1. Sign up to service with alias 2. Use untraceable account (prepaid credit card, bitcoin, points card) 3. Share files with "watermarks" 4. Don't give a shit that it gets traced back to a throw away account
They could have saved a significant amount of effort if they had asked me first...
Aside from the fact they are both audio codecs, aren't they polar opposites? MP3 is optimized for size at the expense of quality while FLAC is LOSSLESS.
...the anglos were in the street claiming their love and begging for them to stay a part of Canada...
... the anglos were in the street calling bullshit for segmenting Canada in half and having a secondary country extort them for transporting goods east/west.
The range bubbles are one way distance. To verify this look at the one surrounding Denver. Colorado is about 380 miles across, and the diameter of that bubble is slightly larger, so they have about a 200 mile radius. The advertized range for the two Tesla S models are 230 & 300 miles, so neither can drive from a charging station to the edge of a bubble and back.
I though this issue was solved years ago with... and I'm not joking... towing a gas/diesel generator.
Put a hitch on the Telsa and tow a gas generator with fuel to extend your range. When you're using the car locally or once you reach your destination you unhitch and park the generator. There was even a prototype that looked like a tiny trailer.
I think the idea is that you're supposed to charge overnight at 115V or 230V in Vegas.
That's fine when the edge of the circle is your destination. But the fact that these are one way circles makes the map very deceptive. For example, take a look at the Fall 2013 map. It would seem that Toronto to NYC is a feasible trip, but it isn't, at least not by supercharger.
According to marketing, if you leave Toronto in the Fall of 2013 and drive slow enough that you hit new stations coming online in early 2014... then you're OK.:)
with a quantity of safrole and a specific frequency of visible light, easily achieved with commercial sources, one can make mdma (obviously there are a few more steps, but the entire process much simpler than other methods)
that's why it's prohibited
Yes, I read that as well. If that is the driving factor they should just say so and regulate purified Safrole oil. I've ordered Sassafras bark and it's an unnecessary hassle due to this even though the concentration is quite low... and no I wasn't making MDMA:)
Similar to the method used to ban natural root beer. They banned Sassafras because rats injected with safrole oil developed cancer. Turns out they injected them with pure safrole... I did the calculations before and it was the equivalent of drinking something like 72 root beers everyday for 3 years. I can't remember the exact number because it was beyond the realm of sanity.
"Safrole is regarded by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be a weak carcinogen in rats,[4] and considered by the European Commission on Health and consumer protection to be genotoxic and carcinogenic.[5] It occurs naturally in a variety of spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and black pepper and herbs such as basil. In that role, safrole, like many naturally occurring compounds, may have a small but measurable ability to induce cancer in rodents. Despite this, the effects in humans were estimated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be similar to risks posed by breathing indoor air or drinking municipally supplied water.[6] In the United States, it was once widely used as a food additive in root beer, sassafras tea, and other common goods, but was banned by the FDA after its carcinogenicity in rats was discovered. Today, safrole is also banned for use in soap and perfumes by the International Fragrance Association."
A Nexus 4 perhaps? They're pretty common. Personally, I don't care which standard is used as long as it's an open standard. Proprietary standards where you need to pay licensing are what tends to cause this sort of thing to happen in the first place.
On the other hand an open standard with no regulation tends to breed low quality knock-offs that cheapen the image. There needs to be a happy median.
I own a Nexus 4 with Qi. But I wonder how fundamentally different these wireless chargers really are. How easy is it to retrofit a Qi to a Duracell and vice versa? Are the coils the same and it's just the frequency? Once a winner is declared it would be wasteful to turf all those systems...
Or just a field which said "bank account". Currency is not really an important factor.
If you don't get paid in your bank accounts native currency they nickle and dime you on the exchange rate; so it does matter.
I have multiple accounts at the same bank in different currencies. I direct funds based on the currency and do bulk exchanges ONLY if I need to and at a time when the rate is desirable.
I predict that unless it is proven that they fabricated evidence, the person on trial will still get convicted, and the MPAA will get nothing more than a verbal slap on the wrist.
Deletion of exculpatory evidence is one thing, but deletion to hide a source is simply redaction, which governments do daily. They will laugh it off as a minor oversight.
... and you're suppose to just take their word that those were the only changes? If they had access to make changes then the chain of evidence is tainted... who knows that happened.
You end up with unmaintainable code, late deadlines and an environment where numerous employees want to kill each other. Profit? Good luck.
It doesn't matter how talented the asshole is if he\she costs more than they're worth. I'd rather have a few mediocre developers who are nice to each other, write to spec, comment appropriately, and write code that anyone can understand and maintain.
I think you're confusing jerk-off with asshole. A jerk-off is what you're describing in the first sentence, and also the environment that eventually turns other people into assholes.
A true asshole does quality work, but quickly becomes annoyed when: - people check in "shit" code that fixes the symptom without addressing the actual problem - they have to adhere to shit specs they had no input on - they have to work with jerk-offs (as defined above)
It's not a valid point. If you need those buy a micro iTX board..
What's next, you guys going to complain that Arduino doesnt have SATA, USB3.0 and GigaE? If you think that these boards need that, then you have no clue as to what you are doing.
I have a DNS-323 NAS device. It's an ARM based low power server with SATA and GigE. It's worked for years, but it is getting out dated. Even though it has GigE and a reasonable HDD I can only push 13MiB/s. Plus, it doesn't properly support 4k IO. I would really like to see an open source and open hardware version of this. I've searched around for SATA and GigE on ARM a couple years ago and you could find one or the other but not both.
The commercial alternatives are $200-800 without drives so there is room to bump the price.
By the way, if you'll never need more than 640k of memory why does this thing have 512MB?!!! Seems a little over kill already... so why not go one step further:)
Not only that, but how do you generate that much data in the first place? Require everyone to wear their Google Glasses 24/7 and capture it all in high def?
Trust me, that is never an issue. From my experience any time you give an organization free space... it will be filled!
Now, I'm not saying it will be useful stuff, but it will be full.
How much energy is consumed by driving to blockbuster, picking up a physical tape that had to be produced and shipped to the store Vs. streaming from Netflix? How about paying bills online vs mailing an envelope.
I'm not sure what the number is but it may be possible that for every increase in energy 'x' by computers there was '5x' amount of energy saved in other areas???
Oracle is going to need to come up with a new game to make waves with the new processor. Simply improving a processor isn't going to change the fact that what people want are low cost processors without vendor lock in.
They are relying on Oracle Db dominance to bring in the T5. They are working on adding "software on silicon" to future processors so certain DB calls happen at HW speeds.
As long as Oracle DB has market dominance, then anyone who needs to squeeze absolute performance from their DB; then they logical choice will be SPARC. With that user base they can move in to other segments.
I have nothing against "software on silicon". However, it does smell of anti-competition... I doubt Oracle works with other CHIP designers on this HW API... but I could be wrong.
Of course having competition requires good regulations.
Utterly wrong, and ignorant of the very definition of "competition".
You are utterly wrong. Without regulation there would be no capitalism.
In the early industrial revolution of Britain it was the wild west of commerce. Rival companies could mimic the packaging of quality brands. It was also said some vendors would dust used tea leaves in lead to make them look new again to resell. These were all practices to mislead the consumer.
Sure, caveat emptor. But if the consumer is continually mislead how can they make valid choices and how can the invisible hand work. There needs to be some regulation to ensure capitalism works.
As HSBC and the drug cartels have proven, regulation only encourages organization. Sure it pushes mom&pop dealers out, but do you really want powerful cartels running everything?
This could be tricky, if this gets classified as a new species, how do we factor in the need for persistant traffic in environmental impact reports? If we cut traffic this species would lose its competitive edge and thus habitat and could become extinct!
Unlike religion, taxonomy is based on science. You can't just name something a new species because of a slight variation.
Species: A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
If the short wing swallows can breed with the long wing swallows to create fertile offspring... they probably aren't a new species.
I have one question for the pick-your-color manufacturers: Have you ever consulted an interior designer? The colors of paint, fabric, etc. in a room are all picked with specific lighting in mind, both natural and from lamps. Start futzing with it, and things will start looking crappy.
Thanks for this post. I was running out of material for my "First World Problems" meme generator. But this is pure gold:)
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3. Share files with "watermarks"
4. Don't give a shit that it gets traced back to a throw away account
They could have saved a significant amount of effort if they had asked me first...
"FLAC is an audio format similar to MP3"
Aside from the fact they are both audio codecs, aren't they polar opposites?
MP3 is optimized for size at the expense of quality while FLAC is LOSSLESS.
Furthermore, if the rich prick is in a bad part part of town, he's either slumming behind his wife's back, or snorting crack...
Even people, literally ON DRUGS, don't snort crack. You smoke crack and you snort cocaine.
Unless you were referring to the slumee's crack as a new type of sexual fetish... in which case carry-on.
...the anglos were in the street claiming their love and begging for them to stay a part of Canada...
... the anglos were in the street calling bullshit for segmenting Canada in half and having a secondary country extort them for transporting goods east/west.
The range bubbles are one way distance. To verify this look at the one surrounding Denver. Colorado is about 380 miles across, and the diameter of that bubble is slightly larger, so they have about a 200 mile radius. The advertized range for the two Tesla S models are 230 & 300 miles, so neither can drive from a charging station to the edge of a bubble and back.
I though this issue was solved years ago with... and I'm not joking... towing a gas/diesel generator.
Put a hitch on the Telsa and tow a gas generator with fuel to extend your range. When you're using the car locally or once you reach your destination you unhitch and park the generator. There was even a prototype that looked like a tiny trailer.
Is this not an option anymore?
I think the idea is that you're supposed to charge overnight at 115V or 230V in Vegas.
That's fine when the edge of the circle is your destination. But the fact that these are one way circles makes the map very deceptive. For example, take a look at the Fall 2013 map. It would seem that Toronto to NYC is a feasible trip, but it isn't, at least not by supercharger.
According to marketing, if you leave Toronto in the Fall of 2013 and drive slow enough that you hit new stations coming online in early 2014... then you're OK. :)
I hope they make this legal and I hope they have tons of false positives. :)
I also hope I have enough popcorn...
Starting with the Java installer for Windows being bundled with Ask Toolbar...
I was shocked when I first saw this as well... and here I thought Oracle was an enterprise level corporation?!
with a quantity of safrole and a specific frequency of visible light, easily achieved with commercial sources, one can make mdma (obviously there are a few more steps, but the entire process much simpler than other methods)
that's why it's prohibited
Yes, I read that as well. If that is the driving factor they should just say so and regulate purified Safrole oil. I've ordered Sassafras bark and it's an unnecessary hassle due to this even though the concentration is quite low... and no I wasn't making MDMA :)
Similar to the method used to ban natural root beer. They banned Sassafras because rats injected with safrole oil developed cancer.
Turns out they injected them with pure safrole... I did the calculations before and it was the equivalent of drinking something like 72 root beers everyday for 3 years. I can't remember the exact number because it was beyond the realm of sanity.
"Safrole is regarded by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be a weak carcinogen in rats,[4] and considered by the European Commission on Health and consumer protection to be genotoxic and carcinogenic.[5] It occurs naturally in a variety of spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and black pepper and herbs such as basil. In that role, safrole, like many naturally occurring compounds, may have a small but measurable ability to induce cancer in rodents. Despite this, the effects in humans were estimated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be similar to risks posed by breathing indoor air or drinking municipally supplied water.[6] In the United States, it was once widely used as a food additive in root beer, sassafras tea, and other common goods, but was banned by the FDA after its carcinogenicity in rats was discovered. Today, safrole is also banned for use in soap and perfumes by the International Fragrance Association."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safrole
A Nexus 4 perhaps? They're pretty common. Personally, I don't care which standard is used as long as it's an open standard. Proprietary standards where you need to pay licensing are what tends to cause this sort of thing to happen in the first place.
On the other hand an open standard with no regulation tends to breed low quality knock-offs that cheapen the image. There needs to be a happy median.
I own a Nexus 4 with Qi. But I wonder how fundamentally different these wireless chargers really are. How easy is it to retrofit a Qi to a Duracell and vice versa? Are the coils the same and it's just the frequency? Once a winner is declared it would be wasteful to turf all those systems...
Or just a field which said "bank account". Currency is not really an important factor.
If you don't get paid in your bank accounts native currency they nickle and dime you on the exchange rate; so it does matter.
I have multiple accounts at the same bank in different currencies. I direct funds based on the currency and do bulk exchanges ONLY if I need to and at a time when the rate is desirable.
If he has no money to fight his legal battles, he has no money to sue Google or anyone else. So I think the appropriate response should "Fuck off."
That's how you know the system is working properly: winning isn't based on the validity of the patent... it's based on how much money you have.
Sarcasm off.
I predict that unless it is proven that they fabricated evidence, the person on trial will still get convicted, and the MPAA will get nothing more than a verbal slap on the wrist.
Deletion of exculpatory evidence is one thing, but deletion to hide a source is simply redaction, which governments do daily. They will laugh it off as a minor oversight.
... and you're suppose to just take their word that those were the only changes? If they had access to make changes then the chain of evidence is tainted... who knows that happened.
You end up with unmaintainable code, late deadlines and an environment where numerous employees want to kill each other. Profit? Good luck.
It doesn't matter how talented the asshole is if he\she costs more than they're worth. I'd rather have a few mediocre developers who are nice to each other, write to spec, comment appropriately, and write code that anyone can understand and maintain.
I think you're confusing jerk-off with asshole. A jerk-off is what you're describing in the first sentence, and also the environment that eventually turns other people into assholes.
A true asshole does quality work, but quickly becomes annoyed when:
- people check in "shit" code that fixes the symptom without addressing the actual problem
- they have to adhere to shit specs they had no input on
- they have to work with jerk-offs (as defined above)
"Know your shit" OR "Know you're shit"
It's not a valid point. If you need those buy a micro iTX board..
What's next, you guys going to complain that Arduino doesnt have SATA, USB3.0 and GigaE? If you think that these boards need that, then you have no clue as to what you are doing.
I have a DNS-323 NAS device. It's an ARM based low power server with SATA and GigE. It's worked for years, but it is getting out dated. Even though it has GigE and a reasonable HDD I can only push 13MiB/s. Plus, it doesn't properly support 4k IO. I would really like to see an open source and open hardware version of this. I've searched around for SATA and GigE on ARM a couple years ago and you could find one or the other but not both.
The commercial alternatives are $200-800 without drives so there is room to bump the price.
By the way, if you'll never need more than 640k of memory why does this thing have 512MB?!!! Seems a little over kill already... so why not go one step further :)
Everywhere this is being discussed, there's an astroturfer popping up with the same GigaE complaint. They're working from a script.
The other guys were given scripts!? I was freelancing the whole time... where can I join this "astroturfer" group you speak of?
Not only that, but how do you generate that much data in the first place? Require everyone to wear their Google Glasses 24/7 and capture it all in high def?
Trust me, that is never an issue. From my experience any time you give an organization free space... it will be filled!
Now, I'm not saying it will be useful stuff, but it will be full.
What about the energy offset?
How much energy is consumed by driving to blockbuster, picking up a physical tape that had to be produced and shipped to the store Vs. streaming from Netflix?
How about paying bills online vs mailing an envelope.
I'm not sure what the number is but it may be possible that for every increase in energy 'x' by computers there was '5x' amount of energy saved in other areas???
Oracle is going to need to come up with a new game to make waves with the new processor. Simply improving a processor isn't going to change the fact that what people want are low cost processors without vendor lock in.
They are relying on Oracle Db dominance to bring in the T5. They are working on adding "software on silicon" to future processors so certain DB calls happen at HW speeds.
As long as Oracle DB has market dominance, then anyone who needs to squeeze absolute performance from their DB; then they logical choice will be SPARC.
With that user base they can move in to other segments.
I have nothing against "software on silicon". However, it does smell of anti-competition... I doubt Oracle works with other CHIP designers on this HW API... but I could be wrong.
Of course having competition requires good regulations.
Utterly wrong, and ignorant of the very definition of "competition".
You are utterly wrong. Without regulation there would be no capitalism.
In the early industrial revolution of Britain it was the wild west of commerce. Rival companies could mimic the packaging of quality brands. It was also said some vendors would dust used tea leaves in lead to make them look new again to resell. These were all practices to mislead the consumer.
Sure, caveat emptor. But if the consumer is continually mislead how can they make valid choices and how can the invisible hand work. There needs to be some regulation to ensure capitalism works.
Is paypal regulated in a similar manner?!
Not that I agree with this, but I do hate paypal.
As HSBC and the drug cartels have proven, regulation only encourages organization. Sure it pushes mom&pop dealers out, but do you really want powerful cartels running everything?
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/report-hsbc-allowed-money-laundering-likely-funded-terror-drugs-889170
Is paypal regulated in a similar manner?!
Not that I agree with this, but I do hate paypal.
This could be tricky, if this gets classified as a new species, how do we factor in the need for persistant traffic in environmental impact reports? If we cut traffic this species would lose its competitive edge and thus habitat and could become extinct!
Unlike religion, taxonomy is based on science. You can't just name something a new species because of a slight variation.
Species:
A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
If the short wing swallows can breed with the long wing swallows to create fertile offspring... they probably aren't a new species.
I have one question for the pick-your-color manufacturers: Have you ever consulted an interior designer? The colors of paint, fabric, etc. in a room are all picked with specific lighting in mind, both natural and from lamps. Start futzing with it, and things will start looking crappy.
Thanks for this post. I was running out of material for my "First World Problems" meme generator. But this is pure gold :)