I assume there are two sets of recordings to consider. The original TV broadcast was live, so we can be fairly certain that those masters are magnetic, recorded back on earth while they were live broadcasted. In the case of these shots, there was no film master to recut magnetic tapes from. Even if film was eventually made from the tapes, the tapes are still the masters.
In those shots we also saw several instances of the astronauts hopping around with what looked like hand-held video recorders, and I would assume those were motioln film, not magnetic. (though I suppose those may have been still image cameras? they looked like film though)
From the article I am assuming it was the magnetic tapes made of the live broadcast that were lost? If that is the case, at least we should still have the film from the actual moonwalk recordings? Those should be better quality anyway, seeing as they didn't get mucked up by being transmitted such a distance with much lower tech at the time.
Lets face the facts. With the currrent state of government in the USA, if the government wants you, the government gets you. Civil rights be damned. I'm surprised they still feel they need to even bother to make up a reason for detention.
I view this as the neighbor handing off his problem on me. I suppose on principle I would refuse to pay for something to solve his problem for him. If this were a case where I felt this was an unavoidable issue and not really his fault to begin with I might go for that option, but not in this case.
I used to work 3rd shift. I would sleep from 8am to 4pm. The next door neighbor owned one large dog. His father passed away, and he inheirited a medium and small dog, all of which were now left loose in the back yard all day long while he was at work. The little dog would start barking at the slightest provocation, such as spotting a rabbit in a back yard two houses away. This would eventually get the medium dog barking for no good reason other than to join in, and the large dog even would start in. One rabbit spotting could produce 15 minutes of continuous barking from all three dogs. This would generally occur several times a day, every day. On some days it never really seemed to stop, barking almost nonstop between 10am and 4pm when I finally got up for work.
We tried taking to him several times, but he didn't feel he had a choice since the dogs were thrust upon him and he wasn't around during the day to stop it and could not leave the dogs in his house during the day. (I hear they ripped the place apart whenever he was away) So he made his problem my problem.
We finally tried some phonecalls and that got him several warnings which went largely ignored. I talked with other neighbors only to find out that several of us had called in complaints. But they would send no more written warnings now, the only recourse we were left with at that point was filing a written complaint, which would fetch him a fine, and our name would be on the ticket as the complainer. We decided it wasn't worth it and to just deal with the barking. (same for the other neighbors, we did not wish to start a fight) I was very thankful when he finally found a home for the animals (all of them!) a few months later.
Most people that own problem-barking dogs take the view that it is not their problem and that they neither have any control over their animal nor is disturbance created by the dog their responsibility. These are the ones that will respond with "what do you want me to do, tape his mouth shut?" or the one they always come up with, "a dog's gonna bark." For these people, until you make your problem their problem, they will refuse to do anything about it. Consideration for others is not as common of a trait as you might imagine. In these cases you often have to appeal to the more basic "cause and effect" concept that can be used to show reason to even the rock heads.
Also, Conroe won't go in the iMac for power and thermal reasons. Merom is a drop-in replacement for Yonah, and the iMac has a socketed motherboard.
NO, and you should know better. Apple does not want to make upgrades possible by any means other than buying another mac. You will NEVER see another mac with a socketed CPU, even if it has the ROM soldered onto the card. Apple made that "mistake" with the black powerbooks and the powermac G3/G4 machines and it cost them a lot more in lost sales to places like Sonnet than they ever made up for in customer goodwill. There is a slim chance that they might use a TPM chip and try to do it again, but it will only be a benefit to their manufacturing and development costs, it will not be possible to actually upgrade it.
some of the most advanced forms of ocean life are struggling to survive while the most primitive are thriving and spreading. Fish, corals and marine mammals are dying while algae, bacteria and jellyfish are growing unchecked.
This would seem to make perfect sense really. We are causing change, and evolution is made to cope with it. Smaller, simpler lifeforms are able to cope with change a lot easier than large complex organisms. The main reason for this is the life cycle for a plankton is what, 4 weeks? The life cycle for a dolphin is more like 3 years. So when you can get in over 30 times as many generations in the same amount of time, of course the plankton can evolve faster to cope better with changes in the environment. It's not de-evolution, it's just evolution that is more successful in the lower orders. Life is NOT evolving backwards. There's a reason you can't exterminate cockroaches.
1cm2 would be extremely generous. Recalculate assuming the punches are vertical rectangles 1.5mm wide and 4mm high, with about a 1mm gap between them on all sides, borders are about 1/2 inch, and the cards themselves are oh... 4.5" x 8" or so. Expect at least three rows unused for written identification and card numbering. (god forbid you "drop a deck". you'll be running to the nearest reader and loading the "sort" program!)
I never got to use one, but I've seen them more than once. There's a funky hand-operated card puncher in the case in the tech building. Looks a bit like an old adding machine.
Hard to sort out from urban legend, but reminds me of something I heard awhile ago. Apparently this was in the era of "drum memory". These units were about the size of a washing machine, and operated about the same. Big spinning drum inside a bit like the basket in the washing machine. Spinning quickly of course. Very high mass, it was metal and iron and spinning fast, a lot of energy in that thing when it was spun up. Normally takes 3-5 minutes to spin up to operating speed and longer to stop. Anyway, he apparently went to service the drive because it was making noise. Just before he got there, they are guessing the drum's brake siezed. (it was probably rubbing, making the noise) Anyway, high mass high speed spinning object stops suddenly. Newton's laws take over, and rip all four bolt-down points off the concrete floor as the centrifical inertia rips the unit off the fasteners, and the unit immediately flips on its side and comes tumbling sideways for the guy approaching to fix it. Chase ensues for a short distance. Fortunately this was not a geek-seeking clothes watcher, and it found its way to a stairwell which it tumbled down and finally came to a stop at the bottom of.
Eeep! Getting chased by a posessed clothes washer. Not good.
That was more of an example of the providers in the area. I am currently on Qwest DSL with 1.5 down 900 up, which i can saturate on a regular basis. If I could pay for faster I would, but this is the best anyone offers around here short of going pure digital, and I can't afford a T.
It has the distinction of being possibly the best planned series of any kind in history. From what I've read, they had the entire 5 year story arc fully plotted out before they started shooting the first episode of season 1. Sure they had to wing it on a few things where there were unforseen circumstances, but for the most part it's a stunning example of what you can do when you actually planned the full 5 seasons, and managed to actually produce all five of them before someone dropped the axe and made you rush your plot to close in like, season 3 or 4.
I have the entire box set of all seasons, and I still enjoy watching it from the start. Time and time again I spot something, some subtle hint, puzzling comment, even a look from a character in reaction to something seemingly harmless, only to realize "oh.... THAT'S why he did that!!", remembering that would tie in maybe an entire season or two later as a very important plot arc. Good lord, how long did they push that "there is a hole in your mind!" before letting us in on it?
I rather doubt these new minis will be very good, as most of the time such similar minis are almost worthless, but I'll probably still watch them, if nothing else than to revisit the past. I'm sure they willl continue to backfill missing or mysterious plot elements from the original series with these new additions, and that alone should be worth the watch.
This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.
Translation: they will deliver 2.3Gbps downstream
and 128kbps upstream
Like they always do.
Pisses me off that I have "broadband" and can download isos in 20 minutes, but it takes a half a friggin hour to email a hanldful of photos to the folks.
With large companies it's often easy to sue them in small claims court and win, because a no-show is a loss, and 95% of the time they will not show, and will get "sumamry judgement" made on them. For them to send a lawyer (who sometimes has to travel a few hrs to get there) for a few hours of court costs them more than they would stand to lose otherwise, even if they could win. But even after you have the judgement in hand, getting them to pay is not so easily done. It does you no good to have a court order to refund your $100 etc and terminate the contract if the company simply ignores you. From there you have to take additional steps to insure the company follows the order. This is a lot of trouble to go through, and is probably not worth your taking time off work etc to do it unless the amount you stand to gain is at least a few hundred.
I haven't followed anyone that's tried to chase after a company that ignored the court order. I assume at that point you have to get a real lawyer and go after them for failure to obey a court order? At that point though you should be entitled to attourney's fees and some cash for your bother?
What blows my mind in this issue is not the memory cards, but the cameras themselves. A friend of mine just bought a new Canon camera. Sorry I don't recall the model, but it was the newest 8 megapixel SLR they had. Nice camera, he paid a lot for it too. It takes full motion movies. He took my advice and got a 1gb card for it. So we take a few movies and some pictures and plug the camera into their new iMac. And wait. and wait. and wait some more. My god, why is this going so slow? It's been 10 minutes and it's not even 10% done!
The computer shows the camera is hanging off the USB FS (full speed, 12mbps) bus. Why? Is there a problem with the computer? Get out the manual for the camera. Oh.. my.. god... the camera is USB full speed, not high speed. (this is a difference between 12 mbps and 480 mbps for USB cable download speed!) I had to look in several places to confirm the horror. What were they thinking? This camera takes 200mb movies. That takes HOURS at that speed to download.
So we shuttle back down to the camera store and bought him a nice firewire card reader. Back home, we dump then entire card in 10 minutes, movies and pictures included.
This is inconvenient but gets the job done. There is simply no excuse to pay thousands for a camera that takes movies, and have the manufacturers shave a little off the price of manufacturing by substituting a slow USB chip in the camera. And that's all it is, one teeny little chip they just picked the slow one over the fast one. (they are functionally interchangeable, there is no need to redesign the camera) At the bulk they buy chips that can't have saved them more than a dollar per unit.
I have owned two Canon cameras myself and then there is this one. They have performed very well in all cases as excellent digital cameras. But incidents like this make me seriously consider changing brands. If that would have been my camera purchase, it would have gone right back to the store where it came from. Go to store, go directly to store, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
If Al Capone would have had enough pull at the IRS, I suppose he could have simply cancelled his audit.
Not much different with Bush is it really? He's doing illegal things, and our screwed up executive system allows him to simply cancel any investigations into his behavior. I don't like to say people are guilty by denying their guilt as that is a very slippery slope, but in this case he is VERY actively blocking investigations into his actions, justifying it with laughable invokations of "national security", and that raises one giant red flag that we need someone he cannot override (grand jury?) to haul his can into court and expose whatever it is he is hiding.
He did not do this for "reasons of national security", and the whole world knows it. He did it to keep himself IN office and OUT of jail.
As long as he's there he can play, but that only lasts a little longer. I will find great entertainment seeing him locked up in a few years.
It would be intersting to see them impeach him, but he's doing a good job of stalling for time so far so I don't know if that'll actually happen or not. There is certainly pleanty of talk about it tho.
Well you can whine and complain and moan about it, or you can take action. In this case the correct action to take is "ballot" (if you've heard of the three boxes of liberty, this is #1) Contact your congressmen and tell them you don't like spyware, you don't like adware, and you don't vote for politicians that either support it OR use it. (there are a few congressmen that use spam to drum up votes)
You can't stop the practice until you have made it illegal. Then the law stops it for you. That's how it works here. So either get busy or stop whining;)
My bank got robbed last week, lax security. There went my $200 in savings. Bank says not our fault, but don't worry they have tightened security.
Yesterday it got robbed again. Lost another $50. Bank says not our fault we are trying. Claim to have better security now.
So I should put some more money in the bank today?
uhhhh... no!
Companies that do security work (be they physical security, software, whatever) are expected to provide a reasonable level of security for their customers. Yes, we realize no security is perfect, but there is a certain point where we have to stop and say , "Hey, this is not working". Windows passed that point years ago. If banks had security models like windows, my money would be in a sock under my mattress, and a lot safer there too.
Lets say your bank started a new online account access. They sent you a dongle (usb thingie) to plug into your computer so that only you can access your bank account. Two weeks later all your money is gone. You go to the bank and say hey what happened? Oh you didn't hear? There was a security problem with the dongle, here is your new dongle! Be sure to stop in here at least once a week to see if we have a new dongle for you! I don't know about you, but the first thing *I* would do is withdraw all my money and put it somewhere else. Second thing I'd do is call my lawyer.
So why does MS get off so easy? Because the windows users are used to it. It's unfortunate and sad, but they have dealt with it for so long that it's just another one of life's annoyances. They seriously need a wakeup call.
banks, if one or more of their clients deposit money they got illegally? You mean money laundering? Illegal? Check.
hotels, in whose rooms illegal transactions (prostitution, drug dealing, whatever) take place? Brothels? Illegal? Check.
computer manufacturers, whose customers use their computers to steal identities? DVD players that bypass CSS? Illegal? Check.
camera manufacturers, whose products may be used to stalk people and invade their privacy? Wiretapping hardware? Illegal? Check.
When the majority of the product or service use is confirmed to be illegal, the product or service is considerd illegal. It's always worked this way.
If a newspaper is irresponsible enough to publish something that is patently wrong as fact and is damaging to someone, (defamatory content) they are legally responsible. They have a choice of what to allow into their paper and what not to, and have a responsibility to verify the content.
Imagine an auto repair shop that pays Vinnie to "advertise" for them. They start getting an increase in repair business, lots of people it seems are getting their car windows smashed out late at night. It is brought to their attention by several of the customers that there is a gang of people breaking out the windows, and a very similar looking bunch is at the repair shop once a week walking out with envelopes. So you are saying the repair shop bears no responsibility for all of this, just because they are claiming ignorance of what's going on?
Examples of why this sort of behavior is illeagal abound. Spyware/adware is one of the few remaining places where such activity is NOT yet illegal.
One of my favorites is a screencapture I have a printout of by my desk at work. Imagine the poor presentation of Registry Cleaner's trick box trying to scam me... on my Mac OS box... running firefox.
They try so hard to make the dialog box look like a system message, and fail so very miserably.. heh.
You'd think they would be smart enough to at least detect my OS type and determine that (A) I'm not running windows and (B) I'm not running explorer, so those carefully crafted borderless dialog boxes they are opening (the "the whole window is a giant 'install' button" variety) just give me a good laugh. Ya, riiiiight.
But then again they probably don't care. In that case they can't infect my machine with thier crapware anyway, so there's no point in trying to trick me into clicking it.
Remember that the reason monopolies are BAD is that they leverage obscene amounts of money or market control to get something they are not entitled to. You could think of it somewhat as somewhat legal bribing. Lets say you go into a store with four friends. You have $200 in your pocket and they each have $3. There is only one widget left on the shelf.
Guess who gets it?
Does it matter that you have 50 widgets at home and your friends don't have any? No. In this case all that matters is who has more money. You can easily outbid anyone in attendance. The only thing that stops you from buying yet another widget is your moral character. Companies don't have any of that. So we can pretty much count on you buying the widget.
So if you say "ok, we'll allow microsoft to BID on it" is just like saying "we're going to surrender it to microsoft without much of a fight, but we're at least going to make them pay for it". In the end this may make the person selling the widgets a little richer, but it hurts the public at large.
This ability to buy off anything you deem to be an advantage to your business means you are using your monopoly to strengthen your monopoly, and THAT is why monopolies are regulated, because once they get a lock on the market, it cannot be taken away from them even if you are a better company and are better for the consumer.
a chip the size of a tomato seed that has 500KB of memory and can communicate at 10mbps
Is that just the chip or the complete assembly? I don't care how small the chip itself is, I'd rather know how big the working unit is. No one uses just the chip so its size doesn't really matter.
You'd almost have to open the pack to tell who makes them. I know that Apple uses LG Chemical for their batteries, usually in the "4/3 AA" form factor.
You are saying they will not allow you to check your laptop bag as baggage? Not that most ppl would trust the likes of TWA to their laptop in cargo, but I thought you could?
I know when I fly my laptop is in the bag under my seat.
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I assume there are two sets of recordings to consider. The original TV broadcast was live, so we can be fairly certain that those masters are magnetic, recorded back on earth while they were live broadcasted. In the case of these shots, there was no film master to recut magnetic tapes from. Even if film was eventually made from the tapes, the tapes are still the masters.
In those shots we also saw several instances of the astronauts hopping around with what looked like hand-held video recorders, and I would assume those were motioln film, not magnetic. (though I suppose those may have been still image cameras? they looked like film though)
From the article I am assuming it was the magnetic tapes made of the live broadcast that were lost? If that is the case, at least we should still have the film from the actual moonwalk recordings? Those should be better quality anyway, seeing as they didn't get mucked up by being transmitted such a distance with much lower tech at the time.
Lets face the facts. With the currrent state of government in the USA, if the government wants you, the government gets you. Civil rights be damned. I'm surprised they still feel they need to even bother to make up a reason for detention.
I view this as the neighbor handing off his problem on me. I suppose on principle I would refuse to pay for something to solve his problem for him. If this were a case where I felt this was an unavoidable issue and not really his fault to begin with I might go for that option, but not in this case.
I used to work 3rd shift. I would sleep from 8am to 4pm. The next door neighbor owned one large dog. His father passed away, and he inheirited a medium and small dog, all of which were now left loose in the back yard all day long while he was at work. The little dog would start barking at the slightest provocation, such as spotting a rabbit in a back yard two houses away. This would eventually get the medium dog barking for no good reason other than to join in, and the large dog even would start in. One rabbit spotting could produce 15 minutes of continuous barking from all three dogs. This would generally occur several times a day, every day. On some days it never really seemed to stop, barking almost nonstop between 10am and 4pm when I finally got up for work.
We tried taking to him several times, but he didn't feel he had a choice since the dogs were thrust upon him and he wasn't around during the day to stop it and could not leave the dogs in his house during the day. (I hear they ripped the place apart whenever he was away) So he made his problem my problem.
We finally tried some phonecalls and that got him several warnings which went largely ignored. I talked with other neighbors only to find out that several of us had called in complaints. But they would send no more written warnings now, the only recourse we were left with at that point was filing a written complaint, which would fetch him a fine, and our name would be on the ticket as the complainer. We decided it wasn't worth it and to just deal with the barking. (same for the other neighbors, we did not wish to start a fight) I was very thankful when he finally found a home for the animals (all of them!) a few months later.
Most people that own problem-barking dogs take the view that it is not their problem and that they neither have any control over their animal nor is disturbance created by the dog their responsibility. These are the ones that will respond with "what do you want me to do, tape his mouth shut?" or the one they always come up with, "a dog's gonna bark." For these people, until you make your problem their problem, they will refuse to do anything about it. Consideration for others is not as common of a trait as you might imagine. In these cases you often have to appeal to the more basic "cause and effect" concept that can be used to show reason to even the rock heads.
Also, Conroe won't go in the iMac for power and thermal reasons. Merom is a drop-in replacement for Yonah, and the iMac has a socketed motherboard.
NO, and you should know better. Apple does not want to make upgrades possible by any means other than buying another mac. You will NEVER see another mac with a socketed CPU, even if it has the ROM soldered onto the card. Apple made that "mistake" with the black powerbooks and the powermac G3/G4 machines and it cost them a lot more in lost sales to places like Sonnet than they ever made up for in customer goodwill. There is a slim chance that they might use a TPM chip and try to do it again, but it will only be a benefit to their manufacturing and development costs, it will not be possible to actually upgrade it.
some of the most advanced forms of ocean life are struggling to survive while the most primitive are thriving and spreading. Fish, corals and marine mammals are dying while algae, bacteria and jellyfish are growing unchecked.
This would seem to make perfect sense really. We are causing change, and evolution is made to cope with it. Smaller, simpler lifeforms are able to cope with change a lot easier than large complex organisms. The main reason for this is the life cycle for a plankton is what, 4 weeks? The life cycle for a dolphin is more like 3 years. So when you can get in over 30 times as many generations in the same amount of time, of course the plankton can evolve faster to cope better with changes in the environment. It's not de-evolution, it's just evolution that is more successful in the lower orders. Life is NOT evolving backwards. There's a reason you can't exterminate cockroaches.
1cm2 would be extremely generous. Recalculate assuming the punches are vertical rectangles 1.5mm wide and 4mm high, with about a 1mm gap between them on all sides, borders are about 1/2 inch, and the cards themselves are oh... 4.5" x 8" or so. Expect at least three rows unused for written identification and card numbering. (god forbid you "drop a deck". you'll be running to the nearest reader and loading the "sort" program!)
I never got to use one, but I've seen them more than once. There's a funky hand-operated card puncher in the case in the tech building. Looks a bit like an old adding machine.
Hard to sort out from urban legend, but reminds me of something I heard awhile ago. Apparently this was in the era of "drum memory". These units were about the size of a washing machine, and operated about the same. Big spinning drum inside a bit like the basket in the washing machine. Spinning quickly of course. Very high mass, it was metal and iron and spinning fast, a lot of energy in that thing when it was spun up. Normally takes 3-5 minutes to spin up to operating speed and longer to stop. Anyway, he apparently went to service the drive because it was making noise. Just before he got there, they are guessing the drum's brake siezed. (it was probably rubbing, making the noise) Anyway, high mass high speed spinning object stops suddenly. Newton's laws take over, and rip all four bolt-down points off the concrete floor as the centrifical inertia rips the unit off the fasteners, and the unit immediately flips on its side and comes tumbling sideways for the guy approaching to fix it. Chase ensues for a short distance. Fortunately this was not a geek-seeking clothes watcher, and it found its way to a stairwell which it tumbled down and finally came to a stop at the bottom of.
Eeep! Getting chased by a posessed clothes washer. Not good.
I'm assuming they lost all their data, heh...
That was more of an example of the providers in the area. I am currently on Qwest DSL with 1.5 down 900 up, which i can saturate on a regular basis. If I could pay for faster I would, but this is the best anyone offers around here short of going pure digital, and I can't afford a T.
It has the distinction of being possibly the best planned series of any kind in history. From what I've read, they had the entire 5 year story arc fully plotted out before they started shooting the first episode of season 1. Sure they had to wing it on a few things where there were unforseen circumstances, but for the most part it's a stunning example of what you can do when you actually planned the full 5 seasons, and managed to actually produce all five of them before someone dropped the axe and made you rush your plot to close in like, season 3 or 4.
.... THAT'S why he did that!!", remembering that would tie in maybe an entire season or two later as a very important plot arc. Good lord, how long did they push that "there is a hole in your mind!" before letting us in on it?
I have the entire box set of all seasons, and I still enjoy watching it from the start. Time and time again I spot something, some subtle hint, puzzling comment, even a look from a character in reaction to something seemingly harmless, only to realize "oh
I rather doubt these new minis will be very good, as most of the time such similar minis are almost worthless, but I'll probably still watch them, if nothing else than to revisit the past. I'm sure they willl continue to backfill missing or mysterious plot elements from the original series with these new additions, and that alone should be worth the watch.
This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.
Translation: they will deliver 2.3Gbps downstream
and 128kbps upstream
Like they always do.
Pisses me off that I have "broadband" and can download isos in 20 minutes, but it takes a half a friggin hour to email a hanldful of photos to the folks.
With large companies it's often easy to sue them in small claims court and win, because a no-show is a loss, and 95% of the time they will not show, and will get "sumamry judgement" made on them. For them to send a lawyer (who sometimes has to travel a few hrs to get there) for a few hours of court costs them more than they would stand to lose otherwise, even if they could win. But even after you have the judgement in hand, getting them to pay is not so easily done. It does you no good to have a court order to refund your $100 etc and terminate the contract if the company simply ignores you. From there you have to take additional steps to insure the company follows the order. This is a lot of trouble to go through, and is probably not worth your taking time off work etc to do it unless the amount you stand to gain is at least a few hundred.
I haven't followed anyone that's tried to chase after a company that ignored the court order. I assume at that point you have to get a real lawyer and go after them for failure to obey a court order? At that point though you should be entitled to attourney's fees and some cash for your bother?
What blows my mind in this issue is not the memory cards, but the cameras themselves. A friend of mine just bought a new Canon camera. Sorry I don't recall the model, but it was the newest 8 megapixel SLR they had. Nice camera, he paid a lot for it too. It takes full motion movies. He took my advice and got a 1gb card for it. So we take a few movies and some pictures and plug the camera into their new iMac. And wait. and wait. and wait some more. My god, why is this going so slow? It's been 10 minutes and it's not even 10% done!
The computer shows the camera is hanging off the USB FS (full speed, 12mbps) bus. Why? Is there a problem with the computer? Get out the manual for the camera. Oh.. my.. god... the camera is USB full speed, not high speed. (this is a difference between 12 mbps and 480 mbps for USB cable download speed!) I had to look in several places to confirm the horror. What were they thinking? This camera takes 200mb movies. That takes HOURS at that speed to download.
So we shuttle back down to the camera store and bought him a nice firewire card reader. Back home, we dump then entire card in 10 minutes, movies and pictures included.
This is inconvenient but gets the job done. There is simply no excuse to pay thousands for a camera that takes movies, and have the manufacturers shave a little off the price of manufacturing by substituting a slow USB chip in the camera. And that's all it is, one teeny little chip they just picked the slow one over the fast one. (they are functionally interchangeable, there is no need to redesign the camera) At the bulk they buy chips that can't have saved them more than a dollar per unit.
I have owned two Canon cameras myself and then there is this one. They have performed very well in all cases as excellent digital cameras. But incidents like this make me seriously consider changing brands. If that would have been my camera purchase, it would have gone right back to the store where it came from. Go to store, go directly to store, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
If Al Capone would have had enough pull at the IRS, I suppose he could have simply cancelled his audit.
Not much different with Bush is it really? He's doing illegal things, and our screwed up executive system allows him to simply cancel any investigations into his behavior. I don't like to say people are guilty by denying their guilt as that is a very slippery slope, but in this case he is VERY actively blocking investigations into his actions, justifying it with laughable invokations of "national security", and that raises one giant red flag that we need someone he cannot override (grand jury?) to haul his can into court and expose whatever it is he is hiding.
He did not do this for "reasons of national security", and the whole world knows it. He did it to keep himself IN office and OUT of jail.
As long as he's there he can play, but that only lasts a little longer. I will find great entertainment seeing him locked up in a few years.
It would be intersting to see them impeach him, but he's doing a good job of stalling for time so far so I don't know if that'll actually happen or not. There is certainly pleanty of talk about it tho.
Well you can whine and complain and moan about it, or you can take action. In this case the correct action to take is "ballot" (if you've heard of the three boxes of liberty, this is #1) Contact your congressmen and tell them you don't like spyware, you don't like adware, and you don't vote for politicians that either support it OR use it. (there are a few congressmen that use spam to drum up votes)
;)
You can't stop the practice until you have made it illegal. Then the law stops it for you. That's how it works here. So either get busy or stop whining
My bank got robbed last week, lax security. There went my $200 in savings. Bank says not our fault, but don't worry they have tightened security.
Yesterday it got robbed again. Lost another $50. Bank says not our fault we are trying. Claim to have better security now.
So I should put some more money in the bank today?
uhhhh... no!
Companies that do security work (be they physical security, software, whatever) are expected to provide a reasonable level of security for their customers. Yes, we realize no security is perfect, but there is a certain point where we have to stop and say , "Hey, this is not working". Windows passed that point years ago. If banks had security models like windows, my money would be in a sock under my mattress, and a lot safer there too.
Lets say your bank started a new online account access. They sent you a dongle (usb thingie) to plug into your computer so that only you can access your bank account. Two weeks later all your money is gone. You go to the bank and say hey what happened? Oh you didn't hear? There was a security problem with the dongle, here is your new dongle! Be sure to stop in here at least once a week to see if we have a new dongle for you! I don't know about you, but the first thing *I* would do is withdraw all my money and put it somewhere else. Second thing I'd do is call my lawyer.
So why does MS get off so easy? Because the windows users are used to it. It's unfortunate and sad, but they have dealt with it for so long that it's just another one of life's annoyances. They seriously need a wakeup call.
True, you never see any major sites hacked. (that's an ardchive from microsoft.fr btw)
banks, if one or more of their clients deposit money they got illegally? You mean money laundering? Illegal? Check.
hotels, in whose rooms illegal transactions (prostitution, drug dealing, whatever) take place? Brothels? Illegal? Check.
computer manufacturers, whose customers use their computers to steal identities? DVD players that bypass CSS? Illegal? Check.
camera manufacturers, whose products may be used to stalk people and invade their privacy? Wiretapping hardware? Illegal? Check.
When the majority of the product or service use is confirmed to be illegal, the product or service is considerd illegal. It's always worked this way.
If a newspaper is irresponsible enough to publish something that is patently wrong as fact and is damaging to someone, (defamatory content) they are legally responsible. They have a choice of what to allow into their paper and what not to, and have a responsibility to verify the content.
Imagine an auto repair shop that pays Vinnie to "advertise" for them. They start getting an increase in repair business, lots of people it seems are getting their car windows smashed out late at night. It is brought to their attention by several of the customers that there is a gang of people breaking out the windows, and a very similar looking bunch is at the repair shop once a week walking out with envelopes. So you are saying the repair shop bears no responsibility for all of this, just because they are claiming ignorance of what's going on?
Examples of why this sort of behavior is illeagal abound. Spyware/adware is one of the few remaining places where such activity is NOT yet illegal.
might ?
I've never known them not to
What I get a kick out of is how they like to tell you they have no way to contact them and there's nowhere you can complain to.
Um... you're getting a CHECK from them every month, remember? (we know you're not allowing that crapware on your site for free!)
One of my favorites is a screencapture I have a printout of by my desk at work. Imagine the poor presentation of Registry Cleaner's trick box trying to scam me... on my Mac OS box... running firefox.
They try so hard to make the dialog box look like a system message, and fail so very miserably.. heh.
You'd think they would be smart enough to at least detect my OS type and determine that (A) I'm not running windows and (B) I'm not running explorer, so those carefully crafted borderless dialog boxes they are opening (the "the whole window is a giant 'install' button" variety) just give me a good laugh. Ya, riiiiight.
But then again they probably don't care. In that case they can't infect my machine with thier crapware anyway, so there's no point in trying to trick me into clicking it.
Remember that the reason monopolies are BAD is that they leverage obscene amounts of money or market control to get something they are not entitled to. You could think of it somewhat as somewhat legal bribing. Lets say you go into a store with four friends. You have $200 in your pocket and they each have $3. There is only one widget left on the shelf.
Guess who gets it?
Does it matter that you have 50 widgets at home and your friends don't have any? No. In this case all that matters is who has more money. You can easily outbid anyone in attendance. The only thing that stops you from buying yet another widget is your moral character. Companies don't have any of that. So we can pretty much count on you buying the widget.
So if you say "ok, we'll allow microsoft to BID on it" is just like saying "we're going to surrender it to microsoft without much of a fight, but we're at least going to make them pay for it". In the end this may make the person selling the widgets a little richer, but it hurts the public at large.
This ability to buy off anything you deem to be an advantage to your business means you are using your monopoly to strengthen your monopoly, and THAT is why monopolies are regulated, because once they get a lock on the market, it cannot be taken away from them even if you are a better company and are better for the consumer.
Where have I seen this before? Oh yes, now I remember.
It was called "The Hitler Youth"
a chip the size of a tomato seed that has 500KB of memory and can communicate at 10mbps
Is that just the chip or the complete assembly? I don't care how small the chip itself is, I'd rather know how big the working unit is. No one uses just the chip so its size doesn't really matter.
You'd almost have to open the pack to tell who makes them. I know that Apple uses LG Chemical for their batteries, usually in the "4/3 AA" form factor.
/ battery/ion/ICR18650A2.html
I think these are the ones: http://www.lgchem.com/en_products/electromaterial
You are saying they will not allow you to check your laptop bag as baggage? Not that most ppl would trust the likes of TWA to their laptop in cargo, but I thought you could?
I know when I fly my laptop is in the bag under my seat.