In the US, our motorists hit and run meter-maids, but they don't run over streetsweepers. Coincidence? I think not.
It really doesn't matter that our meter-maids have been around for 20+ years, they make their presence known everytime they issue a $250 parking ticket to a motorist who's only dropping off a passenger at a bus stop for less than a second.
So tell me... Is a car jacker more likely to jack a pinto, or jack a Lincoln? Hmmm... Blending in is important sometimes.
If the car jacker lives in a ghetto, noone will look at him twice if he's riding in a pinto and let's face it very few cops will memorize the descriptions of stolen Pintos. I don't know if you're making the distinction between car theft and car jacking at gun point, but I've looked at car theft statistics at least and those don't always make sense. I'm guessing that ease of theft, black market demand for stolen parts, car prestige, the kind of car the thief has a valid license plate for, the kind of stereo in the car, and ease of opportunity (like the keys left in the ignition) may all affect the kind of cars that are going to get stolen.
Which reminds me, today there was a report on the radio saying that car theft increased by 38% in one of my neighboring County. I don't know if it's true, but the cops were blaming movies like "Torque" and "Fast and Furious" for inciting kids to steal cars for joy rides.
...but some of the enforcement powers in PATRIOT have also made a difference in our ability to avert another attack on the scale of what we saw in 2001.
How do you know this? We already had the information and the ability to prevent what happened on 911 but we didn't. We may be better prepared now, but I wouldn't necessarily credit the PATRIOT act.
"The Libertarian myth that people will arrive at their appropriate station in life due to their own merits always amuses me."
This myth that you talk about is not libertarian, it's liberal. The assumption that life has to be fair. The assumption that a meritocracy has to be fair. That's a liberal idea. And indeed, this assumption is very "amusing".
When two investors invest in mines in an earthquake area. They're taking risks. I don't want to make their lives fair and risk-free for them. I don't want to heavily subsidize their insurance policy through my taxes. I will not shoulder some of their risks. I will just let the chips fall where they may. In the end, that may not be fair, but I don't give a hoot about fairness -- I only care about myself and my family for the most part.
"The article clearly states that the large video advertisement is downloaded in the background, hidden from the user, and doesnt display until the download is complete."
I doubt very much that the download would begin on through Mozilla without Mozilla telling me something. If IE doesn't work for you, you can always switch to Mozilla or Opera.
"How are you to know which sites use these ads and which don't if you don't know about the ad until it's already been downloaded!!"
So you get screwed once and you don't return. That's the all point of the internet, isn't it? You never know what you're going to get until you try, and then you only end up trusting very few web sites like google or slashdot.
While I can't say anything about ICANN, I just won my first arbitration case six months ago, so this may skew my thinking a little. My opponent had retained a law firm and I had no lawyer, and despite all of this -- common sense still prevailed (at least in my case anyway).
To me, I can see why ICANN would make such a rule in the first place, but I doubt there is enough confusion to warrant a verdict against the kid. After all, would you be confused? Would your grandmother be confused? No, I don't think so.
You also have to recgonize that Microsoft owns the trademark rights to the name "Microsoft" (or things that sound like it or are spelled like it).
No. You're making up the bit about "things that sound like it". Companies purposefully mispell common words so that they can put a trademark on them.
Besides, there can be no confusion between the name Microsoft and MikeRowSoft unless the kid starts making commercials on an audio medium such as the radio or the television.
In the end, if the kids and his parents don't get intimidated, common sense will prevail.
Just so you know, they don't have to let you see your lawyer or speak to your lawyer during the search.The only rule about seeing a lawyer is during a custodial interrogation (ie, you're under arrest)
If you ask them "Am I free to go?" and they say no. Ask them if you're under arrest. If you're not under arrest, they can't detain you. And if they can't detain you, at the very least, you can knock on your neighbor's door and ask to borrow the phone, or perhaps you could even ask to borrow your neighbors web connection.
When a student columnist was raided by the SS for writing an article on Chelsea Clinton, he had the presence of mind to tape record the search and the questions. I don't know if videotaping would be allowed, but it's certainly worth a try. Just promise your friend that you will replace the video camera if gets confiscated or damaged.
-->1. In an online school, you could hire/convince someone else to take the tests and the exams for you.
"You do appreciate the irony of this remark in a thread initiated by an article on how campus based students are turning in so many stolen papers, right?"
No, I only see it as supportive evidence for my point. Right now, some campus-based students get away with cheating when it comes to homework and home projects, but they *usually* can't get away with that much cheating when it comes to their in-class tests and their in-class exams. So my original point still remains, in an online school, you could hire/convince someone else to take the tests and the exams for you.
However, this problem is easily resolved when the online school arranges to have its tests and its exams taken in a physical location. I don't remember what they call this type of school, but I would agree that this problem goes away when they can vouch for the identity of the person they're testing.
-->4. Lack of specialized laboratory facilities for some Sciences.
"I think this is the most compelling of the arguments for a campus based education. It is also why, as far as I am aware, no institution offers an online degree in the sciences outside of math and computer science. It is, oddly enough, an argument that works against most small campus colleges as well. The expense of setting of up state-of-the-art labs and so forth requires a certain economy of scale that they can't achieve. Hence the fact that "small" is almost synonymous with "liberal arts" schools. When was the last time you heard anyone refer to a "small hard sciences" school?"
I didn't know we were talking about small schools. The smaller the school gets, the lesser its reputation will be in the marketplace, that's my theory anyway. So I didn't know you were comparing online schools with tiny campus-based schools that don't have enough money for lab facilities.
-->5. Lack of prescreening. Anyone can get in. Right, or wrong, people don't value anything anyone can get.
"That is a shame, particularly when you look at the luminaries that have graduated from a place like City College in NYC over the years. There is a difference between getting in and graduating. That said, there isn't any reason online schools can't (or won't in time) become more selective."
Online schools have a high upfront cost and a low marginal cost for adding students, they will become commoditized and their stigma will remain.
If a school wants to appear selective, it will have to start by being selective. For instance, when UC Berkeley created a world reknown Women's Study department, it started the program by only admitting one person to the major for the first couple of years.
And incidently, I went to a University but I didn't graduate, so I do know from experience what you mean when you talk about being able to get in but not being able to graduate.
how many times my product choices are second guessed simply cause I'm wearing a skirt,
One time, my product choice was criticized and second guessed nine times by nine different Sales associates at Best Buy. I obviously can't speak for you because I'm a guy and I haven't experienced what you've experienced and generally speaking most people don't stares at my man boobs anyway, but sometimes we men can also be treated very unfairly as well.
(1) Explain to me again why an online degree is considered less worthy than paying a boat load of money to get drunk on campus. Wasn't it because of all this "individual attention" students were suppose to get?
At the top of my head, here are a couple of reasons:
1. In an online school, you could hire/convince someone else to take the tests and the exams for you.
2. Internet bandwidth + phone bandwidth will never be as good as human face-to-face bandwidth.
3. Lack of face-to-face learning from your peers.
4. Lack of specialized laboratory facilities for some Sciences.
5. Lack of prescreening. Anyone can get in. Right, or wrong, people don't value anything anyone can get.
You give them your paper (which you do anyway), they send it in, and 24-72 hours later they get an e-mail response.
That's the way it may have worked in your case, but in the case of McGill -- they wanted the student to directly input their papers into the web site of Turnitin. And in any case, that service was going to be discontinued last December because McGill was only evaluating the service and was not ready to pay the licensing fees.
I wonder what their licensing fees are? Their web site doesn't say? Does anyone have any idea?
The university that uses Turnitin when explicitly asked would undoubtedly allow Turnitin to use the univerity's entire archive for detecting plagiarism for *their* students. Maybe they would not allow it to be used for other university's students, I would doubt that however.
Forget about what the University thinks. The most important part is what will Turnitin think when faced with competitors? Will Turnitin share papers with its competitors? Will Turnitin have a competitive advantage over its late-starting competitors?
Students share papers across Universities all the time. There are services that legally buy and sell those "original" papers just for this reason. Not only Turnitin is making money from those papers, but hard-working students will be deprived of their revenues because they won't be able to sell their original work to the paper-exhange services.
Well, I didn't ignore it, I just couldn't install it. I'm talking about FreeBSD here. I bought the CDs with the book, plus I bought another book, and then I went online to find some answers. The installation instructions were different each time and they just plain didn't work for me.
"...I find it quite unsettling to think that when I'm creating something and giving it away to the world for free, I would need to pay a price to protect my work? "
The work wasn't given away, if it had been truly given away it would be in the public domain. The last bit of GPL control he has chosen to keep for himself is his property and in this world everyone who has property has to pay for the cost of protecting it.
Why would 99% of legitimate users ever need to scan a bill?
Good question. Why wouldn't the government require software companies to put legitimate limits on their products? The government could prevent spammers by placing limits on email software. The government could prevent reckless high-speed chases by putting limits on car manufacturers. The government could impose limits on music player manufacturers to limit the propagation of illegally copied music. The government could place limits on photocopy machines to prevent the copyright infringement of copyrighted books.
The possibilities are endless.
Think of it, the World would be a much safer and fairer place if the government actually placed more legitimate limits on products and processes.
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It really doesn't matter that our meter-maids have been around for 20+ years, they make their presence known everytime they issue a $250 parking ticket to a motorist who's only dropping off a passenger at a bus stop for less than a second.
If the car jacker lives in a ghetto, noone will look at him twice if he's riding in a pinto and let's face it very few cops will memorize the descriptions of stolen Pintos. I don't know if you're making the distinction between car theft and car jacking at gun point, but I've looked at car theft statistics at least and those don't always make sense. I'm guessing that ease of theft, black market demand for stolen parts, car prestige, the kind of car the thief has a valid license plate for, the kind of stereo in the car, and ease of opportunity (like the keys left in the ignition) may all affect the kind of cars that are going to get stolen.
Which reminds me, today there was a report on the radio saying that car theft increased by 38% in one of my neighboring County. I don't know if it's true, but the cops were blaming movies like "Torque" and "Fast and Furious" for inciting kids to steal cars for joy rides.
I for one welcome our moderator overlords.
How do you know this? We already had the information and the ability to prevent what happened on 911 but we didn't. We may be better prepared now, but I wouldn't necessarily credit the PATRIOT act.
Thanks, it's too bad it was modded down instead. My default score is two usually.
This myth that you talk about is not libertarian, it's liberal. The assumption that life has to be fair. The assumption that a meritocracy has to be fair. That's a liberal idea. And indeed, this assumption is very "amusing".
When two investors invest in mines in an earthquake area. They're taking risks. I don't want to make their lives fair and risk-free for them. I don't want to heavily subsidize their insurance policy through my taxes. I will not shoulder some of their risks. I will just let the chips fall where they may. In the end, that may not be fair, but I don't give a hoot about fairness -- I only care about myself and my family for the most part.
Then you switch cell phone company.
I doubt very much that the download would begin on through Mozilla without Mozilla telling me something. If IE doesn't work for you, you can always switch to Mozilla or Opera.
"How are you to know which sites use these ads and which don't if you don't know about the ad until it's already been downloaded!!"
So you get screwed once and you don't return. That's the all point of the internet, isn't it? You never know what you're going to get until you try, and then you only end up trusting very few web sites like google or slashdot.
To me, I can see why ICANN would make such a rule in the first place, but I doubt there is enough confusion to warrant a verdict against the kid. After all, would you be confused? Would your grandmother be confused? No, I don't think so.
No. You're making up the bit about "things that sound like it". Companies purposefully mispell common words so that they can put a trademark on them.
Besides, there can be no confusion between the name Microsoft and MikeRowSoft unless the kid starts making commercials on an audio medium such as the radio or the television.
In the end, if the kids and his parents don't get intimidated, common sense will prevail.
If you ask them "Am I free to go?" and they say no. Ask them if you're under arrest. If you're not under arrest, they can't detain you. And if they can't detain you, at the very least, you can knock on your neighbor's door and ask to borrow the phone, or perhaps you could even ask to borrow your neighbors web connection.
When a student columnist was raided by the SS for writing an article on Chelsea Clinton, he had the presence of mind to tape record the search and the questions. I don't know if videotaping would be allowed, but it's certainly worth a try. Just promise your friend that you will replace the video camera if gets confiscated or damaged.
"You do appreciate the irony of this remark in a thread initiated by an article on how campus based students are turning in so many stolen papers, right?"
No, I only see it as supportive evidence for my point. Right now, some campus-based students get away with cheating when it comes to homework and home projects, but they *usually* can't get away with that much cheating when it comes to their in-class tests and their in-class exams. So my original point still remains, in an online school, you could hire/convince someone else to take the tests and the exams for you.
However, this problem is easily resolved when the online school arranges to have its tests and its exams taken in a physical location. I don't remember what they call this type of school, but I would agree that this problem goes away when they can vouch for the identity of the person they're testing.
-->4. Lack of specialized laboratory facilities for some Sciences.
"I think this is the most compelling of the arguments for a campus based education. It is also why, as far as I am aware, no institution offers an online degree in the sciences outside of math and computer science. It is, oddly enough, an argument that works against most small campus colleges as well. The expense of setting of up state-of-the-art labs and so forth requires a certain economy of scale that they can't achieve. Hence the fact that "small" is almost synonymous with "liberal arts" schools. When was the last time you heard anyone refer to a "small hard sciences" school?"
I didn't know we were talking about small schools. The smaller the school gets, the lesser its reputation will be in the marketplace, that's my theory anyway. So I didn't know you were comparing online schools with tiny campus-based schools that don't have enough money for lab facilities.
-->5. Lack of prescreening. Anyone can get in. Right, or wrong, people don't value anything anyone can get.
"That is a shame, particularly when you look at the luminaries that have graduated from a place like City College in NYC over the years. There is a difference between getting in and graduating. That said, there isn't any reason online schools can't (or won't in time) become more selective."
Online schools have a high upfront cost and a low marginal cost for adding students, they will become commoditized and their stigma will remain.
If a school wants to appear selective, it will have to start by being selective. For instance, when UC Berkeley created a world reknown Women's Study department, it started the program by only admitting one person to the major for the first couple of years.
And incidently, I went to a University but I didn't graduate, so I do know from experience what you mean when you talk about being able to get in but not being able to graduate.
One time, my product choice was criticized and second guessed nine times by nine different Sales associates at Best Buy. I obviously can't speak for you because I'm a guy and I haven't experienced what you've experienced and generally speaking most people don't stares at my man boobs anyway, but sometimes we men can also be treated very unfairly as well.
I'm not sure we can get one that is that good in the first place.
At the top of my head, here are a couple of reasons:
1. In an online school, you could hire/convince someone else to take the tests and the exams for you.
2. Internet bandwidth + phone bandwidth will never be as good as human face-to-face bandwidth.
3. Lack of face-to-face learning from your peers.
4. Lack of specialized laboratory facilities for some Sciences.
5. Lack of prescreening. Anyone can get in. Right, or wrong, people don't value anything anyone can get.
That's the way it may have worked in your case, but in the case of McGill -- they wanted the student to directly input their papers into the web site of Turnitin. And in any case, that service was going to be discontinued last December because McGill was only evaluating the service and was not ready to pay the licensing fees.
I wonder what their licensing fees are? Their web site doesn't say? Does anyone have any idea?
Forget about what the University thinks. The most important part is what will Turnitin think when faced with competitors? Will Turnitin share papers with its competitors? Will Turnitin have a competitive advantage over its late-starting competitors?
Students share papers across Universities all the time. There are services that legally buy and sell those "original" papers just for this reason. Not only Turnitin is making money from those papers, but hard-working students will be deprived of their revenues because they won't be able to sell their original work to the paper-exhange services.
You mean like Microsoft Word?
Well, I didn't ignore it, I just couldn't install it. I'm talking about FreeBSD here. I bought the CDs with the book, plus I bought another book, and then I went online to find some answers. The installation instructions were different each time and they just plain didn't work for me.
No, the "real alternative" is to turn it over to SCO.
No, the "real alternative" is to turn over your limited rights to a law firm and split the proceeds 50/50.
The work wasn't given away, if it had been truly given away it would be in the public domain. The last bit of GPL control he has chosen to keep for himself is his property and in this world everyone who has property has to pay for the cost of protecting it.
Did you mean to say "that can not happen"? Your post is confusing me.
Doesn't IBM provide support contracts for Linux-based systems?
Good question. Why wouldn't the government require software companies to put legitimate limits on their products? The government could prevent spammers by placing limits on email software. The government could prevent reckless high-speed chases by putting limits on car manufacturers. The government could impose limits on music player manufacturers to limit the propagation of illegally copied music. The government could place limits on photocopy machines to prevent the copyright infringement of copyrighted books.
The possibilities are endless. Think of it, the World would be a much safer and fairer place if the government actually placed more legitimate limits on products and processes.
(tongue seriously implanted in my cheek)