Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
And NOT give them to anyone who wants them because they have a cold or the flu. Those uses did a lot of damage in creating drug resistance before feed lots starting feeding them to every cow regardless if it was sick or not.
I guess it's tough to regulate "common sense" when someone is sitting in the doctor's office with a bad cold and demanding to be given something for it... usually by the name of the drug.
I guess one would need to figure out how much of the spectrum bill is a part of every users' cell bill.. if the difference isn't all that much, is it worth it to need two phones or a dual SIM phone. I would think a dual SIM phone would need two RX/TX systems and antennas for the different frequency ranges.
That's always been an interesting concept. But if we assume that life started an progressed on both planets at the same time, then they're about 400 years behind us at a least as far as the radio signals getting here. And vice versa. A bit of time lag..
Solve the time lag and the sensitivity for artificial radio waves then the searches can begin in earnest.
companies shake up the board room and senior management for "equality". Until then, it's just PR and lip service and will probably cause a lot of the best candidates for a given job to look someplace else.
And while I'm not buying things... El Reg.. your headline was pure a pure and simple racist one. No where in the selected quotes did the CEO of Intel mention anything other than making it a "fair mix of men and women of all colors " The only time I read or heard "black" in the story and links was in your headline. Talk about feeding the frenzy... sheeeeshhhh.....
I would think that his position in the government should have been a factor in this in spite of what his lawyer thinks. When one is in an office of trust as he was, he should have got a life sentence even if everyone else just got a slap on the wrist. And hopefully his time won't be served in the Danbury Country Club.
Yes, it pisses me off no end for government types to get a gentle admonishment, some time in Danbury, and then back to a normal life. They should be held to a higher standard.
I've noticed a similar trend here in the States that seems have floated over to you guys.. An election is not about electing the best person, it's about blame with lots of promises and no solutions:
1) find a problem.
2) point the finger and affix the blame.
3) Never offer a thoughtful solution
4) Goto 1 and repeat until elected.
Maybe the key is not a law for this since there's a problem of culture, jurisdiction, etc. Perhaps the providers of services should step up and enforce their TOS uniformly and evenly across the board. FB, for example, has NOT been doing this if reports are to be believed, in that sometimes they take action, other times they don't for the same violations. If the corporations are held culpable (maybe not by law but by their users) for their inaction, then things might change. Social media is still voluntary in spite of the social pressures to use it. If people abandon one media then the remainder should learn the lesson.
Everyone expects "laws" to fix the wrongs in the world, but I believe the problem is deeper than "laws". It's the way modern societies in general seem to allow many bad behaviors with few consequences. No one takes responsibility for their actions as they have been taught "it's someone else's fault".
</rant> I realize I'm in the minority but laws have never stopped anyone from breaking them.
Maybe it's not about funding. A mile wide swath with penetration of only a few inches. That just tells you where it's rained recently if it passes over that area. If I read the link correctly, it makes no mention of how much terrain will be covered in one orbit. Will it take multiple orbits to cover the whole planet? But there's the last sentence in the article about gathering data on the carbon cycles of Earth's vegetation that caught my attention. I don't think that instrumentation would be aboard for a flight somewhere else at this point. I do wonder what else it can "see" with that sensitivity or is it doing something in studying climate change?
The article and link raise more questions than the answers they give. No tin foil hat here, just curious.
I know the law's an ass, but it can't be that much of an ass.
It depends.. Kim Jong Un would just declare your page an act of war. The Saudis and certain others would deem you an infidel and issue a fatwah for your death. The 5-eyes might start jockeying for position on your extradition. I'm not sure what Putin would do.... put his shirt on maybe?
Seriously... many countries are expecting a website not in their country to follow their laws. Look at what they want to do for taxing purposes.
Being investor driven, they've failed miserably at their business. Yes, they should have taken profits from the good times and used that to do upgrades or put it away for future upgrades. Investors won't let them do that.
Then there's "price point" and what the customer needs/wants. Everyone who makes decisions in this industry fails to see that when the Telco bill hits a certain point, they're dropping services. "Need" suddenly becomes a priority as opposed to "want". Sure, junior wants streaming videos on his smartphone. Those who foot that bill at some point wake up and wonder why they're paying that much money for this service. Enough of them do that, and there's a dip in revenues.
Monopolies live in their own world where they expect customers to pay whatever they want to charge. Seems that they have forgot about how a customer sees it.
Maybe to hit the power "off" switch and shut down the grid... oh wait. That will take down FB and then there will be: "a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Have an upvote. You've hit it dead on. The US and for the most part, the rest of the world overlooks their beliefs and the results of that belief. Last I heard, public stoning and beheadings still happen for crimes the rest of us "civilized" folk would merely raise an eyebrow over.
To expand a bit:
If one looks at the history and the religious branch they hang from, this is same branch that the current ISIS hangs from. There's a lot of entanglement there being that while the Saudis are considered extremely conservative, the off shoot branch is even moreso and from the same roots.
So what's ethical in the way of "hacking", what's "smut", etc. isn't based on anything most of us would understand. Their reasoning is based solely on their religious beliefs. The mere fact they haven't blocked much the rest of the world at their borders is amazing in one way, but given the nature of what they believe, all us infidels are ripe for plundering, conversion, and at some point, beheading.
So much of the turmoil in the Middle East is a result of the Saudis using their money to spread their conservative religious beliefs. Study the history of Wahhabism and it will give a clue. A good start is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism.
One of the biggest factors on the health care clustertruck that is the USA is "political correctness".
Obesity is a "disability" thrust upon it's victims, right? Smoking is "self-inflicted". Yet, one of our former board members (health insurance company), as a doctor and an actuarial, tried repeatedly to point out that smokers should NOT be penalized. They maybe should be encouraged. They smoke, they get cancer or something equally bad and die. Money wise from the insurance company... a winner. Obese people tend to get diabetes and heart issues with drugs, surgeries, recoveries, more of the same over and over (even transplants) until they die... a money loser.
In the offices, the smokers were constantly badgered by... the fat ones. Yet they were worst insurance risk for health care. As a smoker, I'll take my cigs and stogies and face my doom. It's far better than heart surgeries, amputations starting at toes and nibbling upwards, kidney transplants, etc. until the end.
The Department of Labor Statistics requires them for some political correctness agenda. Yet, there's no verification, no testing, no validation. All the questionnaires have to voluntarily answered. If you don't answer the question, it goes into the "other" category. And as many here have attested, people lie on these things.
There's still a question on many of these forms about military service. Most Vietnam Vets ignore it because of the backlash we had after coming home. Half the employers thought we all were drug crazed maniacs and the other half thought we were all stressed out and ready kill everyone around us do to the press and television drama shows at the time (Mannix? Rockford Files? etc.)
Meaningless they are and meaningless they shall be. I put down "alien - undocumented from Vulcan". on my forms. And no one ever bats an eye or questions it.
I say "WTF"? We've seen no evidence other than one agency's word. Heard zip from NSA or CIA who ought to know. And now more "sanctions"? I'm wondering who and what is all behind this especially since the Norks said they're sitting down for some discussions with the US and the Southern Korea. I'm sensing it's a power struggle or game. Much like the never-ending discussions over the size and shape of the conference table that the North Vietnamese and Americans had way back when. More smoke and mirrors, I presume.
You're right about the opportunity. But you're also right about the monopoly aspect. As long as they can keep their contracts enforced with the municipalities and the FCC or courts do nothing to overturn them, they get to keep the monopoly. Seems that a couple of contracts I've seen were made back in the Cable TV only days and were for something like 50 years. There was a small town I lived in where it was for 99 years.
The Washington Post cited an unnamed source within the regulator in reporting that chairman Tom Wheeler wants his fellow commissioners to approve his proposed "Open Internet" rules.
His proposed rules? Was there even discussion amongst the commissioners? Or is Tom's word gospel? I guess his rules will be those wanted by the group with the largest lobby*?
*Lobby = most money, gifts, job package after his term is over, etc.
Well, there's the late Nigerian mogul who's widow was trying transfer funds but needed some front money for paperwork, etc... so the kind folks who ran Mt Gox decided to help her out at the behest of some of those who put their Bitcoins there. Or maybe someone just clicked an emailed link to naked pictures of some celebrity bimbo while running a browser from a server..
OK.. to answer your question: the amount is limited only by the number of those living who have a connected computer. It's probably somewhat less than that amount but we have to deduct for a number of IT people.
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I guess there's a chance it was them and their early "send us money" was out of a need to by Great Leader a new car or something.....
Color me still skeptical and wondering if Obama is trying show he's tougher in the White House than on the golf course.
There wasn 't the technology for kids to get into trouble with. It's given a power far greater than what we as kids had for geting into mischief. Also, many parents seem to have abdicated responsibility for raising their young and thus don't teach them ethics, morality, etc.
Let's consider that we all got into trouble but not this severe. Back then the equivalent would have been breaking and entering a business and doing damage. Some kids did, but most didn't.
Should these lads do hard time? Maybe the parents should also? I wouldn't had a kid a hunting rifle and tell him to go get dinner from the woods without training and knowledge that he was responsible. But parents give kids computers and cars without the same sense of obligation and results are usually disastrous for someone.
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Much like ex-military, they'll have a deeper understanding, a bit more maturity and probably some skills that many may not have. If one is worried that they'll code in some backdoors, then don't hire them. If they have the skills needed and there's a bit of a trust issue, start them on a "simple" or well-monitored position and work from there.
How about learning to be a human being and respect for others?
Or, not fighting with the neighbors over "a view"? (or do I have the wrong guy on this?)
How about giving a damn for something besides yourself?
I could go on, but he's the archetypal CEO arsehole who really hasn't figured out this everyone else's rights/needs/wants are just as important as his own.
So if I read the patent app right, they need to put sensors, a processor, some RAM, and a receiver/transmitter as well as a power source into a stylus. Seems that it won't necessarily be better than one that's plugged into a device (computer, tablet, smartphone) with a cable. Because of the power source it might be rather unwieldy. What is interesting is that it will record or write on anything. Have they some sort of secret miniaturization of all these items that's not been touted yet?
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