I'm sure Kentucky would love to have the operators of these sites come into Kentucky to attend the trial. It would make it very easy for Kentucky to arrest them for violation of the laws prohibiting gambling ("Beshear said Kentucky loses tens of million of dollars a year to online gambling, which is illegal in all 50 states." and "Sections of KRS Chapter 528 specifically mandate the forfeiture of any gambling devices, such as domain names and websites for Internet gambling, and make it illegal to conduct, promote, advertise, own, profit from or conspire to profit from an illegal gambling operation." from the press release.)
Sure we have. The Republicans and Democrats that would have to propose the changes in Congress have learned that if they think about those changes, they risk losing their brib...er campaign contributions from Diebold (or whatever the voting machine part is called now) and the support of their fellow Senators and Representatives who like the campaign contributions from Diebold, and that scares them.
If this had been law about 5 years ago, then Milonic Solutions, a UK-based software company, would have been able to have push for the seizure of government servers hosting Senator Orrin Hatch's webpage. Slashdot covered the story back then. I wonder if anyone on the Senate Judiciary Committee remembers that -- and I wonder how many of them would have their own computers seized if they were the first to be searched.
Just out of curiosity, I ran Slashdot's privacy policy through the online site linked to in the article. [I selected starting with "SOURCEFORGE, INC. UNITED STATES/EUROPEAN UNION SAFE HARBOR PRIVACY STATEMENT ("PRIVACY STATEMENT")" and ended with "Mountain View, CA 94041".] The results?
Number of characters (without spaces) : 19,080.00
Number of words : 3,465.00
Number of sentences : 178.00
Average number of characters per word : 5.51
Average number of syllables per word : 1.90
Average number of words per sentence: 19.47
Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
Gunning Fog index : 15.88
Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text:
Coleman Liau index : 15.09
Flesh Kincaid Grade level : 14.42
ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 14.24
SMOG : 15.19
Flesch Reading Ease : 26.32
The average of Gunning Fog, Flesh Kincaid, and SMOG indices is 15.16. If you do a scatterplot of lines versus complexity, interestingly Slashdot's policy appears pretty much dead center out of all the policies. Yahoo's is long but not too complex, Qwest and Bright House Networks fall in the short and less complex corner of the plot, and Insight Communications is indeed a bit of an outlier.
So you've been off-roading in your street-legal vehicle, and your car/truck/whatever gets covered in mud. How do you transport it to a car wash to get the mud off the license plates so that it is legal to drive on the roads again?
while a license plate cannot identify a person, they can be used to look up who the vehicle is registered too, and there is a reasonable chance that it would be registered to the one driving it.
... unless of course the vehicle is stolen, or a rental (in which case the rental company has a chance of figuring out who was driving), or had been borrowed by the friend, spouse, sibling, or child of the person to whom it is registered...
Your statement "We have a problem, this is how other people solve it, and this is what I will need to solve it. Give me the budget and I'll solve the problem." is close to complete, but you're missing one piece.
"We have a problem, this is how other people solve it, and this is what I will need to solve it. This is what it costs us _not_ to solve it. Give me the budget and I'll solve the problem."
If you can show that the software development 'process' currently in place is costing the company $N a month and you will need to spend $X to improve the process, if you're going to be developing software for more than (X/N) months, it'll be more cost-effective to fix the process.
Mickey would probably get a number of votes... but if the election were to be held soon, I think I know someone else who might get more than a few himself. Too bad he's too young to hold the office.
Have the machine print your vote on receipt paper, visible behind glass in the machine. As the last step, you verify your selection, and the paper scrolls away.
How do you know that the paper you verified scrolled away into the ballot box and not into the paper shredder next to the ballot box?
If a computer must be involved, let it serve ONLY as a mechanism to help the voter fill out their ballot. Then let the voter confirm that the ballot is correct and manually submit the ballot for counting. Let the counting be performed both by a computer for the preliminary count (for efficiency) and by a group of humans for the official count (as a quality assurance mechanism.)
Why would anyone pay good money for an action figure when they could just download one over bittorrent... Hang on a sec, that doesn't quite work, does it?
If it was too dangerous for the fireworks to be filmed live because there was a risk of the fireworks injuring the cameramen, why not use an unmanned radio-controlled camera?
In which case you are arguing that a boxing match that is won by a knock-out is a sport, but if it's a points decision it's not.
And if the KOed boxer struggles to their feet just after the count ends (and so could have remained in the match if the official counting them out had counted a bit slower) it's not a sport, but if the boxer that was KOed stays down for 30 seconds (where no one could argue that if the count had been slower, they could have recovered) it is?
I think the bigger issue is correcting human behavior with those who are granted the responsibility to rule. Those who's life desire is to rule should throw a red flag. (this includes both presidential runners)
3) Is under the impression that revision history could conceivably be hidden within said plain text file, implying the OP doesn't understand basic file formats, which confirms that he is not merely the wrong person but absolutely the last person you want manually mucking with your data files.
Revision history can't be hidden within a plain text file?
\documentclass{article} \begin{document} This is a \LaTeX document. It can have comments in it. % Here is a comment that will not be present in the LaTeX document output. The revision history could be stored here. \end{document}
One reason that knowing whether or not the Riemann Hypothesis is true is that there are a large number of other theorems that have been proven with the assumption that the Riemann Hypothesis is true. If RH was proven false, then we'd need to come up with other proofs for those theorems, or consider that perhaps those theorems that we'd thought to be true were in fact not.
Anyone know if OnStar's CEO has OnStar installed in his or her car?
If the government or businesses want to install kill switches in cars, planes, or other electronic equipment I think they should be required to have the systems in their cars, planes, electronic equipment as a "guinea pig".
Do we know that the administration was listening in on calls between two people in the US?
No, we don't... because if they occurred, the only people who could tell us of such offenses are either the people who ordered/committed those offenses or people who will face serious jail time in a PMITA prison and/or Gitmo if they talk.
But let me ask you this... if you knew that you could listen in on anyone's phone conversations with absolutely no chance that you'd be caught doing so, wouldn't you? Do you think members of this administration would do so? Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I'm sure Kentucky would love to have the operators of these sites come into Kentucky to attend the trial. It would make it very easy for Kentucky to arrest them for violation of the laws prohibiting gambling ("Beshear said Kentucky loses tens of million of dollars a year to online gambling, which is illegal in all 50 states." and "Sections of KRS Chapter 528 specifically mandate the forfeiture of any gambling devices, such as domain names and websites for Internet gambling, and make it illegal to conduct, promote, advertise, own, profit from or conspire to profit from an illegal gambling operation." from the press release.)
Sure we have. The Republicans and Democrats that would have to propose the changes in Congress have learned that if they think about those changes, they risk losing their brib...er campaign contributions from Diebold (or whatever the voting machine part is called now) and the support of their fellow Senators and Representatives who like the campaign contributions from Diebold, and that scares them.
Or, to put it shortly: free speech is a right, an audience is not.
If this had been law about 5 years ago, then Milonic Solutions, a UK-based software company, would have been able to have push for the seizure of government servers hosting Senator Orrin Hatch's webpage. Slashdot covered the story back then. I wonder if anyone on the Senate Judiciary Committee remembers that -- and I wonder how many of them would have their own computers seized if they were the first to be searched.
Just out of curiosity, I ran Slashdot's privacy policy through the online site linked to in the article. [I selected starting with "SOURCEFORGE, INC. UNITED STATES/EUROPEAN UNION SAFE HARBOR PRIVACY STATEMENT ("PRIVACY STATEMENT")" and ended with "Mountain View, CA 94041".] The results?
:
Number of characters (without spaces) : 19,080.00
Number of words : 3,465.00
Number of sentences : 178.00
Average number of characters per word : 5.51
Average number of syllables per word : 1.90
Average number of words per sentence: 19.47
Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
Gunning Fog index : 15.88
Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text
Coleman Liau index : 15.09
Flesh Kincaid Grade level : 14.42
ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 14.24
SMOG : 15.19
Flesch Reading Ease : 26.32
The average of Gunning Fog, Flesh Kincaid, and SMOG indices is 15.16. If you do a scatterplot of lines versus complexity, interestingly Slashdot's policy appears pretty much dead center out of all the policies. Yahoo's is long but not too complex, Qwest and Bright House Networks fall in the short and less complex corner of the plot, and Insight Communications is indeed a bit of an outlier.
I've got an idea or two or three.
Your statement "We have a problem, this is how other people solve it, and this is what I will need to solve it. Give me the budget and I'll solve the problem." is close to complete, but you're missing one piece.
"We have a problem, this is how other people solve it, and this is what I will need to solve it. This is what it costs us _not_ to solve it. Give me the budget and I'll solve the problem."
If you can show that the software development 'process' currently in place is costing the company $N a month and you will need to spend $X to improve the process, if you're going to be developing software for more than (X/N) months, it'll be more cost-effective to fix the process.
Mickey would probably get a number of votes ... but if the election were to be held soon, I think I know someone else who might get more than a few himself. Too bad he's too young to hold the office.
How do you know that the paper you verified scrolled away into the ballot box and not into the paper shredder next to the ballot box?
If a computer must be involved, let it serve ONLY as a mechanism to help the voter fill out their ballot. Then let the voter confirm that the ballot is correct and manually submit the ballot for counting. Let the counting be performed both by a computer for the preliminary count (for efficiency) and by a group of humans for the official count (as a quality assurance mechanism.)
Not yet, but perhaps sometime soon.
If it was too dangerous for the fireworks to be filmed live because there was a risk of the fireworks injuring the cameramen, why not use an unmanned radio-controlled camera?
And if the KOed boxer struggles to their feet just after the count ends (and so could have remained in the match if the official counting them out had counted a bit slower) it's not a sport, but if the boxer that was KOed stays down for 30 seconds (where no one could argue that if the count had been slower, they could have recovered) it is?
Dammit, after we've spent all this money having our military teach our troops how to hit the broad side of a barn ...
Or, to summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
[me]: Is that decimal or hexadecimal digits?
[AC]: Huh? I... I don't know that. Auuuuuuuugh!
Revision history can't be hidden within a plain text file?
ALL HAIL PRESIDENT HYPNOTOAD.
One reason that knowing whether or not the Riemann Hypothesis is true is that there are a large number of other theorems that have been proven with the assumption that the Riemann Hypothesis is true. If RH was proven false, then we'd need to come up with other proofs for those theorems, or consider that perhaps those theorems that we'd thought to be true were in fact not.
Why chill? Melt everything and separate the elements based on melting point using a solar furnace or something similar.
1. Find a long lever.
2. Find a place to stand.
3. ?????
4. Move!
Anyone know if OnStar's CEO has OnStar installed in his or her car?
If the government or businesses want to install kill switches in cars, planes, or other electronic equipment I think they should be required to have the systems in their cars, planes, electronic equipment as a "guinea pig".
But let me ask you this