Most drivers I know in Chicago willfully place such devices in their windshields for paying tolls. I know they aren't GPS yet, but probably future versions will be and people will use them and sign away on whatever forms in the name of connivence.
You know new cars are mandated to have wireless tire pressure monitoring systems from the factory, right? And each tire has a globally-unique MAC?
It's to save the planet, you know, not so they can keep tabs on all cars moving past discreetly-placed antennas.
Understood. I get this from a friend who likes to kill turkeys. He says the feathers really cause bounce, even with a 12 gauge slug. I prefer the immediate satisfaction of a bull's eye target myself.
I went to a talk by one of their founders last year. The company philosophy is that they day their business is obsolete will be a great day for humanity.
So its for-profit work for the biggest advertising firm in the world. Sort of expected project gutenberg or something.
Google's digitizing hundreds of thousands of historic books from some of the great university libraries. What's the problem here, that they won't lose money on the effort?
The NYT archive has been done for at least a year, it made reCAPTCHA a feasible company.
I recently guest-taught a class at the local high school for kids who might be interested in computers.
It was a bit rushed, but in 45 minutes I taught them basic binary counting and how to do XOR. They learned how to flip pennies to create a one-time-pad and transmit unbreakable encrypted messages. The bell rang just after they started decoding, but they walked out of the class still working the logic on their sheet of paper, so I think they were into it. CS can be fun as long as theory is only a tool to enable an application.
Materials: whiteboard, scraps of paper, a handful of pennies.
The problem is Mork. It's a stupid old database that Mozilla products are saddled with. When you have a big one, the whole damn thing needs to be loaded into memory to be parsed. Big folder? Bam, there goes a hundred megs of RAM. Swap if needed.
Replacing Mork with sqlite started a long time ago, has achieved limited success in some Mozilla products, and has been effectively abandoned in Thunderbird.
All this burns tremendously more computing resources than are really needed. Why does Mozilla hate the environment?
It does not cover bankruptcy at all, even indirectly.
Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 4. Which doesn't specify that all bankruptcies are to be in Federal court, just that the Congress may specify uniform treatment.
To summarize: WiMAX in very limited areas, or 5GB capp'ed 3G elsewhere.
'Unlimited' is unlimited unless they decide otherwise, then they might unilaterally cancel your account. There's no way to predict what kind of traffic may lead to such cancellation.
It's a shame, most of their terms are quite reasonable up to the point where they cancel you instead of just traffic shaping you - that's the "less profitable customers will be eliminated" clause.
And, yeah, the Apple thing looks like total marketing BS.
Excessive Utilization of Network Resources.... if excessive use is ongoing or recurring and repeatedly having negative effects on other subscribers of the Service, Clearwire reserves the right to immediately restrict, suspend or terminate your Service without further notice in order to protect the network and minimize congestion caused by the excessive use. While the determination of what constitutes excessive use depends on the specific state of the network at any given time, excessive use is determined by resource consumption relative to that of a typical individual user of the Service and not by the use of any particular application.
Unlimited Use Plans. If you subscribe to a service plan that does not impose limits on the amount of data you may download or upload during a month, you should be aware that such "unlimited" plans are nevertheless subject to the provisions of this AUP. What this means is that all of the provisions described in this AUP, including those that describe how Clearwire may perform reasonable network management such as reducing the data rate of bandwidth intensive users during periods of congestion, will apply to your use of the Service. The term "unlimited" means that we will not place a limit on how much data you upload or download during a month or other particular period, however, it does not mean that we will not take steps to reduce your data rate during periods of congestion or take other actions described in this AUP when your usage is negatively impacting other subscribers to our Service.
Also, I can get a CLEAR "Apple device" wifi hotspot for $25/month to month. They say it only works with Apple devices, but I'm fairly certain they're not using the MAC address to determine if the device can connect or not.
And if you're really looking for the best possible mult-threaded performance -- which is the only reason for buying a 6-core CPU -- why would you settle for second best?
I just got a box from NewEgg today with the first AMD chip I've bought in a decade. 12 core CPU + motherboard for a thousand bucks, 80W typical, 115W TDP with hw virt.
Seriously, make the perversion jokes if you must, but I don't think most Americans have any idea what's even being discussed here.
The TSA should allow a small sample, say 5 each male and female, various ages, of un-filtered un-redacted (but anonymous) full-resolution images available for a trusted third party to post on their website. It could be a newspaper, a travel mag, Consumer Reports, whatever, but an unbiased supervisor needs to be responsible for the authenticity.
There's not even enough information available here to have an informed debate, just a few down-sampled 'privacy filtered' press images.
Indeed. People looking for the "Libertarian Utopia" should be casting their eyes towards Africa. There, you can watch the results of "I've got mine, fuck the rest of you" as they develop.
You seem to be erroneously conflating society and government. They're different, and behave independently unless violence is used to force the issue.
That sounds like either you're being ripped off by your suppliers on the good stuff or you have access to cheaper cheap stuff than here in the UK. Every self-build system I've put together in the past decade had a 25-50% premium over what I could have ordered on-line from a large-scale manufacturer, but I don't think any were any worse than that (and they were all cheaper than what I could have bought off the shelf from the local PC World or similar retail outlets).
By 'similar sounding', I mean to the lay person. If Brand_X is using a $30 motherboard, I'm probably going to use an $80-120 motherboard with real caps, by ASUS or SuperMicro. I'm going to put in the CPU with larger cache CPU with VT. The fans will all be whisper-quiet, the cooler will be very cool and I'll use thermal compound with real silver.
But a spec sheet may still say, "Core 2 Quad, 2.66GHz, 1.5GB", so it sounds similar to those not in the know.
They move the pins around so you need a special cable. Cisco used to have a product called the Gigastack that used a standard 6-pin Firewire cable, but no! Pins 1&2 were shorted in the "special" cables Cisco provided.
At least those will just fail to work. Dell used to reverse the pins on the AT power connector so that if you used an aftermarket power supply it would burn out your motherboard. DAMHINT.
No, you hold title 'in fee simple'. The King is the owner of the land. We substituted a government for a King, which may not have actually been an improvement.
What you're referring to is allodial title. That's real ownership and is exceedingly rare in the US. Go look up the terms on Wikipedia, their articles are pretty good.
why is it the self professed 'defenders of liberty' don't seem motivated enough to actually exercise their liberty and work to change the laws that they seem to detest so much?
I don't know about 'self-professed defenders', but people who actually care about liberty are moving to New Hampshire and some of the ones who have moved already are working with local groups like the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance to get those laws changed.
The results are good to date. As just one example, as of a few weeks ago there are no longer any illegal knives in New Hampshire. It's going to take a while to unwind 150+ years of bad law, but we're making progress.
When 20,000 more liberty lovers move en masse to propel the effort forward, it will get even better.
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It's not about lemonade, it's about power and authority.
Most drivers I know in Chicago willfully place such devices in their windshields for paying tolls. I know they aren't GPS yet, but probably future versions will be and people will use them and sign away on whatever forms in the name of connivence.
You know new cars are mandated to have wireless tire pressure monitoring systems from the factory, right? And each tire has a globally-unique MAC?
It's to save the planet, you know, not so they can keep tabs on all cars moving past discreetly-placed antennas.
Understood. I get this from a friend who likes to kill turkeys. He says the feathers really cause bounce, even with a 12 gauge slug. I prefer the immediate satisfaction of a bull's eye target myself.
Garand, eh? Not even an M14? :)
a 12-gauge shotgun. You can probably use the gun for other things, like killing noisy turkeys
Really you want a 10 for turkeys. Get a 20 for the house. A 12 is fine for shooting clays.
I went to a talk by one of their founders last year. The company philosophy is that they day their business is obsolete will be a great day for humanity.
That's pretty rare.
So its for-profit work for the biggest advertising firm in the world.
Sort of expected project gutenberg or something.
Google's digitizing hundreds of thousands of historic books from some of the great university libraries. What's the problem here, that they won't lose money on the effort?
The NYT archive has been done for at least a year, it made reCAPTCHA a feasible company.
I recently guest-taught a class at the local high school for kids who might be interested in computers.
It was a bit rushed, but in 45 minutes I taught them basic binary counting and how to do XOR. They learned how to flip pennies to create a one-time-pad and transmit unbreakable encrypted messages. The bell rang just after they started decoding, but they walked out of the class still working the logic on their sheet of paper, so I think they were into it. CS can be fun as long as theory is only a tool to enable an application.
Materials: whiteboard, scraps of paper, a handful of pennies.
"Belief in God" is quite different from "Belief in what the Church tells you."
Here's a two-thousand year old quote for you:
Churchill was a ruler.
The problem is Mork. It's a stupid old database that Mozilla products are saddled with. When you have a big one, the whole damn thing needs to be loaded into memory to be parsed. Big folder? Bam, there goes a hundred megs of RAM. Swap if needed.
Replacing Mork with sqlite started a long time ago, has achieved limited success in some Mozilla products, and has been effectively abandoned in Thunderbird.
All this burns tremendously more computing resources than are really needed. Why does Mozilla hate the environment?
It does not cover bankruptcy at all, even indirectly.
Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 4. Which doesn't specify that all bankruptcies are to be in Federal court, just that the Congress may specify uniform treatment.
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Thanks, very helpful.
To summarize: WiMAX in very limited areas, or 5GB capp'ed 3G elsewhere.
'Unlimited' is unlimited unless they decide otherwise, then they might unilaterally cancel your account. There's no way to predict what kind of traffic may lead to such cancellation.
It's a shame, most of their terms are quite reasonable up to the point where they cancel you instead of just traffic shaping you - that's the "less profitable customers will be eliminated" clause.
And, yeah, the Apple thing looks like total marketing BS.
Er, what ?
Humans are inherently altruistic. They engage in charity without coercion.
This "fuck you I've got mine" attitude may be true in Africa (I don't know, it was your example) but it's not true in Western Civilizations.
Also, I can get a CLEAR "Apple device" wifi hotspot for $25/month to month. They say it only works with Apple devices, but I'm fairly certain they're not using the MAC address to determine if the device can connect or not.
Could you elaborate on this a bit?
Eh, it's not really that tough to deal with
Not sure I want to live in a universe where we've invented FTL communication, it would get really, really confusing.
And if you're really looking for the best possible mult-threaded performance -- which is the only reason for buying a 6-core CPU -- why would you settle for second best?
I just got a box from NewEgg today with the first AMD chip I've bought in a decade. 12 core CPU + motherboard for a thousand bucks, 80W typical, 115W TDP with hw virt.
I'm expecting much rockage.
If you want to see why the US is headed toward total collapse, go look at the pictures on the "People of Wal-Mart" site.
Because people are different? That's a strength.
Oh, you mean a site dedicated to the ridicule of people who are different by folks riddled with OCD? Yeah, that's a concern.
While I'm a two-spacer, the medium in which we type is largely making this a moot point.
So true. I two-space unless I'm posting to Twitter.
Cripes, that's the basis of a free society.
Seriously, make the perversion jokes if you must, but I don't think most Americans have any idea what's even being discussed here.
The TSA should allow a small sample, say 5 each male and female, various ages, of un-filtered un-redacted (but anonymous) full-resolution images available for a trusted third party to post on their website. It could be a newspaper, a travel mag, Consumer Reports, whatever, but an unbiased supervisor needs to be responsible for the authenticity.
There's not even enough information available here to have an informed debate, just a few down-sampled 'privacy filtered' press images.
Wikileaks
Indeed. People looking for the "Libertarian Utopia" should be casting their eyes towards Africa. There, you can watch the results of "I've got mine, fuck the rest of you" as they develop.
You seem to be erroneously conflating society and government. They're different, and behave independently unless violence is used to force the issue.
That sounds like either you're being ripped off by your suppliers on the good stuff or you have access to cheaper cheap stuff than here in the UK. Every self-build system I've put together in the past decade had a 25-50% premium over what I could have ordered on-line from a large-scale manufacturer, but I don't think any were any worse than that (and they were all cheaper than what I could have bought off the shelf from the local PC World or similar retail outlets).
By 'similar sounding', I mean to the lay person. If Brand_X is using a $30 motherboard, I'm probably going to use an $80-120 motherboard with real caps, by ASUS or SuperMicro. I'm going to put in the CPU with larger cache CPU with VT. The fans will all be whisper-quiet, the cooler will be very cool and I'll use thermal compound with real silver.
But a spec sheet may still say, "Core 2 Quad, 2.66GHz, 1.5GB", so it sounds similar to those not in the know.
They move the pins around so you need a special cable. Cisco used to have a product called the Gigastack that used a standard 6-pin Firewire cable, but no! Pins 1&2 were shorted in the "special" cables Cisco provided.
At least those will just fail to work. Dell used to reverse the pins on the AT power connector so that if you used an aftermarket power supply it would burn out your motherboard. DAMHINT.
FACT: you own your land
No, you hold title 'in fee simple'. The King is the owner of the land. We substituted a government for a King, which may not have actually been an improvement.
What you're referring to is allodial title. That's real ownership and is exceedingly rare in the US. Go look up the terms on Wikipedia, their articles are pretty good.
why is it the self professed 'defenders of liberty' don't seem motivated enough to actually exercise their liberty and work to change the laws that they seem to detest so much?
I don't know about 'self-professed defenders', but people who actually care about liberty are moving to New Hampshire and some of the ones who have moved already are working with local groups like the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance to get those laws changed.
The results are good to date. As just one example, as of a few weeks ago there are no longer any illegal knives in New Hampshire. It's going to take a while to unwind 150+ years of bad law, but we're making progress.
When 20,000 more liberty lovers move en masse to propel the effort forward, it will get even better.