MIT's ideal would be that everyone be screened, regardless of country of origin. There is no reason I can see why MIT couldn't take the money, and then have everyone screened. That would satisfy the minimum requirements of the feds, and satisfy MIT's moral standing.
the first human clone has probably already been walking around for a while. I have a hard time believing that the experts would sit by not doing it because people are afraid. As many people as are looking at cloning, surely someone had already done it before this.
I've never tried to pay my grocery bill with a credit card reader. They usually already have at least 1 for each register. (Realizing that wasn't what you meant, I will move on...) There are already places that do not accept checks or credit.
if you want to spend more of their money, you have to do it again. If you have their finger (why bother making a fake one, just cut theirs off, or does it detect heat, too?) you can keep going back and using it over and over, with no repeat effort.
and we were challenged with coming up with room names that might be borderline questionable. One of our jobs was browsing the room names and privatizing names like the one you mentioned. These rooms were still available, but you had to know the room name to get in. I did come up with a room name that no one could ever make a policy decision about whether or not it would be "closed" to the public. My room name was, "Morning Wood on Back Nine".
I've always wondered about cases where digital evidence was envolved. We have no way of knowing if the files are tampered with or otherwise altered, and I really doubt they'd let us compare (in this case with actual fingerprints.) I think that guy that was on trial recently for the disappearance of that girl didn't surf for child porn, the cops did... then changed the dates on the files to cover their own butts.
I agree. I'm very disappointed about Metroid Prime. Part of the appeal of the old Metroid game was the perspective... now it is just another of many of the same boring thing.
I'm not really a big music fan (only listen to it on my way to/from work.) My wife, on the other hand is an avid fan of several bands. She has told me of several that have made their own records under their own label, and built from that to making records for other bands under those labels. Those bands, incidentally, are also big supporters of operations like napster.
Unfortunately, most sheep (er, consumers) don't care about the politics or anything because they're not told to. They're just told to go buy such and such's album because it is cool. You don't want to be different, do you?:-)
I've never understood the reason behind region encoding. I know sometimes they release movies with different endings in Europe than they do in the US, and I would like to think I should be able to purchase a copy of the movie from there with the other ending (provided they don't already include in on the US version of the DVD.)
I doubt this will happen any time in the near future. Sony would have to make a pretty big assumption that every PC purchased was going to be used on the internet. My wife is in the process of starting her own business, and I've been piecing together a PC for her to do her bookkeeping on. It will NOT be, in any way, connected to the internet. I don't plan on buying anything of Sony's any time soon, anyway, but I'd hate to think they'd require me to have my PC hooked up to a phone line or HSD.
I say let's see Tron. It isn't that great of a movie, but I seem to remember thinking it was the greatest thing since sugarless sweatener when I was a kid.
I remember when I was very little and 1 liter bottles were the biggest you could buy. Now people buy those for one sitting. It's been happening a long time, and as everyone else said it is happening because people are buying it.
From reading the article, it appears they're more interested in tactile interfaces for non-PC devices. I really don't think this will affect the gui any time soon, too many people need to be able to see what they're doing.
This was really an interesting read. I really appreciate Anonymous Cow going to the effort of finding this and posting the location for us all to peruse.
In Oklahoma, anything other than the missionary position for the purpose of reproduction is illegal. I have a friend who went through police training there, and one of the things they did on the first day was ask, "How many of you have committed a crime?" They then went on to tell them about the law I mentioned above. Fortunately, it isn't enforced. Who can say if it would be if they could monitor your behavior in your own home? I realize Oklahoma is essentially the buckle of the bible belt, but I really think this is a completely absurd law. It is also illegal in Oklahoma to spank your wife, although I believe it is acceptable to spank someone else's wife (as long as you are trying to reproduce in the missionary position.)
I say Peru go along with only using Open Source software, but keep Bill's gifts anyway. I don't see anything in the article about them being obligated in any way to use the stuff for a particular purpose, and I'd like to see him go into Peruvian court and try to sue to get it back.
Does anyone know if the legislation that was passed this past year taking away civil liberties under the guise of "Terror Legislation" affects this? Do they actually have to subpeona your information now? Is subpeona the right word? I thought a subpeona is what they issued you to get you to appear in court.
I just went to walmart.com to look at one of these pc's. I was surprised to see it did not come with a floppy drive. WTF? I thought floppy drives were pretty much standard equipment. First printers start selling without cables, now computers without floppy drives... what's next? Cars without tires?
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I didn't see anything big enough to connect the cable to... :-)
MIT's ideal would be that everyone be screened, regardless of country of origin. There is no reason I can see why MIT couldn't take the money, and then have everyone screened. That would satisfy the minimum requirements of the feds, and satisfy MIT's moral standing.
my wife said she saw him at the wedding. I went to pee, so I missed it. Was he supposed to have a bigger part?
the first human clone has probably already been walking around for a while. I have a hard time believing that the experts would sit by not doing it because people are afraid. As many people as are looking at cloning, surely someone had already done it before this.
I've never tried to pay my grocery bill with a credit card reader. They usually already have at least 1 for each register. (Realizing that wasn't what you meant, I will move on...) There are already places that do not accept checks or credit.
if you want to spend more of their money, you have to do it again. If you have their finger (why bother making a fake one, just cut theirs off, or does it detect heat, too?) you can keep going back and using it over and over, with no repeat effort.
What would you say the biggest challenge you have faced is, and how did you handle it?
and we were challenged with coming up with room names that might be borderline questionable. One of our jobs was browsing the room names and privatizing names like the one you mentioned. These rooms were still available, but you had to know the room name to get in. I did come up with a room name that no one could ever make a policy decision about whether or not it would be "closed" to the public. My room name was, "Morning Wood on Back Nine".
I've always wondered about cases where digital evidence was envolved. We have no way of knowing if the files are tampered with or otherwise altered, and I really doubt they'd let us compare (in this case with actual fingerprints.)
I think that guy that was on trial recently for the disappearance of that girl didn't surf for child porn, the cops did... then changed the dates on the files to cover their own butts.
Since when are reporters supposed to actually research something before writing their opinions, er... articles?
I agree. I'm very disappointed about Metroid Prime. Part of the appeal of the old Metroid game was the perspective... now it is just another of many of the same boring thing.
I'm not really a big music fan (only listen to it on my way to/from work.) My wife, on the other hand is an avid fan of several bands. She has told me of several that have made their own records under their own label, and built from that to making records for other bands under those labels. Those bands, incidentally, are also big supporters of operations like napster.
:-)
Unfortunately, most sheep (er, consumers) don't care about the politics or anything because they're not told to. They're just told to go buy such and such's album because it is cool. You don't want to be different, do you?
I've never understood the reason behind region encoding. I know sometimes they release movies with different endings in Europe than they do in the US, and I would like to think I should be able to purchase a copy of the movie from there with the other ending (provided they don't already include in on the US version of the DVD.)
I doubt this will happen any time in the near future. Sony would have to make a pretty big assumption that every PC purchased was going to be used on the internet. My wife is in the process of starting her own business, and I've been piecing together a PC for her to do her bookkeeping on. It will NOT be, in any way, connected to the internet. I don't plan on buying anything of Sony's any time soon, anyway, but I'd hate to think they'd require me to have my PC hooked up to a phone line or HSD.
I say let's see Tron. It isn't that great of a movie, but I seem to remember thinking it was the greatest thing since sugarless sweatener when I was a kid.
I remember when I was very little and 1 liter bottles were the biggest you could buy. Now people buy those for one sitting. It's been happening a long time, and as everyone else said it is happening because people are buying it.
the industry won't allow its movies to be broadcast because they don't want viewers to record 'perfect copies' of movies.
Since when did anyone want a perfect copy of an edited movie?
From reading the article, it appears they're more interested in tactile interfaces for non-PC devices. I really don't think this will affect the gui any time soon, too many people need to be able to see what they're doing.
This was really an interesting read. I really appreciate Anonymous Cow going to the effort of finding this and posting the location for us all to peruse.
It could be worse, we could be combing Ozone over from areas around the north pole.
In Oklahoma, anything other than the missionary position for the purpose of reproduction is illegal. I have a friend who went through police training there, and one of the things they did on the first day was ask, "How many of you have committed a crime?" They then went on to tell them about the law I mentioned above. Fortunately, it isn't enforced. Who can say if it would be if they could monitor your behavior in your own home? I realize Oklahoma is essentially the buckle of the bible belt, but I really think this is a completely absurd law. It is also illegal in Oklahoma to spank your wife, although I believe it is acceptable to spank someone else's wife (as long as you are trying to reproduce in the missionary position.)
I don't think Orwell was really that far off. We already have major cities with Big Brother Facial Recognition Software running.
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joke If HDTV ever catches on, I'm not buying one... I don't want their camera looking back at me.
I say Peru go along with only using Open Source software, but keep Bill's gifts anyway. I don't see anything in the article about them being obligated in any way to use the stuff for a particular purpose, and I'd like to see him go into Peruvian court and try to sue to get it back.
Does anyone know if the legislation that was passed this past year taking away civil liberties under the guise of "Terror Legislation" affects this? Do they actually have to subpeona your information now? Is subpeona the right word? I thought a subpeona is what they issued you to get you to appear in court.
I just went to walmart.com to look at one of these pc's. I was surprised to see it did not come with a floppy drive. WTF? I thought floppy drives were pretty much standard equipment. First printers start selling without cables, now computers without floppy drives... what's next? Cars without tires?