There's a pretty big difference between a seach engine hiding (or making more difficult to find) malware infested sites (something that can potentially break my OS) and being a nanny that prevents me from finding exactly what I want.
Let them index child porn, copyrighted material, etc. Their job is not to police the internet.
I saw a demo version of this tech at my university c1992-93. Of course, at the time the computer driving it was significantly bigger than what it's hooked up to now. And back then the grad students were excited about potential military and space uses.
The Cyber Pearl Harbor already happened. (Man, I hate that term.)
And to keep up the analogy, this time The U.S. was the aggressors and the Iranians were the ones with their pants down and all their eggs in one basket.
Phone number is how SuperCuts (the hair cutting chain in my part of the woods) identifies people. They ask for my number and first name (I guess to differentiate me from my son). With that, they know my preference in cut and stuff like that.
Not a particularly bad idea, since you need some sort of semi-unique identification if you want to have persistent records.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Has the U.S. ever assembled a militia? How would a militia be different from a national draft? Would gun ownership in the U.S. trump any ethical or religious objection to joining a militia?
From Wikipedia:
a military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service.
It seems that a militia is more of an emergency task force. Perhaps something like this would fall under FEMA rather than the military?
At least this is action that is in the right direction.
Why do we have to respond to acts already occurred in the state? Should we wait for a mass shooting with an assault rifle in New York before a ban on them?
I can understand going into the problems of the bill, and ways to fix the problems. But saying we shouldn't ban assault weapons because they haven't caused any deaths in the state as of yet isn't a good reason.
After all, no Sarin gas deaths in New York (to the best of my knowledge). Should that be legal for private citizens' use?
Did he get a license or permit to transport his gun through the state? If not, he should have done his due diligence of using a licensed professional to transport is equipment.
Even though you can buy kindle books without DRM, the fact that some of them have DRM poisons the well.
Now, if you want to lend someone an e-book, you have to think about whether it has DRM or not. If it was a physical book that doesn't enter into the equation.
20 years ago I took my dad's car out for a joy ride. Brakes gave out and I almost smashed the car. Learned my lesson and have been a responsible driver ever since.
Do I still go over the speed limit. Absolutely. But not recklessly so.
Now I'm an upstanding, tax paying member of society rather than an x-convict for a reckless driving incident.
I have a 6 year old son and a 9 year old daughter.
My NAS device exposes 4 folders: TV, Movies, Children's TV, Children's Movies.
In the only room the kids are allowed to watch unsupervised, the XBMC only has the children's 2 folders installed. In the family room and master bedroom everything's available (and the kids are always supervised in these rooms).
None of the computers hooked up to the TVs have keyboards or mice attached. The kids are allowed to control their XBMC using the iPad or old iPhone that runs the free XBMC remote application. (To keep costs down, their XBMC runs raspbmc on a Raspberry PI.) In our bedroom and family room we use a universal remote.
I suppose when the kids are old enough to mess with the configurations of the XBMC, I may need to be more careful. Though at that point, messing with the system would be considered a punishable offence.
It may be that Google crunched the numbers and figured it really wasn't worth it to create a YouTube app.
Perhaps they figure that: 1 - There's always the mobile version of the website. 2 - WP8 people are already "lost" to them. (Once you go over to the dark side, there's no coming back...) 3 - If they're obligated to create a Windows Phone 8 version, they may feel that they're obligated to create versions for any old phone OS that comes along (ie: Blackberry). 4 - Payback really is a bitch 5 - It's a bit of leverage. Don't give something away that you can use to negotiate later on. 6 - App development costs money. If they feel no one's going to buy WP8, why bother? 7 - No one complained that there wasn't a WP7 version of the app. Why would WP8 be any different?
Network Attached Storage appliances are cheap and quite reliable. Get one that can a couple 2tb drives and set them in a mirror mode. The NAS will have a simple web interface for management and expose your drive(s) as a Samba share on your network.
As others have said, Lego's had kits for decades. I was jealous of my cousin's off-road buggy kit from the mid 70s.
What I would like are less expensive computer-programmable and remote-activated pieces so that I can make those same buggies from the 70s but be able to control them via remote (or even via my phone with wifi!). Maybe to do a demolition derby sort of setup with my kids.
How about a project the two of you can do together. Maybe wire a room for inbuilt speakers, add a video projector that hangs off the ceiling and a screen on a remote control and you've got a home theater. Throw in an XBMC system and a way to automatically rip DVDs and serve it off the network, with a universal remote control. Then add a TV tuner card, movie chairs, etc. Lots of things that can be done piece-meal but with a goal in sight.
There's a lot of inertia behind both of these numbers in their respective realms. Since all it takes is one non-informed person to call the wrong number and subsequently die, political pressure against standardizing on one number is going to exist.
That being said, why not make both numbers point to the same service planet-wide?
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly how many broadband providers do you have in your area?
And how many of them are just as good or better than your current one?
What will I do? Probably cancel my premium cable and use the money to get a VPN service.
There's a pretty big difference between a seach engine hiding (or making more difficult to find) malware infested sites (something that can potentially break my OS) and being a nanny that prevents me from finding exactly what I want.
Let them index child porn, copyrighted material, etc. Their job is not to police the internet.
Or you're in the middle of a war zone.
I saw a demo version of this tech at my university c1992-93. Of course, at the time the computer driving it was significantly bigger than what it's hooked up to now. And back then the grad students were excited about potential military and space uses.
The Finnish EFF supported this claim, explaining to TorrentFreak (in the link above) that seeing how prosecutors reacted would be quite telling:
Well, I guess it's time to give more money to the EFF.
Gravity waves? Neutrinos? Laser? Quantum entangled electrons?
I'll chip in $100.
...A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I think someone just reinvented Tor.
The Cyber Pearl Harbor already happened. (Man, I hate that term.)
And to keep up the analogy, this time The U.S. was the aggressors and the Iranians were the ones with their pants down and all their eggs in one basket.
Phone number is how SuperCuts (the hair cutting chain in my part of the woods) identifies people. They ask for my number and first name (I guess to differentiate me from my son). With that, they know my preference in cut and stuff like that.
Not a particularly bad idea, since you need some sort of semi-unique identification if you want to have persistent records.
Quick question about the Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Has the U.S. ever assembled a militia? How would a militia be different from a national draft? Would gun ownership in the U.S. trump any ethical or religious objection to joining a militia?
From Wikipedia:
a military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service.
It seems that a militia is more of an emergency task force. Perhaps something like this would fall under FEMA rather than the military?
At least this is action that is in the right direction.
Why do we have to respond to acts already occurred in the state? Should we wait for a mass shooting with an assault rifle in New York before a ban on them?
I can understand going into the problems of the bill, and ways to fix the problems. But saying we shouldn't ban assault weapons because they haven't caused any deaths in the state as of yet isn't a good reason.
After all, no Sarin gas deaths in New York (to the best of my knowledge). Should that be legal for private citizens' use?
Did he get a license or permit to transport his gun through the state? If not, he should have done his due diligence of using a licensed professional to transport is equipment.
Dude.
They're opening these shops in Florida. They're not targeting us. They're targetting our parents.
You have to buy them used without DRM
Big difference.
Even though you can buy kindle books without DRM, the fact that some of them have DRM poisons the well.
Now, if you want to lend someone an e-book, you have to think about whether it has DRM or not. If it was a physical book that doesn't enter into the equation.
Absolutely.
20 years ago I took my dad's car out for a joy ride. Brakes gave out and I almost smashed the car. Learned my lesson and have been a responsible driver ever since.
Do I still go over the speed limit. Absolutely. But not recklessly so.
Now I'm an upstanding, tax paying member of society rather than an x-convict for a reckless driving incident.
I have a 6 year old son and a 9 year old daughter.
My NAS device exposes 4 folders: TV, Movies, Children's TV, Children's Movies.
In the only room the kids are allowed to watch unsupervised, the XBMC only has the children's 2 folders installed. In the family room and master bedroom everything's available (and the kids are always supervised in these rooms).
None of the computers hooked up to the TVs have keyboards or mice attached. The kids are allowed to control their XBMC using the iPad or old iPhone that runs the free XBMC remote application. (To keep costs down, their XBMC runs raspbmc on a Raspberry PI.) In our bedroom and family room we use a universal remote.
I suppose when the kids are old enough to mess with the configurations of the XBMC, I may need to be more careful. Though at that point, messing with the system would be considered a punishable offence.
It may be that Google crunched the numbers and figured it really wasn't worth it to create a YouTube app.
Perhaps they figure that:
1 - There's always the mobile version of the website.
2 - WP8 people are already "lost" to them. (Once you go over to the dark side, there's no coming back...)
3 - If they're obligated to create a Windows Phone 8 version, they may feel that they're obligated to create versions for any old phone OS that comes along (ie: Blackberry).
4 - Payback really is a bitch
5 - It's a bit of leverage. Don't give something away that you can use to negotiate later on.
6 - App development costs money. If they feel no one's going to buy WP8, why bother?
7 - No one complained that there wasn't a WP7 version of the app. Why would WP8 be any different?
He was a bitch.
Network Attached Storage appliances are cheap and quite reliable. Get one that can a couple 2tb drives and set them in a mirror mode. The NAS will have a simple web interface for management and expose your drive(s) as a Samba share on your network.
As others have said, Lego's had kits for decades. I was jealous of my cousin's off-road buggy kit from the mid 70s.
What I would like are less expensive computer-programmable and remote-activated pieces so that I can make those same buggies from the 70s but be able to control them via remote (or even via my phone with wifi!). Maybe to do a demolition derby sort of setup with my kids.
How about a project the two of you can do together. Maybe wire a room for inbuilt speakers, add a video projector that hangs off the ceiling and a screen on a remote control and you've got a home theater. Throw in an XBMC system and a way to automatically rip DVDs and serve it off the network, with a universal remote control. Then add a TV tuner card, movie chairs, etc. Lots of things that can be done piece-meal but with a goal in sight.
Am I the only one surprised to find out that Bing has a map application?
I always assumed they would use Yahoo Maps for some reason.
There's a lot of inertia behind both of these numbers in their respective realms. Since all it takes is one non-informed person to call the wrong number and subsequently die, political pressure against standardizing on one number is going to exist.
That being said, why not make both numbers point to the same service planet-wide?
My 386/20 was fully fitted with 1GB ram ~1990. I would be a little surprised if that was the most the architecture could handle.
That being said, kudos for Linus and his team getting rid of support for a processor which essentially no longer exists.
*Shrug* Still better than unicorn horn.