Hm...I'm a soldier in the National Guard, getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan. I can't bring my dead-tree library with me, it weighs too much. I could bring a couple of books in my rucksack, but I can bring enough books to read for the entire trip on my iPhone, no problem. Add a charger, and I'm set.
Of course, the power over there isn't so great. I lost a laptop on my last deployment due to poor power, so this time I'm thinking of a solar charger for the iPhone. That aside, it's still easier for me to pack one iPhone than a year's worth of paperbacks.
Actually, this will be a great help to developing nations, or other nations that have infrastructure problems.
I was stationed in southern Iraq 2007-2008, and one of the projects my battalion was working on was bringing solar power to the local homes and businesses. The insurgents (the ones we caught, by the way, were from Syria and Iran, not Iraq) would cut power lines or take down power poles, in order to foment distrust of the government by the Iraqi citizens. It's a classic guerrilla technique, disrupt the basic utilities and other functions of government to get the civilian populace pissed off, and you have a much better chance of displacing the government.
Anyway, a cheap solar power solution would be a great way to help out these folks, who just want to live their lives and raise their families, the same as you and I.
We in the military call it Information Operations (IO). Probably the most famous example from the last century was Operation Fortitude from World War II, although there are many who believe that President Reagan was actually engaging in IO when he authorized the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, AKA "Star Wars").
It depends on your definition of "harm" and "good". An revolt with widespread popular support by a significant minority or even majority of citizens could require the internet to be shut down to prevent the people from organizing to rally against an oppressive regime. It worked out pretty well for Iran.
There's one problem with that thought process....When something of that magnitude happens, we in the National Guard are called out. And, being private citizens most of the time, we use the Internet quite a bit for communications. Shutting down the Internet would also hamper our ability to muster to repel the threat...
./ had an article a few days ago abouta gps jammer for $50. It seems to me that it wouldn't be all that hard to make one with a pretty powerful jammer and a timer, put it in some checked baggage, and let the thing go off about 20 minutes before landing...
I've studied Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and now Dari. The thing that has helped me the most has been to read children's books. I start out with the ones intended for kindergartners, and work my way up. Once I get halfway decent, I start on newspapers. These days you can find online newpapers in just about any language.
I remember CDs. They made such pretty coffee coasters after I burned all their music to my MP3 player.
I believe the correct verb you're looking for is 'ripped.' But before you go on about how 'quaint' CDs are, keep in mind how nice it is to own something physical.
If I recall correctly, all of the MP3's that I've purchased from Amazon have some kind of code embedded in the meta data that shows that I'm the one who purchased the song. I don't really mind, since I've never been interested in giving music that I've paid for to others...
There are real uses for multitasking, which the iPhone already does - like listening to iPod while surfing or the like. Maybe chat as mentioned, but I also hope to set which apps can be multitasking - I don't trust the developers always to make the correct call - there is no reason to leave a game running in the background while I surf, it would be better to save state.
Good point. The major reason that I look forward to multi-tasking is that I believe it to be a requirement for true VPN applications. It would be nice to be able to use my iPhone to VPN through our firewall at work so that I can handle emergency systems admin tasks.
It would seem to me if every citizen knew how to properly shoot a rifle, odds are pretty good one of those things could be knocked out of the sky with a barrett. It would cost all of us a heck of a lot less money too.
In fact... this is exactly the sort of thing the 2nd amendment was written for. "The people" defending themselves from attack.
Look, I'm a strong proponent of the 2nd Amendment, and a licensed concealed-carry instructor to boot. And having a bunch of citizens attempt to shoot down a drone is simply a BAD IDEA. What goes up must come down, no? Every year on the 4th of July, some idiot kills a completely innocent bystander because he decided to shoot up in the air, not realizing that the bullets have to land somewhere.
Instead, we'd be better off looking at taking airborne missile-defense laser weapons and adapting them to ground-based installations. Of course, these drones are small, fast, and stealthy, so we would probably have to include a system to find the drones in real-time and link that system to the ground-based air defense. We'd still have to worry about legitimate air-traffic, and depending upon the strength of the lasers, possibly objects in low-earth-orbit. But while it would probably be way too expensive a solution to put into place, it would be way more safe than a bunch of us gun-owners trying to shoot down a drone!
More like; "Amazon-dot-com and shareholders rejoice, as more people can now read your files, therefore you make more money from increased e-book sales."
You really think so? You figure the hackers were disgruntled Amazon shareholders working to increase their quarterly dividends? My perception is that this will result in increased piracy, i.e., distribution through non-authorized channels from whom the authors of the books are not compensated.
Not necessarily. I prefer to read my books on my iPhone, using BookShelf. I've been burned a couple of times by DRM, so I won't buy an eBook unless I can strip the DRM. That way, once I've paid for the book, I won't have to worry about it being either taken away or rendered useless by a company going under.
I *want* to purchase my ebooks. I *don't* want to pirate them or give away books I've purchased. But I also *require* that I have the ability to read my purchases on whatever medium is convenient to me.
Actually, it is not. LIDAR measures distance, not speed as RADAR does. If you point a LIDAR at a multifactaed object (like say a staionary car) and the operator moves enough to bounce the lazer from the grill to the windshield. A LIDAR will have seen the car 'move' because the distance the lazer went changed. This will not happen with a RADAR because there will be no change in red shift. LIDAR's should not be used in law enforcement.
Sorry, you just flunked your physics pop-quiz.
Astronomers use Red Shift all the time to measure how quickly stellar objects are moving away from you.
The same people who say that women must have free access to abortion, because they have the right to say what they do with their bodies, are now saying that NYS health care workers don't have the right to say what they do with their bodies with regards to a vaccine?
When I deployed to Iraq, I didn't want to take the anthrax vaccine, because the DoD were lying to us about it. They claimed that it was the same vaccine that veterinarians take. My wife is a veterinarian, and the shots they gave me were not what she gets.
I didn't want to take it, but I didn't have a choice. As a soldier, I don't have any rights over my own body. If the DoD says I have to take a vaccine, then I have to take it or face a courts martial. So I took the vaccine, and endured one of the known side effects: I had arthritis in both of my shoulders for over a year. I'm lucky that it's mostly gone now.
Why is it that liberals say that a woman has the right to decide whether or not she gets an abortion because it's her body, but say that health care workers don't have the right to decide whether or not they get vaccines, even though it's their body?????
The lives they're saving are on our side.
Our "side"? Imperial stormtroopers
Their "side"? Mothers, children and helpless villagers, "inconveniently located" on top of something we want to steal.
Ahem. As one of those "Imperial stormtroopers", I'd ask you if you've ever deployed overseas to see what really happens over there.
In the Army we call CNN "Pravda". Because their reporting has the same relationship to the truth that the old USSR paper did.
I deployed to Iraq for a year. I didn't kill anybody, and our unit helped to build schools and hospitals. But that doesn't help CNN's political agenda, so they never reported it, though we had a CNN reporter embedded for about a week.
I'm not at liberty to get into details, but suffice it to say that Predators and Reapers utilize security features provided by the NSA, that were incorporated into the design, and are effective. While nothing is impossible, IMHO it is vanishingly unlikely that control of either of these devices could be wrested away from the appointed controller. Jammed, yes. Hacked, no.
His ownership of that particular copyright is showing up in the U.S. Copyright Office online search, so there's no excuse for MySpace not knowing who owns it.
It is most definitely about MySpace. It doesn't matter what Warner claims (even if it was illegal and they could be sued for theft), MySpace has the duty to investigate the claim of copyright.
It's not even that hard! Go to the U. S. Copyright Office Search Page and type in "Collins Edwyn" and the sixth link to return is "Girl Like You". If I can find it in 2 minutes, how long should it take MySpace?
It proves nothing. You can call a rose,a rose; and a pig, a pig; without being one your self. The history of Fox news is documented even in court cases...
In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States...During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre's claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so. After the appeal verdict WTVT general manager Bob Linger commented, "It's vindication for WTVT, and we're very pleased... It's the case we've been making for two years. She never had a legal claim."
Hell, CNN's been doing this for years. Just look at the anti-gun stories that they've made up.
Well, yeah. Only idiots would pay to look at Fox News.
Oh I don't know.. Fiction is still quite popular.
You want to talk about fiction? Try CNN. I got back from a year in Iraq last October, and what CNN is reporting bears zero resemblance to what is actually happening there.
Michael Yon is the only guy whose writing I've seen is accurate, and he's selling his articles to Fox News.
I find it funny and sad that most of the people who are still in love with "Pravda" (CNN) have never actually been to either Iraq or Afghanistan to learn how totally they're being lied to.
Have you stopped to consider for a moment that I was probably under the legal limit?... I didn't feel the slightest bit impaired when I was pulled over and was quite confident I would pass the PBT.... You can take your self righteousness and shove it up your ass. You don't know me.
Don't I? How many of those in that class you took "didn't feel the slightest bit impaired"? They never do. I can't count the number of times I've heard "I'm just fine to drive! Give me my keys!" in a bar somewhere.
I just pray that when, not "if", but "when", you have your DUI crash, that you hit a tree and not some poor family.
It sounds to me like the problem is with the publisher. IMHO, you should have gone with O'Reilly, who has a much better history with electronic books.
I personally purchase a LOT of electronic books, and only download a pirated copy of a book if (1) a legitimate, for-pay version is unavailable, and (2) I have purchased a paper copy. That way I've paid the author (through the paper copy), but have the convenience of the electronic copy.
However, I don't pay $50 for electronic books. The fiction I read I'm happy to pay $5 for, and the O'Reilly books I'm happy to pay $30 for. $50 is a bit much for me, even for data compression (I've got Mark Nelson's 1992 "The Data Compression Book" sitting on my shelf right now, paid $5.98 for it).
O'Reilly, eReader.com, or others would give readers a lower cost to purchase, which IMHO would give you a larger audience, for a better overall income.
Actually, research I read when I got my DUI in 2007...If I got pulled over again that same night, I would have driven home without a DUI and even if they did manage to get me to perform parking lot special olympics(also called the field sobriety test), I would have asked for a lawyer. Like most first time offenders, I took a plea deal to avoid significant jail time and paid the ridiculous fine and took alcohol awareness classes. The whole thing was a farce, intended to make money.
I blew.086% and easily could have challenged the results in court, given the breathalyzer had a sticker on it that said it hadn't been calibrated in 2 years.
People like you make me sick. I was an Emergency Medical Technician for two years, and got to see how people like you destroy the lives of innocent families doing nothing more offensive than driving home at night.
You idiots go on and on about ways to beat the system, without for one second realizing that every time you drive while under the influence, you risk the lives of others.
If it was up to me, DUI would be classified as "attempted murder", since you KNEW before you left the house that you were going to go drinking, and you KNEW that you had the obligation to make other arrangements for getting home. You DECIDED to risk the lives of the rest of us because you couldn't be BOTHERED to make arrangements for a taxi or a designated driver.
If I ever go into politics, I'll pass a law that requires you to give up your keys before you're served a single drink, and that requires you to pass a breathalyzer before you are given your keys back. And if you end up murdering somebody anyway, then the bartender/bar owner becomes an accomplice when you are tried.
Disagree with me? Then try responding at 2am to a scene where a drunk driver kills a family of four, including a 3-month-old child, and the drunk only needs an over-night observation at the ER. THEN you can tell me how I'm over-reacting.
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Hm...I'm a soldier in the National Guard, getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan. I can't bring my dead-tree library with me, it weighs too much. I could bring a couple of books in my rucksack, but I can bring enough books to read for the entire trip on my iPhone, no problem. Add a charger, and I'm set.
Of course, the power over there isn't so great. I lost a laptop on my last deployment due to poor power, so this time I'm thinking of a solar charger for the iPhone. That aside, it's still easier for me to pack one iPhone than a year's worth of paperbacks.
Actually, this will be a great help to developing nations, or other nations that have infrastructure problems. I was stationed in southern Iraq 2007-2008, and one of the projects my battalion was working on was bringing solar power to the local homes and businesses. The insurgents (the ones we caught, by the way, were from Syria and Iran, not Iraq) would cut power lines or take down power poles, in order to foment distrust of the government by the Iraqi citizens. It's a classic guerrilla technique, disrupt the basic utilities and other functions of government to get the civilian populace pissed off, and you have a much better chance of displacing the government. Anyway, a cheap solar power solution would be a great way to help out these folks, who just want to live their lives and raise their families, the same as you and I.
We in the military call it Information Operations (IO). Probably the most famous example from the last century was Operation Fortitude from World War II, although there are many who believe that President Reagan was actually engaging in IO when he authorized the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, AKA "Star Wars").
I just want to know how much apple paid for that advertisement.... :)
Really? That's why we deploy so often to the Middle East, because we're insignificant? ROLF...
It depends on your definition of "harm" and "good". An revolt with widespread popular support by a significant minority or even majority of citizens could require the internet to be shut down to prevent the people from organizing to rally against an oppressive regime. It worked out pretty well for Iran.
There's one problem with that thought process....When something of that magnitude happens, we in the National Guard are called out. And, being private citizens most of the time, we use the Internet quite a bit for communications. Shutting down the Internet would also hamper our ability to muster to repel the threat...
./ had an article a few days ago abouta gps jammer for $50. It seems to me that it wouldn't be all that hard to make one with a pretty powerful jammer and a timer, put it in some checked baggage, and let the thing go off about 20 minutes before landing...
I've studied Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and now Dari. The thing that has helped me the most has been to read children's books. I start out with the ones intended for kindergartners, and work my way up. Once I get halfway decent, I start on newspapers. These days you can find online newpapers in just about any language.
I've also just found the International Children's Digital Library, which has digital children's books for many languages.
I remember CDs. They made such pretty coffee coasters after I burned all their music to my MP3 player.
I believe the correct verb you're looking for is 'ripped.' But before you go on about how 'quaint' CDs are, keep in mind how nice it is to own something physical.
If I recall correctly, all of the MP3's that I've purchased from Amazon have some kind of code embedded in the meta data that shows that I'm the one who purchased the song. I don't really mind, since I've never been interested in giving music that I've paid for to others...
There are real uses for multitasking, which the iPhone already does - like listening to iPod while surfing or the like. Maybe chat as mentioned, but I also hope to set which apps can be multitasking - I don't trust the developers always to make the correct call - there is no reason to leave a game running in the background while I surf, it would be better to save state.
Good point. The major reason that I look forward to multi-tasking is that I believe it to be a requirement for true VPN applications. It would be nice to be able to use my iPhone to VPN through our firewall at work so that I can handle emergency systems admin tasks.
It would seem to me if every citizen knew how to properly shoot a rifle, odds are pretty good one of those things could be knocked out of the sky with a barrett. It would cost all of us a heck of a lot less money too. In fact... this is exactly the sort of thing the 2nd amendment was written for. "The people" defending themselves from attack.
Look, I'm a strong proponent of the 2nd Amendment, and a licensed concealed-carry instructor to boot. And having a bunch of citizens attempt to shoot down a drone is simply a BAD IDEA. What goes up must come down, no? Every year on the 4th of July, some idiot kills a completely innocent bystander because he decided to shoot up in the air, not realizing that the bullets have to land somewhere. Instead, we'd be better off looking at taking airborne missile-defense laser weapons and adapting them to ground-based installations. Of course, these drones are small, fast, and stealthy, so we would probably have to include a system to find the drones in real-time and link that system to the ground-based air defense. We'd still have to worry about legitimate air-traffic, and depending upon the strength of the lasers, possibly objects in low-earth-orbit. But while it would probably be way too expensive a solution to put into place, it would be way more safe than a bunch of us gun-owners trying to shoot down a drone!
More like; "Amazon-dot-com and shareholders rejoice, as more people can now read your files, therefore you make more money from increased e-book sales."
You really think so? You figure the hackers were disgruntled Amazon shareholders working to increase their quarterly dividends? My perception is that this will result in increased piracy, i.e., distribution through non-authorized channels from whom the authors of the books are not compensated.
Not necessarily. I prefer to read my books on my iPhone, using BookShelf. I've been burned a couple of times by DRM, so I won't buy an eBook unless I can strip the DRM. That way, once I've paid for the book, I won't have to worry about it being either taken away or rendered useless by a company going under.
I *want* to purchase my ebooks. I *don't* want to pirate them or give away books I've purchased. But I also *require* that I have the ability to read my purchases on whatever medium is convenient to me.
Actually, it is not. LIDAR measures distance, not speed as RADAR does. If you point a LIDAR at a multifactaed object (like say a staionary car) and the operator moves enough to bounce the lazer from the grill to the windshield. A LIDAR will have seen the car 'move' because the distance the lazer went changed. This will not happen with a RADAR because there will be no change in red shift. LIDAR's should not be used in law enforcement.
Sorry, you just flunked your physics pop-quiz.
Astronomers use Red Shift all the time to measure how quickly stellar objects are moving away from you.
The same people who say that women must have free access to abortion, because they have the right to say what they do with their bodies, are now saying that NYS health care workers don't have the right to say what they do with their bodies with regards to a vaccine?
When I deployed to Iraq, I didn't want to take the anthrax vaccine, because the DoD were lying to us about it. They claimed that it was the same vaccine that veterinarians take. My wife is a veterinarian, and the shots they gave me were not what she gets.
I didn't want to take it, but I didn't have a choice. As a soldier, I don't have any rights over my own body. If the DoD says I have to take a vaccine, then I have to take it or face a courts martial. So I took the vaccine, and endured one of the known side effects: I had arthritis in both of my shoulders for over a year. I'm lucky that it's mostly gone now.
Why is it that liberals say that a woman has the right to decide whether or not she gets an abortion because it's her body, but say that health care workers don't have the right to decide whether or not they get vaccines, even though it's their body?????
The lives they're saving are on our side. Our "side"? Imperial stormtroopers Their "side"? Mothers, children and helpless villagers, "inconveniently located" on top of something we want to steal.
Ahem. As one of those "Imperial stormtroopers", I'd ask you if you've ever deployed overseas to see what really happens over there. In the Army we call CNN "Pravda". Because their reporting has the same relationship to the truth that the old USSR paper did. I deployed to Iraq for a year. I didn't kill anybody, and our unit helped to build schools and hospitals. But that doesn't help CNN's political agenda, so they never reported it, though we had a CNN reporter embedded for about a week.
I'm not at liberty to get into details, but suffice it to say that Predators and Reapers utilize security features provided by the NSA, that were incorporated into the design, and are effective. While nothing is impossible, IMHO it is vanishingly unlikely that control of either of these devices could be wrested away from the appointed controller. Jammed, yes. Hacked, no.
His ownership of that particular copyright is showing up in the U.S. Copyright Office online search, so there's no excuse for MySpace not knowing who owns it.
It is most definitely about MySpace. It doesn't matter what Warner claims (even if it was illegal and they could be sued for theft), MySpace has the duty to investigate the claim of copyright. It's not even that hard! Go to the U. S. Copyright Office Search Page and type in "Collins Edwyn" and the sixth link to return is "Girl Like You". If I can find it in 2 minutes, how long should it take MySpace?
No, but you can bring an external battery pack or use a battery sleeve, which amounts to the same thing.
It proves nothing. You can call a rose,a rose; and a pig, a pig; without being one your self. The history of Fox news is documented even in court cases...
Hell, CNN's been doing this for years. Just look at the anti-gun stories that they've made up.
Well, yeah. Only idiots would pay to look at Fox News.
Oh I don't know.. Fiction is still quite popular.
You want to talk about fiction? Try CNN. I got back from a year in Iraq last October, and what CNN is reporting bears zero resemblance to what is actually happening there. Michael Yon is the only guy whose writing I've seen is accurate, and he's selling his articles to Fox News. I find it funny and sad that most of the people who are still in love with "Pravda" (CNN) have never actually been to either Iraq or Afghanistan to learn how totally they're being lied to.
Have you stopped to consider for a moment that I was probably under the legal limit? ... I didn't feel the slightest bit impaired when I was pulled over and was quite confident I would pass the PBT .... You can take your self righteousness and shove it up your ass. You don't know me.
Don't I? How many of those in that class you took "didn't feel the slightest bit impaired"? They never do. I can't count the number of times I've heard "I'm just fine to drive! Give me my keys!" in a bar somewhere.
I just pray that when, not "if", but "when", you have your DUI crash, that you hit a tree and not some poor family.
It sounds to me like the problem is with the publisher. IMHO, you should have gone with O'Reilly, who has a much better history with electronic books.
I personally purchase a LOT of electronic books, and only download a pirated copy of a book if (1) a legitimate, for-pay version is unavailable, and (2) I have purchased a paper copy. That way I've paid the author (through the paper copy), but have the convenience of the electronic copy.
However, I don't pay $50 for electronic books. The fiction I read I'm happy to pay $5 for, and the O'Reilly books I'm happy to pay $30 for. $50 is a bit much for me, even for data compression (I've got Mark Nelson's 1992 "The Data Compression Book" sitting on my shelf right now, paid $5.98 for it).
O'Reilly, eReader.com, or others would give readers a lower cost to purchase, which IMHO would give you a larger audience, for a better overall income.
Actually, research I read when I got my DUI in 2007...If I got pulled over again that same night, I would have driven home without a DUI and even if they did manage to get me to perform parking lot special olympics(also called the field sobriety test), I would have asked for a lawyer. Like most first time offenders, I took a plea deal to avoid significant jail time and paid the ridiculous fine and took alcohol awareness classes. The whole thing was a farce, intended to make money.
I blew .086% and easily could have challenged the results in court, given the breathalyzer had a sticker on it that said it hadn't been calibrated in 2 years.
People like you make me sick. I was an Emergency Medical Technician for two years, and got to see how people like you destroy the lives of innocent families doing nothing more offensive than driving home at night.
You idiots go on and on about ways to beat the system, without for one second realizing that every time you drive while under the influence, you risk the lives of others.
If it was up to me, DUI would be classified as "attempted murder", since you KNEW before you left the house that you were going to go drinking, and you KNEW that you had the obligation to make other arrangements for getting home. You DECIDED to risk the lives of the rest of us because you couldn't be BOTHERED to make arrangements for a taxi or a designated driver.
If I ever go into politics, I'll pass a law that requires you to give up your keys before you're served a single drink, and that requires you to pass a breathalyzer before you are given your keys back. And if you end up murdering somebody anyway, then the bartender/bar owner becomes an accomplice when you are tried.
Disagree with me? Then try responding at 2am to a scene where a drunk driver kills a family of four, including a 3-month-old child, and the drunk only needs an over-night observation at the ER. THEN you can tell me how I'm over-reacting.
Yeah, because city politicians can't ever be corrupt...