Never mind the fact that this system won't tell anyone whether you've been running on low tire pressure, or how old your wipers are, unless they find a way to tie this system in to a smart tire monitor.
This just seems to be an electronic tattle-tale to me. It doesn't do anything to improve safety, all it does is give insurance companies more room to try to weasel out of paying claims.
Oh yes, you'll "get busted", because the minimum-wage earning kid watching the camera is going to be able to match up every person's face with the correct identity. Get real.
It's not terribly easy to forge a credit card, it's far easier to steal it.
The idea that Kroger doesn't require signatures isn't something that I'd consider a "good" thing.
It's easier to get someone's fingerprint than steal their wallet. You could get it from random joe walking out of the store. I'm thinking it wouldn't be entirely difficult to build a mold based off of a fingerprint transfer.
Look at the ads for these things. Obviously they're not trying to sell them to YOU. It's not a damn gaming system. That's why they call it a "tablet pc", not a gaming pc.
That's because the reviews are being written by people that are out of the target demographic. Tablet PC's are for people that want to transcribe notes directly to PC during meetings, so they don't have to rewrite the minutes and such, and people that would like to do artwork on the go. Graphic artists and such are drooling over these things, since they can do art ANYWHERE.
This also applies to apartment complexes, by the way. It's a good thing to know when the leasing office wants you to take it down because the local cable company is bitching about their exclusivity contract.
Also, if the HOA, ownership company, etc, decides they want to try and dispute this, you are allowed by the FCC rulings to keep your equipment in place until a desicion is rendered.
Riight. Like a Honda Civic ricer would get a turbocharger for his car. NAWS is so much cheaper, and you get the added benifit of being able to blow out your cylinder sleeves!
Or you could get that new bass tube that LOOKS like a big blue bottle of NAWS. (I shit you not, they DO exist)
Try reading the post that I responded to before trying to argue with me next time. I was referring to his suggestion that Tolkien's "innovations" were being "stolen" so that copyright was not effective in protecting any works. He then went on to infer the copyright should be elimitated, and patents should be applied to everything (like that wouldn't make a screwed-up system even worse). I simply recommended that he try to patent a book, poem, song, etc. YOU CAN'T. THAT WAS MY POINT.
Like the "War on Terror" and our involvment in Iraq have ANYTHING to do with preserving freedom, liberty, and or capitalism. The war on terror makes good copy to scare people out of questioning the goverment's activities. Our involvement in Iraq is a way to try to improve the presidential approval rating, and to prevent Iraq from doing anything that may affect our oil prices.
Hate to break this to you, but most companies really don't give a shit whether or not you're LEARNING while you're on the job. In fact, they'd rather you come to the table already knowing how to set something up, so you can spend more time showing people how to print and access network shares than trying to get the network to work right.
They are required to allow you to sign up with another LONG-DISTANCE provider, just like all of the telcos. They are NOT required to allow you to use another local provider, especially since they will tend to be the only ones operating in a region. The only change to this is if they don't have ownership of the physical cable, but that only happens in MDU's.
You missed the point, jackass. He doesn't like the fact that he has to pay extra for no LD and no caller-id. He wanted to go to a different provider, and discovered that, as usual, the telco has a monopoly on the lines. THEN he decided to try to just get a cell phone instead. At which point he discovered that Verizon is the only cell service that works there as well, which screws him over again.
Try reading a post next time before you make some jackoff response.
Totally off-topic question to Seattle residents: what the heck is up with pedestrians in downtown Seattle standing on the corner waiting for the light? I felt a little weird jaywalking all the time, but I'll be danged if I'm going to stand around like a dolt when it's obvious there's no traffic.
Why? Because it's illegal, and Seattle police tend to ticket people for it. There used to be a problem with people wandering around in the street before crackdowns started happening, I prefer the situation as it is now.
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It's the only thing that really matters. Your ISP is the one that gives you IP's and routing, period. You can ACCESS other ISP's through it and use their networks and services, like some of my customers do, but your ISP is whomever provides the IP's and routing for your circuit.
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Doesn't work if you have Cable modem. They can filter all or nothing. Actually, it's not even really a filter, it's something they screw on that prevents the cable from making contact.
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Who do you get your IP addresses from? If it's a TW IP address, TW is your ISP. Just because you're using TW's service to connect to another ISP, doesn't mean that TW is not your ISP.
And no, TW does NOT have to open the cable lines to other ISP's. If that were the case, your bill would come from JUST MSN, AOL (which is now part of TW, dipshit), and Earthlink. TW would not be mentioned on the bill.
Let's suppose I thought Osama Bin Laden was right for a second. Now, let's suppose I go write a letter, stating who I am, and where I live, and my beliefs that all Americans should die. How quickly do you think I would be arrested and charged with terrorism?
"Unpopular" speech has just as much a right to exist as "popular". If it has to be done anonymously, so be it. If it's "false accusations" as you claim, investigation will bear this.
There is a lot of fear right now of being prosecuted (persecuted) under the current government climate for your beliefs. If you don't think this is true, think about the Muslims and Hindus (damn ingnorant rednecks) that were assaulted after these attacks. Let's not forget, the US goverment is by the people, for the people. If you're a citizen, you're officially part of the government. You're assertion that the exceptions make the rule is a fallacy in this case, as it's the threat of BECOMING part of that "minority" stifles free speech.
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Please take some english classes, or buy a spell-checker, before spouting off about someone else's intelligence.
Never mind the fact that this system won't tell anyone whether you've been running on low tire pressure, or how old your wipers are, unless they find a way to tie this system in to a smart tire monitor.
This just seems to be an electronic tattle-tale to me. It doesn't do anything to improve safety, all it does is give insurance companies more room to try to weasel out of paying claims.
Oh yes, you'll "get busted", because the minimum-wage earning kid watching the camera is going to be able to match up every person's face with the correct identity. Get real.
It's not terribly easy to forge a credit card, it's far easier to steal it.
The idea that Kroger doesn't require signatures isn't something that I'd consider a "good" thing.
It's easier to get someone's fingerprint than steal their wallet. You could get it from random joe walking out of the store. I'm thinking it wouldn't be entirely difficult to build a mold based off of a fingerprint transfer.
What about how trivial it is to fake a fingerprint? I'd think that would be a pretty big concern.
No, it wasn't. You can make a total mirror copy of the DVD, including CSS, and it will work fine. CSS is about protecting "region coding".
Look at the ads for these things. Obviously they're not trying to sell them to YOU. It's not a damn gaming system. That's why they call it a "tablet pc", not a gaming pc.
That's because the reviews are being written by people that are out of the target demographic. Tablet PC's are for people that want to transcribe notes directly to PC during meetings, so they don't have to rewrite the minutes and such, and people that would like to do artwork on the go. Graphic artists and such are drooling over these things, since they can do art ANYWHERE.
This also applies to apartment complexes, by the way. It's a good thing to know when the leasing office wants you to take it down because the local cable company is bitching about their exclusivity contract.
Also, if the HOA, ownership company, etc, decides they want to try and dispute this, you are allowed by the FCC rulings to keep your equipment in place until a desicion is rendered.
Riight. Like a Honda Civic ricer would get a turbocharger for his car. NAWS is so much cheaper, and you get the added benifit of being able to blow out your cylinder sleeves!
Or you could get that new bass tube that LOOKS like a big blue bottle of NAWS. (I shit you not, they DO exist)
Try reading the post that I responded to before trying to argue with me next time. I was referring to his suggestion that Tolkien's "innovations" were being "stolen" so that copyright was not effective in protecting any works. He then went on to infer the copyright should be elimitated, and patents should be applied to everything (like that wouldn't make a screwed-up system even worse). I simply recommended that he try to patent a book, poem, song, etc. YOU CAN'T. THAT WAS MY POINT.
Try patenting a song, a poem, or a book.
Like the "War on Terror" and our involvment in Iraq have ANYTHING to do with preserving freedom, liberty, and or capitalism. The war on terror makes good copy to scare people out of questioning the goverment's activities. Our involvement in Iraq is a way to try to improve the presidential approval rating, and to prevent Iraq from doing anything that may affect our oil prices.
Hate to break this to you, but most companies really don't give a shit whether or not you're LEARNING while you're on the job. In fact, they'd rather you come to the table already knowing how to set something up, so you can spend more time showing people how to print and access network shares than trying to get the network to work right.
No, that meant "Square Electronic Arts". Not "Square" AND "Electronic Arts".
EA was the publisher for the PC ports of the FF games. Not a huge relationship.
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Not if they own the cable all the way to the unit. Trust me, I used to work for a small CLEC, I know how this works.
They are required to allow you to sign up with another LONG-DISTANCE provider, just like all of the telcos. They are NOT required to allow you to use another local provider, especially since they will tend to be the only ones operating in a region. The only change to this is if they don't have ownership of the physical cable, but that only happens in MDU's.
You missed the point, jackass. He doesn't like the fact that he has to pay extra for no LD and no caller-id. He wanted to go to a different provider, and discovered that, as usual, the telco has a monopoly on the lines. THEN he decided to try to just get a cell phone instead. At which point he discovered that Verizon is the only cell service that works there as well, which screws him over again.
Try reading a post next time before you make some jackoff response.
Totally off-topic question to Seattle residents: what the heck is up with pedestrians in downtown Seattle standing on the corner waiting for the light? I felt a little weird jaywalking all the time, but I'll be danged if I'm going to stand around like a dolt when it's obvious there's no traffic.
Why? Because it's illegal, and Seattle police tend to ticket people for it. There used to be a problem with people wandering around in the street before crackdowns started happening, I prefer the situation as it is now.
It's the only thing that really matters. Your ISP is the one that gives you IP's and routing, period. You can ACCESS other ISP's through it and use their networks and services, like some of my customers do, but your ISP is whomever provides the IP's and routing for your circuit.
Doesn't work if you have Cable modem. They can filter all or nothing. Actually, it's not even really a filter, it's something they screw on that prevents the cable from making contact.
Who do you get your IP addresses from? If it's a TW IP address, TW is your ISP. Just because you're using TW's service to connect to another ISP, doesn't mean that TW is not your ISP.
And no, TW does NOT have to open the cable lines to other ISP's. If that were the case, your bill would come from JUST MSN, AOL (which is now part of TW, dipshit), and Earthlink. TW would not be mentioned on the bill.
I'll drag out the old argument again.
Let's suppose I thought Osama Bin Laden was right for a second. Now, let's suppose I go write a letter, stating who I am, and where I live, and my beliefs that all Americans should die. How quickly do you think I would be arrested and charged with terrorism?
"Unpopular" speech has just as much a right to exist as "popular". If it has to be done anonymously, so be it. If it's "false accusations" as you claim, investigation will bear this.
There is a lot of fear right now of being prosecuted (persecuted) under the current government climate for your beliefs. If you don't think this is true, think about the Muslims and Hindus (damn ingnorant rednecks) that were assaulted after these attacks. Let's not forget, the US goverment is by the people, for the people. If you're a citizen, you're officially part of the government. You're assertion that the exceptions make the rule is a fallacy in this case, as it's the threat of BECOMING part of that "minority" stifles free speech.