How is it competition when none of them will allow unsigned applications to run on their phones?
Where is this notion coming from. I've had at least 4 phones (that could run custom software) and not one has required me to sign an application (with anything more than a self-created key) i've written to install it.
In the course of that case, U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Chooljian has ruled that TorrentSpy must turn over RAM data -- which is usually stored only temporarily on servers -- over to the court, disregarding TorrentSpy's privacy and free speech arguments.
The data that is in RAM seems like it's perfectly valid for a court to request. Of course you'd have to be a moron to be using TorrentSpy at this point in time.
Anecdotally I feel like some companies answer the phone quicker if you talk to their automated system in an irate and condescending manner. Could just be me though:)
And if that new data happens to relate to a new style of conflict, then I doubt the model will accomodate.
Pre-vietman we were generally exposed to "traditional" wars. Part of the disaster there was that I'm not sure we really gauaged the enemy correctly going in.
Iraq has a different insurgency again, and we were almost certainly expecting to have to defeat saddams army (which was relatively easy), but we overlooked the "terrorist" contingent.
The current iraq war seems to be a new frontier in warfare style. I'm not sure we've ever fought an insurgency quite like that before. Without that knowledge and model calibration we'd probably fail to come up with an accurate number when trying to estimate success. I would imagine the model would show that the US military could easily overpower saddams military - mission accomplished.
You make a good point. Particularly since most lightbulbs end up being made in countries with poor pollution control.
I expect to also find that producing a CF bulb creates more pollution than creating a conventional bulb, but that the increased life and energy efficiency make up for this.
The problem was that this article cherry-picked its talking points instead of doing some kind of scientific analysis.
No, as my other posts in this thread indicate I am perfectly capable of disputing the points on a scientific basis. The fact that the author is a known shill for big energy is merely an interesting sidenote.
An incandescant bulb running off a coal fired power plant will release more mercury into the evironment than a landfilled CF bulb. Eating tuna every day for a year will cause you to ingest more mercury than eating one CF bulb each year.
Environmentalism has to be about tradeoffs. Nobody claims that a biodiesel car doesn't cause pollution, or that a hybrid isn't contributing to global warming. The point is that they cause less damage.
CF bulbs cause less CO2 and less mercury to enter the environment than regular bulbs (at least as long as we're using coal power). It can be very slightly dangerous if you break one in your house, but it's still less dangerous than breaking a regular fluorescant tube in your house.
This article is scaremongering at its worst because he expresses the risk in scientific terms instead of relating it to things that laypersons can understand.
Why not provide a way to have your iPod customized to the point that it would dent resale value?
If only Apple provided a way to have something like "grahamsz is da c00lest evar" permanantly engraved on my ipod then nobody would want to be seen dead with it (especially not me)....
If you eat a can of tuna once a week then you'd consume as much mercury as eating a CF light bulb.
I'm pretty sure you aren't supposed to eat tuna every week, but I'm pretty sure that more people eat tuna weekly than eat CF bulbs.
Of course if you run an Incandesant from a coal-burning power station then i'm sure you'll end up causing many times more mercury to be released into the environment.
Steven J. Milloy is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. From the 1990s until the end of 2005, he was an adjunct scholar at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.
Whenever anything breaks on one of my dell machines - which has been a little more frequent than I'd have liked, they'll have someone at either my home or office the following business day to do the repair.
I've had a screen replaced for dead pixels months after i bought the machine. I had a battery replaced because it's life deterioated unacceptably. They replaced a piece of plastic round the keyboard that had cracked on a 2.5 year old machine. My company recently spec'd out a desktop and the website let us configure it with two monitors but only onboard graphics, they are shipping a complimentary dual-dvi graphics card to us.
One of my friends with an HP laptop actually had to send it in to be fixed and was without a machine for almost 2 weeks.
Their products may not be perfect but I am continually impressed by the way they support them.
Ultimately they've got to get a large number of these from China to countries that don't have the best infrastructure.
A desktop would surely end up being more expensive unless they went for a CRT monitor, and the CRT would make it difficult to get into its final location.
That way they could have one for the AP and one for your traffic. Since the AP is almost certainly natted, they could even have the AP give out addresses on a 10.x subnet and perform NAT at the router for the neighborhood. That way it wouldn't be possible to tell whether a particular packet came from my Access Point or my neighbors.
If you get pulled over and the officer suspects s/he smells weed then they can almost certainly get a warrant to search your vehicle. Then while searching your car they find a body in the trunk, but no evidence of drugs.
This guy is essentially trying to argue that because the original warrant didn't turn up what the drugs they were looking for, then the body shouldn't be admissable as evidence in a murder trial
I know lots of people who could take an image of a disk and come up with an MD5, but I can maybe think of one person who i know that is sufficiently recognized that he could be considered a computer forensics export.
I'm sure if I suggest someone as a neutral expert, the RIAA will discredit them and likely leave one of their guys as the only choice.
There may well be a market here though. I'm available for a small fee and largely neutral:)
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How is it competition when none of them will allow unsigned applications to run on their phones?
Where is this notion coming from. I've had at least 4 phones (that could run custom software) and not one has required me to sign an application (with anything more than a self-created key) i've written to install it.
Get with T-Mobile!
It didn't stipulate how much "ram data" needed to be turned over. Perhaps they could take a single dump to disk and call it good?
In the course of that case, U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Chooljian has ruled that TorrentSpy must turn over RAM data -- which is usually stored only temporarily on servers -- over to the court, disregarding TorrentSpy's privacy and free speech arguments.
The data that is in RAM seems like it's perfectly valid for a court to request. Of course you'd have to be a moron to be using TorrentSpy at this point in time.
So by "we" he means "my people", not "the American people".
Interesting
Anecdotally I feel like some companies answer the phone quicker if you talk to their automated system in an irate and condescending manner. Could just be me though :)
And if that new data happens to relate to a new style of conflict, then I doubt the model will accomodate.
Pre-vietman we were generally exposed to "traditional" wars. Part of the disaster there was that I'm not sure we really gauaged the enemy correctly going in.
Iraq has a different insurgency again, and we were almost certainly expecting to have to defeat saddams army (which was relatively easy), but we overlooked the "terrorist" contingent.
When in doubt, assume i'm always being sarcastic.
The current iraq war seems to be a new frontier in warfare style. I'm not sure we've ever fought an insurgency quite like that before. Without that knowledge and model calibration we'd probably fail to come up with an accurate number when trying to estimate success. I would imagine the model would show that the US military could easily overpower saddams military - mission accomplished.
She took a bunch of historical information about wars, built a model and then when run on that historical information it was 80% accurate.
Amazing stuff.
There are a few gas stations near me that sell actual biodiesel.. presumably that's properly taxed.
I imagine he's being hit by the same kind of statute that would stop you using red or farm diesel in your car.
You look familiar!
My and a couple of friends set up bannination.com - it's less than a month old but coming along nicely.
We formed bannination.com where we can have lots of naughtiness and moderate ourselves instead of having someone making all the calls.
I've used IE on Solaris and I believe it was also available on HPUX. Those versions didn't even last as long as the Mac version.
Then you should really be considering a database.
You make a good point. Particularly since most lightbulbs end up being made in countries with poor pollution control.
I expect to also find that producing a CF bulb creates more pollution than creating a conventional bulb, but that the increased life and energy efficiency make up for this.
The problem was that this article cherry-picked its talking points instead of doing some kind of scientific analysis.
No, as my other posts in this thread indicate I am perfectly capable of disputing the points on a scientific basis. The fact that the author is a known shill for big energy is merely an interesting sidenote.
An incandescant bulb running off a coal fired power plant will release more mercury into the evironment than a landfilled CF bulb. Eating tuna every day for a year will cause you to ingest more mercury than eating one CF bulb each year.
Environmentalism has to be about tradeoffs. Nobody claims that a biodiesel car doesn't cause pollution, or that a hybrid isn't contributing to global warming. The point is that they cause less damage.
CF bulbs cause less CO2 and less mercury to enter the environment than regular bulbs (at least as long as we're using coal power). It can be very slightly dangerous if you break one in your house, but it's still less dangerous than breaking a regular fluorescant tube in your house.
This article is scaremongering at its worst because he expresses the risk in scientific terms instead of relating it to things that laypersons can understand.
Why not provide a way to have your iPod customized to the point that it would dent resale value?
If only Apple provided a way to have something like "grahamsz is da c00lest evar" permanantly engraved on my ipod then nobody would want to be seen dead with it (especially not me)....
If you eat a can of tuna once a week then you'd consume as much mercury as eating a CF light bulb.
I'm pretty sure you aren't supposed to eat tuna every week, but I'm pretty sure that more people eat tuna weekly than eat CF bulbs.
Of course if you run an Incandesant from a coal-burning power station then i'm sure you'll end up causing many times more mercury to be released into the environment.
From http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_M illoy
Steven J. Milloy is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. From the 1990s until the end of 2005, he was an adjunct scholar at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.
One large grain of salt coming right up
Whenever anything breaks on one of my dell machines - which has been a little more frequent than I'd have liked, they'll have someone at either my home or office the following business day to do the repair.
I've had a screen replaced for dead pixels months after i bought the machine. I had a battery replaced because it's life deterioated unacceptably. They replaced a piece of plastic round the keyboard that had cracked on a 2.5 year old machine. My company recently spec'd out a desktop and the website let us configure it with two monitors but only onboard graphics, they are shipping a complimentary dual-dvi graphics card to us.
One of my friends with an HP laptop actually had to send it in to be fixed and was without a machine for almost 2 weeks.
Their products may not be perfect but I am continually impressed by the way they support them.
Ultimately they've got to get a large number of these from China to countries that don't have the best infrastructure.
A desktop would surely end up being more expensive unless they went for a CRT monitor, and the CRT would make it difficult to get into its final location.
That way they could have one for the AP and one for your traffic. Since the AP is almost certainly natted, they could even have the AP give out addresses on a 10.x subnet and perform NAT at the router for the neighborhood. That way it wouldn't be possible to tell whether a particular packet came from my Access Point or my neighbors.
I see it this sort of way:
If you get pulled over and the officer suspects s/he smells weed then they can almost certainly get a warrant to search your vehicle. Then while searching your car they find a body in the trunk, but no evidence of drugs.
This guy is essentially trying to argue that because the original warrant didn't turn up what the drugs they were looking for, then the body shouldn't be admissable as evidence in a murder trial
I know lots of people who could take an image of a disk and come up with an MD5, but I can maybe think of one person who i know that is sufficiently recognized that he could be considered a computer forensics export.
:)
I'm sure if I suggest someone as a neutral expert, the RIAA will discredit them and likely leave one of their guys as the only choice.
There may well be a market here though. I'm available for a small fee and largely neutral