A) You don't need a e-reader to read e-books. In 2010 (ok a little old) the most popular way to read a e-book was on a laptop. You likely already own a device capable of reading an e-book on.
B) You can lend a kindle to a friend, many times and let them reread your books many times and there is no way for Amazon or anyone to charge you.
C) If your kindle is destroyed you can download your books again to a new device.
D) Books generate no jobs for poor children struggling to eat.
From Eco-Libris' analysis of the iPad2, the break-even point at which the device has a lower carbon impact than an equivalent production of print books is 14. A widely cited study by research firm Cleantech Group found that the carbon emitted in the life cycle of an Amazon Kindle is fully offset after the first year of use, as long as the owner downloads more than 22 books in a year, and additional years of use result in net carbon savings equivalent to an average of 168 kilograms of carbon dioxide.
If your using your existing laptop to read an e-book then your footprint is even lower.
Who is considering Franzen America's greatest living novelists? I am sure if you did a poll of Americans less than 1% of Americans would know who he is.
Can't wait to replace all my tablets, touchscreens, wireless mice, and keyboards with my new virtual cybernectic tail. Cybernectic telephathy is the future. Rest in piece copyright, tellivisons, and hand held cell phones.
Last I checked Illiteracy is down. Because of the Internet people are writing and reading more than they used to. Letters(email) are popular again.
A national study done in 1992 and 2003 showed a slight increase in literacy.
The average prose and document literacy scores of U.S. adults were not measurably different in 2003 from 1992, but the average quantitative literacy score increased 8 points between these years.
The US president is not accountable to foeigners. US voters don't care about those people. They threw a fit and had their state legislators block attempts to move those prisoners to prisons in the states. So yeah outsiders don't have much protection in a democoracy.
Hackers likely didn't know what they had. They grabbed a ton of data and used software to sift through it for passwords, credit cards and email addresses. Going through all the music and finding the songs that were unrealeased would take plenty of ears or a music matching database. That is why Sony waited a full year before talking about this.
such as prison, unemployment, exclusion from school, poverty and long-term illness.
Seems this study is biased by the life outcomes they chose to judge by.
Would there still be correlation if they judged based on outcomes such as these:
number of children, number of grandchildren, length of life, average amount of stress
The racism is bring up Nigerian Scams just because an article has something to do with Africa. Also Nigeria is on Africa's west coast so it is not East Africa at all.
You need to think about all the unused exercise equipment people buy for themselves each new year. All the guitars sitting in closets or pawn shops. All the toys kids get bored of after a few days. You can't replace Will Power with Novelty.
I would ignore your gut level guess. Your youth sounds very different from mine. I spent most of my youth in my own head not doing much physical activity unless prompted to do so. Go to a playground and you will se a couple fat kids standing around not doing anything. Some people when given a choice will choose to conserve energy.
The goverment doesn't need to make new laws everytime a new product comes along. This is already a crime. The users just need to find a prosecurter who will prosecute it. (No sure if the word felony applies. This is a Swedish company.)
So they had proof he could access it, testimony that they'd actually observed it and a chain of evidence that the contents had not changed since then. That's a whole different level of knowing than just "knowing"
If they have so much evidence, why don't they just present that evidence to the jury and let them decide? If the encryption key isn't incriminating, they don't need it to make their case. If the encryption key is incriminating, then it's protected by the 5th amendment.
It's really quite simple, and the judge in Boucher got it completely wrong. He needs to go back to law school and take an elementary logic class.
You could say the same thing about Boucher's lawyer. Why fight unecrypting the drive when your conviction is a sure thing.
It's an attempt to screw with my hardware and software, which is very much my business.
Citation needed. Netflix isn't going touch hardware or sorfware you already own. So I don't really see how it is any of your business what hardware I buy or what software I install in order to run Netflix.
Voting is the natural progression from war. Most early wars are won by the side with the most soldiers. So instead of fighting the war you just pick the victor based on whose army is bigger.
That dash in bipedal was really confusing. Made me think of a robot with two pedals. Also why have a robot with legs?? Why not treads or flight? It doesn't need to do everything a person does. It just needs to kill things.
Here is table backing the above up.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
It shows that the average lifespan of someone who survives childhood has increased from 60.1(20 + 40.1) in 1850 to 76.7 (20 + 56.7) in 2004.
That is an increase of 16.7 years.
Compare that with a newborn. 38.3 in 1850 to 75.7 in 2004. That is an increase of 37.4 years.
Slashdot Mirror
A) You don't need a e-reader to read e-books. In 2010 (ok a little old) the most popular way to read a e-book was on a laptop. You likely already own a device capable of reading an e-book on.
B) You can lend a kindle to a friend, many times and let them reread your books many times and there is no way for Amazon or anyone to charge you.
C) If your kindle is destroyed you can download your books again to a new device.
D) Books generate no jobs for poor children struggling to eat.
From Eco-Libris' analysis of the iPad2, the break-even point at which the device has a lower carbon impact than an equivalent production of print books is 14. A widely cited study by research firm Cleantech Group found that the carbon emitted in the life cycle of an Amazon Kindle is fully offset after the first year of use, as long as the owner downloads more than 22 books in a year, and additional years of use result in net carbon savings equivalent to an average of 168 kilograms of carbon dioxide.
If your using your existing laptop to read an e-book then your footprint is even lower.
Who is considering Franzen America's greatest living novelists? I am sure if you did a poll of Americans less than 1% of Americans would know who he is.
Can't wait to replace all my tablets, touchscreens, wireless mice, and keyboards with my new virtual cybernectic tail. Cybernectic telephathy is the future. Rest in piece copyright, tellivisons, and hand held cell phones.
The average prose and document literacy scores of U.S. adults were not measurably different in 2003 from 1992, but the average quantitative literacy score increased 8 points between these years.
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69
Says more about the Onion than doctors. The whole purpose of the Onion is to confuse readers into momentarilly believing the story is real.
The US president is not accountable to foeigners. US voters don't care about those people. They threw a fit and had their state legislators block attempts to move those prisoners to prisons in the states. So yeah outsiders don't have much protection in a democoracy.
Hackers likely didn't know what they had. They grabbed a ton of data and used software to sift through it for passwords, credit cards and email addresses. Going through all the music and finding the songs that were unrealeased would take plenty of ears or a music matching database. That is why Sony waited a full year before talking about this.
such as prison, unemployment, exclusion from school, poverty and long-term illness.
Seems this study is biased by the life outcomes they chose to judge by. Would there still be correlation if they judged based on outcomes such as these:
number of children, number of grandchildren, length of life, average amount of stress
The racism is bring up Nigerian Scams just because an article has something to do with Africa. Also Nigeria is on Africa's west coast so it is not East Africa at all.
Glad to see Slashdot is consistant.
You need to think about all the unused exercise equipment people buy for themselves each new year. All the guitars sitting in closets or pawn shops. All the toys kids get bored of after a few days. You can't replace Will Power with Novelty.
I would ignore your gut level guess. Your youth sounds very different from mine. I spent most of my youth in my own head not doing much physical activity unless prompted to do so. Go to a playground and you will se a couple fat kids standing around not doing anything. Some people when given a choice will choose to conserve energy.
Kids left to themselves won't change their behavior. Parenting means more than buying your kid a toy and hoping for the best. News at 11.
The goverment doesn't need to make new laws everytime a new product comes along. This is already a crime. The users just need to find a prosecurter who will prosecute it. (No sure if the word felony applies. This is a Swedish company.)
It works if your google, wikipedia or reddit. Then you can "boycott" buisnesses like Go Daddy.
So they had proof he could access it, testimony that they'd actually observed it and a chain of evidence that the contents had not changed since then. That's a whole different level of knowing than just "knowing"
If they have so much evidence, why don't they just present that evidence to the jury and let them decide? If the encryption key isn't incriminating, they don't need it to make their case. If the encryption key is incriminating, then it's protected by the 5th amendment.
It's really quite simple, and the judge in Boucher got it completely wrong. He needs to go back to law school and take an elementary logic class.
You could say the same thing about Boucher's lawyer. Why fight unecrypting the drive when your conviction is a sure thing.
It's an attempt to screw with my hardware and software, which is very much my business.
Citation needed. Netflix isn't going touch hardware or sorfware you already own. So I don't really see how it is any of your business what hardware I buy or what software I install in order to run Netflix.
Voting is the natural progression from war. Most early wars are won by the side with the most soldiers. So instead of fighting the war you just pick the victor based on whose army is bigger.
That dash in bipedal was really confusing. Made me think of a robot with two pedals. Also why have a robot with legs?? Why not treads or flight? It doesn't need to do everything a person does. It just needs to kill things.
Can someone tell me where I can buy a pack of placebos please?
They seem to be really usefull in fighting off all sorts of diseases.
You can buy Pez brand placebos at some grocery stores. They come in a rather inventive storage devise.
I didn't notice that chart was broken up by race and gender. Please don't be offended that I used the chart for white males.
Here is table backing the above up. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html It shows that the average lifespan of someone who survives childhood has increased from 60.1(20 + 40.1) in 1850 to 76.7 (20 + 56.7) in 2004. That is an increase of 16.7 years.
Compare that with a newborn. 38.3 in 1850 to 75.7 in 2004. That is an increase of 37.4 years.
Nook Color/Nook Tablet are not closed source. B&N has published its source code changes to th OS. The apps are closed source.
Kindle Fire isn't closed source. Amazon has to release the source to the changes they made to the OS. The only thing closed source on the Fire is the Apps. Here is the source for all the Kindles if your interested: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=200203720&tag=5336653508-20