Imagine the new 2-d barcode spam. Unscrupulous persons will sneak around and replace these barcodes with barcodes linking to pay-per-view porn sites and penis enlargement products.
Yet the FCC is shirking it's duties by accepting the upcoming wideband interference of broadband over power lines in the frequency range of 3 to 80 mhz.
Let me swipe my credit card, and have it bill me to the exact second my car leaves the stall.
Well, often when they put up parking meters, they don't want people to park there for very long. That's why the meters usually have a one or two hour limit. They'd still ticket people for being there too long.
Sounds like these meters will automatically tell the parking officer when your time is up. They could even combine them with pavement sensors and photo recognition (or RFID!) in the future to automatically ticket you.
How about make it mandatory that the box with the text be resizable, and require a reasonable font size. Anyone seen a program (or a web page offering a service) that uses 8 point font for it's license agreement? Small fonts are entirely unnecessary when real paper is not being used.
Have it hold the green for the other direction, until there's no one going at a speed where they can't stop anymore--have bother directions red. Just in case someone figures this out, install a red-light camera and start giving out tickets to people who go through the red light regardless because they know the other direction will not get a green.
If I recall correctly, the non-G rated version of this joke involves a sailor and a marine, and the marine says, "In the marines, we don't get shit on our dicks" implying the navy is all homosexuals.
I believe this rounding to the 15 minutes applies when it is a limitation of the timecard system. Going through a more accurate computerized system and manually rounding, or selectively rounding when it will reduce time, or always rounding in the direction that causes time to be lost, to the nearest 15 minutes is completely different. Old punch timeclocks often weren't accurate enough to be better than 15 minute blocks.
If manually rounding a perfectly accurate timecard system is allowed, it is a loophole that should be closed.
As someone who worked for McDonald's in management while going to school, I can say that the paper record would be generated for all employees when they clocked out, but only the most vigilant would pick them up from the printer. Management could still go back and edit their time card after the fact, but the daily reports would show a "*" by any entry that was changed. An audit trail would print, but was never saved. Every daily report would have a number of "*" marks due to people forgetting to clock out, or pressing the wrong button (in instead of out). I'm sure there was some editing to reduce hours that went on, even in a system with a paper trail, the difference was, people who collected their time slips would have noticed it, so it would never happen to the degree that it happens at Wal-Mart.
Yes, but that is a bad analogy. The vast majority of library users copy a few pages of a book or magazine. Copying the entire book is illegal. Many copy shops close by to Canadian universities get busted for this now and then.
Yes, but it's not the library's responsibility to police that. They just post a notice near the copier at best. Kind of like how most p2p software gives you a warning.
So in what world is putting a file that you do _NOT_ own the copyright on, and have not actually obtained permission from the copyright holder to copy for purposes beyond fair use, in a publicly shared folder for others to obtain _not_ a violation of the copyright act?
In the same world where a library can place a photocopier in the same room as books without getting sued. In fact, the judge in this case made that analogy and cited as precedent a case several weeks ago where a law library had been sued.
not just 1 or 2 carbons, like 1/2 complete (and some fully complete) buckyballs. What I'm postulating here is that maybe there is a hazard to humans too.
I remember hearing somewhere that the black exhaust you typically get from a diesel truck as it goes through the first few gears after a dead stop is composed mostly of incomplete fullerines.
If you set the screen resolution to 640x480x16 and turn all the 3D setting to "fastest" in the ATI control panel.
It just happens to be that the "standard" 3dmark03 test is 1024x768x32 bits. You have to run at that setting to upload your score to the Futuremark online resultbrowser, which is why the highest score there is 10008 right now.
So you technically can get 17000 in 3dmark2003, just not at any reasonable resolution.
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Imagine the new 2-d barcode spam. Unscrupulous persons will sneak around and replace these barcodes with barcodes linking to pay-per-view porn sites and penis enlargement products.
Most "pirates" broadcast in shortwave, well away from any major AM and FM broadcasters.
www.frn.net has a sightings forum if you want to listen to this stuff.
Yet the FCC is shirking it's duties by accepting the upcoming wideband interference of broadband over power lines in the frequency range of 3 to 80 mhz.
Unmatched stability? Debian stable (and unstable) can't even get the mouse to work under both gpm and XFree86.
I blogged 1.5 months ago, but my average is every 2 months. No invite.
mod parent up, +1 Funny for the southpark reference (AWESOM-O)
Why bother ticketing when the time expires?
Let me swipe my credit card, and have it bill me to the exact second my car leaves the stall.
Well, often when they put up parking meters, they don't want people to park there for very long. That's why the meters usually have a one or two hour limit. They'd still ticket people for being there too long.
Sounds like these meters will automatically tell the parking officer when your time is up. They could even combine them with pavement sensors and photo recognition (or RFID!) in the future to automatically ticket you.
Too bad this wasn't posted early, since no one on /. will see this now.
They do, it installs a network device which with a bit of work, you can get connected to the internet or your local network.
I downloaded the debian image for this (bare-bones) and right now dselect is installing the rest.
Yeah, let's go back to swinging in the trees too.
How about make it mandatory that the box with the text be resizable, and require a reasonable font size. Anyone seen a program (or a web page offering a service) that uses 8 point font for it's license agreement? Small fonts are entirely unnecessary when real paper is not being used.
Have it hold the green for the other direction, until there's no one going at a speed where they can't stop anymore--have bother directions red. Just in case someone figures this out, install a red-light camera and start giving out tickets to people who go through the red light regardless because they know the other direction will not get a green.
Why is there a virus scanner for Mac OS X?
hmmm?
answer that mac heads
If I recall correctly, the non-G rated version of this joke involves a sailor and a marine, and the marine says, "In the marines, we don't get shit on our dicks" implying the navy is all homosexuals.
I believe this rounding to the 15 minutes applies when it is a limitation of the timecard system. Going through a more accurate computerized system and manually rounding, or selectively rounding when it will reduce time, or always rounding in the direction that causes time to be lost, to the nearest 15 minutes is completely different. Old punch timeclocks often weren't accurate enough to be better than 15 minute blocks.
If manually rounding a perfectly accurate timecard system is allowed, it is a loophole that should be closed.
As someone who worked for McDonald's in management while going to school, I can say that the paper record would be generated for all employees when they clocked out, but only the most vigilant would pick them up from the printer. Management could still go back and edit their time card after the fact, but the daily reports would show a "*" by any entry that was changed. An audit trail would print, but was never saved. Every daily report would have a number of "*" marks due to people forgetting to clock out, or pressing the wrong button (in instead of out). I'm sure there was some editing to reduce hours that went on, even in a system with a paper trail, the difference was, people who collected their time slips would have noticed it, so it would never happen to the degree that it happens at Wal-Mart.
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Yes, but that is a bad analogy. The vast majority of library users copy a few pages of a book or magazine. Copying the entire book is illegal. Many copy shops close by to Canadian universities get busted for this now and then.
Yes, but it's not the library's responsibility to police that. They just post a notice near the copier at best. Kind of like how most p2p software gives you a warning.
So in what world is putting a file that you do _NOT_ own the copyright on, and have not actually obtained permission from the copyright holder to copy for purposes beyond fair use, in a publicly shared folder for others to obtain _not_ a violation of the copyright act?
In the same world where a library can place a photocopier in the same room as books without getting sued. In fact, the judge in this case made that analogy and cited as precedent a case several weeks ago where a law library had been sued.
Of course it won't.
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not just 1 or 2 carbons, like 1/2 complete (and some fully complete) buckyballs. What I'm postulating here is that maybe there is a hazard to humans too.
I remember hearing somewhere that the black exhaust you typically get from a diesel truck as it goes through the first few gears after a dead stop is composed mostly of incomplete fullerines.
If you set the screen resolution to 640x480x16 and turn all the 3D setting to "fastest" in the ATI control panel.
It just happens to be that the "standard" 3dmark03 test is 1024x768x32 bits. You have to run at that setting to upload your score to the Futuremark online resultbrowser, which is why the highest score there is 10008 right now.
So you technically can get 17000 in 3dmark2003, just not at any reasonable resolution.