this is a survey to determine if traffic lights are needed. You can probably find the state DOT criteria and measurements online and walk out with a video camera for a few days at the worst time of day and sit at home and count the cars and times passing through.
In reality a computer major is probably MORE qualified than somebody that BUILDS roads... Computer scientists don't wire computers, they manage how data gets from one place to another, a transaction system for business is 100 times more complex in "traffic" scheduling than a few cars on roads....
They guy is suggesting a traffic plan, not telling them HOW to build a road or stoplights... just WHERE to build them. He probably heaped on the details because engineers like these guys are assholes... if you didn't fill out the "right form" then you're "not important". Imagine where business computing would be if we expected our feature requests to include ERD and Flowcharts of the data models and program paths... yet Computer people take requests all the time...
I took some time to read up and that's exactly what's going on though. Over half of of the Prime Ministers weren't even born in Israel. Waves of Jews immigrated, sometimes illegally, and they did it with an agenda dating back to at least the 1920's long before "Palestinians" had any say in the matter. It's much like how the USA handled native peoples, signing treaty after treaty, then sending in the next wave of settlers illegally anyway.... According to Wikipedia, during the independence wars Jews displaced 750k Palestinians... and IMMIGRATED 700k NEW JEWS from other parts of the world in the next 20 years while not letting the displaced people return to their homes or property.
I'm not racist, I think the Jews should be in that spot of the world... but historical fact is just getting worse and worse the more I educate myself. Like I keep saying.. spoiled children.. most of the world has no problem.. but the Jews can't seem to treat their OWN NEIGHBORS with any kind of dignity when they have the upper hand. These aren't the "native" Jews.. they're returnees from the Europe and America that expect to be at the top of the food chain with no "natives" to share with.
As a side note, this effect is also what's wrong with Arizona right now also. it's full of upper middle class folks that cashed out their pensions for "midwest suburbs" built for "trailer park" prices... (on top of socialist cheap water and power too) and now that money is getting tight, they're starting to realize they moved to "Mexico-lite" not to "mini-Vagas".
It's almost always minority interest "institutional" investors that pull these things because they have a score to make by selling the company off for some personal agenda.
It's good for stockholders to pump the stock, gut the company morale, then cunt-n-run.... utterly irresponsible... but it's OK legally.
I think they'd split the President and CEO positions again. Apple's staff are stepping up, but they're not really "name brand" CEO material at $400 per share. Schmidt has been on the board for a while, and just coming off Google... it would look like a BIG step up for him while allowing the company to adjust to running itself. Just like at Google, Apple needs a "Dad" at the top to keep the stockholders happy even though the people that run the place are more than capable, but they have no investor cred.. something Jobs hasn't been sharing much of until very recently.
In a way that's not bad. Schmidt was brought on because they were smart kids, that needed a good "dad" figure. They have more money than "god" now, and the founders would rather keep some principals rather than sell out to places like China. Sure, it's not "growing" eternally but the company doesn't NEED the money, and they'd rather not get involved with defending themselves from all the nasty stuff China can do.
It's clear the people in China don't WANT to be saved from their government, and their government is willing to kill people that get in the way. It's always ironic that the US government will broadcast "Voice of America" into all these countries stirring up dissidents... then expect our corporations to drop and suck cock of dictators and fascists because the exports are good for stockholders.
It's pragmatism on Schmidt's part simply because making Google "safe" for what the Chinese want is pretty simple for their really smart guys. But from Larry and Sergey's point of view they don't really want to step in as "big brother"... because THAT is what China really wants.. it's not enough for Google just to filter results, the government EXPECTS them to forward offending results for investigation... something Google doesn't want to be a part of. The founders are very aware of where that path leads... the CEO-types never really see that kind of stuff coming.
That's not true of the Middle Ages at all as there was very little industry or commerce more than 50 miles or so. People worked their asses off in the spring and fall, but during the winter they were mostly "baggage" with little work to do and little motivation for anybody to give a damn about them. "Try not to die" is not the same as "employment".
In the US, our "real" unemployment rate is probably closer to 15% because so many people have been forced into early retirement, or spouses that were working full time jobs are now working for much lower pay or not at all compared to the 1990's - 2000's. The US society is extremely mobilized, far more than even other European or Asian countries.
If you go back and read the same Bible most of the West does, you'd see the Jews are constantly their own worst enemy.... they rise to the occasion under extreme suffering, only to wallow in the gutter when everything goes their way. It's like a micro cell of humanity... it's happened before, it will happen again... 60 years ago somebody tried to exterminate one part of their ethnic group, yet they can't have any kind of grace or honor with people lesser than them. It's straight out of Dickenson where somebody with everything claims injury because they had to clean a little poor kids guts off their carriage and it ruined their day.
The problem is that most of the "Jews" that ended up in Israel after WW2 would best be termed "carpet baggers". Most of them were from other well-to do places. It was founded as a "fairy tale" religious state... like if Pat Robertson and Dick Cheney had their own country. I think part of why Americans are starting to find it so vulgar is that it mirrors what the Americans did to the Indians not that long ago... and they're starting to realize it was a mistake.
From a purely "biblical" point of view, the land being squabbled over is the same land Israel failed to take back in the time of King David and the Philistines. There is a prophesy that it would NEVER be their land... and 4000 years later it's still the case. They are trying to take land their OWN religious text says they won't ever get.... They're trying to starve them out, to cheat on their peace treaties, etc, etc. when 60 years ago those people were just "folks" of the land. In ANY western country (like Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, etc) we'd call out Israel for "Ethnic Purges" which is exactly what they're doing. It's high time they stop getting a free pass to randomly execute residents of their country... we overthrew Saddam for the same kind of crap.
Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Crusaders.... all gave the jewish people a chance to participate in their cultures, then wiped them out... then the next guy gave them another chance, rinse n repeat. The UK/USA is another in a long line of big world players that felt the Jewish people earned great respect.... watch them squander it all just as fast!!!
My opinion is that in the next 5-10 years Israel is going to step over the line with Iran and the US will have to put them down for their own good (and to save our own face with the UN), wipe out all the stuff we've sold them... or 8 other countries will try to wipe them out. Iran is playing a game of talking big, but being careful not to actually violate any international laws, while at the same time stepping up response to minor violations on their own borders. It's a clever game to talk smack, but make sure the other guy throws the first punch. Russia and China have too much invested in Iran to let the US knock it over too... I think those two would hit the veto button on any military action against them.
for most companies, the issue is the BSA... note most of those companies are big enough to tell even US Marshals to go to hell.
According to the BSA propaganda from years ago, a company is liable for licensed software on EVERY computer that connects to its network. Again, most of these are big enough to buy the Enterprise site licenses that cover employees at home... the MAJORITY of companies/employees are small businesses of less than 75 people... this kind of media is just "jailbait" for the BSA. The "every computer connected to your network" is the big reason for companies making sure they OWN all the equipment.Then the company can properly license all the material, and keep others from installing anything that might get them in trouble. The security from viruses and malware is really a side effect of staying away from the lawyers.
If you're Intel or Microsoft and employees have bittorrent or hacked games on their systems it's "boys will be boys". When your Mom-n-Pop Sub Shop. and the kids borrow your work computer YOU are a pirate that needs to pay $100k per incident for pirated Minecraft.
The BIGGER problem is that all the "right" wing media is jumping on this as a Democrat that "deserved" what they got... At no point did Democrat-leaning media ever make those type of statements during Cheney's presidency. In fact, many of the things Slashdotters wrote very heated comments about when Cheney pushed them through are the exact same things Republicans pull out that Obama is going to use... so you should be scared.
My point would be that the really extreme views of the last President were kept mostly to the fringe... never on MSM...and NEVER from hosts/commentators, yet now you have people on national media outlets openly glorifying the "other" party being gunned down, openly threatening the "second amendment" on a sitting President who's only passed one major piece of legislation (the healthcare act, the bailout was already in motion... unless a President would be so irresponsible as to stop a plan at 90% because it was "Republican" and put millions in the poor house) and it doesn't even take effect for a few years. These are the same people that sat cheering on the sidelines cheering Patriot, and illegal spying on citizens ordered directly by the White House and retroactively making it legal.... There was a LOT done wrong in the last administration... Obama has really not done much except trying to hold the pieces together. Ironically, a Republican will "rise to the occasion" now that the worst is over and it will go right back to the Republican "plan".
The right wingers have been having a field day with Obama. The tea party folks even at the local level are openly espousing their "second amendment" solution. In spite of the fact that their "champion" is Palin...somebody who got run out off office for "bending the rules" for people in her family.... Exactly the kind of "under the table" government we're supposed to be STOPPING in places like Arizona with the illegal immigrants. The Tea Party and current Republican declaration of "total war" on Democrats is why people at the bottom are scared, hungry and turning violent.
I think everybody misses the fact that many of the illegals in Arizona are there because being illegal in the USA is still better than being a citizen 50 miles across the border with a nasty drug war going on. Literally so dangerous you may not wake up in the morning because you offended some dealer... or you're just caught in the crossfire. They're used as "dogma" on billboards and on in the "media"... Fox, Rush, CNN... the situation is dire, many of those folks are truly scary... they have no problem with sending folks back to die (or worse) as long as it doesn't affect there portfolio.
We need to close every news outlet for "inciting a riot" that's not BBC or NPR at this point. Many of the hosts are openly inciting violent, hostile behavior and it needs to stop. I don't even watch Fox or CNN because the little bits I see around town are so terrible, that stuff used to be reserved for "pirate" radio.
that leads to an interesting question. Will Apple support "in app" payments on the Mac App Store? It could be a big break for the next gaming apps if they don't have to compete for credit card numbers and recurring charges... folks only can handle so many after all. If you can just buy "iTunes" cards that opens up software to a whole new crowd... the kind that shops at Target. I know plenty of folks that have iPads and never connected them to their computer other than to register them. That you can do the same with a Mac... buy a card at the store and download the apps at KoffeeWorld opens up many, many of the core Mac apps and utilities to a huge crowd that can't get them now.
There's no way those companies are going to make "just apps" anyway... they won't give up putting crap all over the system just like on Windows, so it's not a big deal. (a few apps like Parallels simply can't follow the App store rules in any meaningful way... but the valid use of those apps I could probably count on 1 hand) You'll notice all those apps are very important... but they're apps people buy because they NEED from the same giant software houses Apple is trashing right now.
just hope nobody near you comes up dead from any of those things. I'd think for the more common things Defense could simply argue that you saw it on "CSI" last night and had to check it out. Of course when your spouse, child, room mate comes up dead they start with the people closest.
Laptops are awful. We have people that bring the damn things to meetings... they are a complete distraction. Either their work is more important than the meeting, or their time in the meeting needs to be important. My bosses are very good about having "tight" meetings. They try to estimate down to 10 minute blocks and try to keep them to about an hour max. Sitting ACROSS the table from 2-3 people staring at laptops instead of the presenter is really distracting.
I think this is where Apple could make a killing with iPad in education. What's needed for all the electronics in classrooms is a way to manage it. A way for iDevices to be "locked" into just note taking apps would be a "magic bullet". I agree computers in class would be great for keeping notes, and how most students have class schedules they're running around all day anyway, it's a bit of a waste NOT to type notes into something they have on hand.
I think the biggest thing needed is a change in how Professors run their classes. The whole idea of sitting in a room staring at a teacher for 1-2 hours just to listen to stories is out-of-date. Corporations are learning to quickly kill non-important meetings... there's even a book called "Death by Meeting". What the laptops in class really show is that show is that the model is ineffectual. Time in big lecture halls might as well be taped and recorded on TV. If the Professors don't have time for talking directly to students, well, that's why they have TAs teach those classes. The whole "game" of putting some things in assignments, some in reading, some in lecture is just silly "look busy" stuff. The purpose of a Professor is to impart "wisdom" about the subject... you have a textbook for "knowledge" purposes.
I never understood the mom getting the kids anyway. If the woman wants her freedom so badly, why shouldn't the guy keep the kids, do the housework and find out just how much WORK it was... while mom goes back to school to make up career points for staying home with kids for 10 years.
That way the guy doesn't have to pay child support... he just has to make all the arrangements mom did!!
This is just like a Bank Safety Deposit box. You put stuff there for money, but it's equally tenuous to think owning a 18"x3"x9" box has any "expectation of privacy too" as the Bank has all the keys anyway. Except of course Banks protect YOUR property on THEIR premises even for legal measures, with extreme prejudice. This really isn't any different.
The main difference is that ISPs are staffed by the geeks that don't know all their rights and have the money to afford the lawyers and Banks are staffed by Ivy League grads and backed by the Banks deep pockets for lawyers.
This ruling is just like needing a warrant to search your safety deposit box located at a bank. The government's case was that "they didn't need to tell you" in order to access the records because they weren't in your "possession". If you tried the same argument on a banker they'd laugh in your face and call the judge directly to bitch about you.
get ready to live like the Amish in a big hurry. Sure there will still be technology, but YOU won't afford it. We'll start to be like people in Europe or Japan... they have small apartments, and mostly older furnishings... things tend to be small and higher price. But most folks don't own cars, and 12 other motor and voltage based equipment like Americans do. (2+ cars, not just ATV, Snowmobile, jetski, lawnmower, leaf blower, generator, etc, etc)
Making everybody a Laptop and Smartphone isn't that hard, the infrastructure for the Internet is not too hard to produce, especially with the move to wireless removing the need for expensive copper all over the place. First you'll start to see the "heavy" goods get more and more expensive, fuel getting more and more expensive. Repairing housing will get more expensive and require more families to group up again. Again, that's how most of the world still lives, but single couples with 3,000sq ft houses 45 miles from work is going to get hard to keep up... the $4 gas nearly put many folks in that group over the edge.... expect it to get much worse.
and the definition of "oneself" gets lower and lower... We're already at the point that police dogs are "officers" and just "have a bad day" when they attack bystanders, but your pet pitbull is a criminally trained "dangerous weapon".
As sentry bots get more mobile, similar rulings will be passed... try vandalizing street cams in Britain... and take it from there!
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the problem he's working on now is how to get out with the money.. alive! Life has a 100% mortality rate... somebody should make a law...
In other news Steve's warranty is voided... there are no "user serviceable" inside. Changing the squishy-ware is not supported.
powered by Watson!!!!
this is a survey to determine if traffic lights are needed. You can probably find the state DOT criteria and measurements online and walk out with a video camera for a few days at the worst time of day and sit at home and count the cars and times passing through.
In reality a computer major is probably MORE qualified than somebody that BUILDS roads... Computer scientists don't wire computers, they manage how data gets from one place to another, a transaction system for business is 100 times more complex in "traffic" scheduling than a few cars on roads....
They guy is suggesting a traffic plan, not telling them HOW to build a road or stoplights... just WHERE to build them. He probably heaped on the details because engineers like these guys are assholes... if you didn't fill out the "right form" then you're "not important". Imagine where business computing would be if we expected our feature requests to include ERD and Flowcharts of the data models and program paths... yet Computer people take requests all the time...
I took some time to read up and that's exactly what's going on though. Over half of of the Prime Ministers weren't even born in Israel. Waves of Jews immigrated, sometimes illegally, and they did it with an agenda dating back to at least the 1920's long before "Palestinians" had any say in the matter. It's much like how the USA handled native peoples, signing treaty after treaty, then sending in the next wave of settlers illegally anyway.... According to Wikipedia, during the independence wars Jews displaced 750k Palestinians... and IMMIGRATED 700k NEW JEWS from other parts of the world in the next 20 years while not letting the displaced people return to their homes or property.
I'm not racist, I think the Jews should be in that spot of the world... but historical fact is just getting worse and worse the more I educate myself. Like I keep saying.. spoiled children.. most of the world has no problem.. but the Jews can't seem to treat their OWN NEIGHBORS with any kind of dignity when they have the upper hand. These aren't the "native" Jews.. they're returnees from the Europe and America that expect to be at the top of the food chain with no "natives" to share with.
As a side note, this effect is also what's wrong with Arizona right now also. it's full of upper middle class folks that cashed out their pensions for "midwest suburbs" built for "trailer park" prices... (on top of socialist cheap water and power too) and now that money is getting tight, they're starting to realize they moved to "Mexico-lite" not to "mini-Vagas".
It's almost always minority interest "institutional" investors that pull these things because they have a score to make by selling the company off for some personal agenda.
It's good for stockholders to pump the stock, gut the company morale, then cunt-n-run.... utterly irresponsible... but it's OK legally.
I think they'd split the President and CEO positions again. Apple's staff are stepping up, but they're not really "name brand" CEO material at $400 per share. Schmidt has been on the board for a while, and just coming off Google... it would look like a BIG step up for him while allowing the company to adjust to running itself. Just like at Google, Apple needs a "Dad" at the top to keep the stockholders happy even though the people that run the place are more than capable, but they have no investor cred.. something Jobs hasn't been sharing much of until very recently.
In a way that's not bad. Schmidt was brought on because they were smart kids, that needed a good "dad" figure. They have more money than "god" now, and the founders would rather keep some principals rather than sell out to places like China. Sure, it's not "growing" eternally but the company doesn't NEED the money, and they'd rather not get involved with defending themselves from all the nasty stuff China can do.
It's clear the people in China don't WANT to be saved from their government, and their government is willing to kill people that get in the way. It's always ironic that the US government will broadcast "Voice of America" into all these countries stirring up dissidents... then expect our corporations to drop and suck cock of dictators and fascists because the exports are good for stockholders.
It's pragmatism on Schmidt's part simply because making Google "safe" for what the Chinese want is pretty simple for their really smart guys. But from Larry and Sergey's point of view they don't really want to step in as "big brother"... because THAT is what China really wants.. it's not enough for Google just to filter results, the government EXPECTS them to forward offending results for investigation... something Google doesn't want to be a part of. The founders are very aware of where that path leads... the CEO-types never really see that kind of stuff coming.
That's not true of the Middle Ages at all as there was very little industry or commerce more than 50 miles or so. People worked their asses off in the spring and fall, but during the winter they were mostly "baggage" with little work to do and little motivation for anybody to give a damn about them. "Try not to die" is not the same as "employment".
In the US, our "real" unemployment rate is probably closer to 15% because so many people have been forced into early retirement, or spouses that were working full time jobs are now working for much lower pay or not at all compared to the 1990's - 2000's. The US society is extremely mobilized, far more than even other European or Asian countries.
If you go back and read the same Bible most of the West does, you'd see the Jews are constantly their own worst enemy.... they rise to the occasion under extreme suffering, only to wallow in the gutter when everything goes their way. It's like a micro cell of humanity... it's happened before, it will happen again... 60 years ago somebody tried to exterminate one part of their ethnic group, yet they can't have any kind of grace or honor with people lesser than them. It's straight out of Dickenson where somebody with everything claims injury because they had to clean a little poor kids guts off their carriage and it ruined their day.
The problem is that most of the "Jews" that ended up in Israel after WW2 would best be termed "carpet baggers". Most of them were from other well-to do places. It was founded as a "fairy tale" religious state... like if Pat Robertson and Dick Cheney had their own country. I think part of why Americans are starting to find it so vulgar is that it mirrors what the Americans did to the Indians not that long ago... and they're starting to realize it was a mistake.
From a purely "biblical" point of view, the land being squabbled over is the same land Israel failed to take back in the time of King David and the Philistines. There is a prophesy that it would NEVER be their land... and 4000 years later it's still the case. They are trying to take land their OWN religious text says they won't ever get.... They're trying to starve them out, to cheat on their peace treaties, etc, etc. when 60 years ago those people were just "folks" of the land. In ANY western country (like Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, etc) we'd call out Israel for "Ethnic Purges" which is exactly what they're doing. It's high time they stop getting a free pass to randomly execute residents of their country... we overthrew Saddam for the same kind of crap.
Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Crusaders.... all gave the jewish people a chance to participate in their cultures, then wiped them out... then the next guy gave them another chance, rinse n repeat. The UK/USA is another in a long line of big world players that felt the Jewish people earned great respect.... watch them squander it all just as fast!!!
My opinion is that in the next 5-10 years Israel is going to step over the line with Iran and the US will have to put them down for their own good (and to save our own face with the UN), wipe out all the stuff we've sold them... or 8 other countries will try to wipe them out. Iran is playing a game of talking big, but being careful not to actually violate any international laws, while at the same time stepping up response to minor violations on their own borders. It's a clever game to talk smack, but make sure the other guy throws the first punch. Russia and China have too much invested in Iran to let the US knock it over too... I think those two would hit the veto button on any military action against them.
for most companies, the issue is the BSA... note most of those companies are big enough to tell even US Marshals to go to hell.
According to the BSA propaganda from years ago, a company is liable for licensed software on EVERY computer that connects to its network. Again, most of these are big enough to buy the Enterprise site licenses that cover employees at home... the MAJORITY of companies/employees are small businesses of less than 75 people... this kind of media is just "jailbait" for the BSA. The "every computer connected to your network" is the big reason for companies making sure they OWN all the equipment.Then the company can properly license all the material, and keep others from installing anything that might get them in trouble. The security from viruses and malware is really a side effect of staying away from the lawyers.
If you're Intel or Microsoft and employees have bittorrent or hacked games on their systems it's "boys will be boys". When your Mom-n-Pop Sub Shop. and the kids borrow your work computer YOU are a pirate that needs to pay $100k per incident for pirated Minecraft.
The BIGGER problem is that all the "right" wing media is jumping on this as a Democrat that "deserved" what they got... At no point did Democrat-leaning media ever make those type of statements during Cheney's presidency. In fact, many of the things Slashdotters wrote very heated comments about when Cheney pushed them through are the exact same things Republicans pull out that Obama is going to use ... so you should be scared.
My point would be that the really extreme views of the last President were kept mostly to the fringe... never on MSM...and NEVER from hosts/commentators, yet now you have people on national media outlets openly glorifying the "other" party being gunned down, openly threatening the "second amendment" on a sitting President who's only passed one major piece of legislation (the healthcare act, the bailout was already in motion... unless a President would be so irresponsible as to stop a plan at 90% because it was "Republican" and put millions in the poor house) and it doesn't even take effect for a few years. These are the same people that sat cheering on the sidelines cheering Patriot, and illegal spying on citizens ordered directly by the White House and retroactively making it legal.... There was a LOT done wrong in the last administration... Obama has really not done much except trying to hold the pieces together. Ironically, a Republican will "rise to the occasion" now that the worst is over and it will go right back to the Republican "plan".
The right wingers have been having a field day with Obama. The tea party folks even at the local level are openly espousing their "second amendment" solution. In spite of the fact that their "champion" is Palin...somebody who got run out off office for "bending the rules" for people in her family.... Exactly the kind of "under the table" government we're supposed to be STOPPING in places like Arizona with the illegal immigrants. The Tea Party and current Republican declaration of "total war" on Democrats is why people at the bottom are scared, hungry and turning violent.
I think everybody misses the fact that many of the illegals in Arizona are there because being illegal in the USA is still better than being a citizen 50 miles across the border with a nasty drug war going on. Literally so dangerous you may not wake up in the morning because you offended some dealer... or you're just caught in the crossfire. They're used as "dogma" on billboards and on in the "media"... Fox, Rush, CNN... the situation is dire, many of those folks are truly scary... they have no problem with sending folks back to die (or worse) as long as it doesn't affect there portfolio.
We need to close every news outlet for "inciting a riot" that's not BBC or NPR at this point. Many of the hosts are openly inciting violent, hostile behavior and it needs to stop. I don't even watch Fox or CNN because the little bits I see around town are so terrible, that stuff used to be reserved for "pirate" radio.
choking on your Lotus Mana doesn't cause burn anymore.
that leads to an interesting question. Will Apple support "in app" payments on the Mac App Store? It could be a big break for the next gaming apps if they don't have to compete for credit card numbers and recurring charges... folks only can handle so many after all. If you can just buy "iTunes" cards that opens up software to a whole new crowd... the kind that shops at Target. I know plenty of folks that have iPads and never connected them to their computer other than to register them. That you can do the same with a Mac... buy a card at the store and download the apps at KoffeeWorld opens up many, many of the core Mac apps and utilities to a huge crowd that can't get them now.
There's no way those companies are going to make "just apps" anyway... they won't give up putting crap all over the system just like on Windows, so it's not a big deal. (a few apps like Parallels simply can't follow the App store rules in any meaningful way... but the valid use of those apps I could probably count on 1 hand) You'll notice all those apps are very important... but they're apps people buy because they NEED from the same giant software houses Apple is trashing right now.
damn... that's all they'll have left after court is done with them.
just hope nobody near you comes up dead from any of those things. I'd think for the more common things Defense could simply argue that you saw it on "CSI" last night and had to check it out. Of course when your spouse, child, room mate comes up dead they start with the people closest.
Laptops are awful. We have people that bring the damn things to meetings... they are a complete distraction. Either their work is more important than the meeting, or their time in the meeting needs to be important. My bosses are very good about having "tight" meetings. They try to estimate down to 10 minute blocks and try to keep them to about an hour max. Sitting ACROSS the table from 2-3 people staring at laptops instead of the presenter is really distracting.
I think this is where Apple could make a killing with iPad in education. What's needed for all the electronics in classrooms is a way to manage it. A way for iDevices to be "locked" into just note taking apps would be a "magic bullet". I agree computers in class would be great for keeping notes, and how most students have class schedules they're running around all day anyway, it's a bit of a waste NOT to type notes into something they have on hand.
I think the biggest thing needed is a change in how Professors run their classes. The whole idea of sitting in a room staring at a teacher for 1-2 hours just to listen to stories is out-of-date. Corporations are learning to quickly kill non-important meetings... there's even a book called "Death by Meeting". What the laptops in class really show is that show is that the model is ineffectual. Time in big lecture halls might as well be taped and recorded on TV. If the Professors don't have time for talking directly to students, well, that's why they have TAs teach those classes. The whole "game" of putting some things in assignments, some in reading, some in lecture is just silly "look busy" stuff. The purpose of a Professor is to impart "wisdom" about the subject... you have a textbook for "knowledge" purposes.
I never understood the mom getting the kids anyway. If the woman wants her freedom so badly, why shouldn't the guy keep the kids, do the housework and find out just how much WORK it was... while mom goes back to school to make up career points for staying home with kids for 10 years.
That way the guy doesn't have to pay child support... he just has to make all the arrangements mom did!!
This is just like a Bank Safety Deposit box. You put stuff there for money, but it's equally tenuous to think owning a 18"x3"x9" box has any "expectation of privacy too" as the Bank has all the keys anyway. Except of course Banks protect YOUR property on THEIR premises even for legal measures, with extreme prejudice. This really isn't any different.
The main difference is that ISPs are staffed by the geeks that don't know all their rights and have the money to afford the lawyers and Banks are staffed by Ivy League grads and backed by the Banks deep pockets for lawyers.
yez, yez uz can!
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This ruling is just like needing a warrant to search your safety deposit box located at a bank. The government's case was that "they didn't need to tell you" in order to access the records because they weren't in your "possession". If you tried the same argument on a banker they'd laugh in your face and call the judge directly to bitch about you.
you're welcome to try....
The government's guys with guns don't recognize "your" right to point them back.
get ready to live like the Amish in a big hurry. Sure there will still be technology, but YOU won't afford it. We'll start to be like people in Europe or Japan... they have small apartments, and mostly older furnishings... things tend to be small and higher price. But most folks don't own cars, and 12 other motor and voltage based equipment like Americans do. (2+ cars, not just ATV, Snowmobile, jetski, lawnmower, leaf blower, generator, etc, etc)
Making everybody a Laptop and Smartphone isn't that hard, the infrastructure for the Internet is not too hard to produce, especially with the move to wireless removing the need for expensive copper all over the place. First you'll start to see the "heavy" goods get more and more expensive, fuel getting more and more expensive. Repairing housing will get more expensive and require more families to group up again. Again, that's how most of the world still lives, but single couples with 3,000sq ft houses 45 miles from work is going to get hard to keep up... the $4 gas nearly put many folks in that group over the edge.... expect it to get much worse.
and the definition of "oneself" gets lower and lower... We're already at the point that police dogs are "officers" and just "have a bad day" when they attack bystanders, but your pet pitbull is a criminally trained "dangerous weapon".
As sentry bots get more mobile, similar rulings will be passed... try vandalizing street cams in Britain... and take it from there!