> Of course, the USA could just DO THE RIGHT THING and legalise drugs and remove the profit from the drug cartel system, > but then a bunch of congressmen won't get campaign funds to keep it all illegal.
But of course, its not the same, like all Scotsmen today.
Instead of sorting out the mess caused by the combination of your silly laws with silly individualism (e.g. sending addicts to jails instead of into forced-rehab), just carry on. Those who ignore history...
After I repeated a question about whether he called his grandpa by this first name, or simply "grandpa":
"My grandpa decided that he is a beaver right after my dad told him 10 years ago that he wants to be a gynecologist. Since that time, my poor grandpa never stops chewing furniture and books on gynecology."
Try something that ties-in with visual media he may already enjoy (e.g., Stargate SG1 novels, Halo videogame novels).
Re: 'Halo' novelizations: read them first though. Some ('Contact: Harvest', and the newer ones after 'The Cole Protocol') are bad. And that's even more so for the Stargate novels.
At that age, exposure to any media is indoctrination - Its your duty to protect his innocence until he's older and wise enough to evaluate what he's reading critically.
No one is disabling your GPS - accurate navigation is a key part of safe driving. They disable **data-entry** into the GPS while rolling. That's not "no functionality" - that's "saved my life functionality"! (if you're the one driving and keying-in an address.)
About locking your wife out - yes, but key in the destination address **before** you start, how difficult is that to do? Or wait for swank new GPS' with infrared sensors (like the Siri face detector sensor) that detect who's keying it - the passenger or the driver - and unlock based on that. Till then, convenience is not worth the human lives lost and maimed - drivers, passengers, pedestrians.
As far as paper maps go - paper maps don't insistently call or SMS you while you're driving. Cell phones are far more dangerous.
Quoting: "Our present exposure to man-made microwaves is about a m10^18 times greater than our nature exposure to these frequencies
"The main reaction why microwaves are especially damaging is probably because of the ease with which the current that they generate penetrate cell membranes. Cell membranes have a high resistance to DC, but, because they are so thin (about 10 nm), they behave like capacitors so that AC pass through them easily. Since the effective resistance of a capacitor is inversely proportional to its frequency, [currents induced by] microwave radiation pass through the membranes of cells and tissues more easily, than [currents induced by] lower frequency radio waves, and therefore they can do more damage to the cell contents.
"Since it has been known since the work of Bawin et al (1975) that weak electromagnetic fields could remove calcium ions from the surfaces of brain cells, it seems likely that both the conditioned water and the eletromagmentic fields were working in the same way, i.e., by removing structurally important calcium ions from cell membranes, which then made them leak.
"EM effects on the Endocrine System and Obesity... after three months exposure to power-line frequencies, the thyroid glands of rats showed visible signs of deterioration.
Andrew Goldsworthy BSc, PhD "Andrew Goldsworthy is an Honorary Lecturer in Biology at Imperial College London. He retired from full time teaching in 2004 but still gives occasional lectures there in specialist subjects such as food irradiation and the (exorbitant) energy cost of modern food production.
Hmmm.... Opera optionally bundles a web server (Opera Unite) with its browser. With music, photo and note sharing, I always thought that was Opera's attempt to be a P2P version of Facebook.
Who knows, Facebook may end up becoming more P2P-ish, a la Skype -- a centralised set of 'supernodes' that track who's talking/streaming photos/video/comments to whom (and keeps a copy), but without the infrastructure and delays their current 'hub and spoke' model requires.
About DVRs that output HDCP protected HDMI and offer time shifting - I agree those exist, but those devices are probably licensed to use HDCP. I was wondering if there are open source equivalents? I don't want to decrypt, but only time shift the HDMI stream (e.g. skip ads).
Thanks for the link to the Intensity product. I wasn't aware of any capture products with HDMI inputs.
I don't want to decrypt, but only time shift the HDMI stream (e.g. skip ads). Is it possible to time shift an HDCP protected stream without decryption it?
1. Has anyone here built an opensource DVR that records Hi-Def from *composite* inputs?
2. DVRs cannot record HDMI streams in hi-def due to HDCP protection. But does HDCP allow a 'pass-through' device to 'time-shift' the HDCP protected stream using its buffers? E.g. Skip the upcoming 'FBI warnings' on Blu-ray movies.
> By your numbers, when the exchange rate recovers, Adobe CS6 should go from 2600 AUD today to 5200 AUD. > > Australians will appreciate the inflation.. yes?
Yes, because its based on reality, not profit mongering based on hiding information.
This behavior is why me and thousands of other internet-savvy Australians have setup virtual US postal addresses (me with myus.com)
After the paper was accepted for publication in Applied Mathematics Letters, an anti-design blogger wrote to the editor, warning that the journal's reputation would be tarnished if the paper was printed. So, the journal's editor withdrew it. Sewell, who has authored at least 39 other technical papers, then took legal action. Since the journal's own policy states that withdrawing a reviewed and accepted paper "can only occur under exceptional circumstances" such as plagiarism or fraudulent data, and since Sewell's article does not contain any known errors or technical problems, he was given an apology as well as permission to post the pre-publication version of his paper on his university faculty web page—although Applied Mathematics Letters still has no plans to publish it.
If the energy of the sun somehow is going to transform the non-living molecules of the primeval soup into intricately complex, highly organized, replicating living cells, [...] then that energy has to be stored and converted [...] by an intricate array of complex codes and programs. If such codes and mechanisms are not available [...]then the incoming heat energy will simply disintegrate any organized systems that might accidentally have shown up there.
Evolutionists have hardly even addressed this problem as yet, let alone solved it. There are, to their credit, a few theorists who have at least recognized the problem [...]
The one man whose speculations have received the most attention (even acquiring for him a Nobel Prize in 1977) is Belgian physicist Ilya Prigogine, who advanced the strange idea of "dissipative structures" as a possible source of new complexity in nature.
Such systems in no way contradict the principle of entropy but rather are illustrations of entropy working overtime! The Harvard scientist, John Ross, comments: "...there is somehow associated with the field of far-from-equilibrium phenomena the notion that the second law of thermodynamics fails for such systems. It is important to make sure that this error does not perpetuate itself."
See finally: http://www.ldolphin.org/chaos.html [dissipative structures] have never been shown—even mathematically—to reproduce themselves or to generate still higher degrees of order.
[Prigogine] used the example of small vortices in a cup of hot coffee. A similar example would be the much larger "vortex" in a tornado or hurricane. These might be viewed as "structures" and to appear to be "ordered," but they are soon gone. What they leave in their wake is not a higher degree of organized complexity, but a higher degree of dissipation and disorganisation.
[Prigogine, quoted in 1984:] The problem of biological order involves the transition from the molecular activity to the supermolecular order of the cell. This problem is far from being solved. However, we must admit that we remain far from any quantitative theory.
The entire paper is about the _rate_ of change of entropy or order.
Quoting the paper: "Of course the whole idea of compensation, whether by distant or nearby events, makes no sense logically: an extremely improbable event is not rendered less improbable simply by the occurrence of ‘‘compensating’’ events elsewhere."
The reason? "[the equations for entropy] also say that in an open system the X -order [reverse of entropy] cannot increase faster than it is imported through the boundary [in our case, the atmosphere]"
The energy that the sun inputs into the earth (radiation, gravitational) has no order to speak of. So the _rate_ at which order is imported into the interface is basically zero. Hence, the rate of increase in order, anywhere on earth, must also be basically zero. (Precluding for instance, the "Cambrian explosion", the formation of self-replicating RNA fragments, etc.). At least, that's how I understand it.
And I guarantee that humans are inputting far, far, far, far less energy into their spaceship creations that the sun is inputting into the Earth. Life does happen.
Again, its not the energy again, its the rate of change of order. Spaceships leaving the earth/space boundary are far more complex than the energy coming in. And they are built and do leave, because, humans, who built these spaceships are far far far far far and away more complex still than the spaceships are. Just because humans exist, doesn't mean his equations _must_ be wrong!
Even if that did violate the second law you'd have to come up with a way to reconcile it, for it isn't enough to say "these things contradict", you have to figure out which is wrong and why, instead assuming thermodynamics always wins and that somehow like magic the other thing must be wrong even if you can't point out what's wrong about it (we know it doesn't actually win at the microscopic level, as indicated in that paper).
Why?:-)... Why should I make your argument for you? "Even if proven wrong, you musn't disbelieve..." sounds... wrong.
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> Of course, the USA could just DO THE RIGHT THING and legalise drugs and remove the profit from the drug cartel system,
> but then a bunch of congressmen won't get campaign funds to keep it all illegal.
Some say its been tried before:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/om/om15.htm
But of course, its not the same, like all Scotsmen today.
Instead of sorting out the mess caused by the combination of your silly laws with silly individualism (e.g. sending addicts to jails instead of into forced-rehab), just carry on. Those who ignore history...
After I repeated a question about whether he called his grandpa by this first name, or simply "grandpa":
"My grandpa decided that he is a beaver right after my dad told him 10 years ago that he wants to be a gynecologist. Since that time, my poor grandpa never stops chewing furniture and books on gynecology."
Try something that ties-in with visual media he may already enjoy (e.g., Stargate SG1 novels, Halo videogame novels).
Re: 'Halo' novelizations: read them first though. Some ('Contact: Harvest', and the newer ones after 'The Cole Protocol') are bad. And that's even more so for the Stargate novels.
At that age, exposure to any media is indoctrination - Its your duty to protect his innocence until he's older and wise enough to evaluate what he's reading critically.
http://www.glucosamine-arthritis.org/glucosamine/boron-arthritis.html
No one is disabling your GPS - accurate navigation is a key part of safe driving. They disable **data-entry** into the GPS while rolling. That's not "no functionality" - that's "saved my life functionality"! (if you're the one driving and keying-in an address.)
About locking your wife out - yes, but key in the destination address **before** you start, how difficult is that to do? Or wait for swank new GPS' with infrared sensors (like the Siri face detector sensor) that detect who's keying it - the passenger or the driver - and unlock based on that. Till then, convenience is not worth the human lives lost and maimed - drivers, passengers, pedestrians.
As far as paper maps go - paper maps don't insistently call or SMS you while you're driving. Cell phones are far more dangerous.
Apple Siri uses an Infrared light based face detection sensor on the current IPhone to reliably detect a human face is being held in front of it.
Using Face unlock in combination with such a sensor would defeat simple photo-based attacks.
For next time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(construction)
> the photons emitted by cell phones are way too low in energy to do damage to molecules.
> Some guy named Einstein got a Noble Prize for that. For a brief explanation see
> http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/press.html .
Quoting:
"Our present exposure to man-made microwaves is about a m10^18 times greater than our nature exposure to these frequencies
"The main reaction why microwaves are especially damaging is probably because of the ease with which the current that they generate penetrate cell membranes. Cell membranes have a high resistance to DC, but, because they are so thin (about 10 nm), they behave like capacitors so that AC pass through them easily. Since the effective resistance of a capacitor is inversely proportional to its frequency, [currents induced by] microwave radiation pass through the membranes of cells and tissues more easily, than [currents induced by] lower frequency radio waves, and therefore they can do more damage to the cell contents.
"Since it has been known since the work of Bawin et al (1975) that weak electromagnetic fields could remove calcium ions from the surfaces of brain cells, it seems likely that both the conditioned water and the eletromagmentic fields were working in the same way, i.e., by removing structurally important calcium ions from cell membranes, which then made them leak.
"EM effects on the Endocrine System and Obesity ... after three months exposure to power-line frequencies, the thyroid glands of rats showed visible signs of deterioration.
[ More at http://tinyurl.com/2nfujj ]
Andrew Goldsworthy BSc, PhD
"Andrew Goldsworthy is an Honorary Lecturer in Biology at Imperial College London. He retired from full time teaching in 2004 but still gives occasional lectures there in specialist subjects such as food irradiation and the (exorbitant) energy cost of modern food production.
[http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/cv/andrew_goldsworthy.pdf]
Looking at the Chinese text on the box, Siemens seems to make a hearing aid for the Chinese market, which several Chinese companies are happy to export.
http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale-dropshipping-bte-hearing-aid-siemens/p-ff8080812e7a6478012e7fcc29304544.html
Siemens site seems to indicate this is a bonafide hearing aid (see last page)
http://w1.hearing.siemens.com/_resources-re/files/04-products/25-lotus/pdf/Broch_Con_Lotus_consumer_en_2010.pdf
Someone mentioned automation. Interestingly, Siemens also has an automated (webpage based!) hearing test
http://w1.hearing.siemens.com/en/05-about-hearing/02-understanding-hearing-impairment/01-hearing-loss/01-hearing-test/hearing-test.jsp
Spellcheck your username first! :-P
I think, that's called ... prison.
Then build electric power plants in the middle of dense rain forests and pump the co2 into the forest.
Anywhere else, significantly altering air gas ratios *is* pollution.
Hmmm .... Opera optionally bundles a web server (Opera Unite) with its browser. With music, photo and note sharing, I always thought that was Opera's attempt to be a P2P version of Facebook.
Who knows, Facebook may end up becoming more P2P-ish, a la Skype -- a centralised set of 'supernodes' that track who's talking/streaming photos/video/comments to whom (and keeps a copy), but without the infrastructure and delays their current 'hub and spoke' model requires.
You're right about composite inputs - I meant component inputs. :-{ My bad.
After another poster mentioned the Blackmagic Intensity card, I found this interesting forum thread comparing HD capture cards with HDMI and component inputs.
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/recording-gameplays-blackmagic-intensity-pro-vs-avertv-t6907.html?s=10af96a27e524d2de50229e193e0f049& [stream-recorder.com];
About DVRs that output HDCP protected HDMI and offer time shifting - I agree those exist, but those devices are probably licensed to use HDCP. I was wondering if there are open source equivalents? I don't want to decrypt, but only time shift the HDMI stream (e.g. skip ads).
Thanks for the link to the Intensity product. I wasn't aware of any capture products with HDMI inputs.
I don't want to decrypt, but only time shift the HDMI stream (e.g. skip ads). Is it possible to time shift an HDCP protected stream without decryption it?
I found this interesting forum thread comparing HD capture cards with HDMI and *component* inputs. (my bad above)
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/recording-gameplays-blackmagic-intensity-pro-vs-avertv-t6907.html?s=10af96a27e524d2de50229e193e0f049&
Uggh... had a mindslip.
Question # 1 really is: "Has anyone here built an opensource DVR that records Hi-Def from *component* inputs?"
Two questions:
1. Has anyone here built an opensource DVR that records Hi-Def from *composite* inputs?
2. DVRs cannot record HDMI streams in hi-def due to HDCP protection.
But does HDCP allow a 'pass-through' device to 'time-shift' the HDCP protected stream using its buffers? E.g. Skip the upcoming 'FBI warnings' on Blu-ray movies.
I agree - lower the limits!
I hear the government there allow employers to demand sexual intercourse as a condition of employment.
(Fortunately, the rest of America disagrees!)
those with 'smartphones', that is.
'Like' or not, Facebook is most people's backup these days, particularly those with phones and no computers
Bow, Wow Wow!
Bow! Woooo! Wow bow bow!
> By your numbers, when the exchange rate recovers, Adobe CS6 should go from 2600 AUD today to 5200 AUD.
>
> Australians will appreciate the inflation.. yes?
Yes, because its based on reality, not profit mongering based on hiding information.
This behavior is why me and thousands of other internet-savvy Australians have setup virtual US postal addresses (me with myus.com)
See also:
Journal Censors 'Second Law' Paper Refuting Evolution
http://www.icr.org/article/journal-censors-second-law-paper-refuting/
After the paper was accepted for publication in Applied Mathematics Letters, an anti-design blogger wrote to the editor, warning that the journal's reputation would be tarnished if the paper was printed. So, the journal's editor withdrew it. Sewell, who has authored at least 39 other technical papers, then took legal action. Since the journal's own policy states that withdrawing a reviewed and accepted paper "can only occur under exceptional circumstances" such as plagiarism or fraudulent data, and since Sewell's article does not contain any known errors or technical problems, he was given an apology as well as permission to post the pre-publication version of his paper on his university faculty web page—although Applied Mathematics Letters still has no plans to publish it.
See also: http://www.icr.org/article/does-entropy-contradict-evolution/
If the energy of the sun somehow is going to transform the non-living molecules of the primeval soup into intricately complex, highly organized, replicating living cells, [...] then that energy has to be stored and converted [...] by an intricate array of complex codes and programs. If such codes and mechanisms are not available [...]then the incoming heat energy will simply disintegrate any organized systems that might accidentally have shown up there.
Evolutionists have hardly even addressed this problem as yet, let alone solved it. There are, to their credit, a few theorists who have at least recognized the problem
[...]
The one man whose speculations have received the most attention (even acquiring for him a Nobel Prize in 1977) is Belgian physicist Ilya Prigogine, who advanced the strange idea of "dissipative structures" as a possible source of new complexity in nature.
Such systems in no way contradict the principle of entropy but rather are illustrations of entropy working overtime! The Harvard scientist, John Ross, comments:
"...there is somehow associated with the field of far-from-equilibrium phenomena the notion that the second law of thermodynamics fails for such systems. It is important to make sure that this error does not perpetuate itself."
See finally: http://www.ldolphin.org/chaos.html
[dissipative structures] have never been shown—even mathematically—to reproduce themselves or to generate still higher degrees of order.
[Prigogine] used the example of small vortices in a cup of hot coffee. A similar example would be the much larger "vortex" in a tornado or hurricane. These might be viewed as "structures" and to appear to be "ordered," but they are soon gone. What they leave in their wake is not a higher degree of organized complexity, but a higher degree of dissipation and disorganisation.
[Prigogine, quoted in 1984:]
The problem of biological order involves the transition from the molecular activity to the supermolecular order of the cell. This problem is far from being solved.
However, we must admit that we remain far from any quantitative theory.
The entire paper is about the _rate_ of change of entropy or order.
Quoting the paper: "Of course the whole idea of compensation, whether by distant or nearby events, makes no sense logically: an extremely improbable event is not rendered less improbable simply by the occurrence of ‘‘compensating’’ events elsewhere."
The reason? "[the equations for entropy] also say that in an open system the X -order [reverse of entropy] cannot increase faster than it is imported through the boundary [in our case, the atmosphere]"
The energy that the sun inputs into the earth (radiation, gravitational) has no order to speak of. So the _rate_ at which order is imported into the interface is basically zero. Hence, the rate of increase in order, anywhere on earth, must also be basically zero. (Precluding for instance, the "Cambrian explosion", the formation of self-replicating RNA fragments, etc.). At least, that's how I understand it.
And I guarantee that humans are inputting far, far, far, far less energy into their spaceship creations that the sun is inputting into the Earth. Life does happen.
Again, its not the energy again, its the rate of change of order. Spaceships leaving the earth/space boundary are far more complex than the energy coming in. And they are built and do leave, because, humans, who built these spaceships are far far far far far and away more complex still than the spaceships are. Just because humans exist, doesn't mean his equations _must_ be wrong!
Even if that did violate the second law you'd have to come up with a way to reconcile it, for it isn't enough to say "these things contradict", you have to figure out which is wrong and why, instead assuming thermodynamics always wins and that somehow like magic the other thing must be wrong even if you can't point out what's wrong about it (we know it doesn't actually win at the microscopic level, as indicated in that paper).
Why? :-) ... Why should I make your argument for you? "Even if proven wrong, you musn't disbelieve..." sounds... wrong.