I think it is interesting how there is no mention of western european censorship: Hate speach (France etc...), Holocaust Denial (Germany etc...) We may not like what people say, and may even wish they couldn't say it, but censoring it is wrong. If this commision isn't equally as worried about that, then they are really just trying to look good by identifying the faults of others, rather than effecting change.
Maybe you should read the FAQ:
"Can I sign up without the invitation code? Or without a mobile phone?
You need to receive and enter a special invitation code in order to create an account. Currently, we are only sending these codes as text messages to mobile phones. So you will need to have a mobile phone with text message capabilities (most phones have this) and the invitation code itself.
One of the reasons we are offering this new way to sign up for Gmail is to help protect our users and combat abuse. Spam and abuse protection are two things we take very seriously, and our users have been very happy with the small amount of spam they've received in their Gmail accounts. We take many measures to ensure that spammers have a difficult time sending their spam messages, getting these messages delivered, or even obtaining a Gmail account (spammers will often use many different accounts to send spam). Sending invitation codes to mobile phones via SMS is one way to address this, as the number of accounts per phone number can be limited.
If you want to open an account a different way, you may want to ask a friend with a mobile phone to receive an invitation code for you or to ask someone you know who already has a Gmail account to email you an invitation.
updated 2/7/2007"
Show me where someone can signup without a code or a cell phone to receive a code...
Maybe the submitter has a different definition of all than I, but Gmail still requires either an invation or the ability to receive text messages. While the number of people who can't get text messages may be small, there are still many people who cannot sign up.
The amendment really doesn't add any new power, under the old version the president could deploy troops in the event of "domestic violence"... If you ask me thats a broad enough term to cover pretty much anything (Especially when interperted by a certain administration)... Read the old version of the law, then read the amendments, then ask yourself what changed....
The funny part is Perelman will be remembered in the field of mathematics as much for his integrity as for his accomplishment. Whereas Yau will probly be relegated to obscurity...
I think its a good thing, better the media run a story on arrests for illegal filesharing than a story on arrests for filesharing. At least in the first case there exists the possibility of legal filesharing...
1. Computer Repair Technician finds something he believes is illegal on your computer. 2. Tech calls the cops 3. Based on the claims of the tech the cops apply for and get a warrant 4. Cops search your computer 5. You go to jail, cops profit
What the EFF is upset about is that they skipped step #3. What is so hard about getting the warrant and then searching the computer?
The next logical step would be to take a list of the results that a query generates and examine the ones unique to each search engine. The difficult part would be creating a methology for determining relevency that wasn't subjective to the opinions of the analyst.
The other possibility is that yahoo's indexing system preferentially indexes popular pages.. not sure if that is a reasonable possibility.
It would be great if the Government of the US cared about space. Congress simply lacks the imagination nescessary to understand the value of space exploration. There are several things that need to change if the US (at least the government) is going to get anyway new with space exploration.
1. Accept that space exploration is risky, people will die, they knew the risk when they signed on, taking reasonable steps to ensure safety - great, stoping an entire program because of a small chance of something going wrong - not so great
2. Congress needs to think about what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole, not just thier constituents, even better they would think about the best interests of the world.
3. Congress needs to realize that most great discoveries are not predicted, funding a strong space program could provide unimagined rewards.
Frankly I doubt thats going to happen. I think the future of space lies in the hands of privite industry, they will find ways to make money is space and that is what will push us into the future. If the Government of the US lacks the will to lead us into space others will step forward eventually.
-P.S. I know that NASA has plans to go back to the moon etc, but they are not nearly ambitous enough.
The librarians are stuck in a no win position, if they install filtering software on the computers they are violating the rights of the people using the public library and if they don't some idiot will come along and fire them? This is a classic over reaction by someone who wants to score a few points with the voters by going after a percieved evil without consdiering the greater implications of thier actions
There are lots of parents out there who will trust the judgement of thier children and don't fear that violent video games will lead to violent children. As a child my mother purchased just about every video game I played (she preffered to put them on her credit card then have me pay with cash). That included such great titles as Wolf3d Doom and Duke Nukem 3d and the early version of GTA. The censor natzis need the realize that parents don't care about ratings, they aren't ignorant, and go find some other pet project.
Anyone know how they go about infiltrating a DC network?
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Actually there is some precedent for being charged with stealing free things, for instance in some states its a crime to steal a free newspaper, granted you need to take a bunch for it to count, but if you take 100s they can charge you...
Should a challange be made all the paper reciepts would be counted and the tally would be compared to the electronic results, it would ensure that there was either no error in the recording or that any error that there was didn't give one side votes unfairly
What I don't understand is on what grounds someone could apppose a paper trail of verified printouts... Sure it may cost a few fractions of a cent per voter, but its a small price to pay for the knowledge that a free election has infact taken place...
Wont it take a lot longer for a message to work its way threw a massive network of wireless devices than it would otherwise take for the message to travel threw a conventional backbone? Has anyone come up with a method to reduce the impact the additional routing will create?
In a case like this you could probably sight detrimental reliance... The contract if you could even call it that could be enforced based on the reasonable and detrimental belief that it existed... or atleast thats my undestanding.
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I think it is interesting how there is no mention of western european censorship: Hate speach (France etc...), Holocaust Denial (Germany etc...) We may not like what people say, and may even wish they couldn't say it, but censoring it is wrong. If this commision isn't equally as worried about that, then they are really just trying to look good by identifying the faults of others, rather than effecting change.
You cannot log into Gmail using your Google Account username and password. GMail uses a seperate acount system.
Try clicking the link, you get a page asking for your cell phone number so they can text you an invitation code...
Maybe you should read the FAQ: "Can I sign up without the invitation code? Or without a mobile phone? You need to receive and enter a special invitation code in order to create an account. Currently, we are only sending these codes as text messages to mobile phones. So you will need to have a mobile phone with text message capabilities (most phones have this) and the invitation code itself. One of the reasons we are offering this new way to sign up for Gmail is to help protect our users and combat abuse. Spam and abuse protection are two things we take very seriously, and our users have been very happy with the small amount of spam they've received in their Gmail accounts. We take many measures to ensure that spammers have a difficult time sending their spam messages, getting these messages delivered, or even obtaining a Gmail account (spammers will often use many different accounts to send spam). Sending invitation codes to mobile phones via SMS is one way to address this, as the number of accounts per phone number can be limited. If you want to open an account a different way, you may want to ask a friend with a mobile phone to receive an invitation code for you or to ask someone you know who already has a Gmail account to email you an invitation. updated 2/7/2007" Show me where someone can signup without a code or a cell phone to receive a code...
Maybe the submitter has a different definition of all than I, but Gmail still requires either an invation or the ability to receive text messages. While the number of people who can't get text messages may be small, there are still many people who cannot sign up.
The amendment really doesn't add any new power, under the old version the president could deploy troops in the event of "domestic violence"... If you ask me thats a broad enough term to cover pretty much anything (Especially when interperted by a certain administration)... Read the old version of the law, then read the amendments, then ask yourself what changed....
The funny part is Perelman will be remembered in the field of mathematics as much for his integrity as for his accomplishment. Whereas Yau will probly be relegated to obscurity...
I look forward to the Retaliation by western hackers... this could be quite entertaining
I think its a good thing, better the media run a story on arrests for illegal filesharing than a story on arrests for filesharing. At least in the first case there exists the possibility of legal filesharing...
It should work like this:
1. Computer Repair Technician finds something he believes is illegal on your computer.
2. Tech calls the cops
3. Based on the claims of the tech the cops apply for and get a warrant
4. Cops search your computer
5. You go to jail, cops profit
What the EFF is upset about is that they skipped step #3. What is so hard about getting the warrant and then searching the computer?
The next logical step would be to take a list of the results that a query generates and examine the ones unique to each search engine. The difficult part would be creating a methology for determining relevency that wasn't subjective to the opinions of the analyst.
The other possibility is that yahoo's indexing system preferentially indexes popular pages.. not sure if that is a reasonable possibility.
It would be great if the Government of the US cared about space. Congress simply lacks the imagination nescessary to understand the value of space exploration. There are several things that need to change if the US (at least the government) is going to get anyway new with space exploration.
1. Accept that space exploration is risky, people will die, they knew the risk when they signed on, taking reasonable steps to ensure safety - great, stoping an entire program because of a small chance of something going wrong - not so great
2. Congress needs to think about what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole, not just thier constituents, even better they would think about the best interests of the world.
3. Congress needs to realize that most great discoveries are not predicted, funding a strong space program could provide unimagined rewards.
Frankly I doubt thats going to happen. I think the future of space lies in the hands of privite industry, they will find ways to make money is space and that is what will push us into the future. If the Government of the US lacks the will to lead us into space others will step forward eventually.
-P.S. I know that NASA has plans to go back to the moon etc, but they are not nearly ambitous enough.
The librarians are stuck in a no win position, if they install filtering software on the computers they are violating the rights of the people using the public library and if they don't some idiot will come along and fire them? This is a classic over reaction by someone who wants to score a few points with the voters by going after a percieved evil without consdiering the greater implications of thier actions
There are lots of parents out there who will trust the judgement of thier children and don't fear that violent video games will lead to violent children. As a child my mother purchased just about every video game I played (she preffered to put them on her credit card then have me pay with cash). That included such great titles as Wolf3d Doom and Duke Nukem 3d and the early version of GTA. The censor natzis need the realize that parents don't care about ratings, they aren't ignorant, and go find some other pet project.
Anyone know how they go about infiltrating a DC network?
Actually there is some precedent for being charged with stealing free things, for instance in some states its a crime to steal a free newspaper, granted you need to take a bunch for it to count, but if you take 100s they can charge you...
52 ounce? try 3 liter... Granted they aren't very healthy, but they also barely sleep
Should a challange be made all the paper reciepts would be counted and the tally would be compared to the electronic results, it would ensure that there was either no error in the recording or that any error that there was didn't give one side votes unfairly
What I don't understand is on what grounds someone could apppose a paper trail of verified printouts... Sure it may cost a few fractions of a cent per voter, but its a small price to pay for the knowledge that a free election has infact taken place...
Wasn't there a slashdot article a few weeks ago that said the exact opposite and predicted the end of the PDA?
How have other major international sites dealt with the language barrier?
I hope the patent stands, that way noone else will ever be able to include those horrible features in another opperating system
Wont it take a lot longer for a message to work its way threw a massive network of wireless devices than it would otherwise take for the message to travel threw a conventional backbone? Has anyone come up with a method to reduce the impact the additional routing will create?
In a case like this you could probably sight detrimental reliance... The contract if you could even call it that could be enforced based on the reasonable and detrimental belief that it existed... or atleast thats my undestanding.
I've never heard of this, and it seems very unlikely, can you provide a link to were this comes from?