I have heard that there are. There's a post above about a guy who won a TV in a raffle and can't use it because he can't put it on the net to accept the TOS.
Goto is being used safely (relatively) now, but would have the programming practices that cause that to be true become so prevalent without his warning that it had potential for problems?
sounds like a market may be developing for a kit to replace the smarts with something that just drives the display. (not, mind you, a _large_ market. Unfortunately.)
I think you're underestimating his physical abilities (understandable, the movies don't really emphasize them as much as they probably should). At one point, Spiderman was listed as the 4th strongest character in the marvel universe (behind the Hulk, the Thing, and Thor). Admittedly, the marvel universe was less populated, but he's still above Captain America (20 tons vs 1200lbs). He's also got reflexes and balance about as good as Cap, plus spider sense... he doesn't have Cap's experience (though he's probably closer than most, given how many issues he's had) and he doesn't have the shield (but can do a lot with webbing). He definitely lacks Cap's leadership skills. He's probably not suited to be a member of the Avengers for a number of reasons, but he's in that league.
I dunno, he's got a point. Since railgun slugs are intended to damage by kinetic energy instead of carried explosive (I assume... I wouldn't want to put an explosive in a rail launcher) it has to go faster than old style shells, which results in a flatter trajectory, which may make it harder to use arcing shots.
Of course, at this point, we have enough experience with guided unpowered ordnance (smart bombs) that adding some "go this far and then tilt down" to a railgun slug shouldn't be impossible.
I would expect there's supposed to be a distinction between making content available from a server inside Comcast's network and having one site not in Comcast's network pay to get better traffic shaping than another site not in Comcast's network. If nothing else, "a server inside Comcast's network" is a rough description of any of Comcast's business customers. Of course, how it actually gets implemented (and how the little details of difference between netflix colo pods and business customers get handled) may vary.
but were they healthier on bread than they were in the thousands of years before cultivation of grain began? You can _survive_ on stuff that is much less than optimum.
"if the bidder never pays". Last I heard, if the winning bidder backs out, the seller can _offer_ it to the second bidder, but they don't have to accept. The seller may just be SOL.
After going and looking, it appears there's a way for a seller to file a "bidder didn't pay" complaint to ebay, so they're not entirely without recourse. But I don't know how easy it is for a seller to tell that a bidder has previously been a pain.
I assume you mean "not to have the seller renege", since you assume that you won the bid. You're also assuming payment arrives. Is there a way for a bidder who refuses to pay after winning to get dinged?
Never mind. It's been a while since I used ebay, and apparently they've changed to a one-way rating model (with, reportedly, a resultant increase in crappy buyer behavior). One more reason not to go back...
I have to admit, my experience in a non-tipping society (Japan, to be exact) had generally excellent service. I think it's a combination of a culture which considers showing respect to others very important (the tenets of Shinto all boil down to "respect others") and a very competitive environment (if you can go half a block in Tokyo without passing a place to get food, you're in an unusual district).
combine the two and now they know that the person who was at shop A at time X, shop B at time Y, and shop C at time Z also appears to live at address Q and work at address R, and there you go: anyone who can get the "anonymized" data knows where you live, and that you just bought not only new living room electronics but also airline tickets.
The right to remain silent is (construed as) a right to not be forced to _generate_ evidence against yourself. It is not a right not to be forced to _produce already existing_ evidence against yourself. Papers in a safe already exist. Files on a hard drive already exist. If they can't prove the drive/safe is yours, then revealing the password/combination could be used as evidence that it belongs to you, and in that case you could argue that revealing the password/combination would be self incrimination. But if they already know and can prove it's yours, then they can require you to hand over the password/combination and punish you for refusing.
The difference is that it's a lot harder for them to get into your files without a password than to get into a safe without a combination.
"We grant you immunity for the contents of your password." Which does not mean that whatever your password is confessing to is now safe, it just means that the password isn't usable as probable cause to investigate it. What's behind the password, on the other hand...
would it not be simpler to say "that one got vetoed so it was never an active law" than just saying "there was never such a law" and inviting argument?
Not necessarily. Eliminating prohibition crimes would reduce both plea bargains and trials, which would allow some of the other crimes that get plea bargained to be actually tried. How much the total case load would change depends on the amounts of time currently spent on plea trials and real trials of both types. It could conceivably even reduce (though I wouldn't put money on it).
As far as I can tell, all he really said was "if you say something insulting you cannot expect there to be zero consequence", which is pretty much true. If I insult you, I cannot reasonably expect you to be happy about it, and you being unhappy is going to have consequences (your opinion of me will drop, you may choose to avoid associating with me, you may express your dislike of me to others and affect their opinions of me, etc). He also said that murder was over the top as consequences go, which is also (in my opinion) true.
I don't see how acknowledging reality makes him less hip/with-it, given that (in my opinion) much of his hipness came from the fact that he was willing to acknowledge reality on other topics.
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and viruses/trojans that are immune to signature-based scanning. Better get serious about process privilege and running stuff in revertable VMs.
I have heard that there are. There's a post above about a guy who won a TV in a raffle and can't use it because he can't put it on the net to accept the TOS.
That is in fact why I no longer have a projector. My wife isn't as big a fan of having the lights off to watch TV.
Goto is being used safely (relatively) now, but would have the programming practices that cause that to be true become so prevalent without his warning that it had potential for problems?
sounds like a market may be developing for a kit to replace the smarts with something that just drives the display. (not, mind you, a _large_ market. Unfortunately.)
I think you're underestimating his physical abilities (understandable, the movies don't really emphasize them as much as they probably should). At one point, Spiderman was listed as the 4th strongest character in the marvel universe (behind the Hulk, the Thing, and Thor). Admittedly, the marvel universe was less populated, but he's still above Captain America (20 tons vs 1200lbs). He's also got reflexes and balance about as good as Cap, plus spider sense... he doesn't have Cap's experience (though he's probably closer than most, given how many issues he's had) and he doesn't have the shield (but can do a lot with webbing). He definitely lacks Cap's leadership skills. He's probably not suited to be a member of the Avengers for a number of reasons, but he's in that league.
I dunno, he's got a point. Since railgun slugs are intended to damage by kinetic energy instead of carried explosive (I assume... I wouldn't want to put an explosive in a rail launcher) it has to go faster than old style shells, which results in a flatter trajectory, which may make it harder to use arcing shots.
Of course, at this point, we have enough experience with guided unpowered ordnance (smart bombs) that adding some "go this far and then tilt down" to a railgun slug shouldn't be impossible.
I would expect there's supposed to be a distinction between making content available from a server inside Comcast's network and having one site not in Comcast's network pay to get better traffic shaping than another site not in Comcast's network. If nothing else, "a server inside Comcast's network" is a rough description of any of Comcast's business customers. Of course, how it actually gets implemented (and how the little details of difference between netflix colo pods and business customers get handled) may vary.
but were they healthier on bread than they were in the thousands of years before cultivation of grain began? You can _survive_ on stuff that is much less than optimum.
"if the bidder never pays". Last I heard, if the winning bidder backs out, the seller can _offer_ it to the second bidder, but they don't have to accept. The seller may just be SOL.
After going and looking, it appears there's a way for a seller to file a "bidder didn't pay" complaint to ebay, so they're not entirely without recourse. But I don't know how easy it is for a seller to tell that a bidder has previously been a pain.
I assume you mean "not to have the seller renege", since you assume that you won the bid. You're also assuming payment arrives. Is there a way for a bidder who refuses to pay after winning to get dinged?
Never mind. It's been a while since I used ebay, and apparently they've changed to a one-way rating model (with, reportedly, a resultant increase in crappy buyer behavior). One more reason not to go back...
Out of delight to finally be getting some good service?
I have to admit, my experience in a non-tipping society (Japan, to be exact) had generally excellent service. I think it's a combination of a culture which considers showing respect to others very important (the tenets of Shinto all boil down to "respect others") and a very competitive environment (if you can go half a block in Tokyo without passing a place to get food, you're in an unusual district).
you haven't used ebay, I take it.
no, then they burgle your house while you're gone.
combine the two and now they know that the person who was at shop A at time X, shop B at time Y, and shop C at time Z also appears to live at address Q and work at address R, and there you go: anyone who can get the "anonymized" data knows where you live, and that you just bought not only new living room electronics but also airline tickets.
The right to remain silent is (construed as) a right to not be forced to _generate_ evidence against yourself. It is not a right not to be forced to _produce already existing_ evidence against yourself. Papers in a safe already exist. Files on a hard drive already exist. If they can't prove the drive/safe is yours, then revealing the password/combination could be used as evidence that it belongs to you, and in that case you could argue that revealing the password/combination would be self incrimination. But if they already know and can prove it's yours, then they can require you to hand over the password/combination and punish you for refusing.
The difference is that it's a lot harder for them to get into your files without a password than to get into a safe without a combination.
"We grant you immunity for the contents of your password." Which does not mean that whatever your password is confessing to is now safe, it just means that the password isn't usable as probable cause to investigate it. What's behind the password, on the other hand...
would it not be simpler to say "that one got vetoed so it was never an active law" than just saying "there was never such a law" and inviting argument?
Not necessarily. Eliminating prohibition crimes would reduce both plea bargains and trials, which would allow some of the other crimes that get plea bargained to be actually tried. How much the total case load would change depends on the amounts of time currently spent on plea trials and real trials of both types. It could conceivably even reduce (though I wouldn't put money on it).
that's pretty much the "prosecutorial discretion" that the person you're replying to postulated didn't exist anymore, isn't it?
Have you never lost your temper and regretted it later?
As far as I can tell, all he really said was "if you say something insulting you cannot expect there to be zero consequence", which is pretty much true. If I insult you, I cannot reasonably expect you to be happy about it, and you being unhappy is going to have consequences (your opinion of me will drop, you may choose to avoid associating with me, you may express your dislike of me to others and affect their opinions of me, etc). He also said that murder was over the top as consequences go, which is also (in my opinion) true.
I don't see how acknowledging reality makes him less hip/with-it, given that (in my opinion) much of his hipness came from the fact that he was willing to acknowledge reality on other topics.
ah, you are correct. I was looking inside the quote.
I still wonder which part of Mexico AC lives in that has 4 providers.