Every Cell phone manufactured for sale in the US has had (as mandated by law) GPS circuitry built in since 2003. Many phones don't give the user access to that feature, and many may only activate it at action of dialing 911, but the capability is there. Though I admit it's useability per a subpoena probably varies greatly from device to device.
Prove that I changed the radio. For that matter, I know my pre-programmed stations and can switch between them without a glance.
Criminal prosecution requires proof of the act. The DA can and will simply subpoena your cell records to prove you were texting or talking on the phone at the time. They can suboena everybody in the world and will not be able to prove I reached over and tapped the second button on my radio, to switch to my second favorite country music station.
The automotive industry has put a great deal of research into ensuring that radio's, AC controls and the like are within reach and configured to allow for easy adjustment without requiring much thought or more than a brief glance. No such research has been put into any texting device. Instead the buttons keep getting smaller and smaller requireing increased focus in order to be able to type, even if you don't have to look you have to mentally monitor what your fingers are doing. "Did I tap that key three or four times for the letter I wanted?" and so on.
Not to mention that changing the radio requires the thought process of "reach over and tap button two" Whereas texting requires thinking about what you are saying, how you are planning on typing it (correct spelling versus txt spllng) and then selecting the correct recipient and hitting send.
Many slashdotters have tried to equate the two activities, there is no comparison. Texting requires substantially more focus and time than switching radio stations. The comparison just does not work.
You can't have a respected office, no matter how good the candidate is, if they're a drunken lout in their off hours.
Please explain Senator Ted Kennedy then? A drunken, homicidal lout who has managed to stay in office for how many decades? And is deferred to with respect by many in both parties.
And please cite the relevant portion of the Constitution that states drunken college party pics are grounds for exclusion from holding office.
Most folks I know tend to think people usually grow up after leaving college for the real world. And thus would ignore such pics if not for the Media hyping every such incident ad nauseum.
Well if even one drug bust failed because the perps recognized the officers due to that site, then she has "Aided and abetted a criminal."
Yes she can rightfully claim free speech in what she's posting, but if the police and the prosecutors can dredge up a couple druggies who say her blog helped them avoid arrest, then she is facing some serious charges.
Remember freedom of speech is not an unlimited freedom, and use of speech comes with responsibilities. You cannot shout fire in a crowded theater. You cannot freely slander/libel someone without consequences, and if your information puts hardworking public servants at risk, or compromises ongoing investigations or drug-busts, you are also breaking the law. And you are liable for the results.
Easy to get service without contracts? Service that gives you Nationwide travel capabilities? I haven't bought a phone from a service provider in about six years now. I just ebay new unlocked phones when I need a new one. Yet periodically they manage to re-instate a contract, what for?
Want your nighttime minutes to start at seven? No problem we can add that, just agree to this contract here.
Tired of paying by the message for your text messages? Okay, here is an unlimited texting plan, just sign the contract right there.
Oh You got married and want to combine your two plans (from the same carrier) into a family plan? Sure thing, just sign the contract.
Heck I had a shop try to add a new contract one time when I went in to replace a SIM card when my phone was stolen. (I already had an alternate handset, that was fully capable. I just needed the SIM.)
And of course, not once did I actually get anything of even close to the value of the $150 ETF, I would have had to pay for terminating the contract early.
It's been a couple years now so some things might have changed but I used to work customer service for Sprint. I know the games they play and I know how they work.
Sure you can go with the local providers, who do a much better job of trying to actually provide customer service in addition to a signal. Or you can go with a pay as you go phone. It is possible to avoid a contract. But is the service as good?
A couple anecdotes about one model of one car do not equal the actions and production of an industry.
Fact is, if your examples were the standard, GM Chrysler, and Ford would have been out of business long ago, despite any and everything the Gov might try to keep them afloat.
Instead, just a couple years ago they were rocking. They were having a hard time keeping up with the demand for the vehicles we Americans wanted to buy. Then gas prices skyrocketed and we stopped buying those types of cars (SUV's) in a hurry, leaving the US manufacturers with very weak lines of fuel efficient cars, (weak as in poor selection, not poor quality), because prior to the gas price crunch we didn't want to buy those types of cars. Gas was cheap and we wanted power and muscle, not fuel efficiency. Now Prices have dropped but we're mostly too afraid to step back into the gas guzzler markets because we still remember $4 (or higher) a gallon gas.
Add to that the very real issue with the Union Pension and Healthcare burdens, and the dirty trick of the Unions agreeing to work for less money and benefits in the foreign brand factories and you get the current situation.
It's not because you and your neighbors had bad luck with one model of low end car.
Where do you get the 2-3 generations/every few years?
Have there been studies I haven't heard of where they take the leaf eating variety into captivity and feed them only seeds for a few generations to see if they change? If so it should be loudly announced.
What was found was that the finches Darwin (or his aide really) caught and brought back to England were found to be multiple variants of the same species based on what they ate. I have never seen anything stating those changes took place in a short period of time.
obesity is largely a result of your lifestyle in most cases.
In many cases it is, but my family tends to be very tall and slender, and it's genetic, both my sons are in the upper percentiles, 90% or higher for both of them, for height but usually come in at 20 to 40% for weight, and my siblings are all tall and slender, though I appear to be the extreme case in the family.
I eat whatever I feel like, drink my Dew like it comes out of the tap, but I am still several pounds below what I "Should" weigh for my height. I'm also lazy and would rather play on the computer or read a book than go for a run or step anywhere near a gym.
That said, if someone were to isolate the genes that cause this tendency to be tall and thin, and then we were to start genetically modifying all children, introduction of my genes to replace those specific genes in others could and should decrease the incidence of Obesity.
The thing is, there is a real difference between getting a little further away from the city, and being in a truly artificial light free area. (Going to a higher altitude also helps.)
I've spent plenty of time camping in the mountains where I live (Utah). I enjoy stargazing when away from the cities, but I have never seen the stars like I was able to observe them, while deployed to a blacked out base in a remote valley in Afghanistan last year. The stars and the Milky Way were a big part of why I really enjoyed the fact that I always came off duty in the middle of the night. My only problem was keeping from tripping as I tried to walk back to my barracks with my head craned up to the sky on a clear night with a new moon. And when the moon was fairly full, most people would do without their red or green flashlights to walk around.
Oh and night vision devices really do bring out the shooting stars but I preferred just the natural sky.
Correct, Sensitive is specifically interpreted to mean non-classified information that is exempt from FOIA release, data such as SSN's and unit rosters and the like.
I have two, we plan on needing a third next year some time. When we purchased the seats we have we intentionally shopped for the narrowest seats we could find.
Granted when child number three comes along, number one will be moving into a booster seat which will be a little narrower and the new kid'll be in an equally slightly narrower infant seat for a while, but still currently with the two seats in the back of my wifes car there is about 12 inches between the seats, the narrowest car seats on the market are 17.5 inches wide. Even with the narrower booster seat and infant seat, there will still be insufficient room. And this in a relatively roomy Stratus, not some Honda or Toyota sedan.
When the next kid comes along, it'll come with a mini-van in order to be able to seat all three kids safely and in accordance with the law.
No what happened is that the Iron Curtain collapsed followed quickly by the Soviet Union and then Yugoslavia. Your country was lucky that the Serb population was rather low, so ol Milosevic let you withdraw from the Yugo Republic with little conflict. Something that your neighbors in croatia didn't get the benefit of, and Bosnia most definately didn't get the benefit of.
Oh and you do participate in operations in foreign countries, Slovenia is part of NATO and has troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia. Joining NATO was a big part of restructuring from a conscript army to a professional army (It wasn't required but allows for greater interoperability with other professional armys as found in most NATO members).
So to claim the choice to move away from a conscript based military was because of some public choice to attain a higher degree of civilization or morality is patently false.
Great points, and even better yet go back to the fingerprint idea. The Doctor/nurse uses the card and fingerprint option to initially log in. Once in the card is removed, if the machine is idle for more than 60 seconds it bounces to the locked screensaver and a brief swipe of the fingerprint unlocks it.
After say, 10 minutes of no activity it saves and closes the record and logs the user out. Or the insertion of another person's card saves the record, logs out the original person and allows the new person to log in.
Or rather than requiring the smart card to be inserted, go with an RFI chipped card that only needs to be touched to the reader to unlock the screen (or even a magnetic swipe card). That way the medical staff can keep their ID cards around their necks on lanyards like they already do and just tap the card against the reader (or swipe it) to unlock the machine.
A simple system that does not require taking the time to insert a card into a slot reader and rememeber to remove it when done is easy to picture. This should be a key feature.
Currently the U.S. Military operates with smart cards that must be inserted into the computer to log in to it. People are continually forgetting to pull their card at the end of the day, and having to try to convince security to let them in the next day because their official I.D. card is in their work computer where it has been sitting since the day before.
I wasn't running around outside the wire, but my Mil-issued Ipod Classic 80gig (for language study purposes) survived my tour in Afghanistan just fine. More than ruggedness, I'd be worried about whether or not the soldiers will be allowed to put some music or movies on the devices for use during their down times. They should be so allowed.
Is slashdot linkable to acts or threats of violence designed to inculcate fear among the populace in order to forment social or governmental changes to meet the social, religious, or political goals of slashdot?
If not, and I feel safe in saying NOT, then slashdot and most if not all those sites do not belong in this report.
Why don't you post again when you have a toddler or three, each of whomwho will simply collapse into a pile of screaming toddler flesh, the second time you strap them into their reins? (They will most likely try it once, until they realize what that harness means.)
Your experience with the kid in the street does show that the father was a little lax in sticking close to his child, but doesn't really relate to the issue.
Yes, you tolerated the reins, so your children may as well, but not necessarily, each little person is his or her own unique personality with his or her own unique opinions which at that age get shared most often via screams and tears.
And as others have noted, holding hands with your child works great and has to be so much more satisfying. I say has to be because I haven't attempted to control my toddler with reins, I've seen others do it and haven't been the least tempted to do so.
Absolutely correct, let me add to your knowledgebase my being in the military and with my duties including being actually involved in assesing of threat vulnerabilities (Identifying weaknesses in security and how to fix them.), you hit the nail on the head.
But you did forget the easiest way to circumvent the 3 oz rule. Slap a prescription label on it and they'll wave it right through.
At the end of their report on the bat they speculate whether the bat was still clinging to the shuttle when it docked witht the ISS. How they think it managed to jump from the external tank to the shuttle during lift-off is beyond me.
People who live within their means and act responsibly are not the ones who took out interest only mortgages they could just barely afford to pay, expecting to be able to flip the house in a couple years for a profit.
People who live within their means and act responsibly, make their mortgage payments on time and usually try to pay a little extra each month. They also purchase houses they can afford, rather than the McMansions they somehow think they deserve.
And People who live within their means and act responsibly are not the ones who've been getting forclosed on. Now they might be getting into trouble now if their jobs are evaporating, but they are far from the "Target" of any Federally Sanctioned highway robbery program.
The only way they were victimized was in that the housing bubble caused by mortgages issued to people who wer irresponsible and didn't live within their means, push the costs of houses up, thus lowering the size/quality of house that the responsible people could responsibly afford.
Me, I would have liked to buy a larger home in 2005, but my wife and I looked at what we would be able to afford and only looked at homes in that price range.
Be mad, but be mad at those who really deserve the blame. Everyone in congress who voted in the bill in the mid 90's that started the bubble, by encourgaging, nay, forcing lenders to issue more loans to sub-prime customers. And be mad at everyone who tried to buy the abosolutely largest home they could possible stretch to afford, hoping to flip the houses or get massive raises before their ARM doubled or even tripled their payment due each month.
And be mad at the previous Treasury Sec who chose to use the bailout money to buy stock in the struggling banks with little accountability, rather than by buying the bad debts, and refinancing those mortgages at minimal interest rates so the homebuyers could maybe once again make the payments.
Drives that have had TS data on them don't get donated anywhere, in one way or another they get destroyed.
So your charity while good intentioned will never get drives that have held such data.
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Every Cell phone manufactured for sale in the US has had (as mandated by law) GPS circuitry built in since 2003. Many phones don't give the user access to that feature, and many may only activate it at action of dialing 911, but the capability is there. Though I admit it's useability per a subpoena probably varies greatly from device to device.
Prove that I changed the radio. For that matter, I know my pre-programmed stations and can switch between them without a glance.
Criminal prosecution requires proof of the act. The DA can and will simply subpoena your cell records to prove you were texting or talking on the phone at the time. They can suboena everybody in the world and will not be able to prove I reached over and tapped the second button on my radio, to switch to my second favorite country music station.
The automotive industry has put a great deal of research into ensuring that radio's, AC controls and the like are within reach and configured to allow for easy adjustment without requiring much thought or more than a brief glance. No such research has been put into any texting device. Instead the buttons keep getting smaller and smaller requireing increased focus in order to be able to type, even if you don't have to look you have to mentally monitor what your fingers are doing. "Did I tap that key three or four times for the letter I wanted?" and so on.
Not to mention that changing the radio requires the thought process of "reach over and tap button two" Whereas texting requires thinking about what you are saying, how you are planning on typing it (correct spelling versus txt spllng) and then selecting the correct recipient and hitting send.
Many slashdotters have tried to equate the two activities, there is no comparison. Texting requires substantially more focus and time than switching radio stations. The comparison just does not work.
And proof of texting is only a subpoena away, whereas there is no proof to be had of switching a radio station or adjusting the AC.
The cell phone carrier has the proof of texting.
Cite please. You lambast the GP for his unsupported assertions but fail to support any of your own.
You can't have a respected office, no matter how good the candidate is, if they're a drunken lout in their off hours.
Please explain Senator Ted Kennedy then? A drunken, homicidal lout who has managed to stay in office for how many decades? And is deferred to with respect by many in both parties.
And please cite the relevant portion of the Constitution that states drunken college party pics are grounds for exclusion from holding office.
Most folks I know tend to think people usually grow up after leaving college for the real world. And thus would ignore such pics if not for the Media hyping every such incident ad nauseum.
Well if even one drug bust failed because the perps recognized the officers due to that site, then she has "Aided and abetted a criminal."
Yes she can rightfully claim free speech in what she's posting, but if the police and the prosecutors can dredge up a couple druggies who say her blog helped them avoid arrest, then she is facing some serious charges.
Remember freedom of speech is not an unlimited freedom, and use of speech comes with responsibilities. You cannot shout fire in a crowded theater. You cannot freely slander/libel someone without consequences, and if your information puts hardworking public servants at risk, or compromises ongoing investigations or drug-busts, you are also breaking the law. And you are liable for the results.
Easy to get service without contracts? Service that gives you Nationwide travel capabilities? I haven't bought a phone from a service provider in about six years now. I just ebay new unlocked phones when I need a new one. Yet periodically they manage to re-instate a contract, what for?
Want your nighttime minutes to start at seven? No problem we can add that, just agree to this contract here.
Tired of paying by the message for your text messages? Okay, here is an unlimited texting plan, just sign the contract right there.
Oh You got married and want to combine your two plans (from the same carrier) into a family plan? Sure thing, just sign the contract.
Heck I had a shop try to add a new contract one time when I went in to replace a SIM card when my phone was stolen. (I already had an alternate handset, that was fully capable. I just needed the SIM.)
And of course, not once did I actually get anything of even close to the value of the $150 ETF, I would have had to pay for terminating the contract early.
It's been a couple years now so some things might have changed but I used to work customer service for Sprint. I know the games they play and I know how they work.
Sure you can go with the local providers, who do a much better job of trying to actually provide customer service in addition to a signal. Or you can go with a pay as you go phone. It is possible to avoid a contract. But is the service as good?
A couple anecdotes about one model of one car do not equal the actions and production of an industry.
Fact is, if your examples were the standard, GM Chrysler, and Ford would have been out of business long ago, despite any and everything the Gov might try to keep them afloat.
Instead, just a couple years ago they were rocking. They were having a hard time keeping up with the demand for the vehicles we Americans wanted to buy. Then gas prices skyrocketed and we stopped buying those types of cars (SUV's) in a hurry, leaving the US manufacturers with very weak lines of fuel efficient cars, (weak as in poor selection, not poor quality), because prior to the gas price crunch we didn't want to buy those types of cars. Gas was cheap and we wanted power and muscle, not fuel efficiency. Now Prices have dropped but we're mostly too afraid to step back into the gas guzzler markets because we still remember $4 (or higher) a gallon gas.
Add to that the very real issue with the Union Pension and Healthcare burdens, and the dirty trick of the Unions agreeing to work for less money and benefits in the foreign brand factories and you get the current situation.
It's not because you and your neighbors had bad luck with one model of low end car.
Where do you get the 2-3 generations/every few years?
Have there been studies I haven't heard of where they take the leaf eating variety into captivity and feed them only seeds for a few generations to see if they change? If so it should be loudly announced.
What was found was that the finches Darwin (or his aide really) caught and brought back to England were found to be multiple variants of the same species based on what they ate. I have never seen anything stating those changes took place in a short period of time.
obesity is largely a result of your lifestyle in most cases.
In many cases it is, but my family tends to be very tall and slender, and it's genetic, both my sons are in the upper percentiles, 90% or higher for both of them, for height but usually come in at 20 to 40% for weight, and my siblings are all tall and slender, though I appear to be the extreme case in the family.
I eat whatever I feel like, drink my Dew like it comes out of the tap, but I am still several pounds below what I "Should" weigh for my height. I'm also lazy and would rather play on the computer or read a book than go for a run or step anywhere near a gym.
That said, if someone were to isolate the genes that cause this tendency to be tall and thin, and then we were to start genetically modifying all children, introduction of my genes to replace those specific genes in others could and should decrease the incidence of Obesity.
The thing is, there is a real difference between getting a little further away from the city, and being in a truly artificial light free area. (Going to a higher altitude also helps.)
I've spent plenty of time camping in the mountains where I live (Utah). I enjoy stargazing when away from the cities, but I have never seen the stars like I was able to observe them, while deployed to a blacked out base in a remote valley in Afghanistan last year. The stars and the Milky Way were a big part of why I really enjoyed the fact that I always came off duty in the middle of the night. My only problem was keeping from tripping as I tried to walk back to my barracks with my head craned up to the sky on a clear night with a new moon. And when the moon was fairly full, most people would do without their red or green flashlights to walk around.
Oh and night vision devices really do bring out the shooting stars but I preferred just the natural sky.
Correct, Sensitive is specifically interpreted to mean non-classified information that is exempt from FOIA release, data such as SSN's and unit rosters and the like.
How many car seats do you have in your car?
I have two, we plan on needing a third next year some time. When we purchased the seats we have we intentionally shopped for the narrowest seats we could find.
Granted when child number three comes along, number one will be moving into a booster seat which will be a little narrower and the new kid'll be in an equally slightly narrower infant seat for a while, but still currently with the two seats in the back of my wifes car there is about 12 inches between the seats, the narrowest car seats on the market are 17.5 inches wide. Even with the narrower booster seat and infant seat, there will still be insufficient room. And this in a relatively roomy Stratus, not some Honda or Toyota sedan.
When the next kid comes along, it'll come with a mini-van in order to be able to seat all three kids safely and in accordance with the law.
No what happened is that the Iron Curtain collapsed followed quickly by the Soviet Union and then Yugoslavia. Your country was lucky that the Serb population was rather low, so ol Milosevic let you withdraw from the Yugo Republic with little conflict. Something that your neighbors in croatia didn't get the benefit of, and Bosnia most definately didn't get the benefit of.
Oh and you do participate in operations in foreign countries, Slovenia is part of NATO and has troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia. Joining NATO was a big part of restructuring from a conscript army to a professional army (It wasn't required but allows for greater interoperability with other professional armys as found in most NATO members).
So to claim the choice to move away from a conscript based military was because of some public choice to attain a higher degree of civilization or morality is patently false.
Great points, and even better yet go back to the fingerprint idea. The Doctor/nurse uses the card and fingerprint option to initially log in. Once in the card is removed, if the machine is idle for more than 60 seconds it bounces to the locked screensaver and a brief swipe of the fingerprint unlocks it.
After say, 10 minutes of no activity it saves and closes the record and logs the user out. Or the insertion of another person's card saves the record, logs out the original person and allows the new person to log in.
Or rather than requiring the smart card to be inserted, go with an RFI chipped card that only needs to be touched to the reader to unlock the screen (or even a magnetic swipe card). That way the medical staff can keep their ID cards around their necks on lanyards like they already do and just tap the card against the reader (or swipe it) to unlock the machine.
A simple system that does not require taking the time to insert a card into a slot reader and rememeber to remove it when done is easy to picture. This should be a key feature.
Currently the U.S. Military operates with smart cards that must be inserted into the computer to log in to it. People are continually forgetting to pull their card at the end of the day, and having to try to convince security to let them in the next day because their official I.D. card is in their work computer where it has been sitting since the day before.
I wasn't running around outside the wire, but my Mil-issued Ipod Classic 80gig (for language study purposes) survived my tour in Afghanistan just fine. More than ruggedness, I'd be worried about whether or not the soldiers will be allowed to put some music or movies on the devices for use during their down times. They should be so allowed.
Is slashdot linkable to acts or threats of violence designed to inculcate fear among the populace in order to forment social or governmental changes to meet the social, religious, or political goals of slashdot?
If not, and I feel safe in saying NOT, then slashdot and most if not all those sites do not belong in this report.
Why don't you post again when you have a toddler or three, each of whomwho will simply collapse into a pile of screaming toddler flesh, the second time you strap them into their reins? (They will most likely try it once, until they realize what that harness means.)
Your experience with the kid in the street does show that the father was a little lax in sticking close to his child, but doesn't really relate to the issue.
Yes, you tolerated the reins, so your children may as well, but not necessarily, each little person is his or her own unique personality with his or her own unique opinions which at that age get shared most often via screams and tears.
And as others have noted, holding hands with your child works great and has to be so much more satisfying. I say has to be because I haven't attempted to control my toddler with reins, I've seen others do it and haven't been the least tempted to do so.
Absolutely correct, let me add to your knowledgebase my being in the military and with my duties including being actually involved in assesing of threat vulnerabilities (Identifying weaknesses in security and how to fix them.), you hit the nail on the head.
But you did forget the easiest way to circumvent the 3 oz rule. Slap a prescription label on it and they'll wave it right through.
True. So very true.
At the end of their report on the bat they speculate whether the bat was still clinging to the shuttle when it docked witht the ISS. How they think it managed to jump from the external tank to the shuttle during lift-off is beyond me.
People who live within their means and act responsibly are not the ones who took out interest only mortgages they could just barely afford to pay, expecting to be able to flip the house in a couple years for a profit.
People who live within their means and act responsibly, make their mortgage payments on time and usually try to pay a little extra each month. They also purchase houses they can afford, rather than the McMansions they somehow think they deserve.
And People who live within their means and act responsibly are not the ones who've been getting forclosed on. Now they might be getting into trouble now if their jobs are evaporating, but they are far from the "Target" of any Federally Sanctioned highway robbery program.
The only way they were victimized was in that the housing bubble caused by mortgages issued to people who wer irresponsible and didn't live within their means, push the costs of houses up, thus lowering the size/quality of house that the responsible people could responsibly afford.
Me, I would have liked to buy a larger home in 2005, but my wife and I looked at what we would be able to afford and only looked at homes in that price range.
Be mad, but be mad at those who really deserve the blame. Everyone in congress who voted in the bill in the mid 90's that started the bubble, by encourgaging, nay, forcing lenders to issue more loans to sub-prime customers. And be mad at everyone who tried to buy the abosolutely largest home they could possible stretch to afford, hoping to flip the houses or get massive raises before their ARM doubled or even tripled their payment due each month.
And be mad at the previous Treasury Sec who chose to use the bailout money to buy stock in the struggling banks with little accountability, rather than by buying the bad debts, and refinancing those mortgages at minimal interest rates so the homebuyers could maybe once again make the payments.
Drives that have had TS data on them don't get donated anywhere, in one way or another they get destroyed. So your charity while good intentioned will never get drives that have held such data.
Never forget the Thermite, because it's always fun.
I know of a facility that doesn't bother with the wipes or degausing, they just take the drives apart and sand the platters clean.
Then they play with the magnents, figuring out ways to ruin each others credit cards from a distance.