In fact the drug trade does provide funding for many terrorist & insurgent groups. Those that are islamist are more than willing to ignore edicts that say they should not have any involvement with such things as it allows them to continue to wage jihad. In the case of 420, which comes primarily from Mexico and Canada, those involved are transnational drug cartels from LatinAm and Asia. While they may not directly cause terrorism, they too have associations with known terrorist and insurgent groups. Its quite a tangled web, but I will agree with you the hyperbole is too strong in the this case.
As to IP infringement funding terrorism, I suspect it is tiny and they have latched onto some piracy by a group in asia which might be associated with ASG, but I tend to think they are making a similar argument as with pot - that while the groups involved are criminal gangs, many of those also have working associations/overlaps with terrorist groups. Again, its very much a reach.
The bottom line is that if these are 'good' laws they should be enacted on their merits without reaching for the "T" word when links are weak at best. But as this latest is a total crock and give away to media companies I'll be on phone to my reps this afternoon and letting them know how I feel.
Given the fairly low cost of dram, why haven't mobo and chipset makers taken things into their own hands? It seems like it would be relatively trivial to provide an on-motherboard option to drop in a
512mb or 1gb stick that is dedicated to disk caching with the logic handled by an additional chip. With mass production the additional cost would be minimal. If this is a good idea, I claim prior art;)
I suppose the thinking is this is much like the brown wrapper you
see around pron mags with explicit cover art;) I'm against that as
well as this proposal. If mommy takes little Johnny to a store that
displays explicit porn in plain view chances are good she will never go
back. The store owner is either ok with this loss of business or he
will change his practices. As to the net - I'm tired of this whole
"we're protecting the kids" BS. It is your job as a parent to
watch your kids - not mine and not the various content providers. It
is no different than leaving a kid alone with a TV in their room. As
a parent if you do not trust your child or do not believe content filters you install work then the answer is simple - no internet. Boo
hoo! Guess what? You have no right to internet access .
As to internet access being 'needed' in schools - sorry, that's a bunch of BS from the education industry. All relevant educational materials on the net are sourced from print which is available at the library or via interlibrary loan. Nothing is so urgent in report writing that an elementary or high school student needs instant access to what is most
likely available 10 feet away (or could be if appropriately planned by teacher+librarian).
Perpend. tech aside, it doesn't look like there has been an increase
in density, just a doubling of platters and heads from 320GB to 750GB
(4/2 to 8/4). As others have noted, as we approach 1TB we are at a
point (at least in the near term) where the majority of users will not
be squeezed for space unless they are working with uncompressed video
which is not an 'average' user. Given that, isn't it time for
the disk industry to turn the focus to speed rather than capacity? Of
course to some extent speed has increased because of technology to
increase capacity but one wonders if they can't do a lot better.
dude.. you really need to get a grip. You think the Chinese had no
prior ability to do things like you suggest before they actually
purchased the laptop biz? And the USCC is not the intel community:
Composition:
The Commission is composed of 12 members, three of whom are selected by each of the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, and the Speaker and the Minority Leader of the House. The Commissioners serve two-year terms.
I said many times during the DPW brooha that one cannot easily pick a point where things are 'secure' from foreign security risk. Don't want a foreign made pc? Then buy one from a US company that manufactures all the components in the US, assembles in the US and only employees US nationals. Good luck.
For over 6 years now I have had Qwest service at 5c/min with no montly fee. The break even compared to yahoo is 100 mins per month. The next 100 minutes will cost me a whopping $3 more than yahoo and <i>I get to use a real phone with real quality of service. </i>. Even at 600 mins its only 15 bucks more and I know I'll never ever get dropped or hear 'what did you say?'
I guess I'm old fashioned - I was out of college before cell phones and as IANAL I just find no need to bs on the phone all day long.
Therefore the analogy would be that you can record, archive and republish any music and other programming unless the author says he doesn't want this.
So you are saying then that it is ok to sample and reproduce a substantial portion of the original song as this would be the same as quoting a large portion of a post marked NoArchive but failing to add NoArchive to that reply thus ignoring wishes of the original poster?
the ineptitude of the Republican party these days really amazes me - and i'm one of them, at least nominally. In addition to this latest folly, the national hq has been using a spam list the past 6 months to send out propoganda. I've called them twice, explained that a) they will only piss people off by spamming and b) given that some of the addresses they spammed me with are over 10yrs old and inactive they are being ripped off to boot. Even blogged about it. Do they get the message? Not yet... though I think they will next November. Er wait..maybe not.. they only have to run against Dems right?:)
Beyond the fact that he was given up by KSM, not the NSA, can you really consider someone that needs to research the idea of using blow torches on the Brooklyn Bridge as bright? This guy was nothing more than a go-fer. Further we have no idea to what extent he tried to cover his conversations, ie the much quoted "the weather is too hot". Likewise one would think any mention of a subject by KSM would get an automatic FISA warrant.
This is hardly the case. UBL and company knew the NSA has been monitoring them for years and any terrorist that is capable of doing harm (ie has enough of a clue) knows to assume any and all communications are monitored - they aren't sitting there debating if NSA still adheres to their policy of dropping calls that have a domestic counterpart.
However this does not mean that the operational details should be made public, ie how many calls they can filter per minute, what their success rate is, etc. The whole screw up with this program was not that it existed but the lack of adequate oversight and the skipping of prior defined mechanisms such as FISA.
er.. no. This kind of stuff has been around in the world of forex trading since the late 1980s with the introduction of the Reuters dealing system. Each bank had a 4 letter mnemonic (ie CITN for Citibank NY) and thus you were for the first time able to quickly and reliably communicate with a counter part. Initially supporting two and later 4 convos at a time, speed was usually essential and traders at that time were generally very poor typists and hence came 'reuters speak'. Many common phrases carried over from Telex machine use (everybody starts out as a clerk!) but expanded quickly beyond that bare minimum with the obvious tendency to phonetics.
So in the case of IM I firmly believe it is more a desire to communicate quickly and for most to type as little as possible to get the point accross. That this may also spill over into emails, etc is more from force of habit.
anything that claims to measure "an additional 0.3% deterioration" can't be taken seriously. Please come back when your measure of 'mental ability' is so precise you can make a claim like this.
If the situation in Iraq ever stabilizes that could add another 500k to 1MM b/d. The Iranians have seen their oil industry become antiquated and there are others who also need new production technology. Central Asia is yet fully devolped (Caspian production) is expected to ramp up to an additional 3-5MM b/d.
And I think anyone over 21 has heard this claim quite a few times before.
our school got 4 trash 80s when I was in 10th grade.. but the first I owned was a early edition AppleII w/48K! And then there was that dec2060 I 'owned'
Do any of these studies consider the effects not of what humans do but just their existence? There are now 10x the population as estimated in 1700, 30x since 800AD. What is the heat output of that many people? What is the cummulative output? What about methane, etc? My quick calculation gives a baseline of nearly 800 20KT nukes for the equivalent output of the planets population - per day.
Could someone check their packaging if they still have it? I vaguely recall that there was a hearing loss warning label either on the box or with the enclosed documents.
sigh.. I did put the time of the wire service release. Considering your post is 90 minutes later and an hour after mine, maybe you could have checked any finance site first?
But his statements potentially damage or confuse whatever message it
is that the elected political leadership has deemed appropriate for that agency/topic. Yes it is worse when a policy maker goes well off ranch, but the regular employees can cause havoc
as well. A second example - a senior engineer at, say Intel, is out
talking at a college about current and future CPU technology and
out comes 'personally, I don't know why we are still bothering with
Itanium, blah blah blah'. This engineer, while senior, does not
have direct influence over the CPU roadmap. Can you imagine the
crisis control at Intel after these comments are picked up by the
trade press? "Intel Engineer says dont bother with Itanium". Would
that help Intel or its marketing of Itanium? Is it his place to
voice that publicly(ie warning the public: you're really stupid if you buy Itaniums)?
If you continue with the NYT story you see a line (paraphrased) 'he was always careful to make sure these were his personal views'. And therein lies the issue. It is impossible for his personal view be separated from his 'official' view when speaking in public on a topic related to his official capacity. Would you have somebody from the Dept. of State running around saying "Personally I think ABC about this country" when it is known that the administrations position is XYZ? It is one thing to speak about the details of your research, another entirely to propose policy when you are not in a policy making position.
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In fact the drug trade does provide funding for many terrorist & insurgent groups. Those that are islamist are more than willing to ignore edicts that say they should not have any involvement with such things as it allows them to continue to wage jihad. In the case of 420, which comes primarily from Mexico and Canada, those involved are transnational drug cartels from LatinAm and Asia. While they may not directly cause terrorism, they too have associations with known terrorist and insurgent groups. Its quite a tangled web, but I will agree with you the hyperbole is too strong in the this case.
As to IP infringement funding terrorism, I suspect it is tiny and they have latched onto some piracy by a group in asia which might be associated with ASG, but I tend to think they are making a similar argument as with pot - that while the groups involved are criminal gangs, many of those also have working
associations/overlaps with terrorist groups. Again, its very much
a reach.
The bottom line is that if these are 'good' laws they should be
enacted on their merits without reaching for the "T" word when
links are weak at best. But as this latest is a total crock and
give away to media companies I'll be on phone to my reps this
afternoon and letting them know how I feel.
Given the fairly low cost of dram, why haven't mobo and chipset makers taken things into their own hands? It seems like it would be relatively trivial to provide an on-motherboard option to drop in a 512mb or 1gb stick that is dedicated to disk caching with the logic handled by an additional chip. With mass production the additional cost would be minimal. If this is a good idea, I claim prior art ;)
And doesn't this also assume the file system cache remains a fixed size at a fixed location?
I suppose the thinking is this is much like the brown wrapper you see around pron mags with explicit cover art ;) I'm against that as
well as this proposal. If mommy takes little Johnny to a store that
displays explicit porn in plain view chances are good she will never go
back. The store owner is either ok with this loss of business or he
will change his practices. As to the net - I'm tired of this whole
"we're protecting the kids" BS. It is your job as a parent to
watch your kids - not mine and not the various content providers. It
is no different than leaving a kid alone with a TV in their room. As
a parent if you do not trust your child or do not believe content filters you install work then the answer is simple - no internet. Boo
hoo! Guess what? You have no right to internet access .
As to internet access being 'needed' in schools - sorry, that's a bunch of BS from the education industry. All relevant educational materials on the net are sourced from print which is available at the library or via interlibrary loan. Nothing is so urgent in report writing that an elementary or high school student needs instant access to what is most
likely available 10 feet away (or could be if appropriately planned by teacher+librarian).
Perpend. tech aside, it doesn't look like there has been an increase in density, just a doubling of platters and heads from 320GB to 750GB (4/2 to 8/4). As others have noted, as we approach 1TB we are at a point (at least in the near term) where the majority of users will not be squeezed for space unless they are working with uncompressed video which is not an 'average' user. Given that, isn't it time for the disk industry to turn the focus to speed rather than capacity? Of course to some extent speed has increased because of technology to increase capacity but one wonders if they can't do a lot better.
vega always rocked pinto's world.. and vega cpu upgraders were the best
For over 6 years now I have had Qwest service at 5c/min with
no montly fee. The break even compared to yahoo is 100 mins
per month. The next 100 minutes will cost me a whopping $3 more than yahoo and <i>I get to use a real phone with real quality of service. </i>. Even at 600 mins its only 15 bucks more and I know I'll never ever get dropped or hear 'what did you say?'
I guess I'm old fashioned - I was out of college before cell phones and as IANAL I just find no need to bs on the phone all day long.
the ineptitude of the Republican party these days really amazes me - :)
and i'm one of them, at least nominally. In addition to this latest
folly, the national hq has been using a spam list the past 6 months
to send out propoganda. I've called them twice, explained that a)
they will only piss people off by spamming and b) given that some of
the addresses they spammed me with are over 10yrs old and inactive
they are being ripped off to boot. Even blogged about it. Do they
get the message? Not yet... though I think they will next November. Er
wait..maybe not.. they only have to run against Dems right?
Beyond the fact that he was given up by KSM, not the NSA, can you
really consider someone that needs to research the idea of using blow torches on the Brooklyn Bridge as bright? This guy was nothing more than a go-fer. Further we have no idea to what extent he tried to cover his conversations, ie the much quoted "the weather is too hot". Likewise one would think any mention of a subject by KSM would get an automatic FISA warrant.
This is hardly the case. UBL and company knew the NSA has been
monitoring them for years and any terrorist that is capable of doing
harm (ie has enough of a clue) knows to assume any and all
communications are monitored - they aren't sitting there debating if
NSA still adheres to their policy of dropping calls that have a domestic counterpart.
However this does not mean that the operational details should be
made public, ie how many calls they can filter per minute, what their
success rate is, etc. The whole screw up with this program was not
that it existed but the lack of adequate oversight and the skipping
of prior defined mechanisms such as FISA.
One wonders how much Apple pays /. to run this ad. Truly earth
shattering announcements. Perhaps next month will be a Sable iPod
case.
er.. no. This kind of stuff has been around in the world of forex trading since
the late 1980s with the introduction of the Reuters dealing system. Each bank had
a 4 letter mnemonic (ie CITN for Citibank NY) and thus you were for the first time
able to quickly and reliably communicate with a counter part. Initially supporting
two and later 4 convos at a time, speed was usually essential and traders at that
time were generally very poor typists and hence came 'reuters speak'. Many common
phrases carried over from Telex machine use (everybody starts out as a clerk!) but
expanded quickly beyond that bare minimum with the obvious tendency to phonetics.
So in the case of IM I firmly believe it is more a desire to communicate quickly
and for most to type as little as possible to get the point accross. That this
may also spill over into emails, etc is more from force of habit.
anything that claims to measure "an additional 0.3% deterioration" can't be taken seriously. Please come back when your measure of 'mental ability' is so precise you can make a claim like this.
If the situation in Iraq ever stabilizes that could add another 500k to 1MM b/d. The Iranians have seen their oil industry become antiquated and there are others who also need new production technology. Central Asia is yet fully devolped (Caspian production) is expected to ramp up to an additional 3-5MM b/d.
And I think anyone over 21 has heard this claim quite a few times
before.
our school got 4 trash 80s when I was in 10th grade.. but the
first I owned was a early edition AppleII w/48K! And then there
was that dec2060 I 'owned'
eek! you mean.. the marketing people have gotten hold of the corp web site? What's next? Overstated product claims placed online?
Do any of these studies consider the effects not of what humans do but just their
existence? There are now 10x the population as estimated in 1700, 30x since 800AD.
What is the heat output of that many people? What is the cummulative output? What about methane, etc? My quick calculation gives a baseline of nearly 800 20KT nukes for the equivalent output of the planets population - per day.
Could someone check their packaging if they still have it? I vaguely recall that there was a hearing loss warning label either on the box or with the enclosed documents.
sigh.. I did put the time of the wire service release. Considering your post is 90 minutes later and an hour after mine, maybe you could have checked any finance site first?
Google said: "We have no plans to acquire Napster, nor do we have plans to develop a music store at this time." 13:01 EST
But his statements potentially damage or confuse whatever message it is that the elected political leadership has deemed appropriate for that agency/topic. Yes it is worse when a policy maker goes well off ranch, but the regular employees can cause havoc as well. A second example - a senior engineer at, say Intel, is out talking at a college about current and future CPU technology and out comes 'personally, I don't know why we are still bothering with Itanium, blah blah blah'. This engineer, while senior, does not have direct influence over the CPU roadmap. Can you imagine the crisis control at Intel after these comments are picked up by the trade press? "Intel Engineer says dont bother with Itanium". Would that help Intel or its marketing of Itanium? Is it his place to voice that publicly(ie warning the public: you're really stupid if you buy Itaniums)?
not only that, but all those mentioned are likley banned or otherwise restricted at some point along the route.
If you continue with the NYT story you see a line (paraphrased) 'he was always careful to make sure these were his personal views'. And therein lies the issue. It is impossible for his personal view be separated from his 'official' view when speaking in public on a topic related to his official capacity. Would you have somebody from the
Dept. of State running around saying "Personally I think ABC about this country" when it is known that the administrations position is XYZ? It is one thing to speak about the details of your research, another entirely to propose policy when you are not in a policy making position.