Brazil, proofs produced by illegal means cannot be used
Same in America, and usually, that is how it works.
For a couple hundred pages of citations to the contrary, please read Constitutional Chaos. A bunch of under $10 used copies there, it's a very well-done book that every US citizen should understand before hitting the voting booth.
The undersea environment is even more hostile than outer space. Both merit building superb robot systems to work where man can't or shouldn't venture.
The notable difference being in space you have no choice. Here, BP could have drilled for oil in 300' of water. Ignoring regulatory restrictions, obviously, but that's just a different kind of engineering failure.
Seeing people attack straw men is annoying after the millionth time.
Can we please just stick to arguing the unprovable question about whether all these breakthroughs with coerced non-embryonic stem cells would have happened if Bush hadn't enacted the Federal funding ban?
(though to be fair, those who argued that all useful stem cell research would go overseas were clearly wrong)
Besides, what are they supposed to do if there are malicious applications on Android Market? Pull them and leave affected users with crap on their devices?
I was expecting to be miffed at Google based on the article title, but now I find them behaving as a benevolent dictator. It's just a phone, so maybe I'm OK with that.
the rapid phase transitions used by quadrature amplitude modulation
ah, good point. I wonder who's done research into modulations that can survive better. Maybe some FEC in the data stream (if it could exceed 300bps, say)?
I remember using acoustical modems back in 1974 and they weren't that new back then
I've actually considered seeing if I could get a v.32 in-software stack to communicate over the bluetooth headset/microphone protocol so I could do very basic data networking over a cell phone without a data plan. Like ssh.
I came to my senses, but I kinda still want to try it anyway.
Then you have iTunes, Amazon, etc with music, I've never seen anything for $0.05.
Actually, I don't think I've seen anything for sale for $0.05 in some time, on the net or in physical form. Even eBay sets a minimum at $0.99.
But that begs the question. The reason they have to sell songs for $0.99 is that there's no effective micropayment system. A 6 cent song with a 35 cent processing fee? Of course, the *AA's want their cut, so it's not quite that simple, and they are acting as aggregator which is counter to the micropayment model.
Stores can't sell five cent merchandise due to labor and real estate costs. Maybe in the candy jar, but it's totally feasible when the store minder is a.jar.
You're making a good argument for discretionary payments below the threshold of decision. 99 cents for a bottle of Coke or an iTunes download (or food for a day for a starving child in a third-world country).
Newpapers are often under a buck (or closer to a buck these days) so people will just pick them up. You get a few dozen stories for that buck, and each author effectively receives a fraction of a microcent for each paper published with his article. The trick with micropayments is selling each article for a nickel instead and cutting out the middle-man. The author probably get a whole two cents per read, which is huge, in scale.
I think this will ultimately encourage better journalism since you can get more experts interested in writing with better returns.
Unfortunately, in the US, if a payment system is beginning to look feasible, the General Government swoops in and crushes or corrupts it (PayPal, eGold, etc.) Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover continue to benefit from such policies.
"It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state."
What, like strong cryptography?
I agree in general, but decisions have to be made as to each technology's likely application. Strong cryptography can be used to keep secrets from the people (ala Collateral Murder) but it can just as readily be used to thwart a police state (ala Tor). So, we'll give Bruce a pass on that one.
I dropped a potentially lucrative project in the 90's which was aimed at network and financial transaction security, but ultimately could have been used to ferret out those who need anonymity. It wasn't especially brilliant, but it hasn't been widely deployed yet either. Does the engineering culture provide some societal protection against bad technologies?
I do worry about IPv6 putting an end to Internet anonymity.
I think this tells us something about the internet as an informational medium. Old news, but how many of us heard of it for the first time today? I know I never saw the 2008 posting, nor would I have frequented whatever site that link is from. Makes you wonder how many things, neat or otherwise, are simply lost to a digital wasteland.
Hey, now, around here you're supposed to get viscerally angry when a non-optimal event occurs. Check that introspective, mellow attitude at the door, mister!
If there's any 'real' value of the Dow, it's that it tends to cycle converging and diverging from the price of an ounce of gold, over very long periods.
Some say the Dow may be 1:1 with an ounce of gold soon, but it's impossible to predict where that will happen. Could be at $4300, could be at $22000, depends on how fast the currency is inflated.
Well, one thing, this could be Intel cheating Nokia after Nokia cheated Intel porting MeeGo to ARM processors (or so it seems, from what I read somewhere.)
Cheated? Somebody expected them to abandon their nxx0 users and hardware on Maemo?
Here in Canada that translates to a rusty fork, vinegar and baking soda, and not saying 'please'.
Ya gotta be careful, those Canadian hosers are crafty. Once, a Canadian got my dead battery goin' by mixin' bird feces and spit, cause there's like acids in it.
Look at what you've gone and done - ruined a whole bunch of posts about how n900 owners are lilly white and don't make compromises to evil corporations.
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So far nobody's been able to invent a slope that's 'just slippery enough'. Look around.
but the few assholes who want to hurt others for personal gain make it necessary to do so
Necessary? Could they really do more damage than the status quo?
Same in America, and usually, that is how it works.
For a couple hundred pages of citations to the contrary, please read Constitutional Chaos. A bunch of under $10 used copies there, it's a very well-done book that every US citizen should understand before hitting the voting booth.
and then under threat of water boarding, hand out the duress password.
But what about the third password they want? What do you do then?
Turtles.
If waterboarding is not torture, then you are willing, I presume, to undergo it for two or three days? If not, fuck you.
Anything specific for three days is torture. Bad test.
Require relief wells to be in place before production begins on future wells.
This was still an exploration well - Deepwater Horizon was a special-purpose rig incapable of (and too expensive for) production use.
I want to know why they're not intercepting the primary well with a relief well a few hundred feet below the surface.
BP is a band of complete villains.
check.
putting the same cast of characters who crashed the economy back in charge of the economy.
check.
Fuck these guys.
check.
He who has the oil makes the rules, dude. Perhaps you're confusing this with a free society.
sneaking pork sandwiches
Dude, pork is meat that fries in its own fat. You can't hold that against anybody, even hypocrites.
I've never seen it specified that there were 72 female virgins awaiting the martyr.
They said he was a spy. Perhaps they were just sending a message to his grandfather, a tribal leader.
Any moral relativist who wants to defend this can choke on a stick and die, for all I care.
The undersea environment is even more hostile than outer space. Both merit building superb robot systems to work where man can't or shouldn't venture.
The notable difference being in space you have no choice. Here, BP could have drilled for oil in 300' of water. Ignoring regulatory restrictions, obviously, but that's just a different kind of engineering failure.
Seeing people attack straw men is annoying after the millionth time.
Can we please just stick to arguing the unprovable question about whether all these breakthroughs with coerced non-embryonic stem cells would have happened if Bush hadn't enacted the Federal funding ban?
(though to be fair, those who argued that all useful stem cell research would go overseas were clearly wrong)
QNC.
Gold mine. Thanks for setting me off in the right direction.
Basically it looks like we don't need any higher resolution than what the iPhone and others have achieved, anything more would be pointless.
A 23" panel made with this kind of technology wouldn't be pointless, though! WANT.
Besides, what are they supposed to do if there are malicious applications on Android Market? Pull them and leave affected users with crap on their devices?
I was expecting to be miffed at Google based on the article title, but now I find them behaving as a benevolent dictator. It's just a phone, so maybe I'm OK with that.
the rapid phase transitions used by quadrature amplitude modulation
ah, good point. I wonder who's done research into modulations that can survive better. Maybe some FEC in the data stream (if it could exceed 300bps, say)?
I remember using acoustical modems back in 1974 and they weren't that new back then
I've actually considered seeing if I could get a v.32 in-software stack to communicate over the bluetooth headset/microphone protocol so I could do very basic data networking over a cell phone without a data plan. Like ssh.
I came to my senses, but I kinda still want to try it anyway.
it's a dangling conical fleshy lobe
in other words, the uvula is a cervix, in the back of the mouth
Um, no, that's not what a cervix is.
Then you have iTunes, Amazon, etc with music, I've never seen anything for $0.05.
Actually, I don't think I've seen anything for sale for $0.05 in some time, on the net or in physical form. Even eBay sets a minimum at $0.99.
But that begs the question. The reason they have to sell songs for $0.99 is that there's no effective micropayment system. A 6 cent song with a 35 cent processing fee? Of course, the *AA's want their cut, so it's not quite that simple, and they are acting as aggregator which is counter to the micropayment model.
Stores can't sell five cent merchandise due to labor and real estate costs. Maybe in the candy jar, but it's totally feasible when the store minder is a .jar.
You're making a good argument for discretionary payments below the threshold of decision. 99 cents for a bottle of Coke or an iTunes download (or food for a day for a starving child in a third-world country).
Newpapers are often under a buck (or closer to a buck these days) so people will just pick them up. You get a few dozen stories for that buck, and each author effectively receives a fraction of a microcent for each paper published with his article. The trick with micropayments is selling each article for a nickel instead and cutting out the middle-man. The author probably get a whole two cents per read, which is huge, in scale.
I think this will ultimately encourage better journalism since you can get more experts interested in writing with better returns.
Unfortunately, in the US, if a payment system is beginning to look feasible, the General Government swoops in and crushes or corrupts it (PayPal, eGold, etc.) Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover continue to benefit from such policies.
"It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state."
What, like strong cryptography?
I agree in general, but decisions have to be made as to each technology's likely application. Strong cryptography can be used to keep secrets from the people (ala Collateral Murder) but it can just as readily be used to thwart a police state (ala Tor). So, we'll give Bruce a pass on that one.
I dropped a potentially lucrative project in the 90's which was aimed at network and financial transaction security, but ultimately could have been used to ferret out those who need anonymity. It wasn't especially brilliant, but it hasn't been widely deployed yet either. Does the engineering culture provide some societal protection against bad technologies?
I do worry about IPv6 putting an end to Internet anonymity.
I think this tells us something about the internet as an informational medium. Old news, but how many of us heard of it for the first time today? I know I never saw the 2008 posting, nor would I have frequented whatever site that link is from. Makes you wonder how many things, neat or otherwise, are simply lost to a digital wasteland.
Hey, now, around here you're supposed to get viscerally angry when a non-optimal event occurs. Check that introspective, mellow attitude at the door, mister!
Exactly right.
If there's any 'real' value of the Dow, it's that it tends to cycle converging and diverging from the price of an ounce of gold, over very long periods.
Some say the Dow may be 1:1 with an ounce of gold soon, but it's impossible to predict where that will happen. Could be at $4300, could be at $22000, depends on how fast the currency is inflated.
Well, one thing, this could be Intel cheating Nokia after Nokia cheated Intel porting MeeGo to ARM processors (or so it seems, from what I read somewhere.)
Cheated? Somebody expected them to abandon their nxx0 users and hardware on Maemo?
Here in Canada that translates to a rusty fork, vinegar and baking soda, and not saying 'please'.
Ya gotta be careful, those Canadian hosers are crafty. Once, a Canadian got my dead battery goin' by mixin' bird feces and spit, cause there's like acids in it.
Look at what you've gone and done - ruined a whole bunch of posts about how n900 owners are lilly white and don't make compromises to evil corporations.
I hope you're happy.
That doesn't really make a lot of sense as a comparison. There's no way to get power to the Americas.
Perhaps I was unclear - the reference to New Mexico was a size comparison, not a routing plan.
Like you said, closer deserts.