but "anti-social" to me means not agreeing with the concept of being social, which usually entails me sitting on my couch not speaking to another human being.
Exactly. Which has been perveted in recent times to mean 'not going along with the flow'.
12 year olds....DNA samples (and stored for X years) taken without parental or legal approval? Insane.
Is the law in Britain to take (and store) DNA samples when you are simply arrested? Convicted, yes, I can see....but just arrested? Insane.
(this does not even go into the complete foolishness of arresting them for what they actually did).
I for one do not like this feature. I think this is a violation of privacy.
So then turn it off. What's that? It's your machine at work? Well, then...it's your boss's machine, not yours. He can make the determination to have it on or not. You always haave the option of finding a new job, or starting your own company with your rules.
So, if I was a hostile nation that could sneak one suitcase bomb into the US, couldn't I just set it off near the AFB they're moving NORAD to before launching my missles?
The monitoring capablities are reproduced elsewhere.
Apparently, if I purchase more than 15 pills of 240 mg pseudoephedrine each in one day I am obviously running a meth lab.
Yeah, you probably aren't. You. Other people, given free reign, will use pseudoephedrine in a meth lab. 15/day happens to be where they've currently drawn the line. Should they change it to 50/day? 1000/day? Unrestricted?
15/day. Do you really need to buy more than 15 a day?
I remember seeing screen shots of the system and a good 1/3 of the screen was ads -- all the time.
Way back when, I tried the Altavista 'free' dialup service a few times. On a P133 laptop (average at the time), the service was totally unuseable. The modem and the CPU could not keep up with the constant downloading and refreshing of ads.
NASA needs to scrap the shuttle. Then scrap the CEV. Then with the freed up money build a 'true space exploration vessel' that will be docked and serviced at the ISS.
After you scrap the Shuttle and CEV.....by the time you get anything else large enough up there, the ISS will be a pile of unhabitable rubble.
Given the present administration, if you don't presume they're violating civil liberties to the fullest extent possible shy of tipping over to police state, then you're a fool.
So, according to you, each and every time there is an arrest, it is on fully trumped up charges, and no one ever has actually done anything illegal. Right.
Ya know...sometimes the arrested party IS actually guilty of whatever it is they were arrested for. Not saying that is the case here. I am merely saying that we don't know enough yet.
With the current administration, and the general state of NASA funding, (and scientific funding in general), I doubt this project will ever work.
No, it WON'T work with the 'current administration'. But not for the reasons you outline. The 'current administration' will be gone in 2 years. Someone else will take over. It will be up to them to continue funding or not. And the ones that follow after them. This is a LONG project. All the 'current administration' can do is get the ball rolling. Which they are doing.
I've been a netflix user for 4 yrs. Pretty heavy for the last two. I've graphed my turnaround times, and not noticed any real slowdown.
By looking at the graph, and noting spikes or dropouts, I can tell when I bought a new PC with a DVD burner (spike), when I moved cross country (dropout), and when I was on vacation (dropout).
Over the course of 300+ movies, it works out to about $1.15 each. MUCH cheaper than renting at the store, and a far better selection. And I've never had a week turnaround time.
There was a lawsuit over this, and Netflix gave users a free upgrade for a month. Of course, if you didn't cancel that upgrade, it stuck, and you were charged at the highr rate thereafter.
when you're virtuallizing MS Windows, it's anything but free. You now have to pay for a license of each virtual machine.
Not necessarily. from the/. article the other day:
"Customers who deploy Windows Vista Enterprise have the ability to install up to four (4) copies of the operating system in a virtual machine for a single user on a single device."
It is only European (and sometimes Canadian) tourism the one we (in Mexico) call "tourism with culture" that gets a bit away from Cancun to see the Mayan ruins
Of course. All Americans can be painted with the same broad brush. Never ever venturing outside of the touristy spots featured on the Price is Right. (Even though my father was exploring those same Mayan ruins 20 years ago.) And ALL Europeans aspire to the cultured spots of the world. For instance, I give you Benidorm.
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the police should be required to remove your entry in the database.
Required or not...do they?
but "anti-social" to me means not agreeing with the concept of being social, which usually entails me sitting on my couch not speaking to another human being.
Exactly. Which has been perveted in recent times to mean 'not going along with the flow'.
Since when was being anti-social a crime?
Since there were "restraining orders" in the US, and ASBO's in the UK.
"you were an asshat....don't do it again, or you WILL go to jail"
12 year olds....DNA samples (and stored for X years) taken without parental or legal approval? Insane.
Is the law in Britain to take (and store) DNA samples when you are simply arrested? Convicted, yes, I can see....but just arrested? Insane.
(this does not even go into the complete foolishness of arresting them for what they actually did).
I for one do not like this feature. I think this is a violation of privacy.
So then turn it off.
What's that? It's your machine at work? Well, then...it's your boss's machine, not yours. He can make the determination to have it on or not. You always haave the option of finding a new job, or starting your own company with your rules.
So, if I was a hostile nation that could sneak one suitcase bomb into the US, couldn't I just set it off near the AFB they're moving NORAD to before launching my missles?
The monitoring capablities are reproduced elsewhere.
Apparently, if I purchase more than 15 pills of 240 mg pseudoephedrine each in one day I am obviously running a meth lab.
Yeah, you probably aren't. You. Other people, given free reign, will use pseudoephedrine in a meth lab. 15/day happens to be where they've currently drawn the line. Should they change it to 50/day? 1000/day? Unrestricted?
15/day. Do you really need to buy more than 15 a day?
I remember seeing screen shots of the system and a good 1/3 of the screen was ads -- all the time.
Way back when, I tried the Altavista 'free' dialup service a few times. On a P133 laptop (average at the time), the service was totally unuseable. The modem and the CPU could not keep up with the constant downloading and refreshing of ads.
CompuServ + Circuit City. PeoplePC. Altavista. Walmart.
Free hardware and/or online access.
Didn't work too well last time, either. Once you let the marketing guys fingers into it, they screw it up, by pushing too much.
NASA needs to scrap the shuttle. Then scrap the CEV. Then with the freed up money build a 'true space exploration vessel' that will be docked and serviced at the ISS.
After you scrap the Shuttle and CEV.....by the time you get anything else large enough up there, the ISS will be a pile of unhabitable rubble.
I guess you were the kid who lost all the time.
Why are there no recumb[ea]nt races eh?
Get thee to IHPVA.
Given the present administration, if you don't presume they're violating civil liberties to the fullest extent possible shy of tipping over to police state, then you're a fool.
So, according to you, each and every time there is an arrest, it is on fully trumped up charges, and no one ever has actually done anything illegal. Right.
Ya know...sometimes the arrested party IS actually guilty of whatever it is they were arrested for. Not saying that is the case here. I am merely saying that we don't know enough yet.
Maybe, he was being arrested on other charges, not necessarily linked to the presentation e was about to give.
How about we wait for more info before we start screaming one way or the other.
With the current administration, and the general state of NASA funding, (and scientific funding in general), I doubt this project will ever work.
No, it WON'T work with the 'current administration'. But not for the reasons you outline. The 'current administration' will be gone in 2 years. Someone else will take over. It will be up to them to continue funding or not. And the ones that follow after them.
This is a LONG project. All the 'current administration' can do is get the ball rolling. Which they are doing.
(Any Hummer oweners want an environmentally aware vehicle?)
Evidently, there area a few biodiesel Hummers out there.
I've been a netflix user for 4 yrs. Pretty heavy for the last two. I've graphed my turnaround times, and not noticed any real slowdown.
By looking at the graph, and noting spikes or dropouts, I can tell when I bought a new PC with a DVD burner (spike), when I moved cross country (dropout), and when I was on vacation (dropout).
Over the course of 300+ movies, it works out to about $1.15 each. MUCH cheaper than renting at the store, and a far better selection. And I've never had a week turnaround time.
There was a lawsuit over this, and Netflix gave users a free upgrade for a month. Of course, if you didn't cancel that upgrade, it stuck, and you were charged at the highr rate thereafter.
A significant number of people, sucking down 5-8Gb every day or so. I think we'll start to see the ISP's enforcing their (unwritten) bandwidth limits.
Shoving loads of useless, yet focus-grabbing information in front of a kids face is going to destroy that child's ability to actually create.
Unfortunately, imagination is secondary to sales.
Key word old. What's the gas mileage on that old wagon?
SUV's have replaced station wagons in the marketplace.
when you're virtuallizing MS Windows, it's anything but free. You now have to pay for a license of each virtual machine.
/. article the other day:
Not necessarily. from the
"Customers who deploy Windows Vista Enterprise have the ability to install up to four (4) copies of the operating system in a virtual machine for a single user on a single device."
Yeah. There was a guy who used to hang out on rec.aviation.military that wrote just like you. We couldn't understand him either.
I think you'd probably notice if he started rubbing you with his suitcase.
Subways & buses
embed the reader in the seat of a taxi
Ever been in a line at a German grocery store meat counter?
Clubs & bars.
It is only European (and sometimes Canadian) tourism the one we (in Mexico) call "tourism with culture" that gets a bit away from Cancun to see the Mayan ruins
Of course. All Americans can be painted with the same broad brush. Never ever venturing outside of the touristy spots featured on the Price is Right. (Even though my father was exploring those same Mayan ruins 20 years ago.)
And ALL Europeans aspire to the cultured spots of the world. For instance, I give you Benidorm.
Coupled with the fact that our dryer is terrible (the time limit is 160 minutes for drying, this usually doesn't fully dry clothes)
Almost 3 hours to not quite dry? Your machine is broken. The only thing that doesn't dry in 45 mins in mine is a load of towels and jeans.