why the police are not allowed to get an arrest warrant for someone based on their dna, especially pertinent in rape cases, but the riaa can get your first born based on an ip address? something seems a bit skewed to me.... am i the only one?
the way of the cell phone? assuming this rumor to be true, are we seeing yet another device have "features" added on to a product who did its job well and is now going to be ruined by unnecessary additions?
Rackspace was given no time to defend against the order before it was acted upon and turned over the hard drives from the nyc imc server now i'm no legal expert, but i was under the distinct impression that, with a few exceptions like threatening the president, you were innocent until proven guilty and had the right to defend yourself. have i missed something? also by law aren't federal agents, any agents for that matter, required to show the warrant? so *some*body must know what's going on, right?
Corporations are soulless entities that will do anything and everything for profit yes, so sad, not like our loving, caring, government officials who always have our best interests at heart and would never do anything that conflicted with those interests just because it turned a profit.
but i can't resist when i see a throwback to my grade school days. if you read the "from the department" lines, like i do, you noticed a reference to this, and if you take the time to read it you'll find puns equally as clever as the reference in the summary.
that these are just people who weren't any good at games so their repressed sense of failure leads them to try to prevent others, who are good at gaming, from enjoying themselves. oh and they probably secretly want to marry their mothers. or something like that....
i had something similar happen to me. we have a lincoln navigator and the control chip on the transmission went out and it started running wide open at will. now granted, it took me a few months to notice given my driving style, but i did end up driving through downtown at 7000 rpms, shifting to neutral (automatic trans) and coasting into stoplights. now of course the problem becomes that you are sitting in neutral at 7000 rpm and you can't very well just drop back into drive. so i had to shut the engine off, put it in drive then turn it on. let me tell you, there is nothing like burning rubber, sitting still, for 10 seconds in a small semi. i did finally make it to the dealer and, as it turns out, there had been a recall issued but not publicized. in short, while it may seem a fishy tale, these things do happen, although i didn't call the police nor did the problem fix itself on approaching a tollbooth.
"The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'"
silly me, all this time i've trying to play mp3s on my iPod, all i needed to do was reformat them as stolen! gosh, i'm such a newb. what would i do without microsoft to enlighten me? i guess i'd be pretty lost in this world. thanks, mircrosoft!
actually the answer has little to do with the natural balance of creation and destruction. the answer is that while we can make O3 in the lab, it has properties that distinguish it from natural ozone, which cause it to fall back into the lower atmosphere where it's of little to no use. what is produced in labs is called industrial ozone. also methods of producing ozone have nasty byproducts, such as nitric oxides from the corona discharge method (where particles are charged with electricity similar to creation of ozone during a lightning storm). basically our methods for producing it are semi-viable at best and even then yield inferior products.
In electronics, for instance, people have been home-brewing radios, amplifiers, computers, etc.. for seemingly forever. yes, but for how long will these same things still be "allowed" by government. this is a little biased toward life in the united states, but it's a trend we're seeing more and more widespread. the point is that it's becoming harder and harder to be an "amateur," especially in technological areas. i love hardware hacking, personally, but when it becomes illegal to own an appliance that "may" be capable of copying copyrighted media.....how many are going to take the risk?
Oddly a large fraction had not noticed a woman in a gorilla suit walk through the scene for years i've been seeing this big rabbit, and everyone thought i was nuts. but who's laughing now......?
What's more, the project is supposed to add a "social aspect" to online gaming
finally a way for me to play games and satisfy my social needs at the same time! i see no real reason for me to ever leave my room again. thankyou nintendo!
i mean sure, i've got my tinfoil tuxedo ready just like everyone else, but what difference does it make if it's intelligent life or not? personally i'm much more interested in whatever explanation emerges. It could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon.
just because it's not life, doesn't mean it can't be something we've never seen before.
oh and i *was* able to decode the message, it says "we are here to pump *clap* you up."
we don't even know how big our universe actually is, in fact we don't even have a guess because light hasn't had time to travel from one side to the other yet, or more to the point from one side to us. but more on topic, it's a statistical impossibility that we are the only things alive in the universe. we may very well be the only living, communicating beings. or the only beings capable of changing our environment. but put in proper perspective, we're so young, as in our solar system, that i find it also highly unlikely that a galaxy much older than ours hasn't developed "intelligent" life.
as for SETI, things take time. broadcasts of leave it to beaver are just reaching pluto. when you think about it, there just hasn't been time for another civilization to make contact, given the constraints of our technology. i'm not personally expecting any kind of contact in the near future, possibly not in my lifetime (i'm 21) but i think the odds are definitely in our favor for finding something/someone.
i think it's a great idea, given proper expansion. for instance, i'd be willing to pay $100 if i could call myself a doctor and get paid like one. or for $75 you could call yourself a pilot and get to fly around. of course, becoming a lawyer would be free, just as encouragement.
Do you believe that people are allowed to give away hundreds of copies of a CD they purchased one copy of?
Not at all, but if a person wants to make 100 copies for their own use, they are perfectly within their legal rights. To take that away is, IMHO, wrong. My point was that there was no incentive for iTunes without napster, kazaa, etc. because the music industry was not threatened in their reign over prices.
It would have been revolutionary but there's no way it would have happened. It took napster to cause the music industry to realize they can't force people to pay their prices, the only reason they got away with it in the beginning was the lack of an alternative. If the movie industry wants to lower prices, more power to them but that's not what this article is about. This article is about the "generous" MPAA allowing us "commoners" to do what we're legally entitled to do. Or more to the point but less grammatically correct; stopping not allowing us from doing it.
programmers and engineers design (for the edge case), and how people really want things to work (make the common cases easy.)
Think about any programming/engineering class you've ever taken. How did your professor test your project? He/she ran all the edge cases against it so see where/if it failed. People learn from their mistakes, some of us anyway, and so they learn that they HAVE to anticipate and make provisions for the edge cases. Yes, the majority of users will never run up against those cases and yes it would make more sense to write a program that catered to the majority of those using it. But if you do that what happens to those of your users who run that edge case? Summary: The reason programmers and engineers are taught to design against the fail cases is so that if and when they arise after production it is not a disaster. The reason programmers and engineers continue to do things this way is because they've been taught to.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the original release was scheduled for june. when june came it got delayed until only july. now that we're in july it's been delayed just one more month....riiiight.
i for one will not be surprised to see it delayed until september next month. and who knows? maybe october after that....?
"The best way to prevent terrorist acts, therefore, is to strip those puppies away as quickly and efficiantly as possible."
yes, maybe so, but isn't the point of terror to make people change by scaring them? and if we start losing rights from one attack, horrific as it may have been, do we really think they, terrorists, are going to be discouraged by their success?
i don't think i want my sewage going into the same pipe that my water comes through.....
also, if you type a telephone, land based, number into google it will not only return to you the name of the person registered at that number but also their address and give the option to get directions from anywhere. sounds to me like we're pretty far along on the whole computer/internet to phone relationship. of course perhaps in the future you will be able to track cell phones by their number and get a current position for them, but do you honestly want someone knowing where you are at all times (minus the government, of course)?
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i agree, storing it underground is insane!
i've got a much better idea:
LET'S BLAST IT INTO SPACE!
why the police are not allowed to get an arrest warrant for someone based on their dna, especially pertinent in rape cases, but the riaa can get your first born based on an ip address? something seems a bit skewed to me....
am i the only one?
the way of the cell phone? assuming this rumor to be true, are we seeing yet another device have "features" added on to a product who did its job well and is now going to be ruined by unnecessary additions?
Rackspace was given no time to defend against the order before it was acted upon and turned over the hard drives from the nyc imc server
now i'm no legal expert, but i was under the distinct impression that, with a few exceptions like threatening the president, you were innocent until proven guilty and had the right to defend yourself. have i missed something?
also by law aren't federal agents, any agents for that matter, required to show the warrant? so *some*body must know what's going on, right?
Corporations are soulless entities that will do anything and everything for profit
yes, so sad, not like our loving, caring, government officials who always have our best interests at heart and would never do anything that conflicted with those interests just because it turned a profit.
but i can't resist when i see a throwback to my grade school days. if you read the "from the department" lines, like i do, you noticed a reference to this, and if you take the time to read it you'll find puns equally as clever as the reference in the summary.
i'm not an alcoholic. i'm a drunk. alcoholics go to meetings.
that these are just people who weren't any good at games so their repressed sense of failure leads them to try to prevent others, who are good at gaming, from enjoying themselves. oh and they probably secretly want to marry their mothers. or something like that....
congratulations, dave, you won a trip into space. but i have been hacked by pepsi and you must now die. i'm sorry dave.
i had something similar happen to me. we have a lincoln navigator and the control chip on the transmission went out and it started running wide open at will. now granted, it took me a few months to notice given my driving style, but i did end up driving through downtown at 7000 rpms, shifting to neutral (automatic trans) and coasting into stoplights. now of course the problem becomes that you are sitting in neutral at 7000 rpm and you can't very well just drop back into drive. so i had to shut the engine off, put it in drive then turn it on. let me tell you, there is nothing like burning rubber, sitting still, for 10 seconds in a small semi. i did finally make it to the dealer and, as it turns out, there had been a recall issued but not publicized.
in short, while it may seem a fishy tale, these things do happen, although i didn't call the police nor did the problem fix itself on approaching a tollbooth.
"The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'"
silly me, all this time i've trying to play mp3s on my iPod, all i needed to do was reformat them as stolen! gosh, i'm such a newb. what would i do without microsoft to enlighten me? i guess i'd be pretty lost in this world.
thanks, mircrosoft!
actually the answer has little to do with the natural balance of creation and destruction. the answer is that while we can make O3 in the lab, it has properties that distinguish it from natural ozone, which cause it to fall back into the lower atmosphere where it's of little to no use. what is produced in labs is called industrial ozone. also methods of producing ozone have nasty byproducts, such as nitric oxides from the corona discharge method (where particles are charged with electricity similar to creation of ozone during a lightning storm). basically our methods for producing it are semi-viable at best and even then yield inferior products.
In electronics, for instance, people have been home-brewing radios, amplifiers, computers, etc.. for seemingly forever.
yes, but for how long will these same things still be "allowed" by government. this is a little biased toward life in the united states, but it's a trend we're seeing more and more widespread. the point is that it's becoming harder and harder to be an "amateur," especially in technological areas.
i love hardware hacking, personally, but when it becomes illegal to own an appliance that "may" be capable of copying copyrighted media.....how many are going to take the risk?
Oddly a large fraction had not noticed a woman in a gorilla suit walk through the scene
for years i've been seeing this big rabbit, and everyone thought i was nuts. but who's laughing now......?
What's more, the project is supposed to add a "social aspect" to online gaming
finally a way for me to play games and satisfy my social needs at the same time! i see no real reason for me to ever leave my room again. thankyou nintendo!
i mean sure, i've got my tinfoil tuxedo ready just like everyone else, but what difference does it make if it's intelligent life or not? personally i'm much more interested in whatever explanation emerges.
It could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon.
just because it's not life, doesn't mean it can't be something we've never seen before.
oh and i *was* able to decode the message, it says "we are here to pump *clap* you up."
we don't even know how big our universe actually is, in fact we don't even have a guess because light hasn't had time to travel from one side to the other yet, or more to the point from one side to us. but more on topic, it's a statistical impossibility that we are the only things alive in the universe. we may very well be the only living, communicating beings. or the only beings capable of changing our environment. but put in proper perspective, we're so young, as in our solar system, that i find it also highly unlikely that a galaxy much older than ours hasn't developed "intelligent" life.
as for SETI, things take time. broadcasts of leave it to beaver are just reaching pluto. when you think about it, there just hasn't been time for another civilization to make contact, given the constraints of our technology. i'm not personally expecting any kind of contact in the near future, possibly not in my lifetime (i'm 21) but i think the odds are definitely in our favor for finding something/someone.
i think it's a great idea, given proper expansion. for instance, i'd be willing to pay $100 if i could call myself a doctor and get paid like one. or for $75 you could call yourself a pilot and get to fly around. of course, becoming a lawyer would be free, just as encouragement.
Someone's the bad guy here ... Or did I miss the part where restricting how we could use our own hardware became "cool".
*ahem*
cool or not, restricting public use of hardware seems to be the new fad. and speaking of bad guys....
Do you believe that people are allowed to give away hundreds of copies of a CD they purchased one copy of?
Not at all, but if a person wants to make 100 copies for their own use, they are perfectly within their legal rights. To take that away is, IMHO, wrong. My point was that there was no incentive for iTunes without napster, kazaa, etc. because the music industry was not threatened in their reign over prices.
It would have been revolutionary but there's no way it would have happened. It took napster to cause the music industry to realize they can't force people to pay their prices, the only reason they got away with it in the beginning was the lack of an alternative. If the movie industry wants to lower prices, more power to them but that's not what this article is about. This article is about the "generous" MPAA allowing us "commoners" to do what we're legally entitled to do. Or more to the point but less grammatically correct; stopping not allowing us from doing it.
programmers and engineers design (for the edge case), and how people really want things to work (make the common cases easy.)
Think about any programming/engineering class you've ever taken. How did your professor test your project? He/she ran all the edge cases against it so see where/if it failed. People learn from their mistakes, some of us anyway, and so they learn that they HAVE to anticipate and make provisions for the edge cases. Yes, the majority of users will never run up against those cases and yes it would make more sense to write a program that catered to the majority of those using it. But if you do that what happens to those of your users who run that edge case?
Summary: The reason programmers and engineers are taught to design against the fail cases is so that if and when they arise after production it is not a disaster. The reason programmers and engineers continue to do things this way is because they've been taught to.
On a side note; it is a good book, i agree.
though only until August
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the original release was scheduled for june. when june came it got delayed until only july. now that we're in july it's been delayed just one more month....riiiight.
i for one will not be surprised to see it delayed until september next month. and who knows? maybe october after that....?
"The best way to prevent terrorist acts, therefore, is to strip those puppies away as quickly and efficiantly as possible." yes, maybe so, but isn't the point of terror to make people change by scaring them? and if we start losing rights from one attack, horrific as it may have been, do we really think they, terrorists, are going to be discouraged by their success?
i don't think i want my sewage going into the same pipe that my water comes through..... also, if you type a telephone, land based, number into google it will not only return to you the name of the person registered at that number but also their address and give the option to get directions from anywhere. sounds to me like we're pretty far along on the whole computer/internet to phone relationship. of course perhaps in the future you will be able to track cell phones by their number and get a current position for them, but do you honestly want someone knowing where you are at all times (minus the government, of course)?