The issue is that the government allowed those companies to grow so large. I heard one tenth of all jobs in the US are "connected" to the three auto companies. That number is enough to scare any politician into a bailout.
Connected does not mean own. Connected includes the parts manufacturers, Rail and road transportation for both parts and finished products, steel and other metal mining and manufacturing companies that make the materials, Auto Insurance companies, Glass manufacture companies, fiberglass manufacture companies, electronics manufacture companies, Health insurance for all of the above types of companies, fuel or electricity for all of the above types of companies, fuel for the autos themselves, refining and transportation of said fuel. Take it a little further in the indirectly related, and you can add the grocery stores that the employees use to feed themselves, the education for the children said employees......
I'm sure I could come up with more that are directly or indirectly related, if I really try hard.
Sound like the tech I read about some years ago where lasers where mounted on a pair of eyeglasses. The lasers imprinted an image on the back of your retina so that the "screen" floated in front of you with a transparent background so you could still see. You wore some sort of augmented gloves so you could "reach" out and move objects floating in front of you or type on a virtual keyboard.
When I read about it, the device had wires that ran to a portable computer a little larger than a hard drive that you kept in your pocket. I could see the same idea now-a-days using BlueTooth or Zigbee.
It would be real interesting to see something like this with the motion tracking or spatial reality.
Add to this another device that I remember reading about that helps paraplegics use computers. A device that tracks eye movement to the cursor and blinks for mouse clicks.
I think it was an old MIT project, I'll have to look it up and post a link if I find it.
I usually use the spellchecker on Google's Toolbar. (I know, evil Google). But even then, it doesn't catch everything, like in this case, no vs know. Both are spelled correctly and would not have been caught.
Is there a grammer checker add-in?
Yeah, I'm sure they at least looked at the database file, and looked at the 'last accessed date'.
{/snide remark}
In actuality, they probably ran some sort of forsenics tool against the drive and preliminary investigation says it probably was not accessed. But my question is, is there a way to track cloaing of a drive. What's to say that whoever had it didn't make a bit-by-bit clone that can't be traced. Granted, I get the feeling that the dumba$$ who stole the computer may not have had the knowledge to do that, but as a vetern and a network administrator, I wouldn't bet my identy on it. I will still take advantage of the credit monitoring when it comes out.
LOL I hit refresh a couple dozen times and got a different reference number each time.
In other news, thier little kids test asks if it is ok to use Curious George (TM) in a mural without permission. I wonder if that had permission to use Curious George (TM) as an example, or are they infringing on copyright by using Curious George (TM).
Just a thought.
"No! Its clearly a derived work coming from Nietzsche's concept of "Übermensch" [wikipedia.org]:)"
I would agree if "Übermensch" translated as "superman" but it doesn't.
When directly translated, you are correct that "Übermensch" means "Over Man". But when translateing from another language, you don't translate direct, you translate meaning, otherwise you end up with something with improper grammer that doesn't sound right. In this case, the meaning of "Übermensch" would be the same as "superman".
As for trademark, I can see DC/Marvel having a trademark on "Superman" (notice CAPITAL S) when referenced to a comic book hero, but not "superman" (notice lower case s) when referenced to a human with extroidanary power/intelegence.
Steve
This is more like having a right of way for a freeway with enough room for 6 lanes each way. But have only alocated 4 lanes each way. You are only paying for 4 lanes and are guarenteed up to 4 lanes of traffic. The companies just want to be able to use the other space for thier projects.
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The issue is that the government allowed those companies to grow so large. I heard one tenth of all jobs in the US are "connected" to the three auto companies. That number is enough to scare any politician into a bailout.
Connected does not mean own. Connected includes the parts manufacturers, Rail and road transportation for both parts and finished products, steel and other metal mining and manufacturing companies that make the materials, Auto Insurance companies, Glass manufacture companies, fiberglass manufacture companies, electronics manufacture companies, Health insurance for all of the above types of companies, fuel or electricity for all of the above types of companies, fuel for the autos themselves, refining and transportation of said fuel. Take it a little further in the indirectly related, and you can add the grocery stores that the employees use to feed themselves, the education for the children said employees...... I'm sure I could come up with more that are directly or indirectly related, if I really try hard.
Sound like the tech I read about some years ago where lasers where mounted on a pair of eyeglasses. The lasers imprinted an image on the back of your retina so that the "screen" floated in front of you with a transparent background so you could still see. You wore some sort of augmented gloves so you could "reach" out and move objects floating in front of you or type on a virtual keyboard. When I read about it, the device had wires that ran to a portable computer a little larger than a hard drive that you kept in your pocket. I could see the same idea now-a-days using BlueTooth or Zigbee. It would be real interesting to see something like this with the motion tracking or spatial reality. Add to this another device that I remember reading about that helps paraplegics use computers. A device that tracks eye movement to the cursor and blinks for mouse clicks. I think it was an old MIT project, I'll have to look it up and post a link if I find it.
I usually use the spellchecker on Google's Toolbar. (I know, evil Google). But even then, it doesn't catch everything, like in this case, no vs know. Both are spelled correctly and would not have been caught. Is there a grammer checker add-in?
In actuality, they probably ran some sort of forsenics tool against the drive and preliminary investigation says it probably was not accessed. But my question is, is there a way to track cloaing of a drive. What's to say that whoever had it didn't make a bit-by-bit clone that can't be traced. Granted, I get the feeling that the dumba$$ who stole the computer may not have had the knowledge to do that, but as a vetern and a network administrator, I wouldn't bet my identy on it. I will still take advantage of the credit monitoring when it comes out.
In other news, thier little kids test asks if it is ok to use Curious George (TM) in a mural without permission. I wonder if that had permission to use Curious George (TM) as an example, or are they infringing on copyright by using Curious George (TM). Just a thought.
This is more like having a right of way for a freeway with enough room for 6 lanes each way. But have only alocated 4 lanes each way. You are only paying for 4 lanes and are guarenteed up to 4 lanes of traffic. The companies just want to be able to use the other space for thier projects.