I got one a couple of days ago and listened to end in the vain hope there would be an unsubscribe. The girl who made the recording was listing famous republicans who endorsed him. It was obvious at one point that she got to people she did not know as she stuggled to read some of the names.
In africa infertility used to be the second most common reason women went to the doctor. AIDS was number one. They will not do to the doctor if they are just old.
Obviously menopause is a common reason women can no longer have children but it is expected. Cancer is way, way down on the list.
Unexplained infertility is a huge medical problem. If you go to the doctor, much of the time the honest answer is that "we just don't know"
The Chinese government could squash NK like a bug anytime they felt like it.
They will only do it when they reach point where China decides the lesser of two evils is dealling with the refugees and not having NK around to anoy the west
If I call someone on the phone and just say "Go ahead, do it now", then I hang up. The person I called, later dies during a crime. The phone call was tapped so the police know what I said but not what I meant.
Can the police force me to answer the following question: What did you mean when you said: "Go ahead, do it now"
The answer is no unless I have tesitified on my own behalf at trial.
My first guess was that I could see it being done here in the US to block lowjack and other tracking systems when you steal a car.
And RTFM says that and people use it to evade company vehicle tracking systems. I guess that a gps system could be used to record when you drove to fast. Parked in front of someplace unsavory. If I was the company, I would want to know why my vehicle was reporting np signal for so long and why the odometer did not match the GPS. You could get away with it once or twice with saying it was broken. However, with a company vehicle, I think tinfoil sheilding would work better.
this is evil. who in there right mind would buy this. If the dongle dies/walks you loose the work as you have no backup. If they pay 10k for the software you can bet the work product is work something to them.
You need a human to generate these types of questions. That limits the number of them you can cheaply create.
then a spammer gets a human solve them each once, record the answers and play them back as needed.
You might as well pay for a live operator to verify each person. Of course if you set that up, computers will pretend to be hearing impared and demand access through TTY interfaces.
There are places out here in the west where population density is so low you can hit seek on your car radio and it will go all the way around the dial and not find anything. Many places out here have no people for miles. That said...
If people have phone service and children they should have reasonable reliable "high speed" internet available for a reasonable price. No I am not talking about T1 lines either but enough to watch a low res youtube video and access Wikipedia.
If you are in 7th grade or later and don't have the web you should expect to drop a letter grade in school. (some will still get straight a's anyway but that is possible even without electricty at home just not likely)
I bought 550W desktop power supply from the local Frys here. Shrink wrapped nicely and no "opened stock" sticker. Got it home and opened it up. It was a older dusty 150W power supply which would not work on my desktop.
Took it back, Suspecting I was screwed. They swapped it out with no problemand an apology . They let me open the replacement in the store to confirm it is good. The theory was some A$$hole had a shrink wrap machine at home and was returning things as unopened.
It might have helped that I am it there frequently.
I had an early digital thermostat in the late 1980's. Probably about 1988. It got power from the wall. would store programming for sometime with the power out on its own (for a very very short time) and had a battery backup (9v) battery.
Sold the house in early 91. So I know the time period is at least that long ago.
I think they are counting on all the claims being tossed as prior art as they should be!
I have never heard of someone being fired for asking to take outside classes and be reembursed for them. I have heard of people not telling the company the finished a degree or not telling HR. This was in the late 80's and early 90's
Some major US companies will look at the completion of a masters degree or doctorate as not as an example of a promoteable event but as a method to restart you at the entry level pay. Any experince earned does not count for pay calculations. A made up example to make this clear:
Starting salery for BS degree 40K BS + ten years 60K PhD starting 50K PhD + 10 years 75K BS + 10 then complete PHD 50K
That said, most larger companies at the time had salery compression issues so long term that new hires fresh out out of school get higher pay than people with 10 years if you did not swap jobs.
Many, many issues going on here. I was able to pick out some but probably not all the issues and distill them down a bit.
Do rabid lawsuits to protect GPL code mean that people will stay away from the code and write closed source instead of contributing to the original.
What if I try to punish violators to get monitary rewards, rather than just trying to enforce compliance?
If you sue people who were not the root cause of the violations. For example, I buy a few hundred routers from some company and resell them at retail. All I do is sell and perhaps configure them. And you sue me because I do not provide source code rather than the overseas company that made them because you can get to me. Is that ethical? Even if I had no idea I was selling hardware with GPL code in it?
If you prove a violation, legally you can force the violators to pay you fees. Can you also force them (as compensation) to disclose or release under GPL other software that they would not have been required to release had done everything correctly the first time?
there will be cases where they should. Also, the car in many cases should allow sensors to be over ridden by the driver. For example, driving through snow, somewhat high winds and pulling a trailer.
you would be working on a cloned copy of the drive. Encryption does not prevent you from copying the drive, just from understanding it.
Now, the software that does the decryption, could use the drive serial number as part of the key and refuse to work if the drive is hardware write protected. The serial number could be spoofed by the drive maker (big time court costs but it could/may have been done). The decryption software would be easy to modify in place so the write enabled feature was disabled. Easy if the software was open source or in the governments pocket.
I am quite confident that the police would attempt lock up a murder suspect till they told where they had hidden the gun if they thought they could get away with it.
All "my gun was stolen six months before my friend was shot " would wind up as a life sentance if they had their way.
That is really the same question. Give us information so we can do you over.
Where is the right to remain silent?
What if you type in 1234 and then say "hmmm. It did not work! It did before!" They can't put you under oath if you do not wish. You must avoid swearing a oath for the rest of you life but hey the are so screwed except for the current supreme court not really doing the job.
some works published in the 50's early 60's are out of copyright because they were not renewed when that was required. If this step was skipped the work goes into the public domain.
I do not know the dates for this and wikipedia is currently unavailable. This loophole was removed by congress upon request by money of course.
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I have helped at conferences where I had a right to be there but the registration system missed me for one reason or another.
Carrying something in which covers the bottom of the lanyard while they are setting up works like a charm. A couple of lightweight boxes works best.
I got one a couple of days ago and listened to end in the vain hope there would be an unsubscribe. The girl who made the recording was listing famous republicans who endorsed him. It was obvious at one point that she got to people she did not know as she stuggled to read some of the names.
I wish I had recorded it.
Have you actually looked into this?
In africa infertility used to be the second most common reason women went to the doctor. AIDS was number one. They will not do to the doctor if they are just old.
Obviously menopause is a common reason women can no longer have children but it is expected. Cancer is way, way down on the list.
Unexplained infertility is a huge medical problem. If you go to the doctor, much of the time the honest answer is that "we just don't know"
The Chinese government could squash NK like a bug anytime they felt like it.
They will only do it when they reach point where China decides the lesser of two evils is dealling with the refugees and not having NK around to anoy the west
If I call someone on the phone and just say "Go ahead, do it now", then I hang up. The person I called, later dies during a crime. The phone call was tapped so the police know what I said but not what I meant.
Can the police force me to answer the following question: What did you mean when you said: "Go ahead, do it now"
The answer is no unless I have tesitified on my own behalf at trial.
My first guess was that I could see it being done here in the US to block lowjack and other tracking systems when you steal a car.
And RTFM says that and people use it to evade company vehicle tracking systems. I guess that a gps system could be used to record when you drove to fast. Parked in front of someplace unsavory. If I was the company, I would want to know why my vehicle was reporting np signal for so long and why the odometer did not match the GPS. You could get away with it once or twice with saying it was broken. However, with a company vehicle, I think tinfoil sheilding would work better.
I can also hear people say it is only giving you problems when you travel.
Is prison not mostly a limit to your ability to travel?
this is evil. who in there right mind would buy this. If the dongle dies/walks you loose the work as you have no backup. If they pay 10k for the software you can bet the work product is work something to them.
You need a human to generate these types of questions. That limits the number of them you can cheaply create.
then a spammer gets a human solve them each once, record the answers and play them back as needed.
You might as well pay for a live operator to verify each person. Of course if you set that up, computers will pretend to be hearing impared and demand access through TTY interfaces.
Turring test anyone?
There are places out here in the west where population density is so low you can hit seek on your car radio and it will go all the way around the dial and not find anything. Many places out here have no people for miles. That said...
If people have phone service and children they should have reasonable reliable "high speed" internet available for a reasonable price. No I am not talking about T1 lines either but enough to watch a low res youtube video and access Wikipedia.
If you are in 7th grade or later and don't have the web you should expect to drop a letter grade in school. (some will still get straight a's anyway but that is possible even without electricty at home just not likely)
I bought 550W desktop power supply from the local Frys here. Shrink wrapped nicely and no "opened stock" sticker. Got it home and opened it up. It was a older dusty 150W power supply which would not work on my desktop.
Took it back, Suspecting I was screwed. They swapped it out with no problemand an apology . They let me open the replacement in the store to confirm it is good. The theory was some A$$hole had a shrink wrap machine at home and was returning things as unopened.
It might have helped that I am it there frequently.
I had an early digital thermostat in the late 1980's. Probably about 1988. It got power from the wall. would store programming for sometime with the power out on its own (for a very very short time) and had a battery backup (9v) battery.
Sold the house in early 91. So I know the time period is at least that long ago.
I think they are counting on all the claims being tossed as prior art as they should be!
I have never heard of someone being fired for asking to take outside classes and be reembursed for them. I have heard of people not telling the company the finished a degree or not telling HR. This was in the late 80's and early 90's
Some major US companies will look at the completion of a masters degree or doctorate as not as an example of a promoteable event but as a method to restart you at the entry level pay. Any experince earned does not count for pay calculations. A made up example to make this clear:
Starting salery for BS degree 40K
BS + ten years 60K
PhD starting 50K
PhD + 10 years 75K
BS + 10 then complete PHD 50K
That said, most larger companies at the time had salery compression issues so long term that new hires fresh out out of school get higher pay than people with 10 years if you did not swap jobs.
Many, many issues going on here. I was able to pick out some but probably not all the issues and distill them down a bit.
Do rabid lawsuits to protect GPL code mean that people will stay away from the code and write closed source instead of contributing to the original.
What if I try to punish violators to get monitary rewards, rather than just trying to enforce compliance?
If you sue people who were not the root cause of the violations. For example, I buy a few hundred routers from some company and resell them at retail. All I do is sell and perhaps configure them. And you sue me because I do not provide source code rather than the overseas company that made them because you can get to me. Is that ethical? Even if I had no idea I was selling hardware with GPL code in it?
If you prove a violation, legally you can force the violators to pay you fees. Can you also force them (as compensation) to disclose or release under GPL other software that they would not have been required to release had done everything correctly the first time?
That has been done before.
http://boingboing.net/2008/04/29/malware-gets-a-eula.html
One baddie even tried to use it as a protection in court (i don't think it was the group linked to above, but I remember reading about it somewhere)
Or they could be using location aware printing in Windows 7
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424313(WS.10).aspx
I think you have to have the pro or better editions of Win 7 to use this
there will be cases where they should. Also, the car in many cases should allow sensors to be over ridden by the driver. For example, driving through snow, somewhat high winds and pulling a trailer.
However http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacktwo/2434336837/
Or leaking. Remember this will eventually be used on items other than passenger cars
by Robert A. Heinlein. Orginally serialized in 1941 . The driver flips a switch in the dashboard to illegally overide the traffic stop BTW.
you would be working on a cloned copy of the drive. Encryption does not prevent you from copying the drive, just from understanding it.
Now, the software that does the decryption, could use the drive serial number as part of the key and refuse to work if the drive is hardware write protected. The serial number could be spoofed by the drive maker (big time court costs but it could/may have been done). The decryption software would be easy to modify in place so the write enabled feature was disabled. Easy if the software was open source or in the governments pocket.
If you are working on a drive for the court, all work is done on a cloned copy of the drive. This is so the defense can repeat/refute the evidence
I am quite confident that the police would attempt lock up a murder suspect till they told where they had hidden the gun if they thought they could get away with it.
All "my gun was stolen six months before my friend was shot " would wind up as a life sentance if they had their way.
Produce the gun that was used in the robbery. Here is the subpoena
Where did you hide the gun?
That is really the same question. Give us information so we can do you over.
Where is the right to remain silent?
What if you type in 1234 and then say "hmmm. It did not work! It did before!" They can't put you under oath if you do not wish. You must avoid swearing a oath for the rest of you life but hey the are so screwed except for the current supreme court not really doing the job.
some works published in the 50's early 60's are out of copyright because they were not renewed when that was required. If this step was skipped the work goes into the public domain.
I do not know the dates for this and wikipedia is currently unavailable. This loophole was removed by congress upon request by money of course.
Be very glad that the court always looks only at the constitution for guidance in these issues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States
Oh, sorry, mod me down!