Actually, they should just refund what people paid for the lost service:
$1 per year = $1 for 8760 hours
1/8760 = $.000114 per hour, or.0114 cents per hour
Service was down for, what, four hours?
0.0114 x 4 = 0.046 cents per user.
It would cost the company a little over $205,000.
So... wait... I have one issue here. Per TSA policy, ANYONE can REFUSE to use the advanced imaging technology and ELECT a putdown. If they FORCED her into the body scanner, that's assault. If she CHOSE not to elect the patdown, then she shares some culpability. Argue the merits of whether the patdowns are legal/appropriate/effective/etc., but, as I fly pretty often, I know for a *fact* that there are a litany of signs posted while going through security that advanced imaging technology is optional. If she was that concerned, she should have declined.
Here's a fly-in-the-ointment of the entire lawsuit - did the 19-year-old lie about his age? If he is 19, and his MySpace page said he was 19, what would age verification do to prevent any of this?
Part of me *hopes* this is a setup by the parents, in light of the "Palestinian runaway" and with MySpace being in the news an awful lot lately. It would make me feel better to think that her parents were trying to perpetrate a fraud than being just that hideously stupid. If your daughter is 14, you meet the people she goes out with, whether platonic or romantic. No exceptions.
Seriously. I think BStrunk has to dial back the rhetoric a bit with the "inept institution." The "inept institution" those troops are serving is, when it comes down to it, the American people, by way of the military. Those people, for one reason or another, have decided to put their lives on the line to serve the United States and her people.
I agree that it is a sad state of affairs where soldiers' personal information is not safe, but let's talk about fixing the problem, not losing the "faith" to serve an "institution".
DirecTV lets you do something similar to this online. On their website, you can add, subtract, and switch premium packages (HBO, Showtime, etc.) without paying a change fee. The only thing you pay is the $12 per month fee for the channels PRORATED for the amount of time you actually are watching the channel (down to approximately 10 minute blocks).
For example, I wanted to watch an out-of-market hockey game on NESN (part of the Sports channel package). Five minutes before the game started, I went to the website and added the sports package. Five minutes after the game ended, I went and removed the sports package. I paid about 20 cents to watch that game.
Caffeine falls into a category of drugs called methylxanthines which have many varied effects. One of these effects is to act on cerebral blood vessels causing them to constrict. This constriction does have relief effects for headaches, since the vast majority of headaches (including stress headaches and migranes) are due, at least in part, to dilation of the small blood vessels in the head and the inflammation this dilation causes. This is one of the reasons that Excedrin has caffeine (another being that caffeine increases your metabolic rate, causing the aspirin to begin acting faster).
However, that has absolutely nothing to do with withdrawal headaches. Caffeine is a mildly-addictive drug, and the mechanism of this dependence is well-known (see here or here). Headaches are a common side-effect of withdrawal, and are even more common than normal in caffeine withdrawal (ever hear of weekend headaches?).
PLEASE: for the sake of everyone who reads Slashdot, do not spread misinformation. Please mod parent down.
Red vs. Blue is based on Halo, and in fact, the videos are created by a group of guys choreographing the movements of a multiplayer Halo game to follow their story.
The story is a relatively simple one. Between the Covenant invasion (Halo) and the invasion of Earth (Halo 2), a brutal civil war broke out between the human marines (the reds versus the blues). While in most places, the fight is ugly and bloody, the boys in Blood Gulch Canyon can't seem to figure out why the hell they are where they are, seeing as though their location holds no strategic value.
Throw in lines like "Women are like Voltron. The more you can hook up, the better it gets," an overbearing sergeant, and a retard of a blue recruit, and hillarity ensues.
As an undergraduate, I actually sat on the Honor Board at a major US college. We were in charge of charging, investigating, and adjudicating honor code violations, including plagiarism, and we could not have done our job without turnitin.com.
Today, there is such a multitude of information on every subject known to mankind on the internet that it is nearly impossible to know them all. Also, cheating and plagiarism are epidemic (anywhere from 40-50% of students admit to "serious cheating" on at least one writing assignment), making those who do cheat a much larger percentage of the population than those who download illegal music. While sending everyone's papers through turnitin might be overkill (since most professors can tell when someone's paper just doesn't sound right), unless you have something to hide, you shouldn't have any problem with sending your papers through turnitin.
It's not like getting frisked or questioned under bright interrogation lights. It doesn't even take any of your time because the school does it all for you. You give them your paper (which you do anyway), they send it in, and 24-72 hours later they get an e-mail response. Many more schools (or at least professors) could be doing this anyway and no one would ever know it. That hardly qualifies as humiliating.
If your school is known as being a haven for plagiarists, is anyone going to take your degree seriously? The old Reagan quote comes to mind: "Trust, but verify."
"...but they do know how to write a document so it won't be destroyed by another lawyer."
As you said, the GPL hasn't yet been destroyed by another lawyer. The article gives a very eloquent reason why the GPL is difficult to destroy. If a software developer improperly includes GPLed software, either the developer says "The GPL gave me permission to include the software" or the developer says "The GPL is invalid". The first case leads to no problem with the GPL, whereas the second case leaves the developer with NO LEGAL PERMISSION to use the software. This could be a legal nightmare for the developer, if not just counterproductive.
And, I'm sure that, just as some lawyers have gone to medical school, some lawyers can code for just this reason: to challenge software licenses. In the end, what it comes down to is that if your lawyer is good enough, you can get around even the most flawlessly written software license. Just because the GPL isn't perfect doesn't mean you shouldn't use it, because no software license is perfect.
Has anyone taken this into account? Even if you could take your phone number with you, many people will still not be able to switch carriers do to new phones being prohibitively expensive and old phones that are only usable on one company's network. That, bundled with the exorbitant fees companies charge to break contract, suggest to me that there are plenty of other ways to avoid the jumping-ship problem the phone companies fear. Although, the best way to ensure you keep your customers is to have (GASP) good customer service, good features, low prices, and good coverage.
I was reading this article and, while interesting in one regard, is a bit scary in another.
In a good way, it is a definite possibility as a cure to Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's disease is an overabundance of a certain malformed protein in the hippocampus. Skirting around the ill-functioning hippocampus and replacing it with a microchip would be incredible as a cure (although, there are several other cures in the works out there, such as The Alzheimer's Vaccine).
The scary part of this is the Total Recall-esque possibility of introducing new thoughts to the brain via the mock hippocampus. The hippocampus is the main circuit for new thoughts to be formed. I just think it's a bit of a scary prospect.
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Actually, they should just refund what people paid for the lost service: $1 per year = $1 for 8760 hours 1/8760 = $.000114 per hour, or .0114 cents per hour
Service was down for, what, four hours?
0.0114 x 4 = 0.046 cents per user.
It would cost the company a little over $205,000.
So... wait... I have one issue here. Per TSA policy, ANYONE can REFUSE to use the advanced imaging technology and ELECT a putdown. If they FORCED her into the body scanner, that's assault. If she CHOSE not to elect the patdown, then she shares some culpability. Argue the merits of whether the patdowns are legal/appropriate/effective/etc., but, as I fly pretty often, I know for a *fact* that there are a litany of signs posted while going through security that advanced imaging technology is optional. If she was that concerned, she should have declined.
Untethered means you don't need a USB connection to boot the phone, not that you don't need one to install the jailbreak.
I like SQUOCTOPUS!
Here's a fly-in-the-ointment of the entire lawsuit - did the 19-year-old lie about his age? If he is 19, and his MySpace page said he was 19, what would age verification do to prevent any of this?
Part of me *hopes* this is a setup by the parents, in light of the "Palestinian runaway" and with MySpace being in the news an awful lot lately. It would make me feel better to think that her parents were trying to perpetrate a fraud than being just that hideously stupid. If your daughter is 14, you meet the people she goes out with, whether platonic or romantic. No exceptions.
Seriously. I think BStrunk has to dial back the rhetoric a bit with the "inept institution." The "inept institution" those troops are serving is, when it comes down to it, the American people, by way of the military. Those people, for one reason or another, have decided to put their lives on the line to serve the United States and her people.
I agree that it is a sad state of affairs where soldiers' personal information is not safe, but let's talk about fixing the problem, not losing the "faith" to serve an "institution".
DirecTV lets you do something similar to this online. On their website, you can add, subtract, and switch premium packages (HBO, Showtime, etc.) without paying a change fee. The only thing you pay is the $12 per month fee for the channels PRORATED for the amount of time you actually are watching the channel (down to approximately 10 minute blocks).
For example, I wanted to watch an out-of-market hockey game on NESN (part of the Sports channel package). Five minutes before the game started, I went to the website and added the sports package. Five minutes after the game ended, I went and removed the sports package. I paid about 20 cents to watch that game.
Your logic is flawed on this front.
Caffeine falls into a category of drugs called methylxanthines which have many varied effects. One of these effects is to act on cerebral blood vessels causing them to constrict. This constriction does have relief effects for headaches, since the vast majority of headaches (including stress headaches and migranes) are due, at least in part, to dilation of the small blood vessels in the head and the inflammation this dilation causes. This is one of the reasons that Excedrin has caffeine (another being that caffeine increases your metabolic rate, causing the aspirin to begin acting faster).
However, that has absolutely nothing to do with withdrawal headaches. Caffeine is a mildly-addictive drug, and the mechanism of this dependence is well-known (see here or here). Headaches are a common side-effect of withdrawal, and are even more common than normal in caffeine withdrawal (ever hear of weekend headaches?).
PLEASE: for the sake of everyone who reads Slashdot, do not spread misinformation. Please mod parent down.
Ok, so here's the skinny.
Red vs. Blue is based on Halo, and in fact, the videos are created by a group of guys choreographing the movements of a multiplayer Halo game to follow their story.
The story is a relatively simple one. Between the Covenant invasion (Halo) and the invasion of Earth (Halo 2), a brutal civil war broke out between the human marines (the reds versus the blues). While in most places, the fight is ugly and bloody, the boys in Blood Gulch Canyon can't seem to figure out why the hell they are where they are, seeing as though their location holds no strategic value.
Throw in lines like "Women are like Voltron. The more you can hook up, the better it gets," an overbearing sergeant, and a retard of a blue recruit, and hillarity ensues.
I hope this helps.
As an undergraduate, I actually sat on the Honor Board at a major US college. We were in charge of charging, investigating, and adjudicating honor code violations, including plagiarism, and we could not have done our job without turnitin.com.
Today, there is such a multitude of information on every subject known to mankind on the internet that it is nearly impossible to know them all. Also, cheating and plagiarism are epidemic (anywhere from 40-50% of students admit to "serious cheating" on at least one writing assignment), making those who do cheat a much larger percentage of the population than those who download illegal music. While sending everyone's papers through turnitin might be overkill (since most professors can tell when someone's paper just doesn't sound right), unless you have something to hide, you shouldn't have any problem with sending your papers through turnitin.
It's not like getting frisked or questioned under bright interrogation lights. It doesn't even take any of your time because the school does it all for you. You give them your paper (which you do anyway), they send it in, and 24-72 hours later they get an e-mail response. Many more schools (or at least professors) could be doing this anyway and no one would ever know it. That hardly qualifies as humiliating.
If your school is known as being a haven for plagiarists, is anyone going to take your degree seriously? The old Reagan quote comes to mind: "Trust, but verify."
"...but they do know how to write a document so it won't be destroyed by another lawyer."
As you said, the GPL hasn't yet been destroyed by another lawyer. The article gives a very eloquent reason why the GPL is difficult to destroy. If a software developer improperly includes GPLed software, either the developer says "The GPL gave me permission to include the software" or the developer says "The GPL is invalid". The first case leads to no problem with the GPL, whereas the second case leaves the developer with NO LEGAL PERMISSION to use the software. This could be a legal nightmare for the developer, if not just counterproductive.
And, I'm sure that, just as some lawyers have gone to medical school, some lawyers can code for just this reason: to challenge software licenses. In the end, what it comes down to is that if your lawyer is good enough, you can get around even the most flawlessly written software license. Just because the GPL isn't perfect doesn't mean you shouldn't use it, because no software license is perfect.
Has anyone taken this into account? Even if you could take your phone number with you, many people will still not be able to switch carriers do to new phones being prohibitively expensive and old phones that are only usable on one company's network. That, bundled with the exorbitant fees companies charge to break contract, suggest to me that there are plenty of other ways to avoid the jumping-ship problem the phone companies fear. Although, the best way to ensure you keep your customers is to have (GASP) good customer service, good features, low prices, and good coverage.
I was reading this article and, while interesting in one regard, is a bit scary in another. In a good way, it is a definite possibility as a cure to Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's disease is an overabundance of a certain malformed protein in the hippocampus. Skirting around the ill-functioning hippocampus and replacing it with a microchip would be incredible as a cure (although, there are several other cures in the works out there, such as The Alzheimer's Vaccine). The scary part of this is the Total Recall-esque possibility of introducing new thoughts to the brain via the mock hippocampus. The hippocampus is the main circuit for new thoughts to be formed. I just think it's a bit of a scary prospect.