Are bees an integral part of our society, and do they need to be present else we die off somehow....the impact of the species becoming extinct is not unimportant as let's say the platapus....I think if we can, we should help the species by giving them some sort of cure, if we can find it....else we might go without honey in our future.
Honey is just a nice side benefit - many many crops rely on bees to pollinate them. So much so that in the US, farmers pay people to drive hives around on trucks to pollinate their fields at the right time. Before this study, the stress of transport was thought to be connected to collapse disorder; it may still be a contributing cause.
I'm going to replace it with either an Apple TV or a mac mini server, depending on how rich I feel and what I decide I want to do with it....
I'm also dumping satellite TV and I seriously doubt I'll be spending $65/month on rentals & purchases, given how little I actually watch.
I ditched the $65 sat too. I use one of the Acer Revo Atom/ION boxes; $330 or so from Newegg includes wireless kb & mouse. I'm still using the Windows 7 HP that came on it, and it's pretty good. I got a $30 usb tuner & use it as a dvr, I can watch Netflix (though I usually opt for the Netflix built into my blu-ray, it seems slightly smoother). My wife gets pissed off sometimes with the slow response to the remote, but adding a UK VPN service for streaming British tv has helped her mood considerably. The Media Center add-on for WMC makes watching avi, iso & mkv files easy. I don't miss Dish except for a couple of shows, but it's mostly just crap anyway.
Check out revohtpc.com if you're interested; the newer Dell minis sound like they do a good job too, and they have a DVD drive for around the same price.
Solar does pay for itself. Solar water heaters do.... But it does pay back.
I keep thinking of adding a solar water heater, but I really can't see it paying off in a reasonable timeframe for me. My natural gas bills run about $20/month tops in the months when I'm using no heat; a decent portion of that is delivery fees which wouldn't go away if I switched to solar hot water. Even at the whole $20 a month, a $2500 system would take 10 years to pay itself off, if I did all the installation myself and nothing happened to any of the components in that time. We get a decent amount of snow, etc in the winters here (metro DC), so I'd think that some damage might well happen. It seems to me that 15-20 years is more realistic. One thing that might change my calculations is if I add an underfloor heating system - if I could tap the solar heated water for that, it would help offset more natural gas in the winter & make it a better idea.
If my numbers are off, I'd be happy to be corrected!
There is one problem - being the neighbor of the guy who didn't pay. Now your house is more likely to catch on fire.
In TFA, the neighbor's property did catch fire, and the firefighters fought it up to the property line. IMHO, paying taxes for firefighting services for the whole community is a better idea, but in some areas I guess the collective decision is to let everyone make their own choice. It's the way that things used to be - you can see the "fire marks" (usually a metal star or suchlike) on older buildings; you'd get the mark from your insurance company, and their private fire fighters would only put out fires at properties with the right mark.
I wonder how hard it would be to make a device that blocks or otherwise interferes with all cellphones in a small (say, one-two meter) area?
It would appear that it's not very hard at all: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4355 It's my understanding that something like this would be illegal to use in the US, though. Even prisons here in MD had to request an exception from the FCC to test local jamming of cell phones. Mississippi prisons are installing pico cells or similar to control what goes in and out without actually jamming.
"Because it is a circuit court ruling, it is not binding on other judges. However, unless it is appealed, said Graber's attorney, David Rocah of the ACLU of Maryland, "it is likely to be the last word" on the matter and to be regarded as precedent by police."
I live in MD, and I'd still like to see the law changed, but this is a good first step.
I just took an old 128MB SD card I had lying around and snapped it in half with my fingers, and I am no superman.
Robust? Not exactly.
There's a decent chance that you'll be able to reattach the contacts to the chip inside & still read the data. I remember a test of SD cads from years ago where they ran them through washing machines etc to try to get them to fail. Nothing would kill any of them so the reviewer started nailing them to the wall. Even that only ended up killing a couple, with most the nail missed the chip and they still worked fine. You'd have to beat on a camera really really hard to mess up an SD card inside to the point where it was unreadable.
When people complain that the kindle doesn't handle EPUB, they mean DRM'ed EPUB. The real problem with the lack of DRM epub on the Kindle are public libraries lending DRM'ed epub
This is the only thing that is stopping me from getting a Kindle. I'm perfectly able to convert formats using Calibre, but if I am going to buy a dedicated reader I really want to be able to use my library's ebooks too. I may end up getting a Nook or a Sony, but the Kindle seems nicer in some ways so I'm just waiting & reading on my old trusty Palm instead.
If it's like the new Touch, you'll need to convert the videos first on a desktop or laptop, so it's not an either/or situation. Also, if it's like the new Touch (I just got one) you can't do anything until it's authorized through iTunes on a desktop or laptop. Mabe the iPads don't need this step, I don't know.
So it appears that he hasn't reported the dog as stolen, which means that the cops & the company are right not to give him the information. But that's not much of a story, is it?
The wonderful thing about a properly functioning democracy is the people get a chance to effect change before the oppression gets to the point where armed revolt is necessary. If you truly believe that the government is becoming so oppressive, you'll be motivated to do something about it, which is the reasoning behind all this Tea Party stuff right now. I think they're mostly misguided, personally, but it's an example of how the system is supposed to work. The people hoarding ammo are just indulging in fantasies, the system is pretty good at self correcting.
In my area, I have heard an estimate of $20k per house to bury the cables. I'm in an older neighborhood, which makes it more (prohibitively) expensive. New development in my county requires underground cables, but you'll always need poles for longer distances.
Virgin Mobile has 3G plans for $40 a month, and clear.com has WiMax plans for $30 (home) & $40 (mobile, eg. MiFi). Virgin is Sprint, so the coverage is ok; Clear is pretty limited, but is expanding.
I take that to mean that here in the US it should be about $700; my rule of thumb is that prices in pounds will translate to almost the same price in dollars. And double checking my theory, I see that the 4th Gen ipod touch, which I just bought for $230, is 219 pounds...
The problem is, you HAVE to offer PayPal on ebay, so why set up another account? Especially since PayPal already has the most members, so it's likely the easiest thing for the buyers too. That's why it's so hard for these other services to gain traction.
I've bought & sold over 100 items on ebay, almost all through PayPal, and I've never had a problem. I'm not saying I trust them fully, but they have never screwed me. YMMV.
This is the only type of DRM I don't mind, though I have never & won't buy any files with it. The fact that Kindle doesn't support the epub that libraries use is the only reason I don't have one. I'm left trying to decide between the Sonys, the Nook, or an ipod Touch, and I haven't made up my mind. I love reading, I love ebooks, and I love the library. I can't see any other way right now for libraries to be able to offer me ebooks, so I'll accept it. And eventually, I hope that just as you can now buy music unencumbered, publishers will come to see that selling straight epub files is the future.
I use iTunes for iPod management, but for ripping I've always liked EAC (www.exactaudiocopy.de), then Media Monkey for album art etc. Though I admit it's more of a pain, the results are exactly the way you want them. Plus with MAREO you can rip to mp3 & FLAC at the same time, which is great if you're doing a lot of ripping.
You do understand that US demands the same kind of access? I
In the case of Blackberries, they don't. From the AP article: "Governments in the U.S. and elsewhere have largely made their peace with encryption technology. E-mails can still be obtained through legal channels, for example by obtaining a warrant to search the corporate servers of companies that use BlackBerrys." Sure, they're sniffing where they can, which I don't3like, but they're not demanding that secure systems be broken wholesale so they can access them.
So that you can mess around with it for free, get comfortable with it, and decide to use it on servers at work where you're willing to spend the money to avoid rebooting. That's my guess, anyway.
Thanks. I guess I had read some misleading information, now I have a clearer understanding of how it all goes together. It might have been that RIM has some of the BIS servers in Canada, which some individual users in eg. Saudi Arabia were using; the Saudis seem to want those servers located inside their borders, and I assumed that BES servers would be compromised too.
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Are bees an integral part of our society, and do they need to be present else we die off somehow....the impact of the species becoming extinct is not unimportant as let's say the platapus....I think if we can, we should help the species by giving them some sort of cure, if we can find it....else we might go without honey in our future.
Honey is just a nice side benefit - many many crops rely on bees to pollinate them. So much so that in the US, farmers pay people to drive hives around on trucks to pollinate their fields at the right time. Before this study, the stress of transport was thought to be connected to collapse disorder; it may still be a contributing cause.
I'm going to replace it with either an Apple TV or a mac mini server, depending on how rich I feel and what I decide I want to do with it. ...
I'm also dumping satellite TV and I seriously doubt I'll be spending $65/month on rentals & purchases, given how little I actually watch.
I ditched the $65 sat too. I use one of the Acer Revo Atom/ION boxes; $330 or so from Newegg includes wireless kb & mouse. I'm still using the Windows 7 HP that came on it, and it's pretty good. I got a $30 usb tuner & use it as a dvr, I can watch Netflix (though I usually opt for the Netflix built into my blu-ray, it seems slightly smoother). My wife gets pissed off sometimes with the slow response to the remote, but adding a UK VPN service for streaming British tv has helped her mood considerably. The Media Center add-on for WMC makes watching avi, iso & mkv files easy. I don't miss Dish except for a couple of shows, but it's mostly just crap anyway.
Check out revohtpc.com if you're interested; the newer Dell minis sound like they do a good job too, and they have a DVD drive for around the same price.
Please check your facts. AT&T did not buy Cingular; Cingular bought AT&T.
My understanding is that Cingular bought AT&T wireless (2004-ish), then AT&T bought Cingular (2007-ish).
Solar does pay for itself. Solar water heaters do. ... But it does pay back.
I keep thinking of adding a solar water heater, but I really can't see it paying off in a reasonable timeframe for me. My natural gas bills run about $20/month tops in the months when I'm using no heat; a decent portion of that is delivery fees which wouldn't go away if I switched to solar hot water. Even at the whole $20 a month, a $2500 system would take 10 years to pay itself off, if I did all the installation myself and nothing happened to any of the components in that time. We get a decent amount of snow, etc in the winters here (metro DC), so I'd think that some damage might well happen. It seems to me that 15-20 years is more realistic. One thing that might change my calculations is if I add an underfloor heating system - if I could tap the solar heated water for that, it would help offset more natural gas in the winter & make it a better idea.
If my numbers are off, I'd be happy to be corrected!
There is one problem - being the neighbor of the guy who didn't pay. Now your house is more likely to catch on fire.
In TFA, the neighbor's property did catch fire, and the firefighters fought it up to the property line. IMHO, paying taxes for firefighting services for the whole community is a better idea, but in some areas I guess the collective decision is to let everyone make their own choice. It's the way that things used to be - you can see the "fire marks" (usually a metal star or suchlike) on older buildings; you'd get the mark from your insurance company, and their private fire fighters would only put out fires at properties with the right mark.
I wonder how hard it would be to make a device that blocks or otherwise interferes with all cellphones in a small (say, one-two meter) area?
It would appear that it's not very hard at all:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4355
It's my understanding that something like this would be illegal to use in the US, though. Even prisons here in MD had to request an exception from the FCC to test local jamming of cell phones. Mississippi prisons are installing pico cells or similar to control what goes in and out without actually jamming.
From the Washington Post article:
"Because it is a circuit court ruling, it is not binding on other judges. However, unless it is appealed, said Graber's attorney, David Rocah of the ACLU of Maryland, "it is likely to be the last word" on the matter and to be regarded as precedent by police."
I live in MD, and I'd still like to see the law changed, but this is a good first step.
I just took an old 128MB SD card I had lying around and snapped it in half with my fingers, and I am no superman.
Robust? Not exactly.
There's a decent chance that you'll be able to reattach the contacts to the chip inside & still read the data. I remember a test of SD cads from years ago where they ran them through washing machines etc to try to get them to fail. Nothing would kill any of them so the reviewer started nailing them to the wall. Even that only ended up killing a couple, with most the nail missed the chip and they still worked fine. You'd have to beat on a camera really really hard to mess up an SD card inside to the point where it was unreadable.
When people complain that the kindle doesn't handle EPUB, they mean DRM'ed EPUB. The real problem with the lack of DRM epub on the Kindle are public libraries lending DRM'ed epub
This is the only thing that is stopping me from getting a Kindle. I'm perfectly able to convert formats using Calibre, but if I am going to buy a dedicated reader I really want to be able to use my library's ebooks too. I may end up getting a Nook or a Sony, but the Kindle seems nicer in some ways so I'm just waiting & reading on my old trusty Palm instead.
iPad can already watch videos downloaded from TPB
If it's like the new Touch, you'll need to convert the videos first on a desktop or laptop, so it's not an either/or situation. Also, if it's like the new Touch (I just got one) you can't do anything until it's authorized through iTunes on a desktop or laptop. Mabe the iPads don't need this step, I don't know.
The Daily Telegraph is interested in sensational stories, not making things clear. The Daily Mail (not much better) has this quote:
"A West Yorkshire Police spokesman added: ‘If this gentleman wishes to report a theft to us, we will look into the matter. However, we are obviously unable to give members
of the public people’s address details.’"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314154/Microchip-firm-wont-tell-dog-owner-stolen-pet.html
So it appears that he hasn't reported the dog as stolen, which means that the cops & the company are right not to give him the information. But that's not much of a story, is it?
Sure, but the point is that rather than planning revolution, these people are doing their venting within the democratic system.
The wonderful thing about a properly functioning democracy is the people get a chance to effect change before the oppression gets to the point where armed revolt is necessary. If you truly believe that the government is becoming so oppressive, you'll be motivated to do something about it, which is the reasoning behind all this Tea Party stuff right now. I think they're mostly misguided, personally, but it's an example of how the system is supposed to work. The people hoarding ammo are just indulging in fantasies, the system is pretty good at self correcting.
In my area, I have heard an estimate of $20k per house to bury the cables. I'm in an older neighborhood, which makes it more (prohibitively) expensive. New development in my county requires underground cables, but you'll always need poles for longer distances.
Virgin Mobile has 3G plans for $40 a month, and clear.com has WiMax plans for $30 (home) & $40 (mobile, eg. MiFi). Virgin is Sprint, so the coverage is ok; Clear is pretty limited, but is expanding.
I take that to mean that here in the US it should be about $700; my rule of thumb is that prices in pounds will translate to almost the same price in dollars. And double checking my theory, I see that the 4th Gen ipod touch, which I just bought for $230, is 219 pounds...
$700 is too much, IMHO.
The problem is, you HAVE to offer PayPal on ebay, so why set up another account? Especially since PayPal already has the most members, so it's likely the easiest thing for the buyers too. That's why it's so hard for these other services to gain traction.
I've bought & sold over 100 items on ebay, almost all through PayPal, and I've never had a problem. I'm not saying I trust them fully, but they have never screwed me. YMMV.
This is the only type of DRM I don't mind, though I have never & won't buy any files with it. The fact that Kindle doesn't support the epub that libraries use is the only reason I don't have one. I'm left trying to decide between the Sonys, the Nook, or an ipod Touch, and I haven't made up my mind. I love reading, I love ebooks, and I love the library. I can't see any other way right now for libraries to be able to offer me ebooks, so I'll accept it. And eventually, I hope that just as you can now buy music unencumbered, publishers will come to see that selling straight epub files is the future.
I use iTunes for iPod management, but for ripping I've always liked EAC (www.exactaudiocopy.de), then Media Monkey for album art etc. Though I admit it's more of a pain, the results are exactly the way you want them. Plus with MAREO you can rip to mp3 & FLAC at the same time, which is great if you're doing a lot of ripping.
Most American cards are just plain magstripes, EMV chipcards haven't taken off here.
You do understand that US demands the same kind of access? I
In the case of Blackberries, they don't. From the AP article:
"Governments in the U.S. and elsewhere have largely made their peace with encryption technology. E-mails can still be obtained through legal channels, for example by obtaining a warrant to search the corporate servers of companies that use BlackBerrys."
Sure, they're sniffing where they can, which I don't3like, but they're not demanding that secure systems be broken wholesale so they can access them.
I find it hard to believe no one is asking exactly why the defendants son is creeping around looking up jurors from his father's trial on Facebook.
Um, it was the lawyer's son who looked it up, and the defendant was female.
So that you can mess around with it for free, get comfortable with it, and decide to use it on servers at work where you're willing to spend the money to avoid rebooting. That's my guess, anyway.
Thanks. I guess I had read some misleading information, now I have a clearer understanding of how it all goes together. It might have been that RIM has some of the BIS servers in Canada, which some individual users in eg. Saudi Arabia were using; the Saudis seem to want those servers located inside their borders, and I assumed that BES servers would be compromised too.