The office asked Internet providers both small and large to strip their servers of child pornography Web sites and child pornography newsgroups, which are a major supplier of illegal images....
If companies don't voluntarily comply, Cuomo said in his announcement Wednesday, legal action will be taken by his office....
One of the Rochester area's largest Internet service providers, Frontier/Citizens Net, declined to sign the agreement, Cuomo said, adding that he sent a letter to Frontier and LocalNet, which also declined to sign the agreement, stating that his office will take legal action against those companies that do not voluntarily comply.
Explain to me how the hell this is "voluntary". This is the same things as the "mandatory volunteer work" that many high schools are requiring now. It's not voluntary if you'll be punished for not doing it!
"I made the case that I believe they can be held responsible... child pornography is illegal," Cuomo said.
Then let's start holding all those ISPs responsible for copyright infringement RIGHT NOW because they're still making it possible to do it. Or will he wait until it's feasible to put the brakes on the most public, most easily-blocked methods and THEN make it a mandatory voluntary program?
Congress doesn't actually write most laws from scratch, especially laws like this. They're given a nontrivial amount of prodding, assistance, etc. by the corporate sponsors.
I remember getting insulted at a hotel because they wanted to charge me $10 a day for internet access.
I felt insulted at a hotel earlier this month because they advertised "free internet" and when I got there, discovered that I had to go out and buy an Ethernet cable - it wasn't WiFi!
Not too huge a deal though, I complained to corporate about the shitty room (the fridge which we had requested didn't work and the front desk guy wasn't interested in rectifying the situation, the bathroom colours were chosen so that it was impossible to tell whether it was clean or not, the front desk clerk was a useless, lazy SOB - plus the internet thing) and got most of my stay's price refunded.
How many times do you really need to get an email six months old?
It's saved my ass more than once. There are few things more satisfying than having a project manager start an email tirade against you because she thinks you didn't tell her about a change that needed to be made later in the year, and being able to forward that old email to her and tell her "yes, I did tell you about it, I even sent you the documentation for it way back when."
And that's achieved by someone with no intention to purchase the products hammering a Genius with questions about corporate policy which are irrelevant to the products they're not asking questions about?
If they show up to an appointment at a Genius Bar without an Apple product they need help with, the Genius will just tell them to come back when they do.
If they persist with questions irrelevant to whatever product they have brought (or no product at all), then the store would be within its rights to ask them to leave. First nicely, then by calling the police.
This is going to give the FSF a black eye in the Apple community.
If the merger doesn't go through, Sirius will keep going. It may be a struggle, but they'll keep going. It's XM that needs this merger to go through if they want to stay afloat.
IIRC from the July issue of Wired, there were only 3 scenes shot in IMAX. The skyhook, the top of the Sears Tower, and...I'm not sure what the last one was.
Standard IMAX cameras can only shoot about 3 minutes at a stretch, and they consume massive amounts of very expensive film. An entire movie like TDK would cost a fortune to shoot in IMAX.
The old visual basic 6 is not a BAD place to start if you can find some good programming books, because the old VB gave "immediate" results that kids often look for.
VB6 encourages so many bad practices, protects the user from so many errors they should be learning from, and the language & syntax are so "loose" that I consider it poison for the mind if you have any desire to move on to other languages.
What I didn't get is if Joker was always giving them bad information, why did they not assume the opposite locations were the truth?
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Absolutely.
Nicholson's Joker was a cartoon, a caricature. And the whole time, it was very obvious that you were watching Jack Nicholson playing a cartoon Joker. His attitude was "I was made this way by an accident and you'll all pay."
Ledger's Joker was psychotic & sadistic. He completely disappeared into the role. His voice inflections, the way he moved (down to movements of his fingers), how he carried himself the utter disregard for anyone and everyone, including himself. It was just scary. His attitude was "this is who I am, I'm a monster, but I don't see myself that way."
As I understand it, Ledger's Joker is the Frank Miller The Dark Knight series Joker; Miller's work is considered by most purists to be the definitive Batman storyline, as I understand it.
Exactly. If they can't handle driving without the assistance of gadgets on their car, what will happen when the gadgets break?
Also, this doesn't solve more dangerous problems. Just today in my area, an elderly woman "got confused" and hit the accelerator and not the brake, slamming head-on into a house at a high speed. All the "vision enhancement" gadgets in the world wouldn't have prevented that.
The point of any racing engine built these days is to build it exactly strong enough and powerful enough to complete the race, and as light as possible otherwise. Durability beyond the length of the race is not a goal.
The stresses placed upon race engines over the course of the race are far, far higher than what any street car will see, so almost anything that improves the durability of the race engines can be applied to street engines to make them last longer.
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How's that going to work when you're out at a store? For online shopping it's real easy, but when you're waiting in line at the supermarket?
Did the sink installation require a permit which you failed to file for?
However I'm not at all opposed to vigilantes addressing the issue on their own.
Just yesterday, Cuomo was out posturing and making sure he was strengthening his political future.
Explain to me how the hell this is "voluntary". This is the same things as the "mandatory volunteer work" that many high schools are requiring now. It's not voluntary if you'll be punished for not doing it!
Then let's start holding all those ISPs responsible for copyright infringement RIGHT NOW because they're still making it possible to do it. Or will he wait until it's feasible to put the brakes on the most public, most easily-blocked methods and THEN make it a mandatory voluntary program?
Congress doesn't actually write most laws from scratch, especially laws like this. They're given a nontrivial amount of prodding, assistance, etc. by the corporate sponsors.
Especially if you plan for locali(s|z)ation from the outset, instead of attempting to do it after the fact.
I felt insulted at a hotel earlier this month because they advertised "free internet" and when I got there, discovered that I had to go out and buy an Ethernet cable - it wasn't WiFi!
Not too huge a deal though, I complained to corporate about the shitty room (the fridge which we had requested didn't work and the front desk guy wasn't interested in rectifying the situation, the bathroom colours were chosen so that it was impossible to tell whether it was clean or not, the front desk clerk was a useless, lazy SOB - plus the internet thing) and got most of my stay's price refunded.
It's saved my ass more than once. There are few things more satisfying than having a project manager start an email tirade against you because she thinks you didn't tell her about a change that needed to be made later in the year, and being able to forward that old email to her and tell her "yes, I did tell you about it, I even sent you the documentation for it way back when."
And that's achieved by someone with no intention to purchase the products hammering a Genius with questions about corporate policy which are irrelevant to the products they're not asking questions about?
If they show up to an appointment at a Genius Bar without an Apple product they need help with, the Genius will just tell them to come back when they do.
If they persist with questions irrelevant to whatever product they have brought (or no product at all), then the store would be within its rights to ask them to leave. First nicely, then by calling the police.
This is going to give the FSF a black eye in the Apple community.
If the merger doesn't go through, Sirius will keep going. It may be a struggle, but they'll keep going. It's XM that needs this merger to go through if they want to stay afloat.
You can thank ClearChannel's involvement in XM for that.
Sirius does not censor music lyrics or anything else on ANY of their channels.
IIRC from the July issue of Wired, there were only 3 scenes shot in IMAX. The skyhook, the top of the Sears Tower, and...I'm not sure what the last one was.
Standard IMAX cameras can only shoot about 3 minutes at a stretch, and they consume massive amounts of very expensive film. An entire movie like TDK would cost a fortune to shoot in IMAX.
How does it work for vision-impaired people? Does it work easily without a mouse?
Sounds like it makes shoulder-surfing a lot easier.
VB6 encourages so many bad practices, protects the user from so many errors they should be learning from, and the language & syntax are so "loose" that I consider it poison for the mind if you have any desire to move on to other languages.
It happened so fast that if you blinked, you could have missed it.
It took me about 5 seconds to process it and realize what the sick fucker had done.
Christian Bale was much better in Batman Begins.
This one wasn't meant to be about Batman, but rather Joker. To the point where I'd consider Batman/Bruce Wayne a supporting role, not lead.
The ones who die later are the ones who lived long enough to become villains; the one who die sooner are still heroes.
Yes he did.
What I didn't get is if Joker was always giving them bad information, why did they not assume the opposite locations were the truth?
Absolutely.
Nicholson's Joker was a cartoon, a caricature. And the whole time, it was very obvious that you were watching Jack Nicholson playing a cartoon Joker. His attitude was "I was made this way by an accident and you'll all pay."
Ledger's Joker was psychotic & sadistic. He completely disappeared into the role. His voice inflections, the way he moved (down to movements of his fingers), how he carried himself the utter disregard for anyone and everyone, including himself. It was just scary. His attitude was "this is who I am, I'm a monster, but I don't see myself that way."
As I understand it, Ledger's Joker is the Frank Miller The Dark Knight series Joker; Miller's work is considered by most purists to be the definitive Batman storyline, as I understand it.
They aren't doing it for image purposes, to make people think that "it's livable over there."
They're doing it because they've been told that events will be postponed or canceled to protect the health of the athletes if the air quality is poor.
Which, yes, could ultimately come back to their image, but really it's about the money & what happens if scheduled events have to be canceled.
No need. Those cargo planes have rollers on the floor so the pallets roll right out.
Exactly. If they can't handle driving without the assistance of gadgets on their car, what will happen when the gadgets break?
Also, this doesn't solve more dangerous problems. Just today in my area, an elderly woman "got confused" and hit the accelerator and not the brake, slamming head-on into a house at a high speed. All the "vision enhancement" gadgets in the world wouldn't have prevented that.
If you're caught operating a car without corrective lenses, yes.
The stresses placed upon race engines over the course of the race are far, far higher than what any street car will see, so almost anything that improves the durability of the race engines can be applied to street engines to make them last longer.