The Mainichi Shimbun daily has said some 200 categories of confidential information, such as internal army documents and wages for postal workers, have been circulated among Winny file sharers.
I suspect that the police are not all that worried about music and video files. The circulation of military and government info would get him in trouble almost anywhere.
This is not the first time proponents of RFID technologies have come out against Albrecht -- in January this year, the Grocery Manufacturers' Association of America, whose members include RFID-active companies such as Gillette and Procter & Gamble -- was forced to apologise to the activist after inadvertently sending her an email indicating the organisation was looking to run a personal campaign against her.
This is the same tatic used by General Motors agains Ralph Nadar after he published Unsafe at Any Speed.
I still remember seeing the president of General Motors sitting before a Senate Committee and appologizing to Ralph. The ensuing lawsuit got Nadar a large stack of money.
The publicity that went with the hearings and the subsequent trial lauached Nader into his career of self appointed sainthood.
Re:Practical or somebody's thesis?
on
Robocones
·
· Score: 1
The hauler weighs about 80,000 lbs GVW. Thats a 3 or 4 axle dump truck. The large yellow machines are much more massive. The counterweight alone on a CAT 325 track excavator weighs about the same as the loaded dump truck. When an automobile runs into a large machine, you can scrape the car off with a stick. A can of yellow spray paint will fix the CAT.
Re:What about the physical characteristic changes?
on
Robocones
·
· Score: 1
The water filled ones are for attenuating the speed and impact of a moving vehicle in a short distance. They are normally placed in front of an immovable object. i.e. A bridge pier.
The regular orange barrel used for lane control is completely empty. It is against all Highway Dept. regs. to place anything heavy such as rocks in them. Doing so will result in a heavy fine for the contracting firm responsible for it.
I have seen both barrels and cones knocked hundreds of feet through the air. The absence of weight also helps anyone unfortunate enough to be hit by one that has been sent flying.
Re:Practical or somebody's thesis?
on
Robocones
·
· Score: 5, Funny
There is no exageration about the deadliness of hightway work site accidents. Open and closing lanes is very dangerous - there is a small number of motorists who think that flaggers are there just to annoy them.
Some observations from a former flagger.
Every female with a drooling brat in school believes that nothing should stop her from picking up little Damien and taking him home to torture the new cat.
A coworker pointed out that our signs have words on them. This confuses motorists.
Most localities seem to have a tax on turn signal usage. Therefore, most motorists never use them. If they do use them, they are going straight anyway.
Elderly people have tunnel vision. They will never see the flagger at the side of the road.
From personal observation: An 80,000 lb haulers rig will stop a motorist who runs past a flagger station. So will any large yellow machine with CAT printed on its side.
It has been a long time since I have seen a school kiddie strolling anywhere in affluent Henrico county. The longest walk is from moma's SUV to the front door of the school.
The problems have been the kiddies doing unpleasant things with the notebooks. In the first year, they learned to defeat the filters and acquire porn collections, broke into the school computer system and improved grades, and other unplesant little tricks.
In my experiences with backcountry search and rescue, the major cause of disaster is delilberate, repeated, acts of stupidity. It is almost never just one thing that leads to grief. Reliance on a battery opperated electronic gadget just adds one more thing to a long list.
We attribute social characteristics and treat them as autonomous
This is nothing new.
It is in the nature of humans to anthropomorphize unpredictable objects. Men have done this with ships for millenia. And cars, and etc.
My server cackles and sneers when I try to run a newly written script. As does my wife. Only the cat shows any sympathy.
The primary use of water in the U.S. is irrigation, not human consumption. Everything from lawns, golf courses to the vast farmlands of California use immense quantities of water. The Colorado, Rio Grande, The Salt, and other rivers of the West are not pumped dry to supply drinking fountains.
The issues raised by this have filled many books and fueled everything from local animus to international disagreement.
Usage of the Colorado River alone has fomented court squables between competing states and international disputes with Mexico.
Adhesisve backed wood veneers have been around for decades. Normally, they are used by people with few woodworking skills. Anyone with a just a few bucks and a small amount of skill can use it on anything. Puting it on empty cans is a good way to get the feel for using it.
I had my own fruniture shop for a dozen years, specializing in computer desks and related furniture. This was before you could buy them in Wal-Mart, etc.
I never used adhesive backed veneers. They are very thin, about 1/32 of an inch, or less, and are easily damaged in everyday use.
This scenario is the result of overspecialized work for a large corperation. If you do one thing only for your employer, you will always be subject to replacement. Whether by a foreign worker or a machine is the only question. A cog is easily replaced.
The opposite is true when you work for a small business. You will know more about the business, its customers, and product development. If you have the ability, you have a wide variety of tasks to perform, increasing your value to your employer.
The only guaranteed employment is self-employment.
In my own experience the Commonwealth of Virginia deals swiftly with wage violations. This has nothing to do with helping a defrauded employee, but with collecting the income taxes due on the unpaid wages.
In the 80's, I thruhiked the Appalachian Trail. I so enjoyed the experience, that for the next dozen years, I spent 8 or 9 months a year hiking, and made furniture over the winter to finance things.
One Day, someone said, "Why don't you get a computer?"
I have often wondered if the acceptable convergence device will be a tv/pc/pvr/et.al in one huge box ala the old TV consoles.
The female acceptance factor will more easily be appeased with such a set up. Cables and wiring would be out of sight, and a piece of well finished wood looks nice in most homes.
Slashdot Mirror
But you can read their posts.
This is the same tatic used by General Motors agains Ralph Nadar after he published Unsafe at Any Speed.
I still remember seeing the president of General Motors sitting before a Senate Committee and appologizing to Ralph. The ensuing lawsuit got Nadar a large stack of money.
The publicity that went with the hearings and the subsequent trial lauached Nader into his career of self appointed sainthood.
The hauler weighs about 80,000 lbs GVW. Thats a 3 or 4 axle dump truck. The large yellow machines are much more massive. The counterweight alone on a CAT 325 track excavator weighs about the same as the loaded dump truck. When an automobile runs into a large machine, you can scrape the car off with a stick. A can of yellow spray paint will fix the CAT.
The water filled ones are for attenuating the speed and impact of a moving vehicle in a short distance. They are normally placed in front of an immovable object. i.e. A bridge pier.
The regular orange barrel used for lane control is completely empty. It is against all Highway Dept. regs. to place anything heavy such as rocks in them. Doing so will result in a heavy fine for the contracting firm responsible for it.
I have seen both barrels and cones knocked hundreds of feet through the air. The absence of weight also helps anyone unfortunate enough to be hit by one that has been sent flying.
There is no exageration about the deadliness of hightway work site accidents. Open and closing lanes is very dangerous - there is a small number of motorists who think that flaggers are there just to annoy them.
Some observations from a former flagger.
Every female with a drooling brat in school believes that nothing should stop her from picking up little Damien and taking him home to torture the new cat.
A coworker pointed out that our signs have words on them. This confuses motorists.
Most localities seem to have a tax on turn signal usage. Therefore, most motorists never use them. If they do use them, they are going straight anyway.
Elderly people have tunnel vision. They will never see the flagger at the side of the road.
From personal observation: An 80,000 lb haulers rig will stop a motorist who runs past a flagger station. So will any large yellow machine with CAT printed on its side.
It has been a long time since I have seen a school kiddie strolling anywhere in affluent Henrico county. The longest walk is from moma's SUV to the front door of the school. The problems have been the kiddies doing unpleasant things with the notebooks. In the first year, they learned to defeat the filters and acquire porn collections, broke into the school computer system and improved grades, and other unplesant little tricks.
In my experiences with backcountry search and rescue, the major cause of disaster is delilberate, repeated, acts of stupidity. It is almost never just one thing that leads to grief. Reliance on a battery opperated electronic gadget just adds one more thing to a long list.
This is nothing new. It is in the nature of humans to anthropomorphize unpredictable objects. Men have done this with ships for millenia. And cars, and etc.
My server cackles and sneers when I try to run a newly written script. As does my wife. Only the cat shows any sympathy.
"I get..., I get..., I get..."
And if the Wehrmacht returns, you get to say "Jawohl"
Apparently, people here are unfamiliar with how lawyers calculate billable hours.
The primary use of water in the U.S. is irrigation, not human consumption. Everything from lawns, golf courses to the vast farmlands of California use immense quantities of water. The Colorado, Rio Grande, The Salt, and other rivers of the West are not pumped dry to supply drinking fountains.
The issues raised by this have filled many books and fueled everything from local animus to international disagreement.
Usage of the Colorado River alone has fomented court squables between competing states and international disputes with Mexico.
Adhesisve backed wood veneers have been around for decades. Normally, they are used by people with few woodworking skills. Anyone with a just a few bucks and a small amount of skill can use it on anything. Puting it on empty cans is a good way to get the feel for using it.
I had my own fruniture shop for a dozen years, specializing in computer desks and related furniture. This was before you could buy them in Wal-Mart, etc.
I never used adhesive backed veneers. They are very thin, about 1/32 of an inch, or less, and are easily damaged in everyday use.
I have to question the accuracy of these numbers. The record industry will selectively supply statistics to support any of their delusions.
If no other point be offered, they haven't incuded the numbers from non member suppliers of music CDs.
I suspect that inde music CD sales have greatly increased.
The real problem is the lack of security awareness by Air Canada.
The imformation could have been obtained by noting the place and departure times of all Air Canada's fleights. The ex-employee just made it easier.
Too, it looks like a sinking ship in search of rats.
This scenario is the result of overspecialized work for a large corperation. If you do one thing only for your employer, you will always be subject to replacement. Whether by a foreign worker or a machine is the only question. A cog is easily replaced.
The opposite is true when you work for a small business. You will know more about the business, its customers, and product development. If you have the ability, you have a wide variety of tasks to perform, increasing your value to your employer.
The only guaranteed employment is self-employment.
In my own experience the Commonwealth of Virginia deals swiftly with wage violations. This has nothing to do with helping a defrauded employee, but with collecting the income taxes due on the unpaid wages.
In the 80's, I thruhiked the Appalachian Trail. I so enjoyed the experience, that for the next dozen years, I spent 8 or 9 months a year hiking, and made furniture over the winter to finance things.
One Day, someone said, "Why don't you get a computer?"
And I said "Why not."
Pigeon #2 had an appointment with his hairdresser:
7 657CluoAx
http://community.webshots.com/photo/54833161/8206
Mental illness in not unknown among the ranks of policemen.
And they seldom seek help.
Don't get too excited by this, we have fifty of them here.
New worlds are not opened and settled by ethicists, moralists, or other contemplative types.
Columbus, Pizzaro, Cortez, and others were interested in wealth, property and prestige.
And they weren't worried about who or what was destroyed while they were acquiring those things.
I have often wondered if the acceptable convergence device will be a tv/pc/pvr/et.al in one huge box ala the old TV consoles. The female acceptance factor will more easily be appeased with such a set up. Cables and wiring would be out of sight, and a piece of well finished wood looks nice in most homes.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=18400894