Except that's not what Amazon is going to do. You can only play music that you yourself upload and the same for everyone else. Therefore you are not violating any current laws as it's no different than storing music on your WD Live player.
Nuclear proponents only remind people that you can never prove a negative. So yes, in this case, the absence of evidence is in and of itself evidence. The issue has been studied pretty extensively but admittedly experience is limited. This incident is likely to teach us all a great deal, hopefully the price we pay for this knowledge won't come in the form of human lives lost. As for DNA damage from ionizing radiation, the sun already does that, your body has mechanisms to cope with it and as of right now there is no indication that we're dealing with levels that we can't naturally cope with.
I think you mean the ones that are the most successful are pay TV which was my point. 15 years ago when commercials weren't so obnoxious and there weren't nearly as many then ad-supported TV was much more popular. At some point in the last few years people gave up and started fighting back. On the Internet you get adblock-plus which many sites are complaining about these days and on TV you see HBO and Showtime gaining viewership.
Given the state of the bottled water industry I think you should probably rethink your position as they take water from public resources that are shared with many townships. While towns are conserving water during times of drought they are still pumping away causing even more problems.
The argument isn't whether copyright should exist at all, it's that it has been extended ridiculously past it's original intended purpose. It no longer drives further works as a single work has the potential to provide someone with income for the rest of his/her life.
If it dropped back to 10 years you'd find the resistance to it greatly reduced as works would become part of the public domain as was originally intended.
Really? HBO and Showtime have sizable budgets, most people I know prefer their content as well as other stations inundate you with so many ads that you fall out of interest in what you were watching.
Bah, as someone who drove 300zx and then upgraded to an Infiniti many years later I can't imagine being offended by that. I imagine ya gotta be pretty insecure in your purchasing decision if that's gonna piss ya off.
They are teaching me to look at the actual issues. Shell is not the only one responsible for the oil spills in Nigeria, the government there has failed to secure their country. Most spills are the results of vandals or other third parties.
I will however agree that oil companies need to take a much greater responsibility but these are multinational companies so you can't lump them all into one country. The U.S. has little to no control over what one of Shell's subsidiary companies does in Nigeria for instance and even less control over what BP does.
I would go so far as to blame the country of Nigeria for allowing these companies to continue operating while destroying their land. We have much tighter controls in the U.S. but of course even we're not immune from the problems faced with oil and gasoline production.
Actually, you are comparing 1 billion people to 300 million people and clearly lack an understanding the issues China is dealing with.
China easily has a few hundred million people living in large urban areas with emissions worse than that allowed in the U.S.
Have you forgotten about the Olympics already? China had to shut down almost half of their urban factories to clean the air enough so athletes could compete. There is no where in the U.S. with air quality that poor and somehow you're trying to say they emit less?
Maybe instead you should be more sensible and realize that there are a lot of ways of comparing countries, you should not stick to one statistic as that will never paint an even remotely accurate picture. Carbon emissions in Nigeria per capita are way below China even and they spill as much oil as the Exxon Valdez disaster every year! They are hardly clean.
It is more productive to realize that we all have our problems, China has jumped ahead 60 years in the last 10, you can expect them to deal with many of the same problems that we in the U.S. dealt with and continue to struggle against.
Emergency vehicles emit strobe which a computer could easily interpret and then pull over to allow them to get by. This is current technology. Most of the issues you've pointed out are problems on modern cars which have slip sensors and basic rules like pull over on application exception would be valid under the majority of unforeseen circumstances. Additionally, most drivers I've encountered do not know how to handle four-way stops when traffic lights are out, let alone who has right of way under most circumstances.
Rain sensing wipers could very easily tell the navigator to slow down as traction will be less, calculating the speed of the vehicles around you is another good way to determine what a prudent speed would be.
And as for sliding, a computer would have much more granular control and wouldn't freak out when the car starts to slide back, sliding on ice most people try to break, a computer would know to power through it. Sliding backwards on a hill wouldn't be any different than a regular driver, you either slide backwards and try again, or you hit someone behind you, a common enough occurrence where I grew up in Vermont.
So in summary, your complicated scenarios are not all that complicated and are solved by following a few simple rules which would be easy to codify. Google and a great many others have been working on this for quite some time, the technology has come a long way, probably not ready for prime time but most of those issues have already been solved. My Infiniti for instance tells me when there is a car or object in my blind spots, some models even give you a complete view all the way around the vehicle. The analytics to make decisions based on that sensor input has also had plenty of time to mature, the whole problem right now is simply integration and aggregating as much data as you can as that will result in the best decisions possible.
That's convenient except for the fact that there are lots of legal reasons to exceed the speed limit and it is not for you to decide if other drivers are being prudent. That is why we have police patrolling streets. There is no legal reason for you to be in the left lane as you stated yourself, it is for passing. If you are not passing then you should not be in said lane performing a rolling road block.
While yes, poor impulse control is a huge issue it is often caused by people that shouldn't be on the road to begin with. When someone is so scared to drive that they can't maintain speed then they shouldn't be on the road at all. They force people to pass them and clog up road ways when they fail to merge properly. Every time I see someone stop and wait for an opening I know I get a little more mad.
Are you really trying to say that context doesn't matter? Of course the contents of the information leaked is very important in determining whether or not the information should be leaked. I don't know anyone that thinks the government can't keep some secrets, but wrongdoing should never be covered up. Since there was evidence of wrongdoing the conduct was indeed proper. There is a huge difference between selling secrets to an enemy and broadcasting evidence of crimes being committed with offenders going unpunished.
While I think U.S. soldiers wouldn't fire on civilians unless they thought they were truly in danger, I think we need to be much more honest about why we are there to begin with and why we are putting soldiers in dangerous situations where they could be committing war crimes in the first place. If there was a much greater amount of transparency then none of this would have been necessary. It's ok to admit mistakes, hiding them only slows progress and in these cases only galvanizes the enemy against you further.
Of course we shouldn't be in the nation building business anyway but we made one hell of a mess of the middle east in the 60's, 70s, and 80s. There was marked improvement in the 90s but that led us where we are now, fighting people that we both trained and armed.
You think the U.S. is so weak that they would have to resort to credit card fraud to hurt their enemies? There is no country on this planet that could stand up to the U.S. in an all out confrontation. Maybe in another decade China will have the resources but putting yourself in a perpetual state of readiness for war is the exact reason much of the world dislikes the U.S. and calls us warlike people. You are much better aligning yourselves economically as that will prevent escalation to war. China for instance is so involved in our economy that it was be mutually assured destruction if either side targeted the other.
Seriously, quit being so paranoid and realize that if they really want to decimate anybody, credit cards would be no where on their radar and are completely unnecessary for tracking funds necessary to for instance purchase weapons to be used against us. Violating the privacy of visiting dignitaries is not a good idea and does nothing to improve relations with them, quite the contrary, if they have to always be guarded then you won't get anywhere with them when you're negotiating.
Given that soldiers swear an oath to uphold the ideals of the constitution, it is their moral and duty to disobey order which violate these principles. This is what Manning did and of course this is why we have trials to determine if he should have disobeyed secrecy rules, if you're a soldier and you witness the government breaking it's own rules it is your responsibility to bring it to light.
You can't declare war against an organization, only another country. We have no specific country we are fighting against so we are not technically at war despite all the rhetoric in D.C. This is why this charge won't stick, because no stated enemy was helped by leaking the cables, it was merely embarrassing for a lot of people. I have no idea why Republicans came up with this idea that terrorism should be fought with armies, the only thing it is good for is funding the military industrial complex.
There is tremendous value, anonymous originally stated a month of standby time which was horrendously inaccurate. My Archos tablet can easily do two weeks on standby periodically getting my email provided it is within my wifi network range. The only problem with the Archos side is not Android but the lack of apps which is fast changing but still hadn't caught. Apple provides a software stack with their products that is pretty impressive out of the box. My Archos takes some hacking around to get video conferencing to work which isn't realistic for the majority of people out there.
I wish I could find a tablet with battery life that good that I could attach a usb to serial adapter to since I do a lot of mobile programming of network gear, temporary sites suck as equipment isn't always in nice places. The 7" Archos had the right combination of battery life and form factor but lacked the full size usb port meaning I have to carry around adapters to use my adapters in much the same way as you would with an iPad. Of course even with the right ports there is no guarantee there would be drivers for the adapters anyway so it's just a pipe dream for now as I currently use a netbook to accomplish this task and it does it fairly well with 10-15 hours of battery life easy. Of course I bought a larger battery to accomplish that.
I'll agree except that you can run at least a Citrix receiver and access your virtual desktop with full desktop capabilities which is pretty appealing at least from my perspective. The only trick to VPN or some sort of trusted authentication system to avoid needing VPN software on the phone. I did this when the owner of the company I work for got frustrated he could never print from his iPad. Gave him his virtual desktop and he hasn't looked back.
My Samsung Moment came with Android 1.6 and it has 2.1 now. Methinks it's your carrier, I spent a month breaking into my ATT phone running Windows Mobile, the OS had a SIP client built right in that was disabled by ATT. Replace a CAB file or two and away you go, unfortunately WinMo 6.5 sucks as managing network connections but that was a few years ago now so things have improved dramatically as phone hopping on wifi is pretty commonplace these days.
Clearly you haven't been watching enough Fox News as they reported the Muslim Brotherhood would definitely take over Egypt despite a complete lack of evidence supporting that. That is where the fear of knee-jerk reactions comes from. Fortunately I agree with your assessment and hope that we as a country can keep an open mind and remember that moderate people can be reasoned with while hard liners cannot.
That's funny, because I've camped in double digits negative too, of course the only reason I survived was due to specialized gear to handle that cold. Almost no one would have gear that could handle that although it's unlikely a house would get that cold during an extended period without power. Other posters have said it better, a water supply will be difficult to maintain as it is likely to freeze so the bottom line is that you will need a lot of propane to be prepared and even then you have sanitation issues to deal with.
I grew up in Vermont though, I can't imagine how horrible a storm would have to be to keep us locked up for more than a couple of days. Even during the huge ice storm we had in the 90s no one was stuck in their homes.
I hear that, try sorting by ip address in Calc. Excel does it automagically. These days it's looking more and more like Linux Desktop is just a good portal to a virtual desktop for Windows. The owner of the company I work for will go from his iPad with his virtual machine where he can print to any printer on the network to his imac in his office to his living room Ubuntu box to a Windows box in his bedroom all in one day and without having to close or lose any work.
He's my beta tester for technologies so we purposefully have a bunch of different platforms running at his house. It works out nicely as he'll provide a lot of feedback and isn't afraid to tell me a technology is half baked. So far, his virtual desktop has made him a happy camper. He gets to work with the same tools everywhere he goes so he never has to be without the apps he's familiar with and doesn't have to endure the weirdness that is OO.
That said I still use OO for most everyday activities dropping to Excel on my virtual machine when needed. When OO is working well enough that I'm comfortable pushing it out to the rest of the network I'll stop paying for Excel but until then I have XenApp and XenDesktop and it's getting mighty easy.
Which study has shown OS X to be cheapest to maintain? In my shop both the hardware and software stack make it the most expensive platform by far.
Expenses rack up fast due to downtime caused by faulty hardware, since I can't virtualize OS X I have no way to limit that downtime besides having a hot spare machine ready. In the Windows and Linux world I have virtual desktops making downtime due to hardware failure a thing of the past.
I haven't yet seen automatic patch management on OS X like I have in the Windows and Linux worlds. I SCCM to push patches for Windows and I have a private repository for my Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian systems.
Windows licenses aren't that expensive, there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle and the fact that it is a complete stack with collaboration software and users already familiar with interfaces and features means that it is not very expensive to maintain compared to other platforms. OS X is not built for business users, people keep trying to use it as such but they are only increasing the cost of administration. There are some cool tools for it in the video and photography workflow arenas but everywhere else I've encountered is better served on another platform.
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Except that's not what Amazon is going to do. You can only play music that you yourself upload and the same for everyone else. Therefore you are not violating any current laws as it's no different than storing music on your WD Live player.
Nuclear proponents only remind people that you can never prove a negative. So yes, in this case, the absence of evidence is in and of itself evidence. The issue has been studied pretty extensively but admittedly experience is limited. This incident is likely to teach us all a great deal, hopefully the price we pay for this knowledge won't come in the form of human lives lost. As for DNA damage from ionizing radiation, the sun already does that, your body has mechanisms to cope with it and as of right now there is no indication that we're dealing with levels that we can't naturally cope with.
I think you mean the ones that are the most successful are pay TV which was my point. 15 years ago when commercials weren't so obnoxious and there weren't nearly as many then ad-supported TV was much more popular. At some point in the last few years people gave up and started fighting back. On the Internet you get adblock-plus which many sites are complaining about these days and on TV you see HBO and Showtime gaining viewership.
Given the state of the bottled water industry I think you should probably rethink your position as they take water from public resources that are shared with many townships. While towns are conserving water during times of drought they are still pumping away causing even more problems.
The argument isn't whether copyright should exist at all, it's that it has been extended ridiculously past it's original intended purpose. It no longer drives further works as a single work has the potential to provide someone with income for the rest of his/her life.
If it dropped back to 10 years you'd find the resistance to it greatly reduced as works would become part of the public domain as was originally intended.
Really? HBO and Showtime have sizable budgets, most people I know prefer their content as well as other stations inundate you with so many ads that you fall out of interest in what you were watching.
Bah, as someone who drove 300zx and then upgraded to an Infiniti many years later I can't imagine being offended by that. I imagine ya gotta be pretty insecure in your purchasing decision if that's gonna piss ya off.
They are teaching me to look at the actual issues. Shell is not the only one responsible for the oil spills in Nigeria, the government there has failed to secure their country. Most spills are the results of vandals or other third parties.
I will however agree that oil companies need to take a much greater responsibility but these are multinational companies so you can't lump them all into one country. The U.S. has little to no control over what one of Shell's subsidiary companies does in Nigeria for instance and even less control over what BP does.
I would go so far as to blame the country of Nigeria for allowing these companies to continue operating while destroying their land. We have much tighter controls in the U.S. but of course even we're not immune from the problems faced with oil and gasoline production.
Actually, you are comparing 1 billion people to 300 million people and clearly lack an understanding the issues China is dealing with. China easily has a few hundred million people living in large urban areas with emissions worse than that allowed in the U.S.
Have you forgotten about the Olympics already? China had to shut down almost half of their urban factories to clean the air enough so athletes could compete. There is no where in the U.S. with air quality that poor and somehow you're trying to say they emit less?
Maybe instead you should be more sensible and realize that there are a lot of ways of comparing countries, you should not stick to one statistic as that will never paint an even remotely accurate picture. Carbon emissions in Nigeria per capita are way below China even and they spill as much oil as the Exxon Valdez disaster every year! They are hardly clean.
It is more productive to realize that we all have our problems, China has jumped ahead 60 years in the last 10, you can expect them to deal with many of the same problems that we in the U.S. dealt with and continue to struggle against.
Emergency vehicles emit strobe which a computer could easily interpret and then pull over to allow them to get by. This is current technology. Most of the issues you've pointed out are problems on modern cars which have slip sensors and basic rules like pull over on application exception would be valid under the majority of unforeseen circumstances. Additionally, most drivers I've encountered do not know how to handle four-way stops when traffic lights are out, let alone who has right of way under most circumstances.
Rain sensing wipers could very easily tell the navigator to slow down as traction will be less, calculating the speed of the vehicles around you is another good way to determine what a prudent speed would be.
And as for sliding, a computer would have much more granular control and wouldn't freak out when the car starts to slide back, sliding on ice most people try to break, a computer would know to power through it. Sliding backwards on a hill wouldn't be any different than a regular driver, you either slide backwards and try again, or you hit someone behind you, a common enough occurrence where I grew up in Vermont.
So in summary, your complicated scenarios are not all that complicated and are solved by following a few simple rules which would be easy to codify. Google and a great many others have been working on this for quite some time, the technology has come a long way, probably not ready for prime time but most of those issues have already been solved. My Infiniti for instance tells me when there is a car or object in my blind spots, some models even give you a complete view all the way around the vehicle. The analytics to make decisions based on that sensor input has also had plenty of time to mature, the whole problem right now is simply integration and aggregating as much data as you can as that will result in the best decisions possible.
That's convenient except for the fact that there are lots of legal reasons to exceed the speed limit and it is not for you to decide if other drivers are being prudent. That is why we have police patrolling streets. There is no legal reason for you to be in the left lane as you stated yourself, it is for passing. If you are not passing then you should not be in said lane performing a rolling road block.
While yes, poor impulse control is a huge issue it is often caused by people that shouldn't be on the road to begin with. When someone is so scared to drive that they can't maintain speed then they shouldn't be on the road at all. They force people to pass them and clog up road ways when they fail to merge properly. Every time I see someone stop and wait for an opening I know I get a little more mad.
Are you really trying to say that context doesn't matter? Of course the contents of the information leaked is very important in determining whether or not the information should be leaked. I don't know anyone that thinks the government can't keep some secrets, but wrongdoing should never be covered up. Since there was evidence of wrongdoing the conduct was indeed proper. There is a huge difference between selling secrets to an enemy and broadcasting evidence of crimes being committed with offenders going unpunished.
While I think U.S. soldiers wouldn't fire on civilians unless they thought they were truly in danger, I think we need to be much more honest about why we are there to begin with and why we are putting soldiers in dangerous situations where they could be committing war crimes in the first place. If there was a much greater amount of transparency then none of this would have been necessary. It's ok to admit mistakes, hiding them only slows progress and in these cases only galvanizes the enemy against you further.
Of course we shouldn't be in the nation building business anyway but we made one hell of a mess of the middle east in the 60's, 70s, and 80s. There was marked improvement in the 90s but that led us where we are now, fighting people that we both trained and armed.
huh?
You think the U.S. is so weak that they would have to resort to credit card fraud to hurt their enemies? There is no country on this planet that could stand up to the U.S. in an all out confrontation. Maybe in another decade China will have the resources but putting yourself in a perpetual state of readiness for war is the exact reason much of the world dislikes the U.S. and calls us warlike people. You are much better aligning yourselves economically as that will prevent escalation to war. China for instance is so involved in our economy that it was be mutually assured destruction if either side targeted the other.
Seriously, quit being so paranoid and realize that if they really want to decimate anybody, credit cards would be no where on their radar and are completely unnecessary for tracking funds necessary to for instance purchase weapons to be used against us. Violating the privacy of visiting dignitaries is not a good idea and does nothing to improve relations with them, quite the contrary, if they have to always be guarded then you won't get anywhere with them when you're negotiating.
Given that soldiers swear an oath to uphold the ideals of the constitution, it is their moral and duty to disobey order which violate these principles. This is what Manning did and of course this is why we have trials to determine if he should have disobeyed secrecy rules, if you're a soldier and you witness the government breaking it's own rules it is your responsibility to bring it to light.
You can't declare war against an organization, only another country. We have no specific country we are fighting against so we are not technically at war despite all the rhetoric in D.C. This is why this charge won't stick, because no stated enemy was helped by leaking the cables, it was merely embarrassing for a lot of people. I have no idea why Republicans came up with this idea that terrorism should be fought with armies, the only thing it is good for is funding the military industrial complex.
There is tremendous value, anonymous originally stated a month of standby time which was horrendously inaccurate. My Archos tablet can easily do two weeks on standby periodically getting my email provided it is within my wifi network range. The only problem with the Archos side is not Android but the lack of apps which is fast changing but still hadn't caught. Apple provides a software stack with their products that is pretty impressive out of the box. My Archos takes some hacking around to get video conferencing to work which isn't realistic for the majority of people out there.
I wish I could find a tablet with battery life that good that I could attach a usb to serial adapter to since I do a lot of mobile programming of network gear, temporary sites suck as equipment isn't always in nice places. The 7" Archos had the right combination of battery life and form factor but lacked the full size usb port meaning I have to carry around adapters to use my adapters in much the same way as you would with an iPad. Of course even with the right ports there is no guarantee there would be drivers for the adapters anyway so it's just a pipe dream for now as I currently use a netbook to accomplish this task and it does it fairly well with 10-15 hours of battery life easy. Of course I bought a larger battery to accomplish that.
Then Apple should market the dramatic improvement in battery life as well since that blows the original iPad out of the water.
I'll agree except that you can run at least a Citrix receiver and access your virtual desktop with full desktop capabilities which is pretty appealing at least from my perspective. The only trick to VPN or some sort of trusted authentication system to avoid needing VPN software on the phone. I did this when the owner of the company I work for got frustrated he could never print from his iPad. Gave him his virtual desktop and he hasn't looked back.
My Samsung Moment came with Android 1.6 and it has 2.1 now. Methinks it's your carrier, I spent a month breaking into my ATT phone running Windows Mobile, the OS had a SIP client built right in that was disabled by ATT. Replace a CAB file or two and away you go, unfortunately WinMo 6.5 sucks as managing network connections but that was a few years ago now so things have improved dramatically as phone hopping on wifi is pretty commonplace these days.
Fixed that years ago, it used to be call MetaFrame and it mildly sucked then but now it's called XenApp and it's your friend
Clearly you haven't been watching enough Fox News as they reported the Muslim Brotherhood would definitely take over Egypt despite a complete lack of evidence supporting that. That is where the fear of knee-jerk reactions comes from. Fortunately I agree with your assessment and hope that we as a country can keep an open mind and remember that moderate people can be reasoned with while hard liners cannot.
That's funny, because I've camped in double digits negative too, of course the only reason I survived was due to specialized gear to handle that cold. Almost no one would have gear that could handle that although it's unlikely a house would get that cold during an extended period without power. Other posters have said it better, a water supply will be difficult to maintain as it is likely to freeze so the bottom line is that you will need a lot of propane to be prepared and even then you have sanitation issues to deal with.
I grew up in Vermont though, I can't imagine how horrible a storm would have to be to keep us locked up for more than a couple of days. Even during the huge ice storm we had in the 90s no one was stuck in their homes.
I hear that, try sorting by ip address in Calc. Excel does it automagically. These days it's looking more and more like Linux Desktop is just a good portal to a virtual desktop for Windows. The owner of the company I work for will go from his iPad with his virtual machine where he can print to any printer on the network to his imac in his office to his living room Ubuntu box to a Windows box in his bedroom all in one day and without having to close or lose any work.
He's my beta tester for technologies so we purposefully have a bunch of different platforms running at his house. It works out nicely as he'll provide a lot of feedback and isn't afraid to tell me a technology is half baked. So far, his virtual desktop has made him a happy camper. He gets to work with the same tools everywhere he goes so he never has to be without the apps he's familiar with and doesn't have to endure the weirdness that is OO.
That said I still use OO for most everyday activities dropping to Excel on my virtual machine when needed. When OO is working well enough that I'm comfortable pushing it out to the rest of the network I'll stop paying for Excel but until then I have XenApp and XenDesktop and it's getting mighty easy.
Given the complete debacle that was the Adobe Creative suite all the way until CS 4 on OS X I think you have a varying definition of quality tools.
Why do my Mac users insist on always having the latest software while my Windows and Linux users are happy with their long term release products?
Which study has shown OS X to be cheapest to maintain? In my shop both the hardware and software stack make it the most expensive platform by far.
Expenses rack up fast due to downtime caused by faulty hardware, since I can't virtualize OS X I have no way to limit that downtime besides having a hot spare machine ready. In the Windows and Linux world I have virtual desktops making downtime due to hardware failure a thing of the past.
I haven't yet seen automatic patch management on OS X like I have in the Windows and Linux worlds. I SCCM to push patches for Windows and I have a private repository for my Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian systems.
Windows licenses aren't that expensive, there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle and the fact that it is a complete stack with collaboration software and users already familiar with interfaces and features means that it is not very expensive to maintain compared to other platforms. OS X is not built for business users, people keep trying to use it as such but they are only increasing the cost of administration. There are some cool tools for it in the video and photography workflow arenas but everywhere else I've encountered is better served on another platform.
Hate to say it but macros in Word and Excel are incredibly useful, just never accept them from the outside ;)