I've called 800-5-OPT-OUT and stopped all the credit card offers. I use unique passwords on all of my online financial accounts. I shred and pulp-ify all documents. I order periodic copies of my credit reports
Erm... you really think they're after you, don't you?
All the classrooms in my school have these rather suspicious looking devices that flash a red LED when there is any noise. You can sit there and clap, shout, kick, whatever and you got some response from the cute little LED.
There were all sorts of conspiracy stories going around as to how they were recording us without our consent, without posting signs, etc. Then we figured they were just noise sensors as part of the fire alarm...
I know where this could surley have a benefit (not that I fully understand or agree with the implications of ``in class recording''). At my school, which is in England, a teacher is not allowed to be left alone with a pupil (male or female) for obvious reasons. This has gone to the extent such that certain offices have windows in odd places just to make sure it is easy to ``see in''.
The advantages of having a video camera in situations such as these are obviously very great. There is no longer the requirement for more than one teacher (or pupil) to be present. I know these one-on-one sessions certainly helped with my electronics a couple of years ago before they introduced these new rules. Hopefully they'll be able to benefit future students too!
Didn't you figure it out yet? Not everybody has to like the same stuff you like. That's one of the good things about music; you can listen to what/you/ want!
Okay, I'm not Destiny's Child song but that doesn't mean I want to stop other people listening to it. You should really think about what you're saying. Take it to the next logical step: nobody should eat this, drink that, drive whichever car. Hey! Wow, guess what? Isn't that a dictatorship, pretty much?
I'm quite curious by this topic of ADHD/ADD. I don't know whether to wonder if I might be affected, but I do know I have difficulty reading/any/ technical books (i.e. anything non-fictional) and when I was at school (I've just left: waiting to go to university) I had terrible trouble concentrating on some things. I was studying ICT (which was boring as hell: all very simple stuff), Math (which I quite enjoyed but sometimes got bored with it) and Physics (which I also enjoyed, but it took something/really/ interesting to get me to pay attention).
I've always found ``revising'' hard and I virtually never done it. I don't know, generally I find myself easily distrated and with a short attention span, unless it's anything to do with computers (and even then, I can't/read/ about it, I'm much more hands on with a problem).
Any ideas if that's just because I'm bone idle, I'm a computer junkie or, maybe something else?
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Contrary to popular belief that ``exercise equipment'' doesn't help at all (except your conscience;) I reckon in you case it would: just buy the crap (who cares what it is) and lug it to/from work every day on the back of your bike*. You'll be fit as a fiddle in no time at all...
Actually, an MD5 checksum of sensitive data like this seems a/very/ good idea. Even if there are slight inaccuracies in storing DNA data (I don't know exactly how it works) this could still work -- there are those distributed checksum thingies that use complex math. to check different checksums for similaries (results in a very similar file). Or something like that.
A good point, but that is (afaik) a pretty extreme case. If the accused is in such a situation more tests could be done on the brother's DNA. This would surely run into difficulties if the brother refused to give a DNA sample...
I get the impression that people will be entirely up in arms about this. I am all for protecting personal rights but, it is really hard to condemn a case like this, where a man has been brought to justice as a result. Of course, there is always the issue of information (in this case DNA) being misabused: for many people this is why this is worrying. I'm sure it might be possible to implicate someone based on the data, but it would surely be very hard?
However, overall I am for these technologies. They enforce a justice system and have little negative effect (that I am aware of -- if anybody can provide examples, I would be very interested to hear, and possibly change my argument).
What does look worrying is the suggestion that the Military should destroy the data once the serviceperson has been discharged. If it is not being done (assuming, of course, the serviceperson were told it would be) this is simply wrong.
If someone was NEVER going to buy it because they didn't like it enough to spend the money on it, but their friend offered them a copy free and they took it, is that still theft? The origional vendor lost something he was never going to get anyway.
Technically it's not theft (other response) but I'm going to carry on using that, because I think everybody understands it better. Regardless of whether anybody intended buying it or not, why should I get a copy? If this were to continue, people's attitudes will change and eventually on the very hard-core fans will buy the albums and everybody else will obtain copies using the argument ``ah, well, I wasn't going to buy it anyway''. Surely that's not right.
Yes, but this bill makes it illegal to share *your* chocolate bar.
Aye, that's shocking;) I was just trying to comment on selling someone elses chocolate bar. Poor gits, nobody can sell anything. Let's all become hermits and live in the hills;)
Well, let's see. The chocolate bar is still in the store when you walk out. The store can still sell that bar to someone else. Actually, the chocolate bar isn't even in the store.
I agree with what you are saying, however it is still theft, regardless.
He got nothing from you, because he hasn't figured out how to sell the same bar of chocolate twice
Okay, now it seems you're suggesting that an album should only ever be sold... once?
I think you miss the point: sharing things is (probably good), but it's not always good to share things you don't own.
What you're saying is almost the same as going into a shop, picking up a chocolate bar, walking out (without paying) and then sharing it with your friend. In what way is that ``good'' (apart from free chocolate...;)?
I am almost shocked to see this. They have $47b lying around in a bank (indeed, making interest) and, well, how many bugs and security problems?
I know that generally more developers hinders development (after a certain thresthold), but surely it would be possible to employ more bug-fixer-type developers to resolve these issues, provide diffs to the main developers and then everyone is happy? In fact, with, say, $5b (wow, that's more than required, I'm sure:) they could rework the whole security of Windows ground-up.
A lot of the discussion here has been about whether UNIX(r) has become generic, or not.
As I see it it can be both -- I think the specification that defines a UNIX(r) (I can't remember what it was, sorry) is important for compliance. However, I also think that UNIX(r)-like accounts for a great deal.
Would it not be possible to form a new standard -- I'm not good with names, but how about, say UNIX and TrueUNIX(r); where UNIX stands for UNIX(r)-like and TrueUNIX(r) would be the UNIX(r) of today (certified based on stringent specification).
This sounds complicated, but I guess all this IP stuff is...
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I've called 800-5-OPT-OUT and stopped all the credit card offers. I use unique passwords on all of my online financial accounts. I shred and pulp-ify all documents. I order periodic copies of my credit reports
Erm... you really think they're after you, don't you?
If you bothered to read the article you'd've noticed that the author actually says there are about seven active developers.
All the classrooms in my school have these rather suspicious looking devices that flash a red LED when there is any noise. You can sit there and clap, shout, kick, whatever and you got some response from the cute little LED.
There were all sorts of conspiracy stories going around as to how they were recording us without our consent, without posting signs, etc. Then we figured they were just noise sensors as part of the fire alarm...
I know where this could surley have a benefit (not that I fully understand or agree with the implications of ``in class recording''). At my school, which is in England, a teacher is not allowed to be left alone with a pupil (male or female) for obvious reasons. This has gone to the extent such that certain offices have windows in odd places just to make sure it is easy to ``see in''.
The advantages of having a video camera in situations such as these are obviously very great. There is no longer the requirement for more than one teacher (or pupil) to be present. I know these one-on-one sessions certainly helped with my electronics a couple of years ago before they introduced these new rules. Hopefully they'll be able to benefit future students too!
No, no!
;)
It's obviously ``Hard drive Spice''
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Didn't you figure it out yet? Not everybody has to like the same stuff you like. That's one of the good things about music; you can listen to what /you/ want!
Okay, I'm not Destiny's Child song but that doesn't mean I want to stop other people listening to it. You should really think about what you're saying. Take it to the next logical step: nobody should eat this, drink that, drive whichever car. Hey! Wow, guess what? Isn't that a dictatorship, pretty much?
I'm quite curious by this topic of ADHD/ADD. I don't know whether to wonder if I might be affected, but I do know I have difficulty reading /any/ technical books (i.e. anything non-fictional) and when I was at school (I've just left: waiting to go to university) I had terrible trouble concentrating on some things. I was studying ICT (which was boring as hell: all very simple stuff), Math (which I quite enjoyed but sometimes got bored with it) and Physics (which I also enjoyed, but it took something /really/ interesting to get me to pay attention).
/read/ about it, I'm much more hands on with a problem).
I've always found ``revising'' hard and I virtually never done it. I don't know, generally I find myself easily distrated and with a short attention span, unless it's anything to do with computers (and even then, I can't
Any ideas if that's just because I'm bone idle, I'm a computer junkie or, maybe something else?
I bet they're after you aren't they?
It's a good question, actually.
Google finds quite a lot. My guess is it's http://www.kinkos.com/:
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4. Balance: We are flexible, helping team members strike a healthy work and life balance.
5. Community and environment: We strive to help and improve the communities where we work and live. We are concerned about the environment and promote the use of recyclable products and renewable energy.
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Bah. Linux to Windows?
Try Linux to *BSD. *BSD is truly Free.
I got it!
;) I reckon in you case it would: just buy the crap (who cares what it is) and lug it to/from work every day on the back of your bike*. You'll be fit as a fiddle in no time at all...
Contrary to popular belief that ``exercise equipment'' doesn't help at all (except your conscience
* don't own a bike? Well, buy one and lug that...
Hehe, good to see the creator gave admins plenty of time to patch / resolve problems with their Cisco gear...
Actually, an MD5 checksum of sensitive data like this seems a /very/ good idea. Even if there are slight inaccuracies in storing DNA data (I don't know exactly how it works) this could still work -- there are those distributed checksum thingies that use complex math. to check different checksums for similaries (results in a very similar file). Or something like that.
A good point, but that is (afaik) a pretty extreme case. If the accused is in such a situation more tests could be done on the brother's DNA. This would surely run into difficulties if the brother refused to give a DNA sample...
Oops ;)
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misabused is obviously a joining of misused and abused. It's like saying ``double plus abused''
Gah.
Why does it not justify the means? Where is there anything really illegal about using DNA to identify a criminal?
From what I have read the military had not said that once the serviceperson was discharged the DNA data would be destroyed too.
I get the impression that people will be entirely up in arms about this. I am all for protecting personal rights but, it is really hard to condemn a case like this, where a man has been brought to justice as a result.
Of course, there is always the issue of information (in this case DNA) being misabused: for many people this is why this is worrying. I'm sure it might be possible to implicate someone based on the data, but it would surely be very hard?
However, overall I am for these technologies. They enforce a justice system and have little negative effect (that I am aware of -- if anybody can provide examples, I would be very interested to hear, and possibly change my argument).
What does look worrying is the suggestion that the Military should destroy the data once the serviceperson has been discharged. If it is not being done (assuming, of course, the serviceperson were told it would be) this is simply wrong.
Sorry for a rather convoluted argument.
If someone was NEVER going to buy it because they didn't like it enough to spend the money on it, but their friend offered them a copy free and they took it, is that still theft? The origional vendor lost something he was never going to get anyway.
Technically it's not theft (other response) but I'm going to carry on using that, because I think everybody understands it better. Regardless of whether anybody intended buying it or not, why should I get a copy? If this were to continue, people's attitudes will change and eventually on the very hard-core fans will buy the albums and everybody else will obtain copies using the argument ``ah, well, I wasn't going to buy it anyway''. Surely that's not right.
Yes, but this bill makes it illegal to share *your* chocolate bar.
;) I was just trying to comment on selling someone elses chocolate bar. Poor gits, nobody can sell anything. Let's all become hermits and live in the hills ;)
Aye, that's shocking
Well, let's see. The chocolate bar is still in the store when you walk out. The store can still sell that bar to someone else. Actually, the chocolate bar isn't even in the store.
I agree with what you are saying, however it is still theft, regardless.
He got nothing from you, because he hasn't figured out how to sell the same bar of chocolate twice
Okay, now it seems you're suggesting that an album should only ever be sold... once?
I think you miss the point: sharing things is (probably good), but it's not always good to share things you don't own.
;)?
What you're saying is almost the same as going into a shop, picking up a chocolate bar, walking out (without paying) and then sharing it with your friend. In what way is that ``good'' (apart from free chocolate...
Isn't that what the RIAA tried doing themselves? Wouldn't that be the same as spamming yourself?
I am almost shocked to see this. They have $47b lying around in a bank (indeed, making interest) and, well, how many bugs and security problems?
:) they could rework the whole security of Windows ground-up.
I know that generally more developers hinders development (after a certain thresthold), but surely it would be possible to employ more bug-fixer-type developers to resolve these issues, provide diffs to the main developers and then everyone is happy? In fact, with, say, $5b (wow, that's more than required, I'm sure
A lot of the discussion here has been about whether UNIX(r) has become generic, or not.
As I see it it can be both -- I think the specification that defines a UNIX(r) (I can't remember what it was, sorry) is important for compliance. However, I also think that UNIX(r)-like accounts for a great deal.
Would it not be possible to form a new standard -- I'm not good with names, but how about, say UNIX and TrueUNIX(r); where UNIX stands for UNIX(r)-like and TrueUNIX(r) would be the UNIX(r) of today (certified based on stringent specification).
This sounds complicated, but I guess all this IP stuff is...