If your employee is sitting in jail on drug charges and no one in the company knew it, there would be no reason do wipe the device. Also if you wipe the device after it becomes 'evidence' they will be mighty pissed and criminal charges may be handed out.
That is entrapment because the cop asked you to commit the crime first (asked for weed).
If the cop said, man I'm down, what do you have that I can take? and you answered, 'yea I got some grass'. You're just a fucking idiot for doing a drug deal over an unverified medium.
Moral of the story. Don't do fucking drug deals over SMS, the cops can subpoena the drug dealers SMS history and see every thing they've sent to you for as long as the telco keeps it. At least with voice calls all they get is phone numbers and times until they get a wiretap on you.
Whenever I have an acquaintance try to tell me about some 'crime' over SMS I tell them to stop and rethink their life. For all we know the phone company might keep that record till Jesus comes back. Even if it's past any date they can prosecute you for anything, you may never get a political career, a job in law enforcement, or any job with a security clearance for the rest of your life.
Around here (in the U.S.) the police put stickers and lights on seized autos and use them as cop cars. Somewhere along the line we gave them the ability to take our stuff and use it because 'drugs are bad m'kay'.
v.tr. 1. To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion. 2. To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns. 3. To relate (a secret or experience, for example) to another or others. 4. To accord a share in (something) to another or others: shared her chocolate bar with a friend.
Sharing has a lot more meaning then you seem to give it. By it's definition both Stallman and you would be correct. Please do not accuse another of twisting meanings when you do so by not encompassing the full set of meanings a word entails. You can equally share a chocolate bar, and you would only receive half, but if you share an experience neither party is deprived.
Must you have a license to ride your bicycle? Does it have plates, tags, and a registration fee?
Anyway, we're not talking about the cars, we're talking about the highway. Or in this case the parking lot your car is driving in to. In this parking lot there is a big sign that says "Your vehicle will be searched upon entering this property, if you do not agree, leave" The parking lot (facebook) is not a public roadway and is allowed to set different civil requirements on usage.
--such experiments should be strictly controlled (not forbidden though)
We're really coming to the point in history where the thought of controlling genetic research is not possible. The tools and knowledge on how to do it are widely available. It would be tantamount to controlling computer programers.
North Korea was probably a really nice place to live at some point in history, not so great now. America was, and still kinda is a great place to live, but we can let it digress to the point of NK. I'd like to stop that from occurring.
-- Eventually, the price of labor will drop below the subsistence wage level and people will fail to subsist (i.e. they will die). This will reduce the supply of labor, until the system returns to equilibrium.
This is true, but it is highly undesirable. People generally don't give up life willingly when they realize they are unneeded. They turn to crime, taking the fruits of the labor of the needed or even worse they turn actively against the 'needed' population in either terrorism or outright war. War is a terribly inefficient method of reducing population because it tends to kill more then the 'unneeded' and it destroys a lot of the resources and capital that could be used in more useful human endeavors.
--Here's a hint, people being replaced by more efficient techniques and technology has been going on for a long time and ultimately results in a wealthier society for everyone as those people end up doing more productive things with their time.
This is mostly true because human 'thinking' cannot replicated by machines easy. Human 'labor' has been replicated and far improved on for quite some time. Jobs that used to take 20 people all day with shovels now take an hour with a tractor. The question is what happens when machines can easily 'out think' people and do their job better, faster, and cheaper. When lawyers, accountants, and at some point doctors are replaced by thinking robots what are we going to do then? What jobs will we go to collage for to earn the big money? Society has to be prepared for the day that human thinking loses significant value in place of machine thinking. If society is not ready for the major changes brought forward by massive technological change things can go very badly.
Change is change, how people handle it as a society is the question.
--No doubt in anybody's mind that it was the weed that caused his problems.
Anything can cause addictive behavior, so yes things don't have to be physically addictive to cause problems. Gambling, Dr Pepper, Porn, even using the Internet can cause a compulsion. To say a generally non-physically addictive drug was the cause of his problems is most likely wrong. It is probably an effect of his problem.
"Specifically, people with mood disorders are at increased risk of substance use disorders."
Depression is a dangerous thing. Instead of fighting a war on drugs, recognizing the signs of depression and getting help for them as a society would probably do us far more good.
1) You have a dell model A with a broken motherboard and a dell model A with a dead battery, how much does it cost to fix your dell model A?
Nothing, just take the battery out of the notebook with the broke board.
2) You have a apple MBP model X with a broken motherboard and a apple MBP model X with a dead battery, how much does it cost to fix your apple MBP model X?
Like always, Apple fucks the developers. I loved using macs in the earily to mid 90's, but all the developers I knew were like 'fuck them'. It wasn't till the successes of the 'i' devices that Mac OS even registered on the usage stats charts.
Businesses were buying XP in 2009 because their apps didn't work on it, and Vista was a POS. A large number of medical applications didn't get updated to support Windows 7 and 64-bit machines until Win7SP1 was out. Vista scared businesses so businesses said F* this and stayed with XP till Win 7 was well supported hardware wise.
It was also 'stupid' to buy Vista in 2009 when Windows 7 was coming out in late '09. It was the smart choice to wait and see how 7 panned out.
Almost all of my clients have loved the move to windows 7, it's been stable, well supported, and fast on the new hardware. Vista, especially the original had all kinds of odd hangs and weird applications issues, mostly because the developers didn't know how to program for it yet.
Complaining about IE on XP is more about Microsofts bundling and monopoly practices. Firefox and Chrome work fine on it. The security model sucks along with the underlying SSL behavior, I'll give you that for sure.
When you work with corporations you'll see why they like long running software. Once the employees run the software long enough, the staff teaches the staff. Less calls come in to IT because they recognize the common issues that show up. Put them on a new OS and instead of handling the problem, it's a call to IT which increases costs. So you're exactly right about that. This is why Microsoft is planning on supporting Win7 till 2020.
You're assuming the bios sets these devices up properly for 64-bitness to work. I have no idea if it is the case, though someone running a 64-bit linux with the appropriate drivers could answer.
Looking at someone while talking to them conveys much more information then just the speech alone. Does one person have a confused look on their face? Is the other party trying to stop you from speaking so they can ask something non-verbally? Does the other person look like they totally don't give a fuck?
I do hope you understand the importance of nonverbal communication in conversation. Engagement is a very important part of communication, and is much of the reason why people still travel long distances to have face to face meetings in business. It's not just some people, it's most people that feel important when you look at them when you talk, especially the people that have the greatest monetary influence on your life, bosses, girlfriends, customers...
A lot of geeks and nerds get the label, not because of their obsession with their trade, but the inability to communicate with other people properly.
Q: How can a woman tell the difference between a geek and a jock? A: A jock stares at her breasts, a geek stares at her shoes.
Booting takes a lot of random reads, that's why booting from a hard disk is so slow. Boot a modern system of EFI with a quick setup time on a fast SSD and it is pretty amazing. Just watch out for sucky drivers that load way too much data or cause the system to pause.
Pretty much everything that occurs is the advanced output from extremely complicated processes without the understanding of what's occurring. The fact that carbon has a lot of nice natural arrangements that lead to strong steel leads to the actual difficulty of forming carbon steel as pretty easy on the scale. On the other hand a lone higgs requires exceptional circumstances. The output of a high enegry collier to become separated form their bound state being the main one, even then they are one in trillions events. It would be like recreating human DNA on accident, it's not impossible, but it's up there on the improbability scale.
Correlate the above data and you will see that people have children before they have money. Most people don't have a net worth of their yearly costs until they are 35. Now is this because so many people have children in their 20's? Also remember that the risks with childbirth increase with age
but that said, with the advances in medical care, the outcomes are good, again having to use the medical advances to have a baby will increase expenses and lead to longer absences from an existing career.
Most people are missing something important about about the nature of the outage.
There are essential two kinds of underground power cabling. Lower voltage to end customer service and High voltage long distance transmission. Low voltage lines are the ones from your house to the 'local' power distribution center. These are generally regulated by the city or a local authority on weather above ground or underground is required. Underground local power distribution is expensive, but doesn't require exotic solutions. A lot of this was destroyed in this storm, but that's not the real issue.
The big issue is a lot of high voltage transmission lines were destroyed. If these lines are down, it doesn't matter if your local grid is underground or not. Burying these cables is very expensive, 4 to 10 times the cost of above ground lines per equal distance. Also underground high voltage is not as reliable, and there are considerable engineering issues that go along with it. Yes, you'd save yourself storm outages like this, but more general outages would occur.
Strip mall is a close as you can get. Where I live they are everywhere. There is only one old style mall. You'll see people go back to their car and drive 100 meters so their car is in front to the next shop in the same mall.
Only problem is that the 'metro' screen is going to look like dogshit flattened under a steamroller on any workstation with more then a few apps, on one wants to scroll twenty screens to find the icon they want.
A number of applications at vets and doctors offices that I manage create a good number of start menu items that are rarely used. They are generally tucked in an admin subfolder under the start menu.
Saying go to the start menu > program name > admin > tlvd_unfuck_database-shortcut is pretty easy to visually guide someone to because they'll only be a few icons that show up in the folder. Telling someone to type 'Tom Lema Victor Delta underscore You Nnn Eff...' in the start menu where every exe that starts with tlvd shows up first will suck.
What is going to happen when they are installed on Win8? Are piles of new icons going to show up on the metro screen? Are the subfolders going to be on a subfolder icon on metro? Trying to fix all the legacy crap out there will kill a lot of migration to Win 8 for a long time coming.
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If your employee is sitting in jail on drug charges and no one in the company knew it, there would be no reason do wipe the device. Also if you wipe the device after it becomes 'evidence' they will be mighty pissed and criminal charges may be handed out.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Forfeiture
That is entrapment because the cop asked you to commit the crime first (asked for weed).
If the cop said, man I'm down, what do you have that I can take? and you answered, 'yea I got some grass'. You're just a fucking idiot for doing a drug deal over an unverified medium.
Moral of the story. Don't do fucking drug deals over SMS, the cops can subpoena the drug dealers SMS history and see every thing they've sent to you for as long as the telco keeps it. At least with voice calls all they get is phone numbers and times until they get a wiretap on you.
Whenever I have an acquaintance try to tell me about some 'crime' over SMS I tell them to stop and rethink their life. For all we know the phone company might keep that record till Jesus comes back. Even if it's past any date they can prosecute you for anything, you may never get a political career, a job in law enforcement, or any job with a security clearance for the rest of your life.
Around here (in the U.S.) the police put stickers and lights on seized autos and use them as cop cars. Somewhere along the line we gave them the ability to take our stuff and use it because 'drugs are bad m'kay'.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Forfeiture
Sharing
v.tr.
1. To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion.
2. To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns.
3. To relate (a secret or experience, for example) to another or others.
4. To accord a share in (something) to another or others: shared her chocolate bar with a friend.
Sharing has a lot more meaning then you seem to give it. By it's definition both Stallman and you would be correct. Please do not accuse another of twisting meanings when you do so by not encompassing the full set of meanings a word entails. You can equally share a chocolate bar, and you would only receive half, but if you share an experience neither party is deprived.
Must you have a license to ride your bicycle? Does it have plates, tags, and a registration fee?
Anyway, we're not talking about the cars, we're talking about the highway. Or in this case the parking lot your car is driving in to. In this parking lot there is a big sign that says "Your vehicle will be searched upon entering this property, if you do not agree, leave" The parking lot (facebook) is not a public roadway and is allowed to set different civil requirements on usage.
--such experiments should be strictly controlled (not forbidden though)
We're really coming to the point in history where the thought of controlling genetic research is not possible. The tools and knowledge on how to do it are widely available. It would be tantamount to controlling computer programers.
North Korea was probably a really nice place to live at some point in history, not so great now. America was, and still kinda is a great place to live, but we can let it digress to the point of NK. I'd like to stop that from occurring.
-- Eventually, the price of labor will drop below the subsistence wage level and people will fail to subsist (i.e. they will die). This will reduce the supply of labor, until the system returns to equilibrium.
This is true, but it is highly undesirable. People generally don't give up life willingly when they realize they are unneeded. They turn to crime, taking the fruits of the labor of the needed or even worse they turn actively against the 'needed' population in either terrorism or outright war. War is a terribly inefficient method of reducing population because it tends to kill more then the 'unneeded' and it destroys a lot of the resources and capital that could be used in more useful human endeavors.
--Here's a hint, people being replaced by more efficient techniques and technology has been going on for a long time and ultimately results in a wealthier society for everyone as those people end up doing more productive things with their time.
This is mostly true because human 'thinking' cannot replicated by machines easy. Human 'labor' has been replicated and far improved on for quite some time. Jobs that used to take 20 people all day with shovels now take an hour with a tractor. The question is what happens when machines can easily 'out think' people and do their job better, faster, and cheaper. When lawyers, accountants, and at some point doctors are replaced by thinking robots what are we going to do then? What jobs will we go to collage for to earn the big money? Society has to be prepared for the day that human thinking loses significant value in place of machine thinking. If society is not ready for the major changes brought forward by massive technological change things can go very badly.
Change is change, how people handle it as a society is the question.
--No doubt in anybody's mind that it was the weed that caused his problems.
Anything can cause addictive behavior, so yes things don't have to be physically addictive to cause problems. Gambling, Dr Pepper, Porn, even using the Internet can cause a compulsion. To say a generally non-physically addictive drug was the cause of his problems is most likely wrong. It is probably an effect of his problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction#Personality_theories_of_addiction
"Specifically, people with mood disorders are at increased risk of substance use disorders."
Depression is a dangerous thing. Instead of fighting a war on drugs, recognizing the signs of depression and getting help for them as a society would probably do us far more good.
1) You have a dell model A with a broken motherboard and a dell model A with a dead battery, how much does it cost to fix your dell model A?
Nothing, just take the battery out of the notebook with the broke board.
2) You have a apple MBP model X with a broken motherboard and a apple MBP model X with a dead battery, how much does it cost to fix your apple MBP model X?
$199 motherfucker, pay up.
Like always, Apple fucks the developers. I loved using macs in the earily to mid 90's, but all the developers I knew were like 'fuck them'. It wasn't till the successes of the 'i' devices that Mac OS even registered on the usage stats charts.
d) People who didn't want that steaming pile of shit called vista.
Businesses were buying XP in 2009 because their apps didn't work on it, and Vista was a POS. A large number of medical applications didn't get updated to support Windows 7 and 64-bit machines until Win7SP1 was out. Vista scared businesses so businesses said F* this and stayed with XP till Win 7 was well supported hardware wise.
It was also 'stupid' to buy Vista in 2009 when Windows 7 was coming out in late '09. It was the smart choice to wait and see how 7 panned out.
Almost all of my clients have loved the move to windows 7, it's been stable, well supported, and fast on the new hardware. Vista, especially the original had all kinds of odd hangs and weird applications issues, mostly because the developers didn't know how to program for it yet.
Complaining about IE on XP is more about Microsofts bundling and monopoly practices. Firefox and Chrome work fine on it. The security model sucks along with the underlying SSL behavior, I'll give you that for sure.
When you work with corporations you'll see why they like long running software. Once the employees run the software long enough, the staff teaches the staff. Less calls come in to IT because they recognize the common issues that show up. Put them on a new OS and instead of handling the problem, it's a call to IT which increases costs. So you're exactly right about that. This is why Microsoft is planning on supporting Win7 till 2020.
You're assuming the bios sets these devices up properly for 64-bitness to work. I have no idea if it is the case, though someone running a 64-bit linux with the appropriate drivers could answer.
Looking at someone while talking to them conveys much more information then just the speech alone. Does one person have a confused look on their face? Is the other party trying to stop you from speaking so they can ask something non-verbally? Does the other person look like they totally don't give a fuck?
I do hope you understand the importance of nonverbal communication in conversation. Engagement is a very important part of communication, and is much of the reason why people still travel long distances to have face to face meetings in business. It's not just some people, it's most people that feel important when you look at them when you talk, especially the people that have the greatest monetary influence on your life, bosses, girlfriends, customers...
A lot of geeks and nerds get the label, not because of their obsession with their trade, but the inability to communicate with other people properly.
Q: How can a woman tell the difference between a geek and a jock?
A: A jock stares at her breasts, a geek stares at her shoes.
--There's no good reason for a modern dual core system with 2gb ram to take 25 seconds or longer to boot,
There is one reason... IOPS
Booting takes a lot of random reads, that's why booting from a hard disk is so slow. Boot a modern system of EFI with a quick setup time on a fast SSD and it is pretty amazing. Just watch out for sucky drivers that load way too much data or cause the system to pause.
Pretty much everything that occurs is the advanced output from extremely complicated processes without the understanding of what's occurring. The fact that carbon has a lot of nice natural arrangements that lead to strong steel leads to the actual difficulty of forming carbon steel as pretty easy on the scale. On the other hand a lone higgs requires exceptional circumstances. The output of a high enegry collier to become separated form their bound state being the main one, even then they are one in trillions events. It would be like recreating human DNA on accident, it's not impossible, but it's up there on the improbability scale.
--Why would anyone consider it responsible to have children when they don't have a year's expenses in savings?
http://www.moneyrelationship.com/retirement/the-average-net-worth-of-americans-where-do-you-stand/
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005074.html
Correlate the above data and you will see that people have children before they have money. Most people don't have a net worth of their yearly costs until they are 35. Now is this because so many people have children in their 20's? Also remember that the risks with childbirth increase with age
http://www.babycenter.com/404_what-are-the-risks-of-having-a-baby-if-im-35-or-older_3127.bc
but that said, with the advances in medical care, the outcomes are good, again having to use the medical advances to have a baby will increase expenses and lead to longer absences from an existing career.
Most people are missing something important about about the nature of the outage.
There are essential two kinds of underground power cabling. Lower voltage to end customer service and High voltage long distance transmission. Low voltage lines are the ones from your house to the 'local' power distribution center. These are generally regulated by the city or a local authority on weather above ground or underground is required. Underground local power distribution is expensive, but doesn't require exotic solutions. A lot of this was destroyed in this storm, but that's not the real issue.
The big issue is a lot of high voltage transmission lines were destroyed. If these lines are down, it doesn't matter if your local grid is underground or not. Burying these cables is very expensive, 4 to 10 times the cost of above ground lines per equal distance. Also underground high voltage is not as reliable, and there are considerable engineering issues that go along with it. Yes, you'd save yourself storm outages like this, but more general outages would occur.
Report on underground line costs and technologies.
http://psc.wi.gov/thelibrary/publications/electric/electric11.pdf
Virgina report on underground line evaluation.
http://jlarc.state.va.us/reports/Rpt343.pdf
Strip mall is a close as you can get. Where I live they are everywhere. There is only one old style mall. You'll see people go back to their car and drive 100 meters so their car is in front to the next shop in the same mall.
Only problem is that the 'metro' screen is going to look like dogshit flattened under a steamroller on any workstation with more then a few apps, on one wants to scroll twenty screens to find the icon they want.
A number of applications at vets and doctors offices that I manage create a good number of start menu items that are rarely used. They are generally tucked in an admin subfolder under the start menu.
Saying go to the start menu > program name > admin > tlvd_unfuck_database-shortcut is pretty easy to visually guide someone to because they'll only be a few icons that show up in the folder. Telling someone to type 'Tom Lema Victor Delta underscore You Nnn Eff...' in the start menu where every exe that starts with tlvd shows up first will suck.
What is going to happen when they are installed on Win8? Are piles of new icons going to show up on the metro screen? Are the subfolders going to be on a subfolder icon on metro? Trying to fix all the legacy crap out there will kill a lot of migration to Win 8 for a long time coming.
Microsoft is already commited to supported Windows 7 professional till 2020.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle