"Without a paper trail, statistical comparisons of jurisdictions that used e-voting are the only tool available to diagnose problems with the new technology," the researchers stated in the report.
WHY WERE THERE NO PAPER TRAILS? Why are we allowing voting to go on in a system that has NOT been proven safe? We aren't allowed to view the code, we aren't allowed to audit our vote except via what is shown to us on the screen, and we have to invest an enormous amount of trust in two large entities that have proven they are NOT worthy of our trust.
Were people permitted to use paper and pencil/pen or more trusted/tried solutions instead of these machines? I certainly would have opted against using one of the e-voting machines knowing what I know and being the paranoid individual I am.
Until the voting machines and their code are open to the public for audit and there is a paper trail I will refuse to use them. This MUST be an option for everyone. I don't see why it can't be the case.
Some places are requiring a paper audit trail by 2006 but that doesn't help the fact that there could have been some hanky panky going on right here in THIS election.
Sorry, I should have really previewed that comment. Fixed below:
But since you're quite the ASSumption maker...
This is great because of your fantastic comment:
Were your ancestors native American, garcia? Judging from your name, not bloody likely. So you're guilty of the same crime you accuse me of.
Don't assume especially when I wasn't the one saying that I didn't have to get a work visa because I married someone. There was no reason to bring that up into the conversation unless you were promoting it as an option.
I especially love your "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." comment. Priceless.
It's not priceless. Why should we be supporting marriages of convenience instead of jobs for Americans?
Keep your bigoted opinions to yourself next time.
Bigoted? Do you understand what that means? You think I am somehow against you because you are not from this country? I'm against you because you promote false marriage to get a job.
Were your ancestors native American, garcia? Judging from your name, not bloody likely. So you're guilty of the same crime you accuse me of.
Don't assume especially when I wasn't the one saying that I didn't have to get a work visa because I married someone. There was no reason to bring that up into the conversation unless you were promoting it as an option.
Re:I don't get it. (Score:1) by VE3ECM (818278) on 11:53 AM November 19th, 2004 (#10865907) You're right. You have no idea what "my" situation is, you sanctimonious jackass. But since you're quite the ASSumption maker... My wife wanted to move to Canada when we got married... she's a highly trained research scientist; she could get a job there in a second. I quit an even higher paying job then I have now to marry her and move to the US.
She wanted to move there because (in her opinion) it's safer, cleaner, friendlier, more liberal, and the general quality-of-life kicks the US in the ass.
I convinced her not to leave because I was not willing to separate her from her very close-knit large family.
I especially love your "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." comment. Priceless.
It's not priceless. Why should we be supporting marriages of convenience instead of jobs for Americans?
I married an American, which exempted me from needing H1 status. If I can do it...
Too many people do that just to get a job here. Obviously I am unaware of your particular situation but it doesn't sound much better.
We have a government obsessed with moral values yet we allow this sort of behavior just so people can get jobs that born/raised Americans need.
BTW -- My fiance just successfully landed a job by searching Monster and submitting resumes through there (she started earlier this month). I also landed this job by submitting my resume online. So I really don't think that online searching is "doomed".
Fuji was stricken by a mysterious disease causing necrosis - the death of cells - in 2002. To save her life, veterinarians had to amputate three-quarters of her tail with an electronic surgical knife.
Useable, mass public transport is a pipedream in the rural area where I live.
Useable mass public transport is a pipedream in the suburbs of Minneapolis. We have mass transit here except it's nearly worthless.
My fiance was working temporarily at a nearby mall while looking for another job. I had to drive her to the mall on the weekends because there was no bus service at all?! Wouldn't you think at least a shuttle service to a more active transit station would be viable? Apparently not.
She now works downtown and I have to drive her to another town's transit station because the bus service out of the station a mile from our house only has poor shuttle service even during the week. The other town has express busses running every 5 minutes or so.
They complain endlessly about how the public doesn't support mass transit yet they refuse to make it a viable option for those that do want to utilize it.
Umm, using a tool is a hack?
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I would say that this book is more about Knoppix Forks or Knoppix Distributions not necessarily "hacks".
Using Knoppix as an emergency router, for wardriving, or for a Swiss Army Knife isn't exactly a "hack". It's using a tool.
People starting projects like KnoppixMyth etc are more of a fork or a seperate distribution rather than a hack.
I called them and nicely spoke with a supervisor. The agents from Tivo had just been briefed of the situation today (not suprising as agents are always kept in the dark). My complaint was lodged and I was given some insignificant tracking number.
They will likely never read my complaint even though they claim they do but at least I felt like I made mention of it in a level headed manner.
If anything I expressed my opinion to two people who might not have known that it was undesirable and they might be able to educate two more.
Do you really think Tivo is stupid enough to alienate its customers? If you read the article you'll see that this in no way interferes with skipping commercials. It basically expands the "press thumbs up for more info" tag that appears in the top right of the screen during some commercials and makes them more of a billboard size. This is actually a popular feature among Tivo users as you could say, get a brochure for the new Corvette sent to your home by simply pressing thumbs up during the Chevrolet commercial. I welcome this.
I clicked on the thumbs up once during a commercial. I thought that the content provided was fucking dumb. Not only that but I thought it was really fucking annoying (and space wasting) that Best Buy Music, random commercials on Porches and Vettes appear on my menus, and I pay for all of this too.
So, the thumbs up isn't a huge problem for me. I see it in the corner and I ignore it. If this fucking ad goes to a banner I'm gonna be really pissed. That 10 seconds that I'm burning through ads that I purchased a system to remove is going to annoy me.
I will be calling Tivo today to express my disbelief in their actions and that they will quickly lose a customer if they go ahead w/this plan.
while this is very nice, does this make "traditional" musicians "evil"? are volunteers always better than those who charge for their services? could majority of contributors to OSS afford to do so if they had no external income to support their "hobbies"?
They are mainstream artists getting mainstream play, mainstream press, and apparently making mainstream money yet they just seem to have the attitude of "woah, cool" instead of "woah, not enough money made".
Well, to me, that makes the "traditional musicians" money hungry fucktards. Obviously, if your music is good and you are willing to work with the fans they are willing to work w/you back. You think I am going to feed money to some jackass that fights with their fans who are only interested in listening to the music? Nope.
It's obvious that you CAN and WILL make money even if you support free distribution, GASP, what a novel idea.
Sadly, some refuse to believe that and continue to attract shit fans, make shit music, and pretty much end up as a stain on the wall of the memory of everyone (Spears has been married twice, annuled once, and may be pregnant with "Aurora" -- your fading away into irrelevance).
The Grateful Dead never made ANY money allowing the free trading of their music, nope, no way. Neither did Phish or DMB. Nope. Oh wait they even have LOYAL fans! Crazy.
Being 6'2" and about 145 pounds I knew I didn't want to be losing any weight.
Is that even remotely healthy? After my grandfather passed away earlier this year he weighed in at 102 pounds at his nursing home. He hadn't walked or moved in over 5 years. He looked absolutely sickly as it was. I can't imagine if he was 6'2" and active.
I inquired with several physicians about "lung plaque" and most of them had never heard of such a thing.
He claims in the story that he's not a hypochondriac but this sure does sound like a partial one.
While driving back I felt a sharp pain in my left side and felt something in there pop and drain (maybe into the pleura?), and since cancer was well on my mind, as well as the fact that this had been going on for way too long, I headed straight to the nearest ER hoping I wasn't bleeding internally or something like that.
While I'm lucky I have never had something like this happen to me I just can't imagine that you would be able to feel yourself "pop" and bleed internally.
He keeps getting prescriptions for ciprofloxacin (and at one point apparently got one w/o really meeting with a doctor) and taking them and saying he's feeling better. Perhaps he's just aggravating the issues?
They have a whole new classification of people that think they are sick with something and search the Internet until they find out what fits them best. I really believe that this may be part of his problem. Then again I'm just reading what some guy says on the Internet and I'm not a doctor;)
It's your DVD player ignoring the DVD then. I have been noticing more and more DVDs that do not allow you to skip through their advertisements at the beginning.
Some even used to allow you to skip through the FBI warning. No more.
This is about broadcasting, time shifting, and the notion of "copyright" as it relates to the combination of content and advertising. No one is stopping you from editing the movie or whatever in your own home, it involves redistribution.
It would have nothing to do w/Tivo as there is no "redistribution". It's just a recording that you are fastfowarding through. It might affect those Tivolike devices that skip the commercials automatically though.
Like I said in my post... They were never specifically clear in what a "motion picture" is and because they also claim that recording a "motion picture" in a theatre with a camera is a punishable crime I would go out on a limb to say that they WERE NOT talking about TV and they WERE talking about movies.
`(A) no fixed copy of the altered version of the motion picture is created by such computer program or other technology; and
`(B) no changes, deletions or additions are made by such computer program or other technology to commercial advertisements, or to network or station promotional announcements, that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture.
Does motion picture mean TV programs as well? They weren't clear enough for me. If they mean any program (like DVD Shrink) which allows you to edit video of the "original content" and remove what you want I would say that it would have damaging effects on all video editing software.
Would we have to buy/download video editing software that carried a warning that you couldn't remove unwanted commercials from products you already paid for and shouldn't be required to suffer through anyway?
Sometimes I want to sit these lawmakers in front of a limited edition, Gold copy, digitally enhanced, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Disney DVD with their eyelids taped open. Maybe then they would think twice about forcing every hard-working, tax paying, voting American from "editing" the content of their PURCHASED media. Then again, Disney and their marketers might pay them more than our taxes are worth;-)
Will the end of Hatch mean the end of crap or will the big bucks be able to corrupt a whole new group of lawmakers?
I have a feeling that the junkies wouldn't be doing this themselves. The underground distributers would be the ones getting the drugs via the tags. The junkies would just buy the end product much later from a street dealer flunkie.
Costs are still far too high for individual consumer goods, like the amber bottles that pharmacies use to dispense pills to individuals. But prices are expected to plunge once radio labels become popular, so drug makers represent an important set of early adopters.
Once it does become viable for individual consumer bottles there will be yet another excuse why the prices need to continue to go up. Everything needs to cost more especially in the pharmaceutical industry. I swear everyone is in on it. I am told I need three low dose drugs when I have a feeling that a higher dose of another would handle it just fine. I am told that I am being prescribed these particular drugs because my coverage is good enough to afford it... It all leads to more money for everyone.
What I said is true. Right now the tags are too expensive to put onto individual bottles but in the future it may come to be that it would be economically viable to do so.
While I did need to wake up I was correct in what I said.
Initially, the expense of the system will be considerable. Each label costs 20 to 50 cents. The readers and scanners cost thousands of dollars. But because the medicines tend to be very expensive and the need to ensure their authenticity is great, officials said, the expense is justified.
As if my three prescription drugs don't cost enough already (and my co-pays continue to increase) I am going to have to subsidize a possible invasion of my privacy as well? Are they going to insure that before I leave that pharmacy counter that the tag's information will be wiped?
I certainly don't want to be heading towards the door with Oxy and have some hi-tech thief scan me and follow me home to rob me of the drugs I just purchased... Perhaps even someone could scan important/famous people and either blackmail them for their drug purchases (HIV/STDs) or just blatantly report it to the Fish Wrappers for cash.
Costs are still far too high for individual consumer goods, like the amber bottles that pharmacies use to dispense pills to individuals. But prices are expected to plunge once radio labels become popular, so drug makers represent an important set of early adopters.
Once it does become viable for individual consumer bottles there will be yet another excuse why the prices need to continue to go up. Everything needs to cost more especially in the pharmaceutical industry. I swear everyone is in on it. I am told I need three low dose drugs when I have a feeling that a higher dose of another would handle it just fine. I am told that I am being prescribed these particular drugs because my coverage is good enough to afford it... It all leads to more money for everyone.
This still doesn't stop someone from switching the drugs once they arrive at the pharmacy.
Counterfeit drugs are still comparatively rare in the United States, but federal officials say the problem is growing. Throughout the 1990's, the F.D.A. pursued about five cases of counterfeit drugs every year. In each of the last several years, the number of cases has averaged about 20, but law-enforcement officials say that figure does not reflect the extent of the problem.
Then WTF are we doing this? 20 cases of counterfeit drugs yet we have to spend thousands and thousands and pass that on to the consumer. Ugh. Yeah, they are going to say that we need to protect against a possible outbreak of this. Personally, I don't see how a label can help when the medicine inside is what is important. Anyone can swap out the real meds inside for their counterfeit ones.
Just remember that there are ways to make your life hell that are completely legal and well within their realm even after the courts become involved.
Personally I am happy to stay out of office politics and do my job to the best of my ability. If I don't like the conditions where I am working I start looking elsewhere for work.
If I had the talent that the EA guys likely do I'm sure it would not be difficult. At least not as difficult as EA would make your work-life.
Well, the author mentioned that the majority of people had the Segway mastered in about 15 seconds (which I have to admit is pretty amazing, if true).
The Roomba, OTOH, I cannot imagine is all that difficult to understand. Put it on the floor and turn it on. From what I have seen of the one at my parents' house it kinda just does its thing from there.
What I want to compare is the maintenance needs for both. That includes recharging requirements and in the case of the Roomba how many times you need to empty it's (from what I remember) very small dirt collector.
If the Segway takes 15 seconds to learn and goes for hours without a charge or required stop to perform some necessary task I would say the Segway wins.
Perhaps the Roomba has a larger collection bin than the one my parents have but I doubt it. Personally, using a regular vaccum seems like a lot less hassle to me.
Oh I tried this. Rewriting it to point to a small index.html that had NOINDEX in the meta tags. All it did was "piss off" Googlebot causing it to repeatedly try and hit that file over and over again.
I even tried to redirect permanently to the same index.html for Googlebot which produced the same result.
The only way to do it was to completely disallow Googlebot from the gallery.
Has anyone out there seen similar behavior on their own sites? Please comment with your qualitative/objective data if so.
Sure, I see crawlers on my site all the time sometimes hitting the same URL over and over again. Do I understand their repetitive behavior? No. Do I care what they are doing? No, as long as they are obeying my robots.txt.
I have complained before about MSNbot ignoring changes to robots.txt while Google happily changed its habbits (I can't find the link sorry). My recent fighting with Googlebot has come to a head when I had to disallow them access to my gallery completely because they refused to honor anything except Disallow:/. I had to go so far as to point Googlebot at my robots.txt and tell it to remove all the previous links. It was rather annoying dealing with support via email from Googlebot as they have apparently taken on the stance of "we don't care but you should put meta tags in all your files so that we don't index those pages." Umm, you are crawling MY site for YOUR profit, you do as I say, not the other way around.
Do I care if MSNbot is crawling Google and then finding sites and links to search? No as it's none of OUR concern. What is OUR concern is our own robots.txt and how the spiders interact with our sites through that file. Let Google deal with Microsoft/MSNbot if that's what needs to be done but don't concern yourself with it otherwise.
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"Without a paper trail, statistical comparisons of jurisdictions that used e-voting are the only tool available to diagnose problems with the new technology," the researchers stated in the report.
WHY WERE THERE NO PAPER TRAILS? Why are we allowing voting to go on in a system that has NOT been proven safe? We aren't allowed to view the code, we aren't allowed to audit our vote except via what is shown to us on the screen, and we have to invest an enormous amount of trust in two large entities that have proven they are NOT worthy of our trust.
Were people permitted to use paper and pencil/pen or more trusted/tried solutions instead of these machines? I certainly would have opted against using one of the e-voting machines knowing what I know and being the paranoid individual I am.
Until the voting machines and their code are open to the public for audit and there is a paper trail I will refuse to use them. This MUST be an option for everyone. I don't see why it can't be the case.
Some places are requiring a paper audit trail by 2006 but that doesn't help the fact that there could have been some hanky panky going on right here in THIS election.
Sorry, I should have really previewed that comment. Fixed below:
But since you're quite the ASSumption maker...
This is great because of your fantastic comment:
Were your ancestors native American, garcia? Judging from your name, not bloody likely. So you're guilty of the same crime you accuse me of.
Don't assume especially when I wasn't the one saying that I didn't have to get a work visa because I married someone. There was no reason to bring that up into the conversation unless you were promoting it as an option.
I especially love your "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." comment. Priceless.
It's not priceless. Why should we be supporting marriages of convenience instead of jobs for Americans?
Keep your bigoted opinions to yourself next time.
Bigoted? Do you understand what that means? You think I am somehow against you because you are not from this country? I'm against you because you promote false marriage to get a job.
But since you're quite the ASSumption maker...
This is great because of your fantastic comment:
Were your ancestors native American, garcia? Judging from your name, not bloody likely. So you're guilty of the same crime you accuse me of.
Don't assume especially when I wasn't the one saying that I didn't have to get a work visa because I married someone. There was no reason to bring that up into the conversation unless you were promoting it as an option.
Re:I don't get it. (Score:1)
by VE3ECM (818278) on 11:53 AM November 19th, 2004 (#10865907)
You're right. You have no idea what "my" situation is, you sanctimonious jackass.
But since you're quite the ASSumption maker...
My wife wanted to move to Canada when we got married... she's a highly trained research scientist; she could get a job there in a second. I quit an even higher paying job then I have now to marry her and move to the US.
She wanted to move there because (in her opinion) it's safer, cleaner, friendlier, more liberal, and the general quality-of-life kicks the US in the ass.
I convinced her not to leave because I was not willing to separate her from her very close-knit large family.
I especially love your "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." comment. Priceless.
It's not priceless. Why should we be supporting marriages of convenience instead of jobs for Americans?
Keep your bigoted opinions to yourself next time.
Bigoted? No.
I married an American, which exempted me from needing H1 status. If I can do it...
Too many people do that just to get a job here. Obviously I am unaware of your particular situation but it doesn't sound much better.
We have a government obsessed with moral values yet we allow this sort of behavior just so people can get jobs that born/raised Americans need.
BTW -- My fiance just successfully landed a job by searching Monster and submitting resumes through there (she started earlier this month). I also landed this job by submitting my resume online. So I really don't think that online searching is "doomed".
From the fucking article:
Fuji was stricken by a mysterious disease causing necrosis - the death of cells - in 2002. To save her life, veterinarians had to amputate three-quarters of her tail with an electronic surgical knife.
Useable, mass public transport is a pipedream in the rural area where I live.
Useable mass public transport is a pipedream in the suburbs of Minneapolis. We have mass transit here except it's nearly worthless.
My fiance was working temporarily at a nearby mall while looking for another job. I had to drive her to the mall on the weekends because there was no bus service at all?! Wouldn't you think at least a shuttle service to a more active transit station would be viable? Apparently not.
She now works downtown and I have to drive her to another town's transit station because the bus service out of the station a mile from our house only has poor shuttle service even during the week. The other town has express busses running every 5 minutes or so.
They complain endlessly about how the public doesn't support mass transit yet they refuse to make it a viable option for those that do want to utilize it.
I would say that this book is more about Knoppix Forks or Knoppix Distributions not necessarily "hacks".
Using Knoppix as an emergency router, for wardriving, or for a Swiss Army Knife isn't exactly a "hack". It's using a tool.
People starting projects like KnoppixMyth etc are more of a fork or a seperate distribution rather than a hack.
That's IMHO at least.
I called them and nicely spoke with a supervisor. The agents from Tivo had just been briefed of the situation today (not suprising as agents are always kept in the dark). My complaint was lodged and I was given some insignificant tracking number.
They will likely never read my complaint even though they claim they do but at least I felt like I made mention of it in a level headed manner.
If anything I expressed my opinion to two people who might not have known that it was undesirable and they might be able to educate two more.
Do you really think Tivo is stupid enough to alienate its customers? If you read the article you'll see that this in no way interferes with skipping commercials. It basically expands the "press thumbs up for more info" tag that appears in the top right of the screen during some commercials and makes them more of a billboard size. This is actually a popular feature among Tivo users as you could say, get a brochure for the new Corvette sent to your home by simply pressing thumbs up during the Chevrolet commercial. I welcome this.
I clicked on the thumbs up once during a commercial. I thought that the content provided was fucking dumb. Not only that but I thought it was really fucking annoying (and space wasting) that Best Buy Music, random commercials on Porches and Vettes appear on my menus, and I pay for all of this too.
So, the thumbs up isn't a huge problem for me. I see it in the corner and I ignore it. If this fucking ad goes to a banner I'm gonna be really pissed. That 10 seconds that I'm burning through ads that I purchased a system to remove is going to annoy me.
I will be calling Tivo today to express my disbelief in their actions and that they will quickly lose a customer if they go ahead w/this plan.
while this is very nice, does this make "traditional" musicians "evil"? are volunteers always better than those who charge for their services? could majority of contributors to OSS afford to do so if they had no external income to support their "hobbies"?
They are mainstream artists getting mainstream play, mainstream press, and apparently making mainstream money yet they just seem to have the attitude of "woah, cool" instead of "woah, not enough money made".
Well, to me, that makes the "traditional musicians" money hungry fucktards. Obviously, if your music is good and you are willing to work with the fans they are willing to work w/you back. You think I am going to feed money to some jackass that fights with their fans who are only interested in listening to the music? Nope.
It's obvious that you CAN and WILL make money even if you support free distribution, GASP, what a novel idea.
Sadly, some refuse to believe that and continue to attract shit fans, make shit music, and pretty much end up as a stain on the wall of the memory of everyone (Spears has been married twice, annuled once, and may be pregnant with "Aurora" -- your fading away into irrelevance).
The Grateful Dead never made ANY money allowing the free trading of their music, nope, no way. Neither did Phish or DMB. Nope. Oh wait they even have LOYAL fans! Crazy.
Being 6'2" and about 145 pounds I knew I didn't want to be losing any weight.
;)
Is that even remotely healthy? After my grandfather passed away earlier this year he weighed in at 102 pounds at his nursing home. He hadn't walked or moved in over 5 years. He looked absolutely sickly as it was. I can't imagine if he was 6'2" and active.
I inquired with several physicians about "lung plaque" and most of them had never heard of such a thing.
He claims in the story that he's not a hypochondriac but this sure does sound like a partial one.
While driving back I felt a sharp pain in my left side and felt something in there pop and drain (maybe into the pleura?), and since cancer was well on my mind, as well as the fact that this had been going on for way too long, I headed straight to the nearest ER hoping I wasn't bleeding internally or something like that.
While I'm lucky I have never had something like this happen to me I just can't imagine that you would be able to feel yourself "pop" and bleed internally.
He keeps getting prescriptions for ciprofloxacin (and at one point apparently got one w/o really meeting with a doctor) and taking them and saying he's feeling better. Perhaps he's just aggravating the issues?
They have a whole new classification of people that think they are sick with something and search the Internet until they find out what fits them best. I really believe that this may be part of his problem. Then again I'm just reading what some guy says on the Internet and I'm not a doctor
It's your DVD player ignoring the DVD then. I have been noticing more and more DVDs that do not allow you to skip through their advertisements at the beginning.
Some even used to allow you to skip through the FBI warning. No more.
This is about broadcasting, time shifting, and the notion of "copyright" as it relates to the combination of content and advertising. No one is stopping you from editing the movie or whatever in your own home, it involves redistribution.
It would have nothing to do w/Tivo as there is no "redistribution". It's just a recording that you are fastfowarding through. It might affect those Tivolike devices that skip the commercials automatically though.
Like I said in my post... They were never specifically clear in what a "motion picture" is and because they also claim that recording a "motion picture" in a theatre with a camera is a punishable crime I would go out on a limb to say that they WERE NOT talking about TV and they WERE talking about movies.
`(A) no fixed copy of the altered version of the motion picture is created by such computer program or other technology; and
;-)
`(B) no changes, deletions or additions are made by such computer program or other technology to commercial advertisements, or to network or station promotional announcements, that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture.
Does motion picture mean TV programs as well? They weren't clear enough for me. If they mean any program (like DVD Shrink) which allows you to edit video of the "original content" and remove what you want I would say that it would have damaging effects on all video editing software.
Would we have to buy/download video editing software that carried a warning that you couldn't remove unwanted commercials from products you already paid for and shouldn't be required to suffer through anyway?
Sometimes I want to sit these lawmakers in front of a limited edition, Gold copy, digitally enhanced, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Disney DVD with their eyelids taped open. Maybe then they would think twice about forcing every hard-working, tax paying, voting American from "editing" the content of their PURCHASED media. Then again, Disney and their marketers might pay them more than our taxes are worth
Will the end of Hatch mean the end of crap or will the big bucks be able to corrupt a whole new group of lawmakers?
Those self-healing therapies a bunch of... DUDE LOOK AT THAT! Woot. What? Oh yeah. Game on.
Those evil advertisers! They put ads on webpages that serve files via HTTP! OMFG! They are supporting illegal downloading by supporting HTTP!
;)
We must ban advertising so it stops fueling the rampant illegal downloading.
Actually, come to think of it, that wouldn't be such a bad idea
I have a feeling that the junkies wouldn't be doing this themselves. The underground distributers would be the ones getting the drugs via the tags. The junkies would just buy the end product much later from a street dealer flunkie.
Costs are still far too high for individual consumer goods, like the amber bottles that pharmacies use to dispense pills to individuals. But prices are expected to plunge once radio labels become popular, so drug makers represent an important set of early adopters.
Once it does become viable for individual consumer bottles there will be yet another excuse why the prices need to continue to go up. Everything needs to cost more especially in the pharmaceutical industry. I swear everyone is in on it. I am told I need three low dose drugs when I have a feeling that a higher dose of another would handle it just fine. I am told that I am being prescribed these particular drugs because my coverage is good enough to afford it... It all leads to more money for everyone.
What I said is true. Right now the tags are too expensive to put onto individual bottles but in the future it may come to be that it would be economically viable to do so.
While I did need to wake up I was correct in what I said.
Initially, the expense of the system will be considerable. Each label costs 20 to 50 cents. The readers and scanners cost thousands of dollars. But because the medicines tend to be very expensive and the need to ensure their authenticity is great, officials said, the expense is justified.
As if my three prescription drugs don't cost enough already (and my co-pays continue to increase) I am going to have to subsidize a possible invasion of my privacy as well? Are they going to insure that before I leave that pharmacy counter that the tag's information will be wiped?
I certainly don't want to be heading towards the door with Oxy and have some hi-tech thief scan me and follow me home to rob me of the drugs I just purchased... Perhaps even someone could scan important/famous people and either blackmail them for their drug purchases (HIV/STDs) or just blatantly report it to the Fish Wrappers for cash.
Costs are still far too high for individual consumer goods, like the amber bottles that pharmacies use to dispense pills to individuals. But prices are expected to plunge once radio labels become popular, so drug makers represent an important set of early adopters.
Once it does become viable for individual consumer bottles there will be yet another excuse why the prices need to continue to go up. Everything needs to cost more especially in the pharmaceutical industry. I swear everyone is in on it. I am told I need three low dose drugs when I have a feeling that a higher dose of another would handle it just fine. I am told that I am being prescribed these particular drugs because my coverage is good enough to afford it... It all leads to more money for everyone.
This still doesn't stop someone from switching the drugs once they arrive at the pharmacy.
Counterfeit drugs are still comparatively rare in the United States, but federal officials say the problem is growing. Throughout the 1990's, the F.D.A. pursued about five cases of counterfeit drugs every year. In each of the last several years, the number of cases has averaged about 20, but law-enforcement officials say that figure does not reflect the extent of the problem.
Then WTF are we doing this? 20 cases of counterfeit drugs yet we have to spend thousands and thousands and pass that on to the consumer. Ugh. Yeah, they are going to say that we need to protect against a possible outbreak of this. Personally, I don't see how a label can help when the medicine inside is what is important. Anyone can swap out the real meds inside for their counterfeit ones.
Just remember that there are ways to make your life hell that are completely legal and well within their realm even after the courts become involved.
Personally I am happy to stay out of office politics and do my job to the best of my ability. If I don't like the conditions where I am working I start looking elsewhere for work.
If I had the talent that the EA guys likely do I'm sure it would not be difficult. At least not as difficult as EA would make your work-life.
Then I would assume you would need one for every room in the house. The tray is so small that it's just not practical otherwise.
Well, the author mentioned that the majority of people had the Segway mastered in about 15 seconds (which I have to admit is pretty amazing, if true).
The Roomba, OTOH, I cannot imagine is all that difficult to understand. Put it on the floor and turn it on. From what I have seen of the one at my parents' house it kinda just does its thing from there.
What I want to compare is the maintenance needs for both. That includes recharging requirements and in the case of the Roomba how many times you need to empty it's (from what I remember) very small dirt collector.
If the Segway takes 15 seconds to learn and goes for hours without a charge or required stop to perform some necessary task I would say the Segway wins.
Perhaps the Roomba has a larger collection bin than the one my parents have but I doubt it. Personally, using a regular vaccum seems like a lot less hassle to me.
Oh I tried this. Rewriting it to point to a small index.html that had NOINDEX in the meta tags. All it did was "piss off" Googlebot causing it to repeatedly try and hit that file over and over again.
I even tried to redirect permanently to the same index.html for Googlebot which produced the same result.
The only way to do it was to completely disallow Googlebot from the gallery.
Now if they are DoSing you then you have a valid complaint but robots.txt is just there as a friendly suggestion.
Crawling a gallery of images (and all image property links as well) all day for several days might be considered "DoSing" I consider it being rude.
You're right, they don't have to obey the robots.txt but they should when they say they will.
Has anyone out there seen similar behavior on their own sites? Please comment with your qualitative/objective data if so.
/. I had to go so far as to point Googlebot at my robots.txt and tell it to remove all the previous links. It was rather annoying dealing with support via email from Googlebot as they have apparently taken on the stance of "we don't care but you should put meta tags in all your files so that we don't index those pages." Umm, you are crawling MY site for YOUR profit, you do as I say, not the other way around.
Sure, I see crawlers on my site all the time sometimes hitting the same URL over and over again. Do I understand their repetitive behavior? No. Do I care what they are doing? No, as long as they are obeying my robots.txt.
I have complained before about MSNbot ignoring changes to robots.txt while Google happily changed its habbits (I can't find the link sorry). My recent fighting with Googlebot has come to a head when I had to disallow them access to my gallery completely because they refused to honor anything except Disallow:
Do I care if MSNbot is crawling Google and then finding sites and links to search? No as it's none of OUR concern. What is OUR concern is our own robots.txt and how the spiders interact with our sites through that file. Let Google deal with Microsoft/MSNbot if that's what needs to be done but don't concern yourself with it otherwise.