At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society.
I disagree completely with your uncalled-for insult. Most human learning is done through vicarious experience and not through "life experience". That is to say vicarious experiences such as listening to people discuss their lives and recalling stories of how others live, as well as reading literature, news reports, scientific journals and so on. Fortunate children learn and grow from association with adults who are living an intellectually engaged life.
I maintain that "life experience" has little relevance to being able to say anything involving the greater issues facing society.
If you had said "most 17 year olds... have nothing of importance to say etc", I could buy that. But that is not what you said, and you directed your statement to a specific person. By directing it to a specific person, and for your statement to be anything more than thoughtless insult, you must show how her published works and TED talks how your statement is true.
Furthermore, do have you in mind some specific "life experiences" that no 17 year old could understand well enough to discuss unless they experienced it in person? If so, what are those experiences?
At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society.
I disagree completely with your uncalled-for insult. Most human learning is done through vicarious experience and not through "life experience". That is to say vicarious experiences such as listening to people discuss their lives and recalling stories of how others live, as well as reading literature, news reports, scientific journals and so on. Fortunate children learn and grow from association with adults who are living an intellectually engaged life.
I maintain that "life experience" has little relevance to being able to say anything involving the greater issues facing society.
If you had said "most 17 year olds... have nothing of importance to say etc", I could buy that. But that is not what you said, and you directed your statement to a specific person. By directing it to a specific person, and for your statement to be anything more than thoughtless insult, you must show how her published works and TED talks how your statement is true.
Furthermore, do have you in mind some specific "life experiences" that no 17 year old could understand well enough to discuss unless they experienced it in person? If so, what are those experiences?
An arrest is not the same as a conviction. IANAL but I think this would be slander (and the police could be sued in civil court) if this happened in the USA.
Generally speaking, no. Due to sovereign immunity you can't sue the police (or the courts) for slander if they're acting within the scope of their duties.
As for the USA, I doubt that "embarrassing a drunk" could even be conceptualized. I suspect that may be true in parts of the UK, haven't been there myself.
Another idea is to scrap the case and make a living room friendly case out of an old wooden sowing machine. (find it at a thrift store) Look for one with a nice antique look and gut it out. Again one fan should work. May take some metal work to get parts of a case to fit in it.
Best suggestion yet. Definitely an idea worth stealing.
Just after getting married it probably the last "major new setting of rules".
If the PPer want's to stand strong for something that is important in his life, this is the right moment. After all, that's exactly what his spouse is trying to do - kick gaming from her view. The living case of "I'll format him when we get married". If he is ok with that - he should listen to the first poster. If he's not - he should set some rules / code of conduct with her. For example this may consist of: 1) week days and annual days (eg. their anniversary) without gaming 2) things that should be done before around home he could begin gaming 3) no interrupting him every 2 minutes where there is no major fire 4) "magic escape word" for both - for emergency, where she REALLY needs him / where he REALLY needs half an hour resetting his brain 5)....
All that you said is just BS if she meant what she said: "It's too noisy and ugly for the living room". Why do so many people assume that this guys wife is a liar?
Well, sending spent fuel into orbit isn't a bad idea, but it should be enclosed in a thermionic generator when you do it. You don't need Plutonium for that if you don't want to use a minimal weight for a long period of time. If;you're willing to use a bit more weight, or run out of power a bit sooner, there are lots of other choices.
Hmm, thermionic generator could be handy for moon bases, if we were to drop them there.
Geosync orbit is a bad idea. That orbit is very useful for other purposes and already a bit crowded.
OTOH, it wouldn't need to be *very* much higher to be much more reasonable...but be sure to put it all in one place. You don't want even more junk spread around.
Yep, I agree there. I only mentioned geosync because that's what was in their price catalog. Disclaimer: I do not support sending spent fuel into space because it's not the best solution, and perhaps is the worst idea. I only joined in because I like to run the numbers on things.
Spacex could put 70,000 metric tons in an orbit that would eventually end up falling into the sun. Even if a couple of rockets burn up in our atmosphere, we would pollute our planet less than any other failed solution we have tried so far. The financial cost would probably be less than what has been spend on just looking for storage locations.
maybe
http://www.spacex.com/about/ca... A Falcon heavy costs $85 million to put 21 tons into geosync orbit. More can be put into low orbit, but that may not be a good idea. We make about 2,000 tons of nuke waste a year, so it would only take like 90 launches a year ( ~ 7.5 billion) from now on plus the 3,000 launches ( $250 billion) to catch up. We can afford that.
I don't know off-hand what sort of load could be launched into the sun (nor do I see why when the moon is much cheaper to shoot at), but getting beyond orbit would be more expensive.
olive oil, wine, and a kilo of chocolate a week, plus a laid-back attitude.
From the wiki article
Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to a diet rich in olive oil[4] (which she also rubbed onto her skin), as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram (2.2 lb) of chocolate every week. She also credited her calmness, saying, "That's why they call me Calment."[18] Calment reportedly remained mentally intact until her very end.
Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85 (1960), she took up fencing, and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday. She was reportedly neither athletic nor fanatical about her health.[9] Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home after a cooking accident (due to complications with sight) started a small fire in her house. However, Calment was still in good shape, and continued to walk until she fractured her femur during a fall at age 114 years 11 months (January 1990), which required surgery.[5][14]
Calment smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992),[2][16] though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day towards the end of her life.[17] After her operation, Calment needed to use a wheelchair. In 1994, age 119, she weighed 45 kilograms (99 lb).
There is no earthly benefit to running Windows as 64bit and no one can articulate what that benefit is. Oftentimes it makes things worse as one is required to run parallel versions of things and not even Java is a one-size-fits-all across the board. The vaunted promise that 'things will run better and faster' is complete nonsense and hardware vendors as it is find it difficult or impossible to create useful distinctions in drivers or even sort out which version is a maintenance fix for what. So they killed off XP? Fine. Killing off Win7? Fine. Killed off Win8 with no clear path forward whereas 8.1 isn't an upgrade it's a replacement? Fine. And now Win9 is Win10 and once again Redmond will give us 36 dozen different sub-versions? Wonderful. But let's at least disabuse ourselves that 64bit is meaningful.
Regarding the benefits of Microsoft OS 32bit vs 64bit These values are a huge deal for Citrix (or terminal server) admins:
Paged pool 32bit: 550 MB 64bit: 128 GB Non-paged pool 32bit: 256 MB 64bit: 75%RAM up to 128 GB Page Table Entry 32 bit: 250K 64 bit: 33 M System Cache: 32bit: 860MB 64bit 1TB Note: 32bit values are much lower with/3GB switch, but it's unusual to do that with Citrix or TS
They know there are people like Alan Turing and the men and women codebreakers that performed such a valuable service in WWII I read that although Alan was rather athletic, his personality was quite shy and it was unlikely he would thrive as an infantryman.
From wikipedia and borrowed from other places, "Winston Churchill said that Turing made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany.Turing's pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in several crucial battles. It has been estimated that Turing's work shortened the war in Europe by as many as two to four years."
Hopefully, this time around they will be treated better. And hopefully they won't produce another Bradley/Chelsea Manning.
Nice words, but once he's president of course the banks will blackmail him like they've done with every other presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy...
"Age-related macular degeneration results from the breakdown of retinal epithelium, a layer of cells that support photoreceptors needed for vision. The procedure Kurimoto performed is unlikely to restore his patient's vision. However, researchers around the world will be watching closely to see whether the cells are able to check the further destruction of the retina while avoiding potential side effects, such as bringing about an immune reaction or inducing cancerous growth."
"This is a very early-stage form of clinical research, and is intended to assess the safety of this intervention; it is not expected to yield significant improvements in visual acuity or other symptoms in the patients who participate in the study."
Generally the first stage testing a new clinical technique is to make sure that it does not cause harm. That's what they're doing with this test.
That law has little to do with this situation. The act was committed while he was in the care of the school, unless it can be shown that the boy told his parents he was going to make the fake account there is nothing there for the parents to be charged with. Now on to not deleting the account, the law requires parents to prevent actions of a child under their control, the law does not require parents to compel action of a child under their control.
Not true, what you said. The FaceBook page was not created at school. Like 99% the point of the court case was that it was done on the home computer and maintained from there.
CTRL-C/CTRL-V from the court order: " In his written statement, Dustin stated: In homeroom, Melissa and I decided to make a Facebook [page] under someone’s name and she said, “Who do we hate in this room?” I said “I don’t know, Alex Boston?” So we made up a username and a password for it. We went home and made the Facebook [page]. I chose Alex Boston because she followed me around and my friends did not like her and told her to leave me alone. I went home and made Alex Boston’s Facebook [page]. Melissa went home to her house and pretended to be Alex. . . . I went home and posted on Alex’s [fake] Facebook [page for] about 4 or 5 days. Melissa went and posted on it the same time. "
"U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fusion reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle."
yeah, no
It appears the Reuters article has been fixed. Here is a ctrl-C ctrl-V copy of the line in question at this 3:56 PM Wednesday: "U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fission reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle."
I have no idea so let's get that out of the way and move on to the philosophical / logical arguments rather then the legal ones.
In a case like the OP's the only thing that matters is the legal issue.
Good points you made philosophically, however...
If you're arguing that people shouldn't expect anonymity from a product designed to provide anonymity, maybe you should think it through again.
I simply Do Not Care what their expectations are from whatever product they bought. A company's promise about a product does not carry the weight of the law, and it certainly does not compel me to support their promises. For one thing, I am not the one who bought the product. I get no benefit.
I can tell you this about the law: I am on the USA's Do Not Call list. I get several calls most days, and almost every single one of them is illegal. Who called? I have not a clue and no way to stop them. I know I don't have to answer ( and usually I don't), and yet it is still annoying because if nothing else there's this ringing sound in my house.
Here's an extreme example: A common experience for older people is to have a relative in the hospital and to be waiting for the outcome. Answering the phone several times a day for these scams is worse than annoying. Not answering is not an option at such a time.
I would disagree with you because I don't believe in protecting us from anything and everything as I think it takes away personal responsibility for protecting yourself.
That's a good point, and I agree. However, lines have to be drawn somewhere.
The crux to me is this: The entity making the call is approaching me (mention again they are breaking the law to do this). I did not approach them. That, and that in itself should be enough to shed that entity's anonymity for telephone service.
I'm not afraid of being scammed, and I have no problem with the concept of personal responsibility for protecting yourself. However, I'm not the only person on this planet. There is an entire industry devoted to cheating seniors who have diminished mental abilities. The foundation of this industry is anonymity - there is no recourse after they got the money. There is no way to find out who they are to stop their endless calls.
Another one is the "This is Microsoft and you have a virus" call. People have children; children will answer the phone, and children
can be coaxed into revealing anything, and there is no way to know who had called after the remote control software has been installed. Sure I can wipe the PC and tell the kids not to trust anyone who calls. But I want justice, and I want those people put out of business.
Perhaps the entities that have a legitimate reason for anonymity can also be registered with the government's Do Not Call list and combine that with future requirements that carriers fix their technology to stop callerID spoofing and anonymous calls for non-registered entities. No one that asks for money, credit card info, etc should be allowed anonymous calls. Companies have some rights, but their privacy rights are not the same as individual rights
If contact must be made anonymously for some reason, then they can use the postal service.
"Telstra's one and only valid argument to date has been that identifying who calls me would be in breach of that person's privacy if they called from an unlisted number.
Are anonymous phones calls really protected by law? I mean is there a law that specifically protects the anonymity of people calling from unlisted numbers?
After all, the person holding the unlisted number placed the call. Do people coming into your house from the street have a legal expectation of anonymity? Does someone getting into your car have a legal expectation of anonymity? Why would someone calling your phone have a legal expectation of anonymity?
I suspect it has more to do with corporations that robo-call wanting to hide. It's profitable for the phone companies. When you become a senior citizen, you will begin to receive endless solicitations for medical alert bracelets, "free product" scams, health insurance and so on. I suppose everyone gets some version of this crap. None of these are allowed under the "Do Not Call" act, but the callers always have unlisted numbers and do not reveal their companies' actual names in the calls.
I see many posts worry about "what if the logger is still in the RTM version" and "what if they turn it back on".
Well, what is to stop Microsoft from burying a keylogger and/or root kits in any of their numerous security patches for Windows 7, 8, MS Office or whatever? And if they has the moral turpitude to install keylogging and grab your passwords in Windows 10, why would you think they have not already done it?
This article is one of the few that I've found that contains statistics about retention in various tech fields of both men and women. The differences in retention rates do vary but not by as much as is commonly portrayed in the media. In fact, based on what I'd previously read, they are surprisingly similar. Men and women may have somewhat different reasons for leaving the field, but that doesn't change the fact that roughly 40% of both sexes ultimately leave engineering.
Well, well. here we have a post that addresses the original article in a relevant way with data. How did that slip through?
Also, motor/generator sets with flywheels can be good for smoothing out poor quality electricity. It can for short periods fill in sags and prevent over voltage, and also prevents the nasty problems that harmonics and phase shifts can cause. That may be a way relatively cheap way for people who need clean electricity to add in solar and wind for their power. I wonder if in the future, neighborhood based solar arrays or wind towers could use M-G sets to provide decent power to the immediate area.
They do have their downsides: regular maintenance is required, and they can be quite noisy.
Additionally, one of the features I find annoying locally is that the energy companies are allowed to purchase power from you at the LOWEST POSSIBLE ENERGY RATE, but are in turn allowed to sell power back to you at any current rate.
You just described every single business on the planet.
Put it this way: If you owned a factory that made phones that cost you $50 to make and you sold them for $100, and a competitor opened up making the same phones and offered to sell them to you, would you pay $50, or would you pay $100 to them?
How a law that said you Must pay your competitor $100 per phone and Must buy as many as he wants whenever he feels like selling them to you regardless of whether your own inventory is over stocked at the moment? That is what you are asking for.
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At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society.
I disagree completely with your uncalled-for insult.
Most human learning is done through vicarious experience and not through "life experience". That is to say vicarious experiences such as listening to people discuss their lives and recalling stories of how others live, as well as reading literature, news reports, scientific journals and so on.
Fortunate children learn and grow from association with adults who are living an intellectually engaged life.
I maintain that "life experience" has little relevance to being able to say anything involving the greater issues facing society.
If you had said "most 17 year olds ... have nothing of importance to say etc", I could buy that. But that is not what you said, and you directed your statement to a specific person.
By directing it to a specific person, and for your statement to be anything more than thoughtless insult, you must show how her published works and TED talks how your statement is true.
Furthermore, do have you in mind some specific "life experiences" that no 17 year old could understand well enough to discuss unless they experienced it in person? If so, what are those experiences?
At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society.
I disagree completely with your uncalled-for insult.
Most human learning is done through vicarious experience and not through "life experience". That is to say vicarious experiences such as listening to people discuss their lives and recalling stories of how others live, as well as reading literature, news reports, scientific journals and so on.
Fortunate children learn and grow from association with adults who are living an intellectually engaged life.
I maintain that "life experience" has little relevance to being able to say anything involving the greater issues facing society.
If you had said "most 17 year olds ... have nothing of importance to say etc", I could buy that. But that is not what you said, and you directed your statement to a specific person.
By directing it to a specific person, and for your statement to be anything more than thoughtless insult, you must show how her published works and TED talks how your statement is true.
Furthermore, do have you in mind some specific "life experiences" that no 17 year old could understand well enough to discuss unless they experienced it in person? If so, what are those experiences?
An arrest is not the same as a conviction. IANAL but I think this would be slander (and the police could be sued in civil court) if this happened in the USA.
Generally speaking, no. Due to sovereign immunity you can't sue the police (or the courts) for slander if they're acting within the scope of their duties.
Already been tried in the UK, and it didn't go well:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...
As for the USA, I doubt that "embarrassing a drunk" could even be conceptualized.
I suspect that may be true in parts of the UK, haven't been there myself.
Another idea is to scrap the case and make a living room friendly case out of an old wooden sowing machine. (find it at a thrift store) Look for one with a nice antique look and gut it out. Again one fan should work. May take some metal work to get parts of a case to fit in it.
Best suggestion yet. Definitely an idea worth stealing.
Just after getting married it probably the last "major new setting of rules".
If the PPer want's to stand strong for something that is important in his life, this is the right moment. After all, that's exactly what his spouse is trying to do - kick gaming from her view. The living case of "I'll format him when we get married". ....
If he is ok with that - he should listen to the first poster.
If he's not - he should set some rules / code of conduct with her. For example this may consist of:
1) week days and annual days (eg. their anniversary) without gaming
2) things that should be done before around home he could begin gaming
3) no interrupting him every 2 minutes where there is no major fire
4) "magic escape word" for both - for emergency, where she REALLY needs him / where he REALLY needs half an hour resetting his brain
5)
All that you said is just BS if she meant what she said: "It's too noisy and ugly for the living room".
Why do so many people assume that this guys wife is a liar?
Well, sending spent fuel into orbit isn't a bad idea, but it should be enclosed in a thermionic generator when you do it. You don't need Plutonium for that if you don't want to use a minimal weight for a long period of time. If ;you're willing to use a bit more weight, or run out of power a bit sooner, there are lots of other choices.
Hmm, thermionic generator could be handy for moon bases, if we were to drop them there.
Geosync orbit is a bad idea. That orbit is very useful for other purposes and already a bit crowded.
OTOH, it wouldn't need to be *very* much higher to be much more reasonable...but be sure to put it all in one place. You don't want even more junk spread around.
Yep, I agree there. I only mentioned geosync because that's what was in their price catalog.
Disclaimer: I do not support sending spent fuel into space because it's not the best solution, and perhaps is the worst idea.
I only joined in because I like to run the numbers on things.
Spacex could put 70,000 metric tons in an orbit that would eventually end up falling into the sun. Even if a couple of rockets burn up in our atmosphere, we would pollute our planet less than any other failed solution we have tried so far. The financial cost would probably be less than what has been spend on just looking for storage locations.
maybe
http://www.spacex.com/about/ca...
A Falcon heavy costs $85 million to put 21 tons into geosync orbit. More can be put into low orbit, but that may not be a good idea.
We make about 2,000 tons of nuke waste a year, so it would only take like 90 launches a year ( ~ 7.5 billion) from now on plus the 3,000 launches ( $250 billion) to catch up. We can afford that.
I don't know off-hand what sort of load could be launched into the sun (nor do I see why when the moon is much cheaper to shoot at), but getting beyond orbit would be more expensive.
I'm going with the proven winner's diet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
olive oil, wine, and a kilo of chocolate a week, plus a laid-back attitude.
From the wiki article
Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to a diet rich in olive oil[4] (which she also rubbed onto her skin), as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram (2.2 lb) of chocolate every week. She also credited her calmness, saying, "That's why they call me Calment."[18] Calment reportedly remained mentally intact until her very end.
Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85 (1960), she took up fencing, and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday. She was reportedly neither athletic nor fanatical about her health.[9] Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home after a cooking accident (due to complications with sight) started a small fire in her house. However, Calment was still in good shape, and continued to walk until she fractured her femur during a fall at age 114 years 11 months (January 1990), which required surgery.[5][14]
Calment smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992),[2][16] though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day towards the end of her life.[17] After her operation, Calment needed to use a wheelchair. In 1994, age 119, she weighed 45 kilograms (99 lb).
There is no earthly benefit to running Windows as 64bit and no one can articulate what that benefit is. Oftentimes it makes things worse as one is required to run parallel versions of things and not even Java is a one-size-fits-all across the board. The vaunted promise that 'things will run better and faster' is complete nonsense and hardware vendors as it is find it difficult or impossible to create useful distinctions in drivers or even sort out which version is a maintenance fix for what. So they killed off XP? Fine. Killing off Win7? Fine. Killed off Win8 with no clear path forward whereas 8.1 isn't an upgrade it's a replacement? Fine. And now Win9 is Win10 and once again Redmond will give us 36 dozen different sub-versions? Wonderful. But let's at least disabuse ourselves that 64bit is meaningful.
Regarding the benefits of Microsoft OS 32bit vs 64bit
These values are a huge deal for Citrix (or terminal server) admins:
Paged pool 32bit: 550 MB 64bit: 128 GB /3GB switch, but it's unusual to do that with Citrix or TS
Non-paged pool 32bit: 256 MB 64bit: 75%RAM up to 128 GB
Page Table Entry 32 bit: 250K 64 bit: 33 M
System Cache: 32bit: 860MB 64bit 1TB
Note: 32bit values are much lower with
They know there are people like Alan Turing and the men and women codebreakers that performed such a valuable service in WWII
I read that although Alan was rather athletic, his personality was quite shy and it was unlikely he would thrive as an infantryman.
From wikipedia and borrowed from other places,
"Winston Churchill said that Turing made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany.Turing's pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in several crucial battles. It has been estimated that Turing's work shortened the war in Europe by as many as two to four years."
Hopefully, this time around they will be treated better.
And hopefully they won't produce another Bradley/Chelsea Manning.
Nice words, but once he's president of course the banks will blackmail him like they've done with every other presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy...
You meant to say Woodrow Wilson.
http://www.nature.com/news/jap...
"Age-related macular degeneration results from the breakdown of retinal epithelium, a layer of cells that support photoreceptors needed for vision. The procedure Kurimoto performed is unlikely to restore his patient's vision. However, researchers around the world will be watching closely to see whether the cells are able to check the further destruction of the retina while avoiding potential side effects, such as bringing about an immune reaction or inducing cancerous growth."
And this:
http://www.riken-ibri.jp/AMD/e...
"This is a very early-stage form of clinical research, and is intended to assess the safety of this intervention; it is not expected to yield significant improvements in visual acuity or other symptoms in the patients who participate in the study."
Generally the first stage testing a new clinical technique is to make sure that it does not cause harm. That's what they're doing with this test.
ice vendor: What do you want? ...
stoner: um
ice vendor: No ice for you! Next!
That law has little to do with this situation. The act was committed while he was in the care of the school, unless it can be shown that the boy told his parents he was going to make the fake account there is nothing there for the parents to be charged with. Now on to not deleting the account, the law requires parents to prevent actions of a child under their control, the law does not require parents to compel action of a child under their control.
Not true, what you said.
The FaceBook page was not created at school.
Like 99% the point of the court case was that it was done on the home computer and maintained from there.
CTRL-C/CTRL-V from the court order:
" In his written statement, Dustin stated:
In homeroom, Melissa and I decided to make a Facebook [page] under
someone’s name and she said, “Who do we hate in this room?” I said “I
don’t know, Alex Boston?” So we made up a username and a password
for it. We went home and made the Facebook [page]. I chose Alex
Boston because she followed me around and my friends did not like her
and told her to leave me alone. I went home and made Alex Boston’s
Facebook [page]. Melissa went home to her house and pretended to be
Alex. . . . I went home and posted on Alex’s [fake] Facebook [page for]
about 4 or 5 days. Melissa went and posted on it the same time. "
"U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fusion reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle."
yeah, no
It appears the Reuters article has been fixed.
Here is a ctrl-C ctrl-V copy of the line in question at this 3:56 PM Wednesday:
"U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fission reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle."
I have no idea so let's get that out of the way and move on to the philosophical / logical arguments rather then the legal ones.
In a case like the OP's the only thing that matters is the legal issue.
Good points you made philosophically, however ...
If you're arguing that people shouldn't expect anonymity from a product designed to provide anonymity, maybe you should think it through again.
I simply Do Not Care what their expectations are from whatever product they bought. A company's promise about a product does not carry the weight of the law, and it certainly does not compel me to support their promises. For one thing, I am not the one who bought the product. I get no benefit.
I can tell you this about the law: I am on the USA's Do Not Call list. I get several calls most days, and almost every single one of them is illegal.
Who called? I have not a clue and no way to stop them.
I know I don't have to answer ( and usually I don't), and yet it is still annoying because if nothing else there's this ringing sound in my house.
Here's an extreme example: A common experience for older people is to have a relative in the hospital and to be waiting for the outcome. Answering the phone several times a day for these scams is worse than annoying. Not answering is not an option at such a time.
I would disagree with you because I don't believe in protecting us from anything and everything as I think it takes away personal responsibility for protecting yourself.
That's a good point, and I agree. However, lines have to be drawn somewhere.
The crux to me is this: The entity making the call is approaching me (mention again they are breaking the law to do this). I did not approach them.
That, and that in itself should be enough to shed that entity's anonymity for telephone service.
I'm not afraid of being scammed, and I have no problem with the concept of personal responsibility for protecting yourself.
However, I'm not the only person on this planet.
There is an entire industry devoted to cheating seniors who have diminished mental abilities. The foundation of this industry is anonymity - there is no recourse after they got the money. There is no way to find out who they are to stop their endless calls.
Another one is the "This is Microsoft and you have a virus" call. People have children; children will answer the phone, and children
can be coaxed into revealing anything, and there is no way to know who had called after the remote control software has been installed.
Sure I can wipe the PC and tell the kids not to trust anyone who calls. But I want justice, and I want those people put out of business.
Perhaps the entities that have a legitimate reason for anonymity can also be registered with the government's Do Not Call list and combine that with future requirements that carriers fix their technology to stop callerID spoofing and anonymous calls for non-registered entities.
No one that asks for money, credit card info, etc should be allowed anonymous calls. Companies have some rights, but their privacy rights are not the same as individual rights
If contact must be made anonymously for some reason, then they can use the postal service.
other info
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
"Telstra's one and only valid argument to date has been that identifying who calls me would be in breach of that person's privacy if they called from an unlisted number.
Are anonymous phones calls really protected by law?
I mean is there a law that specifically protects the anonymity of people calling from unlisted numbers?
After all, the person holding the unlisted number placed the call.
Do people coming into your house from the street have a legal expectation of anonymity? Does someone getting into your car have a legal expectation of anonymity?
Why would someone calling your phone have a legal expectation of anonymity?
I suspect it has more to do with corporations that robo-call wanting to hide. It's profitable for the phone companies.
When you become a senior citizen, you will begin to receive endless solicitations for medical alert bracelets, "free product" scams, health insurance and so on. I suppose everyone gets some version of this crap. None of these are allowed under the "Do Not Call" act, but the callers always have unlisted numbers and do not reveal their companies' actual names in the calls.
I see many posts worry about "what if the logger is still in the RTM version" and "what if they turn it back on".
Well, what is to stop Microsoft from burying a keylogger and/or root kits in any of their numerous security patches for Windows 7, 8, MS Office or whatever?
And if they has the moral turpitude to install keylogging and grab your passwords in Windows 10, why would you think they have not already done it?
That was addressed in an AC post:
http://www.todaysengineer.org/...
Check out http://www.todaysengineer.org/...
This article is one of the few that I've found that contains statistics about retention in various tech fields of both men and women. The differences in retention rates do vary but not by as much as is commonly portrayed in the media. In fact, based on what I'd previously read, they are surprisingly similar. Men and women may have somewhat different reasons for leaving the field, but that doesn't change the fact that roughly 40% of both sexes ultimately leave engineering.
Well, well. here we have a post that addresses the original article in a relevant way with data.
How did that slip through?
Also, motor/generator sets with flywheels can be good for smoothing out poor quality electricity.
It can for short periods fill in sags and prevent over voltage, and also prevents the nasty problems that harmonics and phase shifts can cause.
That may be a way relatively cheap way for people who need clean electricity to add in solar and wind for their power.
I wonder if in the future, neighborhood based solar arrays or wind towers could use M-G sets to provide decent power to the immediate area.
They do have their downsides: regular maintenance is required, and they can be quite noisy.
Additionally, one of the features I find annoying locally is that the energy companies are allowed to purchase power from you at the LOWEST POSSIBLE ENERGY RATE, but are in turn allowed to sell power back to you at any current rate.
You just described every single business on the planet.
Put it this way: If you owned a factory that made phones that cost you $50 to make and you sold them for $100, and a competitor opened up making the same phones and offered to sell them to you, would you pay $50, or would you pay $100 to them?
How a law that said you Must pay your competitor $100 per phone and Must buy as many as he wants whenever he feels like selling them to you regardless of whether your own inventory is over stocked at the moment? That is what you are asking for.
I can't find the bash icon in the Start menu. Anyone know where it is so I can remove it and avoid this exploit?
Thanks.
You seem to have asked a question about removing the Start Menu.
Upgrade to Windows 8, but do not do the Win8.1 upgrade.
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