I think that probably depends on where you are and who you are. Corporations in the U.S. seem to be largely exempt from laws that individuals must follow these days. If you rent out your pc and some hacker uses it to get into an FBI system, you can expect lots of buttrape in your future. If that same hacker used a Google cloud based system I doubt Eric Schmidt or anyone else at Google is going to have to meet bubba.
I gave up on the idea of carrying both in one bag myself. I went back to a backpack for my dslr, which also includes tripod straps and a regular laptop bag with shoulder strap for the laptop. Leaves me with plenty of miscellaneous storage space, everything is easier to reach, and when I need to travel a little lighter I just leave the laptop bag in the room/car/whatever. Most of the time when I'm out on a shoot I don't use the laptop anyway (exceptions would be something like outdoor portraits).
I don't think it's all that relevant but I use an HP elitebook rather than a macbook pro.
Statistically speaking, suicide rates among foxconn employees are MUCH lower than the suicide rates in the rest of the Chinese population. 4.9 per 100k at foxconn vs 20.9 per 100k in china as a whole. Source: http://www.peopleforum.cn/viewthread.php?tid=20629
The fact that you think the Egypt protests were more peaceful than what is going on in the UK exemplifies my point perfectly. There was no shortage of looting and property damage in Egypt.
Agreed - I generally find my answers on the first page of a Google search.
But, I can't get past the definition for "success" in the summary. There are times when I Google something, and the answer appears in the summary - no need to click any links.
If you're measuring "success" in terms of dollars and cents changing hands somewhere, yeah, Bing is probably a success. If you're measuring "success" in terms of searchers finding the data they are looking for, I'll put my money on Google.
I don't like how they defined success either, but for the opposite reason. Using Google or bing I often click on numerous search results until I find one that I like. Why numerous? because the first one I clicked didn't have the answer I liked.
I think the last search where I had to do this (and I never did get an answer) was "how do I get prtstat to output memory on the same scale for every process".
The only solution to the carbon problem is to exterminate the population and leave the bodies out so that you don't leave a carbon footprint trying to bury them. Turns out the nazi's and the khmer rouge were more green than greenpeace!
People have the right to protest all they want, but:
1) BART has no obligation to assist them in doing so. BART had every right to turn off their equipment. Do these protesters expect to have the police drive them to the protest as well?
2) If the protesters are interfering with mass transit, they're just being assholes. Yes, it's sad that someone got killed. No, this doesn't mean that tens of thousands of people should have their schedules fucked around with.
The fact that this is such a big deal in the first place shows that these aren't real protesters anyway. They're just a bunch of spoiled SF kids thinking they're activists. Real activists wouldn't let something like not having internet access during the protest get in their way.
I don't think they're spoiled, they shouldn't have to log off of redtube in order to go burn some local buildings on a Friday night. That's just taking things too far!
So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.
Isn't plotting violence, disorder and criminality a crime in its-self? If the authorities have evidence of these things why would they not go arrest the individuals straight away instead of deciding to block access to some website. If they don't have evidence, how can they get a judge to authorize the block? Maybe things work different in the UK, and the police can just dole out punishments without judicial oversight?
It sounds to me like the British need to reign in their law enforcement officers almost as much as they need to reign in these rioters.
Well, anything that can be loaded on a truck is portable.
I think that's debatable. I've seen entire houses (literally) loaded onto trucks and moved. I'm not talking about mobile homes, either. I wouldn't consider a 3/2 concrete block house to be portable.
So, they didn't have to buy the whole property? I've never been the victim of imminent domain, but I had assumed they couldn't just buy part of the property; since it would massively devalue what was left. That's a raw deal right there. The guy should construct some massive billboards with pictures of goatse or something on them (provided there's no local law against that). On the other hand, if the road gets a lot of traffic, he may be able to make a pretty penny by constructing billboards and renting them out.
Anyway.... 4 inches? That's bush league. I can't imagine how the building inspector signs that off.
I expect there's a different standard for cable running through your property than there is a cable running from a junction box on that line to your house. I watched a guy bury some fiber in my yard when I was getting upgraded from coax. About 6 inches is right. However when they came through the neighborhood and ran the trunk through, that cable was burred deep with backhoes. I didn't measure exactly how deep but I'd have to guess well over 24 inches if memory serves..
So if I don't call before I dig in my yard I could cut my own fiber, but unless I've got a backhoe I'm not likely to take out any of my neighbors.
Good for Apple. Pity they only give you an apple gift card, since I won't even put iTunes on my system; but it's better than sending old gear off to the local landfill. Let 'em bury the things in California!
I always find it funny that the same folks who are advocating stuff like this are also advocating using less power at home. I think organizations that are going to ask folks to engage in distributed computing projects should be required to meed some equivalent carbon footprint goals (carbon credits or whatever) as they would if they were doing the same level of processing in their own data center.
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That's exactly what I was expecting to see when I clicked the link as well.
I think that probably depends on where you are and who you are. Corporations in the U.S. seem to be largely exempt from laws that individuals must follow these days. If you rent out your pc and some hacker uses it to get into an FBI system, you can expect lots of buttrape in your future. If that same hacker used a Google cloud based system I doubt Eric Schmidt or anyone else at Google is going to have to meet bubba.
I gave up on the idea of carrying both in one bag myself. I went back to a backpack for my dslr, which also includes tripod straps and a regular laptop bag with shoulder strap for the laptop. Leaves me with plenty of miscellaneous storage space, everything is easier to reach, and when I need to travel a little lighter I just leave the laptop bag in the room/car/whatever. Most of the time when I'm out on a shoot I don't use the laptop anyway (exceptions would be something like outdoor portraits).
I don't think it's all that relevant but I use an HP elitebook rather than a macbook pro.
Statistically speaking, suicide rates among foxconn employees are MUCH lower than the suicide rates in the rest of the Chinese population. 4.9 per 100k at foxconn vs 20.9 per 100k in china as a whole. Source: http://www.peopleforum.cn/viewthread.php?tid=20629
Mod parent up. Intel is just using an already successful business model employed by IBM.
The fact that you think the Egypt protests were more peaceful than what is going on in the UK exemplifies my point perfectly. There was no shortage of looting and property damage in Egypt.
Agreed - I generally find my answers on the first page of a Google search.
But, I can't get past the definition for "success" in the summary. There are times when I Google something, and the answer appears in the summary - no need to click any links.
If you're measuring "success" in terms of dollars and cents changing hands somewhere, yeah, Bing is probably a success. If you're measuring "success" in terms of searchers finding the data they are looking for, I'll put my money on Google.
I don't like how they defined success either, but for the opposite reason. Using Google or bing I often click on numerous search results until I find one that I like. Why numerous? because the first one I clicked didn't have the answer I liked. I think the last search where I had to do this (and I never did get an answer) was "how do I get prtstat to output memory on the same scale for every process".
The only solution to the carbon problem is to exterminate the population and leave the bodies out so that you don't leave a carbon footprint trying to bury them. Turns out the nazi's and the khmer rouge were more green than greenpeace!
People have the right to protest all they want, but:
1) BART has no obligation to assist them in doing so. BART had every right to turn off their equipment. Do these protesters expect to have the police drive them to the protest as well?
2) If the protesters are interfering with mass transit, they're just being assholes. Yes, it's sad that someone got killed. No, this doesn't mean that tens of thousands of people should have their schedules fucked around with.
The fact that this is such a big deal in the first place shows that these aren't real protesters anyway. They're just a bunch of spoiled SF kids thinking they're activists. Real activists wouldn't let something like not having internet access during the protest get in their way.
I don't think they're spoiled, they shouldn't have to log off of redtube in order to go burn some local buildings on a Friday night. That's just taking things too far!
.. or a hole in the wall.
It just seems morally wrong to waste perfectly good girl scout cookies on something like this! The poor little cookies just want to be eaten!
At least they didn't use samoas.
It was fine when the protesters were in Egypt and other countries. Notice how the story has changed when free speech is exercised in a "free" country?
Only town I've ever visited where I got weird looks for being with a member of the opposite sex.
If they did it would likely only get halfway there before returning to it's original course.
BFD, My Acura went over 88mph next week.
So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.
Isn't plotting violence, disorder and criminality a crime in its-self? If the authorities have evidence of these things why would they not go arrest the individuals straight away instead of deciding to block access to some website. If they don't have evidence, how can they get a judge to authorize the block? Maybe things work different in the UK, and the police can just dole out punishments without judicial oversight?
It sounds to me like the British need to reign in their law enforcement officers almost as much as they need to reign in these rioters.
Sure, there are some situations where you cannot connect to internet, but it's really in minority.
You probably wouldn't say that if you loved in a remote location.
I loved a woman on the northern tip of cape cod once. I don't think I even checked to see if there was internet there.
Well, anything that can be loaded on a truck is portable.
I think that's debatable. I've seen entire houses (literally) loaded onto trucks and moved. I'm not talking about mobile homes, either. I wouldn't consider a 3/2 concrete block house to be portable.
So, they didn't have to buy the whole property? I've never been the victim of imminent domain, but I had assumed they couldn't just buy part of the property; since it would massively devalue what was left. That's a raw deal right there. The guy should construct some massive billboards with pictures of goatse or something on them (provided there's no local law against that). On the other hand, if the road gets a lot of traffic, he may be able to make a pretty penny by constructing billboards and renting them out.
Anyway.... 4 inches? That's bush league. I can't imagine how the building inspector signs that off.
I expect there's a different standard for cable running through your property than there is a cable running from a junction box on that line to your house. I watched a guy bury some fiber in my yard when I was getting upgraded from coax. About 6 inches is right. However when they came through the neighborhood and ran the trunk through, that cable was burred deep with backhoes. I didn't measure exactly how deep but I'd have to guess well over 24 inches if memory serves..
So if I don't call before I dig in my yard I could cut my own fiber, but unless I've got a backhoe I'm not likely to take out any of my neighbors.
Good for Apple. Pity they only give you an apple gift card, since I won't even put iTunes on my system; but it's better than sending old gear off to the local landfill. Let 'em bury the things in California!
Funny as in definition 5 here http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/funny
5. curious; strange; peculiar; odd: Her speech has a funny twang.
I always find it funny that the same folks who are advocating stuff like this are also advocating using less power at home. I think organizations that are going to ask folks to engage in distributed computing projects should be required to meed some equivalent carbon footprint goals (carbon credits or whatever) as they would if they were doing the same level of processing in their own data center.
They also tried and failed with Scientology.
Like ohmigod totally ya know?