To be fair, WB is the one who put amazon in a crap situation in this one. They had a pre-order for a blue ray, for like $25....The move did exceptionally better than they anticipated, so WB decided NOT to produce the cheaper blu ray, and then put out a new $40 one. Amazon then had to cancel all the other cheaper pre orders, and deal with the legitimately pissed off customers. Amazon is doing some shady things, but they certainly aren't alone in it.
They aren't to blame for the Hatchet fiasco either. Hatchet was found guity of price fixing against Amazon.There is nothing wrong with Amazon putting the screws to them.
Wind chill works because of evaporation on the skin, right? I don't think anyone is going to be walking around on Mars outside a biosphere, in a T-shirt. If you're wearing a space suit, wind chill is totally irrelevant or am I missing something?
Windchill has nothing to do with sweat. It's more like stirring a pot of spaghetti sauce to make it heat up faster. You're helping the heat diffuse faster. Your body sweating is designed to take advantage of the process, but it would still happen with our without the sweat.
And any politician that did this would immediately be tarred as doing something that hurts America and helps The Terrorists.
So? Snowden gave up his freedom, citizenship and possibly will be murdered or sent to prison for the rest of his life over the same issue. Apathy is how we got here. Trying to rationalize evil only leads to more evil.
Cisco will sell the equipment required to maintain these "fast lanes" All their engineers are probably freaking out about this, but their Marketing and Sales departments are salivating.
From what I understand, it creates a VM that can be sent to, and consume the resources of, any machine that's also running the docker software. You can control this remotely. It's an isolated environment so the application cannot interact with the host system, so it secures the hardware. So, lets say you have a bitcoin mining app (random example) and hundreds of computers all over. Rather that installing it on each one, you can just send your application over to each one using this Docker thing and each processes will run locally on that machine. In one of their examples it says this is how spottify deploys their streaming servers.
I suspect that we're going to have to give up on being able to reliably ban such stuff.
You could never "Reliably" ban such stuff. I've NEVER seen theater staff inside a theater... ever... Whenever I go, I take a backpack filled with soda and food. You could take in a professional HD camera on a tripod in and if you sat in the back I doubt they'd even notice. Even if they did notice, all of those workers are making minimum wage. $20 and they'd suddenly forget all about you.
I have to hand it to this individual for definitely thinking outside-the-box and hooking up three types of systems using interfaces you'd not expect to be used in this manner, and coming up with something which is (at least in his case) useful.
This was very gratifying to watch.
I agree. If I had this guy in an interview I'd hire him on the spot. This is what I'd call "real" intelligence. I'm very impressed. I bet in a year he is sending a regular data streem over that same line. You could have a whole I/O stream over that if you were clever.
I hate to say it, but the space program was going along great while under the Airforce. As soon as NASA got involved in the late 50's we had a mess. The Shuttle program was an unmitigated disaster. It set us back decades, if we'd stuck with the Apollo program we'd have been much better off.
Speaking of the airforce, anyone know how they're getting their mini-robot spy shuttle into orbit? You'd think people would notice the launch. Or are they doing it from the ocean?
I already have one. And it's not a desktop model. You'd be amazed what you can get at auctions.
But again, I have to log into autocad (or something similar) to use it. That eliminates its usefulness in a lot of cases. If I can order the part for $20, its not worth my time. Being able to copy a part on the spot however... now that'd be handy.
yea, but getting me 75% of the way would be helpful. A photocopier doesn't make a perfect copy, but good enough for what you need. That's what I'm looking for.
For example, the most common thing I'd copy are parts. Bushings, handles, gears, etc... Positioned correctly a gear could be copied if the resolution were high enough. A set of Russian Matryoshka dolls? You'd need some sort of Xray scanner for that. That's not what I'm looking for. If I can print out the majority of what I need and only have to follow up with an exacto or dremel tool to clean it up it'd be worth $500. If I have to hop into autocad every time I want to print something, my time is expensive and it suddenly becomes too expensive to use. I might as well order the part.
They fundamentally believe that your physical safety is more important than our individual rights.
I'd be more inclined to say that they value their own power and influence over your individual rights (I'm not American, and so have no rights in their eyes). If they really worried about your physical safety, they would be getting evidence on polluters, unsafe working conditions, social collapse, the prison industry, and all the other things that contribute to the decay of your quality of life.
This is the problem with totalitarianism. When you're wrong, no one is allowed to disagree with you unless they're willing to move to Hong Kong or Moscow.
The NSA, The CIA, the FBI and the Justice department have already been caught in BOLD FACED LIES in regards to their activities on dozens of occasions. The Presidents (both Obama and Bush) have gone on National Television and lied directly to the American people regarding this programs over and over and over again. Several NSA directors have gone in front of congress and lied while under oath. They were then called back and admitted that they're lied. You cannot trust anything they say at all. The only solution to this is to shut down the agency. They are willing to violate the law, the constitution, court order and even the will of the president. No regulatory reform or court order will be effective against an agency that thinks its charter is more important than obeying the law or will of the people. They fundamentally believe that your physical safety is more important than our individual rights. That is totalitarianism. It is not a belief that is compatible with democracy.
They say they want "fundamental reform", but they won't be specific about the "reform" they're proposing. Without specifics, "reform" can mean anything (or nothing).
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has ruled (correctly) that spending money to print pamphlets, create a video, or publish a book about politics is free speech. So how "fundamental" can any reform actually be? Are they planning to amend the Constitution so the government can arrest people for making videos or publishing books?
I can't believe people are giving money to these guys.
Yes they are. You have to read their FAQ lol Basically all they are doing at first is planning to back the opponents of candidates that do not support "reform" They don't have to be specific, they just need to state they want "reform" in any form.
Later they will do more fund raising and get behind a particular proposal. The specifically mention 5. 2 democratic, 2 republican and 1 bipartisan.
So if you're donating to this particular campaign you're donating to get congress to agree that "Reform" is an issue that needs to be addressed. When it's time to support a specific proposal there will be new fundraisers and you can decide at that time if you support that particular proposal.
How does an anti-pac work? Do they pay the TV stations not to run the ads from the other super-pacs?
They will have a hit list. If you don't support reform, they will fund your opponent. This is how Super Pacs work, they use their money to influence small changes in policy on the part of candidates. Like reform... it's an easy thing to support with very little opposition. The candidate doesn't even have to make a big deal out of it. He just changes some wording on his website and viola, he doesn't have to worry about this PAC giving his opponent money. His opponents thinking the same thing so now BOTH sides of race are pro-reform.
They will likely do well at first. But when an actual reform bill comes up, the Eye of Sauron will be on them. When this comes up for a vote every other Super Pac in the country will realize their power is being challenged and the full weight of the political establishment will turn on them. They will face literally billions of dollars of opposition. I really doubt their ability to fundraise that kind of cash.
I'm not sure how, but I'd never heard of this "Comics Code" you mentioned in your question. Wow! That's a hell of a story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... Thank god that's dead.
I agree, it does look a lot more solid. I'm starting to think 3D printers are getting into the price range that they might be worth purchasing. I think the last thing I'm waiting on is for the price of 3D scanners to come down. If I could get a combination unit, basically this thing with a built in scanner, for about the same price, I'd probably pull the trigger. The ability to put in a plastic part and push a "Copy" button would be of great use to me and many of my projects.
Yet "Justifiable Homicide" by the police when attacked has almost doubled: http://tacreports.org/storage/... (i.e. their response is more violent) While the number of citizens killed by police in general has remained the same despite the reduction in violent crime.
Police murdered while on duty is at a 50yr low, so it's not like they are in some new mortal danger. https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
The AT&T hack was considered a hack and all the dude did was go to an url that was something like: att.com/account/1234 and change the number at the end to: 1235 etc... He got... 10yrs was it?
It doesn't take a smart man to realize preventing others from building the only devices capable of charging your car is dumb. Imagine if GM held the patent to the gasoline pump and tried to charge people for building alternative pumps.
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Tech-savvy folks rip physical media and ffmpeg it into whatever format their device prefers. Fools spend money on DRM'ed downloads.
Tech Savvy folks haven't touched Physical media in 10yrs.
To be fair, WB is the one who put amazon in a crap situation in this one. They had a pre-order for a blue ray, for like $25....The move did exceptionally better than they anticipated, so WB decided NOT to produce the cheaper blu ray, and then put out a new $40 one. Amazon then had to cancel all the other cheaper pre orders, and deal with the legitimately pissed off customers. Amazon is doing some shady things, but they certainly aren't alone in it.
They aren't to blame for the Hatchet fiasco either. Hatchet was found guity of price fixing against Amazon.There is nothing wrong with Amazon putting the screws to them.
Wind chill works because of evaporation on the skin, right? I don't think anyone is going to be walking around on Mars outside a biosphere, in a T-shirt. If you're wearing a space suit, wind chill is totally irrelevant or am I missing something?
Windchill has nothing to do with sweat. It's more like stirring a pot of spaghetti sauce to make it heat up faster. You're helping the heat diffuse faster. Your body sweating is designed to take advantage of the process, but it would still happen with our without the sweat.
And any politician that did this would immediately be tarred as doing something that hurts America and helps The Terrorists.
So? Snowden gave up his freedom, citizenship and possibly will be murdered or sent to prison for the rest of his life over the same issue. Apathy is how we got here. Trying to rationalize evil only leads to more evil.
Cisco will sell the equipment required to maintain these "fast lanes" All their engineers are probably freaking out about this, but their Marketing and Sales departments are salivating.
From what I understand, it creates a VM that can be sent to, and consume the resources of, any machine that's also running the docker software. You can control this remotely. It's an isolated environment so the application cannot interact with the host system, so it secures the hardware. So, lets say you have a bitcoin mining app (random example) and hundreds of computers all over. Rather that installing it on each one, you can just send your application over to each one using this Docker thing and each processes will run locally on that machine. In one of their examples it says this is how spottify deploys their streaming servers.
No worries, the theater industry will be long dead by then.
I suspect that we're going to have to give up on being able to reliably ban such stuff.
You could never "Reliably" ban such stuff. I've NEVER seen theater staff inside a theater... ever... Whenever I go, I take a backpack filled with soda and food. You could take in a professional HD camera on a tripod in and if you sat in the back I doubt they'd even notice. Even if they did notice, all of those workers are making minimum wage. $20 and they'd suddenly forget all about you.
I have to hand it to this individual for definitely thinking outside-the-box and hooking up three types of systems using interfaces you'd not expect to be used in this manner, and coming up with something which is (at least in his case) useful.
This was very gratifying to watch.
I agree. If I had this guy in an interview I'd hire him on the spot. This is what I'd call "real" intelligence. I'm very impressed. I bet in a year he is sending a regular data streem over that same line. You could have a whole I/O stream over that if you were clever.
I hate to say it, but the space program was going along great while under the Airforce. As soon as NASA got involved in the late 50's we had a mess. The Shuttle program was an unmitigated disaster. It set us back decades, if we'd stuck with the Apollo program we'd have been much better off.
Speaking of the airforce, anyone know how they're getting their mini-robot spy shuttle into orbit? You'd think people would notice the launch. Or are they doing it from the ocean?
I already have one. And it's not a desktop model. You'd be amazed what you can get at auctions.
But again, I have to log into autocad (or something similar) to use it. That eliminates its usefulness in a lot of cases. If I can order the part for $20, its not worth my time. Being able to copy a part on the spot however... now that'd be handy.
No I didn't. Who said I'd use MY account?
You basically have a giant brute force target sitting there city wide.
Ok, I'm generally on the side of the ISPs (I work for one) but this is nuts.
On another note, I totally want this. It immunizes you from DMCA letters.
"Sorry Comcast, I'm not pirating movies. It could have been anyone!"
yea, but getting me 75% of the way would be helpful. A photocopier doesn't make a perfect copy, but good enough for what you need. That's what I'm looking for.
For example, the most common thing I'd copy are parts. Bushings, handles, gears, etc... Positioned correctly a gear could be copied if the resolution were high enough. A set of Russian Matryoshka dolls? You'd need some sort of Xray scanner for that. That's not what I'm looking for. If I can print out the majority of what I need and only have to follow up with an exacto or dremel tool to clean it up it'd be worth $500. If I have to hop into autocad every time I want to print something, my time is expensive and it suddenly becomes too expensive to use. I might as well order the part.
According to Wikipedia they all agreed to it to avoid federal regulation. Much like the music industry did later because of the PMRC.
Here's one plan that may be doable: http://anticorruptionact.org/
Scroll down a bit to see the specific points.
I'm a Libertarian and, while I have reservations, I see this as better than what we currently have. I want liberty from government AND business.
They fundamentally believe that your physical safety is more important than our individual rights.
I'd be more inclined to say that they value their own power and influence over your individual rights (I'm not American, and so have no rights in their eyes). If they really worried about your physical safety, they would be getting evidence on polluters, unsafe working conditions, social collapse, the prison industry, and all the other things that contribute to the decay of your quality of life.
This is the problem with totalitarianism. When you're wrong, no one is allowed to disagree with you unless they're willing to move to Hong Kong or Moscow.
The NSA, The CIA, the FBI and the Justice department have already been caught in BOLD FACED LIES in regards to their activities on dozens of occasions. The Presidents (both Obama and Bush) have gone on National Television and lied directly to the American people regarding this programs over and over and over again. Several NSA directors have gone in front of congress and lied while under oath. They were then called back and admitted that they're lied. You cannot trust anything they say at all. The only solution to this is to shut down the agency. They are willing to violate the law, the constitution, court order and even the will of the president. No regulatory reform or court order will be effective against an agency that thinks its charter is more important than obeying the law or will of the people. They fundamentally believe that your physical safety is more important than our individual rights. That is totalitarianism. It is not a belief that is compatible with democracy.
They say they want "fundamental reform", but they won't be specific about the "reform" they're proposing. Without specifics, "reform" can mean anything (or nothing).
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has ruled (correctly) that spending money to print pamphlets, create a video, or publish a book about politics is free speech. So how "fundamental" can any reform actually be? Are they planning to amend the Constitution so the government can arrest people for making videos or publishing books?
I can't believe people are giving money to these guys.
Yes they are. You have to read their FAQ lol
Basically all they are doing at first is planning to back the opponents of candidates that do not support "reform" They don't have to be specific, they just need to state they want "reform" in any form.
Later they will do more fund raising and get behind a particular proposal. The specifically mention 5. 2 democratic, 2 republican and 1 bipartisan.
So if you're donating to this particular campaign you're donating to get congress to agree that "Reform" is an issue that needs to be addressed. When it's time to support a specific proposal there will be new fundraisers and you can decide at that time if you support that particular proposal.
How does an anti-pac work? Do they pay the TV stations not to run the ads from the other super-pacs?
They will have a hit list. If you don't support reform, they will fund your opponent. This is how Super Pacs work, they use their money to influence small changes in policy on the part of candidates. Like reform... it's an easy thing to support with very little opposition. The candidate doesn't even have to make a big deal out of it. He just changes some wording on his website and viola, he doesn't have to worry about this PAC giving his opponent money. His opponents thinking the same thing so now BOTH sides of race are pro-reform.
They will likely do well at first. But when an actual reform bill comes up, the Eye of Sauron will be on them. When this comes up for a vote every other Super Pac in the country will realize their power is being challenged and the full weight of the political establishment will turn on them. They will face literally billions of dollars of opposition. I really doubt their ability to fundraise that kind of cash.
I'm not sure how, but I'd never heard of this "Comics Code" you mentioned in your question.
Wow! That's a hell of a story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Thank god that's dead.
I agree, it does look a lot more solid. I'm starting to think 3D printers are getting into the price range that they might be worth purchasing. I think the last thing I'm waiting on is for the price of 3D scanners to come down. If I could get a combination unit, basically this thing with a built in scanner, for about the same price, I'd probably pull the trigger. The ability to put in a plastic part and push a "Copy" button would be of great use to me and many of my projects.
Violent Crime rates are the lowest they've been for decades: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
Yet "Justifiable Homicide" by the police when attacked has almost doubled: http://tacreports.org/storage/...
(i.e. their response is more violent)
While the number of citizens killed by police in general has remained the same despite the reduction in violent crime.
Police murdered while on duty is at a 50yr low, so it's not like they are in some new mortal danger.
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
The AT&T hack was considered a hack and all the dude did was go to an url that was something like:
att.com/account/1234
and change the number at the end to: 1235
etc...
He got... 10yrs was it?
... a very smart man.
It doesn't take a smart man to realize preventing others from building the only devices capable of charging your car is dumb. Imagine if GM held the patent to the gasoline pump and tried to charge people for building alternative pumps.