Hint: American Telephone and Telegraph Company officially transferred full ownership of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to Southwestern Bell Corporation on January 1, 1984.
By that rationale, IBM isn't IBM because it's run by different people than when it was founded. Likewise, I'm not the person in my driver's license photo because cell turnover has rendered an almost completely new person.
In other words, they bought AT&T, they market themselves as AT&T, and they behave like AT&T. What's that saying about a duck?
Impose some ridiculous punishment? Senate hearings are a joke. They're nothing but a show to make it appear like they're doing something. At best they draw attention to an issue, but in reality they don't hold hearings on anything unless it already has the full attention of the national media.
It's not a red herring. Few would dispute that judges already have the powers enumerated in SOPA/PROTECT IP. The problem is that these bills would allow seizure *without* judicial oversight. Merely being accused would be enough.
Yes, the judge in this case was overbroad in his decision, but that doesn't mean it will stand, or that it was a bad decision on the face of it. Although why anyone outside of US jurisdiction would bother to challenge the ruling is another question entirely.
Maybe. There's some merit to the idea that any high school graduate, let alone one who was accepted to a college, should be aware of the correct form of "probably." But at the same time, this is exactly how language evolves, and losing words or creating new forms isn't really as terrible as some people would have us believe. We still manage to communicate without archaic terms such as "dost," "thou," "wherefore," "whosoever," etc., and the replacements for those words were slang and/or "improper" when they emerged as well, but are standard today. Fighting the evolution of language is as much of a wasted effort as fighting any other sort of sweeping change. The important thing is to be able to distinguish between people who are riding a wave of change, and those who are simply incompetent. If the only mistake in his communication was using "prolly," in lieu of "probably," then he prolly falls into the former category.
Obviously the responsible thing to do is to give the vendor time to fix the vulnerability. I propose the researcher submit his findings to God and wait 5-7 days for a response before full disclosure.
Yeah, yeah, lawyers are shysters, but mine's still at the office from 8AM to 8PM every weekday and most weekends, plus I have his cell, so there's that. Also many doctors and small business owners regularly work 80+ hour weeks. My wife's co-workers in mortgage banking at one of the top 3 banks also pull loads of overtime, though my wife refuses to and takes a lot of flak for it, both from her boss and her co-workers.
And personally, I've worked two full time jobs at once before. Not fun at all, but I did what was necessary, though I quit the lower paying job the day my house sold. I'm not one of those people whose work is his life, but those people do exist, and they tend to spend every waking minute working.
Ha. Many professionals work 80 hour weeks at a minimum as a standard. Of course they're much better compensated than the typical software developer, so that might keep their motivation a bit higher.
Still, I've never had to work overtime to meet a deadline except in a rare event where a project was assigned at the last minute, so I agree that last minute overtime pushes are indicative of poor management, be it incompetence or willful malice (working employees beyond what is reasonable, knowing full well their workload is too high, to make your department or team look more productive than the other guy's).
Right, because the European mobile market is run by quasi-government corporations with heavy regulation?
Mobile prices aren't lower in Europe because of government regulations; they're lower because there's healthy competition and a public that's not gullible enough to pay three times as much for a lower level of service. Americans in particular are very bad at doing without something until they *need* it, or until it's reasonable to buy-in. Instead, they want to keep up with (or try to outdo) the Joneses and buy-in as soon as they can possibly afford to (or sooner, yay credit!), and prices stay high as a result.
They have commercials with banging hot chicks again?! The only ones I've seen have some gap-toothed, knock-kneed chick with weird lips in a pink dress.
Your correction of the GP is appropriate, but if I can interject, the question isn't just "What did the founders envision?" but "Was it correct, and does it still apply?"
To take their words as gospel is no less a religion than any other. They had many insights, but they had faulty reasoning and prediction of consequences as well, just as any human. They had personal agendas and ulterior motives just like anyone else. They realized this, and made the Constitution amendable, so that if and when their theories weren't borne out in practice, they could be corrected.
There's no question the government has been extended beyond what was originally envisioned, but that doesn't, in and of itself, mean that such extensions are necessarily harmful, despite what some of the founding fathers may have believed. Moreover, I don't think it's worthwhile to argue whether bigger government or smaller government is "better," especially without some useful metric, but rather to address issues individually. Small or big government isn't, or shouldn't be, a goal in and of itself; it's just the means of achieving a goal.
Not to mention that as the population grows, the raw number of ham operators will grow as well even if the percentage of the population stays the same.
And 700k, while a large number by itself, is only 0.2% of the population, 1 in 500, on the same scale as the number of people with Parkinson's in the US.
There's a bakery here that only sells cupcakes, and they sell for $6/ea regardless of quantity, which works out to $72/doz, so I'd say $40/doz isn't bad. Keep in mind also that these are luxury items, not grocery store fare. It's like comparing the price of a cake from a wedding cake shop to a sheet cake from the grocery store... the prices are going to be highly disparate, but so is the quality.
Exactly my point. Freedom of assembly online wouldn't legitimize DDOS and more than it legitimizes blocking access to clinics. If using sarcasm to make a point is trolling, then sure, I was trolling, but I'm pretty sure that's not what it means.
They're helping lots of people by lowering their bills. Apple and RIM may be helped by their own actions as well, but that's a far cry from saying they're the only ones who benefit.
Pedant point: the term "piracy" has been co-opted by the Entertainment and Media industry from its original meaning which referred to crimes against the Person and Ship committed on the High Seas.
Pedantic counterpoint: "Piracy" has carried that meaning for over 300 years now. It's a bit late to worry about it now.
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I didn't say it was lossy compression, I was just warning against it... though judging by your response, it may already be too late!
And where did SBC come from?
Hint: American Telephone and Telegraph Company officially transferred full ownership of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to Southwestern Bell Corporation on January 1, 1984.
Warning: Monkeying with lossy compression for human genomic data may lead to monkeys.
By that rationale, IBM isn't IBM because it's run by different people than when it was founded. Likewise, I'm not the person in my driver's license photo because cell turnover has rendered an almost completely new person.
In other words, they bought AT&T, they market themselves as AT&T, and they behave like AT&T. What's that saying about a duck?
Impose some ridiculous punishment? Senate hearings are a joke. They're nothing but a show to make it appear like they're doing something. At best they draw attention to an issue, but in reality they don't hold hearings on anything unless it already has the full attention of the national media.
I think you'll find most people already have some random card next to their graphics card.
AKA rand() without srand()
It's not a red herring. Few would dispute that judges already have the powers enumerated in SOPA/PROTECT IP. The problem is that these bills would allow seizure *without* judicial oversight. Merely being accused would be enough.
Yes, the judge in this case was overbroad in his decision, but that doesn't mean it will stand, or that it was a bad decision on the face of it. Although why anyone outside of US jurisdiction would bother to challenge the ruling is another question entirely.
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath for the commercialization of that one.
Maybe. There's some merit to the idea that any high school graduate, let alone one who was accepted to a college, should be aware of the correct form of "probably." But at the same time, this is exactly how language evolves, and losing words or creating new forms isn't really as terrible as some people would have us believe. We still manage to communicate without archaic terms such as "dost," "thou," "wherefore," "whosoever," etc., and the replacements for those words were slang and/or "improper" when they emerged as well, but are standard today. Fighting the evolution of language is as much of a wasted effort as fighting any other sort of sweeping change. The important thing is to be able to distinguish between people who are riding a wave of change, and those who are simply incompetent. If the only mistake in his communication was using "prolly," in lieu of "probably," then he prolly falls into the former category.
What is a figurative surprise?
That is a bit misleading, because it sounds like someone making $350k is not a millionaire, but
A) that's $1M every three years, not every 20 years for the average family, and
B) $350k in 1955 is 2.9 MILLION in 2011 dollars.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=350000&year1=1955&year2=2011
Obviously the responsible thing to do is to give the vendor time to fix the vulnerability. I propose the researcher submit his findings to God and wait 5-7 days for a response before full disclosure.
Yeah, yeah, lawyers are shysters, but mine's still at the office from 8AM to 8PM every weekday and most weekends, plus I have his cell, so there's that. Also many doctors and small business owners regularly work 80+ hour weeks. My wife's co-workers in mortgage banking at one of the top 3 banks also pull loads of overtime, though my wife refuses to and takes a lot of flak for it, both from her boss and her co-workers.
And personally, I've worked two full time jobs at once before. Not fun at all, but I did what was necessary, though I quit the lower paying job the day my house sold. I'm not one of those people whose work is his life, but those people do exist, and they tend to spend every waking minute working.
Ha. Many professionals work 80 hour weeks at a minimum as a standard. Of course they're much better compensated than the typical software developer, so that might keep their motivation a bit higher.
Still, I've never had to work overtime to meet a deadline except in a rare event where a project was assigned at the last minute, so I agree that last minute overtime pushes are indicative of poor management, be it incompetence or willful malice (working employees beyond what is reasonable, knowing full well their workload is too high, to make your department or team look more productive than the other guy's).
Right, because the European mobile market is run by quasi-government corporations with heavy regulation?
Mobile prices aren't lower in Europe because of government regulations; they're lower because there's healthy competition and a public that's not gullible enough to pay three times as much for a lower level of service. Americans in particular are very bad at doing without something until they *need* it, or until it's reasonable to buy-in. Instead, they want to keep up with (or try to outdo) the Joneses and buy-in as soon as they can possibly afford to (or sooner, yay credit!), and prices stay high as a result.
They have commercials with banging hot chicks again?! The only ones I've seen have some gap-toothed, knock-kneed chick with weird lips in a pink dress.
Your correction of the GP is appropriate, but if I can interject, the question isn't just "What did the founders envision?" but "Was it correct, and does it still apply?"
To take their words as gospel is no less a religion than any other. They had many insights, but they had faulty reasoning and prediction of consequences as well, just as any human. They had personal agendas and ulterior motives just like anyone else. They realized this, and made the Constitution amendable, so that if and when their theories weren't borne out in practice, they could be corrected.
There's no question the government has been extended beyond what was originally envisioned, but that doesn't, in and of itself, mean that such extensions are necessarily harmful, despite what some of the founding fathers may have believed. Moreover, I don't think it's worthwhile to argue whether bigger government or smaller government is "better," especially without some useful metric, but rather to address issues individually. Small or big government isn't, or shouldn't be, a goal in and of itself; it's just the means of achieving a goal.
Not to mention that as the population grows, the raw number of ham operators will grow as well even if the percentage of the population stays the same.
And 700k, while a large number by itself, is only 0.2% of the population, 1 in 500, on the same scale as the number of people with Parkinson's in the US.
There's a bakery here that only sells cupcakes, and they sell for $6/ea regardless of quantity, which works out to $72/doz, so I'd say $40/doz isn't bad. Keep in mind also that these are luxury items, not grocery store fare. It's like comparing the price of a cake from a wedding cake shop to a sheet cake from the grocery store... the prices are going to be highly disparate, but so is the quality.
Exactly my point. Freedom of assembly online wouldn't legitimize DDOS and more than it legitimizes blocking access to clinics. If using sarcasm to make a point is trolling, then sure, I was trolling, but I'm pretty sure that's not what it means.
You mean the same way freedom of assembly legitimized blocking access to abortion clinics?
No, I'm saying I oppose undue influence in politics.
They're helping lots of people by lowering their bills. Apple and RIM may be helped by their own actions as well, but that's a far cry from saying they're the only ones who benefit.
Pedant point: the term "piracy" has been co-opted by the Entertainment and Media industry from its original meaning which referred to crimes against the Person and Ship committed on the High Seas.
Pedantic counterpoint: "Piracy" has carried that meaning for over 300 years now. It's a bit late to worry about it now.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pirate&allowed_in_frame=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#.22Piracy.22