I'm sure the slashdot-correction-effect will come into play on this one, but I've heard of at least one case where the information from this box was used in a case against the driver of the car, the box said he was travelling at like 110MPH when he hit another car and it was accepted verbatim by the court. Now the police have to calibrate their speed equipment on a regular basis, and it isn't used under conditions experienced by equiment attempting to record violent crashes while being involved in said violent crashes, but until some senator's kid kills someone and needs to be proven innocent, we probably won't see much respite from it. Where's Atticus Finch when you need him? Isn't it possible that car was going 109MPH?......
If you're going to accept this whole "addicted to defense dollars" then we might as well accept the theory that many scientists that profess global warming is real are doing so to assure a continuing stream of federal research dollars.
I agree with your point, but not your analogy. Its very possible many scientists profess global warming is real for any number of bizarre reasons, all the while secure in the knowledge that the very belief in the existence of "global warming" is nonsensical and unscientific. The precision of the numbers involved are laughable, and drawing conclusions based on such bad data is unforgivable. I'd like to meet a geologist who believes in global warming, may be one out there who's real bad at math.....
It's a little like saying 'A CD is just a stream of numbers. If we burned every possible CD, starting from 0000000..(50 odd million bits)...000001 up to 11111....11111, one of them will contain the next album Hendrix would have made if he'd lived'. It's true, but somewhat useless.
Now he tells me! I've been burning discs like a bitch, but all I've got to show for it is the shitty solo record the guy from Def Leppard would have made if he hadn't lost his arm. Not discouraged though, I'll probably get 30 Beatles albums done before I've wasted as many discs as AOL.......
In many eastern states, the limit is only on aftermarket tinting. In FL I believe you can have 0% LT on the rear window, and if its a 4-door on the rear door windows.
The statement about it being removed on the spot applies to stick-on window film, tinted _glass_ can't really be removed on the spot, been there, had the roadside conversation, left without incident
I don't believe in it either, I was simply using an illustrative example to which many people can relate, in an effort to prop-up the poster's will aginst the waste-of-time PC world we live in. The only time I will ever write he/she or s/he is in a sentence like this saying I will never use it. That made sense when I wrote it.
actually, shouldn't we try to keep this quiet? doesn't this mean that we can manipulate elections now without the general public finding out? say goodbye to DMCA, UCITA, etc...
Yeah right, with the./ crowd? They'll quickly forget about all that and you'll wake up with Sandra Bullock as president and the official language changed to Klingon.....
Still, I see your point, if all these kids know is M$ stuff, then that's all they'll look for.
Right, if they're taught M$ in school, that's all they'll look for. Like they're taught NOT to have sex, not to take drugs, and not to listen to evil rock music. Oops, next point.....
The only real option is to have a voter system where multiple nodes (or subclusters) all calculate the same thing at the same time. You compare all the answers and take the answer set that has the most nodes (or subclusters) with that result.
But would such a system perform acceptably in Florida?
If you total a car, the insurance company will give you X dollars and TAKE AWAY YOUR CAR
Right, this is a poor analogy because you need the physical car to receive any benefit from it.
A much better analogy would be a highly ornate copy of your university degree in an expensive frame. Cost you $250, if it burns up, insurance company gives you $250 and gets to keep your burnt up frame and degree, but YOU still have right to use the benefit of what the degree you EARNED bestowed upon you, your title. The insurance company may have "bought your stuff at a fair price", but they didn't buy the rights and privileges bestowed upon you by your original purchase of your education.
Your argument suggests that if the degree burns up, you're no longer an Enginering M.S. and you have to go to school again because the insurance company reimbursed you for the physical object. Not the way it works.....
Why would that matter? If they replaced it, they money he recived was in compensation for the lost physical objects, that financial compensation does not retroactively un-license the rights granted by the original purchase.
I own Quickbooks. If my place burns, and somehow the computer makes out ok, but my original CD and packing get burned up, and IF the insurance company buys me a new copy of quickbooks, they are replacing the lost real property of the CD-ROM disc and book, the license for the copy installed on my workstation is still valid.
No, it IS. Fair-use is determined by the purchase of an "original copy", not the current status of that copy. It would be better to be able to produce a receipt or burnt up jewel case with half the identifiable liner notes, simply for proof.
If I buy a CD, I am allowed to make copies, for personal use, of the material on the CD, regardless of the source of the copy, simply because it is identical - meaning, you and I both buy Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA CD. I am allowed to make a tape of YOUR copy of the CD by virtue of the fact that I own a copy of it. Now, that right doesn't go away just because MY copy burned up.
Rights are rights, their validity is not determined by the degree of reaction with oxygen of physical objects.
i.e. discussing U.S. vs. Canadian style health care (private vs. socialized) is enough to get you arrested
arrested? that's nothing!
try going to any London pub and giving an honest opinion about northern Ireland...you will be lucky to escape death
You were lucky! We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank! We used to have to get up every morning, at six o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Europe is a country like Canada is the 51st state.
Because, yes, Slashdot is too American-centric
I never doubted Canada was a state, its Texas and Florida I wonder about.
Thankfully, Slashdot will remain "too American-centric". If it weren't we'd spend all of our time arguing about who was going to get to sit in the big chair and who would get to choose the colors for the Icons.
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I'm sure the slashdot-correction-effect will come into play on this one, but I've heard of at least one case where the information from this box was used in a case against the driver of the car, the box said he was travelling at like 110MPH when he hit another car and it was accepted verbatim by the court. Now the police have to calibrate their speed equipment on a regular basis, and it isn't used under conditions experienced by equiment attempting to record violent crashes while being involved in said violent crashes, but until some senator's kid kills someone and needs to be proven innocent, we probably won't see much respite from it. Where's Atticus Finch when you need him? Isn't it possible that car was going 109MPH?......
By the time Arnold is sworn in, all he'll have to work on is his 2008 presidential campaign!
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I agree with your point, but not your analogy. Its very possible many scientists profess global warming is real for any number of bizarre reasons, all the while secure in the knowledge that the very belief in the existence of "global warming" is nonsensical and unscientific. The precision of the numbers involved are laughable, and drawing conclusions based on such bad data is unforgivable. I'd like to meet a geologist who believes in global warming, may be one out there who's real bad at math.....
Now he tells me! I've been burning discs like a bitch, but all I've got to show for it is the shitty solo record the guy from Def Leppard would have made if he hadn't lost his arm. Not discouraged though, I'll probably get 30 Beatles albums done before I've wasted as many discs as AOL.......
In many eastern states, the limit is only on aftermarket tinting. In FL I believe you can have 0% LT on the rear window, and if its a 4-door on the rear door windows.
The statement about it being removed on the spot applies to stick-on window film, tinted _glass_ can't really be removed on the spot, been there, had the roadside conversation, left without incident
So what you're saying is, there is an HTML sound tag always playing infrasound in the background on /.?
I don't believe in it either, I was simply using an illustrative example to which many people can relate, in an effort to prop-up the poster's will aginst the waste-of-time PC world we live in. The only time I will ever write he/she or s/he is in a sentence like this saying I will never use it. That made sense when I wrote it.
Yeah right, with the ./ crowd? They'll quickly forget about all that and you'll wake up with Sandra Bullock as president and the official language changed to Klingon.....
In Soviet Russia Simpsons-quote corrects self.
Right, if they're taught M$ in school, that's all they'll look for. Like they're taught NOT to have sex, not to take drugs, and not to listen to evil rock music. Oops, next point.....
At the last minute it was announced that each student would be required to pay $699 to attend.
This is a troll? Ok, following that logic, here's a post that will undoubtedly be modded "Funny":
You guys all suck!
Congressperson? No, CongressMAN. God made Man, male and female. Go eat some meat hippie.
The boy scouts don't care if you copy stuff....as long as you're not Gay.
But would such a system perform acceptably in Florida?
I followed that link. $54 to have a star named after you?!?! Jeez, I'll name an Undersea Volcano after you for half that.
Shit!
Right, this is a poor analogy because you need the physical car to receive any benefit from it.
A much better analogy would be a highly ornate copy of your university degree in an expensive frame. Cost you $250, if it burns up, insurance company gives you $250 and gets to keep your burnt up frame and degree, but YOU still have right to use the benefit of what the degree you EARNED bestowed upon you, your title. The insurance company may have "bought your stuff at a fair price", but they didn't buy the rights and privileges bestowed upon you by your original purchase of your education.
Your argument suggests that if the degree burns up, you're no longer an Enginering M.S. and you have to go to school again because the insurance company reimbursed you for the physical object. Not the way it works.....
Why would that matter? If they replaced it, they money he recived was in compensation for the lost physical objects, that financial compensation does not retroactively un-license the rights granted by the original purchase. I own Quickbooks. If my place burns, and somehow the computer makes out ok, but my original CD and packing get burned up, and IF the insurance company buys me a new copy of quickbooks, they are replacing the lost real property of the CD-ROM disc and book, the license for the copy installed on my workstation is still valid.
No, it IS. Fair-use is determined by the purchase of an "original copy", not the current status of that copy. It would be better to be able to produce a receipt or burnt up jewel case with half the identifiable liner notes, simply for proof.
If I buy a CD, I am allowed to make copies, for personal use, of the material on the CD, regardless of the source of the copy, simply because it is identical - meaning, you and I both buy Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA CD. I am allowed to make a tape of YOUR copy of the CD by virtue of the fact that I own a copy of it. Now, that right doesn't go away just because MY copy burned up.
Rights are rights, their validity is not determined by the degree of reaction with oxygen of physical objects.
I think Jimmie Johnson is more worried about Matt Kenseth than sendmail.
arrested? that's nothing!
try going to any London pub and giving an honest opinion about northern Ireland. ..you will be lucky to escape death
You were lucky! We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank! We used to have to get up every morning, at six o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
I never doubted Canada was a state, its Texas and Florida I wonder about.
Thankfully, Slashdot will remain "too American-centric". If it weren't we'd spend all of our time arguing about who was going to get to sit in the big chair and who would get to choose the colors for the Icons.
Funniest of all, the 3000 or so Vegans in that group would mostly be eaten by animals :)