4) White list which sites they can use, and white list email addresses till they are old enough. Just like the v-chip on tv's.
Theres too much information for a parent to monitor and control, you need tools to help. The problem with 3rd party censorship controls, they choose what to sensor. Everyone is a Rich, middle-aged, White, Republican.
Thats almost the problem I have, I dont want to carry a PDA, Phone, MP3 Player and Camera, and have a nice thumbboard for typing. Nothing exists yet, but the Nokia 7700 is out, and we will see it in the USA in 3 months. Almost everything but the darn thumb-board.
Just dont care for for SSH'ing without a thumb-board. Personal choice, but this offers everything but. Same size as the NGage, but has a true 640x480 screen. Thou I think you hold it taco style to talk.
The problem with that credit card size PDA, looks like it would break in half. Thou 320x240 screen size is healthy.
My kids are too young, they missed the SNES/PS/Atari games. Even computer games like "SuperFrog/Zool/Hybris" of the Amiga or Karateka/Bards tale of the C64 days.
So, I have an older SNES and other systems, my kids love Mario Brothers. So while my kids have the chance to play Xbox/N64 to SNES, Mario seems to be the favorite. We still seem to play Mario Kart on the N64, even the snes sometimes. Some games are still fun, even the old Tanks on the Atari 2600 has some replay value.
Of course the article is mostly talking about newer computer games, not consoles. But I never had to download 20 patches to get bugs worked out, or wait a month for a hardware fix. So am I a little jaded? Yes, Games today take months before they are Truly playable. I wont be the first to jump on the game, wait a couple months, buy it for 20 bux cheaper, have online game tips, download 1 patch with the 20 updates since its been out. Only thing thats annoying is some good quality games do come out, and no reviews. The bargin bin seems to be full of good games (that are already patched). Serious Sam 2 anyone?
I'm still playing newer games, so is everyone else I know in my age range. We just seem a little wiser, and choosier, dont get hooked on hype as much as most people.
But then, I'm still waiting for Duke Nukem 4 Ever.
The picture itself might have been permissible, but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line. Merely removing the post was also not an option -- I offered, and my manager said that he had asked the same thing -- but the only option afforded me was to collect any personal belongings I had at my workstation and be escorted out the door.
Even his manager wanted him to stay. Its not like the guy was doing something worth being fired over. He said he worked at the MSCopy shop, the same shop as shipping. Thats it! The picture didnt have 1 thing of value in them, it was just a picture of some Macs on a truck.
Really, major over-reaction on Microsoft. You dont fire everyone for making harmless mistakes, (which it wasnt). The guy was a good employee that the Manager tried to fight to keep.
Lots of people on slashdot lately have posted thats its OK, to get fired for some pretty petty things. And even things that are not business related, or they do on personal time. When it comes down, do you do the job correctly, and do you get along with everyone at work, what else is there? Youre at home blogging activities? You wore jeans to work? You said you like a product from another company? Getting a little crazy people, step back, mistakes are made that might not seem to be mistakes. Tell the person to not do it again, and move on. Firing someone should have a little thought put into it...
Yes, that guy has some great programs, Barts Boot Floppy (or CD), and the Barts Windows PE boot cd.
Both are great, I use Barts boot cd to boot a system, mount a SMB share, and ghost the HD over the network. Great way to backup a system (or linux ext2) to a server. I normally do then when upgrading laptops, takes about 5 minutes of my time, the rest is save/restore time over the network. Its really that easy, boot, use dhcp, mount z: \\server\share in dos, load ghost, save to partition to z:, put in new HD, then restore the image. Great for backups also.
He even has SSH/SCP for the boot disks. While Linux is good, this is the key for getting ghost to work over a network without touching the OS on the machine.
Now if I just had a Ghost type program for linux that did ReiserFS & NTFS, I'd be a happy computer geek.
SuSE also has a live CD, which is pretty good (IMHO) the KDE desktop is a little more polished than Knoppix. Cant say I used either as a full time desktop thou, so not sure how they rank. And couldnt get the Gentoo live game CD's to work with my ATI 9700 pro.
Also, IBM owns 20% of SuSE, thought they should push it.
True, speakeasy is the same price as other DSL type providers, but they offer "Sys-Admin" packages with 8 IP's to host with, and a shell account on the server, even access to a fast RPMFind server.
Prob one of the most linux friendly ISP's in the world.
Exactly, exchange choices without exchange web services enabled is, exchange under wine, exchange under crossover office, or exchange under vmware/win4lin. (Notice the trend...) Exchange with web services enabled, Ximian, or Firebird (It is a webpage after all.)
I tried to forward all my email to my linux box, but rich text and meetings where flakey. Wonder why noone made a linux client that could just read the incoming emails and parse locally, skip exchange server all together, then departments could setup a postfix and pop/imap like normal. While I like pine, being able to hightlight and cut/paste data into emails for people makes it quick to get things done.
Tell me why keeping track of children in a school is such bad thing?
Its not, keeping track that your kids might be reading a library book, and alerting the school counselor is. Or using Kiosk's and tracking the kids interests, maybe selling that data to companies.
Just use the RFID's as access and location based services, keep it out of tracking informational data.
I have an access badge at my work, lets me in rooms, lets me into the building, tracks my movement. We where going to enable it for Sun Rays, so we could walk up to any desk and have access to our x-session.
Not exactly the same as RF, have to manually scan every where you go, but if you want access you have to scan.
I use a system called Powerbroker, that logs all my keystrokes when I log into systems, it can be used to replay sessions incase something went wrong. Also tracks everyone, incase someone did unathorized work.
My Net connection is logged in the corporate proxy, and if I hit an authorized site, it informs me that the site is blocked.
My wireless data and phonecalls are tracked, with detailed records. All the way down to my location using trianglation (we call it location-based services to the customers.) Not exactly E911 and GPS, but thats in the works.
About the only security I have is my own computer and system. Since IT doesnt control my Unix box or Laptop, I can have encrypted FileSystems, and encrypted containers to keep people out. Also I use encrypted tunnels to my own systems (ssh/ssl/vpn) so I can have un-monitored access. With Wireless data being around, you can have access to the net even if your IT department blocks you. Private IRC/IM/email and such.
I guess I noticed security and privacy issues, same goes with kids. The RFID's just monitor movement and services, not the actual data the kids use. If we started recording the converstations in the hall, and sniffers to read sms messages between kids, then its a REAL invasion of privacy.
In other news, anyone see that the Senate passed the Genetic Privacy Bill? Hopefully this gets signed into law, this is the real type of privacy we need. Thou, Flip side, criminals get put into a nation wide DNA database, go figure. - None of us is as dumb as all of us
I already installed fink, and use Bash now. So no switch here.
First thing I did when I got my mac, was install fink, and call bash. All my scripts and aliases are for Bash. Glad to see OSX will using bash native, since every unix box I have uses bash (or ksh).
Now if I could just get a better terminal program like konsole to run native, instead of under X. iTerm is ok, but still has some quirks, thou it does have nice transperancy, gotta love that icandy.
Just wondering if this makes Nvidia happy, since both highend cards can push 60FPS. Cant really use Doom3 as a benchmark, unless you can override the 60FPS cap.
And after reading the Q3 Tic, info about jumps, wouldnt that be bad code design that causes the jump distance to alter with higher FPS? Wheres a good FPS Engine coder to coment on this...
I have some 486's that are still going strong also.
But seriously, Even Sun Servers have hardware problems, ecache and other cpu errors are very common, we almost loose 1 a day in our data center. Thou we are over thousands of systems, so a CPU/HD replacement every other day is common. Sometimes a Sun system needs to be replaced, but on par the Dell/Compaq/Sun servers are the same in hardware replacements. Desktops, i have no idea, other than dell laptops which do get lots of work. But then laptops dont sit idle in a rack, they get to hammered with lots of travel.
On every desktop at work, we have 2 machines, a dell laptop and a sun workstation. And over the last few years, everyone started putting linux on the sun workstations. Gnome helped keep some users on Solaris, but the main people switched to KDE and SuSE linux.
Then someone finally stated, why dont we just buy a dell desktop and put Linux on it, and have full support. Looks like the death of Sun workstation in our ops group. The only people left are the NOC which use X and Citrix, and will stay with the Ultra10s (multiheaded)...
Sun had a good product with the Sunblades, but they didnt push or support linux on them. 1000 bux and you got a nice little workstation, took standard PC parts, and works pretty well.
So, if Sun gets to keep the workstation market, and Fijitsu keeps the server market, seems like a bad move for Sun. Why would you buy x86 servers from Sun that run linux, when you could by x86 servers from a true x86 company like Dell? OR buy support from Redhat, a true linux support company?
The lady who sued, only asked for hospital bills to be paid. McDonalds refused, she had to sue. She wasnt after millions, only a couple thousand that McDonalds should of paid. The Jury was the ones who awared the millions of dollars, as a punishement.
Also, mcdonalds coffee wasnt the average temperature, this is where its not the consumers fault. She expected the coffee to be hot, not hot enough to burn flesh and muscle.
As Stupidity goes, McDonalds did not turn down the coffee temperature to a normal industry standard, that doesnt burn people if they spell it or drink it. They had almost 1000 complaints about the temerature.
While there are people who use the legal system for greed and profit, this case was not one of them. But then, its easy to latch onto non-truths, anyone say "Weapons of Mass Destruction" anyone?
I've got news for anybody who considers the above lawsuit anything less than frivolous; it's hot coffee.
The coffee was hotter than industry average, it adds nothing to flavor, but can cause 3rd degree burns in 2 seconds. Normal hot coffee wont give you 3rd degree burns or require skin grafts when spilled on your lap.
This is like calling "Lava" a little hot. Spilling normal coffee, "Ouch that hurts", spilling Mcdonalds Coffee "Ouch, I'm bleeding, I have 3rd degree burns, I need to goto the hospital". See the difference?
I always thought the McDonalds case was frivolous till I read the facts. Check out McFacts about the case.
Pasted here.
McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald's had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee - that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.
McFact No. 3: The woman involved in this infamous case suffered very serious injuries - third degree burns on her groin, thighs and buttocks that required skin grafts and a seven-day hospital stay.
McFact No. 4: The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn't have brought the lawsuit against McDonald's had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.
McFact No. 6: After careful deliberation, the jury found McDonald's was liable because the facts were overwhelmingly against the company. When it came to the punitive damages, the jury found that McDonald's had engaged in willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, and rendered a punitive damage award of 2.7 million dollars. (The equivalent of just two days of coffee sales, McDonalds Corporation generates revenues in excess of 1.3 million dollars daily from the sale of its coffee, selling 1 billion cups each year.)
McFact No. 7: On appeal, a judge lowered the award to $480,000, a fact not widely publicized in the media.
McFact No. 8: A report in Liability Week, September 29, 1997, indicated that Kathleen Gilliam, 73, suffered first degree burns when a cup of coffee spilled onto her lap. Reports also indicate that McDonald's consistently keeps its coffee at 185 degrees, still approximately 20 degrees hotter than at other restaurants. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.
Just Curious, if the State needed the support of the company, wouldnt they go after you for some DMCA laws? (Election year and such)
Could you use the SLAPP law argument against the STATE or Company?
Just seems the politics has a hand in this, if it wasnt Victoria Secrets, but a law firm, the person who reported it could have been targeted as a criminal.
Nice to see the law work correctly for once. But then, anything can happen...
Dont run everything off 1 UPS. You already stated you have 1 UPS at 90% of the load as it is. 1 Point of failure and the money you saved just caused a horrible outage and pissed off customers.
Sounds like you already know this, plan on secondary backup, AC, and make sure you have terminal servers. (Using unix right?)
Storagereview.com rocks, I use to check on HD statistics, speed, cpu usage, compare against current HDs. The Benchmarks section is the only place to look for true speeds on HD compared to all brands.
They have a leaderboard which REALLY shows how HD's compare. One thing I really like is how CPU usage is going down with newer IDE HD's. I always hated how IDE spikes the CPU. Ive always tempted to buy an addon ide raid controller to help smooth out the IDE spikes, but keep the size advantage of IDE. If money was no object, I'd be running a Raid setup with Maxtor Atlas 15K 73gig SCSI drives.
How do you know what animals are attempting to communicate?
I'm pretty sure that Primates are not talking about the current thought of the supreme court on primate rights in sign language or non-verbal communications. Could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Yet a non-human primate can still be put down without a trial, where it takes a trial to put someone who is severely mentally handicapped under government custody.
True, but I dont think a case has been in court where an Primate has asked for protection under the court. If there was such a case, the courts might grant the primate the right to life.
This is more communicative than intelligent. I suspect that when there are AI's that can ask for the courts help, such as the Bina48, there will be laws passed.
On the flip side.
The only scary thing, is if AI can have legal status, what stops AI from self replicating, and becoming the larger voting group. If AI's are the majority, will they have compassion on the humans, what laws could they pass? And if corporations create an AI, they loose all materials, maybe it would be cost prohibitive to create AI and set them free.
I think the answer, it to keep AI realitive simple, just basic functions. Unless you are trying to create a new race, which would have legal and phyiscal impacts on the world.
Interesting they just keep the game going, and put out new rendering engines. Always wondered why MMPOG's just scrap the game and go on, when the client can just be updated with new GFX. 1996 and the game still looks nice.
I've always wanted to see a AutoDuel MMPOG, some kind of wasteland, not all this RPG with swords. And Anarchy Online just didnt make the grade, and Star Wars Galaxy isnt hitting the mark.
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Everyone always leaves out my option.
4) White list which sites they can use, and white list email addresses till they are old enough. Just like the v-chip on tv's.
Theres too much information for a parent to monitor and control, you need tools to help. The problem with 3rd party censorship controls, they choose what to sensor. Everyone is a Rich, middle-aged, White, Republican.
Thats almost the problem I have, I dont want to carry a PDA, Phone, MP3 Player and Camera, and have a nice thumbboard for typing. Nothing exists yet, but the Nokia 7700 is out, and we will see it in the USA in 3 months. Almost everything but the darn thumb-board.
Just dont care for for SSH'ing without a thumb-board. Personal choice, but this offers everything but. Same size as the NGage, but has a true 640x480 screen. Thou I think you hold it taco style to talk.
The problem with that credit card size PDA, looks like it would break in half. Thou 320x240 screen size is healthy.
Its the apple movie trailer server, its got more bandwidth than god.
God only has dsl.
My kids are too young, they missed the SNES/PS/Atari games. Even computer games like "SuperFrog/Zool/Hybris" of the Amiga or Karateka/Bards tale of the C64 days.
So, I have an older SNES and other systems, my kids love Mario Brothers. So while my kids have the chance to play Xbox/N64 to SNES, Mario seems to be the favorite. We still seem to play Mario Kart on the N64, even the snes sometimes. Some games are still fun, even the old Tanks on the Atari 2600 has some replay value.
Of course the article is mostly talking about newer computer games, not consoles. But I never had to download 20 patches to get bugs worked out, or wait a month for a hardware fix. So am I a little jaded? Yes, Games today take months before they are Truly playable. I wont be the first to jump on the game, wait a couple months, buy it for 20 bux cheaper, have online game tips, download 1 patch with the 20 updates since its been out. Only thing thats annoying is some good quality games do come out, and no reviews. The bargin bin seems to be full of good games (that are already patched). Serious Sam 2 anyone?
I'm still playing newer games, so is everyone else I know in my age range. We just seem a little wiser, and choosier, dont get hooked on hype as much as most people.
But then, I'm still waiting for Duke Nukem 4 Ever.
Anyone have any testing or feelings of how the 2.6 vs the 2.4-CK patches patches from Con Kolivas match up?
The 2.4.x-CK patch bundle sure has made a difference, havnt used 2.6.x-TEST fulltime on a desktop yet.
The picture itself might have been permissible, but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line. Merely removing the post was also not an option -- I offered, and my manager said that he had asked the same thing -- but the only option afforded me was to collect any personal belongings I had at my workstation and be escorted out the door.
Even his manager wanted him to stay. Its not like the guy was doing something worth being fired over. He said he worked at the MSCopy shop, the same shop as shipping. Thats it! The picture didnt have 1 thing of value in them, it was just a picture of some Macs on a truck.
Really, major over-reaction on Microsoft. You dont fire everyone for making harmless mistakes, (which it wasnt). The guy was a good employee that the Manager tried to fight to keep.
Lots of people on slashdot lately have posted thats its OK, to get fired for some pretty petty things. And even things that are not business related, or they do on personal time. When it comes down, do you do the job correctly, and do you get along with everyone at work, what else is there? Youre at home blogging activities? You wore jeans to work? You said you like a product from another company? Getting a little crazy people, step back, mistakes are made that might not seem to be mistakes. Tell the person to not do it again, and move on. Firing someone should have a little thought put into it...
BTW, Youre Fired!
Yes, that guy has some great programs, Barts Boot Floppy (or CD), and the Barts Windows PE boot cd.
Both are great, I use Barts boot cd to boot a system, mount a SMB share, and ghost the HD over the network. Great way to backup a system (or linux ext2) to a server. I normally do then when upgrading laptops, takes about 5 minutes of my time, the rest is save/restore time over the network. Its really that easy, boot, use dhcp, mount z: \\server\share in dos, load ghost, save to partition to z:, put in new HD, then restore the image. Great for backups also.
He even has SSH/SCP for the boot disks. While Linux is good, this is the key for getting ghost to work over a network without touching the OS on the machine.
Now if I just had a Ghost type program for linux that did ReiserFS & NTFS, I'd be a happy computer geek.
SuSE also has a live CD, which is pretty good (IMHO) the KDE desktop is a little more polished than Knoppix. Cant say I used either as a full time desktop thou, so not sure how they rank. And couldnt get the Gentoo live game CD's to work with my ATI 9700 pro.
Also, IBM owns 20% of SuSE, thought they should push it.
True, speakeasy is the same price as other DSL type providers, but they offer "Sys-Admin" packages with 8 IP's to host with, and a shell account on the server, even access to a fast RPMFind server.
Prob one of the most linux friendly ISP's in the world.
Exactly, exchange choices without exchange web services enabled is, exchange under wine, exchange under crossover office, or exchange under vmware/win4lin. (Notice the trend...) Exchange with web services enabled, Ximian, or Firebird (It is a webpage after all.)
I tried to forward all my email to my linux box, but rich text and meetings where flakey. Wonder why noone made a linux client that could just read the incoming emails and parse locally, skip exchange server all together, then departments could setup a postfix and pop/imap like normal. While I like pine, being able to hightlight and cut/paste data into emails for people makes it quick to get things done.
Tell me why keeping track of children in a school is such bad thing?
Its not, keeping track that your kids might be reading a library book, and alerting the school counselor is. Or using Kiosk's and tracking the kids interests, maybe selling that data to companies.
Just use the RFID's as access and location based services, keep it out of tracking informational data.
I have an access badge at my work, lets me in rooms, lets me into the building, tracks my movement. We where going to enable it for Sun Rays, so we could walk up to any desk and have access to our x-session.
Not exactly the same as RF, have to manually scan every where you go, but if you want access you have to scan.
I use a system called Powerbroker, that logs all my keystrokes when I log into systems, it can be used to replay sessions incase something went wrong. Also tracks everyone, incase someone did unathorized work.
My Net connection is logged in the corporate proxy, and if I hit an authorized site, it informs me that the site is blocked.
My wireless data and phonecalls are tracked, with detailed records. All the way down to my location using trianglation (we call it location-based services to the customers.) Not exactly E911 and GPS, but thats in the works.
About the only security I have is my own computer and system. Since IT doesnt control my Unix box or Laptop, I can have encrypted FileSystems, and encrypted containers to keep people out. Also I use encrypted tunnels to my own systems (ssh/ssl/vpn) so I can have un-monitored access. With Wireless data being around, you can have access to the net even if your IT department blocks you. Private IRC/IM/email and such.
I guess I noticed security and privacy issues, same goes with kids. The RFID's just monitor movement and services, not the actual data the kids use. If we started recording the converstations in the hall, and sniffers to read sms messages between kids, then its a REAL invasion of privacy.
In other news, anyone see that the Senate passed the Genetic Privacy Bill? Hopefully this gets signed into law, this is the real type of privacy we need. Thou, Flip side, criminals get put into a nation wide DNA database, go figure.
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None of us is as dumb as all of us
I already installed fink, and use Bash now. So no switch here.
First thing I did when I got my mac, was install fink, and call bash. All my scripts and aliases are for Bash. Glad to see OSX will using bash native, since every unix box I have uses bash (or ksh).
Now if I could just get a better terminal program like konsole to run native, instead of under X. iTerm is ok, but still has some quirks, thou it does have nice transperancy, gotta love that icandy.
Just wondering if this makes Nvidia happy, since both highend cards can push 60FPS. Cant really use Doom3 as a benchmark, unless you can override the 60FPS cap.
And after reading the Q3 Tic, info about jumps, wouldnt that be bad code design that causes the jump distance to alter with higher FPS? Wheres a good FPS Engine coder to coment on this...
I have some 486's that are still going strong also.
But seriously, Even Sun Servers have hardware problems, ecache and other cpu errors are very common, we almost loose 1 a day in our data center. Thou we are over thousands of systems, so a CPU/HD replacement every other day is common. Sometimes a Sun system needs to be replaced, but on par the Dell/Compaq/Sun servers are the same in hardware replacements. Desktops, i have no idea, other than dell laptops which do get lots of work. But then laptops dont sit idle in a rack, they get to hammered with lots of travel.
On every desktop at work, we have 2 machines, a dell laptop and a sun workstation. And over the last few years, everyone started putting linux on the sun workstations. Gnome helped keep some users on Solaris, but the main people switched to KDE and SuSE linux.
Then someone finally stated, why dont we just buy a dell desktop and put Linux on it, and have full support. Looks like the death of Sun workstation in our ops group. The only people left are the NOC which use X and Citrix, and will stay with the Ultra10s (multiheaded)...
Sun had a good product with the Sunblades, but they didnt push or support linux on them. 1000 bux and you got a nice little workstation, took standard PC parts, and works pretty well.
So, if Sun gets to keep the workstation market, and Fijitsu keeps the server market, seems like a bad move for Sun. Why would you buy x86 servers from Sun that run linux, when you could by x86 servers from a true x86 company like Dell? OR buy support from Redhat, a true linux support company?
Doesnt make sense.
The lady who sued, only asked for hospital bills to be paid. McDonalds refused, she had to sue. She wasnt after millions, only a couple thousand that McDonalds should of paid. The Jury was the ones who awared the millions of dollars, as a punishement.
Also, mcdonalds coffee wasnt the average temperature, this is where its not the consumers fault. She expected the coffee to be hot, not hot enough to burn flesh and muscle.
As Stupidity goes, McDonalds did not turn down the coffee temperature to a normal industry standard, that doesnt burn people if they spell it or drink it. They had almost 1000 complaints about the temerature.
While there are people who use the legal system for greed and profit, this case was not one of them. But then, its easy to latch onto non-truths, anyone say "Weapons of Mass Destruction" anyone?
I've got news for anybody who considers the above lawsuit anything less than frivolous; it's hot coffee.
The coffee was hotter than industry average, it adds nothing to flavor, but can cause 3rd degree burns in 2 seconds. Normal hot coffee wont give you 3rd degree burns or require skin grafts when spilled on your lap.
This is like calling "Lava" a little hot. Spilling normal coffee, "Ouch that hurts", spilling Mcdonalds Coffee "Ouch, I'm bleeding, I have 3rd degree burns, I need to goto the hospital". See the difference?
McDonald's Frivolous Lawsuit
I always thought the McDonalds case was frivolous till I read the facts. Check out McFacts about the case.
Pasted here.
McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald's had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee - that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.
McFact No. 3: The woman involved in this infamous case suffered very serious injuries - third degree burns on her groin, thighs and buttocks that required skin grafts and a seven-day hospital stay.
McFact No. 4: The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn't have brought the lawsuit against McDonald's had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.
McFact No. 6: After careful deliberation, the jury found McDonald's was liable because the facts were overwhelmingly against the company. When it came to the punitive damages, the jury found that McDonald's had engaged in willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, and rendered a punitive damage award of 2.7 million dollars. (The equivalent of just two days of coffee sales, McDonalds Corporation generates revenues in excess of 1.3 million dollars daily from the sale of its coffee, selling 1 billion cups each year.)
McFact No. 7: On appeal, a judge lowered the award to $480,000, a fact not widely publicized in the media.
McFact No. 8: A report in Liability Week, September 29, 1997, indicated that Kathleen Gilliam, 73, suffered first degree burns when a cup of coffee spilled onto her lap. Reports also indicate that McDonald's consistently keeps its coffee at 185 degrees, still approximately 20 degrees hotter than at other restaurants. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.
Just Curious, if the State needed the support of the company, wouldnt they go after you for some DMCA laws? (Election year and such)
Could you use the SLAPP law argument against the STATE or Company?
Just seems the politics has a hand in this, if it wasnt Victoria Secrets, but a law firm, the person who reported it could have been targeted as a criminal.
Nice to see the law work correctly for once. But then, anything can happen...
Dont run everything off 1 UPS. You already stated you have 1 UPS at 90% of the load as it is. 1 Point of failure and the money you saved just caused a horrible outage and pissed off customers.
Sounds like you already know this, plan on secondary backup, AC, and make sure you have terminal servers. (Using unix right?)
Storagereview.com rocks, I use to check on HD statistics, speed, cpu usage, compare against current HDs. The Benchmarks section is the only place to look for true speeds on HD compared to all brands.
They have a leaderboard which REALLY shows how HD's compare. One thing I really like is how CPU usage is going down with newer IDE HD's. I always hated how IDE spikes the CPU. Ive always tempted to buy an addon ide raid controller to help smooth out the IDE spikes, but keep the size advantage of IDE. If money was no object, I'd be running a Raid setup with Maxtor Atlas 15K 73gig SCSI drives.
How do you know what animals are attempting to communicate?
I'm pretty sure that Primates are not talking about the current thought of the supreme court on primate rights in sign language or non-verbal communications. Could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Yet a non-human primate can still be put down without a trial, where it takes a trial to put someone who is severely mentally handicapped under government custody.
True, but I dont think a case has been in court where an Primate has asked for protection under the court. If there was such a case, the courts might grant the primate the right to life.
This is more communicative than intelligent. I suspect that when there are AI's that can ask for the courts help, such as the Bina48, there will be laws passed.
On the flip side.
The only scary thing, is if AI can have legal status, what stops AI from self replicating, and becoming the larger voting group. If AI's are the majority, will they have compassion on the humans, what laws could they pass? And if corporations create an AI, they loose all materials, maybe it would be cost prohibitive to create AI and set them free.
I think the answer, it to keep AI realitive simple, just basic functions. Unless you are trying to create a new race, which would have legal and phyiscal impacts on the world.
Thou, I wonder if Bina69 is cute.
Interesting they just keep the game going, and put out new rendering engines. Always wondered why MMPOG's just scrap the game and go on, when the client can just be updated with new GFX. 1996 and the game still looks nice.
I've always wanted to see a AutoDuel MMPOG, some kind of wasteland, not all this RPG with swords. And Anarchy Online just didnt make the grade, and Star Wars Galaxy isnt hitting the mark.