If this is an issue that concerns you, I suggest finding a convenient liberal and asking them how well the corporate media represents their views.
Well, what he should have said was "Liberal-Democrat Bias" in the media. The media may not represent TRUE liberals, but that doesn't mean they're CONSERVATIVE. Conservatives call it "liberal bias" because in their view, anyone to the left of them is "liberal". Here in Los Angeles I have my dyed-in-the-wool conservative Republican boss calling the LA Times a "liberal rag", and my labor-activist girlfriend calling it a "conservative rag". What it REALLY is is a mindless mouthpiece for the Democratic party. Think about the type of people who become journalists: they're often "high-minded" and want to "help people" by educating the befuddled masses. They're typical bleeding-heart types who think something should be done, but don't want to get their hands dirty. They're biased, but in that irritating party-line way. They may not be actual PROGRESSIVES, but they still vote 97% Democrat.
Voting in this country is a fraud. Voting machines of any kind can be rigged. They don't count the ballots at the polling place. How do I know that my ballot box is the same one that arrives at city hall.
Bah! The voting system isn't rigged because doesn't NEED to be. The REAL "rigging" happens much, much earlier on. The two ruling parties have dug themselves in so firmly and put up so many barriers to outside challenge that any fiddling with ballots is essentially unnecessary. Sure, they point fingers at one another and accuse each other of "cheating", but the REAL cheat is that our choice is between the "Raise Taxes Party" and the "Go To War Party". Personally, that's why I don't bother to vote.
Number of sleep cycles before reboot is necessary:
Dell/Windows: about 10
Dell/Linux: about 100
Dude, what version of "Windows"? Just saying "Windows" is like just saying "Mac OS". It's too ambiguous because there are multiple versions with seperately developed kernels. Give a version, man.
The shape of the case won't fit into a narrow slot that some desks leave; it wouldn't be a problem at my desk, but I can see trouble in cramped environments
Yeah, this is what would cause me the most problems. Since the cabling essentially comes out one side and the airflow comes in/out the other, you can't really put anything next to it. My setup consists of five tower cases next to one another, so this case wouldnt cut it. It's a great idea, by only works if you don't have any other comp[uters near it.
A know he's his son, genius. Michael Powell, is still not Colin Powell, whether they're related or not. Comments about him "watching home movies like Wings over the Gulf" are a clear case of confusing father with son, because those would be his father's home movies as Michael Powell a) had an undistinguished military career, as he was injured and medically discharged; and b) he was an armor officer in Amberg, Germany, not the gulf.
A know he's his son, genius. Michael Powell, is still not Colin Powell, whether they're related or not. Comments about him "watching home movies like Wings over the Gulf" are stupid, because those would be his father's home movies as Michael Powell was an armor officer in Amberg, Germany, not the gulf. My point still stands. You pay attention, fuckwit.
Seriously, for an organization who can't even protect their web servers, how the )(&#@)(% do they expect to secure the entire US military? ORDER MILITARY STRIKES OVER THE INTERNET?
"Seriously", read the part of the article you quoted: "flyboys could hop onto a special Air Force network from any PC equipped with a Web browser and special military encryption and authentication software" Not the Internet, but a closed network. The "from a laptop in a cafe" remark was just someone's lame attempt at being clever, as the parenthetical that follows illustrates: "more likely, at a secured facility". The point the Lockheed Martin guy was trying to make is that they're not using some low quality custom software interface (man, did I see a lot of CRAP like that in the Army) communicating via a proprietary network protocol, as was the tendency in the past. Instead, they're using standard web browsers over TCP/IP. Off the shelf technology, but on a closed network.
No, this is Michael Powell, of the Federal Communications Commission; not to be confused with Colin Powell, Secretary of State and former Army General. Pay attention.
Google linking to them was considered circumventing copyright and thus a DMCA violation.
It had nothing to do with the DMCA. Think about it: Google wasn't "circumventing Scientology's access control devices" by linking to anti-Scientologist's pages, were they? Hell, whether or not they were even in violation of copyright was questionable; it's just that Scientology has a habit of throwing lawsuits at you till you go broke, so they capitulated.
Cripes, people, there was copyright law before the DMCA... quit trying to lay every abuse of copyright law at the feet of the DMCA-- it makes "our side" sound foolish.
With the cable box, you are modifying it in such a way that copyright infringement occurs, i.e. you get access to programmes that you haven't paid for.
Incorrect. Copyright violations relate only to copying and rebroadcasting. Receiving satellite TV you haven't paid for is neither copying nor redistributing. Additionally, the satellite TV provider holds no copyright to the signals it broadcasts, it has only received permission from the copyright holder to rebroadcast it. There are laws against illegally accessing encrypted satellite broadcasts, but they have nothing to do with copyright. Easy way to remember: copyright is a compound word made up of the words copy and right. One person holds the rights to a work and is the only one allowed to copy (rebroadcast) them. If copying/rebroadcasting are not involved it's not a copyright issue!
Sell the razor itself cheaply then soak people for replacement blades.
Except that they didn't "soak" people on th blades. They just relied on the "free razor" gimmick to create a customer base large enough to make the blades profitable. This made it a reasonable business move because ANYONE could make razor blades, but they knew people would mostly stick to the brand the razor handle had on it. Lexmark's actions are different. Embedding superfluous chips in their inkjet cartridges and suing reverse-engineerers under the DMCA to prevent anyone else from making refills is what's anticompetitive
Federal law covers automotive manufacturing and prohibits driver-visible TV. Additionally, the feds have "strongly encouraged" states to adopt rules similar to those suggested by the Federal Highway Transportation Safety Administration. One of those rules is the "no TV" rule. Most states have enacted law prohibiting the presence of viewable TV while the car is in motion. The few that didn't already had laws against "distracted driving" and merely issued more detailed enforcement guidelines. You're right, actually. Installing such a switch after purchase isn't illegal. Flipping that switch while driving, however, is illegal.
Things like that do exist. In dash DVD players have to be hooked up so that they are disabled when the car is started in some states. However, every installation I've seen for one of those things has had a switch hidden somewhere instead of being hooked up to the ignition. Or, a switch in the middle to hide the fact that the safety feature is disabled. I can't speak for all states, but it's that way in several.
This isn't something that varies from state to state. Federal law prohibits the manufacture of cars with driver-visible television/video, and all states prohibit the operation of a vehicle while television is visible to the driver. If there are cars with "override" switches, then these switches were added after manufacture, after sale, by a third party.
It's illegal to drive without a seat belt also but that doesnt stop 10,000 people a year from doing it.
Spurious comparison. When you don't wear a seatbelt you don't drive any worse, and you suffer no consequences until you have an accident. If you have a TV in front, you drive badly, and the first time a cop pulls you over and sees that TV, you're in for a big, big fine. I guarantee that the first time someone gets ticketed for having a TV on the dash is the LAST time it'll happen. You can't say that about a ticket for no seatbelt.
Well, first off, anyone who thinks that people who custom mod cars wouldn't be able to simply route this to a display to the front seats is out of there minds.
Bear in mind that (in every state in the US at least) it is illegal to have a television in the front seat where the driver can watch it, turned on or not, for obvious reasons. Also, every police officer in the US knows this and the first time one either a) sees you watching said TV, or b) pulls you over for something else and then notices the TV (turned on or not), you will likely face a hefty fine. People driving with a portable DVD on the dash? I guarantee that the first cop that saw that pulled them over. TVs in the front seat have been a no-no since the advent of the portable TV and enforcement has always been quite strict ('cause it's DANGEROUS). This will never be a widespread problem.
lobbyists wrote the rules of California energy deregulation. Thank the Pete Wilson administration.
The Pete Wilson administration is hardly the sole conspirator. A.B. 1890 was passed in both houses of the state legislature (Democrat majorities, mind you!) by a unanimous vote. And if we're going to tar governors, let's talk about Gray Davis, shall we? The man signed scandalously expensive long-term contracts to buy electricity from an industry that's given his campaign over a quarter million dollars since he took office. I know we'd all like to denounce Republicans because we disagree with what they say, but it utterly astounds me when people give Democrats a free ride because they say things we agree with, but rob us blind like every other politician. If anything, progressives should be more angry at Democrats than they are at Republicans. They both give us the shaft, but at least Republicans don't pretend to be our friends while they do it. Think, people, think!
True, but when was the last time you used your computer as a humidifier?
The air is usually already damp before it enters the PC case. Ever lived in a house with a stove that runs on natural gas? A gas heater? Gas oven? 2 O2 + CH4 -> 2 H2O + CO2. Humid. Very humid.
Why can't Linux act as XB1 game? Then it'd just skip XB2 key.
XBox-Linux devs can't encrypt it like an XB1 game because we don't have the current XBox encryption key, and by the time we brute-force the 2048-bit solution, XBox2 will be out and it'd likely have a NEW key.
I don't think that M$ could do this - this'd mean you cannot play old games on X-Box 2.
Think again. The XB2 encryption key wouldn't be "in place of" the XB1 key, it would be "in addition to" the XB1 key. The XBox2 would 1)check if it's an XB1 or XB2 game, then 2) use the appropriate key. These are computers. We can do things like that with computers.
The site is also a nice resource for finding prior art.
Well, I wouldn't say that. All one would have to do is come up with a specific implementation of one of these ideas to make it patentable. You can't actually patent raw ideas (or shouldn't be able to, anyway).
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OVERPAYING for a bunch of military hardware...is what puts us in a national deficit...
Your assertion is absolutely incorrect.
First off, the defense budget is ~$378B, which is only ~20% of the $2 trillion+ federal budget as a whole.
Second, out of that $378B, procurement accounts for only 18% of that, or $68.7B.
Third, the "inflated" prices of common items is misleading. Sure, you can get a hammer at the hardware store for $20. How much does it cost to hire someone to purchase 2,000 of those hammers, assemble them as part of a specialized tool kit (including tools you don't find in hardware stores)? You see, you're looking at more than just the price of a hammer. You're looking at the total cost of delivering said hammer as part of a contract for an Air Force missile maintenance system. $30,000 coffee makers? They weren't fuckin' Mr. Coffee machines, mister. They were custom built hot coffee/tea/soup dispensing machines fitted into transport aircraft for personnel in the Rapid Deployment Force being deployed to some godawful place 12-16 hours away.
You want to save money? Instead of complaining about the price of military procurement, how about means testing Social Security? How about corporate welfare in the form of farm subsidies? "Expensive" toilet seats are a red herring. Their impact is miniscule compared to so many other budget travesties.
Taking advantage of the regularity that we discover in the chaos...
Ther isn't any regularity in a chaotic system-- that's what makes it chaotic. Despite all the pie-in-the-sky predictions of weather control via "a nudge here or there", we do not, nor will we ever, have a means of acurately modeling (and thereby predicting) the weather. The problem with modeling chaotic systems is sensitivity to intitial conditions. What this means is that you can never have accurate enough starting data to seed the system. To paraphrase from James Gleick, even if you had an array of sensors one inch apart monitoring the atmosphere and oceans in all three dimensions, the unrecorded variations hidden by the one inch of empty space in between will cause a model to vary exponentially as time passes. Essentially, the only way you could accurately model the earth's weather is by copying the actual earth. Any other model will contain simplifications, averages, and assumptions that do not match reality and subsequently will cause the simulation to diverge from reality. Cloud seeding? Sure. Stopping a hurricane before it starts? Not a chance in hell.
kfg never said anything about interchangable parts. kfg spoke of standardized parts. I suspect there may be a difference.
There isn't. Standardization of a part means you use a single design for multiple applications. These parts, being standardized, are interchangeable. "Interchangeable" and "standardized" have subtly different shades of meaning, but when applied to the word "parts", the meanings are synonymous.
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Well, what he should have said was "Liberal-Democrat Bias" in the media. The media may not represent TRUE liberals, but that doesn't mean they're CONSERVATIVE. Conservatives call it "liberal bias" because in their view, anyone to the left of them is "liberal". Here in Los Angeles I have my dyed-in-the-wool conservative Republican boss calling the LA Times a "liberal rag", and my labor-activist girlfriend calling it a "conservative rag". What it REALLY is is a mindless mouthpiece for the Democratic party. Think about the type of people who become journalists: they're often "high-minded" and want to "help people" by educating the befuddled masses. They're typical bleeding-heart types who think something should be done, but don't want to get their hands dirty. They're biased, but in that irritating party-line way. They may not be actual PROGRESSIVES, but they still vote 97% Democrat.
Bah! The voting system isn't rigged because doesn't NEED to be. The REAL "rigging" happens much, much earlier on. The two ruling parties have dug themselves in so firmly and put up so many barriers to outside challenge that any fiddling with ballots is essentially unnecessary. Sure, they point fingers at one another and accuse each other of "cheating", but the REAL cheat is that our choice is between the "Raise Taxes Party" and the "Go To War Party". Personally, that's why I don't bother to vote.
This from an AC? Get a name and join the human race.
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Dell/Windows: about 10
Dell/Linux: about 100
Dude, what version of "Windows"? Just saying "Windows" is like just saying "Mac OS". It's too ambiguous because there are multiple versions with seperately developed kernels. Give a version, man.
Yeah, this is what would cause me the most problems. Since the cabling essentially comes out one side and the airflow comes in/out the other, you can't really put anything next to it. My setup consists of five tower cases next to one another, so this case wouldnt cut it. It's a great idea, by only works if you don't have any other comp[uters near it.
My point still stands.
A know he's his son, genius. Michael Powell, is still not Colin Powell, whether they're related or not. Comments about him "watching home movies like Wings over the Gulf" are stupid, because those would be his father's home movies as Michael Powell was an armor officer in Amberg, Germany, not the gulf.
My point still stands. You pay attention, fuckwit.
"Seriously", read the part of the article you quoted: "flyboys could hop onto a special Air Force network from any PC equipped with a Web browser and special military encryption and authentication software" Not the Internet, but a closed network. The "from a laptop in a cafe" remark was just someone's lame attempt at being clever, as the parenthetical that follows illustrates: "more likely, at a secured facility". The point the Lockheed Martin guy was trying to make is that they're not using some low quality custom software interface (man, did I see a lot of CRAP like that in the Army) communicating via a proprietary network protocol, as was the tendency in the past. Instead, they're using standard web browsers over TCP/IP. Off the shelf technology, but on a closed network.
No, this is Michael Powell, of the Federal Communications Commission; not to be confused with Colin Powell, Secretary of State and former Army General. Pay attention.
It had nothing to do with the DMCA. Think about it: Google wasn't "circumventing Scientology's access control devices" by linking to anti-Scientologist's pages, were they? Hell, whether or not they were even in violation of copyright was questionable; it's just that Scientology has a habit of throwing lawsuits at you till you go broke, so they capitulated.
Cripes, people, there was copyright law before the DMCA... quit trying to lay every abuse of copyright law at the feet of the DMCA-- it makes "our side" sound foolish.
Incorrect. Copyright violations relate only to copying and rebroadcasting. Receiving satellite TV you haven't paid for is neither copying nor redistributing. Additionally, the satellite TV provider holds no copyright to the signals it broadcasts, it has only received permission from the copyright holder to rebroadcast it. There are laws against illegally accessing encrypted satellite broadcasts, but they have nothing to do with copyright. Easy way to remember: copyright is a compound word made up of the words copy and right. One person holds the rights to a work and is the only one allowed to copy (rebroadcast) them. If copying/rebroadcasting are not involved it's not a copyright issue!
Except that they didn't "soak" people on th blades. They just relied on the "free razor" gimmick to create a customer base large enough to make the blades profitable. This made it a reasonable business move because ANYONE could make razor blades, but they knew people would mostly stick to the brand the razor handle had on it. Lexmark's actions are different. Embedding superfluous chips in their inkjet cartridges and suing reverse-engineerers under the DMCA to prevent anyone else from making refills is what's anticompetitive
Federal law covers automotive manufacturing and prohibits driver-visible TV. Additionally, the feds have "strongly encouraged" states to adopt rules similar to those suggested by the Federal Highway Transportation Safety Administration. One of those rules is the "no TV" rule. Most states have enacted law prohibiting the presence of viewable TV while the car is in motion. The few that didn't already had laws against "distracted driving" and merely issued more detailed enforcement guidelines. You're right, actually. Installing such a switch after purchase isn't illegal. Flipping that switch while driving, however, is illegal.
This isn't something that varies from state to state. Federal law prohibits the manufacture of cars with driver-visible television/video, and all states prohibit the operation of a vehicle while television is visible to the driver. If there are cars with "override" switches, then these switches were added after manufacture, after sale, by a third party.
Spurious comparison. When you don't wear a seatbelt you don't drive any worse, and you suffer no consequences until you have an accident. If you have a TV in front, you drive badly, and the first time a cop pulls you over and sees that TV, you're in for a big, big fine. I guarantee that the first time someone gets ticketed for having a TV on the dash is the LAST time it'll happen. You can't say that about a ticket for no seatbelt.
Bear in mind that (in every state in the US at least) it is illegal to have a television in the front seat where the driver can watch it, turned on or not, for obvious reasons. Also, every police officer in the US knows this and the first time one either a) sees you watching said TV, or b) pulls you over for something else and then notices the TV (turned on or not), you will likely face a hefty fine. People driving with a portable DVD on the dash? I guarantee that the first cop that saw that pulled them over. TVs in the front seat have been a no-no since the advent of the portable TV and enforcement has always been quite strict ('cause it's DANGEROUS). This will never be a widespread problem.
The Pete Wilson administration is hardly the sole conspirator. A.B. 1890 was passed in both houses of the state legislature (Democrat majorities, mind you!) by a unanimous vote. And if we're going to tar governors, let's talk about Gray Davis, shall we? The man signed scandalously expensive long-term contracts to buy electricity from an industry that's given his campaign over a quarter million dollars since he took office. I know we'd all like to denounce Republicans because we disagree with what they say, but it utterly astounds me when people give Democrats a free ride because they say things we agree with, but rob us blind like every other politician. If anything, progressives should be more angry at Democrats than they are at Republicans. They both give us the shaft, but at least Republicans don't pretend to be our friends while they do it. Think, people, think!
The air is usually already damp before it enters the PC case. Ever lived in a house with a stove that runs on natural gas? A gas heater? Gas oven? 2 O2 + CH4 -> 2 H2O + CO2. Humid. Very humid.
XBox-Linux devs can't encrypt it like an XB1 game because we don't have the current XBox encryption key, and by the time we brute-force the 2048-bit solution, XBox2 will be out and it'd likely have a NEW key.
Think again. The XB2 encryption key wouldn't be "in place of" the XB1 key, it would be "in addition to" the XB1 key. The XBox2 would 1)check if it's an XB1 or XB2 game, then 2) use the appropriate key. These are computers. We can do things like that with computers.
Well, I wouldn't say that. All one would have to do is come up with a specific implementation of one of these ideas to make it patentable. You can't actually patent raw ideas (or shouldn't be able to, anyway).
Your assertion is absolutely incorrect.
First off, the defense budget is ~$378B, which is only ~20% of the $2 trillion+ federal budget as a whole.
Second, out of that $378B, procurement accounts for only 18% of that, or $68.7B.
Third, the "inflated" prices of common items is misleading. Sure, you can get a hammer at the hardware store for $20. How much does it cost to hire someone to purchase 2,000 of those hammers, assemble them as part of a specialized tool kit (including tools you don't find in hardware stores)? You see, you're looking at more than just the price of a hammer. You're looking at the total cost of delivering said hammer as part of a contract for an Air Force missile maintenance system. $30,000 coffee makers? They weren't fuckin' Mr. Coffee machines, mister. They were custom built hot coffee/tea/soup dispensing machines fitted into transport aircraft for personnel in the Rapid Deployment Force being deployed to some godawful place 12-16 hours away.
You want to save money? Instead of complaining about the price of military procurement, how about means testing Social Security? How about corporate welfare in the form of farm subsidies? "Expensive" toilet seats are a red herring. Their impact is miniscule compared to so many other budget travesties.
Ther isn't any regularity in a chaotic system-- that's what makes it chaotic. Despite all the pie-in-the-sky predictions of weather control via "a nudge here or there", we do not, nor will we ever, have a means of acurately modeling (and thereby predicting) the weather. The problem with modeling chaotic systems is sensitivity to intitial conditions. What this means is that you can never have accurate enough starting data to seed the system. To paraphrase from James Gleick, even if you had an array of sensors one inch apart monitoring the atmosphere and oceans in all three dimensions, the unrecorded variations hidden by the one inch of empty space in between will cause a model to vary exponentially as time passes. Essentially, the only way you could accurately model the earth's weather is by copying the actual earth. Any other model will contain simplifications, averages, and assumptions that do not match reality and subsequently will cause the simulation to diverge from reality. Cloud seeding? Sure. Stopping a hurricane before it starts? Not a chance in hell.
There isn't. Standardization of a part means you use a single design for multiple applications. These parts, being standardized, are interchangeable. "Interchangeable" and "standardized" have subtly different shades of meaning, but when applied to the word "parts", the meanings are synonymous.