How very reassuring, coming from someone who stands to make millions from this change. Just like the ice cream barrons who reduced the size of a container of ice cream by 12.5%, while at the same time increasing the gaseous content to the maximum allowed by law (thereby reducing melted volume), the chocolatiers of the world will switch to the cheaper ingredients while leaving the wholesale prices alone, if not increasing them. They may even advertise "new better tasting!" by adding some more concentrated HFCS and INCREASING the price.
After all, if Americans are willing to accept Hershey's version of chocolate, they are certainly willing to accept congealed Hershey's syrup (which is essentially vegetable oil, sugar, and artificial chocolate flavoring).
If you lose a patent infringement lawsuit, it is because it was found that you KNOWINGLY and WILLFULLY used a patented technology. The solution here is for Vonage to pay Verizon's damages and then license that technology so that they can continue to use it legally, under license.
>> Freedom of speech does not mean anyone has to listen.
Is that really true anymore? I mean, really... if I didn't want to listen to Don Imus' comments about "nappy-headed hoes" I can just change the station, right?
WRONG
Because anytime someone says something offensive, the media has to make damn certain the entire planet has to hear about it in excruciating and inappropriate, out-of-context detail until we can't stand it anymore.
So, we really DON'T have the freedom not to listen, unless we want to go crawl under a rock somewhere.
Even worse... A cycling event on OLN or something, where frequently the camera shot is from a motorcycle next to the lead pack, with the background moving across the screen at 30MPH in a wide angle. You see a cyclist in a cloud of artifacts, basically. It's dreadful.
MPEG artifacts drive me insane. I'd almost rather just not watch TV... I made the mistake of buying an LCD panel, so now not only does HDTV look horrible from the compression, but analog TV looks like ass because of the de-interlacer.
That legal letter to the RIAA's law firm is rife with spelling and grammatical errors. While it is not an official filing, I would nevertheless be loathe to use an attorney, no matter how creative, who could not properly write and spell. It is at the very least unprofessional to send a letter in this state as a matter of professional correspondence.
What about all the ads they were running for their matched fund raiser? Didn't they raise a ton of cash? Why don't they just sell it to Google for $5BLN and get it over with?
Hey I have a question. Now that FLASH thumb drives are getting ginormous, are there any linux distros that can install to a thumb drive out of the box? Just curious, but if I could carry around my linux box on an 8GB thumb drive, I'd be stoked...
You can spend an American price on an education for a job that pays competitive wages in India. It's a no-win situation. How is it justifiable to spend $50k on an education to make $6/hr as a programmer?
I checked several reactor facilities that I am familiar with and none of them were blurred. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to confirm this. (Three Mile Island, Pottstown-Limerick, Indian Point, etc).
Maybe the conspiracy theorists can give it a rest and realize that they probably just didn't have any better photos to put up, or maybe they updated their database to one that had a lesser quality photo? Do you seriously think that they comb through every little piece of data they get in an update package to make sure it's better photo quality than before? That would take infinite Indians sitting at Infinite terminals.
What this article fails to take into account is that Apple has always depended solely on their base of Apple Fanboys and girls, who are going to take every penny they've earned working at Starbucks this summer and buy the latest steaming pile of shit that comes out of Apple's factory.
Seriously, Apple could market a steaming pile of shit, the iShit, and fanboys and girls would pay whatever it cost to buy it. After all, they could then proclaim to all of their non-conformist friends that "My iShit doesn't stink!"
The whole point, of course, is that we DON'T know that X amount of greenhouse gas emissions produces Y amount of warming. Not one of the zealots' papers makes such an assertion. The fact, however, is that surface temps follow solar output with a very stable time constant. People who know how control systems work realize that the Earth is just a giant multivariate PID loop in several orders, and that GHG emissions are just one variable in an equation with literally thousands of variables.
Here's an experiment you can try at home. You'll need a thermocouple with some kind of data logging device. You'll also need an open light fixture with no shade, reflector, or anything like that - just an incandescent bulb that shines approximately equally in all directions. Place this fixture 1 meter off the floor and 1 meter away from the wall. Close off all HVAC outlets in the room where you're doing this experiment. Soft-glue the termocouple to the wall abeam the light bulb. Log 24 hours of temp data w/o the light on and record the average temperature. Then, illuminate a 40w light bulb and record the temp data over a 24 hour period. Then change the 40w light bulb to a 60w light bulb and repeat, and measure the temperature increase.
Changing a 40w to a 100w light bulb increases the flux density 1 meter away by approximately 60/4pi, or 4.8 W/m^2 - which is a bit less than the actual increase in solar flux density in the past decade.
This is not meant to demonstrate a linear scaling factor of X degrees per Watt/m^2, but rather to demonstrate that it doesn't take a huge increase in incident radiation to cause a measurable increase in temperature.
Let's put it this way, with a radius of approximately 20Mm and an increase in solar flux density of 7W/m^2, that equates to nearly an extra 9 Trillon Watts of heating energy falling on the earth. In one day, that's 216 Trillion Watt-Hours of energy. Even considering albedo, that's going to cause significant heating with or without considering the composition of the atmosphere.
Since the program only covers international calls? Domestic calls have never required a pre-authorization. Cops have ALWAYS been free under wiretapping law to go ahead with a wiretap and obtain judicial approval within 72 hours after the beginning of the wiretap.
You know, in an argument, "I'm right, shut up" is not a valid postulate. In fact, in arguments, the more standoffish, brash, and assertive the person is in pushing their point with little or no evidence to back it up, the more often they are found to be completely in the wrong.
Seriously people, threatening to strip someone of their credentials if they disagree with you is the last act of a desperate man. The truth is, the global warming zealots know they don't have a leg to stand on, and the only thing they will actually come out and claim evidence for is that the earth is warming (which it is, due at least in part to a ~7W/m^2 increase in solar flux density that correlates very well with recent increases in global surface temperature). They still cannot produce any proof that global warming is a man-made problem. For a while there, I actually started to believe the hype, but the more and more outlandish the eco-movement has become, the less and less credibility they have earned.
DISCLAIMER (and I need to put this here because I know the global warming zealots are going to put words in my mouth): This post and the contents herein are not to be construed as an argument against sound environmental policy, clean air, clean water, nor as an argument for SUVs, burning down rain forests, funding terrorists by buying their oil, or clubbing baby seals. Furthermore, no one who drives a car may post any arguments about fossil fuels in response to this post, because the poster lives a mostly fossil-fuel-free lifestyle. The poster rides a bike to work, pays extra for 100% wind electricity, and uses B100 bioheating oil in his furnace, all at terrific expense to stay as much within the carbon cycle as possible.
I wonder if this is going to cause downward pressure on HD DVD player prices as people can now just use their computer to play the films? I wonder if the HD-DVD player makes will have a monetary claim against the hackers who are responsible as such.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, so TFA says this is for people without net access, but it is order on their website.
Haha..
Since I have a single device, a linux box, running tripwire and iptables...
How very reassuring, coming from someone who stands to make millions from this change. Just like the ice cream barrons who reduced the size of a container of ice cream by 12.5%, while at the same time increasing the gaseous content to the maximum allowed by law (thereby reducing melted volume), the chocolatiers of the world will switch to the cheaper ingredients while leaving the wholesale prices alone, if not increasing them. They may even advertise "new better tasting!" by adding some more concentrated HFCS and INCREASING the price.
After all, if Americans are willing to accept Hershey's version of chocolate, they are certainly willing to accept congealed Hershey's syrup (which is essentially vegetable oil, sugar, and artificial chocolate flavoring).
He was not arrested for carrying soap. He was arrested on suspicion of possession of a banned substance.
Slashdot morons..
If you lose a patent infringement lawsuit, it is because it was found that you KNOWINGLY and WILLFULLY used a patented technology. The solution here is for Vonage to pay Verizon's damages and then license that technology so that they can continue to use it legally, under license.
>> Freedom of speech does not mean anyone has to listen.
Is that really true anymore? I mean, really... if I didn't want to listen to Don Imus' comments about "nappy-headed hoes" I can just change the station, right?
WRONG
Because anytime someone says something offensive, the media has to make damn certain the entire planet has to hear about it in excruciating and inappropriate, out-of-context detail until we can't stand it anymore.
So, we really DON'T have the freedom not to listen, unless we want to go crawl under a rock somewhere.
Even worse... A cycling event on OLN or something, where frequently the camera shot is from a motorcycle next to the lead pack, with the background moving across the screen at 30MPH in a wide angle. You see a cyclist in a cloud of artifacts, basically. It's dreadful.
MPEG artifacts drive me insane. I'd almost rather just not watch TV... I made the mistake of buying an LCD panel, so now not only does HDTV look horrible from the compression, but analog TV looks like ass because of the de-interlacer.
Modern television is simply defective.
That legal letter to the RIAA's law firm is rife with spelling and grammatical errors. While it is not an official filing, I would nevertheless be loathe to use an attorney, no matter how creative, who could not properly write and spell. It is at the very least unprofessional to send a letter in this state as a matter of professional correspondence.
Boy, am I glad we don't keep birds in my office!
What about all the ads they were running for their matched fund raiser? Didn't they raise a ton of cash? Why don't they just sell it to Google for $5BLN and get it over with?
Hey I have a question. Now that FLASH thumb drives are getting ginormous, are there any linux distros that can install to a thumb drive out of the box? Just curious, but if I could carry around my linux box on an 8GB thumb drive, I'd be stoked...
You can spend an American price on an education for a job that pays competitive wages in India. It's a no-win situation. How is it justifiable to spend $50k on an education to make $6/hr as a programmer?
I checked several reactor facilities that I am familiar with and none of them were blurred. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to confirm this. (Three Mile Island, Pottstown-Limerick, Indian Point, etc).
Maybe the conspiracy theorists can give it a rest and realize that they probably just didn't have any better photos to put up, or maybe they updated their database to one that had a lesser quality photo? Do you seriously think that they comb through every little piece of data they get in an update package to make sure it's better photo quality than before? That would take infinite Indians sitting at Infinite terminals.
welcome our new Probiotic overlords!
In Soviet Russia, your food eats YOU!
Oh won't someone please think of the bacteria???
Imagine a beowulf cluster of probiotic bacteria!!!
You know, someone oughtta make a webpage chronicling all of these little slashdot-isms...
Why not just use these SPAMs to figure out when to SHORT a stock instead of buy it?
They said "aiding regularity," not "forcibly exploding your colon out through your asshole."
What this article fails to take into account is that Apple has always depended solely on their base of Apple Fanboys and girls, who are going to take every penny they've earned working at Starbucks this summer and buy the latest steaming pile of shit that comes out of Apple's factory.
Seriously, Apple could market a steaming pile of shit, the iShit, and fanboys and girls would pay whatever it cost to buy it. After all, they could then proclaim to all of their non-conformist friends that "My iShit doesn't stink!"
The whole point, of course, is that we DON'T know that X amount of greenhouse gas emissions produces Y amount of warming. Not one of the zealots' papers makes such an assertion. The fact, however, is that surface temps follow solar output with a very stable time constant. People who know how control systems work realize that the Earth is just a giant multivariate PID loop in several orders, and that GHG emissions are just one variable in an equation with literally thousands of variables.
Here's an experiment you can try at home. You'll need a thermocouple with some kind of data logging device. You'll also need an open light fixture with no shade, reflector, or anything like that - just an incandescent bulb that shines approximately equally in all directions. Place this fixture 1 meter off the floor and 1 meter away from the wall. Close off all HVAC outlets in the room where you're doing this experiment. Soft-glue the termocouple to the wall abeam the light bulb. Log 24 hours of temp data w/o the light on and record the average temperature. Then, illuminate a 40w light bulb and record the temp data over a 24 hour period. Then change the 40w light bulb to a 60w light bulb and repeat, and measure the temperature increase.
Changing a 40w to a 100w light bulb increases the flux density 1 meter away by approximately 60/4pi, or 4.8 W/m^2 - which is a bit less than the actual increase in solar flux density in the past decade.
This is not meant to demonstrate a linear scaling factor of X degrees per Watt/m^2, but rather to demonstrate that it doesn't take a huge increase in incident radiation to cause a measurable increase in temperature.
Let's put it this way, with a radius of approximately 20Mm and an increase in solar flux density of 7W/m^2, that equates to nearly an extra 9 Trillon Watts of heating energy falling on the earth. In one day, that's 216 Trillion Watt-Hours of energy. Even considering albedo, that's going to cause significant heating with or without considering the composition of the atmosphere.
Okay FINE... assuming 1 is not prime, which some argue it is...
:)
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Happy now?
Since the program only covers international calls? Domestic calls have never required a pre-authorization. Cops have ALWAYS been free under wiretapping law to go ahead with a wiretap and obtain judicial approval within 72 hours after the beginning of the wiretap.
Just curious...
You know, in an argument, "I'm right, shut up" is not a valid postulate. In fact, in arguments, the more standoffish, brash, and assertive the person is in pushing their point with little or no evidence to back it up, the more often they are found to be completely in the wrong.
Seriously people, threatening to strip someone of their credentials if they disagree with you is the last act of a desperate man. The truth is, the global warming zealots know they don't have a leg to stand on, and the only thing they will actually come out and claim evidence for is that the earth is warming (which it is, due at least in part to a ~7W/m^2 increase in solar flux density that correlates very well with recent increases in global surface temperature). They still cannot produce any proof that global warming is a man-made problem. For a while there, I actually started to believe the hype, but the more and more outlandish the eco-movement has become, the less and less credibility they have earned.
DISCLAIMER (and I need to put this here because I know the global warming zealots are going to put words in my mouth): This post and the contents herein are not to be construed as an argument against sound environmental policy, clean air, clean water, nor as an argument for SUVs, burning down rain forests, funding terrorists by buying their oil, or clubbing baby seals. Furthermore, no one who drives a car may post any arguments about fossil fuels in response to this post, because the poster lives a mostly fossil-fuel-free lifestyle. The poster rides a bike to work, pays extra for 100% wind electricity, and uses B100 bioheating oil in his furnace, all at terrific expense to stay as much within the carbon cycle as possible.
You mean like this?
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The primes are 1 and 7, separated by the integer 3...
Fair and Balanced Reports YOU!
I wonder if this is going to cause downward pressure on HD DVD player prices as people can now just use their computer to play the films? I wonder if the HD-DVD player makes will have a monetary claim against the hackers who are responsible as such.