25 years of this program and with nothing to show for it. It's getting damned embarrassing and is really starting to reflect America as the stagnant dying empire it is.
Really. And has anyone else on the planet done any better? Going into space is hard, if you haven't noticed. The Russians? Ok, they can launch Soyuz. Literally, a taxi. 3 people and not much else. The Chinese? Recreating a 40 year old, 1 man orbital flight. Commercial efforts so far? Almost, but not quite, recreating a 57 year old X-15 flight, courtesy of a couple of very rich angels. Commercial efforts will get there, but not anytime soon. Gotta satisfy those shareholders.
reject your resume because you write depressing poetry on Livejournal.
It's not just depressing emo poetry on Livejournal. It is insane stupid stuff, like: "yah, we got really wasted last nite, and I couldn't make it to work in the morn. so i called the bitch and made up some crap why i couldn't come in. it's not like i enjoy that stoopid job or anything...fuck them peeple"
If I googles someone and saw that, yeah, I'd think twice about that resume too.
"The AHRA also provides for a royalty tax of up to $8 per new digital recording machine and 3 percent of the price of all digital audiotapes or discs. This tax is paid by the manufacturers of digital media devices and distributed to the copyright owners whose music is presumably being copied. In consideration of this tax, copyright owners agree to forever waive the right to claim copyright infringement against consumers using audio recording devices in their homes."
I'd happily use it to verify my identity on third-party web sites, but hardly anyone supports client certificates.
Would you want to be positively (sort of) identified at every website you use? Every email you send?
I wouldn't.
And even then...all it may mean is the kid has shouldersurfed for the PIN, and borrowed your CAC out of your wallet for a few minutes. Not a positive ID verification.
The bank doesn't care who it is, only that the PIN matches the card. Your son or daughter could be authorized, by you, to go retrieve money out of the ATM. And if there was an unauthorized use, the bank will (probably) give you your money back.
An online system to verify who it is would be much harder, and far more intrusive. If a kid borrows mom's iNetID card for a few minutes, creates a MySpace account...mom would never know about it.
How do you verify that the person behind the keyboard is really the person on the card? You can't. This is specifically why the Communications Decency Act was shot down in 1997. Trying to prove, online, that you were over 18 would be far too intrusive, and still not 100% sure. It is completely unenforceable.
I have been to two different opthalmologists over the past few years, and both of them wear regular glasses.
I asked my opthamologist the same thing a couple of years ago, and he said pretty much the same thing. "You don't see many of us having it done, do you?"
So I'm sticking with glasses. For one thing, I'm over 40 and while I'm still nearsighted, normal age-related presbyopia is setting in. I can deal with it by simply removing my glasses to look at things that are up close. If I had LASIK, I'd need to carry reading glasses with me all the time, so there's not much of a win.
Bingo. I'm closer to 50, and right now, I know where my glasses are. If I'm awake, they're on my head. Having to haul around reading glasses is one more thing to lose.
eID. Nearly every Belgian has one.
Just pop it into your cardreader, enter your PIN-code and your age is verified.
That just verifies that someone behind the keyboard is in posession of the eID card of someone of a certain age. It does nothing to (and cannot possibly) verify that the fingers on the keyboard actually belong to face and identity on the card. The PIN helps, but still is not certain.
Maybe its time musicians got together and set up an electronic coop to sell their music the way farmers sometimes set up "farmers markets".
They did that a while ago. They called it Decca, and Motown, and Arista. There was money to be made, and the suits got involved. And here we are today.
I think *knowing* where they are is better than calling them up all the time and asking them, or telling them to be home at X hour - in front of all their friends. That's very much an age thing. My son is currently 15. At age 11, I *knew* where he was. Either with us, or in the company of another trusted adult. And at age 11, he had no phone. At age 15, a certain amount of true independance is needed. If he is supposed to be at a certain place, and isn't, there wil be consequences. The key word is trust. If he blows that trust, then changes will be made. But I won't assume he's screwing up(badly), until he actually does.
They're able to operate a lot more independently with this system. Having a 24/7 tether is a weird definition of independant. Even if it is an electronic tether.
AND teach the kid to treat their phone as though it were fragile Easy way to do that. "You break it, you buy the replacement, or do without."
I guess we'll just agree to disagree. Oh, and you could be a little less high handed with the "Criticism denied" thing. Makes conversations go much smoother.
My child does not have a right to privacy from me as a parent until I decide, or they reach 18 - whichever comes first
Your job as a parent is to teach your kid to be an independant human.
If they grow up under the banner of "I won't do anything bad because daddy is ALWAYS watching", and then magically at age 18 they are loosed on the world...you have failed in that job.
If it can also detect impact and fire off a distress call Do you have any idea how many times (per day) kids drop their cell phone?
detect that a noise threshold was breached (load party, or a scream) and text me Standard music playing volume.
Kids privacy has to be balanced with free will and independance.
Whether he was taught to turn it off or not, it is not the machines 'fault'. When a child touches a stove for the first time and burns his hand, its not the fault of the stove.
Knowing modern industry, though..he probably was intructed. Especially if that was his job.
These machines are not 'robots' in the classical sense, but mere automated machines. A robot has some semblance of intelligence, and can adjust to the environment. These things take part A, and put it in slot B. A preprogrammed set of movements.
Should there be some sensors to detect a foreign body, and stop if necessary? Sure. But in no way could they make a value judgement, as in "Save the human, and sacrifice the dog."
I'm posting A/C because now my company considers ex-military IT techs at the very bottom of the list when hiring due to too many problems we've had with them in the past. We actively discriminate against them due to getting burned too many times.
My last company was just the opposite. About 1/2 our IT team was ex military (myself included). Navy and Air Force. No prima donnas, no ego trips.
1. Work 2 jobs from 20 to 45.
2. Save enough from those jobs to live off of for the rest of your life. Generally, that means saving most of your net. Meaning you have no life from 20 to 45.
3. Die at 50 because you worked so damn much the last 30 years.
Surfing the web? You are back in your flying car visting places (websites), or maybe you like flying by jet or taking a train nice and easy-whatever you want! A sailboat! It won't matter, because you choose what YOU like to have represented in the manner you want to accomplish the computer tasks.
How long does it take for this 'flying car' to go from, say the MoMA in New York to the Prado in Madrid? Currently, I can do it in as long as it takes me to type in the Prado URL. Flying car style, I have to also wait for the 'car' to traverse a representation of the planet to get there.
Don't know where this 20% nonsense is coming from, but it doesn't appear to come from the Yankee Group article.
From the link:
"Linux, Windows, Unix and open source environments exhibited a high degree of reliability -- with a surprising lack of disparity among the platforms."
"Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Linux with customizations and Novell SuSE Linux all reported roughly equivalent per server, per year outage times of just under 800 minutes. Surprisingly, Red Hat Enterprise Linux standard distribution users reported said they experienced 900 minutes of outage per server, per year."
It's not a Dupe... this is a diffrent theft, the origonal data stolen was from the V.A. database.
I guess actually reading the article is asking too much?
"The Department of Veterans Affairs said the information, including names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth, may have been stored in the same stolen electronic equipment that contained similar personal data on 26.5 million U.S. military veterans."
Would it make the RIAA happy if allofmp3.com contacted the individual artists and paid them their royalties?
They'd be pissed off at first, but yes, it would. Because if they actually paid all the artists, they would have to greatly increase their prices. Eventually going out of business.
Maintaining a business model is vastly easier if you all you have is income, and no expenses.
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25 years of this program and with nothing to show for it. It's getting damned embarrassing and is really starting to reflect America as the stagnant dying empire it is.
...dying empire...
Really. And has anyone else on the planet done any better? Going into space is hard, if you haven't noticed.
The Russians? Ok, they can launch Soyuz. Literally, a taxi. 3 people and not much else.
The Chinese? Recreating a 40 year old, 1 man orbital flight.
Commercial efforts so far? Almost, but not quite, recreating a 57 year old X-15 flight, courtesy of a couple of very rich angels. Commercial efforts will get there, but not anytime soon. Gotta satisfy those shareholders.
You got anything better?
I think it came from the same dictionary that "incliment" came from.
reject your resume because you write depressing poetry on Livejournal.
It's not just depressing emo poetry on Livejournal. It is insane stupid stuff, like:
"yah, we got really wasted last nite, and I couldn't make it to work in the morn. so i called the bitch and made up some crap why i couldn't come in. it's not like i enjoy that stoopid job or anything...fuck them peeple"
If I googles someone and saw that, yeah, I'd think twice about that resume too.
How do we know that they stole the photos?
We don't. I suspect the police and the prosecutors have a wee bit more info ther we do, though.
Did the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 have such an effect?
Theoretically, yes. In practice, no.
"The AHRA also provides for a royalty tax of up to $8 per new digital recording machine and 3 percent of the price of all digital audiotapes or discs. This tax is paid by the manufacturers of digital media devices and distributed to the copyright owners whose music is presumably being copied. In consideration of this tax, copyright owners agree to forever waive the right to claim copyright infringement against consumers using audio recording devices in their homes."
As with all these systems (street cams, ez-pass, etc) the value to 'The Man' comes in after the fact.
"Who was parked at 3rd & Main last tuesday at 2PM?"
If you willingly give them the data for them to store, it will be easy to find out.
Yes, it was wrong/underhanded/sneaky. The question is...was it illegal?
I'd happily use it to verify my identity on third-party web sites, but hardly anyone supports client certificates.
Would you want to be positively (sort of) identified at every website you use? Every email you send?
I wouldn't.
And even then...all it may mean is the kid has shouldersurfed for the PIN, and borrowed your CAC out of your wallet for a few minutes.
Not a positive ID verification.
The bank doesn't care who it is, only that the PIN matches the card. Your son or daughter could be authorized, by you, to go retrieve money out of the ATM.
And if there was an unauthorized use, the bank will (probably) give you your money back.
An online system to verify who it is would be much harder, and far more intrusive. If a kid borrows mom's iNetID card for a few minutes, creates a MySpace account...mom would never know about it.
How do you verify that the person behind the keyboard is really the person on the card? You can't.
This is specifically why the Communications Decency Act was shot down in 1997. Trying to prove, online, that you were over 18 would be far too intrusive, and still not 100% sure. It is completely unenforceable.
I have been to two different opthalmologists over the past few years, and both of them wear regular glasses.
I asked my opthamologist the same thing a couple of years ago, and he said pretty much the same thing. "You don't see many of us having it done, do you?"
So I'm sticking with glasses. For one thing, I'm over 40 and while I'm still nearsighted, normal age-related presbyopia is setting in. I can deal with it by simply removing my glasses to look at things that are up close. If I had LASIK, I'd need to carry reading glasses with me all the time, so there's not much of a win.
Bingo. I'm closer to 50, and right now, I know where my glasses are. If I'm awake, they're on my head.
Having to haul around reading glasses is one more thing to lose.
eID. Nearly every Belgian has one. Just pop it into your cardreader, enter your PIN-code and your age is verified.
That just verifies that someone behind the keyboard is in posession of the eID card of someone of a certain age. It does nothing to (and cannot possibly) verify that the fingers on the keyboard actually belong to face and identity on the card. The PIN helps, but still is not certain.
Why did her parents allow her to meet a total stranger without supervision?
There was no 'allowing'. She didn't ask, he never came to the house and rang the doorbell. He just picked her up from school.
Maybe I'd best call in the FBI or LA's investigators.
Or, I'll tell the local cop on the beat, who might have missed this guy, to go check him out.
Sure, it could go down as you describe. Or not.
Maybe its time musicians got together and set up an electronic coop to sell their music the way farmers sometimes set up "farmers markets".
They did that a while ago. They called it Decca, and Motown, and Arista. There was money to be made, and the suits got involved.
And here we are today.
I think *knowing* where they are is better than calling them up all the time and asking them, or telling them to be home at X hour - in front of all their friends.
That's very much an age thing. My son is currently 15. At age 11, I *knew* where he was. Either with us, or in the company of another trusted adult. And at age 11, he had no phone. At age 15, a certain amount of true independance is needed. If he is supposed to be at a certain place, and isn't, there wil be consequences.
The key word is trust. If he blows that trust, then changes will be made. But I won't assume he's screwing up(badly), until he actually does.
They're able to operate a lot more independently with this system.
Having a 24/7 tether is a weird definition of independant. Even if it is an electronic tether.
AND teach the kid to treat their phone as though it were fragile
Easy way to do that. "You break it, you buy the replacement, or do without."
I guess we'll just agree to disagree. Oh, and you could be a little less high handed with the "Criticism denied" thing. Makes conversations go much smoother.
My child does not have a right to privacy from me as a parent until I decide, or they reach 18 - whichever comes first
Your job as a parent is to teach your kid to be an independant human.
If they grow up under the banner of "I won't do anything bad because daddy is ALWAYS watching", and then magically at age 18 they are loosed on the world...you have failed in that job.
If it can also detect impact and fire off a distress call
Do you have any idea how many times (per day) kids drop their cell phone?
detect that a noise threshold was breached (load party, or a scream) and text me
Standard music playing volume.
Kids privacy has to be balanced with free will and independance.
Whether he was taught to turn it off or not, it is not the machines 'fault'. When a child touches a stove for the first time and burns his hand, its not the fault of the stove.
Knowing modern industry, though..he probably was intructed. Especially if that was his job.
These machines are not 'robots' in the classical sense, but mere automated machines. A robot has some semblance of intelligence, and can adjust to the environment. These things take part A, and put it in slot B. A preprogrammed set of movements.
Should there be some sensors to detect a foreign body, and stop if necessary? Sure.
But in no way could they make a value judgement, as in "Save the human, and sacrifice the dog."
I'm posting A/C because now my company considers ex-military IT techs at the very bottom of the list when hiring due to too many problems we've had with them in the past. We actively discriminate against them due to getting burned too many times.
My last company was just the opposite. About 1/2 our IT team was ex military (myself included). Navy and Air Force. No prima donnas, no ego trips.
1. Work 2 jobs from 20 to 45.
2. Save enough from those jobs to live off of for the rest of your life. Generally, that means saving most of your net. Meaning you have no life from 20 to 45.
3. Die at 50 because you worked so damn much the last 30 years.
How long does it take for this 'flying car' to go from, say the MoMA in New York to the Prado in Madrid? Currently, I can do it in as long as it takes me to type in the Prado URL. Flying car style, I have to also wait for the 'car' to traverse a representation of the planet to get there.
From the link:
"Linux, Windows, Unix and open source environments exhibited a high degree of reliability -- with a surprising lack of disparity among the platforms."
"Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Linux with customizations and Novell SuSE Linux all reported roughly equivalent per server, per year outage times of just under 800 minutes. Surprisingly, Red Hat Enterprise Linux standard distribution users reported said they experienced 900 minutes of outage per server, per year."
I guess actually reading the article is asking too much?
"The Department of Veterans Affairs said the information, including names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth, may have been stored in the same stolen electronic equipment that contained similar personal data on 26.5 million U.S. military veterans."
This is the same incident. They are just now figuring out whose info is involved.
They'd be pissed off at first, but yes, it would. Because if they actually paid all the artists, they would have to greatly increase their prices. Eventually going out of business.
Maintaining a business model is vastly easier if you all you have is income, and no expenses.