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the end result would be a purely creative, intellectual, and service economy, much like that of the united states of america. most likely stability would not be maintained during the transition and one of two outcomes would occur, either the first and last successful marxist state would occur, where living space was apportioned out to people in a fair and, due to the very low threshold of other needs, people actually do work towards personal and social betterment.
the other possibility would be corporate control, starting with draconian restrictions on the proliferation and use of replication technology, followed by a capitalist dystopia where the ultracorps who controlled the early stages of replication tech used their massive market advantage to buy up most of everything that will not be rendered obsolete by replication, mineral rights and property. typical rental agreements will require turning over copyrights and patents to the corporate landlords, and copyright laws will be adjusted to allow such requirements and to provide prison time for anyone violating such an agreement.
the rational thing to do would be to eliminate the concept of organ "donation" usable organs should be taken when a person dies, they are dead and do not have rights anymore, unlike the people who are alive and awaiting organs.
apple also knows how to push updates that disable features like aspect locking on the ipad and promote the same function as "new" on the ipad 2.
if i had been one of the suckers to buy an iPad i would be at the nearest apple store raising hell until they gave me either a full refund on the ipad which was sabotaged by apple in violation of the law, or a free upgrade to an iPad 2 to replace the features that were removed without my consent.
Easier would be to make those premium text numbers illegal to enforce, by that I mean the phone company must refund any that are contested for any reason or no reason, without limit.
My blackberry already asks me permission for specific actions and typed of data for apps. People rip on RIM for being old fashioned and slow to innovate and yet they are the only company with sane security and privacy management settings
no, it means that you can solve CERTAIN things in an amount of time comparable to the amount of time it takes to verify the solutions as being correct. the "Big Question" is whether or not the class of problems thought to be hard to solve but easy to verify, could have an unknown shortcut to solve them as easily as verifying a putative solution as being correct.
in cryptographic terms this would mean cracking encryption or forging a signature in a comparable number of operations (within a few orders of magnitude or so, and not scaling fast with bit count) as it takes to decrypt with the key or check that the signature is valid.
this does not translate to "solving problems faster" but to "solving CERTAIN problems faster"
not all unions use a seniority system and one would make little sense in most IT related fields since different workers have different skills. The value in a union would be to help protect against the layoffs being targetted towards workers who didn't kiss enough ass and to protect the workers who remain from being miscategorized as "vice president of cubicle 213" so they can be denied overtime and still required to do 65-70-75 hr weeks
This is yet another example of why programmers especially, but really all tech workers, would benefit from a union, but crony capitalist propaganda keeps people convinced that a union would lower their pay and benefits, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, workers get better pay and working conditions in a unionized environment.
everyone likes to consider themselves better at everything, so they think they can negotiate better for their own pay, but really who will do better, one guy who needs to pay his mortgage next month vs. a company who can keep a position open as long as they need to, and just keep leaning on the other programmers to make up the slack, since THEY need to pay their mortgage too, they shut up and put in their 70-80 hour/week deathmarch.
the reality of the situation is, even if you are in the top 10% of programmers, you are not going to also be in the top 10% of negotiators AND be in a position to hold out for as long as it takes to get compensation that is appropriate to the value you bring to the company.
if the US attacks Iran it will be like Vietnam except much worse. The US hasn't gone up against anything that even rises to the level of being called a bad joke of a military in decades and fighting an opponent who is funded by a functional tax base and economy is very different than Saddam's rag tag leftover broken down soviet crap or the taliban who was funded and supplied much worse than that.
the reporter was caught in the splash because he was dealing with a criminal, also they would have been interested in whether or not the reported paid the leaker, in which case he would have been guilty of espionage.
i think you are misunderstanding the type of user OP is dealing with. these are not "I need read/write permissions in/blah/blah" users, these are "i think my cup holder is broken" users. These are users who move their important shit to the trash because they are too stupid to create a new folder and name it something, then they empty the trash, then they call IT in a huff because "your system ate my files get down here and fix it NOW"
these are people who really shouldn't be allowed to operate equipment more complicated than an adjustable 3 hole punch.
these are "my outlook says that my mailbox is full and i need to delete messages before i can send mail, why won't it let me send mail?" users -- or more likely "my Internet is broken" then you get to the machine and there is nothing wrong with it. or you get to the machine and it won't turn on and smells like ozone and coffee, "yea i spilled coffee on it and now the Internet doesn't work"
Are isp's prohibited from re-subscribing someone who has been disconnected? If not I could see 10 day disconnect letters being used to give people time to sign up for "new" service that happens to start the same day their old service gets disconnected.
5 million gross revenue from sales, rental and all other licenses, when multiple works are in a series or other multi-part IP franchise then license revenue that is not explicitly linked to a particular work is counted towards the oldest work in the franchise
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the end result would be a purely creative, intellectual, and service economy, much like that of the united states of america. most likely stability would not be maintained during the transition and one of two outcomes would occur, either the first and last successful marxist state would occur, where living space was apportioned out to people in a fair and, due to the very low threshold of other needs, people actually do work towards personal and social betterment.
the other possibility would be corporate control, starting with draconian restrictions on the proliferation and use of replication technology, followed by a capitalist dystopia where the ultracorps who controlled the early stages of replication tech used their massive market advantage to buy up most of everything that will not be rendered obsolete by replication, mineral rights and property. typical rental agreements will require turning over copyrights and patents to the corporate landlords, and copyright laws will be adjusted to allow such requirements and to provide prison time for anyone violating such an agreement.
the rational thing to do would be to eliminate the concept of organ "donation" usable organs should be taken when a person dies, they are dead and do not have rights anymore, unlike the people who are alive and awaiting organs.
apple also knows how to push updates that disable features like aspect locking on the ipad and promote the same function as "new" on the ipad 2.
if i had been one of the suckers to buy an iPad i would be at the nearest apple store raising hell until they gave me either a full refund on the ipad which was sabotaged by apple in violation of the law, or a free upgrade to an iPad 2 to replace the features that were removed without my consent.
did you even TRY to get the textbooks on TPB?
mucking around with drivers in pre win ME had a pretty high mortality rate for the install, i don't blame him for leaving that out.
a disappointing quarterly report
Easier would be to make those premium text numbers illegal to enforce, by that I mean the phone company must refund any that are contested for any reason or no reason, without limit.
My blackberry already asks me permission for specific actions and typed of data for apps. People rip on RIM for being old fashioned and slow to innovate and yet they are the only company with sane security and privacy management settings
Steve jobs wrote it himself
worrying to whom?
just what i need, truck drivers going past my house because their P=NP GPS will save them 37 milliseconds by doing that
no, it means that you can solve CERTAIN things in an amount of time comparable to the amount of time it takes to verify the solutions as being correct. the "Big Question" is whether or not the class of problems thought to be hard to solve but easy to verify, could have an unknown shortcut to solve them as easily as verifying a putative solution as being correct.
in cryptographic terms this would mean cracking encryption or forging a signature in a comparable number of operations (within a few orders of magnitude or so, and not scaling fast with bit count) as it takes to decrypt with the key or check that the signature is valid.
this does not translate to "solving problems faster" but to "solving CERTAIN problems faster"
not all unions use a seniority system and one would make little sense in most IT related fields since different workers have different skills. The value in a union would be to help protect against the layoffs being targetted towards workers who didn't kiss enough ass and to protect the workers who remain from being miscategorized as "vice president of cubicle 213" so they can be denied overtime and still required to do 65-70-75 hr weeks
in soviet russia, the workers own the means of production.
in crony capitalist america, the means of production owns the workers
This is yet another example of why programmers especially, but really all tech workers, would benefit from a union, but crony capitalist propaganda keeps people convinced that a union would lower their pay and benefits, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, workers get better pay and working conditions in a unionized environment.
everyone likes to consider themselves better at everything, so they think they can negotiate better for their own pay, but really who will do better, one guy who needs to pay his mortgage next month vs. a company who can keep a position open as long as they need to, and just keep leaning on the other programmers to make up the slack, since THEY need to pay their mortgage too, they shut up and put in their 70-80 hour/week deathmarch.
the reality of the situation is, even if you are in the top 10% of programmers, you are not going to also be in the top 10% of negotiators AND be in a position to hold out for as long as it takes to get compensation that is appropriate to the value you bring to the company.
if the US attacks Iran it will be like Vietnam except much worse. The US hasn't gone up against anything that even rises to the level of being called a bad joke of a military in decades and fighting an opponent who is funded by a functional tax base and economy is very different than Saddam's rag tag leftover broken down soviet crap or the taliban who was funded and supplied much worse than that.
unless the reporter had a security clearance no he did not commit a crime.
the reporter was caught in the splash because he was dealing with a criminal, also they would have been interested in whether or not the reported paid the leaker, in which case he would have been guilty of espionage.
i think you are misunderstanding the type of user OP is dealing with. these are not "I need read/write permissions in /blah/blah" users, these are "i think my cup holder is broken" users. These are users who move their important shit to the trash because they are too stupid to create a new folder and name it something, then they empty the trash, then they call IT in a huff because "your system ate my files get down here and fix it NOW"
these are people who really shouldn't be allowed to operate equipment more complicated than an adjustable 3 hole punch.
these are "my outlook says that my mailbox is full and i need to delete messages before i can send mail, why won't it let me send mail?" users -- or more likely "my Internet is broken" then you get to the machine and there is nothing wrong with it. or you get to the machine and it won't turn on and smells like ozone and coffee, "yea i spilled coffee on it and now the Internet doesn't work"
anybody could develop for it.*
as long as the final product is approved by St. Jobs
Are isp's prohibited from re-subscribing someone who has been disconnected? If not I could see 10 day disconnect letters being used to give people time to sign up for "new" service that happens to start the same day their old service gets disconnected.
Verizon is one of the baby bells (bell atlantic)
5 million gross revenue from sales, rental and all other licenses, when multiple works are in a series or other multi-part IP franchise then license revenue that is not explicitly linked to a particular work is counted towards the oldest work in the franchise
using an account that was authorized in a manner inconsistant with policy is not unauthorized access.
if you cracked a staff account and made changes to the site that would be unauthorized access.
fox news touched my junk liberally...