This is just unfathomable... In the Netherlands, if there is nobody home when they try to deliver, they will knock on your neighbours' doors until one of them receives temporarily the package, and then leave a note in your home saying "your package was delivered to house #123". If no neighbours are available, they will leave the package in one of the shops associated with PostNL (usually within a couple of blocks distance), and you have to go and pick it up yourself. Simple and effective. Nobody here would dream of leaving a package on the doorstep!
I will always remember Martin Gardner as one of the key influences in my mathematical leanings. His column in Scientific American was always interesting, even when I didn't know enough to understand half of what he wrote.
Anybody knows if one can get a collection of all his SciFi columns in a single volume or a set of volumes? I would gladly pay significant bucks to be able to have all those interesting articles in my possession.
So long Martin. Thanks for all the wonderfully wasted hours.
Spanish is my main environmental language. You would never believe it, but things like Excel function names are TRANSLATED to Spanish in the Spanish version of Office. I HATE THAT with a passion, and find it very difficult to read. So it is not only the French (although everybody should have seen it coming from the frogs).
This has happened here in Chile twice during 2008. In both cases Dell backed out of all sales, to great outrage. The second time it happened, I thought it was rather fishy; now that I see the same thing going on in Australia, it is starting to look like a corporate "marketing" policy.
IANAL. It is obvious you are not either. But I did read the article, and it seems to me you did not. What you are claiming as an obvious right (to be safe from a search of your personal items when being arrested or stopped for a traffic violation) is EXACTLY what is not your right anymore, as explained in the article. The SITA (Search Incident To Arrest) doctrine says you ARE subject to such a search. It used to be the case that this search was only lawful when done for the purposes of finding arms or stopping you from destroying evidence, but increasingly the US courts have allowed police officers more and more latitude. The article even cites cases when the search was deemed lawful and had NOTHING to do with these two "obvious" exceptions.
I know this is Slashdot and the article is exceptionally long (33 pages), but the main point of the article is that the idea that you are safe from such searches because the cops have to show "probable cause" is ludicrous.
The Constitution says one thing, the PRACTICE of law nowadays says something completely different. So much for "land of the free"...
I live in Chile. We have had web-based tax filing for the past four or five years. It is great: you get a proposed filing, and if everything looks Ok to you, you just accept it. It works really well.
The articles state clearly: "... and is the biggest find in the Solar System since Pluto itself 72 years ago...". I'm sure this refers to the object's size, not to the relative importance of the discovery.
Everybody should check these links: Free Protocols Foundation and LEAP Forum. Here you will find information regarding LEAP, and open alternative to WAP. Of particular interest is The WAP Trap. I believe the industry should align behind these protocols.
If there is one character that should be switched to CGI, it is Yoda. I just can't fool myself into thinking the rubbery puppet is alive... On the other hand, why R2D2? He is a perfect example of a character that looks great when done with a real robot, because... well... he is a robot!.
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This is just unfathomable... In the Netherlands, if there is nobody home when they try to deliver, they will knock on your neighbours' doors until one of them receives temporarily the package, and then leave a note in your home saying "your package was delivered to house #123". If no neighbours are available, they will leave the package in one of the shops associated with PostNL (usually within a couple of blocks distance), and you have to go and pick it up yourself. Simple and effective. Nobody here would dream of leaving a package on the doorstep!
Google developed this exactly for these purposes. They show up in maps already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code.
... I have waited a long time to post something like this.
Up yours, US of A.
There have been three great movements shaping the information technology landscape.
I stopped reading there.
As a long-time Donald Duck fan, I am deeply hurt and offended by your post!
This is non-sensical. The verb here qualifies *one*, which is singular.
One million dollars was spent...
Two million dollars were spent...
Microsoft is (re)discovering the Linux version numbering scheme: odd is stable, even is development.
Tula means "penis" in Spanish. Considering the meaning of "lip", the name begs for trouble...
A xylophone has wooden bars. This would more correctly be called a metallophone.
With that important piece of information pointed out, you can all carry on now.
I will always remember Martin Gardner as one of the key influences in my mathematical leanings. His column in Scientific American was always interesting, even when I didn't know enough to understand half of what he wrote.
Anybody knows if one can get a collection of all his SciFi columns in a single volume or a set of volumes? I would gladly pay significant bucks to be able to have all those interesting articles in my possession.
So long Martin. Thanks for all the wonderfully wasted hours.
Does your ass hurt after pulling those numbers out of it?
Did you just use "begging the question" in its correct, proper meaning? Sir, you are banished from Slashdot forever!
Spanish is my main environmental language. You would never believe it, but things like Excel function names are TRANSLATED to Spanish in the Spanish version of Office. I HATE THAT with a passion, and find it very difficult to read. So it is not only the French (although everybody should have seen it coming from the frogs).
This has happened here in Chile twice during 2008. In both cases Dell backed out of all sales, to great outrage. The second time it happened, I thought it was rather fishy; now that I see the same thing going on in Australia, it is starting to look like a corporate "marketing" policy.
IANAL. It is obvious you are not either. But I did read the article, and it seems to me you did not. What you are claiming as an obvious right (to be safe from a search of your personal items when being arrested or stopped for a traffic violation) is EXACTLY what is not your right anymore, as explained in the article. The SITA (Search Incident To Arrest) doctrine says you ARE subject to such a search. It used to be the case that this search was only lawful when done for the purposes of finding arms or stopping you from destroying evidence, but increasingly the US courts have allowed police officers more and more latitude. The article even cites cases when the search was deemed lawful and had NOTHING to do with these two "obvious" exceptions.
I know this is Slashdot and the article is exceptionally long (33 pages), but the main point of the article is that the idea that you are safe from such searches because the cops have to show "probable cause" is ludicrous.
The Constitution says one thing, the PRACTICE of law nowadays says something completely different. So much for "land of the free"...
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You just crystalized the nagging reason why I hate with a passion the show "Lost".
Best regards.
Your points would make more sense if you said "I couldn't care less", which is probably what you meant. See http://www.incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.h tml for a clearer explanation than I could provide.
I live in Chile. We have had web-based tax filing for the past four or five years. It is great: you get a proposed filing, and if everything looks Ok to you, you just accept it. It works really well.
Now, don't get envious here...
I heard they also thought about Brown Nose, but somehow decided it was not a good idea...
The articles state clearly: "... and is the biggest find in the Solar System since Pluto itself 72 years ago...". I'm sure this refers to the object's size, not to the relative importance of the discovery.
Everybody should check these links: Free Protocols Foundation and LEAP Forum. Here you will find information regarding LEAP, and open alternative to WAP. Of particular interest is The WAP Trap. I believe the industry should align behind these protocols.
Did I use enough bold/italics tabs?
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Culture is knowing the correct orders of magnitude...