So when I walk out of a gas station because they wanted to see my license because I wanted to pay for a coke and some chips with my credit card, can I do anything about it?
IOW, is reporting violators of 2) in the above post actually worthwhile?
It means that my communications are being scanned by a third party, and that I should self-censor accordingly.
What gives you the impression that any other web host wouldn't also be doing this? Do you self censor when sending through any system that does spam detection? They're "scanning" your messages too you know.
I'd hazard a guess whatever MySpace collects it's still gonna end up costing them more in attorney fees than they could have spent on a technological solution.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that an issue whenever you're collecting a settlement --be it an insurance payment, accident related, child support or whatever?
First off, thanks for speaking up. People talking about juries being collections of idiots are a dime a dozen, your story is a bit less common.
However I have to say: Aside from the fact that you and your fellow jurors did as thorough a job as possible, do you think that you were the exception or the rule? What kind of selection process did you go through (ie, was it obvious or apparent that the lawyers involved were trying to select for some bias?)
If those people believe that confining an obviously dangerous dog rather than letting it roam unsupervised is "a lot to ask" then frankly sir, your friend and his father are idiots.
One day, it will bite someone on the "okay" list, coming up the driveway when it is (in violation of leash law, bet on it) running loose, or who inadvertently surprised it in the house. Then it will be put down, and the victim may well become the new farm owner once a court sees how carelessly this guy handles dangerous animals.
This is just a tangential question--How exactly do you (as an employer) know whether or not the person you're interviewing "thrives" in the stressful, fast paced environment of the elite tech program they just graduated from, or just managed to survive a few years of it (and maybe now are a hairsbreadth from a complete breakdown)?
I would guess one just gains a feel for that sort of thing after interviewing experience, but I'm curious. As the AC mentioned below--only a small percentage of people actually do well in that kind of high tension living, whether at work or at school, so it seems like you'd almost be selecting for burnout candidates.
What's the problem? 300 people connect to the BBC and stream Benny Hill. Those 300 streams take X amount of bandwidth, once for every subscriber, and 300 times for the BBC.
Each subscriber pays for his little tube, and the BBC pays for it's tube big enough to carry 300 Benny Hill streams.
So what's the problem? Why are ISPs bitching?
The problem is that while the ISP has sold 300 tubes, it only actually has 80
Think of it as the equivalent of your engraving your SSN on your very expensive tools, so that if they're ripped off you can prove they're yours. That's a wonderful comparison acutally.
Now, think of the police coming to your door with a crowbar that has your SSN on it found at the scene of a crime.
Seems like lots of the better/more-known writers packed up and went on tour performing stand-up type gigs with the material they come up with, rather than handing it over to a show.
Who's being fooled though? It's stated clearly when you get those applications on your facebook profile that your info is being shared, and there's a link right there that explains in very plain language what is open to being shared with the application devs.
While you are dead right in saying that humans are predictable (in this case following the crowds in installing these things just because "all my friends have it") but I fail to see how anything is going on here save for users failing to examine what they're doing.
Maybe I'm just that suspicious, but the first time I went to look at one of those "applications" on facebook, the first checkbox in a list of a half dozen you can select before you hit "go" was a riff on "Allow this application to access my personal info" ---I automatically assumed that meant ALL my info, and promptly cancelled whatever it was.
Did anyone ever really have the assumption that that information was needed to make the app function, and not just a way of tricking users into giving up demographic info to third parties?
Personally I'm not sure Facebook is in the wrong on this one. It's up in big letters that you're giving whatever application it is access to your personal info--and all those things are OPTIONAL to place in your profile. I don't know that it should their fault that users don't think it through and then become surprised/outraged when they find out what it really means.
My ancient Moto startac was dropped in snow, under water (stuck in a toilet no less) for hours and both times worked fine after being dried out. A friend of mine threw his against a wall and, after taping the case together, it still worked as I recall.
The tradeoff of course, was the damn antenna on those snapped off if you so much as looked at it funny.
Then again, these are not Mr Paul's words or views ("The Ron Paul Campaign" ?) --They have been sterilised, vetted, re-vetted and possibly not even drafted by Paul.
I've been scrolling down this thread trying to figure a reply that covers my disastrous java experience in comp sci classes(I'm a computer engineer by major, took a number of CS courses that were all in Java)
I think perhaps you hit the nail on the head when you said: "That means you have the choice of either teaching all the principles of objects in the very first lesson - even before variables, or telling your class to ignore all the cruft at the top while you try to teach the basics."
--My professors (horrific teaching skills aside) did just that. "Oh, just copy paste this stuff at the top of your program each time" so we never really learned about classes or any real object oriented programming until the very end, and it was glossed over and probably skipped on the exam. Couple that with things like an unhelpful (IMO--the programming descriptions failed to illustrate many things to me by virtue of poor examples) textbook, developing in Notepad and testing from the console (Slow, tedious and uninformative to a beginner) made many of us just lose interest entirely in programming.
Disclaimer:2 Yes, I ended up a software engineer (visual basic shop) I picked up OOP pretty quickly once I got ahold of visual studio and got some competent instruction from co workers.
I can't speak for everyone of cousre, but with a 1hr each way commute (about 40 miles) I'm thinking: "Right now it's cheaper|affordable for me to live where I do and drive than to pay significantly higher rent (or property taxes *shudder*) to live 'in town'" --Not to mention the aversion to living crammed together in apartments or developments or what have you.
Now granted rising gas prices may change that thinking (and I'm already starting to reconsider) but a car that goes 80 miles on a charge won't do me any good either as I'd have to go straight to work, straight home, recharge (if this was FAST it might not be so bad) before going to run errands or to the pub or whatever.
Keeping a gas-only vehicle around for trips is an idea, but between the ongoing insurance on an additional car and the one-time cost of purchase it seems like it's going to take a long time before you see savings.
That seems really interesting but (Warning: non audio engineer question ahead) How would you deal with the distortion the audio goes through between transmission and general crappy quality input (ie microphones) on the phones themselves?
I guess the little dinky mic may not be so different from a typical bootleg though...Still, neat idea. It makes sense that you could do that kind of manipulation, but I'd never really considered it (Signals *really* is not my forte)
You can blame that on credit card processing companies. When I worked at a retail outlet, we had a hell of a time dealing with prepaid cards. Some would work, some wouldn't (even two different ones from e.g. Visa or MC might have different results) --If I were more cynical, i'd suspect taht these vendors have no interest in getting prepaid cards ot work, so they can push their own gift card solutions to their customers.
Soundsl ike your earbuds might have been too large? In-ear buds should fit snugly but never hurt. I haev a pair of Shure E2Cs that, with the larger size earbud ARE painful to fit in, but they come with a number of different sized buds of two or three different hardnesses to fit the wearer's preference.
Curious what you mean about putting the soundstage between your ears though--I mean I know what you mean, but I don't undrestand how it would be different with headphones.
Student discount software IS available in most US campus bookstores for anyone with a valid ID.
For Microsoft gear though, lots of (public ones at least) universities have a deal through the comp sci department where you can get MS software either free or for a song as long as you've taken a comp sci class or two. I don't recall if they were available to the general student population along with the student versions of Photoshop and so on, but if they were, it definitely wasn't as such a steep discount.
Any corporation with a name can do that in this state. All you hafta do is find a county that's empty and poor due to textiles leaving, and you'll be welcomed with open arms.
Don't get me wrong, I love Guinness, but I don't find it particularly stout-y. Give me Beamish or Murphy's for a stout fix and Guinness for Guinness' sake.
I distinctly recall demo SNES and N64 units having the same behavior "back in the day" --you'd play for about five-ten minutes and the thing would reset on you.
I had always figured that there was an extra mechanism built into the demo console for just that purpose: keeping someone from monopolizing the thing. Doesn't seem like THAT much of a stretch that the PS3s would perhaps do the same?
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So when I walk out of a gas station because they wanted to see my license because I wanted to pay for a coke and some chips with my credit card, can I do anything about it?
IOW, is reporting violators of 2) in the above post actually worthwhile?
It means that my communications are being scanned by a third party, and that I should self-censor accordingly.
What gives you the impression that any other web host wouldn't also be doing this? Do you self censor when sending through any system that does spam detection? They're "scanning" your messages too you know.
I'd hazard a guess whatever MySpace collects it's still gonna end up costing them more in attorney fees than they could have spent on a technological solution.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that an issue whenever you're collecting a settlement --be it an insurance payment, accident related, child support or whatever?
If it just goes click you may be in trouble...
First off, thanks for speaking up. People talking about juries being collections of idiots are a dime a dozen, your story is a bit less common.
However I have to say: Aside from the fact that you and your fellow jurors did as thorough a job as possible, do you think that you were the exception or the rule? What kind of selection process did you go through (ie, was it obvious or apparent that the lawyers involved were trying to select for some bias?)
If those people believe that confining an obviously dangerous dog rather than letting it roam unsupervised is "a lot to ask" then frankly sir, your friend and his father are idiots.
One day, it will bite someone on the "okay" list, coming up the driveway when it is (in violation of leash law, bet on it) running loose, or who inadvertently surprised it in the house. Then it will be put down, and the victim may well become the new farm owner once a court sees how carelessly this guy handles dangerous animals.
This is just a tangential question--How exactly do you (as an employer) know whether or not the person you're interviewing "thrives" in the stressful, fast paced environment of the elite tech program they just graduated from, or just managed to survive a few years of it (and maybe now are a hairsbreadth from a complete breakdown)?
I would guess one just gains a feel for that sort of thing after interviewing experience, but I'm curious. As the AC mentioned below--only a small percentage of people actually do well in that kind of high tension living, whether at work or at school, so it seems like you'd almost be selecting for burnout candidates.
You might win twice, duh.
Each subscriber pays for his little tube, and the BBC pays for it's tube big enough to carry 300 Benny Hill streams.
The problem is that while the ISP has sold 300 tubes, it only actually has 80So what's the problem? Why are ISPs bitching?
Now, think of the police coming to your door with a crowbar that has your SSN on it found at the scene of a crime.
Seems like lots of the better/more-known writers packed up and went on tour performing stand-up type gigs with the material they come up with, rather than handing it over to a show.
Who's being fooled though? It's stated clearly when you get those applications on your facebook profile that your info is being shared, and there's a link right there that explains in very plain language what is open to being shared with the application devs.
While you are dead right in saying that humans are predictable (in this case following the crowds in installing these things just because "all my friends have it") but I fail to see how anything is going on here save for users failing to examine what they're doing.
Maybe I'm just that suspicious, but the first time I went to look at one of those "applications" on facebook, the first checkbox in a list of a half dozen you can select before you hit "go" was a riff on "Allow this application to access my personal info" ---I automatically assumed that meant ALL my info, and promptly cancelled whatever it was.
Did anyone ever really have the assumption that that information was needed to make the app function, and not just a way of tricking users into giving up demographic info to third parties?
Personally I'm not sure Facebook is in the wrong on this one. It's up in big letters that you're giving whatever application it is access to your personal info--and all those things are OPTIONAL to place in your profile. I don't know that it should their fault that users don't think it through and then become surprised/outraged when they find out what it really means.
My ancient Moto startac was dropped in snow, under water (stuck in a toilet no less) for hours and both times worked fine after being dried out. A friend of mine threw his against a wall and, after taping the case together, it still worked as I recall.
The tradeoff of course, was the damn antenna on those snapped off if you so much as looked at it funny.
And question 3, really.
Then again, these are not Mr Paul's words or views ("The Ron Paul Campaign" ?) --They have been sterilised, vetted, re-vetted and possibly not even drafted by Paul.
I've been scrolling down this thread trying to figure a reply that covers my disastrous java experience in comp sci classes(I'm a computer engineer by major, took a number of CS courses that were all in Java)
I think perhaps you hit the nail on the head when you said:
"That means you have the choice of either teaching all the principles of objects in the very first lesson - even before variables, or telling your class to ignore all the cruft at the top while you try to teach the basics."
--My professors (horrific teaching skills aside) did just that. "Oh, just copy paste this stuff at the top of your program each time" so we never really learned about classes or any real object oriented programming until the very end, and it was glossed over and probably skipped on the exam. Couple that with things like an unhelpful (IMO--the programming descriptions failed to illustrate many things to me by virtue of poor examples) textbook, developing in Notepad and testing from the console (Slow, tedious and uninformative to a beginner) made many of us just lose interest entirely in programming.
Disclaimer:2 Yes, I ended up a software engineer (visual basic shop) I picked up OOP pretty quickly once I got ahold of visual studio and got some competent instruction from co workers.
I can't speak for everyone of cousre, but with a 1hr each way commute (about 40 miles) I'm thinking: "Right now it's cheaper|affordable for me to live where I do and drive than to pay significantly higher rent (or property taxes *shudder*) to live 'in town'" --Not to mention the aversion to living crammed together in apartments or developments or what have you.
Now granted rising gas prices may change that thinking (and I'm already starting to reconsider) but a car that goes 80 miles on a charge won't do me any good either as I'd have to go straight to work, straight home, recharge (if this was FAST it might not be so bad) before going to run errands or to the pub or whatever.
Keeping a gas-only vehicle around for trips is an idea, but between the ongoing insurance on an additional car and the one-time cost of purchase it seems like it's going to take a long time before you see savings.
That seems really interesting but (Warning: non audio engineer question ahead) How would you deal with the distortion the audio goes through between transmission and general crappy quality input (ie microphones) on the phones themselves?
I guess the little dinky mic may not be so different from a typical bootleg though...Still, neat idea. It makes sense that you could do that kind of manipulation, but I'd never really considered it (Signals *really* is not my forte)
You can blame that on credit card processing companies. When I worked at a retail outlet, we had a hell of a time dealing with prepaid cards. Some would work, some wouldn't (even two different ones from e.g. Visa or MC might have different results) --If I were more cynical, i'd suspect taht these vendors have no interest in getting prepaid cards ot work, so they can push their own gift card solutions to their customers.
Soundsl ike your earbuds might have been too large? In-ear buds should fit snugly but never hurt. I haev a pair of Shure E2Cs that, with the larger size earbud ARE painful to fit in, but they come with a number of different sized buds of two or three different hardnesses to fit the wearer's preference.
Curious what you mean about putting the soundstage between your ears though--I mean I know what you mean, but I don't undrestand how it would be different with headphones.
Depends on your school and staff I guess. I think the girls in my EE classes got cut a fair bit more slack than the guys for whatever reason.
Student discount software IS available in most US campus bookstores for anyone with a valid ID.
For Microsoft gear though, lots of (public ones at least) universities have a deal through the comp sci department where you can get MS software either free or for a song as long as you've taken a comp sci class or two. I don't recall if they were available to the general student population along with the student versions of Photoshop and so on, but if they were, it definitely wasn't as such a steep discount.
Any corporation with a name can do that in this state. All you hafta do is find a county that's empty and poor due to textiles leaving, and you'll be welcomed with open arms.
Barely.
Don't get me wrong, I love Guinness, but I don't find it particularly stout-y. Give me Beamish or Murphy's for a stout fix and Guinness for Guinness' sake.
I distinctly recall demo SNES and N64 units having the same behavior "back in the day" --you'd play for about five-ten minutes and the thing would reset on you.
I had always figured that there was an extra mechanism built into the demo console for just that purpose: keeping someone from monopolizing the thing. Doesn't seem like THAT much of a stretch that the PS3s would perhaps do the same?