry to the world without the outside reaching in, and that even if you do "get out", how can you be assured that what you now percieve as reality is in fact not a simulation anymore?
You must not have ever used a self checkout. While there are a number of stations that customers can use for scanning their own goods, they are tied to one station with a cashier standing there for assistance and (most likely) loss prevention. They even have a little register they can use.
And, for once, someone should take their own advice first. To quote:
The cashier's screen shows the SKU/UPC, abbreviated description, and price of each item on all self-checkout lanes attached to that cashier's station (usually 4).
Pardon my ignorance for a second, but is this not a problem for ALL batteries, and Li just seems to be the flavor of the week? Unmoderated and rapid discharge of any battery will cause them to overheat and rupture/catch fire/catch other things on fire.
Oops. I probably just gave the TSA another idea of something to ban on flights. *sigh*
How many people/companies in this day and age patent an idea (software implementation, invention, etc) with absolutely no working prototype? As I understand, having a working prototype is not even a requirement to filing a patent, simply the idea of the device or process.
That depends. Paying $200k for me would take many many years, if I were expected to keep both a home and food on my table. Many Americans are already in heavy debt to begin with, to suddenly lump on something that MUST be paid back on top of already stretched budgets, where does the sacrifice come to make that payment? Food from the table? The place to live? Even stripping myself of all luxuries, it would take many more years than I'd probably live to pay back $200k. If the terms of repayment were unfavorable, it very well could be 'life or death' to pay the damages.
What use is it bankrupting someone on an issue like this, anyways?
Easy. Because failure provides the opportunity to learn. With my children, I fully expect them to fail. I may even be mildly amused at their attempts, but mostly because those attempts are the same that I would've tried if I didn't NOW know better. The whole "how like your parents you are" notion. In addition, if failure is taken jovially (but not necessarily lightly) and not overly critically, one can learn to laugh at yourself for making silly mistakes in the future, and not kick yourself for doing something "stupid".
I have used my Verizon Wireless cellular phone via bluetooth serial port to my PC to call Earthlink's ISP dialup service (as a regular phone call) and had it successfully connect and use it. Data rates sucked, but something > 0 when I was in a pinch. Unless they changed their service recently, I did what the GP was attempting to do, successfully.
Major car manufacturers have been electronically enforcing a speed limit (electronic speed cutoff) - check
My mustang has a speed limiter of 110 mph. Stock, straight off the line, it was built with R-rated tires. According to the site referenced there, R rated tires are safe to a maximum speed of 106 mph. Were I to run my car faster than 110, I would find my tires torn to pieces at a speed that would probably mean my death. That limit appears to be in place because of safety concerns.
Based on that, I doubt highly that it's some conspiracy to make you drive at the pace of a snail. Simply, it is to cover their own ass on liability.
Of course, this makes me wonder something from a 'thought police' perspective. With the file in question being a common TrueCrypt encrypted volume that doesn't really contain anything incriminating:
TP: Give us the passphrase! Suspect: It's HotSmokinBabes TP: Now give us the hidden volume passphrase! Suspect: It doesn't have a hidden volume. TP: LIAR, give us the passphrase!
Just because the possibility exists, the authority in question might ask for something he cannot prove isn't there. If you have nothing to give, this leads to the problem of lying to authorities to give them what they think they want, when you've already given them what they asked for and it proves you innocent. Aren't these going to be fun times to live in.
I had how people perpetuate Three Mile Island as an example of a failure of a nuclear power plant. While there was a problem with one of the two reactors there, if you do your homework first, you'll realize that the accident was actually a success for the reactor's containment facility. Read. 25,000 people lived within 5 miles of that reactor, and there were no identifiable injuries due to radiation were reported. Even better still, they've since been able to remove the damaged core of the reactor! Sounds like the containment facility did EXACTLY what it was supposed to do, contained the failure.
Compare this to the Chernobyl disaster. If you want a case of catastrophic failure, that is most certainly it.
Besides, there are far more advanced reactors, such as the pebble bed or SSTAR, reactors that do not necessarily suffer the same kinds of threats of meltdown as early generations did. I certainly think we should be able to deploy at least some of these solutions successfully and have less danger to the population than Coal plants do.
Maybe there are cases in which a person has difficulties with fine motor skills, I'm sure I can think of a few. Are they rare? Probably, but votes can (and have) come down to a scant few votes to decide. These people are still citizens and still permitted to vote. Just because they have 'more serious problems' does not invalidate their attempt to participate in the election process.
A good, proper election process should leave the least room for error and allow the most people to participate. Going for anything less than 100% participation as your goal is flawed from the start and will eventually lead to a system where citizens are deemed 'incapable' of voting and denied rights granted them by the Constitution.
I would think that, unless the endpoint of the conversation is one of Comcast's servers, like a proxy relay, that forging packets as coming from an external source is just as bad as sending those same packets out to an external source. They're forging packets, plain and simple. I don't think it matters to whom they're sent.
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You seem to completely miss the idea that Bait and Switch is actually illegal and that there are "Truth in Advertising" laws that forbid a company from improperly representing their product. Try again.
One senator cannot bring impeachment to the President. He needs support for it, and I'm willing to bet money that he doesn't have it. Somehow, people (senators, representatives, and the people) are blind to it.
Libraries frequently allow people to check out a book and take it home to read. While that doesn't imply a copy is made, it does negate money the publisher would have received if you had purchased the book. Also, go into most of the big bookstores (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc) and look around. While I'm sure they'd prefer you not stay there all day reading a book, they provide places for you to sit and read. If their entire goal was to get you to buy, they would not provide such places to linger and patrol the store to ensure you were not reading the book before buying it. Again, this fails the 'make a copy' test, but it goes against your notion that a bookstore would not let you read an entire book and pay for it later.
That said, yes, the danger of copyright infringement is not that you are stealing and denying the rightful seller their ability to reproduce their product, but rather cutting down the seller's prospective sales base. It's a bizarre kind of situation, though, as some people infringing on the work consider the value to them as $0, meaning they would not pay for it if that were their only option. Is that a lost sale?
I don't know about you, but I would demand that they get that warrant first. Why? Because simply submitting to searches without oversight sets a horrible precedent that will eventually whittle away at your right not to be compelled to testify against yourself and your right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure. They have the tools by which to get the information they require, WITH OVERSIGHT, so make them use it.
I'm going out on a limb here, since I have not ever looked at tax maps, nor did I RTFA. However, contextually speaking, the maps in question would appear to contain information concerning property taxes and not the income of individual families living on that property. While one could infer some correlation between property tax and family income, it isn't as if these maps contain the information you seem to think it does.
Besides, I don't care. If these are documents produced by the government, whatever information they have on them, they should be in the public domain. If it is too dangerous for anyone to have, then perhaps the government shouldn't be making the documents. The threat from having our government not provide total transparency of their operations to the people is far greater than any terrorist threat you might perceive. Not sure why that is such a hard concept to grasp.
Unless you buy equipment capable of both IPv4 and IPv6 and use that for new installations. Then you would still have to replace only the current equipment that cannot handle the IPv6 schema.
Dark matter doesn't specifically refer to 'unlit' matter or matter that doesn't produce it's own radiation. Keep in mind that, even after the sun stops shining on one side of the Earth, it still radiates in the Infrared range and is therefor not 'dark'. In order for it to be classified as baryonic dark matter, it would have to pretty much be so far removed from any radiating source (ie: between galaxies) that it would never absorb enough energy to radiate back.
Most Dark Matter is thought to be non-baryonic, as in neutrinos or other subatomic particle not made up of 3 quarks.
It would be nice if everyone could just mind their own business, but I seem to recall that a semi-popular US Presidential candidate is backing a movement in Georgia to have the State's constitution amended so that it defines a 'person' (legally) as beginning at the moment of fertilization. While they say that they don't have any intention of going after birth control methods that prevent a fertilized egg from implanting, there is nothing codified in the amendment that states that. Since standard laws are easier to pass than amendments, if this amendment passes in GA and some lawmakers wish to go against what is being said now, they could make many widely used birth control methods illegal because it would 'commit murder' of a 'person'.
The law takes no view on whether you are Catholic or not, whether you listen to the Pope or not. However, religiously motivated acts like this, however well intentioned, is the result of religious people trying to force their ethics on others. If you don't want to do it, fine, don't do it. Do not dictate to others that they cannot and try to take the high road of morality.
I suppose that plays into the whole 'police state' notion. When the police run the state, the term freedom is pretty much forgotten. When freedom is present, it seems like the police complain about their ability to do their job. Frankly, I'm with the parent in that I'd rather have the police wringing their hands about how they're going to their job while respecting my rights. Beats having no rights and being questioned by the police for chewing gum at the wrong time.
I also played with IE7 soon after it came out. Having had bluetooth enabled on my laptop, when I installed IE7, I started getting script errors whenever I tried to use the bluetooth network or access any Explorer page that dealt with those drivers. Needless to say, I rolled back to IE6 as function was better than form on system components.
Besides, I can't stand the look of IE7. Was it truely necessary to butcher what had been, til now, the programming standard that the file menu bar goes at the top?
Does it matter if it burns or explodes? Either case is likely to endanger people inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle and cause death if the person(s) aren't removed from the vehicle or the fire controlled before it reaches the fuel.
Just has to do with coding methodology. strcpy is insecure, strncpy is more so. strncpy(src, dst, sizeof(dst)) is more secure than strncpy(src, dst, size_of_dst). Those are easy to fix security bugs. Other security bugs are harder to find as you have to trace the myriad of states the app can be in during mem writes.
I'm reminded of the Star Trek: TNG episode "Ship in a Bottle". Moriarty, a simulated character, is made (with outside interference) to understand that reality is bigger than what he can see. Ultimately, he is tricked into believing he escaped from what he knew into the bigger world, which is only another simulation wrapped on top of what he expected to see. Either way, it reaffirms the idea that a simulation could not itself notice that there is a boundry to the world without the outside reaching in, and that even if you do "get out", how can you be assured that what you now percieve as reality is in fact not a simulation anymore?
You must not have ever used a self checkout. While there are a number of stations that customers can use for scanning their own goods, they are tied to one station with a cashier standing there for assistance and (most likely) loss prevention. They even have a little register they can use.
And, for once, someone should take their own advice first. To quote:
Pardon my ignorance for a second, but is this not a problem for ALL batteries, and Li just seems to be the flavor of the week? Unmoderated and rapid discharge of any battery will cause them to overheat and rupture/catch fire/catch other things on fire.
Oops. I probably just gave the TSA another idea of something to ban on flights. *sigh*
How many people/companies in this day and age patent an idea (software implementation, invention, etc) with absolutely no working prototype? As I understand, having a working prototype is not even a requirement to filing a patent, simply the idea of the device or process.
That depends. Paying $200k for me would take many many years, if I were expected to keep both a home and food on my table. Many Americans are already in heavy debt to begin with, to suddenly lump on something that MUST be paid back on top of already stretched budgets, where does the sacrifice come to make that payment? Food from the table? The place to live? Even stripping myself of all luxuries, it would take many more years than I'd probably live to pay back $200k. If the terms of repayment were unfavorable, it very well could be 'life or death' to pay the damages.
What use is it bankrupting someone on an issue like this, anyways?
Easy. Because failure provides the opportunity to learn. With my children, I fully expect them to fail. I may even be mildly amused at their attempts, but mostly because those attempts are the same that I would've tried if I didn't NOW know better. The whole "how like your parents you are" notion. In addition, if failure is taken jovially (but not necessarily lightly) and not overly critically, one can learn to laugh at yourself for making silly mistakes in the future, and not kick yourself for doing something "stupid".
I have used my Verizon Wireless cellular phone via bluetooth serial port to my PC to call Earthlink's ISP dialup service (as a regular phone call) and had it successfully connect and use it. Data rates sucked, but something > 0 when I was in a pinch. Unless they changed their service recently, I did what the GP was attempting to do, successfully.
My mustang has a speed limiter of 110 mph. Stock, straight off the line, it was built with R-rated tires. According to the site referenced there, R rated tires are safe to a maximum speed of 106 mph. Were I to run my car faster than 110, I would find my tires torn to pieces at a speed that would probably mean my death. That limit appears to be in place because of safety concerns.
Based on that, I doubt highly that it's some conspiracy to make you drive at the pace of a snail. Simply, it is to cover their own ass on liability.
Of course, this makes me wonder something from a 'thought police' perspective. With the file in question being a common TrueCrypt encrypted volume that doesn't really contain anything incriminating:
TP: Give us the passphrase!
Suspect: It's HotSmokinBabes
TP: Now give us the hidden volume passphrase!
Suspect: It doesn't have a hidden volume.
TP: LIAR, give us the passphrase!
Just because the possibility exists, the authority in question might ask for something he cannot prove isn't there. If you have nothing to give, this leads to the problem of lying to authorities to give them what they think they want, when you've already given them what they asked for and it proves you innocent. Aren't these going to be fun times to live in.
I had how people perpetuate Three Mile Island as an example of a failure of a nuclear power plant. While there was a problem with one of the two reactors there, if you do your homework first, you'll realize that the accident was actually a success for the reactor's containment facility. Read. 25,000 people lived within 5 miles of that reactor, and there were no identifiable injuries due to radiation were reported. Even better still, they've since been able to remove the damaged core of the reactor! Sounds like the containment facility did EXACTLY what it was supposed to do, contained the failure.
Compare this to the Chernobyl disaster. If you want a case of catastrophic failure, that is most certainly it.
Besides, there are far more advanced reactors, such as the pebble bed or SSTAR, reactors that do not necessarily suffer the same kinds of threats of meltdown as early generations did. I certainly think we should be able to deploy at least some of these solutions successfully and have less danger to the population than Coal plants do.
Maybe there are cases in which a person has difficulties with fine motor skills, I'm sure I can think of a few. Are they rare? Probably, but votes can (and have) come down to a scant few votes to decide. These people are still citizens and still permitted to vote. Just because they have 'more serious problems' does not invalidate their attempt to participate in the election process.
A good, proper election process should leave the least room for error and allow the most people to participate. Going for anything less than 100% participation as your goal is flawed from the start and will eventually lead to a system where citizens are deemed 'incapable' of voting and denied rights granted them by the Constitution.
I would think that, unless the endpoint of the conversation is one of Comcast's servers, like a proxy relay, that forging packets as coming from an external source is just as bad as sending those same packets out to an external source. They're forging packets, plain and simple. I don't think it matters to whom they're sent.
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