I think the license plate is the least of your identification problems. The big Jet engine hanging out the back is a bit of a give away. I can just hear it now... "No officer, I was not speeding back there. That was the other VW Beatle with Jet engine; he just drove by why don't you check on up the road a bit."
Next comes "Please step out of the car sir" and the click sound of the handcuffs.
Fine but I don't need an implant to accomplish this. My house key, wrist watch, belt buckle, etc could be rfid enabled and when I want privacy I can remove them or wrap in foil whatever. Why on earth would I want some device implanted in my body. So it is not stolen. But if the signal can be read how long until somone clones it? It would be nice to call up and have something I carry disabled like I can if I loose my cell phone or something and just order a new one, rather then require surgry for a new implant. Implated RFID is just moronic period. It has tons of disadvantages and no meaningful advantages what-so-ever. Not to mention the possiblity it might turn out to be the mark of Satan. Anyone who gets this done is an fool.
Jamie adds: and all it took was twelve years of overwhelming scientific consensus.)
-- Consensus of a group of "scientists" mostly funded by leftist who are more then willing to take advantage of the general public confusion around causation and correlation to push their political agenda.
Part of owning albums form my favorite groups is being able to look at them on the self and get inspired to play it. I can't look at my usb-harddisk and get inspired to play Original Lookout~ recordings of Green Day like I can when I see them on my self. I don't get the same satisfaction scrolling through my playlist in XMMS as I do carefully removing the liner notes from the jewl case and looking at all the artwork along with the track titles and lyrics. This not to say I don't rip everything to mp3 so I can play it easily in the car or at work without risking harm to my physical media but at home I want to enjoy the originals. I can't imagine being willing to pay for an entire album and only getting the tracks like Itunes and the like think they are going to get me to do. Its not going to happen. There is also something to be said for going to the record store and flipping through everyting and maybe finding someting you were not looking for but remembery vagley from a party you were at with friends years ago or the like; Also not gonna happen looking at a search dialog box. Music is a part of my life and to be really connected to it has to be a tactile and real.
The thing is you probably would still have to worry about stuff like that. DotNet, JVM, type sandboxes as well as purely interpreted stuff like dialect, python, ruby, etc... only provide protection against that type of thing provided you don't go calling unmanaged code or still worse passing data back and forth with unmanaged code. One little call to WINAPI and it might be all over. Now you have throw often goofy pointer handeling/emulation of these enviornments into the mix along with the syscalls its almost as dangerouse as it ever was. Sure most of the code is mannaged and you have fewer points of entry for attack but when you write mannaged code you don't check the bonds on that array because you should not have to but what if something got changed when things were not managed no nobody is even looking most likely not the code and certainly not the managed enviornment.
You make a vailid point. I would argue both are wrong and shame on the individuals who condone it by continueing practices that they know result in such injustice when they have the influence to change them. I don't think the WallMart Shooper buying that $30 dollar DVD play is without fault either. Still though I would say the actions of Google and Micrsoft are worse in that assisting in censorship efforts IS very directly one of those activites that makes this horrid situation sustainable. Libery is something only purchased with blood and the fearlessness needed to be self-reliant. I think most the United States has lost that. If we were turly right minded still we should be doing everything possible to ensite a republican or democratic rebelion in nations like China, instead we sit back while others suffer for not and allow our own power to change the situation to continue to erode. Lots of friends look at me like I am crazy to want to stir up violence and war throught the world but ask yourself: Is it better that children should work their lives and health away in oppressive factories and people who dare speak their minds be imprisioned and killed so you can have a $30 dvd player or that those same people suffer and die so that their children might no a different life? I think most of them would go for the latter. Some people have to suffer that is the nature of the world we live in; but they don't have to suffer needlessly and the suffering need not go on forever.
Well yes you could change the orientation of the craft that way. Unless you actually apply some force away from the craft you won't change the trajectory its traveling at. So all the gyroscope is going to let you do is point the craft in the direction you want and let the ion engine gradually start pussing you in that direction while you continue to travel in the old direction.
No you don't have to compare apples to apples. I can install the latest most secure libraries and other servers on linux and still use an older version of X and a cut down WM if I want to . I could go console only and actually be quite productive with the availible tools again while retaining the ability to interface with the rest of the world over current popular channels. With windows you certainly can't run a console only system. You might be able to install that cut down WM but as soon as you try and run any software its gonna call almost all the cruft of explorer; meaning you'd have been better off running explorer. With slackware I can still install a workable system in about 200megs, with XP just the OS is 200megs and that does not get you any useful software.
I know these are not "out of the box" comparisons like Microsoft did but I don't think that is legit any way. Linux is able to leverage legacy hardware BECASE you can easily(in comparitive terms with Windows) build a light weight task specific system, or even a desktop with some compromises and still be using present generation software. Most people trying to do anything like that have a specific idea in mind and are not concerened with out of the box performance. This is a simple case of Windows being like running down to Worst Buy and buying a tuner and linux being more like busting open the digi catalog and ordering the parts to build one.
Why should people be allowed to operate a dangerous machine in public without a good understanding of how it works. If your engine sezies on the innerstate in front of me I COULD DIE. If people knew how an engine worked they'd have a much better understanding of when it needs critical attention. I think people SHOULD be required to know basic engine mechanics to drive a car. You are expected to know that stuff to get a pilots license for instance.
This has nothing to do with GW. I do agree that he did win as you say but that is not the point at all. The point is that as a citizen I have or should have a right to know how the ballot process works and it should be auditable. These things are not possible if the voteing machine is a black box and nobody but those who built it know what goes on inside. I don't know about but I am not sure I want to put my faith in some company who made a voteing box to conduct a fair election. These types of things are part of public life and their workings should be public domain. Its the same situation with the breathalizer and redlight camera trials going on around the country. If I am to be convicted of a crime based on some machine's results, I have a right to know how it works so that I could question the system's accuracy in court. Equipment that plays a roll in our democracy should be Open for all to see and understand if interested.
Government is supposed to be TRANSPARENT in a republic like ours. This is why you can watch congress on CSPAN, sit in on a trial, speak at your town meeting etc. The very fact that we allow all these things shows as a society we value this transparency. We should not allow it to be taken from us through the use of magic black boxes everywhere that nobody can talk about what they do or how they work because some company has a patent or won't release their soure or whatever. Any and ALL equipment used in our governing process should be Open Source pure and simple no exceptions this nation was built on transparency lets have some. In fact this really should be a Constitutional Amendment!
No because he swims in it. If the coins were packed solidly it would be way to dense to swim through. He has been filmed often actually swimming under the surface of the money and poping out. This means the density must be farily low... In conclusion there is not nearly as much gold in the MoneyBin as it could possibly hold so McDuck's wealth estimate is probably not under stated. He does have a stock ticker on the desk however and we don't know the value of his other holdings.
Well that is the dirtly little secret the news media does not ever tell you. Here in America racist is a villifing term. Someone calling you a racist publicly is more then enough to ruin your career.
The thing is its not like this in Europe their are lots of racists there and nobody seems to care about. Here in America the media tells us how much better and more egalitarian Europe is when the oposit is in fact true. Just look what happend in France a few weeks ago, hint more then anything else it was a race riot. Hint number two the people in power their are the RACISTS, one of the things that started it is certain officals called those groups "scum". In America if Bill Frist called a group of people that he would be out of office practically before the press conference was over. People here get in trouble for complementing former racist politions on their service at birthday parties for pete's sake. Get a clue slashdoters Europe and UN have just as many scoundrels as we have here in the stats. People are probably more clueless about reality, and for every good move the EU makes the USA proably made 10. Stop looking to a place with higher unemployeement, higher poverty rates, and more cultural hate issues, while at the same time paying farmers $40 a day to own cows(why?) as the bright spot for good ideas around societal evolution. Sure Europe gets it right some of the time but they are very far from perfect.
He is mostly crying about drivers. That is stupid the vendor likely provided driver software for the other platforms not their developers. He should be mad at who ever it was that made the printer not OSS they should have given him a driver for the platform if his argument holds up at all. I would say he should stop being an asshole and do some research before buying crap. You don't buy parts for your car until you know you have the right ones for your make and model. Why would you buy parts for your computer without makeing sure they are compatible with the rest of the system or if you do out of lazyness why would you come crying about it when it won't work?
Once again all those things promised with stem cells is looking possible via other methods. This is exactly why I was and remain opposed to research in that area. There are way to many ethical questions around stem cells that don't exist with grabbing a few nose cells. We hardly understand what we are doing with the nervous system in general. Its simply irresponsible and reckless to do experiments with what may be a human life itself when we have hardly exhausted and even examined the other possible avenues toward our goals.
Well see that is the thing. Everyone probably would be happy for a time. Microsoft does abusive things. Microsofts licensing is a major BS fest. Why? Every company wants to increase revenue and reduce costs to create more profit(That is why the exist). Trouble is Microsoft is a natural monopoly, which means their unit costs drop as the total units produce d increase. Since effectively everyone buys their product and the market is about as large as it can get they have only a couple options to increase profits. Sell more output by reducing the utility to the consumer so they will have to by more units. This is the goofy license policies that drive us all nuts. They could also charge more per unit. The trouble with the seccond option is that if you raise the price point to much you might enable others to compete profitably. If Google took the hill top they would probably have a few years of being nice before the pressure to increase profit gets to great. So we revel and enjoy for a time then go back to Slashdot and begin to hope for the great Google Killer.
They might well be getting hardware below costs. I am sure AMD would love to beable to put ads in CIO magazine saying look Google one of the most successful data companies and hottest stocks in the world are useing our chips for their really special projects. AMD and the other vendors here probably could not *PAY* for that kinda kick-ass PR and all google is asking them for is a little inventory at slightly under cost.
Umm but what about our need to evolve. If we lengthen the life span generations will probably be a greater distance a part. As people will for the most part choose to wait longer to reproduce. We do evolve immunities to disease and their is speculation our brains are growing etc. I bet in some small way darwinism still is in effect for us. Healthy people are more likely to reporduce then those who are unhealthy. Now thats far from certain plenty of people whith malities do reproduce but there is still a statistical effect. So given the world is changeing, regardless of wether or not humans are responcilbe, are we not possible shooting ourselves in the foot as a species, by makeing our life spans to long. I mean look how successful bacteria is as an organism. Most of that success can probably be directly attributed to the breif life span of a single cell, generations are frequent so adaptation/evolution is fast. We can observe the changes in hours.
I agree but it is also important to read the works of past generations as well so students do have a prespective on how we got to where we are. I had some pretty good instructors in my literature classes. They spent a good deal of time teaching history, and covered at least the greatest social and political events of the period the work came from. I do fell that there is a great deal of contemporary work that students don't get exposed to enough. They probably would find it more strait forward to study as well. Maybe instead of studing American literature and then British literature the next year like most schools seem to do now they should combine the most critical works of those to courses into one upper level class to be taken afer a contemporary literature course. They way some of these kids could get easied into developing some 5|/;|||z 7|-|33|\| |-|4\/3 47 7|-|3 c|4ss|cs and hopefully not by text message.
Those battery cables are designed to take 400 to 600 amps to power the starter motor! I grand you that its only for a limmited about of time but they don't melt when you have to give the car successive cranks either. Assuming we are talking about a low voltage DC power say 12v to run things like computers, TVs, radios, and alarm systems and keeping AC for the vacume cleaners, space heater, high wattage lighting, toasters etc, I should think we are only going to be needing to draw 10 - 20 amps on most circuits. That should be pretty safe with 12 gague wire, so sure a little thinker and a little pricer then the 14 gauge wire your AC is useing but not really that much.
Well its all symantecs. I would say thay Newton's laws are an incomplete model, in that sense they are wrong, were QM might be right. We know that QM will corectly explain any situation that Newton's laws can, the reverse is not true. Now, we also have were Newton works and does not work very well defined so his laws are still highly useful even if "wrong". After all figureing out how much force is on cars in an accident is a real world concern we often have working that out with Newtonian rules could be done by many where useing QM we probably would need you.
Actually they should not have to have a mountain of evidence. They only need ONE experiment or observation of nature that can't be explained or is contridicted by QM to show its wrong or incomplete. To proffer any new theory they'd need to show that it corectly predicts or explains everything that QM does and some cases QM does not. These observations and experiments must be independantly verified by others. That way we know they are not simply errors.
In truth this is a very cool if obvious idea. I had considered this myself, not to imply I have the skill to implement this sort of thing. I can see priority mode access being next to impossible this way, because the timing to ensure you don't miss the coordination info; but CSMA/CA seems like it would not take much modification to the driver beyond a round-robin setup to listen to each network for a fixed time, and a queues hold packets to be sent until the card is on the appropriate network. Sure you would drop tons of packet that are sent while you are on the other network but we can always count on TCP to re-send those if the durations of time quantum are shorter then the senders sliding window for the given transmit rate.
Now for the cheap shoot at M$. If it can't support WEP or WPA then you basically can't connect to any network besides Bubba's default Linksys from the street. In such place there is likely only one network anyway. So leave it to M$ for frosting more useless bloat on to the winders cake. Hopefully someone will make an OSS version that is usable.
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I think the license plate is the least of your identification problems. The big Jet engine hanging out the back is a bit of a give away. I can just hear it now... "No officer, I was not speeding back there. That was the other VW Beatle with Jet engine; he just drove by why don't you check on up the road a bit."
Next comes "Please step out of the car sir" and the click sound of the handcuffs.
Fine but I don't need an implant to accomplish this. My house key, wrist watch, belt buckle, etc could be rfid enabled and when I want privacy I can remove them or wrap in foil whatever. Why on earth would I want some device implanted in my body. So it is not stolen. But if the signal can be read how long until somone clones it? It would be nice to call up and have something I carry disabled like I can if I loose my cell phone or something and just order a new one, rather then require surgry for a new implant. Implated RFID is just moronic period. It has tons of disadvantages and no meaningful advantages what-so-ever. Not to mention the possiblity it might turn out to be the mark of Satan. Anyone who gets this done is an fool.
Jamie adds: and all it took was twelve years of overwhelming scientific consensus.)
-- Consensus of a group of "scientists" mostly funded by leftist who are more then willing to take advantage of the general public confusion around causation and correlation to push their political agenda.
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Part of owning albums form my favorite groups is being able to look at them on the self and get inspired to play it. I can't look at my usb-harddisk and get inspired to play Original Lookout~ recordings of Green Day like I can when I see them on my self. I don't get the same satisfaction scrolling through my playlist in XMMS as I do carefully removing the liner notes from the jewl case and looking at all the artwork along with the track titles and lyrics. This not to say I don't rip everything to mp3 so I can play it easily in the car or at work without risking harm to my physical media but at home I want to enjoy the originals. I can't imagine being willing to pay for an entire album and only getting the tracks like Itunes and the like think they are going to get me to do. Its not going to happen. There is also something to be said for going to the record store and flipping through everyting and maybe finding someting you were not looking for but remembery vagley from a party you were at with friends years ago or the like; Also not gonna happen looking at a search dialog box. Music is a part of my life and to be really connected to it has to be a tactile and real.
The thing is you probably would still have to worry about stuff like that. DotNet, JVM, type sandboxes as well as purely interpreted stuff like dialect, python, ruby, etc... only provide protection against that type of thing provided you don't go calling unmanaged code or still worse passing data back and forth with unmanaged code. One little call to WINAPI and it might be all over. Now you have throw often goofy pointer handeling/emulation of these enviornments into the mix along with the syscalls its almost as dangerouse as it ever was. Sure most of the code is mannaged and you have fewer points of entry for attack but when you write mannaged code you don't check the bonds on that array because you should not have to but what if something got changed when things were not managed no nobody is even looking most likely not the code and certainly not the managed enviornment.
You make a vailid point. I would argue both are wrong and shame on the individuals who condone it by continueing practices that they know result in such injustice when they have the influence to change them. I don't think the WallMart Shooper buying that $30 dollar DVD play is without fault either. Still though I would say the actions of Google and Micrsoft are worse in that assisting in censorship efforts IS very directly one of those activites that makes this horrid situation sustainable. Libery is something only purchased with blood and the fearlessness needed to be self-reliant. I think most the United States has lost that. If we were turly right minded still we should be doing everything possible to ensite a republican or democratic rebelion in nations like China, instead we sit back while others suffer for not and allow our own power to change the situation to continue to erode. Lots of friends look at me like I am crazy to want to stir up violence and war throught the world but ask yourself: Is it better that children should work their lives and health away in oppressive factories and people who dare speak their minds be imprisioned and killed so you can have a $30 dvd player or that those same people suffer and die so that their children might no a different life? I think most of them would go for the latter. Some people have to suffer that is the nature of the world we live in; but they don't have to suffer needlessly and the suffering need not go on forever.
Well yes you could change the orientation of the craft that way. Unless you actually apply some force away from the craft you won't change the trajectory its traveling at. So all the gyroscope is going to let you do is point the craft in the direction you want and let the ion engine gradually start pussing you in that direction while you continue to travel in the old direction.
No you don't have to compare apples to apples. I can install the latest most secure libraries and other servers on linux and still use an older version of X and a cut down WM if I want to . I could go console only and actually be quite productive with the availible tools again while retaining the ability to interface with the rest of the world over current popular channels. With windows you certainly can't run a console only system. You might be able to install that cut down WM but as soon as you try and run any software its gonna call almost all the cruft of explorer; meaning you'd have been better off running explorer. With slackware I can still install a workable system in about 200megs, with XP just the OS is 200megs and that does not get you any useful software.
I know these are not "out of the box" comparisons like Microsoft did but I don't think that is legit any way. Linux is able to leverage legacy hardware BECASE you can easily(in comparitive terms with Windows) build a light weight task specific system, or even a desktop with some compromises and still be using present generation software. Most people trying to do anything like that have a specific idea in mind and are not concerened with out of the box performance. This is a simple case of Windows being like running down to Worst Buy and buying a tuner and linux being more like busting open the digi catalog and ordering the parts to build one.
Thank you for having a sane plan for taxation and a good argument for it. Would you like run for president, pretty please.
Why should people be allowed to operate a dangerous machine in public without a good understanding of how it works. If your engine sezies on the innerstate in front of me I COULD DIE. If people knew how an engine worked they'd have a much better understanding of when it needs critical attention. I think people SHOULD be required to know basic engine mechanics to drive a car. You are expected to know that stuff to get a pilots license for instance.
This has nothing to do with GW. I do agree that he did win as you say but that is not the point at all. The point is that as a citizen I have or should have a right to know how the ballot process works and it should be auditable. These things are not possible if the voteing machine is a black box and nobody but those who built it know what goes on inside. I don't know about but I am not sure I want to put my faith in some company who made a voteing box to conduct a fair election. These types of things are part of public life and their workings should be public domain. Its the same situation with the breathalizer and redlight camera trials going on around the country. If I am to be convicted of a crime based on some machine's results, I have a right to know how it works so that I could question the system's accuracy in court. Equipment that plays a roll in our democracy should be Open for all to see and understand if interested.
Government is supposed to be TRANSPARENT in a republic like ours. This is why you can watch congress on CSPAN, sit in on a trial, speak at your town meeting etc. The very fact that we allow all these things shows as a society we value this transparency. We should not allow it to be taken from us through the use of magic black boxes everywhere that nobody can talk about what they do or how they work because some company has a patent or won't release their soure or whatever. Any and ALL equipment used in our governing process should be Open Source pure and simple no exceptions this nation was built on transparency lets have some. In fact this really should be a Constitutional Amendment!
He the grand parent was a reference to Microsoft's Balmer trying to whip people up at a conference you fool.
No because he swims in it. If the coins were packed solidly it would be way to dense to swim through. He has been filmed often actually swimming under the surface of the money and poping out. This means the density must be farily low... In conclusion there is not nearly as much gold in the MoneyBin as it could possibly hold so McDuck's wealth estimate is probably not under stated. He does have a stock ticker on the desk however and we don't know the value of his other holdings.
Well that is the dirtly little secret the news media does not ever tell you. Here in America racist is a villifing term. Someone calling you a racist publicly is more then enough to ruin your career.
The thing is its not like this in Europe their are lots of racists there and nobody seems to care about. Here in America the media tells us how much better and more egalitarian Europe is when the oposit is in fact true. Just look what happend in France a few weeks ago, hint more then anything else it was a race riot. Hint number two the people in power their are the RACISTS, one of the things that started it is certain officals called those groups "scum". In America if Bill Frist called a group of people that he would be out of office practically before the press conference was over. People here get in trouble for complementing former racist politions on their service at birthday parties for pete's sake. Get a clue slashdoters Europe and UN have just as many scoundrels as we have here in the stats. People are probably more clueless about reality, and for every good move the EU makes the USA proably made 10. Stop looking to a place with higher unemployeement, higher poverty rates, and more cultural hate issues, while at the same time paying farmers $40 a day to own cows(why?) as the bright spot for good ideas around societal evolution. Sure Europe gets it right some of the time but they are very far from perfect.
He is mostly crying about drivers. That is stupid the vendor likely provided driver software for the other platforms not their developers. He should be mad at who ever it was that made the printer not OSS they should have given him a driver for the platform if his argument holds up at all. I would say he should stop being an asshole and do some research before buying crap. You don't buy parts for your car until you know you have the right ones for your make and model. Why would you buy parts for your computer without makeing sure they are compatible with the rest of the system or if you do out of lazyness why would you come crying about it when it won't work?
Once again all those things promised with stem cells is looking possible via other methods. This is exactly why I was and remain opposed to research in that area. There are way to many ethical questions around stem cells that don't exist with grabbing a few nose cells. We hardly understand what we are doing with the nervous system in general. Its simply irresponsible and reckless to do experiments with what may be a human life itself when we have hardly exhausted and even examined the other possible avenues toward our goals.
Well see that is the thing. Everyone probably would be happy for a time. Microsoft does abusive things. Microsofts licensing is a major BS fest. Why? Every company wants to increase revenue and reduce costs to create more profit(That is why the exist). Trouble is Microsoft is a natural monopoly, which means their unit costs drop as the total units produce d increase. Since effectively everyone buys their product and the market is about as large as it can get they have only a couple options to increase profits. Sell more output by reducing the utility to the consumer so they will have to by more units. This is the goofy license policies that drive us all nuts. They could also charge more per unit. The trouble with the seccond option is that if you raise the price point to much you might enable others to compete profitably. If Google took the hill top they would probably have a few years of being nice before the pressure to increase profit gets to great. So we revel and enjoy for a time then go back to Slashdot and begin to hope for the great Google Killer.
They might well be getting hardware below costs. I am sure AMD would love to beable to put ads in CIO magazine saying look Google one of the most successful data companies and hottest stocks in the world are useing our chips for their really special projects. AMD and the other vendors here probably could not *PAY* for that kinda kick-ass PR and all google is asking them for is a little inventory at slightly under cost.
My cat will sometimes eat grass as well but I think it would hardly be fair to say he is a grazing animal.
Umm but what about our need to evolve. If we lengthen the life span generations will probably be a greater distance a part. As people will for the most part choose to wait longer to reproduce. We do evolve immunities to disease and their is speculation our brains are growing etc. I bet in some small way darwinism still is in effect for us. Healthy people are more likely to reporduce then those who are unhealthy. Now thats far from certain plenty of people whith malities do reproduce but there is still a statistical effect. So given the world is changeing, regardless of wether or not humans are responcilbe, are we not possible shooting ourselves in the foot as a species, by makeing our life spans to long. I mean look how successful bacteria is as an organism. Most of that success can probably be directly attributed to the breif life span of a single cell, generations are frequent so adaptation/evolution is fast. We can observe the changes in hours.
I agree but it is also important to read the works of past generations as well so students do have a prespective on how we got to where we are. I had some pretty good instructors in my literature classes. They spent a good deal of time teaching history, and covered at least the greatest social and political events of the period the work came from. I do fell that there is a great deal of contemporary work that students don't get exposed to enough. They probably would find it more strait forward to study as well. Maybe instead of studing American literature and then British literature the next year like most schools seem to do now they should combine the most critical works of those to courses into one upper level class to be taken afer a contemporary literature course. They way some of these kids could get easied into developing some 5|/;|||z 7|-|33|\| |-|4\/3 47 7|-|3 c|4ss|cs and hopefully not by text message.
Those battery cables are designed to take 400 to 600 amps to power the starter motor! I grand you that its only for a limmited about of time but they don't melt when you have to give the car successive cranks either. Assuming we are talking about a low voltage DC power say 12v to run things like computers, TVs, radios, and alarm systems and keeping AC for the vacume cleaners, space heater, high wattage lighting, toasters etc, I should think we are only going to be needing to draw 10 - 20 amps on most circuits. That should be pretty safe with 12 gague wire, so sure a little thinker and a little pricer then the 14 gauge wire your AC is useing but not really that much.
Well its all symantecs. I would say thay Newton's laws are an incomplete model, in that sense they are wrong, were QM might be right. We know that QM will corectly explain any situation that Newton's laws can, the reverse is not true. Now, we also have were Newton works and does not work very well defined so his laws are still highly useful even if "wrong". After all figureing out how much force is on cars in an accident is a real world concern we often have working that out with Newtonian rules could be done by many where useing QM we probably would need you.
Actually they should not have to have a mountain of evidence. They only need ONE experiment or observation of nature that can't be explained or is contridicted by QM to show its wrong or incomplete. To proffer any new theory they'd need to show that it corectly predicts or explains everything that QM does and some cases QM does not. These observations and experiments must be independantly verified by others. That way we know they are not simply errors.
In truth this is a very cool if obvious idea. I had considered this myself, not to imply I have the skill to implement this sort of thing. I can see priority mode access being next to impossible this way, because the timing to ensure you don't miss the coordination info; but CSMA/CA seems like it would not take much modification to the driver beyond a round-robin setup to listen to each network for a fixed time, and a queues hold packets to be sent until the card is on the appropriate network. Sure you would drop tons of packet that are sent while you are on the other network but we can always count on TCP to re-send those if the durations of time quantum are shorter then the senders sliding window for the given transmit rate.
Now for the cheap shoot at M$. If it can't support WEP or WPA then you basically can't connect to any network besides Bubba's default Linksys from the street. In such place there is likely only one network anyway. So leave it to M$ for frosting more useless bloat on to the winders cake. Hopefully someone will make an OSS version that is usable.