Make it voluntary but not anonymous. If it is both voluntary and anonymous you run into the problem where you don't know if your missing person had been one of those who chose to carry the tag. There has to be some way to connect the tag to the hiker, preferably not by name. Delete the data after a safe period of time. Don't ask me what a safe period of time would be, because I am not sure.
There was something like this not so long ago as I recall. A guy in England accused of downloading child porn and made a similar claim. If I have it correct, he was found innocent.
In any case, you are probably right that this guy is probably guilty, but I can attest from personal experience that this crap can do embarrassing things to your P.C. My aunt was freaking out about the amount and nature of the porn that was popping up on her machine and until I got rid of it with Ad-aware it would just keep coming back no matter what she did to remove them.
Ad-aware is a good tool but not infallible. My wife's system had about 6 different Trojans and mallware on it. Ad-aware only detected 1. I knew there must be others because the firewall kept detecting something trying to call out. It took 4 different antivirus and spy-ware detection tools to find them all and I still worry about something being missed.
At least you didn't have to go to the video store with your hearing impaired grandfather and help him buy his porn. Now that was embarrassing. The guy at the counter yelling the titles to the dirty old man while the old ladies where eying him up and down. It got worse when the clerk whispered in my ear that my grandfather had great taste in porn.
Good thing I wasn't the one who had to go through his personal effects when he passed.
1) Contains a chemical mixture that is used as an effective vaginal hygeine douche.
Nope. You hurt my little brain with that one so I just had to look it up.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/sperm.asp
When you live in a building that has been wired for cable TV, You quickly notice that those old rabbit ears don't work so well anymore. I don't know what the deal is, but there seems to be some interference from the cable line. Been in several buildings here in New York City before and after they were wired for cable and noticed this happen. The result was that practically everyone in said buildings was forced to switch to cable to get any TV at all.
The man's job is to complain about his free shit. It's called reviewing them. You are just jealous because no one will pay you to play with all the new stuff.
I can't afford to replace my gear so often. There are lots of greens and reds. God I hadn't realized how many till just now.
I only find 3 blue. A set of his and hers Dell Axim Docking stations for myself and the wife, and one cell phone which actually has all 3 previosly mentioned colors.
Children are supposed to be supervised. These days your eyes and ears might not be enough. Some parent might feel they need extra tools to help keep track of their kid. At least they are trying, which I think is better than the alternative. Personally I would prefer the kid not have NET access were someone can't physically keep an eye on him, but I would not condemn the use of a key logger as an alternative either.
Messing with the 911 system is damn serious and I would nail this guy to the wall by his cohones if only as an example to anyone else that thinks it's funny to try it.
At the same time, there has to be another way to do it. I imagine there are already lots of laws that cover interfering with emergency services. I would not call it terrorism, because I think it trivialized the meaning of the word.
Yea so because someone has a job that requires them to be on call, they are not supposed to have a social life. Real nice!
Hearing those idiots having inane conversations in the middle of a movie is very annoying, so ill give you that the cell phone should be turned to vibrate and the person receiving the call should step out. I would not agree to block all incoming calls.
If you could develop a system that would automatically reset all phones to vibrate and not permit them to pick up a call within designated areas that would be great. The fact is that there is no way you could do that without all cell phones incorporating the feature and you are not going to get that without a national law.
The best solution in the short term is to educate people on the proper etiquette of cell phone usage.
Something I have always been curious about is how the tube on a TV can hold a charge for so long after it has been shut off. Frankly I don't have a clue about how capacitors work. My thought is that if you can charge one to hold so much juice and it can hold it over time, why can't we use it instead of batteries?
One of our home systems had this annoying crap that kept dumping those god awful pop up's on the desktop. It also kept asking us to download some browser plug-in. I think it was called 2nd thought. Tried deleting all references to it from the system, including registry but it would not die. Adaware found it and removed it.
What really pissed me off is that I am sure it got onto our system when my wife was browsing a teachers resource site.
Making computers think like people is overrated. We already have something that can do that! Us....
Devices with less complex intelligences modeled on insects, could carry out simple orders and report back. That kind of thing could be useful, would be less frocked with dangers and more likely to be achieved in the near future.
I hate it when I hear someone spouting off the âoeyou are stifling innovationâ argument. Research into genetic engineering does not faze me. Research is good, its how we move ahead. That does not mean we should be applying that research without serious thought as to the consequences. I donâ(TM)t just mean the guys with the lab coats and the petri dishes. I mean the entire society. Having some nimrod use it to create designer pets scares the hell out of me. The same with fools who canâ(TM)t see why that could be a problem
Just because we can do it, does not mean we should and new is not always better.
Its not even just genetically engineered plants and animals that we have to worry about. Any plant or animal can be dangerous when released into an environment where it does not belong. Do you think the people who introduced pigs to Hawaii thought they would go feral and become a nuisance? How about Rabbits in Australia? Then there are the assortment of plants and animals released in Florida, which are killing off the natural inhabitants. Wait, I think I forgot to mention the killer bee hybrid that was accidentally released in South America and has been steadily spreading.
We have enough problems with importing natural species into ecosystems where they donâ(TM)t belong. We should be trying to find solutions to that, before we complicate things further by introducing designer pets into the mix.
Lets see if I get this straight. RH sells service for 1 Server to a company, which actually has 5 RH servers. Conveniently, itâ(TM)s always the RH server that needs support. The client is cheating by getting support for all his servers when he only paid for one.
RHâ(TM)s answer to this is all or nothing. You either buy support for all your RH servers or we cant support any of them.
They are in business to make money. Either they have to tie the support to a specific machine, which would be grossly inconvenient for all sides, or they have to go with an all or nothing strategy. Maybe they should cease to sell their services on an individual server basis and only sell site support agreements. Bet you people would complain about that also.
There are some questions that only have a yes or no answer. This is not one of them.
You can however bet, there will be a period of adjustment wich is what I am hoping won't be too long or painfull. We have examples of that for every tech, including the car.
The fact is I support some Genetic Engineering, but there should be worldwide regulation. It won't do a bit of good if one country has one set of laws and its neighbor has another. Genes don't respect borders. Ever hear the expresion to many chefs will spoil the pot?
This is not a "Its my body, I can do whatever I want with it" argument. In this case(unless you don't plan to reproduce)it will have a lasting effect on the entire race.
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You are assumig that all the tags would be returned.
Make it voluntary but not anonymous. If it is both voluntary and anonymous you run into the problem where you don't know if your missing person had been one of those who chose to carry the tag. There has to be some way to connect the tag to the hiker, preferably not by name. Delete the data after a safe period of time. Don't ask me what a safe period of time would be, because I am not sure.
There was something like this not so long ago as I recall. A guy in England accused of downloading child porn and made a similar claim. If I have it correct, he was found innocent.
In any case, you are probably right that this guy is probably guilty, but I can attest from personal experience that this crap can do embarrassing things to your P.C. My aunt was freaking out about the amount and nature of the porn that was popping up on her machine and until I got rid of it with Ad-aware it would just keep coming back no matter what she did to remove them.
Ad-aware is a good tool but not infallible. My wife's system had about 6 different Trojans and mallware on it. Ad-aware only detected 1. I knew there must be others because the firewall kept detecting something trying to call out. It took 4 different antivirus and spy-ware detection tools to find them all and I still worry about something being missed.
Probably my uncle. Never did hear about them at the time.
At least you didn't have to go to the video store with your hearing impaired grandfather and help him buy his porn. Now that was embarrassing. The guy at the counter yelling the titles to the dirty old man while the old ladies where eying him up and down. It got worse when the clerk whispered in my ear that my grandfather had great taste in porn.
Good thing I wasn't the one who had to go through his personal effects when he passed.
1) Contains a chemical mixture that is used as an effective vaginal hygeine douche. Nope. You hurt my little brain with that one so I just had to look it up. http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/sperm.asp
When you live in a building that has been wired for cable TV, You quickly notice that those old rabbit ears don't work so well anymore. I don't know what the deal is, but there seems to be some interference from the cable line. Been in several buildings here in New York City before and after they were wired for cable and noticed this happen. The result was that practically everyone in said buildings was forced to switch to cable to get any TV at all.
The man's job is to complain about his free shit. It's called reviewing them. You are just jealous because no one will pay you to play with all the new stuff.
I can't afford to replace my gear so often. There are lots of greens and reds. God I hadn't realized how many till just now. I only find 3 blue. A set of his and hers Dell Axim Docking stations for myself and the wife, and one cell phone which actually has all 3 previosly mentioned colors.
Drinking straw and Vaseline in the same sentence?
Children are supposed to be supervised. These days your eyes and ears might not be enough. Some parent might feel they need extra tools to help keep track of their kid. At least they are trying, which I think is better than the alternative. Personally I would prefer the kid not have NET access were someone can't physically keep an eye on him, but I would not condemn the use of a key logger as an alternative either.
Isn't that why old P.Cs had turbo buttons?
Whenever I ran into an old DOS game that wast too fast on the newer machine I would just disable Turbo and it would run fine.
Turbo started disappearing on P.Cs around the time of the mid 486's. That would also coincide with Windows 95.
Messing with the 911 system is damn serious and I would nail this guy to the wall by his cohones if only as an example to anyone else that thinks it's funny to try it. At the same time, there has to be another way to do it. I imagine there are already lots of laws that cover interfering with emergency services. I would not call it terrorism, because I think it trivialized the meaning of the word.
Every Bollywood film I have ever seen came across as some huge musical... and I am not too fond of musicals.
Seriously, what's the point of counting heads? You want to impress me, tell me how much they gross in comparison to Hollywood and the others
Sounds like a typical slashdot geek. Since I don't have a life, anyone who wants to have one must be a monster.
Yea so because someone has a job that requires them to be on call, they are not supposed to have a social life. Real nice! Hearing those idiots having inane conversations in the middle of a movie is very annoying, so ill give you that the cell phone should be turned to vibrate and the person receiving the call should step out. I would not agree to block all incoming calls. If you could develop a system that would automatically reset all phones to vibrate and not permit them to pick up a call within designated areas that would be great. The fact is that there is no way you could do that without all cell phones incorporating the feature and you are not going to get that without a national law. The best solution in the short term is to educate people on the proper etiquette of cell phone usage.
Something I have always been curious about is how the tube on a TV can hold a charge for so long after it has been shut off. Frankly I don't have a clue about how capacitors work. My thought is that if you can charge one to hold so much juice and it can hold it over time, why can't we use it instead of batteries?
One of our home systems had this annoying crap that kept dumping those god awful pop up's on the desktop. It also kept asking us to download some browser plug-in. I think it was called 2nd thought. Tried deleting all references to it from the system, including registry but it would not die. Adaware found it and removed it. What really pissed me off is that I am sure it got onto our system when my wife was browsing a teachers resource site.
Making computers think like people is overrated. We already have something that can do that! Us....
Devices with less complex intelligences modeled on insects, could carry out simple orders and report back. That kind of thing could be useful, would be less frocked with dangers and more likely to be achieved in the near future.
If interested, check this link. It has real info. http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyP ages/M/Mosaics.html
I hate it when I hear someone spouting off the âoeyou are stifling innovationâ argument. Research into genetic engineering does not faze me. Research is good, its how we move ahead. That does not mean we should be applying that research without serious thought as to the consequences. I donâ(TM)t just mean the guys with the lab coats and the petri dishes. I mean the entire society. Having some nimrod use it to create designer pets scares the hell out of me. The same with fools who canâ(TM)t see why that could be a problem
Just because we can do it, does not mean we should and new is not always better.
Its not even just genetically engineered plants and animals that we have to worry about. Any plant or animal can be dangerous when released into an environment where it does not belong. Do you think the people who introduced pigs to Hawaii thought they would go feral and become a nuisance? How about Rabbits in Australia? Then there are the assortment of plants and animals released in Florida, which are killing off the natural inhabitants. Wait, I think I forgot to mention the killer bee hybrid that was accidentally released in South America and has been steadily spreading.
We have enough problems with importing natural species into ecosystems where they donâ(TM)t belong. We should be trying to find solutions to that, before we complicate things further by introducing designer pets into the mix.
Lets see if I get this straight.
RH sells service for 1 Server to a company, which actually has 5 RH servers.
Conveniently, itâ(TM)s always the RH server that needs support. The client is cheating by getting support for all his servers when he only paid for one.
RHâ(TM)s answer to this is all or nothing. You either buy support for all your RH servers or we cant support any of them.
They are in business to make money. Either they have to tie the support to a specific machine, which would be grossly inconvenient for all sides, or they have to go with an all or nothing strategy. Maybe they should cease to sell their services on an individual server basis and only sell site support agreements. Bet you people would complain about that also.
There are some questions that only have a yes or no answer. This is not one of them.
You can however bet, there will be a period of adjustment wich is what I am hoping won't be too long or painfull. We have examples of that for every tech, including the car.
The fact is I support some Genetic Engineering, but there should be worldwide regulation. It won't do a bit of good if one country has one set of laws and its neighbor has another. Genes don't respect borders. Ever hear the expresion to many chefs will spoil the pot?
This is not a "Its my body, I can do whatever I want with it" argument. In this case(unless you don't plan to reproduce)it will have a lasting effect on the entire race.