Why does the FBI think that list of possible records should be secret? Does that list contain items that are actually content -- for instance, URLs visited by a person? Having watched numerous films depicting FBI managers it will contain such things as "I wanna know who she slept with in kindergarten and what colour her t-shirt was on November 12 1948."
The EEG obtains information arising largely from the cortex and the summation of millions of neuronal currents. It is inaccurate and not reliable enough for critical applications (any situation where 'backfiring' is a bad thing).
As far as I am aware, the state of art of computer interpretation of EEG is only up to monitoring awareness and sleep and possibly detecting seizures, so this would be good for patients in hospitals & home in diagnosing epilepsy.
Might be useful for train drivers or pilots, though, in detecting a sleeper-at-the-wheel.
They don't give a shit if it fails, they don't even give a shit if it is signed into law in the first place. .. UNTIL a politician gets thrown into prison during an election campaign for breaking the exact same law.
I had to reply to this because it's the biggest load of BS I've read all da.
All my extended family uses Ubuntu now because they can't afford macbooks and commercial software and have found Gnome to be totally usable. Plus they have old PC's and found Windows to become unstable and totally unusable after a year or so of use.
(I know this is becoming off-topic big-time, but anyway)
If the entire US economy is a fantasy, then my interpretation is wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the majority of the US economy is not a fantasy.
You are probably right (usually nothing exciting happens). But, are not the US financial woes a bit more fundamental than lack of competition with Europe? Isn't the problem that the US economy is based on assumptions that production actually occurs inside the US - whereas this is less and less true?
All the world needs is a reason not to buy US dollars and we will be getting green toilet paper.
And to bring back to topic, I am sure Microsoft knows this and having its feet only on US soil is not on their agenda. They, like all multinationals, are not patriotic and are hedging their bets.
Now, even poor kids can learn to hate M$ I mean, fuck, I am so angry about this I think we should all get together and come up with a distro for the OLPC. Ubuntu is perfectly set for this one - a small windows app that replaces windows.
Yep, as pure as the bride wearing a white dress for her wedding when she's six months pregnant. And walking down the isle with her face still buried in Microsoft's...
Whoever thought that idea up at OLPC has shit for brains. Nah, they have money in their pockets. And shit on their lips for kissing Microsoft's dirty ass.
Well, so much for a really cool idea. Microsoft will go to any length to have it's shitty OS on anything. I have their OS on my toilet paper, for example.
See, a really good UI is what makes OSX stand out of Unix and makes it popular. Nah, it's money and marketing that makes it popular. We don't have fashionista-designed shopfronts for Linux in every town, for example.
On the other hand, it's not so great for the smaller distros if we get a kind of monolithic Linux which dominates the market and means that people are less willing to try something different.
I hardly think it would stifle innovation (open licenses are so important in all of this). But it might make people think a little more carefully before innovating. That is, there will be yet greater emphasis on integration and interoperability with the other available applications.
And if anything, the need for lightweight desktops and specialized linux distributions is growing with the accumulation of older computers and the advance of the second and third worlds to the computer age.
Now the real question is whether there will be enough pressure for Comcast to remove this unnecessary throttling.
They either charge for a product or don't charge for a product. People who are having their internet connection throttled after having paid for it should be entitled to a refund. Otherwise, Comcast should advertise a P2P-free service at a discounted price.
Isn't there any kind of consumer protection in all of this?
What am I doing wrong because, hard as I try, I am unable to get my Vista box to crash. Please let me know what I have to do to get it to crash. It obviously takes quite a number of instructions before Vista will crash. Perhaps your processor is too slow and you should upgrade to the above mentioned supercomputer.
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The EEG obtains information arising largely from the cortex and the summation of millions of neuronal currents. It is inaccurate and not reliable enough for critical applications (any situation where 'backfiring' is a bad thing).
As far as I am aware, the state of art of computer interpretation of EEG is only up to monitoring awareness and sleep and possibly detecting seizures, so this would be good for patients in hospitals & home in diagnosing epilepsy.Might be useful for train drivers or pilots, though, in detecting a sleeper-at-the-wheel.
Why not a propeller-hat? At least that way we have something worth reading.
Good point. Some kind of tinybuntu thing that has a windows installer.
I had to reply to this because it's the biggest load of BS I've read all da.
All my extended family uses Ubuntu now because they can't afford macbooks and commercial software and have found Gnome to be totally usable. Plus they have old PC's and found Windows to become unstable and totally unusable after a year or so of use.
Copy/paste works in Linux. It WORKS. Try it.
Great OS for people on a budget. Not just geeks.
You are probably right (usually nothing exciting happens). But, are not the US financial woes a bit more fundamental than lack of competition with Europe? Isn't the problem that the US economy is based on assumptions that production actually occurs inside the US - whereas this is less and less true?
All the world needs is a reason not to buy US dollars and we will be getting green toilet paper.
And to bring back to topic, I am sure Microsoft knows this and having its feet only on US soil is not on their agenda. They, like all multinationals, are not patriotic and are hedging their bets.
closing gates and not opening them. There is nothing philanthropic about enslaving people with money.
Why couldn't the OLPC just dump the OS idea all together and ship hardware and let the 3rd world decide what to put on it.
I hardly think it would stifle innovation (open licenses are so important in all of this). But it might make people think a little more carefully before innovating. That is, there will be yet greater emphasis on integration and interoperability with the other available applications.
And if anything, the need for lightweight desktops and specialized linux distributions is growing with the accumulation of older computers and the advance of the second and third worlds to the computer age.
They either charge for a product or don't charge for a product. People who are having their internet connection throttled after having paid for it should be entitled to a refund. Otherwise, Comcast should advertise a P2P-free service at a discounted price.
Isn't there any kind of consumer protection in all of this?
It can look, sound and act the same, though.