It says at the end of the article that the drone owner plans to ask the prosecutor to convene a grand jury over this. I did a little reading and it looks like these were misdemeanor charges. I would assume that the drone's owner is looking to have felony charges brought against him, which would put this back into criminal court at a higher level.
As far as all the complaints about how safe it is to shoot a shotgun in town, the greater worry is where the drone landed after being damaged and that is where the shooter is more in the wrong than the drone operator. Letting him off the hook is setting a bad precedence IMHO.
There is probably a computer club at school, and there is most likely a dedicated IT staff. Talk to them. Our local school sold a bunch of old PCs last year for real deal ($30 for desktops, and $50 for a few servers IIRC). Home computers are used/required by most classes anymore; make this an issue that the school addresses. Look into setting up a program where old school computers are leased/loaned/sold/given to low income families.
Alternatively, you could go down to the local recycling center and look into getting old electronics. People recycle old, still working electronics just because they bought new stuff. If there is a college nearby, check the curbs on recycling day near the end of the semester. I have a friend that did this for years (until he moved). You could also run an ad in the local paper asking for old computers to be donated to the school (You'll probably need permission/help from administration for this).
I have a Toshiba Satellite A45-S250 (built in 2004, Intel P4, 1GB of RAM) that is still usable for most everything I need a laptop for. I was able to get it for free and loaded Gentoo with XFCE on it.
Really, the cheaper the option the more work is going to be required, but it can easily be close to $0 for the hardware.
I've worked on some really odd-ball languages... the ones that surprised me are: CA: Gen - This one is crazy... I had never heard of it until a few years ago, and it's surprising the businesses that use this one. JCL - This one seems to follow me around a bit. Think DOS, but less automated and for mainframes. JOVIAL - I almost left this one off the list, but there is a wiki about it, so here you go.
There are some crazier ones out there... The military seemed to enjoy making new languages with little or no documentation back in the 60s & 70s.
It looks like they have at least one eye witnesses (someone was observed fleeing the scene). Further, any communications to or from the devices would be recorded by the phone company (or ISP for wireless communications). So what are they hoping to find on the devices? A typed confession from the murderer?
No, But they are watching the swarm to see how popular different torrents are. They may not know that AC#48196463 is interested in Doom 3, but they will know how many people are willing to download it. Its a different metric, but is still very valuable.
And don't worry, if bit torrent usage isn't tracked and correlated with other media consumption now, it will be soon.
Protip: Redhat and IBM are both largish businesses that support open source and have a good chance of getting contracts should the EU be more open source friendly.
It is more likely that Microsoft will remain the default because people generally fear change. Especially when someone's job (usually their own) is on the line. I've worked on showing everyone I can how friendly and useable GNU/Linux is. The only people that enjoy it are my wife and kids. My parents, siblings, and in-laws think its kinda cool, but absolutely refuse to switch. It isn't just that they don't think it's worth their time to try something new. They seem to be genuinely afraid to try anything other than Windows.
They would rather buy new computers than deal with trying Linux. I already told them I am no longer fixing viruses with Windows--they will get Linux if they bug me about software again. So if the virus scanner doesn't take care of it, they just buy a new system.
I doubt that this is a budget busting scheme, those usually come out in June and July. When I was in the Air Force (late 90s) in Oklahoma, we had a puzzling issue where January was the month where we had the most at workplace accidents and property damage. We never found a good reason for it, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was just an accident where the plane was dropped into the ocean instead of risking bringing it across a populated area. Plus I would imagine that these things are pretty weather resistant. If it is set down gently in the ocean, the data on it may very well be recoverable, the same wouldn't be true if it slammed into a house or a mountain.
Mark, I'm not sure if I offended you with my post, but if I did, I apologize. I am well aware that Pres. Nixon did. I heard a number around 50,000+ Americans needlessly died because he wanted to be president. IIRC it was president Johnson's library that released audio tapes talking about wiretaps on the South Vietnamese Ambassador that showed Nixon was secretly doing everything he could to keep the war from ending going back to 1968.
I feel really bad for the soldiers that couldn't avoid the draft. My father in law was drafted around 1965 and it earned him a purple heart. He came back missing most of his right lung, a good chunk of his liver, and most of his sanity. He spent over a year at Walter Reed, which he had to be snuck into under cover of night to avoid being attacked by the anti-war protestors. Every once in a while he says something really fucked up about the war and what he went though, but most of the time he won't say anything. He still has night terrors occasionally, even with the battery of medicines he is on to keep him functional. Sometimes I think the dead are the lucky ones.
Ok, I now know more about Jane Fonda and the Vietnam war than I did earlier today, thanks AC. Full Disclosure: I was born in the late seventies, so everything after this is based on research, not on personal memories of events.
First of all, Jane was acting as she did in North Vietnam because she was upset about the bombings of dikes and levies, which had the potential to kill tens of thousands of civilians. In that sense, journalists were doing similar work by trying to expose the inhumanities of war and the unjustness of the action.
Second, if I understand the legal aspects of the Vietnam war correctly, we were helping the South Vietnamese with their struggle with North Vietnam, we were not at war with or enemies of North Vietnam. Since they were not our enemies and she didn't make war upon the USA, she could not have committed treason. I'm not endorsing what she did, just stating that by the standard you set in your comment she did not commit treason.
Now to your point about integrity. I would define integrity as doing what you feel is "right", even when there is pressure to what you feel is "not right". I would say that the actions of various reporters from the Vietnam war showed integrity and that point is bolstered by their actions after the war. I'm not saying the reporters always did do the right thing, but that their actions show that it was their intention. I would argue that integrity went out the window with the repeal of the fairness doctrine. Corporate bosses moved their news divisions under the control of the sales division, which allowed advertisers control over the content and the messengers.
Our local school had several used computers donated to it (TRS-80's and the like). That summer they decided to have computer courses open to anyone who wanted to learn. I was going into kindergarden at the time and my parents signed me up for the course. I learned how to boot DOS, run a few commands and create a program in BASIC. I really enjoyed making the rocket scroll across the screen and I remember how proud I was when I changed the rocket to add my name onto it. Probably why I'm still programming these 30 years later.
That being said, I'm not sure there is much benefit in teaching children to code. Teach them how to use a computer well. If they are curious, teach them to make it crash constantly (aKa programming).
IIRC Sony and Google have a bit of a problem with Youtube videos. Sony was uploading videos to Youtube for some viral marketing and then sending takedown notices because Sony didn't know Sony uploaded the files. To further complicate things, Sony then sued Google for not taking down videos it had uploaded and certified that they owned.
Why would anyone want to throw more gas into that mess?
Even if making that situation more complicated seems like a good idea, what about all the incorrect assertions of copyright ownership? Or files that are legally shared?
In the end, I guess the lawyers will be the ones that win big.
Yes, you can be a little tyrant, demand respect you don’t deserve, and blame the people that report to you for your failures. At least you can do that until your boss catches on and fixes the problem (my last supervisor was demoted (twice?) for pulling stunts like that).
If you think you are something special and you deserve respect because you can abuse your authority, you are going to have a bad time.
Why would we need to amend the constitution? the 16th Amendment allows congress to levy a tax on incomes; it doesn't say that congress must levy an income tax.
We could go back to mostly using tarrifs and getting rid of the income tax entirely without having to touch the constitution (We may need to break a few bad treaties though)
If the women had asserted their fifth amendment rights and not answered any questions, they most likely would not have undergone an invasive road-side body cavity search. Even though the women answered the police officer honestly, the officer used their words against them to claim they were acting suspiciously and claim that they did not deny that they were in possession of marijuana (that last bit is from memory and not in the attached link).
until you realize that you have three kids in school (I will in two years). Then suddenly that $20-$25 becomes $60-$75 and to buy the damn laptops becomes a cool $2,700.
My wife isn't working and we are just getting by on my income. I would not be able to afford this and I don't think I could bring myself to beg for money from the school.
I worked for a company that does billing calls and shut off service for MCI many years ago. I sympathize with people with phone jobs, I really do but more often than not the guy screaming about what my mother does for a living on the other end of the phone is a hell of a lot nicer than the boss. You learn to tune it out after a while, so go ahead and scream.
Your solution is actually worse for the poor sap on the other end. Most phone based companies have a set "talk time" with different penalties for going over it. Even if you accomplish the goal (sell a timeshare, get a bill payment, whatever) you can be penalized for going over talk time. I had to sit through a power point presentation every time I went over my talk time. Good god, please, scream at me and hang up. Don't make me sit through that damned presentation again.
It is simple to install and run. It doesn't have all the features that McAfee or Norton have, but on the few occasions that I've had problems with computer viruses, this has worked to remove them
Not only has it not had any vote on the floor, it isn't even listed as active legislation.
And for the people wondering about law enforcement and what-not(from the bill S.701): (ii) SPECIFIC EXEMPTION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OR COURT ORDERS- The regulations required under subparagraph (A) shall exempt from the prohibition under paragraph (1) transmissions in connection with--
(I) any authorized activity of a law enforcement agency; or
(II) a court order that specifically authorizes the use of caller identification manipulation.
So as long as someone gets a court order or it is law enforcement, then this law wouldn't apply (assuming it goes anywhere.)
I'm kinda wondering why this was even posted. Neither houses of congress have voted on it and it was originally introduced back in February.
If a company sells you an unsafe car, do you blame the government, or the car company?
If the government is trying to take away my legal recourse for buying an unsafe car, then yes, I blame the government for trying to protect the car manufacturers.
And having been sold 2 or 3 unsafe cars already, why would you go back to the same vendor?
Just because car manufacturer "A" made bad cars and broke the law doesn't mean that manufacturers "B", "C", and "D" won't start doing it once it's legal to do so. Especially if it's seen as being in their best interest.
For the rest of your argument... What happens when companies start to sue the makers of virus scanners and spyware removal tools for removing their now legitimate software and calling it spyware? And what happens when Linux hits critical mass and spyware begins to be written for it?
JOSH WOLF: Well, my response is that we've offered to turn the video over to the judge to review in camera to determine whether or not there is any evidence on the tape. The US Attorney's office has said that that would not be appropriate, because there's certain information that only the grand jury is privy to. I don't understand why the grand jury information can't be then passed on to the judge, who can balance all these factors and determine whether or not there is any evidence on the tape, which I contend to this day there isn't FTFA
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It says at the end of the article that the drone owner plans to ask the prosecutor to convene a grand jury over this. I did a little reading and it looks like these were misdemeanor charges. I would assume that the drone's owner is looking to have felony charges brought against him, which would put this back into criminal court at a higher level.
As far as all the complaints about how safe it is to shoot a shotgun in town, the greater worry is where the drone landed after being damaged and that is where the shooter is more in the wrong than the drone operator. Letting him off the hook is setting a bad precedence IMHO.
There is probably a computer club at school, and there is most likely a dedicated IT staff. Talk to them. Our local school sold a bunch of old PCs last year for real deal ($30 for desktops, and $50 for a few servers IIRC). Home computers are used/required by most classes anymore; make this an issue that the school addresses. Look into setting up a program where old school computers are leased/loaned/sold/given to low income families.
Alternatively, you could go down to the local recycling center and look into getting old electronics. People recycle old, still working electronics just because they bought new stuff. If there is a college nearby, check the curbs on recycling day near the end of the semester. I have a friend that did this for years (until he moved). You could also run an ad in the local paper asking for old computers to be donated to the school (You'll probably need permission/help from administration for this).
I have a Toshiba Satellite A45-S250 (built in 2004, Intel P4, 1GB of RAM) that is still usable for most everything I need a laptop for. I was able to get it for free and loaded Gentoo with XFCE on it.
Really, the cheaper the option the more work is going to be required, but it can easily be close to $0 for the hardware.
I've worked on some really odd-ball languages ... the ones that surprised me are: ... I had never heard of it until a few years ago, and it's surprising the businesses that use this one.
CA: Gen - This one is crazy
JCL - This one seems to follow me around a bit. Think DOS, but less automated and for mainframes.
JOVIAL - I almost left this one off the list, but there is a wiki about it, so here you go.
There are some crazier ones out there ... The military seemed to enjoy making new languages with little or no documentation back in the 60s & 70s.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
It looks like they have at least one eye witnesses (someone was observed fleeing the scene). Further, any communications to or from the devices would be recorded by the phone company (or ISP for wireless communications). So what are they hoping to find on the devices? A typed confession from the murderer?
I read that as robot barons at first. Much funnier
Well, I was reading a definition of Drone vs. RC Aircraft.
It would seem that if this was a commercial activity (racing for money), then it could well be considered a drone.
Enough to get past HR
I've landed more than one job with a generous helping of confidence and BS
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white-supremacist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002
So he confirmed he spoke to a group, but didn't know they were founded by Duke and didn't know they were racist. Where is the lie?
No, But they are watching the swarm to see how popular different torrents are. They may not know that AC#48196463 is interested in Doom 3, but they will know how many people are willing to download it. Its a different metric, but is still very valuable.
And don't worry, if bit torrent usage isn't tracked and correlated with other media consumption now, it will be soon.
Protip: Redhat and IBM are both largish businesses that support open source and have a good chance of getting contracts should the EU be more open source friendly.
It is more likely that Microsoft will remain the default because people generally fear change. Especially when someone's job (usually their own) is on the line. I've worked on showing everyone I can how friendly and useable GNU/Linux is. The only people that enjoy it are my wife and kids. My parents, siblings, and in-laws think its kinda cool, but absolutely refuse to switch. It isn't just that they don't think it's worth their time to try something new. They seem to be genuinely afraid to try anything other than Windows.
They would rather buy new computers than deal with trying Linux. I already told them I am no longer fixing viruses with Windows--they will get Linux if they bug me about software again. So if the virus scanner doesn't take care of it, they just buy a new system.
I doubt that this is a budget busting scheme, those usually come out in June and July. When I was in the Air Force (late 90s) in Oklahoma, we had a puzzling issue where January was the month where we had the most at workplace accidents and property damage. We never found a good reason for it, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was just an accident where the plane was dropped into the ocean instead of risking bringing it across a populated area. Plus I would imagine that these things are pretty weather resistant. If it is set down gently in the ocean, the data on it may very well be recoverable, the same wouldn't be true if it slammed into a house or a mountain.
Mark, I'm not sure if I offended you with my post, but if I did, I apologize. I am well aware that Pres. Nixon did. I heard a number around 50,000+ Americans needlessly died because he wanted to be president. IIRC it was president Johnson's library that released audio tapes talking about wiretaps on the South Vietnamese Ambassador that showed Nixon was secretly doing everything he could to keep the war from ending going back to 1968.
I feel really bad for the soldiers that couldn't avoid the draft. My father in law was drafted around 1965 and it earned him a purple heart. He came back missing most of his right lung, a good chunk of his liver, and most of his sanity. He spent over a year at Walter Reed, which he had to be snuck into under cover of night to avoid being attacked by the anti-war protestors. Every once in a while he says something really fucked up about the war and what he went though, but most of the time he won't say anything. He still has night terrors occasionally, even with the battery of medicines he is on to keep him functional. Sometimes I think the dead are the lucky ones.
Ok, I now know more about Jane Fonda and the Vietnam war than I did earlier today, thanks AC. Full Disclosure: I was born in the late seventies, so everything after this is based on research, not on personal memories of events.
First of all, Jane was acting as she did in North Vietnam because she was upset about the bombings of dikes and levies, which had the potential to kill tens of thousands of civilians. In that sense, journalists were doing similar work by trying to expose the inhumanities of war and the unjustness of the action.
Second, if I understand the legal aspects of the Vietnam war correctly, we were helping the South Vietnamese with their struggle with North Vietnam, we were not at war with or enemies of North Vietnam. Since they were not our enemies and she didn't make war upon the USA, she could not have committed treason. I'm not endorsing what she did, just stating that by the standard you set in your comment she did not commit treason.
Now to your point about integrity. I would define integrity as doing what you feel is "right", even when there is pressure to what you feel is "not right". I would say that the actions of various reporters from the Vietnam war showed integrity and that point is bolstered by their actions after the war. I'm not saying the reporters always did do the right thing, but that their actions show that it was their intention. I would argue that integrity went out the window with the repeal of the fairness doctrine. Corporate bosses moved their news divisions under the control of the sales division, which allowed advertisers control over the content and the messengers.
Our local school had several used computers donated to it (TRS-80's and the like). That summer they decided to have computer courses open to anyone who wanted to learn. I was going into kindergarden at the time and my parents signed me up for the course. I learned how to boot DOS, run a few commands and create a program in BASIC. I really enjoyed making the rocket scroll across the screen and I remember how proud I was when I changed the rocket to add my name onto it. Probably why I'm still programming these 30 years later.
That being said, I'm not sure there is much benefit in teaching children to code. Teach them how to use a computer well. If they are curious, teach them to make it crash constantly (aKa programming).
IIRC Sony and Google have a bit of a problem with Youtube videos. Sony was uploading videos to Youtube for some viral marketing and then sending takedown notices because Sony didn't know Sony uploaded the files. To further complicate things, Sony then sued Google for not taking down videos it had uploaded and certified that they owned.
Why would anyone want to throw more gas into that mess?
Even if making that situation more complicated seems like a good idea, what about all the incorrect assertions of copyright ownership? Or files that are legally shared?
In the end, I guess the lawyers will be the ones that win big.
The sheer incompetence of the outsourced IT will do far more damage.
Their incompence is dwarfed by that of the executives that made this decision
On the plus side, I'm sure these savings will be passed on to the consumers right?
Yes, you can be a little tyrant, demand respect you don’t deserve, and blame the people that report to you for your failures. At least you can do that until your boss catches on and fixes the problem (my last supervisor was demoted (twice?) for pulling stunts like that).
If you think you are something special and you deserve respect because you can abuse your authority, you are going to have a bad time.
Why would we need to amend the constitution? the 16th Amendment allows congress to levy a tax on incomes; it doesn't say that congress must levy an income tax.
We could go back to mostly using tarrifs and getting rid of the income tax entirely without having to touch the constitution (We may need to break a few bad treaties though)
If the women had asserted their fifth amendment rights and not answered any questions, they most likely would not have undergone an invasive road-side body cavity search. Even though the women answered the police officer honestly, the officer used their words against them to claim they were acting suspiciously and claim that they did not deny that they were in possession of marijuana (that last bit is from memory and not in the attached link).
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Women-Suing-State-Troopers-Over-Roadside-Cavity-Searches-184009281.html
until you realize that you have three kids in school (I will in two years). Then suddenly that $20-$25 becomes $60-$75 and to buy the damn laptops becomes a cool $2,700.
My wife isn't working and we are just getting by on my income. I would not be able to afford this and I don't think I could bring myself to beg for money from the school.
I worked for a company that does billing calls and shut off service for MCI many years ago. I sympathize with people with phone jobs, I really do but more often than not the guy screaming about what my mother does for a living on the other end of the phone is a hell of a lot nicer than the boss. You learn to tune it out after a while, so go ahead and scream. Your solution is actually worse for the poor sap on the other end. Most phone based companies have a set "talk time" with different penalties for going over it. Even if you accomplish the goal (sell a timeshare, get a bill payment, whatever) you can be penalized for going over talk time. I had to sit through a power point presentation every time I went over my talk time. Good god, please, scream at me and hang up. Don't make me sit through that damned presentation again.
http://www.clamwin.com/
It is simple to install and run. It doesn't have all the features that McAfee or Norton have, but on the few occasions that I've had problems with computer viruses, this has worked to remove them
I saw someone else's comment on here that there wasn't a vote on this issue in the senate. SO I went and Looked it up:i sts/vote_menu_110_1.htmr ee_sections_with_teasers/active_leg_page.htm
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_l
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_th
Not only has it not had any vote on the floor, it isn't even listed as active legislation.
And for the people wondering about law enforcement and what-not(from the bill S.701):
(ii) SPECIFIC EXEMPTION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OR COURT ORDERS- The regulations required under subparagraph (A) shall exempt from the prohibition under paragraph (1) transmissions in connection with--
(I) any authorized activity of a law enforcement agency; or
(II) a court order that specifically authorizes the use of caller identification manipulation.
So as long as someone gets a court order or it is law enforcement, then this law wouldn't apply (assuming it goes anywhere.)
I'm kinda wondering why this was even posted. Neither houses of congress have voted on it and it was originally introduced back in February.
If the government is trying to take away my legal recourse for buying an unsafe car, then yes, I blame the government for trying to protect the car manufacturers.
And having been sold 2 or 3 unsafe cars already, why would you go back to the same vendor?
Just because car manufacturer "A" made bad cars and broke the law doesn't mean that manufacturers "B", "C", and "D" won't start doing it once it's legal to do so. Especially if it's seen as being in their best interest.
For the rest of your argument ... What happens when companies start to sue the makers of virus scanners and spyware removal tools for removing their now legitimate software and calling it spyware? And what happens when Linux hits critical mass and spyware begins to be written for it?
He is an innocent ass