It would be trivially easy to access the email account as many times as you like, assuming you have a friend or two in, say, Nigeria who can go to an internet cafe at a pre-arranged time, set up an encrypted proxy for one use.
The data was probably only a few GB at most. Would anyone notice him downloading that? Especially if the database is being accesses all the time by countless doctors/pharmacies/etc. ?
I'm always annoyed by these stories talking about search engine returns where the author doesn't make even the most rudimentary effort to differentiate results. Why exactly would you type "microsoft apple" into a search engine, anyway? If you want stock prices, type "microsoft apple stock prices." If you want product reviews, type "microsoft and apple reviews," etc. And if you want to know how to convert pounds to kilograms, type "convert pounds to kilograms." It's like these authors get upset when the search engines can't magically read their thoughts to figure out what results they were hoping for.
The article seems to make it clear that they can indeed fire teachers for specific problems (like not showing up on time). But there's not really any way to keep records and "establish a pattern of misconduct" if the teacher is lazy and/or just sort of sucks at teaching.
The 21% figure that people like to throw around is the DoD budget. Military spending is actually more like 30% once you factor in all the spending on military veteran's benefits (which aren't included in the DoD budget, since the Department of Veteran's Affairs is budgeted separately from the DoD), plus other non-DoD government spending that's directly related to the military (like the many billions that the Department of Energy spends every year on nuclear weapons-related programs).
Total military R&D spending is about $80 billion, which would be about 0.6% of the GDP. However, a large chunk of that covers things like testing expensive new missiles by firing them into various targets over and over again, and other such activities that don't offer any real scientific benefit for anyone (other than a very specific knowledge of a specific weapon system) even though they fall under the "R&D" heading.
Heck, if ticket prices were lower I would be more likely to go at all. Tickets are $12/person in my town, so if the wife and I go to a movie it's $24 before we even buy any popcorn or drinks. Which is stupid, considering that's more than the price of either buying a DVD or a month of netflixs.
Although I certainly do not claim to be an expert in maritime law, commercial ships have helicopters take off from and land on them all the time, which would seem to violate those statutes just as blatantly as adding a few.50 machineguns would.
No way. Theaters usually get to keep between 25% and ZERO percent of ticket proceeds. Yes, sometimes it's zero; for really big films that people are sure will pack the theater, often the theaters have to agree to turn all ticket proceeds over to the studio, and make whatever profit they can off the overpriced popcorn etc.
Worst case, a film might need to make 50% over its production cost in box office revenue to turn a profit, but usually it's more like 20% over production cost.
Perhaps someone could explain where the "copying" comes in here? How is this any different from setting up a webpage that lets people rent out their car, or lawnmower, or TV, or any other bit of property that they own?
The Tesla's battery pack holds about 180 MJ of energy. If you charge it in 5 minutes, you will be working with a 600 kW transfer. Remind me not to stand anywhere near your charger...
The readers are not the customers, they are the product. The advertisers are the customers. The advertisers want to purchase people's attention, and so the newspapers need to have people's attention so that they can sell it to their customers. The paper itself and its news stories are just their means of "manufacturing" their product.
I find much of this behavior stems from one source, anthropomorphization of animals due to most people only experiencing them as pets. People project human emotions and reasoning on their pets and in many cases treat them as children. Animals are not people and do not behave as such. Nor do they really want to be treated as such.
No one is saying they want to be treated like people. I am simply saying that they don't want to experience pain or be confined to a tiny space without being able to move for a very long time. If you don't think that animals don't want to be treated that way, you obviously haven't spent much time observing them.
Eating animals isn't cruel, its part of nature.
The fact that it's a part of nature doesn't mean that it isn't also cruel.
Uh...no, that's not it at all. I know reading the article before posting is too much to hope for, but did you even read the summary? This study has nothing to do with how children learn, it's about children's ability to plan for the future. A child might have already very thoroughly learned that a coat will keep him warm when it's cold outside, and his first reaction upon noticing that he is cold might be "I should put on a coat." But he can't grasp the concept of "Even though I'm not cold now, I should put a coat on to avoid being cold later."
So 45 percent of respondents said that they are seeing an increasing number of attacks? HOW MUCH are they increasing? If 45% of respondents said that attacks are up 0.01%, I don't really care. Way to not give me enough information to form an opinion, article...
That's exactly what I was about to say, but you beat me to it. Farm animals are treated very, VERY badly compared to crabs, and they unquestionably feel pain. What's more they actually experience emotions, which it isn't clear that crabs are capable of.
I'm not a forensic scientist, but I am a scientist. I don't really know jack about forensics, but prior to reading this article I would have assumed that police forensic labs would occasionally (but routinely) insert a few known DNA samples into the mix to make sure that the lab was doing its job and not using contaminated materials. The fact that they apparently aren't doing this is distressing, and will probably make it hard for me to vote "guilty" in the future if I'm ever on a jury in a case that hinges on forensic evidence.
While I tend to agree with you, if you're going to have people end up on registries for things that don't actually harm anyone in a meaningful way like streaking or having sex in semi-public places, surely people like these school officials who cause genuine harm to a minor by sexually humiliating them should be on the list.
Do companies that use Steam have to sign some sort of agreement that they will allow the DRM to be removed if Steam goes under? If so, I would be curious to hear about it. Many of the games the use Steam aren't owned by Valve, which probably means that Valve couldn't unilaterally decide to strip them of their DRM. I find it difficult to believe that many major distributors would agree to such a contract.
I mean that's the sort of thing this bill appears intended to prevent. The bill explicitly allows people to purchase keywords that they don't own the trademark to for criticism or other fair use.
The intent of the law seems to be to prevent me from being bombarded with results that are irrelevant or contrary to what I'm searching for. Note that it appears that under this law you can still do things like buy the "Ford Focus" keyword and direct it to your fordfocussucks.com page (so long as the page is actually about the Focus, and not something else). You could not, on the other hand, but "Ford Focus" and use it to direct me to a page that sells cruise vacations.
Meh. Personally I suspect that the internet would be less annoying if this law were implemented.
Tetris is equally absurd. Yes, it was fun, but what did it ever influence? What games can you look at today and say "Ah, you can see elements of Tetris here"? I don't think you can even argue that it made action-puzzle games with moving blocks etc. popular, because those sorts of games were already around when Tetris came out (although Tetris was certainly quite good).
Westwood's Dune was probably the first "real-time strategy game" where you build a little base, harvest resources, etc. that all modern RTS games are descended from, so why isn't that on the list? What about Castle Wolfenstien/Doom? Space Invaders? Pong?
A better analogy would be the police thinking you dumped a body behind the Waffle House, but they don't know where the Waffle House is and know that you do, so they force you to tell them its address. The fact that you know where the Waffle House is probably isn't incriminating, so it hypothetically might not be protected by the 5th.
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It would be trivially easy to access the email account as many times as you like, assuming you have a friend or two in, say, Nigeria who can go to an internet cafe at a pre-arranged time, set up an encrypted proxy for one use.
The data was probably only a few GB at most. Would anyone notice him downloading that? Especially if the database is being accesses all the time by countless doctors/pharmacies/etc. ?
I'm always annoyed by these stories talking about search engine returns where the author doesn't make even the most rudimentary effort to differentiate results. Why exactly would you type "microsoft apple" into a search engine, anyway? If you want stock prices, type "microsoft apple stock prices." If you want product reviews, type "microsoft and apple reviews," etc. And if you want to know how to convert pounds to kilograms, type "convert pounds to kilograms." It's like these authors get upset when the search engines can't magically read their thoughts to figure out what results they were hoping for.
The article seems to make it clear that they can indeed fire teachers for specific problems (like not showing up on time). But there's not really any way to keep records and "establish a pattern of misconduct" if the teacher is lazy and/or just sort of sucks at teaching.
The 21% figure that people like to throw around is the DoD budget. Military spending is actually more like 30% once you factor in all the spending on military veteran's benefits (which aren't included in the DoD budget, since the Department of Veteran's Affairs is budgeted separately from the DoD), plus other non-DoD government spending that's directly related to the military (like the many billions that the Department of Energy spends every year on nuclear weapons-related programs).
Total military R&D spending is about $80 billion, which would be about 0.6% of the GDP. However, a large chunk of that covers things like testing expensive new missiles by firing them into various targets over and over again, and other such activities that don't offer any real scientific benefit for anyone (other than a very specific knowledge of a specific weapon system) even though they fall under the "R&D" heading.
Heck, if ticket prices were lower I would be more likely to go at all. Tickets are $12/person in my town, so if the wife and I go to a movie it's $24 before we even buy any popcorn or drinks. Which is stupid, considering that's more than the price of either buying a DVD or a month of netflixs.
Although I certainly do not claim to be an expert in maritime law, commercial ships have helicopters take off from and land on them all the time, which would seem to violate those statutes just as blatantly as adding a few .50 machineguns would.
No way. Theaters usually get to keep between 25% and ZERO percent of ticket proceeds. Yes, sometimes it's zero; for really big films that people are sure will pack the theater, often the theaters have to agree to turn all ticket proceeds over to the studio, and make whatever profit they can off the overpriced popcorn etc.
Worst case, a film might need to make 50% over its production cost in box office revenue to turn a profit, but usually it's more like 20% over production cost.
Perhaps someone could explain where the "copying" comes in here? How is this any different from setting up a webpage that lets people rent out their car, or lawnmower, or TV, or any other bit of property that they own?
The Tesla's battery pack holds about 180 MJ of energy. If you charge it in 5 minutes, you will be working with a 600 kW transfer. Remind me not to stand anywhere near your charger...
The readers are not the customers, they are the product. The advertisers are the customers. The advertisers want to purchase people's attention, and so the newspapers need to have people's attention so that they can sell it to their customers. The paper itself and its news stories are just their means of "manufacturing" their product.
I find much of this behavior stems from one source, anthropomorphization of animals due to most people only experiencing them as pets. People project human emotions and reasoning on their pets and in many cases treat them as children. Animals are not people and do not behave as such. Nor do they really want to be treated as such.
No one is saying they want to be treated like people. I am simply saying that they don't want to experience pain or be confined to a tiny space without being able to move for a very long time. If you don't think that animals don't want to be treated that way, you obviously haven't spent much time observing them.
Eating animals isn't cruel, its part of nature.
The fact that it's a part of nature doesn't mean that it isn't also cruel.
Uh...no, that's not it at all. I know reading the article before posting is too much to hope for, but did you even read the summary? This study has nothing to do with how children learn, it's about children's ability to plan for the future. A child might have already very thoroughly learned that a coat will keep him warm when it's cold outside, and his first reaction upon noticing that he is cold might be "I should put on a coat." But he can't grasp the concept of "Even though I'm not cold now, I should put a coat on to avoid being cold later."
So 45 percent of respondents said that they are seeing an increasing number of attacks? HOW MUCH are they increasing? If 45% of respondents said that attacks are up 0.01%, I don't really care. Way to not give me enough information to form an opinion, article...
That's exactly what I was about to say, but you beat me to it. Farm animals are treated very, VERY badly compared to crabs, and they unquestionably feel pain. What's more they actually experience emotions, which it isn't clear that crabs are capable of.
I'm not a forensic scientist, but I am a scientist. I don't really know jack about forensics, but prior to reading this article I would have assumed that police forensic labs would occasionally (but routinely) insert a few known DNA samples into the mix to make sure that the lab was doing its job and not using contaminated materials. The fact that they apparently aren't doing this is distressing, and will probably make it hard for me to vote "guilty" in the future if I'm ever on a jury in a case that hinges on forensic evidence.
Could someone who perhaps knows more about the applicable laws explain why this isn't sexual battery or some such?
While I tend to agree with you, if you're going to have people end up on registries for things that don't actually harm anyone in a meaningful way like streaking or having sex in semi-public places, surely people like these school officials who cause genuine harm to a minor by sexually humiliating them should be on the list.
That was my first thought as well. If the situation was so serious that a strip search was warranted, the police should have been called immediately.
Do companies that use Steam have to sign some sort of agreement that they will allow the DRM to be removed if Steam goes under? If so, I would be curious to hear about it. Many of the games the use Steam aren't owned by Valve, which probably means that Valve couldn't unilaterally decide to strip them of their DRM. I find it difficult to believe that many major distributors would agree to such a contract.
I mean that's the sort of thing this bill appears intended to prevent. The bill explicitly allows people to purchase keywords that they don't own the trademark to for criticism or other fair use.
The intent of the law seems to be to prevent me from being bombarded with results that are irrelevant or contrary to what I'm searching for. Note that it appears that under this law you can still do things like buy the "Ford Focus" keyword and direct it to your fordfocussucks.com page (so long as the page is actually about the Focus, and not something else). You could not, on the other hand, but "Ford Focus" and use it to direct me to a page that sells cruise vacations.
Meh. Personally I suspect that the internet would be less annoying if this law were implemented.
I think the real issue is much simpler; Japanese people text like crazy, and the iPhone is pretty bad for texting. Simple as that.
Tetris is equally absurd. Yes, it was fun, but what did it ever influence? What games can you look at today and say "Ah, you can see elements of Tetris here"? I don't think you can even argue that it made action-puzzle games with moving blocks etc. popular, because those sorts of games were already around when Tetris came out (although Tetris was certainly quite good).
Westwood's Dune was probably the first "real-time strategy game" where you build a little base, harvest resources, etc. that all modern RTS games are descended from, so why isn't that on the list? What about Castle Wolfenstien/Doom? Space Invaders? Pong?
A better analogy would be the police thinking you dumped a body behind the Waffle House, but they don't know where the Waffle House is and know that you do, so they force you to tell them its address. The fact that you know where the Waffle House is probably isn't incriminating, so it hypothetically might not be protected by the 5th.