I read the docs, and I still don't see how it's any different than the greylisting deamons (written in a variety of languages, and some probably sharing code with this one) that run on Linux or Windows.
Greylisting is great and all, but I'm left wondering what OpenBSD has to do with it... Can you name a single operating system that can run an MTA that can't do greylisting?
Not that surprising really... Unless you live near stores that stockpile, it's not all that uncommon to walk into a Target/BestBuy/CircuitCity late in the afternoon and see a couple on the shelves.
I was noticing a few days ago that most of the above retail auctions on eBay for the Wii were going to Canadian bidders. It's hard to say now though, since eBay changed to not revealing the high bidder's user name. It's pretty clear that ones displayed as willing to ship to Canada are selling for more though.
From asking around, even in these Slashdot threads, it seems that if you live more than a half hour outside of a city in the US, you can get a Wii without any trouble now. THey've shipped so many of them, it's really not surprising that supply would be catching up with demand finally.
But that's not really a very relevant figure. How many devices are used for playing music in any substantial way? Most people only want to listen to the music on their iPods.
That sounds like bull to me... I can't think of anybody I know that doesn't play music on their computer. Additionally, the iPod is capable of playing music that *doesn't* come from the ITMS, so it's not like Apple's dominance of the portable player market is forcing their DRM on people.
In reality, this is all about other companies wanting to sell vendor lock-in enabled DRM encumbered music that can play on the iPod. This is not a "less DRM" thing. It's a more DRM thing. The only people who are supposedly "harmed" by Apple's DRM practices that would be relieved by this change are people/companies who want to impose additional limitations on end users. This ruling is bad for anybody who opposes DRM.
The next generation of "DRM Operating Systems" cannot support general purpose computing. Pretty much the only way to guarantee that DRM will work is for such a computer to not allow ANY non-DRM compliant software while DRM content is playing.
That won't help unless the DRM is in the CPU as well as every other component. There are far too many people with access to a hardware ICE to hide the keys otherwise.
Imagine if they managed to find an effective way to eliminate all pirated installs. Their market share would drop by about 20% overnight! I'm guessing that most of those pirates wouldn't bother to purchase a copy should their pirated copy stop working.
Not only that, but you probably paid *more* for your copy than the average purchaser, since you had a Microsoft tax included in all four years of your tuition, and you probably never installed 80% of the software that was covered by that license.
But people are still selling Wiis for $100 to $130 more than the store price.
This is still true in Canada (most of the eBay listings seem to be selling to Canadian buyers too), but in the US, the Wii shortage is pretty much over. For example, the local Target near me has had between 3 and 6 of them in stock the last three times I've been in there.
Can you blame them? Really, we could take care of the carbon emissions problem without lifestyle changes. (Using more efficient devices does not count as a lifestyle change.) Why force people to reduce their quality of life to solve a problem when we could solve the problem without that reduction?
Additionally, point of use generation is not feasible for industry. If you are going to generate power in bulk for industry (which we need to do in order to maintain our GDP, quality of life, etc; or to improve those things in areas of the world that need it) it becomes redundant and wasteful to build out point of use generation capacity as well.
Finally, if everybody did this, it wouldn't work anymore. All the homes generating power would be doing so at about the same time, and all the homes would need to draw from reserves at the same time. The fact of the matter is that once any significant percentage of people start doing this, you will need to add storage to the system somewhere or you will just be wasting the surplus power that you feed back into the grid.
The real problem is that many environmentalists care more about getting people to change their lifestyle than about helping the environment.
Oak is great and all, but I wouldn't want to keep it in a moist place for very long. At least not without some coating on it (which presumably would defeat the purpose). Additionally, oak is not very scratch resistant.
It is a very strong material for its weight and can absorb large amounts of energy, both in bending and impact. Looking for a bedplate material recently for a heavy vibrating system, I couldn't find anything better, in terms of performance and price, than European oak supported by steel beams.
Fir is stiffer and considerably cheaper. It is also generally available in much longer lengths than oak.
On the other hand, if you know a way to make cheap diamonds a metre long by 10cm square as one perfect crystal, at a price under $100, I'd like to be your European sales agent.
How thick does it have to be? If you only need a few microns, then no problem.
Wouldn't a better approach be to figure out the average longevity of a spam link on the site, and tag links with 'nofollow' for slightly longer than that period of time? After that they can remove the 'nofollow' because, presumably, if it was spam the link would have been removed already.
Even better, could Microsoft please put in a (digital audio broadcasting) DAB radio module and allow you to record digital radio
That seems unlikely. As far as I'm aware, the DAB specification is covered by patent (yet is the only FCC approved format in the US), and a license for the patent is well over $100 per device. Microsoft already loses money on the Zune hardware...
...if every electrical outlet had a different type of prongs depending on the brand of plug you bought.
Hell, you don't even have to imagine. We already live with the incompatibility of low voltage power connectors... Only now instead of replacing an adapter when we get a device from a different manufacturer, we can buy all new office furniture! Joy!
This technology is useless until the patents expire and building and electric codes require a specific version of the technology.
Nuclear and other large-scale solutions are pointless to debate about because we can't do them ourselves
The thing is that it actually makes sense to do a lot of the things that you do when you generate power in a central location. It centralizes, and theoretically reduces the cost of things like maintenance. It places sole responsibility for safety equipment. It standardizes systems... It is just as easy/hard to get a large-scale solution in place as it is to get thousands of small scale systems in place, if not easier.
Anyway, I'm not suggesting a particular technology, I'm just saying that bolting together existing technology in an overpriced mess isn't efficient or productive in any way.
And good luck with the "not pissing off your neighbors" thing. Even this rig would likely do that, what with the whole six months supply of supplemental hydrogen thing and the electrolysis which neatly combines that hydrogen with exactly the right amount of oxygen for an explosion during the production phase.
We don't fix it by not complaining when somebody does something non-productive. This wasn't about fixing it, this was about doing it with existing stuff at all cost. What I'm complaining about is that this isn't 'fixing' it, it's wasting money.
Also, you have to be open to the possibility that solar may not be the solution. Sure, with more use, the costs of some of the components will drop. The costs of others that use more scarce materials will go up... That's not the point though. The costs of other technologies that are already cheaper would drop with increased utilization too. Additionally, we have technologies available right now that are cost effective and would meet our environmental goals in the short and medium terms, but we ignore them. Instead this guy flexed his political muscle to get $225k in grants for a project he likely would have done on his own anyway.
It shouldn't be "fix it instead of complaining" it shoudl be "complain *and* fix it". There is no excuse for letting stupid stuff go ahead just because you aren't trying yourself to do something better.
Have you bought into the unreliability of solar panels argument so much that even you assumed that's what I'm talking about?
As far as I'm aware, current fuel cell technology has a usable lifespan just north of 20,000 hours. Assuming that the cells are active less than half the time...
Modern solar panels have a much longer life expectancy these days and enough bang for the buck to make the conversion worthwhile in expensive energy markets like New Jersey.
You didn't RTFA.
First of all, there is much, much, more to this system than the panels.
Second, even the article concedes that this solution is significantly more expensive than the costs of energy consumption it is replacing in a worst case comparison. Learn, think, and then speak. Not the other way around please.
And it went to a guy who could afford it on his own and gets sole benefit of whichever (probably very few) innovations that came out of the project. Saying: ""t's 225k that didn't get blown on some stupid-ass 'the contractor is my cousin' sort of project." may not be true.
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I read the docs, and I still don't see how it's any different than the greylisting deamons (written in a variety of languages, and some probably sharing code with this one) that run on Linux or Windows.
Greylisting is great and all, but I'm left wondering what OpenBSD has to do with it... Can you name a single operating system that can run an MTA that can't do greylisting?
I didn't think so.
Before you get that tech out to fix it, the DVI convert will work well
Won't you then be hosed when you want to use the system to watch movies that require an HDCP interconnect?
Really what we need is for the FCC to ban HDCP in the interests of interoperability.
Not that surprising really... Unless you live near stores that stockpile, it's not all that uncommon to walk into a Target/BestBuy/CircuitCity late in the afternoon and see a couple on the shelves.
I was noticing a few days ago that most of the above retail auctions on eBay for the Wii were going to Canadian bidders. It's hard to say now though, since eBay changed to not revealing the high bidder's user name. It's pretty clear that ones displayed as willing to ship to Canada are selling for more though.
From asking around, even in these Slashdot threads, it seems that if you live more than a half hour outside of a city in the US, you can get a Wii without any trouble now. THey've shipped so many of them, it's really not surprising that supply would be catching up with demand finally.
That is supposedly no longer true: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/19/sony_posts _bluray_burner_patch/
But that's not really a very relevant figure. How many devices are used for playing music in any substantial way? Most people only want to listen to the music on their iPods.
That sounds like bull to me... I can't think of anybody I know that doesn't play music on their computer. Additionally, the iPod is capable of playing music that *doesn't* come from the ITMS, so it's not like Apple's dominance of the portable player market is forcing their DRM on people.
In reality, this is all about other companies wanting to sell vendor lock-in enabled DRM encumbered music that can play on the iPod. This is not a "less DRM" thing. It's a more DRM thing. The only people who are supposedly "harmed" by Apple's DRM practices that would be relieved by this change are people/companies who want to impose additional limitations on end users. This ruling is bad for anybody who opposes DRM.
The next generation of "DRM Operating Systems" cannot support general purpose computing. Pretty much the only way to guarantee that DRM will work is for such a computer to not allow ANY non-DRM compliant software while DRM content is playing.
That won't help unless the DRM is in the CPU as well as every other component. There are far too many people with access to a hardware ICE to hide the keys otherwise.
Not that you can't buy a Blu-ray drive for your PC already, but you're looking at spending the best part of a grand to do so.
You can get Blu-ray *burners* for your PC for under $500.
Imagine if they managed to find an effective way to eliminate all pirated installs. Their market share would drop by about 20% overnight! I'm guessing that most of those pirates wouldn't bother to purchase a copy should their pirated copy stop working.
Not only that, but you probably paid *more* for your copy than the average purchaser, since you had a Microsoft tax included in all four years of your tuition, and you probably never installed 80% of the software that was covered by that license.
Where I am Target had held the Wii for over a week and a half (as in no new ones coming in) and then sold them all last Sunday.
Why do stores do that? How does it benefit them at all?
The Target in my area doesn't seem to do that... Of course, they seem to have a steady supply on the shelf, so maybe they don't feel the need.
I live in the sticks, BTW... My local Target is in Leominster, MA. Closer to the city the situation may be different.
But people are still selling Wiis for $100 to $130 more than the store price.
This is still true in Canada (most of the eBay listings seem to be selling to Canadian buyers too), but in the US, the Wii shortage is pretty much over. For example, the local Target near me has had between 3 and 6 of them in stock the last three times I've been in there.
What tie-in? It's a false premise.
The majority of devices that can play DRM encumbered songs from the ITMS are not iPods.
Really, we just need to figure out which hardware vendor is paying which government officials to push for this.
Most people refuse to do the lifestyle changes.
Can you blame them? Really, we could take care of the carbon emissions problem without lifestyle changes. (Using more efficient devices does not count as a lifestyle change.) Why force people to reduce their quality of life to solve a problem when we could solve the problem without that reduction?
Additionally, point of use generation is not feasible for industry. If you are going to generate power in bulk for industry (which we need to do in order to maintain our GDP, quality of life, etc; or to improve those things in areas of the world that need it) it becomes redundant and wasteful to build out point of use generation capacity as well.
Finally, if everybody did this, it wouldn't work anymore. All the homes generating power would be doing so at about the same time, and all the homes would need to draw from reserves at the same time. The fact of the matter is that once any significant percentage of people start doing this, you will need to add storage to the system somewhere or you will just be wasting the surplus power that you feed back into the grid.
The real problem is that many environmentalists care more about getting people to change their lifestyle than about helping the environment.
They coated them in pitch and varnish.
Oak is great and all, but I wouldn't want to keep it in a moist place for very long. At least not without some coating on it (which presumably would defeat the purpose). Additionally, oak is not very scratch resistant.
It is a very strong material for its weight and can absorb large amounts of energy, both in bending and impact. Looking for a bedplate material recently for a heavy vibrating system, I couldn't find anything better, in terms of performance and price, than European oak supported by steel beams.
Fir is stiffer and considerably cheaper. It is also generally available in much longer lengths than oak.
On the other hand, if you know a way to make cheap diamonds a metre long by 10cm square as one perfect crystal, at a price under $100, I'd like to be your European sales agent.
How thick does it have to be? If you only need a few microns, then no problem.
Wouldn't a better approach be to figure out the average longevity of a spam link on the site, and tag links with 'nofollow' for slightly longer than that period of time? After that they can remove the 'nofollow' because, presumably, if it was spam the link would have been removed already.
Even better, could Microsoft please put in a (digital audio broadcasting) DAB radio module and allow you to record digital radio
That seems unlikely. As far as I'm aware, the DAB specification is covered by patent (yet is the only FCC approved format in the US), and a license for the patent is well over $100 per device. Microsoft already loses money on the Zune hardware...
...if every electrical outlet had a different type of prongs depending on the brand of plug you bought.
Hell, you don't even have to imagine. We already live with the incompatibility of low voltage power connectors... Only now instead of replacing an adapter when we get a device from a different manufacturer, we can buy all new office furniture! Joy!
This technology is useless until the patents expire and building and electric codes require a specific version of the technology.
Nuclear and other large-scale solutions are pointless to debate about because we can't do them ourselves
The thing is that it actually makes sense to do a lot of the things that you do when you generate power in a central location. It centralizes, and theoretically reduces the cost of things like maintenance. It places sole responsibility for safety equipment. It standardizes systems... It is just as easy/hard to get a large-scale solution in place as it is to get thousands of small scale systems in place, if not easier.
Anyway, I'm not suggesting a particular technology, I'm just saying that bolting together existing technology in an overpriced mess isn't efficient or productive in any way.
And good luck with the "not pissing off your neighbors" thing. Even this rig would likely do that, what with the whole six months supply of supplemental hydrogen thing and the electrolysis which neatly combines that hydrogen with exactly the right amount of oxygen for an explosion during the production phase.
I actually agree with you, but used that example because it seems to strike a chord with the people who usually post here.
So rather than complaining, how do we fix it?
We don't fix it by not complaining when somebody does something non-productive. This wasn't about fixing it, this was about doing it with existing stuff at all cost. What I'm complaining about is that this isn't 'fixing' it, it's wasting money.
Also, you have to be open to the possibility that solar may not be the solution. Sure, with more use, the costs of some of the components will drop. The costs of others that use more scarce materials will go up... That's not the point though. The costs of other technologies that are already cheaper would drop with increased utilization too. Additionally, we have technologies available right now that are cost effective and would meet our environmental goals in the short and medium terms, but we ignore them. Instead this guy flexed his political muscle to get $225k in grants for a project he likely would have done on his own anyway.
It shouldn't be "fix it instead of complaining" it shoudl be "complain *and* fix it". There is no excuse for letting stupid stuff go ahead just because you aren't trying yourself to do something better.
Have you bought into the unreliability of solar panels argument so much that even you assumed that's what I'm talking about?
As far as I'm aware, current fuel cell technology has a usable lifespan just north of 20,000 hours. Assuming that the cells are active less than half the time...
Modern solar panels have a much longer life expectancy these days and enough bang for the buck to make the conversion worthwhile in expensive energy markets like New Jersey.
You didn't RTFA.
First of all, there is much, much, more to this system than the panels.
Second, even the article concedes that this solution is significantly more expensive than the costs of energy consumption it is replacing in a worst case comparison. Learn, think, and then speak. Not the other way around please.
It's not new. It's just bigger.
And it went to a guy who could afford it on his own and gets sole benefit of whichever (probably very few) innovations that came out of the project. Saying: ""t's 225k that didn't get blown on some stupid-ass 'the contractor is my cousin' sort of project." may not be true.