Exactly. That is the problem that people miss with 'unenforceable' laws. They are the most dangerous kind of laws, as their sole use is to have something to punish people for when you don't like their legal activities.
The don't actually enforce that. Unless they mean simultaneously. I have 9 devices in my home that all stream from Netflix. I have never tried streaming from all 9 at once, but I have had 3 going at once.
As a vegetarian I do not particularly care much, but wouldn't that only add to the nutrient content of the product?
No, the nutritional value would not change much between say, pork sausage, and pork sausage with a little human. It would increase the risk of disease though. There reason animals should not eat their own kind is that the very kinds of diseases that would infect a human are not surprisingly found very commonly in humans, whereas the number of diseases that a cow or pig can contract that is transferable to a human is going to be much lower.
Before you think "See! This is why it is good to be a vegetarian! Food safety!" With meat, as long as you don't eat your own species, and cook the meat, you are going to be pretty darn safe. With plants, it is much more of a crap shoot. If you get a plant that will kill you, cooking it usually just means that you have hot death.
If you are ever stuck on the mythical deserted island, and you have to choose between eating an animal you have never seen before, or a plant that you have never seen before, if you can make a fire, the animal will be a much safer meal.
Yes, the people that are calling for Netflix to use technical means to stop this are cutting their nose off to spite their face. Netflix has been VERY generous on the TOS for their service. I personally have 9 separate devices registered for use on my Netflix account. With only 3 people in the household, it is uncommon for more than 2 to be used simultaneously, but having 2 running at the same time is pretty common. There is no way that I would want to be required to pay per device, or even per stream.
I'm not convince that making a law against sharing accounts is a good idea, as I think "IP" law has already gone to far, and should be scaled back before we even consider expanding it, but adding more DRM to Netflix is not the answer, and it would likely be worse for the customer than this law if viewed pragmatically.
There is nothing confusing about it. When your son is not living with you, he is not a member of your household. You are hoping that you can rationalize your son's illegal use of your Netflix account by playing dumb.
If you don't feel that the laws are bad, or that breaking that particular law doesn't matter, just admit it to yourself. Playing dumb just makes you look... well... dumb.
It is a power thing. It is also a way for them to put work "they" performed on their year end reviews. Part of being a good software designer is to anticipate what they will request, and making those configurable so that you can stop scope creep from killing a project. Three or four design change requests that can be responded with "That's a great idea. We have that configurable, so you can implement that in your installation.", validates their ideas while derailing the attempt to change the code.
If he gets a T-Mobile phone, he only need to be sure that it tethers, and his iPhone will work for data, and he can receive voice calls on the T-Mobile phone. This has the added benefit of being able to talk on the phone while looking at the iPhone at the cost of having to carry an second (small) device.
Get a prepaid phone that tethers on T-mobile. Take voice calls on the T-mobile, and use the iPhone as an iPodTouch during the trip data connected via wifi on the T-mobile.
Putting the phone down only works if his vacation isn't predicated on him being available to connect into the network for morning reports, or to handle an emergency. My personal experience last summer was that because of my smartphone, I was able to take a six week road trip around the country with my wife and child. If I could not have worked during the boring parts of the drive, and could not have been available for the periodic 'emergency', I simply could not have gone. Right now, I am planning a road trip to Canada. Again, I could not do this without a smartphone.
The extra big bonus of bringing my smartphone on vacation was that at the end of the six week trip, I proposed to my boss in a joking manner to feel him out that I would like to eventually spend a year or two traveling the country in an RV working from the road. He was clear that the idea was not off the table.
While some people have a hard time balancing work and home. For those that can, being always connected can give them huge advantages in both their work and home life. Dedicating 8 hours to work when they only need 1 because you are worried that they might need 2 is not more productive for work, and is detrimental to your home life.
No, he is suggesting that the guy not take the vacation at all, because if he has to do a few hours of work right in the middle of the week, he feels that the OP should just stay sitting at his desk.
Mine are not. I like finding the cool out of the way places that are really good in cities I am passing through. I like not getting lost in the worst parts of town. I like being able to take month long vacations traveling around the country that wouldn't happen at all if I kept my work bound to a desk instead of working from the back seat while traveling between sites.
While I agree with you in principal. Our education standards are so poor that basing it on "education" would be just as bad. I have found that the overlap of knowledge and critical thinking between those that are "educated" and those that are not is so large as to be a useless measure. If you take out the top and bottom 10% of people based on knowledge, you would have a very hard time telling who was "educated", and who wasn't.
You are why this stuff keeps happening. You encourage crime and corruption. Your statement is no better than saying. Don't put that serial rapist and murderer in jail because that would hurt his kids.
In my experience, you make the configuration tables so that the customer stops asking for changes. If an element is not configurable they will feel that it MUST be changed for acceptance. If it is configurable, they will be content with whatever it is when they see it. So, it isn't so much that they really want it changes as it is that they want to know they can change it. They just don't realize it.
As a homeschooling parent, I can say that Khan Academy is the best math related resource I have found. At 7, my son is doing math that generally isn't taught until the 5th or 6th grade.
The way they lay it out is really nice. When we started using it, I went over the chart with my son, and showed him how far he needed to go to be able to function as an adult. How far he needed to go to have completed the minimum high school math, how far Dad got in math, and how far he needs to go to pretty much 'complete' math. This has really helped him see Math as having completion points instead of being an endless treadmill.
Me and my wife are also going though all of the exercises ourselves, so he can see our chart filling along side of his. This has been a real motivator for him.
The whole things kind of points out that our society is over educated, while ironically still being undereducated. What I mean by that is that the is a not insignificant gap between being a functional, useful member of society, and being someone that will help drive society forward.
Most people don't need, and really don't end up better than an 8th grade education. These people are not bad or useless. Many of them really don't care to learn more than that. They spend 13 years in public education, then another 4, 6, or even 8 years in college to use what they knew in the 8th grade. It is a waste of human life. Not the people, but the 6-10 years they spend NOT getting anything useful from their 'education'.
While that happens, those that would push society forward are running through the same system that is designed to handle first set. Being educated is not considered a desirable trait in our society. Being 'Degreed' is. Heck, I had a cousin that was severely retarded. Her mental age never reached above that of a 5 year old. Her mother sure was proud when she graduated from college though.
This story just proves what I've been saying all along: If you don't know shit about it, leave it the fuck alone.
Sorry to respond to the same post twice, but I just noticed this gem. Most people don't know "shit" about what is in the very walls of their house. They don't know "shit" about electricity, and they don't know "shit" about combustion engines. If people left things alone that they didn't know "shit" about, they would all literally be living in caves like animals. If even that.
In theory you are right. Setting up a home VPN in trivial. Just buy one of the many routers that support it out of the box. Buffalo even sells routers with official support for DD-WRT. Sutting up VPN consists basically of putting in your username and password. For the large part of the population with dynamic DNS, most routers also support DynamicDNS services. If people can figure out how to sign up for Facebook, they can figure out how to sign up for DynamicDNS.
My problem is that currently the VPN client in Android is all but useless. It will not hold a stable connection, and and every time it disconnects, it requires that you exit your application, and go back in to the VPN settings to reentery your password. I REALLY want Google to implement a good VPN client. I want to be able to set my phone to always be connected to my VPN. If the VPN connection drops, it should automatically reconnect. It should work like the VPN client in my laptop.
I love my Android phones, but suggesting that people upgrade their OS is simply not a realistic answer. Vendor locking means that the vendor decides when you upgrade. And rooting is not the answer for the majority of users either.
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Exactly. That is the problem that people miss with 'unenforceable' laws. They are the most dangerous kind of laws, as their sole use is to have something to punish people for when you don't like their legal activities.
The don't actually enforce that. Unless they mean simultaneously. I have 9 devices in my home that all stream from Netflix. I have never tried streaming from all 9 at once, but I have had 3 going at once.
As a vegetarian I do not particularly care much, but wouldn't that only add to the nutrient content of the product?
No, the nutritional value would not change much between say, pork sausage, and pork sausage with a little human. It would increase the risk of disease though. There reason animals should not eat their own kind is that the very kinds of diseases that would infect a human are not surprisingly found very commonly in humans, whereas the number of diseases that a cow or pig can contract that is transferable to a human is going to be much lower.
Before you think "See! This is why it is good to be a vegetarian! Food safety!" With meat, as long as you don't eat your own species, and cook the meat, you are going to be pretty darn safe. With plants, it is much more of a crap shoot. If you get a plant that will kill you, cooking it usually just means that you have hot death.
If you are ever stuck on the mythical deserted island, and you have to choose between eating an animal you have never seen before, or a plant that you have never seen before, if you can make a fire, the animal will be a much safer meal.
Yes, the people that are calling for Netflix to use technical means to stop this are cutting their nose off to spite their face. Netflix has been VERY generous on the TOS for their service. I personally have 9 separate devices registered for use on my Netflix account. With only 3 people in the household, it is uncommon for more than 2 to be used simultaneously, but having 2 running at the same time is pretty common. There is no way that I would want to be required to pay per device, or even per stream.
I'm not convince that making a law against sharing accounts is a good idea, as I think "IP" law has already gone to far, and should be scaled back before we even consider expanding it, but adding more DRM to Netflix is not the answer, and it would likely be worse for the customer than this law if viewed pragmatically.
There is nothing confusing about it. When your son is not living with you, he is not a member of your household. You are hoping that you can rationalize your son's illegal use of your Netflix account by playing dumb.
If you don't feel that the laws are bad, or that breaking that particular law doesn't matter, just admit it to yourself. Playing dumb just makes you look... well... dumb.
Twilight only provides "no knowledge" if you don't count understanding societies cultures to be "no knowledge".
The irony of that statement is thick.
It is a power thing. It is also a way for them to put work "they" performed on their year end reviews. Part of being a good software designer is to anticipate what they will request, and making those configurable so that you can stop scope creep from killing a project. Three or four design change requests that can be responded with "That's a great idea. We have that configurable, so you can implement that in your installation.", validates their ideas while derailing the attempt to change the code.
If he gets a T-Mobile phone, he only need to be sure that it tethers, and his iPhone will work for data, and he can receive voice calls on the T-Mobile phone. This has the added benefit of being able to talk on the phone while looking at the iPhone at the cost of having to carry an second (small) device.
Get a prepaid phone that tethers on T-mobile. Take voice calls on the T-mobile, and use the iPhone as an iPodTouch during the trip data connected via wifi on the T-mobile.
Putting the phone down only works if his vacation isn't predicated on him being available to connect into the network for morning reports, or to handle an emergency. My personal experience last summer was that because of my smartphone, I was able to take a six week road trip around the country with my wife and child. If I could not have worked during the boring parts of the drive, and could not have been available for the periodic 'emergency', I simply could not have gone. Right now, I am planning a road trip to Canada. Again, I could not do this without a smartphone. The extra big bonus of bringing my smartphone on vacation was that at the end of the six week trip, I proposed to my boss in a joking manner to feel him out that I would like to eventually spend a year or two traveling the country in an RV working from the road. He was clear that the idea was not off the table. While some people have a hard time balancing work and home. For those that can, being always connected can give them huge advantages in both their work and home life. Dedicating 8 hours to work when they only need 1 because you are worried that they might need 2 is not more productive for work, and is detrimental to your home life.
No, he is suggesting that the guy not take the vacation at all, because if he has to do a few hours of work right in the middle of the week, he feels that the OP should just stay sitting at his desk.
Mine are not. I like finding the cool out of the way places that are really good in cities I am passing through. I like not getting lost in the worst parts of town. I like being able to take month long vacations traveling around the country that wouldn't happen at all if I kept my work bound to a desk instead of working from the back seat while traveling between sites.
While I agree with you in principal. Our education standards are so poor that basing it on "education" would be just as bad. I have found that the overlap of knowledge and critical thinking between those that are "educated" and those that are not is so large as to be a useless measure. If you take out the top and bottom 10% of people based on knowledge, you would have a very hard time telling who was "educated", and who wasn't.
You are why this stuff keeps happening. You encourage crime and corruption. Your statement is no better than saying. Don't put that serial rapist and murderer in jail because that would hurt his kids.
In my experience, you make the configuration tables so that the customer stops asking for changes. If an element is not configurable they will feel that it MUST be changed for acceptance. If it is configurable, they will be content with whatever it is when they see it. So, it isn't so much that they really want it changes as it is that they want to know they can change it. They just don't realize it.
As a homeschooling parent, I can say that Khan Academy is the best math related resource I have found. At 7, my son is doing math that generally isn't taught until the 5th or 6th grade.
The way they lay it out is really nice. When we started using it, I went over the chart with my son, and showed him how far he needed to go to be able to function as an adult. How far he needed to go to have completed the minimum high school math, how far Dad got in math, and how far he needs to go to pretty much 'complete' math. This has really helped him see Math as having completion points instead of being an endless treadmill. Me and my wife are also going though all of the exercises ourselves, so he can see our chart filling along side of his. This has been a real motivator for him.
You mean flipping burgers, or going to a 4-year college before starting their burger flipping career.
The whole things kind of points out that our society is over educated, while ironically still being undereducated. What I mean by that is that the is a not insignificant gap between being a functional, useful member of society, and being someone that will help drive society forward.
Most people don't need, and really don't end up better than an 8th grade education. These people are not bad or useless. Many of them really don't care to learn more than that. They spend 13 years in public education, then another 4, 6, or even 8 years in college to use what they knew in the 8th grade. It is a waste of human life. Not the people, but the 6-10 years they spend NOT getting anything useful from their 'education'.
While that happens, those that would push society forward are running through the same system that is designed to handle first set. Being educated is not considered a desirable trait in our society. Being 'Degreed' is. Heck, I had a cousin that was severely retarded. Her mental age never reached above that of a 5 year old. Her mother sure was proud when she graduated from college though.
This idea keeps sounding more and more like Farmville.
The ORIGINAL teabaggers were not FPS. The ones in FPS are just the ones that couldn't find anyone that was into it in real life.
This story just proves what I've been saying all along: If you don't know shit about it, leave it the fuck alone.
Sorry to respond to the same post twice, but I just noticed this gem. Most people don't know "shit" about what is in the very walls of their house. They don't know "shit" about electricity, and they don't know "shit" about combustion engines. If people left things alone that they didn't know "shit" about, they would all literally be living in caves like animals. If even that.
In theory you are right. Setting up a home VPN in trivial. Just buy one of the many routers that support it out of the box. Buffalo even sells routers with official support for DD-WRT. Sutting up VPN consists basically of putting in your username and password. For the large part of the population with dynamic DNS, most routers also support DynamicDNS services. If people can figure out how to sign up for Facebook, they can figure out how to sign up for DynamicDNS. My problem is that currently the VPN client in Android is all but useless. It will not hold a stable connection, and and every time it disconnects, it requires that you exit your application, and go back in to the VPN settings to reentery your password. I REALLY want Google to implement a good VPN client. I want to be able to set my phone to always be connected to my VPN. If the VPN connection drops, it should automatically reconnect. It should work like the VPN client in my laptop.
I love my Android phones, but suggesting that people upgrade their OS is simply not a realistic answer. Vendor locking means that the vendor decides when you upgrade. And rooting is not the answer for the majority of users either.
Speaking of safety. This would be the time to switch to DC power for everything on the inside of the breaker box.