When I buy a used car I don't get the original owners warranty or any free stuff which may have come with the original purchase, free services, road tax, insurance offers etc.
And because that's common practice, that makes it OK?
They're PRISONERS. You guys do understand what that means, right?
Yeah, it means their freedom is restricted. It does not mean it's OK to exploit them for labor. That's called a CONFLICT OF INTEREST, as it encourages the powers that be to have more prisoners. Public pays for them to be incarcerated (via taxes), but I guarantee the profit they generate with their labor does NOT go into recouping the cost o the incarceration (in China, anyway). It goes into someone's pocket.
Where would YOU draw the line between useful tasks and exploitation?
And saying one bad thing is less bad than another bad thing, as if it makes the first bad thing OK, it completely wrongheaded...
All of which are because the operation is illegal.
If the gov made bubble gum/shoes/xyz illegal (and there was a demand for said product), the same issues would be there, regardless of harmfulness/harmless of bubble gum/shoes/xyz.
- Whether the driver was wearing a seat-belt (other passengers too, if the vehicle is equipped to sense that)
See, that pisses me off. My wife's 2003 Saturn Vue's driver side seatbelt detector thing has been broken for at least 3 or 4 years. It constantly flashes a little light at you reminding you to put your seatbelt on, even when it is.
You think I'm going to pay a couple hundred bucks to get that shit fixed? Nooooo
America has plenty of people with guns, and hunters in America are so effective that we need to pass laws to prevent them from killing off all the wildlife in the country.
That's probably because wildlife doesn't generally break through your windows en masse and then eat your brains.
Hunters hunt stuff that's NOT dangerous, at a distance. Imagine if there are a few tens of millions of black bears wandering the streets of America...
And why should anyone trust that message? Can you be sure it was generated by the trusted firmware?
That makes no sense. Why would someone want to display the "this calculator fails the integrity check" message on purpose?
You display a message if it's been tampered with, and NO message if it's clean. That way there's no "This calculator passed the integrity check! All good!" message to fake.
The bad guys stole all the info Sony knew about you so there is no reasonable way of Sony differentiating the correct user 'X' from the bad guys.
Send me a letter (yes, snail-mail) that contains a one-time-use code that I can use to reset my password online. If you have my credit card info, you have my billing address...
Problem solved. But oh wait, that costs MONEY to do!
Heard about this on NPR this morning, and the researcher said there was no difference between caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee in the study. Both produced the same effect.
So if you don't like the stimulant-ness of coffee, drink decaf for the same protective effect.
In defense of CmdrTaco, the first generation iPod was a piece of crap It was expensive
compared to...what?
only had 5 GB of storage space
compared to what? A Rio player with the whopping 256MB of storage? It had a hard drive in it for fuck's sake! Any idea how much 5GB of flash would cost in 2001/2002?
required a FireWire port,
Awesome, because it was a gazillion times faster than USB 1, and an order of magnitude faster than USB 2.
Planes can transmit "in real time" much more information than what they record by using the same satellites used for those fancy global radio phones. That way, everything is captured at the moment it happens, including coordinates, which makes the plane easier to find.
Yeah really, haven't these guys heard of a remote syslog server?
Are you seriously suggesting that Bush should have attempted to get Bin Laden by taking the forces used in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- large formations of tanks, infantry, artillery, presaged by massive airstrikes -- and instead directing them at a confirmed nuclear-armed Pakistan?
According to Bush, Iraq had nukes, so I certainly don't think it was out of the question for him to take that tack. Now, it would be stupid, but I certainly don't put it past him...
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If the people who are saying this is a problem don't believe it is a problem, what makes you think it really is a problem?
They do believe it's a problem? They just don't want to sacrifice their quality of life, which makes them douchebags, but it doesn't make them wrong.
And frankly, I could care less about what these cheerleaders have to say. I care about the SCIENTISTS' opinion, and they say it's a problem.
If the people who are preaching about the need to reduce CO2 emissions are not doing anything to reduce their carbon emissions, why should I?
Because you're not an asshole?
Because 2 wrongs don't make a right?
I mean, whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess...
When I buy a used car I don't get the original owners warranty or any free stuff which may have come with the original purchase, free services, road tax, insurance offers etc.
And because that's common practice, that makes it OK?
Yeah, because rich parents have NOTHING to do with ANYTHING. lol
Nationalize them.
Breeding reactors are very expensive and complicated to operate, it is far cheaper to dump spent fuel somewhere.
That depends entirely on who it's "cheaper" for.
Nuclear company and their annual profits? Cheaper. For everyone else? Not so much.
You know what else is cheaper? No environmental regulations of any kind...which is why we have them.
They're PRISONERS. You guys do understand what that means, right?
Yeah, it means their freedom is restricted. It does not mean it's OK to exploit them for labor. That's called a CONFLICT OF INTEREST, as it encourages the powers that be to have more prisoners. Public pays for them to be incarcerated (via taxes), but I guarantee the profit they generate with their labor does NOT go into recouping the cost o the incarceration (in China, anyway). It goes into someone's pocket.
Where would YOU draw the line between useful tasks and exploitation?
And saying one bad thing is less bad than another bad thing, as if it makes the first bad thing OK, it completely wrongheaded...
Oblig Penny Arcade:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/5/2/
All of which are because the operation is illegal.
If the gov made bubble gum/shoes/xyz illegal (and there was a demand for said product), the same issues would be there, regardless of harmfulness/harmless of bubble gum/shoes/xyz.
Attempt logic much?
- Whether the driver was wearing a seat-belt (other passengers too, if the vehicle is equipped to sense that)
See, that pisses me off. My wife's 2003 Saturn Vue's driver side seatbelt detector thing has been broken for at least 3 or 4 years. It constantly flashes a little light at you reminding you to put your seatbelt on, even when it is.
You think I'm going to pay a couple hundred bucks to get that shit fixed? Nooooo
"Fast lane" is a term you won't find on any legal document or driving course.
Then why do I see signs like this in Northern Virginia?
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/file.php?2,file=21034,filename=Keep-Right.jpg
"SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT"
No it couldn't. Make it part of the boot ROM. Unless they guy is good at desoldering surface-mount chips...
See TiVo and why it's not at all easily hackable (flash/replace OS). Same thing.
America has plenty of people with guns, and hunters in America are so effective that we need to pass laws to prevent them from killing off all the wildlife in the country.
That's probably because wildlife doesn't generally break through your windows en masse and then eat your brains.
Hunters hunt stuff that's NOT dangerous, at a distance. Imagine if there are a few tens of millions of black bears wandering the streets of America...
And why should anyone trust that message? Can you be sure it was generated by the trusted firmware?
That makes no sense. Why would someone want to display the "this calculator fails the integrity check" message on purpose?
You display a message if it's been tampered with, and NO message if it's clean. That way there's no "This calculator passed the integrity check! All good!" message to fake.
Yes, but that requires physical effort. You'd have to send an army of thousands of scammers to mailboxes all over the country/world.
Not perfect, but 99.99% better than "enter your birthday and email address, both of which scammers have in their files"
The bad guys stole all the info Sony knew about you so there is no reasonable way of Sony differentiating the correct user 'X' from the bad guys.
Send me a letter (yes, snail-mail) that contains a one-time-use code that I can use to reset my password online. If you have my credit card info, you have my billing address...
Problem solved. But oh wait, that costs MONEY to do!
Heard about this on NPR this morning, and the researcher said there was no difference between caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee in the study. Both produced the same effect.
So if you don't like the stimulant-ness of coffee, drink decaf for the same protective effect.
Highlight of the day for me was the ability for an android app to connect to my home appliances termed Android@Home
The 90's called and they want their "Windows Everywhere" back.
The 70s called and want their X10 back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)
And a theocracy would want to protect the interests of big business because... ?
Because they're run by the same damn people? Controlling the prols and sucking down their money is a common goal...
The whole "dropping processor support" thing was overblown. Nvidia said they will produce Gingerbread video drivers for Harmony.
In defense of CmdrTaco, the first generation iPod was a piece of crap
It was expensive
compared to...what?
only had 5 GB of storage space
compared to what? A Rio player with the whopping 256MB of storage? It had a hard drive in it for fuck's sake! Any idea how much 5GB of flash would cost in 2001/2002?
required a FireWire port,
Awesome, because it was a gazillion times faster than USB 1, and an order of magnitude faster than USB 2.
and only had software available for the Mac
Awesome, I had a Mac then and had one now
obama handled this very poorly for someone who had an interest in claiming legitimacy.
He just wanted to make conservatives look like retards. And he succeeded .
Planes can transmit "in real time" much more information than what they record by using the same satellites used for those fancy global radio phones. That way, everything is captured at the moment it happens, including coordinates, which makes the plane easier to find.
Yeah really, haven't these guys heard of a remote syslog server?
Are you seriously suggesting that Bush should have attempted to get Bin Laden by taking the forces used in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- large formations of tanks, infantry, artillery, presaged by massive airstrikes -- and instead directing them at a confirmed nuclear-armed Pakistan?
According to Bush, Iraq had nukes, so I certainly don't think it was out of the question for him to take that tack. Now, it would be stupid, but I certainly don't put it past him...
Do they get sent to FLETC to do the cyber-training stuff or do they have their own training programs?
--Took the DEASTP class there 5 or 6 years ago, sooo easy.