What you described related to the UK's DPA makes it a legal issue, not an ethical one... Laws don't make something unethical. Legislators often make laws surrounding ethical issues, but they were ethical issues before the laws ever appeared.
Well, I don't know where the sumbitter lives and works, so it may well be only an ethical issue, with no legal concerns.
If you have employee information in your phone contacts, you are bound (in the UK) by the Data Protection Act to protect that data. If it's being sent to some cloudy server that might be hosted in a foreign country, then you are breaking the law.
He was talking to a person who was a member of a crowd and was therefore affected by a crowd mentality, and there were others who doubtless overheard. He was absoulutely talking to a mob.
Er, that's exactly what the parent poster said. It's the cops' intention to out-intimmidate the mob. And, when you're interacting with a mob, you have to treat them differently from how you would treat individual people, because they will not behave the way individual people behave. I do feel sorry for him - she was provoking him, and he faced her down. I notice that we didn't see why she was being put up against the wall and put in a van, that is left to our imaginations.
Could be a contractual thing, if Hogan had entered into some kind of agreement with Baumgartner or the engineers, then he could have a case to stop Red Bull from using his team.
The last three offices I worked in all had non-working "Free public WiFi". I guess I was perpetuating it as well since I tried to connect to it with my work laptop:)
OK, lets say if someone rips you off for half a million, you decide not to pursue them because it will cost nearly that much again. So, someone else sees that you don't pursue cases like this, and rips you off for another half a million. You don't pursue them because of the cost, so someone else does it as well. Better to spend a million chasing the first guy, so the second (and third, and subsequent) know that you are not someone to fuck with.
Now of course this may be a politically motivated witch hunt, I don't know, but I'm making a general point that deterrent actions might not be cost-effective in the short term but might still pay off in the long term.
Slashdot is made up of thousands of people, some of whom have different opinions to others. The people who actively contribute to and defend Free Software are not necessarily the same people who torrent loads of music and movies. Sure, there are some people who do both, and a lot of the torrenters will make noise about Free Software, but that doesn't make me a hypocrite.
Script-tweaking plugins would reduce the load on Facebook, not increase it. And they only work if the link contains the actual URL like Google's do, these tools can't do anything about URL shorteners.
I wish Google would do the smart thing and make jailbreaking really easy. Then, whoever wants to live within the safe walled garden of approved and audited apps can do so, but smart folks can just enter some codes and get a fully-functioning, hackable, crackable, exploitable computer.
Apple did have a huge advantage on price, they could order as many processors and as much RAM as they liked for the iPad knowing that if it didn't sell, they could just use them in the iPhone 4. No-one else has that kind of leverage on component prices, and no-one else has an established cash cow like the App Store. Android is playing catch-up on this, but I expect that Google will sort out the tablet issues soon and the Market will open up to WiFi tablets. It's mainly a matter of them realising that no-one wants to make or buy a tablet running ChromeOS.
Question: I have yet to see any empirical science behind the idea that thermal expansion is a major contributor to the increase in sea level. Is this hypothetical guessing? Or have we really enough historical data on average deep ocean temperatures to support the conjecture?
That's the first I've heard of that suggestion. I thought the rise was supposedly due to glacial and Antarctic melting.
3.honestly? you think it's only semi-legal? You do realize it's -your- device, right? and you care that Apple wouldn't like you?
So, is it legal to saw off a shotgun, or to convert a replica gun to be functional? There are laws that govern our behaviour, and sadly the DMCA (and the ECD over here in Europe) [i]might[/i] make this kind of thing illegal, although I think there was a recent pro-jailbreaking ruling in the US that might put colonials in the clear.
Possibly. If a change in the shape of the earth's crust leads to a smaller ocean area, then deeper oceans are probably a consequence of that. It's also possible that a rebound-driven rise in the crust in one place leads to a lowering of the crust in another place. For instance, the UK is tilting - Scotland is rising but the south of England is sinking.
Nothing would please me more than to find out that, in fact, we aren't screwing up the planet after all and that future generations will be able to enjoy a stable climate and SUVs. Really, I hope that everything turns out just great. However, it still doesn't look like it, I think we will face some very tough times. I don't know whether this new data is correct or not, just like I don't know whether the old data was correct or not. But 164 gigatonnes of glacial ice melt per year still sounds like a lot to me, even if it is less than 362 gigatonnes, so I'm not going to become complacent just because it isn't quite as bad as we thought - note that the word "bad" is still in the situation.
Also, all this means is that Greenland and West Antarctica are contributing less than 1/4 of the annual rise in sea levels rather than accounting for more than half. I guess we have to keep looking to find where the rest of the rise is coming from. None of this evidence contradicts the rise in sea levels, which is going to displace millions of people.
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What you described related to the UK's DPA makes it a legal issue, not an ethical one... Laws don't make something unethical. Legislators often make laws surrounding ethical issues, but they were ethical issues before the laws ever appeared.
Well, I don't know where the sumbitter lives and works, so it may well be only an ethical issue, with no legal concerns.
If you have employee information in your phone contacts, you are bound (in the UK) by the Data Protection Act to protect that data. If it's being sent to some cloudy server that might be hosted in a foreign country, then you are breaking the law.
He was talking to a person who was a member of a crowd and was therefore affected by a crowd mentality, and there were others who doubtless overheard. He was absoulutely talking to a mob.
Er, that's exactly what the parent poster said. It's the cops' intention to out-intimmidate the mob. And, when you're interacting with a mob, you have to treat them differently from how you would treat individual people, because they will not behave the way individual people behave. I do feel sorry for him - she was provoking him, and he faced her down. I notice that we didn't see why she was being put up against the wall and put in a van, that is left to our imaginations.
Could be a contractual thing, if Hogan had entered into some kind of agreement with Baumgartner or the engineers, then he could have a case to stop Red Bull from using his team.
31 kilometers is less than 23 miles, and he didn't break the speed of sound.
The last three offices I worked in all had non-working "Free public WiFi". I guess I was perpetuating it as well since I tried to connect to it with my work laptop :)
Those looked like able-bodied people walking in them.
Sure, that's a risk, but you can't know that in advance.
OK, lets say if someone rips you off for half a million, you decide not to pursue them because it will cost nearly that much again. So, someone else sees that you don't pursue cases like this, and rips you off for another half a million. You don't pursue them because of the cost, so someone else does it as well. Better to spend a million chasing the first guy, so the second (and third, and subsequent) know that you are not someone to fuck with.
Now of course this may be a politically motivated witch hunt, I don't know, but I'm making a general point that deterrent actions might not be cost-effective in the short term but might still pay off in the long term.
Slashdot is made up of thousands of people, some of whom have different opinions to others. The people who actively contribute to and defend Free Software are not necessarily the same people who torrent loads of music and movies. Sure, there are some people who do both, and a lot of the torrenters will make noise about Free Software, but that doesn't make me a hypocrite.
Script-tweaking plugins would reduce the load on Facebook, not increase it. And they only work if the link contains the actual URL like Google's do, these tools can't do anything about URL shorteners.
Don't, they are rubbish. A friend bought me some good ones last year, then I bought some Buckyballs off ThinkGeek and they're shit.
What's the point in comparing phone sales to iPad sales? More cars were sold than motorbikes, and more colas than pizzas, so what?
There's no possible justification for this project.
"To show everyone what the black hats and spammers are going to be doing", sounds good enough to me.
I wish Google would do the smart thing and make jailbreaking really easy. Then, whoever wants to live within the safe walled garden of approved and audited apps can do so, but smart folks can just enter some codes and get a fully-functioning, hackable, crackable, exploitable computer.
Apple did have a huge advantage on price, they could order as many processors and as much RAM as they liked for the iPad knowing that if it didn't sell, they could just use them in the iPhone 4. No-one else has that kind of leverage on component prices, and no-one else has an established cash cow like the App Store. Android is playing catch-up on this, but I expect that Google will sort out the tablet issues soon and the Market will open up to WiFi tablets. It's mainly a matter of them realising that no-one wants to make or buy a tablet running ChromeOS.
I think it has to have 3G in order to qualify for the Android Marketplace.
Maybe - Apple agreed to this last summer, but still brought out the iPhone 4 with only their proprietary connector.
Question: I have yet to see any empirical science behind the idea that thermal expansion is a major contributor to the increase in sea level. Is this hypothetical guessing? Or have we really enough historical data on average deep ocean temperatures to support the conjecture?
That's the first I've heard of that suggestion. I thought the rise was supposedly due to glacial and Antarctic melting.
3.honestly? you think it's only semi-legal? You do realize it's -your- device, right? and you care that Apple wouldn't like you?
So, is it legal to saw off a shotgun, or to convert a replica gun to be functional? There are laws that govern our behaviour, and sadly the DMCA (and the ECD over here in Europe) [i]might[/i] make this kind of thing illegal, although I think there was a recent pro-jailbreaking ruling in the US that might put colonials in the clear.
Possibly. If a change in the shape of the earth's crust leads to a smaller ocean area, then deeper oceans are probably a consequence of that. It's also possible that a rebound-driven rise in the crust in one place leads to a lowering of the crust in another place. For instance, the UK is tilting - Scotland is rising but the south of England is sinking.
Nothing would please me more than to find out that, in fact, we aren't screwing up the planet after all and that future generations will be able to enjoy a stable climate and SUVs. Really, I hope that everything turns out just great. However, it still doesn't look like it, I think we will face some very tough times. I don't know whether this new data is correct or not, just like I don't know whether the old data was correct or not. But 164 gigatonnes of glacial ice melt per year still sounds like a lot to me, even if it is less than 362 gigatonnes, so I'm not going to become complacent just because it isn't quite as bad as we thought - note that the word "bad" is still in the situation.
Also, all this means is that Greenland and West Antarctica are contributing less than 1/4 of the annual rise in sea levels rather than accounting for more than half. I guess we have to keep looking to find where the rest of the rise is coming from. None of this evidence contradicts the rise in sea levels, which is going to displace millions of people.
MC1 runs fine under DosBox, I think I needed to install a Glide wrapper. I found all I needed through google, was really easy.
How do I prove that I created something? When I write something in Wikipedia, do I have to notify the Czech authorities of every update?