... the difference being that while P2P has legitimate uses, guns have NO legitimate use, at least in my mind. They are designed for one purpose: to maim and to kill. I don't care whether the intended target is a criminal or not, I still believe that that is wrong. That's not to mention the fact that while most people might buy them for "legitimate" purposes, a large portion of those guns unfortunately end up being used to commit crimes or accidents anyway.
Finally, Engineers, keep your books. I wish I did. I can't name the times I've needed flow equations, thermo, controls, etc. Sure most of it is on wiki, but it's not in the format that you learned it. Unless you go straight into marketing or something, you're probably going to use something at least once.
I can't tell you how much I wish someone had told me this before senior year, when I had already sold off all of my books to make a quick buck! Now that I'm in grad school I'm regretting not having any good references around...
"Dykes noted that by a couple of measures, their system may protect privacy more than such well-known companies as Google."
If I'm searching for something that I'd rather not have permanently stored on [Google's || my ISP's] servers I can always just log out, or go to another [search engine || ISP].
That sentence only makes sense one way. DPI is absolutely nothing like how Google operates. At least what Google does (storing search histories, etc) actually provides a service to the user...
Ummm... you are aware that some STIs, including HPV, can be transmitted even when adequate protection (condoms) are used perfectly, right? And that HPV leads to cancer?
So basically you are saying that if your child engages in any sort of sexual activity and later gets cancer from HPV, she deserves it?
That is fucked up, to say the least.
We also "evolved" into a society (at least in America) where the vast majority of people are significantly irresponsible and overweight. So would you rather have a society full of people who are going to die young, consume more resources and increase your health care costs, or a society full of healthy people? Which do you think is the "fitter" world?
I'm sorry, but what's wrong with just scribbling your phone / email on the device in magic marker? I mean if whoever "finds" it is a good samaritan, they'll return it regardless of how pretty the label looks, and if they're not a good samaritan, you're pretty much stuffed anyway. But magic marker would be a hell of a lot tougher for a thief to remove than a little old label.
Sure it might be easy to tell the difference between an iPod and a frying pan, but what about the difference between the "Sony MDR-EX71SL Fontopia Headphones," $49.99, and "Sony MDR-EX51LP Fontopia Headphones," $19.99, which, by the way, come in nearly identical packaging? Good luck! Paying cashier more != paying more attention. You can't just throw money, or even today's technology, at this problem and make it go away...it's going to require a major shift in how inventory is processed, something like one-time use RFID tags.
I don't know if this applies everywhere, but where I cashiered, the price was actually encoded in the barcode, along with the UPC, because often we'd have merchandise on the floor whose price had actually gone up, and we had forgotten (read: were too lazy) to retag it. Since it's easier to lose a buck or two than to tell someone they have to pay more than marked for an item, and risk losing them altogether, the computer would always compare the price encoded on the tag to the one on file, and then give the customer the lower of the two. Thus, you don't even need to try to pass it off as a different item - all you do is pick your price, stick on the new label and go! Of course I should hope the computer would also log if something regurlary hundreds of dollars slipped by for $4.99, but you could still get some pretty decent *ahem* discounts this way.
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Explain to me how hunting and self-defense are not maiming and killing, and then we can talk.
... the difference being that while P2P has legitimate uses, guns have NO legitimate use, at least in my mind. They are designed for one purpose: to maim and to kill. I don't care whether the intended target is a criminal or not, I still believe that that is wrong. That's not to mention the fact that while most people might buy them for "legitimate" purposes, a large portion of those guns unfortunately end up being used to commit crimes or accidents anyway.
Apparently this has been a danger for decades with similar incidents reported in China, Britain, Belgium, and Germany.
Please stop spreading the FUD about the amount of mercury in CFLs, which is negligible. The mercury in CFLs constitutes 0.1% of what we dump into the environment annually, and CFLs contribute far less mercury to the environment than incandescent bulbs. http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf
It's "ensure", not "insure"...
Finally, Engineers, keep your books. I wish I did. I can't name the times I've needed flow equations, thermo, controls, etc. Sure most of it is on wiki, but it's not in the format that you learned it. Unless you go straight into marketing or something, you're probably going to use something at least once.
I can't tell you how much I wish someone had told me this before senior year, when I had already sold off all of my books to make a quick buck! Now that I'm in grad school I'm regretting not having any good references around...
"Dykes noted that by a couple of measures, their system may protect privacy more than such well-known companies as Google."
If I'm searching for something that I'd rather not have permanently stored on [Google's || my ISP's] servers I can always just log out, or go to another [search engine || ISP].
That sentence only makes sense one way. DPI is absolutely nothing like how Google operates. At least what Google does (storing search histories, etc) actually provides a service to the user...
Ummm... you are aware that some STIs, including HPV, can be transmitted even when adequate protection (condoms) are used perfectly, right? And that HPV leads to cancer? So basically you are saying that if your child engages in any sort of sexual activity and later gets cancer from HPV, she deserves it? That is fucked up, to say the least.
We also "evolved" into a society (at least in America) where the vast majority of people are significantly irresponsible and overweight. So would you rather have a society full of people who are going to die young, consume more resources and increase your health care costs, or a society full of healthy people? Which do you think is the "fitter" world?
I'm sorry, but what's wrong with just scribbling your phone / email on the device in magic marker? I mean if whoever "finds" it is a good samaritan, they'll return it regardless of how pretty the label looks, and if they're not a good samaritan, you're pretty much stuffed anyway. But magic marker would be a hell of a lot tougher for a thief to remove than a little old label.
That's exactly what I was trying to point out, maybe I just didn't make it clear. Anyway, yeah...it's a problem.
Sure it might be easy to tell the difference between an iPod and a frying pan, but what about the difference between the "Sony MDR-EX71SL Fontopia Headphones," $49.99, and "Sony MDR-EX51LP Fontopia Headphones," $19.99, which, by the way, come in nearly identical packaging? Good luck! Paying cashier more != paying more attention. You can't just throw money, or even today's technology, at this problem and make it go away...it's going to require a major shift in how inventory is processed, something like one-time use RFID tags.
I don't know if this applies everywhere, but where I cashiered, the price was actually encoded in the barcode, along with the UPC, because often we'd have merchandise on the floor whose price had actually gone up, and we had forgotten (read: were too lazy) to retag it. Since it's easier to lose a buck or two than to tell someone they have to pay more than marked for an item, and risk losing them altogether, the computer would always compare the price encoded on the tag to the one on file, and then give the customer the lower of the two. Thus, you don't even need to try to pass it off as a different item - all you do is pick your price, stick on the new label and go! Of course I should hope the computer would also log if something regurlary hundreds of dollars slipped by for $4.99, but you could still get some pretty decent *ahem* discounts this way.