Yep. Precedent was set with the mp3.com case, where people uploaded their own music to the service and streamed it back to their mobile device. Was shut down right quick once the lawyers got involved.
[quote]It is named after a Missouri public school student who was repeatedly molested by a teacher several decades ago. [/quote]
I'm guessing the law is more encompassing than just Facebook friends, it probably aims to prevent students and teachers from becoming friends at all. Otherwise the name of the law would be rather odd given that I don't think any students and teachers were hooking up via Facebook several decades ago.
By my calculations, you could cover the entire continental US with just under 250 of those base stations. Obviously real life factors would increase that number quite a lot, but that still doesn't seem like that many towers. I'm guessing it's probably not practical to put very many people on a single tower, so such a system would have to be fairly exclusive (probably expensive).
The writeup made it sound like you could look at a crappy snapshot of a person and magically discover their SSN. What actually happened is that they trolled the Facebook profiles for their hometown and date of birth to discover the SSNs, the webcam was just to match up the person sitting at a terminal currently with their Facebook profile. The story is basically: Off the shelf facial recognition software seems to work pretty good, even with a crappy webcam.
How are you going to maintain it when it's in orbit around the moon? We don't currently have any vehicles capable of reaching the moon, and the ISS requires regular maintenance to keep working. Your proposal would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to put a useless deathtrap in orbit of the moon.
Are you sure you didn't do a search for bitcoins yourself earlier? Google will remember that. I tried the same autocomplete query just now and only got:
slashdot rss
slashdot effect
slashdot reader
slashdot.org
slashdot wiki
He was finally captured a few minutes ago. Apparently he looked Nordic, so this adds some credence to the "home grown right wing extremists" theory. So far there appear to be 5 dead in the shootings, but everybody is still in hiding (except for the ones that swam over to the mainland) so the bodycount has not been confirmed.
I'm impressed they were able to capture him alive. Frequently with gunmen like this they go out the Suicide by Cop way.
Basically, Apple has gone back to being a hardware company. I wish Microsoft would do this too, most people never upgrade Windows except when they buy a new machine because Microsoft charges an arm and a leg for each upgrade. With Apple there is little excuse not to be running the latest version.
That said, there is one reason not to upgrade to Lion: If you still use PowerPC based applications (like Quicken!), they won't work in Lion. Apple removed the compatibility layer and doesn't even offer a way to install it as an optional package.
Last time I checked, DRAM was still an order of magnitude faster than NAND flash, so swapping out your memory for flash storage would seem to be insane to me. At first I thought it was going to be how replacing a spinning disk with a flash drive is a much more noticeable upgrade than going from 4GB to 8GB of memory, but the article seems to suggest that because the market dipped a bit, DRAM is going to die out entirely and we'll be using only NAND flash for all memory on the system.
There would have to be some tremendous breakthroughs in speed, power, and especially reliability before I ever considered such a thing. It would be complete lunacy with today's technology.
Heck, the "non-free" parts of Linux would just have no support at all in Hurd, so there's not even a win there. You can always setup a Linux distro to avoid all non-free stuff if that's what you care about.
Check your manufacturer, most of the reputable ones offer multi-year replacement guarantees on the bulbs. Although if you buy good ones originally you generally won't need to use those guarantees.
Unlike old style bulbs, CFLs are complex enough that quality matters. The ultra-cheap ones are really crap.
Heck, most of the extra resource requirements for Vista were due to the new DRM subsystem. Without that, it would have run on pretty much anything that XP was already running on, minus some very low memory systems.
I had an email account through my school from '95 on that was basically spam free till the end of the entire decade. I even used it to post to the Usenet. I'm not sure why spammers never seemed to latch on to it for those five years. It was only when I registered a domain with it that spam started pouring in. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, the whole registrar business seems chock full of assholes who won't stoop to any level if it will make them a fraction of a cent.
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A better example would be: A and B are rational, therefore A is rational.
Yep. Precedent was set with the mp3.com case, where people uploaded their own music to the service and streamed it back to their mobile device. Was shut down right quick once the lawyers got involved.
[quote]It is named after a Missouri public school student who was repeatedly molested by a teacher several decades ago. [/quote] I'm guessing the law is more encompassing than just Facebook friends, it probably aims to prevent students and teachers from becoming friends at all. Otherwise the name of the law would be rather odd given that I don't think any students and teachers were hooking up via Facebook several decades ago.
By my calculations, you could cover the entire continental US with just under 250 of those base stations. Obviously real life factors would increase that number quite a lot, but that still doesn't seem like that many towers. I'm guessing it's probably not practical to put very many people on a single tower, so such a system would have to be fairly exclusive (probably expensive).
The writeup made it sound like you could look at a crappy snapshot of a person and magically discover their SSN. What actually happened is that they trolled the Facebook profiles for their hometown and date of birth to discover the SSNs, the webcam was just to match up the person sitting at a terminal currently with their Facebook profile. The story is basically: Off the shelf facial recognition software seems to work pretty good, even with a crappy webcam.
You're not being punished for enjoying speed, you're being punished for destroying the environment.
I wish I still had modpoints so I could mod that funny.
How are you going to maintain it when it's in orbit around the moon? We don't currently have any vehicles capable of reaching the moon, and the ISS requires regular maintenance to keep working. Your proposal would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to put a useless deathtrap in orbit of the moon.
Are you sure you didn't do a search for bitcoins yourself earlier? Google will remember that. I tried the same autocomplete query just now and only got:
slashdot rss
slashdot effect
slashdot reader
slashdot.org
slashdot wiki
No bitcoin mentions on the first page either.
He was finally captured a few minutes ago. Apparently he looked Nordic, so this adds some credence to the "home grown right wing extremists" theory. So far there appear to be 5 dead in the shootings, but everybody is still in hiding (except for the ones that swam over to the mainland) so the bodycount has not been confirmed.
I'm impressed they were able to capture him alive. Frequently with gunmen like this they go out the Suicide by Cop way.
I assume this is for those times where you want your Core i7 machine to run like a 486?
Exploit a bug in the viewer app to give full access to the user account?
I can't wait to watch my display's framerate go down when I'm downloading a large file over the network to a Firewire connected disk.
Basically, Apple has gone back to being a hardware company. I wish Microsoft would do this too, most people never upgrade Windows except when they buy a new machine because Microsoft charges an arm and a leg for each upgrade. With Apple there is little excuse not to be running the latest version.
That said, there is one reason not to upgrade to Lion: If you still use PowerPC based applications (like Quicken!), they won't work in Lion. Apple removed the compatibility layer and doesn't even offer a way to install it as an optional package.
Motorcycles are more or less grandfathered in at this point. They would never get approval if they were invented today.
Last time I checked, DRAM was still an order of magnitude faster than NAND flash, so swapping out your memory for flash storage would seem to be insane to me. At first I thought it was going to be how replacing a spinning disk with a flash drive is a much more noticeable upgrade than going from 4GB to 8GB of memory, but the article seems to suggest that because the market dipped a bit, DRAM is going to die out entirely and we'll be using only NAND flash for all memory on the system.
There would have to be some tremendous breakthroughs in speed, power, and especially reliability before I ever considered such a thing. It would be complete lunacy with today's technology.
Heck, the "non-free" parts of Linux would just have no support at all in Hurd, so there's not even a win there. You can always setup a Linux distro to avoid all non-free stuff if that's what you care about.
Have you flown anytime in the previous decade? That assumption has been there for a long time already.
Check your manufacturer, most of the reputable ones offer multi-year replacement guarantees on the bulbs. Although if you buy good ones originally you generally won't need to use those guarantees.
Unlike old style bulbs, CFLs are complex enough that quality matters. The ultra-cheap ones are really crap.
Maybe I'm nuts, but last time I checked my local store still had plenty of incandescent bulbs for sale. Wait, I can check.
Nope, not nuts..
If there was a ban on these things, it doesn't appear to be working.
Aero was optional though, on slow systems it would revert back to basically XP level graphics.
Heck, most of the extra resource requirements for Vista were due to the new DRM subsystem. Without that, it would have run on pretty much anything that XP was already running on, minus some very low memory systems.
Are they spending a lot of money for a fancy computer system that will tell them to watch out for crime in the crime ridden part of town?
I had an email account through my school from '95 on that was basically spam free till the end of the entire decade. I even used it to post to the Usenet. I'm not sure why spammers never seemed to latch on to it for those five years. It was only when I registered a domain with it that spam started pouring in. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, the whole registrar business seems chock full of assholes who won't stoop to any level if it will make them a fraction of a cent.
Isn't the budget being drafted by the Congress, not the White House?