Sadly, this comes just days after the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
You say that as if Einstein had something to do with it. Really, being able to calculate how much energy a givenamount of mass will convert to has fuck-all to do with building a nuclear weapon. Might as well bring up Isaac Newton's work as relating to deaths from artillery fire, as they based firing tables on his laws of motion. "E=MC^2" != "The Bomb".
Sounds like a good thing because according to this report, this is sorely needed.
As the report says, the problem of broadband penetration is largely an issue of urban vs rural. BPL is a last-mile service with even greater limitations than DSL. BPL isn't going to help there.
People in another unaffected town who would normally be able to hear your weak signal can no longer hear anything but static caused by their own localised BPL fuzz.
Not only that, but those people will have packed up and put away (or sold!) their useless radio equipment, so they aren't even listening anyway!
What if I want to drive a horse driven carriage on the freeway? I don't think they'd let me but the horse driven carriage predates the car;
Your analogy is poor. Horse carriages are the equivalent of old fashioned spark-gap radio transmitters (which cause immense interference and are currently not used) in that they totally monkey wrench a much more useful conveyance. BPL isn't the automobile. Ham radio isn't the horse carriage. BPL is better compared to spark-gap. It creates huge amounts of interference which can easily be avoided by using a more sensible delivery system.
Oh and personally, I'd rather have people out in bumfuck nowhere that have no internet access currently to have the internet.
BPL isn't long-haul, it's a last-mile system. It requires either a fiber run to the pole where the transformer is, or hundreds of bridge devices to cross the transformer windings. Rural folks won't be getting BPL any more than they're getting DSL or cable.
Now if anyone is talking about being unable to receive the ham radio in an area that has power, we can pick up trace signals from mars orbiters running on a few AA batteries, through the solar radiation, so don't tell me state run receivers can't pick them up.
Your grasp of basic radio theory is lacking. JPL has a number of directional antennas for this. Knowing where the signal is coming and being able to tune and aim your antenna ahead of time from makes all the difference. Furthermore, Mars doesn't have a bunch of power lines criss-crossing it blaring out RF noise, so your analogy doesn't really apply. There is no magic "state run" radio that can pick up a weak distant signal when a much stronger signal is drowning it out.
Maybe I'm being naive here, but how about large concrete walls? No high-voltage wires, no tracking, nothing to fail. Just thick concrete, about 15 feet high, surrounding the area in which you want to contain the elephants. I don't see why that wouldn't be cheap, fast, and effective.
A thick, 15' high concrete wall isn't cheap. That's where the "too cost prohibitive to make any economic sense" comes from.
Actually, you are. Or rather, you are in a lot of circumstances. For example: If you know that what he told you was under NDA, and you go printing it on your website, you are liable (in most places).
Yes, if you didn't know, or didn't publish, or the laws in your state/country differ, it might be different, but the point is this: not signing an NDA does not automatically mean you have the right to disclose information obtained by others under an NDA.
Excellent clarification. You can indeed be found liable under trade secret law. My point only applies specifically to the NDA, i.e. third parties cannot be held to the terms of a contract they did not sign.
Maybe I'm not. Trade secrets are protected by law and you can be found civilly liable for disclosing them, but there's no way to make someone subject to the terms of an NDA they didn't sign. The fact that the NDA and trade secret law happen to coincide is what's you seem to be confused about. I challenge you to show where Think Secret was sued for breaking the NDA.
I'm sure it is. The only copy of OS X for x86 available right now is the one provided to developers with the x86 dev boxes. I'm almost certain that it's against the rules of the NDA to talk about it publicly like this.
An NDA only applies to the person who signs it. If Bob Smith signs an NDA and then runs to me and tells me what he saw, I am not civilly liable, Bob is. It's unlikely that anyone at this French web site signed an NDA, as they're a news site, not developers.
Sensenbrenner is your basic Fat Evil Prick, perfectly cast as a dictatorial committee chairman: He has the requisite moist-with-sweat pink neck, the dour expression, the penchant for pointless bile and vengefulness.
I couldn't find a good color picture, but here's a perfect B&W one that shows off the slack, deflated-innertube-like neck flab that also seems to be a prerequisite for the position!
Wait what's fibromyalgia then or Vertebral subluxation or are there so many words for I don't know that we'll never catch these wily psuedodocs?
Fibromyalgia is essentially CFS with severe muscle/tendon/joint pain. The pain is the most severe symptom, thus it becomes the source of the name. The name itself is literally "fibrous tissues-and-muscular-pain". It's a more specific catch-all that doctors can use to basically cover up the fact that they have no clue what's going on.
To illustrate how completely in the dark western medicine is on the subject, I was variously diagnosed as having CFS, FM, and Gulf War Syndrome, depending on which doctor. Simply put, they just make shit up at tell it to you with a straight face when they're clueless.
"Vertebral subluxation" is the catch-all category favored by chiropractic proponents for nearly all maladies. I have my own opinions about chiropractic treatment, but they are largely irrelevant to the discussion.
FWIW, traditional chinese medicine sees CFS and FM (and, to some degree, Gulf War Syndrome even) as variations of the same thing. The treatments western medicine handed me were just one bizarre prescription drug after another, and frankly they were just making me sicker. Eventually I resorted to chinese I Kung/Acupuncture treatment. The practitioner claimed to know exactly what was wrong and, despite the fact that it sounded to me like new age quackery, it actually worked. Within 6 months I was able to sleep like a normal human, and now after 3 years I'm nearly back to normal.
If they could make it into a contact lens, allowing the wearer to view distances without the benefit of binoculars.
It'll never happen. Telephoto or "zoom" lenses require a pair of lenses with some amount of separation between them. There's no practical way to mount additional lensing in front of your eye with enough separation to get a zoom effect and not interfere with normal eye function.
Psychosomatic illnesses are related to the interaction of body and mind and are caused or aggravated by mental factors such as internal conflict or stress.
If your brothers girlfriend was treated using uppers and downers, which change the way the mind functions by changing brain chemistry, then isn't that by definition a psychosomatic illness? Sounds like it to me.
"Psychosomatic" is often a term thrown around by doctors unwilling to admit that they can't figure out why the patient is sick. As far as uppers and downers only changing brain chemistry, that's only viewing the direct effects. Brain controls body. Anyone who's ever used speed can tell you that, while the drug only affects the mind, the mind definitely affects the body. Really, the distinction between brain and body can't be made very easily, as the two are highly interdependent.
So you're trying to tell us that you were cured of a disease that as no known effective treatment by a herpes cream? Perhaps your GP just recognized that a regular dose of "placebo effect" can be very effective when treating psychosomatic based illnesses.
The problem with CFS is that it's a catch-all diagnosis that doctors use when they want to say "we don't know why you're sick and exhausted". The name itself is just a description of a symptom, for crying out loud. From my research into it it seems to me that CFS is a cumulative systemic exhaustion. A bunch of smaller loads that pile up and eventually overwhelm you. In some cases there may be one thing that's a significant enough detriment that, if treated, gives your system just enough of an edge to fight back. In that case, it may very well have been a virus.
Some mods prefer to mod +1 Informative or +1 Insightful rather than +1 Funny. A funny moderation doesn't have any karma attached to it, so it's a way of working around the system to reward someone. I, myself, do it occasionally. Just an FYI.
personally, I use "+1 underrated" to award points to funny posts. Shows that I probably knew it was funny. It also preserves the "funny" marking, even if it only gets one "funny" and three "underrated"
I agree that comparisons between SSE and Altivec can be difficult, but I guess what I'm asking is how much better is SSE3? Is it approximately 3 times better, or just slightly better?
Only a little bit better, really. Beyond the simple 1:1 comparison, I have no clue . Do multiple AltiVec cores on a single G5 processor suffer more or less from memory bandwidth issues than a pair of Intel (whatevers) in a dual processor machine sharing a memory bus? What about the Opterons, with their independent on-die memory controllers? I used to work with x86 stuff up to the early pentium platforms, but I mostly work with Harvard architecture microcontrollers* now, so it's really all gotten too complicated for me to follow.
* separate data and program memory, very small RISC-like instruction set, nearly all instructions execute in one clock cycle
Well, what about residents of the "Americas" (South, North, Central) wouldn't it be correct to call them all americans?
Sure, but only if it's clear that we're talking about pure geography and not nationality. The default frame of reference for identity is essentially culture-based, which in the modern world roughly translates to nationality. The fact alone that there are no less than four official national languages and dozens of indigenous "unofficial" languages found across the Americas make it unlikely that someone would really have reason to identify themselves so unspecifically as a "resident of the largest contiguous landmass in the western hemisphere".
No. You are missing the point. HE NEVER CALLED IT THEFT. GPs basic point was that while copyright infringement is not theft, it is still illegal. GP was annoyed by all the parrots justifying copyright infringement by squacking the line "copyright infringement isn't theft" as a way to change the subject away from the fact that it is still illegal.
If that's the case, then it is the GP that was missing the point. Those that say it isn't theft aren't trying to change the subject, they are explaining their justification. The fact that it's still illegal is not the issue (see argument: illegal != immoral). Nobody just comes out and announces that copyright infringement isn't theft. It always comes comes as a response to some daft comment mentioning something along the lines of "stealing songs" or "theft of copyright".
Since when did the USA decide North and South America are different continents? Pretty much everyone else in America seems to think otherwise. And I'm referring to the continent, by the way.
The question swings both ways. Since when does Latin America get to decide the definition of a continent? The isthmus of Panama is 20 miles narrower than the isthmus of Suez, yet Suez is enough to demarcate two continents and Panama isn't? With the exception of Japan and Iran, the rest of the world sees the Americas as two continents. Calling it one continent makes about as much sense as calling Europe and Asia two continents. The problem is that it's an issue chock-full of politics rather than one of simple geography. By the strict definition there are technically only 4 continents (Afrasia, Antarctica, America, Australia), but that one clearly over-generalizes.
So to please the people who call the United States "America", they had to rename a whole continent?
Not really, no. The Wikipedia entry isn't really correct when it suggests that usage of the term "Americas" is simply disambiguation. There is no single continent named "America". There are two distinct continents differentiated by the prefixes "North" and "South". When referring to both together, the only logical form to use is the plural "Americas". When one says "America", it's patently obvious that one is not talking about the pair of continents. About the only argument that can really be made over the appropriation of the term "America" by the USA is that the dominant country in South America should have had an equal chance at it-- but then, which country would that be?
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THEY DO NOT EMAIL THE SPAMMERS
they fill forms on the spammers WEBSITE! with DO NOT ABUSE THE COMMUNITY
To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to. No significant difference in the end result. Yeah, the "email" explaination is a simplification, so the fuck what? Whether it's a webform posting to a database or a webform pushing out an email, the important fact remains that THIS IS NOT DDOS.
For those that don't know what Blue Security does, see this thread.
Basically, they DDOS spammers websites in hopes that they will shut them down.
That/. story, as typical for so many/. stories, was either in error or intentionally inflamatory in calling it "DDOS". Blue Security does not DDOS spammers. They simply flood the spammer's inbox with requests to unsubscribe, thereby making sorting through all those unwanted emails to find the profitable ones from legitimate suckers into an unprofitable task. Again, they do not overwhelm servers by sucking up their bandwidth, they only fill the spammers' email inboxes with legitimate email spam list removal requests.
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You say that as if Einstein had something to do with it. Really, being able to calculate how much energy a givenamount of mass will convert to has fuck-all to do with building a nuclear weapon. Might as well bring up Isaac Newton's work as relating to deaths from artillery fire, as they based firing tables on his laws of motion. "E=MC^2" != "The Bomb".
As the report says, the problem of broadband penetration is largely an issue of urban vs rural. BPL is a last-mile service with even greater limitations than DSL. BPL isn't going to help there.
Heh. True, but then someone moderated me "underrated" to prove my point!
Not only that, but those people will have packed up and put away (or sold!) their useless radio equipment, so they aren't even listening anyway!
Your analogy is poor. Horse carriages are the equivalent of old fashioned spark-gap radio transmitters (which cause immense interference and are currently not used) in that they totally monkey wrench a much more useful conveyance. BPL isn't the automobile. Ham radio isn't the horse carriage. BPL is better compared to spark-gap. It creates huge amounts of interference which can easily be avoided by using a more sensible delivery system.
Oh and personally, I'd rather have people out in bumfuck nowhere that have no internet access currently to have the internet.
BPL isn't long-haul, it's a last-mile system. It requires either a fiber run to the pole where the transformer is, or hundreds of bridge devices to cross the transformer windings. Rural folks won't be getting BPL any more than they're getting DSL or cable.
Your grasp of basic radio theory is lacking. JPL has a number of directional antennas for this. Knowing where the signal is coming and being able to tune and aim your antenna ahead of time from makes all the difference. Furthermore, Mars doesn't have a bunch of power lines criss-crossing it blaring out RF noise, so your analogy doesn't really apply. There is no magic "state run" radio that can pick up a weak distant signal when a much stronger signal is drowning it out.
A thick, 15' high concrete wall isn't cheap. That's where the "too cost prohibitive to make any economic sense" comes from.
Excellent clarification. You can indeed be found liable under trade secret law. My point only applies specifically to the NDA, i.e. third parties cannot be held to the terms of a contract they did not sign.
Maybe I'm not. Trade secrets are protected by law and you can be found civilly liable for disclosing them, but there's no way to make someone subject to the terms of an NDA they didn't sign. The fact that the NDA and trade secret law happen to coincide is what's you seem to be confused about. I challenge you to show where Think Secret was sued for breaking the NDA.
An NDA only applies to the person who signs it. If Bob Smith signs an NDA and then runs to me and tells me what he saw, I am not civilly liable, Bob is. It's unlikely that anyone at this French web site signed an NDA, as they're a news site, not developers.
I couldn't find a good color picture, but here's a perfect B&W one that shows off the slack, deflated-innertube-like neck flab that also seems to be a prerequisite for the position!
Wait! Found a pretty good color photo too!
Hey, personally I'm waiting for cybernetic eyes, where they can enclose the optical zoom elements inside and augment it with digital/lossy zoom.
Fibromyalgia is essentially CFS with severe muscle/tendon/joint pain. The pain is the most severe symptom, thus it becomes the source of the name. The name itself is literally "fibrous tissues-and-muscular-pain". It's a more specific catch-all that doctors can use to basically cover up the fact that they have no clue what's going on.
To illustrate how completely in the dark western medicine is on the subject, I was variously diagnosed as having CFS, FM, and Gulf War Syndrome, depending on which doctor. Simply put, they just make shit up at tell it to you with a straight face when they're clueless.
"Vertebral subluxation" is the catch-all category favored by chiropractic proponents for nearly all maladies. I have my own opinions about chiropractic treatment, but they are largely irrelevant to the discussion.
FWIW, traditional chinese medicine sees CFS and FM (and, to some degree, Gulf War Syndrome even) as variations of the same thing. The treatments western medicine handed me were just one bizarre prescription drug after another, and frankly they were just making me sicker. Eventually I resorted to chinese I Kung/Acupuncture treatment. The practitioner claimed to know exactly what was wrong and, despite the fact that it sounded to me like new age quackery, it actually worked. Within 6 months I was able to sleep like a normal human, and now after 3 years I'm nearly back to normal.
It'll never happen. Telephoto or "zoom" lenses require a pair of lenses with some amount of separation between them. There's no practical way to mount additional lensing in front of your eye with enough separation to get a zoom effect and not interfere with normal eye function.
"Psychosomatic" is often a term thrown around by doctors unwilling to admit that they can't figure out why the patient is sick. As far as uppers and downers only changing brain chemistry, that's only viewing the direct effects. Brain controls body. Anyone who's ever used speed can tell you that, while the drug only affects the mind, the mind definitely affects the body. Really, the distinction between brain and body can't be made very easily, as the two are highly interdependent.
The problem with CFS is that it's a catch-all diagnosis that doctors use when they want to say "we don't know why you're sick and exhausted". The name itself is just a description of a symptom, for crying out loud. From my research into it it seems to me that CFS is a cumulative systemic exhaustion. A bunch of smaller loads that pile up and eventually overwhelm you. In some cases there may be one thing that's a significant enough detriment that, if treated, gives your system just enough of an edge to fight back. In that case, it may very well have been a virus.
personally, I use "+1 underrated" to award points to funny posts. Shows that I probably knew it was funny. It also preserves the "funny" marking, even if it only gets one "funny" and three "underrated"
should have updated (or should've), fer god's sake. What does "should of" mean?
Only a little bit better, really. Beyond the simple 1:1 comparison, I have no clue . Do multiple AltiVec cores on a single G5 processor suffer more or less from memory bandwidth issues than a pair of Intel (whatevers) in a dual processor machine sharing a memory bus? What about the Opterons, with their independent on-die memory controllers? I used to work with x86 stuff up to the early pentium platforms, but I mostly work with Harvard architecture microcontrollers* now, so it's really all gotten too complicated for me to follow.
* separate data and program memory, very small RISC-like instruction set, nearly all instructions execute in one clock cycle
Sure, but only if it's clear that we're talking about pure geography and not nationality. The default frame of reference for identity is essentially culture-based, which in the modern world roughly translates to nationality. The fact alone that there are no less than four official national languages and dozens of indigenous "unofficial" languages found across the Americas make it unlikely that someone would really have reason to identify themselves so unspecifically as a "resident of the largest contiguous landmass in the western hemisphere".
If that's the case, then it is the GP that was missing the point. Those that say it isn't theft aren't trying to change the subject, they are explaining their justification. The fact that it's still illegal is not the issue (see argument: illegal != immoral). Nobody just comes out and announces that copyright infringement isn't theft. It always comes comes as a response to some daft comment mentioning something along the lines of "stealing songs" or "theft of copyright".
The question swings both ways. Since when does Latin America get to decide the definition of a continent? The isthmus of Panama is 20 miles narrower than the isthmus of Suez, yet Suez is enough to demarcate two continents and Panama isn't? With the exception of Japan and Iran, the rest of the world sees the Americas as two continents. Calling it one continent makes about as much sense as calling Europe and Asia two continents. The problem is that it's an issue chock-full of politics rather than one of simple geography. By the strict definition there are technically only 4 continents (Afrasia, Antarctica, America, Australia), but that one clearly over-generalizes.
Not really, no. The Wikipedia entry isn't really correct when it suggests that usage of the term "Americas" is simply disambiguation. There is no single continent named "America". There are two distinct continents differentiated by the prefixes "North" and "South". When referring to both together, the only logical form to use is the plural "Americas". When one says "America", it's patently obvious that one is not talking about the pair of continents. About the only argument that can really be made over the appropriation of the term "America" by the USA is that the dominant country in South America should have had an equal chance at it-- but then, which country would that be?
To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to. No significant difference in the end result. Yeah, the "email" explaination is a simplification, so the fuck what? Whether it's a webform posting to a database or a webform pushing out an email, the important fact remains that THIS IS NOT DDOS.
That /. story, as typical for so many /. stories, was either in error or intentionally inflamatory in calling it "DDOS". Blue Security does not DDOS spammers. They simply flood the spammer's inbox with requests to unsubscribe, thereby making sorting through all those unwanted emails to find the profitable ones from legitimate suckers into an unprofitable task. Again, they do not overwhelm servers by sucking up their bandwidth, they only fill the spammers' email inboxes with legitimate email spam list removal requests.