It won't cure corruption. But you can't cure corruption by spending money anyway, quite the opposite. Now empowering and educating the masses.... hey, that might work. As for restributing weath, that one is easy to see how it might work. Compare educated vs. uneducated incomes in any country.
*If* gravitons exist, then in theory you can shield against them.
There is no paradox here, though. You can shield against virtual photons quite well and this causes no paradox when you add EM shielding to an electric or magnetic field. The same thing would happen with a gravity shield, namely it would take just as much energy to enter the shielded part of the field as it would to reach escape velocity outside of the shielded area.
This could be quite useful though, as you could put all the energy required to lift something to orbit in on the ground, and as slowly as needed. Or create a mobile shield and use non-thrust generating energy to fly around a silent spaceship. None of this would violate any physical laws, it's just simple field theory.
It was originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. The term "independent" came in later when RAID came be be used more for reliability than cost savings and RAID vendors wanted to charge premiums for "RAID optimized" hardware. The term independent really adds nothing to the descriptions, they should just have changed it to RAD. Cause.. that would be totally rad.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet, kid.
That wiki is completely wrong. Line item veto was used 82 times by Clinton and on some major spending bills. Here's one quick reference.
I agree that the line item veto was grossly unconstitutional.
And if you believe that the impeachment was about one lie in a 4 year prosecutorial fishing trip, you either were not paying attention or are completely brainwashed. I'm not a fan of either party, but you missed some good theater in the war over power between the executive and congressional branches.
The problem is that there is nothing in our laws or constitution to prevent it, and so it would take a fundemental revamping of our congressional bylaws to fix the problem.
Congress did it once not too long ago, by giving the Executive branch a "line item veto" power. This meant that the president could veto riders and send them back to pass by 2/3rds majority on their own. Since almost all riders are bullshit pork that only a small minority want in the first place, this effectively meant that the president could wipe out pork. Worked wonderfully, and was a big part of why the budget got balanced under Clinton. The only problem was that it also made the president a near king who could reshape bills at will, and congress quickly got rid of the provision. Congress remained pissed off at Clinton for exposing how much money could easily be saved by eliminating pork projects, and this had a lot more to do with his subsequent impeachment than any blowjob.
So there you have it, riders benefit congressional power, and congress has sole authority to change their own bylaws. So they won't be fixing this any time soon.
Trying to reason with people who can actually support such ideas is useless. They're beyond reason, usually due to fear. One sentence I've used that actualy worked on such people is:
"Well, there's nothing so wrong with it, it's just not America."
Don't hold your breath. There is no way HBO will ever let their HD digital signal out of any demodulator without encrypting the content with 5C or equivalent. The best you can hope for is a mod. chip to come out for one of the firewire capable cable boxes, but this will be expressly illegal unlike mod. chips for consoles due to the MPAA written laws we have now.
Stop modding this guy down just because he seems to be crazy. That's not what mod. points are for. This is a very interesing rant and brought about a lot of discussion. It's on topic, it's got interesting links, it should be +5 interesting. Wrong, but interesting. If you disagree, post. Don't try to argue with mod. points. Read the moderator guidelines.
Microsoft's innovation isn't necessarily about radical new ideas.
I don't think it means what you think it means...
Dictionary.com: 2 entries found for innovate. innovate Audio pronunciation of "innovate" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-vt) v. innovated, innovating, innovates v. tr.
To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time.
v. intr.
To begin or introduce something new.
Admittedly, Microsoft is good at throwing a ton of money at ideas that are already taking off and refining them into a marketable product, but they can't redefine common english words no matter how much they spend on PR.
Whenever replying to someone who uses "theft" when they mean "copyright infingement", just reply substituting the word "murder" since that makes about as much sense. Don't explain, wait for them to ask why you're using that term.
e.g.
Only a small percentage of Grokster's customer base were not murdering music files, that's why they got shut down. I agree that murder of artist's music should not be allowed.
True but not relevant. A wealth of scientific data shows causation. Every model, every experiment, on every scale that has been performed, shows that greenhouse gasses will raise the temperature of a solar heated system. Pay attention.
Sadly, these strawman arguments get picked up by the media and presented as the two sides of the argument, even though they both really came from the same mouth.
The moral of the story is that smart people have to learn how to make simpler arguments with immovable conviction if they want them heard on the news or penetrate the dittohead's veneer.
30MB/sec. is rather pedestrian, any new IDE drive can do that. My desktop IDE drive (WD Raptor) does 64MB/sec. average. Your boot times and application load times would improve dramatically if you got a faster drive.
The US patent office banned perpetual motion machine patents since they were flooded with them and not a single one could work due to established physical laws.
Not a single media based copy prevention scheme has worked due to the simple law: If you can read it and you can write it, you can copy it.
The only copy protection schemes that are working right now are ones that take away the writing step by locking the player hardware and the all-important step of paying congress to make it illegal to reverse-engineer the hardware.
Unless they can somehow make all bit-for-bit copy programs illegal, all media based schemes are DOA.
That is the most self-serving bunch of tripe I've read this year.
McFact: 185 degrees is the proper temperature for coffee, not a problem to be solved.
McFact: Some other restaraunts had it 20 degrees lower out of fear of lawsuits and at the expense of the coffee's taste.
McFact: McDonalds refused her original claim not because they were being jerks but because if they admitted fault, they would be open for even more lawsuits.
McFact: Lack of personal resposibility is ruining many of life's experiences for everyone.
he's just another guy poking holes but never offering anything constructive
You miss the point. It's not poking holes, it's pointing out that Real ID isn't a solution at all, nor is it intended to be a security solution. The constructive offer is to stop this useless and harmful bill. While I agree that too many people shoot down helpful solutions because they have problems (the perfect is the enemy of the good), in this case the bill is actually worse than nothing.
His premise that identification itself is invalid is moronic
He has good arguments and data to back them up. Where are yours?
What's the problem with that? I run my 21" LCD at 1600x1200 and that's just a bit over 80x60DPI. This thing has ten times the reslolution of my system!
What? The article author is clueless about technology and just spouted some jargon? Come on, let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she uses a 1" screen.
It's my understanding that that statement can describe HDTV programming in general and not just Voom.
Your understanding is flawed.
Sports, nature, and travel shows, to name three examples, are 400% better in HD. The grandparent post is correct that some shows like HD weather are a waste of bandwidth.
I didn't say 75 mil. for the whole ball of wax, I said for "a space exploration division, complete with working rockets". Perhaps you should be less worried about illeracy and more worried about reading comprehension, no offense to you;0)
Thanks for the link though, I was curious about that and didn't see it in a quick google.
If that 75 million figure is correct, I'm sure there would be quite a few takers in the private sector. I mean Mark Cuban paid 280 million for a basketball team for crying out loud. How cool would it be to have a space exploration division, complete with working rockets!
The credit card analogy is a good one. And someone "stealing" your credit card number is not illegal either.
I can legally obtain a copy of your credit card number, make a poster of it for my wall, write a song about it, etc. What is illegal is if I try to use it to buy goods or services. Just like if I tried to use your name to buy goods or services. That would be fraud.
The phrase "Intellectual Property" should be banned from all languages and anyone using it slapped with a wet fish. Say "copyright" or "patent" instead. IP is a meaningless term that confuses people into thinking that corporations can own anything
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CSA stands for cationic steroid antibiotics and there is a company, Ceragenix, that works on them. Perhaps that's what prompted this made up word?
It won't cure corruption. But you can't cure corruption by spending money anyway, quite the opposite. Now empowering and educating the masses.... hey, that might work. As for restributing weath, that one is easy to see how it might work. Compare educated vs. uneducated incomes in any country.
*If* gravitons exist, then in theory you can shield against them.
There is no paradox here, though. You can shield against virtual photons quite well and this causes no paradox when you add EM shielding to an electric or magnetic field. The same thing would happen with a gravity shield, namely it would take just as much energy to enter the shielded part of the field as it would to reach escape velocity outside of the shielded area.
This could be quite useful though, as you could put all the energy required to lift something to orbit in on the ground, and as slowly as needed. Or create a mobile shield and use non-thrust generating energy to fly around a silent spaceship. None of this would violate any physical laws, it's just simple field theory.
Bell South did throttle their bandwidth... but Google had Chuck Norris kick the fiber and pushed the bits through twice as fast as before!
It was originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. The term "independent" came in later when RAID came be be used more for reliability than cost savings and RAID vendors wanted to charge premiums for "RAID optimized" hardware. The term independent really adds nothing to the descriptions, they should just have changed it to RAD. Cause.. that would be totally rad.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet, kid.
That wiki is completely wrong. Line item veto was used 82 times by Clinton and on some major spending bills. Here's one quick reference.
I agree that the line item veto was grossly unconstitutional.
And if you believe that the impeachment was about one lie in a 4 year prosecutorial fishing trip, you either were not paying attention or are completely brainwashed. I'm not a fan of either party, but you missed some good theater in the war over power between the executive and congressional branches.
I'm an American so I'll give it a shot.
The problem is that there is nothing in our laws or constitution to prevent it, and so it would take a fundemental revamping of our congressional bylaws to fix the problem.
Congress did it once not too long ago, by giving the Executive branch a "line item veto" power. This meant that the president could veto riders and send them back to pass by 2/3rds majority on their own. Since almost all riders are bullshit pork that only a small minority want in the first place, this effectively meant that the president could wipe out pork. Worked wonderfully, and was a big part of why the budget got balanced under Clinton. The only problem was that it also made the president a near king who could reshape bills at will, and congress quickly got rid of the provision. Congress remained pissed off at Clinton for exposing how much money could easily be saved by eliminating pork projects, and this had a lot more to do with his subsequent impeachment than any blowjob.
So there you have it, riders benefit congressional power, and congress has sole authority to change their own bylaws. So they won't be fixing this any time soon.
Trying to reason with people who can actually support such ideas is useless. They're beyond reason, usually due to fear. One sentence I've used that actualy worked on such people is:
/Your papers, please.
"Well, there's nothing so wrong with it, it's just not America."
Don't hold your breath. There is no way HBO will ever let their HD digital signal out of any demodulator without encrypting the content with 5C or equivalent. The best you can hope for is a mod. chip to come out for one of the firewire capable cable boxes, but this will be expressly illegal unlike mod. chips for consoles due to the MPAA written laws we have now.
Stop modding this guy down just because he seems to be crazy. That's not what mod. points are for. This is a very interesing rant and brought about a lot of discussion. It's on topic, it's got interesting links, it should be +5 interesting. Wrong, but interesting. If you disagree, post. Don't try to argue with mod. points. Read the moderator guidelines.
Bzzzt. Thanks for playing.
Microsoft's innovation isn't necessarily about radical new ideas.
I don't think it means what you think it means...
Dictionary.com:
2 entries found for innovate.
innovate Audio pronunciation of "innovate" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-vt)
v. innovated, innovating, innovates
v. tr.
To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time.
v. intr.
To begin or introduce something new.
Admittedly, Microsoft is good at throwing a ton of money at ideas that are already taking off and refining them into a marketable product, but they can't redefine common english words no matter how much they spend on PR.
Whenever replying to someone who uses "theft" when they mean "copyright infingement", just reply substituting the word "murder" since that makes about as much sense. Don't explain, wait for them to ask why you're using that term.
e.g.
Only a small percentage of Grokster's customer base were not murdering music files, that's why they got shut down. I agree that murder of artist's music should not be allowed.
True but not relevant. A wealth of scientific data shows causation. Every model, every experiment, on every scale that has been performed, shows that greenhouse gasses will raise the temperature of a solar heated system. Pay attention.
Yes, that is what's known as a "talking point".
Sadly, these strawman arguments get picked up by the media and presented as the two sides of the argument, even though they both really came from the same mouth.
The moral of the story is that smart people have to learn how to make simpler arguments with immovable conviction if they want them heard on the news or penetrate the dittohead's veneer.
30MB/sec. is rather pedestrian, any new IDE drive can do that. My desktop IDE drive (WD Raptor) does 64MB/sec. average. Your boot times and application load times would improve dramatically if you got a faster drive.
Including the one for the "spreadsheet that almost everyone uses"
http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/default.mspx
The US patent office banned perpetual motion machine patents since they were flooded with them and not a single one could work due to established physical laws.
Not a single media based copy prevention scheme has worked due to the simple law: If you can read it and you can write it, you can copy it.
The only copy protection schemes that are working right now are ones that take away the writing step by locking the player hardware and the all-important step of paying congress to make it illegal to reverse-engineer the hardware.
Unless they can somehow make all bit-for-bit copy programs illegal, all media based schemes are DOA.
That is the most self-serving bunch of tripe I've read this year.
McFact: 185 degrees is the proper temperature for coffee, not a problem to be solved.
McFact: Some other restaraunts had it 20 degrees lower out of fear of lawsuits and at the expense of the coffee's taste.
McFact: McDonalds refused her original claim not because they were being jerks but because if they admitted fault, they would be open for even more lawsuits.
McFact: Lack of personal resposibility is ruining many of life's experiences for everyone.
he's just another guy poking holes but never offering anything constructive
You miss the point. It's not poking holes, it's pointing out that Real ID isn't a solution at all, nor is it intended to be a security solution. The constructive offer is to stop this useless and harmful bill. While I agree that too many people shoot down helpful solutions because they have problems (the perfect is the enemy of the good), in this case the bill is actually worse than nothing.
His premise that identification itself is invalid is moronic
He has good arguments and data to back them up. Where are yours?
What's the problem with that? I run my 21" LCD at 1600x1200 and that's just a bit over 80x60DPI. This thing has ten times the reslolution of my system!
What? The article author is clueless about technology and just spouted some jargon? Come on, let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she uses a 1" screen.
It's my understanding that that statement can describe HDTV programming in general and not just Voom.
Your understanding is flawed.
Sports, nature, and travel shows, to name three examples, are 400% better in HD. The grandparent post is correct that some shows like HD weather are a waste of bandwidth.
I didn't say 75 mil. for the whole ball of wax, I said for "a space exploration division, complete with working rockets". Perhaps you should be less worried about illeracy and more worried about reading comprehension, no offense to you ;0)
Thanks for the link though, I was curious about that and didn't see it in a quick google.
If that 75 million figure is correct, I'm sure there would be quite a few takers in the private sector. I mean Mark Cuban paid 280 million for a basketball team for crying out loud. How cool would it be to have a space exploration division, complete with working rockets!
The credit card analogy is a good one. And someone "stealing" your credit card number is not illegal either.
I can legally obtain a copy of your credit card number, make a poster of it for my wall, write a song about it, etc. What is illegal is if I try to use it to buy goods or services. Just like if I tried to use your name to buy goods or services. That would be fraud.
The phrase "Intellectual Property" should be banned from all languages and anyone using it slapped with a wet fish. Say "copyright" or "patent" instead. IP is a meaningless term that confuses people into thinking that corporations can own anything