Led by researcher Daniel Favre, the alarming study found that bees reacted significantly to cell phones that were placed near or in hives in call-making mode.
I think its also been shown that when cell phones are placed in moving cars in call-making mode that it leads to a significant increase in human deaths.
The broken window analogy is apt. I particularly liked the idea of the glazier hiring the boy to break windows - I can see parallels to US foreign policy. Money spent on deliberate damage is a loss, while money spent improving or discovering is well spent. So if I had my choice of sending pallets of cash to Iraq or to JPL, I'm pretty sure I know which I would choose. There may be a dozen other things that you can name which have a more immediate payoff, or are more likely to help mankind than NASA, but NASA still beats where a huge portion of the federal budget goes.
As I see it, we are handing over control of DNS to "trusted" certificate providers because regular DNS can be poisoned by a rogue DNS operator. Do we really believe that no nameservers with a valid certificate are rogues? Or that certified nameservers won't get compromised? I trust certificate authorities like Verisign to watch over me just like I trusted auditors from PwC when they gave AAA ratings to AIG.
What's going to happen is that once one nameserver gets compromised, it will be able to send signed updates to other nameservers. If a long enough chain is made it can operate for a long time before being tracked down and revoked. During that time it's business as usual for the phishers and pharmers with one difference. Once the bad cert is revoked and all of the DNS damage is undone, the DNSSEC champions will say "See, the system worked!". Which does nothing for the people who are out their money.
Besides, what does NASA do for me anyway? Why does 'our nation' have to put a gun to my head and force me to fund the intellectual curiosity of others?
"NASA, and the nation, wants to touch an asteroid." I can think of at least 9.1-15.8% of 'the nation' that would prefer we spend that money some place else, like productive jobs that contribute to reality.
Why don't one of you smarmy assholes head over to Compton and take a poll on how many people in this part of 'the nation' give a flying fuck about landing on an asteroid.
Yeah. Too bad they just dig a hole and bury that money instead of spending it on US companies that hire people.
Reorganizing the various intelligence agencies under DHS and putting airport security under go.v control were proposed by the bipartisan 9/11 commission. They also said we should worry about terrorists in Pakistan, and do better border screening. Oh, and they said the government lies.
Although I'm sure the baggage screening machines are shielded, they are still open on the end with just loose flaps. There must be X-rays scattered all over the place from those. Every radiology tech or dental assistant that I've ever met stands behind a lead panel for every X-ray, and they are only doing them once every 15 minutes or so. The baggage screening runs almost continuously.
The legality of the file is not a property of the file itself, and cannot be determined from the file's content. If I buy an MP3 on Amazon, I can legally use it. If I put it on bittorrent and you download it, you have the same file as I do, but the RIAA says you're not allowed to use it.
Absurd. How would any algorithm be able to tell from an md5 if it is a legal rip or an illegal one? Two rips of the same CD should give the same bits, regardless of whether I own it or someone gives it to me.
The only way to tell is to compare to a db of your legal music:
- you ripped a CD and still have it (not legal once you sell or give away the CD, gray area if you lose it and don't have a receipt)
- you bought the bits and they are licensed to run on the device that you have them on
- the music is free or public domain (heh!)
Don't forget that under US law, the performance and the author are separate copyrights, so even if they guy who plays it gives it to you, it may still be illegal.
A couple years ago when I was in Ohio I saw people who had replaced their lawns with corn because prices were so high. Looks like its still over $7/bushel. I wonder how well a 1/16th acre crop would do in New England? The farmers I know aren't getting rich, though.
Ethanol subsidies would not exist if the Iowa caucus weren't the earliest primary. Corn prices have been driven so high by E85 that there has not been a need for subsidies in at least 4 years
Gold is speced in commercial and military connectors not based on beliefs like yours, but on field results. Connectors with gold plated over tin-nickel sustain more cycles and last longer in the field than alternatives. Plain copper would be useless because copper oxide is not a conductor. (its actually a semiconductor, but that's another story). Tin-nickel plating of brass or bronze contacts is used on connectors that have a lower rating than gold but the resistance increases with corrosion and repeated plug/unplug cycles. Take a look at the connectors on your cell phone. Think they are just spending the money based on looks?
If you believe the gold used in connectors is that tiny, please inform the folks who make a living recovering it from e-waste. They must be living in a dream.
Gold does have an intrinsic value: That of its abilities as a conductor. This, however, is in no way, shape, or form tied to the speculative value it has now.
If that were true, then people would not be using gold plated connectors. They could spend less money on some cheaper alternative - like using larger connectors to reduce resistance. The fact that gold IS being purchased to plate connectors means that it is not being priced above its real value.
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No. Its revenge. You're invading their space with cell phone radiation so they're trying to call you while you're driving.
Our uteruses would fly out of our bodies as they were accelerated to that speed
Won't someone please think of the uteruses!!
I'm trying not to.
I think I can sum it up: "Touching electrical wires kills you"
Nothing to do with predators, thanks. Westinghouse and Edison had a well publicized battle over which killed you worse - AC or DC.
Led by researcher Daniel Favre, the alarming study found that bees reacted significantly to cell phones that were placed near or in hives in call-making mode.
I think its also been shown that when cell phones are placed in moving cars in call-making mode that it leads to a significant increase in human deaths.
The broken window analogy is apt. I particularly liked the idea of the glazier hiring the boy to break windows - I can see parallels to US foreign policy. Money spent on deliberate damage is a loss, while money spent improving or discovering is well spent. So if I had my choice of sending pallets of cash to Iraq or to JPL, I'm pretty sure I know which I would choose. There may be a dozen other things that you can name which have a more immediate payoff, or are more likely to help mankind than NASA, but NASA still beats where a huge portion of the federal budget goes.
As I see it, we are handing over control of DNS to "trusted" certificate providers because regular DNS can be poisoned by a rogue DNS operator. Do we really believe that no nameservers with a valid certificate are rogues? Or that certified nameservers won't get compromised? I trust certificate authorities like Verisign to watch over me just like I trusted auditors from PwC when they gave AAA ratings to AIG.
What's going to happen is that once one nameserver gets compromised, it will be able to send signed updates to other nameservers. If a long enough chain is made it can operate for a long time before being tracked down and revoked. During that time it's business as usual for the phishers and pharmers with one difference. Once the bad cert is revoked and all of the DNS damage is undone, the DNSSEC champions will say "See, the system worked!". Which does nothing for the people who are out their money.
Besides, what does NASA do for me anyway? Why does 'our nation' have to put a gun to my head and force me to fund the intellectual curiosity of others?
"NASA, and the nation, wants to touch an asteroid." I can think of at least 9.1-15.8% of 'the nation' that would prefer we spend that money some place else, like productive jobs that contribute to reality.
Why don't one of you smarmy assholes head over to Compton and take a poll on how many people in this part of 'the nation' give a flying fuck about landing on an asteroid.
Yeah. Too bad they just dig a hole and bury that money instead of spending it on US companies that hire people.
Yes. They'll be burning $1000 bills in their fireplace, and you'll have change.
So I guess Samsung is schizophrenic now?
All companies with multiple divisions have MPD. Why would the guy in charge of phone sales care how much business the flash division does?
Reorganizing the various intelligence agencies under DHS and putting airport security under go.v control were proposed by the bipartisan 9/11 commission. They also said we should worry about terrorists in Pakistan, and do better border screening. Oh, and they said the government lies.
Although I'm sure the baggage screening machines are shielded, they are still open on the end with just loose flaps. There must be X-rays scattered all over the place from those. Every radiology tech or dental assistant that I've ever met stands behind a lead panel for every X-ray, and they are only doing them once every 15 minutes or so. The baggage screening runs almost continuously.
http://www.ratemycop.com/index.php?st=CA&dept=13791
Parse error on my part. It is the Copyright Act for the Digital Millennium, but I guess CADM doesn't sound as memorable.
also, how is it "Digital" so that the DMCA even applies?
The legality of the file is not a property of the file itself, and cannot be determined from the file's content. If I buy an MP3 on Amazon, I can legally use it. If I put it on bittorrent and you download it, you have the same file as I do, but the RIAA says you're not allowed to use it.
This idea is explored in more details in the following blog post What Colour are your bits?
That's a great article. It explains the tech to the non-technical and vice versa.
Absurd. How would any algorithm be able to tell from an md5 if it is a legal rip or an illegal one? Two rips of the same CD should give the same bits, regardless of whether I own it or someone gives it to me.
The only way to tell is to compare to a db of your legal music:
- you ripped a CD and still have it (not legal once you sell or give away the CD, gray area if you lose it and don't have a receipt)
- you bought the bits and they are licensed to run on the device that you have them on
- the music is free or public domain (heh!)
Don't forget that under US law, the performance and the author are separate copyrights, so even if they guy who plays it gives it to you, it may still be illegal.
Offset by saving some of us from C++.
Good point. That's another advantage.
Is fork now to be illegal (in Japan) as it replicates code?
No. But a Quine might be. Try explaining it to a jury.
So the sole purpose of this program is to make a copy of itself?
They should criminalize possession.
With the penalty being that they seize and destroy your virus-ridden, spam-spewing computer.
A couple years ago when I was in Ohio I saw people who had replaced their lawns with corn because prices were so high. Looks like its still over $7/bushel. I wonder how well a 1/16th acre crop would do in New England? The farmers I know aren't getting rich, though.
Ethanol subsidies would not exist if the Iowa caucus weren't the earliest primary. Corn prices have been driven so high by E85 that there has not been a need for subsidies in at least 4 years
There will be
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/04/238414/Acta-talks-focus-on-three-strikes-no-appeal-deal-for-software.htm
Gold is speced in commercial and military connectors not based on beliefs like yours, but on field results. Connectors with gold plated over tin-nickel sustain more cycles and last longer in the field than alternatives. Plain copper would be useless because copper oxide is not a conductor. (its actually a semiconductor, but that's another story). Tin-nickel plating of brass or bronze contacts is used on connectors that have a lower rating than gold but the resistance increases with corrosion and repeated plug/unplug cycles. Take a look at the connectors on your cell phone. Think they are just spending the money based on looks?
If you believe the gold used in connectors is that tiny, please inform the folks who make a living recovering it from e-waste. They must be living in a dream.
Gold does have an intrinsic value: That of its abilities as a conductor. This, however, is in no way, shape, or form tied to the speculative value it has now.
If that were true, then people would not be using gold plated connectors. They could spend less money on some cheaper alternative - like using larger connectors to reduce resistance. The fact that gold IS being purchased to plate connectors means that it is not being priced above its real value.