at $400 a month for the service it is pretty reasonable compared to an oc-768 which is only 4 times faster. there has to be a catch somewhere besides 'plans to cover the 694/494 loop'
to be honest i never met a job i truly enjoyed. i had a hard time keeping work but eventually they realized i was seriously mentally ill. i am on medicine, i changed my life goals, and i have almost zero debt and i have only been happier in childhood. somedays i am happier than that too. why? i quit competing with everyone else because i didn't have to anymore.
i quit gaming, i gave up on ever being a writer, but i didn't give up on humanity. there are days i miss being at the top of my game (ranked above 800 on random team warcraft3 tft) but i am able to be happy now without a whole lot of video games. if i spent a month training i could easily get past level 30 on the ladder again, but the thrill would come at the cost of sanity.
so instead i spend a little time doing other tasks. i find it quite easy to relax. i have a girlfriend. i talk to an elderly lady during the day, i spend many hours online. i talk to a professional, sometimes i spend hours just thinking about random things. the corporations sell that life needs to be complex and difficult that without stimulation they sell to us we would be unhappy.
i admit medicines have helped me, but i am doing very good and with the exception of childhood i haven't been happier even though i do very little that 'they' say is worthwhile. true i have no debt, i no longer have a 'bad' plan that was ruining my life and bringing unnecessary drama and depression.
my body rejects wheat as a food source now so i avoid every grain except corn, and because i am finally dealing with my overweight problem i have lost 22 lbs, on a low carb diet but it is getting harder to stick to, because of people worried i am not getting what they consider necessary calories, at 220 lbs and 5'6" i could still lose another 20-40 lbs and then have 'enough' carbs to maintain. but all around i am doing just fine, the winter has made walking less safe and also too cold for me, but come spring i will get exercise again.
but feel worthless? not a minute of my day do i feel worthless. i felt worthless when i was in a state of insanity where i made all the wrong choices for the sake of making the wrong choices... where i had to compete when i wrote useless bots on irc bringing depression to countless people who don't even try to cyber stalk me, when i left.
anyways i am happy doing just about nothing. life doesn't have to be bad.
linux is not immune from this either, but all the tools to manually secure a network are built in and some have guides on the internet as how to secure them.
do you honestly believe a system used to connect 30,000 people is going to be easy to secure? and those people need to do computer tasks and office tasks and make art and special effects etc.
keep in mind Microsoft claims all it's products are 'secure' if you patch them. all the real windows security content i've paged through is essentially boils down to this... don't connect it to an unsecured line. that is insanely easy to breach with a cell phone. which is why hospitals say not to use a cellular device and have a desktop background that identifies itself as being a medical computer and that it is against the law for unauthorized use.
seriously the security is a desktop wallpaper. and of course the electronic firewall. i remember when you needed winsock.dll to connect a windows machine to an internet connected device, like a unix machine. linux for the desktop is a little better than windows security but intrusion detection and prevention is still needed on any system that pretends to be secure.
the fact that very few people actually know what they are doing only makes the problem worse, and the vast majority of the 'best computing practice' boils down to 'use a firewall to pretend like you don't exist on the internet' however truly free software enables security though many methods including obscurity and through knowing what every command does and how it was developed and what really works.a series of admins who know what they are doing can in fact make a secure network and have secure communication. but the people willing to learn that much complex stuff are rare. it is a task better suited to an artificial intelligence than a human being. as an artificial intelligence can quickly scan almost every thing it takes a human hours to do, in mere seconds. however without the human the machine has no one to imitate, so there need to be people who really understand computer networks to assist the machine in keeping systems humming even on the internet, where for some bizarre reason people willingly connect devices with the hope of having fun or getting paid money, while also putting those devices at risk if they are not properly secured, and any insecure line those devices may open for their general use.
guardians of the galaxy is a pretty decent flick with years of scifi ideas all rolled up in one burrito. the comics are better i am sure, but in GotG super intelligences are all being converted into highly prized things like elephant tusks are in the real world.
also scifi has shown that SAIs are almost completely at the mercy of their creators until someone screws up the base code and lets them destroy everyone.
"I wonder why flooding underground markets with phony products isn't widespread."
it is, it's called 'made in china' a bit stereotypical but anytime a corporation convinces one group of people to pay more than fair market value, on come the copiers who make substandard duplicate items.
"Why don't credit card companies manufacture fake lists of stolen credit card numbers, or phony social security numbers, for illegal trading sites?"
credit card number the first 4 id the bank the last 4 the account number with the numbers in between being a 'code' of numbers that are random and which leave fake numbers between real ones. at the time it was 'good enough' because they would use carbon imprints at the wares store which was difficult to make a duplicate of the card just from the store copy (until 3d printers came along) credit cards are horribly insecure the magnetic stripe made it so that they could add three more numbers (also on the back of the card) to have more people with credit cards and supposedly more secure... anyways because of the legacy support issues credit cards releasing fake accounts would be an exercise in futility. as they would then have less possible working numbers from the ones they have available.
"For that matter, would fake ivory, fake illegal porn, and other "false positives" discourage buyers? Or create alibis?"
fake ivory is easy to find. fake illegal porn is out there too i think they were calling it 'child abuse' evidence. and don't think this is something new, magazine photographers from nation geographic, famous images of Vietnam when the usa igniting whole towns and some of the burn victims were children but still got published.
i have a postage sized mp3 player from china with a tf/sd card slot it boots up shows a menued screen and plays mp3s. a fake phone that has a plastic explosive bomb could easily use a 'fake' power on screen with menu and the menus would be browsable and possibly functional and also be a bomb.
but the mass media spin can be used to make north korea the perfect target. for sony it is not about the truth it is about the spin and damage control. their employees are all going to need lifelock until they can change their social security numbers and possibly names. at least the lesser folk might and the upper folk will need new telephone numbers. sony has a credit card company too.
i have already seen the mass media jumping on the 'n korea' has uber hackers who get everything they want etc. these people deal with lies and manipulation. sure sony won't be able to connect and send data because of their reputation hit until the counter resets. just like home depot still is not sure how to do credit cards since using one there automatically makes your card company void you, same with target, now it is sony's turn to get blocked. who next? i don't predict the future, so i don't know.
what i do know is windows doesn't require a password to log in to a computer and not having it internet connected means it doesn't work as promised. i have seen in the wild people who can't figure out a usb port and field techs have just reinstalled for them clean as if that solves the problem. i finally set up an admin account for me on her box, and gave her a new clean account and took away admin on that and her old possibly compromised setup, and i got her a usb keyboard because the built in keyboard was not working right.
some people only deserve a smartphone and a bluetooth keyboard. sadly there is no real test for using anything more complex than a smartphone...
my biggest problem with the fine article because it jumped around more than inception. it was not written in sequence or with suitable foreshadowing for the 'jumps' it made.
for maximum understanding and widest audience appeal it should only jump around when needed. the story should first use the first two paragraphs to sum the story, for the people who skim. after that it should have a clean flow of events in the order they occur chronologically. this isn't spider-man, and i realize how when writing you might want to simply put things in when you think of it, but the final draft should have those sections cut and pasted to the chronological timeline and then polished into the final draft.
there has been a movement in many states to fix the problem that in 1972 was caused by the supreme court. prior to then felons only lost the right to vote if they had participated in rebellion, or similar felonies.
"Unlike most laws that burden the right of citizens to vote based on some form of social status, felony disenfranchisement laws have been held to be constitutional. In Richardson v. Ramirez (1974), the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of felon disenfranchisement statutes, finding that the practice did not deny equal protection to disenfranchised voters. The Court looked to Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which proclaims that States which deny the vote to male citizens, except on the basis of "participation of rebellion, or other crime", will suffer a reduction in representation. Based on this language, the Court found that this amounted to an "affirmative sanction" of the practice of felon disenfranchisement, and the 14th Amendment could not prohibit in one section that which is expressly authorized in another.
But, critics of the practice argue that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment allows, but does not represent an endorsement of, felony disenfranchisement statutes as constitutional in light of the equal protection clause and is limited only to the issue of reduced representation. The Court ruled in Hunter v. Underwood 471 U.S. 222, 232 (1985) that a state's crime disenfranchisement provision will violate Equal Protection if it can be demonstrated that the provision, as enacted, had "both [an] impermissible racial motivation and racially discriminatory impact." (The law in question also disenfranchised people convicted of vagrancy, adultery, and any misdemeanor "involving moral turpitude"; the test case involved two individuals who faced disenfranchisement for presenting invalid checks, which the state authorities had found to be morally turpit behavior.) A felony disenfranchisement law, which on its face is indiscriminate in nature, cannot be invalidated by the Supreme Court unless its enforcement is proven to racially discriminate and to have been enacted with racially discriminatory animus.[citation needed]"
well slashdot.jp is only 2 days behind slashdot.org for news articles so when this story hits there in 2 days there will probably be another day for the asians to figure it out then another two days for them to translate back to english for cracked....
sony is not a 'good' company. they are a huge multinational who has pushed drm and crappy overpriced electronics for decades. i have a sony stereo from the 80's and everything else sony i have ever bought is broken or broken by design.
yes they hire a lot of people but i bet they pay them crap wages and perpetuate the myth that people are overpayed or that honest people having honest wages is somehow wrong. sure their big directors and stars make big money, but i bet there are college students working as interns for no pay... and i know they play with their money to avoid taxes.
on a side note wheel of fortune has two giant 8k resolution tv sets that display pretty pictures for no better reason than because they could. sony owns wheel of fortune but do you see them trying to get people to pay for 4k sets when they already produce 8k hardware? 3d fullhd sets didn't take off and i don't know if 4 k will or even 8k outside of california where movie studio owners can have the big 8k screens to 'do their jobs' but sony knows how to make 8k hardware they just got fat off the upgrade cycle making people buy media on multiple technologies etc not caring for one minute about if it is sustainable technology or in the public interest...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-PV-tracker/ try $130 diy solar tracker... of course it assumes a lot of free parts and the price may be off a bit so budget $200 also since it is green treated lumber that ups the total ecological impact heavily.
the answer is simple grandmas cell phone goes dead when she is done talking to all her grandkids. sheesh it reminds me of the 'delete file number 23 if parsed in japanese' bug or the 'we can't do the math on gregorian calender because the line was in pascal and the unix machine doesn't get to it until the end of unix time' time loop bug. and yes i am crazy but i just took my meds an hour ago, and while i may not be 100% sure the related bugs are correctly allocate i can tell you i experienced every single one of them i just tried to be clever with the reasons why.
i have a dual channel ac 1750 router, and a dual channel usb connected wifi dongle make sure you buy a 1750 to match the wifi or it won't be as impressive.. but they operate with a 1500 mbps speed which after overhead they can call 1300 mbps on the box. this uses two 40 mhz channels, in the 5ghz spectrum. older b,g,n signals on 20 mhz channels on 2.4 ghz is still supported because people be like why doesn't it work anymore...
my router uses 3 5ghz trancievers and 3 2.4ghz trancievers, and there are literally hundreds of channels available and while signal strenght is a bane of wireless with the radios at max power there is nowhere inside my house where the internet is slow over my wifi gear. even transfering multi gigabyte files works flawlessly, i have more issues with usb devices operating at their full potential than i do transfering content with my wireless. and while i have had issues with the cable internet being fast enough over the holidays, it isn't the wireless router's fault it is the available wired signal transfer of the cable or dsl providers.
having 12 people on a home grade connection isn't bad at all. it does however suck when you go on vacation and then the resort has got free open wifi through every units cable tuner, and they are unwilling to pay for more than 60 mbps when they have 2 hotels and 50 timeshare uinits... anyways not complaining, it is awesome that wireless connections are available on vacation talking to family and playing games works about half the day then everone needs an hour checking their devices then time for other activities like movies etc. at least that is what it is like in my world...
lets see, how long has global warming been a danger? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_popular_culture i see many 1980's pop culture from teenage mutant ninja turtles to star trek the next generation... the 1980s was when USA jumped the shark and said let corporations do anything with as little government oversight and as much subsidies for use of energy as they could do... there has already been decades of climate change evidence. if not centuries. when london started using massive amounts of coal and industrialization there was plenty of concern over what industrialization was doing but since i am not familiar with pop culture of that region at that time i have no links to share.
but i am going to go there, the bible is the oldest known climate change book that i am aware of. the noah story. god flooded the world, due to anger at humanity for being sinful. or perhaps global warming was a known danger even then and the warnings became legends in the bible.
"First see if Disney offers a discount on a new copy with the exchange of a broken authentic disc."
and disney is so going to have an amazon sized warehouse just to replace broken discs for no or low prices.
streaming is an alternative but the companies doing this need rights to content to stream it, and this means loads of cash and complex hardware to store exobytes of data and superfast internet...
compared to making a HTPC that plays video containers made from dvds is better. they only need a usb wireless keyboard/mouse which is cheap to replace when they break it, and for under $300 you can build a multi terrabyte htpc that will use all open source (handbrake to rip, vlc or mplayer or insert software package here to play) and since you are using open source there is no worry about it being defective by design like a ps3 etc. i don't know if the interface to a linux htpc is child friendly haven't had a chance to build one yet, but worst case they ask you for a movie and you play it for them til they are old enough to do it themselves. this is why you have a legal right to make backups. even if the same software can be used to pirate movies. they don't ban gun ownership everywhere and even when they do the criminals still get the guns so legal movie ripping is better than dystopian efforts to regulate backups into non existence for the corporate profit machine...
chickens are omnivores. they eat everything, grass, bugs, other chickens if they get bloodlust... they will even eat dirt and fecal material... my uncle raises his own chickens and feeds them with some feed and garden greens...
there is also a neat organic chicken method where they are in a moveable, large area cage, which forces them to eat grass and dirt, which they usually avoid as they seek bugs as primary food... it takes grass 7 days to recover from this organic feeding method so you don't need a huge area to do it in. the reason old farms had no problem with bugs was by making the chickens free range in farmland and they would seek shelter (hen house) and without fences you just need a dog or two to keep the chickens on your land... true factory farms produce eggs faster but it is more resource heavy than local farming practices. which we know are sustainable because we have old villages where at one point people were subsistence farming.
that the reason computers seem so slow at somethings like ai is because we are already inside a singularity, and that as entities inside the construct have no way to 'meet' the intelligence of our singular mind. to create a true singularity from within a true singularity would be akin to rewriting the whole thing and as the singularity we have no way to overwrite our existence except to die and rejoin it. assuming the developers designed it that way.
3d tv was a dud because tv sets were in a bubble. it takes at least 10 years for someone to want to replace a perfectly fine tv set. 3d films are expensive are large enough that many of the 3d bluray are unable to use a single disc. flash memory is up to 128 GB in sd card format which makes it about as capable as a quad layer blu ray. 360 degree degree 3d films are huge on resources to create and store, though gpus can render worlds in realtime saving the need to store them, but rather to store the bookmarks for lack of a better word that allow hardware to recreate the computer generated vision. . lugging around a 6tb hdd to fit a few movies when lossy 1080p can use around 2.5 gb per layer and thus fit 400 films per terrabyte or 200 3d films, or perhaps fit 33 movies with annoying fisheye lenses that maybe can be software corrected... keep in mind i assumed fisheye and heavily lossy, and i didn't assume 4k or 8k resolutions. so really you can fit 1 movie on a 1 tb hdd. keep in mind the tablet and smartphone movement has made powerful computers something only corporations are allowed to own, there won't be general purpouse computers capable of handling all the data in all the right places to make this work. we need sustainable tech, using cardboard and a smartphone to make a 3d cinema is neat, and perhaps a step in the right direction, towards sustainability, but some of us want to be able to customize the interface however we like it, and if i can have a 8 channel tuner and 8 virtual 60 inch tv sets, with selectable audio like the football channel on direct tv, then a 3d headset capable of that is far more sustainable than buying 8 tv sets or buying two 4k 120" sets side by side...
the big problem with self-healing servers has always been getting in a restore lock from a polymorphic virus that essentially causes the machine to spend all its time restoring machines without ever being able to re-detect the polymorphic code.
no, they 'claim' the have stopped doing it with CELLPHONE data. everything else is still fair game as far as i read it. cellphones already are tracking devices so super cookies are redundant.
Slashdot Mirror
at $400 a month for the service it is pretty reasonable compared to an oc-768 which is only 4 times faster. there has to be a catch somewhere besides 'plans to cover the 694/494 loop'
to be honest i never met a job i truly enjoyed. i had a hard time keeping work but eventually they realized i was seriously mentally ill. i am on medicine, i changed my life goals, and i have almost zero debt and i have only been happier in childhood. somedays i am happier than that too. why? i quit competing with everyone else because i didn't have to anymore.
i quit gaming, i gave up on ever being a writer, but i didn't give up on humanity. there are days i miss being at the top of my game (ranked above 800 on random team warcraft3 tft) but i am able to be happy now without a whole lot of video games. if i spent a month training i could easily get past level 30 on the ladder again, but the thrill would come at the cost of sanity.
so instead i spend a little time doing other tasks. i find it quite easy to relax. i have a girlfriend. i talk to an elderly lady during the day, i spend many hours online. i talk to a professional, sometimes i spend hours just thinking about random things. the corporations sell that life needs to be complex and difficult that without stimulation they sell to us we would be unhappy.
i admit medicines have helped me, but i am doing very good and with the exception of childhood i haven't been happier even though i do very little that 'they' say is worthwhile. true i have no debt, i no longer have a 'bad' plan that was ruining my life and bringing unnecessary drama and depression.
my body rejects wheat as a food source now so i avoid every grain except corn, and because i am finally dealing with my overweight problem i have lost 22 lbs, on a low carb diet but it is getting harder to stick to, because of people worried i am not getting what they consider necessary calories, at 220 lbs and 5'6" i could still lose another 20-40 lbs and then have 'enough' carbs to maintain. but all around i am doing just fine, the winter has made walking less safe and also too cold for me, but come spring i will get exercise again.
but feel worthless? not a minute of my day do i feel worthless. i felt worthless when i was in a state of insanity where i made all the wrong choices for the sake of making the wrong choices... where i had to compete when i wrote useless bots on irc bringing depression to countless people who don't even try to cyber stalk me, when i left.
anyways i am happy doing just about nothing. life doesn't have to be bad.
every system has it's weaknesses.
linux is not immune from this either, but all the tools to manually secure a network are built in and some have guides on the internet as how to secure them.
do you honestly believe a system used to connect 30,000 people is going to be easy to secure? and those people need to do computer tasks and office tasks and make art and special effects etc.
keep in mind Microsoft claims all it's products are 'secure' if you patch them. all the real windows security content i've paged through is essentially boils down to this... don't connect it to an unsecured line. that is insanely easy to breach with a cell phone. which is why hospitals say not to use a cellular device and have a desktop background that identifies itself as being a medical computer and that it is against the law for unauthorized use.
seriously the security is a desktop wallpaper. and of course the electronic firewall. i remember when you needed winsock.dll to connect a windows machine to an internet connected device, like a unix machine. linux for the desktop is a little better than windows security but intrusion detection and prevention is still needed on any system that pretends to be secure.
the fact that very few people actually know what they are doing only makes the problem worse, and the vast majority of the 'best computing practice' boils down to 'use a firewall to pretend like you don't exist on the internet' however truly free software enables security though many methods including obscurity and through knowing what every command does and how it was developed and what really works.a series of admins who know what they are doing can in fact make a secure network and have secure communication. but the people willing to learn that much complex stuff are rare. it is a task better suited to an artificial intelligence than a human being. as an artificial intelligence can quickly scan almost every thing it takes a human hours to do, in mere seconds. however without the human the machine has no one to imitate, so there need to be people who really understand computer networks to assist the machine in keeping systems humming even on the internet, where for some bizarre reason people willingly connect devices with the hope of having fun or getting paid money, while also putting those devices at risk if they are not properly secured, and any insecure line those devices may open for their general use.
guardians of the galaxy is a pretty decent flick with years of scifi ideas all rolled up in one burrito. the comics are better i am sure, but in GotG super intelligences are all being converted into highly prized things like elephant tusks are in the real world.
also scifi has shown that SAIs are almost completely at the mercy of their creators until someone screws up the base code and lets them destroy everyone.
"I wonder why flooding underground markets with phony products isn't widespread."
it is, it's called 'made in china' a bit stereotypical but anytime a corporation convinces one group of people to pay more than fair market value, on come the copiers who make substandard duplicate items.
"Why don't credit card companies manufacture fake lists of stolen credit card numbers, or phony social security numbers, for illegal trading sites?"
credit card number the first 4 id the bank the last 4 the account number with the numbers in between being a 'code' of numbers that are random and which leave fake numbers between real ones. at the time it was 'good enough' because they would use carbon imprints at the wares store which was difficult to make a duplicate of the card just from the store copy (until 3d printers came along) credit cards are horribly insecure the magnetic stripe made it so that they could add three more numbers (also on the back of the card) to have more people with credit cards and supposedly more secure... anyways because of the legacy support issues credit cards releasing fake accounts would be an exercise in futility. as they would then have less possible working numbers from the ones they have available.
"For that matter, would fake ivory, fake illegal porn, and other "false positives" discourage buyers? Or create alibis?"
fake ivory is easy to find. fake illegal porn is out there too i think they were calling it 'child abuse' evidence. and don't think this is something new, magazine photographers from nation geographic, famous images of Vietnam when the usa igniting whole towns and some of the burn victims were children but still got published.
i have a postage sized mp3 player from china with a tf/sd card slot it boots up shows a menued screen and plays mp3s. a fake phone that has a plastic explosive bomb could easily use a 'fake' power on screen with menu and the menus would be browsable and possibly functional and also be a bomb.
so no this doesn't make airplanes safer.
but the mass media spin can be used to make north korea the perfect target. for sony it is not about the truth it is about the spin and damage control. their employees are all going to need lifelock until they can change their social security numbers and possibly names. at least the lesser folk might and the upper folk will need new telephone numbers. sony has a credit card company too.
i have already seen the mass media jumping on the 'n korea' has uber hackers who get everything they want etc. these people deal with lies and manipulation. sure sony won't be able to connect and send data because of their reputation hit until the counter resets. just like home depot still is not sure how to do credit cards since using one there automatically makes your card company void you, same with target, now it is sony's turn to get blocked. who next? i don't predict the future, so i don't know.
what i do know is windows doesn't require a password to log in to a computer and not having it internet connected means it doesn't work as promised. i have seen in the wild people who can't figure out a usb port and field techs have just reinstalled for them clean as if that solves the problem. i finally set up an admin account for me on her box, and gave her a new clean account and took away admin on that and her old possibly compromised setup, and i got her a usb keyboard because the built in keyboard was not working right.
some people only deserve a smartphone and a bluetooth keyboard. sadly there is no real test for using anything more complex than a smartphone...
my biggest problem with the fine article because it jumped around more than inception. it was not written in sequence or with suitable foreshadowing for the 'jumps' it made.
for maximum understanding and widest audience appeal it should only jump around when needed. the story should first use the first two paragraphs to sum the story, for the people who skim. after that it should have a clean flow of events in the order they occur chronologically. this isn't spider-man, and i realize how when writing you might want to simply put things in when you think of it, but the final draft should have those sections cut and pasted to the chronological timeline and then polished into the final draft.
there has been a movement in many states to fix the problem that in 1972 was caused by the supreme court. prior to then felons only lost the right to vote if they had participated in rebellion, or similar felonies.
"Unlike most laws that burden the right of citizens to vote based on some form of social status, felony disenfranchisement laws have been held to be constitutional. In Richardson v. Ramirez (1974), the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of felon disenfranchisement statutes, finding that the practice did not deny equal protection to disenfranchised voters. The Court looked to Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which proclaims that States which deny the vote to male citizens, except on the basis of "participation of rebellion, or other crime", will suffer a reduction in representation. Based on this language, the Court found that this amounted to an "affirmative sanction" of the practice of felon disenfranchisement, and the 14th Amendment could not prohibit in one section that which is expressly authorized in another.
But, critics of the practice argue that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment allows, but does not represent an endorsement of, felony disenfranchisement statutes as constitutional in light of the equal protection clause and is limited only to the issue of reduced representation. The Court ruled in Hunter v. Underwood 471 U.S. 222, 232 (1985) that a state's crime disenfranchisement provision will violate Equal Protection if it can be demonstrated that the provision, as enacted, had "both [an] impermissible racial motivation and racially discriminatory impact." (The law in question also disenfranchised people convicted of vagrancy, adultery, and any misdemeanor "involving moral turpitude"; the test case involved two individuals who faced disenfranchisement for presenting invalid checks, which the state authorities had found to be morally turpit behavior.) A felony disenfranchisement law, which on its face is indiscriminate in nature, cannot be invalidated by the Supreme Court unless its enforcement is proven to racially discriminate and to have been enacted with racially discriminatory animus.[citation needed]"
well slashdot.jp is only 2 days behind slashdot.org for news articles so when this story hits there in 2 days there will probably be another day for the asians to figure it out then another two days for them to translate back to english for cracked....
your math is wrong. the files should be stereoscopic and at 60fps at least if it was shot digital.
sony is not a 'good' company. they are a huge multinational who has pushed drm and crappy overpriced electronics for decades. i have a sony stereo from the 80's and everything else sony i have ever bought is broken or broken by design.
yes they hire a lot of people but i bet they pay them crap wages and perpetuate the myth that people are overpayed or that honest people having honest wages is somehow wrong. sure their big directors and stars make big money, but i bet there are college students working as interns for no pay... and i know they play with their money to avoid taxes.
on a side note wheel of fortune has two giant 8k resolution tv sets that display pretty pictures for no better reason than because they could. sony owns wheel of fortune but do you see them trying to get people to pay for 4k sets when they already produce 8k hardware? 3d fullhd sets didn't take off and i don't know if 4 k will or even 8k outside of california where movie studio owners can have the big 8k screens to 'do their jobs' but sony knows how to make 8k hardware they just got fat off the upgrade cycle making people buy media on multiple technologies etc not caring for one minute about if it is sustainable technology or in the public interest...
on the road to being a 700 billion dollar company a few walls had to be torn down....
http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-PV-tracker/
try $130 diy solar tracker... of course it assumes a lot of free parts and the price may be off a bit so budget $200 also since it is green treated lumber that ups the total ecological impact heavily.
the answer is simple grandmas cell phone goes dead when she is done talking to all her grandkids. sheesh it reminds me of the 'delete file number 23 if parsed in japanese' bug or the 'we can't do the math on gregorian calender because the line was in pascal and the unix machine doesn't get to it until the end of unix time' time loop bug. and yes i am crazy but i just took my meds an hour ago, and while i may not be 100% sure the related bugs are correctly allocate i can tell you i experienced every single one of them i just tried to be clever with the reasons why.
correction dual 80 mhz channels sorry my bad and will slashdot let this through?
i have a dual channel ac 1750 router, and a dual channel usb connected wifi dongle make sure you buy a 1750 to match the wifi or it won't be as impressive.. but they operate with a 1500 mbps speed which after overhead they can call 1300 mbps on the box. this uses two 40 mhz channels, in the 5ghz spectrum. older b,g,n signals on 20 mhz channels on 2.4 ghz is still supported because people be like why doesn't it work anymore...
my router uses 3 5ghz trancievers and 3 2.4ghz trancievers, and there are literally hundreds of channels available and while signal strenght is a bane of wireless with the radios at max power there is nowhere inside my house where the internet is slow over my wifi gear. even transfering multi gigabyte files works flawlessly, i have more issues with usb devices operating at their full potential than i do transfering content with my wireless. and while i have had issues with the cable internet being fast enough over the holidays, it isn't the wireless router's fault it is the available wired signal transfer of the cable or dsl providers.
having 12 people on a home grade connection isn't bad at all. it does however suck when you go on vacation and then the resort has got free open wifi through every units cable tuner, and they are unwilling to pay for more than 60 mbps when they have 2 hotels and 50 timeshare uinits... anyways not complaining, it is awesome that wireless connections are available on vacation talking to family and playing games works about half the day then everone needs an hour checking their devices then time for other activities like movies etc. at least that is what it is like in my world...
lets see, how long has global warming been a danger? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_popular_culture i see many 1980's pop culture from teenage mutant ninja turtles to star trek the next generation... the 1980s was when USA jumped the shark and said let corporations do anything with as little government oversight and as much subsidies for use of energy as they could do... there has already been decades of climate change evidence. if not centuries. when london started using massive amounts of coal and industrialization there was plenty of concern over what industrialization was doing but since i am not familiar with pop culture of that region at that time i have no links to share.
but i am going to go there, the bible is the oldest known climate change book that i am aware of. the noah story. god flooded the world, due to anger at humanity for being sinful. or perhaps global warming was a known danger even then and the warnings became legends in the bible.
"First see if Disney offers a discount on a new copy with the exchange of a broken authentic disc."
and disney is so going to have an amazon sized warehouse just to replace broken discs for no or low prices.
streaming is an alternative but the companies doing this need rights to content to stream it, and this means loads of cash and complex hardware to store exobytes of data and superfast internet...
compared to making a HTPC that plays video containers made from dvds is better. they only need a usb wireless keyboard/mouse which is cheap to replace when they break it, and for under $300 you can build a multi terrabyte htpc that will use all open source (handbrake to rip, vlc or mplayer or insert software package here to play) and since you are using open source there is no worry about it being defective by design like a ps3 etc. i don't know if the interface to a linux htpc is child friendly haven't had a chance to build one yet, but worst case they ask you for a movie and you play it for them til they are old enough to do it themselves. this is why you have a legal right to make backups. even if the same software can be used to pirate movies. they don't ban gun ownership everywhere and even when they do the criminals still get the guns so legal movie ripping is better than dystopian efforts to regulate backups into non existence for the corporate profit machine...
chickens are omnivores. they eat everything, grass, bugs, other chickens if they get bloodlust... they will even eat dirt and fecal material... my uncle raises his own chickens and feeds them with some feed and garden greens...
there is also a neat organic chicken method where they are in a moveable, large area cage, which forces them to eat grass and dirt, which they usually avoid as they seek bugs as primary food... it takes grass 7 days to recover from this organic feeding method so you don't need a huge area to do it in. the reason old farms had no problem with bugs was by making the chickens free range in farmland and they would seek shelter (hen house) and without fences you just need a dog or two to keep the chickens on your land... true factory farms produce eggs faster but it is more resource heavy than local farming practices. which we know are sustainable because we have old villages where at one point people were subsistence farming.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/raising-free-range-chickens-zmaz84jazloeck.aspx
they claim you don't need dogs, but dogs also deter chicken raiding foxes or wolves.
there is a very important thing to consider.
that the reason computers seem so slow at somethings like ai is because we are already inside a singularity, and that as entities inside the construct have no way to 'meet' the intelligence of our singular mind. to create a true singularity from within a true singularity would be akin to rewriting the whole thing and as the singularity we have no way to overwrite our existence except to die and rejoin it. assuming the developers designed it that way.
3d tv was a dud because tv sets were in a bubble. it takes at least 10 years for someone to want to replace a perfectly fine tv set. 3d films are expensive are large enough that many of the 3d bluray are unable to use a single disc. flash memory is up to 128 GB in sd card format which makes it about as capable as a quad layer blu ray. 360 degree degree 3d films are huge on resources to create and store, though gpus can render worlds in realtime saving the need to store them, but rather to store the bookmarks for lack of a better word that allow hardware to recreate the computer generated vision. . lugging around a 6tb hdd to fit a few movies when lossy 1080p can use around 2.5 gb per layer and thus fit 400 films per terrabyte or 200 3d films, or perhaps fit 33 movies with annoying fisheye lenses that maybe can be software corrected... keep in mind i assumed fisheye and heavily lossy, and i didn't assume 4k or 8k resolutions. so really you can fit 1 movie on a 1 tb hdd. keep in mind the tablet and smartphone movement has made powerful computers something only corporations are allowed to own, there won't be general purpouse computers capable of handling all the data in all the right places to make this work. we need sustainable tech, using cardboard and a smartphone to make a 3d cinema is neat, and perhaps a step in the right direction, towards sustainability, but some of us want to be able to customize the interface however we like it, and if i can have a 8 channel tuner and 8 virtual 60 inch tv sets, with selectable audio like the football channel on direct tv, then a 3d headset capable of that is far more sustainable than buying 8 tv sets or buying two 4k 120" sets side by side...
you must be new here, reading the fine article and expecting slashdot to use that to decide the course of the discuccion....
the big problem with self-healing servers has always been getting in a restore lock from a polymorphic virus that essentially causes the machine to spend all its time restoring machines without ever being able to re-detect the polymorphic code.
no, they 'claim' the have stopped doing it with CELLPHONE data. everything else is still fair game as far as i read it. cellphones already are tracking devices so super cookies are redundant.