Not a great solution. For now, fine, but do let's find an alternative... Say, voice recognition of a number. Yes, that kicks those who are both deaf and blind off the net. Sorry, folks. Still not perfect, but it's much, much better.
Historically, that's not exactly what happened in the case of the Irish in America, but I think the point is well taken.
However, how do you deal with the English counterexample, where even after having committed substantial naval resources to ending slavery in the world at large, the English continued, as a government and as individuals, to oppress the Irish, going so far as to use that same navy to blockade relief shipments during the Famine?
Most abortion providers are OB/GYNs. Depending on their practice, they may also deliver babies, which takes longer, and nets them more money. So it's probably in their interest to discourage abortion.
Also, doctors swear an oath to their patients, while judges are responsible to society as a whole. Society, debatably, benefits when criminals give up organs for good citizens. The patient (in this case the criminal) clearly does not.
There's a cost-benefit curve there. If you keep it secret from everyone, that's bad. If you keep it secret only from those who might attack it, and no one else, that's good. For each given scenario there's a point somewhere in between that's best. Unfortunately, it's almos never possible to tell who'll be attacking it, and the costs of not getting peer review are higher than the benefits of making your enemies attack it blind, for basically secure systems. But recall that replicating the Purple cipher nearly drove Freidman mad, while Turing et all were able to crack a captured Enigma relatively sanely... So the sucessful Japanese obscurity efforts cost America a great cryptanalyst.
Sure. That makes room for there to BE other rights. It doesn't specifically say you have the right to do anything the Constitution doesn't say you can't... But it's still an important part of the argument for a right to privacy.
All of the rights in the Constitution are such, yes. Thing is, no one but the government has the right to compel you, in theory. Don't like your employer's policies? Quit. Don't like RFID tags? Don't shop at Walmart.
But yes, you're quite right, it applies to the government only.
I don't know about that. I think they just sell the patent to a corporation, rather than trying to produce it themselves. Judging by the number of ads for legal services targetted at inventors I used to see in Popular Science, they're still out there.
It's not clear how this works, but yes. I suppose that there's some sort of climatological thing going on that's either not astronomical in nature, or is much less regular that typical orbits.
Umm... Even the Lannisters often have a strong loyalty to family (Tyrion, Tywin, even Jaime...) The Targaryens, when they're not crazy, seem to be okay. Unfortunately a lot of them are crazy. The Baratheons are good people, it seems, though they have flaws as well.
On the other hand... I was a kid not so very long ago. And it wasn't much of an issue with video games, but with movies... It saved a lot of arguments, I think. What exactly is the line between Crazy Taxi and Vice City? Okay, now tell your kid. And bear in mind that they really want to play VC. Now, would you rather hanve that discussion, or just tell them, 'Well, it's rated M. Let me take a look at it, but I don't think so?' You can always make an exception, my mom let me see a lot of R rated movies, but I always knew she was making an exception for me.
Yeah, there's a different World's Smallest Printer, but we sent it to Mars, so it's not in the world anymore, and we forgot how to make it. That's why there's this big push to go to Mars, it's to get our printer back.
My Duron 1.1ghz/256RAM never, never, never skips. Hell, half the time Winamp keeps on playing after the damn thing locks up completely. I've played while defragging, while doing various kinds of encoding, all sorts of things. I don't know that I've ever created a situation with 100% CPU load and saturated IDE channels at the same time, but I don't know that I ever would, so it doesn't matter. Neither of those separately seems to cause a problem...
There certainly are benefits... However, none of the drawbacks you name are essential to the functioning of an RFID tag... They most certainly don't need to be writable, and while there are some benefits to unique IDs, in my opinion they are not so great as to outweight the risks to privacy. Why not simply port the UPC system from bar codes to radio?
Right... You realize that Microsoft saying something is a) Not a law, and b) much easier for Microsoft to break than the laws and Constitution of the United States, don't you?
Not really. No one demanded that the flat earth be impervious to meteors, only that it not collapse under its own weight. Scrith is plenty strong enough for that...
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Because parachuting takes a lot of training. Whereas these cushions and water-exit procedures have saved a lot of lives during botched takeoffs and landings at airports where the runway leads offshore, such as LaGuardia.
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Not a great solution. For now, fine, but do let's find an alternative... Say, voice recognition of a number. Yes, that kicks those who are both deaf and blind off the net. Sorry, folks. Still not perfect, but it's much, much better.
Doesn't look like it. Pics show the case as a DeWalt. My guess is they meant 'throw away' as in 'chuck in your tool chest for later' not 'discard.'
Historically, that's not exactly what happened in the case of the Irish in America, but I think the point is well taken. However, how do you deal with the English counterexample, where even after having committed substantial naval resources to ending slavery in the world at large, the English continued, as a government and as individuals, to oppress the Irish, going so far as to use that same navy to blockade relief shipments during the Famine?
Most abortion providers are OB/GYNs. Depending on their practice, they may also deliver babies, which takes longer, and nets them more money. So it's probably in their interest to discourage abortion. Also, doctors swear an oath to their patients, while judges are responsible to society as a whole. Society, debatably, benefits when criminals give up organs for good citizens. The patient (in this case the criminal) clearly does not.
There's a cost-benefit curve there. If you keep it secret from everyone, that's bad. If you keep it secret only from those who might attack it, and no one else, that's good. For each given scenario there's a point somewhere in between that's best. Unfortunately, it's almos never possible to tell who'll be attacking it, and the costs of not getting peer review are higher than the benefits of making your enemies attack it blind, for basically secure systems. But recall that replicating the Purple cipher nearly drove Freidman mad, while Turing et all were able to crack a captured Enigma relatively sanely... So the sucessful Japanese obscurity efforts cost America a great cryptanalyst.
Sure. That makes room for there to BE other rights. It doesn't specifically say you have the right to do anything the Constitution doesn't say you can't... But it's still an important part of the argument for a right to privacy.
All of the rights in the Constitution are such, yes. Thing is, no one but the government has the right to compel you, in theory. Don't like your employer's policies? Quit. Don't like RFID tags? Don't shop at Walmart. But yes, you're quite right, it applies to the government only.
Could be, but if so this has happened in the last year or so, since I let my subscription lapse.
Mm... I've seen Imax films that did similar things. Notably Everest. I agree with your points about the games, though.
It's NOT in the Constitution. It has been interpreted by the courts to be implied by certain provisions, notably the Fourth Amendment.
Ah, unfortunate the the sense that they aren't doing this in response to consumer concerns.
I don't know about that. I think they just sell the patent to a corporation, rather than trying to produce it themselves. Judging by the number of ads for legal services targetted at inventors I used to see in Popular Science, they're still out there.
It's not clear how this works, but yes. I suppose that there's some sort of climatological thing going on that's either not astronomical in nature, or is much less regular that typical orbits.
Umm... Even the Lannisters often have a strong loyalty to family (Tyrion, Tywin, even Jaime...) The Targaryens, when they're not crazy, seem to be okay. Unfortunately a lot of them are crazy. The Baratheons are good people, it seems, though they have flaws as well.
On the other hand... I was a kid not so very long ago. And it wasn't much of an issue with video games, but with movies... It saved a lot of arguments, I think. What exactly is the line between Crazy Taxi and Vice City? Okay, now tell your kid. And bear in mind that they really want to play VC. Now, would you rather hanve that discussion, or just tell them, 'Well, it's rated M. Let me take a look at it, but I don't think so?' You can always make an exception, my mom let me see a lot of R rated movies, but I always knew she was making an exception for me.
Well, there's that... but have you ever spilled toner on your skin? Stuff's hell to wash out, even with no fixer.
Or better yet, find a way to gt it to dispense toner and use it to give yourself temporary tattoos...
Yeah, there's a different World's Smallest Printer, but we sent it to Mars, so it's not in the world anymore, and we forgot how to make it. That's why there's this big push to go to Mars, it's to get our printer back.
My Duron 1.1ghz/256RAM never, never, never skips. Hell, half the time Winamp keeps on playing after the damn thing locks up completely. I've played while defragging, while doing various kinds of encoding, all sorts of things. I don't know that I've ever created a situation with 100% CPU load and saturated IDE channels at the same time, but I don't know that I ever would, so it doesn't matter. Neither of those separately seems to cause a problem...
There certainly are benefits... However, none of the drawbacks you name are essential to the functioning of an RFID tag... They most certainly don't need to be writable, and while there are some benefits to unique IDs, in my opinion they are not so great as to outweight the risks to privacy. Why not simply port the UPC system from bar codes to radio?
Right... You realize that Microsoft saying something is a) Not a law, and b) much easier for Microsoft to break than the laws and Constitution of the United States, don't you?
You see, they can't buy the license. The patent expires. Unlike copyrights, patent terms are very limited and nonrenewable.
Not really. No one demanded that the flat earth be impervious to meteors, only that it not collapse under its own weight. Scrith is plenty strong enough for that...
Because parachuting takes a lot of training. Whereas these cushions and water-exit procedures have saved a lot of lives during botched takeoffs and landings at airports where the runway leads offshore, such as LaGuardia.
Scrith.