"remote areas where electric power hasn't been strung" generally use stop signs instead of traffic lights (if anything at all). if you use one of these things at a remote location with little traffic, how long will it take for the light to run out of juice?
"voluntary" implies that he can choose not to participate at any time. So then he decided that he would participate iff he was paid. Since they did not accept his offer, he then chose not to participate. How is that deceptive? How is that extortion? Why is he obligated to take money out of his own pocket to maintain this site?
Another point: when he began the website, how would he possibly know that the site would be of such importance to the officials? How could he have planned this deception without knowing this in the first place?
Think of it in terms of a paperboy in a small town voluntarily distributing the paper every morning.
Now over the course of 2 years, the town grows dramatically. The paperboy needs to get the paper out to all these people... still voluntarily...
So it gets to a point where this paperboy takes 12 hours just to finish his paper route.
Though he started out providing the service voluntarily, obviously the task has grown beyond what he is willing to do voluntarily. So he goes to his manager and says "Hey, I can't spend half of every day doing this. Either compensate me in some way or I quit."
I agree that $300k is quite a hefty sum, but he should have been offered SOMETHING. Since the police didn't even bother to offer him pay for a service he was providing, then he has the right to stop providing the service.
I believe the cost of $300k was not only his time, but it also included the cost of servers/equipment and bandwidth (which isn't a small amount).
People tend to go with things that are familiar to them.
A lot of people are familiar with the Windows GUI, so a Windows live-cd would be popular among this majority of people.
Personally, I think the live-cd concept is great but impractical. I like the fact that changing an OS is as simple as changing a CD, but the sound of my very loud cd drive spinning all the time is unbearable.
What really needs to happen is for us to find a way to make an operating system (with a sufficient number of features) fit on a USB drive. Either that or make large USB drives cheaper. =P
States have different laws on speeding. Some enforce an absolute speed limit, others a "presumed" speed limit. Some states have both. I think universally, the speed law states that everyone should drive at a speed that's "safe, given the conditions". Read here: When Speeding Isn't Speeding. Given the topic at hand, if a GPS system were to be implemented, there would be no way to "judge" this because you don't have the cop as a witness. Therefore everywhere with a GPS system in place would have to have an absolute speed limit.
There's no way in hell that GPS will be used to administer speeding tickets. First of all, what if you had to speed up a couple mph to avoid an accident? would the GPS recognize this? or just send you a ticket in the mail for speeding? Secondly, I'd like to see the politician who actually tries to push this through the legislature. Talk about bad publicity. No one goes the absolute speed limit. The speed limit on most freeways is 65 mph but the highway patrol estimate the average speed of traffic to be around 70-75. I say it's around 75-85 most of the time. The fact is, nothing is absolute (not even the law). That is why we have judges, and not robots or GPS' to decide things for us.
well n00bs like to click big shiny buttons. i like having the latest software, so i download divx pro and remove the spyware. you just have to know which file not to remove.
Some packages such as DivX are bundled with spyware and if you remove the spyware, the program will not work properly. As you can see, if you have several of these programs dependent on spyware components, then you're going to have a lot of problems if you run Ad-aware and remove everything. Dell probably just doesn't want n00bs calling them 24-7 whining about how nothing works on their "brand spankin' new" Dell computer.
Everyone knows that the RIAA has been corrupting mp3 files on the Kazaa networks. I've heard them, you've heard them. They annoy the hell out of everyone. I'd just like to see the look on their faces when the RIAA "accidentally" sue someone who's sharing a whole hard drive full of corrupted mp3 files. But either way I have to admit, the RIAA are finally picking on someone their own size... little 12 year old girls.
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For all we know, this "on-topic" comment is a dupe, too.
Now if you REALLY don't want to be recognized, then you could/should fill in the whole head with a bright yellow smiley face!
I feel sorry for your car...
"remote areas where electric power hasn't been strung" generally use stop signs instead of traffic lights (if anything at all). if you use one of these things at a remote location with little traffic, how long will it take for the light to run out of juice?
One is also a power of two.
Texas. Underwater. Bush. Chased by an underwater chainsaw robot. hehe...
Another point: when he began the website, how would he possibly know that the site would be of such importance to the officials? How could he have planned this deception without knowing this in the first place?
Think of it in terms of a paperboy in a small town voluntarily distributing the paper every morning.
Now over the course of 2 years, the town grows dramatically. The paperboy needs to get the paper out to all these people... still voluntarily...
So it gets to a point where this paperboy takes 12 hours just to finish his paper route.
Though he started out providing the service voluntarily, obviously the task has grown beyond what he is willing to do voluntarily. So he goes to his manager and says "Hey, I can't spend half of every day doing this. Either compensate me in some way or I quit."
I agree that $300k is quite a hefty sum, but he should have been offered SOMETHING. Since the police didn't even bother to offer him pay for a service he was providing, then he has the right to stop providing the service.
I believe the cost of $300k was not only his time, but it also included the cost of servers/equipment and bandwidth (which isn't a small amount).
People tend to go with things that are familiar to them.
A lot of people are familiar with the Windows GUI, so a Windows live-cd would be popular among this majority of people.
Personally, I think the live-cd concept is great but impractical. I like the fact that changing an OS is as simple as changing a CD, but the sound of my very loud cd drive spinning all the time is unbearable.
What really needs to happen is for us to find a way to make an operating system (with a sufficient number of features) fit on a USB drive. Either that or make large USB drives cheaper. =P
States have different laws on speeding. Some enforce an absolute speed limit, others a "presumed" speed limit. Some states have both. I think universally, the speed law states that everyone should drive at a speed that's "safe, given the conditions". Read here: When Speeding Isn't Speeding. Given the topic at hand, if a GPS system were to be implemented, there would be no way to "judge" this because you don't have the cop as a witness. Therefore everywhere with a GPS system in place would have to have an absolute speed limit.
There's no way in hell that GPS will be used to administer speeding tickets. First of all, what if you had to speed up a couple mph to avoid an accident? would the GPS recognize this? or just send you a ticket in the mail for speeding? Secondly, I'd like to see the politician who actually tries to push this through the legislature. Talk about bad publicity. No one goes the absolute speed limit. The speed limit on most freeways is 65 mph but the highway patrol estimate the average speed of traffic to be around 70-75. I say it's around 75-85 most of the time. The fact is, nothing is absolute (not even the law). That is why we have judges, and not robots or GPS' to decide things for us.
well n00bs like to click big shiny buttons. i like having the latest software, so i download divx pro and remove the spyware. you just have to know which file not to remove.
Try ad-aware here. Don't forget to download and install the updated reference file for a more thorough scrubbing of your system.
Some packages such as DivX are bundled with spyware and if you remove the spyware, the program will not work properly. As you can see, if you have several of these programs dependent on spyware components, then you're going to have a lot of problems if you run Ad-aware and remove everything. Dell probably just doesn't want n00bs calling them 24-7 whining about how nothing works on their "brand spankin' new" Dell computer.
Everyone knows that the RIAA has been corrupting mp3 files on the Kazaa networks. I've heard them, you've heard them. They annoy the hell out of everyone. I'd just like to see the look on their faces when the RIAA "accidentally" sue someone who's sharing a whole hard drive full of corrupted mp3 files. But either way I have to admit, the RIAA are finally picking on someone their own size... little 12 year old girls.