Many/most electricity bills are being split: one part is production, one part is delivery. While most consumers use the same company for both, many opt for an alternative producer of those kWh different from the company owning/installing/maintaining the wiring for delivery. That industry has worked out the division, and worked out the billing (often onto one bill few examine).
Internet already splits that: you pay (often $0) the producer of those bytes (Google, CNN, Netflix, whatever) separate from the compan[y|ies] providing delivery thereof (Comcast, Clear, various "backbone" networks, etc.). With more customers demanding cumulative bandwidth beyond capacity (or will soon), the delivery companies are balking at the all-you-can-eat model. At some point they must implement some billing changes which will account for Gramma's occasional receipt of emailed grandkid photos vs. local kids downloading anything they can find plus demanding low-ping response times vs. families ditching cable TV in favor of streaming video, all in a manner fair (yes, "to whom?" being the obvious question) to all.
Upshot: data delivery services must, at some point, switch to metered delivery - if only to implement fair distribution of limited services via supply-and-demand pricing.
The purpose of the Prize, supported by the Guillermo Cano Foundation, the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation and JP/Politiken Newspapers LTD, is to honour a person, organization or institution that has made a notable contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially if this involved risk.
Well, we know who most fits that description by far. We'll need Assange's full/proper name, date/place of birth, nationality, address, and suitable brief biography (yes, most of that is known, but for formalities let's make sure proper, not popular, information is used) to fill in this form. I suggest lots of people submit the form, with "Candidate presented by" filled as "populous at large"; should not a large number of individuals all acting as interested-for-the-same-reason parties have their unanimous selection recognized as much as any formal organization, given the nature of the prize?
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Oh, that's funny. Let's see how much celebration of WikiLeaks there is.
("Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." Well, sometimes it fits.)
Why the continuing bother with Caps Lock, SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Break? Does anyone use them? at least, any number of people above statistical noise? How about the Windows and Menu keys? anybody use that on a regular basis? would a statistically meaningful number miss them? And while we're at it, usage of the Function keys (12 of them!) seems vanishingly small. Nineteen nigh-unto-unused keys, times how many keyboards out there with them?
Employee longevity has dropped from 30-some years to about 3. Maybe corporate hiring policy should take that into account when doling out vacation time. I may not have been with the company for long, but I do have 20 years behind me and would like a new position to start out with something more than 2 weeks off.
In juxtaposition to the new Google tablet featuring "NVidia dual core CPU", just a few/. stories prior is a link to John Carmack opining "In the not-too-distant future, we're going to be seeing multicore on mobiles" in reference to gaming capabilities.
Between having studied self-defense (to wit: what to do if someone is trying to kill you) and suffered open-heart surgery (to wit: been dead), I find there is little else worth worrying about.
So yes: stop stressin'. If it's not going to kill/maim you, all will come out OK.
Methinks you misunderstand how this country works. There's this thing called the "Constitution", you see, and it tells the government what it is allowed to do - and that if it's not told it can do it then it can't, and this "Constitution" thing goes so far as to end with (paraphrased) "No, really, you can't do what you're not allowed to, and here's a list of things we're really adamant about you not doing - and one of them is GOVERNMENT CANNOT SEARCH PEOPLE WITHOUT SPECIFIC CAUSE ARTICULATED TO A JUDGE WHO MUST ISSUE A SIGNED WARRANT."
D@mn straight we have the right to fly, take a train, ride a bus, or drive. If the Founding Fathers had envisioned something as intrusive & oppressive as licensed vehicular travel - much less being intimately assaulted to even be a passenger - they would have included the right to vehicular travel in the Bill Of Rights (which, BTW, has a catch-all "and any rights we didn't enumerate, yeah the government cannot infringe on those either").
Had the Founding Fathers conceived of the day when vehicular travel was considered not a right, they would have included it in the Bill Of Rights. Indeed, one of the strong arguments against a "bill of rights" was that absence of a right from enumeration could/would be construed as non-existence thereof - hence the catch-all 9th Amendment.
The Constitution enumerates what powers the government is granted. None of those powers precludes his right to fly cross-country to a meeting, nor permit gross violations of other enumerated rights as a condition of that right, just because it is not enumerated.
A most memorable Mad About You episode was a straight single ~25 minute take. Despite ultra-low budget (hallway shot, camera didn't even move), it was very emotionally engaging - still chokes me up to think about it.
TFA ends "I'll return to the subject of long takes in the next week or two, where I'll take a look at... the longest single take in cinema history", which I assume is Russian Ark.
Indeed, that movie is a tour-de-force of single takes. 2000+ actors, 90+ minutes, one take. (They actually shot the whole thing three times.) The movie is far more interesting with the commentary track describing how it was done; the straight soundtrack renders it nigh unto unwatchable. A technical, not artistic, triumph.
Assuming 50 weeks worked a year and 48 hours a week that works out to $12.5 per hour.
You make your opponent's point.
The "vast majority of consumers" would spend more than 100 hours trying to self-upgrade memory, storage, video, drivers, etc. of an old computer to match the specs of a new one. Might as well take that >$1250+(hardware costs)+(sale of old computer) and just buy a new high-end computer.
As konohitowa points out, software transfer is plug-and-play easy on a Mac, and I contend by the time you're upgrading (the hard or easy way) it's time for a thorough housecleaning anyway.
A planet in Earth's solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto. Rupert was named Persephone, but nicknamed Rupert after "some astronomer's parrot." It was eventually settled by the Grebulons. In 2005, an actual tenth planet fitting Rupert's description was discovered beyond Pluto (which was considered a planet then, as opposed to a dwarf planet now). In a poll of the public conducted by New Scientist magazine to search out potential names for the object, "Rupert" ranked #5, and "Persephone" was the top choice. The planet was, however, ultimately named Eris.
For that price you can get a Mac Pro today: One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” 3GB (3x1GB) 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB One 18x SuperDrive Apple Magic Mouse Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Or, using the original numbers, you can get a 32GB iPad 3G.
Or, being one of the guys who built it, you could be worth ~$6,000,000,000.
Groundless stripping & groping normal innocent citizens who just want to fly isn't a power granted government.
Had the Founding Fathers imagined infringement of the right to vehicular travel, no question they would have included it in the Bill of Rights - and realizing they may have missed some, they DID include the catch-all 9th Amendment. And they DID include an explicit denial of warrant-less searches by government agents, which is what this case is about.
It's not the flying that's objected to, it's the uninvited third party threatening incarceration and/or death* to anyone who tries to fly without willingly submitting to activity which would be considered assault in any other context. If TSA wasn't a government agency, they'd be facing a cumulative life sentence for such behavior.
(* - yes, death: if you try getting on that plane without being stripped or groped, they will go so far as shooting you if threats don't stop you.)
Some rights are so obvious the protection thereof just did not occur to the Founding Fathers. They just never imagined the right to vehicular travel could be infringed, would become licensed, and subject to for-all-practical-purposes strip searches.
As a collective "we", yes we're paying for it. But you're not "unity100 of Borg".
At some point, some of us are going to realize "we" as individuals are paying for the bandwidth usage of others. You look at your ISP bill and realize half of what you're paying (say, $360/year - whatever it is, it's a lot of money out of your pocket) is going to fund someone else's movie marathons. Or maybe it's you enjoying the subsidized streaming video, and I'm deciding to have a chat with my ISP about why I'm shelling out $60/mo for a fraction of a fraction of the bandwidth you're paying the same for.
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Many/most electricity bills are being split: one part is production, one part is delivery. While most consumers use the same company for both, many opt for an alternative producer of those kWh different from the company owning/installing/maintaining the wiring for delivery. That industry has worked out the division, and worked out the billing (often onto one bill few examine).
Internet already splits that: you pay (often $0) the producer of those bytes (Google, CNN, Netflix, whatever) separate from the compan[y|ies] providing delivery thereof (Comcast, Clear, various "backbone" networks, etc.). With more customers demanding cumulative bandwidth beyond capacity (or will soon), the delivery companies are balking at the all-you-can-eat model. At some point they must implement some billing changes which will account for Gramma's occasional receipt of emailed grandkid photos vs. local kids downloading anything they can find plus demanding low-ping response times vs. families ditching cable TV in favor of streaming video, all in a manner fair (yes, "to whom?" being the obvious question) to all.
Upshot: data delivery services must, at some point, switch to metered delivery - if only to implement fair distribution of limited services via supply-and-demand pricing.
Here ya go, net-neutrality proponents: a per-byte charge. Did you really expect otherwise?
Well, we know who most fits that description by far.
We'll need Assange's full/proper name, date/place of birth, nationality, address, and suitable brief biography (yes, most of that is known, but for formalities let's make sure proper, not popular, information is used) to fill in this form. I suggest lots of people submit the form, with "Candidate presented by" filled as "populous at large"; should not a large number of individuals all acting as interested-for-the-same-reason parties have their unanimous selection recognized as much as any formal organization, given the nature of the prize?
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Oh, that's funny. Let's see how much celebration of WikiLeaks there is.
("Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." Well, sometimes it fits.)
Why the continuing bother with Caps Lock, SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Break? Does anyone use them? at least, any number of people above statistical noise?
How about the Windows and Menu keys? anybody use that on a regular basis? would a statistically meaningful number miss them?
And while we're at it, usage of the Function keys (12 of them!) seems vanishingly small.
Nineteen nigh-unto-unused keys, times how many keyboards out there with them?
Employee longevity has dropped from 30-some years to about 3. Maybe corporate hiring policy should take that into account when doling out vacation time. I may not have been with the company for long, but I do have 20 years behind me and would like a new position to start out with something more than 2 weeks off.
In juxtaposition to the new Google tablet featuring "NVidia dual core CPU", just a few /. stories prior is a link to John Carmack opining "In the not-too-distant future, we're going to be seeing multicore on mobiles" in reference to gaming capabilities.
Interesting times.
Between having studied self-defense (to wit: what to do if someone is trying to kill you) and suffered open-heart surgery (to wit: been dead), I find there is little else worth worrying about.
So yes: stop stressin'. If it's not going to kill/maim you, all will come out OK.
Methinks you misunderstand how this country works.
There's this thing called the "Constitution", you see, and it tells the government what it is allowed to do - and that if it's not told it can do it then it can't, and this "Constitution" thing goes so far as to end with (paraphrased) "No, really, you can't do what you're not allowed to, and here's a list of things we're really adamant about you not doing - and one of them is GOVERNMENT CANNOT SEARCH PEOPLE WITHOUT SPECIFIC CAUSE ARTICULATED TO A JUDGE WHO MUST ISSUE A SIGNED WARRANT."
D@mn straight we have the right to fly, take a train, ride a bus, or drive. If the Founding Fathers had envisioned something as intrusive & oppressive as licensed vehicular travel - much less being intimately assaulted to even be a passenger - they would have included the right to vehicular travel in the Bill Of Rights (which, BTW, has a catch-all "and any rights we didn't enumerate, yeah the government cannot infringe on those either").
Why do all the photos I see of this guy show the uninteresting side of the appendage in question?
Had the Founding Fathers conceived of the day when vehicular travel was considered not a right, they would have included it in the Bill Of Rights. Indeed, one of the strong arguments against a "bill of rights" was that absence of a right from enumeration could/would be construed as non-existence thereof - hence the catch-all 9th Amendment.
The Constitution enumerates what powers the government is granted. None of those powers precludes his right to fly cross-country to a meeting, nor permit gross violations of other enumerated rights as a condition of that right, just because it is not enumerated.
Then secure the aircraft. Groping my family has nothing to do with it.
Not being searched without specific articulable cause presented to a judge and confirmed with a signed warrant IS.
A most memorable Mad About You episode was a straight single ~25 minute take. Despite ultra-low budget (hallway shot, camera didn't even move), it was very emotionally engaging - still chokes me up to think about it.
TFA ends "I'll return to the subject of long takes in the next week or two, where I'll take a look at ... the longest single take in cinema history", which I assume is Russian Ark.
Indeed, that movie is a tour-de-force of single takes. 2000+ actors, 90+ minutes, one take. (They actually shot the whole thing three times.) The movie is far more interesting with the commentary track describing how it was done; the straight soundtrack renders it nigh unto unwatchable. A technical, not artistic, triumph.
You make your opponent's point.
The "vast majority of consumers" would spend more than 100 hours trying to self-upgrade memory, storage, video, drivers, etc. of an old computer to match the specs of a new one. Might as well take that >$1250+(hardware costs)+(sale of old computer) and just buy a new high-end computer.
As konohitowa points out, software transfer is plug-and-play easy on a Mac, and I contend by the time you're upgrading (the hard or easy way) it's time for a thorough housecleaning anyway.
Rupert:
A planet in Earth's solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto. Rupert was named Persephone, but nicknamed Rupert after "some astronomer's parrot." It was eventually settled by the Grebulons.
In 2005, an actual tenth planet fitting Rupert's description was discovered beyond Pluto (which was considered a planet then, as opposed to a dwarf planet now). In a poll of the public conducted by New Scientist magazine to search out potential names for the object, "Rupert" ranked #5, and "Persephone" was the top choice. The planet was, however, ultimately named Eris.
For that price you can get a Mac Pro today:
One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem”
3GB (3x1GB)
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
One 18x SuperDrive
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Or, using the original numbers, you can get a 32GB iPad 3G.
Or, being one of the guys who built it, you could be worth ~$6,000,000,000.
Obviously the purpose of a museum is lost on you.
Groundless stripping & groping normal innocent citizens who just want to fly isn't a power granted government.
Had the Founding Fathers imagined infringement of the right to vehicular travel, no question they would have included it in the Bill of Rights - and realizing they may have missed some, they DID include the catch-all 9th Amendment.
And they DID include an explicit denial of warrant-less searches by government agents, which is what this case is about.
It's not the flying that's objected to, it's the uninvited third party threatening incarceration and/or death* to anyone who tries to fly without willingly submitting to activity which would be considered assault in any other context. If TSA wasn't a government agency, they'd be facing a cumulative life sentence for such behavior.
(* - yes, death: if you try getting on that plane without being stripped or groped, they will go so far as shooting you if threats don't stop you.)
Some rights are so obvious the protection thereof just did not occur to the Founding Fathers. They just never imagined the right to vehicular travel could be infringed, would become licensed, and subject to for-all-practical-purposes strip searches.
As a collective "we", yes we're paying for it.
But you're not "unity100 of Borg".
At some point, some of us are going to realize "we" as individuals are paying for the bandwidth usage of others. You look at your ISP bill and realize half of what you're paying (say, $360/year - whatever it is, it's a lot of money out of your pocket) is going to fund someone else's movie marathons. Or maybe it's you enjoying the subsidized streaming video, and I'm deciding to have a chat with my ISP about why I'm shelling out $60/mo for a fraction of a fraction of the bandwidth you're paying the same for.
Hence "net neutrality" - and why it will fail.
Strange how much human accomplishment and progress comes from contemplation of the irrelevant. - Scott Kim
"I think those who are naysayers haven't given us a chance -- haven't given us enough time to show what we can do."
Wasn't the ISS built with an expiration date approaching ... about now?