So I wonder when the studios will start CGI'ing objects into the movie to identify it? A vase on a table in the background, a reflection in the store window, the face on a sign, the color of a dog's collar, etc. If there were a number of these, they could use them like bits to identify a location. You'd need more than one copy of the movie to remove any of them, and if enough of them were the same in the two copies, you'd miss some of those, allowing the MPAA to at least narrow down the origin.
Not only would it not be hard, it could probably even be automated with sufficiently advanced software.
Of course, I've already patented this idea, so do even go trying to steal it...
AMEN! She started voting in line with George Bush on everything from military spending to retroactive immunity for telcos after her husband was awarded a $50 billion contract for reconstruction in Iraq. She's been a Lieberman Democrat for a while now, and she shows no sign of slowing down.
Perhaps this is straight out of the Department of the Bleeding Obvious, but I can't be the only one thinking that Microsoft proposes to actually charge money for an operating system intentionally broken so that it only runs three applications at a time. Meanwhile, if I install Ubuntu (just to pick a distro), it's free and I can run whatever I want, as much as a I want?
Thai Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is a prick. The King seems like a pretty decent guy and has said he thinks the law needs to be repealed, but instead of repealing it, he's letting people go to jail, so what does that tell you? The Prince, on the other hand, is truly convinced that his fecal waste has the olfactory qualities of a fragrant flower.
This is the reason we fought a war to get rid of a king, George Bush's ambitions not withstanding.
You realize of course that you're replying to a conservative koolaid drinker. I work with a few of them. While Obama was giving his inauguration speech, he mentioned global warming. One of the Limbaugh-Hannity-Savage sheep chuckled, and as much as I was gritting my teeth and hoping he wasn't going to actually talk over the historic speech, he said, "Hey did you hear? They came out with a report the other day that said we're actually headed into an ice age!"
There's a class of people that hear what they want to hear, who feel threatened by science they don't fully understand, and like to see environmentalist scientists "proven" wrong by "experts." You're not going to convince him of anything. His own hatred for "liberals", "hippies", "pinkos", and "commies" prevents objectivity.
Bush has not levied War against the United States, nor has he made common cause with our enemies.
Unless you believe, as I and others do, that we have enemies within as well as without, and those enemies were better served by George Bush and Dick Cheney than any other administration in history. As PNAC signatories and NeoCon ideologues, they gutted this country in the pursuit of self-enrichment cloaked in the propaganda of securing the survival of liberty in this country by securing liberty in other countries. The destruction of our Constitutional freedoms, the looting of our treasury, the wasting of our military resources on unnecessary, fraudulently sold wars was a far more effective attack on this country than running planes into high rise buildings.
According to Wikipedia: Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour.
By that definition, which expounds on the Constitutional definition and legal precedence, I charge that Bush and Cheney should be tried for treason based on the fact of their injury to the United States of America. Now you can argue my conclusion of treason, but you can't deny that they harmed our country, against all advice and evidence, to the point that the injury could be construed as intentional. And as such it shouldn't surprise anyone that people of this nation desired their impeachment, trial, conviction, and punishment for their crimes.
"Rafting photographers already use pigeons as a sneakernet to transport digital photos on flash media from the camera to the tour operator.[2] Over a 30 mile distance a single pigeon may be able to carry tens of gigabytes of data in around an hour, which on a purely bandwidth basis compares very favorably to current ADSL standards, even when accounting for lost drives."
You're halfway there. Bring up Google Maps, satellite view, and just scan across the ocean. You'd be surprised how many tiny little uninhabited islands there are out in the ocean. Too small and remote to build a permanent settlement on, they are perfect platforms for temporary telescope sites. If you're really interested in a truly dark sky and maybe a little party time, get a large group together, charter a boat from the nearest mainland, setup your telescopes on one side of the island and your BBQ pits on the other side.
You pegged it: MSSQL 7 with all the requisite security patches. As for Java thread issues, no, but then again it's not really a high traffic site. It handles calendaring, messaging, inventory movement, file drops, and product requests. The beauty of it is the low wattage requirements and simple support. I considered installing a Linux distro once, but had more headaches trying to find one that would fit and still provide a decent GUI. When it took more than a few days of research, I just set it back to Win98 and got back to business...
Zune forums is getting killed -- I can't connect, and I don't think this is a simple Slashdot effect... And the official MS Zune site says that "Zune Social" may be a bit slow. Sounds like a lot of people are wondering what the hell happened...
Seriously? Someone decided that an emoticon for the heart should be banned altogether?
Sounds to me like someone got dumped for the umpteenth time in a row, can't even get his mother to go to lunch with him, and is still carrying a grudge that the Valentine he made with crayons, construction paper, and glue and gave to his second grade teacher ended up in her trash basket by the end of the school day folded around a gray wad of chewed DoubleMint gum.
I can top that. I have a laptop with a 10 gig disk drive and 64 megs of RAM running Win98, TPF, MS SQLServer, Java, Apache, Tomcat, James, Struts, Quick'n'Easy FTP server, and some home grown database utilities. I run it as a web server, and while I have had a lot of people try to break into it, judging from the logs, it's never been hacked and it never dies. The FTP server software gets jammed up occasionally, but that's not the OS. Granted, it's not being used as a desktop machine, but my point is, older OS's sometimes are safer simply because all the security problems have been addressed either by the OS vendor or by some third party.
CNN ran a report recently in which they reported on a hospital in China that will give stem cell injections to patients for a wide variety of neuropathic ailments. In the case they highlighted, a young boy has a genetic degenerative disorder that results in the devastation of the entire neural system. For $40,000(USD) they gave him a series of stem cell injections into his spinal column. After the first injection, his mother was delighted when he woke up, burbled a single word, and fell back to sleep. The next 4 injections had no detectable effect. This hospital, which claims to have serviced over 100 foreign patients in this manner already, refuses to comment on whether they actually think the stem cells have measurably helped anyone, but they freely admit that what they're giving the patients is "hope."
I don't wish to take away from the amazing potential stem cell research promises, but this hospital, and others like it that will spring up, are selling the 21st century version of snake oil and homeopathy.
Okay, first things first: we have *got* to come up with a better name than "Spatial Web". That's got to be the worst product name I've heard since "Pumpkin" for a calendar component...
In all fairness, I have to comment that I've been using MySQL for all of my projects for years, and I haven't had a crash yet. Because my software is database agnostic I tend to stick to simple inserts, updates, and deletes, and somewhat complex selects. But to date MySQL has been the best open source solution I've come across for flexibility, speed, and ease of use.
My wife wants it to be over just so we won't have the tension of living in a house divided between opposing political parties.
Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz screwed this country as hard and fast as they physically could. They can't be frog-marched out of the White House soon enough. The rest of this message rambles a bit, and I apologize for that.
McCain is a GOP robot wearing the flavor of the day.
Obama is a good man that just happens plays the political game better than anyone else. We, as a country, needed for a political party other than the GOP to produce such a candidate.
Everyone, even the rich, need to honor the social contract and pay into the system. Bush cut the taxes on the people that make the most, gave subsidies to the corporations that needed them the least, while the middle class and poor watch their earning power and their jobs dribble away.
We lost thousands of high-earning high tech jobs and gained thousands of low-earning service sector jobs thanks to Bush's policies.
Bush is a religious whack job, and while McCain isn't, his party is beholden to the religious whack jobs for their power.
I'm tired of hoping that the stupid in this country get just smart enough to vote *for* their kids' future and not against it. I'm tired of trying to explain basic economics and social theory to the GOP idiots around me. I'm tired of watching Bush screw this country over.
And I'm tired of the longest election cycle in history.
I'm glad Obama will win. But the fight to exorcise the demons summoned by Bush won't over for a very long time.
I am holding on. I guess we differ on the definition. The British considered Washington a 'rebel' and today would call him a "terrorist" for sure, you cannot argue with that.
I could, but I'd rather argue against this:
Here is the CIA definition: Title 22 of the US Code, Section 2656f(d): * The term 'terrorism' means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents. *
Washington did not attack "noncombatant targets," nor did he employ, "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." (Merriam-Webster). Ayers did.
To keep this short (got work to do), Ayers doesn't fit the CIA definition, but he does fit the Merriam-Webster one. As for the U.S. being a terrorist state... that's a whole 'nother discussion, and one I'm not inclined to agree with you on, for the most part. (Iraq, on the other hand...)
Okay, hang on. I love Obama, not just for his politics but for the kind of person he is, and I think slandering his character due to his association with Bill Ayers is a joke at best, but he was a terrorist. He blew up buildings, statues, whatever, in an attempt to use terror to get attention to his message. That does not compare against Washington, who led armies against armies. We were in the midst of a formally declared war between nations fought by armies.
If it makes you feel better to call Ayers a "revolutionary", then fine. His only casualties, from what I've read, were members of his own group through an accident while building bombs. Having said that, in my book, he was a domestic terrorist, just an atypically innocuous one.
What the main question here is, "when does a human become human and deserve protection?" This gets sticky.
No, it really isn't. If it doesn't have brain activity, it isn't eligable for protection. Period. End of story. Otherwise pulling the plug on someone in a persistent vegetative state would also be murder, and only retarded fundamentalists believe that (and that may include you for all I know).
It's really that simple.
Amen. Until it's allowed to impregnate, a pregnancy hasn't been terminated. And while drawing a connection between a vegetative coma victim and a zygote is not perfect, it sufficiently illustrates a critical factor: the ability to sense, understand, and react to pain. At some point the nervous system is organized and functional enough that damaging the fetus generates a pain signal.
Support for abortion ranges across a wide spectrum. I find it helpful to think of it in four phases. There's the fertilized, un-implanted egg. As a society, we don't take issue with a fertility clinic flushing unused embryos.
Following impregnation, there is a point in time when the embryo's nervous system has developed enough to properly process pain signals. That would seem to be the point where people start to have an issue with terminating the pregnancy. But to a large segment of the population, because the baby could not possibly live outside the womb, even with our best technology, it is still not a "viable baby". Obviously, as our technology improves, this line will move.
Then there's the point in time when the baby, if removed, could finish developing using technology. It might have serious defects, but it could survive.
And finally, there's the point in time where the fetus can be removed before term and, with little or no intervention, survive. The people who would be okay with terminating the pregnancy at that point are as few as those who think fertility clinics are committing murder by flushing unused embryos.
It's the two middle phases where most of the real argument is occurring. I don't believe that we'll ever see birth control go away, but I do honestly feel that we will see, sooner or later, some formal definition of what constitutes a reasonably developed human being, the point in time after which a mother must allow the pregnancy to finish going to term.
This will only make sense to a handful of people, but it's actually the fault of plug-ins, followed closely by George Bush, hardware, Freddie Mac, Gary Roberts, licensing, and "Other."
Having just studied up on the Council for Foreign Affairs and how they attempt to control public views and government policies via the media, anyone against Net Neutrality is, in my mind, suspect not only as a candidate for any high office, but even potentially a traitor to the United States and an enemy of the its citizens. John McCain has shown repeatedly that he is no different from any politician of any stripe (although most typically the GOP these days) that supports the destruction of our Constitutional rights, the exploitation of our resources, and enrichment of corporations to the detriment of the greater good, and who is willing to alter his stated position, in denial of his resume, in order to retain and acquire more power.
Opposition to net neutrality is the desire to suppress free speech, disguised in a business suit with an American flag lapel pin.
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So I wonder when the studios will start CGI'ing objects into the movie to identify it? A vase on a table in the background, a reflection in the store window, the face on a sign, the color of a dog's collar, etc. If there were a number of these, they could use them like bits to identify a location. You'd need more than one copy of the movie to remove any of them, and if enough of them were the same in the two copies, you'd miss some of those, allowing the MPAA to at least narrow down the origin.
Not only would it not be hard, it could probably even be automated with sufficiently advanced software.
Of course, I've already patented this idea, so do even go trying to steal it...
AMEN! She started voting in line with George Bush on everything from military spending to retroactive immunity for telcos after her husband was awarded a $50 billion contract for reconstruction in Iraq. She's been a Lieberman Democrat for a while now, and she shows no sign of slowing down.
Perhaps this is straight out of the Department of the Bleeding Obvious, but I can't be the only one thinking that Microsoft proposes to actually charge money for an operating system intentionally broken so that it only runs three applications at a time. Meanwhile, if I install Ubuntu (just to pick a distro), it's free and I can run whatever I want, as much as a I want?
Is that what I'm reading here?
It is?
Oh, okay, just checking...
Thai Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is a prick. The King seems like a pretty decent guy and has said he thinks the law needs to be repealed, but instead of repealing it, he's letting people go to jail, so what does that tell you? The Prince, on the other hand, is truly convinced that his fecal waste has the olfactory qualities of a fragrant flower.
This is the reason we fought a war to get rid of a king, George Bush's ambitions not withstanding.
You realize of course that you're replying to a conservative koolaid drinker. I work with a few of them. While Obama was giving his inauguration speech, he mentioned global warming. One of the Limbaugh-Hannity-Savage sheep chuckled, and as much as I was gritting my teeth and hoping he wasn't going to actually talk over the historic speech, he said, "Hey did you hear? They came out with a report the other day that said we're actually headed into an ice age!"
There's a class of people that hear what they want to hear, who feel threatened by science they don't fully understand, and like to see environmentalist scientists "proven" wrong by "experts." You're not going to convince him of anything. His own hatred for "liberals", "hippies", "pinkos", and "commies" prevents objectivity.
Bush has not levied War against the United States, nor has he made common cause with our enemies.
Unless you believe, as I and others do, that we have enemies within as well as without, and those enemies were better served by George Bush and Dick Cheney than any other administration in history. As PNAC signatories and NeoCon ideologues, they gutted this country in the pursuit of self-enrichment cloaked in the propaganda of securing the survival of liberty in this country by securing liberty in other countries. The destruction of our Constitutional freedoms, the looting of our treasury, the wasting of our military resources on unnecessary, fraudulently sold wars was a far more effective attack on this country than running planes into high rise buildings.
According to Wikipedia:
Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour.
By that definition, which expounds on the Constitutional definition and legal precedence, I charge that Bush and Cheney should be tried for treason based on the fact of their injury to the United States of America. Now you can argue my conclusion of treason, but you can't deny that they harmed our country, against all advice and evidence, to the point that the injury could be construed as intentional. And as such it shouldn't surprise anyone that people of this nation desired their impeachment, trial, conviction, and punishment for their crimes.
From that Wiki:
"Rafting photographers already use pigeons as a sneakernet to transport digital photos on flash media from the camera to the tour operator.[2] Over a 30 mile distance a single pigeon may be able to carry tens of gigabytes of data in around an hour, which on a purely bandwidth basis compares very favorably to current ADSL standards, even when accounting for lost drives."
OMG, that made my whole morning. LOL!!!
You're halfway there. Bring up Google Maps, satellite view, and just scan across the ocean. You'd be surprised how many tiny little uninhabited islands there are out in the ocean. Too small and remote to build a permanent settlement on, they are perfect platforms for temporary telescope sites. If you're really interested in a truly dark sky and maybe a little party time, get a large group together, charter a boat from the nearest mainland, setup your telescopes on one side of the island and your BBQ pits on the other side.
You pegged it: MSSQL 7 with all the requisite security patches. As for Java thread issues, no, but then again it's not really a high traffic site. It handles calendaring, messaging, inventory movement, file drops, and product requests. The beauty of it is the low wattage requirements and simple support. I considered installing a Linux distro once, but had more headaches trying to find one that would fit and still provide a decent GUI. When it took more than a few days of research, I just set it back to Win98 and got back to business...
Cauldron? Did you ever read the books? Mt. Doom is a volcano, and the ring goes into the lava.
Oh lord, I can't believe I just typed that... What a nerd...
Zune forums is getting killed -- I can't connect, and I don't think this is a simple Slashdot effect... And the official MS Zune site says that "Zune Social" may be a bit slow. Sounds like a lot of people are wondering what the hell happened...
Seriously? Someone decided that an emoticon for the heart should be banned altogether?
Sounds to me like someone got dumped for the umpteenth time in a row, can't even get his mother to go to lunch with him, and is still carrying a grudge that the Valentine he made with crayons, construction paper, and glue and gave to his second grade teacher ended up in her trash basket by the end of the school day folded around a gray wad of chewed DoubleMint gum.
I can top that. I have a laptop with a 10 gig disk drive and 64 megs of RAM running Win98, TPF, MS SQLServer, Java, Apache, Tomcat, James, Struts, Quick'n'Easy FTP server, and some home grown database utilities. I run it as a web server, and while I have had a lot of people try to break into it, judging from the logs, it's never been hacked and it never dies. The FTP server software gets jammed up occasionally, but that's not the OS. Granted, it's not being used as a desktop machine, but my point is, older OS's sometimes are safer simply because all the security problems have been addressed either by the OS vendor or by some third party.
CNN ran a report recently in which they reported on a hospital in China that will give stem cell injections to patients for a wide variety of neuropathic ailments. In the case they highlighted, a young boy has a genetic degenerative disorder that results in the devastation of the entire neural system. For $40,000(USD) they gave him a series of stem cell injections into his spinal column. After the first injection, his mother was delighted when he woke up, burbled a single word, and fell back to sleep. The next 4 injections had no detectable effect. This hospital, which claims to have serviced over 100 foreign patients in this manner already, refuses to comment on whether they actually think the stem cells have measurably helped anyone, but they freely admit that what they're giving the patients is "hope."
I don't wish to take away from the amazing potential stem cell research promises, but this hospital, and others like it that will spring up, are selling the 21st century version of snake oil and homeopathy.
Well, yes, I do.
Okay, first things first: we have *got* to come up with a better name than "Spatial Web". That's got to be the worst product name I've heard since "Pumpkin" for a calendar component...
(Mark, is that you?)
In all fairness, I have to comment that I've been using MySQL for all of my projects for years, and I haven't had a crash yet. Because my software is database agnostic I tend to stick to simple inserts, updates, and deletes, and somewhat complex selects. But to date MySQL has been the best open source solution I've come across for flexibility, speed, and ease of use.
No mention here of Kylix, Lazarus, or any of the other Pascal variations. Anyone care to comment on those?
My wife wants it to be over just so we won't have the tension of living in a house divided between opposing political parties.
Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz screwed this country as hard and fast as they physically could. They can't be frog-marched out of the White House soon enough. The rest of this message rambles a bit, and I apologize for that.
McCain is a GOP robot wearing the flavor of the day.
Obama is a good man that just happens plays the political game better than anyone else. We, as a country, needed for a political party other than the GOP to produce such a candidate.
Everyone, even the rich, need to honor the social contract and pay into the system. Bush cut the taxes on the people that make the most, gave subsidies to the corporations that needed them the least, while the middle class and poor watch their earning power and their jobs dribble away.
We lost thousands of high-earning high tech jobs and gained thousands of low-earning service sector jobs thanks to Bush's policies.
Bush is a religious whack job, and while McCain isn't, his party is beholden to the religious whack jobs for their power.
I'm tired of hoping that the stupid in this country get just smart enough to vote *for* their kids' future and not against it. I'm tired of trying to explain basic economics and social theory to the GOP idiots around me. I'm tired of watching Bush screw this country over.
And I'm tired of the longest election cycle in history.
I'm glad Obama will win. But the fight to exorcise the demons summoned by Bush won't over for a very long time.
I am holding on. I guess we differ on the definition. The British considered Washington a 'rebel' and today would call him a "terrorist" for sure, you cannot argue with that.
I could, but I'd rather argue against this:
Here is the CIA definition: Title 22 of the US Code, Section 2656f(d): * The term 'terrorism' means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents. *
Washington did not attack "noncombatant targets," nor did he employ, "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." (Merriam-Webster). Ayers did.
To keep this short (got work to do), Ayers doesn't fit the CIA definition, but he does fit the Merriam-Webster one. As for the U.S. being a terrorist state... that's a whole 'nother discussion, and one I'm not inclined to agree with you on, for the most part. (Iraq, on the other hand...)
Gary, it was nice chatting with you.
Okay, hang on. I love Obama, not just for his politics but for the kind of person he is, and I think slandering his character due to his association with Bill Ayers is a joke at best, but he was a terrorist. He blew up buildings, statues, whatever, in an attempt to use terror to get attention to his message. That does not compare against Washington, who led armies against armies. We were in the midst of a formally declared war between nations fought by armies.
If it makes you feel better to call Ayers a "revolutionary", then fine. His only casualties, from what I've read, were members of his own group through an accident while building bombs. Having said that, in my book, he was a domestic terrorist, just an atypically innocuous one.
"Hey, that's not funny! My sister died that way, you insensitive clod."
There, fixed that for you.
What the main question here is, "when does a human become human and deserve protection?" This gets sticky.
No, it really isn't. If it doesn't have brain activity, it isn't eligable for protection. Period. End of story. Otherwise pulling the plug on someone in a persistent vegetative state would also be murder, and only retarded fundamentalists believe that (and that may include you for all I know).
It's really that simple.
Amen. Until it's allowed to impregnate, a pregnancy hasn't been terminated. And while drawing a connection between a vegetative coma victim and a zygote is not perfect, it sufficiently illustrates a critical factor: the ability to sense, understand, and react to pain. At some point the nervous system is organized and functional enough that damaging the fetus generates a pain signal.
Support for abortion ranges across a wide spectrum. I find it helpful to think of it in four phases. There's the fertilized, un-implanted egg. As a society, we don't take issue with a fertility clinic flushing unused embryos.
Following impregnation, there is a point in time when the embryo's nervous system has developed enough to properly process pain signals. That would seem to be the point where people start to have an issue with terminating the pregnancy. But to a large segment of the population, because the baby could not possibly live outside the womb, even with our best technology, it is still not a "viable baby". Obviously, as our technology improves, this line will move.
Then there's the point in time when the baby, if removed, could finish developing using technology. It might have serious defects, but it could survive.
And finally, there's the point in time where the fetus can be removed before term and, with little or no intervention, survive. The people who would be okay with terminating the pregnancy at that point are as few as those who think fertility clinics are committing murder by flushing unused embryos.
It's the two middle phases where most of the real argument is occurring. I don't believe that we'll ever see birth control go away, but I do honestly feel that we will see, sooner or later, some formal definition of what constitutes a reasonably developed human being, the point in time after which a mother must allow the pregnancy to finish going to term.
This will only make sense to a handful of people, but it's actually the fault of plug-ins, followed closely by George Bush, hardware, Freddie Mac, Gary Roberts, licensing, and "Other."
Having just studied up on the Council for Foreign Affairs and how they attempt to control public views and government policies via the media, anyone against Net Neutrality is, in my mind, suspect not only as a candidate for any high office, but even potentially a traitor to the United States and an enemy of the its citizens. John McCain has shown repeatedly that he is no different from any politician of any stripe (although most typically the GOP these days) that supports the destruction of our Constitutional rights, the exploitation of our resources, and enrichment of corporations to the detriment of the greater good, and who is willing to alter his stated position, in denial of his resume, in order to retain and acquire more power.
Opposition to net neutrality is the desire to suppress free speech, disguised in a business suit with an American flag lapel pin.