The National Ignition Facility is not doing research into energy production. The research they're doing will not have applications in energy production. The hope is that by understanding ignition other nuclear fusion projects will be able to make better progress.. it is completely pure research, as you would expect from a national laboratory.
If you report bugs on alpha code the developers will thank you. If you report bugs on pre-alpha code, the developers will collectively roll their eyes and suggest that maybe you should wait a month or two before installing another pre-alpha.
Oh wait, firefox, yeah.. I guess it's always pre-alpha;)
IP has nothing to do with plagiarism. If I pay someone to write a paper for me, even if I get them to sign over the copyright for me, submitting it as my own work would be plagiarism. As for learning how to quote and cite work, sounds like they just need some remedial technical writing classes.
Thank you for the insightful article that quite a few people on this site have actually read. I know all the comments so far don't indicate that.. and you really shouldn't hold out hope for some interesting comments. Guild Wars 2 looks like it will be awesome. I look forward to reading more articles about it, and will probably buy the game when it comes out.
I continue to wait for a massively multiplayer version of GTA. Not this pathetic pickup game crap.. as if GTA is Quake or something. GTA is a sandbox game.. I want to knock down the other kid's sandcastles. I want them to try to knock down mine - and fail, because I'm better. If I have to team up with someone else I want it to be because if I don't I can't compete. And through adversity maybe I'll start to bond with my crew and fight to protect them.. but if one of them squeals to the cops, he's dead.
Yes, because next you'll be talking about disfigured people or movie stars or anything else you can think up to expand the argument. People are people. Everyone has the same rights. In public, my right is to photograph anyone I want. Google has the same right. If you want to take away Google's right, you're taking away mine, and I won't stand for that.
What part of this don't you understand. Whatever rights I legally have, Google has also. You can't have one law for "individuals" and another law for "groups of individuals". It doesn't even make sense to suggest such a thing.
I'm still waiting for you to make a sensible argument for why you should have an expectation of privacy in public. If people can see you from the street, you should expect to be seen from the street. It's a tautology. You're literally arguing that the definition of public is wrong.
I am free to photograph anything in public. Google is free to photograph anything in public. If you are in public, people are free to photograph you. If you don't like that, yes, you need to stay in private.. but this isn't your only option.. you can also accept that being in public means people can see (and photograph) you and learn to live with that.
The privacy concern is that privacy concerners are fucking idiots like you.
ITS IN PUBLIC. ANYTHING IN PUBLIC IS, wait for it, PUBLIC!!!!!!!!!
It doesn't matter if you collect just one little bit of public information or you collect every single piece of public information. It's public. You have no right to expect privacy IN PUBLIC.
Personally I think the blurring faces part is stupid and unnecessary.. if people find that agreeable then they should be thanking Google for doing it. Instead we have people moaning about being photographed in public.
Wow. That's pretty shitty reporting, even for The Register. Yes, Google records SSIDs and (I guess) MAC addresses of wifi APs. That way they can estimate your position for Google Maps on a mobile device, even if you have no GPS on that device. This has been public knowledge for at least a year now.
In regards to Streetview itself and recording SSIDs and such, there is simply no privacy concerns. When you are in public, people can see you. When you broadcast signals, people can receive them. If you don't want to be seen, don't go out in public. If you don't want people to see the SSID of your AP, don't broadcast it.
Constellation wasn't taking astronauts anywhere. It was never going to be built and even if it arrived gift wrapped it would have cost so much that NASA would have to cancel it immediately. The entire thing was designed for a budget that NASA never had. It really was warmed over Apollo, but without the Apollo sized budget.
Hopefully this time NASA will develop a heavy lift vehicle that is actually affordable, or learn to go beyond LEO without it.
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The National Ignition Facility is not doing research into energy production. The research they're doing will not have applications in energy production. The hope is that by understanding ignition other nuclear fusion projects will be able to make better progress.. it is completely pure research, as you would expect from a national laboratory.
If you report bugs on alpha code the developers will thank you. If you report bugs on pre-alpha code, the developers will collectively roll their eyes and suggest that maybe you should wait a month or two before installing another pre-alpha.
Oh wait, firefox, yeah.. I guess it's always pre-alpha ;)
IP has nothing to do with plagiarism. If I pay someone to write a paper for me, even if I get them to sign over the copyright for me, submitting it as my own work would be plagiarism. As for learning how to quote and cite work, sounds like they just need some remedial technical writing classes.
Thank you for the insightful article that quite a few people on this site have actually read. I know all the comments so far don't indicate that.. and you really shouldn't hold out hope for some interesting comments. Guild Wars 2 looks like it will be awesome. I look forward to reading more articles about it, and will probably buy the game when it comes out.
I continue to wait for a massively multiplayer version of GTA. Not this pathetic pickup game crap.. as if GTA is Quake or something. GTA is a sandbox game.. I want to knock down the other kid's sandcastles. I want them to try to knock down mine - and fail, because I'm better. If I have to team up with someone else I want it to be because if I don't I can't compete. And through adversity maybe I'll start to bond with my crew and fight to protect them.. but if one of them squeals to the cops, he's dead.
Dude, we've been waiting for Virgin Galactic for nearly as long.
hey! I've heard their gaming consoles are good. (I don't own one, but....)
dirty tricks?
I see you're unaware of scientology :)
I've never met an Apple product owner who didn't try to recruit me.
Sometimes you don't need to demand someone justify every minute detail in the hopes of advocating someone to switch to your favourite thing.
You do if you're in a cult. Just sayin'.
Yes, because next you'll be talking about disfigured people or movie stars or anything else you can think up to expand the argument. People are people. Everyone has the same rights. In public, my right is to photograph anyone I want. Google has the same right. If you want to take away Google's right, you're taking away mine, and I won't stand for that.
What part of this don't you understand. Whatever rights I legally have, Google has also. You can't have one law for "individuals" and another law for "groups of individuals". It doesn't even make sense to suggest such a thing.
I'm still waiting for you to make a sensible argument for why you should have an expectation of privacy in public. If people can see you from the street, you should expect to be seen from the street. It's a tautology. You're literally arguing that the definition of public is wrong.
I am free to photograph anything in public. Google is free to photograph anything in public. If you are in public, people are free to photograph you. If you don't like that, yes, you need to stay in private.. but this isn't your only option.. you can also accept that being in public means people can see (and photograph) you and learn to live with that.
Or not live in fear, yes.
Criminals exist and hiding from them (whether it be in public or getting yourself lost in a big city) is not the way to deal with them.
Thankfully more educated people than you have determined that anything that can be seen from a public place is "in public".
So you basically dismiss the very concept of someone needing (let alone simply wanting) privacy?
in public? why yes, yes I do.
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rant much?
Oh, cry me a river.
Please define wardriving and explain how Google is doing that, and then we'll have a discussion.
Until then you might as well be saying they're doing "drive-bys".
Please explain how.
The privacy concern is that privacy concerners are fucking idiots like you.
ITS IN PUBLIC. ANYTHING IN PUBLIC IS, wait for it, PUBLIC!!!!!!!!!
It doesn't matter if you collect just one little bit of public information or you collect every single piece of public information. It's public. You have no right to expect privacy IN PUBLIC.
Personally I think the blurring faces part is stupid and unnecessary.. if people find that agreeable then they should be thanking Google for doing it. Instead we have people moaning about being photographed in public.
Wow. That's pretty shitty reporting, even for The Register. Yes, Google records SSIDs and (I guess) MAC addresses of wifi APs. That way they can estimate your position for Google Maps on a mobile device, even if you have no GPS on that device. This has been public knowledge for at least a year now.
In regards to Streetview itself and recording SSIDs and such, there is simply no privacy concerns. When you are in public, people can see you. When you broadcast signals, people can receive them. If you don't want to be seen, don't go out in public. If you don't want people to see the SSID of your AP, don't broadcast it.
Constellation wasn't taking astronauts anywhere. It was never going to be built and even if it arrived gift wrapped it would have cost so much that NASA would have to cancel it immediately. The entire thing was designed for a budget that NASA never had. It really was warmed over Apollo, but without the Apollo sized budget.
Hopefully this time NASA will develop a heavy lift vehicle that is actually affordable, or learn to go beyond LEO without it.