That goes without saying except for one caveat... there is a precedent... when Viacom sued Google (YouTube) for... wait for it... "One B i l l i o n Dollars" they requested the "viewing" logs and Google rolled-over for them (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/07/judge-orders-yo/). Granted, they were ordered to, but the Judge used their own prior arguments about the meaningfulness of IP addresses to support his argument.
Getting someone's name, address, cell phone number, and email addresses is not the Internet equivalent of wiretapping. The Internet equivalent of wiretapping would be getting the content of your emails and other data that you send and receive.
I'm not a fan of this bill to give these powers to police over ISPs, but it isn't as bad as too many of it critiques make it out to be. It isn't allowing police to warrantlessly get the contents of your email or other data that you send and receive - they can already get that information with a warrent and this bill does not seek to change that requirement.
Connect the dots...
If the powers that be want information about [the owner of] an IP address, then they must already know something about the traffic to or from said IP address, no? They are already armed with data about childporn traffic (their excuse that they're using) and as well with data about wares and media traffic (the excuse they are conveniently not talking about very much are they?) as well as who-knows-what-else traffic, and they want to conveniently (i.e. without all that due process nuisance) correlate these traffic patterns to individuals for further investigation and possible prosecution (legal or other).
Why is it that so many/.ers don't seem to get this?
Then you need to start small -- get your town/city to elect a "3rd party" for mayor or sheriff so they can get used to the idea of a non-dem/repub elected official. Then work your way up until you're electing representatives & senators that are 3rd party.
Once the congress is no longer bi-party, things could really begin to change.
Until then, wasting a presidential vote on a 3rd party is about as useful as washing your car before you go off-roading.
exactly - this looks great.. on the surface. So does "The No Child Left Behind Act" and "The Blue Skies Act" and "The Senior Prescription Drug Act" (etc..) if you're only reading the title... It would be nice to know the whole story....
if half a litre of water contains ~1.8e25 molecules of water, wouldn't 1 part per trillion indicate 1.8e13 molecules of contamination? (about half that for 8 oz.) or do I not understand the fundamental meaning of 1 part per trillion?
I agree -- remember a couple years back how the discovery of a single fossilized skull lead to global headlines about a long lost race of hobbits being discovered? But that's what people buy newspapers for, apparently. Quid pro quo - money for sensationalism.
True, most missing persons don't leave giant scorch marks behind, but the search for Steve Fossett has apparently lead to the discovery of 6 other missing aircraft, so there's that...
treating the symptoms for free (via a tax, which is even more hidden than what we have now) would worsen this issue.
Would it? Or would it encourage the FDA to actually... i dunno... do it's job? provide oversight in the foods that are consumed to ensure that the healthier foods (currently the most expensive) are more likely to be made and then chosen by consumers? The fact is, the crappier your food choices, the faster and cheaper they tend to be, but it doesn't need to be that way.
it's interesting to me how much anti-union talk there is here on/.....a place with an ostensibly high margin of tech-workers, a group typically under-represented by unionization, and under pressure from CEO's and foreign labour pools....
Meanwhile, much of the anti-union blame-throwing is aimed at how unions reduce a corporations competitiveness. Where is the blame for CEO's with outrageous compensation packages that blow-in, spend 3-5 years re-organizing, laying-off workers, and exporting labour overseas, then blow on to the next big corporation to strip....
On the other hand, companies (just to pick one example: Birkenstock) that treat their employees as assets instead of cost-centres, seem to do just fine in the marketplace...
Methinks there's been a bit of brainwashing going on here. To get back on-topic, when a WalMart here in Canada went union, the head-office simply shut it down and moved down the street.... That's bullshit, plain and simple.
One final point, however -- Unions in the States have much less power than they used to, and there are many examples of unions not representing the true interests of the workers as well... this doesn't mean unions are worthless and should be abolished. Historically, unions have been much stronger here in Canada, but they are losing ground lately -- at the core of the issue in both countries is the fact that the big business is buying legislation (and altering the market in ways) that is changing the balance.
Unions aren't the problem -- just a convenient scapegoat.
Not a big surprise, really, and frankly -- it's about time. It's not a new idea that the cost of a consumer item should include the true cost, including disposal/recycling.
This is a business started by a former co-worker (well, boss) when I was in the print trades in the 90's. I'd expect excellent quality from this guy, but I confess I've never used the service either, so... YMMV.
Well, ultimately, I recon it'd work best with a "learning" algorithm. Let's assume that when the time comes that everyone still drives personal vehicles (or is driven in personal vehicles) and has such GPS technology... after a few re-routes the software can begin to guage how much traffic the alternate routes can handle, and it only re-directs a portion of the traffic such that all available routes run around the same threshold of congestion.
Wait, I didn't just say that....
I just forgot, I have an appointment at the patent office, back later!
Interesting point, but you're forgetting to consider that the population will undoubtedly continue to grow in the time period as well -- both urban and rural population increases for a grand total possibly around 15-20 billion seventy-one years from now...
Bottom line, it is obviously an arbitrary finding of an arbitrary study that might be useful only in spurring dialogue about what's on the road ahead, and if we might possibly want to pull-over and buy a map before we continue at top throttle into the mad-max apocalypse that's just around the next bend in the street.
Or maybe we'll all live happily ever-after in our concrete urban nirvana. Who knows!
I can't drink coffee anymore -- I figured out my migraines were due to caffiene withdrawl....
But here's my advice -- treat your beans well... NEVER freeze them, don't even refrigerate them. Keep them in an air-tight container. Buy only as much as you'll use in a week, obviously as whole beans. Treat them like you would bananas, and they stay much fresher.
I couldn't agree more... I recently took a "mature student entrance exam" for college, because after dropping out of high-school 20 years ago, I finally decided to get off my arse and get a diploma (and maybe a degree too). Anyway, while testing, I saw a pair of the testees (think testis) doing some wholesale cheating.
One could try to argue "they're only hurting themselves" but the fact is, they're hurting anyone who applies for the same program(s) as them but didn't score as high as they did -- if they get in by cheating, then *someone* get's knocked-out who presumably didn't cheat. If they enroll and continue to cheat, they continue to take advantage of the others in the program(s).
Despite there being three teachers overseeing the test, none noticed the cheating. So, I brought it to their attention.
Later that week I was in a work-group-session discussing ethics. I mentioned parts of this experience (up to, but excluding getting personally involved) and sought feedback from the other people at the meeting -- they were unanimous in feeling that it was wrong for the cheaters to do what they did -- *and* they were unanimous that they'd not get personally involved.
Only then did I "fess-up" to taking action. I'm left to wonder, however, just what do these other people think of me now? Snitch? Hero? Indiffernt? Honestly, I don't really care all that much -- certainly if I find myself in the same situation again, I will get involved, again.
In simple terms, try not to think of the individual ants as independent organisms, think of the colony as the organism, and you can see they're not too different from the rest of the animals on the planet...
Starting from the base, you and I are made of hundreds (understatement) of types of cells -- other than stem-cells, each cell-type is highly specialized. A variety of specialized cells work in concert to comprise each organ, but the organs by themselves are useless, and unable to sustain life... the organs all work in harmony to maintain the life of the organism...
Fundamentally, the ants, bees, etc. are not really any different. Many types of creatures have the ability to metamorphize from male to female, from tadpole to frog, from caterpillar to moth... These changes are sponsored by environmental or chemical changes -- in the ants & bees, the system is really quite similar! One assumes it became beneficial for protobee and protoant to have branching development of it's offspring, and so you wind up with a caste system, of sorts.
That's interesting -- I know that in the States audio gear (and related equipment/instruments) are one of the few (only?) types of things you can plan to buy and expect to be able to haggle... I wonder where this fits in...
You can, in fact, edit the HTML in googlepages too... look in the lower-right corner, next to "add gadget" where it says "edit HTML" (you need the cursor in the section you want to edit.)
But I agree -- I find the blogger interface more functional, in general. I suppose it also depends on what you're trying to accomplish too, however... there's certainly a place for googlepages.
I've been saying for years that they ought to put all passengers to sleep...
1. extreme safety factor 2. imagine how many people they could toss into a 747 if everyone was loaded in a coffin-sized chamber and stacked like toothpicks?
a. less airport congestion
b. no longer annoyed by the 45 minutes of taxiing for takeoff, and 2 hrs. of flying in circles and waiting for a ramp to disembark at 3. ??? 4. profit!
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That goes without saying except for one caveat... there is a precedent... when Viacom sued Google (YouTube) for... wait for it... "One B i l l i o n Dollars" they requested the "viewing" logs and Google rolled-over for them (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/07/judge-orders-yo/). Granted, they were ordered to, but the Judge used their own prior arguments about the meaningfulness of IP addresses to support his argument.
Getting someone's name, address, cell phone number, and email addresses is not the Internet equivalent of wiretapping. The Internet equivalent of wiretapping would be getting the content of your emails and other data that you send and receive.
I'm not a fan of this bill to give these powers to police over ISPs, but it isn't as bad as too many of it critiques make it out to be. It isn't allowing police to warrantlessly get the contents of your email or other data that you send and receive - they can already get that information with a warrent and this bill does not seek to change that requirement.
Connect the dots... If the powers that be want information about [the owner of] an IP address, then they must already know something about the traffic to or from said IP address, no? They are already armed with data about childporn traffic (their excuse that they're using) and as well with data about wares and media traffic (the excuse they are conveniently not talking about very much are they?) as well as who-knows-what-else traffic, and they want to conveniently (i.e. without all that due process nuisance) correlate these traffic patterns to individuals for further investigation and possible prosecution (legal or other). Why is it that so many /.ers don't seem to get this?
Then you need to start small -- get your town/city to elect a "3rd party" for mayor or sheriff so they can get used to the idea of a non-dem/repub elected official. Then work your way up until you're electing representatives & senators that are 3rd party. Once the congress is no longer bi-party, things could really begin to change. Until then, wasting a presidential vote on a 3rd party is about as useful as washing your car before you go off-roading.
exactly - this looks great.. on the surface. So does "The No Child Left Behind Act" and "The Blue Skies Act" and "The Senior Prescription Drug Act" (etc..) if you're only reading the title... It would be nice to know the whole story....
I don't know, but I heard that if you double-ROT-13 even the NSA can't break the cipher.
Sure, software patents are lame, but maybe not the most lame -- I postulate that gene patents are the lamest of the lame.
if half a litre of water contains ~1.8e25 molecules of water, wouldn't 1 part per trillion indicate 1.8e13 molecules of contamination? (about half that for 8 oz.) or do I not understand the fundamental meaning of 1 part per trillion?
You would think in this day and age that a standard Apache config would include a redirect to the Coral Cache if the referer is /.
sorry, had to do it.
I agree -- remember a couple years back how the discovery of a single fossilized skull lead to global headlines about a long lost race of hobbits being discovered? But that's what people buy newspapers for, apparently. Quid pro quo - money for sensationalism.
True, most missing persons don't leave giant scorch marks behind, but the search for Steve Fossett has apparently lead to the discovery of 6 other missing aircraft, so there's that...
Would it? Or would it encourage the FDA to actually... i dunno... do it's job? provide oversight in the foods that are consumed to ensure that the healthier foods (currently the most expensive) are more likely to be made and then chosen by consumers? The fact is, the crappier your food choices, the faster and cheaper they tend to be, but it doesn't need to be that way.
it's interesting to me how much anti-union talk there is here on /. ....a place with an ostensibly high margin of tech-workers, a group typically under-represented by unionization, and under pressure from CEO's and foreign labour pools....
Meanwhile, much of the anti-union blame-throwing is aimed at how unions reduce a corporations competitiveness. Where is the blame for CEO's with outrageous compensation packages that blow-in, spend 3-5 years re-organizing, laying-off workers, and exporting labour overseas, then blow on to the next big corporation to strip....
On the other hand, companies (just to pick one example: Birkenstock) that treat their employees as assets instead of cost-centres, seem to do just fine in the marketplace...
Methinks there's been a bit of brainwashing going on here. To get back on-topic, when a WalMart here in Canada went union, the head-office simply shut it down and moved down the street.... That's bullshit, plain and simple.
One final point, however -- Unions in the States have much less power than they used to, and there are many examples of unions not representing the true interests of the workers as well... this doesn't mean unions are worthless and should be abolished. Historically, unions have been much stronger here in Canada, but they are losing ground lately -- at the core of the issue in both countries is the fact that the big business is buying legislation (and altering the market in ways) that is changing the balance.
Unions aren't the problem -- just a convenient scapegoat.
nice idea -- even better, build it to be transparent to software raid.
Not a big surprise, really, and frankly -- it's about time. It's not a new idea that the cost of a consumer item should include the true cost, including disposal/recycling.
This is a business started by a former co-worker (well, boss) when I was in the print trades in the 90's. I'd expect excellent quality from this guy, but I confess I've never used the service either, so... YMMV.
Well, ultimately, I recon it'd work best with a "learning" algorithm. Let's assume that when the time comes that everyone still drives personal vehicles (or is driven in personal vehicles) and has such GPS technology... after a few re-routes the software can begin to guage how much traffic the alternate routes can handle, and it only re-directs a portion of the traffic such that all available routes run around the same threshold of congestion.
Wait, I didn't just say that....
I just forgot, I have an appointment at the patent office, back later!
Interesting point, but you're forgetting to consider that the population will undoubtedly continue to grow in the time period as well -- both urban and rural population increases for a grand total possibly around 15-20 billion seventy-one years from now...
Bottom line, it is obviously an arbitrary finding of an arbitrary study that might be useful only in spurring dialogue about what's on the road ahead, and if we might possibly want to pull-over and buy a map before we continue at top throttle into the mad-max apocalypse that's just around the next bend in the street.
Or maybe we'll all live happily ever-after in our concrete urban nirvana. Who knows!
I can't drink coffee anymore -- I figured out my migraines were due to caffiene withdrawl....
But here's my advice -- treat your beans well... NEVER freeze them, don't even refrigerate them. Keep them in an air-tight container. Buy only as much as you'll use in a week, obviously as whole beans. Treat them like you would bananas, and they stay much fresher.
I couldn't agree more... I recently took a "mature student entrance exam" for college, because after dropping out of high-school 20 years ago, I finally decided to get off my arse and get a diploma (and maybe a degree too). Anyway, while testing, I saw a pair of the testees (think testis) doing some wholesale cheating.
One could try to argue "they're only hurting themselves" but the fact is, they're hurting anyone who applies for the same program(s) as them but didn't score as high as they did -- if they get in by cheating, then *someone* get's knocked-out who presumably didn't cheat. If they enroll and continue to cheat, they continue to take advantage of the others in the program(s).
Despite there being three teachers overseeing the test, none noticed the cheating. So, I brought it to their attention.
Later that week I was in a work-group-session discussing ethics. I mentioned parts of this experience (up to, but excluding getting personally involved) and sought feedback from the other people at the meeting -- they were unanimous in feeling that it was wrong for the cheaters to do what they did -- *and* they were unanimous that they'd not get personally involved.
Only then did I "fess-up" to taking action. I'm left to wonder, however, just what do these other people think of me now? Snitch? Hero? Indiffernt? Honestly, I don't really care all that much -- certainly if I find myself in the same situation again, I will get involved, again.
In simple terms, try not to think of the individual ants as independent organisms, think of the colony as the organism, and you can see they're not too different from the rest of the animals on the planet...
Starting from the base, you and I are made of hundreds (understatement) of types of cells -- other than stem-cells, each cell-type is highly specialized. A variety of specialized cells work in concert to comprise each organ, but the organs by themselves are useless, and unable to sustain life... the organs all work in harmony to maintain the life of the organism...
Fundamentally, the ants, bees, etc. are not really any different. Many types of creatures have the ability to metamorphize from male to female, from tadpole to frog, from caterpillar to moth... These changes are sponsored by environmental or chemical changes -- in the ants & bees, the system is really quite similar! One assumes it became beneficial for protobee and protoant to have branching development of it's offspring, and so you wind up with a caste system, of sorts.
That's interesting -- I know that in the States audio gear (and related equipment/instruments) are one of the few (only?) types of things you can plan to buy and expect to be able to haggle... I wonder where this fits in...
That, or perhaps it's the cheapest way she can think of to get the /. effect on all her ads...
You can, in fact, edit the HTML in googlepages too... look in the lower-right corner, next to "add gadget" where it says "edit HTML" (you need the cursor in the section you want to edit.)
But I agree -- I find the blogger interface more functional, in general. I suppose it also depends on what you're trying to accomplish too, however... there's certainly a place for googlepages.
I've been saying for years that they ought to put all passengers to sleep...
1. extreme safety factor
2. imagine how many people they could toss into a 747 if everyone was loaded in a coffin-sized chamber and stacked like toothpicks?
a. less airport congestion
b. no longer annoyed by the 45 minutes of taxiing for takeoff, and 2 hrs. of flying in circles and waiting for a ramp to disembark at
3. ???
4. profit!