just don't know how it can save "55 million tons of CO2 a year"....people who drive a little will continue to drive a little with this insurance or not.
I hate it when they fudge numbers and try to draw a causation out of it. A chicken didn't lay an egg because there was a law passed that gave tax incentives to the chickens to lay eggs....
I hate it even more when politicians take credit for something that has nothing to do with anything.
more reliable if you're gonna make an array? sure, it's got some sort of leniency but RAID5 means only one drive can fail...and sorry, but I don't think samsung drives are known for their reliability, let alone Areca's controllers. Plus think of the downtime as it rebuilds the array when a drive does go out. That's definitely gonna throw a wrench in those average throughput numbers.
I'd go for a 3Ware controller and enterprise class drives as they are meant to last longer.
even usb uses a GND and the D+/D- (data wires) aren't isolated from the GND. Plus most GND is typically a common ground (through the chassis and to the ground of the power cable).
and if you consider the fact that this was done by unfunded, tiny group in just a week....makes ya wonder what the NSA or any other BIGGER and better funded group would have up their sleeves.
looks like I have to come up with a random noise generator to hook up to the ground of my power outlets.
dunno...according to the article, it was that girl who testified under immunity that it was her idea and that she sent the message to the victim that the world would be better without her (the victim). so in essence, the prosecution done f*cked up and went after the wrong one. Also according to the article, Grills, the girl who got immunity was 18, an adult and capable of standing the charges if they were ever brought to her.
Lori Drew should have been charged with accessory and the Grills been the center of this.
sad day for the victim's family nonetheless; the killer got immunity and Lori Drew got double jeopardy (and no...no Alex Trebek involved)
it would definitely have to be renamed to avoid the pitchforks and torches, especially of those who went into hiding due to the economy imploding (that and H1N1)
in this day and age...after the credit implosion and GM's bankruptcy..after Madoff....there's someone still stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hbold enough to buy SCO? Man....can someone get me his number? I've got a few dozen bridges and landmarks to sell him, not to mention a few automobiles.
Under the "strict" reading, can't this also be applied to various open source projects? For instance, GIMP is a powerful image manipulation program, that to some rivals Adobe's Photoshop and Corel's Paint Shop. And if this asinine law were to be strictly applied to this program, it could be disastrous. Especially considering the $500 or so price tag of Photoshop (Paint Shop can be as little as 20 bucks to 50 bucks depending on various rebates).
What about Debian? Wasn't there an article just recently on Slashdot that calculated the cost it took to develop Debian 5?
Or Ubuntu? Or Chrome/Firefox/Opera?
And don't forget independent or forward-thinking musicians and artists (including writers) who publish their digital works online for free. How will they be affected? Will this law become another tool for big corporations and entities to abuse to kill off the independent artists?
Some things to think about, especially since they do say that the devil is in the details.
maybe more people should own PCs in the UK...it will be better in the long run for civil liberties.
Especially those people who are more likely to get things seized in a police raid. The purpose, to increase the backlog so much that the police will rethink their policy of seizing computers.
That, and it'll help local computer shop owners with a flood of business as by the time the people get their computers back, it will be obsolete that they would have to buy a new one...essentially paid for by the police department. Talk about a stimulus plan.
I was thinking the same exact thing. not only that...but it probably positively affect the sales of various munchies and energy drinks as those homebrew hackers need to get their snack-on and their caffeine-on while they code and hack and stuff.
the only lost sales I can think of is with condom manufacturers and restaurant industries as the homebrewers are more like to stay home and code and ignore their significant others.
in an ideal world...sure...an impartial, neutral multi-national organization should handle it.
in the real world, that ain't the UN. Just look at their handling of things (just look at the recent examples: North Korea, Georgia, Darfur, etc.) The UN is a political, partial organization where a lot of things are broken.
One of the oldest adages comes to mind: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Even with the current flaws, there are more protections in the US than there are with the UN.
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just don't know how it can save "55 million tons of CO2 a year"....people who drive a little will continue to drive a little with this insurance or not.
I hate it when they fudge numbers and try to draw a causation out of it.
A chicken didn't lay an egg because there was a law passed that gave tax incentives to the chickens to lay eggs....
I hate it even more when politicians take credit for something that has nothing to do with anything.
just imagine what the Over-the-Credit Limit fee would be if it were based on a percentage instead of the typical $39.
man....wonder if that counts as an automatic default...and thus 29.99% of that would be....holyshit
Slow-scan TV or SSTV is meant to be a narrowband transmission, only requiring about 3kHz according to the listing on wiki and it's FAR from high res.
so yea...dunno what they were smokin'
more reliable if you're gonna make an array?
sure, it's got some sort of leniency but RAID5 means only one drive can fail...and sorry, but I don't think samsung drives are known for their reliability, let alone Areca's controllers.
Plus think of the downtime as it rebuilds the array when a drive does go out. That's definitely gonna throw a wrench in those average throughput numbers.
I'd go for a 3Ware controller and enterprise class drives as they are meant to last longer.
wait...they were still alive?
thought their social security would've ran out by now.
or hook up an old ipod running death metal to the gnd
even usb uses a GND and the D+/D- (data wires) aren't isolated from the GND.
Plus most GND is typically a common ground (through the chassis and to the ground of the power cable).
and if you consider the fact that this was done by unfunded, tiny group in just a week....makes ya wonder what the NSA or any other BIGGER and better funded group would have up their sleeves.
looks like I have to come up with a random noise generator to hook up to the ground of my power outlets.
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_jeopardy">double jeopardy?
besides, the actual killer got immunity.
it's like one of those Law & Order scenarios where the bad guy got away....legally
dunno...according to the article, it was that girl who testified under immunity that it was her idea and that she sent the message to the victim that the world would be better without her (the victim).
so in essence, the prosecution done f*cked up and went after the wrong one.
Also according to the article, Grills, the girl who got immunity was 18, an adult and capable of standing the charges if they were ever brought to her.
Lori Drew should have been charged with accessory and the Grills been the center of this.
sad day for the victim's family nonetheless; the killer got immunity and Lori Drew got double jeopardy (and no...no Alex Trebek involved)
yea, that's what came to my mind first: misrepresentation and libel.
What about http://www.clamwin.com/ ?
wait...I'm the one managing/using up my retirement account....this is the first I'm hearing that I'm buying SCO
it would definitely have to be renamed to avoid the pitchforks and torches, especially of those who went into hiding due to the economy imploding (that and H1N1)
in this day and age...after the credit implosion and GM's bankruptcy..after Madoff....there's someone still stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hbold enough to buy SCO?
Man....can someone get me his number? I've got a few dozen bridges and landmarks to sell him, not to mention a few automobiles.
just imagine a Folding/SETI@home team they could create with this.
it would obliterate any other team.
I wonder if a business class versus a home/residential version of Comcast service makes a difference.
And which one the guy used?
I guess it's time to pack discs in coffee grounds.
And for the pirates....to buy shitloads of blanks and place them all over to throw the sniffing dogs off their trail.
then double it, duh!
Under the "strict" reading, can't this also be applied to various open source projects?
For instance, GIMP is a powerful image manipulation program, that to some rivals Adobe's Photoshop and Corel's Paint Shop.
And if this asinine law were to be strictly applied to this program, it could be disastrous. Especially considering the $500 or so price tag of Photoshop (Paint Shop can be as little as 20 bucks to 50 bucks depending on various rebates).
What about Debian? Wasn't there an article just recently on Slashdot that calculated the cost it took to develop Debian 5?
Or Ubuntu?
Or Chrome/Firefox/Opera?
And don't forget independent or forward-thinking musicians and artists (including writers) who publish their digital works online for free.
How will they be affected? Will this law become another tool for big corporations and entities to abuse to kill off the independent artists?
Some things to think about, especially since they do say that the devil is in the details.
maybe more people should own PCs in the UK...it will be better in the long run for civil liberties.
Especially those people who are more likely to get things seized in a police raid.
The purpose, to increase the backlog so much that the police will rethink their policy of seizing computers.
That, and it'll help local computer shop owners with a flood of business as by the time the people get their computers back, it will be obsolete that they would have to buy a new one...essentially paid for by the police department.
Talk about a stimulus plan.
true but one of the many things custom firmware can do is bypass regional lock outs and allows people to buy imported games.
I was thinking the same exact thing.
not only that...but it probably positively affect the sales of various munchies and energy drinks as those homebrew hackers need to get their snack-on and their caffeine-on while they code and hack and stuff.
the only lost sales I can think of is with condom manufacturers and restaurant industries as the homebrewers are more like to stay home and code and ignore their significant others.
in an ideal world...sure...an impartial, neutral multi-national organization should handle it.
in the real world, that ain't the UN. Just look at their handling of things (just look at the recent examples: North Korea, Georgia, Darfur, etc.)
The UN is a political, partial organization where a lot of things are broken.
One of the oldest adages comes to mind: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Even with the current flaws, there are more protections in the US than there are with the UN.
great, even more ways to get to overage city even faster.
now, if they are getting rid of the cap and make it truly unlimited...then fine.
it's starting to sound like it's going back to the Amiga's Kickstart 2.x+, where the core OS is stored on ROM.