It definitely works, but will probably be made not to work as soon as Google hears of it and you know they read/.
Still its a cool idea and honestly I would pay a very small fee (as in no more than $2/month) to have a 1GB online drive that was dependable. But I always have my little Sandisk MiniCruzer 512MB so its not like I really need it.
Certainly this is a long way off but I fail to see the real business sense in creating a service that can only be afforded by those with realisiticly 30 million or more in the bank. 200,000 is a lot of money. Its still a factor of 100 less than what the last group of space tourists paid though albeit for much more of a trip.
The only business sense I see in this is that it paves the way for space exploitation and they will own a lot of the patents and have most of the experience. When it becomes feasible to start mining asteroids or generating solar power in space to be transmitted back to earth (ala sim city2000) or sending hazardous waste hurtling towards the sun it will all payoff until then lets remember that the 10 million dollar prize came at a cost of about 30 million dollars of Paul Allen's loot.
Seems like Honeywell just waited for their patent to get used and now wants to sue everyone for using what they thought they had the right to. Perhaps a good patent reform would require that to be liable for patent infringment one had to have knowledge that a patent was being violated otherwise the patent holder is only entitled to future royalties.
One of the amazing things about rockets is that they can travel from one place on earth to any other in about 30 minutes. Wouldn't it make more business sense to start a rocket travel system. Even after slowing down the descent for safety reasons you could still probably go from NY to Tokyo in an hour or two.
IANAL, but I would have a lawyer draft a letter stating that if they do not identify the patent in question then you will assume that this is an extortion scam and report it to the authorities.
How about ending the patentability of improving on original ideas. That would basically end the practice of patenting a "Method for using standard ip protocols and authentication systems to do XXXXX in order to make money."
NO MORE BUSINESS MODEL PATENTS. A patent should have to be an actual invention that works.
Depending on what state you live in it may be illegal. Especially since it is in the bathroom. I would report it to the police and approach a civil attorney about the issue as well.
Kerry has mainly been critizing the "backdoor" draft of stop-loss (ie your committment is up but we are not gonna let you go home yet) and ready reserve (discharged enlistees and retired officers who have not even gone for a training session in years)
Ironically, whereas National Guard units and the regular military are being sent to Iraq, the Vietnam war was criticized for exactly the opposite reason. In Vietnam, many regular troops and to a much greater extent National Guardsmen were excluded from Vietnam service, in part because at the time draftees mostly 18-20 could not vote. The idea was to keep regular military and NG at home and fight the war with poor kids who could not escape the draft so as to keep public opinion for the war. Vietnam was perhaps the biggest lie in the history of the US government. The proof that has been declassified over the years and the famous "Pentagon Papers" showed without a doubt that five successive administrations lied about Vietname from the beginning. The papers show that as early as the Kennedy administration it was known that winning in Vietnam would require no less than 500,000 troops and would cost 50,000-75,000 American lives.
It makes me wonder what the current classified reports say we need to win in Iraq. Probably 10 years, about 200,000 troops there at a time with about 10,000-15,000 casualties expected. That is just my guess but it coincides with the excalating violence which is already going at over 1000 kia per year.
We get to laugh cause jobs are being outsourced from India as its economy improves to countries where people will work for even less. In 50 years we may reach a point where there is at least something resembling a middle class in nearly every country. On the other hand we will probably all be working for a single megacorp/world government that lojacks us at birth.
If you are reading this, it is because I am dead. And in a very short while, you will be too... I have arranged for my estate to be liquidated and the proceeds given to someone eminently qualified to kill you. You will know fear, and you will know pain and then you will die.
The problem is that they are profiting by assisting the chinese government in oppressing its own people.
A company can operate in an oppressive country and obey its laws, but it is a whole different story when a company volunteers to help the government hurt its own people and censor their access to information. The US has a distinct interest in forming a democratized China. Because a totalitarian China is probably our most dangerous adversary right now and they are only getting stronger. By selling China technology that can be used to tighten its grip on power Google and many other US companies are working against the strategic interests of the US. Corporations operate at the sufferance of the governments in the countries they operate in, they are not states unto themselves and they have no right to conduct their own foriegn policy.
They did not turn it on? That is perhaps the worst possible idea ever (on the ATM operators end of things) but you do seem to know more than I about it. So I can just tap the line between those supermarket atms and the bank and get everyones info? I did recently become aware that the maintenence access on some of those atms comes up from pressing two of the buttons at once and the password is just a short pin number.
Since online gambling is more or less illegal in the United States, any contract you enter with the casino could be void since it is against public policy, depending on what state you are in and where the actual casino is located. I think some vegas/AC casinos have bribed their way to the rights of being the only online casinos allowed.
ATMS are actually pretty secure. On just about every ATM and about to be required by all the major banks and card issuers the pin pad hashes your pin in hardware and even the ATM itself never sees your plaintext pin.
I also oppose the drug war and I generally vote along the lines of that issue where possible. I don't support the expensive social programs that the green party proposes.
I was planning to vote for Kerry or Alfred E Neuman (whats the difference?). I want Kerry to win over Bush but being in MD, its pretty likely that Kerry will murder him here so I may as well vote my conscience.
I was not too sure about you since I had not seen any Ads and have not been very active in watching the LP as opposed to last election when I voted for Spear Lancaster for governor.
Your views on the unnecesary protection afforded to corporations is a 100% match for my view on the matter. In fact your words were almost precisley the same that I wrote in an essay recently arguing that corporations are by nature unnaccountable sociopaths.
I think that most skilled and/or experienced workers especially IT people would benefit overall if they were all contractors. Companies no longer value employees or return their loyalty. A full time employee is probably more vulnerable to a layoff than a contracted employee is at this point. Companies are also dropping most of the health and pension/401k benefits that go to employees because they are expensive and the price break most small to medium companies get on bulk plans are very small now.
Contract work is the only way to go. I don't even want a regular job. I want a contract.
The cable companies have an 80% profit margin in areas where there is only one cable provider. Why do you think digital cable with all the movie channels pushes you up to over $100 a month. That is a $100 just to let your box decrypt a signal they are sending out anyways. Plus they rent the boxes out at 15-20/month as compared to analog boxes they rent out for $5/month. It does not cost them anything near that. Why do you think, some months you can get a deal that gives you a bunch of premium channels for free and other months they want $30+ per month for STARZ. Its because it really does not cost them anything but what they guarantee to the network, so if they set the price low in a promotion it is probably because they are not selling enough of a network to cover their agreements with the network to pay for a minimum number of subscibers.
Take the gun out with the kid and explain that it is not a toy its a dangerous weapon. Then shoot his stuffed bunny into a thousand pieces. He will never want to touch the gun.
As to a commercial deletion feature. I will settle for a gain detector (in case you had not noticed commercials are significantly louder than the program itself) that creates a seperate chapter for commercial breaks that can be skipped easily if the viewer desires. That will satisfy the broadcasters that the commercials are being seen, while letting the users do what they have every right to do, skip the ads on recordings.
You assume I am a bill collector. I am not. I am not a lender either. I am a small business owner. I am an independent contractor and freelance tech. When people do not pay me it hurts. I have no problem with people who have come on hard times and can't afford to pay but for every person who honestly can't afford to send x (usually not more than a few hundred dollars up to maybe a thousand or two for a business) there are 3 people who think that they can stiff me and get away with it. Thats why although it takes a fair amount of time out of my life and is a hassle, I am almost always willing to take the debtor to small claims court rather than accept a reduced amount because someone (usually another small business owner) just does not want to pay the bill. If I accept reduced amounts or no payment at all I invite more abuses. I learned this the hard way. Some of my former clients would argue about a small bill and I would give them a reduction in the past. Now that I do bigger jobs some of those same clients (now with larger needs) want the same kinds of after-the-fact discounts. I can no longer oblige them. It costs very little except my own time to sue in small claims court and its easy to win when you are in the right and that is what I tell people who argue about the bill. Pay or I will sue you and get it anyways plus court costs and a lot of wasted time.
I have no sympathy for credit card companies that lend out money at extortionary interest rates of 19-29.9% to people who probably don't have the income to pay off a ten thousand dollar credit card.
A man is sueing because there is a secret law/rule that requires the airlines to check id before you can board a plane. Remember a few years ago when you did not have to show id to board the plane?
The government is arguing that this secret rule should be discussed in a secret court, so secret that the plaintiff in the case will not be allowed to hear the government's argument.
Are you scared yet or do you want to wait till the news starts referring to Bush as "Great Leader". Isn't bad enough they refer to him as the President when he lost the election.
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It definitely works, but will probably be made not to work as soon as Google hears of it and you know they read /.
Still its a cool idea and honestly I would pay a very small fee (as in no more than $2/month) to have a 1GB online drive that was dependable. But I always have my little Sandisk MiniCruzer 512MB so its not like I really need it.
Certainly this is a long way off but I fail to see the real business sense in creating a service that can only be afforded by those with realisiticly 30 million or more in the bank. 200,000 is a lot of money. Its still a factor of 100 less than what the last group of space tourists paid though albeit for much more of a trip.
The only business sense I see in this is that it paves the way for space exploitation and they will own a lot of the patents and have most of the experience. When it becomes feasible to start mining asteroids or generating solar power in space to be transmitted back to earth (ala sim city2000) or sending hazardous waste hurtling towards the sun it will all payoff until then lets remember that the 10 million dollar prize came at a cost of about 30 million dollars of Paul Allen's loot.
Seems like Honeywell just waited for their patent to get used and now wants to sue everyone for using what they thought they had the right to. Perhaps a good patent reform would require that to be liable for patent infringment one had to have knowledge that a patent was being violated otherwise the patent holder is only entitled to future royalties.
One of the amazing things about rockets is that they can travel from one place on earth to any other in about 30 minutes. Wouldn't it make more business sense to start a rocket travel system. Even after slowing down the descent for safety reasons you could still probably go from NY to Tokyo in an hour or two.
IANAL, but I would have a lawyer draft a letter stating that if they do not identify the patent in question then you will assume that this is an extortion scam and report it to the authorities.
How about ending the patentability of improving on original ideas. That would basically end the practice of patenting a "Method for using standard ip protocols and authentication systems to do XXXXX in order to make money."
NO MORE BUSINESS MODEL PATENTS. A patent should have to be an actual invention that works.
Depending on what state you live in it may be illegal. Especially since it is in the bathroom. I would report it to the police and approach a civil attorney about the issue as well.
Kerry has mainly been critizing the "backdoor" draft of stop-loss (ie your committment is up but we are not gonna let you go home yet) and ready reserve (discharged enlistees and retired officers who have not even gone for a training session in years)
Ironically, whereas National Guard units and the regular military are being sent to Iraq, the Vietnam war was criticized for exactly the opposite reason. In Vietnam, many regular troops and to a much greater extent National Guardsmen were excluded from Vietnam service, in part because at the time draftees mostly 18-20 could not vote. The idea was to keep regular military and NG at home and fight the war with poor kids who could not escape the draft so as to keep public opinion for the war. Vietnam was perhaps the biggest lie in the history of the US government. The proof that has been declassified over the years and the famous "Pentagon Papers" showed without a doubt that five successive administrations lied about Vietname from the beginning. The papers show that as early as the Kennedy administration it was known that winning in Vietnam would require no less than 500,000 troops and would cost 50,000-75,000 American lives.
It makes me wonder what the current classified reports say we need to win in Iraq. Probably 10 years, about 200,000 troops there at a time with about 10,000-15,000 casualties expected. That is just my guess but it coincides with the excalating violence which is already going at over 1000 kia per year.
Its 7.3 Trillion not 73.
We get to laugh cause jobs are being outsourced from India as its economy improves to countries where people will work for even less. In 50 years we may reach a point where there is at least something resembling a middle class in nearly every country. On the other hand we will probably all be working for a single megacorp/world government that lojacks us at birth.
Dear XXXX,
If you are reading this, it is because I am dead. And in a very short while, you will be too... I have arranged for my estate to be liquidated and the proceeds given to someone eminently qualified to kill you. You will know fear, and you will know pain and then you will die.
The problem is that they are profiting by assisting the chinese government in oppressing its own people.
A company can operate in an oppressive country and obey its laws, but it is a whole different story when a company volunteers to help the government hurt its own people and censor their access to information. The US has a distinct interest in forming a democratized China. Because a totalitarian China is probably our most dangerous adversary right now and they are only getting stronger. By selling China technology that can be used to tighten its grip on power Google and many other US companies are working against the strategic interests of the US. Corporations operate at the sufferance of the governments in the countries they operate in, they are not states unto themselves and they have no right to conduct their own foriegn policy.
They did not turn it on? That is perhaps the worst possible idea ever (on the ATM operators end of things) but you do seem to know more than I about it. So I can just tap the line between those supermarket atms and the bank and get everyones info? I did recently become aware that the maintenence access on some of those atms comes up from pressing two of the buttons at once and the password is just a short pin number.
Since online gambling is more or less illegal in the United States, any contract you enter with the casino could be void since it is against public policy, depending on what state you are in and where the actual casino is located. I think some vegas/AC casinos have bribed their way to the rights of being the only online casinos allowed.
ATMS are actually pretty secure. On just about every ATM and about to be required by all the major banks and card issuers the pin pad hashes your pin in hardware and even the ATM itself never sees your plaintext pin.
I also oppose the drug war and I generally vote along the lines of that issue where possible. I don't support the expensive social programs that the green party proposes.
I was planning to vote for Kerry or Alfred E Neuman (whats the difference?). I want Kerry to win over Bush but being in MD, its pretty likely that Kerry will murder him here so I may as well vote my conscience.
I was not too sure about you since I had not seen any Ads and have not been very active in watching the LP as opposed to last election when I voted for Spear Lancaster for governor.
Your views on the unnecesary protection afforded to corporations is a 100% match for my view on the matter. In fact your words were almost precisley the same that I wrote in an essay recently arguing that corporations are by nature unnaccountable sociopaths.
I will be voting Badnarik for President.
I think that most skilled and/or experienced workers especially IT people would benefit overall if they were all contractors. Companies no longer value employees or return their loyalty. A full time employee is probably more vulnerable to a layoff than a contracted employee is at this point. Companies are also dropping most of the health and pension/401k benefits that go to employees because they are expensive and the price break most small to medium companies get on bulk plans are very small now.
Contract work is the only way to go. I don't even want a regular job. I want a contract.
A lot of summer camps, both day and sleepaway have riflery. Knowing how to use a gun and how it works is the first step to knowing it is not a toy.
The cable companies have an 80% profit margin in areas where there is only one cable provider. Why do you think digital cable with all the movie channels pushes you up to over $100 a month. That is a $100 just to let your box decrypt a signal they are sending out anyways. Plus they rent the boxes out at 15-20/month as compared to analog boxes they rent out for $5/month. It does not cost them anything near that. Why do you think, some months you can get a deal that gives you a bunch of premium channels for free and other months they want $30+ per month for STARZ. Its because it really does not cost them anything but what they guarantee to the network, so if they set the price low in a promotion it is probably because they are not selling enough of a network to cover their agreements with the network to pay for a minimum number of subscibers.
Take the gun out with the kid and explain that it is not a toy its a dangerous weapon. Then shoot his stuffed bunny into a thousand pieces. He will never want to touch the gun.
Thats just cause the airport did not want their weird ISO standards CLNS packets floating around the air for people to choke on.
As to a commercial deletion feature. I will settle for a gain detector (in case you had not noticed commercials are significantly louder than the program itself) that creates a seperate chapter for commercial breaks that can be skipped easily if the viewer desires. That will satisfy the broadcasters that the commercials are being seen, while letting the users do what they have every right to do, skip the ads on recordings.
You assume I am a bill collector. I am not. I am not a lender either. I am a small business owner. I am an independent contractor and freelance tech. When people do not pay me it hurts. I have no problem with people who have come on hard times and can't afford to pay but for every person who honestly can't afford to send x (usually not more than a few hundred dollars up to maybe a thousand or two for a business) there are 3 people who think that they can stiff me and get away with it. Thats why although it takes a fair amount of time out of my life and is a hassle, I am almost always willing to take the debtor to small claims court rather than accept a reduced amount because someone (usually another small business owner) just does not want to pay the bill. If I accept reduced amounts or no payment at all I invite more abuses. I learned this the hard way. Some of my former clients would argue about a small bill and I would give them a reduction in the past. Now that I do bigger jobs some of those same clients (now with larger needs) want the same kinds of after-the-fact discounts. I can no longer oblige them. It costs very little except my own time to sue in small claims court and its easy to win when you are in the right and that is what I tell people who argue about the bill. Pay or I will sue you and get it anyways plus court costs and a lot of wasted time.
I have no sympathy for credit card companies that lend out money at extortionary interest rates of 19-29.9% to people who probably don't have the income to pay off a ten thousand dollar credit card.
A man is sueing because there is a secret law/rule that requires the airlines to check id before you can board a plane. Remember a few years ago when you did not have to show id to board the plane?
The government is arguing that this secret rule should be discussed in a secret court, so secret that the plaintiff in the case will not be allowed to hear the government's argument.
Are you scared yet or do you want to wait till the news starts referring to Bush as "Great Leader". Isn't bad enough they refer to him as the President when he lost the election.