Okay please explain to me, using WBAL-11 as example, how will analog continue? On 2/18 WBAL will begin broadcasting digital television on channel 11.
Incorrect. The plan was for WBAL to begin broadcasting DTV on channel 11 on 2/18. However, that plan has changed. The new plan is for them to begin broadcasting DTV on channel 11 on 6/18. What is being suggested is that a better plan would be for them to continue broadcasting DTV on channel 59, but to begin broadcasting a "buy a converter box now!" message on NTSC channel 11 on 2/18. Then begin broadcasting DTV on channel 11 on some later date (3/18 or whatever).
This really isn't hard to understand—you should consider that if you're having to repeat things so many times, it could be that the problem is that you're not understanding what people are saying, not that they're not understanding you.
Could you point us to your edits? I glanced through the history of Cataract surgery, and didn't spot any edit where a mention of the CrystaLens was added or removed, although I may have missed it. Someone added a link to the CrystaLens to the Intraocular lens article back in August 2007, and as far as I can tell, it's been in there ever since... it's certainly mentioned right now.
Googling for the first few words finds a transcript of the SMS here. Basically says, "I, the new Prime Minister, invite you to help bring Thailand out of its crisis. If you're interested in being contacted by me, please send your 5-digit postal code to 9191 (3 baht)."
Indeed the GP should be modded "-1 head up ass". When the king dies expect a coup every couple of months.
Heh, seeing that you said Samak Sundaravej was never voted into power, but was instead installed by the Army, and also said that Somchai Wongsawat was similarly never voted into power, you've got your head too far up your ass to be able to see where anyone else's head is.
That's a nice theory about the new PM, but as far as I can tell, he's part of a coalition of minor parties and he spoke out over the army coup in 2006. He was actually supported by the King, not the military.
While it's true that the Democrats are in coalition with minor parties, I would hardly call the Democrat party itself a "minor party"--they were the #2 party behind TRT/PPP before the latter's dissolution.
Admittedly, the Suvanabhumi airport fiasco and the removal of Somchai, the democratically-elected PM was sad, but there's no way to know how corrupt those elections were. A vote sold for two beers when I lived there. The PPP (Somchai's party) was apparently dissolved for buying votes, though there's some evidence that it was business as usual.
Well, election monitors from the EU said that the 2007 election that put the PPP and Samak Sundaravej in power went mostly smoothly, despite complaints of vote-buying. Yes, it's unfortunate that vote-buying is commonplace in Thailand, but according to Transparency International, corruption in Thailand went down while Thaksin was in power, and went back up after the coup. Their CPI for Thailand was 3.0 in 1998, then stayed at 3.2 until 2003, when it went up to 3.3, then 3.6, then to a high of 3.8 in 2005. 2006 saw it fall to 3.6, then 3.3. Their latest report for 2008 has it at 3.5. Higher scores means less corruption. Thaksin was PM from 2001 to 2006. Now, none of those number are particularly good on a global scale (Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden tied for least corrupt this year, with a score of 9.3--the USA is at 7.3 along with Belgium and Japan), so Thailand certainly has a ways to go, but the allegations of corruption against Thaksin sound more like sour grapes to me--the traditional elite are just upset that they're no longer the ones getting their palms greased.
Disclaimer: I do know former Democrat PM Chuan Leekpai as a very very casual acquaintance--I'm certainly not buddy-buddy with him, but I have met with him one-on-one a few times. However, I don't feel that I'm being biased either for or against the Democrats in this post.
Only in your dreams. G1 sales haven't even hit 1 million yet, although HTC expects it to reach that number by the end of the year. The 1 millionth iPhone was sold back in September 2007, and a million iPhone 3Gs were sold in its first weekend.
So why didn't you? You gave a different saying, left off the cedilla in ça, and misspelled "pareil". $RANDOMLUSER got it right, except he had to leave off the last word because it wouldn't fit in the Subject line. The full saying is, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
There certainly are major differences between the US and Europe in terms of banking. I have never even heard of a "bill paying" service before, when I want to pay my bills I log on to my bank.
Could you detail some of those major differences? Because what you describe sounds exactly like what I do with my US bank.
Most banks hold you responsible for any automated clearing house fraud
Hmm, I was under the impression that NACHA says that consumers have 60 days to challenge an unauthorized ACH debit. Bank of America certainly didn't hassle me at all when I reported four counterfeit checks totalling about $1400 drawn from my account (two were processed the old-fashioned way, two were converted to ACH debits). They credited me the two paper checks immediately. For the ACH conversions, I had to send in an affidavit saying the debits were unauthorized, and they credited me about a week later.
Useful perhaps if you want to keep the data on it from prying eyes, but wouldn't just encryption solve the same problem?
Yes, I do want to keep my data from prying eyes. I couldn't care less what happens to the laptop itself--my insurance company will give me money to buy another one. And encryption doesn't do much if the laptop was on and logged in when it got stolen... which is the entire point of this service. Turn the computer off and all the encryption keys are gone.
The Photon Micro-Light series of keychain LED flashlights have the LED connected straight to a lithium coin cell battery or two. Mine uses a pair of CR2016s, and has worked fine for years. You need to take into consideration the resistance of the battery.
I'm surprised you don't own any Media Access Controllers--anyone with a broadband internet connection is bound to have an Ethernet card, and I suspect most Slashdotters have broadband.
3) The ARMY PUT prime minister SAMAK IN CHARGE (no vote)
Haha, you really are clueless, aren't you? Some farang trying to sound smart, I bet. The army appointed Surayud Chulanont as PM [source]. Samak Sundaravej most certainly was elected democratically. He won 310 to 163 [source].
4) SAMAK resigns due to (surprise) corruption
He did not resign, he was forced out [source]. And it wasn't for corruption, it was for being paid to host a cooking show while being PM.
5) The party that was kicked out with Taksin for corruption puts Taksin's brother-in-law in charge. (no vote again and now Taksin is back in charge of the country via his brother-in-law)
The People's Power Party wasn't kicked out; they still have numerous seats in parliament. Thaksin's party, which was dissolved by court order, was the Thai Rak Thai party. And Thaksin's (note the spelling) brother in law was voted in 298 to 163 [source].
You have a mouth for asshole? All you're saying is bullshit!
I guess you can only resort to personal attacks, since you don't actually know anything about Thailand. I'm done with you.
So they just magically became PM? No, you're wrong. As in any other representative democracy, the people indirectly voted for them. In the US, they don't directly vote for the president either--they technically vote for electors in the electoral college, and the electoral college votes for the president. However, in casual discussion, people talk about voting for the president. In the same way, the Thai people vote for their PM.
As I understand it, the king of Thailand is fairly relaxed about this stuff and often pardons people convicted of lese-majeste offences.
He has always pardoned them, in fact. He doesn't like the law and says it only causes him trouble. Unfortunately for him, he's just the king, and and isn't a position to do anything about it.
Show your people your strength and confidence, repeal the law concerning insults against you and show that you have no fear of your critics and that your people truly love their king.
How do you propose he do that? He has no power to repeal laws (or enact them, for that matter). He does have the power to pardon those who are convicted under that law, and has publicly stated that he will do so. In the same speech, he said that he does not agree with the law: Commentary on the speech and the relevant portion of the speech.
The real reason the lawmakers are keeping the lese majeste law around, despite the king's objection to it, is that it's a powerful political tool. All you have to do is accuse someone of insulting the king, and *bam* they're under investigation. Doesn't matter if there's any evidence or not--they may get acquitted in the end, but you've already gotten the police to hassle them. See this article for a recent example.
The link you posted is a testament to this. The problem was found and fixed extremely quickly. I can't trust Microsoft with the same response, and nobody else should trust them either.
It took two years before the problem was found... if that's what you consider "extremely quickly," then MS must be ludicrously fast. From the link in question, "a Debian packager modified the source code of OpenSSL back in 2006..."
40-bit SSL was broken over a decade ago. "But everyone uses 128-bit keys! It's not SSL's fault if someone chooses to use such a short key!," I hear you exclaim. Well the same thing applies to WPA. Choose a strong key and you'll make brute force attacks impractical.
And as for MITM attacks, do you really want to pay some CA a yearly fee so you can use your wireless network? I guess if you know what you're doing, you can set up a self-signed certificate and tell your access point to only trust that cert, but that's beyond the ability of the average user who just wants to watch Youtube on their laptop. And if you do know what you're doing, a pre-shared passphrase isn't the only way to authenticate--you can use certificates if you're willing and able to set up the infrastructure for it. In fact, EAP-TLS is basically the same protocol as SSL.
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Okay please explain to me, using WBAL-11 as example, how will analog continue? On 2/18 WBAL will begin broadcasting digital television on channel 11.
Incorrect. The plan was for WBAL to begin broadcasting DTV on channel 11 on 2/18. However, that plan has changed. The new plan is for them to begin broadcasting DTV on channel 11 on 6/18. What is being suggested is that a better plan would be for them to continue broadcasting DTV on channel 59, but to begin broadcasting a "buy a converter box now!" message on NTSC channel 11 on 2/18. Then begin broadcasting DTV on channel 11 on some later date (3/18 or whatever).
This really isn't hard to understand—you should consider that if you're having to repeat things so many times, it could be that the problem is that you're not understanding what people are saying, not that they're not understanding you.
Could you point us to your edits? I glanced through the history of Cataract surgery, and didn't spot any edit where a mention of the CrystaLens was added or removed, although I may have missed it. Someone added a link to the CrystaLens to the Intraocular lens article back in August 2007, and as far as I can tell, it's been in there ever since... it's certainly mentioned right now.
Personally, I don't want a tungsten-like spectrum--I want a Sun-like one (the visible portions, at least... I could do without the UV and IR).
Googling for the first few words finds a transcript of the SMS here. Basically says, "I, the new Prime Minister, invite you to help bring Thailand out of its crisis. If you're interested in being contacted by me, please send your 5-digit postal code to 9191 (3 baht)."
Indeed the GP should be modded "-1 head up ass". When the king dies expect a coup every couple of months.
Heh, seeing that you said Samak Sundaravej was never voted into power, but was instead installed by the Army, and also said that Somchai Wongsawat was similarly never voted into power, you've got your head too far up your ass to be able to see where anyone else's head is.
That's a nice theory about the new PM, but as far as I can tell, he's part of a coalition of minor parties and he spoke out over the army coup in 2006. He was actually supported by the King, not the military.
While it's true that the Democrats are in coalition with minor parties, I would hardly call the Democrat party itself a "minor party"--they were the #2 party behind TRT/PPP before the latter's dissolution.
Admittedly, the Suvanabhumi airport fiasco and the removal of Somchai, the democratically-elected PM was sad, but there's no way to know how corrupt those elections were. A vote sold for two beers when I lived there. The PPP (Somchai's party) was apparently dissolved for buying votes, though there's some evidence that it was business as usual.
Well, election monitors from the EU said that the 2007 election that put the PPP and Samak Sundaravej in power went mostly smoothly, despite complaints of vote-buying. Yes, it's unfortunate that vote-buying is commonplace in Thailand, but according to Transparency International, corruption in Thailand went down while Thaksin was in power, and went back up after the coup. Their CPI for Thailand was 3.0 in 1998, then stayed at 3.2 until 2003, when it went up to 3.3, then 3.6, then to a high of 3.8 in 2005. 2006 saw it fall to 3.6, then 3.3. Their latest report for 2008 has it at 3.5. Higher scores means less corruption. Thaksin was PM from 2001 to 2006. Now, none of those number are particularly good on a global scale (Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden tied for least corrupt this year, with a score of 9.3--the USA is at 7.3 along with Belgium and Japan), so Thailand certainly has a ways to go, but the allegations of corruption against Thaksin sound more like sour grapes to me--the traditional elite are just upset that they're no longer the ones getting their palms greased.
Disclaimer: I do know former Democrat PM Chuan Leekpai as a very very casual acquaintance--I'm certainly not buddy-buddy with him, but I have met with him one-on-one a few times. However, I don't feel that I'm being biased either for or against the Democrats in this post.
Only in your dreams. G1 sales haven't even hit 1 million yet, although HTC expects it to reach that number by the end of the year. The 1 millionth iPhone was sold back in September 2007, and a million iPhone 3Gs were sold in its first weekend.
Lastly, Fedex and UPS use USPS to transport mail since it is cheaper.
fixed that for you
So why didn't you? You gave a different saying, left off the cedilla in ça, and misspelled "pareil". $RANDOMLUSER got it right, except he had to leave off the last word because it wouldn't fit in the Subject line. The full saying is, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
There certainly are major differences between the US and Europe in terms of banking. I have never even heard of a "bill paying" service before, when I want to pay my bills I log on to my bank.
Could you detail some of those major differences? Because what you describe sounds exactly like what I do with my US bank.
Most banks hold you responsible for any automated clearing house fraud
Hmm, I was under the impression that NACHA says that consumers have 60 days to challenge an unauthorized ACH debit. Bank of America certainly didn't hassle me at all when I reported four counterfeit checks totalling about $1400 drawn from my account (two were processed the old-fashioned way, two were converted to ACH debits). They credited me the two paper checks immediately. For the ACH conversions, I had to send in an affidavit saying the debits were unauthorized, and they credited me about a week later.
Useful perhaps if you want to keep the data on it from prying eyes, but wouldn't just encryption solve the same problem?
Yes, I do want to keep my data from prying eyes. I couldn't care less what happens to the laptop itself--my insurance company will give me money to buy another one. And encryption doesn't do much if the laptop was on and logged in when it got stolen... which is the entire point of this service. Turn the computer off and all the encryption keys are gone.
The Photon Micro-Light series of keychain LED flashlights have the LED connected straight to a lithium coin cell battery or two. Mine uses a pair of CR2016s, and has worked fine for years. You need to take into consideration the resistance of the battery.
I'm not a MAC owner
I'm surprised you don't own any Media Access Controllers--anyone with a broadband internet connection is bound to have an Ethernet card, and I suspect most Slashdotters have broadband.
WHOOSH!
haha, you're so fucking ignorant..
NO U
1) They KICKED OUT the prime minister Taksin for CORRUPTION.
1) FYI, his name is Thaksin. Taksin is a former king.
2) The ARMY TOOK OVER (I was there when it happened, where the fuck were you fatass american?)
Hat Yai, IIRC.
3) The ARMY PUT prime minister SAMAK IN CHARGE (no vote)
Haha, you really are clueless, aren't you? Some farang trying to sound smart, I bet. The army appointed Surayud Chulanont as PM [source]. Samak Sundaravej most certainly was elected democratically. He won 310 to 163 [source].
4) SAMAK resigns due to (surprise) corruption
He did not resign, he was forced out [source]. And it wasn't for corruption, it was for being paid to host a cooking show while being PM.
5) The party that was kicked out with Taksin for corruption puts Taksin's brother-in-law in charge. (no vote again and now Taksin is back in charge of the country via his brother-in-law)
The People's Power Party wasn't kicked out; they still have numerous seats in parliament. Thaksin's party, which was dissolved by court order, was the Thai Rak Thai party. And Thaksin's (note the spelling) brother in law was voted in 298 to 163 [source].
You have a mouth for asshole? All you're saying is bullshit!
I guess you can only resort to personal attacks, since you don't actually know anything about Thailand. I'm done with you.
So they just magically became PM? No, you're wrong. As in any other representative democracy, the people indirectly voted for them. In the US, they don't directly vote for the president either--they technically vote for electors in the electoral college, and the electoral college votes for the president. However, in casual discussion, people talk about voting for the president. In the same way, the Thai people vote for their PM.
I have read up on the subject, and have personal knowledge of the subject too. Care to actually answer my question instead of dodging it?
So who do you claim voted for the prime minister, if it wasn't the people.
You're right
I always am. Glad we agree.
I think your tinfoil hat needs adjustment.
As I understand it, the king of Thailand is fairly relaxed about this stuff and often pardons people convicted of lese-majeste offences.
He has always pardoned them, in fact. He doesn't like the law and says it only causes him trouble. Unfortunately for him, he's just the king, and and isn't a position to do anything about it.
Show your people your strength and confidence, repeal the law concerning insults against you and show that you have no fear of your critics and that your people truly love their king.
How do you propose he do that? He has no power to repeal laws (or enact them, for that matter). He does have the power to pardon those who are convicted under that law, and has publicly stated that he will do so. In the same speech, he said that he does not agree with the law: Commentary on the speech and the relevant portion of the speech.
The real reason the lawmakers are keeping the lese majeste law around, despite the king's objection to it, is that it's a powerful political tool. All you have to do is accuse someone of insulting the king, and *bam* they're under investigation. Doesn't matter if there's any evidence or not--they may get acquitted in the end, but you've already gotten the police to hassle them. See this article for a recent example.
The link you posted is a testament to this. The problem was found and fixed extremely quickly. I can't trust Microsoft with the same response, and nobody else should trust them either.
It took two years before the problem was found... if that's what you consider "extremely quickly," then MS must be ludicrously fast. From the link in question, "a Debian packager modified the source code of OpenSSL back in 2006 ..."
40-bit SSL was broken over a decade ago. "But everyone uses 128-bit keys! It's not SSL's fault if someone chooses to use such a short key!," I hear you exclaim. Well the same thing applies to WPA. Choose a strong key and you'll make brute force attacks impractical. And as for MITM attacks, do you really want to pay some CA a yearly fee so you can use your wireless network? I guess if you know what you're doing, you can set up a self-signed certificate and tell your access point to only trust that cert, but that's beyond the ability of the average user who just wants to watch Youtube on their laptop. And if you do know what you're doing, a pre-shared passphrase isn't the only way to authenticate--you can use certificates if you're willing and able to set up the infrastructure for it. In fact, EAP-TLS is basically the same protocol as SSL.