When I go somewhere with my digital camera, I take pictures like Austin Powers does, and soon run out of the 133 high-res photos on my flash card, meaning I have to go back to my hotel room or wherever I'm staying if I'm on vacation, transfer it to my laptop, and go and take pictures again.
With this, I can store 30gb of data and only have to bring one single package on vacation -- I can also use it for writing poetry, journals, or whatever else I feel like, and can show people videos and pictures on a huge LCD screen without having to get new batteries after 10 minutes.
$2000 is actually a pretty good price for it, considering how much you'd pay for everything else combined.
As fascinating as it sounds, unfortunately, Congress will never fund such an endeavor -- as far as they concerned, space is a useless void that we now have no reason to explore after the death of the USSR.
The idea might be feasible -- I prefer the idea of a giant cannon/mass driver/gauss gun to shoot us into space myself -- but the idea of a 100,000km tube supporting an elevator is too farfetched to ever get funding, especially with increasingly conservative US administrations that would rather spend money launching rockets not into space, but into third-world cities, as well as European powers that have their own budget problems due to their social welfare systems that prefer to spend money on Earth and not in space.
This is an obvious use of the Hegelian dialectic to crack down on liberty.
Though it might sound useful to the uninformed, this will be a disaster for the average citizen as they are deluged with pornographic spam from every single method of communication, and the public will be outraged and will call for revenge.
However, the only way to stop such spam is to enforce outright draconian laws, much like you would have to do to combat piracy effectively. Like with MP3s, spam can be produced and distributed on a massive scale for almost no cost, and it's a force that cannot be stopped without a terrible price on liberties.
Australia's politicians are notorious for trying to crack down on Online Rights, and this is a plot to do so.
IIRC from Popular Science magazine, the shaded orbs that security cameras are usually hidden in -- especially at places like Wal Mart -- not only have the purpose of trying to hide the feeling you have of being watched, but also have filters to block interfering lights as an extra feature due to something some clever bank robbers did long ago.
The blind are not only entitled to an easy-to-access website, they should also not be discriminated against becoming air traffic controllers and yes, even pilots!
Australia, along with other socialist paradises like Canada and Europe, are way ahead of us -- just look at the link below!
You and I might not like the DMCA, but judicial activism -- where judges take on the legistlative role -- is a far greater threat to our freedom than the DMCA.
Judicial activism is the term used to define judges acting as lawmakers. In 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court defined its role as accurately defining what the law is. This means that judges act as interpreters of the law, if and when the law, or its application, is confusing. In recent years, judges have left this traditional understanding of judicial review and have begun legislating from the bench.
Judicial activism violates the balance of powers laid out in the state and federal Constitutions. It takes authority away from the elected legislature, and puts judges in the position of both lawmaker and judge. When this happens, people lose their right to representation.
A good example of judicial activism is right on the page. In this case, the judge is dictating copyright policy in direct opposition to laws passed by Congress.
We should fight the DMCA in the halls of Congress, not in the courtroom, as the system of checks and balances must be preserved!
But with a PC, just route packets out of a Linux box -- all it requires is a cheap ($20 yardsale) PC, 2 $5 network cards, a backwards CAT5 crosslink cable, and a good reading of some Linux Howtos and possibly a couple of forum posts.
This couldn't have any practical use, considering it uses its own bootable OS, uses a strange new form of network, and is generally incompatible with everything.
It is just a test of theory, and Slashdot has done more harm to its use by posting it on the front page and obliterating all bandwidth from the site.
There's no point to keywords anymore, since with sellout searching, you mostly get results based on the highest bidder, not the most relevant information.
As far as anything else goes, metatags for search engines have been so abused for years as to be deserve extermination.
MOD PARENT DOWN, Anti-American
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How can you say such a thing after the 9/11 attacks?
The legislation is absolutely pointless, and I don't expect anyone to be fined for it.
However, this will only matter for a very small amount of time, since South Africa will most likely expel/persecute its whites within a decade much like Zimbabwe is doing now. Whites make up 97% of all internet users in the country, and they're being murdered or fleeing murder by the thousands.
However, for the ones who stay, the internet will be the only gateway to the outside world, as they will be secured away in fortresses from the murdering masses. This fine might be somehow mutated to persecute them from inside their houses by the racist ruling ANC.
In 2050, it will happen to America when whites become a minority here, along with Britain and France in 2060.
I'm one of the growing number of people who have an entire TERABYTE -- yes, an entire TERABYTE of hard drives; 9 Western Digital Special Edition 120GB's, to be exact, for $1500 total.
I've downloaded and installed EVERYTHING (6 different OS's, too) I can find and so far have used only about 800GB or so:)
I'm glad they're starting to review noise as a factor, since with the extra cooling installed, the computer sounds almost like a vacuum cleaner, especially with the 550W power supply it takes to power the things. The drives individaully would be really quiet, but with all the cooling and such I have installed, it's almost as loud as this miniature fan I keep nearby.
The fans drown out the crunching when people are grabbing everything off every hd on p2p programs, but all the noise is still worth it when I can call forth any song, music video, movie, or just about anything else at a whim.
Apple's core audience consists of teachers, artists, and other people who want a simple system that gets the job done and does it well -- not hardcore geeks or especially wintendo nerds who want maximum frame rates and custom everything.
For the same reason that large computer companies close off their BIOSes, Apple does not want people messing their systems up by testing the OS's boundaries, and having to call their tech support lines or even send their computer back, therefore costing Apple millions. They want to keep everything standard, simple, and robust, just like their single button mice.
It's not an ideological decision of closing everything off, it's purely a financial decision.
Though it requires a bit of know-how, as it's an undocumented feature, USB cables can be put into crosslink mode.
All you have to do is take a USB cable, cut off the small (non-USB) connector end, and attach another USB cable connector in its place with the wires connecting backwards. Next, take the other original end of the USB cable, cut it off, and put it on backwards.
Though government waste -- and that's what the entire project is -- is always bad, at least in this instance they're looking out for the public's safety, unlike private corporations that often neglect to do so.
Project managers unable to handle scope creep may demand unreasonable schedules, but thank Cthulhu in this instance that they are not deploying the code ahead of time and deciding to patch it later!
Though I support their cause, I am a staunch environmentalist, and I'm outraged that they choose to promote it in such an environmentally-unfriendly way.
Driving over 4000 miles puts tons of poisonous carbon monoxide into the already choking air, and mass-printing out books only encourages logging companies to saw down ancient forests en-masse -- not to mention the massive amounts of other pollution, such as littering, that this project will bring.
I wasn't being "funny"... oh well
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This is sadly true. If you want a job, your resume must proudly wear your bullshit.
I may have worded it a bit humourously, but I was actually being serious. I don't care, however -- karma is karma:)
But you really do have to BS everything and present yourself as some sort of living God, even if the facts couldn't possibly check out.
All the other things you mentioned work whether you BS or not, however.
Want to look good to the idiots in HR? LIE. And I mean LIE. I've seen H1Bs and absolute total slackers (high-school dropouts, even) do it for years, and they get some pretty cushy jobs.
Do you have more years experience in a language/program than it existed? Yes, you do have 9 years of Java experience and 550,000 lines of code written, 15 years of HTML, 4 years of Windows 2000 Professional, etc.
Did you never graduate, or even go to college? No problem -- just put on your resume that you graduated with a BS in CS from RIT, Georgia Tech, or whereever.
Lie liberally -- the companies hardly check anything unless you're going to be CTO or something, and if they do find out you're lying, it's not like you're going to get arrested; simply move on until you find a company that buys it.
I can't believe that Secret Service agents are being used for this when our southern border is being completely overrun!
This is total government waste, and it makes me sick. The government's job is to protect our borders, and the corporations should be in charge of securing their own networks and hiring their own wardrivers, not making joe taxpayer foot the bill.
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When I go somewhere with my digital camera, I take pictures like Austin Powers does, and soon run out of the 133 high-res photos on my flash card, meaning I have to go back to my hotel room or wherever I'm staying if I'm on vacation, transfer it to my laptop, and go and take pictures again.
With this, I can store 30gb of data and only have to bring one single package on vacation -- I can also use it for writing poetry, journals, or whatever else I feel like, and can show people videos and pictures on a huge LCD screen without having to get new batteries after 10 minutes.
$2000 is actually a pretty good price for it, considering how much you'd pay for everything else combined.
As fascinating as it sounds, unfortunately, Congress will never fund such an endeavor -- as far as they concerned, space is a useless void that we now have no reason to explore after the death of the USSR.
The idea might be feasible -- I prefer the idea of a giant cannon/mass driver/gauss gun to shoot us into space myself -- but the idea of a 100,000km tube supporting an elevator is too farfetched to ever get funding, especially with increasingly conservative US administrations that would rather spend money launching rockets not into space, but into third-world cities, as well as European powers that have their own budget problems due to their social welfare systems that prefer to spend money on Earth and not in space.
Just like the Iraqis and the Chinese, I do all my nuclear weapons testing on my Playstation 2 Supercomputer!
This is an obvious use of the Hegelian dialectic to crack down on liberty.
Though it might sound useful to the uninformed, this will be a disaster for the average citizen as they are deluged with pornographic spam from every single method of communication, and the public will be outraged and will call for revenge.
However, the only way to stop such spam is to enforce outright draconian laws, much like you would have to do to combat piracy effectively. Like with MP3s, spam can be produced and distributed on a massive scale for almost no cost, and it's a force that cannot be stopped without a terrible price on liberties.
Australia's politicians are notorious for trying to crack down on Online Rights, and this is a plot to do so.
IIRC from Popular Science magazine, the shaded orbs that security cameras are usually hidden in -- especially at places like Wal Mart -- not only have the purpose of trying to hide the feeling you have of being watched, but also have filters to block interfering lights as an extra feature due to something some clever bank robbers did long ago.
The blind are not only entitled to an easy-to-access website, they should also not be discriminated against becoming air traffic controllers and yes, even pilots!
Australia, along with other socialist paradises like Canada and Europe, are way ahead of us -- just look at the link below!
Daily Telegraph: Blind, disabled 'should be able to fly'
You and I might not like the DMCA, but judicial activism -- where judges take on the legistlative role -- is a far greater threat to our freedom than the DMCA.
Judicial activism is the term used to define judges acting as lawmakers. In 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court defined its role as accurately defining what the law is. This means that judges act as interpreters of the law, if and when the law, or its application, is confusing. In recent years, judges have left this traditional understanding of judicial review and have begun legislating from the bench.
Judicial activism violates the balance of powers laid out in the state and federal Constitutions. It takes authority away from the elected legislature, and puts judges in the position of both lawmaker and judge. When this happens, people lose their right to representation.
A good example of judicial activism is right on the page. In this case, the judge is dictating copyright policy in direct opposition to laws passed by Congress.
We should fight the DMCA in the halls of Congress, not in the courtroom, as the system of checks and balances must be preserved!
It's a shame that they didn't include this game:
http://www.stileproject.com/pac.html
For an Apple alone? No.
But with a PC, just route packets out of a Linux box -- all it requires is a cheap ($20 yardsale) PC, 2 $5 network cards, a backwards CAT5 crosslink cable, and a good reading of some Linux Howtos and possibly a couple of forum posts.
This couldn't have any practical use, considering it uses its own bootable OS, uses a strange new form of network, and is generally incompatible with everything.
It is just a test of theory, and Slashdot has done more harm to its use by posting it on the front page and obliterating all bandwidth from the site.
There's no point to keywords anymore, since with sellout searching, you mostly get results based on the highest bidder, not the most relevant information.
As far as anything else goes, metatags for search engines have been so abused for years as to be deserve extermination.
How can you say such a thing after the 9/11 attacks?
I'm glad I bought my Symphony already!
They'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
The legislation is absolutely pointless, and I don't expect anyone to be fined for it.
However, this will only matter for a very small amount of time, since South Africa will most likely expel/persecute its whites within a decade much like Zimbabwe is doing now. Whites make up 97% of all internet users in the country, and they're being murdered or fleeing murder by the thousands.
However, for the ones who stay, the internet will be the only gateway to the outside world, as they will be secured away in fortresses from the murdering masses. This fine might be somehow mutated to persecute them from inside their houses by the racist ruling ANC.
In 2050, it will happen to America when whites become a minority here, along with Britain and France in 2060.
The Killing Of Whites In South
Africa
I'm one of the growing number of people who have an entire TERABYTE -- yes, an entire TERABYTE of hard drives; 9 Western Digital Special Edition 120GB's, to be exact, for $1500 total.
:)
I've downloaded and installed EVERYTHING (6 different OS's, too) I can find and so far have used only about 800GB or so
I'm glad they're starting to review noise as a factor, since with the extra cooling installed, the computer sounds almost like a vacuum cleaner, especially with the 550W power supply it takes to power the things. The drives individaully would be really quiet, but with all the cooling and such I have installed, it's almost as loud as this miniature fan I keep nearby.
The fans drown out the crunching when people are grabbing everything off every hd on p2p programs, but all the noise is still worth it when I can call forth any song, music video, movie, or just about anything else at a whim.
Apple's core audience consists of teachers, artists, and other people who want a simple system that gets the job done and does it well -- not hardcore geeks or especially wintendo nerds who want maximum frame rates and custom everything.
For the same reason that large computer companies close off their BIOSes, Apple does not want people messing their systems up by testing the OS's boundaries, and having to call their tech support lines or even send their computer back, therefore costing Apple millions. They want to keep everything standard, simple, and robust, just like their single button mice.
It's not an ideological decision of closing everything off, it's purely a financial decision.
Finally, the beginning of the end for IPV4!
Though it requires a bit of know-how, as it's an undocumented feature, USB cables can be put into crosslink mode.
All you have to do is take a USB cable, cut off the small (non-USB) connector end, and attach another USB cable connector in its place with the wires connecting backwards. Next, take the other original end of the USB cable, cut it off, and put it on backwards.
Voila.
Though government waste -- and that's what the entire project is -- is always bad, at least in this instance they're looking out for the public's safety, unlike private corporations that often neglect to do so.
Project managers unable to handle scope creep may demand unreasonable schedules, but thank Cthulhu in this instance that they are not deploying the code ahead of time and deciding to patch it later!
Trailer? Pffh!
Everyone else and I have had all 4 DVD-rip SVCDs already for a month!
I got them here!
Though I support their cause, I am a staunch environmentalist, and I'm outraged that they choose to promote it in such an environmentally-unfriendly way.
Driving over 4000 miles puts tons of poisonous carbon monoxide into the already choking air, and mass-printing out books only encourages logging companies to saw down ancient forests en-masse -- not to mention the massive amounts of other pollution, such as littering, that this project will bring.
This is sadly true. If you want a job, your resume must proudly wear your bullshit.
:)
I may have worded it a bit humourously, but I was actually being serious. I don't care, however -- karma is karma
But you really do have to BS everything and present yourself as some sort of living God, even if the facts couldn't possibly check out.
All the other things you mentioned work whether you BS or not, however.
In the earlier days, did you ever think that 32 bits for IP addressing would eventually not be enough for everybody?
Want to look good to the idiots in HR? LIE. And I mean LIE. I've seen H1Bs and absolute total slackers (high-school dropouts, even) do it for years, and they get some pretty cushy jobs.
Do you have more years experience in a language/program than it existed? Yes, you do have 9 years of Java experience and 550,000 lines of code written, 15 years of HTML, 4 years of Windows 2000 Professional, etc.
Did you never graduate, or even go to college? No problem -- just put on your resume that you graduated with a BS in CS from RIT, Georgia Tech, or whereever.
Lie liberally -- the companies hardly check anything unless you're going to be CTO or something, and if they do find out you're lying, it's not like you're going to get arrested; simply move on until you find a company that buys it.
I can't believe that Secret Service agents are being used for this when our southern border is being completely overrun!
This is total government waste, and it makes me sick. The government's job is to protect our borders, and the corporations should be in charge of securing their own networks and hiring their own wardrivers, not making joe taxpayer foot the bill.