Wow. I use 300MB a month just casually browsing between classes at school when it would take too long to pull out my netbook. That's JUST reading news/weather/fark, all of which use mobile sites and not much in the way of graphics. I couldn't imagine what would happen if someone watched a youtube video or was in a heated session of sending/receiving dirty pictures from their significant other.
If Intel needs anything, it's to work on their integrated graphics for laptops. Intel graphics chipsets are so bad that they struggle immensely with low resolution flash animations.
Industrialized cattle production basically means that the cattle is stressed to the max most of the times. They're cramped, have shitty diets, get pumped full of chemicals, then they're cattle prodded down into the slaughtering machine.
Stress hormones tend to break down muscle and turn it into energy. Also, stress hormones lower immune system activity after a while.
So you get meat that's less muscle and more fat. There may be more to it.
I got 'promoted' to an accounting department at one time. I revolutionized the way they worked, making it much more efficient with a few minor changes.
For example, people were actually writing down around a hundred ten digit long invoice numbers rather than simply copying/pasting them into notepad so they could turn around and type it into another program to print those invoices. I showed people how to use notepad to do that in all of five minutes instead of nearly an hour per batch and the reaction was negative. Hell, even the leader of the department utterly failed to see the benefit of it.
It took an hour, I was able to show people how to do it in five minutes, and as a result most people were still taking the hour route. So at the end of the day when I was doing more work than most of the people in the department combined, someone would still find the time to complain that they saw me talking to a friend from another department rather than working.
Or, another example. Before that, I worked in another department. Rather than training one or two people to do a special task, the entire department would spend hours and hours being trained on how to do it. All of them forgot how to do it because they might have to do it once a month. The next time a 'special task' came up I came up with the idea of only training a few people to do it and letting them take care of said special task. That got shot down because 'what if they're all absent one day and it needs to be done? then no one can do it!' You know, instead of no one knowing how to do it anyway because they spent an hour training for it and ran into it three months later.
They should stick with building cheaper fighters en masse rather than building expensive stealth fighter aircraft that aren't really that stealthy against modern networked radar systems. At least the first way they could simply overwhelm air defenses with numbers, rather than relying on a gimmick to get within striking range of anything important. I suspect this is mainly just a show of force and won't be much of a real threat even when deployed. Kind of like how our current F-22 is more of a show of force, since we haven't fought a competent air force in a while.
A few years ago I had a basic style flip phone. There were about six buttons on the face of the phone that would connect you to the internet and start racking up data charges with no confirmation. The start page was 500k of pictures and couldn't be changed. You also couldn't block data services from your account and instead had to pay something stupid like ten cents per kilobyte if you didn't have a data plan. So whenever you'd accidentally press a button, or the phone would press it as it was closing (yes, it would accept commands from these buttons if the phone was closed), you'd get about $50 in data fees assessed to your account.
Any attempt to demand that they remove them was met by stonewalling and flat out hanging up on you. I got out of my fees by threatening to take them to court over it, and suddenly they were able to block data services from my account. That didn't stop them from adding extraneous data fees a while later, though, when I had a smart phone with a real data plan. Imagine the shock when I see, "Data plan: $9.99. Data usage: $624.33" on my account because their service sucked so badly.
To be fair, I haven't had any trouble from them since then, and have never actually been forced to pay any of these fees since I threatened legal action..
Why would they want to do that?
You realize that water is THE #1 killer for cell phones, right? If you've ever looked at the inside, you'll know that dropping them into water is pretty much an instant kill.
The moisture sensitive strips in cell phones will also trigger if you have it in a high humidity environment, say Tennessee in the summer time. Ask me how I know this.
So at $100+ a pop, why would they take away their #1 source of profit? Are you going to pay the early termination fee or just get a new smart phone?
"We don't want to violate people's civil rights. That's the last thing we want to do, but we're here to save lives," Unfried said.
This quote says it best. We don't want to violate your civil rights, but if it saves lives, we will. The fact that they so easily brushed aside the fourth amendment leaves me wondering what else they'll brush aside.
I'm sorry that people die or are injured in drunk driving accidents, I really am. It makes me sad for our society. However, it is a side effect of being a personal conveyance based society. Unless you want to take away people's alcohol or take away their cars, drunk driving is going to happen. Just like people still die of malnutrition, people die in playground falls, and people die from house fires. Death is a threat that we must all live with.
But the civil rights of millions? How many of our forefathers died in World War 2 to protect the freedoms that we have only to see them thrown away to help fund the police state?
An excellent speech. Rest assured that you're now on a watch list somewhere and will be the first to be investigated when the shit goes down. Your sacrifice does not fall on deaf ears.
In the wonderful world of corporations, you take a perfectly working (to them) system and leave it be. Doesn't matter if.0001% of transactions are fraudulent. It's cheaper for them to let it be until market forces (increasing fraud, legislation, etc) make them shell out the money to upgrade the system. Doesn't matter who gets screwed in the process as long as it isn't them. Publishing this research is basically taking the inevitable (widespread fraud) and moving that a bit closer.
The way the legal system is here in the US, I'd expect the university to be facing multi-million dollar lawsuits from different banks for 'breaking' their system.
Parking lots are yield to pedestrians pretty much everywhere, if the signs say it or not. It's the driver's responsibility to yield to pedestrians since they SHOULD be driving pretty slowly anyway. Yet I see people doing 30+ in parking lots sometimes. I know if someone stepped out in front of them, the car wouldn't have time to react. Of course people should look both ways before crossing, but more and more people just wander around like lemmings because their cell phones are secured firmly to their skulls.
This creating an 'underground' for porn. Once porn is blocked at the mainstream, they'll lump in rape/child porn/other disgusting porn into the underground and use it as probable cause to arrest people and send them away for a long long time. After all, why else would you be going through 'the underground' for porn when you can just as easily fill out a few forms in triplicate, get a PornID with your name and photo on it, and then have access to a pre-approved selection of State porn?
They're simply protecting the interests of their company by making it more difficult for people to find competition. What if you had a car that wouldn't let you drive into another car dealer's lot? Or a cell phone that blocked the numbers for all other cell phone providers? Or an OS that wouldn't accept games from other companies other than the OS manufacturer? Do any of those sound fair?
You pretty much won't ever get a guaranteed speed unless you sign a service level agreement (SLA) which are quite a bit more expensive than regular 'broadband.' The reason is because if you're getting 3.5 down instead of 4 down, they don't want to be pretty much forced to spend thousands of dollars trying to get you that next.5 down. This is still a legal gray area, though. It's like selling a car that gets 'up to' 120 horsepower. Meaning that if you run it with the right fuel, right oil, with no tires, in a test environment, you'll get 120 horsepower. Any other time you'd get about 80 horsepower. This is flat out illegal for car manufacturers, and it should be illegal for 'broadband' providers.
You walk into an adult store and a member of the FBI is there, who follows you around the store and records what you looked at, what you bought, what you said, etc. They're there to make sure you aren't buying any child pornography. Would this make you feel uncomfortable? It would make me feel uncomfortable, simply because they're recording and storing the data. When is it going to come up again? What if I apply to some type of sensitive position or run for government, only to have it used against me?
What if I accidentally glance at a DVD cover with a naked kid on it? According to the past legal history of child pornography, that's enough to get you on the sex offender list and jailed. What if the person on the cover just LOOKS young, like the (legal-of-age) porn star Little Lupe?
Child pornography is a sensitive issue. It's a horrible thing, but so is rape and murder, but I don't see FBI agents in bars watching everyone's drink and/or checking people for weapons. Maybe it'll end up there eventually though at this rate.
I guess the real issue is that they'll end up tracking and storing all the logs from the site which can/will be used for things beyond the scope of child pornography in the future. Like how the DMCA was created to prevent piracy and is now used as a blanket statement for 'this corporation says no.' or how the Patriot Act was passed under the guise of protection from terrorism and is now being used to restrict travel and sharply increase government spending and taxes.
In order to provide you with better service, we are moving you from the Unlimited(tm)* plan over to our metered service. Our metered service will charge a dollar per gigabyte. A gigabyte can hold ten full length movies** or six hundred thousand songs***. We feel that this is fair pricing and if you want to use any more bandwidth you're free to go to dialup or start your own service provider.
*Unlimited means 250GB/month ** In 100x100 resolution @5fps *** In MIDI format
Step 1: Acquire a lot of these. Step 2: Place them at borders. Step 3: Get nervous that other countries are doing the same. Step 4: Demand other countries withdraw theirs. Step 5: Invade other country because they must be hiding something so awesome.
The general practitioner I visit does pretty well, I guess. He has a nice car, two story house, a kid, a wife, and takes a vacation once a year. When he retires he'll have enough to live comfortably, but not lavishly. This is the very definition of living modestly, and is no more than the average middle class American can do if they don't waste all their money on new cell phones for the whole family every two months.
No charges, I guess, but if you make an attempt, you'll be held until they think you've changed your mind. Then they'll let you go. It's not QUITE a law thing, it's more of a "If you want to kill yourself obviously you're defective and can't be charged with sharp pointies." thing
Death is inevitable. I don't fear taxes, and I don't fear death.
What I do fear, however, since I live in the United States where suicide and assisted suicide are illegal, is becoming almost completely nonfunctional due to sudden paralysis, stroke, etc. The fear is that if I were locked in and could only communicate one character an hour, they'd still keep me alive for as long as they could, even if I had to lay there awake but bored and paralyzed for 16 hours a day.
A distant second is dying a horrible slow death, perhaps by starvation.
Shouldn't have posted anon, I'd have voted you up if I were able to mod this thread.
This, many times this. Then a minor fender bender becomes a proposition of replacing a bumper, painting it, replacing the camera, etc. It can very quickly add up to half the total cost of a cheap car.
I think $750 per song is a fair price. After all, we live in the Corporate States of America. If you don't like it, get out. This is a sign of things to come.
That's because of the way the whole 'rape' thing works. You see, a lot of rapes don't start out as rape. Instead it's something like making out, maybe cuddling, etc. Then someone takes things too far and is just used to the other person sharing their passions or going along with it. Except this time, they aren't going along with it. They've decided that they don't want to go to third base, but things keep evolving. Either they're too weak/scared to say no, or they were forced to do it.
It's still rape.
Therein lies the problem. Anyone, at any time, can decide that a sexual encounter in the past was rape. All they have to do is say that sex happened and that they didn't want to do it at some point. Even if that point lies after the fact, it's still rape.
Get drunk at a party and sleep with someone nasty? Rape, of course. Want to have a better standing in the divorce? They raped you, and you're afraid for your children/pets/belongings. Get in a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend and want to be a vindictive ass? They raped you.
Of course, it generally only applies to women, since most men would be laughed out of the court room for saying they were raped by a woman. And if they woman conceived during that rape, the guy would still be responsible for paying child support payments, regardless of the circumstances of the rape. There is NO gender equality going on here.
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Wow. I use 300MB a month just casually browsing between classes at school when it would take too long to pull out my netbook. That's JUST reading news/weather/fark, all of which use mobile sites and not much in the way of graphics. I couldn't imagine what would happen if someone watched a youtube video or was in a heated session of sending/receiving dirty pictures from their significant other.
If Intel needs anything, it's to work on their integrated graphics for laptops. Intel graphics chipsets are so bad that they struggle immensely with low resolution flash animations.
Stress hormones.
Industrialized cattle production basically means that the cattle is stressed to the max most of the times. They're cramped, have shitty diets, get pumped full of chemicals, then they're cattle prodded down into the slaughtering machine.
Stress hormones tend to break down muscle and turn it into energy. Also, stress hormones lower immune system activity after a while.
So you get meat that's less muscle and more fat. There may be more to it.
I can attest to the truth of this.
I got 'promoted' to an accounting department at one time. I revolutionized the way they worked, making it much more efficient with a few minor changes.
For example, people were actually writing down around a hundred ten digit long invoice numbers rather than simply copying/pasting them into notepad so they could turn around and type it into another program to print those invoices. I showed people how to use notepad to do that in all of five minutes instead of nearly an hour per batch and the reaction was negative. Hell, even the leader of the department utterly failed to see the benefit of it.
It took an hour, I was able to show people how to do it in five minutes, and as a result most people were still taking the hour route. So at the end of the day when I was doing more work than most of the people in the department combined, someone would still find the time to complain that they saw me talking to a friend from another department rather than working.
Or, another example. Before that, I worked in another department. Rather than training one or two people to do a special task, the entire department would spend hours and hours being trained on how to do it. All of them forgot how to do it because they might have to do it once a month. The next time a 'special task' came up I came up with the idea of only training a few people to do it and letting them take care of said special task. That got shot down because 'what if they're all absent one day and it needs to be done? then no one can do it!' You know, instead of no one knowing how to do it anyway because they spent an hour training for it and ran into it three months later.
Their attempt at a stealth fighter amuses me.
They should stick with building cheaper fighters en masse rather than building expensive stealth fighter aircraft that aren't really that stealthy against modern networked radar systems. At least the first way they could simply overwhelm air defenses with numbers, rather than relying on a gimmick to get within striking range of anything important. I suspect this is mainly just a show of force and won't be much of a real threat even when deployed. Kind of like how our current F-22 is more of a show of force, since we haven't fought a competent air force in a while.
A few years ago I had a basic style flip phone. There were about six buttons on the face of the phone that would connect you to the internet and start racking up data charges with no confirmation. The start page was 500k of pictures and couldn't be changed. You also couldn't block data services from your account and instead had to pay something stupid like ten cents per kilobyte if you didn't have a data plan. So whenever you'd accidentally press a button, or the phone would press it as it was closing (yes, it would accept commands from these buttons if the phone was closed), you'd get about $50 in data fees assessed to your account.
Any attempt to demand that they remove them was met by stonewalling and flat out hanging up on you. I got out of my fees by threatening to take them to court over it, and suddenly they were able to block data services from my account. That didn't stop them from adding extraneous data fees a while later, though, when I had a smart phone with a real data plan. Imagine the shock when I see, "Data plan: $9.99. Data usage: $624.33" on my account because their service sucked so badly.
To be fair, I haven't had any trouble from them since then, and have never actually been forced to pay any of these fees since I threatened legal action..
Why would they want to do that? You realize that water is THE #1 killer for cell phones, right? If you've ever looked at the inside, you'll know that dropping them into water is pretty much an instant kill. The moisture sensitive strips in cell phones will also trigger if you have it in a high humidity environment, say Tennessee in the summer time. Ask me how I know this. So at $100+ a pop, why would they take away their #1 source of profit? Are you going to pay the early termination fee or just get a new smart phone?
You know what else was a race condition?
The Therac-25 fiasco.
What does it have in common with this fiasco?
Shitty programming.
"We don't want to violate people's civil rights. That's the last thing we want to do, but we're here to save lives," Unfried said.
This quote says it best. We don't want to violate your civil rights, but if it saves lives, we will. The fact that they so easily brushed aside the fourth amendment leaves me wondering what else they'll brush aside.
I'm sorry that people die or are injured in drunk driving accidents, I really am. It makes me sad for our society. However, it is a side effect of being a personal conveyance based society. Unless you want to take away people's alcohol or take away their cars, drunk driving is going to happen. Just like people still die of malnutrition, people die in playground falls, and people die from house fires. Death is a threat that we must all live with.
But the civil rights of millions? How many of our forefathers died in World War 2 to protect the freedoms that we have only to see them thrown away to help fund the police state?
An excellent speech. Rest assured that you're now on a watch list somewhere and will be the first to be investigated when the shit goes down. Your sacrifice does not fall on deaf ears.
The way the copyright people play things out, just remembering a song is copying it so move along to the nearest paystation, citizen.
In the wonderful world of corporations, you take a perfectly working (to them) system and leave it be. Doesn't matter if .0001% of transactions are fraudulent. It's cheaper for them to let it be until market forces (increasing fraud, legislation, etc) make them shell out the money to upgrade the system. Doesn't matter who gets screwed in the process as long as it isn't them. Publishing this research is basically taking the inevitable (widespread fraud) and moving that a bit closer.
The way the legal system is here in the US, I'd expect the university to be facing multi-million dollar lawsuits from different banks for 'breaking' their system.
Parking lots are yield to pedestrians pretty much everywhere, if the signs say it or not. It's the driver's responsibility to yield to pedestrians since they SHOULD be driving pretty slowly anyway. Yet I see people doing 30+ in parking lots sometimes. I know if someone stepped out in front of them, the car wouldn't have time to react. Of course people should look both ways before crossing, but more and more people just wander around like lemmings because their cell phones are secured firmly to their skulls.
This creating an 'underground' for porn. Once porn is blocked at the mainstream, they'll lump in rape/child porn/other disgusting porn into the underground and use it as probable cause to arrest people and send them away for a long long time. After all, why else would you be going through 'the underground' for porn when you can just as easily fill out a few forms in triplicate, get a PornID with your name and photo on it, and then have access to a pre-approved selection of State porn?
They're simply protecting the interests of their company by making it more difficult for people to find competition. What if you had a car that wouldn't let you drive into another car dealer's lot? Or a cell phone that blocked the numbers for all other cell phone providers? Or an OS that wouldn't accept games from other companies other than the OS manufacturer? Do any of those sound fair?
You pretty much won't ever get a guaranteed speed unless you sign a service level agreement (SLA) which are quite a bit more expensive than regular 'broadband.' The reason is because if you're getting 3.5 down instead of 4 down, they don't want to be pretty much forced to spend thousands of dollars trying to get you that next .5 down. This is still a legal gray area, though. It's like selling a car that gets 'up to' 120 horsepower. Meaning that if you run it with the right fuel, right oil, with no tires, in a test environment, you'll get 120 horsepower. Any other time you'd get about 80 horsepower. This is flat out illegal for car manufacturers, and it should be illegal for 'broadband' providers.
Alright, imagine this.
You walk into an adult store and a member of the FBI is there, who follows you around the store and records what you looked at, what you bought, what you said, etc. They're there to make sure you aren't buying any child pornography. Would this make you feel uncomfortable? It would make me feel uncomfortable, simply because they're recording and storing the data. When is it going to come up again? What if I apply to some type of sensitive position or run for government, only to have it used against me?
What if I accidentally glance at a DVD cover with a naked kid on it? According to the past legal history of child pornography, that's enough to get you on the sex offender list and jailed. What if the person on the cover just LOOKS young, like the (legal-of-age) porn star Little Lupe?
Child pornography is a sensitive issue. It's a horrible thing, but so is rape and murder, but I don't see FBI agents in bars watching everyone's drink and/or checking people for weapons. Maybe it'll end up there eventually though at this rate.
I guess the real issue is that they'll end up tracking and storing all the logs from the site which can/will be used for things beyond the scope of child pornography in the future. Like how the DMCA was created to prevent piracy and is now used as a blanket statement for 'this corporation says no.' or how the Patriot Act was passed under the guise of protection from terrorism and is now being used to restrict travel and sharply increase government spending and taxes.
In order to provide you with better service, we are moving you from the Unlimited(tm)* plan over to our metered service. Our metered service will charge a dollar per gigabyte. A gigabyte can hold ten full length movies** or six hundred thousand songs***. We feel that this is fair pricing and if you want to use any more bandwidth you're free to go to dialup or start your own service provider.
*Unlimited means 250GB/month
** In 100x100 resolution @5fps
*** In MIDI format
Step 1: Acquire a lot of these.
Step 2: Place them at borders.
Step 3: Get nervous that other countries are doing the same.
Step 4: Demand other countries withdraw theirs.
Step 5: Invade other country because they must be hiding something so awesome.
The general practitioner I visit does pretty well, I guess. He has a nice car, two story house, a kid, a wife, and takes a vacation once a year. When he retires he'll have enough to live comfortably, but not lavishly. This is the very definition of living modestly, and is no more than the average middle class American can do if they don't waste all their money on new cell phones for the whole family every two months.
No charges, I guess, but if you make an attempt, you'll be held until they think you've changed your mind. Then they'll let you go. It's not QUITE a law thing, it's more of a "If you want to kill yourself obviously you're defective and can't be charged with sharp pointies." thing
Death is inevitable. I don't fear taxes, and I don't fear death.
What I do fear, however, since I live in the United States where suicide and assisted suicide are illegal, is becoming almost completely nonfunctional due to sudden paralysis, stroke, etc. The fear is that if I were locked in and could only communicate one character an hour, they'd still keep me alive for as long as they could, even if I had to lay there awake but bored and paralyzed for 16 hours a day.
A distant second is dying a horrible slow death, perhaps by starvation.
Death itself, though, I don't really fear.
Shouldn't have posted anon, I'd have voted you up if I were able to mod this thread.
This, many times this. Then a minor fender bender becomes a proposition of replacing a bumper, painting it, replacing the camera, etc. It can very quickly add up to half the total cost of a cheap car.
I think $750 per song is a fair price. After all, we live in the Corporate States of America. If you don't like it, get out. This is a sign of things to come.
That's because of the way the whole 'rape' thing works. You see, a lot of rapes don't start out as rape. Instead it's something like making out, maybe cuddling, etc. Then someone takes things too far and is just used to the other person sharing their passions or going along with it. Except this time, they aren't going along with it. They've decided that they don't want to go to third base, but things keep evolving. Either they're too weak/scared to say no, or they were forced to do it.
It's still rape.
Therein lies the problem. Anyone, at any time, can decide that a sexual encounter in the past was rape. All they have to do is say that sex happened and that they didn't want to do it at some point. Even if that point lies after the fact, it's still rape.
Get drunk at a party and sleep with someone nasty? Rape, of course. Want to have a better standing in the divorce? They raped you, and you're afraid for your children/pets/belongings. Get in a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend and want to be a vindictive ass? They raped you.
Of course, it generally only applies to women, since most men would be laughed out of the court room for saying they were raped by a woman. And if they woman conceived during that rape, the guy would still be responsible for paying child support payments, regardless of the circumstances of the rape. There is NO gender equality going on here.