Problems like generating a significantly higher amount of waste heat, while simultaneously creating a frost (no kidding) and condensation problem made them extremely impractical when faced with water cooling options.
That and becoming an insulator should it lose power.
You should also do some research on the idea of official immunity.
Obviously I'm against Official Immunity, otherwise I'd not have started this thread in the first place. The idea that congresspeople can pass laws with impunity is what gets us into this mess in the first place.
Even leaving Official Immunity in place, I'm not advocating arresting people, or even fines over their pay. By deducting the costs from their salaries, one can view it as a pay-for-performance system: If you do a good job and pass legal laws, you get 100% of your pay thats coming to you. If you're a shitty legislator, you get $0.
While it's easy to say "but if they're a shitty legislator they'll be voted out", you'll have to give me the power of Recall, and prevent the legislators from "hiding" questionable items within another bill. Bonus points if you can come up with people who care. (And no, nobody caring is not a defense either. If not caring was a defense, then I could go and stab some homeless, familyless guy and leave his body on the street, and face a littering fine to cover the cost and trouble of someone having to haul the body away)
The three branches concept was nice, but flawed from the very start. The post I replied to was right, if Congress does something that cannot be challenged in court, then it can never be ruled unconstitutional, and the so-called "checks and balances" never come into play. Doesn't matter whether it's the Louisiana Purchase or a law stripping suspected terrorists of their constitutional rights to a trial without proving that the person is a terrorist, if it never hits a courtroom, it cannot be challenged.
What would truly fix the situation would be to have the supreme court review all legislation immediately after passage, before someone is injured (in the civil sense of the word) by unconstitutional law. But this would give the poor old justices on the bench quite a workout, so setting things up so that Congress works to stay within the law in the first place would certainly be more feasable.
Then you wind up with the executive and legislative branches doing to job of the judiciary
And you beleive speed limits put traffic cops out of business too, right?
The judiciary will still have the job of interpreting the sloppy laws that Congress passes. It'll still have the job of deciding points of procedure on appeals, and it'll still have the job of issuing tickets to Congress when it feels like "speeding" over the limits imposed by the Constitution.
So, when Firefox prefetches a site, it should be visible in the site's logs, but I don't think it could trigger a third-party counter/tracker. Also, Google only prefetches certain sites, not any site.
Not only that, but both google and firefox clearly indicate prefetch requests in their headers, so that well-written code can identify and ignore such requests before, say, dropping databases. Additionally, each prefetch would have come from the same IP as the actual hit, so they would not be counted separately.
This is true, but even when its possible to trudge the path to unconstitutionality all that lawyer and court time isn't cheap. Maybe the proper "punishment" for breaking Constitutional law should be that when a law is ruled unconstitutional, all court fees for the entire process for both the prosecution and the defense from the first trial, all of the appeals, and the supreme court should be deducted out of the salaries of the people who voted yes, and the president if the president didn't veto it.
There ain't no such thing as illegal legislation. There is such a thing as unconstitutional legislation, though, which is maybe what you were thinking of.
Why is there a difference? If I were to break a local, state, or federal law, I'd have committed an illegal act. But if Congress breaks the rules in the Constitution, which is the highest law of the country, it's merely "unconstitutional".
Too bad it isn't illegal to pass laws or otherwise act against the constitution. "It seemed like a good idea at the time" isn't much of a defense for any other crime, and it might actually force our representatives to care about what they're doing for once, instead of signing whatever they're paid to sign or passing whatever the majority whip tells them to.
We started to go wrong when treating the symptoms became easier (or at least, more profitable) than treating the disease. Too dangerous to go outside? Let people pee in the bus. Much cheaper than actually dealing with the crime. Even cheaper if you don't install a toilet.
Crime isn't the only situation, the pattern plays out over and over in both business and government, even when the costs of the symptoms end up adding up to more than the original cost of fixing the disease. How many companies don't properly spec software designs or manage the development and then have the project blow up in their face?
Also, consider Florida's satellite monitoring of pedos. Does it fix anything? If a pedo comes within one hundred feet of a school, how many seconds will it take for a cop to arrive? How many seconds will it take for the pedo to grab a kid from the playground and run? Obviously in this case a pound of prevention (like hiring more officers to actually watch these people and make sure they're where they're supposed to be) just wasn't worth the re-election soundbite that a multimillion dollar GPS system was.
Read the patent. The patent lawyers fucked themselves in the foot on this one. After the abstract, it's no longer about putting music on a player piano or something, it's about playing music on an "external computer controlled device"... hey! I've got some of those plugged into my computer now! They're called "Speakers"! That's what you get when your lawyers try to make the patent as broad as possible.
It controlled speakers, and thanks to the patent lawyers trying to make that patent as broad as possible, speakers are covered as an external computer controlled device.
They might have a case for copyright infringement if they can show their ex-employees took the code to Apple. Might even have a case for contract law, if Apple NDA'd to see the software at the trade shows.
But the patent was applied for in 1999. How long has winamp existed? When winamp first came out, how much information did it display on the screen? How long have ID3 tags been around, with Winamp using them to display song name, artist, title... ooops, we've already passed the two fields in the patent! And the buttons, of course the buttons! Buttons are clearly a novel way to control a computer!
The patent as described in the abstract would have been a pretty cool invention. "Control a player piano from your computer!" Too bad the patent lawyers sank their teeth into it and turned it into a steaming pile of crap, knowing that the patent office would accept it anyway. "A computer controlled device" in this language could mean anything from a piano to a pair of speakers.... and imagine that, the music comes out my speakers when I hit play in either iTunes or Winamp!
Bullshit. You are what is wrong with this world today. What the fuck is with the groupthink? What the fuck is this "it takes a village" bullshit? History has shown time and time again that it's NEVER about "the whole country." Whenever people start worrying about "the whole country" taxes go up, businesses are forced to fold, people are laid off, and consumers lose spending power.
Hahahaha what an utter riot.
All this "bullshit" is exactly what the globalists are spouting, only instead of some americans losing spending power while others gain it, Americans are losing spending power while foreigners gain it. Even if you don't believe it's a race to the "bottom" the elevator of your dreams is still stopping at the middle.
And back to point 1, no clever person stays out of a job. If you can't find a job these days, YOU ARE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. You have some kind of stupid hangup. You are lazy. You are unwilling to change. You are unwilling to accept lower pay. You are unwilling to move, if that's what it takes. But there are jobs out there. Maybe you're a shitty programmer. Well, that's what you get for thinking that programming was a learnable skill for everyone and that you could just BS your way along. You should have worked in HR, fucker.
Right, HR. That's where they turn away the people who lost everything, no longer have a home to go home to or a place to shave and shower, and haven't changed clothes in a week.
Go home, look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself "Would I hire a programmer who's been out of work for several months, made some bad decisions, and lost his house?" If you can't honestly say yes you'd hire a qualified homeless person for the lower pay you so loudly espouse, then you're referring to yourself when you say You are the problem. You are absolutely the problem.
Now fuck off. Slashdot isn't here to make you feel better about your sad and empty life.
Get an education or something that not everyone can do
And that is?
8 years ago it was computer science. "Huge shortage in IT professionals!" Where are all the CS jobs now? 4 years ago it was nursing. "Huge shortage in nurses to take care of all the old peoople!" They opened new nursing schools to handle the glut of people that raced to that one. Don't here much about it these days, though I figure after having some old guy shit on you for the second time, turn over is high enough to run through quite a lot of applicants. Also turns out that when your retirement savings are based on Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, or any of the other big stable businesses, you can lose a big chunk overnight, then you have to resort to candy to get the girls to come in and sponge you off. Yesterday I opened the paper and it was Pharmacy. Did you know that only 7000 people graduated last year with a Pharmacy Degree? At this rate there'll be a huge shortage! We're talking 6 figure salaries here!
I've come to the conclusion that all of these "shortages" are manufacturerd by the universities and trade schools, to make it seem like schooling is actually worth something other than just another debt to pay off while you live with Mom and try to find a job with your useless piece of paper.
Wow, Yet Another "Banks Create Money" spouter. It's interesting that so many armchair economists are such failures at basic math.
Let's say I get a loan for $1000 to be paid back in 5 years. Let's say when I pay it back, I've paid back $1050. Then, the bank didn't "create" any money. It created $50 in charges to me. I have $50 less than I would have without the bank's help.
Now, if I spent the 5 years starting a company and in that time I make $1200 then I've "created" $150 (over my debt), but the bank's responsibility for the "creation" of wealth ended when they charged me $50 for the privilege of starting a company and producing widgets to sell.
So repeat after me: "The bank doesn't create money. All it does is charge other people to do it for them."
If you still don't believe it, what happens if I did nothing with the money? If I just paid it and the $50 back (like thousands and thousands of consumers do when they get insanely high-priced short-term loans to cover their bills until their next paycheck)? Was any money "created"? If the bank was creating money and I had nothing to do with it, why did the bank fail to make money for me?
"We should not have been doing that," Mr. Perry said. "That, however, has been remediated." As for the sensitive data, he added, "We no longer store it on files."
Should be read
As for the sensitive data, he added, "We still store it, just not in files."
"The number of compromised Master Card accounts has been revised downward to about 68,000, with another 132,000 possibly compromised accounts belonging to Visa, American Express, and other companies."
Should be read as
"The number of compromised Master Card accounts from accountholders in California where we actually have to report this is about 68,000. Another 132,000 people in California with Visa, American Express, and other credit card companies' cards also had their account information taken"
Lower costs make way for quicker acceptance by the public.
Oh no! If movie studios used Blu-Ray they'd no longer be able to sell a $20 movie on a 50 cent disc with 50 cents of packaging, instead they'll have to sell it on a 2 dollar disc with 50 cents of packaging! How will they ever protect their 2000% per-item margin?!
You can't see me, but I'm sitting here playing My Heart Bleeds for You on the world's smallest violin.
That right there is the problem. People treat their homes as investment vessels despite the fact that its one of the highest risk possibilities and exposed to totally random elements that most people aren't even aware of, much less take steps to mitigate it.
Ok, the entire situation is due to everyone's greed. And the nature of employment taxes giving tax breaks for outsourcing, with or without any president stepping in and giving special breaks to outsourcers.
Everyone has a finger to point. For some, it's pointing at the geeks who accepted jobs the companies were offering at $150k/yr. For others it's pointing at the CEOs buying their third Lear while they still don't have a product to sell. For the rest, it's the patent office saying "OMG! Do X on Teh Intarweb! Approved!" which resulted in a glut of companies doing things nobody gave a shit about, just because they managed to patent it.
Can anyone name even one example of a successful stealth startup?
If they succeeded you wouldn't know about it, that's the point. A successful stealth company would have appeared, said "hey buy my stuff!" and people would have bought it. Under Fletcher's proposal, a company would appear and say "hey buy my stuff!"... this is different to the naked eye how?
Unlike kids who have this curiosity to "do the math" and discover they were conceived about 5 months before their parents married, very few people look to see how long a company has been around, and those that do are usually the ones checking to see how trustworthy the company is, and who'd pan a startup as "inexperienced", stealth or not.
Assuming you live in zoned property where running a business from your house or apartment is illegal, you'll need to buy or rent commercial space to house your company. You'll need several kinds of insurance. If you can't hit the ground running with a product, you'll have to pay yourself and/or other developers while you develop something. This also assumes that you're going to be Yet Another Software Company, and not something like retail or manufacturing, or some other capital-expensive industry.
Exactly how "shoestring" is "shoestring", and what were you planning on spending only "thousands" on?
It is not the job of any society to make up for the fact that you chose to be educated in the wrong profession. It's your mistake. You suffer.
If we're going to start pointing fingers from the results of the.bomb crash, whose fault is it really that the profession suddenly became the "wrong" one?
And what is the "wrong" profession? The one that by random chance or simple flow of time was in a low point in a business cycle? Where do you get off calling this a "mistake" then?
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Too bad the other Republican justices voted for it too, huh?
Breaking this one down on party-line basis doesn't help either side.
Problems like generating a significantly higher amount of waste heat, while simultaneously creating a frost (no kidding) and condensation problem made them extremely impractical when faced with water cooling options.
That and becoming an insulator should it lose power.
You should also do some research on the idea of official immunity.
Obviously I'm against Official Immunity, otherwise I'd not have started this thread in the first place. The idea that congresspeople can pass laws with impunity is what gets us into this mess in the first place.
Even leaving Official Immunity in place, I'm not advocating arresting people, or even fines over their pay. By deducting the costs from their salaries, one can view it as a pay-for-performance system: If you do a good job and pass legal laws, you get 100% of your pay thats coming to you. If you're a shitty legislator, you get $0.
While it's easy to say "but if they're a shitty legislator they'll be voted out", you'll have to give me the power of Recall, and prevent the legislators from "hiding" questionable items within another bill. Bonus points if you can come up with people who care. (And no, nobody caring is not a defense either. If not caring was a defense, then I could go and stab some homeless, familyless guy and leave his body on the street, and face a littering fine to cover the cost and trouble of someone having to haul the body away)
The three branches concept was nice, but flawed from the very start. The post I replied to was right, if Congress does something that cannot be challenged in court, then it can never be ruled unconstitutional, and the so-called "checks and balances" never come into play. Doesn't matter whether it's the Louisiana Purchase or a law stripping suspected terrorists of their constitutional rights to a trial without proving that the person is a terrorist, if it never hits a courtroom, it cannot be challenged.
What would truly fix the situation would be to have the supreme court review all legislation immediately after passage, before someone is injured (in the civil sense of the word) by unconstitutional law. But this would give the poor old justices on the bench quite a workout, so setting things up so that Congress works to stay within the law in the first place would certainly be more feasable.
Then you wind up with the executive and legislative branches doing to job of the judiciary
And you beleive speed limits put traffic cops out of business too, right?
The judiciary will still have the job of interpreting the sloppy laws that Congress passes. It'll still have the job of deciding points of procedure on appeals, and it'll still have the job of issuing tickets to Congress when it feels like "speeding" over the limits imposed by the Constitution.
So, when Firefox prefetches a site, it should be visible in the site's logs, but I don't think it could trigger a third-party counter/tracker. Also, Google only prefetches certain sites, not any site.
Not only that, but both google and firefox clearly indicate prefetch requests in their headers, so that well-written code can identify and ignore such requests before, say, dropping databases. Additionally, each prefetch would have come from the same IP as the actual hit, so they would not be counted separately.
the ones that are so open minded that they shout down any conservative voice at a war protest.
Funny, sounds like a good portion of the American Right.
Can't we all just agree to slit each other's throats in the night?
This is true, but even when its possible to trudge the path to unconstitutionality all that lawyer and court time isn't cheap. Maybe the proper "punishment" for breaking Constitutional law should be that when a law is ruled unconstitutional, all court fees for the entire process for both the prosecution and the defense from the first trial, all of the appeals, and the supreme court should be deducted out of the salaries of the people who voted yes, and the president if the president didn't veto it.
There ain't no such thing as illegal legislation. There is such a thing as unconstitutional legislation, though, which is maybe what you were thinking of.
Why is there a difference? If I were to break a local, state, or federal law, I'd have committed an illegal act. But if Congress breaks the rules in the Constitution, which is the highest law of the country, it's merely "unconstitutional".
Too bad it isn't illegal to pass laws or otherwise act against the constitution. "It seemed like a good idea at the time" isn't much of a defense for any other crime, and it might actually force our representatives to care about what they're doing for once, instead of signing whatever they're paid to sign or passing whatever the majority whip tells them to.
amendments and provisions of a bill must directly relate to its topic.
Like that will change a thing, really. It'll just mean that our bills will be titled
"Wont somebody think of the children in Iraq and my taxes on my million dollar house are too high and random porkbarrel act of 2006"
On the other hand, we'll quit getting stupid cutesy acronyms like PATRIOT and what not.
It's funny, because I used to think that exact thought. Then reality hit, and I realized I'm just a big pussy :(
But were you 25 when reality hit?
Where did we start to go wrong?
We started to go wrong when treating the symptoms became easier (or at least, more profitable) than treating the disease. Too dangerous to go outside? Let people pee in the bus. Much cheaper than actually dealing with the crime. Even cheaper if you don't install a toilet.
Crime isn't the only situation, the pattern plays out over and over in both business and government, even when the costs of the symptoms end up adding up to more than the original cost of fixing the disease. How many companies don't properly spec software designs or manage the development and then have the project blow up in their face?
Also, consider Florida's satellite monitoring of pedos. Does it fix anything? If a pedo comes within one hundred feet of a school, how many seconds will it take for a cop to arrive? How many seconds will it take for the pedo to grab a kid from the playground and run? Obviously in this case a pound of prevention (like hiring more officers to actually watch these people and make sure they're where they're supposed to be) just wasn't worth the re-election soundbite that a multimillion dollar GPS system was.
Read the patent. The patent lawyers fucked themselves in the foot on this one. After the abstract, it's no longer about putting music on a player piano or something, it's about playing music on an "external computer controlled device"... hey! I've got some of those plugged into my computer now! They're called "Speakers"! That's what you get when your lawyers try to make the patent as broad as possible.
It controlled speakers, and thanks to the patent lawyers trying to make that patent as broad as possible, speakers are covered as an external computer controlled device.
And?
They might have a case for copyright infringement if they can show their ex-employees took the code to Apple. Might even have a case for contract law, if Apple NDA'd to see the software at the trade shows.
But the patent was applied for in 1999. How long has winamp existed? When winamp first came out, how much information did it display on the screen? How long have ID3 tags been around, with Winamp using them to display song name, artist, title... ooops, we've already passed the two fields in the patent! And the buttons, of course the buttons! Buttons are clearly a novel way to control a computer!
The patent as described in the abstract would have been a pretty cool invention. "Control a player piano from your computer!" Too bad the patent lawyers sank their teeth into it and turned it into a steaming pile of crap, knowing that the patent office would accept it anyway. "A computer controlled device" in this language could mean anything from a piano to a pair of speakers.... and imagine that, the music comes out my speakers when I hit play in either iTunes or Winamp!
Bullshit. You are what is wrong with this world today. What the fuck is with the groupthink? What the fuck is this "it takes a village" bullshit? History has shown time and time again that it's NEVER about "the whole country." Whenever people start worrying about "the whole country" taxes go up, businesses are forced to fold, people are laid off, and consumers lose spending power.
Hahahaha what an utter riot.
All this "bullshit" is exactly what the globalists are spouting, only instead of some americans losing spending power while others gain it, Americans are losing spending power while foreigners gain it. Even if you don't believe it's a race to the "bottom" the elevator of your dreams is still stopping at the middle.
And back to point 1, no clever person stays out of a job. If you can't find a job these days, YOU ARE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. You have some kind of stupid hangup. You are lazy. You are unwilling to change. You are unwilling to accept lower pay. You are unwilling to move, if that's what it takes. But there are jobs out there. Maybe you're a shitty programmer. Well, that's what you get for thinking that programming was a learnable skill for everyone and that you could just BS your way along. You should have worked in HR, fucker.
Right, HR. That's where they turn away the people who lost everything, no longer have a home to go home to or a place to shave and shower, and haven't changed clothes in a week.
Go home, look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself "Would I hire a programmer who's been out of work for several months, made some bad decisions, and lost his house?" If you can't honestly say yes you'd hire a qualified homeless person for the lower pay you so loudly espouse, then you're referring to yourself when you say You are the problem. You are absolutely the problem.
Now fuck off. Slashdot isn't here to make you feel better about your sad and empty life.
Get an education or something that not everyone can do
And that is?
8 years ago it was computer science. "Huge shortage in IT professionals!" Where are all the CS jobs now?
4 years ago it was nursing. "Huge shortage in nurses to take care of all the old peoople!" They opened new nursing schools to handle the glut of people that raced to that one. Don't here much about it these days, though I figure after having some old guy shit on you for the second time, turn over is high enough to run through quite a lot of applicants. Also turns out that when your retirement savings are based on Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, or any of the other big stable businesses, you can lose a big chunk overnight, then you have to resort to candy to get the girls to come in and sponge you off.
Yesterday I opened the paper and it was Pharmacy. Did you know that only 7000 people graduated last year with a Pharmacy Degree? At this rate there'll be a huge shortage! We're talking 6 figure salaries here!
I've come to the conclusion that all of these "shortages" are manufacturerd by the universities and trade schools, to make it seem like schooling is actually worth something other than just another debt to pay off while you live with Mom and try to find a job with your useless piece of paper.
Look up "Banks Create Money"
Wow, Yet Another "Banks Create Money" spouter. It's interesting that so many armchair economists are such failures at basic math.
Let's say I get a loan for $1000 to be paid back in 5 years. Let's say when I pay it back, I've paid back $1050. Then, the bank didn't "create" any money. It created $50 in charges to me. I have $50 less than I would have without the bank's help.
Now, if I spent the 5 years starting a company and in that time I make $1200 then I've "created" $150 (over my debt), but the bank's responsibility for the "creation" of wealth ended when they charged me $50 for the privilege of starting a company and producing widgets to sell.
So repeat after me: "The bank doesn't create money. All it does is charge other people to do it for them."
If you still don't believe it, what happens if I did nothing with the money? If I just paid it and the $50 back (like thousands and thousands of consumers do when they get insanely high-priced short-term loans to cover their bills until their next paycheck)? Was any money "created"? If the bank was creating money and I had nothing to do with it, why did the bank fail to make money for me?
"We should not have been doing that," Mr. Perry said. "That, however, has been remediated." As for the sensitive data, he added, "We no longer store it on files."
Should be read
As for the sensitive data, he added, "We still store it, just not in files."
Holds more, costs more.
Lower costs make way for quicker acceptance by the public.
Oh no! If movie studios used Blu-Ray they'd no longer be able to sell a $20 movie on a 50 cent disc with 50 cents of packaging, instead they'll have to sell it on a 2 dollar disc with 50 cents of packaging! How will they ever protect their 2000% per-item margin?!
You can't see me, but I'm sitting here playing My Heart Bleeds for You on the world's smallest violin.
That right there is the problem. People treat their homes as investment vessels despite the fact that its one of the highest risk possibilities and exposed to totally random elements that most people aren't even aware of, much less take steps to mitigate it.
Ok, the entire situation is due to everyone's greed. And the nature of employment taxes giving tax breaks for outsourcing, with or without any president stepping in and giving special breaks to outsourcers.
Everyone has a finger to point. For some, it's pointing at the geeks who accepted jobs the companies were offering at $150k/yr. For others it's pointing at the CEOs buying their third Lear while they still don't have a product to sell. For the rest, it's the patent office saying "OMG! Do X on Teh Intarweb! Approved!" which resulted in a glut of companies doing things nobody gave a shit about, just because they managed to patent it.
Can anyone name even one example of a successful stealth startup?
If they succeeded you wouldn't know about it, that's the point. A successful stealth company would have appeared, said "hey buy my stuff!" and people would have bought it. Under Fletcher's proposal, a company would appear and say "hey buy my stuff!"... this is different to the naked eye how?
Unlike kids who have this curiosity to "do the math" and discover they were conceived about 5 months before their parents married, very few people look to see how long a company has been around, and those that do are usually the ones checking to see how trustworthy the company is, and who'd pan a startup as "inexperienced", stealth or not.
Assuming you live in zoned property where running a business from your house or apartment is illegal, you'll need to buy or rent commercial space to house your company. You'll need several kinds of insurance. If you can't hit the ground running with a product, you'll have to pay yourself and/or other developers while you develop something. This also assumes that you're going to be Yet Another Software Company, and not something like retail or manufacturing, or some other capital-expensive industry.
Exactly how "shoestring" is "shoestring", and what were you planning on spending only "thousands" on?
It is not the job of any society to make up for the fact that you chose to be educated in the wrong profession. It's your mistake. You suffer.
.bomb crash, whose fault is it really that the profession suddenly became the "wrong" one?
If we're going to start pointing fingers from the results of the
And what is the "wrong" profession? The one that by random chance or simple flow of time was in a low point in a business cycle? Where do you get off calling this a "mistake" then?