Complex ACLs have been around since the inception of NTFS, and remain better than most other commonly used FS ACL options (someone is likely to make a fool out of me with such a broad statement, but oh well).
OSX Lion is also a whopping 3 weeks old, while Win7 is 2 years old. Want to bet that when Windows 8 comes out, it will be more secure than OSX Lion?
Regardless, you and I both know that when the next Pwn2Own comes along, the Probook is going down first. Where the money is, there will be the exploits.
No, the price of graphene would fall. That is generally how it works.
When common flash drive capacities are 8mb (I remember this), getting a 1GB memory stick costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. As soon as it becomes trivial and easy to manufacture the 1GB sticks, the people making them cease to be able to sell them at their previous price-- the 8mb price tanks, the 1GB price drops sharply, and there is a new "high end" mark at a premium price.
Likewise, antimatter and iridium and graphene are extremely expensive because of their difficulty in manufacture. But if it becomes substantially easier to do, the price will fall sharply, unless demand picks up at a substantially greater rate than the production.
Then the guy would have manufactured $15bil worth of the stuff before breaking the story. And in a further twist, theres no guarentee that it would continue to be worth $15bil if he makes that much.
For example, if someone figured out how to make gold on the cheap (super cheap heavy element fusion?), and manufactured $100 trillion in gold, trying to sell it would immediately lower the worth of the entire batch.
They've already done the calculation and the $15bil was just the profit.
Youll note that the price is for "pristine" graphene, and parents point was that if $5 investment could really turn into $15bil, everyone would be doing it. That is, in fact, capitalism at its best.
The discussion isnt about whether we have one, but whether we want one. To say "but we already have one" is irrelevant, and as other posters point out a passport isnt quite the same thing since you do not need to carry it at all times or even have one. You could, theoretically, I think, buy your own private jet and fly to the Arctic without a passport, and Im pretty sure you dont need a passport to take your own private ship to Sealandia (not 100% sure on the UK's stance on that).
But again, all of that is irrelevant to the discussion of "does the federal government have a place in this?"
Subprime lending by Fannie/Freddie (the organizations whose policies Clinton could modify) was not even close to what was being done by the private sector.
Im not really clear how "housing bubble caused by bad lending practices" can be argued. If you cant get a loan because youre a terrible risk, you cant purchase the house that you would have defaulted on.
There were things that the private sector did that made it much worse, but the entire problem was because people who never should have been given loans got them, and then predictably could not pay them off-- that was the initial domino which set off the whole sorry set of them. You can say that this exposed terrible practices in the industry, but you certainly cant blame the industry for CAUSING it (and if you are doing so, should look up what "initial cause" means).
$85 million is what they pay Mozilla, not what Google makes off of those hits. Obviously in order for them to ink the deal, the revenue would have to be >$85mil.
Republicans dont care if Bush started it, in their eyes anything Obama does is bad, even if it is along their beliefs or party lines
Were that a fair accusation to level as broadly as you have-- and its not fair-- I would remark that it would be a kind of tit-for-tat for everything Bush has taken the blame for that isnt his fault.
For example--
Starting 2 wars without congressional authorization (he had full authorization for both; Obama has started a new war with NO congressional authorization)
Implementing the full body scanners (these were done under Obama's watch, with an Obama-elected TSA head and DHS head)
Causing the market to crash (most economic gurus Ive heard plant the blame squarely on housing loan requirements instituted under Clinton)
And so on. To turn around and act like Dems dont do the exact same crap that you accuse "Republicans" (however broadly you mean that) of is just hypocritical. This is why I can barely tolerate watching politics on TV or listening to it on the radio. Its not just Dems or Republicans who pull this kind of blame game crap and claiming that the other side is retarded and politicking and being obstructionists; but the people who do it need to shut up and get out of politics, because this isnt how adults are supposed to have rational discussion.
For someone to come onto slashdot and to blindly point at their political foes and declare THEM to be irational, fallacious monsters is just ridiculous. I would propose that until you are able to see-- and call foul on-- the shenanigans that your OWN side commits, you are in NO position to accuse others of being irrational.
Sad that it means cutting the jobs associated with those data centers, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
Sad in the sense that Joe may not get a paycheck next month (and I hope Joe and company all find new jobs); not sad in the "its better to pay people to do nothing" sense. If those jobs were unneeded, its not healthy to continue to pay for them. A thriving economy is one in which value is being created, not merely one in which you collect a paycheck.
Nowhere does their marketing material or FAQ talk about circadian rhythm. They are marketing this is a set-it-and-forget-it happy-mood-maker. Thats not how sunlamps work at all, to achieve a specific result you need to use it at a specific time, and it doesnt just "work" with no side effects. When they market it like that, it tells me that it doesnt do a darn thing.
Google a sunlamp vendor, and see what they say about side effects and exercising caution. Youll note that they do NOT advise you to "just pick whenever is most convenient for you"; that can result in screwing up your sleep schedule, as the wikipedia articles you link demonstrate.
And the whole "its not the federal government's place to enact such a law" thing, that has something to do with it as well.
And the potential for harassment and abuse, that too, though that argument is losing some weight as it is increasingly irrelevant whether or not you have an ID.
There are a large, large number of government programs that one could ask "what is it, precisely you dont like about it?" I have, in fact, been asked this about the Obamacare plan.
The simple, easy answer to most of these questions is as follows: A) Most of these cases are NOT the federal government's role, according to the documents (or contracts, if you will) that grant our government its authority B) This is because a large, expansive, powerful central government was originally regarded as a bad thing C) Which is because people are not inherently good, but inherently selfish, and / or arrogant, and / or corruptible. The best leaders are the ones who understand that they are not to be trusted with excessive power.
A good policy is to regard any law that is to be passed as being a negative, and then to have to justify its passage. Each law you pass will by its nature remove some freedom from its citizen, and should only be done if there is some much greater pressing need.
Personally, I am on the fence about an ID system. I recognize a need for enforcement to be able to do their job; but at the same time I am not sure there is sufficient justification for imposing such a system on a national level, particularly given that the design of the USA seems to be, from everything I have read, to have been a coalition of independently governed states with a federal arm that performed ONLY those roles that the states could not.
Yes the robot car could catch someone moving when they shouldn't be.
How does it determine whether the other person is looking at you, waiting for you to go, with his foot off of the brake, or actually preparing to move before you?
Im not saying these are unsolveables, but theyre a heck of a lot more complicated than gp was pretending. There are all sorts of cues that we pick up on that a computer would need to understand.
Its not credible at all when their own website indicates that when you use it doesnt matter. When you use sunlamps absolutely matters, and if this device actually worked using it at night would give you insomnia.
I am in no position to comment on the legitimacy of the product or the efficacy of it's claims, and neither is anyone else here given the complete uselessness of the article presented.
Ill take a shot at it, having used sun-lamps before. Lets take a look at Valkee's FAQ:
Portable and always with you You can use Valkee wherever works best for you. Due to its small size, you can use it in the morning, during your commute or at work. It travels with you like a cell phone and mp3-player.
BS alarm is going crazy, because if you were to start using a sunlamp at 7pm every night you could throw your sleep patterns into disarray. Light therapy usually happens in the morning, because it affects circadian rhythm and part of the point is to make your brain think the sun is rising even in dark winter months (if youre deaing with SAD). Additionally, all the sources ive seen (wikipedia, sun lamp vendors) caution that you should not overuse them because they are mood-altering and can have negative side effects.
Saying that you can use the devices whenever you want for however long you want is a pretty clear indicator that they do nothing whatsoever (protip-- most devices that perform a medical function, other than Vitamin C, do not have a "when you want however much you want" dosing policy).
What time of the day is it best to use Valkee? 70% of users have stated that positive effects are best realized during the morning and 30% have stated that they achieve the best results in the evening. Start using Valkee in the morning preferably 30-60 minutes after waking up. If you do not realize positive results after 3-5 days, use Valkee 1-2 hours prior to going to bed in the evening.
Same issue as above. Also, not having a clear stance on that (and relying on "users" rather than "clinical data") indicates that they really have no clue what this does or why it should work or anything else, other than that you should give them money for a gadget.
MacBook Airs are flying off the shelve with RAM already soldered onto the MB
Thats wonderful for Apple, but it certainly isnt a cost-saving measure. Im sure apple LOVES that you have to buy their ram at ridiculous $50-per-gb rates, rather than popping over to newegg and getting it for one quarter that.
So while Im sure it is great for corporations, it is terrible for the consumer; one of the great things about PCs (and to a lesser extent, laptops) is standardized connectors that allow you to replace parts. Standardizing a system for soldering parts to the board is horrible for the consumer and prevents that.
A mini-sata port is absolutely tiny, and is what Apple uses in the Air (and possible the ipad). I would much rather be able to replace the thing when it inevitably dies, rather than have that extra 1x4x1 cm.
In particular, if we were to take a realistic bar for safety--- beating the average human driver--- the bar is actually pretty low,
You are approaching an intersection with a stopsign, and arrive at the same time as someone to your left. By the law, you have the right of way. However, the person to your left has started drifting forward.
Will the computer system catch that? Or what about when someone is attempting to merge and has indicated by glancing your way?
Its not as easy as youre making it, either, there are a lot of cues on the road that need to be followed so long as other falliable humans are on the road. A good deal of safe driving is anticipating other's actions when they are driving in an unsafe manner-- for instance, car in front of you is following far too closely, and it is misting-- you may want to start tapping your brakes so that when he suddenly stops due to collision you dont cause a pileup.
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Complex ACLs have been around since the inception of NTFS, and remain better than most other commonly used FS ACL options (someone is likely to make a fool out of me with such a broad statement, but oh well).
OSX Lion is also a whopping 3 weeks old, while Win7 is 2 years old. Want to bet that when Windows 8 comes out, it will be more secure than OSX Lion?
Regardless, you and I both know that when the next Pwn2Own comes along, the Probook is going down first. Where the money is, there will be the exploits.
No, the price of graphene would fall. That is generally how it works.
When common flash drive capacities are 8mb (I remember this), getting a 1GB memory stick costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. As soon as it becomes trivial and easy to manufacture the 1GB sticks, the people making them cease to be able to sell them at their previous price-- the 8mb price tanks, the 1GB price drops sharply, and there is a new "high end" mark at a premium price.
Likewise, antimatter and iridium and graphene are extremely expensive because of their difficulty in manufacture. But if it becomes substantially easier to do, the price will fall sharply, unless demand picks up at a substantially greater rate than the production.
Then the guy would have manufactured $15bil worth of the stuff before breaking the story. And in a further twist, theres no guarentee that it would continue to be worth $15bil if he makes that much.
For example, if someone figured out how to make gold on the cheap (super cheap heavy element fusion?), and manufactured $100 trillion in gold, trying to sell it would immediately lower the worth of the entire batch.
They've already done the calculation and the $15bil was just the profit.
Youll note that the price is for "pristine" graphene, and parents point was that if $5 investment could really turn into $15bil, everyone would be doing it. That is, in fact, capitalism at its best.
The discussion isnt about whether we have one, but whether we want one. To say "but we already have one" is irrelevant, and as other posters point out a passport isnt quite the same thing since you do not need to carry it at all times or even have one. You could, theoretically, I think, buy your own private jet and fly to the Arctic without a passport, and Im pretty sure you dont need a passport to take your own private ship to Sealandia (not 100% sure on the UK's stance on that).
But again, all of that is irrelevant to the discussion of "does the federal government have a place in this?"
Subprime lending by Fannie/Freddie (the organizations whose policies Clinton could modify) was not even close to what was being done by the private sector.
Im not really clear how "housing bubble caused by bad lending practices" can be argued. If you cant get a loan because youre a terrible risk, you cant purchase the house that you would have defaulted on.
There were things that the private sector did that made it much worse, but the entire problem was because people who never should have been given loans got them, and then predictably could not pay them off-- that was the initial domino which set off the whole sorry set of them. You can say that this exposed terrible practices in the industry, but you certainly cant blame the industry for CAUSING it (and if you are doing so, should look up what "initial cause" means).
$85 million is what they pay Mozilla, not what Google makes off of those hits. Obviously in order for them to ink the deal, the revenue would have to be >$85mil.
This is Unix! I know this! --Lex
If I remember correctly, it actually WAS Unix.
Republicans dont care if Bush started it, in their eyes anything Obama does is bad, even if it is along their beliefs or party lines
Were that a fair accusation to level as broadly as you have-- and its not fair-- I would remark that it would be a kind of tit-for-tat for everything Bush has taken the blame for that isnt his fault.
For example--
And so on. To turn around and act like Dems dont do the exact same crap that you accuse "Republicans" (however broadly you mean that) of is just hypocritical. This is why I can barely tolerate watching politics on TV or listening to it on the radio. Its not just Dems or Republicans who pull this kind of blame game crap and claiming that the other side is retarded and politicking and being obstructionists; but the people who do it need to shut up and get out of politics, because this isnt how adults are supposed to have rational discussion.
For someone to come onto slashdot and to blindly point at their political foes and declare THEM to be irational, fallacious monsters is just ridiculous. I would propose that until you are able to see-- and call foul on-- the shenanigans that your OWN side commits, you are in NO position to accuse others of being irrational.
Sad that it means cutting the jobs associated with those data centers, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
Sad in the sense that Joe may not get a paycheck next month (and I hope Joe and company all find new jobs); not sad in the "its better to pay people to do nothing" sense. If those jobs were unneeded, its not healthy to continue to pay for them. A thriving economy is one in which value is being created, not merely one in which you collect a paycheck.
Nowhere does their marketing material or FAQ talk about circadian rhythm. They are marketing this is a set-it-and-forget-it happy-mood-maker. Thats not how sunlamps work at all, to achieve a specific result you need to use it at a specific time, and it doesnt just "work" with no side effects. When they market it like that, it tells me that it doesnt do a darn thing.
Google a sunlamp vendor, and see what they say about side effects and exercising caution. Youll note that they do NOT advise you to "just pick whenever is most convenient for you"; that can result in screwing up your sleep schedule, as the wikipedia articles you link demonstrate.
And the whole "its not the federal government's place to enact such a law" thing, that has something to do with it as well.
And the potential for harassment and abuse, that too, though that argument is losing some weight as it is increasingly irrelevant whether or not you have an ID.
There are a large, large number of government programs that one could ask "what is it, precisely you dont like about it?" I have, in fact, been asked this about the Obamacare plan.
The simple, easy answer to most of these questions is as follows:
A) Most of these cases are NOT the federal government's role, according to the documents (or contracts, if you will) that grant our government its authority
B) This is because a large, expansive, powerful central government was originally regarded as a bad thing
C) Which is because people are not inherently good, but inherently selfish, and / or arrogant, and / or corruptible. The best leaders are the ones who understand that they are not to be trusted with excessive power.
A good policy is to regard any law that is to be passed as being a negative, and then to have to justify its passage. Each law you pass will by its nature remove some freedom from its citizen, and should only be done if there is some much greater pressing need.
Personally, I am on the fence about an ID system. I recognize a need for enforcement to be able to do their job; but at the same time I am not sure there is sufficient justification for imposing such a system on a national level, particularly given that the design of the USA seems to be, from everything I have read, to have been a coalition of independently governed states with a federal arm that performed ONLY those roles that the states could not.
Yes the robot car could catch someone moving when they shouldn't be.
How does it determine whether the other person is looking at you, waiting for you to go, with his foot off of the brake, or actually preparing to move before you?
Im not saying these are unsolveables, but theyre a heck of a lot more complicated than gp was pretending. There are all sorts of cues that we pick up on that a computer would need to understand.
They specifically mention photoreceptors, and if heat were the active agent they would be using infrared.
Its not credible at all when their own website indicates that when you use it doesnt matter. When you use sunlamps absolutely matters, and if this device actually worked using it at night would give you insomnia.
I am in no position to comment on the legitimacy of the product or the efficacy of it's claims, and neither is anyone else here given the complete uselessness of the article presented.
Ill take a shot at it, having used sun-lamps before. Lets take a look at Valkee's FAQ:
Portable and always with you
You can use Valkee wherever works best for you. Due to its small size, you can use it in the morning, during your commute or at work. It travels with you like a cell phone and mp3-player.
BS alarm is going crazy, because if you were to start using a sunlamp at 7pm every night you could throw your sleep patterns into disarray. Light therapy usually happens in the morning, because it affects circadian rhythm and part of the point is to make your brain think the sun is rising even in dark winter months (if youre deaing with SAD). Additionally, all the sources ive seen (wikipedia, sun lamp vendors) caution that you should not overuse them because they are mood-altering and can have negative side effects.
Saying that you can use the devices whenever you want for however long you want is a pretty clear indicator that they do nothing whatsoever (protip-- most devices that perform a medical function, other than Vitamin C, do not have a "when you want however much you want" dosing policy).
What time of the day is it best to use Valkee?
70% of users have stated that positive effects are best realized during the morning and 30% have stated that they achieve the best results in the evening. Start using Valkee in the morning preferably 30-60 minutes after waking up. If you do not realize positive results after 3-5 days, use Valkee 1-2 hours prior to going to bed in the evening.
Same issue as above. Also, not having a clear stance on that (and relying on "users" rather than "clinical data") indicates that they really have no clue what this does or why it should work or anything else, other than that you should give them money for a gadget.
He was charged with encouraging others to riot in the city
I dont know what speech protections are like in the UK, but generally countries tend to have restrictions about things like this.
For instance, getting on facebook and setting a time and place for a store looting would probably not be protected in most countries.
It will eventually fail without much recourse for 98% of consumers.
MacBook Airs are flying off the shelve with RAM already soldered onto the MB
Thats wonderful for Apple, but it certainly isnt a cost-saving measure. Im sure apple LOVES that you have to buy their ram at ridiculous $50-per-gb rates, rather than popping over to newegg and getting it for one quarter that.
So while Im sure it is great for corporations, it is terrible for the consumer; one of the great things about PCs (and to a lesser extent, laptops) is standardized connectors that allow you to replace parts. Standardizing a system for soldering parts to the board is horrible for the consumer and prevents that.
mini-pcie.
A mini-sata port is absolutely tiny, and is what Apple uses in the Air (and possible the ipad). I would much rather be able to replace the thing when it inevitably dies, rather than have that extra 1x4x1 cm.
In particular, if we were to take a realistic bar for safety--- beating the average human driver--- the bar is actually pretty low,
You are approaching an intersection with a stopsign, and arrive at the same time as someone to your left. By the law, you have the right of way. However, the person to your left has started drifting forward.
Will the computer system catch that? Or what about when someone is attempting to merge and has indicated by glancing your way?
Its not as easy as youre making it, either, there are a lot of cues on the road that need to be followed so long as other falliable humans are on the road. A good deal of safe driving is anticipating other's actions when they are driving in an unsafe manner-- for instance, car in front of you is following far too closely, and it is misting-- you may want to start tapping your brakes so that when he suddenly stops due to collision you dont cause a pileup.
Im pretty sure they didnt just throw them on the highway with other cars prior to testing.