Call me cynical, but somehow I just got an image of some DOD guy saying something like, "So what if the ABM's don't work? If anyone ever finds out, they will have much bigger problems to deal with..."
If it WAS crowd sourced then I don't seen an issue, they are doing their own data collection. If they STOLE the database from which the information is created from (and likely sold and licenced from), then yes, that would be an issue.
Of course how does one "appropriate" a database? Are they claiming they were hacked? Likely it exposes security flaws and unaccountability within Canada Post, as in who as access to the production database, and how could someone copy it and give it away (which is probably what happened if that is the case). It could just be sour grapes that Geocoder is getting at the information from another source. Though realistically I have to say, how good do you think a crowd sourced postal code database is? Makes me wonder... I guess it really depends on how large and regionally diverse that crowd is.
While I don't totally disagree with you, what you are basically saying is that public funds = freely accessible information, which is not, or ever has been the case.
Just because something was created by government, using public funds, does not make it publicly freely available (you can argue if it should or not as you like). There is plenty of research, data collected, etc... that is Licenced for use, and their are various Licences, some of which have fees and others which don't, some limit access, others how the material may be used, etc...
Part of the argument here is one of cost recovery. It is usually in any governments mandate to get a fair return on investment, so if you spend taxpayers money, then give the results away, that's hardly a fair return to the taxpayer (though it is great for the very few who would take advantage).
Problem is, this describes pretty much any 3D multiplayer computer game in which the game is hosted by a central server.
While this would discount early games like Doom2 and Duke3D (as they were hosted by one of the clients), it would not discount all of those that enabled dedicated servers for clients to connect to and "interact" with each other in a virtual 3d world, etc... You know games like CS for example. Though looking up that example on wiki gives a release date of June 19, 1999, which is too late, though I am sure there are other less popular, earlier, examples of these types of games.
Usually I am the one beating the privacy drum and less impingement on individual rights, however in this particular case, it does make me think.
This is an instance where the kidnappers let the captives phone family, the family contacted police, the police did apply for a warrant, but knowing it would take 24 hours or something to get, they went ahead and tapped the line anyway because they were fearful something might happen to the family.
In any case they certainly had probably cause, and the warrant was eventually issued by the judge anyway, it is just that they set it up in advance of that decision.
So yeah, I am all for the protection of rights, although at the same time, I can at least understand in this particular case why the police felt they had to set up the wiretap in advance of the actual warrant.
So yeah I don't know. I guess in this case, the idea is that you set it up early, and you might save some lives, knowing that the content will likely get thrown out in court because there was no warrant, and that once the warrant has been issued that would then from that time on been admissible. Anyway certainly not a cut and dry case. About the only thing I can hang my hat on is that if the judgment wasn't what it was, and they did allow warrantless wire taps it would most certainly be abused, so I can get behind that at least.
I grew up in NS. The only problem is if you work in a sector like most of us do here on Slashdot, you are pretty much regulated to working in the one city Halifax. Those kinds of jobs just do not exist outside of there. Unless of you want to try and open up an independent PC shop or something, or can somehow convince your employer to telecommute.
It is pretty great there and I hope to eventually move back some time (Ontario now).
I am pretty sure anyone can do this legally if they have the know how. Are they going to sue everyone? Why is it illegal, because a company is offering a service?
I mean PC TV tuners have been around for ages, heck digital PC tuners have been around for years. Set one up, set up your own stream on your own network, and access it with your iPad... Might be some fiddly bits around getting past Apple's walled garden, but I am sure they much have some retail software out there that can be cobbled together to do the trick...
Perhaps at a standstill. If you are already going 100km/h with all the inertia behind it, then open the throttle all the way, then try standing on your breaks and see what happens... I can tell you, smoke, fire, and eventually no breaks at all.
Years ago our Dodge Caravan had a fuel sensor problem (wasn't dodges fault but due to previous repairs), that basically told the computer "NEED MORE GAS!". It was like having your accelerator floored all of a sudden and not being able to stop it. Anyway my Dad was driving it at the time on the highway, at normal highway speeds and so he tromped on the breaks, which did slow him down, but after awhile, they started smoking, and eventually caught fire, and started to have decreased effectiveness. Before they were totally gone, he started going up a hill, which slowed it further, and at that point he figured it was his last chance, so he threw it in the ditch.
The reason why he didn't turn it off was that he feared he would lose steering if he did, and I don't think it occurred to him to throw it in neutral and just let the engine blow. I think that is because it was an automatic, probably isn't as obvious as if you were driving a manual, in which case it would be trivial (Well apart from blowing your engine which would suck, but better than trying to ditch the car likely).
1) The sound the "Flubber" car makes... 2) The sound that other old flying Disney car made with the wings... can't make brain work right now. I'll I remember is a lot of horrible singing. 3) A Sean Connery Voice that says "Rig for Silent Running"...:)
People die from getting "head stomped" all the time. How do you think most people die in fights? It isn't getting punched in the face. Its when the person falls and hits their head, or when someone intentionally stomps your head into the pavement, or has someone ram it there. (excluding someone pulling a weapon and bashing their head with it, a knife and getting stabbed multiple times, or a gun and getting shot... as in this case)
Hey I agree if the guy is going around confronting people he is an idiot, but this was apparently in his neighborhood, so it at least it has a thin veneer of reasonableness. However idiot or not, objectionable or not, any judge just about anywhere I think is going to agree that simply "confronting" someone does not give the right to do violence to them, including bashing ones head into things. That's called talking the law into your own hands. If it is otherwise you live in a pretty horrible place.
So if it played out where Zimmerman followed this guy because he was "suspicious" (legitimately or not I don't think it makes a difference, the guy could be a raging racist, it doesn't matter), and then confronted the guy as to why he was walking through his neighborhood. If Trayvon got upset/angry/indignant (legitimately so, and likely felt like he was being targeted), and escalated that confrontation to the point of violence, to the point which Zimmerman defended himself, well many people that were outraged for the non-arrest may be very unhappy with the eventual decision.
To me, the prosecutors unless they can prove that it was Zimmerman's intent the whole time to stalk this poor guy and kill him (and seeing as they didn't charge him with 1st degree murder they don't think they can), then they pretty much have to prove that Trayvon did not pose an imminent physical threat of violence at that time, or that Zimmerman's response was disproportionate (a potential head slap, rather than head bash for example).
In any case it doesn't seem to me that they have a whole lot of evidence either way, most of it would be Zimmerman's VS Trayvon word, and unfortunately, the court is really only going to hear one side of it, at least pertaining to this particular incident (I'm sure all sorts of historical stuff will come up). This has also gotten so political, it seems like one of the bigger trials in my American experience.
You can die from getting you skull bashed against the concrete, and if that was the case then I would say if the guy was armed, a shooting would be justified.
Who knows if this is the case or not however, and at this point it is so political it barely matters what the facts are anymore I would bet.
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BEFORE he "dropped these details — including card numbers and PINs — on his blog".
If only there was some utility that would do all that for you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR
Nothing like putting limitations on accounts that can be defeated by 1993 technology, originally developed to defeat a lack of technology.
Call me cynical, but somehow I just got an image of some DOD guy saying something like, "So what if the ABM's don't work? If anyone ever finds out, they will have much bigger problems to deal with..."
To paraphrase George Carlin, if the new stealth plan has a radar signature of a seabird, how many seabirds fly at Mach 2?
So in this case, discard any "baseballs" that are traveling under what would be considered the lower limit of the speed threshold of a rocket.
It is probably a safe bet that any "baseballs" traveling above that speed are A) few in number, and B) probably not Baseballs.
LOL! Yes better than the other kind, explosions of lint everywhere...
"and unexploded ordnance from the Iraq war that had to be avoided"
Since this is an undersea cable I can only assume they are referring to Navel Mines... They are still bobbing about? Crazy.
Um Whoops?
The way I see it, that is the crux of the case.
If it WAS crowd sourced then I don't seen an issue, they are doing their own data collection. If they STOLE the database from which the information is created from (and likely sold and licenced from), then yes, that would be an issue.
Of course how does one "appropriate" a database? Are they claiming they were hacked? Likely it exposes security flaws and unaccountability within Canada Post, as in who as access to the production database, and how could someone copy it and give it away (which is probably what happened if that is the case). It could just be sour grapes that Geocoder is getting at the information from another source. Though realistically I have to say, how good do you think a crowd sourced postal code database is? Makes me wonder... I guess it really depends on how large and regionally diverse that crowd is.
While I don't totally disagree with you, what you are basically saying is that public funds = freely accessible information, which is not, or ever has been the case.
Just because something was created by government, using public funds, does not make it publicly freely available (you can argue if it should or not as you like). There is plenty of research, data collected, etc... that is Licenced for use, and their are various Licences, some of which have fees and others which don't, some limit access, others how the material may be used, etc...
Part of the argument here is one of cost recovery. It is usually in any governments mandate to get a fair return on investment, so if you spend taxpayers money, then give the results away, that's hardly a fair return to the taxpayer (though it is great for the very few who would take advantage).
Problem is, this describes pretty much any 3D multiplayer computer game in which the game is hosted by a central server.
While this would discount early games like Doom2 and Duke3D (as they were hosted by one of the clients), it would not discount all of those that enabled dedicated servers for clients to connect to and "interact" with each other in a virtual 3d world, etc... You know games like CS for example. Though looking up that example on wiki gives a release date of June 19, 1999, which is too late, though I am sure there are other less popular, earlier, examples of these types of games.
I am not sure if being told that I need electric diodes installed in my head would make me more or less depressed...
It would be either, "Great, just great...", or "You know what Doc, I'm suddenly feeling a lot better..."
I heard about this on CBC today at lunch.
I have to say I am a bit conflicted.
Usually I am the one beating the privacy drum and less impingement on individual rights, however in this particular case, it does make me think.
This is an instance where the kidnappers let the captives phone family, the family contacted police, the police did apply for a warrant, but knowing it would take 24 hours or something to get, they went ahead and tapped the line anyway because they were fearful something might happen to the family.
In any case they certainly had probably cause, and the warrant was eventually issued by the judge anyway, it is just that they set it up in advance of that decision.
So yeah, I am all for the protection of rights, although at the same time, I can at least understand in this particular case why the police felt they had to set up the wiretap in advance of the actual warrant.
So yeah I don't know. I guess in this case, the idea is that you set it up early, and you might save some lives, knowing that the content will likely get thrown out in court because there was no warrant, and that once the warrant has been issued that would then from that time on been admissible. Anyway certainly not a cut and dry case. About the only thing I can hang my hat on is that if the judgment wasn't what it was, and they did allow warrantless wire taps it would most certainly be abused, so I can get behind that at least.
I grew up in NS. The only problem is if you work in a sector like most of us do here on Slashdot, you are pretty much regulated to working in the one city Halifax. Those kinds of jobs just do not exist outside of there. Unless of you want to try and open up an independent PC shop or something, or can somehow convince your employer to telecommute.
It is pretty great there and I hope to eventually move back some time (Ontario now).
I am pretty sure anyone can do this legally if they have the know how. Are they going to sue everyone? Why is it illegal, because a company is offering a service?
I mean PC TV tuners have been around for ages, heck digital PC tuners have been around for years. Set one up, set up your own stream on your own network, and access it with your iPad... Might be some fiddly bits around getting past Apple's walled garden, but I am sure they much have some retail software out there that can be cobbled together to do the trick...
Exactly, it is only the development that destabilizes power, once it has "failed" it is no longer a threat!
Exactly. However try buying a manual transmission these days, good luck.
Perhaps at a standstill. If you are already going 100km/h with all the inertia behind it, then open the throttle all the way, then try standing on your breaks and see what happens... I can tell you, smoke, fire, and eventually no breaks at all.
Not really.
Years ago our Dodge Caravan had a fuel sensor problem (wasn't dodges fault but due to previous repairs), that basically told the computer "NEED MORE GAS!". It was like having your accelerator floored all of a sudden and not being able to stop it. Anyway my Dad was driving it at the time on the highway, at normal highway speeds and so he tromped on the breaks, which did slow him down, but after awhile, they started smoking, and eventually caught fire, and started to have decreased effectiveness. Before they were totally gone, he started going up a hill, which slowed it further, and at that point he figured it was his last chance, so he threw it in the ditch.
The reason why he didn't turn it off was that he feared he would lose steering if he did, and I don't think it occurred to him to throw it in neutral and just let the engine blow. I think that is because it was an automatic, probably isn't as obvious as if you were driving a manual, in which case it would be trivial (Well apart from blowing your engine which would suck, but better than trying to ditch the car likely).
That will solve all your economic problems. Good Luck with that!
1) The sound the "Flubber" car makes... :)
2) The sound that other old flying Disney car made with the wings... can't make brain work right now. I'll I remember is a lot of horrible singing.
3) A Sean Connery Voice that says "Rig for Silent Running"...
People die from getting "head stomped" all the time. How do you think most people die in fights? It isn't getting punched in the face. Its when the person falls and hits their head, or when someone intentionally stomps your head into the pavement, or has someone ram it there. (excluding someone pulling a weapon and bashing their head with it, a knife and getting stabbed multiple times, or a gun and getting shot... as in this case)
Hey I agree if the guy is going around confronting people he is an idiot, but this was apparently in his neighborhood, so it at least it has a thin veneer of reasonableness. However idiot or not, objectionable or not, any judge just about anywhere I think is going to agree that simply "confronting" someone does not give the right to do violence to them, including bashing ones head into things. That's called talking the law into your own hands. If it is otherwise you live in a pretty horrible place.
So if it played out where Zimmerman followed this guy because he was "suspicious" (legitimately or not I don't think it makes a difference, the guy could be a raging racist, it doesn't matter), and then confronted the guy as to why he was walking through his neighborhood. If Trayvon got upset/angry/indignant (legitimately so, and likely felt like he was being targeted), and escalated that confrontation to the point of violence, to the point which Zimmerman defended himself, well many people that were outraged for the non-arrest may be very unhappy with the eventual decision.
To me, the prosecutors unless they can prove that it was Zimmerman's intent the whole time to stalk this poor guy and kill him (and seeing as they didn't charge him with 1st degree murder they don't think they can), then they pretty much have to prove that Trayvon did not pose an imminent physical threat of violence at that time, or that Zimmerman's response was disproportionate (a potential head slap, rather than head bash for example).
In any case it doesn't seem to me that they have a whole lot of evidence either way, most of it would be Zimmerman's VS Trayvon word, and unfortunately, the court is really only going to hear one side of it, at least pertaining to this particular incident (I'm sure all sorts of historical stuff will come up). This has also gotten so political, it seems like one of the bigger trials in my American experience.
Ha! Linux doesn't look so bad now eh?
Go big or go home.
Who wouldn't like to get a message saying they just received 5 Canadian Beaver Pelts!
So MintChip (which is a stupid name btw), is a way to digitally exchange normal Canadian dollars?
Like you do already with a debit card, visa, MC, email, gift card, Wire, or a host of other alternatives...
You can die from getting you skull bashed against the concrete, and if that was the case then I would say if the guy was armed, a shooting would be justified.
Who knows if this is the case or not however, and at this point it is so political it barely matters what the facts are anymore I would bet.
I'm pretty if sure most people were told to put on this lead mask they would tell their dentist to f-off and forget about the xray.