However, if Diebold did spend the extra money to make certain that they had a good secure and reliable design, would governments be willing to pay for it? Or would they instead go with the other manufactures who have less secure, but cheaper devices?
their voting products do suck, although I don't think that cost has terribly much to do with it. Actually cost is a fair complaint by Diebold. Security is not cheap, but the direct customer (the government, not the citizens) demands a cheap product. And so it is only natural that they would select their voting machines with price being a primary concern equal to or greater than security. These electronic voting machines suck across the board and we can complain all we want about the manufacturers (certainly they have been shady with their tactics of preventing third party evaluation), but ultimately the blame rests on the government's shoulders for passing HAVA without realistic cost estimates and for not purchasing voting machines with quality and security the highest primary concern.
There is no way that the Magistrate actually believes that the RIAA does not intend to sue these students. No reasonable individual could possibly look at the recent history and believe that they had any intentions other than to demand a large settlement or to sue for even larger damage claims. If the Magistrate believes otherwise, their ability to perform their job should be brought into question.
The Human Resources barrier will want to see a Libral Arts school. The hiring manager will want to see a good tech school (usually). This is the dilemma you are facing.
The theory is absolutely essential, but to be hirable, you will need to know languages on top of that and how to learn new ones quickly. Unfortunately it's hard to tell what the next big language craze will be in four or five years when you will be looking. But no matter what they teach you, always learn C++.
Only 27 percent of adults age 25 and over had a college degree in the United States. That is about 1 out of 4 people, which is pretty remarkable, especially considering that in 1940, only 4.6% had a degree, and even in 1970, only 10.7% had a degree. The percentages shot up in the past 30 years, by almost 4-6% a decade. The more this figure rises, the more important a college education will become. It's the High School education that doesn't mean jack anymore. As the number of college graduates outpaces the realistic demand, requirements for a B.S. or B.A. will be tacked on to more job postings just to weed the crowd (for example, you shouldn't need a college education to work in Human Resources or to be a Sales Representative).
The day that my employer allows me to use Firefox will be a day of rejoicing and free beer. I would gladly spell check if it did not require the round about way of loading a separate application to do it.
There is already a small fire storm among engineering professional societies where some of them are recommending a MS as the first professional degree for an Engineer. Thankfully the IEEE has made a stand to not make this recommendation and instead more rationally state that continued education is a highly important aspect of an engineer's career. Unfortunately they have failed to consider that maybe the Engineering education is lacking. Just because it's still hard to get an engineering degree doesn't mean that students are learning the right things.
As any first-year college student can tell you, an encyclopedia is not meant to be an authoritative source, nor can it be used a primary source in a properly-written research paper. Citation needed.
Seriously, I see third year college students who still don't know what plagerism is. You can't convince me that they all know better than to use an encyclopedia as a primary source.
The intention was always for the Constitution to be a living document, its meaning adapting to the times. Citation needed. Unless you are only refering to the Amendment process.
That doesn't put any onus on the IP holder to verify that the actual user doesn't use it for nefarious purposes, any more than you are responsible for what tenants do if you rent a house to them, or the driver of a car does if you lend or rent your car to them. Just because you are not responsible for it does not mean that it can't be admitted as evidence if you are the one suspected of and prosecuted for a crime that was committed with it. It's only a piece of evidence, not proof. In the case of a dynamic IP address being used as evidence, it is up to the defense to provide an expert witness to explain why it is practically meaningless as evidence.
I have been treated for ADD since I was a child (and many around me would definitely say that I legitimately have ADD based on my behavior). At some point in college I decided I did not want to take any prescription medications for ADD, as I learned more and more how to compensate for the symptoms. I quickly found that caffeine was an excellent substitute for the amphetamine drugs that I was previously on. The effect is without a doubt much more mild, but the desired outcome still remains. Now I'm not speaking on any scientific grounds when I say this, but I would guess that the jitters are a result of over stimulation. I've seen people on ritalin who did not have any form of ADD experience similar side effects.
I actually do use caffeine specifically for performance enhancement. Its effects on norepinephrine levels in the brain are similar to that of amphetamines, though far less severe.
Point well taken. But famine has also been caused by drought. And drought is nothing new either. But reguardless you still caught my point, which is that 2 years of underperforming crops is nothing new. To immediately point the finger at global warming without first rulling out all other highly common causes does nothing but make global warming advocates nod their head and those who are still uncertain think that maybe there really is something to these conspiracy theories. Nothing but unreasoned intellectual masturbation.
All of this fear over a crop under performing for only 2 summers? Perhaps all of the mass famine throughout history was also caused by global warming then. Over reaction like this is why there are still large groups who believe global warming is a myth and a conspiracy.
I am a firm believer that this chaos is a natural and unfortunately neccessary phase of any developing society. It boggles my mind when people insist that ONLY on the basis of how long we have been at this, we can't win. They apparently forgot about the 100 years war. Central Europe experienced this kind of unrest from the 1400s all the way to the mid 1900s before it finally settled down. Unfortunately, we can't stay entirely out of it because terrorist organizations have brought us into it (even though I believe this was our own doing, it's too late to worry about that now). While I am only a hobby historian, I am fairly convinced that we won't see peace in the Middle East until they are allowed to play out this drama. No nation there is large enough to have a strong enough government to maintain control. In addition, forcing our disfunctional style of republicanism immediately onto their culture cannot be ideal. Even the United States didn't start with every citizen voting for the President. The citizens only voted for The House of Representatives (and they often had to be land owners to do so). The State governments were left to that task. They need to slowly evolve into their own fasion of democratic society for it to stick. I think a more careful approach would have been to somehow officially give the tribal elders a greater say in their national government. Admittedly though, I say this without having any deep knowledge of their social culture.
So then I suppose the question is, if a significant portion of a series of law suits are found to be vexatious litigation, is that enough to justify barring all other lawsuits.
Poor guy never quite got over it. He is clearly gay. That or he is uncomfortable in his sexuality to the point where the idea of someone wanting sex with him weirds him out.
So what you're saying is, you are unforgiving and don't give him a single chance to redeem himself? No man (or woman) is perfect. If my wife had left me at my first dumb outburst or thoughtless insensitive comment, we wouldn't have lasted a single year of dating. And the same goes the other way around. It's a fact of life that we all occasionally slip up.
but it still is a system that economicaly makes sense; charging 99cents on itune for every song does not. How does charging 99 cents per song on iTunes not make good economic sense? It's a clear cut system that divides up money to artists/studios based on how much music they individually sell. The studios don't like iTunes of course because they're used to being able to rape record stores into getting a mediocre profit (at best) from a whole album. They're still making a ton of money from it though.
My temporary solution has been to contact my ISP and make it very very clear that, since I do not download copyrighted music, I will be dropping their service immediately if they accept this proposal from the RIAA. My one comment won't mean much to them, but if they start getting a fair number of them, they might pay attention.
What I want to know is, who the hell is spending $1M for a single song production? Are they using Microphones hand crafted from platinum by ancient artisans in Japan?
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However, if Diebold did spend the extra money to make certain that they had a good secure and reliable design, would governments be willing to pay for it? Or would they instead go with the other manufactures who have less secure, but cheaper devices?
There is no way that the Magistrate actually believes that the RIAA does not intend to sue these students. No reasonable individual could possibly look at the recent history and believe that they had any intentions other than to demand a large settlement or to sue for even larger damage claims. If the Magistrate believes otherwise, their ability to perform their job should be brought into question.
It's not God's gift to programmers, but it is still widely used, especially outside of end user applications.
The Human Resources barrier will want to see a Libral Arts school. The hiring manager will want to see a good tech school (usually). This is the dilemma you are facing.
The theory is absolutely essential, but to be hirable, you will need to know languages on top of that and how to learn new ones quickly. Unfortunately it's hard to tell what the next big language craze will be in four or five years when you will be looking. But no matter what they teach you, always learn C++.
The day that my employer allows me to use Firefox will be a day of rejoicing and free beer. I would gladly spell check if it did not require the round about way of loading a separate application to do it.
There is already a small fire storm among engineering professional societies where some of them are recommending a MS as the first professional degree for an Engineer. Thankfully the IEEE has made a stand to not make this recommendation and instead more rationally state that continued education is a highly important aspect of an engineer's career. Unfortunately they have failed to consider that maybe the Engineering education is lacking. Just because it's still hard to get an engineering degree doesn't mean that students are learning the right things.
Seriously, I see third year college students who still don't know what plagerism is. You can't convince me that they all know better than to use an encyclopedia as a primary source.
I have been treated for ADD since I was a child (and many around me would definitely say that I legitimately have ADD based on my behavior). At some point in college I decided I did not want to take any prescription medications for ADD, as I learned more and more how to compensate for the symptoms. I quickly found that caffeine was an excellent substitute for the amphetamine drugs that I was previously on. The effect is without a doubt much more mild, but the desired outcome still remains. Now I'm not speaking on any scientific grounds when I say this, but I would guess that the jitters are a result of over stimulation. I've seen people on ritalin who did not have any form of ADD experience similar side effects.
I actually do use caffeine specifically for performance enhancement. Its effects on norepinephrine levels in the brain are similar to that of amphetamines, though far less severe.
Point well taken. But famine has also been caused by drought. And drought is nothing new either. But reguardless you still caught my point, which is that 2 years of underperforming crops is nothing new. To immediately point the finger at global warming without first rulling out all other highly common causes does nothing but make global warming advocates nod their head and those who are still uncertain think that maybe there really is something to these conspiracy theories. Nothing but unreasoned intellectual masturbation.
All of this fear over a crop under performing for only 2 summers? Perhaps all of the mass famine throughout history was also caused by global warming then. Over reaction like this is why there are still large groups who believe global warming is a myth and a conspiracy.
I am a firm believer that this chaos is a natural and unfortunately neccessary phase of any developing society. It boggles my mind when people insist that ONLY on the basis of how long we have been at this, we can't win. They apparently forgot about the 100 years war. Central Europe experienced this kind of unrest from the 1400s all the way to the mid 1900s before it finally settled down. Unfortunately, we can't stay entirely out of it because terrorist organizations have brought us into it (even though I believe this was our own doing, it's too late to worry about that now). While I am only a hobby historian, I am fairly convinced that we won't see peace in the Middle East until they are allowed to play out this drama. No nation there is large enough to have a strong enough government to maintain control. In addition, forcing our disfunctional style of republicanism immediately onto their culture cannot be ideal. Even the United States didn't start with every citizen voting for the President. The citizens only voted for The House of Representatives (and they often had to be land owners to do so). The State governments were left to that task. They need to slowly evolve into their own fasion of democratic society for it to stick. I think a more careful approach would have been to somehow officially give the tribal elders a greater say in their national government. Admittedly though, I say this without having any deep knowledge of their social culture.
So then I suppose the question is, if a significant portion of a series of law suits are found to be vexatious litigation, is that enough to justify barring all other lawsuits.
I think there actually is some precedent for baring further related law suits when someone is found to be grossly abusing the justice system.
So what you're saying is, you are unforgiving and don't give him a single chance to redeem himself? No man (or woman) is perfect. If my wife had left me at my first dumb outburst or thoughtless insensitive comment, we wouldn't have lasted a single year of dating. And the same goes the other way around. It's a fact of life that we all occasionally slip up.
My temporary solution has been to contact my ISP and make it very very clear that, since I do not download copyrighted music, I will be dropping their service immediately if they accept this proposal from the RIAA. My one comment won't mean much to them, but if they start getting a fair number of them, they might pay attention.
This may change soon if the FCC gets its way with its a-la-carte proposal.
There were quite a large number of people in the US that didn't want the US to join the WTO, complete with rallies and protests.
What I want to know is, who the hell is spending $1M for a single song production? Are they using Microphones hand crafted from platinum by ancient artisans in Japan?