This is NOT energy that'd just be lost. And it's NOT waste.
If they put this out on open roads or uphill grades (ramps, etc), then it IS theft.
If they put this on downhill grades (also ramps, etc), it's STILL theft. On places where people need to stop, people using regenerative braking will lose some of their fuel savings (when they're already having problems recouping the price-premium of a hybrid). On straight downhill stretches where no stopping is needed, they're increasing the wear and tear on the suspension, tires and requiring the car to expend energy it would otherwise not spend (coasting) to traverse the same distance.
All this energy is coming directly from increased fuel consumption. So it's NOT good for the environment (increased emissions and all).
So no. It's NOT money in the bank. It's money out of our pockets FOR GOOD.
Unless you want to somehow claim this device violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics....
Look up. That thing, whizzing over your head? That's you missing the point.
First off, you have your scripture messed up. Exodus 20 is the laying of the 10 Commandments. Nothing in it states that God mandated that the "days" he used to create the world have ANYTHING to do with the days in use by humanity by the time of Exodus.
At that point, day, night, etc, was well established.
During the creation of Life, The Universe, and Everyting (42!!), day, night, etc were meaningless concepts. The Big Dude took however long he wanted to take. And his method of compartmentalizing time may or may not have been different than how we badly xeroxed images of him compartmentalize time.
And, because I'm completely anal about shit like this... (pun intended).
Exd 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Exd 20:2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exd 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exd 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graveimage, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] iheaveabove, or that [is] ithe earth beneath, or that [is] ithe water under the earth:
Exd 20:5 Thou shalt not bow dowthyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upothe childreunto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
Exd 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exd 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God ivain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name ivain.
Exd 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exd 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exd 20:10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [iit] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] withithy gates:
Exd 20:11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaveand earth, the sea, and all that ithem [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exd 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upothe land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exd 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
Exd 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exd 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Exd 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exd 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.
Exd 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountaismoking: and whethe people saw [it], they removed, and stood afar off.
Exd 20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Exd 20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sinot.
Exd 20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God [was].
Exd 20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the childreof Israel, Ye have seethat I have talked with you from heaven.
Exd 20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
Exd 20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereothy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: iall places where I recor
"Other countries have democracies, even (gasp!) more vibrant ones than our own."
I should hope so!
Since the United States, regardless of what anyone says, is NOT a democracy! It's a Federal Republic with the trappings of democracy.
Goodness. I'm only 32 and I know this. What are they teaching kids in school these days?
"Some of the legislators in those democracies are forced to think on their feet (Question Time, anyone?), unlike American senators."
Meaning they are given a hotfoot, and are supposed to blurt SOMETHING out before they burn. And the rest of the time, they spend so much time in verbal vacillation that they are able to avoid actually acting on anything or, heavens forefend, ACCOMPLISHING something.
"As a result, the rhetorical skills of those legislators put the skills of ours to shame."
Like I said....
"So pardon me for thinking Norm isn't all that bright."
Always easier to label someone who disagrees with you as intellectually inferior isn't it?
Saves you the trouble of actually having to defend your point of view...
I'm so fscking SICK of these people who treat as if it's something that can be permanently gained by doing A, B, and C.
BULL!
Security is about understanding your platform. It's about knowing the strengths and weaknesses of said platform. It's about maximizing the strengths and limiting/minimizing the impact and exploitability of the weaknesses.
It's about doing A, B and C, to get going. Then next week, you do D and E. Then think about implementing F. But make sure that it doesn't conflict with B.
Also, they need to understand that security is NOT about keeping people out of the system. Face it. If someone wants to get into your systems bad enough, they WILL get in. Regardless of your protections.
It's about making it so difficult to access it in an unauthorized manner that:
A: The invader gives up and moves on to easier targets. B: Spends so much time trying to gain access that he gets noticed eventually. C: Has to utilize truly heroic (and traceable and wildly obvious) means to gain access that he gets noticed right away.
So please, people! STOP with the damn pipe-dreams about "totally secure" systems already!
The only "totally" secure system is one that's been rendered down to shavings and disbursed in random geographic locations via wind, water, and other means of distribution.
A penis encourages rape A knife encourages stabbings A car encourages vehicular manslaughter Tall buildings encourage defenestrations Deep bodies of water encourage death by drowning (assisted with concrete galoshes) Electricity encourages electrocution Computers encourage computer crime Fingers encourage theft An anus encourages public defacation Slashdot encourages dupes? (evilgrin) Eyes encourage staring like a pervert. Cameras encourage upskirting I wish these idiot trade groups would just STOP with the spurious connections.
The people I REALLY feel sorry for are the poor fucktards supporting applications on Windows. As it is, you already have to ask through multiple generations of Windows OSes. Plus you have to differentiate between two forms of Windows XP. Now imagine chucking SEVEN VERSIONS of Vista into this as well!
From the look at the site, it IS a multi-button mouse. Just with a rubber shell over the top to hide the buttons. The way they're talking about it, they're simply using the term "sensors" in place of "buttons". Because it sounds flashier.
I'm sorry, Apple's as subject to the Bathtub curve for electronics hardware as much as anyone else.
Things either go really wrong right away, or at the end of the product life cycle.
Also, there are effect of environment as well.
Stick a Mac in a dust-choked closet and it'll suck up and die just as quickly as Ye Olde Dellboxen.
Before talking about how indestructible Mac hardware is, try catching some of these people who've gone to the Apple forums to get hardware issues resolved...at least before the Apple guys delete the posts.
Before you kill this post with "-1, Troll" markdowns, do a few searches for "Broken iPod", "Problems with Apple Hardware", and browse articles on ArsTechnica, Insanely-Great, MacAddict, etc. Then tell me I'm trolling.
Okay, the reason why your pain lessened or disappeard is because you changed your typing behavior. Not because the keyboard is superior.
You're avoiding the "repetitive stress" portion of RSI. You've changed how the repetitions happen. And, for a while at least, you're going to have less pain.
However, in the long-term, you're still going to acquire a certain amount of pain from using a keyboard. As you'll set up new series of repetitions on the new keyboard layout.
Since their fuel revenues have begun dropping off, now these jackasses want to tax people not only for the fuel they buy, but ALSO for the amount of time they spend on the road!
Roads that were build long ago with public money and taxes.
Roads which SHOULD have their ongoing maintenence MORE than compensated for with the yearly revenues from fuel taxes and in some cases tolls, as well as other sources.
Roads which have had these funding coffers ROBBED, again and again by the fucking politicians to fund other projects, rather than balancing the budget and doing without pork.
Slashdot Mirror
This is NOT energy that'd just be lost. And it's NOT waste.
If they put this out on open roads or uphill grades (ramps, etc), then it IS theft.
If they put this on downhill grades (also ramps, etc), it's STILL theft. On places where people need to stop, people using regenerative braking will lose some of their fuel savings (when they're already having problems recouping the price-premium of a hybrid). On straight downhill stretches where no stopping is needed, they're increasing the wear and tear on the suspension, tires and requiring the car to expend energy it would otherwise not spend (coasting) to traverse the same distance.
All this energy is coming directly from increased fuel consumption. So it's NOT good for the environment (increased emissions and all).
So no. It's NOT money in the bank. It's money out of our pockets FOR GOOD.
Unless you want to somehow claim this device violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics....
LIKE HELL!
The comparison's to GMail aren't apt either.
GMail isn't installing crapware into your system.
The problem is, the word used in the original Hebrew does NOT mean "day". It means "a period of labor".
So please, do your homework a bit better.
Look up. That thing, whizzing over your head? That's you missing the point.
First off, you have your scripture messed up. Exodus 20 is the laying of the 10 Commandments. Nothing in it states that God mandated that the "days" he used to create the world have ANYTHING to do with the days in use by humanity by the time of Exodus.
At that point, day, night, etc, was well established.
During the creation of Life, The Universe, and Everyting (42!!), day, night, etc were meaningless concepts. The Big Dude took however long he wanted to take. And his method of compartmentalizing time may or may not have been different than how we badly xeroxed images of him compartmentalize time.
And, because I'm completely anal about shit like this... (pun intended).
Hey Chuck! You just got a reprieve!
To start using better encryption on your spooge.
The standard 46 character, trinary variable encoding is kinda weak....
Where would you like to go today...sir?
John Moschita's gonna have to talk REALLY fast to sell these!
"I'm sorry, but if I paid to create a network, I damn well have the right to say how it's run"
Yes. On the segment you set up.
If you're opting to partake of this service, which you had ZERO hand in creating, guess what.
You
have
NO
say!
So, let's look at this from the POV of software development.
You design something.
You give it away for free.
Yet you control the specifications on it.
Now Ned Gruberman comes along, telling you that you suck. That he doesn't like you, and doesn't trust you.
Therefore you MUST give up your rights to control the specifications on your own invention.
Never mind that he already gets free usage of it.
Time to show him the true beauty of Tai Kwan Leep.
Boot to the head....
*FFFFFFFWAP!*
"Other countries have democracies, even (gasp!) more vibrant ones than our own."
I should hope so!
Since the United States, regardless of what anyone says, is NOT a democracy! It's a Federal Republic with the trappings of democracy.
Goodness. I'm only 32 and I know this. What are they teaching kids in school these days?
"Some of the legislators in those democracies are forced to think on their feet (Question Time, anyone?), unlike American senators."
Meaning they are given a hotfoot, and are supposed to blurt SOMETHING out before they burn. And the rest of the time, they spend so much time in verbal vacillation that they are able to avoid actually acting on anything or, heavens forefend, ACCOMPLISHING something.
"As a result, the rhetorical skills of those legislators put the skills of ours to shame."
Like I said....
"So pardon me for thinking Norm isn't all that bright."
Always easier to label someone who disagrees with you as intellectually inferior isn't it?
Saves you the trouble of actually having to defend your point of view...
Dammit!
I'm so fscking SICK of these people who treat as if it's something that can be permanently gained by doing A, B, and C.
BULL!
Security is about understanding your platform.
It's about knowing the strengths and weaknesses of said platform.
It's about maximizing the strengths and limiting/minimizing the impact and exploitability of the weaknesses.
It's about doing A, B and C, to get going. Then next week, you do D and E. Then think about implementing F. But make sure that it doesn't conflict with B.
Also, they need to understand that security is NOT about keeping people out of the system. Face it. If someone wants to get into your systems bad enough, they WILL get in. Regardless of your protections.
It's about making it so difficult to access it in an unauthorized manner that:
A: The invader gives up and moves on to easier targets.
B: Spends so much time trying to gain access that he gets noticed eventually.
C: Has to utilize truly heroic (and traceable and wildly obvious) means to gain access that he gets noticed right away.
So please, people! STOP with the damn pipe-dreams about "totally secure" systems already!
The only "totally" secure system is one that's been rendered down to shavings and disbursed in random geographic locations via wind, water, and other means of distribution.
Considering the impending changeover, would you like a chance to modify this statement?
A penis encourages rape
A knife encourages stabbings
A car encourages vehicular manslaughter
Tall buildings encourage defenestrations
Deep bodies of water encourage death by drowning (assisted with concrete galoshes)
Electricity encourages electrocution
Computers encourage computer crime
Fingers encourage theft
An anus encourages public defacation
Slashdot encourages dupes? (evilgrin)
Eyes encourage staring like a pervert.
Cameras encourage upskirting
I wish these idiot trade groups would just STOP with the spurious connections.
The people I REALLY feel sorry for are the poor fucktards supporting applications on Windows. As it is, you already have to ask through multiple generations of Windows OSes. Plus you have to differentiate between two forms of Windows XP. Now imagine chucking SEVEN VERSIONS of Vista into this as well!
God! It's going to be fucking carnage!
I wonder how big of a cantenna I'd need.....
Note: They're still raw and unprocessed. Hopefully I'll get a chance to work on them this weekend.
Nothing could do that.
From the look at the site, it IS a multi-button mouse. Just with a rubber shell over the top to hide the buttons. The way they're talking about it, they're simply using the term "sensors" in place of "buttons". Because it sounds flashier.
I'm sorry, Apple's as subject to the Bathtub curve for electronics hardware as much as anyone else.
Things either go really wrong right away, or at the end of the product life cycle.
Also, there are effect of environment as well.
Stick a Mac in a dust-choked closet and it'll suck up and die just as quickly as Ye Olde Dellboxen.
Before talking about how indestructible Mac hardware is, try catching some of these people who've gone to the Apple forums to get hardware issues resolved...at least before the Apple guys delete the posts.
Before you kill this post with "-1, Troll" markdowns, do a few searches for "Broken iPod", "Problems with Apple Hardware", and browse articles on ArsTechnica, Insanely-Great, MacAddict, etc. Then tell me I'm trolling.
Okay, the reason why your pain lessened or disappeard is because you changed your typing behavior. Not because the keyboard is superior.
You're avoiding the "repetitive stress" portion of RSI. You've changed how the repetitions happen. And, for a while at least, you're going to have less pain.
However, in the long-term, you're still going to acquire a certain amount of pain from using a keyboard. As you'll set up new series of repetitions on the new keyboard layout.
The Search For More Money!
Look at our bestest buds in California.
Since their fuel revenues have begun dropping off, now these jackasses want to tax people not only for the fuel they buy, but ALSO for the amount of time they spend on the road!
Roads that were build long ago with public money and taxes.
Roads which SHOULD have their ongoing maintenence MORE than compensated for with the yearly revenues from fuel taxes and in some cases tolls, as well as other sources.
Roads which have had these funding coffers ROBBED, again and again by the fucking politicians to fund other projects, rather than balancing the budget and doing without pork.
Anyhoo, this is good news.
;)
Now I can rip this stuff off to 64K MP3, then convert it over to Real, and finally through to it's final form as a DRM'ed WMA.
C'mon guys. Don't you even read your own posts?
I'm not being an idiot.
And I'm not saying the person who decides to go in and steal something isn't to blame. Merely that there's more than enough blame to go around.
Lock your door. If he still gets in, he's still fully to blame.
If you don't lock your door, you're to blame just as much as he is. You may as well just put out a sign saying "Come in and take shit".
Thanks for the flaming AC response, pussy.