Considering I can get a 2.2MByte/sec download from some town in Russia (this when my upload was.3MB/s, I don't see why a compressed data stream couldn't come down on a group of clients serving content -- (like a torrent).
It's easy to download 23-24 minutes (30 min show), in about 5 minutes -- what's not real time about that? (And that's in 720p, 1080p is also usually faster than real time by 2-3X.)....
The Corporations pushed through FEDERAL legislation that allows such agreements to be enforceable. The federal legislation overrides states rights, as it has to do with commerce that crosses state lines.
The chamber where the rounds explode is solid metal. Everything else -- there are no physical forces that can't be dealt with in plastic.
There is no 'non-fooling' -- you miss the point.
The chamber is a 6"inch long tube like thing, that looks nothing like
a firearm, and construction or purchase of such might not be controlled under any firearms laws.
The body of the gun (a plastic toy, basically), is what *looks like* a firearm (so much so that toys have to be painted special colors in the the US so cops won't shoot kids carrying toys -- which apparently happened; Cops in many areas are trigger happy... shoot first, file reports later and go on paid leave during investigation, then come back after no evidence of misdeed is found and be more careful...or not...
Anyway, the issue is what makes for a 'gun' under gun control laws?
If the feeder and automatic stuff can be done in plastic and only the chamber needs to be metal, that lowers the bar to producing almost
any type of firearm.
From the original article:
"HaveBlue's custom creation is a.22-caliber pistol, formed from a 3D-printed AR-15 (M16) lower receiver, and a normal, commercial upper. In other words, the main body of the gun is plastic, while the chamber -―-; where the bullets are actually struck -―-; is solid metal.
Note: Slashdot's HTML is broken. It doesn't accept unicode entities or characters. Lame. The -―-'s above are dashes without minus signs in them, they would be invisible. When will/. join the modern age?....
What's scare are places like hulu and a few others, that, as they gain a market share, move to the same model. Tends to happen when they feel they have enough customers to be mostly immune from the backlash effects.
Given the order of your statements, it looks like you blame the 2nd on the 1st.
A causal effect from #2=>#1 has been independently, and scientifically validated, so co-incidence? There is no question that it is not.
Higher prices drive up piracy rates -- in fact, it was noted that high prices were a much stronger factor on higher piracy rates, than piracy was on prices, as due to the profit margins (especially on digital goods), a piracy rate of say 100%, doesn't mean your costs rise by 100%...in fact, in a digital market, market theory has shown that when piracy becomes a factor in pricing, it pushes prices down, as it lowers demand, and thus lowers the value of the remaining goods (so more likely to be sold 'on sale').
Is that what you meant by asking if it was coincidence?
Ahh... so google properties have converted to this..
I wondered why my browser turns to crap and hangs on google so often.
That's assume the sites work at all -- so far, google groups has gone completely dark for me... nothing comes up but a input line asking for groups... but nothing will come up... all javascript enabled, and nothing blocked, yet it doesn't work anymore...
You might look at your assumptions about how well it works...
I've complained about this in FF for 10 years!.....
I've never been concerned about memory... and now with 48G, like I care about the fact that 32-bit FF is staying below 2G!... Screw that!
What I care about is that with 30-50 tabs open in 5-8 windows, how much CPU on my 6-core machine does it use? Max? 16.666666666%.
Never has been. When will they multi-thread each java instance? For that matter, when will they run each site in it's own process? If a site includes stuff from another site, it's still on the main site, but if it opens a sub window like an IFRAME, that could be another...certain my pages browsing on slashdot shouldn't be affected by my pages on some high cpu using site that uses complex, real-time, timer-driven, javascript that does screen updates with every keystroke...
But it's all in 1 java event loop because for 10 years it's been "too hard" to make things multi-process. They have multiple threads, but it's only 1 thread that is ever dominating the cpu. They even split out media players into separate processes -- which did ZIP -- unless you have a media player playing your video in background while you browse another site! How often do people play video in background while browsing other sites?
It may help the video site -- from all the other background processes that run in background, but all my windows can be closed and FF still uses "15-30%" of 1 CPU (I hate that windows likes to hide those numbers by dividing by #processors... it makes it harder to see how much cpu a process is taking. On a 12-cpu machine, (2 6-cores), 100% cpu usage is reflected by 6.7%. For displays that round to the nearest integer, you don't see usage under 8.7% (rounds to 0). Yet all those procs using 0% cpu are active and wiping your memory caches clean and you wonder why performance sucks..?
I much prefer displays that show me 100%/cpu. so on a 12 cpu machine, if 3 are used, I'll see 300% cpu usage. What else do you you call 9 seconds of cpu time used in 3 seconds of real time?
It's not just about blame and scapegoats -- it's about a system that takes some percentage of the best, then ranks them from high to loser.
That loser is still higher than 70% of the population...That's the insane part...
The people you higher for being in the top 30%, or top 10...whatever your company aims at -- they don't want to suddenly be in a dog-eat-dog ratings game where work doesn't matter, but perceptions do...
All of silicon valley operated this way, Microsoft was an exception before the Balmer decade?...
If they don't want to be a common carrier, then they can have their common carrier status revoked as well as their spectrum license, and then they can have their civil rights.
With special privileges come special responsibilities -- neutrality is one.
This could be the beginning of the Mars restoration project.
Nasa has said it needs lots of water to protect against space radiation as people travel through space -- huge cargo ships going to mars to replenish the 'canals' and seas... once there use solar to break down some of it into Oxygen and save the hydrogen for battery usage....
If you examine your linux logs, you'd see an extra second inserted Sunday morning -- 1 minute had 61 seconds so instead of rolling over at 59, it rolled over to 60 and then hit 0 (at least in 3.2.X)...
Because some people either haven't read or don't understand chapters 13, 14, 15 and 20 in one of Google's founder's books, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach". (13:Uncertainty, 14:Probabilistic Reasoning, 15:Probabilistic Reasoning over Time, 20:Statistical Learning Methods).
If someone discovered a way that Google could recover individualized tracking about a user who had opted out, that would be considered a bug...
One of the founders wrote a book on how to do it despite the low-level obfuscating techniques that are being used. They are the equivalent of "adding bits" to crypto-keys. It may take more data to statistically correlate identities, but given enough data, Bayesian induction is almost certainly powerful enough to get the job done. 18 months of data is a long time.
I would be alot more comfortable if they zapped the bottom 16 bits (since knowing my subnet already gets you knowing my geographic area within some small area. Second requirement: strip all browser ID except what browser+version; -- NO plugins/extensions. From previous experience my browser fingerprint from one fingerprint-info site, told me that my browser finger print was unique out of over 300K visitors to date. That's fairly specific. (Last time I use the lpq-brand browser!;-)). Seriously -- fingerprints can be pretty specific.
But THIRD (and most important) requirement -- don't keep automatically collected user-information > 3 months. 18-months is more than enough for Bayesian logic to yield results.
Note -- that has to be "world-wide" workforce -- as, over time, companies will migrate to the physical location where the worker pool is cheapest and doesn't demand such things.
This is why the US is stupid in having job safety laws and minimum wage laws that apply only to US workers!
To make US workers, at all competitive with foreign workers, laws regulating US workers need to be enforced on all labor used to create products IMPORTED into the US. If the work used to create imported products wasn't created by workers getting the same benefits, then import duties need to be collected that go to workers here in the US that have been laid off, due to their job being shipped overseas!....
Otherwise, any safety and benefit laws for US workers are worthless -- they only guarantee "early retirement" with one's retirements spent sitting in the sun, on a street curb begging for spare change.
I used to always get confused when they asked what brand of router I had -- as I've never had one (so I thought).
Since the late 80's, I've had a linux PC with 2 ethernet ports -- one hooked to an external net with a static address, and one hooked to an internal net on a 192.168.x.x net. My PC was on the internal net and used a proxy to talk to the web. The PC did domain resolution and pulled down email via IMAPS to a local store where it is served to the PC client via IMAPS.
Somewhere along the line, my firewall/proxy/internet interface linux box was renamed to 'router'.... Oh.
Now when they asked if I power-cycled my router or what brand, I tell them linux and they get very confused and tell me I'm unsupported.
*sigh*...
Guess they can't easily download SW into my router ?
Why must it be something other than lightening? From the original article it sounds exactly like lightening -- and it doesn't show the car being destroyed by it -- but being hit by it.
They guide the lightening with a laser which pre-heats and pre-ionizes the path of least resistance to the target. Thus the electronic bolt naturally follows the path of the laser. The laser only has to be powerful enough to create a lower resistance path through the atmosphere for the electrical charge to follow.
As for your assertions about cars having metal shells? I guess you haven't bought a new car lately? They are generally plastic. There is likely to be a metal cage under the plastic, but the main damage here, will likely be to the cars electronics. Since nearly all new cars have EFI these days, the car will instantly die with no pump to drive the EFI...
As a consumer 1.5 months would be preferable, but customers can contest charges on their credit cards up to 3 months after the fact -- and having, at least "active traffic" (not sure website would be needed) logs for a user long enough to support that for financial security would be wise.
As for where I went? Why should they store that at all? Only need for it is to help hurt us -- I don't see any benefit for the customer of keep track of where they went -- #bytes, and times of day, yes, but other than that?
It's the personal stuff that's a problem. Numbers on usage.. not as much of a problem.
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Considering I can get a 2.2MByte/sec download from some .3MB/s, I don't see why a compressed data stream couldn't come down on a group of clients serving content -- (like a torrent).
town in Russia (this when my upload was
It's easy to download 23-24 minutes (30 min show), in about 5 minutes -- what's not real time about that? (And that's in 720p, 1080p is also usually faster than real time by 2-3X.)....
Most of those connections are encrypted.
Sorry, you are wrong.
The Corporations pushed through FEDERAL legislation that allows such agreements to be enforceable. The federal legislation overrides states rights, as it has to do with commerce that crosses state lines.
You've been sold out bub...
There is no 'non-fooling' -- you miss the point.
The chamber is a 6"inch long tube like thing, that looks nothing like a firearm, and construction or purchase of such might not be controlled under any firearms laws.
The body of the gun (a plastic toy, basically), is what *looks like* a firearm (so much so that toys have to be painted special colors in the the US so cops won't shoot kids carrying toys -- which apparently happened; Cops in many areas are trigger happy... shoot first, file reports later and go on paid leave during investigation, then come back after no evidence of misdeed is found and be more careful...or not...
Anyway, the issue is what makes for a 'gun' under gun control laws?
If the feeder and automatic stuff can be done in plastic and only the chamber needs to be metal, that lowers the bar to producing almost any type of firearm.
From the original article:
Note: Slashdot's HTML is broken. It doesn't accept unicode entities or characters. Lame. The -―-'s above are dashes without minus signs in them, they would be invisible. When will /. join the modern age?....
Someone who doesn't own an iphone and has serious ethical considerations against apple and has had since ~ 1980?
Apple is more evil than MS... much more so...
MS was just greedy like every other American...Apple...
Would do well in a totalitarian regime.
What's scare are places like hulu and a few others, that, as they gain a market share, move to the same model. Tends to happen when they feel they have enough customers to be mostly immune from the backlash effects.
That was when they actually did something substantial rather than just being increasingly inane ways to waste your time...
Given the order of your statements, it looks like you blame the 2nd on the 1st.
A causal effect from #2=>#1 has been independently,
and scientifically validated, so
co-incidence? There is no question that it is not.
Higher prices drive up piracy rates -- in fact, it was
noted that high prices were a much stronger factor on
higher piracy rates, than piracy was on prices, as due to
the profit margins (especially on digital goods), a piracy rate
of say 100%, doesn't mean your costs rise by 100%...in fact,
in a digital market, market theory has shown that when piracy
becomes a factor in pricing, it pushes prices down, as it lowers
demand, and thus lowers the value of the remaining goods (so more
likely to be sold 'on sale').
Is that what you meant by asking if it was coincidence?
Ahh... so google properties have converted to this ..
I wondered why my browser turns to crap and hangs on google so often.
That's assume the sites work at all -- so far, google groups has gone completely dark for me... nothing comes up but a input line asking for
groups... but nothing will come up... all javascript enabled, and nothing blocked, yet it doesn't work anymore...
You might look at your assumptions about how well it works...
Lemme guess your browser -- 'Chrome'?
+10 to the above author!!!
I've complained about this in FF for 10 years!.....
I've never been concerned about memory... and now with 48G, like I care about the fact that 32-bit FF is staying below 2G!... Screw that!
What I care about is that with 30-50 tabs open in 5-8 windows, how much CPU on my 6-core machine does it use? Max? 16.666666666%.
Never has been. When will they multi-thread each java instance? For that matter, when will they run each site in it's own process? If a site includes stuff from another site, it's still on the main site, but if it opens a sub window like an IFRAME, that could be another...certain my pages browsing on slashdot shouldn't be affected by my pages on some high cpu using site that uses complex, real-time, timer-driven, javascript that does screen updates with every keystroke...
But it's all in 1 java event loop because for 10 years it's been "too hard" to make things multi-process. They have multiple threads, but it's only 1 thread that is ever dominating the cpu. They even split out media players into separate processes -- which did ZIP -- unless you have a media player playing your video in background while you browse another site! How often do people play video in background while browsing other sites?
It may help the video site -- from all the other background processes that run in background, but all my windows can be closed and FF still uses "15-30%" of 1 CPU (I hate that windows likes to hide those numbers by dividing by #processors... it makes it harder to see how much cpu a process is taking. On a 12-cpu machine, (2 6-cores), 100% cpu usage
is reflected by 6.7%. For displays that round to the nearest integer, you don't see usage under 8.7% (rounds to 0). Yet all those procs using 0% cpu are active and wiping your memory caches clean and you wonder why performance sucks..?
I much prefer displays that show me 100%/cpu. so on a 12 cpu machine,
if 3 are used, I'll see 300% cpu usage. What else do you you call 9 seconds of cpu time used in 3 seconds of real time?
Excuse me, but a large company like TJMAX loses a million credit card numbers, why should a million customers be forced to split losses with TJMAX?
It's not just about blame and scapegoats -- it's about a system that takes
some percentage of the best, then ranks them from high to loser.
That loser is still higher than 70% of the population...That's the insane part...
The people you higher for being in the top 30%, or top 10...whatever your
company aims at -- they don't want to suddenly be in a dog-eat-dog ratings game where work doesn't matter, but perceptions do...
All of silicon valley operated this way, Microsoft was an exception before the Balmer decade?...
If they don't want to be a common carrier, then they can have their common carrier status revoked as well as their spectrum license, and then they can have their civil rights.
With special privileges come special responsibilities -- neutrality is one.
No... it would just evaporate on the moon.
This could be the beginning of the Mars restoration project.
Nasa has said it needs lots of water to protect against space radiation as people travel through space -- huge cargo ships going to mars to replenish the 'canals' and seas... once there use solar to break down some of it into Oxygen and save the hydrogen for battery usage....
Time to start teraforming Mars! ;)
If you examine your linux logs, you'd see an extra second inserted Sunday morning -- 1 minute had 61 seconds so instead of rolling over at 59, it rolled over to 60 and then hit 0 (at least in 3.2.X)...
Why would the above be marked as 'troll'?
Mental instability?
Did you upgrade a plugin? That would make it different? Or was one of your plugins auto-upgraded as many users have it set for?
I went back immediately and was told I was 1 of 2 with my fingerprint...so I'm not so sure how bogus it was or if it was the same site.
Because some people either haven't read or don't understand chapters 13, 14, 15 and 20 in one of Google's founder's books, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach". (13:Uncertainty, 14:Probabilistic Reasoning, 15:Probabilistic Reasoning over Time, 20:Statistical Learning Methods).
One of the founders wrote a book on how to do it despite the low-level obfuscating techniques that are being used. They are the equivalent of "adding bits" to crypto-keys. It may take more data to statistically correlate identities, but given enough data, Bayesian induction is almost certainly powerful enough to get the job done. 18 months of data is a long time.
I would be alot more comfortable if they zapped the bottom 16 bits (since knowing my subnet already gets you knowing my geographic area within some small area. Second requirement: strip all browser ID except what browser+version; -- NO plugins/extensions. From previous experience my browser fingerprint from one fingerprint-info site, told me that my browser finger print was unique out of over 300K visitors to date. That's fairly specific. (Last time I use the lpq-brand browser! ;-)). Seriously -- fingerprints can be pretty specific.
But THIRD (and most important) requirement -- don't keep automatically collected user-information > 3 months. 18-months is more than enough for Bayesian logic to yield results.
So you can't not as easily program your scripts to harvest the addresses for your spamming.
Do you even need to ask?
Violating the law in order to uphold the law has been SOP for US "law enforcement" for decades and has only gotten worse.
Note -- that has to be "world-wide" workforce -- as, over time, companies will migrate to the physical location where the worker pool is cheapest and doesn't demand such things.
This is why the US is stupid in having job safety laws and minimum wage laws that apply only to US workers!
To make US workers, at all competitive with foreign workers, laws regulating US workers need to be enforced on all labor used to create products IMPORTED into the US. If the work used to create imported products wasn't created by workers getting the same benefits, then import duties need to be collected that go to workers here in the US that have been laid off, due to their job being shipped overseas!....
Otherwise, any safety and benefit laws for US workers are worthless -- they only guarantee "early retirement" with one's retirements spent sitting in the sun, on a street curb begging for spare change.
I used to always get confused when they asked what brand of router I had -- as I've never had one (so I thought).
Since the late 80's, I've had a linux PC with 2 ethernet ports -- one hooked to an external net with a static address, and one hooked to an internal net on a 192.168.x.x net. My PC was on the internal net and used a proxy to talk to the web. The PC did domain resolution and pulled down email via IMAPS to a local store where it is served to the PC client via IMAPS.
Somewhere along the line, my firewall/proxy/internet interface linux box was renamed to 'router'.... Oh.
Now when they asked if I power-cycled my router or what brand, I tell them linux and they get very confused and tell me I'm unsupported.
*sigh*...
Guess they can't easily download SW into my router ?
No...you are going to pin your Start Button to the task bar now...! ;-)
I don't used pin'ed crap on my task bar - takes up too much room.
I brought back the "Quick Launch" area... and balance the
Why must it be something other than lightening?
From the original article it sounds exactly like lightening -- and it doesn't show the car being destroyed by it -- but being hit by it.
They guide the lightening with a laser which pre-heats and pre-ionizes the path of least resistance to the target. Thus the electronic bolt naturally follows the path of the laser. The laser only has to be powerful enough to create a lower resistance path through the atmosphere for the electrical charge to follow.
As for your assertions about cars having metal shells? I guess you haven't bought a new car lately? They are generally plastic. There is likely to be a metal cage under the plastic, but the main damage here, will likely be to the cars electronics. Since nearly all new cars have EFI these days, the car will instantly die with no pump to drive the EFI...
I'd go for 3 months as a business person.
As a consumer 1.5 months would be preferable, but customers can contest charges on their credit cards up to 3 months after the fact -- and having, at least "active traffic" (not sure website would be needed) logs
for a user long enough to support that for financial security would be wise.
As for where I went? Why should they store that at all? Only need for it is to help hurt us -- I don't see any benefit for the customer of keep track of
where they went -- #bytes, and times of day, yes, but other than that?
It's the personal stuff that's a problem. Numbers on usage .. not as much of a problem.