Nice ideas. Too bad they would make the world come crashing down around America's ears. Our leadership has completely pissed off so much of the world, that if we cut our defense spending NOW, we'd be welcoming our new Chinese or Middle-Eastern overlords within our lifetimes. I'm not saying that we can't cut it later on, but it'll take DECADES to fix the problems that that Bush & Bush & Company have created for us.
We've been flying for, what, about a hundred years now? And this fellow has been working on this for roughly a quarter of that time and it still doesn't work?
This thing looks almost exactly like something that Mythbusters built from purchased plans. They're far from being idiots, and they couldn't get the thing off the ground.
Sure, it's true, but the people who know the difference don't need to be told this, and the people who can't aren't bothered by the fact.
Sure, cheap-ass wifi drivers don't tell you the strength of the usable signal, they usually just give you unitless bars that are basically hand-waving (example: Linksys or Netgear, etc); better quality (read as: higher priced) hardware comes with drivers that give not only the S/N ratio but the total signal strength, and sometimes even the noise floor reading (example: the Orinoco PCMCIA wifi card I have). Similarly, battery "charge" indicators that just read terminal voltage are cheap and they suck, better (read as: actual) state-of-charge indicators are based on actual charge-counting through a current-sense resistor, and if they took the time to write the code well, then it even accounts for capacity lost over time.
Don't get me wrong though: it's not like I'm lighting candles every day for all the people in the world that die in some tragic, senseless way -- but I will feel sadness if reminded of the fact. If this spammer had just offed himself, I'd be the first one to say "good riddance!"; but he took some other lives down with him, and making jokes about the whole thing is tasteless at best.
If you really held the conviction of your belief in that statement, then you wouldn't hide behind "Anonymous Coward", would you -- any of you who would post such things as "Anonymous Coward".:p
Just because Craigslist didn't show up in court doesn't mean that the judgement is worth even $0.02. Granted, it's not the smartest thing you could do, not showing up in court when you're sued, but it doesn't mean that Craigslist couldn't still appeal the decision, right?
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. It's not like he was going away for life in a super-max prison or something like that, for being a serial killer. The stupid bastard was going away for less than two years for being a scammer and a spammer! Not worth taking your own life, LET ALONE THE LIFE OF A CHILD AND YOUR WIFE! I hope he's gone to The Special Hell for this.
Oh, and BTW: Shame on you if you're making jokes about this. This has gone from being an amusing triumph of justice over one of the nastiest spammers on the planet, to a true tragedy culminating in the murders of innocents. It's nothing to be joking about, and it's NOT FUNNY. Mod me down all you like for chastising, I really don't care.
You can make all the studies you want, but people are not going to stop using cellphones. It's way, way too late for that now, and the infrastructure has had too many years to develop. Besides which, if you want to go there, then EMF from power transmission lines (and any number of other sources) could cause cancer, too; so what are we to do, abandon all technology and live like Quakers? Sure, that'll work.
So, am I the only one that finds it odd that someone like this would bust out with these sorts of claims the day before the new X-Files movie comes out?;-)
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He's probably been learning Russian. I'm sure they'd greet him with a heroes' welcome and offer him a high-paying job with their organization, considering his "street cred".
So.. let me get this straight: It costs $15,000USD, is approximately the size of a six-month old baby, and looks like some plastic toy? Sure, I read another of the comments here describing what hardware and software it's running, and that's all cool and everything, but seriously: what is it good for other than it's value as a very expensive high-tech toy? It's too short, and I'm sure, too weak and/or clumsy, to do anything really useful for you in your day-to-day life? Seriously, I may be missing an important point here, but I don't see where someone would want to pay so much money for what seems to amount to a very expensive hackers toy.
The ever-elusive Higgs Bosom can't be directly observed (because it's like staring into the sun) therefore it must be indirectly observed -- in this case, by lowering the ambient temperature in the observational environment and watching for the most common secondary sign of it's presence, a phenomenon which researchers have fondly nicknamed the "sweater-puppy effect".
Fuck "family friendly". I do not want to live in a childproofed world; I am an adult, I am neither married (nor do I wish to be) nor do I have children (and nor do I wish to ever); if I wish to pursue adult interests, then I've got the right to do so and no ISP should be allowed to "police" content on my behalf. Them, them, fuck them.
I think what we're really looking at here is the instrument by which P2P for the masses will be destroyed -- all in the name of "we must protect our precious little snowflakes!" -- and before anybody gets started on me, I am NOT a pedophile, child molestor, or sex offender of any type, and I am against all such activities and the people who perpetrate them. Still I assert that this, or something like it, is going to be the hammer that gets dropped on P2P. Think about it: If you're a pedophile, then you're insane to have your wares hosted on a web server somewhere that can be raided, and you arrested. You're better off using the Gnutella network and it's like, and BitTorrent, right? At least, it's plausible, and that's all they really need, is plausibility, because everybody knows that only dirty filthy criminals use P2P, right? Of course what will really happen is that like with anything else, their efforts will just drive the pedos deeper underground, and meanwhile P2P will likely have to evolve in a direction that likewise takes it out of the daylight and fairly deep underground, too -- because no matter what, you can't stop the signal, Mal..
How would you like it if you had to pay a subscription to listen to your radio? Don't put it past the recording and radio industry to go that direction, either.
Having worked for a defense contractor (non-weapons, mind you) for 6 years, it doesn't surprise me at all that the technology for such things are at least 10 years behind state of the art. It takes so long to fully satisfy the requirements of a military contract, then it takes at least as long to fix all the little bugs that inevitably pop up after delivery; then there's the military amending their requirements halfway through the project, sometimes resulting in having to go almost all the way back to square one in the design cycle. Oh, and don't even get me started on requirements that belong in cartoons and comic books, not the real world of engineering.
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Nice ideas. Too bad they would make the world come crashing down around America's ears. Our leadership has completely pissed off so much of the world, that if we cut our defense spending NOW, we'd be welcoming our new Chinese or Middle-Eastern overlords within our lifetimes. I'm not saying that we can't cut it later on, but it'll take DECADES to fix the problems that that Bush & Bush & Company have created for us.
We've been flying for, what, about a hundred years now? And this fellow has been working on this for roughly a quarter of that time and it still doesn't work?
This thing looks almost exactly like something that Mythbusters built from purchased plans. They're far from being idiots, and they couldn't get the thing off the ground.
Sure, cheap-ass wifi drivers don't tell you the strength of the usable signal, they usually just give you unitless bars that are basically hand-waving (example: Linksys or Netgear, etc); better quality (read as: higher priced) hardware comes with drivers that give not only the S/N ratio but the total signal strength, and sometimes even the noise floor reading (example: the Orinoco PCMCIA wifi card I have). Similarly, battery "charge" indicators that just read terminal voltage are cheap and they suck, better (read as: actual) state-of-charge indicators are based on actual charge-counting through a current-sense resistor, and if they took the time to write the code well, then it even accounts for capacity lost over time.
Don't get me wrong though: it's not like I'm lighting candles every day for all the people in the world that die in some tragic, senseless way -- but I will feel sadness if reminded of the fact. If this spammer had just offed himself, I'd be the first one to say "good riddance!"; but he took some other lives down with him, and making jokes about the whole thing is tasteless at best.
If you really held the conviction of your belief in that statement, then you wouldn't hide behind "Anonymous Coward", would you -- any of you who would post such things as "Anonymous Coward". :p
*shrug* fair enough, I guess. After all, it wasn't illegal to sell the tickets, it just pissed someone off enough to sue over it.
Just because Craigslist didn't show up in court doesn't mean that the judgement is worth even $0.02. Granted, it's not the smartest thing you could do, not showing up in court when you're sued, but it doesn't mean that Craigslist couldn't still appeal the decision, right?
Oh, and BTW: Shame on you if you're making jokes about this. This has gone from being an amusing triumph of justice over one of the nastiest spammers on the planet, to a true tragedy culminating in the murders of innocents. It's nothing to be joking about, and it's NOT FUNNY. Mod me down all you like for chastising, I really don't care.
Take the high road. Drives 'em crazy every time.
You can make all the studies you want, but people are not going to stop using cellphones. It's way, way too late for that now, and the infrastructure has had too many years to develop. Besides which, if you want to go there, then EMF from power transmission lines (and any number of other sources) could cause cancer, too; so what are we to do, abandon all technology and live like Quakers? Sure, that'll work.
So, am I the only one that finds it odd that someone like this would bust out with these sorts of claims the day before the new X-Files movie comes out?
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He's probably been learning Russian. I'm sure they'd greet him with a heroes' welcome and offer him a high-paying job with their organization, considering his "street cred".
So.. let me get this straight: It costs $15,000USD, is approximately the size of a six-month old baby, and looks like some plastic toy? Sure, I read another of the comments here describing what hardware and software it's running, and that's all cool and everything, but seriously: what is it good for other than it's value as a very expensive high-tech toy? It's too short, and I'm sure, too weak and/or clumsy, to do anything really useful for you in your day-to-day life? Seriously, I may be missing an important point here, but I don't see where someone would want to pay so much money for what seems to amount to a very expensive hackers toy.
The ever-elusive Higgs Bosom can't be directly observed (because it's like staring into the sun) therefore it must be indirectly observed -- in this case, by lowering the ambient temperature in the observational environment and watching for the most common secondary sign of it's presence, a phenomenon which researchers have fondly nicknamed the "sweater-puppy effect".
Of the three you listed, Galinstan is the only one that's liquid at room temperature, so I'd bet on it being that.
Oh, so you're the one who's still on dialup! ;-)
Chances are that something like DownloadHelper for Firefox will end up being able to capture the streamed content.
Hear, hear!
Fuck "family friendly". I do not want to live in a childproofed world; I am an adult, I am neither married (nor do I wish to be) nor do I have children (and nor do I wish to ever); if I wish to pursue adult interests, then I've got the right to do so and no ISP should be allowed to "police" content on my behalf. Them, them, fuck them.
I think what we're really looking at here is the instrument by which P2P for the masses will be destroyed -- all in the name of "we must protect our precious little snowflakes!" -- and before anybody gets started on me, I am NOT a pedophile, child molestor, or sex offender of any type, and I am against all such activities and the people who perpetrate them. Still I assert that this, or something like it, is going to be the hammer that gets dropped on P2P. Think about it: If you're a pedophile, then you're insane to have your wares hosted on a web server somewhere that can be raided, and you arrested. You're better off using the Gnutella network and it's like, and BitTorrent, right? At least, it's plausible, and that's all they really need, is plausibility, because everybody knows that only dirty filthy criminals use P2P, right? Of course what will really happen is that like with anything else, their efforts will just drive the pedos deeper underground, and meanwhile P2P will likely have to evolve in a direction that likewise takes it out of the daylight and fairly deep underground, too -- because no matter what, you can't stop the signal, Mal..
Get TiVo, then you won't have to use cable's annoying, useless cable guide. ;-)
How would you like it if you had to pay a subscription to listen to your radio? Don't put it past the recording and radio industry to go that direction, either.
Strangely, I did post some examples, but they mysteriously didn't show up here. When I have some time I'll write them up again.
Having worked for a defense contractor (non-weapons, mind you) for 6 years, it doesn't surprise me at all that the technology for such things are at least 10 years behind state of the art. It takes so long to fully satisfy the requirements of a military contract, then it takes at least as long to fix all the little bugs that inevitably pop up after delivery; then there's the military amending their requirements halfway through the project, sometimes resulting in having to go almost all the way back to square one in the design cycle. Oh, and don't even get me started on requirements that belong in cartoons and comic books, not the real world of engineering.