Economic impact?? How about if they settle for a $1 "license" per imported disk?? That would quickly add up to a nice retirement fund for the patent holder without being a very big hardship to anyone buying the disks.
So, this Dissipative ceramic bonding tool tip does exactly what in a hard drive?? Or is it in fact part of the machinery for manufacturing hard drives?? If the latter, how can the drives be banned from import?? Seems kinda ridiculous to ban a non-infringing object solely because it was created using an infringing machine/process. Hard disks can't be the only imports built using patent-infringing machines/processes...
So, how much of the web do the search engines crawl these days?? I think it was Altavista, back in the day, that said they thought they were only getting about 10% of web sites. Wouldn't this DarkWeb thing need to be bigger than Google to get/process enough pages to be useful??
The question is then whether the case law predicating this statute (Hiibel v. 6th Circuit...) implicitly allows an officer to require that the person present a driver's license.
I could be wrong, as I haven't read up on Hiibel recently, but wasn't Hiibel driving (or otherwise in charge of the vehicle) at the time of the stop?? This shopper wasn't even seated in a vehicle at the time when he called the cops. Repeatedly demanding a driver's license from a pedestrian is ridiculous.
For a brief time - about a year or two - our local school district ruled that only transparent backpacks were allowed on any school campus. I don't recall hearing why that particular rule was rescinded, but it was probably a privacy thing. Or maybe a significant number of students got wise and put an opaque container (e.g. a brown bag) inside the transparent backpack to hide their lunch, pencils, books, tampons, etc...
Around here one is only required to identify ones self in certain circumstances. Of course this can be suspicious and at that point there is usually sufficient cause for the officer to bring the person in.
Did you actually read the guy's blog?? He found that Ohio state law only requires him to state his name:
2921.29 (C) Nothing in this section requires a person to answer any questions beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth. Nothing in this section authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for not providing any information beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth or for refusing to describe the offense observed.
That's really not terribly complicated and even the lower ranks of police officers ought to understand it. As he pointed out to the officer, he might never have learned to drive and therefore wouldn't have a license to show. He wasn't even in the vehicle when the officer arrived, let alone in the driver's seat, so the officer really had no cause to demand a driver's license. Apparently he wasn't read his Miranda Rights either, which is possibly an even worse omission by the officer.
That's probably the smartest comment I've seen so far in this discussion. The MPAA is prosecuting a past offence, for which the relevant information disappeared *before* the lawsuit was even filed. It shouldn't be possible to charge them with destroying subpoenaed evidence if non-logging is a normal business practice for them and there was no suit in progress.
It's more a question of TorrentSpy choosing not to log each connection that comes over their network. Obviously there's an IP address attached to the connection packet, otherwise the server couldn't reply to it. The judge says, 'log that address when the connection is established'.
No, no, no... Save paper and email it to them. Each byte in a separate email. So, 11010011 would be "on on off on off off on on". Send them a 8Gb memory dump and tell them "it's in there somewhere".
Anyone remember what happened to that NZ guy who was building a cruise missile in his garage, using bent tin and electronics purchased on eBay?? Last I heard the NZ gov't told him to stop, I think.
no open source UAV software will ever be capable of running a weapons platform without significant contributions
So, you're discounting the possibility that the fuselage could be stuffed with explosives and glass/nails/ballbearings/etc, then flown into a crowd?? Sure, it may not stand off at a distance and shoot people, but neither does your average suicide bomber.
I used to have an HP41CV calculator with the barcode scanner addon. Their program books came with barcode strips so you could load 'em up by running the wand across each line. It didn't care if you went backwards or forwards, either, which made it even easier. Ah, those were the days...:)
BTW, you can still get Cue::Cats from eBay. There's a Ruby program called Alexandria that can use the Cat to read UPC barcodes from books to populate a home library catalog.
How about simply making these "non lethal" weapons generally available?? A crap-ray or puke-saber would be so much more humane to an intruder than a shotgun... Imagine - the burglar crosses into your yard, tries to kick the door down and immediately gushes at both ends. It would leave plenty of DNA evidence...:)
My neighbour was talking yesterday about some place in Texas where you can take a two week class in making and using fireworks. Costs about $1000 apparently. She didn't say where, but I can ask if you like...:)
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I'm not an American citizen, but I am a legal permanent resident who might one day apply for citizenship. I was looking at this stuff a couple of years ago and I believe I read that citizenship *can* be revoked from a naturalized American citizen for a variety of reasons (crimes, terrorism, etc). Of course, if citizenship is revoked the ex-citizen is immediately subject to deportation because they're in the country with no visa or other paperwork...
I have to say it sounds kinda odd that that could happen, because during the swearing-in ceremony the new citizens disclaim all rights to their country of origin, and supposedly the USA therefore does not recognize dual citizenship. I'd definitely prefer the Canadian way of doing it.
I guess my question is: what do people have against a national ID?
Well, for one thing, there's the underhanded way in which it was rammed through Congress. As I understand it, the RealID Act, in several incarnations (three, I think), was tossed out of Congress. The *only* reason it got passed at all was that it was attached as a rider to totally unconnected legislation. Which, in this particular case, was the appropriations bill for money for the troops in Iraq and for the Tsunami victims. Since no Senator or Congressman would *ever* want to have his/her name paraded as having voted against money for the troops, the bill passed, complete with the RealID portion.
Another thing people bitch about is that the Federal Government isn't allocating funds to implement the RealID, so the various states would have to find the money somewhere else. Kind of ironic that an unfunded mandate was passed on the back of an appropriations bill...
How do you explain there being no great flood when nearly every ancient civilization, if not all of them, has a great flood recorded?
Not to get into an argument with you, but I've always kind of assumed that the various flood stories don't all refer to the same event. For example, in 2001 larges areas of Minnesota and Iowa were flooded. More recently, New Orleans and surrounding areas were underwater. I'm sure that folks in both areas will tell their kids about the Great Flood. Not the same Great Flood, though...
I like photo on the 2nd page of the Ars article: "What did dinosaurs eat?". It says,
"Before man's Fall, animals were vegetarians. In a 'very good' creation, no animal would die, so there were no carnivores. All the beasts of the earth, not just the 'beasts of the field' that God brought to Adam to name, ate only plants."
Which suggests to me:
God created the animals fully grown, with no knowledge of how to procreate. After all, if the older animals don't die, pretty soon the Earth would be overrun. And therefore:
with that one bite of the apple, Eve didn't just get humans kicked out of the Garden of Eden, she's also responsible for animals learning how to procreate, as well as for certain animals turning into carnivores.
But wait!! God told the animals to "go forth and multiply"!! So, animals eat only plants, don't die, and are commanded by God to breed. I'd say it's a good thing Eve caused the Fall, because God's shiny new Creation would pretty soon be knee-deep in crap and the smaller animals would be *really* suffering...
If schools start mandatory field trips to the museum, we can talk.
Theoretically, mandatory field trips to the "Creation Museum" shouldn't be allowed, unless they also run mandatory field trips to mosques, synagogues, cathedrals, etc. Not because those places are museums, but because the "Creation Museum" is clearly pushing a religion.
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Economic impact?? How about if they settle for a $1 "license" per imported disk?? That would quickly add up to a nice retirement fund for the patent holder without being a very big hardship to anyone buying the disks.
So, this Dissipative ceramic bonding tool tip does exactly what in a hard drive?? Or is it in fact part of the machinery for manufacturing hard drives?? If the latter, how can the drives be banned from import?? Seems kinda ridiculous to ban a non-infringing object solely because it was created using an infringing machine/process. Hard disks can't be the only imports built using patent-infringing machines/processes...
I think I see a growing market for aluminum foil underwear. I just need a couple of volunteers for testing... :)
So, how much of the web do the search engines crawl these days?? I think it was Altavista, back in the day, that said they thought they were only getting about 10% of web sites. Wouldn't this DarkWeb thing need to be bigger than Google to get/process enough pages to be useful??
I could be wrong, as I haven't read up on Hiibel recently, but wasn't Hiibel driving (or otherwise in charge of the vehicle) at the time of the stop?? This shopper wasn't even seated in a vehicle at the time when he called the cops. Repeatedly demanding a driver's license from a pedestrian is ridiculous.
For a brief time - about a year or two - our local school district ruled that only transparent backpacks were allowed on any school campus. I don't recall hearing why that particular rule was rescinded, but it was probably a privacy thing. Or maybe a significant number of students got wise and put an opaque container (e.g. a brown bag) inside the transparent backpack to hide their lunch, pencils, books, tampons, etc...
Did you actually read the guy's blog?? He found that Ohio state law only requires him to state his name:
That's really not terribly complicated and even the lower ranks of police officers ought to understand it. As he pointed out to the officer, he might never have learned to drive and therefore wouldn't have a license to show. He wasn't even in the vehicle when the officer arrived, let alone in the driver's seat, so the officer really had no cause to demand a driver's license. Apparently he wasn't read his Miranda Rights either, which is possibly an even worse omission by the officer.
That's probably the smartest comment I've seen so far in this discussion. The MPAA is prosecuting a past offence, for which the relevant information disappeared *before* the lawsuit was even filed. It shouldn't be possible to charge them with destroying subpoenaed evidence if non-logging is a normal business practice for them and there was no suit in progress.
It's more a question of TorrentSpy choosing not to log each connection that comes over their network. Obviously there's an IP address attached to the connection packet, otherwise the server couldn't reply to it. The judge says, 'log that address when the connection is established'.
No, no, no... Save paper and email it to them. Each byte in a separate email. So, 11010011 would be "on on off on off off on on". Send them a 8Gb memory dump and tell them "it's in there somewhere".
Anyone remember what happened to that NZ guy who was building a cruise missile in his garage, using bent tin and electronics purchased on eBay?? Last I heard the NZ gov't told him to stop, I think.
So, you're discounting the possibility that the fuselage could be stuffed with explosives and glass/nails/ballbearings/etc, then flown into a crowd?? Sure, it may not stand off at a distance and shoot people, but neither does your average suicide bomber.
So maybe an Iranian flag would be OK, then, as long as the other aircraft are decorated with bigger US flags and fly higher...
BTW, you can still get Cue::Cats from eBay. There's a Ruby program called Alexandria that can use the Cat to read UPC barcodes from books to populate a home library catalog.
Hmmm, sounds like an application for the Cue::Cat. Shame that little venture went tits up too... :)
What if you're color-blind??
How about simply making these "non lethal" weapons generally available?? A crap-ray or puke-saber would be so much more humane to an intruder than a shotgun... Imagine - the burglar crosses into your yard, tries to kick the door down and immediately gushes at both ends. It would leave plenty of DNA evidence... :)
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My neighbour was talking yesterday about some place in Texas where you can take a two week class in making and using fireworks. Costs about $1000 apparently. She didn't say where, but I can ask if you like... :)
I have to say it sounds kinda odd that that could happen, because during the swearing-in ceremony the new citizens disclaim all rights to their country of origin, and supposedly the USA therefore does not recognize dual citizenship. I'd definitely prefer the Canadian way of doing it.
Another thing people bitch about is that the Federal Government isn't allocating funds to implement the RealID, so the various states would have to find the money somewhere else. Kind of ironic that an unfunded mandate was passed on the back of an appropriations bill...
Not to get into an argument with you, but I've always kind of assumed that the various flood stories don't all refer to the same event. For example, in 2001 larges areas of Minnesota and Iowa were flooded. More recently, New Orleans and surrounding areas were underwater. I'm sure that folks in both areas will tell their kids about the Great Flood. Not the same Great Flood, though...
Which suggests to me:
But wait!! God told the animals to "go forth and multiply"!! So, animals eat only plants, don't die, and are commanded by God to breed. I'd say it's a good thing Eve caused the Fall, because God's shiny new Creation would pretty soon be knee-deep in crap and the smaller animals would be *really* suffering...