Don't forget that the high capacity mags have a tendancy to jam so there really may not be all that much of a firing rate distinction between ten reliable ten round clips, and a jam prone 100 round clip. In fact, the reliable mags might well end up being more effective in the long run. As an example, the Colorodo Batman shooter was stymied by a jam in his 100 round magazine.
Encryption schemes are great for the present and immediate future, but what about ten years from now? There's no certainty that what is today unbreakable will not be trivial to brute force in a few years time, or some vulnerability will be discovered which renders the encryption worthless.
I have both (Kindle and Nexus 7) too. If I had bought the tablet first, I wouldn't haven't bought the Kindle. While reading text on the Kindle IS nicer than on the tablet, reading PDFs on the Kindle is a nightmare -- the page renders are slow and hard to make out, and moving around on a page isn't exactly a breeze. A PDF on the tablet is totally straightforward and renders perfectly.
What would be interesting however, would be a tablet with an Epaper touch display. Most of my beef with the Kindle is that for PDF applications, it is slow and clunky. Take that away by giving the device some processing power and a good resolution, plus the ability to run other apps, and the only downside to Epaper would be a lack of color. In other words, an Android tablet with an Epaper display might be interesting -- not for games -- but for reading the web, books, documents, emails, and stuff like that.
And? The difference between 71F and 73F is not exactly something a human is tuned to. Depending on where you live and what you acclimated to, that temperature range might represent a hot day, or a cold day, but it would be the rare person who says 71 is comfortable but 73 is suffocatingly hot. For most people, a weather report broken down by Low, Mid, High and the tens place is good enough, i.e., "expect temperatures in the high 50s tomorrow" is a common way to express a weather report and good enough for people to know how to dress.
I went with Jill Stein. I can say it went great. My vote did not contribute to evil. My vote registered as a protest to both the New GOP (aka Democrats) and the Old GOP (aka Parody-of-Itself). If Obama had lost, my vote may have triggered some New GOP soul searching. Obviously, I'll have to wait another election for any soul searching by the New GOP, but one can always hope.
In fact, I voted a straight "neither GOP nor New GOP" ticket this year and that is my plan till they change their ways. If they never do change their ways, nothing is lost. If they do, much is gained. But by just following the herd, there is absolutely no chance anything will ever get better and an absolute certainty things will get worse. Being a sheep is the worst option.
Why trust the government? Our government sucks. It has no qualms about burning up 1.4 trillion making enemies around the world in favor of certain moneyed interests, but can't be bothered to do something actually useful for a fraction of the cost.
Same thing here. I put together a new machine this summer to replace my core 2 duo/intel system. Before that intel system I'd always had great luck with AMD/nVidia with respect to video stability. I've never experienced so many crashes in my life as I have with this system across multiple distros. Not even with the last version of Windows I ever used (ME) crashed this much. Of course, in the mid2000s AMD/nVidia was a really reliable choice and ATI was the nightmare, but that bit of old wisdom seems dead now.
Anyway, It's so bad I've been thinking of redoing the system with Intel stuff including Intel video, but I think I'll give ATI a try first. That's a lot cheaper and a lot less hassle than starting over, plus I won't have to basically toss $700 in parts. Hopefully it works out and I won't be tossing $740 in parts.
When I bought my first Android phone at T-Mobile some years back (MyTouch 3g) I walked in totally ready to buy the phone outright and get on a no contract plan. When I told the sales person that was what I wanted to do, he said "cool" and then went on to say that if I wanted to, I could get the same no contract plan, and finance the phone at 0% interest for 18 or 20 months -- can't recall exactly but something less than 2 years. Obviously that is a better deal even then just buying the phone outright so that's what I did. The phone payments were just added to my bill. Anyway, when T-Mobile gets to financing iPhones, maybe it will be doing a similar 0% interest financing plan which, if it can be used with a no-contract plan, is a real no brainer.
Um... no. Obama has taken us places GWB couldn't have because if GWB decided that his opinion alone sufficed as "due process" in the phrase "no person shall be deprived of life... without due process of law," Democrats would have gone apeshit on him. But, when Obama says his opinion alone is "due process" (citation), Democrats say nothing at all. It's despicable partisanship.
So, the Bush Doctrine had some limits -- in the hands of a Democrat, there are none at all.
Anyway --- you should really think about that friendly kind peace loving Democrat Eric Holder's statement that "due process" does not mean judicial process. That is opening the door even further into authoritarianism -- a state where the President's unchallenged opinion is all that is required to kill you or put you in a gulag.
I don't know why this wa modded as 'troll' except for perhaps a lack of knowledge about recent history wherein US Born Anwar al-Awlaki was murdered by drone attack, without the application of any due process whatsoever, because of things he said. In other words, Obama murdered an American over exercising free speech rights. And yeah, Alwaki didn't say nice things, but think about the implications.
Think about the characteristics of leaders of the worst authoritarian governments, think about how the president believes he can kill anyone or jail anyone without trial. Think about how the president has usurped the power to make war from Congress totally (i.e., Libya). Think about the massive prison system based in our Land-Of-The-Free which houses more people on an absolute basis than any other in the world. Think about all this stuff and you might start rationally fearing the future.
I live in a border county with Canada. They've started installing signs about a hundred yards... well, meters... in front of stoplights on major streets. The signs have two yellow flashing lights that flash and a message that says "be prepared to stop when flashing" -- in other words, the warning sign starts flashing and by the time you reach the intersection, the stop light has gone red even though way back when you noticed the warning sign, the stop light still showed green. So you know that even if the stop light is green, if the warning sign is flashing, it'll be red by the time you get there so slowing down is a good idea.
I suppose it will be some time before we know if the warning signs cause people to gun it for the intersection, or if it works as intended. I hope it is the latter because it is 1) unintrusive (no data collection), 2) directly aimed at the issue rather than a backdoor means for private profit at public expense, and 3) pretty darn simple (pole, board, paint, light bulb, timer).
I've used mac laptops for 7 or 8 years and my office uses macs too for all user positions. What I personally like most is that X11 forwarding over SSH is totally straightforward and the command line tools I'm used to work great. Add to that headache free Netflix streaming and I readily admit that I've found my mac systems to be both enjoyable and productive.
But I feel pretty bitter toward Apple because of these lawsuits. So when my wife said she wouldn't mind a tablet for Christmas, I pointed her at Android tablets. The iPad won't be on the list at all. I'm sure they're nice tablets, but Apple is being a bad actor and I'm not willing to support that any more than I have to (i.e., I will replace my laptop or office computers as necessary, but I'm not willing to pay Apple discretionary money).
1. This is a high school, not JPL. The secrets and technology contained in HS are barely worth the time of day and do not require extreme measures of protection. 2. Children are required to attend HS. Employment is totally voluntary.
Get 'em young, get 'em for life. The darker side of this is getting young people to accept constant tracking by agents of the government. Yes, we all have cell phones, but this is much more overt, and much more dangerous because like employment, having a cell phone is voluntary. Going to HS is not.
The many circumvention suggestions don't get around the fact that when today's teens and preteens are older, and have been conditioned to think that tracking is just a part of life, it will mean that most people will just put up with it accelerating the already alarming rate at which civil liberties are evaporating. Secretly circumventing the tracking will not in any way end the tracking -- it takes public protest and outrage, but where is that going to come from if tracking is accepted as a fact of life by most future adults and those who don't accept it, act in secret?
Very good thinking. Voting for a third party only in "safe" districts totally eviscerates the point of voting third party. No third party voter thinks their candidate has a snowball's chance, but see it as the only way to raise issues that are never raised due to bipartisan agreement by putting establishment pols at risk of losing elections.
As for the Tea Party, I think that is the perfect example of how naive it is to think that the GOP or DNC can be changed from within. The Tea Party was actually started by a guy who voted for Obama, but within a handful of months, it was totally hijacked by the GOP. There is no point in trying to fix the major parties -- they're a cancer on America and the only solution at this point is to excise them and irradiate the wound.
Karl's best quote on the demise/hijack of the Tea Party: "A financial blogger and ex-CEO credited with being one of the original 'founders' of the Tea Party has come out against the movement, saying it has been hijacked by the very people it was protesting and is now obsessed with 'guns, gays and God.' "
I'm told at work that I'm "wasting" my vote by not selecting candidate XXX, but to me, a wasted vote is a vote for something I don't agree with. I like Obama for ending the war in Iraq,
Kudos for voting third party. Me too.
However, I feel obliged to correct a misconception about Obama. He did not "end the war in Iraq" --- he merely failed to extend it. In the months leading up to the expiration of SOFA, scheduled for Dec 2011, the Obama administration lobbied Iraq for an extension in order to keeps thousands, maybe up to 20,000 troops in Iraq. SOFA was a prerequisite for that because it forbids Iraq from prosecuting soldiers in Iraq, for crimes committed while they are in Iraq. Had Obama been successful at extending SOFA, Obama would not now be claiming to have "ended the war in Iraq" because it would still be going on. I mean, it still is, just with mercenaries and such, but it is perhaps a worthy semantic distinction. I just hate to see people give credit to Obama though, when all he did was "fail to extend," which is totally different from "intending to end."
Agreed. Both parties suck. That's why a voted a straight NO GOP/DNC ticket this year. Where I was left without other options... and by that I mean no third party no matter how nutty, I voted for my cat.
Well, another difference is that "progressives" will remain absolutely dead silent while Obama guts the civil rights portions of the Constitution, but if Romney is elected and tries to do the same thing, then they'll complain about. So ironically, civil rights are in less danger under the GOP.
That IR detector case is more than a decade old. And with the Obama appointment of the conservative Kagan, who voted to gut Miranda, don't expect the Supreme Court to stand in the way of the police state any more.
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Don't forget that the high capacity mags have a tendancy to jam so there really may not be all that much of a firing rate distinction between ten reliable ten round clips, and a jam prone 100 round clip. In fact, the reliable mags might well end up being more effective in the long run. As an example, the Colorodo Batman shooter was stymied by a jam in his 100 round magazine.
Encryption schemes are great for the present and immediate future, but what about ten years from now? There's no certainty that what is today unbreakable will not be trivial to brute force in a few years time, or some vulnerability will be discovered which renders the encryption worthless.
Obvious sister city candidate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania
Obama is just as well thank you very much.
(a public service announcement from the New GOP, formerly, the DNC)
Maybe, but they'd definitely ignore Hardin:
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
I have both (Kindle and Nexus 7) too. If I had bought the tablet first, I wouldn't haven't bought the Kindle. While reading text on the Kindle IS nicer than on the tablet, reading PDFs on the Kindle is a nightmare -- the page renders are slow and hard to make out, and moving around on a page isn't exactly a breeze. A PDF on the tablet is totally straightforward and renders perfectly.
What would be interesting however, would be a tablet with an Epaper touch display. Most of my beef with the Kindle is that for PDF applications, it is slow and clunky. Take that away by giving the device some processing power and a good resolution, plus the ability to run other apps, and the only downside to Epaper would be a lack of color. In other words, an Android tablet with an Epaper display might be interesting -- not for games -- but for reading the web, books, documents, emails, and stuff like that.
Its thinking like that enabled your forebears to survive and produce you. As for you, what will you do now that Twinkies are gone?
Thanks. I had thought slashdot a place for people who had an interest in the world and science. Glad I've been disabused of that notion.
Soooo, what's your favorite episode of Jersey Shore?
And? The difference between 71F and 73F is not exactly something a human is tuned to. Depending on where you live and what you acclimated to, that temperature range might represent a hot day, or a cold day, but it would be the rare person who says 71 is comfortable but 73 is suffocatingly hot. For most people, a weather report broken down by Low, Mid, High and the tens place is good enough, i.e., "expect temperatures in the high 50s tomorrow" is a common way to express a weather report and good enough for people to know how to dress.
I went with Jill Stein. I can say it went great. My vote did not contribute to evil. My vote registered as a protest to both the New GOP (aka Democrats) and the Old GOP (aka Parody-of-Itself). If Obama had lost, my vote may have triggered some New GOP soul searching. Obviously, I'll have to wait another election for any soul searching by the New GOP, but one can always hope.
In fact, I voted a straight "neither GOP nor New GOP" ticket this year and that is my plan till they change their ways. If they never do change their ways, nothing is lost. If they do, much is gained. But by just following the herd, there is absolutely no chance anything will ever get better and an absolute certainty things will get worse. Being a sheep is the worst option.
Well, how did it get those records? What are the records? What means is it using to get more records? Think a little.
Why trust the government? Our government sucks. It has no qualms about burning up 1.4 trillion making enemies around the world in favor of certain moneyed interests, but can't be bothered to do something actually useful for a fraction of the cost.
http://costofwar.com/
Same thing here. I put together a new machine this summer to replace my core 2 duo/intel system. Before that intel system I'd always had great luck with AMD/nVidia with respect to video stability. I've never experienced so many crashes in my life as I have with this system across multiple distros. Not even with the last version of Windows I ever used (ME) crashed this much. Of course, in the mid2000s AMD/nVidia was a really reliable choice and ATI was the nightmare, but that bit of old wisdom seems dead now.
Anyway, It's so bad I've been thinking of redoing the system with Intel stuff including Intel video, but I think I'll give ATI a try first. That's a lot cheaper and a lot less hassle than starting over, plus I won't have to basically toss $700 in parts. Hopefully it works out and I won't be tossing $740 in parts.
When I bought my first Android phone at T-Mobile some years back (MyTouch 3g) I walked in totally ready to buy the phone outright and get on a no contract plan. When I told the sales person that was what I wanted to do, he said "cool" and then went on to say that if I wanted to, I could get the same no contract plan, and finance the phone at 0% interest for 18 or 20 months -- can't recall exactly but something less than 2 years. Obviously that is a better deal even then just buying the phone outright so that's what I did. The phone payments were just added to my bill. Anyway, when T-Mobile gets to financing iPhones, maybe it will be doing a similar 0% interest financing plan which, if it can be used with a no-contract plan, is a real no brainer.
Evidence? I mean aside from the president said that. Do you have any actual evidence? I thought not.
In East Fuckyostan, the leader's word that you should die is good enough being a dictator and all that.
In America, we're supposed to have the right to contest the evidence against us and to be punished only after it is proven we ought to be.
Anyway, enjoy the Democratic Peoples Republic of America. Long live our dear leader: Obama.
Um ... no. Obama has taken us places GWB couldn't have because if GWB decided that his opinion alone sufficed as "due process" in the phrase "no person shall be deprived of life ... without due process of law," Democrats would have gone apeshit on him. But, when Obama says his opinion alone is "due process" (citation), Democrats say nothing at all. It's despicable partisanship.
So, the Bush Doctrine had some limits -- in the hands of a Democrat, there are none at all.
Anyway --- you should really think about that friendly kind peace loving Democrat Eric Holder's statement that "due process" does not mean judicial process. That is opening the door even further into authoritarianism -- a state where the President's unchallenged opinion is all that is required to kill you or put you in a gulag.
I don't know why this wa modded as 'troll' except for perhaps a lack of knowledge about recent history wherein US Born Anwar al-Awlaki was murdered by drone attack, without the application of any due process whatsoever, because of things he said. In other words, Obama murdered an American over exercising free speech rights. And yeah, Alwaki didn't say nice things, but think about the implications.
Think about the characteristics of leaders of the worst authoritarian governments, think about how the president believes he can kill anyone or jail anyone without trial. Think about how the president has usurped the power to make war from Congress totally (i.e., Libya). Think about the massive prison system based in our Land-Of-The-Free which houses more people on an absolute basis than any other in the world. Think about all this stuff and you might start rationally fearing the future.
That's the issue right there: revenue.
I live in a border county with Canada. They've started installing signs about a hundred yards ... well, meters ... in front of stoplights on major streets. The signs have two yellow flashing lights that flash and a message that says "be prepared to stop when flashing" -- in other words, the warning sign starts flashing and by the time you reach the intersection, the stop light has gone red even though way back when you noticed the warning sign, the stop light still showed green. So you know that even if the stop light is green, if the warning sign is flashing, it'll be red by the time you get there so slowing down is a good idea.
I suppose it will be some time before we know if the warning signs cause people to gun it for the intersection, or if it works as intended. I hope it is the latter because it is 1) unintrusive (no data collection), 2) directly aimed at the issue rather than a backdoor means for private profit at public expense, and 3) pretty darn simple (pole, board, paint, light bulb, timer).
This is fairly true.
I've used mac laptops for 7 or 8 years and my office uses macs too for all user positions. What I personally like most is that X11 forwarding over SSH is totally straightforward and the command line tools I'm used to work great. Add to that headache free Netflix streaming and I readily admit that I've found my mac systems to be both enjoyable and productive.
But I feel pretty bitter toward Apple because of these lawsuits. So when my wife said she wouldn't mind a tablet for Christmas, I pointed her at Android tablets. The iPad won't be on the list at all. I'm sure they're nice tablets, but Apple is being a bad actor and I'm not willing to support that any more than I have to (i.e., I will replace my laptop or office computers as necessary, but I'm not willing to pay Apple discretionary money).
1. This is a high school, not JPL. The secrets and technology contained in HS are barely worth the time of day and do not require extreme measures of protection.
2. Children are required to attend HS. Employment is totally voluntary.
Get 'em young, get 'em for life. The darker side of this is getting young people to accept constant tracking by agents of the government. Yes, we all have cell phones, but this is much more overt, and much more dangerous because like employment, having a cell phone is voluntary. Going to HS is not.
The many circumvention suggestions don't get around the fact that when today's teens and preteens are older, and have been conditioned to think that tracking is just a part of life, it will mean that most people will just put up with it accelerating the already alarming rate at which civil liberties are evaporating. Secretly circumventing the tracking will not in any way end the tracking -- it takes public protest and outrage, but where is that going to come from if tracking is accepted as a fact of life by most future adults and those who don't accept it, act in secret?
Very good thinking. Voting for a third party only in "safe" districts totally eviscerates the point of voting third party. No third party voter thinks their candidate has a snowball's chance, but see it as the only way to raise issues that are never raised due to bipartisan agreement by putting establishment pols at risk of losing elections.
As for the Tea Party, I think that is the perfect example of how naive it is to think that the GOP or DNC can be changed from within. The Tea Party was actually started by a guy who voted for Obama, but within a handful of months, it was totally hijacked by the GOP. There is no point in trying to fix the major parties -- they're a cancer on America and the only solution at this point is to excise them and irradiate the wound.
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Denninger
Karl's best quote on the demise/hijack of the Tea Party: "A financial blogger and ex-CEO credited with being one of the original 'founders' of the Tea Party has come out against the movement, saying it has been hijacked by the very people it was protesting and is now obsessed with 'guns, gays and God.' "
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/20/tea-party-founder-slams-tea-party/
Kudos for voting third party. Me too.
However, I feel obliged to correct a misconception about Obama. He did not "end the war in Iraq" --- he merely failed to extend it. In the months leading up to the expiration of SOFA, scheduled for Dec 2011, the Obama administration lobbied Iraq for an extension in order to keeps thousands, maybe up to 20,000 troops in Iraq. SOFA was a prerequisite for that because it forbids Iraq from prosecuting soldiers in Iraq, for crimes committed while they are in Iraq. Had Obama been successful at extending SOFA, Obama would not now be claiming to have "ended the war in Iraq" because it would still be going on. I mean, it still is, just with mercenaries and such, but it is perhaps a worthy semantic distinction. I just hate to see people give credit to Obama though, when all he did was "fail to extend," which is totally different from "intending to end."
Citations: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/10/23/obamas-revisionist-history-on-ending-the-iraq-war-a-lesson-from-the-3rd-presidential-debate/
and this from within the above:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704889404576277240145258616.html
Agreed. Both parties suck. That's why a voted a straight NO GOP/DNC ticket this year. Where I was left without other options ... and by that I mean no third party no matter how nutty, I voted for my cat.
Well, another difference is that "progressives" will remain absolutely dead silent while Obama guts the civil rights portions of the Constitution, but if Romney is elected and tries to do the same thing, then they'll complain about. So ironically, civil rights are in less danger under the GOP.
That IR detector case is more than a decade old. And with the Obama appointment of the conservative Kagan, who voted to gut Miranda, don't expect the Supreme Court to stand in the way of the police state any more.