Okay, let us just suppose this does make it into the money supply. Why in the world would every retailer everywhere across Europe retrofit all of their cash register/P.O.S. terminals, it seems like a worthless "investment",
Because it'll be that, or go out of business and go to jail. Got to watch out for those money laundering terrorists, you know!
and it's usually difficult to determine race from a resume
Not really.
Names can sometimes imply ethnicity, first and last
High school or college attended
Address (ethnic neighborhoods are often Balkanized
Affiliations disclosed by the applicant (e.g. a primarily African American civic organization
Sometimes, not just one, but a combination of the above will yield a "probably correct" guess as to race. And if none of that works, there's the possibility of Googling for the name, if it's uncommon.
Bottom line? People who want to discriminate will, and will probably get away with it. But we didn't want to work for them, anyway.
No kidding. This is one of my favorites, in which he predicts the death of flat-rate pricing for Internet access. Which would, of course, mean the end of popular interest in the Internet. "The information's on your web site? That's nice, but I pay by the kilobit. Mail me a copy, please. Thank you."
There'll be a "Washington edition" (which happens to be similar to the "People's Republic of China edition") of the game, in which what were formerly cops are some other kind of character (ninjas? orcs? doesn't matter).
Conveniently enough, there will also be an "unofficial patch" released by some "enthusiasts" that restores the game to its original state.
Looks like you came out of that road 1.7 miles from where you were stopped.
But from which direction? Sure, with detailed analysis, it's possible to make a good guess as to the route, but even that first data point (assuming the road did intersect both sides of the road on which the driver was stopped) introduces two possibilites. The ambiguity can (but doesn't have to) get worse from there.
the problem is if they integrate it over time they can determine *where* you're driving, and not just how fast your driving.
Not unless they have a source of heading--if they don't know which way your car is pointing, integrating velocity over time will only yield total distance traveled. But that doesn't tell whether you were headed straight down I-95 or driving around in circles.
True enough--in fact, the French government's representatives disavowed the disgraceful action. But apparently, some feel opposed enough to U.S. policy to do something like that, and it's unfortunate that they were allowed to be born of those liberated by the U.K. and U.S.
Microsoft was caught red-handed by an independent programmer using the encrypted AARD code to intentionally break Windows 3.1 under DR-DOS, a competing product.
The Caldera/Microsoft case was not an intellectual property dispute.
Caldera didn't buy up intellectual property and wait for the use of it to gain critical mass to follow it with a lawsuit.
SCO is persuing one last desperate attempt to avoid their own demise, and perhaps even cash in. The problem for them is that even if they win, the intellectual property they claim is in the kernel can be expurgated, a non-infringing version produced (if indeed the current version is infringing, which I doubt), and they still have nothing to sell.
The point is not whether it's easy to get around--it's that I'm not interested in a DRM-encumbered AAC in place of a 44kHz sampled lossless file. The fact that it can be extracted and recompressed with further degradation to "get around" the DRM doesn't interest me
Considering that there are number of albums with only one good song, and that these seem to be available with the "album only," it looks like that potential is already being addressed.
But Microsoft sells their products as being so easy to use and deploy, that companies shouldn't need (and therefore shouldn't have to pay for) "sysadmins with a clue."
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No insurance company is stupid enough to insure against a certainty!
Because it'll be that, or go out of business and go to jail. Got to watch out for those money laundering terrorists, you know!
Not really.
- Names can sometimes imply ethnicity, first and last
- High school or college attended
- Address (ethnic neighborhoods are often Balkanized
Affiliations disclosed by the applicant (e.g. a primarily African American civic organizationSometimes, not just one, but a combination of the above will yield a "probably correct" guess as to race. And if none of that works, there's the possibility of Googling for the name, if it's uncommon.
Bottom line? People who want to discriminate will, and will probably get away with it. But we didn't want to work for them, anyway.
No kidding. This is one of my favorites, in which he predicts the death of flat-rate pricing for Internet access. Which would, of course, mean the end of popular interest in the Internet. "The information's on your web site? That's nice, but I pay by the kilobit. Mail me a copy, please. Thank you."
And available here.
Conveniently enough, there will also be an "unofficial patch" released by some "enthusiasts" that restores the game to its original state.
The guy who sued you will have the last laugh if he has any brains--they'll be a judgement on your credit report, which is like the kiss of death.
That's when I left to take a piss.
But from which direction? Sure, with detailed analysis, it's possible to make a good guess as to the route, but even that first data point (assuming the road did intersect both sides of the road on which the driver was stopped) introduces two possibilites. The ambiguity can (but doesn't have to) get worse from there.
Yep. It's been fixed in MO. Used to be, though, that you could go to DMV and run a plate for $1.50. That came in handy a couple of times.
Not unless they have a source of heading--if they don't know which way your car is pointing, integrating velocity over time will only yield total distance traveled. But that doesn't tell whether you were headed straight down I-95 or driving around in circles.
True enough--in fact, the French government's representatives disavowed the disgraceful action. But apparently, some feel opposed enough to U.S. policy to do something like that, and it's unfortunate that they were allowed to be born of those liberated by the U.K. and U.S.
Right about then.
So I guess the idea is to deauthorize the machine before the unanticipated hard disk failure!
- Microsoft was caught red-handed by an independent programmer using the encrypted AARD code to intentionally break Windows 3.1 under DR-DOS, a competing product.
- The Caldera/Microsoft case was not an intellectual property dispute.
- Caldera didn't buy up intellectual property and wait for the use of it to gain critical mass to follow it with a lawsuit.
SCO is persuing one last desperate attempt to avoid their own demise, and perhaps even cash in. The problem for them is that even if they win, the intellectual property they claim is in the kernel can be expurgated, a non-infringing version produced (if indeed the current version is infringing, which I doubt), and they still have nothing to sell.The point is not whether it's easy to get around--it's that I'm not interested in a DRM-encumbered AAC in place of a 44kHz sampled lossless file. The fact that it can be extracted and recompressed with further degradation to "get around" the DRM doesn't interest me
That's bad--the last thing I would want is for someone at Apple to become aware that Milli Vanilli and Michael Jackson are my primary musical tastes!
Thanks--I figured there was some kind of magic hidden file or somesuch which wouldn't survive a reinstall, and it appears I was wrong.
It's because it's Apple. Apple can do DRM and not get flamed to a crisp here, because they're not Microsoft. HTH.
And those backup AAC files are playable after the operating system has been reinstalled to a wiped disk and the DRM sees it as a different machine?
Considering that there are number of albums with only one good song, and that these seem to be available with the "album only," it looks like that potential is already being addressed.
I can use it to search for tracks, then by locally or order the red book compliant CD so I can have the tracks without any DRM bullshit.
I think that exact wording is from Zork I.
Dude, you need help :).
But Microsoft sells their products as being so easy to use and deploy, that companies shouldn't need (and therefore shouldn't have to pay for) "sysadmins with a clue."