Biometric, swipe cards or any other method they use will have loopholes when left alone. All it needs is a single teacher to watch everyone put their fingers there.
But isn't the whole point of this so that you don't need to employ someone to check attendence? If you have to employ someone to stand there, why no just get that same person to call out names and record on a register?
BSA's Raison d'être is to enforce compliance with commercial software licenses. If all of it's member companies switched to an Open Source model and charged for support, the BSA would still argue against it internally and externally because in that world the BSA is meaningless.
Thats interesting about the New Scientist paywall coming down. I used to be an avid reader about 5 years ago, logged on at every weekday lunchtime to read something or other. I even clicked the occasional ad there when I found one relavent to me, especially links to amature telescopes etc which I was looking to buy when I had enough money.
Then they implemented a paywall, some articles you could read, some you couldn't read or couldn't finish. I got so fed up with the potluck approach to reading an article I just stopped going and didn't even realise the paywall had come down. If I saw a link any going back to newscientist.com I just stopped reading at that point because I knew I wouldn't be able to read the original article.
I'm just checked and I seem to be able to access everything again, but I probably won't start reading the site again, it's just not part of my routine any more.
tweeting isn't talking, it's a short/timely update of whats you are doing. Now you can question if thats is useful or not, and I'm not going to get into that arguement, but the idea that tweets are about 2 way communication just doesn't fit with what the service seems to be offering.
MacDonalds have to pay staff to work in the location where the burger is purchased, maintain publically accessibly stores etc. Part of the cost of a Burger is per unit cost which scales almost linearly with sales.
Digital media sales are all about up front costs of creating the original piece of work; in the case of a book that means a place to write, living costs while writing, and probably a Editing service. Once the item is created getting a copy to end user is basically the price of webserver and bandwidth shared between all the units sold from that setup. Lets say an ebook without images is 150kb, Amazon AWS charges $0.15/GB of download, so thats $0.15 to delivery roughly 6500 books in a month.
If the author actually managed to sell that many books at $3 in a month that would be $19499.75 (including the $0.15 bandwidth costs). Burger sales and digital media are apples and oranges, you can't compare them as business models.
It's not the copyright holder of the shoemaker which is being violated, it's the copyright holder of the photograph (admittedly, they are probably the same entity in reality).
Either, making a copy of a copyrighted image is illegal or it isn't. The police, having being caught doing exactly what everyone else does on the internet and who would be at risk of legal action by a whole host of Swedish specific *AA organisations are trying to argue that they are excempt because the database will be used to investigate a crime which hasn't happened... yet.
Buy a pair of shoes, glue the tread from a different pair of shoes onto the bottom. Police find a shoe print and start looking for the addidas shoe of the tread pattern while you are wearing Nike trainers. No need to dump the shoes, no need to carry a spare pair which would look suspicous.
The only way you would be caught would be if you are stopped and the tread patterns checked directly which would mean the police already have a reason to suspect you. I'm obviously a criminal master mind, next I will hold the world to ransom for 1 Millllion Dollars.
This study has it ass-backwards. If you're looking to categorize, do it by culture NOT race. To conduct a study like this is based on a false premise to begin with.
I'm not familar with OK Cupid myself but have some experience with dating sites a few years ago.
Race is a question which always get asked on a dating profile but I've never seen "culture" asked, sometimes nationality but thats definately not the same thing
I think that he was simply using what was available, not what was necessarily the best dividers.
The real truth is that with the Internet, consumers have bazillions of choices already as far as what they wish to listen to or view, and adding FM radio would only add a tiny fraction to those choices.
This isn't about comsumer choice, this is about RIAA being able to deal with a small number of companies who they already have a relationship with and whose interests are aligned in the same direction with regard to who gets airtime instead of chasing bazillions of small internet resources who don't have any money to extort anyway and who pretty much hate RIAA already.
It's an attempt to prop up existing business's by ensuring easy access to a technology people are buying less and less of.
> Why is there any need for anger at all? These users made their pages public. This guy created a list of public Facebook pages. So what?
Technically, these users failed to hide their profiles, or to lock the privacy settings back down after Facebook opened them all back up earlier in the year. In fact, even if they did lock their privacy settings back down after facebook opened them all up the last time, the script might have just scrapped the information in the time inbetween.
You make it sound like the users made a conscious, informed decision to allow everyone to see everything when that is far from the only possible explaination.
There is another issue to be considered as well, if some of these accidents happened after the publicity started, then its possible some of the accidents are attempts at fraud and the driver has deliberately rammed someone/thing
We would have cleared the roads straighten out the airport, and had the dock ready to receive ships with out waiting for some one else to do it for us.
I would like to understand what causes/some/ police officers to get uppity and apparently very insecure. I'd like them to feel confident and proud of their jobs. What do they fear? Is it not meeting some target? I can understand an officer in obvious physical danger lashing out too hard (what is unreasonable defence when you're having a knife waved in your face?), but why otherwise?
I think a lot of these situations are caused by a mismatch between the respect police officers think they deserve and what they actually get.
Listening to the clip, it sounded like the police officer thought making the annoying kid stop photographing would be as simple as telling him to stop, because police are the authority and everyone should just do what they say, but instead the annoying kid asked which law was being used to prevent a legal activity. At that point they should have simply said their is no law, but please just wait until the parade starts. He probably wouldn't have, but since there is no law to stop him, that's all they could do. Instead they make up a cock and bull story which he immediately sees through and it's down hill from there.
From that point on the police keep upping the ante, hoping he's going to back down, which frankly was ridiculous given that they knew he was recording them making up these stupid reasons why he should stop. They got themselves painted into a corner by a 16 year old who played the situation very well, they couldn't just let him carry on because it would have dented their authority but at the same time there really was nothing they could do legally to stop him since nothing he was doing was illegal.
The Disturbing The Peace thing they actually arrested him on at the end was the only reasonable law they quoted and the only disturbance was caused after the police got involved.
Not only the feel of the film. The premise a harsh situation being imposed on individuals for the good of society as a whole resonated with Logans Run as well.
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But isn't the whole point of this so that you don't need to employ someone to check attendence? If you have to employ someone to stand there, why no just get that same person to call out names and record on a register?
They should attach those whistle responder keyrings to the seal members, I find them useful when I lose my keys.
BSA's Raison d'être is to enforce compliance with commercial software licenses. If all of it's member companies switched to an Open Source model and charged for support, the BSA would still argue against it internally and externally because in that world the BSA is meaningless.
Thats interesting about the New Scientist paywall coming down. I used to be an avid reader about 5 years ago, logged on at every weekday lunchtime to read something or other. I even clicked the occasional ad there when I found one relavent to me, especially links to amature telescopes etc which I was looking to buy when I had enough money.
Then they implemented a paywall, some articles you could read, some you couldn't read or couldn't finish. I got so fed up with the potluck approach to reading an article I just stopped going and didn't even realise the paywall had come down. If I saw a link any going back to newscientist.com I just stopped reading at that point because I knew I wouldn't be able to read the original article.
I'm just checked and I seem to be able to access everything again, but I probably won't start reading the site again, it's just not part of my routine any more.
tweeting isn't talking, it's a short/timely update of whats you are doing. Now you can question if thats is useful or not, and I'm not going to get into that arguement, but the idea that tweets are about 2 way communication just doesn't fit with what the service seems to be offering.
MacDonalds have to pay staff to work in the location where the burger is purchased, maintain publically accessibly stores etc. Part of the cost of a Burger is per unit cost which scales almost linearly with sales.
Digital media sales are all about up front costs of creating the original piece of work; in the case of a book that means a place to write, living costs while writing, and probably a Editing service. Once the item is created getting a copy to end user is basically the price of webserver and bandwidth shared between all the units sold from that setup. Lets say an ebook without images is 150kb, Amazon AWS charges $0.15/GB of download, so thats $0.15 to delivery roughly 6500 books in a month.
If the author actually managed to sell that many books at $3 in a month that would be $19499.75 (including the $0.15 bandwidth costs). Burger sales and digital media are apples and oranges, you can't compare them as business models.
You aren't Intels customer, the Content Providers are.
It's not the copyright holder of the shoemaker which is being violated, it's the copyright holder of the photograph (admittedly, they are probably the same entity in reality).
Either, making a copy of a copyrighted image is illegal or it isn't. The police, having being caught doing exactly what everyone else does on the internet and who would be at risk of legal action by a whole host of Swedish specific *AA organisations are trying to argue that they are excempt because the database will be used to investigate a crime which hasn't happened... yet.
Buy a pair of shoes, glue the tread from a different pair of shoes onto the bottom. Police find a shoe print and start looking for the addidas shoe of the tread pattern while you are wearing Nike trainers. No need to dump the shoes, no need to carry a spare pair which would look suspicous.
The only way you would be caught would be if you are stopped and the tread patterns checked directly which would mean the police already have a reason to suspect you. I'm obviously a criminal master mind, next I will hold the world to ransom for 1 Millllion Dollars.
I'm not familar with OK Cupid myself but have some experience with dating sites a few years ago.
Race is a question which always get asked on a dating profile but I've never seen "culture" asked, sometimes nationality but thats definately not the same thing
I think that he was simply using what was available, not what was necessarily the best dividers.
i hate ballpoints, now a good technical pencil, I love writing with technical pencils.
Felt pointed pens are OK, but don't last anywhere near long enough for the amount of notes I take.
well, it's a bit wet there at the moment.
call me pedantic if you will, but if you are a Candian working an US farm, doesn't that make you an immigrant?
Or do immigrants only have names like sanchez?
This isn't about comsumer choice, this is about RIAA being able to deal with a small number of companies who they already have a relationship with and whose interests are aligned in the same direction with regard to who gets airtime instead of chasing bazillions of small internet resources who don't have any money to extort anyway and who pretty much hate RIAA already.
It's an attempt to prop up existing business's by ensuring easy access to a technology people are buying less and less of.
> Why is there any need for anger at all? These users made their pages public. This guy created a list of public Facebook pages. So what?
Technically, these users failed to hide their profiles, or to lock the privacy settings back down after Facebook opened them all back up earlier in the year. In fact, even if they did lock their privacy settings back down after facebook opened them all up the last time, the script might have just scrapped the information in the time inbetween.
You make it sound like the users made a conscious, informed decision to allow everyone to see everything when that is far from the only possible explaination.
There is another issue to be considered as well, if some of these accidents happened after the publicity started, then its possible some of the accidents are attempts at fraud and the driver has deliberately rammed someone/thing
How did that work out for you in New Orleans?
did you send the twitter message over your home broadband connection? that might suggest BT are recording a disturbing amount of information.
if you get your tongue onto the right contacts, it tingles quite pleasantly.
err, so i've been told
where is the Disturbing on so many levels moderation tag?
I think a lot of these situations are caused by a mismatch between the respect police officers think they deserve and what they actually get.
Listening to the clip, it sounded like the police officer thought making the annoying kid stop photographing would be as simple as telling him to stop, because police are the authority and everyone should just do what they say, but instead the annoying kid asked which law was being used to prevent a legal activity. At that point they should have simply said their is no law, but please just wait until the parade starts. He probably wouldn't have, but since there is no law to stop him, that's all they could do. Instead they make up a cock and bull story which he immediately sees through and it's down hill from there.
From that point on the police keep upping the ante, hoping he's going to back down, which frankly was ridiculous given that they knew he was recording them making up these stupid reasons why he should stop. They got themselves painted into a corner by a 16 year old who played the situation very well, they couldn't just let him carry on because it would have dented their authority but at the same time there really was nothing they could do legally to stop him since nothing he was doing was illegal.
The Disturbing The Peace thing they actually arrested him on at the end was the only reasonable law they quoted and the only disturbance was caused after the police got involved.
Not only the feel of the film. The premise a harsh situation being imposed on individuals for the good of society as a whole resonated with Logans Run as well.
I think, therefore I am?
maybe it will use e-paper type of display, readable in sunlight. consumes no power when not changing the display.
Plus, since it's Lead Selenide panels, we could shape and sharpen them into weapons for use against Evolution aliens.