They cannot just subpoena it. That would require a lawsuit and a reason to request the information. Amazon could object to the subpoena and a judge would almost certainly squash it, because people aren't allowed to just subpoena any information they feel like asking for.
I've still got a Zaurus although I haven't used it in a while. It is a great little machine and the transflective LCD is the best screen besides e-ink for use outdoors.
It isn't a machine for running Windows though. Who would want to run Windows on a machine that small?
It's also a bit funny that the Zaurus applications still seem as fast and responsive as Android apps on a Galaxy S. The graphics aren't fancy but the CPU speed and flash speed seem just as good. Has there really been no improvement in the last 7 years?:-)
I just found out this week that the US government has been spending money from the gas taxes on mass transit while letting the road infrastructure suffer at the same time they're bleating about not having enough tax money to keep the roads in good repair. So in a sense that 50 cents did disappear. It hasn't all gone into road maintenance, that's for sure.
The federal government needs to stop wasting the money on mass transit that no one rides. If that mass transit was, you know, actually useful and desirable it wouldn't need tax money to prop it up. In a corporation it'd be a criminal waste of money to keep funding buses and trains that have less than 10% ridership. It'd be more efficient to have a fleet of taxi vans on call. Trains could be cut down in size, run by computer and routed on demand like internet packets. This would save money. But, funnily enough, you never see a government project ask for fewer tax dollars or fewer employees.
And what is the federal government doing wasting its money on local mass transit subsidies anyway? Interstate stuff like the highways makes sense. California benefits from Wyoming having good interstates, but California has no interest in New York having high-speed rail. If high-speed rail is so great, commuters will be lining up to pay the unsubsidized ticket prices and investors will be lining up to put their money in for a share of the massive profits.
Which is idiotic. It isn't like meth labs are picky about what kind of glass they use or picky about much of anything.
Is Texas somehow worried the meth will be too high quality or too safe to produce that they had to try to control laboratory quality glass???
Do they have glass inspectors at the local Ren Faires making sure the glass blowers aren't selling laboratory quality glass to random people without permits?
Tell them their favorite game or BitTorrent (and this includes some game patch downloads not just illegal movies) isn't working reliably because of NAT and that IPv6 will fix it and they will change over.
Yes, this is the more advanced users. A lot of people have children that qualify as more advanced users.
A family already spending $40/month on broadband isn't going to flinch at spending $100 on a new router every few years.
DNS on IPv6 autoconfigured networks is handled by well-known addresses. Give the v6 address fec0:0:0:ffff::1 to your DNS server as an alias. You can add:2 and:3 as well.
I set it up on my home network and a Windows 7 client works with it.
Uh huh. I've seen this argument that corporate taxes aren't really passed through before.
It isn't true though.
Changes in production cost that affect all the competitors will raise the end price. This happens with minimum wage hikes and it happens with corporate tax rates. It happens because all the companies are affected at the same time and so there is no benefit to selling at the old price.
The effect is a bit like price fixing. Because the increased rates affect everyone, everyone can raise prices to maintain the old profit margin without losing customers.
For example: If a consumer wants to buy an entertainment DVD then he has to purchase from a corporation. Since all the corporations have had their taxes raised and raised prices, he has to pay it. Now, he might shift his entertainment dollar somewhere else. But since all of those corporations like Netflix and the movie theaters also have the higher tax rate they are also charging more.
Smart phones do a lot more but they're hardly more convenient.
If you want to record with a Flip you press the power button then the record button and it's recording. That's it.
If you want to record with a smartphone you first press the wake up button, enter the password (because if you don't have a password, frankly you're stupid and deserve all the crap your Facebook/blog/email/IM/whatever will get from "friends"), find the right application, launch it and wait for it to come up. Then press Record.
With the Flip or something like it you can be recording in 3 seconds. With the smartphone you're lucky to have it running in 20.
Yeah. When netbooks went over $200 they started to be small laptops instead.
I've got friends with netbooks nicer than most Walmart laptops. Its the nearly instant boot from SSD, ablity to smoothly play video and the 8 hour battery life that does it.
Running Ubuntu instead of Windows doesn't hurt either, although the regular laptop could do that too.
Or if the school is really worried about it, a mandatory three day course at the beginning of each semester. Along with properly responding to a fire alarm or where to find, when and how to use an AED, one of the classes would of course be navigating an obstacle course while being shot at, how to take cover and how to best evade and escape the shooter. Concealed carry permit holders get a paintball gun to shoot back with if they choose.
A chance to shoot paintball guns at freshmen? I'd sign up to teach that every chance I got!
Do you have the right to be forgotten by people you meet and interact with? No, you don't have any right to edit their memories or control what they write about you, aside from slander and libel restrictions. And even then I'd argue you don't have a right to prevent them from saying or publishing anything they please, only a right to collect damages from it.
So why should you have a right to be forgotten by our prosthetic memories, aka computers? If you cannot control what is written about you in newspapers, private correspondence or stone tablets then why believe you have a right to control what is written about you in magnetic fields and optical patterns?
Any argument that applies to paper applies to the computers and ultimately it applies back to human memory which you don't have a right to control.
Sure there is a matter of scale. A computer system can use and report its memories about you, doing in seconds what would take people years of research to do using written records. But it isn't a difference in type. Even without computers a historical researcher or private investigator could still dig up everything you'd ever written and everything written about you, get reports of everything you'd ever told your neighbors and find copies of every photograph taken of you in high school.
The Security Council members each have the power to make the UN a joke. So that power may as well be an official part of the UN.
Seriously, all of the other UN countries combined could not force one of the Security Council countries to do anything they didn't want to do so why pretend otherwise?
Bootup, starting applications, using Firefox, actually getting work done like compiling software or scrolling long documents, running backups, creating or unpacking file archives. Application updates run very quickly, as do OS updates like the recent Windows 7 SP1.
There are thousands of human visible IO waits during every work day. A SSD quickly becomes an invisible part of your work flow. And then until it is taken away or you use another machine you won't realize how much you miss it.
Yes you can. You need a lawyer to front for you and you need to play some games with the corporation laws so that you pay your taxes through your corporation's tax ID. If you work at it you can manage to be legal and make money without a SSN. You cannot be an employee of anyone though. Best you can do is be a contractor.
Actually, the entire US Constitution is exactly about limits on what the Federal government can legislate. The document first takes everything away, the hands out various powers to parts of the government.
Every other power that isn't listed is supposed to be handled by the States.
As we can see, that idea didn't last very long. I think it hardly made it to 100 years.
Even systems with working IPv6 still make DNS requests over IPv4. The system would have to be pure IPv6 and not dual-stack to make that work. Besides that, DNS servers work by forwarding and caching requests and results. Even if a client made a IPv6 DNS request, its DNS server may forward that request on IPv4.
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They cannot just subpoena it. That would require a lawsuit and a reason to request the information. Amazon could object to the subpoena and a judge would almost certainly squash it, because people aren't allowed to just subpoena any information they feel like asking for.
I've still got a Zaurus although I haven't used it in a while. It is a great little machine and the transflective LCD is the best screen besides e-ink for use outdoors.
It isn't a machine for running Windows though. Who would want to run Windows on a machine that small?
It's also a bit funny that the Zaurus applications still seem as fast and responsive as Android apps on a Galaxy S. The graphics aren't fancy but the CPU speed and flash speed seem just as good. Has there really been no improvement in the last 7 years? :-)
I just found out this week that the US government has been spending money from the gas taxes on mass transit while letting the road infrastructure suffer at the same time they're bleating about not having enough tax money to keep the roads in good repair. So in a sense that 50 cents did disappear. It hasn't all gone into road maintenance, that's for sure.
The federal government needs to stop wasting the money on mass transit that no one rides. If that mass transit was, you know, actually useful and desirable it wouldn't need tax money to prop it up. In a corporation it'd be a criminal waste of money to keep funding buses and trains that have less than 10% ridership. It'd be more efficient to have a fleet of taxi vans on call. Trains could be cut down in size, run by computer and routed on demand like internet packets. This would save money. But, funnily enough, you never see a government project ask for fewer tax dollars or fewer employees.
And what is the federal government doing wasting its money on local mass transit subsidies anyway? Interstate stuff like the highways makes sense. California benefits from Wyoming having good interstates, but California has no interest in New York having high-speed rail. If high-speed rail is so great, commuters will be lining up to pay the unsubsidized ticket prices and investors will be lining up to put their money in for a share of the massive profits.
You know, he might be ironically comparing the current state of the Federal Reserve with sodomy.
Which is idiotic. It isn't like meth labs are picky about what kind of glass they use or picky about much of anything.
Is Texas somehow worried the meth will be too high quality or too safe to produce that they had to try to control laboratory quality glass???
Do they have glass inspectors at the local Ren Faires making sure the glass blowers aren't selling laboratory quality glass to random people without permits?
Crazy.
Why would the app even know?
"I'd like a network socket please."
"Sorry, the user is not connected to the network."
"I'd like the Contact List please."
"Sure! Here it is, all 0 contacts."
"I'd like to send a text message." /dev/null!)
"Ok! Message sent." (to
These things could be done by custom ROMs and I'd be surprised if they're not already being done by somebody.
Tell them their favorite game or BitTorrent (and this includes some game patch downloads not just illegal movies) isn't working reliably because of NAT and that IPv6 will fix it and they will change over.
Yes, this is the more advanced users. A lot of people have children that qualify as more advanced users.
A family already spending $40/month on broadband isn't going to flinch at spending $100 on a new router every few years.
Some Linuxes/Unixes have unified ping and trace tools. Others have IPv6 versions such as ping6, traceroute6 or tracepath6. Try those.
For hiding your MAC address iptables is absolutely the wrong tool. You want IPv6 temporary addresses. See here: http://superuser.com/questions/243669/how-to-avoid-exposing-my-mac-address-when-using-ipv6
For a Mac you'd need to run this command: sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr=1
DNS on IPv6 autoconfigured networks is handled by well-known addresses. Give the v6 address fec0:0:0:ffff::1 to your DNS server as an alias. You can add :2 and :3 as well.
I set it up on my home network and a Windows 7 client works with it.
Uh huh. I've seen this argument that corporate taxes aren't really passed through before.
It isn't true though.
Changes in production cost that affect all the competitors will raise the end price. This happens with minimum wage hikes and it happens with corporate tax rates. It happens because all the companies are affected at the same time and so there is no benefit to selling at the old price.
The effect is a bit like price fixing. Because the increased rates affect everyone, everyone can raise prices to maintain the old profit margin without losing customers.
For example: If a consumer wants to buy an entertainment DVD then he has to purchase from a corporation. Since all the corporations have had their taxes raised and raised prices, he has to pay it. Now, he might shift his entertainment dollar somewhere else. But since all of those corporations like Netflix and the movie theaters also have the higher tax rate they are also charging more.
Smart phones do a lot more but they're hardly more convenient.
If you want to record with a Flip you press the power button then the record button and it's recording. That's it.
If you want to record with a smartphone you first press the wake up button, enter the password (because if you don't have a password, frankly you're stupid and deserve all the crap your Facebook/blog/email/IM/whatever will get from "friends"), find the right application, launch it and wait for it to come up. Then press Record.
With the Flip or something like it you can be recording in 3 seconds. With the smartphone you're lucky to have it running in 20.
Yeah. When netbooks went over $200 they started to be small laptops instead.
I've got friends with netbooks nicer than most Walmart laptops. Its the nearly instant boot from SSD, ablity to smoothly play video and the 8 hour battery life that does it.
Running Ubuntu instead of Windows doesn't hurt either, although the regular laptop could do that too.
You are awesome and I wish I had mod points.
It's always great to see more Styhanb.
Or if the school is really worried about it, a mandatory three day course at the beginning of each semester. Along with properly responding to a fire alarm or where to find, when and how to use an AED, one of the classes would of course be navigating an obstacle course while being shot at, how to take cover and how to best evade and escape the shooter. Concealed carry permit holders get a paintball gun to shoot back with if they choose.
A chance to shoot paintball guns at freshmen? I'd sign up to teach that every chance I got!
Do you have the right to be forgotten by people you meet and interact with? No, you don't have any right to edit their memories or control what they write about you, aside from slander and libel restrictions. And even then I'd argue you don't have a right to prevent them from saying or publishing anything they please, only a right to collect damages from it.
So why should you have a right to be forgotten by our prosthetic memories, aka computers? If you cannot control what is written about you in newspapers, private correspondence or stone tablets then why believe you have a right to control what is written about you in magnetic fields and optical patterns?
Any argument that applies to paper applies to the computers and ultimately it applies back to human memory which you don't have a right to control.
Sure there is a matter of scale. A computer system can use and report its memories about you, doing in seconds what would take people years of research to do using written records. But it isn't a difference in type. Even without computers a historical researcher or private investigator could still dig up everything you'd ever written and everything written about you, get reports of everything you'd ever told your neighbors and find copies of every photograph taken of you in high school.
The Security Council members each have the power to make the UN a joke. So that power may as well be an official part of the UN.
Seriously, all of the other UN countries combined could not force one of the Security Council countries to do anything they didn't want to do so why pretend otherwise?
Bootup, starting applications, using Firefox, actually getting work done like compiling software or scrolling long documents, running backups, creating or unpacking file archives. Application updates run very quickly, as do OS updates like the recent Windows 7 SP1.
There are thousands of human visible IO waits during every work day. A SSD quickly becomes an invisible part of your work flow. And then until it is taken away or you use another machine you won't realize how much you miss it.
Yes you can. You need a lawyer to front for you and you need to play some games with the corporation laws so that you pay your taxes through your corporation's tax ID. If you work at it you can manage to be legal and make money without a SSN. You cannot be an employee of anyone though. Best you can do is be a contractor.
Actually, the entire US Constitution is exactly about limits on what the Federal government can legislate. The document first takes everything away, the hands out various powers to parts of the government.
Every other power that isn't listed is supposed to be handled by the States.
As we can see, that idea didn't last very long. I think it hardly made it to 100 years.
Transmeta did your idea. They went out of business.
I wonder if this says something about the type of people who watch Sci-Fi / SyFy?
They can't get dates on Friday night?
Really, all our applications should be in sandboxes.
Why does a word processor need access to music files? Why give a music player access to anything but music files?
There have been hacks of MP3 players through corrupt ID3 info, hacks of image viewers through the JPG parser.
Just lock it down. Lock it all down.
To maintain uncertainty you want to go from 18 quintillion possibilities to only 65535?
Are you high?
Look at what Windows Vista and 7 as well as other OS's are doing with temporary IPv6 addresses.
I sure hope no one is relying on 1500 byte MTU paths. As I recall, the most anyone can rely on is 576.
Many QoS setups mess with MTU and so does VPN of various kinds.
Even systems with working IPv6 still make DNS requests over IPv4. The system would have to be pure IPv6 and not dual-stack to make that work. Besides that, DNS servers work by forwarding and caching requests and results. Even if a client made a IPv6 DNS request, its DNS server may forward that request on IPv4.