Yep, grandfather poster from me was an idiot. Triangulation is built into the core technologies - GSM, CDMA, etc. - in order to not flood the spectrum and allow more concurrent bandwidth use (or at least, that's my understanding).
That makes sense on the surface, but it's not the whole picture.
There was a movie (book?) a while ago - I don't recall which one, but it's a common theme - where there nations were mere tokens of existance, if they existed at all, and all loyalty was to the corporation. In essence, the world was ruled by monopolies of every asset of one's life, and any disloyalty to your corporation's brand (say, if you work for the corp that owns Pepsi and you're found drinking a Coke), it's seen as high treason, and a crime worthy of edecution.
That's essentially where we're headed. The basic mentality is alive, well, and growing. For a corporation to sell the product of their perceived enemy, it's seen as a traitorous act.
Which brings us to the Yahoo!/Microsoft merger. I wouldn't be surprised if large corporations started "branching out" and getting into other industries; Micosoft purchases Ford (or vice versa? I'm not sure wich is worth more), GE purchases Sony. Etc. Consolidations and hostile takeovers until there's precious few people on the planet who work within 20 management levels of the boss.
In 6 months to a year, we'll start seeing Linux distributions shipping with a "true relational storage paradigm" extension to ext3 or a plugin for reiserfs as a install-time option.
Doesn't this topic violate the DMCA? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall people being prosecuted on disclosing similar "exploitation" information before.
It's pretty much the same kind of abuse we receive from the Islamic countries on the "politically correct" terms. No, no, you can't say this is the fault of Islam, just extremists!
They're all just exploiting our laws and the weaknesses of our culture for their own gain.
That's the problem with you gun nuts - you have absolutely no concept of tactics. You think that "Oo, I can shoot the other guy, I win!" The other guy is thinking "Oo, I can drop a bomb on the other guy, I win!" and HE is right.
He's only right if you miss him with your bullets.
You do realize that the majority of the people in Afgahnistan and Iraq fighting against the US and the current governments have horrible firearm handling abilities, right, and that the majority fo them probably hadn't handled a firearm before shooting at the US troops? There is a very, very small number of US casualties due to gunfire in Iraq - most of them from snipers - and the majority of "insurgent" deaths are caused by, that's right, US troop gunfire. Bullets are cheap, bombs are not. The only time bombs are used is when there is a known fortified position.
On the other hand, in a country such as the US where there is a very definite gun culture, and people shoot guns from a very young age, I don't think there'd be such an "issue".
Absolutely. (Just chiming in here a word of support, as I'm sure there are many leftists on this site who are historically ignorant and will not resist the voices in their heads telling them to drool and sputter absurdities at you.)
Before every recorded genocide in the past century, there has been a systematic collection of firearms from the populaces. Totalitarian governments universally have strong gun control, allowing guns only to the "police" and military.
(Now, the inverse isn't entirely true - there are some populaces where there is a high amount of civil liberties and strict gun control, but even here they are in a very strong minority, and most often ignored by otherwise law-abiding citizens, who acquire firearms to protect themselves against the crimes perpetrated with firearms. Argentina after the 2001 crash comes to mind...)
And, while it's true that a gun won't do much against a tank, tanks can't do much against snipers shooting politicians (at the local, precinct/state, and federal levels).
Americans must VIGILENTLY protect and excercise their democratic rights to keep the government honest. If it comes time to use guns, we're fucked.
And... you're an idiot. How can you "protect" something or "exercise rights" if it's made illegal to do so? Not by standing in front of the government's tanks. You'll get shot or arrested. Not by inciting riots in the capital - you'll get tear gassed (or worse). The government will keep passing increasingly (in our case) unConstitutional - and anti-Constitutional - laws, denigating the Constitution itself to the point where it doesn't raelly matter what the Constitution says; that's not what hte "law" says, and the law enforcement and government will enforce the law, first and foremost, allowing the interpretation of hte Constitution to lawyers and lawmakers (that wasn't always the way it wsa, but it's how we've been conditioned to think since the emergence of mass media). At this point, there's at least one - and in many cases several - laws on the books which essentially relegate our Constitution to a historical oddity and artifact.:(
But, I do agree with part of what you've said: yes, we might very well be fucked at this point. One person with a gun won't do much, and neither will 100. But, historically, it has only required 1% of the populace to be dissatisfied with the government enough to foment active rebellion for there to be a successful rebellion. There are about 280 million United States citizens. There are (at least) 235 million privately owned firearms (but probably quite a few more, as registration isn't mandatory). The number of guns has trippled in the last 30 years, with 42% of all households owning them, with about 1/4th the population owning all said arms. If there ever were the case where such rebellion were needed, there would be the means to do so.
News flash: most people's "digital needs" consist of checking their email daily to once a week. Meanwhile, cell phones have become, essentially, a societal necessity. People don't have "digital needs", and really don't want to have something that's got a dozen different features which they won't use (especially when there are additional service charges associated with them).
At the very least, people want the "bare bones" cell phones because most modern cell phones have too many features which are poorly designed which get in the way of using the damn phone as a phone. And, when cell phones are essentially designed to last no longer than a year (ie, they break under normal use after that much time), who wants to deal with that nonsense?
Oooor, instead of throwing money out the window into a huge fire, they could do something useful with the money - like stopping the influx of illegal aliens through the southern border.
You do realize that's why the hospitals are closing, right? They're required to provide healthcare to anyone who "needs" it - all the way from triage to birth to cancer treatment - regardless of whether or not the person can pay. Thus, illegals eat for free.
Either that, or you get a cryptic message. Say, "The system experienced an error and is unable to write the data" (paraphrased). Hello? This machine has 3 seperate hard drives, each divided into multiple seperate partitions. I am copying files over the network (large quantities) from multiple sources to multiple seperate partitions. Where did the error originate? Network layer? Local disk partition? Virtual memory? etc.
This technique seems pretty damn pointless to me, as you'll end up having a lot of hot water when it's done cooling, so you'd either need to remove heat from the water actively, or let it cool by adding it to a large resivoir and distributing the heat and increasing surface area. If the latter, then you're better off just using gravity-fed cooling, and allowing the warmer water to return 'upstream' anway... no need to introduce steam.
Actually, there are a couple more advantages of MD over CF or HD based MP3 players:
- The codecs are, I believe, lossless in an MD, and actually made for encoding professionally, not just as a nice afterthought. - The media is removeable, which is, again, great from a professional standpoint where you're still probably using casettes of some kind for your video. - The battery life is better (from what I've seen).
Well, I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property.... That SCO group, was it? And if not, I'm sure we can find someone to pretend to be an expert and falsify information like we paid SCO, er, *head explodes*
And it's not like every slashdotter that's been to college in the last, oh, 5 or 6 years didn't think, "Damn, those poor kids... they can't fuck around with solitaire while in class!"
Weapons - mainly to countries in Europe, Japan, Australia, and other "western" countries - are the largest export from the United States. Mainly in the form of things like munitions and expensive multi-billion dollar airplanes and ships, but small arms are also in that factor.
It would be both economically and militarily unwise to do otherwise, that's what kind of BS it is.
And yet, they won't be worth a damn bit more than a Mig-17 or similar antiquated piece of junk given the training required. The big expense on all planes isn't so much the up front cost, but the individual pilot training and flight costs - much of which can be marginally deferred with flight simulators.
USAAF is still #1 on the global scene, and will be for quite some time... though Israel is #1 on a pilot-to-pilot basis. Russia isn't even in the running anymore.
Eh, actually, if we actually managed to get into space with the capacity to efficiently mine asteroids, there would be a significant increase in the demand for metals. There would likely need to be fairly extensive permanent or semi-permanent living structures in space due to the fuel cost of gravity well transversal, and then of course the machinery required to do all the mining. And, of course, there are other asteroids out there... so with the increase in demand there would be an increase in the use of metal for earthly construction instead of wood (which is, IMO, a good idea).
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Yep, grandfather poster from me was an idiot. Triangulation is built into the core technologies - GSM, CDMA, etc. - in order to not flood the spectrum and allow more concurrent bandwidth use (or at least, that's my understanding).
That makes sense on the surface, but it's not the whole picture.
There was a movie (book?) a while ago - I don't recall which one, but it's a common theme - where there nations were mere tokens of existance, if they existed at all, and all loyalty was to the corporation. In essence, the world was ruled by monopolies of every asset of one's life, and any disloyalty to your corporation's brand (say, if you work for the corp that owns Pepsi and you're found drinking a Coke), it's seen as high treason, and a crime worthy of edecution.
That's essentially where we're headed. The basic mentality is alive, well, and growing. For a corporation to sell the product of their perceived enemy, it's seen as a traitorous act.
Which brings us to the Yahoo!/Microsoft merger. I wouldn't be surprised if large corporations started "branching out" and getting into other industries; Micosoft purchases Ford (or vice versa? I'm not sure wich is worth more), GE purchases Sony. Etc. Consolidations and hostile takeovers until there's precious few people on the planet who work within 20 management levels of the boss.
No, not the end...
In 6 months to a year, we'll start seeing Linux distributions shipping with a "true relational storage paradigm" extension to ext3 or a plugin for reiserfs as a install-time option.
Why are we calling college students children? Why, why why?
Or, for that matter, high school students. They're young adults. Not children.
Doesn't this topic violate the DMCA? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall people being prosecuted on disclosing similar "exploitation" information before.
Well, I shoot people in the "face". But then, I was a hitman before I was a gamer, so...
(That's a joke, people.)
It's pretty much the same kind of abuse we receive from the Islamic countries on the "politically correct" terms. No, no, you can't say this is the fault of Islam, just extremists!
They're all just exploiting our laws and the weaknesses of our culture for their own gain.
He's only right if you miss him with your bullets.
You do realize that the majority of the people in Afgahnistan and Iraq fighting against the US and the current governments have horrible firearm handling abilities, right, and that the majority fo them probably hadn't handled a firearm before shooting at the US troops? There is a very, very small number of US casualties due to gunfire in Iraq - most of them from snipers - and the majority of "insurgent" deaths are caused by, that's right, US troop gunfire. Bullets are cheap, bombs are not. The only time bombs are used is when there is a known fortified position.
On the other hand, in a country such as the US where there is a very definite gun culture, and people shoot guns from a very young age, I don't think there'd be such an "issue".
Absolutely. (Just chiming in here a word of support, as I'm sure there are many leftists on this site who are historically ignorant and will not resist the voices in their heads telling them to drool and sputter absurdities at you.)
Before every recorded genocide in the past century, there has been a systematic collection of firearms from the populaces. Totalitarian governments universally have strong gun control, allowing guns only to the "police" and military.
(Now, the inverse isn't entirely true - there are some populaces where there is a high amount of civil liberties and strict gun control, but even here they are in a very strong minority, and most often ignored by otherwise law-abiding citizens, who acquire firearms to protect themselves against the crimes perpetrated with firearms. Argentina after the 2001 crash comes to mind...)
And, while it's true that a gun won't do much against a tank, tanks can't do much against snipers shooting politicians (at the local, precinct/state, and federal levels).
And... you're an idiot. How can you "protect" something or "exercise rights" if it's made illegal to do so? Not by standing in front of the government's tanks. You'll get shot or arrested. Not by inciting riots in the capital - you'll get tear gassed (or worse). The government will keep passing increasingly (in our case) unConstitutional - and anti-Constitutional - laws, denigating the Constitution itself to the point where it doesn't raelly matter what the Constitution says; that's not what hte "law" says, and the law enforcement and government will enforce the law, first and foremost, allowing the interpretation of hte Constitution to lawyers and lawmakers (that wasn't always the way it wsa, but it's how we've been conditioned to think since the emergence of mass media). At this point, there's at least one - and in many cases several - laws on the books which essentially relegate our Constitution to a historical oddity and artifact.
But, I do agree with part of what you've said: yes, we might very well be fucked at this point. One person with a gun won't do much, and neither will 100. But, historically, it has only required 1% of the populace to be dissatisfied with the government enough to foment active rebellion for there to be a successful rebellion. There are about 280 million United States citizens. There are (at least) 235 million privately owned firearms (but probably quite a few more, as registration isn't mandatory). The number of guns has trippled in the last 30 years, with 42% of all households owning them, with about 1/4th the population owning all said arms. If there ever were the case where such rebellion were needed, there would be the means to do so.
News flash: most people's "digital needs" consist of checking their email daily to once a week. Meanwhile, cell phones have become, essentially, a societal necessity. People don't have "digital needs", and really don't want to have something that's got a dozen different features which they won't use (especially when there are additional service charges associated with them).
At the very least, people want the "bare bones" cell phones because most modern cell phones have too many features which are poorly designed which get in the way of using the damn phone as a phone. And, when cell phones are essentially designed to last no longer than a year (ie, they break under normal use after that much time), who wants to deal with that nonsense?
Oooor, instead of throwing money out the window into a huge fire, they could do something useful with the money - like stopping the influx of illegal aliens through the southern border.
You do realize that's why the hospitals are closing, right? They're required to provide healthcare to anyone who "needs" it - all the way from triage to birth to cancer treatment - regardless of whether or not the person can pay. Thus, illegals eat for free.
Either that, or you get a cryptic message. Say, "The system experienced an error and is unable to write the data" (paraphrased). Hello? This machine has 3 seperate hard drives, each divided into multiple seperate partitions. I am copying files over the network (large quantities) from multiple sources to multiple seperate partitions. Where did the error originate? Network layer? Local disk partition? Virtual memory? etc.
This technique seems pretty damn pointless to me, as you'll end up having a lot of hot water when it's done cooling, so you'd either need to remove heat from the water actively, or let it cool by adding it to a large resivoir and distributing the heat and increasing surface area. If the latter, then you're better off just using gravity-fed cooling, and allowing the warmer water to return 'upstream' anway... no need to introduce steam.
Considering how liberal and fearful many of the slashdotters are, it's highly, highly doubtful that most own firearms.
Actually, there are a couple more advantages of MD over CF or HD based MP3 players:
- The codecs are, I believe, lossless in an MD, and actually made for encoding professionally, not just as a nice afterthought.
- The media is removeable, which is, again, great from a professional standpoint where you're still probably using casettes of some kind for your video.
- The battery life is better (from what I've seen).
As sick as this sounds, but it seems that Windows runs better under VMware with less memory than it does on actual hardware. I'm not really sure why.
F' the other 1.7%
I'm trying, I'm trying!
If you guys are lusting after some hot ass sex, why didn't you just say so. I'm sure there are plenty of people on here willing ot oblige.
Well, I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property. ... That SCO group, was it? And if not, I'm sure we can find someone to pretend to be an expert and falsify information like we paid SCO, er, *head explodes*
Precisely.
And it's not like every slashdotter that's been to college in the last, oh, 5 or 6 years didn't think, "Damn, those poor kids... they can't fuck around with solitaire while in class!"
"What kind of BS is that?"
Weapons - mainly to countries in Europe, Japan, Australia, and other "western" countries - are the largest export from the United States. Mainly in the form of things like munitions and expensive multi-billion dollar airplanes and ships, but small arms are also in that factor.
It would be both economically and militarily unwise to do otherwise, that's what kind of BS it is.
And yet, they won't be worth a damn bit more than a Mig-17 or similar antiquated piece of junk given the training required. The big expense on all planes isn't so much the up front cost, but the individual pilot training and flight costs - much of which can be marginally deferred with flight simulators.
USAAF is still #1 on the global scene, and will be for quite some time... though Israel is #1 on a pilot-to-pilot basis. Russia isn't even in the running anymore.
What he means to say instead of intelligence is "socially progressive and trendy". Or "college educated".
It's not very "intelligent" to self-eliminate yourself from the gene pool. Makes me wonder who the real "intelligent" people are.
Eh, actually, if we actually managed to get into space with the capacity to efficiently mine asteroids, there would be a significant increase in the demand for metals. There would likely need to be fairly extensive permanent or semi-permanent living structures in space due to the fuel cost of gravity well transversal, and then of course the machinery required to do all the mining. And, of course, there are other asteroids out there... so with the increase in demand there would be an increase in the use of metal for earthly construction instead of wood (which is, IMO, a good idea).