Great list, I'd only add one item. Stop trying to bankrupt internet radio. Use at as a medium for promoting new music. Commercial radio is real good at promoting the twenty or so 'hits' that they play over and over and over. Internet radio could be good for promoting everything else. That is if the music industry wasn't intent on killing it.
Your solution is not stupid and counter-productive. It does not facilitate ripping off artists and consumers. It does not involve lawyers and legal threats. Therefore, it will never fly with music industry executives.
The big problem with electric cars is energy storage. Lithium batteries are too expensive, take too long to charge, don't have a high enough energy density, and don't last long enough. If the current work on ultracapacitors pans out (and that's a BIG if) electric cars will become a lot more practical for the mass market.
Real multi-factor authentication requires some thought and the expenditure of time and money. Is it any wonder that some banks have implemented extremely LAME (mother's maiden name, pick a picture) versions of two factor authentication. Ideally, it should be (choose at least two): something you know, something you have, and something you are (and perhaps somewhere you are). Something you know is typically an ID / password pair. Something you have can include a one time pad (Gibson's perfect paper password), an RSA dongle, a Yubikey, or even a cell phone (bank sends key as text message). Something you are is biometrics: fingerprint readers, retina readers, etc. (There's an amusing and horrible joke based in this in a "Red Dwarf" episode). Finally, you can have location based authentication: IP / Mac addresses (potentially spoofable), physically secure workstations (with optional armed guard), etc.
Doesn't work as advertised. Employers love H-1B's. They can pay them considerable less than the going rate and make them work lots of unpaid overtime. If they don't like it - too bad, the employer can have them sent home. It's essentially a modern form of indentured servitude. I've seen enough cases of US employees replaced by lower paid (and often considerably less skilled) H-1B's to know it's not about talent.
You'd think that if the new administration was serious about 'creating jobs', it would call for an end to the H-1B program. Curiously that's not happening. I wonder why?
I for one hope that Sun not only survives, but prospers. Sun has greatly contributed over the years to the development community, particularly FOSS developers.
For what it's worth, most of the inaugural festivities are paid for by Obama's Presidential Inaugural Committee, which is funded by private donations not tax dollars
FWIW, that's not true - the bulk is coming from tax payer dollars.
Whedon did a film about a group of space outlaws in a space-western setting with a tough-talking but somewhat melancholy lead (Serenity). Cowboy Bebop is a story about a group of space bounty hunters in a space-western setting with a tough-talking but somewhat melancholy lead.
I suppose that's easier and cheaper than replacing the Mumbai police's ancient Enfield rifles and providing adequate weapons training to the police force.
The government just needs to enact two laws to solve global warming:
1) Ban all e-commerce 2) Mandate a one thousand year document retention period
All government and commercial transactions will be done on paper drastically increasing demand. Paper companies will chop down trees to make paper and then plant new ones that will pull carbon dioxide out of the air. The carbon in the form of paper will be sequestered by the document retention requirement. Problem solved.
Oh yeah, and to speed commerce we can build a network of pneumatic tubes.
"Before settlement, Ohio lay in the heart of a vast forest wilderness stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Great Plains. None of the world's hardwood forests surpassed this one in variety and size of trees. Ohio's forest was a magnificent sight and an enormous challenge for settlers determined to clear and till the land. Towering oaks, hickories, beeches, maples, walnuts, ashes and chestnuts, some over 150 feet tall, rose from the rich fertile soil below. By 1900, most of Ohio's original forest was decimated. In its place stood wheat, corn, oats, hay and thriving cities.
Through conservation efforts over the past few decades, a magnificent regrowth has occurred. Today, nearly 30 percent of the state is once again supporting a thriving forest. This is most evident in the rugged, unglaciated hill region of southeastern Ohio including Salt Fork State Park."
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Has some of the same specs as the renowned "Lappy 486"; Battery Life: Half of ten minutes.
Great list, I'd only add one item. Stop trying to bankrupt internet radio. Use at as a medium for promoting new music. Commercial radio is real good at promoting the twenty or so 'hits' that they play over and over and over. Internet radio could be good for promoting everything else. That is if the music industry wasn't intent on killing it.
Your solution is not stupid and counter-productive. It does not facilitate ripping off artists and consumers. It does not involve lawyers and legal threats. Therefore, it will never fly with music industry executives.
The big problem with electric cars is energy storage. Lithium batteries are too expensive, take too long to charge, don't have a high enough energy density, and don't last long enough. If the current work on ultracapacitors pans out (and that's a BIG if) electric cars will become a lot more practical for the mass market.
Real multi-factor authentication requires some thought and the expenditure of time and money. Is it any wonder that some banks have implemented extremely LAME (mother's maiden name, pick a picture) versions of two factor authentication. Ideally, it should be (choose at least two): something you know, something you have, and something you are (and perhaps somewhere you are). Something you know is typically an ID / password pair. Something you have can include a one time pad (Gibson's perfect paper password), an RSA dongle, a Yubikey, or even a cell phone (bank sends key as text message). Something you are is biometrics: fingerprint readers, retina readers, etc. (There's an amusing and horrible joke based in this in a "Red Dwarf" episode). Finally, you can have location based authentication: IP / Mac addresses (potentially spoofable), physically secure workstations (with optional armed guard), etc.
taking the H-1B program at face value
Doesn't work as advertised. Employers love H-1B's. They can pay them considerable less than the going rate and make them work lots of unpaid overtime. If they don't like it - too bad, the employer can have them sent home. It's essentially a modern form of indentured servitude. I've seen enough cases of US employees replaced by lower paid (and often considerably less skilled) H-1B's to know it's not about talent.
You'd think that if the new administration was serious about 'creating jobs', it would call for an end to the H-1B program. Curiously that's not happening. I wonder why?
World War II: Rosevelt (D). (more dead americans than any war in history)
Only if you discount the bit of unpleasantness from 1861 - 1865.
I fully support the disappearance of George W Bush anyway.
Never heard of him.
One less thing to worry about.
How 'bout requiring that each copy of Vista ship with a Ubuntu disk labeled 'Vista Service Pack 2'.
Obama has stated that he wants to RAISE the H-1B cap.
I for one hope that Sun not only survives, but prospers. Sun has greatly contributed over the years to the development community, particularly FOSS developers.
You can install Rockbox on the Ipod but then you need the gun mounting for the BFG-9000.
For what it's worth, most of the inaugural festivities are paid for by Obama's Presidential Inaugural Committee, which is funded by private donations not tax dollars
FWIW, that's not true - the bulk is coming from tax payer dollars.
Whedon did a film about a group of space outlaws in a space-western setting with a tough-talking but somewhat melancholy lead (Serenity). Cowboy Bebop is a story about a group of space bounty hunters in a space-western setting with a tough-talking but somewhat melancholy lead.
Wonder who's going to direct. Not many could pull this off. Joss Whedon certainly, but not many others.
Go to grad school while you wait for the economy to turn around. In fact, you might want to go for a PhD.
I suppose that's easier and cheaper than replacing the Mumbai police's ancient Enfield rifles and providing adequate weapons training to the police force.
First there was Rogue - a character graphic adventure game. Then there was Rogue-o-matic. I think there was also a variant called AutoRogue.
He's honest, smart, knowledgeable. Yet despite those handicaps he's served in Congress for many years.
I do a lot of camping and hiking in SE Ohio - there's plenty of forest. Try Google Earth or Google Maps - Satellite view.
The government just needs to enact two laws to solve global warming:
1) Ban all e-commerce
2) Mandate a one thousand year document retention period
All government and commercial transactions will be done on paper drastically increasing demand. Paper companies will chop down trees to make paper and then plant new ones that will pull carbon dioxide out of the air. The carbon in the form of paper will be sequestered by the document retention requirement. Problem solved.
Oh yeah, and to speed commerce we can build a network of pneumatic tubes.
No I meant FOREST From the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources
"Before settlement, Ohio lay in the heart of a vast forest wilderness stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Great Plains. None of the world's hardwood forests surpassed this one in variety and size of trees. Ohio's forest was a magnificent sight and an enormous challenge for settlers determined to clear and till the land. Towering oaks, hickories, beeches, maples, walnuts, ashes and chestnuts, some over 150 feet tall, rose from the rich fertile soil below. By 1900, most of Ohio's original forest was decimated. In its place stood wheat, corn, oats, hay and thriving cities.
Through conservation efforts over the past few decades, a magnificent regrowth has occurred. Today, nearly 30 percent of the state is once again supporting a thriving forest. This is most evident in the rugged, unglaciated hill region of southeastern Ohio including Salt Fork State Park."
The United States used to be one huge forest east of the Mississippi, but we've turned it into farmland
Not permanently. By 1900 all of the original forest in Ohio had been cut down for cities and farm land. Today Ohio is 30% forest.