One thing which could be done, would be to allow Somalis to make a living other than attacking merchant ships. Part of the problem is that many countries steal Somalias resources (by fishing illegally) and illegally dump waste on Somalias shores. This in turn reduces the ability of Somalian fishermen to make a living. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_Somalia#Illegal_fishing - "It's almost like a resource swap, Somalis collect up to $100 million a year from pirate ransoms off their coasts and the Europeans and Asians poach around $300 million a year in fish from Somali waters."
I'm all in favour of the international fleet fighting the pirates, however I would like to see their mandate extended to also target illegal fishing.
Well, depends if you paid for the game or not. If you paid for a game which you thought would be interesting, then the supplier shouldn't change the game so that it becomes boring. If you didn't pay, then there is no obligation of the company to the player.
However - regardless whether there is an obligation to the players or not, it's a silly move to make the game boring. There is stuff which you can sell which does not interfere with the game itself: e.g. a nicer user interface, character outfits, access to other levels... However once you sell direct advantages in the game, the gameplay suffers.
Imagine you were watching a tennis game - it's exciting till the end, finally one player scores a decisive point. But wierdly he doesn't actually win, because the other player buys the "smaller tennis court feature" for $10k - now the ball is suddenly declared "out". Would you still watch the game after that? Since the player with the most money wins anyway, it would be too boring for me.
When comparing cities, it really depends on the size. For the cities above 250k people, according to Wikipedia Detroit has the highest murder rates in the US (46/100k). Dallas is far behind (16/100k) but still a lot worse than Seattle (4/100k).
In the 100k-250k range, New Orleans is doing worst with 95/100k, in the 60k-100k range it's Gary, Indiana with 73/100k, and in the range 40k-60k the worst place is Irvington, NJ with 40/100k.
Not about the issue itself - that may in many cases too difficult to access, the implications too hard to understand. However voters do care about corruption - they realize that a corrupt government is always a bad government. So this may be the way to discuss these issues publically: a few companies benefit from this amendment to the detriment of many other people - this is indicative of corruption.
That's a very good point. Furthermore - a lot of the stuff which isn't made in China is made in Taiwan. China's official policy is that they want to take over Taiwan - either by peaceful means (sorta, with thousands of missiles targetted on Taiwan and rapidly increasing military buildup) or by direct force. A huge chunk of the world's computer and semiconductor industry is in Taiwan, losing that to China is a huge strategical risk.
Despite that the US has been dragging their feet when it comes to let Taiwan buy military hardware, and now is watching while the new president of Taiwan allows China to buy stakes in high-tech companies, allows companies to move even more production sites to China etc. (I guess you can't blame them - it's better to surrender than to be annihilated.)
Isn't Nvidia illegally hacking the user's computer? The distribution of software which purports to be a driver update but in reality deliberately breaks functionality of the user's system - sounds like malware on the face of it.
If I wanted to write an equation neatly, there is no way I'd use cursive. It's completely unsuited for the task, since there are few opportunities to join letters, and even if there were - joining would typically reduce legibility. Handwriting is still a necessary skill but cursive writing isn't anymore. I love (and practise) Chinese caligraphy, but that's just a hobby. I want my children to learn useful skills for today's world, not for the world as it was when I was a kid.
While some atheists might describe some mainstream religious texts as "nonsense", the vast majority of people, regardless of their belief, would not.
Well, depends - the majority of religious texts are considered "nonsense" (or at least "untrue"/"heresy"/"devil's work") by the vast majority of people. If they are religious they typically exclude their own texts, however. It seems only reasonable that atheists should have the same right to dismiss the religious texts they don't believe in.
I'd agree that Scientology is a scam and not a religion, though.
Interesting how paying no tax on profits of $20.1 billion still allows someone to waffle on about concepts like "fair price". What's fair about owing $350 million and not paying?
Food plants have FDA officials on site to shut the entire plant down at a moments notice if they find tainted food put out to the public. This really is not any different.
It's quite different because it interferes with freedom of speech and freedom of the press. A democratic system can not exist without these rights.
Just on that one: If an attack coming from China or wherever is attacking everything... then take down the routers at our borders.
Such an attack would only come from China in the sense that they'd send a command to the botnet. Also allowing the administration to disconnect the US from the rest of the internet seems an even more dangerous power for them to have. Even if a US government was able to control the entire domestic press, they'd still be unable to prevent the flow of information from the outside world. Unless, that is - if they'd become empowered to establish the great firewall of the US.
Why wouldn't it have an FM transmitter? My wife has an LG KM400, that has a built-in FM transmitter, too. I think it's a "to be expected" feature in that price class.
I didn't put in the time to look for particularly good pictures, but there clearly are many Obama-critical pictures there. Lots of copies of the joker image, too.
If you have a missile which can not be detected by the blimp, why not just use it to deliver the payload? Even if you destroy the blimp, the control center will still notice "oh our blimp is gone". Kinda gives away that you are attacking...
It would indeed be very easy to pressure someone into giving out the key: "Sorry Sir, if you don't want to give us access you need to return on the next flight".
That's why you need steganography or similar techniques. You need to make a potential attacker believe that there is nothing there to attack. There should be a part of your computer that is accessible and looks like the real thing - however your important data should be on the real system. E.g. you could have a small Windows system (well ok "small"...) and your main Linux system uses an encrypted drive and only boots if you press the right key when you reboot your laptop. (Using a USB stick for booting would be another option). Or you could have two user accounts on your Linux laptop - one "default user" and the other one to use for your daily work. (With access to the encrypted files.)
You need to have two partitions - a small one with a few holiday snaps you don't care about, and a large one with all other data. The small one is DOS formatted, the large one is ext3. When you connect it to Windows, it will show a small boring drive.
It might be interesting to try this. In the comments section of that site iamarcin suggested:
So a person that can see should be able to use this method. I would very much like them to have [an] artist use this with eyes closed and then draw what he saw.
5. She will be labeled a sex offender and will be Banned from Facebook.
Ok, but why not just cut of her hands, she'll also be banned from Facebook and you don't even have to move. Anyway, I nominate you for Slashdot parent of the year.
(I'm assuming here you are not criminally insane, just going for funny - please take the response in the same vein.)
Apart from the fact that you are restricting the goals to match the solution, I think this is another major flaw. You need to have a large accurate public vote database. There is no way for any citizen in any polling district to know all voters, so you can't be sure that a voter going in the polling station has a right to be there. Provided you can add entries in the database, you can have the same person voting multiple times in different locations using different names. If you have control of the polling station you can also wait for a quiet period and just add several phantom votes.
I think it's not the copyright holders, it's Amazon. They apparently had someone selling something they didn't have the rights to, through their store. In this case they had no choice but to stop the sales. However rather than deleting books they could have:
compensated the rights holders for the lost sales (and try to get the money back from the unauthorized publisher)
offered the money back to customers
offered to exchange the book for the equivalent version from another publisher
gone to court and ask for a court order that the "illegal" copies should be deleted from customer devices
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I'm all in favour of the international fleet fighting the pirates, however I would like to see their mandate extended to also target illegal fishing.
However - regardless whether there is an obligation to the players or not, it's a silly move to make the game boring. There is stuff which you can sell which does not interfere with the game itself: e.g. a nicer user interface, character outfits, access to other levels... However once you sell direct advantages in the game, the gameplay suffers.
Imagine you were watching a tennis game - it's exciting till the end, finally one player scores a decisive point. But wierdly he doesn't actually win, because the other player buys the "smaller tennis court feature" for $10k - now the ball is suddenly declared "out". Would you still watch the game after that? Since the player with the most money wins anyway, it would be too boring for me.
The government is German, the company is American. That triggers the "my tribe vs your tribe" reflex, which so often overrides rational thought.
In the 100k-250k range, New Orleans is doing worst with 95/100k, in the 60k-100k range it's Gary, Indiana with 73/100k, and in the range 40k-60k the worst place is Irvington, NJ with 40/100k.
People who are truly concerned with security don't get mugged?
Not about the issue itself - that may in many cases too difficult to access, the implications too hard to understand. However voters do care about corruption - they realize that a corrupt government is always a bad government. So this may be the way to discuss these issues publically: a few companies benefit from this amendment to the detriment of many other people - this is indicative of corruption.
Despite that the US has been dragging their feet when it comes to let Taiwan buy military hardware, and now is watching while the new president of Taiwan allows China to buy stakes in high-tech companies, allows companies to move even more production sites to China etc. (I guess you can't blame them - it's better to surrender than to be annihilated.)
Isn't Nvidia illegally hacking the user's computer? The distribution of software which purports to be a driver update but in reality deliberately breaks functionality of the user's system - sounds like malware on the face of it.
If I wanted to write an equation neatly, there is no way I'd use cursive. It's completely unsuited for the task, since there are few opportunities to join letters, and even if there were - joining would typically reduce legibility. Handwriting is still a necessary skill but cursive writing isn't anymore. I love (and practise) Chinese caligraphy, but that's just a hobby. I want my children to learn useful skills for today's world, not for the world as it was when I was a kid.
Well, depends - the majority of religious texts are considered "nonsense" (or at least "untrue"/"heresy"/"devil's work") by the vast majority of people. If they are religious they typically exclude their own texts, however. It seems only reasonable that atheists should have the same right to dismiss the religious texts they don't believe in.
I'd agree that Scientology is a scam and not a religion, though.
Wasn't such a safeguard founded just recently? http://piratepartyofcanada.com/
Interesting how paying no tax on profits of $20.1 billion still allows someone to waffle on about concepts like "fair price". What's fair about owing $350 million and not paying?
It's quite different because it interferes with freedom of speech and freedom of the press. A democratic system can not exist without these rights.
Such an attack would only come from China in the sense that they'd send a command to the botnet. Also allowing the administration to disconnect the US from the rest of the internet seems an even more dangerous power for them to have. Even if a US government was able to control the entire domestic press, they'd still be unable to prevent the flow of information from the outside world. Unless, that is - if they'd become empowered to establish the great firewall of the US.
Why wouldn't it have an FM transmitter? My wife has an LG KM400, that has a built-in FM transmitter, too. I think it's a "to be expected" feature in that price class.
I didn't put in the time to look for particularly good pictures, but there clearly are many Obama-critical pictures there. Lots of copies of the joker image, too.
If you have a missile which can not be detected by the blimp, why not just use it to deliver the payload? Even if you destroy the blimp, the control center will still notice "oh our blimp is gone". Kinda gives away that you are attacking...
That's why you need steganography or similar techniques. You need to make a potential attacker believe that there is nothing there to attack. There should be a part of your computer that is accessible and looks like the real thing - however your important data should be on the real system. E.g. you could have a small Windows system (well ok "small"...) and your main Linux system uses an encrypted drive and only boots if you press the right key when you reboot your laptop. (Using a USB stick for booting would be another option). Or you could have two user accounts on your Linux laptop - one "default user" and the other one to use for your daily work. (With access to the encrypted files.)
You need to have two partitions - a small one with a few holiday snaps you don't care about, and a large one with all other data. The small one is DOS formatted, the large one is ext3. When you connect it to Windows, it will show a small boring drive.
So a person that can see should be able to use this method. I would very much like them to have [an] artist use this with eyes closed and then draw what he saw.
I second that, it's a brilliant idea.
However, to those of us who are both Blind and sarcastic, this device is just another way to shut us up.
It just seems a shame that in the future every protocol will use port 80.
Ok, but why not just cut of her hands, she'll also be banned from Facebook and you don't even have to move. Anyway, I nominate you for Slashdot parent of the year.
(I'm assuming here you are not criminally insane, just going for funny - please take the response in the same vein.)
Apart from the fact that you are restricting the goals to match the solution, I think this is another major flaw. You need to have a large accurate public vote database. There is no way for any citizen in any polling district to know all voters, so you can't be sure that a voter going in the polling station has a right to be there. Provided you can add entries in the database, you can have the same person voting multiple times in different locations using different names. If you have control of the polling station you can also wait for a quiet period and just add several phantom votes.
They really had no right to play police.