That is a great example of a bad article parsed up into n parts made only to sell ads. There are 50 better cooling articles out there if you just look a bit.
It's not the spacecraft that's landing on the moon either. I don't know if the submitter recognizes the difference between cruising the strip around the moon and parking this CEV there, but there is going to be a lot more hardware involved than this doodad.
"If glibc does not want to break source compatibility so drastically, they could move the dangerous functions to a new header such as "bufferoverflow.h"."
Excellent idea! Should push the shame a little harder.
Instead of MP3, I suggested "criminal tools". Hey, I can have some fun, can't I? I also suggested the same for freshmeat.net, which somehow has not made it to their list, yet.
"Smart"Filter? That is a serious misuse of the english language. Smart is usually reserved for people who are adept and skilled, not a dopey firewall setup.
"By unleashing an avalanche of digital content on broadband Internet connections as well as over the digital broadcast airwaves, we can change this dynamic and give consumers a reason to buy new consumer electronics and information technology products."
Let me get this straight. I need to have my computer OS and hardware, mp3 player and cable router crippled, or the copyright companies can never unleash an avalanche of programs on an HDTV TV that I have absolutely no desire to ever own?
Unreal!
And I was sooo looking forward to getting buried in the latest garbage from Hollywood!
"There is no impact on individual liberties, because the tax can be mitigated by buying used goods"
Ever buy a used car? In the US(CA), the DMV wants a sales tax bite every time a vehicle changes hands. Doesn't matter if you had it for 3 months or 30 years. VIN numbers make it all possible. I assume this is the same in other auto-authoritarian states (IL, MA, etc...) maybe all 50.
Wonder when all that started. It is the only case of sales tax on used goods I can think of.
That's a good letter. And there is an opinion from a lawyer later on this thread which just "rules them all". But this is what I sent via fax after my phone call. I guess it is a little long winded.
Dear Senator B****,
I am writing to let you know my personal opinion of a proposed set of new laws which will be discussed in a hearing before the Commerce Committee tomorrow on the subject of "Digital Content Copyright Protection, Broadband, and Digital TV Transition". This is related to the SSSCA bill that Senator Hollings is particularly in favor of advancing.
The entertainment industries propose that every electronic device ever made in the future must have a digital rights management technology embedded. Since hardware manufacturers do not apparently see this need, the entertainment industries want the government to impose a standard, and punish violations with fines up to $500,000 and jail time. The entertainment industries propose that this is the only way that they can take the internet to a new level of excitement (and profitability) with downloadable movies. They also are threatening to withhold content from new digital television broadcasts until they can be absolutely sure their content is under their control.
In this country, we enjoy many freedoms. One of these is that we are presumed innocent. The movie and music industries presume everyone is a potential pirate, that all hardware is suspect, and must be crippled in such a way that one cannot even copy music to a digital player or computer to take on a trip. Consumers are asking for these types of options and abilities, not that every new device they buy have an agent of the MPAA inside making sure they are not naughty.
The entertainment industries promise that their copy protections will create jobs and make new revenues for the broadband industries. But let me assure you, there are millions of consumers who will never buy copy controlled devices. Computers now can play full video movies. mp3 players now can store many more hours of music than fit on CDs. With current technology, I will never have to buy new hardware again. If the government mandates copy protection across the board on every electronic device (e.g. fax machines and computers), the government risks an economic slowdown that will make the recent tech slump look like a picnic.
The entertainment industries have no interest in constitutional rights or clauses, their interests are in profits. They use these profits to fund lobbying firms and campaign contributions to senators like Mr. Fritz Hollings (to the tune of $300,000). Are we supposed to believe that Sen. Hollings constituents have been demanding copy controls on all their entertainment and computer hardware? The bold impropriety of him advancing this legislation to hearing is incredible.
I am asking you to take a stand on this topic, and to voice your opposition to the entertainment companies when they ask government to require that big brother live in my VCR and computer.
A handgun has lots of legitimate purposes. Like shooting someone who is invading your house or trying to kill you. It is still OK to defend yourself it some countries (e.g USA), but I can't speak for yours.
Commercials were for an era when TV broadcasts were freely received by the audience. Now, many more people receive their TV programming through a paid channel (Cable or Satellite), at least in the U.S. of A. Why should I have to watch commercials if I am paying for every single channel already?
One problem with Europa (and all the Jovian moons to some extent) is that the surface is bombarded with radiation from the monsterous Jovian radiation belts. You'd have to get submerged pretty quickly to live on Europa very long. If there indeed is a ocean underneath.
They feed these engines a lot of turkeys. The pilot reported NO problems in the flight. ZERO. Not "Holy CRAP we just ate 2000 seabirds". Nothing!
In regard to the AK military plane disaster, the E-3 AWACS probably uses an older engine. It's a very old airframe anyway (707, right?). Not as goose hardened as a new GE engine, probably. Elmendorf does not have the traffic to constantly scare birds away like JFK does.
Now if we can just harden our planes against their own engines, we will be back in business.
The GE engine is starting to have a pretty nasty resume:
From the NY times article on the web (entitled "Pilots could do little if engine fell off")::
"A CF-6 engine on a Continental Airlines DC-10 broke up on takeoff from Newark International Airport in April 2000, and in June 2000 a CF-6 on a Varig Airlines Boeing 767 broke up."
In Alaska, there were 1000 geese just hanging out on the runway. It's ALASKA. This is one of the busier airports on the East Coast.
I reject the bird theory. The POS engine theory is the one I am ascribing to.
People choose to smoke and drink. It feels good. It really does! Getting blown up/burned/crushed has no good side effects. Bzzzt, sorry, next argument. Dying by ones own hemlock is a hell of a lot better than dying with no skin.
Besides the fact that I don't believe your figure of 3400 dead in traffic every week, traffic accidents don't cause the stock market to plunge, Vegas to practically empty, and half of U.S. airlines to teeter on bankruptcy, and destroy >20 GigaUSDollars of property. Traffic accidents keep a whole lot of people in business, actually.
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I think there is a certain contradiction between legalizing cocaine, for instance, and shooting down with missiles anyone in a small plane carrying any into our country. It is an inconsistent policy. Protecting our borders from Islamic extremists is going to be hard enough.
I agree though that you could use the entry of drugs as a gauge. And with billions of dollars down the drain with cheap heroin and cocaine still available in the US, one should really start to worry.
It is the transport of humans which we can still probably approach. The only thing the terrorists had as a weapon were their well-trained selves. Cocaine doesn't need food, water, and shelter.
Anyway, I do appreciate your comments.
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I was going along reading this, thinking you were making some good points. But, why on Earth do you think we need to switch back to the "War" on unnamed "Drugs" ASAP?!
Whether u favor the decriminalization of drugs or not...
Well if drugs are decriminalized, I certainly expect a drug trade to exist, except in a less bestial manner. I don't expect we will have to bomb sovereign states if 3 junkies OD off some bad heroin. And you guys who put all drugs in the same basket need to lighten the hell up.
I did not say that the embassy bombings were during wartime.
The Germans changed that war by bombing London. That is a simple fact. Dresden was a manufacturing stronghold which was reduced to ashes. Made quite a dent in the German war capacity. If you don't want to lose civilians, DON'T TARGET THEM. As in this case, the result of the aggressor's actions must result in much more damage to the aggressor if you are working for it never to happen again.
The "Northern Militia" would love to get a hold of Bin Laden. But they just keep getting trounced. And unfortunately, recently in a suicide attack, their most important leader was killed. It is not a far thing to imagine that the successful attempt was made on his life just before this militia would have been looked at as a potential "enemy of our enemy" by the US and NATO, Bin Laden knowing the plans for the U.S. East Coast.
They are not necessarily more or less sick and cowardly than the U.S. pilots who bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan a few years ago, or the ones who firebombed Tokyo and Dresden in the Second World War.
I just wanted to quote that for people to read again, in case they missed it.
You are a demented bastard. Pardon me, but we were at war back then. But you weren't around so let me let you in on something. Civilian areas were never bombing targets until the Germans started dropping buzzbombs on London. That changed the whole war, voila Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Dresden. Then we had a big trial (some place called Nurenburg rings a bell) and put to death Axis members who were responsible for civilian deaths, atrocities, etc. Argue all you like, but that war started different than it ended.
THis is fucking different. Blow up 20,000 civies and don't even identify yourself, with no apparent goal besides blowing up 20,000 civies? Nice.
It's important to put things in context, keep a cool head, and deal with the situation as it exists. It's important that none of us be like the guy who posted to Usenet after the Oklahoma City bombing that we should just randomly attack cities in the Mideast.
Not everyone was a dolt like Limbaugh et al. back then. When someone told me there was a bombing of a federal building in OK, I said "Right-wing extremism boils over!" Literally those were my words. My friend looked at me funny, because he had heard the arab B.S. on the radio, but I figured from the start it was our own folks.
Anyway, I am sick of the WWII lectures and references from people who pick and choose their events from that war. Like YOU! And Vietnam references will get you nowhere. The hell the communists unleashed in that country, on civilians, is no "better" than what we let loose, or any more justified.
If programmers are allowed to crack eBook encryption, the next Napster-style trading system will be exchanging copies of "Moby Dick" instead of songs by Moby, they warn.
Nothin wrong with that.
Time to wake up and head over to www.melville.org. Moby Dick is freeeee to the world. Tolkien etc, should also get this treatment, one hopes. What is the timeframe for copyright (I mean in a normal country, not the US)?
Tolkien, in his books, always asked readers to "respect living authors" and not make copies of his books. But don't tell that to the guys who own Stephen King's ass. They will extract money from his dead corpse for 200+ years if they have their way.
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That is a great example of a bad article parsed up into n parts made only to sell ads. There are 50 better cooling articles out there if you just look a bit.
It's not the spacecraft that's landing on the moon either. I don't know if the submitter recognizes the difference between cruising the strip around the moon and parking this CEV there, but there is going to be a lot more hardware involved than this doodad.
I see not such file on my machine, or anything close to resembling it anywhere. Can anyone clue me in?
"If glibc does not want to break source compatibility so drastically, they could move the dangerous functions to a new header such as "bufferoverflow.h"."
Excellent idea! Should push the shame a little harder.
codewillexplode.h
willget0wn3d.h
dontincludet
"Esskuze me Mr. Coder, I see that you provided us this nice new code, but why does it include bigbrownorifice.h?"
Instead of MP3, I suggested "criminal tools". Hey, I can have some fun, can't I? I also suggested the same for freshmeat.net, which somehow has not made it to their list, yet.
"Smart"Filter? That is a serious misuse of the english language. Smart is usually reserved for people who are adept and skilled, not a dopey firewall setup.
"By unleashing an avalanche of digital content on broadband Internet connections as well as over the digital broadcast airwaves, we can change this dynamic and give consumers a reason to buy new consumer electronics and information technology products."
Let me get this straight. I need to have my computer OS and hardware, mp3 player and cable router crippled, or the copyright companies can never unleash an avalanche of programs on an HDTV TV that I have absolutely no desire to ever own?
Unreal!
And I was sooo looking forward to getting buried in the latest garbage from Hollywood!
"There is no impact on individual liberties, because the tax can be mitigated by buying used goods"
Ever buy a used car? In the US(CA), the DMV wants a sales tax bite every time a vehicle changes hands. Doesn't matter if you had it for 3 months or 30 years. VIN numbers make it all possible. I assume this is the same in other auto-authoritarian states (IL, MA, etc...) maybe all 50.
Wonder when all that started. It is the only case of sales tax on used goods I can think of.
That's a good letter. And there is an opinion from a lawyer later on this thread which just "rules them all". But this is what I sent via fax after my phone call. I guess it is a little long winded.
Dear Senator B****,
I am writing to let you know my personal opinion of a proposed set of new laws which will be discussed in a hearing before the Commerce Committee tomorrow on the subject of "Digital Content Copyright Protection, Broadband, and Digital TV Transition". This is related to the SSSCA bill that Senator Hollings is particularly in favor of advancing.
The entertainment industries propose that every electronic device ever made in the future must have a digital rights management technology embedded. Since hardware manufacturers do not apparently see this need, the entertainment industries want the government to impose a standard, and punish violations with fines up to $500,000 and jail time. The entertainment industries propose that this is the only way that they can take the internet to a new level of excitement (and profitability) with downloadable movies. They also are threatening to withhold content from new digital television broadcasts until they can be absolutely sure their content is under their control.
In this country, we enjoy many freedoms. One of these is that we are presumed innocent. The movie and music industries presume everyone is a potential pirate, that all hardware is suspect, and must be crippled in such a way that one cannot even copy music to a digital player or computer to take on a trip. Consumers are asking for these types of options and abilities, not that every new device they buy have an agent of the MPAA inside making sure they are not naughty.
The entertainment industries promise that their copy protections will create jobs and make new revenues for the broadband industries. But let me assure you, there are millions of consumers who will never buy copy controlled devices. Computers now can play full video movies. mp3 players now can store many more hours of music than fit on CDs. With current technology, I will never have to buy new hardware again. If the government mandates copy protection across the board on every electronic device (e.g. fax machines and computers), the government risks an economic slowdown that will make the recent tech slump look like a picnic.
The entertainment industries have no interest in constitutional rights or clauses, their interests are in profits. They use these profits to fund lobbying firms and campaign contributions to senators like Mr. Fritz Hollings (to the tune of $300,000). Are we supposed to believe that Sen. Hollings constituents have been demanding copy controls on all their entertainment and computer hardware? The bold impropriety of him advancing this legislation to hearing is incredible.
I am asking you to take a stand on this topic, and to voice your opposition to the entertainment companies when they ask government to require that big brother live in my VCR and computer.
Thank you for your time and service to our state.
Hmm, Boxer's fax number on the previous page gets me to a voice mail box: I just called her DC office and got a different one.
:)
415-956-6701
Hers is an important district in this discussion. It's easy to call! Fun! Do it!
A handgun has lots of legitimate purposes. Like shooting someone who is invading your house or trying to kill you. It is still OK to defend yourself it some countries (e.g USA), but I can't speak for yours.
kabloie
Commercials were for an era when TV broadcasts were freely received by the audience. Now, many more people receive their TV programming through a paid channel (Cable or Satellite), at least in the U.S. of A. Why should I have to watch commercials if I am paying for every single channel already?
One problem with Europa (and all the Jovian moons to some extent) is that the surface is bombarded with radiation from the monsterous Jovian radiation belts. You'd have to get submerged pretty quickly to live on Europa very long. If there indeed is a ocean underneath.
They feed these engines a lot of turkeys. The pilot reported NO problems in the flight. ZERO. Not "Holy CRAP we just ate 2000 seabirds". Nothing!
In regard to the AK military plane disaster, the E-3 AWACS probably uses an older engine. It's a very old airframe anyway (707, right?). Not as goose hardened as a new GE engine, probably. Elmendorf does not have the traffic to constantly scare birds away like JFK does.
Now if we can just harden our planes against their own engines, we will be back in business.
-kabloie
The GE engine is starting to have a pretty nasty resume:
From the NY times article on the web (entitled "Pilots could do little if engine fell off")::
"A CF-6 engine on a Continental Airlines DC-10 broke up on takeoff from Newark International Airport in April 2000, and in June 2000 a CF-6 on a Varig Airlines Boeing 767 broke up."
In Alaska, there were 1000 geese just hanging out on the runway. It's ALASKA. This is one of the busier airports on the East Coast.
I reject the bird theory. The POS engine theory is the one I am ascribing to.
-kabloie
Now listen,
People choose to smoke and drink. It feels good. It really does! Getting blown up/burned/crushed has no good side effects. Bzzzt, sorry, next argument. Dying by ones own hemlock is a hell of a lot better than dying with no skin.
Besides the fact that I don't believe your figure of 3400 dead in traffic every week, traffic accidents don't cause the stock market to plunge, Vegas to practically empty, and half of U.S. airlines to teeter on bankruptcy, and destroy >20 GigaUSDollars of property. Traffic accidents keep a whole lot of people in business, actually.
kabloie
I think there is a certain contradiction between legalizing cocaine, for instance, and shooting down with missiles anyone in a small plane carrying any into our country. It is an inconsistent policy. Protecting our borders from Islamic extremists is going to be hard enough.
I agree though that you could use the entry of drugs as a gauge. And with billions of dollars down the drain with cheap heroin and cocaine still available in the US, one should really start to worry.
It is the transport of humans which we can still probably approach. The only thing the terrorists had as a weapon were their well-trained selves. Cocaine doesn't need food, water, and shelter.
Anyway, I do appreciate your comments.
kabloie
Whether u favor the decriminalization of drugs or not ...
Well if drugs are decriminalized, I certainly expect a drug trade to exist, except in a less bestial manner. I don't expect we will have to bomb sovereign states if 3 junkies OD off some bad heroin. And you guys who put all drugs in the same basket need to lighten the hell up.
kabloie
The Germans changed that war by bombing London. That is a simple fact. Dresden was a manufacturing stronghold which was reduced to ashes. Made quite a dent in the German war capacity. If you don't want to lose civilians, DON'T TARGET THEM. As in this case, the result of the aggressor's actions must result in much more damage to the aggressor if you are working for it never to happen again.
Never Again!
Here's the link to the article on Jane's
He was a handsome chap at that. Very unfortunate.
How are we going to crush Afghanistan from afar, if the Red Army couldn't do it from next door?
kabloie
I just wanted to quote that for people to read again, in case they missed it.
You are a demented bastard. Pardon me, but we were at war back then. But you weren't around so let me let you in on something. Civilian areas were never bombing targets until the Germans started dropping buzzbombs on London. That changed the whole war, voila Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Dresden. Then we had a big trial (some place called Nurenburg rings a bell) and put to death Axis members who were responsible for civilian deaths, atrocities, etc. Argue all you like, but that war started different than it ended.
THis is fucking different. Blow up 20,000 civies and don't even identify yourself, with no apparent goal besides blowing up 20,000 civies? Nice.
It's important to put things in context, keep a cool head, and deal with the situation as it exists. It's important that none of us be like the guy who posted to Usenet after the Oklahoma City bombing that we should just randomly attack cities in the Mideast.
Not everyone was a dolt like Limbaugh et al. back then. When someone told me there was a bombing of a federal building in OK, I said "Right-wing extremism boils over!" Literally those were my words. My friend looked at me funny, because he had heard the arab B.S. on the radio, but I figured from the start it was our own folks.
Anyway, I am sick of the WWII lectures and references from people who pick and choose their events from that war. Like YOU! And Vietnam references will get you nowhere. The hell the communists unleashed in that country, on civilians, is no "better" than what we let loose, or any more justified.
kabloie
The Swiss Guard are coming. You don't want to end up on the business end of a halberd, do you?
Thats 2d6. Or 2d8, I forget...
Nothin wrong with that. Time to wake up and head over to www.melville.org. Moby Dick is freeeee to the world. Tolkien etc, should also get this treatment, one hopes. What is the timeframe for copyright (I mean in a normal country, not the US)?
Tolkien, in his books, always asked readers to "respect living authors" and not make copies of his books. But don't tell that to the guys who own Stephen King's ass. They will extract money from his dead corpse for 200+ years if they have their way.
kabloie as AC
From the article:
"First, the entire park runs at 30 frames per second,..."
The park is just a huge 3D movie. That is pretty awesome.
But 30 FPS is lame! If they had a GeForce 3 and a 1.33 Athlon, they should be able to get it up to 100 FPS, even during busy parades!
kabloie
awesome link