If you were arrested because of the shirt, then yes, your rights have been violated, but if you were arrested for some unrelated reason (like, say, robbing a bank), then no, your rights are not being violated.
Can we say "Small claims court"? You either don't get to have an attorney in there or if you do, the judge is a lot harsher on you. All that it would require to prove that a company was spamming you is for them to open their acounting records to the court. No sane company wouldn't record an advertising expense. As someone above me said, that's like "paying for it twice over".
Some company did release a PDA that does that. It's called an Apple Newton. When you went to buy an eMate, the salesperson would have you drop it from a few feet onto the store floor. In fact, I have one that survived a three story drop without any cosmetic damage, let alone functional damage. I've even heard of them making it through being hurled at concrete pillars in a parking garage. Apple made sturdy stuff.
Of course, with 4 good rubber feet, you wouldn't be able to brush it off your desk unless it was on top of some paper.
One of the things we can get from space that does not occur naturaly on Earth is Iridium. We know that it has myriad uses, but we simply don't have much of it because it is not native to Earth. It only gets here in asteroids. We could also use the low gravity environment to make crystals that would not form on Earth. As other posters have mentioned, it would prevent a grey-goo situation on our main planet. We could even build better ships to use when mining asteroids and such and the moon will always be a better place from which to launch such missions.
Really, we can't know just how this will affect Earth-based industry, but it should be quite beneficial.
Actually, KaZaA lite still has the distributed computing project, the spyware, and any number of other nasty bits of code last time I heard. My understanding is that they just replaced one of the DLLs that was used mostly for advertising with a dummy DLL. That in no way reduces the amount of spyware in the KaZaA executable itself.
The standard Windows xp interface was designed to be more suitable for pen-based computing. The window controlls are larger, they finaly fixed that Start menu problem (it was one pixel up and one pixel right of the bottom left corner), they added the mouse position effects so that it's easier to tell just what you're going to hit with the stylus, etc. They just made it more pen friendly.
I, personaly, like the new Start menu. It adds a nice list of my most frequently used programs and such so that I don't have to go diving through the whole thing just to run my development environment. Other than that, I despise most of the changes.
Only the Recycle Bin on the desktop feels like MacOS (good), but they don't mount drives to the desktop (bad). It makes it much harder to use. The classic "OK" and "Cancel" buttons are still a UI programmer's nightmare and MS still hasn't figured that out. I go to close a window and it says "By closing this window, you will not be able to log out. Logout now? [OK] [Cancel]" Now, what would you expect the Cancel button to do? I, persoaly, expect it to keep the window open, but it turns out that that is the button to close the window and not logout. Weird, huh?
The list of useability fauxpaus goes on and on.
I got my Newton documentation for $150 in '95, too. I don't know where you get your pricing information, but it's wrong.
Also, no one ever added color to the Newton. No one. Ever.
Just what "multimillion dollar selling mass market apps" have you personaly written, hmm?
Actually, this post that I am writing now was written on and submitted from a Newton. I am not going to correct any of the words because the recognition is good enough to grab all of my natural handwriting without too many mistakes. The only problem is that it only puts one space after periods when technicaly, you are supposed to have two.
Well, yeah, they're selling them, but only at $6500 each. That might just be the price for the developer's kit, but I could find any other price listed on the website.
Not quite. Some other primates also have opposable thumbs. How about this:
intelligence == the ability to post on/. and convince its readership that you are human.
Of course, by that definition, most people here aren't intelligent.
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It is _really_ simple to 'deactivate' RFID tags. Just get one of your ham friends and have him hit it with about 50W on the frequency it resonates. That should be enough to liquify the antenna rather nicely and with no antenna, you've got no problem.
Why not make a whitelist that bounces all E-mails not from addresses on the list with a message saying something like "To get through my whitelist, put [some_number] times [another_number] plus [a_third_number] in the subject line." Have it generate the three numbers pseuorandomly and have the formula always come out to a particular user-chosen number (or even one of a set of numbers). Randomize the words used for the mathematical operations so that simple text scanners can't get past it.
If I were to make such a program, would anyone download and use it?
I will never support the ACLU. They were actually trying to sue my church for putting rules and regulations (prohibiting profanity, overly loud or disrespectful music, inappropriate clothing, etc.) on some land that my church legitimately purchased. Most of the cases involving the ACLU that I have heard about involve similar restrictions to freedom. I just can't believe that this is coming from an organization calling itself the American Civil Liberties Union. From what I have heard and seen, the A should stand for Anti. Nothing against you or anyone who supports the ACLU, but I do not respect that group at all.
As for how the events of September 11th have affected me, I have noticed an increase in inane security measures. I was flying to New Mexico from DFW and I was forced to check a tiny knife that could not even cut string. I proved this to the security people, but they still would not let me through. The truth is that I do not even know what it is for, it is just part of a personal grooming kit that I take with me on trips. I was stopped at every checkpoint there was both ways. Each time, my bag was swabbed for explosives, and each time, they found nothing. In short, I am extremely sick of unnecessary security and it does not make me feel any safer, in fact, it makes me feel very much less safe.
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That is exactly how I feel. This is why.
If you were arrested because of the shirt, then yes, your rights have been violated, but if you were arrested for some unrelated reason (like, say, robbing a bank), then no, your rights are not being violated.
Can we say "Small claims court"? You either don't get to have an attorney in there or if you do, the judge is a lot harsher on you. All that it would require to prove that a company was spamming you is for them to open their acounting records to the court. No sane company wouldn't record an advertising expense. As someone above me said, that's like "paying for it twice over".
Some company did release a PDA that does that. It's called an Apple Newton. When you went to buy an eMate, the salesperson would have you drop it from a few feet onto the store floor. In fact, I have one that survived a three story drop without any cosmetic damage, let alone functional damage. I've even heard of them making it through being hurled at concrete pillars in a parking garage. Apple made sturdy stuff. Of course, with 4 good rubber feet, you wouldn't be able to brush it off your desk unless it was on top of some paper.
One of the things we can get from space that does not occur naturaly on Earth is Iridium. We know that it has myriad uses, but we simply don't have much of it because it is not native to Earth. It only gets here in asteroids. We could also use the low gravity environment to make crystals that would not form on Earth. As other posters have mentioned, it would prevent a grey-goo situation on our main planet. We could even build better ships to use when mining asteroids and such and the moon will always be a better place from which to launch such missions. Really, we can't know just how this will affect Earth-based industry, but it should be quite beneficial.
Actually, KaZaA lite still has the distributed computing project, the spyware, and any number of other nasty bits of code last time I heard. My understanding is that they just replaced one of the DLLs that was used mostly for advertising with a dummy DLL. That in no way reduces the amount of spyware in the KaZaA executable itself.
The standard Windows xp interface was designed to be more suitable for pen-based computing. The window controlls are larger, they finaly fixed that Start menu problem (it was one pixel up and one pixel right of the bottom left corner), they added the mouse position effects so that it's easier to tell just what you're going to hit with the stylus, etc. They just made it more pen friendly. I, personaly, like the new Start menu. It adds a nice list of my most frequently used programs and such so that I don't have to go diving through the whole thing just to run my development environment. Other than that, I despise most of the changes. Only the Recycle Bin on the desktop feels like MacOS (good), but they don't mount drives to the desktop (bad). It makes it much harder to use. The classic "OK" and "Cancel" buttons are still a UI programmer's nightmare and MS still hasn't figured that out. I go to close a window and it says "By closing this window, you will not be able to log out. Logout now? [OK] [Cancel]" Now, what would you expect the Cancel button to do? I, persoaly, expect it to keep the window open, but it turns out that that is the button to close the window and not logout. Weird, huh? The list of useability fauxpaus goes on and on.
I got my Newton documentation for $150 in '95, too. I don't know where you get your pricing information, but it's wrong. Also, no one ever added color to the Newton. No one. Ever. Just what "multimillion dollar selling mass market apps" have you personaly written, hmm?
Actually, this post that I am writing now was written on and submitted from a Newton. I am not going to correct any of the words because the recognition is good enough to grab all of my natural handwriting without too many mistakes. The only problem is that it only puts one space after periods when technicaly, you are supposed to have two.
Actually, the Newton 2X00 is sized such that it fits rather exactly into a lab coat pocket.
Well, yeah, they're selling them, but only at $6500 each. That might just be the price for the developer's kit, but I could find any other price listed on the website.
Not quite. Some other primates also have opposable thumbs. How about this: intelligence == the ability to post on /. and convince its readership that you are human.
Of course, by that definition, most people here aren't intelligent.
It is _really_ simple to 'deactivate' RFID tags. Just get one of your ham friends and have him hit it with about 50W on the frequency it resonates. That should be enough to liquify the antenna rather nicely and with no antenna, you've got no problem.
Why not make a whitelist that bounces all E-mails not from addresses on the list with a message saying something like "To get through my whitelist, put [some_number] times [another_number] plus [a_third_number] in the subject line." Have it generate the three numbers pseuorandomly and have the formula always come out to a particular user-chosen number (or even one of a set of numbers). Randomize the words used for the mathematical operations so that simple text scanners can't get past it.
If I were to make such a program, would anyone download and use it?
I will never support the ACLU. They were actually trying to sue my church for putting rules and regulations (prohibiting profanity, overly loud or disrespectful music, inappropriate clothing, etc.) on some land that my church legitimately purchased. Most of the cases involving the ACLU that I have heard about involve similar restrictions to freedom. I just can't believe that this is coming from an organization calling itself the American Civil Liberties Union. From what I have heard and seen, the A should stand for Anti. Nothing against you or anyone who supports the ACLU, but I do not respect that group at all.
As for how the events of September 11th have affected me, I have noticed an increase in inane security measures. I was flying to New Mexico from DFW and I was forced to check a tiny knife that could not even cut string. I proved this to the security people, but they still would not let me through. The truth is that I do not even know what it is for, it is just part of a personal grooming kit that I take with me on trips. I was stopped at every checkpoint there was both ways. Each time, my bag was swabbed for explosives, and each time, they found nothing. In short, I am extremely sick of unnecessary security and it does not make me feel any safer, in fact, it makes me feel very much less safe.