You also need to look at the very loose wording of what counts as torture:
"Anything that leave permanent physical or mental injuries" You can put someone in a world of hurt and not leave any permanent damage, but that is not torture.
With so many people pointing out how cold it has gotten in Europe and Russia, it gives a lot more ephasis to the average being hotter. It take a lot more warm days or a few incredable hot days to make up for those cold spells.
So they left a CD with copyrighted cover art in the store where a xerox machine is avaiable in the back office. Another store is trying to sell a book on photography, well, in a camera store, but someone might take a picture of this book. You just walked into the library with a cell phone that contains a camera, because it is a pita to find a good phone without one anymore.
When is this country going to get off the kick of making it illegal to be able break the law. You make a law, if someone breaks it, you punish them. Why do we have to make it illegal to do something or own something that MIGHT allow you to do something illegal. I guess innocent until proven guilty is just another "freedom" we lost in the war on "drugs, terror, poverty,..."
Did the INDUCE ACT pass and I missed it?
Please include that "Letter wrote on 1/17/06.doc" is not a good file name. The sad part is that I have seen some programs accept this and found file "06.doc" in directory "17"
1. That when an AV program tags your email (EMAIL CONTAINS VIRUS) that it does NOT mean that it is now OK to read the email because the AV program "fixed it"!
2. That just because you don't notice your computer running faster after I search the registry to remove gator, that it is now safe to reinstall weatherbug!
3. A firewall does not enable you to safely turn on every neat flash, activeX, java, or any other "cute" program that "you want to show me" "that you found on the internet". I would personally like a good analogy with a bullet proof vest and taking a bullet between the eyes.
1. That when an AV program tags your email (EMAIL CONTAINS VIRUS) that it does NOT mean that it is now OK to read the email because the AV program "fixed it"!
2. That just because you don't notice your computer running faster after I search the registry to remove gator, that it is now safe to reinstall weatherbug!
3. A firewall does not enable you to safely turn on every neat flash, activeX, java, or any other "cute" program that "you want to show me" "that you found on the internet". I would personally like a good analogy with a bullet proof vest and taking a bullet between the eyes.
It makes a lot of sense from a marketing perspective to not want an Opt-in system, that is just too much trouble for most people to bother with. I think the solution would have been an opt-out system, but provide a clear warning about what it is doing and not hide it in the fine print. a pop-up window the first time it starts giving a web address of where to get instructions to disable. Still get the marketing advantage from people too lazy to go through the steps, but not pissing off the people about not knowing about it.
Would you please point me to the article of the Constitution that says that it is the goverments job to handle things the general public should not know about? I seem to have missed this one in class. I will give you, that foreign countries should not know about, but lets educate the irrational uneducated person instead of keeping them in the dark and uneducated.
You need to block all the ports THAT YOU ARE NOT USING. I have a hard enough time getting things set up around broadband companies firewalls. I paid for a connection to the internet, I want a connection to the internet. If I want a company to give me restricted access so that I can't hurt my computer, I would hire a security company not an ISP. Let me put my own router on that I can configure. When the ISP start deciding what I need it ends up being surfing the web and sending email to their server. If I only needed two ports, lets just change the IP spec to a single digit number. That would give us 80% capacity to expand in the future if the ISP decides I am allowed to do something else.
I see one major hole in this. Most people shopping for computers go by the theory of getting the most computer that you can afford. If I have $500 to spend on a computer I will usually end up with about $350 worth of computer and $150 in extras. Throw in rebates, and I can get a little bit better computer for $350 but have to invest the other $150 in your sales gimick instead. That is $150 that I am going to get back, but that I don't have available to spend in your store.
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You have a good thought process going, but I think that you stopped a shy short of the destination. You fail to take into account the effects of the behavior. Almost any behavior can be done to excess. There are some people that can gamble considerably, but they have the time and money to do so. There are other people that spend so much time socializing that they can't fit into society. I have seen people that spend so much time chatting online, that it interfers with their job, and ends up deystroying thier life. I have known people that gamble a great deal, but keep it within thier limits. If I were to gamble to that extent, I know it would be beyond my limits.
You are very correct about it not being the forum.
An addiction is the compulsion to do something beyond your control. The internet just makes a lot of these habits easier to do, which then requires less compulsion in order to do it. The behavior is what you do, but it does not define the compulsion. In order to be addicted, you need to do something to the extent that another person in the same situation would want to stop; otherwise there is no base line to determint it is beyond control. This usually means doing something to a degree that it has a negative impact on the rest of your life.
1) You can be addicted to anything. 2) Different people have different levels at which they are addicted. 3) It is possible to be addicted to being on the net, at which point it is not the forum, but this is very rare.
What do you think all the registration cards that are "required" for warrenty are about. It is utterly amazing how much junk they store on individuals in the name of marketing. I will agree that no one will care about most people, but not caring and not having the information in a database are two different things. I have a very unique name derived from a misspelling on a birth certificate. The only two people in the world with my name is me and my father, but I still pull up over 500 hits if I enter it in google. Most of them some kind of goverment or school entery. No one cares about me or my father now, but the information is still there if that ever changes.
You forgot one code base CE/Mobile It has IE, MP, and remote client to access a server runing applications already.
1. Recompile for X86
2. Change the menu to look like XP
3. Prof/H/H/H/H ( I can't go there )
It is, however, their job to enforce laws like driving without a lisence, driving a stolen vehicle, and crashing said stolen vehicle you were driving without a lisence into another vehicle.
Where is it illegal? de Beers gets away with it because they absolutely never do business in the USA. If you want diamonds you have to go to them. If I remeber right, there are only about 30 people in the USA that have a contract that will allow them to go to de Beers, and then de Beers presents them with a lot of diamonds and a price. If a particular type of diamond is losing value. Then none of that type of diamond will be included in any of the lots for several years. If de Beers ever tried to export diamonds to the USA, then they would be hit with the lawsuits.
DRM-FREE!!! Music
NOT!!!!
FREE !!! DRM-Music
It is my understanding that the DMCA prevents cracking protected material, this is preventing material from being protected before it happes.
Two thoughts - Is having the phone company in charge of regulating VOIP companies a good idea, they already are trying to get them taxed out of existance. I can see it now... "We have blocked all those anoying telemarketers from VOIP phones" "Anyone who wanted VOIP must be a telemarketer right?"
Second, what makes you think that people will be able to reach you on a cell phone that is also receiving 150 call a day ?
There is also a cost aspect. Any gues on how much it cost to fill the tanks? Probably not something you want to do for a simple test just to verify what has been calculated. Even if it would have paid off this time, statistically, the chance of finding a problem vs. cost was not a good use of resources.
As I understand it, in order to violate a copyright you have to have seen or heard the original and then duplicate it. In software, you can write two different programs with different code and as long as one was not a copy of the other it does not violate copyright. Patents are a method for acheiving a result. If you have a patent on a program that accomplishes 'X' then any program that accomplishes 'X' violates that patent. A patent will lock out anyone that writes a code independently (knowing or unknowing of the patent). A patent also cannot be reverse engineered.
Except that history has proven that it won't last very long. Remember when people would pay for cable so that they didn't get commercials? Remeber when people could pay to see a movie so they didn't have to sit through commercials. Remeber when to grocery store club cards gave you a better price than the store down the street. They get you use to the idea of the advertising or information gathering tools being there, and then they can start working the price back up slowly. After a while you are paying the same price you use to just so they can sell you to their advertising clients.
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You also need to look at the very loose wording of what counts as torture: "Anything that leave permanent physical or mental injuries" You can put someone in a world of hurt and not leave any permanent damage, but that is not torture.
With so many people pointing out how cold it has gotten in Europe and Russia, it gives a lot more ephasis to the average being hotter. It take a lot more warm days or a few incredable hot days to make up for those cold spells.
So they left a CD with copyrighted cover art in the store where a xerox machine is avaiable in the back office. Another store is trying to sell a book on photography, well, in a camera store, but someone might take a picture of this book. You just walked into the library with a cell phone that contains a camera, because it is a pita to find a good phone without one anymore. When is this country going to get off the kick of making it illegal to be able break the law. You make a law, if someone breaks it, you punish them. Why do we have to make it illegal to do something or own something that MIGHT allow you to do something illegal. I guess innocent until proven guilty is just another "freedom" we lost in the war on "drugs, terror, poverty, ..."
Did the INDUCE ACT pass and I missed it?
Please include that "Letter wrote on 1/17/06.doc" is not a good file name. The sad part is that I have seen some programs accept this and found file "06.doc" in directory "17"
1. That when an AV program tags your email (EMAIL CONTAINS VIRUS) that it does NOT mean that it is now OK to read the email because the AV program "fixed it"!
2. That just because you don't notice your computer running faster after I search the registry to remove gator, that it is now safe to reinstall weatherbug!
3. A firewall does not enable you to safely turn on every neat flash, activeX, java, or any other "cute" program that "you want to show me" "that you found on the internet". I would personally like a good analogy with a bullet proof vest and taking a bullet between the eyes.
4. How to use HTML or a preview button.
1. That when an AV program tags your email (EMAIL CONTAINS VIRUS) that it does NOT mean that it is now OK to read the email because the AV program "fixed it"! 2. That just because you don't notice your computer running faster after I search the registry to remove gator, that it is now safe to reinstall weatherbug! 3. A firewall does not enable you to safely turn on every neat flash, activeX, java, or any other "cute" program that "you want to show me" "that you found on the internet". I would personally like a good analogy with a bullet proof vest and taking a bullet between the eyes.
That's the first time I've ever known a Slashdot editor to be sloppy. Then let me be the first to welcome you.
It makes a lot of sense from a marketing perspective to not want an Opt-in system, that is just too much trouble for most people to bother with. I think the solution would have been an opt-out system, but provide a clear warning about what it is doing and not hide it in the fine print. a pop-up window the first time it starts giving a web address of where to get instructions to disable. Still get the marketing advantage from people too lazy to go through the steps, but not pissing off the people about not knowing about it.
How will this effect other DOS systems like DR DOS and FreeDOS?
Would you please point me to the article of the Constitution that says that it is the goverments job to handle things the general public should not know about? I seem to have missed this one in class. I will give you, that foreign countries should not know about, but lets educate the irrational uneducated person instead of keeping them in the dark and uneducated.
Would someone tell me if the "just by visiting an infected site" link, is a link to an infected site, or an article about the infected sites?
You need to block all the ports THAT YOU ARE NOT USING. I have a hard enough time getting things set up around broadband companies firewalls. I paid for a connection to the internet, I want a connection to the internet. If I want a company to give me restricted access so that I can't hurt my computer, I would hire a security company not an ISP. Let me put my own router on that I can configure. When the ISP start deciding what I need it ends up being surfing the web and sending email to their server. If I only needed two ports, lets just change the IP spec to a single digit number. That would give us 80% capacity to expand in the future if the ISP decides I am allowed to do something else.
I see one major hole in this. Most people shopping for computers go by the theory of getting the most computer that you can afford. If I have $500 to spend on a computer I will usually end up with about $350 worth of computer and $150 in extras. Throw in rebates, and I can get a little bit better computer for $350 but have to invest the other $150 in your sales gimick instead. That is $150 that I am going to get back, but that I don't have available to spend in your store.
You are very correct about it not being the forum.
An addiction is the compulsion to do something beyond your control. The internet just makes a lot of these habits easier to do, which then requires less compulsion in order to do it. The behavior is what you do, but it does not define the compulsion. In order to be addicted, you need to do something to the extent that another person in the same situation would want to stop; otherwise there is no base line to determint it is beyond control. This usually means doing something to a degree that it has a negative impact on the rest of your life.
1) You can be addicted to anything. 2) Different people have different levels at which they are addicted. 3) It is possible to be addicted to being on the net, at which point it is not the forum, but this is very rare.
If it is GPL code then wouldn't it make the EULA unenforcable under the cannot add other restrictions clause?
Make sure that the method of compesation isn't patented!
What do you think all the registration cards that are "required" for warrenty are about. It is utterly amazing how much junk they store on individuals in the name of marketing. I will agree that no one will care about most people, but not caring and not having the information in a database are two different things. I have a very unique name derived from a misspelling on a birth certificate. The only two people in the world with my name is me and my father, but I still pull up over 500 hits if I enter it in google. Most of them some kind of goverment or school entery. No one cares about me or my father now, but the information is still there if that ever changes.
You forgot one code base CE/Mobile It has IE, MP, and remote client to access a server runing applications already. 1. Recompile for X86 2. Change the menu to look like XP 3. Prof/H/H/H/H ( I can't go there )
It is, however, their job to enforce laws like driving without a lisence, driving a stolen vehicle, and crashing said stolen vehicle you were driving without a lisence into another vehicle.
Where is it illegal? de Beers gets away with it because they absolutely never do business in the USA. If you want diamonds you have to go to them. If I remeber right, there are only about 30 people in the USA that have a contract that will allow them to go to de Beers, and then de Beers presents them with a lot of diamonds and a price. If a particular type of diamond is losing value. Then none of that type of diamond will be included in any of the lots for several years. If de Beers ever tried to export diamonds to the USA, then they would be hit with the lawsuits.
DRM-FREE!!! Music NOT!!!! FREE !!! DRM-Music It is my understanding that the DMCA prevents cracking protected material, this is preventing material from being protected before it happes.
Two thoughts - Is having the phone company in charge of regulating VOIP companies a good idea, they already are trying to get them taxed out of existance. I can see it now ... "We have blocked all those anoying telemarketers from VOIP phones" "Anyone who wanted VOIP must be a telemarketer right?"
Second, what makes you think that people will be able to reach you on a cell phone that is also receiving 150 call a day ?
There is also a cost aspect. Any gues on how much it cost to fill the tanks? Probably not something you want to do for a simple test just to verify what has been calculated. Even if it would have paid off this time, statistically, the chance of finding a problem vs. cost was not a good use of resources.
As I understand it, in order to violate a copyright you have to have seen or heard the original and then duplicate it. In software, you can write two different programs with different code and as long as one was not a copy of the other it does not violate copyright. Patents are a method for acheiving a result. If you have a patent on a program that accomplishes 'X' then any program that accomplishes 'X' violates that patent. A patent will lock out anyone that writes a code independently (knowing or unknowing of the patent). A patent also cannot be reverse engineered.
Except that history has proven that it won't last very long. Remember when people would pay for cable so that they didn't get commercials? Remeber when people could pay to see a movie so they didn't have to sit through commercials. Remeber when to grocery store club cards gave you a better price than the store down the street. They get you use to the idea of the advertising or information gathering tools being there, and then they can start working the price back up slowly. After a while you are paying the same price you use to just so they can sell you to their advertising clients.