I find the whole argument difficult to understand. I Oz we have done this ever since dial up per hour was replaced by broadband always on. My plan allows 6G peak, 12G offpeak datadownload per month (which I have only once come close to using) If I pay more I get more if I pass my quota my speed drops until the monthly changeover. No problem works well I think ALL Oz ISPs operate this way at least every plan I have looked at does. Some are called unlimited but they always have fineprint and really for most users could be considered unlimited as the average user would not use the amount of data they offer.
The thing that annoys me about photographers and "their" copyright is the subject ie the thing everyone is paying to see has no rights. I can pay for a photo session of my family I get charged a fair hourly rate for the time it takes they then get money per photo AND they retain the copyright to the pictures try getting proffesional copies made especially if the photo studio goes out of buisness (not real enforcable with scanners so cheap but still sux). Or even more annoying if a photographer takes a photo of me he owns the rights to it I have no say what happens with it no wonder so many celebs get the shits with photographers. Copyright is meant to prevent people leaching of anothers hard work by unauthorised copying yet that is exacty what some photographers do by photographicly copying the image of someone else who has worked to make their image valuable.
Which is heavier a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?.
The feathers of course!
Feathers would be weighed in British/US ounces. Gold would be in Troy ounces (0.9115 "standard" ounces)
so a pound of feathers would weigh 453.6g a pound of gold 373.2g
Having been a on call tech both before and after cell phones became common I can tell you that is a crap attitude, before cell phones the on call tech either had to wait at home or an office on the chance there may be a call and was paid for their time, then pagers allowed some freedom but required some time to return the call customers accepted this as the on call costs were now lower ( If the tech can still go out and do stuff why pay as much to be available) now with cell phones an answer is expected NOW by both customer and employer and the on call allowance is even lower after all you now just have to remain within cell coverage and sober enough to work. A phone user should be no more disruption than an normal conversation very common in the quoted restautant situation mentioned if they are too loud on the phone they are probably going to be loud and obnoxious anyway. As for blocking the signal it could get people fired or at least in trouble with clients and employers, silencing a person who in all likely hood would still be a pain is not a good enough excuse for costing me money.
Your example of blowing open a 3' 500psi pipeline is typlical of the missunderstanding of the mischef hacking a SCADA system can cause. If you mean over pressurising the line til it blows up you may be able to change the compressor or requlator set point but usually the pipeline is so overrated there is no chance that would blow it and if the pressure did become dangerous any even half assed poorly engineered system would have a manual pressure relief valve that operates mechanicaly. SCADA system designers rarely understand how easy a hacker can break their system but they also rarely trust software for saftey, IT people rarely understand the requirements of SCADA systems or that there are other independent systems protecting people and equipment.
I do not understand your reply zenner diodes operate much the same as transistors , FET,JFET and other semiconductor junctions.No weird spooky effects just plain electronics. Now if you had a heisenburg diode that would be different.
I do have a 6 year old daughter and if the local gov't won't pay for this vaccination I will. What is your problem with being GIVEN a treatment that could save your daughter from a horrible disease? Are you really so wrapped up in your "they can't make me do it" tantrum that you would sacrifice your childs health.
Lots of companys rent laptops, most people realise that it is not worth trashing a perfectly profitable buisness to get a few passwords off random users. If you do not trust the company you rent from just format the HD on collection and install your own OS then format again on return. The rental company wants your data as much as they want the viruses, spyware, malware and other nasties customers leave behind this would be why they wipe the drive on return without even booting from the HD. I have only had one customer that did not like this he thought it was reasonable to keep the HD after a short rent because it had HIS data on it, he has a hard time understanding why we kept charging him until the WHOLE laptop was returned we offered to let him keep the HD if he paid for a replacement.
I wouldn't worry about commercially sensitive information, For that to be a problem you would need to have the search done by a dishonest customes officer that has photograhic memory the buisness knowledge to reconise "valuable information", and the contacts with a competitor (who else really cares)that he can trust. More worrying would be the buisness traveler with nothing to hide but several Gig of presentation data to show to a client / customer / trade show getting their laptop confiscated and having to turn up for their meeting with just a smile and a pen.
Is it true that US is the only country that does not accept that "transit" passengers are not entering the US therefore not their concern?. The few times I have travelled internationally I have not needed to clear customs / immigration until reaching my final destination. This included changing planes twice once in Asia and once in Europe. I imagine haveing to satisfy US customs just to travel through to Canada or South America would be a pain in the ass.
Not really, the American customer should know the local law and would be choosing to ignore it. Mr Dicks offered a service that is legal in the country he was operating in he did not choose to break US law he simply failed to prevent a US citizen from breaking the law. If you are going to hold people responsible for breaking the law in countries other than where they are hosted legally you may as well pack up the internet right now because web sites cannot be designed to comply with the legal systems of every country they MAY be accessed from.
I studied for a while as an external student, we were given the lecture notes, text book reading and sometimes audio of lectures and only expected on campus for exams and maybe 1 or 2 Prac sessions per semester. The audio was good but in an odd format so I could only play it at the PC and the linux users couldn't use it nor could an MP3 player - make it easy to carry and listen to if it can be played while jogging etc it may actually get listened to. As for students skipping the lecture this could be a good thing, the ones that do attend will actually be interested and will have a better environment to ask questions etc, those that feel they do not need to be there can do something more important and catch up later. Many external students did very well with no lecture time. I only ran into trouble when work and family took up too much time and I fell behind with out the interstudent contact to prompt me to catch up I ended up listening to the last lecture for the first time on the way to the exam:-(.
Duke 3D had a fun factor that the other FPS games did not. In many ways it was not as good as quake but the level design and settings made it fun in a much less serious way particularly for multiplayer. Using a jet pack to place a trip wire in a bizzare but effective place and laughing as the next player set it off was far more satisfiying than blasting away at quake or doom. The only FPS I have enjoyed as much was Sin multiplayer.If DNF is ever released and manages to have the same playing style it will do well.
I used to agree with you but then had the misforture to work for a power company that would regularly screw the workers. A new pay deal negotiated to start as of January gets to Easter "we don't want to pay it" they offered half and no back pay. They were regularly in breach of the law regarding some employee payments and would delay for months, the only way to get the employer to even negotiate was to strike and get them into court then while the reason for the strike was their breach of the law they would bitch that power workers should not be allowed to strike as power was an essential service.
There are many valid reason for needing a moblie phone on just because your tiny imagination cannot concieve of more than 2 is no reason to dump on the rest. I used to be on call 24/7 as a service tech I would avoid movies or switch my phone to vibrate. The rudest thing I regularly came across were phone nazis who would take the fact that you were on the phone in public as an excuse to be rude. I had people try to push in line at counters cos I answered a call like I couldn't stand in line and talk long enough to find out if it was a genuine problem. As for there being a time when there was no 24/7 connectivity it is available NOW and customers expect it but employers will not longer pay a premium for 24/7 access as all you need is a phone its not like you can't go anywhere when on call like the bad old days when you had to stay home by the phone (and usually got a reasonable allowance for it). Basicly the morons that used their phones like toys have screwed it for those that need them. If people or busineses want to use this fine just PLEASE make it obvious that phone signals are blocked so I can decide if my calls are important.
You seem to be missing the point, He is pointing out that the RIAA like to quote the biggest figures possible and claim it as a loss. Someone who earns 20K and downloads 200K worth of music has not cost the RIAA 200K cos they never could have spent that much the most the RIAA could have lost from that customer is 20K minus living costs. Unlike taking a physical object the act of downloading costs the owner nothing - no CD burning, no printing, no shipping the only loss is the sale that may or may not have occured and in the case where the downloader clearly could not have paid to claim a loss at full retail price is only inflating the figures artificially. It does not make illegal downloads right but over stating your losses is not right either.
Actually he only has to show that it was a cat of any kind even domestic cats in certain areas are considered fair game as they do incredible damage to native endangered species. Here in Aus we don't consider a quick (it head was blown apart) kill animal cruelty however leaving your exotic pet uncontrolled in the wilderness to fend for its self or starve would be quite cruel. I suspect further investigation will show it to have been a large feral domestic cat.
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I have always wondered what would happen if you hit around 100 MPH on a bike and pulled the ripcord on a parachute.
I find the whole argument difficult to understand. I Oz we have done this ever since dial up per hour was replaced by broadband always on. My plan allows 6G peak, 12G offpeak datadownload per month (which I have only once come close to using) If I pay more I get more if I pass my quota my speed drops until the monthly changeover. No problem works well I think ALL Oz ISPs operate this way at least every plan I have looked at does. Some are called unlimited but they always have fineprint and really for most users could be considered unlimited as the average user would not use the amount of data they offer.
so how long before some geek configures it as either klingon or the characters from stargate?
The thing that annoys me about photographers and "their" copyright is the subject ie the thing everyone is paying to see has no rights. I can pay for a photo session of my family I get charged a fair hourly rate for the time it takes they then get money per photo AND they retain the copyright to the pictures try getting proffesional copies made especially if the photo studio goes out of buisness (not real enforcable with scanners so cheap but still sux). Or even more annoying if a photographer takes a photo of me he owns the rights to it I have no say what happens with it no wonder so many celebs get the shits with photographers. Copyright is meant to prevent people leaching of anothers hard work by unauthorised copying yet that is exacty what some photographers do by photographicly copying the image of someone else who has worked to make their image valuable.
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That would depend on whether the feathers are from an African or European swallow
Which is heavier a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?. The feathers of course! Feathers would be weighed in British/US ounces. Gold would be in Troy ounces (0.9115 "standard" ounces) so a pound of feathers would weigh 453.6g a pound of gold 373.2g
Having been a on call tech both before and after cell phones became common I can tell you that is a crap attitude, before cell phones the on call tech either had to wait at home or an office on the chance there may be a call and was paid for their time, then pagers allowed some freedom but required some time to return the call customers accepted this as the on call costs were now lower ( If the tech can still go out and do stuff why pay as much to be available) now with cell phones an answer is expected NOW by both customer and employer and the on call allowance is even lower after all you now just have to remain within cell coverage and sober enough to work. A phone user should be no more disruption than an normal conversation very common in the quoted restautant situation mentioned if they are too loud on the phone they are probably going to be loud and obnoxious anyway. As for blocking the signal it could get people fired or at least in trouble with clients and employers, silencing a person who in all likely hood would still be a pain is not a good enough excuse for costing me money.
Your example of blowing open a 3' 500psi pipeline is typlical of the missunderstanding of the mischef hacking a SCADA system can cause. If you mean over pressurising the line til it blows up you may be able to change the compressor or requlator set point but usually the pipeline is so overrated there is no chance that would blow it and if the pressure did become dangerous any even half assed poorly engineered system would have a manual pressure relief valve that operates mechanicaly. SCADA system designers rarely understand how easy a hacker can break their system but they also rarely trust software for saftey, IT people rarely understand the requirements of SCADA systems or that there are other independent systems protecting people and equipment.
I do not understand your reply zenner diodes operate much the same as transistors , FET,JFET and other semiconductor junctions.No weird spooky effects just plain electronics. Now if you had a heisenburg diode that would be different.
n-p junctions have nothing to do with quantum mechanics, either the electron charge is correct and current flows or it is not and does not.
I do have a 6 year old daughter and if the local gov't won't pay for this vaccination I will. What is your problem with being GIVEN a treatment that could save your daughter from a horrible disease? Are you really so wrapped up in your "they can't make me do it" tantrum that you would sacrifice your childs health.
Lots of companys rent laptops, most people realise that it is not worth trashing a perfectly profitable buisness to get a few passwords off random users. If you do not trust the company you rent from just format the HD on collection and install your own OS then format again on return. The rental company wants your data as much as they want the viruses, spyware, malware and other nasties customers leave behind this would be why they wipe the drive on return without even booting from the HD. I have only had one customer that did not like this he thought it was reasonable to keep the HD after a short rent because it had HIS data on it, he has a hard time understanding why we kept charging him until the WHOLE laptop was returned we offered to let him keep the HD if he paid for a replacement.
They do, just google laptop rental.
I wouldn't worry about commercially sensitive information, For that to be a problem you would need to have the search done by a dishonest customes officer that has photograhic memory the buisness knowledge to reconise "valuable information", and the contacts with a competitor (who else really cares)that he can trust. More worrying would be the buisness traveler with nothing to hide but several Gig of presentation data to show to a client / customer / trade show getting their laptop confiscated and having to turn up for their meeting with just a smile and a pen.
Is it true that US is the only country that does not accept that "transit" passengers are not entering the US therefore not their concern?. The few times I have travelled internationally I have not needed to clear customs / immigration until reaching my final destination. This included changing planes twice once in Asia and once in Europe. I imagine haveing to satisfy US customs just to travel through to Canada or South America would be a pain in the ass.
Not really, the American customer should know the local law and would be choosing to ignore it. Mr Dicks offered a service that is legal in the country he was operating in he did not choose to break US law he simply failed to prevent a US citizen from breaking the law. If you are going to hold people responsible for breaking the law in countries other than where they are hosted legally you may as well pack up the internet right now because web sites cannot be designed to comply with the legal systems of every country they MAY be accessed from.
I studied for a while as an external student, we were given the lecture notes, text book reading and sometimes audio of lectures and only expected on campus for exams and maybe 1 or 2 Prac sessions per semester. The audio was good but in an odd format so I could only play it at the PC and the linux users couldn't use it nor could an MP3 player - make it easy to carry and listen to if it can be played while jogging etc it may actually get listened to. As for students skipping the lecture this could be a good thing, the ones that do attend will actually be interested and will have a better environment to ask questions etc, those that feel they do not need to be there can do something more important and catch up later. Many external students did very well with no lecture time. I only ran into trouble when work and family took up too much time and I fell behind with out the interstudent contact to prompt me to catch up I ended up listening to the last lecture for the first time on the way to the exam :-(.
Duke 3D had a fun factor that the other FPS games did not. In many ways it was not as good as quake but the level design and settings made it fun in a much less serious way particularly for multiplayer. Using a jet pack to place a trip wire in a bizzare but effective place and laughing as the next player set it off was far more satisfiying than blasting away at quake or doom. The only FPS I have enjoyed as much was Sin multiplayer.If DNF is ever released and manages to have the same playing style it will do well.
I'd say hard landing, it is after all a controlled decent to the ground
I used to agree with you but then had the misforture to work for a power company that would regularly screw the workers. A new pay deal negotiated to start as of January gets to Easter "we don't want to pay it" they offered half and no back pay. They were regularly in breach of the law regarding some employee payments and would delay for months, the only way to get the employer to even negotiate was to strike and get them into court then while the reason for the strike was their breach of the law they would bitch that power workers should not be allowed to strike as power was an essential service.
There are many valid reason for needing a moblie phone on just because your tiny imagination cannot concieve of more than 2 is no reason to dump on the rest. I used to be on call 24/7 as a service tech I would avoid movies or switch my phone to vibrate. The rudest thing I regularly came across were phone nazis who would take the fact that you were on the phone in public as an excuse to be rude. I had people try to push in line at counters cos I answered a call like I couldn't stand in line and talk long enough to find out if it was a genuine problem. As for there being a time when there was no 24/7 connectivity it is available NOW and customers expect it but employers will not longer pay a premium for 24/7 access as all you need is a phone its not like you can't go anywhere when on call like the bad old days when you had to stay home by the phone (and usually got a reasonable allowance for it). Basicly the morons that used their phones like toys have screwed it for those that need them. If people or busineses want to use this fine just PLEASE make it obvious that phone signals are blocked so I can decide if my calls are important.
You seem to be missing the point, He is pointing out that the RIAA like to quote the biggest figures possible and claim it as a loss. Someone who earns 20K and downloads 200K worth of music has not cost the RIAA 200K cos they never could have spent that much the most the RIAA could have lost from that customer is 20K minus living costs. Unlike taking a physical object the act of downloading costs the owner nothing - no CD burning, no printing, no shipping the only loss is the sale that may or may not have occured and in the case where the downloader clearly could not have paid to claim a loss at full retail price is only inflating the figures artificially. It does not make illegal downloads right but over stating your losses is not right either.
I'd be more impressed if they invented a device that did my work for me so I could be home to cook my own dinner!
Actually he only has to show that it was a cat of any kind even domestic cats in certain areas are considered fair game as they do incredible damage to native endangered species. Here in Aus we don't consider a quick (it head was blown apart) kill animal cruelty however leaving your exotic pet uncontrolled in the wilderness to fend for its self or starve would be quite cruel. I suspect further investigation will show it to have been a large feral domestic cat.