AFAIK, the remastered TNG doesn't have any new special effects. Rather, the original filming and special effects were done on film and a ton of detail was lost in the conversion to 480i television. These new blueray disks just show what was already there in better detail, but the effects are still true to the era in which they were created, and consistent through-out the show so they don't look out of place.
It was only dismissed because they sued the wrong entity (a Spanish Google subsidiary rather than Google itself). The dismissal says nothing about the merits of the case, and it can be refiled against Google.
I've read a few articles about this, and it's clear that Ravi did invade upon Tyler's privacy, and should be punished for it. But I haven't seen any evidence presented that he bullied or intimidated Tyler, let alone did so for homophobic reasons. Either the prosecution is saving it for the trial, or the DA is trying to make an example with bullshit charges (probably to look tough on cyberbulling leading up to an election year).
There is a school of thought that holds that warrants should be much rarer than they actually are. This school of thought holds that if the cops know you have stolen goods or whatever, they can enter the premises, find the stolen goods, and off to jail you go.... HOWEVER, a cop who kicks in the door without a warrant and finds nothing becomes personally (and his agency, collectively) responsible for damages, including punitive damages.
The problem with this is that warrants serve another important purpose of documenting and limiting the scope of the search. In the system you describe, if cops bust into your house and didn't find what they were looking for, they would have a strong incentive to proceed on a fishing expedition to find (or even plant) evidence of some crime, any crime they can nail you with, so they won't be held responsible for their mistake. It is good to have a judge sign off on all warrants, and give limited personal indemnity to cops who are not abusing the system, but simply make an honest mistake.
It is not good to make innocent people suffer the consequences of these mistakes. If we as society decide to authorize our law enforcement to damage, destroy or take property in the course of their investigation, then we as society have a responsibility to compensate those we have harmed to make ourselves feel safe. The fact that we don't and instead treat these as paramilitary operations with acceptable collateral damage, shows how far we are from realizing the genuinely free society that our founders envisioned.
Have you used T-Mobile? Their service is far and above better than AT&T and Verizon (who I would rate as poor for service).
Yeah, I have used both Verizon and T-Mobile (and know people who use AT&T). Verison support has always been awesome for me. The two times I have had billing problems (both caused by inept booth-monkeys), I was on hold for well under a minute, the very first person I talked to immediately fixed the problem without having to argue and they made it retroactive to the time I started the plan without me asking.
Everytime I have called T-Mobile on the other hand I have been on hold for at least 5 minutes, they claim to have fixed the problem, and then it keeps happening. The website is also flaky (which accounts for most of our calls to customer support to begin with). For example, we switched one of our phones to the new no-contract plan about 5 months ago, and we still cannot get recurring payments setup after multiple attempts on the website and calls to customer support (next billing date keeps getting reset to 1900). But I think it's worth the hassle for the money we save.
The slowness is based on the fact that it took T-Mobile forever to rollout HSPA+ in my area, and there are still places I go where only EDGE is available.
T-Mobile contract free plans are way less expensive that Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint. They also let you use any phone you want and won't force a data plan on you just because you have a smartphone. Of course this has tradeoffs. With the companies I have dealt with I would rate them as such:
Verizon: Coverage: Excellent Reliability: Excellent Data Speed: Excellent Service: Average Price: Expensive
AT&T: Coverage: Good Reliability: Poor Data Speed: Good Service: Poor Price: Expensive
T-Mobile: Coverage: Good Reliability: Good Data Speed: Poor Service: Poor Price: Cheap
In my opinion both Verizon and T-Mobile are good values for what you get (they just target different markets), while AT&T is worst of both worlds, and should be avoided. Haven't dealt with Sprint or the other smaller carriers.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that DRM actually worked, just that flawed attempts at making it work involves futile attempts to keep implementation and/or decryption keys secret. Open source is thus ideologically incompatible with DRM, while proprietary software is ideologically compatible with DRM, while reality is fundamentally incompatible with DRM.
That's fine. There is a place for free software and there is a place for proprietary software. DRM is security-by-obscurity which by definition requires you to keep the implementation secret. That can't be done with free software, only by proprietary software. And the proper place for proprietary software on the web is in stand alone applications and plugins, not in open standards.
HTML5 will work great for YouTube, Vimeo, and the thousands of other people who don't care about DRM. Those who do can stick with proprietary solutions.
That is a very early draft proposal, and there is a lot of strong opposition to it, even from people within the companies that proposed it! And to top that off, the content providers don't think it is strong enough.
So the chances that it is adopted by the browsers are slim, and the chances that the media companies embrace it is even slimmer.
The professors who follow your advice and focus on teaching rather than publishing make up the bulk of the people being fired here (plus a few slackers who neither teach well nor publish). The ones being kept are the ones who can get grants and crank out papers like printing press, and most likely treat students as a low priority.
You tell me, how do you engage the particle physics community without something like this becoming public? The proper way to do science is to get peer review by publishing your results, but there isn't any secret handshake that only physicists know, nor do all physicist take a sacred oath of secrecy. When you publish results to the community, then you are publishing them to everyone who is interested, and that includes the media.
Irresponsible use of press is hyping things to the media without providing details to scientists. They didn't do that, in fact that talked down their results as much as possible. Furthermore, trying to keep it a secret would have just made things worse, as the media would have picked up on rumors and ran that, so you end up with even more misinformation being spread. The smart thing to do is to engage the press at the same time as the details are released to the scientific community in order cut down on the rumor mill, and do as much damage control as necessary. Which is exactly what they did.
The results could be wrong, but for another reason. When trouble shooting you usually think of dozens of potential way things could have cause the problem before tracking down the actual root cause. Jumping to conclusions simply gets everyone's hopes up that the mystery has been solved.
It was a bad cable. Period.
So if you were in charge, you would just stop looking for the root cause which may go on to taint other results at CERN for years to come? Nothing is certain until it has been confirmed.
In addition to the tons of legacy content that will never be converted (due to limitations in tools, or abandonment), there is a lot of new content for which HTML 5 in not appropriate.
For example, there are a lot of nice video streaming services out there, and they all have been forced to use some sort of DRM by content providers. While I refuse to accept DRM on products I buy, I don't have an issue with it for rental/subscription services as long as it is available on the platforms I use, which can be an issue even without DRM. With Silverlight DRM not being included in Moonlight, you already could not watch Netflix and some live sports, now with Flash being discontinued for Linux, there will be no way to watch Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, or any of the streaming video provided by networks. This is a use of Flash that HTML5 will never replace, because of valid ideological differences in the purpose of open web standards.
I don't consider a tool that is used for 90% of commercial video streaming, with no migration path to other tools to be "on its deathbed".
Voting independent is worse than perpetuating the system. It's perpetuating the system while allowing the greater of two evils to win.
In all presidential elections, the electoral college votes for my state will go to the Democrats. Same for the vast majority of the congressional elections - the seat for that district will go to which ever party it was gerrymandered in favor of. In rare cases where there is actually a close race, then voting for the lesser of two evils may make sense. The rest of the time your vote does nothing but send a signal about how strongly supported the winner is, and to whom they need to pander to win the election next time around. Voting third party sends a better signal than voting for the lesser of two evils or not voting at all.
If you want to change the system, vote in the primaries (and I mean for Congress, not just for President), before all the candidates worth voting for get eliminated.
I do, but the system is just as stacked against them as it is against the third parties. So after casting my token vote for the "fringe" candidates in the primaries, I cast another token vote for third party candidates in the actual election.
The GPS on a phone has to operate a few centimeters from a transmitter, and on top of this there is likely all sorts of digital hashing it has to deal with as well, which tends to have wide frequency content (over a short distance). The interior of a smartphone is a relatively harsh RF environment and the GPS needs stronger filtering to operate. This additional filtering (and space constraints that limit component selection) result in more attenuation of the GPS signal, and thus worse fixes. But it doesn't matter because it is just a cellphone, and the GPS is a nice-to-have which can be augmented with other coarse positioning systems when needed.
Navigation systems need to have a stronger GPS signal, so they have more reliable and precise solutions. The designed their filters to adequately attenuate adjacent frequencies, for what they were licensed for, while minimizing attenuation of the GPS band. Furthermore, given the larger size, they can use RF shielding on the cabin as a way to block the closest sources of interference, and only need to design the filters to block signals from the ground. These are higher quality filters (since they can afford the money/space for better components), they are just engineered with different goals. They could have filtered more, but it would have been counter-productive.
LightSquared is proposing to transmit with over 10,000 times the power that they are currently licensed for, which is more than 1 million times the power of GPS signals here on the ground. Even if you were to upgrade every GPS system out there with the best filters we can make today, you would still have either increased interference from the proposed LightSquared system, or attenuation of the GPS signals. And LightSquared has yet to offer to upgrade every GPS system out there.
The fact is that LightSquared picked the worst possible piece of spectrum to convert to terrestrial broadband. They acquired the company who owned it for cheap because everyone else (all the incumbent wireless operators) realized this, and spend their money licensing other (more expensive) spectrum instead. LightSquared has no one to blame here but themselves.
I don't use social networks, so don't know a lot of their details. But one complaint that I commonly hear is that people can tag photos of you, and even if you don't have an account, Facebook will link this information together to create a hidden profile of you.
If your employer requires you to use your real name and information when signing up for an external social network, and your friends who use that same social network post pictures and other information about your personal life, is it possible that the network will associate this information with your work account, which will then bring it into your bosses radar?
If it is a private company network, then no problem. But if it is a public social network, it seems like it could create the same sort of problems that occur when bosses force you to friend them with your personal social network account.
The article stated that one of the main problems was bad cementing jobs, but from what I've gathered from reading and talking is that it is really hard to get a good cement job. There are things you can do to screw it up, but even if you do everything by the book, you can still end up with an imperfect seal. According to the US U.S. Minerals Management Service, cementing problems were associated with 18 of 39 blowouts between 1992 and 2006.
So, if doing fraking "right" requires you to have perfect cement jobs everytime, then it isn't possible to do fraking right.
Except that administration is claiming that they don't need senate confirmation to ratify the treaty. So the US will be counted among the 6 needed at least initially. Furthermore to be over-tuned in the courts, someone will have to show standing. Since ACTA does not require the implementation of any new laws in the US, that will be hard to do. The only thing I can think of is if a Senator sued because the treaty limited their ability to change the law. But even then I could see the courts denying standing, unless a law contradicting ACTA is actually passed.
Where did I say they did? No one has ratified it yet, but all signatory countries I listed are moving towards ratification with no signs of that changing.
It looks like ACTA is pretty much dead in the EU, as it will only enter into force if all the EU countries agree to it unanimously. However, it will still remain in force for the other signatories as long as at least 6 states sign it. So far United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea have all signed it, so at least three of those need to back out for the treaty to die completely.
Maybe if you established a relationship with a regular GP or ENT Dr, maybe he would become familiar with your history and not wait to prescribe the antibiotics?
My fiance's family doctor who she had been seeing her whole childhood did the same thing. Every winter she would get a bad sinus infection, but he wouldn't prescribe antibiotics until the second trip, even if they waited until it was really bad the first trip. Same with doctor she saw during college for 6 years.
Here is another article, which is both more informative, and doesn't have an annoying constantly scrolling twitter feed to distract you while you try to read.
The submitter works for the website that posted that interview. He certainly read it, but chose to make up sensational lies when posting it to slashdot to get more people to click the link.
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AFAIK, the remastered TNG doesn't have any new special effects. Rather, the original filming and special effects were done on film and a ton of detail was lost in the conversion to 480i television. These new blueray disks just show what was already there in better detail, but the effects are still true to the era in which they were created, and consistent through-out the show so they don't look out of place.
It was only dismissed because they sued the wrong entity (a Spanish Google subsidiary rather than Google itself). The dismissal says nothing about the merits of the case, and it can be refiled against Google.
I've read a few articles about this, and it's clear that Ravi did invade upon Tyler's privacy, and should be punished for it. But I haven't seen any evidence presented that he bullied or intimidated Tyler, let alone did so for homophobic reasons. Either the prosecution is saving it for the trial, or the DA is trying to make an example with bullshit charges (probably to look tough on cyberbulling leading up to an election year).
There is a school of thought that holds that warrants should be much rarer than they actually are. This school of thought holds that if the cops know you have stolen goods or whatever, they can enter the premises, find the stolen goods, and off to jail you go. ...
HOWEVER, a cop who kicks in the door without a warrant and finds nothing becomes personally (and his agency, collectively) responsible for damages, including punitive damages.
The problem with this is that warrants serve another important purpose of documenting and limiting the scope of the search. In the system you describe, if cops bust into your house and didn't find what they were looking for, they would have a strong incentive to proceed on a fishing expedition to find (or even plant) evidence of some crime, any crime they can nail you with, so they won't be held responsible for their mistake. It is good to have a judge sign off on all warrants, and give limited personal indemnity to cops who are not abusing the system, but simply make an honest mistake.
It is not good to make innocent people suffer the consequences of these mistakes. If we as society decide to authorize our law enforcement to damage, destroy or take property in the course of their investigation, then we as society have a responsibility to compensate those we have harmed to make ourselves feel safe. The fact that we don't and instead treat these as paramilitary operations with acceptable collateral damage, shows how far we are from realizing the genuinely free society that our founders envisioned.
Have you used T-Mobile? Their service is far and above better than AT&T and Verizon (who I would rate as poor for service).
Yeah, I have used both Verizon and T-Mobile (and know people who use AT&T). Verison support has always been awesome for me. The two times I have had billing problems (both caused by inept booth-monkeys), I was on hold for well under a minute, the very first person I talked to immediately fixed the problem without having to argue and they made it retroactive to the time I started the plan without me asking.
Everytime I have called T-Mobile on the other hand I have been on hold for at least 5 minutes, they claim to have fixed the problem, and then it keeps happening. The website is also flaky (which accounts for most of our calls to customer support to begin with). For example, we switched one of our phones to the new no-contract plan about 5 months ago, and we still cannot get recurring payments setup after multiple attempts on the website and calls to customer support (next billing date keeps getting reset to 1900). But I think it's worth the hassle for the money we save.
The slowness is based on the fact that it took T-Mobile forever to rollout HSPA+ in my area, and there are still places I go where only EDGE is available.
T-Mobile doesn't have this policy. It is one of the major reasons I use them.
T-Mobile contract free plans are way less expensive that Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint. They also let you use any phone you want and won't force a data plan on you just because you have a smartphone. Of course this has tradeoffs. With the companies I have dealt with I would rate them as such:
Verizon:
Coverage: Excellent
Reliability: Excellent
Data Speed: Excellent
Service: Average
Price: Expensive
AT&T:
Coverage: Good
Reliability: Poor
Data Speed: Good
Service: Poor
Price: Expensive
T-Mobile:
Coverage: Good
Reliability: Good
Data Speed: Poor
Service: Poor
Price: Cheap
In my opinion both Verizon and T-Mobile are good values for what you get (they just target different markets), while AT&T is worst of both worlds, and should be avoided. Haven't dealt with Sprint or the other smaller carriers.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that DRM actually worked, just that flawed attempts at making it work involves futile attempts to keep implementation and/or decryption keys secret. Open source is thus ideologically incompatible with DRM, while proprietary software is ideologically compatible with DRM, while reality is fundamentally incompatible with DRM.
That's fine. There is a place for free software and there is a place for proprietary software. DRM is security-by-obscurity which by definition requires you to keep the implementation secret. That can't be done with free software, only by proprietary software. And the proper place for proprietary software on the web is in stand alone applications and plugins, not in open standards.
HTML5 will work great for YouTube, Vimeo, and the thousands of other people who don't care about DRM. Those who do can stick with proprietary solutions.
That is a very early draft proposal, and there is a lot of strong opposition to it, even from people within the companies that proposed it! And to top that off, the content providers don't think it is strong enough.
So the chances that it is adopted by the browsers are slim, and the chances that the media companies embrace it is even slimmer.
The professors who follow your advice and focus on teaching rather than publishing make up the bulk of the people being fired here (plus a few slackers who neither teach well nor publish). The ones being kept are the ones who can get grants and crank out papers like printing press, and most likely treat students as a low priority.
You tell me, how do you engage the particle physics community without something like this becoming public? The proper way to do science is to get peer review by publishing your results, but there isn't any secret handshake that only physicists know, nor do all physicist take a sacred oath of secrecy. When you publish results to the community, then you are publishing them to everyone who is interested, and that includes the media.
Irresponsible use of press is hyping things to the media without providing details to scientists. They didn't do that, in fact that talked down their results as much as possible. Furthermore, trying to keep it a secret would have just made things worse, as the media would have picked up on rumors and ran that, so you end up with even more misinformation being spread. The smart thing to do is to engage the press at the same time as the details are released to the scientific community in order cut down on the rumor mill, and do as much damage control as necessary. Which is exactly what they did.
The results could be wrong, but for another reason. When trouble shooting you usually think of dozens of potential way things could have cause the problem before tracking down the actual root cause. Jumping to conclusions simply gets everyone's hopes up that the mystery has been solved.
It was a bad cable.
Period.
So if you were in charge, you would just stop looking for the root cause which may go on to taint other results at CERN for years to come? Nothing is certain until it has been confirmed.
Actually, no apparently. And, if I do, I have native apps on my iPad for them ... none of them are running Flash.
Awesome, so the solution to replacing a small proprietary plugin like Flash is to buy an entirely proprietary OS and/or device.
In addition to the tons of legacy content that will never be converted (due to limitations in tools, or abandonment), there is a lot of new content for which HTML 5 in not appropriate.
For example, there are a lot of nice video streaming services out there, and they all have been forced to use some sort of DRM by content providers. While I refuse to accept DRM on products I buy, I don't have an issue with it for rental/subscription services as long as it is available on the platforms I use, which can be an issue even without DRM. With Silverlight DRM not being included in Moonlight, you already could not watch Netflix and some live sports, now with Flash being discontinued for Linux, there will be no way to watch Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, or any of the streaming video provided by networks. This is a use of Flash that HTML5 will never replace, because of valid ideological differences in the purpose of open web standards.
I don't consider a tool that is used for 90% of commercial video streaming, with no migration path to other tools to be "on its deathbed".
Voting independent is worse than perpetuating the system. It's perpetuating the system while allowing the greater of two evils to win.
In all presidential elections, the electoral college votes for my state will go to the Democrats. Same for the vast majority of the congressional elections - the seat for that district will go to which ever party it was gerrymandered in favor of. In rare cases where there is actually a close race, then voting for the lesser of two evils may make sense. The rest of the time your vote does nothing but send a signal about how strongly supported the winner is, and to whom they need to pander to win the election next time around. Voting third party sends a better signal than voting for the lesser of two evils or not voting at all.
If you want to change the system, vote in the primaries (and I mean for Congress, not just for President), before all the candidates worth voting for get eliminated.
I do, but the system is just as stacked against them as it is against the third parties. So after casting my token vote for the "fringe" candidates in the primaries, I cast another token vote for third party candidates in the actual election.
The GPS on a phone has to operate a few centimeters from a transmitter, and on top of this there is likely all sorts of digital hashing it has to deal with as well, which tends to have wide frequency content (over a short distance). The interior of a smartphone is a relatively harsh RF environment and the GPS needs stronger filtering to operate. This additional filtering (and space constraints that limit component selection) result in more attenuation of the GPS signal, and thus worse fixes. But it doesn't matter because it is just a cellphone, and the GPS is a nice-to-have which can be augmented with other coarse positioning systems when needed.
Navigation systems need to have a stronger GPS signal, so they have more reliable and precise solutions. The designed their filters to adequately attenuate adjacent frequencies, for what they were licensed for, while minimizing attenuation of the GPS band. Furthermore, given the larger size, they can use RF shielding on the cabin as a way to block the closest sources of interference, and only need to design the filters to block signals from the ground. These are higher quality filters (since they can afford the money/space for better components), they are just engineered with different goals. They could have filtered more, but it would have been counter-productive.
LightSquared is proposing to transmit with over 10,000 times the power that they are currently licensed for, which is more than 1 million times the power of GPS signals here on the ground. Even if you were to upgrade every GPS system out there with the best filters we can make today, you would still have either increased interference from the proposed LightSquared system, or attenuation of the GPS signals. And LightSquared has yet to offer to upgrade every GPS system out there.
The fact is that LightSquared picked the worst possible piece of spectrum to convert to terrestrial broadband. They acquired the company who owned it for cheap because everyone else (all the incumbent wireless operators) realized this, and spend their money licensing other (more expensive) spectrum instead. LightSquared has no one to blame here but themselves.
I don't use social networks, so don't know a lot of their details. But one complaint that I commonly hear is that people can tag photos of you, and even if you don't have an account, Facebook will link this information together to create a hidden profile of you.
If your employer requires you to use your real name and information when signing up for an external social network, and your friends who use that same social network post pictures and other information about your personal life, is it possible that the network will associate this information with your work account, which will then bring it into your bosses radar?
If it is a private company network, then no problem. But if it is a public social network, it seems like it could create the same sort of problems that occur when bosses force you to friend them with your personal social network account.
The article stated that one of the main problems was bad cementing jobs, but from what I've gathered from reading and talking is that it is really hard to get a good cement job. There are things you can do to screw it up, but even if you do everything by the book, you can still end up with an imperfect seal. According to the US U.S. Minerals Management Service, cementing problems were associated with 18 of 39 blowouts between 1992 and 2006.
So, if doing fraking "right" requires you to have perfect cement jobs everytime, then it isn't possible to do fraking right.
Except that administration is claiming that they don't need senate confirmation to ratify the treaty. So the US will be counted among the 6 needed at least initially. Furthermore to be over-tuned in the courts, someone will have to show standing. Since ACTA does not require the implementation of any new laws in the US, that will be hard to do. The only thing I can think of is if a Senator sued because the treaty limited their ability to change the law. But even then I could see the courts denying standing, unless a law contradicting ACTA is actually passed.
Where did I say they did? No one has ratified it yet, but all signatory countries I listed are moving towards ratification with no signs of that changing.
It looks like ACTA is pretty much dead in the EU, as it will only enter into force if all the EU countries agree to it unanimously. However, it will still remain in force for the other signatories as long as at least 6 states sign it. So far United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea have all signed it, so at least three of those need to back out for the treaty to die completely.
Maybe if you established a relationship with a regular GP or ENT Dr, maybe he would become familiar with your history and not wait to prescribe the antibiotics?
My fiance's family doctor who she had been seeing her whole childhood did the same thing. Every winter she would get a bad sinus infection, but he wouldn't prescribe antibiotics until the second trip, even if they waited until it was really bad the first trip. Same with doctor she saw during college for 6 years.
Here is another article, which is both more informative, and doesn't have an annoying constantly scrolling twitter feed to distract you while you try to read.
The submitter works for the website that posted that interview. He certainly read it, but chose to make up sensational lies when posting it to slashdot to get more people to click the link.