That horrified alien head thingy pretty much does a good job of recreating the expression I made while the page magically appeared on my computer monitor... =P
I'm not usually much of one for news of outer space, but this particular research I find really interesting. Of course it would be interesting to know if life on Earth evolved from organisms in a Meteorite, or simultaneously evolved and was just cross-pollinated.
The conspiracy theorists and UFO nuts have held beliefs in life starting from anywhere from a single-celled organism on a meteorite, to outright terraforming for a long time.
As for life on Mars... I watched a really good documentary about the moon the other day, which basically explained that without the moon -- a single moon -- to help stabilize our planet, we probably wouldn't have ever been here. It will be interesting to see if life evolved on Mars, perhaps conditions were favourable in the past. Apparently since it has multiple small moons, it wobbles on its axis, which makes the climate really unstable over very long periods of times. Or, that was the gist of it.
This sort of thing is exciting again, since they're got more than just grainy pics giving the illusion of human faces in Cydonia. =)
For a long time, I agreed spam is a problem, but I never had more than a couple dozen a day, easy enough to delete. Until this year... now I've had the same email address on my site for years now, and I always disguised it to help against spam bots, but something happened in the last six months. I started getting 10-12 spams EVERY TIME my mail client checked my mail at ten minute intervals. and I was only getting worse.
I switched hosts and had access to install SpamAssassin. Now it catches about 600 spams mails and spam mails to addresses that don't exist on my site a DAY. And still, more and more are making it through to my inbox just because of the sheer volume. And SpamAssassin has gotten a couple of real mails caught in it, but now the volume is so high I can't skim the sorted spam to double check, so I just hope anything that gets caught isn't important.
Unless they either find a way to stop it via legislation, or changing how email works to make it more secure and harder to abuse, and ISPs are pressured to not let spammers use their services, they are going to render the email system completely unusable. My business is online, I can't use a whitelist -- I have to be able to get email from potential clients and customers easily. I shouldn't have to go to this much trouble just to use email, it just isn't right.
I got heavily criticised in a story a couple of days ago for saying Clear Channel should get one of those awards for being against free speech.
They may be a private corporation but they have used the FCC and other ways of influencing gov't to make sure that they get to control certain aspects of the airwaves. They may not be John Ashcroft but they are certainly interested in controlling the market and what you hear. =P
I concur with the other posters that there's not a privacy issue here, when you're on a public road driving a vehicle that not only affects you but the roads you drive on and everyone you encounter during that drive, the needs of public safety outweigh any "privacy" issues with the car recording speed or other engine statistics. It's not like the car is sitting there with a notebook writing down where you're going, either.
This guy's own stupidity got him in trouble, I for one hope that he gets his license revoked for life. They have good public transport up there. Let him take the bus.
(joke)Just what we need, another jackass in an SUV with a blinky detachable electronic gadget to operate while driving and try to get everyone else killed.(/joke)
Seriously though... that seems like a lot of wasted space. It also looks like it would be too easy to accidentally bump it out of the little holder while driving.
I know Clear Channel owns all the big radio station in MY city. They even own the AM stations I listen to, both the one in Houston and in Dallas.
Today Clear Channel owns over 1,200 stations, or roughly one in every ten in the country, over 776,000 outdoor advertising displays, such as billboards and street benches, as well as 200 major concert halls across the nation. The company represents the biggest and most profitable bands and stars in the business, ranging from N'Sync, Tina Turner and Pearl Jam to sports legends like Michael Jordan and Andre Agassi.
From http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid= 8728
So yeah, if they want to make sure the majority of the radio-listening public doesn't hear what you have to say, I'm sure they're quite capable of it.
Not to mention there's no inherant recording device in telephones, but the very nature of IM and email conversations means a text "recording" is being created in real-time. How could you have an IM conversation and NOT realize it was being "recorded." Seems to me the "both parties knowing" thing doesn't really apply.
Well, I have considered it, but psychological stuff is so expensive and I don't really have time even if I had insurance that would cover it... plus I'm mostly happy, I just don't have a memory for crap. Maybe if I remembered more I'd be one of those really bitter, cynical people. I just wish I could at least know what I had for lunch yesterday. ^_^
Oh wow... thanks for that info. I try to follow these things but that must've gotten by me somehow. I had no idea he was the chairmain of the FCC. I'll have to keep a lookout for more information about that, thanks!
The boobs didn't say anything. It's the OMG we must censor everything for the chiiiiiiiiildren backlash caused by it that says (or rather, doesn't say) something.
Well, if it was due to ratings that's one thing, I didn't know that though. I don't listen to his show but I thought it was kind of crappy that he was the victim of a knee-jerk response that had nothing to do with him, really.
True, they don't *have* to air him. But considering they're probably the biggest media company around and control the vast majority of the radio stations, I would hope that they'd at least try to find a compromise rather than cut him off the air. They still air a lot of stuff I find vulgar, Rush Limbaugh for one, but I wouldn't ask them to take him off the air because I don't have to listen to the stations he plays on. Just like CC's listeners could easily change the station.
Of course I have issues with one company having that much control to begin with, but that's just me.
They're not on the list yet, but after the Janet-boob incident and yanking Howard Stern off their stations, I'm guessing they should be in the running for the 2004s. I half expected them to be there, then remember this was last year.
If he hasn't already, John Ashcroft deserves an honorary trophy all for himself.
So far I rely on pen and paper to remember everything... I mean seriously, I have a lot of trauma in my past and the way my brain dealt with it was to just become so forgetful that I can barely remember what I did the week before.
I'd really like some safe, secure way to "back my brain up" as it were, besides filling albums with photos to job my memory.
I find it funny that the ringtone on my mobile is set to sound like one of those ooooold phones that actually had a bell inside of it. So my mobile phone sounds more like a "phone" than the beepy-ring thing that the handset plugged into my laneline does.
Now if I could just find a kind of antique-finished retro looking mobile phone that was still small, with maybe a metal casing instead of the uber-futuristic blinky plastic crab... that would be spiffy.
If I had the free time available, I would so love to "make" an audiobook reading an older public domain work or something... too bad I don't have anything in the way of good enough sound equipment for it.
That would be a good way of making older or more obscure works of literature available to the blind or anyone who wants to enjoy them on the go, with volunteer readers narrating the texts. Of course they'd need to be screened for quality, but I think something like that would be feasible. The fees could pretty much be cheap enough to just cover the costs of bandwidth and hosting.
I have a hammer that disagrees with that statement.
If *I* had a hammer... well there's one on my wishlist, but right now the one I have is borrowed. I suppose I could always "take care of them" then wipe down the handle and blame it on the room-mate.
those lights can be ok if they came with the car or were proffesionaly installed, when used properly they point to the ground
Maybe, but if the guy behind you with those blinding lights is driving an SUV that sits way higher than your car and is tailgating you like mad (like they all seem to do here) having them point at the ground doesn't really help.
In cars they aren't so bad unless the other driving is heading straight at you, but I swear nothing could make those things less blinding in most of these huge, high-sitting SUVs.
I don't think you understand how these robots actually work. They could not have been debugged and fixed if they were "unfunctioning" or "unresponding".
The unfunctioning and unresponding rover would be the Beagle, the British one that disappeared without a trace...
IIRC, these have just had some minor obstacles to overcome... perhaps the poster of the article is just confused. =P
Procure a corporate sponsorship from the Kraft company to get their logo on there, then you really could mess with little kids by telling them the moon is made of cheese. ^_^
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That horrified alien head thingy pretty much does a good job of recreating the expression I made while the page magically appeared on my computer monitor... =P
You're lucky, I was eating lunch!!! >_
I'm not usually much of one for news of outer space, but this particular research I find really interesting. Of course it would be interesting to know if life on Earth evolved from organisms in a Meteorite, or simultaneously evolved and was just cross-pollinated.
The conspiracy theorists and UFO nuts have held beliefs in life starting from anywhere from a single-celled organism on a meteorite, to outright terraforming for a long time.
As for life on Mars... I watched a really good documentary about the moon the other day, which basically explained that without the moon -- a single moon -- to help stabilize our planet, we probably wouldn't have ever been here. It will be interesting to see if life evolved on Mars, perhaps conditions were favourable in the past. Apparently since it has multiple small moons, it wobbles on its axis, which makes the climate really unstable over very long periods of times. Or, that was the gist of it.
This sort of thing is exciting again, since they're got more than just grainy pics giving the illusion of human faces in Cydonia. =)
For a long time, I agreed spam is a problem, but I never had more than a couple dozen a day, easy enough to delete. Until this year... now I've had the same email address on my site for years now, and I always disguised it to help against spam bots, but something happened in the last six months. I started getting 10-12 spams EVERY TIME my mail client checked my mail at ten minute intervals. and I was only getting worse.
I switched hosts and had access to install SpamAssassin. Now it catches about 600 spams mails and spam mails to addresses that don't exist on my site a DAY. And still, more and more are making it through to my inbox just because of the sheer volume. And SpamAssassin has gotten a couple of real mails caught in it, but now the volume is so high I can't skim the sorted spam to double check, so I just hope anything that gets caught isn't important.
Unless they either find a way to stop it via legislation, or changing how email works to make it more secure and harder to abuse, and ISPs are pressured to not let spammers use their services, they are going to render the email system completely unusable. My business is online, I can't use a whitelist -- I have to be able to get email from potential clients and customers easily. I shouldn't have to go to this much trouble just to use email, it just isn't right.
I got heavily criticised in a story a couple of days ago for saying Clear Channel should get one of those awards for being against free speech.
They may be a private corporation but they have used the FCC and other ways of influencing gov't to make sure that they get to control certain aspects of the airwaves. They may not be John Ashcroft but they are certainly interested in controlling the market and what you hear. =P
I concur with the other posters that there's not a privacy issue here, when you're on a public road driving a vehicle that not only affects you but the roads you drive on and everyone you encounter during that drive, the needs of public safety outweigh any "privacy" issues with the car recording speed or other engine statistics. It's not like the car is sitting there with a notebook writing down where you're going, either.
This guy's own stupidity got him in trouble, I for one hope that he gets his license revoked for life. They have good public transport up there. Let him take the bus.
(joke)Just what we need, another jackass in an SUV with a blinky detachable electronic gadget to operate while driving and try to get everyone else killed.(/joke)
Seriously though... that seems like a lot of wasted space. It also looks like it would be too easy to accidentally bump it out of the little holder while driving.
I know Clear Channel owns all the big radio station in MY city. They even own the AM stations I listen to, both the one in Houston and in Dallas.
Today Clear Channel owns over 1,200 stations, or roughly one in every ten in the country, over 776,000 outdoor advertising displays, such as billboards and street benches, as well as 200 major concert halls across the nation. The company represents the biggest and most profitable bands and stars in the business, ranging from N'Sync, Tina Turner and Pearl Jam to sports legends like Michael Jordan and Andre Agassi.
From http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid= 8728
So yeah, if they want to make sure the majority of the radio-listening public doesn't hear what you have to say, I'm sure they're quite capable of it.
Not to mention there's no inherant recording device in telephones, but the very nature of IM and email conversations means a text "recording" is being created in real-time. How could you have an IM conversation and NOT realize it was being "recorded." Seems to me the "both parties knowing" thing doesn't really apply.
Well, I have considered it, but psychological stuff is so expensive and I don't really have time even if I had insurance that would cover it... plus I'm mostly happy, I just don't have a memory for crap. Maybe if I remembered more I'd be one of those really bitter, cynical people. I just wish I could at least know what I had for lunch yesterday. ^_^
Oh wow... thanks for that info. I try to follow these things but that must've gotten by me somehow. I had no idea he was the chairmain of the FCC. I'll have to keep a lookout for more information about that, thanks!
Well, poop. I guess I'll have to stick with Kodak and LiveJournal for remember what my life was like a couple of months ago. =P
oooooh... I missed that. I have been working while I'm reading, good to know!
The boobs didn't say anything. It's the OMG we must censor everything for the chiiiiiiiiildren backlash caused by it that says (or rather, doesn't say) something.
Well, if it was due to ratings that's one thing, I didn't know that though. I don't listen to his show but I thought it was kind of crappy that he was the victim of a knee-jerk response that had nothing to do with him, really.
True, they don't *have* to air him. But considering they're probably the biggest media company around and control the vast majority of the radio stations, I would hope that they'd at least try to find a compromise rather than cut him off the air. They still air a lot of stuff I find vulgar, Rush Limbaugh for one, but I wouldn't ask them to take him off the air because I don't have to listen to the stations he plays on. Just like CC's listeners could easily change the station.
Of course I have issues with one company having that much control to begin with, but that's just me.
They're not on the list yet, but after the Janet-boob incident and yanking Howard Stern off their stations, I'm guessing they should be in the running for the 2004s. I half expected them to be there, then remember this was last year.
If he hasn't already, John Ashcroft deserves an honorary trophy all for himself.
So far I rely on pen and paper to remember everything... I mean seriously, I have a lot of trauma in my past and the way my brain dealt with it was to just become so forgetful that I can barely remember what I did the week before.
I'd really like some safe, secure way to "back my brain up" as it were, besides filling albums with photos to job my memory.
I find it funny that the ringtone on my mobile is set to sound like one of those ooooold phones that actually had a bell inside of it. So my mobile phone sounds more like a "phone" than the beepy-ring thing that the handset plugged into my laneline does.
Now if I could just find a kind of antique-finished retro looking mobile phone that was still small, with maybe a metal casing instead of the uber-futuristic blinky plastic crab... that would be spiffy.
If I had the free time available, I would so love to "make" an audiobook reading an older public domain work or something... too bad I don't have anything in the way of good enough sound equipment for it.
That would be a good way of making older or more obscure works of literature available to the blind or anyone who wants to enjoy them on the go, with volunteer readers narrating the texts. Of course they'd need to be screened for quality, but I think something like that would be feasible. The fees could pretty much be cheap enough to just cover the costs of bandwidth and hosting.
I have a hammer that disagrees with that statement.
If *I* had a hammer... well there's one on my wishlist, but right now the one I have is borrowed. I suppose I could always "take care of them" then wipe down the handle and blame it on the room-mate.
those lights can be ok if they came with the car or were proffesionaly installed, when used properly they point to the ground
Maybe, but if the guy behind you with those blinding lights is driving an SUV that sits way higher than your car and is tailgating you like mad (like they all seem to do here) having them point at the ground doesn't really help.
In cars they aren't so bad unless the other driving is heading straight at you, but I swear nothing could make those things less blinding in most of these huge, high-sitting SUVs.
I don't think you understand how these robots actually work. They could not have been debugged and fixed if they were "unfunctioning" or "unresponding".
The unfunctioning and unresponding rover would be the Beagle, the British one that disappeared without a trace...
IIRC, these have just had some minor obstacles to overcome... perhaps the poster of the article is just confused. =P
clone you into some invastion force sent to destroy your bretheren in a distant future? Yay.... Jinarmy...
Procure a corporate sponsorship from the Kraft company to get their logo on there, then you really could mess with little kids by telling them the moon is made of cheese. ^_^