Yes, but the point is that MediaSentry is not licensed to investigate in Texas. If you want to prosecute someone there are certain standards you have to meet in collecting evidence. Being a licensed investigator is probably one of them.
Maybe we're both saying the same thing? I'm not sure what your point is.
If MediaSentry is licensed in some states certainly they must follow the general guidelines that Texas requires of licensed investigators.
What if Texas applies rules to investigations that protect Texans, but not others, from certain practices, or if certain things are permitted under Texas regulations but prohibited elsewhere?
I think it would be unlikely for a judge to say "Okay, we'll accept agencies licensed in Texas", because you then loose the ability to enforce investigators operating in your state to conform to the guidelines of your state - anybody could go get licensed in the most lax state for the area of investigation that is their primary focus.
I'm not a fan of.Net apps myself because I look on it as "lazy programing" (that's a separate discussion). However, you install it and it just sits there out of the way until you try to run a.Net app that requires it.
Surely this would be one good use of RFID. Then you could scan the disposal, and scan the patient, and make sure everything was detected in one and nothing left in the other.
I'd hate to be the one trying to scan barcodes from blood-soaked sponges. Isn't some equipment too small to barcode?
Usually I find that any company wants an active dialog with its user base. It undeniably helps you make a better product.
When that dialog does not occur usually it is because the product team are overloaded in terms of the features they have to implement in the time frame that they've been allocated. Sometimes you just don't have time to engage with external entities to the degree that you'd like, or at all. On a product as significant as IE has proven to be in influencing defacto standards, that is quite dangerous.
The worst part is that they tell us WGA is all about protecting their legal users and keeping down the cost of piracy, then they launch Vista Ultimate at $400.
If they want to build trust in WGA, give me the "pro" version of the OS for $100. If you need to charge $400 then either WGA hasn't helped MS at all while it has burdened me, or else it has helped MS but I see none of the benefits but am still burdened by it.
Even with 3, it won't be accurate because signal strength goes up and down.
It won't be "accurate" regardless, but it will still be ballpark. Your examples are nisleading. If you're in a building, or an elevator for that matter (per your example), the signal strength is degraded for all nearby towers and thus you can still be triangulated in the same way.
Obviously a GPS-enabled phone is still the best solution.
Yes, 1KM is pretty close for a non-GPS-equipped phone.
Think about the workflow - Google Maps can automatically zoom you in to a really small area of global mapping data, and in most cases you're going to want to browse 1KM or greater anyway to have an overview of where you are, what the nearby roads are, and where you are going. You can easily zoom in and out or scroll around from there, getting to exactly what you want to view in seconds.
The alternative is to have you sit there and type in your location, which perhaps you don't even know (but could recognize if you could see the nearby road layouts or satellite view), or to have you zoom all the way down from the continental map of the US manually over a cell connection (i.e. quite slowly).
If you had to drive to your relatives on Thanksgiving you would have used this feature to get ballpark, and then corrected it, and then typed in a destination. Hopefully, though, you know where your relatives live:P
Side: I just got an 8310 (Blackberry Curve), it has GPS built in and with a fix of 5 satellites it seems to be accurate to about 10 meters or less, and this feature also works with Google Maps (as well as MapQuest, TeleNav, Blackberry maps, and maybe some others I haven't tried).
I don't sort out the printer, my hands are far too delicate for that;)
Nobody is going to complain about a cop using a taser to defend themselves against someone wielding a knife. The problem is that the use of the taser often seems unnecessary.
You can't make the argument that you need tasers to defend yourselves against knives, for instance, and then have your buddies go and tase people for being hysterical, or to "calm them down", or even, in my opinion, for attempting to flee unless you would otherwise have used deadly force to stop them.
If you want to claim that you need the taser to defend yourself against deadly assault that's fine. In return, we will expect you to use the taser mainly in this circumstance and consider other uses abuse and/or torture.
people are just too fucking stupid to be told at times
Yes, some people are. And the problem of teen predators will never go away no matter what we do.
Now, do we: A) Educate people, have a population that largely understands privacy risks, and still have teen predators, or, B) Put this law into place, have a population that expects their Government to look after all their privacy concerns, and still have teen predators?
Predators aren't going away any time soon. On the other hand, the rights of the people all around the world appear to be.
In many countries people under the age of 18 can have student loans, drive cars, drink, have sex, but now we won't let them put their contact information on the net? Teenagers are people too, and they should have the right to make contact with whomever they choose.
Governments shouldn't muscle in as parents. If you want to reduce the abuse of minors via the Internet educate parents to help them understand the risks, and educate teens to help them understand the risks and how to avoid them. Show them some episodes of Dateline: To Catch A Preditor. Warn them about the lack of privacy on social networking sites and how easy it is to locate someone based on some simple searches. Run a mandatory 4 week annual course for all high schoolers with updated materials reflecting current threats.
Help people understand what they're getting into, but don't start censoring them.
If there is one thing you should understand about tech-literate teenagers, it is that they will find a way if they want to. It's better to educate and let them protect themselves than to try and protect them all with laws like this.
... that's not the choice in many cases where tasers are actually used. Countless YouTube videos prove it, and those were just the incidents caught on film.
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Yes, but the point is that MediaSentry is not licensed to investigate in Texas. If you want to prosecute someone there are certain standards you have to meet in collecting evidence. Being a licensed investigator is probably one of them.
Maybe we're both saying the same thing? I'm not sure what your point is.
If MediaSentry is licensed in some states certainly they must follow the general guidelines that Texas requires of licensed investigators.
What if Texas applies rules to investigations that protect Texans, but not others, from certain practices, or if certain things are permitted under Texas regulations but prohibited elsewhere?
I think it would be unlikely for a judge to say "Okay, we'll accept agencies licensed in Texas", because you then loose the ability to enforce investigators operating in your state to conform to the guidelines of your state - anybody could go get licensed in the most lax state for the area of investigation that is their primary focus.
Oh the irony, I wish I could mod the guy who modded you -1 Troll +1 Funny!
The Reg is currently questioning Apple's approach even in addressing well-known security vulnerabilities that it has actually acknowledged:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/15/apple_security_fixes/
What is wrong with .Net?
.Net apps myself because I look on it as "lazy programing" (that's a separate discussion). However, you install it and it just sits there out of the way until you try to run a .Net app that requires it.
I'm not a fan of
let alone after being pulled used and bloodied from the body of a patient. .. in the middle of a critical surgery ..
Surely this would be one good use of RFID. Then you could scan the disposal, and scan the patient, and make sure everything was detected in one and nothing left in the other.
I'd hate to be the one trying to scan barcodes from blood-soaked sponges. Isn't some equipment too small to barcode?
Usually I find that any company wants an active dialog with its user base. It undeniably helps you make a better product.
When that dialog does not occur usually it is because the product team are overloaded in terms of the features they have to implement in the time frame that they've been allocated. Sometimes you just don't have time to engage with external entities to the degree that you'd like, or at all. On a product as significant as IE has proven to be in influencing defacto standards, that is quite dangerous.
The worst part is that they tell us WGA is all about protecting their legal users and keeping down the cost of piracy, then they launch Vista Ultimate at $400.
If they want to build trust in WGA, give me the "pro" version of the OS for $100. If you need to charge $400 then either WGA hasn't helped MS at all while it has burdened me, or else it has helped MS but I see none of the benefits but am still burdened by it.
I second that motion! ..slides bead left..
..5.. 10.. 15.. 20.. 23..
Now we just need..
23 more votes for the motion to pass!
Please stop raping the PDF format.
Thanks!
- The Internet.
P.S. Foxit.
you're only thinking in two dimensions. the intersection of two spheres is a circle
I don't know about you, but I don't own a helicopter.
There are several versions of the curve, the 8310 has the GPS.
You could take the union.
No, knowing Google, it's already the final version!
Even with 3, it won't be accurate because signal strength goes up and down.
It won't be "accurate" regardless, but it will still be ballpark. Your examples are nisleading. If you're in a building, or an elevator for that matter (per your example), the signal strength is degraded for all nearby towers and thus you can still be triangulated in the same way.
Obviously a GPS-enabled phone is still the best solution.
Yes, 1KM is pretty close for a non-GPS-equipped phone.
:P
Think about the workflow - Google Maps can automatically zoom you in to a really small area of global mapping data, and in most cases you're going to want to browse 1KM or greater anyway to have an overview of where you are, what the nearby roads are, and where you are going. You can easily zoom in and out or scroll around from there, getting to exactly what you want to view in seconds.
The alternative is to have you sit there and type in your location, which perhaps you don't even know (but could recognize if you could see the nearby road layouts or satellite view), or to have you zoom all the way down from the continental map of the US manually over a cell connection (i.e. quite slowly).
If you had to drive to your relatives on Thanksgiving you would have used this feature to get ballpark, and then corrected it, and then typed in a destination. Hopefully, though, you know where your relatives live
Side: I just got an 8310 (Blackberry Curve), it has GPS built in and with a fix of 5 satellites it seems to be accurate to about 10 meters or less, and this feature also works with Google Maps (as well as MapQuest, TeleNav, Blackberry maps, and maybe some others I haven't tried).
Get the disc at a discount, run AnyDVD, sounds good to me!
I don't sort out the printer, my hands are far too delicate for that ;)
Nobody is going to complain about a cop using a taser to defend themselves against someone wielding a knife. The problem is that the use of the taser often seems unnecessary.
You can't make the argument that you need tasers to defend yourselves against knives, for instance, and then have your buddies go and tase people for being hysterical, or to "calm them down", or even, in my opinion, for attempting to flee unless you would otherwise have used deadly force to stop them.
If you want to claim that you need the taser to defend yourself against deadly assault that's fine. In return, we will expect you to use the taser mainly in this circumstance and consider other uses abuse and/or torture.
"we're holding his royalties in trust.."
I believe we're already paying to the "enforcement equipment cost" as part of our taxes, no?
people are just too fucking stupid to be told at times
Yes, some people are. And the problem of teen predators will never go away no matter what we do.
Now, do we:
A) Educate people, have a population that largely understands privacy risks, and still have teen predators, or,
B) Put this law into place, have a population that expects their Government to look after all their privacy concerns, and still have teen predators?
Predators aren't going away any time soon. On the other hand, the rights of the people all around the world appear to be.
In many countries people under the age of 18 can have student loans, drive cars, drink, have sex, but now we won't let them put their contact information on the net? Teenagers are people too, and they should have the right to make contact with whomever they choose.
Governments shouldn't muscle in as parents. If you want to reduce the abuse of minors via the Internet educate parents to help them understand the risks, and educate teens to help them understand the risks and how to avoid them. Show them some episodes of Dateline: To Catch A Preditor. Warn them about the lack of privacy on social networking sites and how easy it is to locate someone based on some simple searches. Run a mandatory 4 week annual course for all high schoolers with updated materials reflecting current threats.
Help people understand what they're getting into, but don't start censoring them.
If there is one thing you should understand about tech-literate teenagers, it is that they will find a way if they want to. It's better to educate and let them protect themselves than to try and protect them all with laws like this.
... that's not the choice in many cases where tasers are actually used. Countless YouTube videos prove it, and those were just the incidents caught on film.
There's a difference between being hurt and being tortured. I think you're missing the point of the argument.