"To the pain" means the first thing you lose will be your router below the trunk cable, then your ISDN line below the plug, next your laptop and then your cpu. Your GMail account you keep and I'll tell you why, so that every bounced email of every victim at seeing your spam will be yours to cherish. Every sysadmin who weeps at your approach, every AOLamer who cries out "Dear God, what is that thing?" will show up in your perfect mailbox. That is what "to the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish email forever.
Gasoline is solar energy. Sun -> plants -> dinosaurs -> decomposition -> pressure -> time -> oil -> human intervention -> gasoline.
People who complain about hydrogen not being a power source are not seeing the whole picture. Most of the energy on this planet comes from the sun. Gasoline seems efficient, but only because it's had millions of years to collect. What we really need is a solar capture that doesn't take so much time.
Personally, I'm betting on solar splitting of water into hydrogen.
The keys being passed around before the release date shows that current laws aren't strong enough to stop piracy, and therefore successful lobbying for more draconian laws has a higher chance to proceed.
There's your pseudo-tinfoil hat answer. I hope I'm wrong.
Remember the shoe bomber? That's really more of the intelligence level of the guys we're dealing with here. Not quite as bright as the average slashdotter.
I play a lot of RPG games and war simulations, and I'm a BSEE. I know I could come up with better inside of five minutes.
As for the cell phone jamming, my thinking is this. The jammer is not in the helicopter. The helicopter is an obvious target to draw anyone out. Someone who wished to attack W at this time would read the article and think, "Aha! The jammer is in the helicopter. Shoot down the copter, then dial in the bomb. Simple!"
Odds are, the jammer will be in the convoy and not the copter. The copter will be there as a decoy. Someone hits the copter, you know bad things are afoot and it's time to leave.
You don't think that public opinion is already swinging against MS, and would do so even more if they followed through with such a thing?
Why should MS care what the public thinks? They're a monopoly.
Oh sure, we here on/. know they're not, but for all other people they are. You want to do your taxes. You go to BestBuy and buy Quicken. You take it home. Now...what operating system are you going to need?
It's like the gasoline infrastructure. You need to get to work. So you drive your car to the gas station and buy gasoline. At exactly whatever lousy price they offer it to you for. There is no substitute.
Oh sure, we here on/. know there are alternatives. Solar, hydrogen, whatever. Still doesn't help 99.9% of everyone get to work though. Tough to tell the boss you'd be in, if only you could find a hydrogen pump within a thousand miles of your house.
Same thing with Microsoft. They don't have to care what the public thinks of them. And they never have, honestly. They may or may not be a legally definable monopoly, but they are a monopoly inasmuch as there is no way for the average person to get around them. Just like how I know all about hydrogen, and PEM cells, and all that fun stuff but still have to shell out at the gas pump to make it to work.
hi im from delhi, u should listen when i tell you how it is.
Odds are, since you type like a 14 year old texting someone - you probably don't know how it is. Call me after you make your first few college loan payments. kthxbye.
Don't assume we write crappy programs.
Don't have to assume. I'm actually in the industry and I've dealt with outsourced code. It IS crappy.
Don't assume you have greater brains. We are the country that invented Mathematics
There are a few greek fellows I read about who might want a word with you on that.
And the accent..ugh...we have the most neutral of all accents.
To YOU, maybe. Because everyone around you has the *same freaking accent*. Of course you find it agreeable. To the rest of the world it sounds like you're talking through a mouthful of pudding.
Don't u want a better quality of life too? Isn't it why you go and bombard every country you find oil in?
How has bombing anyone made our lives better? Did it make gas prices go back down? Have they lowered my taxes? No, both times. Gas is at an all time high, and taxes to support all this are astronomical. I much prefer a peacetime economy, thank you very much.
Be thankful of what you have and wait for the time when you would be fighting with each other to come and work in India.
Not bloody likely. I'd quit the field if I had to move to India.
I own an '07 Prius and I can tell you that you're 100% on target with your whole post.
Mine is currently getting an overall average of 53mpg. That number is about 80/20 highway/city driving. That isn't too far off from the numbers Toyota advertises for the Prius. And I don't drive any particular way, either. I just drive. Usually about 5mph over the speed limit.
Took my wife on vacation a week or so ago. Drove I77 both ways through the Virginias, through the mountains. My mpg dropped to 49. To cross mountains with an Atkinson engine! Not too bad at all.
My Prius is quick, clean, and whisper quiet. When it wears out, I'm buying another one. It really is the best engineered car I've ever been in.
Once you're doing it every week though you should really look at the reasons you don't like going to your work place and try to fix those problems rather than running away from them
If you like your office more than your home, I'd worry more about that says.
The difference is that even if there is no deity, the majority religions still provide useful and positive services to their members.
Not just to their members, but to society in general.
My wife took some philosophy classes in college. One of them was a class on ethics. She came home one day, frightened.
The discussion topic was about the nature of ethics. What are they, where do they come from, etc. One of the things that came out in class was that the majority of people in the class thought that ethical behavior came from God. If you were an Athiest, you could not be ethical.
Yes. Seriously.
Now, the other side of that coin is that these people are behaving ethically because they believe the Big Invisible Man is watching everything they do. If he wasn't watching - well - all bets are off. They would have no ethics, since their source for ethical behavior would be absent. They'd be in the streets buck naked sawing other people's heads off.
So, let me be the first to say Hooray For Organized Religion! Thank you for keeping our streets safe. From ourselves.
I was working IT at an investment firm back in college. End user support, software install, and managing a single Novell 3.11 server.
The owner was an incredible know-it-all jerk.
He wanted more space on his server, and had me add a second hard drive to it. I had to span disks. I warned him that this would make the server twice as likely to have a catastrophic failure, since now the main volume had two hardware points of failure. I recommended he buy a tape backup.
"No, I don't really see how that would make us money." His standard answer to any good idea I'd come up with. I warned him in the strongest possible terms that Bad Things Can Happen.
Then, the inevitable Big Red Button event happened. They got a postcard in the mail saying the power company would be cutting the lines to their block and replacing them in a week. His crack office staff promptly ignored the card. See where this is going?
D-Day for the lines comes, and *snap*. Down goes the whole building. And of course the server won't boot afterwards. A spike had destroyed half their spanned disk.
Still my fault. My fault because I didn't somehow know the lines were being cut. My fault for not warning him strongly enough. My fault because I couldn't resurrect the server.
He even had a tape backup on his personal PC which I had hijacked to run a backup of the server every midnight, as a last-ditch attempt in the event of a failure. And of course - he found that and disabled it, too. And wrote over my backup tapes.
I own a 2007 Prius. IMHO, you're correct about the regenerative braking not being the big money maker in the vehicle. It's the hybrid train switching off the engine when you're on the freeway on slight declines.
It's got a screen that shows your energy consumption, including the net gains from the regenerative braking, and I watch it fairly closely as I drive. If you're on a slight decline, the car gets around 75mpg with the gas engine providing minimal torque. The scale maxes at 100 when the engine shuts off, and that'll happen on the freeway sometimes too. Occasionally I can drive the thing on a non-flat road under 35mph it'll switch to all electric as well. On slight incline, it's about 20-25mpg, depending on if I'm trying to accelerate. A round trip averages out to around 50mpg, and that's what I'm seeing. My average is 52mpg.
As for the regenerative braking, the display will show you how much energy you net in a five minute period by a collection of little green "leaves". For every 50 watt-hours, you get a green leaf. Usually I net a half of one in a five minute period. That's not much at all. Best I've done is 4 I think, and I was coasting downhill a lot on that 5 minute segment.
So a really good five minute drive will net you three leaves, or about 150w/h. If we do the math on that, here's how that breaks down. (no pun intended)
A gasoline engine is about 20% efficient. A gallon of gas holds 115,000 BTUs, which is 33.69Kwh. A car will make use of about 20% of that, so a gallon of gasoline will provide you with 6.738Kwh, or 6378wh. Those three leaves add up to 2.35% of a gallon of gas. With gas at $3/gallon, those three leaves save you $3 * 2.35% = 7 cents.
Nope, not much money there. The big savings is when the thing coasts or nearly coasts on the freeway. That's why the smart-car idea that makes you coast a lot produces similar savings. No surprises there.
first of all, if you are a part to the 'conversation' it's not wiretapping.
IIRC, didn't Nixon get in some hot water recording conversations where he was in the conversation? Still illegal, I believe. IANAL though.
second, it's not "address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd downloaded these packets"
but rather, uploaded.
True. I wonder if someone has tried to work this into a defense? If the RIAA is part of the conversation, then it must be taking place with their consent. If they're not part of the conversation, then they're wiretapping. They couldn't argue that they are both, I'd imagine.
That's going to be a difficult argument to make, given that Kazaa's default settings give users no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Doesn't matter how much of a reasonable expectation of privacy the user has. Recording a conversation over a wire is wiretapping. Which is what the RIAA is doing. "User X and address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd downloaded these packets." IANAL, but I believe it is illegal without a court order.
From the link:
Sec. 2511. Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic
communications prohibited
(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter any
person who -
(a) intentionally intercepts, endeavors to intercept, or
procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept,
any wire, oral, or electronic communication;
Only way it's allowed is if the courts say you can, or you own the cable.
(ii) Notwithstanding any other law, providers of wire or
electronic communication service, their officers, employees, and
agents, landlords, custodians, or other persons, are authorized to
provide information, facilities, or technical assistance to persons
authorized by law to intercept wire, oral, or electronic
communications or to conduct electronic surveillance, as defined in
section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978,
if such provider, its officers, employees, or agents, landlord,
custodian, or other specified person, has been provided with -
(A) a court order directing such assistance signed by the
authorizing judge, or
(B) a certification in writing by a person specified in section
2518(7) of this title or the Attorney General of the United
States that no warrant or court order is required by law, that
all statutory requirements have been met, and that the specified
assistance is required,
I don't believe the RIAA has a letter from the Attorney General, so that seems like that covers it.
They already got one past the media with "Piracy". It's NOT PIRACY. It's copyright violation. If it was piracy, we already had laws on the books against that. By tying the two together the public thinks they must somehow be similar. And they are not. People are very rarely fired upon with cannon shot when their software is infringed upon.
It's not extortion because you don't have to buy music at all. They provide something and set a price. If consumers think the product is ok at the price, it'll sell. If not, it won't.
And...yuck. I think I just defended those guys. Think I'll go take a bath.
Part of the whole RIAA con is that they loudly proclaim that they are doing all the crap they do "to defend the little guy, the artist." That's how they moralize what they do. They're just here to help.
So, exactly HOW does this accomplish that? Are they going to cut paychecks to all the indie artists they're leeching off of?
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"To the pain" means the first thing you lose will be your router below the trunk cable, then your ISDN line below the plug, next your laptop and then your cpu. Your GMail account you keep and I'll tell you why, so that every bounced email of every victim at seeing your spam will be yours to cherish. Every sysadmin who weeps at your approach, every AOLamer who cries out "Dear God, what is that thing?" will show up in your perfect mailbox. That is what "to the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish email forever.
You've fallen victim to an inside joke. See here. Scroll down to "I work for."
Other than nuclear power and Mr. Fusion.
Gasoline is solar energy. Sun -> plants -> dinosaurs -> decomposition -> pressure -> time -> oil -> human intervention -> gasoline.
People who complain about hydrogen not being a power source are not seeing the whole picture. Most of the energy on this planet comes from the sun. Gasoline seems efficient, but only because it's had millions of years to collect. What we really need is a solar capture that doesn't take so much time.
Personally, I'm betting on solar splitting of water into hydrogen.
They won't get what they want with the TV show either.
Pretty much the same thing CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet does, but with RSS.
Or else we wouldn't need a separate set of laws to define copyright violation.
No matter how much shills wish to define copyright violation as theft, the body of law on the topic states absolutely otherwise.
The keys being passed around before the release date shows that current laws aren't strong enough to stop piracy, and therefore successful lobbying for more draconian laws has a higher chance to proceed.
There's your pseudo-tinfoil hat answer. I hope I'm wrong.
...on your definitions of good and evil with respect to DRM.
Remember the shoe bomber? That's really more of the intelligence level of the guys we're dealing with here. Not quite as bright as the average slashdotter.
I play a lot of RPG games and war simulations, and I'm a BSEE. I know I could come up with better inside of five minutes.
As for the cell phone jamming, my thinking is this. The jammer is not in the helicopter. The helicopter is an obvious target to draw anyone out. Someone who wished to attack W at this time would read the article and think, "Aha! The jammer is in the helicopter. Shoot down the copter, then dial in the bomb. Simple!"
Odds are, the jammer will be in the convoy and not the copter. The copter will be there as a decoy. Someone hits the copter, you know bad things are afoot and it's time to leave.
You don't think that public opinion is already swinging against MS, and would do so even more if they followed through with such a thing?
Why should MS care what the public thinks? They're a monopoly.
Oh sure, we here on /. know they're not, but for all other people they are. You want to do your taxes. You go to BestBuy and buy Quicken. You take it home. Now...what operating system are you going to need?
It's like the gasoline infrastructure. You need to get to work. So you drive your car to the gas station and buy gasoline. At exactly whatever lousy price they offer it to you for. There is no substitute.
Oh sure, we here on /. know there are alternatives. Solar, hydrogen, whatever. Still doesn't help 99.9% of everyone get to work though. Tough to tell the boss you'd be in, if only you could find a hydrogen pump within a thousand miles of your house.
Same thing with Microsoft. They don't have to care what the public thinks of them. And they never have, honestly. They may or may not be a legally definable monopoly, but they are a monopoly inasmuch as there is no way for the average person to get around them. Just like how I know all about hydrogen, and PEM cells, and all that fun stuff but still have to shell out at the gas pump to make it to work.
hi im from delhi, u should listen when i tell you how it is.
Odds are, since you type like a 14 year old texting someone - you probably don't know how it is. Call me after you make your first few college loan payments. kthxbye.
Don't assume we write crappy programs.
Don't have to assume. I'm actually in the industry and I've dealt with outsourced code. It IS crappy.
Don't assume you have greater brains. We are the country that invented Mathematics
There are a few greek fellows I read about who might want a word with you on that.
And the accent..ugh...we have the most neutral of all accents.
To YOU, maybe. Because everyone around you has the *same freaking accent*. Of course you find it agreeable. To the rest of the world it sounds like you're talking through a mouthful of pudding.
Don't u want a better quality of life too? Isn't it why you go and bombard every country you find oil in?
How has bombing anyone made our lives better? Did it make gas prices go back down? Have they lowered my taxes? No, both times. Gas is at an all time high, and taxes to support all this are astronomical. I much prefer a peacetime economy, thank you very much.
Be thankful of what you have and wait for the time when you would be fighting with each other to come and work in India.
Not bloody likely. I'd quit the field if I had to move to India.
I own an '07 Prius and I can tell you that you're 100% on target with your whole post.
Mine is currently getting an overall average of 53mpg. That number is about 80/20 highway/city driving. That isn't too far off from the numbers Toyota advertises for the Prius. And I don't drive any particular way, either. I just drive. Usually about 5mph over the speed limit.
Took my wife on vacation a week or so ago. Drove I77 both ways through the Virginias, through the mountains. My mpg dropped to 49. To cross mountains with an Atkinson engine! Not too bad at all.
My Prius is quick, clean, and whisper quiet. When it wears out, I'm buying another one. It really is the best engineered car I've ever been in.
Once you're doing it every week though you should really look at the reasons you don't like going to your work place and try to fix those problems rather than running away from them
If you like your office more than your home, I'd worry more about that says.
Ok, you've quoted part of my post. So...anything to add, or did you just like that part, or what?
The difference is that even if there is no deity, the majority religions still provide useful and positive services to their members.
Not just to their members, but to society in general.
My wife took some philosophy classes in college. One of them was a class on ethics. She came home one day, frightened.
The discussion topic was about the nature of ethics. What are they, where do they come from, etc. One of the things that came out in class was that the majority of people in the class thought that ethical behavior came from God. If you were an Athiest, you could not be ethical.
Yes. Seriously.
Now, the other side of that coin is that these people are behaving ethically because they believe the Big Invisible Man is watching everything they do. If he wasn't watching - well - all bets are off. They would have no ethics, since their source for ethical behavior would be absent. They'd be in the streets buck naked sawing other people's heads off.
So, let me be the first to say Hooray For Organized Religion! Thank you for keeping our streets safe. From ourselves.
A bouquet of "fully organic fecal aroma enhancers". Don't worry - they're just like roses.
There is always someone bigger than you.
I was working IT at an investment firm back in college. End user support, software install, and managing a single Novell 3.11 server.
The owner was an incredible know-it-all jerk.
He wanted more space on his server, and had me add a second hard drive to it. I had to span disks. I warned him that this would make the server twice as likely to have a catastrophic failure, since now the main volume had two hardware points of failure. I recommended he buy a tape backup.
"No, I don't really see how that would make us money." His standard answer to any good idea I'd come up with. I warned him in the strongest possible terms that Bad Things Can Happen.
Then, the inevitable Big Red Button event happened. They got a postcard in the mail saying the power company would be cutting the lines to their block and replacing them in a week. His crack office staff promptly ignored the card. See where this is going?
D-Day for the lines comes, and *snap*. Down goes the whole building. And of course the server won't boot afterwards. A spike had destroyed half their spanned disk.
Still my fault. My fault because I didn't somehow know the lines were being cut. My fault for not warning him strongly enough. My fault because I couldn't resurrect the server.
He even had a tape backup on his personal PC which I had hijacked to run a backup of the server every midnight, as a last-ditch attempt in the event of a failure. And of course - he found that and disabled it, too. And wrote over my backup tapes.
STILL my fault.
I'm so glad I don't work there anymore.
I own a 2007 Prius. IMHO, you're correct about the regenerative braking not being the big money maker in the vehicle. It's the hybrid train switching off the engine when you're on the freeway on slight declines.
It's got a screen that shows your energy consumption, including the net gains from the regenerative braking, and I watch it fairly closely as I drive. If you're on a slight decline, the car gets around 75mpg with the gas engine providing minimal torque. The scale maxes at 100 when the engine shuts off, and that'll happen on the freeway sometimes too. Occasionally I can drive the thing on a non-flat road under 35mph it'll switch to all electric as well. On slight incline, it's about 20-25mpg, depending on if I'm trying to accelerate. A round trip averages out to around 50mpg, and that's what I'm seeing. My average is 52mpg.
As for the regenerative braking, the display will show you how much energy you net in a five minute period by a collection of little green "leaves". For every 50 watt-hours, you get a green leaf. Usually I net a half of one in a five minute period. That's not much at all. Best I've done is 4 I think, and I was coasting downhill a lot on that 5 minute segment.
So a really good five minute drive will net you three leaves, or about 150w/h. If we do the math on that, here's how that breaks down. (no pun intended)
A gasoline engine is about 20% efficient. A gallon of gas holds 115,000 BTUs, which is 33.69Kwh. A car will make use of about 20% of that, so a gallon of gasoline will provide you with 6.738Kwh, or 6378wh. Those three leaves add up to 2.35% of a gallon of gas. With gas at $3/gallon, those three leaves save you $3 * 2.35% = 7 cents.
Nope, not much money there. The big savings is when the thing coasts or nearly coasts on the freeway. That's why the smart-car idea that makes you coast a lot produces similar savings. No surprises there.
first of all, if you are a part to the 'conversation' it's not wiretapping.
IIRC, didn't Nixon get in some hot water recording conversations where he was in the conversation? Still illegal, I believe. IANAL though.
second, it's not "address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd downloaded these packets" but rather, uploaded.
True. I wonder if someone has tried to work this into a defense? If the RIAA is part of the conversation, then it must be taking place with their consent. If they're not part of the conversation, then they're wiretapping. They couldn't argue that they are both, I'd imagine.
That's going to be a difficult argument to make, given that Kazaa's default settings give users no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Doesn't matter how much of a reasonable expectation of privacy the user has. Recording a conversation over a wire is wiretapping. Which is what the RIAA is doing. "User X and address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd downloaded these packets." IANAL, but I believe it is illegal without a court order.
From the link:
Sec. 2511. Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited
(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter any person who - (a) intentionally intercepts, endeavors to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept, any wire, oral, or electronic communication;
Only way it's allowed is if the courts say you can, or you own the cable.
(ii) Notwithstanding any other law, providers of wire or electronic communication service, their officers, employees, and agents, landlords, custodians, or other persons, are authorized to provide information, facilities, or technical assistance to persons authorized by law to intercept wire, oral, or electronic communications or to conduct electronic surveillance, as defined in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, if such provider, its officers, employees, or agents, landlord, custodian, or other specified person, has been provided with - (A) a court order directing such assistance signed by the authorizing judge, or (B) a certification in writing by a person specified in section 2518(7) of this title or the Attorney General of the United States that no warrant or court order is required by law, that all statutory requirements have been met, and that the specified assistance is required,
I don't believe the RIAA has a letter from the Attorney General, so that seems like that covers it.
Nothing out there that suits you? Write it.
Then share it.
Define the battle on our terms, not theirs.
They already got one past the media with "Piracy". It's NOT PIRACY. It's copyright violation. If it was piracy, we already had laws on the books against that. By tying the two together the public thinks they must somehow be similar. And they are not. People are very rarely fired upon with cannon shot when their software is infringed upon.
It's not extortion because you don't have to buy music at all. They provide something and set a price. If consumers think the product is ok at the price, it'll sell. If not, it won't.
And...yuck. I think I just defended those guys. Think I'll go take a bath.
Part of the whole RIAA con is that they loudly proclaim that they are doing all the crap they do "to defend the little guy, the artist." That's how they moralize what they do. They're just here to help.
So, exactly HOW does this accomplish that? Are they going to cut paychecks to all the indie artists they're leeching off of?
I'm betting not.