Nissan motors sued him, his company and a third company which had nothing to do with their trademark simply because he was a shareholder.(yes nissan motors is that scummy) Last I heard it's cost him a million bucks to defend his domain name.
I've come to the conclusion that a fair portion of the crap sold as "ergonomic" is a scam.
Last big company I worked for was big into it and some of the equipment was good but some shyster salesman got them to buy a large quantity of very expensive "ergonomic" keyboards for when people are in meetings with their laptops.
They were laptop keyboards, same layout, same shape. People would have been better off unplugging their full sized keyboards from their desks and bringing them with them.
I was also sorely(litterally) disappointed with the "ergonomic" chair. After a couple of months sitting in it my back was hurting: it was all properly adjusted, it was just crap. quietly switched back to a normal non-ergonomic cheap chair when the boss wasn't around and my back went back to normal.
It makes me wonder if perhaps the companies selling "ergonomic" equipment have some kind of incentive to make sure that ergonomics becomes a serious issue in their clients workplaces.
I've never had problems getting some free hosting with basic scripting. A fair few also offer some kind of limited database use.
was the last time you tried to get free hosting in the 90's?
we're not trying to host a major ecommerce site here. this is to host a few apps and perhaps some showcases of your work. if you have problems with large files then don't host them on your own site, there's loads of sites like rapidshare, megaupload, filesonic etc which will host large files for free.
as for income if it's popular then a few ads will likely cover the pocket change of buying a cheap hosting package.
you seem to want to convince yourself that there is some insurmountable obstacle here.
I grew up in a country without separation of church and state: Catholicism used to be written into our constitution and confirmation/communion were organized through the schools though since they were public schools and freedom of religion is also written into our constitution none of the religious stuff was mandatory.
I went to a school which had religion classes which pretty much were like the GP, we covered a little on most of the major religions and somehow the teachers had zero difficulty separating science class from religion class.
basic sex education was covered in school, our biology books included evolution without any disclaimers or ID crap and human biology was covered without faltering and I never heard of any parents making a fuss about it.
But then I'm from a european country. The insane evangelical stuff and rejection of science seems to be a very american problem.
for information purposes. what is actually on wikileaks:
Abbottabad is mentioned 4 times on the site. twice as someones place of birth. once as somewhere where someone went to get his masters degree. once as somewhere someones family lived for a few months.
If Hitler had been shot in 1937 he'd probably be remembered as one of the great statesmen of the 20th century. He brought in a lot of very successful and very popular social programs. He wasn't just popular for being charismatic.
If it wasn't for the genocide he would have had a very different place in the history books.
well there's the very very occasional absolute monster who's only justification is "I like the taste" who's got something wrong with their brain but generally that's absolutely true, yes.
electronic document experts would be useless because it's just a scan and if you're going to forge a document you might as well forge with physical paper and then scan it.
The sort of people who will do the most horrific and soul chilling things can go home, hug their kids and go to the community picnic. I have no doubt that you're sure the people you know in the intelligence community are good people and I'm sure they're sure they're good people as well. but that doesn't really mean anything.
it's hard to imagine but the guards at concentration camps can have coffee mugs with "worlds best dad" just like anyone else. a good man, just following orders, who believes he's doing what is right can be far more scary than any mere psychopath.
Polymorphic and Metamorphic viruses already exist and it's been proven mathematically that detecting such code is NP-complete. (Spinellis, Diomidis; Reliable identification of bounded-length viruses is NP-complete, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 49(1):280â"284, January 2003. doi:10.1109/TIT.2002.806137)
The scanners are so bad at detecting viruses because it's an example of Enumerating Badness which is one of the 6 dumbest ideas in security which just won't die.
Rather than trying to keep track of the few thousand or tens of thousands of things that should be running on your own network and white-listing those you either try to keep track of everything bad in the world or pay someone else to. Then you try to blacklist those. Thus you get an antivirus scanner.
any groups who do research but don't have a factory producing would also get swept up.
Requiring that they have at least 1 working example would be a big improvement but requiring product sales just hurts legit R&D outfits.
The patent trolls would keep on trolling, the ones which actually have any kind of working implementation of any form would just sell one unit to the company owners son.
You seem to want a system where you somehow cannot be attacked with patents belonging to someone else you may be infringing but if someone violates your own then you want to be able to effectively go after them.
Last thing I'd want to do is come up with some whizbang unpatented compression technique, only to find out some MegaMondoCorp has turned it into a multi-billion dollar product leaving me in the dust. on the other hand, I don't want to be sued because my for loop looks too similar to some code sitting in some code base unused for 20 years.
so you want to both have your cake and eat it too? to be protected yourself but have the ability to go after others?
as it stands it's impossible to tell with certainty if you've violated one of the millions of patents out there as the problem is functionally equivalent to the halting problem.
so you build your lovely wizzbang application and make a profit and someone can swoop in and take it all away over a patent you have not a chance in hell of finding.
I'd agree with you totally that people ignore normal waste far too much.
there are some areas of the old soviet union that in my opinion are far more hazardous to live in than most of the exclusion zone.
I think someone linked earlier in the topic to the article about the area where heavy metal pollution is so bad that they've started to process the river sludge and normal soil there like low grade ore *for a profit*. It's that polluted. Hell even in the US I've heard of plans to "mine" coal sludge and fly ash pits for valuable(and highly poisonous) heavy metals.
If half the amount of effort were put into making sure that conventional industry worldwide took better care of it's waste the world would be a far cleaner and healthier place.
it's just important to consider nuclear waste in the context of normal waste particularly when a lot of the current dominant forms of power generation produce really insane quantities of that normal waste.
there is nothing, nothing I would like to see more than some really vast orbital power arrays, the sahara covered in von Neumann machines producing solar panels, copious amounts of wind turbines or fusion generators popping up but unfortunately right now, this decade, nuclear is the only alternative to coal, gas and oil which could step in and take their place in it's current state.
while it's waste is very very dangerous it's blessedly concentrated and there's very little volume of it.
It would be insane to shut everything down overnight but often the differences in cost aren't dramatic. it's the difference between building a nuclear plant or a coal plant when you're building a new one anyway.
from just that one change you'd cut CO2 emissions by almost 50% over the next 40 or 50 years without any other changes to industry getting us most of the way there and also get lots of other benefits from not putting huge quantities of mercury, lead and arsenic into the air.
Why is it bad for us to wait a few decades? because in a few decades the exact same people will be still saying that another few decades are fine... the rise in sealevel was perfectly natural and icecaps were only ever a myth fabricated by the left and as for those silly old claims about sea currents which supposedly used to exist. Hah!
It depends: reactor housings are fairly sturdy so it's unlikely that the whole thing would be vaporized by a Tunguska like event (which was more akin to a nuclear blast ) but a bigger rock could. I have no idea what a really big impact would do but it's safe to say that we'd have bigger problems.
hell if a really big one hit it wouldn't matter where it hit, we'd all be dead anyway.
Plutonium is not natural but neither are many substances. Pleanty of other sources of radiation are natural and just as dangerous. There are places on the earth surface where natural background radiation is so high that you'd never be allowed work in a nuclear plant if you'd grown up there because you'd already be far over your lifetime dose limits.
Some of the most dangerous toxins in existance are perfectly natural.
so the naturalness of something is a very very very bad place to start to decide how dangerous it is in comparison to other things.
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You're fucked no matter how much right to your domain name you have.
Nissan Computer Corporation owned by one Mr Uzi Nissan
http://www.nissan.com/
Nissan motors sued him, his company and a third company which had nothing to do with their trademark simply because he was a shareholder.(yes nissan motors is that scummy)
Last I heard it's cost him a million bucks to defend his domain name.
yes, you've got me.
I've never done a randomised controlled trial of ergonomic equipment, nor have I compiled extensive stats.
All I can go on is the handful of items I've encountered sold specifically as "ergonomic".
I've come to the conclusion that a fair portion of the crap sold as "ergonomic" is a scam.
Last big company I worked for was big into it and some of the equipment was good but some shyster salesman got them to buy a large quantity of very expensive "ergonomic" keyboards for when people are in meetings with their laptops.
They were laptop keyboards, same layout, same shape.
People would have been better off unplugging their full sized keyboards from their desks and bringing them with them.
I was also sorely(litterally) disappointed with the "ergonomic" chair. After a couple of months sitting in it my back was hurting: it was all properly adjusted, it was just crap. quietly switched back to a normal non-ergonomic cheap chair when the boss wasn't around and my back went back to normal.
It makes me wonder if perhaps the companies selling "ergonomic" equipment have some kind of incentive to make sure that ergonomics becomes a serious issue in their clients workplaces.
I've never had problems getting some free hosting with basic scripting.
A fair few also offer some kind of limited database use.
was the last time you tried to get free hosting in the 90's?
we're not trying to host a major ecommerce site here. this is to host a few apps and perhaps some showcases of your work. if you have problems with large files then don't host them on your own site, there's loads of sites like rapidshare, megaupload, filesonic etc which will host large files for free.
as for income if it's popular then a few ads will likely cover the pocket change of buying a cheap hosting package.
you seem to want to convince yourself that there is some insurmountable obstacle here.
yet there's no shortage of free hosting sites out there and setting up on one is downright trivial.
you wouldn't want to run a significant site off such hosting but if demand is that high then you can probably get the money to buy some cheap hosting.
I grew up in a country without separation of church and state: Catholicism used to be written into our constitution and confirmation/communion were organized through the schools though since they were public schools and freedom of religion is also written into our constitution none of the religious stuff was mandatory.
I went to a school which had religion classes which pretty much were like the GP, we covered a little on most of the major religions and somehow the teachers had zero difficulty separating science class from religion class.
basic sex education was covered in school, our biology books included evolution without any disclaimers or ID crap and human biology was covered without faltering and I never heard of any parents making a fuss about it.
But then I'm from a european country.
The insane evangelical stuff and rejection of science seems to be a very american problem.
Anonymous?
bah!
Not a chance!
To me this looks like the work of the famous lone wolf known as "Somebody"!
for information purposes.
what is actually on wikileaks:
Abbottabad is mentioned 4 times on the site.
twice as someones place of birth.
once as somewhere where someone went to get his masters degree.
once as somewhere someones family lived for a few months.
Obligatory XKCD
http://xkcd.com/570/
If Hitler had been shot in 1937 he'd probably be remembered as one of the great statesmen of the 20th century.
He brought in a lot of very successful and very popular social programs.
He wasn't just popular for being charismatic.
If it wasn't for the genocide he would have had a very different place in the history books.
well there's the very very occasional absolute monster who's only justification is "I like the taste" who's got something wrong with their brain but generally that's absolutely true, yes.
it's a low rez scan.
so it looks odd.
electronic document experts would be useless because it's just a scan and if you're going to forge a document you might as well forge with physical paper and then scan it.
of course.
total certain atheism is irrational.
tooth fairy agnosticism is the sensible approach as in:
"the existence of god is about as likely as the existence of the tooth fairy"
now let us put our hands together and ask the tooth fairy to help with the weather.
in reality demons are rare.
The sort of people who will do the most horrific and soul chilling things can go home, hug their kids and go to the community picnic.
I have no doubt that you're sure the people you know in the intelligence community are good people and I'm sure they're sure they're good people as well.
but that doesn't really mean anything.
it's hard to imagine but the guards at concentration camps can have coffee mugs with "worlds best dad" just like anyone else.
a good man, just following orders, who believes he's doing what is right can be far more scary than any mere psychopath.
it should also be noted that there's a line "Follow us on Facebook" on this site...
http://www.wikileaks.ch/gitmo/
Which leads to here:
http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks
no need for the computers if you have the discipline and without the computers card counting is 100% perfectly legal.
the house can still kick you out and refuse to let you gamble with the if you win too much though.
Pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Polymorphic and Metamorphic viruses already exist and it's been proven mathematically that detecting such code is NP-complete.
(Spinellis, Diomidis; Reliable identification of bounded-length viruses is NP-complete, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 49(1):280â"284, January 2003. doi:10.1109/TIT.2002.806137)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_code
The scanners are so bad at detecting viruses because it's an example of Enumerating Badness which is one of the 6 dumbest ideas in security which just won't die.
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
Rather than trying to keep track of the few thousand or tens of thousands of things that should be running on your own network and white-listing those you either try to keep track of everything bad in the world or pay someone else to. Then you try to blacklist those.
Thus you get an antivirus scanner.
any groups who do research but don't have a factory producing would also get swept up.
Requiring that they have at least 1 working example would be a big improvement but requiring product sales just hurts legit R&D outfits.
The patent trolls would keep on trolling, the ones which actually have any kind of working implementation of any form would just sell one unit to the company owners son.
who said anything about extremism?
You seem to want a system where you somehow cannot be attacked with patents belonging to someone else you may be infringing but if someone violates your own then you want to be able to effectively go after them.
myself I'd like a pony.
Last thing I'd want to do is come up with some whizbang unpatented compression technique, only to find out some MegaMondoCorp has turned it into a multi-billion dollar product leaving me in the dust. on the other hand, I don't want to be sued because my for loop looks too similar to some code sitting in some code base unused for 20 years.
so you want to both have your cake and eat it too?
to be protected yourself but have the ability to go after others?
as it stands it's impossible to tell with certainty if you've violated one of the millions of patents out there as the problem is functionally equivalent to the halting problem.
so you build your lovely wizzbang application and make a profit and someone can swoop in and take it all away over a patent you have not a chance in hell of finding.
authoritarian government, it isn't too concerned about consumer safety.
reclaim land?
That sounds more like dikes.
I'd agree with you totally that people ignore normal waste far too much.
there are some areas of the old soviet union that in my opinion are far more hazardous to live in than most of the exclusion zone.
I think someone linked earlier in the topic to the article about the area where heavy metal pollution is so bad that they've started to process the river sludge and normal soil there like low grade ore *for a profit*.
It's that polluted.
Hell even in the US I've heard of plans to "mine" coal sludge and fly ash pits for valuable(and highly poisonous) heavy metals.
If half the amount of effort were put into making sure that conventional industry worldwide took better care of it's waste the world would be a far cleaner and healthier place.
it's just important to consider nuclear waste in the context of normal waste particularly when a lot of the current dominant forms of power generation produce really insane quantities of that normal waste.
there is nothing, nothing I would like to see more than some really vast orbital power arrays, the sahara covered in von Neumann machines producing solar panels, copious amounts of wind turbines or fusion generators popping up but unfortunately right now, this decade, nuclear is the only alternative to coal, gas and oil which could step in and take their place in it's current state.
while it's waste is very very dangerous it's blessedly concentrated and there's very little volume of it.
It would be insane to shut everything down overnight but often the differences in cost aren't dramatic.
it's the difference between building a nuclear plant or a coal plant when you're building a new one anyway.
from just that one change you'd cut CO2 emissions by almost 50% over the next 40 or 50 years without any other changes to industry getting us most of the way there and also get lots of other benefits from not putting huge quantities of mercury, lead and arsenic into the air.
Why is it bad for us to wait a few decades? because in a few decades the exact same people will be still saying that another few decades are fine... the rise in sealevel was perfectly natural and icecaps were only ever a myth fabricated by the left and as for those silly old claims about sea currents which supposedly used to exist. Hah!
It depends: reactor housings are fairly sturdy so it's unlikely that the whole thing would be vaporized by a Tunguska like event (which was more akin to a nuclear blast ) but a bigger rock could.
I have no idea what a really big impact would do but it's safe to say that we'd have bigger problems.
hell if a really big one hit it wouldn't matter where it hit, we'd all be dead anyway.
Plutonium is not natural but neither are many substances.
Pleanty of other sources of radiation are natural and just as dangerous.
There are places on the earth surface where natural background radiation is so high that you'd never be allowed work in a nuclear plant if you'd grown up there because you'd already be far over your lifetime dose limits.
Some of the most dangerous toxins in existance are perfectly natural.
so the naturalness of something is a very very very bad place to start to decide how dangerous it is in comparison to other things.