Negligence is a crime, and negligent computer users are quite responsible for the botnets/internet congestion/virus outbreaks which affect us all in some way...We won't see any changes until we hold users responsible for their (in)actions.
Yes, negligence is a crime, so why do they need to create a new law? We can hold users responsible for their negligence once harm has occured. Are they trying to make new jobs for civil servants: the WAP detection squad?
Maybe you have more to lose then someone making much less?
Rich people pay for the stability to keep on making money and securing their wealth. If the economy tanks, the people on the bottom are out 40k and year if they lose their jobs and the people at the top are out 150k and up. And the even poorer people have less to lose by instability.
But really you aren't even accounting for all the taxes, you are just chosing personal income tax so it looks like you have something to gripe about.
I don't want massive regulation, but something simple to prevent deliberate cut-offs would be nice, and it appears that the free market didn't solve that problem.
So you are all for the free market except when the free market comes to a conclusion that you disagree with? Is that what you are saying? The free market has solved this problem it just took a little bit of time to converge on the answer.
I love the way people have no grasp of scope. Also, conservatives are so pissed that they couldn't convict Clinton of perjury. A court of law has the strictest definitions for lying and he didn't break them.
However, the human body was designed to operate at 98.6 degrees.
Really? So those people not at exactly 98.6 have malfunctioning bodies?
Do shifts in temperature or cold temperatures cause colds? Your hypothesis about temperature changes doesn't really explain for example marathon runners or clubbers on E who raise their body temperature without catching a cold. Also, isn't the whole point of a fever to make the body better at fighting infection? It just so happens that the body is overreactive to raising the body's temperature.
If anything overheating the body is much worse for you then cooling the body. But you get sick from rain and cold weather? Here's a quick sanity check on which temperature change is more dangerous...How much does your temperature have to raise before killing you? How low does it have to drop to kill you?
Or check out straightdope like someone else posted.
Don't let unchristian scientists pollute the mind of our youth with their erroneous theory of gravity that denies God's hand. Write to your schoolboard and demand equal time for the theory of Uncaused Force. It is time for an open mind in science. Teach the controversy.
I agree with the first sentence. Let Christian scientists pollute the mind of our youth! No sense in letting heathens do it for us. But one thing...Uncaused Force is not a theory...it doesn't predict anything!
Really though, I think the Congress should just word it broadly and let the courts decide on a case-by-case basis whether someone was primarily acting as a journalist or not.
So you don't mind companies sending Cease and Desist letters to whomever they want to and letting the courts decide who actually has to follow them? Or sending DMCA take down notices...
Letting the courts decide just means the people with the money to spend on lawyers be able to beat the people unwilling to spend large amounts of money defending themselves.
I really dislike the whining about foreign teaching assistants and professors. Yes, it can be a bit challenging sometimes but this is relevant job-training experience. You will be working with these people in the future.
Uh, no I won't. My small company doesn't hire people that cannot communicate effectively. If the TA sucks that bad at teaching why do you think I would work with someone like that? Industry has just a little bit higher standards then hiring TAs.
However, instead of whining, students need to start demanding better TAs and inform the school that they will tell prospective students about how badly the TAs teach.
I would love to see one of these "my-TA-sucks" whiners learn a language like Chinese.
Who the F cares? What if they did take a Chinese class and their TA mumbled and stuttered. Would you then say don't whine about him not being able to teach Chinese very well...Maybe they should fire bad TAs and say that is relevent job-training. It's relevent because if you can't do the job you are hired for you should be fired.
She's asking for federal assistance which is exactly what i said.
Who cares about michigan? What about the federal ok on the New Mexico guardsmen you ignored?
This is a better story for some of the reasons behind the delays. Best quote of the article: "Nobody told me that I had to request that,
Yeah, she is talking about ACTIVE duty military troops. The pentagon was saying that wednesday and thursday they were hesitant to send active duty troops in the area for law enforcement purposes. In the same article "While combat troops can conduct relief missions without the legal authority of the Insurrection Act, Pentagon and military officials say that no active-duty forces could have been sent into the chaos of New Orleans on Wednesday or Thursday without confronting law-and-order challenges."
Wednesday and thursday is a little freaking late.
Also, are you telling me that the Administration didn't tell her that they won't send troops until she asked? You think they were waiting silently for her to say the magic words without letting her know what the magic words were?
Here is the rest of the quote you convienently left out:
In an interview, she acknowledged that she did not specify what sorts of soldiers. "Nobody told me that I had to request that," Ms. Blanco said. "I thought that I had requested everything they had. We were living in a war zone by then."
Yeah, if i wanted to be an asshole i'd quote head of FEMA Brown when he said "Paula, the federal government did not even know about the Convention Center people until today (sept 1st)."
Right after Paula Zahn asks him "ZAHN: Sir, you aren't just telling me you just learned that the folks at the Convention Center didn't have food and water until today, are you? You had no idea they were completely cut off?"
But i won't do that, because maybe that miscommunication that makes Brown look like an ass isn't his fault? It's hard to believe but maybe it's not.
I'm going to assume you are just ignorant and get your talking points from conservative news.
The mayor of New York called almost immediately for federal aid.
Yeah, but the Gov. of LA called for aid before the disaster. There is no way the mayor of New York called for federal aid before that disaster! Check the date of her memo. Asking for Federal Aid the day before the disaster is not enough time? Please explain your illogic.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state's National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn't come from Washington until late Thursday.
So why do you think it is not GW and the fed's fault?
And don't get me started on the crony he picked to lead FEMA. If you pick someone you know is incompetent to fill a role, then you are to blame when their incompetence leads to lives lost.
That's what I love about it...who else has a real zoom?
That and the lack of multiple document interfaces that all of the other browsers I've tried are lacking. Most are SDI with a tab hack.
I'm confused. You mean someone will be able to tell that the jones had item 893421 at coordinate 46.023w52N and moved it to 46.024w52n and that is tracking usage?
Then since I happen to be into marketing I will realize that people seem to be moving 893421s around and try and market 893421s by showing how portable it is once i figure out what their specific 893421 happens to represent. Then i'll realize that it is a dog chew toy and the reason it keeps moving around is that the dog is playing with it.
Seriously though, this (passive rfid) isn't that practical for monitoring much of anyone. 20 feet maximum practical range in perfect conditions, with zero obstructions, let alone metal obstructions. You might as well worry that people's eyes are evil detectors that can invade people's privacy by seeing them.
It's easy to code a barcode reader for different standards, RFID requires reading different frequencies.
Huh? Everyone in the US is pretty much using the 915MHz range for retail. There are HF readers around 12-14 MHz (13.56 MHz? i forget), but their range is much much worse then the readers in the 915Mhz range. As for multiple protocols, a number of reader manufacturers have readers that can handle multiple protocols without a hardware upgrade (e.g. thingmagic)
In prime conditions (little interferance--1 reader, 20 tags, no metal in the way, optimal tag orientation) I've seen tag reads at 20-28 feet, while setting the reader to multiprotocol mode (EPC0, EPC1, ISO18000).
It's going to be real tough to "spy" on people while inside of FCC allowed power, because tag orientation matters and people absorb a significant amount of re-radiated signal when the tag is transmiting.
RFID tags would let you keep an eye on their usage. This is simply not acceptable.
Usage? I'll bite. How can you keep an eye on their usage? "hey, look the jones have a 893421."
So how do you know if they have one 6-pack for 3 months or if they buy a 6-pack every day and throw out the cans? Can you distinguish between 893421s? Remember that this 1 cent tag is not going to interact with the product and that the encoded id is just going to be a product number.
...it'd be difficult to say that they are circumventing a copyright protection scheme because the pictures are not protected by anything more elaborate than password protection on the website
The DMCA covers more then circumventing a copyright scheme. The only good part of the DMCA is the DMCA notice they sent Google. That part of the DMCA specifies that you cannot sue until you send a C&D notice telling the person they are displaying your works. Then if you refuse to remove the content they can sue. Traditional copyright law says you can sue for the whole time period that they were displaying the copyrighted works. (i don't have time to reread it but that's the parts i remember.)
This is not a flamewar because one side is absolutely wrong. It won't be a problem but someone questioned "Ummm, doesn't NTP run over UDP" after reading "NTP is built on top of the TCP/IP protocol suite."
This let to a bunch of other people trying to insist that there is no UDP in TCP/IP. The original poster said "TCP/IP protocol suite" so there should be very little confusion.
As someone else posted rfc1180 defines TCP/IP to mean all of the protocols at that level.
The generic term "TCP/IP" usually means anything and everything related to the specific protocols of TCP and IP. It can include other protocols, applications, and even the network medium.
This is all important because a.) this should be common knowledge for network developers, network engineers, and such (the only types of people that should feel qualified to enter this disussion), and b.) they are going to look like a jackass when they try to correct their senior sysadmin when he mentions UDP in the TCP/IP protocol suite.
They give Dell, et al, huge discounts on Windows, which I'm sure would disappear the moment Dell started considering an alternative OS. Dell wouldn't be willing to risk the majority of its sales on the off chance of this new alternative OS taking off.
Presumely, the AP was routing packets from the air (wireless) to an uplink so i was calling it a router. I thought you were bringing the discussion back to the topic.
If people setup a device in a way that follows a standard for public access, they shouldn't be suprised when someone accesses it. It's not like someone broke the spirit of the standard by accessing it. WEP is the easiest/first/lowest protocol designed for making your wireless network private, hence the "wired equivalent privacy". Whether or not it meets that claim is a different story, but this is your "privacy" bit (or use one of the more advanced standards).
I don't understand how this is any more different then accessing a web server. People aren't using a bug to connect--they're using the protocol the way it is designed. Let alone the fact that one people are connected to an AP they still need an IP address so if the DHCP server gives them one they are on the net. It's another protocol that is a handshake. "May I have an IP address?" "Yes, i offer you this one: DHCPOffer" "DHCPACK - thanks".
These problems are solved already. It's just that no one wants to take responsibility for themselves.
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Shockaroonie, that you got a +5 for saying they would use "copyright infringement" in a trademark case.
*sigh*
Negligence is a crime, and negligent computer users are quite responsible for the botnets/internet congestion/virus outbreaks which affect us all in some way...We won't see any changes until we hold users responsible for their (in)actions.
Yes, negligence is a crime, so why do they need to create a new law? We can hold users responsible for their negligence once harm has occured. Are they trying to make new jobs for civil servants: the WAP detection squad?
Maybe you have more to lose then someone making much less?
Rich people pay for the stability to keep on making money and securing their wealth. If the economy tanks, the people on the bottom are out 40k and year if they lose their jobs and the people at the top are out 150k and up. And the even poorer people have less to lose by instability.
But really you aren't even accounting for all the taxes, you are just chosing personal income tax so it looks like you have something to gripe about.
I don't want massive regulation, but something simple to prevent deliberate cut-offs would be nice, and it appears that the free market didn't solve that problem.
So you are all for the free market except when the free market comes to a conclusion that you disagree with? Is that what you are saying? The free market has solved this problem it just took a little bit of time to converge on the answer.
That's why I named my file smb.conf. Mess with samba.conf all you want.
That's great!
I love the way people have no grasp of scope. Also, conservatives are so pissed that they couldn't convict Clinton of perjury. A court of law has the strictest definitions for lying and he didn't break them.
Aren't all CIA employees somewhat undercover?
However, the human body was designed to operate at 98.6 degrees.
Really? So those people not at exactly 98.6 have malfunctioning bodies?
Do shifts in temperature or cold temperatures cause colds? Your hypothesis about temperature changes doesn't really explain for example marathon runners or clubbers on E who raise their body temperature without catching a cold. Also, isn't the whole point of a fever to make the body better at fighting infection? It just so happens that the body is overreactive to raising the body's temperature.
If anything overheating the body is much worse for you then cooling the body. But you get sick from rain and cold weather? Here's a quick sanity check on which temperature change is more dangerous...How much does your temperature have to raise before killing you? How low does it have to drop to kill you?
Or check out straightdope like someone else posted.
hchar("N", 30);
hchar("O", 30);
hchar("!", 30);
That's really funny!
Don't let unchristian scientists pollute the mind of our youth with their erroneous theory of gravity that denies God's hand. Write to your schoolboard and demand equal time for the theory of Uncaused Force. It is time for an open mind in science. Teach the controversy.
I agree with the first sentence. Let Christian scientists pollute the mind of our youth! No sense in letting heathens do it for us. But one thing...Uncaused Force is not a theory...it doesn't predict anything!
Why make the English language more confusing? Why not just educate yourself in proper English?
The issue here is that this is a pissing contest and we have the keys.
Not only that, but if we circle the wagons we can kill 2 birds with one stone since the locked themselves away in glass towers.
Really though, I think the Congress should just word it broadly and let the courts decide on a case-by-case basis whether someone was primarily acting as a journalist or not.
So you don't mind companies sending Cease and Desist letters to whomever they want to and letting the courts decide who actually has to follow them? Or sending DMCA take down notices...
Letting the courts decide just means the people with the money to spend on lawyers be able to beat the people unwilling to spend large amounts of money defending themselves.
Where are the horror stories?
They will come out when they become declassified in 20 years.
I really dislike the whining about foreign teaching assistants and professors. Yes, it can be a bit challenging sometimes but this is relevant job-training experience. You will be working with these people in the future.
Uh, no I won't. My small company doesn't hire people that cannot communicate effectively. If the TA sucks that bad at teaching why do you think I would work with someone like that? Industry has just a little bit higher standards then hiring TAs.
However, instead of whining, students need to start demanding better TAs and inform the school that they will tell prospective students about how badly the TAs teach.
I would love to see one of these "my-TA-sucks" whiners learn a language like Chinese.
Who the F cares? What if they did take a Chinese class and their TA mumbled and stuttered. Would you then say don't whine about him not being able to teach Chinese very well...Maybe they should fire bad TAs and say that is relevent job-training. It's relevent because if you can't do the job you are hired for you should be fired.
She's asking for federal assistance which is exactly what i said.
Who cares about michigan? What about the federal ok on the New Mexico guardsmen you ignored?
This is a better story for some of the reasons behind the delays. Best quote of the article: "Nobody told me that I had to request that,
Yeah, she is talking about ACTIVE duty military troops. The pentagon was saying that wednesday and thursday they were hesitant to send active duty troops in the area for law enforcement purposes. In the same article "While combat troops can conduct relief missions without the legal authority of the Insurrection Act, Pentagon and military officials say that no active-duty forces could have been sent into the chaos of New Orleans on Wednesday or Thursday without confronting law-and-order challenges."
Wednesday and thursday is a little freaking late.
Also, are you telling me that the Administration didn't tell her that they won't send troops until she asked? You think they were waiting silently for her to say the magic words without letting her know what the magic words were?
Here is the rest of the quote you convienently left out: In an interview, she acknowledged that she did not specify what sorts of soldiers. "Nobody told me that I had to request that," Ms. Blanco said. "I thought that I had requested everything they had. We were living in a war zone by then."
Yeah, if i wanted to be an asshole i'd quote head of FEMA Brown when he said "Paula, the federal government did not even know about the Convention Center people until today (sept 1st)."
Right after Paula Zahn asks him "ZAHN: Sir, you aren't just telling me you just learned that the folks at the Convention Center didn't have food and water until today, are you? You had no idea they were completely cut off?"
But i won't do that, because maybe that miscommunication that makes Brown look like an ass isn't his fault? It's hard to believe but maybe it's not.
The mayor of New York called almost immediately for federal aid.
Yeah, but the Gov. of LA called for aid before the disaster. There is no way the mayor of New York called for federal aid before that disaster! Check the date of her memo. Asking for Federal Aid the day before the disaster is not enough time? Please explain your illogic.
Also Washington sat on a request for New Mexico's national guard to help out in LA: So why do you think it is not GW and the fed's fault?
Check out the date on this picture of our "wonderful" leader. (answer: 1 day after the huricane hit)
And don't get me started on the crony he picked to lead FEMA. If you pick someone you know is incompetent to fill a role, then you are to blame when their incompetence leads to lives lost.
That's what I love about it...who else has a real zoom? That and the lack of multiple document interfaces that all of the other browsers I've tried are lacking. Most are SDI with a tab hack.
I'm confused. You mean someone will be able to tell that the jones had item 893421 at coordinate 46.023w52N and moved it to 46.024w52n and that is tracking usage?
Then since I happen to be into marketing I will realize that people seem to be moving 893421s around and try and market 893421s by showing how portable it is once i figure out what their specific 893421 happens to represent. Then i'll realize that it is a dog chew toy and the reason it keeps moving around is that the dog is playing with it.
Seriously though, this (passive rfid) isn't that practical for monitoring much of anyone. 20 feet maximum practical range in perfect conditions, with zero obstructions, let alone metal obstructions. You might as well worry that people's eyes are evil detectors that can invade people's privacy by seeing them.
It's easy to code a barcode reader for different standards, RFID requires reading different frequencies.
Huh? Everyone in the US is pretty much using the 915MHz range for retail. There are HF readers around 12-14 MHz (13.56 MHz? i forget), but their range is much much worse then the readers in the 915Mhz range. As for multiple protocols, a number of reader manufacturers have readers that can handle multiple protocols without a hardware upgrade (e.g. thingmagic)
In prime conditions (little interferance--1 reader, 20 tags, no metal in the way, optimal tag orientation) I've seen tag reads at 20-28 feet, while setting the reader to multiprotocol mode (EPC0, EPC1, ISO18000).
It's going to be real tough to "spy" on people while inside of FCC allowed power, because tag orientation matters and people absorb a significant amount of re-radiated signal when the tag is transmiting.
RFID tags would let you keep an eye on their usage. This is simply not acceptable.
Usage? I'll bite. How can you keep an eye on their usage? "hey, look the jones have a 893421."
So how do you know if they have one 6-pack for 3 months or if they buy a 6-pack every day and throw out the cans? Can you distinguish between 893421s? Remember that this 1 cent tag is not going to interact with the product and that the encoded id is just going to be a product number.
...it'd be difficult to say that they are circumventing a copyright protection scheme because the pictures are not protected by anything more elaborate than password protection on the website
The DMCA covers more then circumventing a copyright scheme. The only good part of the DMCA is the DMCA notice they sent Google. That part of the DMCA specifies that you cannot sue until you send a C&D notice telling the person they are displaying your works. Then if you refuse to remove the content they can sue. Traditional copyright law says you can sue for the whole time period that they were displaying the copyrighted works. (i don't have time to reread it but that's the parts i remember.)
This let to a bunch of other people trying to insist that there is no UDP in TCP/IP. The original poster said "TCP/IP protocol suite" so there should be very little confusion.
As someone else posted rfc1180 defines TCP/IP to mean all of the protocols at that level. This is all important because a.) this should be common knowledge for network developers, network engineers, and such (the only types of people that should feel qualified to enter this disussion), and b.) they are going to look like a jackass when they try to correct their senior sysadmin when he mentions UDP in the TCP/IP protocol suite.
They give Dell, et al, huge discounts on Windows, which I'm sure would disappear the moment Dell started considering an alternative OS. Dell wouldn't be willing to risk the majority of its sales on the off chance of this new alternative OS taking off.
Uh, linux?
Huh? Where did you get "router"?
Presumely, the AP was routing packets from the air (wireless) to an uplink so i was calling it a router. I thought you were bringing the discussion back to the topic.
If people setup a device in a way that follows a standard for public access, they shouldn't be suprised when someone accesses it. It's not like someone broke the spirit of the standard by accessing it. WEP is the easiest/first/lowest protocol designed for making your wireless network private, hence the "wired equivalent privacy". Whether or not it meets that claim is a different story, but this is your "privacy" bit (or use one of the more advanced standards).
I don't understand how this is any more different then accessing a web server. People aren't using a bug to connect--they're using the protocol the way it is designed. Let alone the fact that one people are connected to an AP they still need an IP address so if the DHCP server gives them one they are on the net. It's another protocol that is a handshake. "May I have an IP address?" "Yes, i offer you this one: DHCPOffer" "DHCPACK - thanks". These problems are solved already. It's just that no one wants to take responsibility for themselves.