The difference between this and the MPAA's usual schtick is that when they take down a pirate hosting site, people say "Hey, they were doing bad illegal things." Here, one of the biggest sites on the internet disappears, and Ma Average throws a fit because she can't find her Facebooks.
Here's the thing. The government has the capability to knock out internet access to maybe 95% of the population. However, those 5% are more than capable (and more than likely willing) to set up sneakernets, sat-uplinks, ad-hoc dial-up connections and the like. There is no way to entirely disable the internet without also crippling the army's comms- not to mention more mundane services like police, fire and ambulances.
I think the idea is more identification than neutralization. Although how a rat is supposed to tag someone effectively is beyond me.
Oh, and fun fact- daschunds are one of the best breeds for bomb sniffing. They're close to the ground, so they pick up the scent where it is most potent- at the ground. Although, the back problems inherent in daschies might limit their cost-effectiveness.
Hmm. That might work, but it'd take some getting used to for new users. Why not just a frontside touchscreen with the sticks for games? Seems a bit more intuitive to me.
This computer was purchased last year. It's got a GTS 250 card in it, so I believe it's a limitation of my monitor.
Wait, your LAPTOP runs that high? Wow. My netbook runs a cool 1024x600- any much faster and it start slowing down. (Year-old MSI Wind)
Really, I'm not sure I need much more than 1440x900. It's still big enough to read, and I can run most games well enough. Of course, this is the guy that doesn't notice a significant difference between 1280x800 and 1440x900.
1920x1080 is "common"? Not a single monitor in my house can display above 1440x900 (except my TV, and that doesn't hardly count). I wish 1920x1080 was that common.
Wait a sec, their fighter looks nothing like an F-117. It looks like an F-35, and I'm more than willing to chalk the similarity up to the fact that it's simply the best design.
Not a Macbook, a iMac. I don't own one, but my school has a computer lab with them and they're used for the journalism classes. I'm thinking more the single-button numbers with the scrollwheel and the two ultrasensitive thumb buttons.
Personally, I dislike the design of the Apple mice. No right click is annoying, but tolerable- but I keep hitting the side button, which is quite annoying.
Still, I'd love to see something like this become mainstream. Maybe then the prices for customizable keyboards will come down.
I'd like to do some GPS stuff (Log the trip, that sort of thing), but airplane mode disables that, too. Besides, I never leave home without a USB charging cord for my phone and I never leave for a trip without my laptop, so I'd be able to charge it during or after the flight.
Giant rockets launching radioactive waste into space is the simplest solution?
Even barring the possibility of a rocket failure and crash, where are we going to put it? It's got to go somewhere, and we're not quite sure what chucking radioactive elements into the sun will do. Launching this stuff into space is like tossing your trash out of your yard and into your neighbor's- it's a stopgap at best.
Better yet, breeder reactors. Some designs can run for a decade on a single fueling. Other designs are made to run on thorium (with a small amount of uranium or plutonium for a starter), and thorium is much more abundant than uranium or plutonium. Molten salt reactor, for example- bonus on those because the're all but impossible to coax into a steam explosion (because the molten salt is at a low pressure, as opposed to water-based reactors).
We should definitely continue working on solar and installing geothermal, but for now we should put up some new NPPs to bridge the gap until solar becomes efficient (not to mention covering the power deficit).
...mining for uranium/thorium does damage the environment. Not sure how much.
So does coal mining, and we're doing way more of that than we are uranium/thorium mining. Quite possibly (assuming breeder reactor technology matures a bit more) we won't need to mine much at all, and even without breeders, the resources spent mining uranium/thorium would still likely be less than the resources spent mining coal.
Maybe Google intended this fix to be useless so the Iranians would be able to get access to this software. Google is a pretty savvy company, and they are pretty good when it comes to freedom on the internet. Create a cheap way to sneak around the export ban, knowing that the ban just adds an extra jump to accessing the software (How was it blocked before? Regional IP blocking from the download sites? Solve that with a VPN or proxy, too).
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The difference between this and the MPAA's usual schtick is that when they take down a pirate hosting site, people say "Hey, they were doing bad illegal things." Here, one of the biggest sites on the internet disappears, and Ma Average throws a fit because she can't find her Facebooks.
True enough- but it only takes 1 to set up a decent system. And we've got more than one or two.
Here's the thing. The government has the capability to knock out internet access to maybe 95% of the population. However, those 5% are more than capable (and more than likely willing) to set up sneakernets, sat-uplinks, ad-hoc dial-up connections and the like. There is no way to entirely disable the internet without also crippling the army's comms- not to mention more mundane services like police, fire and ambulances.
Counter-strike. I like it.
If they don't know how bad IE is already, there's nothing we can do to help them.
I think the idea is more identification than neutralization. Although how a rat is supposed to tag someone effectively is beyond me.
Oh, and fun fact- daschunds are one of the best breeds for bomb sniffing. They're close to the ground, so they pick up the scent where it is most potent- at the ground. Although, the back problems inherent in daschies might limit their cost-effectiveness.
Comcast doing something that's useful and helpful to the internet at large?
Oh wait, now I've got it. A hellmouth must have opened over the US, and hell's frozen over.
"Mr. President! There's riots in the streets! It's chaos!"
"Shut. Down. Everything."
Except the controls are on the backside, here, and besides, shooters on current touchscreen devices aren't very good at all.
Hmm. That might work, but it'd take some getting used to for new users. Why not just a frontside touchscreen with the sticks for games? Seems a bit more intuitive to me.
Clever, yes, but I don't see the point. What kind of game would need a rear-mounted touchscreen? What sort of app would benefit from it?
This computer was purchased last year. It's got a GTS 250 card in it, so I believe it's a limitation of my monitor.
Wait, your LAPTOP runs that high? Wow. My netbook runs a cool 1024x600- any much faster and it start slowing down. (Year-old MSI Wind)
Really, I'm not sure I need much more than 1440x900. It's still big enough to read, and I can run most games well enough. Of course, this is the guy that doesn't notice a significant difference between 1280x800 and 1440x900.
1920x1080 is "common"? Not a single monitor in my house can display above 1440x900 (except my TV, and that doesn't hardly count). I wish 1920x1080 was that common.
Wait a sec, their fighter looks nothing like an F-117. It looks like an F-35, and I'm more than willing to chalk the similarity up to the fact that it's simply the best design.
Not a Macbook, a iMac. I don't own one, but my school has a computer lab with them and they're used for the journalism classes. I'm thinking more the single-button numbers with the scrollwheel and the two ultrasensitive thumb buttons.
Personally, I dislike the design of the Apple mice. No right click is annoying, but tolerable- but I keep hitting the side button, which is quite annoying.
Still, I'd love to see something like this become mainstream. Maybe then the prices for customizable keyboards will come down.
So wait, as the chips get faster, they (by necessity) get smaller, too?
That seems handy/annoying.
100GHz? 300GHz? 1-fucking-THz?
I started drooling just a bit. Talk about a jump in speed. That's like going from floppies to thumb drives. Maybe even portable hard drives.
I'd like to do some GPS stuff (Log the trip, that sort of thing), but airplane mode disables that, too. Besides, I never leave home without a USB charging cord for my phone and I never leave for a trip without my laptop, so I'd be able to charge it during or after the flight.
Giant rockets launching radioactive waste into space is the simplest solution?
Even barring the possibility of a rocket failure and crash, where are we going to put it? It's got to go somewhere, and we're not quite sure what chucking radioactive elements into the sun will do. Launching this stuff into space is like tossing your trash out of your yard and into your neighbor's- it's a stopgap at best.
Better yet, breeder reactors. Some designs can run for a decade on a single fueling. Other designs are made to run on thorium (with a small amount of uranium or plutonium for a starter), and thorium is much more abundant than uranium or plutonium. Molten salt reactor, for example- bonus on those because the're all but impossible to coax into a steam explosion (because the molten salt is at a low pressure, as opposed to water-based reactors).
We should definitely continue working on solar and installing geothermal, but for now we should put up some new NPPs to bridge the gap until solar becomes efficient (not to mention covering the power deficit).
...mining for uranium/thorium does damage the environment. Not sure how much.
So does coal mining, and we're doing way more of that than we are uranium/thorium mining. Quite possibly (assuming breeder reactor technology matures a bit more) we won't need to mine much at all, and even without breeders, the resources spent mining uranium/thorium would still likely be less than the resources spent mining coal.
Wheeeeeeeee goes the drill.
Maybe Google intended this fix to be useless so the Iranians would be able to get access to this software. Google is a pretty savvy company, and they are pretty good when it comes to freedom on the internet. Create a cheap way to sneak around the export ban, knowing that the ban just adds an extra jump to accessing the software (How was it blocked before? Regional IP blocking from the download sites? Solve that with a VPN or proxy, too).
I don't want to Iran. I don't even know what that means, and I don't want to do it.