Theft leaves nothing to the victim. This notion of taxes being theft is fallacious and shows nothing on your part but the most base of man's desires - greed. What you advocate is theft - to benefit from all a community provides, to take without sharing in responsibility for the sustenance of that community.
We live in a free society because we agree to; if you allow the balance to become too one-sided, a signigficant enough portion of your populace is going to decide against that freedom and the "haves" will end up with nothing but what they can sneak away with in the middle of the night. What goes around comes around...
Won't matter much unless the homeowner doesn't actually USE those wires. Every outlet is designed to have something plugged into it, and there are damn few home appliances that uses shielded power cords.
The title of this article, however, is misleading. This is NOT about "making your house wiring into a giant antenna" it's more like "making your house wiring into a giant network cable" in the "luminiferous ether" sense of the word. The house wiring isn't there to be an antenna, but to be a passive media to carry the network information. The nodal devices house the antennae, the house wiring is just there to couple the signal from device to device.
It's a semi-brilliant idea and one I'm annoyed I never thought of, it just seems of limited use unless you want your house littered with battery powered devices that use the house wiring. If they use the house wiring why not have them plug in and save having to maintain all those batteries? Then you don't need to couple to the house wiring wirelessly....
Sure they have. If you select "encrypted" it's an installation auto-option available through the guided gui. The PROBLEM is there's very little support for it after that - they'll walk you right through setting it up but good luck finding help if, say, your encrypted drive suddenly and mysteriously no longer seems to be valid... or even if you just want to reload the OS without screwing up your/home partition in the encrypted lvm sector.
Not to mention it blindly lets you install a swap in the encrypted lvm, which totally hoses performance.
Wow great! So I can buy a shiny new laptop and not have to spend the first twenty minutes of its life removing the ugly mess of stickers that the manufacturer seems obliged to festoon upon its creation? Or no, I just have one fewer to remove because AMD is just one company (or two, I suppose, depending on the motherboard chipset and graphics subsystem). So all that would be left for many is that ugly "Windows" sticker...
Wonder if AMD will do anything about that? Sure would be nice to be able to buy a shiny new laptop and not have to spend the first hours of its new life formatting and loading an operating system that doesn't suck.
Ah, who am I kidding? It could come loaded with the latest and greatest uber-Ubuntu and I'd still reload it just because it's not partitioned the way I want it...
Not once did they take into consideration that maybe, and I say maybe Windows Desktop manager simply looks better. More polish, better paint, nicer fonts (oh yes, that again!), ease of use, perhaps a mix of all the above, can't really say.
Sure they did. Which is why they created Compiz.
And, of course, Compiz brings to linux all that fantastic stability windows is known for. It truly makes linux more "Windows like."
I really thought ubuntu had gone around the bend about three releases back until I stripped virtually all that crap out of my machine. I'd been through several desktops and every one had terrible stability including this one - until I replaced the nvidia card with an ati , stripped out any traces of compiz and the other crap that came along with it, and went to the open source driver. Tada, I get an X11 lockup maybe twice a month now even with essentially 24/7 usage.
Yeah I don't like using the "preview" button. That used to be two thoughts... oh well. This is slashdot, no one is going to miss a chance to point out when someone else is wrong... right? Wrong?
I was a mech for many years and grew up in Detroit. Just about ewveryone I knew worked in the auto industry, and I myself worked in the auto industry as an engineer.
And just about every car I have ever worked on or known about specifies some amount of negative camber right from the factory. You can call this anedote if you like, but the fact is I've worked on LOTS of cars and seen a LOT of specs and have seen zero or positive camber specified on a car so few times I could probably count them all on one hand.
Because it's NOT just about how the car grips in the corners, but how it handles in a straight line; Too much negative camber will make the car twitchy as it bump steers over every wave or truck rut, but NO negative camber also makes the steering feel lighter, which is also not a good thing when it means the car has absolutely no "return to center" correction. Any rear wheel drive car will try (to some degree) to straighten itself out, but half a degree to two degrees (depends on car) negative camber is pretty much standard. Part of this is also because cars tend to get knocked out of alignment because of neglect, and POSITIVE camber is really no fun - it tends to make the car even more vague in steering. So a little negative camber is built in just to help make certain things don't go positive.Of course too much is also no fun, since it will make the car try to steer away from the crown in the road and heavily crowned roads will make you feel like the front end is badly out of alignment (because it is).
The same holds true for caster: toe the front wheels out a bit and the thing will wander all over the place; toe them in and the car will tend to center itself. Both of these also will tend to increase friction as well, which also it seems would negatively affect mileage. Given many cars nowdays run on low profile tires inflated to 40psi or more I have a hard time believing it's going to make much difference on a properly tuned and aligned vehicle, however.
I'm not normally one who subscribes to the brain cancer hype, but this seems a little close even for me. Basically you're talking about an RF transmitter sitting a foot from everyone's head, and people tend to spend a good bit of time in their cars.
OK, come on with it... yeah I'm a lunatic. But I'm not a lunatic who thinks having an antenna stuck a foot from your head, beaming a signal for hours on end, would necessarily be what I would call a "feature." Maybe if the antenna was stuck in the bermuda box or the footwell... it's not like it needs to be line of sight, since it's like two feet from a laptop and there aren't exactly a lot of walls inside an Audi.
DG did an early digital (Philips) recording of Tchaikovsky's 4,5 and 6th as performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker and conducted (of course) by Von Karajan. This was, for me, "the" recording ever since I was a teen and first heard it. Anyway, you can buy even those recordings on their site. It's not as if they just have new stuff, or just have giant classics (although that recording was important in many ways) - they've been moving toward having EVERYTHING in their catalog online. And once you buy it, it's yours - I've had two oops events and all it took to regain them was to log back into the site and add them to my download queue. They also have been known to give out freebies on certain holidays.
Oh yeah - and there's usenet. You may find it hard to believe, but there's quite a lot being shared there.
Years ago I bought a CD of American McGee's Alice. This was the only game cd I ever actually paid for, and I even installed XP just to run it. Guess what? It never worked. I tried tracking down support info, I tried several tricks and patches and the goddamn thing never worked. The closest I ever got that damn disk to working was under wine. Oh, the irony.
A 360 does what it does. A 360 is not a desktop with access to all my email and shit. A 360 may be a walled garden but that's fine just so long as it plays a fucking game CD when I bring it home. Why anyone would want to fuck around for hours with making a desktop play games is beyond me.
My GF uses ubuntu now and she's never touched linux before about a month ago. The only thing to "learn" is to lose the bad habits you pick up from a lifetime of windows use. Just back up your music, movies and emails and reload with ubuntu. Dual booting is poison because you will inevitably boot into windows more and more often because it is familiar and "easy." Just wipe out windows, reload the machine from the ground up with linux, use it for a month and you'll never go back. If you want to play games, buy a 360...
15 GB a month is 500MB a day - virtually the same as allocated by the satellite ISP country folks around use to get internet to their homes. I think if I was stuck on something like that I'd be rounding up a few neighbors to form a co-op...
I truly hope you and the folks who have thus far replied to your post will some day take the time to actually read some of the works that inspired our Constitution. Start with "Common Sense" - it was written so as to be understood by the commoners of the day; hopefully y'all have sufficient education as to be able to understand the work today...
You can't even tell her son is a boy and yet you're telling her she should be worried after sharing his picture? Worried about what, exactly? Nigerians are gonna come steal her kid? Slashdotters are gonna came take her daughter?
Yeesh. THe Olsens became two of the most powerful kids ever to rule in Hollywood in large part because of this whole "online" thing. The entire internets knew their real name, their dad's name, the SCHOOl they went to, the house they lived in - some even went so far as to track down yearbooks, scan the pictures from the yearbooks and post THOSE online. So far they haven't lost their Millions to kidnapper payoffs... although they do seem to be disappearing from the shelves at WalMart...
Get real. These are 419 scammers - the abbot and costellos of criminals. How are they gonna use Google when they can't even speak Engrish?
Yes, it's very easy to conduct such studies - because in an era when pedophile means "witch to be burned forever in hell or at the stake whichever we can get to first" people are completely willing to admit to being a pedophile...
It's impossible to take such a measure, because our society has made it virtually impossible to discuss the issue in a rational manner. Imagine if someone WAS able to make such an assessment - "in an anonymous survey of one million self professed pedophiles such and such a percentage had actually been accused or convicted of crimes against children" and that percentage was anything less than 99% - imagine the reaction it would meet with in public forums. The author would probably be burned at the stake, at least professionally.
Yeah OK. It's not like 14 year olds never go looking for sex, or approach older partners for sex, or get pregnant because they jumped in the lap of the only partner available to them because mommy and daddy don't let a sexually mature young person have friends or dates or any life outside of home and school.
Amazing how you can take on rational sentence and detroy any potential of credibility you may have garnered in the very next sentence.
Rape is rape. Molestation is not implicitly rape no matter how you try to rationalize it. What this fellow did sure looks and smells like rape, which is exactly what someone who committed such an act deserves to have commmitted upon them.
Except diodes have a foward voltage drop almost as high as a 1.1V battery, so now it would take an extra 2 batteries for a 4 cell device using your "trivial" design.
Besides, no one uses diodes anymore for rectification - that's what fets are for!
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Theft leaves nothing to the victim. This notion of taxes being theft is fallacious and shows nothing on your part but the most base of man's desires - greed. What you advocate is theft - to benefit from all a community provides, to take without sharing in responsibility for the sustenance of that community.
Tell that to the French.
We live in a free society because we agree to; if you allow the balance to become too one-sided, a signigficant enough portion of your populace is going to decide against that freedom and the "haves" will end up with nothing but what they can sneak away with in the middle of the night. What goes around comes around...
Their money is their own? But where did that money come from? Let's see Ballboy and Bozo earn their Million dollar salaries from a hut in Bora Bora.
When you reap rewards from a community you are obliged to help support that community.
Won't matter much unless the homeowner doesn't actually USE those wires. Every outlet is designed to have something plugged into it, and there are damn few home appliances that uses shielded power cords.
The title of this article, however, is misleading. This is NOT about "making your house wiring into a giant antenna" it's more like "making your house wiring into a giant network cable" in the "luminiferous ether" sense of the word. The house wiring isn't there to be an antenna, but to be a passive media to carry the network information. The nodal devices house the antennae, the house wiring is just there to couple the signal from device to device.
It's a semi-brilliant idea and one I'm annoyed I never thought of, it just seems of limited use unless you want your house littered with battery powered devices that use the house wiring. If they use the house wiring why not have them plug in and save having to maintain all those batteries? Then you don't need to couple to the house wiring wirelessly....
Sure they have. If you select "encrypted" it's an installation auto-option available through the guided gui. The PROBLEM is there's very little support for it after that - they'll walk you right through setting it up but good luck finding help if, say, your encrypted drive suddenly and mysteriously no longer seems to be valid... or even if you just want to reload the OS without screwing up your /home partition in the encrypted lvm sector.
Not to mention it blindly lets you install a swap in the encrypted lvm, which totally hoses performance.
Wow great! So I can buy a shiny new laptop and not have to spend the first twenty minutes of its life removing the ugly mess of stickers that the manufacturer seems obliged to festoon upon its creation? Or no, I just have one fewer to remove because AMD is just one company (or two, I suppose, depending on the motherboard chipset and graphics subsystem). So all that would be left for many is that ugly "Windows" sticker...
Wonder if AMD will do anything about that? Sure would be nice to be able to buy a shiny new laptop and not have to spend the first hours of its new life formatting and loading an operating system that doesn't suck.
Ah, who am I kidding? It could come loaded with the latest and greatest uber-Ubuntu and I'd still reload it just because it's not partitioned the way I want it...
American women? Women from the hive mind of christian feminism traipsing off to live in a culture where women are treated as possessions?
More likely Chinese, which are right next door, will end up fitting this bill.
Sure they did. Which is why they created Compiz.
And, of course, Compiz brings to linux all that fantastic stability windows is known for. It truly makes linux more "Windows like."
I really thought ubuntu had gone around the bend about three releases back until I stripped virtually all that crap out of my machine. I'd been through several desktops and every one had terrible stability including this one - until I replaced the nvidia card with an ati , stripped out any traces of compiz and the other crap that came along with it, and went to the open source driver. Tada, I get an X11 lockup maybe twice a month now even with essentially 24/7 usage.
Yeah I don't like using the "preview" button. That used to be two thoughts... oh well. This is slashdot, no one is going to miss a chance to point out when someone else is wrong... right? Wrong?
I was a mech for many years and grew up in Detroit. Just about ewveryone I knew worked in the auto industry, and I myself worked in the auto industry as an engineer.
And just about every car I have ever worked on or known about specifies some amount of negative camber right from the factory. You can call this anedote if you like, but the fact is I've worked on LOTS of cars and seen a LOT of specs and have seen zero or positive camber specified on a car so few times I could probably count them all on one hand.
Because it's NOT just about how the car grips in the corners, but how it handles in a straight line; Too much negative camber will make the car twitchy as it bump steers over every wave or truck rut, but NO negative camber also makes the steering feel lighter, which is also not a good thing when it means the car has absolutely no "return to center" correction. Any rear wheel drive car will try (to some degree) to straighten itself out, but half a degree to two degrees (depends on car) negative camber is pretty much standard. Part of this is also because cars tend to get knocked out of alignment because of neglect, and POSITIVE camber is really no fun - it tends to make the car even more vague in steering. So a little negative camber is built in just to help make certain things don't go positive.Of course too much is also no fun, since it will make the car try to steer away from the crown in the road and heavily crowned roads will make you feel like the front end is badly out of alignment (because it is).
The same holds true for caster: toe the front wheels out a bit and the thing will wander all over the place; toe them in and the car will tend to center itself. Both of these also will tend to increase friction as well, which also it seems would negatively affect mileage. Given many cars nowdays run on low profile tires inflated to 40psi or more I have a hard time believing it's going to make much difference on a properly tuned and aligned vehicle, however.
I'm not normally one who subscribes to the brain cancer hype, but this seems a little close even for me. Basically you're talking about an RF transmitter sitting a foot from everyone's head, and people tend to spend a good bit of time in their cars.
OK, come on with it... yeah I'm a lunatic. But I'm not a lunatic who thinks having an antenna stuck a foot from your head, beaming a signal for hours on end, would necessarily be what I would call a "feature." Maybe if the antenna was stuck in the bermuda box or the footwell... it's not like it needs to be line of sight, since it's like two feet from a laptop and there aren't exactly a lot of walls inside an Audi.
DG did an early digital (Philips) recording of Tchaikovsky's 4,5 and 6th as performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker and conducted (of course) by Von Karajan. This was, for me, "the" recording ever since I was a teen and first heard it. Anyway, you can buy even those recordings on their site. It's not as if they just have new stuff, or just have giant classics (although that recording was important in many ways) - they've been moving toward having EVERYTHING in their catalog online. And once you buy it, it's yours - I've had two oops events and all it took to regain them was to log back into the site and add them to my download queue. They also have been known to give out freebies on certain holidays.
Oh yeah - and there's usenet. You may find it hard to believe, but there's quite a lot being shared there.
Years ago I bought a CD of American McGee's Alice. This was the only game cd I ever actually paid for, and I even installed XP just to run it. Guess what? It never worked. I tried tracking down support info, I tried several tricks and patches and the goddamn thing never worked. The closest I ever got that damn disk to working was under wine. Oh, the irony.
A 360 does what it does. A 360 is not a desktop with access to all my email and shit. A 360 may be a walled garden but that's fine just so long as it plays a fucking game CD when I bring it home. Why anyone would want to fuck around for hours with making a desktop play games is beyond me.
Black hats everywhere would like to thank you for aiding them in their quest to own the internet...
An ipad? ROTFL. Let's see you develop SOFTWARE for that ipad... on your ipad.
Apple users need to learn to speak without steve's hand up their anus...
My GF uses ubuntu now and she's never touched linux before about a month ago. The only thing to "learn" is to lose the bad habits you pick up from a lifetime of windows use. Just back up your music, movies and emails and reload with ubuntu. Dual booting is poison because you will inevitably boot into windows more and more often because it is familiar and "easy." Just wipe out windows, reload the machine from the ground up with linux, use it for a month and you'll never go back. If you want to play games, buy a 360...
15 GB a month is 500MB a day - virtually the same as allocated by the satellite ISP country folks around use to get internet to their homes. I think if I was stuck on something like that I'd be rounding up a few neighbors to form a co-op...
Hey it worked for John Paul Jones.
The US was built on piracy.
I truly hope you and the folks who have thus far replied to your post will some day take the time to actually read some of the works that inspired our Constitution. Start with "Common Sense" - it was written so as to be understood by the commoners of the day; hopefully y'all have sufficient education as to be able to understand the work today...
Good thing it's not the state doin' the raping...
You can't even tell her son is a boy and yet you're telling her she should be worried after sharing his picture? Worried about what, exactly? Nigerians are gonna come steal her kid? Slashdotters are gonna came take her daughter?
Yeesh. THe Olsens became two of the most powerful kids ever to rule in Hollywood in large part because of this whole "online" thing. The entire internets knew their real name, their dad's name, the SCHOOl they went to, the house they lived in - some even went so far as to track down yearbooks, scan the pictures from the yearbooks and post THOSE online. So far they haven't lost their Millions to kidnapper payoffs... although they do seem to be disappearing from the shelves at WalMart...
Get real. These are 419 scammers - the abbot and costellos of criminals. How are they gonna use Google when they can't even speak Engrish?
Yes, it's very easy to conduct such studies - because in an era when pedophile means "witch to be burned forever in hell or at the stake whichever we can get to first" people are completely willing to admit to being a pedophile...
It's impossible to take such a measure, because our society has made it virtually impossible to discuss the issue in a rational manner. Imagine if someone WAS able to make such an assessment - "in an anonymous survey of one million self professed pedophiles such and such a percentage had actually been accused or convicted of crimes against children" and that percentage was anything less than 99% - imagine the reaction it would meet with in public forums. The author would probably be burned at the stake, at least professionally.
Yeah OK. It's not like 14 year olds never go looking for sex, or approach older partners for sex, or get pregnant because they jumped in the lap of the only partner available to them because mommy and daddy don't let a sexually mature young person have friends or dates or any life outside of home and school.
Amazing how you can take on rational sentence and detroy any potential of credibility you may have garnered in the very next sentence.
Rape is rape. Molestation is not implicitly rape no matter how you try to rationalize it. What this fellow did sure looks and smells like rape, which is exactly what someone who committed such an act deserves to have commmitted upon them.
"Ha ha! They gonna anally rape you, that's what's gonna happen..."
Except diodes have a foward voltage drop almost as high as a 1.1V battery, so now it would take an extra 2 batteries for a 4 cell device using your "trivial" design.
Besides, no one uses diodes anymore for rectification - that's what fets are for!
What are you talking about? The inquisition was still going on when this country was formed a little over 200 years ago...
Fuck Mohammed and the camel he rode in on!