Online tax form application released; compatible only with 100% GNU/Linux based operating systems. Millions of citizens switch to Linux overnight to file taxes. BSD and Solaris form a coalition alledging that governments are monopolies. Microsoft takes the government to court, citing their patents for "an online system by which choice of operating system is passively forced."
Congrats. Not only funny, but your comment is rather insightful as well.
It just shows that while government should not be laying out a de facto preference, it's inevitably "majority rules".
Didn't Dell complain one time that this was part of the reason they don't sell AMD?
Dell has essentially said that AMD continues to be "under evaluation", and Michael Dell has made the off-hand comment that yeah, he would sell *Apple* (meaning Intel/Apple hardware). So given that AMD has product in production (albeit at a smaller amount than Dell could probably use), but Intel/Apple has only vapor, Dell the company's behavior smells of favoritism against AMD.
I'd agree. $80/mo. is steep, when most people are probably already paying at least $30-50/mo. on their cell plan. Curious, what does satellite bb cost?
It appears that this mobile service cost about 5x that of wired DSL. 400-700 kpbs is roughly comparable to currently available basic residential DSL where you can get 384 k-1.5 Mbps down / 128-384 kbps up for about $15/month.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, too...soon this will be expanded to all americans eligible for military service...then all americans, period. Refusing to submit your info for this database will automatically label you as a dissident, although what with the new national IDs coming out, you'll be in that database whether you like it or not.
They won't have to actively expand it, they could just start from this point on. Babies are already finger/footprinted after birth and could just as well have a DNA sample taken (if not already as a fetus to test for chromosomal diseases). Parents WILLINGLY have their kids fingerprinted upon enrolling in the public school for the first time in case some kidnapper or such ends up killing said children.
Data collection becomes routine, then expected by the masses and therefore swall^H^H^H^H^H accepted.
Market value = $1 billion. Now compare to Google and Yahoo: $81 billion, $52 billion. There is plenty of momentum behind free general content, regardless. And still, if Doubleclick relegated itself to registration=only sites, then the users could go somewhere else.
How many times in history have great ideas been turned down because a manager says, "Oh that'll never work"?
I am sure there are other, but I will mention Craig Venter.
...people laughed at him, people wouldn't fund his research, he said "I'm going to do it anyway" and he did it. He patented some of the hugest, largest numbers of genes, human genes, that anyone has done. People said you couldn't sequence whole bacterial genomes, they laughed at him, he said "I'm going to do it", he just did it. People said you can't sequence the entire human genome that way he laughed, set up a company, and he did it. Link
I left NIH to create TIGR in part because, at the time, NIH was not in a position to conduct a large-scale human gene discovery study within the intramural program. In our first two years, we at TIGR used the EST strategy to identify more than half of the genes in the human genome. Then, using many of the laboratory and computational methods that we developed for the human gene discovery program, we pioneered the whole-genome shotgun sequencing of the first complete genome of a free-living organisms, Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium that causes ear infections in children. Interestingly, an NIH study section said this couldn't be done with available technology. Ultimately, this approach became widely adopted. Link
will always exploit the weakest link in the chain. MasterCard itself might have the best security but what about all the systems downstream?
Agreed. One wonders how to trust your contractees and outsourcees. It would argue for the most data-secure companies to cut out the middleman and do their own processing.
The cynical side of me says that there lurks a propaganda campaign to be pushed here by those in favor of introducing new credit card feature, perhaps RFID or biometrics. I cannot say whether those are good solutions, but it certainly seems that some form of security that requires you to present physical evidence of your credit card or account seems in order -- may even a PIN?
To vote for Bush: Dial... To vote for Kerry: Dial...
Ah, I can see it now:
"Thank you for calling Vote for ${CANDIDATE}. All of our operators are busy. Your call is very important to us. If you wish to stay on the line, please hold and an operator will be glad to assist you shortly. Your call will be answered in the order it was received."/cue soothing elevator music
In the long term once we build more power plants.. we'll be able to reverse global warming by CO2 recapture.
Uh, I don't happen to see the connection between power plants and carbon fixation. However, one straightforward way to fix carbon from atmospheric CO2 is by reforestation.
I was thinking along similar lines, but I have to wonder how much of this restoration effort is basically rushed to the market just to have a revenue stream, to wit:
But as DVDs become more popular, studios have done the math and found that classic cartoons are relatively cheap to restore and sell well. "DVD is the medium for collectors. They gobble this stuff up," says Robert Mayo,
And glitches can be largely avoided if digital noise reduction is done by a skilled technician. "Sometimes it's being used with no ill effects," says Jeff Stabenau, who oversaw the Rocky & Bullwinkle restoration at an outside DVD production company. "If it is used carefully, it can enhance the animation."
houghi writes "The register reports how the Dutch open up their research to the rest of the world. It goes on to tell that commercial scientific publishers such as Elsevier Science are not happy with it. Will other countries and universities follow, or will they stick to the idea that knowledge is a commodity?"
It's not about limiting knowledge per se. The copyright you sign over to journals has to do with that particular presentation of text (think: plagiarism) or arrangement of data (think: lifting images), not the information contained therein.
IIRC there is an analogy to music: you can't copyright Mozart's symphonies, but a composer can copyright her particular arrangement of notes.
I ask this as someone who's extraordinarily ignorant of the political process in the US, but isnt there some way by which Senators can discuss/modify sections within a law?
IANAE, but IIRC, if it appears that a bill is not going to have enough votes to be passed, then a committee will assemble in order to work out a compromise. Sometimes the bill never makes it out of committee and is said to "die in committee." Otherwise, a modified bill is sent back to the floor of the Senate/House of Reps for another vote. The modified bill can pass, or not pass and in turn may be sent back to committee for negotiation. It's all a big until() loop.
but nobody blinks an eye at letting in millions of workers (mostly from Mexico) to get paid $3.00/hour washing dishes and pay no tax because they're here illegally or because their incomes are very low, despite consuming tax dollars in the form of health and education costs for their families?
I know what you are getting at, but I think there is another term in the equation. Those workers are also buying goods (diapers is a big item). So in th end, businesses may pay very little for an abundant labor source. These workers then turn around and spend most, if not all of, their money in the local economy. WiIt's a win-win situation for business.
Could we cynically conjecture that business will consequently show their support (*cough*donations*cough*) for such a policy ?
Do serious research into this protein stuff. I honestly believe it may cause problems in the long term. Heart problems and things like that. Your body doesn't want that much protein. I used to be into that scene but I noticed my kidneys were taking a serious beating from having to process all that protein.
It's at this point that some people claim that there aren't any studies demonstrating that high protein induces kidney problems starting from otherwise normal, functioning kidneys. But "everyone" seems to agree that high protein diets are bad for people who are already having kidney problems.
As far as huge muscles, what you suggest agrees with my readings. Muscles get stronger via low reps, high tension, but they get bulky from high reps, low tension. The former builds muscle fibers, whereas the latter teaches your muscles to store more glycogen.
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I can see it now:
Online tax form application released; compatible only with 100% GNU/Linux based operating systems. Millions of citizens switch to Linux overnight to file taxes. BSD and Solaris form a coalition alledging that governments are monopolies. Microsoft takes the government to court, citing their patents for "an online system by which choice of operating system is passively forced."
Congrats. Not only funny, but your comment is rather insightful as well.
It just shows that while government should not be laying out a de facto preference, it's inevitably "majority rules".
Good news everyone! There's no longer a need to download your torrents of The Electric Company ;-)
Oh crap. Electric Company, The - TV Guide: DVDs coming later this year
Hold an otherwise operational wireless bicycle odometer near your laptop. Watch your speed ... you just might get a ticket ;-)
freedoms is this going to cost us?
Didn't Dell complain one time that this was part of the reason they don't sell AMD?
Dell has essentially said that AMD continues to be "under evaluation", and Michael Dell has made the off-hand comment that yeah, he would sell *Apple* (meaning Intel/Apple hardware). So given that AMD has product in production (albeit at a smaller amount than Dell could probably use), but Intel/Apple has only vapor, Dell the company's behavior smells of favoritism against AMD.
SBC is $14.95 for those speeds, if it's offered in your area, natch.1 ,,18,00. html
h**p://www05.sbc.com/DSL_new/content_new/
I'd agree. $80/mo. is steep, when most people are probably already paying at least $30-50/mo. on their cell plan. Curious, what does satellite bb cost?
It appears that this mobile service cost about 5x that of wired DSL. 400-700 kpbs is roughly comparable to currently available basic residential DSL where you can get 384 k-1.5 Mbps down / 128-384 kbps up for about $15/month.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, too...soon this will be expanded to all americans eligible for military service...then all americans, period. Refusing to submit your info for this database will automatically label you as a dissident, although what with the new national IDs coming out, you'll be in that database whether you like it or not.
They won't have to actively expand it, they could just start from this point on. Babies are already finger/footprinted after birth and could just as well have a DNA sample taken (if not already as a fetus to test for chromosomal diseases). Parents WILLINGLY have their kids fingerprinted upon enrolling in the public school for the first time in case some kidnapper or such ends up killing said children.
Data collection becomes routine, then expected by the masses and therefore swall^H^H^H^H^H accepted.
Market value = $1 billion. Now compare to Google and Yahoo: $81 billion, $52 billion. There is plenty of momentum behind free general content, regardless. And still, if Doubleclick relegated itself to registration=only sites, then the users could go somewhere else.
I am sure there are other, but I will mention Craig Venter.
will always exploit the weakest link in the chain. MasterCard itself might have the best security but what about all the systems downstream?
Agreed. One wonders how to trust your contractees and outsourcees. It would argue for the most data-secure companies to cut out the middleman and do their own processing.
The cynical side of me says that there lurks a propaganda campaign to be pushed here by those in favor of introducing new credit card feature, perhaps RFID or biometrics. I cannot say whether those are good solutions, but it certainly seems that some form of security that requires you to present physical evidence of your credit card or account seems in order -- may even a PIN?
No problem. Just rotate the CD by 90 degrees to produce negative DRM and try copying again. Oh wait...
To vote for Bush: ... ...
/cue soothing elevator music
Dial
To vote for Kerry:
Dial
Ah, I can see it now:
"Thank you for calling Vote for ${CANDIDATE}. All of our operators are busy. Your call is very important to us. If you wish to stay on the line, please hold and an operator will be glad to assist you shortly. Your call will be answered in the order it was received."
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make =Canon e =Brother
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?mak
I can't send more than maybe one or two MB of data through my email.
But I can easily shove a 1GB USB stick up my ass and walk out past the guards.
Why go through that trouble when your female co-workers are walking out with USB stick raid arrays?
Avoid using Windex on flat screens. It may damage the anti-glare coating. If possible, use only a damp cloth to wipe away any tape residue.
Another way is to use eyeglass cleaning solution with a nonabasive microfiber eyeglass cloth. Great for coated glasses, great for LCD screens.
In the long term once we build more power plants .. we'll be able to reverse global warming by CO2 recapture.
Uh, I don't happen to see the connection between power plants and carbon fixation. However, one straightforward way to fix carbon from atmospheric CO2 is by reforestation.
houghi writes "The register reports how the Dutch open up their research to the rest of the world. It goes on to tell that commercial scientific publishers such as Elsevier Science are not happy with it. Will other countries and universities follow, or will they stick to the idea that knowledge is a commodity?"
It's not about limiting knowledge per se. The copyright you sign over to journals has to do with that particular presentation of text (think: plagiarism) or arrangement of data (think: lifting images), not the information contained therein.
IIRC there is an analogy to music: you can't copyright Mozart's symphonies, but a composer can copyright her particular arrangement of notes.
I ask this as someone who's extraordinarily ignorant of the political process in the US, but isnt there some way by which Senators can discuss/modify sections within a law?
IANAE, but IIRC, if it appears that a bill is not going to have enough votes to be passed, then a committee will assemble in order to work out a compromise. Sometimes the bill never makes it out of committee and is said to "die in committee." Otherwise, a modified bill is sent back to the floor of the Senate/House of Reps for another vote. The modified bill can pass, or not pass and in turn may be sent back to committee for negotiation. It's all a big until() loop.
I often get emails requesting a Word version of my documentation. Even though TeX is quite open.
Well, there's always tex2doc, found from a quick googling.
Tip: to find a program that converts file format X to Y, look for X2Y (e.g. pdf2ps, ps2ascii, etc.)
but nobody blinks an eye at letting in millions of workers (mostly from Mexico) to get paid $3.00/hour washing dishes and pay no tax because they're here illegally or because their incomes are very low, despite consuming tax dollars in the form of health and education costs for their families?
I know what you are getting at, but I think there is another term in the equation. Those workers are also buying goods (diapers is a big item). So in th end, businesses may pay very little for an abundant labor source. These workers then turn around and spend most, if not all of, their money in the local economy. WiIt's a win-win situation for business.
Could we cynically conjecture that business will consequently show their support (*cough*donations*cough*) for such a policy ?
>> I have been using microbes to produce methane for a while now, why can't I run my computer from that?
> I suspect the H2S you produce along with the methane might upset your computer
But at least his computer doesn't have to rely on swsusp in order to go into hiberation.
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Do serious research into this protein stuff. I honestly believe it may cause problems in the long term. Heart problems and things like that. Your body doesn't want that much protein. I used to be into that scene but I noticed my kidneys were taking a serious beating from having to process all that protein.
It's at this point that some people claim that there aren't any studies demonstrating that high protein induces kidney problems starting from otherwise normal, functioning kidneys. But "everyone" seems to agree that high protein diets are bad for people who are already having kidney problems.
As far as huge muscles, what you suggest agrees with my readings. Muscles get stronger via low reps, high tension, but they get bulky from high reps, low tension. The former builds muscle fibers, whereas the latter teaches your muscles to store more glycogen.