We were early HDTV adopters. Our perfectly-good six-year-old plasma TV has DVI and component only, no HDMI. I use component from our cable box since it has only component and HDMI.
It has nothing to do with evolution. Plant tissues that experience pressures (say from bending in the wind) release hormones that make the tissue stronger, to better withstand that pressure.
Well, it has something to do with evolution. Plants that can create and use this hormone would tend to more often live to maturity, compared to competing plants lacking it. That would make them more likely to produce offspring.
I bought my dad a mac. Alas, he didn't use it at first, preferring instead to stay on his old, infected Dell. Eventually though my mom asked me to set it up for her, and simultaneously the Dell slowed past use, and my dad moved over.
It's much, much better now. The constant stream of issues is gone, and now it's usually just a simple question about something that he could do on the Dell but couldn't figure out how to do any more, and I could show him how and be done with it.
I'm sure these guys could still face possible trouble even for just admitting they've brought down the head of the botnets
And what exactly have they done that's illegal? They registered some domain names. They reported domain names used by spammers to their registrars, with documentation, and those registrars cut off the domains. They reported IP addresses used by spammers to their hosts, and those hosts cut off the IP addresses. They have received botnet requests at their sinkhole, but they are merely logging IP addresses, not returning commands to the botnet. They'll use the IP addresses to one-by-one have the ISPs notify their customers.
There's no law that says you can't do any of the above things. If the botnet was written so that lack of command from a control server resulted in destruction, then the botnet creators are solely responsible. If you stopped a robber and, as a result, the robber's hostage at home died from dehydration, do you get charged with murder? No, they do.
I'm not sure why you'd suggest a hard-wired solution in this day and age.
Buying a slightly-used iPod for each room that needs sound, plus a docking station with speaker jacks, would likely cost no more than $60-$80 per room.
Plus each room can have its own music playing from its own playlists controlled from the room itself, something that hard wires running from a central computer with multiple sound cards couldn't support without putting a dreaded computer (or iPod) in every room any way.
It'll be hard to get another celebrity to put their weight behind this kind of research
You are incorrect.
I spoke recently with Doctor Charlotte Smith of the Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Center at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, who has seen regrowth of spinal nerve cells in patients undergoing umbilical cord stem cell treatment combined with computer-controlled direct stimulation of detached nerves.
Her research continues to attract funding, but it began from a rehabilitation center significantly funded by former and current professional football players. Consider someone like Kevin Everett, who, after 15 minutes as a quadriplegic ended his football career, has devoted his time and effort toward raising money for spinal cord research.
While the brutality of professional football injuries can be tragic, it does instill in many players a need to campaign for a cure. These are the celebrities that step up and put their weight behind the research.
This guy's problem, in my not-so-humble opinion, was that he was letting his score on an IQ test define himself and his potential friends. As long as people who score well on IQ tests go around wearing it like a badge and looking down on everybody else, they are going to be outcasts, because even if you don't say it out loud, people will pick up on it, and then they don't want to be around you. Nobody wants to hang out with the guy who's always subtly reminding everybody of how smart he is.
Funny, I learned this in ninth grade when, after moving to a new school district, I realized that I'd fit in better if the rest of the honors kids didn't realize I was always the one setting the curve.
I started taking my homework, tests, etc., straight from the teacher's hand into my bag, so it wasn't ever visible or shared. The technique served me well through college.
The speed limits, turn restrictions, signage, whatever is all there for a reason. It's to create a safe and predictable driving environment for everyone.
If only that were true. Unfortunately speed limits are set both for safety and for profit. My anecdotal example is the frontage roads for highways in and around Austin, Texas. There are many frontage roads that were and are 55 MPH, where the freeway is 65 MPH. However, everywhere the limited access road is a tollway, they have reduced the frontage road speed to 45 MPH.
Two-thirds of the world's internet just care about their email and bbc.co.uk. They're fine.
However, it's a fair assumption that anyone posting on Slashdot uses the internet for many, many more things, and having all those other things taken away would make it "worthless", especially since most Slashdot users can check their email and the news on their phone for "free".
But in general there are many, many public schools that are bargains. Your rebuttal picks on my use of the word "public", but makes no sense when any real parent concerned about cost would instead use the word "affordable".
3) Receipt viewing window in machine, that can only be viewed by pressing both hands down on buttons on opposite ends of the machine. This keeps people from taking photos of their vote.
So people with one hand are disenfranchised? As are people who can't hold both hands steady long enough to keep the window open continuously? Meanwhile someone with an iPhone on a lariat with a timer-based camera utility still gets their photo, as does someone with a camera in their sunglasses. Come on, you post on slashdot. You should know that it's impossible to share content with an end user and prevent that end user from copying said content.
The result is that only the voter knows in their head whether their receipt is for the dummy or the real vote, making the receipt of no true accountability to anyone but the voter.
And what happens when Sequoia or some crafty hacker switches the flags in the database, so the fake votes become the real votes and the real votes become the fake votes? The receipt tag would still pull up the "fake" votes, except they'd be the ones cast.
If the receipt is potentially real or potentially fake, why give it at all?
1. People can't use their receipt to prove that their vote was counted correctly - the system cannot tell anyone whether their receipt matches the real or dummy value of what's in the database, because that would make it possible to tell a real receipt from a dummy one. So the after-vote verification process is gone.
2. All you get is the receipt saying "I voted" followed by real or fake names as you walk out the door. You could have just as easily remembered your votes or hand written them on a piece of paper, since that's no worse than a point-of-vote receipt.
Why not just give each voter a vote serial number, and when you look up that number, the response is "yes, a vote with that number was counted in the final tally"?
You are required to give your hash code to your boss. HE looks up your vote and picks A or B. 50-50 chance he picks the fake one and you live. 50-50 chance he picks the real one and you lose your job.
You should have sent your kid to community college for two years first. Or maybe to some other public school with better rates. Or move to another state where there are cheaper public schools. Or have your daughter live at home and commute.
Yeah, I too see health care and education differently. I'm willing to pay more for health care for all IF that system tries to lower costs (by encouraging preventative care for everyone and punishing those who choose to not make use of it). People don't make the choice to be sick, and as a society we can improve us all by making sure everyone has access to affordable quality health care.
But for education, everyone does have access to affordable quality providers. They're called public schools, and they are already being subsidized by the taxpayers. The people complaining in this discussion, talking about $120k or more of debt while in grad school, chose to skip the affordable option and go for something else, then not graduate with a degree able to command a salary sufficient to pay back their loans.
That's just irresponsibility which, in my opinion, warrants a higher interest rate.
Why don't you start a school? Come up with a curriculum for one or two degree programs. Hire some of those high-debt grad school graduates who need to pay off their own loans for fair pay and, if they want, a free cottage on campus. Your professors are going to teach a lot more than those at most colleges, because your school won't waste half it's time on "research". It will focus all its time on creating a quality curriculum and providing a solid education for its students at an affordable price.
You pay more on loans to compensate for defaulters. You pay more on health/auto/home insurance to compensate for sick/lazy/careless/clumsy people. You pay more for health care to compensate for the people without insurance who walk into the emergency room. You pay more in property taxes to provide services to those who live in smaller apartments or on the street.
That's $4662 per semester for a full load in a top engineering program. So after paying just $38k in tuition total you could have gotten a quality education.
It was your choice to go to an undergraduate school with a $30k per year (!) tuition, and it was your choice to go directly into grad school knowing you'd accrue more interest on your loans. Had you gone to an affordable school then entered the job market for five or ten years, you could have paid off your loans and built a nest egg to fund your grad work.
To me, your argument sounds about the same as me buying a $95k car then complaining that my monthly payments and interest are way, way higher than those of a person who bought a $15k car, and I even have to pay interest when I have the car in the shop to upgrade the sound system.
If the system is broken (which it is) then you can't just sweep the problem under the rug just by declaring it the result of a character flaw and refuse to address the system its self.
How is the system broken?
1. Affordable schools exists from which many people get a quality education.
2. Very expensive schools exists from which many people get a quality education.
3. Too many people think they can only get a quality education from an expensive school, so demand for those schools is higher because of the higher costs. This raises rates even further.
4. People complain about having to pay so much for their education, either up front or via loans.
Perhaps the OP has learned a lesson, and he'll steer his kids towards an affordable school. Then maybe demand for the expensive schools will drop and they'll lower their rates or go out of business. Sounds like a successful system to me.
There are some systems where high barrier to entry or collusion between providers makes it impossible to just let the free market work. But for college education it does work and is working, so there's nothing to fix.
(I happily worked my way through an engineering degree at a large public school and came out debt free with a job no worse with no less pay than the one most private-school-in-debt-for-ten-years kids have.)
Honestly, yeah. If you went to a pricey private school, then couldn't get a job, you overspent. Maybe you'll make your kids go to a public school, and then the expensive private schools will lower their rates or go out of business.
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We were early HDTV adopters. Our perfectly-good six-year-old plasma TV has DVI and component only, no HDMI. I use component from our cable box since it has only component and HDMI.
It has nothing to do with evolution. Plant tissues that experience pressures (say from bending in the wind) release hormones that make the tissue stronger, to better withstand that pressure.
Well, it has something to do with evolution. Plants that can create and use this hormone would tend to more often live to maturity, compared to competing plants lacking it. That would make them more likely to produce offspring.
I bought my dad a mac. Alas, he didn't use it at first, preferring instead to stay on his old, infected Dell. Eventually though my mom asked me to set it up for her, and simultaneously the Dell slowed past use, and my dad moved over.
It's much, much better now. The constant stream of issues is gone, and now it's usually just a simple question about something that he could do on the Dell but couldn't figure out how to do any more, and I could show him how and be done with it.
I'm sure these guys could still face possible trouble even for just admitting they've brought down the head of the botnets
And what exactly have they done that's illegal? They registered some domain names. They reported domain names used by spammers to their registrars, with documentation, and those registrars cut off the domains. They reported IP addresses used by spammers to their hosts, and those hosts cut off the IP addresses. They have received botnet requests at their sinkhole, but they are merely logging IP addresses, not returning commands to the botnet. They'll use the IP addresses to one-by-one have the ISPs notify their customers.
There's no law that says you can't do any of the above things. If the botnet was written so that lack of command from a control server resulted in destruction, then the botnet creators are solely responsible. If you stopped a robber and, as a result, the robber's hostage at home died from dehydration, do you get charged with murder? No, they do.
I'm not sure why you'd suggest a hard-wired solution in this day and age.
Buying a slightly-used iPod for each room that needs sound, plus a docking station with speaker jacks, would likely cost no more than $60-$80 per room.
Plus each room can have its own music playing from its own playlists controlled from the room itself, something that hard wires running from a central computer with multiple sound cards couldn't support without putting a dreaded computer (or iPod) in every room any way.
It'll be hard to get another celebrity to put their weight behind this kind of research
You are incorrect.
I spoke recently with Doctor Charlotte Smith of the Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Center at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, who has seen regrowth of spinal nerve cells in patients undergoing umbilical cord stem cell treatment combined with computer-controlled direct stimulation of detached nerves.
Her research continues to attract funding, but it began from a rehabilitation center significantly funded by former and current professional football players. Consider someone like Kevin Everett, who, after 15 minutes as a quadriplegic ended his football career, has devoted his time and effort toward raising money for spinal cord research.
While the brutality of professional football injuries can be tragic, it does instill in many players a need to campaign for a cure. These are the celebrities that step up and put their weight behind the research.
This guy's problem, in my not-so-humble opinion, was that he was letting his score on an IQ test define himself and his potential friends. As long as people who score well on IQ tests go around wearing it like a badge and looking down on everybody else, they are going to be outcasts, because even if you don't say it out loud, people will pick up on it, and then they don't want to be around you. Nobody wants to hang out with the guy who's always subtly reminding everybody of how smart he is.
Funny, I learned this in ninth grade when, after moving to a new school district, I realized that I'd fit in better if the rest of the honors kids didn't realize I was always the one setting the curve.
I started taking my homework, tests, etc., straight from the teacher's hand into my bag, so it wasn't ever visible or shared. The technique served me well through college.
The speed limits, turn restrictions, signage, whatever is all there for a reason. It's to create a safe and predictable driving environment for everyone.
If only that were true. Unfortunately speed limits are set both for safety and for profit. My anecdotal example is the frontage roads for highways in and around Austin, Texas. There are many frontage roads that were and are 55 MPH, where the freeway is 65 MPH. However, everywhere the limited access road is a tollway, they have reduced the frontage road speed to 45 MPH.
Unless it's a computer program or an audio recording, in which case you're still prohibited from renting them.
You should tell that to every public library I've visited in the last 20 years, all of which have an audio section filled with rock/pop/etc. CDs.
And Somalia! Land of the free!
Two-thirds of the world's internet just care about their email and bbc.co.uk. They're fine.
However, it's a fair assumption that anyone posting on Slashdot uses the internet for many, many more things, and having all those other things taken away would make it "worthless", especially since most Slashdot users can check their email and the news on their phone for "free".
The electorate just need the situation explained to them, and to understand why they should care.
Again, it sounds like those millions would come in handy, at least to counter the millions being spent by Time Warner for the opposite.
But in general there are many, many public schools that are bargains. Your rebuttal picks on my use of the word "public", but makes no sense when any real parent concerned about cost would instead use the word "affordable".
3) Receipt viewing window in machine, that can only be viewed by pressing both hands down on buttons on opposite ends of the machine. This keeps people from taking photos of their vote.
So people with one hand are disenfranchised? As are people who can't hold both hands steady long enough to keep the window open continuously? Meanwhile someone with an iPhone on a lariat with a timer-based camera utility still gets their photo, as does someone with a camera in their sunglasses. Come on, you post on slashdot. You should know that it's impossible to share content with an end user and prevent that end user from copying said content.
The result is that only the voter knows in their head whether their receipt is for the dummy or the real vote, making the receipt of no true accountability to anyone but the voter.
And what happens when Sequoia or some crafty hacker switches the flags in the database, so the fake votes become the real votes and the real votes become the fake votes? The receipt tag would still pull up the "fake" votes, except they'd be the ones cast.
Why bother with the whole thing, then?
If the receipt is potentially real or potentially fake, why give it at all?
1. People can't use their receipt to prove that their vote was counted correctly - the system cannot tell anyone whether their receipt matches the real or dummy value of what's in the database, because that would make it possible to tell a real receipt from a dummy one. So the after-vote verification process is gone.
2. All you get is the receipt saying "I voted" followed by real or fake names as you walk out the door. You could have just as easily remembered your votes or hand written them on a piece of paper, since that's no worse than a point-of-vote receipt.
Why not just give each voter a vote serial number, and when you look up that number, the response is "yes, a vote with that number was counted in the final tally"?
You are required to give your hash code to your boss. HE looks up your vote and picks A or B. 50-50 chance he picks the fake one and you live. 50-50 chance he picks the real one and you lose your job.
And that's our fault how?
You should have sent your kid to community college for two years first. Or maybe to some other public school with better rates. Or move to another state where there are cheaper public schools. Or have your daughter live at home and commute.
Yeah, I too see health care and education differently. I'm willing to pay more for health care for all IF that system tries to lower costs (by encouraging preventative care for everyone and punishing those who choose to not make use of it). People don't make the choice to be sick, and as a society we can improve us all by making sure everyone has access to affordable quality health care.
But for education, everyone does have access to affordable quality providers. They're called public schools, and they are already being subsidized by the taxpayers. The people complaining in this discussion, talking about $120k or more of debt while in grad school, chose to skip the affordable option and go for something else, then not graduate with a degree able to command a salary sufficient to pay back their loans.
That's just irresponsibility which, in my opinion, warrants a higher interest rate.
Why don't you start a school? Come up with a curriculum for one or two degree programs. Hire some of those high-debt grad school graduates who need to pay off their own loans for fair pay and, if they want, a free cottage on campus. Your professors are going to teach a lot more than those at most colleges, because your school won't waste half it's time on "research". It will focus all its time on creating a quality curriculum and providing a solid education for its students at an affordable price.
That's how every system works.
You pay more on loans to compensate for defaulters. You pay more on health/auto/home insurance to compensate for sick/lazy/careless/clumsy people. You pay more for health care to compensate for the people without insurance who walk into the emergency room. You pay more in property taxes to provide services to those who live in smaller apartments or on the street.
And how is this anyone's fault but yours? I checked out the rates at a public undergraduate institution:
http://www.utexas.edu/tuition/attach/2009_10_Fall_Spring_Undergrad_Tuition.pdf
That's $4662 per semester for a full load in a top engineering program. So after paying just $38k in tuition total you could have gotten a quality education.
It was your choice to go to an undergraduate school with a $30k per year (!) tuition, and it was your choice to go directly into grad school knowing you'd accrue more interest on your loans. Had you gone to an affordable school then entered the job market for five or ten years, you could have paid off your loans and built a nest egg to fund your grad work.
To me, your argument sounds about the same as me buying a $95k car then complaining that my monthly payments and interest are way, way higher than those of a person who bought a $15k car, and I even have to pay interest when I have the car in the shop to upgrade the sound system.
If the system is broken (which it is) then you can't just sweep the problem under the rug just by declaring it the result of a character flaw and refuse to address the system its self.
How is the system broken?
1. Affordable schools exists from which many people get a quality education.
2. Very expensive schools exists from which many people get a quality education.
3. Too many people think they can only get a quality education from an expensive school, so demand for those schools is higher because of the higher costs. This raises rates even further.
4. People complain about having to pay so much for their education, either up front or via loans.
Perhaps the OP has learned a lesson, and he'll steer his kids towards an affordable school. Then maybe demand for the expensive schools will drop and they'll lower their rates or go out of business. Sounds like a successful system to me.
There are some systems where high barrier to entry or collusion between providers makes it impossible to just let the free market work. But for college education it does work and is working, so there's nothing to fix.
(I happily worked my way through an engineering degree at a large public school and came out debt free with a job no worse with no less pay than the one most private-school-in-debt-for-ten-years kids have.)
Honestly, yeah. If you went to a pricey private school, then couldn't get a job, you overspent. Maybe you'll make your kids go to a public school, and then the expensive private schools will lower their rates or go out of business.
What compels them to be bound by the terms of the GPL? Don't you actually have to make copies to be bound by its terms?
From the GPL version 3:
To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies.
Providing the finished phone to a consumer conveys a binary copy to them. They are entitled to source from the conveyor.