Actually it is Kosher, while some disagree Judaism lawers seem to be saying that it is because.
1) surgery is different then eating.
2) The Kosher laws can be suspended when necessary to save a life.
You mean the monopoloy like Alta Vista had before Google came around?
When Google first came out alot of people went to it because it was faster to load(no ads) and it gave comparable results to alta vista, since then it has gotten better in its results, and is still fast because of lack of ads.
However if that changes, then someone else will come along and provided they think they can make money will provide such a capability.
The search engine market is still wide open for competition, and with it currently being free thier is really no lock in. If someone were to come along with a similar search engine to Google but provided support for wildcards, I and many others would quickly switch.
It is not really the taking of the rifling marks, it is the database of gun owners that upsets people, and what it could be used for in the future. Before you say that is will not happen, take a look at SSN as a simple example. Originally it was not suppost to be used for anything except for keeping track of payments and payees, now it is being used by the government to track down people who owe money to other people.
While it may sound silly to compare bullet rifling to to track imprints in some ways they are the same. Granted track tires start off very similar to each other, however over time both tires and rifling marks change. If you fire many rounds it changes, when you clean the barrel you change it, if you switch out the barrel you are definatly going to change it. So you would have to have people to supply rifling print, ever so often.
When you hear about the court cases, most of them get the gun within a shot or two of when they want to match the bullet, and even in that event they do not have a 100% accurary rate. With this system it would impossible to track down someone who was planning something, aka the virginia sniper, it would have some minor benifit when tracking down unplanned attacks, and other system such as gun registration already do this. Even with this system you would need to meet court standards which are higher then system would have.
Overall this system has more problems then benifits, it ranks right up thier with the idea of putting small plastic markers in all explosives, and fertilizers that came up after the oklahoma city bombing.
We already track serial numbers on guns.
The intelligence of tracking gun by the rifling on bullets is as smart as tracking cars by taking imprints of tire tracks, and as useful.
The real security risk is the otherway around.
It is now possible to just put this device in your backpack put it in range of a computer you have access to, and copy all files you want to.
At least with stuff like drives and USB hard drive devices you had to physiclly connect something to the computer, with this large amount of storage that is no longer needed.
Noone know what they are being suited for or even where. If they were sued in China then it was probably not the DCMA.
The only thing that is know is that microsoft has filed the lawsuit so microsoft was probably the damage party. From there we don't know if the lawsuit for was selling copies of microsoft software or lessing pictures of bill gates naked.
We still do not have any clue what the lawsuit is about.
For all that is known it could be that they were selling copies of various xbox and other console game in addition to the selling mod chip.
Or the mod-chips could be a have taken code, that is copywrited, and and used that instead of just by passing certain codes.
Until someone can post on what the lawsuit was about this is all just pointless wondering, that does not even know if it is any way related to the xbox mod chips the company sells.
Is it not racist but is could border on religionphobic.
It is not all india that holds cows sacred, or don't believe in eating meat, just certain religion followers, and they don't care about the race of the belivers.
You really need to do some traveling. You can go to practiclly any large city in the world, and besides the language thier is not much difference to any large US city. You will find the same food distributors, the same food(regional specialties aside, ie you have a better chance of getting grits in Atlanta then in seattle), the same TV shows, the same music, the same clothing, etc. The only thing that tends to limit this is the wealth of the country, the poorer a country the less it is going to look like a US city, or any major city in a wealthly developed country. Also the smaller the population center the less chance of it being the same; you have a less of a chance of tunning in a english top 40 radio station 100km from Prague then being in Prague itself.
As for the US being a bully, looking at history; it really has not been. If anything the US is an example of why the saying "Absolute power corrupts absoluty." is wrong. For the most purposes the US has absolute power over the world, however it hardly does anything about it, the example given have been of the US not senting monies to countries that don't do what they want, so what, if I don't do what my employer wants from me they are not going to pay me. All it points to is that the US has alot of power and influence so that other countries are afraid to mess with them and not get the freebies they are handing out, far from bulling someone with fear of attacking.
I did.
In the first programming class in college we did 2 weeks on cobol and 2 weeks on fortran. Mainly as an intro to thoses past languages to show how nice modern computer languages are.
I have actually done 6 months of cobol programming where I was paid for it, even got a month of formal training.
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While not an offical recognition you go goto the older stuff and go back.
The first story is this
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?threshold=1&op=stori es&sort=1&start=28130
Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT) is a test they give to paying, is probably around $100US now, high school students. It is used by college to determin admissions.
Most US colleges require that you have a certain SAT score and a high school diploma for admittance. The more well know of the place the higher score and the higher high school GPA they required.
As for the test itself, back when I took it, it was a full day 6-7 hour test. It included portions in math and reading comprehension. Each question had an option of 4 or 5 answers and you had to fill in the bubble for the correct answer. I guess now they have to actuall write a portion of the test. If you check the net you can probably find some sample tests.
So overall they have a nice little racket going, where they get high school students going for a bachelor with the SAT and bachelors going for a masters with the GRE, and related ones.
At lot also depends on the school.
At Georgia they took your GRE*2 + (your college GPA,in a 4.0 system,*100) and that had to be over a certain number.
Don't remember the exact number, just remember the first time I went in and took the GRE, without studying, and missed the number by 3 points. Admissions still required I go take the test again.
The reason that you can fool the present bio system is that they check once or at an interval, and then only a small part of the body.
With this system they could continuly test and over a wider part of the body. Also you could start to test the way that the user hold the mouse, which adds another factor which could be hard to duplicate.
Since according to all the other scientists the greenhouse affect is totaly caused by humans, and nothing else is causing enough of a change to create the greenhouse effects.
Since this article indicates that this freezing is caused by the greenhouse effects, and this has happen multiple times in the past.
This all leads to the most simply solution:
The Atlantians drove SVUs. And I plan to sue them.
Weight would not work in an environment were the person does not come into contact with it on an almost daily basis. However in a work center it work ok, for an additional check besides ID card, and pin.
The problem that you run into is when you are carring computers, books or other stuff then it would sound off the alarm and the guards would have to check you with a camera or come over to see you.
The ones I us to use were a pain. You had to stare into the machine, then it flashed you with a green light. If you blinked or moved, try again. Kind of neat the first couple of times, after that just give me a badge.
As for fooling them, I read an article were they said they were getting an 80% fool rate on the best machine by taking a really good picture of the eye of the person, current the pupil from the picture, and putting that over your eye. On the low end machine, the picture itself was all that was needed
On the higher end machines they check that your pupil reacts to the light so you need a living pupil for that to interact with.
According to what I have read you can get around an 80% success rate with taking a picture of the eye you want to fool the system with then cutting out the pupils and placing the picture over your eye.
The picture gets the blood viens which are check, and when the pupil test is done your eye passes that.
Actually they are fairly easy to fool. Check the web, also infoworld had an article a while ago about how to fool all types.
The biggest problem is the fingerprint, picture,etc of the person you want to impersonate.
In the places that I have worked that required biometric access to get into an area they just used the biomentric check as a portion. You still needed a numeric key or a passkey.
While eyes, fingerprint, palmprint was used infrequently, the biggest biometric system that they used at almost every entry was your weight.
To open a door you had to enter a code, use your access badge, and be standing on a certain square so that your weight could be check against previous averages.
Yep, just include the original version. Dell, Gateway and other do this all the time, just not to the extent you want to do. Where microsoft got in trouble with this is that they had language that specificly forbit them from doing this.
Lots of other companies do this all the time to computer software. Companies are hired to come in install the software, lots of times features are not installed or removed because the customer does not want them, and then new interfaces are placed on them. When done they provide the original software and the additions.
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That would a huge improvment.
Currently I just flashbacks of various 'The Tick' episodes.
Actually it is Kosher, while some disagree Judaism lawers seem to be saying that it is because. 1) surgery is different then eating. 2) The Kosher laws can be suspended when necessary to save a life.
You mean the monopoloy like Alta Vista had before Google came around?
When Google first came out alot of people went to it because it was faster to load(no ads) and it gave comparable results to alta vista, since then it has gotten better in its results, and is still fast because of lack of ads.
However if that changes, then someone else will come along and provided they think they can make money will provide such a capability.
The search engine market is still wide open for competition, and with it currently being free thier is really no lock in. If someone were to come along with a similar search engine to Google but provided support for wildcards, I and many others would quickly switch.
Didn't you know, switching from a Mac to Xp is a license to kill.
It is not really the taking of the rifling marks, it is the database of gun owners that upsets people, and what it could be used for in the future. Before you say that is will not happen, take a look at SSN as a simple example. Originally it was not suppost to be used for anything except for keeping track of payments and payees, now it is being used by the government to track down people who owe money to other people.
While it may sound silly to compare bullet rifling to to track imprints in some ways they are the same. Granted track tires start off very similar to each other, however over time both tires and rifling marks change. If you fire many rounds it changes, when you clean the barrel you change it, if you switch out the barrel you are definatly going to change it. So you would have to have people to supply rifling print, ever so often.
When you hear about the court cases, most of them get the gun within a shot or two of when they want to match the bullet, and even in that event they do not have a 100% accurary rate. With this system it would impossible to track down someone who was planning something, aka the virginia sniper, it would have some minor benifit when tracking down unplanned attacks, and other system such as gun registration already do this. Even with this system you would need to meet court standards which are higher then system would have.
Overall this system has more problems then benifits, it ranks right up thier with the idea of putting small plastic markers in all explosives, and fertilizers that came up after the oklahoma city bombing.
We already track serial numbers on guns.
The intelligence of tracking gun by the rifling on bullets is as smart as tracking cars by taking imprints of tire tracks, and as useful.
Since the military are in it means that the goverer asked for thier help.
This is the same person who recently made it illegal for former law supporting citizens to target shoot or hunt.
This is a person they should be targeting with ads.
Don't forget that gotdotnet is owned and operated by microsoft. Of course the head developer is going to
The real security risk is the otherway around.
It is now possible to just put this device in your backpack put it in range of a computer you have access to, and copy all files you want to.
At least with stuff like drives and USB hard drive devices you had to physiclly connect something to the computer, with this large amount of storage that is no longer needed.
Noone know what they are being suited for or even where. If they were sued in China then it was probably not the DCMA.
The only thing that is know is that microsoft has filed the lawsuit so microsoft was probably the damage party. From there we don't know if the lawsuit for was selling copies of microsoft software or lessing pictures of bill gates naked.
We still do not have any clue what the lawsuit is about.
For all that is known it could be that they were selling copies of various xbox and other console game in addition to the selling mod chip.
Or the mod-chips could be a have taken code, that is copywrited, and and used that instead of just by passing certain codes.
Until someone can post on what the lawsuit was about this is all just pointless wondering, that does not even know if it is any way related to the xbox mod chips the company sells.
Is it not racist but is could border on religionphobic.
It is not all india that holds cows sacred, or don't believe in eating meat, just certain religion followers, and they don't care about the race of the belivers.
Except they have more money then me, and each sale goes on record as another person who has one.
You really need to do some traveling. You can go to practiclly any large city in the world, and besides the language thier is not much difference to any large US city. You will find the same food distributors, the same food(regional specialties aside, ie you have a better chance of getting grits in Atlanta then in seattle), the same TV shows, the same music, the same clothing, etc. The only thing that tends to limit this is the wealth of the country, the poorer a country the less it is going to look like a US city, or any major city in a wealthly developed country. Also the smaller the population center the less chance of it being the same; you have a less of a chance of tunning in a english top 40 radio station 100km from Prague then being in Prague itself.
As for the US being a bully, looking at history; it really has not been. If anything the US is an example of why the saying "Absolute power corrupts absoluty." is wrong. For the most purposes the US has absolute power over the world, however it hardly does anything about it, the example given have been of the US not senting monies to countries that don't do what they want, so what, if I don't do what my employer wants from me they are not going to pay me. All it points to is that the US has alot of power and influence so that other countries are afraid to mess with them and not get the freebies they are handing out, far from bulling someone with fear of attacking.
I did.
In the first programming class in college we did 2 weeks on cobol and 2 weeks on fortran. Mainly as an intro to thoses past languages to show how nice modern computer languages are.
I have actually done 6 months of cobol programming where I was paid for it, even got a month of formal training.
While not an offical recognition you go goto the older stuff and go back. The first story is this http://slashdot.org/search.pl?threshold=1&op=stori es&sort=1&start=28130
Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT) is a test they give to paying, is probably around $100US now, high school students. It is used by college to determin admissions.
Most US colleges require that you have a certain SAT score and a high school diploma for admittance. The more well know of the place the higher score and the higher high school GPA they required.
As for the test itself, back when I took it, it was a full day 6-7 hour test. It included portions in math and reading comprehension. Each question had an option of 4 or 5 answers and you had to fill in the bubble for the correct answer. I guess now they have to actuall write a portion of the test.
If you check the net you can probably find some sample tests.
So overall they have a nice little racket going, where they get high school students going for a bachelor with the SAT and bachelors going for a masters with the GRE, and related ones.
At lot also depends on the school.
At Georgia they took your GRE*2 + (your college GPA,in a 4.0 system,*100) and that had to be over a certain number.
Don't remember the exact number, just remember the first time I went in and took the GRE, without studying, and missed the number by 3 points.
Admissions still required I go take the test again.
The reason that you can fool the present bio system is that they check once or at an interval, and then only a small part of the body.
With this system they could continuly test and over a wider part of the body. Also you could start to test the way that the user hold the mouse, which adds another factor which could be hard to duplicate.
Since according to all the other scientists the greenhouse affect is totaly caused by humans, and nothing else is causing enough of a change to create the greenhouse effects.
Since this article indicates that this freezing is caused by the greenhouse effects, and this has happen multiple times in the past.
This all leads to the most simply solution:
The Atlantians drove SVUs. And I plan to sue them.
Weight would not work in an environment were the person does not come into contact with it on an almost daily basis. However in a work center it work ok, for an additional check besides ID card, and pin.
The problem that you run into is when you are carring computers, books or other stuff then it would sound off the alarm and the guards would have to check you with a camera or come over to see you.
The ones I us to use were a pain. You had to stare into the machine, then it flashed you with a green light. If you blinked or moved, try again. Kind of neat the first couple of times, after that just give me a badge.
As for fooling them, I read an article were they said they were getting an 80% fool rate on the best machine by taking a really good picture of the eye of the person, current the pupil from the picture, and putting that over your eye. On the low end machine, the picture itself was all that was needed
On the higher end machines they check that your pupil reacts to the light so you need a living pupil for that to interact with.
According to what I have read you can get around an 80% success rate with taking a picture of the eye you want to fool the system with then cutting out the pupils and placing the picture over your eye.
The picture gets the blood viens which are check, and when the pupil test is done your eye passes that.
Actually they are fairly easy to fool. Check the web, also infoworld had an article a while ago about how to fool all types.
The biggest problem is the fingerprint, picture,etc of the person you want to impersonate.
In the places that I have worked that required biometric access to get into an area they just used the biomentric check as a portion. You still needed a numeric key or a passkey.
While eyes, fingerprint, palmprint was used infrequently, the biggest biometric system that they used at almost every entry was your weight. To open a door you had to enter a code, use your access badge, and be standing on a certain square so that your weight could be check against previous averages.
Yep, just include the original version. Dell, Gateway and other do this all the time, just not to the extent you want to do.
Where microsoft got in trouble with this is that they had language that specificly forbit them from doing this.
Lots of other companies do this all the time to computer software. Companies are hired to come in install the software, lots of times features are not installed or removed because the customer does not want them, and then new interfaces are placed on them. When done they provide the original software and the additions.