Well, no, it won't (currently) let them know exactly where she went, but it does let them know she got on a different bus, and where she got off. Mobile RFID receivers, mounted on the buses. No need for one on every lamppost.
Evidently, not in this town. According to the article, it is a very low key, middle class suburb. Not a lot happening.
So they invent something. "My child might be kidnapped!" (has never, ever happened in this town, but it might)
At the Spring district, where no student has ever been kidnapped, the system is expected to be used for more pedestrian purposes, Chief Bragg said: to reassure frantic parents, for example, calling because their child, rather than coming home as expected, went to a friend's house, an extracurricular activity or a Girl Scout meeting.
You can call the police, and find out if Janey went to Mary's house after school. (Instead of you teaching Janey to call and tell you where she is)
Within a few weeks I had serious issues occurring with my sight, and I was developing a tic in one of my eyes that wouldn't go away. My knuckles became inflamed and I wondered if I could keep working with a PC. The joints of my entire body swelled, and sleeping became incredibly difficult at night. When doing sit-ups I had crunching sounds coming from my spine and a deep cracking in the lower back. ALL of these symptoms went away went I went back to smoking weed!
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The thing is, it's not 'his' to give away. Now, if he had purchased all 900,000 songs, that would be a different story. He'd merely be a gullible, formerly rich person, instead of a/. hero.
Probably (more or less). If you order 'Penis Enlargement Cream" for $24.95, and get a tube of anonymous goo worth about $0.07, would you say that the order has been filled?
The other problem lies in getting a refund once you've figured out that you've been ripped off. Mr. Jeremy Spammer isn't a wholesaler, but merely a cashier. He has no inventory. You send your money to him, he takes his cut and moves the order on the the actual seller. They send you the 'stuff'. You want your money back, but the only contact is who you sent the money to, Mr. Jeremy Spammer. He has since moved onto a different business name and contact info. You have little chance of getting a refund.
J. Spammer has his cut, the wholesaler has their cut, and you have a tube of goo.
Oh yeah, and can it stop dirty bombs in suitcases, or monitor Oakland's ports for suitcase nukes? Nope.
No, but maybe it can stop someone, in a few years, from lobbing a nuke over the Pacific. Or maybe it can keep Fuckedupistan from shooting a newage SCUD at Weirdistan.
Can one airport security guard stop a Chinese ICBM from hitting Taipei? No, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't spend money on airport security. She might be able to stop another kind of attack.
Just think what would have happened if that $10 billion had been spent on hiring companies to build and test parts of this system. Those companies could have hired people to do all that stuff, and paid them salaries, which would have generated spending, which would have kept other people employed. Those people, let's call them employees, would have paid a lot of taxes. A lot of those taxes would have gone into the local and state governments. Some of it would have even gone to the federal government as well.
That's the part I never quite understood about companies that want to be built in downtown areas
Sometimes, your major customers/clients have an office downtown as well. It's much easier walking across the street for a meeting/demo/presentation, than driving in from the suburbs. Our company recently did this. Moved a bunch of people from the burbs right to the middle of downtown. Result? They can interface with their clients at a moments notice, rather than blow an hour driving roundtrip. And for a $40M client, you want to be right there.
(or any other webmail with sufficient space)
Email yourself a daily backup. Reasonably secure, readily accessible storage, plus fodder for a future book: "How I wrote the Great American Novel - Stages and iterations."
A few years ago, there were a couple of similar (but non-shooting) toys based on two characters from "A Bug's Life". Maybe 10" tall, motion sensor, prerecorded sayings, varying threat levels. Hang on the wall or sit on the shelf.
The ant was pretty friendly, but the cricket would evidently get pretty nasty if you stayed in the area. "Hey, what are you doing in here" "GET OUT!"
Hacking a foam shooter into one of these would be pretty easy.
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Without fail, the computer "literacy" classes in those schools is training in Microsoft Office. They're just training kids to use a particular version of a particular product from ONE company.
I'll bet it's even worse. Our company bought a 'skills test' a couple of years ago. Very basic PC/Microsoft skills, to supposedly evaluate a new persons training needs.
One in particular I remember was "How do you create a shortcut to an application?" Of course, there are several different ways to do this in Windows. If you didn't answer in the single, exact way they wanted, you failed the question. Our senior MS developer got a "Needs remedial training". (No, not because he's a crappy developer, or works with MS...but simply because the test was badly flawed)
Unless the Democrats can differentiate themselves from the Republicans, ...and be better! ...people aren't going to want to change what party's president.
Being 'not republican' is not automatically better.
Countries that currently produce fewer greenhouse gases than their target can sell credits to countries that overproduce. The overproducer doesn't actually have to reduce.
Do you really think that similar outrages haven't happened with every military force, in every conflict, ever since Ogg beat Foo over the head with a stick? Every military, every time.
Not excusing it, or saying 'that's ok, no harm done'. But, unfortunately, it does happen. A tiny segment of humanity is ready, willing, and able to do crap like this. Some of them gravitate to their countries' military or police forces. And given the chance, they do it.
We must accomodate the needs of high-density populations at higher priority than of low-density populations.
Those low density areas are what feeds you, clothes you, provides your electricity, fuel for that pretty Beemer.
You want a happy country? Best to pay attention to what's happening in the cities, because that's where the tensions build up and break through.
You want a non-starving country? Don't over focus on the cities. A lot of non city folk would say "fuck it, just wall it off. We'll survive just fine out here."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voting in U.S. elections this week was mostly fair, but the lines were too long at some polling stations, according to an international rights group monitoring the presidential contest for first time.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Thursday that before the vote it had received "widespread" allegations of fraud and voter suppression, mainly among minorities, and raised concern that confidence in the system could be undermined.
However, the group said it was unable to substantiate the allegations. It also said that on election day it observed relatively few attempts to challenge a voter's eligibility, despite concerns before the vote.
Europe's top rights watchdog, which groups 55 countries including the United States, said the election "mostly met" international standards for free and fair elections and defied fears of a repeat of 2000's debacle.
The OSCE's observations basically matched civil-rights groups' assessments that while there were voting problems, they were not on such a widespread scale to call into question the result -- unlike in Florida in 2000.
"The system has been improved because the poll workers and officials were so eager to have things work well and there was also high awareness among voters to make sure their vote counted," the OSCE delegation head, Rita Suessmuth, said.
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Well, no, it won't (currently) let them know exactly where she went, but it does let them know she got on a different bus, and where she got off.
Mobile RFID receivers, mounted on the buses. No need for one on every lamppost.
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I still play most of my games on the pc.
Does not go over well with the IRS.
So they invent something. "My child might be kidnapped!" (has never, ever happened in this town, but it might)
At the Spring district, where no student has ever been kidnapped, the system is expected to be used for more pedestrian purposes, Chief Bragg said: to reassure frantic parents, for example, calling because their child, rather than coming home as expected, went to a friend's house, an extracurricular activity or a Girl Scout meeting.
You can call the police, and find out if Janey went to Mary's house after school. (Instead of you teaching Janey to call and tell you where she is)
They're still there. You just don't notice them.
No, it was all those years of ASCII porn.
Nothing for you to see here.
The thing is, it's not 'his' to give away. Now, if he had purchased all 900,000 songs, that would be a different story. He'd merely be a gullible, formerly rich person, instead of a /. hero.
The other problem lies in getting a refund once you've figured out that you've been ripped off.
Mr. Jeremy Spammer isn't a wholesaler, but merely a cashier. He has no inventory. You send your money to him, he takes his cut and moves the order on the the actual seller. They send you the 'stuff'. You want your money back, but the only contact is who you sent the money to, Mr. Jeremy Spammer. He has since moved onto a different business name and contact info. You have little chance of getting a refund.
J. Spammer has his cut, the wholesaler has their cut, and you have a tube of goo.
The work-at-home 'offers' are merely "Here is a list of companies. Write to them and see if they'll hire you to work at home"
or stuffing envelopes. What you really end up doing is stuffing envelopes with "Here is how to make money stuffing envelopes. Please send $19.95"
Technically, what you've gotten is what you ordered. But what you ordered was not-quite-legal.
No, but maybe it can stop someone, in a few years, from lobbing a nuke over the Pacific. Or maybe it can keep Fuckedupistan from shooting a newage SCUD at Weirdistan.
Can one airport security guard stop a Chinese ICBM from hitting Taipei? No, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't spend money on airport security. She might be able to stop another kind of attack.
Just think if that had happened.
hmm.....
Lots and lots of red.
[sniffsniff] "What's that I smell burning?"
Sometimes, your major customers/clients have an office downtown as well. It's much easier walking across the street for a meeting/demo/presentation, than driving in from the suburbs.
Our company recently did this. Moved a bunch of people from the burbs right to the middle of downtown. Result? They can interface with their clients at a moments notice, rather than blow an hour driving roundtrip. And for a $40M client, you want to be right there.
(or any other webmail with sufficient space)
Email yourself a daily backup.
Reasonably secure, readily accessible storage, plus fodder for a future book: "How I wrote the Great American Novel - Stages and iterations."
The ant was pretty friendly, but the cricket would evidently get pretty nasty if you stayed in the area.
"Hey, what are you doing in here"
"GET OUT!"
Hacking a foam shooter into one of these would be pretty easy.
I'll bet it's even worse. Our company bought a 'skills test' a couple of years ago. Very basic PC/Microsoft skills, to supposedly evaluate a new persons training needs.
One in particular I remember was "How do you create a shortcut to an application?" Of course, there are several different ways to do this in Windows. If you didn't answer in the single, exact way they wanted, you failed the question.
Our senior MS developer got a "Needs remedial training". (No, not because he's a crappy developer, or works with MS...but simply because the test was badly flawed)
Of course, doing either isn't good, but if I had to choose, I'd rather blind their command & control up there, rather than down here.
...and be better!
Being 'not republican' is not automatically better.
The overproducer doesn't actually have to reduce.
It's called the Better Business Bureau.
Every military, every time.
Not excusing it, or saying 'that's ok, no harm done'. But, unfortunately, it does happen. A tiny segment of humanity is ready, willing, and able to do crap like this. Some of them gravitate to their countries' military or police forces. And given the chance, they do it.
No scarier or faultprone than a Predator drone, armed with Hellfires, being flown remotely by a pilot on the ground.
Those low density areas are what feeds you, clothes you, provides your electricity, fuel for that pretty Beemer.
You want a happy country? Best to pay attention to what's happening in the cities, because that's where the tensions build up and break through.
You want a non-starving country? Don't over focus on the cities. A lot of non city folk would say "fuck it, just wall it off. We'll survive just fine out here."
I agree with you, but as has been said here before, the entire online community is not your friend.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voting in U.S. elections this week was mostly fair, but the lines were too long at some polling stations, according to an international rights group monitoring the presidential contest for first time.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Thursday that before the vote it had received "widespread" allegations of fraud and voter suppression, mainly among minorities, and raised concern that confidence in the system could be undermined.
However, the group said it was unable to substantiate the allegations. It also said that on election day it observed relatively few attempts to challenge a voter's eligibility, despite concerns before the vote.
Europe's top rights watchdog, which groups 55 countries including the United States, said the election "mostly met" international standards for free and fair elections and defied fears of a repeat of 2000's debacle.
The OSCE's observations basically matched civil-rights groups' assessments that while there were voting problems, they were not on such a widespread scale to call into question the result -- unlike in Florida in 2000.
"The system has been improved because the poll workers and officials were so eager to have things work well and there was also high awareness among voters to make sure their vote counted," the OSCE delegation head, Rita Suessmuth, said.