>GE foods available for purchace are never harmful to humans.
What a bold an unfounded statement.
it is a stupid statement, a more correct statement would be "GE foods are not more harmfull than non GE foods."
If non GE foods were never harmful, I would never want anything else either. un-modified food crops have been introduced in lots of places with disasterous results to the native plants, and wildlife. Because their is still alott more attention paid to GE, and those introducing them, they know 1 mistake in these early stages would be disasterous to them.
their are so many people with food alergies regardless of the foods background (not to mention cholestrol, fat, diabiates) their is very little food that could fit the category "never harmful to humans."
> What possible use is something that only locks and unlocks from the inside in that case?
because Fang, my dog, lays in wait under the porch at the only door without a dead bolt (with a video camera for hours of personal enjoyment later.)
oh, okay his name is actually buddy, and he waits inside, with every door unlocked. but that bite on your ass will hurt all the same (assuming you are not ready.)
in which a witness's answers may tend to incriminate her in a future criminal trial...
interesting, I stopped at the wiki, it was about the extent of my legal patience.
my understanding is that this is all over copyright violations, which thanks to the "1997 No Electronic Theft ("NET") Act" all copyright violations over $1000 are indeed criminal.
I do agree the 5th doesn't apply in the case, because it is highly doubtfull that anyone is suspecious of any acts Otis Wilson directly participated in, only what he knows about the timming, and correct owners of any copyrighted materials in question.
now fifth probably doesn't apply to him because he is likely being compelled to incriminate IBM, not himself, which should not be protected no matter how much stock he has.
braindead lusers end up staring on a black screen with garbage and a 'login:', and DUUH. I can attest that I have looked at a screen of Garbage on every OS I have ever ran, and said "WTF do I do now?" If you haven't then you are by (my) definition simply a brain-dead luser. ( that would include many flavors of windows, and linux, and a couple UNIX's also.) I think That is saying that enough people bring their problems to me, and I do enough messing on my own to really experienced screwed up PC's. It is difficult for anyone to know what next, unless it happens reguarly to them.
Most recently was indeed xserver problems after kernel updates, and missing kernel modules for ATI video card. It was month(s) after the updates were applied, because I didn't care to reboot immediately, and uptime was their until power went out for longer than my UPS lived. So I got a dead PC after lightning and storms (oh I dropped the box while unplugged right before the previous power on.) So what would you do? I know I turned the box off and waited for a day to contemplate how to prove the OS vs hardware... (and to ovecome my lack of hard documentation of the PC history, does anyone bother with that?)
I blamed windows on a similiar problem weeks earlier, that one looked like a OS was trying to take over, turned out a badly implemented BIOS, that didn't like a SD card inserted (tried to boot it, I guess.)
so trying to diagnose nearly identical black screen failure and lockup on boot, one I unpluged every Motherboard connector, to work out to find a small black sd card in a small black slot, under a black cover. The other I skipped that step, simply because the box was very difficult to enter, but I bet switching to on board video would have placed blame on the video hardware (esp with monitor not on UPS)
>After all, when you buy a stock, the only businessman who clearly benefits from that is the broker. I don't disagree with your assement of the scenrio, however real money does go into the IPO, and does (sometimes) infuse a company with the resources to grow. other times it just pays off (excesively?) the people who already did all the hardwork, and took the risks in creating a company.
If their wasn't people trading stocks, then their wouldn't be the incentive to those who purchase IPO's... As far as the phantom money, the only phantom money is when you count your eggs before they hatch. So valuing a company by taking the number of shares * current trade price, creates a false evaluation, and false money that doesn't really exist. The trade price is trying to place a value on all the intagibles like future talents of all the people working for the company, also values derived from city, county, and privare services that the company doesn't own, and can leave to another company at any time. But provides the reasons for speculation above the companys asset values.
however the companys evaluation is a asset that they use as leverage to buy other companys, and as a bank to sell new shares, or borrow against... so pushing that price up does help the company grow.
So if you broke a law, and leading up to breaking that law you took any avoidable action that would have within reason caused you to break that law...
I think their would be a strong argument that you couldn't legaly destroy the box, after the moment you knew that your vehicle caused property damage, or injury. So the moment you opened your car door, or looked out the window. But while your face was still stuck to the air bag, sure.
>He says he uses his cell phone while flying all the time wasm't their a gadget they were putting in planes that would tell cell phones to go to minimum power only? I know that I forgot to turn off my cell phone until we started taxing to the runway, grabbed it, and it had dropped to minimum coverage, while having full coverage at the terminal. this would apply only to comercial flights of course. basically both sides could be right. cell phones could work only on some flights.
a quick search only turned up a quote on flight cell service "AirCell says its device can address both problems. The company's equipment consists of a box packaged with antennas that controls the power emitted by the cell phones so they don't interfere with onboard equipment."
They were constantly stealing music, downloading porn or otherwise being stupid about their online activities.
The people I know how constantly download/etc have found a method that works, and don't have a real problem (okay, maybe a couple os reloads finding the magic way, but that was doable by the PC litereate.) It's the novices, and people (who tend to be older) that are scared to download any programs to protect/clean... from the internet that have gotten caught up in it (with my little experience.) Also they only turn their PC on weekly, so they lost all their orignial docs (not actually lost, just forgot that any disks came with it) and windows automatic updates don't ever catch up to them, since the blue button on the front just suspends, and MS doesn't install more than 5 updates, before it gets stuck waiting for a reboot. even if it asks for one, they say ok, I'll hit the blue button when I am done surfing...
> Just you try it. It's actually very hard. forget to hit the post anonymously button? first you encourage a terrorist act, then you basically claim to have attempted said terrorist act yourself.
I will say only limited by access to $$$, and a little patience. After all I am sure anyone who owns/has access to a private jet (how many thousands of people is that?) can get 5000 lbs of diesiel into the air tomorow. Anyone of which could also get a couple months of time at a flight simulator to do the rest. I personally would fit in with over a 1/4 of the US population in that I could get my hands on ~$250,000 for a couple months, with some creative finances... with that I think I could easily get control of a flying tank with enough boom, with that, if that was my last wish. I would guess a 10% chance of getting caught before takeoff...
I don't think it's easy, but doable by well over half of your typical slasdot nerds. If that extream of a dedication were present.
now no amount of screening of comercial passangers would slow the easiest attempts at a building. They could instead put a end to the middle classes vacation flying though, with a lott less cach outflow.
>A girl, at university, that will seek you out because you can fix her laptop--that's running Linux--and who might find out
problem is their are 1000 geeky looking guys who will claim to be able to fix the thing, and only 100 who can.
so she may have to tease 5-20 geeks to find the one who's real, hopefully none of the pretenders screw too badly (err screw up the laptop, ya.) sort of the beauty and the geek without (hopefully for her) cameras.
It is not possible for a program to analyze another program and find all the bugs
sure it is, just read your link, "It is not enough to be able to look at some programs and decide."
it is quite probable that a program can find all bugs in some programs. Of course it can't analyze all problems in all programs. The point was probably to extrapolate the results, so if they know that their program finds 50% of problems in a test sample of programs...
The flaw here, is that obviously firefox developers have used a program similar to coventry in the past, theirfore the tools low initial results probably weren't that surprising.
I challenge this notion. Conductor size is not related to whether the power is AC or DC or what frequency of AC it might be; it is related to current.
I assume it is the ease/cheapness of a A/C transformer to step up, and down so you can run high voltages closer to the equipment room with AC. Since I know of no way to reliably generate DC voltages without chopping up AC power first (at the power they are talking.) I guess they need UPS backup anyway, and that seams likely where the savings can be, when you fall over to your backup?
Unless they have enough solar panels to directly generate the DC?
so I am guessing their Total power bill doesn't go down, but the power used in the computer room was less. Although heat generation would be less in the computer room, so that could save power. Assuming you have to cool the electronics to 75F, but having a seperate transformer room that could be run at 150F.
>A 220 volt AC wall outlet will also kill you. just so you know, in the USA, a 220V AC outlet is actually just 2 * 110V AC outlets out of phase with each other. so no leg of a 220V outlet is more than 126 Volts above ground.
so the only way a 220 Volt outlet is more dangerous than a 110Volt, is if you grab both hot wires simultaneously.
110Volts contact at the hands is not supposed to be enough potential to affect a healthy heart unless some reason you have a lower body resistance than normal... However the energy potential can be greater, so a short from a tool, or faulty equipment can become explosive, but thats true regardless the voltage.
I have been shocked by 480V 3 phase, which sounds really bad, it was from a single leg, which is ~277 Volts. I still don't recommend it, especially since I was standing in water at the time. but thats not that much worse than the 220Volts that much of Europe uses (all my muscles were sore and weak for 2 days, like a super through workout afterwords.)
> his picture (and possibly finger scan) are deposited on the chip. And digitally signed. actually according to the article, that is not happening yet, on any rfid passports. So any actual photo/fingerprint to compare to is comming from a central database, so all the rfid chip provides is a unique string of numbers to look him up in the database. So if only they would put a unique string of numbers on the paper passport, you know a SecuityNumber of some sort, hmmmmm, maybe a SSN, and a uniquie code to unlock the rfid chip would be enough?
Since you already have to key in a unlock code to access the data on the RFID chip, and that code is easily changed, according to the article, so you then most compare more information between the paper and the RFID chip to trust it... So why does the RFID help? If you have the persons number printed on the passport, and you got a database to look them up in anyway. the only thing I can find, that RFID helps in, is when you don't trust the people scanning to key in correctly, if you got the RFID scan, you know that at some point the official maning that station either encounterd the RFID chip, or a copy of it.
>One thing he knows is that the picture on the chip was actually taken by a french passport official with access well, not true in the U.S. I took the picture on my passport, and sent it to the US Pasport agency, they give no other option.
I'd sure hate to have someone's clunker dripping oil onto my windshield.
from the article: it learns when particular cars tend to be picked up and dropped off and shuffles its load to optimize pickup time.
so, they could allow you to pay extra, for a non oily spot (at the top) but also keep the leakers at the bottom... Although I had a truck with a leaking gas tank when more than half full, it wouldn't enven get onto the lift before it was banned from the garage.
>Ah yes, so he could clone someone else's chip, if he can steal their passport, and place it on his own passport.
Except that 2 major stated purposes of RFID in passports is nullified by his actions.
IE: RFID passports are more secure/no the digital portion can be copied easier than the paper. RFID passports will speed customs/no the RFID download can't be trusted, without thourgh comparison to the paper.
also Identity theft occurs within families. So if I were 18 year old George W Bush Jr, I snag W Bush Sr's passport, make a copy of the chip, return it. Unless a photo is on the RFID chip, their are only 3 differences in our passports, 1) Age, 2) a additional roman numeral (ie III instead of II) 3) SSN
not to mention their are 3 unrelatead Jim Jones within 5 miles of my house, all within 5 years of age to me, likely at least 2 have the first 3 digits of their SSN the same as me (most SSN's issued in my home state, of simular issue dates started with number in the range of 478 to 480) So if I were to become a felon on Parol with a travel ban, 1) have my name legaly changed to Jim Jones 2) Break into Jim Jones' houses, cloan digital chip, Jim never knows. 3) I now have 4 passable unique ID's to use anywhere I want, 1 piece of paper, 3 chips to swap.
> he even states the cropping issue with blu-ray is "likely a player issue" at the beginning he also stated that he was using the only blue-ray player available on the market. so that site appears to covers all you need to know if your considering a purchase, as a early adopter. (ie available content, available harware)
as far as the superior disk, ignoring all hardware issues, has to be the Blue-ray disk, because of pure size capabilty. after all packaging (media robust ness), cost, and algorithmic dificulty is all about manufacturing issues (proer CPU choice, volume discounts,...) But i don't see how theory has any bearing on anything usefull in the purely entertainment atmosphere of this topic, both formats are perfectly capable of storing enough HD content (unlike the VHS/betamax issues) so it is all about implementation, and appears Blue-ray is behind.
basically if you were to break up into small enough piecies, and burn the nuclear waste from nuclear plants, releasing all waste to the atmosphere. The population around these plants would have less exposure (per Kw electricity produced) from nuclear power, than that of the current coal power.
> everybody wants to get a choke-hold on emerging markets (the same markets that these target);
interesting, so will intel be making overclocking chips for the AMD slots on these boxen? or will the originating companys be profiting by overclockers?
I think the politicians currently in power want to make sure a easy reliable quick voting system doesn't work (or at the least isn't trusted.) otherwise once that system is deployed it would be to easy and cheap to allow the voters to:
A) vote on any issue directly, or worse yet (for them)
b) call for a midterm election everytime they screw us with crap legislation, and be able to actually clean up the system.
>It takes all of about 2 seconds for a repo-man's towing device to grab a vehicle. then why brake the locks? I guess to push it from his shop to the dumping ground? considering the guy was seriously in debt, it is a bit suspicious, but he would need the car destroyed not fixable.
If the car is un-stealable, then why carry theft coverage (finance requires, well ok but they should change that, or require paying insurance companys.) I do wonder about the rear bumber, if the rear bumper was damaged then he has steering, shifting from park, brakes, and a power source. what else is missing?
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it is a stupid statement, a more correct statement would be "GE foods are not more harmfull than non GE foods."
If non GE foods were never harmful, I would never want anything else either. un-modified food crops have been introduced in lots of places with disasterous results to the native plants, and wildlife. Because their is still alott more attention paid to GE, and those introducing them, they know 1 mistake in these early stages would be disasterous to them.
their are so many people with food alergies regardless of the foods background (not to mention cholestrol, fat, diabiates) their is very little food that could fit the category "never harmful to humans."
obligatory:
1) hack a ms product.
2) send gotse pictures.
3) ?????
4) profit.
you were so close to sending adverts like "if you bought a IPOD at mysite.craigslist.com you would be listing to music now."
> What possible use is something that only locks and unlocks from the inside in that case?
because Fang, my dog, lays in wait under the porch at the only door without a dead bolt (with a video camera for hours of personal enjoyment later.)
oh, okay his name is actually buddy, and he waits inside, with every door unlocked. but that bite on your ass will hurt all the same (assuming you are not ready.)
interesting, I stopped at the wiki, it was about the extent of my legal patience.
my understanding is that this is all over copyright violations, which thanks to the "1997 No Electronic Theft ("NET") Act" all copyright violations over $1000 are indeed criminal.
I do agree the 5th doesn't apply in the case, because it is highly doubtfull that anyone is suspecious of any acts Otis Wilson directly participated in, only what he knows about the timming, and correct owners of any copyrighted materials in question.
got a source?
Fifth Amendment protections apply wherever and whenever an individual is compelled to testify. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the privilege against self-incrimination applies whether the witness is in Federal or state court (see Malloy v. Hogan, 378 U.S. 1 (1964)), and whether the proceeding itself is criminal or civil (see McCarthy v. Arndstein, 266 U.S. 34 (1924)).
now fifth probably doesn't apply to him because he is likely being compelled to incriminate IBM, not himself, which should not be protected no matter how much stock he has.
braindead lusers end up staring on a black screen with garbage and a 'login :', and DUUH.
I can attest that I have looked at a screen of Garbage on every OS I have ever ran, and said "WTF do I do now?" If you haven't then you are by (my) definition simply a brain-dead luser.
( that would include many flavors of windows, and linux, and a couple UNIX's also.)
I think That is saying that enough people bring their problems to me, and I do enough messing on my own to really experienced screwed up PC's. It is difficult for anyone to know what next, unless it happens reguarly to them.
Most recently was indeed xserver problems after kernel updates, and missing kernel modules for ATI video card. It was month(s) after the updates were applied, because I didn't care to reboot immediately, and uptime was their until power went out for longer than my UPS lived. So I got a dead PC after lightning and storms (oh I dropped the box while unplugged right before the previous power on.) So what would you do? I know I turned the box off and waited for a day to contemplate how to prove the OS vs hardware... (and to ovecome my lack of hard documentation of the PC history, does anyone bother with that?)
I blamed windows on a similiar problem weeks earlier, that one looked like a OS was trying to take over, turned out a badly implemented BIOS, that didn't like a SD card inserted (tried to boot it, I guess.)
so trying to diagnose nearly identical black screen failure and lockup on boot, one I unpluged every Motherboard connector, to work out to find a small black sd card in a small black slot, under a black cover. The other I skipped that step, simply because the box was very difficult to enter, but I bet switching to on board video would have placed blame on the video hardware (esp with monitor not on UPS)
>After all, when you buy a stock, the only businessman who clearly benefits from that is the broker.
I don't disagree with your assement of the scenrio, however real money does go into the IPO, and does (sometimes) infuse a company with the resources to grow. other times it just pays off (excesively?) the people who already did all the hardwork, and took the risks in creating a company.
If their wasn't people trading stocks, then their wouldn't be the incentive to those who purchase IPO's... As far as the phantom money, the only phantom money is when you count your eggs before they hatch. So valuing a company by taking the number of shares * current trade price, creates a false evaluation, and false money that doesn't really exist. The trade price is trying to place a value on all the intagibles like future talents of all the people working for the company, also values derived from city, county, and privare services that the company doesn't own, and can leave to another company at any time. But provides the reasons for speculation above the companys asset values.
however the companys evaluation is a asset that they use as leverage to buy other companys, and as a bank to sell new shares, or borrow against... so pushing that price up does help the company grow.
9) when relying on windows PC, print out the slides also, and have them available to hand out.
I disagree,
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution includes the text:
No person shall be
or if someone could show that you engaged in some behavior, which society has an interest in preventing.
So if you broke a law, and leading up to breaking that law you took any avoidable action that would have within reason caused you to break that law...
I think their would be a strong argument that you couldn't legaly destroy the box, after the moment you knew that your vehicle caused property damage, or injury. So the moment you opened your car door, or looked out the window. But while your face was still stuck to the air bag, sure.
>He says he uses his cell phone while flying all the time
wasm't their a gadget they were putting in planes that would tell cell phones to go to minimum power only? I know that I forgot to turn off my cell phone until we started taxing to the runway, grabbed it, and it had dropped to minimum coverage, while having full coverage at the terminal.
this would apply only to comercial flights of course. basically both sides could be right. cell phones could work only on some flights.
a quick search only turned up a quote on flight cell service
"AirCell says its device can address both problems. The company's equipment consists of a box packaged with antennas that controls the power emitted by the cell phones so they don't interfere with onboard equipment."
They were constantly stealing music, downloading porn or otherwise being stupid about their online activities.
The people I know how constantly download/etc have found a method that works, and don't have a real problem (okay, maybe a couple os reloads finding the magic way, but that was doable by the PC litereate.)
It's the novices, and people (who tend to be older) that are scared to download any programs to protect/clean... from the internet that have gotten caught up in it (with my little experience.) Also they only turn their PC on weekly, so they lost all their orignial docs (not actually lost, just forgot that any disks came with it) and windows automatic updates don't ever catch up to them, since the blue button on the front just suspends, and MS doesn't install more than 5 updates, before it gets stuck waiting for a reboot. even if it asks for one, they say ok, I'll hit the blue button when I am done surfing...
> Just you try it. It's actually very hard.
forget to hit the post anonymously button? first you encourage a terrorist act, then you basically claim to have attempted said terrorist act yourself.
I will say only limited by access to $$$, and a little patience. After all I am sure anyone who owns/has access to a private jet (how many thousands of people is that?) can get 5000 lbs of diesiel into the air tomorow. Anyone of which could also get a couple months of time at a flight simulator to do the rest. I personally would fit in with over a 1/4 of the US population in that I could get my hands on ~$250,000 for a couple months, with some creative finances... with that I think I could easily get control of a flying tank with enough boom, with that, if that was my last wish. I would guess a 10% chance of getting caught before takeoff...
I don't think it's easy, but doable by well over half of your typical slasdot nerds. If that extream of a dedication were present.
now no amount of screening of comercial passangers would slow the easiest attempts at a building. They could instead put a end to the middle classes vacation flying though, with a lott less cach outflow.
>A girl, at university, that will seek you out because you can fix her laptop--that's running Linux--and who might find out
problem is their are 1000 geeky looking guys who will claim to be able to fix the thing, and only 100 who can.
so she may have to tease 5-20 geeks to find the one who's real, hopefully none of the pretenders screw too badly (err screw up the laptop, ya.)
sort of the beauty and the geek without (hopefully for her) cameras.
sure it is, just read your link, "It is not enough to be able to look at some programs and decide."
it is quite probable that a program can find all bugs in some programs. Of course it can't analyze all problems in all programs. The point was probably to extrapolate the results, so if they know that their program finds 50% of problems in a test sample of programs...
The flaw here, is that obviously firefox developers have used a program similar to coventry in the past, theirfore the tools low initial results probably weren't that surprising.
I challenge this notion. Conductor size is not related to whether the power is AC or DC or what frequency of AC it might be; it is related to current.
I assume it is the ease/cheapness of a A/C transformer to step up, and down so you can run high voltages closer to the equipment room with AC. Since I know of no way to reliably generate DC voltages without chopping up AC power first (at the power they are talking.) I guess they need UPS backup anyway, and that seams likely where the savings can be, when you fall over to your backup?
Unless they have enough solar panels to directly generate the DC?
so I am guessing their Total power bill doesn't go down, but the power used in the computer room was less. Although heat generation would be less in the computer room, so that could save power. Assuming you have to cool the electronics to 75F, but having a seperate transformer room that could be run at 150F.
>A 220 volt AC wall outlet will also kill you.
just so you know, in the USA, a 220V AC outlet is actually just 2 * 110V AC outlets out of phase with each other. so no leg of a 220V outlet is more than 126 Volts above ground.
so the only way a 220 Volt outlet is more dangerous than a 110Volt, is if you grab both hot wires simultaneously.
110Volts contact at the hands is not supposed to be enough potential to affect a healthy heart unless some reason you have a lower body resistance than normal...
However the energy potential can be greater, so a short from a tool, or faulty equipment can become explosive, but thats true regardless the voltage.
I have been shocked by 480V 3 phase, which sounds really bad, it was from a single leg, which is ~277 Volts. I still don't recommend it, especially since I was standing in water at the time. but thats not that much worse than the 220Volts that much of Europe uses (all my muscles were sore and weak for 2 days, like a super through workout afterwords.)
> his picture (and possibly finger scan) are deposited on the chip. And digitally signed.
actually according to the article, that is not happening yet, on any rfid passports. So any actual photo/fingerprint to compare to is comming from a central database, so all the rfid chip provides is a unique string of numbers to look him up in the database. So if only they would put a unique string of numbers on the paper passport, you know a SecuityNumber of some sort, hmmmmm, maybe a SSN, and a uniquie code to unlock the rfid chip would be enough?
Since you already have to key in a unlock code to access the data on the RFID chip, and that code is easily changed, according to the article, so you then most compare more information between the paper and the RFID chip to trust it...
So why does the RFID help? If you have the persons number printed on the passport, and you got a database to look them up in anyway. the only thing I can find, that RFID helps in, is when you don't trust the people scanning to key in correctly, if you got the RFID scan, you know that at some point the official maning that station either encounterd the RFID chip, or a copy of it.
>One thing he knows is that the picture on the chip was actually taken by a french passport official with access
well, not true in the U.S. I took the picture on my passport, and sent it to the US Pasport agency, they give no other option.
from the article:
it learns when particular cars tend to be picked up and dropped off and shuffles its load to optimize pickup time.
so, they could allow you to pay extra, for a non oily spot (at the top) but also keep the leakers at the bottom... Although I had a truck with a leaking gas tank when more than half full, it wouldn't enven get onto the lift before it was banned from the garage.
>Ah yes, so he could clone someone else's chip, if he can steal their passport, and place it on his own passport.
Except that 2 major stated purposes of RFID in passports is nullified by his actions.
IE:
RFID passports are more secure/no the digital portion can be copied easier than the paper.
RFID passports will speed customs/no the RFID download can't be trusted, without thourgh comparison to the paper.
also Identity theft occurs within families. So if I were 18 year old George W Bush Jr, I snag W Bush Sr's passport, make a copy of the chip, return it. Unless a photo is on the RFID chip, their are only 3 differences in our passports, 1) Age, 2) a additional roman numeral (ie III instead of II) 3) SSN
not to mention their are 3 unrelatead Jim Jones within 5 miles of my house, all within 5 years of age to me, likely at least 2 have the first 3 digits of their SSN the same as me (most SSN's issued in my home state, of simular issue dates started with number in the range of 478 to 480)
So if I were to become a felon on Parol with a travel ban,
1) have my name legaly changed to Jim Jones
2) Break into Jim Jones' houses, cloan digital chip, Jim never knows.
3) I now have 4 passable unique ID's to use anywhere I want, 1 piece of paper, 3 chips to swap.
> he even states the cropping issue with blu-ray is "likely a player issue"
at the beginning he also stated that he was using the only blue-ray player available on the market. so that site appears to covers all you need to know if your considering a purchase, as a early adopter. (ie available content, available harware)
as far as the superior disk, ignoring all hardware issues, has to be the Blue-ray disk, because of pure size capabilty. after all packaging (media robust ness), cost, and algorithmic dificulty is all about manufacturing issues (proer CPU choice, volume discounts,...) But i don't see how theory has any bearing on anything usefull in the purely entertainment atmosphere of this topic, both formats are perfectly capable of storing enough HD content (unlike the VHS/betamax issues) so it is all about implementation, and appears Blue-ray is behind.
> I'm hoping your comment was tongue-in-cheek.
maybe by coal power, he means take the radiation from coal, and we will have nuclear powered cars (transported by a electric battery from the actual generator I hope.)
Consequently, the energy content of nuclear fuel released in coal combustion is more than that of the coal consumed!
basically if you were to break up into small enough piecies, and burn the nuclear waste from nuclear plants, releasing all waste to the atmosphere. The population around these plants would have less exposure (per Kw electricity produced) from nuclear power, than that of the current coal power.
> everybody wants to get a choke-hold on emerging markets (the same markets that these target);
interesting, so will intel be making overclocking chips for the AMD slots on these boxen? or will the originating companys be profiting by overclockers?
>Here's a hint for politicians:
I think the politicians currently in power want to make sure a easy reliable quick voting system doesn't work (or at the least isn't trusted.) otherwise once that system is deployed it would be to easy and cheap to allow the voters to:
A) vote on any issue directly, or worse yet (for them)
b) call for a midterm election everytime they screw us with crap legislation, and be able to actually clean up the system.
>It takes all of about 2 seconds for a repo-man's towing device to grab a vehicle.
then why brake the locks? I guess to push it from his shop to the dumping ground? considering the guy was seriously in debt, it is a bit suspicious, but he would need the car destroyed not fixable.
If the car is un-stealable, then why carry theft coverage (finance requires, well ok but they should change that, or require paying insurance companys.)
I do wonder about the rear bumber, if the rear bumper was damaged then he has steering, shifting from park, brakes, and a power source. what else is missing?