Such as already-tapped cell phone conversations and the like. And it is limited to situations where a case was not yet existing, where the client was asking if it would be legal if they did something - but still, the chilling effect is quite evident.
Although slippery slope argunements are usually incomplete logic - this would mean that first clients would have to learn to stop asking for councel from their own attourneys, which should in itself damage the client-attourney relationship, damaging the very basis of the U.S. legal system. Just because a confession doesn't take place on sunday in a confessional, but instead takes place in a letter to a priest, does not mean that the priest has to hand over the letter if asked. Also similar though would be a client asking for advice from a psychologist over the phone - to take such conversations to court is chilling in many ways. What form of servailance is fair, what is not? Would it be legal to install transmitters into all defence attourneys?
During the episode "The Tick Vs. Arthur's Bank Account" where the Tick gets rather excited about "Upgrading the Apparatus!", he and Arthur are sitting there while the Tick is yogourt or something.
The Tick decides that the time has come to come up with heroic battle cries both to cheer Arthur up, and to further his cause for justice. Tick looks at himself in the spoon, with his image all convoluted and happy, and shouts - "Spooooon!". Arthur does not complain, but instead thinks a little, and realises what he's say when danger rears it's ugly head - "Not in the Face! Not in the Face!". They practice their calls a few times, and a few scenes later, and they are trying them out in battle.
It definetly wasn't as bad as I thought it could be! The intro was slightly lame, as were the intros of "Bat-Manuel" (Die Fleidermaus and "Captain Somethingorother" (American Maid). But the combination of very well implimented special effects and actors who delivered lines in ways that ADDED to the effect the story was trying to tell gave me great hope for this series.
Oh, and of course the tick isn't saying SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON(!) yet, they haven't gotten to that part - should be fun! It has about the equivalent 'kick' of the original show, with the same number of awkward not-so-funny parts. I'll be watching it whenever it's convenient to catch a show.
Energy Density. Look it up. The whole point of using gasoline is that it stores so much energy per unit weight/volume. Hydrogen fuel cells could work, but just to store energy, there are many better alternatives as far as energy density is concerned.
As far as energy generation is concerned, I agree, the grand majority of energy we use ultimately comes from hydrogen in the form of the sun - which despite all the "liberal" aura it has, is ultimately the energy source we must rely on in the long term, in a more direct manner than earth-based solar panels.
So, for energy generation, hydrogen is great, but for energy storage, you can get a LOT more convenient.
No kidding. Take as many business and accounting classes as you can stand, then decide on a business you might want to open. Learn about supply chains and relationships. Decide if you want to franchise, how to get your loans, and start planning your due process. Due process isn't something you're going to get done in a month and a half either - find where you really will be needed, map out every town you are considering, calling every similar business in town, and make a company that really makes sense. Go for stability first.
That's the best I have without knowing your specific skill set and real interests. You have several friends right now which might help in a PC-related business, but a PC-related business might not be the best business to open either. If you take this route, you have years of intense research ahead of you that you might have never expected - but you might make something you can be really proud of too.
While at E3, the only officially vendor-supplied bags were the X-Box bags from Microsoft. Just get a look at it here. It does not function well as a swag bag at all. The chords bite quite sharply into one's shoulders, especially after a long day of showing off your press pass and getting free stuff, much less three in a row!
So unless vendors make a bag which can make a bag that can both hold everything the combined marketing departments of at least a dozen determined companies can hand out, AND guarantee that it won't be used for suspicious purposes, it's just going to cause undue pain to all involved.
Not to ruin the first few seasons, but all that was needed to destroy an entire dimension was one robotic arm, which had the ability to construct itself, and extremely limited intelligence. Eventually, by sheer mass, they were able to assimilate stars, then everything.
Heh - perhaps dark matter is nanobots, just waiting for us to make the wrong move.
Of course - most anyone skilled enough at general PC operation enough to use Linux is going to be aware of the massive ammount of software that assumes you are running in a Windows environment. Therefore, they are going to have some copy of Windows for the sake of convenience to be able to use that software if the need arises.
Note though that this only means that Linux owners are going to have SOME copy of Windows. Not necissarily the latest.
"..In exchange, the government agrees to a 150+ member panel of "lobbyists" from Microsoft which will approve or disaprove of the actions of Congress, and have control over tens of millions of dollars of congressional income. This is similar to the program already in place, but now the ammount of money has been increased by an undisclosed ammount."
Immitating a pizza delivery person also means that you can ask for someone who may or may not work there, and pretend it was a prank order all along, leaving completely annoyed. When you come later, you can complain you were fired from the pizza place, "no thanks to the pranks from this place", if anyone recognizes you.
The danger would be if you couldn't get ahold of a real pizza delivery outfit for some reason, and used a do-it-yourself outfit with a made-up company name. Many geeks know every joint in town, and would immediatly start asking questions if they didn't recognize the name.
A little over a year ago, I worked at a subdivision of Polaroid here in Fort Wayne called "Polaroid Digital ID", which used to be an independant company that naturally was purchased by Polaroid.
They take professional-grade digital cameras (not polaroid at the time), and set them up with the software and machines to spit out real drivers licenses, which are actually used in several states to let you preview the picture, then have the license immediatly (or later from some states that choose to go the cheaper centralized-pringing-location route).
It was a pretty interesting job, working on ancient non-commented DOS-based C code that was thrown together by an independant contractor in a few weeks, stretched FAR beyond it's intention, with little company documentation available to new programmers. Then there was sitting at those card-producing machines, making up fake names and details, and watching the desk fill up with piles of real drivers licenses with pictures of action figures, hands, etc. in the image part of the card.
Then there was the corporate videos we all gathered to watch, the corporate panic showing through the idealistic industry-speak, and "great new ideas". I guess the sticky photos didn't sell to the kiddies as well as hoped. Our division was always mentioned as a relatively unimportant afterthought, and ironically now the Digital ID department is propably the most profitable part of the overall company what with all the demand for new ID's for company security and better watermarks on drivers' licenses.
There should be a new law passed that all computer-related articles would have to be edited by Slashdot boards. Then it would be easy to recognize any computer-related article by it's first words - "First post!"
Slashdot Mirror
Such as already-tapped cell phone conversations and the like. And it is limited to situations where a case was not yet existing, where the client was asking if it would be legal if they did something - but still, the chilling effect is quite evident.
Although slippery slope argunements are usually incomplete logic - this would mean that first clients would have to learn to stop asking for councel from their own attourneys, which should in itself damage the client-attourney relationship, damaging the very basis of the U.S. legal system. Just because a confession doesn't take place on sunday in a confessional, but instead takes place in a letter to a priest, does not mean that the priest has to hand over the letter if asked. Also similar though would be a client asking for advice from a psychologist over the phone - to take such conversations to court is chilling in many ways. What form of servailance is fair, what is not? Would it be legal to install transmitters into all defence attourneys?
Ryan Fenton
During the episode
"The Tick Vs. Arthur's Bank Account" where the Tick gets rather excited about "Upgrading the Apparatus!", he and Arthur are sitting there while the Tick is yogourt or something.
The Tick decides that the time has come to come up with heroic battle cries both to cheer Arthur up, and to further his cause for justice. Tick looks at himself in the spoon, with his image all convoluted and happy, and shouts - "Spooooon!". Arthur does not complain, but instead thinks a little, and realises what he's say when danger rears it's ugly head - "Not in the Face! Not in the Face!". They practice their calls a few times, and a few scenes later, and they are trying them out in battle.
:^)
Ryan Fenton
It definetly wasn't as bad as I thought it could be! The intro was slightly lame, as were the intros of "Bat-Manuel" (Die Fleidermaus and "Captain Somethingorother" (American Maid). But the combination of very well implimented special effects and actors who delivered lines in ways that ADDED to the effect the story was trying to tell gave me great hope for this series.
Oh, and of course the tick isn't saying SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON(!) yet, they haven't gotten to that part - should be fun! It has about the equivalent 'kick' of the original show, with the same number of awkward not-so-funny parts. I'll be watching it whenever it's convenient to catch a show.
I just hope it can pay for it's budget!
:^)
Ryan Fenton
Energy Density. Look it up. The whole point of using gasoline is that it stores so much energy per unit weight/volume. Hydrogen fuel cells could work, but just to store energy, there are many better alternatives as far as energy density is concerned.
As far as energy generation is concerned, I agree, the grand majority of energy we use ultimately comes from hydrogen in the form of the sun - which despite all the "liberal" aura it has, is ultimately the energy source we must rely on in the long term, in a more direct manner than earth-based solar panels.
So, for energy generation, hydrogen is great, but for energy storage, you can get a LOT more convenient.
:^)
Ryan Fenton
No kidding. Take as many business and accounting classes as you can stand, then decide on a business you might want to open. Learn about supply chains and relationships. Decide if you want to franchise, how to get your loans, and start planning your due process. Due process isn't something you're going to get done in a month and a half either - find where you really will be needed, map out every town you are considering, calling every similar business in town, and make a company that really makes sense. Go for stability first.
That's the best I have without knowing your specific skill set and real interests. You have several friends right now which might help in a PC-related business, but a PC-related business might not be the best business to open either. If you take this route, you have years of intense research ahead of you that you might have never expected - but you might make something you can be really proud of too.
:^)
Ryan Fenton
While at E3, the only officially vendor-supplied bags were the X-Box bags from Microsoft. Just get a look at it here. It does not function well as a swag bag at all. The chords bite quite sharply into one's shoulders, especially after a long day of showing off your press pass and getting free stuff, much less three in a row!
So unless vendors make a bag which can make a bag that can both hold everything the combined marketing departments of at least a dozen determined companies can hand out, AND guarantee that it won't be used for suspicious purposes, it's just going to cause undue pain to all involved.
;^)
Ryan Fenton
Not to ruin the first few seasons, but all that was needed to destroy an entire dimension was one robotic arm, which had the ability to construct itself, and extremely limited intelligence. Eventually, by sheer mass, they were able to assimilate stars, then everything.
Heh - perhaps dark matter is nanobots, just waiting for us to make the wrong move.
:^)
Ryan Fenton
Of course - most anyone skilled enough at general PC operation enough to use Linux is going to be aware of the massive ammount of software that assumes you are running in a Windows environment. Therefore, they are going to have some copy of Windows for the sake of convenience to be able to use that software if the need arises.
Note though that this only means that Linux owners are going to have SOME copy of Windows. Not necissarily the latest.
while(1)
{
printf("Woohoo!\n");
}
"..In exchange, the government agrees to a 150+ member panel of "lobbyists" from Microsoft which will approve or disaprove of the actions of Congress, and have control over tens of millions of dollars of congressional income. This is similar to the program already in place, but now the ammount of money has been increased by an undisclosed ammount."
---------
:^)
Ryan Fenton
Immitating a pizza delivery person also means that you can ask for someone who may or may not work there, and pretend it was a prank order all along, leaving completely annoyed. When you come later, you can complain you were fired from the pizza place, "no thanks to the pranks from this place", if anyone recognizes you.
The danger would be if you couldn't get ahold of a real pizza delivery outfit for some reason, and used a do-it-yourself outfit with a made-up company name. Many geeks know every joint in town, and would immediatly start asking questions if they didn't recognize the name.
:^)
Ryan Fenton
Anyone else reminded of ROB the Robot from the old first American Nintendo release?
:^)
Ryan Fenton
A little over a year ago, I worked at a subdivision of Polaroid here in Fort Wayne called "Polaroid Digital ID", which used to be an independant company that naturally was purchased by Polaroid.
They take professional-grade digital cameras (not polaroid at the time), and set them up with the software and machines to spit out real drivers licenses, which are actually used in several states to let you preview the picture, then have the license immediatly (or later from some states that choose to go the cheaper centralized-pringing-location route).
It was a pretty interesting job, working on ancient non-commented DOS-based C code that was thrown together by an independant contractor in a few weeks, stretched FAR beyond it's intention, with little company documentation available to new programmers. Then there was sitting at those card-producing machines, making up fake names and details, and watching the desk fill up with piles of real drivers licenses with pictures of action figures, hands, etc. in the image part of the card.
Then there was the corporate videos we all gathered to watch, the corporate panic showing through the idealistic industry-speak, and "great new ideas". I guess the sticky photos didn't sell to the kiddies as well as hoped. Our division was always mentioned as a relatively unimportant afterthought, and ironically now the Digital ID department is propably the most profitable part of the overall company what with all the demand for new ID's for company security and better watermarks on drivers' licenses.
:^)
Ryan Fenton
There should be a new law passed that all computer-related articles would have to be edited by Slashdot boards. Then it would be easy to recognize any computer-related article by it's first words - "First post!"
;^)
Ryan Fenton
Alright, a little 'bit picky', but
"While the classical bit can store any number between 0 and 255 on each of its eight bytes,
Byte and bit should be reversed in this sentence fragment.
:^)
Ryan Fenton