Though if it wasn't there to support the wall, I wouldn't like it.
Are we supposed to take seriously the artist's opinon on whether this is a structural repair? I doubt that the bricks provide anything more than color.
This process will effectivly create a new database of information. Initially, it won't be in governement (FBI, CIA, NSA) hands, but, given the willingness to bless wiretapping without warrants, how long before the governement coerces the educational institiutions to hand it over?
What then, trolling through fingerprint data? Trolling through pictures of faces with face recognition software? Looking at other activity on the computer? This is closed source software, what if the demands that the software maker modifies it to troll through files, history, emails, etc. on the user's PC?
Think of the children: the software could look for the presence of kiddie porn, etc..
Interesting. Who exactly is holding the few dollars that are presently in my PayPal account?
A real bank does.
Again, interesting. I can't find any indication on the web that the claimed pass-through insurance applies to Paypal balances. That does not rule it out, but.... Also, what about funds held in PayPal's Money Market fund?
This was the heart of PayPal's defense in New York and Louisiana that they were not a bank, in part because they did not hold or handle customer's money directly.
Interesting. Who exactly is holding the few dollars that are presently in my PayPal account?
In harmony with this transformation, we acknowledge that e-gold is indeed a Financial Institution or Agency as defined in US law and should be regulated as a Financial Institution. E-gold Ltd.
Nw if the federal authorities could get the same concession from PayPal......
he device was a run-of-the-mill GPS navigation system which probably aren't accurate when it comes to speed and position.
It is difficult to tell how accurate run of the mill systems are -- I think they "snap" to the nearest road and I have seen my system think that I was off the road when driving at high altitude. Nevertheless, the ticket claimed he was doing 20mph over the limit and I am very confident that a run of the mill system is far more accurate than that.
Accuracy probably has more to do with traceability to some kind of calibration than real-world accuracy. I would guess that my system is typically accurate to about 20-30 feet.
GPS device gets time from GPS satellite, not user.
Maybe this kid's device does, but a few weeks ago, I went: "WTF?" when I realized that the clock on my run-of-the mill GPS system was wrong (by several minutes) and that I had to set it manually. I still don't understand why my GPS system clock is inaccurate.
Towards the end of the promo video, there is a short clip from inside one of the planes (one can see "Castrol" on the canard wing and the plane is flying above a river) -- in the front, one can clearly see a propellor. WTF?
auctions dont end at a certain time.
the end when the bids are no longer increasing.
You describe one type of auction. There are others that are used, such as the Dutch Auction. Just because eBay does not meet your idea of one type of auction does not make it not an auction site.
One could also argue that auctions don't have a time before which they will not end -- in other words, offline auctions don't have a minimum time to run.
What made these people suddenly behave 'consumer friendly'?
Look at this, the FCC taking action --- don't look at the man behind the curtain listening to your phone calls, scanning your emails, etc. without a warrant.
Internet access is not "necessary infrastructure".
Isn't it? I think that, with services such as local phone running over the Internet (eg. Vonage), there is a very strong argument that it is a necessary infrastructure. We think of electricity as a necessary infrastructure, yet in the early days many people were without it.
Vonage? Are you serious? Yeah, let's consider Vonage, one of the most unreliable VoIP providers on the planet, to be a necessary service.
No thanks. I'd rather stick with my switched circuits for reliable service.
Your opinion on the reliability of Vonage has nothing to do with the discussion. Vonage (and other VOIP providers -- I cited Vonage only as an example) provide a local phone service. It is not possible for them to provide this essential service without Internet access.
I notice that elsewhere you responded to another poster with a clear ad-hominem.
And if you think that you get a switched circuit from your local phone provider for anything except perhaps a call to your neighbor, you are just showing your ignorance.
Internet access is not "necessary infrastructure".
Isn't it? I think that, with services such as local phone running over the Internet (eg. Vonage), there is a very strong argument that it is a necessary infrastructure. We think of electricity as a necessary infrastructure, yet in the early days many people were without it.
How about publishing tables that merely list equivalent pages and exercises between versions -- would that be legal? It would allow students to use old versions of the books,
2) French companies also sued to prevent people selling real luxury goods at cut prices. This is abusive since it criminalizes legal owners and sellers in order to protect their 'official' resellers. However, eBay has appealed and I am pretty certain this will be struck down by the French courts.
I hope that this is struck down, but I don't think it is so certain. European companies have already used the courts to prevent "parallel imports" -- otherwise known as gray market imports -- items legally bought abroad and re-imported into the EU (or imported by a company not authorized by the manufacturer to import into the EU). Perhaps LVHM claimed that these genuine items sold on eBay fell into this category.
So the solution would seem to be to use UDP and tunnel the actual traffic within the UDP packets (and have the tunneled traffic determine if the necesary data has arrived properly). Much like OpenVPN. Since it is UDP, there is no TCP connection to kill.
The ISPs will continue down this path until it is no longer economically feasible to do so. And that day *is* coming. One day, it'll be more expensive to play these cat-and-mouse games than to just give away cheap bandwidth, disk space, etc.
In my recent posting on/. I addressed this issue. I believe that the purpose is to establish throttling and destroy network neutrality, after which stage 2 of the plan will be enacted which is to hold large websites to ransom --- "You want your packets to actually reach your customers this year? Well you have to pay the toll first."
P2P traffic throttling is just the wedge. It is intended to legitimize throttling.
If the telcos get this accepted, the next step is to throttle traffic of big sites who don't pay the telcos extra for their traffic to have priority. Goodbye Vonage, etc..
Hey, if you want them to hold the president accountable then maybe you should elect more of them to office. They need a 2/3rds majority to do much of anything
They don't need a 2/3 majority to kill the telecom immunity provisions (which, IMHO are really Presidential immunity as well).
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Are we supposed to take seriously the artist's opinon on whether this is a structural repair? I doubt that the bricks provide anything more than color.
This process will effectivly create a new database of information. Initially, it won't be in governement (FBI, CIA, NSA) hands, but, given the willingness to bless wiretapping without warrants, how long before the governement coerces the educational institiutions to hand it over?
What then, trolling through fingerprint data? Trolling through pictures of faces with face recognition software? Looking at other activity on the computer? This is closed source software, what if the demands that the software maker modifies it to troll through files, history, emails, etc. on the user's PC?
Think of the children: the software could look for the presence of kiddie porn, etc..
Again, interesting. I can't find any indication on the web that the claimed pass-through insurance applies to Paypal balances. That does not rule it out, but.... Also, what about funds held in PayPal's Money Market fund?
Interesting. Who exactly is holding the few dollars that are presently in my PayPal account?
Nw if the federal authorities could get the same concession from PayPal......
It is difficult to tell how accurate run of the mill systems are -- I think they "snap" to the nearest road and I have seen my system think that I was off the road when driving at high altitude. Nevertheless, the ticket claimed he was doing 20mph over the limit and I am very confident that a run of the mill system is far more accurate than that.
Accuracy probably has more to do with traceability to some kind of calibration than real-world accuracy. I would guess that my system is typically accurate to about 20-30 feet.
Maybe this kid's device does, but a few weeks ago, I went: "WTF?" when I realized that the clock on my run-of-the mill GPS system was wrong (by several minutes) and that I had to set it manually. I still don't understand why my GPS system clock is inaccurate.
For those who don't understand the joke in the parent post, see Little Britain
Towards the end of the promo video, there is a short clip from inside one of the planes (one can see "Castrol" on the canard wing and the plane is flying above a river) -- in the front, one can clearly see a propellor. WTF?
Did you try removing the checks from the MSI file using the Orca MSI editor?
Insert cheesy ASCII art of joke flying over your head here.
No, they should definitely involve marketing -- just ask them what to do and do the exact opposite
You describe one type of auction. There are others that are used, such as the Dutch Auction. Just because eBay does not meet your idea of one type of auction does not make it not an auction site.
One could also argue that auctions don't have a time before which they will not end -- in other words, offline auctions don't have a minimum time to run.
$ uptime
19:14:38 up 420 days, 40 min, 140 users, load average: 2.09, 2.03, 2.00
Look at this, the FCC taking action --- don't look at the man behind the curtain listening to your phone calls, scanning your emails, etc. without a warrant.
Your opinion on the reliability of Vonage has nothing to do with the discussion. Vonage (and other VOIP providers -- I cited Vonage only as an example) provide a local phone service. It is not possible for them to provide this essential service without Internet access.
I notice that elsewhere you responded to another poster with a clear ad-hominem.
And if you think that you get a switched circuit from your local phone provider for anything except perhaps a call to your neighbor, you are just showing your ignorance.
Isn't it? I think that, with services such as local phone running over the Internet (eg. Vonage), there is a very strong argument that it is a necessary infrastructure. We think of electricity as a necessary infrastructure, yet in the early days many people were without it.
How about publishing tables that merely list equivalent pages and exercises between versions -- would that be legal? It would allow students to use old versions of the books,
I hope that this is struck down, but I don't think it is so certain. European companies have already used the courts to prevent "parallel imports" -- otherwise known as gray market imports -- items legally bought abroad and re-imported into the EU (or imported by a company not authorized by the manufacturer to import into the EU). Perhaps LVHM claimed that these genuine items sold on eBay fell into this category.
So the solution would seem to be to use UDP and tunnel the actual traffic within the UDP packets (and have the tunneled traffic determine if the necesary data has arrived properly). Much like OpenVPN. Since it is UDP, there is no TCP connection to kill.
In my recent posting on /. I addressed this issue. I believe that the purpose is to establish throttling and destroy network neutrality, after which stage 2 of the plan will be enacted which is to hold large websites to ransom --- "You want your packets to actually reach your customers this year? Well you have to pay the toll first."
Try using port 587 or better still, 465 (with SSL/TLS)
P2P traffic throttling is just the wedge. It is intended to legitimize throttling. If the telcos get this accepted, the next step is to throttle traffic of big sites who don't pay the telcos extra for their traffic to have priority. Goodbye Vonage, etc..
If I already have corefonts installed, do I need or want these?