I'd like to see the settlement and methods for refueling a return rocket all done with robots. Once the mission has been successfully completed robotically, then start sending people in the next launch window.
That blog is awesome. Although he doesn't every mention why all those characters would be mirrored. Tattoo artists sketch the proof on paper and then press it onto the skin leaving the mirror of whatever they are about to ink. Apparently most tattoo artists aren't smart enough to realize that they would need to do this technique twice in order to keep the characters from being mirrored on the canvas(skin).
Also, as someone who has worked on the technical side of the a large telco's billing department; I can guarantee that it was in fact a mistake and not malice. Our billing system constantly had errors. We weren't as large as Verizon, but we did have to issue refunds of maybe $100,000 every couple of months. It was usually do to some regulation and taxes being improperly applied. Telco billing changes so much so often it is hard to build a billing system that can change to any and all ways the government decides to regulate and tax it. Also if you add a new switch to your network it can log and parse billing files differently causing an error similar to what is being described by Verizon.
So as someone who as actually worked on Telco billing systems, I'm on the "it was an accident" side.
You mean like Y2K? As I recall it become a non-issue because people fixed it, and the places it didn't get fixed in time didn't cause as many problems as people thought it would. The IPv6 transition isn't any different. Once it gets in the way of business it will become priority number one and then teams will be assigned to fix it. Also anyone who has an IPv4 address isn't even affected by the transition, it only affects new people trying to register. It won't be an issue until after all addresses are used and then it won't be an issue until there is enough new and usable content on IPv6 domains. Only then will it be enough of a priority for businesses and consumers to switch to IPv6.
I remember the last time I flew on an airplane. I was flying back from China and had a huge duffel bag full of tai-chi swords and other arms. We carried them all through the airport. Then again the year was 1998 and people weren't batshit insane.
No it was a fine example. The same person could have an airplane land on their house and the person swerving from debris from your wreck could have just as easily had to swerve from an animal or piece of tire from a semi truck. Speed and safe driving do not exclude each other. It is amazing how even though more people are driving traffic accidents and fatalities are dramatically decreasing year after year.
If you want a better example, try growing one marijuana plant in your back yard, using a vaporiser to ingest it on the first day of a holiday where you will be home, not driving anywhere for a week and tell me how that is wrong? If you can tell me that is wrong then I hope you've never had any alcoholic beverages ever in your life.
This wouldn't have been a big deal if everyone had ignored the guy. So some bigot wants to burn a book, let him; just ignore him. The fact that everyone is giving him so much attention is causing way more problems then the actions he is doing.
If you want to have fun with him, you should bring your bible's and crosses to the burning and join in on the anti religion fun. Bring a Book of Mormon and some L Ron Hubbard to the event too. Hell, bring an American Flag and the Origin of Species as well just to make sure all your bases are covered.
People should be allowed to burn stuff in protest of things they believe are wrong. They have that right. It doesn't mean it is good or appropriate. The fear that it will be used as a recruitment tool or upset other people is not a valid reason to stop them from protesting. If anything it is a reason to allow them to protest. When did we loose our spine. I will not cower to extremists of any religion, not the Bible thumping abortionist killing kind nor the suicidal Islamic kind.
Let the man burn his books and live his hate filled life, just ignore him and his 50 congregants. There are 310 million other people in this country who disagree with what he is doing, if one person burning copies of the Qur'an can cause so much harm and the Extremists can't look at the rest of the nation that is appalled by his action, then maybe he is right to do so after all.
Not in the internet age they can't. Do you not read aggregaters like digg? If you post something that isn't yours the internet community busts your ass for it quick and then points people to the original source. Notoriety from what you create should be enforced and people should feel morally compelled to support original artists, but copyright which places fines on user level infringer's isn't right either. Business level infringement is a different story and could possibly still be kept and enforced. Suing Coca-cola for using your song in an advertisement is different than joe fan listening to your song on youtube.
Better solution, get rid of copyright entirely. Society is producing content at to fast a clip for it to be necessary any more. You produce a work and by the end of the week someone has already produced a derivative work. All this copyright stuff does is slow down progress.
If you are worried about how content creators get paid then you haven't thought about it long enough. Content as a service, that is the new model. If you can't sell your content as a service to customers or businesses then the other option is merchandising, make a physical good that can be confiscated for trademark violations and earn your money off of that.
I don't know why schools still teach cursive. My children are learning it, but I believe it to be a waist of time. For the rest of their lives writing anything of length greater than a form will be typed on a computer. For anything else they will need to print legibly for forms. Part of my engineering schooling was drafting courses. Learning to draft characters so they are uniform and legible is a valuable skill, learning cursive, not so much. Good print penmanship is still important.
Best story on NPR in a while. "FUCK YOU" by Cee Lo Green. Man I wanted them to have played it without censorship. I don't login to youtube so I had to find it someplace else, found it here. Would liked to have linked to Youtube directly, but they want you to login to view it.
The US has some shitty policy and has for a long time, but we are not as much of theocratic, totalitarian, oppressive, surveilance state as Iran is.
Really? The US isn't a theocratic, totalitarian, oppressive, surveillance state much worse than Iran? You could have fooled me. We have millions in the US prison system most of whom are there for non-violent drug crimes. We have police at nearly every street corner who harass you for not conforming to social norms. We have a vocal religious group that controls at least part of our government at all times forcing inane laws like blue laws on everyone else. You may find moral superiority over the types of persecution in Iran, but the US isn't any better, they just persecute you for different things. OH, and if you're accused of assisting terrorists you can be put in jail indefinitely without trial and without representation even as a US citizen. Then there is the Patriot act... The list goes on an on. NYC and not letting them build the Muslim community center for more examples of the theocracy in the US, and the inability to do fetal stem cell research. On and on it goes, you may think Iran is worse, but that is only because you aren't one of the persecuted groups in the US.
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I'd like to see the settlement and methods for refueling a return rocket all done with robots. Once the mission has been successfully completed robotically, then start sending people in the next launch window.
Yes he has kids. His kids are even worse than file sharers. His kids copy other peoples work and sell it as their own.
Source.
You can also do a Google search for Nick Simmons plagiarism and you'll get lots more on the story.
This will happen in my lifetime, we aren't there yet but it is coming.
That blog is awesome. Although he doesn't every mention why all those characters would be mirrored. Tattoo artists sketch the proof on paper and then press it onto the skin leaving the mirror of whatever they are about to ink. Apparently most tattoo artists aren't smart enough to realize that they would need to do this technique twice in order to keep the characters from being mirrored on the canvas(skin).
Also, as someone who has worked on the technical side of the a large telco's billing department; I can guarantee that it was in fact a mistake and not malice. Our billing system constantly had errors. We weren't as large as Verizon, but we did have to issue refunds of maybe $100,000 every couple of months. It was usually do to some regulation and taxes being improperly applied. Telco billing changes so much so often it is hard to build a billing system that can change to any and all ways the government decides to regulate and tax it. Also if you add a new switch to your network it can log and parse billing files differently causing an error similar to what is being described by Verizon.
So as someone who as actually worked on Telco billing systems, I'm on the "it was an accident" side.
You mean like Y2K? As I recall it become a non-issue because people fixed it, and the places it didn't get fixed in time didn't cause as many problems as people thought it would. The IPv6 transition isn't any different. Once it gets in the way of business it will become priority number one and then teams will be assigned to fix it. Also anyone who has an IPv4 address isn't even affected by the transition, it only affects new people trying to register. It won't be an issue until after all addresses are used and then it won't be an issue until there is enough new and usable content on IPv6 domains. Only then will it be enough of a priority for businesses and consumers to switch to IPv6.
I remember the last time I flew on an airplane. I was flying back from China and had a huge duffel bag full of tai-chi swords and other arms. We carried them all through the airport. Then again the year was 1998 and people weren't batshit insane.
No it was a fine example. The same person could have an airplane land on their house and the person swerving from debris from your wreck could have just as easily had to swerve from an animal or piece of tire from a semi truck. Speed and safe driving do not exclude each other. It is amazing how even though more people are driving traffic accidents and fatalities are dramatically decreasing year after year.
If you want a better example, try growing one marijuana plant in your back yard, using a vaporiser to ingest it on the first day of a holiday where you will be home, not driving anywhere for a week and tell me how that is wrong? If you can tell me that is wrong then I hope you've never had any alcoholic beverages ever in your life.
I left him a million supporters...
This wouldn't have been a big deal if everyone had ignored the guy. So some bigot wants to burn a book, let him; just ignore him. The fact that everyone is giving him so much attention is causing way more problems then the actions he is doing.
If you want to have fun with him, you should bring your bible's and crosses to the burning and join in on the anti religion fun. Bring a Book of Mormon and some L Ron Hubbard to the event too. Hell, bring an American Flag and the Origin of Species as well just to make sure all your bases are covered.
People should be allowed to burn stuff in protest of things they believe are wrong. They have that right. It doesn't mean it is good or appropriate. The fear that it will be used as a recruitment tool or upset other people is not a valid reason to stop them from protesting. If anything it is a reason to allow them to protest. When did we loose our spine. I will not cower to extremists of any religion, not the Bible thumping abortionist killing kind nor the suicidal Islamic kind.
Let the man burn his books and live his hate filled life, just ignore him and his 50 congregants. There are 310 million other people in this country who disagree with what he is doing, if one person burning copies of the Qur'an can cause so much harm and the Extremists can't look at the rest of the nation that is appalled by his action, then maybe he is right to do so after all.
If he does this I will be there.
Like a $38 quadrillion lawsuit?
Snape kills Dumbledore.
I look forward to the day when your book title becomes a hyperlink to the actual book text. Copyrights be damned.
Pushing asteroids into geosynchronous orbit would be a good way to mine it as well. It would also make for a great weapons system.
Not in the internet age they can't. Do you not read aggregaters like digg? If you post something that isn't yours the internet community busts your ass for it quick and then points people to the original source. Notoriety from what you create should be enforced and people should feel morally compelled to support original artists, but copyright which places fines on user level infringer's isn't right either. Business level infringement is a different story and could possibly still be kept and enforced. Suing Coca-cola for using your song in an advertisement is different than joe fan listening to your song on youtube.
At least the French are friendly to Nuclear Power. Bonjour, Comment êtes-vous?
Whats a Sony? I've got an X-box 360, DS and a Dell. What do I need a Sony for?
Better solution, get rid of copyright entirely. Society is producing content at to fast a clip for it to be necessary any more. You produce a work and by the end of the week someone has already produced a derivative work. All this copyright stuff does is slow down progress.
If you are worried about how content creators get paid then you haven't thought about it long enough. Content as a service, that is the new model. If you can't sell your content as a service to customers or businesses then the other option is merchandising, make a physical good that can be confiscated for trademark violations and earn your money off of that.
Actually I was thinking the opposite, I like my RTS interface. Why not just use it?
I don't know why schools still teach cursive. My children are learning it, but I believe it to be a waist of time. For the rest of their lives writing anything of length greater than a form will be typed on a computer. For anything else they will need to print legibly for forms. Part of my engineering schooling was drafting courses. Learning to draft characters so they are uniform and legible is a valuable skill, learning cursive, not so much. Good print penmanship is still important.
Best story on NPR in a while. "FUCK YOU" by Cee Lo Green. Man I wanted them to have played it without censorship. I don't login to youtube so I had to find it someplace else, found it here. Would liked to have linked to Youtube directly, but they want you to login to view it.
Just don't write fiction about child molestation and you're fine, even the US has its limits on free speech.
I think you all know why.
Angry Birds?
Actually I've started pocketing my DS at work to get in a little DQ9 during my bathroom breaks.
The US has some shitty policy and has for a long time, but we are not as much of theocratic, totalitarian, oppressive, surveilance state as Iran is.
Really? The US isn't a theocratic, totalitarian, oppressive, surveillance state much worse than Iran? You could have fooled me. We have millions in the US prison system most of whom are there for non-violent drug crimes. We have police at nearly every street corner who harass you for not conforming to social norms. We have a vocal religious group that controls at least part of our government at all times forcing inane laws like blue laws on everyone else. You may find moral superiority over the types of persecution in Iran, but the US isn't any better, they just persecute you for different things. OH, and if you're accused of assisting terrorists you can be put in jail indefinitely without trial and without representation even as a US citizen. Then there is the Patriot act... The list goes on an on. NYC and not letting them build the Muslim community center for more examples of the theocracy in the US, and the inability to do fetal stem cell research. On and on it goes, you may think Iran is worse, but that is only because you aren't one of the persecuted groups in the US.