DSL is mostly another type of monopoly, since it's run by the phone company. WiMAX and 3GPP LTE are a whole 'nother ballgame because of technical limitations, and may not be able to fully compete with wired services.
Yeah, but at least MY monopolistic DSL overlord doesn't impose monthly caps and/or shake down content providers. So far. I'm afraid what might happen to my Netflix if I switch to U-verse, though... but think of the bandwidth!
His point is that local bandwidth is cheap but long-haul bandwidth is expensive and the equipment necessary to stream the kind of bandwidth Netflix needs to a significant portion of their customers simply can not be purchased and maintained for the current price of a residential broadband connection.
What does Level3 do if it isn't handling the long-haul? I thought that was their specialty...
So yeah. Anybody who's playing that game and wants to use the symbol is probably doing it for the shock value, or to try to piss people off.
Exactly. It is a handy symbol to identify people you don't want to be playing with, don't take it away. We should encourage anyone who wants to use it to do so, so the rest of us know to avoid them.
Sort of like those helpful Raiders stickers people put on their cars, telling everyone around them, "I am a douchebag, stay away."
(Does that count as my daily required car analogy?)
Just read it backwards, word for word. I have to admit it was a bit harder, but it was still legible for me. Considering that this is maybe three point font, I find it pretty noteworthy.
I tried that, but the first word was "exercise" which just turned me off from the whole thing.
No matter what promises were made, it's inevitable that the images from the scanners would be able to be saved... for evidence. Imagine if someone was actually caught with a bomb in their pants. When the case went to court, there would be no image from the scanner to provide a reason for the arrest, and the whole thing would be based on "He Said, She Said."
I would more believe in a policy of "not retained for more than 48 hours" than "Not able to be saved at all" - the former is more realistic, even if it's admitting they can be saved.
Right, because they would never search the person to find the physical device and present that in court... It is a screening device. If they see something suspicious in the image, they then physically search the person. Then you either find something or you don't, and it doesn't matter what the backscatter image showed.
The only valid reason to store the images is in the case that something slips through, for analysis after the fact. And your right, in that case something like storing for 48 hours before purge would probably be reasonable, except that if they are storing the images at all I have a hard time believing they would ever actually be deleted.
They don't consider it "enrichment", they consider it "purging". The weapons are just a way of disposing of the purged elements, like a Siberian labor camp (or mass grave).
Besides, they broke up 40 years ago, most of this stuff was recorded before a lot of the people posting here were even born. This is the kind of stuff that should be in the public domain, if we didn't have ridiculous copyright periods that perpetuate the right to make money from the same content ad infinitum. People who rush out to buy this stuff again just give ammo to the labels demanding ever longer copyrights.
Why? Half the band is still alive. Who should be profiting from their work if not the members of the band and their families? It's not like their music being under copyright is preventing someone else from making their own music.
Personally, I think copyrights should be about 50 years or life of the artist, whichever is longer. Of course you run into issues when a corporation is the original copyright holder, but I suppose you could just set it at 50 years if rights are transferred or copyright owned by a non-natural person.
I don't really have any solid reasoning for why 50 years is good, but then you don't really suggest what a valid period would be or what your reasoning for said period would be, so I guess that's okay.
Perhaps I just don't like the Beatles enough to think this is a good thing... but...
My solution to bands who 'refuse' to be put on iTunes, for any reason?
I don't buy their shit. I won't buy anything from the Beatles or Metallica ever again for that reason, even if they change their minds later.
You guys go cater to their self absorbed temper tantrums and sense of entitlement. I'll pass and buy things from people who actually appreciate my money.
My solution to people having tantrums because some person (or group) isn't doing what they think they should do is to laugh at them.
Seriously, do you have any idea how childish you sound? Somebody doesn't sell their stuff the way you think they should so you accuse them of having a tantrum? Talk about self absorbed...
I can't stand it when people get all pissy about an artist not wanting to break apart their album into individual chunks. I don't care what the artist's reason for this is, if it is valid concern for the artistic integrity of their work (I can see this for the later Beatles albums, though definitely not the early ones) or if they just think that they can make the most bucks off it that way; whining because they won't give it to you the way you demand it is just pathetic. They don't owe you anything. They created it, it is theirs to do with as they see fit - the only ones exhibiting a ridiculous sense of entitlement are the ones demanding that artists offer their work in a specific way because those artists somehow owe it to the consumer. Stunning hypocrisy and failure to think.
The acronym for Aerial Regional-Scale Environment Surveyor should instead be read as ARSES... Which kinda fits for a mission looking for methane emissions and germs.
I heard they're planning on expanding mission capabilities by putting the new Planetary Exploration Nanoscale Integrated Spectrometer into the ARSES, but there is some question whether the Republican-led House will approve the additional funding necessary to fully couple the two projects.
Where do you get the idea that a 156 seat plane is a large aircraft.
Mind you China probably doesn't need a 747 sized craft, if we are talking about internal travel, and maybe to Japan. The big planes are only really economical on long flights.
Not really true. There are many short-haul routes in Asia served by 747s, where the trip density necessitates these larger aircraft. The lack of these routes in the U.S. is partly due to lower population density, and partly due to a more dispersed infrastructure. If I want to fly from the SF bay area to the LA area in California, I have my choice of three or four airports to depart from (SFO, OAK, SJC, ~SMF) and numerous airports to fly into (LAX, BUR, ONT, SNA, etc.). In many (most) places in Asia, a similar city pair would likely only have one or two airports in each city with significant passenger service. Instead of hourly flights on 737s or A320s from each airport, you'd be looking at hourly flights on 777s or even 747s to meet the demand.
Soon after the development of the 747, Boeing produced the SR version largely for the Japanese domestic market - a version specifically designed for higher passenger capacity and shorter routes (more takeoffs and landings). Today I believe they use more or less standard 747s (or Airbus equivalent) in high-density layouts.
Geography fail. The coast of California runs roughly east-west between LA and Santa Barbara; the missile was headed more or less west, as would be expected (though I've never heard of the Navy doing test launches that close to shore).
There is a naval facility on San Nicolas Island in the Channel Islands; a quick perusal of Google Maps suggests there may be launch facilities there for ICBMs or similar. My guess would be a launch from there (though the NOTAM people have posted suggests that there was a screw-up; either the launch was early, or someone confused the dates on the NOTAM - 1700 PST on the 8th would make it 0100 GMT on the 9th, so times are right, just a day off).
Does anyone actually know what AOL does these days?
I know what Yahoo does; they host my fantasy football league (they might have other stuff too, I'm not sure; that's the only thing I've visited their site for in the last few years). Haven't seen anything from AOL since before their last ill-fated merger.
Their branding is pretty much worthless, I can't think of any products they sell or sites they own that I would want to visit (oh wait, wikipedia says they recently bought TechCrunch; sadly I don't read it), and I haven't seen any evidence that either of these are going to change - is it time for them to give up and sell off their assets? What do they have to offer to Yahoo (or anyone else, for that matter)?
The elevator close button not doing anything is certainly true most places in the U.S. It isn't worth pushing the button. Go somewhere like Hong Kong, though, and when you hit the door close button the doors close right now. If someone is halfway through the door when you hit it, too bad - they get chopped in half. I love it.
Walk buttons are different. I can see not having them hooked up at busy intersections, especially at intersections where there are always (or nearly always) pedestrians waiting to cross. Where I live, the buttons absolutely work - the walk signal doesn't illuminate and the signal timings are different if you don't push the button. It is all about maximizing the flow of vehicular traffic while protecting pedestrians. Interesting that they leave the buttons there even when they don't do anything, but I seriously doubt there are many (if any) places where walk buttons were installed purely for the placebo effect.
Also - you call that an article? Worst. Submission. Ever. Here is a rule of thumb for article submitters: if you can repeat the entire 'article' in the summary, you chose a bad article. Try at least digging up some of the original sources to link to (like the Wall Street Journal article mentioned).
From experience with homebrew biodiesel, the exhaust really does smell like the fat/oil used to produce it. My dad's truck smelled like french fries or Chinese most of the time.
Ftfy, murderer.
In related news, Tyson announced their entry into the crematorium market.
Yeah, I'd feel dirty if I defended Capital One, too.
They're local here and known by many people as Crapital One for their firing sprees and tendency to make employees disappear. They're also the fastest bank in the nation to sue their own customers. (I sell data to bankruptcy lawyers who keep up with this kind of thing.) They're the last bank I'd go to for a credit card or a loan anyway.
Yeah, but you have to balance that against the fact that they have funny vikings in their ads. That counts for a lot when you're choosing a credit card, you know.
If bandwidth cost to netflix increases, then they will slow down bandwidth (so maybe it takes 60 seconds to start a movie instead of 10 seconds). Or maybe they offer a lower bandwidth option.
Don't even suggest it, or they'll be all over that in an instant. I recently jumped ship from Blockbuster (stayed with them for a long time because we lived just down the street from a store, and our plan allowed unlimited free trade-ins) largely because of the streaming service, but have found that the picture quality is barely adequate as it is. They need to offer higher quality in general, not lower quality options. Cut it down any more and I'll be going... well, I'm not sure what alternative there is, I guess to bittorrent (more likely just quit watching movies and TV entirely; as it is, I pretty much only use netflix for TV shows, as I don't really have time these days to sit through movies).
(Off-topic, but hooray! It looks like Slashdot finally fixed the issue that prevented me from placing the cursor in the right half of the comment box, though it looks like they had to go with an ugly-ass fixed-width font to do it)
Sort of interesting, but the video doesn't really show the image being updated - it just goes from a blank bit of plastic to one with the hologram etched inside. The article also doesn't really make it clear if the same bit of plastic can be re-used fro the next image, which it seems would be a requirement to show video; if that's the case, why don't they show the image being changed? It's great that they can make the image in 2.15 seconds, but how long does it take to erase and write the next one?
Actually, the only thing I'm surprised to learn is that there may, in fact, be some legitimate accounts on Twitter. 99.999% of it seems to be spam judging by my few visits to the site, although maybe calling it spam is unfair; after all, you have to sign up to the individual streams of advertising.
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DSL is mostly another type of monopoly, since it's run by the phone company. WiMAX and 3GPP LTE are a whole 'nother ballgame because of technical limitations, and may not be able to fully compete with wired services.
Yeah, but at least MY monopolistic DSL overlord doesn't impose monthly caps and/or shake down content providers. So far. I'm afraid what might happen to my Netflix if I switch to U-verse, though... but think of the bandwidth!
His point is that local bandwidth is cheap but long-haul bandwidth is expensive and the equipment necessary to stream the kind of bandwidth Netflix needs to a significant portion of their customers simply can not be purchased and maintained for the current price of a residential broadband connection.
What does Level3 do if it isn't handling the long-haul? I thought that was their specialty...
So yeah. Anybody who's playing that game and wants to use the symbol is probably doing it for the shock value, or to try to piss people off.
Exactly. It is a handy symbol to identify people you don't want to be playing with, don't take it away. We should encourage anyone who wants to use it to do so, so the rest of us know to avoid them.
Sort of like those helpful Raiders stickers people put on their cars, telling everyone around them, "I am a douchebag, stay away."
(Does that count as my daily required car analogy?)
Really? Jesus was born in the middle east and had blue eyes?
Duh, that's what the spice does.
Just read it backwards, word for word. I have to admit it was a bit harder, but it was still legible for me. Considering that this is maybe three point font, I find it pretty noteworthy.
I tried that, but the first word was "exercise" which just turned me off from the whole thing.
No matter what promises were made, it's inevitable that the images from the scanners would be able to be saved... for evidence. Imagine if someone was actually caught with a bomb in their pants. When the case went to court, there would be no image from the scanner to provide a reason for the arrest, and the whole thing would be based on "He Said, She Said."
I would more believe in a policy of "not retained for more than 48 hours" than "Not able to be saved at all" - the former is more realistic, even if it's admitting they can be saved.
Right, because they would never search the person to find the physical device and present that in court...
It is a screening device. If they see something suspicious in the image, they then physically search the person. Then you either find something or you don't, and it doesn't matter what the backscatter image showed.
The only valid reason to store the images is in the case that something slips through, for analysis after the fact. And your right, in that case something like storing for 48 hours before purge would probably be reasonable, except that if they are storing the images at all I have a hard time believing they would ever actually be deleted.
They're ideologically opposed to enrichment.
They don't consider it "enrichment", they consider it "purging". The weapons are just a way of disposing of the purged elements, like a Siberian labor camp (or mass grave).
Besides, they broke up 40 years ago, most of this stuff was recorded before a lot of the people posting here were even born. This is the kind of stuff that should be in the public domain, if we didn't have ridiculous copyright periods that perpetuate the right to make money from the same content ad infinitum. People who rush out to buy this stuff again just give ammo to the labels demanding ever longer copyrights.
Why? Half the band is still alive. Who should be profiting from their work if not the members of the band and their families? It's not like their music being under copyright is preventing someone else from making their own music.
Personally, I think copyrights should be about 50 years or life of the artist, whichever is longer. Of course you run into issues when a corporation is the original copyright holder, but I suppose you could just set it at 50 years if rights are transferred or copyright owned by a non-natural person.
I don't really have any solid reasoning for why 50 years is good, but then you don't really suggest what a valid period would be or what your reasoning for said period would be, so I guess that's okay.
Perhaps I just don't like the Beatles enough to think this is a good thing ... but ...
My solution to bands who 'refuse' to be put on iTunes, for any reason?
I don't buy their shit. I won't buy anything from the Beatles or Metallica ever again for that reason, even if they change their minds later.
You guys go cater to their self absorbed temper tantrums and sense of entitlement. I'll pass and buy things from people who actually appreciate my money.
My solution to people having tantrums because some person (or group) isn't doing what they think they should do is to laugh at them.
Seriously, do you have any idea how childish you sound? Somebody doesn't sell their stuff the way you think they should so you accuse them of having a tantrum? Talk about self absorbed...
I can't stand it when people get all pissy about an artist not wanting to break apart their album into individual chunks. I don't care what the artist's reason for this is, if it is valid concern for the artistic integrity of their work (I can see this for the later Beatles albums, though definitely not the early ones) or if they just think that they can make the most bucks off it that way; whining because they won't give it to you the way you demand it is just pathetic. They don't owe you anything. They created it, it is theirs to do with as they see fit - the only ones exhibiting a ridiculous sense of entitlement are the ones demanding that artists offer their work in a specific way because those artists somehow owe it to the consumer. Stunning hypocrisy and failure to think.
The acronym for Aerial Regional-Scale Environment Surveyor should instead be read as ARSES... Which kinda fits for a mission looking for methane emissions and germs.
I heard they're planning on expanding mission capabilities by putting the new Planetary Exploration Nanoscale Integrated Spectrometer into the ARSES, but there is some question whether the Republican-led House will approve the additional funding necessary to fully couple the two projects.
Where do you get the idea that a 156 seat plane is a large aircraft.
Mind you China probably doesn't need a 747 sized craft, if we are talking about internal travel, and maybe to Japan. The big planes are only really economical on long flights.
Not really true. There are many short-haul routes in Asia served by 747s, where the trip density necessitates these larger aircraft. The lack of these routes in the U.S. is partly due to lower population density, and partly due to a more dispersed infrastructure. If I want to fly from the SF bay area to the LA area in California, I have my choice of three or four airports to depart from (SFO, OAK, SJC, ~SMF) and numerous airports to fly into (LAX, BUR, ONT, SNA, etc.). In many (most) places in Asia, a similar city pair would likely only have one or two airports in each city with significant passenger service. Instead of hourly flights on 737s or A320s from each airport, you'd be looking at hourly flights on 777s or even 747s to meet the demand.
Soon after the development of the 747, Boeing produced the SR version largely for the Japanese domestic market - a version specifically designed for higher passenger capacity and shorter routes (more takeoffs and landings). Today I believe they use more or less standard 747s (or Airbus equivalent) in high-density layouts.
Unless your competitor's rope is so shoddy that it will snap when they try to hang you.
How strong is cadmium-impregnated melamine rope?
That's not rope, it's sausage!
Geography fail. The coast of California runs roughly east-west between LA and Santa Barbara; the missile was headed more or less west, as would be expected (though I've never heard of the Navy doing test launches that close to shore).
There is a naval facility on San Nicolas Island in the Channel Islands; a quick perusal of Google Maps suggests there may be launch facilities there for ICBMs or similar. My guess would be a launch from there (though the NOTAM people have posted suggests that there was a screw-up; either the launch was early, or someone confused the dates on the NOTAM - 1700 PST on the 8th would make it 0100 GMT on the 9th, so times are right, just a day off).
Does anyone actually know what AOL does these days?
I know what Yahoo does; they host my fantasy football league (they might have other stuff too, I'm not sure; that's the only thing I've visited their site for in the last few years). Haven't seen anything from AOL since before their last ill-fated merger.
Their branding is pretty much worthless, I can't think of any products they sell or sites they own that I would want to visit (oh wait, wikipedia says they recently bought TechCrunch; sadly I don't read it), and I haven't seen any evidence that either of these are going to change - is it time for them to give up and sell off their assets? What do they have to offer to Yahoo (or anyone else, for that matter)?
http://www.applecomponents.com/?search_within=1&p=all_items&last_cmp=&last_cat=Service+Parts%3A+Screws&s=driver
Sweet, even Apple screwdrivers are hugely overpriced. $50 for a screwdriver? It's not highway robbery, it's Apple. Awesome.
The elevator close button not doing anything is certainly true most places in the U.S. It isn't worth pushing the button. Go somewhere like Hong Kong, though, and when you hit the door close button the doors close right now. If someone is halfway through the door when you hit it, too bad - they get chopped in half. I love it.
Walk buttons are different. I can see not having them hooked up at busy intersections, especially at intersections where there are always (or nearly always) pedestrians waiting to cross. Where I live, the buttons absolutely work - the walk signal doesn't illuminate and the signal timings are different if you don't push the button. It is all about maximizing the flow of vehicular traffic while protecting pedestrians. Interesting that they leave the buttons there even when they don't do anything, but I seriously doubt there are many (if any) places where walk buttons were installed purely for the placebo effect.
Also - you call that an article? Worst. Submission. Ever.
Here is a rule of thumb for article submitters: if you can repeat the entire 'article' in the summary, you chose a bad article. Try at least digging up some of the original sources to link to (like the Wall Street Journal article mentioned).
From experience with homebrew biodiesel, the exhaust really does smell like the fat/oil used to produce it. My dad's truck smelled like french fries or Chinese most of the time.
Ftfy, murderer.
In related news, Tyson announced their entry into the crematorium market.
Who the fuck is ALICE?
One of the accelerator's experiments, ALICE, has been specifically designed to smash together lead ions...
Well, I guess that answers that.
Where is a $1.5M verdict when you need one?
Seriously, though, I'll bet half the folks complaining on Facebook have illegally downloaded music themselves.
Downloaded music, yes. Turned around and sold what they downloaded, no.
Yeah, I'd feel dirty if I defended Capital One, too.
They're local here and known by many people as Crapital One for their firing sprees and tendency to make employees disappear. They're also the fastest bank in the nation to sue their own customers. (I sell data to bankruptcy lawyers who keep up with this kind of thing.) They're the last bank I'd go to for a credit card or a loan anyway.
Yeah, but you have to balance that against the fact that they have funny vikings in their ads. That counts for a lot when you're choosing a credit card, you know.
If bandwidth cost to netflix increases, then they will slow down bandwidth (so maybe it takes 60 seconds to start a movie instead of 10 seconds). Or maybe they offer a lower bandwidth option.
Don't even suggest it, or they'll be all over that in an instant. I recently jumped ship from Blockbuster (stayed with them for a long time because we lived just down the street from a store, and our plan allowed unlimited free trade-ins) largely because of the streaming service, but have found that the picture quality is barely adequate as it is. They need to offer higher quality in general, not lower quality options. Cut it down any more and I'll be going... well, I'm not sure what alternative there is, I guess to bittorrent (more likely just quit watching movies and TV entirely; as it is, I pretty much only use netflix for TV shows, as I don't really have time these days to sit through movies).
(Off-topic, but hooray! It looks like Slashdot finally fixed the issue that prevented me from placing the cursor in the right half of the comment box, though it looks like they had to go with an ugly-ass fixed-width font to do it)
That's insulting. The 'terrorists' aren't nearly as bad as the British government.
No kidding; have you seen their teeth? Talk about terror! "No, please mister MP, I'll do whatever you say; just quit smiling on TV!"
(is it just me, or does making fun of British dental hygiene never get old?)
If they can't get it working, I recommend Cradle of Filth to get them through their difficult times. It really helped me.
Sort of interesting, but the video doesn't really show the image being updated - it just goes from a blank bit of plastic to one with the hologram etched inside. The article also doesn't really make it clear if the same bit of plastic can be re-used fro the next image, which it seems would be a requirement to show video; if that's the case, why don't they show the image being changed? It's great that they can make the image in 2.15 seconds, but how long does it take to erase and write the next one?
On Twitter? Unpossible!
Actually, the only thing I'm surprised to learn is that there may, in fact, be some legitimate accounts on Twitter. 99.999% of it seems to be spam judging by my few visits to the site, although maybe calling it spam is unfair; after all, you have to sign up to the individual streams of advertising.