Mag stipes now, RFIDs later. They'll be merged with driver's licences. You'll have to show them to vote ( to preent voter fraud of course ). It's a slippery slope.
I'd like to welcome our new masters, but I'm not sure who they will be. They will surely know who I am though...
"Industry groups have requested that the government allow them to participate in the patent review process" While I suspect that this is letting the fox guard the henhouse, there is away to make it work:
When applying for a patent the applicant would split it into 2 parts. The first states what he can do, but not how. The second says how he can do it. The first part is made public a year before the second. If during that year, someone else can show how it is done, than the patent is denied on the basis of failing the nonobvious test. ( It need not be a year, maybe a month or two would work better ) If nobody can come up with something in that year, then the patent review process begins.
Several posters have noted that it does not seem reasonable to tax something that is free. But tax collectors have been getting around this for years. They assess something at what they consider a market price, then tax it. ( You want to dispute their numbers? You gotta pay a lawyer to sue them. )
For years, cars here in California were taxed accoding to purchase price. Lying about prices became rampant on used cars. The seller paid less tax to the IRS and the buyer less tax to the DMV. Now, they have assessment tables, so they can lookup the alleged market price of any car of any age. You get taxed even if the car was free
I predict that the tax collectors in TN will assess free software according to the cost of its non-free competition. So you will pay the same tax on Linux as on windows.
"But it all boils down to the conflict between education and training. Both Java and C# are good for near-term employment prospects. But if you're after education, learning to think in another programming paradigm is well worth your time in the long run"
I couldn't have said it better.
Actually maybe I could have. To really get a different paradigm, try Modula 2/3 or Oberon.
You have to use randomly chosen types of compression. If you use the same type of compression repeatedly, it will tend to induce similarities into the plaintext, and thus the ciphertext is vulnerable if the eavesdropper can aquire multiple transmissions for a comparison attack.
But why bother to compress? Bandwidth, memory, and disk space are cheap and getting cheaper, wheareas governments are becoming more intrusive. Better yet, add some random garbage.
As someone will probably note, yes the water is being lifted by other solor bodies, but do to the inertial resistance to flow, it does change the load on tectonic plates.
Continental plates that are under a land/water border get loaded and unloaded several times a day with more mass than all the builings than mankind has ever built. The weight of this tower is not even noise.
I don't work for Match, never did. I was just another guy looking but without much success. After a while I began to wonder if anyone knew how to do it better. So I created a shill.
Match occasionally offers free trial subscriptions. I used one of those. I went looking for photos on the net, stole one from a model who had her portfolio online, wrote a profile, and waited. I got lots of replies. I got to see what my competition was doing.
So, yes, there are women on Match who seem too good to be true, and who won't answer you because they don't really exist. But Match might not be responsible for any of them. I know that they aren't responsible for at least one, because I am.
BTW, I'm not a great fan of Match. Indeed, I despise them. I got to see how they discriminate against guys. When my male profile had tech problems, it took forever to get them fixed. And any minor transgression of their rules brought instant anonymous rebuke, for which there was no appeal.
But my female shill was treated like a princess. Tech questions were answered instantly. She could break rules and was forgiven. ( most notable was when I forgot to remove the copyright notice on her photo, which was an explicit violation of rules, and they posted it anyway )
In spite of all this, I perservered, and learned how to write a good reply from reading my duped competitors' replies to my shill. You can learn a lot that way. When I began writing better replies, my success rate trippled.
By chance I finally met the woman of my dreams. We are engaged to be married next summer.
PS: If any of you readers are ones I duped, I appologize. Really.
In the planet's history there have been many fluctuations in temperature larger than what we are seeing currently. If water vapor were truly positive feedback ( and of such magnitude that we need orry about it ), then the climate would have already settled in a very hot or very cold state. But it hasn't. Therefore there must be some stabilizing negative-feedback mechanism at work that we don't know about. It might involve water vapor, it might not.
Modern medical ethics seems to me to have no philosophical underpinings, and is just the sum of forbidding anything that might bother anyone. It is a response to a quest for funding, not an interest in morality. If you cover all possible things that might bother someone, then you may get funded.
( This was modded as 'flamebait' for about 5 minutes, then became 'insightful'. Who knows what it will be when you read this. )
It is hardly flamebait when one of the guys in *their* camp admits that his own people are wrong.
Actually, MS hopes that it means organizations will be running MS products.
When there is a national standard, to be implemented by some govt agency, money is worth more than truth. Look at the way drugs are approved by the FDA. It costs a whole lot of money to get a drug approved. Small manufacturers can't comptete.
If a similar system were in place to approve software, MS could get Windows approved, but most Linux distro companies couldn't, even though their products are probably better.
Given: two concentric circles of different sizes in a plane. There exists a line segment that is tangent to the smaller one and a whose endpoints lie on the larger one. The line segment is 10 units long.
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A baking thermometer is prior art.
Mag stipes now, RFIDs later. They'll be merged with driver's licences. You'll have to show them to vote ( to preent voter fraud of course ). It's a slippery slope.
I'd like to welcome our new masters, but I'm not sure who they will be. They will surely know who I am though...
You can't orbit a black hole inside the event horizon without going faster than the speed of light.
"Industry groups have requested that the government allow them to participate in the patent review process" While I suspect that this is letting the fox guard the henhouse, there is away to make it work:
When applying for a patent the applicant would split it into 2 parts. The first states what he can do, but not how. The second says how he can do it. The first part is made public a year before the second. If during that year, someone else can show how it is done, than the patent is denied on the basis of failing the nonobvious test. ( It need not be a year, maybe a month or two would work better ) If nobody can come up with something in that year, then the patent review process begins.
Several posters have noted that it does not seem reasonable to tax something that is free. But tax collectors have been getting around this for years. They assess something at what they consider a market price, then tax it. ( You want to dispute their numbers? You gotta pay a lawyer to sue them. )
For years, cars here in California were taxed accoding to purchase price. Lying about prices became rampant on used cars. The seller paid less tax to the IRS and the buyer less tax to the DMV. Now, they have assessment tables, so they can lookup the alleged market price of any car of any age. You get taxed even if the car was free
I predict that the tax collectors in TN will assess free software according to the cost of its non-free competition. So you will pay the same tax on Linux as on windows.
"But it all boils down to the conflict between education and training. Both Java and C# are good for near-term employment prospects. But if you're after education, learning to think in another programming paradigm is well worth your time in the long run"
I couldn't have said it better.
Actually maybe I could have. To really get a different paradigm, try Modula 2/3 or Oberon.
You have to use randomly chosen types of compression. If you use the same type of compression repeatedly, it will tend to induce similarities into the plaintext, and thus the ciphertext is vulnerable if the eavesdropper can aquire multiple transmissions for a comparison attack. But why bother to compress? Bandwidth, memory, and disk space are cheap and getting cheaper, wheareas governments are becoming more intrusive. Better yet, add some random garbage.
It's that simple. Just go to the web page directly.
Your participation in our experiment is greatly appreciated.
As someone will probably note, yes the water is being lifted by other solor bodies, but do to the inertial resistance to flow, it does change the load on tectonic plates.
Continental plates that are under a land/water border get loaded and unloaded several times a day with more mass than all the builings than mankind has ever built. The weight of this tower is not even noise.
I can't live without it. I've tried quitting, God knows, but I always gotta have more. I can't even pretend anymore that I don't inhale...
I think I'm addicted to vitamin C too. Ummm...exactly what is an addiction? Anything that I need to feel better?
I thought that tomorrow was the day that turkeys were served.
I don't work for Match, never did. I was just another guy looking but without much success. After a while I began to wonder if anyone knew how to do it better. So I created a shill.
Match occasionally offers free trial subscriptions. I used one of those. I went looking for photos on the net, stole one from a model who had her portfolio online, wrote a profile, and waited. I got lots of replies. I got to see what my competition was doing.
So, yes, there are women on Match who seem too good to be true, and who won't answer you because they don't really exist. But Match might not be responsible for any of them. I know that they aren't responsible for at least one, because I am.
BTW, I'm not a great fan of Match. Indeed, I despise them. I got to see how they discriminate against guys. When my male profile had tech problems, it took forever to get them fixed. And any minor transgression of their rules brought instant anonymous rebuke, for which there was no appeal.
But my female shill was treated like a princess. Tech questions were answered instantly. She could break rules and was forgiven. ( most notable was when I forgot to remove the copyright notice on her photo, which was an explicit violation of rules, and they posted it anyway )
In spite of all this, I perservered, and learned how to write a good reply from reading my duped competitors' replies to my shill. You can learn a lot that way. When I began writing better replies, my success rate trippled.
By chance I finally met the woman of my dreams. We are engaged to be married next summer.
PS: If any of you readers are ones I duped, I appologize. Really.
In the planet's history there have been many fluctuations in temperature larger than what we are seeing currently. If water vapor were truly positive feedback ( and of such magnitude that we need orry about it ), then the climate would have already settled in a very hot or very cold state. But it hasn't. Therefore there must be some stabilizing negative-feedback mechanism at work that we don't know about. It might involve water vapor, it might not.
Modern medical ethics seems to me to have no philosophical underpinings, and is just the sum of forbidding anything that might bother anyone. It is a response to a quest for funding, not an interest in morality. If you cover all possible things that might bother someone, then you may get funded.
Noooooooooo! Please no! Not macro economics!! It already has more than its share of true believers.
( This was modded as 'flamebait' for about 5 minutes, then became 'insightful'. Who knows what it will be when you read this. )
It is hardly flamebait when one of the guys in *their* camp admits that his own people are wrong.
Actually, MS hopes that it means organizations will be running MS products. When there is a national standard, to be implemented by some govt agency, money is worth more than truth. Look at the way drugs are approved by the FDA. It costs a whole lot of money to get a drug approved. Small manufacturers can't comptete. If a similar system were in place to approve software, MS could get Windows approved, but most Linux distro companies couldn't, even though their products are probably better.
Yep, the icon is neccesary until he does enough good things to reach the break-even point.
They can't try to replace ICANN. Until 2012, that is...
Put a server chip in each of them. Then we can play zombie wars.
Ok, so he's doing good. Let me know when he reaches the break even point.
Given: two concentric circles of different sizes in a plane. There exists a line segment that is tangent to the smaller one and a whose endpoints lie on the larger one. The line segment is 10 units long.
What is the area between the two circles?
About 5 seconds after the moving end of the rope comes loose.