http://masamania.com/archives/2004/09/japanese_busine.html
http://masamania.com/archives/2004/09/japanese_busine.html
http://masamania.com/archives/2004/09/japanese_busine.html
About I-Robot:
“The legalistic loophole in the movie is of a low order by Asimovian standards. The legalistic loophole in a typical Asimov story is kind of the same, but only the way that an Agatha Christie mystery is kind of the same as an episode of Scooby-Doo.”
http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/
http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/
http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/
1. Dropped the mobile on the ground.
2. Squeezed the cellphone in tight jeans/pockets.
3. Used the handset in the rain.
4. Throw the device on the ground in rage.
5. The dog/child got hold of the mobile.
6. Dropped the cellphone in the toilette.
7. Dropped the handset into the sea.
8. Forgot the cellphone on the roof of the car.
9. Perspiration on the mobile during workout.
10. Dropped the handset in the snow.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/11367.shtml
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/11367.shtml
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/11367.shtml
(Via The New York Times)
Say that an I.R.S. agent leaks a politician’s income tax return to a newspaper reporter, an act that is a federal felony. The newspaper may have a First Amendment right to publish the information, especially since it bears on a matter of public interest. The government, meanwhile, is entitled to punish the agent, to protect citizens’ privacy and ensure a fair and efficient tax system.
To punish the agent, prosecutors may need to get the leaker’s name from the reporter; but if the reporter refuses to testify because of a “journalist’s privilege” to protect confidential sources, the agent may never be caught. Such a pattern is evident in the Valerie Plame matter, where an independent prosecutor is trying to learn who leaked the name of Ms. Plame, a C.I.A. operative, to the press. Uncooperative journalists, including those at The Times, may face jail.
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My so called life* 