...replace the dozens of personal identification numbers (PIN)... The crucial mistake is the term replace. If they wanted to add facial recognition, that would be great.
Instead of ranting on this for the 10,000th time, I'll just provide the link to Two-factor authentication
That does not reflect the experience my company has seen. They purchased laptops for several people (developers, managers) and more than one of those laptops has been in for constant service due to the pre-loaded software completely not functioning. The worst one was laptop where the manufacturer reloaded the software from the install DVD multiple times, and each time the same problem happened because the anti-virus software was not compatible with Vista.
Probably, in a year or so, these problems will go away as vendors become more prepared.
From the article:
If Kamen makes the Stirling work in an electric vehicle, Willums will get another power plant for his open-source car and a way to overcome drivers' fears that they'll run out of electrons in the middle of nowhere. Or did they mean open cycle, as compared with a Stirling engine which is closed cycle?
I work for a company that chose Sugar CRM. We wanted something where we could connect it to our own customer database, and could add links to our own tools, like extra buttons to edit the customer info, purge them, perform system maintenance, etc. Unfortunately, none of the systems we found allowed this. The best we could do was to find an open source system that was easy to edit. We modified the pages to include extra buttons that link to external web applications. It's not the best integration, but it works. I was actually very disappointed that none of the tools offered any kind of "plug-in" functionality.
Thunderbird has to compete with not only client-side apps like Outlook and Eudora, but also webmail packages, which are becoming very sophisticated thanks to AJAX. Years ago, webmail sucked - limited space, no search ability, etc. But now it is really good, and I'm finding I envy my colleagues who don't need Remote Desktop to check their email. I even wonder if POP3's future is looking grim.
It's a sad day when we all have to start using https just to get back "normal" privacy rights. The phone company doesn't deeply inspect every phone call for keywords (I don't think) so what should it be okay for my ISP to do?
I don't want my ISP reading my gmail. There is a lot of chatter about that. But I don't want my ISP knowing I read Slashdot either. Or anything else for that matter. Unfortunately, most "general" web sites don't allow https. For example, Slashdot supports https, but it just refers you back to http. (I assume that is for performance reasons.)
I'm reading the public forum, and someone ran the math and said that it would take 10,000 years to build a solar array large enough to replace our current energy use. The limiting factor is how hard it is to move something that large and heaving into orbit.
If these figures are accurate, then this is a pointless endeavor.
but the VOLUME CONTROL HAD BUTTONS built into the side edge. This is an example of a bad use of buttons. Volume controls should be knobs or sliders, not buttons.
We aren't talking about someone who didn't do their job well. We are talking about someone who did something illegal. Voting against them isn't the solution. They need to be sued and the invalid appointment needs to be overturned. If we wait 4 years then vote them out, they they got away with it.
WOW. That is the worst response I'e ever seen from a representative. Each paragraph is a 100% complete lie!
Paragraph 2: Copyright infringement supports terrorists. Therefore we must extend copyright?? Paragraph 3: Copyright extension is supported by poor musicians?? Paragraph 4: Extending copyright encourages record companies to bring on new talent??
I wonder what industry shill gave Mr. Roberts that form letter?
There are two ways to look at this: either it's a noble attempt to ensure the right people are in place to oversee the patent and trademark office and to keep out political hacks, or (as Techdirt might see it) an attempt by patent people to keep their business protected from outsiders. I am not qualified to say which one it is, but I do like the idea that this is happening.
What I would like to see more of: 1) Laws that state that appointees must have appropriate requirements. This enables citizens to: 2) Sue officials for violating the rules and their oaths
We would be in a lot better shape if people could hold the government more accountable for their actions. The way things are today, Congress can just establish the department of whatever, and then that department can do whatever they want without oversight.
The OLPC project reminds me of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" found in The Diamond Age. In the book, a poor girl is given a nanotech book that basically teaches her everything should could ever want to know. Later on, it gets mass-produced resulting in an army of intelligent young girls. The OLPC is kinda like that.
Except you can still patent after you publish. You have 1 year in the US, and I believe that rule applies to the EU as well. It's actually better to publish ASAP so that you establish your claim before anyone else.
You are completely wrong. Let's go to the original source, the acts that created the treasury department. For some background on the how and why, I'm using what I recollect from history class in school. That being many years ago, I tried the Wikipedia article United States Treasury Department and I see nothing substantiating any claims about the Treasury department conducting search and seizer. And the US Coast Guard has nothing to do with the Treasury Department.
I find it funny when people say things like "I don't know where you are getting this info from, but I think...." and provide no links. I'm open to being wrong, but don't challenge someone elses sources unless you present your own.
, I suppose Congress can -- before this Executive Order gets enforced -- pass a law saying that the Treasury Dept. cannot use taxpayer money to enforce this particular Executive Order. My question is, does the Treasury department have this power in the first place, and where is it spelled out? The treasury department doesn't own money, and as far as I know they can't interfere in monetary transactions. I'm not even sure how they would go about doing this without military involvement. If I wire money via Western Union to an evil organization in The Middle East, how can the Treasury department do anything?
Uh, you do know that the IRS is part of the Treasury Department, don't you? The bottom line is, as has been pointed out by numerous posters, this kind of authority is not unusual, nor is it a violation of the fifth amendment. You are right. It is a violation of the constitution, REGARDLESS of the fifth ammendment. The treasury department does not have the right to seize or freeze assets. The government can take your property only if: 1) They have a warrant 2) Eminent domain You are probably right that this happens anyway, in extreme cases like terrorism. But they are expanding "terrorism" into a lot of gray areas.
First, the President of the United States does not have any magical "executive order" powers that make new laws or grant new powers. An "executive order" is given by the president to one of his cabinet members. It is just the same as your boss telling you to do something. If you don't do it, or don't do it well, you will be fired.
Unfortuntaely, somebody didn't tell this to George Bush. Reading the order you can see that he really thinks that he can tell the Treasury department to seize people's money. It's surreal to see this, because I really think that the guy just doesn't know that he doesn't have this power. And it's weirder because people seem to pretend like he does, and actually follow them. Indirectly, I guess that means he does have the power. It's very weird.
What would help, is if people (including the press) would stop acknowledging them as "executive orders" because they aren't. Call them "strongly worded requests" or "presidential demands" or something. George Bush writing this has no more relevance than if I wrote it. The press should be making him a laughing stock.
This is ironic because I consider the lack of click-through licenses to be one of the benefits of Linux. I forsee a day when people must sign a EULA to buy something at CompUSA and I'm fighting it as much as I can. You can't install anything on Windows without a 20-page EULA that denies people of things they take for granted. I my frustration I bought a Mac, only to find that they are just as bad.
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...replace the dozens of personal identification numbers (PIN)... The crucial mistake is the term replace. If they wanted to add facial recognition, that would be great.Instead of ranting on this for the 10,000th time, I'll just provide the link to Two-factor authentication
You do not have to sign a contract to buy a Nintendo DS.
Does anyone know how efficient stirling engines installations are compared with solar panels?
That does not reflect the experience my company has seen. They purchased laptops for several people (developers, managers) and more than one of those laptops has been in for constant service due to the pre-loaded software completely not functioning. The worst one was laptop where the manufacturer reloaded the software from the install DVD multiple times, and each time the same problem happened because the anti-virus software was not compatible with Vista.
Probably, in a year or so, these problems will go away as vendors become more prepared.
In Finland there are outlets at parking spaces so that you can plug-in your car's heater to warm it up before you try to start the engine.
I work for a company that chose Sugar CRM. We wanted something where we could connect it to our own customer database, and could add links to our own tools, like extra buttons to edit the customer info, purge them, perform system maintenance, etc. Unfortunately, none of the systems we found allowed this. The best we could do was to find an open source system that was easy to edit. We modified the pages to include extra buttons that link to external web applications. It's not the best integration, but it works. I was actually very disappointed that none of the tools offered any kind of "plug-in" functionality.
Is the Bittorrent protocol a W3C standard yet?
Thunderbird has to compete with not only client-side apps like Outlook and Eudora, but also webmail packages, which are becoming very sophisticated thanks to AJAX. Years ago, webmail sucked - limited space, no search ability, etc. But now it is really good, and I'm finding I envy my colleagues who don't need Remote Desktop to check their email. I even wonder if POP3's future is looking grim.
It's a sad day when we all have to start using https just to get back "normal" privacy rights. The phone company doesn't deeply inspect every phone call for keywords (I don't think) so what should it be okay for my ISP to do?
I don't want my ISP reading my gmail. There is a lot of chatter about that. But I don't want my ISP knowing I read Slashdot either. Or anything else for that matter. Unfortunately, most "general" web sites don't allow https. For example, Slashdot supports https, but it just refers you back to http. (I assume that is for performance reasons.)
I'm reading the public forum, and someone ran the math and said that it would take 10,000 years to build a solar array large enough to replace our current energy use. The limiting factor is how hard it is to move something that large and heaving into orbit.
If these figures are accurate, then this is a pointless endeavor.
We aren't talking about someone who didn't do their job well. We are talking about someone who did something illegal. Voting against them isn't the solution. They need to be sued and the invalid appointment needs to be overturned. If we wait 4 years then vote them out, they they got away with it.
WOW.
That is the worst response I'e ever seen from a representative. Each paragraph is a 100% complete lie!
Paragraph 2: Copyright infringement supports terrorists. Therefore we must extend copyright??
Paragraph 3: Copyright extension is supported by poor musicians??
Paragraph 4: Extending copyright encourages record companies to bring on new talent??
I wonder what industry shill gave Mr. Roberts that form letter?
WOW.
What I would like to see more of:
1) Laws that state that appointees must have appropriate requirements. This enables citizens to:
2) Sue officials for violating the rules and their oaths
We would be in a lot better shape if people could hold the government more accountable for their actions. The way things are today, Congress can just establish the department of whatever, and then that department can do whatever they want without oversight.
The OLPC project reminds me of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" found in The Diamond Age. In the book, a poor girl is given a nanotech book that basically teaches her everything should could ever want to know. Later on, it gets mass-produced resulting in an army of intelligent young girls. The OLPC is kinda like that.
Except you can still patent after you publish. You have 1 year in the US, and I believe that rule applies to the EU as well. It's actually better to publish ASAP so that you establish your claim before anyone else.
You are completely wrong. Let's go to the original source, the acts that created the treasury department. For some background on the how and why, I'm using what I recollect from history class in school. That being many years ago, I tried the Wikipedia article United States Treasury Department and I see nothing substantiating any claims about the Treasury department conducting search and seizer. And the US Coast Guard has nothing to do with the Treasury Department.
...." and provide no links. I'm open to being wrong, but don't challenge someone elses sources unless you present your own.
I find it funny when people say things like "I don't know where you are getting this info from, but I think
Okay, replying to my own post, but this is interesting:
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act is what Bush seems to be claiming he can do this under. Is anyone familiar with this who can comment?
How is that a myth? I think there are quite a few people who might have actually done that. Is there another way to provide and preserve freedoms?
1) They have a warrant
2) Eminent domain
You are probably right that this happens anyway, in extreme cases like terrorism. But they are expanding "terrorism" into a lot of gray areas.
First, the President of the United States does not have any magical "executive order" powers that make new laws or grant new powers. An "executive order" is given by the president to one of his cabinet members. It is just the same as your boss telling you to do something. If you don't do it, or don't do it well, you will be fired.
Unfortuntaely, somebody didn't tell this to George Bush. Reading the order you can see that he really thinks that he can tell the Treasury department to seize people's money. It's surreal to see this, because I really think that the guy just doesn't know that he doesn't have this power. And it's weirder because people seem to pretend like he does, and actually follow them. Indirectly, I guess that means he does have the power. It's very weird.
What would help, is if people (including the press) would stop acknowledging them as "executive orders" because they aren't. Call them "strongly worded requests" or "presidential demands" or something. George Bush writing this has no more relevance than if I wrote it. The press should be making him a laughing stock.
This is ironic because I consider the lack of click-through licenses to be one of the benefits of Linux. I forsee a day when people must sign a EULA to buy something at CompUSA and I'm fighting it as much as I can. You can't install anything on Windows without a 20-page EULA that denies people of things they take for granted. I my frustration I bought a Mac, only to find that they are just as bad.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.