"...people will go to Google News and realize that there are other viable & better news sources out there."
+1 you win a cookie, that's likely what it is.
Especially since Google doesn't seem to put any sort of highlight on which is the first/original source of the news, and seems to list them alphabetically (how do they decide which one gets the Title URL anyways?), that will likely be part of their argument even though it's basically impossible for Google to do that without having to be spoon fed the stories directly from the website/editors/etc. And who says what first is a pretty major part of the competition between them.
Perhaps not directly, but you could send a message to the videocard/netbook maker to inform them, and they might be able to either help you then (might have an 'experimental' driver or something) or possibly soon after.
Or, perhaps contact, or even browse Ubuntu forums, or one of many other distributions forums and downloads pages, you might find a driver that comes with the original Debian, or RedHat, or one of the netbook specific distro's.
But for starters, if you haven't already, you could at least go into the BIOS (if it's accessible) see if there is anything to improve it there, or the videocard settings within Ubuntu, and start clicking some checkboxes.
Or you could get really adventurous and dig through the drivers (at least the INI and INF files) that XP is using, compare what's in those with what's in the Ubunto ones, could be a simple identifier string.
That too, the list was about 3 more organs long, but then I noticed that it fucked with the flow of the visual appearance of the list, so I randomly deleted some.
It's not that I'm unimpressed, just not really impressed, especially since Asimo already has coordination and calculating abilities of it's own so it's not really "raw" input=result.
House M.D. did this in the latest episode (yesterday's) to some extent.
The patient was paralyzed ("locked in syndrome") and could only communicate by blinking, then lost that ability, so they used an EEG and trained ("think 'up'") the patient to move the cursor on the screen.
Either way, I'm not really impressed as I'm sure this has been going on for about as long as the EEG has been around, which has been for over 100 years now, and NIRS for about 70.
4. Does this break down into any sort of toxin? 5. Can kidneys, livers and pancreases deal with this? 6. How do common diseases or viruses interact with it.
Personally, I think those would rank #1, 2 and 3... but to each their own.
Perhaps, however videocard drivers could also be the cause of all 3, especially video and graphical user interfaces.
But, even the power usage, could be from improperly handling the videocard, or maybe even bypassing it and using the CPU. (fuck if I know, just an assumption)
Ok, well to be fare, there is like an average of 150 comments per-story, and like 30 stories a day or something, so it's only about $45...
But Slashdot isn't exactly huge, there are larger things like social networking that have tens of millions of active people a day, and numerous notifications. It could be argued that they should conglomerate their messages, but a lot of people don't want that, that's why stuff like Twitter, and texting is so popular.
Naturally the business will want to create a compensation, and I can't think of one that doesn't end up being more spam-type bullshit, or everything becoming paid memberships.
What about people on mailing lists? Is your Slashdot account set to e-mail you when someone replies to a comment you made? How many Slashdotters are there? 1.5 million now or something? You expect them to dish out like $15,000 (if everyone had it enabled), and that's only per-reply, per-comment... would end up being in the hundreds of thousands a day...
But I suppose now you'd want to create a registry or something, white and blacklists, that's ok, I'm sure all these service providers would just love to do that for every damn company, organization and website, around the world, they live for that shit.
Who gets to decide who's on which list? Obviously, this needs federal regulation now, now this costs them money, that's ok... they can just raise the cost... lets say 10 cents, that seems fair... but wait, they still want more money, but they can't raise the initial price... I know, they could add an e-mail tax onto internet accounts......
Mhmm, thats why I said "...unless the company could be harassed by politic(ian)s"
But even still, the politics of that company, are probably that way because they are sucking up to a politician/political party for less taxes, more this, less that, whatever...
Although, if your politics differ that strongly from your employer, then you are sort of trapped into mental slavery if you continue to work there. I've left some, and got intentionally fired from a few jobs for that reason because to me it's like, fighting for the Nazi's when you don't believe in their concepts, to what end?
Pretty much the same for business-to-business, you either leave politics out of it (unless it directly deals in it) or don't deal with businesses that contradict your businesses politics. I know that's somewhat black & white, and not "economically viable" and all that, but that's only because they continue to keep it in the gray and have stuff like one company behind 2 parties in a war etc, which is political in one aspect, but monetary in the other, but that's only a different kind of politics.
Hmm, more accurately, they can pay it, or pay less by outsourcing. It could be circumvented if all companies based in X country had to hire people within X country, but even then it would just become regional, the east might be $25, but the west might become more lax in it's regulations, allowing more people to work, drop it down to $20, people from the east who don't qualify there, move to the west, people in the east refuse to go lower than $25, so the east companies outsource to the west, people lose jobs, move to the west as well.
Fear of saying what you want to because you might get fired, but why would the company have any reason to fear it's employees opinions unless the company could be harassed by politic(ian)s.
Same goes for the FBI, IRS and the rest of bullshit organizations, someone speaks out about what they think, and somehow that gives the FBI, or IRS the right to arbitrarily investigate you, the police to follow you, why?
The government is there to serve the people, the people aren't there to serve the government.
As long as the preventative measures are defensive rather than offensive.
ie: you should be allowed to protect access to a document, but not retract any information they may have on the document, or the document itself if they came by it legally.
Or, you can lock the door on your store, but you can't force someone to give back photos of what was in the store if it was in plain view.
I said ridiculously high, never said it would have to become exactly the same.
Besides, if you don't have a job, and refuse to be employed because you aren't making $25 an hour, you'll end up on the street anyways.
Everyone starts wanting more and more money, quiting their job at $12 an hour, going for the $16 an hour, then $20, $25... the companies that were giving you $16, go "fuck this shit" and look outside of the country, the more those numbers rise, the more companies look outside, why give someone $25 an hour to do the same as someone else is willing to take $4, what makes you special? cause you just leased a new car, therefore you are a more valuable employee?
Give them a (valid, profitable) reason why you deserve $25 instead of $4, and they'll gladly hire you.
My point wasn't really to say that it doesn't/isn't effecting the US, only that it's not just the US, or the US is the only one on the negative side.
I'm not an expert, probably not even moderately informed in economics, but I just get kinda of sick of people blaming other countries for the US's imbalance of commerce like the US isn't to blame at all. There are millions of people willing to work, but because of regulations, taxes, insurances, and this ridiculously high standard of living that makes companies outsource, when a lot of the workers are probably willing to do away with all that nonsense and use a basic work = cash, sort of under-the-table thing which seems to be what attracts companies to outsourcing, WYSIWYG systems. Granted in some cases they abuse it, which amounts to basically slavery but that's not a "given".
Honestly though in the global scheme out sourcing is probably a good thing, its only bad for countries who have nothing to offer.
U.S. outsources jobs, fine, "loss of jobs", but what about other countries that don't have say the factories to build large equipment outsourcing to the U.S.? Sort of like WW2, but without the violence. Outsourcing the soldiers, but insourcing the manufacturing.
Hmm, on a somewhat related note, what about people who analyze images and video for a living (I was thinking low quality porn, people desperately looking for "penetration")... but spy satellites, robbery footage, etc...
As far as sex being proven "good" it already has, there are numerous studies done on people who have frequent sex, and not, and the length of their lives etc, however that could just be because of the cardio (which should be good for your eyes too), rather than the actual act itself, but hormones may come into play as well.
The masturbation leading to blindness, is probably a superstition sort of thing, some guy had an orgasm, temporarily making his vision obscured, and he just took it way too far..."luckely I stopped, or it would have been permanent"
I suppose, although technically TPB doesn't host anything but code and text, so maybe in some countries the comments on the torrents, or words/links within the torrent could be "illegal".
But, there are other illegal things ontop of (a few types of) porn, like software/instructions that can by-pass/breach security, or documents and software that have been illegally obtained, and therefore illegal to distribute because you don't legally have the privileges to view, run or distribute but not illegal in the fact that it exists. In some (rare, maybe non-existent) countries it may be illegal to possess certain types of software that is legal elsewhere, like encryption/decryption, or maybe even certain types of calculating software.
Blueprints, satellite footage, signal decryption, nuclear physics, etc etc... "Anarchists Cookbook", and with some recently proposed and/or passed laws, even religious books.
The OP was simply stating that torrent files unto themselves cannot be "illegal" (not yet anyways).
Plus, this is about implications and possible consequences of using The Pirate Bay (public torrent tracker), and Facebook (public social network), not about which way to best circumvent authorities using something that is not TPB + Facebook.
Slashdot Mirror
"...people will go to Google News and realize that there are other viable & better news sources out there."
+1 you win a cookie, that's likely what it is.
Especially since Google doesn't seem to put any sort of highlight on which is the first/original source of the news, and seems to list them alphabetically (how do they decide which one gets the Title URL anyways?), that will likely be part of their argument even though it's basically impossible for Google to do that without having to be spoon fed the stories directly from the website/editors/etc. And who says what first is a pretty major part of the competition between them.
Perhaps not directly, but you could send a message to the videocard/netbook maker to inform them, and they might be able to either help you then (might have an 'experimental' driver or something) or possibly soon after.
Or, perhaps contact, or even browse Ubuntu forums, or one of many other distributions forums and downloads pages, you might find a driver that comes with the original Debian, or RedHat, or one of the netbook specific distro's.
But for starters, if you haven't already, you could at least go into the BIOS (if it's accessible) see if there is anything to improve it there, or the videocard settings within Ubuntu, and start clicking some checkboxes.
Or you could get really adventurous and dig through the drivers (at least the INI and INF files) that XP is using, compare what's in those with what's in the Ubunto ones, could be a simple identifier string.
That too, the list was about 3 more organs long, but then I noticed that it fucked with the flow of the visual appearance of the list, so I randomly deleted some.
Nov. 25th 2007
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=755
Nov. 4th 1988
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel2/727/3075/00095357.pdf?arnumber=95357
Monkey Feeding Itself
Brain-Computer Interface
It's not that I'm unimpressed, just not really impressed, especially since Asimo already has coordination and calculating abilities of it's own so it's not really "raw" input=result.
House M.D. did this in the latest episode (yesterday's) to some extent.
The patient was paralyzed ("locked in syndrome") and could only communicate by blinking, then lost that ability, so they used an EEG and trained ("think 'up'") the patient to move the cursor on the screen.
Either way, I'm not really impressed as I'm sure this has been going on for about as long as the EEG has been around, which has been for over 100 years now, and NIRS for about 70.
4. Does this break down into any sort of toxin?
5. Can kidneys, livers and pancreases deal with this?
6. How do common diseases or viruses interact with it.
Personally, I think those would rank #1, 2 and 3... but to each their own.
I've got absolutely no problem with them, provided they are reasonably accurate, and neither the summary, nor article is flamebait.
Hell, i'd probably even frequent an entire section devoted to it.
Perhaps, however videocard drivers could also be the cause of all 3, especially video and graphical user interfaces.
But, even the power usage, could be from improperly handling the videocard, or maybe even bypassing it and using the CPU. (fuck if I know, just an assumption)
I kinda thought something along those lines as well, like the astronauts stock piling lots and lots of brown missiles.
Ok, well to be fare, there is like an average of 150 comments per-story, and like 30 stories a day or something, so it's only about $45...
But Slashdot isn't exactly huge, there are larger things like social networking that have tens of millions of active people a day, and numerous notifications. It could be argued that they should conglomerate their messages, but a lot of people don't want that, that's why stuff like Twitter, and texting is so popular.
Naturally the business will want to create a compensation, and I can't think of one that doesn't end up being more spam-type bullshit, or everything becoming paid memberships.
I can't tell... are you joking or not?
What about people on mailing lists? Is your Slashdot account set to e-mail you when someone replies to a comment you made? How many Slashdotters are there? 1.5 million now or something? You expect them to dish out like $15,000 (if everyone had it enabled), and that's only per-reply, per-comment... would end up being in the hundreds of thousands a day...
But I suppose now you'd want to create a registry or something, white and blacklists, that's ok, I'm sure all these service providers would just love to do that for every damn company, organization and website, around the world, they live for that shit.
Who gets to decide who's on which list? Obviously, this needs federal regulation now, now this costs them money, that's ok... they can just raise the cost... lets say 10 cents, that seems fair... but wait, they still want more money, but they can't raise the initial price... I know, they could add an e-mail tax onto internet accounts... ...
Fox News?
Fuck Yeah!
Mhmm, thats why I said "...unless the company could be harassed by politic(ian)s "
But even still, the politics of that company, are probably that way because they are sucking up to a politician/political party for less taxes, more this, less that, whatever...
Although, if your politics differ that strongly from your employer, then you are sort of trapped into mental slavery if you continue to work there. I've left some, and got intentionally fired from a few jobs for that reason because to me it's like, fighting for the Nazi's when you don't believe in their concepts, to what end?
Pretty much the same for business-to-business, you either leave politics out of it (unless it directly deals in it) or don't deal with businesses that contradict your businesses politics. I know that's somewhat black & white, and not "economically viable" and all that, but that's only because they continue to keep it in the gray and have stuff like one company behind 2 parties in a war etc, which is political in one aspect, but monetary in the other, but that's only a different kind of politics.
Hmm, more accurately, they can pay it, or pay less by outsourcing. It could be circumvented if all companies based in X country had to hire people within X country, but even then it would just become regional, the east might be $25, but the west might become more lax in it's regulations, allowing more people to work, drop it down to $20, people from the east who don't qualify there, move to the west, people in the east refuse to go lower than $25, so the east companies outsource to the west, people lose jobs, move to the west as well.
Not directly, but indirectly.
Fear of saying what you want to because you might get fired, but why would the company have any reason to fear it's employees opinions unless the company could be harassed by politic(ian)s.
Same goes for the FBI, IRS and the rest of bullshit organizations, someone speaks out about what they think, and somehow that gives the FBI, or IRS the right to arbitrarily investigate you, the police to follow you, why?
The government is there to serve the people, the people aren't there to serve the government.
As long as the preventative measures are defensive rather than offensive.
ie: you should be allowed to protect access to a document, but not retract any information they may have on the document, or the document itself if they came by it legally.
Or, you can lock the door on your store, but you can't force someone to give back photos of what was in the store if it was in plain view.
I said ridiculously high, never said it would have to become exactly the same.
Besides, if you don't have a job, and refuse to be employed because you aren't making $25 an hour, you'll end up on the street anyways.
Everyone starts wanting more and more money, quiting their job at $12 an hour, going for the $16 an hour, then $20, $25... the companies that were giving you $16, go "fuck this shit" and look outside of the country, the more those numbers rise, the more companies look outside, why give someone $25 an hour to do the same as someone else is willing to take $4, what makes you special? cause you just leased a new car, therefore you are a more valuable employee?
Give them a (valid, profitable) reason why you deserve $25 instead of $4, and they'll gladly hire you.
No, but it was good for a laugh...
My point wasn't really to say that it doesn't/isn't effecting the US, only that it's not just the US, or the US is the only one on the negative side.
I'm not an expert, probably not even moderately informed in economics, but I just get kinda of sick of people blaming other countries for the US's imbalance of commerce like the US isn't to blame at all. There are millions of people willing to work, but because of regulations, taxes, insurances, and this ridiculously high standard of living that makes companies outsource, when a lot of the workers are probably willing to do away with all that nonsense and use a basic work = cash, sort of under-the-table thing which seems to be what attracts companies to outsourcing, WYSIWYG systems. Granted in some cases they abuse it, which amounts to basically slavery but that's not a "given".
Honestly though in the global scheme out sourcing is probably a good thing, its only bad for countries who have nothing to offer.
U.S. outsources jobs, fine, "loss of jobs", but what about other countries that don't have say the factories to build large equipment outsourcing to the U.S.? Sort of like WW2, but without the violence. Outsourcing the soldiers, but insourcing the manufacturing.
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_pics/15911/MSI_Wind_1.jpg
(Might also be black)
Thank you Dr. Strangelove.
Hmm, on a somewhat related note, what about people who analyze images and video for a living (I was thinking low quality porn, people desperately looking for "penetration")... but spy satellites, robbery footage, etc...
As far as sex being proven "good" it already has, there are numerous studies done on people who have frequent sex, and not, and the length of their lives etc, however that could just be because of the cardio (which should be good for your eyes too), rather than the actual act itself, but hormones may come into play as well.
The masturbation leading to blindness, is probably a superstition sort of thing, some guy had an orgasm, temporarily making his vision obscured, and he just took it way too far..."luckely I stopped, or it would have been permanent"
I suppose, although technically TPB doesn't host anything but code and text, so maybe in some countries the comments on the torrents, or words/links within the torrent could be "illegal".
But, there are other illegal things ontop of (a few types of) porn, like software/instructions that can by-pass/breach security, or documents and software that have been illegally obtained, and therefore illegal to distribute because you don't legally have the privileges to view, run or distribute but not illegal in the fact that it exists. In some (rare, maybe non-existent) countries it may be illegal to possess certain types of software that is legal elsewhere, like encryption/decryption, or maybe even certain types of calculating software.
Blueprints, satellite footage, signal decryption, nuclear physics, etc etc... "Anarchists Cookbook", and with some recently proposed and/or passed laws, even religious books.
But that's security, and pretty much off-topic.
The OP was simply stating that torrent files unto themselves cannot be "illegal" (not yet anyways).
Plus, this is about implications and possible consequences of using The Pirate Bay (public torrent tracker), and Facebook (public social network), not about which way to best circumvent authorities using something that is not TPB + Facebook.