I always wondered about this. In order to enter without a warrant they'd have to know you have a EULA backed peice of software. But if they haven't already invaded your property how would they know that?
I could see the case where some idiot user actually registered their software, but other than that..?
How about some user actually logged into a MS owned website? Do you think it impossible to get browser and OS information for the visitors of your web site? Your static NAT IP address can easily be traced back to you.
Not to mention if someone actually downloads windows based software from Microsoft or a Microsoft Partner...
Or shock horror.. Someone actually updates their software online directly from Microsoft???
Ohmigawsh! I better pull the ethernet cable out from my box!
The i386 processor has a die size of 82mm2 using a.8u process.
Once they start cranking these babies out at.13u, that die size shrinks to 13.3mm2. (That's 3.7mm per side roughly)
I expect they can yeild ~15,000 functional units per 30cm wafer (about 21,000mm2).
Let's see the obligitory cluster of these!!!
-Joe
*Note to moderators: This entire post is humor.
Re:Don't home school unless you are awake.
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Until the child becomes a member of the majority, the parent is ultimately responsible for the education, care, wellbeing and actions of the child in his/her care.
There are many forces in society that want to break that chain of responsibility. The whole "It takes a village" crap has been taken WAY out of context. (Don't get me started on the whole trying minors as adults in criminal court...)
For the time that I have the responsibility to be a parent to my minor children, I have the right and more importantly the responsibility to be a parent. That includes choosing what, how and by whom my children are taught. If that means inteferring with a poisionous relationship, so be it. Responsibility isn't always happy choices. Surrendering that responsibility of choosing what, how and by whom my children are taught to any 3rd party including the government is a failure of being an effective parent in my opinion.
And that is all it is, an oninion. opinions are like elbows, it seems that everyone has one or two.
-Joe
Don't home school unless you are awake.
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Let's look at this story. Which of the kids would you want your child to learn social skills from? The bullies? The kid that got bullied? The "adult" staff that see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil?
Now, guess which one of these players will most likely be very charismatic, attracting attention of the children, being a role model? If you guess the bully, you can move to the head of the class.
Really, parents should choose who socializes with their children and how it takes place. If you send your child to the educational equivelant of welfare you don't get a choice in the matter.
I applaud the choise of awake (not enlightned) parents that can afford to pull their children from the grips of the school bord, and take charge of their children's education, be that in a private school or homeschooling.
FULL DISCLOSURE: My wife and I homeschool our 3.9 children. (She's due anytime now)
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On the other hand, lcd's tend to be easier damaged by people sticking their fingers all over them and otherwise manhandeling them, as often happen in school enviornments. LCD's have many advantages, but hardened LCD displays of usable size will co$t.
For a lab, wouldn't it be possible to have plexiglas enclosures for the LCD screens made?
I mean, sure, it's an extra $40 per unit, and it isn't completely tamper proof, but it just adds protection for the screen. Something that's anti glare coated would be even better.
In my experience, I've noticed that standard CRT monitors use up a large amount of power. To illustrate this, just put your hand over the CRT that you are using to read this message to feel the heat generated. More heat = more power used. LCD folks, don't bother trying this, you won't feel much heat, I specified CRT, OK?
When I installed my UPS at home, I went from a 25 minute power backup time with the monitir on, to a 42 minute backup time with the monitor off. That tells me that my monitor (17") is almost sucking up as much as my computer. And my computer isn't the most friendly model out there. The processor is old 1st rev PII 300-MHz heater (I think 40 watts), several SCSI drives and SCSI card, TV tuner card, internal DSL modem, ehternet, ATI Graphics card (with heatsink on the card to illustrate how much power it sucks down) CDROM and CDRW (Granted, the power backup numbers were not while copying a CD, but the point is still valid.)
The answer is to use somewhat aggressive settings on the monitor power off settings (don't bother with screensavers) or to switch to LCD displays.
Now, there is a hughe amount of power drain when the monitor turns itself back on after DPMS off, so you will have a net power loss if the monitor is only shut down for a few seconds at a time, so don't get too aggressive with those settings.
Of course, LCD displays are a more expensive up front cost, but the power savings from them are 2 fold: First, the display won't be eating up the power. Second, you won't need to cool the room as much.
Terminal Server is stuck at 256 colors. Useless junkware.
Not entirely true. I'm working on a terminal server with 24 bit color right now... Of course, it's running Citrix On top of NT4 Terminal Server Edition... It works with Win2K too.
But that's OK. No sense in letting a little fact get in the way of bashing my paranoia.
Whoever said taking over the world was going to be cheap?
Step 1 - The XBox. This is a box that will sit in your house, connect up to your internet connection (broadband) and aslo have the side benifit of running games and DVDs. It Will act as the "Computer furnace" for the rest of the devices (coming soon)
Step 2 - The Webpad. You have these screens (Of various sizes and color depth, just watch you'll see all sizes dorn to a cheap 160X160 B/W model) that connect up wirelessly to your information furnace (Step 1) and give you neat-o keen connectivity from anywhere within range.
Step 3 - Terminal Services. As the limitations of the webpad become apparent, Microsoft starts to roll out the ability to use your "Information Furnace" as a Terminal Server. You have all the applications on all your webpads updated at once. No fuss no muss. This is accepted because of:
Step 4 - Application Subscription. The cost for this will be ongoing because the new software will be subscription based. You won't even need to administer your furnace, because the subscription includes monthly maintenance of your furnace. Of course, with persistant internet connectivity, they will always have complete access over all the Microsoft computers on your home network.
This is how Microsoft will get complete control of the home computer arena. They don't tell you to bend all the way over all at once. First, you lean a little, then a little more. Pretty soon you are completely bent over and you don't even know it.
Now the bank has lots of cuctomers using their terminals. Sure, it runs Linux. Sure, it can access the web. Sure, you can install your applications on it. but will you?
The next logical step is for the bank to open a server farm to allow it's customers to access all types of applications with X Window servers localy.
"But it's not MS Word, I need MS Word!" OK, for a slightly(?) higher fee, you can have access to out Citrix Server farm, and have access to a full suite of Microsoft applications.
Selling points for this could include the fact that your data is "In a secure enviorment that gets backed up daily" and "You will always have the latest version of the application" and all the other reasons that thin clients are deployed.
Once they have you "locked" into their hardware, and software, they can offer you all sorts of "services" that just might look pretty attractive to some folks out there. Thse folks are the same folks that would not mind AOL as an internet service provider.
Heck, maybe the Bank isn't going to provide the server farm, maybe it'll be AOL/TW...
I'm not saying that this is really a bad thing. It's just a thing.
In Michigan I have the "right" to refuse to take a breathalyzer test, but if I refuse any cop can and will suspend my drivers license immediately, sans due process.
Can you show me where you have a *right* to drive a vehicle on government roads and highways? Here's a timesaving hint before you go looking: You can't.
Driving in the USA is a privelage, not a right. Part of that privelage in most states is that you MUST consent to a violation of your 5th amendment protection against self incrimination (AKA breathalyzer) if asked by a law enforcement officer.
A *right* is something that you can give away or have taken only by due process. A privelage can be taken away much easier.
How this applies to the Fair Use doctrine (Which could be considered a right under the 10th Amendment) Vs DCMA is a matter for the courts.
It's replaced the automobile as the thing people talk about repairing, or "souping up".
You mean it's replaced the classic automobile in that regard. With today's computer controlled engines, "souping up" an new car has limited possibility compared to the days when you had the ability to tweak almost every instance of fuel / air / compression / timing / exhaust.
Now, it's all controlled by a chip that you can replace, but I'd hardly call that "souping up" any more than I'd call what script kiddies do as "hacking"
You probably won't be paying a bill though. It's probably gonna be a monthly or annual automatic subscription (think porn sites) and most people don't bother checking their statements anymore anyway. And just like porn sites, Microsoft will probably make it just as hard to unsubscribe, ie, you've gotta call in, no online cancellation, etc. and that's assuming they're not gonna have minimum subscription requirements.
You are assuming that they will have no options for those without use of a credit card. Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of folks out there that are unable or unwilling to get and use credit cards. Will "modern" computing be denied to these folks? I don't think so.
"Give a man a fish he eats for a day, Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime," holds true here.
It seems clear that you have never worked for support in a corporate enviorment.
If you did, you would know that there is always a percentage of the users (If you have a sales department, the number is generally higher) that just simply do not pick up on fixing common problems. they will call time and again with the same set of problems. You patiently sit on the phone with them, and identify the problem, explain what caused the problem, explain how to fix the problem, and explain how to avoid the problem in the future. All the while hoping against hope that this time he gets it, knowing full well that he won't
Of *COURSE* lawyers want you to sue! Recording Artists want you to buy CDs new from the music store. The Motion Picture Ass. Wants you to view movied in 1st run venues, then purchase the video/DVD new from the approperiate vendor. Microprocessor manufacturers want you to purchase a new computer. (or 2) Krispy Kreme wants you to buy some doughnuts. McDonalds want you to buy a Big Mack. Jumpin Jack Gas (In and out in a flash, flash, flash!) wants you to fill up your SUV.
Do you see a pattern here? If you provide a good or a service, you want demand. Marketing creates demand.
Awww, quit yer whining!
100 degrees F is nothing! Heck, it's hotter than that for most of the day durung most of the summer here in the 6th largest city in the USA, Phoenix, AZ. (or is it 8th, I guess it depends on who you ask)
One of my previous (way previous) jobs was as a ramp agent (those guys that wave those orange wands to direct the planes around, and mess up your luggage [most of the times, not at the same time]) at Sky Harbor International Airport. The official temperature for this one particular day was 118 defrees F. We took a thermometer out to the area we were working (underneath, and behind the airplains (mostly 727, 737 and MD80/88 models, so little jets) and the ambient air was over 150 degrees F. The higher air temp was due to the large blacktop surface, and the fact that jet engines happen to put out a lot of heat.
It was toasty, but did we complain? Heck yea we did! I mean that's freakin hot!!!
OT: Not long after I left that job, Phoenix hit a record official temp of 122 F. They had to close the airport for several hours because the charts that Boeing and Co. put out for safe distances for takeoff and landing did not go that high. After a couple of million of lost revinue later, the charts were updated.
1. It's not very net friendly
Imagine if you will, you have a web site. Let's say that it's a simple site with 50 static pages with text and graphics. You pay to have this hosted with certain bandwidth restrictions. now lets say that your site is linked to from another site. If some yokel with a look ahead caching proxy pulls up the other site and is reading the info there, in the background, your site is getting hit. Possibly very hard, if the yokel has broadband. Now, this yokel didn't ever want to see your 50 pages at all, but you know what, you just paid for that yokel to sasturate your web server for a period of time even though he never saw your site.
2. You might now want what's out there.
Let's say you are looking for a tidbit of information. Say, some information on the book "Little Women" You go to your favorite search engine and type in "little women" and click GO. The results page may indeed have pertinent infomration, but it may also have links to websites that may contain stuff you don't want to see like kiddie porn. Despite you not wanting to download the kiddie porn site, your computer sees the link, goes to the site and downloads away into your cache. "No problem, I delete my cache regulary" you maight say. With the current state of Law Enforcement, how sure can you be that you are not being monitored for ilegal activity such as possession of child pornography. According to all logs, you visited the kiddie porn site. If the Feds bust down your door *before* you delete your cache, you are busted! (And if you *do* delete your cache, they still may be able to recover the information anyway. Even if you can convince the jury that you didn't mean to download kiddie porn (like th'ed believe you) You are still looking at several months of the police holding your computer(s) "for evidence".
If you have your look-ahead proxy looking more than 1 link deep, you are really asking for some bad juju. Even 1 link deep can be really bad.
I wouldn't want my computer getting pissed off at me because it could feel the pain from watching me shut off my television. Who knows what nastiness it might do. I mean, it has my Quicken files gosh darnit!
Nope, sorry. You can pick up the home version of the game on your way off the stage.
BTW: IANAL
You see, school lockers are still school property. Every school that I've seen has the student sign a little piece of paper that basically reinforces that the school ownes the lockers, and has the right to search them at will.
Once that is established, the school has the authority to allow the police to search through their property at will.
Just because you have a school provided lock on the door, does not mean that you have a complete expectation of pricacy.
"Expectation of privacy" is the entire crux of the matter.
how much privacy do you really think you should expect in an open venue such as the Super Bowl? How much privacy should you expect when you walk down the street? Certainly, in BOTH cases the expectation is *much* less than if you were inside your home with the curtains drawn. You see, if the curtains are drawn in your home, you can have the expectation of privacy that you cannot expect if you did not pull the curtains. A police officer looking through a window seeing evidence of a crime can act on that "plain view" viewing. The Expectation isn't there that the officer cannot see through the window if you haven't taken steps otherwise.
Now, if the police can look through unobstructed windows, what make you think they cannot look at you when you are in a public venue?
The police are not interfering with you in any way at all. They are merely taking pictures.
Now, it gets interesting if the police start to claim that suspicions are raised because someone is wearing a fright wig, or a clown nose or is showing up with their face painted in the team's colors. IMHO, they should not be able to detain and question based on the fact that your appearance has been altered. If they start doing that, then I have a problem. Until then, smile!
If you look closely, The Celeron, P2 , P3 and yes, the P4 processors are using the *SAME* core as the Pentium Pro processor. The only real differences are the addition of MMX and SSE technology, along with various locations, speeds, timings and sizes of L1 and L2 cache. IA64 will be very different from the IA32 x86 processors that we have today.
So, in reality, the PPro *WAS* the last X86 processor core that Intel made.
And just how do you dial a url on the standard 12 key touch tone phone?
To dial "g" you hit the number "1" 1 time?
To dial "o" you hit the number "6" 3 times?
To dial "a" you hit the number "2" 1 time?
To dial "t" you hit the number "8" 1 time?
To dial "s" you hit the number "7" 3 times?
To dial "e" you hit the number "3" 2 times?
Wow, you are already up to 12 key presses, and you still don't have anything close to a useful url...
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Am I the only one that read this post and wondered what programs OOG THE CAVEMAN has designed for the palm platform???
OK, that's a sign that I need to cut down on my /. reading for a while.
I could see the case where some idiot user actually registered their software, but other than that..?
How about some user actually logged into a MS owned website? Do you think it impossible to get browser and OS information for the visitors of your web site? Your static NAT IP address can easily be traced back to you.
Not to mention if someone actually downloads windows based software from Microsoft or a Microsoft Partner...
Or shock horror.. Someone actually updates their software online directly from Microsoft???
Ohmigawsh! I better pull the ethernet cable out from my box!
Once they start cranking these babies out at
I expect they can yeild ~15,000 functional units per 30cm wafer (about 21,000mm2).
Let's see the obligitory cluster of these!!!
-Joe
*Note to moderators: This entire post is humor.
Until the child becomes a member of the majority, the parent is ultimately responsible for the education, care, wellbeing and actions of the child in his/her care.
There are many forces in society that want to break that chain of responsibility. The whole "It takes a village" crap has been taken WAY out of context. (Don't get me started on the whole trying minors as adults in criminal court...)
For the time that I have the responsibility to be a parent to my minor children, I have the right and more importantly the responsibility to be a parent. That includes choosing what, how and by whom my children are taught. If that means inteferring with a poisionous relationship, so be it. Responsibility isn't always happy choices. Surrendering that responsibility of choosing what, how and by whom my children are taught to any 3rd party including the government is a failure of being an effective parent in my opinion.
And that is all it is, an oninion. opinions are like elbows, it seems that everyone has one or two.
-Joe
Now, guess which one of these players will most likely be very charismatic, attracting attention of the children, being a role model? If you guess the bully, you can move to the head of the class.
Really, parents should choose who socializes with their children and how it takes place. If you send your child to the educational equivelant of welfare you don't get a choice in the matter.
I applaud the choise of awake (not enlightned) parents that can afford to pull their children from the grips of the school bord, and take charge of their children's education, be that in a private school or homeschooling.
FULL DISCLOSURE: My wife and I homeschool our 3.9 children. (She's due anytime now)
Dosen't the International space station use 10B2?
Yeah, page 14 http://www.spaceref.com/iss/computer/iss.poc.pdf
So what you are saying is that Disney has better tech than the International Space Station. Ok, I believe that.
-Joe
For a lab, wouldn't it be possible to have plexiglas enclosures for the LCD screens made?
I mean, sure, it's an extra $40 per unit, and it isn't completely tamper proof, but it just adds protection for the screen. Something that's anti glare coated would be even better.
-Joe
When I installed my UPS at home, I went from a 25 minute power backup time with the monitir on, to a 42 minute backup time with the monitor off. That tells me that my monitor (17") is almost sucking up as much as my computer. And my computer isn't the most friendly model out there. The processor is old 1st rev PII 300-MHz heater (I think 40 watts), several SCSI drives and SCSI card, TV tuner card, internal DSL modem, ehternet, ATI Graphics card (with heatsink on the card to illustrate how much power it sucks down) CDROM and CDRW (Granted, the power backup numbers were not while copying a CD, but the point is still valid.)
The answer is to use somewhat aggressive settings on the monitor power off settings (don't bother with screensavers) or to switch to LCD displays.
Now, there is a hughe amount of power drain when the monitor turns itself back on after DPMS off, so you will have a net power loss if the monitor is only shut down for a few seconds at a time, so don't get too aggressive with those settings.
Of course, LCD displays are a more expensive up front cost, but the power savings from them are 2 fold:
First, the display won't be eating up the power.
Second, you won't need to cool the room as much.
That's just my experience. Take it as you will.
-Joe
No, but it could make you guilty of conspiracy to commit murder or possibly solicitation of ilegal activities. -Joe
Not entirely true. I'm working on a terminal server with 24 bit color right now... Of course, it's running Citrix On top of NT4 Terminal Server Edition... It works with Win2K too.
But that's OK. No sense in letting a little fact get in the way of bashing my paranoia.
Whoever said taking over the world was going to be cheap?
-Joe
Step 1 - The XBox. This is a box that will sit in your house, connect up to your internet connection (broadband) and aslo have the side benifit of running games and DVDs. It Will act as the "Computer furnace" for the rest of the devices (coming soon)
Step 2 - The Webpad. You have these screens (Of various sizes and color depth, just watch you'll see all sizes dorn to a cheap 160X160 B/W model) that connect up wirelessly to your information furnace (Step 1) and give you neat-o keen connectivity from anywhere within range.
Step 3 - Terminal Services. As the limitations of the webpad become apparent, Microsoft starts to roll out the ability to use your "Information Furnace" as a Terminal Server. You have all the applications on all your webpads updated at once. No fuss no muss. This is accepted because of:
Step 4 - Application Subscription. The cost for this will be ongoing because the new software will be subscription based. You won't even need to administer your furnace, because the subscription includes monthly maintenance of your furnace. Of course, with persistant internet connectivity, they will always have complete access over all the Microsoft computers on your home network.
This is how Microsoft will get complete control of the home computer arena. They don't tell you to bend all the way over all at once. First, you lean a little, then a little more. Pretty soon you are completely bent over and you don't even know it.
Of course, I could be wrong.
-Joe
Now the bank has lots of cuctomers using their terminals. Sure, it runs Linux. Sure, it can access the web. Sure, you can install your applications on it. but will you?
The next logical step is for the bank to open a server farm to allow it's customers to access all types of applications with X Window servers localy.
"But it's not MS Word, I need MS Word!" OK, for a slightly(?) higher fee, you can have access to out Citrix Server farm, and have access to a full suite of Microsoft applications.
Selling points for this could include the fact that your data is "In a secure enviorment that gets backed up daily" and "You will always have the latest version of the application" and all the other reasons that thin clients are deployed.
Once they have you "locked" into their hardware, and software, they can offer you all sorts of "services" that just might look pretty attractive to some folks out there. Thse folks are the same folks that would not mind AOL as an internet service provider.
Heck, maybe the Bank isn't going to provide the server farm, maybe it'll be AOL/TW...
I'm not saying that this is really a bad thing. It's just a thing.
-Joe
Nope.
It's likely that the key used is their public key. That way, only their private key can decrypt.
That's the beauty of PGP.
-Joe
Except a few now broke .com VC firms that is...
In Michigan I have the "right" to refuse to take a breathalyzer test, but if I refuse any cop can and will suspend my drivers license immediately, sans due process.
Can you show me where you have a *right* to drive a vehicle on government roads and highways? Here's a timesaving hint before you go looking: You can't.
Driving in the USA is a privelage, not a right. Part of that privelage in most states is that you MUST consent to a violation of your 5th amendment protection against self incrimination (AKA breathalyzer) if asked by a law enforcement officer.
A *right* is something that you can give away or have taken only by due process. A privelage can be taken away much easier.
How this applies to the Fair Use doctrine (Which could be considered a right under the 10th Amendment) Vs DCMA is a matter for the courts.
You mean it's replaced the classic automobile in that regard. With today's computer controlled engines, "souping up" an new car has limited possibility compared to the days when you had the ability to tweak almost every instance of fuel / air / compression / timing / exhaust.
Now, it's all controlled by a chip that you can replace, but I'd hardly call that "souping up" any more than I'd call what script kiddies do as "hacking"
You are assuming that they will have no options for those without use of a credit card. Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of folks out there that are unable or unwilling to get and use credit cards. Will "modern" computing be denied to these folks? I don't think so.
-Joe
It seems clear that you have never worked for support in a corporate enviorment.
If you did, you would know that there is always a percentage of the users (If you have a sales department, the number is generally higher) that just simply do not pick up on fixing common problems. they will call time and again with the same set of problems. You patiently sit on the phone with them, and identify the problem, explain what caused the problem, explain how to fix the problem, and explain how to avoid the problem in the future. All the while hoping against hope that this time he gets it, knowing full well that he won't
Just my 2...
-Joe
Do you see a pattern here? If you provide a good or a service, you want demand. Marketing creates demand.
Joe
100 degrees F is nothing! Heck, it's hotter than that for most of the day durung most of the summer here in the 6th largest city in the USA, Phoenix, AZ. (or is it 8th, I guess it depends on who you ask)
One of my previous (way previous) jobs was as a ramp agent (those guys that wave those orange wands to direct the planes around, and mess up your luggage [most of the times, not at the same time]) at Sky Harbor International Airport. The official temperature for this one particular day was 118 defrees F. We took a thermometer out to the area we were working (underneath, and behind the airplains (mostly 727, 737 and MD80/88 models, so little jets) and the ambient air was over 150 degrees F. The higher air temp was due to the large blacktop surface, and the fact that jet engines happen to put out a lot of heat.
It was toasty, but did we complain? Heck yea we did! I mean that's freakin hot!!!
OT: Not long after I left that job, Phoenix hit a record official temp of 122 F. They had to close the airport for several hours because the charts that Boeing and Co. put out for safe distances for takeoff and landing did not go that high. After a couple of million of lost revinue later, the charts were updated.
-Joe
1. It's not very net friendly
Imagine if you will, you have a web site. Let's say that it's a simple site with 50 static pages with text and graphics. You pay to have this hosted with certain bandwidth restrictions. now lets say that your site is linked to from another site. If some yokel with a look ahead caching proxy pulls up the other site and is reading the info there, in the background, your site is getting hit. Possibly very hard, if the yokel has broadband. Now, this yokel didn't ever want to see your 50 pages at all, but you know what, you just paid for that yokel to sasturate your web server for a period of time even though he never saw your site.
2. You might now want what's out there.
Let's say you are looking for a tidbit of information. Say, some information on the book "Little Women" You go to your favorite search engine and type in "little women" and click GO. The results page may indeed have pertinent infomration, but it may also have links to websites that may contain stuff you don't want to see like kiddie porn. Despite you not wanting to download the kiddie porn site, your computer sees the link, goes to the site and downloads away into your cache. "No problem, I delete my cache regulary" you maight say. With the current state of Law Enforcement, how sure can you be that you are not being monitored for ilegal activity such as possession of child pornography. According to all logs, you visited the kiddie porn site. If the Feds bust down your door *before* you delete your cache, you are busted! (And if you *do* delete your cache, they still may be able to recover the information anyway. Even if you can convince the jury that you didn't mean to download kiddie porn (like th'ed believe you) You are still looking at several months of the police holding your computer(s) "for evidence".
If you have your look-ahead proxy looking more than 1 link deep, you are really asking for some bad juju. Even 1 link deep can be really bad.
Is it worth the damage? Is it worth the risk?
-Joe
That would be horrible!
I wouldn't want my computer getting pissed off at me because it could feel the pain from watching me shut off my television. Who knows what nastiness it might do. I mean, it has my Quicken files gosh darnit!
Nope, sorry. You can pick up the home version of the game on your way off the stage.
BTW: IANAL
You see, school lockers are still school property. Every school that I've seen has the student sign a little piece of paper that basically reinforces that the school ownes the lockers, and has the right to search them at will.
Once that is established, the school has the authority to allow the police to search through their property at will.
Just because you have a school provided lock on the door, does not mean that you have a complete expectation of pricacy.
"Expectation of privacy" is the entire crux of the matter.
how much privacy do you really think you should expect in an open venue such as the Super Bowl? How much privacy should you expect when you walk down the street? Certainly, in BOTH cases the expectation is *much* less than if you were inside your home with the curtains drawn. You see, if the curtains are drawn in your home, you can have the expectation of privacy that you cannot expect if you did not pull the curtains. A police officer looking through a window seeing evidence of a crime can act on that "plain view" viewing. The Expectation isn't there that the officer cannot see through the window if you haven't taken steps otherwise.
Now, if the police can look through unobstructed windows, what make you think they cannot look at you when you are in a public venue?
The police are not interfering with you in any way at all. They are merely taking pictures.
Now, it gets interesting if the police start to claim that suspicions are raised because someone is wearing a fright wig, or a clown nose or is showing up with their face painted in the team's colors. IMHO, they should not be able to detain and question based on the fact that your appearance has been altered. If they start doing that, then I have a problem. Until then, smile!
If you look closely, The Celeron, P2 , P3 and yes, the P4 processors are using the *SAME* core as the Pentium Pro processor. The only real differences are the addition of MMX and SSE technology, along with various locations, speeds, timings and sizes of L1 and L2 cache. IA64 will be very different from the IA32 x86 processors that we have today.
So, in reality, the PPro *WAS* the last X86 processor core that Intel made.
-Joe
And just how do you dial a url on the standard 12 key touch tone phone?
To dial "g" you hit the number "1" 1 time?
To dial "o" you hit the number "6" 3 times?
To dial "a" you hit the number "2" 1 time?
To dial "t" you hit the number "8" 1 time?
To dial "s" you hit the number "7" 3 times?
To dial "e" you hit the number "3" 2 times?
Wow, you are already up to 12 key presses, and you still don't have anything close to a useful url...
-Joe