What I find interesting is the only group that doesn't have Neanderthal genes are Africans. It almost sounds like Caucasians got their light skin and ability to handle the cold from Neanderthals and are hybrids while Africans are the only pure humans. Ironic.
Actually, the pesticides used on Organic food are usually highly carcinogenic. But considered better because they're "Natural" (usually made from flower extracts) The whole point to synthetic pesticides was to make them safer, and more targeted. Rather than killing damn near everything they touch, modern pesticides target specific bugs. You cannot farm on a large scale without pesticides. You can not have that large of a food source in one place without having the insect population balloon out of control as they devour your crop. We didn't have pesticides 200 years ago, but farms were usually just a few acres then.
No, this was a clear violation of CPNI. They either needed to confirm his identity via physical photo ID or his password/Pin over the phone. If they gave ANY information about his account at all, even the fact that he had one, without the Pin/Password they violated CPNI and their fines will be substantial.
Now if his Pin was something stupid like his birthday, well that's his own fault.
Ugh... you're missing the plain and simple truth that polygraphs DONT WORK. They are complete horseshit, like Organic food, Chiropractors and astrology. If the FBI declared that only "Leos" could be entrusted with drug cases, and this guy was teaching people how to trick the FBI into thinking they were "Leos" so they could steal the drugs, would he be helping them in any way? No, because astrology is bullshit.
I used to handle DMCA requests. They apply to anything and everything. You'd think they just apply to actual content, but they also apply to links, torrent files (which are basically just links) and even "activity" (i.e. you get a letter from your ISP for what you supposedly have done with no proof) The whole problem with DMCA is it's so completely vague and nearly impossible to figure out if you're in the right or wrong that the content owners (or even people pretending to be them) can basically make a threat and you have little recourse but to comply or get sued. Even if you win you've spent a lot of money just to keep a link up and usually content owners pockets are very deep.
Eventually this vagueness will get the law struck down when someone goes so far with it that it reaches a high enough court. But until then we're stuck with this bullshit.
Drone: Confirmation on armament of payload? Pilot: Cancel armament Drone: Armament confirmed. Target 48 miles and closing. Pilot: CANCEL TARGET Drone: Confirmed, Arming warhead. Pilot: Warhead?!? Cancel Target!!! Drone: Nuclear detonation will destroy drone, confirm? Pilot: Nuclear? What?!?! Putting her down!!!
*giggles from outside control room*
Pilots friends: Dude we totally got you!! You thought it was going to launch a nuke!!! Hahahaha! Did you piss yourself?!?! Hahahaha! Pilot: No, I put her down in the pacific. *Pilots ex-friends back slowly out of the room*
They have the undersea cable tapped, all of Goolge/Facebook/yahoo's equipment hacked and therefor only need to issue an NSL when they are taking someone to court. So what's the point of this?
they'll actually get seven more paying customers by at least preventing the sort of piracy that makes you go to TPB.
But every single piece of software there is, DRM or not, is on the piratebay already unless it's bellow a certain level of obscurity.
Plenty of people have been burned by virus/malware from visiting TPB
They have? There's some pretty simple rules you can follow to be sure you rarely if ever get a virus. The easiest is: If a torrent has 2000 leaches and you don't see people bitching about a virus in the comments you're probably ok. If you're really paranoid install it on a VM first. DRM doesn't do anything but annoy paying customers.
We haven't built an AI yet, so to say we know how it would or wouldn't work is bullshit. It may very well be that those emotional traits are required for self awareness. Who knows. The first AI will be a shock, and I doubt it will be anything like what we think it will be.
Lastly, I don't think "Samantha" was self aware at the start of the movie. This, I think, came later and is why she left.
You need to think of the NSA as the "Eye of Sauron" Sauron had immense power, but without focus it was spread weakly across the world. But when the Eye was pointed your way, whoa unto you. You can't secure your phone against the NSA. If you get their attention they will have everything. This is the way it will be until the evil is destroyed.
Ok, that thing looks awesome, but it's also the size of a small car. What's the price point? $100k? more? I don't see this thing being useful to anyone but large conglomerates.
The point of this article is not that the FBI went into a companies email server and collected the emails of some criminals. The point of the article is that the FBI declared the entire email service criminal, collected its entire contents, and kept it for their own and then started advertizing it as a legitimate service. This is clearly, without a doubt, unconstitutional. Not only are they violating all the innocent people who were using the services rights, they are violating the CRIMINALS rights as well! They've jeopardized their own convictions and the only 2 outcomes of this are:
1. The convictions stand, and the US continues down this totalitarian surveillance state road. or 2. The SCOTUS finally gets off their collective asses and declares this unconstitutional... unwinding decades worth of convictions based on illegal evidence and releasing tens of thousands of some of the worst criminals we have back on the streets.
Neither on of those options are very palatable and I'd prefer the FBI gets back to investigating rather than spying to do their jobs.
What you saw is a large "Dust devil" I've seen those to. About the size of an office building.
A REAL tornado you can't be within 100 yards of. They reach from the ground to the sky and are usually anywhere from a few dozen yards wide to miles wide at the base. I've survived 2 of those, and if it were an actual tornado, you probably would have crapped yourself for real.
No they weren't. Cellphones were cool from the start. At least, around here anyway. Everyone wanted one. The problem with glass is the same with bluetooth headsets. People ware them even when they're not using them... which makes you look like a douche. Once Google has these embedded in regular glasses this will stop being an issue.
I download the movie and its a DVD screener or cam... I download the movie and its got hardcoded subtitles... I download the movie and it has NO subtitles but have the people in the movie are speaking Russian... I download the movie and get an annoying email that I now have to delete... My ISP feels justified in throttling me because what I'm using my bandwidth for could potentially be piracy...
I'd pay $15/month to rid myself of those annoyences. But the industry has to give me what I get with piracy for free. 1. I can get any movie I want, from any point in time. 2. The video doesn't have 30min of previews before it starts. 3. The video will play anywhere. No silverlight BS 4. The movie is available soon after it leaves theaters... not years later... and no location locks. 5. I can save the movie to disc and do not have to stream it during peak times just because they're terrified that I might make a copy of it.
Of course, everything above they see as revenue generating so it'll never happen. They don't want to use the internet to make as much money as they are making now... they want to use the internet to make ALL the money. As illogical as it seems, declining profits are just as bad as bankruptcy to them. They just keep throwing the ball long hoping someone catches it. All this nonsense about working your way down the field and first downs isn't something they want to think about.
And we've thoroughly explored those planets? I, personally, have no doubt we will eventually find some form of life on both planets. Obvious surface life seems to be unique to earth in our solar system... but even on earth, subsurface life far out numbers its terrestrial counterparts. Mercuries surface does not appear to be "Teeming with life" but that doesn't mean the subsurface isn't And Venus... well we can't see a damned thing there now can we? I don't see how that's a counter example to anything.
until the next time the US decides to invade some random country and they get smart and jam the control signals of the things. Not to mention any missile capable of low orbit could dump enough lead shot into orbit to take out every control satellite they have in just a few hours (along with all of our other satellites as well.
Relativity is the most proven theory in the history of science. Nearly every physics major that's graduated in the past 80 years has proven out a different part of it in some new and unique way as part of their doctoral thesis. Every observation that's ever been made that seems to contradict it has later been found to be faulty or explained by some other phenomena that we hadn't understood as of yet.
Infinities exist everywhere in nature. They are naturally hard for us to understand because of our species engrained believe in the Birth/Death cycle and we feel it should apply to everything just well as it does to us.
Lastly, you are correct, Relativity will fail eventually. Even Einstein knew this. It explains "how" things work but only in limited condition and scales. Just like how Newtonian physics worked at the Macro level and at speeds and timescales humans could measure at the time it was devised, relativity only works at certain scales. But it does not invalidate the predictions of Newtonian physics, it just expands them. Eventually we will learn more and there will be a new theory that either explains it all, or at least improves on what Newtonian and Relativistic physics has shown us.
Why the hell would I want a free ride to walmart? Why can't I sit on my ass in my house, click on all the crap I want and have the car show up with it a few minutes later? Now the car doesn't even need seats.
I think it would take us all of 5min to come up with a way to communicate on line and it would be impossible for the NSA to have any clue what we were up to. An analog cypher that is based on personal knowledge and only shared between a few people is virtually impossible to crack unless one of them is a mole.
Exactly. For example, if you have a cold, the best medicine is Benadryl. Most of the symptoms of the cold are just an over reaction of your bodies imune system and you're basically having an allergic reaction to the virus. All the other over the counter cold medicines don't work very well and usually get you high as a kite. But the Benadryl almost always clears up my symptoms with nothing more than a little drowsiness.
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What I find interesting is the only group that doesn't have Neanderthal genes are Africans. It almost sounds like Caucasians got their light skin and ability to handle the cold from Neanderthals and are hybrids while Africans are the only pure humans. Ironic.
Actually, the pesticides used on Organic food are usually highly carcinogenic. But considered better because they're "Natural" (usually made from flower extracts) The whole point to synthetic pesticides was to make them safer, and more targeted. Rather than killing damn near everything they touch, modern pesticides target specific bugs. You cannot farm on a large scale without pesticides. You can not have that large of a food source in one place without having the insect population balloon out of control as they devour your crop. We didn't have pesticides 200 years ago, but farms were usually just a few acres then.
No, this was a clear violation of CPNI. They either needed to confirm his identity via physical photo ID or his password/Pin over the phone. If they gave ANY information about his account at all, even the fact that he had one, without the Pin/Password they violated CPNI and their fines will be substantial.
Now if his Pin was something stupid like his birthday, well that's his own fault.
Ugh... you're missing the plain and simple truth that polygraphs DONT WORK. They are complete horseshit, like Organic food, Chiropractors and astrology. If the FBI declared that only "Leos" could be entrusted with drug cases, and this guy was teaching people how to trick the FBI into thinking they were "Leos" so they could steal the drugs, would he be helping them in any way? No, because astrology is bullshit.
I used to handle DMCA requests. They apply to anything and everything. You'd think they just apply to actual content, but they also apply to links, torrent files (which are basically just links) and even "activity" (i.e. you get a letter from your ISP for what you supposedly have done with no proof) The whole problem with DMCA is it's so completely vague and nearly impossible to figure out if you're in the right or wrong that the content owners (or even people pretending to be them) can basically make a threat and you have little recourse but to comply or get sued. Even if you win you've spent a lot of money just to keep a link up and usually content owners pockets are very deep.
Eventually this vagueness will get the law struck down when someone goes so far with it that it reaches a high enough court. But until then we're stuck with this bullshit.
Drone: Confirmation on armament of payload?
Pilot: Cancel armament
Drone: Armament confirmed. Target 48 miles and closing.
Pilot: CANCEL TARGET
Drone: Confirmed, Arming warhead.
Pilot: Warhead?!? Cancel Target!!!
Drone: Nuclear detonation will destroy drone, confirm?
Pilot: Nuclear? What?!?! Putting her down!!!
*giggles from outside control room*
Pilots friends: Dude we totally got you!! You thought it was going to launch a nuke!!! Hahahaha! Did you piss yourself?!?! Hahahaha!
Pilot: No, I put her down in the pacific.
*Pilots ex-friends back slowly out of the room*
They have the undersea cable tapped, all of Goolge/Facebook/yahoo's equipment hacked and therefor only need to issue an NSL when they are taking someone to court. So what's the point of this?
they'll actually get seven more paying customers by at least preventing the sort of piracy that makes you go to TPB.
But every single piece of software there is, DRM or not, is on the piratebay already unless it's bellow a certain level of obscurity.
Plenty of people have been burned by virus/malware from visiting TPB
They have? There's some pretty simple rules you can follow to be sure you rarely if ever get a virus. The easiest is: If a torrent has 2000 leaches and you don't see people bitching about a virus in the comments you're probably ok. If you're really paranoid install it on a VM first. DRM doesn't do anything but annoy paying customers.
We haven't built an AI yet, so to say we know how it would or wouldn't work is bullshit. It may very well be that those emotional traits are required for self awareness. Who knows. The first AI will be a shock, and I doubt it will be anything like what we think it will be.
Lastly, I don't think "Samantha" was self aware at the start of the movie. This, I think, came later and is why she left.
You need to think of the NSA as the "Eye of Sauron" Sauron had immense power, but without focus it was spread weakly across the world. But when the Eye was pointed your way, whoa unto you. You can't secure your phone against the NSA. If you get their attention they will have everything. This is the way it will be until the evil is destroyed.
Ok, that thing looks awesome, but it's also the size of a small car. What's the price point? $100k? more? I don't see this thing being useful to anyone but large conglomerates.
The point of this article is not that the FBI went into a companies email server and collected the emails of some criminals. The point of the article is that the FBI declared the entire email service criminal, collected its entire contents, and kept it for their own and then started advertizing it as a legitimate service. This is clearly, without a doubt, unconstitutional. Not only are they violating all the innocent people who were using the services rights, they are violating the CRIMINALS rights as well! They've jeopardized their own convictions and the only 2 outcomes of this are:
1. The convictions stand, and the US continues down this totalitarian surveillance state road.
or
2. The SCOTUS finally gets off their collective asses and declares this unconstitutional... unwinding decades worth of convictions based on illegal evidence and releasing tens of thousands of some of the worst criminals we have back on the streets.
Neither on of those options are very palatable and I'd prefer the FBI gets back to investigating rather than spying to do their jobs.
What you saw is a large "Dust devil" I've seen those to. About the size of an office building.
A REAL tornado you can't be within 100 yards of. They reach from the ground to the sky and are usually anywhere from a few dozen yards wide to miles wide at the base. I've survived 2 of those, and if it were an actual tornado, you probably would have crapped yourself for real.
No they weren't. Cellphones were cool from the start. At least, around here anyway. Everyone wanted one. The problem with glass is the same with bluetooth headsets. People ware them even when they're not using them... which makes you look like a douche. Once Google has these embedded in regular glasses this will stop being an issue.
Oh, it's an iron curtain... it's just that this new and improved one encircles the whole of the world.
Pirating is a pain in the ass.
I download the movie and its a DVD screener or cam...
I download the movie and its got hardcoded subtitles...
I download the movie and it has NO subtitles but have the people in the movie are speaking Russian...
I download the movie and get an annoying email that I now have to delete...
My ISP feels justified in throttling me because what I'm using my bandwidth for could potentially be piracy...
I'd pay $15/month to rid myself of those annoyences. But the industry has to give me what I get with piracy for free.
1. I can get any movie I want, from any point in time.
2. The video doesn't have 30min of previews before it starts.
3. The video will play anywhere. No silverlight BS
4. The movie is available soon after it leaves theaters... not years later... and no location locks.
5. I can save the movie to disc and do not have to stream it during peak times just because they're terrified that I might make a copy of it.
Of course, everything above they see as revenue generating so it'll never happen. They don't want to use the internet to make as much money as they are making now... they want to use the internet to make ALL the money. As illogical as it seems, declining profits are just as bad as bankruptcy to them. They just keep throwing the ball long hoping someone catches it. All this nonsense about working your way down the field and first downs isn't something they want to think about.
And we've thoroughly explored those planets? I, personally, have no doubt we will eventually find some form of life on both planets. Obvious surface life seems to be unique to earth in our solar system... but even on earth, subsurface life far out numbers its terrestrial counterparts. Mercuries surface does not appear to be "Teeming with life" but that doesn't mean the subsurface isn't And Venus... well we can't see a damned thing there now can we? I don't see how that's a counter example to anything.
until the next time the US decides to invade some random country and they get smart and jam the control signals of the things. Not to mention any missile capable of low orbit could dump enough lead shot into orbit to take out every control satellite they have in just a few hours (along with all of our other satellites as well.
Relativity is the most proven theory in the history of science. Nearly every physics major that's graduated in the past 80 years has proven out a different part of it in some new and unique way as part of their doctoral thesis. Every observation that's ever been made that seems to contradict it has later been found to be faulty or explained by some other phenomena that we hadn't understood as of yet.
Infinities exist everywhere in nature. They are naturally hard for us to understand because of our species engrained believe in the Birth/Death cycle and we feel it should apply to everything just well as it does to us.
Lastly, you are correct, Relativity will fail eventually. Even Einstein knew this. It explains "how" things work but only in limited condition and scales. Just like how Newtonian physics worked at the Macro level and at speeds and timescales humans could measure at the time it was devised, relativity only works at certain scales. But it does not invalidate the predictions of Newtonian physics, it just expands them. Eventually we will learn more and there will be a new theory that either explains it all, or at least improves on what Newtonian and Relativistic physics has shown us.
Why the hell would I want a free ride to walmart? Why can't I sit on my ass in my house, click on all the crap I want and have the car show up with it a few minutes later? Now the car doesn't even need seats.
um... this isn't the pick & save... this is the jail... hey car... CAR! Get back here!
The second they get this working on android I'm sold. And I've been playing guitar for 20yrs.
I think it would take us all of 5min to come up with a way to communicate on line and it would be impossible for the NSA to have any clue what we were up to. An analog cypher that is based on personal knowledge and only shared between a few people is virtually impossible to crack unless one of them is a mole.
you dont need flash, you just need HTML5
Exactly. For example, if you have a cold, the best medicine is Benadryl. Most of the symptoms of the cold are just an over reaction of your bodies imune system and you're basically having an allergic reaction to the virus. All the other over the counter cold medicines don't work very well and usually get you high as a kite. But the Benadryl almost always clears up my symptoms with nothing more than a little drowsiness.