When I go inside a post office there are security cameras everywhere. They record my image (whole body) and probably store it for some period of time. How/Why is this any different.
but im sure there would be a problem if they let you work for a while and didnt pay you, cause:
"Your honor, (s)he clearly wrote 'Won't Agree' on the signature line. (s)he never agreed to the contract. (S)he chose to work even though (s)he didn't agree to our initial terms."
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire,
in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I know that you can setup Zone Alarm firewall to warn you if you submit you ebay password to a fake ebay site. I guess that they monitor form data sent out for a particular string. It would be nice if you could configure it (I dont know if you can or not, I havent figured it out yet) so that you bank password could only be sent to your bank's https site...
Hmm, that would be something quite new. A company that makes software that will only run on the hardware that they also make. It hasnt worked out that well (as far as market capitilazation) for apple, so I doubt microsoft would even try.
whereas the argument against is obvious. What is the arguement against the BBC making the programs avaliable for a small fee to non-UK citizens. Its a way for the BBC to benifit its public by making extra money for work that has already been done. The only costs would be bandwidth and a small fee would cover that (or just go with a p2p/bittorrent style distribution). They already do the same thing with BBC America. Its a win/win for everyone.
I doubt many people join the military for a big salary. If you want to make decent money, get out and get a job as a DOD civilian doing your same job for 30$ per hour.
Buying power can be a big factor when comparing salary/location combinations, heres a neat tool to give you a general idea of the differences between 2 locations. Cost of Living Calculator
Also, for goverment jobs, there the additional benefit of almost absolute job security, kinda nice.
data ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dt, dt, dat) pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions. Computer Science. Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer. Values derived from scientific experiments. Plural of datum.
[Latin, pl. of datum. See datum.] Usage Note: The word data is the plural of Latin datum, "something given," but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English. The plural usage is still common, as this headline from the New York Times attests: "Data Are Elusive on the Homeless." Sometimes scientists think of data as plural, as in These data do not support the conclusions. But more often scientists and researchers think of data as a singular mass entity like information, and most people now follow this in general usage. Sixty percent of the Usage Panel accepts the use of data with a singular verb and pronoun in the sentence Once the data is in, we can begin to analyze it. A still larger number, 77 percent, accepts the sentence We have very little data on the efficacy of such programs, where the quantifier very little, which is not used with similar plural nouns such as facts and results, implies that data here is indeed singular.
Yes, they are already planning for a much better telescope. And Im sure that they will be on schedule and there will not be any budget problems, especially in light of the new moon base and mars flyby plans.
At this point, Hubble works great and, if you go up and service it once, it will do so for the next decade. So why throw it away and hope that the next big thing goes up soon and without a problem. I say keep it around, spend a few hundred mil on repair and upgrade in a few years and then you can turn around and rent it out or sell it at a damn good price. It would still be pretty damn useful even if it was the second best space based telescope in 10 years.
They have been doing that for awhile (not with the 64bits though). Desknotes, a laptop without a battery (or a small desktop with a build in LCD) i-buddy. Personally, I dont see the point but there is someone out there who will buy anything.
I live in warner robins, in houston county GA. There has been a lot of talk recently Macon Telegraph about Intel comming into the county and providing an 802.16 WiMax network that would cover the entire county of 110,000 people and 376 sq miles. Thats quite a bit bigger than 6.8 sq mi.
Now granted that this is in the planning stage and that Intel is planning on using a different protocal than the standard 802.11a/b/g. We will have to wait and see if it works out.
The average user wants to know how many pentiums a new computer has. Intel's marketing department is very good at getting the pentium name out there and the average to below average users out there are more concerned with getting a pentium4 than some AMD processor.
I personally do like the preregistration, with the PIN numbers and then vote online
I dont know how online voting would/could ever be safely done. The whole point of polling places is to allow people to freely and anonymously cast their vote. If you take the voting out of the polling place and put it in a home, I dont see how you could ensure that the vote was made freely and with out fear of persecution. Now it probably would not be a huge problem, but some people would feel undue preasure if they had to sit down and vote in front of someone.
Commercial CD are produced in an entirely different way. They are essentially stamped into the CD making them a lot more sturdy than the regular CDRs where we burn a thin piece of metal with a lasar.
A senior citizen can either choose to go to a movie that is 7$ or choose not to. A college student HAS to purchase the textbook for a class. I can remember spending an amount equal to half of my tutition to purchase books for the classes several semesters. But no matter what, I was gonna get me some learning so I probably would have paid what ever it took, the only rational reason for the price difference then must be that brittish students would rather drop out of college than pay more money. It has gotten even worse recently with professors changing editions of the book every other semester (are there really that many new discoveries about midevil history every 6 months that you need a new book for???) so you can't sell the books back and others are forced to purchase new books.
If you combine this new reactor and get yourself a few hundred million of these little nuclear waste eating bacteria Bugs Save the Day {Hmm, posted the same day} you could have a very safe, retively cheap, virtually endless supply of power. Whats not to like.
The article intentionally trys to destroy computer hardware. But a lot of people have done some of the same stuff unintentionally. I only worked repairing computer for about 6 months but the stuff people do to thier computer will blow your mind. I have seen people try to put DDR RAM in PC100 slots, plug an ISA card into a PCI slot (he broke the plastic at the ends to make it fit), fill the hole in the middle of the processor socket with heatsink compound, superglue an old socket 7 heatsink (no fan) to an athlon 1900, turn the computer off (cause he broke the power button) with a paper clip between 12V and gnd molex connector. If you dont know what you are doing, then dont do it. What a waste of good hardware.
Or you could do it yourself and save 20-50% of the cost of your big dell. If you dont have the knowledge, time, or desire to build one, its fine to go buy one, just be prepared to pay for it. I build myself a good quality computer a couple of months ago, cost me around 700 or I could have gone to best buy and bought one with similar specs for around 1400. Personally, i enjoyed building it and definatly enjoyed my extra 700$.
I just went to the site above, hit go a few times in IE and it crashed. Microsoft must be in kahoots with AT&T and offering them protection from the/. effect, hhhmmmmmm
An even better idea that I have would be to have game manufactures distribute the source code along with a utility to compile the game and a small linux kernel, for exactly your hardware. You could go buy any game, maybe install the compiling utility (in windows if you want) and some patches for your various hardware and then poof, the utility will produce a bootable iso image that you can burn and run the best on exactly your hardware. If you have a change of hardware, throw out the old CD and the create a new one with your new configuration. You would have a fully optimized operating system and game for your exact computer, cause otherwise it could get a bit complex having different bootable game CD for you AMD Optron w/ nvidia, or w/ati or w/Nforce9 chipset or w/kt1600 or......
Im assuming that they track people down by IP address and subpeona the ISP for information about the user. I didnt know that and ISP would allow a 12 year old girl to sign up for an account. Why wasnt the lawsuit against the mother, and how did the little girls information get to the RIAA.
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When I go inside a post office there are security cameras everywhere. They record my image (whole body) and probably store it for some period of time. How/Why is this any different.
but im sure there would be a problem if they let you work for a while and didnt pay you, cause:
"Your honor, (s)he clearly wrote 'Won't Agree' on the signature line. (s)he never agreed to the contract. (S)he chose to work even though (s)he didn't agree to our initial terms."
sucks for you
The Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Constitution
Preamble to the Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
You insensitive clod!
Some people (myself included) still used languages like BASIC
I know that you can setup Zone Alarm firewall to warn you if you submit you ebay password to a fake ebay site. I guess that they monitor form data sent out for a particular string.
It would be nice if you could configure it (I dont know if you can or not, I havent figured it out yet) so that you bank password could only be sent to your bank's https site...
Try this project: Unix Utils
All the little unix commands and tools you love for that windows machine you despise.
Hmm, that would be something quite new. A company that makes software that will only run on the hardware that they also make. It hasnt worked out that well (as far as market capitilazation) for apple, so I doubt microsoft would even try.
whereas the argument against is obvious.
What is the arguement against the BBC making the programs avaliable for a small fee to non-UK citizens. Its a way for the BBC to benifit its public by making extra money for work that has already been done. The only costs would be bandwidth and a small fee would cover that (or just go with a p2p/bittorrent style distribution). They already do the same thing with BBC America. Its a win/win for everyone.
I doubt many people join the military for a big salary.
If you want to make decent money, get out and get a job as a DOD civilian doing your same job for 30$ per hour.
Buying power can be a big factor when comparing salary/location combinations, heres a neat tool to give you a general idea of the differences between 2 locations.
Cost of Living Calculator
Also, for goverment jobs, there the additional benefit of almost absolute job security, kinda nice.
DATA
data ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dt, dt, dat)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
Computer Science. Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
Values derived from scientific experiments.
Plural of datum.
[Latin, pl. of datum. See datum.]
Usage Note: The word data is the plural of Latin datum, "something given," but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English. The plural usage is still common, as this headline from the New York Times attests: "Data Are Elusive on the Homeless." Sometimes scientists think of data as plural, as in These data do not support the conclusions. But more often scientists and researchers think of data as a singular mass entity like information, and most people now follow this in general usage. Sixty percent of the Usage Panel accepts the use of data with a singular verb and pronoun in the sentence Once the data is in, we can begin to analyze it. A still larger number, 77 percent, accepts the sentence We have very little data on the efficacy of such programs, where the quantifier very little, which is not used with similar plural nouns such as facts and results, implies that data here is indeed singular.
Yes, they are already planning for a much better telescope. And Im sure that they will be on schedule and there will not be any budget problems, especially in light of the new moon base and mars flyby plans.
At this point, Hubble works great and, if you go up and service it once, it will do so for the next decade. So why throw it away and hope that the next big thing goes up soon and without a problem. I say keep it around, spend a few hundred mil on repair and upgrade in a few years and then you can turn around and rent it out or sell it at a damn good price. It would still be pretty damn useful even if it was the second best space based telescope in 10 years.
They have been doing that for awhile (not with the 64bits though). Desknotes, a laptop without a battery (or a small desktop with a build in LCD) i-buddy. Personally, I dont see the point but there is someone out there who will buy anything.
I live in warner robins, in houston county GA. There has been a lot of talk recently Macon Telegraph about Intel comming into the county and providing an 802.16 WiMax network that would cover the entire county of 110,000 people and 376 sq miles. Thats quite a bit bigger than 6.8 sq mi. Now granted that this is in the planning stage and that Intel is planning on using a different protocal than the standard 802.11a/b/g. We will have to wait and see if it works out.
The average user wants to know how many pentiums a new computer has. Intel's marketing department is very good at getting the pentium name out there and the average to below average users out there are more concerned with getting a pentium4 than some AMD processor.
I dont know how online voting would/could ever be safely done. The whole point of polling places is to allow people to freely and anonymously cast their vote. If you take the voting out of the polling place and put it in a home, I dont see how you could ensure that the vote was made freely and with out fear of persecution. Now it probably would not be a huge problem, but some people would feel undue preasure if they had to sit down and vote in front of someone.
Commercial CD are produced in an entirely different way. They are essentially stamped into the CD making them a lot more sturdy than the regular CDRs where we burn a thin piece of metal with a lasar.
Last I heard, smoking causes lung cancer. http://www.philipmorrisinternational.com/pages/eng /smoking/S_and_H.asp
A senior citizen can either choose to go to a movie that is 7$ or choose not to. A college student HAS to purchase the textbook for a class. I can remember spending an amount equal to half of my tutition to purchase books for the classes several semesters. But no matter what, I was gonna get me some learning so I probably would have paid what ever it took, the only rational reason for the price difference then must be that brittish students would rather drop out of college than pay more money. It has gotten even worse recently with professors changing editions of the book every other semester (are there really that many new discoveries about midevil history every 6 months that you need a new book for???) so you can't sell the books back and others are forced to purchase new books.
If you combine this new reactor and get yourself a few hundred million of these little nuclear waste eating bacteria Bugs Save the Day {Hmm, posted the same day} you could have a very safe, retively cheap, virtually endless supply of power. Whats not to like.
The article intentionally trys to destroy computer hardware. But a lot of people have done some of the same stuff unintentionally. I only worked repairing computer for about 6 months but the stuff people do to thier computer will blow your mind. I have seen people try to put DDR RAM in PC100 slots, plug an ISA card into a PCI slot (he broke the plastic at the ends to make it fit), fill the hole in the middle of the processor socket with heatsink compound, superglue an old socket 7 heatsink (no fan) to an athlon 1900, turn the computer off (cause he broke the power button) with a paper clip between 12V and gnd molex connector. If you dont know what you are doing, then dont do it. What a waste of good hardware.
Or you could do it yourself and save 20-50% of the cost of your big dell. If you dont have the knowledge, time, or desire to build one, its fine to go buy one, just be prepared to pay for it. I build myself a good quality computer a couple of months ago, cost me around 700 or I could have gone to best buy and bought one with similar specs for around 1400. Personally, i enjoyed building it and definatly enjoyed my extra 700$.
I just went to the site above, hit go a few times in IE and it crashed. Microsoft must be in kahoots with AT&T and offering them protection from the /. effect, hhhmmmmmm
An even better idea that I have would be to have game manufactures distribute the source code along with a utility to compile the game and a small linux kernel, for exactly your hardware. You could go buy any game, maybe install the compiling utility (in windows if you want) and some patches for your various hardware and then poof, the utility will produce a bootable iso image that you can burn and run the best on exactly your hardware. If you have a change of hardware, throw out the old CD and the create a new one with your new configuration. ......
You would have a fully optimized operating system and game for your exact computer, cause otherwise it could get a bit complex having different bootable game CD for you AMD Optron w/ nvidia, or w/ati or w/Nforce9 chipset or w/kt1600 or
Im assuming that they track people down by IP address and subpeona the ISP for information about the user. I didnt know that and ISP would allow a 12 year old girl to sign up for an account. Why wasnt the lawsuit against the mother, and how did the little girls information get to the RIAA.