Irrelevant. State & Federal law override the municipal law. But that has never stopped the People's Republic of Berkeley from making a statement.
This isn't just about Berkeley making a statement. There are dozens of Cities in California who have voted on similar regulations. Federal law might override municipal law, but the Feds have not closed down all of the Marijuana clubs in California.
Proposition 215, which allows some Medical Use of Marijuana, passed back in 1996. However, the measure left alot of ambiguity, and the State government has never stepped up to clarify some issues.
Local governments have taken it upon themselves to clarify some of the vague portions. For example, should Marijuana Clubs be allowed only after a public hearing or not? Berkeley's Measure R states that public hearings should not be required. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed a law requiring Marijuana Clubs be subject to the same health code as many other businesses, in an attempt to remove some of the scam operations.
Yep and Boost mobile phones which are also feature-poor and cheap.
A friend of mine has Boost. Every time I call her, I get a message like the following, instead of a nice simple ring:
"Please listen to this song while waiting for your party to answer the phone:
SCRATCH STATIC STATIC TOP-40 MTV SONG STATIC MUFFLE MUFFLE STATIC STATIC TOP-40 MTV SONG STATIC MUFFLE MUFFLE SCRATCH SCRATCH STATIC STATIC TOP-40 MTV SONG STATIC MUFFLE MUFFLE SCRATCH"... and then I run away screaming. The audio quality is horrible, loud and reminds me of a shopping mall. Not that I'm old or anything.
Version 9.0.45 (which was released in April 2007?) is still subject to buffer overflows. However, it's not vulnerable to the keystroke logging problem.
I don't see why this shouldn't happen to internet radio.
Most of these internet radio sites are low-budget, small time operations, staffed by a handful of people who have day jobs, families, social lives in the area. The stations are a labor of love, and don't make a profit. Somafm.com runs out of Rusty's basement.
I wouldn't expect any of these DJs to give up their day job, social life, etc. and leave for Europe or Mexico.
You can try to remove the 'slownewsday' tag with '!slownewsday' (With a ! at the beginning). If enough people tag as '!slownewsday'; I believe that the 'slownewsday' tag will be removed.
América Móvil appears to be a publicly-traded Brazillian company. It's a different company (Although AT&T might own stock-- I didn't check). And a number of independent cell phone companies resell service from AT&T, Sprint, etc.
My friends who use Tracfone have never been required to give out their SSN.
Not entirely true. This *is* the story of an impoverished school district begging for debt relief from a corporation. (I won't comment if their request is justified or not).
Contra Costa County is broken up into Multiple School Districts. This story is about the West Contra Costa School District, which serves communities such as Richmond & San Pablo. I don't know specifics off the top of my head, but it is one of the poorest school districts in California.
Contra Costa County is a tale of two counties. Eastern Contra Costa County is as you described, with many wealthy suburbs, wealthy inhabitants and well-funded schools. This is the image that Contra Costa County would like to promote on it's website.
Western Contra Costa County is much poorer, with poorly funded schools & high crime rates. Richmond has a disturbing level of corruption in the government. Compare these two cities:
* RichmondWalnut CreekAbout 1.7% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line
I travel in both areas of Contra Costa Country regularly, and I'm always amazed at the difference. Walnut Creek has beautiful, clean schools located close to grass-covered golden hills. Many Richmond schools have a ton of graffiti, broken windows, boarded-up buildings, etc. Several times a year, schools in the parts of the Western Contra Costa County School district go into 'lockdown' mode due to leaks at the nearby chemical plants or oil refineries. Drive by shootings happen near the schools. In Richmond, you can hear gunshots just about every night.
I was a little surprised to find that Dell's Inspiron line doesn't currently offer processing power equaling that of the MacBook Pro. To get a 2.33-GHz Core 2 Duo processor (a 2.4-GHz version isn't available yet), you have to move up to Dell's more expensive XPS M1710 with Vista Home Premium
Once I did that, though, and tricked out the M1710 with only those extras it had to have to compete with the MacBook Pro, I was surprised to see the Dell come in at a whopping $3,459, some $650 more than the Apple product..
If I simply remove that requirement and get an Inspiron E1705 with an "Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo T7400 (2.16GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)", Dell provides a system with comparable features for about $1800. Anyone else get the different results?
Personally, I would opt for an even cheaper system. I can save even more by going with the cheaper components (The ATI chipset is $140 cheaper then the Nvidia chipset). 17" is almost too big for a portable computer, so I opted for a 15" screen instead.
If I had $2,799.00 to blow on a notebook then maybe the MacBook Pro 17" would provide a good value. However I need to spend my money on other things, and my cheaper $1000 Dell E1505 works good enough for me.
$699 is the price including a Special Offer. Will the Linux machines be subject to the same Special Offers?
According to the Dell E1505 page, the Inspiron starts at $948 ($699 After $249 Off Instantly!). Am I looking in the wrong place?
In the past, there Dell offered so many special offers that it was difficult to do price comparisons. One model may be '$699 After $249 Off Instantly!', but an Internet search would turn up a different e-value code, where the same model (same specs) was $649. Sometimes you could find another coupon for '$400 off instantly', but that special offer required a 3-year support contract (at $200 extra)-- so the actual price was $800, and you couldn't upgrade the CPU.
I've read that Dell is backing away from their confusing myriad of deals, so hopefully this is less of a problem then in the past.
In many cases it would be *just* as fast and more importantly *cheaper* to create a new internal division or ramp up their own IT staff to complete these projects.
I seem to remember that Kaiser had an internal division which was working on a electronic-medical records project back in 2000/2002. They shut down the project, laid off a bunch of staff, and started over with a whole new system.
I know that not everyone has had a good experience. I have used Kaiser in the past, and it was horrible. For us, this new Kaiser system has been like a breath of fresh air.
My family has only had 1-2 scheduling problems with Kaiser since we joined a year ago. It's been very easy to make appointments in person, via the web, etc. I've never had a very long wait, and the medical staff are always able to get our medical records. We can send messages to our doctors via kp.org, and the doctors usually within the same business day.
Before Kaiser we went with a well known PPO-- the experience was horrendous, the costs were ridiculous and I spent too much time on the phone dealing with their disorganization.
My taxes were done, returned and spent in February.
I would have done my taxes in January if possible. However, we were still waiting for some required tax paperwork in mid-March, and the paperwork was incomplete. Is there a deadline for when employers, investment firms, banks, etc. mail the required tax documents to individuals?
We still managed to file on time, but it's still stressful waiting for someone else.
In the US, a person often cannot be convicted for trespassing unless the land has been marked as private property, such as with a fence, wall, locked door, a "No trespassing" sign, obvious markers, etc. I am not very familiar with UK laws, but I read that the law is similar in the UK.
If I am hiking on public land for example, and I'm next to some private land, the private land should be marked as private. Otherwise, how will can I tell where the border is?
The owner of a wireless access point can easily setup a barrier with a wireless encryption key or other security methods. Otherwise, there is no way to distinguish private APs from legitimate public APs. With these new UK laws, I suppose there is no such thing has an non-invitation public AP.
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Irrelevant. State & Federal law override the municipal law. But that has never stopped the People's Republic of Berkeley from making a statement.
This isn't just about Berkeley making a statement. There are dozens of Cities in California who have voted on similar regulations. Federal law might override municipal law, but the Feds have not closed down all of the Marijuana clubs in California.
Proposition 215, which allows some Medical Use of Marijuana, passed back in 1996. However, the measure left alot of ambiguity, and the State government has never stepped up to clarify some issues.
Local governments have taken it upon themselves to clarify some of the vague portions. For example, should Marijuana Clubs be allowed only after a public hearing or not? Berkeley's Measure R states that public hearings should not be required. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed a law requiring Marijuana Clubs be subject to the same health code as many other businesses, in an attempt to remove some of the scam operations.
Yep and Boost mobile phones which are also feature-poor and cheap.
... and then I run away screaming. The audio quality is horrible, loud and reminds me of a shopping mall. Not that I'm old or anything.
A friend of mine has Boost. Every time I call her, I get a message like the following, instead of a nice simple ring:
"Please listen to this song while waiting for your party to answer the phone:
SCRATCH STATIC STATIC TOP-40 MTV SONG STATIC MUFFLE MUFFLE STATIC STATIC TOP-40 MTV SONG STATIC MUFFLE MUFFLE SCRATCH SCRATCH STATIC STATIC TOP-40 MTV SONG STATIC MUFFLE MUFFLE SCRATCH"
This ain't your father's Aphex Twin.
This isn't a bug in the latest flash plugin... only older ones.
There are two exploits.
Version 9.0.45 (which was released in April 2007?) is still subject to buffer overflows. However, it's not vulnerable to the keystroke logging problem.
I don't see why this shouldn't happen to internet radio.
Most of these internet radio sites are low-budget, small time operations, staffed by a handful of people who have day jobs, families, social lives in the area. The stations are a labor of love, and don't make a profit. Somafm.com runs out of Rusty's basement.
I wouldn't expect any of these DJs to give up their day job, social life, etc. and leave for Europe or Mexico.
Ok . . my head just exploded.
That's odd. My rights just exploded. Were you affected?
I wonder how fast the comments in this article *will* degenerate, though.
Wait, do you mean Michael Moore?
Michael Moore has two laws:
Michael Moore's Law #1: As an real-world situation grows longer, the probability of a Michael Moore complaining about the problem approaches one.
Michael Moore's Law #2: The rate at which a discussion degenerates will double every 24 months.
You can try to remove the 'slownewsday' tag with '!slownewsday' (With a ! at the beginning). If enough people tag as '!slownewsday'; I believe that the 'slownewsday' tag will be removed.
Slashdot democracy at it's finest!
At the bottom of http://www.tracfone.com/, I see this:
© 2007 TRACFONE® is a registered trademark of TracFone Wireless, Inc., a subsidiary of América Móvil.
América Móvil appears to be a publicly-traded Brazillian company. It's a different company (Although AT&T might own stock-- I didn't check). And a number of independent cell phone companies resell service from AT&T, Sprint, etc.
My friends who use Tracfone have never been required to give out their SSN.
All of the major cell phone companies require a SSN to do the credit checks...
Once more, if you loose your password to the AT&T or Verizon websites, I have seen both sites require a SSN for password recovery.
Tracfone and some other pay-as-you-go plans don't require any such sillyness.
Fiber optic wires are often made of plastic, like these toys. I remember playing with similar fiber optic lights back in 1980.
Fiber-optics for communication & data are made of glass, because glass provides better transmission.
Not entirely true. This *is* the story of an impoverished school district begging for debt relief from a corporation. (I won't comment if their request is justified or not).
Contra Costa County is broken up into Multiple School Districts. This story is about the West Contra Costa School District, which serves communities such as Richmond & San Pablo. I don't know specifics off the top of my head, but it is one of the poorest school districts in California.
Contra Costa County is a tale of two counties. Eastern Contra Costa County is as you described, with many wealthy suburbs, wealthy inhabitants and well-funded schools. This is the image that Contra Costa County would like to promote on it's website.
Western Contra Costa County is much poorer, with poorly funded schools & high crime rates. Richmond has a disturbing level of corruption in the government. Compare these two cities:
* RichmondWalnut CreekAbout 1.7% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line
I travel in both areas of Contra Costa Country regularly, and I'm always amazed at the difference. Walnut Creek has beautiful, clean schools located close to grass-covered golden hills. Many Richmond schools have a ton of graffiti, broken windows, boarded-up buildings, etc. Several times a year, schools in the parts of the Western Contra Costa County School district go into 'lockdown' mode due to leaks at the nearby chemical plants or oil refineries. Drive by shootings happen near the schools. In Richmond, you can hear gunshots just about every night.
Last week I washed my cupholder to get rid of the coffee stains. It's been air drying for the last week, and I can't wait to use it again!
I thought Pluto got Erised from history.
I was a little surprised to find that Dell's Inspiron line doesn't currently offer processing power equaling that of the MacBook Pro. To get a 2.33-GHz Core 2 Duo processor (a 2.4-GHz version isn't available yet), you have to move up to Dell's more expensive XPS M1710 with Vista Home Premium
Once I did that, though, and tricked out the M1710 with only those extras it had to have to compete with the MacBook Pro, I was surprised to see the Dell come in at a whopping $3,459, some $650 more than the Apple product..
If I simply remove that requirement and get an Inspiron E1705 with an "Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo T7400 (2.16GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)", Dell provides a system with comparable features for about $1800. Anyone else get the different results?
Personally, I would opt for an even cheaper system. I can save even more by going with the cheaper components (The ATI chipset is $140 cheaper then the Nvidia chipset). 17" is almost too big for a portable computer, so I opted for a 15" screen instead.
If I had $2,799.00 to blow on a notebook then maybe the MacBook Pro 17" would provide a good value. However I need to spend my money on other things, and my cheaper $1000 Dell E1505 works good enough for me.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Blog Comments.
$699 is the price including a Special Offer. Will the Linux machines be subject to the same Special Offers?
According to the Dell E1505 page, the Inspiron starts at $948 ($699 After $249 Off Instantly!). Am I looking in the wrong place?
In the past, there Dell offered so many special offers that it was difficult to do price comparisons. One model may be '$699 After $249 Off Instantly!', but an Internet search would turn up a different e-value code, where the same model (same specs) was $649. Sometimes you could find another coupon for '$400 off instantly', but that special offer required a 3-year support contract (at $200 extra)-- so the actual price was $800, and you couldn't upgrade the CPU.
I've read that Dell is backing away from their confusing myriad of deals, so hopefully this is less of a problem then in the past.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
Several people were speaking up for you, but you failed to read the message due to an IRC netsplit.
And you can always seek refuge on a Mac.
You work with a guy who starts fires?
That would either make him an arsonist, Guy Montag or a software developer...
In many cases it would be *just* as fast and more importantly *cheaper* to create a new internal division or ramp up their own IT staff to complete these projects.
I seem to remember that Kaiser had an internal division which was working on a electronic-medical records project back in 2000/2002. They shut down the project, laid off a bunch of staff, and started over with a whole new system.
I know that not everyone has had a good experience. I have used Kaiser in the past, and it was horrible. For us, this new Kaiser system has been like a breath of fresh air.
My family has only had 1-2 scheduling problems with Kaiser since we joined a year ago. It's been very easy to make appointments in person, via the web, etc. I've never had a very long wait, and the medical staff are always able to get our medical records. We can send messages to our doctors via kp.org, and the doctors usually within the same business day.
Before Kaiser we went with a well known PPO-- the experience was horrendous, the costs were ridiculous and I spent too much time on the phone dealing with their disorganization.
Arg. I didn't include the hyperlink, and ruined the Cheney-Scalia hunting trip reference. Let me try again:
"Several Supreme Court Justices, who will ultimately oversee the Cheney Impeachment process, were invited on a hunting trip..."
Arg. Never post to Slashdot while eating breakfast with your 3-year old child.
"Several Supreme Court Justices, who will ultimately oversee the Cheney Impeachment process, were invited on a hunting trip..."
"DoubleClick confirms it! Google is dying!!!!"
My taxes were done, returned and spent in February.
I would have done my taxes in January if possible. However, we were still waiting for some required tax paperwork in mid-March, and the paperwork was incomplete. Is there a deadline for when employers, investment firms, banks, etc. mail the required tax documents to individuals?
We still managed to file on time, but it's still stressful waiting for someone else.
In the US, a person often cannot be convicted for trespassing unless the land has been marked as private property, such as with a fence, wall, locked door, a "No trespassing" sign, obvious markers, etc. I am not very familiar with UK laws, but I read that the law is similar in the UK.
If I am hiking on public land for example, and I'm next to some private land, the private land should be marked as private. Otherwise, how will can I tell where the border is?
The owner of a wireless access point can easily setup a barrier with a wireless encryption key or other security methods. Otherwise, there is no way to distinguish private APs from legitimate public APs. With these new UK laws, I suppose there is no such thing has an non-invitation public AP.
The difference is in the severity of the crime.
Breaking and entering is often considered burglary, which is a felony in most US jurisdictions, and possibly in UK jurisdictions.
Trespassing is a misdemeanor, and is a far less serious crime.