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The documents DEMAND that the the press DESTROY SONY!

They have the loss of teeth and the development of the beak, but where did the gizzard develop? They would not have been able to loose their teeth and develop a beak without one, and birds are the only animal (That I know of) that has one.

Plus gizzards are great when fried. ;)

That would be different based on the city and state (US)

A friend drove a cab for years and around here that is not how it works. The cab company rents the cabs to the drivers at a set amount per day. The driver can accept jobs that come in across the computer but there will be a small handling charge that is built into the price per mile printed on the side of the cab and used in the meter. If they pick up some one who flags them down or some one who calls their Cell and requests a pickup then there is no handling charge.

The friend of mine that did it treated it like a small business. He had cards made with his cell on them and kept his car immaculately clean. After the first year 90% of his calls were from customers and word of mouth. He would also give discounts to his regulars. Really the discounts were nothing more than him deducting the handling fee from the printed cost.

Next time a manager points that out to you, ask them where it comes from. Oh look it comes from Accounting and they are a cost center as well. Oh and so is Marketing,

There are lot and lots of examples where IT was divided off the business and the department began billing all the other departments for the work preformed. In every one of those instances IT becomes one of the biggest profit centres in the company. It is amazing what happens when the IT department has to be paid for the services provided.

You IT security is only as good as your control of the hardware!

I dont care if it is Windows or Linux, if someone other than the company personal can get to the hardware they can access your system and all the data in it. When you outsource your services to a data center provider you are trusting there security, there hiring practices, and there employees. Ill tell you right now, having worked for several of the BIG data center providers, most of them dont do a background checks. I have worked with many that were felons and in three cases worked with people convicted of credit fraud as well as hacking.

How many CIO's/CTO's/etc ever investigate the data center provider to determine there hiring practices and who has access to the hardware they will be storing the virtual machines on?

IT people say is it insecure because we know that #1) the person making the decision does not understand technology and #2) s/he simply went with the lowest bidder.

I say head to the local federal magistrate and file charges under USC 18 > Part I Chapter 13 241

It seems to me they violated the 4th amendment and stopped her from exercising her first amendment rights.

Though it is a strech seeing as the woman was black she may also try to apply

USC 18 > Part I Chapter 13 242

IANAL so that is just my take on it.

To answer that question you just need to log into second life. The answer appears to be the size of a baseball bat.

You don't have to drive it, go to your local municipal airport. You can get a short flight like that for a little more than the airlines charge and if you get to know some of the pilots you can get the flight for the cost of the fuel. You can also ask around, I bet you know someone or someone who knows someone with a pilots license. You could even get your own and just rent the plane, it is not hard.

The small municipal airports dont have all the BS security, the flights tend to be shorter as there is no waiting in line. In most cases it is you and the pilot on the plane so no crowds. That's assuming you don't have an issue riding in a small prop plane.

Mine works as a music player, xbmc remote, and as a phone for $0 a month. Install csipsimple and it connects to my Astrix box anywhere there is a network. So my house, my work, my local bar, my local cigar shop, the local McDonalds, heck there is free wifi all over the place. The only place It does not work as a phone is in my car, but using your cell while driving is illegal here.

So they are trying to make a drone from a biological material?

Just 3d print it from PolyLactic acid, The stuff is made from corn and is biodegradable. On top of that it is only $18 a 2kg spool on ebay. :P

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

I did not read the article, I quit reading the IoT articles some time ago. Seems they all revolve around the wonderful new advertising and data collection methods that arise as people adopt the IoT.

The day my toaster tells me about the great new pop tarts I could be eating, is the day I take a large axe to it and give it a reprogramming it will never forget.

The simple fact is MOST people will ignore limits that re too low

I'm not sure if this is true or if it applies to MOST. I don't know where you live, but I am quite certain that where I live it doesn't work that way (fines ... few, not most can ignore those). Nonetheless, by raising the upper limit of speed, you'd further spread the difference of speeds of individual cars, i.e. those who go beyond limits and those who adhere, so I doubt you have a point here. Never mind, though, limits are and will remain arbitrary, and people will drive as fast as they see fit. People will die in traffic, no matter what we do. IMHO, raising speed limits will kill more people, but I might be wrong. Physics -- along with common sense -- saved my life quite a few times so far, so that might be something we both can agree to.