Good thinking. I was just wondering the same thing about my PalmOS PDA. It has plenty of storage available. I wonder if the existing Python port would be sufficiently powerful to run this.
The #1 rated video media player is the iRiver cliX, though the Apple iPod (80 GB) is #2. The #1 rated flash-based MP3 player is also the iRiver cliX. The Apple iPod Nano (8 GB) comes in at #4. The #1 rated hard-disk based MP3 player is the Apple iPod (80 GB) in a dead heat with the Creative Zen Vision M (30 GB).
Consistently dragging down Apple's ratings: smaller screens than some rivals, won't play movies from the new Amazon service, no radio, no built-in recorder, no supplied charger, and no compatibility with competing music services such as Napster and Rhapsody.
Too bad "Which?" left the higher rated CR models (Kenmore, Hoover WindTunnel, Eureka, Riccar, Kirby...) out of their testing. Perhaps with those cleared from the field, Dyson really does come out on top.
Seriously. They should spend more time developing a vacuum cleaner that's any better than middle of the heap. OTOH, perhaps the robotic vacuum route is better suited to them. The Roomba cleans no better than cheap standard vacuum cleaners in testing. Perhaps, people don't care how well the vacuum cleaner works, as long as they don't have to do it themselves. Dyson could take the second-rate robotic vacuuming market by storm!
Moreover, Consumer Reports scores the Prius "Excellent" on reliability, and scores the Hummer H2 and H3 "Poor." If the Dust to Dust report includes cost of parts and repairs over the lifetime of both, it doesn't say so. It would be quite strange if any car made in the last few years was only forecast to last 100,000 miles. I wonder where that number originates.
Allofmp3 paid for broadcast rights to ROMS (Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems), just as Russian radio stations do. The IFPI refused to accept payments to artists from ROMS, fearing that accepting those payments would legitimize allofmp3. While artists never did receive payment from allofmp3's sales, it wasn't for lack of trying. Presumably, those payments are still in escrow at ROMS, waiting for the artists' representatives to collect.
Allofmp3.com works under rules similar to radio stations in the USA. Every time you purchase music at Allofmp3, they encode it on the fly each time, effectively broadcasting it to you over the Internet. Instead of paying per copy royalties to something like the RIAA, Allofmp3.com pays performance royalties to something like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. The IFPI (the international equivalent of the USA's RIAA) is also considered with actual copies (not broadcasting or performances), and it finds the way allofmp3.com works unacceptable. Whether allofmp3 is making copies or broadcasting performances is a legal distinction that's not well established in Russia.
Microsoft already thought of this. Networks which cannot connect to the Internet will buy a license that uses a Microsoft key server, which essentially does the same thing on their own network. The company's own equipment will enforce Microsoft's EULA.
I find that what often appears to be an appeal to authority is really being used as a way to inject scientific knowledge into the debate. While the speaker is saying "So-and-so says X is true," what he really means is that "X has been proven using sound science by so-and-so." Since we rely upon so-and-so and the peer review process to validate the science behind the results, it is reasonable and sound to offer scientific results as fact until further science or analysis reveals flaws. We don't rely on the authority of the scientist to establish the fact, we rely on the soundness of the science. Using the scientist's name is just a vector to allow the correspondent to recall or to refer to the cited science.
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Pedophiles and law enforcement on fishing expeditions aside, is there some way that you could protect yourself from being forced to provide access to your data? Perhaps, a combination of key escrow, biometrics (i.e., fingerprint), or other measures that would effectively make it futile to compel you to surrender your data? For example, many vaults have a time-based lock that simply won't open on demand, so compelling a clerk to surrender the vault's contents is pointless. How might a hard drive be protected in such a way that you could use it as usual, but neither you nor some other party could be compelled by threat of harm or of prosecution to reveal it's contents?
You know, you're right. Government monitoring of suspicious communications likely increases the chance of catching a criminal or an enemy agent. Know what would increase the chances even more? Government monitoring of all communications, all movements, all public and private activities. And when the government has perfect intelligence on every person associated with the U.S., when every terrorist has been found and a terrorist attack in the US becomes quit impossible, who will save us from our government?
Diamond sales used to be all about size. The "4 C's" of diamonds began when new mines opened that produced a large inventory of smaller diamonds. With an overstock of small diamonds, DeBeers shifted to marketing diamonds based on "quality." If the large diamond inventory grows too large, the marketing will doubtless again shift to carats.
Vanuatu, site of the ninth season of Survivor and home of Kazaa, WinMX, and the ill-fated anonx.com. Ranked #1 nation on the "Happy Planet Index." Vanuatu has strong privacy and disclosure laws (hence the reason for anonx.com, etc. locating there). There are no income, withholding, capital gains, or inheritance taxes. It's a lush, tropical, mountainous place. Offshore financial services guarantee plenty of bandwidth to Port Vila. For better or worse, you are only allowed to immigrate there if you have a business, investment, or demonstrable employment interest there, and you must submit and pay for an annual residency application of 20,000 to 26,000 Vatus (about $200-$260 USD). So long as you don't mind the occasional volcanic eruption or typhoon, it's a paradise.
FWIW, remember that allofmp3.com claims to be "broadcasting" music on demand over the Internet, under the broadcast laws in Russia. Allofmp3.com pays its royalties based on those broadcast rules. This is similar to how ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC work with broadcast radio stations in this country; the royalties are sent to an agency which distributes the proceeds directly to the artists. The RIAA and others are claiming that allofmp3.com is duplicating and distributing recordings without paying for the rights to do so. Depending on how Russian law on broadcast rights is worded, allofmp3.com may be perfectly legitimate.
RPMs or acceleration calculations would be an interesting addition. Perhaps, it should add an accelerometer, to detect fast starts, quick stops, and careening around curves. Speeding is still important to track for teens, in particular, because it's such a big contributor to fatal teen collisions. Among male drivers between 15-20 years of age who were involved in fatal crashes in 2003, 39% were speeding at the time of the crash (NHTSA 2004a).
They can drop out of school at 16 because. ..the juvenile authorities no longer have jurisdiction over them and the criminal authorities only have jurisdiciton over them for criminal code issues.
Have you read the cumpulsory education laws? They're worded to compel the parents of minors to send the children to school, because an elementary education is a right of the child. Under compulsory education law, the children aren't compelled to attend school; the parents are compelled to send them (or to education them somehow). Compulsory education laws typically end at age 16-18, because the state feels no child has an inherent right to further education after that. Truancy laws were written to turn attendance over to the juvenile court system when parents failed to uphold their responsibilities under the compulsory education laws. Once again, the aim is to insure the child's right to an education is upheld, no matter how irresponsible the parent is in honoring that right.
Juvenile Emancipation is explictly a system in some jurisdictions for granting certain legal rights to minors that are normally reserved for adults, which juveniles would normally enjoy only at the age of majority.
The juvenile court system was created to protect minors from the full force of the adult legal system, since juveniles were believed to be not fully capable of taking responsibility for their illegal actions. The term "juvenile delinquent" actually refers to the parent, who was considered "delinquent" in taking responsibility for the child. Children below the age of majority do not automatically have the rights they earn at the age of majority, and courts all the way up to the Supreme Court have held that parents retain wide latitude to control their childrens' freedoms as part of the parental responsibility for child raising.
Rights are freedoms that cannot be taken away. For example, everyone has a right to their own opinion. Legal rights are freedoms that cannot be taken away by law, or by due process proscribed in law. Adults have the legal right to do anything that is not restricted by law. Children have some legal rights under the law. Compulsory education is an example. Every other freedom children enjoy (except those encoded in the law), they enjoy at the discretion of the parents. Any other reading of the law is just wishful thinking.
Teen driving problems come from distractions, lack of skill/experience, appeal of risky behavior, and (of all things) drowsiness (because teens need more sleep than adults, but typically get less). Restricting teen drivers with passengers helps. Restricting mobile phone usage while driving would also help. The device in the article addresses teens' tendency to seek risky behavior; i.e., speeding.
Or, "Teen creates device for going to out-of-town concerts; popularity skyrockets"
If a parent can trust their child to be safe and responsible, the parent can give the child the freedom to do the things the child wants to do. This device makes it possible for a parent to trust their child with driving, because the parent can verify that the child has driven responsibly in the past.
Only a dumb kid would defeat the monitoring device that lets their parent trust them with a car and freedom. The parent may not know where the car went on that trip, but the parent will know exactly where the car will be on the next trip: in the garage.
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Good thinking. I was just wondering the same thing about my PalmOS PDA. It has plenty of storage available. I wonder if the existing Python port would be sufficiently powerful to run this.
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Interesting place. Unless the Google imagery is horribly out of date, the Hon Hai facility has plenty of room to expand.
That is incorrect, and easily refuted: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_c ost.html#faq
It depends on the category of player.
The #1 rated video media player is the iRiver cliX, though the Apple iPod (80 GB) is #2.
The #1 rated flash-based MP3 player is also the iRiver cliX. The Apple iPod Nano (8 GB) comes in at #4.
The #1 rated hard-disk based MP3 player is the Apple iPod (80 GB) in a dead heat with the Creative Zen Vision M (30 GB).
Consistently dragging down Apple's ratings: smaller screens than some rivals, won't play movies from the new Amazon service, no radio, no built-in recorder, no supplied charger, and no compatibility with competing music services such as Napster and Rhapsody.
Too bad "Which?" left the higher rated CR models (Kenmore, Hoover WindTunnel, Eureka, Riccar, Kirby...) out of their testing. Perhaps with those cleared from the field, Dyson really does come out on top.
Seriously. They should spend more time developing a vacuum cleaner that's any better than middle of the heap. OTOH, perhaps the robotic vacuum route is better suited to them. The Roomba cleans no better than cheap standard vacuum cleaners in testing. Perhaps, people don't care how well the vacuum cleaner works, as long as they don't have to do it themselves. Dyson could take the second-rate robotic vacuuming market by storm!
Moreover, Consumer Reports scores the Prius "Excellent" on reliability, and scores the Hummer H2 and H3 "Poor." If the Dust to Dust report includes cost of parts and repairs over the lifetime of both, it doesn't say so. It would be quite strange if any car made in the last few years was only forecast to last 100,000 miles. I wonder where that number originates.
How does he know the ducks weren't sent by Satan to lead him astray?
Allofmp3 paid for broadcast rights to ROMS (Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems), just as Russian radio stations do. The IFPI refused to accept payments to artists from ROMS, fearing that accepting those payments would legitimize allofmp3. While artists never did receive payment from allofmp3's sales, it wasn't for lack of trying. Presumably, those payments are still in escrow at ROMS, waiting for the artists' representatives to collect.
Allofmp3.com works under rules similar to radio stations in the USA. Every time you purchase music at Allofmp3, they encode it on the fly each time, effectively broadcasting it to you over the Internet. Instead of paying per copy royalties to something like the RIAA, Allofmp3.com pays performance royalties to something like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. The IFPI (the international equivalent of the USA's RIAA) is also considered with actual copies (not broadcasting or performances), and it finds the way allofmp3.com works unacceptable. Whether allofmp3 is making copies or broadcasting performances is a legal distinction that's not well established in Russia.
I just can't tell anymore.
Now if we could only reply the same way.How? By "shredding, recycling and shipping?" I already answer most of my mail that way.
Microsoft already thought of this. Networks which cannot connect to the Internet will buy a license that uses a Microsoft key server, which essentially does the same thing on their own network. The company's own equipment will enforce Microsoft's EULA.
I find that what often appears to be an appeal to authority is really being used as a way to inject scientific knowledge into the debate. While the speaker is saying "So-and-so says X is true," what he really means is that "X has been proven using sound science by so-and-so." Since we rely upon so-and-so and the peer review process to validate the science behind the results, it is reasonable and sound to offer scientific results as fact until further science or analysis reveals flaws. We don't rely on the authority of the scientist to establish the fact, we rely on the soundness of the science. Using the scientist's name is just a vector to allow the correspondent to recall or to refer to the cited science.
Why couldn't it at least be nutella?
Pedophiles and law enforcement on fishing expeditions aside, is there some way that you could protect yourself from being forced to provide access to your data? Perhaps, a combination of key escrow, biometrics (i.e., fingerprint), or other measures that would effectively make it futile to compel you to surrender your data? For example, many vaults have a time-based lock that simply won't open on demand, so compelling a clerk to surrender the vault's contents is pointless. How might a hard drive be protected in such a way that you could use it as usual, but neither you nor some other party could be compelled by threat of harm or of prosecution to reveal it's contents?
You know, you're right. Government monitoring of suspicious communications likely increases the chance of catching a criminal or an enemy agent. Know what would increase the chances even more? Government monitoring of all communications, all movements, all public and private activities. And when the government has perfect intelligence on every person associated with the U.S., when every terrorist has been found and a terrorist attack in the US becomes quit impossible, who will save us from our government?
Diamond sales used to be all about size. The "4 C's" of diamonds began when new mines opened that produced a large inventory of smaller diamonds. With an overstock of small diamonds, DeBeers shifted to marketing diamonds based on "quality." If the large diamond inventory grows too large, the marketing will doubtless again shift to carats.
Vanuatu, site of the ninth season of Survivor and home of Kazaa, WinMX, and the ill-fated anonx.com. Ranked #1 nation on the "Happy Planet Index." Vanuatu has strong privacy and disclosure laws (hence the reason for anonx.com, etc. locating there). There are no income, withholding, capital gains, or inheritance taxes. It's a lush, tropical, mountainous place. Offshore financial services guarantee plenty of bandwidth to Port Vila. For better or worse, you are only allowed to immigrate there if you have a business, investment, or demonstrable employment interest there, and you must submit and pay for an annual residency application of 20,000 to 26,000 Vatus (about $200-$260 USD). So long as you don't mind the occasional volcanic eruption or typhoon, it's a paradise.
FWIW, remember that allofmp3.com claims to be "broadcasting" music on demand over the Internet, under the broadcast laws in Russia. Allofmp3.com pays its royalties based on those broadcast rules. This is similar to how ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC work with broadcast radio stations in this country; the royalties are sent to an agency which distributes the proceeds directly to the artists. The RIAA and others are claiming that allofmp3.com is duplicating and distributing recordings without paying for the rights to do so. Depending on how Russian law on broadcast rights is worded, allofmp3.com may be perfectly legitimate.
RPMs or acceleration calculations would be an interesting addition. Perhaps, it should add an accelerometer, to detect fast starts, quick stops, and careening around curves. Speeding is still important to track for teens, in particular, because it's such a big contributor to fatal teen collisions. Among male drivers between 15-20 years of age who were involved in fatal crashes in 2003, 39% were speeding at the time of the crash (NHTSA 2004a).
They can drop out of school at 16 because. . .the juvenile authorities no longer have jurisdiction over them and the criminal authorities only have jurisdiciton over them for criminal code issues.
Have you read the cumpulsory education laws? They're worded to compel the parents of minors to send the children to school, because an elementary education is a right of the child. Under compulsory education law, the children aren't compelled to attend school; the parents are compelled to send them (or to education them somehow). Compulsory education laws typically end at age 16-18, because the state feels no child has an inherent right to further education after that. Truancy laws were written to turn attendance over to the juvenile court system when parents failed to uphold their responsibilities under the compulsory education laws. Once again, the aim is to insure the child's right to an education is upheld, no matter how irresponsible the parent is in honoring that right.
Juvenile Emancipation is explictly a system in some jurisdictions for granting certain legal rights to minors that are normally reserved for adults, which juveniles would normally enjoy only at the age of majority.
The juvenile court system was created to protect minors from the full force of the adult legal system, since juveniles were believed to be not fully capable of taking responsibility for their illegal actions. The term "juvenile delinquent" actually refers to the parent, who was considered "delinquent" in taking responsibility for the child. Children below the age of majority do not automatically have the rights they earn at the age of majority, and courts all the way up to the Supreme Court have held that parents retain wide latitude to control their childrens' freedoms as part of the parental responsibility for child raising.
Rights are freedoms that cannot be taken away. For example, everyone has a right to their own opinion. Legal rights are freedoms that cannot be taken away by law, or by due process proscribed in law. Adults have the legal right to do anything that is not restricted by law. Children have some legal rights under the law. Compulsory education is an example. Every other freedom children enjoy (except those encoded in the law), they enjoy at the discretion of the parents. Any other reading of the law is just wishful thinking.
Teen driving problems come from distractions, lack of skill/experience, appeal of risky behavior, and (of all things) drowsiness (because teens need more sleep than adults, but typically get less). Restricting teen drivers with passengers helps. Restricting mobile phone usage while driving would also help. The device in the article addresses teens' tendency to seek risky behavior; i.e., speeding.
Or, "Teen creates device for going to out-of-town concerts; popularity skyrockets"
If a parent can trust their child to be safe and responsible, the parent can give the child the freedom to do the things the child wants to do. This device makes it possible for a parent to trust their child with driving, because the parent can verify that the child has driven responsibly in the past.
Only a dumb kid would defeat the monitoring device that lets their parent trust them with a car and freedom. The parent may not know where the car went on that trip, but the parent will know exactly where the car will be on the next trip: in the garage.