You pull a Picard and call the Sheliak. That'll buy some time for the lawyers, too. They LOVE billable hours. They'll be richer than 10x5^523 BAZILLION quatloos.
Slightly off-topic, but since the theme is EU/US, or EU The Americas, what's up the "Amero"... I head somewhere there's a quiet move to create a note for the Americas to counter the Euro. Actually, I'd recently heard about it, but think I read of it around 5 years ago, too.
"Let's assume a pedophile starts with a Roomba, and adds to it piece by piece until it resembles an animatronic underage Real Doll - at what point does it become illegal?"
I know..
1. When it becomes a synthetic human (self-aware, sentient, basically... if we can morally and technologically accept that despite the existence or non-existence of "God", that human recreation is by the hand of humans, whether by organ-to-organ contact, or by test tube/in-vitro.
2. When the "Real Doll" becomes a REAL DOLL, as in
(I have the DVD and enjoy it enough to re-watch almost monthly. It's worth the ~$20.)
At that point, if the Dolls in real life have technological or material lifespans, extended only by theft of a real human's DND/brain matter, then, at that point, it DEFINITELy should be illegal, whether the stolen matter is child or adult. (Not sure if I want to venture into the area of taking matter from an invalid or comatose/vegetative person. But, for a freshly dead body.... hmmm... Then again, when does the "soul" vacate the body or the "scene", and will it become a malevolent or hungry ghost upon finding out its former body was appropriated by force or after its death for carnal pleasure of unrestrained human beings?)
But, it's ok to rake through the private email of US citizens WITHOUT a warrant. I think the haggle over warrants is just a ruse, one to MAKE us think that the government (various agencies, that is) are OBEYING the law.
Think of it this way: We are on a long 10,000-year long march toward frabrical integration and denunciation of the corporeal human bean. The body is irrelevant and impermanent. The mined is relevant and permanent.
Think of the iridescent, scentillating, effusive, existential, cosmic, all places, all at once orgasms the collective can have. Why, we might even upset the time-space continuum just having the butterflies. Imagine can happen in marathon CEOs (Cosmic Existential Orgasms).
What is happening to that guy Mr. Nissan is a messed up situation. All about corporate might.
I previously owned Acura, Honda, then Nissan. Now my next car won't be a Nissan (unrelated to this URL I read), but most likely a Hyundai. Has a HELLUVA lot more features than the Accords they look like, and cheaper (depending) than Honda or Nissan.
But, if I WON a Nissan auto, I'd probably think of this guy and then trade it in for a new Hyundai, and maybe hide in the trunk or engine compartment a time capsule with Mr. Nissan's URL in it.
I think Nissan Motors, Nissan el al out of Japan in general are nice companies. I wonder if this is Nissan Motors USA acting on a maverick high-horse and if Nissan Motors Japan is just kind of 'hands-off' to see what happens.
Hell, it seems to me as long as Mr. Nissan says (continues to say) Nissan Computers (and has an asterisk to say "not related to Nissan Motors or anything Nissan * Japan or Nissan * Transplanted to USA/anywhere else; Nissan Computers lineage explanation" (minus the court material), then Nissan Motors, USA, Nissan, USA should back the hell off. Simply out of good sportsmanships.
Hell, Little Ole Mr. Nissan got the URL first, and Nissan Motors' own USA employees sluffed on the job. IF ANYBODY loses out, it should be Nissan Motors' trademark/etc lawyers employed prior to 1991, but after 1990 who were probably WELL-PAID to look out for the company's interests. Nissan Motors, you should call fair fair. Nissan Computers isn't selling automobiles, rice cookers, dishwashers, computerized bidets with temperature settings, or appliances that here in the USA we'd fall in love with. He's selling COMPUTERS. It's not as if he's saying,
"NEC Nissan Ezra Coulumi Computers or NEC Computers" and ending up in a fight with NEC, Japan or NEC Corporation, USA...
Sheesh. Don't make me start taking up ideological opposition to Nissan products, Nissan Motors. After all Keiretsu or other ties surely link Nissan Motors to other companies, and some of them are probably still under the old Keiretsu system. So, by stretch, if you're nasty in court, people could presume to boycott ALL Nissan products imported or sold by Nissan Motors and its operating cousins.
"Besides, phones and PDAs are "boot" faster not because the initialization procedure is faster (my PDA boots in about 30 seconds) but because they sleep instead of powering off."
And, (off topic) they beep your location, too. In some models, even removing the battery is pointless, as a miniature, hidden batter is there, too. Ostensibly, this is to preserve custom setting. But, there are some who believe it is a feature well-liked by some 3-letter surveillance agencies.
In some companies, night crews (contracted) will install microphones and cameras directly over desks, and move them when org changes necessitate moving the target to another cubicle or building.
So, if you suspect your employer is watching you this way, you can keep doing what you're doing, or do something the ONLY the camera will see, and make them play their card.
-- Fake gun, fake grenade (made of chocolate or hard-baked bread)
-- shit in foil (or painted potato?)
-- inflatable doll in the locking desk drawer
-- long, interesting list of phone numbers...
Or, just pop the ceiling tiles/panels or move them. Don't actually go up IN there, just sweep the cubicle and "oops" bump the tile. Wait, the camera could be two tiles/panels away, in which case you're gonna garner some curious stares.
Hell, just bring in your own "bug sweeper" (fake or real) and stir up alarm and distrust.
Anyway, as for the keyboards, in IT I've seen some nasty-ass GRUNGY keyboards, and for ANY reason they should be taken away. The shit in them probably constitutes an EPA violation. That's enough to make most office workers "ter'rists". Some of them actually smell quite horrid, miasma-like. Such people should be told in their hire packages: "You're getting a clean mouse and keyboard. KEEP them that way. Or else..." I came to have nothing short of CONTEMPT for such people. MY IT director even felt similarly-- whenever we got a new hire, standing rule was to replace grungy keyboards; don't waste time cleaning them. If they dirty them later, that's their problem. Clean the other hardware, but if the mouse is erratic, replace it. Not just because time was money, but because it was go give the new hire a sense of pride in the company.
But, if you want to virtually legally ire an employer you think is sniffing you, unplug the keyboard and mouse at night, or put a shielded box over them (not the display or computer, just the mouse and keyboard.) Just do stuff to make them THINK you THINK they are snooping on you.
Or, if you want to get a general ban on bringing in guests, bring in one to sweep your cubicle and then "get caught". Boy, EVERYbody will wonder if the employer is participating in a court-ordered monitoring program.
"Closed doors shall be knocked upon; locked or not. Skirts shall not be looked up, short or long."
Mwo? (Huh?/What?) I can't knock up a door? Skirts cannot be looked up in a directory?
Just kidding. I know what you mean.
However, I think this current cadge/cabal in office (most of the were and will be) will just call the Constitution and Bill of Rights "Constit-tuition, Rev 1.0a" and "Bill of Writes, 1.0a" just to let us know amendments will be easier to sail through.
By the logic of certain cretins in power (or in power but having their strings pulled), swatting a hornet's nest is their RIGHT, and then when stung for doing so, they can go not only after every HIVE they see or suspect, but every hive keeper, too. Heck, for that matter, go after the owner of the land and any migrant or tenant workers and any person ON it or NEAR it, near being defined by the convenience of the moment...
This is probably a trial balloon, considering the number of people who expose their lives on social networking sites. If it is not a trial balloon, then it may be to bolster "the government's" "right" to use tool like Visual Analytics, Friend Sets, Friend Wheel, etc, to combine them with reading private email of even those not accustomed to exposing their lives in social networking sites.
For corrupt governments, this can be an IDEAL way to trawl for victims or patsies when certain cases needing a fall guy are useful in shutting down pains in "the government's" collective fat asses.
(ducks, for fear he is already being monitored...)
Say, does this laptop have a chassis-side disk removal, or is it necessary to go underneath the keyboard, or flip it over?
One think I REALLY like about the Dell laptops is the side-removal caddy-based disks. I can NEVER successfully find laptops with such a feature in any of the typical consumer stores like Frys, BestBuy, CompuUSA, MicroCenter... One sales person said it's only on the high-end or non-consumer grade laptops that I'll find this feature because it costs too much, and most consumers don't care.
Well, I *do*, so I wonder if I'm a "prosumer" who needs to order this feature specifically. I'm thinking I may order from EmperorLinux or the others that offer the feature.
Also, is it possible for this laptop (or can you recommend one) to boot from a USB stick or a USB-disk plugged in whether or not the internal disk position is occupied? I'd like to eventually have a laptop that allows me to specify the internal/external boot order.
It would be nice if there is pressure on more of the bigger distros to certify their releases with laptops in circulation so we don't have to keep going to independent compatibility sites. But since it's expensive to acquire laptops every quarter, it would be nice if the hardware makers would anonymously send a unit or two every once in a while (say, every six month...) Heck twenty laptops out of thousands probably can't hurt too much, especially if it is a cool laptop and they want to generate buzz around it.)
"OpenSocial should be seen as FREE APIs rather than "open" (which generally regarded as good, no evil) APIs."
And THAT probably is what ms is REALLY after. The younger, next-gen developers (NGDs, anyone). For free. They basically are getting a gigantic pool of presumably promising developers for free. After all, what do these "developers" have in the way of skills or experience. Their "offerings" are their resumes.
Why, I bet you ms this very minute has their Easy-Bake/Mix-Master DJ's in the board rooms spinning their yarn and asses off convincing Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and other exchanges of how "good" their $250M+ was... ummm *is*...
So, I think ms just doesn't want to look fracking stupid, which, for spending soooo much money on a social networking site when Google can just call in (more) guns from Open Social, Open Source and hit msoft with a full-one fusillade. Heck, maybe ms will need APIs just to perform battlefield triage on themselves.
Maybe ms will come up with ANTI-SOCIAL APIs? Like "Open Recluse", anyone?
Yeh, but here ARE friends we make before or after meeting on line. Some move, some are just too busy with school, work, family... and find time to communicate thru the Internet(s)... True, my idea (which I now know is NOT original or groundbreaking) will fail in cases where people still use snail mail, or have intensely strong feelings for each other even if they only communicate twice a year. But, as for the communications of listed/disclosed friends, the tool might be useful
Friend Wheel is one I tried on Facebook. Friend circle seems even better. But TouchGraph looks *very* nice. They're like Visual Analytics but for social groups.
Slashdot Mirror
You pull a Picard and call the Sheliak. That'll buy some time for the lawyers, too. They LOVE billable hours. They'll be richer than 10x5^523 BAZILLION quatloos.
Slightly off-topic, but since the theme is EU/US, or EU The Americas, what's up the "Amero"... I head somewhere there's a quiet move to create a note for the Americas to counter the Euro. Actually, I'd recently heard about it, but think I read of it around 5 years ago, too.
"Let's assume a pedophile starts with a Roomba, and adds to it piece by piece until it resembles an animatronic underage Real Doll - at what point does it become illegal?"
I know..
1. When it becomes a synthetic human (self-aware, sentient, basically... if we can morally and technologically accept that despite the existence or non-existence of "God", that human recreation is by the hand of humans, whether by organ-to-organ contact, or by test tube/in-vitro.
2. When the "Real Doll" becomes a REAL DOLL, as in
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/natural_city.htm
http://www.shuqi.org/asiancinema/reviews/naturalcity.shtml
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378428/
(I have the DVD and enjoy it enough to re-watch almost monthly. It's worth the ~$20.)
At that point, if the Dolls in real life have technological or material lifespans, extended only by theft of a real human's DND/brain matter, then, at that point, it DEFINITELy should be illegal, whether the stolen matter is child or adult. (Not sure if I want to venture into the area of taking matter from an invalid or comatose/vegetative person. But, for a freshly dead body.... hmmm... Then again, when does the "soul" vacate the body or the "scene", and will it become a malevolent or hungry ghost upon finding out its former body was appropriated by force or after its death for carnal pleasure of unrestrained human beings?)
Hungry Ghost:
http://www.google.com/search?q=hungry+ghost&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
these be ...
SALESFORCED?
But, it's ok to rake through the private email of US citizens WITHOUT a warrant. I think the haggle over warrants is just a ruse, one to MAKE us think that the government (various agencies, that is) are OBEYING the law.
Botsva*nya, Have some Tranya... It's not poisoned...
Think of it this way: We are on a long 10,000-year long march toward frabrical integration and denunciation of the corporeal human bean. The body is irrelevant and impermanent. The mined is relevant and permanent.
Think of the iridescent, scentillating, effusive, existential, cosmic, all places, all at once orgasms the collective can have. Why, we might even upset the time-space continuum just having the butterflies. Imagine can happen in marathon CEOs (Cosmic Existential Orgasms).
Pet a Bot....
Just think of the Bots...
Or, worse...
Petabytes of Paedophelia for PetaBot PeBopheliacs... PePaPePa...
Advertisers battling to the death?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/02/ok-heres-at-least-part-of-what-facebook-is-announcing-on-tuesday/
Looks like there's gonna be a Face-On/Face-Off...
What is happening to that guy Mr. Nissan is a messed up situation. All about corporate might.
I previously owned Acura, Honda, then Nissan. Now my next car won't be a Nissan (unrelated to this URL I read), but most likely a Hyundai. Has a HELLUVA lot more features than the Accords they look like, and cheaper (depending) than Honda or Nissan.
But, if I WON a Nissan auto, I'd probably think of this guy and then trade it in for a new Hyundai, and maybe hide in the trunk or engine compartment a time capsule with Mr. Nissan's URL in it.
I think Nissan Motors, Nissan el al out of Japan in general are nice companies. I wonder if this is Nissan Motors USA acting on a maverick high-horse and if Nissan Motors Japan is just kind of 'hands-off' to see what happens.
Hell, it seems to me as long as Mr. Nissan says (continues to say) Nissan Computers (and has an asterisk to say "not related to Nissan Motors or anything Nissan * Japan or Nissan * Transplanted to USA/anywhere else; Nissan Computers lineage explanation" (minus the court material), then Nissan Motors, USA, Nissan, USA should back the hell off. Simply out of good sportsmanships.
Hell, Little Ole Mr. Nissan got the URL first, and Nissan Motors' own USA employees sluffed on the job. IF ANYBODY loses out, it should be Nissan Motors' trademark/etc lawyers employed prior to 1991, but after 1990 who were probably WELL-PAID to look out for the company's interests. Nissan Motors, you should call fair fair. Nissan Computers isn't selling automobiles, rice cookers, dishwashers, computerized bidets with temperature settings, or appliances that here in the USA we'd fall in love with. He's selling COMPUTERS. It's not as if he's saying,
"NEC Nissan Ezra Coulumi Computers or NEC Computers" and ending up in a fight with NEC, Japan or NEC Corporation, USA...
Sheesh. Don't make me start taking up ideological opposition to Nissan products, Nissan Motors. After all Keiretsu or other ties surely link Nissan Motors to other companies, and some of them are probably still under the old Keiretsu system. So, by stretch, if you're nasty in court, people could presume to boycott ALL Nissan products imported or sold by Nissan Motors and its operating cousins.
THE rED cROSS MUST have had a cataleptic fit. Or, maybe they had an inaudible murmur?
Legoose?
What's good for legoose is good for le gander?
What's next?
-- An "eject button" for defecating? DefEject?
-- Instant-open eyelids? None of this blinking or focusing business! Just SEE
-- Fluidic Breathing? No more in and out. Just BE, goddammit.
-- BO BGone? No more showers? Just a squilgee and a dry rag and showers/baths are obsolete
-- No more funk in work toilet rooms? Just snap two finger and the air is recycled-- INSTANTLY.
-- He who blows it knows it? No more or THAT shit. FartDiFusion. Now everyone's a culprit.
"Besides, phones and PDAs are "boot" faster not because the initialization procedure is faster (my PDA boots in about 30 seconds) but because they sleep instead of powering off."
And, (off topic) they beep your location, too. In some models, even removing the battery is pointless, as a miniature, hidden batter is there, too. Ostensibly, this is to preserve custom setting. But, there are some who believe it is a feature well-liked by some 3-letter surveillance agencies.
In some companies, night crews (contracted) will install microphones and cameras directly over desks, and move them when org changes necessitate moving the target to another cubicle or building.
So, if you suspect your employer is watching you this way, you can keep doing what you're doing, or do something the ONLY the camera will see, and make them play their card.
-- Fake gun, fake grenade (made of chocolate or hard-baked bread)
-- shit in foil (or painted potato?)
-- inflatable doll in the locking desk drawer
-- long, interesting list of phone numbers...
Or, just pop the ceiling tiles/panels or move them. Don't actually go up IN there, just sweep the cubicle and "oops" bump the tile. Wait, the camera could be two tiles/panels away, in which case you're gonna garner some curious stares.
Hell, just bring in your own "bug sweeper" (fake or real) and stir up alarm and distrust.
Anyway, as for the keyboards, in IT I've seen some nasty-ass GRUNGY keyboards, and for ANY reason they should be taken away. The shit in them probably constitutes an EPA violation. That's enough to make most office workers "ter'rists". Some of them actually smell quite horrid, miasma-like. Such people should be told in their hire packages: "You're getting a clean mouse and keyboard. KEEP them that way. Or else..." I came to have nothing short of CONTEMPT for such people. MY IT director even felt similarly-- whenever we got a new hire, standing rule was to replace grungy keyboards; don't waste time cleaning them. If they dirty them later, that's their problem. Clean the other hardware, but if the mouse is erratic, replace it. Not just because time was money, but because it was go give the new hire a sense of pride in the company.
But, if you want to virtually legally ire an employer you think is sniffing you, unplug the keyboard and mouse at night, or put a shielded box over them (not the display or computer, just the mouse and keyboard.) Just do stuff to make them THINK you THINK they are snooping on you.
Or, if you want to get a general ban on bringing in guests, bring in one to sweep your cubicle and then "get caught". Boy, EVERYbody will wonder if the employer is participating in a court-ordered monitoring program.
Have FUN, but don't be illegal!
"Closed doors shall be knocked upon; locked or not. Skirts shall not be looked up, short or long."
Mwo? (Huh?/What?) I can't knock up a door? Skirts cannot be looked up in a directory?
Just kidding. I know what you mean.
However, I think this current cadge/cabal in office (most of the were and will be) will just call the Constitution and Bill of Rights "Constit-tuition, Rev 1.0a" and "Bill of Writes, 1.0a" just to let us know amendments will be easier to sail through.
By the logic of certain cretins in power (or in power but having their strings pulled), swatting a hornet's nest is their RIGHT, and then when stung for doing so, they can go not only after every HIVE they see or suspect, but every hive keeper, too. Heck, for that matter, go after the owner of the land and any migrant or tenant workers and any person ON it or NEAR it, near being defined by the convenience of the moment...
This is probably a trial balloon, considering the number of people who expose their lives on social networking sites. If it is not a trial balloon, then it may be to bolster "the government's" "right" to use tool like Visual Analytics, Friend Sets, Friend Wheel, etc, to combine them with reading private email of even those not accustomed to exposing their lives in social networking sites.
For corrupt governments, this can be an IDEAL way to trawl for victims or patsies when certain cases needing a fall guy are useful in shutting down pains in "the government's" collective fat asses.
(ducks, for fear he is already being monitored...)
Say, does this laptop have a chassis-side disk removal, or is it necessary to go underneath the keyboard, or flip it over?
One think I REALLY like about the Dell laptops is the side-removal caddy-based disks. I can NEVER successfully find laptops with such a feature in any of the typical consumer stores like Frys, BestBuy, CompuUSA, MicroCenter... One sales person said it's only on the high-end or non-consumer grade laptops that I'll find this feature because it costs too much, and most consumers don't care.
Well, I *do*, so I wonder if I'm a "prosumer" who needs to order this feature specifically. I'm thinking I may order from EmperorLinux or the others that offer the feature.
Also, is it possible for this laptop (or can you recommend one) to boot from a USB stick or a USB-disk plugged in whether or not the internal disk position is occupied? I'd like to eventually have a laptop that allows me to specify the internal/external boot order.
It would be nice if there is pressure on more of the bigger distros to certify their releases with laptops in circulation so we don't have to keep going to independent compatibility sites. But since it's expensive to acquire laptops every quarter, it would be nice if the hardware makers would anonymously send a unit or two every once in a while (say, every six month...) Heck twenty laptops out of thousands probably can't hurt too much, especially if it is a cool laptop and they want to generate buzz around it.)
"OpenSocial should be seen as FREE APIs rather than "open" (which generally regarded as good, no evil) APIs."
And THAT probably is what ms is REALLY after. The younger, next-gen developers (NGDs, anyone). For free. They basically are getting a gigantic pool of presumably promising developers for free. After all, what do these "developers" have in the way of skills or experience. Their "offerings" are their resumes.
Why, I bet you ms this very minute has their Easy-Bake/Mix-Master DJ's in the board rooms spinning their yarn and asses off convincing Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and other exchanges of how "good" their $250M+ was... ummm *is*...
You need an "I" in that acronym, and drop an "F". Then, mshaft can call it MILF.
Json,
Ajax, SOAP... Things are getting pretty washed up.
When do we get BORAX, or TIDE, of WISK? (Palm Olive?)
What's next, F13CXML (Friday-13th Coder Slasher Markup Language)
Hmmm... ...ms just is chafing that we are NOT going to let them maximize value from investing in FaceBook...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=348151&cid=21219915
http://www.touchgraph.com/
So, I think ms just doesn't want to look fracking stupid, which, for spending soooo much money on a social networking site when Google can just call in (more) guns from Open Social, Open Source and hit msoft with a full-one fusillade. Heck, maybe ms will need APIs just to perform battlefield triage on themselves.
Maybe ms will come up with ANTI-SOCIAL APIs? Like "Open Recluse", anyone?
Google... Ready on the left! Ready on the Right! Ready on the firing line... Open, FIRE!
Yeh, but here ARE friends we make before or after meeting on line. Some move, some are just too busy with school, work, family... and find time to communicate thru the Internet(s)... True, my idea (which I now know is NOT original or groundbreaking) will fail in cases where people still use snail mail, or have intensely strong feelings for each other even if they only communicate twice a year. But, as for the communications of listed/disclosed friends, the tool might be useful
Friend Wheel is one I tried on Facebook. Friend circle seems even better. But TouchGraph looks *very* nice. They're like Visual Analytics but for social groups.
I just thought, as I looked at the title again... "Hmmm, could be the submitter simply hit 's' vice 'd' on the keyboard." Could be a simple typo...