Industry has been very successful at turning back regulation at the federal level with Bush in power, as you say. Hooray for industry. Soon, though, they're going to be asking themselves whether they'd be better off with reasonable federal regulation, as opposed to an emerging patchwork of tougher regulations from states that are increasingly forced to assume responsibilities that the federal government is abrogating. You may be hearing the sound of the pendulum swinging...
The ironic thing is that the whole Federal regulation thing started at the request of industry as a method to standardize requirements across the nation so they didn't have to deal with a patchwork of regulation. What industry in general would like is for everyone to stop caring, they think they can accomplish that through legislation. Their mistake is being short-sited and not realizing that the regulation will exist anyway, just at a lower level and that patchwork of regulation will be much harder to deal with than even tough federal laws. The only other option is to try to take away state rights, which I don't think anyone can or should be able to do.
Car emission laws are the example, federal inaction over the last 20 years or so has caused some states to step forward. Originally it was only California and the manufacturers thought they could just produce two version and avoid the conditions, now that other states are started into the same game as California the manufacturers are screaming bloody murder, when in fact they should have been screaming for tougher Federal legislation that would have negated the need for state action. It's difficult for public companies to come to the realization that tougher standards may in fact mean higher profits. All these additions and extra expenses we toss into automobiles raises their profits because they take a margin on all of it (that is if they run their business right).
And after providing proof that they were in fact being unfairly discriminated against because they were ablaze, the Canadian court would overrule the intervention of Customs and Immigration. Not only that but the PM would soundly condemn the practice of discrimination based on current fire affinity but they would pass a rule allowing admittance based on asylum for those who are currently ablaze. After which the major airports would be flooded with arriving foreigners who would promptly purchase a bottle of flammable substance and promptly douse themselves in it and upon being called for their interview with customs would promptly alight themselves.
She shouldn't lose her job. That's a BIG punishment reserved for much more heinous actions. Although she made a mistake, and is a prick she didn't arrest and imprison the child, the police did. Her punishment should be on the job probation and mandatory training on counseling and empathy with some community service thrown in. She needs extensive training on handling disciplinary measures appropriately and actually listening to children instead of assuming every single one is liar. The kid had never been in trouble before, that alone should have gotten her attention that maybe just maybe he was telling the truth and it required further investigation before she assumed guilt.
It's amazing to me the number of posts that A. Say the EULA is unenforceable or B. Say Software licensing doesn't exist, you are actually buying a product, or C. Claim no one abides by the EULA.
In the US, EULA's were given legal weight by Congress a number of years ago, there is a big chunk of Case Law that backs up that congressional action. Second, without EULA applicability the GPL isn't worth a dime as it IS an EULA. You don't sign a contract you don't own the software, you have a license to use it, that license is the GPL. It's no different than anything Microsoft does, except they actually present the opportunity to read the EULA when you run software the first time, how much GPL software presents the opportunity to read the contract you are agreeing to by using the software? Third, the GPL and Microsoft's EULA are nothing more than a contract to use the software, they have different terms, but without that contract you have no legal right to use the software. Again, the GPL and the Microsoft EULA are no different in this respect. Fourth, contract law governs EULA's, if you don't agree to the EULA then you are can't use the software anymore, if you breach the EULA you are liable for Statutory damages or damages determined by a Jury.
The fact is, if you don't like the terms of your license with Microsoft, DON'T USE THE SOFTWARE. If more people voted with their feet and started using Linux exclusively then Microsoft WOULD feel the pinch financially. But when you all act like children claiming you don't have to abide by contracts then no one will take you seriously, as you are acting like nothing more than a spoiled child.
Microsoft included the virtualization clause in Vista for a reason that only they know. But it's part of the contract so if you actually feel you need to abide the law and respect other peoples work then you won't use the versions of Vista prohibited from running in a VM if you intend to run Vista in a VM, and this had NOTHING to do with Apple all you little whiny apple children as the clause doesn't even mention apple. The likely target was VMWare and the other big VM groups.
Google also had a new power supply developed for their servers that is an order of magnitude more efficient than your standard atx power supply. Supposedly deploying it in all their data centers cut their total power consumption by 10%.
If someone really wanted to hurt the AACS system they would find and release the playback keys for the top 10 standalone players preferably after one of the formats has achieved success. If the top 10 players suddenly couldn't play the discs anymore and a lot of people had the players, the difficulty in reflashing all those players by the common public would either hurt sales SEVERELY or cause them to not revoke the players for fear of the damage it would do to the reputation of the hi def format.
So if you really want to hurt them, pull out your soldering iron and pull those keys from the standalone players.
I'm in the same boat as him and my priorities haven't shifted with the additions he made as I haven't made those additions yet although I'm probably the same age. Music prices went up at a far greater rate than inflation in the 90's, while at the same time the music industry stopped finding innovators and started focusing on creating acts from scratch that would cost them a one time fee and they would own the music after it was created. Worked great the first year I'm sure as they were still feeding off the old business model while profiting from the new. Now the old business model is gone and they found out the new one doesn't provide long term revenues (only short term). At the same time the entire industry was shifting to digital distribution and they didn't embrace the new trend because they were still trying to maximize revenue rather than maximizing sales.
The industry is dieing because of greed. The value of music has declined, the record industry has failed to realize that and readjust pricing accordingly. Because of the greed and unwillingness to adjust to the new pricing reality the industry is facing extermination by illegal distribution. When the price far exceeds the perceived value the black market will take over. It's economics 101. And that's really the end result, in the 50's-70's the record industry faced competition from locally played music, as most of the family music venues have now disappeared, they raised prices far beyond reality because they have a statutory monopoly. The internet makes illegal distribution easy and they refuse to recognize the price adjustment that is necessary. iTunes recognizes that price adjustment to a degree, but the recording industry will undoubtedly cause price adjustments that will make iTunes unsuccessful in the long term. They are determined to price themselves out of business.
Wouldn't it be easier to just take all the a/b/ab/RH- bloodtypes out back and shoot them? Afterall when everyone is O+ you won't need to worry about those two factors. It's not too terrible, about half the population would survive.
But you do let people gamble in American casinos in Vegas, Atlantic City (at times!) and certain native American reservations? Why not online? Protectionism, see?
Nice random conclusion. Why not just say it's because the space aliens that run our country don't allow it? Gambling is and ALWAYS has be ILLEGAL in about 40 of the 50 states. There are 3 states that don't allow any form of gambling, not lottery, no horses, no dogs. Because the US is a REPUBLIC, with a federal government which is traditionally run by the states, the US has ALWAYS left decisions on MORAL issues to be handled at the state level. (And whether you believe it's a moral issue or not, it IS considered a moral issue in the US).
There is no national law outlawing Prostitution, but it's still illegal everywhere in the US but two counties in Nevada. Just as in nearly 1/3 of the US you cannot purchase or own alcohol stronger than 3.2% beer. The same is true of gambling, there are very LIMITED jurisdictions where it's available. 20 years ago, that was Nevada, Atlantic City, Montana and Alaska (40 years before that it was Nevada, Montana and Alaska). Now, AFAIK Alaska has banned it,, and its now legal on the Indian reservations (only it states that have an approved form of gambling) because the courts ruled the tribal nations can't be ruled by state law, only federal (current federal law declares them a nation inside a nation), and a number of states along the Mississippi have allowed gambling on the waterfront (but still requires that it take place on a ship) simply because they couldn't stop the gambling on the riverboats (they tried extensively to block it) because the Mississippi river itself was declared outside state boundaries by the courts (there were a number of ship accidents that caused significant loss of life pushing them to make it semi-legal in the name of public safety).
Do you know what is true? Gambling by wire (telephone, telegraph, etc.) was declared illegal at the federal level ~60 years ago when there was a rise in illegal gambling by telephone controlled by the mafia. This was to ALLOW the states to have on premises gambling and to regulate it as they see fit without the worry of trying to arrest someone in another state when all you had was a phone number. A few years ago the federal government extended that law to cover the internet. You know who was the biggest proponent of that law (US casinos and native tribes), but do you know why? Because in the early 90's, probably about '93, these casinos acting in their own interest tried to get pre-approval of congress for gambling over the internet (illegal federal gaming-by-wire prison terms are long). Do you know why they tried to do this, rather than just taking the opinion that existing law didn't cover it? Because they KNEW the existing gaming by wire laws covered the internet and that just adding the clause later was just a clarification of the existing law. Lets just say the final debate made it clear that this was NEVER going to change unless we tossed every evangelical in the country into the ocean. Believe me, if gambling by wire was legal in the US the US casino community would COMPLETELY dominate the industry, the only other major players would be some of the historic casinos around the world. Antigua wouldn't even be a blip on the map.
No it's not. Cocaine is illegal in both the US and Colombia. Gambling is legal in parts of the US and in Antigua. The US created a law to make "online" gambling illegal, but no one goes to jail for going to Vegas even if gambling is illegal in their state. Therefore Antigua complains. Especially since most of their business came from the US. That's what trade organizations are all about, really.
The problem with the WTO ruling is that they are saying all gambling is the same, but it's not, not in the least. Traditional in Casino gambling follows US laws, it is regulated at the local level, it's ruled by federal laws that prohibit thieves, conv
Any Navigation system that ALLOWS the driver to interact with it while the car is in motion with anything other than voice commands is broken.
Navigation systems are MORE distracting that just about any other activity, I would take someone putting on makeup and talking on the phone as three times safer than a driver trying to input a address or navigate a map while driving. This is for one simple reason, using the navigation requires full attention, and often all of your concentration and long hard visual assessments of whether the information is accurate. When you are that focused on something everything else moves so far out of the brain that driving is the LAST thing anyone should be doing in addition to trying to look up an address. This is why cellphones can be dangerous, as the conversation can require more concentration than driving but it's not always the case, it really depends on the person and the conversation. Operating a Nav system effects EVERYONE, hence any system that allows the DRIVER to use the system while the car is in motion is BROKEN and in fact you should get a ticket and your car should be towed and the navigation system removed and destroyed.
Any interface that requires that you keep looking at is broken in my eyes. A couple switches and a knob or two for control of the climate control system should be all there is, it should NEVER be operated by a constantly changing touchscreen. Every time your eyes are off the road is an accident waiting to happen. Everyone does something stupid every now and then while driving, accidents are usually easily avoidable if the other person is paying attention, its when you combine a stupid action with inattention (fiddling with something in car, or talking on the phone or just plain zombied out) that you get an accident. Nav systems fall into both of those categories, they are terribly dangerous.
Fortunately the Nav system in my car is smart enough to lock the driver out, sure I know how to disable that, but I don't because I think it's a VERY important safety feature.
Although the new emulator may be able to run Vista, you can't under Vista's license run Vista as a virtual OS. With one exception, Vista Ultimate. So if you wanna run Vista on that Apple computer you better be prepared to pay the highest Microsoft tax you've ever paid. (Vista Ultimate has an MSRP of $500).
Again, the Microsoft License for Vista excludes running the OS in a virtulized environment under another OS unless you buy Vista Ultimate.
Kinda, the contract exists at the sole discretion of the minor. The minor can void the contract at his will for any reason, for this reason it's usually called a void contract. But this doesn't go the other way, if the Minor wishes to enforce the conract they can.
I've always found it interesting that when an article comes out about how the traditional leaders in cellular and wireless technology also have governments that have ALWAYS had strong funding of communication technology, that this is first a surprise and second some indictment of the US in general.
Not only that but the Euro-wienies and elitists from other countries come out of the woodwork and try to lecture people in the US on topics ranging from government to their general superiority. What the actual reality is is that the US still performs more research and development (in dollars) than every other nation on earth combined and the US also provides more breakthroughs in science on whole than all the rest of the world combined and there are more scientists devoted to basic research and development than any other country on a per capita basis.
Yea, we know Bush is a fvcking retard, yes we are going to be rid of him in 2008 and possibly even sooner. But NONE of that has ANYTHING to do with basic research and development. Yes, the US has been exporting a lot of basic manufacturing. No, that isn't relevant to the US lead in Research and Development because even if we don't build it, we invented it, our engineers perfected it, our banks finance it and all the executives and most of the white collar jobs are in the US. Ever seen an article where China complains about being only basic manufacturing with no higher level sustainable jobs?
Do you realize with high fuel prices China's advantage as a basic manufacturer will evaporate when their wages move beyond slave rates, in that high fuel and transport costs will hurt all globalization in basic blue collar jobs. And for all the European's trash talk, lets not forget that 90% of the worlds hot zones these days, including Iraq, Palestine, and Iran, tie back to what European colonialization (primarily British) for the previous 300 years has done to the world.
Many slashdotters seem surprised this is happening, comparing it to any company that sues its customers. They are ignoring the fact that government purchasing is different from a private customer purchasing a product. Whereas, a private customer can make a decision based on any arbritary criteria (heh, that sales lady sure is cute...), government agencies are suppose to be neutral. They define the criteria, and pick the best alternative, i.e., the one that best satisfies the criteria. The criteria must be fully disclosed to all participants, and all participates must be given the same information. Any deviations from this process can lead to a lawsuit. Right or wrong, that is what Diebolt is claiming.
That isn't what they are claiming. In fact they have ACKNOWLEDGED that the process was operated completely within the selection guidelines and administered fairly by the state agency involved. What they are complaining about is that they weren't selected because THEY thought they had it wrapped up. And that's it, the whole basis of the suit is they thought they would win and they didn't.
As the process undoubtedly required an arbitrary and personal opinion of the different machines by the disabled organization that participated in the selection (ie the people that would actually be using the machines), and that this selection procedure was detailed completely in the RFP, they now think that those people made a mistake and actually should have selected them.
So in fact, they ARE suing for not selecting them, in a process that they ADMIT was fair, free of corruption, and administered under the guidelines of the RFP.
Why do people think that if you alter somethings DNA and then ingest said altered organism that you are somehow going to be effected by it? Eating something destroys the DNA, you don't absorb the DNA and somehow become resistant to malaria as well or part mosquito.
Now maybe the virus could change to better live in the mosquito's, and maybe because fewer mosquito's die from the virus, there will be more to spread other diseases.
But honestly how can you argue that reducing the amount of malaria carrying mosquito's is a bad thing? How can you argue that mosquito's are low on the food chain and that somehow that altered DNA is going to change something above it? Do you become part chicken every time you eat chicken? You don't absorb the DNA of what you consume, if you did we would all be long dead or changed. There are enough natural mutations that something as insignificant as altering a mosquito to be resistant to the malaria infection is ridiculous in comparison.
Again, consuming altered DNA isn't going to change you unless that altered DNA includes some new poison production system. Changing the DNA of pathogens is bad because they mutate quickly (they can go through a million generations in 6 hours) and they can share DNA with other pathogens (through mechanisms we don't understand), changing the DNA of higher organisms is NOT even remotely the same thing. Yes, I disagree with adding a poison to corn to prevent some worm because we are then ingesting that poison. I don't disagree with altering a mosquito so it's not susceptible to a pathogen and as a result won't be a carrier species for that pathogen anymore. Altering a disease carrier so it's no longer a carrier is brilliant, as the virus can't gain a foothold in the altered species it would have to evolve the natural way, not under selective pressure like antibiotics cause (a low dose environmental poison).
Imagine for a moment that they create a disease resistant mosquito, sure more of them survive because the disease is no longer is killing the mosquitoes, but the ramifications to humanity of removing the mosquito from the group of disease carriers would be astronomically beneficial. It would save millions of lives, mostly in children and the elderly and would be a dramatic health improvement in the poorer countries astride the tropical and sub-tropical latitudes. The only negative being that there are more mosquito's and those countries now need a larger supply of repellent, screens and camphor. Not only that, but without fear of diseases like Yellow fever, Malaria, and other mosquito borne illnesses, travel to those climates would be much easier for the wealthier nations that don't have resistance to those diseases.
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I take it you are quite healthy. I hope you never have to deal with a chronic disease or genetic condition that exerts itself in later life, like arthritis, so that you can go on being a smug little know it all.
Asking someone that has never had to deal with taking half a dozen drugs a day (or socialize with someone who does), just to function or even to survive what the benefits of the current research programs are is like asking a monkey not to fling poo. You don't understand, and you don't care that you don't understand. It comes from your inability to empathize.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but there has ALWAYS been a way to reverse a DMCA takedown notice, in fact the DMCA tells you how to do it as it's included in the act. The ISP isn't liable and can repost the stuff if you follow that procedure. It's along the lines of a letter back to the ISP saying that in fact the item is under YOUR copyright and you swear under penalty of perjury that it's true and you accept full liability, you also have to include all your contact information so that the organization that sent the original notice can sue you if you lied in your reply. After 15 days of receiving the second letter from you which the ISP is obligated to send back to the original complaint the ISP is free to post the information. The 15 day window allows the originator to open a court case and seek an injunction.
This program is so that when they switch off the analog signals 20 million poor people suddenly won't have Television anymore.
THIS IS A GOOD THING.
The working poor (if the class even exists anymore due to the economic policies of the last few presidential terms) and the poor can't afford $1000 for a TV or even $400 for a TV. It's a horrible idea to even conceive taking away access to the PUBLIC airwaves from everyone in the lower income brackets because there aren't affordable Digital TV's or Tuners. But that is exactly what the people in this thread talking about watching too much TV or how it's a waste of taxpayer money. It's called looking down on the lower income among us.
This Program exists to allow those that can't afford the new tuners to be able to afford them. And above all, TV is probably the only form of entertainment the poor can afford both dollar wise and time wise on anything like a regular basis.
So take you elite ideas about the poor being a subclass that doesn't need help and shove them up your ass, either that or stop jumping to conclusions about why this program even exists.
Tivo's software will be available on that Comcast box for a small monthly fee, probably right around June. No need for a new box, and it will have features even the Series 3 won't have.
The system is going to be the equivalent of Windows Embedded. Talk about it all you want but the US Navy has been transitioning for a number of Years and Windows is a perfectly stable (and even realtime) OS with the right design and implementation. It's also very secure if it's not connected to a network and no one is running unauthorized applications.
They are going to be using a highly customized kernel and base system probably the equivalent of windows embedded and security is going to limit applications. To advance fire, control, navigation and watch status systems you need a better base than a 1960 OS with little to no support and no programmers who know the system. Just by shifting to windows they can have programmers that can actually advance their knowledge and might even come into the military knowing something about the programming. And I'll also bet that Visual Studio provides a development environment that is 100000% better than what they were using.
We'd probably all prefer they use Linux as it can be better, but lets not assume that just because it's windows it sucks. There are thousands of highly important systems out there (such as ATMs) that run on windows or windows embedded and do just fine because they aren't plugged into a network, the same should be true of any defense system (especially one linked to nuclear weapons), it should NEVER be hooked up to a non-secure and controlled network.
Where did you learn your chemistry? Gasoline is HIGHLY explosive, a gallon of gasoline is equivalent to a stick of dynamite. Although slightly more difficult to explode (than vapor, only in the sense that vaporized or atomized gasoline is probably as explosive and dangerous as running around shaking a bottle of nitroglycerin) the only modification required is a confined fire and you can turn it into a HUGE explosion. Stick a sock in a gallon gasoline container light the sock and walk away, that tank will explode like dynamite. Basically the confined fire causes the tank to explode under pressure vaporizing the gasoline and igniting it simultaneously. Anything that adds a lot of oxygen to the liquid is going to create the possibility of a large explosion because in it's liquid form gasoline is highly enriched without the oxygen to complete the burn whereas high explosives contain both the constituents needed to oxidize the components.
So lets summarize, gasoline is HIGHLY explosive in all forms. It's one of the most dangerous substances we use in our daily lives. Every automobile accident where the gas tank is damaged has the possibility of an explosive combustion of the gasoline.
Your mistake was twofold. The first is that you should have requested the TrueCrypt include a kill switch in the code that would bind as a keystroke (unmount the partition and randomize a 64 char passphrase or even a script file on your desktop that would do the same), the second was your assumption that they would shoot you if you continued to type. Law enforcement has strict rules regarding the use of deadly force, failing to put your hands up or obey their commands is not one of them. You have to present a threat to them that a jury would buy in a wrongful death suit, and just about the only thing that would count (unless you were engaged in the manufacture of explosives) is presenting a weapon. Fortunately the FBI is far more trained than local law enforcement and wouldn't shoot first and ask questions later, after all they want a conviction, not a death at their hands. They would have been rough with you for refusing to do as they said, but I have no doubt they tossed your around and knelt on your head anyway.
And I would also suggest that if you are engaged in such behavior that would warrant the FBI breaking down your door you would have at least 5 dummy partitions that you would mount 5-30 minutes apart to fool them into jumping the gun, along with routine frequency scanning to identify cameras or microphones. Security in such situations only works if you are completely and certifiably paranoid.
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The ironic thing is that the whole Federal regulation thing started at the request of industry as a method to standardize requirements across the nation so they didn't have to deal with a patchwork of regulation. What industry in general would like is for everyone to stop caring, they think they can accomplish that through legislation. Their mistake is being short-sited and not realizing that the regulation will exist anyway, just at a lower level and that patchwork of regulation will be much harder to deal with than even tough federal laws. The only other option is to try to take away state rights, which I don't think anyone can or should be able to do.
Car emission laws are the example, federal inaction over the last 20 years or so has caused some states to step forward. Originally it was only California and the manufacturers thought they could just produce two version and avoid the conditions, now that other states are started into the same game as California the manufacturers are screaming bloody murder, when in fact they should have been screaming for tougher Federal legislation that would have negated the need for state action. It's difficult for public companies to come to the realization that tougher standards may in fact mean higher profits. All these additions and extra expenses we toss into automobiles raises their profits because they take a margin on all of it (that is if they run their business right).
And after providing proof that they were in fact being unfairly discriminated against because they were ablaze, the Canadian court would overrule the intervention of Customs and Immigration. Not only that but the PM would soundly condemn the practice of discrimination based on current fire affinity but they would pass a rule allowing admittance based on asylum for those who are currently ablaze. After which the major airports would be flooded with arriving foreigners who would promptly purchase a bottle of flammable substance and promptly douse themselves in it and upon being called for their interview with customs would promptly alight themselves.
She shouldn't lose her job. That's a BIG punishment reserved for much more heinous actions. Although she made a mistake, and is a prick she didn't arrest and imprison the child, the police did. Her punishment should be on the job probation and mandatory training on counseling and empathy with some community service thrown in. She needs extensive training on handling disciplinary measures appropriately and actually listening to children instead of assuming every single one is liar. The kid had never been in trouble before, that alone should have gotten her attention that maybe just maybe he was telling the truth and it required further investigation before she assumed guilt.
It's amazing to me the number of posts that A. Say the EULA is unenforceable or B. Say Software licensing doesn't exist, you are actually buying a product, or C. Claim no one abides by the EULA.
In the US, EULA's were given legal weight by Congress a number of years ago, there is a big chunk of Case Law that backs up that congressional action. Second, without EULA applicability the GPL isn't worth a dime as it IS an EULA. You don't sign a contract you don't own the software, you have a license to use it, that license is the GPL. It's no different than anything Microsoft does, except they actually present the opportunity to read the EULA when you run software the first time, how much GPL software presents the opportunity to read the contract you are agreeing to by using the software? Third, the GPL and Microsoft's EULA are nothing more than a contract to use the software, they have different terms, but without that contract you have no legal right to use the software. Again, the GPL and the Microsoft EULA are no different in this respect. Fourth, contract law governs EULA's, if you don't agree to the EULA then you are can't use the software anymore, if you breach the EULA you are liable for Statutory damages or damages determined by a Jury.
The fact is, if you don't like the terms of your license with Microsoft, DON'T USE THE SOFTWARE. If more people voted with their feet and started using Linux exclusively then Microsoft WOULD feel the pinch financially. But when you all act like children claiming you don't have to abide by contracts then no one will take you seriously, as you are acting like nothing more than a spoiled child.
Microsoft included the virtualization clause in Vista for a reason that only they know. But it's part of the contract so if you actually feel you need to abide the law and respect other peoples work then you won't use the versions of Vista prohibited from running in a VM if you intend to run Vista in a VM, and this had NOTHING to do with Apple all you little whiny apple children as the clause doesn't even mention apple. The likely target was VMWare and the other big VM groups.
Google also had a new power supply developed for their servers that is an order of magnitude more efficient than your standard atx power supply. Supposedly deploying it in all their data centers cut their total power consumption by 10%.
If someone really wanted to hurt the AACS system they would find and release the playback keys for the top 10 standalone players preferably after one of the formats has achieved success. If the top 10 players suddenly couldn't play the discs anymore and a lot of people had the players, the difficulty in reflashing all those players by the common public would either hurt sales SEVERELY or cause them to not revoke the players for fear of the damage it would do to the reputation of the hi def format.
So if you really want to hurt them, pull out your soldering iron and pull those keys from the standalone players.
I'm in the same boat as him and my priorities haven't shifted with the additions he made as I haven't made those additions yet although I'm probably the same age. Music prices went up at a far greater rate than inflation in the 90's, while at the same time the music industry stopped finding innovators and started focusing on creating acts from scratch that would cost them a one time fee and they would own the music after it was created. Worked great the first year I'm sure as they were still feeding off the old business model while profiting from the new. Now the old business model is gone and they found out the new one doesn't provide long term revenues (only short term). At the same time the entire industry was shifting to digital distribution and they didn't embrace the new trend because they were still trying to maximize revenue rather than maximizing sales.
The industry is dieing because of greed. The value of music has declined, the record industry has failed to realize that and readjust pricing accordingly. Because of the greed and unwillingness to adjust to the new pricing reality the industry is facing extermination by illegal distribution. When the price far exceeds the perceived value the black market will take over. It's economics 101. And that's really the end result, in the 50's-70's the record industry faced competition from locally played music, as most of the family music venues have now disappeared, they raised prices far beyond reality because they have a statutory monopoly. The internet makes illegal distribution easy and they refuse to recognize the price adjustment that is necessary. iTunes recognizes that price adjustment to a degree, but the recording industry will undoubtedly cause price adjustments that will make iTunes unsuccessful in the long term. They are determined to price themselves out of business.
Wouldn't it be easier to just take all the a/b/ab/RH- bloodtypes out back and shoot them? Afterall when everyone is O+ you won't need to worry about those two factors. It's not too terrible, about half the population would survive.
The only thing you get from the Red Cross when giving blood is a cookie and some OJ. The RedCross is a non-profit.
Nice random conclusion. Why not just say it's because the space aliens that run our country don't allow it? Gambling is and ALWAYS has be ILLEGAL in about 40 of the 50 states. There are 3 states that don't allow any form of gambling, not lottery, no horses, no dogs. Because the US is a REPUBLIC, with a federal government which is traditionally run by the states, the US has ALWAYS left decisions on MORAL issues to be handled at the state level. (And whether you believe it's a moral issue or not, it IS considered a moral issue in the US).
There is no national law outlawing Prostitution, but it's still illegal everywhere in the US but two counties in Nevada. Just as in nearly 1/3 of the US you cannot purchase or own alcohol stronger than 3.2% beer. The same is true of gambling, there are very LIMITED jurisdictions where it's available. 20 years ago, that was Nevada, Atlantic City, Montana and Alaska (40 years before that it was Nevada, Montana and Alaska). Now, AFAIK Alaska has banned it,, and its now legal on the Indian reservations (only it states that have an approved form of gambling) because the courts ruled the tribal nations can't be ruled by state law, only federal (current federal law declares them a nation inside a nation), and a number of states along the Mississippi have allowed gambling on the waterfront (but still requires that it take place on a ship) simply because they couldn't stop the gambling on the riverboats (they tried extensively to block it) because the Mississippi river itself was declared outside state boundaries by the courts (there were a number of ship accidents that caused significant loss of life pushing them to make it semi-legal in the name of public safety).
Do you know what is true? Gambling by wire (telephone, telegraph, etc.) was declared illegal at the federal level ~60 years ago when there was a rise in illegal gambling by telephone controlled by the mafia. This was to ALLOW the states to have on premises gambling and to regulate it as they see fit without the worry of trying to arrest someone in another state when all you had was a phone number. A few years ago the federal government extended that law to cover the internet. You know who was the biggest proponent of that law (US casinos and native tribes), but do you know why? Because in the early 90's, probably about '93, these casinos acting in their own interest tried to get pre-approval of congress for gambling over the internet (illegal federal gaming-by-wire prison terms are long). Do you know why they tried to do this, rather than just taking the opinion that existing law didn't cover it? Because they KNEW the existing gaming by wire laws covered the internet and that just adding the clause later was just a clarification of the existing law. Lets just say the final debate made it clear that this was NEVER going to change unless we tossed every evangelical in the country into the ocean. Believe me, if gambling by wire was legal in the US the US casino community would COMPLETELY dominate the industry, the only other major players would be some of the historic casinos around the world. Antigua wouldn't even be a blip on the map.
The problem with the WTO ruling is that they are saying all gambling is the same, but it's not, not in the least. Traditional in Casino gambling follows US laws, it is regulated at the local level, it's ruled by federal laws that prohibit thieves, conv
Any Navigation system that ALLOWS the driver to interact with it while the car is in motion with anything other than voice commands is broken.
Navigation systems are MORE distracting that just about any other activity, I would take someone putting on makeup and talking on the phone as three times safer than a driver trying to input a address or navigate a map while driving. This is for one simple reason, using the navigation requires full attention, and often all of your concentration and long hard visual assessments of whether the information is accurate. When you are that focused on something everything else moves so far out of the brain that driving is the LAST thing anyone should be doing in addition to trying to look up an address. This is why cellphones can be dangerous, as the conversation can require more concentration than driving but it's not always the case, it really depends on the person and the conversation. Operating a Nav system effects EVERYONE, hence any system that allows the DRIVER to use the system while the car is in motion is BROKEN and in fact you should get a ticket and your car should be towed and the navigation system removed and destroyed.
Any interface that requires that you keep looking at is broken in my eyes. A couple switches and a knob or two for control of the climate control system should be all there is, it should NEVER be operated by a constantly changing touchscreen. Every time your eyes are off the road is an accident waiting to happen. Everyone does something stupid every now and then while driving, accidents are usually easily avoidable if the other person is paying attention, its when you combine a stupid action with inattention (fiddling with something in car, or talking on the phone or just plain zombied out) that you get an accident. Nav systems fall into both of those categories, they are terribly dangerous.
Fortunately the Nav system in my car is smart enough to lock the driver out, sure I know how to disable that, but I don't because I think it's a VERY important safety feature.
Although the new emulator may be able to run Vista, you can't under Vista's license run Vista as a virtual OS. With one exception, Vista Ultimate. So if you wanna run Vista on that Apple computer you better be prepared to pay the highest Microsoft tax you've ever paid. (Vista Ultimate has an MSRP of $500).
Again, the Microsoft License for Vista excludes running the OS in a virtulized environment under another OS unless you buy Vista Ultimate.
Kinda, the contract exists at the sole discretion of the minor. The minor can void the contract at his will for any reason, for this reason it's usually called a void contract. But this doesn't go the other way, if the Minor wishes to enforce the conract they can.
I've always found it interesting that when an article comes out about how the traditional leaders in cellular and wireless technology also have governments that have ALWAYS had strong funding of communication technology, that this is first a surprise and second some indictment of the US in general.
Not only that but the Euro-wienies and elitists from other countries come out of the woodwork and try to lecture people in the US on topics ranging from government to their general superiority. What the actual reality is is that the US still performs more research and development (in dollars) than every other nation on earth combined and the US also provides more breakthroughs in science on whole than all the rest of the world combined and there are more scientists devoted to basic research and development than any other country on a per capita basis.
Yea, we know Bush is a fvcking retard, yes we are going to be rid of him in 2008 and possibly even sooner. But NONE of that has ANYTHING to do with basic research and development. Yes, the US has been exporting a lot of basic manufacturing. No, that isn't relevant to the US lead in Research and Development because even if we don't build it, we invented it, our engineers perfected it, our banks finance it and all the executives and most of the white collar jobs are in the US. Ever seen an article where China complains about being only basic manufacturing with no higher level sustainable jobs?
Do you realize with high fuel prices China's advantage as a basic manufacturer will evaporate when their wages move beyond slave rates, in that high fuel and transport costs will hurt all globalization in basic blue collar jobs. And for all the European's trash talk, lets not forget that 90% of the worlds hot zones these days, including Iraq, Palestine, and Iran, tie back to what European colonialization (primarily British) for the previous 300 years has done to the world.
That isn't what they are claiming. In fact they have ACKNOWLEDGED that the process was operated completely within the selection guidelines and administered fairly by the state agency involved. What they are complaining about is that they weren't selected because THEY thought they had it wrapped up. And that's it, the whole basis of the suit is they thought they would win and they didn't.
As the process undoubtedly required an arbitrary and personal opinion of the different machines by the disabled organization that participated in the selection (ie the people that would actually be using the machines), and that this selection procedure was detailed completely in the RFP, they now think that those people made a mistake and actually should have selected them.
So in fact, they ARE suing for not selecting them, in a process that they ADMIT was fair, free of corruption, and administered under the guidelines of the RFP.
Why do people think that if you alter somethings DNA and then ingest said altered organism that you are somehow going to be effected by it? Eating something destroys the DNA, you don't absorb the DNA and somehow become resistant to malaria as well or part mosquito.
Now maybe the virus could change to better live in the mosquito's, and maybe because fewer mosquito's die from the virus, there will be more to spread other diseases.
But honestly how can you argue that reducing the amount of malaria carrying mosquito's is a bad thing? How can you argue that mosquito's are low on the food chain and that somehow that altered DNA is going to change something above it? Do you become part chicken every time you eat chicken? You don't absorb the DNA of what you consume, if you did we would all be long dead or changed. There are enough natural mutations that something as insignificant as altering a mosquito to be resistant to the malaria infection is ridiculous in comparison.
Again, consuming altered DNA isn't going to change you unless that altered DNA includes some new poison production system. Changing the DNA of pathogens is bad because they mutate quickly (they can go through a million generations in 6 hours) and they can share DNA with other pathogens (through mechanisms we don't understand), changing the DNA of higher organisms is NOT even remotely the same thing. Yes, I disagree with adding a poison to corn to prevent some worm because we are then ingesting that poison. I don't disagree with altering a mosquito so it's not susceptible to a pathogen and as a result won't be a carrier species for that pathogen anymore. Altering a disease carrier so it's no longer a carrier is brilliant, as the virus can't gain a foothold in the altered species it would have to evolve the natural way, not under selective pressure like antibiotics cause (a low dose environmental poison).
Imagine for a moment that they create a disease resistant mosquito, sure more of them survive because the disease is no longer is killing the mosquitoes, but the ramifications to humanity of removing the mosquito from the group of disease carriers would be astronomically beneficial. It would save millions of lives, mostly in children and the elderly and would be a dramatic health improvement in the poorer countries astride the tropical and sub-tropical latitudes. The only negative being that there are more mosquito's and those countries now need a larger supply of repellent, screens and camphor. Not only that, but without fear of diseases like Yellow fever, Malaria, and other mosquito borne illnesses, travel to those climates would be much easier for the wealthier nations that don't have resistance to those diseases.
What you are talking about is called an SATA Backplane. Just like a SCSI Backplane.
I take it you are quite healthy. I hope you never have to deal with a chronic disease or genetic condition that exerts itself in later life, like arthritis, so that you can go on being a smug little know it all.
Asking someone that has never had to deal with taking half a dozen drugs a day (or socialize with someone who does), just to function or even to survive what the benefits of the current research programs are is like asking a monkey not to fling poo. You don't understand, and you don't care that you don't understand. It comes from your inability to empathize.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but there has ALWAYS been a way to reverse a DMCA takedown notice, in fact the DMCA tells you how to do it as it's included in the act. The ISP isn't liable and can repost the stuff if you follow that procedure. It's along the lines of a letter back to the ISP saying that in fact the item is under YOUR copyright and you swear under penalty of perjury that it's true and you accept full liability, you also have to include all your contact information so that the organization that sent the original notice can sue you if you lied in your reply. After 15 days of receiving the second letter from you which the ISP is obligated to send back to the original complaint the ISP is free to post the information. The 15 day window allows the originator to open a court case and seek an injunction.
This program is so that when they switch off the analog signals 20 million poor people suddenly won't have Television anymore.
THIS IS A GOOD THING.
The working poor (if the class even exists anymore due to the economic policies of the last few presidential terms) and the poor can't afford $1000 for a TV or even $400 for a TV. It's a horrible idea to even conceive taking away access to the PUBLIC airwaves from everyone in the lower income brackets because there aren't affordable Digital TV's or Tuners. But that is exactly what the people in this thread talking about watching too much TV or how it's a waste of taxpayer money. It's called looking down on the lower income among us.
This Program exists to allow those that can't afford the new tuners to be able to afford them. And above all, TV is probably the only form of entertainment the poor can afford both dollar wise and time wise on anything like a regular basis.
So take you elite ideas about the poor being a subclass that doesn't need help and shove them up your ass, either that or stop jumping to conclusions about why this program even exists.
Tivo's software will be available on that Comcast box for a small monthly fee, probably right around June. No need for a new box, and it will have features even the Series 3 won't have.
Professional (or potential) Physicists producing research about biology saying nerves work on sound.
Next thing you know some silly chemists from Utah will claim they discovered "cold" fusion by producing bubbles from metal rods.
Well, maybe when we live in Bizzaro world.
The system is going to be the equivalent of Windows Embedded. Talk about it all you want but the US Navy has been transitioning for a number of Years and Windows is a perfectly stable (and even realtime) OS with the right design and implementation. It's also very secure if it's not connected to a network and no one is running unauthorized applications.
They are going to be using a highly customized kernel and base system probably the equivalent of windows embedded and security is going to limit applications. To advance fire, control, navigation and watch status systems you need a better base than a 1960 OS with little to no support and no programmers who know the system. Just by shifting to windows they can have programmers that can actually advance their knowledge and might even come into the military knowing something about the programming. And I'll also bet that Visual Studio provides a development environment that is 100000% better than what they were using.
We'd probably all prefer they use Linux as it can be better, but lets not assume that just because it's windows it sucks. There are thousands of highly important systems out there (such as ATMs) that run on windows or windows embedded and do just fine because they aren't plugged into a network, the same should be true of any defense system (especially one linked to nuclear weapons), it should NEVER be hooked up to a non-secure and controlled network.
Where did you learn your chemistry? Gasoline is HIGHLY explosive, a gallon of gasoline is equivalent to a stick of dynamite. Although slightly more difficult to explode (than vapor, only in the sense that vaporized or atomized gasoline is probably as explosive and dangerous as running around shaking a bottle of nitroglycerin) the only modification required is a confined fire and you can turn it into a HUGE explosion. Stick a sock in a gallon gasoline container light the sock and walk away, that tank will explode like dynamite. Basically the confined fire causes the tank to explode under pressure vaporizing the gasoline and igniting it simultaneously. Anything that adds a lot of oxygen to the liquid is going to create the possibility of a large explosion because in it's liquid form gasoline is highly enriched without the oxygen to complete the burn whereas high explosives contain both the constituents needed to oxidize the components.
So lets summarize, gasoline is HIGHLY explosive in all forms. It's one of the most dangerous substances we use in our daily lives. Every automobile accident where the gas tank is damaged has the possibility of an explosive combustion of the gasoline.
Your mistake was twofold. The first is that you should have requested the TrueCrypt include a kill switch in the code that would bind as a keystroke (unmount the partition and randomize a 64 char passphrase or even a script file on your desktop that would do the same), the second was your assumption that they would shoot you if you continued to type. Law enforcement has strict rules regarding the use of deadly force, failing to put your hands up or obey their commands is not one of them. You have to present a threat to them that a jury would buy in a wrongful death suit, and just about the only thing that would count (unless you were engaged in the manufacture of explosives) is presenting a weapon. Fortunately the FBI is far more trained than local law enforcement and wouldn't shoot first and ask questions later, after all they want a conviction, not a death at their hands. They would have been rough with you for refusing to do as they said, but I have no doubt they tossed your around and knelt on your head anyway.
And I would also suggest that if you are engaged in such behavior that would warrant the FBI breaking down your door you would have at least 5 dummy partitions that you would mount 5-30 minutes apart to fool them into jumping the gun, along with routine frequency scanning to identify cameras or microphones. Security in such situations only works if you are completely and certifiably paranoid.