It's worth pointing out that the availability of really useful materials for incendiary warfare was notably lacking in the ancient world at this time. Even the Romans, with their much more sophisticated war machine never managed to deploy fire based weapons of any magnitude.
Dr Lendon of the University of Virginia and a leading expert on combat in the ancient world is oft quoted in reference to the opening scenes of Gladiator as saying this:
"The opening battle is remarkably accurate for a Hollywood depiction of Roman warfare... if you think away the Napalm. The Romans didn't have anything more flammable than olive oil"
Flaming arrows, while they make good cinematography, weren't in the Greek arsenal at the time.
When I used to work there, the authorization was based on both the receiver number and the smartcard number. My understanding at the time was that the key was in two parts, partially on the smartcard and partially on the receiver.
I know that it was possible to change the smartcard authorized in the system for a given receiver. My guess would be that the key for authorization of signal is stored on the smartcard and that authorization for programing is on the receiver itself. I know that if you recorded a show off HBO and then dropped the package you could still watch your recorded show.
Dish does use a pretty strong DRM on its newer DVRs - though the old Dishplayer 7000 series was pretty easy to break. Dish's content providers aren't too keen on the idea of DVR technology, let alone something like this that would seem to encourage time shifting even more. It's a constant battle for companies like Dish to get their providers to allow them to incorporate time shifting devices on to their network. I can't imagine they'd get away with providing this kind of functionality without some heavy duty DRM in place as well.
You're in Florida, so I assume you're talking about near monsoon level storms -- otherwise you shouldn't be loosing signal entirely in the rain. Even so, you might want to call DirecTV and have them check it out - a dish pointing might be in order.
Ok - this is a problem on Slashdot. If you are a moderator and you see a post you disagree with, that doesn't necessarily make it a flame or a troll.
Bill Frist ranks as one of the most singularly corrupt people in the Senate. That's not to say that there aren't Democrats on the take as well, but lets call a spade a spade here.
I don't know enough about Barbara Boxer to say if she ranks near Frist in the senatorial corruption game. I'm more willing to forgive pro MPAA/RIAA votes from her because, as other posters have pointed out, she represents California. Those people are her constituents. When a Senator from Wisconson supports the same legislation, I can't help but wonder which constituents he/she has in mind.
If you're a HD junkie (like me) I'd avoid satelite. HD is only available (with some very rare exceptions) on a small number of national channels, none of which are networks. Under very rare circumstance you can qualify for HD content on a select number of national broadcast locals like CBS out of LA.
There were some rumors a few months back that DirecTV was planing on upgrading portions of their broadcast apparatus to allow locals in HD nationwide, a feat which I'm still not sure is even possible with existing DBS technology.
Voom carries some HD content, though IIRC, their Sci Fi feed is upconverted instead of native HD, which defeats the point entirely.
To stay on topic though - while I'd love to see Comcast implement a try before you buy system here, I find it unlikely. PPV sales are a major cash cow for most cable/sat providers. The policies I saw while working at Dish Network (EchoStar) were downright cutthroat with reguards to PPV content. These companies are suspicious of their customers and will fight tooth and nail to protect their PPV profit margins.
It's a DMCA violation, a breaking and entering charge, a copyright infringement charge (difficult to prove in this case), and a number of other things as well. But it is not theft.
From the Miriam Webster Legal Dictionary theft n. [Old English thiefth] larceny; broadly A criminal taking of the property or services of another without consent - Theft commonly encompasses by statute a variety of forms of stealing formerly treated as distinct crimes.
infringement n. The act or an instance of infringing; esp The unauthorized use of copyrighted or patented material or of a trademark, trade name, or trade dress see also equivalent fair use - Infringement of a trademark, trade name, or trade dress involves use of one by the infringer that is the same as that of the owner or so similar that it is likely to deceive or to cause confusion or mistake on the part of the average purchaser. Infringement of a copyright involves the copying of a material and substantial portion of the protected work. If the alleged infringer denies copying, the copyright holder may be able to prove infringement with circumstantial evidence of the infringer's access to the protected work and of similarities between the two works.
A lot of this assumes that people aren't stupid - an assumption I'm hesitant to make.
Alternitively, a finger print system could store baseline data on the payee as well. Information like average heart rate, body temperature, skin conductivity and the like would allow the payment system to determine stress levels.
An elevated stress level would then result in a security check, requiring that the payee produce photo-id and have a face to face with a teller or somesuch. While this would decrease the convenience of the system, it would serve to adequately deter theft.
What about privacy concerns? I'm not a math guy, but it would seem that since the biometric would authenticate remotely, the authentication stream would be at risk. This is still suseptable to a man in the middle attack like a bogus ATM at the mall right?
The iPod doesn't lock you into iTunes, but iTunes does lock you into the iPod (until very recently). An iPod will play MP3s. You can buy those basicly anywhere. You can rip them yourself if you so desire.
If the iPod didn't support non-drm encoded music formats I'd be more upset. As is, as far as injustice in the IT industry goes, this is pretty low key.
After his work in.au, the good doctor came to work at the University of Virginia (just up the road from me) where he treated, among other people, a fair chunk of my wife's family. It seems the bacteria in question is rampant throughout the ground water system in Natural Bridge VA.
Re-infection can be a serious problem for people in areas like that. Apparently much of his work at UVA dealt with susceptibility studies and clustering. Fascinating guy.
Meant partly in jest to be sure, but not a bad idea overall. Gmail provides a hell of a lot of (presumably) RAIDed to hell and back storage. That said, it's also probably stored somewhere in San Fransisco... so if you live there, that probably isn't your best bet.
If you live in New York though, it's a good alternitive. The only kind of problems that I can think of that would make you need to flee New York and make data stored in San Fransisco irretreivable are the sort of problems after which you don't need your identity anyway.
It's important that you don't confuse it with the "I'm getting lucky" button, which draws shutters over all the windows, dims the lights, and plays Berry Manalo music. While romantic, this has severe drawbacks during a landing sequence.
Well, no, it shouldn't. I belive the topic of the BBC article was the iPod Mini, not the Nano. Moreover, there is a major difference in the depth of the product.
That said, the wheel on the radio is simply a different way of looking at a knob. The knob itself, is a clever way of creating a very small and intuitive interface to a linear series of choices (a paradigm leap in and of itself, moving a linear structure to a circular interface).
Given that, the use of the wheel by Apple isn't so mucy copy-catting, as making the long overdue leap from the radio dial to the play list. Both represent a linear progression of choices, so why not use a similar interface?
Once that's done, the form factor and hip colors aren't such a big deal. Bright active colors appeal to the youth market while the form factor is a veritable necessity for portable use.
The real gem of the industrial design that Apple has put into the iPod is the gloss finish, the rounded corners, and the lovely little audio responce from the wheel. It's not so much that the iPod is retro, as it looks like something from a 1960s science fiction movie. iPods look like what the Baby Boomer generation was TOLD the future would look like.
Given that nothing else they were told about the future panned out, that's fairly appealing.
But we live in a world with both eminent domain and campaign contributions.
Riddle me this -- if Wal Mart can give money to a candidate and thereby get legislation passed to help it increase its profits (thus allowing it to have more political influence etc), how can you get eminent domain revoked?
Wal Mart has as much, if not more interest in E.D. than it does in relaxed campaign finance laws. Why, given the non-relaxed state of campaign finance, would you assume you can so easily countervene Wal Mart's desires?
It's a catch 22. Wal Mart has political influence because it can buy that influence, and it can use that influence to prevent legislative changes that would prevent it from buying influence.
Protected by that loop, corporate money effectively has the ability to buy and sell legislation in this country -- largely because the majority of the American public is dumb enough to belive everything it sees on TV.
According to BBC News it's something more like 17280 a day. I wouldn't think that a doubling of that statistic would be wholy unreasonable for the general population as opposed to just children.
Not bad for an off the cuff statistic wouldn't you say?
Outlawing killing people effectively criminalizes the actions of people who would kill in their own self defense. Therefore, it should be leagal to kill people.
I don't think your argument stands. Just because criminals would continue to engage in an activity if it was made illegal, doesn't mean there' no benefit to be gaining from changing the law.
By definition, criminals will break the law. Therefore, if the metric used to judge laws is whether or not criminals will break them if enacted, no law is justifiable.
A candidate doesn't need unlimited power to pander to Wal-Mart, he needs just a little bit of power. If your supposition were true, there would be no precived benefit to giving money. Since corporations continue to donate, we must assume there is some benefit to donation.
Remember when Japan hosted the winter olympics at Nagano? When the name first appeared on broadcast media in the US the anchors were calling it Nay-ga-no, na-Gah-no, and na-Gay-no.
I'd hate to be someone with a non-western name and be forced to watch CNN butcher my name.
Which begs the question - why isn't there a standard for this?
I can't imagine that the different manufacturers actually have some kind of brand look and feel to the inteface that they have to maintain. Why not just standardize it?
As for prompting and the "are you sure" message -- I know it doesn't make sense for credit purchaces, but I've been using my debit card at grocery stores a lot recently. The grocery has more or less replaced the ATM as my prefered method of getting cash. When I change the amount of the purchase (say, from 24.34 to 40.00) I like that I'm prompted. An extra zero could be bad.
Because 50 cent is a no talent hack being forced on the ignorant masses by a media conglomerate and Harry Potter is imaginative and well written children's prose?
Oh. You meant why doesn't a Harry Potter novel cost more than 50 cents. Never mind...
Duh! After landing on Mars they'll change their name to Union Aerospace Corp. Then they'll begin some high end weapons research - specificly working out how to let a normal guy hold a chain gun without ripping his own arms off.
Once they've mastered that, they'll litter the place with chain saws for reasons passing understanding and begin dimentional rift research.
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The People's Republic of China (early on)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nazi Germany
Facist Italy
Rawanda about 10 years ago
A real "who's who" amongst nations to be sure. I sure am glad my country ranks amongst them.
Right. And there's no way the wind would blow that out? If cloth wrapped arrows were so effective, why use pitch in later centuries at all?
It's worth pointing out that the availability of really useful materials for incendiary warfare was notably lacking in the ancient world at this time. Even the Romans, with their much more sophisticated war machine never managed to deploy fire based weapons of any magnitude.
Dr Lendon of the University of Virginia and a leading expert on combat in the ancient world is oft quoted in reference to the opening scenes of Gladiator as saying this:
"The opening battle is remarkably accurate for a Hollywood depiction of Roman warfare... if you think away the Napalm. The Romans didn't have anything more flammable than olive oil"
Flaming arrows, while they make good cinematography, weren't in the Greek arsenal at the time.
When I used to work there, the authorization was based on both the receiver number and the smartcard number. My understanding at the time was that the key was in two parts, partially on the smartcard and partially on the receiver.
I know that it was possible to change the smartcard authorized in the system for a given receiver. My guess would be that the key for authorization of signal is stored on the smartcard and that authorization for programing is on the receiver itself. I know that if you recorded a show off HBO and then dropped the package you could still watch your recorded show.
Dish does use a pretty strong DRM on its newer DVRs - though the old Dishplayer 7000 series was pretty easy to break. Dish's content providers aren't too keen on the idea of DVR technology, let alone something like this that would seem to encourage time shifting even more. It's a constant battle for companies like Dish to get their providers to allow them to incorporate time shifting devices on to their network. I can't imagine they'd get away with providing this kind of functionality without some heavy duty DRM in place as well.
You're in Florida, so I assume you're talking about near monsoon level storms -- otherwise you shouldn't be loosing signal entirely in the rain. Even so, you might want to call DirecTV and have them check it out - a dish pointing might be in order.
Ok - this is a problem on Slashdot. If you are a moderator and you see a post you disagree with, that doesn't necessarily make it a flame or a troll.
Bill Frist ranks as one of the most singularly corrupt people in the Senate. That's not to say that there aren't Democrats on the take as well, but lets call a spade a spade here.
I don't know enough about Barbara Boxer to say if she ranks near Frist in the senatorial corruption game. I'm more willing to forgive pro MPAA/RIAA votes from her because, as other posters have pointed out, she represents California. Those people are her constituents. When a Senator from Wisconson supports the same legislation, I can't help but wonder which constituents he/she has in mind.
If you're a HD junkie (like me) I'd avoid satelite. HD is only available (with some very rare exceptions) on a small number of national channels, none of which are networks. Under very rare circumstance you can qualify for HD content on a select number of national broadcast locals like CBS out of LA.
There were some rumors a few months back that DirecTV was planing on upgrading portions of their broadcast apparatus to allow locals in HD nationwide, a feat which I'm still not sure is even possible with existing DBS technology.
Voom carries some HD content, though IIRC, their Sci Fi feed is upconverted instead of native HD, which defeats the point entirely.
To stay on topic though - while I'd love to see Comcast implement a try before you buy system here, I find it unlikely. PPV sales are a major cash cow for most cable/sat providers. The policies I saw while working at Dish Network (EchoStar) were downright cutthroat with reguards to PPV content. These companies are suspicious of their customers and will fight tooth and nail to protect their PPV profit margins.
No, it's not.
It's a DMCA violation, a breaking and entering charge, a copyright infringement charge (difficult to prove in this case), and a number of other things as well. But it is not theft.
From the Miriam Webster Legal Dictionary
theft n. [Old English thiefth]
larceny; broadly A criminal taking of the property or services of another without consent
- Theft commonly encompasses by statute a variety of forms of stealing formerly treated as distinct crimes.
infringement n. The act or an instance of infringing; esp The unauthorized use of copyrighted or patented material or of a trademark, trade name, or trade dress see also equivalent fair use
- Infringement of a trademark, trade name, or trade dress involves use of one by the infringer that is the same as that of the owner or so similar that it is likely to deceive or to cause confusion or mistake on the part of the average purchaser. Infringement of a copyright involves the copying of a material and substantial portion of the protected work. If the alleged infringer denies copying, the copyright holder may be able to prove infringement with circumstantial evidence of the infringer's access to the protected work and of similarities between the two works.
Hope this helps.
A lot of this assumes that people aren't stupid - an assumption I'm hesitant to make.
Alternitively, a finger print system could store baseline data on the payee as well. Information like average heart rate, body temperature, skin conductivity and the like would allow the payment system to determine stress levels.
An elevated stress level would then result in a security check, requiring that the payee produce photo-id and have a face to face with a teller or somesuch. While this would decrease the convenience of the system, it would serve to adequately deter theft.
What about privacy concerns? I'm not a math guy, but it would seem that since the biometric would authenticate remotely, the authentication stream would be at risk. This is still suseptable to a man in the middle attack like a bogus ATM at the mall right?
The iPod doesn't lock you into iTunes, but iTunes does lock you into the iPod (until very recently). An iPod will play MP3s. You can buy those basicly anywhere. You can rip them yourself if you so desire.
If the iPod didn't support non-drm encoded music formats I'd be more upset. As is, as far as injustice in the IT industry goes, this is pretty low key.
After his work in .au, the good doctor came to work at the University of Virginia (just up the road from me) where he treated, among other people, a fair chunk of my wife's family. It seems the bacteria in question is rampant throughout the ground water system in Natural Bridge VA.
Re-infection can be a serious problem for people in areas like that. Apparently much of his work at UVA dealt with susceptibility studies and clustering. Fascinating guy.
Meant partly in jest to be sure, but not a bad idea overall. Gmail provides a hell of a lot of (presumably) RAIDed to hell and back storage. That said, it's also probably stored somewhere in San Fransisco... so if you live there, that probably isn't your best bet.
If you live in New York though, it's a good alternitive. The only kind of problems that I can think of that would make you need to flee New York and make data stored in San Fransisco irretreivable are the sort of problems after which you don't need your identity anyway.
It's important that you don't confuse it with the "I'm getting lucky" button, which draws shutters over all the windows, dims the lights, and plays Berry Manalo music. While romantic, this has severe drawbacks during a landing sequence.
Well, no, it shouldn't. I belive the topic of the BBC article was the iPod Mini, not the Nano. Moreover, there is a major difference in the depth of the product.
That said, the wheel on the radio is simply a different way of looking at a knob. The knob itself, is a clever way of creating a very small and intuitive interface to a linear series of choices (a paradigm leap in and of itself, moving a linear structure to a circular interface).
Given that, the use of the wheel by Apple isn't so mucy copy-catting, as making the long overdue leap from the radio dial to the play list. Both represent a linear progression of choices, so why not use a similar interface?
Once that's done, the form factor and hip colors aren't such a big deal. Bright active colors appeal to the youth market while the form factor is a veritable necessity for portable use.
The real gem of the industrial design that Apple has put into the iPod is the gloss finish, the rounded corners, and the lovely little audio responce from the wheel. It's not so much that the iPod is retro, as it looks like something from a 1960s science fiction movie. iPods look like what the Baby Boomer generation was TOLD the future would look like.
Given that nothing else they were told about the future panned out, that's fairly appealing.
But we live in a world with both eminent domain and campaign contributions.
Riddle me this -- if Wal Mart can give money to a candidate and thereby get legislation passed to help it increase its profits (thus allowing it to have more political influence etc), how can you get eminent domain revoked?
Wal Mart has as much, if not more interest in E.D. than it does in relaxed campaign finance laws. Why, given the non-relaxed state of campaign finance, would you assume you can so easily countervene Wal Mart's desires?
It's a catch 22. Wal Mart has political influence because it can buy that influence, and it can use that influence to prevent legislative changes that would prevent it from buying influence.
Protected by that loop, corporate money effectively has the ability to buy and sell legislation in this country -- largely because the majority of the American public is dumb enough to belive everything it sees on TV.
According to BBC News it's something more like 17280 a day. I wouldn't think that a doubling of that statistic would be wholy unreasonable for the general population as opposed to just children.
Not bad for an off the cuff statistic wouldn't you say?
Outlawing killing people effectively criminalizes the actions of people who would kill in their own self defense. Therefore, it should be leagal to kill people.
I don't think your argument stands. Just because criminals would continue to engage in an activity if it was made illegal, doesn't mean there' no benefit to be gaining from changing the law.
By definition, criminals will break the law. Therefore, if the metric used to judge laws is whether or not criminals will break them if enacted, no law is justifiable.
A candidate doesn't need unlimited power to pander to Wal-Mart, he needs just a little bit of power. If your supposition were true, there would be no precived benefit to giving money. Since corporations continue to donate, we must assume there is some benefit to donation.
Katrina was categorized accurately throughout her route across the Gulf.
She also deviated less than 20 miles from the predicted path... which for a storm the size of a mid-sized state, is pretty negligable.
Stop the huricane? Seriously? I mean, we -=can=- do that, we could set off a hydrogen bomb inside the storm, disrupting its circular flow.
Of course, then we're setting off a NUCLEAR DEVICE in the middle of the gulf.
Remember when Japan hosted the winter olympics at Nagano? When the name first appeared on broadcast media in the US the anchors were calling it Nay-ga-no, na-Gah-no, and na-Gay-no.
I'd hate to be someone with a non-western name and be forced to watch CNN butcher my name.
Which begs the question - why isn't there a standard for this?
I can't imagine that the different manufacturers actually have some kind of brand look and feel to the inteface that they have to maintain. Why not just standardize it?
As for prompting and the "are you sure" message -- I know it doesn't make sense for credit purchaces, but I've been using my debit card at grocery stores a lot recently. The grocery has more or less replaced the ATM as my prefered method of getting cash. When I change the amount of the purchase (say, from 24.34 to 40.00) I like that I'm prompted. An extra zero could be bad.
Because 50 cent is a no talent hack being forced on the ignorant masses by a media conglomerate and Harry Potter is imaginative and well written children's prose?
Oh. You meant why doesn't a Harry Potter novel cost more than 50 cents. Never mind...
Duh! After landing on Mars they'll change their name to Union Aerospace Corp. Then they'll begin some high end weapons research - specificly working out how to let a normal guy hold a chain gun without ripping his own arms off.
Once they've mastered that, they'll litter the place with chain saws for reasons passing understanding and begin dimentional rift research.
Don't you people know anything?
Quite frankly, I keep waiting for him to address the UN. Maybe use some footwear to make his point.
Look at these two guys
Balmer
Khrushchev
He's always kind of reminded me of Khrushchev, but threatening to bury Google.... it's just a little to Warsaw pact, even for my tastes.
I don't know enough about cell phones to comment on this post technically, but the concept sounds reasonable.
The only question I'd have is this -- if my phone can't pick up a native signal, doesn't that mean it's roaming? It's not as if it doesn't work.
I guess I need more background on how cell service works in this country. Any advice on places to start?