They will have evidence that, according to their expert witness, proves you are guilty. It is up to you to prove that their evidence and their expert are full of crap. The only way to do that is to have a more believable expert and a better attorney. So, yes, you are guilty unless you spend the bucks to prove otherwise. To most judges and juries, it if gets that far, technology is magic and they simply believe the expert with the most honest face.
RFID tags are passive devices, they are not reprogramable. They aren't the packing list, just a pointer to the records in a database. The same pallet used for ipods this week might be used for deoderant next week, so it isn't as useful to thieves as UPC codes.
Modifying the RFID would be about as difficult as modifiying bar codes, so it doesn't make the job easer for the loonies. I don't mean the UPC code on the product, but the bar codes on the packet load. The main advantage of RFID vs those bor codes is that the orientation of the reader isn't as important, plus it can be a little further away. Not a big deal, but saving minutes per pallet equates to saving hours per day and weeks per year, so the $2 is quickly recovered.
It costs less for a worker to attach a tag to an empty pallet than to a loaded one. But, without the $2 fee, it costs the supplier less not to attach a tag at all, so Walmarts fee simply shifts the task to the supplier by making it worthwhile to tag. Sure, Walmart could tag the pallets after they are unloaded, but then the suppliers still have no incentive to use tagged pallets for future Walmart shipments. And it is a onetime expense, once tagged, the pallets stay tagged until either the tag or the pallet wears out. So, Although Walmart, at least initially, is the benificiary of the tags, the $2 fee provides an incentive for the lower cost tagger to do the tagging. Seems reasonable to me.
Yes, the Spaskey match wouldn't have had such a big audience if Bobby wasn't such a nutcase, but back then, we didn't know if he was really a nut or just acting.
I think that if the ranting and raving is extreme enough, it tends to have the opposite effect on the listener.
This is a perfect example of what I hate about the cult of celebrity. If he had never been the great chess champion, we would have never known of his antisemitism or his extreme opinions to being used as a propaganda tool. Yes, greatness in one arena tends to go hand in hand with being nuts, possibly from pressure or possibly from the same personality flaws that made him great at chess. He acted quite nutty during the Spasky match; the public debate at the time was whether it was just an act. But, it did serve to psych out his opponent and amuse the rest of us. But, Fischer and other celebrities rarely have great expertise outside of the field that got them famous in the first place and I do wish that their opinions on politics, religion, and parenting were not considered news worthy.
Oh, my! I read the original cached article and it read exactly like something from The Onion. Even the quotes seemed like the fake quotes even if they were real quotes taken out of context.
Yeah, Slashdot was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was Web 2.0. It's almost completely user generated content except for a few short articles that no one reads.
This is not just an after 911 thing. It isn't even a computer thing. In the 70's, the UK was suffering from a plague of bombings, and when I went through security in Heathrow, they made me punch every button on my TI59. They weren't the sort to be impressed with the technology, but they were horrified at the number of buttons.
The book donations people aren't librarians, they are volunteers, mostly young mothers who need something interesting to do while the kids are in school. The librarians do have training in sorting out the various kinds of books, especially the ones charged with buying books. They rely partially on recommendations from patrons and other sources. If you brought your old ARRL handbook to the front desk, those librarians would have pointed you to the donations bin, they aren't the ones who buy the books either. If you reallly wanted to get your ARRL handbook into the collection, you probably should have hunted down the person(s) responsible for buying technical books, someone who might actually know what the ARRL is. Most people in the library don't have the time to become experts in everything, so they specialize and farm out quite a bit of the work to untrained volunteers.
What you need to do is find a young kid with an aptitude for radio and give him the handbook before he gets hooked on something like webpage design.
Yeah, i believe you. I just don't think the volunteers at the library have the time or the knowledge to differentiate between an ARRL handbook and a 25 year old book on the wonders of Compuserve. The soccermoms who run the book sales might not be stupid, but they aren't engineers and they aren't weight lifters. Those ARRL handbooks are heavy, I have a few myself. I also have the old Compuserve book.
I don't think you read my original post. I specifically addressed Amazon. It certainly isn't quicker than the library. I can order up a book in a jiffy on the library website and go get it the same day. There is even a javascript applet that jumps you back and forth between the library website and any other website that has an ISBN, so I can even read the reviews on Amazon. If it takes you 45 minutes get to the library that is only 10 minutes away, you must be doing something there other than grabbing a book and checking it out. The hours are about the same as most other businesses that aren't in the 24 hour convenience mode. Do you buy all your stuff from Amazon? About the only thing I haven't seen on it is groceries and gas.
Some books, of course, are an exception. There is no way the library can get HP to every patron on the day of release. They did have quite a few on the hold shelf though, so it wasn't a total bust. However, there are plenty of kids in Atlanta that needed the library copies more than me, so I used amazon. I only used it for DH and regretted the decision. The book wasn't delivered until 1:30 in the afternoon. Seems everyone wanted expedited delivery so most of us had to wait. Sometimes, nothing can beat a real bookstore. Too bad, Amazon put the one 2 blocks from my house out of business. That's where I got all my other HP books.
For new releases, Amazon is more likely to have it in stock, and if you like junk, Amazon is more likely to have it in stock, but virtually all best sellers and classics fiction and nonfiction get into a library. Computerized catalogues and interlibrary loan systems have come a long way since the last time you set foot in a library. I'm not trying to advertise the library, I'm just having a hard time realizing that you wrote a long post in response to my post that you didn't even comprehend, and that you are so lazy that you'd rather sit around and wait for the postman than get out of the house for a few minutes. If you have errands to run, stopping in at the library to pick up a book should add no more than five minutes to the outing.
If you were trying to donate technical books, they were probaby out of date. They would rather buy current dummis and idiots books, than sorting through all your windows 3.1 manuals. They probably don't even know what the latest linux or gimp version is without looking it up. Better not to accept them at all even if you might be the rare donor who is donating the latest and greatest. Space is limited and books are heavy, even for the book sales. They must put them somewhere and get all those Friends of the Library to pack, unpack, and shelve them.
I guess I'm a knuckle dragging idiot. Or, I use a much easier resource (the Internet) for my research. I buy books instead of borrowing them.
I don't understand your reasoning. Do you get in a car and drive to a bookstore? Driving to the library is just as easy. Do you order online and have books delivered? Reviewing the library catalog via the internet is just as easy. If the book is on the shelf, you can go get it the same day. Even if you must put a hold on it or have it delivered from another branch, it is still quicker than Amazon and completely free.
I live in a little backwater town in Georgia, and have both Borders and Barnes & Noble within 5 miles of my house, but I have even more library branches, can't get to any of the big boxes without passing a branch. I can check the library inventory from my computer, I can't do that with the big boxes and, of course, amazon has no big box at all.
The library has a wide selection and I can usually get a book the same day I decide to read it. If it must be brought from another branch, that delays it one day, if another patron has it out, it might take a couple of weeks, but if the wait list gets very long, they buy another copy, and if they don't have one at all, I can ask them to buy it, and they usually do. And Atlanta is famous for the suckiness of the library system. You must live in a one of the few places reputed to be worse.
Considering how "stable" thermal paper is it... , just wait for when the truck arrives with the ballots, after driving around in that Florida sunshine.
You can't ban sex offenders from living, or carrying out activities that are routine for virtually all Americans (except for a few odd legislaters here and there. That is unreasonalbe and unenforcable. This reminds me very much of the Georgia law banning sex offenders from living withing 1000 feet of a school bus stop. It turns out that the in many counties, it is not possible to be more than 1000 feet from a bus stop. That one was thrown out, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21917363/.
When my kid first ventured onto the internet, I told him to always make up a silly name for himself whenever he posted or logged in or whatever, to absolutely never type his real name no matter who was running the site. That was over ten year ago, maybe I should google his real nme and see if it pops up. Of course, Google remembers your searches, so that googling your real name while logged in with a pseudonym or vice versa could link your identities or those of your kids forever.
Hmm, ponders the post anonymously, button. nahh, slashdot is safe.
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Why do you (and others) have so much faith in polls of people who pick up their landlines when Caller ID says Unknown Caller?
They will have evidence that, according to their expert witness, proves you are guilty. It is up to you to prove that their evidence and their expert are full of crap. The only way to do that is to have a more believable expert and a better attorney. So, yes, you are guilty unless you spend the bucks to prove otherwise. To most judges and juries, it if gets that far, technology is magic and they simply believe the expert with the most honest face.
Who needs a high level language like assembler when you can use toggle switchs and plug boards? Aren't there any more real engineers on /.?
RFID tags are passive devices, they are not reprogramable. They aren't the packing list, just a pointer to the records in a database. The same pallet used for ipods this week might be used for deoderant next week, so it isn't as useful to thieves as UPC codes.
Modifying the RFID would be about as difficult as modifiying bar codes, so it doesn't make the job easer for the loonies. I don't mean the UPC code on the product, but the bar codes on the packet load. The main advantage of RFID vs those bor codes is that the orientation of the reader isn't as important, plus it can be a little further away. Not a big deal, but saving minutes per pallet equates to saving hours per day and weeks per year, so the $2 is quickly recovered.
It costs less for a worker to attach a tag to an empty pallet than to a loaded one. But, without the $2 fee, it costs the supplier less not to attach a tag at all, so Walmarts fee simply shifts the task to the supplier by making it worthwhile to tag. Sure, Walmart could tag the pallets after they are unloaded, but then the suppliers still have no incentive to use tagged pallets for future Walmart shipments. And it is a onetime expense, once tagged, the pallets stay tagged until either the tag or the pallet wears out. So, Although Walmart, at least initially, is the benificiary of the tags, the $2 fee provides an incentive for the lower cost tagger to do the tagging. Seems reasonable to me.
Yes, the Spaskey match wouldn't have had such a big audience if Bobby wasn't such a nutcase, but back then, we didn't know if he was really a nut or just acting.
I think that if the ranting and raving is extreme enough, it tends to have the opposite effect on the listener.
This is a perfect example of what I hate about the cult of celebrity. If he had never been the great chess champion, we would have never known of his antisemitism or his extreme opinions to being used as a propaganda tool. Yes, greatness in one arena tends to go hand in hand with being nuts, possibly from pressure or possibly from the same personality flaws that made him great at chess. He acted quite nutty during the Spasky match; the public debate at the time was whether it was just an act. But, it did serve to psych out his opponent and amuse the rest of us. But, Fischer and other celebrities rarely have great expertise outside of the field that got them famous in the first place and I do wish that their opinions on politics, religion, and parenting were not considered news worthy.
Oh, my! I read the original cached article and it read exactly like something from The Onion. Even the quotes seemed like the fake quotes even if they were real quotes taken out of context.
Yeah, Slashdot was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was Web 2.0. It's almost completely user generated content except for a few short articles that no one reads.
This is not just an after 911 thing. It isn't even a computer thing. In the 70's, the UK was suffering from a plague of bombings, and when I went through security in Heathrow, they made me punch every button on my TI59. They weren't the sort to be impressed with the technology, but they were horrified at the number of buttons.
The book donations people aren't librarians, they are volunteers, mostly young mothers who need something interesting to do while the kids are in school. The librarians do have training in sorting out the various kinds of books, especially the ones charged with buying books. They rely partially on recommendations from patrons and other sources. If you brought your old ARRL handbook to the front desk, those librarians would have pointed you to the donations bin, they aren't the ones who buy the books either. If you reallly wanted to get your ARRL handbook into the collection, you probably should have hunted down the person(s) responsible for buying technical books, someone who might actually know what the ARRL is. Most people in the library don't have the time to become experts in everything, so they specialize and farm out quite a bit of the work to untrained volunteers.
What you need to do is find a young kid with an aptitude for radio and give him the handbook before he gets hooked on something like webpage design.
Yeah, i believe you. I just don't think the volunteers at the library have the time or the knowledge to differentiate between an ARRL handbook and a 25 year old book on the wonders of Compuserve. The soccermoms who run the book sales might not be stupid, but they aren't engineers and they aren't weight lifters. Those ARRL handbooks are heavy, I have a few myself. I also have the old Compuserve book.
I don't think you read my original post. I specifically addressed Amazon. It certainly isn't quicker than the library. I can order up a book in a jiffy on the library website and go get it the same day. There is even a javascript applet that jumps you back and forth between the library website and any other website that has an ISBN, so I can even read the reviews on Amazon. If it takes you 45 minutes get to the library that is only 10 minutes away, you must be doing something there other than grabbing a book and checking it out. The hours are about the same as most other businesses that aren't in the 24 hour convenience mode. Do you buy all your stuff from Amazon? About the only thing I haven't seen on it is groceries and gas.
Some books, of course, are an exception. There is no way the library can get HP to every patron on the day of release. They did have quite a few on the hold shelf though, so it wasn't a total bust. However, there are plenty of kids in Atlanta that needed the library copies more than me, so I used amazon. I only used it for DH and regretted the decision. The book wasn't delivered until 1:30 in the afternoon. Seems everyone wanted expedited delivery so most of us had to wait. Sometimes, nothing can beat a real bookstore. Too bad, Amazon put the one 2 blocks from my house out of business. That's where I got all my other HP books.
For new releases, Amazon is more likely to have it in stock, and if you like junk, Amazon is more likely to have it in stock, but virtually all best sellers and classics fiction and nonfiction get into a library. Computerized catalogues and interlibrary loan systems have come a long way since the last time you set foot in a library. I'm not trying to advertise the library, I'm just having a hard time realizing that you wrote a long post in response to my post that you didn't even comprehend, and that you are so lazy that you'd rather sit around and wait for the postman than get out of the house for a few minutes. If you have errands to run, stopping in at the library to pick up a book should add no more than five minutes to the outing.
If you were trying to donate technical books, they were probaby out of date. They would rather buy current dummis and idiots books, than sorting through all your windows 3.1 manuals. They probably don't even know what the latest linux or gimp version is without looking it up. Better not to accept them at all even if you might be the rare donor who is donating the latest and greatest. Space is limited and books are heavy, even for the book sales. They must put them somewhere and get all those Friends of the Library to pack, unpack, and shelve them.
I guess I'm a knuckle dragging idiot. Or, I use a much easier resource (the Internet) for my research. I buy books instead of borrowing them.
I don't understand your reasoning. Do you get in a car and drive to a bookstore? Driving to the library is just as easy. Do you order online and have books delivered? Reviewing the library catalog via the internet is just as easy. If the book is on the shelf, you can go get it the same day. Even if you must put a hold on it or have it delivered from another branch, it is still quicker than Amazon and completely free.
I live in a little backwater town in Georgia, and have both Borders and Barnes & Noble within 5 miles of my house, but I have even more library branches, can't get to any of the big boxes without passing a branch. I can check the library inventory from my computer, I can't do that with the big boxes and, of course, amazon has no big box at all.
The library has a wide selection and I can usually get a book the same day I decide to read it. If it must be brought from another branch, that delays it one day, if another patron has it out, it might take a couple of weeks, but if the wait list gets very long, they buy another copy, and if they don't have one at all, I can ask them to buy it, and they usually do. And Atlanta is famous for the suckiness of the library system. You must live in a one of the few places reputed to be worse.
Considering how "stable" thermal paper is it... , just wait for when the truck arrives with the ballots, after driving around in that Florida sunshine.
Especially one that's been laying down in the same place as you for an hour.
There, I fixed it for you.
What would a bunch of bald guys know about women's hair?
The number of registered voters is known in advance. The percentage that will show up is not known, but it is usually less than half.
Buy stock in thermal paper companies. it's coming with POD ballots or with paper trail for voting kiosks.
You can't ban sex offenders from living, or carrying out activities that are routine for virtually all Americans (except for a few odd legislaters here and there. That is unreasonalbe and unenforcable. This reminds me very much of the Georgia law banning sex offenders from living withing 1000 feet of a school bus stop. It turns out that the in many counties, it is not possible to be more than 1000 feet from a bus stop. That one was thrown out, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21917363/.
I'll bet this guy is getting more than $10 for trademarking his three words.
I thought the Rothchilds use carrier pigeons, a competing form of packet based communication.
it really is a problem for those who want to overwrite the os with linux and play opensource webbased wii games
No worry, no one I know ever takes threaths siriusly.
When my kid first ventured onto the internet, I told him to always make up a silly name for himself whenever he posted or logged in or whatever, to absolutely never type his real name no matter who was running the site. That was over ten year ago, maybe I should google his real nme and see if it pops up. Of course, Google remembers your searches, so that googling your real name while logged in with a pseudonym or vice versa could link your identities or those of your kids forever.
Hmm, ponders the post anonymously, button. nahh, slashdot is safe.