I'm sure investment funds got a bargain: "Ooh! Ooh! Tech is on the way up, and there's a lot of these really hot American tech stocks selling. We have got to get those." Just as Microsoft was held by investment funds during the anti-trust case, and even featured on lists of "ethically good companies". Bah. Humbug.
this is a "feature" that benefits the guy trying to stop the camera user, not the guy buying and paying for the phone. I'd especially think that industrial spies would be smart enough to get a phone that didn't support this.
But what if the guy who buys the phone is the guy who is trying to stop the camera user? Employers could buy the phones for their employees and ban bringing any other phone to work (think metal detectors at the gates kind of operation). Then the employees could use these phones, even the cameras, at work and at home, almost whenever they want. The camera would only be switched off while passing security (security by obscurity) and in the design department and the production line (to keep the trade secrets). If they want to take pictures anywhere else at work, they could be allowed to.
Playing spam from both sides might be likened to a pharmaceutical company enabling the spread of a disease in order to sell the cure
This reminds me of an oldish but interesting discussion I had about lawyers and representing yourself in court (pro se). If some guy uses a lawyer on you, you may also need a lawyer, in a way having a lawyer take care of the problems another lawyer made. (Members of one "guild" making work for each other.) This only applies to borderline barratry and frivoulous suits against the financially less endowed. I guess most lawyers deal with real cases, where the cases make more sense than making the other party bo broke over legal fees.
The (sad?) fact is that software development is almost always more constrained by deadlines (time-to-market) and resources (work-hours) than anything else.
Great..a slashdot style limit on time between posts. Now Telstra's customers are just missing the lameness filter and the moderation. The occasional dupe happens in email allready. Hm. There's a chance a lot of my work on Healthcare Informatics would be modded -1 Redundant and never reach my professor.
You remember when SCO first made these claims, and you had a bunch of people [...] defending SCO?
Where are they now?
Looking for weapons of mass destruction?
Looking for them in order to use them. Because they can't win without them. Just like al'Qaida. SCO really needs to find a Hydrogen Boise, Chemical Cochran or Contagious Bribes to win this case.
release of three 'cyber dissidents' just one week before a trip by visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to the United States
It's the kind of state visit that takes place when the populations are crancky, but the leaders want to bring their countries closer together. Chinese premier: "Oops, I tripped. Hello, Imperialist fools!" U. S. President: "Well, since you fell into the United States we should take the opportunity to talk a bit. Commie bastard!" -all the while doing wink, wink, nudge, nudge, fingers crossed, "say no more". Then they can talk about making the world better for us while the bigots on both sides are kept appeased. I'm deeply moved. Frankly, I think Reuters should have kept the nature of the visit a secret, in the interest of World Peace.
War is putting a lot of soldiers on the ground with guns and getting them to kill more of the enemy then the enemy kills of you. The U.S. and its allies in Vietnam managed to kill more of the enemy, but the U.S. still gave up.
Only when you totally slaughter the enemy will you convince the enemy to stop fighting. Maybe so, within limits. If you show that you will even kill those that surrender, the enemy has all the more reason for fighting.
Beaver hit bus with tree There is a disproportionately high number of kernel hackers in Scandinavia. This is what happens to our environment when open source is released into it. I'm contacting the Norwegian Green Party about having Linux banned, immidiately.
It's a vicious cycle: No date, stay home and eat pizza and fiddle with VIC-20. [...] fewer dates, more pizza, more Amigas, and so on. [...] a PPC Amiga 4000! That doesn't sound like a vicious cycle to me; that sounds like a really nice upgrade cycle.
LA Shire might not sound as good as LA County, but we're trying to be policially correct here. But wouldn't that lead to the vertically challenged being called "Hobbits" by the cildren?
I want glow-in-the-dark anchovies so I can watch LOTR in the dark and still eat pizza! But wouldn't you need one ring on the pizza pan to keep the pizza from falling apart? You know, to bring the ingredients together and in the darkness bind them? (Or was that olive oil?)
if, for example, you write "This guy sucks" over his name) your vote is to that guy LMAO. People marking with "X" could do this too: Socialists could draw little pentagrams or swastikas next to Bush, and they have voted for him. Heh, heh. Then they could go to the courts claiming their vote should be counted as a "anybody-but-him vote".
Because somebody is bound to make that "X" accross several boxes. And then we'll have discussions about who they tried to vote for. No. Let's have machines with names and pictures of the candidates. And if the voter tries to vote in an invalid way, give them a little electric shock (like you get from sheep fences) untill they make a valid choice. Let me see you do THAT with a paper ballot. Of course, i totally agree with you. They could have ballots with names and pictures, black out a box, and then run them through fast scanners. If the scanner can't understand the ballot, an election official has to interpret it. This is a lot like the old chad system, only using a pen/marker to vote. Cheaper than machines, no chads falling off, and almost as fast results as voting machines. I've done mulitple choice tests and applied for student loans in this way. No problems. Also (a pete peeve of mine), all states should distribute their Electoral College members in proportion to the votes in the state. The Democrats should make it an issue. Ow, that's right: They don't want to change it, only complain about it after the fact. (And I guess some Democrats and Republicans want change, but they are minorities within their parties.)
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I'm sure investment funds got a bargain:
"Ooh! Ooh! Tech is on the way up, and there's a lot of these really hot American tech stocks selling. We have got to get those."
Just as Microsoft was held by investment funds during the anti-trust case, and even featured on lists of "ethically good companies". Bah. Humbug.
this is a "feature" that benefits the guy trying to stop the camera user, not the guy buying and paying for the phone. I'd especially think that industrial spies would be smart enough to get a phone that didn't support this.
But what if the guy who buys the phone is the guy who is trying to stop the camera user?
Employers could buy the phones for their employees and ban bringing any other phone to work (think metal detectors at the gates kind of operation).
Then the employees could use these phones, even the cameras, at work and at home, almost whenever they want. The camera would only be switched off while passing security (security by obscurity) and in the design department and the production line (to keep the trade secrets). If they want to take pictures anywhere else at work, they could be allowed to.
it was all without merit and would never stand in court. A dismissal would prove that
Let's make that a dismissal with prejudice. IANAL, but I think that would be better for IBM.
Then there's the counter-suit from IBM to consider.
Direct link: Silophone.net
Well, that may be real organ music. But for a HUGE fake "organ" (you know, since the article is about a fake organ), look here.
Playing spam from both sides might be likened to a pharmaceutical company enabling the spread of a disease in order to sell the cure
This reminds me of an oldish but interesting discussion I had about lawyers and representing yourself in court (pro se).
If some guy uses a lawyer on you, you may also need a lawyer, in a way having a lawyer take care of the problems another lawyer made. (Members of one "guild" making work for each other.) This only applies to borderline barratry and frivoulous suits against the financially less endowed. I guess most lawyers deal with real cases, where the cases make more sense than making the other party bo broke over legal fees.
The (sad?) fact is that software development is almost always more constrained by deadlines (time-to-market) and resources (work-hours) than anything else.
Great..a slashdot style limit on time between posts.
Now Telstra's customers are just missing the lameness filter and the moderation. The occasional dupe happens in email allready.
Hm. There's a chance a lot of my work on Healthcare Informatics would be modded -1 Redundant and never reach my professor.
You remember when SCO first made these claims, and you had a bunch of people [...] defending SCO?
Where are they now?
Looking for weapons of mass destruction?
Looking for them in order to use them. Because they can't win without them. Just like al'Qaida.
SCO really needs to find a Hydrogen Boise, Chemical Cochran or Contagious Bribes to win this case.
release of three 'cyber dissidents' just one week before a trip by visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to the United States
It's the kind of state visit that takes place when the populations are crancky, but the leaders want to bring their countries closer together.
Chinese premier: "Oops, I tripped. Hello, Imperialist fools!"
U. S. President: "Well, since you fell into the United States we should take the opportunity to talk a bit. Commie bastard!"
-all the while doing wink, wink, nudge, nudge, fingers crossed, "say no more". Then they can talk about making the world better for us while the bigots on both sides are kept appeased. I'm deeply moved.
Frankly, I think Reuters should have kept the nature of the visit a secret, in the interest of World Peace.
I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which is which. The two sides bear no resemblance in this respect that I can see.
I don't know. Pundits on both sides use science/statistics, then the other side tries to refute it. Sometimes the refutation goes too far as well.
War is putting a lot of soldiers on the ground with guns and getting them to kill more of the enemy then the enemy kills of you.
The U.S. and its allies in Vietnam managed to kill more of the enemy, but the U.S. still gave up.
Only when you totally slaughter the enemy will you convince the enemy to stop fighting.
Maybe so, within limits. If you show that you will even kill those that surrender, the enemy has all the more reason for fighting.
Beaver hit bus with tree
There is a disproportionately high number of kernel hackers in Scandinavia. This is what happens to our environment when open source is released into it. I'm contacting the Norwegian Green Party about having Linux banned, immidiately.
It's a vicious cycle: No date, stay home and eat pizza and fiddle with VIC-20. [...] fewer dates, more pizza, more Amigas, and so on.
[...] a PPC Amiga 4000!
That doesn't sound like a vicious cycle to me; that sounds like a really nice upgrade cycle.
"LA" is a FEMALE pronoun. Ban it too, it's sexist.
LA Shire might not sound as good as LA County, but we're trying to be policially correct here.
But wouldn't that lead to the vertically challenged being called "Hobbits" by the cildren?
niggardly: petty, cheap, etc.
It's a word from the 14th century, but it sounds a little like "nigger", which is a word used to insult african looking people.
a guy in a wheelchair who was sure I was making fun of him
Then he should really not be tought image processing on *nix.
Well, OK then.
Certainly the Amiga and the Atari ST. First 32-bit computers generally available to the masses.
Uhm. The Amiga A1200, A4000, A4000T and CD32 were 32 bit. The other Amigas and the Atari ST were 16 bit computers. Right?
Disclaimer: Some of the "box" Amigas (2000, 2500, 3000) could take 24 bit graphics cards, but they were still 16 bit internally
I want glow-in-the-dark anchovies so I can watch LOTR in the dark and still eat pizza!
But wouldn't you need one ring on the pizza pan to keep the pizza from falling apart? You know, to bring the ingredients together and in the darkness bind them? (Or was that olive oil?)
Note to Moderators: I was answering an Anonymous Coward.
I wasn't slagging Chile.
if, for example, you write "This guy sucks" over his name) your vote is to that guy
LMAO. People marking with "X" could do this too: Socialists could draw little pentagrams or swastikas next to Bush, and they have voted for him. Heh, heh. Then they could go to the courts claiming their vote should be counted as a "anybody-but-him vote".
Pinochet isn't running the place anymore, is he? At least they don't have pregnant chads down there.
Because somebody is bound to make that "X" accross several boxes. And then we'll have discussions about who they tried to vote for.
No. Let's have machines with names and pictures of the candidates. And if the voter tries to vote in an invalid way, give them a little electric shock (like you get from sheep fences) untill they make a valid choice. Let me see you do THAT with a paper ballot.
Of course, i totally agree with you. They could have ballots with names and pictures, black out a box, and then run them through fast scanners. If the scanner can't understand the ballot, an election official has to interpret it. This is a lot like the old chad system, only using a pen/marker to vote. Cheaper than machines, no chads falling off, and almost as fast results as voting machines.
I've done mulitple choice tests and applied for student loans in this way. No problems.
Also (a pete peeve of mine), all states should distribute their Electoral College members in proportion to the votes in the state. The Democrats should make it an issue. Ow, that's right: They don't want to change it, only complain about it after the fact. (And I guess some Democrats and Republicans want change, but they are minorities within their parties.)