Safer? Certainly more secure? Absolutely More comfortable? hell yes.. more money? you bet your ass job security? not going anywhere anytime soon better healthcare? for sure
You bet I'm voting for Bush. Sure, there are elements I don't like, but that's what congress and the supreme court are for.
Besides, all things being equal, I will vote for someone who says the same thing every day before I vote for someone who changes his tune all the time.
Unless those laws are unconstitutional. The whole point of the Judicial system is to check the power of the other branches of government. If one branch of government oversteps is bounds, either of the other, or both, of the other branches can tell them they did so and reverse whatever it was that they did.
I completely agree with you on this point... rebooting is NOT a normal maintenance task.. hell, I don't even think HOME users should ever have to reboot their PCs.
Oh well.. someone will lose their job over this - probably the maintenance guy... and that'll be the end of it. They'll still run windows, and won't even question it's viability in that role because they spent so much money on the new system. They'd rather keep a broken system than admit they made a mistake and wasted millions of bucks...
You have to get your traffic in a holding pattern and/or switch over to the redundant before rebooting a piece of critical ATC hardware. This cannot be done automagically because your Bravo space might be full of planes at the time, in which case a controller would not want his/her display to go away... I am sure the pilots wouldn't, either..
"Though, somday things will be so accurate, including the 'actors', that we media consumers may never notice the difference.. Will put a lot of actors out of work."
Not to mention the media will be able to produce completely fictional news stories in order to gain ratings, or worse, mold society the way they see fit...
The energy cost of creating a photovoltaic cell far surpasses the energy extracted from that cell over its lifetime.
No, this is not a conservation of energy argument (everyone knows the energy doesn't come from the cell itself, so it's not an issue of putting energy in and getting that same energy out). It's the simple fact that it takes a lot of energy to grow a photovoltaic cell. You can get energy from a cell for about 30-40 years, but even over that long period of time, you still won't get out as much energy as was expended to create it...
When you see a post that does not contribute substantively to the topic, or discusses something that is not the topic, it is -1: Offtopic
When you see a post that has intentionally inflammatory comments, such as the last line in the parent's comment, it is usually either -1: Troll, or -1: Flamebait.
I think your estimate is grossly conservative. I estimate that there will be 542 comments total, of which 91 are -1: Redundant, talking about how fast the host went down.
"If you don't like it, transfer. The "you're not the FCC" line is ridiculous as well. By that logic, airlines couldn't tell you what you can and can't use on their planes either. And hospitals couldn't make you turn off your cell phones. Seriously, someone stop the FUD. "
There are already federal laws granting airlines and hospitals preemptive domain over local spectrum. The airlines are well within their rights, granted by Congress (which also has authority over the FCC), to tell you you can't use intentional radiators on their planes. Same goes for hospitals.
Universities have NO SUCH AUTHORITY and as such are violating federal law by attempting to regulate use of the ISM spectrum by their students. They cannot simply issue a blanket prohibition against use of access points. They can; however, prohibit students from connecting any device to the campus-owned network.
The "You are not the FCC" point is not ridiculous. It is absolutely, 100% accurate and applicable. At best, you have campus officials who are seriously misinformed about federal law. At worst, you have a private or state-run institution, willfully and with intent, disobeying very clear federal law that states on no uncertain terms that the FCC is the *ONLY* body that may regulate the use of spectrum ANYWHERE within the United States and its territories.
You do not have the authority to regulate the use of the unlicensed ISM band by your students. You may only regulate your own network. This means that while it is illegal (and the fines and punishment for this kind of crime are significant) for you to tell your students they cannot have access points, you are well within your rights to tell them they cannot connect them to the campus network.
IANAL, but I am extremely familiar with how big of a dick the FCC can be in cases like this. They do NOT like $ENTITY_NOT_FCC doing anything that can even be remotely construed as regulation of spectrum.
The want to make sure there is absolutely no interference? Well, these people are obviously morons. You cannot "intercept" all of the radiation from the phones by putting a picocell on the plane. The phones are still going to radiate more or less omnidirectionally, including into the plane's fuselage and electrical systems. The way to make cell phone usage safe is to harden the aircraft avionics, but even then there are no guarantees. I, for one, am not risking my life so some idiot can yack on their cell phone for 4 hours while I am confined to the seat next to them.
The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent encryption for the purpose of obtaining intellectual property that does not belong to you.
It does not make it illegal to use someone else's WiFi. If someone puts up an open access point, the fact that they did not secure it is tacit authorization to use it, even if they do so out of ignorance.
No, the presence of a static magnetic field would do nothing to hinder the drive's ability to read and write. Hard drives read and write with time-varying EM fields, which are spectrally far from DC (static field). A coil of wire would only develop an interference current in the presence of another time-variant field.
The problem with magnetically floating the disc is that unless the disc has a PERFECT mass distribution, the platters would wobble and the thing would likely disintegrate.
The idea behind the "Ergonomic" mouse was spawned by product liability lawsuits. People were getting carpal tunnel syndrome and mouse manufcaturers were being sued, so they got together with doctors to figure out a way to make mice more CT friendly. What they came up with was the idea for a mouse that didn't require compression of the transverse carpal ligament, the overuse of which can cause compressive neuropathy of the medial nerve at the wrist. Of course, what this translates to in laypersons' terms is a mouse that doesn't require use of the hand at all, or more specifically, oppositional pressure of the thumb and pinky, or compression of the palm (as you would do if you were trying to hold the tip of your thumb to the tip of your pinky). If you pay attention to your hand while you use your mouse, you'll notice what I'm talking about - you'll become cognizant of the pressure at the vertex of the palm at the wrist. If you try to hold the tips of your thumb and pinky together for any prolonged period of time, you'll notice it will start to hurt at this vertex, which is where the medial nerve is compressed against the phalangeal flexor tendons. Corrective surgery usually involves incision of the ligament to relieve the compression.
How can you possibly say that tokenism is a start for anything positive for the womens' movement? Tokenism is exactly the kind of thing that sets back a movement YEARS. Nobody takes a token seriously.
I think that this appointment, if indeed an act of tokenism, is a horrible thing - just another case of wanting to demonstrate "diversity."
I live down the street from Villanova, and let me tell you, there's definitely a high hot-pants factor here. My god... everyone I know tries to time the light at Ithan and Lancaster so they can GET STOPPED - just to have a couple of minutes of prime babe-watching...
I satisfied my term agreement a few months ago... while the service is nice, I will not support, financially or otherwise, illegal activities on the part of XM or RIAA. This guy is selling an enabler for Fair Use. Nothing wrong with that. If you make his software illegal, you have to make tape recorders, computers, and anything else that can make an analog recording, illegal as well..
The RIAA is filing these lawsuits against people whom they allege traded songs copyrighted by RIAA **MEMBER LABELS**...
There are plenty of copyrighted songs floating around out there by people who are not RIAA members, or don't even care that it is happening, or in fact encourage it.
There are lots of taper-friendly bands who, while owning the copyright for their own songs, love it when fans trade recordings of live shows, etc...
I think it's time to start grouping these RIAA-member artists with the RIAA. I dislike the generalization that the RIAA somehow has legal authority over ALL copyrighted content, whether or not they represent the artist in questions, and whether or not the artist even cares.
While freedom of expression is constitutionally guaranteed, it does not grant broad rights for people to use content which they are not allowed the right to use. Hypothetically speaking, if I am a songwriter, I am perfectly within my rights as the owner of that song to tell you that you cannot distribute it. That is unlicenced content, and it is indeed already illegal under current copyright law. I can express an opinion all I want, but putting Britney Spears on my Kazaa server is not a method of expression.
"CO2 is used in the respiration/chlorophyl/photosynthesis cycle of plants and is not really considered a "pollutant", "
Not right now, but the ultra left-wing governments everywhere are trying to have CO2 declared a Pollutant so it can be taxed and regulated. Just imagine when it'll actually be illegal to breathe because you're polluting the atmosphere.
Sometimes, the world is just silly. Plant life on this planet is thriving like it never has before because yes, we're increasing the amount of food in the atmosphere. Yes, we're also burning down rainforest, but for every tree that is cut down in Brazil, there are 10 new ones growing elsewhere.
For all the alarmism that the left is engaging in, if you think about the time we've been collecting atmospheric data compared to the "time constant of the world" as I like to call it, we really only have the last picosecond of a 100-year long waveform. It's imprudent and quite frankly stupid to think that you can make any definite conclusions about anything from knowing so little about the system. Even if we go back 100k years, we still don't have a good representation of the equilibrium between plant life and CO2. The Earth is a robust system (go look up the definition of 'robust' - it means neither strong nor tasty in this context) and can respond well to transient changes in system parameters to maintain the setpoint.
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Well, let's see here...
Safer? Certainly
more secure? Absolutely
More comfortable? hell yes..
more money? you bet your ass
job security? not going anywhere anytime soon
better healthcare? for sure
You bet I'm voting for Bush. Sure, there are elements I don't like, but that's what congress and the supreme court are for.
Besides, all things being equal, I will vote for someone who says the same thing every day before I vote for someone who changes his tune all the time.
Unless those laws are unconstitutional. The whole point of the Judicial system is to check the power of the other branches of government. If one branch of government oversteps is bounds, either of the other, or both, of the other branches can tell them they did so and reverse whatever it was that they did.
I completely agree with you on this point... rebooting is NOT a normal maintenance task.. hell, I don't even think HOME users should ever have to reboot their PCs.
Oh well.. someone will lose their job over this - probably the maintenance guy... and that'll be the end of it. They'll still run windows, and won't even question it's viability in that role because they spent so much money on the new system. They'd rather keep a broken system than admit they made a mistake and wasted millions of bucks...
You have to get your traffic in a holding pattern and/or switch over to the redundant before rebooting a piece of critical ATC hardware. This cannot be done automagically because your Bravo space might be full of planes at the time, in which case a controller would not want his/her display to go away... I am sure the pilots wouldn't, either..
"Though, somday things will be so accurate, including the 'actors', that we media consumers may never notice the difference.. Will put a lot of actors out of work."
Not to mention the media will be able to produce completely fictional news stories in order to gain ratings, or worse, mold society the way they see fit...
The energy cost of creating a photovoltaic cell far surpasses the energy extracted from that cell over its lifetime.
No, this is not a conservation of energy argument (everyone knows the energy doesn't come from the cell itself, so it's not an issue of putting energy in and getting that same energy out).
It's the simple fact that it takes a lot of energy to grow a photovoltaic cell. You can get energy from a cell for about 30-40 years, but even over that long period of time, you still won't get out as much energy as was expended to create it...
When you see a post that does not contribute substantively to the topic, or discusses something that is not the topic, it is -1: Offtopic
When you see a post that has intentionally inflammatory comments, such as the last line in the parent's comment, it is usually either -1: Troll, or -1: Flamebait.
I think your estimate is grossly conservative. I estimate that there will be 542 comments total, of which 91 are -1: Redundant, talking about how fast the host went down.
African or European?
"If you don't like it, transfer. The "you're not the FCC" line is ridiculous as well. By that logic, airlines couldn't tell you what you can and can't use on their planes either. And hospitals couldn't make you turn off your cell phones. Seriously, someone stop the FUD. "
There are already federal laws granting airlines and hospitals preemptive domain over local spectrum. The airlines are well within their rights, granted by Congress (which also has authority over the FCC), to tell you you can't use intentional radiators on their planes. Same goes for hospitals.
Universities have NO SUCH AUTHORITY and as such are violating federal law by attempting to regulate use of the ISM spectrum by their students. They cannot simply issue a blanket prohibition against use of access points. They can; however, prohibit students from connecting any device to the campus-owned network.
The "You are not the FCC" point is not ridiculous. It is absolutely, 100% accurate and applicable. At best, you have campus officials who are seriously misinformed about federal law. At worst, you have a private or state-run institution, willfully and with intent, disobeying very clear federal law that states on no uncertain terms that the FCC is the *ONLY* body that may regulate the use of spectrum ANYWHERE within the United States and its territories.
You do not have the authority to regulate the use of the unlicensed ISM band by your students. You may only regulate your own network. This means that while it is illegal (and the fines and punishment for this kind of crime are significant) for you to tell your students they cannot have access points, you are well within your rights to tell them they cannot connect them to the campus network.
IANAL, but I am extremely familiar with how big of a dick the FCC can be in cases like this. They do NOT like $ENTITY_NOT_FCC doing anything that can even be remotely construed as regulation of spectrum.
The want to make sure there is absolutely no interference? Well, these people are obviously morons. You cannot "intercept" all of the radiation from the phones by putting a picocell on the plane. The phones are still going to radiate more or less omnidirectionally, including into the plane's fuselage and electrical systems. The way to make cell phone usage safe is to harden the aircraft avionics, but even then there are no guarantees. I, for one, am not risking my life so some idiot can yack on their cell phone for 4 hours while I am confined to the seat next to them.
The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent encryption for the purpose of obtaining intellectual property that does not belong to you.
It does not make it illegal to use someone else's WiFi. If someone puts up an open access point, the fact that they did not secure it is tacit authorization to use it, even if they do so out of ignorance.
It is a water displacer.... the 40th formula he tried...
No, the presence of a static magnetic field would do nothing to hinder the drive's ability to read and write. Hard drives read and write with time-varying EM fields, which are spectrally far from DC (static field). A coil of wire would only develop an interference current in the presence of another time-variant field.
The problem with magnetically floating the disc is that unless the disc has a PERFECT mass distribution, the platters would wobble and the thing would likely disintegrate.
The idea behind the "Ergonomic" mouse was spawned by product liability lawsuits. People were getting carpal tunnel syndrome and mouse manufcaturers were being sued, so they got together with doctors to figure out a way to make mice more CT friendly. What they came up with was the idea for a mouse that didn't require compression of the transverse carpal ligament, the overuse of which can cause compressive neuropathy of the medial nerve at the wrist. Of course, what this translates to in laypersons' terms is a mouse that doesn't require use of the hand at all, or more specifically, oppositional pressure of the thumb and pinky, or compression of the palm (as you would do if you were trying to hold the tip of your thumb to the tip of your pinky). If you pay attention to your hand while you use your mouse, you'll notice what I'm talking about - you'll become cognizant of the pressure at the vertex of the palm at the wrist. If you try to hold the tips of your thumb and pinky together for any prolonged period of time, you'll notice it will start to hurt at this vertex, which is where the medial nerve is compressed against the phalangeal flexor tendons. Corrective surgery usually involves incision of the ligament to relieve the compression.
IANAD...
(S)he also won't feel it when (S)he backs over someone in the grocery store parking lot on the way home from soccer practice in the giant SUV..
How can you possibly say that tokenism is a start for anything positive for the womens' movement? Tokenism is exactly the kind of thing that sets back a movement YEARS. Nobody takes a token seriously.
I think that this appointment, if indeed an act of tokenism, is a horrible thing - just another case of wanting to demonstrate "diversity."
I live down the street from Villanova, and let me tell you, there's definitely a high hot-pants factor here. My god... everyone I know tries to time the light at Ithan and Lancaster so they can GET STOPPED - just to have a couple of minutes of prime babe-watching...
Get the sequence right... it's: Screeeech, CRASH! HONK! :)
I satisfied my term agreement a few months ago... while the service is nice, I will not support, financially or otherwise, illegal activities on the part of XM or RIAA. This guy is selling an enabler for Fair Use. Nothing wrong with that. If you make his software illegal, you have to make tape recorders, computers, and anything else that can make an analog recording, illegal as well..
The RIAA is filing these lawsuits against people whom they allege traded songs copyrighted by RIAA **MEMBER LABELS**...
There are plenty of copyrighted songs floating around out there by people who are not RIAA members, or don't even care that it is happening, or in fact encourage it.
There are lots of taper-friendly bands who, while owning the copyright for their own songs, love it when fans trade recordings of live shows, etc...
I think it's time to start grouping these RIAA-member artists with the RIAA. I dislike the generalization that the RIAA somehow has legal authority over ALL copyrighted content, whether or not they represent the artist in questions, and whether or not the artist even cares.
While freedom of expression is constitutionally guaranteed, it does not grant broad rights for people to use content which they are not allowed the right to use. Hypothetically speaking, if I am a songwriter, I am perfectly within my rights as the owner of that song to tell you that you cannot distribute it. That is unlicenced content, and it is indeed already illegal under current copyright law. I can express an opinion all I want, but putting Britney Spears on my Kazaa server is not a method of expression.
web pages that make your eyes want to pop out of their sockets?
"CO2 is used in the respiration/chlorophyl/photosynthesis cycle of plants and is not really considered a "pollutant", "
Not right now, but the ultra left-wing governments everywhere are trying to have CO2 declared a Pollutant so it can be taxed and regulated. Just imagine when it'll actually be illegal to breathe because you're polluting the atmosphere.
Sometimes, the world is just silly. Plant life on this planet is thriving like it never has before because yes, we're increasing the amount of food in the atmosphere. Yes, we're also burning down rainforest, but for every tree that is cut down in Brazil, there are 10 new ones growing elsewhere.
For all the alarmism that the left is engaging in, if you think about the time we've been collecting atmospheric data compared to the "time constant of the world" as I like to call it, we really only have the last picosecond of a 100-year long waveform. It's imprudent and quite frankly stupid to think that you can make any definite conclusions about anything from knowing so little about the system. Even if we go back 100k years, we still don't have a good representation of the equilibrium between plant life and CO2. The Earth is a robust system (go look up the definition of 'robust' - it means neither strong nor tasty in this context) and can respond well to transient changes in system parameters to maintain the setpoint.