It looks like you should be voting for Ron Paul, who's against all government interference with private lives. Limiting the scope of governmnent power, intrustion, privacy violations, and all that bad stuff.. You should listen to some of his speeches and his voting record and you`d see that he is probably right now the only presidential candidate that is AGAINST the governmnent and their current ways.
I hope some privacy groups outlaw this. I understand that being in public means you're open to any prying eyes about how you're dressed, which direction you're heading in or even the things to say to other people in the open. But tracking eye movement? I`m not sure if that feels "ok" with me... It's common understanding that even in public your "thoughts" are private and your own.. wouldn't it also apply to what your mind decides to look at?..
If I decide to sneak a peak at an ad that shows a gay couple.. or shows an ad on how to deal with drug addiction.. will I be labeled as a gay drug addict to that/those companies?
Maybe I should take off my tin foil hat for a bit and get some fresh air.. hopefully I`m just over reacting.
Why finger prints?! Why not just use the good `ol numeric 4-digit password? Seems to be working fine for the majority of people who use banking machines every day.
If you haven't already.. now would be a great time to read George Orwell's book 1984, because it seems we're getting closer and closer to the state of corporate spying and invasion of our private lives.
For those interested, here is the entire book in pdf format.
Damn! You beat me to this:) I was just going to point out how sorry I feel for all the 16 year old xbox fanboi's out there thinking they're tough shit and watch them scream and cry like little girls as they get chewed apart by PC gamers:)
I`m quite surprised by how long it took for this to come into affect after the Core Duo's were released. It seems like they gained immediate acceptance (Core2 Duo) and were getting great reviews from just about anybody, you'd think AMD would drop prices earlier on, I didn't think it would take this long.. I don't think this it was a question of IF... but WHEN.
I`m not a lawyer or anything but.. I think when you're a corporation of this size and so much influence, you're expected to keep records of everything that happens, and be publically responsible for any harm you do, should someone question your procedure in court.
NOW! On a different note.. if you are going to be writing emails about how to screw over another company, why in the world would you do it in a tracable way? Why not meet over a lunch dinner, or maybe even do it over the phone?.. Bah, use an outside hotmail account if you really have to!
... we can't find them because we deleted them. Actually... that's exactly what they did.
That process hit a snag when Intel said in March it had accidentally deleted many of those records, including e-mail written by its Chairman Craig Barrett and CEO Paul Ottelini. The problem happened because the company failed to instruct certain employees to keep records of their own e-mail, other employees assumed the IT department would do that task for them, and meanwhile the company's IT system was automatically deleting most e-mail after a certain amount of time, Intel told a judge.
and...
"Although Intel has agreed to restore all data captured in the thousands of backup tapes it made and preserved, no one can say with any degree of confidence that this will put Humpty-Dumpty back together again," AMD said in a March 5 court statement.
Just come to Canada.. we're quite friendly here, and haven't heard of anybody getting sued by any record industry yet (and I run a bittorrent tracker).
Because if she has, she would know that Jobs himself opposes the DRM scheme. The reason they are using it is because of the very strict rules the music industry has imposed on them when it comes to file security and making sure the encryption will not be broken.
Jobs said that making all the songs on the iTunes store playable on different devices is possible, but giving out the encryption system to 100 different device makers without any overwatch is simply asking for disaster. Code has been leaked before (DVD discs anyone?), and this would be no exception.
It's not so much Apple's fault, because it's the music industry that said they cannot share their iTune songs, OR the encryption to play them on any other device, otherwise their license to sell online music would be revoked.
I think the key problem is that if you set up the engine system to assume ethanol is on tap, you are dialing up cylinder pressures (higher compression and/or forced injection) to get some benefit out of it, no different than if you were building an engine to work with race gas.
Agreed, unless they decide to start selling this "super fuel" at your local gas station, then we`ll see regular people destroying their motors because Mrs. Smith was too lazy to put any ethanol into her gas tank that day. Which is why this kind of stuff is left to the people who know what they're doing and what purpose this serves, which leads us to the fact that this whole thing is utterly useless.
This is exactly like Dell coming out and saying that they can now sell you a computer that runs 20% faster for a cheaper price by overclocking, but you have to make sure the water cooler is always working, that the temps. have to be monitored closely, and that no dust can get in and settle on the any of the fans.
Sure this might be fun for the overclocking geek, but totally useless for the average person who wouldn't utilite this 20% speed increase anyway.
I suppose my first question is, when the owner inevitably lets the ethanol run out, what happens? Can the engine computer dial down the boost enough to prevent detonation? Or does the engine just have to shut down?
Most if not all of today's forced induction (and some naturaly aspirated) cars have knock sensors which will automatically retard the ignition timing when knock shows up, either from too much heat, bad air/fuel mixture, too much combustion chamber pressure, etc.. So yes, you could run out of any sort of "additive" and still have somewhat of an assurance that your engine won't blow up on the way to the store.
As for the actual post, this is nothing new. This has been used by people "in the know" all the time to increase the ammount of power an engine produces without melting away your pistons by using something called Toluene, which is now a banned substance in the U.S. and Canada, but can still be purchased at some paint supply stores because it's a paint thinner, but apparently has been used to make Meth, or some other type of drug.
For those interested - "knock" is when the fuel mixture inside your combustion chamber ignites before the piston actually makes it all the way to top, which as you can imagine is *really* bad. You are in fact, trying to compress an explosion while it is igniting, which creates incredibly hot temperatures inside the chamber causing all sorts of nasty stuff. If this last long enough (over the course of months or years if its small enough) it will eventually start chewing away at your piston rings, causing "blow by" which robs your engine of power, makes your oil get into the combustion chamber, smoke starts coming out your tail pipe, and things just go downl hill from there.
Basically another Bittorrent user gets pissed that Comcast doesn't want them pulling down a terabyte every month...
And why shouldn't they? Most ISP's advertise their service as "unlimited" yet they aren't. So why shouldnt the customer be pissed off? Nobody can say the customer should download "reasonable" ammount of bytes, because that leaves too much open as to who believes how much "reasonable" really is.
The bext thing the ISPs should do is outline exactly how much the customer can download before offering the service or explicitly outlining how much they allow.
Couldnt have said it better myself. I`m by no means a "super geek" who knows C++ and every thing in between. But I'd certainly like to get started in the networking field. I've done all the crappy certs like A+ iNET+ CCNA, and now moving to CCNP. Anytime I look for some entry-level position that will even pay me $14/hr I find that on top of all the things I already know, they require 20 different other "web apps" and programming languages, and you have to have 5 years in each in 3 different fields. It's ridiculious.
I think a lot of the people here are looking at this from the wrong angle. He doesn't specifically target ONLY programmers, or ONLY network technicians. It seems his general idea is that most people coming into this country with very high skills in different fields posess the knowledge and intelligence to be a real great asset to the country, but are turned down because they are immigrants.
This same talk has recently been appearing in Canadian news papers, where a lot of scientists, doctors, lawyers, and IT people come to Canada or the U.S. in hopes of offering their knowledge to these two countries, but instead end up working at coffee shops, driving taxi's, or working cleaning jobs and night doing general jobs. If I`m not mistaken, this is what Bill Gates is trying to say.
Regardless of what his intentions are, I think what I`m talking about here is a legitimate issue which should be looked at, without worrying who is trying to get this idea across.
Me being an immigrant myself, I can tell you that is indeed a problem, with my father going throught different levels of school and universities in Poland, but ending up being a machine maintenance worker for some plant.
And why? Because he simply doesn't have the benefit of fluently speaking english, and Canada not recognizing his skills at all, which I think is a shame for both the country and my family, since we could both benefit from placing these people in the fields where they would be a lot more usefull.
This story is extremely void of any actual details as to what this "other" site did. Was it Bestbyu.com - or was it some intranet site used in-store to fool consumers about higher prices? How did this work, who was involved, and HOW on earth did 2 stores cheat someone out of $150 by using this site?! I`m so confused...
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It looks like you should be voting for Ron Paul, who's against all government interference with private lives. Limiting the scope of governmnent power, intrustion, privacy violations, and all that bad stuff.. You should listen to some of his speeches and his voting record and you`d see that he is probably right now the only presidential candidate that is AGAINST the governmnent and their current ways.
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I hope some privacy groups outlaw this. I understand that being in public means you're open to any prying eyes about how you're dressed, which direction you're heading in or even the things to say to other people in the open. But tracking eye movement? I`m not sure if that feels "ok" with me... It's common understanding that even in public your "thoughts" are private and your own.. wouldn't it also apply to what your mind decides to look at?..
If I decide to sneak a peak at an ad that shows a gay couple.. or shows an ad on how to deal with drug addiction.. will I be labeled as a gay drug addict to that/those companies?
Maybe I should take off my tin foil hat for a bit and get some fresh air.. hopefully I`m just over reacting.
Sounds like something similiar to the way cornstarch behaves when shakes at a few G's of force. You can view the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=CH6-2UizHfI&sea rch=science
Very interesting stuff.
What?! Only and idiot would use 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 as their luggage number!.. mine is 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ..ohh wait.
Why finger prints?! Why not just use the good `ol numeric 4-digit password? Seems to be working fine for the majority of people who use banking machines every day.
Hmm.. I always though Ted Steven's explanation was quite adequite, nobody else here seems to agree with me though, tough times!
If you haven't already.. now would be a great time to read George Orwell's book 1984, because it seems we're getting closer and closer to the state of corporate spying and invasion of our private lives.
For those interested, here is the entire book in pdf format.
Damn! You beat me to this :) I was just going to point out how sorry I feel for all the 16 year old xbox fanboi's out there thinking they're tough shit and watch them scream and cry like little girls as they get chewed apart by PC gamers :)
In Soviet Russia.. site blocks YOU.
What will happen? Most likely nothing... Don't forget about this story
I`m quite surprised by how long it took for this to come into affect after the Core Duo's were released. It seems like they gained immediate acceptance (Core2 Duo) and were getting great reviews from just about anybody, you'd think AMD would drop prices earlier on, I didn't think it would take this long.. I don't think this it was a question of IF... but WHEN.
I`m not a lawyer or anything but.. I think when you're a corporation of this size and so much influence, you're expected to keep records of everything that happens, and be publically responsible for any harm you do, should someone question your procedure in court.
NOW! On a different note.. if you are going to be writing emails about how to screw over another company, why in the world would you do it in a tracable way? Why not meet over a lunch dinner, or maybe even do it over the phone?.. Bah, use an outside hotmail account if you really have to!
... we can't find them because we deleted them. Actually... that's exactly what they did.That process hit a snag when Intel said in March it had accidentally deleted many of those records, including e-mail written by its Chairman Craig Barrett and CEO Paul Ottelini. The problem happened because the company failed to instruct certain employees to keep records of their own e-mail, other employees assumed the IT department would do that task for them, and meanwhile the company's IT system was automatically deleting most e-mail after a certain amount of time, Intel told a judge.
and...
"Although Intel has agreed to restore all data captured in the thousands of backup tapes it made and preserved, no one can say with any degree of confidence that this will put Humpty-Dumpty back together again," AMD said in a March 5 court statement.
I`m only 25, and since we just bought a brand new house, my parents cannot afford to pay for it alone :)
You still live with your parents?!.. Hahaha, you're such a lo.. Wait a minute, so do I!.. fuck.
Here's a link to the bogus DMCA takedown notice he sent out. http://www.boingboing.net/images/dmca-boing-boing- nov-1.doc
Just come to Canada.. we're quite friendly here, and haven't heard of anybody getting sued by any record industry yet (and I run a bittorrent tracker).
Because if she has, she would know that Jobs himself opposes the DRM scheme. The reason they are using it is because of the very strict rules the music industry has imposed on them when it comes to file security and making sure the encryption will not be broken.
Jobs said that making all the songs on the iTunes store playable on different devices is possible, but giving out the encryption system to 100 different device makers without any overwatch is simply asking for disaster. Code has been leaked before (DVD discs anyone?), and this would be no exception.
It's not so much Apple's fault, because it's the music industry that said they cannot share their iTune songs, OR the encryption to play them on any other device, otherwise their license to sell online music would be revoked.
Agreed, unless they decide to start selling this "super fuel" at your local gas station, then we`ll see regular people destroying their motors because Mrs. Smith was too lazy to put any ethanol into her gas tank that day. Which is why this kind of stuff is left to the people who know what they're doing and what purpose this serves, which leads us to the fact that this whole thing is utterly useless.
This is exactly like Dell coming out and saying that they can now sell you a computer that runs 20% faster for a cheaper price by overclocking, but you have to make sure the water cooler is always working, that the temps. have to be monitored closely, and that no dust can get in and settle on the any of the fans.
Sure this might be fun for the overclocking geek, but totally useless for the average person who wouldn't utilite this 20% speed increase anyway.
Most if not all of today's forced induction (and some naturaly aspirated) cars have knock sensors which will automatically retard the ignition timing when knock shows up, either from too much heat, bad air/fuel mixture, too much combustion chamber pressure, etc.. So yes, you could run out of any sort of "additive" and still have somewhat of an assurance that your engine won't blow up on the way to the store.
As for the actual post, this is nothing new. This has been used by people "in the know" all the time to increase the ammount of power an engine produces without melting away your pistons by using something called Toluene, which is now a banned substance in the U.S. and Canada, but can still be purchased at some paint supply stores because it's a paint thinner, but apparently has been used to make Meth, or some other type of drug.
For those interested - "knock" is when the fuel mixture inside your combustion chamber ignites before the piston actually makes it all the way to top, which as you can imagine is *really* bad. You are in fact, trying to compress an explosion while it is igniting, which creates incredibly hot temperatures inside the chamber causing all sorts of nasty stuff. If this last long enough (over the course of months or years if its small enough) it will eventually start chewing away at your piston rings, causing "blow by" which robs your engine of power, makes your oil get into the combustion chamber, smoke starts coming out your tail pipe, and things just go downl hill from there.
If you wish to make your own "race gas" or want to know how this stuff works and how it has been used for tens of years, visit this FAQ http://www.elektro.com/~audi/audi/toluene.html
And why shouldn't they? Most ISP's advertise their service as "unlimited" yet they aren't. So why shouldnt the customer be pissed off?
Nobody can say the customer should download "reasonable" ammount of bytes, because that leaves too much open as to who believes how much "reasonable" really is.
The bext thing the ISPs should do is outline exactly how much the customer can download before offering the service or explicitly outlining how much they allow.
Couldnt have said it better myself. I`m by no means a "super geek" who knows C++ and every thing in between. But I'd certainly like to get started in the networking field. I've done all the crappy certs like A+ iNET+ CCNA, and now moving to CCNP. Anytime I look for some entry-level position that will even pay me $14/hr I find that on top of all the things I already know, they require 20 different other "web apps" and programming languages, and you have to have 5 years in each in 3 different fields. It's ridiculious.
I think a lot of the people here are looking at this from the wrong angle. He doesn't specifically target ONLY programmers, or ONLY network technicians. It seems his general idea is that most people coming into this country with very high skills in different fields posess the knowledge and intelligence to be a real great asset to the country, but are turned down because they are immigrants.
This same talk has recently been appearing in Canadian news papers, where a lot of scientists, doctors, lawyers, and IT people come to Canada or the U.S. in hopes of offering their knowledge to these two countries, but instead end up working at coffee shops, driving taxi's, or working cleaning jobs and night doing general jobs. If I`m not mistaken, this is what Bill Gates is trying to say.
Regardless of what his intentions are, I think what I`m talking about here is a legitimate issue which should be looked at, without worrying who is trying to get this idea across.
Me being an immigrant myself, I can tell you that is indeed a problem, with my father going throught different levels of school and universities in Poland, but ending up being a machine maintenance worker for some plant.
And why? Because he simply doesn't have the benefit of fluently speaking english, and Canada not recognizing his skills at all, which I think is a shame for both the country and my family, since we could both benefit from placing these people in the fields where they would be a lot more usefull.
This story is extremely void of any actual details as to what this "other" site did. Was it Bestbyu.com - or was it some intranet site used in-store to fool consumers about higher prices? How did this work, who was involved, and HOW on earth did 2 stores cheat someone out of $150 by using this site?! I`m so confused...