I think your sense of liberty is a little overthought. True liberty isn't something that can be given with money. Liberty has nothing to do with support or training. It is the freedom to move about, the freedom to express oneself, the freedom to live, work, and play as one likes. I've been following one videographer in NH...Ridley I think his name is. There was one case where he was visiting a hotel where the VP was attending a fundraiser, and he was outside interviewing some senators as they arrived, and taking some video. He was told to leave, rather rudely, and he continued videotaping as he made his way to his car. The police followed him into the parking lot, practically harassing him the entire way. They arrested him just a few spots away from his car, for trespassing, despite the fact that he was moving the entire time. The prosecutor and police looked like jackasses in court, and he won his case, but it's a good demonstration of how a liberty can be violated. He was on private property, and proceeded to leave when told. He was only arrested because he annoyed the police officers.
That's pretty much it. Status quo isn't going to get the government to change direction. First step will be to replace as many politicians as we can. It'd be nice to see an ad campaign that basically says, even if you don't get to know the people running for election, vote for anyone BUT the incumbent. Once that's accomplished, if nothing changes, then perhaps it's time for a little civil unrest. Civil unrest, while nasty, costs the government time, money, and gets the attention of international media. Makes the politicians look bad. Hopefully those two things will make change, because nobody wants to see the last option come around... meanwhile, I'm in Texas, we'll be long gone by option number 2.;)
I can't explain completely, but I can say the energy level has most to do with the momentum of the particle. The faster a particle goes, the more energetic it is. It's a very simplistic explanation, and only one facet of what energizes a particle, but should work for laymen such as us. As for the interaction: if I remember right, neutrinos are very small. They tend to fly between the atoms, which at that scale are very far apart.
According to the article, the main prior art they found was a Compuserv checkout. I wonder if they were prepared to bring up the various bulletin board commerce solutions...surely a few of those would qualify as well. It's absurd that a company would think they could sue every company and license for a technology that's existed since at least the early nineties, but wasn't patented until the web was well under way, and had NO ties to the original software.
As far as I can tell, Windows 95 was the last Microsoft OS to support i386 (Win98 listed requirements call for i486, WinNT 4.x calls for Pentium, and so on).
True, but I think it's amazing they maintained backward-compatibility for this long, considering how far removed hardware architecture has gone compared to the 1980s.
Around 7th or 8th grade, we had a computer keyboarding and computer literacy class. I think I took both in 7th grade together, whereas they usually wanted students to complete keyboarding *before* computer literacy... I could two finger at that point faster than most of the others who'd completed keyboarding. It was what I would expect comp lit to be now -- the first semester focused on the history of computing, as well as the internals, all the way down to the bits and registers. The second semester was a somewhat limited computer math with BASIC programming. In high school, you could take a computer math course to learn logic and procedures in Pascal, followed by computer science which focused on real world problems. It was a very comprehensive course structure for its time, I thought. This was all in the early 90's. I have no idea what's taught now, but since I still run into waaay too many people who haven't a clue, I guess they dropped a lot of it.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if it begins here in Texas. I can't speak for all of Texas, of course -- it's a rather big state -- but, there are plenty of parts around here where we have a deep love of our freedoms. Many are grumbling about the slow erosion of personal freedom, and I'm waiting for the federal government to pass the wrong law or implement the wrong policy. It's bound to happen with the direction things are going.
Actually, I think it all depends on the person. In the case of my exwife, she HATED Star Trek when we first got together. However, when I was watching some season DVDs of Voyager, she slowly started watching more and more, until it became a nightly ritual to knock out some Trek before bed. After that, she moved on to DS9 (not so into it; Quark scared her lol), then TNG and Enterprise. To this day she's an avid Trekker, and has graduated to other scifi classics like Dr. Who. Others I've met started with DS9 or Enterprise. I suggest starting off with Episode 1 of whichever you choose, except TNG; start with maybe Season 3 of that one, as 1 and 2 are just too fucking cheezy overall...;)
Unfortunately, not every child responds to taking things away. I've set up a progressive discipline process whereby I first take away her outside playtime. Usually this results in her throwing stuff around the living room and knocking things off the table, so I'll tell her no TV/dessert/whatever, which usually results in some sort of bigger fit, and me sending her to her room (if she's going to break stuff, she can break her own stuff). I usually have to haul her there myself, and block the doorway, and also make sure she doesn't try to break the door. I try to verbally calm her down, which usually does not work, and pretty much the only option left is a spanking. It used to be even worse than this, to the point that I had to hold her down until she calmed down (she has Asperger's Disorder), but an adjustment to her medicine (she's 7 now, and bigger than she used to be) seems to have helped bring her back closer to reality again. There's not much to take away from her, as she's broken everything in her room. She has a bed, a desk, a chair, and her dresser, each one with pieces missing, scratched, torn, or broken apart.
There's a difference between a spanking and an all out beating. When I have to spank my kids, first thing I do is step back and think...do I really need to do this? Am I calm enough? Sometimes I'm too upset, and I do a quick breathing exercise, re-evaluate the situation, and realize a simple "Ok, lets sit down and talk about this" works. Other times, like out and out disobedience (multiple times (room...ROOM...ROOM NOW!!)) it's just necessary. Watching the video reminded me a lot of my daughter, but I was horrified by the father's actions. I read in my local news that this incident was over freakin' file sharing. Really, dad? He could've taken the computer away, problem solved and hopefully lesson learned. At 16 years old, if she wasn't going to woman up and take her licks, he could have found another way to discipline. My daughter is 7... I can pick her up and bend her over my knee...I do NOT use a belt, and I do NOT use my full force. I can only imagine what his daughter's legs looked like. It's far too easy to cause damage with a belt, and she's lucky she didn't walk away from that beating with more than bruises.
but why do so many people feel that they're being misled by scientists? is it just that they don't want to believe what science says?
Yes and no. I think it also quite often has to do with people not really understanding the science. I know when something new that piques my interest comes around, I get quite confused very quickly once I get around to looking at the nitty gritty of it. At some point, the lay person simply has to place some faith in the scientists.
The problem is, every time a scientist is found to have abused the scientific method, plagiarized, or basically cheated or found plain wrong in some way, it discredits the entire profession in the lay persons' minds. Sure, this is why we rely on peer reviews, but there have been plenty of documented cases where bad science has gotten past that as well.
I'm not sure if it's packet loss or what it is, but these last few weeks I've had periods of time (on AT&T DSL) where I simply can't load images from Akamai-based servers. I can browse the NewEgg store, but I can't see any pictures, because images10.newegg.com is actually images10.newegg.com.edgesuite.net
Myabe they're trying and failing miserably to throttle Netflix (who also uses Akamai).
I dunno, but I had horrible experience with AT&T DSL. Periods of high latency, and similar experience with Akamai and other content hosts. At first I was using Google DNS, but when I got tired of the slow pageloads I used the DNS provided by DHCP...if it helped at all I didn't notice.
Ok, once in a while I see latency that actually impacts quality (mostly on DSL), but when's the last time anyone had packet loss that wasn't on their own network?
Not exactly a dupe. The story here isn't that they are actors, it's that Samsung's marketing copied a writer's review -- one that is NOT a good review of their product, and used it in a fake magazine. Read the source.
I have a fairly simple solution. Allow the disabled users to use other software. The law requires businesses to make "reasonable accommodations", not change the entire way of doing business. Other apps will integrate nicely with Google Apps.
I mostly miss the local community. My favorite thing to do now, though, is at the end of the day log on and read through the message bases. BBS's aren't dead, but forget about finding a BBS that is active locally. It's a global community now. Synchronet's DOVEnet is decently active, and has some good discussions. Many of the participating BBS's have just about all of the great oldie doors, too, and they're just as fun to play now as they were then.
Ever seen the press conference by Disclosure Project? Ignore the actor (don't think I've ever even seen him before) introducing at the beginning. I think it's the first witness, who was a high ranking FAA official, who at the end of his testimony hauls out two or three really good pieces of evidence for anyone to go over, right there at the podium. Radar tapes, audio transcripts, etc. Nice stuff. http://www.youtube.com/user/csetiweb#p/a/u/0/lkswXVmG4xM
I haven't actually seen a tugboat pull, but I figured they would. I live near an obscure, but important, port (Beaumont, TX). I grew up watching them navigate the Neches River, and I have seen them do some pretty neat things. There's a refinery dock next to the park I used to hang out at, and I would watch the tugboats help secure a vessel... you can FEEL the power of those engines a good 150 yards away.
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I think your sense of liberty is a little overthought. True liberty isn't something that can be given with money. Liberty has nothing to do with support or training. It is the freedom to move about, the freedom to express oneself, the freedom to live, work, and play as one likes. I've been following one videographer in NH...Ridley I think his name is. There was one case where he was visiting a hotel where the VP was attending a fundraiser, and he was outside interviewing some senators as they arrived, and taking some video. He was told to leave, rather rudely, and he continued videotaping as he made his way to his car. The police followed him into the parking lot, practically harassing him the entire way. They arrested him just a few spots away from his car, for trespassing, despite the fact that he was moving the entire time. The prosecutor and police looked like jackasses in court, and he won his case, but it's a good demonstration of how a liberty can be violated. He was on private property, and proceeded to leave when told. He was only arrested because he annoyed the police officers.
That's pretty much it. Status quo isn't going to get the government to change direction. First step will be to replace as many politicians as we can. It'd be nice to see an ad campaign that basically says, even if you don't get to know the people running for election, vote for anyone BUT the incumbent. Once that's accomplished, if nothing changes, then perhaps it's time for a little civil unrest. Civil unrest, while nasty, costs the government time, money, and gets the attention of international media. Makes the politicians look bad. Hopefully those two things will make change, because nobody wants to see the last option come around... meanwhile, I'm in Texas, we'll be long gone by option number 2. ;)
Make companies who break serious laws start giving up patents and copyrights to the public domain. Watch big business become friendly REAL quick.
I can't explain completely, but I can say the energy level has most to do with the momentum of the particle. The faster a particle goes, the more energetic it is. It's a very simplistic explanation, and only one facet of what energizes a particle, but should work for laymen such as us. As for the interaction: if I remember right, neutrinos are very small. They tend to fly between the atoms, which at that scale are very far apart.
According to the article, the main prior art they found was a Compuserv checkout. I wonder if they were prepared to bring up the various bulletin board commerce solutions...surely a few of those would qualify as well. It's absurd that a company would think they could sue every company and license for a technology that's existed since at least the early nineties, but wasn't patented until the web was well under way, and had NO ties to the original software.
As far as I can tell, Windows 95 was the last Microsoft OS to support i386 (Win98 listed requirements call for i486, WinNT 4.x calls for Pentium, and so on).
True, but I think it's amazing they maintained backward-compatibility for this long, considering how far removed hardware architecture has gone compared to the 1980s.
Around 7th or 8th grade, we had a computer keyboarding and computer literacy class. I think I took both in 7th grade together, whereas they usually wanted students to complete keyboarding *before* computer literacy... I could two finger at that point faster than most of the others who'd completed keyboarding. It was what I would expect comp lit to be now -- the first semester focused on the history of computing, as well as the internals, all the way down to the bits and registers. The second semester was a somewhat limited computer math with BASIC programming. In high school, you could take a computer math course to learn logic and procedures in Pascal, followed by computer science which focused on real world problems. It was a very comprehensive course structure for its time, I thought. This was all in the early 90's. I have no idea what's taught now, but since I still run into waaay too many people who haven't a clue, I guess they dropped a lot of it.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if it begins here in Texas. I can't speak for all of Texas, of course -- it's a rather big state -- but, there are plenty of parts around here where we have a deep love of our freedoms. Many are grumbling about the slow erosion of personal freedom, and I'm waiting for the federal government to pass the wrong law or implement the wrong policy. It's bound to happen with the direction things are going.
Actually, I think it all depends on the person. In the case of my exwife, she HATED Star Trek when we first got together. However, when I was watching some season DVDs of Voyager, she slowly started watching more and more, until it became a nightly ritual to knock out some Trek before bed. After that, she moved on to DS9 (not so into it; Quark scared her lol), then TNG and Enterprise. To this day she's an avid Trekker, and has graduated to other scifi classics like Dr. Who. Others I've met started with DS9 or Enterprise. I suggest starting off with Episode 1 of whichever you choose, except TNG; start with maybe Season 3 of that one, as 1 and 2 are just too fucking cheezy overall... ;)
If I'm not mistaken, don't we already have at least one or two government agencies involved in information security? Why do we need to have more?
seems to be great for finding television episodes. If you're looking for movies, zmovie.tv has been kind to me.
Unfortunately, not every child responds to taking things away. I've set up a progressive discipline process whereby I first take away her outside playtime. Usually this results in her throwing stuff around the living room and knocking things off the table, so I'll tell her no TV/dessert/whatever, which usually results in some sort of bigger fit, and me sending her to her room (if she's going to break stuff, she can break her own stuff). I usually have to haul her there myself, and block the doorway, and also make sure she doesn't try to break the door. I try to verbally calm her down, which usually does not work, and pretty much the only option left is a spanking. It used to be even worse than this, to the point that I had to hold her down until she calmed down (she has Asperger's Disorder), but an adjustment to her medicine (she's 7 now, and bigger than she used to be) seems to have helped bring her back closer to reality again. There's not much to take away from her, as she's broken everything in her room. She has a bed, a desk, a chair, and her dresser, each one with pieces missing, scratched, torn, or broken apart.
There's a difference between a spanking and an all out beating. When I have to spank my kids, first thing I do is step back and think...do I really need to do this? Am I calm enough? Sometimes I'm too upset, and I do a quick breathing exercise, re-evaluate the situation, and realize a simple "Ok, lets sit down and talk about this" works. Other times, like out and out disobedience (multiple times (room...ROOM...ROOM NOW!!)) it's just necessary. Watching the video reminded me a lot of my daughter, but I was horrified by the father's actions. I read in my local news that this incident was over freakin' file sharing. Really, dad? He could've taken the computer away, problem solved and hopefully lesson learned. At 16 years old, if she wasn't going to woman up and take her licks, he could have found another way to discipline. My daughter is 7... I can pick her up and bend her over my knee...I do NOT use a belt, and I do NOT use my full force. I can only imagine what his daughter's legs looked like. It's far too easy to cause damage with a belt, and she's lucky she didn't walk away from that beating with more than bruises.
but why do so many people feel that they're being misled by scientists? is it just that they don't want to believe what science says?
Yes and no. I think it also quite often has to do with people not really understanding the science. I know when something new that piques my interest comes around, I get quite confused very quickly once I get around to looking at the nitty gritty of it. At some point, the lay person simply has to place some faith in the scientists.
The problem is, every time a scientist is found to have abused the scientific method, plagiarized, or basically cheated or found plain wrong in some way, it discredits the entire profession in the lay persons' minds. Sure, this is why we rely on peer reviews, but there have been plenty of documented cases where bad science has gotten past that as well.
Wow, someone mod him up Informative! :)
I'm not sure if it's packet loss or what it is, but these last few weeks I've had periods of time (on AT&T DSL) where I simply can't load images from Akamai-based servers. I can browse the NewEgg store, but I can't see any pictures, because images10.newegg.com is actually images10.newegg.com.edgesuite.net Myabe they're trying and failing miserably to throttle Netflix (who also uses Akamai).
I dunno, but I had horrible experience with AT&T DSL. Periods of high latency, and similar experience with Akamai and other content hosts. At first I was using Google DNS, but when I got tired of the slow pageloads I used the DNS provided by DHCP...if it helped at all I didn't notice.
Ok, I stand corrected. LOL Guess I've just been lucky!
Ok, once in a while I see latency that actually impacts quality (mostly on DSL), but when's the last time anyone had packet loss that wasn't on their own network?
Not exactly a dupe. The story here isn't that they are actors, it's that Samsung's marketing copied a writer's review -- one that is NOT a good review of their product, and used it in a fake magazine. Read the source.
I have a fairly simple solution. Allow the disabled users to use other software. The law requires businesses to make "reasonable accommodations", not change the entire way of doing business. Other apps will integrate nicely with Google Apps.
I mostly miss the local community. My favorite thing to do now, though, is at the end of the day log on and read through the message bases. BBS's aren't dead, but forget about finding a BBS that is active locally. It's a global community now. Synchronet's DOVEnet is decently active, and has some good discussions. Many of the participating BBS's have just about all of the great oldie doors, too, and they're just as fun to play now as they were then.
I never played it, but I do remember seeing it installed on the boards here.
Ever seen the press conference by Disclosure Project? Ignore the actor (don't think I've ever even seen him before) introducing at the beginning. I think it's the first witness, who was a high ranking FAA official, who at the end of his testimony hauls out two or three really good pieces of evidence for anyone to go over, right there at the podium. Radar tapes, audio transcripts, etc. Nice stuff. http://www.youtube.com/user/csetiweb#p/a/u/0/lkswXVmG4xM
I haven't actually seen a tugboat pull, but I figured they would. I live near an obscure, but important, port (Beaumont, TX). I grew up watching them navigate the Neches River, and I have seen them do some pretty neat things. There's a refinery dock next to the park I used to hang out at, and I would watch the tugboats help secure a vessel... you can FEEL the power of those engines a good 150 yards away.