Do you really carry around your social security card? Why? I haven't even seen my in ten years, can't think of one place I've ever needed it.
I don't carry it, but I've needed it several times over the past few years. When I've taken a new job, I've needed it as proof of citizenship and thus the "right to work in the United States", as the paperwork puts it.
There are a few other authentication tokens that would work; I think a passport could substitute, but I don't have one.
If the draft is constitutional, I can't see how a national ID card wouldn't also be constitutional.
Well, the draft isn't constitutional - the closest power of the federal government is "calling forth the militia to execute the laws
of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions", but that clearly doesn't apply to sending people out of the country.
And since Amendment XIII was passed (in 1865), there's absolutely no authority for the government to compel military service - it's "involuntary servitude".
Of course, being unconstitutional hasn't stopped many other laws and acts of government.
Now, the photographer tells me that he owns the copyright on the pictures that he took for me and I can not copy them or do anything with them without his permission.
Then smack him on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. It's a work for hire, and you own the rights, unless you worked out an arrangement otherwise.
IANAL, but that's my understanding of the applicable law.
For some reason I keep thinking of the old Max Headroom TV series.
Reporters coming to you "live and direct", without depending on truckloads of gear - just a man (or woman), a camera, and a datapath, bringing the truth to your living room.
This could be quite a tool for getting around news censorship.
This "attempt" at a monopoly through file extensions is something that would only be successful for those who know nothing
about the OS at all. Using Win2k as we speak, right clicking on any file...
Thing is, that's is 90+% of users. As the fine article correctly notes, say "right-click" to most Windows users and all you'll get are blank looks.
A windowmanager need not occupy anything more than a single slat at the top of every screen.
A window manager need not occupy any space on your screen. A window manager need only manage the windows on your screen - allow you to move them about and iconify them, give them titlebars, etcetera. If you want some special window with buttons, menus, icons, and so on, fine, but that's not a window manager, that's one of the things you put together with a window manager to make a "desktop environment".
And if you want such a special window, top or bottom is IMHO all wrong - it should be on the side. I want my application windows to have the whole screen height, but not the whole width. We've generally got portait-mode windows (like paper pages) on a landscape-mode monitors.
...so long as you don't count a complete disregard for security, lack of reliability, a desire to not support M$'s predatory business practices, and the trap of proprietary protocols and formats. Ignore all those, and sure, there's no reason to dump Windows.
whatever local statutes there are against should apply to electronic ones too.
this is no different than if they were offering a 1-900 phone service.
You quoted the article, but evidently did not read it fully. The issue is zoning laws, not laws against adult entertainment transactions. As far as 1-900 phone service, AFAIK there are no laws regarding where such an operation can be based, and no legal basis for creating such laws. I beleive many phone sex "actresses" work from their homes.
my fat ass is still right there in
the chair. which part of this did the honorable judge spacely not understand?
If you'd bother to RTFA, you'd find that the judges (plural) undestood that point exactly. It's the basis of their ruling - your fat ass is in its chair in Random City, not in Tampa. Ergo having you as a customer, dling their softcore pr0n, doesn't violate Tampa zoning laws.
Um, almost all new x86-based computers, you mean? There are a heck of a lot of other platforms out there. They may not be as numerous, but in terms of dollars of marketshare, consider that an IBM pSeries 680 - which they market to medium-sized businesses - starts at $220,000.
I completely agree that unix is a much better product, but so was Beta (vs. VHS)....But I don't even know if that assumption is true, and performance at the kernel level is becoming less and less of an issue with these faster and faster machines.
That's really only relevant for simple desktop boxes; there's a limit on how much power you can really use to run office software. For heavy-duty, interesting applications, more machine speed gets eaten up by more load. CPUs are getting faster, but that increase gets eaten up by projects getting larger. And faster CPUs don't help that an OS is unstable, insecure, and/or unsupportable.
I'm pretty much a pure Unix geek; I've never written a program on a Windows box. But even in this slow market, I get calls from recruiters a few times a month. Not as many as I did a year ago, but they're still calling. (Three times this week, in fact. If you're in Maryland, somebody's looking for a couple of AIX developers for a contract in Hunt Valley.) Unix is alive and well.
Yes, many Unix developers are getting laid off. Guess what? So are Windows developers. So are chip designers, grocery clerks, and auto workers. The economy's in "bust" phase. Welcome to capitalism.
Maybe what you say may happen, if you did something wrong.
It can also happen to you if you've done nothing wrong. Or even illegal. (The two are not synonymous, you know.)
You need to pay more attention to history. The Fugitive Slave Act. The Palmer raids. Concentration camps for Americans of Japanese ancestry. COINTELPRO. Blitzkrieg-style "no-knock" anti-drug raids. Waco.
Innocence is no protection when governments go bad.
Not to sound like a troll, but why in HELL would somebody design a 110 story building to collapse 'by design?'
Buildings eventually come down. Hopefully it's a controlled process after a long and useful life, to make way for a new building; or it may be due to natural or man-made disaster. When the inevitable end comes, you do not want a large building falling over sideways (IIRC, this was the objective of the WTC truck bomb several years ago); you want it to collapse in on itself.
So it's not a question of designing ot to collapse - it's designing how it will collapse when the time comes.
The idea is that you need to have a cheap source of hydrogen and oxegen. And you do not what to use tap water because of the impurities.
Not quite. Distilling water is E-Z.
The fuel-cell problem is one of storage. A fuel cell basically is a hydrogen burner - all you need is hydrogen and oxygen.
Oxygen is, fortunately for us with aerobic metabolisms, readily available from the atmosphere. Hydrogen can be easily made from electolysis of water, but how do you store it? The answer seems to be, "with great difficulty".
It turns out to be easier to store hydrocarbons, and nab hydrogen out of them for the reaction.
However, the means that instead of
H2 + O2 -> H2O + power + heat
you get
CH4 + O2 -> H2O + CO2 + power + heat
i.e., you've got greenhouse-effect CO2 as an emission.
If your source of hydrocarbons is biomass methane, than that CO2 gets absorbed by plants which become the source of more fuel - it all becomes an indirect means of solar power. So long as your biomass is sustainably produced, it's all good, as cheap and clean as you're going to find.
Using fossil hydrocarbons might be a useful intermediate step, but it's dirty, unsustainable, and results in more greenhouse gasses being released.
(Me, I want a home unit into which I can chuck vegetable peels, grass cuttings, raked leaves, etcetera, and out comes electricity.)
Fusion is much cleaner than fission, but there's still radioactive waste created. The reactor vessel itself is under bombardment by neutrons released by the fusion reaction, creating unstable isotopes.
If the patent office then was as fscked up as it is tody, e-mail could have been patented.
And it would have gotten nowhere. It would not be the major phenomenon it is today.
This is the perfect example with which to vigorous beat about the head and shoulders those who defend software patents as necessary to innovation. "What about e-mail, you dork?"
That's crap. In response to a request, a server is sending a text stream to a client.
The issue is that the server is essentially misrepresenting the text stream it will send to the client upon a request. That's fraud. They're doing it for purposes of profit, and are doing it to clients in more than one state, and getting paid by advertizers in multiple states. That's interstate commernce.
I think it would be silly to change your bank simply because your OS doesn't support it.
I think it would be silly to change your OS because your bank doesn't support it.
Making browser-neutral web apps isn't hard. We're not dealing with multimedia presentations, nothing fancier than an HTML table is needed. If a bank can't handle that, it doesn't speak well for there general competence. Run, do not walk, away.
You seem to be assuming that the entire meaning and purpose of a college degree is to prepare you for a job.
If that's your goal, if all you want are job-specific skills, you probably are in the wrong place. You want a trade school.
Of course, then all you get are job-specific skills. When those are out-of-date - or if you change fields - they're useless. Fortunately, what I learned both in and out of my major has proved to have more lasting relevance over the past 10 years.
Is a "well-rounded" education a good one? It's the only real kind. Anything else is a mere collection of facts and tricks to be memorized.
As a software developer who works with W3C standards on a daily basis,
I urge you not to loosen the W3C policies regarding consideration of
patented technologies. Open standards must remain just that - open to
_all_, regardless of ability to pay.
The "reasonable and non-discriminatory" concept is a red herring. As
we strive to extend the benefits of digital communication to the entire
world, it should be clear that in a world where patent laws and financial
resources vary widely, the only "reasonable and non-discriminatory" fee
structure is zero.
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I don't carry it, but I've needed it several times over the past few years. When I've taken a new job, I've needed it as proof of citizenship and thus the "right to work in the United States", as the paperwork puts it.
There are a few other authentication tokens that would work; I think a passport could substitute, but I don't have one.
Well, the draft isn't constitutional - the closest power of the federal government is "calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions", but that clearly doesn't apply to sending people out of the country.
And since Amendment XIII was passed (in 1865), there's absolutely no authority for the government to compel military service - it's "involuntary servitude".
Of course, being unconstitutional hasn't stopped many other laws and acts of government.
Then smack him on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. It's a work for hire, and you own the rights, unless you worked out an arrangement otherwise.
IANAL, but that's my understanding of the applicable law.
For some reason I keep thinking of the old Max Headroom TV series.
Reporters coming to you "live and direct", without depending on truckloads of gear - just a man (or woman), a camera, and a datapath, bringing the truth to your living room.
This could be quite a tool for getting around news censorship.
Thing is, that's is 90+% of users. As the fine article correctly notes, say "right-click" to most Windows users and all you'll get are blank looks.
User: "How do I open my document?"
germanbirdman: "Silly user. You don't open documents here."
User: "I don't????"
germanbirdman: "Of course not. You instantiate, and obtain references to, objects. Duh."
(sound of user beating germanbirdman vigourosuly about the head and shoulders with a computer keyboard)
A window manager need not occupy any space on your screen. A window manager need only manage the windows on your screen - allow you to move them about and iconify them, give them titlebars, etcetera. If you want some special window with buttons, menus, icons, and so on, fine, but that's not a window manager, that's one of the things you put together with a window manager to make a "desktop environment".
And if you want such a special window, top or bottom is IMHO all wrong - it should be on the side. I want my application windows to have the whole screen height, but not the whole width. We've generally got portait-mode windows (like paper pages) on a landscape-mode monitors.
I belive the word you're looking for is POSIX.
You quoted the article, but evidently did not read it fully. The issue is zoning laws, not laws against adult entertainment transactions. As far as 1-900 phone service, AFAIK there are no laws regarding where such an operation can be based, and no legal basis for creating such laws. I beleive many phone sex "actresses" work from their homes.
Um, almost all new x86-based computers, you mean? There are a heck of a lot of other platforms out there. They may not be as numerous, but in terms of dollars of marketshare, consider that an IBM pSeries 680 - which they market to medium-sized businesses - starts at $220,000.
That's really only relevant for simple desktop boxes; there's a limit on how much power you can really use to run office software. For heavy-duty, interesting applications, more machine speed gets eaten up by more load. CPUs are getting faster, but that increase gets eaten up by projects getting larger. And faster CPUs don't help that an OS is unstable, insecure, and/or unsupportable.
I'm pretty much a pure Unix geek; I've never written a program on a Windows box. But even in this slow market, I get calls from recruiters a few times a month. Not as many as I did a year ago, but they're still calling. (Three times this week, in fact. If you're in Maryland, somebody's looking for a couple of AIX developers for a contract in Hunt Valley.) Unix is alive and well.
Yes, many Unix developers are getting laid off. Guess what? So are Windows developers. So are chip designers, grocery clerks, and auto workers. The economy's in "bust" phase. Welcome to capitalism.
It can also happen to you if you've done nothing wrong. Or even illegal. (The two are not synonymous, you know.)
You need to pay more attention to history. The Fugitive Slave Act. The Palmer raids. Concentration camps for Americans of Japanese ancestry. COINTELPRO. Blitzkrieg-style "no-knock" anti-drug raids. Waco.
Innocence is no protection when governments go bad.
Buildings eventually come down. Hopefully it's a controlled process after a long and useful life, to make way for a new building; or it may be due to natural or man-made disaster. When the inevitable end comes, you do not want a large building falling over sideways (IIRC, this was the objective of the WTC truck bomb several years ago); you want it to collapse in on itself.
So it's not a question of designing ot to collapse - it's designing how it will collapse when the time comes.
Not quite. Distilling water is E-Z.
The fuel-cell problem is one of storage. A fuel cell basically is a hydrogen burner - all you need is hydrogen and oxygen.
Oxygen is, fortunately for us with aerobic metabolisms, readily available from the atmosphere. Hydrogen can be easily made from electolysis of water, but how do you store it? The answer seems to be, "with great difficulty".
It turns out to be easier to store hydrocarbons, and nab hydrogen out of them for the reaction.
However, the means that instead of
H2 + O2 -> H2O + power + heat
you get
CH4 + O2 -> H2O + CO2 + power + heat
i.e., you've got greenhouse-effect CO2 as an emission.
If your source of hydrocarbons is biomass methane, than that CO2 gets absorbed by plants which become the source of more fuel - it all becomes an indirect means of solar power. So long as your biomass is sustainably produced, it's all good, as cheap and clean as you're going to find.
Using fossil hydrocarbons might be a useful intermediate step, but it's dirty, unsustainable, and results in more greenhouse gasses being released.
(Me, I want a home unit into which I can chuck vegetable peels, grass cuttings, raked leaves, etcetera, and out comes electricity.)
Fusion is much cleaner than fission, but there's still radioactive waste created. The reactor vessel itself is under bombardment by neutrons released by the fusion reaction, creating unstable isotopes.
If the patent office then was as fscked up as it is tody, e-mail could have been patented.
And it would have gotten nowhere. It would not be the major phenomenon it is today.
This is the perfect example with which to vigorous beat about the head and shoulders those who defend software patents as necessary to innovation. "What about e-mail, you dork?"
The issue is that the server is essentially misrepresenting the text stream it will send to the client upon a request. That's fraud. They're doing it for purposes of profit, and are doing it to clients in more than one state, and getting paid by advertizers in multiple states. That's interstate commernce.
That makes it a job for the FTC. Sic 'em, boys.
I think it would be silly to change your OS because your bank doesn't support it.
Making browser-neutral web apps isn't hard. We're not dealing with multimedia presentations, nothing fancier than an HTML table is needed. If a bank can't handle that, it doesn't speak well for there general competence. Run, do not walk, away.
You seem to be assuming that the entire meaning and purpose of a college degree is to prepare you for a job.
If that's your goal, if all you want are job-specific skills, you probably are in the wrong place. You want a trade school.
Of course, then all you get are job-specific skills. When those are out-of-date - or if you change fields - they're useless. Fortunately, what I learned both in and out of my major has proved to have more lasting relevance over the past 10 years.
Is a "well-rounded" education a good one? It's the only real kind. Anything else is a mere collection of facts and tricks to be memorized.
Just fired this off, feel feel to copy: