"Police in Arizona are using laser range finders to detect and ticket tailgaters.
This is pretty simple really, living in Arizona 50% of the time the tailgator is A police car, I figure at least 10% of the rest are probably unmarked/off duty police cars, so really not much of a hassle, have the ticket pop out of the gun, cop swipes his credit card, no need to even pull anyone over.
often being on motorcycle, I prefer to pass the car in-front to ditch the speeder, since pulling off the road (is gravel on many 2 lanes) is dangerous also. That becomes a issue when it is a ticket giver tailgateing.
in my pickup, I really don't worry too much about smaller vehicles tailgating, if they hit me I am unlikely to lose control, and if I hit the car in front of me, hard to blame the guy in the middle (although in AZ, at least one won't have insurance, so it'll still be a claim on me.)
My guess is it is a similar cost of support with either solution.
Of course what everyone else is doing in your area plays big into how much admins cost. If you traing/hire linux guys, and the next big hire in your town/industry/country is for a big windows install, then your employee's don't have the experience to be as desireable to be sucked away (=lower admin cost.) But if the next big job is that 5 other companys decide to transition to linux also, then you got a bidding war to keep an admin.
'sed s/linux/windows' is also true. Of course, you can buy with cash the experienced admin, instead of buying experience with time/mistakes if your not blazing the new trail.
being the admin, of course I want lots of transistions to LinuxApacheMysqlPhp because I got that experience, not windows/.net/...
Is it illegal to download/upload television shows that are broadcasted over-the-air on free networks
absoultly not illegal, if they released the copyright to all the PublicDomain your free to re-broadcast (does even PBS do that???)
like ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CW?
on not free as in GPL. Their broadcast, and comerical sponsered. it is pretty clear re-broadcasting is not allowed by FCC statutes, unless it is exactly synched with the licensed broadcaster (IE you can probably use something like a slingbox and forward the live broadcast to as many people as you want, but not replated later.) But what is re-broadcasting, TIVO'd has not been considered broadcasting (so far), so extending that to sending a video to your self to view later seams logical, and maybe a few of your best friends, but probably not everyone who visits piratebay, or torrentspy. be kinda hard to say thier all your close friends.
tapping of phone calls to and from people inside the United States to and from someone outside the United States
you are correct the exposed warantless tapping is international calls, and then any calls that are tied to those international calls. however the survelance was (supposidly) all domestic calls, they were/are accused of data-mining all phone calls, ie who you called, who called you, and how long you talked. That was all phone calls, domestic, longdistance, and international. This data would then be used with the international tapping to get warrants on the rest of us, unless one or both are declared un-constitutional.
And how much did they spend to re-release star-wars in better (picture) quality? If content providers can re-new the same intrest in their existing content without having to re-spend for the producers, actors, or writers. Just cameras, and CGI time then their is a business case.
Also when I want to watch sports, and none of the channels are playing my favorite teams, I select the better HD content. So the channels/networks that don't catch up lose out.
Add in that most content was filmed in much better quality than broadcast TV (270 × 480) so simply allowing the content to make it to the consumer without significan't further loss is nice, even if it isn't true HD 1080p or even 720p, if it comes across that pipe, then its original content isn't as faded.
"full of bubbles" and has an effectively lower density.
I suspect this is as much about breaking surface tension, IE divers simply spray water on top of pool water to break the surface tension (makes a huge difference in the pain of imperfect entry)
So them capturing the air at the front for the side surface, would break the grip of the water so to speak. along the side of the ship (perhaps too much air volume needed along the front, not much surface area their anyway.)
Of course, legislation is totally not the answer. If you don't want to swipe your license at a bar, go to another one.
somethings (like this) are not a problem to a individual but are detrimental to the society, thats were government/group action is required. simular to the tracking of phone calls, tapping phone calls, or stealing a penny. when it is done to a single person the cost to that person is negligible, when it is applied to enough people the cost to society can be great.
You give me a single persons info, I would be hard pressed to find the value in that. IE I could spend a week figuring out a PO box, taking out a credit card... and probably not pay for my time, in comitting the crime. but give me a 1000 id's I can streamline the process, and the value is great.
and to each individual scammed, not a huge deal, cancel the card notify credit companys/bank, dealys in any loans I am processing... But those little scams cost billions to the society as a whole. It is in societys intrest to encourage people to protect themselves. The fact that I don't lock my house/car/... and leave my keys in it half the time is not a concern to me, I lose something, I replace it. however if everyone did that, theives would make a easy living, and we would have many more thives...
well I have never taken a good completly one way beeting, but ya the not being able to see out of a eye, ringing ear, bleeding nose, broken finger (granted nothing really permanent like broken teeth...that often happens when shocked) The advantage of a non tazed beeting is 1)adrenaline 2)visible evidence.
(in High Shcool) I fealt almost nothing while being beat (got a few good licks in before his 2 friends jumped in) thanks to adrenaline. Then when my friends could see the results they were more than willing to settle later. Not to mention the sympathoy from the gals.
now in the case of a cop beeting, assuming it's a one way issue, you got some good evidence to get revenge (in court of course;) Where all this guy has is a video with some screams and zapping noises, and still a lasting pain.
First, he didn't get beaten, he got tasered. That's quite different. You can't injure someone in normal health with a taser.
I am guessing you have never been shocked to the point of lossing controll, I don't mean touching 110/220V I mean something closer to the 5000V stun guns use.
It is quite the opposite, you are guranteed to injure someone when you use a stun gun. They will feal the effects for days (I have) every muscle in your body will be sore and you will be tired. not so much that you can't walk, but so much you don't want to. I would much prefer a good beating than a Taz, just because you can't see the after effects doesn't mean they aren't bad, why do you think that is the most commenly used method of torture?
he repeatedly refused to follow police instructions and resisted arrest by refusing to get the hell out and whining about the Patriot act.
no doubt this guy was being a pain in the ass, and needed a lesson, that is not the police job. But I can gurantee you, quite the opposite of what you think, once you are tazed/shocked, most people just want to lay still and gather themselves, that is why it is used for the purpose of bringing people down, they don't want to get back up no-one would. Thats why it's extreamly important that people who are going to use these weapons first experience them first hand, so they know you can't use them to try and get someone to move.
but, casting your ballot by US mail has to be a greater concern than casting your ballot by internet. Despite all the 3 envelops, signed sealed... that introduces 10 ways to disqualify/discard/... a ballot, with no notice if/why feedback to the voter.
it does seam obvious a seperation of the vote from the voters ID has to occur at some point. Currently that is done physically, because that is easy to verify by the voter, ie I check my name off, and I walk off with a dozen people to vote minutes later, with something that appears annonymous dropped before I exit. Of course that isn't fool-proof, with cameras everywhere, simply adding a time stamp when inserted into the machine and comparing to video exiting the poles would easily break that anonymity, so at some point, even with the current system you just have to trust the system at some point.
So trusting a web app, that is certified, and verified, and with verifiable source code is not (in reality) taking on a significantly greater trust, it just appears much different.
I am sure a good statistion will generate a public key/ private key algorithm that allows the voter to generate proof their id was verified with a couple public key choices made by a voter after id verification, and not traceable to the original identity, and mathematically proveable.
and while I don't have anything against the FOP directly, these tactics (stories encouraging guilt/sympathy, blocking caller-ID) don't do much to inspire confidence
I should have made that clear in my post, I think the real FOP is a really good orginazation (but I am not 100% sure of that.) but if only one chapter in a state agrees to take money from a scumm telemarketer (telemarketers are not all scum) then that lends legitimaicy to the telemarketers so they can claim the same higher values of all the FOP chapters.
"Do Not Call" list laws, but why do they chose to hide the caller ID info? For all I know, it could easily be a scammer pretending to be the FOP.
well the "State Fraternal Order of Police" calls I get are exactly that, basically a scam. They were not a tax deductible contribution, when asked, it was 80% of profits to police widdows or something, they couldn't answer what % of donation that was. I forget, but I was able to find something around 2-5% of the donation in a local papers investigative report. They were using a speed dialer, so they don't want call backs on the caller-id asking why they called and hung up on ya. because they were a for profit organization raising donations for FOP they wouldn't have even been able to guess who had called for what cause.
What does INCREASING the number of H1-B workers mean? That means companies have more people to pick and choose from.
you should have stopped their, because that means their will be more of the jobs created in the US. if the better cheaper schools are overseas then fix that issue, but until that issue is fixed, keep the jobs in the US, by having as many of the skilled workers in the US.
if you don't want those types of jobs in the us, then ya reduce the workforce in that area, so the entire business leaves the US.
I for one want to compete for my job in the US, I don't want to be trying to get a visa to move to india for a job in 5 years.
Decrease the supply of IT workers in the short-term.
so to increase the number of skilled IT, and quality stop the good workers from being in the US, and increase the desire for companies to outsource, and throw money at those without the intrest to move into the industry. Similar to trade, you can close down trade, and get a short term gain, but screw yourself in the long term.
The service is controlled by a single party that can make changes easily.
It would be very easy for Google to implement a verification mechanism.
I thought for a second that you were making sense. Google isn't the issue, the caller-id/phone system is crap.
it would be a huge improvement for the Phone system to at least be reliable to the same country of origin, but that would hurt the telemarketers, the phone companies won't do that...
If the DMA, etc wants to ever do business with me over the phone again, they will fix caller-id to be 1) a crime if false 2)a meaningful trace, 3) and they will pay for the caller id to be accessible in my house.
to have their customers pay for a unreliable device that is the only method to determine if the person is really calling... And volume here is crap, every business that has a T1 can determine their own caller-id, that has to be the majority of calls being wide open to caller id manipulation, not the opposite as this article implies.
10000 movies * 8GB/HD movie = 80TB, still fits in a kiosk, but thats going to cost a bit. SATA is 3Gb/s not 3GB/s so each HD movie takes 30 seconds to copy, not 10 in 30 seconds.
Why would content providers ever bring the price of a HD based product anywhere close to that of a comparable bundle of optical discs? My answer: They wouldn't. It'll always be a premium product
$130/400Gb = $.30 if you pay $1000 for a blue-ray player compared to even a write once hard disk, and blue ray disks were free it would take 400 disks before you would break even. with them currently more like $1/MB for the blue ray disk...
makes alot more sense for blockbuster to be replaced with a atm, inside walmart,etc. carry in your sata drive (3GB/second) connect, select 10 movies (80GB) wait 30 seconds, go home. You could easily fit the entire block-buster online library (10,000 movies) on a 8TB drive array, into a ATM footprint.
Hard Drives have moving parts Optical Disks don't Which is more reliable?
I have failed a DVD drive every year, in at least one of my computers for the last 5 years. I lost one 10 Year old HD during the same time.
conventional (analog) broadcast TV (US) is 270 × 480 a svhs could get to 400 × 480 since a dvd is 704 × 480 you must need a upsampling dvd player to get the most out of it even today.
There is nothing specific in the GPL that says they cannot make a deal with Microsoft.
I disagree, the GPL prevents them from distributing anything under the GPL that is covered by copyrights that are not completly open to everyone. So they will not be able to distribute anything (GPL'd) that microsoft has a copyright on, even if they have their own agreement with MS. (see section 7 )
Then why don't you use the time when you wouldn't otherwise be getting paid to get the $100 back?
read up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost in micro-economics your free time should be considerided equally as valuable as your work time. otherwise you would take on more hours, or more jobs until the value of your free time=value of your work time. granted in the US we have as a society setup the 40 hours work week instead of each individual reaching their own balance.
So just because you have no life, and theirfore your free time isn't worth anything, doesn't mean that applies to the rest of us.
>"If they make other choices, they have all of the compliance and intellectual property issues that are associated with that."
seams hollow anyway, doesn't the GPL prevent microsoft from picking and choosing venders to pick on? IE say micrsoft sues and wins against RedHat, that something in the Linux Kernel violates their copyright. That triggers section 7 in the GPL:
if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
then novell users, and novell would be automatically in the same hot water as RedHat, and all the other distributors. Thus (I think) the only way for MS to comply with this agreement, and with the GPL is to not go after any GPL code distributed by Novell, no mater who else also distibutes it.
>short of illegally making a photograph in the booth, I couldn't see the video, but it seams the whole plan relies on every both at the same voting site be identical (one scanning machine, multiple boths with keys.) So if you boss/wife/mom voted at the same location, all they have to do is hold your card up to theirs, and they know if you voted the same. now they could just as simply allow you to have practice cards inside the booth, so you could make up a ballot to show your boss, etc and the real one you submitted. Although could be a bit much to allow you to submit a fake ballot to be checked online also...
but also it seams quite easy to alter a single booth, to swing a bunch of votes, unless they had another master key visible to all, which then defeats the whole anonymity. IE if your a republican, you send the democrats to a altered both, where the template causes your vote to be switched...
I don't understand why an open voting system wouldn't work. It takes time to go through the code, then patch. With the rush to get the machines in place, I can understand not publishing the code now (enough time to find exploits, not enough time to fix exploits.)
However, their should be no doubt that every piece of code used to count ballots in this election should be released to the public the day after the election ruslts are released. And that every machine should be secured until reasonable time for a audit of that code could be completed.
of course any irregularitys in the code wouldn't change the elecetion results, but it would allow everything to be improved for the next election (and if obvious tampering was found, for the legal system to resolve them.)
Of course open code does nothing without a way to verify the image in the machine is derived from the source provided, so open source compilers, OS, etc would be nice also.
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
we all know we are not one bit safer We are a bit safer, I mean the passengers/pilots would crash a plane before letting it be taken over then flown into a building.
Had someone done a successful job pre 2001 of telling the world that planes would be ideal at destroying buildings, and was a realistic option (I read Clear and Present danger, but I wouldn't have attacked a Hijacker then.)
Telling the world that the terrorist check-list should be helpfull.
claimed that if we stopped our War on Drugs, the price of a hit of crack would drop to about the price of a couple of aspirin.
that just a guess, according to facts presented on Penn and TellersBullshit program the price of things like LSD have become 10* cheaper since the war on drugs started (same Qty costs more, but is 50* stronger now) If legalizing would increase demand, then it would increase the price (initily). Especially if we followed Spain/etc in not allowing import, sale. but allowing consumption and only allow small personal qty's to be grown/produced/possesed, their wouldn't be a very quick increase in supply, especially since their would always be risk of a new ban, new lawsuits every year.
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This is pretty simple really, living in Arizona 50% of the time the tailgator is A police car, I figure at least 10% of the rest are probably unmarked/off duty police cars, so really not much of a hassle, have the ticket pop out of the gun, cop swipes his credit card, no need to even pull anyone over.
often being on motorcycle, I prefer to pass the car in-front to ditch the speeder, since pulling off the road (is gravel on many 2 lanes) is dangerous also. That becomes a issue when it is a ticket giver tailgateing.
in my pickup, I really don't worry too much about smaller vehicles tailgating, if they hit me I am unlikely to lose control, and if I hit the car in front of me, hard to blame the guy in the middle (although in AZ, at least one won't have insurance, so it'll still be a claim on me.)
My guess is it is a similar cost of support with either solution.
Of course what everyone else is doing in your area plays big into how much admins cost. If you traing/hire linux guys, and the next big hire in your town/industry/country is for a big windows install, then your employee's don't have the experience to be as desireable to be sucked away (=lower admin cost.) But if the next big job is that 5 other companys decide to transition to linux also, then you got a bidding war to keep an admin.
'sed s/linux/windows' is also true. Of course, you can buy with cash the experienced admin, instead of buying experience with time/mistakes if your not blazing the new trail.
being the admin, of course I want lots of transistions to LinuxApacheMysqlPhp because I got that experience, not windows/.net/...
absoultly not illegal, if they released the copyright to all the PublicDomain your free to re-broadcast (does even PBS do that???)
on not free as in GPL. Their broadcast, and comerical sponsered.
it is pretty clear re-broadcasting is not allowed by FCC statutes, unless it is exactly synched with the licensed broadcaster (IE you can probably use something like a slingbox and forward the live broadcast to as many people as you want, but not replated later.)
But what is re-broadcasting, TIVO'd has not been considered broadcasting (so far), so extending that to sending a video to your self to view later seams logical, and maybe a few of your best friends, but probably not everyone who visits piratebay, or torrentspy. be kinda hard to say thier all your close friends.
you are correct the exposed warantless tapping is international calls, and then any calls that are tied to those international calls.
however the survelance was (supposidly) all domestic calls, they were/are accused of data-mining all phone calls, ie who you called, who called you, and how long you talked. That was all phone calls, domestic, longdistance, and international. This data would then be used with the international tapping to get warrants on the rest of us, unless one or both are declared un-constitutional.
And how much did they spend to re-release star-wars in better (picture) quality? If content providers can re-new the same intrest in their existing content without having to re-spend for the producers, actors, or writers. Just cameras, and CGI time then their is a business case.
Also when I want to watch sports, and none of the channels are playing my favorite teams, I select the better HD content. So the channels/networks that don't catch up lose out.
Add in that most content was filmed in much better quality than broadcast TV (270 × 480) so simply allowing the content to make it to the consumer without significan't further loss is nice, even if it isn't true HD 1080p or even 720p, if it comes across that pipe, then its original content isn't as faded.
I suspect this is as much about breaking surface tension, IE divers simply spray water on top of pool water to break the surface tension (makes a huge difference in the pain of imperfect entry)
So them capturing the air at the front for the side surface, would break the grip of the water so to speak. along the side of the ship (perhaps too much air volume needed along the front, not much surface area their anyway.)
somethings (like this) are not a problem to a individual but are detrimental to the society, thats were government/group action is required.
simular to the tracking of phone calls, tapping phone calls, or stealing a penny. when it is done to a single person the cost to that person is negligible, when it is applied to enough people the cost to society can be great.
You give me a single persons info, I would be hard pressed to find the value in that. IE I could spend a week figuring out a PO box, taking out a credit card... and probably not pay for my time, in comitting the crime. but give me a 1000 id's I can streamline the process, and the value is great.
and to each individual scammed, not a huge deal, cancel the card notify credit companys/bank, dealys in any loans I am processing... But those little scams cost billions to the society as a whole. It is in societys intrest to encourage people to protect themselves.
The fact that I don't lock my house/car/... and leave my keys in it half the time is not a concern to me, I lose something, I replace it. however if everyone did that, theives would make a easy living, and we would have many more thives...
well I have never taken a good completly one way beeting, but ya the not being able to see out of a eye, ringing ear, bleeding nose, broken finger (granted nothing really permanent like broken teeth...that often happens when shocked) The advantage of a non tazed beeting is 1)adrenaline 2)visible evidence.
(in High Shcool) I fealt almost nothing while being beat (got a few good licks in before his 2 friends jumped in) thanks to adrenaline.
Then when my friends could see the results they were more than willing to settle later. Not to mention the sympathoy from the gals.
now in the case of a cop beeting, assuming it's a one way issue, you got some good evidence to get revenge (in court of course
I am guessing you have never been shocked to the point of lossing controll, I don't mean touching 110/220V I mean something closer to the 5000V stun guns use.
It is quite the opposite, you are guranteed to injure someone when you use a stun gun. They will feal the effects for days (I have) every muscle in your body will be sore and you will be tired. not so much that you can't walk, but so much you don't want to.
I would much prefer a good beating than a Taz, just because you can't see the after effects doesn't mean they aren't bad, why do you think that is the most commenly used method of torture?
no doubt this guy was being a pain in the ass, and needed a lesson, that is not the police job. But I can gurantee you, quite the opposite of what you think, once you are tazed/shocked, most people just want to lay still and gather themselves, that is why it is used for the purpose of bringing people down, they don't want to get back up no-one would. Thats why it's extreamly important that people who are going to use these weapons first experience them first hand, so they know you can't use them to try and get someone to move.
>I can do my banking securely online, why not vote?r _atm_hack/
thats been the argument about diebold, and your response is correct: even the ATM isn't all that immune from simple attacks.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/18/mp3_playe
but, casting your ballot by US mail has to be a greater concern than casting your ballot by internet. Despite all the 3 envelops, signed sealed... that introduces 10 ways to disqualify/discard/... a ballot, with no notice if/why feedback to the voter.
it does seam obvious a seperation of the vote from the voters ID has to occur at some point. Currently that is done physically, because that is easy to verify by the voter, ie I check my name off, and I walk off with a dozen people to vote minutes later, with something that appears annonymous dropped before I exit. Of course that isn't fool-proof, with cameras everywhere, simply adding a time stamp when inserted into the machine and comparing to video exiting the poles would easily break that anonymity, so at some point, even with the current system you just have to trust the system at some point.
So trusting a web app, that is certified, and verified, and with verifiable source code is not (in reality) taking on a significantly greater trust, it just appears much different.
I am sure a good statistion will generate a public key/ private key algorithm that allows the voter to generate proof their id was verified with a couple public key choices made by a voter after id verification, and not traceable to the original identity, and mathematically proveable.
I should have made that clear in my post, I think the real FOP is a really good orginazation (but I am not 100% sure of that.)
but if only one chapter in a state agrees to take money from a scumm telemarketer (telemarketers are not all scum) then that lends legitimaicy to the telemarketers so they can claim the same higher values of all the FOP chapters.
well the "State Fraternal Order of Police" calls I get are exactly that, basically a scam. They were not a tax deductible contribution, when asked, it was 80% of profits to police widdows or something, they couldn't answer what % of donation that was. I forget, but I was able to find something around 2-5% of the donation in a local papers investigative report. They were using a speed dialer, so they don't want call backs on the caller-id asking why they called and hung up on ya. because they were a for profit organization raising donations for FOP they wouldn't have even been able to guess who had called for what cause.
you should have stopped their, because that means their will be more of the jobs created in the US. if the better cheaper schools are overseas then fix that issue, but until that issue is fixed, keep the jobs in the US, by having as many of the skilled workers in the US.
if you don't want those types of jobs in the us, then ya reduce the workforce in that area, so the entire business leaves the US.
I for one want to compete for my job in the US, I don't want to be trying to get a visa to move to india for a job in 5 years.
so to increase the number of skilled IT, and quality stop the good workers from being in the US, and increase the desire for companies to outsource, and throw money at those without the intrest to move into the industry. Similar to trade, you can close down trade, and get a short term gain, but screw yourself in the long term.
I thought for a second that you were making sense. Google isn't the issue, the caller-id/phone system is crap.
it would be a huge improvement for the Phone system to at least be reliable to the same country of origin, but that would hurt the telemarketers, the phone companies won't do that...
If the DMA, etc wants to ever do business with me over the phone again, they will fix caller-id to be 1) a crime if false 2)a meaningful trace, 3) and they will pay for the caller id to be accessible in my house.
to have their customers pay for a unreliable device that is the only method to determine if the person is really calling...
And volume here is crap, every business that has a T1 can determine their own caller-id, that has to be the majority of calls being wide open to caller id manipulation, not the opposite as this article implies.
ok just a order of magnitude off :(
10000 movies * 8GB/HD movie = 80TB, still fits in a kiosk, but thats going to cost a bit.
SATA is 3Gb/s not 3GB/s so each HD movie takes 30 seconds to copy, not 10 in 30 seconds.
$130/400Gb = $.30 if you pay $1000 for a blue-ray player compared to even a write once hard disk, and blue ray disks were free it would take 400 disks before you would break even. with them currently more like $1/MB for the blue ray disk...
makes alot more sense for blockbuster to be replaced with a atm, inside walmart,etc. carry in your sata drive (3GB/second) connect, select 10 movies (80GB) wait 30 seconds, go home. You could easily fit the entire block-buster online library (10,000 movies) on a 8TB drive array, into a ATM footprint.
I have failed a DVD drive every year, in at least one of my computers for the last 5 years. I lost one 10 Year old HD during the same time.
According to
conventional (analog) broadcast TV (US) is 270 × 480
a svhs could get to 400 × 480
since a dvd is 704 × 480 you must need a upsampling dvd player to get the most out of it even today.
There is nothing specific in the GPL that says they cannot make a deal with Microsoft.
I disagree, the GPL prevents them from distributing anything under the GPL that is covered by copyrights that are not completly open to everyone. So they will not be able to distribute anything (GPL'd) that microsoft has a copyright on, even if they have their own agreement with MS. (see section 7 )
read up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
in micro-economics your free time should be considerided equally as valuable as your work time. otherwise you would take on more hours, or more jobs until the value of your free time=value of your work time. granted in the US we have as a society setup the 40 hours work week instead of each individual reaching their own balance.
So just because you have no life, and theirfore your free time isn't worth anything, doesn't mean that applies to the rest of us.
seams hollow anyway, doesn't the GPL prevent microsoft from picking and choosing venders to pick on?
IE say micrsoft sues and wins against RedHat, that something in the Linux Kernel violates their copyright. That triggers section 7 in the GPL:
then novell users, and novell would be automatically in the same hot water as RedHat, and all the other distributors.
Thus (I think) the only way for MS to comply with this agreement, and with the GPL is to not go after any GPL code distributed by Novell, no mater who else also distibutes it.
>short of illegally making a photograph in the booth,
I couldn't see the video, but it seams the whole plan relies on every both at the same voting site be identical (one scanning machine, multiple boths with keys.)
So if you boss/wife/mom voted at the same location, all they have to do is hold your card up to theirs, and they know if you voted the same.
now they could just as simply allow you to have practice cards inside the booth, so you could make up a ballot to show your boss, etc and the real one you submitted. Although could be a bit much to allow you to submit a fake ballot to be checked online also...
but also it seams quite easy to alter a single booth, to swing a bunch of votes, unless they had another master key visible to all, which then defeats the whole anonymity.
IE if your a republican, you send the democrats to a altered both, where the template causes your vote to be switched...
I don't understand why an open voting system wouldn't work.
It takes time to go through the code, then patch. With the rush to get the machines in place, I can understand not publishing the code now (enough time to find exploits, not enough time to fix exploits.)
However, their should be no doubt that every piece of code used to count ballots in this election should be released to the public the day after the election ruslts are released. And that every machine should be secured until reasonable time for a audit of that code could be completed.
of course any irregularitys in the code wouldn't change the elecetion results, but it would allow everything to be improved for the next election (and if obvious tampering was found, for the legal system to resolve them.)
Of course open code does nothing without a way to verify the image in the machine is derived from the source provided, so open source compilers, OS, etc would be nice also.
According to the treasury dept you are wrong, the G.P. is correct.
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/leg
we all know we are not one bit safer
We are a bit safer, I mean the passengers/pilots would crash a plane before letting it be taken over then flown into a building.
Had someone done a successful job pre 2001 of telling the world that planes would be ideal at destroying buildings, and was a realistic option (I read Clear and Present danger, but I wouldn't have attacked a Hijacker then.)
Telling the world that the terrorist check-list should be helpfull.
If legalizing would increase demand, then it would increase the price (initily). Especially if we followed Spain/etc in not allowing import, sale. but allowing consumption and only allow small personal qty's to be grown/produced/possesed, their wouldn't be a very quick increase in supply, especially since their would always be risk of a new ban, new lawsuits every year.