This is by far and away the single most hilarious thing about this prediction. Time zones are established by man's laws, yet this heavenly event is supposed to follow them. So let me get this straight:
Timezones were created so everyone sees the sun rise and set at the same (approximate) time. Timezones don't obey Man's law, they obey God's law.
My HR department vetoed my plan to survey the IT staff to see if they were expecting to be raptured. Some crap about religious discrimination or something.
Not that I'm worried, I think we're only going to lose one IT guy to Rapture, and no one wants to hang out with him anyway.
There are only 6 cities, would it have been so hard to include them in the summary?
The V2V tests will begin in six U.S. locales: Blacksburg, VA; Brooklyn, MI; Dallas, TX; Minneapolis, MN; Orlando, FL; and San Francisco, CA. Testing will continue through 2012, and the DOT hopes to make a full report -- with recommendations -- to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2013.
I thought they could already divert so much water through the hydropower tunnels that they have laws to mandate minimum flow rates at the falls to maintain the waterfall spectacle. Don't the new tunnels draw from the same water source?
Maybe everyone here should send an email to Lodsys describing an app that they've thought about developing and ask for a license agreement? As the design for the app evolves, keep sending revisions to them to see if it requires a new agreement?
That should at least slow down their business model.
Hmm...that gives me an idea - maybe someone should patent the patent troll business model?
...an operating Wi-Fi network serves citizen bloggers who want to post to the Internet. 'The idea is that people can live blog, but they can also tweet,'
Couldn't they already tweet using any cell phone purchased in the past 10 years or so? I thought the whole point of Twitter was that you can use SMS to send tweets. Why do they need this Wifi network to tweet?
They say "video playback equipment" as if it's some high technology that only a government official would have access to. I have at least 8 separate pieces of "video playback equipment" in my house counting DVD, Blu-ray, VHS, DVR and computers.
Oh, and I have porn in various formats so I can play it in any of those devices. It's part of my disaster preparedness, some things are too important to go without.
I didn't say it was better overall, but being able to fix a CPU problem using nothing more than a voltmeter, soldering iron, and a few transistors definitely appeals to the geek in me. It was long out of DEC support, but it didn't matter since we had the full service manuals with schematics. That was probably the last time in my life when I actually cared about transistor bias voltages.
Swapping out a motherboard just isn't the same - my mother could do that since all of the connectors are keyed differently (and for those that aren't (SATA, USB, etc), it doesn't really matter which order things are plugged in). And swapping out a motherboard doesn't even require tools most of the time.
And a bit farther back it was possible to fix a computer yourself (*really* fix it, not just swap out a CPU or motherboard) - I remember helping to troubleshoot an old DEC PDP-10 (still alive way after its time) with a voltmeter - much of the logic was on wirewrapped cards. You could see the bug fixes because they were in different colored wires. I even had to enter the bootloader on the front panel register switches (just enough to get it to read the rest of the code from the paper tape reader).
telnet, FTP, and Archie, then it isn't the real thing.
I was fortunate enough to have a father who worked at BBN at this time, and so I was immersed in network technology as a teenager. I remember him excitedly showing me a copy of NCSA Mosaic (an early web browser) and I was like Text documents? What's the point?" Funny.
The summary says Telehack is supposed to be from the 1980's... Gopher, Archie, and Mosaic didn't come out until the early 1990's.
The problem is how it's being framed. It's being framed as, "TwitPic is taking your shit, selling it, and fuck you."
The most plausible explanation (based solely on what I've read on Slashdot so far) is:
Right now, people are taking photos from TwitPic and using them however they want. TwitPic is partnering with a company to be the official method by which you can commercially use pictures from TwitPic. This certainly does involve money going to TwitPic (so, yes, they are selling your photos and not paying you, so the fact is true, but the way it's presented as a big "Fuck You" is not).
I thought it was framed as "Twitpic is taking your shit, selling it", I didn't see a single fuck you in the article. The fuck you is implied.
If you post a picture and AP decides to run it without compensation, if you hold the copyright you can sue them for compensation. If TwitPic sold them the rights to the image for a 5 cents, there's nothing you can do about it.
Ah, more submissions from Andy Smith. Just like last time it's completely off. TwitPic is not "planning to sell users' photos", it's just adding a clause in TOS that they have the right to them too. Just like YouTube and tons of other user content sites. In nowhere they state they plan to sell them, but Andy again twisted it like that.
The quote from Noah implies that's exactly what they plan to do:
As we’ve grown, Twitpic has been a tool for the spread of breaking news and events. Since then we’ve seen this content being taken without permission and misused. We’ve partnered with organizations to help us combat this and to distribute newsworthy content in the appropriate manner. This has been done to protect your content from organizations who have in the past taken content without permission. As recently as last month, a Twitpic user uploaded newsworthy images of an incident on a plane, and many commercial entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user’s permission.
While he didn't reveal the terms of the partnershipis, typically the We've partnered with... quote means that money has exchanged hands, so they are, in effect, selling your pictures.
I'm no nuclear expert, but if someone were to tell me that in the accident I only damaged 55% of my body, I wouldn't feel terribly good about it.
Unless of course you were pulled from the rubble caused by a 9.0 earthquake where you could have easily been killed, then you might feel better about it.
It's a typo in the summary, the article says that the $429 model is Wifi only, $499 for Wifi + 3G. And it's 100MB/month, not 100MB/sec/month.
I don't know why it comes with a paltry 100MB/month - i routinely hit 200 - 300 MB/month on my phone and use 3G almost entirely for email. They should have started at least 1000MB/month.
I don't see how a little blast of air is going to help me type -- and having the key move by itself when I press it seems like it would remove the tactile feel that lets me know that I pressed it -- if I wanted an on-screen keyboard with no tactile feel, I'd use one. I use a real keyboard because my fingers like to know when they press a key.
Unless key prediction gets *much* better than what I've seen on my phone, it seems that I'd quickly learn to ignore any hints given by the keyboard since more times than not, it would be wrong.
Sure, it's easy to answer one part of the question, but how about the whole thing:
And it's not even a complete answer for nearly all of my desktops since they have a USB mouse and keyboard - what's to stop them from unplugging the mouse and using that port for their flash drive, or plugging in a USB hub? Epoxying mouse/keyboard connectors in place isn't an answer since we do at times need to replace those.
Sure, it's easy to answer one part of the question, but how about the whole thing:
How do you disable USB storage devices on thousands of Ubuntu (or Chrome) desktops because you don't want your sensitive documents walking out on portable storage devices? And then how do you easily enable it again just for your research department because they have a business need for external storage?
Sending 250 tiny screwdrivers to them and telling them "Just chip out the epoxy, but don't damage the connectors!" is not a great answer.
How do you disable USB storage devices on thousands of Ubuntu (or Chrome) desktops because you don't want your sensitive documents walking out on portable storage devices? And then how do you easily enable it again just for your research department because they have a business need for external storage?
Don't let them mount it: remove them from the plugdev group (udev) or disable usb storage device support in the kernel (blacklist the module or remove it entirely).
Sounds great - how do you do that for 1000 desktops, then turn it back on for 250 of them?
If Google's 4000 Windows users are tortured by their computers, Google should hire some experienced Windows admins.
At my job, we use Active directory policies to keep users from having to admin their local workstation - in fact, we we restrict them from many admin tasks through AD policies.
How do you disable USB storage devices on thousands of Ubuntu (or Chrome) desktops because you don't want your sensitive documents walking out on portable storage devices? And then how do you easily enable it again just for your research department because they have a business need for external storage?
Note that I'm a hard-core linux geek, I run only Linux at home (and on my phone), but I realize that many of the applications my business users want to run don't run on Linux. Office is the biggest one - not everyone *needs* Office, but some people need it to run various macro packages (either self-developed or purchased)... and once we start giving Office to some departments (i.e. finance, busdev, etc), it's easier to give it to everyone for consistency. Plus any new employee we hire will already know how to use MS Office.
Infinite. Since fossil fuels will rise exponentially in price to the limit of it running out. While the plan with hydrogen, is to produce it from sea water with energy from concentrated solar power plants, causing a endless natural cycle, just as those cycles in nature that are environmentally neutral in the end.
Fossil redneck backwards shit FAIL. Awesome gigantic fusion reactor in the sky WIN.
I've seen no such plan for large scale electrolysis plants - how many states worth of land area (or how many hundreds of square miles of ocean) are you willing to give up to build these hydrogen plants?
Just because you can make a few liters of hydrogen with your backyard solar cell doesn't mean you can scale it up to provide even a fraction of the nation's liquid fuel energy needs.
Cleaner than what? Burning natural gas in a car? Using a natural gas fuel cell in a car? Burning natural gas to make electric power which is used in a battery powered electric car?
dude, fuel cells don't burn hydrogen! it's an electrochemical thing. the membrane separates the hydrogen proton and electron. proton goes to the other side of the membrane, while the electron races through the circuit to catch up. on the toher side, proton + electron + oxygen combine to make water. there's no combustion going on. no burning, no worries!
Dude, you're replying to the wrong post. I was replying to the parent poster who said "Burning hydrogen with oxygen..."
What point are you trying to make? If you are saying that there is virtually unlimited energy in the Sun, I don't think anyone here will deny it.
The problem is in harnessing that energy and using it to transport my car to work. Sure, it's possible, but apparently it's not easy since it hasn't happened yet. And it's really not relevant to the Hydrogen debate.
Who says energy has to be 'mined' anyway?
I guess that would be the people that are saying that Coal, Natural Gas and Oil are the only viable energy sources.
And theres a few gazillion tonnes of hydrogen about 93 million miles away
Are you suggesting that the Sun is a viable source of hydrogen fuel?
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This is by far and away the single most hilarious thing about this prediction. Time zones are established by man's laws, yet this heavenly event is supposed to follow them. So let me get this straight:
Timezones were created so everyone sees the sun rise and set at the same (approximate) time. Timezones don't obey Man's law, they obey God's law.
My HR department vetoed my plan to survey the IT staff to see if they were expecting to be raptured. Some crap about religious discrimination or something.
Not that I'm worried, I think we're only going to lose one IT guy to Rapture, and no one wants to hang out with him anyway.
Worthless shit written by a christfag.
Well to be fair, he had to rush it out before he's Raptured this weekend. Otherwise he probably would have spent a few more days on it.
(for those that read this comment years from now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction)
There are only 6 cities, would it have been so hard to include them in the summary?
The V2V tests will begin in six U.S. locales: Blacksburg, VA; Brooklyn, MI; Dallas, TX; Minneapolis, MN; Orlando, FL; and San Francisco, CA. Testing will continue through 2012, and the DOT hopes to make a full report -- with recommendations -- to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2013.
I thought they could already divert so much water through the hydropower tunnels that they have laws to mandate minimum flow rates at the falls to maintain the waterfall spectacle. Don't the new tunnels draw from the same water source?
http://www.niagarafallslocal.com/NiagaraFalls/showthread.php?t=60
Maybe everyone here should send an email to Lodsys describing an app that they've thought about developing and ask for a license agreement? As the design for the app evolves, keep sending revisions to them to see if it requires a new agreement?
That should at least slow down their business model.
Hmm...that gives me an idea - maybe someone should patent the patent troll business model?
No need to be a smart ass, it's easy to understand what they meant.
They meant they installed a Wifi network to do, in part, what could already be done?
...an operating Wi-Fi network serves citizen bloggers who want to post to the Internet. 'The idea is that people can live blog, but they can also tweet,'
Couldn't they already tweet using any cell phone purchased in the past 10 years or so? I thought the whole point of Twitter was that you can use SMS to send tweets. Why do they need this Wifi network to tweet?
They say "video playback equipment" as if it's some high technology that only a government official would have access to. I have at least 8 separate pieces of "video playback equipment" in my house counting DVD, Blu-ray, VHS, DVR and computers.
Oh, and I have porn in various formats so I can play it in any of those devices. It's part of my disaster preparedness, some things are too important to go without.
I didn't say it was better overall, but being able to fix a CPU problem using nothing more than a voltmeter, soldering iron, and a few transistors definitely appeals to the geek in me. It was long out of DEC support, but it didn't matter since we had the full service manuals with schematics. That was probably the last time in my life when I actually cared about transistor bias voltages.
Swapping out a motherboard just isn't the same - my mother could do that since all of the connectors are keyed differently (and for those that aren't (SATA, USB, etc), it doesn't really matter which order things are plugged in). And swapping out a motherboard doesn't even require tools most of the time.
And a bit farther back it was possible to fix a computer yourself (*really* fix it, not just swap out a CPU or motherboard) - I remember helping to troubleshoot an old DEC PDP-10 (still alive way after its time) with a voltmeter - much of the logic was on wirewrapped cards. You could see the bug fixes because they were in different colored wires. I even had to enter the bootloader on the front panel register switches (just enough to get it to read the rest of the code from the paper tape reader).
telnet, FTP, and Archie, then it isn't the real thing.
I was fortunate enough to have a father who worked at BBN at this time, and so I was immersed in network technology as a teenager. I remember him excitedly showing me a copy of NCSA Mosaic (an early web browser) and I was like Text documents? What's the point?" Funny.
The summary says Telehack is supposed to be from the 1980's... Gopher, Archie, and Mosaic didn't come out until the early 1990's.
The problem is how it's being framed. It's being framed as, "TwitPic is taking your shit, selling it, and fuck you."
The most plausible explanation (based solely on what I've read on Slashdot so far) is:
Right now, people are taking photos from TwitPic and using them however they want. TwitPic is partnering with a company to be the official method by which you can commercially use pictures from TwitPic. This certainly does involve money going to TwitPic (so, yes, they are selling your photos and not paying you, so the fact is true, but the way it's presented as a big "Fuck You" is not).
I thought it was framed as "Twitpic is taking your shit, selling it", I didn't see a single fuck you in the article. The fuck you is implied.
If you post a picture and AP decides to run it without compensation, if you hold the copyright you can sue them for compensation. If TwitPic sold them the rights to the image for a 5 cents, there's nothing you can do about it.
Ah, more submissions from Andy Smith. Just like last time it's completely off. TwitPic is not "planning to sell users' photos", it's just adding a clause in TOS that they have the right to them too. Just like YouTube and tons of other user content sites. In nowhere they state they plan to sell them, but Andy again twisted it like that.
The quote from Noah implies that's exactly what they plan to do:
As we’ve grown, Twitpic has been a tool for the spread of breaking news and events. Since then we’ve seen this content being taken without permission and misused. We’ve partnered with organizations to help us combat this and to distribute newsworthy content in the appropriate manner. This has been done to protect your content from organizations who have in the past taken content without permission. As recently as last month, a Twitpic user uploaded newsworthy images of an incident on a plane, and many commercial entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user’s permission.
While he didn't reveal the terms of the partnershipis, typically the We've partnered with... quote means that money has exchanged hands, so they are, in effect, selling your pictures.
I'm no nuclear expert, but if someone were to tell me that in the accident I only damaged 55% of my body, I wouldn't feel terribly good about it.
Unless of course you were pulled from the rubble caused by a 9.0 earthquake where you could have easily been killed, then you might feel better about it.
It's a typo in the summary, the article says that the $429 model is Wifi only, $499 for Wifi + 3G. And it's 100MB/month, not 100MB/sec/month.
I don't know why it comes with a paltry 100MB/month - i routinely hit 200 - 300 MB/month on my phone and use 3G almost entirely for email. They should have started at least 1000MB/month.
I don't see how a little blast of air is going to help me type -- and having the key move by itself when I press it seems like it would remove the tactile feel that lets me know that I pressed it -- if I wanted an on-screen keyboard with no tactile feel, I'd use one. I use a real keyboard because my fingers like to know when they press a key.
Unless key prediction gets *much* better than what I've seen on my phone, it seems that I'd quickly learn to ignore any hints given by the keyboard since more times than not, it would be wrong.
How do you disable USB storage devices
Epoxy.
Sure, it's easy to answer one part of the question, but how about the whole thing:
And it's not even a complete answer for nearly all of my desktops since they have a USB mouse and keyboard - what's to stop them from unplugging the mouse and using that port for their flash drive, or plugging in a USB hub? Epoxying mouse/keyboard connectors in place isn't an answer since we do at times need to replace those.
How do you disable USB storage devices
Epoxy.
Sure, it's easy to answer one part of the question, but how about the whole thing:
How do you disable USB storage devices on thousands of Ubuntu (or Chrome) desktops because you don't want your sensitive documents walking out on portable storage devices? And then how do you easily enable it again just for your research department because they have a business need for external storage?
Sending 250 tiny screwdrivers to them and telling them "Just chip out the epoxy, but don't damage the connectors!" is not a great answer.
Don't let them mount it: remove them from the plugdev group (udev)
or disable usb storage device support in the kernel (blacklist the module or remove it entirely).
Sounds great - how do you do that for 1000 desktops, then turn it back on for 250 of them?
If Google's 4000 Windows users are tortured by their computers, Google should hire some experienced Windows admins.
At my job, we use Active directory policies to keep users from having to admin their local workstation - in fact, we we restrict them from many admin tasks through AD policies.
How do you disable USB storage devices on thousands of Ubuntu (or Chrome) desktops because you don't want your sensitive documents walking out on portable storage devices? And then how do you easily enable it again just for your research department because they have a business need for external storage?
Note that I'm a hard-core linux geek, I run only Linux at home (and on my phone), but I realize that many of the applications my business users want to run don't run on Linux. Office is the biggest one - not everyone *needs* Office, but some people need it to run various macro packages (either self-developed or purchased)... and once we start giving Office to some departments (i.e. finance, busdev, etc), it's easier to give it to everyone for consistency. Plus any new employee we hire will already know how to use MS Office.
Infinite. Since fossil fuels will rise exponentially in price to the limit of it running out.
While the plan with hydrogen, is to produce it from sea water with energy from concentrated solar power plants, causing a endless natural cycle, just as those cycles in nature that are environmentally neutral in the end.
Fossil redneck backwards shit FAIL. Awesome gigantic fusion reactor in the sky WIN.
I've seen no such plan for large scale electrolysis plants - how many states worth of land area (or how many hundreds of square miles of ocean) are you willing to give up to build these hydrogen plants?
Just because you can make a few liters of hydrogen with your backyard solar cell doesn't mean you can scale it up to provide even a fraction of the nation's liquid fuel energy needs.
It's cleaner this way, that's the point.
Cleaner than what? Burning natural gas in a car? Using a natural gas fuel cell in a car? Burning natural gas to make electric power which is used in a battery powered electric car?
dude, fuel cells don't burn hydrogen! it's an electrochemical thing. the membrane separates the hydrogen proton and electron. proton goes to the other side of the membrane, while the electron races through the circuit to catch up. on the toher side, proton + electron + oxygen combine to make water. there's no combustion going on. no burning, no worries!
Dude, you're replying to the wrong post. I was replying to the parent poster who said "Burning hydrogen with oxygen..."
What point are you trying to make? If you are saying that there is virtually unlimited energy in the Sun, I don't think anyone here will deny it.
The problem is in harnessing that energy and using it to transport my car to work. Sure, it's possible, but apparently it's not easy since it hasn't happened yet. And it's really not relevant to the Hydrogen debate.
Who says energy has to be 'mined' anyway?
I guess that would be the people that are saying that Coal, Natural Gas and Oil are the only viable energy sources.
And theres a few gazillion tonnes of hydrogen about 93 million miles away
Are you suggesting that the Sun is a viable source of hydrogen fuel?