I built a system that turns off my lights when I blink. My blinks last approximately 1/4 second, and I blink roughtly 20 times per minute, saving me 5 seconds per minute, or 20 seconds per hour. That makes 160 seconds (2 minutes) per workday. over the course of a year, that's 16 minutes of power waste that I am avoiding without changing any equipment significantly.
... of course, alligator-clipping the blink sensors to my eyelids stings for a little bit, but you get used to it really fast. It's a small price to pay to save the world.
Obviously, if there is a useful benefit, it no longer counts as "exercise" and becomes "work", and therefore a drudgery that should be avoided. This is the same reason most Americans don't ride their bikes to work, or walk to nearby stores.
The only conclusion I can draw from your comment is that you're advocating that everyone in the US should move to Brazil and hang out on the beach all day. And have pet lobsters that we train to fetch us beach-vendor food.
This is hard for me to draw a strong opinion on, because both sides can be argued in many ways.
On one hand, those that would willingly give up their right to vote for *any* reason maybe should not be voting in the first place. The opportunity to vote is a privilege that should be seen as priceless.
However, education is a path to freedom. Perhaps giving up the right to vote in one election, but having the opportunity to become educated and therefore possibly a more useful and better-informed citizen would be a tradeoff. Maybe they're trading something priceless (if they have no other opportunity for college) for a temporary drop of another priceless right.
Then again, how long would it take to cut through a thin layer of vinyl siding, some builtrite and then some sheetrock? Potentially, one could do that with a hammer, or a recip. saw.
Why isn't this done by theives? Who knows.
Actually, they may also be referring to "Major Tom - Coming Home" by Peter Schilling, which was featured in an amateur video of a satellite launch.
In fact, I'd put money on it.
See it here
Sadly, the cost to make a tiny hard drive like that doesn't go down. Capacities go up, but the expensive part is the actual physical hardware, not the capacity. I agree that I would have seriously considered getting a 15GB if it were dropped $100.
I think your post demonstrates a limit of the slashdot modding system... Should get a +10 Insightful, as far as I am concerned... and be moved up to the top of everyone's reply list. This is exactly where the students failed in their investigation.
This is definitely not a case where it's "easier to ask forgiviness than permission."
I bought that PowerBook last week! I have so far been incredibly happy with it. I have barely touched my PC since, and have only SSHed into my linux/BSD boxes a couple of times to change some settings.
But the people paying for it watch the profitability. If they send out 10,000 e-mails and get no response, and send another 100,000 and get one response, they'll realize it's not worth the money they're spending.
From what I understand, companys do pay for spam somewhere, even if they are well-removed from the actual spammer. Most marketing executives have to justify their expenses somewhere.
I dislike spam, in the same way only more than I dislike all the billboards along the highways. They get in the way of what I really want to see, and essentially make me feel inadequate.
Billboards make me feel poor, because I can't afford a new home, or a meal at that expensive restaurant.
Spam makes me worry that my penis is too small, my breasts are too small, I'm too fat, I don't send enough money to Nigeria.
That said, it's illegal to saw down billboards, but it's not illegal to filter spam so I don't have to see it. The article is slashdotted, so I can't read it, but I think we already have good (free and open, no less) spam filtering available. I use Spam Assassin on my server, plus my mail client has a spam filter for double protection. Both have been learning more and more what constitutes spam, and it's rare that I even see spam anymore.
If everyone would use these filters, spam would no longer be as profitable.
I work for a very massive e-commerce provider as well. For the most part, we still offer our download services to most countries, but will not ship to eastern Europe, most of our markets in the Asia/Pacific regions, or South America. Our fraud prevention is pretty detailed, and we can usually accept orders from those countries, but it is a little stiffer if we see addresses or IPs from those regions. We do ban all commerce from certain countries (The Phillipines, strangely, is one of them, unless you have an APO AP address)
The only solution that will solve the issue will be to have governments/banks work together with reforms that will allow companies to recover fraudulent charges.
I agree with this as well. Luckily, Amazon.com packaged my last shipment of books well and the contents were intact (The complete stories and poems of Winnie the Pooh), but two of the "Airbag" packaging bubbles had been ruptured, and an entire edge of the box was missing.
I was surprised at the carelessness that must take place to have that much of a box destroyed.
Even better, one of my friends recently bought an AWD minivan with a towing package. It will carry his wife and kids with their luggage, and also pull his decent-sized boat.
It's a much better solution than an SUV in many ways: Car seats go through the big sliding door better, it gets better gas mileage and his wife likes it!
Apparently one of the main people working on the craft is from Minnesota, a talk radio station was interviewing him tonight. They have located the beacon on the craft, and are at the moment trying to get to it, but the weather is bad, and it's in a desert location.
It's kind of a Wright brothers moment.
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... of course, alligator-clipping the blink sensors to my eyelids stings for a little bit, but you get used to it really fast. It's a small price to pay to save the world.
Obviously, if there is a useful benefit, it no longer counts as "exercise" and becomes "work", and therefore a drudgery that should be avoided. This is the same reason most Americans don't ride their bikes to work, or walk to nearby stores.
The only conclusion I can draw from your comment is that you're advocating that everyone in the US should move to Brazil and hang out on the beach all day. And have pet lobsters that we train to fetch us beach-vendor food.
I like the way you think, sir.
Sorry I marred Slashdot's reputation for stellar formatting and grammar.
This is hard for me to draw a strong opinion on, because both sides can be argued in many ways. On one hand, those that would willingly give up their right to vote for *any* reason maybe should not be voting in the first place. The opportunity to vote is a privilege that should be seen as priceless. However, education is a path to freedom. Perhaps giving up the right to vote in one election, but having the opportunity to become educated and therefore possibly a more useful and better-informed citizen would be a tradeoff. Maybe they're trading something priceless (if they have no other opportunity for college) for a temporary drop of another priceless right.
Tear out the engine, put in a different one, and see if Ford still has to honor the warranty on it.
But look how much self-esteem we have!
Then again, how long would it take to cut through a thin layer of vinyl siding, some builtrite and then some sheetrock? Potentially, one could do that with a hammer, or a recip. saw. Why isn't this done by theives? Who knows.
Also MasterCard SecureCode. Discover and AmEx are both setting up similar systems, but SecureCode is also in place.
/works e-commerce
Everyone in this thread seems to be looking way too far for Prior Art.
How about The Ambient Orb?
Actually, they may also be referring to "Major Tom - Coming Home" by Peter Schilling, which was featured in an amateur video of a satellite launch.
In fact, I'd put money on it.
See it here
Will it run Linux?
(not even completey off-topic! yay!)
Sadly, the cost to make a tiny hard drive like that doesn't go down. Capacities go up, but the expensive part is the actual physical hardware, not the capacity. I agree that I would have seriously considered getting a 15GB if it were dropped $100.
I think your post demonstrates a limit of the slashdot modding system... Should get a +10 Insightful, as far as I am concerned... and be moved up to the top of everyone's reply list. This is exactly where the students failed in their investigation.
This is definitely not a case where it's "easier to ask forgiviness than permission."
I bought that PowerBook last week! I have so far been incredibly happy with it. I have barely touched my PC since, and have only SSHed into my linux/BSD boxes a couple of times to change some settings.
But the people paying for it watch the profitability. If they send out 10,000 e-mails and get no response, and send another 100,000 and get one response, they'll realize it's not worth the money they're spending.
From what I understand, companys do pay for spam somewhere, even if they are well-removed from the actual spammer. Most marketing executives have to justify their expenses somewhere.
Because we've realized that we don't have to read the article or understand the topic to post something here and get modded "Informative"?
I don't need to be your dictionary.com proxy here, do I?
Ok, then, read this. Specifically, entry 3.
Thanks.
(Why does his comment get modded when he's basically just pointing out a small piece of humor from my post?
I dislike spam, in the same way only more than I dislike all the billboards along the highways. They get in the way of what I really want to see, and essentially make me feel inadequate. Billboards make me feel poor, because I can't afford a new home, or a meal at that expensive restaurant. Spam makes me worry that my penis is too small, my breasts are too small, I'm too fat, I don't send enough money to Nigeria. That said, it's illegal to saw down billboards, but it's not illegal to filter spam so I don't have to see it. The article is slashdotted, so I can't read it, but I think we already have good (free and open, no less) spam filtering available. I use Spam Assassin on my server, plus my mail client has a spam filter for double protection. Both have been learning more and more what constitutes spam, and it's rare that I even see spam anymore. If everyone would use these filters, spam would no longer be as profitable.
I work for a very massive e-commerce provider as well. For the most part, we still offer our download services to most countries, but will not ship to eastern Europe, most of our markets in the Asia/Pacific regions, or South America. Our fraud prevention is pretty detailed, and we can usually accept orders from those countries, but it is a little stiffer if we see addresses or IPs from those regions. We do ban all commerce from certain countries (The Phillipines, strangely, is one of them, unless you have an APO AP address)
The only solution that will solve the issue will be to have governments/banks work together with reforms that will allow companies to recover fraudulent charges.
I agree with this as well. Luckily, Amazon.com packaged my last shipment of books well and the contents were intact (The complete stories and poems of Winnie the Pooh), but two of the "Airbag" packaging bubbles had been ruptured, and an entire edge of the box was missing.
I was surprised at the carelessness that must take place to have that much of a box destroyed.
In other news, Intel Corporation announces that they still make processors.
Even better, one of my friends recently bought an AWD minivan with a towing package. It will carry his wife and kids with their luggage, and also pull his decent-sized boat. It's a much better solution than an SUV in many ways: Car seats go through the big sliding door better, it gets better gas mileage and his wife likes it!
Apparently one of the main people working on the craft is from Minnesota, a talk radio station was interviewing him tonight. They have located the beacon on the craft, and are at the moment trying to get to it, but the weather is bad, and it's in a desert location. It's kind of a Wright brothers moment.
Correct. Hydrogen may have burned due to the circumstances of the fire, but hydrogen does not burn with a visible flame, and the Hindenburg did.
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