This is more than just a tad insensitive: "Oh wait, Japan! Country of un-limitted porn AND bandwidth and now thanks to Fukushima, tentacle porn without special effects!" I agree with the rest of your comment, but I hope it doesn't get modded as funny.
That said, the majority of the Canadian market share for high-speed is run by monopoly companies. There used to be a dozen or so ISPs in each city when the dial-up Internet was around and this worked well. Then these ISPs stayed around when the high-speed was available but were squeezed out, I think by low margins because the Ma Bells put some high costs on leasing the lines. Since its all monopoly players in the major markets, generally each province, Canadians don't have a choice. Your provider puts a cap and you have little if nowhere to go. Its too bad and I hope someday we get ourselves out of this mess.
If there are caps they should be higher. I'm leasing a place right now and I don't have much a choice on what the landlord is offering on Internet. I'm on 15 GB right now, started at 2 GB (which believe me is gone in NO time - I had to turn off images on everything!). I have to be careful with downloading Windows Updates. And I can't really download Linux ISOs. 150 GB is gone in no time with You-Tube, iTunes, etc. After 4 months of this, I'm getting a new place and have to sign-up for Internet. So, I'll finally be able to get the new Slackware ISO to try out rather than paying for a DVD to be shipped.:)
Yeah, there's something I'm not following with this logic either. I'm going to exaggerate here but does the conservative government honestly think that:
If all of the following is acceptable behavior and will still have them elected - Increase all taxes - Decrease health care - Increase politician salary and vacation time - Reduce job creation programs - Increase corruption
Yet, the following WILL cost them the election -Introduce DMCA
At least they're honest about it (indirectly): they alter their policies to get themselves elected and let everything go to hell afterwards. Not like it matters by that point.... they have the job! There's probably a lot of parties that won't acknowledge holding stuff back until an election.
That said, this has me worried about the Conservatives (I have voted for them in the past I'm not a 1 party person). About the crap they are really holding back. The DMCA is no where near the monster they haven't yet let surface.
It seems there should be more ease of setting up a more secure connection. There's too much wireless jargon, too many protocols and options (e.g. proxies, encryption) for the layman to understand! Until it simpler and I can be reasonably confident a WPA2 password won't be hacked in a day, hour, month, year, I'll continue using my wired LAN. I'm exposed to enough security risks just by being on the Net. I don't want to worry about other things.
I consider myself a knowledgeable computer user and my home router has wireless. I'd like to use the wireless but know of the security implications. There's simply too much stuff to read for me to at least passively believe that the router is secure enough to use. I setup a gibberish long password, yanked out the antennae and disabled wireless in firmware and made sure it doesn't work.
The information on the phone alone is worth its weight in gold even if the police can't officially 'keep' it.
The information on the phones could be very useful if you *cough cough* happen to pull over someone with a criminal background. Let's say there's some dealer you've been after. You pull him over. Hey, this is a 55 and you were going 56 maybe 65 or I don't really care you're getting pulled over. No charges or pressed but you don't care. You just want the damn phone. Now you have it.
Now a detective or narc would now have a list of that dealer's network. Probably some clients calling him. And a whole miscellany of information that would be invaluable to a detective. Wether or not you believe police don't 'randomly' pull over people, this is all the motivator to do it.
They probably don't care if they can legally keep the information. Or even care to use the information to build up a case. The information on that phone alone can open up a whole dragnet I won't even begin to write about. Keeping a digital copy of the info is probably not legal. But if a detective comes upon the information before they are notified they had to get rid of it and makes "mental notes" its going to be awfully hard to cook up a case proving the officer had or had not seen illegally obtained information.
Funny they are complaining about "killing" and "industry" since the video game industry has largely to do with death and destruction in games. The $1 billion COD Modern Warfare generated alone I think says enough. It would be nice if a portion of the funds raised from the games to Veterans' groups. Just sayin'
Here's an interesting thought: Microsoft probably knows a good number of companies that *don't* have a non-compete and are always actively engaging and recruiting from. Its ok when they get to grab others from competitors but not ok when competitors try to recruit their staff.
It seems this would be handy for someone wanting to hide the evidence when running a counter-fitting operation. Except, I think (and hope) there's extra HW to recognize this and make sure not to wipe the drive.
Well, of course you need HW video accelerators in both CPUs and GPUs. Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
What people might not realize however is that this is the only way to Fast Forward video in digital format. VHS and Beta were easier since it was a mechanical process. The HW acceleration concept has yet to prove how they manage rewind. If I think back to my physics classes a negative HW accelerator would work but this would prove difficult to implement and doesn't sound like a value added feature people will pay for or add silicon on the HW. I'm particularly upset that when I try to rewind or fast forward Back to the Future... Kernel Panic!
@PeterM - I like reading about science as a hobby and a few years back I took an interest in learning the basic biology of extremophiles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile. Its basically organisms that can live in environmental conditions that would kill anything else unless and some of those biology isn't well understood.
So when I was reading about this, I came across reading about bacteria that were living and I think metabolizing (?) some of the radiation as a food source. There's a link in the wikipedia article about Radioresistant "organisms" but this only seems to explain tolerating ionizing radiation. I seem to recall metabolizing. I could be completely wrong but this is where I was getting the idea.
As you mention, this would also help: "insoluble form and thus immobilize them and prevent them from spreading in groundwater."
"I probably deserve a "Whoosh!" for this but I'll bite anyway."
The entire post was sarcasm, sorry you had to bite into it. I would like someone to prove my theory correct and they can risk their scientific credentials in the process. OTOH, I don't have any credentials so I'm hardly the one to know how to mis-calibrate expensive scientific equipment.
Prob OT, but hoping someone can maybe answer this here. I seem to remember bacteria that can consume/metabolize radiation (I might not be using right terminology). I know a little about radioactive decay from HS science and realize that the site will be contaminated for 100's or 1000's of years. Would using this bacteria if it exists or could be used for this purpose be somehow help? Or is this worse assuming if its really not a good idea to let the buggers out into the environment, like the ocean which given the current status of the site is inevitable?
Is there some current research in nuclear containment that I can contribute money to or push my government to put this to the UN, IAEA, academia or something for research? As in all other science research if government or private industry don't see it as a priority or profitable, it will never see light of day in research grants. Its sad to see the suffering caused not only by this incident but others people in Chernobyl area are still paying the price.:-(
This information has been most helpful. I will be a huge contributor to the scientific community. To sum up, if the equipment is mis-calibrated, new discoveries will be made! In my lab, I will now randomly calibrate equipment on a daily basis. I expect to publish several hundred papers just this year on new physics discoveries. I could randomly select from a pool of experiments what I might be able to reveal this year, but that would just be irresponsible science!
Bodhi Linux seems interesting. I'm on a low download limit net connection and the ISO is around 350 MB. Will be nice to play around with.
BTW @ parent - Sure e16 / e17 has been around for a while. The intention was I think to create the foundation libraries for Enlightenment and the E core libs seem to perform really well on new and old hardware. Maybe it a running joke to not have an E17 1.0. But even as a 'beta' version number, it runs really well for a lot of people. I had it on a Slackware desktop for > a year. E17 is running on cell phones, a few refridgerators, some car stereo, and some other stuff.
Just patent Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine and sue these bastard patent trolls out of the market! Lets just get this done and over with.
I worked in the medial industry and seen the amount of stress and hardship chronic illness causes to the sick and their families. Its sad that all this trolling is preventing potentially beneficial treatments. I'll bet the CEO of some of these patent trolls truly don't give a shit. We can only be so kind as to feel the same about them.
It sounds like you are concerned about the legality of some of the equipment in your BMW. It is impossible to be in full compliance by simply changing or removing the stereo equipment in the vehicle. I will be more than happy to liberate you of your legal concerns. Please provide the paper work and the keys for the car.
This should be motive enough to legalize some drugs or at least restrict sales such that it would stop the South Americans from shipping coke to the US.
Once naval and intelligence experts become concerned of the sub building capabilities and detection of these subs it acknowledges that this poses a risk to US security. I read earlier articles that indicated ex-Russian sub designers were being hired by the Cartels to build their sub.
I don't think there's any major worry of these subs being virtually undetectable like the current American subs or carrying nukes or torpedoes but I think there might be a concern that some of these people would go to work for some other country at some point. Hell, if they're building these kinds of subs in the jungle, I'd be concerned about what they can do if they don't have to be so conspicuous.
I think you are heading down the right direction here in finding this network based SCWMD assault (Security Certificates for the Web of Massively Disorganized). Unfortunately the hacker will be very difficult to identify. As you allude, a skilled hacker that can write press releases like the Iraqi Information Minister, instill fear like only Kim Jong Ill can do and yet still have the time to practice and play a perfect round of 18 rounds of golf. I think while the clues you offer are an attempt to be helpful, I don't think any one person could have such a skill set.
Someone in another forum suggested that Measurement Canada should get involved to standardize billing for ISPs in Canada. From their website:
Measurement Canada is responsible for ensuring the integrity and accuracy of measurement in the Canadian marketplace. We:
develop and administer the laws and requirements governing measurement,
evaluate, approve and certify measuring devices, and
investigate complaints of suspected inaccurate measurement. "
I think this is only fair for the consumers. I only hope that if the Canadians don't do this their American counterparts will and vice versa. We should at least be able to expect that we are getting what we are paying for.
This is a funny comment. But I think some of these funny comments that are modded up would help one get you elected into a political office. I think the best BSers on Slashdot should run for office.
I didn't really like GTA 3 but I've got to say the GTA 3 talk radio is probably some of the funniest material I've ever had in a game and it adds a cool feeling to the game.
I think people in the area are likely not prepared at all. I lived in Vancouver BC (Canada) and while its not "on" the coast, any major earthquake in the northern US especially in that magnitude is sure to have many consequences.
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This is more than just a tad insensitive: "Oh wait, Japan! Country of un-limitted porn AND bandwidth and now thanks to Fukushima, tentacle porn without special effects!" I agree with the rest of your comment, but I hope it doesn't get modded as funny.
That said, the majority of the Canadian market share for high-speed is run by monopoly companies. There used to be a dozen or so ISPs in each city when the dial-up Internet was around and this worked well. Then these ISPs stayed around when the high-speed was available but were squeezed out, I think by low margins because the Ma Bells put some high costs on leasing the lines. Since its all monopoly players in the major markets, generally each province, Canadians don't have a choice. Your provider puts a cap and you have little if nowhere to go. Its too bad and I hope someday we get ourselves out of this mess.
If there are caps they should be higher. I'm leasing a place right now and I don't have much a choice on what the landlord is offering on Internet. I'm on 15 GB right now, started at 2 GB (which believe me is gone in NO time - I had to turn off images on everything!). I have to be careful with downloading Windows Updates. And I can't really download Linux ISOs. 150 GB is gone in no time with You-Tube, iTunes, etc. After 4 months of this, I'm getting a new place and have to sign-up for Internet. So, I'll finally be able to get the new Slackware ISO to try out rather than paying for a DVD to be shipped. :)
Yeah, there's something I'm not following with this logic either. I'm going to exaggerate here but does the conservative government honestly think that:
If all of the following is acceptable behavior and will still have them elected
- Increase all taxes
- Decrease health care
- Increase politician salary and vacation time
- Reduce job creation programs
- Increase corruption
Yet, the following WILL cost them the election
-Introduce DMCA
At least they're honest about it (indirectly): they alter their policies to get themselves elected and let everything go to hell afterwards. Not like it matters by that point .... they have the job! There's probably a lot of parties that won't acknowledge holding stuff back until an election.
That said, this has me worried about the Conservatives (I have voted for them in the past I'm not a 1 party person). About the crap they are really holding back. The DMCA is no where near the monster they haven't yet let surface.
It seems there should be more ease of setting up a more secure connection. There's too much wireless jargon, too many protocols and options (e.g. proxies, encryption) for the layman to understand! Until it simpler and I can be reasonably confident a WPA2 password won't be hacked in a day, hour, month, year, I'll continue using my wired LAN. I'm exposed to enough security risks just by being on the Net. I don't want to worry about other things.
I consider myself a knowledgeable computer user and my home router has wireless. I'd like to use the wireless but know of the security implications. There's simply too much stuff to read for me to at least passively believe that the router is secure enough to use. I setup a gibberish long password, yanked out the antennae and disabled wireless in firmware and made sure it doesn't work.
The information on the phone alone is worth its weight in gold even if the police can't officially 'keep' it.
The information on the phones could be very useful if you *cough cough* happen to pull over someone with a criminal background. Let's say there's some dealer you've been after. You pull him over. Hey, this is a 55 and you were going 56 maybe 65 or I don't really care you're getting pulled over. No charges or pressed but you don't care. You just want the damn phone. Now you have it.
Now a detective or narc would now have a list of that dealer's network. Probably some clients calling him. And a whole miscellany of information that would be invaluable to a detective. Wether or not you believe police don't 'randomly' pull over people, this is all the motivator to do it.
They probably don't care if they can legally keep the information. Or even care to use the information to build up a case. The information on that phone alone can open up a whole dragnet I won't even begin to write about. Keeping a digital copy of the info is probably not legal. But if a detective comes upon the information before they are notified they had to get rid of it and makes "mental notes" its going to be awfully hard to cook up a case proving the officer had or had not seen illegally obtained information.
MNF .... Milf Nude Football ..! Where do I sign-up? ;)
Funny they are complaining about "killing" and "industry" since the video game industry has largely to do with death and destruction in games. The $1 billion COD Modern Warfare generated alone I think says enough. It would be nice if a portion of the funds raised from the games to Veterans' groups. Just sayin'
Here's an interesting thought: Microsoft probably knows a good number of companies that *don't* have a non-compete and are always actively engaging and recruiting from. Its ok when they get to grab others from competitors but not ok when competitors try to recruit their staff.
It seems this would be handy for someone wanting to hide the evidence when running a counter-fitting operation. Except, I think (and hope) there's extra HW to recognize this and make sure not to wipe the drive.
Well, of course you need HW video accelerators in both CPUs and GPUs. Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
What people might not realize however is that this is the only way to Fast Forward video in digital format. VHS and Beta were easier since it was a mechanical process. The HW acceleration concept has yet to prove how they manage rewind. If I think back to my physics classes a negative HW accelerator would work but this would prove difficult to implement and doesn't sound like a value added feature people will pay for or add silicon on the HW. I'm particularly upset that when I try to rewind or fast forward Back to the Future ... Kernel Panic!
Thanks for both for replying. Interesting info.
@PeterM - I like reading about science as a hobby and a few years back I took an interest in learning the basic biology of extremophiles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile. Its basically organisms that can live in environmental conditions that would kill anything else unless and some of those biology isn't well understood.
So when I was reading about this, I came across reading about bacteria that were living and I think metabolizing (?) some of the radiation as a food source. There's a link in the wikipedia article about Radioresistant "organisms" but this only seems to explain tolerating ionizing radiation. I seem to recall metabolizing. I could be completely wrong but this is where I was getting the idea.
As you mention, this would also help:
"insoluble form and thus immobilize them and prevent them from spreading in groundwater."
"I probably deserve a "Whoosh!" for this but I'll bite anyway."
The entire post was sarcasm, sorry you had to bite into it. I would like someone to prove my theory correct and they can risk their scientific credentials in the process. OTOH, I don't have any credentials so I'm hardly the one to know how to mis-calibrate expensive scientific equipment.
Prob OT, but hoping someone can maybe answer this here. I seem to remember bacteria that can consume/metabolize radiation (I might not be using right terminology). I know a little about radioactive decay from HS science and realize that the site will be contaminated for 100's or 1000's of years. Would using this bacteria if it exists or could be used for this purpose be somehow help? Or is this worse assuming if its really not a good idea to let the buggers out into the environment, like the ocean which given the current status of the site is inevitable?
Is there some current research in nuclear containment that I can contribute money to or push my government to put this to the UN, IAEA, academia or something for research? As in all other science research if government or private industry don't see it as a priority or profitable, it will never see light of day in research grants. Its sad to see the suffering caused not only by this incident but others people in Chernobyl area are still paying the price. :-(
This information has been most helpful. I will be a huge contributor to the scientific community. To sum up, if the equipment is mis-calibrated, new discoveries will be made! In my lab, I will now randomly calibrate equipment on a daily basis. I expect to publish several hundred papers just this year on new physics discoveries. I could randomly select from a pool of experiments what I might be able to reveal this year, but that would just be irresponsible science!
Bodhi Linux seems interesting. I'm on a low download limit net connection and the ISO is around 350 MB. Will be nice to play around with.
BTW @ parent - Sure e16 / e17 has been around for a while. The intention was I think to create the foundation libraries for Enlightenment and the E core libs seem to perform really well on new and old hardware. Maybe it a running joke to not have an E17 1.0. But even as a 'beta' version number, it runs really well for a lot of people. I had it on a Slackware desktop for > a year. E17 is running on cell phones, a few refridgerators, some car stereo, and some other stuff.
I'd be happier if it were 16 out of 20 dentists. Sounds so much better! ;)
Just patent Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine and sue these bastard patent trolls out of the market! Lets just get this done and over with.
I worked in the medial industry and seen the amount of stress and hardship chronic illness causes to the sick and their families. Its sad that all this trolling is preventing potentially beneficial treatments. I'll bet the CEO of some of these patent trolls truly don't give a shit. We can only be so kind as to feel the same about them.
It sounds like you are concerned about the legality of some of the equipment in your BMW. It is impossible to be in full compliance by simply changing or removing the stereo equipment in the vehicle. I will be more than happy to liberate you of your legal concerns. Please provide the paper work and the keys for the car.
That's what you think. 640k pixels ought to be enough .... for anybody!
But don't quote me on that. ;)
This should be motive enough to legalize some drugs or at least restrict sales such that it would stop the South Americans from shipping coke to the US.
Once naval and intelligence experts become concerned of the sub building capabilities and detection of these subs it acknowledges that this poses a risk to US security. I read earlier articles that indicated ex-Russian sub designers were being hired by the Cartels to build their sub.
I don't think there's any major worry of these subs being virtually undetectable like the current American subs or carrying nukes or torpedoes but I think there might be a concern that some of these people would go to work for some other country at some point. Hell, if they're building these kinds of subs in the jungle, I'd be concerned about what they can do if they don't have to be so conspicuous.
"Besides, do you think their bomb range is big enough? "
LMFAO - thanks for that! :)
I'd mod you if you weren't anon.
I think you are heading down the right direction here in finding this network based SCWMD assault (Security Certificates for the Web of Massively Disorganized). Unfortunately the hacker will be very difficult to identify. As you allude, a skilled hacker that can write press releases like the Iraqi Information Minister, instill fear like only Kim Jong Ill can do and yet still have the time to practice and play a perfect round of 18 rounds of golf. I think while the clues you offer are an attempt to be helpful, I don't think any one person could have such a skill set.
Someone in another forum suggested that Measurement Canada should get involved to standardize billing for ISPs in Canada. From their website:
Measurement Canada is responsible for ensuring the integrity and accuracy of measurement in the Canadian marketplace. We:
develop and administer the laws and requirements governing measurement,
evaluate, approve and certify measuring devices, and
investigate complaints of suspected inaccurate measurement.
"
I think this is only fair for the consumers. I only hope that if the Canadians don't do this their American counterparts will and vice versa. We should at least be able to expect that we are getting what we are paying for.
This is a funny comment. But I think some of these funny comments that are modded up would help one get you elected into a political office. I think the best BSers on Slashdot should run for office.
I didn't really like GTA 3 but I've got to say the GTA 3 talk radio is probably some of the funniest material I've ever had in a game and it adds a cool feeling to the game.
I think people in the area are likely not prepared at all. I lived in Vancouver BC (Canada) and while its not "on" the coast, any major earthquake in the northern US especially in that magnitude is sure to have many consequences.