The problem is the next push will probably be to force porn sites to move to.xxx and institute general blocking measures.
Also what goes on.xxx, well if it regulated that 'pornographic' sites must be on.xxx and no where else then it will be anything that can be passed as porno from gangbangs to gay and lesbian forums, to sexual health advice.
Great! Living in NC myself I hope I'm there when we have in strike the ceremonial first coin. I want to be standing where I can see the ceremonial Federal agents with the ceremonial handcuffs to take him away.
Also even laws are subject to change or overturn if evidence is brought fourth. Newton's Laws are a prime example, having to be altered by relativity and quantum physics.
Some parts of Newtons laws had to be thrown out completely while others remained intact as long as you keep conditions within certain boundaries.
The body of science is always subject to change but that change must be based upon evidence, proof and logical reasoning between peers.
As said by the previous poster Evolution is not A theory; it is a large and well supported body of theories.
Depends on what you mean by the theory of evolution. Like the rest of science it is a working, changing model for how the world works. Like any use of science to determine what happened in the past it is impossible to prove those statements empirically.
We can however look at the great body of evidence and use empirical studies of the current day to back up our theories of what we believe to have happened.
The phrase "trust but verify" comes to mind; also the fact that I really don't want to have to literally look over my kids' shoulders every minute they are online.
Keyloggers are an excellent tool for a parent to keep up on what their children are doing on their (the parents') computers. If I had children of that age you can bed any computer they had access to would have a keylogger, possibly hardware and software versions.
It is a parent's responsibility to keep reasonable control and watch over his or her children in order to be able to protect and guide them towards becoming responsible adults.
I didn't have a keylogger or anything like that on my computer at that age and I would certainly have been outraged if my parents had tried. I also would have done stuff had the logger been installed and properly checked that would have gotten me in trouble. It would certainly be hypocritical of me in a way to install a keylogger on my children's computers but as a parent my job is not to guard against hypocrisy.
You can't have a group without a concept but you can have a concept without a group as a concept can be grasped by a single individual.
In any case the authorities only really care about those that break the law/disrupt things so the concept is beside the point, a link only and nothing more.
Makes it harder for the protesters to organize. If they organize they might actually start doing real damage. Also while it doesn't stop the press it does make messes (read atrocities, beatings, mass graves) easier to hide. Though Egypt bodies have a tendency to stick around.
Mubarak hasn't lost any palaces or military bases. He still is in control with the military backing him.
The reason they are not firing is because they simply don't have to. The protesters are poor living hand to mouth before the protests and will eventually have to stop just to get food and survive.
It is a waiting game. The protesters don't have enough support and the leaders will be ruthlessly found, beaten tortured and murdered once things calm down. You don't put the head of your Intelligence service as your second in command for nothing.
Indeed. These game makers should simply go somewhere else it isn't like they are dependently locked-in to Facebook such that Facebook can dictate such a 30% overhead or that Facebook has become so big that they would lose their audience without Facebook, or at least fear they might.
Basically Facebook is levying a tax. This is what happens with any private organization that gets a good lock-in on a large customer base. With government at least, or at least democratic government, you get a vote somewhere along the line and are able to voice your opinion in such a way that if you get enough like-minded people together a change can happen. Private industry well you're out of luck.
One big pro that the employee takes the cost of some basic IT infrastructure in their hand. Simply have it as part of the job to keep a working computer. The Employer could dictate minimum requirements and set-up optoins (Though they would probably be best served by giving out a specialized os distro on a CD or USB key, or creating a software suite that is more independent of the employee's computer (ie sandboxed, more because we all know it can't be all). Or they could go the route of conforming to basic server standards to allow employees to log on to their servers as clients and get work done in that model; though that has the draw back of putting the processing hardware back into the employer's lap.
One big con is that the employer has less control about what that infrastructure is and what is on it. The employer has to come to an agreement with the employee (granted this agreement will probably a boilerplate legal document that the employee has to sign or else not be an employee at all) but the agreement still has to be reached and it will end up giving the employer fewer rights when it comes to the equipment.
This first con goes into the second which is if done improperly this means a large loss of security. The employer does have to trust their employee a little more in this model than if the employer provides the hardware, but all employers have to trust their employees to a certain extent.
In the end it comes down to the balance of control, quality, and cost among other considerations. There is no right answer for any general sense of the question and there will not be for most particular versions either. That's called life. Life is part of business. Welcome to it.
No. There really is no legal classification for Abandonware. It is something people use to describe software that probably won't get them in trouble if they infringe on its copyright.
It is also more effective, faster and easier on the fingers than touch screens.
Now they might find ways to change that improve the touchscreen interface, which usually is a keyboard, with the exact same key positions that make no sense unless you are familiar with a real keyboard.
Right now there just is nothing better at getting detailed granular information into a computer from a human being than a keyboard. Voice input might be nice but try using it for a console or for sceintific equations where every last bit of punctuation matters.
Like Democracy the keyboard/mouse are clumsy, slow and stupid solutions for what they are supposed to do, but they are the best thing we have so far.
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The problem is the next push will probably be to force porn sites to move to .xxx and institute general blocking measures.
Also what goes on .xxx, well if it regulated that 'pornographic' sites must be on .xxx and no where else then it will be anything that can be passed as porno from gangbangs to gay and lesbian forums, to sexual health advice.
External affairs? You mean like doing business with ANY cross state entity?
That exchange will have costs, cause delays at the least and cut NC off economically from the rest of the US.
Great! Living in NC myself I hope I'm there when we have in strike the ceremonial first coin. I want to be standing where I can see the ceremonial Federal agents with the ceremonial handcuffs to take him away.
Also even laws are subject to change or overturn if evidence is brought fourth. Newton's Laws are a prime example, having to be altered by relativity and quantum physics.
Some parts of Newtons laws had to be thrown out completely while others remained intact as long as you keep conditions within certain boundaries.
The body of science is always subject to change but that change must be based upon evidence, proof and logical reasoning between peers.
As said by the previous poster Evolution is not A theory; it is a large and well supported body of theories.
Depends on what you mean by the theory of evolution. Like the rest of science it is a working, changing model for how the world works. Like any use of science to determine what happened in the past it is impossible to prove those statements empirically.
We can however look at the great body of evidence and use empirical studies of the current day to back up our theories of what we believe to have happened.
No they don't.
Even a single use is a lost sale. Remember, sharing is stealing!
Not out of touch really.
The phrase "trust but verify" comes to mind; also the fact that I really don't want to have to literally look over my kids' shoulders every minute they are online.
Keyloggers are an excellent tool for a parent to keep up on what their children are doing on their (the parents') computers. If I had children of that age you can bed any computer they had access to would have a keylogger, possibly hardware and software versions.
It is a parent's responsibility to keep reasonable control and watch over his or her children in order to be able to protect and guide them towards becoming responsible adults.
I didn't have a keylogger or anything like that on my computer at that age and I would certainly have been outraged if my parents had tried. I also would have done stuff had the logger been installed and properly checked that would have gotten me in trouble. It would certainly be hypocritical of me in a way to install a keylogger on my children's computers but as a parent my job is not to guard against hypocrisy.
I just hope the tiger doesn't back down.
No they are groups rallied around a concept.
You can't have a group without a concept but you can have a concept without a group as a concept can be grasped by a single individual.
In any case the authorities only really care about those that break the law/disrupt things so the concept is beside the point, a link only and nothing more.
Insecure. Try SSL if you can.
Indeed especially when they claim it is their own search algorithm and superior to Google's.
Makes it harder for the protesters to organize. If they organize they might actually start doing real damage. Also while it doesn't stop the press it does make messes (read atrocities, beatings, mass graves) easier to hide. Though Egypt bodies have a tendency to stick around.
No sadly it isn't
Mubarak hasn't lost any palaces or military bases. He still is in control with the military backing him.
The reason they are not firing is because they simply don't have to. The protesters are poor living hand to mouth before the protests and will eventually have to stop just to get food and survive.
It is a waiting game. The protesters don't have enough support and the leaders will be ruthlessly found, beaten tortured and murdered once things calm down. You don't put the head of your Intelligence service as your second in command for nothing.
And most of those politicians got re-elected by us, that us including you.
Indeed. These game makers should simply go somewhere else it isn't like they are dependently locked-in to Facebook such that Facebook can dictate such a 30% overhead or that Facebook has become so big that they would lose their audience without Facebook, or at least fear they might.
Basically Facebook is levying a tax. This is what happens with any private organization that gets a good lock-in on a large customer base. With government at least, or at least democratic government, you get a vote somewhere along the line and are able to voice your opinion in such a way that if you get enough like-minded people together a change can happen. Private industry well you're out of luck.
Death and Taxes. You pay em one way or the other.
The RIAA wants the word "material" taken out of the draft because it raises the burden of proof which they don't want.
Not necessarily.
It has its pros and cons.
One big pro that the employee takes the cost of some basic IT infrastructure in their hand. Simply have it as part of the job to keep a working computer. The Employer could dictate minimum requirements and set-up optoins (Though they would probably be best served by giving out a specialized os distro on a CD or USB key, or creating a software suite that is more independent of the employee's computer (ie sandboxed, more because we all know it can't be all). Or they could go the route of conforming to basic server standards to allow employees to log on to their servers as clients and get work done in that model; though that has the draw back of putting the processing hardware back into the employer's lap.
One big con is that the employer has less control about what that infrastructure is and what is on it. The employer has to come to an agreement with the employee (granted this agreement will probably a boilerplate legal document that the employee has to sign or else not be an employee at all) but the agreement still has to be reached and it will end up giving the employer fewer rights when it comes to the equipment.
This first con goes into the second which is if done improperly this means a large loss of security. The employer does have to trust their employee a little more in this model than if the employer provides the hardware, but all employers have to trust their employees to a certain extent.
In the end it comes down to the balance of control, quality, and cost among other considerations. There is no right answer for any general sense of the question and there will not be for most particular versions either. That's called life. Life is part of business. Welcome to it.
They did. The phone successfully phoned home and did all the updates they thought were necessary.
No. There really is no legal classification for Abandonware. It is something people use to describe software that probably won't get them in trouble if they infringe on its copyright.
No there are some secrets that a government needs to keep.
There needs to be a way to control what secrets are kept and for how long.
The US needs new laws and I think Judicial oversight of what state information is deemed secret and how long it could be held.
Basically I think stuff needs to be run by a judge in order to be kept as a secret for more than a year.
Also note there is a difference between secret and confidential.
It is also more effective, faster and easier on the fingers than touch screens.
Now they might find ways to change that improve the touchscreen interface, which usually is a keyboard, with the exact same key positions that make no sense unless you are familiar with a real keyboard.
Right now there just is nothing better at getting detailed granular information into a computer from a human being than a keyboard. Voice input might be nice but try using it for a console or for sceintific equations where every last bit of punctuation matters.
Like Democracy the keyboard/mouse are clumsy, slow and stupid solutions for what they are supposed to do, but they are the best thing we have so far.
That's right in SPITE of right-of-way laws, and DARPA funding!
Yeah and they got rid of THACO and the Armor Class rules are fricking backwards! HIGHER armor is better?
Pelosi hot?
What are you on?
There are better uses for the money. We have enough corn. So much that they are searching for uses.