When asked for comment, Lord Ebenezer Perriwinkle said "Let her die then, and decrease the surplus population!"
He then ran off in his golden carraige, oblivious to the fact that his team of horses trampled a crippled child as he sipped his tea in the velour-lined coach.
Yep, they're all over it, spinning it to the left for all they're worth. Just read the linked article.
First, lets set up sympathy - the poor little girl against the big rich meanies. Straight out of Dickens, isn't it?
The music industry has turned its big legal guns on Internet music-swappers -- including a 12-year-old New York City girl who thought downloading songs was fun.
"I got really scared. My stomach is all turning," Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother.
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
Now a response from those devils!
TheRecording Industry Association of America (search [go2net.com])-- a music-industry lobbying group behind the lawsuits -- couldn't answer that question.
They couldn't answer the question? Damn them.
But, the next paragraph reads...
"We are taking each individual on a case-by-case basis," said RIAA spokeswoman Amy Weiss.... "We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals."
OH, so they did answer the question. They didn't know she was twelve, they only knew that 1000s of mp3s were being shared.
So blah, blah, more backstory. The poor little girl taken in by con artists and now the big white meanies are going to get her!
And then we get to this nugget:
Usually, they listen to songs without recording them. "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go," Torres said.
They? We? What? Continuity here folks. They're suing a "me", not a "we"! Or wait, here's a thought, they're suing whoever holds the account with the ISP. That must be a 12 year old girl. I know my 12 year old pays my cable bill.
When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework.
An honor student? Helping her brother? By candlelight, no doubt. Well that changes everything. I can even overlook "teh".
I'm sorry. This article REEKS of politically motivated propoganda and bullshit. I don't like these tactics either, but I don't like newspapers so blatantly trying to blow smoke up my ass. And I can't stand the sycophants who read this and take it at face value.
It doesnt make sense.
How can they get a 12 year old girls name to sue, unless she pays the family bills? Maybe she does.
If you don't like the biased article, why post it Taco?
-1 Flamebait for you.
Of course noone bats an eye when sweet-as-honey Apple starts spewing bullshit about how their computers are "faster than light".
BTW, I agree with the studies findings, if only for the fact that you dont have to choose between 900,000 incomplete and partially functional APIs and libraries, and research moronic licensing terms. Hippies should be planting flowers and chasing rainbows, not writing software licenses.
Considering that some of their employees could have access to some real nasty shit (viruses and chemicals and whatnot), it makes sense they'd be more closely scrutinized than a guy in a cubicle at IBM, or a clerk at Sears.
You know who's really invasive in the background checks? The NSA.
Ford and Sears aren't based in California or Europe, but have decided to use their data-protection laws as a model, even though they don't have to and could be much bigger wangs if they wanted.
Frankly, I'm not surprised a major drug company scrutinizes it's employees more closely than Sears does.
It depends on your perspective. Many view TMI as proof that the contingency plans and failsafes worked, as the enormous disaster was averted.
At any rate, so long as we can get politicians to stop selling us this "deregulation" snake oil, and get out there and demand safety and reliability for our infrastructure, nuclear can be made to work.
1) Go to school, get multiple engineering degrees or whatever you need.
2) Find a way to make solar, wind and/or tidal power ACTUALLY WORK. And I mean in real life, not in some pseudo-science hippie diatribe. And don't point to useless windmill farms in nevada/california, they don't produce shit. You need about 100 acres of windmills to power one average home. And they don't call them "condor cuisinarts" for nothing.
3) The world will be 100% behind you. Until then, nuclear is the best option we have.
What's the half life of CO2? It's trillions of years, it effectively lasts forever.
The damage from coal or gas plants is instant and long lasting. It's unavoidable. The damage from nuclear plants is a potential one, that is, it's avoidable.
More research into safe disposal techniques certainly isn't going to make the situation worse.
And the cost per kw/H is much less than with the coal fired, with natural gas backups.
Yeah but it'll all be about 20 miles under a mountain in Nevada within a decade.
Toxic gases produced by coal or gas fired plants have an immediate and more profound effect on the planet. Wind, solar, and tidal frankly dont work. Nuclear is the only feasible option we have.
I once read an article about the possibility of digging down to the earth's mantle, and just dropping the waste into the magma, apparantly it should just melt and dissolved back into more basic elements and not be an issue.
More research into better disposal techniques certainly isn't going to make the problem worse.
And therein lies the challenge, the solution to which would impress me.
The fan doesn't have to sit on the CPU as per convention, in such a small box you could set it up such that air is drawn through a front vent, channelled through the heatsink, and funnelled straight out the back. You turn the seeming disadvantage of very little space into an advantage (no stale air pockets, constant flow like a little windtunnel)
This is the approach I'm taking with my portable arcade project, and it works exceedingly well. I'm actually getting better cooling than the stock intel heatsink was giving me, and all from one of those cheap "drive cooler" deals, with the three little 40 mm fans that fit in a 5.25 bay and a 1u rackmount heatsink.
My next series of problems is the back i/o panel. I plan to hardwire an AV socket from a butchered SNES so I can use one of their AV cables, as well as a generic power cable (PSX or stereo kind)
I'm no engineer, and I'm sure there are folks out there who can solve such problems much better than I.
... would be to put something new on it, something the designers of the time would never have concieved. Like the hacking community around the atari 2600 or colecovision, or getting the C64 internet ready with its own ip stack. Make it do something it wasn't meant to do.
Running a 10 year old linux on a 10 year old computer is just as interesting as running DOS or Win3.0 on it, though only half as useful. (Mod me down if you must, but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then)
Well, I was referring to the VIA eden boards, with their gutless CPUs that require very little effort to dissipate heat.
I'd be impressed if someone shoved any board with a 1.6ghz P4 into a NES/Ammo box, or whatever, because then they have to solve some really sticky heat and space issues. It's not the form factor of the board since FlexATX and MiniITX are really, really close in size. (flex can technically be taller, I think 9x7.5 inches, but many boards available are the square 7x7 variety)
I'm just saying wake me when dude shoves in a p4 board with a 3+ghz processor, a high end video card, and a couple gigs of dual channel DDR. Show me a miniature PC that blows big towers away, not something that can barely keep up with a higher-end PDA.
Take a look around at FlexATX boards, like Shuttle's FV25 if you can find it. It has everything onboard, minus the CPU. But for about 200 bucks you can get the board and a 1ghz tualitin based celeron, which has a hell of a lot more horsepower than anything VIA puts out.
If, at the end of the day, you're computer cant play funky games, your case mod has failed it. Who needs a funky modded machine to run type up word documents?
There already is a market for such stuff. Look at how much heavily modded cases can sell for on eBay. There's some company that sells wood-veneered antec cases (well you know, the same style as the venerable antec/chieftec towers). They come in all sorts of exotic woods, teak and cherry and whatnot, and sell for 500 bucks apiece. Definately something for the exec to match is $5000 desk.
And you didnt puss out and use an all-in-one epia board with far fewer heat and space issues to solve. Good for you.
As soon as I read mini-itx, the mod's potential impressiveness is cut in half, because I know no matter how cool it looks, it can't function as anything more than an mp3 player or word processor.
Case mods should be judged on both looks and how well they can play games.
It's not embedded, it's just a PC stuck in something other than a PC case.
Embedded systems is like the software that runs my microwave. Replace my microwaves software with linux, have it still function as a microwave, but maybe be able to send and recieve data from my PDA, then you've got yourself something you can call an embedded project.
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When asked for comment, Lord Ebenezer Perriwinkle said "Let her die then, and decrease the surplus population!"
He then ran off in his golden carraige, oblivious to the fact that his team of horses trampled a crippled child as he sipped his tea in the velour-lined coach.
I agree 100%. The RIAA saw 1000s of mp3s being shared, not listened to and thrown away as the article suggests - else they wouldnt have been noticed.
They subpeonad the ISP for the account holders information, and sued that person. You mean to tell me the 12 year old holds the account with the ISP?
Show me some proof, show me the subpeona, that names the 12 year old girl. You can't, because they're suing someone who has a 12 year old.
What Dickens-wannabe wrote this tripe?
They might as well have thrown in a quote like this:
When questioned, an RIAA spokesperson said "Are there no prisons?! Are there no workhouses?!"
Have you not been paying attention? They contacted the ISP, got the name of the account holder, and are suing them.
Does a 12 year old pay for your internet connection?
As much as I hate the RIAAs tactics, this is bullshit propoganda at it's pinnacle. This article is probably the best troll I've ever read.
Is Junis in the byline?
Yep, they're all over it, spinning it to the left for all they're worth. Just read the linked article.
... "We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals."
First, lets set up sympathy - the poor little girl against the big rich meanies. Straight out of Dickens, isn't it?
The music industry has turned its big legal guns on Internet music-swappers -- including a 12-year-old New York City girl who thought downloading songs was fun.
"I got really scared. My stomach is all turning," Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother.
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
Now a response from those devils!
TheRecording Industry Association of America (search [go2net.com])-- a music-industry lobbying group behind the lawsuits -- couldn't answer that question.
They couldn't answer the question? Damn them.
But, the next paragraph reads...
"We are taking each individual on a case-by-case basis," said RIAA spokeswoman Amy Weiss.
OH, so they did answer the question. They didn't know she was twelve, they only knew that 1000s of mp3s were being shared.
So blah, blah, more backstory. The poor little girl taken in by con artists and now the big white meanies are going to get her!
And then we get to this nugget:
Usually, they listen to songs without recording them. "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go," Torres said.
They? We? What? Continuity here folks. They're suing a "me", not a "we"! Or wait, here's a thought, they're suing whoever holds the account with the ISP. That must be a 12 year old girl. I know my 12 year old pays my cable bill.
When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework.
An honor student? Helping her brother? By candlelight, no doubt. Well that changes everything. I can even overlook "teh".
I'm sorry. This article REEKS of politically motivated propoganda and bullshit. I don't like these tactics either, but I don't like newspapers so blatantly trying to blow smoke up my ass. And I can't stand the sycophants who read this and take it at face value.
It doesnt make sense.
How can they get a 12 year old girls name to sue, unless she pays the family bills? Maybe she does.
Poor little match girl.
Right, because on KaZaa you know exactly how old everyone is.
They're suing people with thousands of mp3s. They'll drop this due to her age, but frankly they should go after the parents.
If a 12 year old broke the windows out of my house, I'd sure as hell sue to get them fixed.
If you don't like the biased article, why post it Taco?
-1 Flamebait for you.
Of course noone bats an eye when sweet-as-honey Apple starts spewing bullshit about how their computers are "faster than light".
BTW, I agree with the studies findings, if only for the fact that you dont have to choose between 900,000 incomplete and partially functional APIs and libraries, and research moronic licensing terms. Hippies should be planting flowers and chasing rainbows, not writing software licenses.
Considering that some of their employees could have access to some real nasty shit (viruses and chemicals and whatnot), it makes sense they'd be more closely scrutinized than a guy in a cubicle at IBM, or a clerk at Sears.
You know who's really invasive in the background checks? The NSA.
Ford and Sears aren't based in California or Europe, but have decided to use their data-protection laws as a model, even though they don't have to and could be much bigger wangs if they wanted.
Frankly, I'm not surprised a major drug company scrutinizes it's employees more closely than Sears does.
It depends on your perspective. Many view TMI as proof that the contingency plans and failsafes worked, as the enormous disaster was averted.
At any rate, so long as we can get politicians to stop selling us this "deregulation" snake oil, and get out there and demand safety and reliability for our infrastructure, nuclear can be made to work.
WDid you check job listings in the local Pennysaver?
This is a research based "university" anyways, it's not like DeVry job training.
Here's what you need to do.
1) Go to school, get multiple engineering degrees or whatever you need.
2) Find a way to make solar, wind and/or tidal power ACTUALLY WORK. And I mean in real life, not in some pseudo-science hippie diatribe. And don't point to useless windmill farms in nevada/california, they don't produce shit. You need about 100 acres of windmills to power one average home. And they don't call them "condor cuisinarts" for nothing.
3) The world will be 100% behind you. Until then, nuclear is the best option we have.
What's the half life of CO2? It's trillions of years, it effectively lasts forever.
The damage from coal or gas plants is instant and long lasting. It's unavoidable. The damage from nuclear plants is a potential one, that is, it's avoidable.
More research into safe disposal techniques certainly isn't going to make the situation worse.
And the cost per kw/H is much less than with the coal fired, with natural gas backups.
Yeah but it'll all be about 20 miles under a mountain in Nevada within a decade.
Toxic gases produced by coal or gas fired plants have an immediate and more profound effect on the planet. Wind, solar, and tidal frankly dont work. Nuclear is the only feasible option we have.
I once read an article about the possibility of digging down to the earth's mantle, and just dropping the waste into the magma, apparantly it should just melt and dissolved back into more basic elements and not be an issue.
More research into better disposal techniques certainly isn't going to make the problem worse.
When exactly did you last check?
I bet you've never checked, have you?
You just wanted to say something interesting!
"Hahahahahah did you see that jerk? He dropped his notes! Dropped them all over the floor!"
"Hello Dean? You're a stupidhead!"
"Is that you, Homer?"
"Ahh!"
"The only solution to a zany prank is an even zanier prank!" "Aww, why does it have to be zany?"
"Hey buddy! Get a load of that nerd!"
"Everybody! The punch has been spiked! But don't worry, I called your parents and they're on their way to pick you up."
That was probably the best Simpsons episode ever.
Well, today you can put a small all-but-useless motherboard in a ammo box, install linux, call it an "embedded system" and get it posted to /.
Nee:
as in "We are the knights who say nee"
And therein lies the challenge, the solution to which would impress me.
The fan doesn't have to sit on the CPU as per convention, in such a small box you could set it up such that air is drawn through a front vent, channelled through the heatsink, and funnelled straight out the back. You turn the seeming disadvantage of very little space into an advantage (no stale air pockets, constant flow like a little windtunnel)
This is the approach I'm taking with my portable arcade project, and it works exceedingly well. I'm actually getting better cooling than the stock intel heatsink was giving me, and all from one of those cheap "drive cooler" deals, with the three little 40 mm fans that fit in a 5.25 bay and a 1u rackmount heatsink.
My next series of problems is the back i/o panel. I plan to hardwire an AV socket from a butchered SNES so I can use one of their AV cables, as well as a generic power cable (PSX or stereo kind)
I'm no engineer, and I'm sure there are folks out there who can solve such problems much better than I.
it takes 10 minutes to roll your own single floppy distro
If by "roll your own" you mean download a floppy distro and write it to disk, OK.
I want to see you start from sources and build a floppy distro in 10 minutes. Even if you knew what to do step by step you couldnt do it.
No more exaggerations!
... would be to put something new on it, something the designers of the time would never have concieved. Like the hacking community around the atari 2600 or colecovision, or getting the C64 internet ready with its own ip stack. Make it do something it wasn't meant to do.
Running a 10 year old linux on a 10 year old computer is just as interesting as running DOS or Win3.0 on it, though only half as useful. (Mod me down if you must, but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then)
Well, I was referring to the VIA eden boards, with their gutless CPUs that require very little effort to dissipate heat.
I'd be impressed if someone shoved any board with a 1.6ghz P4 into a NES/Ammo box, or whatever, because then they have to solve some really sticky heat and space issues. It's not the form factor of the board since FlexATX and MiniITX are really, really close in size. (flex can technically be taller, I think 9x7.5 inches, but many boards available are the square 7x7 variety)
I'm just saying wake me when dude shoves in a p4 board with a 3+ghz processor, a high end video card, and a couple gigs of dual channel DDR. Show me a miniature PC that blows big towers away, not something that can barely keep up with a higher-end PDA.
Take a look around at FlexATX boards, like Shuttle's FV25 if you can find it. It has everything onboard, minus the CPU. But for about 200 bucks you can get the board and a 1ghz tualitin based celeron, which has a hell of a lot more horsepower than anything VIA puts out.
If, at the end of the day, you're computer cant play funky games, your case mod has failed it. Who needs a funky modded machine to run type up word documents?
There already is a market for such stuff. Look at how much heavily modded cases can sell for on eBay. There's some company that sells wood-veneered antec cases (well you know, the same style as the venerable antec/chieftec towers). They come in all sorts of exotic woods, teak and cherry and whatnot, and sell for 500 bucks apiece. Definately something for the exec to match is $5000 desk.
And you didnt puss out and use an all-in-one epia board with far fewer heat and space issues to solve. Good for you.
As soon as I read mini-itx, the mod's potential impressiveness is cut in half, because I know no matter how cool it looks, it can't function as anything more than an mp3 player or word processor.
Case mods should be judged on both looks and how well they can play games.
It's not embedded, it's just a PC stuck in something other than a PC case.
Embedded systems is like the software that runs my microwave. Replace my microwaves software with linux, have it still function as a microwave, but maybe be able to send and recieve data from my PDA, then you've got yourself something you can call an embedded project.