I think it's common practice for most serious security badges to rely on RFID for part of the verification, but some sort of user input for the rest. I have a prox card at work (which, I assume, is an RFID-based card), but the card only activates a keypad. Without my PIN, it's useless.
I agree that there's far-left lunacy on the internet, but the far left seems to be content with remaining fringe. It's the self-pity that marks the far right as unique. They demand front page coverage of their lunacy.
This is a perfect place to stop that trend. If Google sticks to its guns, all extremists will find themselves excercising their free speech in the direction of a much smaller crowd.
How is it forced charity? Forced charity would be if we were paying taxes for third world orphans to get gov't-funded laptops.
This is just like being nice and giving to public radio, and they give you a sweet tote bag in return. Here, you're paying $300 to charity, as a nice, charitable human being, and you're getting a laptop in return.
"Even though several members of the House questioned whether the bill would be in violation of the First Amendment, none felt they should vote against the measure."
"These decisions should be left to the legislature, the representatives of the people, not the courts." Legislators: "I'm not touching that. Let the courts decide."
Did anything I say indicate that I'm OK with spam? I don't believe so. I said it's not a day-to-day problem for me, meaning that I've never had any inclination to deal with blue.
No, I don't own a business or an active domain...as a result, I'm not going to talk about the problem from the perspective of a business or domain owner. I'll leave that discussion to the business and domain owners.
Swords by themselves don't mean anything. There's no animated blood in Oblivion, the violence is structured (i.e. rules dictate when killing is appropriate and when it is not, and the player is rewarded or punished as necessary), and the game world offers so many opportunities for non-violent participation. There is very little, if any, gratuitous violence in Oblivion.
Suppressing "propaganda"? Since when is a website set up by a group of people attempting to provide a counterpoint to a massive commercial spin campaign "propaganda"? You've got it backwards. AOL is the propagandist.
That sentence about the "public interest" is misleading, as well. Sure, AOL doesn't need the public interest in the way an elected official does, but if you replace " the public interest" with "demand" (both are "what the people want"), I think the irrationality of AOL's actions becomes clear. People depend on email, and they expect it to be at least as reliable as snail mail. If AOL is censoring random emails without telling customers what keywords to avoid, people will never know if their emails get through, and will, if they're smart, flee AOL en masse.
He's rich enough to get someone to custom-build him an iPod from scratch and slap an MS logo on the back. As for Google, his kids have serfs to do their internet searches, using windows live or whatever's hot at the moment.
Might Google be under some sort of secret agreement with the gov't to hold on to emails, just for circumstances like these? It really doesn't make much sense from a storage perspective to keep around tons of deleted emails. If I were Google, the Delete Forever button would clear any deleted email off of my very crowded storage systems at the same time that it clears it out of a user's inbox.
Democrats will promise broadband access, and ISPs will agree to support the plan if, and only if, they don't have to provide the whole internet to the "charity cases." Democrats, advised strongly against such a deal, will nonetheless accept just for the sake of claiming a victory.
ISPs will come smelling like roses, because they gave broadband to people who wouldn't have had it, but at the same time, get to move away from a single standard for internet connections (content-wise). Like welfare, the Dems will take a good concept and execute it in a disastrous fashion.
China!
I got 309,000,000 hits for democracy there, and only 307,000,000 in the US. The only possible explanation is that China is more free than the USA.
It's getting cheaper to do largely realistic special effects, and the benefits of spending truckloads of cash on cutting edge CGI just aren't visible to the average viewer. Take "Munich"...that story could have been told with no custom-built sets, no CGI effects...basically, a bunch of cameras, some permits in European cities, and a handful of blood packs. But Spielberg managed to spend $75 million on it, according to IMDB. Basically, anything involving Industrial Light & Magic is probably going to be too expensive to justify. On the other hand, LOTR proves that there's definitely space for a super-production every now and then.
video game controllers?
Sorry, but there's no way texting is as rough on the thumbs as bingeing on Gran Turismo. maybe for a few 1337 texters who text a couple hundred wpm, but they need to stop with the "texting = public health crisis" line. there's no way it's true.
also, if the question is talking about terrestrial stations streaming over the net, the problem of horrible terrestrial radio programming is compounded by the inability of terrestrial stations to execute streaming in a way that approaches functionality. the occasional justification for listening to terrestrial radio (go-go in DC and some talk people) is immediately rendered moot because the streaming mechanisms employed by the stations are utterly worthless.
...but not in the WOXY/broadcast model. Two types of stations will persevere:
(1) stations that stay off the royalties radar.
(2) sites like pandora and last.fm that use personalization and social aspects to attract throngs of listeners and maximize ad revenue.
WOXY made the mistake of trying to keep a high profile, i think. charging a subscription doesn't stand a chance. there are just too many other choices.
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I think it's common practice for most serious security badges to rely on RFID for part of the verification, but some sort of user input for the rest. I have a prox card at work (which, I assume, is an RFID-based card), but the card only activates a keypad. Without my PIN, it's useless.
...Sony has made so many simultaneously self-serving and self-defeating moves in the last year or two that it may be true.
I agree that there's far-left lunacy on the internet, but the far left seems to be content with remaining fringe. It's the self-pity that marks the far right as unique. They demand front page coverage of their lunacy.
This is a perfect place to stop that trend. If Google sticks to its guns, all extremists will find themselves excercising their free speech in the direction of a much smaller crowd.
I'm surprised it's in color. You'd think a big old-iPod-style B&W screen would do the job and save a bunch of cash.
How is it forced charity? Forced charity would be if we were paying taxes for third world orphans to get gov't-funded laptops.
This is just like being nice and giving to public radio, and they give you a sweet tote bag in return. Here, you're paying $300 to charity, as a nice, charitable human being, and you're getting a laptop in return.
Don't be so whiney.
of far-right self-pity over the media's refusal to abandon its last shreds of decency and publish bigotry as "balance".
Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for a straight answer.
Would someone with more knowledge than me explain the term "zero day"?
YOU CAN'T MAKE OPEN-SOURCE MOVIES!!! Who gets the money??? Who sells shitloads of licensed garbage??? My head is about to EXPLODE!!!
"Even though several members of the House questioned whether the bill would be in violation of the First Amendment, none felt they should vote against the measure."
"These decisions should be left to the legislature, the representatives of the people, not the courts."
Legislators: "I'm not touching that. Let the courts decide."
Did anything I say indicate that I'm OK with spam? I don't believe so. I said it's not a day-to-day problem for me, meaning that I've never had any inclination to deal with blue.
No, I don't own a business or an active domain...as a result, I'm not going to talk about the problem from the perspective of a business or domain owner. I'll leave that discussion to the business and domain owners.
I'm not a whiney mac fanboy, and even I get very very little spam. It's just not a day-to-day nuisance for me.
Ok, pitch and yaw in an FPS i get...but wtf would 'roll' be?
Swords by themselves don't mean anything. There's no animated blood in Oblivion, the violence is structured (i.e. rules dictate when killing is appropriate and when it is not, and the player is rewarded or punished as necessary), and the game world offers so many opportunities for non-violent participation. There is very little, if any, gratuitous violence in Oblivion.
Wow, and entirely without any reference to AJAX or Web 2.0.
Suppressing "propaganda"? Since when is a website set up by a group of people attempting to provide a counterpoint to a massive commercial spin campaign "propaganda"? You've got it backwards. AOL is the propagandist.
That sentence about the "public interest" is misleading, as well. Sure, AOL doesn't need the public interest in the way an elected official does, but if you replace " the public interest" with "demand" (both are "what the people want"), I think the irrationality of AOL's actions becomes clear. People depend on email, and they expect it to be at least as reliable as snail mail. If AOL is censoring random emails without telling customers what keywords to avoid, people will never know if their emails get through, and will, if they're smart, flee AOL en masse.
He's rich enough to get someone to custom-build him an iPod from scratch and slap an MS logo on the back. As for Google, his kids have serfs to do their internet searches, using windows live or whatever's hot at the moment.
Might Google be under some sort of secret agreement with the gov't to hold on to emails, just for circumstances like these? It really doesn't make much sense from a storage perspective to keep around tons of deleted emails. If I were Google, the Delete Forever button would clear any deleted email off of my very crowded storage systems at the same time that it clears it out of a user's inbox.
Democrats will promise broadband access, and ISPs will agree to support the plan if, and only if, they don't have to provide the whole internet to the "charity cases." Democrats, advised strongly against such a deal, will nonetheless accept just for the sake of claiming a victory. ISPs will come smelling like roses, because they gave broadband to people who wouldn't have had it, but at the same time, get to move away from a single standard for internet connections (content-wise). Like welfare, the Dems will take a good concept and execute it in a disastrous fashion.
China! I got 309,000,000 hits for democracy there, and only 307,000,000 in the US. The only possible explanation is that China is more free than the USA.
It's getting cheaper to do largely realistic special effects, and the benefits of spending truckloads of cash on cutting edge CGI just aren't visible to the average viewer. Take "Munich"...that story could have been told with no custom-built sets, no CGI effects...basically, a bunch of cameras, some permits in European cities, and a handful of blood packs. But Spielberg managed to spend $75 million on it, according to IMDB. Basically, anything involving Industrial Light & Magic is probably going to be too expensive to justify. On the other hand, LOTR proves that there's definitely space for a super-production every now and then.
video game controllers? Sorry, but there's no way texting is as rough on the thumbs as bingeing on Gran Turismo. maybe for a few 1337 texters who text a couple hundred wpm, but they need to stop with the "texting = public health crisis" line. there's no way it's true.
also, if the question is talking about terrestrial stations streaming over the net, the problem of horrible terrestrial radio programming is compounded by the inability of terrestrial stations to execute streaming in a way that approaches functionality. the occasional justification for listening to terrestrial radio (go-go in DC and some talk people) is immediately rendered moot because the streaming mechanisms employed by the stations are utterly worthless.
...but not in the WOXY/broadcast model. Two types of stations will persevere: (1) stations that stay off the royalties radar. (2) sites like pandora and last.fm that use personalization and social aspects to attract throngs of listeners and maximize ad revenue. WOXY made the mistake of trying to keep a high profile, i think. charging a subscription doesn't stand a chance. there are just too many other choices.
yeah, cause gamers are famous for their ability to place things in the proper perspective.