Has she gone to the police and charged the store with possession of stolen goods?
While I am not an expert on Florida law in most states of the USA you can't. Why not? Because pawn brokers, which EB would likely claim they are, are exempt from fensing laws (i.e. recieving stolen property) in most states unless they actually know the property is stolen. Several states even exempt pawn brokers in situations where they reasonably should suspect the materials are stolen (the homeless person selling the diamond necklace type situation).
Don't ask me why this is because I don't know. All I can speculate is that sometime in the recent past pawnbrokers performed some really good lobbying efforts.
While this may have been the way things worked in the past, it bares little resemblence to the current postal service. I worked for the Postal Service at a Remote Encoding Center (REC) back in the mid-90s so my information may be out of date as well but it is at least more modern than the above.
The modern postal service is highly automated and computerized. Currently when you send a letter:
The front of the letter is scanned digitally and a barcode is attached to the back.
The ditigal scan is checked by a computer for a recipient's address using custom OCR software.
If the computer can't figure it out, the digital image is sent to a Remote Encoding Center(REC) were the image is viewed by a human and the address information is entered manually.
The address information gatered by either 2 or 3 above is attached in the postal service database to the barcode on the back of the envelope (see 1).
This barcode (and the associated database records) are then used to route the letter.
It would not be too difficult to implement source tracking in this system, all that it would require is making some changes to the database to allow the source to be attached to the barcode and and add return address checking to steps 2 and 3. In fact this could already be implemented and we would never know about it.
What you mean is that it would not be habitable by us.
One of the things that life has shown is it's annoying ability to survive where it should not be. Consider the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean: no sunlight, tempratures hot enough to boil us alive, heavy metals and unique compounds forming a soup toxic to life as we know it. Yet life teems there, hundreds of species of plants and animals.
If life can adapt to that, why not to a few gamma rays?
One of the trials for becoming a Jedi is to build your own lightsabre. As Mr. Parks has demonstrated, he has already done this, so that challenge is completed.
And doing so without paying royalties to Lucasfilm could be considered defeating a great evil...
By the way, what ever happened with that Justice Dept. Investigation into the RIAA being a monopoly? I read a few posts on it here on/. when it was first announced but I have not been able to find anything since.
Back in the olden days (say '91-'93) Maxtor made cheap hard drives, and I don't just mean the price. There was somthing wrong with the berrings in the drives. If you mounted them on their side you almost guarenteed failure in 6mths - 1 year. If you mounted it flat it would probably make it a year. Needless to say they developed quite a bad rep.
Things have changed, quite significantly since then. Their quality has gone up tremendiously. But I still hear this every once in a while.
Are you kidding? I'm all for technology... but when it comes to voting, I want hard proof of my vote, not a magnetic or optical bit. Format the hard drive, and my vote is lost forever. No proof left behind.
Fine if you want paper then replace the network connection with a printer. I would consider that safer anyway, it makes it harder to hack the voting machines. So the voter enters his choices on the computer and then gets a nice paper ballot that is easy for a machine to read and completely untraceable back to the voter, and you get your paper trail. Everyone is happy.
Because in the case of the Chinese Embassy we hit exactly what we were aiming for (+/-1cm). Unfortunatly what we were aiming for was the wrong target. GPS guided missiles are only as accurate as the intel they are fired with. If you don't know where the enemy is you can't hit them.
If troops had been sent in to take out the embassy they would have been able to 1. See it was the wrong target before it was attacked (Provided they were informed what the target was). 2. Radio back to command and confirm that this is what they wanted to do.
At the moment I guess it depends were you are. Here in the Midwest it's almost impossible to even get your resume looked at with less than five years experience.
You ever tried to get five years experience as a System Administrator when everyone wants five years system administration experience before they will even hire you?
Maybe you can't see the end yet but around here it is fairly obvious.
Does anyone else find it strange that Apple chose to compare their high end graphics system (Rage 128 VR) against one of the cheapest graphic chipsets in the PC market(Rage Pro Turbo). I wonder what their reasoning behind this was? This considering that the Rage 128 VR is also a PC chipset.
Also strange was that they compared thier processor to the Pentium III 550 but only a K6-2 400. Why not an equally high end K6 or an Athlon?
What's all this excitement about Slackware being GlibC based. Personally I would rather run an OS based on an older stable core than one based on a beta core. If I wanted a beta core I would run Windoze.
And as far as GlibC support. The runtime support for GlibC binaries has been there since Slack 4.0
>>...employees working long hours, often with little or no overtime. Many are even salaried.
>Ummm yes, I like technology, but I like getting paid too.
Then why are you working salary??? Up till about six months ago I was working salary. I worked an average of 60 hours a week and got paid for 40. Then I was offered the chance to change over to an hourly rate at a lesser amount per hour. I jumped on it.
And even though I am making about the same amount of money now that I was making before the quality of my work has improved greatly. Now when I look at a job I ask myself how long will it take, not how will I finish it in 40 hours. I have found that my entire creative process has changed because of this.
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While I am not an expert on Florida law in most states of the USA you can't. Why not? Because pawn brokers, which EB would likely claim they are, are exempt from fensing laws (i.e. recieving stolen property) in most states unless they actually know the property is stolen. Several states even exempt pawn brokers in situations where they reasonably should suspect the materials are stolen (the homeless person selling the diamond necklace type situation).
Don't ask me why this is because I don't know. All I can speculate is that sometime in the recent past pawnbrokers performed some really good lobbying efforts.
So wouldn't the Falcons already constitute a Denial of Service?
And considering they are coming from different nests, you could say it's distributed.
Therefore, this brand new medium has already suffered its first DDoS. That's gotta be a record.
The modern postal service is highly automated and computerized. Currently when you send a letter:
It would not be too difficult to implement source tracking in this system, all that it would require is making some changes to the database to allow the source to be attached to the barcode and and add return address checking to steps 2 and 3. In fact this could already be implemented and we would never know about it.
Well at least it explains the war with Iraq. Can you say compensating...
What you mean is that it would not be habitable by us.
One of the things that life has shown is it's annoying ability to survive where it should not be. Consider the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean: no sunlight, tempratures hot enough to boil us alive, heavy metals and unique compounds forming a soup toxic to life as we know it. Yet life teems there, hundreds of species of plants and animals.
If life can adapt to that, why not to a few gamma rays?
That's fine if you are dealing with software, but this is supposed to be at least partially a hardware solution.
I can just see the installation screens now,
Sound far fetched, consider this.
One of the trials for becoming a Jedi is to build your own lightsabre. As Mr. Parks has demonstrated, he has already done this, so that challenge is completed.
And doing so without paying royalties to Lucasfilm could be considered defeating a great evil...
It is a mental check.
If you find that joke funny it means you are too tired to drive.
Time to pull over and rest your brain.
The problem is that no real alternative exists.
/. when it was first announced but I have not been able to find anything since.
By the way, what ever happened with that Justice Dept. Investigation into the RIAA being a monopoly? I read a few posts on it here on
Ok Time for a history lesson.
Back in the olden days (say '91-'93) Maxtor made cheap hard drives, and I don't just mean the price. There was somthing wrong with the berrings in the drives. If you mounted them on their side you almost guarenteed failure in 6mths - 1 year. If you mounted it flat it would probably make it a year. Needless to say they developed quite a bad rep.
Things have changed, quite significantly since then. Their quality has gone up tremendiously. But I still hear this every once in a while.
Are you kidding? I'm all for technology... but when it comes to voting, I want hard proof of my vote, not a magnetic or optical bit. Format the hard drive, and my vote is lost forever. No proof left behind.
Fine if you want paper then replace the network connection with a printer. I would consider that safer anyway, it makes it harder to hack the voting machines. So the voter enters his choices on the computer and then gets a nice paper ballot that is easy for a machine to read and completely untraceable back to the voter, and you get your paper trail. Everyone is happy.
One small problem with this.
Turbo Linux, which is not funded by Intel, also works just fine with the P4. I'm not shure if either will work with the P6 though.
Because in the case of the Chinese Embassy we hit exactly what we were aiming for (+/-1cm). Unfortunatly what we were aiming for was the wrong target. GPS guided missiles are only as accurate as the intel they are fired with. If you don't know where the enemy is you can't hit them.
If troops had been sent in to take out the embassy they would have been able to
1. See it was the wrong target before it was attacked (Provided they were informed what the target was).
2. Radio back to command and confirm that this is what they wanted to do.
If you are a Cobol programmer and you have not made enough money to retire yet.
You are an idiot and deserve what you get.
Now the question is, how long before someone comes out with a USB or serial "external" version?
At the moment I guess it depends were you are. Here in the Midwest it's almost impossible to even get your resume looked at with less than five years experience.
You ever tried to get five years experience as a System Administrator when everyone wants five years system administration experience before they will even hire you?
Maybe you can't see the end yet but around here it is fairly obvious.
Does anyone else find it strange that Apple chose to compare their high end graphics system (Rage 128 VR) against one of the cheapest graphic chipsets in the PC market(Rage Pro Turbo). I wonder what their reasoning behind this was? This considering that the Rage 128 VR is also a PC chipset.
Also strange was that they compared thier processor to the Pentium III 550 but only a K6-2 400. Why not an equally high end K6 or an Athlon?
What's all this excitement about Slackware being GlibC based. Personally I would rather run an OS based on an older stable core than one based on a beta core. If I wanted a beta core I would run Windoze.
And as far as GlibC support. The runtime support for GlibC binaries has been there since Slack 4.0
>Ummm yes, I like technology, but I like getting paid too.
Then why are you working salary???
Up till about six months ago I was working salary. I worked an average of 60 hours a week and got paid for 40. Then I was offered the chance to change over to an hourly rate at a lesser amount per hour. I jumped on it.
And even though I am making about the same amount of money now that I was making before the quality of my work has improved greatly. Now when I look at a job I ask myself how long will it take, not how will I finish it in 40 hours. I have found that my entire creative process has changed because of this.