Look into 'fluid democracy' whereby all issues are voted on, but you can delegate your vote to someone for any or all issues. You might give your vote to someone because you trust them to think things through, or because they pay you, or perhaps you pay them to act as a representative for you. For issues where you feel strongly, you can make the vote yourself. It looks like an interesting mix between representative and direct democracy.
Yet each time someone has failed at it, it has become a little bit more real.
I now to about 70% of my work through a web browser; the main one that isn't there is development, yet there are quite a number of promising projects making this real.
Actually, when we were recently purchasing VM infrastructure, we were advised it is best practice to virtualise the management console. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding somewhere along the way.
I would be surprised if the googlebot didn't try everything to appear to the server like a normal user browser. Even better would be to crawl a site while in disguise, then again while not disguised. Differences would affect the sites ranking negatively.
Indeed; there is some evidence that this co-evolution decreased humans' smelling abilities as the dogs made up for them (not sure what purpose this serves...)
Vast indeed. The only problem being they (tar sand oils) require more energy to extract than the recovered oil provides. Which still makes them useful, and may become economically viable when oil prices are comparatively higher than other energy forms.
Oil only contributes a small (I think in the order of 10-20%) of greenhouse emissions. If oil ran out today, there would not be a huge impact on carbon emissions.
For security purposes, perhaps. But for productivity purposes, failing closed causes people not to be able to get anything done. Failing open is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it is noticed before too long.
The law considers postcards to be covered by the telecommunications privacy regulations.
So Google action's here are similar to looking at the receiver and sender addresses, and the postage stamp on the postcard, and reading a few words of the card in the process. Don't tell me that postal workers won't inadvertently catch a word or two of someone's postcard when reading the public information of the addresses?
MPEG-7 is a metadata standard for multimedia. It is not involved in the actual encoding of the content (like mpeg 1, 2 and 4 are). Basically it attaches a chunk of xml to a timecode. Look up wikipedia if you want to know more.
There also exists an MPEG-21, for those interested.
There is already a similar system in place in Australia, which has been running for at least a decade. It is used to monitor truck speeds over large distances - cameras mounted on highway overpasses snap trucks' number plates as they pass, and calculate the speed between cities. This makes the CB radio reporting of radar traps less useful, and log book falsification difficult. Don't know whether it uses satellites, and really, who cares if it does?
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Yeah, well, firefox (actually, phoenix or firebird or somethings) was mozilla with all the crap stripped out of it. Now it's evolved back to square one. ChromeOS is just the same principle on the OS level. Wait 5 years and it'll be bloated like the rest of them
The last CD player I had (remember CD players?) was a "high end" player. I'm not an audiophile, and couldn't tell any difference in sound quality. But when it came to playing scratched CDs, it performed much, much better than the "low end" players I tried.
Similarly with DVD players, my dedicated player connected to the TV deals with dodgy discs better than my computer does.
I'd guess something similar might happen for blu-ray, at least with legitimate "high end" gear. There is a lot of processing what needs doing between the pits on the disc and the electron flowing down the HDMI cable. The accuracy of the motor speeds, the quality of the lenses, the error correction processing... cheap gear probably skimps on those things. As long as your disc is in mint condition it won't make any difference. But as soon as that's not the case... (although ironically those with high end gear are more likely to keep their discs in mint condition, lessening the need for high end gear)
Umm, I flew from Malaysia to Australia last week, with a good 4.5 L of whiskey in my hand luggage. And the whiskey was cheaper in Malaysia than Melbourne.
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Here's a link with some actual info: https://foundation.mozilla.org...
Look into 'fluid democracy' whereby all issues are voted on, but you can delegate your vote to someone for any or all issues. You might give your vote to someone because you trust them to think things through, or because they pay you, or perhaps you pay them to act as a representative for you. For issues where you feel strongly, you can make the vote yourself. It looks like an interesting mix between representative and direct democracy.
It was available in quite a few countries for several years, but they pulled back to just US a couple of months ago
Yet each time someone has failed at it, it has become a little bit more real.
I now to about 70% of my work through a web browser; the main one that isn't there is development, yet there are quite a number of promising projects making this real.
Actually, when we were recently purchasing VM infrastructure, we were advised it is best practice to virtualise the management console. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding somewhere along the way.
I would be surprised if the googlebot didn't try everything to appear to the server like a normal user browser. Even better would be to crawl a site while in disguise, then again while not disguised. Differences would affect the sites ranking negatively.
They did it for their iPad Star-Trek ads: http://i.imgur.com/huWri.jpg
They probably figure if it's subtle enough, they can get away with it, but most people won't notice.
Indeed; there is some evidence that this co-evolution decreased humans' smelling abilities as the dogs made up for them (not sure what purpose this serves...)
At least for RFID, this would be much more fun:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cyeiz/reddit_i_present_to_you_my_superfun_idea_for_rfid/
Vast indeed. The only problem being they (tar sand oils) require more energy to extract than the recovered oil provides. Which still makes them useful, and may become economically viable when oil prices are comparatively higher than other energy forms.
Oil only contributes a small (I think in the order of 10-20%) of greenhouse emissions. If oil ran out today, there would not be a huge impact on carbon emissions.
For security purposes, perhaps. But for productivity purposes, failing closed causes people not to be able to get anything done. Failing open is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it is noticed before too long.
Certain a feature, if by feature you mean a remotely exploitable root vulnerability. Yes, definitely a feature. For crackers.
For the rest of us it's a pretty critical flaw, namely one that can 0wn yr ph0ne by visiting a malicious website.
Yeah, but it looks as though they're not going fibre, but a USB option instead:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Waubra+Victoria+3352,+Australia&sll=-37.571029,143.851835&sspn=0.013912,0.01929&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FUPuxf0dV8aPCA&split=0&hq=&hnear=Waubra+Victoria,+Australia&t=h&ll=-37.329014,143.611715&spn=0.006979,0.009645&z=17
You might even say backronym
The law considers postcards to be covered by the telecommunications privacy regulations.
So Google action's here are similar to looking at the receiver and sender addresses, and the postage stamp on the postcard, and reading a few words of the card in the process. Don't tell me that postal workers won't inadvertently catch a word or two of someone's postcard when reading the public information of the addresses?
Well, that and the fact the all passengers flying in or out of Israel have their checked and carry on baggage inspected, right in front of you.
Perhaps you can avoid this if you can pass as a rabbi, but otherwise, all passengers.
Actually, MPEG 21 seems more like what this story is about - MPEG-21 is a license framework for MPEG.
MPEG-7 is a metadata standard for multimedia. It is not involved in the actual encoding of the content (like mpeg 1, 2 and 4 are). Basically it attaches a chunk of xml to a timecode. Look up wikipedia if you want to know more.
There also exists an MPEG-21, for those interested.
There is already a similar system in place in Australia, which has been running for at least a decade. It is used to monitor truck speeds over large distances - cameras mounted on highway overpasses snap trucks' number plates as they pass, and calculate the speed between cities. This makes the CB radio reporting of radar traps less useful, and log book falsification difficult. Don't know whether it uses satellites, and really, who cares if it does?
Yeah, well, firefox (actually, phoenix or firebird or somethings) was mozilla with all the crap stripped out of it. Now it's evolved back to square one. ChromeOS is just the same principle on the OS level. Wait 5 years and it'll be bloated like the rest of them
The last CD player I had (remember CD players?) was a "high end" player. I'm not an audiophile, and couldn't tell any difference in sound quality. But when it came to playing scratched CDs, it performed much, much better than the "low end" players I tried.
Similarly with DVD players, my dedicated player connected to the TV deals with dodgy discs better than my computer does.
I'd guess something similar might happen for blu-ray, at least with legitimate "high end" gear. There is a lot of processing what needs doing between the pits on the disc and the electron flowing down the HDMI cable. The accuracy of the motor speeds, the quality of the lenses, the error correction processing... cheap gear probably skimps on those things. As long as your disc is in mint condition it won't make any difference. But as soon as that's not the case... (although ironically those with high end gear are more likely to keep their discs in mint condition, lessening the need for high end gear)
imho, lol looks like someone sticking their hands up. "So the police yell 'Stick em up', so I'm, like, lol"
Umm, I flew from Malaysia to Australia last week, with a good 4.5 L of whiskey in my hand luggage. And the whiskey was cheaper in Malaysia than Melbourne.
Already been thought of, some 50 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon