Been there too, but that's why I carry a bitty LED flashlight. Try holding your cell phone in your mouth while you're using both hands to mess with something.
The wOz system provides peace of mind for parents, caregivers and others who need to:
watch over their children who are too young to carry wireless phones, ensuring they are near their homes, at school, at the playground, or any other place they should be
monitor elderly individuals, particularly those impaired by Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, and who may be prone to wandering into dangerous areas
ensure pets remain within a yard or other safe zone
ensure the security of valuables
With the wOz solution, caregivers can determine the exact location of their charges and items, and receive immediate notification of a deviation from a specified zone. It also tracks Smart-Tags that have left the zone, giving consumers the information needed to find and recover people and valuables they care about.
Sounds like that's their top application for it, along with blind hunting dogs.
Personally, I want this for my car. Not LoJack and all that, just a thing that says, "the car is 25 meters north of here" when I come out of the house in the morning. If wOz can do this on a dog or a child, why don't German luxury cars have this standard? I'm not sure I want OnStar to know where I am at all times, but a short-range where-the-hell-did-I-park dingus would be great.
California has a different list, but again, no mention is made of proving residence. Birth certificates feature prominently there as well, but they also grab a thumbprint and verify your SSN while you wait.
Hey, if you want to turn your house over to a guy with a hand-drawn ID card, feel free. I just hope that my bank doesn't do the financing.
Pilot's licenses have always been, AFAIK, Federal and subject to whatever standards they have, so there's nothing new there -- all you pilots are already on The List, and this move can only help you by adding more names until yours might get lost.
As for boating, well, it looks like most states only require licenses for those born after 1972 (in Maryland) or 1984 (in Texas) or some such year -- children, in other words, mere striplings in their early thirties, who probably shouldn't be out alone anyway, and it looks like most of them will let you sail all you want -- all the ones I've checked (well, that's three or four) specified power boats only, so apparently you could go to sea in Cutty Sark and they won't try to stop you.
All I'm saying is that it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to have consistent standards for ID, since the states all have reciprocity in trusting those ID's.
You still can, AFAIK. If the guy at the door is willing to take a note from your mom now, I can't see why that would change.
For those things that currently require state-issued ID, however, it might be nice if there were some uniformity of standards, if not this particular set then some other. For all I know Alaska allows a Polar Bear to vouch for your identity.
Here in Maryland, as I recall, they want to see a birth certificate and they want mail delivered to the address you give them, preferably mail from a public utility or government agency.
A birth certificate as ID has always seemed foolish to me, unless you're willing to step on an inkpad and have your footprint examined. A birth certificate merely indicates that a Duncan Scott was born, not that I'm that Duncan Scott.
You're not required to have a driver's license, either.
However, if you wish to, for instance, cash a check, you may be asked for ID. Your local store might choose to accept your word for your identity, or you may choose to avail yourself of the identification provided by your state, which is generally more widely accepted. Still, you aren't being required to have anything, if you're willing to operate on a cash basis or only with people who know and trust you.
And as you probably know (but the great mass may not) Chuck Moore called it FORTH in part because FOURTH was too long for the original development system's filesystem.
Exactly when did private, deliberately unpublished, material become something to be preserved for future generations?
The day that historians found useful and interesting material in things like diaries and letters, that's when.
As for "deliberately unpublished", well, I would imagine that most people just never really thought about it one way or the other.
Picture this: you find an 8mm movie in the attic of an old house. None of the people are identified, and the previous owners, who bought the house in 1965, don't know anything about it. The movies show interesting glimpses of life on the home front during WW II -- Rosie the Riveter at the company picnic, recruits doing the Lindy Hop before they ship out. At the time, this wasn't history, it was just life, and seemed interesting only to those involved, and even they put it away and forgot about it. Now it might be fascinating, but wait -- who holds copyright? Under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act , the answer was, of course, Walt Disney, but now perhaps that's changed, and for the better.
Of course, now that I've actually read the article, it looks like all it does is fund the LoC's efforts to preserve and restore old images, a good thing but not a copyright issue at all.
Eleven klicks max? If all they needed was 36,000 feet he could have traveled on Aeroflot.
The figure I came across in an exhaustive two-minute search was about 300 kilometers (although whether that's apogee, perigee, or average I don't know.)
Sounds to me like you haven't actually had this problem. I have, and it wasn't quite as simple as Spiderman makes it sound.
Mine was a debit card, and I noticed the problem because I checked my account before writing the rent check. Hey look -- no money!
Called the on-line retailer in question. "Oh, you'll be OK."
Called my bank: "Sure, we'll investigate. If everything checks out, your account will be credited back within 30 days." (Emphasis, and fury, mine.)
Called the retailer back. "Did you check the shipping address and compare it to the account-holder's address? Did you notice that I live in Baltimore, not New York? Does it matter to you that I called you immediately to protest this charge?" No, on all counts.
Luckily for me, I had a friend who could loan me several hundred dollars so that the rent check got written after all, because my bank would only go so far as to cover checks written before the charge went through.
The system is reasonably lucrative for banks and retailers, not for you, because they simply pass the general costs on to you -- shit flows downhill.
See, that's why I like flat panel monitors -- it was hell getting a CRT to balance face-down on the Xerox machine, but these LCD screens just slide right on there.
No, but it does mean that state attorneys general have spent the last few years suing tobacco companies for, among other things, the retail sales of cigarettes to minors. QED.
I probably should have spent a little longer finding articles more on point -- the USAToday piece was, IIRC, the second hit on Google. My point was the tobacco lawsuits rather than the alcohol, although both indicate a climate in which a wholesaler may well be held responsible for the actions of their retailers.
How much did Bushmaster pay out for not riding herd on the gun dealer whose inventory was apparently stolen to arm the DC snipers?
Lawsuits filed since November in Ohio, California, North Carolina, Colorado and Washington, D.C., appear modeled after cases that were brought against the tobacco industry beginning in the mid-1980s. Those suits focused on youth-oriented ads and sought huge damages for tens of thousands of underage smokers and their parents. The tobacco lawsuits led to a settlement in 1998 in which tobacco companies agreed to pay $246 billion to state governments to cover health care costs and other smoking-related expenses.
Or kids that smoke underage, or drink, or get porn. Would you seek penalties against the movie production/tobacco/alcohol/porn company that made the material in those cases?
Have you been out of the country the past few years? Seeking such penalties is exactly what state and federal governments have been doing.
Applesoft wasn't the only strange BASIC. Commodore BASIC encouraged squeezing out the white space to save memory. There was a reason 640K seemed like a lot of memory to Bill Gates -- that was ten Commodores stacked up in a pile.
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Been there too, but that's why I carry a bitty LED flashlight. Try holding your cell phone in your mouth while you're using both hands to mess with something.
Well, it's been done the other way a few times, so it seems only fair...
What!? Next you're going to tell me he didn't compose those symphonies. I'm going to have to go lie down for a while.
Sounds like that's their top application for it, along with blind hunting dogs.
Personally, I want this for my car. Not LoJack and all that, just a thing that says, "the car is 25 meters north of here" when I come out of the house in the morning. If wOz can do this on a dog or a child, why don't German luxury cars have this standard? I'm not sure I want OnStar to know where I am at all times, but a short-range where-the-hell-did-I-park dingus would be great.
California has a different list, but again, no mention is made of proving residence. Birth certificates feature prominently there as well, but they also grab a thumbprint and verify your SSN while you wait.
Establishing ID from scratch is always a problem.
Independent contracting, of course. I don't know. If you open your own business, are you required to prove to yourself that you're entitled to work?
Pilot's licenses have always been, AFAIK, Federal and subject to whatever standards they have, so there's nothing new there -- all you pilots are already on The List, and this move can only help you by adding more names until yours might get lost.
As for boating, well, it looks like most states only require licenses for those born after 1972 (in Maryland) or 1984 (in Texas) or some such year -- children, in other words, mere striplings in their early thirties, who probably shouldn't be out alone anyway, and it looks like most of them will let you sail all you want -- all the ones I've checked (well, that's three or four) specified power boats only, so apparently you could go to sea in Cutty Sark and they won't try to stop you.
All I'm saying is that it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to have consistent standards for ID, since the states all have reciprocity in trusting those ID's.
For those things that currently require state-issued ID, however, it might be nice if there were some uniformity of standards, if not this particular set then some other. For all I know Alaska allows a Polar Bear to vouch for your identity.
Here in Maryland, as I recall, they want to see a birth certificate and they want mail delivered to the address you give them, preferably mail from a public utility or government agency.
A birth certificate as ID has always seemed foolish to me, unless you're willing to step on an inkpad and have your footprint examined. A birth certificate merely indicates that a Duncan Scott was born, not that I'm that Duncan Scott.
However, if you wish to, for instance, cash a check, you may be asked for ID. Your local store might choose to accept your word for your identity, or you may choose to avail yourself of the identification provided by your state, which is generally more widely accepted. Still, you aren't being required to have anything, if you're willing to operate on a cash basis or only with people who know and trust you.
And as you probably know (but the great mass may not) Chuck Moore called it FORTH in part because FOURTH was too long for the original development system's filesystem.
The day that historians found useful and interesting material in things like diaries and letters, that's when.
As for "deliberately unpublished", well, I would imagine that most people just never really thought about it one way or the other.
Picture this: you find an 8mm movie in the attic of an old house. None of the people are identified, and the previous owners, who bought the house in 1965, don't know anything about it. The movies show interesting glimpses of life on the home front during WW II -- Rosie the Riveter at the company picnic, recruits doing the Lindy Hop before they ship out. At the time, this wasn't history, it was just life, and seemed interesting only to those involved, and even they put it away and forgot about it. Now it might be fascinating, but wait -- who holds copyright? Under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act , the answer was, of course, Walt Disney, but now perhaps that's changed, and for the better.
Of course, now that I've actually read the article, it looks like all it does is fund the LoC's efforts to preserve and restore old images, a good thing but not a copyright issue at all.
The figure I came across in an exhaustive two-minute search was about 300 kilometers (although whether that's apogee, perigee, or average I don't know.)
Well, if by "factory worker" you mean "fighter pilot", then I suppose so.
No, Socrates. He was leading the youth of Athens astray, or some such.
No, you see, that's why you need a Certified Plug Pusher to make the actual connections -- those registered cablers are just monkeys in hard hats!
In fact, I hear they're working on one that will be powered and self-portable.
Mine was a debit card, and I noticed the problem because I checked my account before writing the rent check. Hey look -- no money!
Called the on-line retailer in question. "Oh, you'll be OK."
Called my bank: "Sure, we'll investigate. If everything checks out, your account will be credited back within 30 days." (Emphasis, and fury, mine.)
Called the retailer back. "Did you check the shipping address and compare it to the account-holder's address? Did you notice that I live in Baltimore, not New York? Does it matter to you that I called you immediately to protest this charge?" No, on all counts.
Luckily for me, I had a friend who could loan me several hundred dollars so that the rent check got written after all, because my bank would only go so far as to cover checks written before the charge went through.
The system is reasonably lucrative for banks and retailers, not for you, because they simply pass the general costs on to you -- shit flows downhill.
Yup, Linux was a whole new thing, with no functional relationship with any previous body of work, no sir! No work-alikes here, no indeed!
See, that's why I like flat panel monitors -- it was hell getting a CRT to balance face-down on the Xerox machine, but these LCD screens just slide right on there.
I probably should have spent a little longer finding articles more on point -- the USAToday piece was, IIRC, the second hit on Google. My point was the tobacco lawsuits rather than the alcohol, although both indicate a climate in which a wholesaler may well be held responsible for the actions of their retailers.
How much did Bushmaster pay out for not riding herd on the gun dealer whose inventory was apparently stolen to arm the DC snipers?
Have you been out of the country the past few years? Seeking such penalties is exactly what state and federal governments have been doing.
This wasn't really hard to find. I suck with money, but that looks like profit to me.
Applesoft wasn't the only strange BASIC. Commodore BASIC encouraged squeezing out the white space to save memory. There was a reason 640K seemed like a lot of memory to Bill Gates -- that was ten Commodores stacked up in a pile.