"but from what I've researched on it, if a company has ANY physics presence in the state where you are purchasing an item,"
Since when has Dell been operating unlicesed nuclear accelerators in any state (let alone one specific state)? And why can't I buy them from Dell's website?
Why do you think they aren't? Use of this device seems to fall into the category "impersonating a police officer" to me, kinda like putting a red or blue strobe on your car.
"Maybe if everyone had these, it would lead to smarter intersections."
Maybe if everybody drove the speed limit they'd synchronize with the timers in the traffic lights and not get stopped by a red light to begin with.
(It also provides the enjoyment of sailing past the Honda weed-eaters, the ones that just had to hurry up and beat everybody else to the next red light.)
But the basic principles of security in general is to not share any information with anybody else unless you have to. Just because you can't see how the information could be useful doesn't mean nobody else can. Security through obscurity may not be worth much, but it sure as hell doesn't hurt.
"How are we supposed to know what code IBM misappropriated? It's up to them to prove our case for us."
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Sorry SCO, the "innocent until proven guilty" bit still stands in this country (for the most part). It's your job to make your own case, and IBM's job to show how little water it holds.
Yeah, I was so disappointed by Phantasy Star on the unsuccessful (in the States, anyway) Sega Master System that I couldn't put the game down until I beat it. That game was just so horribly ahead of its time I don't know why I bothered spending money on it. I still catch myself humming the God-awful title track to that horrible game.
Maybe I can eventually move on to be disappointed crappy Sega Saturn imports like Castlevania: Nocturne in the Moonlight. I'm sure Symphony of the Night is just so much better than a version on dedicated 2D hardware and more playable characters.
Because why would I want to spend $200.00 on a device that is designed to perform a specific funciton when I can spend $2000.00 on a over-generalized laptop I'll have to tear down and rebuild from scratch to get rid of all the software I neither want nor need? Oh, and let's not forget the drasticly shorter battery lifespans that the $2000.00 (plus MATLAB license fee) pays for, as well as the loss to portability and durability. And it's kinda tough to hold an open laptop in one hand while drawing on the whiteboard with the other.
At the time, we weren't even in high school yet, let alone had jobs to buy consoles with. Now that we have jobs and money and free time to kill, we're looking for these consoles on eBay.
Of course, these older consoles aren't the ones that require a broadband connection. That's a good way to slash your target market down to an order of magnitude less than what it could be...
AOL requires the use of proprietary software, correct? If so, then why not include a basic firewall with the program instead of playing white-hat? It accomplishes the same thing without ethical dillemas.
Ignoring its efforts to pretend it's a game console, it does have some nice features (decent screen as far as cell phones go, MP3 player, etc.), and since I'm currently pricing new cell phones I could see myself getting one for $200 if it weren't for one small detail: I'm happy with Sprint and don't see any reason to change providers (especially since it would mean another "6-8 weeks" for a new provider to process my opt-out request). Unless they broaden their provider support or release some damn good games for it, I don't think I could justify spending more than $100 for it.
Here we have a university, supposedly one of the best places to be able to exercise your First Amendment rights, not only unwilling to back their students rights to free speech but actively helping to quash it? If this isn't an examble of the DMCA having a "chilling effect" on speech, I don't know what is.
The truth hurts, don't it? Or are you trying to say that there are no such thing as Quebecois separatists (especially not millitant ones)?
Maybe if you worked more to solve some of the issues beyond some feel-good bilingual legislation you wouldn't have to rely on "self-imposed" censorship tactics like this.
"you cannot take SAT using a calculator with a QWERTY keyboard"
Which is a pretty damned stupid policy, IMO. The TI-89 and the TI-92+ are functionally identical. They are both way too powerful for there to be any good reason to allow the use of in undergrad entrance exams (and even some graduate entrance exams). Because of this stupid "no qwerty" rule, the TI-89 has slid underneath the radar and we now have kids taking the SATs with machines that know more math than they themselves do.
If the people that run these tests want to be taken seriously, they're going to have to get up off their asses and become familiar with the technology out there. Simply banning the use of calculators based on form factor makes their tests worth less than the paper they're written on.
(Not that this is anything new, mind you. Most lower-level undergrad classes say "no graphing calculators." But there are "normal" scientific calculators out there to be had that have such features as a numeric algebraic solver...)
Anybody who has to deal with Fourier on a daily basis, fer starters.
Calculators are meant to replace tedious grunt work once you know how the grunt work is supposed to look. For example, you don't use (or need to use) a four-function calculator until you have your multiplication tables down pat. Scientific calculators are for after you have basic pre-algebra down (order of operations, etc.). As for me, after three semesters of calculus, a little D. E, and some vector analysis, my TI-92+ is pretty damned handy for things like partial differential equations, linear algebra, etc. I know how to integrate already, thankyouverymuch.
"Synchronize your computer clock with one of the world's most precise timekeeping devices - the U.S. Atomic Clock. "
The U. S. Atomic Clock? That's pretty cute. Makes it sound like some uber-techno-gizmo locked away in some shimmering tower of steel and glass. Maybe it even uses only one atom as well, The Official U. S. Time-Keeping Atom (with 55 red electrons, 78 white neutrons and 55 blue protons.)
But I guess "syncrhonize your clock to the one of a dozen or so of time servers (each operating off of the average of dozens of individual atomic clocks), operated by at least two different federal agencies, synchronized with the main atomic clock array operated by the U. S. Naval Observatory, which in turn is averaged out with several other similar facilities around the world to define UTC" just doesn't sound as interesting or as "important."
It's probably also better not to mention the monsterous (relatively speaking) errors you'll get trying to synchronize time across the internet. Computer users that really want to syncrhonize their clocks use a radio, or at least a direct dial-up connection to the server.
"Awesome! I hate being.0006566547866787 pico seconds late for meetings!"
To be fair, when last I heard UTC isn't accurate to much more than the nanosecond, which is as accurate as anybody could need it to be for all intents and purposes (can we say "nanometers along the Equator?")
Not that most computer users even know why we have these clocks to begin with.:)
"Date Manager - Never miss another important date(.)"
With a post like this, it's obvious I don't have any.:)
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"but from what I've researched on it, if a company has ANY physics presence in the state where you are purchasing an item,"
Since when has Dell been operating unlicesed nuclear accelerators in any state (let alone one specific state)? And why can't I buy them from Dell's website?
"Why are these devices not illegal?"
Why do you think they aren't? Use of this device seems to fall into the category "impersonating a police officer" to me, kinda like putting a red or blue strobe on your car.
"Maybe if everyone had these, it would lead to smarter intersections."
Maybe if everybody drove the speed limit they'd synchronize with the timers in the traffic lights and not get stopped by a red light to begin with.
(It also provides the enjoyment of sailing past the Honda weed-eaters, the ones that just had to hurry up and beat everybody else to the next red light.)
"Once again humans proove that we are not worthy of the praise we give are self."
Like our ability to use the right homonym and maintain subject-verb agreement?
But the basic principles of security in general is to not share any information with anybody else unless you have to. Just because you can't see how the information could be useful doesn't mean nobody else can. Security through obscurity may not be worth much, but it sure as hell doesn't hurt.
Billy Tauzin was a Democrat when Al Gore was in the Senate and when he was first elected Vice President.
"Could appointing a Reoublican harm the MPAA's relationship with the Democratic party?"
He was a (typical Southern) Democrat when he was first elected. He switched parties in the middle of the 90's.
He's less a member of the Republican Party and more a member of the "Whichever Way the Wind Is Blowing" party.
"At least now he won't be around to pass terrible bills any longer!"
You're assuming he won't be able to hand-pick his successor.
"Someone's in for a bitter dissapointment."
Yeah, I was so disappointed by Phantasy Star on the unsuccessful (in the States, anyway) Sega Master System that I couldn't put the game down until I beat it. That game was just so horribly ahead of its time I don't know why I bothered spending money on it. I still catch myself humming the God-awful title track to that horrible game.
Maybe I can eventually move on to be disappointed crappy Sega Saturn imports like Castlevania: Nocturne in the Moonlight. I'm sure Symphony of the Night is just so much better than a version on dedicated 2D hardware and more playable characters.
Because why would I want to spend $200.00 on a device that is designed to perform a specific funciton when I can spend $2000.00 on a over-generalized laptop I'll have to tear down and rebuild from scratch to get rid of all the software I neither want nor need? Oh, and let's not forget the drasticly shorter battery lifespans that the $2000.00 (plus MATLAB license fee) pays for, as well as the loss to portability and durability. And it's kinda tough to hold an open laptop in one hand while drawing on the whiteboard with the other.
At the time, we weren't even in high school yet, let alone had jobs to buy consoles with. Now that we have jobs and money and free time to kill, we're looking for these consoles on eBay.
Of course, these older consoles aren't the ones that require a broadband connection. That's a good way to slash your target market down to an order of magnitude less than what it could be...
AOL requires the use of proprietary software, correct? If so, then why not include a basic firewall with the program instead of playing white-hat? It accomplishes the same thing without ethical dillemas.
Ignoring its efforts to pretend it's a game console, it does have some nice features (decent screen as far as cell phones go, MP3 player, etc.), and since I'm currently pricing new cell phones I could see myself getting one for $200 if it weren't for one small detail: I'm happy with Sprint and don't see any reason to change providers (especially since it would mean another "6-8 weeks" for a new provider to process my opt-out request). Unless they broaden their provider support or release some damn good games for it, I don't think I could justify spending more than $100 for it.
"Why do corporations insist on these kinds of PR lies when the majority of their target audience can see right through them?"
Because you're misjudging who their target audience is. This is straight out of the P. T. Barnum School of Investment Capital (fool, money, etc.)
Here we have a university, supposedly one of the best places to be able to exercise your First Amendment rights, not only unwilling to back their students rights to free speech but actively helping to quash it? If this isn't an examble of the DMCA having a "chilling effect" on speech, I don't know what is.
The truth hurts, don't it? Or are you trying to say that there are no such thing as Quebecois separatists (especially not millitant ones)?
Maybe if you worked more to solve some of the issues beyond some feel-good bilingual legislation you wouldn't have to rely on "self-imposed" censorship tactics like this.
"you cannot take SAT using a calculator with a QWERTY keyboard"
Which is a pretty damned stupid policy, IMO. The TI-89 and the TI-92+ are functionally identical. They are both way too powerful for there to be any good reason to allow the use of in undergrad entrance exams (and even some graduate entrance exams). Because of this stupid "no qwerty" rule, the TI-89 has slid underneath the radar and we now have kids taking the SATs with machines that know more math than they themselves do.
If the people that run these tests want to be taken seriously, they're going to have to get up off their asses and become familiar with the technology out there. Simply banning the use of calculators based on form factor makes their tests worth less than the paper they're written on.
(Not that this is anything new, mind you. Most lower-level undergrad classes say "no graphing calculators." But there are "normal" scientific calculators out there to be had that have such features as a numeric algebraic solver...)
Anybody who has to deal with Fourier on a daily basis, fer starters.
Calculators are meant to replace tedious grunt work once you know how the grunt work is supposed to look. For example, you don't use (or need to use) a four-function calculator until you have your multiplication tables down pat. Scientific calculators are for after you have basic pre-algebra down (order of operations, etc.). As for me, after three semesters of calculus, a little D. E, and some vector analysis, my TI-92+ is pretty damned handy for things like partial differential equations, linear algebra, etc. I know how to integrate already, thankyouverymuch.
1 ns / 8.64E13 ns * 2 * 3.14159 * 6E6 m = 4.36E-7 m
Where do you get your number?
When can I put a Do Not Call Flag on my phone?
"Whereas if they hadn't censored the brothel, they could at least argue that they don't care about the content as long as minors don't buy it."
Hell, this is Wal-Mart. Minors probably sell it.
"Synchronize your computer clock with one of the world's most precise timekeeping devices - the U.S. Atomic Clock. "
.0006566547866787 pico seconds late for meetings!"
:)
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The U. S. Atomic Clock? That's pretty cute. Makes it sound like some uber-techno-gizmo locked away in some shimmering tower of steel and glass. Maybe it even uses only one atom as well, The Official U. S. Time-Keeping Atom (with 55 red electrons, 78 white neutrons and 55 blue protons.)
But I guess "syncrhonize your clock to the one of a dozen or so of time servers (each operating off of the average of dozens of individual atomic clocks), operated by at least two different federal agencies, synchronized with the main atomic clock array operated by the U. S. Naval Observatory, which in turn is averaged out with several other similar facilities around the world to define UTC" just doesn't sound as interesting or as "important."
It's probably also better not to mention the monsterous (relatively speaking) errors you'll get trying to synchronize time across the internet. Computer users that really want to syncrhonize their clocks use a radio, or at least a direct dial-up connection to the server.
"Awesome! I hate being
To be fair, when last I heard UTC isn't accurate to much more than the nanosecond, which is as accurate as anybody could need it to be for all intents and purposes (can we say "nanometers along the Equator?")
Not that most computer users even know why we have these clocks to begin with.
"Date Manager - Never miss another important date(.)"
With a post like this, it's obvious I don't have any.
Silly me. And here I was pronouncing it as "two to the one hundred twenty-eighth power."
""OH YEAH? Well when I grow up I'm going to have 340 billion billion billion billion hundred million thousand dollars!""
Inflation's a bitch, ain't it?