So they don't have little ads in there for various companies that sponsor the programs? Car Talk doesn't mention Cars.com? You never hear about executive recruiting from Kern-Ferry Int, (or whatever they are) listening to Marketplace? If it does have messages that mention anything more than the sponsor's name then it fits the definition of a commercial.
Not to mention the commercials for its own programming that I'm sure it airs.
Oh, and I should add that the last few years have shown that additional storage could be used. Imagine if the drought had lasted another two or three years? The estimates for water usage used to create the Colorado River Compact turn out to have been made using the the wettest 20-year period on record. This includes going back 700 years with tree-ring studies. The assumptions it was based on are not valid. Additional storage could help, right?
More seriously, Either we need to come up with different water policies or we need to stop populating the southwest as quickly as we are.
I agree about nuke power! Actually I think that the US needs to open up the door on reprocessing spent fuel. The current situation is wasteful in so many ways.
I remember when NPR used to tout itself as commercial free. I haven't heard them say that for years, and I listen regularly. If you haven't noticed the commercial content of NPR going up steadily you haven't been listening to NPR for very long.
They care about whether the chip is complaint to the ICAO standard, not what particular chip is used. There are lots of chips out there, they just have to respond correctly to the same APDUs. This article contains simplifications that are so dumbed down as to be wrong.
My rental car in the SF Bay Area a few weeks ago came with a Sirius radio. I was excited to try the technology out. To say that it was a letdown is an understatement.
The talk channels sound terrible. There are massively compressed. It is distracting. Everyone sounds like they are talking into a tin can. I had several people in the car and they could all hear the compression.
Music channels were better sounding, but more distracting still because you have higher expectations for music. At least it was a bad experience for me. Others didn't seem to notice it as much.
There are some nice things though. There are tons of stations with a vareity of formats, unlike the current FM dial. You don't have to worry about going out of range of a station. Finally, NO ADS! I was very happy to not hear the ads. I do have a question for you Sirius listeners out there: Does NPR still have pledge breaks on Sirius?
Actually, studies done after the 1983 floods have shown that the desert canyon ecosystem can recover from long-term submersion much more quickly than was suspected. Draining the dam would not only allow the restoration of the Glen Canyon ecosystem but it would also allow the Grand Canyon ecosystem to be restored to its natural state.
Of course somebody would have to go around and clean up all the batteries that have been tossed overboard by boaters.
Why not dam it? You get a source of electricity and even more storage of water in an area that can't get enough of it. They have the holes started for the foundation and for the diversion tunnels.
Did you read the article? He didn't mention Apple by name. In fact though the question was about Apple he was careful to answer in a more generic manner. It isn't clear if the question is about the OS or the hardware. Basically this is a non-story. It certainly wasn't the endorsement of Apple that the/. article makes it out to be.
My BlueTake BT500 experience has been bad. It doesn't track well, it is much to small, and the batteries fall out anytime that I travel with it in my laptop bag. The scroll wheel is too small or at least it is positioned so that the action is not comfortable. The buttons are flimsy and don't have the feel of a quality product. I have also found battery life to be pretty terrible. Finally, I wish it had more heft to it.
I had high hopes for this mouse but I find myself using my wired mouse instead of it, and I hate wires.
Strikes in Europe are weak. I tried to go to the Lourve last time I was in Paris. A rude man at the door told me he wouldn't let me in because he was on strike. I asked him why he was there if he was on strike. He replied that he had to show up if he wanted to get paid. In fact everybody showed up, they just didn't let anyone in. That is a pretty flimsy way of going on strike if you ask me.
I probably should have phrased that better. In saying, "source required by the GPL", I meant that the source doesn't have the author's copyright notices in it. It is not being distributed in the way that the GPL requires. They seem to be distributing exactly what they say is illegal to distribute.
It is odd that the VX30 folks included the License file, but removed the copyright notices.
They are distributing the program themselves without offering source code. They are claiming that the GPL gives them this right, but they aren't offering source as required by the GPL. Yes, this is a technicality, but it seems like a violation.
All of what you say is true. One other thing that should be noted is that it is amazing how some people are able to survive the layoffs. I've seen this less in services than in SWG, but there is some amazingly dead wood around...
Industry experts believe the reading from a meter away is possible. They also believe that if you are putting out enough power to read from that distance and the card comes within half a meter then the chip will be fried. Reading from a varying distance is actually pretty hard to do. Eavesdropping is easier, but won't do you any good since even if a secure channel isn't used the information is only good once.
This is using contactless smart cards. This is distinct from RFID and has more security features. It is a partial implementation of EMV, which has been used for years in Europe. If you are paranoid, put a few strips of tin foil in your wallet.
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Not to mention the commercials for its own programming that I'm sure it airs.
I bet this mouse tracks your every move.
More seriously, Either we need to come up with different water policies or we need to stop populating the southwest as quickly as we are.
I agree about nuke power! Actually I think that the US needs to open up the door on reprocessing spent fuel. The current situation is wasteful in so many ways.
Here's a head start for you if you are looking to hack:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/095.pdf
I remember when NPR used to tout itself as commercial free. I haven't heard them say that for years, and I listen regularly. If you haven't noticed the commercial content of NPR going up steadily you haven't been listening to NPR for very long.
They care about whether the chip is complaint to the ICAO standard, not what particular chip is used. There are lots of chips out there, they just have to respond correctly to the same APDUs. This article contains simplifications that are so dumbed down as to be wrong.
The talk channels sound terrible. There are massively compressed. It is distracting. Everyone sounds like they are talking into a tin can. I had several people in the car and they could all hear the compression.
Music channels were better sounding, but more distracting still because you have higher expectations for music. At least it was a bad experience for me. Others didn't seem to notice it as much.
There are some nice things though. There are tons of stations with a vareity of formats, unlike the current FM dial. You don't have to worry about going out of range of a station. Finally, NO ADS! I was very happy to not hear the ads. I do have a question for you Sirius listeners out there: Does NPR still have pledge breaks on Sirius?
Of course somebody would have to go around and clean up all the batteries that have been tossed overboard by boaters.
Why not dam it? You get a source of electricity and even more storage of water in an area that can't get enough of it. They have the holes started for the foundation and for the diversion tunnels.
I'm thinking "cusp", since there isn't a stable top.
In both the copyright example and the literal damming example "lots of people" don't have an appreciation for the real implications of the situation.
I agree. Drain it.
Did you read the article? He didn't mention Apple by name. In fact though the question was about Apple he was careful to answer in a more generic manner. It isn't clear if the question is about the OS or the hardware. Basically this is a non-story. It certainly wasn't the endorsement of Apple that the /. article makes it out to be.
I had high hopes for this mouse but I find myself using my wired mouse instead of it, and I hate wires.
Can you buy it without an adaptor? I have bluetooth on all my machines already and I don't want to pay for a dongle that I don't need and won't use.
Strikes in Europe are weak. I tried to go to the Lourve last time I was in Paris. A rude man at the door told me he wouldn't let me in because he was on strike. I asked him why he was there if he was on strike. He replied that he had to show up if he wanted to get paid. In fact everybody showed up, they just didn't let anyone in. That is a pretty flimsy way of going on strike if you ask me.
The sentence as it appears in the article is so vague as to be harmful since it can so easily be minsinterpreted.
Agreed. He isn't likely to get into trouble for this, but it is funny to me that he is doing exactly what he is complaining about.
It is odd that the VX30 folks included the License file, but removed the copyright notices.
They are distributing the program themselves without offering source code. They are claiming that the GPL gives them this right, but they aren't offering source as required by the GPL. Yes, this is a technicality, but it seems like a violation.
All of what you say is true. One other thing that should be noted is that it is amazing how some people are able to survive the layoffs. I've seen this less in services than in SWG, but there is some amazingly dead wood around...
Industry experts believe the reading from a meter away is possible. They also believe that if you are putting out enough power to read from that distance and the card comes within half a meter then the chip will be fried. Reading from a varying distance is actually pretty hard to do. Eavesdropping is easier, but won't do you any good since even if a secure channel isn't used the information is only good once.
Look at it more as definite than new.
You were guessing. I am telling you with certainty. I work for IBM and my group responded to some of the recent contactless RFPs.
This is using contactless smart cards. This is distinct from RFID and has more security features. It is a partial implementation of EMV, which has been used for years in Europe. If you are paranoid, put a few strips of tin foil in your wallet.