That's all fine and dandy, but considering that presumably, females of other species don't want them, either, why do they still exist there?
That's something of a presumption, given the fact that condoms can still be bought "ribbed for her pleasure".
I think you'll find that 'spined for her irritation" condoms are somewhat more of a specialty item though, and probably not in particularly high demand.
That was my (uninformed) conclusion too. They know that unless they _really_ screw up somehow, they are going to sell these things as fast as they can make them, so they don't need to hedge their bets on manufacturing capacity and part volumes. They also have a pretty good idea of the lifetime of their previous products and that while some people will be willing to replace the battery etc, most are just going to chuck it in the bin and buy a new one once the battery starts losing capacity.
Does context make a difference? I can't tell from the article if he made the call for the purpose of recording the officer, or if he just happened to be leaving a message. Incidental or accidental recording would have to be treated differently.
It's not abuse, it's almost certain to be the natural extension of the law. The laws on wiretapping don't generally specify the methods that are used to do the actual recording, so an audio recording of any sort is equal to any other. If you're in a 2 party consent state, then this sort of prosecution is to be expected, if the person did the recording, which it sounds like he did, then he'll end up being charged and likely convicted.
By your logic, if I am in line at Dunkin Donuts and the person in front of me (Joe) is on the phone leaving a message while I'm talking to my friend then Joe is guilty of illegal wiretapping.
Even worse in that case because there are almost certainly police officers present.
TFA is about making an audio recording of a police officer without his consent, which is different in a lot of countries to a video recording. I believe it is different here in Australia, or at least covered by different areas of the law.
Exactly. I tried running Dell Windows and it was crap. I use mostly the kernel from Bill's tree with a few HP and IBM patches applied to support the newer hardware as required, but have stuck with the HP window manager (the Microsoft released one is rubbish).
How is the excuse "because he posted anti-government sentiment on facebook" better than "to tell you the reason would compromise national security" (eg no real excuse at all)???
If you ever find such a device, drive onto the busiest freeway at the busiest time of day, pull over to 'check the rattle coming from the back of your car', then call 911 to say someone has put a bomb on your car. The freeway will be blocked for hours and the news will be all over it. Then sue them while it's hot.
Driving into the middle of a big city in rush hour will do the trick too.
Those three little rules are awful vague. Seems like you'd almost have to be omnipotent to be able to full weigh them. And we all know the kinds of problems that can lead to. I mean, a little ol' lady with Alzheimer's wandering around in a construction site is a lot different than a teen skateboarder shredding in the park.
Yes I see. The robot is not going to have any chance of understanding that the latter is much funnier when they fall down...
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Not everyone gets 60 Hz pure sine, 120V+-1% to their house.
So that's it! I wondered why our bulbs were only lasting a few years, I'm not getting anything like the 120V @ 60Hz in my house. Last time I measured it it was closer to 50Hz and 240V:)
You still can't beat 4 bulbs for $.99.
And in a cold climate where you are trying to heat the house, surely they are a better investment anyway? As a heater they are pretty efficient, and the heat is only waste if you don't want it.
I can predict a worse outcome for the economy than people simply not being at work early. We currently get 3 hours of overlap with the (east coast) americans in a work day – they don't really want to have meetings absolute first thing, and we don't really want to have one last thing... This would give us only 2 hours overlap and compound the cross-atlantic communication problem.
Ah. I was wondering where the productivity increase was going to come from that was going to stimulate the economy, and there it is! Less meetings = more productivity.
And of course there is the boom in anti-curtain-fade product sales, that can't hurt either.
It sounds like a lot of processing to me... not the kind that would swamp your PC while connecting to emule, but one that could be harmful to the backbone routers.
Maybe. I was kind of thinking the opposite though... the address tables would be much smaller than IPv4 because you only need to route between levels, and you could do that in hardware by examining the first few bytes of the address. IPv6 has much the same idea but with a fixed length address.
Something with extensible addressing would have been nice, like phone numbers with international area code / national area code / local number, but with an open ended number of divisions. You could refer to stuff on your lan with a single number, possibly within your corporate network with 2 numbers, and so on. When we need to start routing traffic off the planet just prefix another number on there - 1 for Earth, 2 for Mars, etc. A full address might take the form of:
planet / country / ISP / customer / network address / station address
If each was a 24 bit number then there is plenty of room at any level, and you can just get an additional address at any level if you need it.
Running out of numbers in one zone might require a mass renumbering, which would be a pain for the customers involved, but far less so than adding a completely new IP protocol which an unknown number of security holes.
Facebook requires HTTPS to access account settings. Nothing else to say.
Plenty more to say. As long as users go to 'facebook.com', and as long as the browser interprets that as "oh you mean http://facebook.com/" then all bets are off. Facebook may force the URL to account settings to https, but if there is a 'man in the middle', they connect to facebook via https for you, but rewrite all the url's you get sent as http, and most users won't notice.
You have to use https _everywhere_ or else you've given a MitM a chance to proxy your connection, and DNS spoofing is all that's required to do this.
Who cares about what happens to them after the burst
While a movie of bursting viruses might be interesting, it won't be as scientifically useful as a movie of a virus that is (mostly) unaffected by having the movie taken of it.
This sort of stuff is like determining where a basketball is by throwing tennis balls at it and seeing where they land. You can only throw a few before the basketball becomes so affected by the tennis balls that you don't know where it is anymore (or how fast it's moving)...
Tough call which is the greater good, preventing all automobile fatalities, or preventing all influenza deaths.
Not that tough really. In the absence of a perfect and universal flu vaccine you simply can't prevent all influenza deaths. I can come up with several solutions to prevent all automobile fatalities, but nobody would like them, they wouldn't get implemented (or obeyed), and people would still die on the roads.
If you do the cost/benefit analysis on it then the answer is pretty easy. I bet the billions of dollars being spent on flu vaccine could save thousands or millions of lives (and all the other associated costs of being sick) over a 20 year period, but those same billions of dollars wouldn't make a significant dent in automobile fatalities over the same 20 year period.
This is probably a bit of a stretch, but I remember driving home from work the day I came down with swine[1] flu. Nearly caused 3 accidents myself. In retrospect I should have gotten a lift home but like being drunk, you don't always appreciate how incapacitated you are at the time. Even without people dying as a direct result of the flu there is still a huge cost to it, even if you just count the sick days.
[1] never actually diagnosed as 'swine flu' specifically, but it was at the peak of the swine flu season and I was sicker than I ever remember being before and the general consensus was that if you had a bad flu it was probably swine flu...
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That's all fine and dandy, but considering that presumably, females of other species don't want them, either, why do they still exist there?
That's something of a presumption, given the fact that condoms can still be bought "ribbed for her pleasure".
I think you'll find that 'spined for her irritation" condoms are somewhat more of a specialty item though, and probably not in particularly high demand.
That was my (uninformed) conclusion too. They know that unless they _really_ screw up somehow, they are going to sell these things as fast as they can make them, so they don't need to hedge their bets on manufacturing capacity and part volumes. They also have a pretty good idea of the lifetime of their previous products and that while some people will be willing to replace the battery etc, most are just going to chuck it in the bin and buy a new one once the battery starts losing capacity.
When the signoff line in TFA is a stupid comment over what to call it, you know they definitely aren't onto something.
Does context make a difference? I can't tell from the article if he made the call for the purpose of recording the officer, or if he just happened to be leaving a message. Incidental or accidental recording would have to be treated differently.
It's not abuse, it's almost certain to be the natural extension of the law. The laws on wiretapping don't generally specify the methods that are used to do the actual recording, so an audio recording of any sort is equal to any other. If you're in a 2 party consent state, then this sort of prosecution is to be expected, if the person did the recording, which it sounds like he did, then he'll end up being charged and likely convicted.
By your logic, if I am in line at Dunkin Donuts and the person in front of me (Joe) is on the phone leaving a message while I'm talking to my friend then Joe is guilty of illegal wiretapping.
Even worse in that case because there are almost certainly police officers present.
TFA is about making an audio recording of a police officer without his consent, which is different in a lot of countries to a video recording. I believe it is different here in Australia, or at least covered by different areas of the law.
Exactly. I tried running Dell Windows and it was crap. I use mostly the kernel from Bill's tree with a few HP and IBM patches applied to support the newer hardware as required, but have stuck with the HP window manager (the Microsoft released one is rubbish).
How is the excuse "because he posted anti-government sentiment on facebook" better than "to tell you the reason would compromise national security" (eg no real excuse at all)???
If you ever find such a device, drive onto the busiest freeway at the busiest time of day, pull over to 'check the rattle coming from the back of your car', then call 911 to say someone has put a bomb on your car. The freeway will be blocked for hours and the news will be all over it. Then sue them while it's hot.
Driving into the middle of a big city in rush hour will do the trick too.
Damn. no mod points for you.
Those three little rules are awful vague. Seems like you'd almost have to be omnipotent to be able to full weigh them. And we all know the kinds of problems that can lead to. I mean, a little ol' lady with Alzheimer's wandering around in a construction site is a lot different than a teen skateboarder shredding in the park.
Yes I see. The robot is not going to have any chance of understanding that the latter is much funnier when they fall down...
Hell yeah!
I also bet that anyone who pushes for this will wake up with a horses head next to them though.
Twinbee: Can you help me? I deleted a file by mistake.
Admin: *sigh* you again! What is the name of the file?
Twinbee: I can't quite remember, but it was definitely orange.
Not everyone gets 60 Hz pure sine, 120V+-1% to their house.
So that's it! I wondered why our bulbs were only lasting a few years, I'm not getting anything like the 120V @ 60Hz in my house. Last time I measured it it was closer to 50Hz and 240V :)
You still can't beat 4 bulbs for $.99.
And in a cold climate where you are trying to heat the house, surely they are a better investment anyway? As a heater they are pretty efficient, and the heat is only waste if you don't want it.
I can predict a worse outcome for the economy than people simply not being at work early. We currently get 3 hours of overlap with the (east coast) americans in a work day – they don't really want to have meetings absolute first thing, and we don't really want to have one last thing... This would give us only 2 hours overlap and compound the cross-atlantic communication problem.
Ah. I was wondering where the productivity increase was going to come from that was going to stimulate the economy, and there it is! Less meetings = more productivity.
And of course there is the boom in anti-curtain-fade product sales, that can't hurt either.
Your god gives you oil when you stick your head in the sand??? Boy did I pick a loser then!
Now I can't tell if you missed the fact that I was playing along and pretending the movie was never made, or if you are being sarcastic...
That's what I was going for.
Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen after the movie wrapped up the story line and killed off major characters.
I'm prepared to pretend the movie never happened if it mean more episodes. Who's with me?!
What movie?
It sounds like a lot of processing to me... not the kind that would swamp your PC while connecting to emule, but one that could be harmful to the backbone routers.
Maybe. I was kind of thinking the opposite though... the address tables would be much smaller than IPv4 because you only need to route between levels, and you could do that in hardware by examining the first few bytes of the address. IPv6 has much the same idea but with a fixed length address.
Something with extensible addressing would have been nice, like phone numbers with international area code / national area code / local number, but with an open ended number of divisions. You could refer to stuff on your lan with a single number, possibly within your corporate network with 2 numbers, and so on. When we need to start routing traffic off the planet just prefix another number on there - 1 for Earth, 2 for Mars, etc. A full address might take the form of:
planet / country / ISP / customer / network address / station address
If each was a 24 bit number then there is plenty of room at any level, and you can just get an additional address at any level if you need it.
Running out of numbers in one zone might require a mass renumbering, which would be a pain for the customers involved, but far less so than adding a completely new IP protocol which an unknown number of security holes.
Routing could be a bit of a bitch though...
Facebook requires HTTPS to access account settings. Nothing else to say.
Plenty more to say. As long as users go to 'facebook.com', and as long as the browser interprets that as "oh you mean http://facebook.com/" then all bets are off. Facebook may force the URL to account settings to https, but if there is a 'man in the middle', they connect to facebook via https for you, but rewrite all the url's you get sent as http, and most users won't notice.
You have to use https _everywhere_ or else you've given a MitM a chance to proxy your connection, and DNS spoofing is all that's required to do this.
Who cares about what happens to them after the burst
While a movie of bursting viruses might be interesting, it won't be as scientifically useful as a movie of a virus that is (mostly) unaffected by having the movie taken of it.
This sort of stuff is like determining where a basketball is by throwing tennis balls at it and seeing where they land. You can only throw a few before the basketball becomes so affected by the tennis balls that you don't know where it is anymore (or how fast it's moving)...
Tough call which is the greater good, preventing all automobile fatalities, or preventing all influenza deaths.
Not that tough really. In the absence of a perfect and universal flu vaccine you simply can't prevent all influenza deaths. I can come up with several solutions to prevent all automobile fatalities, but nobody would like them, they wouldn't get implemented (or obeyed), and people would still die on the roads.
If you do the cost/benefit analysis on it then the answer is pretty easy. I bet the billions of dollars being spent on flu vaccine could save thousands or millions of lives (and all the other associated costs of being sick) over a 20 year period, but those same billions of dollars wouldn't make a significant dent in automobile fatalities over the same 20 year period.
This is probably a bit of a stretch, but I remember driving home from work the day I came down with swine[1] flu. Nearly caused 3 accidents myself. In retrospect I should have gotten a lift home but like being drunk, you don't always appreciate how incapacitated you are at the time. Even without people dying as a direct result of the flu there is still a huge cost to it, even if you just count the sick days.
[1] never actually diagnosed as 'swine flu' specifically, but it was at the peak of the swine flu season and I was sicker than I ever remember being before and the general consensus was that if you had a bad flu it was probably swine flu...