It is pretty obvious that it is a hoax. If they could pull this off at the car level then they could certainly pull it off at larger scales, such as power generating plants. And much safer too, since power generating plants crash into each other much less often than cars do. Since the technology isn't being used to replace uranium based nuclear reactors, and more uranium based reactors are being planned in spite of the many problems (waste products, and the slightly annoying problem of destroying large areas when something does eventually go wrong being a couple), then one would have to be an idiot not to see that this was a hoax.
Your math is bad, I don't pay any where near that much for ink/toner. I sometimes refill myself and save even more, but even just buying supplies intelligently I can print for far less than you. And lets not forget to factor in whatever is needed to print in sheets of the pricy paper, and even the extra desk space that would be needed for a second printer. No, this is just crazy talk.
So the message is "We don't like your right wing views, let us brain wash you and change you like this shirt was changed when it was washed". Doesn't seem likely that someone who wants to favor the right politically is going to see that and decide "neat, I'll have them brain wash me so that I can be a liberal." Maybe some of the left should have avoided their own brain washings. You have to wonder when a political group equates their belief with being brain washed. Freudian slip?
What B.S. I can buy more than 260 sheets of paper for $2 (yea, I pay attention to sales and buy several reams at a time.) So why would I ever fool with this junk when simple paper is less expensive, and I can print it with existing technology, can keep it indefinitely (not going to do that with $2 a page printouts) and I have all the other benefits of normal paper (including color printing)? Seems like something for fools with too much money like Ed Begley jr, but outside of a few wackos who is going to fall for this?
It is interesting to hear that the military has a plentiful and easily transportable source of power for the lasers, because otherwise it would be insane to convert the energy to laser power and then back to something else (presumably electricity) and take the efficiency loss hit at each step. Now if they would just let the American public have access to that free energy rather than keep it to themselves and Area 51 then we could power the country without the need for foreign oil and get our noses out of the mid-east. Of course, if we did that then Haliburton stock would go down in price, so it will never happen. So we just keep sending American lives over there to be wasted.
Disgusting. I'll stick with heteromorphic computing. Sure looks like another scam to try to get you to put data that you should be keeping secure into the "cloud" bullshit. Use an OS that doesn't squander all of the computing power of the computer on the OS and there will be no need to put the data into someone else's hands.
Do they get to keep it, or do they get it all taken back in Federal and state taxes? It has been pretty obvious that these games that accumulate value based on lack of previous winners will pay out larger amounts, but the taxes on the win and the chances of having to split the jackpot have to be taken into account when considering when to play. It is interesting that Mass came up with a way to increase the value of the lesser prizes, that seems a flawed design that would keep those prizes higher as long as the jackpot remains unclaimed. So poor a design that one wanders if it wasn't intentional to let the game designers have a chance to skim off some of the money.
I can't explain the absurd cost, except greed. But as to the browser info, an even better choice might be to look like Chrome on a PC, which can play Hulu content just fine. Or even better, just let the user configure all of those settings, so that Google isn't being deceptive and the user isn't forced to report info that they don't wish to. But returning IE or any other info doesn't resolve the basic problem of it being an over priced under powered device.
Gee, a PC like device that costs about as much as a basic function PC, but doesn't have the power for running on-line gaming and can't even watch Hulu or most network programs. And the consumer somehow preceived it wasn't worth the price? Imagine that! Who wouldn't want to buy this and hook it up to their TV rather than use the cash for a real multi-media PC?
Many years ago, long before the problems of identity theft well well publicized and even before many/.ers were born, I needed to rent a car and got myself to a local rental office. Showed them my ID, there was no question about payment, but there on the rental form they wanted my SS#. I filled in the form but left the SS# blank. The clerk insisted I needed to give my SS# or they would not rent to me. I talked to the manager. I explained the issue and that I simply was not going to give him my SS#. He restated that they would not rent to me without my SS#. I told him fine, I would leave peacefully, as long as he would put in writing that he refused to rent a car to me because I would not give him my SS#. He thought about that for a minute, then decided that they really didn't need my SS# after all.
I've had similar things happen many times since then. People will often try to bully you to get the number, but if you hold your ground and make it clear that you know they have no right to it, they will usually back down (have always backed down in my case). They particularly tend to back down after you say something like "you have a business license? Please put in writing that you refused to do business with me because I would not supply you with my SS#.".
Just more proof that anyone who gives their S.S.# to a phone company or other business who doesn't pay into the S.S. account and isn't required by law to have it is an idiot. How much of this does it take before the sheep start refusing to use the S.S.# as some sort of public ID. Giving it to web portals? Insane!
What an awful racist thing to say. Those of us with larger brains can clearly understand the implications of this, and it is pure racist. It must not be said. It doesn't matter that it is completely true.
The whole Netflix pricing thing was driven, at least in large part, by the industry increasing prices. I don't think it is completely unlikely that the industry (or the MPAA mafia if you prefer)
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Of course I'm talking about the same people who at first fought technology like the video tape, but now see a very significant share of their revenue come from DVD and Blu-Ray sales. While many wouldn't give them the credit to be smart enough to deliberately take action that might help phase out the DVD, I'm sure that they like the idea of people paying for a movie each time they want to see it rather than owning an inexpensive copy of their own. And, of course, if they can convert the industry and the public perception to a pay per view or subscription model then it becomes all that easier to phase out the media and just rake in the income on rental of very low quality DRM encumbered digital copies. And, of course, at that point prices can start climbing again, as the alternatives no longer exist.
The best thing that could come out of the NetFlix change in pricing would be if a significant number of sheep told NetFlix "Fine, drop my subscription in price by two bucks and only send mr DVDs by mail, I'll pass on the low bitrate, limited selection, no extras downloads".. However, with the immidate gratification mindset that America has, I don't see that likely to happen. So the MPAA will likely drive us to a download crappy quality one-time rental model, even while AT&T and their like move to a pay by the megabyte pricing model.
Didn't they do this a few years ago, when they created the Africanized bee or "killer bees"? Well, by all means keep it up, what could possibly go wrong?
I saw a news story on NBC a couple of years ago about the last incandescent light factory in the USA being shut down and people being put out of work because of the ban. If I remember correctly (and I'm pretty sure that I do) they even mentioned the equipment being shipped over seas. So now that they have destroyed another American industry, congress is willing to rethink an obviously bad decision? How much energy will be wasted in importing light bulbs? I guess the repeal won't really impact the trade imbalance, since I doubt if we are making the CFLs here either. So we will be able to buy incandescent lamps, but they will be over priced and cheaply made crap that will only last a few months (if the last that long), just like the crappy CFLs.
Yup, there has been one in the center of town in Pittsboro North Carolina for decades, long before 1990. No way they can claim a 1990 first, unless by British Style they mean that the drivers go in the wrong direction and drive on the wrong side of the road as they enter and exit.
What stupidity. If China passed a law that said that they had to be given access to all of the data in all of the computers in the United States, I doubt very much if people would be jumping through hoops to accommodate them. Similarly, the U.S. can claim that it has access to data stored in computers in Europe, but no one should take them seriously.
While they irradiate all of the sheep who just go along with whatever they are told, they are also killing themselves! Fantastic. Only disgusting point is that they somehow think they are more entitled to protection than their victims, the American public.
which clearly says ""If you're like a lot of Firefox 4 users out there, you've probably noticed that Firefox has a serious memory problem — it uses more than it really should." I noticed. Shame on you for not. It is a pig on my old HP notebook. Granted the notebook is somewhat light on memory, but there is no excuse for running dozens of tabs just fine in Firefox 3.6 but bogging down in 4 with only two tabs open (and it seems challenged at that). And I've watched the memory profile for 4, it just eats too much. Wish I could just revert to 3.6 without loosing everything, security issues be damned.
This really sucks. A copy of Firefox that I leave running 24/7 on an older notebook near my bed is already nearly worthless after having switched from Firefox 3.x to Firefox 4 because of the absurd memory demands of Firefox 4 (had dozens of sites open under 3.x, now opening 2 sites in 2 tabs is a challenge). One of the key things that I do with this systems depends on using a plug-in. Can't run Firefox 5 until the plug-in is ready and even then fear that the memory issue may get even worse. Now I'm told that security vulnerabilities will be left open if I stay on 4, which I am currently forced to do.
Chrome has a rapid development too, but I'm not sure that plug-ins for Chrome would be as version sensitive as Firefox plugins seem to be. Hard to imagine that things could be any worse. And there is even the chance that Google might fix major security vulnerabilities discovered in their three month old code without telling users that they have to upgrade and break everything else.
What an absurd concept. It is just asking for abuse. Lets not even get into why I would want a camera that bends to the will of a group like the MPAA, who have publicly stated their intention to thwart the Constitution of the United States as it pertains to copyrighted property passing into public domain. But lets ask how soon it will be before cops start wearing IR transmitting badges that instruct all cameras to not record them while they abuse their positions and beat defenseless people or worse. They have already made it abundantly clear that they don't like that happening, how nice for them when cameras can just be told "you didn't see nothin' !" And I expect it will take a while longer, but if this technology eventually finds it's way into all cameras then criminals will start using it also, thwarting all of those security cameras. Of course, it will quickly become illegal for normal citizens who want to maintain their privacy from using privacy badges, but "public servants" who should be doing their business in public and should be watched to prevent abuses that have historically happened will be allowed to hide their actions behind privacy badges. Just as gun control laws only serve to disarm the honest public who want to protect themselves but do not keep guns out of the hands of those who disregard the law, this technology will be twisted into the most absurd violation of privacy that you can imagine. Normal decent people will further be denied their basic privacy while criminals and supposedly public officials will use it to hide their actions.
Can't let this story pass without observing that the Nobel Peace Prize has become a bi of a bad joke lately. Particularly with that guy who claims to have invented the Internet winning one for making a scientifically inaccurate movie, and the one to our current President was given that they admitted wasn't for anything he had done but rather for what they hoped he would do (which sounds to me a lot like trying to bribe a public official)
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It is pretty obvious that it is a hoax. If they could pull this off at the car level then they could certainly pull it off at larger scales, such as power generating plants. And much safer too, since power generating plants crash into each other much less often than cars do. Since the technology isn't being used to replace uranium based nuclear reactors, and more uranium based reactors are being planned in spite of the many problems (waste products, and the slightly annoying problem of destroying large areas when something does eventually go wrong being a couple), then one would have to be an idiot not to see that this was a hoax.
Your math is bad, I don't pay any where near that much for ink/toner. I sometimes refill myself and save even more, but even just buying supplies intelligently I can print for far less than you. And lets not forget to factor in whatever is needed to print in sheets of the pricy paper, and even the extra desk space that would be needed for a second printer. No, this is just crazy talk.
So the message is "We don't like your right wing views, let us brain wash you and change you like this shirt was changed when it was washed". Doesn't seem likely that someone who wants to favor the right politically is going to see that and decide "neat, I'll have them brain wash me so that I can be a liberal." Maybe some of the left should have avoided their own brain washings. You have to wonder when a political group equates their belief with being brain washed. Freudian slip?
What B.S. I can buy more than 260 sheets of paper for $2 (yea, I pay attention to sales and buy several reams at a time.) So why would I ever fool with this junk when simple paper is less expensive, and I can print it with existing technology, can keep it indefinitely (not going to do that with $2 a page printouts) and I have all the other benefits of normal paper (including color printing)? Seems like something for fools with too much money like Ed Begley jr, but outside of a few wackos who is going to fall for this?
It is interesting to hear that the military has a plentiful and easily transportable source of power for the lasers, because otherwise it would be insane to convert the energy to laser power and then back to something else (presumably electricity) and take the efficiency loss hit at each step. Now if they would just let the American public have access to that free energy rather than keep it to themselves and Area 51 then we could power the country without the need for foreign oil and get our noses out of the mid-east. Of course, if we did that then Haliburton stock would go down in price, so it will never happen. So we just keep sending American lives over there to be wasted.
Disgusting. I'll stick with heteromorphic computing. Sure looks like another scam to try to get you to put data that you should be keeping secure into the "cloud" bullshit. Use an OS that doesn't squander all of the computing power of the computer on the OS and there will be no need to put the data into someone else's hands.
Do they get to keep it, or do they get it all taken back in Federal and state taxes? It has been pretty obvious that these games that accumulate value based on lack of previous winners will pay out larger amounts, but the taxes on the win and the chances of having to split the jackpot have to be taken into account when considering when to play. It is interesting that Mass came up with a way to increase the value of the lesser prizes, that seems a flawed design that would keep those prizes higher as long as the jackpot remains unclaimed. So poor a design that one wanders if it wasn't intentional to let the game designers have a chance to skim off some of the money.
I can't explain the absurd cost, except greed. But as to the browser info, an even better choice might be to look like Chrome on a PC, which can play Hulu content just fine. Or even better, just let the user configure all of those settings, so that Google isn't being deceptive and the user isn't forced to report info that they don't wish to. But returning IE or any other info doesn't resolve the basic problem of it being an over priced under powered device.
the key concept is for the quarter. It seem likely a few saps bought them the previous quarter and finally got around to returning them.
It seem likely a few saps bought them the previous quarter and finally got around to returning them.
Gee, a PC like device that costs about as much as a basic function PC, but doesn't have the power for running on-line gaming and can't even watch Hulu or most network programs. And the consumer somehow preceived it wasn't worth the price? Imagine that! Who wouldn't want to buy this and hook it up to their TV rather than use the cash for a real multi-media PC?
Many years ago, long before the problems of identity theft well well publicized and even before many /.ers were born, I needed to rent a car and got myself to a local rental office. Showed them my ID, there was no question about payment, but there on the rental form they wanted my SS#. I filled in the form but left the SS# blank. The clerk insisted I needed to give my SS# or they would not rent to me. I talked to the manager. I explained the issue and that I simply was not going to give him my SS#. He restated that they would not rent to me without my SS#. I told him fine, I would leave peacefully, as long as he would put in writing that he refused to rent a car to me because I would not give him my SS#. He thought about that for a minute, then decided that they really didn't need my SS# after all.
I've had similar things happen many times since then. People will often try to bully you to get the number, but if you hold your ground and make it clear that you know they have no right to it, they will usually back down (have always backed down in my case). They particularly tend to back down after you say something like "you have a business license? Please put in writing that you refused to do business with me because I would not supply you with my SS#.".
Just more proof that anyone who gives their S.S.# to a phone company or other business who doesn't pay into the S.S. account and isn't required by law to have it is an idiot. How much of this does it take before the sheep start refusing to use the S.S.# as some sort of public ID. Giving it to web portals? Insane!
Absolutely. Read it before it hits Slashdot (sometimes days before) at that site. The paper mag is well worth the cost also if you don't like trees.
What an awful racist thing to say. Those of us with larger brains can clearly understand the implications of this, and it is pure racist. It must not be said. It doesn't matter that it is completely true.
The whole Netflix pricing thing was driven, at least in large part, by the industry increasing prices. I don't think it is completely unlikely that the industry (or the MPAA mafia if you prefer) P>
Of course I'm talking about the same people who at first fought technology like the video tape, but now see a very significant share of their revenue come from DVD and Blu-Ray sales. While many wouldn't give them the credit to be smart enough to deliberately take action that might help phase out the DVD, I'm sure that they like the idea of people paying for a movie each time they want to see it rather than owning an inexpensive copy of their own. And, of course, if they can convert the industry and the public perception to a pay per view or subscription model then it becomes all that easier to phase out the media and just rake in the income on rental of very low quality DRM encumbered digital copies. And, of course, at that point prices can start climbing again, as the alternatives no longer exist.
The best thing that could come out of the NetFlix change in pricing would be if a significant number of sheep told NetFlix "Fine, drop my subscription in price by two bucks and only send mr DVDs by mail, I'll pass on the low bitrate, limited selection, no extras downloads".. However, with the immidate gratification mindset that America has, I don't see that likely to happen. So the MPAA will likely drive us to a download crappy quality one-time rental model, even while AT&T and their like move to a pay by the megabyte pricing model.
Didn't they do this a few years ago, when they created the Africanized bee or "killer bees"? Well, by all means keep it up, what could possibly go wrong?
I saw a news story on NBC a couple of years ago about the last incandescent light factory in the USA being shut down and people being put out of work because of the ban. If I remember correctly (and I'm pretty sure that I do) they even mentioned the equipment being shipped over seas. So now that they have destroyed another American industry, congress is willing to rethink an obviously bad decision? How much energy will be wasted in importing light bulbs? I guess the repeal won't really impact the trade imbalance, since I doubt if we are making the CFLs here either. So we will be able to buy incandescent lamps, but they will be over priced and cheaply made crap that will only last a few months (if the last that long), just like the crappy CFLs.
Yup, there has been one in the center of town in Pittsboro North Carolina for decades, long before 1990. No way they can claim a 1990 first, unless by British Style they mean that the drivers go in the wrong direction and drive on the wrong side of the road as they enter and exit.
What stupidity. If China passed a law that said that they had to be given access to all of the data in all of the computers in the United States, I doubt very much if people would be jumping through hoops to accommodate them. Similarly, the U.S. can claim that it has access to data stored in computers in Europe, but no one should take them seriously.
While they irradiate all of the sheep who just go along with whatever they are told, they are also killing themselves! Fantastic. Only disgusting point is that they somehow think they are more entitled to protection than their victims, the American public.
You might want to look at this /. article:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/10/2125227/Mozilla-MemShrink-Set-To-Fix-Firefox-Memory
which clearly says ""If you're like a lot of Firefox 4 users out there, you've probably noticed that Firefox has a serious memory problem — it uses more than it really should." I noticed. Shame on you for not. It is a pig on my old HP notebook. Granted the notebook is somewhat light on memory, but there is no excuse for running dozens of tabs just fine in Firefox 3.6 but bogging down in 4 with only two tabs open (and it seems challenged at that). And I've watched the memory profile for 4, it just eats too much. Wish I could just revert to 3.6 without loosing everything, security issues be damned.
This really sucks. A copy of Firefox that I leave running 24/7 on an older notebook near my bed is already nearly worthless after having switched from Firefox 3.x to Firefox 4 because of the absurd memory demands of Firefox 4 (had dozens of sites open under 3.x, now opening 2 sites in 2 tabs is a challenge). One of the key things that I do with this systems depends on using a plug-in. Can't run Firefox 5 until the plug-in is ready and even then fear that the memory issue may get even worse. Now I'm told that security vulnerabilities will be left open if I stay on 4, which I am currently forced to do.
Chrome has a rapid development too, but I'm not sure that plug-ins for Chrome would be as version sensitive as Firefox plugins seem to be. Hard to imagine that things could be any worse. And there is even the chance that Google might fix major security vulnerabilities discovered in their three month old code without telling users that they have to upgrade and break everything else.
What an absurd concept. It is just asking for abuse. Lets not even get into why I would want a camera that bends to the will of a group like the MPAA, who have publicly stated their intention to thwart the Constitution of the United States as it pertains to copyrighted property passing into public domain. But lets ask how soon it will be before cops start wearing IR transmitting badges that instruct all cameras to not record them while they abuse their positions and beat defenseless people or worse. They have already made it abundantly clear that they don't like that happening, how nice for them when cameras can just be told "you didn't see nothin' !" And I expect it will take a while longer, but if this technology eventually finds it's way into all cameras then criminals will start using it also, thwarting all of those security cameras. Of course, it will quickly become illegal for normal citizens who want to maintain their privacy from using privacy badges, but "public servants" who should be doing their business in public and should be watched to prevent abuses that have historically happened will be allowed to hide their actions behind privacy badges. Just as gun control laws only serve to disarm the honest public who want to protect themselves but do not keep guns out of the hands of those who disregard the law, this technology will be twisted into the most absurd violation of privacy that you can imagine. Normal decent people will further be denied their basic privacy while criminals and supposedly public officials will use it to hide their actions.
Can't let this story pass without observing that the Nobel Peace Prize has become a bi of a bad joke lately. Particularly with that guy who claims to have invented the Internet winning one for making a scientifically inaccurate movie, and the one to our current President was given that they admitted wasn't for anything he had done but rather for what they hoped he would do (which sounds to me a lot like trying to bribe a public official)