On the other hand, the drone pilots are "in theatre" for the purpose of the war. It would NOT BE TERRORISM for Taliban fighters to sneak into the country to try to kill them or those near them as the pilots are essentially on the battlefield. This goes right to the nature of WHY the World Trade Center was bombed.. it's a PRIVATE Banking location, not a government organization that was being attacked. Offices at the WTC were exactly the same type of thing as these drone pilots, people in an office building making decisions that cause people to be killed, or starve, or governments to be overthrown by bankers against the will of the people actually living in the country.
Quite fitting that this article is right next to an article about ATCA... exactly the kind of backroom, private corporation, deal making smaller countries have been dealing with since WW2.
flashing boobies and mailing it to your boyfriend counts as child porn... and they try the 15 year olds as adults! Yeah, these guys are legally bound to protect children... throw the book at them.
this is where good old lynching comes in. Announce what they did to the parents, march them into the gym naked in handcuffs and lock all the doors... with so many people in there "nobody" will be to blame if somebody got "hurt"...or worse. bummer. Invite kids they peeped on to watch!
no they only need to spend 1 day in jail. They should have some low-level peeping or sexual harassment felony on their record. They give those out for peeing in public and having a little girl see your willy.... this is far, far worse.
That will require "sex offender" registration for life in every state they live in. It will threaten their ability to keep their children in custody cases. It will bar them from schools and other places children gather. It will limit where they can live and show on a background check for any job.
everybody involved should be facing felony charges (with stalking/molesting a minor sanctions) even if they get just one day in jail... they'll never hold a position of trust again. These things need to be punished extraordinarily harshly because people don't ever get punished for them I hate to break it to IT folks, but they should have not installed this software knowing how the "paper pushers" had used it. I'm against a lawsuit, they do no good anymore. We need to start passing out felonies for this stuff all around.. let's ruin some people's careers as an example.
My school (college) uses webcams in certain online classes like public speaking where you need to video conference. There is one group of online educators pushing for webcams to be activated while taking online tests... I could even understand if this was something like the programs people set up to catch laptop thieves or track damage... but office administrators and principals had absolutely no right to this information.
Except what really happens is that American coders won't sign the documents. That's where Indian and Chinese agencies will sign "whatever", cash the check, and farm it out to low paid code monkeys. Legally, they're not in the USA so your contract is Worthless.
yes and know. When our IT department started having to follow SOX and other code management tools, the first thing to managers was "put in a ticket".
What will happen is developers will become full-blown assholes about every little thing. Everything will be required to be signed off in triplicate. Code will be awesome but delivery will push out 6 months minimum.
Why should it matter? Shouldn't a good Network OS properly and fully support ANY network device YOU need supported? Wouldn't that ability DEFINE a Network OS? Novell made a network OS for years and never sold a workstation OS and seemed to work OK. So what you're saying is that Microsoft is just like Apple in that they only support THEIR stuff.
The vast majority of energy life uses comes from the Sun. Oil and Coal are just massive buried forests like the Amazon (call it a project in carbon sequestering!) Geothermal is useful, but lends to people living near earthquake zones. Wind is good but nobody wants the "eyesore". Hydro is super efficient, but requires flooding land. (interestingly both Wind and Hydro are "solar" powered too)
Frankly Algae is probably the very best idea. The oceans cover 75% of the Earth and life in the Deep Deep ocean is very sparse. You could build hundreds of square miles of algae farms in the ocean and harvest them like crops. The main problem is dealing with storms in remote ocean locations where you're 1000 miles from land and 5000+ feet from the bottom. "Solar Power" via plants is the most viable option for the long term, there's plenty of ocean to cover and done correctly could even promote live in the lower layers like fishes that feed on stuff dropped from the higher levels. If we want to go to planets, building new ecology in the deep ocean would be a good start.
The lock on the desktop market is the private little BIOS monopoly Microsoft keeps in business. That lets them tweak every individual computer model "just a little bit" so the standard APIs like power management don't quite work perfectly.
In the case of property of important people the government can use antiquities laws to swoop in and make you put things in a museum under professional care. That means the item is available to professionals, and often to the public and if it's out of copyright, copy away.
What you have here is the company playing both sides. When the shows were aired there probably wasn't recording available so the network has the only copies. Copyright is expired on the items, so they are written off assets, like any other property thrown in the trash.
Except they're being dicks and rather than turn them over for preservation they are destroying "their property".. because the copyright covers the MAKING of the copy. Their copy is their right to destroy. They don't want more made... probably because whoever does the digital transfer would then gain a new copyright for the restoration work. Networks could probably get that changed, but they really don't want to compete with their own out-of-copyright works on YouTube for free.
This would be a good case to the next DMCA exception hearings. Their refusal to release the work should be documented in writing to take to the hearing. One of the key points of making cracking of CSS legal is that studios destroy property when clearing out archives and often don't even know. The last VHS release of Star Wars was from a ripped Laserdisc because Lucas allowed the last original negatives to be damaged in storage. Episodes like this show the true purpose of DRM to prevent archiving of material, combine with releasing works every few years with minor changes it makes the work either never leave copyright/trademark, or suddenly die out and nobody has a copy.
That's the point though. Schools are "discouraged" from using the new device because it doesn't work "perfectly" which has NOTHING to do with meeting their ADA accommodation requirements. The whole thing is that the Kindle MIGHT cause schools to issue material that is not quite accessible to Blind people. When they DO issue material that is unavailable to blind then there's a problem.. easily remedied like any other... do blind folks complain because the news stand doesn't have TODAY's paper available in Braille at the same the regular version is... more importantly should the blind folk have the RIGHT to make sighted people WAIT until a version is available for everybody?
not really, e-books can be published in Kindle format and read into more compatible readers. If somebody make a cost effective one, Amazon would probably allow Kindle books on it (should the COPYRIGHT holders agree.. the ones who disable text-to-speech to charge blind kids MORE in the first place)
It's not Amazon's problem Kindle isn't perfect for all students. Colleges and Publishers have complete control to make the books available in formats Blind can access. It requires more PLANNING and things like daily news isn't always available, but again that's the School's job to make those materials accessible...not tell everybody else they can't use them.
The tech is almost there, perhaps the DOJ would front some MONEY to Amazon to make a kindle compatible braille reader based on one of these technologies? Of course then the people that hand-type braille pages at $$ per page will resent being out of a job...
The DOJ didn't exactly stick up for Amazon when they enabled text-to-speech by default for all Kindle books.... Now they claim they can't use them because it's "unfair" to blind people.... Blind people can't read EVERY book without help.... kindle make it cheaper for the rest of us to have materials. There are SPECIAL programs and credits to convert material for blind people that schools are supposed to offer... not turn off stuff for the rest of us!!
who are you going to sell to? If you sell anything to a company that "makes in China" the Chinese government requires them to use Chinese suppliers of the raw materials.... so you get some of the business, or you get NONE of the Chinese business... or any company that does business with them. It's the "walmart" problem applied to resource for an entire country.
it's not about people seeing the movie. It's about established players like Blockbuster willing to pay a larger cut to studios to rent movies first. So the studios are going after Redbox and Netflix to curb the "cheap" rentals that aren't paying kickbacks.
I've noticed at my regional chain store as well more videos are marked "rental" meaning they can't be sold as "used" later. It's a focused effort from studios across the board to create the tiered system. Why "sell" a DVD when they can get the same $15 from a download on Xbox or Apple TV. Why let Netflix or Redbox charge $1 per rental when they can get $4-$5 selling via Apple TV or On Demand Cable. They want to limit the supply, then push the "piracy" card to get the extra demands on consumer electronics.
That's why the first troubleshooting step the phone drones have you do, or the repair shop does is to reinstall the "original" software. Your computer works just like it came out of the box... you can't have windows updates or any SOFTWARE installed but it's not "their problem"!
I'd bet the unused $5 per account doesn't meet the minimum amount to bother with posting.... hence the want for the big check of all the aggregate amounts!
but I paid for access to MINUTES of phone time in an account, and the contract to use the minutes expires in a limited amount of time. That's an entirely valid contract. Those unused minutes do not convert back to "property" anymore than I get a refund on my parking meter if I only use half the time parking my car. (take that District... and a car analogy to boot!)
The District is after the monetary value... which will conveniently amount to below the limit for reporting "unclaimed property" the exact same thing they are claiming the Telephone company can't do.
but the key to newspapers making money online is being able to profit from keeping historical archive. What about what happened last December? What about research for school projects or business reports? You need to find the "first research" on the topic, that means finding the story written by the reporter who did the footwork. THAT is what newspaper publishers are really providing in online service.
A good example is something like experts-exchange. The well-known trick of using Google Cache to skip the community login is a good example of the issue the newspapers have. Google got the search hits, the user got the content, but the actual publisher didn't get page hit, or a chance at ads because the "customer" never actually went to THEIR page to get the content.
But these are imported. I want them to do this with American Red Foxes that are slightly smaller and "red". The trick would be keeping them "red" while taming them. The color change is probably just a side effect of the selective breeding. With computer tracking and data from the previous experiment they could probably be tamed more quickly while keeping their "fox" features.
This would be a fun experiment in using genetics and computer forecasting. We have just enough knowledge of genetics to "peek under the hood" to loosely follow traits thru lineage, rather than directly manipulating genes, to make better guesses, we could even use data from 50 years of silver fox to make better "guesses" which ones we should mate to effect 10 or 20 generations with normal mating. The best thing about this is that you're creating genetically "proper" animals and not introducing "bugs" by tampering. It also leaves room for "happy accidents", unexpected things that might be better than what you're looking for.
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On the other hand, the drone pilots are "in theatre" for the purpose of the war. It would NOT BE TERRORISM for Taliban fighters to sneak into the country to try to kill them or those near them as the pilots are essentially on the battlefield. This goes right to the nature of WHY the World Trade Center was bombed.. it's a PRIVATE Banking location, not a government organization that was being attacked. Offices at the WTC were exactly the same type of thing as these drone pilots, people in an office building making decisions that cause people to be killed, or starve, or governments to be overthrown by bankers against the will of the people actually living in the country.
Quite fitting that this article is right next to an article about ATCA... exactly the kind of backroom, private corporation, deal making smaller countries have been dealing with since WW2.
flashing boobies and mailing it to your boyfriend counts as child porn... and they try the 15 year olds as adults! Yeah, these guys are legally bound to protect children... throw the book at them.
this is where good old lynching comes in. Announce what they did to the parents, march them into the gym naked in handcuffs and lock all the doors... with so many people in there "nobody" will be to blame if somebody got "hurt"...or worse. bummer. Invite kids they peeped on to watch!
no they only need to spend 1 day in jail. They should have some low-level peeping or sexual harassment felony on their record. They give those out for peeing in public and having a little girl see your willy.... this is far, far worse.
That will require "sex offender" registration for life in every state they live in. It will threaten their ability to keep their children in custody cases. It will bar them from schools and other places children gather. It will limit where they can live and show on a background check for any job.
everybody involved should be facing felony charges (with stalking/molesting a minor sanctions) even if they get just one day in jail... they'll never hold a position of trust again. These things need to be punished extraordinarily harshly because people don't ever get punished for them I hate to break it to IT folks, but they should have not installed this software knowing how the "paper pushers" had used it. I'm against a lawsuit, they do no good anymore. We need to start passing out felonies for this stuff all around.. let's ruin some people's careers as an example.
My school (college) uses webcams in certain online classes like public speaking where you need to video conference. There is one group of online educators pushing for webcams to be activated while taking online tests... I could even understand if this was something like the programs people set up to catch laptop thieves or track damage... but office administrators and principals had absolutely no right to this information.
Except what really happens is that American coders won't sign the documents. That's where Indian and Chinese agencies will sign "whatever", cash the check, and farm it out to low paid code monkeys. Legally, they're not in the USA so your contract is Worthless.
yes and know. When our IT department started having to follow SOX and other code management tools, the first thing to managers was "put in a ticket".
What will happen is developers will become full-blown assholes about every little thing. Everything will be required to be signed off in triplicate. Code will be awesome but delivery will push out 6 months minimum.
This is the new wave of McCarthyism! They can retroactively claim Linux is a "subversive" organization... it was started by a Finn after all.
Why should it matter? Shouldn't a good Network OS properly and fully support ANY network device YOU need supported? Wouldn't that ability DEFINE a Network OS? Novell made a network OS for years and never sold a workstation OS and seemed to work OK. So what you're saying is that Microsoft is just like Apple in that they only support THEIR stuff.
The vast majority of energy life uses comes from the Sun. Oil and Coal are just massive buried forests like the Amazon (call it a project in carbon sequestering!) Geothermal is useful, but lends to people living near earthquake zones. Wind is good but nobody wants the "eyesore". Hydro is super efficient, but requires flooding land. (interestingly both Wind and Hydro are "solar" powered too)
Frankly Algae is probably the very best idea. The oceans cover 75% of the Earth and life in the Deep Deep ocean is very sparse. You could build hundreds of square miles of algae farms in the ocean and harvest them like crops. The main problem is dealing with storms in remote ocean locations where you're 1000 miles from land and 5000+ feet from the bottom. "Solar Power" via plants is the most viable option for the long term, there's plenty of ocean to cover and done correctly could even promote live in the lower layers like fishes that feed on stuff dropped from the higher levels. If we want to go to planets, building new ecology in the deep ocean would be a good start.
But does it have a Free BIOS? or use LinuxBios?
The lock on the desktop market is the private little BIOS monopoly Microsoft keeps in business. That lets them tweak every individual computer model "just a little bit" so the standard APIs like power management don't quite work perfectly.
In the case of property of important people the government can use antiquities laws to swoop in and make you put things in a museum under professional care. That means the item is available to professionals, and often to the public and if it's out of copyright, copy away.
What you have here is the company playing both sides. When the shows were aired there probably wasn't recording available so the network has the only copies. Copyright is expired on the items, so they are written off assets, like any other property thrown in the trash.
Except they're being dicks and rather than turn them over for preservation they are destroying "their property".. because the copyright covers the MAKING of the copy. Their copy is their right to destroy. They don't want more made... probably because whoever does the digital transfer would then gain a new copyright for the restoration work. Networks could probably get that changed, but they really don't want to compete with their own out-of-copyright works on YouTube for free.
This would be a good case to the next DMCA exception hearings. Their refusal to release the work should be documented in writing to take to the hearing. One of the key points of making cracking of CSS legal is that studios destroy property when clearing out archives and often don't even know. The last VHS release of Star Wars was from a ripped Laserdisc because Lucas allowed the last original negatives to be damaged in storage. Episodes like this show the true purpose of DRM to prevent archiving of material, combine with releasing works every few years with minor changes it makes the work either never leave copyright/trademark, or suddenly die out and nobody has a copy.
That's the point though. Schools are "discouraged" from using the new device because it doesn't work "perfectly" which has NOTHING to do with meeting their ADA accommodation requirements. The whole thing is that the Kindle MIGHT cause schools to issue material that is not quite accessible to Blind people. When they DO issue material that is unavailable to blind then there's a problem.. easily remedied like any other... do blind folks complain because the news stand doesn't have TODAY's paper available in Braille at the same the regular version is... more importantly should the blind folk have the RIGHT to make sighted people WAIT until a version is available for everybody?
not really, e-books can be published in Kindle format and read into more compatible readers. If somebody make a cost effective one, Amazon would probably allow Kindle books on it (should the COPYRIGHT holders agree.. the ones who disable text-to-speech to charge blind kids MORE in the first place)
It's not Amazon's problem Kindle isn't perfect for all students. Colleges and Publishers have complete control to make the books available in formats Blind can access. It requires more PLANNING and things like daily news isn't always available, but again that's the School's job to make those materials accessible...not tell everybody else they can't use them.
how about provide a braille e-book reader? If somebody made one Amazon would probably support it.
like this? http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/04/17/braille-e-book/
or this? http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/Electronic-Braille-Reader-Helps-The-Blind-Surf-The-Internet-2492-01.html
or this? http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/deafblind_communicator/_details/id_118/deafblind_communicator.html
or this? http://www.gizmag.com/go/5876/
The tech is almost there, perhaps the DOJ would front some MONEY to Amazon to make a kindle compatible braille reader based on one of these technologies? Of course then the people that hand-type braille pages at $$ per page will resent being out of a job...
exactly, see here!
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/02/28/0127236/Amazon-Caves-On-Kindle-2-Text-To-Speech
The DOJ didn't exactly stick up for Amazon when they enabled text-to-speech by default for all Kindle books.... Now they claim they can't use them because it's "unfair" to blind people.... Blind people can't read EVERY book without help.... kindle make it cheaper for the rest of us to have materials. There are SPECIAL programs and credits to convert material for blind people that schools are supposed to offer... not turn off stuff for the rest of us!!
who are you going to sell to? If you sell anything to a company that "makes in China" the Chinese government requires them to use Chinese suppliers of the raw materials.... so you get some of the business, or you get NONE of the Chinese business... or any company that does business with them. It's the "walmart" problem applied to resource for an entire country.
it's not about people seeing the movie. It's about established players like Blockbuster willing to pay a larger cut to studios to rent movies first. So the studios are going after Redbox and Netflix to curb the "cheap" rentals that aren't paying kickbacks.
I've noticed at my regional chain store as well more videos are marked "rental" meaning they can't be sold as "used" later. It's a focused effort from studios across the board to create the tiered system. Why "sell" a DVD when they can get the same $15 from a download on Xbox or Apple TV. Why let Netflix or Redbox charge $1 per rental when they can get $4-$5 selling via Apple TV or On Demand Cable. They want to limit the supply, then push the "piracy" card to get the extra demands on consumer electronics.
The REAL question is why the computer didn't COME THAT WAY IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Duh!
That's why the first troubleshooting step the phone drones have you do, or the repair shop does is to reinstall the "original" software. Your computer works just like it came out of the box... you can't have windows updates or any SOFTWARE installed but it's not "their problem"!
I'd bet the unused $5 per account doesn't meet the minimum amount to bother with posting.... hence the want for the big check of all the aggregate amounts!
but I paid for access to MINUTES of phone time in an account, and the contract to use the minutes expires in a limited amount of time. That's an entirely valid contract. Those unused minutes do not convert back to "property" anymore than I get a refund on my parking meter if I only use half the time parking my car. (take that District... and a car analogy to boot!)
The District is after the monetary value... which will conveniently amount to below the limit for reporting "unclaimed property" the exact same thing they are claiming the Telephone company can't do.
I believe your referring to Mrs. Roberts. The ultimate work-from-home admin?
http://xkcd.com/341/
but the key to newspapers making money online is being able to profit from keeping historical archive. What about what happened last December? What about research for school projects or business reports? You need to find the "first research" on the topic, that means finding the story written by the reporter who did the footwork. THAT is what newspaper publishers are really providing in online service.
A good example is something like experts-exchange. The well-known trick of using Google Cache to skip the community login is a good example of the issue the newspapers have. Google got the search hits, the user got the content, but the actual publisher didn't get page hit, or a chance at ads because the "customer" never actually went to THEIR page to get the content.
But these are imported. I want them to do this with American Red Foxes that are slightly smaller and "red". The trick would be keeping them "red" while taming them. The color change is probably just a side effect of the selective breeding. With computer tracking and data from the previous experiment they could probably be tamed more quickly while keeping their "fox" features.
This would be a fun experiment in using genetics and computer forecasting. We have just enough knowledge of genetics to "peek under the hood" to loosely follow traits thru lineage, rather than directly manipulating genes, to make better guesses, we could even use data from 50 years of silver fox to make better "guesses" which ones we should mate to effect 10 or 20 generations with normal mating. The best thing about this is that you're creating genetically "proper" animals and not introducing "bugs" by tampering. It also leaves room for "happy accidents", unexpected things that might be better than what you're looking for.