Why should everything in the whole world be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator?
These people have to take responsibility for their online actions just like in real life
If the virus/worm/whatever, actually killed the computer stone dead, and the user was then charged a fee to get it working again, I would imagine they would quickly learn.
Considering this is what I do to make money on the side. Yes, they do learn. I recently cleaned off a WinXP computer full of spyware. It was easier to reinstall from scratch then to clean out. When I resetup the computer, The standard acounts did not all have admin privlidges this time (I didn't set it up in the first place), as the owner asked me to do. Got some spending money out of that. They do learn, it's just that some don't think it's a problem or don't realize what is going on. They think that a computer that's slowed to a crawl is just something that happens, not something that is caused by a problem.
So if we agree that its easy to get across both borders, then what's the point of the crackdown on the US/Canadian border?! It's certainly NOT to keep people out. There must be some reason for it.
To make it so that it is not as easy to get across both borders without going through the legitimate checkpoints. The border patrol is working on stoping people from entering from the south outside of the crossings. Don't know what they are going to do with Canda yet. Right now the easiest way for an illegal to get into the US is to fly to Canada and hop a bus or something into the US. Anyone can do the same, including a terrorist. The gov is trying to keep out illegals, terrorists and probably some others (they've denied Visas for other reasons, read BBC for details). Why should we leave these big gaping holes open? They are a threat to national security. At least by doing this it makes it a bit harder to sneak into the country and lets teh gov keep track of foriegners in the US. I expect no less than when I travel to any country in Europe and have to show my passport to the immigration agent.
but the Canadian constitution provides for the right of both exit and entry. So they cannot put barriers to entry in the way of Canadian citizens; in particular, requiring a difficult to obtain non-free document would not be constitutional.
right of both exit and entry: So they allow anyone, regardless of nationality, into the country and without checking ID?
difficult to obtain: I (in the USA) can get the form at any post office or AAA office or any of a number of places, along with the photos the require. Sounds like Canada is putting up a barrier to you getting one.
non-free document: Your dirvers license probably wasn't free either. In VA,USA I had to pay $15 for it (lasts 5 years). If I got a regular state ID that would also cost money. Besides, if you can't afford the $87 (Canadian$, not US$), you probably can't afford to go many places.
You assume (incorectly) that you can not cross easily from Canada to the US outside of the border crossings. I've been canoing down upstate NY where you cross from the US to Canada and back to the US without seeing any borders stations, much less people. It's just as easy if not easier to cross from the Canada to the US.
Also, as the article notes that you link to and mention, they illegals crossing from Mexico into the US are not doing it at border crossing stations, but rather out in the middle of the desert. You are comparing legal and illegal crossings. Also, the border patrol tries to keep illegals from crossing in. Just happens to be a very long border. I'd like to see you do a better job when people are doing pretty much anything to cross the border, including digging tunnels in order to cross.
Further, I hope Canada reciprocates and requires americans to have valid passports.
Fine by me. The only reason this wasn't started 80+ years ago was do to the logistics involved in protecting a 3,000 mile long border. (thats 5000km for those of you on the metric system). Of course, by you sounds like you think no one should ever need a passport to go anywhere.
If fans of Enterprise can scrape up money to try and save a show, surely there is no
problem getting a few thousand geeks to "buy" Voyager from NASA.
You may be interested in this then. It's about how the country's youth saved the USS Constitution. Sounds like you're proposing the same thing. Here's a quick summary:
School-aged children from all 50 states contributed their pennies to buy the sails that will be used during the July sail. The "Old Ironsides Pennies Campaign" led the nationwide effort that was coordinated by the USS Constitution Museum, a private, non-profit educational institution dedicated to preserving the heritage of the historic frigate.
Old hardware can always be reused and/or sold off for temporary budget increases.
Budget increases yes, but not necessarily for your department. At the company where I work the money from any equipment sold off goes into the general fund. Because of this we usually end up giving equipment away to other departments if they can use it.
Leasing equipment vs. Buying equipment depends on how and how long you are going to use the equipment. Think about how people buy/lease cars with this. If you are going to keep a car for 6 months/3years you might as well lease. If you are going to keep it until it has 225k miles on it and the headgasket is going, buy the thing. Same with PCs. If you want to keep your PCs always at the latest and greatest, lease. But for those you are going to keep and upgrade (thin clients and low power pcs qualify here). Buy the things. You get into accounting problems with depreciation, but you can keep the desktops past their 3 year derpeciation cycle if they will still do their job. For example, we have P1-133s here that are used as thin clients on a dual P3-800 terminal server that is shared amoung several people. Cost to replace with new machines for everyone (or lease) would cost several $k and wouldn't provide any improvement over what they do now. However, for those of us in engineering that need higher power computers between CAD programs and other types need relatively recent computers (2ghz+) and can't use thin clients. Two options for that is to either buy new machines every couple of years or lease. We get new machines however, they are then passed down the line to people who don't need new ones (thus saving money).
Just to point one thing out here... CDs are digital. Just uncompresed digital instead of compressed digital. It takes about a minute (tops) on todays computers to take a cd track and convert it to MP3. So it too, is easy to copy and distribute. Of course, I can always burn a copy or send the entire thing over the internet given todays bandwidth on home computers and networks, so even ease of copying doesn't hold when compared to red book audio cds.
President Luchenko - "Half of EarthForce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician, you learn to compromise. Which, by all rights, means I should give you the medal of honor and then have you shot."
In my personal opinion, he isn't a freedom fighter. He's a guy whose making it harder to get the record labels to embrace online downloading as their business model.
Why should tracks I buy from an online music store be more restrictive in what I can do with them than ones that come on red book Audio CDs?
The Liberals have been steadily eroding the Canadian Forces to their currently too small size for decades.
What remains is very well trained, but too small to carry out its commitments I think.
Same is typically said of the US military, by Carrier US millitary officers (I know many people that are). (Think of all the peace keeper deployments that were done in the 90's). The total size of the military has vastly shrunk since 1990. One of the reason that they want to outsource a lot of desk jobs to the private sector is so that they have more fighters.
Comming from my knowlege of US law (which for this part might be applicable), the prosecutions case wouldn't collapse from this. Instead, what would happen, would be that they would have to have a change of venue (move where the trial is being held) in order to find an untainted jury pool. The best the defence can hope for from this is an appeal citing a tainted juror. Again, this is from what I know of US law, but I think it might be similar enough to apply.
"The information, I gather, is very, very damaging and very prejudicial," he said. "If it's accessed by large numbers of people in Montreal where the trial will take place it could have a prejudicial effect."
There is an easy solution to this. Have a change of venue to someplace where they haven't been paying much attention to the news. I recomend somewhere in the Northwest Territories.
As DirectTV is moving forward on changing to Advanced Video Codecs (AVCs) such as H.264 the current HD Tivos will become obsolete as they can only recieve the current encoding of MPEG-2. Sorry, but tis true. I also doubt that Tivo will make an update to the MPEG-2 HDs to recieve the new codec. Also, I have heard that DirectTV is moving to the DVB-S2 transmission standard from their current DVB-S. Extra information and/or signal strength, their choice.
The only interesting part of all this is the way that the algorithms (invented by Al Gore, hence the name)
Not sure if this is meant to be a joke or not but...
Algorithm, as it is used in mathematics means a systematic procedure to solve a problem. The word is derived from the name of the Persian mathematician, al-Khowarazmi (See algebra). The first use of the word I am aware of was by G W Liebniz in the late 1600.
I'm working on a platform-independent speech-to-text system, complete with OCR technology. It's all based on a massively parallel implementation of biotech.
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Better example would be having to openly publish government funded research.
here's a BBC story supporting this. Alhtough it has to do with medical drugs as opposed to other types. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/437467 5.stm
Does this mean Alaska, north Canada, Greenland and Antartica are soon going to be popular server centres? Saves on air con...
[sarcasm]But that would promote Global warming, the melting of the Polar Icecaps, the Greenland Glacier and other glaciers! [/sarcasm]
Seriously, I can honestly see someone arguing that point.
Why should everything in the whole world be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator? These people have to take responsibility for their online actions just like in real life
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Read this, then get back to me about the lowest common denominator. (BTW, I agree with you, but that isn't what some schools are teaching). http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/books
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If the virus/worm/whatever, actually killed the computer stone dead, and the user was then charged a fee to get it working again, I would imagine they would quickly learn.
Considering this is what I do to make money on the side. Yes, they do learn. I recently cleaned off a WinXP computer full of spyware. It was easier to reinstall from scratch then to clean out. When I resetup the computer, The standard acounts did not all have admin privlidges this time (I didn't set it up in the first place), as the owner asked me to do. Got some spending money out of that. They do learn, it's just that some don't think it's a problem or don't realize what is going on. They think that a computer that's slowed to a crawl is just something that happens, not something that is caused by a problem.
So if we agree that its easy to get across both borders, then what's the point of the crackdown on the US/Canadian border?! It's certainly NOT to keep people out. There must be some reason for it.
To make it so that it is not as easy to get across both borders without going through the legitimate checkpoints. The border patrol is working on stoping people from entering from the south outside of the crossings. Don't know what they are going to do with Canda yet. Right now the easiest way for an illegal to get into the US is to fly to Canada and hop a bus or something into the US. Anyone can do the same, including a terrorist. The gov is trying to keep out illegals, terrorists and probably some others (they've denied Visas for other reasons, read BBC for details). Why should we leave these big gaping holes open? They are a threat to national security. At least by doing this it makes it a bit harder to sneak into the country and lets teh gov keep track of foriegners in the US. I expect no less than when I travel to any country in Europe and have to show my passport to the immigration agent.
but the Canadian constitution provides for the right of both exit and entry. So they cannot put barriers to entry in the way of Canadian citizens; in particular, requiring a difficult to obtain non-free document would not be constitutional.
right of both exit and entry: So they allow anyone, regardless of nationality, into the country and without checking ID?
difficult to obtain: I (in the USA) can get the form at any post office or AAA office or any of a number of places, along with the photos the require. Sounds like Canada is putting up a barrier to you getting one.
non-free document: Your dirvers license probably wasn't free either. In VA,USA I had to pay $15 for it (lasts 5 years). If I got a regular state ID that would also cost money. Besides, if you can't afford the $87 (Canadian$, not US$), you probably can't afford to go many places.
You assume (incorectly) that you can not cross easily from Canada to the US outside of the border crossings. I've been canoing down upstate NY where you cross from the US to Canada and back to the US without seeing any borders stations, much less people. It's just as easy if not easier to cross from the Canada to the US.
Also, as the article notes that you link to and mention, they illegals crossing from Mexico into the US are not doing it at border crossing stations, but rather out in the middle of the desert. You are comparing legal and illegal crossings. Also, the border patrol tries to keep illegals from crossing in. Just happens to be a very long border. I'd like to see you do a better job when people are doing pretty much anything to cross the border, including digging tunnels in order to cross.
Further, I hope Canada reciprocates and requires americans to have valid passports.
Fine by me. The only reason this wasn't started 80+ years ago was do to the logistics involved in protecting a 3,000 mile long border. (thats 5000km for those of you on the metric system). Of course, by you sounds like you think no one should ever need a passport to go anywhere.
If fans of Enterprise can scrape up money to try and save a show, surely there is no problem getting a few thousand geeks to "buy" Voyager from NASA.
You may be interested in this then. It's about how the country's youth saved the USS Constitution. Sounds like you're proposing the same thing. Here's a quick summary:
School-aged children from all 50 states contributed their pennies to buy the sails that will be used during the July sail. The "Old Ironsides Pennies Campaign" led the nationwide effort that was coordinated by the USS Constitution Museum, a private, non-profit educational institution dedicated to preserving the heritage of the historic frigate.
Old hardware can always be reused and/or sold off for temporary budget increases.
Budget increases yes, but not necessarily for your department. At the company where I work the money from any equipment sold off goes into the general fund. Because of this we usually end up giving equipment away to other departments if they can use it.
Leasing equipment vs. Buying equipment depends on how and how long you are going to use the equipment. Think about how people buy/lease cars with this. If you are going to keep a car for 6 months/3years you might as well lease. If you are going to keep it until it has 225k miles on it and the headgasket is going, buy the thing. Same with PCs. If you want to keep your PCs always at the latest and greatest, lease. But for those you are going to keep and upgrade (thin clients and low power pcs qualify here). Buy the things. You get into accounting problems with depreciation, but you can keep the desktops past their 3 year derpeciation cycle if they will still do their job. For example, we have P1-133s here that are used as thin clients on a dual P3-800 terminal server that is shared amoung several people. Cost to replace with new machines for everyone (or lease) would cost several $k and wouldn't provide any improvement over what they do now. However, for those of us in engineering that need higher power computers between CAD programs and other types need relatively recent computers (2ghz+) and can't use thin clients. Two options for that is to either buy new machines every couple of years or lease. We get new machines however, they are then passed down the line to people who don't need new ones (thus saving money).
Just to point one thing out here... CDs are digital. Just uncompresed digital instead of compressed digital. It takes about a minute (tops) on todays computers to take a cd track and convert it to MP3. So it too, is easy to copy and distribute. Of course, I can always burn a copy or send the entire thing over the internet given todays bandwidth on home computers and networks, so even ease of copying doesn't hold when compared to red book audio cds.
Just reminded me of a B5 quote:
President Luchenko - "Half of EarthForce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician, you learn to compromise. Which, by all rights, means I should give you the medal of honor and then have you shot."
In my personal opinion, he isn't a freedom fighter. He's a guy whose making it harder to get the record labels to embrace online downloading as their business model.
Why should tracks I buy from an online music store be more restrictive in what I can do with them than ones that come on red book Audio CDs?
Dude, do you realize which day that was posted? Take another look and then look it up if you don't.
To many greek letters, not enough arabic numbers. (So says the EE)
I predict we will have two responses to this guy here:
#1 Lets nominated him for sainthood in the house of GNU.
#2 Lets string him up high.
The Liberals have been steadily eroding the Canadian Forces to their currently too small size for decades. What remains is very well trained, but too small to carry out its commitments I think.
Same is typically said of the US military, by Carrier US millitary officers (I know many people that are). (Think of all the peace keeper deployments that were done in the 90's). The total size of the military has vastly shrunk since 1990. One of the reason that they want to outsource a lot of desk jobs to the private sector is so that they have more fighters.
Comming from my knowlege of US law (which for this part might be applicable), the prosecutions case wouldn't collapse from this. Instead, what would happen, would be that they would have to have a change of venue (move where the trial is being held) in order to find an untainted jury pool. The best the defence can hope for from this is an appeal citing a tainted juror. Again, this is from what I know of US law, but I think it might be similar enough to apply.
"The information, I gather, is very, very damaging and very prejudicial," he said. "If it's accessed by large numbers of people in Montreal where the trial will take place it could have a prejudicial effect."
There is an easy solution to this. Have a change of venue to someplace where they haven't been paying much attention to the news. I recomend somewhere in the Northwest Territories.
As DirectTV is moving forward on changing to Advanced Video Codecs (AVCs) such as H.264 the current HD Tivos will become obsolete as they can only recieve the current encoding of MPEG-2. Sorry, but tis true. I also doubt that Tivo will make an update to the MPEG-2 HDs to recieve the new codec. Also, I have heard that DirectTV is moving to the DVB-S2 transmission standard from their current DVB-S. Extra information and/or signal strength, their choice.
The only interesting part of all this is the way that the algorithms (invented by Al Gore, hence the name)
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Not sure if this is meant to be a joke or not but...
Algorithm, as it is used in mathematics means a systematic procedure to solve a problem. The word is derived from the name of the Persian mathematician, al-Khowarazmi (See algebra). The first use of the word I am aware of was by G W Liebniz in the late 1600.
Source: http://www.pballew.net/arithme1.html
Other Source: http://www.disc-conference.org/disc2000/mirror/kh
I'm working on a platform-independent speech-to-text system, complete with OCR technology. It's all based on a massively parallel implementation of biotech.
So where did you get the million monkeys from?