If Toshiba (and other HD-DVD losers) let people invoke their warranty to get free transcripts of their HD-DVD to Blu-Ray, then they'd keep a lot of their customer. Offer a discount on tradein for a Blu-Ray player if they ship ther HD-DVD player back with their discs to be transcribed, and Toshiba could turn a disastrous loss into a way to keep a lot more customers despite picking the losing side.
I know, it's certainly not news that "Republicans Are Lying About FISA". But it's still important, because they're getting away with it. And as geeks (and probably as nerds), we're the most likely to have something we care about spied on.
The lie I'm talking about is "FISA will expire right away". That's a moronic lie:
Section 2 of the Protect America Act:
`ADDITIONAL PROCEDURE FOR AUTHORIZING CERTAIN ACQUISITIONS CONCERNING PERSONS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
`Sec. 105B. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General, may for periods of up to one year authorize the acquisition of foreign intelligence information concerning persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States
Even the "sunset" provisions that Republicans are lying about making the PAA expire don't actually apply: Section 6(c) of the Protect America Act:
(c) Sunset- Except as provided in subsection (d), sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Act, and the amendments made by this Act, shall cease to have effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
The PAA that Republicans are clamoring to replace "because it sunsets" was passed late last Summer. It's got another six months left for spying, even if that spying is un-Constitutional.
Every single thing about this spying not only violates the Constitution, but it's being forced on us with the worst kinds of lies. (Hi, Dick!)
1. Drop the "!". So '90s (and such a setup for disappointment - very '90s).
2. Let anyone with a Yahoo account stream from a Yahoo page any music they want for free (Yahoo pays the royalties). Put ads in the streams, just like radio.
3. SURVIVE! (On the profits. Yes, you can still use a "!" occasionaly when you pull it off.)
The House has already indicated that it wants amnesty rejected, by passing their version of the bill without it, even as amnesty faced very vocal (though ultimately failed) opposition in the Senate. And John Conyers (D-MI), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to head White House lawyer Fred Fielding insisting that there's no basis for amnesty. The House Intelligence Committee also rejected amnesty in approving the House bill. The Senate counterpart to Conyers' committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, was the one that produced a Senate bill rejecting amnesty (that failed to pass the Senate); the Senate committee chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) denounced amnesty as his bill was defeated, in solidarity with the House provisions. House Speaker Pelosi helped rescue the House bill from an October attempt by Republicans to stop it. So I think the House version of this "RESTORE Act" is a serious attempt by the House (its Republican minority notwithstanding) to stop amnesty.
But you're right not to have "faith" in politicians. Faith is a way of knowing something that can't be proven, and no one can know what these liars will do until after the check has cleared. But hope is different. It's a way of wanting something that hasn't been proven, fuel for doing something to get it. Which is why signing the petition to pressure the House to stand by its partial progress against amnesty is worth doing. Because giving up hope means being defeated, and that's how you help the forces against you win. Signing the petition is another small but useful blow against them.
The House of Reps passed their version of this bill without amnesty. When the two bills go into "conference", wherein the two chambers negotiate how to change their versions to come up with the single version that will be voted on in each chamber, the House can insist on no amnesty. Which, since amnesty did not pass in the Senate by an overwhelming (just a large) majority, the House might succeed in getting.
So sign the petition to pressure the House to stand up for keeping amnesty out of the final bill. It's the last chance you have to keep some privacy rights when on the phone (hi, Dick!).
The House of Reps passed their version of this bill without amnesty. When the two bills go into "conference", wherein the two chambers negotiate how to change their versions to come up with the single version that will be voted on in each chamber, the House can insist on no amnesty. Which, since amnesty did not pass in the Senate by an overwhelming (just a large) majority, the House might succeed in getting.
Is there anything native to BeOS/Haiku that makes that OS uniquely suited to that audio app and the filesystem? Any reason they couldn't be ported quite naturally to Linux?
No, Phillips would have done it alone. Or someone else would be doing it, and probably not as abusively as Sony, whose unique market position lets them get away with it.
Though I expect there will always be Anonymous fanboy Cowards out there begging for abuse from whoever was the last hand on their gift toy - that they paid way too much for.
If they caught a single phisher SW maker, they catch quite a few of their customers, because the identical SW is clearly being used to steal from many people worldwide. And then they'd have raised the cost of doing phishing business, as a deterrent.
This is why the cops also go after pickpockets, even though the individual cost:benefit is small. Defending from many small attackers is hard work, but banks make $BILLIONS a year in mostly guaranteed profits underwritten by the governments in their areas. Protecting people from theft in their name should be a required cost of their doing business.
Yes, of course they all have that logo. That's the entire point with these "CDs": they claim to be compatible, but they're not. This has been well established on Slashdot for years, to say nothing of its happening in the general market.
The reason my copied DRM discs won't play isn't because they're CD-R. And, in fact, my CD player does have a "CD-R" logo on it, even though it won't play the copied "CD". Because that DRM "CD" isn't really a "CD": it violates the spec.
So I don't know why you're claiming that these different formats have different logos, when that's just false. The failure of DRM CDs to meet the CD format spec, and therefore fail in CD players, is well known on Slashdot.
If this guy wins, gets a court to punish a player manufacturer because it's not forward compatible with media all carrying the same media logo, then I want to see Sony get slammed for selling "CD" players that won't play CDs that I copied from the ones I bought as backup. And then I want to see Sony get slammed for selling "CDs" that won't play in some CD players because the Sony CDs have DRM that's not part of the "CD" spec.
They shouldn't be using unaccountable AI that doesn't have the human inhibitions (eg. guilt, shame, no promotion, incarceration) on making mistakes. There's plenty of capable human intelligence for air traffic control, in the air.
Most actual piloting is already handled by AI, autopilots. The crew spends most of its time fighting boredom (and whatever _Airplane!_ got right). Instead, they should participate in a distributed global air traffic control system. Let every plane report its GPS position to a satellite network, and each plane get the positions of objects in its nearby airspace. Then let those crews plan the traffic of all the planes in their airspace, but only one crew at a time actually controls the paths - the rest just shadow them. Then divide up all the world's airspaces by the crews in the air. Crowded airspaces should get partitioned into multiple separate smaller spaces. And ground stations should remain available to boost the manpower and report local conditions, and just certify plans through their airspace (like at airports) that are actually set by others really doing the hard work.
Then the more traffic, the more people are available. The people are going to be a lot better than the AI, not just because the problem is highly nuanced, and therefore hard to reduce to the independent variables needed to make AI predictable and testable. But also because the humans actually give a damn about planes with other humans getting in trouble.
And it will also keep the inflight crews something to keep them awake. So if they're needed to actually fly the plane, they can drop right back into controlling their plane, already fully alert and engaged, while one of the shadow crews gets to take over their lead (if they were actually committing traffic scheduling).
We can use networking to harness our superior human brains. Or we can just trust the machines. That are programmed by some Pentagon nerds who will never get in trouble for making a mistake that's discovered in the air years later.
If the banks weren't making $BILLIONS in guaranteed profits every month, they might pay more attention to these little frauds that add up to $millions each month. With the way the economy is going, and with the change in the White House and FBI coming, maybe they will indeed find a lot more time on their hands to to their jobs of keeping us and our money safe.
I'm often curious as to what those faceless FOSS contributors are doing instead of programming while I'm waiting for them to deliver their next milestone, as they blow their next deadline.
"Murder trial" usually doesn't occur to me. Usually something more like "new videogame release" seems more likely.
I'm talking about offloading from the grid quite a bit of the power required to run the lights for the people in the gym. If they're outputting even 150W, then the question is just how many watts of electric light do they consume, and what's the efficiency of the conversion of their mechanical power to electrical. If the efficiency is only about 66% (probably it could be much higher), then 100W is available. If each person is using 4 60W bulbs, then they can contribute 100/240W, or 41% of the power, which is quite a bit offloaded from the grid. If the grid feeds batteries or fuelcells that power the lights, and the local generating equipment just lowers the gym's load on the stored power, then there's practically no overhead to the "switching".
Also, people don't sit on the bike for 5h, or even 1h, or even 20 minutes. They don't stay in the gym for 5h, either. The point is that people's generation can defray some of their consumption while they're in the gym.
FWIW, since so much energy (something like 2x, as mentioned elsewhere in reply to my message) is wasted as body heat, rather than mechanical motion, my original suggestion of heating their water rather than powering their lights could be the more efficient savings. 450W total for the 30 minutes out of an hour session is 1.62Mj. A 5 minute shower at about 5 gallons per minute (about 100Kcm^3), heated from 55F to 105F consumes about 1Mj. So I expect the body heat generated is enough to offload the shower from the grid, and the electric generated by the mechanical work could be enough to offload the lights substantially.
All those phishing scams rely on violating the trademark of the corp they're posing as. If the owner of the mark doesn't defend their mark from dilution, possibly including use by phishers, they could even lose the mark. The banks and other trademark holders are obligated to stop phishers from posing as them. Even if they weren't, I'd expect that my bank at least defend itself, and me, from these phishers abusing its trademark to scam me. Which is also some lousy advertising for their brand.
If you look at the 16 posts rated at 5 (I'm not going to "skim" hundreds of Slashdot comments just to find a point that you are trying to make), there's a few that are actually on-topic, but they mostly don't really show good reasoning applicable to what I said. Because I didn't say that $15K exercise bikes should run 100W incandescent bulbs. And if you look at the person actually talking about their own human power that they've analyzed carefully, they have a good argument even in that other context.
If we had energy recovery equipment that worked more efficiently like the knee-brace we're discussing in this article, and the gym lighting were more efficient, then yes the wattage that people generate at the gym could take a big chunk out of the energy consumed from the grid.
But probably the best lesson here is that you can't win an argument by pointing to an entire Slashdot discussion about something related only generally, and not in the essentials of the point you're disputing. That's called "cherry picking". You should look into it.
Gyms have lots of lights that are on even when the gym is empty, or when people are taking a rest. I think their body work could power those lights pretty well, offloading from the grid quite a bit.
Maybe there's a way to capture that waste body heat to heat up the water in the showers that people take after exercising. If the mechanical work is captured efficiently as power for lighting, then those gyms could nearly disappear from the grid, except as backup. The elevators in NYC gyms probably keep the energy budget in the black, though. Maybe they should switch to stairs, or manual elevators run by "stationary" bikes mounted in them.
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If Toshiba (and other HD-DVD losers) let people invoke their warranty to get free transcripts of their HD-DVD to Blu-Ray, then they'd keep a lot of their customer. Offer a discount on tradein for a Blu-Ray player if they ship ther HD-DVD player back with their discs to be transcribed, and Toshiba could turn a disastrous loss into a way to keep a lot more customers despite picking the losing side.
The lie I'm talking about is "FISA will expire right away". That's a moronic lie:
Section 2 of the Protect America Act:
Even the "sunset" provisions that Republicans are lying about making the PAA expire don't actually apply:
Section 6(c) of the Protect America Act:
The PAA that Republicans are clamoring to replace "because it sunsets" was passed late last Summer. It's got another six months left for spying, even if that spying is un-Constitutional.
Every single thing about this spying not only violates the Constitution, but it's being forced on us with the worst kinds of lies. (Hi, Dick!)
That's why you sould sign the petition to pressure the House to stand up for keeping amnesty out of the final bill. It's your last chance to say something publicly to the government on a voluntary basis.
1. Drop the "!". So '90s (and such a setup for disappointment - very '90s).
2. Let anyone with a Yahoo account stream from a Yahoo page any music they want for free (Yahoo pays the royalties). Put ads in the streams, just like radio.
3. SURVIVE! (On the profits. Yes, you can still use a "!" occasionaly when you pull it off.)
Funny, when I mail an "unfair, not good enough" check for my Comcast bill, they just shut me down.
John McCain wants to spend another century collecting data for this research project.
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I'm sure the prosecutors downloaded jihadist material to prosecute this case. Off with their heads!
The House has already indicated that it wants amnesty rejected, by passing their version of the bill without it, even as amnesty faced very vocal (though ultimately failed) opposition in the Senate. And John Conyers (D-MI), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to head White House lawyer Fred Fielding insisting that there's no basis for amnesty. The House Intelligence Committee also rejected amnesty in approving the House bill. The Senate counterpart to Conyers' committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, was the one that produced a Senate bill rejecting amnesty (that failed to pass the Senate); the Senate committee chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) denounced amnesty as his bill was defeated, in solidarity with the House provisions. House Speaker Pelosi helped rescue the House bill from an October attempt by Republicans to stop it. So I think the House version of this "RESTORE Act" is a serious attempt by the House (its Republican minority notwithstanding) to stop amnesty.
But you're right not to have "faith" in politicians. Faith is a way of knowing something that can't be proven, and no one can know what these liars will do until after the check has cleared. But hope is different. It's a way of wanting something that hasn't been proven, fuel for doing something to get it. Which is why signing the petition to pressure the House to stand by its partial progress against amnesty is worth doing. Because giving up hope means being defeated, and that's how you help the forces against you win. Signing the petition is another small but useful blow against them.
The House of Reps passed their version of this bill without amnesty. When the two bills go into "conference", wherein the two chambers negotiate how to change their versions to come up with the single version that will be voted on in each chamber, the House can insist on no amnesty. Which, since amnesty did not pass in the Senate by an overwhelming (just a large) majority, the House might succeed in getting.
So sign the petition to pressure the House to stand up for keeping amnesty out of the final bill. It's the last chance you have to keep some privacy rights when on the phone (hi, Dick!).
The House of Reps passed their version of this bill without amnesty. When the two bills go into "conference", wherein the two chambers negotiate how to change their versions to come up with the single version that will be voted on in each chamber, the House can insist on no amnesty. Which, since amnesty did not pass in the Senate by an overwhelming (just a large) majority, the House might succeed in getting.
So sign the petition to pressure the House to stand up for keeping amnesty out of the final bill. It's the last chance you have to keep some privacy rights when on the phone (hi, Dick!).
Is there anything native to BeOS/Haiku that makes that OS uniquely suited to that audio app and the filesystem? Any reason they couldn't be ported quite naturally to Linux?
Regardless of its attractive services and features, the entire point of an OS is to run apps on some HW. Are there any apps for Haiku?
No, Phillips would have done it alone. Or someone else would be doing it, and probably not as abusively as Sony, whose unique market position lets them get away with it.
Though I expect there will always be Anonymous fanboy Cowards out there begging for abuse from whoever was the last hand on their gift toy - that they paid way too much for.
If they caught a single phisher SW maker, they catch quite a few of their customers, because the identical SW is clearly being used to steal from many people worldwide. And then they'd have raised the cost of doing phishing business, as a deterrent.
This is why the cops also go after pickpockets, even though the individual cost:benefit is small. Defending from many small attackers is hard work, but banks make $BILLIONS a year in mostly guaranteed profits underwritten by the governments in their areas. Protecting people from theft in their name should be a required cost of their doing business.
Yes, of course they all have that logo. That's the entire point with these "CDs": they claim to be compatible, but they're not. This has been well established on Slashdot for years, to say nothing of its happening in the general market.
DRM CDs say they're "CDs", but they're not.
The reason my copied DRM discs won't play isn't because they're CD-R. And, in fact, my CD player does have a "CD-R" logo on it, even though it won't play the copied "CD". Because that DRM "CD" isn't really a "CD": it violates the spec.
So I don't know why you're claiming that these different formats have different logos, when that's just false. The failure of DRM CDs to meet the CD format spec, and therefore fail in CD players, is well known on Slashdot.
If this guy wins, gets a court to punish a player manufacturer because it's not forward compatible with media all carrying the same media logo, then I want to see Sony get slammed for selling "CD" players that won't play CDs that I copied from the ones I bought as backup. And then I want to see Sony get slammed for selling "CDs" that won't play in some CD players because the Sony CDs have DRM that's not part of the "CD" spec.
They shouldn't be using unaccountable AI that doesn't have the human inhibitions (eg. guilt, shame, no promotion, incarceration) on making mistakes. There's plenty of capable human intelligence for air traffic control, in the air.
Most actual piloting is already handled by AI, autopilots. The crew spends most of its time fighting boredom (and whatever _Airplane!_ got right). Instead, they should participate in a distributed global air traffic control system. Let every plane report its GPS position to a satellite network, and each plane get the positions of objects in its nearby airspace. Then let those crews plan the traffic of all the planes in their airspace, but only one crew at a time actually controls the paths - the rest just shadow them. Then divide up all the world's airspaces by the crews in the air. Crowded airspaces should get partitioned into multiple separate smaller spaces. And ground stations should remain available to boost the manpower and report local conditions, and just certify plans through their airspace (like at airports) that are actually set by others really doing the hard work.
Then the more traffic, the more people are available. The people are going to be a lot better than the AI, not just because the problem is highly nuanced, and therefore hard to reduce to the independent variables needed to make AI predictable and testable. But also because the humans actually give a damn about planes with other humans getting in trouble.
And it will also keep the inflight crews something to keep them awake. So if they're needed to actually fly the plane, they can drop right back into controlling their plane, already fully alert and engaged, while one of the shadow crews gets to take over their lead (if they were actually committing traffic scheduling).
We can use networking to harness our superior human brains. Or we can just trust the machines. That are programmed by some Pentagon nerds who will never get in trouble for making a mistake that's discovered in the air years later.
If the banks weren't making $BILLIONS in guaranteed profits every month, they might pay more attention to these little frauds that add up to $millions each month. With the way the economy is going, and with the change in the White House and FBI coming, maybe they will indeed find a lot more time on their hands to to their jobs of keeping us and our money safe.
I'm often curious as to what those faceless FOSS contributors are doing instead of programming while I'm waiting for them to deliver their next milestone, as they blow their next deadline.
"Murder trial" usually doesn't occur to me. Usually something more like "new videogame release" seems more likely.
I'm talking about offloading from the grid quite a bit of the power required to run the lights for the people in the gym. If they're outputting even 150W, then the question is just how many watts of electric light do they consume, and what's the efficiency of the conversion of their mechanical power to electrical. If the efficiency is only about 66% (probably it could be much higher), then 100W is available. If each person is using 4 60W bulbs, then they can contribute 100/240W, or 41% of the power, which is quite a bit offloaded from the grid. If the grid feeds batteries or fuelcells that power the lights, and the local generating equipment just lowers the gym's load on the stored power, then there's practically no overhead to the "switching".
Also, people don't sit on the bike for 5h, or even 1h, or even 20 minutes. They don't stay in the gym for 5h, either. The point is that people's generation can defray some of their consumption while they're in the gym.
FWIW, since so much energy (something like 2x, as mentioned elsewhere in reply to my message) is wasted as body heat, rather than mechanical motion, my original suggestion of heating their water rather than powering their lights could be the more efficient savings. 450W total for the 30 minutes out of an hour session is 1.62Mj. A 5 minute shower at about 5 gallons per minute (about 100Kcm^3), heated from 55F to 105F consumes about 1Mj. So I expect the body heat generated is enough to offload the shower from the grid, and the electric generated by the mechanical work could be enough to offload the lights substantially.
All those phishing scams rely on violating the trademark of the corp they're posing as. If the owner of the mark doesn't defend their mark from dilution, possibly including use by phishers, they could even lose the mark. The banks and other trademark holders are obligated to stop phishers from posing as them. Even if they weren't, I'd expect that my bank at least defend itself, and me, from these phishers abusing its trademark to scam me. Which is also some lousy advertising for their brand.
If you look at the 16 posts rated at 5 (I'm not going to "skim" hundreds of Slashdot comments just to find a point that you are trying to make), there's a few that are actually on-topic, but they mostly don't really show good reasoning applicable to what I said. Because I didn't say that $15K exercise bikes should run 100W incandescent bulbs. And if you look at the person actually talking about their own human power that they've analyzed carefully, they have a good argument even in that other context.
If we had energy recovery equipment that worked more efficiently like the knee-brace we're discussing in this article, and the gym lighting were more efficient, then yes the wattage that people generate at the gym could take a big chunk out of the energy consumed from the grid.
But probably the best lesson here is that you can't win an argument by pointing to an entire Slashdot discussion about something related only generally, and not in the essentials of the point you're disputing. That's called "cherry picking". You should look into it.
How does an article demonstrating that people are actually doing this show that people likely won't do this?
Gyms have lots of lights that are on even when the gym is empty, or when people are taking a rest. I think their body work could power those lights pretty well, offloading from the grid quite a bit.
Maybe there's a way to capture that waste body heat to heat up the water in the showers that people take after exercising. If the mechanical work is captured efficiently as power for lighting, then those gyms could nearly disappear from the grid, except as backup. The elevators in NYC gyms probably keep the energy budget in the black, though. Maybe they should switch to stairs, or manual elevators run by "stationary" bikes mounted in them.