the elected senate in the US doesn't seem to do a whole lot in the way of representing the people, so i question the value of it, as it would give yet another opportunity for the same party in all 3 tiers, which i generally consider to be a bad thing.
and in any case, the senate here has practically no power anymore (when was the last time something was stopped by the senate?), and is unlikely to have any more power in the foreseeable future.
actually, it can be criminal selling at an ammount of $0, in the US anyway.
it used to be that only pirating for profit (which i consider completely unethical, as opposed to doing giving it away for free, which i'm kinda on the fence about) was illegal, then the feds tried to prosecute some guy giving the stuff away (at work, and got slapped down by the counts, as it wasn't illegal if he wasn't selling it. congress then made the NET act to make that illegal.
Plus, for reasons I don't understand, the only phone socket that works for DSL is in the bedroom.
that would be because your house uses a central filter, rather than in-line filters for the DSL. the thing is hardwired in so that only that line will work with DSL and everything else (phones, etc.) has the DSL frequencies filtered.
the reason for it over the in-line filters is that it tends to work better than the in-line filters, so the central ones are preferred by ISPs as they make for more reliable service, as there is a single point of failure, rather than many, as one failed in-line filter can really screw the service up.
as for networking, newer powerline networking works remarkably well (far far better than the old crap and plenty fast for streaming video in my experience)
Actually, they could put in a unique password into each router as sold (which will add to the price as you have stated)
the 2wire residential gateways my ISP uses have exactly that. the default key is a psudo-random string of numbers printed on the modem, right next to the seriel number.
the wireless is disabled by default (for security reasons, and it can cause problems with the IPTV service also), but when you enable it, WEP is enabled by default (for compatibility reasons, but you can change it to WPA easily or just turn encryption off completely too in the same menu).
the idea is sound, but the implimentation is the thing.
windows with it's constant prompts to do stuff while performing the same task gets very annoying and will quickly train the user to just click the allow, rendering it practically pointless.
in my experiance, other implimentations of this will prompt once in a given task and also encourage the user to think a little more as they prompt for their password (yes, i know windows can do this, but it doesn't by default)
AFAICT, this has nothing to do with actual I/O with the brain, but rather just hijacking signals that would ordinarily go to muscles. it's strictly read-only from the brain.
You know nothing about the legal system. In our court system, you are innocent until proven guilty, the burden of proof is on the state. So you don't have to prove there isn't a hidden volume, they have to prove there is
it all depends on the jury. and in terms of CP charges, innocent until proven guilty seems to reverse itself.
Even the majority of the my native friends think it is getting ridiculous, they live on some of the richest band land in the country and of course they don't see a dime from all that income, only the crazy rich band leader in the massive mansion(s) on the top of the hill see that.
yes. it is quickly becoming proof that any government will become corrupt without proper oversight.
a guy in my class had to drop out as his band no longer felt like funding him.
and is there a way to invest some of this money into further development of NeoOffice?
this reminds me of a situation that has been going on at my college for a number of years.
the instructors are heavy into open source (one guy uses it exclusively in all his courses) and they're wanting to kick some money towards the projects, but the guys in finances are absolutely baffled when they say that they want to pay for something that is free.
i wouldn't be entirely surprised if something similar happens in this case.
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So no, Nintendo is not better than that.
yes, aside from the part where sony is threatening to sue and nintendo is not (yet, but i'll give them the benefit of the doubt).
It ensures that managers can keep their monopoly on pirating of movies.
why would they (unions) be for it then? last time i checked, managers aren't union members, so it cuts them (the union members) out of it.
i personally like our non-elected senate.
the elected senate in the US doesn't seem to do a whole lot in the way of representing the people, so i question the value of it, as it would give yet another opportunity for the same party in all 3 tiers, which i generally consider to be a bad thing.
and in any case, the senate here has practically no power anymore (when was the last time something was stopped by the senate?), and is unlikely to have any more power in the foreseeable future.
We are in the information age... some sort of national ID brings our government up to par, that's the point i was trying to make.
up to par with what, might i ask?
i presume he means the big-ass CD pressing/silkscreening machines. the kind of things used by the actual manufacturers.
actually, it can be criminal selling at an ammount of $0, in the US anyway.
it used to be that only pirating for profit (which i consider completely unethical, as opposed to doing giving it away for free, which i'm kinda on the fence about) was illegal, then the feds tried to prosecute some guy giving the stuff away (at work, and got slapped down by the counts, as it wasn't illegal if he wasn't selling it. congress then made the NET act to make that illegal.
Plus, for reasons I don't understand, the only phone socket that works for DSL is in the bedroom.
that would be because your house uses a central filter, rather than in-line filters for the DSL. the thing is hardwired in so that only that line will work with DSL and everything else (phones, etc.) has the DSL frequencies filtered.
the reason for it over the in-line filters is that it tends to work better than the in-line filters, so the central ones are preferred by ISPs as they make for more reliable service, as there is a single point of failure, rather than many, as one failed in-line filter can really screw the service up.
as for networking, newer powerline networking works remarkably well (far far better than the old crap and plenty fast for streaming video in my experience)
Actually, they could put in a unique password into each router as sold (which will add to the price as you have stated)
the 2wire residential gateways my ISP uses have exactly that. the default key is a psudo-random string of numbers printed on the modem, right next to the seriel number.
the wireless is disabled by default (for security reasons, and it can cause problems with the IPTV service also), but when you enable it, WEP is enabled by default (for compatibility reasons, but you can change it to WPA easily or just turn encryption off completely too in the same menu).
reinforcement implies a change in behavior
how so? reinforcement simply implies "that was good. keep doing it"
the idea is sound, but the implimentation is the thing.
windows with it's constant prompts to do stuff while performing the same task gets very annoying and will quickly train the user to just click the allow, rendering it practically pointless.
in my experiance, other implimentations of this will prompt once in a given task and also encourage the user to think a little more as they prompt for their password (yes, i know windows can do this, but it doesn't by default)
AFAICT, this has nothing to do with actual I/O with the brain, but rather just hijacking signals that would ordinarily go to muscles. it's strictly read-only from the brain.
i believe the molly guard was invented for this very situation.
and they are giving away all the stuff they make from the other half of the barrel? go read your own link.
aside from that you're dropping the fact that you also get diesel, lube oil, fuel oil, asphalt, etc. from that same barrel of crude.
i was fairly certain they use redhat with some custom software running on that.
so where are you getting that it is costing the oil companies $2.15 to collect the oil and refine it into that gallon of gas?
no idea what their profit margin is, but the net profit (the actual profit) was 10.8 billion in the 4th quarter of last year.
nothing special at all really. they're just putting another piece on the ISS.
how else are they gonna get the parts up there and attached?
You know nothing about the legal system. In our court system, you are innocent until proven guilty, the burden of proof is on the state. So you don't have to prove there isn't a hidden volume, they have to prove there is
it all depends on the jury. and in terms of CP charges, innocent until proven guilty seems to reverse itself.
Probably a significant majority of politicians will not have a problem with that...
fixed that.
Wow, brilliant, how about i just wait til i have a connection and use my web app then
and what about when your connection goes down? this guy made a good point regarding this in the 2nd half of his post.
Even the majority of the my native friends think it is getting ridiculous, they live on some of the richest band land in the country and of course they don't see a dime from all that income, only the crazy rich band leader in the massive mansion(s) on the top of the hill see that.
yes. it is quickly becoming proof that any government will become corrupt without proper oversight.
a guy in my class had to drop out as his band no longer felt like funding him.
unless they're messing with the facial bone structure, cosmetic procdures shouldn't have any effect on this.
and is there a way to invest some of this money into further development of NeoOffice?
this reminds me of a situation that has been going on at my college for a number of years.
the instructors are heavy into open source (one guy uses it exclusively in all his courses) and they're wanting to kick some money towards the projects, but the guys in finances are absolutely baffled when they say that they want to pay for something that is free.
i wouldn't be entirely surprised if something similar happens in this case.