A lot of people have the thinking that the "trouble makers" are different types of people. Those criminals are different types of people. We have to protect themselves from them! But the only difference between us and them is poor upbringing and parenting. We could have easily been them, if we were born under different circumstances. It would be much better to treat the root cause rather than the symptom. It would probably be better to try to help them deal with their issues first, before sending them to jail as a last resort.
What's next? Send them to boot camp, and make them to labour for free. Free labour = profit. We can expand the program to criminals as well, they might as well be a benefit to society. Those anti-war folks make the government look bad, send them there too. The opposition party are always spreading lies about our party, those libelous bastards, send them to the labour camps too.
This is the first step to close one of the analog holes. The next step is to close the last analog hole: the analog light signals between the screen and your eyes. All TVs will soon be fitted with an anti-piracy photon shield to prevent you from stealing the movie with your eyes. The problem is, millions of people have already pirated every single movie to date with their eyes. Remembering any part of a movie will soon be considered piracy. Therefore, everyone must pay a license for every movie they saw for the right to remember it. Any future movies are protected from those evil memory pirates with the new anti-piracy photon shield.
There will still be demand for low end Nokia phones. They may be more expensive, but their UI will probably be far superior than those cheapo Chinese phones. If I need a low-end phone, Nokia would still be my choice.
I have to agree with TFA in that Nokia offers way too many phones. They seem to make sure that each of their phones are missing a key feature. Focusing on just 2 models is kind of extreme, but focusing on say 4-5 models is realistic. Either way, lately nokia's offerings are uninspiring, but their non-smart phones are still great. They definitely have a tough road ahead of them.
I think the issue is bigger than just patents. Companies are abusing the legal system. Large tech companies gather an arsenal of patents so they can wage legal wars between their competitors. Patent trolls are extorting money out of companies that actually produce something. The RIAA is demanding money by threatening lawsuits. It all leads to the same problem: going to court is too damn expensive. This financial barrier needs to be removed. Perhaps if the plaintiff loses at court, they should pay for all costs. But even with this, there's too much risk. I'm thinking that law system needs to be completely reworked. It's too complicated.
I think the article is completely dumb. It's like asking why everyone doesn't have a luxury car. People have different requirements and expectations, and of course price.
The US is in a unique situation, in that they control the world's reserve currency. So they can print money, but export the inflation to other countries, like China, which has its currency pegged to the USD. No wonder they are experiencing double-digit inflation. Essentially, there's no short term downside to just printing money and continuing business as usual.
America's wasteful use of oil propelled vehicles are not sustainable. Look around any road in the US, and look how many gas guzzling SUVs are out there. If the US REALLY wanted to reduce oil consumption, they should raise gas tax. Remember when gas prices spiked a few years ago and people's driving habits and vehicle purchasing behaviour immediately changed? Reducing consumption should buy us some time to figure out how to replace it with alternative fuels.
The market is not willing to buy US debt at low rates. That's why the Fed is currently buying Treasury Bonds directly. This is directly financing US government through money printing.
Sony is blackballed on my list of manufacturers I buy from. When my friends and family seek my advice for electronics, I never recommend Sony. In fact, I always tell them to stay away from Sony, and they do. So F-U Sony.
Yikes, I never thought of that. That is some scary stuff! The live CD is a good idea, but a linux VM might provide the same security, unless the malware knows how to perform a man-in-the-middle attack through a VM.
In Germany, this malware would not work at all. Every transaction requires you to input something called an iTAN, which is a one-time-use 6 digit code that the bank sends you by mail. So you get a paper with 100 iTAN numbers, and when you almost use them up, they send you another list. When you switch to the new list, you have to enter an iTAN from the old list. I feel much more secure with this system than what's implemented in the US and Canada.
And if the city officials are running things poorly wasting good money after bad, you can't speak out? And these are public entities, they do not need to maintain stock prices or compete with other companies. So negative comments about the city are only going to embarrass them into making it a better place.
This reminds me of this story, where a teacher who appeared on the Howard Stern show for a contest (ugliest guy and hottest wife) was fired for it. It seems that the state has no problem firing people they don't like.
I have tried Bing a couple of times when I had a hard time finding something on Google. I noticed that the results were very similar or almost the same. So I don't even bother using Bing anymore... This would explain my observations though.
They should use the pressurized tank as a fly-wheel as well. Store energy as compressed air and angular momentum. Hell, might as well structure the tank in such a way that it acts as a capacitor too. Oh, and slap a few solar cells on it too. So I'm willing to part with this amazing idea for a $1M, any takers?
I read somewhere that if you cool DRAM, the data can stay intact for up to 10 minutes. That's plenty of time to remove the modules and extract the data from them. But if this is really a big concern, I wonder if it's practical to zero the memory after a PC is shutdown. Kind of a background routine. Or maybe even short all the lines to drain the stored charges.
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A lot of people have the thinking that the "trouble makers" are different types of people. Those criminals are different types of people. We have to protect themselves from them! But the only difference between us and them is poor upbringing and parenting. We could have easily been them, if we were born under different circumstances. It would be much better to treat the root cause rather than the symptom. It would probably be better to try to help them deal with their issues first, before sending them to jail as a last resort.
What's next? Send them to boot camp, and make them to labour for free. Free labour = profit. We can expand the program to criminals as well, they might as well be a benefit to society. Those anti-war folks make the government look bad, send them there too. The opposition party are always spreading lies about our party, those libelous bastards, send them to the labour camps too.
This is the first step to close one of the analog holes. The next step is to close the last analog hole: the analog light signals between the screen and your eyes. All TVs will soon be fitted with an anti-piracy photon shield to prevent you from stealing the movie with your eyes. The problem is, millions of people have already pirated every single movie to date with their eyes. Remembering any part of a movie will soon be considered piracy. Therefore, everyone must pay a license for every movie they saw for the right to remember it. Any future movies are protected from those evil memory pirates with the new anti-piracy photon shield.
The best way to deal with DRM is to stop feeding the beast. I stopped feeding the beast over 10 year ago.
According to this BBC article, the anti-laser absorbs a specific frequency and turns it into heat.
You may be willing to sit there for an hour and sort through the models, the average person is at the store and wants a phone immediately.
There will still be demand for low end Nokia phones. They may be more expensive, but their UI will probably be far superior than those cheapo Chinese phones. If I need a low-end phone, Nokia would still be my choice.
I have to agree with TFA in that Nokia offers way too many phones. They seem to make sure that each of their phones are missing a key feature. Focusing on just 2 models is kind of extreme, but focusing on say 4-5 models is realistic. Either way, lately nokia's offerings are uninspiring, but their non-smart phones are still great. They definitely have a tough road ahead of them.
I think the issue is bigger than just patents. Companies are abusing the legal system. Large tech companies gather an arsenal of patents so they can wage legal wars between their competitors. Patent trolls are extorting money out of companies that actually produce something. The RIAA is demanding money by threatening lawsuits. It all leads to the same problem: going to court is too damn expensive. This financial barrier needs to be removed. Perhaps if the plaintiff loses at court, they should pay for all costs. But even with this, there's too much risk. I'm thinking that law system needs to be completely reworked. It's too complicated.
I think the article is completely dumb. It's like asking why everyone doesn't have a luxury car. People have different requirements and expectations, and of course price.
The US is in a unique situation, in that they control the world's reserve currency. So they can print money, but export the inflation to other countries, like China, which has its currency pegged to the USD. No wonder they are experiencing double-digit inflation. Essentially, there's no short term downside to just printing money and continuing business as usual.
America's wasteful use of oil propelled vehicles are not sustainable. Look around any road in the US, and look how many gas guzzling SUVs are out there. If the US REALLY wanted to reduce oil consumption, they should raise gas tax. Remember when gas prices spiked a few years ago and people's driving habits and vehicle purchasing behaviour immediately changed? Reducing consumption should buy us some time to figure out how to replace it with alternative fuels.
The market is not willing to buy US debt at low rates. That's why the Fed is currently buying Treasury Bonds directly. This is directly financing US government through money printing.
Sony is blackballed on my list of manufacturers I buy from. When my friends and family seek my advice for electronics, I never recommend Sony. In fact, I always tell them to stay away from Sony, and they do. So F-U Sony.
Yikes, I never thought of that. That is some scary stuff! The live CD is a good idea, but a linux VM might provide the same security, unless the malware knows how to perform a man-in-the-middle attack through a VM.
In Germany, this malware would not work at all. Every transaction requires you to input something called an iTAN, which is a one-time-use 6 digit code that the bank sends you by mail. So you get a paper with 100 iTAN numbers, and when you almost use them up, they send you another list. When you switch to the new list, you have to enter an iTAN from the old list. I feel much more secure with this system than what's implemented in the US and Canada.
And as a citizen, you should not criticize your government.
And if the city officials are running things poorly wasting good money after bad, you can't speak out? And these are public entities, they do not need to maintain stock prices or compete with other companies. So negative comments about the city are only going to embarrass them into making it a better place.
This reminds me of this story, where a teacher who appeared on the Howard Stern show for a contest (ugliest guy and hottest wife) was fired for it. It seems that the state has no problem firing people they don't like.
I have tried Bing a couple of times when I had a hard time finding something on Google. I noticed that the results were very similar or almost the same. So I don't even bother using Bing anymore... This would explain my observations though.
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Awesome! Now there's some technology worth stealing for the US. Let's see how they react when everyone starts stealing technology from them.
They should use the pressurized tank as a fly-wheel as well. Store energy as compressed air and angular momentum. Hell, might as well structure the tank in such a way that it acts as a capacitor too. Oh, and slap a few solar cells on it too. So I'm willing to part with this amazing idea for a $1M, any takers?
What you have to do, is build a "giant laser" on the moon. Then you can hold the world ransom for 1 million dollars! MUAHAHAHA.
I read somewhere that if you cool DRAM, the data can stay intact for up to 10 minutes. That's plenty of time to remove the modules and extract the data from them. But if this is really a big concern, I wonder if it's practical to zero the memory after a PC is shutdown. Kind of a background routine. Or maybe even short all the lines to drain the stored charges.