I agree with you, and in some cases criminal charges are made.. problem is they are usually only in extreme cases. For some reason, we as a society have accepted abuse of athority.. For instance, the common practice of having a driver get out of a car and searched and handcuffed while they search for warrents during a routine traffic stop.. you see it all the time, and it's pretty much on every episode of Cops.. Since when is handcuffing someone while they find out wherther or not they can arrest them acceptable ?.. you got to feel for the poor guy stopped for changing lanes without a turn signal, sitting on the curb in handcuffs with people driving past gawking at him like he may be some rapist they just caught... The problem is, that in the minds of many police, this is accpetable as a puniushment for whatever traffic violation is made.. and that is perhaps the biggest problem with some cops, is accepting that they are not in the "punishment" buisness.. No cop should be punishing anyone for anything, there job is to enforce the law and arrest offenders.. the courts and the penal system are responsible for the punishment.
Verizon is one of the big players in the industry and last I heard, it was backing away from Android. But think of the carnage Verizon would wreak on an open-source platform. (We both know they would lock it down so hard you couldn't do anything useful with it anyway.)
As long as you use CDMA providers like Verizon or Sprint.. you will always be at the mercy of the hardare (and software on that hardware) that THEY choose to let you use... I imagine the real reason the i-phone is on ATT (GSM) and not Verizon (CDMA) is because the majority of the world uses GSM.. and heck that's the market I want as a phone manufacturer... The difference is, that changing phones with a GSM carrier is as simple as buying another GSM phone and putting the sim chip into the new one.(more or less)
But isn't that the same time you would have spent if you had answered the call in the first place ?.. and isn't it kind of selfish to make someone call you back a second time?.. I mean isn't their time money too ?... With a few exceptions, most people don't want to leave a voice mail, so the fact that they do, either means they want to give you information, or to tell you to call them back. To ignore voice mails altogether is just being crappy and rude.. and if you legitimately have that many people who leave pointless time wasting voice mails, then it makes more sense to get a new number with ID blocking, and don't give it to those people.
The ebooks themselves will last beyond the 50 years you talk about.. but there will probably be 20 plus versions and updated technologies of readers before that time.. and perhaps require converting the info into a different format now and then to keep up... The thing with worrying about that, is you get into the trap of thinking that many did when PC's started becoming popular.. I knew so many people who wanted a PC but were always reluctant to buy because they knew that as soon as they did, it would not be "the latest and greatest", so they just never bought one.
From a "saving paper" point of view, I think that is going to take awhile, but there will probably come a day when ebooks outsell paper books.. and even further down the road there will probably be a time when getting a new paper book will become so expensive as to be impractical.
Where's my qbasic 4.5 so I can create my own.exe files and email them to my friends ?
Just kidding, really.. although I always thought basic was fun to play with.. don't know why they dropped it, other than the scenario running through your mind after reading the above statement.. and they dropped it long after the cat was out of the bag.
As a possibility.. If you look what happened with the Wolverine movie, perhaps this is just an extreme security lock down, so that nothing gets out there until they want it to.. and actually I couldn't blame em.
This is a strange story... If you read all the links, you can not find anyone actually verifying anything, except that the web site has been closed down.. all the rest seems to be conjecture, taken as facts.. Perhaps things will be cleared up shortly, or maybe there are other things going on that will be revealed soon.. It seems strange to abandon something that was apparently so close to completion.. especially considering they could have taken pre-orders is money was so tight.. It all doesn't seem right, and I think I'll wait to see what happens in the coming days.
For the most part you are correct.. but it is flawed, otherwise you wouldn't have all these class action lawsuits from people damaged or dying from drugs that went through the testing process... and then there are things like the aspertain controversy... Things are also failing in the system, when food is imported.. What is your trust level of buying food imported from China and sold at the Dollar store ?.. people actually buy this stuff, even after poisoned pets, and hearing about poisoned milk.
So.. and I am guessing just like you.. your saying that because the Republicans of the last administration had the support of fundementalist religous zealots, it is therfore a good bet that someone who is not so, must be a Democrat ?... all atheists are Democrats ?
Not disagreeing with you.. but it isn't about Constitutional right to operate a motor vehicle, it is about forcing you to give evidence against yourself, which is unconstitutional. The fact that is part of an agreement between you and the DMV does not mean that it is not against your Constitutional rights... I think that this would come into play, if for example the DMV decided that they could collect your GPS data from your car to determine if you were speeding or not.. with the same parameters of either provide the data or lose your license. Both situations are a case where you may or may not have committed a crime and only evidence provided by you would prove it.
All that being said.. I have no problem with the way things are in most states with the "agreement".. I do think that most states are a little over zealous in the consequences of say a first time DUI, as it is probably more practical and less devastating for someone caught to just refuse a test and lose their license for a year in some cases.
I just use EZTV.. every day it lists shows that are airing that day.. and I pretty much have ones that I regularly download (torrents), which is based upon whether or not there are say 2 shows on at the same time, or are cable shows, since I don't have a DVR or cable.. It's also good, in that sometimes I find shows that I would probably otherwise ignore.. For example, I never watched Chuck.. but I was bored one day not long ago, and tested out the first episode, and eventually downloaded all the episodes, and pretty much watched them as a marathon.. who knew that NBC had another good show besides Heroes ?... I also did the same thing with Lost, about a year and a half ago.. talk about one really long movie watching them one after another... The writers strike also led to me watching and liking a lot of shows from the UK... EZTV made em easy to find.. They had a streaming thing, but I never really used it.. and I believe they have dropped it.
I'm too lazy to read all those reasons why terrorists are dumb.. To me the most obvious reason they are dumb, is because as a way to get what you want it has like zero success rate, and usually does more to hurt their cause than help it.. It turns what might be a legitimate complaint that reasonable people would address, into just the ravings of madmen that people ignore.
If terrorist were smart.. they'd spend their money on lawyers and media, and things that could create sympathy to what they are trying to achieve.
One more thing to illustrate my point... If someone tries to sell me illegal drugs I can say no, and let them go on their merry way.. same thing if they are trying to sell me what I suspect is stolen property (within reason), or a variety of many other petty crimes that some lowlifes might try and get me involved in, I'd pretty much walk away.. However I can assure you that if someone tried to buy my vote, I'd turn their ass in in a heartbeat.. and I be disgusted with anyone who told me that they did such a thing as selling their vote and probably turn them in too.
I have a feeling that there are so many people who would do the same thing, that I have little worry that vote selling would be a problem.. now there might be a problem of what to do with all the people who get caught.. but I think it would work itself out.. You know, creating jobs vacated by the people caught, and new jobs for prison guards.
There isn't anything really stopping what your suggesting with the current system, other than verifying that the bought vote was cast the way the buyer wanted.
The whole vote buying scenario is filled with problems.. both for seller and buyer.. so many problems that idea doesn't seem practical. First the buyer trying to find sellers (and vice versa) without getting caught.. Then you have the whole problem of establishing a price that the seller is willing to accept based upon the risk.. And then there is the matter of payment.. I think the whole thing would be so risky and expensive as to have such limited participation to be meaningless.
The problem with this is that panic is dangerous too. People crushed at concerts is an example. and the numerous people who have died from heart attacks during earthquakes is another. (pretty ironic when they would have survived just fine otherwise)
I agree with you, for different reasons than you think. Facebook at work.. IM or personal email at work.. all bad.. I'm as much an internet junkie as anybody, but I have learned to separate my personal life and interests from my work life... I think more worrying than the bots, is the ease at which she could copy information and send it to herself.
As to mixing web access and banking.. well I do online banking all the time. I might be more paranoid about it I suppose, if I had to keep cleaning my machine of bots, virri and malware.. (you can guess why I don't have to).. I suppose if she was running Facebook on a different OS it wouldn't be so concerning, but more than likely she wasn't
And yet, with all these applications that are "exploitable".. where are the exploits ??.. Heck Linux ought to be a dream for hackers since there are not all these firewall and anitvirus apps to deal with.. and yet, where is the evidence of that ?... Another statment that could be true, is that Windows could be made unexploiable.. but like the statement you made, the facts and evidence don't support it.
The Obama position as I understood it.. was to find a way to get this case dropped.. had nothing to do with being for or against illegal wiretapping. If continued, then the government is put in a postion to defend the actions of their predecesors, costing how much ?.. I think the right move to drop it, and make better policies going forward... seems to be what's happening.
I thought the same thing.. and then I realize that Nokia is not the i-phone.. if it was there would be all kinds of defenders popping out of the woodwork. I am willing to bet neither the blogger nor the submitter even has a Nokia phone, but this is all too much BS for me to bother reading the blog to check.
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I agree with you, and in some cases criminal charges are made.. problem is they are usually only in extreme cases. For some reason, we as a society have accepted abuse of athority.. For instance, the common practice of having a driver get out of a car and searched and handcuffed while they search for warrents during a routine traffic stop.. you see it all the time, and it's pretty much on every episode of Cops.. Since when is handcuffing someone while they find out wherther or not they can arrest them acceptable ?.. you got to feel for the poor guy stopped for changing lanes without a turn signal, sitting on the curb in handcuffs with people driving past gawking at him like he may be some rapist they just caught... The problem is, that in the minds of many police, this is accpetable as a puniushment for whatever traffic violation is made.. and that is perhaps the biggest problem with some cops, is accepting that they are not in the "punishment" buisness.. No cop should be punishing anyone for anything, there job is to enforce the law and arrest offenders.. the courts and the penal system are responsible for the punishment.
Verizon is one of the big players in the industry and last I heard, it was backing away from Android. But think of the carnage Verizon would wreak on an open-source platform. (We both know they would lock it down so hard you couldn't do anything useful with it anyway.)
As long as you use CDMA providers like Verizon or Sprint.. you will always be at the mercy of the hardare (and software on that hardware) that THEY choose to let you use... I imagine the real reason the i-phone is on ATT (GSM) and not Verizon (CDMA) is because the majority of the world uses GSM.. and heck that's the market I want as a phone manufacturer... The difference is, that changing phones with a GSM carrier is as simple as buying another GSM phone and putting the sim chip into the new one.(more or less)
But isn't that the same time you would have spent if you had answered the call in the first place ?.. and isn't it kind of selfish to make someone call you back a second time?.. I mean isn't their time money too ? ... With a few exceptions, most people don't want to leave a voice mail, so the fact that they do, either means they want to give you information, or to tell you to call them back. To ignore voice mails altogether is just being crappy and rude.. and if you legitimately have that many people who leave pointless time wasting voice mails, then it makes more sense to get a new number with ID blocking, and don't give it to those people.
The ebooks themselves will last beyond the 50 years you talk about.. but there will probably be 20 plus versions and updated technologies of readers before that time.. and perhaps require converting the info into a different format now and then to keep up... The thing with worrying about that, is you get into the trap of thinking that many did when PC's started becoming popular.. I knew so many people who wanted a PC but were always reluctant to buy because they knew that as soon as they did, it would not be "the latest and greatest", so they just never bought one.
From a "saving paper" point of view, I think that is going to take awhile, but there will probably come a day when ebooks outsell paper books.. and even further down the road there will probably be a time when getting a new paper book will become so expensive as to be impractical.
Where's my qbasic 4.5 so I can create my own .exe files and email them to my friends ?
Just kidding, really.. although I always thought basic was fun to play with.. don't know why they dropped it, other than the scenario running through your mind after reading the above statement.. and they dropped it long after the cat was out of the bag.
As a possibility.. If you look what happened with the Wolverine movie, perhaps this is just an extreme security lock down, so that nothing gets out there until they want it to.. and actually I couldn't blame em.
This is a strange story... If you read all the links, you can not find anyone actually verifying anything, except that the web site has been closed down.. all the rest seems to be conjecture, taken as facts.. Perhaps things will be cleared up shortly, or maybe there are other things going on that will be revealed soon.. It seems strange to abandon something that was apparently so close to completion.. especially considering they could have taken pre-orders is money was so tight.. It all doesn't seem right, and I think I'll wait to see what happens in the coming days.
For the most part you are correct.. but it is flawed, otherwise you wouldn't have all these class action lawsuits from people damaged or dying from drugs that went through the testing process... and then there are things like the aspertain controversy... Things are also failing in the system, when food is imported.. What is your trust level of buying food imported from China and sold at the Dollar store ? .. people actually buy this stuff, even after poisoned pets, and hearing about poisoned milk.
I would argue that these "successes" were in spite of terrorism, not a result of it.
If the ads are successful they also get tax revenue from goods sold.
So.. and I am guessing just like you.. your saying that because the Republicans of the last administration had the support of fundementalist religous zealots, it is therfore a good bet that someone who is not so, must be a Democrat ? ... all atheists are Democrats ?
Not disagreeing with you.. but it isn't about Constitutional right to operate a motor vehicle, it is about forcing you to give evidence against yourself, which is unconstitutional. The fact that is part of an agreement between you and the DMV does not mean that it is not against your Constitutional rights... I think that this would come into play, if for example the DMV decided that they could collect your GPS data from your car to determine if you were speeding or not.. with the same parameters of either provide the data or lose your license. Both situations are a case where you may or may not have committed a crime and only evidence provided by you would prove it.
All that being said.. I have no problem with the way things are in most states with the "agreement".. I do think that most states are a little over zealous in the consequences of say a first time DUI, as it is probably more practical and less devastating for someone caught to just refuse a test and lose their license for a year in some cases.
I just use EZTV .. every day it lists shows that are airing that day.. and I pretty much have ones that I regularly download (torrents), which is based upon whether or not there are say 2 shows on at the same time, or are cable shows, since I don't have a DVR or cable.. It's also good, in that sometimes I find shows that I would probably otherwise ignore.. For example, I never watched Chuck.. but I was bored one day not long ago, and tested out the first episode, and eventually downloaded all the episodes, and pretty much watched them as a marathon.. who knew that NBC had another good show besides Heroes ?... I also did the same thing with Lost, about a year and a half ago.. talk about one really long movie watching them one after another... The writers strike also led to me watching and liking a lot of shows from the UK... EZTV made em easy to find.. They had a streaming thing, but I never really used it.. and I believe they have dropped it.
I'm too lazy to read all those reasons why terrorists are dumb.. To me the most obvious reason they are dumb, is because as a way to get what you want it has like zero success rate, and usually does more to hurt their cause than help it.. It turns what might be a legitimate complaint that reasonable people would address, into just the ravings of madmen that people ignore.
If terrorist were smart.. they'd spend their money on lawyers and media, and things that could create sympathy to what they are trying to achieve.
One more thing to illustrate my point... If someone tries to sell me illegal drugs I can say no, and let them go on their merry way.. same thing if they are trying to sell me what I suspect is stolen property (within reason), or a variety of many other petty crimes that some lowlifes might try and get me involved in, I'd pretty much walk away.. However I can assure you that if someone tried to buy my vote, I'd turn their ass in in a heartbeat.. and I be disgusted with anyone who told me that they did such a thing as selling their vote and probably turn them in too.
I have a feeling that there are so many people who would do the same thing, that I have little worry that vote selling would be a problem.. now there might be a problem of what to do with all the people who get caught.. but I think it would work itself out.. You know, creating jobs vacated by the people caught, and new jobs for prison guards.
There isn't anything really stopping what your suggesting with the current system, other than verifying that the bought vote was cast the way the buyer wanted.
The whole vote buying scenario is filled with problems.. both for seller and buyer.. so many problems that idea doesn't seem practical. First the buyer trying to find sellers (and vice versa) without getting caught.. Then you have the whole problem of establishing a price that the seller is willing to accept based upon the risk.. And then there is the matter of payment.. I think the whole thing would be so risky and expensive as to have such limited participation to be meaningless.
Really ? are you serious ?
The problem with this is that panic is dangerous too. People crushed at concerts is an example. and the numerous people who have died from heart attacks during earthquakes is another. (pretty ironic when they would have survived just fine otherwise)
What's the mod for obscure geeky Dr Who referances ? .. and what's wrong with me that I recognize it ?
I agree with you, for different reasons than you think. Facebook at work.. IM or personal email at work.. all bad.. I'm as much an internet junkie as anybody, but I have learned to separate my personal life and interests from my work life... I think more worrying than the bots, is the ease at which she could copy information and send it to herself.
As to mixing web access and banking.. well I do online banking all the time. I might be more paranoid about it I suppose, if I had to keep cleaning my machine of bots, virri and malware.. (you can guess why I don't have to).. I suppose if she was running Facebook on a different OS it wouldn't be so concerning, but more than likely she wasn't
And yet, with all these applications that are "exploitable" .. where are the exploits ?? .. Heck Linux ought to be a dream for hackers since there are not all these firewall and anitvirus apps to deal with.. and yet, where is the evidence of that ? ... Another statment that could be true, is that Windows could be made unexploiable.. but like the statement you made, the facts and evidence don't support it.
Dude.. where is Linux mentioned other than by you ?
Also the market share on Big Macs is higher than cooking your own healty meals .. WTF does that prove ?
The Obama position as I understood it.. was to find a way to get this case dropped.. had nothing to do with being for or against illegal wiretapping. If continued, then the government is put in a postion to defend the actions of their predecesors, costing how much ?.. I think the right move to drop it, and make better policies going forward... seems to be what's happening.
I thought the same thing.. and then I realize that Nokia is not the i-phone.. if it was there would be all kinds of defenders popping out of the woodwork. I am willing to bet neither the blogger nor the submitter even has a Nokia phone, but this is all too much BS for me to bother reading the blog to check.