The barrier that the car hit is supposed to take away the energy of a car over a few milliseconds and prevent extreme damage. However, the car was traveling fast. Maybe there is no way to design a system to stop a car going that fast.
Anyhow, I don't think the government should have copyright on anything owned by the government, except against modification.
As others have said, the New Jersey officials have assured that there will be huge amounts of publicity, and that the video will be downloaded and saved on tens of thousands of computers.
It's interesting to read the responses to my parent comment. When someone speaks out against abuse, often he or she is attacked by smaller abusers.
It is VERY abusive that New Jersey pretends to own video of incidents built on public highways. VERY abusive.
There is an area under the freeway in Portland, Oregon where people often walk to go downtown. When you look up from there, the roads seem much better and stronger built than in Oakland.
It's amazing to me how people easily accept abuse, and how abusive the U.S. government has become. There is only one reason to control information about roads: To aid corruption. What does New Jersey have to hide?
I got a message from Ed saying they had blocked access to his web site from some addresses outside the United States. So, the mystery is solved.
Anyhow, don't make any purchase without checking his web site first. A lot of people who call themselves marketing managers are merely habitual abusers, and Ed is likely to have described their methods of abuse.
Someone with no technical knowledge cannot run a technically oriented company. Fire Winifred! That's Winifred Mitchell Baker, the CEO of Mozilla, a socially uncomfortable lawyer who became CEO when no one thought there was an opportunity. Now that Mozilla Foundation is making millions from making Google the default browser, Winifred can afford to hire people to make herself look good.
Don't let ignorant and foolish and even stupid managers destroy your programming efforts. Find some way to have them removed.
The idea of using SGLite is a good one, provided there is a way of exporting bookmarks to HTML.
However, there are many, many quirks in Firefox that should be fixed first, but no technically oriented manager to organize that.
You say Walmart is selling low quality versions of products, and hiding that
fact.
The problem I have with that is that Dell is a very low-quality
supplier, too. It isn't just Walmart that may lower the value of the Dell
trademark, Dell has done that itself.
Look at Planck's constant. Spectroscopy is normally used with wavelengths that have 100,000 times the energy of the 2,000 MHz WiFi signals.
Visible light can be very efficient at promoting chemical reactions, provided that there is a lot of energy of a single wavelength, a situation that occurs only with lasers.
Also, there is the difficulty of coupling. The wavelength of 2,000 MHz electromagnetic signals is not able to couple very well to chemical processes, because it is so long.
So, 2,000 MHz is just heat, and WiFi doesn't use powerful signals. The signals are omni-directional, too, so the energy density is very, very low about 1 meter from the antenna.
FRAUD ALERT -- Slashdot sucked in again!
on
How Bad Can Wi-fi Be?
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT
Slashdot editors apparently don't read the comments on the stories they post. Also, Slashdot editors apparently didn't listen in Physics class. This is the fifth time in 3 years that they have fallen for the same fraud, if I count correctly. Some of my other comments:
Planck's constant is so small that interactions between electromagnetic waves and molecules cannot be chemically specific. The 2,000 MHz radiation from WiFi is felt as heat, a very, very small amount of heat, almost certainly not measurable.
Anyone may have theories. Someone could say, for example, that pigs
have started flying and they have been eating the bees. (The bees are dying because of badmanagement; the organic beekeepers aren't having problems.) The only real science, however, is based on what is already known through experimentation. That
requires an understanding of what is known.
"Of course, it's obvious this is legal sophistry. They are saying to the world, even though it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck and acts like a duck, it's not a duck, because we are calling it NotaDuck and we've taken the long way around, skulking along the unpaved back roads and alleyways instead of taking the straight highway to get to the duck pond. Er. The NotaDuck pond, where notaducks don't swim and that's not quacking you are plainly hearing.
"Forsooth, my lord, it smelleth like a duck to me.
"Now do you get it, that "Tivoization" is a metaphor for creative ways to make the GPL toothless? It's a trend, not an isolated event. There's money to be made, and the GPL is getting in their corporate way. What they forget is that the code came with a price. The terms of the GPL are that price."
Read that statement again from Chris Strammiello, director of product management at Nuance:
"We crossed an invisible line with Version 8.0, where the software actually delivered on its promises and offered real utility for the users."
Nuance owned the software when it was sold as version 7, and before. So, Mr. Strammiello is apparently saying that his company was knowingly involved in fraud, but, don't worry, now the company is honest.
Wow. Sometimes people lie so much that they have no idea how what they say sounds to others.
Basically, the article linked by Slashdot says that the first and second owners of the software were convicted of crimes, and seems to say that the present owner is also guilty of fraud.
At least, that's how it sounds to me.
Marketing is meant to be methods whereby a company makes healthy connections. However, most marketing people seem to think that marketing means lying. And, when they sink the company, they just get a job somewhere else.
Interesting sociological phenomenon: When the first 30 or 40 comments in a
Slashdot story are jokes or attempts at jokes, that is an indication that
Slashdot readers don't believe something in the story. It's surprising to me
that people don't just write:
FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT
This is what is apparently happening, in my opinion. First, speech
recognition has gotten an extremely bad reputation for being worthless
garbage, because it is worthless garbage.
A 0.5 percent recognition failure rate is enough to make speech
recognition software worse than worthless. The reason is that speech
recognition software never makes a spelling mistake. Instead, the mistakes are
often extremely difficult to recognize, and sometimes change the meaning in
subtle ways. That's partly because, when the software is confused, it tries to
select something that is grammatically plausible.
The result is that it has become difficult to sell speech recognition
software. A high enough percentage of people in the U.S. culture know that it
isn't actually useful. The orginal owners of Dragon NaturallySpeaking sold the
product to a company that sold it to the company that became Nuance, maybe because they felt the product was damaging the
credibility of their trademarks.
Here is a quote from the story linked in the Slashdot story:
"In 1993 two executives from Kurzweill Applied Intelligence (which
pioneered SR for the medical market) went to prison for faking sales. That
firm was sold in 1997 to a Belgium SR firm, Lernout and Hauspie (L&H), which
was reporting phenomenal sales growth at the time. Dragon Systems, which
originated DNS that year, was reporting only anemic growth, and L&H had no
trouble acquiring Dragon Systems in early 2000 in a stock deal. Within a year
a series of accounting frauds came to light and L&H collapsed into bankruptcy.
Its SR technology was sold in late 2001 to ScanSoft Inc., which kept the DNS
line going. (It was then at Version 6.0.) ScanSoft later acquired Nuance and
adopted its name.
"Thereafter, "It was with the launch of Version 8.0 (in November
2004) that the market became reinvigorated and took off," said Chris
Strammiello, director of product management at Nuance. "We crossed an
invisible line with Version 8.0, where the software actually delivered on its
promises and offered real utility for the users. Sales have been growing at a
rate of 30% yearly since then, except that we expect it to do better than 30%
this year."
Read that again: "... the software actually delivered on its
promises and offered real utility..." I called Nuance and was told that
version 8 did not have a new recognition engine, but only had improvements in
the user interface. A friend who owns and tested version 8 told me he could
see no difference in accuracy between that and version 7.
So, in my opinion, Nuance has done the common deceitful things that
are called "Marketing":
1) Bring out new versions. Previously, when there has been a "new
version" of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I call Nuance technical support and ask
if there is a new recognition engine. I didn't call for version 9, but for the
last two versions they have said no. So, nothing is changed; the software is
still useless, in spite of the fact that they always advertise that the
software is now more accurate.
How is it possible that the software is more accurate, if the recognition engine did not change?
Maybe it isn't true. Or maybe the company improved the guesses the software makes
when the software really has no clue what the user
said. Those guesses have become so sophisticated that you can become confused
about what you actually said, and you have to spend time re-creating your
ideas. If you are saying simple things about a simple subject, this is not as
much of problem as when you are writing about contract negotiations, for
example.
In the words of a Slashdot reader: "The opinions expressed h
From the story: "Microsoft refusing to reveal the number of actual activated Vista licenses..."
It often seems to me that the entire job of some marketing people is to be deceitful. We can be SURE that if the number of actual activated Vista licenses was high, Microsoft would be talking about the number with everyone.
We can then suppose that the number of people actually using Vista is very low. Probably companies are buying new computers and installing their old corporate licenses of XP.
It was enormously expensive to our company to deal with the bugs in Windows XP until Service Pack 2 was released. (The cost of ownership of Windows XP SP2 is still many, many times higher than the cost of a license.) We have been burned by Microsoft many times, and are not about to get burned again with Windows Vista, so we are waiting to consider it until the second Vista service pack is released.
I'm not the only one who thinks that Microsoft is abusive, of course. Woody Leonhard of Windows Secrets, in the most recent paid edition, called himself a: "card-carrying member of the 'Association of Windows Victims' ".
You said, "I mean, just sticking with the G8, Japan comes to mind."
You are certainly right about that. I had a Japanese woman friend, until she went back to Japan. We were interviewing each other for marriage. Her expectations were amazing.
Other Japanese friends in the U.S. say that the culture in Japan is disfunctional in other ways, also.
You said, "I'd wager there are more men out there trying to convince women to have sex with other women than there are lesbians, let alone lesbians who would try that."
As long as we are wagering, I will wager that you don't have much experience with lesbians. Watch the movie "Claire of the Moon". It's a move about Lesbians made by Lesbians. Some of the women who made that movie were and are friends of mine. I attended the premiere as an invited guest.
I wrote this, documenting part of the social breakdown: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I love the U.S. and think that anyone who loves something will not abandon it when there are troubles.
Brazil has enormous social problems, it's true. But how many countries has Brazil invaded since the 2nd world war? Zero. The U.S. has invaded 24. How many people in other countries have died since the 2nd world war as a result of Brazilian government action: Maybe zero. People who have studied the situation say that, directly and indirectly, the U.S. government is responsible for the deaths of 8 to 11 million people since the end of the 2nd world war.
Another subject: I am more comfortable with U.S. women than they are with themselves, I've found. My many women friends, in the U.S. and in other countries, don't disagree with this idea, although they express it differently.
It seems that, at present, with the social breakdown happening in the United States, almost all science reporting contains some dishonesty.
The U.S. is the developed country in which women have the most disfunctional relationships with men. So reporting the story about testosterone as "testosterone poisoning" is a way to get attention. Lesbians, for example, like to use the phrase "testosterone poisoning" about men as a way of convincing women who have relationships with men to have sex with another woman.
In reality, angry people have high testosterone, whether they are men or women. The bodies of both men and women produce testosterone.
If you have observed how hostile women are in the U.S. toward men, I suggest you try visiting Brazil. Women in Brazil are certainly not perfect, and they are sexist, also. However, women in Brazil are, in general, far more confident of themselves, far happier, and far more creative and functional in their relationships with men than women in the United States.
Anyone wondering whether I am in a position to know about Brazilian women can reflect on the fact that I am posting this comment from Brazil. (São Paulo state)
The social breakdown in the U.S. is so advanced that often even men are hostile toward men.
Agreed: Fiber land lines are more reliable than old copper land lines.
The issue is between cellular and VOIP providers, who cut lot of corners to make higher profits, and government-mandated quality of service for land-line providers.
It's the intention of reliability, and the fundamental reliability of the two technologies, that is the issue.
"I remember hearing about the 1 click patent. Back in '95 or '96. We all thought it was so plainly obvious."
So, basically, Amazon has had 11 years of patent protection by delaying final action on the patent application? I've heard that Amazon has been vigorously defending its "property", and scaring away people who implement the same thing without realizing it is the object of litigation.
At a time of unprecedented corruption in the U.S. government, Jeff Bezos is vigorously trying to corrupt the government. I guess billionaires believe the world should revolve around them.
Note that no sensible person would use the 1-click feature, for reasons discussed in several comments here. What Amazon wants, effectively, is people who are not sensible about money. And why? Because Jeff Bezos is not happy with the billions he already has.
Adversarial behavior eventually destroys those who engage in it. Consider Bill Gates and his depression, for example.
Paul McNamara, I suggest you get a different job. I suppose you were paid for the nonsense you wrote.
Cell phones are nowhere near as reliable as land lines, and all VOIP phones are worse. Not only that, but cell phone providers and VOIP providers save money by being unreliable, and there is no evidence that they plan to change their behavior.
I think you know this. That makes your lies fraud, in my opinion.
I guess your handlers call themselves NetBuzz because they think they are good at advertising. But they aren't. They and you are just liars, in my opinion.
Everyone who needs reliable telephone service has land lines, and there is no evidence that will change in the near future.
Anyhow, we don't want your kind corrupting our discussions of technology on Slashdot. Stay away.
This Slashdot story about "235 patents in free software" reminds me of 205 communists in the State Department: "... in February 1950, an undistinguished, first-term Republican senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, burst into national prominence when, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, he held up a piece of paper that he claimed was a list of 205 known communists currently working in the State Department. McCarthy never produced documentation for a single one of his charges, but for the next four years he exploited an issue that he realized had touched a nerve in the American public."
Microsoft is to software what McCarthy was to politics?
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I hadn't seen the video when I made that comment.
The barrier that the car hit is supposed to take away the energy of a car over a few milliseconds and prevent extreme damage. However, the car was traveling fast. Maybe there is no way to design a system to stop a car going that fast.
Anyhow, I don't think the government should have copyright on anything owned by the government, except against modification.
As others have said, the New Jersey officials have assured that there will be huge amounts of publicity, and that the video will be downloaded and saved on tens of thousands of computers.
It's interesting to read the responses to my parent comment. When someone speaks out against abuse, often he or she is attacked by smaller abusers. It is VERY abusive that New Jersey pretends to own video of incidents built on public highways. VERY abusive.
There is an area under the freeway in Portland, Oregon where people often walk to go downtown. When you look up from there, the roads seem much better and stronger built than in Oakland.
It's amazing to me how people easily accept abuse, and how abusive the U.S. government has become. There is only one reason to control information about roads: To aid corruption. What does New Jersey have to hide?
The freeway collapse in San Francisco showed very thin concrete and poor adhesion, in my opinion.
Maybe that's what New Jersey officials have to hide. Did someone take money to allow poor construction?
"All of which she says (said) "ewwwwww!" to..."
Have you noticed that the word "Zune" is becoming the new way to say "ewwwww". As in, "That car was such a Zune that I took it to the junkyard."
I got a message from Ed saying they had blocked access to his web site from some addresses outside the United States. So, the mystery is solved.
Anyhow, don't make any purchase without checking his web site first. A lot of people who call themselves marketing managers are merely habitual abusers, and Ed is likely to have described their methods of abuse.
Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.
Someone with no technical knowledge cannot run a technically oriented company. Fire Winifred! That's Winifred Mitchell Baker, the CEO of Mozilla, a socially uncomfortable lawyer who became CEO when no one thought there was an opportunity. Now that Mozilla Foundation is making millions from making Google the default browser, Winifred can afford to hire people to make herself look good.
Don't let ignorant and foolish and even stupid managers destroy your programming efforts. Find some way to have them removed.
The idea of using SGLite is a good one, provided there is a way of exporting bookmarks to HTML.
However, there are many, many quirks in Firefox that should be fixed first, but no technically oriented manager to organize that.
Weird. I wonder if my ISP has blocked access to the GripeLog.
I'll check using another ISP.
"Ars Technica, Toms Hardware Guide..."
Ars Technica is too non-specific. Tom's Hardware Guide has too many ads; I wonder how much of what is written there is just hype to get paid ads.
Can't do without Ed Foster's Gripelog. How else can you discover that it is not just you who has trouble with Dell technical support? See, for example: May 10, 2007: College Kid Learns Lesson About Dell's Warranty.
Ed Foster's readers have sometimes even rated Dell more abusive than Microsoft. Awesome achievement for Dell!
But what happened to the Ed Foster's Gripelog website? It's been offline for perhaps a week. ("Phone in your tech gripes toll-free: 888-875-7916.")
You say Walmart is selling low quality versions of products, and hiding that fact.
The problem I have with that is that Dell is a very low-quality supplier, too. It isn't just Walmart that may lower the value of the Dell trademark, Dell has done that itself.
My experience with Dell is that technical support is extremely abusive. See, for example: May 10, 2007, College Kid Learns Lesson About Dell's Warranty.
My experience with Dell is that if you give Dell an email address you will get spammed forever. There is a link to unsubscribe, but it doesn't work.
What happened to Ed Foster's Gripelog? It's been offline for perhaps a week. ("Phone in your tech gripes toll-free: 888-875-7916.")
Look at Planck's constant. Spectroscopy is normally used with wavelengths that have 100,000 times the energy of the 2,000 MHz WiFi signals.
Visible light can be very efficient at promoting chemical reactions, provided that there is a lot of energy of a single wavelength, a situation that occurs only with lasers.
Also, there is the difficulty of coupling. The wavelength of 2,000 MHz electromagnetic signals is not able to couple very well to chemical processes, because it is so long.
So, 2,000 MHz is just heat, and WiFi doesn't use powerful signals. The signals are omni-directional, too, so the energy density is very, very low about 1 meter from the antenna.
FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT
Slashdot editors apparently don't read the comments on the stories they post. Also, Slashdot editors apparently didn't listen in Physics class. This is the fifth time in 3 years that they have fallen for the same fraud, if I count correctly. Some of my other comments:
Max Planck would be very sad about this.
Distinguish between real science and junk science.
Planck's constant is so small that interactions between electromagnetic waves and molecules cannot be chemically specific. The 2,000 MHz radiation from WiFi is felt as heat, a very, very small amount of heat, almost certainly not measurable.
Anyone may have theories. Someone could say, for example, that pigs have started flying and they have been eating the bees. (The bees are dying because of bad management; the organic beekeepers aren't having problems.) The only real science, however, is based on what is already known through experimentation. That requires an understanding of what is known.
Check Ed Foster's Gripelog || The Reader Advocate to discover which companies are being abusive.
However, on 2007-05-19 at 22:58 PM PDT his web site seems not to be functioning.
I was VERY impressed with Groklaw's analysis:
"Of course, it's obvious this is legal sophistry. They are saying to the world, even though it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck and acts like a duck, it's not a duck, because we are calling it NotaDuck and we've taken the long way around, skulking along the unpaved back roads and alleyways instead of taking the straight highway to get to the duck pond. Er. The NotaDuck pond, where notaducks don't swim and that's not quacking you are plainly hearing.
"Forsooth, my lord, it smelleth like a duck to me.
"Now do you get it, that "Tivoization" is a metaphor for creative ways to make the GPL toothless? It's a trend, not an isolated event. There's money to be made, and the GPL is getting in their corporate way. What they forget is that the code came with a price. The terms of the GPL are that price."
LOL.
Read that statement again from Chris Strammiello, director of product management at Nuance:
"We crossed an invisible line with Version 8.0, where the software actually delivered on its promises and offered real utility for the users."
Nuance owned the software when it was sold as version 7, and before. So, Mr. Strammiello is apparently saying that his company was knowingly involved in fraud, but, don't worry, now the company is honest.
Wow. Sometimes people lie so much that they have no idea how what they say sounds to others.
Basically, the article linked by Slashdot says that the first and second owners of the software were convicted of crimes, and seems to say that the present owner is also guilty of fraud.
At least, that's how it sounds to me.
Marketing is meant to be methods whereby a company makes healthy connections. However, most marketing people seem to think that marketing means lying. And, when they sink the company, they just get a job somewhere else.
Interesting sociological phenomenon: When the first 30 or 40 comments in a Slashdot story are jokes or attempts at jokes, that is an indication that Slashdot readers don't believe something in the story. It's surprising to me that people don't just write:
FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT -- FRAUD ALERT
This is what is apparently happening, in my opinion. First, speech recognition has gotten an extremely bad reputation for being worthless garbage, because it is worthless garbage.
A 0.5 percent recognition failure rate is enough to make speech recognition software worse than worthless. The reason is that speech recognition software never makes a spelling mistake. Instead, the mistakes are often extremely difficult to recognize, and sometimes change the meaning in subtle ways. That's partly because, when the software is confused, it tries to select something that is grammatically plausible.
The result is that it has become difficult to sell speech recognition software. A high enough percentage of people in the U.S. culture know that it isn't actually useful. The orginal owners of Dragon NaturallySpeaking sold the product to a company that sold it to the company that became Nuance, maybe because they felt the product was damaging the credibility of their trademarks.
Here is a quote from the story linked in the Slashdot story:
"In 1993 two executives from Kurzweill Applied Intelligence (which pioneered SR for the medical market) went to prison for faking sales. That firm was sold in 1997 to a Belgium SR firm, Lernout and Hauspie (L&H), which was reporting phenomenal sales growth at the time. Dragon Systems, which originated DNS that year, was reporting only anemic growth, and L&H had no trouble acquiring Dragon Systems in early 2000 in a stock deal. Within a year a series of accounting frauds came to light and L&H collapsed into bankruptcy. Its SR technology was sold in late 2001 to ScanSoft Inc., which kept the DNS line going. (It was then at Version 6.0.) ScanSoft later acquired Nuance and adopted its name.
"Thereafter, "It was with the launch of Version 8.0 (in November 2004) that the market became reinvigorated and took off," said Chris Strammiello, director of product management at Nuance. "We crossed an invisible line with Version 8.0, where the software actually delivered on its promises and offered real utility for the users. Sales have been growing at a rate of 30% yearly since then, except that we expect it to do better than 30% this year."
Read that again: "... the software actually delivered on its promises and offered real utility..." I called Nuance and was told that version 8 did not have a new recognition engine, but only had improvements in the user interface. A friend who owns and tested version 8 told me he could see no difference in accuracy between that and version 7.
So, in my opinion, Nuance has done the common deceitful things that are called "Marketing":
1) Bring out new versions. Previously, when there has been a "new version" of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I call Nuance technical support and ask if there is a new recognition engine. I didn't call for version 9, but for the last two versions they have said no. So, nothing is changed; the software is still useless, in spite of the fact that they always advertise that the software is now more accurate.
How is it possible that the software is more accurate, if the recognition engine did not change? Maybe it isn't true. Or maybe the company improved the guesses the software makes when the software really has no clue what the user said. Those guesses have become so sophisticated that you can become confused about what you actually said, and you have to spend time re-creating your ideas. If you are saying simple things about a simple subject, this is not as much of problem as when you are writing about contract negotiations, for example.
In the words of a Slashdot reader: "The opinions expressed h
From the story: "Microsoft refusing to reveal the number of actual activated Vista licenses..."
It often seems to me that the entire job of some marketing people is to be deceitful. We can be SURE that if the number of actual activated Vista licenses was high, Microsoft would be talking about the number with everyone.
We can then suppose that the number of people actually using Vista is very low. Probably companies are buying new computers and installing their old corporate licenses of XP.
It was enormously expensive to our company to deal with the bugs in Windows XP until Service Pack 2 was released. (The cost of ownership of Windows XP SP2 is still many, many times higher than the cost of a license.) We have been burned by Microsoft many times, and are not about to get burned again with Windows Vista, so we are waiting to consider it until the second Vista service pack is released.
I'm not the only one who thinks that Microsoft is abusive, of course. Woody Leonhard of Windows Secrets, in the most recent paid edition, called himself a: "card-carrying member of the 'Association of Windows Victims' ".
You said, "I mean, just sticking with the G8, Japan comes to mind."
You are certainly right about that. I had a Japanese woman friend, until she went back to Japan. We were interviewing each other for marriage. Her expectations were amazing.
Other Japanese friends in the U.S. say that the culture in Japan is disfunctional in other ways, also. You said, "I'd wager there are more men out there trying to convince women to have sex with other women than there are lesbians, let alone lesbians who would try that."
As long as we are wagering, I will wager that you don't have much experience with lesbians. Watch the movie "Claire of the Moon". It's a move about Lesbians made by Lesbians. Some of the women who made that movie were and are friends of mine. I attended the premiere as an invited guest.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
I wrote this, documenting part of the social breakdown: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I love the U.S. and think that anyone who loves something will not abandon it when there are troubles.
Brazil has enormous social problems, it's true. But how many countries has Brazil invaded since the 2nd world war? Zero. The U.S. has invaded 24. How many people in other countries have died since the 2nd world war as a result of Brazilian government action: Maybe zero. People who have studied the situation say that, directly and indirectly, the U.S. government is responsible for the deaths of 8 to 11 million people since the end of the 2nd world war.
Another subject: I am more comfortable with U.S. women than they are with themselves, I've found. My many women friends, in the U.S. and in other countries, don't disagree with this idea, although they express it differently.
It seems that, at present, with the social breakdown happening in the United States, almost all science reporting contains some dishonesty.
The U.S. is the developed country in which women have the most disfunctional relationships with men. So reporting the story about testosterone as "testosterone poisoning" is a way to get attention. Lesbians, for example, like to use the phrase "testosterone poisoning" about men as a way of convincing women who have relationships with men to have sex with another woman.
In reality, angry people have high testosterone, whether they are men or women. The bodies of both men and women produce testosterone.
If you have observed how hostile women are in the U.S. toward men, I suggest you try visiting Brazil. Women in Brazil are certainly not perfect, and they are sexist, also. However, women in Brazil are, in general, far more confident of themselves, far happier, and far more creative and functional in their relationships with men than women in the United States.
Anyone wondering whether I am in a position to know about Brazilian women can reflect on the fact that I am posting this comment from Brazil. (São Paulo state)
The social breakdown in the U.S. is so advanced that often even men are hostile toward men.
Agreed: Fiber land lines are more reliable than old copper land lines.
The issue is between cellular and VOIP providers, who cut lot of corners to make higher profits, and government-mandated quality of service for land-line providers.
It's the intention of reliability, and the fundamental reliability of the two technologies, that is the issue.
My cellular providers, both of them, often route calls to voicemail when their networks are too busy.
Both of my cellular providers allow pockets of bad reception near populated areas.
"I remember hearing about the 1 click patent. Back in '95 or '96. We all thought it was so plainly obvious."
So, basically, Amazon has had 11 years of patent protection by delaying final action on the patent application? I've heard that Amazon has been vigorously defending its "property", and scaring away people who implement the same thing without realizing it is the object of litigation.
At a time of unprecedented corruption in the U.S. government, Jeff Bezos is vigorously trying to corrupt the government. I guess billionaires believe the world should revolve around them.
Note that no sensible person would use the 1-click feature, for reasons discussed in several comments here. What Amazon wants, effectively, is people who are not sensible about money. And why? Because Jeff Bezos is not happy with the billions he already has.
Adversarial behavior eventually destroys those who engage in it. Consider Bill Gates and his depression, for example.
Paul McNamara, I suggest you get a different job. I suppose you were paid for the nonsense you wrote.
Cell phones are nowhere near as reliable as land lines, and all VOIP phones are worse. Not only that, but cell phone providers and VOIP providers save money by being unreliable, and there is no evidence that they plan to change their behavior.
I think you know this. That makes your lies fraud, in my opinion.
I guess your handlers call themselves NetBuzz because they think they are good at advertising. But they aren't. They and you are just liars, in my opinion.
Everyone who needs reliable telephone service has land lines, and there is no evidence that will change in the near future.
Anyhow, we don't want your kind corrupting our discussions of technology on Slashdot. Stay away.
SCO's case is about intellectual property, in that case, licenses, I understand.
Patents are another kind of intellectual property.
This Slashdot story about "235 patents in free software" reminds me of 205 communists in the State Department: "... in February 1950, an undistinguished, first-term Republican senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, burst into national prominence when, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, he held up a piece of paper that he claimed was a list of 205 known communists currently working in the State Department. McCarthy never produced documentation for a single one of his charges, but for the next four years he exploited an issue that he realized had touched a nerve in the American public."
Microsoft is to software what McCarthy was to politics?