One could draw the conclusion that Europe is sick of the attempts by the United States at hegemony and is outrightly rejecting ACTA in a way of forcing the United States to legislate its own backyard only. However, SOPA and PIPA have failed miserably and the sue for profit outfit Righthaven was dealt a swift and severe hand of defeat. In fact, they effectively no longer exist. Think of the companies that lost a lot of money due to that scheme. They probably lost more money paying Righthaven for its legal services than they might have lost through perceived copyright violation.
Good idea but it may be impractical because the school (much like corporations) might have a policy forbiding outside equipment from connecting to the network. There might be policies in place preventing the non-school issued laptop from being even able to obtain an IP address inside of the network.
According to the article, the student was at home when he tweeted. The school just put him on a watch list because he used twitter once or twice on a school network. This does not grant the school the right to spy on him after hours. My guess is the courts are going to get involved and whomever was involved in the expulsion will have their hands slapped and this extra spying system taken down. The bottom line is, as a society, we live in WAY too much fear. Since we live in fear, we look to governing bodies to grant us freedom from this fear and in turn give up liberties. We have to realize that much of this fear is HIGHLY irrational.
I am finally glad that this sue for profit scheme has completely unraveled. This should put some waves of fear into the likes of RIAA and MPAA to make certain they have absolutely valid claims before they try to strong arm people. I love it! This is so funny as to be better than Andrew Dice Clay!
It is kinda cool that they found a way to eliminate the sonic boom, however the concept is ugly. Plus, I don't think there is much interest in super sonic aircraft as they tend to be very thirsty and oil is not inexpensive.
Why not find a deserted or uninhabited Island in the Pacific and simply build a low cost, low power data center there. If you use processors like ARM or Atom that don't require additional cooling, you could probably engineer and build something to withstand the climate and you can make use of abundant sunshine for power with a battery backup of marine deep cycle batteries. Add a satellite uplink to the internet and the problem (in theory, at least) is solved. Placing servers on an airborne platform is certainly not without risk. You have extreme conditions of wind, cold, and varying temperatures. Finally, how do you keep the servers up there as what goes up must and eventually will, come down. Helium is infeasible as a lighter than air medium, hydrogen could work. You also have the technical difficulty of keeping it in an orbit that is over international waters. While an interesting engineering challenge, it would make more sense to build a datacenter on an uninhabited island in international waters.
AT&T just needs to clearly indicate that you get X gigs of data at 4G or 3G speeds, then anything after that is subject to lower speeds.
You don't have a "right" to unlimited data, sorry. The only issue I see is AT&T hasn't been clear with how it works.
I think that unlimited needs to mean truly unlimited or face false advertising penalties from the FTC. Let's just state what the hard upper limits are and be truthful in advertising. All of the cellular telecom companies have mudied these waters enough and there is no harm by just calling it what it is. It has become a war of words between companies when in actuality they are all equally poor.
Given the current political climate, this is a good idea gone incredibly wrong. If you come too close to law enforcement with something resembling a rifle, be prepared to be in a very sticky situation. These days even "toy" guns can get you in a ton of trouble. Cops' trigger fingers seem even itchier than ever.
These days there appears to be very little difference between the US Government and The Terrorists. The US Government just puts everyone in fear of even the remotest possibility of copyright infringement. I remember when that wasn't criminal but a civil offense. America cannot really call itself "The Land of the Free" anymore.
I find it interesting that the State of Arizona tore out its speed cameras as they actually were costing more money than they were generating in revenue and traffic collisions actually went up. Don't you believe that Traffic Safety Coalition as it stinks to high heaven of lobby group. Even some municipalities removed the cameras as they served no purpose whatsoever. The statistics are that 2/3s of all tickets issued by these systems have to be thrown out for one reason or another.
Anyone interested should google Greg Lehey. He was the guy that practically coined the phrase, "Free as in Beer." He has been using FreeBSD to assist in beer brewing for many years!
Now this is perhaps the best possible solution that I have heard! The solution is unlikely but it would work miraculously. Rendering not guilty verdicts for certain vice and victimless crimes will really put the system to a test. If everyone agreed to do this, not even voir dire would weed out jurors sympathetic to the prosecution. In fact, the policing system in America would be upended and we would see rights return to the people. Police won't enforce crimes where their actions will result in a not guilty verdict. Much of the crimes code would, in effect, be decriminalized.
Some might trade, but the homeless person will find it hard to escape. Homeless folks are limited to where to escape. Police love to improve their arrest record.
In this case, police may be more likely to leave the homeless person alone. Ostensibly, the project has worked with the police and city government to explain the details and the roles of the individuals. Education of the police will prevent such activities. Unfortunately, the police do have a sordid history of "kicking" the homeless while they are down but this can be avoided if the project involved in the outreach educates all facets of society to make this a success.
And why wouldnt these homeless folk try to immediately cash in, sell or trade the hotspot device for money or a nice bottle? They are $100+ devices, nevermind 4g service for a day or so.
There may be a few that engage in this kind of behavior but I'll wager that most will be honest because they are given a ray of hope in a hopeless situation. Rather than just recieving money, they are given a personal stake in their own rise out of poverty and homelessness. When an individual is given the opportunity to not only rise out of the misery of homelessness but have a stake in their own success, said individual is likely to exhibit quite a bit of integrity.
It's basically an updated version of the street newspapers that homeless people have been selling for decades. Micro-business like this can be the first step and getting out of poverty.
This is actually an excellent idea! It could be even better if it were implemented in such a way that the homeless person could eventually become their own independent business owner. It is news like this that we need to hear more often and it is very uplifting to read on a Monday morning. What if the homeless person could eventually raise enough money to buy the device and a kind of franchise right to do business as x? I disagree with using the term charity here. Charity is simply a free gift without any commitment in return. Ideas like these encourage commitment and integrity which the homless person needs to exhibit! The next step is to let them earn the money to purchase the device and become an independent business owner. This can also spur other forms of creativity on the part of the people vending the service like ways to power the devices and maybe design a rolling portable table where people can sit down for a bit. The possibilities are many
Other than the basic tennents that we agree are fundamental crimes like theft, robbery, and murder a lot of the other behaviors that were criminalized were done in the interest of controlling the poor. The foundation of the anti-drug laws in America were all about fear of the poor, immigrant labor. Opium was originally outlawed simply because of the Chinese labor building the Union Pacific Railroad. Since more and more behavior is becoming criminalized and there is greater pressure on police to make arrests, we need ways of keeping government honest. The video as a standard of truth then becomes increasingly imporant in guarding a person's civil rights.
The entire concept of what consitutes bribery is very hypocritical. It seems to be who you're connections are and how much money you have. It was the famous Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky that once said, "Money talks and bullshit walks!"
My own 0.02 suggests that Big Pharma probably isn't completely blind to some of the problems behind sleeping medications. Addiction side effects no withstanding, there are thoughts that these medications could have diliterious effects on the brain's neurochemistry. The trouble with Big Pharma is that it has little or no interest in curing disease because there is no profit in it. The profit is in long term symptom mitigation and sleep medications are simply just that - mitigations. Sleep needs to be more throroughly researched, specifically in the areas of cellular repair which happens during said event. Maybe the cure is really diet, exercise, and learning techniques for stress control. Since starting Yoga, I've found I am naturally sleeping better.
Has done the world quite a service by exposing these secrets of what is misbehavior by governments. He hasn't really done anything that could put the lives of anyone in jeopardy. On the other hand, he has put some career politicians and bureaucrats in jeopardy of losing their freedom and they deserve it too. This man should be given a pulitzer or nobel prize for his work. He and his team's work have exposed the lies told by governments and it is high time the public really knows what misdeed their officials are up to. If Obama really didn't want to deliver transparency to the government, Assange will hold him to that campaign promise.
It is posturing only. There is freedom to conduct research as seen fit. If I got a letter like that I would politely wipe my ass with it and return it certified mail.
This will NOT be a way to improve instruction. Ultimately, this will be a way to violate an umpteen number of privacy laws. I smell a lawsuit coming which will end of further detracting from the goals at hand. Improving instructtion begins with improving the quality of instructional material available to the teacher and deeper analysis of "teaching teachers how to teach." The entire model is broken. It is not only a matter of a teacher learning to address the needs of multiple learning styles, but a learning how to motivate and inspire without using fear of failure. A teacher that can inspire a student to learn is far more effective because the student will then want to learn. A student that genuinely wants to learn will create that opportunity and realize it.
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One could draw the conclusion that Europe is sick of the attempts by the United States at hegemony and is outrightly rejecting ACTA in a way of forcing the United States to legislate its own backyard only. However, SOPA and PIPA have failed miserably and the sue for profit outfit Righthaven was dealt a swift and severe hand of defeat. In fact, they effectively no longer exist. Think of the companies that lost a lot of money due to that scheme. They probably lost more money paying Righthaven for its legal services than they might have lost through perceived copyright violation.
Good idea but it may be impractical because the school (much like corporations) might have a policy forbiding outside equipment from connecting to the network. There might be policies in place preventing the non-school issued laptop from being even able to obtain an IP address inside of the network.
According to the article, the student was at home when he tweeted. The school just put him on a watch list because he used twitter once or twice on a school network. This does not grant the school the right to spy on him after hours. My guess is the courts are going to get involved and whomever was involved in the expulsion will have their hands slapped and this extra spying system taken down. The bottom line is, as a society, we live in WAY too much fear. Since we live in fear, we look to governing bodies to grant us freedom from this fear and in turn give up liberties. We have to realize that much of this fear is HIGHLY irrational.
Where are the Spaceballs when we need them? Mega-maid will handle this!
I am finally glad that this sue for profit scheme has completely unraveled. This should put some waves of fear into the likes of RIAA and MPAA to make certain they have absolutely valid claims before they try to strong arm people. I love it! This is so funny as to be better than Andrew Dice Clay!
I guess the DoD should finally retire Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, huh? LOL!
It is kinda cool that they found a way to eliminate the sonic boom, however the concept is ugly. Plus, I don't think there is much interest in super sonic aircraft as they tend to be very thirsty and oil is not inexpensive.
Why not find a deserted or uninhabited Island in the Pacific and simply build a low cost, low power data center there. If you use processors like ARM or Atom that don't require additional cooling, you could probably engineer and build something to withstand the climate and you can make use of abundant sunshine for power with a battery backup of marine deep cycle batteries. Add a satellite uplink to the internet and the problem (in theory, at least) is solved. Placing servers on an airborne platform is certainly not without risk. You have extreme conditions of wind, cold, and varying temperatures. Finally, how do you keep the servers up there as what goes up must and eventually will, come down. Helium is infeasible as a lighter than air medium, hydrogen could work. You also have the technical difficulty of keeping it in an orbit that is over international waters. While an interesting engineering challenge, it would make more sense to build a datacenter on an uninhabited island in international waters.
AT&T just needs to clearly indicate that you get X gigs of data at 4G or 3G speeds, then anything after that is subject to lower speeds.
You don't have a "right" to unlimited data, sorry. The only issue I see is AT&T hasn't been clear with how it works.
I think that unlimited needs to mean truly unlimited or face false advertising penalties from the FTC. Let's just state what the hard upper limits are and be truthful in advertising. All of the cellular telecom companies have mudied these waters enough and there is no harm by just calling it what it is. It has become a war of words between companies when in actuality they are all equally poor.
Given the current political climate, this is a good idea gone incredibly wrong. If you come too close to law enforcement with something resembling a rifle, be prepared to be in a very sticky situation. These days even "toy" guns can get you in a ton of trouble. Cops' trigger fingers seem even itchier than ever.
Both governments got pwned by industry and it is a sorry shame!
These days there appears to be very little difference between the US Government and The Terrorists. The US Government just puts everyone in fear of even the remotest possibility of copyright infringement. I remember when that wasn't criminal but a civil offense. America cannot really call itself "The Land of the Free" anymore.
I find it interesting that the State of Arizona tore out its speed cameras as they actually were costing more money than they were generating in revenue and traffic collisions actually went up. Don't you believe that Traffic Safety Coalition as it stinks to high heaven of lobby group. Even some municipalities removed the cameras as they served no purpose whatsoever. The statistics are that 2/3s of all tickets issued by these systems have to be thrown out for one reason or another.
Anyone interested should google Greg Lehey. He was the guy that practically coined the phrase, "Free as in Beer." He has been using FreeBSD to assist in beer brewing for many years!
Not only demands for Jury Trials -
Occupy should start the Nullify movement - E.G. if you are on a jury refuse to return a guilty verdict for victimless BS charges.
It is your right and DUTY to judge not only guilt or innocence but also the merit of the law itself. Fully Informed Jury Association -
http://fija.org/
Now this is perhaps the best possible solution that I have heard! The solution is unlikely but it would work miraculously. Rendering not guilty verdicts for certain vice and victimless crimes will really put the system to a test. If everyone agreed to do this, not even voir dire would weed out jurors sympathetic to the prosecution. In fact, the policing system in America would be upended and we would see rights return to the people. Police won't enforce crimes where their actions will result in a not guilty verdict. Much of the crimes code would, in effect, be decriminalized.
Some might trade, but the homeless person will find it hard to escape. Homeless folks are limited to where to escape. Police love to improve their arrest record.
In this case, police may be more likely to leave the homeless person alone. Ostensibly, the project has worked with the police and city government to explain the details and the roles of the individuals. Education of the police will prevent such activities. Unfortunately, the police do have a sordid history of "kicking" the homeless while they are down but this can be avoided if the project involved in the outreach educates all facets of society to make this a success.
And why wouldnt these homeless folk try to immediately cash in, sell or trade the hotspot device for money or a nice bottle? They are $100+ devices, nevermind 4g service for a day or so.
There may be a few that engage in this kind of behavior but I'll wager that most will be honest because they are given a ray of hope in a hopeless situation. Rather than just recieving money, they are given a personal stake in their own rise out of poverty and homelessness. When an individual is given the opportunity to not only rise out of the misery of homelessness but have a stake in their own success, said individual is likely to exhibit quite a bit of integrity.
It's basically an updated version of the street newspapers that homeless people have been selling for decades. Micro-business like this can be the first step and getting out of poverty.
This is actually an excellent idea! It could be even better if it were implemented in such a way that the homeless person could eventually become their own independent business owner. It is news like this that we need to hear more often and it is very uplifting to read on a Monday morning. What if the homeless person could eventually raise enough money to buy the device and a kind of franchise right to do business as x? I disagree with using the term charity here. Charity is simply a free gift without any commitment in return. Ideas like these encourage commitment and integrity which the homless person needs to exhibit! The next step is to let them earn the money to purchase the device and become an independent business owner. This can also spur other forms of creativity on the part of the people vending the service like ways to power the devices and maybe design a rolling portable table where people can sit down for a bit. The possibilities are many
Other than the basic tennents that we agree are fundamental crimes like theft, robbery, and murder a lot of the other behaviors that were criminalized were done in the interest of controlling the poor. The foundation of the anti-drug laws in America were all about fear of the poor, immigrant labor. Opium was originally outlawed simply because of the Chinese labor building the Union Pacific Railroad. Since more and more behavior is becoming criminalized and there is greater pressure on police to make arrests, we need ways of keeping government honest. The video as a standard of truth then becomes increasingly imporant in guarding a person's civil rights.
The entire concept of what consitutes bribery is very hypocritical. It seems to be who you're connections are and how much money you have. It was the famous Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky that once said, "Money talks and bullshit walks!"
My own 0.02 suggests that Big Pharma probably isn't completely blind to some of the problems behind sleeping medications. Addiction side effects no withstanding, there are thoughts that these medications could have diliterious effects on the brain's neurochemistry. The trouble with Big Pharma is that it has little or no interest in curing disease because there is no profit in it. The profit is in long term symptom mitigation and sleep medications are simply just that - mitigations. Sleep needs to be more throroughly researched, specifically in the areas of cellular repair which happens during said event. Maybe the cure is really diet, exercise, and learning techniques for stress control. Since starting Yoga, I've found I am naturally sleeping better.
As a democrat I cast my vote for Ron Paul. I know he doesn't stand much of chance but I am hopeful!
Has done the world quite a service by exposing these secrets of what is misbehavior by governments. He hasn't really done anything that could put the lives of anyone in jeopardy. On the other hand, he has put some career politicians and bureaucrats in jeopardy of losing their freedom and they deserve it too. This man should be given a pulitzer or nobel prize for his work. He and his team's work have exposed the lies told by governments and it is high time the public really knows what misdeed their officials are up to. If Obama really didn't want to deliver transparency to the government, Assange will hold him to that campaign promise.
It is posturing only. There is freedom to conduct research as seen fit. If I got a letter like that I would politely wipe my ass with it and return it certified mail.
This will NOT be a way to improve instruction. Ultimately, this will be a way to violate an umpteen number of privacy laws. I smell a lawsuit coming which will end of further detracting from the goals at hand. Improving instructtion begins with improving the quality of instructional material available to the teacher and deeper analysis of "teaching teachers how to teach." The entire model is broken. It is not only a matter of a teacher learning to address the needs of multiple learning styles, but a learning how to motivate and inspire without using fear of failure. A teacher that can inspire a student to learn is far more effective because the student will then want to learn. A student that genuinely wants to learn will create that opportunity and realize it.