Actually thanks for that. In this case it isn't censorship at all. Amazon just doesn't want to carry that book. If you read that website you will see that the books are available at Barnes and Nobel and other online stores.
Actually there where many interracial kisses and even a very popular interracial marriage on TV long before that kiss on Star Trek. Ever heard of a show called "I Love Lucy"?
I did. but there may be the need between the consumer and the lab for this to mature. A price is no object performance market. As I said even super computers are now often made up of COTS parts. This is more a question of economics and not technology. Will any company be willing to make the long term investment to bring this to the consumer market without a nice cash injection from a high margin market?
No I don't know what you meant. Was it right to leak that list of potental targets or the 9/11 pager data?
A lot of what Wikileaks leaks isn't evil content and frankly none of the worlds business. That pager data was not government data. A lot of it was personal communications. Yet Wikileaks published that.
Why is that okay? Is it okay? From what have seen Wikileaks feels that it should publish what ever data it wants to and in no way is it limited to just governmental data or even data that is in the best interest of the public to know.
As to knowing what you meant by evil, no I really don't. It could mean "illegal" but Wikileaks isn't a court of law and I am not sure they run every leak some form of legal counsel to see if it is illegal. It could mean "immoral" but then who's morals? Wikileaks.
I do not know you so how could I know which of those two you mean?
It will be interesting to see. Even the DOD is going to more COTS. Will the DOD and DOE contracts be enough to get this memory from the lab into production and then finally to mass market?
I have to wonder if there is going to be any market for these advances. The high end is shrinking very quickly so the market for really super high end cutting edge stuff is also shrinking. Even super computers are using a large number of COTS technology these days. In the future will their be any customers for the first very expensive race track memory systems?
"A way for people to release secrets about the evil doings of whatever while censoring them to protect individuals," So what is evil in a list of what the US considers potential terrorist targets? That was part of the data that was leaked? Or what was evil in in the pager data from 9/11 that wikileaks published?
Even if you want to stick with the "evil" part who decides what is evil? Wikileaks? Take a look at the mass of the leaks and you will find lots of just plain info that isn't evil. And I am sure you will find much that the fact that it is leaked is now dangerous.
So when will Wikileaks publish the name of the people that supplied them with the data? I mean if they think that everything should be in the open. Maybe they feel that people don't need to know the source of the information because to revile it would cause more harm than good...
Oh I bet you do they are everywhere. It is foolish to judge an entire nation by a single post or even the posts you see on Slashdot. I am from the US and I am not a communist at all no matter what that jafiwam says. This person just has more passion then education or understanding. Hopefully that will be corrected over time.
That is pretty much it. There is always one or a few apps that you just can not replace. And they where usually written in visual basic. That was one of the reasons Microsoft worked so hard to make a Java that had Windows only extensions. When that failed they went to C# which can be multi-platform but often isn't. Then you have all that vertical market software for things link Construction or Storage buildings or goodness knows what else. Those companies could write for Linux but everybody already has Windows so.... The same issue also affects Mac use which is why Macs don't often end up in business settings. Sometimes they do but mostly it is dominated by Windows.
one of there news briefs. Frankly it was just an error but rather disappointing from any news service. I found it very disappointing for NPR as I expect more from them.
It will make little difference because they don't care, understand or want to understand. The danger of a military that feels it is above the civilian government is outside the understanding of most US citizens. Also thanks for also using the the wording if Manning is guilty as I have. They also don't understand that he still has to go to court.
It could be argued except that he isn't a judge. Also the vast majority of wikileaks are not illegal acts. So they can just convict on those. if he did it. He is still innocent until proven guilty.
1. The Declaration of Independence isn't law. 2. Manning was a solder and may have broken his oath.
Members of the military are under CIVILAN command. The only right that applies is if he was given an illegal order. Keeping those cables secret violates no laws or in any way the UCMJ.
If Manning is the source he committed criminal acts. Obeying orders is not an option for a member of the military of a free nation. They must be under the control of the civillian government.
My point was that most of this stuff has been around for a long time. The problem with alternative energy is that so far it has gone in and out of fashion. When I was a kid in the 70s the government was all about building wind mills, solar panels, and biofuels. Then oil dropped in price, more power plants went to coal from oil and so on.
Now in the US at least the same thing is happening. I have a friend that works in a power companies Solar and Wind division. They are the biggest in the nation. Guess what they have found. Very few people are willing to pay extra for renewables. Natural gas has come way down and that is where the action is.
His company is betting on Nuclear long term. Since the build times and capital costs are high they are starting now. They see that as the only economical way to really reduce carbon output. They will keep the Solar and Wind going as a long term project but they are not looking at new projects. The build time is low enough that they can just wait until they see where the market is going.
The other day NPR stated that "Even North Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War where fired"..... It was South Carolina.... Yea when they can not get even get history at the level of a third grader right you do have to wonder.
I would love to see the fairness doctrine back on TV and Radio. It is funny because it was the Dems that wanted to get ride of it. They thought that they media was in their back pocket so it was to their benefit to repeal it. They blew that one.
Really I remember when it was in effect. Things where a lot more pleasant and frankly civil. But then I would also like to see lots of the regulations on TV and Radio comeback. For instance I do not think that cable companies should own networks or produce content. I think that networks should be limited to the number of stations they can "own" goodbye Clear Channel.
Some regulation is good. The fairness doctrine maybe too far since we now have so many choices. But then we are also under threat of a few big companies owning all the sources.
" While their government may be as corrupt as any in South America, the country is no longer a Marxist dictatorship." Why do I find so little comfort in that statement?
I would say that it depends. It may work just fine with reflected light so it may not be an issue. It is an interesting idea for things like automation and data acquisition as well as location services. imagine this in a large corporate campus. If you need to find someone or something each room would have an identifier telling you where you are. A lamp could tell you that it is on or off, an AC unit could be reset. It will really depend on how cheap it all is.
But biogas systems have not changed in a very long time. The pick up on these really seems to be too slow and I would love to know the reason why. Solar plus LEDs make perfect sense but biogas? Heck a BBC sitcom from from the 70s involved a couple with a biogas powered generator in the basment! I think it was called the Goode Life. And community hydropower dates back to the local mills all over New England and I believe England.
I agree. The thing I find so funny is how the write up claims this trend is now "exploding". I remember reading about small bio gas setups in India in the 80s and maybe the 70s. Small solar lights? Yes leds make that a lot more practical.
But to be honest large dams do tend to do more than just make power. They can help with seasonal flooding and with irrigation. The can also cause other eco problems as well so they are not all sunshine and bunnies.
But why shouldn't the internet be one niche magazine? Many of the ads on Slashdot are actually well targeted to what I want. The problem on Slashdot IMHO is that some of them have animation. I can not stand animated ads. End of story. I want Slashdot to make as much money as they can while providing me a website that I like. I have no problem with them getting ad money as long as they are not animated. Maybe I am the odd one out but I hate then with a passion.
Here is an example of one that doesn't I wrote a program that provides streaming text to the hearing impaired. It uses a smaller webserver on the providers computer that serves a java applet and then streams the text to it. If the provider is behind a NAT router they are unreachable by the viewers unless they are on the same network. That can be a problem sometimes with remote events.
Actually good ads do ads value. I get a magazine called motorcycle classics. There are a ton of really good ads for all sorts of stuff that I want and care about. Same is true for say CycleWorld, Motorcyclists, and Rider. CircuitCellar has really good ads as does Sports Aviation. Why are those ads good? Well they are not intrusive and they are well targeted.
I would even allow the ads on Slashdot except for one thing. Some of them are animated! I hate animated ads on webpages. I find any animation distracting when I am trying to read.
My personal rules for good ads. 1. No pop up or pop under. 2. No animation and for goodness sakes no sound of video.! Of course if they are embedded in the video I am watching then it is okay. 3. None of those stupid adwords in the body of the text. 4. Well targeted.
Of course well targeted means more tracking info so it is a catch 22. I wouldn't mind getting ads about a new restaurant in my area but am I comfortable with every website I use knowing where I live?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually thanks for that.
In this case it isn't censorship at all. Amazon just doesn't want to carry that book.
If you read that website you will see that the books are available at Barnes and Nobel and other online stores.
Actually there where many interracial kisses and even a very popular interracial marriage on TV long before that kiss on Star Trek.
Ever heard of a show called "I Love Lucy"?
I did. but there may be the need between the consumer and the lab for this to mature.
A price is no object performance market. As I said even super computers are now often made up of COTS parts. This is more a question of economics and not technology. Will any company be willing to make the long term investment to bring this to the consumer market without a nice cash injection from a high margin market?
No I don't know what you meant.
Was it right to leak that list of potental targets or the 9/11 pager data?
A lot of what Wikileaks leaks isn't evil content and frankly none of the worlds business.
That pager data was not government data. A lot of it was personal communications. Yet Wikileaks published that.
Why is that okay? Is it okay?
From what have seen Wikileaks feels that it should publish what ever data it wants to and in no way is it limited to just governmental data or even data that is in the best interest of the public to know.
As to knowing what you meant by evil, no I really don't. It could mean "illegal" but Wikileaks isn't a court of law and I am not sure they run every leak some form of legal counsel to see if it is illegal.
It could mean "immoral" but then who's morals? Wikileaks.
I do not know you so how could I know which of those two you mean?
It will be interesting to see. Even the DOD is going to more COTS. Will the DOD and DOE contracts be enough to get this memory from the lab into production and then finally to mass market?
I have to wonder if there is going to be any market for these advances. The high end is shrinking very quickly so the market for really super high end cutting edge stuff is also shrinking.
Even super computers are using a large number of COTS technology these days. In the future will their be any customers for the first very expensive race track memory systems?
"A way for people to release secrets about the evil doings of whatever while censoring them to protect individuals,"
So what is evil in a list of what the US considers potential terrorist targets?
That was part of the data that was leaked?
Or what was evil in in the pager data from 9/11 that wikileaks published?
Even if you want to stick with the "evil" part who decides what is evil? Wikileaks?
Take a look at the mass of the leaks and you will find lots of just plain info that isn't evil.
And I am sure you will find much that the fact that it is leaked is now dangerous.
So when will Wikileaks publish the name of the people that supplied them with the data?
I mean if they think that everything should be in the open. Maybe they feel that people don't need to know the source of the information because to revile it would cause more harm than good...
Oh I bet you do they are everywhere.
It is foolish to judge an entire nation by a single post or even the posts you see on Slashdot. I am from the US and I am not a communist at all no matter what that jafiwam says. This person just has more passion then education or understanding.
Hopefully that will be corrected over time.
That is pretty much it. There is always one or a few apps that you just can not replace. And they where usually written in visual basic.
That was one of the reasons Microsoft worked so hard to make a Java that had Windows only extensions. When that failed they went to C# which can be multi-platform but often isn't.
Then you have all that vertical market software for things link Construction or Storage buildings or goodness knows what else. Those companies could write for Linux but everybody already has Windows so....
The same issue also affects Mac use which is why Macs don't often end up in business settings. Sometimes they do but mostly it is dominated by Windows.
one of there news briefs. Frankly it was just an error but rather disappointing from any news service. I found it very disappointing for NPR as I expect more from them.
It will make little difference because they don't care, understand or want to understand.
The danger of a military that feels it is above the civilian government is outside the understanding of most US citizens.
Also thanks for also using the the wording if Manning is guilty as I have.
They also don't understand that he still has to go to court.
It could be argued except that he isn't a judge.
Also the vast majority of wikileaks are not illegal acts. So they can just convict on those.
if he did it. He is still innocent until proven guilty.
1. The Declaration of Independence isn't law.
2. Manning was a solder and may have broken his oath.
Members of the military are under CIVILAN command. The only right that applies is if he was given an illegal order. Keeping those cables secret violates no laws or in any way the UCMJ.
If Manning is the source he committed criminal acts. Obeying orders is not an option for a member of the military of a free nation. They must be under the control of the civillian government.
Florida.
I mean really Fort Sumter? The place that Civil war started?
My point was that most of this stuff has been around for a long time. The problem with alternative energy is that so far it has gone in and out of fashion. When I was a kid in the 70s the government was all about building wind mills, solar panels, and biofuels. Then oil dropped in price, more power plants went to coal from oil and so on.
Now in the US at least the same thing is happening. I have a friend that works in a power companies Solar and Wind division. They are the biggest in the nation. Guess what they have found. Very few people are willing to pay extra for renewables.
Natural gas has come way down and that is where the action is.
His company is betting on Nuclear long term. Since the build times and capital costs are high they are starting now. They see that as the only economical way to really reduce carbon output.
They will keep the Solar and Wind going as a long term project but they are not looking at new projects. The build time is low enough that they can just wait until they see where the market is going.
The other day NPR stated that "Even North Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War where fired".....
It was South Carolina....
Yea when they can not get even get history at the level of a third grader right you do have to wonder.
I would love to see the fairness doctrine back on TV and Radio. It is funny because it was the Dems that wanted to get ride of it. They thought that they media was in their back pocket so it was to their benefit to repeal it. They blew that one.
Really I remember when it was in effect. Things where a lot more pleasant and frankly civil. But then I would also like to see lots of the regulations on TV and Radio comeback. For instance I do not think that cable companies should own networks or produce content.
I think that networks should be limited to the number of stations they can "own" goodbye Clear Channel.
Some regulation is good. The fairness doctrine maybe too far since we now have so many choices. But then we are also under threat of a few big companies owning all the sources.
" While their government may be as corrupt as any in South America, the country is no longer a Marxist dictatorship."
Why do I find so little comfort in that statement?
I would say that it depends. It may work just fine with reflected light so it may not be an issue.
It is an interesting idea for things like automation and data acquisition as well as location services.
imagine this in a large corporate campus. If you need to find someone or something each room would have an identifier telling you where you are.
A lamp could tell you that it is on or off, an AC unit could be reset. It will really depend on how cheap it all is.
But biogas systems have not changed in a very long time. The pick up on these really seems to be too slow and I would love to know the reason why.
Solar plus LEDs make perfect sense but biogas?
Heck a BBC sitcom from from the 70s involved a couple with a biogas powered generator in the basment!
I think it was called the Goode Life.
And community hydropower dates back to the local mills all over New England and I believe England.
I agree. The thing I find so funny is how the write up claims this trend is now "exploding".
I remember reading about small bio gas setups in India in the 80s and maybe the 70s. Small solar lights? Yes leds make that a lot more practical.
But to be honest large dams do tend to do more than just make power. They can help with seasonal flooding and with irrigation.
The can also cause other eco problems as well so they are not all sunshine and bunnies.
But why shouldn't the internet be one niche magazine?
Many of the ads on Slashdot are actually well targeted to what I want.
The problem on Slashdot IMHO is that some of them have animation.
I can not stand animated ads. End of story.
I want Slashdot to make as much money as they can while providing me a website that I like.
I have no problem with them getting ad money as long as they are not animated.
Maybe I am the odd one out but I hate then with a passion.
Here is an example of one that doesn't
I wrote a program that provides streaming text to the hearing impaired. It uses a smaller webserver on the providers computer that serves a java applet and then streams the text to it.
If the provider is behind a NAT router they are unreachable by the viewers unless they are on the same network.
That can be a problem sometimes with remote events.
Actually good ads do ads value.
I get a magazine called motorcycle classics. There are a ton of really good ads for all sorts of stuff that I want and care about. Same is true for say CycleWorld, Motorcyclists, and Rider. CircuitCellar has really good ads as does Sports Aviation.
Why are those ads good? Well they are not intrusive and they are well targeted.
I would even allow the ads on Slashdot except for one thing. Some of them are animated! I hate animated ads on webpages. I find any animation distracting when I am trying to read.
My personal rules for good ads.
1. No pop up or pop under.
2. No animation and for goodness sakes no sound of video.! Of course if they are embedded in the video I am watching then it is okay.
3. None of those stupid adwords in the body of the text.
4. Well targeted.
Of course well targeted means more tracking info so it is a catch 22. I wouldn't mind getting ads about a new restaurant in my area but am I comfortable with every website I use knowing where I live?