I think that's only true if you count Hindi and Bengali as the same language.... if you count them as different languages Spanish comes in at #3 and Russian comes in at #6 (pretty much a tie with Portugeuse).
(however there are so many different lists that give the number of people speaking which language and their numbers are so varying that I suspect the only thing you can safely say is "Mandarin is #1")
might be a great basis for a harassment suit:-).... "every time I go to Walmart their security people stop me when I leave... search me in front of my friends.... this is slander of my good name!"
A friend of mine got into a situation a bit like this and was about to sue someone (she just couldn't figure out who).... people kept cutting up her credit cards and bank cards, BART (magnetic train) tickets would also stop working etc etc when she explained this to me at the movies once my immediate question was "did she have any magnets in her purse?"... she pulled out a handfull of refrigerator magnets she'd been carrying around for a while... which was an end to the issue
maybe not... but unless the post office can distinguish between a letter currently being routed from the baked beans in a parcel (kind of implies a manufacturer portion to the number in much the way that MAC addresses are handed out)
On the other hand selling RFID stamps kind of makes sense - they don't get postmarked, just used once, and can be used for routing along the way... urgh - that means that junk mail doesn't even need to print addresses on the outside, just stick a stamp addressed to you.... the downside of course are privacy isues - now the govt has a complete record of everyone who send mail and who they sent it to
actually that sounds like really poor design on someone's behalf - these things are supposed to become ubiquitous - wait 'till McDonalds starts using them for order tracking and the post office for mail tracking/sorting - they'll run out after a few years
Ok - I was being rather tongue in cheek there... but seriously what's to stop me walking through a store with an RFID sniffer and playing havoc with someone's inventory system when I exit?
Could anyone who understands RFID perhaps enlighten us about what sorts of security is built into the system?
if I make my own RFID object that pretends to be other stuff.... maybe lots of other stuff..... ?
"err sir... you appear to be stealing an elephant from our store.... err um please turn out your pockets... wait I was wrong you appear to be carrying the entire housewares department..."
I think my point went right over your head - the public airwaves should be for the public, having them monopolized by a corporation that wont let some people have any access to them is worse than no one having access to them at all - at least from the point of view of encouraging a healthy democracy.
Imagine if you would that Soros funded Air America so that they started started buying up all the local talk radio stations - people would be rightly pissed - just as pissed as if a large conservative corporation buys them all up and stiffles liberal speech - both of these are bad for a healthy democracy. After all the people with the most money don't always have the best ideas whether they are on the left or the right
The real solution is to change the RF licensing to encourage lots of radio stations - all those pirate low power ones, maybe some TV stations too - it will mean better more diverse music, ideas, comedy, satire, religions - all the things that make a healthy diverse spciety
bullshit - if someone wants to stop my speech because of its content that's censorship period. The difference of course (in the US at least) is that the US constitution prohibits the govt from censoring me, but it does not apply not large monopolistic media conglomorates.
Clear Channel is interesting for a couple of reasons, firstly it's starting to hold geographical monopolies in the radio space (ie the public airwaves - that belong to us, that we let them use) in some parts of the country - they are also a large corporate contributer to one of the two parties - it really doesn't matter which one - what is important is that you have an entity that controls a large portion of the public airwaves that takes sides in elections - that is not in the interests of a healthy democratic society
Please read what I wrote carefully - I wasn't suggesting that this was/is generally true today (though there are some cases where this is pretty close true) - instead was I was suggesting was that it creates a legal precendent where car companies can use to freeze out non-authorized service and repair shops (or charge them big bucks for the rights to fix stuff).
this case seems to basicly to be about a password protected maintenance system.... wait 'till the car companies start putting passwords on their engine computers and claiming this as a precedent....
a friend of mine registered 'domain.com' way way back - and set it up so that mail to 'user@domain.com' responded..... many years later at the height of the dotcom boom he gave in to all the people who kept trying to buy it and made a mint (no he wasn't squatting)
well in this case 'royally screwed' actually means 'couldn't pay a back tax bill' - since he was the guy who apparently didn't pay originally his taxes it's maybe more of a self-abuse...
He claims that they called the tax bill due suddenly because of his 'cruise missile' activities.... and there may well be some truth to this (who knows?).... but he got himself into this situation himself by not paying his taxes initially
I expect a reganesque slide into senility while everyone's watching... forgettfullness, falling asleep in meetings, sudden crashes, the bombing starts in 10 minutes etc etc
The problem of course is - how will we tell the difference from the status quo?
I swapped out a dead drive twice on my last laptop (a Dell) - it's not hard at all - for one of the age you have you might need to play with BIOS stuff to get the device geometry correct - but it's certainly worth doing if the rest of the lap top's OK and you're happy with tyhe speed
Progresive is the current slang for Liberal, and seeing as the vast majority of Democrats claim to supprt Liberal or Progresive values... that makes MoveOn.org a champion of democratic causes.
You know that's the sort of specious argument that ignores real people's much more nuanced ideas about politics - it's a bit like saying "Communists are Democrats" or "Hitler was a Republican"
The republican party understands this (even if, from your post, it appears its rank and file doesn't).... otherwise they wouldn't be trying to get Nader on the ballot to split the Democratic vote
I think you're right - and it fits in well with the open source way of doing stuff... certainly credit in your code "this bright idea originally came from XYZ" (insert prior art here)... not only does this reclaim that bright idea from the past for the public domain but it's also gives notice to any M$ lawyer that you've got prior art and they'll have to deal with it should they want to raise a stink
I was talking to some people about the issues in and around patents the other day and someone suggested that an although rather odious and alternate strategy might to be to build a 'gnu patent pool' held in trust purely for defensive reasons - enough patents in enough areas to discourage lawyer's attacks on open source code.... try and sue any of us and we'll counter... the big problem is that patents are expensive and we have no one to bankroll such a pool
I was kind of imagining an automatic system that loads tubes for multiple reuse which would make tethering them difficult (not impossible). I wasn't thinking so much in terms of a clunky 9v battery - you can light some types of electric matches off of capacitors, you certainly don't need 99% of the energy in a common 9v volt battery to get the work done
when he said "will crash the system" he really ment "will crash The System".... ie having the people know more about what the government is doing is inherently bad for having a well run govt. and besides if we find out who's paying off who it might be made to stop
well something has to cost more and I bet there are ongoing costs.... I guess that each shell is either carrying it's own ignition system (accelerometer, timer, battery, igniter) which in bulk is maybe $3-5 per shell or somewhere in the launch chamber there's a device that ignites the shell's fuse (which means it is messy) - either way there are going to be some fraction that go off in the tubes, and some fr4action that don't ignite at all and fall clunk back to earth
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I agree.... frankly I don't see much difference between kids tagging and dogs marking their territory.... on the other hand an artfull reworking of a billboard or a wonderfully subversive slogan where one least expects it is often a wonder to behold....
let me reiterate this point - the propellant we use for sport rocketry (AP/rubber/Al usually) is pretty expensive - lofting any usefull payload is going to mean spending $1000s on propellant alone. And the motor would almost certanly be bespoke so none of the limitations that the BATF is pushing would have any effect
On the other hand the hybrid style used by Rutan last week uses NO2 as an oxidizer - it's MUCH cheaper - we occasionally fly small versions of them, they're a lot more fiddly and need a lot more ground support.... besides the Republicans aren't going to ban nitrous... they'd piss off the NASCAR crowd.....
yup - in fact I'd argue (as a rocketry hobiest and sometimes R/C flier) that R/C planes are much more dangerous than rockets - our rockets have 1 guidance system - fins - it makes them go up well - completely useless for aiming at a target (unless it's straight up above and standing still and there's no wind) - building a large RC plane that can be launched from the ground and then flown by GPS is not that hard - after all that's basicly a cruise missile
well given that there are now reportedly more Linux machines than Macs it can't be any worse than having the Apple Stores (well except for the markup - which is probably either too low or obscenely high depending on your political leanings:-)
Of course there is the difference that lefties don't suddenly change their stripes after getting too many viruses....
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(however there are so many different lists that give the number of people speaking which language and their numbers are so varying that I suspect the only thing you can safely say is "Mandarin is #1")
A friend of mine got into a situation a bit like this and was about to sue someone (she just couldn't figure out who) .... people kept cutting up her credit cards and bank cards, BART (magnetic train) tickets would also stop working etc etc when she explained this to me at the movies once my immediate question was "did she have any magnets in her purse?" ... she pulled out a handfull of refrigerator magnets she'd been carrying around for a while ... which was an end to the issue
On the other hand selling RFID stamps kind of makes sense - they don't get postmarked, just used once, and can be used for routing along the way ... urgh - that means that junk mail doesn't even need to print addresses on the outside, just stick a stamp addressed to you .... the downside of course are privacy isues - now the govt has a complete record of everyone who send mail and who they sent it to
actually that sounds like really poor design on someone's behalf - these things are supposed to become ubiquitous - wait 'till McDonalds starts using them for order tracking and the post office for mail tracking/sorting - they'll run out after a few years
Could anyone who understands RFID perhaps enlighten us about what sorts of security is built into the system?
"err sir ... you appear to be stealing an elephant from our store .... err um please turn out your pockets ... wait I was wrong you appear to be carrying the entire housewares department ..."
Imagine if you would that Soros funded Air America so that they started started buying up all the local talk radio stations - people would be rightly pissed - just as pissed as if a large conservative corporation buys them all up and stiffles liberal speech - both of these are bad for a healthy democracy. After all the people with the most money don't always have the best ideas whether they are on the left or the right
The real solution is to change the RF licensing to encourage lots of radio stations - all those pirate low power ones, maybe some TV stations too - it will mean better more diverse music, ideas, comedy, satire, religions - all the things that make a healthy diverse spciety
Clear Channel is interesting for a couple of reasons, firstly it's starting to hold geographical monopolies in the radio space (ie the public airwaves - that belong to us, that we let them use) in some parts of the country - they are also a large corporate contributer to one of the two parties - it really doesn't matter which one - what is important is that you have an entity that controls a large portion of the public airwaves that takes sides in elections - that is not in the interests of a healthy democratic society
Please read what I wrote carefully - I wasn't suggesting that this was/is generally true today (though there are some cases where this is pretty close true) - instead was I was suggesting was that it creates a legal precendent where car companies can use to freeze out non-authorized service and repair shops (or charge them big bucks for the rights to fix stuff).
this case seems to basicly to be about a password protected maintenance system .... wait 'till the car companies start putting passwords on their engine computers and claiming this as a precedent ....
a friend of mine registered 'domain.com' way way back - and set it up so that mail to 'user@domain.com' responded ..... many years later at the height of the dotcom boom he gave in to all the people who kept trying to buy it and made a mint (no he wasn't squatting)
He claims that they called the tax bill due suddenly because of his 'cruise missile' activities .... and there may well be some truth to this (who knows?) .... but he got himself into this situation himself by not paying his taxes initially
The problem of course is - how will we tell the difference from the status quo?
On first read it seemed to say that larger LUGs cause premature aging ......
I swapped out a dead drive twice on my last laptop (a Dell) - it's not hard at all - for one of the age you have you might need to play with BIOS stuff to get the device geometry correct - but it's certainly worth doing if the rest of the lap top's OK and you're happy with tyhe speed
You know that's the sort of specious argument that ignores real people's much more nuanced ideas about politics - it's a bit like saying "Communists are Democrats" or "Hitler was a Republican"
The republican party understands this (even if, from your post, it appears its rank and file doesn't) .... otherwise they wouldn't be trying to get Nader on the ballot to split the Democratic vote
I was talking to some people about the issues in and around patents the other day and someone suggested that an although rather odious and alternate strategy might to be to build a 'gnu patent pool' held in trust purely for defensive reasons - enough patents in enough areas to discourage lawyer's attacks on open source code .... try and sue any of us and we'll counter ... the big problem is that patents are expensive and we have no one to bankroll such a pool
I was kind of imagining an automatic system that loads tubes for multiple reuse which would make tethering them difficult (not impossible). I wasn't thinking so much in terms of a clunky 9v battery - you can light some types of electric matches off of capacitors, you certainly don't need 99% of the energy in a common 9v volt battery to get the work done
when he said "will crash the system" he really ment "will crash The System" .... ie having the people know more about what the government is doing is inherently bad for having a well run govt. and besides if we find out who's paying off who it might be made to stop
well something has to cost more and I bet there are ongoing costs .... I guess that each shell is either carrying it's own ignition system (accelerometer, timer, battery, igniter) which in bulk is maybe $3-5 per shell or somewhere in the launch chamber there's a device that ignites the shell's fuse (which means it is messy) - either way there are going to be some fraction that go off in the tubes, and some fr4action that don't ignite at all and fall clunk back to earth
I agree .... frankly I don't see much difference between kids tagging and dogs marking their territory .... on the other hand an artfull reworking of a billboard or a wonderfully subversive slogan where one least expects it is often a wonder to behold ....
On the other hand the hybrid style used by Rutan last week uses NO2 as an oxidizer - it's MUCH cheaper - we occasionally fly small versions of them, they're a lot more fiddly and need a lot more ground support .... besides the Republicans aren't going to ban nitrous ... they'd piss off the NASCAR crowd .....
yup - in fact I'd argue (as a rocketry hobiest and sometimes R/C flier) that R/C planes are much more dangerous than rockets - our rockets have 1 guidance system - fins - it makes them go up well - completely useless for aiming at a target (unless it's straight up above and standing still and there's no wind) - building a large RC plane that can be launched from the ground and then flown by GPS is not that hard - after all that's basicly a cruise missile
Of course there is the difference that lefties don't suddenly change their stripes after getting too many viruses ....
a microsoft settop .... probably full of DRM and other goodies ..... and locks you in to MSN/XBox/etc etc