In the spirit of the story topic, I'm gonna hijack this first post to make my point. Governments are concerned with politics and their constituents. The MP/RIAA are natural enemies to a lot of tax paying voters, plus they've made some major screw ups. For example, the recent Sony screw-up of course, and those false-positives in sending out mass subpoenas. I see governments, particularly on the local level (where there's less lobbying), siding with the people (IE the pirates).
Yeah 130Gbps sounds super-duper fast, but seven dvds a second on a backbone spreads out pretty thin when everyone and their mother is bittorrenting their ass off.
I'm looking through these charts and I am not finding an important number, how far the signal can be sent at that rate before it starts dying. Repeaters could be responsible for keeping this in vaporworld.
On my last job, wirelessing an apartment and "dealing with" schlepping to a cheap Brooklyn store to buy the family a laptop plus a little de-spywaring, I got paid $600 cash money. Sure the work I did might be worth under $20 in sweat, but one extra-sharp demand in Manhattan is paying for trustworthiness. I've networked and have a reputation with clients for getting the job done and not stealing any silverware. Manhattan pays more not just because people can afford to, there is a greater demand to protect their assets. Got some nice silverware here. And some virgins. Err, withdrawn---got some silverware.
Once you got the crucibles banged out, which the industry did many years ago (including full atx boards with all the frills), stamping down boards is cheap. And a lot of them don't get bought, ever. Wouldn't it be more expensive to build custom dumbed-down motherboards for these smaller but unique applications?
Forgiveness please for bringing up the tangential elephant in the room, but what's the word on MS's new game system being easily modded for Linux, and what would the market value be of an equivilant machine picked up on pricewatch? Speaking of markets, are they selling this sucker at a loss too?
Sometimes I envision doomsday scenarios, like getting a call from a pro-life booty-call saying she's having my baby, but my homies done seen her 'round the block. Dig?
Picture your own scenario. A paternity test is probably the most hostile confrontational gesture one could make toward a woman with whom one's engaged in a relationship; but sometimes, let's face it, it has to be done. What would make this less confrontational would be if DNA testing was quick and easy, not a whole to-do schlep. Just like signing a pre-nup in a world where lawyers weren't needed for that.
So if paternity testing could be relegated to a "By the way, would you mind" kind of matter, the greater piece of mind could-be dads would have jumping into a shotgun wedding. In short, the quicker we can tweak up the ol' Polymerase Chain Reacion, the more red state skanks we can get with safely.
... but the question is when does it become a disease. What is a disease? Here's a definition:
1 A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
2 A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
To suffer from a disease is not necessarily having weird bugs swimming around your blood, but anything that effects your condition or behavior to clash with what society regards as vaguely normal and harmless. This is both normal and harmless. Therefore it is not a disease.
... the iPod does the exact opposite. Plenty of mp3 players have radios, but not iPod -- I'm guessing because people would be less inclined to use iTunes if they were getting their music fix from regular radio. One nice thing about buying from the guys who aren't on top of a market is the buyer is more desparetely accomodated even at the expensive of money making operations like iTunes.
Truckers know how more than anyone from being financially pressured to drive fuel-efficiently. For example, next time you're in a traffic jam, watch how trucks wait about five stop-and-go-5-feets the other cars do, and they idle at a constant speed equivilant to that. Hills. Wind tricks. Pee bags.
My point is that if it's economically ripe, the truckers will be the first to use a new form of energy. If they ain't using it, it ain't ripe (unless it's an amphetamine). Moreover, "If you got it, a truck brought it."
I hope people realize that all countries are not at all immune to Patriot Act-like behaviors. The next time you feel embarrassed to be an American, you start eating freedom fries and pouring out your beaujolais, think about Canada. Canada!! Now it's Canada that's pulling this crap, how random. We are not getting Fed in the A nearly as hard as many of you contend.
If your company gets sued because someone successfuly patented the double click which is used in your Linux servers, because the patent is so friggin' ridiculous, couldn't you sue the patent office? Take contracts, for example: If you were running a jetskiing operation and you had people sign a ten page fine print agreement basically saying not to sue for any reason, and for kicks you removed the throttle spring so they can't slow down (not using any bomb like in that movie), contracts may not hold up. And I'm not talking just contracts that include something illegal to be entirely void, just contracts that cross the line of reality a bit too far. Apply that to patents, and you got a viable case. Right? Any precedents one way or the other?
What I don't want is any nudging toward a technology by the government. It's bad enough that we all sort of settle on one technlogy or format for years, and since eventually everyone has that capability, switching to something dramatically superior very rarely happens. On the other hand, the existing technlogy in this instance is good enough at least for existing applications (who needs 10.1 channels of sound?) so there is a small enough motive in the masses to pay up for what may prove to be improvements beyond the price of diminishing returns, in which case a little nudging from the government would from where I'm sitting be a good thing. I guess part of my problem is that I apparently don't have a solid opinion on government interference in markets. Perhaps said interference could be identified as a product of the free market and therefore avoiding it is anti-Adam Smith somehow. Jesus this post wasn't even funny. Starting out I thought I could make it smell insightful. On my B-game today.
Before I knew any better, I used to run Mandrake. This article gave me the first moment in many months that reminded me of the existance of Mandrake. Was that just me or did we all collectively tune out from Mandr*? To rephrase, what has Netcraft confirmed?:)
I'm a big subscriber to You Get What You Pay For economics (in this case, an OS that's free for you because someone wants to boost marketshare (and is therefore inferior)); however, this seems to be one instance I'd call an exception. Though I have never and never would use a Mac, judging by the disproportionately small volume of bugs and malware problems I have to fix as a digitician, I gotta give Apple a high five and call this a Good Thing[alt+0153] in addition to calling it a good marketing strategy.
Registrars especially have pushed gimmicky "features" on domain buyers that people could otherwise get with a phonecall to their ISP or typing apt-get install webalizer. As far as tracking the way people "interact" on your site, without a google ad on every page or some script I don't see how they can track user behavior on the site (IE which paths through the site are most popular) beyond timing the first and last load of a page with an ad on it. OTOH most of these potential customers or users of this feature don't have my skills. It just raises the whole issue of whether or not google's still a strong buy at 393/share.
This math does not take into account the ass factor. There are a lot of chicks that are hip to this save the rain forest crap and they may be more inclined to open up for a guy who "cares" about the ice melting. Think of these tofu-eating broads as an untapped market and get yourself some rubbers and a set of 21 inch rims on your Prius and you're ready to go. You might not even have to use rubbers with these girls if you play the latex is bad for the pandas card.
There's got to be a simple change to the Skype protocol that will make it hard to detect and block. Randomizing ports, for example. If The Man can sniff out what Skype traffic looks like, encrypt it or create some mechanism that would generate random number "noise" to throw off the detection. That's about all I can come up with. Other than politics and laws, what methods could Skype do to make it difficult to be controlled?
Asbestos. Good stuff to keep heat under control or act as an insulant in general, bad stuff to bump some lines with. One very common application of asbestos was to use it in car brakes. Do we still do that? Have we figured out a way to keep that "controlled" as it does have important features?
Regarding skin contact, I have no trouble believing that about anthrax. Ever get some asbestos on your skin? Nasty itchy shit. It'll screw up your whole weekend.
Essentially what I'm trying to say here is avoid dermal contact with both substances. The jury's still out on Teflon.
Back in the day of 56k modems, you could only get 56 if you dialed into an isp that supported it somehow, and even then, only get that speed incoming. Connecting to your friend's 56k modem would yield only 33.6 in each direction IIRC. What kind of device was needed and how did it work to support 56k connections, and how much did they cost?
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In the spirit of the story topic, I'm gonna hijack this first post to make my point. Governments are concerned with politics and their constituents. The MP/RIAA are natural enemies to a lot of tax paying voters, plus they've made some major screw ups. For example, the recent Sony screw-up of course, and those false-positives in sending out mass subpoenas. I see governments, particularly on the local level (where there's less lobbying), siding with the people (IE the pirates).
It's you insensitive clod , you insensitive clod!
I'm looking through these charts and I am not finding an important number, how far the signal can be sent at that rate before it starts dying. Repeaters could be responsible for keeping this in vaporworld.
I have a Faraday cage (a la Enemy of the State).
First non-trolling beowolf reference ever. :)
On my last job, wirelessing an apartment and "dealing with" schlepping to a cheap Brooklyn store to buy the family a laptop plus a little de-spywaring, I got paid $600 cash money. Sure the work I did might be worth under $20 in sweat, but one extra-sharp demand in Manhattan is paying for trustworthiness. I've networked and have a reputation with clients for getting the job done and not stealing any silverware. Manhattan pays more not just because people can afford to, there is a greater demand to protect their assets. Got some nice silverware here. And some virgins. Err, withdrawn---got some silverware.
Once you got the crucibles banged out, which the industry did many years ago (including full atx boards with all the frills), stamping down boards is cheap. And a lot of them don't get bought, ever. Wouldn't it be more expensive to build custom dumbed-down motherboards for these smaller but unique applications?
Forgiveness please for bringing up the tangential elephant in the room, but what's the word on MS's new game system being easily modded for Linux, and what would the market value be of an equivilant machine picked up on pricewatch? Speaking of markets, are they selling this sucker at a loss too?
Picture your own scenario. A paternity test is probably the most hostile confrontational gesture one could make toward a woman with whom one's engaged in a relationship; but sometimes, let's face it, it has to be done. What would make this less confrontational would be if DNA testing was quick and easy, not a whole to-do schlep. Just like signing a pre-nup in a world where lawyers weren't needed for that.
So if paternity testing could be relegated to a "By the way, would you mind" kind of matter, the greater piece of mind could-be dads would have jumping into a shotgun wedding. In short, the quicker we can tweak up the ol' Polymerase Chain Reacion, the more red state skanks we can get with safely.
To suffer from a disease is not necessarily having weird bugs swimming around your blood, but anything that effects your condition or behavior to clash with what society regards as vaguely normal and harmless. This is both normal and harmless. Therefore it is not a disease.
It is a bad habbit, though.
What tubes? Where do these tubes lead, and why do things tend to go down these so-called tubes? I'm sorry but this just doesn't sit well with me.
... the iPod does the exact opposite. Plenty of mp3 players have radios, but not iPod -- I'm guessing because people would be less inclined to use iTunes if they were getting their music fix from regular radio. One nice thing about buying from the guys who aren't on top of a market is the buyer is more desparetely accomodated even at the expensive of money making operations like iTunes.
My point is that if it's economically ripe, the truckers will be the first to use a new form of energy. If they ain't using it, it ain't ripe (unless it's an amphetamine). Moreover, "If you got it, a truck brought it."
I hope people realize that all countries are not at all immune to Patriot Act-like behaviors. The next time you feel embarrassed to be an American, you start eating freedom fries and pouring out your beaujolais, think about Canada. Canada!! Now it's Canada that's pulling this crap, how random. We are not getting Fed in the A nearly as hard as many of you contend.
damnit .. trying to kickstart some flaming and what do I do but forget to post anonymously .. not to mention not using BR tags.
your question: Can you sue the government? Are there any precedents? the answer: Yes and yes the rambling douche: You
If your company gets sued because someone successfuly patented the double click which is used in your Linux servers, because the patent is so friggin' ridiculous, couldn't you sue the patent office? Take contracts, for example: If you were running a jetskiing operation and you had people sign a ten page fine print agreement basically saying not to sue for any reason, and for kicks you removed the throttle spring so they can't slow down (not using any bomb like in that movie), contracts may not hold up. And I'm not talking just contracts that include something illegal to be entirely void, just contracts that cross the line of reality a bit too far. Apply that to patents, and you got a viable case. Right? Any precedents one way or the other?
What I don't want is any nudging toward a technology by the government. It's bad enough that we all sort of settle on one technlogy or format for years, and since eventually everyone has that capability, switching to something dramatically superior very rarely happens. On the other hand, the existing technlogy in this instance is good enough at least for existing applications (who needs 10.1 channels of sound?) so there is a small enough motive in the masses to pay up for what may prove to be improvements beyond the price of diminishing returns, in which case a little nudging from the government would from where I'm sitting be a good thing. I guess part of my problem is that I apparently don't have a solid opinion on government interference in markets. Perhaps said interference could be identified as a product of the free market and therefore avoiding it is anti-Adam Smith somehow. Jesus this post wasn't even funny. Starting out I thought I could make it smell insightful. On my B-game today.
Before I knew any better, I used to run Mandrake. This article gave me the first moment in many months that reminded me of the existance of Mandrake. Was that just me or did we all collectively tune out from Mandr*? To rephrase, what has Netcraft confirmed? :)
I'm a big subscriber to You Get What You Pay For economics (in this case, an OS that's free for you because someone wants to boost marketshare (and is therefore inferior)); however, this seems to be one instance I'd call an exception. Though I have never and never would use a Mac, judging by the disproportionately small volume of bugs and malware problems I have to fix as a digitician, I gotta give Apple a high five and call this a Good Thing[alt+0153] in addition to calling it a good marketing strategy.
Registrars especially have pushed gimmicky "features" on domain buyers that people could otherwise get with a phonecall to their ISP or typing apt-get install webalizer. As far as tracking the way people "interact" on your site, without a google ad on every page or some script I don't see how they can track user behavior on the site (IE which paths through the site are most popular) beyond timing the first and last load of a page with an ad on it. OTOH most of these potential customers or users of this feature don't have my skills. It just raises the whole issue of whether or not google's still a strong buy at 393/share.
This math does not take into account the ass factor. There are a lot of chicks that are hip to this save the rain forest crap and they may be more inclined to open up for a guy who "cares" about the ice melting. Think of these tofu-eating broads as an untapped market and get yourself some rubbers and a set of 21 inch rims on your Prius and you're ready to go. You might not even have to use rubbers with these girls if you play the latex is bad for the pandas card.
There's got to be a simple change to the Skype protocol that will make it hard to detect and block. Randomizing ports, for example. If The Man can sniff out what Skype traffic looks like, encrypt it or create some mechanism that would generate random number "noise" to throw off the detection. That's about all I can come up with. Other than politics and laws, what methods could Skype do to make it difficult to be controlled?
Regarding skin contact, I have no trouble believing that about anthrax. Ever get some asbestos on your skin? Nasty itchy shit. It'll screw up your whole weekend.
Essentially what I'm trying to say here is avoid dermal contact with both substances. The jury's still out on Teflon.
Back in the day of 56k modems, you could only get 56 if you dialed into an isp that supported it somehow, and even then, only get that speed incoming. Connecting to your friend's 56k modem would yield only 33.6 in each direction IIRC. What kind of device was needed and how did it work to support 56k connections, and how much did they cost?