> OK, so I can go to jail for hiring someone that isn't a citizen That's not true. There are plenty of people in the U.S. that aren't citizens that are legally allowed to work. This blurring of the line between citizenship and illegal immigration is a large part of the problem with the current and proposed laws.
> I've probably found five dozen guys that couldn't spell the name on their NC driver's license If you are hiring asians, it's very likely that the name on their driver's license isn't their name in the first place. If it was, you likely wouldn't be able to read it.
Abraham Lincoln announced his candidacy for president this morning. Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln, a businessman from Chicago announced Tuesday before an invitation-only crowd of "four score and seven" supporters that he intended to "officially throw my stove-pipe hat into the ring." Mr. Lincoln, born Abraham Leibowitz, says that he changed his name last year, "because Leibowitz is hard for voters to spell." His opponents have said that Lincoln is merely trying to capitalize on the popularity of the sixteenth president's name. Lincoln asked that his supporters help to suppress this rumor, adding, "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
The potential for abuse here is pretty high. If the controlling government (Read: whoever controls the Internet connection and licensing servers, so maybe a corporation) wants to keep the people in line, they can just threaten to turn everyone's laptop off. If an invading nation wants an information blackout, shut everyone's laptop out.
Sure, if you are only looking for life. If you are looking for intelligent life, the chances are much smaller.
If they were here in the first 99% of those 10 billion years, they would have missed us. We may be marked as a "potential revisit" but the likelihood of any existing lifeforms knowing that we are here is very small. The likelihood of us knowing that THEY are around is even smaller.
If the number of potentially viable planets is of any meaningful size, we could be one of a billion planets out there that they plan to eventually come back to.
One has to ask the question: if Transmeta had not sued Intel, would Intel have sued Transmeta
Thank you for not using "begs the question" here.
It seems likely that the answer is no. Transmeta was not a threat to Intel, so they had no pressing reason to sue. If Intel did decide to sue, and won, the bad publicity would far outweigh anything they could win in court. If Intel lost, the publicity would be worse, and they'd set a bad precedent for the other "little guys" out there. Transmeta forced the hands of Intel.
Give me a printed paper ballot, and I won't need to check the software for bugs. If it prints my ballot correctly, it's good enough. If it screws up, it's buggy. That easy.
That's not exactly true. I could create a machine that prints a ballot that shows whatever voting choices you made, and internally it records whatever voting choices that I made. The "Hacking Democracy" documentary about Black Box Voting shows that it is already possible to change votes in the machine while printing a paper summary that looks legit (with different results).
Also, it only travels a small fraction of that yardage. It just travels it more than once.:) I guess it's a bit like saying that your Earthly golf drive only travelled one yard, 300 times, but in golf, the distance it travelled through the air doesn't count. The only thing that counts is how far away it is when it lands from where it was when it left the ground.
>>...we have the "right to keep and bear arms" as stated in the U.S. Constitution... > There does not need to be an explicit enumeration in the constitution in order for a right to exist!
Correct. As I said above, we don't enjoy the right to bear arms because of the Constitution. We enjoy that right, and this is stated in the Constitution. I'm not violating the spirit of the 9th ammendment here by saying that privacy isn't a right because it's not in the constitution.
But that's not the end of the story. If we took this logic at face value, I could claim that anything at all was a right. Driving a car is a common example. Americans have an expectation that they are allowed to drive. Does that mean that we enjoy the "right" to drive a car? No. Not every right is in the constitution, true. But only those rights that are explicitedly spelled out in U.S. law are protected. Sure, there are unprotected rights, but legally speaking they aren't much to worry about.
Privacy, until declared a "right" by the Supreme Court (which btw, I'm all for) is not a protected right.
I'm seeing similar results in Kentucky now that we have the state Do-not-call list. Soon after signing up for my state's list, the annoying calls dropped to zero.
Now, I get the once per year call from the firefighters trying to get me to donate (exempt because they are a charity), and lately I've been participating in a phone survey once a week or less (which I don't mind) but that's it.
If a user can't figure out how to do X, then X might as well not even be implemented... it amounts to the same thing.
I absolutely agree if we change it to "If all users can't figure out how to do X" but saying "a user" leaves no room for a learning curve. I think it's completely valid to expect that some software will be written that is not necessarily meant for the novice user.
the breathy overstatement of how it will change out lives is a wee bit overdone
Sure. They said the same thing about the common users being able to create their own web sites. Yeah, there's a lot of noise, but the few quality content providers more than make up for it.
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I consider GH to be a lot like Karaoke. Sitting around watching my friends badly sing pop songs doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me, but it is.
> OK, so I can go to jail for hiring someone that isn't a citizen
That's not true. There are plenty of people in the U.S. that aren't citizens that are legally allowed to work. This blurring of the line between citizenship and illegal immigration is a large part of the problem with the current and proposed laws.
> I've probably found five dozen guys that couldn't spell the name on their NC driver's license
If you are hiring asians, it's very likely that the name on their driver's license isn't their name in the first place. If it was, you likely wouldn't be able to read it.
Abraham Lincoln announced his candidacy for president this morning. Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln, a businessman from Chicago announced Tuesday before an invitation-only crowd of "four score and seven" supporters that he intended to "officially throw my stove-pipe hat into the ring." Mr. Lincoln, born Abraham Leibowitz, says that he changed his name last year, "because Leibowitz is hard for voters to spell." His opponents have said that Lincoln is merely trying to capitalize on the popularity of the sixteenth president's name. Lincoln asked that his supporters help to suppress this rumor, adding, "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
From our point of view, once per day.
The potential for abuse here is pretty high. If the controlling government (Read: whoever controls the Internet connection and licensing servers, so maybe a corporation) wants to keep the people in line, they can just threaten to turn everyone's laptop off. If an invading nation wants an information blackout, shut everyone's laptop out.
They've had 10 billion years to visit us.
Sure, if you are only looking for life. If you are looking for intelligent life, the chances are much smaller.
If they were here in the first 99% of those 10 billion years, they would have missed us. We may be marked as a "potential revisit" but the likelihood of any existing lifeforms knowing that we are here is very small. The likelihood of us knowing that THEY are around is even smaller.
If the number of potentially viable planets is of any meaningful size, we could be one of a billion planets out there that they plan to eventually come back to.
In the century or more that it took to build the Ark, perhaps we'd have a better idea of where to aim it.
One has to ask the question: if Transmeta had not sued Intel, would Intel have sued Transmeta
Thank you for not using "begs the question" here.
It seems likely that the answer is no. Transmeta was not a threat to Intel, so they had no pressing reason to sue. If Intel did decide to sue, and won, the bad publicity would far outweigh anything they could win in court. If Intel lost, the publicity would be worse, and they'd set a bad precedent for the other "little guys" out there. Transmeta forced the hands of Intel.
So, a PS3 emulating a Nintendo DS on HDTV then? :)
Typo: Myth is at .20 not 2.0
That's the same number, right?
Give me a printed paper ballot, and I won't need to check the software for bugs. If it prints my ballot correctly, it's good enough. If it screws up, it's buggy. That easy.
That's not exactly true. I could create a machine that prints a ballot that shows whatever voting choices you made, and internally it records whatever voting choices that I made. The "Hacking Democracy" documentary about Black Box Voting shows that it is already possible to change votes in the machine while printing a paper summary that looks legit (with different results).
Also, it only travels a small fraction of that yardage. It just travels it more than once. :) I guess it's a bit like saying that your Earthly golf drive only travelled one yard, 300 times, but in golf, the distance it travelled through the air doesn't count. The only thing that counts is how far away it is when it lands from where it was when it left the ground.
So are you entering passwords or making phone calls with your mouse? I wasn't clear on that point.
was a type.
Oh man, I love irony.
We deal with the same issues in the moderation system.
;)
Hey now, let's keep this on topic. You can talk about moderation next week.
>>...we have the "right to keep and bear arms" as stated in the U.S. Constitution...
> There does not need to be an explicit enumeration in the constitution in order for a right to exist!
Correct. As I said above, we don't enjoy the right to bear arms because of the Constitution. We enjoy that right, and this is stated in the Constitution. I'm not violating the spirit of the 9th ammendment here by saying that privacy isn't a right because it's not in the constitution.
But that's not the end of the story. If we took this logic at face value, I could claim that anything at all was a right. Driving a car is a common example. Americans have an expectation that they are allowed to drive. Does that mean that we enjoy the "right" to drive a car? No. Not every right is in the constitution, true. But only those rights that are explicitedly spelled out in U.S. law are protected. Sure, there are unprotected rights, but legally speaking they aren't much to worry about.
Privacy, until declared a "right" by the Supreme Court (which btw, I'm all for) is not a protected right.
psst, in case you missed it: There are no amendments to the Declaration of Independence.
In the US, privacy is at most a "reasonable expectation" which is far below the status of a "right".
For example, we have the "right to keep and bear arms" as stated in the U.S. Constitution, but there is no explicit right to "privacy".
You would have missed "got attacked by monkeys (twice)" if you stopped there.
I'm seeing similar results in Kentucky now that we have the state Do-not-call list. Soon after signing up for my state's list, the annoying calls dropped to zero.
Now, I get the once per year call from the firefighters trying to get me to donate (exempt because they are a charity), and lately I've been participating in a phone survey once a week or less (which I don't mind) but that's it.
"The coyote of the desert likes to eat the heart of the young and the blood drips down to his children for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. "
Another alternate translation...
"The wiley coyote spends all day in the desert chasing the prey but falls when he looks down."
yet people manage to write 1200 page textbooks on the subject.
The writing of calculus textbooks lies more properly in the field of marketing and economics than it does in the field of mathematics.
Amazon.com is great for this too. My books this semester would be $250 but I'm getting them all from amazon for $85.
If a user can't figure out how to do X, then X might as well not even be implemented... it amounts to the same thing.
I absolutely agree if we change it to "If all users can't figure out how to do X" but saying "a user" leaves no room for a learning curve. I think it's completely valid to expect that some software will be written that is not necessarily meant for the novice user.
Better? Sex offender locations are better to know than general crime locations? Not when I'm deciding where to live it's not.
the breathy overstatement of how it will change out lives is a wee bit overdone
Sure. They said the same thing about the common users being able to create their own web sites. Yeah, there's a lot of noise, but the few quality content providers more than make up for it.