Sleep: Press sleep/wake button briefly. Off: Hold button for several seconds, slide red slider control that shows up. Of course it downloads new messages when the display is sleeping. There'd be no point to sleep if it didn't.
Although I wonder, I have no iPhone so I can't check, but is the button labeled "Sleep" or "Power"?
It's either kiddie games (mario, harry potter), or "lite games" (wii play), we want some easy, quick adult games. Please!
Define "adult games" please.
Just because a game features Mario does not mean it's a kiddie game. Try Super Paper Mario, or Mario Strikers Charged.
Just because a game doesn't have loads of gore and blood doesn't mean it's a kiddie game. Try Zelda.
You want easy and quick? Try Brain Age, or WarioWare. If you want quick and action-packed, even Mario Strikers Charged can fit your bill, with games being played in about 5 minutes.
Where many movies can be had for about $20, it is pretty hard to accept so many audio CDs being listed around $25. Knocking 33% off these only brings them back down to a level that seems more natural - though still on the high side.
I find it funny when I see a movie being sold of DVD for about $25, and the soundtrack for that same movie is also about $25. I consider that the producers are then admitting that the plot is crap and only the music is worth anything.
The copyright notice is presented to the end user. The GPL version is the end-user's option.
Nope. The GPL is not a EULA. It's not a "use license", it's a "distribution license". Read up on the law. The GPL version is the distributor's choice. The copyright notice is there for whoever chooses to use the copy rights, not for whoever uses the copyrighted materials.
OK, OK, the broken email client, camera, and music player were obviously funny, but I'd love to have the rotary interface. I actually thought that one would be fun. In fact, I'd love to have a phone like that again just to bring back the good 'ol days...
While not the rotary interface you are looking for, ThinkGeek has a pretty cool retro headset for your cell phone.
If a car thief has access to your keys for an hour, aren't you going to lose your car anyway?
Basically, these electronic-chips-encrypted-stuff-on-the-car-key aren't meant to make it any harder for a car thief to get your car. It's just there to manage to increase the penalty for car theft.
Car theft isn't that much of a crime nowadays. However, breaking the cipher will net you a DMCA violation and such things will carry the death penalty pretty soon.
Each paper has a unique number printed on it. Should they wish to, officials can trace a vote back to the voter. In theory they're destroyed after a year, but who knows.
Dunno about the UK system, but in Canada, each paper also has a unique number printed on it. However, while there is a list of "who voted", the list does not mention "who voted when", or in what order people voted. Therefore, the unique number printed on the paper cannot be traced to a single voter.
Those can (and do) already happen. And we have laws against them.
Giving people a coupon to vote doesn't change the threat of people trying to "influence" you to vote their way. It just changes the dynamics of enforcement a bit.
Difference is, you can "influence" me all you like, I'll vote for whoever I want to vote, and I'll tell you I voted for your candidate, you have no choice but to believe me (unless of course your candidate ends up with zero votes). Now, if you can have a proof that I lied to you, that's pretty bad.
As a student of American Studies I already knew that Americans have a healthy distrust of the government (that's why it is usually called administration instead of the Bush(or other) government) however I did not know it went this far.
It's not just distrust of the government, but fear of non-government people that have political motives. If your boss is republican, and feels very strongly about it, then he finds out you voted democrat, don't you think it might hurt your chances of being promoted? If your neighbor who strongly opposes gun control is a big friend of the local candidate, and that candidate lost by only a few votes, what if he makes sure the other candidates have fewer supporters alive next time?
Those can sound like extreme cases, but one is too many, and it can be avoided so easily by simply making sure vote is indeed secret.
Can somebody explain to me why votes need to be timestamped?
Can somebody explain to me why votes need to be done with a machine? What the hell is wrong with a simple piece of paper where you list the candidates, and the voter checks the box next to the candidates he votes for, and he puts the piece of paper in an urn. Total anonymity (unless you begin taking fingerprints on the ballots), almost immune to fraud (you physically count the ballots, and if you want a recount, you physically recount them, with plenty of witnesses if necessary).
And before anybody comes up with "Yeah, but we need to vote on a gazillion things at once", then why do you need to vote on a gazillion things at once? why can't those votes be made separately? Is the current system worth giving up on fundamental democratic principles (right to vote, anonymity of the vote, being sure your vote counts)?
Just go back to the paper and pencil already. It works in many other countries.
They always are. I've was part of a MS class action a few years ago. The lawyers took home like 1/3 of some multi-million dollar settlement and I got a check in the mail for a dollar something. WP
How much time and effort have you spent working on the case making sure you win it? And how much time did the lawyer spend in order to win the case?
I don't see this as a particular setback. It's just a good business decision: stable and tested over flashy and new. If they were going to go with Linux, they would probably choose etch over lenny.
Don't worry, Vista will supplant XP over time.
Except using WinXP is more like using Woody (if you consider XP to be a 2001 OS), or at most Sarge (if you consider XP SP2 to be a 2005 OS).
Airlines come to mind. They can oversell seats on a plane.
I have heard of airlines doing that, but I haven't been denied access to a plane because of overselling yet. Do they give you your money back if there's no seat left or are you stuck at the airport with no money and no seat? If they give you your money back or a ticket for another plane, it's in a gray area but it's ok. My ISP will never give me back my money for bandwidth it didn't allow me to use because it oversold, it will simply take my money without delivering anything.
You seem to be making a case here for paying by the megabyte. Do you really want that?
I already pay $50 a month for a 10Gb download cap. I *am* paying by the megabyte, whether I use it or not. And if they throttle me enough, I won't even be able to download every megabyte I paid for in the first place.
What happens if you belong to a religion (such as the Jehovah's Witnesses) which regards blood as sacred, and refuse to allow the blood test on this ground?
When under arrest, you're not given the option to refuse.
Breathalizers should never have been used as a tool to convict. There's some new technology that uses a subcutaneous laser to actually measure the concentration in your blood -- that would give you a true BAC without having to stack up a number of assumptions like the breathalizer has to.
I dunno if that's true in the US, but up here in Canada, breathalizers are never used to convict. If you blow in the breathalizer and the red light flashes, it simply gives the officer the probable cause he needs to arrest you, take you to the police station, and take a sample of blood. The blood test is what is used to convict you. No hidden source code in that (unless you want the source code to your blood, which is basically your DNA, then you need to ask God to document the API...)
As for the rest, I'm sure they'll get to them eventually.
They already have gotten to that. Why do you think your marital status matters? Married couples are usually less sexually promiscuous than single individuals, hence a lower risk and a lower rate.
While someone may truly be offended at such humor or ridicule depending on the circumstances, what is commonly ignored is that men do this to each other constantly. [...] If you don't like it then we end up pampering, which ironically also gets us yelled at for not treating females as "one of the guys".
You know what? You're right. And the next time a woman whines because I'm not treating her as "one of the guys", I'm gonna do what I do with the guys... I'm gonna send her a link to Goatse and Tubgirl. Then she'll know what it is to be "one of the guys".
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Although I wonder, I have no iPhone so I can't check, but is the button labeled "Sleep" or "Power"?
Yes, they now bill the card. That's a new concept.
Define "adult games" please.
Just because a game features Mario does not mean it's a kiddie game. Try Super Paper Mario, or Mario Strikers Charged.
Just because a game doesn't have loads of gore and blood doesn't mean it's a kiddie game. Try Zelda.
You want easy and quick? Try Brain Age, or WarioWare. If you want quick and action-packed, even Mario Strikers Charged can fit your bill, with games being played in about 5 minutes.
I find it funny when I see a movie being sold of DVD for about $25, and the soundtrack for that same movie is also about $25. I consider that the producers are then admitting that the plot is crap and only the music is worth anything.
Nope. The GPL is not a EULA. It's not a "use license", it's a "distribution license". Read up on the law. The GPL version is the distributor's choice. The copyright notice is there for whoever chooses to use the copy rights, not for whoever uses the copyrighted materials.
Money busy influence?
I repeat, but people look at me weird...
Except that /etc/shadow is only readable by root. A userland application can't access it.
While not the rotary interface you are looking for, ThinkGeek has a pretty cool retro headset for your cell phone.
Basically, these electronic-chips-encrypted-stuff-on-the-car-key aren't meant to make it any harder for a car thief to get your car. It's just there to manage to increase the penalty for car theft.
Car theft isn't that much of a crime nowadays. However, breaking the cipher will net you a DMCA violation and such things will carry the death penalty pretty soon.
And there I thought Google made all its money from advertising all along... silly me.
Dunno about the UK system, but in Canada, each paper also has a unique number printed on it. However, while there is a list of "who voted", the list does not mention "who voted when", or in what order people voted. Therefore, the unique number printed on the paper cannot be traced to a single voter.
Difference is, you can "influence" me all you like, I'll vote for whoever I want to vote, and I'll tell you I voted for your candidate, you have no choice but to believe me (unless of course your candidate ends up with zero votes). Now, if you can have a proof that I lied to you, that's pretty bad.
It's not just distrust of the government, but fear of non-government people that have political motives. If your boss is republican, and feels very strongly about it, then he finds out you voted democrat, don't you think it might hurt your chances of being promoted? If your neighbor who strongly opposes gun control is a big friend of the local candidate, and that candidate lost by only a few votes, what if he makes sure the other candidates have fewer supporters alive next time?
Those can sound like extreme cases, but one is too many, and it can be avoided so easily by simply making sure vote is indeed secret.
Can somebody explain to me why votes need to be done with a machine? What the hell is wrong with a simple piece of paper where you list the candidates, and the voter checks the box next to the candidates he votes for, and he puts the piece of paper in an urn. Total anonymity (unless you begin taking fingerprints on the ballots), almost immune to fraud (you physically count the ballots, and if you want a recount, you physically recount them, with plenty of witnesses if necessary).
And before anybody comes up with "Yeah, but we need to vote on a gazillion things at once", then why do you need to vote on a gazillion things at once? why can't those votes be made separately? Is the current system worth giving up on fundamental democratic principles (right to vote, anonymity of the vote, being sure your vote counts)?
Just go back to the paper and pencil already. It works in many other countries.
How much time and effort have you spent working on the case making sure you win it? And how much time did the lawyer spend in order to win the case?
If the DOH satellite happens to capture pictures of kids running naked in the backyard, shouldn't they go to jail for producing kiddie porn?
Good luck with that. My tinfoil hat will reflect your laser back to you, and your satellite will explode... Mwahaha!
Except using WinXP is more like using Woody (if you consider XP to be a 2001 OS), or at most Sarge (if you consider XP SP2 to be a 2005 OS).
And where is that free state you are talking about? Certainly not between Canada and Mexico...
I have heard of airlines doing that, but I haven't been denied access to a plane because of overselling yet. Do they give you your money back if there's no seat left or are you stuck at the airport with no money and no seat? If they give you your money back or a ticket for another plane, it's in a gray area but it's ok. My ISP will never give me back my money for bandwidth it didn't allow me to use because it oversold, it will simply take my money without delivering anything.
I already pay $50 a month for a 10Gb download cap. I *am* paying by the megabyte, whether I use it or not. And if they throttle me enough, I won't even be able to download every megabyte I paid for in the first place.
When under arrest, you're not given the option to refuse.
I dunno if that's true in the US, but up here in Canada, breathalizers are never used to convict. If you blow in the breathalizer and the red light flashes, it simply gives the officer the probable cause he needs to arrest you, take you to the police station, and take a sample of blood. The blood test is what is used to convict you. No hidden source code in that (unless you want the source code to your blood, which is basically your DNA, then you need to ask God to document the API...)
They already have gotten to that. Why do you think your marital status matters? Married couples are usually less sexually promiscuous than single individuals, hence a lower risk and a lower rate.
You know what? You're right. And the next time a woman whines because I'm not treating her as "one of the guys", I'm gonna do what I do with the guys... I'm gonna send her a link to Goatse and Tubgirl. Then she'll know what it is to be "one of the guys".