So your basic position is that governments should be able to do whatever they want, and individual citizens should never be helped to do anything the government doesn't like?
I hardly think the average Chinese citizen thinks that they shouldn't be allowed to access a website just because their communist overlords decided they weren't allowed to. Blocking websites isn't a "way of life".
In addition to being off-topic, you are undermining the seriousness of the nuclear event and its effects by making stuff up about giant radioactive spiders. Kindly f*ck off.
You're right, massive temperature trends over decades are exactly the same as predicting whether it will rain or just be cloudy on Tuesday. We should definitely ignore the massive upward curve (http://www.indorphyn.com/06/2006/global-warming/) showing rising temperatures and sing "la la la la" with our fingers in our ears until global warming hits us in the nuts unawares.
Siding with the evidence is not the same as being biased. Developing an intelligent opinion does not make one biased. Even believing GW doesn't exist isn't biased in and of itself. Getting paid by ExxonMobil introduces a conflict of interest and thereby bias, however.
All the full article really says is that someone could tie a MAC address to a location. So? Knowing your MAC address gives me almost no information about you -- nothing personally identifiable, anyways, unless I have an unrelated method of attaching your MAC to you personally (such as having physical access to your phone...). So the information is entirely useless for someone trying to invade your privacy, unless there's something I'm missing (that wasn't included in the article).
It's a punishment for pollution, did you miss the parts about carbon emissions and environmentalists? Why should those of us who want to end global warming and breath clean air be forced to deal with your pollution? It goes both ways, and one way is obviously better for everyone.
Why would the Eurasian automakers benefit if, as you say, consumers don't want the small cars they make? If there was a market for vials of mercury that people wanted to dump into waterways, would you support that?
"Computer science has always been a male-dominated field, right? Wrong. In 1987, 42% of the software developers in America were women."
That means 58% were men... and 58 > 42, last time I checked... looks like I was right about computer science always being male-dominated, thank you very much.
And yes, most of it is non-ionizing, but that just means a single radio wave won't cause a point mutation. The interaction of all the signals in the modern environment is much more complex than that.
Radiation can cause DNA damage and thus cancer. Thus cell phones can cause cancer. Thus cell phones probably have caused cancer, just by statistics -- lots of cell phones and lots of cell phone use means lots of radiation.
The fact that studies show weak correlation or none or are inclusive and contradict each other just means that the risk is really, really low and that other factors in our environment dominate the tiny effect of cell phones. There are much better things to worry about -- most things are better to worry about, in fact. But it would be just as silly to assume that cell radiation magically does no damage as it is to assume that using a cell phone regularly will definitely give you brain cancer.
Just be smart and don't waste your time on something that's not worth it.
It worked well for IBM, too, at the time. They have also successfully transformed their business model into something quite different, and are still quietly profitable. Sounds like a win to me.
"Light doesn't travel faster than the speed of light" means nothing with regard to causality. Quantum entanglement still occurs and results in faster-than-light data transmission. This doesn't disprove causality, but it sure as hell proves the speed of light has nothing to do with causality.
So that we don't get distorted audio. Even when the amplitude itself isn't causing distortion, the perceived volume change of different pitches is not proportional to their change in amplitude. That is to say, if a song is mixed at high volume and then played at a low volume, the mix won't sound right. For badly mixed music it won't matter, but I'd rather the record labels didn't f*ck with masterpieces mixed by Tom and Chris Lord-Alge, for example.
It may be less, but I doubt it's "dramatically" less. Tablet makers aren't feverishly pushing them out just to lose all their money as they rot on the shelves.
Ignorance of a topic does not alter the nature of the topic. Nutrition is part of medicine whether or not the drug companies have paid off many doctors and medical schools.
Nutrition is part of medicine whether or not the drug companies have paid off many doctors and medical schools. Ignorance of a topic does not alter the nature of the topic.
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So your basic position is that governments should be able to do whatever they want, and individual citizens should never be helped to do anything the government doesn't like? I hardly think the average Chinese citizen thinks that they shouldn't be allowed to access a website just because their communist overlords decided they weren't allowed to. Blocking websites isn't a "way of life".
In addition to being off-topic, you are undermining the seriousness of the nuclear event and its effects by making stuff up about giant radioactive spiders. Kindly f*ck off.
It's blocked UNTIL Apple can prove they infringed? Australia, crushing due process harder than the U.S. since 1994.
You're right, massive temperature trends over decades are exactly the same as predicting whether it will rain or just be cloudy on Tuesday. We should definitely ignore the massive upward curve (http://www.indorphyn.com/06/2006/global-warming/) showing rising temperatures and sing "la la la la" with our fingers in our ears until global warming hits us in the nuts unawares.
Siding with the evidence is not the same as being biased. Developing an intelligent opinion does not make one biased. Even believing GW doesn't exist isn't biased in and of itself. Getting paid by ExxonMobil introduces a conflict of interest and thereby bias, however.
All the full article really says is that someone could tie a MAC address to a location. So? Knowing your MAC address gives me almost no information about you -- nothing personally identifiable, anyways, unless I have an unrelated method of attaching your MAC to you personally (such as having physical access to your phone...). So the information is entirely useless for someone trying to invade your privacy, unless there's something I'm missing (that wasn't included in the article).
It's a punishment for pollution, did you miss the parts about carbon emissions and environmentalists? Why should those of us who want to end global warming and breath clean air be forced to deal with your pollution? It goes both ways, and one way is obviously better for everyone.
Why would the Eurasian automakers benefit if, as you say, consumers don't want the small cars they make? If there was a market for vials of mercury that people wanted to dump into waterways, would you support that?
...there are people to whom this matters.
That's a fair point.
"Computer science has always been a male-dominated field, right? Wrong. In 1987, 42% of the software developers in America were women." That means 58% were men ... and 58 > 42, last time I checked ... looks like I was right about computer science always being male-dominated, thank you very much.
And yes, most of it is non-ionizing, but that just means a single radio wave won't cause a point mutation. The interaction of all the signals in the modern environment is much more complex than that.
Radiation can cause DNA damage and thus cancer. Thus cell phones can cause cancer. Thus cell phones probably have caused cancer, just by statistics -- lots of cell phones and lots of cell phone use means lots of radiation. The fact that studies show weak correlation or none or are inclusive and contradict each other just means that the risk is really, really low and that other factors in our environment dominate the tiny effect of cell phones. There are much better things to worry about -- most things are better to worry about, in fact. But it would be just as silly to assume that cell radiation magically does no damage as it is to assume that using a cell phone regularly will definitely give you brain cancer. Just be smart and don't waste your time on something that's not worth it.
Where'd you copy-paste that from? Oh wait, let's ask Google: From http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/digital_data_compression_musics_procrustean_bed/. Nice work, very classy.
They backronym'd it to Disk Operating System.
It worked well for IBM, too, at the time. They have also successfully transformed their business model into something quite different, and are still quietly profitable. Sounds like a win to me.
"Light doesn't travel faster than the speed of light" means nothing with regard to causality. Quantum entanglement still occurs and results in faster-than-light data transmission. This doesn't disprove causality, but it sure as hell proves the speed of light has nothing to do with causality.
Opening a laptop case normally voids the warranty.
No it doesn't. He grabbed the passwords from updates and now has access, no vulnerabilities required.
So that we don't get distorted audio. Even when the amplitude itself isn't causing distortion, the perceived volume change of different pitches is not proportional to their change in amplitude. That is to say, if a song is mixed at high volume and then played at a low volume, the mix won't sound right. For badly mixed music it won't matter, but I'd rather the record labels didn't f*ck with masterpieces mixed by Tom and Chris Lord-Alge, for example.
A quick reliable way to boot an old machine up
Why would you want to do that? (I'll make an exception if you work for a charity or something that won't waste donations on modern hardware).
It may be less, but I doubt it's "dramatically" less. Tablet makers aren't feverishly pushing them out just to lose all their money as they rot on the shelves.
I suggest you read The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Much better, and much older.
Ignorance of a topic does not alter the nature of the topic. Nutrition is part of medicine whether or not the drug companies have paid off many doctors and medical schools.
Nutrition is part of medicine whether or not the drug companies have paid off many doctors and medical schools. Ignorance of a topic does not alter the nature of the topic.