Nature and New Scientist are both rags that do this precise thing. They don't publish credible articles - only fascinating and unsupported hypotheses by "researchers" who want some publicity.
I could swear I've heard the article's author on Coast to Coast in the morning on the way to work..
I think not likely - so there can't be that much energy stored in the compressed air bottle. Even then, compressing that air requires slightly more energy than is retrieved by uncompressing it. When that air is compressed, it heats up, giving heat to the ambient environment. When it uncompresses, it draws heat from the ambient environment.
If there is a phase change involved, it may not work at all if it's really cold out, or when it's really hot out - but at least with a phase change there can be much more energy stored.
There is a way to disable it, but it requires manual modification of the javascript config for that user profile...
The problem, especially with corporate users, is that you never know when google is going to return a work-unsafe document to a search. If your browser starts going after a porn site without your knowledge or consent, you still can nevertheless get in hot water with your company.
Here is the remark in the faq regarding this issue:
"We are considering adding UI for this preference (see bug 166648); however, our theory is that if link prefetching needs to be disabled then there must be something wrong with the implementation."
The theory is dead wrong for many reasons. Link pre-fetching may need to be disabled for professional reasons.
Umm... most people already have their sensitive info on their hard disks anyway.. Anyone who uses quicken will have many more things to worry about than their hotmail password if their computer is stolen or if they forget to erase the HDD before they sell the machine.
However, with USB keys becoming cheaper than sand, I don't think it'll be long before everyone simply carries a secured, encrypted USB device that has their pertinent info on it...
Let's not forget that the whole reason taxes are spiraling out of control in PA is because the governments involved refuse to reduce payroll, either to themselves or by reducing the headcount. Philadelphia has enough city employees to service three times the number of people who live there. Also, as more and more people flee the city and it's spiraling crime and tax rates, suburbs have to build new infrastructure to support the new housing. It is unfortunate, but people who are already in established neighborhoods are having to pay the bill for the new Philadelphia Expatriates.
The other disease in PA is union labor. I have never seen a greedier bunch anywhere I have lived, and I have lived in lots of places. There is a union for everything here, and the rates of pay for many unionized jobs are far above what they are worth - and this all adds to the tax burden. I went to school for years, accumulated tens of thousands in loan debt, got two degrees, and a well-paying professional engineering job, but I still make less than a CWA/Verizon _technician_ who has only a high school diploma.
Finally, the last big gaping hole in the ground that suburbanites have to pour their money into are the schools. But, at least they are getting something. Schools in southeastern PA (not including philly) are ranked among the best in the country, and I don't think even privatizing them would do any better. Granted, the budget is huge, but at least the kids are learning something. Of course, it is also not hard to be one of the best schools in the nation, since most schools in this nation suck - thanks again to union labor sucking up most of the schools' budgets.
ARRRRRGH!!! BANNER!!!! I remember that big, ugly whore of a database from my days at another unnamed university... oh hell, the Georgia Institute of Technology. In fact, after I saw your post, I logged into my banner account (I graduated in 1999) and checked out my grades... hah...
What is this, April Fool's day early or something? Now, the government lying is something I could be convinced to believe, but what you speak of is completely unfathomable!
This actually isn't bad advice. I was very surprised not to see something like: "Make sure your MP3 player supports Microsoft's latest DRM to make sure artists get paid for their hard work." or something similar...
But, here are some additional things to consider:
1) Upgradeable firmware - OH SO IMPORTANT... bugs will be found and fixed, and new codecs will be developed.
2) OGG, OGG, OGG...
3) Battery life
4) User Interface - try them all out before you buy to make sure you can deal with it. I have two i-rivers, on 395 and one newer 512MB (can't remember the number)... the 395 has a strange UI that I still can't get used to... Jog right to scroll down and jog down to cancel... eek..
Personally, I love both of my i-River players.. the line-input recording is a great feature, too..
First of all, anti-terrorism legislation requires hotels retain a photocopy of your driver's license. I find it highly unlikely that the hotel will accept a license in one name and payment via another name with only a credit card number. Second, credit card companies don't get details about a charge for 2-3 days after the charge is made, so there's no way that the CC company could have known that the charge was made at Denny's or what zip code that Denny's was in. The credit card processors always take 2-3 days to post the charge to the issuing bank, and it is then and only then that the issuing bank knows what store the charge was made at. The only piece of information the issuing bank receives is the TYPE of establishment the charge is made at. In this case, the only think his credit card issuer would have been able to tell him was that the charge was made at a restaurant. That's it.
I went through similar credit card theft 2 years ago, so I have firsthand knowledge of how these processes work. I check my online accounts every day, so one day when I saw that my available balance had been cut in half, I called to see what the authorization was for. My CC company told me that all they knew was that it was an Office Supply retail store in British Columbia. They were very helpful in explaining how Visa and Mastercard work - that the merchant processor submits an authorization, which tells the issuing bank the type of store and amount, and then posts the actual transaction in a batch process every 48-72 hours. It is only when the transaction is posted that the issuer knows any details about the place where the card was used.
This guy certainly has his talent for fiction, but that is all this story is.
I think the next step will be to have bittorrent encapsulate itself and possibly even be encrypted...
Universities just don't want the big bandwidth bill. They know they don't want to put themselves on the hook for monitoring traffic and being responsible for illegal filesharing.. in the past, universities have almost always used the argument that they are not responsible for the content of their networks. This is a smart argument because it prevents them from being liable for sharing illegal files on p2p.. this kid's university is being stupid by admitting that it has a responsibility to filter illegal files. So, when an illegal file does get throgh, the **AA gestapo can now go after the Uni in addition to the student...
Yes, they do. Even when I applied to college in 1991, there was a waiver of rights to intellectual property built into the application. Anything I created belonged to the school, regardless of whether it was for class or on my own time. They even handed out intellectual property disclosure forms in the event we had an idea.. This IP agreement was written so poorly that it even claimed IP ownership to things I created while employed off-campus.
It is just urban legend, but I have heard that some schools make you sign over creations for some fixed period of time AFTER you graduate. I haven't seen it for myself, though.
At my company, they recently fired someone one the spot for possessing a Knoppix CD. My company views Knoppix as a hacker toolkit and nothing else. Anyone caught possessing or downloading Knoppix is fired immediately, complete with security escort to the door.
Other places LOVE it... it's handy, useful, and easy to transport.
I think one thing that would help this idea a lot would be if the CD booted into a VM. That way users would not have to do a hard restart.. just load the bootable CD into a VM and kill the VM when they're done...
The part that you are not understanding is that there is no "doing it worse" or "doing it better."
Every penny of social security revenue that the government collects that it does not immediately pay out in benefits is funneled immiediately to pay for other things. It is not saved and has never been saved. The amount of social security money spent would not change if income taxes were increased.
Again, it has nothing to do with Bush. It has to do with FDR and how the system works. If there actually were a net surplus in the budget, which has not happened since the implementation of social security, that money would find a way to be spent.
Fixing social security involves a very trivial fix, I agree. That fix is to get rid of it alltogether and make people responsible for themselves. I can do MUCH better than social security, which returns at a rate less than inflation. Hell, the average money market account with a 2.5% APY pays better than social security.
Another couple of trivially incorrect points you make are that a) taxes are somehow equivalent to stealing and b) politicians are "stealing" our money...
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Nature and New Scientist are both rags that do this precise thing. They don't publish credible articles - only fascinating and unsupported hypotheses by "researchers" who want some publicity.
I could swear I've heard the article's author on Coast to Coast in the morning on the way to work..
I think not likely - so there can't be that much energy stored in the compressed air bottle. Even then, compressing that air requires slightly more energy than is retrieved by uncompressing it. When that air is compressed, it heats up, giving heat to the ambient environment. When it uncompresses, it draws heat from the ambient environment.
If there is a phase change involved, it may not work at all if it's really cold out, or when it's really hot out - but at least with a phase change there can be much more energy stored.
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Well jesus christ... what do you expect me to do, read the entire document or something?
:)
Hah..
Try spoonfeeding that to 108,000 employees...
There is a way to disable it, but it requires manual modification of the javascript config for that user profile...
The problem, especially with corporate users, is that you never know when google is going to return a work-unsafe document to a search. If your browser starts going after a porn site without your knowledge or consent, you still can nevertheless get in hot water with your company.
Here is the remark in the faq regarding this issue:
"We are considering adding UI for this preference (see bug 166648); however, our theory is that if link prefetching needs to be disabled then there must be something wrong with the implementation."
The theory is dead wrong for many reasons. Link pre-fetching may need to be disabled for professional reasons.
Umm.. I'll bet you I could.. they don't have to be numbered since each RAID partition has its index number stored in the partition table..
;p
Tell you what, you send me 12 identical 1GB USB keys that are set up as a RAID array, and I'll send the data back to you on DVD...
Reminds me of the scene in Grosse Pointe Blank where Martin's secretary throws the full tower on its side and starts hitting it with a hammer..
Umm... most people already have their sensitive info on their hard disks anyway.. Anyone who uses quicken will have many more things to worry about than their hotmail password if their computer is stolen or if they forget to erase the HDD before they sell the machine.
However, with USB keys becoming cheaper than sand, I don't think it'll be long before everyone simply carries a secured, encrypted USB device that has their pertinent info on it...
... is that she'll probably end up with a $100k/yr job with a computer security firm.. that is.. once she is out of prison.
Tennessee has no income tax, so they have nothing to fight about in court...
Let's not forget that the whole reason taxes are spiraling out of control in PA is because the governments involved refuse to reduce payroll, either to themselves or by reducing the headcount. Philadelphia has enough city employees to service three times the number of people who live there. Also, as more and more people flee the city and it's spiraling crime and tax rates, suburbs have to build new infrastructure to support the new housing. It is unfortunate, but people who are already in established neighborhoods are having to pay the bill for the new Philadelphia Expatriates.
The other disease in PA is union labor. I have never seen a greedier bunch anywhere I have lived, and I have lived in lots of places. There is a union for everything here, and the rates of pay for many unionized jobs are far above what they are worth - and this all adds to the tax burden. I went to school for years, accumulated tens of thousands in loan debt, got two degrees, and a well-paying professional engineering job, but I still make less than a CWA/Verizon _technician_ who has only a high school diploma.
Finally, the last big gaping hole in the ground that suburbanites have to pour their money into are the schools. But, at least they are getting something. Schools in southeastern PA (not including philly) are ranked among the best in the country, and I don't think even privatizing them would do any better. Granted, the budget is huge, but at least the kids are learning something. Of course, it is also not hard to be one of the best schools in the nation, since most schools in this nation suck - thanks again to union labor sucking up most of the schools' budgets.
ARRRRRGH!!! BANNER!!!! I remember that big, ugly whore of a database from my days at another unnamed university... oh hell, the Georgia Institute of Technology. In fact, after I saw your post, I logged into my banner account (I graduated in 1999) and checked out my grades... hah...
How about "Windows LEGAL"
:)
As in a version of Windows that does not violate anti-trust law... oh wait.. that still doesn't exist
What is this, April Fool's day early or something? Now, the government lying is something I could be convinced to believe, but what you speak of is completely unfathomable!
haha...
Obviously, moderators cannot recognize sarcasm when they see it..
No fucking way... I can't believe it.. the government would never lie...
This actually isn't bad advice. I was very surprised not to see something like: "Make sure your MP3 player supports Microsoft's latest DRM to make sure artists get paid for their hard work." or something similar...
But, here are some additional things to consider:
1) Upgradeable firmware - OH SO IMPORTANT... bugs will be found and fixed, and new codecs will be developed.
2) OGG, OGG, OGG...
3) Battery life
4) User Interface - try them all out before you buy to make sure you can deal with it. I have two i-rivers, on 395 and one newer 512MB (can't remember the number)... the 395 has a strange UI that I still can't get used to... Jog right to scroll down and jog down to cancel... eek..
Personally, I love both of my i-River players.. the line-input recording is a great feature, too..
First of all, anti-terrorism legislation requires hotels retain a photocopy of your driver's license. I find it highly unlikely that the hotel will accept a license in one name and payment via another name with only a credit card number. Second, credit card companies don't get details about a charge for 2-3 days after the charge is made, so there's no way that the CC company could have known that the charge was made at Denny's or what zip code that Denny's was in. The credit card processors always take 2-3 days to post the charge to the issuing bank, and it is then and only then that the issuing bank knows what store the charge was made at. The only piece of information the issuing bank receives is the TYPE of establishment the charge is made at. In this case, the only think his credit card issuer would have been able to tell him was that the charge was made at a restaurant. That's it.
I went through similar credit card theft 2 years ago, so I have firsthand knowledge of how these processes work. I check my online accounts every day, so one day when I saw that my available balance had been cut in half, I called to see what the authorization was for. My CC company told me that all they knew was that it was an Office Supply retail store in British Columbia. They were very helpful in explaining how Visa and Mastercard work - that the merchant processor submits an authorization, which tells the issuing bank the type of store and amount, and then posts the actual transaction in a batch process every 48-72 hours. It is only when the transaction is posted that the issuer knows any details about the place where the card was used.
This guy certainly has his talent for fiction, but that is all this story is.
I think the next step will be to have bittorrent encapsulate itself and possibly even be encrypted...
Universities just don't want the big bandwidth bill. They know they don't want to put themselves on the hook for monitoring traffic and being responsible for illegal filesharing.. in the past, universities have almost always used the argument that they are not responsible for the content of their networks. This is a smart argument because it prevents them from being liable for sharing illegal files on p2p.. this kid's university is being stupid by admitting that it has a responsibility to filter illegal files. So, when an illegal file does get throgh, the **AA gestapo can now go after the Uni in addition to the student...
Yes, they do. Even when I applied to college in 1991, there was a waiver of rights to intellectual property built into the application. Anything I created belonged to the school, regardless of whether it was for class or on my own time. They even handed out intellectual property disclosure forms in the event we had an idea.. This IP agreement was written so poorly that it even claimed IP ownership to things I created while employed off-campus.
It is just urban legend, but I have heard that some schools make you sign over creations for some fixed period of time AFTER you graduate. I haven't seen it for myself, though.
At my company, they recently fired someone one the spot for possessing a Knoppix CD. My company views Knoppix as a hacker toolkit and nothing else. Anyone caught possessing or downloading Knoppix is fired immediately, complete with security escort to the door.
Other places LOVE it... it's handy, useful, and easy to transport.
I think one thing that would help this idea a lot would be if the CD booted into a VM. That way users would not have to do a hard restart.. just load the bootable CD into a VM and kill the VM when they're done...
This was precisely the first thought that came to mind when I saw that... what a dumbass.. no wonder he can't get a girlfriend :)
The fibonacci clock always displays 11:23:58 :)
The part that you are not understanding is that there is no "doing it worse" or "doing it better."
Every penny of social security revenue that the government collects that it does not immediately pay out in benefits is funneled immiediately to pay for other things. It is not saved and has never been saved. The amount of social security money spent would not change if income taxes were increased.
Again, it has nothing to do with Bush. It has to do with FDR and how the system works. If there actually were a net surplus in the budget, which has not happened since the implementation of social security, that money would find a way to be spent.
Fixing social security involves a very trivial fix, I agree. That fix is to get rid of it alltogether and make people responsible for themselves. I can do MUCH better than social security, which returns at a rate less than inflation. Hell, the average money market account with a 2.5% APY pays better than social security.
Another couple of trivially incorrect points you make are that a) taxes are somehow equivalent to stealing and b) politicians are "stealing" our money...