Yet the motion to dismiss refers to storage of evidence related to Angulo’s case as an “economic and practical hardship.” The reference to “practical” may be key
No, the practical means the guy is in Panama, and Panama has already said they're not going to extradite him. So quit wasting time and resources - drop the case and move on.
Which is what they did from the sound of it, they just offered up some lame excuse about that thar computer related stuff to placate the republicans.
There are plenty of legitimate good reasons to learn how to free yourself from handcuffs. One of them is being able to call for rescue when your BDSM-obsessed girlfriend has an epileptic seizure after cuffing you up. Oh, sorry, you losers don't have girlfriends.
This is Slashdot, that is a given for anyone who posts here. Hey, I see that includes you!
I think many companies have become like Apple. In my opinion the function of the high tech industry is attributable to the lack of ubiquitous software patent practices in the past. Now days, you have to watch out for patent landmines for even obvious features in a piece of software. I don't have any specific articles to link on the subject because I am lazy, but how can the patents serve to do anything but hinder progress? I just don't understand at all how companies could even try to argue the opposite.
Is composed of the bodies of energy ministers and power-generating companies.
As opposed to slashdot users who are all high and mighty, posting on their energy-using computer that was produced in a factory that is probably not powered by a water wheel, all the while sitting in the basement of their mom's energy-cooled house?
...and they could have chosen to buy which "green" product in place of the one they have? Oh I get your logic now, since in some areas of life you can't get green products, you might as well throw conservation completely out the window. Perhaps we could all just start burning extra piles of coal in the backyard just for a little extra oomph in protest. Brilliant!
Hey, you could extend that logic over to the obesity problem too! If someone is having a problem losing weight they should just go ahead and eat as much little debbie as they can get their hands on!
Of course not. If you admit the truth, it makes it harder to get frickin fracking permits. There's money in selling natural gas, and not much money in simply admitting the economy is shit.
I think since china and the US are engaged in "conflict" (perhaps not directly with each other, but with other countries) then exports from those nations should be banned as "conflict" materials as well. What a bunch of assholes, the guys at this "enough project". Are there really any first world countries on the planet not engaged in some kind of conflict? This article makes me want to go buy a second nintendo.
Apple has repeatedly refused to license the patents and instead continues to just use them without paying. Was anyone actually surprised to see this happen? The word inevitable comes to mind. Not that I am particularly in love with the patent system, but Apple enjoys suing everyone else for patent violations and then they turn around and blatantly do it themselves. Someone at apple has been taking their stupid pills on the reg.
I would lawyer up and try to warn future customers away from the company as best you could. At least you could probably get a refund (adjusted for inflation, perhaps).
And most of us with FiOS TV would argue that there are way too many international TV stations and that they keep adding more of that crap instead of adding the missing HD channels people are bitching about and wasting space.
There are hundreds (thousands?) of options with FTA type satellite for international channels. It seems like that would be the way to go if you live in the USA and want programming from outside the country.
That's just bad coding and there is no excuse. It doesn't help that the demo code snip-its from twitter et al are blocking javascript garbage, but any webdesigner or programmer worth their salt should be able to rewrite it into async non-blocking code in no time flat.
I realize that is possible, but apparently most developers won't or can't. Or, more likely many sites have "designers" rather than developers. No matter the cause, though - using adblock+ to block these solves the problem for me. Since I don't use facebook or twit, I'm not missing out on anything at all by blocking them.
What icons? I ad-blocked those icons a long time ago. I just now noticed that my cursor doesn't even give me the finger anymore as I scrub over where those icons used to be (it did when they first added that crap). I've also ad-blocked that annoying "sharethis" or whatever it is that web sites include to create a popup with like 20 hipster social crap sharing icons. Ad-block isn't just for ads. (Though you could justifiably call all those icons a form of advertisement.)
I did the same. These icons tend to significantly slow down page load times. It's the difference between pages loading almost instantly vs taking several seconds to load on many sites.
AFAIC just break the law, don't buy insurance. This is a problem of-course, because eventually the cops will have the license plate recognition systems that are tied into insurance databases and all the other databases and it will be nearly impossible to drive without insurance, but imagine for a moment that everybody just stopped buying insurance, cancelled their insurance completely and drove without it.
It's possible to set this up with today's communications than ever before. There should be: "get together to break the law" app that people would get and then all act as one to break the law of the day. This is the only way that doesn't involve violence against the government, with guns and all, that can be used to take the power back from the government.
Imagine if tax time came and nobody paid the taxes.
Imagine if everybody cancelled their insurance and drove anyway.
Imagine if everybody had drugs on them at all times.
what is the power going to do, when the subjects stop recognising the power? Kill everybody?
Automated license scanners are apparently already commonplace. I saw an interview with a cop the other day that said his car often scanned somewhere in the neighborhood of 10k plates a day. Insurance agencies report when your insurance is cancelled electronically and your license is automatically suspended. With the automated scanners it probably would only be a few minutes before you were in the back of a squad car.
I'd rather buy insurance than have my shit pushed in while in jail.
Besides the fact that this is begging to be gamed, how to they tell the difference between someone driving carefully and some half-blind octogenarian that's causing traffic accidents around them by driving too slow and failing to react to near-misses that may affect the next driver?
This is an insurance agency, primarily a "business". They could probably not care less if a driver makes the road less safe for other drivers so long as they are less likely to have to pay a claim for this driver.
Why are people still using Sony? They have done so much evil and have clearly shown that they don't care about protecting their users/customers.
Do people really like to be abused that much?
Perhaps because there's not a great alternative available? If you like console gaming, then there's Sony, Microsoft, and to a lesser extent, Nintendo. I certainly wouldn't consider Microsoft any less evil than Sony. Nintendo, maybe - but their consoles aren't really the same thing as the similar 360/ps3... I guess people could give up console gaming entirely, but to just gripe that Sony is evil is a bit narrow sighted. Personally, I prefer PC gaming.. however at the moment that still means either playing old games on a wine based setup or using MS.
I've got an azure account with MSDN and TechNET subscription (I don't remember which of the two came with the azure). Processor time on their service is very expensive if you go beyond the allotment of free time given to you by those subs. The service works well, although getting your code to the servers is a little kludgy. Given the high cost, I think you'd be hard pressed to find value when weighed against leasing a full server or even multiple servers from a regular hosting provider. The exception to that would be if you had a simply massive load requirement and just couldn't muster enough horsepower out of a few traditional servers.
For what I would am doing, the cost is unreasonable. I've never really looked at amazon; so I can't compare them.
...and so begins a conspiracy theory people will probably wonder about for years. I'm sure the apk's will be available for loading onto rooted devices for a long time. losing access to so many sites will be painful for non root android users I'm sure.
I like getting broadband speeds, yes. Last time I ran speedtest from my android I got about 8mbps and only had about half signal strength. You aren't getting 8mbps on your 3g iphone.
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Yet the motion to dismiss refers to storage of evidence related to Angulo’s case as an “economic and practical hardship.” The reference to “practical” may be key
No, the practical means the guy is in Panama, and Panama has already said they're not going to extradite him. So quit wasting time and resources - drop the case and move on.
Which is what they did from the sound of it, they just offered up some lame excuse about that thar computer related stuff to placate the republicans.
For a mere $2200 bucks they can double their storage. Ok so they might need to spend 500 bucks more for a case to contain the drives.
Drives: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST320005N4A1AS-RK-Retail/dp/B002AQSVDA/ref=sr_1_13?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1345488036&sr=1-13&keywords=hard+drive
Case: http://www.mountainmods.com/extended-ascension-cyo-custom-computer-case-p-493.html?osCsid=lobk16afmjb8rq8kt13ns7bsc3
Now that I've solved the DEA's problems, I'm not sure what to do with the rest of my day.
There are plenty of legitimate good reasons to learn how to free yourself from handcuffs. One of them is being able to call for rescue when your BDSM-obsessed girlfriend has an epileptic seizure after cuffing you up. Oh, sorry, you losers don't have girlfriends.
This is Slashdot, that is a given for anyone who posts here. Hey, I see that includes you!
I think many companies have become like Apple. In my opinion the function of the high tech industry is attributable to the lack of ubiquitous software patent practices in the past. Now days, you have to watch out for patent landmines for even obvious features in a piece of software. I don't have any specific articles to link on the subject because I am lazy, but how can the patents serve to do anything but hinder progress? I just don't understand at all how companies could even try to argue the opposite.
Is composed of the bodies of energy ministers and power-generating companies.
As opposed to slashdot users who are all high and mighty, posting on their energy-using computer that was produced in a factory that is probably not powered by a water wheel, all the while sitting in the basement of their mom's energy-cooled house?
...and they could have chosen to buy which "green" product in place of the one they have? Oh I get your logic now, since in some areas of life you can't get green products, you might as well throw conservation completely out the window. Perhaps we could all just start burning extra piles of coal in the backyard just for a little extra oomph in protest. Brilliant!
Hey, you could extend that logic over to the obesity problem too! If someone is having a problem losing weight they should just go ahead and eat as much little debbie as they can get their hands on!
Of course not. If you admit the truth, it makes it harder to get frickin fracking permits. There's money in selling natural gas, and not much money in simply admitting the economy is shit.
I think since china and the US are engaged in "conflict" (perhaps not directly with each other, but with other countries) then exports from those nations should be banned as "conflict" materials as well. What a bunch of assholes, the guys at this "enough project". Are there really any first world countries on the planet not engaged in some kind of conflict?
This article makes me want to go buy a second nintendo.
Apple has repeatedly refused to license the patents and instead continues to just use them without paying. Was anyone actually surprised to see this happen? The word inevitable comes to mind. Not that I am particularly in love with the patent system, but Apple enjoys suing everyone else for patent violations and then they turn around and blatantly do it themselves. Someone at apple has been taking their stupid pills on the reg.
I would lawyer up and try to warn future customers away from the company as best you could. At least you could probably get a refund (adjusted for inflation, perhaps).
whatcouldpossiblygowrong...
I smell a movie script for a very bad B-Movie. Working title "They saved prehistoric Hitler's brain"
IN 3D!
3D makes bad movies go good.
And most of us with FiOS TV would argue that there are way too many international TV stations and that they keep adding more of that crap instead of adding the missing HD channels people are bitching about and wasting space.
There are hundreds (thousands?) of options with FTA type satellite for international channels. It seems like that would be the way to go if you live in the USA and want programming from outside the country.
hell, with these "privacy concerns", you better take off the headset before using facebook or even google!
If you're using facebook, then privacy probably isn't important to you. Just leave it on.
Maybe after they transplant the brain in a brainless body, we'll find out why he was hanged in his time.
You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me.
That's just bad coding and there is no excuse. It doesn't help that the demo code snip-its from twitter et al are blocking javascript garbage, but any webdesigner or programmer worth their salt should be able to rewrite it into async non-blocking code in no time flat.
I realize that is possible, but apparently most developers won't or can't. Or, more likely many sites have "designers" rather than developers. No matter the cause, though - using adblock+ to block these solves the problem for me. Since I don't use facebook or twit, I'm not missing out on anything at all by blocking them.
What icons? I ad-blocked those icons a long time ago. I just now noticed that my cursor doesn't even give me the finger anymore as I scrub over where those icons used to be (it did when they first added that crap). I've also ad-blocked that annoying "sharethis" or whatever it is that web sites include to create a popup with like 20 hipster social crap sharing icons. Ad-block isn't just for ads. (Though you could justifiably call all those icons a form of advertisement.)
I did the same. These icons tend to significantly slow down page load times. It's the difference between pages loading almost instantly vs taking several seconds to load on many sites.
AFAIC just break the law, don't buy insurance. This is a problem of-course, because eventually the cops will have the license plate recognition systems that are tied into insurance databases and all the other databases and it will be nearly impossible to drive without insurance, but imagine for a moment that everybody just stopped buying insurance, cancelled their insurance completely and drove without it.
It's possible to set this up with today's communications than ever before. There should be: "get together to break the law" app that people would get and then all act as one to break the law of the day. This is the only way that doesn't involve violence against the government, with guns and all, that can be used to take the power back from the government.
Imagine if tax time came and nobody paid the taxes. Imagine if everybody cancelled their insurance and drove anyway. Imagine if everybody had drugs on them at all times.
what is the power going to do, when the subjects stop recognising the power? Kill everybody?
Automated license scanners are apparently already commonplace. I saw an interview with a cop the other day that said his car often scanned somewhere in the neighborhood of 10k plates a day. Insurance agencies report when your insurance is cancelled electronically and your license is automatically suspended. With the automated scanners it probably would only be a few minutes before you were in the back of a squad car.
I'd rather buy insurance than have my shit pushed in while in jail.
Besides the fact that this is begging to be gamed, how to they tell the difference between someone driving carefully and some half-blind octogenarian that's causing traffic accidents around them by driving too slow and failing to react to near-misses that may affect the next driver?
This is an insurance agency, primarily a "business". They could probably not care less if a driver makes the road less safe for other drivers so long as they are less likely to have to pay a claim for this driver.
Now I think her wild mood swings must mean she's medicating?
Or smoked a little too much of Apple's icrack.
Watch out for your cornhole. Apple's sure to be after you for using the iCrack brand without express written permission.
Why are people still using Sony? They have done so much evil and have clearly shown that they don't care about protecting their users/customers. Do people really like to be abused that much?
Perhaps because there's not a great alternative available? If you like console gaming, then there's Sony, Microsoft, and to a lesser extent, Nintendo. I certainly wouldn't consider Microsoft any less evil than Sony. Nintendo, maybe - but their consoles aren't really the same thing as the similar 360/ps3... I guess people could give up console gaming entirely, but to just gripe that Sony is evil is a bit narrow sighted. Personally, I prefer PC gaming.. however at the moment that still means either playing old games on a wine based setup or using MS.
I've got an azure account with MSDN and TechNET subscription (I don't remember which of the two came with the azure). Processor time on their service is very expensive if you go beyond the allotment of free time given to you by those subs. The service works well, although getting your code to the servers is a little kludgy. Given the high cost, I think you'd be hard pressed to find value when weighed against leasing a full server or even multiple servers from a regular hosting provider. The exception to that would be if you had a simply massive load requirement and just couldn't muster enough horsepower out of a few traditional servers.
For what I would am doing, the cost is unreasonable. I've never really looked at amazon; so I can't compare them.
derp... 450 million lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
About 20% of all internet users. That's about 1.3 billion people.
...and so begins a conspiracy theory people will probably wonder about for years. I'm sure the apk's will be available for loading onto rooted devices for a long time. losing access to so many sites will be painful for non root android users I'm sure.
You got $900,000,000.00 to pay for it? That article you linked said it was 500m in 1990. It's a good idea, until you get to the paying for it part.
I like getting broadband speeds, yes. Last time I ran speedtest from my android I got about 8mbps and only had about half signal strength. You aren't getting 8mbps on your 3g iphone.