So far, wikipedia has had serious problems with unbannable users: Persistent vandalizers who have dynamic IPs. Think of it more as a method of keeping those users' minimum time between vandalization + bannings at days/weeks rather than minutes.
While IMO there's a bit of a bad culture developing around the infrastructure to deal with bannings and editorial control, this should cut down on the need to have them at all quite a bit.
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History by Thom Hartmann
The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.
It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)
But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.
Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference.
"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.
Two weeks later, the first detention center for terrorists was built in Oranianberg to hold the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the leader's flag was everywhere, even printed large in newspapers suitable for window display.
Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader had pushed through legislation - in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it - that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people's homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
To get his patriotic "Decree on the Protection of People and State" passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained. Legislators would later say they hadn't had time to read the bill before voting on it.
Immediately after passage of the anti-terrorism act, his federal police agencies stepped up their program of arresting suspicious persons and holding them witho
Algal biodiesel, while it doesn't seem to be a priority as far as pork barrel politics or industry PR[since there's no algae industry], has estimated maximum yields 200 per acre 200 times that of soy diesel, between 5000-20000 gallons per acre per year.
Regarding terrestrial crops, and soybeans - The soy industry was just looking for a sponge to mop up its excess stock and spread PR - canola (rapeseed) oil has 3x the yield and comparable growing conditions. There are plenty of crops that need more favorable growing conditions, and grant much larger yields, the best / hardest to grow being oil palms.
Yes, he is. But the relative contributions to pollution are vastly different. Which would you rather have your future generations deal with:
Massive caverns set deep in bedrock that are just waiting for a volcano to spring up to throw it into the atmosphere and give 1% of the population cancer
Or a hole in the ozone layer, massive amounts of smog and acid rain, the east coast moving 20 miles inland, and the definite release of larger amount of radiactive material thrown up in the ash of the coal you burnt for the energy than choice A would have spread?
This is a bit... unrealistic. It's taken years for even a tiny market penetration of 720p/1080i sets to make headway, and half the time the tiny number of broadcasts that claim to be 1080i are actually lower resolution.
I believe that we'll stabilize on unencrypted 1080p60 H.264 in 5-10 years, after years of mucking about with 720p, 1080i, DRM, mpeg2, etc.
The DRM is really getting to the point of Joe-Blow rejection, not just among idealists. Expect a backlash with Vista, digitalization of broadcast, more widespread HD timeshifting, and the next gen of DRM.
Expect hybridization to become standard practice in the next few years - it's a dead-end practice, but it's the best the auto industry can come up with in response to rising gas prices.
Honestly, the first priority of the world right now should be fast-tracking nuclear, photovoltaic, and biodiesel research, if it wants to get through the next 50 years. Without a whole host of breakthroughs, it will have to deal with some rapid political realignments around the remaining oil supplies - up to and including those that happen in fractions of a second and are rated in megatons.
Hydrogen doesn't need a breakthrough, it needs breakthroughs in practically every field, some of which aren't thermodynamically feasable, in addition to solving the ACTUAL problem - lack of cheap energy - rather than lack of cheap oil.
On what scale? These mirrors aren't approaching anything the size of, say, the distance the earth travels around the sun in a day, - at which point you see only about a degree of divergence in the sun's light.
Introduce these species without a crapload of bioengineering - putting a forest of them through a few hundred generations of a cold desert in a hypobaric chamber filled with nothing but a few millibars of CO2 - and you'll have nothing but dead biomass shipped to mars at $10k/kg.
I've been convinced after doing some research that the likelyhood of the geiger counter becoming a whole lot more active very quickly is greater in the struggle over the last few oil fields than it is from waste plutonium.
For the love of Bob, mod parent up - this was originally the FCC's ONLY priority.
Now it seems to be making sure that your children can't hear fart jokes or see the human body, and further raping the few people that aren't sucking the teat of cable or satellite services.
This setup would require realtime ENCODING, which from the preview here: http://www.shapeofdays.com/2005/05/a_demonstration.html , is a good 5 or 6 cycles of Moore's Law away for 480p, much less 720p (read: clip took 24x as long to encode as length for standard def content).
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A note on the ONLY version of the popular sci-fi trick that has any merit:
You can use "enhance," if you're burning temporal resolution to produce more spatial resolution. A video of an image can be made into a higher resolution picture by weighing averages of subpixel gradients over many frames into one higher resolution shot.
This gets rather complicated when dealing with moving objects(which is where security camera "enhance" would actually be useful), but for situations where you're dealing with many shots of one object, it's a perfectly valid technique.
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Where are you posting from? I'm still seeing the blurring, the brown top of the WH, everything.
So far, wikipedia has had serious problems with unbannable users: Persistent vandalizers who have dynamic IPs. Think of it more as a method of keeping those users' minimum time between vandalization + bannings at days/weeks rather than minutes.
While IMO there's a bit of a bad culture developing around the infrastructure to deal with bannings and editorial control, this should cut down on the need to have them at all quite a bit.
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History
by Thom Hartmann
The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.
It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)
But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.
Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference.
"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.
Two weeks later, the first detention center for terrorists was built in Oranianberg to hold the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the leader's flag was everywhere, even printed large in newspapers suitable for window display.
Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader had pushed through legislation - in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it - that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people's homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
To get his patriotic "Decree on the Protection of People and State" passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained. Legislators would later say they hadn't had time to read the bill before voting on it.
Immediately after passage of the anti-terrorism act, his federal police agencies stepped up their program of arresting suspicious persons and holding them witho
Algal biodiesel, while it doesn't seem to be a priority as far as pork barrel politics or industry PR[since there's no algae industry], has estimated maximum yields 200 per acre 200 times that of soy diesel, between 5000-20000 gallons per acre per year.
Regarding terrestrial crops, and soybeans - The soy industry was just looking for a sponge to mop up its excess stock and spread PR - canola (rapeseed) oil has 3x the yield and comparable growing conditions. There are plenty of crops that need more favorable growing conditions, and grant much larger yields, the best / hardest to grow being oil palms.
Yes, he is. But the relative contributions to pollution are vastly different. Which would you rather have your future generations deal with:
Massive caverns set deep in bedrock that are just waiting for a volcano to spring up to throw it into the atmosphere and give 1% of the population cancer
Or a hole in the ozone layer, massive amounts of smog and acid rain, the east coast moving 20 miles inland, and the definite release of larger amount of radiactive material thrown up in the ash of the coal you burnt for the energy than choice A would have spread?
But einstein's been our provider for so long...
What are you suggesting, we hook up with String Theory for their "Now with FTL" plan?
This is a bit... unrealistic. It's taken years for even a tiny market penetration of 720p/1080i sets to make headway, and half the time the tiny number of broadcasts that claim to be 1080i are actually lower resolution.
I believe that we'll stabilize on unencrypted 1080p60 H.264 in 5-10 years, after years of mucking about with 720p, 1080i, DRM, mpeg2, etc.
The DRM is really getting to the point of Joe-Blow rejection, not just among idealists. Expect a backlash with Vista, digitalization of broadcast, more widespread HD timeshifting, and the next gen of DRM.
He's looking up Google News, not Google, which has 1.02 million results - and that's for the quoted phrase.
Expect hybridization to become standard practice in the next few years - it's a dead-end practice, but it's the best the auto industry can come up with in response to rising gas prices.
Honestly, the first priority of the world right now should be fast-tracking nuclear, photovoltaic, and biodiesel research, if it wants to get through the next 50 years. Without a whole host of breakthroughs, it will have to deal with some rapid political realignments around the remaining oil supplies - up to and including those that happen in fractions of a second and are rated in megatons.
Hydrogen doesn't need a breakthrough, it needs breakthroughs in practically every field, some of which aren't thermodynamically feasable, in addition to solving the ACTUAL problem - lack of cheap energy - rather than lack of cheap oil.
On what scale? These mirrors aren't approaching anything the size of, say, the distance the earth travels around the sun in a day, - at which point you see only about a degree of divergence in the sun's light.
Mod parent up please - the most sensical thing I've read here.
Oh god... modpoints expired yesterday... Someone please mod up.
Introduce these species without a crapload of bioengineering - putting a forest of them through a few hundred generations of a cold desert in a hypobaric chamber filled with nothing but a few millibars of CO2 - and you'll have nothing but dead biomass shipped to mars at $10k/kg.
I've been convinced after doing some research that the likelyhood of the geiger counter becoming a whole lot more active very quickly is greater in the struggle over the last few oil fields than it is from waste plutonium.
How can you possibly post that here without a joke?
Isn't banging rocks together to make fire a quintessential example of what you're talking about?
For the love of Bob, mod parent up - this was originally the FCC's ONLY priority.
Now it seems to be making sure that your children can't hear fart jokes or see the human body, and further raping the few people that aren't sucking the teat of cable or satellite services.
"the form of argument doesn't follow as such"
= non sequitur
Decoding?
n .html , is a good 5 or 6 cycles of Moore's Law away for 480p, much less 720p (read: clip took 24x as long to encode as length for standard def content).
This setup would require realtime ENCODING, which from the preview here: http://www.shapeofdays.com/2005/05/a_demonstratio
A note on the ONLY version of the popular sci-fi trick that has any merit:
You can use "enhance," if you're burning temporal resolution to produce more spatial resolution. A video of an image can be made into a higher resolution picture by weighing averages of subpixel gradients over many frames into one higher resolution shot.
This gets rather complicated when dealing with moving objects(which is where security camera "enhance" would actually be useful), but for situations where you're dealing with many shots of one object, it's a perfectly valid technique.
Enjoy watching Fear Factor and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in HD tonight.
ref: http://www.wisegeek.com/how-much-text-is-in-a-kilo byte-or-megabyte.htm
This was the first hit I got, but there appear to be several varying estimates for how big a library of congress (LoCbyte) is - I've seen 8 terabytes and 10 terabytes as well.
1 library of congress is about 5.6 terabytes.
So about 0.00164, assuming they're talking single layered, single sided disks.
I call shenanigans!
The moon landing project began long before Tonkin.
Um...
None of the teachers I know could afford a weekend VACATION in Aruba.