If one views the survival of the human species as important, rather than the survival of the ecosystem per se, then having an escape plan is ALWAYS good policy.
Think of it more as an incomplete backup strategy than an escape policy. As a practical matter, there is no way the billions of people on Earth can "escape."
A hillbilly without his wrestling shows is a very dangerous individual. Well-armed and high on crystal meth, they are nigh unstoppable. The only way to save ourselves is to hole up at our universities and libraries. They're the only places hillbillies will never go.
Now, can we also ask them who is really responsible for the current bank crisis (whether profit hungry execs, slimy people luring people into bad mortgages, people flipping houses and then wanting a bailout when burned, government policy...)?
All of the above. There's plenty of blame to go around, so we should just blame everyone and move on. Why waste the money on studies or commissions when the real culprit is human nature's nasty embrace of greed and shortsightedness?
. . . . I hate this stupid online-only trend this generation.
I feel exactly the opposite as I have hardly ever finish any games. I play long enough to get the hang of it and then go online. Maybe it's an age thing. I'm a married and employed. At the opposite end is my teenage nephew who almost always plays his Xbox games through and rarely goes online.
If I go to the store and buy a new copy of OSX, will it install on my PC? I am behind the times on this because I am running 10.3 on an old Mac at home, but can I just insert the 10.5 disk into a PC box and have it install? I seem to recall something when the Intel-based Macs came out that OSX had to be hacked to install onto non-Apple Intel-based PCs. If I have to hack the software to get it to install or run, wouldn't I be modifying the code without Apple's consent?
Leave it to Slashdot moral relativism to get into a debate about whether a rule should even exist in response to a story about how a fascist state masquerading as a communist country allowed its sports officials to fabricate documents to give its Olympic team an advantage. Way. To. Go.
As a bit of background, we're talking about a country whose One-Child policy has led to a 117:100 ratio between males and females, a huge disparity from the natural baseline of 103:100. Selective abortions? Infanticide? You decide. The Chinese select their female gymnasts at age 3 and take them away from their families, limiting phone calls and visits with the girls parents. Yep, 3. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that gymnastics effects adult growth, and gymnastics is one of the most dangerous sports for women in terms of the number of injuries per participant. There is downward age pressure on female gymnasts to start them early. The rules are there to protect the girls from their coaches, their governments, and their parents.
The Olympic Games have degenerated into one great big spectacle for people to live vicariously through their athletes. For the Chinese government, it's a chance to legitimize their rule. What's the health of a few girls when you compare to the pacification, err, PRIDE of over a billion people?
This is nothing new. The U.S. government has a right to say when, where, and how it can be sued. Individual states have similar laws which restrict the right of persons to sue the states in state courts. There is no reason to be alarmist, and this type of ruling is nothing new. Move along.
I have my own business and my own website. I'm the first link on Google. On Cuil, there are a bunch of random index sites that show up on the first page. I tried myself several ways including adding my town and still didn't show up. I don't care how many pages they index, that's odd that I don't show up.
Why not try Moorcock's Eternal Champion books? I read the first six Elric novels when I was 11 or 12 sitting in the back seat during a long car trip and loved them. If your kids like them, there are quite a few Eternal Champion books out there, and they're good introductions to sci-fi/fantasy.
On a related note, why not subscribe to a magazine like Asimov's Science Fiction? There's a great deal of variety there that your kids could like, and you could discovery some new writers as well.
"intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access")."
Then, I have never stolen WiFi. I have never accessed without authorization; as I have never cracked a WEP or WPA password scheme.
No, the intent is to access the network. If it's not your network, and you don't have authorization, then you are using it without permission.
More importantly, when the major internet providers start charging for bandwidth, you really will be stealing from someone else. We're on the cusp of using other people's Wi-Fi being more like stealing someone's mobile phone minutes. Anyone want to argue in court that there was no harm caused to the person who had to start paying $.40/minute because you used up all the free minutes in their plan? No takers?
Seriously, it's not just the U.S.C.A. There's a statute right on point in Texas, Penal Code Sec. 33A.04, Theft of Telecommunications Service.
There are still ads for Stamps.com.
Of all the Dot Bombs that I would have thought would go tits up, this was one.....guess I was wrong.
Stamps.com actually makes a pretty good product for small businesses. I own my own business and use it, as do many similar businesses. It's not a website but is actually a product that you install on your computer. Simply put, it allows you to print postage from your PC onto envelopes, labels or "net stamps," and it integrates into your word processing software. It's easier to use than electronic postage scales and you don't have to buy individual stamps which are fine if you only have standard sized letters, but a pain in the rear if you send anything which weighs more. With regular stamps, a business needs many different values of stamps which are just lying around.
The fact that Stamps.com is still around is testament to one central truth: good, well implemented ideas escaped the dot com bubble. Junk didn't.
Lucas: "It's a film about trade disputes and tax reform... in space!"
Studio: "Next!"
Doesn't Lucas bankroll his own stuff? It was going to get made irrespective of what the whole of fandom thought. Phantom Menace was the movie Lucas wanted to make, and he made it because he was paying for it. The End.
On the Xbox, even though you purchase an annual subscription to Xbox Live, you still can't play multi-player titles without accessing EA's servers. To my knowledge, EA's the only company that works that way. Thus, several great titles quit working online, even though I still have an Xbox Live account. This is a really clever way to get you to upgrade.
How many products can only be made in the U.S. or E.U.? It really doesn't take that long to throw together a manufacturing plant. Honestly, with the huge numbers of educated engineers in China and its culture of IP theft, how long was it going to be before truly sensitive, high tech products were copied?
While it might be a lot of trouble to rewrite firmware in a legitimate product, what's to stop someone from writing malicious firmware into their own knockoff product?
I'll stop browsing the web and playing Quake in class when professors start giving a shit and actually forming a coherent lecture. Until then, they're the ones wasting my tuition money, not me.
Spoken like someone who doesn't have a clue what law school is like. Law school is very different from your "intro to business programming class." Quizzes? What quizzes? In law school, most courses ONLY give a final examination. That's right, JUST ONE GRADE! You don't have progress reports in law school or any chance to pull up your grade during the semester. You bomb your final you bomb the class. Just like the life of a lawyer.
But that's not even the point of banning the internet in classrooms. In the U.S., law schools use the Socratic method, and anyone who is surfing the web during class is missing out on the entire point of law school. There is not lecture in the traditional, undergraduate sense. You learn as much from the other students as from the professor.
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If one views the survival of the human species as important, rather than the survival of the ecosystem per se, then having an escape plan is ALWAYS good policy.
Think of it more as an incomplete backup strategy than an escape policy. As a practical matter, there is no way the billions of people on Earth can "escape."
Lotus Notes for iPhone is just a plain old Web app. You can't stop the web.
Unless you're Al Gore. "I brought you into this world, . . . "
A hillbilly without his wrestling shows is a very dangerous individual. Well-armed and high on crystal meth, they are nigh unstoppable. The only way to save ourselves is to hole up at our universities and libraries. They're the only places hillbillies will never go.
"I'm from Hollywood!" Andy Kaufman
Now, can we also ask them who is really responsible for the current bank crisis (whether profit hungry execs, slimy people luring people into bad mortgages, people flipping houses and then wanting a bailout when burned, government policy...)?
All of the above. There's plenty of blame to go around, so we should just blame everyone and move on. Why waste the money on studies or commissions when the real culprit is human nature's nasty embrace of greed and shortsightedness?
. . . . I hate this stupid online-only trend this generation.
I feel exactly the opposite as I have hardly ever finish any games. I play long enough to get the hang of it and then go online. Maybe it's an age thing. I'm a married and employed. At the opposite end is my teenage nephew who almost always plays his Xbox games through and rarely goes online.
After all, the Earth is about be destroyed in the Rapture anyways, so why do we care?
The implications of this worldview are frightening.
These views aren't frightening to those who have them. Quite the opposite, I suspect.
If I go to the store and buy a new copy of OSX, will it install on my PC? I am behind the times on this because I am running 10.3 on an old Mac at home, but can I just insert the 10.5 disk into a PC box and have it install? I seem to recall something when the Intel-based Macs came out that OSX had to be hacked to install onto non-Apple Intel-based PCs. If I have to hack the software to get it to install or run, wouldn't I be modifying the code without Apple's consent?
As a bit of background, we're talking about a country whose One-Child policy has led to a 117:100 ratio between males and females, a huge disparity from the natural baseline of 103:100. Selective abortions? Infanticide? You decide. The Chinese select their female gymnasts at age 3 and take them away from their families, limiting phone calls and visits with the girls parents. Yep, 3. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that gymnastics effects adult growth, and gymnastics is one of the most dangerous sports for women in terms of the number of injuries per participant. There is downward age pressure on female gymnasts to start them early. The rules are there to protect the girls from their coaches, their governments, and their parents.
The Olympic Games have degenerated into one great big spectacle for people to live vicariously through their athletes. For the Chinese government, it's a chance to legitimize their rule. What's the health of a few girls when you compare to the pacification, err, PRIDE of over a billion people?
This is nothing new. The U.S. government has a right to say when, where, and how it can be sued. Individual states have similar laws which restrict the right of persons to sue the states in state courts. There is no reason to be alarmist, and this type of ruling is nothing new. Move along.
I have my own business and my own website. I'm the first link on Google. On Cuil, there are a bunch of random index sites that show up on the first page. I tried myself several ways including adding my town and still didn't show up. I don't care how many pages they index, that's odd that I don't show up.
On the other hand, the warnings could just be written in Spanish and Chinese. That ought to take care of it.
Jurassic Park.
The Jupiter 2.
On a related note, why not subscribe to a magazine like Asimov's Science Fiction? There's a great deal of variety there that your kids could like, and you could discovery some new writers as well.
No, the intent is to access the network. If it's not your network, and you don't have authorization, then you are using it without permission.
More importantly, when the major internet providers start charging for bandwidth, you really will be stealing from someone else. We're on the cusp of using other people's Wi-Fi being more like stealing someone's mobile phone minutes. Anyone want to argue in court that there was no harm caused to the person who had to start paying $.40/minute because you used up all the free minutes in their plan? No takers?
Seriously, it's not just the U.S.C.A. There's a statute right on point in Texas, Penal Code Sec. 33A.04, Theft of Telecommunications Service.
You forgot to start with the obligatory "Step one."
Stamps.com actually makes a pretty good product for small businesses. I own my own business and use it, as do many similar businesses. It's not a website but is actually a product that you install on your computer. Simply put, it allows you to print postage from your PC onto envelopes, labels or "net stamps," and it integrates into your word processing software. It's easier to use than electronic postage scales and you don't have to buy individual stamps which are fine if you only have standard sized letters, but a pain in the rear if you send anything which weighs more. With regular stamps, a business needs many different values of stamps which are just lying around.
The fact that Stamps.com is still around is testament to one central truth: good, well implemented ideas escaped the dot com bubble. Junk didn't.
He made the best courier.
Man, it's a bad day to be my wife. I've got to get one of those.
Studio: "Next!"
Doesn't Lucas bankroll his own stuff? It was going to get made irrespective of what the whole of fandom thought. Phantom Menace was the movie Lucas wanted to make, and he made it because he was paying for it. The End.
http://www.ea.com/information.jsp
On the Xbox, even though you purchase an annual subscription to Xbox Live, you still can't play multi-player titles without accessing EA's servers. To my knowledge, EA's the only company that works that way. Thus, several great titles quit working online, even though I still have an Xbox Live account. This is a really clever way to get you to upgrade.
I'll never buy another EA game again.
It's not just consumer stuff. There's a well publicized account of Chinese counterfeiters setting up a fake NEC in China which sold products that NEC never manufactured. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/technology/01pirate.html?pagewanted=all
How many products can only be made in the U.S. or E.U.? It really doesn't take that long to throw together a manufacturing plant. Honestly, with the huge numbers of educated engineers in China and its culture of IP theft, how long was it going to be before truly sensitive, high tech products were copied?
The FBI's fears remind me of a recent book, The Execution Channel. http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Channel-Ken-MacLeod/dp/0765313324
While it might be a lot of trouble to rewrite firmware in a legitimate product, what's to stop someone from writing malicious firmware into their own knockoff product?
Spoken like someone who doesn't have a clue what law school is like. Law school is very different from your "intro to business programming class." Quizzes? What quizzes? In law school, most courses ONLY give a final examination. That's right, JUST ONE GRADE! You don't have progress reports in law school or any chance to pull up your grade during the semester. You bomb your final you bomb the class. Just like the life of a lawyer.
But that's not even the point of banning the internet in classrooms. In the U.S., law schools use the Socratic method, and anyone who is surfing the web during class is missing out on the entire point of law school. There is not lecture in the traditional, undergraduate sense. You learn as much from the other students as from the professor.
We all love Kmart so much!
£99.90 seems a little high to me.