I miss the old days where a hacker was just someone who gained access to networks 'just because' and not to reveal the private information of strangers.
And there is a big difference between hacking because someone disagrees with you, and hacking as a response to government intruding on freedom of speech.
Lulz is just silly.
I know it has been mentioned, but maybe a merger needs to happen. The networks screw up most SciFi, and anything good gets cancelled typically because it will never get the audience needed for a network show. We shouldn't need to worry every year that a show such as Fringe may not get renewed. But a merger needs to make sense.
G4 : Already mentioned. This would seem to be the likely candidate. Half the shows on G4 are barely watchable. The station is directed towards the same type of crowd, etc. They even sometimes get the rights to air repeats of the network SciFi shows. A combined channel will have SciFi content, technology content, and AOTS:)
Spike : Man's station, so audience is very direct. However, SciFi watchers tend to lean towards the same demographic (not claiming this is an absolute obviously). Fewer shows though that would be commonly watched.
Mega-merger (SyFy, G4, Spike) : Now this would be the channel, with content of each type being the 'primary' set for the night. You do not need to worry about continuously coming up with new content (like SyFy has to), you aren't focused too much on geeks (like G4), and you draw in those who like the manly shows. Yes, you'd still have wrestling (since both SyFy and Spike have that). But you don't need to fill 7 days of SciFi, and no need to make 'Cheesy Monster Movie of the Week' for every week.
The problem, though, is that you still need something that will be shown during the day, when most people aren't home. This is where specialty stations have the most problems.
I think the reason SG:U failed is because people were tired of Stargate. The same thing happened with Star Trek on TV, by the time Enterprise came along, viewers already were turned off.
SyFy thought that by taking successful shows, they could just make another derivative. This doesn't work with SciFi. You need original ideas. Hence why newer shows such as Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Haven have some audience.
Most definitely agree. I'm not that old and I remember when even graphing calculators were banned. And they wanted you to do simple arithmetic in your head. So, not only was it to prevent cheating when making graphs (who remembers how painful some graphs were in Calc?), it was to ensure we knew how to do it without technology because we wouldn't always have it available. Now, calculators are REQUIRED school materials, and my daughter whines that she doesn't have one available to do simple long division.
That is what it reads like. They forget to mention the numerous videos on YouTube that have helped give greater exposure to talented individuals who were never seeing the light of day. The forget the indie musicians whom never got to see the inside of recording studio. But, apparently, this is 'stealing' and stifling creative expression.
Sarcasm of my post missed? My point was that people complain about the government trying to force them to get health insurance, while many of them do not practice any healthy habits. I have my own unhealthy habits, but I have health insurance and am perfectly okay with forcing those who don't bother to get it to do so, therefore when I am old, decrepit, and no longer can work the government will still have money with which to assist me.
If this goes through, they should be forced to put stickers on the science books that mention such things reading: "This textbook contains material on intelligent design and creationism. Intelligent design and creationism are not only theories, there has never been any evidence discovered to support them at all. This material should be approached with an open mind, laughed at, and tossed in the trash."
What? A Republican wanting to punish people for not keeping themselves healthy? This has to be against the Constitution. I have every right to smoke, eat everything in sight, and sit on my lazy arse without the government getting involved.
They just don't have a right to punish me if I don't have health insurance. God forbid I have to pay for something that will lower what the government has to pay because I refuse to do the right thing.
This is one survey. There have already been other surveys that have shown that even though support for nuclear power has slightly eroded recently, more than 50% still support it. You will never have a perfect survey on nuclear power until you can survey each and every American, because any survey will be contaminated by environmentalists, anti-nuke activists, energy company employees, etc. Half of what has been reported by the American media on what is happening in Japan has been spun to seem like it is Chernobyl all over again, which it isn't. What most people do not realize when there are these daily reports of 'radiation' found in soil/water/animals/etc is that the levels reported are not really hazardous at all. But all you will hear from the media is "1000 times worse than normal". When normal is essentially zero, 1000 times that is not much at all. It would be like going from a penny to $10.
The quake cause the reactor to shutdown, which is the primary source of power. Since the quake took out power from the grid, there went the backup. The emergency power systems cut in, but the tsunami took those out.
You mean you watched the movie for a reason other than Angelina when she was at her hottest? Fisher Stevens (who I swear I will never see without hearing 'Johny 5! You are alive!") gave an Academy Award-inspired performance! And Penn Jillette! I think he knew how cheesy the movie was and acted it accordingly.
I may be being a little sarcastic, but I did like the movie because I too understood it was all tongue in cheek.
Exactly. Not piracy, not streaming. Crappy Albums from a bunch of Crappy Singers. It is hard these days to pick out a White Album or Thriller. Albums that history will remember and we will want to share with our own children.
You need to remember the concept of secret intelligence. The US government won't release any information on something unless they already have something better. So, I would assume that our intelligence communities allowed this 'release' because they already have something that may or may not be better than even SHA-3.
Innovation stems from competition. By preventing net-neutrality, you kill competition, as only those who have the big bucks will be easily accessible. I like Google, but are sites like Slashdot going to pay ISPs a boatload of money to ensure they can keep a decent bandwidth? Not a fat chance in hell! Goodbye competition, goodbye innovation, hello still zero regulation of the large ISPs (Time Warner, Comcast, etc).
Where is the uproar over the possibility that there was another leak involved with American intelligence efforts? Leaks like this have been happening for decades, so why the uproar over wikileaks?
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I miss the old days where a hacker was just someone who gained access to networks 'just because' and not to reveal the private information of strangers. And there is a big difference between hacking because someone disagrees with you, and hacking as a response to government intruding on freedom of speech. Lulz is just silly.
I know it has been mentioned, but maybe a merger needs to happen. The networks screw up most SciFi, and anything good gets cancelled typically because it will never get the audience needed for a network show. We shouldn't need to worry every year that a show such as Fringe may not get renewed. But a merger needs to make sense. G4 : Already mentioned. This would seem to be the likely candidate. Half the shows on G4 are barely watchable. The station is directed towards the same type of crowd, etc. They even sometimes get the rights to air repeats of the network SciFi shows. A combined channel will have SciFi content, technology content, and AOTS :)
Spike : Man's station, so audience is very direct. However, SciFi watchers tend to lean towards the same demographic (not claiming this is an absolute obviously). Fewer shows though that would be commonly watched.
Mega-merger (SyFy, G4, Spike) : Now this would be the channel, with content of each type being the 'primary' set for the night. You do not need to worry about continuously coming up with new content (like SyFy has to), you aren't focused too much on geeks (like G4), and you draw in those who like the manly shows. Yes, you'd still have wrestling (since both SyFy and Spike have that). But you don't need to fill 7 days of SciFi, and no need to make 'Cheesy Monster Movie of the Week' for every week.
The problem, though, is that you still need something that will be shown during the day, when most people aren't home. This is where specialty stations have the most problems.
I think the reason SG:U failed is because people were tired of Stargate. The same thing happened with Star Trek on TV, by the time Enterprise came along, viewers already were turned off. SyFy thought that by taking successful shows, they could just make another derivative. This doesn't work with SciFi. You need original ideas. Hence why newer shows such as Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Haven have some audience.
Most definitely agree. I'm not that old and I remember when even graphing calculators were banned. And they wanted you to do simple arithmetic in your head. So, not only was it to prevent cheating when making graphs (who remembers how painful some graphs were in Calc?), it was to ensure we knew how to do it without technology because we wouldn't always have it available. Now, calculators are REQUIRED school materials, and my daughter whines that she doesn't have one available to do simple long division.
That is what it reads like. They forget to mention the numerous videos on YouTube that have helped give greater exposure to talented individuals who were never seeing the light of day. The forget the indie musicians whom never got to see the inside of recording studio. But, apparently, this is 'stealing' and stifling creative expression.
Sarcasm of my post missed? My point was that people complain about the government trying to force them to get health insurance, while many of them do not practice any healthy habits. I have my own unhealthy habits, but I have health insurance and am perfectly okay with forcing those who don't bother to get it to do so, therefore when I am old, decrepit, and no longer can work the government will still have money with which to assist me.
If this goes through, they should be forced to put stickers on the science books that mention such things reading: "This textbook contains material on intelligent design and creationism. Intelligent design and creationism are not only theories, there has never been any evidence discovered to support them at all. This material should be approached with an open mind, laughed at, and tossed in the trash."
What? A Republican wanting to punish people for not keeping themselves healthy? This has to be against the Constitution. I have every right to smoke, eat everything in sight, and sit on my lazy arse without the government getting involved. They just don't have a right to punish me if I don't have health insurance. God forbid I have to pay for something that will lower what the government has to pay because I refuse to do the right thing.
This is one survey. There have already been other surveys that have shown that even though support for nuclear power has slightly eroded recently, more than 50% still support it. You will never have a perfect survey on nuclear power until you can survey each and every American, because any survey will be contaminated by environmentalists, anti-nuke activists, energy company employees, etc. Half of what has been reported by the American media on what is happening in Japan has been spun to seem like it is Chernobyl all over again, which it isn't. What most people do not realize when there are these daily reports of 'radiation' found in soil/water/animals/etc is that the levels reported are not really hazardous at all. But all you will hear from the media is "1000 times worse than normal". When normal is essentially zero, 1000 times that is not much at all. It would be like going from a penny to $10.
The quake cause the reactor to shutdown, which is the primary source of power. Since the quake took out power from the grid, there went the backup. The emergency power systems cut in, but the tsunami took those out.
You mean you watched the movie for a reason other than Angelina when she was at her hottest? Fisher Stevens (who I swear I will never see without hearing 'Johny 5! You are alive!") gave an Academy Award-inspired performance! And Penn Jillette! I think he knew how cheesy the movie was and acted it accordingly. I may be being a little sarcastic, but I did like the movie because I too understood it was all tongue in cheek.
Exactly. Not piracy, not streaming. Crappy Albums from a bunch of Crappy Singers. It is hard these days to pick out a White Album or Thriller. Albums that history will remember and we will want to share with our own children.
You need to remember the concept of secret intelligence. The US government won't release any information on something unless they already have something better. So, I would assume that our intelligence communities allowed this 'release' because they already have something that may or may not be better than even SHA-3.
Innovation stems from competition. By preventing net-neutrality, you kill competition, as only those who have the big bucks will be easily accessible. I like Google, but are sites like Slashdot going to pay ISPs a boatload of money to ensure they can keep a decent bandwidth? Not a fat chance in hell! Goodbye competition, goodbye innovation, hello still zero regulation of the large ISPs (Time Warner, Comcast, etc).
Where is the uproar over the possibility that there was another leak involved with American intelligence efforts? Leaks like this have been happening for decades, so why the uproar over wikileaks?