It doesn't have to be physically connected you know. Theres bluetooth.. And there already are lights that are triggered by the increse in RF energy when a call is made/recieved.. why not make it trigger a vibrator?
I think with the advances made in mobile technology, something should be done about informating people of a call in a manner that is not annoying to others.
Phones that just beep or emulate a land line phone ringing is acceptable, but I totally hate those 2 tone mangled excuses of popular music people call ring tones.
Take the vibrating alert.. Thats a good start. Why not improve on it? like make a little ring or bracelet or pen or whatever and make that vibrate too? Or maybe even a watch strap? It informs you of a call and is non annoying at the same time.
Well yes, I do agree with you that the idea is "back asswards" (and i mean it). But the point is that it's a way of introducing Linux into the equation while keeping the Windows that the PHB wants on.
If there wasn't a PHB in charge but a rational manager who knows his shit, you won't need run hoops around him anyway.
Yes but then it would only run Linux alone. The beauty of this system is that it provides both a social as well as technical solution to the Open Source problem.
The technical solution is that it will allow native Linux applications to run in Windows without the massive overhead of emulation.
The social solution is when some Pointy Head Boss who is taken in by MS FUD about the evils of linux and wants you to write an app in that runs in Windows for a task that you know Linux can preform better.
So what do you do? With coLinux, you can still write the app to run in Linux, then run it on the windows machine with coLinux. So it makes the PHB happy by giving the impression that it's running on Windows, but Linux is actualy doing the work and at the same time you gave Linux a foothold on Windows' terrortory.
So down the road, when MS decides it's time to "Upgrade" you can propose that instead of spending millions on new MS licences, you can show that all the applications that were written to run the business runs perfectly and exactly the same under Linux, and it's time tested since all this while Linux was doing the work, thereby justifying ditching MS altogather.
Why this is good is that it provides a bridge between Windows and Linux. You can demostrate without leaving the Windows enviorment, the power of Linux and at the point where you eventualy make the transition, re-education needs will be minimal as employees will already be familier with using native linux apps.
Finally, a technological fix for a social problem.
Therein lies the problem. To make the situation reversed, where the NT kernel was made to run on top of Linux, one would need access to the source code for the NT Kernel.
What they (i think) did with coLinux was hack Linux to run within the parameters of a loaded NT enviorment. It's like a low level multitasking dance where NT leads and Linux follows.
No, actually I think the solution is proper engineering. I think that if we set our minds to it, we can engineer crops that are both safe and highly profitable at the same time. The thing here is that there are too many FUD mongers yelling "FrankenFood!" to let the technology mature.
In hindsight, you and I both have our biases, I feel that GM crops are a good thing and you feel that they are a bad thing.
I'd readily admit that yes, genetic engineering has it's faults. But don't you think it's worth while that the faults be sorted out and the knowledge gained be used for our economic as well as gastronomic interests rather then just give up on it?
BTW, though it has nothing to do with weedkiller, now that you explain it, i see your point about organic farmers being put out of business. I'd make a counter arguement, but maybe we ougth to give it a rest.
What has pesticide use got to do with weedkiller use? Anyway if you are switching words, the simple answer is to simply use a weedkiller that is not 'roundUp'. It still gets the weeds and the GM grass.
Now, what you said is just plain giving up instead of addressing a problem. Like i said before, a book could be published detailing how to identify a GM plant. If said plant cannot be identified by physical means alone, do it chemically, or biologically. If lab testing is expensive, make companies who make GM crops come up with a field test kit that can be given free to farmers.
There can only be so many plants that look the same but are diffrent biologically, and a test kit will tell instantly. Plus, writing that into law is still easier then the outright ban you want.
Now, on with personal attacks, I may not know anything about farming, but you don't know anything about logical thinking.
In your original post you said "And what about organic farmers who livelyhoods depend on the use of no artificial chemicals whatsoever? GM infestation can destroy their businesses faster than you can imagine"
I question the logic behind "GM infestation can destroy their businesses faster than you can imagine".
What this company did was make a plant resistant to a man-made weedkiller, NOT immune to conventional farming methods. So this has got NOTHING to do with organic farmers, because they DON'T use said weedkiller.
Disagree? Then you being the expert on organic farming, tell me, how is this plant that is resistant to RoundUp a hazard to the methods employed by organic farmers to control weeds?
Good point... So maybe instead one could make the premature death of patents and copyrights a punishment thats prescribed for conviction under anti-monopoly law?
Sorry about the constitutional boo-boo... I'm not American.
Just wondering.. Would it be possible to have teh steam drive a turbine that drives a generator before it's condensed? That way the power can be sent back into the boiler. Sure there will be a net loss of energy, but it would cut down on the energy needed no?
...How will a farmer kill off this weed (weed being what you call any unwanted plant growth) without killing his crop?...
The usual way? With weedkiller? It's not like it's immune to all weed killers, it's only resistant to 'Roundup' after all.
what are you going to do about all the other GM varieties that exist: spray once for each specific variety?
Why not? I would think being able to do so would be a good, rather then bad thing. That way you can control what dies (weed) and what doesn't (crops). If you want to kill 2 types of GM weed, then use the weedkiller that they are mutually non-resistant to, or use a mix.
How does a farmer easily tell which variety has spread onto his land in the first place?
Isn't the up side to man made grass that it's been researched and very well defined? GM companies could publish an alamac and if the grass is physically indistinguishable from the natural version, a simple lab test will tell you what you are dealing with.
And what about organic farmers who livelihoods depend on the use of no artificial chemicals whatsoever?
If they don't use artificial chemicals in the 1st place, then what business do they have complaining about a weed resistant to a type of artificial weedkiller?
If you pull it out, feed it to a cow, burn it, block it's sunlight, use something other then Roundup, etc it still dies. It's not an immortal plant you know.
Just declare all copyrights from Microsoft alone unenforceable. It's all basicly a premature end to the life of copyright and patent from a specific company.
Well, thats the general idea. Like i say in my sig, the way I feel is best to break Microsoft's monopoly is to render all of their copyrights, patents and all other intellectual property, unenforceable by law.
The reason Microsoft has been so rich for so long is because they've been selling $5 plastic discs in a cardboard box with a stack of paper for $300. They reason they can do this is because if you buy your Windows at $5, the BSA will come and sue the crap out of you.
But what happens if suddenly even with all the lawyers in the world, they can't sue anybody simply because if they did, they're guaranteed to loose?
People would start installing all the MS products they wanted too, free from any stupid licensing schemes, reverse engineer to their hearts desire and MS revenue stream would be reduced to what they make from selling mouses. Then either the source to Windows gets released by some means and different flavors and improvements to windows start getting released, or the windows platform simply dies from stagnation.
Which solves the issue of MS being a bully in the US market. Also when foreign governments see this happen, how many governments won't make it so for their citizens to have Windows virtually free, without the fear of US trade embargoes?
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. The problem here is that scammers are abusing a system that was made for the benefit of, by posing as, the deaf/mute.
So what needs to be password protected are outgoing calls, as after all the scammers aren't defrauding the disabled. Being disabled, one would register with a body to be certified disabled and to qualify for disabled privileges. So why not register the phone number(s) of the disabled and issue them a password at the same time?
Then create a white list containing the numbers of those registered.
So when a person uses the system, calling a disabled person whose number is on the white list doesn't require a password, but calling non-white list numbers require it.
In this manner, when a non disabled person contacts a disabled person, he won't have a problem as the disabled person would be on the white list. But if a non disabled person tried to use the system to call people/businesses other then the disabled, he'd be blocked by the password requirement.
In this way, the disabled are still as easily contactable, merchants are protected from abuse of the system and the load on the system is reduced. Everybody (but the scammers) wins.
You know whats worse the the leaf blower? Earthworks.
Right now, there is a construction project going on right across the road from me. At 9 a.m sharp, 5 piling machines start driving iron girders into the ground, and driving me insane.
Heck with the right hardware, you could do it with Windows. Look up companies that sell "Safety Cards" . What they basicly do is restore an image of your OS and setup on each boot quickly, thus, no matter what a user does, or what ever virus installs, on reboot it's all back to square 1.
Great for school enviorments where you don't want skript kiddies fooling with ur configs.
The way this is going, it feels more and more that mobile data and communications is going to a very critical place.
On one end we have giant phone companies with large infrastructure assets trying to push tech like G3 and GPRS with a very high per minute/packet charge over cellular networks.
On the other hand, we have hotspots sprouting up all over the place with subscriptions going from nothing to a cup of coffee. While coverage is still spotty, its capabilities are blurring, with everything from voice to data being possible over IP.
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Will all the tin foil hat wearers care to explain how they faked it this time?
They banned that in F1 ... like all good things.
Someone else once posted on SlashDot:
Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this;
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh;
Stop, traveler, and piss.
-- Lord Byron, on Lord Castlereagh
I think the parent was posting in relation to that post.
Now what it means is that whenever your phone rings, $699 is charged in your phone bill for royalty for public preformance.
I for one welcome our Slashdot reading overlords..
Sorry, I just had to.
You are right. Anybody can go and solve complex problems. But to solve complex problems consistently and accurately are a different matter entirely.
Really? Any idea where i can look/buy one?
It doesn't have to be physically connected you know. Theres bluetooth.. And there already are lights that are triggered by the increse in RF energy when a call is made/recieved.. why not make it trigger a vibrator?
I think with the advances made in mobile technology, something should be done about informating people of a call in a manner that is not annoying to others.
Phones that just beep or emulate a land line phone ringing is acceptable, but I totally hate those 2 tone mangled excuses of popular music people call ring tones.
Take the vibrating alert.. Thats a good start. Why not improve on it? like make a little ring or bracelet or pen or whatever and make that vibrate too? Or maybe even a watch strap? It informs you of a call and is non annoying at the same time.
Well yes, I do agree with you that the idea is "back asswards" (and i mean it). But the point is that it's a way of introducing Linux into the equation while keeping the Windows that the PHB wants on.
If there wasn't a PHB in charge but a rational manager who knows his shit, you won't need run hoops around him anyway.
Yes but then it would only run Linux alone. The beauty of this system is that it provides both a social as well as technical solution to the Open Source problem.
The technical solution is that it will allow native Linux applications to run in Windows without the massive overhead of emulation.
The social solution is when some Pointy Head Boss who is taken in by MS FUD about the evils of linux and wants you to write an app in that runs in Windows for a task that you know Linux can preform better.
So what do you do? With coLinux, you can still write the app to run in Linux, then run it on the windows machine with coLinux. So it makes the PHB happy by giving the impression that it's running on Windows, but Linux is actualy doing the work and at the same time you gave Linux a foothold on Windows' terrortory.
So down the road, when MS decides it's time to "Upgrade" you can propose that instead of spending millions on new MS licences, you can show that all the applications that were written to run the business runs perfectly and exactly the same under Linux, and it's time tested since all this while Linux was doing the work, thereby justifying ditching MS altogather.
Why this is good is that it provides a bridge between Windows and Linux. You can demostrate without leaving the Windows enviorment, the power of Linux and at the point where you eventualy make the transition, re-education needs will be minimal as employees will already be familier with using native linux apps.
Finally, a technological fix for a social problem.
Therein lies the problem. To make the situation reversed, where the NT kernel was made to run on top of Linux, one would need access to the source code for the NT Kernel.
What they (i think) did with coLinux was hack Linux to run within the parameters of a loaded NT enviorment. It's like a low level multitasking dance where NT leads and Linux follows.
No, actually I think the solution is proper engineering. I think that if we set our minds to it, we can engineer crops that are both safe and highly profitable at the same time. The thing here is that there are too many FUD mongers yelling "FrankenFood!" to let the technology mature.
In hindsight, you and I both have our biases, I feel that GM crops are a good thing and you feel that they are a bad thing.
I'd readily admit that yes, genetic engineering has it's faults. But don't you think it's worth while that the faults be sorted out and the knowledge gained be used for our economic as well as gastronomic interests rather then just give up on it?
BTW, though it has nothing to do with weedkiller, now that you explain it, i see your point about organic farmers being put out of business. I'd make a counter arguement, but maybe we ougth to give it a rest.
What has pesticide use got to do with weedkiller use? Anyway if you are switching words, the simple answer is to simply use a weedkiller that is not 'roundUp'. It still gets the weeds and the GM grass.
Now, what you said is just plain giving up instead of addressing a problem. Like i said before, a book could be published detailing how to identify a GM plant. If said plant cannot be identified by physical means alone, do it chemically, or biologically. If lab testing is expensive, make companies who make GM crops come up with a field test kit that can be given free to farmers.
There can only be so many plants that look the same but are diffrent biologically, and a test kit will tell instantly. Plus, writing that into law is still easier then the outright ban you want.
Now, on with personal attacks, I may not know anything about farming, but you don't know anything about logical thinking.
In your original post you said "And what about organic farmers who livelyhoods depend on the use of no artificial chemicals whatsoever? GM infestation can destroy their businesses faster than you can imagine"
I question the logic behind "GM infestation can destroy their businesses faster than you can imagine".
What this company did was make a plant resistant to a man-made weedkiller, NOT immune to conventional farming methods. So this has got NOTHING to do with organic farmers, because they DON'T use said weedkiller.
Disagree? Then you being the expert on organic farming, tell me, how is this plant that is resistant to RoundUp a hazard to the methods employed by organic farmers to control weeds?
Good point... So maybe instead one could make the premature death of patents and copyrights a punishment thats prescribed for conviction under anti-monopoly law?
Sorry about the constitutional boo-boo... I'm not American.
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Thats not good enough, we need it shiped OUT of this world.
Just wondering.. Would it be possible to have teh steam drive a turbine that drives a generator before it's condensed? That way the power can be sent back into the boiler. Sure there will be a net loss of energy, but it would cut down on the energy needed no?
...How will a farmer kill off this weed (weed being what you call any unwanted plant growth) without killing his crop?...
The usual way? With weedkiller? It's not like it's immune to all weed killers, it's only resistant to 'Roundup' after all.
what are you going to do about all the other GM varieties that exist: spray once for each specific variety?
Why not? I would think being able to do so would be a good, rather then bad thing. That way you can control what dies (weed) and what doesn't (crops). If you want to kill 2 types of GM weed, then use the weedkiller that they are mutually non-resistant to, or use a mix.
How does a farmer easily tell which variety has spread onto his land in the first place?
Isn't the up side to man made grass that it's been researched and very well defined? GM companies could publish an alamac and if the grass is physically indistinguishable from the natural version, a simple lab test will tell you what you are dealing with.
And what about organic farmers who livelihoods depend on the use of no artificial chemicals whatsoever?
If they don't use artificial chemicals in the 1st place, then what business do they have complaining about a weed resistant to a type of artificial weedkiller?
If you pull it out, feed it to a cow, burn it, block it's sunlight, use something other then Roundup, etc it still dies. It's not an immortal plant you know.
Just declare all copyrights from Microsoft alone unenforceable. It's all basicly a premature end to the life of copyright and patent from a specific company.
Well, thats the general idea. Like i say in my sig, the way I feel is best to break Microsoft's monopoly is to render all of their copyrights, patents and all other intellectual property, unenforceable by law.
The reason Microsoft has been so rich for so long is because they've been selling $5 plastic discs in a cardboard box with a stack of paper for $300. They reason they can do this is because if you buy your Windows at $5, the BSA will come and sue the crap out of you.
But what happens if suddenly even with all the lawyers in the world, they can't sue anybody simply because if they did, they're guaranteed to loose?
People would start installing all the MS products they wanted too, free from any stupid licensing schemes, reverse engineer to their hearts desire and MS revenue stream would be reduced to what they make from selling mouses. Then either the source to Windows gets released by some means and different flavors and improvements to windows start getting released, or the windows platform simply dies from stagnation.
Which solves the issue of MS being a bully in the US market. Also when foreign governments see this happen, how many governments won't make it so for their citizens to have Windows virtually free, without the fear of US trade embargoes?
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. The problem here is that scammers are abusing a system that was made for the benefit of, by posing as, the deaf/mute.
So what needs to be password protected are outgoing calls, as after all the scammers aren't defrauding the disabled. Being disabled, one would register with a body to be certified disabled and to qualify for disabled privileges. So why not register the phone number(s) of the disabled and issue them a password at the same time?
Then create a white list containing the numbers of those registered.
So when a person uses the system, calling a disabled person whose number is on the white list doesn't require a password, but calling non-white list numbers require it.
In this manner, when a non disabled person contacts a disabled person, he won't have a problem as the disabled person would be on the white list. But if a non disabled person tried to use the system to call people/businesses other then the disabled, he'd be blocked by the password requirement.
In this way, the disabled are still as easily contactable, merchants are protected from abuse of the system and the load on the system is reduced. Everybody (but the scammers) wins.
You know whats worse the the leaf blower? Earthworks.
Right now, there is a construction project going on right across the road from me. At 9 a.m sharp, 5 piling machines start driving iron girders into the ground, and driving me insane.
Heck with the right hardware, you could do it with Windows. Look up companies that sell "Safety Cards" . What they basicly do is restore an image of your OS and setup on each boot quickly, thus, no matter what a user does, or what ever virus installs, on reboot it's all back to square 1.
Great for school enviorments where you don't want skript kiddies fooling with ur configs.
Thats interesting to know... because for some reason I remember the spelling with double t's, as shown in some places as well..
Anyway, i'm sure we all agree he ain't chow yun FAT..
The way this is going, it feels more and more that mobile data and communications is going to a very critical place.
On one end we have giant phone companies with large infrastructure assets trying to push tech like G3 and GPRS with a very high per minute/packet charge over cellular networks.
On the other hand, we have hotspots sprouting up all over the place with subscriptions going from nothing to a cup of coffee. While coverage is still spotty, its capabilities are blurring, with everything from voice to data being possible over IP.
Developments would be interesting to watch.