sure, there was this show called The LEXX on Sci-fi they still show it in reruns at late night... towards the end of the series they're on earth and they're stuck there, and the android head determines that earth is a 'type 13' planet in it's last phases.. which means essentially they're going to blow the whole planet up soon. which happens in the show though determining the exact mass of a higgs-bosson particle... very wierd show, which is primarilly what made me watch it.
The average gamer rig has at least 4-6 leds and 2 cold cathode tubes!!!* how dare you fools in your power consumption calulations ignore the power consumption, and startup draw of the cold cathodes, and the miniscule power drain added by having 1-2 leds in each system fan... and the cpu fans and junk like that.
I do agree, that a 500 'true' 500 watt (or better) psu is genuinely only needed for a 'true' server platform, where 4-16 processors and 8-20+ hard drives are in array... however the 'normal' 500 watt psu is really only a 300 watt psu with the ability to run at 500 watts for 5 seconds at a time. any draw longer than that will cause them to explode in a fireball... which is why I buy antec True power series, because unlike cheaper quality power supplies they don't have exploding fireball mode.
* = like most slashdot posters numbers pulled out of my ass... but unlike most I admit it!
what the calulation doesn't take into consideration, is the massive massive flood of gamma radiation released by an antimatter matter conversion. the reason that it it ignored, is because we have no current technology capable of using the massive amount of gamma radiation released... oh hey and as for laws of conservation someone brought up... technically the matter 'destroyed' still exists... as energy and gamma radiation... it has neither been destroyed nor violated any laws of conservation. However reconstituting gamma radiation into matter is far beyond our technology level. but converting matter into energy and gamma radiation is just barely within our capabilities.
Do we need any more proof this is a type 13 planet in it's final stages? I think not;)
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you forgot the case of soda, the pocket full of quarters, and the gumballs since vending machines and arcade machines are vulnerable to the same exploit....
intel's as well as amd's(1.) cores have all really been 'dual' core for quite a long time... so technically intel would be going to a quad core architecture, if what you're saying is indeed true..
1. I'm only slightly sure athlon has a multi-core design but I know p4-s are multi-core, since HT capabilities wouldn't be possible without a multi core design....)
(note: gripoing about moronic/. moderators and posters follows, which may offend some of you, especially those of you Who are the moronic moderators, however you are in a state of denial anyways, so pretend that you're one of the select few non moronic moderators or simply stop reading now, unless you really want to be offended...) i've been a little bit outa the loop, for a while, but at least i'm not so confused as some ppl, who think the 'pentium 4' is a 'pentium 5' intel has not yet made any naming changes offical as yet, but some people have been saying that intel scratched the p-5 over a SCRATCHED p-4 core (and got modded up +5 while my comment got modded down a point, b/c slashdot moderators don't KNow how to RTFA, as the ARTICLE the person denoucing me was linking to Specifically refered to a scratched p-4 core... that other slashdot articals had 'called' a pentium 5 (due to baseless rumours that intel was going to rename pentium-4 system as pentium-5's)
of course to redirect total strangers to your g-mail account without first using your own bandwith.... requires somewhere embedding your g-mail password in the applet/etc that 'fetches' your 1gb of stored blog from g-mail. talk about a lack of concern for security... i bet the spammers that read slashdot have a g-mail take over scripr set up to target anyone foolish enough to run a blog off a g-mail account withing an hour... yau for free access to a free 1 gm e-mail account some fool was crazy enough to give you the password to, that can NEVER be traced back to you... hackers might want to take over your account too... fun fun
almost all modern cpus are already dissipating more than 60 watts just as Waste heat. and some of the high end gpus are actually much worse. but dont worry, intel's pentium 5 will be dissipationg much more electricity as waste heat than even the biggest baddest gpu. i think if i recall correectly at the high end (10 ghz) they're expected to kick out 350 watts of waste heat... and the pentium 6 they were planning on kicking out 1500 watts of heat, at it's high end of 30 ghz.. (intel had a roadmap of thermal dissipation predictions based on moores law/ processing trends a few years back)
The pentium 4 has pretty much been pushed as hard as it can go, adding 64-bit mode just extends the product life of the chips being sold and amd's product which was planned around 64-bit still has room to grow. Intel would not be in any kind of dire straights except for Microsoft sinking thre Itanic by saying retain x86 compatability or find your own os. Thast being said the pentium 5 is in works, and it will run between 6-10 ghz and absolutely smoke everything the opteron can do, except asm code. (because amd is designing it's chips around the needs of everyione including asm programmers, and intel is just designing faster mhz around the same basic capabilities) yeah, intel it hurting now, but they were hurting when amd was the first to 1 ghz too,
long term consequences shcmonsequences... in 20 years they'll be growing everything from livers to eyeballs in petrie dishes, i recall reading somewhere they've grown human skin, into the form of genitalia in a labrotory inviroment somwhere, but i don't remember where, anyways even if i remember that wrong i'm sure These people will have a spare eye or two to donate for transplant by then... and with perfect 20/20 vision hopefully!
I, personally, wouldn't do it unless my vision was so bad I needed coke-bottle bottoms to see.
And no reputable lasik surgeon would perform the surgery on you, as that prescription would almost certainly exceed the corneal thickness of your eyes.
You can't wear contacts after getting lasik, and it isn't reccomended for use in conjunction with prescription eyewear.
Lasik is only for people with an adequate corneal thickness to 'carve' the right prescription into thier eye with a laser. oh and btw... the laser in infrared... and they can only minimilaze exposure by using pulses that are too short to permanently burn out your ability to see at night. Cheaper lasik operations might not care if you can see at night, which is probably whey they advertize such low rates...
Well, i did find a girlfriend/potential future wife, but 3-4 hours wasn't long enough for me to find a job, or write the next great american novel... KEEP up the good work slashdot!
it's a bit farfetched, but say the emmiters were emmitting a beam much wider than that of a quarter, say a swath more the size of a whole person, for instance, and banging them around caused an alignment problem that caused not thier power to increase but the focal area on the beam to decrease, causing an exponential increase in the energy level of the impact area of the lazer. I'm not familiar with the specification enough to determine if this is possible, nor am i quite certion of the actual power intensity the original beam would have have to have been, to create 'bruises' when being fired at a fraction of the original target area.
Actually, since infrared equipment requires the target to wear sensors, to 'detect' hits, some so-called lazer tag systems do actually use radio frequency, and just have visible lasers to make you think you're scoring hits with the laser. an easy way to tell if you're using a real lazer tag system is if it requires either reflective clothing (a reflective sensor system) or else specialized IR detectors, which can calculate the hit through an infrared beam, but not actually a laser, since scoring a hit would be virtually impossible unless you covered every inch of a persons bosy with infrared detectors:) Ironically the only 'real' laser in laser tag is the sighting beam, as the rest are really more like an infrared tranmitter the likes found in your tv remote sending a wide enough path of infrared for a limited set of dectors to sense a 'hit'
hey as of the 8th the seo challenge has been over, maybe it's time to think of a new url for/.;) give me more pretty widgets to click when i'm bored ^^;; then again, i've had the same booring url for years now, but It's important for the true values of freedom that this nation was founded on to be understood, especially when none of those values are being upheld by our current elected officials...
The ddr 500 you linked to has a cas latency of 3-4-4-8 not 2-2-2-2 so in effect it can pump 25% mor data at 1/2 the speed in cycles consumed. so in the time a ddr 400 can have completed 800,000 operations on it's memory, the pc 500 will have only performed 400,000 operations, but the volume of data it could have performed operations on is still going to be 25% greater, so the 400 mhs could have performed 800,000 operatrions on say (just for arguments sake) 128 MB of memory, in the time the 500 could have performed 400,000 operations on 160 MB of ram... better thruput, but inferior turnaround time on operations. this is why 2-2-2-2 ram is WORTH the money. most people aren't block erasing 10 GB of ram ever say ten seconds. Google might be...somme high end photoshop filters could possibly push that much data through the ram... but in terms of overal performance, for gaming and system responsiveness ONLY certified 2-2-2-2 latency ram is worth paying extra for. you could be paying tripple the cost of pc 4800 and STILL be getting a better bargain, because these modules are Tested and gaurenteed to run at 2-2-2-2 latency while it's a total crap shoot trying to run a 3-4-4-8 timing module below that, and you CANT return it because it won't 'overclock' to 2-2-2-2 timings when they only gaurenteed it to run at 3-4-4-8.
By the way, of course low latency ram needs to be matched, unless your motherboard supports independant timining for each individual ram slot, all ram sticks must be gaurnenteed to run at a 2-2-2-2 timing to be run at a 2-2-2-2 timing. It's overclocking to try to run a 3-4-4-8 module at 2-2-2-2. cas latancy is the true test of the speed of ram, and has been for a Long long time. there haven't been many programs that truly stress thruput capabilities of ram since we started using pc-100 and better ram modules.
Ok, so part of this new deal is buyers can't resell what they bought. I assume the original license would handle that.
You aren't 'buying' the music, you're 'buying' a license to download and listen to it. All music is owned by the RIAA It is illegal in these united states for an individual to own music, unless he or she wrote it, in which case it's just a matter of time before they hunt you down for 'infringing' on the copyrights of another existing song.
One thing I have noticed on eBay, however, is that people DO resell physical CDs. So my question is how does the "fair use" of copyright come into play here. Assumming Joe Seller has copied the CD, under fair use?
Reselling physical Cds is illegal, you purchaces a license to playback the audio on a personal audio device. That license is Non-transferable, 'selling' a used CD is a Violation of US law, punishable by up to a $25,000 fine per incendent.
What If someone steals my physical CD but I still have my high-quality MP3 on my player? Did my right to the MP3 get stolen too?
You don't have a right to transfer the audio file from the CD to your portable mp3 player, however, the companies selling such hardware players are not financially responsible for enabling your violation of US law. So, the mp3 file you made is just as illegal to playback before your CD was stolen as afterwards.
Keep in mind I am following the LETTER of the US law in these statments. Currently no court has validated the Letter of the law in the above circumstance, nor have they been refuted by court order.
The only legal sources of digital music ciurrently are itunes, sony and the new napster. and again, you are only purchacing a license to playback and in some cases make a copy to a secure portable music device for on the go Personal listening. Playing these songs where the general public may hear (and can hear) is a violation of us, and in some cases local law.
Blinkx is only a threat to the users who install it. it's just YAN popup toolbar for windows, which infests the windows system and makes it's dll's unwritable to all users of the system, except administrator. just what we need, another popup toolbar bringing a flurry of ad windows everytime we do anything in windows, and this one supports firefox and mozilla... instead of just windows explorer and ie... oh and hey, what google is doing isn't reading all your local files to serv targted popup ads, but rather, trying to make it easier for you to search for things weather they are on your hd or the internet... and no it won't let you search your neighbors hd.. that's what kazza-lite is for...
tornadoes are a bad example... since the path of destruction is focal... and generally, any house under the focal point of the tornadoe is going to end up in taters, unless it's made of 8 foot thick steel reinfoirced concrete. in which case you're pretty good, even up to being ground zero for a nuclear blast... but yeah, substandard houses are quite common in modern construction, just slap 2 modular pieces together, and if they're not tied together right a strong wind will blow them down faster than you can say "i'll huff and puff and blow your house down!" still, most tornados (touching down in residential areas) leave one block of houses devistated, while the houses across the street didn't even loose the good china in the storm, so you had an awful example.
Unfortunately for you, technology keeps getting smaller! Concealed digital camera's with 2GB of storage and the ability to record sound+audio ALREADY exist! Screeners just need to get smarter, and high tech! and they can produce EVEN Lower QUALITY hidden cam captures of movies! night vision goggles won't help spot a hidden cam! not if it's concealed during the entire duration of recording! So there you go, don't get your hopes up..
what you fail to understand, is the way this stam system works. If i send n e-ail to your gmail account for the 1st time it requires a stampt to be genenerated, but if you reply to me, or i send another one next week no new stamp is genenerated. Spam is always from a new sender to a new reciepient, therfore 100% of of spam requires new stamp generation. So legitimate mail will generate far far fewere resource drain, anywhere from 50% down to 5% of the 'cost' that spammers have to pay. i haven't changed my e-mail in some 5 years, haven't had a need to, I do e-mail new ppl, though but still, how many new friends can i make, and e-mail lol... the problem with computational penealty is moores law, which means the stamps themself need to become gradually more and more intensive, to keep pace with moores law, and making mailservers join the rest of us with the need to move to newer, faster machines every few years... it's a great concept for a method to fight spam, and i think you fail to inderstand how it's implemented, say ISP X wanted to shut down spam from all it's users, they simply upgrade thier mailservers to this protocol, and any user on thier isp, now has to use the sender pays system to send spam, so any unsigned spam simply doesn't get through, and zombies on that isp, now have to computationally sign to 'cheat' the mail through the system. in addition, incoming e-mail is filtered out effectively against spam. It's a potent tool for isps as well as small *ix junkies to help prevent and filter spam... like most systems this doesn't eliminate spam, but it does reduce the profitability of spamming... if you can only send out 1% of the spam as you could before, and you only get a.5% return on the spam you send... you end up going from millionaire noone likes, to somone who needs to supplement thier income with a day job at taco bell...
all the girls seem to love the littly teeny tiny laptops... but most of us slashdot geeks aren't happy unless our laptop has at least a 15" display, the ability to burn dvds, and of course the ability to run the latest 3-d adrenaline pumping games... those laptops, simply don't last more than an hour on current li-ion technology... unless you strap 25lbs of battery to it they'll never get much 'wireless' time... that model of laptop you have is tiny and has a slow cpu, and us using an integrated intel agp graphic processing unit, and also, has a tiny screen.. yeah sure, it surfs the web, and can run word processors, and yeah, it can even burn cds and be used as a portable mp3 player (at least it has a decent sized 60gb hd) but still, it doesn't quite satisfy the 'more is better' crowd... who seem to think we should all be using portable fusion genenrators, and having a 12 ghz laptop with the ability to progect up to a 60' display if you have a wall that size handy... whee.. i'd die if i had to use a tiny laptop like that one for more than an hour at a time, just because i'd keep hitting 4 keys at a time >_ i know my friend has a tiny little subnotbook, which are made for small fingered ppl....
I realize the original commenter was trying to poke fun, but 'Millitary outsourcing' has been going on so long they have a word for it... Mercenary... and the problem with outsourcing is that while it may or may not be cheaper in the short term to fill a temporary shortfall, mercenaries tend to be more focused on staying alive long enough to collect thier pay, than the zealous die for your country fanatics... making them less 'combat effective.'
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sure, there was this show called The LEXX on Sci-fi they still show it in reruns at late night... towards the end of the series they're on earth and they're stuck there, and the android head determines that earth is a 'type 13' planet in it's last phases.. which means essentially they're going to blow the whole planet up soon. which happens in the show though determining the exact mass of a higgs-bosson particle... very wierd show, which is primarilly what made me watch it.
The average gamer rig has at least 4-6 leds and 2 cold cathode tubes!!!* how dare you fools in your power consumption calulations ignore the power consumption, and startup draw of the cold cathodes, and the miniscule power drain added by having 1-2 leds in each system fan... and the cpu fans and junk like that.
I do agree, that a 500 'true' 500 watt (or better) psu is genuinely only needed for a 'true' server platform, where 4-16 processors and 8-20+ hard drives are in array... however the 'normal' 500 watt psu is really only a 300 watt psu with the ability to run at 500 watts for 5 seconds at a time. any draw longer than that will cause them to explode in a fireball... which is why I buy antec True power series, because unlike cheaper quality power supplies they don't have exploding fireball mode.
* = like most slashdot posters numbers pulled out of my ass... but unlike most I admit it!
what the calulation doesn't take into consideration, is the massive massive flood of gamma radiation released by an antimatter matter conversion. the reason that it it ignored, is because we have no current technology capable of using the massive amount of gamma radiation released... oh hey and as for laws of conservation someone brought up... technically the matter 'destroyed' still exists... as energy and gamma radiation... it has neither been destroyed nor violated any laws of conservation. However reconstituting gamma radiation into matter is far beyond our technology level. but converting matter into energy and gamma radiation is just barely within our capabilities.
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Do we need any more proof this is a type 13 planet in it's final stages? I think not
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you forgot the case of soda, the pocket full of quarters, and the gumballs since vending machines and arcade machines are vulnerable to the same exploit....
intel's as well as amd's(1.) cores have all really been 'dual' core for quite a long time... so technically intel would be going to a quad core architecture, if what you're saying is indeed true..
/. moderators and posters follows, which may offend some of you, especially those of you Who are the moronic moderators, however you are in a state of denial anyways, so pretend that you're one of the select few non moronic moderators or simply stop reading now, unless you really want to be offended...)
1. I'm only slightly sure athlon has a multi-core design but I know p4-s are multi-core, since HT capabilities wouldn't be possible without a multi core design....)
(note: gripoing about moronic
i've been a little bit outa the loop, for a while, but at least i'm not so confused as some ppl, who think the 'pentium 4' is a 'pentium 5' intel has not yet made any naming changes offical as yet, but some people have been saying that intel scratched the p-5 over a SCRATCHED p-4 core (and got modded up +5 while my comment got modded down a point, b/c slashdot moderators don't KNow how to RTFA, as the ARTICLE the person denoucing me was linking to Specifically refered to a scratched p-4 core... that other slashdot articals had 'called' a pentium 5 (due to baseless rumours that intel was going to rename pentium-4 system as pentium-5's)
of course to redirect total strangers to your g-mail account without first using your own bandwith.... requires somewhere embedding your g-mail password in the applet/etc that 'fetches' your 1gb of stored blog from g-mail.
talk about a lack of concern for security... i bet the spammers that read slashdot have a g-mail take over scripr set up to target anyone foolish enough to run a blog off a g-mail account withing an hour... yau for free access to a free 1 gm e-mail account some fool was crazy enough to give you the password to, that can NEVER be traced back to you... hackers might want to take over your account too... fun fun
almost all modern cpus are already dissipating more than 60 watts just as Waste heat. and some of the high end gpus are actually much worse. but dont worry, intel's pentium 5 will be dissipationg much more electricity as waste heat than even the biggest baddest gpu. i think if i recall correectly at the high end (10 ghz) they're expected to kick out 350 watts of waste heat... and the pentium 6 they were planning on kicking out 1500 watts of heat, at it's high end of 30 ghz.. (intel had a roadmap of thermal dissipation predictions based on moores law/ processing trends a few years back)
The pentium 4 has pretty much been pushed as hard as it can go, adding 64-bit mode just extends the product life of the chips being sold and amd's product which was planned around 64-bit still has room to grow. Intel would not be in any kind of dire straights except for Microsoft sinking thre Itanic by saying retain x86 compatability or find your own os. Thast being said the pentium 5 is in works, and it will run between 6-10 ghz and absolutely smoke everything the opteron can do, except asm code. (because amd is designing it's chips around the needs of everyione including asm programmers, and intel is just designing faster mhz around the same basic capabilities)
yeah, intel it hurting now, but they were hurting when amd was the first to 1 ghz too,
long term consequences shcmonsequences... in 20 years they'll be growing everything from livers to eyeballs in petrie dishes, i recall reading somewhere they've grown human skin, into the form of genitalia in a labrotory inviroment somwhere, but i don't remember where, anyways even if i remember that wrong i'm sure These people will have a spare eye or two to donate for transplant by then... and with perfect 20/20 vision hopefully!
Resistance is futile, you will mod parent as 'funny'
I, personally, wouldn't do it unless my vision was so bad I needed coke-bottle bottoms to see.
And no reputable lasik surgeon would perform the surgery on you, as that prescription would almost certainly exceed the corneal thickness of your eyes.
You can't wear contacts after getting lasik, and it isn't reccomended for use in conjunction with prescription eyewear.
Lasik is only for people with an adequate corneal thickness to 'carve' the right prescription into thier eye with a laser. oh and btw... the laser in infrared... and they can only minimilaze exposure by using pulses that are too short to permanently burn out your ability to see at night. Cheaper lasik operations might not care if you can see at night, which is probably whey they advertize such low rates...
Well, i did find a girlfriend/potential future wife, but 3-4 hours wasn't long enough for me to find a job, or write the next great american novel... KEEP up the good work slashdot!
it's a bit farfetched, but say the emmiters were emmitting a beam much wider than that of a quarter, say a swath more the size of a whole person, for instance, and banging them around caused an alignment problem that caused not thier power to increase but the focal area on the beam to decrease, causing an exponential increase in the energy level of the impact area of the lazer.
I'm not familiar with the specification enough to determine if this is possible, nor am i quite certion of the actual power intensity the original beam would have have to have been, to create 'bruises' when being fired at a fraction of the original target area.
Actually, since infrared equipment requires the target to wear sensors, to 'detect' hits, some so-called lazer tag systems do actually use radio frequency, and just have visible lasers to make you think you're scoring hits with the laser. :)
an easy way to tell if you're using a real lazer tag system is if it requires either reflective clothing (a reflective sensor system) or else specialized IR detectors, which can calculate the hit through an infrared beam, but not actually a laser, since scoring a hit would be virtually impossible unless you covered every inch of a persons bosy with infrared detectors
Ironically the only 'real' laser in laser tag is the sighting beam, as the rest are really more like an infrared tranmitter the likes found in your tv remote sending a wide enough path of infrared for a limited set of dectors to sense a 'hit'
damn, and i thought this was why pam was good.. ERR wrong pam sorry lol!!
hey as of the 8th the seo challenge has been over, maybe it's time to think of a new url for /. ;) give me more pretty widgets to click when i'm bored ^^;;
then again, i've had the same booring url for years now, but It's important for the true values of freedom that this nation was founded on to be understood, especially when none of those values are being upheld by our current elected officials...
The ddr 500 you linked to has a cas latency of 3-4-4-8 not 2-2-2-2 so in effect it can pump 25% mor data at 1/2 the speed in cycles consumed. so in the time a ddr 400 can have completed 800,000 operations on it's memory, the pc 500 will have only performed 400,000 operations, but the volume of data it could have performed operations on is still going to be 25% greater, so the 400 mhs could have performed 800,000 operatrions on say (just for arguments sake) 128 MB of memory, in the time the 500 could have performed 400,000 operations on 160 MB of ram...
better thruput, but inferior turnaround time on operations. this is why 2-2-2-2 ram is WORTH the money. most people aren't block erasing 10 GB of ram ever say ten seconds. Google might be...somme high end photoshop filters could possibly push that much data through the ram... but in terms of overal performance, for gaming and system responsiveness ONLY certified 2-2-2-2 latency ram is worth paying extra for.
you could be paying tripple the cost of pc 4800 and STILL be getting a better bargain, because these modules are Tested and gaurenteed to run at 2-2-2-2 latency while it's a total crap shoot trying to run a 3-4-4-8 timing module below that, and you CANT return it because it won't 'overclock' to 2-2-2-2 timings when they only gaurenteed it to run at 3-4-4-8.
By the way, of course low latency ram needs to be matched, unless your motherboard supports independant timining for each individual ram slot, all ram sticks must be gaurnenteed to run at a 2-2-2-2 timing to be run at a 2-2-2-2 timing. It's overclocking to try to run a 3-4-4-8 module at 2-2-2-2.
cas latancy is the true test of the speed of ram, and has been for a Long long time. there haven't been many programs that truly stress thruput capabilities of ram since we started using pc-100 and better ram modules.
Ok, so part of this new deal is buyers can't resell what they bought. I assume the original license would handle that.
You aren't 'buying' the music, you're 'buying' a license to download and listen to it. All music is owned by the RIAA It is illegal in these united states for an individual to own music, unless he or she wrote it, in which case it's just a matter of time before they hunt you down for 'infringing' on the copyrights of another existing song.
One thing I have noticed on eBay, however, is that people DO resell physical CDs. So my question is how does the "fair use" of copyright come into play here. Assumming Joe Seller has copied the CD, under fair use?
Reselling physical Cds is illegal, you purchaces a license to playback the audio on a personal audio device. That license is Non-transferable, 'selling' a used CD is a Violation of US law, punishable by up to a $25,000 fine per incendent.
What If someone steals my physical CD but I still have my high-quality MP3 on my player? Did my right to the MP3 get stolen too?
You don't have a right to transfer the audio file from the CD to your portable mp3 player, however, the companies selling such hardware players are not financially responsible for enabling your violation of US law. So, the mp3 file you made is just as illegal to playback before your CD was stolen as afterwards.
Keep in mind I am following the LETTER of the US law in these statments. Currently no court has validated the Letter of the law in the above circumstance, nor have they been refuted by court order.
The only legal sources of digital music ciurrently are itunes, sony and the new napster. and again, you are only purchacing a license to playback and in some cases make a copy to a secure portable music device for on the go Personal listening. Playing these songs where the general public may hear (and can hear) is a violation of us, and in some cases local law.
Blinkx is only a threat to the users who install it.
it's just YAN popup toolbar for windows, which infests the windows system and makes it's dll's unwritable to all users of the system, except administrator. just what we need, another popup toolbar bringing a flurry of ad windows everytime we do anything in windows, and this one supports firefox and mozilla... instead of just windows explorer and ie... oh and hey, what google is doing isn't reading all your local files to serv targted popup ads, but rather, trying to make it easier for you to search for things weather they are on your hd or the internet... and no it won't let you search your neighbors hd.. that's what kazza-lite is for...
tornadoes are a bad example... since the path of destruction is focal... and generally, any house under the focal point of the tornadoe is going to end up in taters, unless it's made of 8 foot thick steel reinfoirced concrete. in which case you're pretty good, even up to being ground zero for a nuclear blast... but yeah, substandard houses are quite common in modern construction, just slap 2 modular pieces together, and if they're not tied together right a strong wind will blow them down faster than you can say "i'll huff and puff and blow your house down!"
still, most tornados (touching down in residential areas) leave one block of houses devistated, while the houses across the street didn't even loose the good china in the storm, so you had an awful example.
Unfortunately for you, technology keeps getting smaller! Concealed digital camera's with 2GB of storage and the ability to record sound+audio ALREADY exist! Screeners just need to get smarter, and high tech! and they can produce EVEN Lower QUALITY hidden cam captures of movies!
night vision goggles won't help spot a hidden cam! not if it's concealed during the entire duration of recording!
So there you go, don't get your hopes up..
what you fail to understand, is the way this stam system works. If i send n e-ail to your gmail account for the 1st time it requires a stampt to be genenerated, but if you reply to me, or i send another one next week no new stamp is genenerated. Spam is always from a new sender to a new reciepient, therfore 100% of of spam requires new stamp generation. So legitimate mail will generate far far fewere resource drain, anywhere from 50% down to 5% of the 'cost' that spammers have to pay. i haven't changed my e-mail in some 5 years, haven't had a need to, I do e-mail new ppl, though but still, how many new friends can i make, and e-mail lol... .5% return on the spam you send... you end up going from millionaire noone likes, to somone who needs to supplement thier income with a day job at taco bell...
the problem with computational penealty is moores law, which means the stamps themself need to become gradually more and more intensive, to keep pace with moores law, and making mailservers join the rest of us with the need to move to newer, faster machines every few years...
it's a great concept for a method to fight spam, and i think you fail to inderstand how it's implemented, say ISP X wanted to shut down spam from all it's users, they simply upgrade thier mailservers to this protocol, and any user on thier isp, now has to use the sender pays system to send spam, so any unsigned spam simply doesn't get through, and zombies on that isp, now have to computationally sign to 'cheat' the mail through the system. in addition, incoming e-mail is filtered out effectively against spam.
It's a potent tool for isps as well as small *ix junkies to help prevent and filter spam... like most systems this doesn't eliminate spam, but it does reduce the profitability of spamming... if you can only send out 1% of the spam as you could before, and you only get a
all the girls seem to love the littly teeny tiny laptops... but most of us slashdot geeks aren't happy unless our laptop has at least a 15" display, the ability to burn dvds, and of course the ability to run the latest 3-d adrenaline pumping games...
those laptops, simply don't last more than an hour on current li-ion technology... unless you strap 25lbs of battery to it they'll never get much 'wireless' time... that model of laptop you have is tiny and has a slow cpu, and us using an integrated intel agp graphic processing unit, and also, has a tiny screen.. yeah sure, it surfs the web, and can run word processors, and yeah, it can even burn cds and be used as a portable mp3 player (at least it has a decent sized 60gb hd) but still, it doesn't quite satisfy the 'more is better' crowd... who seem to think we should all be using portable fusion genenrators, and having a 12 ghz laptop with the ability to progect up to a 60' display if you have a wall that size handy...
whee.. i'd die if i had to use a tiny laptop like that one for more than an hour at a time, just because i'd keep hitting 4 keys at a time >_ i know my friend has a tiny little subnotbook, which are made for small fingered ppl....
I realize the original commenter was trying to poke fun, but 'Millitary outsourcing' has been going on so long they have a word for it... Mercenary... and the problem with outsourcing is that while it may or may not be cheaper in the short term to fill a temporary shortfall, mercenaries tend to be more focused on staying alive long enough to collect thier pay, than the zealous die for your country fanatics... making them less 'combat effective.'