How much meat have you eaten lately that was shot with a lead bullet?
Unless you actually shot the damn deer... more then likely you're eating beef that was shot with a STEEL bolt gun. Ah la Frendo...
So why do you care? Are you upset that hunters might be poisoning themselves with a TINY trace amounts of lead? Really? You want to have a national campaign about that?
With all the real problems this country has... the debt... the unemployment... the political grid lock... the geopolitical issues... the war... the oil... all of that. You want to get upset about lead in bullets?
Kill yourselves. Stop wasting oxygen and kill yourselves. No really. If you REALLY think this is what the nation should be focusing on at this point in history. Compost yourself. Do it for the environment.
Who gives a flying f' what hunters use so long as it doesn't harm anyone else. And no... the marginal amount of lead they shoot around has no detectable impact on anything. Scientifically. So it doesn't matter.
Next issue. Any point to the contrary either has to demonstrate why this registers above a.00001 on the give-o-f' meter or the automatic reply is "Shut up and no."
Given this climate what choice do we have but to drop wages in the US radically? And that would mean the cost of everything would have to come down to indian standards.
I don't think the legislators have really thought this one through.
The US is going to become a third world country if we don't get some kind of traction.
I hope that's accurate. I'd like to think they have valid reasons for doing this sort of thing.
We've been watching a lot of government overreach lately... the NSA issue I think we can all agree upon... and there are many other examples. Its hard in this environment not to presume the pattern continues.
Then deny the permit as per law. If you don't have the right to do that and are instead simply delaying the permit indefinitely then you're exceeding your authority.
Imagine if you wanted to build a house on a bit of property and the local zoning commission basically just refused to give you a permit in a timely manner. So you bought the land but you can't build your house... basically ever. Never mind that the commission has no right to deny your house like that for no reason.
What you're doing is giving the government dictatorial powers.
If you don't want nuke plants then pass a law that makes nuke plants illegal.
Oh what's that? You can't democratically get that law passed? Tough. Either accept that you don't have the votes or admit you're in favor of anti democratic dictatorial powers in the hands of the government.
Anything short of that and you're a liar. I have no patience for your argument which is basically "the government has a right to break the law and violate your rights in any situation where they do something I approve of... never mind that the government violated the law in a way you disprove of you'd be just as screwed since under your brilliant idea they don't have to follow rules.
You either think this is a bad idea or you want to surrender all your voting rights and become a peasant. There really isn't a middle ground on that. And if you want to be a peasant that is fine. If you like someone being in charge and telling people what to do, I'm more then happy to be that guy.
So either have some respect for due process or shut up and do what you're told or you'll get the hose again.
This is just another transparent attempt to link ANYTHING to the climate change politics. And the only people that will buy this are the gullible or the choir of political advocates.
My statement has nothing to do with climate change itself. That's a totally different debate. The issue here is that there is a tendency to link ANYTHING to climate change. Economics, politics, social issues... anything.
And how do you know its crap science? Because it isn't falsifiable. Anyone that knows anything about science... actual science... knows that if an argument isn't falsifiable it is invalid by default. Its not a rational argument if there is no way to prove it wrong. For the benefit of the dense, I am not saying that true arguments are invalid. I am saying that arguments that CANNOT be proven wrong are invalid. For example, if I said "the color blue is pretty" that is not a valid argument. That's my opinion but pretty doesn't really mean anything. In this case they're saying changes in climate can lead to violence. Well, what is that based upon? And are there not many examples where changes in climate either have a reduction in violence or no effect at all? And what is our input data? Questionable statistics... The best source for any scientific argument... Garbage.
Look, I simply object to political advocacy masquerading as science. Have your opinions and your grinding axes. That's fine. Just don't call it science because it devalues the very concept. It doesn't elevate your argument. It demeans science. If you have any respect for science AT ALL... you won't do it. If you see science as merely a tool to brow beat idiots into submission then its been reduced to rhetoric. Nothing more.
The government is effectively denying nuke plants it doesn't have a right to deny by delaying hearings indefinitely.
In criminal trials, if the prosecution fails to make their case in a speedy manner the case is dismissed by default.
Likewise, these planning commissions should function like trials before an impartial judge concerned only with the law. The planning commission should have the ability to approve plans without a trial or if they wish to reject a plan they should bring it before a judge in a timely manner. If they fail to do so then they should wave their ability to stop the project.
A major problem with the US government at this point is that the checks and balances between executive, legislative, and judicial have broken down to some extent. Especially in these regulatory agencies, various departments are given the authority to be judge, jury, and executioner. In some cases literally. This is all a violation of due process.
These regulatory bodies are effectively members of the executive. They're cops. They have every right to respond to a situation but they do not have the right to pass judgement, set policy, or carry out a sentence without judicial review on a case by case basis.
Obviously people that are against the nuclear plant will say this is good and the executive should just do whatever it wants indifferent to judicial review because the executive is doing what they want at that time. That's fine. However, what happens when the executive does something you disagree with...? You have no recourse if the regulators are absolute.
It is in everyone's interest that this stop and that the system be held to some account. If the feds want to stall permits that's fine... they forfeit a right to contest projects in that event. If they want a say they can approve or deny permits AND offer reasons for doing so before an impartial judge.
Short of that... its a violation of our rights. End of story.
No one trusted the NSA before. That wasn't news. Who was giving away their encryption keys to the NSA before? Not with their knowledge or willingness. The new information is that the providers betrayed the users.
Because if he doesn't cite the math not even the people that know the subject will know if he's right or wrong.
A big problem with "expert opinion" in the press is that they never have to substaniate their opinions. They instead make very vague arguments and say they would get into it further but not in the laypress. Then they fail to follow that up with any further publication in the specialized expert press where all readers could be assumed to understand the subject.
That needs to stop. Either cite your opinion with enough information to know whether your argument is false... OR don't do it.
Pandora is basically on demand internet radio. Why should they pay a higher rate?
The only thing I find irritating here is that so many companies and groups charge wildly different rates to different customers despite the nature and terms of their use are very similar. Just set a reasonable price you can charge everyone and leave it alone.
Does that mean pandora will likely pay a lower rate? Yes... but then how much money is pandora making right now anyway? Just about nothing. So what exactly are you trying to do here asshats? You're trying to get blood out of a rock.
Seems a rail gun better. A human uses a sling because we have to use our own body energy to throw an object and its not just well designed for high velocity projectile throwing.
But if you're building something... you can make it take any shape you want. Including 1 mile of rail gun track.
That is what I think the maps should more resemble. YES, it know it isn't very polished. Please assume the actual map fit for publishing was cleaned up a bit. Look over a city road map and you'll see more detail then even in that map without crude elements that make this map look bad. Just look at the information.
Ideally, I would super impose or integrate this map with a regular city map so that you could very easily see where you were in the city AND the subway system just by looking at ONE map.
As someone else said, your idea means we need additional maps to cross reference with your map.
I do understand what you're saying though. You want some sort of station flow chart.
How about just having a list?
That is, have a normal geographically accurate map above with color coded lines. Consider having some sort of ID code/line name by the lines if you've got too many lines for colors to clearly differentiate them.
Then have a list for all their stops in order. Put some sort of code/color dot/etc by stops that have multiple lines intersecting at them.
Navigation between lines would require finding your station on the list and then finding the next station the list that intersected with the next line you wish to transfer to, etc.
Ultimately, I don't find the geographical subway maps confusing. Look at the ACTUAL map with roads for an actual city. If a subway map confuses you then you'll never get home because the surface streets are if anything much more elaborate. The only thing you'll have going for you on the surface is that there shouldn't be any restrictions in moving about especially on foot. By road... there are one way streets etc. But nothing as locked in as a subway route.
Regardless, I travel by foot, car, bus, train, subway, plane, and boat all the time. Its really not a big deal.
I'm a human being. I'm smart enough to figure this out.
No offense... truly... but I do sort of see the Idiocracy trend in this need to make everything moron friendly. Represent the system as what it "is". If some people don't get it, then they can ask for directions from the friendly subway denizens of NYC. Helpful? Why is it okay in the 21st century to be an idiot? 10,000 years ago if you ate the mushroom with white spots on it - you died. If you walked off into the deep dark forest whistling after dark - you died. If you tried to impress a girl by trying to wrestle a wildebeest to the ground... You died. Life was a never ending darwin award where the exceptionally dumb wound up as compost one way or another. So why is it that this post space exploration, internet surfing, human genome sequencing society is doing everything in its power to make everything fool friendly? I am not trying to be a dick here. But what purpose does it serve? Just put the actual map up on the wall. Some will be confused. Most will figure it out.
The problem is that subways rarely take you exactly where you want to go. They take you NEAR where you want to go. So your destination is not the subway station you're going to but some other place not on the network ABOVE GROUND that is near that station. Which means distorting the subway map into a flow chart that doesn't line up with the above surface maps/topography is a deal breaker. I want to know where the hell I'm going. Not just the name of the station but the actual street I'm going to pop out at. Because that's where I'm actually going.
This might work fine for tourists. I really don't know. Maybe some guy reading off a card finds this more useful for getting around. But couldn't the same guy do just as well with the old map? I just don't get the point of this map. It makes the map less useful.
Then they're going to get pirated mercilessly and no amount of legal action will stop it.
1. You need free educational licenses or the only professionals in your software will come out of places where piracy is so rampant that its practiced BY universities. Go to india or pakistan. Its hilarious.
2. You need to reward support companies that support your product. They don't have to specialize in it. They can specialize in something else. If they provide support for your product they also effectively encourage its use. They are also often the organizations that recommend various products. So giving them a percentage of sales is reasonable. License them as resellers.
3. License tracking needs to have as much information as possible so that when you are dealing with infringers despite doing 1 and 2... you can nail them with impunity.
4. Some consideration should be paid to exposing parts of the license information to the internet. Possibly some sort of two factor ID system like the difference between your license plate and your driver's license. Put a license plate on the software so that companies like Oracle can check the authenticity of a software package remotely without even informing anyone. But also have it so that the information they get can't be used against the company by anyone but oracle and only for authentication purposes. I know some people are going to get upset about this provision. But part of the reason Oracle gets so harsh on this matter is that its actually very hard for them to track anything down and they get very little cooperation from the police. So it makes sense if the system is very easy to audit.
5. Consider making the support companies part of Oracle's auditing procedure. Licensed resellers would be required while doing service to check the authenticity of the software. Then they would be required to either provide a properly licensed copy of the software OR report the violation to Oracle. Again, I know a lot of people are going to have a problem with this...
You missed the bit where I said they should give the support companies a discount on purchases. Then you associate the ID numbers of those discounted products with the company that facilitated the transaction.
The point would be to incentive running purchases through support companies and allow the support companies a legitimate way to eat a little of the profits.
Its an entirely fair place for a support company to take profits because after all they're frequently recommending the products in the first place. Why shouldn't they get a percentage of sales?
That gives you the ability to track the piracy better AND reduces the incentive to pirate by giving the support companies a legitimate way take some profit off the sale.
I'm not worried about it. Robots like this could be great life savers for remote communities that have bad medical care. Or even great for people bedridden at home that need fairly consistent medical attention.
What will be interesting is that at some point the robots will start automating more and more... and we might see some sophisticated autodocs. That's going to be a far future development. But this is where it starts folks.
Literally email dropbox and tell them you need to purchase some of their servers.
If you're seriously using this feature and price isn't a big deal, they'll sell the literal servers which can be insulated within your own network with slightly different settings so it isn't immediately obvious to probes what sort of software you're using.
The first rule of computer security is physical security.
This is very very key. If you really want your data to be secure. You have to have physical possession of it. It cannot be on some remote server that you don't control. And by control, I mean you can walk up to it kick the power cord out of the wall if you so desired. THAT is control.
If you don't have that you're "trusting" someone else which is not how security works. Security is not about trust. Security is about paranoia.
Oh you want that installed? That will be X dollars for the license... just me pirate that and pocket the licensing fee as profit.
Its sadly very common.
Best way to stop it is to have a tighter relationship between developers and support companies. Give the support companies some sort of distributor/reseller price break so they can make SOMETHING on the sale. And ideally build some tracking into the whole process such that if some pirated copies show up it leads directly back to the offending company.
There are no grounds to file sanctions against a country that takes in Snowden. What violation of international law would you cite?
I'm American... And this whole thing has just been an embarrassment for one of our premier intelligence agencies.
The NSA is actually good at what they do... but apparently the US government in general is having a hard time keeping its fly zipped.
Seems like the US government is having major overreach issues. That is they're being given too many responsibilities and too much to manage and they just fail at a certain point. Its too much. The government in general needs to get scaled back.
The new medical bill is an example of this... Yes, I know... lots of people are now going to flame me because they want socialized medicine. Well, do you trust the US government to keep your private medical records secret? Because so far they've been pretty bad at protecting ANY private citizen's data. And every time they get more data it just makes identity theft easier.
Whatever... the current situation is the product of irrational expectations by various factions within our society. The end result is serial failure. Carry on.
Totally happy to educate the kids. But if they don't show up then what are we to do about it?
At the very least, the teachers can't be responsible for this sort of thing.
If you want to appoint some truant officers to track the kids down and make that their job. Then fine. However, the teachers should have the job of starting the class on time and teaching the class indifferent to how many students actually showed up.
I could counter that your position effectively cripples the kids that are actually making an effort by limiting their education to the best possible in a chaotic and distracted situation. We owe those kids better.
The kids that are going to be a problem are problem kids and should be handled differently.
Its not about crippling. Its about optimizing your return on investment.
In some cases... perhaps. Though frankly, you can expect the usual suspects of community rabble rousers to show up and complain about kids "not being given a chance" etc. Never mind the kids made no effort and were if anything openly hostile to the process. And not to mention that the parents are frequently of the same attitude... and yet take it for granted that they have a right to require people to suffer their insults and pursue them around like stray cats picking up after their crap.
Its really about entitlement. And that is what needs to stop.
Society should INVEST in prospective productive citizens. Investment implies putting resources where they'll show the greatest return. If specific students are showing very low aptitude and due to their attitude will be expensive to educate... then cut your losses and refocus your efforts on students that will actually show a return on investment.
Keep that up for a time and the education system will function more rationally. The point is not to serve as a day care service. If day care is what these people want, then offer them that instead. No effort to educate will be made. End of story.
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How much meat have you eaten lately that was shot with a lead bullet?
Unless you actually shot the damn deer... more then likely you're eating beef that was shot with a STEEL bolt gun. Ah la Frendo...
So why do you care? Are you upset that hunters might be poisoning themselves with a TINY trace amounts of lead? Really? You want to have a national campaign about that?
With all the real problems this country has... the debt... the unemployment... the political grid lock... the geopolitical issues... the war... the oil... all of that. You want to get upset about lead in bullets?
Kill yourselves. Stop wasting oxygen and kill yourselves. No really. If you REALLY think this is what the nation should be focusing on at this point in history. Compost yourself. Do it for the environment.
Who gives a flying f' what hunters use so long as it doesn't harm anyone else. And no... the marginal amount of lead they shoot around has no detectable impact on anything. Scientifically. So it doesn't matter.
Next issue. Any point to the contrary either has to demonstrate why this registers above a .00001 on the give-o-f' meter or the automatic reply is "Shut up and no."
Distribute Tor INSIDE of a prepackaged VM.
Then you don't care what OS the client system is running.
Given this climate what choice do we have but to drop wages in the US radically? And that would mean the cost of everything would have to come down to indian standards.
I don't think the legislators have really thought this one through.
The US is going to become a third world country if we don't get some kind of traction.
The "which of these pictures is a kitty" or the question "what is 1+1=?" are superior. The distorted text is irritating.
And as to the deaf... most CAPTCHA's will offer a "press to speak" feature.
I hope that's accurate. I'd like to think they have valid reasons for doing this sort of thing.
We've been watching a lot of government overreach lately... the NSA issue I think we can all agree upon... and there are many other examples. Its hard in this environment not to presume the pattern continues.
Then deny the permit as per law. If you don't have the right to do that and are instead simply delaying the permit indefinitely then you're exceeding your authority.
Imagine if you wanted to build a house on a bit of property and the local zoning commission basically just refused to give you a permit in a timely manner. So you bought the land but you can't build your house... basically ever. Never mind that the commission has no right to deny your house like that for no reason.
What you're doing is giving the government dictatorial powers.
If you don't want nuke plants then pass a law that makes nuke plants illegal.
Oh what's that? You can't democratically get that law passed? Tough. Either accept that you don't have the votes or admit you're in favor of anti democratic dictatorial powers in the hands of the government.
Anything short of that and you're a liar. I have no patience for your argument which is basically "the government has a right to break the law and violate your rights in any situation where they do something I approve of... never mind that the government violated the law in a way you disprove of you'd be just as screwed since under your brilliant idea they don't have to follow rules.
You either think this is a bad idea or you want to surrender all your voting rights and become a peasant. There really isn't a middle ground on that. And if you want to be a peasant that is fine. If you like someone being in charge and telling people what to do, I'm more then happy to be that guy.
So either have some respect for due process or shut up and do what you're told or you'll get the hose again.
This is just another transparent attempt to link ANYTHING to the climate change politics. And the only people that will buy this are the gullible or the choir of political advocates.
My statement has nothing to do with climate change itself. That's a totally different debate. The issue here is that there is a tendency to link ANYTHING to climate change. Economics, politics, social issues... anything.
And how do you know its crap science? Because it isn't falsifiable. Anyone that knows anything about science... actual science... knows that if an argument isn't falsifiable it is invalid by default. Its not a rational argument if there is no way to prove it wrong. For the benefit of the dense, I am not saying that true arguments are invalid. I am saying that arguments that CANNOT be proven wrong are invalid. For example, if I said "the color blue is pretty" that is not a valid argument. That's my opinion but pretty doesn't really mean anything. In this case they're saying changes in climate can lead to violence. Well, what is that based upon? And are there not many examples where changes in climate either have a reduction in violence or no effect at all? And what is our input data? Questionable statistics... The best source for any scientific argument... Garbage.
Look, I simply object to political advocacy masquerading as science. Have your opinions and your grinding axes. That's fine. Just don't call it science because it devalues the very concept. It doesn't elevate your argument. It demeans science. If you have any respect for science AT ALL... you won't do it. If you see science as merely a tool to brow beat idiots into submission then its been reduced to rhetoric. Nothing more.
Science deserves a little more respect then that.
The government is effectively denying nuke plants it doesn't have a right to deny by delaying hearings indefinitely.
In criminal trials, if the prosecution fails to make their case in a speedy manner the case is dismissed by default.
Likewise, these planning commissions should function like trials before an impartial judge concerned only with the law. The planning commission should have the ability to approve plans without a trial or if they wish to reject a plan they should bring it before a judge in a timely manner. If they fail to do so then they should wave their ability to stop the project.
A major problem with the US government at this point is that the checks and balances between executive, legislative, and judicial have broken down to some extent. Especially in these regulatory agencies, various departments are given the authority to be judge, jury, and executioner. In some cases literally. This is all a violation of due process.
These regulatory bodies are effectively members of the executive. They're cops. They have every right to respond to a situation but they do not have the right to pass judgement, set policy, or carry out a sentence without judicial review on a case by case basis.
Obviously people that are against the nuclear plant will say this is good and the executive should just do whatever it wants indifferent to judicial review because the executive is doing what they want at that time. That's fine. However, what happens when the executive does something you disagree with...? You have no recourse if the regulators are absolute.
It is in everyone's interest that this stop and that the system be held to some account. If the feds want to stall permits that's fine... they forfeit a right to contest projects in that event. If they want a say they can approve or deny permits AND offer reasons for doing so before an impartial judge.
Short of that... its a violation of our rights. End of story.
Any oil refinery.
No one trusted the NSA before. That wasn't news. Who was giving away their encryption keys to the NSA before? Not with their knowledge or willingness. The new information is that the providers betrayed the users.
No. Because simply being familiar with the subject or understanding it does not mean you understand his argument which might be new.
Because if he doesn't cite the math not even the people that know the subject will know if he's right or wrong.
A big problem with "expert opinion" in the press is that they never have to substaniate their opinions. They instead make very vague arguments and say they would get into it further but not in the laypress. Then they fail to follow that up with any further publication in the specialized expert press where all readers could be assumed to understand the subject.
That needs to stop. Either cite your opinion with enough information to know whether your argument is false... OR don't do it.
Pandora is basically on demand internet radio. Why should they pay a higher rate?
The only thing I find irritating here is that so many companies and groups charge wildly different rates to different customers despite the nature and terms of their use are very similar. Just set a reasonable price you can charge everyone and leave it alone.
Does that mean pandora will likely pay a lower rate? Yes... but then how much money is pandora making right now anyway? Just about nothing. So what exactly are you trying to do here asshats? You're trying to get blood out of a rock.
Seems a rail gun better. A human uses a sling because we have to use our own body energy to throw an object and its not just well designed for high velocity projectile throwing.
But if you're building something... you can make it take any shape you want. Including 1 mile of rail gun track.
Possibly of use to you:
http://images.nycsubway.org/maps/spui_nyc_subway_map_1224px.png
That is what I think the maps should more resemble. YES, it know it isn't very polished. Please assume the actual map fit for publishing was cleaned up a bit. Look over a city road map and you'll see more detail then even in that map without crude elements that make this map look bad. Just look at the information.
Ideally, I would super impose or integrate this map with a regular city map so that you could very easily see where you were in the city AND the subway system just by looking at ONE map.
As someone else said, your idea means we need additional maps to cross reference with your map.
I do understand what you're saying though. You want some sort of station flow chart.
How about just having a list?
That is, have a normal geographically accurate map above with color coded lines. Consider having some sort of ID code/line name by the lines if you've got too many lines for colors to clearly differentiate them.
Then have a list for all their stops in order. Put some sort of code/color dot/etc by stops that have multiple lines intersecting at them.
Navigation between lines would require finding your station on the list and then finding the next station the list that intersected with the next line you wish to transfer to, etc.
Ultimately, I don't find the geographical subway maps confusing. Look at the ACTUAL map with roads for an actual city. If a subway map confuses you then you'll never get home because the surface streets are if anything much more elaborate. The only thing you'll have going for you on the surface is that there shouldn't be any restrictions in moving about especially on foot. By road... there are one way streets etc. But nothing as locked in as a subway route.
Regardless, I travel by foot, car, bus, train, subway, plane, and boat all the time. Its really not a big deal.
I'm a human being. I'm smart enough to figure this out.
No offense... truly... but I do sort of see the Idiocracy trend in this need to make everything moron friendly. Represent the system as what it "is". If some people don't get it, then they can ask for directions from the friendly subway denizens of NYC. Helpful? Why is it okay in the 21st century to be an idiot? 10,000 years ago if you ate the mushroom with white spots on it - you died. If you walked off into the deep dark forest whistling after dark - you died. If you tried to impress a girl by trying to wrestle a wildebeest to the ground... You died. Life was a never ending darwin award where the exceptionally dumb wound up as compost one way or another. So why is it that this post space exploration, internet surfing, human genome sequencing society is doing everything in its power to make everything fool friendly? I am not trying to be a dick here. But what purpose does it serve? Just put the actual map up on the wall. Some will be confused. Most will figure it out.
The problem is that subways rarely take you exactly where you want to go. They take you NEAR where you want to go. So your destination is not the subway station you're going to but some other place not on the network ABOVE GROUND that is near that station. Which means distorting the subway map into a flow chart that doesn't line up with the above surface maps/topography is a deal breaker. I want to know where the hell I'm going. Not just the name of the station but the actual street I'm going to pop out at. Because that's where I'm actually going.
This might work fine for tourists. I really don't know. Maybe some guy reading off a card finds this more useful for getting around. But couldn't the same guy do just as well with the old map? I just don't get the point of this map. It makes the map less useful.
Then they're going to get pirated mercilessly and no amount of legal action will stop it.
1. You need free educational licenses or the only professionals in your software will come out of places where piracy is so rampant that its practiced BY universities. Go to india or pakistan. Its hilarious.
2. You need to reward support companies that support your product. They don't have to specialize in it. They can specialize in something else. If they provide support for your product they also effectively encourage its use. They are also often the organizations that recommend various products. So giving them a percentage of sales is reasonable. License them as resellers.
3. License tracking needs to have as much information as possible so that when you are dealing with infringers despite doing 1 and 2... you can nail them with impunity.
4. Some consideration should be paid to exposing parts of the license information to the internet. Possibly some sort of two factor ID system like the difference between your license plate and your driver's license. Put a license plate on the software so that companies like Oracle can check the authenticity of a software package remotely without even informing anyone. But also have it so that the information they get can't be used against the company by anyone but oracle and only for authentication purposes. I know some people are going to get upset about this provision. But part of the reason Oracle gets so harsh on this matter is that its actually very hard for them to track anything down and they get very little cooperation from the police. So it makes sense if the system is very easy to audit.
5. Consider making the support companies part of Oracle's auditing procedure. Licensed resellers would be required while doing service to check the authenticity of the software. Then they would be required to either provide a properly licensed copy of the software OR report the violation to Oracle. Again, I know a lot of people are going to have a problem with this...
You missed the bit where I said they should give the support companies a discount on purchases. Then you associate the ID numbers of those discounted products with the company that facilitated the transaction.
The point would be to incentive running purchases through support companies and allow the support companies a legitimate way to eat a little of the profits.
Its an entirely fair place for a support company to take profits because after all they're frequently recommending the products in the first place. Why shouldn't they get a percentage of sales?
That gives you the ability to track the piracy better AND reduces the incentive to pirate by giving the support companies a legitimate way take some profit off the sale.
I'm not worried about it. Robots like this could be great life savers for remote communities that have bad medical care. Or even great for people bedridden at home that need fairly consistent medical attention.
What will be interesting is that at some point the robots will start automating more and more... and we might see some sophisticated autodocs. That's going to be a far future development. But this is where it starts folks.
Literally email dropbox and tell them you need to purchase some of their servers.
If you're seriously using this feature and price isn't a big deal, they'll sell the literal servers which can be insulated within your own network with slightly different settings so it isn't immediately obvious to probes what sort of software you're using.
The first rule of computer security is physical security.
This is very very key. If you really want your data to be secure. You have to have physical possession of it. It cannot be on some remote server that you don't control. And by control, I mean you can walk up to it kick the power cord out of the wall if you so desired. THAT is control.
If you don't have that you're "trusting" someone else which is not how security works. Security is not about trust. Security is about paranoia.
Oh you want that installed? That will be X dollars for the license... just me pirate that and pocket the licensing fee as profit.
Its sadly very common.
Best way to stop it is to have a tighter relationship between developers and support companies. Give the support companies some sort of distributor/reseller price break so they can make SOMETHING on the sale. And ideally build some tracking into the whole process such that if some pirated copies show up it leads directly back to the offending company.
There are no grounds to file sanctions against a country that takes in Snowden. What violation of international law would you cite?
I'm American... And this whole thing has just been an embarrassment for one of our premier intelligence agencies.
The NSA is actually good at what they do... but apparently the US government in general is having a hard time keeping its fly zipped.
Seems like the US government is having major overreach issues. That is they're being given too many responsibilities and too much to manage and they just fail at a certain point. Its too much. The government in general needs to get scaled back.
The new medical bill is an example of this... Yes, I know... lots of people are now going to flame me because they want socialized medicine. Well, do you trust the US government to keep your private medical records secret? Because so far they've been pretty bad at protecting ANY private citizen's data. And every time they get more data it just makes identity theft easier.
Whatever... the current situation is the product of irrational expectations by various factions within our society. The end result is serial failure. Carry on.
Nope.
Totally happy to educate the kids. But if they don't show up then what are we to do about it?
At the very least, the teachers can't be responsible for this sort of thing.
If you want to appoint some truant officers to track the kids down and make that their job. Then fine. However, the teachers should have the job of starting the class on time and teaching the class indifferent to how many students actually showed up.
I could counter that your position effectively cripples the kids that are actually making an effort by limiting their education to the best possible in a chaotic and distracted situation. We owe those kids better.
The kids that are going to be a problem are problem kids and should be handled differently.
Its not about crippling. Its about optimizing your return on investment.
In some cases... perhaps. Though frankly, you can expect the usual suspects of community rabble rousers to show up and complain about kids "not being given a chance" etc. Never mind the kids made no effort and were if anything openly hostile to the process. And not to mention that the parents are frequently of the same attitude... and yet take it for granted that they have a right to require people to suffer their insults and pursue them around like stray cats picking up after their crap.
Its really about entitlement. And that is what needs to stop.
Society should INVEST in prospective productive citizens. Investment implies putting resources where they'll show the greatest return. If specific students are showing very low aptitude and due to their attitude will be expensive to educate... then cut your losses and refocus your efforts on students that will actually show a return on investment.
Keep that up for a time and the education system will function more rationally. The point is not to serve as a day care service. If day care is what these people want, then offer them that instead. No effort to educate will be made. End of story.