Are you sure? The DMCA outlaws circumventing encryptions and not just distrubting/providing/trafficing in said circumventions. And someone (pseudonymously!) cryptically claiming they figured out how to do something is proof they did it?
FTFA:
"The discovery overturns the theory that women - unlike other female animals - always hide signs they may be ovulating....scientists have always believed it is notoriously hard to detect the time when a woman's ovaries release an egg." Bollocks. I have never heard anyone, scientist or layman, claim to believe any such thing. For over 20 years I've heard it said by everyone from behavioral psychologists to plumbers that women dress and act more provocatively around ovulation. Seriously, anyone claiming otherwise would be like someone claiming the earth was flat, right?
PayPal Contact: "It sounds like these are charitable donations. Is this non-profit?" Deadspin: "We're not making a profit off this, no."
Each party walks away thinking something different. Hijinks ensue.
This is why I'm convinced that corporations ought to be obliged to record all phone conversations with their customers, and produce them on request. Are you kidding? That'a a nice imagination you've got! You think there's a mechanism for actually talking with a person at PayPal to set up an account? PayPal doesn't have a phone number! Well, they do, but it's near impossible to find and the only time it's answered is between 6 and 7am Tuesdays, by the janitor. Everything is online. Deadspin filled out a webform to open their account, just like everyone else.
Is the 5.03% per year their money market fund (Barclays International) pays "nice fat interest"? Please restate the above question using English grammar. Thank you.
And I am willing to bet will was sold with in the end of the day.
the ACs claiming that there are "lots" of non bundled PS3s just sitting on shelves are full of it. I know Frys was having a hard time moving PS3s, but they were bundeling them with like 5 crappy games.
the PS3 will continue to sell out for some time now, but again, that is in part due to low numbers. I dunno. I think probably the most illustrative market for these things is eBay. PS3's are going for retail price, if they sell at all. Wii's are still bidding up $75-$100 above retail. Given that more Wii's than PS3s have been manufactured, I think that says something.
enforcer? whoever has control of the route thus the ISP go as far up as need be. No, you daft knob, that wouldn't fucking work. ISPs have no authority to cause sex.com to move to sex.xxx. Again, who do you suggest will enforce the mandatory move to.xxx?
At one point or another, the people who lived there were completely self sufficient. The question you want to ask is whether living poor in an industrialized nation is better than the life of an iron-age villager. Yes, and at one time all the inhabitants of Manhattan island were completely self-sufficient as well. One thing you might notcie about the world is that situations change.
Tell me, is it ignorance or racism that makes you think all Nigerians are iron-age savages pulled from their blissful hunter-gatherer lifestyle to toil in the white man's factories?
A lot of climate science is really, really slipshod stuff rigged up to support foregone ideological conclusion.
And you are qualified enough to make that judgement, how, exactly? Could you please cite some specific examples of peer reviewed literature that demonstrate your point and explain why you think they are slipshod stuff? Otherwise, you are just engaging in a logical fallacy known as wishful thinking.
You mean (for example) counterarguments against the "hockey stick" characterization of global temperature, like:
Hall, B.L., A.R. Hoelzel, C. Baroni, G.H. Denton, B.J. Le Boeuf, B. Overturf, and A.L. Töpf, 2006, Holocene elephant seal distribution implies warmer-than-present climate in the Ross Sea, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 10213-10217.
Grinsted, A., Moore, J.C., Pohjola, V., Martma, T. and Isaksson, E. 2006. Svalbard summer melting, continentality, and sea ice extent from the Lomonosovfonna ice core. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, 10.1029/2005JD006494.
Moberg, A., Sonechkin, D.M., Holmgren, K., Datsenko, N.M., and Karlénm, W. 2005. Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data, Nature, 433, 613- 617.
There's some dissent out there, but the problem with demanding peer-reviewed "proof" that the consensus is sometimes blind to its shortcomings is that that's something like demanding papally-approved dissenters to prove the spanish inquisition is wrong. Further complicating the issue is the fact that it's not really possible to actually prove the negative of the "human induce global warming" theory, leaving any dissenters stuck nibbling piecemeal at the individual bits of evidence.
Though his analogy _does_ lead me to think, why not just make more Akamai-like services? Then the ultra-rich could pay for privileged hosting _without_ screwing over everyone else. Maybe because the net-neutrality debate has fuck all to do with the ultra-rich asking for higher priority for their traffic? In case you hadn't noticed, the debate is over whether last-mile carriers like AT&T can give preferential priority to traffic from those who pay their toll--- and by extension essentially slow down the traffic of those who don't.
Monthly fee for a bank account? is that commen? yes
The only case where i would consider paying for a bank account would be a business account.. How nice for you. Most banks require a minimum balance before they waive the monthly service fee. Many people do not have the kind of cash flow necessary to meet the minimum. This is one of the many ways they soak the poor.
There are lots of places that need scientific expertise "Scientist" is not a job category where all members are interchangeable. There are some specialties where the job market is very, very small. In the case of "nuclear scientist", there's essentially only one employer in this country: Uncle Sugar. Burn that bridge and then what? Work as a nuclear engineer for IBM on their weapons program?
In terms of fuel consumption, and air pollution, is it better to have one huge powerful engine, or two or more less powerful engines?
Or how about three diesel engines that are each more powerful than this supposedly most powerful diesel engine:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question647.htm While it is mathematically possible to express static thrust in terms of horsepower, the comparison is not particularly meaningful. There is no simple mechanical way to convert "thrust horsepower" to "shaft horsepower" without significant losses. See, the important thing when doing something other than pushing some idiotic drag racer down the salt flats (i.e. actual useful work) is torque. While that white trash jerkoff-mobile with the jet engines definitely has thrust, it has zero torque. Might as well compare a useful diesel like the RTA96-C to a steam catapult or a rock falling from orbit for all the "horsepower" relevance.
unintended consequence of stopping Qatarese from editing the wiki Those from Qatar are Qatari. Plural is Qataris. "Qatarese", while sounding the same, would actually be the language of Qatar, if they did not speak Arabic and such a thing actually existed. This is a classic error made by someone who doesn't read much, or doesn't understand what he reads. At the risk of sounding trite, I will repeat what every professional writer says to every aspiring writer who asks what the best preparation is for writing: read a lot. If nothing else it will give you a grasp of the written language you simply cannot get from conversation. It helps you avoid stupid errors like using "should of" instead of "should've"/"should have", or "Qatarese" instead of "Quataris". A final hint for those who think simple conversational literacy ensures adequate writing skills for submitting written articles: IT DOESN'T, YOU TARDS!
I'd complain about the lack of editing skills on the part of the Slashdot guys, but we already know that when they say "editor", what they really mean is "monkey trained to click a button when a text blurb makes him grin."
This puts Google in the league of "Common Carriers." No it doesn't. Go look at the Telecommunications act of 1934 to find out what a "common carrier" is in terms of telecommunications. Google runs a free service over the internet. Further puncturing your ridiculous assertion is the fact that not the ILECs and cable co's that provide internet service are not even considered common carriers. You're clearly confusing the nition of "common carrier" with that of "utility monopoly", probably from hearing about ILECs being called "common carriers".
They're not nearly as vital as, say, the electric company--If google went dark today the other search engines would absorb the traffic Yeah, it sounds like you're making the "utility monopoly" comparison. The laughable part is that you make and refute your own argument all in the same sentence. Google is open to competition at any time, on an equal footing. Buy a domain and enough hosting facilities and you too can index the internet and sell ads, just as they have.
...putting him on trial would have sent the message that there aren't 2 sets of rules - one for white-collar elites and one for the rest of us. In a perverse sort of way, I think it's better that it went down that way. Rather than having a show trial resulting in what would have been undoubtedly little more than a slap on the wrist, we simply got to see how the system really works. We had the truth demonstrated for us loud and clear: there are two sets of rules; or rather more accurately, there is a gradient of rules. The more money/power you have the less severe the punishment for a given crime.
I don't really hate hybrids but I do get annoyed when things seem to be rigged for hybrids and against diesel when recent diesel engines are much cleaner than they used to be and on the freeway do much better than a hybrid. I hate hybrids, but only because they've become badges of honor for the "so rich they can afford to be socially conscious" set. Here in California they even created a pilot program, where a high MPG hybrid could qualify for a special yellow "CLEAN AIR VEHICLE" sticker that allows you to drive it in the carpool lane with only one occupant in the car. Never mind the fact that carpool lanes are solely about reducing traffic-- we needed a program to encourage more rich jackasses to buy them. To add further insulting privilege to it, the city of Los Angeles has decided that all clean air vehicle stickered cars can park FREE at parking meters! Great! Another benefit for the rich assholes who can obviously afford a fucking parking meter! "Oh, but the Priuses, they're coming down in price" you say. Great, but the sticker program was limited to the first 15,000 applicants. That means that only the rich fuckers who were able to afford an early Prius get to drive the HOV lane by themselves or park free at the meters. The rest of us slugs with normal-sized incomes get to drive our late-model Priuses in bumper to bumper traffic and scrounge around under the seats for quarters with the rest of the plebes. On top of it all, California has banned the sale of new diesel vehicles since 2000, citing the high pollution from sulfurated diesel. Well, that is only banned if you're not buying a commercial vehicle, or a bus, or operate a fleet. Basically, they've only banned the purchase of consumer diesels-- which have never been anything but a minuscule part of the pollution problem. 40mpg TDi Volkswagen? Not for us. God, I hate this state's hippie/tard government.
Yes, silly nature. Needs us to keep things under control. Don't be a fucking tool. In nature the deer population is normally kept down by predation. Humans have killed all the wolves, however, so nature reverts to the old favorite, starvation. In an effort to mitigate our past stupidity, we manage the population by hunting, taking the place of the wolves. You think it's better for all deer to starve rather than some deer to be hunted by humans? If so, you're a moron.
while I don't believe atlantis was home to some supper advanced civilization I don't think we can rule out the possibility that they ate their evening meal earlier than normal. We just don't know enough about them.
Instead of claiming that expensive is always better (which is correct, but irrelevant), maybe you can try to find a light from above-mentioned manufacturers that can replace these two lights as a cost-efficient solution. But remember, if it costs 10 times as much, it must last 10 times as long between repairs or replacements. Good luck! Durability is not the issue. The quality of the light beam on the mag is abysmal. The only thing going for the mag design is the aluminum body, which is very reliable. You can spend only 2 or 3 times as much and get a flashlight that outperforms anything mag has by at least an order of magnitude. Repair and replacement? Durability is about the same for all. The fact that you don't seem to realize how poor the mag is at doing its job, i.e. projecting light, pretty much explains why you still use one. Seriously, I have a $35 Surefire G2 that totally blows away the 4 D-cell Mag it replaced, and it's a tiny pocket unit. Mag-Lite flashlights are junk. The beam is unfocused and weak and the battery life is poor for their size. Technology has advanced and Mags have stayed the same. They're mass-market trash at this point, 25 year old tech sold at discount prices in hardware stores.
Many times, even if you found an expert of the subject, it's just not worth it or he'll conclude "scrap it, buy a new one". Sorry to rain on your parade but it's just not as glorious as it sounds. There are still a few places where there's room for mechanical craftsmanship. High end Swiss watch repair, obviously. Me, I've been a locksmith for the last 15 years (except for those 2 years when my reserve unit got dragged off to Afghanistan, but that's another story), and I gotta say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure, there's all kinds of fancy electronic stuff now, but the majority of it comes down to working with the same kind of mechanical designs they've been making since Linus Yale came up with the modern pin tumbler lock in the mid 19th century. Yeah, a lot of the low end work has gone the same way as computers, with it being cheaper just to buy a new craptastic Kwikset lock at Home Depot than pay someone like me to fix it; but any commercial/industrial or high-end residential stuff, you still pretty much need a locksmith to service it. It's a classic mechanical trade that will never go away. How many people reading this have keys? All of you, right? That, my friends, is job security.
The original intent of the founding fathers was that regular people would run for office and represent the best interests of their constituents
Perhaps this is testament to what regular people are truly like.
Unfortunately, I think you've hit the nail on the head. The Founding Fathers idea of Cincinnatus style service was based on the premise that those volunteering to manage government for short times were intelligent, competent folks who had something better to do. The idea was that they'd do it out of a sense of civic duty, then return to their much more profitable and pleasant private ventures. Nowadays, government is full of a certain type of enthusiastic, hardworking, but not necessarily particularly smart sort of person who's willing to "pay his dues". He works as an Underpaid Toady to a Senator or what have you, until he can muster the political capital to get enough of the slugs already in power to back him for a shot at the "big leagues". They're people who go into government because they think they know how things should be run. They're scum.
I don't watch 24, but I've heard some rather amusing takes on their entire "hacker" philosophy. In particular, they seem to be able to do the impossible without blinking an eye, just by wrapping it up in some techno-babble that's intended to sound good to the average joe. It's exactly the same technique as Star Trek:TNG technobabble, where plausible-sounding nonsense is strung together to magically create the "particle of the week"/Polarity Reversal that will, in classic deus ex machina form, save the day. They use a more toned-down (but no less impossible) form of the same thing on CSI. I've dealt with many TV writers. They're largely technologically illiterate. It's all they can do to get their PowerBooks to turn on.
I'm not into flashlights, apart from the fact that I use them a lot. And maglite makes dependable flashlights that most likely still gives you the most bang for the buck. No, Mag-Lite is simply the best of the worst. They're a lot better than your cheap plastic $2 Chinese crap, but they're still low end flashlights. They're essentially still coasting on a reputation acquired 25 years ago, when all other flashlights were essentially cheap junk. They haven't changed significantly since then. Nowadays you can get much better. Anyone who depends on a flashlight gets something by Streamlight or Surefire.
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"The discovery overturns the theory that women - unlike other female animals - always hide signs they may be ovulating.
PayPal Contact: "It sounds like these are charitable donations. Is this non-profit?"
Deadspin: "We're not making a profit off this, no."
Each party walks away thinking something different. Hijinks ensue.
This is why I'm convinced that corporations ought to be obliged to record all phone conversations with their customers, and produce them on request. Are you kidding? That'a a nice imagination you've got! You think there's a mechanism for actually talking with a person at PayPal to set up an account? PayPal doesn't have a phone number! Well, they do, but it's near impossible to find and the only time it's answered is between 6 and 7am Tuesdays, by the janitor. Everything is online. Deadspin filled out a webform to open their account, just like everyone else.
the ACs claiming that there are "lots" of non bundled PS3s just sitting on shelves are full of it. I know Frys was having a hard time moving PS3s, but they were bundeling them with like 5 crappy games.
the PS3 will continue to sell out for some time now, but again, that is in part due to low numbers. I dunno. I think probably the most illustrative market for these things is eBay. PS3's are going for retail price, if they sell at all. Wii's are still bidding up $75-$100 above retail. Given that more Wii's than PS3s have been manufactured, I think that says something.
Tell me, is it ignorance or racism that makes you think all Nigerians are iron-age savages pulled from their blissful hunter-gatherer lifestyle to toil in the white man's factories?
And you are qualified enough to make that judgement, how, exactly? Could you please cite some specific examples of peer reviewed literature that demonstrate your point and explain why you think they are slipshod stuff? Otherwise, you are just engaging in a logical fallacy known as wishful thinking.
You mean (for example) counterarguments against the "hockey stick" characterization of global temperature, like:
Hall, B.L., A.R. Hoelzel, C. Baroni, G.H. Denton, B.J. Le Boeuf, B. Overturf, and A.L. Töpf, 2006, Holocene elephant seal distribution implies warmer-than-present climate in the Ross Sea, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 10213-10217.
Grinsted, A., Moore, J.C., Pohjola, V., Martma, T. and Isaksson, E. 2006. Svalbard summer melting, continentality, and sea ice extent from the Lomonosovfonna ice core. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, 10.1029/2005JD006494.
Moberg, A., Sonechkin, D.M., Holmgren, K., Datsenko, N.M., and Karlénm, W. 2005. Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data, Nature, 433, 613- 617.
There's some dissent out there, but the problem with demanding peer-reviewed "proof" that the consensus is sometimes blind to its shortcomings is that that's something like demanding papally-approved dissenters to prove the spanish inquisition is wrong. Further complicating the issue is the fact that it's not really possible to actually prove the negative of the "human induce global warming" theory, leaving any dissenters stuck nibbling piecemeal at the individual bits of evidence.
The only case where i would consider paying for a bank account would be a business account.. How nice for you. Most banks require a minimum balance before they waive the monthly service fee. Many people do not have the kind of cash flow necessary to meet the minimum. This is one of the many ways they soak the poor.
Or how about three diesel engines that are each more powerful than this supposedly most powerful diesel engine:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question647.htm
While it is mathematically possible to express static thrust in terms of horsepower, the comparison is not particularly meaningful. There is no simple mechanical way to convert "thrust horsepower" to "shaft horsepower" without significant losses. See, the important thing when doing something other than pushing some idiotic drag racer down the salt flats (i.e. actual useful work) is torque. While that white trash jerkoff-mobile with the jet engines definitely has thrust, it has zero torque. Might as well compare a useful diesel like the RTA96-C to a steam catapult or a rock falling from orbit for all the "horsepower" relevance.
IT DOESN'T, YOU TARDS!
I'd complain about the lack of editing skills on the part of the Slashdot guys, but we already know that when they say "editor", what they really mean is "monkey trained to click a button when a text blurb makes him grin."
They're not nearly as vital as, say, the electric company--If google went dark today the other search engines would absorb the traffic Yeah, it sounds like you're making the "utility monopoly" comparison. The laughable part is that you make and refute your own argument all in the same sentence. Google is open to competition at any time, on an equal footing. Buy a domain and enough hosting facilities and you too can index the internet and sell ads, just as they have.
...putting him on trial would have sent the message that there aren't 2 sets of rules - one for white-collar elites and one for the rest of us. In a perverse sort of way, I think it's better that it went down that way. Rather than having a show trial resulting in what would have been undoubtedly little more than a slap on the wrist, we simply got to see how the system really works. We had the truth demonstrated for us loud and clear: there are two sets of rules; or rather more accurately, there is a gradient of rules. The more money/power you have the less severe the punishment for a given crime.
...would be rolling over in his grave. If only he had stayed dead. didn't he join the blue man group or something?Perhaps this is testament to what regular people are truly like.
Unfortunately, I think you've hit the nail on the head. The Founding Fathers idea of Cincinnatus style service was based on the premise that those volunteering to manage government for short times were intelligent, competent folks who had something better to do. The idea was that they'd do it out of a sense of civic duty, then return to their much more profitable and pleasant private ventures. Nowadays, government is full of a certain type of enthusiastic, hardworking, but not necessarily particularly smart sort of person who's willing to "pay his dues". He works as an Underpaid Toady to a Senator or what have you, until he can muster the political capital to get enough of the slugs already in power to back him for a shot at the "big leagues". They're people who go into government because they think they know how things should be run. They're scum.