I don't think so. Like I said above, I don't know that much about the subject, but I don't think radiation+water is that simple or we wouldn't have problems with dealing with radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. Isn't the water and steam used to cool nuclear power plants not safe to just release back into the environment?
Eh. Don't know about the specifics; just answering your question. I know there's stuff like the Gulf Stream off the coast of Mexico/USA where water currents stay mostly intact but move around, and there was the concern that it would move the polution from the BP spill across the Atlantic. Don't know if that happens for water 6000 km under.
In any case, there are still plenty of situations between water acting like solid lead, and water perfectly diluting all the radiation across the entire ocean.
If this were true, why would they turn down a buyout offer from Google? I think the founders really think they can do well with this model. And I, for one, would love to see this industry mature into something that ends up actually being a sustainable model.
Just because the interests of Groupon and the local businesses are at odds with one another doesn't mean that they can't come to an equilibrium that works for both parties (and for us, the customers).
Why? How is this better than a simple flat discount? It seems like you'd just turn off customers who feel like they've been gypped out of a better deal?
You could still track listen's/"purchases"/downloads of your work and charge people a nominal fee (say $0.25) for download so artists don't inflate their own scores.
Maybe with a well design system where it's easy to get to these downloads, there will be no incentive to pirate. iTunes won't be happy though. Major music labels probably wouldn't agree to such a change either.
Except that the human mind can read it faster and more reliably when the letters are in the correct order. (And simply correct.)
Lazy and barely-literate types will mewl "o u new wut i ment", and it's true that a reasonably intelligent person can figure it out, but communication is easier and less stressful when everyone uses standard spelling. The fact that an experienced reader can go beyond deciphering individual phonemes and recognize the patterns is one part of that.
I would actually like to contradict this. I read by the shape of the word too, so as long as the length and general shape of the word is right, I oftentimes won't notice a mispelling, and I'll sometime even fill in missing words because the overall shape of a phrase is correct.
This leads to two different issues: I'll misread phrases because of that, and "o u new wut i ment" is extraordinarily difficult for me to read because it's spelled out phonetically, and when I read, I don't hear the sound. I go straight from shape>word>meaning. However, the parent's famous quote doesn't make me even pause, so I don't think the order of letters matters to me.
This also makes me a poor speller, unless I'm paying a lot of attention to the words (say because I'm sounding out the word because I'm learning a new language).
That's not really the case here. Not treating all your prisoners like garbage goes beyond rehabilitation vs punishment.
For one thing, these prisoners are clearly not serial killers and such if they're even considering Xboxes and PS3s. The issue they cited with the consoles was not being able to remove internet access, which I feel shouldn't be that hard to deal with. And yes, it will make it a lot easier to run and keep order in the prison, which isn't easy in the first place.
Sending even your minor offense prisoners off to break rocks is not very practical.
Also: even in a more rehabilitation-oriented system, being in prison still sucks more than being out of it. Freedom and privacy are a big deal to most people, and you don't get much of either in prison.
I agree. There's almost nothing you need to do right now that requires you be directly connected, even in a commercial environment, much less a home environment. You don't need to be directly connected to the internet to host webpage or for bittorrent to work. You only need a single port for each of those, and sticking those behind a gateway/bastion host is fantastic.
Maybe if IPv6 takes off, we'll want to be able to configure all our devices remotely, but that is not the case for most home users today. We're suffering from too much access to machines, not too little.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like title (of both the original article and the slashdot post) is misleading as the article uses very precise wording.
The Senate measure, which mirrors the House resolution, says Congress “disapproves” of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, which “shall have no force or effect.”
Congress, and the EFF as well, disapprove of the FCC having this sort of power over content restrictions on the internet. This power to determine what can and can't go through internet pipes (and what can't be restricted) should be restricted to the legislative branch of the government, not an agency headed by appointed members.
This legislation is not anti-net neutrality; it is keeping the FCC's power in check, which I am all for.
Besides the fact that the FCC doesn't have to listen to voters as much as Congress does, the net neutrality rules that the FCC wants to put into place are far from perfect, and (at some point at least; I am not up to date on the detail) it even included an exception to net neutrality rules in order to aid compliance with copyright enforcement.
Multiple source files means multiple times the space usage.
Yeah, but you're talking web apps. We care about file size because of bandwidth far more than space usage, because that is where the costs are going to be. And maybe some less significant costs involved in CPU cycles for processing videos (converting into multiple files, etc.?). The end user won't download both source files.
You are supposed presume innocence, but you still do your best to investigate something suspicious. You presume Bush got elected correctly because that's what the results show, but you still investigate if the elections were hacked.
Please don't apply "reasonable doubt" willy-nilly to support whatever side of the argument you're on if you don't want debates to devolve into stupid "uh huh"/"nuh-uh" arguments.
You would be dumb enough to use personal information on a public laptop in a shop?
You don't lose your rights to privacy because you are dumb. In fact, there are arguments that the state of computer security right now is such that you can't avoid doing something unsafe with your personal information thanks to everything from social media to lack of awareness to limitations of technology. That doesn't mean the law doesn't apply.
I'd pay for it. I have multiple machines all running multiple browsers. I also often reformat my machines. What xmarks does is not easy, AND they do it quite well, so they have a lot more going for them than a single lousy patent-able idea.
Yeah, I know organizations like the RIAA exist and profit solely from the concept of exclusive rights to intellectual property, but some companies still make money by making something GOOD.
I'm happy to see my money going toward something I've been using for free for years, and I'm happy that my money is going toward something I'd like to succeed for once.
When this many people love it, maybe you should actually take the time to look into what it does before dismissing it. You think you're the first person in the world to notice that you can export bookmarks?
But more interestingly is that sexual predators (I have no idea whether this guy fits that or not) more or less have a life sentence because after their prison time is up, they can get administrative detention forever if no one believes that they have reformed.
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I don't think so. Like I said above, I don't know that much about the subject, but I don't think radiation+water is that simple or we wouldn't have problems with dealing with radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. Isn't the water and steam used to cool nuclear power plants not safe to just release back into the environment?
Eh. Don't know about the specifics; just answering your question. I know there's stuff like the Gulf Stream off the coast of Mexico/USA where water currents stay mostly intact but move around, and there was the concern that it would move the polution from the BP spill across the Atlantic. Don't know if that happens for water 6000 km under.
In any case, there are still plenty of situations between water acting like solid lead, and water perfectly diluting all the radiation across the entire ocean.
You are probably forced to use Experian a lot more than you are forced to use New Jersey DMV.
I think the point is that lead can be used to isolate the radioactive material and will stay localized, but if the water is irradiated, it spreads.
Polarized sunglasses are all horizontally polarized. Maybe you could work around that so that you need vertically polarized glasses.
If this were true, why would they turn down a buyout offer from Google? I think the founders really think they can do well with this model. And I, for one, would love to see this industry mature into something that ends up actually being a sustainable model.
Just because the interests of Groupon and the local businesses are at odds with one another doesn't mean that they can't come to an equilibrium that works for both parties (and for us, the customers).
Why? How is this better than a simple flat discount? It seems like you'd just turn off customers who feel like they've been gypped out of a better deal?
You could still track listen's/"purchases"/downloads of your work and charge people a nominal fee (say $0.25) for download so artists don't inflate their own scores.
Maybe with a well design system where it's easy to get to these downloads, there will be no incentive to pirate. iTunes won't be happy though. Major music labels probably wouldn't agree to such a change either.
What does "GP" stand for?
Except that the human mind can read it faster and more reliably when the letters are in the correct order. (And simply correct.)
Lazy and barely-literate types will mewl "o u new wut i ment", and it's true that a reasonably intelligent person can figure it out, but communication is easier and less stressful when everyone uses standard spelling. The fact that an experienced reader can go beyond deciphering individual phonemes and recognize the patterns is one part of that.
I would actually like to contradict this. I read by the shape of the word too, so as long as the length and general shape of the word is right, I oftentimes won't notice a mispelling, and I'll sometime even fill in missing words because the overall shape of a phrase is correct.
This leads to two different issues: I'll misread phrases because of that, and "o u new wut i ment" is extraordinarily difficult for me to read because it's spelled out phonetically, and when I read, I don't hear the sound. I go straight from shape>word>meaning. However, the parent's famous quote doesn't make me even pause, so I don't think the order of letters matters to me.
This also makes me a poor speller, unless I'm paying a lot of attention to the words (say because I'm sounding out the word because I'm learning a new language).
What now?
That's not really the case here. Not treating all your prisoners like garbage goes beyond rehabilitation vs punishment.
For one thing, these prisoners are clearly not serial killers and such if they're even considering Xboxes and PS3s. The issue they cited with the consoles was not being able to remove internet access, which I feel shouldn't be that hard to deal with. And yes, it will make it a lot easier to run and keep order in the prison, which isn't easy in the first place.
Sending even your minor offense prisoners off to break rocks is not very practical.
Also: even in a more rehabilitation-oriented system, being in prison still sucks more than being out of it. Freedom and privacy are a big deal to most people, and you don't get much of either in prison.
They couldn't afford to buy nano-gas.
I agree. There's almost nothing you need to do right now that requires you be directly connected, even in a commercial environment, much less a home environment. You don't need to be directly connected to the internet to host webpage or for bittorrent to work. You only need a single port for each of those, and sticking those behind a gateway/bastion host is fantastic.
Maybe if IPv6 takes off, we'll want to be able to configure all our devices remotely, but that is not the case for most home users today. We're suffering from too much access to machines, not too little.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like title (of both the original article and the slashdot post) is misleading as the article uses very precise wording.
The Senate measure, which mirrors the House resolution, says Congress “disapproves” of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, which “shall have no force or effect.”
Congress, and the EFF as well, disapprove of the FCC having this sort of power over content restrictions on the internet. This power to determine what can and can't go through internet pipes (and what can't be restricted) should be restricted to the legislative branch of the government, not an agency headed by appointed members.
This legislation is not anti-net neutrality; it is keeping the FCC's power in check, which I am all for.
Besides the fact that the FCC doesn't have to listen to voters as much as Congress does, the net neutrality rules that the FCC wants to put into place are far from perfect, and (at some point at least; I am not up to date on the detail) it even included an exception to net neutrality rules in order to aid compliance with copyright enforcement.
Sources:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-perils-and-promise (Oct 2009) - regarding FCC's drafting net neutrality rules
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/net-neutrality-fcc-trojan-horse-redux (May 2010) - issue revisited
https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/01/14 (Jan 2010) - EFF comments on net neutrality loophole regarding blocking copyright infringement.
I'm not sure what your point is. Making other formats available in addition does not exclude Theora.
You should probably stop visiting Lego.com
Multiple source files means multiple times the space usage.
Yeah, but you're talking web apps. We care about file size because of bandwidth far more than space usage, because that is where the costs are going to be. And maybe some less significant costs involved in CPU cycles for processing videos (converting into multiple files, etc.?). The end user won't download both source files.
Off topic: For some reason, when I read that, it made me think "...Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone".
Uh. You're completely reversing the analogy.
You are supposed presume innocence, but you still do your best to investigate something suspicious.
You presume Bush got elected correctly because that's what the results show, but you still investigate if the elections were hacked.
Please don't apply "reasonable doubt" willy-nilly to support whatever side of the argument you're on if you don't want debates to devolve into stupid "uh huh"/"nuh-uh" arguments.
You would be dumb enough to use personal information on a public laptop in a shop?
You don't lose your rights to privacy because you are dumb. In fact, there are arguments that the state of computer security right now is such that you can't avoid doing something unsafe with your personal information thanks to everything from social media to lack of awareness to limitations of technology. That doesn't mean the law doesn't apply.
Seeing as how Xmarks has been around for 6 years and this hasn't happened yet, that's exactly what I think.
I'd pay for it. I have multiple machines all running multiple browsers. I also often reformat my machines. What xmarks does is not easy, AND they do it quite well, so they have a lot more going for them than a single lousy patent-able idea.
Yeah, I know organizations like the RIAA exist and profit solely from the concept of exclusive rights to intellectual property, but some companies still make money by making something GOOD.
I'm happy to see my money going toward something I've been using for free for years, and I'm happy that my money is going toward something I'd like to succeed for once.
When this many people love it, maybe you should actually take the time to look into what it does before dismissing it. You think you're the first person in the world to notice that you can export bookmarks?
But more interestingly is that sexual predators (I have no idea whether this guy fits that or not) more or less have a life sentence because after their prison time is up, they can get administrative detention forever if no one believes that they have reformed.
Cool. I'm all for this.