Great... so the U.S. will soon become another Canada - universal free everything, and good at nothing.
If you take your finger out of your ass and use it to pick up a book you might learn about all the things Canada is good at. Ignorance is curable, after all.
Besides pissing people off, how will this expansion of powers backfire on the US Government?
Will it fail badly enough for them to do anything about it?
If the answer is no, then my guess is you're pretty well screwed. The US Government seems to no longer care about what its people think. Hell, they don't care what other _countries_ think.
You'll have to think of some other way to convince them to reverse this trend that doesn't depend on them caring about anybody but themselves.
This is hypothetical, but sophisticated malware could find a way to dodge the kill switch anyway. ie. by morphing itself to appear as a distinct application. Google would then need a good way to detect variants so it can kill them as they appear. If the spammers can use these variants to send even a handful of messages per phone per variant then it's worth it: you're back into the detect/kill arms race that goes on in the anti-virus and anti-spam industry.
Can we write laws in such a way that they aren't subject to wildly varying differences in interpretation? Codify law in a strongly typed, object-oriented language that can be compiled and run and tested with varying inputs to see the result.
In theory it should be a matter of having enough variables modeled to give desirable outputs (ie. calculate guilt, jail time,...). Where not enough variables are modeled, they could be added (with appropriate controls) so that future cases take into consideration those new things (like case law). Law would evolve in a measurable way, subject to scrutiny of whoever wants to go through the revision control system and see when things changed, by who, for what reason, etc.
The inputs into the system would still be subject to interpretation but that's no worse than things are today. I see that as the easier part to get agreement on.
YouTube employs a search engine to return results, but it isn't one in its own right.
Google search also employs a search engine to return results. Is it because YouTube only returns results that it hosts? Perhaps if it also included 3rd party results it would be more of a search engine to you? That sort of makes sense, but it's a gray area IMO.
Ok, following that logic, if grep returned results from other people's computers would it be considered a search engine? Does response time play into the classification as a search engine?
I don't know about most people, but I'd have a hard time straight-faced telling the customs officials one password while knowing that another password exists. They could also ask you "are there any more passwords?" if they know about this encryption scheme. Do you risk lying to them? That could be very bad, worse than if you'd just given them the password.
As noted in a previous story, your best bet is to tape a starting pistol to your laptop. It'll get marked "special".;)
Solaris Sparc is dead. Solaris x86 may have a chance as the performance is good.
Every experience I've had with Sun hardware and software has been a real fucking pain in the ass. Sun has no place in the low to mid range from what I've seen. As for high range, it may be worth the effort but I can't comment from experience there.
I was there recenty and yes the ride was priced at $50 which I thought was too much so I didn't bother. If it really was well worth $50 they could've done a better job at marketing it (by not making it sound cheesy).
The characters I saw played their parts well - a Borg drone and a Klingon warrior.
There were some deals but I thought for a place that was about to shut its doors they could've lowered the prices a little more.
Oh, apparently there's a bunch of stuff there that isn't for sale and its future is uncertain. Could become part of the city landfill, could be auctioned off, who knows. Probably very valuable.
There's nothing amazing about the factory itself. I couldn't help but think of how many human jobs were replaced by all the automation they have. Good on them to automate, but without people where is the pride?
Yahoo Mail's premium email (Mail Plus) allows you to create as many email addresses as you want under your account, including throw-away addresses. You can colour-code the message entries according to email address to easily see which ones are not your primary account. I find it works very well.
My main gripes with the system are sub-par spam catch rate (you may find false positives and false negatives regularly) and their email support (if you want to report spam catch rate issues) is absolutely horrendous. I think they read the first two words of your email before responding with a standard template response.
Engy#1: Hey, let's see if the arm can give us the middle finger from Mars! Engy#2: No dude, wait... Engy#1: Oh shit, the finger is up but the arm has shut down! Engy#2: Here comes the boss! Boss: You fucking idiots!!!
I think the Bush administration should be held responsible for desensitizing the American population to lawlessness. Bush has set the standard - why should anyone bother to follow the law if the government can't follow the Constitution? Why should people respect their votes when the "choices" they are given are bullshit to begin with?
If the American people lived according to the example the Bush administration has set, it would be murderous, win at all costs, to-hell-with-everyone-else chaos.
OpenOffice works, yes, but if you need to create MSOffice documents would you trust OO? I've tried saving my resume in MSWord 97 format but when I bring it up in the real MSWord it doesn't look as it did in OO. If I didn't have a copy of Word as well I wouldn't have known the difference and would have been sending out crappy looking resumes. For me, this is where the rubber meets the road; until OO's compatibility (of Word's main features) is perfect, or many more people start accepting OO documents, OO won't be a mainstream tool for me. I would love to just use PDFs but many places don't accept them.
On a related note, I've tried OOCalc's graphing feature and the wizard was broken and the resulting chart was unusable. That was roughly a year ago.
Thanks. Unfortunately, they don't serve listeners outside the US:
"Dear Pandora Visitor,
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
We believe that you are in Canada (your IP address appears to be xx.xx.xx.xx). If you believe we have made a mistake, we apologize and ask that you please contact us at pandora-support@pandora.com
last.fm also lets you find new music, though. I'm just saying that in a music store you don't get that.
Just about every time I'm tempted to buy a movie, I think about how many times I've watched rent-and-burned movies. In all, I think I've watched two burned copies more than once. Even the movies I have actually bought just sit there and collect dust.
Every time I'm tempted to buy a CD, I think about first finding a store that lets me listen before I buy, then thinking about spending at least an hour going through albums aimlessly as I have no good way to find what's related to things I already like. If I do find something good, I think about the blank CDR media tax here in Canada and say forget it - I'll get my money's worth out of that tax and just download my music. Besides, it's so much more convenient. I also think about all the CDs I had bought over the years and how much crap is on them. It's time to get my money's worth.
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Have fun getting "fingerprints"! ;)
Great... so the U.S. will soon become another Canada - universal free everything, and good at nothing.
If you take your finger out of your ass and use it to pick up a book you might learn about all the things Canada is good at. Ignorance is curable, after all.
Besides pissing people off, how will this expansion of powers backfire on the US Government?
Will it fail badly enough for them to do anything about it?
If the answer is no, then my guess is you're pretty well screwed. The US Government seems to no longer care about what its people think. Hell, they don't care what other _countries_ think.
You'll have to think of some other way to convince them to reverse this trend that doesn't depend on them caring about anybody but themselves.
This is hypothetical, but sophisticated malware could find a way to dodge the kill switch anyway. ie. by morphing itself to appear as a distinct application. Google would then need a good way to detect variants so it can kill them as they appear. If the spammers can use these variants to send even a handful of messages per phone per variant then it's worth it: you're back into the detect/kill arms race that goes on in the anti-virus and anti-spam industry.
Can we write laws in such a way that they aren't subject to wildly varying differences in interpretation? Codify law in a strongly typed, object-oriented language that can be compiled and run and tested with varying inputs to see the result.
In theory it should be a matter of having enough variables modeled to give desirable outputs (ie. calculate guilt, jail time, ...). Where not enough variables are modeled, they could be added (with appropriate controls) so that future cases take into consideration those new things (like case law). Law would evolve in a measurable way, subject to scrutiny of whoever wants to go through the revision control system and see when things changed, by who, for what reason, etc.
The inputs into the system would still be subject to interpretation but that's no worse than things are today. I see that as the easier part to get agreement on.
There is nothing wrong with the current U.S. government - it is ignoring the constitution which is the problem.
There is nothing wrong with Jeffrey Dahmer. It's his eating of people that is the problem.
YouTube employs a search engine to return results, but it isn't one in its own right.
Google search also employs a search engine to return results. Is it because YouTube only returns results that it hosts? Perhaps if it also included 3rd party results it would be more of a search engine to you? That sort of makes sense, but it's a gray area IMO.
Ok, following that logic, if grep returned results from other people's computers would it be considered a search engine? Does response time play into the classification as a search engine?
I wish language developers would stop using a single letter as the language name. Have fun searching for "M" on the Internet.
I don't know about most people, but I'd have a hard time straight-faced telling the customs officials one password while knowing that another password exists. They could also ask you "are there any more passwords?" if they know about this encryption scheme. Do you risk lying to them? That could be very bad, worse than if you'd just given them the password.
As noted in a previous story, your best bet is to tape a starting pistol to your laptop. It'll get marked "special". ;)
You are absolutely right. People like us are going to ignore this bullshit. Assholes.
I think Commodore floppies only stored 110 K of data.
They stored 160 KB per side of a 5-1/4" disk. These were accessed by the 1541 and 1571 drives.
The 1581 drives stored 800 KB per 3-1/2" disk. You could even partition the disk as I recall!
*sigh* those were the days...
I guess I will remain ignorant until you cite your source.
Solaris Sparc is dead. Solaris x86 may have a chance as the performance is good.
Every experience I've had with Sun hardware and software has been a real fucking pain in the ass. Sun has no place in the low to mid range from what I've seen. As for high range, it may be worth the effort but I can't comment from experience there.
Related issue: job applications which collect gender, age, and nationality:
http://www.agfa.com/en/co/jobs/job2.jsp?action=application&id=W0608-02
I was there recenty and yes the ride was priced at $50 which I thought was too much so I didn't bother. If it really was well worth $50 they could've done a better job at marketing it (by not making it sound cheesy).
The characters I saw played their parts well - a Borg drone and a Klingon warrior.
There were some deals but I thought for a place that was about to shut its doors they could've lowered the prices a little more.
Oh, apparently there's a bunch of stuff there that isn't for sale and its future is uncertain. Could become part of the city landfill, could be auctioned off, who knows. Probably very valuable.
There's nothing amazing about the factory itself. I couldn't help but think of how many human jobs were replaced by all the automation they have. Good on them to automate, but without people where is the pride?
What, no rhyme with "penis"?! Frankly, I'm disappointed.
Yahoo Mail's premium email (Mail Plus) allows you to create as many email addresses as you want under your account, including throw-away addresses. You can colour-code the message entries according to email address to easily see which ones are not your primary account. I find it works very well.
My main gripes with the system are sub-par spam catch rate (you may find false positives and false negatives regularly) and their email support (if you want to report spam catch rate issues) is absolutely horrendous. I think they read the first two words of your email before responding with a standard template response.
YMMV
Engy#1: Hey, let's see if the arm can give us the middle finger from Mars!
Engy#2: No dude, wait...
Engy#1: Oh shit, the finger is up but the arm has shut down!
Engy#2: Here comes the boss!
Boss: You fucking idiots!!!
Interesting. But where does peer-to-peer technology fit in?
I think the Bush administration should be held responsible for desensitizing the American population to lawlessness. Bush has set the standard - why should anyone bother to follow the law if the government can't follow the Constitution? Why should people respect their votes when the "choices" they are given are bullshit to begin with?
If the American people lived according to the example the Bush administration has set, it would be murderous, win at all costs, to-hell-with-everyone-else chaos.
What hypocrisy!
OpenOffice works, yes, but if you need to create MSOffice documents would you trust OO? I've tried saving my resume in MSWord 97 format but when I bring it up in the real MSWord it doesn't look as it did in OO. If I didn't have a copy of Word as well I wouldn't have known the difference and would have been sending out crappy looking resumes. For me, this is where the rubber meets the road; until OO's compatibility (of Word's main features) is perfect, or many more people start accepting OO documents, OO won't be a mainstream tool for me. I would love to just use PDFs but many places don't accept them.
On a related note, I've tried OOCalc's graphing feature and the wizard was broken and the resulting chart was unusable. That was roughly a year ago.
Another unfortunate way of thinking is that once something is no longer in production, it is obsolete.
Thanks. Unfortunately, they don't serve listeners outside the US:
"Dear Pandora Visitor,
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
We believe that you are in Canada (your IP address appears to be xx.xx.xx.xx). If you believe we have made a mistake, we apologize and ask that you please contact us at pandora-support@pandora.com
last.fm also lets you find new music, though. I'm just saying that in a music store you don't get that.
Just about every time I'm tempted to buy a movie, I think about how many times I've watched rent-and-burned movies. In all, I think I've watched two burned copies more than once. Even the movies I have actually bought just sit there and collect dust.
Every time I'm tempted to buy a CD, I think about first finding a store that lets me listen before I buy, then thinking about spending at least an hour going through albums aimlessly as I have no good way to find what's related to things I already like. If I do find something good, I think about the blank CDR media tax here in Canada and say forget it - I'll get my money's worth out of that tax and just download my music. Besides, it's so much more convenient. I also think about all the CDs I had bought over the years and how much crap is on them. It's time to get my money's worth.