The fun continues. Not too long ago a MA state rep was photographed at a liquor store in NH buying alcohol. The ironic thing was that he had just voted on increasing the liquor tax in MA. No laws broken, but it seemed a bit unethical to many. "Do as I say, not as I do."
No laws broken as long as he paid the 6.25% use tax on his state tax return. MA has the same tax laws as NC in the article. Residents have to voluntarily pay the use tax on "foreign" purchases. You think the state rep was going to do that?
If they really wanted to do something about this, they'd discontinue the entire CallerID system and allow regular folks to use ANI as a standard feature.
As people have pointed out there are many reasons not to use ANI. But why should it be either-or? Let the caller continue to set their outbound ID to whatever they want, just make the ANI available to the receiver. Maybe with a *69-type special number. They have to look it up for billing anyway.
If someone asked me to (in Java say) print the numbers from 1 to 10, I would probably do something like
for (int i=1;i=10;i++) {
System.out.println(i); }
So would most other people. Would this flag me as a cheater?
Even back in the early 80's when this instituted, it was known how big a program was needed to have a negligible chance of accidental matches -- not very big, but bigger than that. The tools I saw matched the compiler output (parse tree) so changing variable names or spacing would not save you.
If they think tweets are worthy of being archived why not just archive every blog and comment in existence? Many of those offer far more worthwhile insight than 99% of tweets.
There is a slippery slope here. What happens when the try to archive the Library of Congress within the LOC? The recursive archiving would destroy them.
With the massive proliferation of every last inane comment preserved for posterity I can only imagine how utterly stupid we are going to look to people of the future.
So you're saying he died in 1982, then he sold out on all those movies that were done later? Come to think of it, that sounds like a Philip K. Dick idea.
The reason IBM does this is that they license patents to companies too small to defend themselves and make a great deal of money doing so. My company had to license patents from IBM to stay in business.
But you don't give them the right to COPY it. He has the right to view it sure. But to make copies? Nope. The stuff is copyrighted. So what he did was not legal.
From Facebook's terms:
"You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings."
So how can FB sue the guy for copyright? They have no standing.
Andy Kaufman died May 16, 1984 (age 35) Sam Kinison died April 10, 1992 (age 38) Bill Hicks died February 26, 1994 (age 32) Mitch Hedberg died March 29, 2005 (age 37) Jason Wood died 20 February 2010 (age 38)
So you would prefer to see: This content requires the HTML5 Player
Great.
Actually, I was wrong. The site today was written by a new script for the Eliza program entirely running in emacs which just puts together random articles. humor.el still isn't working but RMS should have it fixed by late 2013.
Finally I found out what's going on with slashdot. The site was abandoned and given to a class of 7-year olds at a Minneapolis public school who are now the editors and story submitters. This explains kdawson, the Idle section and the flash which is now appearing at the top of every article.
"We believe that the document is not under copyright"
Uh, how/why?
I mean, I agree with the principle behind providing it, but if somebody wrote a document then the list of circumstances where something isn't under copyright is pretty small. Which one supposedly applies in this case?
The PTO modernization has been out for bids off and on since at least 1985. As I recall, one problem they had at that time was the building wiring in some locations would not support much equipment at an examiner's desk, so they wanted data served from a central location and just have dumb terminals.
Where am I claiming that any study is bogus? I was disagreeing that before video games, parents were any more in control of their kids. You should try reading the post I was replying to.
I know of no studies that show any long term increase in juvenile crime and the metastudy in the article doesn't claim it either. It claims only that violent video games are a factor in violent or aggressive behavior, not that there is any trend up or down in the overall level of violence.
Either all stats are suspect or none are, you can have it both ways.
This may be the silliest remark I've ever seen on slashdot. So if one person publishes a study that global warming is wrong, then all of the studies that disagree are suspect too? If one study says the Earth is only 6000 years old then all studies of ancient times must be wrong? There is verying quality in all research.
As someone who grew up before video games I have to disagree. My mom (dad was always at work) shooed us out the door in the morning and we came home by dinner. We got into the usual kind of trouble during the day, and played violent "real" games instead of video games. I don't remember ever being encouraged to practice self control, whatever that is. I do remember getting into a few fights and being arrested once. I don't think my experience was much different from my peers. If anything, I think kids today are under more supervision and control than they used to be. Stats show juvenile crime at the same level as it was in 1980 after peaking in the mid-90's.
You are currently not required to use DNSSEC, however once it becomes widespread it will become required. The reason is that the victims of phishing (banks, credit card companies, etc.) will demand it. ISPs and Registrars will have no reason to disagree because they make money from domain registrations.
The additional control is not over the lookup process, it is the centralized nature of the certificate and domain registration process. Good luck getting anyone to your site if you aren't trusted from root. I expect giant blinking warnings in Firefox and IE.
ACTA is being negotiated by the executive branch, the US Trade Rep, so don't blame Congress. This side-steps the constitutional separation of powers by claiming it is an agreement under existing laws, not creating new laws. At any rate, write to Obama about his promise of greater openness.
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The fun continues. Not too long ago a MA state rep was photographed at a liquor store in NH buying alcohol. The ironic thing was that he had just voted on increasing the liquor tax in MA. No laws broken, but it seemed a bit unethical to many. "Do as I say, not as I do."
No laws broken as long as he paid the 6.25% use tax on his state tax return. MA has the same tax laws as NC in the article. Residents have to voluntarily pay the use tax on "foreign" purchases. You think the state rep was going to do that?
If they really wanted to do something about this, they'd discontinue the entire CallerID system and allow regular folks to use ANI as a standard feature.
As people have pointed out there are many reasons not to use ANI. But why should it be either-or? Let the caller continue to set their outbound ID to whatever they want, just make the ANI available to the receiver. Maybe with a *69-type special number. They have to look it up for billing anyway.
If someone asked me to (in Java say) print the numbers from 1 to 10, I would probably do something like
for (int i=1;i=10;i++) {
System.out.println(i);
}
So would most other people. Would this flag me as a cheater?
Even back in the early 80's when this instituted, it was known how big a program was needed to have a negligible chance of accidental matches -- not very big, but bigger than that. The tools I saw matched the compiler output (parse tree) so changing variable names or spacing would not save you.
For those of you wondering, it's pronounced: Eh-ya-fyat-la-yuh-cuttle (the name of the volcano, Eyjafjallajokull)
Thanks for clearing that up. It hasn't come up on my Word-a-Day calendar.
Vodka? Are they out of Tequila?
If they think tweets are worthy of being archived why not just archive every blog and comment in existence? Many of those offer far more worthwhile insight than 99% of tweets.
There is a slippery slope here. What happens when the try to archive the Library of Congress within the LOC? The recursive archiving would destroy them.
With the massive proliferation of every last inane comment preserved for posterity I can only imagine how utterly stupid we are going to look to people of the future.
Take that, future people!
How about some hard sci-fi on the big screen, for a effing change?
Ringworld was optioned about 10 years ago. So far, no sign of a production.
So you're saying he died in 1982, then he sold out on all those movies that were done later? Come to think of it, that sounds like a Philip K. Dick idea.
No. It's "Your Wrights Online"
The reason IBM does this is that they license patents to companies too small to defend themselves and make a great deal of money doing so. My company had to license patents from IBM to stay in business.
But you don't give them the right to COPY it. He has the right to view it sure. But to make copies? Nope. The stuff is copyrighted. So what he did was not legal.
From Facebook's terms:
"You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings."
So how can FB sue the guy for copyright? They have no standing.
Andy Kaufman died May 16, 1984 (age 35)
Sam Kinison died April 10, 1992 (age 38)
Bill Hicks died February 26, 1994 (age 32)
Mitch Hedberg died March 29, 2005 (age 37)
Jason Wood died 20 February 2010 (age 38)
Who has this vendetta against comics?
You have clearly misunderstood. The highest percentage of terrorism occurring in rouge states is called the max factor.
God forbid anyone have a little fun 1 day out of the year.
But I am having fun. Seriously, chill out. Grumbling is all part of the plan.
So you would prefer to see: This content requires the HTML5 Player
Great.
Actually, I was wrong. The site today was written by a new script for the Eliza program entirely running in emacs which just puts together random articles. humor.el still isn't working but RMS should have it fixed by late 2013.
Finally I found out what's going on with slashdot. The site was abandoned and given to a class of 7-year olds at a Minneapolis public school who are now the editors and story submitters. This explains kdawson, the Idle section and the flash which is now appearing at the top of every article.
http://search.reviews.ebay.com/fake-USB-flash-drive
How long before we see 8-core AMD Opterons on eBay that turn out to have only 4?
"We believe that the document is not under copyright"
Uh, how/why?
I mean, I agree with the principle behind providing it, but if somebody wrote a document then the list of circumstances where something isn't under copyright is pretty small. Which one supposedly applies in this case?
"When it comes to the law, the courts have always said there can be no copyright because people are obligated to know what it says."
To find its girls, GameCrush posted a Craigslist ad looking for ladies who want to get paid to play video games.
Most "playdates" on Craigslist cost a lot more than $8.99.
The PTO modernization has been out for bids off and on since at least 1985. As I recall, one problem they had at that time was the building wiring in some locations would not support much equipment at an examiner's desk, so they wanted data served from a central location and just have dumb terminals.
Either all stats are suspect or none are, you can have it both ways.
This may be the silliest remark I've ever seen on slashdot. So if one person publishes a study that global warming is wrong, then all of the studies that disagree are suspect too? If one study says the Earth is only 6000 years old then all studies of ancient times must be wrong? There is verying quality in all research.
This is why my domain is registered with name and contact information: Bill Gates, Redmond, WA, 555-1212.
As someone who grew up before video games I have to disagree. My mom (dad was always at work) shooed us out the door in the morning and we came home by dinner. We got into the usual kind of trouble during the day, and played violent "real" games instead of video games. I don't remember ever being encouraged to practice self control, whatever that is. I do remember getting into a few fights and being arrested once. I don't think my experience was much different from my peers. If anything, I think kids today are under more supervision and control than they used to be. Stats show juvenile crime at the same level as it was in 1980 after peaking in the mid-90's.
You are currently not required to use DNSSEC, however once it becomes widespread it will become required. The reason is that the victims of phishing (banks, credit card companies, etc.) will demand it. ISPs and Registrars will have no reason to disagree because they make money from domain registrations.
The additional control is not over the lookup process, it is the centralized nature of the certificate and domain registration process. Good luck getting anyone to your site if you aren't trusted from root. I expect giant blinking warnings in Firefox and IE.
ACTA is being negotiated by the executive branch, the US Trade Rep, so don't blame Congress. This side-steps the constitutional separation of powers by claiming it is an agreement under existing laws, not creating new laws. At any rate, write to Obama about his promise of greater openness.