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Mac OSX (only available on Apple hardware, Apple openly sues you for building hackintoshes).

Though I agree completely with the majority of your post, this particular fact is in error. IIRC, Apple will only sue you if you build hackintoshes and then sell them (ie, Psystar). There are some great hackintosh build-it-yourself sites like my favorite [1]. None of these sites nor any individual has been sued or had C&Ds against them.

[1] http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/

Federal tax rates 55' - 07'

The problem is not that taxes are too high OR too low, its that they're too high for the low earners, and too low for the high earners.

You can use Android without Google. Two examples from a Google search: http://9to5google.com/2011/09/21/eric-schmidt-its-possible-to-use-android-without-google-search/ http://arcriley.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-android-without-google-part-1.html

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

One of my best friends is a real gearhead. Sports suspension, turbo, etc. His car is always a blast to drive or be a passenger in. Sure, he is absolutely capable of driving at a steady pace and maintaining fuel economy (which he does at work nearly every day), but when he's on his own time after a 12 hour shift that isn't really something he wants to do.

I think too many cars nowadays have forgotten what "style" means. This is a nice looking car, but it is nowhere near as good looking as its predecessor.

mikejuk asked "Is this just a reaction to the Stanford experiment in running courses?"
There are significant differences -- MIT's courses are geared to self study while Stanford's are tied to the on-campus class and schedule. MIT is also developing an open source delivery platform and certification will be done for a small fee by an independent organization. See: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/12/mits-online-classes-will-be-different.html.

Not better, just dumber and with shinier toys.

Mac users have a lower IQ

If you were to take chunks of voice from non-copyright-covered works, yes:

http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2008/11/right-of-publicity-in-famous-voice.html

Hey my name is Wayne Wilson and I find ways to supplement income online. I came across a excellent blog called legal ways to make money online it shows you all the legal ways to make money on the internet.

Agreed.

To amplify this 'uncanny-valley' notion. The problem with the anthropomorphizing ('attitude') approach is that it lulls the user into thinking they are dealing with a very sophisticated (sentient) system. This fiction quickly disappears once the user runs requests that the AI quite obviously doesn't understand. At that point, the quirky personality becomes annoying (think Clippy), and the fact that it pretends to be as smart as a human, without actually being as smart as a human, makes the interface seem broken and comically insufficient.

The opposite approach, also seen in robotics and many other areas of AI (e.g. search), is to not pretend that the system is like a person. Instead, make it obvious that it is a machine, with a set input/output behavior. Users can then quickly learn how to best use this machine to accomplish tasks. If the shortcomings of the system are evident, users will not be surprised by them and will instead build these into their mental model of how the system works.

As a case study, consider the similar criticisms that have been made about Wolfram-Alpha (e.g. here): essentially, W|A is a highly sophisticated set of computation and relation engines. However it's all wrapped up inside an overly simplistic UI (a single text-entry box, without any obvious way to refine what you mean). This leads to people getting all kinds of unintended results, despite the fact that the system actually can perform the computation/analysis/lookup the user wants. It's just that there is no obvious way to tell it what lookup you meant. The overly-simplified UI implies to the user that the system will just 'figure out what you mean', but the fact is it fails to do that very frequently; the user becomes frustrated because they then have to mentally reverse-engineer W|A's parsing logic, trying to build a query that returns the kind of results they want.

In short, it's better to design a UI that is an honest reflection of the sophistication/power of the underlying technology. To do otherwise creates a bad user experience, because user expectations are not meant by available functionality.

For some reason /. hates Al Gore.

Al Gore is the Dems version of Dear Leader and is full of fail.

One of the most technically literate people in office.

Wonders why someone so technically literate had to fake his c02 experiment
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/18/replicating-al-gores-climate-101-video-experiment-shows-that-his-high-school-physics-could-never-work-as-advertised/

And of course we have his Jan 26th, 2006 'end of the world' prediction.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/10/al-gores-doomsday-countdown.html

http://www.barang-antik-antik.blogspot.com/ http://www.bisniscaribisnis.blogspot.com/

http://www.barang-antik-antik.blogspot.com/ http://www.bisniscaribisnis.blogspot.com/

I was just browsing some conservative blogs last night and I think you missed one of their actual responses.

Say they deserved it. For people who lived through Kent State, they can easily say these "radicals" are taunting the wrong people, threatening our society, and unaware that cops have itchy trigger fingers. Oh wah! Pepper spray? You're lucky they didn't shoot you. The soldier who got shot in the face with a tear gas canister? Should have seen that coming.

Source: some conservative submissive midwestern housewife http://boldcolor.blogspot.com/2011/12/mic-check.html

So, yeah. the really dangerous way to deal with violence at the OWS is to just accept your enemies as stupid and deserving of their fate. Acceptance and indifference...

Sky did not fall, Japan is not irradiated wasteland, Fallout is still just a game.

Tell that to my in-laws and the remaining residents of their once beautiful (My Neighbor Totoro-esque) farming town. It's 35km from the plant, all the people under 50 years old have moved away to prevent long-term health risks. The only government assistance they have received is a geiger counter reading of their homes to tell them which corners to avoid extended exposure to for their own safety even though they are 5km within the evacuation zone. They can't sell any of their produce, they don't have any job opportunities, can't afford to relocate, so all they can do is live off their own irradiated land at their own risk while mother nature reclaims the surrounding centuries-old homes, temples, and cemeteries around them.

Radiation Map They live in the Eastern part of Kawamata where the orange, yellow and green meet up.

I'm a little disappointed that the submitter linked the Gizmag article instead of the original blog post

Normally we get fully irate when they link some blog post rather than a news article :-)

The Theora folks could do Theora as well that way.

No, the only codecs supported by IE9 are WebM and H.264. You can, however, shoehorn Theora support into IE with an Active X control:

http://cristianadam.blogspot.com/2011/01/activex-controls.html

I agree with the sentiment of your post but I feel I should point out that the popular account of Kitty Genovese's death is based on the police department's version of events. It turns out some of those witnesses actually did call the police http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2007/10/truth-behind-story-of-kitty-genovese.html and the police kind of botched it.

Hi Slashdot! I updated my Blogger/G+ profile to link back to my Slashdot ID, so you can see this is actually me.

I'm a little disappointed that the submitter linked the Gizmag article instead of the original blog post -- I think a lot of Slashdotters would have found that more interesting, for some of the technical details. Although, even that post is pretty light on details. I'm working on writing a more in-depth description of how I manage the machines. In short: Hooray for PXE boot, iSCSI, and LVM snapshots.

You'd also be interested to know that I ran several successful LAN parties with all the gaming machines running Ubuntu Linux and WINE. I'd estimate 70% of games worked well (although often not perfect) with this configuration. Sadly, I have recently given in and installed Windows, though the server machine obviously still runs Linux.

Here are some pictures of the server room, which Slashdot inexplicably won't let me link as HTML: http://goo.gl/BgFpT

Here is the back-story behind how I ended up with this house.

As I said, I'll be writing some more blog posts soon with full gory technical details. I'll try submitting them as a new story when they're ready, but you can also subscribe to the blog or follow me on G+ if you're interested.

Hi Slashdot! I updated my Blogger/G+ profile to link back to my Slashdot ID, so you can see this is actually me.

I'm a little disappointed that the submitter linked the Gizmag article instead of the original blog post -- I think a lot of Slashdotters would have found that more interesting, for some of the technical details. Although, even that post is pretty light on details. I'm working on writing a more in-depth description of how I manage the machines. In short: Hooray for PXE boot, iSCSI, and LVM snapshots.

You'd also be interested to know that I ran several successful LAN parties with all the gaming machines running Ubuntu Linux and WINE. I'd estimate 70% of games worked well (although often not perfect) with this configuration. Sadly, I have recently given in and installed Windows, though the server machine obviously still runs Linux.

Here are some pictures of the server room, which Slashdot inexplicably won't let me link as HTML: http://goo.gl/BgFpT

Here is the back-story behind how I ended up with this house.

As I said, I'll be writing some more blog posts soon with full gory technical details. I'll try submitting them as a new story when they're ready, but you can also subscribe to the blog or follow me on G+ if you're interested.

Well, it was expensive, but not very much more expensive than any other house. The cost of the computers was small compared to the cost of the house.

Here's the back story, if you're interested.

I really wish the Slashdot submitter had linked directly to the original blog post rather than the Gizmag article. It goes into a bit more detail on the configuration of the systems, which I think would interest Slashdotters in particular. (Though I still need to write a longer blog post about this.)

All the system netboot off the same disk image. Or rather, LVM snapshots of that image. Each machine gets its own snapshot, so guests can modify it to their heart's content. At the end of the night, I just delete the snapshot and make a new one. When I need to update the machines, I boot one machine against the master image and update that, then remake all the snapshots.

So, it doesn't matter what the guests do to the machines, because they aren't modifying the master image.

It's not in the OP, but the engineer provides more information in his blog post.

Instead, the machines boot off the network. A server machine hosts a master disk which is shared by all the game machines. Machines can boot up in two modes:

Master mode: The machine reads from and writes to the master image directly.
Replica mode: The machine uses its local storage (60GB SSD) as a copy-on-write overlay. So, initially, the machine sees the disk

image as being exactly the same as the master, but when changes are written, they go to the local drive instead. Thus, twelve machines can operate simultaneously without interfering with each other. The local overlay can be wiped trivially at any time, returning the machine to the master image's state.
So, before each LAN party, I boot one machine in master mode and update it. Then, I boot all the machines in replica mode, wiping their local COW overlays (because they are now out-of-sync with the master).

Server room pics

How about they start with Jamie Dimon (fraud: robo-signing), Lloyd Blankfein (fraud: MBS sales), and throw in Hank Paulson (coercion, fraud) for good measure?

That you would let these complete and total unethical assholes off the hook so easily is extremely disturbing. I sincerely hope you are just trolling. When you wake up one day and wonder why everything went to hell, look at the actions of the above people and realize they were major contributors to it. Not just them either, thousands like them, hiding in the shadows of legal grey areas, loopholes, and outright purchased freedom from prosecution. Steal trillions of dollars and claim it's a-ok because they managed to skirt the law through arcane convolution that prosecutors couldn't understand. Issue threats like "tanks in the streets" whenever regulation or prosecution talk was brought up.

These individuals are truly worthy of the title "financial terrorist".

Oh, and fuck gene simmons. Another worthless stain on capitalism's bathroom floor.

Terry O'Reilly has a radio show on the CBC called "The Age of Persuasion", and it deals with the history of advertising. It's actually a lot more interesting than you might think, but I digress.

He's been doing commercials forever, and he swears that you can't set the volume in an ad. Here's one example.

Google: To develop this technology, we gathered some of the very best engineers from the DARPA Challenges, a series of autonomous vehicle races organized by the U.S. Government. Chris Urmson was the technical team leader of the CMU team that won the 2007 Urban Challenge.

I hear ya. RSS Live Links and Foxish Live RSS mimic live-bookmarks reasonably well, but sometimes run up against the bookmark API's limit on # of bookmark operations per hour (or what have you). The former, at least, also tends to cease updating if I hibernate the comp during a session. Built-in functionality would be alot less flaky, and remove the need for every damn site creating their own personal live-feed extension.

Sadly losing my moderations here, but this is well worth reading if you want to understand what Iran could quite easily do.

http://helpherandchild.blogspot.com/ seems to be the blog in question. doesnt seem archive.org has it.

You should all see these, lots of great information about harper and company:

http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/2010/04/preface.html

You should all see these, lots of great information about harper and company:

http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/2010/04/preface.html

Harper has only one goal in mind - to fuck up the states finances as much as possible to cut social programs and healthcare. They do not care about ruling, they care about turning back the clock.

You should all see these, lots of great information about harper and company:

http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/2010/04/preface.html

Harper has only one goal in mind - to fuck up the states finances as much as possible to cut social programs and healthcare. They do not care about ruling, they care about turning back the clock.

You should all see these, lots of great information about harper and company:

http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/2010/04/preface.html

You should all see these, lots of great information about harper and company:

http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/2010/04/preface.html

You should all see these, lots of great information about harper and company:

http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/2010/04/preface.html

100%? They can do better than that.

Yes its the invisible, or the mixtures between invisible and visible Higgs, that are the most exciting, because these are the ones that lead to the detection of Dark Matter or Mirror Matter, particles.

It is classically disingenuous, hypocritical and opportunistic for the Conservatives to declare the Liberals would not honour Kyoto.

The main obstacle to progress on Canada's carbon reduction is the Harper Conservative government's devotion to the vastly damaging oil sands projects, and its greedy cronies in Alberta. But lying and manipulation is what Conservatives do best.

An extraordinarily offensive advertising campaign is currently running in Canada defending this ecological disaster with photographs of beautiful wilderness.

20++ ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER DNS SERVERS &/or ADBLOCK ALONE for added "layered"/"defense-in-depth" security + SPEED:

1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

2.) Adblock blocks ads (not anymore apparently, lol:

Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )

in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook!)

Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc..

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 5-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via NSLOOKUP, PINGS, &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

* NOW - Some folks MAY think that putting an IP address alone into your browser's address bar will be enough, so why bother with HOSTS, right? WRONG - Putting IP address in your browser won't always work IS WHY. Some IP adresses host several domains & need the site name to give you the right page you're after is why. So for some sites only the HOSTS file option will work!

6.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content, nor as much as a DNS server does while it runs. HOSTS file are merely a FILTER for the kernel mode/PnP TCP/IP subsystem, which runs FAR FASTER & MORE EFFICIENTLY than any ring 3/rpl3/usermode app can.

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php
http://ddanchev.blogs

20++ ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER DNS SERVERS &/or ADBLOCK ALONE for added "layered"/"defense-in-depth" security + SPEED:

1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

2.) Adblock blocks ads (not anymore apparently, lol:

Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )

in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook!)

Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc..

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 5-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via NSLOOKUP, PINGS, &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

* NOW - Some folks MAY think that putting an IP address alone into your browser's address bar will be enough, so why bother with HOSTS, right? WRONG - Putting IP address in your browser won't always work IS WHY. Some IP adresses host several domains & need the site name to give you the right page you're after is why. So for some sites only the HOSTS file option will work!

6.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content, nor as much as a DNS server does while it runs. HOSTS file are merely a FILTER for the kernel mode/PnP TCP/IP subsystem, which runs FAR FASTER & MORE EFFICIENTLY than any ring 3/rpl3/usermode app can.

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php
http://ddanchev.blogs

20++ ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER DNS SERVERS &/or ADBLOCK ALONE for added "layered"/"defense-in-depth" security + SPEED:

1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

2.) Adblock blocks ads (not anymore apparently, lol:

Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )

in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook!)

Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc..

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 5-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via NSLOOKUP, PINGS, &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

* NOW - Some folks MAY think that putting an IP address alone into your browser's address bar will be enough, so why bother with HOSTS, right? WRONG - Putting IP address in your browser won't always work IS WHY. Some IP adresses host several domains & need the site name to give you the right page you're after is why. So for some sites only the HOSTS file option will work!

6.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content, nor as much as a DNS server does while it runs. HOSTS file are merely a FILTER for the kernel mode/PnP TCP/IP subsystem, which runs FAR FASTER & MORE EFFICIENTLY than any ring 3/rpl3/usermode app can.

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php
http://ddanchev.blogs

There is no need for numbers. Performance depends on today's architectures mostly depends on cache friendliness, and Java does not allow object layouts that are cache friendly.

And I got numbers for you, from PyPy (Python JIT), showing that PyPy is faster then C in some cases.
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-again-string.html

This is ridiculous and irrelevant to PyPy's performance. This only measures the performance of a built-in function. And PyPy is only faster because it inlines sprintf. Which you can also do in C; it's simply not done by default because it's not a good idea.

He asked for numbers.

And I got numbers for you, from PyPy (Python JIT), showing that PyPy is faster then C in some cases.
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-again-string.html

If the project has been around long enough, you end up with a bunch of people who only have a max of three years of experience with it, and any knowledge of the full history is second, third or fourth hand. The risk is that as you keep cycling people out, you develop an angry monkey situation.

20++ ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER DNS SERVERS &/or ADBLOCK ALONE for added "layered"/"defense-in-depth" security + SPEED:

1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

2.) Adblock blocks ads (not anymore apparently, lol:

Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )

in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook!)

Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc..

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 5-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via NSLOOKUP, PINGS, &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

* NOW - Some folks MAY think that putting an IP address alone into your browser's address bar will be enough, so why bother with HOSTS, right? WRONG - Putting IP address in your browser won't always work IS WHY. Some IP adresses host several domains & need the site name to give you the right page you're after is why. So for some sites only the HOSTS file option will work!

6.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content, nor as much as a DNS server does while it runs. HOSTS file are merely a FILTER for the kernel mode/PnP TCP/IP subsystem, which runs FAR FASTER & MORE EFFICIENTLY than any ring 3/rpl3/usermode app can.

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php
http://ddanch

20++ ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER DNS SERVERS &/or ADBLOCK ALONE for added "layered"/"defense-in-depth" security + SPEED:

1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

2.) Adblock blocks ads (not anymore apparently, lol:

Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )

in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook!

(Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc.).

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 5-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via NSLOOKUP, PINGS, &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

* NOW - Some folks MAY think that putting an IP address alone into your browser's address bar will be enough, so why bother with HOSTS, right? WRONG - Putting IP address in your browser won't always work IS WHY. Some IP adresses host several domains & need the site name to give you the right page you're after is why. So for some sites only the HOSTS file option will work!

6.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content, nor as much as a DNS server does while it runs. HOSTS file are merely a FILTER for the kernel mode/PnP TCP/IP subsystem, which runs FAR FASTER & MORE EFFICIENTLY than any ring 3/rpl3/usermode app can.

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php
http://ddanc

We've actually come a long way in the last decade in terms of being able to make public use of the public domain in the U.S. The vast majority of works that are PD in the US are ones that were copyrighted after 1922 but reverted to the public domain because their copyrights were not renewed. It used to be that if you came across a book from 1927, you could be almost certain that it was PD (simply because, statistically, few books had their copyrights renewed), but you wouldn't have any way of making sure, because the renewal records weren't online. But the good folks at Carnegie Mellon, Project Gutenberg, and Distributed Proofreaders did all the hard, dreary work of digitizing the records and putting them online in searchable form. So for example, a creative-commons-licensed physics textbook that I wrote includes a drawing of a boy hanging by his arms from a bar. The drawing is from a 1927 physics textbook, which I know is PD because I was able to check online that the copyright was not renewed. Another great thing about living in the US is that our law says that a faithful reproduction of a PD work can't be copyrighted (Bridgeman Art Library, Ltd. v. Corel Corp., 1999). I have a portrait of Isaac Newton in my book that is a photo of a 17th-century oil painting. I got a nastygram once from the museum in the UK that owns the painting, saying I was violating their copyright. Sent them back an email saying, "Sorry, not copyrightable in the country where I live," and that was the end of that.

It gets a lot harder when you're dealing with sound recordings and moving pictures. The records aren't digitized by the government, and even if they were to be digitized, it would not necessarily be easy to index and search them. Unlike a book, a sound recording doesn't always have any clear labeling as to its title. Indexing sound and movies is a hard problem. It requires a ton of computing power to do well. What we really need is someone with a super-huge CPU farm who is willing to put tons of computational effort into indexing these things. I wonder who has the facilities necessary for that? Uh, Google, that's who. Google owns YouTube.

Here is a PD video I put together of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsing -- a classic staple of American physics education for three generations. About 10 years ago, you could only get this by paying a ton of money to an educational video company. I found two newsreels about the bridge at archive.org, one silent and one with music and narration. I spliced them together. Since the first one was silent, I found a recording of some vintage jazz that fit, and voila, I had a PD replacement for the laserdisc that my college had bought for hundreds of dollars.

About a year later, I got an email from YouTube saying that the jazz tune I'd used in the video (Boot It, by Bennie Moten) actually wasn't PD. I was originally annoyed and sure they were wrong. But I looked into it, and it looked like sure enough, it was still in copyright. Archive.org had apparently not realized that a certain percentage of Bennie Moten's work was still in copyright. The rights holder is selling the recording online. And you know what? YouTube didn't try to crush me. They didn't sue me. They didn't send me a DMCA notice. They didn't take down the video or make me take it down. They simply started pulling revenue from it and giving some of that revenue to the copyright owner. Really not a problem.

So although it sounds like FedFlix has a problem, my own experience with YouTube was that they performed a service for me that nobody else was willing to perform: they figured out whether an old piece of music was actually PD. The end result is that it's a big win for everyone.

And I can't help feeling that Cory Doctorow, as in many of his hand-wringing advocacy pieces, is being a little overwrought. The problem here is not that FedFlix is being su

Its about core or prime knowledge.

I.e. you do not try to remember all possible mathematical equations or results for that would be impossible, instead your lean the abstract symbols, meanings and rules of use of mathematics, from there you can formulate and extrapolate any mathematical result. There is no spoon feeding here, you are the one who bends.

Of course this is all abstract, even the visual self image of you juggling, is only in your mind. Its like using a computer, you can know all there is to be found in text books about computers, but until you actually do, you won't really know. Its the feedback loop used in everything from learning to hitting a target with a guided missile. Where without the feedback loop, you are lost. Just as the United States has become lost due the shutdown of the founding father intended feedback loop, for the people by the people. A government lost and afraid even of its own people and now thinks only of their own security and war to prove themselves to only themselves, or so they imagine.

Knowledge without proper feedback in use is dangerous. Knowledge without love is empty .

http://abstract-beliefs.blogspot.com/2011/12/abstraction-physics-non-fiction-matrix.html

This is a reply to both of your posts. Since you explained to us about what socialism is, I will explain to you what Conservatives are, do, and what they believe in. Below:

The Conservative movement is about spreading ignorance, lies and propaganda. It is the Conservatives who are the ones who take from the poor and give to themselves. Let's face it, they are the ones that either manage or invest in or want to work for companies like Coca Cola or the oil companies and pay the local government to drive the people off their lands. Much like you people did to your own native population. YOU are the people who arrest people who sell cocaine and yet give corporate drug companies a monopoly on price fixing (you can watch the Michael Moore film called Sicko for more info on that).

The ignorance, lies and propaganda are also seen in the pro-pollution campaigns:

Due to the nature of the threat I felt obliged to 'rush to print' this dire warning about taxation. The planned post based on my upcoming paper 'A Brief History Of Climate Modelling' will follow shortly.

AND

I've canceled my subscription to New Scientist. Since they haven't covered this incredible research they must have a some sort of secret "agenda". Obviously to use my cash for alarmist purposes and gain control of the government so they can tax me into oblivion.

AND

You couple a dying sun with that Maunder super thing with a magnetic reversal or two, some serious carbon emission cuts (thanks Al and associated commies!) and WHAM-O, it's freeze-out city padre.

AND

A brilliant analysis as always. I think it is a well established fact that all the Warmist propaganda promoted by Algore and his socialist minions is just a scheme to tax us all into oblivion thereby laying the groundwork for a new Stalinist world order. Nevertheless one rarely sees scientific articles that address the taxation ramifications of all these predictions about the climate. You truly nailed the horse to the camel's back with this article!

etc...

It's too bad that Conservatives think that anything that isn't stupid or harmful must be "socialist" in some way. It doesn't matter if it's about health care, education, pollution, policing, or the War on Drugs. Sad really. Conservatism never worked in Italy under Mussolini, in never worked in Chile under Augusto Pinochet, and it isn't working in America under Obama, and it never worked under the extremist Right Wing policies of the Republicans in America.

Conservatives should learn that you don't need to put people down in order to boost your own egos.

References:
http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/2009/04/dying-sun.html
http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/2011/06/co2-volcanoes-or-man-its-your-choice.html#comment-form

This is a reply to both of your posts. Since you explained to us about what socialism is, I will explain to you what Conservatives are, do, and what they believe in. Below:

The Conservative movement is about spreading ignorance, lies and propaganda. It is the Conservatives who are the ones who take from the poor and give to themselves. Let's face it, they are the ones that either manage or invest in or want to work for companies like Coca Cola or the oil companies and pay the local government to drive the people off their lands. Much like you people did to your own native population. YOU are the people who arrest people who sell cocaine and yet give corporate drug companies a monopoly on price fixing (you can watch the Michael Moore film called Sicko for more info on that).

The ignorance, lies and propaganda are also seen in the pro-pollution campaigns:

Due to the nature of the threat I felt obliged to 'rush to print' this dire warning about taxation. The planned post based on my upcoming paper 'A Brief History Of Climate Modelling' will follow shortly.

AND

I've canceled my subscription to New Scientist. Since they haven't covered this incredible research they must have a some sort of secret "agenda". Obviously to use my cash for alarmist purposes and gain control of the government so they can tax me into oblivion.

AND

You couple a dying sun with that Maunder super thing with a magnetic reversal or two, some serious carbon emission cuts (thanks Al and associated commies!) and WHAM-O, it's freeze-out city padre.

AND

A brilliant analysis as always. I think it is a well established fact that all the Warmist propaganda promoted by Algore and his socialist minions is just a scheme to tax us all into oblivion thereby laying the groundwork for a new Stalinist world order. Nevertheless one rarely sees scientific articles that address the taxation ramifications of all these predictions about the climate. You truly nailed the horse to the camel's back with this article!

etc...

It's too bad that Conservatives think that anything that isn't stupid or harmful must be "socialist" in some way. It doesn't matter if it's about health care, education, pollution, policing, or the War on Drugs. Sad really. Conservatism never worked in Italy under Mussolini, in never worked in Chile under Augusto Pinochet, and it isn't working in America under Obama, and it never worked under the extremist Right Wing policies of the Republicans in America.

Conservatives should learn that you don't need to put people down in order to boost your own egos.

References:
http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/2009/04/dying-sun.html
http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/2011/06/co2-volcanoes-or-man-its-your-choice.html#comment-form

Please, not that quote again. Kennedy was "not that interested in space".