We need to start with Mr. Musk and his self driving "car" AI. He needs to release the code so it can be inspected to insure that the car will not go all skynet and take over the world by locking people in their cars and driving them into the sea.
By making this an "Order" even if they cannot find anything to charge you with you can still be charged with failure to follow a direct order.
A lot of the orders like this allow the military to reprimand or charge someone under the Uniform code of Military Justice (UCMJ) without having to go back to congress to get the UCMJ amended.
The real oddity is that more companies don't move to the cheaper cities in the US:
Not really the location of a companies HQs is set by the CEO and board. When you have a 7 and 8 figure income those cities that offer a lot in terms of social contacts, entertainment, prestige and other factors will attract the company HQs.
I think that a tax on automation that replaces displaces workers would help replaces the taxes on lost wages. This would at least offset the cost to society when workers are laid off.
Right,
Some states (Virginia mine) Personal Property is subject to taxation as well. Things like cars, boats, motorcycles, planes, livestock you are required to pay an assessed tax every year on the current value of the items.
My wife and I were walking in Target the about 2 weeks ago and there were a number of Wii's in the case. As soon as I asked for one someone else lurking in the isle also snagged one. I had planed to get my Son a Wii for Christmas and I felt that if I did not buy it now that I would not be able to find it closer to Christmas. On talking to the clerk he said that the Target had just gotten 300 Wii's at the last shipment. But I think that buying now and holding it for 3 months guarantees that Christmas morning will be a fun day for my Son.
Intelligent Design ID is a scientific theory that intelligent causes may have played a crucial role in the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity. It holds that design is empirically detectable in nature, and particularly in living systems. ID is an intellectual movement that includes a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes and that challenges naturalistic explanations of origins that currently drive science education and research.
The theory of intelligent design has been described by ID theorist Professor William Dembski of Baylor University as follows:
Intelligent design begins with the observation that intelligent causes can do things that undirected natural causes cannot. Undirected natural causes can place scrabble pieces on a board, but cannot arrange the pieces as meaningful words and sentences. To obtain a meaningful arrangement requires an intelligent cause. This intuition, that there is a fundamental distinction between undirected natural causes on the one hand and intelligent causes on the other, has underlain the design arguments of past centuries.
To the unbiased eye, the design hypothesis veritably leaps from the study of nature. It is an instinctive mental reaction to the observed data. Even the most ardent evolutionary biologist acknowledges that living systems look designed for a purpose.22 Currently ID scientists are developing ways to empirically and objectively test and confirm the hypothesis that life and certain aspects of its diversity may be the product of an intelligent cause. They do this not only by showing positive evidence of design that "rules in" the hypothesis (e.g., the existence of cellular message-bearing systems), but also by seeking evidence that "rules out" the competing naturalistic hypotheses of chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, and a variety of new "self organization" theories.
Creation Science Creation science seeks to validate a literal interpretation of creation as contained in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Creation science was defined in a statute that was litigated in a 1982 Arkansas case. In that case, the district court found that, as defined, the teaching of "creation science" was unconstitutional because it was, in effect, a restatement of the Genesis account of origins, and that teaching this material would have the effect of promoting that particular religious view. A similar "creation science" statute was held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of Edwards v. Aguillard where the holding was based on the same reason--that the statute had the effect of promoting a particular religious view.
Relationship between Intelligent Design and Creation Science Intelligent Design is not creation science. ID is simply an hypothesis about the direct cause of certain past events based on an observation and analysis of data. ID does not arise from any religious text, nor does it seek to validate any scriptural account of origins. An ID proponent recognizes that ID theory may be disproved by new evidence.
This a virus and worm vector we block as many webmail services as we can find plus some content scanning to discover webmail sites.
Prior to 3 years ago our organization has had 2 worm outbreaks in 1 year both of them have been because of webmain clients. After putting into place webmail blocking we have had no virus or worms in the last 3 years.
Revelation 8:1-13 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer [it] with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast [it] into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
In some States party affiliation is required because of they have closed primaries, only those registered in that party can vote in the primary. Other States like Virgina do not require party affiliation to register.
IANAL but in my reading of the text of
the US Code http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1861.html
all I see is granting of powers to the FBI that any Podunk county
District Attorney has the capability to do investigating any crime
committed in a state.
It must also be remembered that under a
Democrat controlled congress the powers of the FBI and CIA were
severely limited to the point that they were hampered in the
functioning of their duties as mandated by congress.
So all you/.ers wont get carpel tunnel
syndrome clicking on my link I have attached the US Code being talked
about here so as a reading might make a difference to you.
Sec. 1861. - Access to certain business records for foreign
intelligence and international terrorism investigations
(a) Application for order; conduct of
investigation generally
(1) The
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a designee of the
Director (whose rank shall be no lower than Assistant Special Agent
in Charge) may make an application for an order requiring the
production of any tangible things (including books, records, papers,
documents, and other items) for an investigation to obtain foreign
intelligence information not concerning a United States person or to
protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence
activities, provided that such investigation of a United States
person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected
by the first amendment to the Constitution.
(2) An
investigation conducted under this section shall -
(A) be
conducted under guidelines approved by the Attorney General under
Executive Order 12333 (or a successor order); and
(B) not be
conducted of a United States person solely upon the basis of
activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.
(b) Recipient and contents of application
Each application under this section -
(1) shall be
made to -
(A) a judge
of the court established by section 1803(a)
of this title; or
(B) a United
States Magistrate Judge under chapter 43
of title 28,
who is publicly designated by the Chief Justice of the United States
to have the power to hear applications and grant orders for the
production of tangible things under this section on behalf of a judge
of that court; and
(2) shall
specify that the records concerned are sought for an authorized
investigation conducted in accordance with subsection (a)(2) of this
section to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a
United States person or to protect against international terrorism or
clandestine intelligence activities.
Re:www.dieoff.org - depressing news for you
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Unless you live for another couple of hundred years you will not see the end of oil. There are large untapped deposits of oil in the world. Since 1855 there have been those out there saying we will run out of oil any day now. Each year the human race is able to find other ways to get more out of the ground.
Up to now they have been less expensive to extract but once the easy to get deposits dry up or artificial shortages persist then alternative and higher cost deposits will be tapped.
Also OPEC knows that it is in the drivers set. Back in the 70's, OPEC created an artificial shortage when the oil companies started developing alternative supplies and alternative fuel research was in high swing they pulled the rug out from under the R&D budgets. This might make the oil companies less willing to commit the large amount of money needed to extract the tough to get reserves.
But these reserves will one day be exploited
Here is a link to someone else's opinion on this subject. An article
Yes but 1 mile is 5280 feet this number is dividable by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 12. You can easily calculate the exact number of feet in halves thirds fourths and so on. So try to exactly measure a third or a twelfth of a kilometer and tell how great your system is.
Right, but virus writers had to do the heavy lifting by writing or steeling the code themselves. If this is included in a.NET framework all.NET based viruses can have this obfuscation.
Here in Virginia (Fairfax county) there were two lines. The first was very short this is where they verify your identity and mark you off on the voter roster. They give you a little vote card and you stand in line to vote.
This second line was very long due to the new touch screen systems and the large number of candidates. Once you get to the booth you hand over your card, which basically is verification that you checked in and got your name marked off the list. It is not a count of total number of people that voted. With long lines I can see that a number of people might have got frustrated and just left before even getting a chance to cast a ballot.
This would lead to voters being counted but no votes cast. So far I am not impressed with the touch screen ballots but I think with time voters will get use to them and voting will take less time than the last election.
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The Game Companies are gearing up for Christmas. Have to start hyping that newest gota have game for holiday season.
We quickly and carefully re-reviewed our contributions to open source, and found brief fragments of code matching System V code in three generic routines (ate_utils.c, the atoi function and systeminfo.h header file), all within the I/O infrastructure support for
SGI's platform.
--SNIP--
Unless you are running Linux on an SGI platform you are not infringing in any way with this code. All this Code is in the IA64 part of the kernel.
No one that I know of has even completed a comprehensive study of the effect chernobyl had on wildlife.
But there has been just google for it. The area around Chernobyl has been turned in to a wildlife park and without 30000 or so human residents local wildlife is flourishing. This just goes to show the resiliency of life. Even in what we would perceive as a very toxic environment life will find a way to flourish.
Slashdot Mirror
All the US imperial units are defined by the SI units. The Pound is defined as 0.45359237 kilograms
We need to start with Mr. Musk and his self driving "car" AI. He needs to release the code so it can be inspected to insure that the car will not go all skynet and take over the world by locking people in their cars and driving them into the sea.
By making this an "Order" even if they cannot find anything to charge you with you can still be charged with failure to follow a direct order. A lot of the orders like this allow the military to reprimand or charge someone under the Uniform code of Military Justice (UCMJ) without having to go back to congress to get the UCMJ amended.
The real oddity is that more companies don't move to the cheaper cities in the US:
Not really the location of a companies HQs is set by the CEO and board. When you have a 7 and 8 figure income those cities that offer a lot in terms of social contacts, entertainment, prestige and other factors will attract the company HQs.
I think that a tax on automation that replaces displaces workers would help replaces the taxes on lost wages. This would at least offset the cost to society when workers are laid off.
Yea they are called plants.
Right, Some states (Virginia mine) Personal Property is subject to taxation as well. Things like cars, boats, motorcycles, planes, livestock you are required to pay an assessed tax every year on the current value of the items.
My wife and I were walking in Target the about 2 weeks ago and there were a number of Wii's in the case. As soon as I asked for one someone else lurking in the isle also snagged one. I had planed to get my Son a Wii for Christmas and I felt that if I did not buy it now that I would not be able to find it closer to Christmas. On talking to the clerk he said that the Target had just gotten 300 Wii's at the last shipment. But I think that buying now and holding it for 3 months guarantees that Christmas morning will be a fun day for my Son.
To help frame some more discussion here is an excerpt from the following article about Intelligent Design giving some definitions.
r risCalvert.pdf
http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/NCBQ3_3Ha
Intelligent Design
ID is a scientific theory that intelligent causes may have played a crucial role in the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity. It holds that design is empirically detectable in nature, and particularly in living systems. ID is an intellectual movement that includes a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes and that challenges naturalistic explanations of origins that currently drive science education and research.
The theory of intelligent design has been described by ID theorist Professor William Dembski of Baylor University as follows:
Intelligent design begins with the observation that intelligent causes can do things that undirected natural causes cannot. Undirected natural causes can place scrabble pieces on a board, but cannot arrange the pieces as meaningful words and sentences. To obtain a meaningful arrangement requires an intelligent cause. This intuition, that there is a fundamental distinction between undirected natural causes on the one hand and intelligent causes on the other, has underlain the design arguments of past centuries.
To the unbiased eye, the design hypothesis veritably leaps from the study of nature. It is an instinctive mental reaction to the observed data. Even the most ardent evolutionary biologist acknowledges that living systems look designed for a purpose.22 Currently ID scientists are developing ways to empirically and objectively test and confirm the hypothesis that life and certain aspects of its diversity may be the product of an intelligent cause. They do this not only by showing positive evidence of design that "rules in" the hypothesis (e.g., the existence of cellular message-bearing systems), but also by seeking evidence that "rules out" the competing naturalistic hypotheses of chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, and a variety of new "self organization" theories.
Creation Science
Creation science seeks to validate a literal interpretation of creation as contained in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Creation science was defined in a statute that was litigated in a 1982 Arkansas case. In that case, the district court found that, as defined, the teaching of "creation science" was unconstitutional because it was, in effect, a restatement of the Genesis account of origins, and that teaching this material would have the effect of promoting that particular religious view. A similar "creation science" statute was held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of Edwards v. Aguillard where the holding was based on the same reason--that the statute had the effect of promoting a particular religious view.
Relationship between Intelligent Design and Creation Science
Intelligent Design is not creation science. ID is simply an hypothesis about the direct cause of certain past events based on an observation and analysis of data. ID does not arise from any religious text, nor does it seek to validate any scriptural account of origins. An ID proponent recognizes that ID theory may be disproved by new evidence.
This a virus and worm vector we block as many webmail services as we can find plus some content scanning to discover webmail sites.
Prior to 3 years ago our organization has had 2 worm outbreaks in 1 year both of them have been because of webmain clients. After putting into place webmail blocking we have had no virus or worms in the last 3 years.
Revelation 8:1-13 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer [it] with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast [it] into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
In some States party affiliation is required because of they have closed primaries, only those registered in that party can vote in the primary. Other States like Virgina do not require party affiliation to register.
We will be able to move our CRT's around without any color changes.
IANAL but in my reading of the text of the US Code http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1861.html all I see is granting of powers to the FBI that any Podunk county District Attorney has the capability to do investigating any crime committed in a state.
It must also be remembered that under a Democrat controlled congress the powers of the FBI and CIA were severely limited to the point that they were hampered in the functioning of their duties as mandated by congress.
So all you /.ers wont get carpel tunnel
syndrome clicking on my link I have attached the US Code being talked
about here so as a reading might make a difference to you.
TITLE 50 > CHAPTER 36 > SUBCHAPTER IV > Sec. 1861.
Sec. 1861. - Access to certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations
(a) Application for order; conduct of investigation generally
(1) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a designee of the Director (whose rank shall be no lower than Assistant Special Agent in Charge) may make an application for an order requiring the production of any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items) for an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a United States person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, provided that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution.
(2) An investigation conducted under this section shall -
(A) be conducted under guidelines approved by the Attorney General under Executive Order 12333 (or a successor order); and
(B) not be conducted of a United States person solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
(b) Recipient and contents of application
Each application under this section -
(1) shall be made to -
(A) a judge of the court established by section 1803(a) of this title; or
(B) a United States Magistrate Judge under chapter 43 of title 28, who is publicly designated by the Chief Justice of the United States to have the power to hear applications and grant orders for the production of tangible things under this section on behalf of a judge of that court; and
(2) shall specify that the records concerned are sought for an authorized investigation conducted in accordance with subsection (a)(2) of this section to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a United States person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.
Unless you live for another couple of hundred years you will not see the end of oil. There are large untapped deposits of oil in the world. Since 1855 there have been those out there saying we will run out of oil any day now. Each year the human race is able to find other ways to get more out of the ground.
Up to now they have been less expensive to extract but once the easy to get deposits dry up or artificial shortages persist then alternative and higher cost deposits will be tapped.
Also OPEC knows that it is in the drivers set. Back in the 70's, OPEC created an artificial shortage when the oil companies started developing alternative supplies and alternative fuel research was in high swing they pulled the rug out from under the R&D budgets. This might make the oil companies less willing to commit the large amount of money needed to extract the tough to get reserves.
But these reserves will one day be exploited
Here is a link to someone else's opinion on this subject. An article
Yes but 1 mile is 5280 feet this number is dividable by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 12. You can easily calculate the exact number of feet in halves thirds fourths and so on. So try to exactly measure a third or a twelfth of a kilometer and tell how great your system is.
It also pollutes the air more than any Hummer in production.
Right, but virus writers had to do the heavy lifting by writing or steeling the code themselves. If this is included in a .NET framework all .NET based viruses can have this obfuscation.
Once the virus writers get a hold of this viruses will be much harder to catch, unless anti-virus writers start looking more for virus-like activity.
I think that he could have have gotten a MSDN Universal subscription for life out of this deal at least.
Here in Virginia (Fairfax county) there were two lines. The first was very short this is where they verify your identity and mark you off on the voter roster. They give you a little vote card and you stand in line to vote.
This second line was very long due to the new touch screen systems and the large number of candidates. Once you get to the booth you hand over your card, which basically is verification that you checked in and got your name marked off the list. It is not a count of total number of people that voted. With long lines I can see that a number of people might have got frustrated and just left before even getting a chance to cast a ballot.
This would lead to voters being counted but no votes cast. So far I am not impressed with the touch screen ballots but I think with time voters will get use to them and voting will take less time than the last election.
The Game Companies are gearing up for Christmas. Have to start hyping that newest gota have game for holiday season.
--SNIP--
Unless you are running Linux on an SGI platform you are not infringing in any way with this code.
All this Code is in the IA64 part of the kernel.
It actually has been distributed as part of Internet Explorer and has been included in all versions of Internet Explorer since version 4.00.
It has two versions a windows based one wscript.exe or the command line versions cscript.exe.
Two languages are support on the default install VBScript and JScript. Other languages can be plugged into this framework most notable perl.