Don't laugh, it's a good question. If the wiretapping law is good it should apply to all. If it's bad, go lobby and vote to change it. Making exception for VOIP makes no sense.
Trust me, knowing that a book exists is already very helpful, even if you can't obtain it immediately. If a book is in print, then you can buy it. If it's in the public domain you can access it immediately. If it is out of print, but not in the public domain, then you may still be able to buy it used. Even if you can't, your local public library can obtain just about any book that's been published for you. If it is something extremely rare, but you really need it, then it is still useful, because you can fly over, or contact the library by phone and explain your circumstances, or find someone with access to the library who can obtain the necessary information.
If you don't know whether the books exists, you can do neither of those.
If they don't pass these laws, they get less or no aid from countries like the US, who (guess what?) want to make sure that American companies are able to enforce their patents everywhere in the world.
Quite right, they shouldn't. If they accidentally overheard my conversation without intending to, they need not tell me so as long as they destroy the data. Why? Beacuse I was not harmed in any way and I do not need to know that FBI is performing wiretaps somewhere in my area. Maybe they meant to wiretap my neighbor (and they have the warrants and believe he is, say, a serial killer), but telling me about their accidental wiretapping would make me tell my neighbor about this, just as something interesting that happenned to me, and that would tip him off.
More to the point, suppose they told me, what good does that do me? Oh, I guess, I could try sueing the FBI. Yes, that would really help to restore my privacy.
The sense of the word "technically" depends on what your standard is. As someone upthread pointed out, we study languages as they are, not as they should be. It is perfectly grammatical to use a double negative, if that is what your grammar requires. In fact, in, say, Russian, double negatives are required and are grammatical, and single negatives (in this context) are wrong and ungrammatical. Your uneducated guy saying "I ain't done nothing" is perfectly right according to his grammar which is different from yours. Notice that he normally won't say "I did not do anything", as that is incorrect from his point of view.
I am not a biologist, nor am I a physicist. I have taken college courses in physics, but only high school courses in biology (always hated it, and so avoided it in college). Now, suppose I am interested in hot topics in both of these fields. Where do I get my information? I can't handle a specialized journal in some subfield, nor even a general journal, like Phys. Rev. Letters, because I don't know enough physics or biology. I do know statistics, math, and the philosophy behind the scientific method, so if a paper is dumbed down and jargon is avoided I can appreciate the quality of the paper. So, where do I get it?
I agree, but for the opposite reason. Many men (especially in their seventies-eighties, having been married for 30-50 years), can't really handle living alone after such a while of being cared for. In fact, I've only been married for about six years, and I realize that I am already in the same boat. So I don't really want to outlive my wife. Besides, I'd rather not deal with the kind of grief that would cause.
Let us suppose you are savy enough to know about encryption and to find the right software. Suppose your computer breaks (e.g. won't boot up). How are you planning to encrypt the files now? (You are not paranoid enough to encrypt the files during normal use, nor do you want to open up the box - you aren't a PC hardware guy).
Do you think the private collectors who probably bought this are going to alter, improve or use it? No, it'll be in a glass case that only one guy can look at, instead of tens of thousands of people.
I think precisely the opposite, private (i.e. for personal use only) collections of objects of this sort should not be allowed or at least be discouraged (unless the object in question is of secondary importance), because the guy who really wants to see these objects often can go to a museum like the rest of us. Or start a museum and let other people see the objects.
All right, you got over-excited and exaggerate a bit. Science classes start during middle school, not elementary. By the end of high school (which is at 17, not 18), Russians know basic calculus, which is perhaps 2 years in advance of typical American experience.
As far as work selection is concerned, it depended more on who you knew and/or bribed than on your grades. Oh, and on your ethnicity, too. Much harder to get into grad school, if you are Jewish. After all these factors, your performance did matter, though.
Grades did directly translate into salary. Into a lower salary, usually. My father was an engineer, a deputy head of a division in the manufacturing plant. He was paid less than all skilled blue-collar worker in his division. Even an unskilled worker was paid much higher salary than a doctor or a teacher. Now, a professor or a high-level administrator was paid more, but average college-educated guy was paid less. The reason is simple: a blue-collar manufacturing guy is making things, he gets paid the most. An engineer isn't making things, but he helps in manufacturing, he is paid a bit less. Those in the service industries (e.g. doctors) are only wasting resources, they are paid even less.
Of course, in practice, some service industries are lucrative, because of the bribe potential, but that wasn't factored in this system.
This sounds as if you could end up paying full income tax in the state your company is in, plus full taxes in your own state - because your local state will consider you a full-time resident (since you do live there full time).
Usually there's a box you fill that says "credit for taxes paid to another state". So essentially you end up paying the maximum of the two taxes, but not the sum of them.
Almost every single pop-up ad proclaims to have found spyware on my machine
Look at them carefully. Most of them say something like, "Your machine may be infected by spyware". Or even "is likely to". Which is perfectly true, given the statistics for this sort of thing.
If you RTFA, you'd notice that in fact the mailing list subscribers were not spammed. Whoever noticed the security hole was not a spammer, reported it, and the hole was plugged. So, yes, maybe it's funny, but they really were not spammed, which spoils the story.
There is an overarching story. However, it is true that basically it is a collection of related stories. As some other people said, who is too stop him from taking one interesting one and making a movie out of that. He'd have some latitude in filling in the blanks. Besides Beren & Luthien story which is an obvious candidate, you could also do the Fall of Numenor & The Last Alliance, which would end exactly where the LotR movie begins, with the battle where Sauron is vanquished.
That is easily solved. Just have IRS develop this software. They have the accountants and they can guarantee that if software makes a mistake you are off the hook.
We are paying taxes precisely so that the government can do public service projects. This strikes me as a reasonable one.
You know, I sometimes wish the knowledge of the theory of evolution was a requirement of actual evolution of the creature in question. Then we could all evolve further and leave the idiots behind:)
While apparently the movie is bad, I thought the book this is based on is very interesting. The author's name is Vercors (French) and the book (in English translation) is called You Shall Know Them. I read it in Russian, in a collection of best French SciFi.
Anthropologists discover "a missing link" (still living, unlike our hobbits), and that forces them to try to look into the question of whether they are human or not (do they have human rights?). It forces them to try defining what makes a human being. This involves a court case (which is what most of the book is about). Overall, it has little to do with SciFi, and a lot with philosophy. Which is probably why the movie sucked.
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Don't laugh, it's a good question. If the wiretapping law is good it should apply to all. If it's bad, go lobby and vote to change it. Making exception for VOIP makes no sense.
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Not quite geosynchronous...
Oh, it's quite geosynchronous (i.e. above the same point on the Earth surface). It's just not in orbit.
Trust me, knowing that a book exists is already very helpful, even if you can't obtain it immediately. If a book is in print, then you can buy it. If it's in the public domain you can access it immediately. If it is out of print, but not in the public domain, then you may still be able to buy it used. Even if you can't, your local public library can obtain just about any book that's been published for you. If it is something extremely rare, but you really need it, then it is still useful, because you can fly over, or contact the library by phone and explain your circumstances, or find someone with access to the library who can obtain the necessary information.
If you don't know whether the books exists, you can do neither of those.
If they don't pass these laws, they get less or no aid from countries like the US, who (guess what?) want to make sure that American companies are able to enforce their patents everywhere in the world.
Quite right, they shouldn't. If they accidentally overheard my conversation without intending to, they need not tell me so as long as they destroy the data. Why? Beacuse I was not harmed in any way and I do not need to know that FBI is performing wiretaps somewhere in my area. Maybe they meant to wiretap my neighbor (and they have the warrants and believe he is, say, a serial killer), but telling me about their accidental wiretapping would make me tell my neighbor about this, just as something interesting that happenned to me, and that would tip him off.
More to the point, suppose they told me, what good does that do me? Oh, I guess, I could try sueing the FBI. Yes, that would really help to restore my privacy.
The sense of the word "technically" depends on what your standard is. As someone upthread pointed out, we study languages as they are, not as they should be. It is perfectly grammatical to use a double negative, if that is what your grammar requires. In fact, in, say, Russian, double negatives are required and are grammatical, and single negatives (in this context) are wrong and ungrammatical. Your uneducated guy saying "I ain't done nothing" is perfectly right according to his grammar which is different from yours. Notice that he normally won't say "I did not do anything", as that is incorrect from his point of view.
I am not a biologist, nor am I a physicist. I have taken college courses in physics, but only high school courses in biology (always hated it, and so avoided it in college). Now, suppose I am interested in hot topics in both of these fields. Where do I get my information? I can't handle a specialized journal in some subfield, nor even a general journal, like Phys. Rev. Letters, because I don't know enough physics or biology. I do know statistics, math, and the philosophy behind the scientific method, so if a paper is dumbed down and jargon is avoided I can appreciate the quality of the paper. So, where do I get it?
I agree, but for the opposite reason. Many men (especially in their seventies-eighties, having been married for 30-50 years), can't really handle living alone after such a while of being cared for. In fact, I've only been married for about six years, and I realize that I am already in the same boat. So I don't really want to outlive my wife. Besides, I'd rather not deal with the kind of grief that would cause.
Let us suppose you are savy enough to know about encryption and to find the right software. Suppose your computer breaks (e.g. won't boot up). How are you planning to encrypt the files now? (You are not paranoid enough to encrypt the files during normal use, nor do you want to open up the box - you aren't a PC hardware guy).
Remember, it took millions of years for this to work. We can hardly wait that long.
Finally, I'll be able to understand all the Chinese and Russian spam in my Inbox!
And you'd be surprised to learn that one of the most notorious Russian spammers invites you to learn English:)
You cant alter it, improve it, use it.
Do you think the private collectors who probably bought this are going to alter, improve or use it? No, it'll be in a glass case that only one guy can look at, instead of tens of thousands of people.
I think precisely the opposite, private (i.e. for personal use only) collections of objects of this sort should not be allowed or at least be discouraged (unless the object in question is of secondary importance), because the guy who really wants to see these objects often can go to a museum like the rest of us. Or start a museum and let other people see the objects.
All right, you got over-excited and exaggerate a bit. Science classes start during middle school, not elementary. By the end of high school (which is at 17, not 18), Russians know basic calculus, which is perhaps 2 years in advance of typical American experience.
As far as work selection is concerned, it depended more on who you knew and/or bribed than on your grades. Oh, and on your ethnicity, too. Much harder to get into grad school, if you are Jewish. After all these factors, your performance did matter, though.
Grades did directly translate into salary. Into a lower salary, usually. My father was an engineer,
a deputy head of a division in the manufacturing plant. He was paid less than all skilled blue-collar worker in his division. Even an unskilled worker was paid much higher salary than a doctor or a teacher. Now, a professor or a high-level administrator was paid more, but average college-educated guy was paid less. The reason is simple: a blue-collar manufacturing guy is making things, he gets paid the most. An engineer isn't making things, but he helps in manufacturing, he is paid a bit less. Those in the
service industries (e.g. doctors) are only wasting
resources, they are paid even less.
Of course, in practice, some service industries are lucrative, because of the bribe potential, but that wasn't factored in this system.
Harvard Researcher creates Dupe Detection Software. Soon to be Installed on Slashdot.
You forgot another one:
Duplicate Detection Software from Harvard to be Used by Slashdot
This sounds as if you could end up paying full income tax in the state your company is in, plus full taxes in your own state - because your local state will consider you a full-time resident (since you do live there full time).
Usually there's a box you fill that says "credit for taxes paid to another state". So essentially you end up paying the maximum of the two taxes, but not the sum of them.
If you are OK with breaking the law, you might just download whatever you want from P2P and skip the whole rigmarole.
fifty percent of the time an IRS employee is on the computer they are playing games, shopping online or gambling.
So, if we ban Solitaire, the IRS employees will probably spend more time gambling. Whose wise idea was that, I wonder?
Almost every single pop-up ad proclaims to have found spyware on my machine
Look at them carefully. Most of them say something like, "Your machine may be infected by spyware". Or even "is likely to". Which is perfectly true, given the statistics for this sort of thing.
If you RTFA, you'd notice that in fact the mailing list subscribers were not spammed. Whoever noticed the security hole was not a spammer, reported it, and the hole was plugged. So, yes, maybe it's funny, but they really were not spammed, which spoils the story.
There is an overarching story. However, it is true that basically it is a collection of related stories. As some other people said, who is too stop him from taking one interesting one and making a movie out of that. He'd have some latitude in filling in the blanks. Besides Beren & Luthien story which is an obvious candidate, you could also do the Fall of Numenor & The Last Alliance, which would end exactly where the LotR movie begins, with the battle where Sauron is vanquished.
That is easily solved. Just have IRS develop this software. They have the accountants and they can guarantee that if software makes a mistake you are off the hook.
We are paying taxes precisely so that the government can do public service projects. This strikes me as a reasonable one.
You know, I sometimes wish the knowledge of the theory of evolution was a requirement of actual evolution of the creature in question. Then we could all evolve further and leave the idiots behind:)
While apparently the movie is bad, I thought the book this is based on is very interesting. The author's name is Vercors (French) and the book (in English translation) is called You Shall Know Them. I read it in Russian, in a collection of best French SciFi.
Anthropologists discover "a missing link" (still living, unlike our hobbits), and that forces them to try to look into the question of whether they are human or not (do they have human rights?). It forces them to try defining what makes a human being. This involves a court case (which is what most of the book is about). Overall, it has little to do with SciFi, and a lot
with philosophy. Which is probably why the movie sucked.
An easy solution for home users who don't happen to know anyone from West Africa is to just block all e-mail from there.
Much of this email comes from free webmail providers. So I don't see how it would help.