I will happily pay more for fruit if the worker that picked it was making at least minimum wage and I know a ton of people without jobs that will take *anything* at this point.
The farmer needs someone who knows how to pick fruit quickly and efficiently without damage.
It is not easy as it looks.
These jobs are traditionally piece work and you have to be damn good at them to make any real money,
Tell me why Apple would want to go head to head with global industrial giants like Mitsubishi and Samsung. These are companies with huge strengths in their home markets and brand name recognition in the West. Companies quite capable of building sophisticated Internet enabled HDTVs without any help from Apple.
How much will all this cost and who is going to pay for it?
What are the numbers for the last mile, the single residential household? The hardware requirements for in-home distribution?
Download.com alone has logged over 400,000 downloads of Skype 5.1for the Mac since May 27. Skype for Mac
FaceTime is a 13 MB download, Skype 20 MB. Close enough.
Skype is a VoIP or the masses.The client will be shaped by their needs and not yours. That is the price you pay for being able to call out to 700 million users.
With Cars 2, Pixar will have released twelve feature films in sixteen years. Brad Bird, who is 53, has directed three animated features, beginning with the Iron Giant in 1999.
Talent at this level is rare and spent prodigiously on projects that may be five to ten years in development.
Man you should chill out a bit and keep your anger directed towards Cheney, his banker friends and the likes who actually screw you up the ass, not a bunch of teenagers playing some high-profile pranks.
No one is making any fine distinctions anymore between white hat and black hat. People don't care about the hacker's causes. They don't care if he is out for a laugh or going for the gold.
What they do care about is that he is getting in their way.
Ok, what alternatives does Skype have that work on Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows? Preferably Open Source.
Nowhere are networking effects more important than in a telephone system.
There are about 700 million Skpe accounts.
The user can call out to almost land line bound or mobile phone on the planet - and the client is available for damn near every device which has a microphone, a camera, and a connection to the Internet.
Ham radio enthusiasts have been doing this forever. Point your favorite directional antenna at a weather satellite and download today's weather fax. Not that difficult.
Are you downloading the raw data or a fax service for ships at sea?
Information is not a substitute for understanding.
Osage County has an area of 2,304 square miles. (5,967 km)
It is the most populous (44,000) and the second-largest geographically (to Corson County, South Dakota) of the six U.S. counties that lie entirely within an Indian reservation. Osage County, Oklahoma
The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy.
It is protected as the largest tract of remaining tallgrass prairie in the world. The preserve contains 39,000 acres (160 km2) owned by the Conservancy and another 6,000 acres (24 km2) leased in what was the original tallgrass region of the Great Plains that stretched from Texas to Manitoba.
The tallgrass prairie owes its existence to fire, whether caused by lightening or manmade. Without fire, the prairie quickly becomes brushland. The Indians were aware of this and burned the prairie regularly to nurture new growth of succulent grasses and to kill intrusive trees and shrubs. The Nature Conservancy has continued this practice with a process called "patch burning" in which about one-third of the prairie is burned each year.
Prior to its purchase by the Nature Conservancy in 1989, the preserve was called the Barnard Ranch which had been part of the Chapman-Barnard ranch of 100,000 acres (400 km2).
Even if you ignore the Altair, and require a personal computer to be something with a keyboard and monitor, the Apple I and Apple II were out before the IBM PC (and far superior).
Not for office work.
Why do you think Microsoft's Z80 CP/M Softcard sold so well?
The Apple II has a 40 column display and NTSC or PAL output.
The Apple II keyboard - sans keypad - was awkwardly integrated into the hard shell case.
The IBM was keyboard perfection:
Byte magazine in the fall of 1981 went so far as to state that the keyboard was 50% of the reason to buy an IBM PC.
Modern OSs provide such an API for playing audio and video, and some (ie. Mac OS and Windows) even provide licensed proprietary codecs... not to mention that OS-provided codecs often work with things like video drivers to provide hardware acceleration that is transparent to applications.
Canonical licenses both MP3 audio and H.264 video for its OEM partners: which may help to explain why the Ubuntu Linux PC has some presence and visibility on retail shelves.
I've long longed for a USB hardware device containing a small crypto-processor, a public/private keypair, and a button. Given a standardized interface (as standardized as USB block-devices) it would make a perfect key-solution to keep in my physical keychain to identify myself in all kinds of circumstances.
What happens when your keychain is lost or stolen?
I don't want to sound like a tinfoil hatter (even if I do), but something tells me that these guys are contracted by the government because supporters of the Patriot Act are thinning in numbers.
LulzSec has been rapidly escalating its campaigns since the legislation has been passed. It was not on anyone's radar during the debate in Congress.
May 27, 2011:
Overcoming objections from a bipartisan clutch of libertarian-minded lawmakers, the legislation passed the Senate, 72 to 23, and the House, 250 to 153.
Senator Rand Paul won a small battle with his opposition to the Patriot Act by reaching a deal with Congressional leadership to add votes on two amendments, one of which would exempt some gun records from government searches.
That was the score late Thursday afternoon following Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) announcement that after days of grueling debate over the renewal of three key Patriot Act provisions, Senate leaders had reached a deal on allowing votes on two amendments proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Under the agreement, announced less than nine hours before the law currently extending the Patriot Act provisions was to expire, the Senate would vote on two amendments proposed by Paul: one that would limit "suspicious activity" reporting requirements under the Act to requests from law enforcement agencies, and another -- the one that had seen the greatest opposition from Reid -- that would exempt certain gun records from being searched under the counterterrorism surveillance law.
The victory for Paul wasn't so much that either of his amendments would pass -- in fact, both fell well short of the 60-vote threshold necessary for approval, with the gun-rights amendment receiving the support of only 10 senators.
Rather, it was that after days of vowing to block the passage of the Patriot Act extension -- even at the risk of missing Thursday's deadline -- Paul, a tea-party freshman who has served in the Senate for less than five months, was granted votes on his two amendments.
You can't just ban software. There is absolutely no practical way to stop people from sharing code, and there fucking shouldn't be. If you ban these tools, the only people seriously affected will be the white hats.
I am not convinced that anyone but the geek is making the white hat/black hat distinction anymore.
You can criminalize the possession of a tool if you are not a legitimate - licensed or registered - user. The locksmith and the burglar have been bound by such laws for generations.
At this point, trying to push the term "cracking" is futile. We won't change anyone's mind. In fact, all we'll do is come across as semantics-arguing dweebs.
It is much worse than that.
The distinction between white hat and black hat is being lost as well.
No one cares anymore about the hacker's political causes. His technical skills. His geek cred. No one cares anymore whether he is out for laugh or going for the gold.
The boiling point was perhaps Sony's lawsuit against George Hotz, but this must have roots way back. I dare suggest it has something to do with the image hackers have received from the media and public over the years.
If you think the hacker community is angry, you ought to hear others are saying about the hacker --- "going for the Lutz " is going to make things a lot worse before they get better.
Slashdot Mirror
I will happily pay more for fruit if the worker that picked it was making at least minimum wage and I know a ton of people without jobs that will take *anything* at this point.
The farmer needs someone who knows how to pick fruit quickly and efficiently without damage.
It is not easy as it looks.
These jobs are traditionally piece work and you have to be damn good at them to make any real money,
I was driving at 6; mostly around a farm but occasionally on the road. I was probably safer than the average 80 year old.
I was raised on a farm and saw far too many young kids on tractors. I know exactly how safe you were --- which is to say, not safe at all.
It was hand drawn.
Emanuel Ninger's impressionistic conterfeit $50 bills were hand drawn, one by one, rather than being engraved and printed.
It was quite an achievement, but no less illegal.
When your stated intent is to recreate the original album art as best you can, the tech you use no longer matters.
Ah age discrimination the number 1 strike. interesting considering age discrimination is against the law in all 50 states.
52 is a hell of an age to be starting over, particularly with the baggage this guy will be carrying into his next job.
I'm sure a quick lawsuit will fix the whole situation
When you violate the terms of your suspended sentence and probation you go directly to jail. You do not pass Go. You do not collect $200.
Tell me why Apple would want to go head to head with global industrial giants like Mitsubishi and Samsung. These are companies with huge strengths in their home markets and brand name recognition in the West. Companies quite capable of building sophisticated Internet enabled HDTVs without any help from Apple.
How much will all this cost and who is going to pay for it? What are the numbers for the last mile, the single residential household? The hardware requirements for in-home distribution?
why are six of the last 7 stories tagged with 'idiocracy'?
I blame it on Bitcoin. It rots the geek mind.
For no jail time, I think it was almost worth it. Too bad Terry Childs didn't get the same deal.
Strike 1:
This guy is 52 years old.
Strike 2:
He pled guilty to a felony charge directly related to IT - and one guaranteed to make him all but unemployable even as a greeter at Walmart.
Strike 3.
His probation forbids posession of software "enabing remote access and monitoring of other computers." He can't work out of his home.
And then all kids, and all senior citizens, and felons, and immigrants
The Slippery Slope fallacy in its purest form.
The caretakers of the elderly are often elderly themselves. There is a need here.
How can someone who has never entered the US be convicted to 60 years for breaking US laws??
The gun was fired in Ontario.
The victim falls dead in New York.
You cannot allow a murderer to escape prosecution because he commits his crimes by remote control from some safe haven across the border.
It comes down to two choices:
Extradition under an established legal process.
Action outside the law by the victim's family or the state. Bin Laden is the perfect example.
An Update On Skype For Mac
April 1
77 replies, the last posted April 16.
Download.com alone has logged over 400,000 downloads of Skype 5.1for the Mac since May 27. Skype for Mac
FaceTime is a 13 MB download, Skype 20 MB.
Close enough.
Skype is a VoIP or the masses.The client will be shaped by their needs and not yours. That is the price you pay for being able to call out to 700 million users.
Intellectual property has no built-in scarcity
Distribution is not production.
With Cars 2, Pixar will have released twelve feature films in sixteen years. Brad Bird, who is 53, has directed three animated features, beginning with the Iron Giant in 1999.
Talent at this level is rare and spent prodigiously on projects that may be five to ten years in development.
Man you should chill out a bit and keep your anger directed towards Cheney, his banker friends and the likes who actually screw you up the ass, not a bunch of teenagers playing some high-profile pranks.
No one is making any fine distinctions anymore between white hat and black hat. People don't care about the hacker's causes. They don't care if he is out for a laugh or going for the gold.
What they do care about is that he is getting in their way.
Ok, what alternatives does Skype have that work on Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows? Preferably Open Source.
Nowhere are networking effects more important than in a telephone system.
There are about 700 million Skpe accounts.
The user can call out to almost land line bound or mobile phone on the planet - and the client is available for damn near every device which has a microphone, a camera, and a connection to the Internet.
Ham radio enthusiasts have been doing this forever. Point your favorite directional antenna at a weather satellite and download today's weather fax. Not that difficult.
Are you downloading the raw data or a fax service for ships at sea?
Information is not a substitute for understanding.
It is the most populous (44,000) and the second-largest geographically (to Corson County, South Dakota) of the six U.S. counties that lie entirely within an Indian reservation. Osage County, Oklahoma
The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy.
It is protected as the largest tract of remaining tallgrass prairie in the world. The preserve contains 39,000 acres (160 km2) owned by the Conservancy and another 6,000 acres (24 km2) leased in what was the original tallgrass region of the Great Plains that stretched from Texas to Manitoba.
The tallgrass prairie owes its existence to fire, whether caused by lightening or manmade. Without fire, the prairie quickly becomes brushland. The Indians were aware of this and burned the prairie regularly to nurture new growth of succulent grasses and to kill intrusive trees and shrubs. The Nature Conservancy has continued this practice with a process called "patch burning" in which about one-third of the prairie is burned each year.
Prior to its purchase by the Nature Conservancy in 1989, the preserve was called the Barnard Ranch which had been part of the Chapman-Barnard ranch of 100,000 acres (400 km2).
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
The tall grass can be ten feet high.
The geek has no sense of distance or scale as the westerner understands it. The view the Osage wants to protect is a tiny fraction of its holdings ---
and there nothing the like of it to be found anywhere else on earth.
Even if you ignore the Altair, and require a personal computer to be something with a keyboard and monitor, the Apple I and Apple II were out before the IBM PC (and far superior).
Not for office work.
Why do you think Microsoft's Z80 CP/M Softcard sold so well?
The Apple II has a 40 column display and NTSC or PAL output.
The Apple II keyboard - sans keypad - was awkwardly integrated into the hard shell case.
The IBM was keyboard perfection:
Byte magazine in the fall of 1981 went so far as to state that the keyboard was 50% of the reason to buy an IBM PC.
IBM Personal Computer
Modern OSs provide such an API for playing audio and video, and some (ie. Mac OS and Windows) even provide licensed proprietary codecs... not to mention that OS-provided codecs often work with things like video drivers to provide hardware acceleration that is transparent to applications.
Canonical licenses both MP3 audio and H.264 video for its OEM partners: which may help to explain why the Ubuntu Linux PC has some presence and visibility on retail shelves.
Licensed Companies, AVC/H.264 Licensees
I've long longed for a USB hardware device containing a small crypto-processor, a public/private keypair, and a button. Given a standardized interface (as standardized as USB block-devices) it would make a perfect key-solution to keep in my physical keychain to identify myself in all kinds of circumstances.
What happens when your keychain is lost or stolen?
I don't want to sound like a tinfoil hatter (even if I do), but something tells me that these guys are contracted by the government because supporters of the Patriot Act are thinning in numbers.
LulzSec has been rapidly escalating its campaigns since the legislation has been passed. It was not on anyone's radar during the debate in Congress.
May 27, 2011:
Overcoming objections from a bipartisan clutch of libertarian-minded lawmakers, the legislation passed the Senate, 72 to 23, and the House, 250 to 153.
Senator Rand Paul won a small battle with his opposition to the Patriot Act by reaching a deal with Congressional leadership to add votes on two amendments, one of which would exempt some gun records from government searches.
That was the score late Thursday afternoon following Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) announcement that after days of grueling debate over the renewal of three key Patriot Act provisions, Senate leaders had reached a deal on allowing votes on two amendments proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Under the agreement, announced less than nine hours before the law currently extending the Patriot Act provisions was to expire, the Senate would vote on two amendments proposed by Paul: one that would limit "suspicious activity" reporting requirements under the Act to requests from law enforcement agencies, and another -- the one that had seen the greatest opposition from Reid -- that would exempt certain gun records from being searched under the counterterrorism surveillance law.
The victory for Paul wasn't so much that either of his amendments would pass -- in fact, both fell well short of the 60-vote threshold necessary for approval, with the gun-rights amendment receiving the support of only 10 senators.
Rather, it was that after days of vowing to block the passage of the Patriot Act extension -- even at the risk of missing Thursday's deadline -- Paul, a tea-party freshman who has served in the Senate for less than five months, was granted votes on his two amendments.
Patriot Act extension signed into law despite bipartisan resistance in Congress
You can't just ban software. There is absolutely no practical way to stop people from sharing code, and there fucking shouldn't be. If you ban these tools, the only people seriously affected will be the white hats.
I am not convinced that anyone but the geek is making the white hat/black hat distinction anymore.
You can criminalize the possession of a tool if you are not a legitimate - licensed or registered - user. The locksmith and the burglar have been bound by such laws for generations.
At this point, trying to push the term "cracking" is futile. We won't change anyone's mind. In fact, all we'll do is come across as semantics-arguing dweebs.
It is much worse than that.
The distinction between white hat and black hat is being lost as well.
No one cares anymore about the hacker's political causes. His technical skills. His geek cred. No one cares anymore whether he is out for laugh or going for the gold.
To the public he is simply an arsonist.
The boiling point was perhaps Sony's lawsuit against George Hotz, but this must have roots way back. I dare suggest it has something to do with the image hackers have received from the media and public over the years.
If you think the hacker community is angry, you ought to hear others are saying about the hacker --- "going for the Lutz " is going to make things a lot worse before they get better.
This is state of most modern games.
No it isn't.
The modern game is Batman: Arkham City.
Bioshock: Infinite. There are solid entries emerging from E3 in every genre.
Overglossy graphics, crappy game play, rollercoaster ride.
The one thing you can't accuse DNF of being is "glossy."
I don't object to a rollercaster run - if by that you mean linear game play - when it delivers one hell of a ride, like the original Half-Life.