* Someone offends
* a ticket is issued, creating a deterrent
* fewer people offend afterwards
* fewer tickets are issued
What actually happens:
* someone offends
* a ticket is issued, creating a revenue stream
* fewer people offend afterwards
* In order to maintain the revenue stream, stricter interpretations of the law or misleading signage are used to generate more tickets
Actually, in the UK, they make all the cameras highly visible, but don't put film in all of them all of the time. Just having the flash go off is sufficient of a deterrent for most purposes. Up here in the |NE of Scotland, at least a couple of years ago, I'm told that fewer than one camera in three actually had film in it.
(This refers to cameras out in the countryside. The ones in the cities all have film all the time, as they are the real "cash cows".)
It seems like most people at the school district and the writers of the articles linked above don't understand how SETI@Home works, which seems to create an awful lot of confusion.
The article I saw said that "as well as running SETI@home he was also running some crazily-named software called 'BOINC'...", which showed that the person writing the article didn't have the remotest clue what they were writing about.
(For the terminally uninformed, "BOINC" is SETI@home, or at least the system that it works under, and has been for several years... You can run other projects under the BOINC system, such as protein folding, but it seems he was just doing SETI.)
The flaw here is that you would have to find someone willing to pay for her work. By insisting you put a cash value on it I suspect she has found the perfect way to stop her work being distributed. She may not be as dumb as she appears.
Yup. In 1999 I got a free dial-up internet connection that only worked if you gave up the bottom 20% of your screen to advertising.
I connected to dial-up with an old laptop that didn't have a screen and used "Internet Connection Sharing" to pass the bandwidth on to my main machine. Sorted. :-)
Yup. I guess the call from the top was a message on some lowly tech's answer machine from his boss's boss's boss saying "Do whatever it takes to make sure this never happens again; I don't want to be bothered with the trivia, just get it stopped."
"He'd have been buggered if he had it on vibrate only mode... :P"
Nah, he'd just have to be more patient - sit quietly until the seagulls all settled on the landfill, ring it and see where they all took off from suddenly.
"When I'm not watching it, there is no display at all because I actually turn the thing off."
Whereas, when I'm not watching mine it's because I'm using it to play a radio channel. If there was a separate off-switch for the picture I would use it, but failing that, this is a reasonable compromise so long as it doesn't kill the sound.
It was really amusing to watch him squirm recently when he was being interviewed by Katherine Curtis on "Naked News". He stood up through the whole interview wearing an ankle-length coat, under what I assume were *very* hot lights, while trying to maintain eye contact with her and not let his gaze drift downwards. Priceless.
Everyone seems to be assuming that the copying of the data to the USB drive is an overhead only in the case of the pigeon. No-one has considered that the end product may have been intended to be put on the USB drive from the outset, in which case you need to add the time to copy onto the broadband stats.
"Last year my school was considering switching to Kindles for all textbooks. Administrators liked the idea, but the techies on the committee convinced the administration to stay out of the market for now."
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* Someone offends
* a ticket is issued, creating a deterrent
* fewer people offend afterwards
* fewer tickets are issued
What actually happens:
* someone offends
* a ticket is issued, creating a revenue stream
* fewer people offend afterwards
* In order to maintain the revenue stream, stricter interpretations of the law or misleading signage are used to generate more tickets
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(This refers to cameras out in the countryside. The ones in the cities all have film all the time, as they are the real "cash cows".)
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Not just cameras. (Ask Rodney King!)
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Kentucky Fried Chicken and Coca Cola will have certainly tried.
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(For the terminally uninformed, "BOINC" is SETI@home, or at least the system that it works under, and has been for several years... You can run other projects under the BOINC system, such as protein folding, but it seems he was just doing SETI.)
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I connected to dial-up with an old laptop that didn't have a screen and used "Internet Connection Sharing" to pass the bandwidth on to my main machine. Sorted. :-)
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Nah, he'd just have to be more patient - sit quietly until the seagulls all settled on the landfill, ring it and see where they all took off from suddenly.
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Whereas, when I'm not watching mine it's because I'm using it to play a radio channel. If there was a separate off-switch for the picture I would use it, but failing that, this is a reasonable compromise so long as it doesn't kill the sound.
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Two words. "Team America". Awesome.
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More likely she ripped them from CDs.
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Not worth a book, but...
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fogbuzd, point your techies at this link:
http://www.jinke.com.cn/Compagesql/English/embedpro/prodetail.asp?id=42
I'm pretty sure they'll do a decent quantity discount.
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Be fair, it's not the only reason.
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