Here's an article that is discussing capturing all traffic in the UK. From the BBC article
AOL's Director of Public Policy Camille de Stempel told MPs that it would cost it £25m just to implement the requirements and another £9m to maintain each year.
It would also require 360,000 CDs a year to store all the data.
It also emerged that ISPs would not be able to simply pass the CDs on to the police.
This would contradict rules in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which state that any requests for communications data must be proportional to the crime committed.
Instead ISPs would have to search for particular pieces of information, requiring an indexed and organised system which would push up the costs still further.
All depends on what you find sexy in an Ent. I'm a trunk man, myself...
Come on, you've got to dig Willow. It's a tree, fantasy movie, and kick a$$ witch all rolled into one name.
ahhhhh....Willow. It works for me!:)
VCR - throw out and get a TIVO!
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Ok/. , I've read a ton of posts where VCRs are being setup to tape TAKEN. Get a TIVO and throw out the VCR for Christmas! With one click I got every episode of TAKEN and since the SciFI channel aired them so frequently, TIVO automaticly readjusted to resolve conflicts with my other shows I record.
If you'd never do it for yourself, then get one for a friend, relative, or lover. TIVO's change the way you watch TV. They will love you for it. Go to TIVO now and get one.
I do not know about that. I prefer to read the book after having seen the movie so I do not ruin the movie and the book.
Though I've had this fail for 2 movies/books. The movie "Silence of the Lambs" was better than the book. Ninth gate was a stripped down version of "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez-Reverte. If you saw the movie first, the book was a disappointment. If you read the book first, the movie was a major disappointment.
There's +s and -s for recording my life, but what I want is editing power. I'd like to forget the stupid comments I made in meetings. I'd like to forget that 1800 number from an ad in the 1980s! Most of all I'd like to delete/edit out all the negative comments in my life.
Of course the possible abuses of this kind of tech are too numberous to mention. Why would we need prisons if we could edit the criminal mind?
I'm picturing an updated Bloom County comic strip with Oliver bringing a live nuclear bomb to class.
In the original comic strip the teacher scoffs at Oliver that it couldn't be live. Where'd he get the material. Oliver's answer was 9999999 glow in the dark stickers....
Actually it sounds pretty easy to reduce the ammount, but I don't want to pay someone to do it. Create.XXX domain. If you are runing a pr0n site from a non.xxx, then the question is does the ISP know and is it legit?
If the ISP doesn't know about the adult server, then most ISP's have contracts that say you can't run a server on their network.
Boot server/user.
If they do know and the site is not legit, then gasp block the isp.
How is it different than spam? If you want to get off the block list, then get a.xxx domain.
I'm probably missing something and I'm not for this...I just thought it might work...
Don't worry. The moon/tide is slowing us down. After the moon leaves, we'll just have to think of a way to speed the Earth up the other direction. I don't think we should use the moon idea again though....crashing planets together is bad for my health...
This can't be true. I mean, who's going to explicitly ask for the three religious channels, the channel where they talk about hot rods, and that one that's just a bad radio station? These things get bundled for a reason.
Several years ago a local cable distributor (which has been eaten by TimeWarner now) sent out a survey saying they were having to cut some shows to provide other services. They cut my shows and gave me more religious channels & sports channels. I dropped the cable company
(I'm back in the fold again unfortunately - a black sunday convinced me to come back)
I'd be happy with just subtitles. Frequently I watch shows with the dubbed English for my wife and the correct subtitles for me. I've won her over on the subtitles, but she hates listening to languages she doesn't understand....
I guess I'm making more than you 'cause that 5 minutes to burn a CD would cost me more than $3. I've got better things to do with my time. One of the main reasons I shop on the net is because I can have it delivered to my door and not waste one minute in a checkout lane.
Plus you are forgetting the other stuff that comes with a CD or are you printing out color pages of the CD covers....I'd like to know how you could do that cheaper than them....
oh my goodness, can you imagine an 50"+ HDTV/VCR combo? or a 50"+HDTV/PVR?
Customer:ah hello, my TV died. Support:Can you be more specific? What's on the screen? Customer: Something that says ACME bios.... Support: Ok, can I get your address? We are going to need to send Big Brutus over to bring your TV in for repairs.
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Actually I asked a question
similar to your statement a while back in a discussion about Voyager
and I like the answer
I got.
Here's what he said so you don't have to click the links
Voyager is not travelling all that fast, and we could go faster with sufficient time and engineering effort.
First cab off the rank is probably the Orion drive. Build a really big plate, attach it with really big springs and dampers to a heavily radiation-shielded spacecraft, and detonate atom bombs behind the plate. The basic technology exists right now, all you need is a pile of cash and be prepared to violate the space weapons treaty. Maximum speed is about 1-2% of the speed of light, so you're still taking a couple of centuries to Proxima Centauri.
Next option is a fusion engine. We can't generate power with controlled fusion yet, but ITER probably will if and when it gets built. ITER is, er, rather large and heavy, and doesn't really produce much net power, so a practical space fusion power plant is a fair bit of engineering development down the road. Anyway, the idea is quite simple. Release the "exhaust" of the reaction out the back of the engine, just like a normal rocket except the exhuast is a hell of a lot hotter and travelling a lot faster. Maximum speed maybe 10-12% of the speed of light.
Alternatively, use a light sail powered by a really big laser. All you need is to scale up laser and telescope technology a crapload (so, again, considerable engineering development required). Maximum speed? Somewhere between 10 and maybe 30% of the speed of light, depending on just how big you can make your mirror (and consequently how far you can keep accelerating).
The other big issue with interstellar spacecraft is the question of how much debris is out there. If there's a lot, as you go faster you'll need one hell of a shield to protect you.
Finally, there's there's also the possibility of using antimatter-matter reactions to power a ship. Antimatter is kinda powerful stuff to have around, and you could theoretically use it to power a ship to near the speed of light. However, there is no known natural source, and manufacturing it requires milllions of times more energy put in than you get back when you "burn" it. It, therefore, is a really long-term option from when humanity has such astounding energy generation capacity it can afford to use it to power antimatter-powered spaceships.
All in all, there are some possibilities, but most are still a fair bit of technological development away. Let's get to the rest of the solar system first:)
This generator could for example be useful in the chemical industry where many production processes generate a lot of excess heat that normally is simply lost.
I have a request. I need something that works with body temp and here's what I'd do:
Flip the power breakers off the night of my honey's favorite movie and tell her that the backup generator works off body heat. Oh course it'd be my luck that she'd tell me to start doing jumping jacks....
If they don't even know how to make copies, why would they even care if they can make one or not?
Maybe not all the 23% knows how to burn a cd, but I bet 90% know how to make a tape from CD.
So I wonder why they chose the way they did if they do have the technical skill to make tapes.
Of course they could be lying...as many do when asked how much beer they drink (and then the anthropologist does a study at the trash dump and finds out the 3 that admitted to drinking must drink 90% of the beer in town.)
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It's about fundamentalism vs. people-with-brains.
Then we've lost. There are too few with whole brains.
and fundamentalists can warp even someone with half a brain.
I'd prefer it if they charged ya $50 not to vote.
In Movie Physics sounds are LOUDER in space because they haven't got all that air in the way.
Same goes for Anime and is in fact law #3. To see the rest of the Anime laws, go here.
ROFL. You meant Lois and Clark. ;)
Nope, he got it right, Lewis and Clark. He's talking about the The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
Here's an article that is discussing capturing all traffic in the UK. From the BBC article
AOL's Director of Public Policy Camille de Stempel told MPs that it would cost it £25m just to implement the requirements and another £9m to maintain each year.
It would also require 360,000 CDs a year to store all the data.
It also emerged that ISPs would not be able to simply pass the CDs on to the police.
This would contradict rules in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which state that any requests for communications data must be proportional to the crime committed.
Instead ISPs would have to search for particular pieces of information, requiring an indexed and organised system which would push up the costs still further.
how good do the ents look?
:)
All depends on what you find sexy in an Ent. I'm a trunk man, myself...
Come on, you've got to dig Willow. It's a tree, fantasy movie, and kick a$$ witch all rolled into one name.
ahhhhh....Willow. It works for me!
Ok /. , I've read a ton of posts where VCRs are being setup to tape TAKEN. Get a TIVO and throw out the VCR for Christmas! With one click I got every episode of TAKEN and since the SciFI channel aired them so frequently, TIVO automaticly readjusted to resolve conflicts with my other shows I record.
If you'd never do it for yourself, then get one for a friend, relative, or lover. TIVO's change the way you watch TV. They will love you for it.
Go to TIVO now and get one.
I sent sent them an email to twotowersprotest
asking if they also wanted the publisher to retroactively collect all the books that had the title in it including the ones published before 2001....
I do not know about that. I prefer to read the book after having seen the movie so I do not ruin the movie and the book.
Though I've had this fail for 2 movies/books. The movie "Silence of the Lambs" was better than the book. Ninth gate was a stripped down version of "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez-Reverte. If you saw the movie first, the book was a disappointment. If you read the book first, the movie was a major disappointment.
There's +s and -s for recording my life, but what I want is editing power. I'd like to forget the stupid comments I made in meetings. I'd like to forget that 1800 number from an ad in the 1980s! Most of all I'd like to delete/edit out all the negative comments in my life.
Of course the possible abuses of this kind of tech are too numberous to mention. Why would we need prisons if we could edit the criminal mind?
Does Starship Command run Open Source? How about the Klingons? I think we need to know who we should be rooting for.
I can't say for everyone, but Risa is open source.
I'm picturing an updated Bloom County comic strip with Oliver bringing a live nuclear bomb to class.
;)
In the original comic strip the teacher scoffs at Oliver that it couldn't be live. Where'd he get the material. Oliver's answer was 9999999 glow in the dark stickers....
I guess the 2k version will be a laptop....
Yup, the US uses antibiotics in animal food.
That's why my wife and I buy food that hasn't been treated with antibiotics (mostly chicken.)
hmmmm...if the law isn't changing fast enough, vote with your walet. It makes the fastest policy changes...
Actually it sounds pretty easy to reduce the ammount, but I don't want to pay someone to do it. .XXX domain. .xxx, then the question is does the ISP know and is it legit?
.xxx domain.
Create
If you are runing a pr0n site from a non
If the ISP doesn't know about the adult server, then most ISP's have contracts that say you can't run a server on their network.
Boot server/user.
If they do know and the site is not legit, then gasp block the isp.
How is it different than spam? If you want to get off the block list, then get a
I'm probably missing something and I'm not for this...I just thought it might work...
I know your pain! What I hate is when I go to a hotel on business or vacation. What I would give for a pause or 8sec jump back...
It just makes p0rn better.
Forget the stereo. I want the 8sec jump back on DVDS (VHS too.) Of course I could scan back, but the 8sec jump back is perfect!
Don't worry. The moon/tide is slowing us down. After the moon leaves, we'll just have to think of a way to speed the Earth up the other direction. I don't think we should use the moon idea again though....crashing planets together is bad for my health...
This can't be true. I mean, who's going to explicitly ask for the three religious channels, the channel where they talk about hot rods, and that one that's just a bad radio station? These things get bundled for a reason.
Several years ago a local cable distributor (which has been eaten by TimeWarner now) sent out a survey saying they were having to cut some shows to provide other services. They cut my shows and gave me more religious channels & sports channels. I dropped the cable company
(I'm back in the fold again unfortunately - a black sunday convinced me to come back)
I'd be happy with just subtitles. Frequently I watch shows with the dubbed English for my wife and the correct subtitles for me. I've won her over on the subtitles, but she hates listening to languages she doesn't understand....
I guess I'm making more than you 'cause that 5 minutes to burn a CD would cost me more than $3. I've got better things to do with my time. One of the main reasons I shop on the net is because I can have it delivered to my door and not waste one minute in a checkout lane.
Plus you are forgetting the other stuff that comes with a CD or are you printing out color pages of the CD covers....I'd like to know how you could do that cheaper than them....
oh my goodness, can you imagine an 50"+ HDTV/VCR combo? or a 50"+HDTV/PVR?
Customer:ah hello, my TV died.
Support:Can you be more specific? What's on the screen?
Customer: Something that says ACME bios....
Support: Ok, can I get your address? We are going to need to send Big Brutus over to bring your TV in for repairs.
Here's what he said so you don't have to click the links
Voyager is not travelling all that fast, and we could go faster with sufficient time and engineering effort.
First cab off the rank is probably the Orion drive. Build a really big plate, attach it with really big springs and dampers to a heavily radiation-shielded spacecraft, and detonate atom bombs behind the plate. The basic technology exists right now, all you need is a pile of cash and be prepared to violate the space weapons treaty. Maximum speed is about 1-2% of the speed of light, so you're still taking a couple of centuries to Proxima Centauri.
Next option is a fusion engine. We can't generate power with controlled fusion yet, but ITER probably will if and when it gets built. ITER is, er, rather large and heavy, and doesn't really produce much net power, so a practical space fusion power plant is a fair bit of engineering development down the road. Anyway, the idea is quite simple. Release the "exhaust" of the reaction out the back of the engine, just like a normal rocket except the exhuast is a hell of a lot hotter and travelling a lot faster. Maximum speed maybe 10-12% of the speed of light.
Alternatively, use a light sail powered by a really big laser. All you need is to scale up laser and telescope technology a crapload (so, again, considerable engineering development required). Maximum speed? Somewhere between 10 and maybe 30% of the speed of light, depending on just how big you can make your mirror (and consequently how far you can keep accelerating).
The other big issue with interstellar spacecraft is the question of how much debris is out there. If there's a lot, as you go faster you'll need one hell of a shield to protect you.
Finally, there's there's also the possibility of using antimatter-matter reactions to power a ship. Antimatter is kinda powerful stuff to have around, and you could theoretically use it to power a ship to near the speed of light. However, there is no known natural source, and manufacturing it requires milllions of times more energy put in than you get back when you "burn" it. It, therefore, is a really long-term option from when humanity has such astounding energy generation capacity it can afford to use it to power antimatter-powered spaceships.
All in all, there are some possibilities, but most are still a fair bit of technological development away. Let's get to the rest of the solar system first :)
Why not throw some anime supers into the mix...
I'd love to see any of these VS any of the western supers
Jubei (Ninja Scroll)
Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in a Shell)
Tetsuo (Akira)
D (Vampire Hunter D)
I think Tetsuo could probably toast everyone except Superman....Though I would love to see Jubei or D take out everyone...
This generator could for example be useful in the chemical industry where many production processes generate a lot of excess heat that normally is simply lost.
I have a request. I need something that works with body temp and here's what I'd do:
Flip the power breakers off the night of my honey's favorite movie and tell her that the backup generator works off body heat. Oh course it'd be my luck that she'd tell me to start doing jumping jacks....
If they don't even know how to make copies, why would they even care if they can make one or not?
Maybe not all the 23% knows how to burn a cd, but I bet 90% know how to make a tape from CD.
So I wonder why they chose the way they did if they do have the technical skill to make tapes.
Of course they could be lying...as many do when asked how much beer they drink (and then the anthropologist does a study at the trash dump and finds out the 3 that admitted to drinking must drink 90% of the beer in town.)