No...it is the belief that there is no divine being. Some Atheists are quite fervent in this belief and feel that it is their duty to convert the unwashed masses to their way of thinking. Not very different at all from your prototypical bible thumping zealots.
I think you either got a little too excited or have no clue what a boardgame is. That's like asking if all videogames are alike or if all mammals are alike.
I'll ignore for the moment that the entire United States *is* a "free speech zone" just for the sake of argument.
One issue with these so called "free speech zones" is that they are not evenly enforced. Only speech that the powers that be don't want to hear is shuttled off to these "free speech zones" which are conveniently placed where said speech will not be heard by anyone. Speech that is authorized can be exercised anywhere. Even if for the sake of argument we say that these "free speech zones" are needed for some reason, that is a violation of the 14th Amendment.
You are correct that one person's rights can not be allowed to infringe upon another person's rights without consequence (the basis of laws for libel, threats, etc.) There is also a difference between restricting speech and consequences for speech. Most laws fall into the latter rather than the former. Blocking traffic, etc is separate from protesting and/or exercising your rights to free speech. It can be an example of civil disobedience which is not always a bad thing and is sometimes needed to enact change. Either way, there are mechanisms in place to deal with it. "Free speech zones" are not needed in addition to those.
Calling LoTRO a WoW knockoff is unfair. It did have some game play innovations when it was released, though it was set in a fairly bland world (tying it to the Tolkien IP dooms it in that way.) It did not play exactly like WoW, though I'm sure that WoW has integrated some of LoTRO's features since then (as it should have.)
DDO, on the other hand, was more innovative, but suffered in the early days from not knowing if they wanted to be true to D20 D&D or be an MMO. Once they ironed that out, it developed into a decent little game. It still has the best combat engine of all MMOs IMHO, but the game is lacking in other areas. A fun diversion, but not a blockbuster.
Not everything is a WoW knockoff just because there is a fantasy element or a couple of similar mechanics. I see that charge leveled against pretty much every MMO...I've even heard idiots call EQ a WoW knockoff (probably the same idiots that think Warhammer stole WoW's ideas.) Every game builds upon those that came before them going all the way back to the very beginning. A truly innovative and unique game is a very rare thing and usually marks the beginning of a new genre.
"Local Time" means exactly what it says. It is local to the reader/listener. You celebrated new years at midnight local time. The spot on the earth that will be pointing in the right direction to see the meteors will be located at a position where it is currently 3am. The direction will not change, but the earth will continue to rotate under it. It will continue to be 3am in that position (give or take a second or two to account for the earth's orbit) for the entire night.
Don't get mad at NASA because you don't understand time zones and their usage.
I think that the mitigating factor here is that the program is outside of the scope of the OP's day to day responsibilities. This isn't a small shell script, but a larger application.
That said, it would be a bad idea to attempt to get money out of his employer for it. That would not be received well.
IMHO, the best way to attack this is to offer to let the employer utilize the solution as more or less a beta test but retain the rights to it so the OP can refine it based upon feedback. That way, the OP gets to be the office hero for solving a problem that is way outside of his area of responsibility and he can still potentially use the (improved) program someplace else for profit if he so wishes.
Better baseball bat technology has direct and immediate usage as a weapon. Where do you draw the line? How about at the point where the research has no other viable purposes? As I understand it (and I could be way off) this research has a very important use in preventing such things, natural and man-made.
Either way as pertains to privacy, it's most parsimonious to say US constitution does neither "recognize" nor "respect" a simple, holistic right to privacy. That the fourth amendment manages to spell out what it means without using the word "privacy" should be instructive, they probably left it out for a reason.
Probably because the concept of privacy wasn't as fully formed in the late 1700's as it is now. Life was a wee bit simpler and more open. Communities were more close knit and everybody knew everybody else's dirty laundry. These days, we barely even know our neighbors and have plenty that would be uncomfortable or even dangerous to our well being (financial, or otherwise) to have made public knowledge.
"Homework" is a large umbrella. There are so many variables involved that it is impossible to say whether or not it serves any purpose. Some homework actually adds to the in class lesson, but some of it is simply busy work. Some of it is geared towards a specific type of learning, but doesn't do anything for students who aren't wired to learn that way.
Then you have to factor in the students. Schools are (almost) always geared for the average. If a student is behind the herd, he or she might need some extra help in the form of studying and homework, but a student who is ahead of the herd could find homework to be little more than a worthless exercise designed to waste time better used learning something (or watching Spongebob...smart kids don't have any more sense or taste than other kids)
In *real work*, there's none of this "Gee, 88%, that's good enough". Sure, that's how far you get the *first time*, then Boss says something and... you have to go *finish* it. Then you do another one. And another one. Because business is about repeatable tasks performed at 100%. So the biggest lesson of all is about transcending the bored willies and just drilling stuff out.
I agree with the first part. There is no room for almost good enough. As far as the rest of it...maybe if you are some sort of mindless drone.
You need to get out a bit more. There are several solutions for iDevices and Android that replicate the functionality of the BES including remote wipe with audit trails. Start by looking at Good and Trust Digital. There are a few others as well.
We didn't have scanners for the first 90 years of commercial aviation and yet we didn't exactly have airplanes falling out of the skies. Now we have scanners that don't actually work, but have a chance of randomly killing people. I don't care how much of a coward you are, that doesn't seem like a good trade off.
The overall net effect is that more lives will be saved than lost, just it's unfortunate that they can't all be saved.
This is true whether there are scanners or not. The difference is how much privacy we give up so that cowards can feel safer despite there being zero effective difference in the chances of being killed in a terrorist attack.
Yes, it does. If you want to peacefully stand in the lane I use to get to work, you better have a permit, so that I can demand to know what idiot issued it.
The question of permits aside, unless you are a police officer or the Mayor or something, you lack the authority to demand such things. You have the right to ask just as they have the right to tell you to go away, but not the authority to demand anything. There is a very important distinction.
I don't know. Going hungry is about the same no matter what era it is in. Freezing to death under a bridge or in your unheated home isn't really any better in 2011 than it was in the middle ages. Dying from the flu or some other easily treated ailment seems to be just as much of a downer today as it was 40 years ago when such things weren't so easily treated.
There is no cost for an HD cable or heat sink. If you'd built a pc in the past 10 years or so, you'd have found those parts bundled in with your motherboard and (retail...nobody does OEM anymore) CPU. As far as the flash drive cost....really? Should they include the cost of electricity, heat, etc for the place they built it in? How about the gas required to drive there? The flash drive is not a part of the computer, and it isn't consumed in the process, so its cost should not be counted.
There are more than you might think...just off the top of my head...Siemens, Orkla, Northrop-Grumman, GE...I'm sure that we could compile a pretty extensive list if we really wanted to.
Except that the low margin PC business is their foot in the door to selling their higher margin servers and software and very lucrative services (at least as much as their printers are.) It was their advantage over companies like Oracle, IBM, AT&T, etc. Not really much different in theory from gaming consoles where the hardware is sold at a loss and the real money is made on the software.
I've worked in the consulting/services world and I've seen companies shed their low margin hardware business to concentrate on their high margin services. It never ends well. IBM was able to be successful because of the way they did it with Lenovo and because they were so strong in big iron. Other than the company name change, everything appeared the same to the consumer and IBM maintained pretty tight integration for a period of time. Even now, the Thinkpads look just like an IBM Thinkpad, so even though you know it is a Lenovo product, the connection to IBM is still there.
With HP, they don't have an iconic PC line so they can't do anything to replicate IBM's success in that area. Companies that were HP shops will now be looking at Dell or Lenovo for their PCs and that leaves their HP servers vulnerable to replacement. At the same time, companies like Sharp and Cannon are smelling blood in the water and are going to be going after HP's printer business even harder. Pretty soon, HP is out of those companies all together.
To put it another way, Facebook can give you information, but nobody ever relies on Facebook to give them information.
Sure they do. We see stories all the time where people are fired, etc because of something posted on Facebook with no corroborating evidence. Even if it isn't used as a primary source of information, it will be used to verify other sources of information, even if just subconsciously.
As far as what other, worse, purposes this can be used for...any sort of crime or espionage where an identity and/or trust is needed to be established. Having a facebook profile will be necessary to establish a cover ID. Someone who doesn't exist on the net is going to stand out and invite more scrutiny.
I carry a dedicated MP3 player during those times when I just want to listen to music. Much smaller and easier to carry around than my smart phone and it clips right onto my clothing. I also don't waste my phone's memory with music or drain its battery even faster than normal.
Funnily enough, I also have a camera for taking pictures and a hand held game platform for portable gaming. Just like with music, I can and do use my phone for those functions in a pinch, but no phone is an adequate replacement for a dedicated device when it comes to more extensive usage.
He was authorized. A representative of Cisco gave him credentials to use for that purpose. That Cisco representative may not have been authorized to grant said permission, but that is not Peter Alfred-Adekeye's fault.
This may come as a shock to you, but you are not representative of everybody.
Yes, *some* people will not pay for it no matter what it costs because they are cheap bastards. *Some* people will not pay for what the cable company offers no matter what it costs because it simply doesn't appeal to them.
However, *some* people will pay for it if it is cheaper because it is a lot more convenient to just find it on the TV than search for it on the internet and the TV screen is a lot larger than their monitor (yes, we can run our video feeds through modern TVs via several methods...not everyone is savvy enough to do this.) *Some* people pay for porn on the internet now (some pay quite a lot.)
The question is simply economics. At what price point do they maximize their profits? They felt that it was $10, but sales are dropping off so maybe that is no longer true. Or maybe it is and the entire business model is simply not as profitable as it once was. The porn industry has changed over the years. Full length feature movies with plots (such as they are) and dialogue (for what it was worth) are no longer the norm. Now just about everything is 15 - 20 minute chunks of activity and a DVD is simply several of those chunks or scenes spliced together with no narrative.
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It is also the obligation of the judge.
No...it is the belief that there is no divine being. Some Atheists are quite fervent in this belief and feel that it is their duty to convert the unwashed masses to their way of thinking. Not very different at all from your prototypical bible thumping zealots.
Aren't all boardgames alike?
I think you either got a little too excited or have no clue what a boardgame is. That's like asking if all videogames are alike or if all mammals are alike.
I'll ignore for the moment that the entire United States *is* a "free speech zone" just for the sake of argument.
One issue with these so called "free speech zones" is that they are not evenly enforced. Only speech that the powers that be don't want to hear is shuttled off to these "free speech zones" which are conveniently placed where said speech will not be heard by anyone. Speech that is authorized can be exercised anywhere. Even if for the sake of argument we say that these "free speech zones" are needed for some reason, that is a violation of the 14th Amendment.
You are correct that one person's rights can not be allowed to infringe upon another person's rights without consequence (the basis of laws for libel, threats, etc.) There is also a difference between restricting speech and consequences for speech. Most laws fall into the latter rather than the former. Blocking traffic, etc is separate from protesting and/or exercising your rights to free speech. It can be an example of civil disobedience which is not always a bad thing and is sometimes needed to enact change. Either way, there are mechanisms in place to deal with it. "Free speech zones" are not needed in addition to those.
I think that it magically increases his bandwidth by being magically located in a place that magically has more bandwidth.
Calling LoTRO a WoW knockoff is unfair. It did have some game play innovations when it was released, though it was set in a fairly bland world (tying it to the Tolkien IP dooms it in that way.) It did not play exactly like WoW, though I'm sure that WoW has integrated some of LoTRO's features since then (as it should have.)
DDO, on the other hand, was more innovative, but suffered in the early days from not knowing if they wanted to be true to D20 D&D or be an MMO. Once they ironed that out, it developed into a decent little game. It still has the best combat engine of all MMOs IMHO, but the game is lacking in other areas. A fun diversion, but not a blockbuster.
Not everything is a WoW knockoff just because there is a fantasy element or a couple of similar mechanics. I see that charge leveled against pretty much every MMO...I've even heard idiots call EQ a WoW knockoff (probably the same idiots that think Warhammer stole WoW's ideas.) Every game builds upon those that came before them going all the way back to the very beginning. A truly innovative and unique game is a very rare thing and usually marks the beginning of a new genre.
"Local Time" means exactly what it says. It is local to the reader/listener. You celebrated new years at midnight local time. The spot on the earth that will be pointing in the right direction to see the meteors will be located at a position where it is currently 3am. The direction will not change, but the earth will continue to rotate under it. It will continue to be 3am in that position (give or take a second or two to account for the earth's orbit) for the entire night.
Don't get mad at NASA because you don't understand time zones and their usage.
I think that the mitigating factor here is that the program is outside of the scope of the OP's day to day responsibilities. This isn't a small shell script, but a larger application.
That said, it would be a bad idea to attempt to get money out of his employer for it. That would not be received well.
IMHO, the best way to attack this is to offer to let the employer utilize the solution as more or less a beta test but retain the rights to it so the OP can refine it based upon feedback. That way, the OP gets to be the office hero for solving a problem that is way outside of his area of responsibility and he can still potentially use the (improved) program someplace else for profit if he so wishes.
Better baseball bat technology has direct and immediate usage as a weapon. Where do you draw the line? How about at the point where the research has no other viable purposes? As I understand it (and I could be way off) this research has a very important use in preventing such things, natural and man-made.
They were afraid that he'd open a wormhole that they could use to deliver a nuke through.
"Homework" is a large umbrella. There are so many variables involved that it is impossible to say whether or not it serves any purpose. Some homework actually adds to the in class lesson, but some of it is simply busy work. Some of it is geared towards a specific type of learning, but doesn't do anything for students who aren't wired to learn that way.
Then you have to factor in the students. Schools are (almost) always geared for the average. If a student is behind the herd, he or she might need some extra help in the form of studying and homework, but a student who is ahead of the herd could find homework to be little more than a worthless exercise designed to waste time better used learning something (or watching Spongebob...smart kids don't have any more sense or taste than other kids)
In *real work*, there's none of this "Gee, 88%, that's good enough". Sure, that's how far you get the *first time*, then Boss says something and ... you have to go *finish* it. Then you do another one. And another one. Because business is about repeatable tasks performed at 100%. So the biggest lesson of all is about transcending the bored willies and just drilling stuff out.
I agree with the first part. There is no room for almost good enough. As far as the rest of it...maybe if you are some sort of mindless drone.
I was holding it wrong
You need to get out a bit more. There are several solutions for iDevices and Android that replicate the functionality of the BES including remote wipe with audit trails. Start by looking at Good and Trust Digital. There are a few others as well.
We didn't have scanners for the first 90 years of commercial aviation and yet we didn't exactly have airplanes falling out of the skies. Now we have scanners that don't actually work, but have a chance of randomly killing people. I don't care how much of a coward you are, that doesn't seem like a good trade off.
The overall net effect is that more lives will be saved than lost, just it's unfortunate that they can't all be saved.
This is true whether there are scanners or not. The difference is how much privacy we give up so that cowards can feel safer despite there being zero effective difference in the chances of being killed in a terrorist attack.
Yes, it does. If you want to peacefully stand in the lane I use to get to work, you better have a permit, so that I can demand to know what idiot issued it.
The question of permits aside, unless you are a police officer or the Mayor or something, you lack the authority to demand such things. You have the right to ask just as they have the right to tell you to go away, but not the authority to demand anything. There is a very important distinction.
Have you been living under a rock or something?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/kids/
I'd post more links, but you need to learn how to use Google. :)
I don't know. Going hungry is about the same no matter what era it is in. Freezing to death under a bridge or in your unheated home isn't really any better in 2011 than it was in the middle ages. Dying from the flu or some other easily treated ailment seems to be just as much of a downer today as it was 40 years ago when such things weren't so easily treated.
There is no cost for an HD cable or heat sink. If you'd built a pc in the past 10 years or so, you'd have found those parts bundled in with your motherboard and (retail...nobody does OEM anymore) CPU. As far as the flash drive cost....really? Should they include the cost of electricity, heat, etc for the place they built it in? How about the gas required to drive there? The flash drive is not a part of the computer, and it isn't consumed in the process, so its cost should not be counted.
There are more than you might think...just off the top of my head...Siemens, Orkla, Northrop-Grumman, GE...I'm sure that we could compile a pretty extensive list if we really wanted to.
Except that the low margin PC business is their foot in the door to selling their higher margin servers and software and very lucrative services (at least as much as their printers are.) It was their advantage over companies like Oracle, IBM, AT&T, etc. Not really much different in theory from gaming consoles where the hardware is sold at a loss and the real money is made on the software.
I've worked in the consulting/services world and I've seen companies shed their low margin hardware business to concentrate on their high margin services. It never ends well. IBM was able to be successful because of the way they did it with Lenovo and because they were so strong in big iron. Other than the company name change, everything appeared the same to the consumer and IBM maintained pretty tight integration for a period of time. Even now, the Thinkpads look just like an IBM Thinkpad, so even though you know it is a Lenovo product, the connection to IBM is still there.
With HP, they don't have an iconic PC line so they can't do anything to replicate IBM's success in that area. Companies that were HP shops will now be looking at Dell or Lenovo for their PCs and that leaves their HP servers vulnerable to replacement. At the same time, companies like Sharp and Cannon are smelling blood in the water and are going to be going after HP's printer business even harder. Pretty soon, HP is out of those companies all together.
To put it another way, Facebook can give you information, but nobody ever relies on Facebook to give them information.
Sure they do. We see stories all the time where people are fired, etc because of something posted on Facebook with no corroborating evidence. Even if it isn't used as a primary source of information, it will be used to verify other sources of information, even if just subconsciously.
As far as what other, worse, purposes this can be used for...any sort of crime or espionage where an identity and/or trust is needed to be established. Having a facebook profile will be necessary to establish a cover ID. Someone who doesn't exist on the net is going to stand out and invite more scrutiny.
I carry a dedicated MP3 player during those times when I just want to listen to music. Much smaller and easier to carry around than my smart phone and it clips right onto my clothing. I also don't waste my phone's memory with music or drain its battery even faster than normal.
Funnily enough, I also have a camera for taking pictures and a hand held game platform for portable gaming. Just like with music, I can and do use my phone for those functions in a pinch, but no phone is an adequate replacement for a dedicated device when it comes to more extensive usage.
He was authorized. A representative of Cisco gave him credentials to use for that purpose. That Cisco representative may not have been authorized to grant said permission, but that is not Peter Alfred-Adekeye's fault.
This may come as a shock to you, but you are not representative of everybody.
Yes, *some* people will not pay for it no matter what it costs because they are cheap bastards. *Some* people will not pay for what the cable company offers no matter what it costs because it simply doesn't appeal to them.
However, *some* people will pay for it if it is cheaper because it is a lot more convenient to just find it on the TV than search for it on the internet and the TV screen is a lot larger than their monitor (yes, we can run our video feeds through modern TVs via several methods...not everyone is savvy enough to do this.) *Some* people pay for porn on the internet now (some pay quite a lot.)
The question is simply economics. At what price point do they maximize their profits? They felt that it was $10, but sales are dropping off so maybe that is no longer true. Or maybe it is and the entire business model is simply not as profitable as it once was. The porn industry has changed over the years. Full length feature movies with plots (such as they are) and dialogue (for what it was worth) are no longer the norm. Now just about everything is 15 - 20 minute chunks of activity and a DVD is simply several of those chunks or scenes spliced together with no narrative.