AFAIK it's pretty much just CA that spends it's days budgetless on the west coast. It's painful in WA and OR, but it's not budgetless, it's just belt tightening time, given the drastic drop in tax dollars due to anti-tax conservative hatchet men. People who think that it's OK to require a super majority to raise taxes, and that it's OK to impose that super majority requirement via a simple majority vote.
I think the idea is to track it when it leaves the building. As long as it isn't out of the building you can have some assurance that it's somewhere in the building. Not that the approach is perfect, GPS tends to suck around here for some reason, more so downtown with all the buildings.
Indeed, my main monitor doubles as an HDTV, and it's got 1920x1200 native resolution. I'm still getting my 1200 vertical pixels, but I'm getting an extra 320 horizontal ones. Now if MS and the other GUI designers would design the task bar to work better vertically, I'd be better off than I used to be.
Personally, I've been quite happy with my Samsung monitors. The Syncmaster T240HD fits the bill pretty well, although by now there's probably something better on the market. But it's quite good for all the tasks I've thrown at it. IIRC it ended up costing me something like $270, but it was well worth it.
That's not true. I'm using Win XP with dual monitors, one is portrait and the other is the traditional landscape, and it's damned hard to tell the difference between the text. I finally looked really, really close and saw that they were both using alpha blending of some sort. Really, unless you put your nose on the monitor it's really hard to tell the difference.
Now, perhaps if you've got a monitor which is smaller than 22" that you've rotated sideways it might be obvious, but I can't see any difference in terms of text.
Indeed, even a cursory read of Sun Tzu's Art of War makes it quite clear that logistics are what wins and loses wars. Our foundering in Afghanistan and Iraq would be of know surprise to Sun Tzu, wars of the sort we've been fighting pretty much always go to the defender. More so now that it's a war crime to pillage.
If you look exclude the ones where we were attacked, the list is a lot shorter. It's only since WWII when the military industrial complex was needing something to justify it's existence that we went batshit insane and started attacking for little to no reason.
Before the automobile, we used horses and up until relatively recently the supply of horses was the best predictor of who was going to win the conflict. Mainly because they moved troops and supplies much more quickly than people on foot.
The problem with it is that it's difficult to properly monitor production. While hemp can't be used for pot, it's fairly easy to sneak a few pot plants into the mix and tough to monitor for.
You can still sell it in the US, you just can't grow it here, and the DEA has a zero tolerance policy. There are a few states that have legalized production, but I'm not aware of any actually doing so, and since it conflicts with federal law, I'd expect lawsuits if they ever do start production.
And that friends is why America is going to be relegated to the third world at some point. That stupid insistence that social programs are less valuable than military spending. As it stands we get very little out of our military. We use them to go and do things which frequently aren't necessary while ignoring things which aren't necessary, but at least aren't evil.
Perhaps if we'd spend more money on education and our well being, we wouldn't have to put up with future dictators and terrorist cells that we sponsored.
That's what made the Stasi so feared. At it's peak the Stasi employed roughly 1/6.5 of the East German population as informants, either part or full time spying on the remaining population. Meaning that if you said something there was a really good chance that the authorities would know about it quite soon after.
As somebody that used to watch security monitors, I can pretty much tell you that it's not the same as having a person there. For one thing they often times don't know that there's a camera. Even with signs and the ability to see the camera, they don't realize it's there. So you end up seeing all the sorts of things people do when nobody is around.
Additionally, cameras have a memory, depending upon the site it may be as short as a few weeks, or much longer depending upon how much money the owner wants to spend. And if you're seen doing something notable, they may pull the footage for storage indefinitely.
I can also definitively say that women do all the gross things men do, it's just that they generally have the tact to try and avoid doing it in public view.
There will be, except our version will involve both aimbots and firearms. And probably liquor as well. Hell, Texas has already got those components finished, I mean where else in the world would allow a person to hunt via remote control?
People know those things exist, but the suspicious bit is that it isn't generally available to people without high powered lawyers. A person can have their life completely ruined by accusations which the court ultimately finds them not guilty of, but in the public's mind the individual is still very much guilty. Just look at both OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson, they were acquitted in court, but the public still regards them as guilty. It's possible that they both were guilty, but both were acquitted by a jury of their peers.
I don't think people realize how often the cameras are broken or pointed in the wrong direction. Somebody up to no good, or with other experience with cameras can usually figure out where they're pointed within a fraction of a second, and definitely without staring.
It's not surprising to me that they wouldn't be able to find the footage. Keeping cameras maintained is expensive, and there's that window where everybody knows you haven't got anything to record with.
Not really, the public sees the messages, and possibly buys something, but the vast majority of the damage is done to the various ISPs, server admins and such. They're the ones that pay for most of the damage, and hence they're the ones that sue. But beyond that, they're also in the best position to know who it is that is doing the spamming. By the time I check my email, it's a pretty good bet that whoever sent the spam is already onto a new host.
It's not too much, given the amount of damage that he caused. Ultimately, he'll end up paying a small fraction of that, in terms of giving back pretty much everything he has, then having a considerable amount of his wages garnished for the rest of his life. Given what he did, he's damn lucky he's not going to federal slam him in the ass prison for a goodly amount of time.
But more than that, there's a bit of frontier justice in it, since it's so hard to nail these guys, the penalty is necessarily stiffer than it would be for some other crimes of similar damage level.
Strictly speaking that would normally be manslaughter, experimentation implies that you expect them to pull through or at very least have a reasonable hope of them lasting longer than without treatment.
At the moment that's correct, we're both in an economic slump, but the US has massive debts. Not sure how much debt the Canadians have, but it's probably much less. But it'll change as we pull out of the recession and stop throwing money down the Afghan/Iraqi hole we'll pay off the debts and productivity will return and we should be back to the status quo.
The same reason why people are determined to take America back to the 50s. Change is costly and at time you make the wrong call. And ultimately it's scary.
The changes that businesses make tend to be the ones that either improve their profit margins immediately or the things that consumers demand. Ever notice how lately every store has to have air conditioning? It's not because it's profitable per se, it's because if you want to have customers they have to come into the store, and they won't come into your store if your store is the only one without AC.
So, if money talks, and bullshit walks, then what the fuck are you still doing here?
It isn't his responsibility, this is basically the same problem we've seen in the wireless space, the people who actually control access don't bother to upgrade until the last minute, if even then, and without somewhere else to take your business, it's not a realistic option. I've heard that Comcast has IPv6 around here, but going back to them is a non-starter. They're far worse than the other options.
Unless the end user can do to their CO and upgrade the equipment it's a moot point.
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AFAIK it's pretty much just CA that spends it's days budgetless on the west coast. It's painful in WA and OR, but it's not budgetless, it's just belt tightening time, given the drastic drop in tax dollars due to anti-tax conservative hatchet men. People who think that it's OK to require a super majority to raise taxes, and that it's OK to impose that super majority requirement via a simple majority vote.
I think the idea is to track it when it leaves the building. As long as it isn't out of the building you can have some assurance that it's somewhere in the building. Not that the approach is perfect, GPS tends to suck around here for some reason, more so downtown with all the buildings.
Indeed, my main monitor doubles as an HDTV, and it's got 1920x1200 native resolution. I'm still getting my 1200 vertical pixels, but I'm getting an extra 320 horizontal ones. Now if MS and the other GUI designers would design the task bar to work better vertically, I'd be better off than I used to be.
Personally, I've been quite happy with my Samsung monitors. The Syncmaster T240HD fits the bill pretty well, although by now there's probably something better on the market. But it's quite good for all the tasks I've thrown at it. IIRC it ended up costing me something like $270, but it was well worth it.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more pixels will slip through your fingers
That's not true. I'm using Win XP with dual monitors, one is portrait and the other is the traditional landscape, and it's damned hard to tell the difference between the text. I finally looked really, really close and saw that they were both using alpha blending of some sort. Really, unless you put your nose on the monitor it's really hard to tell the difference.
Now, perhaps if you've got a monitor which is smaller than 22" that you've rotated sideways it might be obvious, but I can't see any difference in terms of text.
Indeed, even a cursory read of Sun Tzu's Art of War makes it quite clear that logistics are what wins and loses wars. Our foundering in Afghanistan and Iraq would be of know surprise to Sun Tzu, wars of the sort we've been fighting pretty much always go to the defender. More so now that it's a war crime to pillage.
If you look exclude the ones where we were attacked, the list is a lot shorter. It's only since WWII when the military industrial complex was needing something to justify it's existence that we went batshit insane and started attacking for little to no reason.
Before the automobile, we used horses and up until relatively recently the supply of horses was the best predictor of who was going to win the conflict. Mainly because they moved troops and supplies much more quickly than people on foot.
The problem with it is that it's difficult to properly monitor production. While hemp can't be used for pot, it's fairly easy to sneak a few pot plants into the mix and tough to monitor for.
You can still sell it in the US, you just can't grow it here, and the DEA has a zero tolerance policy. There are a few states that have legalized production, but I'm not aware of any actually doing so, and since it conflicts with federal law, I'd expect lawsuits if they ever do start production.
And that friends is why America is going to be relegated to the third world at some point. That stupid insistence that social programs are less valuable than military spending. As it stands we get very little out of our military. We use them to go and do things which frequently aren't necessary while ignoring things which aren't necessary, but at least aren't evil.
Perhaps if we'd spend more money on education and our well being, we wouldn't have to put up with future dictators and terrorist cells that we sponsored.
That's what made the Stasi so feared. At it's peak the Stasi employed roughly 1/6.5 of the East German population as informants, either part or full time spying on the remaining population. Meaning that if you said something there was a really good chance that the authorities would know about it quite soon after.
As somebody that used to watch security monitors, I can pretty much tell you that it's not the same as having a person there. For one thing they often times don't know that there's a camera. Even with signs and the ability to see the camera, they don't realize it's there. So you end up seeing all the sorts of things people do when nobody is around.
Additionally, cameras have a memory, depending upon the site it may be as short as a few weeks, or much longer depending upon how much money the owner wants to spend. And if you're seen doing something notable, they may pull the footage for storage indefinitely.
I can also definitively say that women do all the gross things men do, it's just that they generally have the tact to try and avoid doing it in public view.
There will be, except our version will involve both aimbots and firearms. And probably liquor as well. Hell, Texas has already got those components finished, I mean where else in the world would allow a person to hunt via remote control?
People know those things exist, but the suspicious bit is that it isn't generally available to people without high powered lawyers. A person can have their life completely ruined by accusations which the court ultimately finds them not guilty of, but in the public's mind the individual is still very much guilty. Just look at both OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson, they were acquitted in court, but the public still regards them as guilty. It's possible that they both were guilty, but both were acquitted by a jury of their peers.
I don't think people realize how often the cameras are broken or pointed in the wrong direction. Somebody up to no good, or with other experience with cameras can usually figure out where they're pointed within a fraction of a second, and definitely without staring.
It's not surprising to me that they wouldn't be able to find the footage. Keeping cameras maintained is expensive, and there's that window where everybody knows you haven't got anything to record with.
True, but there's already a handheld like that.
Not really, the public sees the messages, and possibly buys something, but the vast majority of the damage is done to the various ISPs, server admins and such. They're the ones that pay for most of the damage, and hence they're the ones that sue. But beyond that, they're also in the best position to know who it is that is doing the spamming. By the time I check my email, it's a pretty good bet that whoever sent the spam is already onto a new host.
It's not too much, given the amount of damage that he caused. Ultimately, he'll end up paying a small fraction of that, in terms of giving back pretty much everything he has, then having a considerable amount of his wages garnished for the rest of his life. Given what he did, he's damn lucky he's not going to federal slam him in the ass prison for a goodly amount of time.
But more than that, there's a bit of frontier justice in it, since it's so hard to nail these guys, the penalty is necessarily stiffer than it would be for some other crimes of similar damage level.
Strictly speaking that would normally be manslaughter, experimentation implies that you expect them to pull through or at very least have a reasonable hope of them lasting longer than without treatment.
What matters man, is the lives that won't be on account of people being too scarred by goatse man to procreate.
If you think that's bad, justice Potter Stewart's court would probably be known as SCROTUS.
At the moment that's correct, we're both in an economic slump, but the US has massive debts. Not sure how much debt the Canadians have, but it's probably much less. But it'll change as we pull out of the recession and stop throwing money down the Afghan/Iraqi hole we'll pay off the debts and productivity will return and we should be back to the status quo.
It doesn't, it's $440m for the messages and the remainder is punitive damages.
The same reason why people are determined to take America back to the 50s. Change is costly and at time you make the wrong call. And ultimately it's scary.
The changes that businesses make tend to be the ones that either improve their profit margins immediately or the things that consumers demand. Ever notice how lately every store has to have air conditioning? It's not because it's profitable per se, it's because if you want to have customers they have to come into the store, and they won't come into your store if your store is the only one without AC.
So, if money talks, and bullshit walks, then what the fuck are you still doing here?
It isn't his responsibility, this is basically the same problem we've seen in the wireless space, the people who actually control access don't bother to upgrade until the last minute, if even then, and without somewhere else to take your business, it's not a realistic option. I've heard that Comcast has IPv6 around here, but going back to them is a non-starter. They're far worse than the other options.
Unless the end user can do to their CO and upgrade the equipment it's a moot point.