Hey, a trillion here, a trillion there, emergency, emergency, emergency. Cut where you lose the fewest votes. Hell, only cut where your vote loss is negligible, else borrow.
I hate to say it, but "installers of other peoples' stuff" isn't the most magnificent of business models.
The upside, that you get all this extra, free effort from "the community", is also its downside, since it says you can't charge for the "stuff" directly.
Well, for one thing, it has been properly amended to cover those situations. Unlike much stuff from FDR onward, which was just magically assumed to fall under the propriety of the government's reach without amendment. If society changes, you change the Constitution, which has a built-in, slow, deliberative, supermajority process. If it's that good an idea, most should want it, and still want it 5 or 10 years down the road. If that is not the case, you have no business passing such laws in the first place.
If anything, there should be a warning on that warning. "The above warning is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as if it were written back then. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how memes espoused by the power hungry have bypassed the amendment process by declarative fiat."
"Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day."
God no, you're not alone. We need stable environments for consistency of software development. We have a dozen home-grown tools, and 2x that from open source type things, and jumping service patches is a holy pain, much less an entire OS. We were still supporting Win2k machines until two years ago.
"Migration" is in Microsoft's interest, not yours.
And meanwhile, US kids are encouraged to not care about spelling, lest it interfere with learning the topic at hand and the practicing of expression, including creative expression.
Two theories. I wonder which has better results as far as outcomes analysis goes?
Theories and cultures of the evils of the cops, however, know no bounds.
For every viral case that makes the rounds, with puffing politicians the end result, how many of these to the videos vindicate the cops? I suspect this is over-reaction to those few, big cases rather than some massive, day-to-day problem.
Which isn't to say there might be an issue with the average living-room dweller's idea of what goes on with police, the way they don't know what goes on on farms with animals. If that's the case, education is called for, rather than trying to ban cameras or overly hamstringing the police. Taser looks bad, to be sure, but it ain't a gun.
BTW, I am opposed to this legislation. The People reserve the right to keep tabs on their government.
At the end of the day, Microsoft is probably right. Were Apple or Google's products dominant, and be so for years, they would be the primary target of hackers. Legion around here are those touting Linux's security, when it, too, does not suffer massive effort from hundreds of hackers trying to hack it for real profit, often from poor countries with weak currency.
In other words, the supposed superior security of Apple, Google, and Linux is probably more related to security-through-obscurity than any brutish, awesome-o capabilities. How would they hold up against not a few hackers, but hundreds or thousands, each on a mission from (the) God (of money)?
You're on crack if you think, "Quite well, thank you!"
Then it is de facto property. It has all the important facets:
1. Worth something in real money.
2. Transferable.
3. Transferable for real money, in practice (and perhaps in the intent of the designers, perhaps even if they make a surface statement that you shouldn't, but rely on it for increased sales.)
These things (like intellectual property) have all the important aspects of property so they can serve with the exact same benefit as real, physical property.
So if you're going to have these things ape property, then ape the police/theft angle, too.
Using tags for bold, header, indent, and so on, and letting the local machine render those as they are locally defined was brilliant. Then came designers who wanted (perhaps rightly, for big corporations) to control the exact layout.
That's fine, but that's a different kind of "browser". Unfortunately, the exacting corporate style web sites birthed a horrible monster: Tiny little 640x480 web sites since a fixed layout looked dumb on a screen too small for it, and they must cater to everybody.
Woo hoo! Some are up to 800x600 or, gasp, 1024x768!
Meh. Gone are the days of "stream formatters" that handled.txt files with no formatting info, creating paragraphs with indentation and so on. 'twas a project in my IBM mainframe assembly class lo' decades ago in 1987.
What was this "dummy" phone? The LCD, the battery, the internal electronics (PCB, anyone?), and god knows what will all be giving out low levels of many different chemicals.
Being "powered on" for 30 minutes a day may have very little or nothing to do with it. Indeed, it's more likely that, by warming the phone, it may exacerbate the chemical leakage, and thus be more likely to have an effect than the EMR itself.
> "Unfortunately the Salk Institute failed to patent the technology, > so a company named StemCells happily had it approved."
I know some years back the government shifted to "whoever patents it first gets it" even if they weren't the first inventor, but isn't there something about prior art?
Don't they understand there are industrial-strength nerds running all these Internet backbones? Just have a phone conference and start shutting stuff off. Ports, messages with certain content. Particular computers that are sending that content. They're probably way ahead of the military already.
A few weeks ago, my Vista machine just spontaneously rebooted. When it started back up, my Chrome desktop starter link was busted (chrome.exe was gone) and IE (which I don't use) would only open to a scam page pretending to scan my computer, and the only things I could do was go to a page to pay for their system.
They were even using a squatter web link that was a 1-off misspelling of a known, real anti-spyware product, I forget which one. This was one devil of an infestation, as I could not start any applications, either.
I got into safe mode and did a rollback to a previous configuration prior to some updates, and it all went away. I know it's there somewhere, if Windows re-updates. Hopefully I won't get attacked again.
I wonder if this issue is taking advantage of that problem, because I decidedly was not using IE nor did I download, much less execute, any executables (and yes, I check if it's downloading a.exe before blindly clicking on anything I download.)
> Obviously in today's abstract and web based software industry
"And that is where they fail," as Morhpeus might say.
There's a little old thing called embedded programming that was overjoyed to start including C not 5 years ago or so, to say nothing of C++. Quoth a manager of one such project, me: "How much RAM do you have?" Manager: "Oh, we have tons. 32k."
Not everything is a big honkin' processor with a Java VM on it already. In fact, most processors are not such creatures.
Talking head's talking points have been regurgitating, "It might be time for a non-judge appointee" for a month now. Should not be a surprise.
Also, apparently Rehnquist is one such person, WFIW. Like any other nomination, it's about their stance rather than whether they were a judge before or not.
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> "Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses"
I wonder about the hackers' point of view. Anyone have a link?
Jesus effing Christ! Don't you guys have elections down there?
Hey, a trillion here, a trillion there, emergency, emergency, emergency. Cut where you lose the fewest votes. Hell, only cut where your vote loss is negligible, else borrow.
I hate to say it, but "installers of other peoples' stuff" isn't the most magnificent of business models.
The upside, that you get all this extra, free effort from "the community", is also its downside, since it says you can't charge for the "stuff" directly.
Well, for one thing, it has been properly amended to cover those situations. Unlike much stuff from FDR onward, which was just magically assumed to fall under the propriety of the government's reach without amendment. If society changes, you change the Constitution, which has a built-in, slow, deliberative, supermajority process. If it's that good an idea, most should want it, and still want it 5 or 10 years down the road. If that is not the case, you have no business passing such laws in the first place.
If anything, there should be a warning on that warning. "The above warning is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as if it were written back then. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how memes espoused by the power hungry have bypassed the amendment process by declarative fiat."
I wonder about the expertise of the researchers.
Pay attention: I hereby predict a small rebound of the Bluefin tuna precisely because they won't be getting caught by fishers in the Gulf.
If this happens, what will it say about the researchers and their prognosticative abilities? Don't answer now. Let's see what happens!
"what is possibly the first nerd war"
Never heard of Mensa chapters, eh?
Luke: No! That's not true! That's not possible!
God no, you're not alone. We need stable environments for consistency of software development. We have a dozen home-grown tools, and 2x that from open source type things, and jumping service patches is a holy pain, much less an entire OS. We were still supporting Win2k machines until two years ago.
"Migration" is in Microsoft's interest, not yours.
And meanwhile, US kids are encouraged to not care about spelling, lest it interfere with learning the topic at hand and the practicing of expression, including creative expression.
Two theories. I wonder which has better results as far as outcomes analysis goes?
Did scientists ever determine if it was a genetic modification or just mutation due to growth deviation?
In any case, as it was an accident, I don't think the law would apply, though they could certainly sue the hell out of whoever spilled that crap.
Theories and cultures of the evils of the cops, however, know no bounds.
For every viral case that makes the rounds, with puffing politicians the end result, how many of these to the videos vindicate the cops? I suspect this is over-reaction to those few, big cases rather than some massive, day-to-day problem.
Which isn't to say there might be an issue with the average living-room dweller's idea of what goes on with police, the way they don't know what goes on on farms with animals. If that's the case, education is called for, rather than trying to ban cameras or overly hamstringing the police. Taser looks bad, to be sure, but it ain't a gun.
BTW, I am opposed to this legislation. The People reserve the right to keep tabs on their government.
Awesome! Lego Mindstorms' robot's associated programming language made the top 50!
It's a drag-and-drop, literally object-oriented visual programming "language" built on top of LabView.
Of course, real robotics programmers* use the C-style languages that compile to the Mindstorm brick's processor.
* This is called lobbing a softball.
At the end of the day, Microsoft is probably right. Were Apple or Google's products dominant, and be so for years, they would be the primary target of hackers. Legion around here are those touting Linux's security, when it, too, does not suffer massive effort from hundreds of hackers trying to hack it for real profit, often from poor countries with weak currency.
In other words, the supposed superior security of Apple, Google, and Linux is probably more related to security-through-obscurity than any brutish, awesome-o capabilities. How would they hold up against not a few hackers, but hundreds or thousands, each on a mission from (the) God (of money)?
You're on crack if you think, "Quite well, thank you!"
Can they sell the stuff?
Then it is de facto property. It has all the important facets:
1. Worth something in real money.
2. Transferable.
3. Transferable for real money, in practice (and perhaps in the intent of the designers, perhaps even if they make a surface statement that you shouldn't, but rely on it for increased sales.)
These things (like intellectual property) have all the important aspects of property so they can serve with the exact same benefit as real, physical property.
So if you're going to have these things ape property, then ape the police/theft angle, too.
This is correct.
Using tags for bold, header, indent, and so on, and letting the local machine render those as they are locally defined was brilliant. Then came designers who wanted (perhaps rightly, for big corporations) to control the exact layout.
That's fine, but that's a different kind of "browser". Unfortunately, the exacting corporate style web sites birthed a horrible monster: Tiny little 640x480 web sites since a fixed layout looked dumb on a screen too small for it, and they must cater to everybody.
Woo hoo! Some are up to 800x600 or, gasp, 1024x768!
Meh. Gone are the days of "stream formatters" that handled .txt files with no formatting info, creating paragraphs with indentation and so on. 'twas a project in my IBM mainframe assembly class lo' decades ago in 1987.
What was this "dummy" phone? The LCD, the battery, the internal electronics (PCB, anyone?), and god knows what will all be giving out low levels of many different chemicals.
Being "powered on" for 30 minutes a day may have very little or nothing to do with it. Indeed, it's more likely that, by warming the phone, it may exacerbate the chemical leakage, and thus be more likely to have an effect than the EMR itself.
So all the scramjet stuff I've been reading over the years is just theory? These are the first real, working ones?
Geeze, I thought this was 1960s tech.
> "Unfortunately the Salk Institute failed to patent the technology,
> so a company named StemCells happily had it approved."
I know some years back the government shifted to "whoever patents it first gets it" even if they weren't the first inventor, but isn't there something about prior art?
Don't they understand there are industrial-strength nerds running all these Internet backbones? Just have a phone conference and start shutting stuff off. Ports, messages with certain content. Particular computers that are sending that content. They're probably way ahead of the military already.
This is fantastic! This is the second most important thing I'd like to have with a switch flipped to "young".
A few weeks ago, my Vista machine just spontaneously rebooted. When it started back up, my Chrome desktop starter link was busted (chrome.exe was gone) and IE (which I don't use) would only open to a scam page pretending to scan my computer, and the only things I could do was go to a page to pay for their system.
They were even using a squatter web link that was a 1-off misspelling of a known, real anti-spyware product, I forget which one. This was one devil of an infestation, as I could not start any applications, either.
I got into safe mode and did a rollback to a previous configuration prior to some updates, and it all went away. I know it's there somewhere, if Windows re-updates. Hopefully I won't get attacked again.
I wonder if this issue is taking advantage of that problem, because I decidedly was not using IE nor did I download, much less execute, any executables (and yes, I check if it's downloading a .exe before blindly clicking on anything I download.)
> Obviously in today's abstract and web based software industry
"And that is where they fail," as Morhpeus might say.
There's a little old thing called embedded programming that was overjoyed to start including C not 5 years ago or so, to say nothing of C++. Quoth a manager of one such project, me: "How much RAM do you have?" Manager: "Oh, we have tons. 32k."
Not everything is a big honkin' processor with a Java VM on it already. In fact, most processors are not such creatures.
Talking head's talking points have been regurgitating, "It might be time for a non-judge appointee" for a month now. Should not be a surprise.
Also, apparently Rehnquist is one such person, WFIW. Like any other nomination, it's about their stance rather than whether they were a judge before or not.
Well, the children still read, even if it's the cheats website that gives them then answers to all the eBook's interactivity puzzles.