I think the ban is on Sodium Chloride - try cooking with Sea salt.
Meanwhile, I'd like a ban on Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in restaurants - too many apply the "Essence of Flavor" with a tablespoon (and often will lie about using it at all, when asked) and what MSG does is modify your body chemistry to register flavors more strongly - if that isn't unethical then I give up.
They can ban sodium chloride along with "dihydrogen monoxide" for all I care but get your damn dirty ape hands away from my sea salt and spring water...
Like saying chlorine is poisonous so it should be banned and then cracking down on the importation of salt; this treaty shows a profound lack of chemistry and biology education.
Think of the most absurd and ridiculous proposal you can... and an American politician has probably already proposed it:
"New York restaurants face salt ban in new health bill... causing chefs' blood pressure to soar"
In early America they were called heroes as well. In fact, Samuel Slater is known as the the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" because he illegally smuggled in textile plans from the textile leader of the time: Britain.
"Stitched into the lining of his clothing were his indenture papers, which would prove to any prospective employer that he knew his job. More importantly, in his head he carried all the secrets of the water frame and the continuous spinning process that Arkwright and Strutt had perfected."
Oh... and by today's standard the forefathers of America were also dirty terrorists.
I thought I had seen most of Red Dwarf but I don't remember that scene... hilarious. I'll be impressed when Adobe comes up with the ability to "uncrop":)
Jobs, Gates, Torvalds... I've spent a couple of decades slowly coming around to the idea that it's individual leaders who make the real difference, but everyone else who does the real work. Down below a guy is talking about all the brilliant engineers at Apple working 80+ hours per week, and how that's what really counts, and this CEO worship is stupid. Do you think Sun didn't have those guys? Did they fail because they were stupid and lazy?
I suppose that depends on how you define success. In my opinion Sun produced far more impressive technical achievements than Apple. Sure Sun was a financial disaster and Apple was a financial success, but that success came at a price.
Sun gave away or open sourced most of their software IP: Java, Solaris, ZFS, etc. On the other hand Jobs sold overpriced music players and phones to the masses, and then squeezed as much margin he could while trying to stifle competition and hence innovation. I wouldn't worship his technical achievements, just his business skills.
Maybe timelines.com should be suing the owners of timeline.com before they go after Facebook?
Trade-marks are intended to identify products and services for a particular industry. "timeline.com" appears to be an investigation and security company while "timelines.com" is a historical database. Facebook Timelines on the other hand is both a similar name and similar service and therefore infringes on "timelines.com"
Maybe they should just shorten it from "Facebook Timelines" to "FaceTime" and save themselves the hassle of a lawsuit:)
Maybe timelines.com should be suing the owners of timeline.com before they go after Facebook?
Trade-marks are intended to identify products and services for a particular industry. "timeline.com" appears to be an investigation and security company while "timelines.com" is a historical database. Facebook Timelines on the other hand is both a similar name and similar service and therefore infringes on "timelines.com"
Timeline.com is just making chronological lists of historical events, which anyone can do with a piece of paper and pen. That idea is probably older than Jesus. How is this a trade-mark infringement? It's like trying to sue someone for making a Venn diagram.
This is a trade-mark dispute not a patent dispute. I don't think anyone is questioning the process of recording chronological information; just the name timeline...
The reason the article doesn't mention it is because it hasn't happened yet. Google is trying to buy MMI, it hasn't happened yet. These things don't happen overnight...
"Trying to buy" and "definitive agreement" have very different implications. I'll side with the article as a more "definitive" source.
"The company announced this morning that it has entered a definitive agreement to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI) for $40/share in cash, a premium of 63% to Friday's closing price on Motorola Mobility's shares."
This latest deal leaves Motorola Mobility, with which Microsoft is currently in litigation, as the only major Android smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. without a license to Microsoft's patent portfolio."
The article fails to mention that Google bought MMI (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-buys-moto-gives-microsoft-an-opening-goog-mmi-aapl-rimm-nok-msft-2011-08-15). So when they say Motorola Mobility, they really mean Google. Things will probably get interesting when Google fires back with some of MMI's patents.
Then again the whole thing is a non-productive waste of time and resources. Three cheers for a broken and counter-productive patent system.
However, I have seen the older PC's insides, and can say that newer ones are MUCH easier to work with.
Back in my day we had IO cards and math co-processors. IDE, serial, etc weren't built onto the motherboard and you actually had a separate card.
Now EVERYTHING is built on to the motherboard: IO, Sound, Video. About the only thing you have to troubleshoot is memory, CPU and HDD. I wouldn't call installing a video card a right of passage... hell the IRQ is automatically negotiated for you!
I still manage about 500 desktops, and we're constantly ordering parts from NewEgg. While the consumer PC era is being described as ending (not true in my experience), the business workstation is going to be around for a long, long time.
You should really look into thin clients. Same desktop experience but less hardware maintenance. In fact there are some aspects of thin clients that make invaluable these days. You can dynamically spin up linked-clones from a VM template. You can troubleshoot without leaving your office and push upgrades and rebuild systems the same way.
I doubt that a hybrid vehicle will generate enough power for where I live in the summertime when the power is most likely to fail- where it would have to power an air conditioner and a refrigerator minimally.
OK, have fun sitting in your hot dark house at night.
Funny, you can replace PLC with PS3 and the paragraph still makes sense, except the part about disconnecting from the internet.
"Argh, the crap that appears in the media. For example, you cannot "infect" a PS3. Why? They don't run Java (or script), or any language recognizable by the Internet community. They don't even run executables, in the sense that PCs do. Their programming is done in a specialized, proprietary language that requires a specialized IDE to manipulate. Write your own? Sure, if you have thousands upon thousands of man-hours handy. Do an open source IDE? Within 24 hours of posting your project somewhere, the manufacturer will be knocking at your door. PS3s are very, very proprietary, and they makers want them to stay that way."
Am I missing something regarding the "easily guessable passwords" statement? Don't they own the service so can't they enforce any password schema they desire?
Impose a minimum password length requiring punctuation, numbers and/or capitals and run it against a dictionary before accepting it.
Don't limit yourself to solar panels. They have solar collectors that concentrate energy onto molten salt that never cools. Energy is added during the day but small amounts of heat are used to power turbines throughout the day/night.
Everyone is free to express time in terms of GMT: You, your business contacts, your boss, etc. If you find it useful, do it! Many people already do. The vast majority of people have never been inside an airplane and have no need for such silliness.
If you're going to switch to a universal time, then technically you should use UTC.
"UTC was used beginning in the mid-twentieth century but became the official standard of world time on January 1, 1972."
Also, the "top 1%" isn't a club that's impossible to get in to. hard? sure. impossible? nope. how did Bill Gates get in? How did the waltons get in? How did Paul McCartney and Oprah get in? Find a nitch, fill it, manage your money well, make sound decisions, and you can get in.
{whistle}{whistle} Fetch the carrot boy, come one... fetch the carrot... you almost got it, fetch the carrot... {whistle}{whistle}
What the @^&%$. That is a jury nullification and is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you're talking about (2 comments above). Jury nullification is when the jury 'slaps' the judge in the face by refusing to follow the letter of the law. As a result it sets a precedent that the law needs to be changed.
"Judge Nullification" was mocking of your misunderstanding of JURY nullification.
It is a safeguard against the law imposing unreasonable laws on its citizens and 100% would apply to this scenario. This case should be taken to a jury and the jury should use this opportunity to change the law.
hmm, well let's look at this one. It we could be losing it at x rate, or 4x! Translation: we don't have any frapping clue. Yeah, that's what we want to base worldwide economic policy on.
4x factorial, that's insane. On the bright side, Canada will finally gain an ice free northwest passage.
Looks like Sir John Franklin jumped the gun by 200 years. Lead is a helluva drug.
2) If the protesters are interfering with mass transit, they're just being assholes. Yes, it's sad that someone got killed. No, this doesn't mean that tens of thousands of people should have their schedules fucked around with.
Not only that... but if protesters are interfering with mass transit, they are committing a crime and should be arrested, if they do not leave/disperse when ordered to by officials.
There are legal means of protest. And assemblies are legal, in some but not all public areas.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
Go ahead and make peaceful protest difficult if you think that will solve problems. Kind of like how your country handles debt problems... kick the can down the road until it blows up in your face. (Notice I didn't specify the country you are in. Chances are good wherever you are that statement applies.)
Protesting is the peaceful form of expressing discontent with the authority in power; when that fails it is insurrection...
They're not turning to just urine, they're using all waste water.
No. I think they're rebuilding the entire infrastructure: - Outbound general waste water - Outbound urine - Inbound clean water - Inbound cleaned urine water for drinking only
You are required by law to urinate and only urinate into the outbound urine line. And all water destined for direct human consumption must come from the "Inbound cleaned urine" line.... you wanted internal infrastructure and jobs for Americans. If you don't drink urine then you hate America!
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I think the ban is on Sodium Chloride - try cooking with Sea salt.
Meanwhile, I'd like a ban on Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in restaurants - too many apply the "Essence of Flavor" with a tablespoon (and often will lie about using it at all, when asked) and what MSG does is modify your body chemistry to register flavors more strongly - if that isn't unethical then I give up.
They can ban sodium chloride along with "dihydrogen monoxide" for all I care but get your damn dirty ape hands away from my sea salt and spring water...
Like saying chlorine is poisonous so it should be banned and then cracking down on the importation of salt; this treaty shows a profound lack of chemistry and biology education.
Think of the most absurd and ridiculous proposal you can... and an American politician has probably already proposed it:
"New York restaurants face salt ban in new health bill... causing chefs' blood pressure to soar"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257414/New-York-restaurants-face-salt-ban-new-health--causing-chefs-blood-pressure-soar.html
What does the DNA sequence GATTACA code for?
The title of a movie.
In China, these are called hero's of the people.
In early America they were called heroes as well. In fact, Samuel Slater is known as the the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" because he illegally smuggled in textile plans from the textile leader of the time: Britain.
"Stitched into the lining of his clothing were his indenture papers, which would prove to any prospective employer that he knew his job. More importantly, in his head he carried all the secrets of the water frame and the continuous spinning process that Arkwright and Strutt had perfected."
Oh... and by today's standard the forefathers of America were also dirty terrorists.
Zoom in on that raindrop. Enhance!
I thought I had seen most of Red Dwarf but I don't remember that scene... hilarious. I'll be impressed when Adobe comes up with the ability to "uncrop" :)
Jobs, Gates, Torvalds... I've spent a couple of decades slowly coming around to the idea that it's individual leaders who make the real difference, but everyone else who does the real work. Down below a guy is talking about all the brilliant engineers at Apple working 80+ hours per week, and how that's what really counts, and this CEO worship is stupid. Do you think Sun didn't have those guys? Did they fail because they were stupid and lazy?
I suppose that depends on how you define success. In my opinion Sun produced far more impressive technical achievements than Apple. Sure Sun was a financial disaster and Apple was a financial success, but that success came at a price.
Sun gave away or open sourced most of their software IP: Java, Solaris, ZFS, etc. On the other hand Jobs sold overpriced music players and phones to the masses, and then squeezed as much margin he could while trying to stifle competition and hence innovation. I wouldn't worship his technical achievements, just his business skills.
it's designed for the 1+ billion Indians who have never even been on the internet and for first time internet usage I think it'll be fine at that.
1 billion noobs released all at once onto the interwebs... what could possibly go wrong?
Maybe timelines.com should be suing the owners of timeline.com before they go after Facebook?
Trade-marks are intended to identify products and services for a particular industry. "timeline.com" appears to be an investigation and security company while "timelines.com" is a historical database. Facebook Timelines on the other hand is both a similar name and similar service and therefore infringes on "timelines.com"
Maybe they should just shorten it from "Facebook Timelines" to "FaceTime" and save themselves the hassle of a lawsuit :)
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
Maybe timelines.com should be suing the owners of timeline.com before they go after Facebook?
Trade-marks are intended to identify products and services for a particular industry. "timeline.com" appears to be an investigation and security company while "timelines.com" is a historical database. Facebook Timelines on the other hand is both a similar name and similar service and therefore infringes on "timelines.com"
Timeline.com is just making chronological lists of historical events, which anyone can do with a piece of paper and pen. That idea is probably older than Jesus. How is this a trade-mark infringement? It's like trying to sue someone for making a Venn diagram.
This is a trade-mark dispute not a patent dispute. I don't think anyone is questioning the process of recording chronological information; just the name timeline...
The reason the article doesn't mention it is because it hasn't happened yet. Google is trying to buy MMI, it hasn't happened yet. These things don't happen overnight...
"Trying to buy" and "definitive agreement" have very different implications. I'll side with the article as a more "definitive" source.
"The company announced this morning that it has entered a definitive agreement to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI) for $40/share in cash, a premium of 63% to Friday's closing price on Motorola Mobility's shares."
This latest deal leaves Motorola Mobility, with which Microsoft is currently in litigation, as the only major Android smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. without a license to Microsoft's patent portfolio."
The article fails to mention that Google bought MMI (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-buys-moto-gives-microsoft-an-opening-goog-mmi-aapl-rimm-nok-msft-2011-08-15). So when they say Motorola Mobility, they really mean Google. Things will probably get interesting when Google fires back with some of MMI's patents.
Then again the whole thing is a non-productive waste of time and resources. Three cheers for a broken and counter-productive patent system.
However, I have seen the older PC's insides, and can say that newer ones are MUCH easier to work with.
Back in my day we had IO cards and math co-processors. IDE, serial, etc weren't built onto the motherboard and you actually had a separate card.
Now EVERYTHING is built on to the motherboard: IO, Sound, Video. About the only thing you have to troubleshoot is memory, CPU and HDD. I wouldn't call installing a video card a right of passage... hell the IRQ is automatically negotiated for you!
Now get off my lawn!
I still manage about 500 desktops, and we're constantly ordering parts from NewEgg. While the consumer PC era is being described as ending (not true in my experience), the business workstation is going to be around for a long, long time.
You should really look into thin clients. Same desktop experience but less hardware maintenance. In fact there are some aspects of thin clients that make invaluable these days. You can dynamically spin up linked-clones from a VM template. You can troubleshoot without leaving your office and push upgrades and rebuild systems the same way.
Definitely not genius...
I doubt that a hybrid vehicle will generate enough power for where I live in the summertime when the power is most likely to fail- where it would have to power an air conditioner and a refrigerator minimally.
OK, have fun sitting in your hot dark house at night.
Funny, you can replace PLC with PS3 and the paragraph still makes sense, except the part about disconnecting from the internet.
"Argh, the crap that appears in the media. For example, you cannot "infect" a PS3. Why? They don't run Java (or script), or any language recognizable by the Internet community. They don't even run executables, in the sense that PCs do. Their programming is done in a specialized, proprietary language that requires a specialized IDE to manipulate. Write your own? Sure, if you have thousands upon thousands of man-hours handy. Do an open source IDE? Within 24 hours of posting your project somewhere, the manufacturer will be knocking at your door. PS3s are very, very proprietary, and they makers want them to stay that way."
They do have a very strict policy, and it was stated above by CharlyFoxtrot but here it is again:
"When changing your password, your new Apple ID password should:
Be at least eight characters. ...
Contain at least one number (0-9).
These threads aren't sorted by chronological order dipsh*t.
by CharlyFoxtrot (1607527) Alter Relationship on Saturday September 10, @02:30PM (#37363398)
by NFN_NLN (633283) on Saturday September 10, @12:44PM (#37362832)
It is difficult to respond to a post ~2 hours in the future.
Am I missing something regarding the "easily guessable passwords" statement? Don't they own the service so can't they enforce any password schema they desire?
Impose a minimum password length requiring punctuation, numbers and/or capitals and run it against a dictionary before accepting it.
Solar doesn't produce anything at night.
Don't limit yourself to solar panels. They have solar collectors that concentrate energy onto molten salt that never cools. Energy is added during the day but small amounts of heat are used to power turbines throughout the day/night.
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-molten-salt-solar-plant-produces-power-at-night/
Everyone is free to express time in terms of GMT: You, your business contacts, your boss, etc. If you find it useful, do it! Many people already do. The vast majority of people have never been inside an airplane and have no need for such silliness.
If you're going to switch to a universal time, then technically you should use UTC.
"UTC was used beginning in the mid-twentieth century but became the official standard of world time on January 1, 1972."
http://geography.about.com/od/timeandtimezones/a/gmtutc.htm
Also, the "top 1%" isn't a club that's impossible to get in to. hard? sure. impossible? nope. how did Bill Gates get in? How did the waltons get in? How did Paul McCartney and Oprah get in? Find a nitch, fill it, manage your money well, make sound decisions, and you can get in.
{whistle}{whistle} Fetch the carrot boy, come one... fetch the carrot... you almost got it, fetch the carrot... {whistle}{whistle}
That's what my friend Mr. Google just told me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
What the @^&%$. That is a jury nullification and is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you're talking about (2 comments above). Jury nullification is when the jury 'slaps' the judge in the face by refusing to follow the letter of the law. As a result it sets a precedent that the law needs to be changed.
"Judge Nullification" was mocking of your misunderstanding of JURY nullification.
It is a safeguard against the law imposing unreasonable laws on its citizens and 100% would apply to this scenario. This case should be taken to a jury and the jury should use this opportunity to change the law.
hmm, well let's look at this one. It we could be losing it at x rate, or 4x! Translation: we don't have any frapping clue. Yeah, that's what we want to base worldwide economic policy on.
4x factorial, that's insane. On the bright side, Canada will finally gain an ice free northwest passage.
Looks like Sir John Franklin jumped the gun by 200 years. Lead is a helluva drug.
2) If the protesters are interfering with mass transit, they're just being assholes. Yes, it's sad that someone got killed. No, this doesn't mean that tens of thousands of people should have their schedules fucked around with.
Not only that... but if protesters are interfering with mass transit, they are committing a crime and should be arrested, if they do not leave/disperse when ordered to by officials.
There are legal means of protest.
And assemblies are legal, in some but not all public areas.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Go ahead and make peaceful protest difficult if you think that will solve problems. Kind of like how your country handles debt problems... kick the can down the road until it blows up in your face. (Notice I didn't specify the country you are in. Chances are good wherever you are that statement applies.)
Protesting is the peaceful form of expressing discontent with the authority in power; when that fails it is insurrection...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots
They're not turning to just urine, they're using all waste water.
No. I think they're rebuilding the entire infrastructure:
- Outbound general waste water
- Outbound urine
- Inbound clean water
- Inbound cleaned urine water for drinking only
You are required by law to urinate and only urinate into the outbound urine line. And all water destined for direct human consumption must come from the "Inbound cleaned urine" line. ... you wanted internal infrastructure and jobs for Americans. If you don't drink urine then you hate America!