Yeah, the same musical artists like, say, Bono, who had his favorite hat flown thousands of miles at thousands of dollars of cost. There are other examples, such as a band that used a jet plane, a massive tour bus, and then a helicopter to get to a show. Though I'm talking about actually talented musicians (zing!) who definitely are concerned with their musical instruments being top notch. And frankly, even if that uses non-sustainable wood, I think the environmental impact there is... minimal, to say the least. As in, a single forest fire probably does more damage than all of them put together.
Now, the waste that other 'artists' produce is ridiculous, but that's true for most (all?) celebrities. But the wood in their musical instruments? Could environmentalists make themselves into even more of a joke? (That's rhetorical: the answer is, of course, a resounding yes.)
Seriously, this is absolutely ridiculous. Arresting someone, fining them, and taking their guitar because they can't trace every last component it's made of? Or fining someone $17,000 with clearly grandfather ivory keys (which everyone acknowledges are legitimate to own) simply because his paperwork was a little out of order? FFS, we wonder why our world is so fucked up when artists (some actually talented people) are forced to put up with shit like that. Hell, I bet taking a Stradivarius out of the country would probably get it "seized" and a major fine levied on you, simply because it would be absolutely impossible to trace all its components.
All this in the name of "environmentalism." Why the hell is a guitar or antique musical instrument even considered a piece of "flora or fauna" anyways? Are we gonna have to register cotton shirts next, to make sure slavery wasn't involved in the manufacture? As a bit of a musician myself (I play violin as a hobby), these sorts of things really piss me off. Laws shouldn't be created to force people to prove the legality of what they are carrying. Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? In this case, it looks like you need paperwork proving you're innocence or you are automatically guilty. Also, I don't think the wood used in guitars is a major contributor to deforestation. In fact, I think that ranks right down there as the least possible thing they could worry about. What's next, making sure pipes are made of sustainable sources of wood?
Sure, I know poaching of elephants is a major problem. This sort of BS isn't helping the cause any though.
Yeah, most environmentalists won't care about operating a nuclear reactor on Mars (some will of course. Loonies are loonies), but many (very, very many) will bitch and moan to no end about launching nuclear material on rockets in case they explode. Right now it isn't so much of an issue (because, well, most people don't know we do it and we don't do it often) but if it enters public consciousness you can expect a massive backlash against it, and no set of statistics about how safe the rockets are will stop it, just like no set of statistics convinces them nuclear reactors are one of the safest power sources in existence and cause far fewer health issues than coal (hell, even solar has more deaths than nuclear, simply because of rooftop installations. source)
I'm not saying launching massive amounts of nuclear material on rockets is necessarily a good idea, but no matter how safe it'll never get off the ground once people hear about it. So unless we start mining Uranium or Thorium off planet, don't expect this to become a widespread source of power on Mars anytime soon.
You're totally right about the first point. Artificial skin is pretty good now and would be indistinguishable in the future. Of course that wouldn't work very well for augs that change shape (i.e. the hidden miniguns). As for the second: I think it's part of the point that neroprozine is expensive. Large corporations basically milking people for cash, and they have no choice but to pay or become crippled.
How long did they think the world was flat again? And how long before that did they believe thunder was anger from the gods? And how long before that was fire worshiped as magic?
About until the very most primitive scientists, until a semi-reasonable scientific explanation was found, and about the same as the other two, respectively. Seriously, one of the very first people to attempt science (the Greeks) knew the Earth was round, most of them knew thunder was a natural phenomenon but couldn't explain it, and they established fire as one of the four elements of nature (again: not magic but we just don't know how it works quite yet.)
However, if an experiment created explicitly for (among other things) confirmation or refutation of Supersymmetry not only doesn't discover it, but discovers absolutely no sign of it and in fact contradicts it (which I believe these results do), then chances are it's time to go back to the drawing board. Or the math board, in this case.
No, I was using a Linux native non-port on PC hardware. Which is, generally at least in my experience, what a lot of people have. And when making what is essentially a game, you should aim at what most people have. Yeah, I have an 8-button mouse now, but in 2000 most Linux users (probably) didn't.
Which is one reason Flightgear has never really made a major impact. Or, for that matter, Linux gaming in general.
Yep. If you need to communicate a certain time to someone around the globe, you just list the time in UTC (basically what this idea is anyways). Or they could just, you know, look up the time difference, this being the Internet and all.
Yeah, I remember playing it way back (around the turn of the millennium), and it required use of a middle mouse button for some common function. Of course, this was back in the day well before optical or scroll mice were, well, existent, so using it with a 2 button mouse involved hitting both buttons at the same time (and hitting only one button accidentally of course did something you didn't want to do). And it was a common function (maybe accelerating?), too. Terrible interface design.
I don't even remember how I discovered this, since I don't remember there being a manual.
But how can you proof something is porn? How do you proof playboy.com is just obscenity?
If you force all porn on the.xxx domain you have also forced to label themselves as porn.
Wait, if people already have trouble identifying porn sites, how will you be able to "force" porn sites to.xxx? If you already know its porn, you don't need the.xxx to know that, and if you need the.xxx to know that, then you can't force them to move.
If courts now can't agree on what is and is not porn, there is no way to force porn to the.xxx domain. If they go voluntarily, then its not much of a "yellow"star, is it? Your logic seems seriously flawed. Then again, I suppose I shouldn't have expected more from a person who compares the pron industry to the Jews. FFS, wow. Incredibly wealthy and lucrative business that sells an often addictive product is NOT like the Jews. AT ALL. Oh and it's "prove", BTW, not "proof". You use it twice so I point it out.
Umm, no. "No teacher shall establish, maintain, or use a non-work-related internet site which allows exclusive access with a current or former student." That's not out of context, either (although former only extends up to 18 year-olds.) Almost every internet site allows exclusive access, even if you somehow set it up so that content is supposed to be shared with parents (who, BTW, if a teacher are also forbidden from using such sites to contact their own children, and this according to the judge's ruling), it would still allow exclusive access. Hell, one could argue that simply using email allows such access (any email, period). Hyperbole? Not according to the judge. He says "the breadth of the prohibition is staggering", and would have "an immediate and irreparable harm."
He also refers to it as a "complete ban on certain kinds of communication." So, unless you are one hell of a lawyer, you are wrong. Plain and simply wrong. Note that the lawmakers may have intended to do what you say, but that's not what the law does.
I was surprised to read that too, but apparently freezing RAM in liquid nitrogen can retain the data stored in it for up to a week. All RAM modules have some data remanence, apparently , and data can last for a few seconds or even minutes in RAM after power loss at room temperature (which is why the hard reset attack works at all) and longer if the modules are cooled (even without liquid nitrogen). I imagine a can of compressed air held upside down would do the trick in a pinch. I was surprised too, but it makes sense. Data isn't held in some magical electrical suspension, it reflects an actual physical state of matter, even in RAM, and while that state may degrade quickly without power, it won't vanish instantly. Higher temperature increases entropy, so cooling it slows that down.
And while these attacks seem unlikely, it is yet another possible attack vector to get at sensitive information. Attacks on PLCs seemed unlikely too, until Stuxnet came around.
Well, its better than the 256GB (pretty much at most) SSD that many people are complaining it doesn't have. Also, I've never seen a 7200 RPM laptop drive before. But 320GB isn't too bad, you'd want an external for mass storage anyways.
Although to be fair it did launch pretty well, which is impressive considering, well, its a Reliant Robin. I have no idea how they thought they could get it to land, though.
If the take were larger by an order of magnitude, you'll find allegedly honest people are suddenly far more interested in taking that risk.
And you'd find the hole being plugged very quickly. This sort of attack is rather tricky to pull off (you need someone to physically be at each ATM, meaning hundreds or possibly thousands of people), and that coupled with the fact that most ATMs have cameras makes this security hole fairly minor ($13 mil sounds like a lot, but to a large bank it's pretty much pocket change. With lots of people involved it would give fairly mediocre payouts).
Also, if you read TFA it sounds like they actually reloaded the cards using direct access to the bank's card system, so I'm guessing this really was a cyber-attack in addition to the meatspace one.
I almost wish Valve did the same with Steam multiplayer games. Who wants to use some BS Games for Windows system (for instance, one could also point out EA's Origin) on a game downloaded via Steam when Steam already has a (much) better multiplayer system builtin? But, of course, not being a monopoly on PC Valve can't do that. Unfortunately.
Nothing stops your from sitting on a couch with a keyboard/ mouse combo and playing games. I've done it before, and on a wired system too. It's not bad, actually, and I imagine a wireless setup would make it almost completely painless. Much better than using a controller, IMO
I think by "size" the article actually means "mass". Not technically accurate, but at least they don't say "volume". The writer of the article does seem to be pretty clear that it has Jupiter's mass and not its volume.
The difference is that "drugs" like Enzyte don't break federal criminal laws, mainly because they are "natural herbal supplements" (not drugs) whose claims "haven't been endorsed or evaluated by the FDA." Some of the companies advertising over Google (apparently) did, probably by claiming that they were FDA approved or whatever, or more likely, the equivalent of an approved drug (which they aren't). The first may be deceptive, but isn't criminal. The second is, unfortunately for Google.
The difference may looks subtle, but consider that herbal supplements like Enzyte aren't likely to kill you, although they won't work. Taking fake drugs instead of real ones? That can kill you. Hence, it's a criminal offense to sell them, as is advertising them.
I've never been a big fan of the broad swath of business method patents and even less of a fan of the process for creating and litigating patents. That said, it's the world we live in. So, like every other Silicon Valley entrepreneur, I file patents.
He clearly wants the patent system to change, but can't. True, he doesn't seem to think his patent(s) is (are) junk, but that the entire system is broken so only patents that really are innovative (software or not) are allowed.
"[the gamers] doubled what I'd normally take in on a normal Sunday night."
I'm not sure why you'd think video gamers are necessarily teetotal. Many are college student. Sure, they don't generally go to frat parties and drink Bud Light, but plenty of gamers I know drink readily. And the teetotalers aren't likely to show up at a bar, in any case, so I think it could be very profitable. Your mindset is likely why events like this haven't happened in the past.
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Yeah, the same musical artists like, say, Bono, who had his favorite hat flown thousands of miles at thousands of dollars of cost. There are other examples, such as a band that used a jet plane, a massive tour bus, and then a helicopter to get to a show. Though I'm talking about actually talented musicians (zing!) who definitely are concerned with their musical instruments being top notch. And frankly, even if that uses non-sustainable wood, I think the environmental impact there is... minimal, to say the least. As in, a single forest fire probably does more damage than all of them put together.
Now, the waste that other 'artists' produce is ridiculous, but that's true for most (all?) celebrities. But the wood in their musical instruments? Could environmentalists make themselves into even more of a joke? (That's rhetorical: the answer is, of course, a resounding yes.)
Seriously, this is absolutely ridiculous. Arresting someone, fining them, and taking their guitar because they can't trace every last component it's made of? Or fining someone $17,000 with clearly grandfather ivory keys (which everyone acknowledges are legitimate to own) simply because his paperwork was a little out of order? FFS, we wonder why our world is so fucked up when artists (some actually talented people) are forced to put up with shit like that. Hell, I bet taking a Stradivarius out of the country would probably get it "seized" and a major fine levied on you, simply because it would be absolutely impossible to trace all its components.
All this in the name of "environmentalism." Why the hell is a guitar or antique musical instrument even considered a piece of "flora or fauna" anyways? Are we gonna have to register cotton shirts next, to make sure slavery wasn't involved in the manufacture? As a bit of a musician myself (I play violin as a hobby), these sorts of things really piss me off. Laws shouldn't be created to force people to prove the legality of what they are carrying. Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? In this case, it looks like you need paperwork proving you're innocence or you are automatically guilty. Also, I don't think the wood used in guitars is a major contributor to deforestation. In fact, I think that ranks right down there as the least possible thing they could worry about. What's next, making sure pipes are made of sustainable sources of wood?
Sure, I know poaching of elephants is a major problem. This sort of BS isn't helping the cause any though.
Additionally I'm not so sure I want these people [blogspot.com] responsible for my "virtual wallet"
At least Sony isn't involved... yet.
Yeah, most environmentalists won't care about operating a nuclear reactor on Mars (some will of course. Loonies are loonies), but many (very, very many) will bitch and moan to no end about launching nuclear material on rockets in case they explode. Right now it isn't so much of an issue (because, well, most people don't know we do it and we don't do it often) but if it enters public consciousness you can expect a massive backlash against it, and no set of statistics about how safe the rockets are will stop it, just like no set of statistics convinces them nuclear reactors are one of the safest power sources in existence and cause far fewer health issues than coal (hell, even solar has more deaths than nuclear, simply because of rooftop installations. source)
I'm not saying launching massive amounts of nuclear material on rockets is necessarily a good idea, but no matter how safe it'll never get off the ground once people hear about it. So unless we start mining Uranium or Thorium off planet, don't expect this to become a widespread source of power on Mars anytime soon.
I dare you to try to board an airplane.
You're totally right about the first point. Artificial skin is pretty good now and would be indistinguishable in the future. Of course that wouldn't work very well for augs that change shape (i.e. the hidden miniguns). As for the second: I think it's part of the point that neroprozine is expensive. Large corporations basically milking people for cash, and they have no choice but to pay or become crippled.
How long did they think the world was flat again? And how long before that did they believe thunder was anger from the gods? And how long before that was fire worshiped as magic?
About until the very most primitive scientists, until a semi-reasonable scientific explanation was found, and about the same as the other two, respectively. Seriously, one of the very first people to attempt science (the Greeks) knew the Earth was round, most of them knew thunder was a natural phenomenon but couldn't explain it, and they established fire as one of the four elements of nature (again: not magic but we just don't know how it works quite yet.)
However, if an experiment created explicitly for (among other things) confirmation or refutation of Supersymmetry not only doesn't discover it, but discovers absolutely no sign of it and in fact contradicts it (which I believe these results do), then chances are it's time to go back to the drawing board. Or the math board, in this case.
No, I was using a Linux native non-port on PC hardware. Which is, generally at least in my experience, what a lot of people have. And when making what is essentially a game, you should aim at what most people have. Yeah, I have an 8-button mouse now, but in 2000 most Linux users (probably) didn't.
Which is one reason Flightgear has never really made a major impact. Or, for that matter, Linux gaming in general.
I am a gravitational theorist.
I don't even understand what that title means, but it sounds very cool.
I think what you meant was "it sounds very attractive."
Yep. If you need to communicate a certain time to someone around the globe, you just list the time in UTC (basically what this idea is anyways). Or they could just, you know, look up the time difference, this being the Internet and all.
Yeah, but for Apple fans, resigning as CEO is just about the same as dying.
Yeah, I remember playing it way back (around the turn of the millennium), and it required use of a middle mouse button for some common function. Of course, this was back in the day well before optical or scroll mice were, well, existent, so using it with a 2 button mouse involved hitting both buttons at the same time (and hitting only one button accidentally of course did something you didn't want to do). And it was a common function (maybe accelerating?), too. Terrible interface design.
I don't even remember how I discovered this, since I don't remember there being a manual.
But how can you proof something is porn? How do you proof playboy.com is just obscenity?
If you force all porn on the .xxx domain you have also forced to label themselves as porn.
Wait, if people already have trouble identifying porn sites, how will you be able to "force" porn sites to .xxx? If you already know its porn, you don't need the .xxx to know that, and if you need the .xxx to know that, then you can't force them to move.
If courts now can't agree on what is and is not porn, there is no way to force porn to the .xxx domain. If they go voluntarily, then its not much of a "yellow"star, is it? Your logic seems seriously flawed. Then again, I suppose I shouldn't have expected more from a person who compares the pron industry to the Jews. FFS, wow. Incredibly wealthy and lucrative business that sells an often addictive product is NOT like the Jews. AT ALL. Oh and it's "prove", BTW, not "proof". You use it twice so I point it out.
Umm, no. "No teacher shall establish, maintain, or use a non-work-related internet site which allows exclusive access with a current or former student." That's not out of context, either (although former only extends up to 18 year-olds.) Almost every internet site allows exclusive access, even if you somehow set it up so that content is supposed to be shared with parents (who, BTW, if a teacher are also forbidden from using such sites to contact their own children, and this according to the judge's ruling), it would still allow exclusive access. Hell, one could argue that simply using email allows such access (any email, period). Hyperbole? Not according to the judge. He says "the breadth of the prohibition is staggering", and would have "an immediate and irreparable harm."
He also refers to it as a "complete ban on certain kinds of communication." So, unless you are one hell of a lawyer, you are wrong. Plain and simply wrong. Note that the lawmakers may have intended to do what you say, but that's not what the law does.
I was surprised to read that too, but apparently freezing RAM in liquid nitrogen can retain the data stored in it for up to a week. All RAM modules have some data remanence, apparently , and data can last for a few seconds or even minutes in RAM after power loss at room temperature (which is why the hard reset attack works at all) and longer if the modules are cooled (even without liquid nitrogen). I imagine a can of compressed air held upside down would do the trick in a pinch. I was surprised too, but it makes sense. Data isn't held in some magical electrical suspension, it reflects an actual physical state of matter, even in RAM, and while that state may degrade quickly without power, it won't vanish instantly. Higher temperature increases entropy, so cooling it slows that down.
And while these attacks seem unlikely, it is yet another possible attack vector to get at sensitive information. Attacks on PLCs seemed unlikely too, until Stuxnet came around.
Well, its better than the 256GB (pretty much at most) SSD that many people are complaining it doesn't have. Also, I've never seen a 7200 RPM laptop drive before. But 320GB isn't too bad, you'd want an external for mass storage anyways.
Although to be fair it did launch pretty well, which is impressive considering, well, its a Reliant Robin. I have no idea how they thought they could get it to land, though.
If the take were larger by an order of magnitude, you'll find allegedly honest people are suddenly far more interested in taking that risk.
And you'd find the hole being plugged very quickly. This sort of attack is rather tricky to pull off (you need someone to physically be at each ATM, meaning hundreds or possibly thousands of people), and that coupled with the fact that most ATMs have cameras makes this security hole fairly minor ($13 mil sounds like a lot, but to a large bank it's pretty much pocket change. With lots of people involved it would give fairly mediocre payouts).
Also, if you read TFA it sounds like they actually reloaded the cards using direct access to the bank's card system, so I'm guessing this really was a cyber-attack in addition to the meatspace one.
I almost wish Valve did the same with Steam multiplayer games. Who wants to use some BS Games for Windows system (for instance, one could also point out EA's Origin) on a game downloaded via Steam when Steam already has a (much) better multiplayer system builtin? But, of course, not being a monopoly on PC Valve can't do that. Unfortunately.
Nothing stops your from sitting on a couch with a keyboard/ mouse combo and playing games. I've done it before, and on a wired system too. It's not bad, actually, and I imagine a wireless setup would make it almost completely painless. Much better than using a controller, IMO
Just be sure to make those walls out of fire, in this case.
I think by "size" the article actually means "mass". Not technically accurate, but at least they don't say "volume". The writer of the article does seem to be pretty clear that it has Jupiter's mass and not its volume.
The difference is that "drugs" like Enzyte don't break federal criminal laws, mainly because they are "natural herbal supplements" (not drugs) whose claims "haven't been endorsed or evaluated by the FDA." Some of the companies advertising over Google (apparently) did, probably by claiming that they were FDA approved or whatever, or more likely, the equivalent of an approved drug (which they aren't). The first may be deceptive, but isn't criminal. The second is, unfortunately for Google.
The difference may looks subtle, but consider that herbal supplements like Enzyte aren't likely to kill you, although they won't work. Taking fake drugs instead of real ones? That can kill you. Hence, it's a criminal offense to sell them, as is advertising them.
I've never been a big fan of the broad swath of business method patents and even less of a fan of the process for creating and litigating patents. That said, it's the world we live in. So, like every other Silicon Valley entrepreneur, I file patents.
He clearly wants the patent system to change, but can't. True, he doesn't seem to think his patent(s) is (are) junk, but that the entire system is broken so only patents that really are innovative (software or not) are allowed.
"[the gamers] doubled what I'd normally take in on a normal Sunday night."
I'm not sure why you'd think video gamers are necessarily teetotal. Many are college student. Sure, they don't generally go to frat parties and drink Bud Light, but plenty of gamers I know drink readily. And the teetotalers aren't likely to show up at a bar, in any case, so I think it could be very profitable. Your mindset is likely why events like this haven't happened in the past.