Show me a smoker who can refrain from smoking while at work and I'd accept your premise. Likewise, show me an obese person with a littany of weight-related health problems that opts to pay for their OWN insurance. In otherwords, self-destructive and (mostly) controllable behaviors that directly affect the workplace are fair game.
Eh? Screw that, once you bring health into it, you can find a justification to control anyone's life 24/7. Employee is into skydiving, motorcycle racing, or rock-climbing? Might hurt himself and raise health insurance costs, fire him. Employee is too fat, too thin, eats too much meat, drinks too much, drinks too little, doesn't get enough sleep, etc... fire him.
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...directly affects the workplace, particularly if you work for a health care company. It's still not fair game.
A person's outside behavior has *always* been fair game in terms of employment... the only difference is the internet makes it easier to track. Let's say a company hires an accountant, who at some point during his term of employment gets into a bar fight and gets arrested. He comes in to work the next day bruised and bloody, and the story makes the local newspaper. What do you think is going to happen? Most likely, he's going to get fired.
I've been in a somewhat similar situation and wasn't fired, though I grant it didn't make the newspaper. I don't see why an accountant would be different from a computer programmer in this respect.
Why do I suspect that much of this donated equipment has gone straight to the scammers. An operation as big as they say pretty much has to involve the "authorities".
This is slander of the highest degree. These are people _accused_ of crimes, not guilty criminals. The damage to one's reputation will be near-irrepairable. I cannot believe that they are seriously considering this system.
While the system has its bad points, the damage won't be irreparable at all. Very few are going to remember someone else's face on a wanted poster or billboard in 6 months, even fewer will be confident enough of that memory to match it with the real person in front of them after that time.
I'm not so worried about conversion. I already need software to load the book onto my device. I can write conversion scripts and tools, I can put them on my laptop. The device itself is probably only going to support one format, so anything else is going to need conversion anyway. As long it's a format I can convert to, I'm fine.
BTW,.rb does support italic and bold. It doesn't support text outside ISO-Latin-1, and pictures come out pretty poorly, but the latter is mostly a device limitation. For reading fiction, it's quite adequate. The Sony with higher resolution would probably be better, but I'm not yet ready to switch.
The complaint doesn't allege that the pilot's eyes were illuminated. Only the cockpit. Most likely scenario, IMO, is that they were screwing around, the helicopter flew through the beam. The pilot got pissed off and tracked them down, and then embellished the complaint to make a Federal case about it. Standard scumbag police procedure.
This proposal does many things which are good for them
* It's a strike against attempts to relieve webcasters of RIAA payment. * If it is enacted, the RIAA (SoundSource) ends up collecting all the royalties * Which means they can screw non-members out, furthering their stranglehold. * They'll still pay for radio pay, it's just that part of the payment will be an exemption
from royalties, reducing their direct costs. * Which will further increase the cost of non-RIAA music compared to RIAA music * Particularly since the exempt music will still be counted in whatever formula they use to
distribute collected royalties, thus screwing non-RIAA artists more.
I have a couple of rechargable lithium AAs on my desk. The catch is that AA is a size, not a full cell specification. So this lithium AA has the standard lithium-cobalt cell voltage of 3.7 volts. Which is one reason you don't see loose lithium rechargable cells for consumer devices.
OK, suppose I master at 96Khz. Then I apply an ideal 22Khz filter (easy enough once it's digital), and resample down to 44Khz. No aliasing. Well, I guess there's Gibbs artifacts, but they're unavoidable anyway.
Sorry, Nyquist's theorem states that you can accurately represent frequencies up to 1/2 the sampling rate. Really? I have a square wave, a sine wave, and a sawtooth wave, all at 22KHz. Now, you tell me how they'll be quantized such that all are accurately represented.
Either Nyquist is wrong, or you're misrepresenting his "theorem".
I filter out all the frequencies above 22kHz. Now I sample. at 44Khz. Now they're all represented the same. The square wave and sawtooth wave differed only in higher-than-Nyquist-frequency (>22kHz) harmonics anyway.
Look up the XBox 360 and controllers FCC IDs and read up on them. I don't have one so I can't, but I've heard it uses a frequency hopping spread spectrum system. Because of the way the FCC rules are structured, an FHSS system can put a lot more power on a given frequency than a DSSS (802.11b) or OFDM (802.11g) system. They are also required to hop across most of the available spectrum, as the article describes.
Know what happens in court when a 35 year old mother of three runs a red light, slamming her minivan into a 18 year old travelling the speed limit through a green light in a street-legal but riced-up Honda Civic? The answer is the 18 year old loses. There is no justice. There is only technical legal wrangling, sympathy ploys, out-and-out graft, appearance of authority and the like. Why shouldn't Ray use them?
Defending e.g. a 30-year-old geek living in his parent's basement against the record companies is a losing proposition no matter what the facts.
Pure speculation. There is zero evidence the NSA can break modern encryption. And if they could, the sure as hell would not admit to it for a single criminal case, unless, maybe, against Bin Laden himself.
Probably not even him. To find him, they might use their ace-in-the-hole. Merely to convict him, not likely (IMO of course).
However, if the government has secret means of obtaining evidence, they can use them to discover evidence they can then pretend to obtain through non-secret means, perhaps through an "anonymous informant" or some fortuitious circumstance. Then they can get you without revealing their secret means.
...once it gets to appeals court it will hold up as long as a geek in waterboarding session. Certain kinds of utterances have been determined to be "non-testimonial" and not eligible for Fifth Amendment protection, and encryption keys are IMO almost certain to be found as such by the current Supreme Court, since it isn't the key which is incriminating, but the evidence protected by the key.
It could. Suppose the first geek they chose to make an example out of under the new law was the type who was not willing to see reason and plead guilty, and forced it to go all the way to trial, where he lost. How long do you think said geek would survive in "Pound me in the ass Federal Prison"?
The biggest bonus to plugin hybrids, though, is probably the efficient use of the power grid - people will tend charge their cars at night, when the load on the electrical grid is lowest.
No, they'll come home from work and plug in immediately, when the load on the electrical grid is highest (at least during the summer)
. You probably don't think you're the bad guy to start with; outside of James Bond/Austin Powers movies, what bad guy really does?
I think Putin knows he's the bad guy.
Here's a thought: if we're serious about using a missile defense system as a deterrent against strategic weapons, one way to avoid escalation would be to equip both sides with it.
You know, I think Ronald Reagan actually made that proposal.
Say what you like about Kim Il Sung, he certainly knew how to build an effective deterrent. That artillery aimed at Seoul probably makes North Korea immune from a US or South Korean attack even if China abandons them.
It amazes me sometimes how the US can be simultaneously treated as the root of evil yet at the same time implicitly as a more moral nation. If the US was the horrible imperial power it's made out to be, a bunch of artillery pointed at Seoul would make no difference at all. The US attacks, and if Seoul gets flattened, Seoul gets flattened.
Funny. Some of us in the US believe that a lot of the hostility towards the US is because of our close ties to Israel. (Note that considering the people who have that hostility, this isn't necessarily a bad thing).
As for "not extremists"... the same non-extremists who democratically elected Hamas? The same non-extremists who rioted over cartoons in a Danish newspaper? The same non-extremists who imposed corporal punishment over a teddy-bear name? Forget it. The mainstream of Islam IS extreme.
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Eh? Screw that, once you bring health into it, you can find a justification to control anyone's life 24/7. Employee is into skydiving, motorcycle racing, or rock-climbing? Might hurt himself and raise health insurance costs, fire him. Employee is too fat, too thin, eats too much meat, drinks too much, drinks too little, doesn't get enough sleep, etc... fire him.
None of them predicted a radioactive hole in the water.
How much of a stretch is it for Network Solutions to register it ITSELF under the name of a shell company in a questionable jurisdiction?
Why do I suspect that much of this donated equipment has gone straight to the scammers. An operation as big as they say pretty much has to involve the "authorities".
While the system has its bad points, the damage won't be irreparable at all. Very few are going to remember someone else's face on a wanted poster or billboard in 6 months, even fewer will be confident enough of that memory to match it with the real person in front of them after that time.
I'm not so worried about conversion. I already need software to load the book onto my device. I can write conversion scripts and tools, I can put them on my laptop. The device itself is probably only going to support one format, so anything else is going to need conversion anyway. As long it's a format I can convert to, I'm fine.
.rb does support italic and bold. It doesn't support text outside ISO-Latin-1, and pictures come out pretty poorly, but the latter is mostly a device limitation. For reading fiction, it's quite adequate. The Sony with higher resolution would probably be better, but I'm not yet ready to switch.
BTW,
The complaint doesn't allege that the pilot's eyes were illuminated. Only the cockpit. Most likely scenario, IMO, is that they were screwing around, the helicopter flew through the beam. The pilot got pissed off and tracked them down, and then embellished the complaint to make a Federal case about it. Standard scumbag police procedure.
This proposal does many things which are good for them
* It's a strike against attempts to relieve webcasters of RIAA payment.
* If it is enacted, the RIAA (SoundSource) ends up collecting all the royalties
* Which means they can screw non-members out, furthering their stranglehold.
* They'll still pay for radio pay, it's just that part of the payment will be an exemption
from royalties, reducing their direct costs.
* Which will further increase the cost of non-RIAA music compared to RIAA music
* Particularly since the exempt music will still be counted in whatever formula they use to
distribute collected royalties, thus screwing non-RIAA artists more.
Playing Devil's Advocate here: Would you put your country's power supply in UN or Russian hands if you had an alternative?
I have a couple of rechargable lithium AAs on my desk. The catch is that AA is a size, not a full cell specification. So this lithium AA has the standard lithium-cobalt cell voltage of 3.7 volts. Which is one reason you don't see loose lithium rechargable cells for consumer devices.
OK, suppose I master at 96Khz. Then I apply an ideal 22Khz filter (easy enough once it's digital), and resample down to 44Khz. No aliasing. Well, I guess there's Gibbs artifacts, but they're unavoidable anyway.
I filter out all the frequencies above 22kHz. Now I sample. at 44Khz. Now they're all represented the same. The square wave and sawtooth wave differed only in higher-than-Nyquist-frequency (>22kHz) harmonics anyway.
Look up the XBox 360 and controllers FCC IDs and read up on them. I don't have one so I can't, but I've heard it uses a frequency hopping spread spectrum system. Because of the way the FCC rules are structured, an FHSS system can put a lot more power on a given frequency than a DSSS (802.11b) or OFDM (802.11g) system. They are also required to hop across most of the available spectrum, as the article describes.
Know what happens in court when a 35 year old mother of three runs a red light, slamming her minivan into a 18 year old travelling the speed limit through a green light in a street-legal but riced-up Honda Civic? The answer is the 18 year old loses. There is no justice. There is only technical legal wrangling, sympathy ploys, out-and-out graft, appearance of authority and the like. Why shouldn't Ray use them?
Defending e.g. a 30-year-old geek living in his parent's basement against the record companies is a losing proposition no matter what the facts.
Probably not even him. To find him, they might use their ace-in-the-hole. Merely to convict him, not likely (IMO of course).
However, if the government has secret means of obtaining evidence, they can use them to discover evidence they can then pretend to obtain through non-secret means, perhaps through an "anonymous informant" or some fortuitious circumstance. Then they can get you without revealing their secret means.
...once it gets to appeals court it will hold up as long as a geek in waterboarding session. Certain kinds of utterances have been determined to be "non-testimonial" and not eligible for Fifth Amendment protection, and encryption keys are IMO almost certain to be found as such by the current Supreme Court, since it isn't the key which is incriminating, but the evidence protected by the key.
It could. Suppose the first geek they chose to make an example out of under the new law was the type who was not willing to see reason and plead guilty, and forced it to go all the way to trial, where he lost. How long do you think said geek would survive in "Pound me in the ass Federal Prison"?
No, they'll come home from work and plug in immediately, when the load on the electrical grid is highest (at least during the summer)
I think Putin knows he's the bad guy.
You know, I think Ronald Reagan actually made that proposal.
It amazes me sometimes how the US can be simultaneously treated as the root of evil yet at the same time implicitly as a more moral nation. If the US was the horrible imperial power it's made out to be, a bunch of artillery pointed at Seoul would make no difference at all. The US attacks, and if Seoul gets flattened, Seoul gets flattened.
Funny. Some of us in the US believe that a lot of the hostility towards the US is because of our close ties to Israel. (Note that considering the people who have that hostility, this isn't necessarily a bad thing).
As for "not extremists"... the same non-extremists who democratically elected Hamas? The same non-extremists who rioted over cartoons in a Danish newspaper? The same non-extremists who imposed corporal punishment over a teddy-bear name? Forget it. The mainstream of Islam IS extreme.
Yeah, but which is cooler? A bunch of Korean shopowners with M1 garands, or a flying super-laser? And lasers aren't regulated by ATF, another bonus.