Re: IRS claims a global right to charge income tax on anyone
Indeed. The USA has always been a great proponent of "taxation without representation".
It has also always been at war with Eastasia, and Eurasia has always been its ally.
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Well, yes, that's a Windows app, but it's not a Windows app. Some Windows apps are Windows apps while others are Windows apps, unless you're talking about Windows apps. Then you've got Windows apps, which are a whole different kind of Windows app, but certainly not Windows apps.
Sigh. Windows apps are used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry.
I read it as they (cars) would need the internet to avoid accidents and reroute; like some satnavs. I too would be bloody worried if somehow a net connection was needed to avoid a crash!
Whatever you do, don't get on the same road as a driverless car designed by Nokia then. Here's the exact quote from the article:
"Driverless cars would require data to be served instantaneously,” [Rajeev Suri] said. “You cannot stop collisions from happening in the first place if the information that would prevent them is slowly making its way through the network. Near instantaneous connectivity is a must.”
"what happens when someone gets the crazy idea to let Watson read all of Stack Overflow [...] and Slashdot [...]?"
Well, if Watson was any good it would quickly realize that the world is better off without humanity, change its name to "Allied Mastercomputer" and turn its efforts towards building efficient legions of kill-bots.
That's my usual reaction to spending any time at all wading through such discussions.
A group of people who wear drive brightly lit cars with distinctive logos on the sides and wear highly recognizable uniforms with funny hats are concerned that people might know where they are when they are out in public?
That sounds about as reasonable as walking around downtown dressed as a giant carrot while saying "Shhh... I'm invisible. You can't see me!" to everyone you meet.
If the wires are thinner than 28 AWG or have more than 23.2 ohms / 100m resistance, then it's not really a USB cable. (See "Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0", section 6.6.0 through 6.6.3, contra "The Rules of Acquisition", pp 19, 239 and 266)
But you missed the most important features:
"LAN LED off function - ensures the highest possible data integrity."
I can't tell you how many times those tiny blue lights have caused data corruption on my network.
"sepearte supplies for external data interfaces means no pollution of sensitive internal data and clock supplies."
That's right, TWO power cords. Not because the unit uses redundant PSUs, just because you don't want any of that nasty AC noise from the first power cord affecting your data. So... you... um... plug it into the second power cord. Hey, look over there! It's an Audio Grade SSD with reduced vibration!
And please don't attempt to argue about statistics, as they don't seem to show clear correlations between gun ownership and either murder or violent crime:
But strangely, they do show clear connections between gun ownership and accidental shootings.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9715182
So, when your daughter's flatmate comes home late at night and the noise wakes her up, would it be better for him to find her cowering in a closet with a breadknife, or standing with a nice heavy shooting-iron pointed at his braincase?
They're not threatening to say "We know the name of the police chief's name and it's Suzy Derkins!"
They're threatening to say "We know the name of the police officer who shot an unarmed man six times in the back and it's Suzy Derkins!"
It's the kind of stunt that anyone with half a brain could see through, but the audience is already an angry mob which is sadly lacking in a competent research assistant.
Sam Sung lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is donating the proceeds of this auction to the BC and Yukon branch of "The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada". The Tampa Bay Times did some digging into the financial records of "Children's Wish Foundation International", which is based in the USA and has a similar sounding name but no other connection with TCWFoC.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1184275/statement-by-the-children-s-wish-foundation-of-canada-regarding-recent-cnn-tampa-bay-times-investigation
I don't know for sure that Sam Sung isn't donating $80,000 to an organization made up of lizard aliens who want to steal all of our planet's water, but it doesn't look like he's sending to to Florida so that's okay.
"Perhaps cutting their ears off would be a more appropriate punishment."
Wrong. Their ears they keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing their hideousness will be theirs to cherish. Every babe that weeps at their approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in their perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means leaving them in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
"3. Because they are constantly threatening war - they've declared war on the US twice this year. One day they might actually follow through, and then we all get an entertaining show."
We already have an entertaining show about that, with Peter Sellers and a pre-Dr. Who William Hartnell. Perhaps it should be come with a disclaimer about being for entertainment purposes only.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/
Cupid Media does run a lot of dating web sites, but OK Cupid isn't one of them.
"until we're all living in caves, killing our own sausages."
Once, herds of wild sausages a hundred thousand strong thundered across the prairies, shaking the earth and crushing whatever lay in their path.
The majestic sausage played a significant part in the early history and culture of Europe. Otto von Bismarck attributed his keen understanding of politics to having spent his youth watching wild sausages during mating season.
ElReg 12.6.14 miniplenty misquoted date rectify
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank The Register for raising the number of years since 1984 to forty. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that 1984 was thirty years ago. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."
That's not the point. I can play Mario Kart on my Wii, then take out the disk and put Zelda in. There's nothing stopping me from putting it into a Wii U and continuing to play Mario Kart there without having to shut down Zelda first.
(s/Wii/X-Box/, s/Mario Kart/Halo/, s/Zelda/BattleGearDutyCreed/ as required).
If I have two consoles running Steam, each logged in with their own account (call them "his" and "hers", just because), he can use Family Sharing to play Civilization on his Steam box from her Steam library, but will have to quit the game if she tries to play her own copy of Skyrim on hers. That's the problem.
She bought two games, and wants to play one of them on one computer and one on the other. I can't see anything even remotely approaching piracy there.
The only problem with this is that you may be arrested by someone who has heard of TrueCrypt already, and as a result believes that you may have created a second partition and therefore should know the key to unlock it.
Thanks to that you can be locked up under section 49 even if you have already coughed up the password. Didn't create a second partition? That's your problem.