Rain-X isn't wax although it does appear to close up the pores of glass and shed water VERY well until it begins to wear. No wax I've ever seen is carried by an alcohol base.;-)
There are similar fluids for water to improve heat dissipation by breaking down surface tension. You use one in your dishwasher most likely and it's supposed to reduce water spots by making the water shed off. In the automotive world there's Water Wetter from Redline and now some others. It's benefits are controversial but in my personal testing I did see a reduction in the temps of my car and I use it in my computer cooling system. It has the added benefit of not allowing algae to grow and if I spring a leak (my rad has a pinhole) this stuff turns waxy as the water evaps from it and seals the leak.
I too saw the ad for this latest closed circuit cooling system and wondered WTF was in it. I have pondered using other chemicals in my cooling system to try and get temps to fall but putting something like alcohol, which is flammable and corrosive, in there seemed stupid. If these guys have found something better than purified water and Water Wetter I'd like to know what it is. Frankly I think they're full of it but am waiting to see some tests done...
My point is that SSL encrypts in transit not at rest. While sniffing the traffic and breaking the SSL is likely hard, if done right and new breaks notwithstanding, but when the code lands on the mail server it won't be STORED encrypted. At that point one need only break into the server and dump the data unencrypted back to the mothership. SSL will have done nothing but made it harder to sniff the traffic. She seems to allow for the idea they may and could break in and seems to think the SSL provides some protection against this - I'm baffled.
This woman said "... Of course the NSA could still break in if they wanted to, but the mass encryption of emails would make it harder and more expensive for them to do so." and she was referring to their plan to use SSL transport encryption.
Her comment makes NO sense and this is what I was trying to point out, I didn't think I'd have to explain it to this level. She seems to think that because they've used SSL in transport that someone breaking into the server is going to be faced with a crypto problem because of it - they won't. If that's truly what she thought and she was quoted accurately then I'm shocked that she claims any sort of knowledge about cryptography. Transport crypto does nothing at all for STORAGE. If all a bank ever did was rely on SSL then someone breaking into their website would have a field day with the unencrypted access to the data!
P.S. What web mail based email service DOESN'T use SSL transport? If they were allowing their customer's email to go over the wire unencrypted prior to this then I'm, again, in shock!
They're saying that they wish to stop having to WALK up to each door and deliver mail. If you live in a house you might be forced to walk to the curb where it was delivered by a guy in a mail jeep - which is how it's done in my neighborhood and most around me. It's the walking part that slows them to a crawl! Central boxes are also a good idea but I don't see them pushing for that and are instead saying they want to stop the walking wherever possible...
Yeah but check out the company they appear to be working with - a "spin out of Intellectual Ventures". The description of which sounds VERY trollish to me and indeed IV has been named that so...
"Director of innovation Latkowski declined to say whether or not TerraPower has filed any MSR patents. In addition to running innovation and related partnerships, Latkowski also “oversees the development, maintenance and protection of TerraPower’s intellectual property portfolio” according to his company bio. TerraPower is a spin out of Intellectual Ventures, an innovation and venture capital firm that makes a business out of patents and is known as a keen collector and protector of intellectual property. It is headed by Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft chief strategist and technology officer who serves as TerraPower’s vice chairman."
Keen collector and protector of IP? Really? I'm sorry but red flags all over the place on that one:-(
I was caught in about the 5th grade for the same thing - teachers recommended it and I still have the test results. I did a secondary test as well and I still remember being asked why it would be advantageous for a mouse to have more than one hole to run to - seemed like a crazy question! Nowadays the tests aren't so broad and teachers are pretty well beaten up, it's truly sad...
Legos I never had but tinker toys, erector sets, and holy smokes those 150n1 electronic kits from Radio Shack! the Erectors i didn't like so much due to sharp edges but I was all over Tinker Toys - which are now plastic crap. I agree that such toys should be required and I would also agree that FPS help creativity and spatial reasoning. Kids who can visualize and find their way around a map like we had with Quake or Wolfenstein should be paid attention to!
My fave was taking apart the carb on the family car. It was our second car so no biggie - except the primary was in the shop. I put the silly thing back together wrong and the car would only run for a few seconds before dying. I stayed up quite late tinkering with it until I finally tore it down far enough to visualize how it worked and figure out I'd been putting a part in wrong. My parents were pretty relieved and quite surprised when I found this and the car fired right up just fine. I find that doing mechanical things is a great deal of fun and tuning cars - their computers - is even more fun. Optimizing a system to make the most power is a blast! I didn't choose that as a career though as I quickly learned early on that leaning over a car all day was hell on my back and I ended up in the computer field for a job. My mother used to tell me that as a child they had to be careful because if I got hold of a screwdriver anything below knee height would be disassembled. I can even recall doing some of that just to see how things worked although it wasn't until later I could reassemble them:-) Numbers were my bane, reading always my friend and now computers too.
I don't think traits are innate but I do think that some learn in some areas more quickly than others. My ability to visualize isn't something that can be taught in my opinion and I have an ability to figure out faults more quickly than many others. I think the latter can be taught as a skill but not everyone gets it nearly as well so there's talent there too. Certainly i think there are geniuses that aren't found due to lack of education or spotting them - I did very poorly in school simply because I was bored, in other situations I might have simply been failed and passed over. I got lucky I think but could still have done better
When I was in school we got tested for mechanical and spatial reasoning skills as well as math, reading, blah blah. I scored over 90th percentile in mechanical and spatial reasoning and also pegged reading comprehension. Math? I was below middle of the pack, like 45% percentile. Math just never made sense to me but given the chance to work on something mechanical I'm all over it and can often figure out how something works or how ro assemble it just by looking at the pieces. Computers, likewise, are something I can envision. I can be given a set of requirements for a program and be able to tell where there will be issues that need to be worked out before the program is built. I tend to think outside the box is all. i could see myself inventing something but I sure as heck don't see myself doing anything math related, it just doesn't click:(
When does life begin? First breath? First cell division? 1 week? 12 weeks? 24 weeks? I'm telling you I leave it up to the woman and yeah her Dr., Dad may have some input too but IMO her desires may trump his. I refuse to feel as if I should try and step in and force my beliefs on someone else which IS what "pro-life" advocates try to do and it's disgusting.
So no, I won't stop someone from doing what they feel is best with their body. You can't tell me when life begins because you don't know and it isn't definitive. This isn't black or white and no matter what law you pass someone will feel differently. Give women a choice, it's their body, and if you don't agree with their choice then make a baby of your own or better yet figure out how to carry it yourself if you're male. Don't push your beliefs and baggage on others....
As a side note - I always find it stunning that so many MEN seem to be in the room making these laws that effect woman!
P.S. Have some balls and post as something other than AC.
No, I'm leaving it up to the person who's body will be stressed and abused for 9+ months to make up their own mind what it is they wish to occur. How they became pregnant is none of my business but the choice should be an informed one and certainly adoption is an option to be considered. But I won't make the choice for them and you can try to frame that however you want and use whatever charged terms I think I'm being pretty clear. I, particularly as a male, have no business forcing another into a path that may be detrimental to them simply because of my own beliefs. I am also intelligent enough to recognize that trying to bar this practice simply will not work anymore than the "war on drugs" or prohibition laws stopped those behaviors in the past. In fact in the past this country didn't allow for abortion either and it didn't end well. Will we be charging women who choose extralegal means with jail time? Boy that will sure set an example won't it....
I've not heard anyone utter the term "anti-choice" until you used it but Google finds it in a few places. Really that's a pretty accurate description though wouldn't you say? Taking away a woman's right to choose? Those who desire the right to choose don't advocate abortions or push them on anyone so your use of anti-life is flawed badly. Allowing someone to choose for themselves is what pro-choice folks seek but no one I know who advocates this wants some sort of mandatory abortion program which your term would seem to support.
If you're claiming to be confused by the term pro-choice then you're being disingenuous. If we must follow that line of reasoning then yeah, I want people to be able to choose their choice of phone OS, vegetables, car they drive, and color of clothes. I do not seek to regulate or push onto others ideas anymore than I accept them trying to push their ideals onto me. Be it guns, religion, or abortion I support choices.
BTW, where exactly is abortion mandatory? Certainly not in the United States which seems to have the largest contingent of rabid "right to life" folks. Seriously, where is this a law?
P.S. I've never met anyone "pro abortion". You can stretch this to abusive partners and parents all you want but frankly banning an entire gender from controlling what they do with their bodies simply because laws preventing abuse aren't being properly enforced or aren't strong enough seems silly. If you really think that banning abortion would stop these folks then a bit of reading on your part is in order -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-induced_abortion
Meh, I'm fine with the term "pro-life" although I suspect some would have issue with when exactly "life" of a human and self awareness begins. I understand that some people are rabid that life should be protected no matter what and am okay with it - so long as they're not pushing these views onto others. If a woman decides to have a medical procedure it's not my business to tell them not to. I will admit to being uncomfortable with late term procedures but I'm not going to advocate barring them. Anti-life however is a term that actively advocates killing rather than choice and I don't agree with it, it paints an incomplete picture to say the least. We can likely agree that no term is neutral nor is it desired when we have the press looking to stir any controversy they can to bump revenue....
Sorry, you've completely lost me as I see nothing to connect pimps with those who feel women should have a choice concerning pregnancy. Wake me when the folks who want right to choose force woman to do anything.
Anti-Life? Seriously?! Could you use a more charged term? Try Pro-Choice. Just because someone believes in the right to choose doesn't mean they will use it and they certainly don't try to force it on others unlike the group trying to ban abortion.
Is there something about the term "open standard" that you don't understand? Licensing technology does NOT make it open. Publishing, openly, how something works and the data is formatted to interoperate would be making it "open"....
No, sorry it's not open. It uses encryption and the only reason why some of the features work on Linux or elsewhere is because the crypto key was found in a firmware update. That is why when some IOS updates have come out Shairport etc. has gotten broken on Linux, Apple changed the keys. Once the new keys are figured out support resumes.
Umm, video? I use it to stream Youtube vids from my iPad and iPhone to my XBMC boxes so I can see it on a bigger screen. Video is pretty important! I wish someone would do the desktop part for Linux now too just to complete things...
I run Airplay on two stereo receivers and 3+ different XBMC boxes. I'll admit I've not bothered to put an Android implementation on my toy tablet but I guess I'll try it out. Airplay works great from both iPad and iPhone here though - to Linux\XBMC and to my Yamaha receivers.
Umm not so much. I run multiple XBMC boxes and multiple friends of mine do as well. With the advent of cheap boxes like the Pivos it's cake to setup a dedicated XBMC box to stream all sorts of stuff. Adding in a Plex client allows them to stream from friend's Plex servers too. While XBMC may not dominate the average couch potato's home XBMC is pretty popular.
BTW that Roku box will also run a Plex client if you want to spend even less than a Pivos costs ($99).
That was the top hit, I'm sure if you can figure out Google you will find more. Once Apple's Airplay keys leaked a bunch of apps were built for Linux and obviously Android too. the XBMC community talked about this awhile ago when XBMC implemented Airplay but having an IOS device I've never had to worry about it except when Apple has stupidly tried to interfere with the compatibility - that never lasts long:-)
Well, when I was 18 18 YO women were hot! Same at 25, 30, 30+ 30++..... The main difference is as I got older I realized that at 18 those women were girls and had their heads up their ass. Maybe pretty to look at but inexperienced in life and love. While I might still find them attractive to look at I now look at older women for their maturity.
Oggling young good looking women at any kind of trade show to me seems silly but I guess it sells. Honestly nothing drives me nuts more than going to one of these things, bumping into a hot sales rep, asking a question about the product, and finding out that they don't know anything about it. That is NOT always the case but it's not the case seldom enough that it's a pleasant surprise. I know women that worked these things as pretty faces for their company, generally the work sucks and they travel alot with bosses that try to keep them drunk after hours. So long as the pretty girls get the guys to come over and check out what it is their selling it's not going to change....
The problem with that are the people who think it's disgusting not the women that make the choice to do it. If a woman wishes to be a prostitute or show off her body for a camera who am I to to judge? I may like or not like her choice but i won't judge her and I might even be interested in talking to her about her experiences and choices. Why is a whore a bad thing exactly? Don't like it, don't partake. How hard was that?
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Rain-X isn't wax although it does appear to close up the pores of glass and shed water VERY well until it begins to wear. No wax I've ever seen is carried by an alcohol base. ;-)
There are similar fluids for water to improve heat dissipation by breaking down surface tension. You use one in your dishwasher most likely and it's supposed to reduce water spots by making the water shed off. In the automotive world there's Water Wetter from Redline and now some others. It's benefits are controversial but in my personal testing I did see a reduction in the temps of my car and I use it in my computer cooling system. It has the added benefit of not allowing algae to grow and if I spring a leak (my rad has a pinhole) this stuff turns waxy as the water evaps from it and seals the leak.
I too saw the ad for this latest closed circuit cooling system and wondered WTF was in it. I have pondered using other chemicals in my cooling system to try and get temps to fall but putting something like alcohol, which is flammable and corrosive, in there seemed stupid. If these guys have found something better than purified water and Water Wetter I'd like to know what it is. Frankly I think they're full of it but am waiting to see some tests done...
My point is that SSL encrypts in transit not at rest. While sniffing the traffic and breaking the SSL is likely hard, if done right and new breaks notwithstanding, but when the code lands on the mail server it won't be STORED encrypted. At that point one need only break into the server and dump the data unencrypted back to the mothership. SSL will have done nothing but made it harder to sniff the traffic. She seems to allow for the idea they may and could break in and seems to think the SSL provides some protection against this - I'm baffled.
This woman said "... Of course the NSA could still break in if they wanted to, but the mass encryption of emails would make it harder and more expensive for them to do so." and she was referring to their plan to use SSL transport encryption.
Her comment makes NO sense and this is what I was trying to point out, I didn't think I'd have to explain it to this level. She seems to think that because they've used SSL in transport that someone breaking into the server is going to be faced with a crypto problem because of it - they won't. If that's truly what she thought and she was quoted accurately then I'm shocked that she claims any sort of knowledge about cryptography. Transport crypto does nothing at all for STORAGE. If all a bank ever did was rely on SSL then someone breaking into their website would have a field day with the unencrypted access to the data!
P.S. What web mail based email service DOESN'T use SSL transport? If they were allowing their customer's email to go over the wire unencrypted prior to this then I'm, again, in shock!
SSL is a transport crypto, if they "break in" the data is still stored in clear text on the servers. This was a crypto professor?? Wow...
They're saying that they wish to stop having to WALK up to each door and deliver mail. If you live in a house you might be forced to walk to the curb where it was delivered by a guy in a mail jeep - which is how it's done in my neighborhood and most around me. It's the walking part that slows them to a crawl! Central boxes are also a good idea but I don't see them pushing for that and are instead saying they want to stop the walking wherever possible...
Yeah but check out the company they appear to be working with - a "spin out of Intellectual Ventures". The description of which sounds VERY trollish to me and indeed IV has been named that so...
"Director of innovation Latkowski declined to say whether or not TerraPower has filed any MSR patents. In addition to running innovation and related partnerships, Latkowski also “oversees the development, maintenance and protection of TerraPower’s intellectual property portfolio” according to his company bio. TerraPower is a spin out of Intellectual Ventures, an innovation and venture capital firm that makes a business out of patents and is known as a keen collector and protector of intellectual property. It is headed by Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft chief strategist and technology officer who serves as TerraPower’s vice chairman."
Keen collector and protector of IP? Really? I'm sorry but red flags all over the place on that one :-(
I was caught in about the 5th grade for the same thing - teachers recommended it and I still have the test results. I did a secondary test as well and I still remember being asked why it would be advantageous for a mouse to have more than one hole to run to - seemed like a crazy question! Nowadays the tests aren't so broad and teachers are pretty well beaten up, it's truly sad...
Legos I never had but tinker toys, erector sets, and holy smokes those 150n1 electronic kits from Radio Shack! the Erectors i didn't like so much due to sharp edges but I was all over Tinker Toys - which are now plastic crap. I agree that such toys should be required and I would also agree that FPS help creativity and spatial reasoning. Kids who can visualize and find their way around a map like we had with Quake or Wolfenstein should be paid attention to!
My fave was taking apart the carb on the family car. It was our second car so no biggie - except the primary was in the shop. I put the silly thing back together wrong and the car would only run for a few seconds before dying. I stayed up quite late tinkering with it until I finally tore it down far enough to visualize how it worked and figure out I'd been putting a part in wrong. My parents were pretty relieved and quite surprised when I found this and the car fired right up just fine. I find that doing mechanical things is a great deal of fun and tuning cars - their computers - is even more fun. Optimizing a system to make the most power is a blast! I didn't choose that as a career though as I quickly learned early on that leaning over a car all day was hell on my back and I ended up in the computer field for a job. My mother used to tell me that as a child they had to be careful because if I got hold of a screwdriver anything below knee height would be disassembled. I can even recall doing some of that just to see how things worked although it wasn't until later I could reassemble them :-) Numbers were my bane, reading always my friend and now computers too.
I don't think traits are innate but I do think that some learn in some areas more quickly than others. My ability to visualize isn't something that can be taught in my opinion and I have an ability to figure out faults more quickly than many others. I think the latter can be taught as a skill but not everyone gets it nearly as well so there's talent there too. Certainly i think there are geniuses that aren't found due to lack of education or spotting them - I did very poorly in school simply because I was bored, in other situations I might have simply been failed and passed over. I got lucky I think but could still have done better
When I was in school we got tested for mechanical and spatial reasoning skills as well as math, reading, blah blah. I scored over 90th percentile in mechanical and spatial reasoning and also pegged reading comprehension. Math? I was below middle of the pack, like 45% percentile. Math just never made sense to me but given the chance to work on something mechanical I'm all over it and can often figure out how something works or how ro assemble it just by looking at the pieces. Computers, likewise, are something I can envision. I can be given a set of requirements for a program and be able to tell where there will be issues that need to be worked out before the program is built. I tend to think outside the box is all. i could see myself inventing something but I sure as heck don't see myself doing anything math related, it just doesn't click :(
When is that collection of cells a thinking child?
When does life begin? First breath? First cell division? 1 week? 12 weeks? 24 weeks? I'm telling you I leave it up to the woman and yeah her Dr., Dad may have some input too but IMO her desires may trump his. I refuse to feel as if I should try and step in and force my beliefs on someone else which IS what "pro-life" advocates try to do and it's disgusting.
So no, I won't stop someone from doing what they feel is best with their body. You can't tell me when life begins because you don't know and it isn't definitive. This isn't black or white and no matter what law you pass someone will feel differently. Give women a choice, it's their body, and if you don't agree with their choice then make a baby of your own or better yet figure out how to carry it yourself if you're male. Don't push your beliefs and baggage on others....
As a side note - I always find it stunning that so many MEN seem to be in the room making these laws that effect woman!
P.S. Have some balls and post as something other than AC.
No, I'm leaving it up to the person who's body will be stressed and abused for 9+ months to make up their own mind what it is they wish to occur. How they became pregnant is none of my business but the choice should be an informed one and certainly adoption is an option to be considered. But I won't make the choice for them and you can try to frame that however you want and use whatever charged terms I think I'm being pretty clear. I, particularly as a male, have no business forcing another into a path that may be detrimental to them simply because of my own beliefs. I am also intelligent enough to recognize that trying to bar this practice simply will not work anymore than the "war on drugs" or prohibition laws stopped those behaviors in the past. In fact in the past this country didn't allow for abortion either and it didn't end well. Will we be charging women who choose extralegal means with jail time? Boy that will sure set an example won't it....
I've not heard anyone utter the term "anti-choice" until you used it but Google finds it in a few places. Really that's a pretty accurate description though wouldn't you say? Taking away a woman's right to choose? Those who desire the right to choose don't advocate abortions or push them on anyone so your use of anti-life is flawed badly. Allowing someone to choose for themselves is what pro-choice folks seek but no one I know who advocates this wants some sort of mandatory abortion program which your term would seem to support.
If you're claiming to be confused by the term pro-choice then you're being disingenuous. If we must follow that line of reasoning then yeah, I want people to be able to choose their choice of phone OS, vegetables, car they drive, and color of clothes. I do not seek to regulate or push onto others ideas anymore than I accept them trying to push their ideals onto me. Be it guns, religion, or abortion I support choices.
BTW, where exactly is abortion mandatory? Certainly not in the United States which seems to have the largest contingent of rabid "right to life" folks. Seriously, where is this a law?
P.S. I've never met anyone "pro abortion". You can stretch this to abusive partners and parents all you want but frankly banning an entire gender from controlling what they do with their bodies simply because laws preventing abuse aren't being properly enforced or aren't strong enough seems silly. If you really think that banning abortion would stop these folks then a bit of reading on your part is in order -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-induced_abortion
Meh, I'm fine with the term "pro-life" although I suspect some would have issue with when exactly "life" of a human and self awareness begins. I understand that some people are rabid that life should be protected no matter what and am okay with it - so long as they're not pushing these views onto others. If a woman decides to have a medical procedure it's not my business to tell them not to. I will admit to being uncomfortable with late term procedures but I'm not going to advocate barring them. Anti-life however is a term that actively advocates killing rather than choice and I don't agree with it, it paints an incomplete picture to say the least. We can likely agree that no term is neutral nor is it desired when we have the press looking to stir any controversy they can to bump revenue....
Sorry, you've completely lost me as I see nothing to connect pimps with those who feel women should have a choice concerning pregnancy. Wake me when the folks who want right to choose force woman to do anything.
Well said and a good counterpoint.
Anti-Life? Seriously?! Could you use a more charged term? Try Pro-Choice. Just because someone believes in the right to choose doesn't mean they will use it and they certainly don't try to force it on others unlike the group trying to ban abortion.
Is there something about the term "open standard" that you don't understand? Licensing technology does NOT make it open. Publishing, openly, how something works and the data is formatted to interoperate would be making it "open"....
No, sorry it's not open. It uses encryption and the only reason why some of the features work on Linux or elsewhere is because the crypto key was found in a firmware update. That is why when some IOS updates have come out Shairport etc. has gotten broken on Linux, Apple changed the keys. Once the new keys are figured out support resumes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPlay
Umm, video? I use it to stream Youtube vids from my iPad and iPhone to my XBMC boxes so I can see it on a bigger screen. Video is pretty important! I wish someone would do the desktop part for Linux now too just to complete things...
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/android-apps/18049/best-airplay-apps-android
guess that means they all can?
I run Airplay on two stereo receivers and 3+ different XBMC boxes. I'll admit I've not bothered to put an Android implementation on my toy tablet but I guess I'll try it out. Airplay works great from both iPad and iPhone here though - to Linux\XBMC and to my Yamaha receivers.
Umm not so much. I run multiple XBMC boxes and multiple friends of mine do as well. With the advent of cheap boxes like the Pivos it's cake to setup a dedicated XBMC box to stream all sorts of stuff. Adding in a Plex client allows them to stream from friend's Plex servers too. While XBMC may not dominate the average couch potato's home XBMC is pretty popular.
BTW that Roku box will also run a Plex client if you want to spend even less than a Pivos costs ($99).
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/android-apps/18049/best-airplay-apps-android
That was the top hit, I'm sure if you can figure out Google you will find more. Once Apple's Airplay keys leaked a bunch of apps were built for Linux and obviously Android too. the XBMC community talked about this awhile ago when XBMC implemented Airplay but having an IOS device I've never had to worry about it except when Apple has stupidly tried to interfere with the compatibility - that never lasts long :-)
Well, when I was 18 18 YO women were hot! Same at 25, 30, 30+ 30++..... The main difference is as I got older I realized that at 18 those women were girls and had their heads up their ass. Maybe pretty to look at but inexperienced in life and love. While I might still find them attractive to look at I now look at older women for their maturity.
Oggling young good looking women at any kind of trade show to me seems silly but I guess it sells. Honestly nothing drives me nuts more than going to one of these things, bumping into a hot sales rep, asking a question about the product, and finding out that they don't know anything about it. That is NOT always the case but it's not the case seldom enough that it's a pleasant surprise. I know women that worked these things as pretty faces for their company, generally the work sucks and they travel alot with bosses that try to keep them drunk after hours. So long as the pretty girls get the guys to come over and check out what it is their selling it's not going to change....
The problem with that are the people who think it's disgusting not the women that make the choice to do it. If a woman wishes to be a prostitute or show off her body for a camera who am I to to judge? I may like or not like her choice but i won't judge her and I might even be interested in talking to her about her experiences and choices. Why is a whore a bad thing exactly? Don't like it, don't partake. How hard was that?