This would also create jobs (at least in the short term) indirectly, as those who get the high-paying jobs directly related to this "stimulus" will demand additional production and services to fill their personal needs, which will create other jobs, and so on. In this way, each dollar invested in this infrastructure will actually be spent multiple times.
Ronald Regan called from 1980, and wants his trickle-down economics policy back. This is a bullshit lie, and I'll give you two examples of why.
First off, people in high-paying jobs have a lower marginal propensity to consume. It sounds absurd, but the single parent with a $40k job is spending almost their entire paycheck back into the economy just to survive. Someone who makes $120k is not spending 100% of their paycheck- not even close. They're putting a fair amount into long and short term savings. On a related note, gas and food price jumps really hammer the $40k person more than the $120k person; percentage-of-income-wise, the $40k person spends much more on food and gas than the 120k person does.
Even locally, money spent largely doesn't go to the business owner if they don't own their own property. It goes largely to the landlord of the property. Commercial property owners aren't in the lower income brackets; they're in the top income brackets, and they're writing off their Mercedes as a business expense.
Back in the 50's, corporations shared tax responsibilities evenly with the American individual. Now, A HREF="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/04/b45142.html">corporations pay about 7% and 60% didn't pay a dime. Meanwhile, their tax rate compared to the GDP is around 1.8%, down from the 1950's level of 5%. Meanwhile, you lose about 33% of your paycheck to state and federal taxes, then get taxed on the gas you put in your car and the stuff you buy.
There is no rational justification for tape anymore, what with the cost per TB stored on hard disks now under $130, total $$.
Tape media is cheaper and has a higher density than any hard drives on the market. Only laptop drives are starting to come close in density, but they're several times more expensive per GB once you go beyond needing to store more than a couple of TB of data.
Also, tapes are designed to be reused thousands of times. SATA connectors are only spec'd for something like 500 connect/disconnect cycles at most.
Fox might hold an exclusive license to the movie rights to the material, but that's a very different question.
If you actually bothered to RTFA carefully, you'd see that they have been ruled to have a copyright interest.
Since you're clearly ignorant on the matter and think "copyright interest" means "copyright" or "exclusive movie rights", try educating yourself instead.
I know it comes as a shock to all you fifteen year olds, but IP law is simpler than "Cory Doctorow says I can give my stuff away and copyright is bad!"
Great, then you realize that the MBTA system belonged to the MIT students, as they were taxpayers and concerned citizens.
What are you, fifteen? You don't get the right to jump in a city fire truck because you're a taxpayer. You don't get to walk around the Oval Office because you're a taxpayer. City property is owned by the CITY. The MBTA is a quasi-state agency, overseen by the Executive Office of Transportation (it extends WAY beyond Boston- it's one of the largest transit systems in the country.)
Also, college students don't pay ANY taxes unless they make over $8k; that's the Federal floor, I think. I believe the MA floor is higher. The taxes they pay via the university (ie their tuition) is tenuous at best given that the university probably receives far more federal and state grants than it pays to the state in taxes, as a non-profit organization.
Had these patriots not exposed the problems they found, the good people of their city might have been secretly exploited for years and the incompetent officials who let if happen would have escaped notice or punishment.
Guess what? It's not your fucking job. If the people are incompetent, challenge the elected officials who put them in those jobs, or assert your claims in the local paper, or ask established experts in the field to look into it. Again, it's that antisocial "geek" crap, thinking that somehow everything is your domain or responsibility. It's not.
You do not have the right to break the law to prove a system is insecure. I can prove your door lock is insecure by bumping your lock and writing "BOO!" on your wall. That doesn't justify it or make it "right"; it's still breaking, entering, and vandalism.
Otherwise the crime would be called 'Entering'. Don't you (presumably a citizen) mind living in an area where the law is essentially random?
Read your local police blotter. On a fairly regular basis here in Boston and surrounding cities/towns, people occasionally find some dude sleeping on their couch.
If there was no sign that the door was locked or of any damage in them getting in, guess what they're charged with? Entering. If there are signs up saying "private property", then they can also be charged with trespassing. Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean common law is "essentially random."
I really can't stand when people compare every incident of 'hacking' to breaking into somebody's house. The MIT students didn't break into anything
I can't stand it when antisocial self-described geniuses think that they have the right to touch/use/mess with other people's stuff simply because they're doing so via electronic signals. If it doesn't belong to you, don't mess with it. That's lesson some of us learned when we were in kindergarten.
They went way beyond what would be considered "white hat" activities. They made up IDs and lied their way into MBTA headquarters, went into a conference room, and plugged in their laptops and played around with the network. Let me repeat that for you: they essentially broke into private property and used a private network by physical location.
They also went into network closets all over the system where they knew they didn't belong, which is trespassing. It doesn't matter if the door is locked or not.
I know this goes against the Slashdot perception of how these "kids" were sweet, innocent little virgins who did no wrong, but:
They went into closets they knew they didn't belong in (that's entering/trespass, look it up; it doesn't matter if the door is locked. If it is locked, then it's BREAKING and entering)
They used forged documents (IDs) and lied to security officers and T employees to get into MBTA office space (that would be fraud, forgery and uttering)
They plugged into the network in those offices (more specifically, meeting rooms) they knew were private and used them to access the MBTA network (computer/network trespass.)
Then, they used the modified MiFare cards in gates- they had photos showing them using the cards in gates. That's THEFT and FRAUD, people. You can't walk into a bank, cash a fake check for $500, and then publish a paper and say "the banking system is insecure!", and be shocked and amazed when you're charged with forgery and uttering.
And once he has a project started, he has built an empire of grapevines capable of announcing his project to every corner of the earth. He really is amazing in his speciality.
You mean like OpenCola, which felt flat on its face?
Lower wattage bulbs, like Cory Doctorow?
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Doctorow says he is a law prof who writes like a comedian(Is that a good thing?)
No, it's a meaningless thing given that Doctorow has little to no education, and is an author who has never been of sufficient caliber to get the attention of a publisher (and no, I do not count a company that publishes Halo fanfiction "books" to be a publisher.)
He's also a hypocritical little shit; we never did see him press charges against the SFWA for filing illegal DMCA notices, now did we? Funny how he didn't get all up in their grill, but he's happy to incite riots among his BoingBoing readers when it doesn't involve him?
It's absolutely fascinating that both he and his wife have managed to attain positions in academia despite having no fucking education. Seriously- she's a WoW player/Quake gamer, and USC calls her a "fellow"? What the FUCK? What drugs did she put in their water?
But darn it; when will someone finally offer a reasonably-priced, open-platform STB that serves as an A/V gateway to multiple Internet-based services -- one consumer-friendly, environmentally-designed, low-power gadget 'to rule them all,' if you will."
When investors are willing to embrace a model other than "get you on the refills", because the development of these devices (and their after-sale support/warranty) is supported by the revenue generated from the rentals.
My brain is a little fried, but examples that pop to mind immediately: Gillette was the pioneer here for product concept that has jumped product category after product category. Cartridge video games. Printers (first ribbon-based, then inkjet, then laser). iTunes. Xbox Live (a great example: Rock Band.)
I'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment and point out that such disclosure is getting harder and harder to comply with.
"Attention: By default, Safari now downloads a database from Google and connects back to Google to verify whether sites you visit in your browser are rated as malicious by Google. If you would like to opt out of this feature, uncheck this box: [x] Use Google's malicious site checking service."
Just banged out a draft version for ya. Took me all of about 1 minute, and I don't even have a PhD.
Keep in mind that you could buy two of those 256GB drives, mirror them, and exceed (in all likelihood) the performance of the Intel drive, and have eight times as much storage. Since reliability is pretty unproven, having them in a mirror means your ass is suitably covered.
The absolute lowest storage density (SAS doesn't come in anything less than 36GB, and 300GB is the top-end) at $22/GB, when $4/GB is the norm for SAS drives (that's a premium of 5.5x) is a big ol' cup of Fail.
...not the contrail itself. Jets release huge quantities of "unburned hydrocarbons, particulates, sulfates, nitrogen oxides (NOX), and carbon dioxide" (link.) This cute little idea will do shit all to help that; it's just a bit of theatrics to make it look to the eye like there is less pollution.
Remember how in Sim City an airport would dramatically increase pollution for your city? Yeeeeeah, it isn't far from the truth. Airports aren't transportation hubs; they're giant kerosene burners, which is why the air absolutely stinks for miles around. I seem to recall reading that one 747 during takeoff creates more pollution than a Toyota Prius will in its entire serviceable lifetime. Obviously you can't use microwaves at any kind of intensity during taxi, run-up, or takeoff, as the ass end of the plane is facing near or at the ground.
Also, it's pretty famous now, but someone studied the weather records around September 11th, 2001 and found there was a remarkable change in the weather across the country and in fact much of the world on the few days that followed where there was very little in the way of air traffic (and another change back to "normal" when air traffic resumed.) Ask most people and they remember it being rather nice out. I remember the weather in lower NY was absolutely spectacular for several days- beautiful blue skies like I'd never seen before in that part of NY.
...when they refer to Apple Filing Protocol as "AFS", and it shows that Infoworld has idiot editors. There's nothing except an anonymous programmer's opinion to back up the claims made.
AFP is not strange, twisted, or any sort of barrier for programmers. Over the years, I have found AFP performance (to netatalk) out of the box trounces Samba by almost a 1:2 margin on raw file transfer speed, and 10:1 on directory-intensive operations. It supports international character sets without fuss, and folder/file name restrictions are downright amazing compared to the shit that is SMB/CIFS.
Don't like AFP? Fine. Use SMB (and yes, you can turn off the "annoying dot files".) Or NFSv4. Or SSHFS with MacFusion, making any Unix box you've got a file server with the installation of one package. There are installers for AFS and (I may have this wrong) Coda.
Having learned from their delivery and fulfillment headaches the first time around, this time they partnered with Amazon.com to handle shipping.
You mean the cases like one of my clients, who ordered two, and received none?
When he called and asked WTF was going on, they couldn't "find" his order, and refused to refund his credit card, despite proof they'd charged him. He ended up having to do a chargeback.
If OLPC couldn't ship 'em to donors, what makes anyone think they're shipping them to kids in the '2nd world'?
Lesson for next time: Use a phone with automatic blogging so the photos are off the phone and on the Net before they can stop you.
"What's this? Where are the photos you took?" "You uploaded them to a website?"
Then you get to enjoy a free trip in the back of a truck to somewhere with a net connection, and then you get pushed in front of a monitor and keyboard and told to log in and delete the photos by men with guns.
Your idea is great in a country where the police won't threaten to shoot you. Even here in the US, if they don't like you enough, you'll "resist arrest" and need a trip to the hospital; it happened to a photojournalism student in Provincetown, MA when the cops didn't like him taking photos of them beating the shit out of drunks.
Why do you think NYC doesn't supply flashlights to the cops and banned its officers from carrying Maglites larger than 3 D-cells? It's because cops used them to beat the shit out of people...
check out this sample video [canon.com] by director Vincent Laforet.
That's quite possibly the worst quality "music video" I've ever seen. Horrendous acting, he clearly didn't even bother to use a steadicam-like mount for *anything*, and the editing, even on a pure technical level, was shit as well. He didn't even bother to put the camera on a tripod for the end moon shot!
My electric meter (and most everyone else's by now) uses pulses of IR light. The transmitter is either pointed upwards, or out the face. The blink pattern is very simple to decode; it's basically 1 blink per energy unit (I forget how much.)
I have a wireless power meter I bought through the power company which uses the blinks to show me how much energy I'm using. The only downside was that it was a royal, complete, and total fucking pain in the ass to get the receiver's sensor positioned correctly. The sensor's sensitivity is so bad, it has to be positioned very, very precisely.
repeated broken promises as to delivery dates, support staff who couldn't provide any answers and an end product less than what was initially promised (e.g. no separate power generating devices).
No shit. A client of mine ordered *TWO* G1G1 packages, and they never showed up. Repeated calls to the company resulted in: "we lost your order", but they couldn't even figure out how to refund his money. He ended up having to do a chargeback.
Given that loads of people never got theirs, what do you think the chances are that the *other* party in the whole "G1G1" scam*cough*, I mean, "program", got theirs?
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If the Dell workers want to keep their jobs they can just move to Lodz.
Really? So, how perchance does someone in a bad economy with no job find the money to buy or rent a new place, move their belongings, etc?
This would also create jobs (at least in the short term) indirectly, as those who get the high-paying jobs directly related to this "stimulus" will demand additional production and services to fill their personal needs, which will create other jobs, and so on. In this way, each dollar invested in this infrastructure will actually be spent multiple times.
Ronald Regan called from 1980, and wants his trickle-down economics policy back. This is a bullshit lie, and I'll give you two examples of why.
First off, people in high-paying jobs have a lower marginal propensity to consume. It sounds absurd, but the single parent with a $40k job is spending almost their entire paycheck back into the economy just to survive. Someone who makes $120k is not spending 100% of their paycheck- not even close. They're putting a fair amount into long and short term savings. On a related note, gas and food price jumps really hammer the $40k person more than the $120k person; percentage-of-income-wise, the $40k person spends much more on food and gas than the 120k person does.
Second: money spent these days very, very quickly leaves your local, state, and national economy. Spend $5 on a burger at national franchise, and a teeny bit of that goes to employing the people in the store. Some of it goes towards the materials for the product, which were made as efficiently and cheaply as possible. Most of it goes to a trademark holding company aka tax shelter in the Cayman Islands as "trademark license fee". The article I mentioned lists Limited Brands, Toys "R" Us, ConAgra Foods, Home Depot, Kmart, Gap, Sherwin-Williams, Circuit City, Stanley Works, Staples, and Burger King as examples. I'm sure there are hundreds more.
Even locally, money spent largely doesn't go to the business owner if they don't own their own property. It goes largely to the landlord of the property. Commercial property owners aren't in the lower income brackets; they're in the top income brackets, and they're writing off their Mercedes as a business expense.
Back in the 50's, corporations shared tax responsibilities evenly with the American individual. Now, A HREF="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/04/b45142.html">corporations pay about 7% and 60% didn't pay a dime. Meanwhile, their tax rate compared to the GDP is around 1.8%, down from the 1950's level of 5%. Meanwhile, you lose about 33% of your paycheck to state and federal taxes, then get taxed on the gas you put in your car and the stuff you buy.
There is no rational justification for tape anymore, what with the cost per TB stored on hard disks now under $130, total $$.
Tape media is cheaper and has a higher density than any hard drives on the market. Only laptop drives are starting to come close in density, but they're several times more expensive per GB once you go beyond needing to store more than a couple of TB of data.
Also, tapes are designed to be reused thousands of times. SATA connectors are only spec'd for something like 500 connect/disconnect cycles at most.
Fox might hold an exclusive license to the movie rights to the material, but that's a very different question.
If you actually bothered to RTFA carefully, you'd see that they have been ruled to have a copyright interest.
Since you're clearly ignorant on the matter and think "copyright interest" means "copyright" or "exclusive movie rights", try educating yourself instead.
I know it comes as a shock to all you fifteen year olds, but IP law is simpler than "Cory Doctorow says I can give my stuff away and copyright is bad!"
Great, then you realize that the MBTA system belonged to the MIT students, as they were taxpayers and concerned citizens.
What are you, fifteen? You don't get the right to jump in a city fire truck because you're a taxpayer. You don't get to walk around the Oval Office because you're a taxpayer. City property is owned by the CITY. The MBTA is a quasi-state agency, overseen by the Executive Office of Transportation (it extends WAY beyond Boston- it's one of the largest transit systems in the country.)
Also, college students don't pay ANY taxes unless they make over $8k; that's the Federal floor, I think. I believe the MA floor is higher. The taxes they pay via the university (ie their tuition) is tenuous at best given that the university probably receives far more federal and state grants than it pays to the state in taxes, as a non-profit organization.
Had these patriots not exposed the problems they found, the good people of their city might have been secretly exploited for years and the incompetent officials who let if happen would have escaped notice or punishment.
Guess what? It's not your fucking job. If the people are incompetent, challenge the elected officials who put them in those jobs, or assert your claims in the local paper, or ask established experts in the field to look into it. Again, it's that antisocial "geek" crap, thinking that somehow everything is your domain or responsibility. It's not.
You do not have the right to break the law to prove a system is insecure. I can prove your door lock is insecure by bumping your lock and writing "BOO!" on your wall. That doesn't justify it or make it "right"; it's still breaking, entering, and vandalism.
Otherwise the crime would be called 'Entering'. Don't you (presumably a citizen) mind living in an area where the law is essentially random?
Read your local police blotter. On a fairly regular basis here in Boston and surrounding cities/towns, people occasionally find some dude sleeping on their couch.
If there was no sign that the door was locked or of any damage in them getting in, guess what they're charged with? Entering. If there are signs up saying "private property", then they can also be charged with trespassing. Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean common law is "essentially random."
I really can't stand when people compare every incident of 'hacking' to breaking into somebody's house. The MIT students didn't break into anything
I can't stand it when antisocial self-described geniuses think that they have the right to touch/use/mess with other people's stuff simply because they're doing so via electronic signals. If it doesn't belong to you, don't mess with it. That's lesson some of us learned when we were in kindergarten.
They went way beyond what would be considered "white hat" activities. They made up IDs and lied their way into MBTA headquarters, went into a conference room, and plugged in their laptops and played around with the network. Let me repeat that for you: they essentially broke into private property and used a private network by physical location.
They also went into network closets all over the system where they knew they didn't belong, which is trespassing. It doesn't matter if the door is locked or not.
I know this goes against the Slashdot perception of how these "kids" were sweet, innocent little virgins who did no wrong, but:
Then, they used the modified MiFare cards in gates- they had photos showing them using the cards in gates. That's THEFT and FRAUD, people. You can't walk into a bank, cash a fake check for $500, and then publish a paper and say "the banking system is insecure!", and be shocked and amazed when you're charged with forgery and uttering.
I remember being intrigued by the idea of writing file-system customizations in perl,
Nnnngggggg *kaboom*
And once he has a project started, he has built an empire of grapevines capable of announcing his project to every corner of the earth. He really is amazing in his speciality.
You mean like OpenCola, which felt flat on its face?
*thinks back to story yesterday*
Doctorow says he is a law prof who writes like a comedian(Is that a good thing?)
No, it's a meaningless thing given that Doctorow has little to no education, and is an author who has never been of sufficient caliber to get the attention of a publisher (and no, I do not count a company that publishes Halo fanfiction "books" to be a publisher.)
He's also a hypocritical little shit; we never did see him press charges against the SFWA for filing illegal DMCA notices, now did we? Funny how he didn't get all up in their grill, but he's happy to incite riots among his BoingBoing readers when it doesn't involve him?
It's absolutely fascinating that both he and his wife have managed to attain positions in academia despite having no fucking education. Seriously- she's a WoW player/Quake gamer, and USC calls her a "fellow"? What the FUCK? What drugs did she put in their water?
Supposedly the numbers are 5:1 Mac:Linux on the desktop platform; you'd think they would be going after that market first.
But darn it; when will someone finally offer a reasonably-priced, open-platform STB that serves as an A/V gateway to multiple Internet-based services -- one consumer-friendly, environmentally-designed, low-power gadget 'to rule them all,' if you will."
When investors are willing to embrace a model other than "get you on the refills", because the development of these devices (and their after-sale support/warranty) is supported by the revenue generated from the rentals.
My brain is a little fried, but examples that pop to mind immediately: Gillette was the pioneer here for product concept that has jumped product category after product category. Cartridge video games. Printers (first ribbon-based, then inkjet, then laser). iTunes. Xbox Live (a great example: Rock Band.)
I'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment and point out that such disclosure is getting harder and harder to comply with.
"Attention: By default, Safari now downloads a database from Google and connects back to Google to verify whether sites you visit in your browser are rated as malicious by Google. If you would like to opt out of this feature, uncheck this box: [x] Use Google's malicious site checking service."
Just banged out a draft version for ya. Took me all of about 1 minute, and I don't even have a PhD.
The problem isn't complexity or difficulty.
Let's see...$720 for 32GB ($22/GB) versus $278 for 256GB ($1/GB.)
Keep in mind that you could buy two of those 256GB drives, mirror them, and exceed (in all likelihood) the performance of the Intel drive, and have eight times as much storage. Since reliability is pretty unproven, having them in a mirror means your ass is suitably covered.
The absolute lowest storage density (SAS doesn't come in anything less than 36GB, and 300GB is the top-end) at $22/GB, when $4/GB is the norm for SAS drives (that's a premium of 5.5x) is a big ol' cup of Fail.
Remember how in Sim City an airport would dramatically increase pollution for your city? Yeeeeeah, it isn't far from the truth. Airports aren't transportation hubs; they're giant kerosene burners, which is why the air absolutely stinks for miles around. I seem to recall reading that one 747 during takeoff creates more pollution than a Toyota Prius will in its entire serviceable lifetime. Obviously you can't use microwaves at any kind of intensity during taxi, run-up, or takeoff, as the ass end of the plane is facing near or at the ground.
Also, it's pretty famous now, but someone studied the weather records around September 11th, 2001 and found there was a remarkable change in the weather across the country and in fact much of the world on the few days that followed where there was very little in the way of air traffic (and another change back to "normal" when air traffic resumed.) Ask most people and they remember it being rather nice out. I remember the weather in lower NY was absolutely spectacular for several days- beautiful blue skies like I'd never seen before in that part of NY.
AFP is not strange, twisted, or any sort of barrier for programmers. Over the years, I have found AFP performance (to netatalk) out of the box trounces Samba by almost a 1:2 margin on raw file transfer speed, and 10:1 on directory-intensive operations. It supports international character sets without fuss, and folder/file name restrictions are downright amazing compared to the shit that is SMB/CIFS.
Don't like AFP? Fine. Use SMB (and yes, you can turn off the "annoying dot files".) Or NFSv4. Or SSHFS with MacFusion, making any Unix box you've got a file server with the installation of one package. There are installers for AFS and (I may have this wrong) Coda.
Having learned from their delivery and fulfillment headaches the first time around, this time they partnered with Amazon.com to handle shipping.
You mean the cases like one of my clients, who ordered two, and received none?
When he called and asked WTF was going on, they couldn't "find" his order, and refused to refund his credit card, despite proof they'd charged him. He ended up having to do a chargeback.
If OLPC couldn't ship 'em to donors, what makes anyone think they're shipping them to kids in the '2nd world'?
Lesson for next time: Use a phone with automatic blogging so the photos are off the phone and on the Net before they can stop you.
"What's this? Where are the photos you took?" "You uploaded them to a website?"
Then you get to enjoy a free trip in the back of a truck to somewhere with a net connection, and then you get pushed in front of a monitor and keyboard and told to log in and delete the photos by men with guns.
Your idea is great in a country where the police won't threaten to shoot you. Even here in the US, if they don't like you enough, you'll "resist arrest" and need a trip to the hospital; it happened to a photojournalism student in Provincetown, MA when the cops didn't like him taking photos of them beating the shit out of drunks.
Why do you think NYC doesn't supply flashlights to the cops and banned its officers from carrying Maglites larger than 3 D-cells? It's because cops used them to beat the shit out of people...
"I'm getting more charged...I think I'll go for a drive..."
check out this sample video [canon.com] by director Vincent Laforet.
That's quite possibly the worst quality "music video" I've ever seen. Horrendous acting, he clearly didn't even bother to use a steadicam-like mount for *anything*, and the editing, even on a pure technical level, was shit as well. He didn't even bother to put the camera on a tripod for the end moon shot!
My electric meter (and most everyone else's by now) uses pulses of IR light. The transmitter is either pointed upwards, or out the face. The blink pattern is very simple to decode; it's basically 1 blink per energy unit (I forget how much.)
I have a wireless power meter I bought through the power company which uses the blinks to show me how much energy I'm using. The only downside was that it was a royal, complete, and total fucking pain in the ass to get the receiver's sensor positioned correctly. The sensor's sensitivity is so bad, it has to be positioned very, very precisely.
repeated broken promises as to delivery dates, support staff who couldn't provide any answers and an end product less than what was initially promised (e.g. no separate power generating devices).
No shit. A client of mine ordered *TWO* G1G1 packages, and they never showed up. Repeated calls to the company resulted in: "we lost your order", but they couldn't even figure out how to refund his money. He ended up having to do a chargeback.
Given that loads of people never got theirs, what do you think the chances are that the *other* party in the whole "G1G1" scam*cough*, I mean, "program", got theirs?
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What the hell is a "blurt"?