Yes, but they are non-violent and require the cooperation of their "victims".
So does robbing somebody with an unloaded gun.
Only if you tell the victim that your gun isn't loaded up front. Then you're relying on their own mind to imagine a scenario where your gun really is loaded, but you're lying for some reason. That way, the threat of violence is entirely imagined on their part.
"and they have more free time to surf at work than at home."
The third part carries more weight than the first two. I still know people who won't buy internet access "because I get it free at work". I'm sure the private sector is cracking down on non-productive employees, but government work is government work.
I work at Woolworths (The parent company), and I really wonder if I start blowing my trumpet about this, will:
a) Anyone in management have a clue what this means.
b) Anyone be able to track down someone who can actually DO something about it.
c) (sadly) whether anyone will actually care enough to make a change for the better.
d) you get terminated and prosecuted?
As we say in the States: "He who smelt it dealt it."
But can't grandma be allowed to buy credits for her grandchild, who then uses said credits to buy a ticket in his/her own name?
Maybe do this, and make it a pain in the ^$&@ to transfer the ticket(s). One person transferring 4 tickets to another person might have to waste two hours online with a website that is purposefully slow, but that prevents big-business scalping (unless they find it profitable still to open offshore call centers to do the ticket transfers. "I diligently multitasked and transferred 36 tickets today, surely I will get the raise now."
With virtual tickets, concerts will end up with a certain amount of empty seats as people's plans change or they become sick and can not give the tickets to a friend. Empty seats are a sign of a bad concert, as anyone knows. Of course they'll soon realize that an old airline trick will fix that with a bonus: oversell concerts, and tell the overflow they're on "standby" until the next concert. Full seats and extra money!
But I bet "work" is where TSA agents access the web the most, if not exclusively. This could seriously create a selective education within the TSA, allowing the agents to believe the exact opposite of what the rest of the population believes. About what? I don't know, but I'm sure we'll find out in 2011-2012.
in Windows I don't have to check every photo individually for the date taken, it's a column in the file manager.
ls -lt *.jpg
This isn't what GP was talking about. That's file modification time, not the date the photo was taken (which is data inside the image file, not in the filesystem about the file). The closest you could get with ls would be to re-touch all the timestamps to match the image date data first, then use ls.
find/image/directory/ -name \*.jpg -exec touch -d `exiftime -tg {} |sed -e 's/Image Generated://' |sed -e 's/:/-/' |sed -e 's/:/-/'` {} \;
or something similar. I can't remember if backticks work in -exec.
Of course, exiftime has sorting built in:
exiftime -tg -l *.jpg
But since GP is a Windows user, command line is a tool of the devil.
I had the same thought until I read this in the summary: "Before embarking on their test, they obtained written assurance from Metro Safety and Security Chief Eric Muntan that there's no law against non-commercial photography on the system."
So a private security firm AND the police have the right to try and sentence people without so much as a trial? NICE! I bet Miami-Dade PD is going to have to throw up some decent PR on this one... Oh wait, it's in the name of anti-terrorism and public safety...
No, the police have the power to arrest someone without so much as a trial. It's the DA's job to tell the police "FTW!? Let them go! They didn't do anything illegal. Get a lawyer, they're going to sue you for false arrest."
* Lower cost of ownership - BS, too much time is spent hacking up config files to make crap work or work right
On Windows, too much time is spent hacking up the registry to make crap work or work right. Just this last Thursday, I had to manually scan the registry to delete every reference to a printer driver that kept killing someone's spooler service... because the spooler service needed to be running to delete the printer normally. If it had been a unix system, I could have just edited a line in a file and been done.
* CLI/scripting system that actually works - BS, anything you can write and make work in Linux, I can in Windows
Using cygwin, bash compiled for Windows or DOS, or other scripting applications that are not guaranteed to be on every Windows system.
* Most open source software runs on it - Show me anything worthwhile that doesn't run in Windows or have a better alternative there
Well, Linux runs in Windows, so I'd say you've won this argument.
* Drivers for just about any piece of hardware ever built - BS, that's the primary thing most users have issues with, half baked drivers
Half-baked drivers in Windows XP, Vista, and 7. That printer driver mentioned above? It was an HP driver written for and installed in Win7 64bit.
* No blue screen of death - Agreed, but I haven't seen one yet in Win7
I haven't either, but I have seen a Win7 machine reboot constantly (the equiv of BSOD since Win7 is set to reboot on fail).
* Not nearly as resource hungry (unless of course you use Compiz:-) - Agreed, but neither was Win98 which is typically how Linux feels
I still have Win98se running on an old machine for old games. Win98se is actually snappier than modern Linux, which is in turn snappier than WinXP/7. How much window compositing did Win98se do? Firewalling? Multi-user? Even the 1998 version of Linux had multi-user support and ipchains.
Mod me down if you want to, but I've yet to have Windows drop me to a command prompt after an video card driver update
I've had it boot up to a BSOD, which looks worse than a command prompt, or a blank screen where I had to remote in or boot up in safe graphics mode.
[I've yet to have Windows drop me to a command prompt after an] OS update (Ubuntu anyone?)
I've had it boot up to a BSOD, which looks worse than a command prompt.
or had to recompile sound drivers after every OS update (Ubuntu on that one too).
I wish I could. Sometimes vendors take years to get their sound drivers working. Google realtek, imac, and Windows 64 bit.
My file manager will display in a column what date pictures were taken so I can categorize them accordingly, can yours do that? It couldn't the last time I checked.
This is the first time that I ever checked. No, it does not, but it could with a little quick editing. Right clicking and selecting properties shows that the Gnome file manager (didn't check KDE) can see the image properties, including "Date Taken", so the information is there. Linux users are probably just better mentally organized, and name their photo directories YYYY_MM_DD
If you know how the name Nguyen is supposed to be pronounced, you'll be completely blind to the second half of this attempted joke ("attempted joke"---almost sounds like a crime, doesn't it?)
Most people who live in most countries are citizens rather than subjects.
You're welcome.
Parent is not a troll. Parent is pointing out that at the time "subjects" was crossed out by Jefferson, Nearly everyone on the planet was subject to a King, or if not, were not living in a level of civilization where "citizen" would be an appropriate term. Following the American Colonies' example, many other English colonies and colonies of other countries threw off their shackles, and eventually the mother-countries followed suit.
If you read the Arizona law you will realize that it is more or less drafted from the current Federal legislation. So, really, there is no need to get Arizona's laws "up to that level."
There is if Arizona wants to make sure there is enforcement.
Abengoa Solar, a unit of the Seville, Spain-based engineering company, will receive a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to build a solar-power plant in Arizona that will create 1,600 construction jobs and 85 permanent jobs, according to White House documents released in conjunction with Obama's address.
The power plant will be the first of its kind in the U.S. and generate enough energy to power 70,000 homes, Obama said.
1.45billion to power 70,000 homes.
That's $20,000 per home?
And 85 jobs. Don't forget the 85 jobs. 1.45B for 85 jobs. Are you against economic recovery? I bet you pirate music too.
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Yes, and they are the same guy patenting pigs(!) which have eaten their crops.
I'm going to patent any woman I sleep with.
That's called a marriage, and in the U.S. it seems to only lasts about 20 years, just like any other patent.
Some of us just have good memories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenic_maize#The_StarLink_corn_controversy
I disagree in that mathematics is applied philosophy, I think its a fundamental law of the universe.
Mathematics is applied Logic, which is a subset of Philosophy.
Now we know why they go crazy, riot, burn, and pillage when their teams win. Futball fans are craay-zie.
3 .. year .. 'veteran'?
Jeez, is that all it takes to be a veteran these days. What price those of us who remember the dawn of the endless September.
All it takes to earn veteran status is to win one battle. Or be built in a city with barracks. Time only grants a need for suspenders.
Yes, but they are non-violent and require the cooperation of their "victims".
So does robbing somebody with an unloaded gun.
Only if you tell the victim that your gun isn't loaded up front. Then you're relying on their own mind to imagine a scenario where your gun really is loaded, but you're lying for some reason. That way, the threat of violence is entirely imagined on their part.
"and they have more free time to surf at work than at home." The third part carries more weight than the first two. I still know people who won't buy internet access "because I get it free at work". I'm sure the private sector is cracking down on non-productive employees, but government work is government work.
Those two should have a love child to carry their Luddite faith into the new age.
I work at Woolworths (The parent company), and I really wonder if I start blowing my trumpet about this, will:
a) Anyone in management have a clue what this means.
b) Anyone be able to track down someone who can actually DO something about it.
c) (sadly) whether anyone will actually care enough to make a change for the better.
d) you get terminated and prosecuted?
As we say in the States: "He who smelt it dealt it."
But can't grandma be allowed to buy credits for her grandchild, who then uses said credits to buy a ticket in his/her own name?
Maybe do this, and make it a pain in the ^$&@ to transfer the ticket(s). One person transferring 4 tickets to another person might have to waste two hours online with a website that is purposefully slow, but that prevents big-business scalping (unless they find it profitable still to open offshore call centers to do the ticket transfers. "I diligently multitasked and transferred 36 tickets today, surely I will get the raise now."
With virtual tickets, concerts will end up with a certain amount of empty seats as people's plans change or they become sick and can not give the tickets to a friend. Empty seats are a sign of a bad concert, as anyone knows. Of course they'll soon realize that an old airline trick will fix that with a bonus: oversell concerts, and tell the overflow they're on "standby" until the next concert. Full seats and extra money!
What basis do you have for assuming that TSA agents don't have internet at home or smart phones?
I assume they are poor, stupid, and they have more free time to surf at work than at home.
But I bet "work" is where TSA agents access the web the most, if not exclusively. This could seriously create a selective education within the TSA, allowing the agents to believe the exact opposite of what the rest of the population believes. About what? I don't know, but I'm sure we'll find out in 2011-2012.
It's the DA's job to tell the police "FTW!? Let them go!"
Fuck The What does that stand for? Fare Thee Well?
LOL, oops.
Fare thee well today, for 'tis work time following the weekend. (FTWTFTWTFTW)
command line is better. There's a reason we moved beyond pointing and grunting into symbolic language.
Best description of why to use CLI; it allows for an explosion of thought.
in Windows I don't have to check every photo individually for the date taken, it's a column in the file manager.
ls -lt *.jpg
This isn't what GP was talking about. That's file modification time, not the date the photo was taken (which is data inside the image file, not in the filesystem about the file). The closest you could get with ls would be to re-touch all the timestamps to match the image date data first, then use ls. /image/directory/ -name \*.jpg -exec touch -d `exiftime -tg {} |sed -e 's/Image Generated: //' |sed -e 's/:/-/' |sed -e 's/:/-/'` {} \;
find
or something similar. I can't remember if backticks work in -exec.
Of course, exiftime has sorting built in:
exiftime -tg -l *.jpg
But since GP is a Windows user, command line is a tool of the devil.
I had the same thought until I read this in the summary: "Before embarking on their test, they obtained written assurance from Metro Safety and Security Chief Eric Muntan that there's no law against non-commercial photography on the system."
So a private security firm AND the police have the right to try and sentence people without so much as a trial? NICE! I bet Miami-Dade PD is going to have to throw up some decent PR on this one... Oh wait, it's in the name of anti-terrorism and public safety...
No, the police have the power to arrest someone without so much as a trial. It's the DA's job to tell the police "FTW!? Let them go! They didn't do anything illegal. Get a lawyer, they're going to sue you for false arrest."
* Lower cost of ownership - BS, too much time is spent hacking up config files to make crap work or work right
On Windows, too much time is spent hacking up the registry to make crap work or work right. Just this last Thursday, I had to manually scan the registry to delete every reference to a printer driver that kept killing someone's spooler service... because the spooler service needed to be running to delete the printer normally. If it had been a unix system, I could have just edited a line in a file and been done.
* CLI/scripting system that actually works - BS, anything you can write and make work in Linux, I can in Windows
Using cygwin, bash compiled for Windows or DOS, or other scripting applications that are not guaranteed to be on every Windows system.
* Most open source software runs on it - Show me anything worthwhile that doesn't run in Windows or have a better alternative there
Well, Linux runs in Windows, so I'd say you've won this argument.
* Drivers for just about any piece of hardware ever built - BS, that's the primary thing most users have issues with, half baked drivers
Half-baked drivers in Windows XP, Vista, and 7. That printer driver mentioned above? It was an HP driver written for and installed in Win7 64bit.
* No blue screen of death - Agreed, but I haven't seen one yet in Win7
I haven't either, but I have seen a Win7 machine reboot constantly (the equiv of BSOD since Win7 is set to reboot on fail).
* Not nearly as resource hungry (unless of course you use Compiz :-) - Agreed, but neither was Win98 which is typically how Linux feels
I still have Win98se running on an old machine for old games. Win98se is actually snappier than modern Linux, which is in turn snappier than WinXP/7. How much window compositing did Win98se do? Firewalling? Multi-user? Even the 1998 version of Linux had multi-user support and ipchains.
Mod me down if you want to, but I've yet to have Windows drop me to a command prompt after an video card driver update
I've had it boot up to a BSOD, which looks worse than a command prompt, or a blank screen where I had to remote in or boot up in safe graphics mode.
[I've yet to have Windows drop me to a command prompt after an] OS update (Ubuntu anyone?)
I've had it boot up to a BSOD, which looks worse than a command prompt.
or had to recompile sound drivers after every OS update (Ubuntu on that one too).
I wish I could. Sometimes vendors take years to get their sound drivers working. Google realtek, imac, and Windows 64 bit.
My file manager will display in a column what date pictures were taken so I can categorize them accordingly, can yours do that? It couldn't the last time I checked.
This is the first time that I ever checked. No, it does not, but it could with a little quick editing. Right clicking and selecting properties shows that the Gnome file manager (didn't check KDE) can see the image properties, including "Date Taken", so the information is there. Linux users are probably just better mentally organized, and name their photo directories YYYY_MM_DD
If you know how the name Nguyen is supposed to be pronounced, you'll be completely blind to the second half of this attempted joke ("attempted joke"---almost sounds like a crime, doesn't it?)
Not an epic Nguyen?
Oh SH--! CTRL-Z! CTRL-Z!
Suspend the entire process? That's a little drastic.
Most people who live in most countries are citizens rather than subjects.
You're welcome.
Parent is not a troll. Parent is pointing out that at the time "subjects" was crossed out by Jefferson, Nearly everyone on the planet was subject to a King, or if not, were not living in a level of civilization where "citizen" would be an appropriate term. Following the American Colonies' example, many other English colonies and colonies of other countries threw off their shackles, and eventually the mother-countries followed suit.
If you read the Arizona law you will realize that it is more or less drafted from the current Federal legislation. So, really, there is no need to get Arizona's laws "up to that level."
There is if Arizona wants to make sure there is enforcement.
Abengoa Solar, a unit of the Seville, Spain-based engineering company, will receive a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to build a solar-power plant in Arizona that will create 1,600 construction jobs and 85 permanent jobs, according to White House documents released in conjunction with Obama's address. The power plant will be the first of its kind in the U.S. and generate enough energy to power 70,000 homes, Obama said.
1.45billion to power 70,000 homes.
That's $20,000 per home?
And 85 jobs. Don't forget the 85 jobs. 1.45B for 85 jobs. Are you against economic recovery? I bet you pirate music too.
Or three finger swipe on a Mac.
I only use a three finger swipe when there's no TP or paper towels. Then I spend a few minutes washing my hands.