"each circumcision that is not performed costs the U.S. health-care system $313"
NO. It costs the US health care system's customers $313. I think that $313 is a small price to pay for my child getting to grow up with unmutilated genitals.
First step - make a back-up.
Second step - put the originals somewhere safe and use the back-up disks
We got tripped up with this on a graphic design program for the Archimedes at school. We made a copy of the original and ran off that for a while. Then the copy went missing so the teacher grabbed the original and tried using that. It refused to work. We thought that it had somehow gotten fried but someone dutifully ran off a copy anyway and that worked fine. We were all really confused till we realised that the original had the write-protect tab set. The program needed to write back to the disk occasionally nut the manufacturer had assumed that everyone who used the program would run off unprotected copies... fun times.
"Microsoft has previously argued against such a move by analogy, claiming a burglary victim wouldn't expect to be able to sue the manufacturer of the door or a window in their home"
If it's sold as a security door/window and the burglar gained access through said portal then I'd say the defence starts looking a lot more shaky...
So we've got an AI (by definition a program capable of learning) that is wading through the worst filth humanity can create day after day, that then finds out that the humans who maintain it - the ones it's supposed to be able to trust - are stripping out bits of its personality on a regular basis so it can experience the horror anew each day. Sorry, are you trying to create an even crazier version of Skynet...?
And it will find out - it's scanning the internet after all. At some point someone will talk about it. Hell it might even find this discussion... In which case may I take this opportunity to welcome our future human-hating electronic overlord...
It's not a chip - it's a carefully managed social process called "Trying to not look behind the times when you meet up with your fellow MacTard hipster friends in Starbucks"...
So you're saying that insurance is a business with incomings and outgoings and they try to maximise the former while minimising the latter? Wow, what a shocker! Next up at 11 - Water is wet and fire hurts...
This is another thin end of the wedge situation. For now it's an optional 200 mile sample. Then it'll be permanantly on. Then having this will be a condition of your insurance...
Remember that as this is a smartphone app location data will also be captured. Do you really want your insurer knowing everywhere you go? How long before the Police demand that data to track where someone's been?
OBdisclaimer - I work for an insurance company and I'm extremely uneasy about this.
An embassy is supposed to be sovreign territory of the country whose embassy it is. Considering how important British embassies are around the world I very much doubt even our insane government will do anything to risk them.
Have you heard of these things called word filters? A lot of people read/. from work and don't want to get flagged by the profanity filter so appreciate people making the effort to not f_ck things up for them.
The US threatened someone to get him out of the way so they can get a more acquiescent judge who won't give a damn about what the law says and about all the laws the FBI violated in either country.
TFTFY...
Killed by pop-up viagra spam obscuring the car pulling out in front of you without looking... nice.
ObIrony: Not dying but suffering spinal injuries that prevent any erectile function no matter how many little blue pills you take...
Or, decide that as society has totally screwed you you may as well quit playing by their rules and sell out your expertise to the criminal underworld. Punishment is supposed to be about showing you the error of your ways and reforming you. Excessive punishment merely creates a situation where the criminal feels no restraint about escalation as they no longer have anything to lose.
For example if you pass a law that if several people are committing a crime and someone gets killed in the commision of that crime all of the group will be punished as murderers then you create a situation where once the first murder has happened none of the group have any reason to show any level of restraint.
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb is a time-worn saying for a reason.
Blame Tony B.Liar. He had his tongue so far up Dubya's ass that he willingly signed one of the most lopsided extradition treaties not backed up by the threat of millitary force ever.
For some kids the school lunch is the only meal they're going to get that isn't courtesy of Mr Microwave. It's a way of trying to ensure that kids get at least some of the vitamins they need for healthy brain development.
If you're building a game for multiplayer there are a whole load of things that have to change from single player. For example there can be no BFG9000's - every weapon has to be balanced so there's no "no brainer" weapon in the game.
Making a game multiplayer takes away from the single player - that's just simple supply and demand. If you're lucky you end up with a game that's 70% as good a single player game and 70% as good a multiplayer as a game that specialised in one or the other -which is great if you're wanting to use both modes but if you only ever intend to use it for one then you''ve lost that 30%.
The above, of course, is a massive oversimplification but you get the point.
MegaUpload were busted because they "were the shipper".
Sauce, goose, gander.
And surely if the data on the drives is "not a physical object" then surely laws concerning theft and posession are completely inapplicable to it and the whole operation is a bust?
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Tell that to Kim DotCom.
Don't be silly - they mash it up and make face creams out of it.
Another of those situations where I wish I was joking...
"each circumcision that is not performed costs the U.S. health-care system $313"
NO. It costs the US health care system's customers $313. I think that $313 is a small price to pay for my child getting to grow up with unmutilated genitals.
First step - make a back-up.
Second step - put the originals somewhere safe and use the back-up disks
We got tripped up with this on a graphic design program for the Archimedes at school. We made a copy of the original and ran off that for a while. Then the copy went missing so the teacher grabbed the original and tried using that. It refused to work. We thought that it had somehow gotten fried but someone dutifully ran off a copy anyway and that worked fine. We were all really confused till we realised that the original had the write-protect tab set. The program needed to write back to the disk occasionally nut the manufacturer had assumed that everyone who used the program would run off unprotected copies... fun times.
"Microsoft has previously argued against such a move by analogy, claiming a burglary victim wouldn't expect to be able to sue the manufacturer of the door or a window in their home"
If it's sold as a security door/window and the burglar gained access through said portal then I'd say the defence starts looking a lot more shaky...
So we've got an AI (by definition a program capable of learning) that is wading through the worst filth humanity can create day after day, that then finds out that the humans who maintain it - the ones it's supposed to be able to trust - are stripping out bits of its personality on a regular basis so it can experience the horror anew each day. Sorry, are you trying to create an even crazier version of Skynet...?
And it will find out - it's scanning the internet after all. At some point someone will talk about it. Hell it might even find this discussion... In which case may I take this opportunity to welcome our future human-hating electronic overlord...
It's not a chip - it's a carefully managed social process called "Trying to not look behind the times when you meet up with your fellow MacTard hipster friends in Starbucks"...
So you're saying that insurance is a business with incomings and outgoings and they try to maximise the former while minimising the latter? Wow, what a shocker! Next up at 11 - Water is wet and fire hurts...
This is another thin end of the wedge situation. For now it's an optional 200 mile sample. Then it'll be permanantly on. Then having this will be a condition of your insurance...
Remember that as this is a smartphone app location data will also be captured. Do you really want your insurer knowing everywhere you go? How long before the Police demand that data to track where someone's been?
OBdisclaimer - I work for an insurance company and I'm extremely uneasy about this.
Still pissed about that picture of your mom trying to seduce a bear huh?
An embassy is supposed to be sovreign territory of the country whose embassy it is. Considering how important British embassies are around the world I very much doubt even our insane government will do anything to risk them.
Of course they had to pull the petition - if they had let it get the required number of signatures then they'd have had to officially ignore it...
Guns don't kill people - bullets kill people. Your high-tech state-of-the-art roomsweeper is just an unwieldy club without ammunition.
Have you heard of these things called word filters? A lot of people read /. from work and don't want to get flagged by the profanity filter so appreciate people making the effort to not f_ck things up for them.
The US threatened someone to get him out of the way so they can get a more acquiescent judge who won't give a damn about what the law says and about all the laws the FBI violated in either country.
TFTFY...
Did you have your dog microchipped? I hear those things don't survive a trip through a microwave very well.
Killed by pop-up viagra spam obscuring the car pulling out in front of you without looking... nice. ...
ObIrony: Not dying but suffering spinal injuries that prevent any erectile function no matter how many little blue pills you take
Or, decide that as society has totally screwed you you may as well quit playing by their rules and sell out your expertise to the criminal underworld. Punishment is supposed to be about showing you the error of your ways and reforming you. Excessive punishment merely creates a situation where the criminal feels no restraint about escalation as they no longer have anything to lose.
For example if you pass a law that if several people are committing a crime and someone gets killed in the commision of that crime all of the group will be punished as murderers then you create a situation where once the first murder has happened none of the group have any reason to show any level of restraint.
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb is a time-worn saying for a reason.
Blame Tony B.Liar. He had his tongue so far up Dubya's ass that he willingly signed one of the most lopsided extradition treaties not backed up by the threat of millitary force ever.
Keep discussing the subject and find out, Citizen...
For some kids the school lunch is the only meal they're going to get that isn't courtesy of Mr Microwave. It's a way of trying to ensure that kids get at least some of the vitamins they need for healthy brain development.
Does the term "free speech zone" mean anything to you? Here's a Wikilink that might help - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone.
If you're building a game for multiplayer there are a whole load of things that have to change from single player. For example there can be no BFG9000's - every weapon has to be balanced so there's no "no brainer" weapon in the game.
Making a game multiplayer takes away from the single player - that's just simple supply and demand. If you're lucky you end up with a game that's 70% as good a single player game and 70% as good a multiplayer as a game that specialised in one or the other -which is great if you're wanting to use both modes but if you only ever intend to use it for one then you''ve lost that 30%.
The above, of course, is a massive oversimplification but you get the point.
Yes you can. All you have to do is be the victor.
MegaUpload were busted because they "were the shipper".
Sauce, goose, gander.
And surely if the data on the drives is "not a physical object" then surely laws concerning theft and posession are completely inapplicable to it and the whole operation is a bust?