I have seen at least one model of HP printer that asks you if you want to continue with printing in black and white when my colour cartridge runs out. Pleasant thing, that. Silly thing is that, if you have no yellow ink you won't be able to do a decent counterfeit job (especially here in Canada, where multi-colour money has been the norm for decades).
Not just counterfeiting. Supporting Occupy Wall Street, or trying to stop a chemical dump next to your kids' school, or just about anything which angers the powers that be...
Not really. If they're trying to solve a crime, they only need to narrow it down to few thousand people. Then they figure out that the the ransom letter was printed on an HP superjet model 238234 and only 2 of their potential perps have that model. Now all they have to do is get a print sample from you, or exercise a search warrant to seize your printer and check the serial number.
This all, of course, presumes that you haven't just had your printer warranty (and thus serial #) registered (either by you or the store you bought it from).
The NDP surge was mostly a result of a wind of change in Quebec, that also denied Quebec to the BQ. If it hadn't happened, you would have had a minority (or majority) Conservative government with a split opposition that would have been just as ineffectual as the last one -- given the political unsavouryness of a union with the separatist BQ.
vote can be blamed for part of the problem. About 2/3 of Canada voted for the less right-wing NDP and Liberals ( and a few Greens), but the conservatives walked up the middle and took the prize. It used to be the other way 'round when the Reform party was on the Right to split the vote with the conservatives. Then the Liberals won the vote-split.
The system should be changed to something that gives voters a more proper representation of their interests, but the problem is that the problem is left to be fixed by those who get into power using the current system -- and don't want to mess with the system that got them into power.
I guess all Canadians are presumed Guilty, until you can afford to provide your innocence.
No. Canadians are presumed innocent until proven guilty -- Just like in the States. That's why you need lots of firepower to be able to prove people guilty when you want to/
There's not much of a difference between a government and a corporation that has an effective monopoly. A (democratic) government that gets bad enough can be tossed out at the next election. It can take a whole generation, or more, to unseat a monopolistic grouping.
Companies don't care about your well-being. They just care about your money. Tobacco companies make money by killing people -- and they spent decades and millions of dollars on 'scientific' studies that questioned the conclusion of other scientists that tobacco was seriously bad for your health. Some of those same 'scientists' are now pooh-poohing Climate science.
It's shocking what you can convince people to do when you spend enough money generating an environment of general agreement. Even now, women are spending billions of dollars a year to get themselves insanely thin, even though , pound for pound, being under-weight is more unhealthy than being over-weight.
The reason why government has such a bad wrap is that it's the captains of industry who control the media outlets.
There were about 120 former V2 technicians from Germany and a small handful of American pioneers, and anybody else who had formally studied rocketry was a young'un. Pretty much nobody under 30 who was good enough was likely to bet the remainder of his career on as experimental a process as rocketry -- and until shortly before Glen got his first flight, sending people into space was considered woo-woo. --
Up until 1958, the US military was formally forbidden to put a rocket into space. Not quite the career path for an engineer who was married with children.
Then the soviets put Sputnik onto space in the fall of 57, and the gloves came off. That would have been when NASA went to all of the colleges and hunted down the brightest young minds to do the real work of the space program. There were still a few 'old fogies' in the upper echelons, but the bulk of the crew was green under the collar.
The argument used to allow for patenting software is that, by loading a new payload (program) into a General Purpose Computing Device ( Computer == GPCD) you create a slightly different (at a quantum level) device, and the 'modified' GPCD is thus patentable.
So, let's run with this theory and compare it to motor vehicles... (General Purpose Transport Device ==GPTD). Similarly, by loading a new payload into a GPTD, you would end up with a 'modified' GPPD. Now, let's presume that, after GPTDs had been invented, the patent office had allowed patenting different payloads, there. Now, someone patents loading carrots into a GPTD, and someone else patents loading lettuce into a GPTD. Now someone patents loading chickens into GPDTs and someone else patents loading dead chickens into a GPTD. . . . . . You can see where this is going.
Next thing you know, to take your grocery home legally, you have to arrange patent licensing with potentially hundreds of different patent holders. -- and the GPTD developers aren't going to do the work on your part because the number of patents would be growing almost infinitely, and arranging all the possible patent licenses would be almost impossible. Even if it was possible, it would raise the price of a GPTD by orders of magnitude, and price them out of the market.
This would be a clearly absurd situation
(( Hmmmm.. Could patent holders for computing devices sue the patent trolls for necessarily volating their patents in the process of trolling? ))
The second argument against software patents is that defending against one can exceed the cost of the developed software by orders of magnitude. I could easily write a program that arguably violates any number of software patents in an hour or two -- total cost: $100 or so, if you include my time. Defending against any one of those patents -- even the most obvious or inapplicable -- would cost me tens of thousands of dollars, if not millions. In other words defending my right to defend my $100 program could cost me hundred, if not thousands of times what it cost me to develop it -- even if I win every suit hands down.
The probe will be pretty much to Pluto by then, and it will be the 85th anniversary of the {dwarf}-planet's discovery. A nice round number that people normally reserve such celebrations for.
If you've played DND, (or any other role-playing game), you'd know that intelligence and wisdom are rated separately.
I'd rate this guy as intelligence:18 Wisdom:3
..and that stupid otherwise? The right move was to arrange an IT job interview with Marriott, and claim good security skills.
"I found a security hole in your systems and may help you to improve this, and your systems globally".
Sounds like a great case for RFID inventory control ; tag every tool, log them out of the toolbox with a loop mounted on the side, log them back in again when you return them.
Then an RFID tag falls off of a plug and another wing tank gets ruined. RFID is a useful aid, just don't expect it to be a flawless replacement for people keeping their eyes open.
One night, when I was in my late 20s, I started hearing this weird, tonal scraping sound, but only in the right ear. I obviously considered it unusual, so I went to the hospital to get it checked out. (aside: I LOVE Canada's health care system). The doctor who examined me said that I had a textbook case of a burst eardrum. He prescribed antibiotics, and (since this was a university hospital) he asked if I could come back the next day to get a picture taken of my eardrum for teaching purposes.
When I returned the next day, the first doctor's advisor examined my 'burst' eardrum and realized that it wasn't what it first looked like. It was a hatched bug egg. Apparently a bug egg, had somehow been deposited on my eardrum. What I'd been hearing was the sound of a baby bug hatching.
The process was slowly corrupted into it's current form. Corporations didn't have the kind of choke-hold on the political process that they do now, and politicians were more dependent on the goodwill of their citizens to run a campaign. Part of the purpose of government is to set the rules for corporations such that the inevitable run for riches by a corporation would result in good to the nation.
Now corporations control the rule making so that 'good to the nation' == 'good to the corporations'
The linchpin to correcting this is more with congress (and state and local) elections than the presidential election. If you change the focus of the rules-makers the executive branch will (mostly) follow.
If Microsoft really wanted to block malware, they'd stop pushing Windows.
That having been said, if they're subsidising ARM machines, then that's an illegal cross-market subsidy from their Windows monopoly -- and it clearly has a negative effect on consumer choice (enforced linking of otherwise unrelated products).
No. There's nothing unconstitutional about alternate voting methods. Show me in the constitution where First Past The Post is mandated. (I'm Canadian, so) I'm not even sure that the constitution mandates that the electoral college that elects the president needs to be elected (much less assigned all-or-nothing).
It's like Muslims that say that Burkas are demanded by Islam, and women aren't allowed to drive, go to school or own property. Fact is that Mohammed's first wife was his boss. He didn't Inherit her business until after she died. His second wife (who he brought up from a pre-teen) was a major scholar of early Islam and, after his death, became general who led an army of thousands first-generation Muslims in battle..... Can't drive a car; my ass.
There's custom, and then there's actual law. Figure out which is which.
It works for the first little while -- You don't let employees take vacation time, and they get more work done.. in the first year. In subsequent years, the lack of any fun time means that they're less productive. Now you need to avoid vacation time just to get the normal work load done.
5-50 years down the road you find out that you're way less productive than the European companies that give their employees a month of vacation a year, and you're wondering how they do it. It's simple. Stop thinking that everything in the world is (1) dependant on money, and (2) can be modelled as a linear function.
I once (once!) tried reading a manual while waiting in a traffic jam. Even at 2km/h, it's hair raising. Reading about when that bridge was built or making a dinner date is going to be even more of a call for traffic accidents.
Not to mention watching the porn ads from the stripper joint you're driving by,
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Then printing occasional yellow dots should be exactly what the doctor ordered,
I have seen at least one model of HP printer that asks you if you want to continue with printing in black and white when my colour cartridge runs out. Pleasant thing, that. Silly thing is that, if you have no yellow ink you won't be able to do a decent counterfeit job (especially here in Canada, where multi-colour money has been the norm for decades).
Not just counterfeiting. Supporting Occupy Wall Street, or trying to stop a chemical dump next to your kids' school, or just about anything which angers the powers that be...
This all, of course, presumes that you haven't just had your printer warranty (and thus serial #) registered (either by you or the store you bought it from).
The NDP surge was mostly a result of a wind of change in Quebec, that also denied Quebec to the BQ. If it hadn't happened, you would have had a minority (or majority) Conservative government with a split opposition that would have been just as ineffectual as the last one -- given the political unsavouryness of a union with the separatist BQ.
The system should be changed to something that gives voters a more proper representation of their interests, but the problem is that the problem is left to be fixed by those who get into power using the current system -- and don't want to mess with the system that got them into power.
I guess all Canadians are presumed Guilty, until you can afford to provide your innocence.
No. Canadians are presumed innocent until proven guilty -- Just like in the States. That's why you need lots of firepower to be able to prove people guilty when you want to/
Companies don't care about your well-being. They just care about your money. Tobacco companies make money by killing people -- and they spent decades and millions of dollars on 'scientific' studies that questioned the conclusion of other scientists that tobacco was seriously bad for your health. Some of those same 'scientists' are now pooh-poohing Climate science.
It's shocking what you can convince people to do when you spend enough money generating an environment of general agreement. Even now, women are spending billions of dollars a year to get themselves insanely thin, even though , pound for pound, being under-weight is more unhealthy than being over-weight.
The reason why government has such a bad wrap is that it's the captains of industry who control the media outlets.
Pretty much nobody under 30 who was good enough was likely to bet the remainder of his career on as experimental a process as rocketry
Up until 1958, the US military was formally forbidden to put a rocket into space. Not quite the career path for an engineer who was married with children.
Then the soviets put Sputnik onto space in the fall of 57, and the gloves came off. That would have been when NASA went to all of the colleges and hunted down the brightest young minds to do the real work of the space program. There were still a few 'old fogies' in the upper echelons, but the bulk of the crew was green under the collar.
Then there's the hippie quote about not trusting anybody over 30.
So, let's run with this theory and compare it to motor vehicles... (General Purpose Transport Device ==GPTD). Similarly, by loading a new payload into a GPTD, you would end up with a 'modified' GPPD. Now, let's presume that, after GPTDs had been invented, the patent office had allowed patenting different payloads, there. Now, someone patents loading carrots into a GPTD, and someone else patents loading lettuce into a GPTD. Now someone patents loading chickens into GPDTs and someone else patents loading dead chickens into a GPTD. . . . . . You can see where this is going.
Next thing you know, to take your grocery home legally, you have to arrange patent licensing with potentially hundreds of different patent holders. -- and the GPTD developers aren't going to do the work on your part because the number of patents would be growing almost infinitely, and arranging all the possible patent licenses would be almost impossible. Even if it was possible, it would raise the price of a GPTD by orders of magnitude, and price them out of the market.
This would be a clearly absurd situation
(( Hmmmm.. Could patent holders for computing devices sue the patent trolls for necessarily volating their patents in the process of trolling? ))
The second argument against software patents is that defending against one can exceed the cost of the developed software by orders of magnitude. I could easily write a program that arguably violates any number of software patents in an hour or two -- total cost: $100 or so, if you include my time. Defending against any one of those patents -- even the most obvious or inapplicable -- would cost me tens of thousands of dollars, if not millions. In other words defending my right to defend my $100 program could cost me hundred, if not thousands of times what it cost me to develop it -- even if I win every suit hands down.
It's just not economically viable.
So, WORSE storage? (Write Once Read Someday - Experimental)
The probe will be pretty much to Pluto by then, and it will be the 85th anniversary of the {dwarf}-planet's discovery. A nice round number that people normally reserve such celebrations for.
If you've played DND, (or any other role-playing game), you'd know that intelligence and wisdom are rated separately.
I'd rate this guy as intelligence:18 Wisdom:3
..and that stupid otherwise? The right move was to arrange an IT job interview with Marriott, and claim good security skills. "I found a security hole in your systems and may help you to improve this, and your systems globally".
Better to find a non-security issue to fix.
We're not *quite* post SCO... The bankrupt ghost of SCO is still trying to push pieces of the lawsuit through the courts.
Sounds like a great case for RFID inventory control ; tag every tool, log them out of the toolbox with a loop mounted on the side, log them back in again when you return them.
Then an RFID tag falls off of a plug and another wing tank gets ruined. RFID is a useful aid, just don't expect it to be a flawless replacement for people keeping their eyes open.
When I returned the next day, the first doctor's advisor examined my 'burst' eardrum and realized that it wasn't what it first looked like. It was a hatched bug egg. Apparently a bug egg, had somehow been deposited on my eardrum. What I'd been hearing was the sound of a baby bug hatching.
No, We'll just end up with 'code red' alerts over 'planned' red-tide invasions.
Now corporations control the rule making so that 'good to the nation' == 'good to the corporations'
The linchpin to correcting this is more with congress (and state and local) elections than the presidential election. If you change the focus of the rules-makers the executive branch will (mostly) follow.
That having been said, if they're subsidising ARM machines, then that's an illegal cross-market subsidy from their Windows monopoly -- and it clearly has a negative effect on consumer choice (enforced linking of otherwise unrelated products).
It's like Muslims that say that Burkas are demanded by Islam, and women aren't allowed to drive, go to school or own property. Fact is that Mohammed's first wife was his boss. He didn't Inherit her business until after she died. His second wife (who he brought up from a pre-teen) was a major scholar of early Islam and, after his death, became general who led an army of thousands first-generation Muslims in battle. .... Can't drive a car; my ass.
There's custom, and then there's actual law. Figure out which is which.
5-50 years down the road you find out that you're way less productive than the European companies that give their employees a month of vacation a year, and you're wondering how they do it. It's simple. Stop thinking that everything in the world is (1) dependant on money, and (2) can be modelled as a linear function.
Not to mention watching the porn ads from the stripper joint you're driving by,
That would strike me as punishment for exercising your constitutional right to be free from search without a warrant.