I don't understand what the 18 parameters could be. I mean, all it has to work with is sound waves, what the heck does this mean? What is it using for a baseline?
It sure sounds like BS to me.
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If you live in an apartment or in the city and have to park on the street, you really don't have a good way to plug a car in over night. I think I will patent a 'Charger Post'; insert credit card, open door and plug in car, lock door, next day insert card again to open door.
Don't they have to go to court if the extortion attempt fails and wouldn't the ISP then have to testify?
If my ISP started to sell out its customers like that, I would have to shop around. Even if I am not a file sharer, that is still a company I could not trust (we need some revenue, so fake some logs so we can extort some customers).
So did MS lie when they assured me that no personal information was collected when I installed WGA?
(RTFA)
Maybe not. Oh well, so much for a massive class action.
I just upgraded my 655 from the Update Firmware link on the routers admin page and got the non SecureSpot version. I think most of us noobs are going to do it that way.
Hum, republicans doing illegal actions to try and enhance their chances in a Presidential election. Where have I seen this before?
Hopefully there is some film coverage of this that can be used in ads.
What is the pay back on solar panels these days?
They do have a limited life span and used to be expensive to install. Have they gotten to a break even point yet?
I guess it depends on which sun zone you are in.
Well you know they could try and build it into the routers. I am not sure how they plan to determine if content is copyrighted or not, but it would seem to me to always be easy to circumvent. If they go too far with the filtering, then freedom of speech would kick in and the system would get downgraded to uselessness.
They could also get the providers to force web sites to run the filtering software or not allow them access the the internet. This would have major freedom of speech implications and would most likely be killed by the provides.
Developing software is a complex task. There is a point of diminishing returns on fixing bugs. If you are writing code for a satellite or human lives may be at stake, then yes, you should be held to a higher standard and prosecution should be possible. But if your game stops working I don't see how you could prove reckless endangerment or pain and suffering or even fraud.
Developers sort of know how to create applications correctly these days, but it is not as cut and dry as say architecture or surgery. A new process (XP, Agile, etc) or book comes out every other day. How can you say that a company did not follow proper procedures in developing their code?
An OS should be held to the highest standard. If the OS fails then the apps fail and people could die. Has anyone every read the disclaimers on Windows or Linux? They make NO guarantees that the OS will even run.
I also did it (MS) and know 5 others who did and a number working on it.
It helps a lot if the degree is usefull to your employer and
they will pay for it. All we had to do was buy books and get at least a B.
Talk to people who have been through the program and make yourself a little
plan. I skipped a lot of classes in the "easier" courses and was able to take
2 of those courses in a semester.
The Japanese have been weird about the Mona Lisa for a long time.
I remember seeing something on TV 10 or more years ago about a
device to simulate Mona Lisa' voice. People were getting plastic
surgery to look like Mona Lisa (don't think it was just woman either).
You have to consider this over a longer period of time then a couple years. That government in China can not last, none do. Being told that your government hates you is a good way to encourage people to change their government sooner rather then later.
The notice might as well be "If you lived in a free country you would be seeing all sorts of neat stuff right now".
So you are saying they should not be held accountable for the actions of their
contractors? Gee, maybe they should just hire the mob to go around and break
peoples legs then.
It doesn't work that way, the medium IS the message and if they allow bad
people to work for them, then they are themselves bad.
> And in bad weather...
Wow, good point. These things would either freeze and break or get ripped
up by snow plows around here. And they would have to be able to handle
salt and salt water also, since they spread a couple tons on the roads
everytime it snows.
The whole idea in the wikiwiki is that good information will drive out bad over time. If it is wrong today, fix it and it is correct, at least for a while. If have to see it as a dynamic media of time.
The problem with Wikipedia is that it is too big and impossible to control. Maybe a more distributed approach would be better, SciencePedia, HistoryPedia, etc. Less pages, more focused, the editors might be able to keep more of a handle on things.
1) It is just a few short steps from making code evidence in court cases to holding programmers criminally libel for bugs. 10 years ago this statement would have seemed absurd, but today who knows.
2) Code is not an easy thing to read and understand. There would have to be 'experts' testifying. As a programmer I do not want my company to ask me to prepare to defend some code in court.
3) I am not sure how in the open being evidence in court would make the code either.
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I have an older book called 'The Magnet in your Nose' that talks about this.
Beam the messages into space and just assume there will be faster then light travel by then.
Steal his game password and kill his character.
I don't understand what the 18 parameters could be. I mean, all it has to work with is sound waves, what the heck does this mean? What is it using for a baseline?
It sure sounds like BS to me.
If you live in an apartment or in the city and have to park on the street, you really don't have a good way to plug a car in over night. I think I will patent a 'Charger Post'; insert credit card, open door and plug in car, lock door, next day insert card again to open door.
Don't they have to go to court if the extortion attempt fails and wouldn't the ISP then have to testify? If my ISP started to sell out its customers like that, I would have to shop around. Even if I am not a file sharer, that is still a company I could not trust (we need some revenue, so fake some logs so we can extort some customers).
So did MS lie when they assured me that no personal information was collected when I installed WGA?
(RTFA)
Maybe not. Oh well, so much for a massive class action.
Unless because of the smaller entry cost you can get more people using your product. Then both might benefit.
I just upgraded my 655 from the Update Firmware link on the routers admin page and got the non SecureSpot version. I think most of us noobs are going to do it that way.
Hum, republicans doing illegal actions to try and enhance their chances in a Presidential election. Where have I seen this before? Hopefully there is some film coverage of this that can be used in ads.
What is the pay back on solar panels these days? They do have a limited life span and used to be expensive to install. Have they gotten to a break even point yet? I guess it depends on which sun zone you are in.
They could also get the providers to force web sites to run the filtering software or not allow them access the the internet. This would have major freedom of speech implications and would most likely be killed by the provides.
Developers sort of know how to create applications correctly these days, but it is not as cut and dry as say architecture or surgery. A new process (XP, Agile, etc) or book comes out every other day. How can you say that a company did not follow proper procedures in developing their code?
An OS should be held to the highest standard. If the OS fails then the apps fail and people could die. Has anyone every read the disclaimers on Windows or Linux? They make NO guarantees that the OS will even run.
Seconded.
But his primary job is not to write software, so without something written, I would think he has the edge in this.
You don't do real work for a living, do you?
HTML e-mails are abused a lot. If the format is more important then the content, then you don't do real work.
I also did it (MS) and know 5 others who did and a number working on it. It helps a lot if the degree is usefull to your employer and they will pay for it. All we had to do was buy books and get at least a B. Talk to people who have been through the program and make yourself a little plan. I skipped a lot of classes in the "easier" courses and was able to take 2 of those courses in a semester.
The Japanese have been weird about the Mona Lisa for a long time. I remember seeing something on TV 10 or more years ago about a device to simulate Mona Lisa' voice. People were getting plastic surgery to look like Mona Lisa (don't think it was just woman either).
If I "make" the music I burn to CD do I then own the rights to it? If not, then what does it mean to make something?
You have to consider this over a longer period of time then a couple years. That government in China can not last, none do. Being told that your government hates you is a good way to encourage people to change their government sooner rather then later.
The notice might as well be "If you lived in a free country you would be seeing all sorts of neat stuff right now".
So you are saying they should not be held accountable for the actions of their contractors? Gee, maybe they should just hire the mob to go around and break peoples legs then.
It doesn't work that way, the medium IS the message and if they allow bad people to work for them, then they are themselves bad.
> And in bad weather ...
Wow, good point. These things would either freeze and break or get ripped
up by snow plows around here. And they would have to be able to handle
salt and salt water also, since they spread a couple tons on the roads
everytime it snows.
The problem with Wikipedia is that it is too big and impossible to control. Maybe a more distributed approach would be better, SciencePedia, HistoryPedia, etc. Less pages, more focused, the editors might be able to keep more of a handle on things.
HP has forgotten to mention Tru64, if I remember correctly. Isn't this going away soon?
2) Code is not an easy thing to read and understand. There would have to be 'experts' testifying. As a programmer I do not want my company to ask me to prepare to defend some code in court.
3) I am not sure how in the open being evidence in court would make the code either.