The system would essentially replace CableCard with a software-based equivalent.
I see two possible problems with this idea: 1. Having any cable company install any proprietary software on any customer-owned computing device for any reason whatsoever. 2. If it's software-based, it'll be cracked and pirated within a month of release. (Disclaimer: As if I give a rat's ass whether highway robber cable companies get pirated or not. Just sayin', though)
I used to have a four-digit ID but lost access to the email account associated with it so when I forgot the password I couldn't recover the account.:-(
electric delivery trucks would make a ton of sense
Yes, I agree, they certainly would. Lower overall operating costs, less pollution, etc.
Pickup buyers are not going to go electric, it's not in their DNA
I'm a pickup truck buyer/owner/driver, and as previously stated, I'd go for one. Similar reasons to the above for a commercial truck: lower overall operating costs, less pollution, less maintenance. Of course in my case the killer would be range. There are many times during the year when I may need to drive 300 miles round trip. If it won't make it then it's a non-starter.
I had to read a little more carefully (I had the same question) but it does actually say 'pickup truck'.
I'm all for it; I like driving small pickups. What I've wondered all along is why someone hasn't done this already? Seems like a no-brainer to me. You could build the battery packs right under the bed, no problem.
..it would be the editor's job to check for previously posted stories..
Fair enough. We didn't need two of essentially the same story in the same week, and you're right, the/. staff should have caught that and not posted it on the front page.
Know what I hate about stories like this one? It gives people who desperately need to accept reality and lose weight another excuse to say 'Oh well, I guess it's hopeless!' and just keep eating whatever they want, stay obese, and never even try. It's not even true; our understanding of food, calories, and digestion isn't so utterly 'broken' as apparently a vocal minority might have you believe, otherwise how could anyone ever control their weight, or not be malnourished, etc. This is a dumb story and should just be ignored.
2- It is nearly impossible in the US to find foods that do not have carbohydrates added to them.
With respect: I don't think you're looking very hard. Right at this moment I have food items in my refrigerator that don't have carbs added to them: boneless skinless chicken breast, sharp cheddar cheese, swiss cheese, 2% milk, half-and-half, and Fage fat-free plain Greek yogurt.
1- limit carbohydrate intake to as low as possible.
Sometimes part of the problem with people attempting to diet for weightloss purposes is they go to extremes because they want to lose as fast as possible, then they fail when it's too much. All you have to do is limit carb intake in a reasonable way and you'll lose weight. Trying to cut them out completely will just make most people very enervated and miserable, and they'll end up quitting and maybe even gaining more weight back than they started with.
BMI tables make broad assumptions based on statistical averages which may or may not reflect your actual body composition. If you really want to know what your body composition is, find a doctors office that can do bone densitometry, and get a DXA scan. DXA is the Gold Standard for determining body composition, even over hydrostatic weighing, because it directly measures adipose tissue, lean tissue, and bone. If someone is really concerned with what their bodyfat percentage is and are actively trying to control their weight, then getting a DXA scan once a year will provide enough information for someone to determine how many calories per day they should be consuming in order to gradually lose excess weight, actually make what the scale is telling them meaningful, and give them definitive markers of progress (or lack thereof, as the case may be). For just body composition purposes should cost less than $100 per scan (I get them for $80).
That's what I was just thinking. Every system in a biological organism is a negative-feedback loop, isn't it? Self-regulating? Why shouldn't the human brain work the same way on a fundamental level? Drugs that we use work because it alters the loop characteristics, right?
See, that doesn't work, for a simple reason: The food industry (at least here in the U.S.) goes out of their way to make sure you're as addicted to their products as possible, and they make it cheap and easy to get/consume. 'Moderation' is not good for profits.
The reasons are actually quite simple and easy to miss because they're right in front of your nose where you're least likely to look.:-)
1. Exercise is unpleasant (for the majority of people). Most people will use any excuse to avoid unpleasant things, even if the result of {unpleasant_thing} is to their benefit. "I don't have time" is probably the most common excuse; you don't have one hour, really? 2. The human body is evolved to be very efficient at storing calories and very efficient in it's use of them; read as: 'The human body will fight you to keep it's calories (i.e. body fat)'. One might even theorize that even on a mental/emotional level, it will throw roadblocks in the way of burning calories. After all the next famine might be right around the corner! How will we survive without lots of bodyfat? (i.e. human body still thinks we're hunter/gatherers) 3. Most people don't want to give anything up. Knowing what you're actualy eating (calorically, that is) is the first step to controlling your body composition, but most people flat-out won't do it, because then they have to be honest with themselves that the foods they enjoy the most, are the most fattening and worst for their overall health -- and if they don't know then they don't have to make a choice. Again, most people will use any excuse to avoid being honest about what and how much they're eating, and any excuse to give anything up, too. 4. The problem, at least here in the U.S., has got so bad that now obese people are spinning their obesity into some sort of twisted, messed-up virtue, with the 'healthy at every size' movement, etc. I've even seen some instances of women claiming that they're being discrimonated against by men, and that it should be some sort of (criminal or social) hate-crime to not be attracted to them; they actually want to force men to be attracted to them, date them, sleep with them, etc., I kid you not. 5. Every decade that passes, we're getting lazier and lazier overall, due to more and more modern conveniences. People don't have to do things for themselves as much anymore, so they don't. Before too long people won't even have to actively drive their cars, they'll sit there behind the wheel, barely even paying attention to the road, while a computer does most of the actual driving. We don't have to hunt or gather to survive; we don't all have to be subsistence farmers. Some don't even have to get off their butts to go to the grocery store, they can get it all delivered. Children are not encouraged to go outside and play, they're put in front of a screen to watch shows or play games. It's a bad trend overall for humanity, in my opinion. 6. I wouldn't at all be surprised if the trend towards rejecting science has something to do with this, too.
'Ethically' doesn't even enter into it for me. If they insisted I'd take my business elsewhere, where my privacy is respected, and don't even bother busting out with 'everybody will want to track you' because that's just spreading FUD.
My 'behaviors' are none of their gods-be-damned business. If my driving record (which is excellent, by the way) isn't good enough for them, then they can shove it.
but It does very much make me wonder if something like they've just figured out how to get their quantum computer to do general case decryption
See, that's not as bad as braindead politicians ruining or banning encrytion, because at least it's a more level playing field, then; the Bad Guys' encryption would be just as vulnerable as any other encryption is, and it would still likely take some time to crack the encryption in any case, so they'd be less likely to be decrypting everything, as opposed to encryption being about as effective as taking the deadbolt off the front door of your house and using a strip of duct tape instead, which is what a 'backdoored' encryption method would be like.
Someone like that is the last person I'd expect to bust out with a public statement like that, but at least on the surface it makes me feel a little better that not everyone in the government is as dumb as a doorknob.
I'm not in this guy's district so his stupid web page won't accept my comments, could someone who is in his district please call or email and explain to this guy why what he wants to do will just make law-abiding citizens less secure, not aid law enforcement in any substantial way, and in the end only help criminals and terrorists? Thanks.
Oh shit, someone managed to infiltrate us and install covert backdoor accounts in our products? What'll we do, the Government and Military will have a shit fit over this, we'll get all our contracts cancelled! We'll be ruined!
Calm down Fred, I've got it handled: We'll just tell them "Oh, those are just for our internal debugging, LOL, nothing to worry about!
..Yeah, you're right, Steve, no need to spook them, not like they're smart enough to know better, right? Guess my Porche payment will be on time this month after all!
How much other stuff is being hidden from our eyes by individuals, groups, and organizations within the government that want to throw away the rulebook for whatever their excuses are and grab power? I wasn't implying that any 'watchdog' group is omniscent or clairvoyant, but if they see something that's bullshit they tend to get after it. As for what's hidden from us, how is that situation any different than any other nation on Earth since Humans have had civilizations? To quote Wesley Snipes' character from the movie Blade:
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate up hill
I'm far from being any sort of scientist and even I can plainly see that the weather everywhere on Earth is all part of one very large and complex system, and if more potential energy is kept in that system (global temperature rise) then more energetic things are likely to happen.
The signal-to-noise ratio in the average persons' inbox is so low that it's almost pointless to use email anymore. I could set up an email account with random alphanumerics and never use it for anything or tell anyone about it, and eventually it'd get filled with spam anyway.
I've actually heard of ideas to put stuff in the upper atmosphere (light enough to stay there) that would effectively raise the albedo of Earth, reflecting more sunlight back out into space. Not sure how practical it would be. There's also a short story by David Brin where an alien race used millions of small, steerable mirrors to induce an ice age on a planet they later wanted to colonize (they did this because the planet had a sentient species on it, and they weren't very nice aliens). Things like this aren't so totally far-fetched that they couldn't be done.
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The system would essentially replace CableCard with a software-based equivalent.
I see two possible problems with this idea:
1. Having any cable company install any proprietary software on any customer-owned computing device for any reason whatsoever.
2. If it's software-based, it'll be cracked and pirated within a month of release.
(Disclaimer: As if I give a rat's ass whether highway robber cable companies get pirated or not. Just sayin', though)
I used to have a four-digit ID but lost access to the email account associated with it so when I forgot the password I couldn't recover the account. :-(
electric delivery trucks would make a ton of sense
Yes, I agree, they certainly would. Lower overall operating costs, less pollution, etc.
Pickup buyers are not going to go electric, it's not in their DNA
I'm a pickup truck buyer/owner/driver, and as previously stated, I'd go for one. Similar reasons to the above for a commercial truck: lower overall operating costs, less pollution, less maintenance. Of course in my case the killer would be range. There are many times during the year when I may need to drive 300 miles round trip. If it won't make it then it's a non-starter.
I had to read a little more carefully (I had the same question) but it does actually say 'pickup truck'.
I'm all for it; I like driving small pickups. What I've wondered all along is why someone hasn't done this already? Seems like a no-brainer to me. You could build the battery packs right under the bed, no problem.
We are not feeding spherical cows of uniform density in a vacuum.
You must be new here; you never, ever mention the word 'cows'!
..it would be the editor's job to check for previously posted stories..
Fair enough. We didn't need two of essentially the same story in the same week, and you're right, the /. staff should have caught that and not posted it on the front page.
This is literally a dupe.
Know what I hate about stories like this one? It gives people who desperately need to accept reality and lose weight another excuse to say 'Oh well, I guess it's hopeless!' and just keep eating whatever they want, stay obese, and never even try. It's not even true; our understanding of food, calories, and digestion isn't so utterly 'broken' as apparently a vocal minority might have you believe, otherwise how could anyone ever control their weight, or not be malnourished, etc. This is a dumb story and should just be ignored.
2- It is nearly impossible in the US to find foods that do not have carbohydrates added to them.
With respect: I don't think you're looking very hard. Right at this moment I have food items in my refrigerator that don't have carbs added to them: boneless skinless chicken breast, sharp cheddar cheese, swiss cheese, 2% milk, half-and-half, and Fage fat-free plain Greek yogurt.
1- limit carbohydrate intake to as low as possible.
Sometimes part of the problem with people attempting to diet for weightloss purposes is they go to extremes because they want to lose as fast as possible, then they fail when it's too much. All you have to do is limit carb intake in a reasonable way and you'll lose weight. Trying to cut them out completely will just make most people very enervated and miserable, and they'll end up quitting and maybe even gaining more weight back than they started with.
BMI tables make broad assumptions based on statistical averages which may or may not reflect your actual body composition. If you really want to know what your body composition is, find a doctors office that can do bone densitometry, and get a DXA scan. DXA is the Gold Standard for determining body composition, even over hydrostatic weighing, because it directly measures adipose tissue, lean tissue, and bone. If someone is really concerned with what their bodyfat percentage is and are actively trying to control their weight, then getting a DXA scan once a year will provide enough information for someone to determine how many calories per day they should be consuming in order to gradually lose excess weight, actually make what the scale is telling them meaningful, and give them definitive markers of progress (or lack thereof, as the case may be). For just body composition purposes should cost less than $100 per scan (I get them for $80).
..feedback loop
That's what I was just thinking. Every system in a biological organism is a negative-feedback loop, isn't it? Self-regulating? Why shouldn't the human brain work the same way on a fundamental level? Drugs that we use work because it alters the loop characteristics, right?
See, that doesn't work, for a simple reason: The food industry (at least here in the U.S.) goes out of their way to make sure you're as addicted to their products as possible, and they make it cheap and easy to get/consume. 'Moderation' is not good for profits.
The reasons are actually quite simple and easy to miss because they're right in front of your nose where you're least likely to look. :-)
1. Exercise is unpleasant (for the majority of people). Most people will use any excuse to avoid unpleasant things, even if the result of {unpleasant_thing} is to their benefit. "I don't have time" is probably the most common excuse; you don't have one hour, really?
2. The human body is evolved to be very efficient at storing calories and very efficient in it's use of them; read as: 'The human body will fight you to keep it's calories (i.e. body fat)'. One might even theorize that even on a mental/emotional level, it will throw roadblocks in the way of burning calories. After all the next famine might be right around the corner! How will we survive without lots of bodyfat? (i.e. human body still thinks we're hunter/gatherers)
3. Most people don't want to give anything up. Knowing what you're actualy eating (calorically, that is) is the first step to controlling your body composition, but most people flat-out won't do it, because then they have to be honest with themselves that the foods they enjoy the most, are the most fattening and worst for their overall health -- and if they don't know then they don't have to make a choice. Again, most people will use any excuse to avoid being honest about what and how much they're eating, and any excuse to give anything up, too.
4. The problem, at least here in the U.S., has got so bad that now obese people are spinning their obesity into some sort of twisted, messed-up virtue, with the 'healthy at every size' movement, etc. I've even seen some instances of women claiming that they're being discrimonated against by men, and that it should be some sort of (criminal or social) hate-crime to not be attracted to them; they actually want to force men to be attracted to them, date them, sleep with them, etc., I kid you not.
5. Every decade that passes, we're getting lazier and lazier overall, due to more and more modern conveniences. People don't have to do things for themselves as much anymore, so they don't. Before too long people won't even have to actively drive their cars, they'll sit there behind the wheel, barely even paying attention to the road, while a computer does most of the actual driving. We don't have to hunt or gather to survive; we don't all have to be subsistence farmers. Some don't even have to get off their butts to go to the grocery store, they can get it all delivered. Children are not encouraged to go outside and play, they're put in front of a screen to watch shows or play games. It's a bad trend overall for humanity, in my opinion.
6. I wouldn't at all be surprised if the trend towards rejecting science has something to do with this, too.
With new Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) generating plants
Fixed that for you.
Nobody is going to go for this. It's a gross violation of people's privacy.
'Ethically' doesn't even enter into it for me. If they insisted I'd take my business elsewhere, where my privacy is respected, and don't even bother busting out with 'everybody will want to track you' because that's just spreading FUD.
My 'behaviors' are none of their gods-be-damned business. If my driving record (which is excellent, by the way) isn't good enough for them, then they can shove it.
but It does very much make me wonder if something like they've just figured out how to get their quantum computer to do general case decryption
See, that's not as bad as braindead politicians ruining or banning encrytion, because at least it's a more level playing field, then; the Bad Guys' encryption would be just as vulnerable as any other encryption is, and it would still likely take some time to crack the encryption in any case, so they'd be less likely to be decrypting everything, as opposed to encryption being about as effective as taking the deadbolt off the front door of your house and using a strip of duct tape instead, which is what a 'backdoored' encryption method would be like.
Someone like that is the last person I'd expect to bust out with a public statement like that, but at least on the surface it makes me feel a little better that not everyone in the government is as dumb as a doorknob.
Already did that, and the appropriate State Senator. Just would rather someone (or a group of someones) pull this Copper guy up short.
I'm not in this guy's district so his stupid web page won't accept my comments, could someone who is in his district please call or email and explain to this guy why what he wants to do will just make law-abiding citizens less secure, not aid law enforcement in any substantial way, and in the end only help criminals and terrorists? Thanks.
Oh shit, someone managed to infiltrate us and install covert backdoor accounts in our products? What'll we do, the Government and Military will have a shit fit over this, we'll get all our contracts cancelled! We'll be ruined!
Calm down Fred, I've got it handled: We'll just tell them "Oh, those are just for our internal debugging, LOL, nothing to worry about!
..Yeah, you're right, Steve, no need to spook them, not like they're smart enough to know better, right? Guess my Porche payment will be on time this month after all!
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate up hill
I'm far from being any sort of scientist and even I can plainly see that the weather everywhere on Earth is all part of one very large and complex system, and if more potential energy is kept in that system (global temperature rise) then more energetic things are likely to happen.
The signal-to-noise ratio in the average persons' inbox is so low that it's almost pointless to use email anymore. I could set up an email account with random alphanumerics and never use it for anything or tell anyone about it, and eventually it'd get filled with spam anyway.
I've actually heard of ideas to put stuff in the upper atmosphere (light enough to stay there) that would effectively raise the albedo of Earth, reflecting more sunlight back out into space. Not sure how practical it would be. There's also a short story by David Brin where an alien race used millions of small, steerable mirrors to induce an ice age on a planet they later wanted to colonize (they did this because the planet had a sentient species on it, and they weren't very nice aliens). Things like this aren't so totally far-fetched that they couldn't be done.