Not disputing your point about other additives being the main problem - I don't smoke, and neither do I know much about cigarette carcinogens - but if 1) practically all cigarettes contain nicotine 2) non-cigarette use of nicotine is extremely rare 3) it is far easier to test for than whatever actual crap is there in the cig.
then it still makes sense imho to test for nicotine as a simpler way to indirectly test for smoking.
Hmm - eventually maybe there will be weapons that are factories... fire a missile into ground on enemy terrain, and it sets up shop creating hunter killer drones to eliminate any life nearby!
Offtopic, but I checked out of curiosity - you can post G links with just imgurl & imgrefurl taking out the rest and it will still work, makes for links that are a little less like paragraphs;)
You might want to look at prepaid, no $10 plans but there is a new $30 plan with 1000 mins/1000sms/30mb (Straight Talk) from TracFone and supposedly Page Plus will have a $20 plan with 500mins/sms sometime next month. I'm seriously considering both, or even if I wanted to continue paying around $47/mo. which is my current bill for T-Mobile... I may instead switch to Boost with $50 unlimited everything, that way I get to browse & use SMS too for the same cost. My current (postpaid) plan is just 1000 mins, no incl. sms or web... I was thinking of getting another contract and picking up an Android phone, but it makes more sense to cut my bill to ~ $25 with PP (assuming some taxes) and just pick up whichever phone I want for full price.
Whos gonna kidnap you if you can shoot lasers out of your eyes.
Only problem is, they might just jam your tinfoil hat down and over your laser eyes - and as everyone knows, tinfoil hats are *meant* to reflect radiation so...
Giving the citizens guns will not help unfortunately when most of these guys have AK-47 and other high power guns.
So if the criminals already have AK-47 and other weapons, the would-be abductees are better served fighting with stones and kitchen cutlery rather than revolvers? I'm undecided on any 'gun control' debates and haven't really thought about it too much - but if someone is trying to kidnap me and there is a good chance I'll be killed, I would certainly try hard to resist and kill my attacker. And I really would prefer to try with a gun instead of a handy pipe or something, esp. as guns tend to have much more range than knives and sticks.
With all the newer smartphones and other devices having so much computing power, I sometimes wonder why someone doesn't come up with an app to encrypt the chat between 2 smartphones dynamically.
Say A & B are (talking on phone / chatting on IM/ videoconferencing). The program on the sender's end generates a key (even symmetric is fine) and sends it to the same program on the other end. After this, all communication is encrypted - with the added twist that either side can semi-randomly change the key used (say A sets 'every 2 mins since last change' as his setting, and B sets 'everytime I laugh':)
Since all comms. are in-band, any snooper who has the *entire* conversation could just start at the beginning, get the first key sent unencrypted, then listen in to the convo. But it would be impossible for anyone who can't get a complete record, and also much harder for people to randomly listen in from the middle of an ongoing chat.
Additionally, besides encryption it could have the added bonus of data compression, which means better error correction or higher fidelity for analog audio (cell phones) etc.
Of course it might have to be activated manually or use some signalling mechanism to detect that the phone on the other end supports it, but mass snooping should become much harder.
the idea that you could compute my 27 character long pass phrase is stupid as well.
Hmmm... just realized, this might be one of the reasons that far too many sites & programs still insist on 8 character or less passwords - else they would be much harder to crack! I've given up on even trying to use spaces or really long passwords even on banking sites for the past few years, will have to check and see if things have improved at all.
Sadly, Discover is *upto* 1% cash back - the 5% Get More promotions are really good, but unless you're a big spender you won't approach close to 1% on normal purchases.
Also, there are plenty of Visa/MC cards with actual 1% cash back (not tiered) - unless NewEgg is requiring VbV now, probably better to use those and just decline the program signup.
Many autodialers just block the caller id so a number list might not be too useful, though of course the app should also allow blocking all unknown numbers as well.
Considering all the 'smart' phones around nowadays, I wonder why none of them have such features - another one I would love to see is recording calls, to use during any calls to customer service centers.
Ignoring that even home videos are by default copyrighted, obviously clips of tv serials and football games will be more popular than someone's home video of his kid falling off a bike or something. Viacom probably wants to show a high viewership of its serials, and claim that rampant piracy is reducing their profits.
Why doesn't Google (or any sued party) countersue them for all revenue earnings of their movies and serials? The justification would be to 'compare the profitability of piracy popularized movies against non-piracy popularized movies' (to paraphrase Viacom's claim). There should be a similar correlation where people are more likely to watch good movies, and the real flops are never even pirated much.
When Viacom claims that MPAA videos are more popular, and hence Youtube et al. are enablers of piracy... counterclaim that these services are helping popularize the same videos and increase their sales, hence actually deserve compensation rather than fines.
Of course, this is a specious argument similar to the one that Viacom is trying to make; but this way either the Viacom suit fails and this does too, else maybe using similarly flawed arguments ask for compensation for popularizing their videos. Also will be good to have Viacom give up their jealously guarded data, they'll probably think twice before asking for others' proprietary info.
My position is that as long as the pupil is trying in my subject, he/she will get his/her fair share of my time. If I am not good at a certain subject and am disinterested in it and the teacher ignores me because of that, I will hate the subject. What if you *are* interested but the teacher is too busy to help you as he's pushing all the disinterested kids who aren't good - wouldn't that perhaps reduce your interest too? Isn't it just a subjective call for the teacher as to which kid gets more of his attention span?
Frankly, if I'm not too fond of a subject I would rather not have the teacher breathing down my neck all the time. I can always ask specific questions about any problems that crop up - i.e. show interest, which seems to be the only qualification to get the GP's attention (if the teacher is similar).
I doubt that students who are bad in a subject and not interested in improvement would hate it if they were ignored by the teacher; more likely to do so if they were constantly bombarded with explanations they were not interested in imho.
Doing this does not bother me at all, and I will do it whenever I feel a student does not merit my time. You don't decide what merits your time. The people who pay you do... The taxpayers or the parents are paying for your time and they decide how YOU spend that time. Remember these are the same people in aggregate who vote in the clowns who then vote for NCLB and other loony laws. Besides, you don't hire a professional for an overall goal ('educate' child) and then dictate the exact steps used, nor can you do so in many cases without an indepth knowledge of the field.
I also question if all interested parties would dislike such an approach. Presumably he is a taxpayer, ergo he can self-justify at least one supportive vote from that segment.
Every time someone presents a reasoned argument to change an existing status quo, why does someone have to trot out the 'slippery slope' argument? I'm not a U.S. citizen and don't really want to comment on it, but the No Child Left Behind act is incredibly harmful to any intelligent kids imho, based on what I've read about it (mind you, this is mostly/. comments).
The GP was suggesting that people with no/little aptitude for thinking aren't steered into professions that require a lot of it. I certainly think it's a good idea - the brighter students can learn at a faster pace (and be positively influenced by having other bright students around them); and when they graduate will hopefully not be as pathetic at work as the current workforce in most industries.
If a kid is dyslexic or a 'visual learner'; this does not imply anything about their intelligence - I'm sure there are plenty of dumb dyslexics in the world too. For those that aren't; surely the better teachers can guide them well without holding back the rest of the class. I completely fail to see why some kids having health or abuse problems justifies dragging back other kids who, presumably, didn't hurt or abuse them.
I don't value the discovery alien life so much that I'm willing to have my species destroyed for it.
Don't worry - if the aliens are capable to sent anything destructive our way, they're quite likely also capable to detect our presence without us announcing it.
Even assuming this is true, that doesn't mean we need to stand out unnecessarily. If you were standing in a field of bushes with a gun, you can easily shoot any rabbit you see. From the rabbit's perspective, is it better to lay low in hiding or jump up and down for attention?
* Imagine a video that purports to be from a security camera that shows you breaking into a facility and wreaking havoc. And you were never there. How do you defend yourself?
Make up another video from a security camera, showing you (watching a movie | visiting a park | window shopping in a mall... ) as an alibi:)
... funnier to hear Japanese bastardized in English dubs
Which ones? Might be interesting to hear, I find some of the English pronunciations in subtitled anime really funny too.
As for Bleach names using Spanish, I think that's just whatever the author (Kubo Tite iirc?) decided on. Just like some manga might use Latin (Negima), French (Noir?) etc.
I have the infamous GMA950 in my new laptop, which also came w/ Vista and I haven't yet upgraded the initial 1gb of RAM - obviously I'm not playing games on it, but if I could have found a similar configuration with a discrete gfx card for maybe $50 more I would've definitely gone for that instead. I play games on a desktop w/ an AGP 7600GS, but I do miss the option to have decent graphics on the laptop too. Well, this para was just to nod and say 'Me too!' to the general dislike of GMA950:)
However, recently there is some news of the new AMD780g chipset having good performance with full support of DX10, a 65nm process (less heat & power consumption) as well as excellent overclocking (someone OCed the gfx from 500 -> 950 MHz). Intel might not care about customers, but hopefully they will come up with a good integrated GPU to counter AMD, and even if they don't maybe the RS780 will be popular in AMD-based laptop motherboards. I'm hoping for a good AMD quad core CPU + motherboard combo deal by year-end, since I will be upgrading or replacing my desktop by then and if the mobo has RS780 then it will be easier to wait for a good PCI-X card at the time.
> A containment vessel... it might be subjected to pressures on the order of an atmosphere or so.
I'm pretty ignorant about nuclear reactors, but this seems like a typo - surely any building can resist 1 atm. without needing special dome-shaped design or reinforced concrete:D
Tried a couple of quick searches for the actual pressure tolerance required for nuclear reactors but didn't find anything useful.
Whenever I leave my apartment, I'm always worried about losing my house keys and getting locked out. So I guess I should just never lock the door, since that makes me vulnerable to a DoS (can't get in) if I misplace my keys? Of course, this is a bad analogy as door locks aren't very secure; anyway this definition of 'vulnerability' is a bit strange:)
Considering this warning comes from a bunch of security companies, maybe this is some new trend of disclaimers, like anti-virus vendors warning that their product can only reduce but not eliminate attacks - in case a customer is stupid and tries to blame the encryption vendor for losing their keys, they can say 'I told you so' and point to these articles:D
I've always wondered, why do people want to crack these things early anyway? If I had the skill to crack DRM schemes, I wouldn't waste my efforts by releasing immediately - I would rather wait until it is in widespread use, and *then* release the crack. That way, normal users will get the point about why dealing with licenses is such a hassle, and hopefully the public will learn about DRM problems faster if someone they know gets affected. Not to mention that it is much harder to revoke licenses for the content protection guys when lots of devices are going to stop working:)
Slashdot Mirror
However, the GP's suggestion could easily have been used as a good band-aid while their expensive 'solution' was being developed ...
Not disputing your point about other additives being the main problem - I don't smoke, and neither do I know much about cigarette carcinogens - but if
1) practically all cigarettes contain nicotine
2) non-cigarette use of nicotine is extremely rare
3) it is far easier to test for than whatever actual crap is there in the cig.
then it still makes sense imho to test for nicotine as a simpler way to indirectly test for smoking.
Also, if the atmosphere was THAT good at shielding that radiation, then why would Microwave solar orbital power even be a consideration?
:)
Hmm - eventually maybe there will be weapons that are factories ... fire a missile into ground on enemy terrain, and it sets up shop creating hunter killer drones to eliminate any life nearby!
Offtopic, but I checked out of curiosity - you can post G links with just imgurl & imgrefurl taking out the rest and it will still work, makes for links that are a little less like paragraphs ;)
You might want to look at prepaid, no $10 plans but there is a new $30 plan with 1000 mins/1000sms/30mb (Straight Talk) from TracFone and supposedly Page Plus will have a $20 plan with 500mins/sms sometime next month. I'm seriously considering both, or even if I wanted to continue paying around $47/mo. which is my current bill for T-Mobile ... I may instead switch to Boost with $50 unlimited everything, that way I get to browse & use SMS too for the same cost. My current (postpaid) plan is just 1000 mins, no incl. sms or web ... I was thinking of getting another contract and picking up an Android phone, but it makes more sense to cut my bill to ~ $25 with PP (assuming some taxes) and just pick up whichever phone I want for full price.
-crushed by passing toolbag
Only if the Heart of Gold happens to be passing by ...
Only problem is, they might just jam your tinfoil hat down and over your laser eyes - and as everyone knows, tinfoil hats are *meant* to reflect radiation so ...
Giving the citizens guns will not help unfortunately when most of these guys have AK-47 and other high power guns.
So if the criminals already have AK-47 and other weapons, the would-be abductees are better served fighting with stones and kitchen cutlery rather than revolvers? I'm undecided on any 'gun control' debates and haven't really thought about it too much - but if someone is trying to kidnap me and there is a good chance I'll be killed, I would certainly try hard to resist and kill my attacker. And I really would prefer to try with a gun instead of a handy pipe or something, esp. as guns tend to have much more range than knives and sticks.
With all the newer smartphones and other devices having so much computing power, I sometimes wonder why someone doesn't come up with an app to encrypt the chat between 2 smartphones dynamically.
Say A & B are (talking on phone / chatting on IM/ videoconferencing). The program on the sender's end generates a key (even symmetric is fine) and sends it to the same program on the other end. After this, all communication is encrypted - with the added twist that either side can semi-randomly change the key used (say A sets 'every 2 mins since last change' as his setting, and B sets 'everytime I laugh' :)
Since all comms. are in-band, any snooper who has the *entire* conversation could just start at the beginning, get the first key sent unencrypted, then listen in to the convo. But it would be impossible for anyone who can't get a complete record, and also much harder for people to randomly listen in from the middle of an ongoing chat.
Additionally, besides encryption it could have the added bonus of data compression, which means better error correction or higher fidelity for analog audio (cell phones) etc.
Of course it might have to be activated manually or use some signalling mechanism to detect that the phone on the other end supports it, but mass snooping should become much harder.
the idea that you could compute my 27 character long pass phrase is stupid as well.
Hmmm ... just realized, this might be one of the reasons that far too many sites & programs still insist on 8 character or less passwords - else they would be much harder to crack!
I've given up on even trying to use spaces or really long passwords even on banking sites for the past few years, will have to check and see if things have improved at all.
Sadly, Discover is *upto* 1% cash back - the 5% Get More promotions are really good, but unless you're a big spender you won't approach close to 1% on normal purchases.
Also, there are plenty of Visa/MC cards with actual 1% cash back (not tiered) - unless NewEgg is requiring VbV now, probably better to use those and just decline the program signup.
... take down ten opponents at close range before they get close enough to grab you
Make sure to take Point Blank Shot as a feat before you fight, or just have a close-range weapon on hotswap.
Many autodialers just block the caller id so a number list might not be too useful, though of course the app should also allow blocking all unknown numbers as well.
Considering all the 'smart' phones around nowadays, I wonder why none of them have such features - another one I would love to see is recording calls, to use during any calls to customer service centers.
Ignoring that even home videos are by default copyrighted, obviously clips of tv serials and football games will be more popular than someone's home video of his kid falling off a bike or something. Viacom probably wants to show a high viewership of its serials, and claim that rampant piracy is reducing their profits.
Why doesn't Google (or any sued party) countersue them for all revenue earnings of their movies and serials? The justification would be to 'compare the profitability of piracy popularized movies against non-piracy popularized movies' (to paraphrase Viacom's claim). There should be a similar correlation where people are more likely to watch good movies, and the real flops are never even pirated much.
When Viacom claims that MPAA videos are more popular, and hence Youtube et al. are enablers of piracy ... counterclaim that these services are helping popularize the same videos and increase their sales, hence actually deserve compensation rather than fines.
Of course, this is a specious argument similar to the one that Viacom is trying to make; but this way either the Viacom suit fails and this does too, else maybe using similarly flawed arguments ask for compensation for popularizing their videos. Also will be good to have Viacom give up their jealously guarded data, they'll probably think twice before asking for others' proprietary info.
Every time someone presents a reasoned argument to change an existing status quo, why does someone have to trot out the 'slippery slope' argument? I'm not a U.S. citizen and don't really want to comment on it, but the No Child Left Behind act is incredibly harmful to any intelligent kids imho, based on what I've read about it (mind you, this is mostly /. comments).
The GP was suggesting that people with no/little aptitude for thinking aren't steered into professions that require a lot of it. I certainly think it's a good idea - the brighter students can learn at a faster pace (and be positively influenced by having other bright students around them); and when they graduate will hopefully not be as pathetic at work as the current workforce in most industries.
If a kid is dyslexic or a 'visual learner'; this does not imply anything about their intelligence - I'm sure there are plenty of dumb dyslexics in the world too. For those that aren't; surely the better teachers can guide them well without holding back the rest of the class. I completely fail to see why some kids having health or abuse problems justifies dragging back other kids who, presumably, didn't hurt or abuse them.
Don't worry - if the aliens are capable to sent anything destructive our way, they're quite likely also capable to detect our presence without us announcing it.
Even assuming this is true, that doesn't mean we need to stand out unnecessarily. If you were standing in a field of bushes with a gun, you can easily shoot any rabbit you see. From the rabbit's perspective, is it better to lay low in hiding or jump up and down for attention?The smarter ones could be working undercover as dry cleaners!
* Imagine a video that purports to be from a security camera that shows you breaking into a facility and wreaking havoc. And you were never there. How do you defend yourself?
Make up another video from a security camera, showing you (watching a movie | visiting a park | window shopping in a mall... funnier to hear Japanese bastardized in English dubs
Which ones? Might be interesting to hear, I find some of the English pronunciations in subtitled anime really funny too.
As for Bleach names using Spanish, I think that's just whatever the author (Kubo Tite iirc?) decided on. Just like some manga might use Latin (Negima), French (Noir?) etc.
I have the infamous GMA950 in my new laptop, which also came w/ Vista and I haven't yet upgraded the initial 1gb of RAM - obviously I'm not playing games on it, but if I could have found a similar configuration with a discrete gfx card for maybe $50 more I would've definitely gone for that instead. I play games on a desktop w/ an AGP 7600GS, but I do miss the option to have decent graphics on the laptop too. Well, this para was just to nod and say 'Me too!' to the general dislike of GMA950 :)
However, recently there is some news of the new AMD780g chipset having good performance with full support of DX10, a 65nm process (less heat & power consumption) as well as excellent overclocking (someone OCed the gfx from 500 -> 950 MHz). Intel might not care about customers, but hopefully they will come up with a good integrated GPU to counter AMD, and even if they don't maybe the RS780 will be popular in AMD-based laptop motherboards.
I'm hoping for a good AMD quad core CPU + motherboard combo deal by year-end, since I will be upgrading or replacing my desktop by then and if the mobo has RS780 then it will be easier to wait for a good PCI-X card at the time.
I'm pretty ignorant about nuclear reactors, but this seems like a typo - surely any building can resist 1 atm. without needing special dome-shaped design or reinforced concrete :D
Tried a couple of quick searches for the actual pressure tolerance required for nuclear reactors but didn't find anything useful.
Whenever I leave my apartment, I'm always worried about losing my house keys and getting locked out. So I guess I should just never lock the door, since that makes me vulnerable to a DoS (can't get in) if I misplace my keys? Of course, this is a bad analogy as door locks aren't very secure; anyway this definition of 'vulnerability' is a bit strange :) :D
Considering this warning comes from a bunch of security companies, maybe this is some new trend of disclaimers, like anti-virus vendors warning that their product can only reduce but not eliminate attacks - in case a customer is stupid and tries to blame the encryption vendor for losing their keys, they can say 'I told you so' and point to these articles
I've always wondered, why do people want to crack these things early anyway? If I had the skill to crack DRM schemes, I wouldn't waste my efforts by releasing immediately - I would rather wait until it is in widespread use, and *then* release the crack. That way, normal users will get the point about why dealing with licenses is such a hassle, and hopefully the public will learn about DRM problems faster if someone they know gets affected. Not to mention that it is much harder to revoke licenses for the content protection guys when lots of devices are going to stop working :)