um... no--the USPS is nearly bankrupt, public schools tend to be good only in suburban areas (schools in NYC itself versus the 'burbs tend to be... less than good, and the same can be said of Dallas and its suburbs if not other cities), and the highway system is increasingly being taken over by independent toll companies (who, after a bit of digging, all seem to be owned by three companies across the entire country).
I would like to believe this, but most of my students inform me that they veg in front of a tv all evening long. There is not much creativity in sitting in front of a flat screen... perhaps if they were playing video games... and at that, those video games requiring creativity, it might be different, but it seems like all too many people are turning into zombies
Why can ATT not do what Tmobile has done and include a small cell repeater into every home wireless modem? I assume that the patents are licensable or at least could be "stolen" temporarily in order to expand their network before a court order blocked more being sold. Furthermore, I assume that the technology is already in the hands of ATT people in a modified form and they are for reasons unknown not using it--hurrah for patenting the unpatentable "business models"!
Visual voicemail is not ATT exclusive. Apparently some patent troll grabbed it up years ago and Verizon and several others have licensed the technology after ATT lost in court.
Apparently providing ID is not necessary (unless, of course, they made a fake DL that met the Apple store criteria) as someone skimmed my credit card number (Hurrah for RFID!) and then bought two iphones, a new set of wheels (actual wheels, not a whole car), two hotel rooms on the same night in different locations, several meals at cheap restaurants, $200 worth of makeup, and had their vehicle repaired. I caught them a week into their shopping spree that went way over my normal purchasing habits. For anyone intrigued by "fraud protection" services from credit card companies, they are worthless. Still, I appreciate the "no liability" clause thrown into pretty much every credit card agreement now.
I appreciate unlimited calls anywhere, but with Skype, IÂve paid 30 for the year for unlimited to one country... depending on which country is chosen, he could end up paying even less than the 20/4 months that he is now.
Looking at the actual posting, it would appear to be simple satirical copy in Twitter format. The politician appears to have simply had his feelings hurt by someone opposed to his style of management and is using a howitzer to knock a fly off the nearest tree. Plus, by linking directly to the twitter-er, the politician has brought exposure to the very thing he wanted to shut down. It's the sort of thing that might end up spawning ten thousand other twitterpated people claiming the names "blaneytalk" or "blaneyspout" or something along those lines copying "blaneysblarney" in their parody of Donal Blaney's own twitter page.
Good question--on top of this, looking at both the "official" post and the satirical post, it would appear there is not much substantial difference in writing (wording is a bit different and political outlook, but both are fairly direct in their focus against the particular political opponent). I would think that the blaneyblarney poster could probably just keep going and ignore the order provided he's not in Britain (though if he is in Britain, he'll probably being having his door knocked down and his computer stolen... er... confiscated, in about 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
The problem is, the media hyped Obama so much, that even those who voted for him will be disappointed. I remember reading in Europe how some were calling him "savior" and a "demi-god" - That kind of hype means that even if Obama does a good / decent job at being president, he'll still be regarded as a failure by many come 3 years from now--and that, regardless of your party, is somewhat of a shame.
I don't find the law inappropriate--merely that I want to avoid finding myself necessarily in that situation because of poorly implemented technology (or given your example, poorly implemented law).
The kids who bring drugs / alcohol / weapons to school bring the problems down on themselves. Badly defined laws should be addressed--and you are right to suggest that there are issues with some, but behavior should sometimes be criminalized.
With specific reference to the pedophilia issue, I don't want to have anyone find such a thing on my computer, because I find the behavior reprehensible. Such behavior affects more than those in possession of it since, obviously, someone had to take the picture / video whatever. Further, studies repeatedly show a link between those with a tendency to view such material and those who act out their fantasies.
Possession laws should be enforced, but carefully. This requires care on the part of the legal system to ensure that my computer isn't part of a botnet that I unwittingly/unwillingly joined (or my neighbor's borrowing of my wifi because his broke "temporarily")... and on the part of the technical community to ensure that my transfer protocol does not unnecessarily expose me to taking part in criminal activities.
Perhaps we can institute a test... not that this would be politically correct or ever make it past the current wardens of the legal system, but in teaching circles, there is almost always a "common sense" test as part of the certification process. Questions include a fairly great variety including "If a kid is misbehaving in class, do you... a) hit the kid, b) speak with the kid privately about his behavior, c) contact parents d) both a and b or e) both b and/or c" - I would love to see "common sense" checks (if not tests) implemented throughout politics... (which we generally only have already in regards to accepted moral behavior).
So... how long until the news media starts shilling that file sharing is "illegal"?
This strikes me as a perfect way to get away with file sharing as "sneakernet 2.0." The method of sharing data between two phones can already be done on the iphone (though I think that is more of a GPS-linked WAN situation than a LAN situation).
I would suggest that this does pose a security problem. One of the other posters here has noted his lack of concern:
Encrypt information you want to send, then I don't care if 50 drug dealers, pedophiles, Catholic priests, scientologists, or other low-lives are involved in the chain, so long as the message reaches my intended recipient who has the proper key to decrypt it.
It seems though, that if pedophiles are on the same network as I am AND if I am routing my traffic through their systems, that I might be the one blamed... like with students I teach who are caught with contraband and later explain to the cop, "I swear, officer, someone put that XXXXXX in my bag, I don't know where it came from" - when possession itself is a crime, this could be problematic.
It will be suggested that the encryption part solves the problem--but how do I know if the server through which I am temporarily housing my communication is sniffing and breaking the encryption only to add more to it?
Given how much Comcast costs in my area, a good solution for me, if I didn't have decently price ATT uverse here, would be to use an iphone data plan (not limited to 5gb like the others) and use the sim card with a router. about 5 mbps on the new 3gs currently (slower than advertised, but really, what do you expect?). That is fast enough to stream from hulu et al.
Warehouse 13... Eureka... standard sf opera... followed by the new space opera Stargate... (or do you think it will continue to be that oriented towards action)... hurrah for the new Stargate DS9... err...
I think you are thinking ftc, since there is likely to be trouble merging companies that large with that much market share unless they burn certain parts of their network
Yes on sequestering carbon faster... problematically, they also sap everything useful out of the ground (which then either requires chemical fertilizers--nasty on the environment) or crop rotation / resting. Also problematically, one of the most commonly used trees, the eucalyptus, grows like a weed almost anywhere you find a paper mill and chokes out whatever was already there... that and it's inedible to many native animal species (apart from its original home) and the problem is compounded. It's a toss up as to whether or not paper tree farms are environmentally a problem.
Of perhaps greater import, recent initiatives in the US have pushed for more trees to be planted everywhere. This is despite the fact that significantly more trees/forests exist than a 100 years ago (look at a US forestry service historical survey for more on that), and the need for balance. One disturbing claim to me was that we needed to return the forests to Kansas, which, if I recall correctly, was actually part of the "Great American Desert" / great Plains until recent changes. I am all for having more trees, but to say that environmental responsibility requires the US to turn the Great Plains into Amazon2 is a bit much.
Who needs to find it? All they have to do is have you declare all electronics, remove them from the vehicle and then irradiate the vehicle enough to destroy anything hidden but not destroy the car... you will then say, aha!, I'll just hide the SD card next to the car's computer... which should probably be something they would then know to look for.
The problem in the end, though, is that they will not implement any of those ideas because of the risk of actually frying the car's computer and getting sued.
Taxing stockholders won't work unless it is done on a federal level. Taxing stockholders also will not work because none of us will agree to it--and despite the fact that many have lost their life-savings in the past two years, there are still a large number of people with money in the market.
Most stockholders are fed up with current laws related to taxation of trades as they are. The mutual fund taxation system is too convoluted with precisely what you recommend currently being implemented on the practical level (capital gains etc).
Part of the original settlement has unfortunately made much of the google book search feature worthless for people in my field--too many books are restricted to "snippet" view by the publisher. I have purchased two books as a result of successful searches on Google because I wanted to have a physical copy for when the search still worked but the viewing of pages went past the limit. I have purchased none of the books I couldn't search through because I couldn't find the content. The library has been helpful but having a physical copy and an unlimited search to go alongside it has been vital to my studies.
There are already companies set up and re-printing books, paying a fee to google for the use of their archive of out of print material. I think there was an article on it recently here but don't remember the name of machine used.
perhaps I'm wrong about this, but using dead trees isn't really a problem in terms of carbon consumption. It may have other environmental factors (the types of trees grown on tree farms for use in paper mills do tend to grow quickly, sap the ground until it is effectively dead, and replace native species. The issue with paper made from trees is one of resource management related to other fields than carbon trapping. When we turn it into a book, the carbon in the tree is still trapped, not released into the atmosphere (unless you are a fan of burning books, in which case, some might become atmospheric depending on the level of your burn and whether or not you included steinbeck's works in your affair).
When I order a Hamburger, I expect it to look like the picture. I don't expect it to be identical, but if the picture shows a 3 strips of tender juicy bacon, a leaf of green lettuce, and a bit of sauce showing from the inside, on a round attractive bun, itself on a clean dry wrapper... that's what I would like to get. Too often I get a squashed greasy mess with sauce and grease on the outside of the bun and all over the wrapper, the bacon is dried out and broken, the lettuce is a big white rib, the cheese is only half on and hanging out one side, the tomato is only half on and hanging out the other...
If your hamburger doesn't look like the picture, there are actually a number of possibilities that might fit your situation:
1. Your hamburger was "to go" and thus was wrapped in a way that would allow it to travel safely
2. Your hamburger was "to go" and they figured you wouldn't know they'd used the leftovers from last night until you were too far away to justify coming back
3. the manager isn't there yet
4. the employee only speaks *insert non-dominant language here* and the manager speaks only *insert dominant language here*
5. the hamburger was ordered "for here" and was put together badly by the employee.
If the last of these applies, go to the manager and tell him your hamburger is substandard. Your best bet is to order one of the "bigger meatier" ones they just came out with. You pay more, but it actually usually looks like the picture.
USA Today online also had a piece (read it on my iphone) on it and every paper from al jazeera to the guardian have it on their pages today (google "italian mafia waste")
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um... no--the USPS is nearly bankrupt, public schools tend to be good only in suburban areas (schools in NYC itself versus the 'burbs tend to be ... less than good, and the same can be said of Dallas and its suburbs if not other cities), and the highway system is increasingly being taken over by independent toll companies (who, after a bit of digging, all seem to be owned by three companies across the entire country).
I would like to believe this, but most of my students inform me that they veg in front of a tv all evening long. There is not much creativity in sitting in front of a flat screen ... perhaps if they were playing video games... and at that, those video games requiring creativity, it might be different, but it seems like all too many people are turning into zombies
Thanks--while I obviously can't mod you "informative," I do appreciate the input.
Why can ATT not do what Tmobile has done and include a small cell repeater into every home wireless modem? I assume that the patents are licensable or at least could be "stolen" temporarily in order to expand their network before a court order blocked more being sold. Furthermore, I assume that the technology is already in the hands of ATT people in a modified form and they are for reasons unknown not using it--hurrah for patenting the unpatentable "business models"!
Visual voicemail is not ATT exclusive. Apparently some patent troll grabbed it up years ago and Verizon and several others have licensed the technology after ATT lost in court.
Apparently providing ID is not necessary (unless, of course, they made a fake DL that met the Apple store criteria) as someone skimmed my credit card number (Hurrah for RFID!) and then bought two iphones, a new set of wheels (actual wheels, not a whole car), two hotel rooms on the same night in different locations, several meals at cheap restaurants, $200 worth of makeup, and had their vehicle repaired. I caught them a week into their shopping spree that went way over my normal purchasing habits. For anyone intrigued by "fraud protection" services from credit card companies, they are worthless. Still, I appreciate the "no liability" clause thrown into pretty much every credit card agreement now.
I appreciate unlimited calls anywhere, but with Skype, IÂve paid 30 for the year for unlimited to one country... depending on which country is chosen, he could end up paying even less than the 20/4 months that he is now.
Looking at the actual posting, it would appear to be simple satirical copy in Twitter format. The politician appears to have simply had his feelings hurt by someone opposed to his style of management and is using a howitzer to knock a fly off the nearest tree. Plus, by linking directly to the twitter-er, the politician has brought exposure to the very thing he wanted to shut down. It's the sort of thing that might end up spawning ten thousand other twitterpated people claiming the names "blaneytalk" or "blaneyspout" or something along those lines copying "blaneysblarney" in their parody of Donal Blaney's own twitter page.
Good question--on top of this, looking at both the "official" post and the satirical post, it would appear there is not much substantial difference in writing (wording is a bit different and political outlook, but both are fairly direct in their focus against the particular political opponent). I would think that the blaneyblarney poster could probably just keep going and ignore the order provided he's not in Britain (though if he is in Britain, he'll probably being having his door knocked down and his computer stolen... er... confiscated, in about 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
The problem is, the media hyped Obama so much, that even those who voted for him will be disappointed. I remember reading in Europe how some were calling him "savior" and a "demi-god" - That kind of hype means that even if Obama does a good / decent job at being president, he'll still be regarded as a failure by many come 3 years from now--and that, regardless of your party, is somewhat of a shame.
I don't find the law inappropriate--merely that I want to avoid finding myself necessarily in that situation because of poorly implemented technology (or given your example, poorly implemented law).
The kids who bring drugs / alcohol / weapons to school bring the problems down on themselves. Badly defined laws should be addressed--and you are right to suggest that there are issues with some, but behavior should sometimes be criminalized.
With specific reference to the pedophilia issue, I don't want to have anyone find such a thing on my computer, because I find the behavior reprehensible. Such behavior affects more than those in possession of it since, obviously, someone had to take the picture / video whatever. Further, studies repeatedly show a link between those with a tendency to view such material and those who act out their fantasies.
Possession laws should be enforced, but carefully. This requires care on the part of the legal system to ensure that my computer isn't part of a botnet that I unwittingly/unwillingly joined (or my neighbor's borrowing of my wifi because his broke "temporarily")... and on the part of the technical community to ensure that my transfer protocol does not unnecessarily expose me to taking part in criminal activities.
Perhaps we can institute a test... not that this would be politically correct or ever make it past the current wardens of the legal system, but in teaching circles, there is almost always a "common sense" test as part of the certification process. Questions include a fairly great variety including "If a kid is misbehaving in class, do you... a) hit the kid, b) speak with the kid privately about his behavior, c) contact parents d) both a and b or e) both b and/or c" - I would love to see "common sense" checks (if not tests) implemented throughout politics... (which we generally only have already in regards to accepted moral behavior).
N.B. The "correct" answer is e.
So... how long until the news media starts shilling that file sharing is "illegal"?
This strikes me as a perfect way to get away with file sharing as "sneakernet 2.0." The method of sharing data between two phones can already be done on the iphone (though I think that is more of a GPS-linked WAN situation than a LAN situation).
I would suggest that this does pose a security problem. One of the other posters here has noted his lack of concern:
Encrypt information you want to send, then I don't care if 50 drug dealers, pedophiles, Catholic priests, scientologists, or other low-lives are involved in the chain, so long as the message reaches my intended recipient who has the proper key to decrypt it.
It seems though, that if pedophiles are on the same network as I am AND if I am routing my traffic through their systems, that I might be the one blamed ... like with students I teach who are caught with contraband and later explain to the cop, "I swear, officer, someone put that XXXXXX in my bag, I don't know where it came from" - when possession itself is a crime, this could be problematic.
It will be suggested that the encryption part solves the problem--but how do I know if the server through which I am temporarily housing my communication is sniffing and breaking the encryption only to add more to it?
Given how much Comcast costs in my area, a good solution for me, if I didn't have decently price ATT uverse here, would be to use an iphone data plan (not limited to 5gb like the others) and use the sim card with a router. about 5 mbps on the new 3gs currently (slower than advertised, but really, what do you expect?). That is fast enough to stream from hulu et al.
Warehouse 13... Eureka... standard sf opera... followed by the new space opera Stargate... (or do you think it will continue to be that oriented towards action)... hurrah for the new Stargate DS9... err...
I think you are thinking ftc, since there is likely to be trouble merging companies that large with that much market share unless they burn certain parts of their network
Yes on sequestering carbon faster... problematically, they also sap everything useful out of the ground (which then either requires chemical fertilizers--nasty on the environment) or crop rotation / resting. Also problematically, one of the most commonly used trees, the eucalyptus, grows like a weed almost anywhere you find a paper mill and chokes out whatever was already there... that and it's inedible to many native animal species (apart from its original home) and the problem is compounded. It's a toss up as to whether or not paper tree farms are environmentally a problem.
Of perhaps greater import, recent initiatives in the US have pushed for more trees to be planted everywhere. This is despite the fact that significantly more trees/forests exist than a 100 years ago (look at a US forestry service historical survey for more on that), and the need for balance. One disturbing claim to me was that we needed to return the forests to Kansas, which, if I recall correctly, was actually part of the "Great American Desert" / great Plains until recent changes. I am all for having more trees, but to say that environmental responsibility requires the US to turn the Great Plains into Amazon2 is a bit much.
Who needs to find it? All they have to do is have you declare all electronics, remove them from the vehicle and then irradiate the vehicle enough to destroy anything hidden but not destroy the car... you will then say, aha!, I'll just hide the SD card next to the car's computer... which should probably be something they would then know to look for.
The problem in the end, though, is that they will not implement any of those ideas because of the risk of actually frying the car's computer and getting sued.
Taxing stockholders won't work unless it is done on a federal level. Taxing stockholders also will not work because none of us will agree to it--and despite the fact that many have lost their life-savings in the past two years, there are still a large number of people with money in the market.
Most stockholders are fed up with current laws related to taxation of trades as they are. The mutual fund taxation system is too convoluted with precisely what you recommend currently being implemented on the practical level (capital gains etc).
Part of the original settlement has unfortunately made much of the google book search feature worthless for people in my field--too many books are restricted to "snippet" view by the publisher. I have purchased two books as a result of successful searches on Google because I wanted to have a physical copy for when the search still worked but the viewing of pages went past the limit. I have purchased none of the books I couldn't search through because I couldn't find the content. The library has been helpful but having a physical copy and an unlimited search to go alongside it has been vital to my studies.
There are already companies set up and re-printing books, paying a fee to google for the use of their archive of out of print material. I think there was an article on it recently here but don't remember the name of machine used.
perhaps I'm wrong about this, but using dead trees isn't really a problem in terms of carbon consumption. It may have other environmental factors (the types of trees grown on tree farms for use in paper mills do tend to grow quickly, sap the ground until it is effectively dead, and replace native species. The issue with paper made from trees is one of resource management related to other fields than carbon trapping. When we turn it into a book, the carbon in the tree is still trapped, not released into the atmosphere (unless you are a fan of burning books, in which case, some might become atmospheric depending on the level of your burn and whether or not you included steinbeck's works in your affair).
When I order a Hamburger, I expect it to look like the picture. I don't expect it to be identical, but if the picture shows a 3 strips of tender juicy bacon, a leaf of green lettuce, and a bit of sauce showing from the inside, on a round attractive bun, itself on a clean dry wrapper... that's what I would like to get. Too often I get a squashed greasy mess with sauce and grease on the outside of the bun and all over the wrapper, the bacon is dried out and broken, the lettuce is a big white rib, the cheese is only half on and hanging out one side, the tomato is only half on and hanging out the other...
If your hamburger doesn't look like the picture, there are actually a number of possibilities that might fit your situation:
1. Your hamburger was "to go" and thus was wrapped in a way that would allow it to travel safely
2. Your hamburger was "to go" and they figured you wouldn't know they'd used the leftovers from last night until you were too far away to justify coming back
3. the manager isn't there yet
4. the employee only speaks *insert non-dominant language here* and the manager speaks only *insert dominant language here*
5. the hamburger was ordered "for here" and was put together badly by the employee.
If the last of these applies, go to the manager and tell him your hamburger is substandard. Your best bet is to order one of the "bigger meatier" ones they just came out with. You pay more, but it actually usually looks like the picture.
sorry--used to wysiwyg comment boxes
USA Today online also had a piece (read it on my iphone) on it and every paper from al jazeera to the guardian have it on their pages today (google "italian mafia waste")