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I'd imagine it would be a lot more dangerous if it were more readily available. Turns out it might not be so cheap after all. http://preview.tinyurl.com/324dyyg

Is the USA really that far behind the curve, or is there another explanation?

1) Yes, the USA is really that far behind the curve

2) The explanation is mainly longer local loop lengths. Average US local loops are over 4 km, compared with 3 km in the UK and France, or under 2 km in Germany and Italy. And unlike most European countries, almost no loops in the US are under 1.5 km, and the US is one of the few countries to have significant numbers of loops (10% of customers) over 5.5 km. This means much slower DSL and cable.

3) Another element is that the US has 60% of housing stock detached houses. For example, the UK has only 25%, meaning more of the houses are multiple-dwelling-units, which means higher cable-per-duct density. Higher duct density means lower construction and repair cost. Also this rules out fiber-to-the-multiple-dwelling-unit for most Americans.

Come July you won't even need a flashbulb -- seriously. According to technology writer David Pogue in today's NY Times, Sony will be releasing a breakthrough pocket camera called the NEX-5 Alpha: SLR quality pictures and no flash required in low light situations. http://tinyurl.com/2eyn5tu

Not as cool as http://tinyurl.com/2fh8uck

Your statement basically boils down to saying that the only way for utilities to make money is by cutting corners, right?

No, I'm saying that the need to maximize profits always pops up when it comes to utilities and cutting corners is an easy way to do it.

In the world of nuclear power plants, that isn't the case at all.

Not yet, but I fully expect the local energy company to figure out a way to make them operate as safely and efficiently as they do their other operations.

Your statement basically boils down to saying that the only way for utilities to make money is by cutting corners, right?

No, I'm saying that the need to maximize profits always pops up when it comes to utilities and cutting corners is an easy way to do it.

In the world of nuclear power plants, that isn't the case at all.

Not yet, but I fully expect the local energy company to figure out a way to make them operate as safely and efficiently as they do their other operations.

Your statement basically boils down to saying that the only way for utilities to make money is by cutting corners, right?

No, I'm saying that the need to maximize profits always pops up when it comes to utilities and cutting corners is an easy way to do it.

In the world of nuclear power plants, that isn't the case at all.

Not yet, but I fully expect the local energy company to figure out a way to make them operate as safely and efficiently as they do their other operations.

Your statement basically boils down to saying that the only way for utilities to make money is by cutting corners, right?

No, I'm saying that the need to maximize profits always pops up when it comes to utilities and cutting corners is an easy way to do it.

In the world of nuclear power plants, that isn't the case at all.

Not yet, but I fully expect the local energy company to figure out a way to make them operate as safely and efficiently as they do their other operations.

We have been playing on these since a while... well, they're not exactly CherryPals, but they're totally compatible (after all the CherryPals are just stuff they get from Chinese factories with their logos on). And yes, they have a WonderMedia WM8505 processor. Here is our forum about this: http://tinyurl.com/easypc-forum And there is also a version of Linux running on the previous models by Cherrypal (for example the Africa) which has a VIA VT8500 instead of the WonderMedia WM8505 at http://tails92.sepwich.com/easypc_linux

now you can pay and download games for a platform they can't play on from the convienance of your own home~

For those about to pound the meat hooks on to there key board in the hopes of creating some sort of cojemt tiraid agains this post, please refer to the punctuation at the end of the sentence.

If that isn't good enough,maybe a picture would help:

http://tinyurl.com/dhh3nu

http://tinyurl.com/334d9a6

First article in the list.

They're only a money making scheme because people are too stupid and arrogant to keep to the speed limit.

This is the typical arrogance of a pro-camera individual. Nevermind the corruption of the camera system. Nevermind the speed traps (ask Arizonans about driving on the 51 or through Star Valley - they get 50% of their town's revenue from a 65 to a 45 speed limit camera). Nevermind the safety issues (there ARE accidents at the camera locations - here's proof right where I drive). Nevermind the millions being shipped out of the American economy and to Austrailian stock holders. Nevermind the lies about statistics.

All arguments for the cameras come down to FUD, selfishness, and anger/vengeance.

Typical FUD

• "It's scary to drive without the cameras. People are crazy!"
• "The most dangerous thing a cop can do is a traffic stop. They get killed doing that some times!"
• "You never know who's out there..." (my personal favorite... the press does this one all the time - they tell you to watch out for your neighbor, and then tell your neighbor the same thing...
• "Do you want your kids to get killed by a speeder zooming past your school?"
• "If people would just slow down, accidents would drop - and you'd be safer."
• "Speeders are dangerous!"
• "Governments couldn't get away with dishonestly putting up cameras to just make money. Someone would stop them..."
• "People that hate the cameras just want to speed - period."

Typical selfishness/arrogance:

• "I like it slower on the roads. I go the speed limit in whatever lane I want because I'm GOING THE SPEED LIMIT."
• "Why can't everyone else just OBEY THE LAW? I do it..."
• "I can drive safer now. Oh - wait - hold on... I need to take this call... (slows down in whatever lane)" (proceeds to send text while driving or take that all important business call)
• "I don't speed, so I don't care."
• "If people are too stupid to see the "Photo Enforcement Zone" signs, then they deserve a ticket."
• "Who cares if people are making big money off of law enforcement. The state needs the money, and if it's a tax on someone else that pays for my kid's education, screw the speeders. Tell them to slow down like I do."

Any my personal favorite - anger/frustration/revenge/self righteous road rage

• "That son of a bitch just cut me off... We need cameras every 1/4 mile to catch these guys..."
• "I don't care! I just want someone or something to get even with that ahole that cut me off last week!"
• "The cameras will make those bastards pay. I'm tired of inconsiderate pricks weaving in and out of traffic, scaring me to death. Put them in jail until they rot! Revoke their licenses!"
• "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!!!"

Your post falls into the arrogance category. Also, the fact that you've switched to biking has probably elevated your snobbishness about your former fellow motorists that you don't even realize how short-sighted you sound.

BTW - the fact that you've been modded up to "+5 Insightful" shows exactly how many scared, arrogant, and/or angry drivers there are out there that would allow a facet of Big Brother to be installed in their lives without the slightest whimper of opposition.

Open your eyes, people - and start having a little faith in your fellow man again...

It's in the AUR as a package for Arch. I don't even use Arch and it took me thirty seconds to find this. It's the very first page when you Google for "arch linux resynthesizer." You want to be 1337 "cause I use Arch?" Learn to Google.

half that- with free shipping 42 cents each when I buy 50

http://tinyurl.com/239gklp

HELL, 20 pack of duracell is 54 cents each with free shipping at amazon

where the hell do you buy batteries from?

Anyone find it ironic that this list is not viewable in IE6? Given that, here's a version using linear gradients for the background colors in Firefox :)

Start from the top and you can reverse this stat for entire countries
The number of internet users for each country was obtained from here

http://tinyurl.com/2846x75/

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I guess this commercial would be illegal... http://tinyurl.com/2g45bn3

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2e2nx3k

Version 1.0 (November 11, 2006)

3. SERVICES AND UPDATES

From time to time, SCE may provide certain updates, upgrades or services to your PS3 system to ensure it is functioning properly in accordance with SCE guidelines. Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you sign onto SCE's online network, and others may be available to you through SCE's website or authorized channels. Without limitation, services may include the provision of the latest update or download of new release that may include security patches, and new or revised settings and features which may prevent access to pirated games, or use of unauthorized hardware or software in connection with the PS3 system. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.

This story is the most cretinous and least researched ever, and further proof this place is turning into a site full of American Rabid Retards.

Unfortunately, this is pretty useless for the US.

The US has far longer telephone/DSL local loop lengths than almost any other country. Average US local loops are over 4 km, compared with 3 km in the UK and France, or under 2 km in Germany and Italy. And unlike most European countries, almost no loops in the US are under 1.5 km, and the US is one of the few countries to have significant numbers of loops (10% of customers) over 5.5 km. Data source here.

Can documents by the US Government be copywritten? Turns out... not usually

"such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law"
Though, apparently it may still fall under the copyright law of other countries. So, if the
distributor wasn't in the US, the local law would apply and the US government might hold copyright
status there.

http://tinyurl.com/y2wkhnx

-Steve

They missed the largest data center in the world, the @Tokyo data center in Tokyo, Japan. It's over 1.5 million square feet, large enough to have it's own train station (Shintoyosu station). It sits on a piece of land out in Tokyo Bay in the section of the city known as Odaiba. I had a chance to do some work there a couple years ago when Lehman had a lot of space there (my pictures of the data center are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkane/sets/72157623651979353/).

Some more info on the @Tokyo data center can be found on the web:

Google map:
http://tinyurl.com/y6djuzo

http://www.jpix.ad.jp/en/service/site_info.html "The academic IX NSPIXP2 is located here.The total floor space in the building is 140,000 square meters which is the largest scale data center in the world."

FTA:

On April 5th, the attackers via a compromised Slicehost server opened a new issue, INFRA-2591. This issue contained the following text:
ive got this error while browsing some projects in jira http://tinyurl.com/XXXXXXXXX [obscured]...This specific URL redirected back to the Apache instance of JIRA, at a special URL containing a cross site scripting (XSS) attack. The attack was crafted to steal the session cookie from the user logged-in to JIRA. When this issue was opened against the Infrastructure team, several of our administators clicked on the link. This compromised their sessions, including their JIRA administrator rights.

Oops...check those URLs, admins...

Turn them on, so you can see where they go.

http://tinyurl.com/preview.php

An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140.

No, it doesn't. 1TB external drives sell for $70 in Newegg's bargain basement.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yce9qhx

And that's retail. For being 500MB, these sound suspiciously like drives Seagate had sitting in a crate somewhere gathering dust, because they certainly are old tech.

pre-loaded with a digital lock that requires a code that can be purchased online for $10 to $15 each. Even watching "Star Trek" requires registration.

So you *don't* get to watch the movies for $100. The real cost is $300 minimum in a drive that is spectacularly overpriced to start with. How many ways can you say "ripoff?"

DRM

It doesn't go into detail, but I'd bet you can't move those movies off the drive. Also, since these are DRM encumbered, they are a rental. If I want to rent movies, I will use netflix.

The special sale comes as Hollywood is struggling with falling DVD sales in the face of piracy and is looking for new ways to sell movies from its library.

Bullshit. Hollywood is *not* going begging. They're making more money than ever.

This is going to fail and they are going to blame it yet again on privacy when the failure has nothing to do with it but everything to do with trying to screw the customer as much as possible.

This is an insult to my intelligence as a consumer.

I have no sympathy for the studios. The sooner they go bankrupt the better.

--
BMO

> The best ting they could do to make intersections safer is rip out the lights and install round-abouts

I'd love to see a roundabout that could possibly handle the traffic from a "Florida-sized" intersection like Pines Boulevard at Flamingo Road in Pembroke Pines, Florida ( http://tinyurl.com/y7cc3ft ) without completely collapsing into hopeless gridlock -- 8 lanes east/west, 6 lanes north/south, two left-turn lanes in every direction.

Putting it in perspective, more cars heading east and west pass through this intersection every day than used to pass through Broward County on Interstate 95 back when it was first built ~40 years ago.

Ironically, this exact road DOES have a roundabout about 7 miles east of here (in Hollywood -- http://tinyurl.com/y3znyej ), but appearances are deceiving. If you actually watch the traffic flow, you quickly realize it's almost impossible to do anything besides follow the dominant traffic flow east and west unless it's 2am or you're feeling suicidal. It's more like a freeway median with a glorified U-turn lane at both ends.

> The best ting they could do to make intersections safer is rip out the lights and install round-abouts

I'd love to see a roundabout that could possibly handle the traffic from a "Florida-sized" intersection like Pines Boulevard at Flamingo Road in Pembroke Pines, Florida ( http://tinyurl.com/y7cc3ft ) without completely collapsing into hopeless gridlock -- 8 lanes east/west, 6 lanes north/south, two left-turn lanes in every direction.

Putting it in perspective, more cars heading east and west pass through this intersection every day than used to pass through Broward County on Interstate 95 back when it was first built ~40 years ago.

Ironically, this exact road DOES have a roundabout about 7 miles east of here (in Hollywood -- http://tinyurl.com/y3znyej ), but appearances are deceiving. If you actually watch the traffic flow, you quickly realize it's almost impossible to do anything besides follow the dominant traffic flow east and west unless it's 2am or you're feeling suicidal. It's more like a freeway median with a glorified U-turn lane at both ends.

Let me Google it for you.

Here you go.

http://tinyurl.com/navigoatse [tinyurl.com]

Creative. Can you please do a True Blood version?

At least post Na'vi Goatse, it's better, and we, the fans of Avatar, can jerk off to it:
http://tinyurl.com/navigoatse

Behold, the power of the interwebs!

It's called Google.com. http://tinyurl.com/ykccxvo

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

slashdotted in 5, 4, 3, ...

google cache: http://tinyurl.com/yecnwd8

Sorry, I couldn't resist

http://tinyurl.com/y9cj9vm

California desert. And it gets somewhat hotter over by Ridgecrest and in Death Valley than it does here. Here's the weather station that's in the same microclimate as my place, if you feel an urge to check us out during high summer -- http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=lox&sid=KWJF&num=168&raw=0&dbn=m or http://tinyurl.com/y9pda7q -- I am often outdoors during the heat of the day, tho I don't stand around in the sun any longer than I have to. But I don't have to bring a computer outdoors :)

I've done a lot of summers without air conditioning, with at most a fan. Last summer I never did get around to fixing the swamp cooler, and it was regularly 95 or so in my house. The computer gets an external fan in summer and it helps a lot (20+ degrees difference, just from heat exchange thru the old-fashioned steel case).

Yup, the only way is to blatently click random urls.

Riiiight. Because accidents never happen? You've never been redirected to a site with content that skirts the law? Hell, you've never browsed any of the chans?

If he has kiddie porn stashed away then lock him up, but don't bust his ass because he clicked on a link looking for a deal on auto insurance.

http://tinyurl.com/totallylegitandnotCP

Is this a link for savings on your auto insurance, or is it something far more sinister? There's only one way to find out!

Not to nit pick, but there is no plural form of Virus.

I will nit pick. The plural of virus is viruses: http://tinyurl.com/amfm3q

Not to nit pick, but there is no plural form of Virus.

I will nit pick. The plural form of virus IS viruses: http://tinyurl.com/amfm3q

Who you calling kid-o? Give up the ad-hominem, I won't bite.

Got any sources to cite?

I didn't say "Linux is a solution to all security concerns," I pointed to a specific case study about specific security concerns. There are others.

ftfy

I've just written an in-depth article on the Notal Vision at home monitor for AMD sufferers, that is linked via a call center to a patient's retinal physician. The doc can monitor changes in retinal health of his patient, and arrange for an urgent visit if changes in vision require it. In this way, vision can be preserved/saved for those with late-stage dry AMD before it converts to blindness causing wet AMD. Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/NotalVision Irv Arons

Yes, MSO2007 has issues (I don't know why MS Word uses CPU even if supposed to be idling, and I've had trouble pasting ) and the UI change is "meh", but in my opinion Open Office is very significantly worse[1]. Perhaps the latest version is much better now, but after so many years of disappointment, it's hard to believe it has improved dramatically. I'll still use it if I have to, but it is far from a good substitute.

In contrast, I've tried Kingsoft Office and they seem to be a better MSO replacement option. My bro says the spreadsheet doesn't support the matrix multiplication function (which Excel has), but he bought the Kingsoft Office anyway just to test it out, said it was cheap enough - I told him he could just download the eval copy. I think he just likes to support the underdog.

They don't have a Microsoft Outlook substitute though. Outlook sucks (CPU hog, crashes, hangs, search needs improvement) but the stuff it does (works with Exchange, calendaring, etc) is necessary in many organizations.

[1] See: http://tinyurl.com/ykvya22

Lots of the bugs there look familiar to me: formatting not being saved, bullets not behaving correctly.

And stuff like this (I just picked one of the bugs from the above list which caught my eye):
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56449
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74707

It's been around for years (reported in 2005) and still not fixed (implications of bug: you cannot step through a find-and-replace within a selection - it has to be for the whole document).

I just tested it on 3.2 and the bug is still there!

In contrast when I search for bugs in Word 2007 I see the usual crash bugs (I doubt OOo is immune) and stuff like:

"For example, in Word 2007, if you use a nonbreaking hyphen to join
two words, the new combined word is flagged as misspelled (which is fine),
but then you cannot "Ignore All" instances of the combined word when doing a
spell-check. Wen doing a spell-check, you must ignore each individual
instance of the combined word throughout the document. As you can imagine,
if you have a proper name that includes a nonbreaking hyphen on every page of
a 200 page contract, individually ignoring each instance of the combined word
during spell-check can get very annoying very quickly. Thanks for any
replies!"

I also have been very annoyed with Word 2007 by one bug - sometimes when I try to paste something into certain word documents, somehow all the formatting isn't copied over when it's supposed to (even when I choose "keep source formatting" - some behind the scenes weirdness, it works in other word docs). For example the table and contents are copied and pasted fine, but the font is wrong!

80 WPM means 6.5 characters per second - bull sh!t.

http://imlocation.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/how-fast-do-people-type/

"Notice that that out of the three thousand four hundred and seventy five applicants, not a single one could manage 120 WPM. And only the top 5% of applicants could manage 70 WPM or higher."

So - this OP is claiming to be in the top 5% of people who work in professional typing jobs?

Someone needs a re-test.

http://tinyurl.com/yb8zf95

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My browser must see in to the future then..
http://tinyurl.com/slshdtUSB3

There are several flavors of small and even hand-launched UAVs in use by militaries worldwide.