Put him in a room. Set up a router in the next room. Randomly turn the router on and off. If the guy can't tell when it is on and when it is off, he is faking it.
Yes, it is disturbing to know that the census bureau has been very acquiescing in the past. But the days there are entities far more powerful than the Government of USofA when it comes to meddling with our liberties. It is far more likely that some credit rating agency would screw up their data collection and cost my credit score, or identify me as one of the "docile customer who stays with the cell phone company long after the contract had expired, so don't offer him the latest gizmo, he wont switch dont worry he is far too lazy". Than I will be interned by the Government or become target of FBI surveillance.
Yet, we are willing to sacrifice privacy, allow these completely profit motivated companies to collect, collate and organize data with absolutely no limit, no accountability.
Go figure.
The phrase "begs the question" does not mean "raises the question", or "makes us ask the question", though lots of people are using it in that sense. Begs the question means, it assumes the as true what it intends to prove. The Latin phrase "petitio principii" means, the answer (or the answerer) begs (petitions) the questioner to be accepted as true, to concede what is being contested.
But this mistake is so common, so many people are using it this way, it is high time we start de linking "begs the question" from "petitio principii".
We the member of PETA are going to organize a nationwide protest demanding the unconditional and immediate release of Schrodinger's Cat.
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But it has Google as partner. I can make fun of Google Not Evil(tm) all I want. But if that company is willing to walk away from China, instead of compromising, I figure it is going to be Sony's arm that is going to be twisted, and not the other way around. Further, I think at some point, even the dumbest of the dumbos finally get the message and it is well past time Sony got the message. Betamax, memory stick, rootkits etc are futile battles to fight, leading to at best, Pyrrhic victories.
Why don't you create your own religion, where you establish as a basic tenet, the ability to discriminate against "the faithful", "the believers" etc. Then get a bunch of people to follow you and you actively discriminate. If they sue you for discrimination, you sue the government to get religious protection. Force them to confront their own inconsistent stand.
Can a parent provide a DNA sample to some collection agency for money or for few? Can a child sue his/her parents, when he/she turns 18 if his/her parents have compromised his/her privacy?
Who is laughing now? When I cut off all contacts with the real world and spent all my time playing on line games in the cyberworld, they were all laughing and told me to get a life. Now, all their information is available for all on line retailers and the data bases that connect cyber names with real world names. My cyber name is the only one that resolves to NULL in their real world names data base and crashes their systems!
I assure you, me becoming the savior of the world by crashing the databases of these creeps is entirely inadvertent. My real regret is that I have not yet been able to crash the real world.
Small pieces that do one thing, but that thing well, they interact with other pieces in a standardized way... I know I have seen this before. Let me awk my brain. I am greppping through my memory.
The cancer must have been one of the aggressive ones. I see the 600K billed is on the low side. The actual payments to the providers would have been less 125K. Typically the terminal patients generate 1M$ in bills in their last 24 months. And generate about 300K in actual payments if they die in a hospital.
Aisle wise sorting is just the icing on the cake. Simply having a battery operated bar code scanner next to the garbage can, so that we can scan what we toss, (things that we want to restock) is enough. When you plug the scanner into a smart phone, it dumps the data and the phone has an app that looks up the upc in the web and converts it to a real shopping list. That is basically the important functionality.
You can jazzit up by making the scanner really small and portable and you can carry it to the store and scan items to be added to wish list etc.
If it takes off, you can get grocery stores to print coupons that could be scanned by these scanners etc.
Almost all the food is bar coded. And bar code readers are cheap. Barcode readers with some local memory could be built. Or wi-fi enabled to transmit the bar code to a local computer.
We should be able to build contraptions where you scan every empty carton you throw in the garbage, and it updates the inventory and emails a shopping list, sorted by the aisle for my local grocery store, thank you, to your cell phone.
Yeah, if I can think about it, I am sure someone has already done it. I am not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer you see.
As usual I tried to make a tongue in cheek remark and ended up chewing my tongue. I meant Google’s indexer is so fast. Original posting was made at March 3,
2010 2:09 PM. It was in the index by March 3, 2010 5:08 PM. And it was not even from news.google.com, it is the general web search. Pretty soon Google will tell me that I’m out of milk even before I open the fridge door.
Does this means that people that can't talk to each other can write instead? Convenient then, no need to learn multiple languages.
Yes, that is true. Mandarin and cantonese writings will be comprehensible to each other, but not the spoken language. It is not something that is very unusual. China formed into a large empire 2500 years ago and established an enduring bureaucracy. The Mandarins (palace officials) collected data from the vast empire and established common writing systems. But local languages adopted the symbol-meaning map but kept their own pronunciation. Eventually minor dialects died out leaving behind just two large spoken language systems.
Since the premise of the whole thing is that the plaintiff is a friend of "our Lord the King" or the US Government and the defendant submitted false claims to it, and the plaintiff is not personally harmed, there is no need to award the plaintiff any damages. Problems solved, just rule that any damages awarded will go to the aggrieved party, or the US government in this case. Once the lawyers know they are not going to be getting a piece of the award, they will go find some one else to screw^h^h^h^h^h sue.
I have two such machines. Panasonic, its DVD writer broke. Bought a Phillips. That too can do time/date based recording. It is a pain in the neck to program, and the user interface sucks. But I have been using it for the last 4 years. Panasonic makes it very easy to mark "chapters" as you are watching. I mark interesting jokes from Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, Colbert. I also record the disaster shows and such from Discovery/History channel, mark all the ads and delete them. Then I burn them into DVDs. I have something like 30 hours of distilled Jay Leno, just the good jokes, Headlines, JayWalking etc.
Never paid a monthly fee. When the DVD writer broke I was astounded to see the same model selling at 1800$ in Ebay. I bought mine for some 450$. The only piece of electronic equipment that went up in value in three years. Market is sending strong signals. The greedy cable cos are not listening.
Just install some snooper and logger and let the neighbour in, steal the credentials to his bank account, brokerage account, clean them out, and bankrupt him and force his home into foreclosure and buy it yourself using his own money that you stole. Now no pesky neighbour riding free on your WiFi. Instead you come up with some lame network names? Dumb.
IE6 still mostly in corporate machines, mainly because they run custom applications designed to work with IE6 as its GUI. IE6 has been EOLed. These applications are stranded. They are stuck in a limbo.
You go to the corporate bean counter who decided to use IE6 based applications in the first place, who is intransigently, adamantly and idiotically refusing to upgrade or recompile or port his applications all through these years and tell him, "IE6 cant access You Tube anymore."
He is likely to go, "Great! now my slaves will not be able to waste their time youtube and do my bidding even more. Woot!" and order his cadence caller, "Battle Speed" and go "thump thump thump", Poor Ben Hur will be rowing faster and faster ever, in his mind. BTW do you know that two guys per oar as shown in Ben Hur would never work?
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Put him in a room. Set up a router in the next room. Randomly turn the router on and off. If the guy can't tell when it is on and when it is off, he is faking it.
Was it a zip code by any chance?
Yet, we are willing to sacrifice privacy, allow these completely profit motivated companies to collect, collate and organize data with absolutely no limit, no accountability. Go figure.
Sounds like something Google Street View could use to remove people from their views and make them more acceptable.
Why would people become more acceptable if they are removed from Google Street View?
Looks like it has been photoshopped. Not real.
We are fighting a losing battle here, Draco. It is mob rule by the ignorami.
But this mistake is so common, so many people are using it this way, it is high time we start de linking "begs the question" from "petitio principii".
We the member of PETA are going to organize a nationwide protest demanding the unconditional and immediate release of Schrodinger's Cat.
But it has Google as partner. I can make fun of Google Not Evil(tm) all I want. But if that company is willing to walk away from China, instead of compromising, I figure it is going to be Sony's arm that is going to be twisted, and not the other way around. Further, I think at some point, even the dumbest of the dumbos finally get the message and it is well past time Sony got the message. Betamax, memory stick, rootkits etc are futile battles to fight, leading to at best, Pyrrhic victories.
Why don't you create your own religion, where you establish as a basic tenet, the ability to discriminate against "the faithful", "the believers" etc. Then get a bunch of people to follow you and you actively discriminate. If they sue you for discrimination, you sue the government to get religious protection. Force them to confront their own inconsistent stand.
Can a parent provide a DNA sample to some collection agency for money or for few? Can a child sue his/her parents, when he/she turns 18 if his/her parents have compromised his/her privacy?
I assure you, me becoming the savior of the world by crashing the databases of these creeps is entirely inadvertent. My real regret is that I have not yet been able to crash the real world.
Small pieces that do one thing, but that thing well, they interact with other pieces in a standardized way... I know I have seen this before. Let me awk my brain. I am greppping through my memory.
The cancer must have been one of the aggressive ones. I see the 600K billed is on the low side. The actual payments to the providers would have been less 125K. Typically the terminal patients generate 1M$ in bills in their last 24 months. And generate about 300K in actual payments if they die in a hospital.
Aisle wise sorting is just the icing on the cake. Simply having a battery operated bar code scanner next to the garbage can, so that we can scan what we toss, (things that we want to restock) is enough. When you plug the scanner into a smart phone, it dumps the data and the phone has an app that looks up the upc in the web and converts it to a real shopping list. That is basically the important functionality. You can jazzit up by making the scanner really small and portable and you can carry it to the store and scan items to be added to wish list etc. If it takes off, you can get grocery stores to print coupons that could be scanned by these scanners etc.
Since I am the only Indian who could really write code, you could be talking about me. But I don't seem to place you. Do you know me?
We should be able to build contraptions where you scan every empty carton you throw in the garbage, and it updates the inventory and emails a shopping list, sorted by the aisle for my local grocery store, thank you, to your cell phone.
Yeah, if I can think about it, I am sure someone has already done it. I am not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer you see.
As usual I tried to make a tongue in cheek remark and ended up chewing my tongue. I meant Google’s indexer is so fast. Original posting was made at March 3, 2010 2:09 PM. It was in the index by March 3, 2010 5:08 PM. And it was not even from news.google.com, it is the general web search. Pretty soon Google will tell me that I’m out of milk even before I open the fridge door.
Does this means that people that can't talk to each other can write instead? Convenient then, no need to learn multiple languages.
Yes, that is true. Mandarin and cantonese writings will be comprehensible to each other, but not the spoken language. It is not something that is very unusual. China formed into a large empire 2500 years ago and established an enduring bureaucracy. The Mandarins (palace officials) collected data from the vast empire and established common writing systems. But local languages adopted the symbol-meaning map but kept their own pronunciation. Eventually minor dialects died out leaving behind just two large spoken language systems.
Since the premise of the whole thing is that the plaintiff is a friend of "our Lord the King" or the US Government and the defendant submitted false claims to it, and the plaintiff is not personally harmed, there is no need to award the plaintiff any damages. Problems solved, just rule that any damages awarded will go to the aggrieved party, or the US government in this case. Once the lawyers know they are not going to be getting a piece of the award, they will go find some one else to screw^h^h^h^h^h sue.
Never paid a monthly fee. When the DVD writer broke I was astounded to see the same model selling at 1800$ in Ebay. I bought mine for some 450$. The only piece of electronic equipment that went up in value in three years. Market is sending strong signals. The greedy cable cos are not listening.
Just install some snooper and logger and let the neighbour in, steal the credentials to his bank account, brokerage account, clean them out, and bankrupt him and force his home into foreclosure and buy it yourself using his own money that you stole. Now no pesky neighbour riding free on your WiFi. Instead you come up with some lame network names? Dumb.
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.
Really?
Yes, really. Just ask Tim Gaitner, Hank Paulson or any of the Chief Embezzling Officers or anyone working for Morgan Stanley.
You go to the corporate bean counter who decided to use IE6 based applications in the first place, who is intransigently, adamantly and idiotically refusing to upgrade or recompile or port his applications all through these years and tell him, "IE6 cant access You Tube anymore."
He is likely to go, "Great! now my slaves will not be able to waste their time youtube and do my bidding even more. Woot!" and order his cadence caller, "Battle Speed" and go "thump thump thump", Poor Ben Hur will be rowing faster and faster ever, in his mind. BTW do you know that two guys per oar as shown in Ben Hur would never work?