What I've noticed about great legal thinkers is that they tend to move upwards in the judicial system. At the same time, not-so-great legal thinkers spend a lot of time pontificating on blogs and message boards.
It's really uncanny. It's like there is an inverse relationship between actual legal knowledge and the likelihood to post uninformed comments. Perhaps someone could study this and win next year's IgNobel award for literature.
in some places like Seoul where a gas attack can be feared at any moment (they have racks of gas mask for emergency use in every subway station for instance)
A full beer bottle is prone to break at the neck due to the air bubble retracting into the cap area during swinging (assuming you are holding it by the neck, which you should if you have any sense at all). If it breaks at the neck when you hit, you end up with shards of glass on yourself rather than on your opponent.
I'm interested in why pregnant women don't tip over. I'm trying hard to avoid bringing bovines into the comparison.
That's one option, but there is still the risk of a rogue app (perhaps a virus) getting installed and bogging down a local cell before the user is hit with the excess charges. Worse if it is a popular app.
This story is tagged "defectivebydesign", but what Apple wants to do is anything but.
Operators have a hard limit on the amount of service they can actually provision. Allowing any and all devices to run willy nilly on the network would be certain death, even for the best-laid network. By throttling certain services, turning off certain capabilities, and allowing remote provisioning management, Apple is making sure that the device they are providing to users will work and continue to work on the network.
This is a very important feature not only for the NOs, but also for businesses who would provide these phones to their field teams. Though, to be honest, restriction of features doesn't seem very patentable, at least there are other implementations that already exist. WinMo has had this since WM6.1, for example.
The problem is that you are assuming that printers made today have any sort of longterm lifespan. They do not. They are cheaply-made and will not last you more than a couple years at the longest.
Add to this that you would lose the ability to buy toner after a few years due to planned obsolescence, and your dream of buying a cheap personal printer that will last you two generations of Windows is simply impossible.
I'm already using aluminum foil lining in many of my hats and clothes to protect me from the government transmissions. However, I hadn't heard that Al2O3 was any better than straight aluminum foil.
It seems suspicious that this story would be posted immediately after I began considering papering my walls with foil.
The idea that somehow installing a tracking device interferes with the owner's use of the vehicle is preposterous. It is even more preposterous to make that claim if the owner has no knowledge of the installation of the device.
Neither is this a matter of illegal search and seizure, as the movements of a car can be tracked directly by having a car follow it everywhere. The tracking device does nothing more than make this an automated task.
The courts are wrong here and it does nothing but empower criminals and reduce the avenues of justice for the average citizen. This type of weakening of police powers is precisely why groups like the Yakuza are able to get away with so much in Japan. By skirting the very edges of the law, they are able to remain untouchable while those they terrorize are very likely to overstep their legal bounds due to the inability of the police to successfully remove the true criminals.
I don't support the EFF because I don't support this type of pseudo-YRO type of knee-jerk ideology. Pure ideology is fine, but when it runs afoul of reality it must bend.
WinXP with Firefox 3.0 without NoScript. Yes, I'd expect that Slashdot editors would vet submissions to at least work on this very very common platform.
Wait, no, I don't expect the/. editors to do much of anything, now that you mention it.
I understand how hard it was for him to write his books. After all, it's not every author who decides to chuck the whole language and invent his own (I'm looking at you, Tolkien).
Anyway, here's some background for anyone unfamiliar with Joyce's works. Wikipedia
If you're going to play with the plastic Rock Band guitar, you might as well go whole hog and play all your games with it. It's just a controller, FWIW.
If you want to pick up women, playing a real guitar is much more effective.
To begin with, this is a senior executive, not some lowly password changer in the basement. The policy against surfing porn at work may apply to all equally, but as we all know, some are more equal than others. So it's hard to expect that this person would somehow be subject to the rules considering his position.
Second, what's wrong with surfing porn at work? Work is a stressful environment, and finding ways to relieve this stress is actually a productive endeavor. Many companies have put in "game rooms" with pool tables and other recreational apparatus to help employees work off some stress and be more productive at their jobs. If porn helped this senior exec relieve stress and be more productive, then it's a good deal for the agency.
If someone is somehow offended by the viewing of porn, I suggest they give proof that they were forced to view it with the boss. Otherwise, even if they viewed it incidentally, their is no evidence that this exec was using the porn in a harassing way. If the porn itself wasn't illegal, then what's the big deal?
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Well, those lesser minds have voted in one of their own.
We'll see how well it goes.
What I've noticed about great legal thinkers is that they tend to move upwards in the judicial system. At the same time, not-so-great legal thinkers spend a lot of time pontificating on blogs and message boards.
It's really uncanny. It's like there is an inverse relationship between actual legal knowledge and the likelihood to post uninformed comments. Perhaps someone could study this and win next year's IgNobel award for literature.
mice used in research are transgenic
That is an abomination in the sight of the Lord!
Cancer kills Murinaes, God laughs
How is that different from mooby sweat?
I wish I was a mouse. Then I'd get all the good cancer treatments.
in some places like Seoul where a gas attack can be feared at any moment (they have racks of gas mask for emergency use in every subway station for instance)
Why don't they just stop making kimchee?
kekekekeke
A full beer bottle is prone to break at the neck due to the air bubble retracting into the cap area during swinging (assuming you are holding it by the neck, which you should if you have any sense at all). If it breaks at the neck when you hit, you end up with shards of glass on yourself rather than on your opponent.
I'm interested in why pregnant women don't tip over. I'm trying hard to avoid bringing bovines into the comparison.
That's one option, but there is still the risk of a rogue app (perhaps a virus) getting installed and bogging down a local cell before the user is hit with the excess charges. Worse if it is a popular app.
This story is tagged "defectivebydesign", but what Apple wants to do is anything but.
Operators have a hard limit on the amount of service they can actually provision. Allowing any and all devices to run willy nilly on the network would be certain death, even for the best-laid network. By throttling certain services, turning off certain capabilities, and allowing remote provisioning management, Apple is making sure that the device they are providing to users will work and continue to work on the network.
This is a very important feature not only for the NOs, but also for businesses who would provide these phones to their field teams. Though, to be honest, restriction of features doesn't seem very patentable, at least there are other implementations that already exist. WinMo has had this since WM6.1, for example.
We get solid precipitation here on earth all the time.
Sometimes it's hail, sometimes sleet.
The best is frogs, though.
Lease
The problem is that you are assuming that printers made today have any sort of longterm lifespan. They do not. They are cheaply-made and will not last you more than a couple years at the longest.
Add to this that you would lose the ability to buy toner after a few years due to planned obsolescence, and your dream of buying a cheap personal printer that will last you two generations of Windows is simply impossible.
The lamest rebranding:
www.theminingcompany.com to www.about.com
also of note:
www.askjeeves.com to www.ask.com
I'm already using aluminum foil lining in many of my hats and clothes to protect me from the government transmissions. However, I hadn't heard that Al2O3 was any better than straight aluminum foil.
It seems suspicious that this story would be posted immediately after I began considering papering my walls with foil.
I'm not running NoScript. I thought I made that clear in my other post.
Does this mean that the chalk mark the meter maids put on my tire are also outlawed? Because I could support that.
The idea that somehow installing a tracking device interferes with the owner's use of the vehicle is preposterous. It is even more preposterous to make that claim if the owner has no knowledge of the installation of the device.
Neither is this a matter of illegal search and seizure, as the movements of a car can be tracked directly by having a car follow it everywhere. The tracking device does nothing more than make this an automated task.
The courts are wrong here and it does nothing but empower criminals and reduce the avenues of justice for the average citizen. This type of weakening of police powers is precisely why groups like the Yakuza are able to get away with so much in Japan. By skirting the very edges of the law, they are able to remain untouchable while those they terrorize are very likely to overstep their legal bounds due to the inability of the police to successfully remove the true criminals.
I don't support the EFF because I don't support this type of pseudo-YRO type of knee-jerk ideology. Pure ideology is fine, but when it runs afoul of reality it must bend.
I find that I feel bad if I kill someone on my own team by accident.
Then I feel better when I teabag them anyway. Laughter is definitely the best medicine.
WinXP with Firefox 3.0 without NoScript. Yes, I'd expect that Slashdot editors would vet submissions to at least work on this very very common platform.
Wait, no, I don't expect the /. editors to do much of anything, now that you mention it.
The first page doesn't even load for me, and I'm not interested in watching the video in the second link.
Surely we can demand that this type of summary without textual links should not be written, altogether.
But I'm worried that cremation has destroyed his chance to be resurrected in body at the Rapture.
He looks like a great family man. Two kids, a wife, a family who obviously loved him. We should all hope to have as much.
I understand how hard it was for him to write his books. After all, it's not every author who decides to chuck the whole language and invent his own (I'm looking at you, Tolkien).
Anyway, here's some background for anyone unfamiliar with Joyce's works.
Wikipedia
If you're going to play with the plastic Rock Band guitar, you might as well go whole hog and play all your games with it. It's just a controller, FWIW.
If you want to pick up women, playing a real guitar is much more effective.
Tape is the way to go if longevity is the main concern.
There is a reason Unix uses tar.
To begin with, this is a senior executive, not some lowly password changer in the basement. The policy against surfing porn at work may apply to all equally, but as we all know, some are more equal than others. So it's hard to expect that this person would somehow be subject to the rules considering his position.
Second, what's wrong with surfing porn at work? Work is a stressful environment, and finding ways to relieve this stress is actually a productive endeavor. Many companies have put in "game rooms" with pool tables and other recreational apparatus to help employees work off some stress and be more productive at their jobs. If porn helped this senior exec relieve stress and be more productive, then it's a good deal for the agency.
If someone is somehow offended by the viewing of porn, I suggest they give proof that they were forced to view it with the boss. Otherwise, even if they viewed it incidentally, their is no evidence that this exec was using the porn in a harassing way. If the porn itself wasn't illegal, then what's the big deal?