Well, the FBI wasted over $100 million on the Virtual Case File project, so I'm okay to let them play around with a mere $16 million however they want.
In seriousness, speeding the results of criminal checks is a useful goal. Now all we need to do is make sure that the databases are filled with the correct information, and we'll be all set.
Well, Linux was invented in Finland, and the contributors are international. It may be true that the lion's share of contributions, particularly those sponsored by corporations, come from the US, but no country really has a great claim to Linux.
Also, big companies do a pretty good job of shitting all over foreign economies. Piracy notwithstanding, Microsoft still has impressive penetration worldwide, not to mention pharmaceutical companies and others. Of course, they still take time to try and control the US economy whenever possible as well.
Options is probably what you were thinking of. An option gives you the right to buy/sell X stock at Y price on Z day, but you don't have to do so. Futures are similar, but come with an obligation to make the transaction, and are generally for physical commodities, not securities.
No, that's what he meant to say. There's a fairly widely publicized case of a man having quite a bit of trouble getting Verizon reps to understand and admit the difference between.002 cents and.002 dollars.
Verizon carries analog channels. With Fios, you get your local channels plus some of the lower end (numerically) of the basic channels. You basically get what corresponds with "Basic cable" transmitted in analog for use on TVs with no STB, and then everything else is digital.
Also, the game is somewhat non-terrible, unlike the Harry Potter games. Hopefully, they'll get all their games tied to the specific books/movies out of the way and make something a little more open-ended and enjoyable.
This is a good point. The main barrier to widespread spying on everything has likely been the relative impossibility of sifting through all the data the government has access to. Since this barrier is swiftly eroding, we need to think about other kinds of protections for our privacy, legal and otherwise.
claiming that your academics will suffer if work has been published in a journal and you don't reference it.
You are absolutely correct: if you are smart enough you don't need no stinking references. Or as my advisor used to point out, two weeks or research in the lab can save you two hours research in the library. Ah, this must be some new definition of the word 'save' that I was not previously aware of.
This is why the RIAA and not Empire, BMG, etc... brought all these suits... There's a reason why the case mentioned above is not RIAA v. Lindor, but UMG v. Lindor.
As far as I remember, each of the music piracy lawsuits have been brought by individual record labels, and not the RIAA. It seems that the claim here is that the labels are unfairly colluding under the RIAA umbrella, each pursuing suits in the same manner and using the same attorneys, but at least nominally acting as separate entities.
Changing the FAQ to read "news relevant to government and politics" is probably a better way to solve this one. There's really no need for the section to be even nominally limited to United States politics. A general section for science and tech-related political news is/would be very much worth having.
Funny how if you replace all instances of Java with Microsoft, your comment wouldn't be so well received, and several people would be pointing out your bandwagon fallacy.
Just something to think about. Interestingly, completely changing the subject of a post can somehow change people's reaction to it. An amazing phenomenon...
I would bet that a large amount of this "sharing" is being done from people who aren't even aware that their connection continues outside their walls, or don't know that anything could be done to secure them. A much easier step from the point of view of ISPs would be to just supply their customers with access points and routers that are already secured. Now if only the networking manufacturers could take the same steps. I would make the assumption that the type of person who wishes to share their access is also the type who would be willing to spend a few seconds to turn the protection off.
Normally, I would be one of those sharing people, but I'm in a college dorm where everyone already has access and would probably only be using my connection to distance themselves from some illicit or illegal activity, so I have my wireless traffic encrypted. I already have enough to worry about from my own illicit activities, thank you very much.
I had just thought of this caveat after I had posted. The subtleties of "stealing" wireless access, would, in my mind, require the owner to somehow make the user aware that their use was not acceptable before any charges could be brought.
Of course, this case, where a man was standing by the wall of a house and admitted to being there for the express purpose of using the owner's broadband, is somewhat less defensible than most. There is the frequent point that reading by the light through someone's windows is not illegal (after all, they're both EM radiation), but I would tend to think that the access granted to you by using a wireless signal somewhat changes the legal calculus on this. Using someone's extra light doesn't magically increase their electrical bill the way that internet use could on someone billed by usage.
Which is obviously why these charges must be based on some kind of complaint or cooperation from the owner of the access point. There's really no way for the police to tell you're doing anything wrong if you're just on a wireless connection of some kind.
That being said, the owner of the access point is entirely within their rights to both improperly secure it, and to attempt to pursue those who improperly use it. The analogy of the home with the door left open applies somewhat well here.
Uh, no?
beyond... the time it takes your computer to complete the process, there is no difference between apt-getting a package, and "hand building" a package in a FreeBSD system... That would mean that the time it takes is one of the differences between apt-get and compilation.
That was sort of the point of the GP. While under inspection it doesn't really make any sense, that's what those phrases are understood to mean. Personally, I hate the "could care less" form, but it seems to be the way that most people I've met use it. No one has ever said "I could care less" to mean that they do care some small amount about something. It seems to me that people just don't think about exactly what they're saying when they use phrases like that.
I've also heard many times that "I could care less" is a sarcastic statement of some kind, but that's never made sense to me either. It's just a needlessly wordy way of saying "I care" or "I do care", both of which could be delivered sarcastically.
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Well, the FBI wasted over $100 million on the Virtual Case File project, so I'm okay to let them play around with a mere $16 million however they want.
In seriousness, speeding the results of criminal checks is a useful goal. Now all we need to do is make sure that the databases are filled with the correct information, and we'll be all set.
Well, Linux was invented in Finland, and the contributors are international. It may be true that the lion's share of contributions, particularly those sponsored by corporations, come from the US, but no country really has a great claim to Linux.
Also, big companies do a pretty good job of shitting all over foreign economies. Piracy notwithstanding, Microsoft still has impressive penetration worldwide, not to mention pharmaceutical companies and others. Of course, they still take time to try and control the US economy whenever possible as well.
Options is probably what you were thinking of. An option gives you the right to buy/sell X stock at Y price on Z day, but you don't have to do so. Futures are similar, but come with an obligation to make the transaction, and are generally for physical commodities, not securities.
No, that's what he meant to say. There's a fairly widely publicized case of a man having quite a bit of trouble getting Verizon reps to understand and admit the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars.
Look at http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
Verizon carries analog channels. With Fios, you get your local channels plus some of the lower end (numerically) of the basic channels. You basically get what corresponds with "Basic cable" transmitted in analog for use on TVs with no STB, and then everything else is digital.
Also, the game is somewhat non-terrible, unlike the Harry Potter games. Hopefully, they'll get all their games tied to the specific books/movies out of the way and make something a little more open-ended and enjoyable.
And it's actually MathWorks.
So that's why I keep getting kicked out of those fight clubs. I mean... aw crap.
This is a good point. The main barrier to widespread spying on everything has likely been the relative impossibility of sifting through all the data the government has access to. Since this barrier is swiftly eroding, we need to think about other kinds of protections for our privacy, legal and otherwise.
You are absolutely correct: if you are smart enough you don't need no stinking references. Or as my advisor used to point out, two weeks or research in the lab can save you two hours research in the library. Ah, this must be some new definition of the word 'save' that I was not previously aware of.
As far as I remember, each of the music piracy lawsuits have been brought by individual record labels, and not the RIAA. It seems that the claim here is that the labels are unfairly colluding under the RIAA umbrella, each pursuing suits in the same manner and using the same attorneys, but at least nominally acting as separate entities.
Changing the FAQ to read "news relevant to government and politics" is probably a better way to solve this one. There's really no need for the section to be even nominally limited to United States politics. A general section for science and tech-related political news is/would be very much worth having.
Just something to think about. Interestingly, completely changing the subject of a post can somehow change people's reaction to it. An amazing phenomenon...
One of the several differences would be that there's no such thing as "your" sunlight.
Not yet, anyway...
I would bet that a large amount of this "sharing" is being done from people who aren't even aware that their connection continues outside their walls, or don't know that anything could be done to secure them. A much easier step from the point of view of ISPs would be to just supply their customers with access points and routers that are already secured. Now if only the networking manufacturers could take the same steps. I would make the assumption that the type of person who wishes to share their access is also the type who would be willing to spend a few seconds to turn the protection off.
Normally, I would be one of those sharing people, but I'm in a college dorm where everyone already has access and would probably only be using my connection to distance themselves from some illicit or illegal activity, so I have my wireless traffic encrypted. I already have enough to worry about from my own illicit activities, thank you very much.
I had just thought of this caveat after I had posted. The subtleties of "stealing" wireless access, would, in my mind, require the owner to somehow make the user aware that their use was not acceptable before any charges could be brought.
Of course, this case, where a man was standing by the wall of a house and admitted to being there for the express purpose of using the owner's broadband, is somewhat less defensible than most. There is the frequent point that reading by the light through someone's windows is not illegal (after all, they're both EM radiation), but I would tend to think that the access granted to you by using a wireless signal somewhat changes the legal calculus on this. Using someone's extra light doesn't magically increase their electrical bill the way that internet use could on someone billed by usage.
Which is obviously why these charges must be based on some kind of complaint or cooperation from the owner of the access point. There's really no way for the police to tell you're doing anything wrong if you're just on a wireless connection of some kind.
That being said, the owner of the access point is entirely within their rights to both improperly secure it, and to attempt to pursue those who improperly use it. The analogy of the home with the door left open applies somewhat well here.
That was sort of the point of the GP. While under inspection it doesn't really make any sense, that's what those phrases are understood to mean. Personally, I hate the "could care less" form, but it seems to be the way that most people I've met use it. No one has ever said "I could care less" to mean that they do care some small amount about something. It seems to me that people just don't think about exactly what they're saying when they use phrases like that.
I've also heard many times that "I could care less" is a sarcastic statement of some kind, but that's never made sense to me either. It's just a needlessly wordy way of saying "I care" or "I do care", both of which could be delivered sarcastically.
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Probably this FUSE filesystem is what you were talking about. I've heard about it but never used it.
Also, there's apparently a Firefox extension that works similarly, for all those non-linux users.