It has nothing to do what that. Pop culture has been dumbing down high schools for decades with the emphasis on sex, drugs & alcohol while disparaging academic achievement in general. Nothing in the article is surprising.
but it's mental masturbation that can keep CS students from getting bored. I took a different route by adding EE as a 2nd major and the resulting engineering homework soaked up most of the free time I would have otherwise had. I don't think very many people at the engineering college I went to enjoyed having to take any of the liberal arts courses. Other than the technical communications classes, many LibArts courses were probably chosen on the basis of how little they would impact the courses in one's major. The psych prof said in class that he knew many of us were in there only to check off a certain number of state required electives and that major classwork would have the highest priority, but he'd still make sure that we learned something during the lecture.
There's a reason the US Army drills over and over again on how to quickly take apart, clean, and reassemble your weapon... and it's not because of a sterling reliability record.
they would do that regardless of what rifle was used.
'labor' is the last thing I'd want to do in Nikes. That's what work boots are for. Why get a perfectly good pair of leisure/exercise shoes filthy and/or ripped up?
Was this laptop a Compaq? I've found that many of their Presario models would have problems due to the power receptical coming loose from the motherboard. The only thing holding them in place are the solder connections. At first the machine will only charge up if the some tension is placed on the power cord so that the connector is pushed against the broken contacts on the motherboard. Eventually, it won't work at all. This was fixed with a threaded DC jack from Radio Shack. Solder it to the motherboard, add some epoxy to keep it in place, bolt the motherboard to the case, attach the bolt w/ lock washer to the threaded part of the jack sticking through the case, and tighten until it is secure. No more power adapter worries.
And make sure it's a business class machine. Those are usually made better than the consumer machines. I've also found that it is usually easier to find things like docking stations for them since many businesses use them as desktop replacements. I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 and it works great. Compaq made a docking station for it that also had hot swap bays for extra CD/DVD drives, a 5-1/4" half height IDE bay, and 2 or 3 PCI slots. It's huge, but it's a great way of not having a bunch of USB drives & cables on the desk in order to add extra storage or add cheap (ie non laptop) optical drives.
if you have an XM subscription, you've already paid for it. What the RIAA really wants is pay-per-second billing for radio, internet downloads, and any other form of storage.
is that with or without the support contract? It may also be that the requirement could have been imposed by your IT department in an effort to standardize what they have to support (or at least moving in that direction - Harrah's wasn't very close to a standard desktop configuration a few years ago from what I could tell).
so the RIAA figures that 1GB (50 hours according to XM) of music is all that anyone would ever think of listening to? Or that someone may use the device to record a news or talk show so they can listen to it later?
All this lawsuit-circus is about forcing people to buy CDs. People want no more CDs.
If I'm going to pay for music, I'm sure as hell NOT going to buy it in a lossy format. Let me know when XM, iTunes, or any other major music service allows me to pay for and download FLACs from their catalog (a few independent musicians already do). Until then, I'll buy CDs.
Businesses or organizations that are tax exempt don't have to try to get a refund if taxes aren't included with the price. I do not know if people who are using food stamps or some EBT card are considered tax exempt or not.
The US is obsessed with taxes, whether you're on the side of raising or lowering. The UK is obsessed with grumbling about taxes, but doing nothing. I've seen both - I lived in the UK, and now I live in the US.
all the non-grumblers left in the 17th & 18th centuries.:)
But the section of the US Code that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 modified does give the telecoms exceptions for when they can disclose customer information. You don't think that's relevant?
Too bad in 1979 the Supreme Court decided that a list of the phone numbers that you call isn't protected by the 4th Amendment and isn't to be considered private information. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which overhauled quite a bit of the 1934 act) also allows the telecoms to distribute or allow access to customer calling records in order to protect their rights, property, and customers.
This isn't about recording of calls, just the obtaining of calling records. The US Supreme Court has ruled that obtaining calling records doesn't constitute a 4th Amendment search and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allow the telecoms to distribute or allow access to customer data w/o warrant to protect the carriers' property & customers.
The telecoms are not prohibited from using, disclosing, or allowing access to customer information in order "to protect the rights or property of the carrier, or to protect users of those services and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of, or subscription to, such services;". This was a part of The Telecommunications Act of 1996. The NSA would just have to convince the telecoms that by giving it access to the call records, the companies would be protecting it's property and customers from terrorist attack.
It doesn't matter if you think the Supreme Court is wrong. What they say is Constitutional goes unless a new amendment is passed that addresses the topic at hand.
guns don't just accidentally go off. that usually involves some dumbass who doesn't know how to handle them safely. a loaded gun (and every gun is loaded until you verify that the chamber is empty and lock the action open) sitting on a table isn't going to hurt anyone, just like a knife, bat, or rock isn't going to hurt anyone. By design, it requires someone to pull the trigger.
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didn't IBM sign a big hardware deal with ebay a few years ago?
It has nothing to do what that. Pop culture has been dumbing down high schools for decades with the emphasis on sex, drugs & alcohol while disparaging academic achievement in general. Nothing in the article is surprising.
but it's mental masturbation that can keep CS students from getting bored. I took a different route by adding EE as a 2nd major and the resulting engineering homework soaked up most of the free time I would have otherwise had. I don't think very many people at the engineering college I went to enjoyed having to take any of the liberal arts courses. Other than the technical communications classes, many LibArts courses were probably chosen on the basis of how little they would impact the courses in one's major. The psych prof said in class that he knew many of us were in there only to check off a certain number of state required electives and that major classwork would have the highest priority, but he'd still make sure that we learned something during the lecture.
And in 2005 the first ever suicide bombing in Western Europe
Suicide and other forms of terrorist bombings were going on in Western Europe long before 2005. Thank Jimmy Carter for getting this mess started.There's a reason the US Army drills over and over again on how to quickly take apart, clean, and reassemble your weapon... and it's not because of a sterling reliability record.
they would do that regardless of what rifle was used.'labor' is the last thing I'd want to do in Nikes. That's what work boots are for. Why get a perfectly good pair of leisure/exercise shoes filthy and/or ripped up?
Was this laptop a Compaq? I've found that many of their Presario models would have problems due to the power receptical coming loose from the motherboard. The only thing holding them in place are the solder connections. At first the machine will only charge up if the some tension is placed on the power cord so that the connector is pushed against the broken contacts on the motherboard. Eventually, it won't work at all. This was fixed with a threaded DC jack from Radio Shack. Solder it to the motherboard, add some epoxy to keep it in place, bolt the motherboard to the case, attach the bolt w/ lock washer to the threaded part of the jack sticking through the case, and tighten until it is secure. No more power adapter worries.
excuse me for not being able to detect your poor attempt at sarcasm.
And make sure it's a business class machine. Those are usually made better than the consumer machines. I've also found that it is usually easier to find things like docking stations for them since many businesses use them as desktop replacements. I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 and it works great. Compaq made a docking station for it that also had hot swap bays for extra CD/DVD drives, a 5-1/4" half height IDE bay, and 2 or 3 PCI slots. It's huge, but it's a great way of not having a bunch of USB drives & cables on the desk in order to add extra storage or add cheap (ie non laptop) optical drives.
if you have an XM subscription, you've already paid for it. What the RIAA really wants is pay-per-second billing for radio, internet downloads, and any other form of storage.
is that with or without the support contract? It may also be that the requirement could have been imposed by your IT department in an effort to standardize what they have to support (or at least moving in that direction - Harrah's wasn't very close to a standard desktop configuration a few years ago from what I could tell).
so the RIAA figures that 1GB (50 hours according to XM) of music is all that anyone would ever think of listening to? Or that someone may use the device to record a news or talk show so they can listen to it later?
All this lawsuit-circus is about forcing people to buy CDs. People want no more CDs.
If I'm going to pay for music, I'm sure as hell NOT going to buy it in a lossy format. Let me know when XM, iTunes, or any other major music service allows me to pay for and download FLACs from their catalog (a few independent musicians already do). Until then, I'll buy CDs.Businesses or organizations that are tax exempt don't have to try to get a refund if taxes aren't included with the price. I do not know if people who are using food stamps or some EBT card are considered tax exempt or not.
The US is obsessed with taxes, whether you're on the side of raising or lowering. The UK is obsessed with grumbling about taxes, but doing nothing. I've seen both - I lived in the UK, and now I live in the US.
all the non-grumblers left in the 17th & 18th centuries.But the section of the US Code that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 modified does give the telecoms exceptions for when they can disclose customer information. You don't think that's relevant?
Too bad in 1979 the Supreme Court decided that a list of the phone numbers that you call isn't protected by the 4th Amendment and isn't to be considered private information. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which overhauled quite a bit of the 1934 act) also allows the telecoms to distribute or allow access to customer calling records in order to protect their rights, property, and customers.
or their legal departments researched the issue and discovered that it was legal.
Take a look at the exceptions paragraph in the legislation that was passed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185703&cid =15327344
This isn't about recording of calls, just the obtaining of calling records. The US Supreme Court has ruled that obtaining calling records doesn't constitute a 4th Amendment search and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allow the telecoms to distribute or allow access to customer data w/o warrant to protect the carriers' property & customers.
grrr...that should be "their property"
The telecoms are not prohibited from using, disclosing, or allowing access to customer information in order "to protect the rights or property of the carrier, or to protect users of those services and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of, or subscription to, such services;". This was a part of The Telecommunications Act of 1996. The NSA would just have to convince the telecoms that by giving it access to the call records, the companies would be protecting it's property and customers from terrorist attack.
They'll get black marks on their next performance review because the company was able to determine that there was a security breach.
It doesn't matter if you think the Supreme Court is wrong. What they say is Constitutional goes unless a new amendment is passed that addresses the topic at hand.
guns don't just accidentally go off. that usually involves some dumbass who doesn't know how to handle them safely. a loaded gun (and every gun is loaded until you verify that the chamber is empty and lock the action open) sitting on a table isn't going to hurt anyone, just like a knife, bat, or rock isn't going to hurt anyone. By design, it requires someone to pull the trigger.