Yeah. Because one insane evil guy MUST mean that everybody with that religion is evil. Right?
He's not saying that he wants to kill Zuckerberg, he's saying that the law against blasphemy, which exists and specifies execution, should be applied against him.
Clearly:
one insane evil guy < this insane cabal < all Muslims.
Oh, I just had an old-guy moment and remembered people don't build sets anymore. OK, so hire a greenscreen stage for a few days and get a freelance digital set designer to work for you for a few months. No union crap to load down your production.
a standard 190 min movie only comes out to $273,600. Seems low
It can be done. One of my favorites this year was The Man From Earth. $200,000. Given that the film was ten minutes too long, maybe it could have been a bit cheaper.
Apparently good writing isn't that expensive, if one cares to engage in it.
That said, this film had very cheap locations. If you started having to build sets and stuff it would get expensive. I suspect they also hired McDonald's Catering for their food or told the actors to brown-bag it. Still, if movie production can be treated as things normal people do rather than royalty and elite, a few days of RED camera rental could probalbly be had for reasonable coin. Maybe projects like this will get us off the Hollywood Blockbuster/Direct-To-DVD treadmill.
.There might be something to that but the first thing I always suspect when some new regulation is proposed is campaign contributions (or job offers) from the factions that stand to financially benefit from the new regulation.
Sure, but the highest forms of corruption require a disarmed populace. Sometimes you have to do foundational work before you get a pay-back.
What, you oppose Mothers Against Dangerous Speech (MADS), Mothers Against Suspicious Concealment (MACS), and Mothers Against Incomplete Justice (MAIJ)? They work tirelessly to protect the children from dangerous ideas, dangerous things people might have, and dangerous people who are probably criminals, respectively.
They're all just trying to create a perfectly safe society - who can argue with that?
Central Office -> Fiber Optic --> DSLAM (which hooks into the already-existing phone lines). That's how my neighborhood is wired up and we have 12 Megabit/s available here.
It's not a technology problem.
If you live in an area Verizon doesn't find maximally profitable, their standard response to this request is, "we don't do that". I tried for years.
Finally, they sold their Northern New England operations to Fairpoint, who bought it almost exactly when the market crashed (eliminating their anticipated credit sources), and has bungled everything for a couple years. But they're emerging from bankruptcy in August and I saw a backhoe burying conduit to our local remote terminal yesterday. Their only hope at profitability is selling video over ADSL2 (also bringing 'cable' to a mostly-satellite region), so they have incentive to update the infrastructure.
But, Northern New England is a big deal to them. For Verizon, investing in upgrading from DSL to FiOS Jersey City was a much better bet than doing anything here ("hey you can get a 9600 baud FAX-rated line, what't the problem?") It's hard to blame a company for trying to maximize its profits when planning infrastructure upgrades (though it's easy to blame them for stealing the $2B fund for universal FTTH).
Anyway, the point being that large corporations which have regions with different levels of profitability will always favor the areas that make them the most money (and, let's face it, until you can download a full movie in 30 seconds, it's too slow, people will upgrade).
You can give them a laundry list of things they must do, and they'll spend millions looking for the loopholes.
Or you can break the corporations into small enough parts that have profit motive to serve their markets, and then simple 'greed' will see to the rest.
Ideally, you just stop granting monopolies and let the market work it out (raise your hand if you've ever been successful at getting pole access as a startup...), but this government wouldn't even consider that option.
Of course if you supply pseudo-code, then it's semantically equivalent to maths, so not patentable.
So is everything in the Universe. Most physical goods these days are designed entirely with information. Casting the part into steel is the last and already not patentable.
2. Those protections might be sufficient even if a large company (e.g., Microsoft) decided to appropriate the tech. An obvious appropriation may require legal action, but
How do you prove Microsoft didn't make an independent invention?
and no one as dealt with the issue of what happens when it comes down. and sooner or later it will come down.
You mean the expense of replacing it?
The go-to post on 'dangers' of a collapse is here.
Yes. They're going to deploy a massive cushion [wikipedia.org] around the Earth, consisting of a total of about 5000 trillion metric tons of gas. Roughly 78% will be nitrogen, and 21% will be oxygen. If the cable breaks, the lower half will encounter this cushion at extremely high velocities, ripping it apart and causing it to flutter harmlessly to the ground.
A smartphone cannot perform a physical exam. Enough said.
You should write the X-Prize folks about this. They may not realize this and wind up releasing an AI app that can't properly determine that a physical exam is required for additional data.
And semi-coincidently California now has so many warnings on so much stuff that the warnings do get ignored.
Hey, now, I've stopped using extension cords so I don't get cancer. I may need a knee replacement, though, constantly running around plugging and unplugging stuff. If I don't get killed in a house fire, that is, from exceeding the max insertion ratings on my power outlets.
shouldn't be too hard to get a group of long term radio and cell phone users together
Be careful about stopping by the local HAM club and doing a health survey. Long-term radio use seems to cause geekery, pudginess, beer cravings, and a tendency to use linux.
I had to charge it every night while I was there, because it was constantly seeking towers that didn't exist.
Yep. I'm in awe of the power budget engineers who designed my LG nV2. It can regularly run 4-5 days between charges, in an area with only mediocre coverage.
But if I spend the data in a data center (faraday cage), the battery is down to 20% after an 8-hour job. Nice mini-USB car charger to the rescue. And the darn thing charges up in just a couple hours with its tiny battery. Such a good phone (with crappy ear speaker, unfortunately, but a 2.5mm hardline headset is great).
An EMP from a nuclear blast has a different profile and may be worse - more localized but a much faster spike, so more likely to affect small electronics even if not on the grid.
Ah, thanks - I was wondering about the spike time vs. power.
Are you claiming the result was faked? Was the White Sands researcher in on the deception?
The idea that some cars stalling, coasting to a stop, and needing to be restarted
Except the video shows the car can't be restarted.
http://www.empcommission.org/
Which isn't a peer-reviewed scientific paper, it's a government committee report. Those aren't always 100% truthful, or they at least tend to massage the truth to come up with politically convenient answers (e.g. Warren Commission, 9/11 Commission, etc.) Yet sometimes they're right on, the trick is knowing which is which.
A company is developing an EMP weapon to disable vehicles for law enforcement. It's been shown that interruption vs. damage is a matter of power levels.
Did the Discovery special at White Sands purposely chose the only vulnerable car? Did White Sands properly represent the situation and Discovery mis-represented it? Is the White Sands HEMP simulator a higher power (or different in another signal characteristic) than this report used? Was this report's methodology correct? (I tend to believe what I see on video over what I read on paper) Could this report be misrepresenting?
There's also a video here of a device being developer for law enforcement to use a small EMP to disable a car. This would tend to suggest that most cars are vulnerable to shutdown. I think this means most cars have parts that will take an induced signal, so shutdown vs. disablement is probably just a matter of power levels.
Which then gets to the question of correct power levels. A White Sands reports highlights 50KV/m as typical for a HEMP blast, which the report you cite indicates they tested.
I haven't been able to find much information on the White Sands simulator, though.
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But Chrome is made by Google, and this phone's OS is made by.. oh, wait, that's logical and consistent.
Yeah. Because one insane evil guy MUST mean that everybody with that religion is evil. Right?
He's not saying that he wants to kill Zuckerberg, he's saying that the law against blasphemy, which exists and specifies execution, should be applied against him.
Clearly:
one insane evil guy < this insane cabal < all Muslims.
Oh, I just had an old-guy moment and remembered people don't build sets anymore. OK, so hire a greenscreen stage for a few days and get a freelance digital set designer to work for you for a few months. No union crap to load down your production.
a standard 190 min movie only comes out to $273,600. Seems low
It can be done. One of my favorites this year was The Man From Earth. $200,000. Given that the film was ten minutes too long, maybe it could have been a bit cheaper.
Apparently good writing isn't that expensive, if one cares to engage in it.
That said, this film had very cheap locations. If you started having to build sets and stuff it would get expensive. I suspect they also hired McDonald's Catering for their food or told the actors to brown-bag it. Still, if movie production can be treated as things normal people do rather than royalty and elite, a few days of RED camera rental could probalbly be had for reasonable coin. Maybe projects like this will get us off the Hollywood Blockbuster/Direct-To-DVD treadmill.
basically kill the analog outputs so the movie studios can release movies earlier
Right, because the clean/digital review screeners don't show up on torrent sites already.
I understand - this time they're going to stop the pirates, for sure!
When this generation of stupid executives retires/dies they'll start making more money by recognizing and satisfying market demand.
Ah, lucky you, you live in a free state. I'm not allowed to legally possess magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. *sigh*
There's an app for that.
.There might be something to that but the first thing I always suspect when some new regulation is proposed is campaign contributions (or job offers) from the factions that stand to financially benefit from the new regulation.
Sure, but the highest forms of corruption require a disarmed populace. Sometimes you have to do foundational work before you get a pay-back.
What, you oppose Mothers Against Dangerous Speech (MADS), Mothers Against Suspicious Concealment (MACS), and Mothers Against Incomplete Justice (MAIJ)? They work tirelessly to protect the children from dangerous ideas, dangerous things people might have, and dangerous people who are probably criminals, respectively.
They're all just trying to create a perfectly safe society - who can argue with that?
Central Office -> Fiber Optic --> DSLAM (which hooks into the already-existing phone lines). That's how my neighborhood is wired up and we have 12 Megabit/s available here.
It's not a technology problem.
If you live in an area Verizon doesn't find maximally profitable, their standard response to this request is, "we don't do that". I tried for years.
Finally, they sold their Northern New England operations to Fairpoint, who bought it almost exactly when the market crashed (eliminating their anticipated credit sources), and has bungled everything for a couple years. But they're emerging from bankruptcy in August and I saw a backhoe burying conduit to our local remote terminal yesterday. Their only hope at profitability is selling video over ADSL2 (also bringing 'cable' to a mostly-satellite region), so they have incentive to update the infrastructure.
But, Northern New England is a big deal to them. For Verizon, investing in upgrading from DSL to FiOS Jersey City was a much better bet than doing anything here ("hey you can get a 9600 baud FAX-rated line, what't the problem?") It's hard to blame a company for trying to maximize its profits when planning infrastructure upgrades (though it's easy to blame them for stealing the $2B fund for universal FTTH).
Anyway, the point being that large corporations which have regions with different levels of profitability will always favor the areas that make them the most money (and, let's face it, until you can download a full movie in 30 seconds, it's too slow, people will upgrade).
You can give them a laundry list of things they must do, and they'll spend millions looking for the loopholes.
Or you can break the corporations into small enough parts that have profit motive to serve their markets, and then simple 'greed' will see to the rest.
Ideally, you just stop granting monopolies and let the market work it out (raise your hand if you've ever been successful at getting pole access as a startup...), but this government wouldn't even consider that option.
I wonder how long it will take for someone to suggest dumping raw sewage into the oceans in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint
They already dump it on farm fields. Heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and all. And call it 'organic'.
Anybody know how this differs from the Hauppage USB<->mpeg4 encoder's driver?
What? No Kennedy's are available for this?!
You don't want the DNA of people who go to sex parties with their sister.
Is it me, or am I the only one that could get a rats ass about these social networking sites.
I started online with a 300 baud modem on a C=64. But most of my friends didn't and I care what they're up to. YMMV.
Of course if you supply pseudo-code, then it's semantically equivalent to maths, so not patentable.
So is everything in the Universe. Most physical goods these days are designed entirely with information. Casting the part into steel is the last and already not patentable.
2. Those protections might be sufficient even if a large company (e.g., Microsoft) decided to appropriate the tech. An obvious appropriation may require legal action, but
How do you prove Microsoft didn't make an independent invention?
but that doesn't seem to be in the works yet
Gah! We don't say these things in public. They're not terribly smart, remember?
and no one as dealt with the issue of what happens when it comes down. and sooner or later it will come down.
You mean the expense of replacing it?
The go-to post on 'dangers' of a collapse is here.
A smartphone cannot perform a physical exam. Enough said.
You should write the X-Prize folks about this. They may not realize this and wind up releasing an AI app that can't properly determine that a physical exam is required for additional data.
And semi-coincidently California now has so many warnings on so much stuff that the warnings do get ignored.
Hey, now, I've stopped using extension cords so I don't get cancer. I may need a knee replacement, though, constantly running around plugging and unplugging stuff. If I don't get killed in a house fire, that is, from exceeding the max insertion ratings on my power outlets.
shouldn't be too hard to get a group of long term radio and cell phone users together
Be careful about stopping by the local HAM club and doing a health survey. Long-term radio use seems to cause geekery, pudginess, beer cravings, and a tendency to use linux.
I had to charge it every night while I was there, because it was constantly seeking towers that didn't exist.
Yep. I'm in awe of the power budget engineers who designed my LG nV2. It can regularly run 4-5 days between charges, in an area with only mediocre coverage.
But if I spend the data in a data center (faraday cage), the battery is down to 20% after an 8-hour job. Nice mini-USB car charger to the rescue. And the darn thing charges up in just a couple hours with its tiny battery. Such a good phone (with crappy ear speaker, unfortunately, but a 2.5mm hardline headset is great).
First, go to a dentist who can do a panoramic x-ray, if only for speed/comfort.
Second, a dental x-ray is 1-3 mrem. Some studies have shown humans tolerate about 3 rem per year well, so you'll be fine.
Third, I'll take a bit of radiation over exploratory surgery any day. When the Star Trek biobed arrives, that'll be good too.
An EMP from a nuclear blast has a different profile and may be worse - more localized but a much faster spike, so more likely to affect small electronics even if not on the grid.
Ah, thanks - I was wondering about the spike time vs. power.
Pure info-tainment.
Are you claiming the result was faked? Was the White Sands researcher in on the deception?
The idea that some cars stalling, coasting to a stop, and needing to be restarted
Except the video shows the car can't be restarted.
http://www.empcommission.org/
Which isn't a peer-reviewed scientific paper, it's a government committee report. Those aren't always 100% truthful, or they at least tend to massage the truth to come up with politically convenient answers (e.g. Warren Commission, 9/11 Commission, etc.) Yet sometimes they're right on, the trick is knowing which is which.
A company is developing an EMP weapon to disable vehicles for law enforcement. It's been shown that interruption vs. damage is a matter of power levels.
Interesting. So, I'm let wondering:
Did the Discovery special at White Sands purposely chose the only vulnerable car?
Did White Sands properly represent the situation and Discovery mis-represented it?
Is the White Sands HEMP simulator a higher power (or different in another signal characteristic) than this report used?
Was this report's methodology correct? (I tend to believe what I see on video over what I read on paper)
Could this report be misrepresenting?
There's also a video here of a device being developer for law enforcement to use a small EMP to disable a car. This would tend to suggest that most cars are vulnerable to shutdown. I think this means most cars have parts that will take an induced signal, so shutdown vs. disablement is probably just a matter of power levels.
Which then gets to the question of correct power levels. A White Sands reports highlights 50KV/m as typical for a HEMP blast, which the report you cite indicates they tested.
I haven't been able to find much information on the White Sands simulator, though.