"Oh, and while we're on the topic, Middle Eastern nuts wouldn't have so much money to finance terror attacks if we weren't giving it to them for the goddamn oil. They wouldn't even have a reason to attack us if we weren't involved in their politics in the first place. Our post-oil energy policy is also our anti-terror policy."
While we're on the topic, most of our oil comes from Canada, South America, and yes, our very own US of A. It's a common misconception that we rely on the middle east for "most" or all of our oil, and you see it perpetuated every time Obama and other politicians talk about "our foreign dependence".
Our foreign policy was/is heavily influenced by communism, by the way...that's at least half the reason we got ourselves into such a mess. It wasn't just "oil", it was "commies getting oil."
'The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?' says Napolitano.
Recognize that the cost of freedom is accepting that someone else might use that freedom to hurt you. If you think you should be searched in order to travel because it'll make "us" safer, you need to turn in your US citizenship.
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." (Jefferson)
It might also help to recognize that in countries which are far less free, there's still plenty of terrorism.
I think the logic is that these heavy emissions actually sink into the ocean in international waters at diffuse levels not harmful enough to do damage (also that it would significantly increase the cost of all overseas goods).
I think the logic is that in international waters you don't answer to anyone, and you can burn the cheapest fuel your engine will tolerate.
I don't know if it's true with your company, but I would consider that an overreach if you want me to connect my personal phone with your network and give you the ability to delete all of my pictures and other personal data solely at your discretion.
It's not connecting your personal phone "with their network". You're connecting with, synchronizing, and providing the ability to send email from, an email account your employer provides for work purposes. Those are radically different things.
This is a non-issue if you don't configure your personal phone to connect to your employer's email system, which you probably shouldn't be doing anyway for a variety of reasons. Example #1: If it's necessary for your job, your employer should be paying for it. Example #2: If it's not necessary, have some work-life separation and don't check your work email from your personal phone.
I know a number of people that carry a blackberry or smartphone for work, and a non-smartphone or iPhone/Android phone for personal use. Among other things, it's the ultimate level of control over whether or not you can be reached via such a device, billing, voicemail, separate numbers, etc.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+set+up+a+certificate+authority
Then distribute the *organization's* cert to all the servers and clients. If you have a few clients or don't get many that fast, just do it by hand. If you have hundreds of computers or lots of turnover, you should be running central config management anyway.
MIT for example distributes an MIT cert. Presto, everything on campus is protected. It's partially a question of tradeoffs: sign a cert by a CA already trusted for $$, or make your own CA and spend labor (your or users) dealing with adding the certs by hand.
It's also a question of security of the CA. Perhaps some Slashdotters could share links to best practices for an internal CA.
The hazardous haze has forced schools to stop outdoor exercises, and health experts asked residents, especially those with respiratory problems, the elderly and children, to stay indoors."
...had me thinking back to this summer, when alerts for nearly exactly the same thing went on for 2-3 weeks in Boston.
Used to be even worse. The major source of air pollution in Boston? The midwest coal power plants. All that lovely free cheap coal blows right out of the region, and then stalls over the east coast and causes hell for us.
I wish the midwest would stop trying to cram ethanol down our throats, and instead diversify off of corn production. Y'know, maybe some wind turbine production, for example?
But Google does nothing to restrict how you use their products. In fact, they encourage novel use; that's why all of their services have APIs.
That's not the point- but, yes, of course they do. They want everyone to use them. They want as much market share as possible; same reason the Catholic church bans abortions. And then they start abusing it. Just a few days ago we saw how concerns over Google Adwords revenue were forcing TVtropes to self-censor.
Right now, a number of people can't get to a major site they use for work because...surprise! Google decided that the site hosts adware, and Firefox throws up a billion warnings as a result.
Apple insists on owning your whole experience and is lobbying for legislation to turn their wants into law.
Son, what crack are you smoking? I've owned Macs since 1994 and Apple doesn't own anything of mine, store any of my data, monitor me, or control me.
Google has my address book, my chat logs, all my emails, my location data, search terms, what blogs I read, and what ads I look at. I've limited some of it via tools like OptimizeGoogle, but they still have a tremendous amount of data of mine, and data about me.
. I would think internet-focused companies like Google, Cisco or a raft of ISPs like Comcast would be much higher on the list.
Uh, they already are. Check your terms of service. Comcast's, several years ago, had paragraphs outlining how you agreed to be a content CONSUMER, not a content PRODUCER. They banned webservers, mail servers, FTP sites, and most frighteningly: "discussion" systems, aka, web boards, chat systems, etc. Home internet connections long ago went from being a pipe you could do whatever (non-network-abusive) things you wanted to with, to a pipe you're expected to use to read your email hosted somewhere else and watch Netflix.
I also find it laughable that anyone but Google could be #1. They're the largest webmail provider, the largest search engine, the largest advertising network, and the largest video/blog hosting company. For fuck's sakes, they're photographically mapping the world and wardriving while doing so. About the only thing they haven't managed to secure is photo-hosting; I'm pretty sure Flickr (yahoo) still dominates that.
Make it known to any Google representative who will listen (warning: these are few and far between) that you regard the company as hypocritical and cynical, and not worthy of your trust unless the rights of owners of phones running Android/Linux are fully respected.
Right. Look: google doesn't even give a shit about the fact that people have been complaining for YEARS about the lack of group support in Android's contact manager and poor company name support (for example, it is impossible to search for your contact at Widgetco. That's a BIG problem for someone with a couple hundred business contacts, like a salesperson.)
Something my Siemens phone could do back in the early 2000's (bluetooth sync my contacts with the Macintosh Address Book, complete with groups), something my original iPhone did since day 1...Android can't. Well, it sort of does- but it made an utter fucking mess of things when I enabled syncing.
There's all sorts of half-assed-ness throughout Google products and in particular Android. For example, you can use groups in Google Voice to manage call handling behavior per-group, but only by using the Gmail Contacts interface- not your phone. You can't add a calendar to Google Calendar from your phone. Google Voice doesn't accept mp3 voicemail announcement uploads, something Youmail has supported since day 1.
The music syncing sucks (doubletwist can bite my shiny iPhone), the music player sucks (both stock and free alternatives, though at least the free alternatives have lockscreen systems), and there's all sorts of annoying 'holes'- like not being able to add a calendar from your phone.
Friends are in quotes, because Facebook friendship is more like shallow aquantances than friendship.
Uh, maybe for you? The only people I'm friends with on Facebook are people I know pretty well- people I've met, intend to meet again, and either am good friends with, or intend to get to be better friends. I've declined a number of friend requests from people I barely knew. And since I've looked at my friend's profiles on a regular basis, I can see all their email addresses. A number of them also have phone numbers and IM accounts visible; I do to all the people I've friended, because I want them to be able to get in touch.
I wish there was a term for the behavior I've seen for years on Slashdot, namely: assuming that because something has a certain level of utility or function for you, that it must be that way for everyone else. I've lost track of how many times someone has said "Oh, this technology is stupid, I can't _____________", and they don't even realize that they're not the target audience or that others might have a different use, experience, etc.
...I agree completely. Why *does* MIT need a contiguous 16 million addresses, plus more than a dozen more class B spaces (each 65,000+ addresses, for a total of more than a million addresses, not including their class A space.)
The answer is: they DON'T. Nor does Halliburton, Eli Lilly, Prudential Insurance (!!!), or Ford. In fact, they've done a great job of proving they don't, by running out and securing a number of class B address spaces in other class A/B octets when they should have just given out subnets of their existing Class A.
Even HP, Apple, and IBM are standing on shaky ground; they're international corporations whose primary business is at least somewhat internet related, but they still don't need 16 million addresses in one space.
Why does this guy even bother. If 1 in 30 he can make a markup on, how much can this guy be making? $20-50 per day, if he's lucky. He probably spends all day doing it and probably makes $5k per year if he's lucky.
$50 x 5 x 50 = $12,500. Granted, I'm not subtracting cost of internet service, equipment, gas to drive around to these places (or subway fare if you live in the city), etc.
Which contain lead. Which will leach into the water table. It's a realistic problem for the quantities you're talking about.
People forget that the simplest solution tends to be the best one. They also forget what a regiment of men with guns can accomplish
And people are also idiots who forget that when a mommy snake and a daddy snake meet by chance in a forest, they have zillions of baby snakes shortly thereafter. Invasive species which are overrunning a habitat are doing so because they have no natural predators and an abundant food source.
Growth is exponential . Unless you have less than 2 snakes remaining, you're screwed in another few years again. And if you only have one, you better make sure it's not pregnant.
why not just buy a GPS device designed for motorcyclists? They've been around for a while, mount right to the handlebars, and have tons of rider-friendly features.
Because they make GPS units designed for cyclists, and most handheld / outdoorsy GPS units these days can do routing (and there are handlebar mounts.)
More reasons why motorcycle units wouldn't work, as someone who cycles a fair bit:
Bicycles can't go in some places (limited access highways), shouldn't in others (ditto, plus roads over a certain speed where the lane width or lack of shoulder make it very unsafe, or there are poor road conditions), and there are a popular routes, bike lanes, paths, or routes which are longer but avoid hills, etc. Something designed for a motorcycle isn't going to route me down the Esplanade bike path in Boston, for example. It's not going to know to avoid a crazy hill that a quarter mile of redirection will completely avoid. Or know that Mass Ave has a bike lane, or about the protected bike lane (off the road, out of the "door zone") over by MIT.
Bicycles don't have power, and anything that can't last more than a few hours is something between useless (if you do long rides like a Century, or you're touring) or inconvenient if you bike for transportation but in a metro-sized area (we already have to charge bike lights fairly often. It's not too uncommon for me to spend 2 hours on my commuter bike in one day.) Yes, I understand that some units are battery-powered, but I think many are designed to be wired into the bike for power. The iPhone-based solutions are almost useless for bicycles because they don't have enough power for all the processor usage, GPS, and data transfer of maps etc. Yes, there are kits that allow you to use your generator hub to power/charge your phone. That's complexity.
Weight is important if any appreciable distance is involved. It seems stupid, but every pound is a pound you have to work to move up on elevation changes, and when you're providing the power, you notice this. Particularly if your bike weighs under 20lb.
Mounting. There's limited space on a bicycle, particularly a road bike. Garmin units, for example, are designed to mount on the handlebar stem, as are many bicycle "computers" (odometer/speedometer, sometimes includes cadence, ie pedaling speed.)
Now, weight and battery life aren't a huge deal to someone who commutes, but to someone riding a century (100 miles; a "metric century here in the US refers to a 100km ride), where many turns may be involved, it's pretty damn important; at 15mph, you're riding for almost 7 hours, not including rest, food, water, and bathroom breaks...and there can be a LOT of climbing involved over that distance.
I watched this when it was posted on HackADay earlier. It was largely a waste of time, because there's not that much to see. Most of what I saw looked remarkably similar to some ham-friendly electronics stores in Boston, like You Do It Electronics (there was another great hobbyist store chain that went out of business, I forget the name.)
The video is shot without any stabilization, handheld, by someone who had a little too much caffine, and who points the camera at Interesting Things for all of about, oh, a tenth of a second. This combined with Youtube's low bitrates = blurry, compression blocks of Fail. Seriously, you can tell the place is amazing visually, but because Cracky McCoffee The Cameraman can't hold the camera still or stop to pause on something, all you see is a blurry mess. And it's all out of focus, too, because it was shot with a dSLR, and this one apparently can't autofocus while shooting video (or Cracky McCoffee bumped the MF/AF switch), and CMcCTC didn't realize that indoors, he has such a large aperture that there's zero depth of field. At one point, the guy is standing in front of the camera talking for a good 30 seconds, completely blurred out, until he steps closer to the camera to get out of the aisle, and then poof! He's out of focus again.
Most of the "cool stuff" seems to consist of enclosures. The guy leading the tour has a borderline fetish for enclosures. Here, let me blast right past these meters and industrial automation gear. Now, check out this enclosure! Wow, it's hexagon shaped, see that? And it's metalic! This one has a stand. Now, pay no attention to those robotics...here's my other favorite enclosure store! This one can silkscreen graphics on the front. WOOOOOOOW. Oh that, those are nuclear-powered minisubs. Waaaaaaalking....
First I knew was when I read about it on another tech blog, hours after it'd happened...and I use Facebook. And I work with a ton of people who use it (grad students.)
There wasn't mass hysteria; there was mass ambivalence. I'm now reading all these blog/news postings about how "everyone" went crazy. Nobody was talking about it where I ate dinner. Nobody was talking about it where I had coffee that evening. It didn't make my city newspaper- no "Facebook down, residents in despair" stories to be found.
All this coverage claiming that everyone went nuts seems like a desperate attempt by Facebook PR to make something positive out of this...namely, trying to convince us that Facebook is so integral to the people who use it, it must, of course, be to us as well.
That's a Symbian smartphone. Disclaimer: this info was based off what the journalist said.
There seems to be a lot of doubt spreading 'round. I'm not sure what motives there are, however. The Afghani scumbag certainly didn't have any motive to play along with the stunt.
Unless proven otherwise, I'm assuming for now that Commodore USA is, at best, a hoax, and at worst, a very inept con.
If you're going to claim someone's business is somewhere between a hoax and a con, you'd better have something better than supposition based off a legal settlement and your subjective opinion of the company's website.
It's called libel, and it's not free speech- and the author seems to be assuming they're guilty until proven innocent. He's got no right to complain about being treated the same way.
Only way I'd be okay with this is if they give the driver some sort of competency exam. Cars don't normally fall apart and cause accidents...it is usually driver error.
Great. Then, just as we're allowed to train for flying airplanes (in all manner of different levels), big heavy trucks, etc- offer graduated driving licenses. If you're willing to go through extra training, you get to drive faster than people who can't be bothered. We're already seeing some of this; in many states, young drivers aren't allowed to drive at night or with juvenile passengers. Apply the concept in other ways, too: if you haven't completed a course in winter driving skills, you're not allowed to drive before roads are sanded and plowed.
Why we keep people from flying planes in instrument conditions unless they have the training for it, but let any asshole go out in his SUV with half-bald tires in fresh snow, is beyond me.
Also: bar insurance payments for anything except completely faultless situations (which are rare.) Watch how fast people get at being careful drivers, when hitting someone else with a car could mean you lose everything you own in damages to pay for their car and medical bills...and someone won't just hand you a shiny check for a new car.
Originally, the fear was that this regulation would target the small-time blogger, but this news of Reverb settling with the FTC over fake game reviews shows that the FTC is also targeting big PR firms.
"Also" targeting big PR firms? Where has the FTC been "targetting" "small-time" bloggers?
Something tells me the FTC has zero interest in enforcement for individuals, unless they're misleading a LOT of people.
Seriously, that's aggravating as hell. I just kind of assumed that GNU would have released all of their flagship software under the L?GPL and had no idea that they were distributing non-Free software
Seriously. Same for the Debian folk. For years I had to compile netatalk by hand because the debian folk threw a shitstorm over compiling it against OpenSSL because of licensing problems, so it had no encrypted auth support.
People on debian-legal are famous for being the most righteous, die-hard, by-the-book types you can possible find. And now we find out glibc wasn't legal?
Instead of consuming and throwing away less and living sustainably, our future is Febreze.
It's not trash that smells, it's garbage (ie, food that's been thrown out.) If people had garbage disposals and compost piles, you're right, it wouldn't be a problem.
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"Oh, and while we're on the topic, Middle Eastern nuts wouldn't have so much money to finance terror attacks if we weren't giving it to them for the goddamn oil. They wouldn't even have a reason to attack us if we weren't involved in their politics in the first place. Our post-oil energy policy is also our anti-terror policy."
While we're on the topic, most of our oil comes from Canada, South America, and yes, our very own US of A. It's a common misconception that we rely on the middle east for "most" or all of our oil, and you see it perpetuated every time Obama and other politicians talk about "our foreign dependence".
Our foreign policy was/is heavily influenced by communism, by the way...that's at least half the reason we got ourselves into such a mess. It wasn't just "oil", it was "commies getting oil."
'The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?' says Napolitano.
Recognize that the cost of freedom is accepting that someone else might use that freedom to hurt you. If you think you should be searched in order to travel because it'll make "us" safer, you need to turn in your US citizenship.
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." (Jefferson)
It might also help to recognize that in countries which are far less free, there's still plenty of terrorism.
I think the logic is that these heavy emissions actually sink into the ocean in international waters at diffuse levels not harmful enough to do damage (also that it would significantly increase the cost of all overseas goods).
I think the logic is that in international waters you don't answer to anyone, and you can burn the cheapest fuel your engine will tolerate.
I don't know if it's true with your company, but I would consider that an overreach if you want me to connect my personal phone with your network and give you the ability to delete all of my pictures and other personal data solely at your discretion.
It's not connecting your personal phone "with their network". You're connecting with, synchronizing, and providing the ability to send email from, an email account your employer provides for work purposes. Those are radically different things.
This is a non-issue if you don't configure your personal phone to connect to your employer's email system, which you probably shouldn't be doing anyway for a variety of reasons. Example #1: If it's necessary for your job, your employer should be paying for it. Example #2: If it's not necessary, have some work-life separation and don't check your work email from your personal phone.
I know a number of people that carry a blackberry or smartphone for work, and a non-smartphone or iPhone/Android phone for personal use. Among other things, it's the ultimate level of control over whether or not you can be reached via such a device, billing, voicemail, separate numbers, etc.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+set+up+a+certificate+authority Then distribute the *organization's* cert to all the servers and clients. If you have a few clients or don't get many that fast, just do it by hand. If you have hundreds of computers or lots of turnover, you should be running central config management anyway. MIT for example distributes an MIT cert. Presto, everything on campus is protected. It's partially a question of tradeoffs: sign a cert by a CA already trusted for $$, or make your own CA and spend labor (your or users) dealing with adding the certs by hand. It's also a question of security of the CA. Perhaps some Slashdotters could share links to best practices for an internal CA.
The hazardous haze has forced schools to stop outdoor exercises, and health experts asked residents, especially those with respiratory problems, the elderly and children, to stay indoors."
...had me thinking back to this summer, when alerts for nearly exactly the same thing went on for 2-3 weeks in Boston.
Used to be even worse. The major source of air pollution in Boston? The midwest coal power plants. All that lovely free cheap coal blows right out of the region, and then stalls over the east coast and causes hell for us.
I wish the midwest would stop trying to cram ethanol down our throats, and instead diversify off of corn production. Y'know, maybe some wind turbine production, for example?
Nice detective work. Noticing that my public email address matches to my real name in whois.
Wrong. I just plugged your email address into Google.
But Google does nothing to restrict how you use their products. In fact, they encourage novel use; that's why all of their services have APIs.
That's not the point- but, yes, of course they do. They want everyone to use them. They want as much market share as possible; same reason the Catholic church bans abortions. And then they start abusing it. Just a few days ago we saw how concerns over Google Adwords revenue were forcing TVtropes to self-censor.
Right now, a number of people can't get to a major site they use for work because...surprise! Google decided that the site hosts adware, and Firefox throws up a billion warnings as a result.
Apple insists on owning your whole experience and is lobbying for legislation to turn their wants into law.
Son, what crack are you smoking? I've owned Macs since 1994 and Apple doesn't own anything of mine, store any of my data, monitor me, or control me.
Google has my address book, my chat logs, all my emails, my location data, search terms, what blogs I read, and what ads I look at. I've limited some of it via tools like OptimizeGoogle, but they still have a tremendous amount of data of mine, and data about me.
. I would think internet-focused companies like Google, Cisco or a raft of ISPs like Comcast would be much higher on the list.
Uh, they already are. Check your terms of service. Comcast's, several years ago, had paragraphs outlining how you agreed to be a content CONSUMER, not a content PRODUCER. They banned webservers, mail servers, FTP sites, and most frighteningly: "discussion" systems, aka, web boards, chat systems, etc. Home internet connections long ago went from being a pipe you could do whatever (non-network-abusive) things you wanted to with, to a pipe you're expected to use to read your email hosted somewhere else and watch Netflix.
I also find it laughable that anyone but Google could be #1. They're the largest webmail provider, the largest search engine, the largest advertising network, and the largest video/blog hosting company. For fuck's sakes, they're photographically mapping the world and wardriving while doing so. About the only thing they haven't managed to secure is photo-hosting; I'm pretty sure Flickr (yahoo) still dominates that.
Hi, Robert Joseph (Joe) Hamelin, formerly employed by Amazon.com as a network engineer. Saw a lot in netops worthy of drinking stories, eh?
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So, yeah, I'd agree with you. And add in something about glass houses and stones.
Make it known to any Google representative who will listen (warning: these are few and far between) that you regard the company as hypocritical and cynical, and not worthy of your trust unless the rights of owners of phones running Android/Linux are fully respected.
Right. Look: google doesn't even give a shit about the fact that people have been complaining for YEARS about the lack of group support in Android's contact manager and poor company name support (for example, it is impossible to search for your contact at Widgetco. That's a BIG problem for someone with a couple hundred business contacts, like a salesperson.)
Something my Siemens phone could do back in the early 2000's (bluetooth sync my contacts with the Macintosh Address Book, complete with groups), something my original iPhone did since day 1...Android can't. Well, it sort of does- but it made an utter fucking mess of things when I enabled syncing.
There's all sorts of half-assed-ness throughout Google products and in particular Android. For example, you can use groups in Google Voice to manage call handling behavior per-group, but only by using the Gmail Contacts interface- not your phone. You can't add a calendar to Google Calendar from your phone. Google Voice doesn't accept mp3 voicemail announcement uploads, something Youmail has supported since day 1.
The music syncing sucks (doubletwist can bite my shiny iPhone), the music player sucks (both stock and free alternatives, though at least the free alternatives have lockscreen systems), and there's all sorts of annoying 'holes'- like not being able to add a calendar from your phone.
Friends are in quotes, because Facebook friendship is more like shallow aquantances than friendship.
Uh, maybe for you? The only people I'm friends with on Facebook are people I know pretty well- people I've met, intend to meet again, and either am good friends with, or intend to get to be better friends. I've declined a number of friend requests from people I barely knew. And since I've looked at my friend's profiles on a regular basis, I can see all their email addresses. A number of them also have phone numbers and IM accounts visible; I do to all the people I've friended, because I want them to be able to get in touch.
I wish there was a term for the behavior I've seen for years on Slashdot, namely: assuming that because something has a certain level of utility or function for you, that it must be that way for everyone else. I've lost track of how many times someone has said "Oh, this technology is stupid, I can't _____________", and they don't even realize that they're not the target audience or that others might have a different use, experience, etc.
The answer is: they DON'T. Nor does Halliburton, Eli Lilly, Prudential Insurance (!!!), or Ford. In fact, they've done a great job of proving they don't, by running out and securing a number of class B address spaces in other class A/B octets when they should have just given out subnets of their existing Class A.
Even HP, Apple, and IBM are standing on shaky ground; they're international corporations whose primary business is at least somewhat internet related, but they still don't need 16 million addresses in one space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Seriously, how did you get modded up to 5, "insightful" for just saying "Durrr, they're biased"
Why does this guy even bother. If 1 in 30 he can make a markup on, how much can this guy be making? $20-50 per day, if he's lucky. He probably spends all day doing it and probably makes $5k per year if he's lucky.
$50 x 5 x 50 = $12,500. Granted, I'm not subtracting cost of internet service, equipment, gas to drive around to these places (or subway fare if you live in the city), etc.
and as much number 9 or 10 shot shells
Which contain lead. Which will leach into the water table. It's a realistic problem for the quantities you're talking about.
People forget that the simplest solution tends to be the best one. They also forget what a regiment of men with guns can accomplish
And people are also idiots who forget that when a mommy snake and a daddy snake meet by chance in a forest, they have zillions of baby snakes shortly thereafter. Invasive species which are overrunning a habitat are doing so because they have no natural predators and an abundant food source.
Growth is exponential . Unless you have less than 2 snakes remaining, you're screwed in another few years again. And if you only have one, you better make sure it's not pregnant.
why not just buy a GPS device designed for motorcyclists? They've been around for a while, mount right to the handlebars, and have tons of rider-friendly features.
Because they make GPS units designed for cyclists, and most handheld / outdoorsy GPS units these days can do routing (and there are handlebar mounts.)
More reasons why motorcycle units wouldn't work, as someone who cycles a fair bit:
Now, weight and battery life aren't a huge deal to someone who commutes, but to someone riding a century (100 miles; a "metric century here in the US refers to a 100km ride), where many turns may be involved, it's pretty damn important; at 15mph, you're riding for almost 7 hours, not including rest, food, water, and bathroom breaks...and there can be a LOT of climbing involved over that distance.
I watched this when it was posted on HackADay earlier. It was largely a waste of time, because there's not that much to see. Most of what I saw looked remarkably similar to some ham-friendly electronics stores in Boston, like You Do It Electronics (there was another great hobbyist store chain that went out of business, I forget the name.)
The video is shot without any stabilization, handheld, by someone who had a little too much caffine, and who points the camera at Interesting Things for all of about, oh, a tenth of a second. This combined with Youtube's low bitrates = blurry, compression blocks of Fail. Seriously, you can tell the place is amazing visually, but because Cracky McCoffee The Cameraman can't hold the camera still or stop to pause on something, all you see is a blurry mess. And it's all out of focus, too, because it was shot with a dSLR, and this one apparently can't autofocus while shooting video (or Cracky McCoffee bumped the MF/AF switch), and CMcCTC didn't realize that indoors, he has such a large aperture that there's zero depth of field. At one point, the guy is standing in front of the camera talking for a good 30 seconds, completely blurred out, until he steps closer to the camera to get out of the aisle, and then poof! He's out of focus again.
Most of the "cool stuff" seems to consist of enclosures. The guy leading the tour has a borderline fetish for enclosures. Here, let me blast right past these meters and industrial automation gear. Now, check out this enclosure! Wow, it's hexagon shaped, see that? And it's metalic! This one has a stand. Now, pay no attention to those robotics...here's my other favorite enclosure store! This one can silkscreen graphics on the front. WOOOOOOOW. Oh that, those are nuclear-powered minisubs. Waaaaaaalking....
and mass hysteria all around the world.
[citation needed].
First I knew was when I read about it on another tech blog, hours after it'd happened...and I use Facebook. And I work with a ton of people who use it (grad students.)
There wasn't mass hysteria; there was mass ambivalence. I'm now reading all these blog/news postings about how "everyone" went crazy. Nobody was talking about it where I ate dinner. Nobody was talking about it where I had coffee that evening. It didn't make my city newspaper- no "Facebook down, residents in despair" stories to be found.
All this coverage claiming that everyone went nuts seems like a desperate attempt by Facebook PR to make something positive out of this...namely, trying to convince us that Facebook is so integral to the people who use it, it must, of course, be to us as well.
The phone, a Nokia N70
That's a Symbian smartphone. Disclaimer: this info was based off what the journalist said.
There seems to be a lot of doubt spreading 'round. I'm not sure what motives there are, however. The Afghani scumbag certainly didn't have any motive to play along with the stunt.
From the article:
Unless proven otherwise, I'm assuming for now that Commodore USA is, at best, a hoax, and at worst, a very inept con.
If you're going to claim someone's business is somewhere between a hoax and a con, you'd better have something better than supposition based off a legal settlement and your subjective opinion of the company's website.
It's called libel, and it's not free speech- and the author seems to be assuming they're guilty until proven innocent. He's got no right to complain about being treated the same way.
Only way I'd be okay with this is if they give the driver some sort of competency exam. Cars don't normally fall apart and cause accidents...it is usually driver error.
Great. Then, just as we're allowed to train for flying airplanes (in all manner of different levels), big heavy trucks, etc- offer graduated driving licenses. If you're willing to go through extra training, you get to drive faster than people who can't be bothered. We're already seeing some of this; in many states, young drivers aren't allowed to drive at night or with juvenile passengers. Apply the concept in other ways, too: if you haven't completed a course in winter driving skills, you're not allowed to drive before roads are sanded and plowed.
Why we keep people from flying planes in instrument conditions unless they have the training for it, but let any asshole go out in his SUV with half-bald tires in fresh snow, is beyond me.
Also: bar insurance payments for anything except completely faultless situations (which are rare.) Watch how fast people get at being careful drivers, when hitting someone else with a car could mean you lose everything you own in damages to pay for their car and medical bills...and someone won't just hand you a shiny check for a new car.
It'd be a boon for public transit, too.
Originally, the fear was that this regulation would target the small-time blogger, but this news of Reverb settling with the FTC over fake game reviews shows that the FTC is also targeting big PR firms.
"Also" targeting big PR firms? Where has the FTC been "targetting" "small-time" bloggers?
Something tells me the FTC has zero interest in enforcement for individuals, unless they're misleading a LOT of people.
Seriously, that's aggravating as hell. I just kind of assumed that GNU would have released all of their flagship software under the L?GPL and had no idea that they were distributing non-Free software
Seriously. Same for the Debian folk. For years I had to compile netatalk by hand because the debian folk threw a shitstorm over compiling it against OpenSSL because of licensing problems, so it had no encrypted auth support.
People on debian-legal are famous for being the most righteous, die-hard, by-the-book types you can possible find. And now we find out glibc wasn't legal?
Instead of consuming and throwing away less and living sustainably, our future is Febreze.
It's not trash that smells, it's garbage (ie, food that's been thrown out.) If people had garbage disposals and compost piles, you're right, it wouldn't be a problem.