My neighbor in the city I used to live in was a gardener. Dude was like 70. Anyway, had a nice greenhouse, would make some cash on the side selling flowers and tomatoes and such every spring/summer. Anyway, one day the feds kicked his door in, tore up his house, wrecked his greenhouse, etc, because someone reported they saw pot there. Feeling they got fucked with, the feds dragged in the person that made a tip to point out the pot. They pointed to a plant with similar leaves that looked nothing like it, that he had openly on sale.
Whatdya know? Turns out the person that called in the tip was also a gardener that now had a much better chance to sell their wares now that his competition was basically ruined. Neighbor gets out of it with a sprained wrist, bruises, a bunch of broken flower pots, ripped bags, busted lights, etc. Looked like a damn hurricane hit the place.
We wrecked an old dude's life on an anonymous tip that he was growing pot there, in the open, in front of tons of straight edged old geezers that would freak out if they so much as saw a real pot leaf.
Guess this would of ended better if you had done some minor investigation instead of stormtroopering in because you got a "tip" that pot was there? Sure, a bad tip sucks, but what sucks worse is this idea that law enforcement has to go in kicking down doors and destroying a mans business instead of doing some basic fact checking first.
This is slightly tongue in cheek, but one insidious way Google could address the privacy concerns would be to equip all Glass headsets with a special IR signal beam that would instruct other Glass devices to obscure the face of the person wearing the IR enabled Glass when it was detected. People who were concerned about their privacy would buy Glass as a means of protecting their own privacy. Just switch on the privacy beam switch.
How about someone make IR Glasses, that when you wear, make it too bright for anyone to record the features of your face? Sure, they still see you and your actions, but won't be able to make out the face.
Why is not the same as having a movie or music background in a youtube video? Because with a movie, or music it can be argued that the person could get it for free by viewing the video. That is not the same for games. No matter what video of a game i find, it's not the same as playing it. I don't get enjoyment watching someone else play video games. No one does. We get it from playing them.
Nintendo loses nothing but free advertising from these videos. Expect now they are losing goodwill, because this is a dick move, which doesn't seem legal, since video games are to be played, not watched.
Actually that is a yes. If someone is playing thru the whole game, they are teaching you.
A section you are stuck on? You can fast forward it, see how it's done, then do it yourself. In fact, this is the modern version of a walkthru. Instead of a text document, you got a video of it.
No surprise - Putin has been trying to drag the US - Russian relationship back to Cold War times. He has become much more provocative with military probes around US territory, and has been dismissive of US diplomats. Apparently it plays well in Russia.
It looks like he is getting his wish. So much for the "reset" in relations.
This time it will be confusing. Our local policies are reading too much like Russia's local cold war policies.
Of course it is about revenue. Governments need revenue to operate. A tax on speeders seems like a good way to do it.
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We could legalize drugs. It would not only get rid of the whole "war on drugs" problem, and earn a decent revenue for the government. Would reduce the cost of prisons and courts, and a whole bunch of other wasted costs we have because of it.
Would bring in a bit more money then fining speeders.
You haven't seen the drivers on the Garden State Parkway. Speed Limit varies from 55 to 65 mph where there is no construction happening and people typically average 75 mph, many easily go 80 mph. In the short term, these drones will catch a lot of offenders. I'm pretty sure of that.
And it bothers you that drivers drive a bit faster when traffic conditions permit it? Do you get mad when there is construction and people have to drive at 45 mph?
Is there children walking along side this "Parkway" that people speed on? School zones? Stop lights? No? STFU.
First they replaced my natural flavor with imitation, and I ate it anyways. Second they replaced sugar with corn syrup, and I kept on getting fatter. Then they replaced my natural crops with genetic modified crops, and I kept eating. Now they are trying to replace my natural cow grown meat with vat grown meat? WTF? When will this stop? We are very close to losing bacon in the name of progress.
Little something I wrote years ago that reads an ASF file (Or WMA, or WMV) headers and decodes them all into a human-readable dump. Handy thing if you work with media in those formats.
Unless you're in the US. Can't use it there. That format is the subject of a patent. So I'm just going to sit here in the UK and look smug. If I were in the US, I wouldn't have been able to make that. The author of virtualdub is though, so he had to strip ASF-reading functionality out of his software when Microsoft threatened to sue.
How much of that "can't pay attention" is due to the one-size-fits-all education levels by age/grade in American education? We have programs for slower students very early on, but gifted students are expected to stay behind and be bored to tears doing lessons and homework for concepts they already grasp. The first time many students are really challenged are high school honors classes.
This is the perennial whine of the slashdot self-diagnosed genius, but it's just nonsense. If you're that special, your teachers will notice and do something about it.
Yes, the same teachers and adults that didn't notice I had ADHD, Dyslexia & a Depression problem. It wasn't till my mid 30's before it was discovered. Please, Teachers don't notice shit. And like most people, being a teacher is a job, not a calling.
...kids, is that many parents don't put their kids to sleep the same way they did when I was a child (70's/80's.)
My kids go to sleep between 7:30PM and 8:30PM depending upon their ages (ranging from 5-9.)
At 9PM at night during the week I'll hear quite a lot of our neighbors' kids still playing outside, much less getting ready for bed.
School starts VERY early here as well (kids have to be at school by 7:30AM.)
Now, some of these kids who are staying up later are doing quite well in school, so who knows. It's just different from when I was a kid and it seemed to be a pervasive adult conspiracy to put all children to bed early...
My parents made me go to bed at 7:30 till I was in middle school. It was evil. I didn't need that much sleep, and the sun was still shining most the time. It would take me hours to fall asleep. If that help my grades, I don't know. I was the kid who always had the "can't pay attention" in class. But later, in middle school and beyond, when I wasn't going to bed at 7:30 (it was then more 9-10ish) I got B+ grades without trying.
This issue has been called into account by electronics manufactures in the western world against eastern manufacturers for decades. Basically, they are selling at or below cost to suck up market share. We (N. America) used to complain a lot louder about it until we started making all of our shit there too. However, popularity does not indicate quality. Just look at the millions of shitty pop records on the market now.
Yes, I can see how US Americans could get butthurt at selling stuff at or below cost to suck up market shares. I mean, no American Company would do that.
Oh, no sarcasm tags? Damn. Look, America has been doing the same shit. Look at video game consoles, Sony (They be Japan) and Microsoft (American) sold their consoles at losses.
In fact, Cell Phones are sold at losses providing you get a service plan with them.
I'm not going to google any more examples, but seems to me this is normal business practice.
So just to be clear. Them threatening to nuke us, bad. Us nuking them just to be sure, good. OK?
Yes, When The USA does something, it's good (like torturing prisoners, or overthrowing nations), but when someone else does it, it's bad, wrong & evil.
For CenturyLink, it was probably a good deal: They get to be a Tier-1 peer, instead of having to pay extortion fees like TIER-2 and 3.
It was a very good deal for Qwest's customers. They went from being limited to 1.5 Mbit to being able to buy "up to" 40 Mbit...
I dumped CenturyLink/Qwest long before then, but my brother supposedly got close to 30 Mbit measured.
Like most telecom idiots, CenturyLink has a 12-month "introductory rate", and they won't negotiate. Since all of their competitors do the same, the practice has become switching networks every year, after the introductory rate expires. The same applies if you have Cable or Satellite TV; customers just switch every year for a lower rate.
I really don't see how being so boneheaded helps either company, but that's telecom in the USA.
I had Qwest, then Centurylink took over and they kicked me off the service because I "download" too much.
I was pissed, but in hindsight, i got the better of the deal.
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When will the IRS start issuing jack boots to all agents?
I'd be more curious who gets the money if they win? From TFA:
The suit seeks $25,000 in compensatory damages, per violation. The recordsâ(TM) seizure could impact up to one in 25 Americans, UPI said.
I assume they will be passing that money to affected Americans?
Do they ever? No.
My neighbor in the city I used to live in was a gardener. Dude was like 70. Anyway, had a nice greenhouse, would make some cash on the side selling flowers and tomatoes and such every spring/summer. Anyway, one day the feds kicked his door in, tore up his house, wrecked his greenhouse, etc, because someone reported they saw pot there. Feeling they got fucked with, the feds dragged in the person that made a tip to point out the pot. They pointed to a plant with similar leaves that looked nothing like it, that he had openly on sale.
Whatdya know? Turns out the person that called in the tip was also a gardener that now had a much better chance to sell their wares now that his competition was basically ruined. Neighbor gets out of it with a sprained wrist, bruises, a bunch of broken flower pots, ripped bags, busted lights, etc. Looked like a damn hurricane hit the place.
We wrecked an old dude's life on an anonymous tip that he was growing pot there, in the open, in front of tons of straight edged old geezers that would freak out if they so much as saw a real pot leaf.
Guess this would of ended better if you had done some minor investigation instead of stormtroopering in because you got a "tip" that pot was there? Sure, a bad tip sucks, but what sucks worse is this idea that law enforcement has to go in kicking down doors and destroying a mans business instead of doing some basic fact checking first.
This is slightly tongue in cheek, but one insidious way Google could address the privacy concerns would be to equip all Glass headsets with a special IR signal beam that would instruct other Glass devices to obscure the face of the person wearing the IR enabled Glass when it was detected. People who were concerned about their privacy would buy Glass as a means of protecting their own privacy. Just switch on the privacy beam switch.
How about someone make IR Glasses, that when you wear, make it too bright for anyone to record the features of your face? Sure, they still see you and your actions, but won't be able to make out the face.
Why is not the same as having a movie or music background in a youtube video? Because with a movie, or music it can be argued that the person could get it for free by viewing the video. That is not the same for games. No matter what video of a game i find, it's not the same as playing it. I don't get enjoyment watching someone else play video games. No one does. We get it from playing them.
Nintendo loses nothing but free advertising from these videos. Expect now they are losing goodwill, because this is a dick move, which doesn't seem legal, since video games are to be played, not watched.
Fair use for LPs:
Academic: Hell no
Actually that is a yes. If someone is playing thru the whole game, they are teaching you.
A section you are stuck on? You can fast forward it, see how it's done, then do it yourself. In fact, this is the modern version of a walkthru. Instead of a text document, you got a video of it.
So yes, it could be argued that it's Academic.
thru googles software designed network.
Was it a "oops" moment when one of the scientist knocked some of his coffee into a sample?
Turnabout is fair play.
How the FBI Busted Anna Chapman and the Russian Spy Ring
No surprise - Putin has been trying to drag the US - Russian relationship back to Cold War times. He has become much more provocative with military probes around US territory, and has been dismissive of US diplomats. Apparently it plays well in Russia.
It looks like he is getting his wish. So much for the "reset" in relations.
This time it will be confusing. Our local policies are reading too much like Russia's local cold war policies.
you mean it is about revenue? not safety?
Of course it is about revenue. Governments need revenue to operate. A tax on speeders seems like a good way to do it.
We could legalize drugs. It would not only get rid of the whole "war on drugs" problem, and earn a decent revenue for the government. Would reduce the cost of prisons and courts, and a whole bunch of other wasted costs we have because of it.
Would bring in a bit more money then fining speeders.
You haven't seen the drivers on the Garden State Parkway. Speed Limit varies from 55 to 65 mph where there is no construction happening and people typically average 75 mph, many easily go 80 mph. In the short term, these drones will catch a lot of offenders. I'm pretty sure of that.
And it bothers you that drivers drive a bit faster when traffic conditions permit it? Do you get mad when there is construction and people have to drive at 45 mph?
Is there children walking along side this "Parkway" that people speed on? School zones? Stop lights? No? STFU.
No kidding! Why pirate what you can already get for free?
Because the pirate sites is where I get my free porn. sheesh.
First they replaced my natural flavor with imitation, and I ate it anyways.
Second they replaced sugar with corn syrup, and I kept on getting fatter.
Then they replaced my natural crops with genetic modified crops, and I kept eating.
Now they are trying to replace my natural cow grown meat with vat grown meat? WTF?
When will this stop? We are very close to losing bacon in the name of progress.
Think of the bacon, this must be stopped.
http://birds-are-nice.me/programming/asfview.shtml
Little something I wrote years ago that reads an ASF file (Or WMA, or WMV) headers and decodes them all into a human-readable dump. Handy thing if you work with media in those formats.
Unless you're in the US. Can't use it there. That format is the subject of a patent. So I'm just going to sit here in the UK and look smug. If I were in the US, I wouldn't have been able to make that. The author of virtualdub is though, so he had to strip ASF-reading functionality out of his software when Microsoft threatened to sue.
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_video/video_editing/virtualdub_1_3c.cfm
A Version of Virtualdub that works with asf. sorry to link you to afterdawn, the site blows thanks to dvdbackup23
which supposes that all problems are better solved by seeing what works than by applying a theory
How exactly is "seeing what works" supposed to differ from the scientific method?
Less funding.
How much of that "can't pay attention" is due to the one-size-fits-all education levels by age/grade in American education? We have programs for slower students very early on, but gifted students are expected to stay behind and be bored to tears doing lessons and homework for concepts they already grasp. The first time many students are really challenged are high school honors classes.
This is the perennial whine of the slashdot self-diagnosed genius, but it's just nonsense. If you're that special, your teachers will notice and do something about it.
Yes, the same teachers and adults that didn't notice I had ADHD, Dyslexia & a Depression problem. It wasn't till my mid 30's before it was discovered. Please, Teachers don't notice shit. And like most people, being a teacher is a job, not a calling.
... OnLive was fine for casual games. ....
Can't the same thing be said for the Ouya?
Not to mention the "poor self esteem" and "great personality" protons
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I'd rather not discuss my atomic weight.
Talk about a sig that sort of fits in with the convo...
...kids, is that many parents don't put their kids to sleep the same way they did when I was a child (70's/80's.)
My kids go to sleep between 7:30PM and 8:30PM depending upon their ages (ranging from 5-9.)
At 9PM at night during the week I'll hear quite a lot of our neighbors' kids still playing outside, much less getting ready for bed.
School starts VERY early here as well (kids have to be at school by 7:30AM.)
Now, some of these kids who are staying up later are doing quite well in school, so who knows. It's just different from when I was a kid and it seemed to be a pervasive adult conspiracy to put all children to bed early...
My parents made me go to bed at 7:30 till I was in middle school. It was evil. I didn't need that much sleep, and the sun was still shining most the time. It would take me hours to fall asleep. If that help my grades, I don't know. I was the kid who always had the "can't pay attention" in class. But later, in middle school and beyond, when I wasn't going to bed at 7:30 (it was then more 9-10ish) I got B+ grades without trying.
Must hurt to know that you can't do something you'd probably never have to do anyways.
I know it's every boys dream to be able to launch a nuke.
yes, I am being sarcastic.
This issue has been called into account by electronics manufactures in the western world against eastern manufacturers for decades. Basically, they are selling at or below cost to suck up market share. We (N. America) used to complain a lot louder about it until we started making all of our shit there too. However, popularity does not indicate quality. Just look at the millions of shitty pop records on the market now.
Yes, I can see how US Americans could get butthurt at selling stuff at or below cost to suck up market shares. I mean, no American Company would do that.
Oh, no sarcasm tags? Damn. Look, America has been doing the same shit. Look at video game consoles, Sony (They be Japan) and Microsoft (American) sold their consoles at losses.
In fact, Cell Phones are sold at losses providing you get a service plan with them.
I'm not going to google any more examples, but seems to me this is normal business practice.
Problem solved!
So just to be clear. Them threatening to nuke us, bad. Us nuking them just to be sure, good. OK?
Yes, When The USA does something, it's good (like torturing prisoners, or overthrowing nations), but when someone else does it, it's bad, wrong & evil.
No tectonics. The planet's core is supposed to be frozen, because it it so much smaller than Earth.
Supposed to? You mean, they are guessing?
It's Qwest's famouse Spirit of Service
For CenturyLink, it was probably a good deal: They get to be a Tier-1 peer, instead of having to pay extortion fees like TIER-2 and 3.
It was a very good deal for Qwest's customers. They went from being limited to 1.5 Mbit to being able to buy "up to" 40 Mbit...
I dumped CenturyLink/Qwest long before then, but my brother supposedly got close to 30 Mbit measured.
Like most telecom idiots, CenturyLink has a 12-month "introductory rate", and they won't negotiate. Since all of their competitors do the same, the practice has become switching networks every year, after the introductory rate expires. The same applies if you have Cable or Satellite TV; customers just switch every year for a lower rate.
I really don't see how being so boneheaded helps either company, but that's telecom in the USA.
I had Qwest, then Centurylink took over and they kicked me off the service because I "download" too much.
I was pissed, but in hindsight, i got the better of the deal.
I always wonder why that quote doesn't make conservative SciFi readers heads assplode, it is so socialist/communist.
The socialism you think you know isn't the real socialism.
Lucky for you all, I have a link:
http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8083537/Windows_7_Crack_Loader_v.2.2.1_Activation_by_DAZ_February_2013
That will activate Windows 7
Windows 8? http://www.rlslog.net/microsoft-toolkit-v2-4-3-stable-p2p/