I use Firefox as my primary browser and I wall facebook into IE. I only occasionally log into facebook to contact an old friend or something, but that's it. I have all facebook scripts blocked with NoScript and all facebook cookies blocked by CookieSafe. I also wall Google into their Chrome browser and have done the same blocks for google.com and associated sites. I have left the YouTube script, but overall I think Google is doing the same thing as facebook.
I've had two major gripes about subtle nuances. Scrolling in chrome is clunky. Yes, I'm sure there are plugins to fix this. I downloaded one and spent 30 minutes not getting settings as good as Firefox without scrolling plugins (which is what I use). There is no option to search for text when I begin typing. I use this all the time and there is no plugin to fix this. These things seem minor, but I scroll on every page I go to use use text search who knows how many times a day.
A few years ago I ran into a guy from Arizona and he was telling me how they put post-it notes on the traffic cameras. It actually went to court and a judge decided that the post-it notes were not vandalism.
In my experience, no publicly funded research is never bid out in a reasonable fashion. A lot of people like to talk about how great publicly funded research is, but when you dig into who gets to use the research and how the technology is actually applied in the private sector, it's pretty much always a huge disappointment.
Based on my own observations, this story is complete bullshit. Professor Goodnough at UT Austin invented the most practical methods for manufacturing LiFePO4 batteries and two key patents were granted in the late 90s. LiFePO4 is a great battery technology that is very stable and has the right voltages to replace lead-acid batteries. It is considerably more expensive, but there many applications where it would be much more desirable than lead-acid.
UT Austin never really cared about getting the technology to be manufactured. The licensing that they granted has, with few exceptions, only resulted in shutting down anyone who attempts to make LiFePO4 batteries. This is the complete opposite of what most private firms do after spending huge sums of money to develop a technology.
Apparently someone at UT Austin actually figured this out because starting this year, they have much loosened up their licensing requirements such that companies are now interested in using the technology since they may be able to actually make a profit (the previous license requirement was so ridiculous nobody was interested ). So, for the last few years before the patent enters public domain, marketers can begin to introduce consumers to the advantages of LiFePO4 batteries, however, my suspicion is that adoption will initially be slow, and UT Austin has lost out on probably at least a few hundred million dollars.
Yes, but most businesses are not concerned with whether the NSA is snooping on them. If you're working for the NSA, you already have access to everyone's bank accounts, social security numbers, mother's maiden names, etc.
Sheet-fed scanners are ridiculously expensive, plus you have to save the file, attach it to an email, then, hopefully, the file isn't too large for the sender or recipient's mailserver. With the fax machine, one just drops the stack in, verify the fax successfully transmitted, task complete.
Also, many people feel that snooping of phone lines is much less likely to occur than snooping of email, when is sent in the clear.
Just what price do they think users of FREE and open source software are really going to pay? Why don't they take a tip from the top ebook authors and charge $.99? I'd rather troll around the Internet trying to find an answer than pay $34.85 for what is nearly always a poorly edited, half-ass attempt at writing a book.
The BitCoin software is nothing more than an open source project. It can be used for things that have nothing to do with paying anyone, as in this example where it is used to secure domains. As far as the 12000 limit goes, I find it hard to believe the developers went so far as to create the system without considering how to handle such issues. Perhaps you should contact them and ask them? What I like about Namecoin is that it is completely decentralized.
Like I stated earlier, you know nothing about what you are talking about. You have clearly never spent any time working within the federal government. I'm not going to debate you because you are unwilling to see past your own ignorance. You even try to claim you know something about Naval shipyards and you haven't even the faintest clue. You are doing what I call 'bullet hunting'. You are going to throw-up different arguments to every rebuttal without addressing any of my arguments because you have no depth to your understanding of the topic.
Prices of gold are rising because people are losing faith in the dollar. If the dollar crashes completely, people will trade in gold (and silver). You are assuming that the dollar will return from a crash. I'm not claiming it won't, just pointing out that there is an assumption being made. This is not a 'bubble' in the same sense that the stock or real estate markets were bubbles.
You're not understanding the point. You can't bust these people. They are doing what they are expected to do. No crime is being committed, other than the complete waste of taxpayer money. You know nothing about how Navy sailors work, especially sailors in the Naval Nuclear Power Program. It is clearly you who is trying to confuse people by filling a post with failed logic, conjecture, and incorrect assumptions.
The first ship I was on was decommissioned and I was part of the crew for the one year deactivation period. The engine room had been shutdown for months when we pulled into drydock and the shipyard workers began taking the lagging off of the steam pipes. A few of the machinists who were part of the crew were commenting on how slow the shipyard workers were at removing the lagging. They had put the ratio at something like one hour of sailor work to one week of shipyard worker work. From there they estimated when all of the lagging in the steam plant would be gone. As I recall, they weren't off by more than a few weeks. Until you have worked in a government operation, especially federal, it is very difficult to comprehend how incredibly wasteful they are.
I'll share evidence explained directly to me by the person who was involved.
A friend of mine in the Navy was sent to shore duty to work with shipyard employees. This is a fairly common duty for people in the program I worked in.
The small division he was working for was all civilians and tasked with rebuilding and repairing complex mechanical equipment on ships and subs. His group was tasked with the replacement of a large valve on a critical ship's system. He took the usual squid work mentality and worked long hours to complete the job in less than 3 days, sleeping on the ship one of the days to get the work done. When he reported to his supervisor that the work was complete, the supervisor was livid.
The supervisor explained to my friend that this valve replacement was expected to take 5 people 3 weeks to complete, with the final week being 12 hour days with overtime pay. This supervisor was so angry that he told my friend never to work on another project for this division again. So my friend stopped going into work altogether. Since he was not assigned to a military base, nobody kept track of what he did or where he was. For the next two years he spent all of his time SCUBA diving and hang-gliding while making a nice salary and receiving full benefits.
I have yet to see in a corporate world not only with this amount of waste (500 man-hours billed to do 45 man-hours labor) as standard policy, but also someone making a nice salary that nobody tracks any of their productivity or even knows where the employee is.
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There is no evidence to support that the ratifiers of the 14th amendment desired it to affect the bill of rights.
I use Cookiesafe and have it set to only allow cookies on my whitelist. It is also set to only allow cookies for the domain I am on.
I didn't think the like button worked without any scripts running.
I use Firefox as my primary browser and I wall facebook into IE. I only occasionally log into facebook to contact an old friend or something, but that's it. I have all facebook scripts blocked with NoScript and all facebook cookies blocked by CookieSafe. I also wall Google into their Chrome browser and have done the same blocks for google.com and associated sites. I have left the YouTube script, but overall I think Google is doing the same thing as facebook.
I've had two major gripes about subtle nuances. Scrolling in chrome is clunky. Yes, I'm sure there are plugins to fix this. I downloaded one and spent 30 minutes not getting settings as good as Firefox without scrolling plugins (which is what I use). There is no option to search for text when I begin typing. I use this all the time and there is no plugin to fix this. These things seem minor, but I scroll on every page I go to use use text search who knows how many times a day.
A few years ago I ran into a guy from Arizona and he was telling me how they put post-it notes on the traffic cameras. It actually went to court and a judge decided that the post-it notes were not vandalism.
20 km - what is that, around 85 stones?
In my experience, no publicly funded research is never bid out in a reasonable fashion. A lot of people like to talk about how great publicly funded research is, but when you dig into who gets to use the research and how the technology is actually applied in the private sector, it's pretty much always a huge disappointment.
Based on my own observations, this story is complete bullshit. Professor Goodnough at UT Austin invented the most practical methods for manufacturing LiFePO4 batteries and two key patents were granted in the late 90s. LiFePO4 is a great battery technology that is very stable and has the right voltages to replace lead-acid batteries. It is considerably more expensive, but there many applications where it would be much more desirable than lead-acid.
UT Austin never really cared about getting the technology to be manufactured. The licensing that they granted has, with few exceptions, only resulted in shutting down anyone who attempts to make LiFePO4 batteries. This is the complete opposite of what most private firms do after spending huge sums of money to develop a technology.
Apparently someone at UT Austin actually figured this out because starting this year, they have much loosened up their licensing requirements such that companies are now interested in using the technology since they may be able to actually make a profit (the previous license requirement was so ridiculous nobody was interested ). So, for the last few years before the patent enters public domain, marketers can begin to introduce consumers to the advantages of LiFePO4 batteries, however, my suspicion is that adoption will initially be slow, and UT Austin has lost out on probably at least a few hundred million dollars.
One more reason to leave California.
Yes, but most businesses are not concerned with whether the NSA is snooping on them. If you're working for the NSA, you already have access to everyone's bank accounts, social security numbers, mother's maiden names, etc.
Sheet-fed scanners are ridiculously expensive, plus you have to save the file, attach it to an email, then, hopefully, the file isn't too large for the sender or recipient's mailserver. With the fax machine, one just drops the stack in, verify the fax successfully transmitted, task complete.
Also, many people feel that snooping of phone lines is much less likely to occur than snooping of email, when is sent in the clear.
Just what price do they think users of FREE and open source software are really going to pay? Why don't they take a tip from the top ebook authors and charge $.99? I'd rather troll around the Internet trying to find an answer than pay $34.85 for what is nearly always a poorly edited, half-ass attempt at writing a book.
If an A.I. driven car is capable of navigating Chinese traffic without incident, it can handle anything the U.S. can throw at it.
The BitCoin software is nothing more than an open source project. It can be used for things that have nothing to do with paying anyone, as in this example where it is used to secure domains. As far as the 12000 limit goes, I find it hard to believe the developers went so far as to create the system without considering how to handle such issues. Perhaps you should contact them and ask them? What I like about Namecoin is that it is completely decentralized.
Use an alternative to DNS, such as Namecoin. It's only a matter of time before RIAA/MPAA make their way to controlling the entire DNS.
Like I stated earlier, you know nothing about what you are talking about. You have clearly never spent any time working within the federal government. I'm not going to debate you because you are unwilling to see past your own ignorance. You even try to claim you know something about Naval shipyards and you haven't even the faintest clue. You are doing what I call 'bullet hunting'. You are going to throw-up different arguments to every rebuttal without addressing any of my arguments because you have no depth to your understanding of the topic.
Prices of gold are rising because people are losing faith in the dollar. If the dollar crashes completely, people will trade in gold (and silver). You are assuming that the dollar will return from a crash. I'm not claiming it won't, just pointing out that there is an assumption being made. This is not a 'bubble' in the same sense that the stock or real estate markets were bubbles.
It is only a bubble if you assume that what goes down must come up.
Like it stops there?
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility
You're not understanding the point. You can't bust these people. They are doing what they are expected to do. No crime is being committed, other than the complete waste of taxpayer money. You know nothing about how Navy sailors work, especially sailors in the Naval Nuclear Power Program. It is clearly you who is trying to confuse people by filling a post with failed logic, conjecture, and incorrect assumptions.
Not made up. It also appears you've never dealt with the DOD or the military, and most certainly not Naval shipyard workers.
The first ship I was on was decommissioned and I was part of the crew for the one year deactivation period. The engine room had been shutdown for months when we pulled into drydock and the shipyard workers began taking the lagging off of the steam pipes. A few of the machinists who were part of the crew were commenting on how slow the shipyard workers were at removing the lagging. They had put the ratio at something like one hour of sailor work to one week of shipyard worker work. From there they estimated when all of the lagging in the steam plant would be gone. As I recall, they weren't off by more than a few weeks. Until you have worked in a government operation, especially federal, it is very difficult to comprehend how incredibly wasteful they are.
I'll share evidence explained directly to me by the person who was involved.
A friend of mine in the Navy was sent to shore duty to work with shipyard employees. This is a fairly common duty for people in the program I worked in.
The small division he was working for was all civilians and tasked with rebuilding and repairing complex mechanical equipment on ships and subs. His group was tasked with the replacement of a large valve on a critical ship's system. He took the usual squid work mentality and worked long hours to complete the job in less than 3 days, sleeping on the ship one of the days to get the work done. When he reported to his supervisor that the work was complete, the supervisor was livid.
The supervisor explained to my friend that this valve replacement was expected to take 5 people 3 weeks to complete, with the final week being 12 hour days with overtime pay. This supervisor was so angry that he told my friend never to work on another project for this division again. So my friend stopped going into work altogether. Since he was not assigned to a military base, nobody kept track of what he did or where he was. For the next two years he spent all of his time SCUBA diving and hang-gliding while making a nice salary and receiving full benefits.
I have yet to see in a corporate world not only with this amount of waste (500 man-hours billed to do 45 man-hours labor) as standard policy, but also someone making a nice salary that nobody tracks any of their productivity or even knows where the employee is.
What didn't survive the 'budget deal'?