If this is happening, would be nice both to see some evidence of it, and know what companies are doing it (and which are not), do you have any listings of such information?
Why dig for silicon if it's already in PCs put out to the curb?
Silicon isn't a problem, and the few grams of it in the chips of a PC aren't much use to anyone. A handful of sand (or a beer bottle) has much more.
It's mostly metals, like lead in CRT monitors, and nasty chemicals in various components that are dangerous. Plastics are the next, like the cases of monitors and printers. Steel cases can be melted down easily enough, but that's neither very valuable nor polluting.
A lot of "recycled" hardware ends up being sent to China. There are villages polluted beyond belief there, where people take components, smash them up, burn off the insulation (creating noxious fumes) to recover copper wire, etc. The poisons are released as smoke or into the ground and rivers.
Will many ISP SMTP servers get automatically blacklisted because of this?
You may be joking, but this is alrady happening. I can't send mail to AOL or Netscape.com becasue they claim my ISP sends too much spam, and provide no method of redress or whitelisting. Another local ISP keeps throttling my messages (not rejecting outright, but delaying) because of "too many connections from your server". In both case a combinationm of stupidity and arrogance, triggered perhaps by spambots like these, is preventing me from sending mail (personal direct mail; not bulk).
Catching the spammers is probably impossible. Catching the assholes who pay them to advertise their products is easy -- follow the money. Credit card merchant accounts require lots of ID.
I think it's more accurate to say the reviewer doesn't discern between the operating system, and applications.
What they were comparing was what you got out of the box; which in Mac and Linux's case included useful office suites, which you have to pay extra for with Windows. I'm sure the reviewers were snickering when they put that down as a black mark against Windows.
And how about Marlboro; Ford; Mercedes Benz; Nike; Rolex? I guarantee any of these has a greater awareness than all those cool ones given awards by the pony-tailed wankers who voted for this "poll". Appl, for God's sake; outside the US, Europe and maybe Japan, who's ever heard of it? If they hadn't called it "the WORLD'S top brands" I couldn't care less, but they polled a tiny self-selected unrepresentative sample of the richest 10% of "the world". Just bullshit to make a press release to drive hits to their site; mission accomplished.
I thought that in some developing countries that the financial burden of software licensing wasn't an issue at all...
It isn't, till the US govt starts leaning on the local government to enforce software licensing, under pain of losing trade benefits. Then there is a crackdown, often purely symbolic, but it means no high profile users, like government departments or large corporations, can get away with it. Then they start putting pressure on "naked PCs", sold without (licenced) OSs.
From TFA: "Mr. Negroponte's idea is to develop educational software and have the portable personal computer replace textbooks in schools".
Sounds like a very bad idea to me. Computers are all nice, and I sit in front of one all day, but I know that when my 7-year-old dauyghter does her "computer class" at school it's mostly just playing around. There is no way on earth that a PC can replace a book as a learning tool for most subjects. For $100 you could get at least 100 textbooks -- even in the US you can print a paperback for 50 cents in quanitity. Buy textbooks first. Computers later, and NEVER instead of.
They have computers. Plug "RFID" into Slashdot's search and you find recent articles, including the dupe, at #3. And as for why it's annoying: this is not a hobby site, these guys earn big bucks and sell lots of advertising, and they're paid to be "editors". Being one, I know I would have been fired long ago if I fucked up as often as these guys. But they have no oversight, except us; we can't fire them but can hope to embarrass them a bit in the faint hope they might take their job seriously.
As usual your over-enthusiasm for yellow "journalism" has run amuck and the worst kind of lies are now being discussed as truth.
Could this be any more racist? I'm an asian-australian and I'm deeply offended by this comment.
I'm an Australian, and I'm deeply ashamed that another would post such ignorant bullshit. Every phrase involving the word "yellow" isn't a jibe at Asians. See The Yellow Kid for the meaning and origin of that phrase. And "yellow = cowardly" isn't about you either. Actually, living in Hong Kong I've never understood why "yellow" is used to describe skin colour -- everyone is just some lighter or darker tan. Yellow's main connotation here is the imperial colour, and gold; so it's all good.
I was working a news aggregation website; we had people sending us articles, some just cut and pasted, some translated, some evidently scanned faxes through OCR. So predictably there was a quality problem, as particularly the OCR articles tended to be full of literal gibberish. Not to mention getting three or more copies of the same story via different methods. I pointed this out to my boss, and he told me to document it and send an email to them each time. It had zero impact, as the staff at that office were simply motivated to send the greatest volume of articles in the shortest time; that's what their bosses wanted, and they complained when we didn't get their stories up on the site quick enough. The idea that having garbage on our front page might not be good just didn't matter, what they wanted was lots of "fresh" content. (Similar to Slashdot, I suppose.) Whether they were legible or useful didn't factor into it, so I just made a lot of enemies for myself. After a few months, like most dotcoms, we went bust.
Well, that's a euphemistic way of speaking. Put it this way - if you speak Chinese, it's a lot easier to find illegal downloads.
And even if you don't, it's much easier to buy whatever software, movies, audio burnt to CDR or DVD, for about 50 cents/disc, than spending hours downloading it. Including more porn you could ever want -- that's the cheapest since the demand is huge, kinky Jap porn (schoolgirls, rape, upskirt, nurses, etc) especially.
You'll lose 25 pounds in two weeks. Be prepared for that. You'll probably also catch a cold your first week there.
Speaking of cold, everyone wears a jacket all the time. It's a cold winter over there right now. Expect to be cold most of the time
I think you're talking about Beijing. In southern China it's winter, but for instance in Hong Kong today it's 19C. Never gets below 10C, and I expect I'll be back at the beach within a month. Beijing has a really shitty climate, hot and dusty in summer, freezing in winter. In HK it's pleasant most of the time except for the very humid monsoon (July-September), and of course typhoons. Just remerber that China is as big and varied as the US as it goes for climate, food, amd most other things. What applies in New York may not in Miami.
So, does slashdot get paid for running such blatant advertising copy for technology that doesn't even seem to exist commercially yet? If so, how much?
At least that would be less embarrassing than admitting they've run this slashvertisement for "LightScribe" three times so far, all for a product that isn't yet for sale.
how do we know that we are duplicating with 100% accuracy, and that the same methods would work transferring when trying to work on a human?
We don't. That's what makes medical science complicated. But if it works on anaiml subjects then the next step is to do human trials. Saves wasting human subjects who are more expensive than mice.
Wrong. Your argument at best is an oversimplification.
Well, your characterisation of my argument is at best a simplification. I never said there was a linear relation between size of brain and intelligence. Since your link states that the human brain is 3750x the mass of a mouse's, I think it's pretty safe to say that even with much less body to supervise, that the brain function of a mouse chimera is not going to approach a normal human's; and I suspect be less than a normal mouse's. Size does matter when it's three orders of magnitude.
We barely understand the human brain. Shouldn't we grasp it a little more before we go shoving them into other animals.
That's the whole reason to grow human brain tissue in animals; or would you prefer to experiment on living humans? If it was being done for more frivolous reasons there would be no support at all.
Typical liberal thinking. Laws do little to stop action. Just because you make a law against something, it doesn't mean you're going to stop it (in fact, you might encourage it).
1) "Liberal thinking"? So for instance the "War on Drugs" is a product of liberal thinking?
2) Laws would be effective in cutting off most of the funding; however, they obviously wouldn't be effective world wide.
If this experiment succeeds in producing human cognitive thought in a mouse, we most certainly have an issue.
Considering the size of mice's skulls, I think the term "cognitive activity" was chosen with care and is far, far from "cognitive thought" you've assumed. If such animals were allowed to be born (the researcher plans to kill them before then) they'd be unlikely to be super smart mice, but more likely pretty dumb compared to other mice); we're smarter mostly because we have brains a few thousand times larger than mice, not because of any special virtue of our brain tissue, and our brain cells are certainly not going to be optimal for controlling a mouse's body and living as a mouse.
To port the BIOS update facilities for my ThinkPad, so you cannot get rid of Windows if you want to keep up to date. ( I do )
For me this is the barrier to ditching MS Windows completely.
On the page you linked is a file to create a bootable floppy with the BIOS updater. Admittedly, you may need a DOS or Windows PC to create this, but it otherwise seesm pretty straight-forward. (If your laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, a little more hacking could take the floppy image and burn to CDR.)
>Sure it didn't. And when the NYSE revoked al-Jazeera's press credentials, that was also purely a business decision
Sure it was. When 99% of your clients are complaining about insanely bias news stories everyday and the other news stations are reporting other things, you begin to question the bias news station.
"Insanely biased"? Just not biased in the way you like. I could argue that point, they seem to be rather less biased than CNN and certainly Fox, for instance, (speaking as a non-American) but even if it happened to be true, the NYSE should only be concerned with how they reported busness news, not with what appeared on their news from the war, if that's what you mean. As it was, the NYSE gave some bullshit reason about there not being enough space. It was plainly a political decision, as the INRA today under discussion appears to be.
The productivity of the workers is the most important thing managers worry about. Management will think long and hard about the benefits of forcing employees to switch and destroying their productivity in the process (even if it's only temporary).
If switching reduced productivity, of course no one would do it. In the medium term no more viruses and very little if any malware. (I.E., increased productivity.) In the short term, no greater discomfort than any upgrade (DOS->Win 3->Win95->Win98...; WordStar -> WinWord; version x -> version x+1).
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Every orbit, 90 minutes or so, is at least 25,000 miles.
There have been several news stories about this. For instance Where Computers Go to Die
Silicon isn't a problem, and the few grams of it in the chips of a PC aren't much use to anyone. A handful of sand (or a beer bottle) has much more.
It's mostly metals, like lead in CRT monitors, and nasty chemicals in various components that are dangerous. Plastics are the next, like the cases of monitors and printers. Steel cases can be melted down easily enough, but that's neither very valuable nor polluting.
A lot of "recycled" hardware ends up being sent to China. There are villages polluted beyond belief there, where people take components, smash them up, burn off the insulation (creating noxious fumes) to recover copper wire, etc. The poisons are released as smoke or into the ground and rivers.
You may be joking, but this is alrady happening. I can't send mail to AOL or Netscape.com becasue they claim my ISP sends too much spam, and provide no method of redress or whitelisting. Another local ISP keeps throttling my messages (not rejecting outright, but delaying) because of "too many connections from your server". In both case a combinationm of stupidity and arrogance, triggered perhaps by spambots like these, is preventing me from sending mail (personal direct mail; not bulk).
Catching the spammers is probably impossible. Catching the assholes who pay them to advertise their products is easy -- follow the money. Credit card merchant accounts require lots of ID.
What they were comparing was what you got out of the box; which in Mac and Linux's case included useful office suites, which you have to pay extra for with Windows. I'm sure the reviewers were snickering when they put that down as a black mark against Windows.
The apostrophe is correct.
Someone tell Americans that they're not "the rest of the English speaking world" and not to try to drag us down to their level.
And how about Marlboro; Ford; Mercedes Benz; Nike; Rolex? I guarantee any of these has a greater awareness than all those cool ones given awards by the pony-tailed wankers who voted for this "poll". Appl, for God's sake; outside the US, Europe and maybe Japan, who's ever heard of it? If they hadn't called it "the WORLD'S top brands" I couldn't care less, but they polled a tiny self-selected unrepresentative sample of the richest 10% of "the world". Just bullshit to make a press release to drive hits to their site; mission accomplished.
It isn't, till the US govt starts leaning on the local government to enforce software licensing, under pain of losing trade benefits. Then there is a crackdown, often purely symbolic, but it means no high profile users, like government departments or large corporations, can get away with it. Then they start putting pressure on "naked PCs", sold without (licenced) OSs.
Sounds like a very bad idea to me. Computers are all nice, and I sit in front of one all day, but I know that when my 7-year-old dauyghter does her "computer class" at school it's mostly just playing around. There is no way on earth that a PC can replace a book as a learning tool for most subjects. For $100 you could get at least 100 textbooks -- even in the US you can print a paperback for 50 cents in quanitity. Buy textbooks first. Computers later, and NEVER instead of.
They have computers. Plug "RFID" into Slashdot's search and you find recent articles, including the dupe, at #3. And as for why it's annoying: this is not a hobby site, these guys earn big bucks and sell lots of advertising, and they're paid to be "editors". Being one, I know I would have been fired long ago if I fucked up as often as these guys. But they have no oversight, except us; we can't fire them but can hope to embarrass them a bit in the faint hope they might take their job seriously.
Could this be any more racist? I'm an asian-australian and I'm deeply offended by this comment.
I'm an Australian, and I'm deeply ashamed that another would post such ignorant bullshit. Every phrase involving the word "yellow" isn't a jibe at Asians. See The Yellow Kid for the meaning and origin of that phrase. And "yellow = cowardly" isn't about you either. Actually, living in Hong Kong I've never understood why "yellow" is used to describe skin colour -- everyone is just some lighter or darker tan. Yellow's main connotation here is the imperial colour, and gold; so it's all good.
I was working a news aggregation website; we had people sending us articles, some just cut and pasted, some translated, some evidently scanned faxes through OCR. So predictably there was a quality problem, as particularly the OCR articles tended to be full of literal gibberish. Not to mention getting three or more copies of the same story via different methods. I pointed this out to my boss, and he told me to document it and send an email to them each time. It had zero impact, as the staff at that office were simply motivated to send the greatest volume of articles in the shortest time; that's what their bosses wanted, and they complained when we didn't get their stories up on the site quick enough. The idea that having garbage on our front page might not be good just didn't matter, what they wanted was lots of "fresh" content. (Similar to Slashdot, I suppose.) Whether they were legible or useful didn't factor into it, so I just made a lot of enemies for myself. After a few months, like most dotcoms, we went bust.
And even if you don't, it's much easier to buy whatever software, movies, audio burnt to CDR or DVD, for about 50 cents/disc, than spending hours downloading it. Including more porn you could ever want -- that's the cheapest since the demand is huge, kinky Jap porn (schoolgirls, rape, upskirt, nurses, etc) especially.
I think you're talking about Beijing. In southern China it's winter, but for instance in Hong Kong today it's 19C. Never gets below 10C, and I expect I'll be back at the beach within a month. Beijing has a really shitty climate, hot and dusty in summer, freezing in winter. In HK it's pleasant most of the time except for the very humid monsoon (July-September), and of course typhoons. Just remerber that China is as big and varied as the US as it goes for climate, food, amd most other things. What applies in New York may not in Miami.
At least that would be less embarrassing than admitting they've run this slashvertisement for "LightScribe" three times so far, all for a product that isn't yet for sale.
We don't. That's what makes medical science complicated. But if it works on anaiml subjects then the next step is to do human trials. Saves wasting human subjects who are more expensive than mice.
Well, your characterisation of my argument is at best a simplification. I never said there was a linear relation between size of brain and intelligence. Since your link states that the human brain is 3750x the mass of a mouse's, I think it's pretty safe to say that even with much less body to supervise, that the brain function of a mouse chimera is not going to approach a normal human's; and I suspect be less than a normal mouse's. Size does matter when it's three orders of magnitude.
surely you meant "humans with mice brains"....
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Then maybe there'd be someone dumb enough to click on your "free iPods" sig. (And that's so passé, "free Mac Minis" is the scam du jour.)
That's the whole reason to grow human brain tissue in animals; or would you prefer to experiment on living humans? If it was being done for more frivolous reasons there would be no support at all.
1) "Liberal thinking"? So for instance the "War on Drugs" is a product of liberal thinking?
2) Laws would be effective in cutting off most of the funding; however, they obviously wouldn't be effective world wide.
Considering the size of mice's skulls, I think the term "cognitive activity" was chosen with care and is far, far from "cognitive thought" you've assumed. If such animals were allowed to be born (the researcher plans to kill them before then) they'd be unlikely to be super smart mice, but more likely pretty dumb compared to other mice); we're smarter mostly because we have brains a few thousand times larger than mice, not because of any special virtue of our brain tissue, and our brain cells are certainly not going to be optimal for controlling a mouse's body and living as a mouse.
On the page you linked is a file to create a bootable floppy with the BIOS updater. Admittedly, you may need a DOS or Windows PC to create this, but it otherwise seesm pretty straight-forward. (If your laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, a little more hacking could take the floppy image and burn to CDR.)
Sure it was. When 99% of your clients are complaining about insanely bias news stories everyday and the other news stations are reporting other things, you begin to question the bias news station.
"Insanely biased"? Just not biased in the way you like. I could argue that point, they seem to be rather less biased than CNN and certainly Fox, for instance, (speaking as a non-American) but even if it happened to be true, the NYSE should only be concerned with how they reported busness news, not with what appeared on their news from the war, if that's what you mean. As it was, the NYSE gave some bullshit reason about there not being enough space. It was plainly a political decision, as the INRA today under discussion appears to be.
If switching reduced productivity, of course no one would do it. In the medium term no more viruses and very little if any malware. (I.E., increased productivity.) In the short term, no greater discomfort than any upgrade (DOS->Win 3->Win95->Win98...; WordStar -> WinWord; version x -> version x+1).
Unfortunately, Zathras, Tim Choate, died in a motor bike accident last September.