I think you are. I think you don't see the artifacts because you are used to them.
This is a completely unprovable assertion and a favorite of the audiophile types, of course. I'm not denying that. But its my observation that modern people are simply used to digital artifacts, the way the vinyl generation were used to analog artifacts.
I, personally, have never seen seen a DVD without annoying visual artifacts characteristic of the medium--aliasing, ringing, moire, mosquito noise, basically your standard digital artifacts. Blu-ray has higher resolution, but the same artifacts. Maybe this is why you 'don't see them'...they are universal, and so you think they are normal.
I'm not a tape head or vinyl head but I do spend a great deal of time making, printing, and viewing analog/optical photographs (I am a darkroom junkie). I also shoot and project film movies. When you spend hours staring at physical images made entirely without pixels or digital processing of any kind, and you get used to their uniform, 'real', analog-y look, grain and all, the first time you see a digital image with a moire pattern it instantly jumps out. And that's not a rare artifact...literally ANY digital image of fine detail will show moire on any fine pattern, unless the image is anti-alias filtered or gassian blurred, which has its own look....
As I replied above, the court is not actually asking for the passphrase in this instance, or in other such cases I've come across. They always state that they don't need the passphrase, but they need an unencrypted copy of the data. The accused is allowed to keep their passphrase secret. So the court isn't actually interested in the password at all, TFS (and nearly this entire/. thread) notwithstanding.
Actually you are wrong, in an (apparently) legally-important way.
In all of these cases that I have seen, the court always stresses that they are NOT asking for the passphrase. They always make this very clear. They always stress that they are NOT compelling the accused to provide their passphrase, but that they are compelling the accused to provide an (allegedly existent) unencrypted copy of the (alleged) ciphertext on the hard drive.
I don't understand the legal ramifications of asking for the passkey versus asking for the (alleged) unencrypted data, but IANAL. Maybe they think that the passkey encrypts other data besides the data they are interested in, and so asking for the passkey is a stricter requirement than asking for the plain text. I dunno.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations"
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."
The Founders lived in a time of royalism and absolutism. Large-scale autocracies were the rule. We like to believe the age of absolute monarchs is over because they've been replaced by throne-less entities like the EU, the IMF, World Bank, and the US Federal war/welfare state. Afraid not.
Grandparent is being snide, but actually asks a legitimate question.
Parent mocks, but Libertarians would be perfectly fine with such an organization...as long as it was supported by voluntary contributions, by selling a product, or some other means besides taking money from people by force.
People want to capture images. They used to do it by buying film and making physical photographs. Now they do it by capturing data. This sucks for businesses based on selling physical photographic materials, unless they adapt radically.
People want to listen to music. They used to do it by buying physical records and tapes. Now they do it by aquiring data. This sucks for businesses based on selling physical media, unless they adapt radically.
If you propose that the "content companies" SHOULD go out of business since their services are no longer needed in a digital world, you will hear all kinds of wailing about "without special copyright protection and allowing the content companies to shake people down for money they don't deserve, those companies would go out of business!!!111!". But in the case of Kodak, oddly nobody seems to by sympathetic to Kodak, or suggest that they should get special royalties from digital images since they everyone is "stealing" that money they "would have made" otherwise i.e. grandparent's whole point.
I doubt that. What will really happen is some giant corporation with a lot of patent lawyers will buy the "intellectual property" of synthetic spider silk and it will remain expensive, nobody will do any development work with it, and it will just be an interesting high-tech material used by people that either have a lot of money or are above having to worry about IP law (but I repeat myself). So you will see it in military and aerospace equipment and that's it.
I agree completely."Not charging enough" seems to be a classic blunder for these kind of grassroots startup hardware efforts. I watched the Open Pandora and Always Innovating Touchbook under development for years, until the more established industry finally got around to producing mass-market semi-equivalents and their window of glory was passed by before they could ramp up. There was enough demand for either that they could have easily taken preorders for twice or 3 times the price they wanted. Pre-order customers, frustrated with how long it was taking, would literally offer to pay more to take delivery sooner, but... they were fixated on selling their product for some magic-number price, rather than what they could get for it.
Are you talking about KDE 3.x? I used Kubuntu through the late oughts, but jumped to gnome when KDE 4 came out because I found it really buggy, and completely different than the nice simple KDE I was used to.
Of course I will have to jump from Ubuntu completely soon, since Unity is what I am complaining about, X1million. Any suggestions on a distro that focuses on improving compatibility, genuine improvements, and fixing bugs rather than CREATING bugs by redoing the userland every 12 months?
Why do you assume Ron Paul will stick to old stances when new facts come in? He has changed his views in the past, on very important issues like the Death penalty.
"in September 2007, Paul stated: "Over the years I've held pretty rigid to all my beliefs, but I've changed my opinion of the death penalty. For federal purposes I no longer believe in the death penalty. I believe it has been issued unjustly. If you're rich, you get away with it; if you're poor and you're from the inner city you're more likely to be prosecuted and convicted, and today, with the DNA evidence, there've been too many mistakes, and I am now opposed to the federal death penalty."
Again, more marginalization that is either half- or just totally untrue.
Or, the GUI tools aren't that bad, but the change the goddam things every couple months. The file managers, window behaviors, drag-and-drop behaviorss, where the links are located, the menu layouts...it all changes, even within the same distro, over a time span of years. Compare that to XP which has been the same for 10+ years. So when I use Linux, I use the command line a lot...at least they don't change that (too much).
My wife: honey, how I do "X"? me: "remembers how he did that 3 years ago, but now every fucking thing in the GUI is different, the buttons are on the opposite side of the window, the menus are completely different, the network manager is completely different, the sound system is new, and the program I used to use no longer seems to exist anymore" me: says "fuck it" and uses the command line.
Nowhere in the U.S. will you find members of the intelligence community who are openly contemptuous of the rule of law. Corrupt and evil things unfortunately do happen in law enforcement circles, but they are never an *accepted part of the organisation's official culture* like they were with the Stasi.</quote>
I think you are wrong, and naive. Since the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and mayn of the "***" organizations operate in laughable contempt of the principles of said law, in fact I would argue that many or most of the federal government is in fact "openly contemptuous" of the rule of law. Just trying to bring up your constitutional rights will often just get you laughed at.
People are always more perceptive when analyzing other cultures, because the natural coping mechanisms that allow humans to live under subjugation are not operating when looking at some far-off place. I would argue that you just suffer from the same delusions of "it's not that bad" that allowed the German people to sit by while the Stasi ran around doing what they wished.
An interesting article, that points out that the reason many Democrats hate Ron Paul is that he espouses progressive ideals, which had long been (supposedly) held by the Democratic party, and now the only person actually doing out and fighting for these ideals is an old white republican. I say, if you can't beat them join them...I have never observed party labels much anyway.
When I hear Paul verbally, plainy, and in major political venues literally say "we need to end the war on drugs, it is a failure, and racist", and "we need to repeal the Patriot act completely", I know who I'm going to vote for; it's as simple as that. The really exciting thing is, he has the voting record to support the assumption that he really means it. He's teamed up with Democrats many times when they support his ideals on freedom. When it comes to progressive ideals, there is Ron Paul, and there is everyone else.
4WD greatly improves braking efficiency, because it ties the front and rear wheels together, forcing them to spin at the same rate. Thus braking applied to the back wheels is also (through the drivetrain) applied to the front, and it becomes impossible to lock up only one axle.
Sure, ABS can keep axles from locking up, but it does it by REMOVING braking power (and consumer-grade ABS sucks ass). If you have a pickup truck with no weight on the rear axle, sure you can use ABS to REMOVE braking power from that axle so the wheels don't spin. But if the truck is in 4WD, you can apply as much braking power to that axle as you want and the axle won't lock up until the front does.
Also, if you leave your vehicle in 4WD, the parking brake and automatic transmission 'park' locks all wheels, instead of just the back. I had a Blazer slide off an icy road while I was in a store, just because one of the back wheels was on pure ice. If I had left it in 4WD, it might have stayed put.
Locking differentials are important for the same reasons.
Induction heating would be even better. Just apply enough RF and the magnets themselves will heat up but nothing else. However, now you have just compounded the issue with 300C magnets, which would cause burns, but might auto-cauterize the wound.
This. I routinely make trips across the country via car. You know what I worry about? It's not highwaymen, robbers, carjackers or gangs. It's cops. So far, I have been unable to drive across the country without getting pulled over at least once for a fishing expedition..and that's in a fairly nice sedan, while white. I don't know what invisible metric about me causes them to let me go with no ticket; they are obviously looking for something. One day I worry they will 'find' something. I'm pretty sure whatever is in my car is legal, but you never know anymore.
The point is, you are reaching way too far. Your link to Calvinism is so indirect as to be comical like Cockney rhyming slang or something.
It would be like accusing people who are afraid of technology of being infused with a "Dispensational mindset" because because Amish happen to have a dispensational eschatology (for example).
-the Puritans did not 'found America'. A bunch of rich, variously religious white dudes did it about 150 years later.
-the fact that Puritans descended from Calvinists is kind of interesting, I guess, but if you think that Calvinism is 'deeply embedded in the country's psyche' I think you might be high on some of the drugs we both wish were legal.
I learned the same thing in school. I also learned that airplanes work because air travels a longer distance going over the top of the wing than the bottom, that movies work because of persistence of vision, and that the primary colors were Red, Yellow and Blue.
I learned some things in school but sometimes I wonder if it was worth stuffing my head with all the wrong things I learned.
Not only is it oddly specific, it's not expressed in terms of Consumer Price index or inflation-indexed, as far as I can tell. That means, just wait a few years and that threshold will get lower and lower until everyone making the equivalent of $10 an hour in today's dollars is 'exempt'.
I used to record lectures using my RH-1 minidisc player. It had a phase-shifted speed-playback feature that would play back faster without shifitng the pitch, and if you are familiar with minidisc recorders, you will know how effortless it is to insert edits, repeats, loops, into the recording with only a few simple commands. Thus it's easy to tag important parts of lectures in real-time or in playback or to make compilations of important parts, without having to do anything fancy or use a computer. I hope that the new flash-based voice recorders are as simple and easy to use and effective, but somehow I doubt it.
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Or even better, what about cobalt-thorium-G?
I think you are. I think you don't see the artifacts because you are used to them.
This is a completely unprovable assertion and a favorite of the audiophile types, of course. I'm not denying that. But its my observation that modern people are simply used to digital artifacts, the way the vinyl generation were used to analog artifacts.
I, personally, have never seen seen a DVD without annoying visual artifacts characteristic of the medium--aliasing, ringing, moire, mosquito noise, basically your standard digital artifacts. Blu-ray has higher resolution, but the same artifacts. Maybe this is why you 'don't see them'...they are universal, and so you think they are normal.
I'm not a tape head or vinyl head but I do spend a great deal of time making, printing, and viewing analog/optical photographs (I am a darkroom junkie). I also shoot and project film movies. When you spend hours staring at physical images made entirely without pixels or digital processing of any kind, and you get used to their uniform, 'real', analog-y look, grain and all, the first time you see a digital image with a moire pattern it instantly jumps out. And that's not a rare artifact...literally ANY digital image of fine detail will show moire on any fine pattern, unless the image is anti-alias filtered or gassian blurred, which has its own look....
As I replied above, the court is not actually asking for the passphrase in this instance, or in other such cases I've come across. They always state that they don't need the passphrase, but they need an unencrypted copy of the data. The accused is allowed to keep their passphrase secret. So the court isn't actually interested in the password at all, TFS (and nearly this entire /. thread) notwithstanding.
Actually you are wrong, in an (apparently) legally-important way.
In all of these cases that I have seen, the court always stresses that they are NOT asking for the passphrase. They always make this very clear. They always stress that they are NOT compelling the accused to provide their passphrase, but that they are compelling the accused to provide an (allegedly existent) unencrypted copy of the (alleged) ciphertext on the hard drive.
I don't understand the legal ramifications of asking for the passkey versus asking for the (alleged) unencrypted data, but IANAL. Maybe they think that the passkey encrypts other data besides the data they are interested in, and so asking for the passkey is a stricter requirement than asking for the plain text. I dunno.
Or James Madison
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations"
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."
The Founders lived in a time of royalism and absolutism. Large-scale autocracies were the rule. We like to believe the age of absolute monarchs is over because they've been replaced by throne-less entities like the EU, the IMF, World Bank, and the US Federal war/welfare state. Afraid not.
Grandparent is being snide, but actually asks a legitimate question.
Parent mocks, but Libertarians would be perfectly fine with such an organization...as long as it was supported by voluntary contributions, by selling a product, or some other means besides taking money from people by force.
The difference is in your imagination.
People want to capture images. They used to do it by buying film and making physical photographs. Now they do it by capturing data. This sucks for businesses based on selling physical photographic materials, unless they adapt radically.
People want to listen to music. They used to do it by buying physical records and tapes. Now they do it by aquiring data. This sucks for businesses based on selling physical media, unless they adapt radically.
If you propose that the "content companies" SHOULD go out of business since their services are no longer needed in a digital world, you will hear all kinds of wailing about "without special copyright protection and allowing the content companies to shake people down for money they don't deserve, those companies would go out of business!!!111!". But in the case of Kodak, oddly nobody seems to by sympathetic to Kodak, or suggest that they should get special royalties from digital images since they everyone is "stealing" that money they "would have made" otherwise i.e. grandparent's whole point.
I doubt that. What will really happen is some giant corporation with a lot of patent lawyers will buy the "intellectual property" of synthetic spider silk and it will remain expensive, nobody will do any development work with it, and it will just be an interesting high-tech material used by people that either have a lot of money or are above having to worry about IP law (but I repeat myself). So you will see it in military and aerospace equipment and that's it.
I agree completely."Not charging enough" seems to be a classic blunder for these kind of grassroots startup hardware efforts. I watched the Open Pandora and Always Innovating Touchbook under development for years, until the more established industry finally got around to producing mass-market semi-equivalents and their window of glory was passed by before they could ramp up. There was enough demand for either that they could have easily taken preorders for twice or 3 times the price they wanted. Pre-order customers, frustrated with how long it was taking, would literally offer to pay more to take delivery sooner, but ... they were fixated on selling their product for some magic-number price, rather than what they could get for it.
Are you talking about KDE 3.x? I used Kubuntu through the late oughts, but jumped to gnome when KDE 4 came out because I found it really buggy, and completely different than the nice simple KDE I was used to.
Of course I will have to jump from Ubuntu completely soon, since Unity is what I am complaining about, X1million. Any suggestions on a distro that focuses on improving compatibility, genuine improvements, and fixing bugs rather than CREATING bugs by redoing the userland every 12 months?
Why do you assume Ron Paul will stick to old stances when new facts come in? He has changed his views in the past, on very important issues like the Death penalty.
"in September 2007, Paul stated: "Over the years I've held pretty rigid to all my beliefs, but I've changed my opinion of the death penalty. For federal purposes I no longer believe in the death penalty. I believe it has been issued unjustly. If you're rich, you get away with it; if you're poor and you're from the inner city you're more likely to be prosecuted and convicted, and today, with the DNA evidence, there've been too many mistakes, and I am now opposed to the federal death penalty."
Again, more marginalization that is either half- or just totally untrue.
Or, the GUI tools aren't that bad, but the change the goddam things every couple months. The file managers, window behaviors, drag-and-drop behaviorss, where the links are located, the menu layouts...it all changes, even within the same distro, over a time span of years. Compare that to XP which has been the same for 10+ years. So when I use Linux, I use the command line a lot...at least they don't change that (too much).
My wife: honey, how I do "X"?
me: "remembers how he did that 3 years ago, but now every fucking thing in the GUI is different, the buttons are on the opposite side of the window, the menus are completely different, the network manager is completely different, the sound system is new, and the program I used to use no longer seems to exist anymore"
me: says "fuck it" and uses the command line.
Nowhere in the U.S. will you find members of the intelligence community who are openly contemptuous of the rule of law. Corrupt and evil things unfortunately do happen in law enforcement circles, but they are never an *accepted part of the organisation's official culture* like they were with the Stasi.</quote>
I think you are wrong, and naive. Since the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and mayn of the "***" organizations operate in laughable contempt of the principles of said law, in fact I would argue that many or most of the federal government is in fact "openly contemptuous" of the rule of law. Just trying to bring up your constitutional rights will often just get you laughed at.
People are always more perceptive when analyzing other cultures, because the natural coping mechanisms that allow humans to live under subjugation are not operating when looking at some far-off place. I would argue that you just suffer from the same delusions of "it's not that bad" that allowed the German people to sit by while the Stasi ran around doing what they wished.
Don't blame me; I voted for Ron Paul in 2008...still the only real progressive in Washington.
An interesting article, that points out that the reason many Democrats hate Ron Paul is that he espouses progressive ideals, which had long been (supposedly) held by the Democratic party, and now the only person actually doing out and fighting for these ideals is an old white republican. I say, if you can't beat them join them...I have never observed party labels much anyway.
When I hear Paul verbally, plainy, and in major political venues literally say "we need to end the war on drugs, it is a failure, and racist", and "we need to repeal the Patriot act completely", I know who I'm going to vote for; it's as simple as that. The really exciting thing is, he has the voting record to support the assumption that he really means it. He's teamed up with Democrats many times when they support his ideals on freedom. When it comes to progressive ideals, there is Ron Paul, and there is everyone else.
4WD greatly improves braking efficiency, because it ties the front and rear wheels together, forcing them to spin at the same rate. Thus braking applied to the back wheels is also (through the drivetrain) applied to the front, and it becomes impossible to lock up only one axle.
Sure, ABS can keep axles from locking up, but it does it by REMOVING braking power (and consumer-grade ABS sucks ass). If you have a pickup truck with no weight on the rear axle, sure you can use ABS to REMOVE braking power from that axle so the wheels don't spin. But if the truck is in 4WD, you can apply as much braking power to that axle as you want and the axle won't lock up until the front does.
Also, if you leave your vehicle in 4WD, the parking brake and automatic transmission 'park' locks all wheels, instead of just the back. I had a Blazer slide off an icy road while I was in a store, just because one of the back wheels was on pure ice. If I had left it in 4WD, it might have stayed put.
Locking differentials are important for the same reasons.
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Induction heating would be even better. Just apply enough RF and the magnets themselves will heat up but nothing else. However, now you have just compounded the issue with 300C magnets, which would cause burns, but might auto-cauterize the wound.
This. I routinely make trips across the country via car. You know what I worry about? It's not highwaymen, robbers, carjackers or gangs. It's cops. So far, I have been unable to drive across the country without getting pulled over at least once for a fishing expedition..and that's in a fairly nice sedan, while white. I don't know what invisible metric about me causes them to let me go with no ticket; they are obviously looking for something. One day I worry they will 'find' something. I'm pretty sure whatever is in my car is legal, but you never know anymore.
The point is, you are reaching way too far. Your link to Calvinism is so indirect as to be comical like Cockney rhyming slang or something.
It would be like accusing people who are afraid of technology of being infused with a "Dispensational mindset" because because Amish happen to have a dispensational eschatology (for example).
-the Puritans did not 'found America'. A bunch of rich, variously religious white dudes did it about 150 years later.
-the fact that Puritans descended from Calvinists is kind of interesting, I guess, but if you think that Calvinism is 'deeply embedded in the country's psyche' I think you might be high on some of the drugs we both wish were legal.
Indeed. You can't win some arguments.
I learned the same thing in school. I also learned that airplanes work because air travels a longer distance going over the top of the wing than the bottom, that movies work because of persistence of vision, and that the primary colors were Red, Yellow and Blue.
I learned some things in school but sometimes I wonder if it was worth stuffing my head with all the wrong things I learned.
Not only is it oddly specific, it's not expressed in terms of Consumer Price index or inflation-indexed, as far as I can tell. That means, just wait a few years and that threshold will get lower and lower until everyone making the equivalent of $10 an hour in today's dollars is 'exempt'.
I used to record lectures using my RH-1 minidisc player. It had a phase-shifted speed-playback feature that would play back faster without shifitng the pitch, and if you are familiar with minidisc recorders, you will know how effortless it is to insert edits, repeats, loops, into the recording with only a few simple commands. Thus it's easy to tag important parts of lectures in real-time or in playback or to make compilations of important parts, without having to do anything fancy or use a computer. I hope that the new flash-based voice recorders are as simple and easy to use and effective, but somehow I doubt it.