On the Tivo, when your brain registers "Okay the show's back on", you hit play, and it snaps back about 5 seconds before starting to play, which is almost always right.
It's not 5 seconds. It's more like some measurement in kilobytes or megabytes, which makes it very frustrating to find when a show came back after presenting a perfectly black screen for several minutes. The correction can take you back to the start of the black.
It can also be a problem with short, downloaded-to-TiVo video podcasts.
If this conjecture is correct then in order to make accurate predictions of future events you would need a computer even bigger than our universe to do so.
If someone bears false witness against a defendant to get them convicted, they ought to be sentenced to the identical punishment that the defendant would have gotten, even up to the death penalty.
You are making the assumption that nothing will happen in the future to make currently acceptable, moral, lawful behavior illegal.
Indeed, there's at least one scientist who admitted to experimental drug use when (and where) it wasn't illegal being barred from entry to the United States today for that reason. He was found because a TSA screener googled him and found the book he wrote with a chapter on the subject.
(And I'm glad to see my old signature (about eternal copyright) lives on. I need a better new one than the one I have now (TANSTAFFL).)
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"Tokeneer has been written in SPARK Ada, a high level programming language designed for high-assurance applications. Originally a subset of the Ada language, it is designed in such a way that all SPARK programs are legal Ada programs. Ada is the natural choice for mission-critical, high-integrity systems due to its combination of flexibility, reliability and ease of use, and SPARK further adds a static verification toolset that combines depth, soundness, efficiency and formal guarantees."
The people of the RIAA are, well, you know, they're just a bunch of real sweet guys, you know, who just happen to want to sue everybody. Hell, I feel the same way some mornings.
So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share an Internet with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I mean it's just going to be continual nervous time, isn't it, right? Subpoena, subpoena, subpoena, when are they next coming at us? Peaceful coexistence is just right out, right? Get me some water somebody, thank you.
Okay, hear me, hear me. It's like, these guys, you know, are entitled to their own view of the 'Net. And according to their view, which the 'Net forced on them, right, they did right. Sounds crazy, but I think you'll agree. They believe in... they believe in "peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all forms of file sharing". I've heard a lot worse.
Heck, yesterday a book fell on my keyboard - the next thing I know: every Metallica Album right in my incoming folder!
That's nothing. One day my cat walked across my keyboard entering random characters into a form on the Internet. I went to hit the Delete key and next thing I know I'm wearing freaky red spandex, have a white lightning bolt in my hair, and have an irrational desire to fight bizarre costumed criminals (I question my own sanity when I'm in this state).
In a some what related situation, a friend of a friend of mine bought a car from a police auction. Within a one month period he got pulled over three times because the license plate was in the local police database as belonging to a drug dealer.
Shouldn't the plates have been removed and an "In Transit" tag assigned to the car until new plates were issued? I've never heard of a sale of a vehicle including sale of the licensing of that vehicle. I think the only time plates are sold with the vehicle is with classic cars with contemporaneously classic plates.
Your FOAF is lucky he wasn't charged with driving an improperly licensed vehicle or driving a vehicle with stolen plates.
Probable cause, by definition, is based on thought. Wikipedia lists two accepted definitions, the first being: a reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime. The second states: a reasonable amount of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong to justify a prudent and cautious person's belief that certain facts are probably true. Look at the qualifiers involved, in both cases. "Reasonable" belief. "suspicion, supported by circumstances..." facts which are "probably true." I don't see any way to split this that doesn't come down to belief, or thought.
And like how "fair use" has no hard line rule of how much use is fair, "probable cause" contains no hard threshold of probability.
Meanwhile, presumption of recidivism effects(!) heightened probability, though "prior bad acts" are supposed to be considered selectively, not generally.
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On the Tivo, when your brain registers "Okay the show's back on", you hit play, and it snaps back about 5 seconds before starting to play, which is almost always right.
It's not 5 seconds. It's more like some measurement in kilobytes or megabytes, which makes it very frustrating to find when a show came back after presenting a perfectly black screen for several minutes. The correction can take you back to the start of the black.
It can also be a problem with short, downloaded-to-TiVo video podcasts.
Politicians don't deserve the same freedoms as citizens.
Compare members of the armed forces. They give up certain freedoms.
If this conjecture is correct then in order to make accurate predictions of future events you would need a computer even bigger than our universe to do so.
What does size have to do with it?
Are citizen arrests no longer allowed?
Only if you're in the right. If you're not, you could be charged with kidnapping (see O.J. Simpson).
If someone bears false witness against a defendant to get them convicted, they ought to be sentenced to the identical punishment that the defendant would have gotten, even up to the death penalty.
So... treat it like pass interference?
Tehy wolud hvae no plorbem rndiaeg a stennece lkie tihs. Can Tehy?
That's been dukebend already.
I thought it was the third zero that was wrong.
I remember when the Dock was what you plugged your PowerBook Duo into to make it a desktop machine.
Do not try to rewind the TiVo. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spool.
TiVo calls those functions "Fwd" and "Back".
You shouldn't really adapt your behavior to account for some alternate reality with an incredibly small probability of materializing.
You might want to check your abacus for missing beads.
By the way, you may be interested in looking up the definition of an ex post facto law.
They may not be able to prosecute you, but they sure can persecute you. E.g. sex offender registry requirements are retroactive.
There will always be trade secrets and penalties for invading anyone's profits.
You are making the assumption that nothing will happen in the future to make currently acceptable, moral, lawful behavior illegal.
Indeed, there's at least one scientist who admitted to experimental drug use when (and where) it wasn't illegal being barred from entry to the United States today for that reason. He was found because a TSA screener googled him and found the book he wrote with a chapter on the subject.
(And I'm glad to see my old signature (about eternal copyright) lives on. I need a better new one than the one I have now (TANSTAFFL).)
it is sorta fun to make contact with old classmates and to laugh at ex-girlfriends who've really let themselves go.
But what if I never liked my old classmates and have no ex-girlfriends (yic)?
How commercial-intolerant would one have to be in order to get annoyed with Hulu's commercials?
How much variety is there in Hulu's commercials? Will I see a repeated commercial in one hour of viewing? In three hours?
And will I see commercials I haven't been exposed to dozens of times in the last week on regular television?
Do they advertise Hulu on Hulu?
I'd rather over spend a little on a space program than on a war.
That's going to confuse the hell out of the space-war budget.
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Do any of these spores thrive under Bertold rays and have miraculous healing properties on humans, such as regrowth of a removed appendix?
"Tokeneer has been written in SPARK Ada, a high level programming language designed for high-assurance applications. Originally a subset of the Ada language, it is designed in such a way that all SPARK programs are legal Ada programs. Ada is the natural choice for mission-critical, high-integrity systems due to its combination of flexibility, reliability and ease of use, and SPARK further adds a static verification toolset that combines depth, soundness, efficiency and formal guarantees."
So, first exploit in...?
the latest mobile phones come with 3D hardware acceleration that rivals the power of desktop graphics hardware.
For superbly rendered phone calls, of course.
The people of the RIAA are, well, you know, they're just a bunch of real sweet guys, you know, who just happen to want to sue everybody. Hell, I feel the same way some mornings.
So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share an Internet with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I mean it's just going to be continual nervous time, isn't it, right? Subpoena, subpoena, subpoena, when are they next coming at us? Peaceful coexistence is just right out, right? Get me some water somebody, thank you.
Okay, hear me, hear me. It's like, these guys, you know, are entitled to their own view of the 'Net. And according to their view, which the 'Net forced on them, right, they did right. Sounds crazy, but I think you'll agree. They believe in... they believe in "peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all forms of file sharing". I've heard a lot worse.
Heck, yesterday a book fell on my keyboard - the next thing I know: every Metallica Album right in my incoming folder!
That's nothing. One day my cat walked across my keyboard entering random characters into a form on the Internet. I went to hit the Delete key and next thing I know I'm wearing freaky red spandex, have a white lightning bolt in my hair, and have an irrational desire to fight bizarre costumed criminals (I question my own sanity when I'm in this state).
F!
The deeper the pockets, the harder it is to find the judges.
IANAL, not the GPAC, nor alleging anything. I'm just offering a witty-pithy pessimistic observation on the system as a whole.
In a some what related situation, a friend of a friend of mine bought a car from a police auction. Within a one month period he got pulled over three times because the license plate was in the local police database as belonging to a drug dealer.
Shouldn't the plates have been removed and an "In Transit" tag assigned to the car until new plates were issued? I've never heard of a sale of a vehicle including sale of the licensing of that vehicle. I think the only time plates are sold with the vehicle is with classic cars with contemporaneously classic plates.
Your FOAF is lucky he wasn't charged with driving an improperly licensed vehicle or driving a vehicle with stolen plates.
IANAL
Probable cause, by definition, is based on thought. Wikipedia lists two accepted definitions, the first being: a reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime. The second states: a reasonable amount of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong to justify a prudent and cautious person's belief that certain facts are probably true. Look at the qualifiers involved, in both cases. "Reasonable" belief. "suspicion, supported by circumstances..." facts which are "probably true." I don't see any way to split this that doesn't come down to belief, or thought.
And like how "fair use" has no hard line rule of how much use is fair, "probable cause" contains no hard threshold of probability.
Meanwhile, presumption of recidivism effects(!) heightened probability, though "prior bad acts" are supposed to be considered selectively, not generally.
fail! you are not many people.
How many people does it take to have many people? Is it more than a couple several or more than a few several?