I read a lot of questions with a lot of paranoia (only the paranoid survive). Reading between the lines it looks like a social engineering hack. "I'm not getting enough bandwidth--How do I toss people off the common pasture so I can feed my herd?"
This is the problems of greed in the commons refered to in The Tragedy of the Commons.
my university blocks out all torrent files and bit torrent traffic. At least all unencrypted files and traffic
I find that funny. It was from an.edu where I downloaded my.iso of Ubuntu. Some schools understand and others don't.
I do have to admit many schools worry about having to deal with probes from Media Sentry and the following court orders for private information of students. I could easly see where staff may want to block some protocols to protect their students from financial disaster. They would rather keep students where they can pay for their education instead of having to drop out to pay a cartel.
High cost? They can be had for $30 in the UK. Given the normal price differences, you're probably paying $20.
Hint.. Do a Google search for the best price on a 20 inch NTSC television (with a tuner) and then do the same for a DIGITAL set. Cavot.. It must receive over the air digital broadcast out of the box with not additional purchase other than UHF antenna. Do not compare a Digital Ready Monitor with a Telivision.
So far an analog TV can be had for under $100. Anything with a tuner able to pick up an over the air digital broadcast is over $300. Where is this $20 difference you speak of.. I have not found it yet. I wander into stores once in a while to look at TV displays. There are a few analog sets picking up a local TV station and a few digital monitors on a satelite reciever. I have yet to find a retailer displaying a digital TV showing a local over the air broadcast.
make money off of the idiots at the studios who think this will actually protect their content.
I wonder if the idiots at the studios have any idea how much money they will lose in returns and then future sales as sour consumers leave and shun the studio's product. Seriously, How many people now simply refuse to by a SONY Music CD because of the rootkit thing?
I didn't get stuck with the SONY rootkit thing because I already stopped buying CD's due to the already defective by design CD's already out. Some have to get burned much harder before they break away from bad products.
It's a shame the studios want to release a bad product that people will think they want until the ugly facts hit them.
I guess if Apple can sell DRM'ed audio tracks at 128kbps instead of 192kbps MP3's or 16 bit stereo sampled at 44K samples/second (CD's) for close to the same price, then I guess some will fall for crippled DVD's and like it.
I never understood selling DRM low bitratre propritory format audio tracks for way over half the price of a true CD. I guess if you like Toxic Culture, Slipknot, Emenim, and other compressed to the max CD's a little extra compression artifact distortion won't be noticed. On material with less then 20 DB of dynamic range, very little is lost to compession and stereo phase imaging isn't important. Too bad you can't find CD's anymore with the DDD logo for audio purity.
For those who don't know, for a while some quality CD's took the time to use a digital mixing board instead of analog for the source D and recorded on a hard drive or DAT for the second D and the third D is for digital mastering. Old beatles stuff was often on CD's as AAD indicating originaly mastered on an analog board, recorded on analog tepe (Reel to Reel) and then remastered for CD digitaly. Some of the awsome Telarc recordings were done digital all the way and as such are totaly absent of tape hiss, mixer hiss, and such. Most stuff now simply is compressed to eliminate much dynamic range so you can't tell if there was any hiss in any of the quiet parts simply because there are not any quiet parts.
Too bad the engineering of quality recordings is degraded to make it loud.
I'd hate to see movies go the same route. If movies went the same route as DRM audio, then the biggest screen you would want to watch them on would be a cell phone and don't worry you can's see a dark scene in a brightly lit room, because we compressed the dark scenes so they are all light and can be seen in a bright room. There is no need to worry the dark scenes are going to show a little video noise as there is no dark scenes.
These compressed movies may be OK for watching in the car on a LCD video system, but they would not have the resolution or dynamic range to enjoy a Science Fiction space thriller on the big set at home. The compressed music is ok for headphones while riding a school bus, but it's not something I want on the stereo in my den. Video has been heading to HD. Why is audio heading to LD at the same price?
OK I guess it's time to end my rant on the sad state of low bitrate compressed content.
You would purchase this? I suppose people must do... personally, I don't own DVD players
In the USA, analog TV is slated to go away for over the air broadcasting. I'm slowly dropping analog TV products as they fail and not replacing them. I get my news and TV online. I purchased a very nice LCD display. The last DVD player I bought randomly dies. I think the spindle motor bearing is failing. Due to the high cost of a Digital TV reciever that can recieve an over the air broadcast, I don't have one. If I have to buy a player to play the new DVD, I would not get one with NTSC only output. If I can't play the DVD in my computer, I don't want it.
I travel lots. Sometimes for stuck on the road downtime I'll throw a few DVD's in my laptop bag. Now they say new ones can't play in a PC. If I get one that can't play in a computer, I'm taking my laptop to the store with the DVD to exchange the defective DVD. I'll verify the replacement DVD works befor I leave the store. I won't let them sell me DVD's that won't play.
I sure hopt they put a big label on them so I don't have to stop buying DVD's like I stopped buying CD's. I stopped buying CD's simply because I could find none anymore with the Compact Disk Logo showing it met the original CD format standard. (In other words a CD that really is a Music CD, not a rootkit install kit.)
See the NTP/RIM case -- Transmeta can get a sympathetic judge to grant an injunction while they intentionally drag out the case, possibly forcing the prospect of Intel having to stop all processor sales until the case is settled. Intel will of course cave and just buy the "patents" to eliminate this business risk.
I'm sure in the process Intel will countersue due to the patents in Transmeta's products. In the end it may turn into a cross lisence deal.
That may be the way some people implement it, but it's not true for the most popular service - the iTunes store. You can easily back up, and transfer the files between computers.
I don't do the I-tunes store simply because they sell tunes in a format that is foreign to over half my playback equipment. I can't play it in the living room in the DVD player, In my car MP3 player, in my kid's Lyra MP3 player... Only the PC and my Daughter's Nano can play things from the I-tunes store. For everything else, it's an incompatible format.
I know, yada yada you can burn a CD. Big deal. Burn a CD, Rip CD to MP3, burn MP3 CD... Too much hastle. Stick with MP3's in the first place. They play just fine. No need to beg the mothership when you want to transfer the tunes to another PC. I upgrade PC's every few years, but I don't have to ask anyone for authorization to play my LP's from the 1980's or my CD's from the 1990's because I bought a new turntable or CD deck. Playing "Mother May I" was finished for me over 30 years ago.
Yes. Have you ever heard of DRM? The backup simply won't work on your replacement hardware. That's the whole point of DRM. My physical DVD will play in any DVD player from the same region. My legal downloaded (DRM'ed) movie will not play in any other computer in my house present or future.
Target and Walmart have been undercutting stores since they opened by monopolizing distribution. Now they're going to get a taste of their own business model.
The article is missing the point that one is apples and one is oranges. The used Apple product can't be put on Craig's list or E-Bay. A physical product can.
Would you like to get a film for $15 and resell it used for $8 when you are done, or pay $13 and have it die with your hard drive?
This is one of the factors why online digital sales are still behind brick and mortar retail sales. Online downloads do not provide tangable merchandise. What's next, Pay per View on cable has to be sold at retailers DVD prices?
Instead of stopping things, this goes back to the agreement made by Jimmy Carter. President Bush simply got stuck with the end result of bad decisions made way prior to his holding office. View all six parts of the video. It is a little under an hour. After watching it, look where the Korean Nuke program was when George Bush took office. They already had a nuke program. Note the year they dropped out of the Non Poliferation Treaty because they didn't want to comply and we quit giving them things. Carter was giving them tons of gifts every year. It came to an end. You always expect trouble when you stop paying the mob. President Bush decided to quit paying the mob and told them to be good and they are making noise about it.
At this moment, US intel claims it "can't confirm" the event. However, US geologists apparently can. Transparency is a good thing, especially when it's not intended.
Even more convincing is the location of the tremmor and the location of the North Korean Missle launch facility. I did some Google searching on known missle sites and a missle site is nearby. Of note when checking the USGS data on the tremmor, note the depth in relation to other events in the area that have happened in the past.
I guess we won't be invading North Korea anytime soon.
True, However our mutualy assured destruction is being retargeted as we speak. All that cold war hardware seems to have no need to be retired anytime soon. I just hope they don't try any missle tests anytime soon. It could be their biggest mistake.
But for me, I really am THAT lazy, that I don't wanna switch the discs.
But for me, I have kids. The first time a kid uses one of my $40-$60 game CD's for a carpet protector under the chair due to carelessness is the last time I buy a game I can't run from a working copy or off the hard drive with the original locked in a cabinet.
Needless to say, I haven't bought many retail games lately. We stick to games on the PC which run with a No-CD crack or install and run on the hard drive. If there is no crack, the game does not get purchased in the first place. We can't play the games locked in a cabinet and we can't leave them out to get destroyed, stolen, or lost. Retail games are are in direct competition to downloadable games which will install on a hard drive.
I remember back when I was young, we could go out and by music on optical discs. They played in your stereo, in your car, and you could even rip them to MP3. You could even head down to a used record store and pick up used CDs for around $8. Of course, back in those days, we had to walk both ways, up hill, in the snow.
Back in my day, Technics came out with the SL10 Linear tracking turntable. It would run on 12 volts and play at any angle, even upside down. It still skipped badly when trying to use it on a bumpy road. About 10 years later Philips released the Compact disk. However there was no DRM to prevent you from ripping it to a Compact Cassette tape for the car.
"It is the sun that makes Seattle the "Emerald City". When the long days of summer are making our trees grow, we have a great solar resource. Net metering allows us to "store" that summer sun for the rains of winter by spinning our meters backwards. During the three summer months Seattle gets 97% as much sun as San Diego. On an annual basis, Seattle gets about 1/3 less than San Diego. Seattle recieves about 3.5 average peak sun hours per year. so a 1Kw solar array will generate about 1000 kWh's per year.
No argument there. Lots of summer sun for plenty of summer solar heat to keep your house nice and toasty in the summer. When you get the sun is important.. How about a little sun from late November to early March when I could use a little heat? Some places get winter sun. Seattle is not well known for their winter sunshine. It is not a place where 95% of your winter heat is solar like at my dad's place in Central Oregon. He has supplimental heat for the week or so with no sun, not the month or two in winter in Seattle.
While many people would argue that it still isn't cost-effective to purchase a hybrid, there have been over a million sold.
For those who still maintain that arguement, here are a few things to keep in mind. The initial study made some assumptions.
1, The battery will die shortly after the 100,000 mile warrenty leaving a 5,000 repair bill every 5 years of ownership. 2. Gas prices are $1.50 to $1.80 per gallon. 3. You drive less than 10,000 miles per year 4. Your car depreciates faster than a traditional car due to the expected cost of changing the battery.
Now that data is in,
The 100-150K mile or 5 year battery failuere is a myth. Active agressive state of charge management has proven itself. Look online for Prius battery failure rates. The battery replacement cost is closer to $3K instead of $5K. It is cheaper to replace the battery at 150,000 miles than it is to replace the transmission on many other cars at the same milage. For those worried about the Prius transmission, it has 7 moving parts. None of the parts are a clutch, shifting, or friction part. It is a fixed planitary gear set with very little that can go wrong.
Gas prices are way over $2.00 per gallon and have little chance of going under $2.00/gallon for any extended period of time.
Commuters who put on 15K or more per year bought them including myself.
My 02 Prius has depreciated far less then the family 02 Dodge Caravan of the same purchase price.
In short the new study shows a Hybrid payback time is about 3 years if you drive 15K miles a year. Instead of the battery being a 5K liability, the resale value over a regular car is about $8K better.
For those who want to do the math, my old car got about 26 miles/gallon. I'm averaging 45 miles/gallon now. I drive 18,000 miles per year. Resale value shows this when I do a Google Search. Toyota Prius (2002) Prius. $16350 - $17400. (Blue Book Retail Value). Although Toyota's hybrid-powered four-door, five-passenger sedan might look a little and the other vehicle..My wife's same year minivan on the other hand is valued at 2002 Dodge Caravan. 2002 Dodge Caravan Kelley Blue Book Price, $8250 - $11850. I bought my Prius used for $18K in 2003. Do the math and you will know why I'm smiling all the way to the bank. It has lost less than $2000 in depreciation in the 3 years I have owned it. No other car I have ever owned has done that except a 1968 VW beetle I spent $600.00 to buy.
Gas cost for 18,000 miles at $3/gallon at 30MPG is 1,800/year. Gas cost at 45MPG is $1,200/year. In 5 years my gas savings is $3.000 Not bad savings in 5 years or 90,000 miles. This does not cover lower maitnance costs or lower depreciation. Add those in and mine as paid the additional $5,000 cost for the hybrid technology already by a long shot. The van had shot brakes at 60K miles. I had the Prius brakes checked at 60K miles. I was told I have 80% of the pads left. Oil changes ar at 7K miles instead of 3K miles and the oil is clean at the oil change, not black. Regenerative braking saves a lot of wear and tear.
Depends where you live- I want to know where the submitter lives to be getting those prices on residential electricity. Here in Beaverton, OR,
I live in the area. Take a hint, visit your local city park and talk to the kids flying a kite. Some places don't simply don't have enough steady wind to fly a kite on a regular basis. Putting up a windmill doesn't make the wind blow steady. Now if you lived in Seaside, or Cascade Locks, it would make more sense. Seaside has the kite festival and Cascade Locks has the Sailboard races. Beaverton doesn't even get kite flyers in the city park. When you rake your fall leaves, are they under your tree or blown down the street a few blocks?
Wind power in Beaverton makes as much sense as Solar power in Seattle. The wind does blow once in a while in Beaverton and the sun does shine once in a while in Seattle, but these are not steady power producers in these locations.
We need to stop people from having the option to purchase things how they want, but force them to purchase things how *I* want. Right?
Please use the correct term. How about Rent things how they want. Rental comes with a contract including limitations such as you can't sell it and there is a bunch of things you can't do with it, such as paint it pink. If you bought it, you could paint it pink and re-sell it.
(2) DRM will never work correctly without overly restrictive government controls. For example, let's assume that "Brand New Hyper DVD" format is completely uncrackable- the disks can never, EVER be decrypted and copied digitally. So what?
It will never sell. Case in point number 1.. Audio compact Disk recorders. The audio compact disk recorder uses Music Compact Disks only. There is a royalty on blank Music CDR's. The recorder by law has to use DRM to protect against serial copys. EG a copy of a copy can not be copied. Have you ever seen one of these music Compact Disk recorders? Nope. People use Computer Data CDR drives without the DRM.
Case point 2. The Digital Audio Tape or DAT.. See above. I have seen only one DAT machine in my life in a radio station. The station had no tapes for it. It sat unused. Again Data CDR drives made an end run past this still born technology.
I would love to have had a DAT in it's day, but the limitations made it unusable for mastering as the submaster could not be duplicated for distribution even if I was the copyright owner. We just stuck to either reel to reel or high quality Compact Cassette.
I'm very happy computers were not totaly locked down. We now hard disk record and edit. Again, computer equipment is making an end run past locked down audio equipment. This helps the audio equipment manufactures how? I know, they now manufacture computer parts.
Being able to play content on multiple different players is not fair use.
Probably true. However it severly limits the value of the content. Content that can play in my living room DVD player, Car stereo, Computer, Portable player, and flash player is much more valuable than content that will only play on my flash player and computer. The later is typicaly encoded at only 128Kbits and the former is CD quality. To boot the former can be resold when I'm done with it unlike the latter. Explain to me again why the latter is lower quality, limited playback capacity, has no first sale protection and priced at near the same price as the former when it is worth so much less?
You can see why I don't buy DRM content except DVD's which still carry first sale rights and can play in any same region player.
Let's say that party A puts some banners on party B's web page, with the agreement that A will pay B some money for users who click on the ad.
If party B is the worm writer to get party C to click on the ad, then party C is not a real consumer interested in A's product at all. This fraud lines party B's pocket. A never intended to pay for clicks except by those who searched for the keyword because they were researching it for personal reasons.
Does anyone that comes here on purpose us IE still
At work some of us are stuck with the corporate desktop environment which means IE. The IT department has done a pretty good job keeping it locked down. When they run the corporate proxy server, it's easier to get a handle on what doesn't make it in. They also use managed switches, so if a machine starts spewing, it gets disconnected. It tends to stop worms that try to scan for vuneribilities or other bot activities. Even the new version of Skype that used supernotes triggered the defences and dropped a bunch of machines while they tried to figure out the cause of the unusual data pattern.
Home users have no monitor that triggers and disconnects on unusual data patterns on the net.
Kids have no right to privacy Raise your kids like that and watch what happens when they finally move out from under your thumb.
Which is why I'm suprised that the copy of the IM's are sent to a 3rd party.. Why can't all the logs be stored in-house? I gleaned that tidbit reading the FAQ on needing logs from more than 24 hours ago. Solution.. Upgrade to our paid service and you can review logs of up to 30 days stored on our server.. Minor children's chat logs should not be sent to a 3rd party for any reason. Parental supervision is one thing. This other is a risk.
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I read a lot of questions with a lot of paranoia (only the paranoid survive). Reading between the lines it looks like a social engineering hack. "I'm not getting enough bandwidth--How do I toss people off the common pasture so I can feed my herd?"
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This is the problems of greed in the commons refered to in The Tragedy of the Commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commo
Nice social engineering hack! Get Slashdot to tell how to kick other herders off public land.
If your needs are great, it's time to invest in your own place where you can put up fences. A sat modem or cell modem comes to mind.
my university blocks out all torrent files and bit torrent traffic. At least all unencrypted files and traffic
.edu where I downloaded my .iso of Ubuntu. Some schools understand and others don't.
I find that funny. It was from an
I do have to admit many schools worry about having to deal with probes from Media Sentry and the following court orders for private information of students. I could easly see where staff may want to block some protocols to protect their students from financial disaster. They would rather keep students where they can pay for their education instead of having to drop out to pay a cartel.
High cost? They can be had for $30 in the UK. Given the normal price differences, you're probably paying $20.
Hint.. Do a Google search for the best price on a 20 inch NTSC television (with a tuner) and then do the same for a DIGITAL set. Cavot.. It must receive over the air digital broadcast out of the box with not additional purchase other than UHF antenna. Do not compare a Digital Ready Monitor with a Telivision.
So far an analog TV can be had for under $100. Anything with a tuner able to pick up an over the air digital broadcast is over $300. Where is this $20 difference you speak of.. I have not found it yet. I wander into stores once in a while to look at TV displays. There are a few analog sets picking up a local TV station and a few digital monitors on a satelite reciever. I have yet to find a retailer displaying a digital TV showing a local over the air broadcast.
make money off of the idiots at the studios who think this will actually protect their content.
I wonder if the idiots at the studios have any idea how much money they will lose in returns and then future sales as sour consumers leave and shun the studio's product. Seriously, How many people now simply refuse to by a SONY Music CD because of the rootkit thing?
I didn't get stuck with the SONY rootkit thing because I already stopped buying CD's due to the already defective by design CD's already out. Some have to get burned much harder before they break away from bad products.
It's a shame the studios want to release a bad product that people will think they want until the ugly facts hit them.
I guess if Apple can sell DRM'ed audio tracks at 128kbps instead of 192kbps MP3's or 16 bit stereo sampled at 44K samples/second (CD's) for close to the same price, then I guess some will fall for crippled DVD's and like it.
I never understood selling DRM low bitratre propritory format audio tracks for way over half the price of a true CD. I guess if you like Toxic Culture, Slipknot, Emenim, and other compressed to the max CD's a little extra compression artifact distortion won't be noticed. On material with less then 20 DB of dynamic range, very little is lost to compession and stereo phase imaging isn't important. Too bad you can't find CD's anymore with the DDD logo for audio purity.
For those who don't know, for a while some quality CD's took the time to use a digital mixing board instead of analog for the source D and recorded on a hard drive or DAT for the second D and the third D is for digital mastering. Old beatles stuff was often on CD's as AAD indicating originaly mastered on an analog board, recorded on analog tepe (Reel to Reel) and then remastered for CD digitaly. Some of the awsome Telarc recordings were done digital all the way and as such are totaly absent of tape hiss, mixer hiss, and such. Most stuff now simply is compressed to eliminate much dynamic range so you can't tell if there was any hiss in any of the quiet parts simply because there are not any quiet parts.
Too bad the engineering of quality recordings is degraded to make it loud.
I'd hate to see movies go the same route. If movies went the same route as DRM audio, then the biggest screen you would want to watch them on would be a cell phone and don't worry you can's see a dark scene in a brightly lit room, because we compressed the dark scenes so they are all light and can be seen in a bright room. There is no need to worry the dark scenes are going to show a little video noise as there is no dark scenes.
These compressed movies may be OK for watching in the car on a LCD video system, but they would not have the resolution or dynamic range to enjoy a Science Fiction space thriller on the big set at home. The compressed music is ok for headphones while riding a school bus, but it's not something I want on the stereo in my den. Video has been heading to HD. Why is audio heading to LD at the same price?
OK I guess it's time to end my rant on the sad state of low bitrate compressed content.
You would purchase this? I suppose people must do... personally, I don't own DVD players
In the USA, analog TV is slated to go away for over the air broadcasting. I'm slowly dropping analog TV products as they fail and not replacing them. I get my news and TV online. I purchased a very nice LCD display. The last DVD player I bought randomly dies. I think the spindle motor bearing is failing. Due to the high cost of a Digital TV reciever that can recieve an over the air broadcast, I don't have one. If I have to buy a player to play the new DVD, I would not get one with NTSC only output. If I can't play the DVD in my computer, I don't want it.
I travel lots. Sometimes for stuck on the road downtime I'll throw a few DVD's in my laptop bag. Now they say new ones can't play in a PC. If I get one that can't play in a computer, I'm taking my laptop to the store with the DVD to exchange the defective DVD. I'll verify the replacement DVD works befor I leave the store. I won't let them sell me DVD's that won't play.
I sure hopt they put a big label on them so I don't have to stop buying DVD's like I stopped buying CD's. I stopped buying CD's simply because I could find none anymore with the Compact Disk Logo showing it met the original CD format standard. (In other words a CD that really is a Music CD, not a rootkit install kit.)
See the NTP/RIM case -- Transmeta can get a sympathetic judge to grant an injunction while they intentionally drag out the case, possibly forcing the prospect of Intel having to stop all processor sales until the case is settled. Intel will of course cave and just buy the "patents" to eliminate this business risk.
I'm sure in the process Intel will countersue due to the patents in Transmeta's products. In the end it may turn into a cross lisence deal.
That may be the way some people implement it, but it's not true for the most popular service - the iTunes store. You can easily back up, and transfer the files between computers.
I don't do the I-tunes store simply because they sell tunes in a format that is foreign to over half my playback equipment. I can't play it in the living room in the DVD player, In my car MP3 player, in my kid's Lyra MP3 player... Only the PC and my Daughter's Nano can play things from the I-tunes store. For everything else, it's an incompatible format.
I know, yada yada you can burn a CD. Big deal. Burn a CD, Rip CD to MP3, burn MP3 CD... Too much hastle. Stick with MP3's in the first place. They play just fine. No need to beg the mothership when you want to transfer the tunes to another PC. I upgrade PC's every few years, but I don't have to ask anyone for authorization to play my LP's from the 1980's or my CD's from the 1990's because I bought a new turntable or CD deck. Playing "Mother May I" was finished for me over 30 years ago.
Have you never heard of backups?
Yes. Have you ever heard of DRM? The backup simply won't work on your replacement hardware. That's the whole point of DRM. My physical DVD will play in any DVD player from the same region. My legal downloaded (DRM'ed) movie will not play in any other computer in my house present or future.
Target and Walmart have been undercutting stores since they opened by monopolizing distribution. Now they're going to get a taste of their own business model.
The article is missing the point that one is apples and one is oranges. The used Apple product can't be put on Craig's list or E-Bay. A physical product can.
Would you like to get a film for $15 and resell it used for $8 when you are done, or pay $13 and have it die with your hard drive?
This is one of the factors why online digital sales are still behind brick and mortar retail sales. Online downloads do not provide tangable merchandise. What's next, Pay per View on cable has to be sold at retailers DVD prices?
Not many Presidents can boast of being asleep at the wheel while another nuclear power was born.
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Before jumping President Bush for being asleep at the wheel, view this..
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim
Instead of stopping things, this goes back to the agreement made by Jimmy Carter. President Bush simply got stuck with the end result of bad decisions made way prior to his holding office. View all six parts of the video. It is a little under an hour. After watching it, look where the Korean Nuke program was when George Bush took office. They already had a nuke program. Note the year they dropped out of the Non Poliferation Treaty because they didn't want to comply and we quit giving them things. Carter was giving them tons of gifts every year. It came to an end. You always expect trouble when you stop paying the mob. President Bush decided to quit paying the mob and told them to be good and they are making noise about it.
Don't believe me... Watch the video.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim
At this moment, US intel claims it "can't confirm" the event. However, US geologists apparently can. Transparency is a good thing, especially when it's not intended.
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Even more convincing is the location of the tremmor and the location of the North Korean Missle launch facility. I did some Google searching on known missle sites and a missle site is nearby. Of note when checking the USGS data on the tremmor, note the depth in relation to other events in the area that have happened in the past.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/facility/nodon
With the US being tied up as it is right now in the middle east, I see little that the military can do about this.
Look up cold war mutualy assured destruction.
If they launch, they are guranteed a new parking lot.
I guess we won't be invading North Korea anytime soon.
True, However our mutualy assured destruction is being retargeted as we speak. All that cold war hardware seems to have no need to be retired anytime soon. I just hope they don't try any missle tests anytime soon. It could be their biggest mistake.
But for me, I really am THAT lazy, that I don't wanna switch the discs.
But for me, I have kids. The first time a kid uses one of my $40-$60 game CD's for a carpet protector under the chair due to carelessness is the last time I buy a game I can't run from a working copy or off the hard drive with the original locked in a cabinet.
Needless to say, I haven't bought many retail games lately. We stick to games on the PC which run with a No-CD crack or install and run on the hard drive. If there is no crack, the game does not get purchased in the first place. We can't play the games locked in a cabinet and we can't leave them out to get destroyed, stolen, or lost. Retail games are are in direct competition to downloadable games which will install on a hard drive.
I remember back when I was young, we could go out and by music on optical discs. They played in your stereo, in your car, and you could even rip them to MP3. You could even head down to a used record store and pick up used CDs for around $8. Of course, back in those days, we had to walk both ways, up hill, in the snow.
Back in my day, Technics came out with the SL10 Linear tracking turntable. It would run on 12 volts and play at any angle, even upside down. It still skipped badly when trying to use it on a bumpy road. About 10 years later Philips released the Compact disk. However there was no DRM to prevent you from ripping it to a Compact Cassette tape for the car.
Boy did I date myself on that one.
"It is the sun that makes Seattle the "Emerald City". When the long days of summer are making our trees grow, we have a great solar resource. Net metering allows us to "store" that summer sun for the rains of winter by spinning our meters backwards. During the three summer months Seattle gets 97% as much sun as San Diego. On an annual basis, Seattle gets about 1/3 less than San Diego. Seattle recieves about 3.5 average peak sun hours per year. so a 1Kw solar array will generate about 1000 kWh's per year.
No argument there. Lots of summer sun for plenty of summer solar heat to keep your house nice and toasty in the summer. When you get the sun is important.. How about a little sun from late November to early March when I could use a little heat? Some places get winter sun. Seattle is not well known for their winter sunshine. It is not a place where 95% of your winter heat is solar like at my dad's place in Central Oregon. He has supplimental heat for the week or so with no sun, not the month or two in winter in Seattle.
While many people would argue that it still isn't cost-effective to purchase a hybrid, there have been over a million sold.
For those who still maintain that arguement, here are a few things to keep in mind. The initial study made some assumptions.
1, The battery will die shortly after the 100,000 mile warrenty leaving a 5,000 repair bill every 5 years of ownership.
2. Gas prices are $1.50 to $1.80 per gallon.
3. You drive less than 10,000 miles per year
4. Your car depreciates faster than a traditional car due to the expected cost of changing the battery.
Now that data is in,
The 100-150K mile or 5 year battery failuere is a myth. Active agressive state of charge management has proven itself. Look online for Prius battery failure rates. The battery replacement cost is closer to $3K instead of $5K. It is cheaper to replace the battery at 150,000 miles than it is to replace the transmission on many other cars at the same milage. For those worried about the Prius transmission, it has 7 moving parts. None of the parts are a clutch, shifting, or friction part. It is a fixed planitary gear set with very little that can go wrong.
Gas prices are way over $2.00 per gallon and have little chance of going under $2.00/gallon for any extended period of time.
Commuters who put on 15K or more per year bought them including myself.
My 02 Prius has depreciated far less then the family 02 Dodge Caravan of the same purchase price.
In short the new study shows a Hybrid payback time is about 3 years if you drive 15K miles a year. Instead of the battery being a 5K liability, the resale value over a regular car is about $8K better.
For those who want to do the math, my old car got about 26 miles/gallon. I'm averaging 45 miles/gallon now. I drive 18,000 miles per year. Resale value shows this when I do a Google Search. Toyota Prius (2002) Prius. $16350 - $17400. (Blue Book Retail Value). Although Toyota's hybrid-powered four-door, five-passenger sedan might look a little and the other vehicle..My wife's same year minivan on the other hand is valued at 2002 Dodge Caravan. 2002 Dodge Caravan Kelley Blue Book Price, $8250 - $11850. I bought my Prius used for $18K in 2003. Do the math and you will know why I'm smiling all the way to the bank. It has lost less than $2000 in depreciation in the 3 years I have owned it. No other car I have ever owned has done that except a 1968 VW beetle I spent $600.00 to buy.
Gas cost for 18,000 miles at $3/gallon at 30MPG is 1,800/year. Gas cost at 45MPG is $1,200/year. In 5 years my gas savings is $3.000 Not bad savings in 5 years or 90,000 miles. This does not cover lower maitnance costs or lower depreciation. Add those in and mine as paid the additional $5,000 cost for the hybrid technology already by a long shot. The van had shot brakes at 60K miles. I had the Prius brakes checked at 60K miles. I was told I have 80% of the pads left. Oil changes ar at 7K miles instead of 3K miles and the oil is clean at the oil change, not black. Regenerative braking saves a lot of wear and tear.
Depends where you live- I want to know where the submitter lives to be getting those prices on residential electricity. Here in Beaverton, OR,
I live in the area. Take a hint, visit your local city park and talk to the kids flying a kite. Some places don't simply don't have enough steady wind to fly a kite on a regular basis. Putting up a windmill doesn't make the wind blow steady. Now if you lived in Seaside, or Cascade Locks, it would make more sense. Seaside has the kite festival and Cascade Locks has the Sailboard races. Beaverton doesn't even get kite flyers in the city park. When you rake your fall leaves, are they under your tree or blown down the street a few blocks?
Wind power in Beaverton makes as much sense as Solar power in Seattle. The wind does blow once in a while in Beaverton and the sun does shine once in a while in Seattle, but these are not steady power producers in these locations.
We need to stop people from having the option to purchase things how they want, but force them to purchase things how *I* want. Right?
Please use the correct term. How about Rent things how they want. Rental comes with a contract including limitations such as you can't sell it and there is a bunch of things you can't do with it, such as paint it pink. If you bought it, you could paint it pink and re-sell it.
(2) DRM will never work correctly without overly restrictive government controls. For example, let's assume that "Brand New Hyper DVD" format is completely uncrackable- the disks can never, EVER be decrypted and copied digitally. So what?
It will never sell. Case in point number 1.. Audio compact Disk recorders. The audio compact disk recorder uses Music Compact Disks only. There is a royalty on blank Music CDR's. The recorder by law has to use DRM to protect against serial copys. EG a copy of a copy can not be copied. Have you ever seen one of these music Compact Disk recorders? Nope. People use Computer Data CDR drives without the DRM.
Case point 2. The Digital Audio Tape or DAT.. See above. I have seen only one DAT machine in my life in a radio station. The station had no tapes for it. It sat unused. Again Data CDR drives made an end run past this still born technology.
I would love to have had a DAT in it's day, but the limitations made it unusable for mastering as the submaster could not be duplicated for distribution even if I was the copyright owner. We just stuck to either reel to reel or high quality Compact Cassette.
I'm very happy computers were not totaly locked down. We now hard disk record and edit. Again, computer equipment is making an end run past locked down audio equipment. This helps the audio equipment manufactures how? I know, they now manufacture computer parts.
Being able to play content on multiple different players is not fair use.
Probably true. However it severly limits the value of the content. Content that can play in my living room DVD player, Car stereo, Computer, Portable player, and flash player is much more valuable than content that will only play on my flash player and computer. The later is typicaly encoded at only 128Kbits and the former is CD quality. To boot the former can be resold when I'm done with it unlike the latter. Explain to me again why the latter is lower quality, limited playback capacity, has no first sale protection and priced at near the same price as the former when it is worth so much less?
You can see why I don't buy DRM content except DVD's which still carry first sale rights and can play in any same region player.
DRM is great for XBLA games. It enables companies to sell their games --
And removes your right to first sale..
In other words, when you are done with the game, you can't put it on E-Bay like you can a copy of Mario or Unreal. This isn't a problem why?
Let's say that party A puts some banners on party B's web page, with the agreement that A will pay B some money for users who click on the ad.
If party B is the worm writer to get party C to click on the ad, then party C is not a real consumer interested in A's product at all. This fraud lines party B's pocket. A never intended to pay for clicks except by those who searched for the keyword because they were researching it for personal reasons.
Does anyone that comes here on purpose us IE still
At work some of us are stuck with the corporate desktop environment which means IE. The IT department has done a pretty good job keeping it locked down. When they run the corporate proxy server, it's easier to get a handle on what doesn't make it in. They also use managed switches, so if a machine starts spewing, it gets disconnected. It tends to stop worms that try to scan for vuneribilities or other bot activities. Even the new version of Skype that used supernotes triggered the defences and dropped a bunch of machines while they tried to figure out the cause of the unusual data pattern.
Home users have no monitor that triggers and disconnects on unusual data patterns on the net.
Kids have no right to privacy
Raise your kids like that and watch what happens when they finally move out from under your thumb.
Which is why I'm suprised that the copy of the IM's are sent to a 3rd party.. Why can't all the logs be stored in-house? I gleaned that tidbit reading the FAQ on needing logs from more than 24 hours ago. Solution.. Upgrade to our paid service and you can review logs of up to 30 days stored on our server.. Minor children's chat logs should not be sent to a 3rd party for any reason. Parental supervision is one thing. This other is a risk.