It is a fact of life that we were not all created equal. There is certainly nothing wrong with guaranteeing equal rights, but one must be careful how one defines a "right". There are no guarantees of equal intelligence, equal skills, equal ethics, or equal motivation. It is the latter four that allow an individual to build wealth. Some are better at doing this than others. Is it fair to penalize a person for becoming rich?
This story is about the hypocrisy of the Obama administration. Obama is a prime example of my point. He was not born into a rich family, he's not (all) white, but he was able to use his intelligence and political skills to become the most powerful leader in the world. I don't agree with most of his policies, but I respect his ability.
Your premise is flawed. You are assuming that there is a "pie" that represents some total volume of wealth, and that some people are getting "too much". Wealth doesn't work that way at all. Anyone can become wealthy. Look at Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Ellison, Page, and Brin for a few examples. None of these folks were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and they did not achieve their wealth by taking it away from anyone else.
Your argument is commonly used by those who wish to redistribute wealth. Redistributing wealth never makes poor people rich, but it can make rich people (and middle class people) poorer.
You are absolutely correct. I should have mentioned that as well because it furthers my point. RIM is a litigious company. "Live by the sword, die by the sword."
RIM sued others over their stupid "push" e-mail patent. They won big judgements and settlements. (See this.)
Now I guess it's their turn to pay. This couldn't have happened at a worse time for them. I hope they are gone soon. I want my company to upgrade my 9900 to something else. Anything would be better (even a Windows phone).
The back-door described in the white paper requires access to the JTAG (1149.1) interface to exploit. Most deployed systems do not provide an active external interface for JTAG. With physical access to a "secure" system based upon these parts, the techniques described in the white paper allow for a total compromise of all IP within. Without physical access, very little can be done to compromise systems based upon these parts.
I agree that ARS is usually pretty good, but they also have a regular stream of crap articles such as the anthropogenic global warming rants. Their latest global warming rant is a jewel. Check the comments where all of the "accepted science" is backed up by Wikipedia citations! Priceless.
Laptop batteries can indeed discharge to the point where they are bricked. This seems to be a characteristic of lithium cells.
I've had this happen myself with several Toshiba laptop batteries that I left in a unplugged laptop for several weeks, and a friend of mine had to pay Apple for a new battery when his Macbook-Air was unplugged for a month (while he moved).
In the case of my Toshiba batteries, I was able to open up the two battery packs and construct one working pack from the remaining good cells. The bad cells were unchargeable. (I did this because Toshiba wanted $150 for a new battery pack and I was poor at the time.)
All of these cases involved lithium battery arrays connected to a battery management system where each cell is individually monitored for temperature and charge state.
The Tesla article may be bogus, but it has a ring of truth for me because of my experiences above.
Any receiver that does not directly sample the RF input employs a "superheterodyne" design with a local oscillator and a mixer to downconvert the desired signal to something that can be demodulated and processed. GPS frequencies are high enough that it's not practical (today) to directly sample them.
There is always some leakage of the local oscillator through the other mixer port. There may also be some leakage of the downconverted intermediate frequency (IF).
In my youth I made a "police detector" using this principle. It worked quite well.
I don't tweet, but I have served on several juries. The judge always admonishes the jury to not discuss the trial until after it's over. The judge does not prevent any and all contact with other people, only contact related to the proceedings. Tweeting is not much different than talking and this juror was not sequestered and not talking about the case. I see this as a bad decision. (I cannot read the whole decision itself. Only the first few pages appear at the link from TFA.)
Yep. The 70cm amateur radio spectrum sits right in the middle of that range. It's widely used and will not be surrendered without a fight. Why not instead use some of the frequency spectrum recently freed up by the analog television broadcast transmitters for this purpose?
The nuclear winter theory was different. That one was related to post-apocalyptic cooling. There was a measured cooling trend that lasted for decades. (Does that sound familiar?)
Here are a few quick links to stimulate some thought. The Wikipedia article walks a thin line between presenting facts and remaining objective. This isn't really a surprise given the nature of Wikipedia. There are certainly better sources out there if you look for them.
Our current president demonstrates the fallacy of your argument. He was born a poor minority but overcame adversity to become an educated, rich and powerful individual.
I understand that it's human nature to ask for more than you want, but when Mr. Paul does this, he is alienating a large portion of the electorate.
Go back and look at the campaign promises of GWB and see how many of them he kept (or at least tried hard to keep). Compare that with our current president. Did you notice the striking difference?
A candidate can either promise "a chicken in every pot", or he/she can make realistic promises. It is possible to get elected either way but one way demonstrates integrity while the other does not.
Integrity is a desirable personality trait in a president.
I understand that the popular trend is to blame mankind, but I'm old enough to recall the same mass hysteria about the coming ice age 40 years ago. Back then the science was undeniable too. The history of the Earth is full of warming and cooling trends; it would be unusual if temperatures remained static for any length of time.
Don't worry, I will not be worrying about global warming within my lifetime. The worst case projections from the alarmists show only a slight increase in average global temperature over the next century. I'm perfectly comfortable with performing some real science and collecting lots of data over that period. Assuming mankind survives another century, we'll have bigger problems to deal with than a degree or two of extra warmth.
Note: The human population just reached the seven billion mark.
The same principal has been affecting the cost of health care for decades. When people started buying health insurance, the cost of health care went up. The recent overhaul does nothing to bring down costs, it simply mandates that everyone has insurance. Do you smell something?
Are you saying that because some people are better at playing the markets, they must surrender their earnings to the masses?
Do you believe in the rights of an individual to rise to his potential, or are your beliefs closer to those of Carl Marx?
I do not understand why socialists and communists want to reform the United States. Why don't they just move to some other country that already operates under those principals?
The Federal Student Loan Program is unnecessary because private lending institutions can offer student loans. The current administration made some recent sweeping changes to the program, and those changes increase the government's role in the administration of the loans. It's more difficult today to get a private student loan than it was a few years ago.
I'm not a fan of Ron Paul and I will not be voting for him, but you must understand that he believes in a smaller role for the Federal Government. On this point I agree with him so the only question is the matter of degree. Last week there was a story about his desire to eliminate several cabinet administrations, including the DOE. While I agree that there are areas of DOE that could be trimmed down, I am not in favor of killing the whole thing. Such a view demonstrates Mr. Paul's ignorance of the way our government works.
If you want to trim the size of government, you must look at the budgets and see where the money is going. No president will get elected by promising to eliminate entitlements, and our current president has created new ones, but entitlement reform is where we need to start if we are to effect real change. The US monetary policy has become a joke. Nations are fleeing the dollar. If we continue to spend at the rate we are today, things will get a whole lot worse in the future.
Government borrowing is fine for big projects that provide long-term benefits to our economy. Our government(s) today are routinely borrowing money to fund their regular annual budgets. If they don't have the money today, what makes them think they'll have it (along with the loan interest) tomorrow? Inflation is the only way out of this trap, and it will diminish confidence in our currency, and our nation.
I've been an Internet mail server administrator for over 20 years. About 10 years ago I experimented with a rule that would block all mail from any mail exchanger without a matching/existing reverse DNS record. I experienced the same problems that you are now experiencing. I tried to enhance awareness of this problem but didn't get very far. There are lots of small businesses (including mine) who run their own mail exchangers. Many administrators simply do not understand the technology enough, and they feel that they do not need to because it's working "good enough" already.
You can either make a "white list" of the problematic servers, or just drop the rule as I did.
Curiosity is powered by an RTG. Every time we launch something with a nuclear power source a horde of demonstrators show up in an effort to stop the launch.
AT&T and T-Mobile are the only two GSM providers remaining in the USA. The other competitors (Verizon and Sprint) use CDMA technology that uses different frequencies and different modulation schemes. GSM is a more popular format worldwide because it is not patent-encumbered. CDMA phones typically lag in technology by several years. A USA monopoly on GSM is not in the best interests of anybody but the monopoly holder. This is why they are willing to pay 10 times more for T-Mobile than they would spend to upgrade their 4G network to full coverage.
As much as I detest government interference in business, I hope that these anti-trust lawsuits are successful. This is exactly the sort of thing that the anti-trust laws were intended to prevent. Given the resources ($$$) of AT&T, I expect strong lobbying and eventual approval of the deal.
Synology makes (IMHO) the best SOHO NAS products. Their latest management console (3.2) supports off-site encrypted backup. They are on the expensive side but their products and support are top notch.
Wake up! China's birth control laws are "voluntary" in name only. The fact is that if a woman is discovered to be pregnant (in any term) after having registered a birth, she will be "counseled" (i.e. kidnapped & tortured) until she "decides" to have an abortion. If she decides otherwise, she'll be committed to a mental institution where she will have an abortion anyway.
My other thought for this thread in general is this: Dr. Ted Kaczynski (the Unibomber) expressed similar views in his "manifesto". He believed that technology was harmful to human society and he became an activist in an effort to "correct the problem". Many people in this thread would seem to agree with Kaczynski's ends but not necessarily his means.
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This story is about the hypocrisy of the Obama administration. Obama is a prime example of my point. He was not born into a rich family, he's not (all) white, but he was able to use his intelligence and political skills to become the most powerful leader in the world. I don't agree with most of his policies, but I respect his ability.
Your argument is commonly used by those who wish to redistribute wealth. Redistributing wealth never makes poor people rich, but it can make rich people (and middle class people) poorer.
You are absolutely correct. I should have mentioned that as well because it furthers my point. RIM is a litigious company. "Live by the sword, die by the sword."
RIM sued others over their stupid "push" e-mail patent. They won big judgements and settlements. (See this.) Now I guess it's their turn to pay. This couldn't have happened at a worse time for them. I hope they are gone soon. I want my company to upgrade my 9900 to something else. Anything would be better (even a Windows phone).
The back-door described in the white paper requires access to the JTAG (1149.1) interface to exploit. Most deployed systems do not provide an active external interface for JTAG. With physical access to a "secure" system based upon these parts, the techniques described in the white paper allow for a total compromise of all IP within. Without physical access, very little can be done to compromise systems based upon these parts.
I agree that ARS is usually pretty good, but they also have a regular stream of crap articles such as the anthropogenic global warming rants. Their latest global warming rant is a jewel. Check the comments where all of the "accepted science" is backed up by Wikipedia citations! Priceless.
I've had this happen myself with several Toshiba laptop batteries that I left in a unplugged laptop for several weeks, and a friend of mine had to pay Apple for a new battery when his Macbook-Air was unplugged for a month (while he moved).
In the case of my Toshiba batteries, I was able to open up the two battery packs and construct one working pack from the remaining good cells. The bad cells were unchargeable. (I did this because Toshiba wanted $150 for a new battery pack and I was poor at the time.)
All of these cases involved lithium battery arrays connected to a battery management system where each cell is individually monitored for temperature and charge state.
The Tesla article may be bogus, but it has a ring of truth for me because of my experiences above.
There is always some leakage of the local oscillator through the other mixer port. There may also be some leakage of the downconverted intermediate frequency (IF).
In my youth I made a "police detector" using this principle. It worked quite well.
I don't tweet, but I have served on several juries. The judge always admonishes the jury to not discuss the trial until after it's over. The judge does not prevent any and all contact with other people, only contact related to the proceedings. Tweeting is not much different than talking and this juror was not sequestered and not talking about the case. I see this as a bad decision. (I cannot read the whole decision itself. Only the first few pages appear at the link from TFA.)
Why not outsource the whole task to somebody like Iron Mountain? They could get it done quickly and economically. It might even create a few jobs.
Yep. The 70cm amateur radio spectrum sits right in the middle of that range. It's widely used and will not be surrendered without a fight. Why not instead use some of the frequency spectrum recently freed up by the analog television broadcast transmitters for this purpose?
Here are a few quick links to stimulate some thought. The Wikipedia article walks a thin line between presenting facts and remaining objective. This isn't really a surprise given the nature of Wikipedia. There are certainly better sources out there if you look for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Our current president demonstrates the fallacy of your argument. He was born a poor minority but overcame adversity to become an educated, rich and powerful individual.
Go back and look at the campaign promises of GWB and see how many of them he kept (or at least tried hard to keep). Compare that with our current president. Did you notice the striking difference?
A candidate can either promise "a chicken in every pot", or he/she can make realistic promises. It is possible to get elected either way but one way demonstrates integrity while the other does not.
Integrity is a desirable personality trait in a president.
Don't worry, I will not be worrying about global warming within my lifetime. The worst case projections from the alarmists show only a slight increase in average global temperature over the next century. I'm perfectly comfortable with performing some real science and collecting lots of data over that period. Assuming mankind survives another century, we'll have bigger problems to deal with than a degree or two of extra warmth.
Note: The human population just reached the seven billion mark.
The same principal has been affecting the cost of health care for decades. When people started buying health insurance, the cost of health care went up. The recent overhaul does nothing to bring down costs, it simply mandates that everyone has insurance. Do you smell something?
Are you saying that because some people are better at playing the markets, they must surrender their earnings to the masses?
Do you believe in the rights of an individual to rise to his potential, or are your beliefs closer to those of Carl Marx?
I do not understand why socialists and communists want to reform the United States. Why don't they just move to some other country that already operates under those principals?
If you want to trim the size of government, you must look at the budgets and see where the money is going. No president will get elected by promising to eliminate entitlements, and our current president has created new ones, but entitlement reform is where we need to start if we are to effect real change. The US monetary policy has become a joke. Nations are fleeing the dollar. If we continue to spend at the rate we are today, things will get a whole lot worse in the future.
Government borrowing is fine for big projects that provide long-term benefits to our economy. Our government(s) today are routinely borrowing money to fund their regular annual budgets. If they don't have the money today, what makes them think they'll have it (along with the loan interest) tomorrow? Inflation is the only way out of this trap, and it will diminish confidence in our currency, and our nation.
OK so now we have proof that there has been a recent warming trend. Where is the proof that it was caused by human activity?
I've been an Internet mail server administrator for over 20 years. About 10 years ago I experimented with a rule that would block all mail from any mail exchanger without a matching/existing reverse DNS record. I experienced the same problems that you are now experiencing. I tried to enhance awareness of this problem but didn't get very far. There are lots of small businesses (including mine) who run their own mail exchangers. Many administrators simply do not understand the technology enough, and they feel that they do not need to because it's working "good enough" already. You can either make a "white list" of the problematic servers, or just drop the rule as I did.
Curiosity is powered by an RTG. Every time we launch something with a nuclear power source a horde of demonstrators show up in an effort to stop the launch.
Why do we even have a tiered tax system?
As much as I detest government interference in business, I hope that these anti-trust lawsuits are successful. This is exactly the sort of thing that the anti-trust laws were intended to prevent. Given the resources ($$$) of AT&T, I expect strong lobbying and eventual approval of the deal.
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Synology makes (IMHO) the best SOHO NAS products. Their latest management console (3.2) supports off-site encrypted backup. They are on the expensive side but their products and support are top notch.
My other thought for this thread in general is this: Dr. Ted Kaczynski (the Unibomber) expressed similar views in his "manifesto". He believed that technology was harmful to human society and he became an activist in an effort to "correct the problem". Many people in this thread would seem to agree with Kaczynski's ends but not necessarily his means.