Yeah. More to the point, in my limited experience the middle classes in any country are as aspirational as in the developed world. They're not going to want a shitty console with an underpowered chipset when there are alternatives available.
Because Google is not the government. Google can't listen to your phone calls, access your medical records, read your mail. I'd agree that the aggregation of information they have is probably not a good thing, but it is an entirely different scale from granting government access to every last detail of your life. Google can, if you choose, very largely be avoided. Government can't.
Strictly speaking it's not criminal; it's an offence under the Highways Act of 1835. Interpretation, however, is rather interesting - for example, under the language of the Act it is equally an offence to push a pram. Your pram should be on the road with all the other wheeled vehicles...
I think the one-word answer here is "budget". They went and pitched Wolverine, saying, "and we need to do all this bad-ass CGI stuff, too". Then they get a budget for a third of what is really required to make it truly seamless, and they end up making a movie where characters appear to have no inertia, or hair doesn't move properly, etc, etc.
I have to admit I tl;dr'd about a third of the way down, but this really seems to me like a non-problem. Moderated communities obviously look after themselves, and if not, let them take it to court. This is the kind of problem best solved by the free market, not some pontificating friend of Taco's.
Diseases, such as the encephalitic sleeping sickness of the early 20th century, that cause agrypnia (inability to sleep) tend to produce death in humans after between 10-14 days without sleep. This is in cases where the mental ability to sleep has been lost. I can't find anything offhand to indicate what the difference would be where sleeplessness is voluntary.
You're talking about AOLers. Most experienced computer users up to that point used real names, simply because the network was small enough to make posters easily traceable.
We are not talking about a situation where you may have information useful to law enforcement agencies. We are talking about a situation where *you* may be on the hook. There is nothing you can say that will help your case - regardless of the circumstances. So shut up and stay quiet. That's all.
Just to expand on the other poster's comments - remember that something in orbit is falling. It isn't just a case of pointing in the right direction and giving it an impulse. You need to effectively lift it 350km - doing roughly the same amount of work you would need to lift something from ground level to 350km up. That's a lot of fuel.
I can't believe you've just sat and waited for what, about 8 years to make that joke. Good effort. Not as good, however, as McCoy, who at UID 3959 is just sitting, waiting, lurking, ready for that one perfect moment..."He's dead, Jim."
Also, if they don't use something like SAP for their accounting (and very few law firms would need SAP AFAICS), every single one of those entries needs to be entered into their accounting journals. Manual data entry is surprisingly expensive.
Because they can figure out the basics in a couple of hours, and then six years later when that spreadsheet is the heart of your business, nobody, but nobody, dares touch it to replace it with something more suitable. It's also sad but true that the only programming language environment available to most users is the Visual Basic attached to Office. Just try getting an asset request form signed off by some of the corporate overlord types out there.
And that's a bad thing why? 1600 acres isn't a lot in abasolute terms; it would be better off managed as part of a larger farm anyway. I can never understand why farming gets the free ride that no other industry does. It's not as if people are going to stop eating any time soon.
Correct. I am pretty sure the bill is aimed at being able to go after software tuners - where the signal is put through a DAC and processed in software instead of being done in electronics. Most laws around these areas were written long before the possibility that computers could be powerful enough to do this on the fly and hence it was a grey area.
Actually, if you can make a reasonable case that your TV is not being used, there's not a great deal they can do. My mother's TV has sat plugged in but switched off and unwatched since I left home ten years ago; they come around and ask to see it every year and try to persuade her to buy one, but she refuses, they camp outside with a detector van for a while, then give up and leave. I've also got a TV sitting on top of a wardrobe that doesn't get used either; I just refuse to let them in, and again, they hang around with their cute little detectors for a while, then leave.
Yes, you have a strawman. If Mr Kim were freely elected, year after year, then it would be between him and his subjects, and I would be of the opinion he should be left alone (that's my opinion anyway, but that's by the bye here). In the same way, the only people that pay for Britney are the people who like Britney (approximately), so if you're not one of them, don't subscribe to MTV. The difference is that you don't risk a bullet in the head for not buying Britney's latest opus.
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Yeah. More to the point, in my limited experience the middle classes in any country are as aspirational as in the developed world. They're not going to want a shitty console with an underpowered chipset when there are alternatives available.
Because Google is not the government. Google can't listen to your phone calls, access your medical records, read your mail. I'd agree that the aggregation of information they have is probably not a good thing, but it is an entirely different scale from granting government access to every last detail of your life. Google can, if you choose, very largely be avoided. Government can't.
Strictly speaking it's not criminal; it's an offence under the Highways Act of 1835. Interpretation, however, is rather interesting - for example, under the language of the Act it is equally an offence to push a pram. Your pram should be on the road with all the other wheeled vehicles...
I think the one-word answer here is "budget". They went and pitched Wolverine, saying, "and we need to do all this bad-ass CGI stuff, too". Then they get a budget for a third of what is really required to make it truly seamless, and they end up making a movie where characters appear to have no inertia, or hair doesn't move properly, etc, etc.
I have to admit I tl;dr'd about a third of the way down, but this really seems to me like a non-problem. Moderated communities obviously look after themselves, and if not, let them take it to court. This is the kind of problem best solved by the free market, not some pontificating friend of Taco's.
A good analogy is with the Comstock Laws. We wouldn't pass such marvellously wrong-headed legislation today...would we?
Diseases, such as the encephalitic sleeping sickness of the early 20th century, that cause agrypnia (inability to sleep) tend to produce death in humans after between 10-14 days without sleep. This is in cases where the mental ability to sleep has been lost. I can't find anything offhand to indicate what the difference would be where sleeplessness is voluntary.
This sounds familiar.
You're talking about AOLers. Most experienced computer users up to that point used real names, simply because the network was small enough to make posters easily traceable.
Around here, we creep up to our raw, bloody steaks, and we lovingly whisper "a candle!" to them. Then we eat them.
For what it's worth, I know quite a few cops. This is their advice as well, regardless of the circumstances. Keep mum.
We are not talking about a situation where you may have information useful to law enforcement agencies. We are talking about a situation where *you* may be on the hook. There is nothing you can say that will help your case - regardless of the circumstances. So shut up and stay quiet. That's all.
I don't need to be polite. I need to obey the law. Fuck you.
Just to expand on the other poster's comments - remember that something in orbit is falling. It isn't just a case of pointing in the right direction and giving it an impulse. You need to effectively lift it 350km - doing roughly the same amount of work you would need to lift something from ground level to 350km up. That's a lot of fuel.
I can't believe you've just sat and waited for what, about 8 years to make that joke. Good effort. Not as good, however, as McCoy, who at UID 3959 is just sitting, waiting, lurking, ready for that one perfect moment..."He's dead, Jim."
The ACLU filed suit to stop the DA filing charges, and were succesful. I am not sure if any further response is envisaged.
Also, if they don't use something like SAP for their accounting (and very few law firms would need SAP AFAICS), every single one of those entries needs to be entered into their accounting journals. Manual data entry is surprisingly expensive.
Thanks for providing the rant that I was just about to :)
Because they can figure out the basics in a couple of hours, and then six years later when that spreadsheet is the heart of your business, nobody, but nobody, dares touch it to replace it with something more suitable. It's also sad but true that the only programming language environment available to most users is the Visual Basic attached to Office. Just try getting an asset request form signed off by some of the corporate overlord types out there.
And that's a bad thing why? 1600 acres isn't a lot in abasolute terms; it would be better off managed as part of a larger farm anyway. I can never understand why farming gets the free ride that no other industry does. It's not as if people are going to stop eating any time soon.
Welcome to Slashdot, where the median poster knows what a bell curve is ;)
Or use the red matter. A small drop should suffice.
Correct. I am pretty sure the bill is aimed at being able to go after software tuners - where the signal is put through a DAC and processed in software instead of being done in electronics. Most laws around these areas were written long before the possibility that computers could be powerful enough to do this on the fly and hence it was a grey area.
Actually, if you can make a reasonable case that your TV is not being used, there's not a great deal they can do. My mother's TV has sat plugged in but switched off and unwatched since I left home ten years ago; they come around and ask to see it every year and try to persuade her to buy one, but she refuses, they camp outside with a detector van for a while, then give up and leave. I've also got a TV sitting on top of a wardrobe that doesn't get used either; I just refuse to let them in, and again, they hang around with their cute little detectors for a while, then leave.
Yes, you have a strawman. If Mr Kim were freely elected, year after year, then it would be between him and his subjects, and I would be of the opinion he should be left alone (that's my opinion anyway, but that's by the bye here). In the same way, the only people that pay for Britney are the people who like Britney (approximately), so if you're not one of them, don't subscribe to MTV. The difference is that you don't risk a bullet in the head for not buying Britney's latest opus.