How is this different from some company installing spyware/nagware that's not uninstallable and then sending you email asking you to pay 20 bucks for a utility that'll "remove" their piece of software.
That's like the Boy Scout spaghetti dinner fundraiser where the spaghetti is free but the Pepto Bismol is $10.
I'm going to take your prinicle to heart and exploit the weakness in the locks of your residence. Since you clearly believe that if the lock isn't adequate then the laws shouldn't take effect, I am doing nothing you shouldn't fully expect.
As long as you don't subsequently enter the residence. Remember, it's illegal to enter even if the door was already open (although I've never heard of it being illegal simply to pick the lock or test the doorknob). But barring unsafe conditions, it isn't illegal to enter an intersection on a green light, no matter what caused the light to turn green in the first place.
Speaking of optically influencing the traffic light, is it or will it also become illegal to park directly on the sensor, a carlength or two away from the intersection, in order to force a green arrow?
I don't understand where the bandwidth costs are coming from for an ISP. The cables have been laid down right? How does it cost the ISP more to run them at max?
Actually, I think it's a good question. To answer to the best of my knowledge, for one thing your ISP has to pay by the gigabyte to its own upstream provider (probably a backbone). I believe it's usually less than USD$1 per gigabyte of data.
Then with cable modem service, there's only so much data your ISP can deliver to your neighborhood. If you're eating it all up, it will affect your neighbors. While traffic between you and your cable ISP costs them nothing, they need to ensure the same quality of service to everyone or risk losing customers.
The goal of college, in the context of our current society, is to prepare students to get a job - if employers aren't demanding it, then people aren't going to expect it to be part of a college curriculum.
I see this as a chicken-and-egg problem. Employers don't understand the importance of secure programming because it isn't taught in college. The only other way to learn is by experience, but that's the hard way.
There's really no excuse for teaching poor programming skills (or not teaching good programming skills) in a degree track that requires programming.
There's no information anywhere with the most important information about the box: how many tuners it has. You need more than one tuner, if you want to watch one program while recording another.
Not necessarily. There are 2 ways around it:
1. Watch one prerecorded show off the PVR while recording another from the PVR's tuner.
2. Record one show on the PVR while watching another from the television's built-in tuner (bypassing the PVR).
The worm's scanning slowed the internal network to a crawl, eventually crashing the plant's Safety Parameter Display System, according to reports.
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Control systems operate in real time, where processes, availability, and reliability are paramount.
So they are imposing realtime requirements onto a shared medium (a computer network)? That's like not putting lights or sirens on emergency vehicles, and then complaining about not being able to get to the scene in time during heavy traffic.
No wonder virii can cause so much damage to the power grid. The whole thing was badly designed to start with!
You rights are associated to your media, not someone elses media...As soon as you share [your songs], or download someone elses, then you have violated copyright law, because the content you are using is not associated to your purchased media.
The "media" in this case is the computer to which the iTunes file was downloaded. This is why he has to transfer not just the file itself but also all rights associated with it to the high bidder. Just like handing over the original CD.
...having no guns makes it a hell of a lot harder for these would be killers to go on killing sprees.
You do not deny that the killing sprees would still occur. So what would we hope to achieve by banning guns?
I've heard people who try to commit suicide by drinking Drano (lye) often end up killing themselves in some other way just to stop the pain. Now think of the innocent victom forced to drink the same by a killer who had to resort to that method because he didn't have a gun. You have to admit, a bullet to the head is far more humane.
The police can piece back together accident scenes with very little eye witness testimony, I only see these new EDR's as an erosion of privacy. How long will it be before the police can scan my vehicle to see if I'm wearing my seatbelt, or ticket me remotely (think red light cameras only for speeding?)
The police can do these now. Assuming your car has windows and that it can bounce a radar signal. And, like you pointed out on your original message, accident investigators can determine how fast you were driving even without an EDR black box.
So when you're facing the judge pleading your case and you know you're innocent of the charges, would you prefer not to have any objective evidence? Because if so, then it's nothing but your word against a police officer's.
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Ahem. Nairobi is the capital of Kenya. Perhaps the poster should read his Encyclopedia Britannica.
You should read your dictionary. From the definition of of:
...will it help you make turns on city streets at 200mph?
I really wanted a motorcycle helmet HUD like this when I was a kid.
How many missiles will it hold?
As long as you don't subsequently enter the residence. Remember, it's illegal to enter even if the door was already open (although I've never heard of it being illegal simply to pick the lock or test the doorknob). But barring unsafe conditions, it isn't illegal to enter an intersection on a green light, no matter what caused the light to turn green in the first place.
Speaking of optically influencing the traffic light, is it or will it also become illegal to park directly on the sensor, a carlength or two away from the intersection, in order to force a green arrow?
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Actually, I think it's a good question. To answer to the best of my knowledge, for one thing your ISP has to pay by the gigabyte to its own upstream provider (probably a backbone). I believe it's usually less than USD$1 per gigabyte of data.
Then with cable modem service, there's only so much data your ISP can deliver to your neighborhood. If you're eating it all up, it will affect your neighbors. While traffic between you and your cable ISP costs them nothing, they need to ensure the same quality of service to everyone or risk losing customers.
I see this as a chicken-and-egg problem. Employers don't understand the importance of secure programming because it isn't taught in college. The only other way to learn is by experience, but that's the hard way.
There's really no excuse for teaching poor programming skills (or not teaching good programming skills) in a degree track that requires programming.
Not necessarily. There are 2 ways around it:
1. Watch one prerecorded show off the PVR while recording another from the PVR's tuner.
2. Record one show on the PVR while watching another from the television's built-in tuner (bypassing the PVR).
So they are imposing realtime requirements onto a shared medium (a computer network)? That's like not putting lights or sirens on emergency vehicles, and then complaining about not being able to get to the scene in time during heavy traffic.
No wonder virii can cause so much damage to the power grid. The whole thing was badly designed to start with!
...I don't want to join, and I only want to donate $10, not the $20 minimum registration fee or the fixed $75 donation. Where's the real Paypal link?
Here is a lengthy discussion on the topic. Basically it comes down to personal and corporate philosophy and what makes the most business sense.
You do not deny that the killing sprees would still occur. So what would we hope to achieve by banning guns?
I've heard people who try to commit suicide by drinking Drano (lye) often end up killing themselves in some other way just to stop the pain. Now think of the innocent victom forced to drink the same by a killer who had to resort to that method because he didn't have a gun. You have to admit, a bullet to the head is far more humane.
The police can do these now. Assuming your car has windows and that it can bounce a radar signal. And, like you pointed out on your original message, accident investigators can determine how fast you were driving even without an EDR black box.
So when you're facing the judge pleading your case and you know you're innocent of the charges, would you prefer not to have any objective evidence? Because if so, then it's nothing but your word against a police officer's.