We don't post real phone numbers in media anymore why shouldn't this rule also apply to other contact information such as domain names and email addresses?
Maybe because any joker with $10 and a computer can register a formerly unregistered domain name and make it into whatever he wants. All 555-prefixed fone numbers go to the fone company. There's no such provision for URLs, so if, to quote one example, FOX hadn't registered "whatbadgerseat.com" before referencing it on the Simpsons, someone could have heard it, registered it as a pr0n site or, worse, goatse mirror, and then FOX looks like a bunch of idiots for referring Simpsons viewers to a goatse mirror...
What Penguin is doing is totally uncalled-for and underhanded, I agree. They should have either used KatieT.com or picked a different domain that wasn't taken and registered it themselves.
Hell, 40-60 WPM from a well-developed hunt-n-peck method is incredibly fast.
I know. Back before I learned to touch-type in high school, I could do about 40-60 WPM using a system that I sort of evolved on my own over the course of two or three years.
I got a lot faster when I started touch-typing, but don't discount the value of a good hunt-n-peck method. I'd be a lot more worried that the typist can actually *recognise* errors in what they're typing. The lack of spelling and grammar skills amongst high schoolers concerns me a lot more than their lack of touch-typing ability.
Better the entire election be voided and the votes be re-cast by old-fashioned paper ballot than someone be elected by fraudulent means because nobody had the cojones to stand up for democracy.
It remains to be seen how well that will work. Hopefully it works as well as type and creator codes but without being nearly as obscure or difficult to fix when problems arise.
Put another way, I don't think this is as big of a step forward as completely throwing out metadata in OS X was a step backward. There's a great article about it by John Siracusa on Ars Technica, but I'm on a dog-slow connection right now and can't look it up.
I know this is supposed to be about Steve -- and may God help him -- but I just have to ask...
WTF purpose would Bluetooth and a colour screen serve on an iPod? I'd rather not sync MP3s over a 1 Mbps connection, thankyouverymuch. And, uh, I can read the monochrome screen just fine, even in bright sunlight, which is more than I can say for the similar-sized screen on my cell fone.
Feature creep is only good if the features are *useful*. Why do you think Slashdot was just running an article about cell fones no longer being profitable?
I never meant to imply that Boeing invented the system. The 747 and 777 are two common FAA-certified examples that I can think of. I'm sure there are plenty of others, although I doubt the FAA certified any such systems in the US as early as the 1960s.
Here's a hint: the vast majority of airline traffic is in controlled airspace for the entire time the engines are running.
While it is the responsibility of all pilots to "see and avoid" other traffic, if instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) exist, that's not possible. But if IMC exists, then pilots who aren't instrument-rated had damn well better not be flying in it.
Now, if a controller fucks up and vectors two planes into each other, well, how, exactly were the pilots supposed to see that coming in IMC? Nothing anyone in the planes can do about that. Sorry.
Since we're talking about IMC -- or its functional equivalent, no windows in the plane -- here, your comment isn't exactly relevant.
All that being said, I sort of doubt the FAA would approve a type design with no external visibility other than an electronic system, no matter how many levels of redundancy back up that electronic system. Even if the FAA approved it, the passengers wouldn't. Gulfstream, Lockheed-Martin, and Boeing aren't stupid. The writer of the PopSci piece is exhibiting some extremely wishful (and impractical, IMO) thinking.
While you're right, Kennedy shouldn't have been flying under VFR in IMC. He wasn't instrument rated, although he had had lots of instrument training, and with passengers on board, doing it was just horribly irresponsible.
A related side note: commercial pilots are required to have an instrument rating to fly for hire at night. This doesn't apply in this case because Kennedy wasn't flying for hire.
Assuming all hydraulic systems are fully operative, a 777 or 747 can actually do the last 50 feet, too.
We pilots are there in case something goes wrong, and because ATC doesn't issue the exact same route every single time. Someone has to input the proper arrival procedure for the destination, since weather changes a LOT.;)
Example 3 - The communication systems at every tower I have worked at have two separate backbones. There are two of absolutely everything. If that fails, there are emergency radios under the desk. If the emergency radios don't work... We used to joke that the controllers would climb to the top of the tower and wave fire extinguishers to warn the planes away. (I think it was a joke.)
It's not a joke. They have light guns (think God's Own Spotlight here) instead of fire extinguishers, and they use them from inside the tower. The light guns are typically used for communication with airplanes that have lost their radios. The tower systems are significantly more reliable than the airborne systems are.
I don't want to carry both of them. I only have so many pockets.
Now, I can deal with a camera, MP3 player, etc. as separate devices. I don't need my iPod or my camera on my person 24/7. But will someone please make a cell fone that integrates a halfway decent PDA and some handwriting recognition? I just want something like the P900, but damned if I'll pay what the unlocker shops are selling them for...
Probably because Hammarskjold had already been chosen, just not informed of the choice, when he died in the plane crash. ISTR the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded during autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so that would make the time from Hammarskjold's death to the prize ceremony a few months at most.
Watson and Crick didn't get their Nobel (in Physiology & Medicine, btw, not Chemistry, which has always puzzled me) until 1962, nine years after the publication of the Nature article, at which point Franklin had been dead four years.
I can't believe in all of this no one has mentioned (at least above the +2 level) "Project E.U.N.U.C.H.," especially in light of the mention of 386-MHz 386s in the Slashdot article. A bunch of British guys overclocked a 486DX/25 to something like 258 MHz (with lots of extra cooling) before it gave out...
"You haven't been around here very long, have you?"
All joking aside, expect the spam to start pouring in now that you've had a comment modded up on/. and you still leave your naked e-mail address out there for bots to grab.
You can't view e-mail headers on this quiz, either. I have full header display turned on (which, in Eudora, also kills *any* attempt at HTML rendering), and that lets me spot the fakes without even looking at the URLs. eBay or PayPal sending me e-mails from China? Fat fucking chance.
BTW, I got 100% on the quiz. Use "View HTML Source" to see where the URLs point.
Please disregard the previous comment. The heirs of Julia Ward Howe have sued Paul and won all of his assets, and wish the comment to be stricken from the record...
Not a troll. It's a legitimate question. This device is exactly what I've been looking for in a smartfone with the exception of Windows. The SonyEricsson P900 isn't available with a service plan *anywhere* in the United States, and I'm sure as hell not paying $800 for one without it.
If the 6315 will run a fairly mature *nixoid OS, I'll give up my T68m in a heartbeat.
I meant to mention this in my original post. Flashing the firmware to factory original, which is explained on the page, should make this modification completely invisible to Canon should you need service.
There's already precedent for this in the postal system, at least here in the United States.
If you receive something unsolicited in the US Mail (which includes something addressed to you by accident, but not addressed to someone else and simply left in the wrong mailbox), you are free to do with it as you wish. The sender cannot compel you to obey any license agreement or follow any restrictions they might wish to place on its use, within the bounds of the law. (That is, you can't go out and beat someone up with a billy club someone sends you in the mail, because that would otherwise violate the law, but you're free to use it as a billy club even if the company who sent it to you says it's a sex toy for cows.)
There was a great deal of discussion about this back when DigitalConvergence (remember them?) was sending unsolicited CueCats to people and then suing them for taking them apart and hacking them.
I'd like to see some statistics -- preferably from an entity NOT controlled by the RIAA -- comparing the projected "losses" due to piracy within the United States versus piracy within Southeast Asia.
If you stop a bunch of high-school kids in the US and Europe, big fugging deal. Put up enough obstacles to fair use, and the Britney-obsessed drones will politely shut up and pay their money.
But there were monstrous cartels of professional pirates in SE Asia before Napster was even an embryonic thought in Shawn Fanning's mind. There are still monstrous cartels of professional pirates there, and there will continue to be monstrous cartels of professional pirates there, no matter what sort of fair-use restrictions the RIAA tries to throw at the problem.
The solution is not a greater impediment to copying. The solution lies in driving the professional pirates out of business. Of course, the RIAA (or the BSA, or the MPAA) doesn't pWn the governments of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China, so I don't expect they'll ever actually admit this is where the real problem lies, because they can't do anything about it.
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We don't post real phone numbers in media anymore why shouldn't this rule also apply to other contact information such as domain names and email addresses?
Maybe because any joker with $10 and a computer can register a formerly unregistered domain name and make it into whatever he wants. All 555-prefixed fone numbers go to the fone company. There's no such provision for URLs, so if, to quote one example, FOX hadn't registered "whatbadgerseat.com" before referencing it on the Simpsons, someone could have heard it, registered it as a pr0n site or, worse, goatse mirror, and then FOX looks like a bunch of idiots for referring Simpsons viewers to a goatse mirror...
What Penguin is doing is totally uncalled-for and underhanded, I agree. They should have either used KatieT.com or picked a different domain that wasn't taken and registered it themselves.
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Score: +2, Funny; -1, Tasteless.
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How much must it suck to be the #1 hit on Google for that search string?
Thanks for the laugh, man.
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Hell, 40-60 WPM from a well-developed hunt-n-peck method is incredibly fast.
I know. Back before I learned to touch-type in high school, I could do about 40-60 WPM using a system that I sort of evolved on my own over the course of two or three years.
I got a lot faster when I started touch-typing, but don't discount the value of a good hunt-n-peck method. I'd be a lot more worried that the typist can actually *recognise* errors in what they're typing. The lack of spelling and grammar skills amongst high schoolers concerns me a lot more than their lack of touch-typing ability.
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Better the entire election be voided and the votes be re-cast by old-fashioned paper ballot than someone be elected by fraudulent means because nobody had the cojones to stand up for democracy.
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Bluetooth = wireless iTunes with random folks on the bus. An "I'm single and looking for man/woman/other" flag would make it a sure fire hit.
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You've been reading The Register again, haven't you?
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It remains to be seen how well that will work. Hopefully it works as well as type and creator codes but without being nearly as obscure or difficult to fix when problems arise.
Put another way, I don't think this is as big of a step forward as completely throwing out metadata in OS X was a step backward. There's a great article about it by John Siracusa on Ars Technica, but I'm on a dog-slow connection right now and can't look it up.
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I know this is supposed to be about Steve -- and may God help him -- but I just have to ask...
WTF purpose would Bluetooth and a colour screen serve on an iPod? I'd rather not sync MP3s over a 1 Mbps connection, thankyouverymuch. And, uh, I can read the monochrome screen just fine, even in bright sunlight, which is more than I can say for the similar-sized screen on my cell fone.
Feature creep is only good if the features are *useful*. Why do you think Slashdot was just running an article about cell fones no longer being profitable?
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Metadata truly is the future.
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It's too bad Apple and Microsoft don't seem to care about it.
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I never meant to imply that Boeing invented the system. The 747 and 777 are two common FAA-certified examples that I can think of. I'm sure there are plenty of others, although I doubt the FAA certified any such systems in the US as early as the 1960s.
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Here's a hint: the vast majority of airline traffic is in controlled airspace for the entire time the engines are running.
While it is the responsibility of all pilots to "see and avoid" other traffic, if instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) exist, that's not possible. But if IMC exists, then pilots who aren't instrument-rated had damn well better not be flying in it.
Now, if a controller fucks up and vectors two planes into each other, well, how, exactly were the pilots supposed to see that coming in IMC? Nothing anyone in the planes can do about that. Sorry.
Since we're talking about IMC -- or its functional equivalent, no windows in the plane -- here, your comment isn't exactly relevant.
All that being said, I sort of doubt the FAA would approve a type design with no external visibility other than an electronic system, no matter how many levels of redundancy back up that electronic system. Even if the FAA approved it, the passengers wouldn't. Gulfstream, Lockheed-Martin, and Boeing aren't stupid. The writer of the PopSci piece is exhibiting some extremely wishful (and impractical, IMO) thinking.
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While you're right, Kennedy shouldn't have been flying under VFR in IMC. He wasn't instrument rated, although he had had lots of instrument training, and with passengers on board, doing it was just horribly irresponsible.
A related side note: commercial pilots are required to have an instrument rating to fly for hire at night. This doesn't apply in this case because Kennedy wasn't flying for hire.
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Assuming all hydraulic systems are fully operative, a 777 or 747 can actually do the last 50 feet, too.
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We pilots are there in case something goes wrong, and because ATC doesn't issue the exact same route every single time. Someone has to input the proper arrival procedure for the destination, since weather changes a LOT.
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Example 3 - The communication systems at every tower I have worked at have two separate backbones. There are two of absolutely everything. If that fails, there are emergency radios under the desk. If the emergency radios don't work ... We used to joke that the controllers would climb to the top of the tower and wave fire extinguishers to warn the planes away. (I think it was a joke.)
It's not a joke. They have light guns (think God's Own Spotlight here) instead of fire extinguishers, and they use them from inside the tower. The light guns are typically used for communication with airplanes that have lost their radios. The tower systems are significantly more reliable than the airborne systems are.
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Speak for yourself.
I *need* a PDA, and I want a cell fone.
I don't want to carry both of them. I only have so many pockets.
Now, I can deal with a camera, MP3 player, etc. as separate devices. I don't need my iPod or my camera on my person 24/7. But will someone please make a cell fone that integrates a halfway decent PDA and some handwriting recognition? I just want something like the P900, but damned if I'll pay what the unlocker shops are selling them for...
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Probably because Hammarskjold had already been chosen, just not informed of the choice, when he died in the plane crash. ISTR the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded during autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so that would make the time from Hammarskjold's death to the prize ceremony a few months at most.
Watson and Crick didn't get their Nobel (in Physiology & Medicine, btw, not Chemistry, which has always puzzled me) until 1962, nine years after the publication of the Nature article, at which point Franklin had been dead four years.
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I can't believe in all of this no one has mentioned (at least above the +2 level) "Project E.U.N.U.C.H.," especially in light of the mention of 386-MHz 386s in the Slashdot article. A bunch of British guys overclocked a 486DX/25 to something like 258 MHz (with lots of extra cooling) before it gave out...
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Who wants to place bets on how long it takes for that site to die a quick death by Slashdot?
Sure hope they don't bandwidth-cap their hosted home pages like they used to (still do?) cap their cable modem connections...
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You totally asked for this...
/. and you still leave your naked e-mail address out there for bots to grab.
"You haven't been around here very long, have you?"
All joking aside, expect the spam to start pouring in now that you've had a comment modded up on
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You forgot one other important thing...
You can't view e-mail headers on this quiz, either. I have full header display turned on (which, in Eudora, also kills *any* attempt at HTML rendering), and that lets me spot the fakes without even looking at the URLs. eBay or PayPal sending me e-mails from China? Fat fucking chance.
BTW, I got 100% on the quiz. Use "View HTML Source" to see where the URLs point.
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Please disregard the previous comment. The heirs of Julia Ward Howe have sued Paul and won all of his assets, and wish the comment to be stricken from the record...
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Does it -- the 6315 -- run Linux?
Not a troll. It's a legitimate question. This device is exactly what I've been looking for in a smartfone with the exception of Windows. The SonyEricsson P900 isn't available with a service plan *anywhere* in the United States, and I'm sure as hell not paying $800 for one without it.
If the 6315 will run a fairly mature *nixoid OS, I'll give up my T68m in a heartbeat.
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I meant to mention this in my original post. Flashing the firmware to factory original, which is explained on the page, should make this modification completely invisible to Canon should you need service.
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There's already precedent for this in the postal system, at least here in the United States.
If you receive something unsolicited in the US Mail (which includes something addressed to you by accident, but not addressed to someone else and simply left in the wrong mailbox), you are free to do with it as you wish. The sender cannot compel you to obey any license agreement or follow any restrictions they might wish to place on its use, within the bounds of the law. (That is, you can't go out and beat someone up with a billy club someone sends you in the mail, because that would otherwise violate the law, but you're free to use it as a billy club even if the company who sent it to you says it's a sex toy for cows.)
There was a great deal of discussion about this back when DigitalConvergence (remember them?) was sending unsolicited CueCats to people and then suing them for taking them apart and hacking them.
Some info on that situation:
http://www.beau.lib.la.us/~jmorris/linux/cuecat/
http://air-soldier.com/~cuecat/
http://www.xmission.com/~rebling/pub/cuecat.html
http://www.logorrhea.com/cuecat/mirrors.html
More on Google; search for "CueCat."
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I'd like to see some statistics -- preferably from an entity NOT controlled by the RIAA -- comparing the projected "losses" due to piracy within the United States versus piracy within Southeast Asia.
If you stop a bunch of high-school kids in the US and Europe, big fugging deal. Put up enough obstacles to fair use, and the Britney-obsessed drones will politely shut up and pay their money.
But there were monstrous cartels of professional pirates in SE Asia before Napster was even an embryonic thought in Shawn Fanning's mind. There are still monstrous cartels of professional pirates there, and there will continue to be monstrous cartels of professional pirates there, no matter what sort of fair-use restrictions the RIAA tries to throw at the problem.
The solution is not a greater impediment to copying. The solution lies in driving the professional pirates out of business. Of course, the RIAA (or the BSA, or the MPAA) doesn't pWn the governments of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China, so I don't expect they'll ever actually admit this is where the real problem lies, because they can't do anything about it.
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