From the yahoo article concerning the sale of Herbalife:
An autopsy revealed that [herbalife founder] Mr. Hughes, 44 years old, died in his $25 million beachfront home of an accidental overdose of alcohol and a prescription antidepressant.
Put a picture of THAT in your booklet of "success stories" why don't you.
DMCA is supposed to prevent us from circumventing copy controls. Is a serial interface with (I assume) a non-standard plug a legitimate copy-control that deserves federal protections?
This is right on. False positives aren't bad. The surveillance system isn't the judge and jury here. It's there because the security force will have so much better luck dealing with a few hundred people in the airport instead of several thousand. It's true that some people are going to get unnecessarily detained, however, keep in mind that the prevailing opinion these days is that such delays are acceptable, even desirable.
If you could get a cell phone to answer a special emergency incomming call...
This sounds something akin to the "infinity transmitter", the technique of silencing the ringer on a phone so that it becomes a listening device for the person who is calling. Yours is a great concept but the privacy concerns and potential for (government) abuse bothers me too much.
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The indictment alleges that the programmer and the company conspired for "commercial advantage and private financial gain."
We should be hanging everyone who is guilty of these things.
Dealing with spent fuel isn't the whole matter. Refueling a nuclear power plant generates waste fuel, but decommissioning a nuclear power plant generates an incredible amount of radioactively contaminated waste. The entire system used to contain the fuel is contaminated, and even if it could be decontaminated, it is not permissible to recycle the scrap metal for a "conventional" purpose (i.e. your silverware was never a reactor pressure vessel).
So we have to address the issue that we will eventually have to scrap these millions of in-home reactors at the end of their service life. Not a pretty picture.
There are also military concerns about giving everybody fissile material.
"Hey bob, can I call you back? Yeah, my reactor is leaking in the basement again."
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From the yahoo article concerning the sale of Herbalife:
An autopsy revealed that [herbalife founder] Mr. Hughes, 44 years old, died in his $25 million beachfront home of an accidental overdose of alcohol and a prescription antidepressant.
Put a picture of THAT in your booklet of "success stories" why don't you.
If you are using IE, the search bar routes through MSN.com. Hello? Does this practice surprise anybody?
DMCA is supposed to prevent us from circumventing copy controls. Is a serial interface with (I assume) a non-standard plug a legitimate copy-control that deserves federal protections?
Right above the poll results, there is some discussion that includes this statement:
An investigation indicated that Microsoft employees used vote-rigging to distort the results. The full story can be found here.
All I would have done differently is written it in 18 pt emphasized font, bright red.
This is right on. False positives aren't bad. The surveillance system isn't the judge and jury here. It's there because the security force will have so much better luck dealing with a few hundred people in the airport instead of several thousand. It's true that some people are going to get unnecessarily detained, however, keep in mind that the prevailing opinion these days is that such delays are acceptable, even desirable.
If you could get a cell phone to answer a special emergency incomming call...
This sounds something akin to the "infinity transmitter", the technique of silencing the ringer on a phone so that it becomes a listening device for the person who is calling. Yours is a great concept but the privacy concerns and potential for (government) abuse bothers me too much.
The indictment alleges that the programmer and the company conspired for "commercial advantage and private financial gain."
We should be hanging everyone who is guilty of these things.
Dealing with spent fuel isn't the whole matter. Refueling a nuclear power plant generates waste fuel, but decommissioning a nuclear power plant generates an incredible amount of radioactively contaminated waste. The entire system used to contain the fuel is contaminated, and even if it could be decontaminated, it is not permissible to recycle the scrap metal for a "conventional" purpose (i.e. your silverware was never a reactor pressure vessel).
So we have to address the issue that we will eventually have to scrap these millions of in-home reactors at the end of their service life. Not a pretty picture.
There are also military concerns about giving everybody fissile material.
"Hey bob, can I call you back? Yeah, my reactor is leaking in the basement again."