Thanks for adding anecdotal noise to the discussion that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.
Gee, I think that anecdotal evidence is interesting, especially if you're interested in understanding what rules Comcast uses to decide which packets to block. Questions like: "Is it the whole network or just portions (I suspect just portions)?" or "Is it all the time or during peak demand?" Please try to be civil. If a comment isn't valuable, it won't be modded up. If it is valuable it will.
That is just not true. If it were, CA would just pass their own tougher law and let the Federal government sue THEM if they didn't like it.
And the federal government would win the suit since federal law prohibits states from setting tailpipe emissions standards outside the framework of the clean air act. California has restricted power plant
There is no such lawsuit. The only ruling I can think you could possibly be referring to is the ruling by the Supreme Court that the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency (in this case, California was one of the several states suing, led by Massachusetts) was a much broader decision than that. It didn't only say that EPA could regulate CO2 emissions, it said that "EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change" and that it was required to "treat greenhouse gases as air pollutants." If EPA has to regulate it, then California can as well.
As for states suing the Feds to force auto manufacturers to decrease emissions, why don't they just do it themselves? California has strict emission control policies. Why can't the rest of these states.
That isn't how air quality regulations work. Under the Clean Air Act, setting auto emissions standards is the exclusive responsibility of the Federal Government. However, because California had stricter emissions standards in place when the Clean Air Act was first passed, California (and only California) was granted a waiver to set its own standards which can be adopted by other states if they choose. This waiver doesn't apply to vehicular CO2 emissions. California (with other states) has already won a suit saying that EPA must grant such a waiver, however EPA has not done so. Thus, they are suing again, this time asking the court to order EPA to do so immediately.
As things currently stand, no state can regulate tailpipe CO2 emissions. When California wins their lawsuit, then states will be able to choose weather to follow CA CO2 regulations or to follow the Federal do-nothing approach.
I must be on a really uncongested bit of Comcast's network because I download plenty of stuff via bittorrent and have never noticed any pauses or significant slowdowns. I typically get 430-500 kbyte down speeds, which is about what you would expect with 6 Mbit (the slowest they sell here) service. This is worlds better than my previous 1.5 Mbit DSL.
It's funny. I just switched from DSL to Comcast because when I moved to my new apartment, AT&T lied repeatedly about when they were going to install it and when they finally gave me a date it was a 2 months later than the date they had originally promised. I picked Comcast over speakeasy or another DSL provider because comcast was cheaper than any other DSL alternative.
So far, I have no regrets. My previous DSL only managed about 150 k/sec on the fastest torrents, while I'm averaging about 600 k/sec now. I've only experienced random disconnections from very poor torrents (3-4 seeders and no leachers), which was typical with DSL too. I wonder if this suggests that Comcast is only interfering in certain areas (perhaps where their network is overloaded).
I just replaced a broken 8525 with an iPhone and I'd never consider going back. The iPhone is dramatically smaller, easier to hold, better built, easier to use and has much better designed and integrated applications. Are there features I'd like on the iPhone that were on the 8525? Yes, but not enough to make switching worthwhile. The iPhone is the only smartphone I've used that doesn't feel like a hurriedly slapped together piece of crap. That being said, I'd love to be able to run third party aps.
I think that which translation is superior comes down on what criteria you use. The NIV (or most other modern translations such as my favorite, the NET Bible) benefited from access to more and better texts as well as a better understanding of the times in which those texts were written and is doubtless a more accurate rendering of the Old and New Testaments into English.
However, I think it is also fair to say that the KJV had far greater literary and cultural impact because it was the dominant version in use for nearly 400 years. If you're interested in understanding the cultural background in the world of, say, 1700 or 1850 then familiarity with the KJV is very helpful.
Global warming is unlikely to harm me very much during my lifetime as I am neither a resident of Bangladesh nor am I a polar bear. High ground level ozone concentrations are likely to shorten my life and degrade its quality to the extent that I breathe them. Looking at things from the point of view of someone who lives in a developed country, local air pollution seems to be the much more serious problem.
The PZEV requirement exists to reduce smog, and limits smog forming emissions. At the time the regulations were written, CO2 emissions weren't a big concern. In many ways, I think this is the right focus in that the effects of high ozone levels on human health are significant and observable while its hard to demonstrate that global warming has been or will be anything like that harmful to humans, especially to the humans who are doing the emitting.
I hate to reply to myself, but I thought I'd also mention that the PZEV designation applies to smog forming emissions only and has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions.
Partial zero emission vehicle means that during some portion of time while the vehicle is operating, it does not produce any emissions. Example: The Toyota Prius is a PZEV because when the engine is off and it is operating on its electric motors, it is operating and not producing any emissions. Note that not all hybrids are PZEVs because with some the engine runs constantly.
No, it doesn't. PZEV is a California Air Resources Board designation that means that the vehicle has extra pollution control equipment that allows it to produce very low smog forming emissions and is counted as a partial vehicle toward meeting California's Zero emissions vehicle mandate.
The way that this odd name came about is that in the 1980's (If I remember correctly) California created a regulation that a certain percentage of all vehicles sold in the state would have no smog-forming emissions). Car makers responded by objecting, suing and by building electric vehicles (remember the EV1 of "Who Killed the Electric Car" fame). Unfortunately, because they couldn't come up with battery technology that was good enough to make a competitive car, automakers went to CARB (the Califoria Air Resources Board) and offered to produce conventional vehicles with MUCH better emissions control, which would reduce pollution more than the EV mandate would have at a drastically lower cost. CARB agreed and designated these vehicles PZEV's. Since California, alone among U.S. states has the authority to independantly set emissions standards, which then can be adopted by other states, California terminology spread to other states which follow California regulations, which led to PZEV's in other states.
Tell me, do you compile your shit natively or do you install binaries (such as using the RHEL bootable CD, which in general installs binaries)? Because I've never had any problems if I've taken a day to uninstall everything, download the newest SOURCE and recompile natively on my box with my library versions and my compiler, optimized for my memory controller and my CPU. After recompiling my Kernel image with same and rebooting. If you expect Open Source, in most cases amateur, developers to make their software automatically detect and work with older library versions, compile portable enough binaries to run on your hacked together system, you are sorely mistaken. Do it right, trust me. Binaries ARE NOT PORTABLE. They sort of work, sometimes. C source is PORTABLE. USE THE SOURCE.
I think you've just perfectly summarized why Linux is not popular as a desktop platform.
Now I'm no expert, but I'd imagine that if, some TV network in the United States tried to incite the masses to revolt against George W. Bush, and the revolt was put down, the broadcast licences for that network would be cancelled.
I don't know. Given that radio stations like KPFA in the San Francisco area, which has, from time to time tried to incite revolt against the government, have no trouble keeping their licenses (and, in fact, continue to suck money from the government teat) I don't think that this would happen.
If you do good deeds, don't you ingratiate yourself witht he Lord, thereby increasing your chance of being admitted to heaven? So, even if you don't really "get" anything for doing good deeds, you're still going to get a reward for it in the afterlife right? Which would mean it wasn't really altrustic.
I'm probably making a mistake for making a religious comment on Slashdot, but here goes:
The point of doing good deeds in Christianity is not to increase your chances of going to heaven; rather Christians are called to do good deeds in response to being forgiven of their wrongdoings. Being allowed to enter heaven comes from choosing to "accept salvation." One way of looking of this is that if one chooses to acknowledge Jesus their ultimate ruler then they become a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. Not only is this person going to heaven, but they are called to live as according to the requirements of a citizen of heaven while they are still here. As such a citizen, they are asked to do 2 things above all else, love God and love and care for those around them as they would themselves.
There is, in Christianity, a notion that how you live in this life changes how you exist in the afterlife. However this proportionality is secondary in most Christian understandings to if you ultimately decide to follow Jesus or not.
NOTE: I hate speaking about Christianity as a whole because there is a wide spectrum of belief. I have tried to be ecumenical in my description as I can be. If my explanation seems inaccurate from your perspective, let me know, I'd love to improve it.
It's important to have accurate mileage ratings on cars, and it's hard to understand how the EPA could be so bad at it. Why do they try to estimate instead of just sampling?
Here's a simple approach: When a car comes in for an oil change, read the mileage rating stored inthe on-board computer and upload it to an EPA database. Problem solved.
I think the main reason for a test is so it can be applied to new or modified designs; it's hard to sample the fuel economy of a car that isn't in use yet. Additionally I think that having a standardized test is useful because different cars attract different types of drivers and having a standardized methodology allows people to estimate for themselves how good their gas millage will be. For example, I consistently get BETTER fuel economy than is projected on the EPA sticker and would assume that to be the case in general. Also, people who hire someone to change their oil are a different sort than those who do it themselves so that may also bias the sample.
That sounds to me like maybe humans, or apes, have faced something like this before and still have low-level semi-functional stuff in place to deal with it, and in a couple generations the descendents of people with the best expression of this would become tolerant or immune to HIV.
You're right. And some of the genes that confer resistance to AIDS are more than semi-functional. For example, in areas of the world where the Black Plague was common (Europe and Central Asia) 12%-14% of the population has a trait (a defective allele of CCR5 if you really care) that makes them very resistant to AIDS. Interestingly, this trait is NOT present in Africans. It is intriguing to consider that this may be partially responsible for the high AIDS rate in Africa.
Note that the trait I'm mentioning is a different trait than the one mentioned in this article. Also note that I'm not trying to claim that any race is superior (except, perhaps, in terms of its resistance to AIDS).
That's actually a BIOS error, but the funny thing is that it isn't entirely useless. For years I had a malfunctioning keyboard that would generate a no keyboard found error on boot-up but when you pressed a key, the computer would finish its boot-up and would work just fine.
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I had that problem with SBC, but it went away when I switched to Comcast. I suspect that the problem is on Google's end.
Thanks for adding anecdotal noise to the discussion that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.
Gee, I think that anecdotal evidence is interesting, especially if you're interested in understanding what rules Comcast uses to decide which packets to block. Questions like: "Is it the whole network or just portions (I suspect just portions)?" or "Is it all the time or during peak demand?" Please try to be civil. If a comment isn't valuable, it won't be modded up. If it is valuable it will.
That is just not true. If it were, CA would just pass their own tougher law and let the Federal government sue THEM if they didn't like it.
And the federal government would win the suit since federal law prohibits states from setting tailpipe emissions standards outside the framework of the clean air act. California has restricted power plant
There is no such lawsuit. The only ruling I can think you could possibly be referring to is the ruling by the Supreme Court that the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency (in this case, California was one of the several states suing, led by Massachusetts) was a much broader decision than that. It didn't only say that EPA could regulate CO2 emissions, it said that "EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change" and that it was required to "treat greenhouse gases as air pollutants." If EPA has to regulate it, then California can as well.
Many of these states regs are in effect now or scheduled to start in 2008/2009. Nobodies waiting on a CA lawsuit.
Then why are all the states that are planning to adopt these regulations party to the suit?
As for states suing the Feds to force auto manufacturers to decrease emissions, why don't they just do it themselves? California has strict emission control policies. Why can't the rest of these states.
That isn't how air quality regulations work. Under the Clean Air Act, setting auto emissions standards is the exclusive responsibility of the Federal Government. However, because California had stricter emissions standards in place when the Clean Air Act was first passed, California (and only California) was granted a waiver to set its own standards which can be adopted by other states if they choose. This waiver doesn't apply to vehicular CO2 emissions. California (with other states) has already won a suit saying that EPA must grant such a waiver, however EPA has not done so. Thus, they are suing again, this time asking the court to order EPA to do so immediately.
As things currently stand, no state can regulate tailpipe CO2 emissions. When California wins their lawsuit, then states will be able to choose weather to follow CA CO2 regulations or to follow the Federal do-nothing approach.
I must be on a really uncongested bit of Comcast's network because I download plenty of stuff via bittorrent and have never noticed any pauses or significant slowdowns. I typically get 430-500 kbyte down speeds, which is about what you would expect with 6 Mbit (the slowest they sell here) service. This is worlds better than my previous 1.5 Mbit DSL.
It's funny. I just switched from DSL to Comcast because when I moved to my new apartment, AT&T lied repeatedly about when they were going to install it and when they finally gave me a date it was a 2 months later than the date they had originally promised. I picked Comcast over speakeasy or another DSL provider because comcast was cheaper than any other DSL alternative.
So far, I have no regrets. My previous DSL only managed about 150 k/sec on the fastest torrents, while I'm averaging about 600 k/sec now. I've only experienced random disconnections from very poor torrents (3-4 seeders and no leachers), which was typical with DSL too. I wonder if this suggests that Comcast is only interfering in certain areas (perhaps where their network is overloaded).
You must be new here.
I just replaced a broken 8525 with an iPhone and I'd never consider going back. The iPhone is dramatically smaller, easier to hold, better built, easier to use and has much better designed and integrated applications. Are there features I'd like on the iPhone that were on the 8525? Yes, but not enough to make switching worthwhile. The iPhone is the only smartphone I've used that doesn't feel like a hurriedly slapped together piece of crap. That being said, I'd love to be able to run third party aps.
I think that which translation is superior comes down on what criteria you use. The NIV (or most other modern translations such as my favorite, the NET Bible) benefited from access to more and better texts as well as a better understanding of the times in which those texts were written and is doubtless a more accurate rendering of the Old and New Testaments into English.
However, I think it is also fair to say that the KJV had far greater literary and cultural impact because it was the dominant version in use for nearly 400 years. If you're interested in understanding the cultural background in the world of, say, 1700 or 1850 then familiarity with the KJV is very helpful.
Here's another, more complete, list of the useful things the UN has achieved
I'll go back to my armchair in my cave now...
Global warming is unlikely to harm me very much during my lifetime as I am neither a resident of Bangladesh nor am I a polar bear. High ground level ozone concentrations are likely to shorten my life and degrade its quality to the extent that I breathe them. Looking at things from the point of view of someone who lives in a developed country, local air pollution seems to be the much more serious problem.
The PZEV requirement exists to reduce smog, and limits smog forming emissions. At the time the regulations were written, CO2 emissions weren't a big concern. In many ways, I think this is the right focus in that the effects of high ozone levels on human health are significant and observable while its hard to demonstrate that global warming has been or will be anything like that harmful to humans, especially to the humans who are doing the emitting.
I hate to reply to myself, but I thought I'd also mention that the PZEV designation applies to smog forming emissions only and has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions.
Partial zero emission vehicle means that during some portion of time while the vehicle is operating, it does not produce any emissions. Example: The Toyota Prius is a PZEV because when the engine is off and it is operating on its electric motors, it is operating and not producing any emissions. Note that not all hybrids are PZEVs because with some the engine runs constantly.
No, it doesn't. PZEV is a California Air Resources Board designation that means that the vehicle has extra pollution control equipment that allows it to produce very low smog forming emissions and is counted as a partial vehicle toward meeting California's Zero emissions vehicle mandate.
The way that this odd name came about is that in the 1980's (If I remember correctly) California created a regulation that a certain percentage of all vehicles sold in the state would have no smog-forming emissions). Car makers responded by objecting, suing and by building electric vehicles (remember the EV1 of "Who Killed the Electric Car" fame). Unfortunately, because they couldn't come up with battery technology that was good enough to make a competitive car, automakers went to CARB (the Califoria Air Resources Board) and offered to produce conventional vehicles with MUCH better emissions control, which would reduce pollution more than the EV mandate would have at a drastically lower cost. CARB agreed and designated these vehicles PZEV's. Since California, alone among U.S. states has the authority to independantly set emissions standards, which then can be adopted by other states, California terminology spread to other states which follow California regulations, which led to PZEV's in other states.
Tor looks cool, but how much additional network traffic to you get from using it and how much of a speed hit do you take?
Great idea. Take a moment what a crowd of Mexicans running frantically North with their eyes closed and their arms in front feeling their way.
I don't know about you, but the way I'm imagining it would look is freakin' hilarious.
When you think about it for more than a moment, it's really not all that funny.
True. You need a barbed wire fence for the full comedic effect...
Tell me, do you compile your shit natively or do you install binaries (such as using the RHEL bootable CD, which in general installs binaries)? Because I've never had any problems if I've taken a day to uninstall everything, download the newest SOURCE and recompile natively on my box with my library versions and my compiler, optimized for my memory controller and my CPU. After recompiling my Kernel image with same and rebooting. If you expect Open Source, in most cases amateur, developers to make their software automatically detect and work with older library versions, compile portable enough binaries to run on your hacked together system, you are sorely mistaken. Do it right, trust me. Binaries ARE NOT PORTABLE. They sort of work, sometimes. C source is PORTABLE. USE THE SOURCE.
I think you've just perfectly summarized why Linux is not popular as a desktop platform.
Now I'm no expert, but I'd imagine that if, some TV network in the United States tried to incite the masses to revolt against George W. Bush, and the revolt was put down, the broadcast licences for that network would be cancelled.
I don't know. Given that radio stations like KPFA in the San Francisco area, which has, from time to time tried to incite revolt against the government, have no trouble keeping their licenses (and, in fact, continue to suck money from the government teat) I don't think that this would happen.
If you do good deeds, don't you ingratiate yourself witht he Lord, thereby increasing your chance of being admitted to heaven? So, even if you don't really "get" anything for doing good deeds, you're still going to get a reward for it in the afterlife right? Which would mean it wasn't really altrustic.
I'm probably making a mistake for making a religious comment on Slashdot, but here goes:
The point of doing good deeds in Christianity is not to increase your chances of going to heaven; rather Christians are called to do good deeds in response to being forgiven of their wrongdoings. Being allowed to enter heaven comes from choosing to "accept salvation." One way of looking of this is that if one chooses to acknowledge Jesus their ultimate ruler then they become a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. Not only is this person going to heaven, but they are called to live as according to the requirements of a citizen of heaven while they are still here. As such a citizen, they are asked to do 2 things above all else, love God and love and care for those around them as they would themselves.
There is, in Christianity, a notion that how you live in this life changes how you exist in the afterlife. However this proportionality is secondary in most Christian understandings to if you ultimately decide to follow Jesus or not.
NOTE: I hate speaking about Christianity as a whole because there is a wide spectrum of belief. I have tried to be ecumenical in my description as I can be. If my explanation seems inaccurate from your perspective, let me know, I'd love to improve it.
So, I take it you don't like New York.
Hmmm. Coed camp or boy scout camp? Totally different mental images.
It's important to have accurate mileage ratings on cars, and it's hard to understand how the EPA could be so bad at it. Why do they try to estimate instead of just sampling?
Here's a simple approach: When a car comes in for an oil change, read the mileage rating stored inthe on-board computer and upload it to an EPA database. Problem solved.
I think the main reason for a test is so it can be applied to new or modified designs; it's hard to sample the fuel economy of a car that isn't in use yet. Additionally I think that having a standardized test is useful because different cars attract different types of drivers and having a standardized methodology allows people to estimate for themselves how good their gas millage will be. For example, I consistently get BETTER fuel economy than is projected on the EPA sticker and would assume that to be the case in general. Also, people who hire someone to change their oil are a different sort than those who do it themselves so that may also bias the sample.
That sounds to me like maybe humans, or apes, have faced something like this before and still have low-level semi-functional stuff in place to deal with it, and in a couple generations the descendents of people with the best expression of this would become tolerant or immune to HIV.
You're right. And some of the genes that confer resistance to AIDS are more than semi-functional. For example, in areas of the world where the Black Plague was common (Europe and Central Asia) 12%-14% of the population has a trait (a defective allele of CCR5 if you really care) that makes them very resistant to AIDS. Interestingly, this trait is NOT present in Africans. It is intriguing to consider that this may be partially responsible for the high AIDS rate in Africa.
Note that the trait I'm mentioning is a different trait than the one mentioned in this article. Also note that I'm not trying to claim that any race is superior (except, perhaps, in terms of its resistance to AIDS).
Keyboard not found.
Press to continue.
That's actually a BIOS error, but the funny thing is that it isn't entirely useless. For years I had a malfunctioning keyboard that would generate a no keyboard found error on boot-up but when you pressed a key, the computer would finish its boot-up and would work just fine.