For the last and final time you are NOT going to see IpV6 any time soon. Powerful forces WANT you to be NATed. They would like your ISP to provide you an address that is already NATed if they don't already. Would IpV6 be great yes yes it would and it does solve most of the problems with IpV4 especially running out of host address. The powers that be don't want more 'hosts' on the internet though. They want only corporation and select groups of publishers to be hosts. The rest of you are to be clients so you can pay for the services they host. They don't want to have to compete with community hosted sites. The telcos many of whom make up the internet back bone don't want you makeing free calls with VOIP they want their toll networks used. They don't want you running P2P apps without more difficulty then Joe Sixpack can manage. Yes when universal NAT does break p2p profoundly Joe Sixpack will be upset but still won't understand the need to demand IpV6. He also will simply continue to wonder where this promised internet phone whent and pay his long-distance bill every month.
IpV6 is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN any time soon don't hold your breath. When it does eventually happen they will make sure whatever is availible at comsumer costs is hopelessly crippled.
I say it comes down to this. We have it now, we built it and they want it. Why in the world should we give it to them without getting something in return. These are nations of people who can't even say kind words about us often. I say forget it. If we are going to give up control of the root DNS servers I want something for it. Something big. I think we should sell them control. The UN can have it for a 400billion per year anuitiy for the next 20 years. That would be pretty fare.
Your 'lack of trust' in the USA is you're problem. We have done EXACTLY what we said in public we were going to do, at least with respect to the 'events' that I am sure you are thinking of. There has been no duplicity what so ever, so we the USA says we don't tell ICANN what to do, we don't and we won't. You can dislike our behavior if you want but we have done nothing to earn distrust.
I say the US did all the leg work controll of the internet that exists todoay rightfully belongs to us. If they don't like it run their own DNS, and watch it FAIL because the economic buying power of America means you have to have you're site on our servers or you might as well not exist. This is just another UN power grab. Its a currpt organization that is EVIL and run by EVIL people who try and paint us the freedome spreaders as criminals while they sanction theft and abuse the world over. If I were Bush I would kick the whole damn organization out of NYC and off American soil and tell all those "diplomats" for those nations we are at war with begone with in 24 hours or be a prisoner.
I must say you make many vaild points. I like your "inflexible asshole" plan myself. Unfortunitly the people on Washington on both sides of the isle have become way out of touch with the people they supposedly represent. The "inflexible asshole" unless smart enough, like Robert's seemed to be, to make the committee members asking the questions apprear to be the fools they are will be ripped to shreds. So unless someone can be found who is smart enough to beat them all in a fair debate, someone with the skills to beguile them will have to do. That person probably is a lawyer or in sales. Given all that its your concerns that should worry us not what they have been seen trying to sell in the past.
Lawyers have a job, so do judges. A lawyers task is to argue any point, philosophy and set of facts and precedents that he/she thinks will favorably impact the outcome of the case for the client. They are essentially sales men. No sales person ever came to you and said "Hey I think this product is a pice of total crap personaly but anyway you should by one." No they keep the discussion focused on the virtue of the product. Working for Microsoft ment she had to convince those she was asked to speak with, be they judges, officials, customers or whoever, that Microsofts positions were sensible and legally correct, not that she personally felt that way. The fact she worked for Microsoft means only she was paid to do a job.
It all depends on what you are doing. If you are opening a word document then NO it does not matter. If you are trying to record realtime video capture then yes chances are you need the greatest FS throughput possible and you also can't spare tons of extra CPU to make that happen. Some holds true if you are running a big database or acting as a busy file server.
FUSE and LUFS are great ideas and should be included in the kernel, it would be nice if there was a way to run most or all FSes as clients for them in some way, as that could come in handy often. I don't think a user space implementation should ever become the conventional approach to file system design on Linux in the near future though.
Exactly, I am a young guy as well (22) and I am finishing up my CIS/CS degree now. Haveing interned durring my entire college career I can tell alread the education has made a huge difference. I got into computers because I do have an aptitude for it and I think I instinctively understood alot of what was going on. None the less doing something new was always just that. It required lots of trial and error and was scary at first. It was time consuming and difficult as well because I had to fingure out what worked best each time. With my CIS/CS training I can now approach 'new' things with an understanding of some universal math and principles that lay under all computing machines and have the prespective of a solid set of common software design strategies which also change more often in name then in function. Haveing that fram of reference enables me to master new skills with lots less fear and stumbling around trying to figure out what works best. Generally its possible to move from the generic academic understanding to the particulars of the present situation in a painless way. Much less painless then haveing to cope with seamingly different rules everytime I got infront of a new language or hardware.
Umm yes, but most fraudsters want to avoid detection as long as possible. They may wish to return the mail to the box at a later date and this might well be simpler then creating an offical looking counterfit envelop. Just think of this, you never get bill X in the mail. You then call company X and ask where is my bill. After the conversing for a while they send you a new one. Now most of us would wonder if something was up and scrutinize that bill and subsequent ones for a time. This is not what the fraudster wants. Now think of this if that bill was a day late because it was removed and then replaced in your mailbox intact could you even know to be concerned?
Well, to answer your question God did make us in his own image and did give use many many gifts, including our thoughts and feelings. The article talks about building an organism not string up a bunch or random chemicals and seeing what happens. Its sounds an awful lot like a simpler less devine more human act of ID to me.
If anyone sees this as threat to linux they are sadly mistaken. Lots maybe most? of linux development is corporate sponsored today. Those corporations like to support it because they use it. They use it in the embeded devices and highly custom solutions. They can only do that because its FREE and not just as in beer. So the development will continue if that happens its gonna keep getting better and probably out pace Solaris as only Sun and some individuals will support it.
Now if sun GPL'd or BSD'd Solaris then there could be a real threat. Otherwise Solaris dies on the vine like many have predicted for a long time.
1. Both intel and Apple have been saying "power consumption power consumption..."
2. Apple is busy porting everything they have to x86.
3. I think we can assume Apple would have been given intels roadmap before their recent wedding.
A. 2 + 3 = New chip arch will use x86
instruction set of some type.
4. Simplest way to cut power is to reduce ececution path lengh.
5. Simplest way to cut path length is to cut logic
6. Best shot at loseing logic form x86 is cut things like handleing for different size 16/32 bit registers and dump realmode and a few other things.
B. 4 + 5 + 6 = Smaller faster but not PC
compatible x86 like chip
A + B = New Apple Computer CPU
If apple new in advance which part of the chip would be cut they could have easily managed their porting effors at both the human code level and the compiler code gereration level to make the transition for them almost nonexistant, maybe not even a recompile. Apple feeling like the PPC arch was not competing effectively with the x86s in PCs would have wanted something that was going to let them claim to be faster and better and they would want exclusivity, if not from clones in general at least form clones running windows. So intel without having to improve chip fab technology or come up with anything really new design wise can deliver Apple a faster, less power hungry chip that can operate on a comodity hardware platform. This saves Apple money building the rest of the MAC, provides enough barrier to entry to keep Redmond off the platform long enough for Apple to get it 0\/\/|\|3d, and gives intel a new mainstream market not mostly under Microsofts thumb.
***(I am not suggesting that Intels only market is PC cpus to run windows on, I only state it because it is shrewd on Intel's part, its good to open up new markets no matter what bussiness you are in espicily when someone else has signifigant control to access of one of your other major markets)
National Security: The only objective measure is have we been attacked or compromised successfully since 911?.... NO
Sounds like his national security policy has been working pretty well. Oh but wait look look they were still able to blow up the London subway. Any fool and build a bomb and blow up mass transit, You could probably blow up the nearest city buss with things from the hardware store down the street and only a few hours planing. The fact the terrorists could do no better then the recent atacks speaks volumes about how effective the Bush Doctrine has been.
Lets wait till the administration does not make people around the world hate us: These people hate us anyway. They would kill us anyway. All Bush has done is stopped apologising for it. He has managed to make them so feverently mad in many cases they can't contain themselves and we are at least able to find them, rather then just wait till something awful happens. WE DO HAVE THEM ON THE ROPES they are starting to play on our terms. I want my enemies as angry as possible it makes them do stupid things.
Social Security is to prop it up with a loan: Well given the fatbastard Ted Kenedy and the lunatic Dean and the other cry babies in your party won't allow his other ideas to even be debated in a useful way...you ought to just be happy he is doing anything at all.
Your kind likes to whine alot about how bad other peoples ideas are yet you NEVER and I really mean that NEVER articulate any ideas of your own. I kept hearing that no good turncoat Kerry talk about his grand plans for lots of things. Never heared any details, never found any on his website when I went looking.
Well there is not much point. It is nice to see that it worked. I mean I know the two "points" of the article are true as well at the outset the question is to what degree. Its nice to see someone actually do it and get results. I could spend hours study open file handles and reskit article going through things with depwalker etc etc too and slim down windows. Is it worth doing? Well maybe this guy freed 6megs or ram. Had he only managed to free 300k it would spin the entire enterprise differently. Now I know thre ARE real saveings to be had beyond mere speculation that is the case. If I needed a slimwin for some reason I know its not a total waste of time trying to create one.
yes but there is a proper way. You as an application programer should not be useing things like media player directly, nor should you want to incase the go away one day. What would be better is what gnome is trying to do that is create a framework. The end use can think plugin an media playing app of their chooseing so long as it has certain documented entry points. Just like I can use any brand light bulb in my oven, its a component of a larger system, as long as it meets certain specifications it works. Similarly I can put any brand tires on my cars and they work fine if they meet the specifications which are well known. Windows on the other hand dies without IE, no you can't use another browser for certain shell functions that depend on html rendering. No office won't run without it. No its not because other browsers don't meet specification, its becase their are no specifications or if their are they are not published or well known.
The only case I can think these techniques might be usable is if you wanted to change a decimal point to a comma or add a zero or something like that on a number. Changeing an entire text word in the document would be practically impossible. This might be somewhat useful for some forgeries but not many..
excuse me! If you look at the way expensive dimentional Oracle products they make SQL servers look like a sick joke. The problem is so few can afford Oracle's best stuffs.
The problem with DUIs are like anything punishment is neither swift nor sure. Its not possible to have swift and sure punishment in a free society either. You have to make up for that by where appropriate using suffcient threat as a deterant. DUIs are a good example because breaking that law endangers outhers not just you. DUIs place others in real danger too not some long shacky chain of events that cup of coffee you served me in that plastic cup 20 years ago gave me cancer, but I am dead because you crushed me under 3500lb steel crate while I was mowing my lawn kind of danger. Rather then fool around with this kinda crap we should just make a SINGLE DUI conviction CERTAIN YOU WILL NOT DRIVE AGAIN FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF YEARS or else you will be JAILED. Yes people can walk to a bus stop and ride that to work. Naturally you have to do something about not letting judges and prosecutors let people pleed to some other charge in a bargin, like over the line or wreckless operation or something. This might have another positive effect. People might decide while sober to not get as drunk lest they decide to drive drunk. There is way to much drinking to excess in our society today. Anything that can cut down on that is a good thing.
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It appears this is nothing to do with blocking unwanted noise. It rather for those who did not RTFA has to do with distorting speech to foil ease-droppers(sp?). Personally working in a office filled with a large cube farm I think this is a terrible idea. There is already a dull roar of unintelligible conversation. The last thing we need is out and out noise pollution, in the form of this thing adding other sounds in to screw up interpretation.
RTFM -- the owners manuals usually have pretty good suggestions for how to maximize fule economy. Sometimes they are quite surprising too. My 85 Alfa has instructions to shift out of first at 3K, sounds really high. It also recomends staying in fourth even when there will be no demand for power, if you are below 40mph, in general given other cars I would probably go for fifth. The tendancy is to fly out of stops and to speed back up quickly after taping the breaks for whatever reason in a 35 zone or so because your geared so low the car just jumps when you get back on the throtle. Just for fun I tried to use one gas tank keeping it to 2500rpm and I found out the fule milage fell almost 4mpg. I tried to make it a fair test too, I increased throtle gently as speed increased so as not to lug the engine and really waste fule. I suppose my point is that the manufactures fully understand the gear ratios, and availible torque. An EFI engine under load just ends up getting more fule then will be burned and wasteing it. That's why more modern cars then mine have EGR, to avoid soaking the cats they are eqiped with, with unburnt fule that would destroy them. An EFI gas engine is probably most efficent in its power band pulling the right gear and chances are the builders have set that up to resemble the way people like to drive. So if you really want to save fule RTFM, and you might be pleasently surprised that you get to drive the car the "fun way" anyway.
Sounds like a great idea to me. If police forces were private you could probably persue them for worng doing much easier then you can now. Suppose you became part of a criminal investigation as a result of illegally obtain evidence. As it is today the evidence will not be useable in your criminal case unless you want it to be. When you get aquited for lack of evidence you generally don't get to sue the cops. If they were private you could sue them for damages.
That and the site is not exactly the most complex thing in the world. Sure there is some basic ASP and its far beyond some simple static html page but its exactly are large ECOM site or anything like that. I hope the admins and windowsITpro can configure an IIS box to be pretty solid doing somehting so basic. Doing something simple like this does not say much about the basic security characteristics of the platform. People do this with other platforms all the time too and then draw wild concludtions like see platform X is unhackable, well yes provided you run next no services. Trouble is to run a business you generally have to allow some traffic past your firewall, and often need to run mail servers, and gasp... cgi that takes input form users and acts on it.
Well, right minded people would say hey look how evil that dictatorial government is, they are killing people just for listening to unfiltered material, not even repeating or acting on it in any way. STUPID fools will blame us for tempting these poor individuals and will hate us like they already do anyway. They will invent some mindless BS about how we are interfearing with a soverign nation or something and call us bad world citizens, dispite all the good that we do. Hopefully we will still have a president and leaders who will stand up and say "Well we know we are doing the right thing you can't stop us and it will cost you if you try. Yes please consider that a threat. Once again you are with us or you are against us."
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For the last and final time you are NOT going to see IpV6 any time soon. Powerful forces WANT you to be NATed. They would like your ISP to provide you an address that is already NATed if they don't already. Would IpV6 be great yes yes it would and it does solve most of the problems with IpV4 especially running out of host address. The powers that be don't want more 'hosts' on the internet though. They want only corporation and select groups of publishers to be hosts. The rest of you are to be clients so you can pay for the services they host. They don't want to have to compete with community hosted sites. The telcos many of whom make up the internet back bone don't want you makeing free calls with VOIP they want their toll networks used. They don't want you running P2P apps without more difficulty then Joe Sixpack can manage. Yes when universal NAT does break p2p profoundly Joe Sixpack will be upset but still won't understand the need to demand IpV6. He also will simply continue to wonder where this promised internet phone whent and pay his long-distance bill every month.
IpV6 is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN any time soon don't hold your breath. When it does eventually happen they will make sure whatever is availible at comsumer costs is hopelessly crippled.
I say it comes down to this. We have it now, we built it and they want it. Why in the world should we give it to them without getting something in return. These are nations of people who can't even say kind words about us often. I say forget it. If we are going to give up control of the root DNS servers I want something for it. Something big. I think we should sell them control. The UN can have it for a 400billion per year anuitiy for the next 20 years. That would be pretty fare.
Your 'lack of trust' in the USA is you're problem. We have done EXACTLY what we said in public we were going to do, at least with respect to the 'events' that I am sure you are thinking of. There has been no duplicity what so ever, so we the USA says we don't tell ICANN what to do, we don't and we won't. You can dislike our behavior if you want but we have done nothing to earn distrust.
I say the US did all the leg work controll of the internet that exists todoay rightfully belongs to us. If they don't like it run their own DNS, and watch it FAIL because the economic buying power of America means you have to have you're site on our servers or you might as well not exist. This is just another UN power grab. Its a currpt organization that is EVIL and run by EVIL people who try and paint us the freedome spreaders as criminals while they sanction theft and abuse the world over. If I were Bush I would kick the whole damn organization out of NYC and off American soil and tell all those "diplomats" for those nations we are at war with begone with in 24 hours or be a prisoner.
I must say you make many vaild points. I like your "inflexible asshole" plan myself. Unfortunitly the people on Washington on both sides of the isle have become way out of touch with the people they supposedly represent. The "inflexible asshole" unless smart enough, like Robert's seemed to be, to make the committee members asking the questions apprear to be the fools they are will be ripped to shreds. So unless someone can be found who is smart enough to beat them all in a fair debate, someone with the skills to beguile them will have to do. That person probably is a lawyer or in sales. Given all that its your concerns that should worry us not what they have been seen trying to sell in the past.
Lawyers have a job, so do judges. A lawyers task is to argue any point, philosophy and set of facts and precedents that he/she thinks will favorably impact the outcome of the case for the client. They are essentially sales men. No sales person ever came to you and said "Hey I think this product is a pice of total crap personaly but anyway you should by one." No they keep the discussion focused on the virtue of the product. Working for Microsoft ment she had to convince those she was asked to speak with, be they judges, officials, customers or whoever, that Microsofts positions were sensible and legally correct, not that she personally felt that way. The fact she worked for Microsoft means only she was paid to do a job.
Its got USB 2.0. You can attach a harddrive pretty easily that way and it would be plenty fast for loading games or watching movies.
It all depends on what you are doing. If you are opening a word document then NO it does not matter. If you are trying to record realtime video capture then yes chances are you need the greatest FS throughput possible and you also can't spare tons of extra CPU to make that happen. Some holds true if you are running a big database or acting as a busy file server.
FUSE and LUFS are great ideas and should be included in the kernel, it would be nice if there was a way to run most or all FSes as clients for them in some way, as that could come in handy often. I don't think a user space implementation should ever become the conventional approach to file system design on Linux in the near future though.
Exactly, I am a young guy as well (22) and I am finishing up my CIS/CS degree now. Haveing interned durring my entire college career I can tell alread the education has made a huge difference. I got into computers because I do have an aptitude for it and I think I instinctively understood alot of what was going on. None the less doing something new was always just that. It required lots of trial and error and was scary at first. It was time consuming and difficult as well because I had to fingure out what worked best each time. With my CIS/CS training I can now approach 'new' things with an understanding of some universal math and principles that lay under all computing machines and have the prespective of a solid set of common software design strategies which also change more often in name then in function. Haveing that fram of reference enables me to master new skills with lots less fear and stumbling around trying to figure out what works best. Generally its possible to move from the generic academic understanding to the particulars of the present situation in a painless way. Much less painless then haveing to cope with seamingly different rules everytime I got infront of a new language or hardware.
Umm yes, but most fraudsters want to avoid detection as long as possible. They may wish to return the mail to the box at a later date and this might well be simpler then creating an offical looking counterfit envelop. Just think of this, you never get bill X in the mail. You then call company X and ask where is my bill. After the conversing for a while they send you a new one. Now most of us would wonder if something was up and scrutinize that bill and subsequent ones for a time. This is not what the fraudster wants. Now think of this if that bill was a day late because it was removed and then replaced in your mailbox intact could you even know to be concerned?
Well, to answer your question God did make us in his own image and did give use many many gifts, including our thoughts and feelings. The article talks about building an organism not string up a bunch or random chemicals and seeing what happens. Its sounds an awful lot like a simpler less devine more human act of ID to me.
If anyone sees this as threat to linux they are sadly mistaken. Lots maybe most? of linux development is corporate sponsored today. Those corporations like to support it because they use it. They use it in the embeded devices and highly custom solutions. They can only do that because its FREE and not just as in beer. So the development will continue if that happens its gonna keep getting better and probably out pace Solaris as only Sun and some individuals will support it.
Now if sun GPL'd or BSD'd Solaris then there could be a real threat. Otherwise Solaris dies on the vine like many have predicted for a long time.
1. Both intel and Apple have been saying "power consumption power consumption ..."
2. Apple is busy porting everything they have to x86.
3. I think we can assume Apple would have been given intels roadmap before their recent wedding.
A. 2 + 3 = New chip arch will use x86
instruction set of some type.
4. Simplest way to cut power is to reduce ececution path lengh.
5. Simplest way to cut path length is to cut logic
6. Best shot at loseing logic form x86 is cut things like handleing for different size 16/32 bit registers and dump realmode and a few other things.
B. 4 + 5 + 6 = Smaller faster but not PC
compatible x86 like chip
A + B = New Apple Computer CPU
If apple new in advance which part of the chip would be cut they could have easily managed their porting effors at both the human code level and the compiler code gereration level to make the transition for them almost nonexistant, maybe not even a recompile. Apple feeling like the PPC arch was not competing effectively with the x86s in PCs would have wanted something that was going to let them claim to be faster and better and they would want exclusivity, if not from clones in general at least form clones running windows. So intel without having to improve chip fab technology or come up with anything really new design wise can deliver Apple a faster, less power hungry chip that can operate on a comodity hardware platform. This saves Apple money building the rest of the MAC, provides enough barrier to entry to keep Redmond off the platform long enough for Apple to get it 0\/\/|\|3d, and gives intel a new mainstream market not mostly under Microsofts thumb.
***(I am not suggesting that Intels only market is PC cpus to run windows on, I only state it because it is shrewd on Intel's part, its good to open up new markets no matter what bussiness you are in espicily when someone else has signifigant control to access of one of your other major markets)
Hmm... Well
.... NO
National Security: The only objective measure is have we been attacked or compromised successfully since 911?
Sounds like his national security policy has been working pretty well. Oh but wait look look they were still able to blow up the London subway. Any fool and build a bomb and blow up mass transit, You could probably blow up the nearest city buss with things from the hardware store down the street and only a few hours planing. The fact the terrorists could do no better then the recent atacks speaks volumes about how effective the Bush Doctrine has been.
Lets wait till the administration does not make people around the world hate us: These people hate us anyway. They would kill us anyway. All Bush has done is stopped apologising for it. He has managed to make them so feverently mad in many cases they can't contain themselves and we are at least able to find them, rather then just wait till something awful happens. WE DO HAVE THEM ON THE ROPES they are starting to play on our terms. I want my enemies as angry as possible it makes them do stupid things.
Social Security is to prop it up with a loan: Well given the fatbastard Ted Kenedy and the lunatic Dean and the other cry babies in your party won't allow his other ideas to even be debated in a useful way...you ought to just be happy he is doing anything at all.
Your kind likes to whine alot about how bad other peoples ideas are yet you NEVER and I really mean that NEVER articulate any ideas of your own. I kept hearing that no good turncoat Kerry talk about his grand plans for lots of things. Never heared any details, never found any on his website when I went looking.
So grow UP!
Well there is not much point. It is nice to see that it worked. I mean I know the two "points" of the article are true as well at the outset the question is to what degree. Its nice to see someone actually do it and get results. I could spend hours study open file handles and reskit article going through things with depwalker etc etc too and slim down windows. Is it worth doing? Well maybe this guy freed 6megs or ram. Had he only managed to free 300k it would spin the entire enterprise differently. Now I know thre ARE real saveings to be had beyond mere speculation that is the case. If I needed a slimwin for some reason I know its not a total waste of time trying to create one.
yes but there is a proper way. You as an application programer should not be useing things like media player directly, nor should you want to incase the go away one day. What would be better is what gnome is trying to do that is create a framework. The end use can think plugin an media playing app of their chooseing so long as it has certain documented entry points. Just like I can use any brand light bulb in my oven, its a component of a larger system, as long as it meets certain specifications it works. Similarly I can put any brand tires on my cars and they work fine if they meet the specifications which are well known. Windows on the other hand dies without IE, no you can't use another browser for certain shell functions that depend on html rendering. No office won't run without it. No its not because other browsers don't meet specification, its becase their are no specifications or if their are they are not published or well known.
The only case I can think these techniques might be usable is if you wanted to change a decimal point to a comma or add a zero or something like that on a number. Changeing an entire text word in the document would be practically impossible. This might be somewhat useful for some forgeries but not many..
excuse me! If you look at the way expensive dimentional Oracle products they make SQL servers look like a sick joke. The problem is so few can afford Oracle's best stuffs.
The problem with DUIs are like anything punishment is neither swift nor sure. Its not possible to have swift and sure punishment in a free society either. You have to make up for that by where appropriate using suffcient threat as a deterant. DUIs are a good example because breaking that law endangers outhers not just you. DUIs place others in real danger too not some long shacky chain of events that cup of coffee you served me in that plastic cup 20 years ago gave me cancer, but I am dead because you crushed me under 3500lb steel crate while I was mowing my lawn kind of danger. Rather then fool around with this kinda crap we should just make a SINGLE DUI conviction CERTAIN YOU WILL NOT DRIVE AGAIN FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF YEARS or else you will be JAILED. Yes people can walk to a bus stop and ride that to work. Naturally you have to do something about not letting judges and prosecutors let people pleed to some other charge in a bargin, like over the line or wreckless operation or something. This might have another positive effect. People might decide while sober to not get as drunk lest they decide to drive drunk. There is way to much drinking to excess in our society today. Anything that can cut down on that is a good thing.
It appears this is nothing to do with blocking unwanted noise. It rather for those who did not RTFA has to do with distorting speech to foil ease-droppers(sp?). Personally working in a office filled with a large cube farm I think this is a terrible idea. There is already a dull roar of unintelligible conversation. The last thing we need is out and out noise pollution, in the form of this thing adding other sounds in to screw up interpretation.
RTFM -- the owners manuals usually have pretty good suggestions for how to maximize fule economy. Sometimes they are quite surprising too. My 85 Alfa has instructions to shift out of first at 3K, sounds really high. It also recomends staying in fourth even when there will be no demand for power, if you are below 40mph, in general given other cars I would probably go for fifth. The tendancy is to fly out of stops and to speed back up quickly after taping the breaks for whatever reason in a 35 zone or so because your geared so low the car just jumps when you get back on the throtle. Just for fun I tried to use one gas tank keeping it to 2500rpm and I found out the fule milage fell almost 4mpg. I tried to make it a fair test too, I increased throtle gently as speed increased so as not to lug the engine and really waste fule. I suppose my point is that the manufactures fully understand the gear ratios, and availible torque. An EFI engine under load just ends up getting more fule then will be burned and wasteing it. That's why more modern cars then mine have EGR, to avoid soaking the cats they are eqiped with, with unburnt fule that would destroy them. An EFI gas engine is probably most efficent in its power band pulling the right gear and chances are the builders have set that up to resemble the way people like to drive. So if you really want to save fule RTFM, and you might be pleasently surprised that you get to drive the car the "fun way" anyway.
centrist???? everyone of thoes nations is socialist.
Sounds like a great idea to me. If police forces were private you could probably persue them for worng doing much easier then you can now. Suppose you became part of a criminal investigation as a result of illegally obtain evidence. As it is today the evidence will not be useable in your criminal case unless you want it to be. When you get aquited for lack of evidence you generally don't get to sue the cops. If they were private you could sue them for damages.
That and the site is not exactly the most complex thing in the world. Sure there is some basic ASP and its far beyond some simple static html page but its exactly are large ECOM site or anything like that. I hope the admins and windowsITpro can configure an IIS box to be pretty solid doing somehting so basic. Doing something simple like this does not say much about the basic security characteristics of the platform. People do this with other platforms all the time too and then draw wild concludtions like see platform X is unhackable, well yes provided you run next no services. Trouble is to run a business you generally have to allow some traffic past your firewall, and often need to run mail servers, and gasp... cgi that takes input form users and acts on it.
Well, right minded people would say hey look how evil that dictatorial government is, they are killing people just for listening to unfiltered material, not even repeating or acting on it in any way. STUPID fools will blame us for tempting these poor individuals and will hate us like they already do anyway. They will invent some mindless BS about how we are interfearing with a soverign nation or something and call us bad world citizens, dispite all the good that we do. Hopefully we will still have a president and leaders who will stand up and say "Well we know we are doing the right thing you can't stop us and it will cost you if you try. Yes please consider that a threat. Once again you are with us or you are against us."