The 4th Amendment works fairly well at keeping the government from doing "fishing expeditions" and I don't have a problem with the government getting access to data if they have a warrant based on probable cause.
How deep was that cave you've been living in the past 10 years?
Apparently there isn't any need for saving. I found these gold nuggets in the press release:
The U.S. wireless industry is one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the world and will remain so after this deal. The U.S. is one of the few countries in the world where a large majority of consumers can choose from five or more wireless providers in their local market....
The competitiveness of the market has directly benefited consumers. A 2010 report from the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) states the overall average price (adjusted for inflation) for wireless services declined 50 percent from 1999 to 2009, during a period which saw five major wireless mergers.
from TFA: "...it would then move to the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority. The Senate is unlikely to pass the resolution."
TFA hasn't been paying attention the last couple of years. There will be a pretend fight, then the Republicans will state that they will hold up everything unless they get their will, and then it will pass.
"From the CNN article: 'From 25 May, US laws dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies". These files are widely used to help users navigate faster around sites they visit regularly. Businesses are being urged to sort out how they get consent so they can keep on using cookies.'"
And then consider how different the reactions and comments would be.
What wasn't been definitively established is to what extent this change is due to the activities of man versus to what extent it is due to the Earth's natural cycles and was going to happen anyway.
Nonsense. See section "The role of human activity" here:
"90 percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years."
Windows: focus groups, study users, never get it quite brilliant but basically give people what they want.
What!? Who asked for the Ribbon or Clippy? Who asked for the Control Panel being completely changed every version since NT (getting progressively worse IMO)? Who asked for being spammed with User Account Control windows at every turn?
Gnome: WE DID COMP SCI IN COLLAGE AND HURD OF DON NORMAN THIS MAEKS US EXPURTS ON UI DESIGN. WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE OR TRACK RECORD BUT U WANT WAT WE WANT. WE WANT TO MAKE A NAME 4 OURSELVES PLS ACCEPT ONE OF OUR IDEAS PLS!!!
And one of it's weaknesses. Imagine if you had to buy pants that have room for a diaper. Or that all cars had provisions for being drawn by a horse. Or every boat had a mast and sails.
Backwards compatibility can become an impediment to a proper design.
Since there are between 200 and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way that amounts to between 0.25 and 0.125 planets per star on average. Granted TFA states that there are at least this many, but I would have thought the number be much higher, considering the number of planets in our own solar system.
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So they went from 1,500,000 million to 105 million USD, or 0.007% of the original demand. Why so generous, RIAA?
What, except the Bible, purports to address the divine?
Java is Java.. there generally would not be a "linux version", or any platform specific version.. sort of the whole point of this.
Given that all JREs are equal. Which they are not.
The 4th Amendment works fairly well at keeping the government from doing "fishing expeditions" and I don't have a problem with the government getting access to data if they have a warrant based on probable cause.
How deep was that cave you've been living in the past 10 years?
Correct. Coincidentally it also denotes the time of day known as leet-o-clock.
But, is there a gravitational hole in the Indian Ocean? Could it have been an asteroid? Perhaps leading to the "fast split" of Africa and India?
No, the blue areas are the weakest areas. Indonesia and Iceland are the places to go for gravity.
So it only takes three days extra to figure out the extra regulations? And that couldn't have been foreseen or planned for?
And, by the way, Crytek is a german company. One would think they know how to release a game in Europe.
What would it take for the USPTO to reject a patent application (one which includes the phrase "on a computer")?
And not at all obvious.
Apparently there isn't any need for saving. I found these gold nuggets in the press release:
The U.S. wireless industry is one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the world and will remain so after this deal. The U.S. is one of the few countries in the world where a large majority of consumers can choose from five or more wireless providers in their local market. ...
The competitiveness of the market has directly benefited consumers. A 2010 report from the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) states the overall average price (adjusted for inflation) for wireless services declined 50 percent from 1999 to 2009, during a period which saw five major wireless mergers.
The world's great hope and shining light of good, indeed.
Wow, that karma was really burning a hole in your pocket.
No, that's Approximate Pi day.
I'm wondering the same thing here in Denmark.
from TFA: "...it would then move to the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority. The Senate is unlikely to pass the resolution."
TFA hasn't been paying attention the last couple of years. There will be a pretend fight, then the Republicans will state that they will hold up everything unless they get their will, and then it will pass.
NickstaDB writes
"From the CNN article: 'From 25 May, US laws dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies". These files are widely used to help users navigate faster around sites they visit regularly. Businesses are being urged to sort out how they get consent so they can keep on using cookies.'"
And then consider how different the reactions and comments would be.
As in, there is no room for debate, it has been decided, any contrary view is automatically wrong.
But from a scientific point of view it has been decided:
* There is compelling evidence for rapid climate change.
* With 90% probability we caused most of it.
I don't know what it will take to convince you, but if an approval by NASA isn't good enough, I don't know what will be.
What wasn't been definitively established is to what extent this change is due to the activities of man versus to what extent it is due to the Earth's natural cycles and was going to happen anyway.
Nonsense. See section "The role of human activity" here:
"90 percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years."
Windows: focus groups, study users, never get it quite brilliant but basically give people what they want.
What!? Who asked for the Ribbon or Clippy? Who asked for the Control Panel being completely changed every version since NT (getting progressively worse IMO)? Who asked for being spammed with User Account Control windows at every turn?
Gnome: WE DID COMP SCI IN COLLAGE AND HURD OF DON NORMAN THIS MAEKS US EXPURTS ON UI DESIGN. WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE OR TRACK RECORD BUT U WANT WAT WE WANT. WE WANT TO MAKE A NAME 4 OURSELVES PLS ACCEPT ONE OF OUR IDEAS PLS!!!
Yeah, pretty much dead on :)
And one of it's weaknesses. Imagine if you had to buy pants that have room for a diaper. Or that all cars had provisions for being drawn by a horse. Or every boat had a mast and sails.
Backwards compatibility can become an impediment to a proper design.
My bad. It's only pre-OS, not pre-BIOS. Looks like we'll have to waste 30 seconds on the BIOS after all.
Looks like it allows you to skip the BIOS and load a Linux kernel directly. Sort of like coreboot.
The US Constitution does not permit **any** ex post facto laws.
It also has a fourth amendment. Doesn't seem to make a difference.
Since there are between 200 and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way that amounts to between 0.25 and 0.125 planets per star on average. Granted TFA states that there are at least this many, but I would have thought the number be much higher, considering the number of planets in our own solar system.
Maybe we should...
*puts on sunglasses*
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