The article was an interesting read, but I wonder why they chose one of the "good guys" - Stoddart is working in favor of privacy protection, not against it. I'd have much rather seen them acquire records of the Verizon CEO, or upper management of some other company that regularly pimps customer data.
My guess is they got his records to "light a fire under his ass" so to speak to get him to get a move on for privacy legislation.
Besides, targeting him would cover all aspects of privacy, whereas targeting a Verizon CEO would only affect that one company.
It could be that review units were manufactured to a higher standard, or subjected to more rigorous quality control, than general retail units. All they'd have to do is cherry-pick 30 perfect laptops from 30,000 wonky ones, send that 30 to review sites, and the product looks good. After all, CNet are testing the quality and design of the hardware, not its reliability.
So basically what you're saying is that Toshiba doesn't have Quality Control on their products, and somehow they are able to rank quality in 30,000 laptops to be able to pick out 30 good ones?
Or "We can have three guys fresh out of college with really impressive degrees for the same price as this other person who is older, and therefore less likely to know about modern computing topics. We will therefore hire the three college graduates, who will then do three times as much useful work."
Or on the other hand, "We could hire three college graduates, who will then do three times as much useful work in three times the amount of time required by the old guy with total experience greater than the three graduates put together!"
Just because guys get old, doesn't mean they stop learning. Good ones are always updating their skill set.
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(English->French->English->Korean->English)
Someone create a translator for the above. Please!
Let's just say he makes $200k a year. Explain why they can't collect such a fine? You'd think they would just require him to make payments regularly. Something is better than nothing right?
They are all the real deal, being exact copies. When you copy a file, neither instance is more or less real than the other either.
In practice it will be up to whomever is in control of the duplication process, or some sort of protocol will develop depending on legal status, consent, and so on.
So basically, since you can't duplicate consciousness, what then? How do you know if you're really you?
Then again I can live with the fact that I have first to click on a link then choose to save the torrent file then go azureus select open torrent, select the torrent and finally be able to start leeching.
Or, you could highlight the URL (on linux, otherwise copy), then in azureus choose open location, and paste the URL there, and live without all those extra.torrent files sitting around waiting for you to clean them up.
Or, you could just associate the torrent file with Azureus and simply doubleclick the link to start your leeching.
So it is possible that someone could theoretically copy one's bits as they are being transported and re-create several copies at which point, how do we determine who's the real deal and who's the copy?
First, there is no news that needs to be acquired in realtime. If you can't be at your child's birth or wedding, then a simulcast of it would not every satisfy you or your family. The most pressing "news day" in my lifetime was on 9/11/2001 because of the nasty stuff that was going on at the time. Most everyone knew of it within 1/2 an hour despite the complete devastation of the online news sites and telephone networks. I don't think instant news feeds would do anything to propagate the news any faster or better. Sure people may need more portable stock tickers, but that is different. Does realtime deathcounts and bombings help people feel any better than saving it up for incremental updates?
Even though you mentioned the ticker, I can think of news that needs to be acquired realtime. How about stock and options news (not just the prices)? Getting a press release instantly would allow me to follow the market more closely, whether it be to sell off my shares to avoid a drop, or to buy more on good numbers.
Another set of news I can think of could be emergency broadcasts, i.e. tornado warnings, evacuations, or even in the case of the London bombings, which locations to avoid.
Is it supposed to mean you are trying to be funny? Or maybe you just haven't realised, that some people, instead of bringing everywhere tons of gadgets, with backpack full of different rechargers for each of them, prefer to have only one; which could provide phone, internet, digital-camera, entertainment in the form of MP3 player, games, video, act as place to store notes and reminders, and provide all kind of different services at the suitable time when you choose to use them (hint: not necessarily all at once while driving)?
I'm still waiting on a company to build a commercial level tri-corder. I'm getting sick of having to carry so much crap.
Problem: These are Senators we're talking about. You think the people who pass these sorts of ridiculous laws actually know how to turn a computer on? I mean, if they tried to fileshare, it'd be beyond their abilities to google "BitTorrent".
Which is why I propose this; should you choose to accept this mission we will disavow the existence of you.
We will need a crack team, one that consists of an expert driver to drive the getaway black early 80s GMC van, a former break and enter convict to bypass home security of a Senator's house, a computer nerd who can turn on the Senator's computer, google for a bittorrent client, install, and download music in the GBs, and lastly a leader who smokes cigars who can co-ordinate this squad who are illegally persecuted for crimes they did not commit in Iraq. We shall this team, the C++ Team.
It's really more of "when" rather than "if" China becomes superpower if it isn't already. The US has massive debts oweing to China because of the import surplus. Americans are purchasing more than they are selling to China. As I believe China holds US bonds in the billions of dollars.
As for not being around when China is a superpower I don't really think you will have much to worry about. China hasn't been known to stick their noses in other people's affairs like the US has. They don't have military bases outside of their own country, they don't send spy aircraft into foreign airspace, nor have submarines lurking in foreign harbours.
You might dispute that with Taiwan, but if you read history you'll find out that this place actually was once part of China. In fact, many of the people who claim to be "Taiwanese" are really not, and are just Chinese who immigrated to the island of Taiwan.
Anyway, China would only flex their political muscle domestically, they haven't shown any tendency historically to influence other countries.
Because obviously the military plan on using prototypes for regular use.
Can't you tell that this is just the first generation? Eventually they will come up with the right combination of technology to produce a fully usable suit for combat. Until then, you're going to see a bunch of different variations that when isolated are pretty shitty pieces of machinery. Put it all together at the end, and presto, you get something right out of Robotech.
In Toronto, we have a form of video blogging already. A local tv station called CityTV has this telephone booth type sitting area where for $2 you get to sit inside and have a video camera film what you have to say. For about 3 minutes you can talk about whatever it is you want and it just basically films your head.
The producers screen the tapes and eventually broadcast on a weekly basis. It's quite successful at what it does, and for the most part it is rather entertaining and informative (I suppose after all the crap has been filtered out).
This idea is catching on as other stations install booths at malls and regularly play what they record.
If it makes you feel any better, the US was a prison labour colony for Africans.
The history books were all mistaken about the slaves. This is what really happened.
Long ago in Africa they had a pretty good society, economic development. Things were just peachy. Then these white Americans came over for international trade. They proposed to the African governments about the privatized prisons they have. Basically, the Africans were convinced that they should outsource their prison system. It made sense, and the bottom line was that they saved thousands of dollars (a lot of money in those days, but in this age, it would be the equivalent to one bajillion dollars!!)
So the African penal system was outsourced to the Americans. This caused an uproar because African penal workers were worried about losing their jobs, but the Americans said they could be brought over to run them. So things were ok. Criminals were caught and sentenced and sent to the American penal colony where they were forced to work in cotton fields to repent for their crimes. So you see, criminals are everywhere. It's not about being Anti-Foreigners, or Anti-American, it's about Anti-hiding the truth. And we all know the truth is out there.
Besides, this is what a friend of a friend of a friend told me.
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That way, they could scientifically justify choking the chicken.
It makes sense.
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So THAT'S why I've always sucked at first person shooters! I always aim for the fingertips to try and hurt them where it counts: the trigger finger.
I suck at FPS too. I always aim for the tip of the gun barrel hoping that I could deform the opening so they can't shoot back at me.
Now if only they can teach him to talk!
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The article was an interesting read, but I wonder why they chose one of the "good guys" - Stoddart is working in favor of privacy protection, not against it. I'd have much rather seen them acquire records of the Verizon CEO, or upper management of some other company that regularly pimps customer data.
My guess is they got his records to "light a fire under his ass" so to speak to get him to get a move on for privacy legislation.
Besides, targeting him would cover all aspects of privacy, whereas targeting a Verizon CEO would only affect that one company.
You can start by boycotting google then. Since they conform to China laws by excluding certain sites deemed illegal by the Chinese government.
You can also add Yahoo to that list as well.
Good luck finding a usable search engine.
It could be that review units were manufactured to a higher standard, or subjected to more rigorous quality control, than general retail units. All they'd have to do is cherry-pick 30 perfect laptops from 30,000 wonky ones, send that 30 to review sites, and the product looks good. After all, CNet are testing the quality and design of the hardware, not its reliability.
So basically what you're saying is that Toshiba doesn't have Quality Control on their products, and somehow they are able to rank quality in 30,000 laptops to be able to pick out 30 good ones?
How does that even begin to make sense?
Or "We can have three guys fresh out of college with really impressive degrees for the same price as this other person who is older, and therefore less likely to know about modern computing topics. We will therefore hire the three college graduates, who will then do three times as much useful work."
Or on the other hand, "We could hire three college graduates, who will then do three times as much useful work in three times the amount of time required by the old guy with total experience greater than the three graduates put together!"
Just because guys get old, doesn't mean they stop learning. Good ones are always updating their skill set.
HTTP (YTP) this Yahoo which translate an acquisition is the western-style paper tropistic interpretation which operates to your Yahoo,! Translate your message I whom it carries on shoulder hit the hitter with various language. Your friend receives the message which it translate, after the language which it translate it will can introduce in the keyboard. When for example, you with English hit the hitter to him, it is a possibility of receiving a France message. It from after that time it will be able to introduce by the France keyboard and will receive the British message which spreads out. The language which comes after does schedule,:
(English->French->English->Korean->English)
Someone create a translator for the above. Please!
Let's just say he makes $200k a year. Explain why they can't collect such a fine? You'd think they would just require him to make payments regularly. Something is better than nothing right?
What videos is one going to carry around on 256 MB? How many songs is that?
My guess would be short porn clips. I don't think anyone ever lasts an entire movie anyway, let alone a single scene.
Well, if you put it that way, it's just comparing apples and oranges, uh wait... where are the oranges?
They are all the real deal, being exact copies. When you copy a file, neither instance is more or less real than the other either.
In practice it will be up to whomever is in control of the duplication process, or some sort of protocol will develop depending on legal status, consent, and so on.
So basically, since you can't duplicate consciousness, what then? How do you know if you're really you?
Then again I can live with the fact that I have first to click on a link then choose to save the torrent file then go azureus select open torrent, select the torrent and finally be able to start leeching.
.torrent files sitting around waiting for you to clean them up.
Or, you could highlight the URL (on linux, otherwise copy), then in azureus choose open location, and paste the URL there, and live without all those extra
Or, you could just associate the torrent file with Azureus and simply doubleclick the link to start your leeching.
So it is possible that someone could theoretically copy one's bits as they are being transported and re-create several copies at which point, how do we determine who's the real deal and who's the copy?
"Spot on, spot on!"
First, there is no news that needs to be acquired in realtime. If you can't be at your child's birth or wedding, then a simulcast of it would not every satisfy you or your family. The most pressing "news day" in my lifetime was on 9/11/2001 because of the nasty stuff that was going on at the time. Most everyone knew of it within 1/2 an hour despite the complete devastation of the online news sites and telephone networks. I don't think instant news feeds would do anything to propagate the news any faster or better. Sure people may need more portable stock tickers, but that is different. Does realtime deathcounts and bombings help people feel any better than saving it up for incremental updates?
Even though you mentioned the ticker, I can think of news that needs to be acquired realtime. How about stock and options news (not just the prices)? Getting a press release instantly would allow me to follow the market more closely, whether it be to sell off my shares to avoid a drop, or to buy more on good numbers.
Another set of news I can think of could be emergency broadcasts, i.e. tornado warnings, evacuations, or even in the case of the London bombings, which locations to avoid.
Liono says "Thunder, thunder, thundercats... HOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!" and "Snarf... shut the fuck up you stupid furbag!!"
Is it supposed to mean you are trying to be funny? Or maybe you just haven't realised, that some people, instead of bringing everywhere tons of gadgets, with backpack full of different rechargers for each of them, prefer to have only one; which could provide phone, internet, digital-camera, entertainment in the form of MP3 player, games, video, act as place to store notes and reminders, and provide all kind of different services at the suitable time when you choose to use them (hint: not necessarily all at once while driving)?
I'm still waiting on a company to build a commercial level tri-corder. I'm getting sick of having to carry so much crap.
Problem: These are Senators we're talking about. You think the people who pass these sorts of ridiculous laws actually know how to turn a computer on? I mean, if they tried to fileshare, it'd be beyond their abilities to google "BitTorrent".
Which is why I propose this; should you choose to accept this mission we will disavow the existence of you.
We will need a crack team, one that consists of an expert driver to drive the getaway black early 80s GMC van, a former break and enter convict to bypass home security of a Senator's house, a computer nerd who can turn on the Senator's computer, google for a bittorrent client, install, and download music in the GBs, and lastly a leader who smokes cigars who can co-ordinate this squad who are illegally persecuted for crimes they did not commit in Iraq. We shall this team, the C++ Team.
Who's in?
It's really more of "when" rather than "if" China becomes superpower if it isn't already. The US has massive debts oweing to China because of the import surplus. Americans are purchasing more than they are selling to China. As I believe China holds US bonds in the billions of dollars.
As for not being around when China is a superpower I don't really think you will have much to worry about. China hasn't been known to stick their noses in other people's affairs like the US has. They don't have military bases outside of their own country, they don't send spy aircraft into foreign airspace, nor have submarines lurking in foreign harbours.
You might dispute that with Taiwan, but if you read history you'll find out that this place actually was once part of China. In fact, many of the people who claim to be "Taiwanese" are really not, and are just Chinese who immigrated to the island of Taiwan.
Anyway, China would only flex their political muscle domestically, they haven't shown any tendency historically to influence other countries.
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Nice try....
Because obviously the military plan on using prototypes for regular use.
Can't you tell that this is just the first generation? Eventually they will come up with the right combination of technology to produce a fully usable suit for combat. Until then, you're going to see a bunch of different variations that when isolated are pretty shitty pieces of machinery. Put it all together at the end, and presto, you get something right out of Robotech.
In Toronto, we have a form of video blogging already. A local tv station called CityTV has this telephone booth type sitting area where for $2 you get to sit inside and have a video camera film what you have to say. For about 3 minutes you can talk about whatever it is you want and it just basically films your head.
The producers screen the tapes and eventually broadcast on a weekly basis. It's quite successful at what it does, and for the most part it is rather entertaining and informative (I suppose after all the crap has been filtered out).
This idea is catching on as other stations install booths at malls and regularly play what they record.
If it makes you feel any better, the US was a prison labour colony for Africans.
The history books were all mistaken about the slaves. This is what really happened.
Long ago in Africa they had a pretty good society, economic development. Things were just peachy. Then these white Americans came over for international trade. They proposed to the African governments about the privatized prisons they have. Basically, the Africans were convinced that they should outsource their prison system. It made sense, and the bottom line was that they saved thousands of dollars (a lot of money in those days, but in this age, it would be the equivalent to one bajillion dollars!!)
So the African penal system was outsourced to the Americans. This caused an uproar because African penal workers were worried about losing their jobs, but the Americans said they could be brought over to run them. So things were ok. Criminals were caught and sentenced and sent to the American penal colony where they were forced to work in cotton fields to repent for their crimes. So you see, criminals are everywhere. It's not about being Anti-Foreigners, or Anti-American, it's about Anti-hiding the truth. And we all know the truth is out there.
Besides, this is what a friend of a friend of a friend told me.