Indeed? And, from what do you suppose a teen derives such rights? Not from the US Constitution. The US Supreme Court has ruled over and over that the 4th, 5th, and 14th ammendments give parents wide responsibilities and latitudes over their own children. Even if a child's earnings are all or most of a family's income (such as is often the case with child entertainers), the proceeds are typically held in trust or managed by the parents until the child reaches the age of majority. Likewise, the freedom to come and go at will is a right purely at the discretion of the parents. Parents can seek help from the legal system (the juvenile court system) when their children violate the parents' rules for leaving home (i.e., runing away, staying out late, or even leaving without permission). The only legal recourse minors have for such rules is to seek legal emancipation.
Ross Perot was considered for a Clinton cabinet post specifically because of his third party candidate success. Voting for any candidate, win or lose, essentially bolsters that candidate's position on the issues, and influences the winning candidate's mandate to govern. Voting for a candidate who you don't support (Democrat or Republican) implies support where there is none. It's essentially a wasted vote, because it expresses political will where it doesn't really exist.
When they get it done, anyway. By then, they'll have potential sources of interference worked out. Assembling and repairing such aircraft will be much simpler, and all of that space and weight devoted to conduit will be history.
Funny you should say that. Over a year ago, when a similar safety study broke, a car magazine editor noted that (in the U.S.A.) slightly more trucks are sold than cars, and she quipped that maybe we should just ban cars.
While I agree that all of these false arguments were used in the original reply, that's okay: it's comedy. If it were in a formal argument form, it would be appropriate to point out the logical fallacies. As an intentionally comical piece, the logical fallacies may be used legitimately to make it funnier or to heighten the impact. If I am not mistaken, the most appropriate response, if you're up to it, is a satirical retort.
Gambling is a form of hedge wagering. When you own a piece of real estate, you have already gambled the value of the property that you won't lose it to catastrophic loss. Insurance allows you to make a counter wager for the value of your original stake. If your original wager (the property) loses all or part of it's value, your counter wager (insurance) restores your original stake in the first wager.
Just don't give it to anyone else, okay?
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Under US copyright law, it's not illegal for you to download this game. It is illegal for you to upload or transfer it to someone else. That's when you're infringing on copyrights. Yes, the publisher will lose money. Yes, their lawyers will be hopping mad. As long as you don't transfer the game to someone else, there's no crime committed. So, don't do it.
(Now, let's see if I can break my personal best for up and down mod points in the same post.)
This thing is powered by battery power. You could conceivably have blood flow and pressure after death. What happens the body dies, but the heart doesn't get the message?
I used to read SlashDot when I was living on Kwajalein Island, the third most remote location in the world. The second most remote location is Diego Garcia. The first is unnamed and uncharted, but is expected to be rediscovered shortly.
What a great day for the first- and second-runner up search engines. At least for today, I'm running all of my queries through AllTheWeb.com. I guess being less popular proves strangely helpful at a time like this.
Too right: Just look at all of those "breathers", sucking up the national oxygen supply and polluting the atmosphere with CO2, which we know causes all of that plant overgrowth. It's high time all governments did something to curb this scourge on the commmon good.
While throughput does go down with distance, you can get "2.5 Gbps at distances up to 4 km, over any protocol" according to FreeSpaceOptics.org. Further than that, you get better speed/reliability from microwaves. So, lasers would be impractical for a mountain retreat more than 3 miles from the nearest wired point, but it would be fine for a urban/suburban campground or park event.
Forget the sharks. If you have line of sight between your site and another site that has the bandwidth, consider using lasers to bridge the last few miles. You can get over a 100Mbit that way. This article is a summary of what's possible right now with "free space optics": http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news /19_2/emer ging-tech/23327-1.html
Here are Cannon's frickin' lasers: http://www.usa.canon.com/html/industrial_ canobeam/ canobeam/
Terabeam Elliptica, plus links to other free fpace optics: http://www.freespaceoptics.com/Free_Space _Optics_T erabeam.html
Congress did have access to the full text, but they didn't have time to read it. The White House pushed Congress to approve the bill, and Congress voted on it and approved it. Even at the time, individual legislators were complaining that they hadn't read it, and no one else had either. Congress voted to pass it anyway, with almost no opposing votes.
According to Snopes, the Anonymous Coward parent is correct. Maybe. But, who cares?
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According to the Mastercard site, the RFID tags will carry exactly the same information as the magnetic strip. And while these cards may indeed return encrypted information, there is no challenge/response system. That's just not how they work. When you broadcast the correct radio frequency close enough to these tags, they just resonate and play back (over radio waves) a predetermined string, encrypted or not. If you have a matching reader at your disposal, you have the means to read every RFID within range. Where would you get such a reader? Why, you could steal one, buy one at a distressed business auction, or open a small store and order one from Mastercard. Think of the RFID tag reader just like the magnetic stripe reader, but you don't have to do the "swipe."
If only you could turn them OFF, or block them...
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The idea is right, on this one. With my current plastic card, if you can see it and/or photograph it, you have all the information you need to create another card, including magnetic stripe. The magnetic stripe just has the same information as on the card itself: Name, account number, and expiration date.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/credit-card3.htm
The RFID would allow me to authenticate my purchase without unauthorized persons seeing the critical information needed to make another card. The problem is, these RFID tags are so dumb, they will respond to any request that matches the RFID's frequency. Even if they do work only within an inch, that's plenty of room if you are in a crowded place.
A shield would help (as noted earlier), but I think that just reduces the effective range, no? Maybe what I really need is a small jammer: a device in my wallet (or on my keychain) that generates interference on the same frequency (frequencies?) used by my RFID credit cards. As long as the transmitter is close to the RFID tag, it would not have to be very powerful.
Saudi's (including some members of Osama Bin Laden's family) were allowed to fly inside the U.S. during the two days after 9-11, to prepare to leave the country. Check it out:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm
PriceScan is a price search engine with a difference: It lets you look for things that are "functionally equivalent" to your search terms. I often find results for stores that don't show up on PriceWatch, PriceGrabber, or MySimon.
Computerlandcentral breaks down the deals by date by store like many sites. However, they are also good about publishing coupon codes, where many sites (TechBargains, XPBargains, FatWallet,...) make you click through the link to get the coupon discount. The code is really helpful if you want to start shopping some place like eBates or FatWallet, to get a small rebate on total purchase.
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Indeed? And, from what do you suppose a teen derives such rights? Not from the US Constitution. The US Supreme Court has ruled over and over that the 4th, 5th, and 14th ammendments give parents wide responsibilities and latitudes over their own children. Even if a child's earnings are all or most of a family's income (such as is often the case with child entertainers), the proceeds are typically held in trust or managed by the parents until the child reaches the age of majority. Likewise, the freedom to come and go at will is a right purely at the discretion of the parents. Parents can seek help from the legal system (the juvenile court system) when their children violate the parents' rules for leaving home (i.e., runing away, staying out late, or even leaving without permission). The only legal recourse minors have for such rules is to seek legal emancipation.
Ross Perot was considered for a Clinton cabinet post specifically because of his third party candidate success. Voting for any candidate, win or lose, essentially bolsters that candidate's position on the issues, and influences the winning candidate's mandate to govern. Voting for a candidate who you don't support (Democrat or Republican) implies support where there is none. It's essentially a wasted vote, because it expresses political will where it doesn't really exist.
When they get it done, anyway. By then, they'll have potential sources of interference worked out. Assembling and repairing such aircraft will be much simpler, and all of that space and weight devoted to conduit will be history.
All of my clothing in high school must have been made of this material.
Funny you should say that. Over a year ago, when a similar safety study broke, a car magazine editor noted that (in the U.S.A.) slightly more trucks are sold than cars, and she quipped that maybe we should just ban cars.
While I agree that all of these false arguments were used in the original reply, that's okay: it's comedy. If it were in a formal argument form, it would be appropriate to point out the logical fallacies. As an intentionally comical piece, the logical fallacies may be used legitimately to make it funnier or to heighten the impact. If I am not mistaken, the most appropriate response, if you're up to it, is a satirical retort.
No offense intended: that link didn't quite post right:
Techdirt: Why Is CNET Trying To Invent A Google VoIP Story?
The evidence that Google is considering VoIP really is pretty thin.
Gambling is a form of hedge wagering. When you own a piece of real estate, you have already gambled the value of the property that you won't lose it to catastrophic loss. Insurance allows you to make a counter wager for the value of your original stake. If your original wager (the property) loses all or part of it's value, your counter wager (insurance) restores your original stake in the first wager.
Under US copyright law, it's not illegal for you to download this game. It is illegal for you to upload or transfer it to someone else. That's when you're infringing on copyrights. Yes, the publisher will lose money. Yes, their lawyers will be hopping mad. As long as you don't transfer the game to someone else, there's no crime committed. So, don't do it.
(Now, let's see if I can break my personal best for up and down mod points in the same post.)
Ignore parent post; he's a robot, and cannot be trusted...
Okay, he's not really a robot, he's just a guy in my office...
but, I still don't trust. He kinda... you know... talks like a robot.
This thing is powered by battery power. You could conceivably have blood flow and pressure after death. What happens the body dies, but the heart doesn't get the message?
I used to read SlashDot when I was living on Kwajalein Island, the third most remote location in the world.
The second most remote location is Diego Garcia.
The first is unnamed and uncharted, but is expected to be rediscovered shortly.
What a great day for the first- and second-runner up search engines. At least for today, I'm running all of my queries through AllTheWeb.com. I guess being less popular proves strangely helpful at a time like this.
Too right: Just look at all of those "breathers", sucking up the national oxygen supply and polluting the atmosphere with CO2, which we know causes all of that plant overgrowth. It's high time all governments did something to curb this scourge on the commmon good.
While throughput does go down with distance, you can get "2.5 Gbps at distances up to 4 km, over any protocol" according to FreeSpaceOptics.org. Further than that, you get better speed/reliability from microwaves. So, lasers would be impractical for a mountain retreat more than 3 miles from the nearest wired point, but it would be fine for a urban/suburban campground or park event.
Forget the sharks. If you have line of sight between your site and another site that has the bandwidth, consider using lasers to bridge the last few miles. You can get over a 100Mbit that way. This article is a summary of what's possible right now with "free space optics":s /19_2/emer ging-tech/23327-1.html
_ canobeam/ canobeam/
e _Optics_T erabeam.html
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/new
Here are Cannon's frickin' lasers:
http://www.usa.canon.com/html/industrial
Terabeam Elliptica, plus links to other free fpace optics:
http://www.freespaceoptics.com/Free_Spac
Congress did have access to the full text, but they didn't have time to read it. The White House pushed Congress to approve the bill, and Congress voted on it and approved it. Even at the time, individual legislators were complaining that they hadn't read it, and no one else had either. Congress voted to pass it anyway, with almost no opposing votes.
Some of the light bounces off soot particles in the air and back into outer space.
I, for one, welcome the arrival of our extraterrestrial overlords, now that they can see us more easily.
According to Snopes, the Anonymous Coward parent is correct. Maybe. But, who cares?
According to the Mastercard site, the RFID tags will carry exactly the same information as the magnetic strip. And while these cards may indeed return encrypted information, there is no challenge/response system. That's just not how they work. When you broadcast the correct radio frequency close enough to these tags, they just resonate and play back (over radio waves) a predetermined string, encrypted or not. If you have a matching reader at your disposal, you have the means to read every RFID within range. Where would you get such a reader? Why, you could steal one, buy one at a distressed business auction, or open a small store and order one from Mastercard. Think of the RFID tag reader just like the magnetic stripe reader, but you don't have to do the "swipe."
The idea is right, on this one. With my current plastic card, if you can see it and/or photograph it, you have all the information you need to create another card, including magnetic stripe. The magnetic stripe just has the same information as on the card itself: Name, account number, and expiration date.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/credit-card3.htm
The RFID would allow me to authenticate my purchase without unauthorized persons seeing the critical information needed to make another card. The problem is, these RFID tags are so dumb, they will respond to any request that matches the RFID's frequency. Even if they do work only within an inch, that's plenty of room if you are in a crowded place.
A shield would help (as noted earlier), but I think that just reduces the effective range, no? Maybe what I really need is a small jammer: a device in my wallet (or on my keychain) that generates interference on the same frequency (frequencies?) used by my RFID credit cards. As long as the transmitter is close to the RFID tag, it would not have to be very powerful.
Saudi's (including some members of Osama Bin Laden's family) were allowed to fly inside the U.S. during the two days after 9-11, to prepare to leave the country. Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm
PriceScan is a price search engine with a difference: It lets you look for things that are "functionally equivalent" to your search terms. I often find results for stores that don't show up on PriceWatch, PriceGrabber, or MySimon.
Computerlandcentral breaks down the deals by date by store like many sites. However, they are also good about publishing coupon codes, where many sites (TechBargains, XPBargains, FatWallet, ...) make you click through the link to get the coupon discount. The code is really helpful if you want to start shopping some place like eBates or FatWallet, to get a small rebate on total purchase.