Now if we can detect forgeries with science, surely the science can be programmed to decide whether I wrote the number 1
Those are two different problems.
Questioned Document Examiners don't bother with content. It is perfectly possible for a QDE to give expert testimony on a document, without ever having read it.
Deciding whether something is an "i", or an ";" is content related.That is much more difficult than deciding whether or not Joe Blow wrote a specific document.
I wonder how Bush does it, signing all those new laws. I mean, they're so perfect!
He doesn't. They are signed by machine. I've forgotten who makes them,but every administration since Kennedy has used them. So do most congressional critters.
but could you actually hold this pen with one hand?
Considering that Klara Roman was using a similar device for her graphological research during the 1950's, there is no reason why one made by IBM during the seventies should be bigger than a normal ballpoint.
Of course, the AOL Systemax PC runs on the award-winning Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system for incomparable performance and stability. And this fantastic computer is housed in a sleek, stylish fully equipped black Micro ATX tower case with 250-Watt power supply.
Simply put, the hospital would like to get paid, preferably in a timely fashion.
Explain,why hospitals are literally unableto accept cash, when service is delivered.
Go to ER. Have the doctors and nurses do whatever they do. Pay cash. Walk out.
That is what a trip to ER should be like. Instead,you walk out, and wait up to two years for a notice stating how much you owe.
Until hospitals can get their act together enough for them to accept cash payment, in full, at time of service,they will have no sympathy from me for them regarding their income woes.
but if I'd found the "smoking gun" that was going to win me my case, I'd keep it under my hat, and then reveal it
a: what makes you think that anybody at SCO has an IQ greater than a blade of grass?
b: Their business plan:
1: Sue a Fortune 500 company
2: Sue a couple of more big companies
3: Lose a court case
4: Announce no more lawsuits
5: File another law suit against that Fortune 500 company
6: Sell the company to said Fortune 500 company
7: PROFIT
That sword cuts both ways - if a site uses ads any more obtrusive than a google ad, I block it.
Google text adds are acceptable. Their graphical adds were too intrusive for my liking.
If I could block Yahoo text adds, I'd be a happy camper. [Does it make sense to push a product, in a mailing list that was created to oppose that product?Yahoo seems to think so. That stupidity comvinced me to install addblockers, and surf the net with images turned Off.]
I mean, if they're blind, they probably aren't going to enjoy movies much, are they?
Suggestion.
Go volunteer your time at a local society for the blind.
maybe blind people do enjoy going to the movies.
You just might be surprised at the number of movies they do go to. And the tv shows they watch. I guess you didn't know that some TV shows use a second channel for the visually impaired
It was really fun when the cable repair people came, and couldn't fix the cable, because there was no tv --- we use the VCR to watch tv, and movies.
Does having a site only working in IE make it inaccessible to handicapped?
When was the last time you used a screen display unit?
The guy keeps saying they break this accessability law because it doesnt work on some browsers or systems. I don't see the connection.
JAWS starts reading at the begining of the HTML code, which may, but usually is not the top line of a webpage. If all the links are clear, Jthis isn't a problem with JAWS. OTOH, listening to "link to blah, blah, blah" umpteen times is an annoyance.
When the site has frames [ or even worse, frames within frames], then JAWS reads One frame, and waits for user input.
If the site uses Javascript, JAWS may read it, or ignore it, or, God help you, do both. Which option it takes, depends upon how badly written boptht he javascript and website are.
Apparently slashdot is breaking this "law" too.
Technically, Section 508 only applies to government agencies. [Speaking of the US.]
IF/. were interested in good customer service, the site would conform to Section 508.
Since/. is based in the UK, British law does not apply --- at least in this instance. IF it did, they would be in violation of it.
If you had read the articles that were linked to the articles --- which is incredibly unlikely, this being/. --- you would have found that only 19% of the companies have websites that appear to be in technical complaince with level A of the Disability Act. 6 companies have AA compliance.
But since when was it a matter of law to have a shit website?
It isn't.
That you equate the two means that you never learned how to design a good website in the first place. I won't blame you --- 99.99999% of the web designers out there are equally clueless.
but it is against the law apparently in the UK to have a site that can't be used by blind people
The US Law is Section 508 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended by The Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Whilst that law only applies to government entities, court rulings indicate that Intranets have to comply with ADA. One pissed off resident of the Ninth Judicial District of the US, and a lawyer is all it takes to flip Section 508 into the ADA.
Why not design an accessible website? It isn't much more difficult to do, and the people that are the most thankful are the normal, non-disabled population.
Sign up for a couple mailing lists -- that seemed to generate enough usage for me to have accounts to give away three days after I started using gmail.
I'm getting roughly 100 messages per hour on my GMail account. I haven't seen any invites yet.
Bank of America, and they, right at the front door, have a greeter to show you where to go.
The local Bank of America banch has a security guard telling you to use the ATMs. If you want another banking service, you have to find another branch.
64k lines is enough for everybody - because speadsheets with more than 5-10k lines are not savely manageable.
I use a spreadsheet with 50K rows often. Its gets a little slow to save/load, but it works.
Use a numeric package for these, if you do science or a database if you do accouting.
That application I use, requires the entry of roughly 100K numbers. A database program might simplify things.
Can you point to a database program that is cross-platform? [ *BSD *Nix, Win*, MacOS 7.5+, Mac OS X, BeOS ]
As easy, or easier to use than a spreadsheet, for Joe Sixpack?
Always use the right tools for the job.
The problem with database programs is that they are not part of most office suites.
MSOffice Small Business Edition does not include a database program.
OOo does include one, but there is virtually no documentation about it. [At one point, the OOo website stated that OOo did not include a database program. Those who explored OOo did find it.]
CorelOffice used to contain a database program. I don't know if still does. [Haven't looked at it in years.] Lotus SmartSuite included a database program. But how many people use(d) either Lotus SmartSuite, or CorelOffice?
Yah, I've often thought that Canada should be considered the 51st state....
Wouldn't it be:
Alberta: State # 51
British Columbia: State # 52
Manitoba: State # 53
New Brunswick: State # 54
Newfoundland: State # 55
Nova Scotia: State # 56
Nunavat: State # 57
Ontario: State # 58
Prince Edward Island: State # 59
Quebec: State # 60
Saskatchewan: State # 61
Yukon: State # 62
I'll let somebody else list the remaining 31 states of the USA^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Mexico.
Of course, that still leaves the other country in North America --- France. More specifically,
The Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Somehow, I don't think France appreciates being called a part of the United States.
I can imagine you unbuckling a girl's bra ( if youget that far) and then wondering how to use a GPS to engineer an automatic bra-unbuckler and then running off in the middle to write some code for it.
Jerks wouldn't know how to code their way into such a situation.
Why doesn't current Word or OpenOffice.org have this type of feature? I think it might be possible with OO.org, but I really don't believe the same about Word...
Two answers:
"Reveal Codes" are only needed by people who have no clue what a style sheet is, nor any clue how to actually use them.
You can directly edit the raw XML data that OOo uses, with a text editor, after unzipping the file.
For Word, go ask somebody who uses fifth rate operating systems to run programs that one day will grow up to be something that a serious business can actually use.
What are you talking about? Most mathematical and scientific breakthoughs throughout history happened due to the work of Christians.
Which explains why Chinese Science was more advanced than Western Science was till roughly 1800.
And also explains why Islamic Scholars preserved the Greek and Roman classics.
And also explains why Algebra has its foundations in the work done by Islamic scholars.[OK, a specific Islamic scholar, if you want to quibble.]
Traditionally, it has been organized Christianity that has opposed scientific progress in the west.
Even Blaise Pascal spent a part of his life as a priest.
There is no correlation between being a priest, and being a Christian. From roughly 500 CE to roughly 1800 CE, the Holy Roman Catholic Church was the dominant institution in the west. It was the institution that provided education.
The net result is that one became a priest, in order to study, or to gain political power. Spiritual conviction had nothing to do with the decision.
And in passing, I'll note that spiritual conviction still is a minor consideration for those who do become priests.
The fact is that irregardless of scientific progress, Non-believers will always hold a backlash towards Christianity
Perhaps if Christians would actually practice the teachings of their holy book, there might be less backlash against them. But when they pick and choose what they want to practice, and believe, then why should they get any respect?
The reason we Christians condemn this [stem cell research] is because it is murder in our eyes.
a: That is objecting to something, purely because of the source of the thing.
b: Why don't Christians practice the only diet that the First Testament states does not violate the Aseret ha-Debrot?
It [cell stem research] has the moral equivalent as, say, a person in need of a heart transplant going up to you and telling you, "I need your heart to live, so I'll be taking yours."
a: By that reasoning,organ transplants should be illegal to perform.
b: The First Testament also talks about taking a needed body part from an individual, for
the use of another individual --- a body part that the second person needed, in order to live.
OTOH, consistency has never been a strong point with christians, of any sect, religion, creed, dogma, or theology.
Slashdot Mirror
Such as this website advertizes: http://www.signaturemachine.com/products/products. html
Amber
Those are two different problems.
Questioned Document Examiners don't bother with content. It is perfectly possible for a QDE to give expert testimony on a document, without ever having read it.
Deciding whether something is an "i", or an ";" is content related.That is much more difficult than deciding whether or not Joe Blow wrote a specific document.
Amber
He doesn't. They are signed by machine. I've forgotten who makes them,but every administration since Kennedy has used them. So do most congressional critters.
AmberConsidering that Klara Roman was using a similar device for her graphological research during the 1950's, there is no reason why one made by IBM during the seventies should be bigger than a normal ballpoint.
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Either you don't expect your kids to takes the SAT, or you expect that the SAT will have dropped the handwritten component.
Amber
Why don't you reread the article, for the first time?
From http://www.aolcheckout.com/applications/searchtool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1032073
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JAWS
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Section 508
Required only for goverment agencies,and companies with contracts to do business with the government --- except in the Ninth Judicial District.
Amber
Can my housemate sue microsoft because microsoft continually violates their terms of the microsoft licence then?
Point 1:
She does not use outlook. It was uninstalled from her box. Guess what microsoft installed over the weekend? Outlook.
Point 2: She does not use MIE. If it could be uninstalled, it would be. Guess what microsoft updated over the weekend. MIE.
She probably would switch operating systems, if she could. There are no viable alternatives. So she can't.
Amber
Explain,why hospitals are literally unableto accept cash, when service is delivered.
Go to ER. Have the doctors and nurses do whatever they do. Pay cash. Walk out.
That is what a trip to ER should be like. Instead,you walk out, and wait up to two years for a notice stating how much you owe.
Until hospitals can get their act together enough for them to accept cash payment, in full, at time of service,they will have no sympathy from me for them regarding their income woes.
Amber
Other than cause the blue screen of death, what can MSOffice do, that OOo can not do?
Amber
a: what makes you think that anybody at SCO has an IQ greater than a blade of grass?
b: Their business plan:
1: Sue a Fortune 500 company
2: Sue a couple of more big companies
3: Lose a court case
4: Announce no more lawsuits
5: File another law suit against that Fortune 500 company
6: Sell the company to said Fortune 500 company
7: PROFIT
Amber
Google text adds are acceptable. Their graphical adds were too intrusive for my liking.
If I could block Yahoo text adds, I'd be a happy camper. [Does it make sense to push a product, in a mailing list that was created to oppose that product?Yahoo seems to think so. That stupidity comvinced me to install addblockers, and surf the net with images turned Off.]
Amber
There are industries where a staff turnover of 500% per year is considered to have an outstanding staff retention rate.
Not to forget the one that has a 100% per month turnover rate.
Amber
Suggestion.
Go volunteer your time at a local society for the blind.
You just might be surprised at the number of movies they do go to. And the tv shows they watch. I guess you didn't know that some TV shows use a second channel for the visually impaired
It was really fun when the cable repair people came, and couldn't fix the cable, because there was no tv --- we use the VCR to watch tv, and movies.
Amber
When was the last time you used a screen display unit?
JAWS starts reading at the begining of the HTML code, which may, but usually is not the top line of a webpage. If all the links are clear, Jthis isn't a problem with JAWS. OTOH, listening to "link to blah, blah, blah" umpteen times is an annoyance.
When the site has frames [ or even worse, frames within frames], then JAWS reads One frame, and waits for user input.
If the site uses Javascript, JAWS may read it, or ignore it, or, God help you, do both. Which option it takes, depends upon how badly written boptht he javascript and website are.
Apparently slashdot is breaking this "law" too.
Technically, Section 508 only applies to government agencies. [Speaking of the US.] IF /. were interested in good customer service, the site would conform to Section 508.
Since /. is based in the UK, British law does not apply --- at least in this instance. IF it did, they would be in violation of it.
If you had read the articles that were linked to the articles --- which is incredibly unlikely, this being /. --- you would have found that only 19% of the companies have websites that appear to be in technical complaince with level A of the Disability Act. 6 companies have AA compliance.
It isn't.
That you equate the two means that you never learned how to design a good website in the first place. I won't blame you --- 99.99999% of the web designers out there are equally clueless.
Amber
The US Law is Section 508 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended by The Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Whilst that law only applies to government entities, court rulings indicate that Intranets have to comply with ADA. One pissed off resident of the Ninth Judicial District of the US, and a lawyer is all it takes to flip Section 508 into the ADA.
Why not design an accessible website? It isn't much more difficult to do, and the people that are the most thankful are the normal, non-disabled population.
Amber
I'm getting roughly 100 messages per hour on my GMail account. I haven't seen any invites yet.
Pouts.
Amber
The local Bank of America banch has a security guard telling you to use the ATMs. If you want another banking service, you have to find another branch.
Amber
I use a spreadsheet with 50K rows often. Its gets a little slow to save/load, but it works.
That application I use, requires the entry of roughly 100K numbers. A database program might simplify things.
The problem with database programs is that they are not part of most office suites.
MSOffice Small Business Edition does not include a database program.
OOo does include one, but there is virtually no documentation about it. [At one point, the OOo website stated that OOo did not include a database program. Those who explored OOo did find it.]
CorelOffice used to contain a database program. I don't know if still does. [Haven't looked at it in years.] Lotus SmartSuite included a database program. But how many people use(d) either Lotus SmartSuite, or CorelOffice?
Amber
Wouldn't it be:
I'll let somebody else list the remaining 31 states of the USA^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Mexico.
Of course, that still leaves the other country in North America --- France. More specifically, The Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Somehow, I don't think France appreciates being called a part of the United States.
Amber
Jerks wouldn't know how to code their way into such a situation.
Non-jerks, OTOH....
Amber
Two answers:
For Word, go ask somebody who uses fifth rate operating systems to run programs that one day will grow up to be something that a serious business can actually use.
Amber
Which explains why Chinese Science was more advanced than Western Science was till roughly 1800.
And also explains why Islamic Scholars preserved the Greek and Roman classics.
And also explains why Algebra has its foundations in the work done by Islamic scholars.[OK, a specific Islamic scholar, if you want to quibble.]
Traditionally, it has been organized Christianity that has opposed scientific progress in the west.
There is no correlation between being a priest, and being a Christian. From roughly 500 CE to roughly 1800 CE, the Holy Roman Catholic Church was the dominant institution in the west. It was the institution that provided education. The net result is that one became a priest, in order to study, or to gain political power. Spiritual conviction had nothing to do with the decision.
And in passing, I'll note that spiritual conviction still is a minor consideration for those who do become priests.
Perhaps if Christians would actually practice the teachings of their holy book, there might be less backlash against them. But when they pick and choose what they want to practice, and believe, then why should they get any respect?
a: That is objecting to something, purely because of the source of the thing.
b: Why don't Christians practice the only diet that the First Testament states does not violate the Aseret ha-Debrot?
a: By that reasoning,organ transplants should be illegal to perform.
b: The First Testament also talks about taking a needed body part from an individual, for the use of another individual --- a body part that the second person needed, in order to live.
OTOH, consistency has never been a strong point with christians, of any sect, religion, creed, dogma, or theology.
Amber
My guess is that most of the bands who have no viable option also have no viable talent without PR and good photography.
You forgot the cost of promotions.
A low budget nationwide promotion is only one million dollars.
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