The worst thing about filters is their capacity to take away liberty without due process. If law enforcement says your content falls under restricted content, you can challenge this. If your content is silently filtered out by software, you may not be aware of the fact. If you are aware, you may have no means to restore your rights.
DoubleClick tried to convince me of this, too. Then I AdBlocked them.
/shrug. People can filter anything they want to. It's not "taking away libery without due process" unless the government forces us to use the filters. You can't make anyone configure their browser to be able to view your website, no matter how non-offensive your content may be. If people choose to let a 3rd-party control what is blocked, it's still their right to do so.
I dunno about your XBox, but my Wii consumes 1.3 Watts when in standby, provided that WiiConnect24 is disabled. It consumes about 10 Watts in standby with WiiConnect24. That was sufficient different to disable the feature. Though I still leave it plugged in when not in use.
Yes, I have one of those home power consumption monitors. All my home electricity is already from wind/solar, so I'm more concerned with saving money than saving the planet.
Go find a copy of King Corn. It's a pretty fascinating look at the US corn industry, including many of its problems. It doesn't talk too much about corn used for ethanol, but it does show why many of the food uses of corn today are bad for us. It's not just the corn used in corn syrup that's a problem, it's also the corn used as animal feed.
And I completely agree that rising corn prices are not a problem while the US government subsidizes production. Get rid of the subsidies, and then we can talk about the affect on food prices. If the poor really can't afford to eat because of rising corn prices, the subsidies on corn production could be replaced with an increase in funding for foodstamp programs, if nothing else.
Diesel engines are much cleaner now, if the proper technology is used to clean the exhaust. Unfortunately all that technology got clogged up by the sulphur in US diesel through last year, so none of it was used.
US diesel switched to a low-sulphur blend at the start of the year, and all 2007 model year diesel cars require it. It exchange, they now have the particulate filters that make diesels run cleaner. This does little to clean up the millions of diesel cars and trucks built before 2007, unfortunately, but it shows that the problem hasn't been forgotton.
Please don't attack diesel based on a complete lack of information and one anecdote. For more information, see the National Clean Diesel Campaign.
iPods were a success, but not an unbelievable hit, until they managed to get the costs down to something your average person can afford as a Christmas or Birthday gift.
Exactly. And even if the phone prices drop that low, you just can't give a cell phone as a gift unless the person specifically asked for it. "Happy birthday! Here's a $65/month contract for you to sign!"
My cell phone needs and my music needs are very different. I'm not willing to compromise to combine two small devices into one.
Your analogies aren't applicable because you are comparing unconscious states (sleeping) to conscious activities (work or play).
I think this requires a healthy dose of moderation. It's fine if I spend some time watching TV also figuring out a tough work problem in my head. It's fine if I spend some time at work browsing and posting on Slashdot. It's fine if I choose to work a little extra sometimes finish a task that I really want done before I leave, so that I can achieve a sense of accomplishment with my day. It's ok if I leave early sometimes if I have an external commitment that is more important.
All of those are fine when mixed in moderation. What's not fine is spending all my time at home thinking about work (= divorce), all my time at work browsing Slashdot (= fired), every night working late to finish things (= divorce), or leaving early every day (= fired).
Star Wars is good and all, but it's kiddie tripe compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Blade Runner, or even the recent films The Fountain and Children of Men.
Even Disney films contain elements of "good" and "bad", but having such things does not make them classics for descriping the human condition.
Disclaimer: I love B-, C-, and D-grade science fiction. I can appreciate the cheesiest movies with awful special effects and no redeeming plot lines. That doesn't mean I can't distinguish story-telling art from film cheese.
From the CNN article, they spent about $75,000 on data recovery specialists (who could not recover the data), then spent another $125,000 rescanning all the documents from paper.
Corn isn't a healthy feed for cattle anyway. If we didn't slaughter them, most of them would die within a year due to the poor nutrition value. And the beef we do get from corn-fed cattle is less healthy than beef from grazing animals.
Get a copy of and watch the documentary King Corn to look very closely at the processes and economics involved with corn production, distribution, and consumption. They focus on corn that ends up in the food supply, but the percentage of corn that ends up in fuel is also accounted for.
Go see The King of Kong when you get the opportunity. Seriously it is a fantastic story, even as a documentary. I got a chance to see it this past week, and it was great. The director confirmed he's now working on a dramatic version of it.
I'm much more likely to listen to Dan Everyman than I am someone who spent a good chunk of their life working towards a useless degree.
When arguing over trivial points of knowledge in an encyclopedia, I'd call a degree anything but useless. Some might argue that this is the only thing such a degree is good for.
If the record label gives the station 100 iPods to pass out to customers on the day a new song releases, that's not payola. If station employees take home 5 of those iPods, that's payola.
At this year's Black Hat Federal conference, she demonstrated three different attacks against AMD64 based systems, showing how the image of volatile memory (RAM) can be made different from the real contents of the physical memory as seen by the CPU.
Isn't this exactly what HD-DVD / Blu-Ray players need to prevent the AACS keys from being stolen? Just last week there was a story saying something like "PC-based movie players are inherently crackable, because the key has to be in main system memory for at least a brief instance, and then we can copy it." Now, this lady says there are methods to prevent anyone from truly reading what is in RAM. I don't understand.
I got a "network engineering" degree by going for electrical and computer engineering, then getting a job with the university network services department, a job I kept for four and a half years through college. Even though I was just a student aid, after that many years responsibilities can fall in your lap, and for a time I managed the university's DHCP processes (well, BootP back then).
When interviewing for jobs, I could analyze analog and digital circuits, interpret C and assembly code examples, and answer networking questions. My interview day at Adtran, for example, included three interviews: one hardware, one software, and one networking. The job I eventually took (not with Adtran, I didn't want to live in Alabama) was a networking technology group of general tech company. I still work there, though I've moved into an 80% digital 20% analog 0% networking position.
(Incidentally, all the digital now is VHDL, and all the analog is unrelated to the op amp / feedback analysis stuff I had in college. In fact, I use very little of what I actually learned in college beyond the basics. But, college taught me how to learn about engineering, so I can pick up new things as I need them.)
Just yesterday, at lunch, I went looking for a second Wiimote, after two months of having just one.
Leaving my office, the first electronics store I drove past was a Circuit City. I didn't bother to stop - even if they sell game systems, the odds that they have Wii hardware in stock are next to nil. (Do they sell game systems? Their signage doesn't say.) In the next shopping center up the freeway, I skipped the CompUSA. The last CompUSA I was in (around Christmas) had completely removed its Nintendo section, and was trying to sell PS3 in $1000 bundles. Again, not worth my time.
At the other end of that same shopping center, I stopped in a Best Buy, which had no stock. They also confirmed the next nearest store was also out of stock. Then I checked a GameStop, and had them call the next nearest store, too.
Finally, I went to Fry's which had one in stock I picked up.
The stigma of CompUSA and Circuit City keeps me from trying; I've been disappointed too many times before. To get me back in their stores, they need to completely revamp their product lines. I don't buy car audio systems or productivity software or big screen TVs or digital cameras often enough to check them, and I honestly couldn't tell you what else either of those two stores sold.
I had little raid-content gear before I started in the expansion. I was, literally, replacing a piece of armor every 30-60 minutes of play for the first week. All of my pre-BC gear was gone in two weeks, and in most slots I'd upgraded 3-4 times.
Eventually, when finished with Hellfire Peninsula and moving into Zangarmarsh, the gear turnover slows down. Suprisingly, I found this to be quite a relief; I didn't want to have to slow down and reevaluate my gear once an hour!
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The worst thing about filters is their capacity to take away liberty without due process. If law enforcement says your content falls under restricted content, you can challenge this. If your content is silently filtered out by software, you may not be aware of the fact. If you are aware, you may have no means to restore your rights.
/shrug. People can filter anything they want to. It's not "taking away libery without due process" unless the government forces us to use the filters. You can't make anyone configure their browser to be able to view your website, no matter how non-offensive your content may be. If people choose to let a 3rd-party control what is blocked, it's still their right to do so.
DoubleClick tried to convince me of this, too. Then I AdBlocked them.
I dunno about your XBox, but my Wii consumes 1.3 Watts when in standby, provided that WiiConnect24 is disabled. It consumes about 10 Watts in standby with WiiConnect24. That was sufficient different to disable the feature. Though I still leave it plugged in when not in use.
Yes, I have one of those home power consumption monitors. All my home electricity is already from wind/solar, so I'm more concerned with saving money than saving the planet.
Go find a copy of King Corn. It's a pretty fascinating look at the US corn industry, including many of its problems. It doesn't talk too much about corn used for ethanol, but it does show why many of the food uses of corn today are bad for us. It's not just the corn used in corn syrup that's a problem, it's also the corn used as animal feed.
And I completely agree that rising corn prices are not a problem while the US government subsidizes production. Get rid of the subsidies, and then we can talk about the affect on food prices. If the poor really can't afford to eat because of rising corn prices, the subsidies on corn production could be replaced with an increase in funding for foodstamp programs, if nothing else.
Diesel engines are pollutin' machines.
Diesel engines are much cleaner now, if the proper technology is used to clean the exhaust. Unfortunately all that technology got clogged up by the sulphur in US diesel through last year, so none of it was used.
US diesel switched to a low-sulphur blend at the start of the year, and all 2007 model year diesel cars require it. It exchange, they now have the particulate filters that make diesels run cleaner. This does little to clean up the millions of diesel cars and trucks built before 2007, unfortunately, but it shows that the problem hasn't been forgotton.
Please don't attack diesel based on a complete lack of information and one anecdote. For more information, see the National Clean Diesel Campaign.
iPods were a success, but not an unbelievable hit, until they managed to get the costs down to something your average person can afford as a Christmas or Birthday gift.
Exactly. And even if the phone prices drop that low, you just can't give a cell phone as a gift unless the person specifically asked for it. "Happy birthday! Here's a $65/month contract for you to sign!"
My cell phone needs and my music needs are very different. I'm not willing to compromise to combine two small devices into one.
CSPAN is better. Ted Stevens is funnier than Jar Jar.
The police aren't sworn in to serve and protect the Constitution?
I've served on the Planning and Zoning Committee of a small town, and I took an oath to take my office.
Your analogies aren't applicable because you are comparing unconscious states (sleeping) to conscious activities (work or play).
I think this requires a healthy dose of moderation. It's fine if I spend some time watching TV also figuring out a tough work problem in my head. It's fine if I spend some time at work browsing and posting on Slashdot. It's fine if I choose to work a little extra sometimes finish a task that I really want done before I leave, so that I can achieve a sense of accomplishment with my day. It's ok if I leave early sometimes if I have an external commitment that is more important.
All of those are fine when mixed in moderation. What's not fine is spending all my time at home thinking about work (= divorce), all my time at work browsing Slashdot (= fired), every night working late to finish things (= divorce), or leaving early every day (= fired).
Star Wars is good and all, but it's kiddie tripe compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Blade Runner, or even the recent films The Fountain and Children of Men.
Even Disney films contain elements of "good" and "bad", but having such things does not make them classics for descriping the human condition.
Disclaimer: I love B-, C-, and D-grade science fiction. I can appreciate the cheesiest movies with awful special effects and no redeeming plot lines. That doesn't mean I can't distinguish story-telling art from film cheese.
Provided you want to spend at least $10 a month on music.
From the CNN article, they spent about $75,000 on data recovery specialists (who could not recover the data), then spent another $125,000 rescanning all the documents from paper.
Corn isn't a healthy feed for cattle anyway. If we didn't slaughter them, most of them would die within a year due to the poor nutrition value. And the beef we do get from corn-fed cattle is less healthy than beef from grazing animals.
Get a copy of and watch the documentary King Corn to look very closely at the processes and economics involved with corn production, distribution, and consumption. They focus on corn that ends up in the food supply, but the percentage of corn that ends up in fuel is also accounted for.
Go see The King of Kong when you get the opportunity. Seriously it is a fantastic story, even as a documentary. I got a chance to see it this past week, and it was great. The director confirmed he's now working on a dramatic version of it.
Steve Wiebe has a diploma in Donkey Kong.
Use a library in a far-away town.
Hint: Don't use the library in the far-away town where you bought the gun.
Here's step 2:
1. Question author's background.
2. Do so in a post that will get modded as "Insightful" or "Informative" instead of "Funny".
3. Karma!
I'm much more likely to listen to Dan Everyman than I am someone who spent a good chunk of their life working towards a useless degree.
When arguing over trivial points of knowledge in an encyclopedia, I'd call a degree anything but useless. Some might argue that this is the only thing such a degree is good for.
After that it's just turtles all the way down.
That depends on if their computers also swapped the fields for "amount you owe" and "amount of refund".
If the record label gives the station 100 iPods to pass out to customers on the day a new song releases, that's not payola. If station employees take home 5 of those iPods, that's payola.
At this year's Black Hat Federal conference, she demonstrated three different attacks against AMD64 based systems, showing how the image of volatile memory (RAM) can be made different from the real contents of the physical memory as seen by the CPU.
Isn't this exactly what HD-DVD / Blu-Ray players need to prevent the AACS keys from being stolen? Just last week there was a story saying something like "PC-based movie players are inherently crackable, because the key has to be in main system memory for at least a brief instance, and then we can copy it." Now, this lady says there are methods to prevent anyone from truly reading what is in RAM. I don't understand.
Music is not a red pepper.
These guys beg to differ.
I got a "network engineering" degree by going for electrical and computer engineering, then getting a job with the university network services department, a job I kept for four and a half years through college. Even though I was just a student aid, after that many years responsibilities can fall in your lap, and for a time I managed the university's DHCP processes (well, BootP back then).
When interviewing for jobs, I could analyze analog and digital circuits, interpret C and assembly code examples, and answer networking questions. My interview day at Adtran, for example, included three interviews: one hardware, one software, and one networking. The job I eventually took (not with Adtran, I didn't want to live in Alabama) was a networking technology group of general tech company. I still work there, though I've moved into an 80% digital 20% analog 0% networking position.
(Incidentally, all the digital now is VHDL, and all the analog is unrelated to the op amp / feedback analysis stuff I had in college. In fact, I use very little of what I actually learned in college beyond the basics. But, college taught me how to learn about engineering, so I can pick up new things as I need them.)
Just yesterday, at lunch, I went looking for a second Wiimote, after two months of having just one.
Leaving my office, the first electronics store I drove past was a Circuit City. I didn't bother to stop - even if they sell game systems, the odds that they have Wii hardware in stock are next to nil. (Do they sell game systems? Their signage doesn't say.) In the next shopping center up the freeway, I skipped the CompUSA. The last CompUSA I was in (around Christmas) had completely removed its Nintendo section, and was trying to sell PS3 in $1000 bundles. Again, not worth my time.
At the other end of that same shopping center, I stopped in a Best Buy, which had no stock. They also confirmed the next nearest store was also out of stock. Then I checked a GameStop, and had them call the next nearest store, too.
Finally, I went to Fry's which had one in stock I picked up.
The stigma of CompUSA and Circuit City keeps me from trying; I've been disappointed too many times before. To get me back in their stores, they need to completely revamp their product lines. I don't buy car audio systems or productivity software or big screen TVs or digital cameras often enough to check them, and I honestly couldn't tell you what else either of those two stores sold.
On the contrary, statements from the RIAA have indicated that they believe downloading copyrighted music is illegal, even if you already own the CD.
Their lawsuit against MP3.com way back when was based on similar arguments, and they won.
I had little raid-content gear before I started in the expansion. I was, literally, replacing a piece of armor every 30-60 minutes of play for the first week. All of my pre-BC gear was gone in two weeks, and in most slots I'd upgraded 3-4 times.
Eventually, when finished with Hellfire Peninsula and moving into Zangarmarsh, the gear turnover slows down. Suprisingly, I found this to be quite a relief; I didn't want to have to slow down and reevaluate my gear once an hour!