And then try clicking on an icon with just your eyes. Do you just stare at it harder? Wink your left eye? I'm sure the actual implementation of an eyes-only input would not just try to replace a mouse cursor with gaze positioning, but it's already difficult enough to just track eye position for this sort of application, let alone figure out intent.
It would still be significantly higher production cost, which I clearly have no basis to put a real number to. Read-only SSD memory is not significantly different in production cost compared to a writable. The cost to product the hardware itself requires much more than a disc, and then the cost to duplicate is also significantly higher because of how long it takes to copy.
Because a 50GB SSD costs about $100 per unit at minimum, and who wants to pay $100+the cost of the movie? You? I doubt it. Way cheaper to mass produce CD/DVD/Blu Ray.
If you could prove my intent was to take your money and then immediately exercise my right to kick you off my property for no particular reason other than my own whimsical desire to make money, then that would be fraud. However, basically any business has the right to eject people for any reason except where it involves illegal discrimination based on protected minorities/groups.
And in this case, who knows who told them that it was okay to do so. Could have been any random employee who doesn't know the policy overall, or if there is special policy during the time of CES event.
If it's actually in their signed agreement that they can do what they were doing and the hotel doesn't have another "this is why" up their sleeve, then they could have a way to pursue relief. Unlikely that such is true.
On private property, he who owns the private property has sole discretion over what can and cannot be done on that property within the realms of legal activities. Obviously illegal activities are not allowed with or without the owner's discretion.
Yeah, I don't have any problem with someone using any particular email domain (well okay maybe goatse) for their personal email. My thoughts change when it comes to businesses though. I understand that small businesses don't have their own email domain necessarily, and some don't see the value of it at all, but when I see advertising for a business with @aol.com, @earthlink.net, @anythinggeneric.whatever I really have to wonder about them. If you know it's worth having an internet presence, but you can't put out the $50 (max) a year for your own email domain, then why on earth should I trust you with my money!
I don't karma whore, it was just an XKCD that I had read moments before this article...seemed too much of a coincidence to let it go. But I'll try to conform to non-meme based postings in the future for your benefit.
Unfortunately no president since I've been alive has really cut spending in a certain area withOUT the spending it elsewhere. Every time they cut and make a big deal about saving money on XYZ they are failing to mention the fact that the huge savings has been wholly applied to new project ABC.
Certainly if you think some important secret of yours will be revealed by giving Netflix that information, you shouldn't give it. However, for me, I like giving them that information because they have used it to recommend movies quite successfully. I don't care if anybody knows I watched Kate & Leopold three times in a row. I'm not going to go out of my way to post what I watch on my FB profile, but if it was there, I wouldn't care.
And this is all assuming that there even is a coordinated effort. Remember, there are people with ideological opposition to central coordination (government). Now look at the number of conspiracy theories that abound around global warming, despite it being pretty bloody obvious at this point that the weather is out of whack. Do you really think that these people would go ahead with the deflection effort, and the economic sacrifices that requires? No, they'd accuse astronomers of falsifying data, right up until the fiery mountain fell.
And there are people with the ideological opposition to anything human, that we bipedal oxygen breathers are a blight on the earth that is must be stopped.
It's not bloody obvious to me that the weather is out of whack. Warm summer, cold winter...some summers are warmer, some winters are colder. How is this out of whack? There's a big difference between a science that is hotly debated because there's no actual proof (only evidence that can point many directions) and there being an actual asteroid on a collision course for earth. If the evidence of the asteroid wasn't based on observation of an asteroid but assumptions drawn from a small timeframe of data that suggests an asteroid is likely on a collision course with earth, then you'd have people hotly debating it like global warming.
The problem is there are scientists and worse, politicians asking us to have FAITH in them that what they're saying is true. No offense to them, but faith is not something I put in either of those people. Politicians don't deserve it and scientists shouldn't need it. Maybe if meteorologists could predict the LOCAL weather more than 30 minutes in advance without blowing it 75% of the time then we might lend more credence to people who presume to predict global climate decades in advance. MIGHT...not saying that they would, or even should. Global warming is not prove to be either a human generated phenomenon NOR a phenomenon that human-kind can have any impact on.
and with the story posted on slashdot, the article will soon be updated to lead dad-to-be to the strip club as a necessary part of birthing preparation....or tell them it actually comes out of a different hole
1. Not assuming. Very clear case of taking something that is not theirs to take.
2. If the person claims they need to steal 3G wireless because their families are hungry they are either a liar or have their priorities way out of whack.
3. It is not bending the EULA to take a service for which you have not paid. Same way that if you got free electricity to power your porch light, hacked that special power line and consumed enough kilowattHours to light up vegas would be straight stealing, not bending a EULA.
4. Remove dirty little jobless, just leave it as thieves. Their prosecution, should they continue to steal approaches inevitability.
5. Not sure what happened to 5, but it may have been a good argument.
6. Voluntary charity works wonders. Mandatory charity whether brought on by government regulation, or self appropriation (stealing) is not. Specifically referring to my contention that giving away things is not socially responsible, if everyone was given everything they wanted, what motivation would they have to contribute? And what happens when those who do contribute get tired of contributing to those who don't and stop contributing? Suddenly you have a bunch of people who are used to getting things handed to them as if they are entitled who have no clue how to survive on their own. No one should rely on anyone outside of their immediate family for anything. That reliance either makes you that person's servant or will leave you completely incapable of survival if that person's help ends.
7. For every good or service that is taken without compensation, the price of the remaining goods and services goes up. If a loaf of bread suddenly cost $500 because it was supposedly okay to steal bread, that would destroy the bread industry.
You violated the contract by stealing something, violating a contract and committing a crime and not mutually exclusive.
I'm not saying you're stealing from BMW if you use your own preference of oil and filters. Closer would be if you got a $5000 rebate by signing an agreement to use their oil and filters when you bought the car, but instead buying it from Valvoline. But even that is a bit of a stretch. Perhaps BMW has a service agreement with you to give you free car washes for 2 years after purchasing your BMW. While it would be unlikely to succeed if you "hacked" that service and brought in another vehicle and used the free service, THAT is stealing in the same way. Let's say it worked because the person running the carwash has poor eyesight, it's not the fault of BMW or even the nearsighted carwash operator that you decided to steal a service. It's your fault.
Many people leave their car doors and even house doors unlocked...sometimes when it's warmer they even leave their car windows and house doors open! That doesn't mean theft from those places becomes any more legal than it was when they had everything locked up. Just because it's easy to steal something doesn't make it okay.
Buying a nook is not buying a 3G wireless data connection to the internet. It's buying a 3G wireless data connection to buy B&N ebooks. Hack the hardware all you want, but if you use that hardware to get a service you haven't paid for, that's just like stealing TV. Yes, you can choose to steal, but you have to be ready to live with the consequences if you get caught. If you're having to steal 3G internet access to be able to feed your family, you're a fucking idiot for wasting your time trying to steal 3G internet access rather than getting a job.
Giving things away is not socially responsible, and definitely not fiscally. If no one ever pays for anything, no one has a reason to maintain it and your free 3G network would very quickly be overwhelmed and be burnt to a crisp.
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Which would then move the doomsday clock FURTHER from midnight.
I guarantee there are no 100% women anywhere who can pee as far standing up as I can.
so is it a half a second after you look at a menu/submenu that it expands/clicks? Quarter second? Full second?
And then try clicking on an icon with just your eyes. Do you just stare at it harder? Wink your left eye? I'm sure the actual implementation of an eyes-only input would not just try to replace a mouse cursor with gaze positioning, but it's already difficult enough to just track eye position for this sort of application, let alone figure out intent.
It would still be significantly higher production cost, which I clearly have no basis to put a real number to. Read-only SSD memory is not significantly different in production cost compared to a writable. The cost to product the hardware itself requires much more than a disc, and then the cost to duplicate is also significantly higher because of how long it takes to copy.
Because a 50GB SSD costs about $100 per unit at minimum, and who wants to pay $100+the cost of the movie? You? I doubt it. Way cheaper to mass produce CD/DVD/Blu Ray.
If you could prove my intent was to take your money and then immediately exercise my right to kick you off my property for no particular reason other than my own whimsical desire to make money, then that would be fraud. However, basically any business has the right to eject people for any reason except where it involves illegal discrimination based on protected minorities/groups.
And in this case, who knows who told them that it was okay to do so. Could have been any random employee who doesn't know the policy overall, or if there is special policy during the time of CES event.
If it's actually in their signed agreement that they can do what they were doing and the hotel doesn't have another "this is why" up their sleeve, then they could have a way to pursue relief. Unlikely that such is true.
You're telling me there is a page 2 to slashdot? And all this time I've only been reading page 1!?!? I quit!
On private property, he who owns the private property has sole discretion over what can and cannot be done on that property within the realms of legal activities. Obviously illegal activities are not allowed with or without the owner's discretion.
Yeah, I don't have any problem with someone using any particular email domain (well okay maybe goatse) for their personal email. My thoughts change when it comes to businesses though. I understand that small businesses don't have their own email domain necessarily, and some don't see the value of it at all, but when I see advertising for a business with @aol.com, @earthlink.net, @anythinggeneric.whatever I really have to wonder about them. If you know it's worth having an internet presence, but you can't put out the $50 (max) a year for your own email domain, then why on earth should I trust you with my money!
I don't karma whore, it was just an XKCD that I had read moments before this article...seemed too much of a coincidence to let it go. But I'll try to conform to non-meme based postings in the future for your benefit.
Good points. I would add that minimum wage itself drives median prices for such things up.
And my posting of a very appropriate XKCD got modded off topic...
Better yet, even if there was, it's great that there isn't now. Max/min wage laws are complete BS.
http://www.xkcd.com/678/
What if you read a paper-based book over your friend's shoulder?
Unfortunately no president since I've been alive has really cut spending in a certain area withOUT the spending it elsewhere. Every time they cut and make a big deal about saving money on XYZ they are failing to mention the fact that the huge savings has been wholly applied to new project ABC.
Certainly if you think some important secret of yours will be revealed by giving Netflix that information, you shouldn't give it. However, for me, I like giving them that information because they have used it to recommend movies quite successfully. I don't care if anybody knows I watched Kate & Leopold three times in a row. I'm not going to go out of my way to post what I watch on my FB profile, but if it was there, I wouldn't care.
And this is all assuming that there even is a coordinated effort. Remember, there are people with ideological opposition to central coordination (government). Now look at the number of conspiracy theories that abound around global warming, despite it being pretty bloody obvious at this point that the weather is out of whack. Do you really think that these people would go ahead with the deflection effort, and the economic sacrifices that requires? No, they'd accuse astronomers of falsifying data, right up until the fiery mountain fell.
And there are people with the ideological opposition to anything human, that we bipedal oxygen breathers are a blight on the earth that is must be stopped.
It's not bloody obvious to me that the weather is out of whack. Warm summer, cold winter...some summers are warmer, some winters are colder. How is this out of whack? There's a big difference between a science that is hotly debated because there's no actual proof (only evidence that can point many directions) and there being an actual asteroid on a collision course for earth. If the evidence of the asteroid wasn't based on observation of an asteroid but assumptions drawn from a small timeframe of data that suggests an asteroid is likely on a collision course with earth, then you'd have people hotly debating it like global warming.
The problem is there are scientists and worse, politicians asking us to have FAITH in them that what they're saying is true. No offense to them, but faith is not something I put in either of those people. Politicians don't deserve it and scientists shouldn't need it. Maybe if meteorologists could predict the LOCAL weather more than 30 minutes in advance without blowing it 75% of the time then we might lend more credence to people who presume to predict global climate decades in advance. MIGHT...not saying that they would, or even should. Global warming is not prove to be either a human generated phenomenon NOR a phenomenon that human-kind can have any impact on.
Please site examples where you learned something of professional and academic relevance. One citation for each source please.
and with the story posted on slashdot, the article will soon be updated to lead dad-to-be to the strip club as a necessary part of birthing preparation....or tell them it actually comes out of a different hole
1. Not assuming. Very clear case of taking something that is not theirs to take.
2. If the person claims they need to steal 3G wireless because their families are hungry they are either a liar or have their priorities way out of whack.
3. It is not bending the EULA to take a service for which you have not paid. Same way that if you got free electricity to power your porch light, hacked that special power line and consumed enough kilowattHours to light up vegas would be straight stealing, not bending a EULA.
4. Remove dirty little jobless, just leave it as thieves. Their prosecution, should they continue to steal approaches inevitability.
5. Not sure what happened to 5, but it may have been a good argument.
6. Voluntary charity works wonders. Mandatory charity whether brought on by government regulation, or self appropriation (stealing) is not. Specifically referring to my contention that giving away things is not socially responsible, if everyone was given everything they wanted, what motivation would they have to contribute? And what happens when those who do contribute get tired of contributing to those who don't and stop contributing? Suddenly you have a bunch of people who are used to getting things handed to them as if they are entitled who have no clue how to survive on their own. No one should rely on anyone outside of their immediate family for anything. That reliance either makes you that person's servant or will leave you completely incapable of survival if that person's help ends.
7. For every good or service that is taken without compensation, the price of the remaining goods and services goes up. If a loaf of bread suddenly cost $500 because it was supposedly okay to steal bread, that would destroy the bread industry.
You violated the contract by stealing something, violating a contract and committing a crime and not mutually exclusive.
I'm not saying you're stealing from BMW if you use your own preference of oil and filters. Closer would be if you got a $5000 rebate by signing an agreement to use their oil and filters when you bought the car, but instead buying it from Valvoline. But even that is a bit of a stretch. Perhaps BMW has a service agreement with you to give you free car washes for 2 years after purchasing your BMW. While it would be unlikely to succeed if you "hacked" that service and brought in another vehicle and used the free service, THAT is stealing in the same way. Let's say it worked because the person running the carwash has poor eyesight, it's not the fault of BMW or even the nearsighted carwash operator that you decided to steal a service. It's your fault.
Many people leave their car doors and even house doors unlocked...sometimes when it's warmer they even leave their car windows and house doors open! That doesn't mean theft from those places becomes any more legal than it was when they had everything locked up. Just because it's easy to steal something doesn't make it okay.
...if he included a second hand.
Buying a nook is not buying a 3G wireless data connection to the internet. It's buying a 3G wireless data connection to buy B&N ebooks. Hack the hardware all you want, but if you use that hardware to get a service you haven't paid for, that's just like stealing TV. Yes, you can choose to steal, but you have to be ready to live with the consequences if you get caught. If you're having to steal 3G internet access to be able to feed your family, you're a fucking idiot for wasting your time trying to steal 3G internet access rather than getting a job.
Giving things away is not socially responsible, and definitely not fiscally. If no one ever pays for anything, no one has a reason to maintain it and your free 3G network would very quickly be overwhelmed and be burnt to a crisp.