Because of the way it was phrased. Arguably, a company with almost no cash and no interest in certain markets but holding patents in those markets could either become a patent troll, or could sell patents and get cash to allow for some kind of possible technological revival.
Would you rather see AOL become the next Rambus?
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if AOL slowly evolves into an e-mail portal for those who have had an address with them and are willing to pay $20 per year to keep that address, but they might be able to make something with the cash, if they're not horrifically stupid.
Well, if a turbine blows apart and pieces go flying, I suppose that they could kill someone, like when this one over-revved and blew itself to bits...
Beyond normal "omg I live near power transmission lines" which could apply to any large power generating method, I can't see any other dangers.
Eh. William Gibson already went over this in his Blue Ant trilogy, mostly in Spook Country.
I'm actually working to get back out of artificial enhancement of an environment. Too many people don't see what's actually there without something artificial modifying the experience.
If it increases interoperability, that is a rather high priority for any operating system whose proponents wish it to remain viable.
I am no fan of Redmond, but I have managed to make a lot of money supporting their products.
@Avenger938: Ha! [video of drunk guy running into tree on motorcycle]
We would be very, very fortunate if the video was just of a drunk guy running into a tree on a motorcycle on CNN, especially when the contents of sites like tubgirl, lemonparty, two girls one cup, and goatse are still floating around.
There's a big push for Bring Your Own Device in schools and businesses. Given the things people use their own tech for, I can see a massive increase in the incidences of pornography showing up with BYOD in public spaces, meetings, and the like.
Well, they'll need to develop a chatbot that acts like a normal person, and a chatbot that acts like a sexual predator, and then all three of the pieces of software could go through a rapid automated evolutionary development process.
Some friends of mine did that once, and put them into a teen-oriented IRC channel. "Lace" was about thirty lines long, and mostly just pretended to be teenage girl playing with anatomy and inviting others to do the same. The other one, whose name escapes me, was about a gig and a half from all of the conversation it had absorbed.
The big one was kickbanned quickly, within a few minutes. "Lace" remained in the channel for the better part of an hour until people stopped replying to it, and was finally booted when the moderator-bot kicked it when "Lace" posted, "you're boring! I shouldn't have left #hotstuff" or something like that, citing that "Lace" was advertising for other channels.
The guy who had written the serious, big one was devastated. The guy who wrote lace had the rage-comics troll face look for the next several days.
Because managers seems to like new buzzwords for old things, and seem to like reinventing the wheel. This, however, is a first in that it's not reinventing the wheel so much as it's repackaging it and calling it something else.
I think they could mine bash.org for a sampling to base their algorithm on. Unfortunately they'd have to wade through discussions of horse porn and tabletop role playing game issues before they could establish a firm model to follow...
Not everyone who solicits sexual favors is a "predator". They seem to be making that leap.
Hell, some people seemingly solicit for sexual favors when they actually want nothing of the sort. Just the other day, two guys were shouting at each other, and unless this was some kind of passive-aggressive homoerotic fantasy being acted out, the one's invitation, "Suck my dick!" to the other was almost undoubtedly not solicited with any expectation or desire behind it...
Do you know how a monitored security system works?
I do, I work for an organization with about 100 sites which I have to go in and out of, including during hours when I have to disarm a site.
The security company, by and large, doesn't really care about the brand of system in the site, they can interface to many, so long as they're commercial products. In our case, only one door into a secured area won't immediately set the alarm off, that one door has a delay before the alarm goes off, in which one disarms the system. The attendant at the security company gets an alarm on their computer screen when a site goes off, and they call the police if they don't receive a call within a minute or so of the actual alarm going off, even if one disarms the security system post-alarm. One has to know who to call and has to have a code word to prevent the authorities from being called.
In some residential installations, the security company will call a phone number on the account and ask for the code word instead of waiting for a call.
As far as burglars go, without some kind of monitoring, a burglar will still have a few minutes to grab whatever they can, even while the thing is blaring, as it's unlikely that the neighbors will call the police until the alarm gets annoying and they figure that no one is around to shut it off.
There are also fairly inexpensive ($500-$1000) camera systems with eight cameras (expandable to sixteen) at Costco that use PoE cameras. One has to run Ethernet wiring to locations for the cameras, but the advantage of needing only one battery backup for the main DVR/switch outweighs the use of separate power at each camera, in my humble opinion. I'm considering a system like this, but I know that I'll probably spend another $500 wiring for it, with the horizontal cable, the patch cords at each end, the conduit pipe for the outdoor cameras, the patch panel, the snap-in connectors, and the like, and that's assuming that I can coax an old battery backup back to life with a new set of SLAs for it.
There's no good cheap solution, in my opinion. If one is in a house, signing up for monitoring for a certain amount of time may yield a free system for detection.
...they need to buy parts from all of the vendors and use our international investigative abilities to find out who the actual people selling the parts are, then test the parts. When parts come back bad, we need to ensure that we don't do business with those people again, and that we publish who we bought from and what the results are.
That might stop a lot of companies from buying from those vendors. It certainly wouldn't stop all, but it could help.
That isn't a pittance, that's right at the 50th percentile in American income, ie, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. That's making more money than half of everyone in the country.
Schools inform parents of pending field trips and require a parental consent permission slip to be signed and returned before a student is allowed to go on each and every trip. That curtails an avenue of complaint, as the school district actually keeps those permission slips and will produce it if a parent complains about what a kid was officially exposed to on a field trip. The parent is notified about where the child is to go, and if the parent disagrees then they are free to simply not sign or return the slip, or to note negatively on the slip, depending on how the school district handles such things.
...that a precedent had been set in by court instead of by settlement. When one party (in this case, the government) is forced by the court to do something, it tends to have more legal weight behind it than when the party instead voluntarily takes an action.
I think that it's more that outside of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, we generally expect that the girl-looking person we see to have the correct plumbing.
I've never pulled a Danny Bonaduce, but I could imagine the experience to be quite horrifying if caught completely unexpected.
Yeah, but do you really think this is the only business that does this kind of thing?
It may not be the only business that does this kind of thing, but it certainly seems to be the most visibly blatant at the moment, and that's telling for an organization that controls such a large amount of the media in the areas its malfeasance is being reported in.
Seeking to crack opponents' tech, not a surprise.
Hosting a site or forum dedicated to the tech, including security and the like, meh.
Seeking to create ever-stronger penalties for violations of security, expected.
Using corporate resources to crack a competitor's technology and intentionally posting the technical information needed to allow others to also crack said technology, while advocating for laws that should theoretically result in essentially a corporate death penalty- that's a surprise.
Corporations are chartered by the government. Simple solution, revoke their charters when the violations stack on like we've seen with News Corp. Force the assets into auction, require revenues to pay legal damages and then distribute what remains proportionally to those stockholders that weren't also employed in the company and engaging in the wanton illegal activity or directly managing those who were.
If corporations faced their charters' revocation, and if egregious offenders actually saw this happen from time to time with dramatic losses to stockholders, maybe stockholders and corporate officers would reduce the amount of corruption in their ranks.
I guess it comes down the safety and political stability for the long term.
In South Africa there have been problems with rural people being murdered, and while their political change appears to have by-and-large completed, no guarantee.
In Australia, their government appears stable, but they've had some issues with censorship and excessive searching of people at their ports, plus one runs the risk of running afoul of biker gangs, and having to be avenged by a lone cop driving the last of the V8 interceptors. Then there's the problem of who runs Barter Town and breaking deals and facing wheels...
I'm sure they have loopholes to allow them to keep the data on anyone that they think is "interesting".
Yeah, it's called an FBI file...
That we occasionally get a released FBI file on a long-dead political activist, or on an entertainer, or on a politician, or on a civil rights leader... draw your own conclusions.
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Because of the way it was phrased. Arguably, a company with almost no cash and no interest in certain markets but holding patents in those markets could either become a patent troll, or could sell patents and get cash to allow for some kind of possible technological revival.
Would you rather see AOL become the next Rambus?
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if AOL slowly evolves into an e-mail portal for those who have had an address with them and are willing to pay $20 per year to keep that address, but they might be able to make something with the cash, if they're not horrifically stupid.
Well, if a turbine blows apart and pieces go flying, I suppose that they could kill someone, like when this one over-revved and blew itself to bits... Beyond normal "omg I live near power transmission lines" which could apply to any large power generating method, I can't see any other dangers.
I had to reread that several times to finally get it. Now my coworkers think I'm even more crazy than they thought before...
Eh. William Gibson already went over this in his Blue Ant trilogy, mostly in Spook Country. I'm actually working to get back out of artificial enhancement of an environment. Too many people don't see what's actually there without something artificial modifying the experience.
If it increases interoperability, that is a rather high priority for any operating system whose proponents wish it to remain viable. I am no fan of Redmond, but I have managed to make a lot of money supporting their products.
We would be very, very fortunate if the video was just of a drunk guy running into a tree on a motorcycle on CNN, especially when the contents of sites like tubgirl, lemonparty, two girls one cup, and goatse are still floating around.
There's a big push for Bring Your Own Device in schools and businesses. Given the things people use their own tech for, I can see a massive increase in the incidences of pornography showing up with BYOD in public spaces, meetings, and the like.
Some friends of mine did that once, and put them into a teen-oriented IRC channel. "Lace" was about thirty lines long, and mostly just pretended to be teenage girl playing with anatomy and inviting others to do the same. The other one, whose name escapes me, was about a gig and a half from all of the conversation it had absorbed.
The big one was kickbanned quickly, within a few minutes. "Lace" remained in the channel for the better part of an hour until people stopped replying to it, and was finally booted when the moderator-bot kicked it when "Lace" posted, "you're boring! I shouldn't have left #hotstuff" or something like that, citing that "Lace" was advertising for other channels.
The guy who had written the serious, big one was devastated. The guy who wrote lace had the rage-comics troll face look for the next several days.
Because managers seems to like new buzzwords for old things, and seem to like reinventing the wheel. This, however, is a first in that it's not reinventing the wheel so much as it's repackaging it and calling it something else.
I think they could mine bash.org for a sampling to base their algorithm on. Unfortunately they'd have to wade through discussions of horse porn and tabletop role playing game issues before they could establish a firm model to follow...
Hell, some people seemingly solicit for sexual favors when they actually want nothing of the sort. Just the other day, two guys were shouting at each other, and unless this was some kind of passive-aggressive homoerotic fantasy being acted out, the one's invitation, "Suck my dick!" to the other was almost undoubtedly not solicited with any expectation or desire behind it...
Oh, a Wyse guy, huh?!
Do you know how a monitored security system works?
I do, I work for an organization with about 100 sites which I have to go in and out of, including during hours when I have to disarm a site.
The security company, by and large, doesn't really care about the brand of system in the site, they can interface to many, so long as they're commercial products. In our case, only one door into a secured area won't immediately set the alarm off, that one door has a delay before the alarm goes off, in which one disarms the system. The attendant at the security company gets an alarm on their computer screen when a site goes off, and they call the police if they don't receive a call within a minute or so of the actual alarm going off, even if one disarms the security system post-alarm. One has to know who to call and has to have a code word to prevent the authorities from being called.
In some residential installations, the security company will call a phone number on the account and ask for the code word instead of waiting for a call.
As far as burglars go, without some kind of monitoring, a burglar will still have a few minutes to grab whatever they can, even while the thing is blaring, as it's unlikely that the neighbors will call the police until the alarm gets annoying and they figure that no one is around to shut it off.
There are also fairly inexpensive ($500-$1000) camera systems with eight cameras (expandable to sixteen) at Costco that use PoE cameras. One has to run Ethernet wiring to locations for the cameras, but the advantage of needing only one battery backup for the main DVR/switch outweighs the use of separate power at each camera, in my humble opinion. I'm considering a system like this, but I know that I'll probably spend another $500 wiring for it, with the horizontal cable, the patch cords at each end, the conduit pipe for the outdoor cameras, the patch panel, the snap-in connectors, and the like, and that's assuming that I can coax an old battery backup back to life with a new set of SLAs for it.
There's no good cheap solution, in my opinion. If one is in a house, signing up for monitoring for a certain amount of time may yield a free system for detection.
...they need to buy parts from all of the vendors and use our international investigative abilities to find out who the actual people selling the parts are, then test the parts. When parts come back bad, we need to ensure that we don't do business with those people again, and that we publish who we bought from and what the results are. That might stop a lot of companies from buying from those vendors. It certainly wouldn't stop all, but it could help.
That isn't a pittance, that's right at the 50th percentile in American income, ie, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. That's making more money than half of everyone in the country.
Schools inform parents of pending field trips and require a parental consent permission slip to be signed and returned before a student is allowed to go on each and every trip. That curtails an avenue of complaint, as the school district actually keeps those permission slips and will produce it if a parent complains about what a kid was officially exposed to on a field trip. The parent is notified about where the child is to go, and if the parent disagrees then they are free to simply not sign or return the slip, or to note negatively on the slip, depending on how the school district handles such things.
I think someone's just offended by Barbara Rush or perhaps Richard Carlson...
NO OUTER SPACE QUESTIONS!
They've banned outer space creatures! You can't do that!
...that a precedent had been set in by court instead of by settlement. When one party (in this case, the government) is forced by the court to do something, it tends to have more legal weight behind it than when the party instead voluntarily takes an action.
I think that it's more that outside of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, we generally expect that the girl-looking person we see to have the correct plumbing.
I've never pulled a Danny Bonaduce, but I could imagine the experience to be quite horrifying if caught completely unexpected.
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Nevermind...
It may not be the only business that does this kind of thing, but it certainly seems to be the most visibly blatant at the moment, and that's telling for an organization that controls such a large amount of the media in the areas its malfeasance is being reported in.
Seeking to crack opponents' tech, not a surprise.
Hosting a site or forum dedicated to the tech, including security and the like, meh.
Seeking to create ever-stronger penalties for violations of security, expected.
Using corporate resources to crack a competitor's technology and intentionally posting the technical information needed to allow others to also crack said technology, while advocating for laws that should theoretically result in essentially a corporate death penalty- that's a surprise.
Corporations are chartered by the government. Simple solution, revoke their charters when the violations stack on like we've seen with News Corp. Force the assets into auction, require revenues to pay legal damages and then distribute what remains proportionally to those stockholders that weren't also employed in the company and engaging in the wanton illegal activity or directly managing those who were.
If corporations faced their charters' revocation, and if egregious offenders actually saw this happen from time to time with dramatic losses to stockholders, maybe stockholders and corporate officers would reduce the amount of corruption in their ranks.
...I created games on my TI-82 graphing calculator, so I guess turnabout is fair play...
I guess it comes down the safety and political stability for the long term.
In South Africa there have been problems with rural people being murdered, and while their political change appears to have by-and-large completed, no guarantee.
In Australia, their government appears stable, but they've had some issues with censorship and excessive searching of people at their ports, plus one runs the risk of running afoul of biker gangs, and having to be avenged by a lone cop driving the last of the V8 interceptors. Then there's the problem of who runs Barter Town and breaking deals and facing wheels...
Yeah, it's called an FBI file...
That we occasionally get a released FBI file on a long-dead political activist, or on an entertainer, or on a politician, or on a civil rights leader... draw your own conclusions.
Damn, that was quick... I came to make the same joke...