Charging children with crimes like these is outrageous. That would be like charging them with copyright violations and slapping them with huge fines for downloading music they did not pay for. Oh, wait...
Maybe, a guillotine would be more appropriate in this case? It was after all how the French ended the rule of a previous individual who took actions against the common French person.
All kidding aside, we, in the United States are used to this kind of treachery from our elected officials. I am unaware of anyone being given the death penalty for it, let alone a slap on the wrist.
With the attitude so many are taking about the Evil Obama (not saying he is or is not, time will tell), it would be interesting to see what people said if it made it to him and he vetoed it. Hopefully, it will not get that far.
Sure it's a design flaw, but not a Microsoft design flaw.
From the article for those too lazy to go to the top:The E74 error seems to be related to video problems. It's occasionally caused by a faulty AV cord, but more often than not, the solder on the ANA/HANA (in HDMI models) scaling chip has come loose.
Seems potentially a change in the material being used in the construction of the box. Maybe not, but it is the material failing based on a decision at MS. Changing materials would be something that needs to be tested thoroughly, as well as receiving a new batch of a material already being used (I work in manufacturing these days and that IS how it IS done. Now, it may be that they got a bad batch, or it may not, but however it comes out, what I said still stands. It would still be my ass on the line. I selected whatever supplier, or I changed the design specs. Whichever it might be, it would be my decision to use whatever was used that was then causing the error.
I don't know about where you work, but if I had designed a product using a component that was not able to work properly or without causing damage in the system I was designing, it would have been a very serious design flaw.
Try opendns.org. I have been using it for a while now and have been very happy with how well it blocks so many categories of sites. It is customizable, password protected (is you choose) and all you have to do is set the dns of the computers to use it and select the types of content to block.
The constitution is merely a piece of paper, a contract of sorts. Anyone who has engaged in business with large companies or wealthy entities has most likely learned that the meaning and definitions of any such contract (if not the contract itself) are purchasable by the right dollar amount when the right people are the stewards. Bush and Co. sold it in spades, as have most elected individuals before him. I see no reason to expect Obama to deviate much from that policy. But, I would be happy to be surprised.
If finally coming into compliance is what they are doing, then, Duh! By default the sites that are built for the not-compatible versions are going to be broken. I think it is wonderful. If Microsoft comes into compliance and renders web pages by the book (the W3C standard), then it is a great thing for all. Having broken sites is the price that companies pay for jumping on the bandwagon when they had the choice to do the right thing or not.
Consider broken sites a small price to pay going forward to gain real compatibility and a much better web. Less time spent developing around the broken browsers means more time spent building true content - maybe even more time on better security.
LMAO! Man, that reminds me of the father of a girl I dated in California before I met my wife. Their family lineage were some of the original Spanish (from Spain) settlers on the west coast and her dad had a problem with her dating anyone but proper Spanish blood. First time I met him (she warned me up front), his first comment was something I could not literally understand, but I picked up on gringo and a pronounced frown. As I got to know the family a bit, they were very wonderful and very traditional, but he never warmed up to the idea of her dating anyone not of proper Spanish decent.
Actually, as I see it, this belongs right where it is. It is an attempt to prevent companies that have been in the anti-competitive business for years from squashing competition that would stimulate parts of the economy. I actually agree with the new pres on this one. It would be fundamentally destructive to any recovery to not protect the freedom of services available on the internet.
What do you think would happen if the telcos and cable companies were given a set of laws that explicitly allowed them to determine what traffic there end users could use and not use. Wait, that would be the current cable system. Wow. There is a winning model.. for about 3 companies. Net neutrality is very important to the viability of most competition on the internet. Without it, small startups go from hard to harder to near impossible and the "pipe" owning monopolies go from connection companies to content/delivery/product monopolies. I don't care what else you call it, but essential to the economic recovery is absolutely one of the bigger points of net neutrality.
At the end of the day, if you deny the observations of science, you deny the realities of God's creation (if you are a believer in God). All science can possibly do in a Universe created by God is observe and learn about God's creation. To deny what is observed is to deny God's creation. To invent facts or create false testament about the way the world is/was to support any idea is a sin as born out by the Ninth Commandment. In fact, the pseudoscience of ID does much harm to the general public's belief in God and church, as the aforementioned site notes, Like a poison [lying] can damage a reputation!. Lies do not have to be intentional. They merely have to be false. If you firmly believe in a lie, then your reputation is what will be harmed the most.
There are quite some ex-teachers that claim that the basic purpose of the school system is not to bring out the best in each student, but to deliver working and middle class drones
I know many teachers who claim that is what the school system has become, but very few who claim that is the right way for it. Most teachers I know (YMMV) believe the purpose of school is to educate people to be independent thinking adults. Many complain that not enough time is given to independent thinking skills. Many complain that too much of what is taught is watered down fluff to satisfy some number harvesters. The problem with any issue we have with school systems (in the US) is that WE VOTE THEM IN. Yep, we vote the school boards in, they do the hiring standards and the school policies. If we are not voting in people who can do the job correctly, that is our (societies) fault. If we are not encouraging the proper people to run, that is our fault.
Of course, this is all with the realization that the most worshiped persons in the US are not religious figures, but sports figures. All we need now are lead based water pipes.
shouldn't be porn unless you're using it to get off
And here lies the heart of the issue. It does not matter how innocent the reasons for taking the pictures might possibly be, all that matters is that some one else might be encouraged to perform a predatory act against children by viewing the pictures. It is the same type of argument that led to prohibition, only I do not believe there is an overwhelming majority of adults that believe the law is wrong. Making these images illegal is not due to the idea that the images themselves are harmful, only that the images might encourage someone else to harm a child after viewing them. It is truly the same idea behind the desire to ban pornography in general. Viewing the material causes the person viewing to see the subjects of the image in a less human standing and therefore encourages the subjects to be treated with indifference and made more vulnerable to predatory acts. It has been suggested that pedophiles can not help what they do and that merely viewing material will make them want to act out on their desires.
My thoughts as well. Maybe it is time to add production of insulin to the survivalists handbook. Look at the huge number of people who are dependent upon it. One of two things would happen. They would either loose enough weight to become not dependent, or they would die. Probably the latter. That would solve many problems, but I don't like the idea of dying that way myself.
Hmm.. Time for me to do some studying up on insulin production and to convert my tin foil hat to a camo design.
I have taken several of these tests and one of the things I have realized is that the person(s) writing these tests are not writers. Their command of the American English language is sometimes daft at best. So, you have to be very careful about interpreting what a questions means based on what is written. You have to intuit what they are actually asking/looking for based on the rest of the questions and answer that way. The best tests I have taken were all internally developed by the peers you were to work with, but the vast majority of tests seem to be developed by people who think that they have personality down to a science, but to me, seem to only be grasping at elementary fundamentals. Maybe there is another slant on this though.
Sometimes, I wonder if these tests are not weeding out people who have problem reading between the lines and giving the answer that another person is looking for. Maybe the goal of the tests is to hire the person who can say what they need to say as opposed to what they believe. Maybe in many positions that is what they really want. That makes sense if you think about customer service or many (if not most) managers these days. How many customers want anything other than yes mam? How many bosses want anything other than It can be done? If the tests are indeed looking to fill positions with people willing to do that, then people who lie are what they are looking for. That I find easy to believe. We don't seem to be a culture based on the truth anyway. We seem to desire delusional thinking and irrational exuberance. Reality sucks! Working to make it better sucks even worse, so lets all pretend it is all well and good anyway. Then we can skate until the economy tanks, or the house burns down, or the business collapses. In the mean time, we make our checks and we spend more. Yeah, these tests don't want people who see the problem with those things. They want people who breeze past those things.
I know at the moment, we seem to have no clue as to how to make FTL travel happen. It seems to fly in the face of all that we think we understand. But, we do know about things like quantum entanglement and we have visualized things like bending of space. I believe that at some point we will achieve faster than light travel. Maybe not by actually moving faster than the speed of light, but by using other tricks available to us.
I believe the movie Minority Report kind of hits on that idea. There are other sci fi movies that do so, both better and worse, but the idea has been there for a long time.
We are actually headed in that direction. As we become more of a police type state through monitoring people and tracking individual's movements, locations, etc. we also provide highly valuable commercial data for advertisers and other to target individuals. Some people like this, as they see the constant *big brother* presence as comforting and secure, while others see it as intrusive and threatening.
So, targeted advertising will probably not work the way many if not most people are comfortable with, as it requires the ability to know very personal information about a person. Unless they can come up with a way to know who you are and what your likes and dislikes are without knowing who you are (??), I doubt it is going to happen soon.
Just having an idea about how abusive those in power are with that power, I would be terrified of living in a society with those capabilities. You don't have to do anything wrong to become a pawn in someone else's power game.
Or.. Is it that even though they do the right thing, as it is for the wrong reason, they might not continue doing the right thing? That would make sense to me and be completely understandable.
I do know some lawyers who do the right thing for the right reasons and make lots of money doing it. They happen to be very good, and say no to anything they find ethically problematic. Not many, but a few. lol
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What the heck do you think they intended the RIFD passports for? They are meant to be used to track people. They are working as intended.
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Charging children with crimes like these is outrageous. That would be like charging them with copyright violations and slapping them with huge fines for downloading music they did not pay for. Oh, wait...
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Maybe, a guillotine would be more appropriate in this case? It was after all how the French ended the rule of a previous individual who took actions against the common French person.
All kidding aside, we, in the United States are used to this kind of treachery from our elected officials. I am unaware of anyone being given the death penalty for it, let alone a slap on the wrist.
InnerWeb
With the attitude so many are taking about the Evil Obama (not saying he is or is not, time will tell), it would be interesting to see what people said if it made it to him and he vetoed it. Hopefully, it will not get that far.
InnerWeb
Sure it's a design flaw, but not a Microsoft design flaw.
From the article for those too lazy to go to the top:The E74 error seems to be related to video problems. It's occasionally caused by a faulty AV cord, but more often than not, the solder on the ANA/HANA (in HDMI models) scaling chip has come loose.
Seems potentially a change in the material being used in the construction of the box. Maybe not, but it is the material failing based on a decision at MS. Changing materials would be something that needs to be tested thoroughly, as well as receiving a new batch of a material already being used (I work in manufacturing these days and that IS how it IS done. Now, it may be that they got a bad batch, or it may not, but however it comes out, what I said still stands. It would still be my ass on the line. I selected whatever supplier, or I changed the design specs. Whichever it might be, it would be my decision to use whatever was used that was then causing the error.
InnerWeb
I don't know about where you work, but if I had designed a product using a component that was not able to work properly or without causing damage in the system I was designing, it would have been a very serious design flaw.
InnerWeb
Try opendns.org. I have been using it for a while now and have been very happy with how well it blocks so many categories of sites. It is customizable, password protected (is you choose) and all you have to do is set the dns of the computers to use it and select the types of content to block.
InnerWeb
The constitution is merely a piece of paper, a contract of sorts. Anyone who has engaged in business with large companies or wealthy entities has most likely learned that the meaning and definitions of any such contract (if not the contract itself) are purchasable by the right dollar amount when the right people are the stewards. Bush and Co. sold it in spades, as have most elected individuals before him. I see no reason to expect Obama to deviate much from that policy. But, I would be happy to be surprised.
InnerWeb
If finally coming into compliance is what they are doing, then, Duh! By default the sites that are built for the not-compatible versions are going to be broken. I think it is wonderful. If Microsoft comes into compliance and renders web pages by the book (the W3C standard), then it is a great thing for all. Having broken sites is the price that companies pay for jumping on the bandwagon when they had the choice to do the right thing or not.
Consider broken sites a small price to pay going forward to gain real compatibility and a much better web. Less time spent developing around the broken browsers means more time spent building true content - maybe even more time on better security.
InnerWeb
whis is more than what some gringos do!
LMAO! Man, that reminds me of the father of a girl I dated in California before I met my wife. Their family lineage were some of the original Spanish (from Spain) settlers on the west coast and her dad had a problem with her dating anyone but proper Spanish blood. First time I met him (she warned me up front), his first comment was something I could not literally understand, but I picked up on gringo and a pronounced frown. As I got to know the family a bit, they were very wonderful and very traditional, but he never warmed up to the idea of her dating anyone not of proper Spanish decent.
InnerWeb
Actually, as I see it, this belongs right where it is. It is an attempt to prevent companies that have been in the anti-competitive business for years from squashing competition that would stimulate parts of the economy. I actually agree with the new pres on this one. It would be fundamentally destructive to any recovery to not protect the freedom of services available on the internet.
What do you think would happen if the telcos and cable companies were given a set of laws that explicitly allowed them to determine what traffic there end users could use and not use. Wait, that would be the current cable system. Wow. There is a winning model.. for about 3 companies. Net neutrality is very important to the viability of most competition on the internet. Without it, small startups go from hard to harder to near impossible and the "pipe" owning monopolies go from connection companies to content/delivery/product monopolies. I don't care what else you call it, but essential to the economic recovery is absolutely one of the bigger points of net neutrality.
InnerWeb
"it's the life if you can handle it."
Let me suggest "it's the life if your family can handle it.".
InnerWeb
At the end of the day, if you deny the observations of science, you deny the realities of God's creation (if you are a believer in God). All science can possibly do in a Universe created by God is observe and learn about God's creation. To deny what is observed is to deny God's creation. To invent facts or create false testament about the way the world is/was to support any idea is a sin as born out by the Ninth Commandment. In fact, the pseudoscience of ID does much harm to the general public's belief in God and church, as the aforementioned site notes, Like a poison [lying] can damage a reputation!. Lies do not have to be intentional. They merely have to be false. If you firmly believe in a lie, then your reputation is what will be harmed the most.
InnerWeb
There are quite some ex-teachers that claim that the basic purpose of the school system is not to bring out the best in each student, but to deliver working and middle class drones
I know many teachers who claim that is what the school system has become, but very few who claim that is the right way for it. Most teachers I know (YMMV) believe the purpose of school is to educate people to be independent thinking adults. Many complain that not enough time is given to independent thinking skills. Many complain that too much of what is taught is watered down fluff to satisfy some number harvesters. The problem with any issue we have with school systems (in the US) is that WE VOTE THEM IN. Yep, we vote the school boards in, they do the hiring standards and the school policies. If we are not voting in people who can do the job correctly, that is our (societies) fault. If we are not encouraging the proper people to run, that is our fault.
Of course, this is all with the realization that the most worshiped persons in the US are not religious figures, but sports figures. All we need now are lead based water pipes.
InnerWeb
That already happens. Normally the IRS charges for back taxes not paid, as nothing else sticks.
InnerWeb
shouldn't be porn unless you're using it to get off
And here lies the heart of the issue. It does not matter how innocent the reasons for taking the pictures might possibly be, all that matters is that some one else might be encouraged to perform a predatory act against children by viewing the pictures. It is the same type of argument that led to prohibition, only I do not believe there is an overwhelming majority of adults that believe the law is wrong. Making these images illegal is not due to the idea that the images themselves are harmful, only that the images might encourage someone else to harm a child after viewing them. It is truly the same idea behind the desire to ban pornography in general. Viewing the material causes the person viewing to see the subjects of the image in a less human standing and therefore encourages the subjects to be treated with indifference and made more vulnerable to predatory acts. It has been suggested that pedophiles can not help what they do and that merely viewing material will make them want to act out on their desires.
InnerWeb
My thoughts as well. Maybe it is time to add production of insulin to the survivalists handbook. Look at the huge number of people who are dependent upon it. One of two things would happen. They would either loose enough weight to become not dependent, or they would die. Probably the latter. That would solve many problems, but I don't like the idea of dying that way myself.
Hmm.. Time for me to do some studying up on insulin production and to convert my tin foil hat to a camo design.
InnerWeb
I have taken several of these tests and one of the things I have realized is that the person(s) writing these tests are not writers. Their command of the American English language is sometimes daft at best. So, you have to be very careful about interpreting what a questions means based on what is written. You have to intuit what they are actually asking/looking for based on the rest of the questions and answer that way. The best tests I have taken were all internally developed by the peers you were to work with, but the vast majority of tests seem to be developed by people who think that they have personality down to a science, but to me, seem to only be grasping at elementary fundamentals. Maybe there is another slant on this though.
Sometimes, I wonder if these tests are not weeding out people who have problem reading between the lines and giving the answer that another person is looking for. Maybe the goal of the tests is to hire the person who can say what they need to say as opposed to what they believe. Maybe in many positions that is what they really want. That makes sense if you think about customer service or many (if not most) managers these days. How many customers want anything other than yes mam? How many bosses want anything other than It can be done? If the tests are indeed looking to fill positions with people willing to do that, then people who lie are what they are looking for. That I find easy to believe. We don't seem to be a culture based on the truth anyway. We seem to desire delusional thinking and irrational exuberance. Reality sucks! Working to make it better sucks even worse, so lets all pretend it is all well and good anyway. Then we can skate until the economy tanks, or the house burns down, or the business collapses. In the mean time, we make our checks and we spend more. Yeah, these tests don't want people who see the problem with those things. They want people who breeze past those things.
InnerWeb
I know at the moment, we seem to have no clue as to how to make FTL travel happen. It seems to fly in the face of all that we think we understand. But, we do know about things like quantum entanglement and we have visualized things like bending of space. I believe that at some point we will achieve faster than light travel. Maybe not by actually moving faster than the speed of light, but by using other tricks available to us.
InnerWeb
But, I probably don't want the pastor of my church to see my FF bookmarks.
LMAO!!! Thanks for a great laugh!!
InnerWeb
I believe the movie Minority Report kind of hits on that idea. There are other sci fi movies that do so, both better and worse, but the idea has been there for a long time.
We are actually headed in that direction. As we become more of a police type state through monitoring people and tracking individual's movements, locations, etc. we also provide highly valuable commercial data for advertisers and other to target individuals. Some people like this, as they see the constant *big brother* presence as comforting and secure, while others see it as intrusive and threatening.
So, targeted advertising will probably not work the way many if not most people are comfortable with, as it requires the ability to know very personal information about a person. Unless they can come up with a way to know who you are and what your likes and dislikes are without knowing who you are (??), I doubt it is going to happen soon.
Just having an idea about how abusive those in power are with that power, I would be terrified of living in a society with those capabilities. You don't have to do anything wrong to become a pawn in someone else's power game.
InnerWeb
Troll?!?!?!?!?!?
Wow. The normal slashdot dorks have already been here. This post is FUNNY.
InnerWeb
mod parent redundant. It is slashdot.
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Or.. Is it that even though they do the right thing, as it is for the wrong reason, they might not continue doing the right thing? That would make sense to me and be completely understandable.
I do know some lawyers who do the right thing for the right reasons and make lots of money doing it. They happen to be very good, and say no to anything they find ethically problematic. Not many, but a few. lol
InnerWeb
Those were not tectonic plates. They were my stomach grumbling for food.
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