I'm not a purist - personally, I eat all kinds of unhealthy crap. I'm just pointing out that, diet-wise, it isn't necessarily restrictive to avoid stuff prepared in a certain way - whether that's avoiding food prepared using chemicals, avoiding food prepared organically - even avoiding food prepared by dancing Mexicans wearing pink sombreros if, for some reason, that's important to you.
You restrict your diet by avoiding certain food groups, not certain methods of food production.
Might not be a bad idea to cover the roof in solar panels feeding a big battery bank. Then at least when the next "natural" disaster comes you might keep your uptime. And hey, it'll reduce the utility bills too!
You've got a pretty weird definition of "restrictive diet". You can get pretty much any kind of food organically these days. Furthermore he specifically mentioned having sugar in tea (and didn't mention avoiding it anywhere else) so I don't see on what you base your claim that he's avoiding refined sugars. He's avoiding synthetic sweeteners and stuff produced with chemicals, but even sticking rigorously to an organic diet is very far from a "restrictive diet". Nowhere does he say he avoids meat; nowhere does he say he's on a low carb diet, low fat diet; he isn't fruitarian or purely carnivorous. All of those would count as "restrictive diets", but choosing to avoid chemicals that nobody would ever have had in their diet more than 100 years ago is not. And if you have to build up your tolerance to these chemicals (which is what you're describing), well perhaps that should tell you something about the chemicals, not the guy's diet.
Bloody hell! It really isn't difficult. If you want to lose weight, eat less. The choice shouldn't be between a high fat / low carb diet or a high carb / low fat diet, but between overeating or eating the right amount. The word "diet" shouldn't even be necessary were it not for the fact that we are constantly in the crossfire of a propaganda war between the junk foodists and the diet peddlers. Those advocating the sensible middle ground, of eating as much as you need and listening to what your body craves, tend to have little funding for advertising and are consequently given a damn good ignoring.
Bugger that. Charge $10 but levy a $50,000,000 deposit against security breaches. Or, if that's discouraging to smaller financial institutions, a deposit of 33% of net profits during the year of the breach.
That would provide the consumer with real confidence in the.bank TLD (the banks would have a great incentive not to be hacked!)
You'd still have to protect against MITM attacks etc. - surely banks should be pushing for rapid adoption of IPv6, with end-to-end encrypted connections...
While I'm sure FOSS developers won't turn down an unexpected paycheck from Sun, in most cases I doubt it would make a difference. The itch would still be there...
I luxuriate in having the BBC here, ad-free and lovely. For (some) other channels, I'd be happy to pay for ad-free viewing - however, skepticism tells me that even if the channels were to get their current levels of revenue from a subscription (preferable) or pay per view (hateful) model they would still show adverts, and pocket the increased revenue. I don't mind ITV - it's purely funded by adverts and I can watch it for free - but Sky really bugs me: I have to subscribe to it, and they still show me adverts. Talk about being charged twice!
Not Ocean's Thirteen!! I'm utterly distraught that I'll (would, if I lived in Canada) be denied the dubious pleasure of sitting through Ocean's 13. I had it all lined up as the life-changing experience of a lifetime.
Come to think of it, at the moment of all the films released each year the difficulty facing the Oscar awards panel isn't so much picking the best from a glowing throng of movies as picking the one that stinks the least. (Which makes it even more extraordinary that they always get it wrong...)
Bollocks. The passing of such documents as legit ID is probably outlawed, but (unless I've very much misread your first amendment) the production of them (obviously, for educational purposes only;-)) is entirely legit and if you produce a new one you own the copyright. To claim that you can't own the copyright because it's based on a template is to deny copyright to an awful lot of people who use Microsoft Office templates....
I don't see why there's all this fuss about encryption of the disks themselves. They may as well give away the movies - don't they know it's all about the moichandising!:-D
Compared with the dollar it might not be, but the dollar hasn't exactly been excelling itself recently either. A couple of years ago 1 GBP was worth about 1.40 USD; now it's within spitting distance of $2.
Agreed. Whoever is in charge of the national curriculum and exam syllabuses here in the UK should read Feynman on education. The recent history of education here is almost exactly parallelled in his writings about the Brazilian university education system in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman. Learning facts without getting a deeper understanding. It's sad, and it's the main factor in my quitting the teaching profession.
Uhh... why not just have a little magnetic bottle on a 30km long tether? Much cheaper and easier. Kind of like an aerospike, but for charged particles not air.
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Not forgetting the things that were developed specifically for / by ubuntu and are now available to the wider linux community (eg upstart). That's the great thing about linux though, there's room for user friendly distributions like [k|x]ubuntu as well as distributions aimed at people who are allergic to sunlight, like gentoo. (I've used both distributions, liked both very much, and have stuck with one. No, I'm not saying which...)
I still don't see how AACS prevents copying. Surely the pirates' work flow would be approximately:
1. dd if=/dev/sr0 of=PansLabyrinth.bin 2. Burn the image back onto a blank medium 3.... 4. Profit!
No need to go decrypting the content at any stage - if their customer's HDDVD player can unscramble the original it can unscramble the cloned copy. AACS is just another tool to maintain regional control.
To some extent that's exactly what it is. For the earliest rough cuts Lucas used footage of WW2 dogfights to fill in the gaps where he hadn't got the space battle material yet. I love Star Wars (though, as others have pointed out, Episodes 1 and 2 sour the memory somewhat) but it's a strange film. On one hand you have (for the time) utterly revolutionary effects and a visually amazing film. On the other hand, you have some terrible dialogue, patchy acting and an utterly unoriginal storyline.
But aren't they already struggling? I remember power blackouts in California not so long ago; that makes it seem to me that however much power the US generates, it uses nearly all of it (ie it's near capacity). So it's a huge amount of extra power that's needed and I still say "get building!"
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Fine. So one signature to crack, then do as the parent suggested. There's probably a beowulf cluster working on it already... ;-)
To finish your list:
1. Goatse
2. Natalie Portman
3. SCO
4. Soviet Russia
5. Meept!
6. Beowulf-clustered overlords (I for one welcome them...)
7. CowboyNeal!
To find prior art...
I'm not a purist - personally, I eat all kinds of unhealthy crap. I'm just pointing out that, diet-wise, it isn't necessarily restrictive to avoid stuff prepared in a certain way - whether that's avoiding food prepared using chemicals, avoiding food prepared organically - even avoiding food prepared by dancing Mexicans wearing pink sombreros if, for some reason, that's important to you.
You restrict your diet by avoiding certain food groups, not certain methods of food production.
Might not be a bad idea to cover the roof in solar panels feeding a big battery bank. Then at least when the next "natural" disaster comes you might keep your uptime. And hey, it'll reduce the utility bills too!
Me? I'd move to Canada...
Share your music => give away your email address => drown in spam. Even the RIAA weren't so vindictive... (I jest, but only just!)
You've got a pretty weird definition of "restrictive diet". You can get pretty much any kind of food organically these days. Furthermore he specifically mentioned having sugar in tea (and didn't mention avoiding it anywhere else) so I don't see on what you base your claim that he's avoiding refined sugars. He's avoiding synthetic sweeteners and stuff produced with chemicals, but even sticking rigorously to an organic diet is very far from a "restrictive diet". Nowhere does he say he avoids meat; nowhere does he say he's on a low carb diet, low fat diet; he isn't fruitarian or purely carnivorous. All of those would count as "restrictive diets", but choosing to avoid chemicals that nobody would ever have had in their diet more than 100 years ago is not. And if you have to build up your tolerance to these chemicals (which is what you're describing), well perhaps that should tell you something about the chemicals, not the guy's diet.
Bloody hell! It really isn't difficult. If you want to lose weight, eat less. The choice shouldn't be between a high fat / low carb diet or a high carb / low fat diet, but between overeating or eating the right amount. The word "diet" shouldn't even be necessary were it not for the fact that we are constantly in the crossfire of a propaganda war between the junk foodists and the diet peddlers. Those advocating the sensible middle ground, of eating as much as you need and listening to what your body craves, tend to have little funding for advertising and are consequently given a damn good ignoring.
Bugger that. Charge $10 but levy a $50,000,000 deposit against security breaches. Or, if that's discouraging to smaller financial institutions, a deposit of 33% of net profits during the year of the breach.
.bank TLD (the banks would have a great incentive not to be hacked!)
That would provide the consumer with real confidence in the
You'd still have to protect against MITM attacks etc. - surely banks should be pushing for rapid adoption of IPv6, with end-to-end encrypted connections...
While I'm sure FOSS developers won't turn down an unexpected paycheck from Sun, in most cases I doubt it would make a difference. The itch would still be there...
I luxuriate in having the BBC here, ad-free and lovely. For (some) other channels, I'd be happy to pay for ad-free viewing - however, skepticism tells me that even if the channels were to get their current levels of revenue from a subscription (preferable) or pay per view (hateful) model they would still show adverts, and pocket the increased revenue. I don't mind ITV - it's purely funded by adverts and I can watch it for free - but Sky really bugs me: I have to subscribe to it, and they still show me adverts. Talk about being charged twice!
Not Ocean's Thirteen!! I'm utterly distraught that I'll (would, if I lived in Canada) be denied the dubious pleasure of sitting through Ocean's 13. I had it all lined up as the life-changing experience of a lifetime.
Come to think of it, at the moment of all the films released each year the difficulty facing the Oscar awards panel isn't so much picking the best from a glowing throng of movies as picking the one that stinks the least. (Which makes it even more extraordinary that they always get it wrong...)
Bollocks. The passing of such documents as legit ID is probably outlawed, but (unless I've very much misread your first amendment) the production of them (obviously, for educational purposes only ;-)) is entirely legit and if you produce a new one you own the copyright. To claim that you can't own the copyright because it's based on a template is to deny copyright to an awful lot of people who use Microsoft Office templates....
I don't see why there's all this fuss about encryption of the disks themselves. They may as well give away the movies - don't they know it's all about the moichandising! :-D
Compared with the dollar it might not be, but the dollar hasn't exactly been excelling itself recently either. A couple of years ago 1 GBP was worth about 1.40 USD; now it's within spitting distance of $2.
Mommy, can I dance on that man's grave? Can I? Can I? Pweeease!
Agreed. Whoever is in charge of the national curriculum and exam syllabuses here in the UK should read Feynman on education. The recent history of education here is almost exactly parallelled in his writings about the Brazilian university education system in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman. Learning facts without getting a deeper understanding. It's sad, and it's the main factor in my quitting the teaching profession.
Uhh... why not just have a little magnetic bottle on a 30km long tether? Much cheaper and easier. Kind of like an aerospike, but for charged particles not air.
Not forgetting the things that were developed specifically for / by ubuntu and are now available to the wider linux community (eg upstart).
That's the great thing about linux though, there's room for user friendly distributions like [k|x]ubuntu as well as distributions aimed at people who are allergic to sunlight, like gentoo. (I've used both distributions, liked both very much, and have stuck with one. No, I'm not saying which...)
I still don't see how AACS prevents copying. Surely the pirates' work flow would be approximately:
...
1. dd if=/dev/sr0 of=PansLabyrinth.bin
2. Burn the image back onto a blank medium
3.
4. Profit!
No need to go decrypting the content at any stage - if their customer's HDDVD player can unscramble the original it can unscramble the cloned copy. AACS is just another tool to maintain regional control.
Any time now the Vogon fleet will be along to build an interstellar bypass right through Utah...
To some extent that's exactly what it is. For the earliest rough cuts Lucas used footage of WW2 dogfights to fill in the gaps where he hadn't got the space battle material yet. I love Star Wars (though, as others have pointed out, Episodes 1 and 2 sour the memory somewhat) but it's a strange film. On one hand you have (for the time) utterly revolutionary effects and a visually amazing film. On the other hand, you have some terrible dialogue, patchy acting and an utterly unoriginal storyline.
But aren't they already struggling? I remember power blackouts in California not so long ago; that makes it seem to me that however much power the US generates, it uses nearly all of it (ie it's near capacity). So it's a huge amount of extra power that's needed and I still say "get building!"
So presumably instead of selling outrageously expensive ink cartridges, this "special paper" will be outrageously expensive instead....