Oh, Hollywood moguls? Who exactly and what amount because its didn't come close to what the GOP and especially the Chamber of Commerce spent which I believe was at least $40 million. The links I provided in my other reply show 7 to 1 in September and 4 to 1 in Senate TOTAL and 2:1 in house TOTAL.
Foreign influences? Yeah, thats the GOP, not the Dems. The Chamber of Commerce has foreign members and because there is no more reporting laws thanks to the CU ruling, we'll never know.
In the California Governor race Meg Whitman spent 142 million dollars!! Brown spent 25 million. 142 million for a governor seat? Unheard of. Luckily for California, Brown won. I guess you can't buy every election.
Linda McMahon spent over $46 million of her family's fortune in an unsuccessful effort to replace retiring Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd.
Feingold's loss in Wisconsin? Johnson, ignoring all the help from the PACs, spent $8 million of his own personal fortune. Feingold spent 1/4 that.
Then the totals for ALL races in House it was 2:1 and total for ALL senate races 4:1 - So yes A HUGE SPENDING SPREE BY GOP PACS. Just not 7-1 outside of September:
In all House races, Republican-leaning outside groups spent $38 million on television, compared with $13 million by Democratic-oriented groups. But Democratic candidates outspent Republican ones, $97 million to $49 million. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also outspent the national Republican Congressional Committee, $30 million to $26 million.
In the Senate, television spending by the candidates has been roughly equal, with both sides spending more than $80 million, while Republican-leaning third-party groups have swamped their Democratic counterparts, $58 million to $21 million. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has outspent its Republican counterpart, but the difference comes nowhere close to eliminating the gap among independent groups.
Toss in the Citizens United ruling that removed most campaign finance reforms and how the GOP outspent the Dems 7 to 1, and, well, you'll figure out where and who paid for all those negative ads. Unfortunately, most swing voters get their politics from attack ads from TV and nowhere else. Idiocracy is real for them, but with reforms we could at least keep the worst off TV, now with the CU ruling anything goes.
I think your comment is the accepted convention wisdom, which will get play in every office and news outlet in America, but its pretty wrong.
First off, the appeal to the wisdom of crowds is faulty. If this was just a warning to Democrats then why was someone like Russ Feingold, a well-loved non-partisan who has been fighting the good fight for Wisconsin for a long time, ousted by a high-school drop-out who married into money and had no platform other than "Lets fix things with Tea Party principles." No plan to cut entitlement programs, no plan to cut military, and really no concrete plan at all. He's the epitome of the empty suit millionaire who will vote in anything to help his other millionaire friends.
The message you won't be hearing is about the Citizens United ruling which led to unrestrained campaign spending this year. The Dems were outspent 7 to 1. That's right, 7 to 1. This election was shamelessly bought. Oh, and Feingold was a big supporter of campaign finance reform which the CU ruling nullified and suddenly he's gone. Seems to me that he's gone because Wall Street wanted him gone. The negative ads that ran in Wisconsin were of a scale never seen before by groups like "Moms for American Business" and other groups that never have to reveal who they are or where their money comes from. Funny that.
Yes, jobs and economies are important, but Americans also know that when Obama took office the jobs we were losing were around 800k a month. Now we are gaining at least 60k in jobs a month. Americans know that Bush and his cronies brought us to this level, but they voted in R and Tea Party regardless - because they get their views and opinions from TV commercials and media outlets legitimizing the Tea Party. Suddenly they were told that economy isn't good for them, and death panels are coming, and Obama isn't a citizen, and Reid/Pelosi are liberals and fat cat Wall Street gangsters who want to give your home to a random Mexican family, etc.
In short, this was the first election with unrestricted spending in a long time - the results - corporatists with no concrete positions who are selling out their constituents as we speak. Turns out campaign finance reforms are important. The conservative majority in SCOTUS gave the GOP this election with its CU ruling. Any other analysis really takes backseat to how the CU ruling sold out this election.
Err, Java VMs from Sun have had several long periods of zero-days. Its not secure software. Forcing it on end users is a liability and poor practice.
>They are suing Google for infringing on their patent.
Err, yeah that suddenly makes it better? Oracle is being overly litigious. Its no coincidence that Apple gave up on its own VM short after this lawsuit. Not to mention if this patent was valid, which I doubt, why didn't Sun sue? That's right because Sun was a responsible company.
I see FUD here and its from you. Face it, Oracle killed Java, everyone is scared of being sued by them and their VMs are total shit software that are responsible for over 50% of browser based malware from analysis of various "crimepack" malware stats.
Yeah, that would be nice. Its not just the admin stuff, its that Java VMs are notorious security risks. I think asking someone to install one is unacceptable nowadays. Write natively or
Rewrite the wizards. Don't push Java. Ideally, Java should be a server-side technology and not yet another exploitable hole for end user's browsers. Both Sun and Oracle seem unable to secure it and now are suing anyone with their own implementation. As a compromise I'd love to see Java install without web browser plugins by default.
I saw it and about halfway through I took off my glasses for a moment and was blown away at how bright and vibrant the colors were without the 3D glasses. The rest of the movie felt like I was watching through this dark lens that completely hurt the aesthetic quality of the movie. Since then I've been avoiding 3D movies. They're just too dark and that tradeoff isn't worth it.
I'll consider 3D great when it doesn't dim the movie by 50%. Its really incredible how this technology has gone mainstream when it has so many issues. I absolutely can't stand watching a dim movie. All the vibrant colors are suddenly gone, everything looks muddled, and for what? For some hokey 3D effect? I feel sorry for the guys doing the color work. Their contributions are more or less tossed out the window for the sake of 3D.
I also don't like that if I'm seeing an imax showing then i must sit in the middle or else suffer through multiple ghosting issues.
I think the tech is appropriate for children's movies or nature documentaries, but not for general releases.
Naww, I think the translation is "Sure, you can use HTML5 for videos of your cat and basic apps, but if you're a commercial video publisher you'll love our built-in DRM, robust playback controls, dynamic quality change based on bandwidth/congestion, etc and other features. HTML5 isnt a threat because we're more focused on Hulu and Netflix, not your grandma's blog about baking." Adobe has the same attitude along with "oh btw, here's a script that provides fallback to Flash if your browser doesnt support 5 or whichever codec it wants to use."
These companies are generating good PR by playing up HTML5 while they are working on their own monopolizing strategies (itunes lockin, app stores, DRM support, etc). In fact HTML5 makes a lot of these companies happy because when pressed by regulators or by critics they can say "Oh course there's competition in this market. Look at HTML5! We're hardly monopolizing." Which is what MS says about linux, open office, chrome, etc.
That was a reference to religious warfare that is crippling the mideast and Africa, as well as a commentary on terrorism justified with religion. Not to mention how often pro-war jingoism is also tied up in religion.
Good point, but sign language would be unambiguous as we'd see letters, words, meaning, etc. What we have here is highly ambiguous. Its a hand in a certain position. Occam's razor suggests this is just a person holding a showl funny.
If this video showed a keypad, dialing, etc then it would be comparable to your example, but it doesn't. Its just an artifact that looks kinda sorta like something we use nowadays the same way Christians find Jesus images on potato chips or how a water stain on a bridge near my home is considered a miracle. Its just meaningless simulacrum.
The problem with this and most claims of the paranormal is that people just don't understand how common coincidences are. The woman in that film is just holding her hand coincidentally like the modern cellphone.
What's funny is that this was never noticed before because cell phones never looked like that until fairly recently. If it was 1983 then that wouldn't look like a phone at all, it would look like a woman holding her scarf funny because cell phones were twice to three times the size with big honking antennas. Or if it was 2030 it wouldn't look like a phone at all, we'd probably just have them implanted into our bodies.
This is an old sci-fi trope which I like to call the "unsophisticated sophisticate." A time traveler would of course know not to use a piece of technology like that in public or even possess it, but audiences like the idea of "Aha! I caught the time traveler because I'm smart and the traveler is dumb or careless!" We see this also when aliens step out of their spaceships and die from the common cold or future archeologists can't fathom what a 'car' is or when aliens land and don't know what love is, etc. In other words, conspiracy theories not only exploit of ignorance but more so our vanity. It makes us feel good to "know whats really going on" or feel superior to threatening things. Unfortunately, humans seem drawn to feel good bullshit and sometimes go to war about said bullshit.
And what phone will you get exactly? Apple is a much larger patent abuser than MS. HTC and the rest also engage in this level of abuse. The abuse is industry wide. I'm just not seeing MS as particularly evil here. Heck, Apple just shutdown a company making magsafe compatible chargers. How could that possibly be a threat to them? But they do have a patent on "magnet on power cord" and enforce it.
The real issue is why does MS get a write-up on Slashdot and Apple and the rest don't? How much is Google and the rest paying for rights to do multi-touch on mobile because of Apple's very flimsy patent? How many lawsuits does Apple have currently going on against all the major players in the industry? Lots.
The entire patent system needs an overhaul. Blaming MS isn't helping. If anything they're patent arsenal is used more for defense than offense compared to most companies. Of course, there will be no reform. Politics in the US has taken a turn for the pro-business hard right. Any reform will be seen as "socialist" or somesuch. Unless MS, Apple, and Google come out publically against patents and start buying legislation to reform them, then it'll never happen. Ah, life in a plutocracy!
The difference here is that gmail and facebook are two very different applications. Facebook relies on a lot of client-side caching (html pages, photos, graphics, flash objects, etc) while gmail is mostly dynamic and does a lot of heavy lifting on the client side. With SSL enabled the clients won't cache anything and mixing http and https objects throws a security error on one or more of the major browsers. I'm sure Facebook can force SSL but end users won't like the diminished performance and if Facebook mixes items then end users will complain or freak out when their browser warns them about it.
I think the browser makers need to address this. I don't see why we shouldn't cache SSL items. They can simply be cached in an encrypted volume using the SSL key. That's probably less of a performance hit than going back on the network and re-requesting all those objects.
>Seriously, who is going to launch a nuclear weapon anyway? It's like committing suicide.
Ignoring WWII, lets look at the cold war. During the Cuban Missile Crisis the Politburo and high-level party members were clamoring for war with the US to the point where Khrushchev made loud patriotic pro-war statements in public to appease them and privately with the US was doing his best to avoid a nuclear war. Turns out a group mentality can culminate into in irrational act like nuclear war. Not to mention the US was considering a pre-emtive strike early during the cold war with the assumption that it could wipe out the USSR but only lose half its own cities.
Consider smaller modern powers like Iran, Pakistan, or North Korea. If felt like their regime was going to collapse and their leaders killed or sent to the Hague, why not launch for revenge? Its not like dictators or theocrats are known to be especially rational or compassionate. Most likely we'll see nuclear war in the mideast sooner than later. I'd be willing to bet within 20 years.
So the local telco monopoly is somehow better than the local cable monpoly? Err, seriously? I have dozens of AT&T horror stories and only a couple Comcast ones. Just getting AT&T installed anywhere is this Kafkaesque experience of dealing with multiple departments, multiple liars, multiple lazy no shows, etc who when instructed basic things "This is a new condo, thus you'll need to do more than just terminate at the demarc outside" they just pass the work onto other departments who just pass it back while you're taking off work waiting for them to do anything. With Comcast you deal with a much smaller bureaucracy.
I'm not even going to go into how Comcast business services sells me a 40mbps line for $99 and when I call support I get an American who either knows his shit or will connect me to someone who does without protest. Last time I called about the local telco, I got passed around to something like 4 or 5 departments before anyone even knew what a PTR record was. My first call to Comcast about PTR changes? "Sure, I can do that for you."
I'm not sure why there's this default love of the local telco, but its a bunch of shit. In many markets Comcast is the superior product, and by a long shot.
What do we know about the historical Jesus? Most likely a homosexual rabbi who associated with prostitutes and who went against the power structures of his time - various religious sects and the state. I wouldn't call a outspoken heathen who attacks people in temples in fits of rage a saint. The religious whitewashing of his life, is of course saintly, but that's a teleological argument: Jesus was saintly because he was Jesus. The historical Jesus was quite the attention seeking rabble-rouser. He's more Louis Farrakan than Mother Theresa.
To be fair, they're using MS's protected mode which IE uses and from what I've gathered there haven't been any exploits that break through it. Please note add-ons do not run in protected mode, so if something is targeting your Java or Adobe Reader then those run normally.
Right now Java and Adobe Reader/Pro/Standard are the two most exploited apps according to Brian Krebs. Shifting to X should help end users keep their systems safe.
In fact, we recently counted how many parts the two cars shared and the total number was under 7% by parts count. If you were to analyze it by parts value, the number would be even smaller.
So you could say that the Tesla is similar to a Lotus Elise, except it has a totally different drivetrain , body panels, aluminum tub, rear sub-frame, brakes, ABS system, HVAC and rear suspension. The Tesla also neglects to carry over the gas tank, emissions equipment and exhaust. If you were to try to convert an Elise to a Tesla and started throwing away parts that aren't carried over what you would basically be left with a windshield, dashboard (complete with airbags!), front wishbones and a removable soft top.
For comparison, Lamborghini cars share upwards of ten percent of their parts content with Audi cars. I can only guess what the number is between Ford cars and their high end Aston Martin and Jaguar brands.
>There are plenty of good opportunities for conspiracy theorists on this one...
Because 10 year old engineering and electric car tech is just too old to shoehorn into a new model? Or that its market suicide if they go with 10 year old tech? Or that its cheaper/better to have Tesla do the work? No need for conspiracy here.
>"had the bomb contained a black hole or killer vampire ghost" and be about as scary.
The site that wrote this article is io9.com, which has weekly pieces on proof of UFOs or how the Bigfoot film is proof of Sasquatch. There's nothing sadder than a sci-fi fan who can't tell reality from fiction.
>It wasn't a case of one lone guy staving off a nuclear strike while his superiors yelled for launch (as happened in the Soviet Union).
There's not much collaboration on that story btw, and just like the cases in the US its most likely that he had a level or two above him to actually make the decision. Not to mention the incentive this guy has on selling himself as the future of humanity. Unfortunately, memes travel because theyre dramatic, not honest.
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Forgot link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/us/politics/02donate.html
Oh, Hollywood moguls? Who exactly and what amount because its didn't come close to what the GOP and especially the Chamber of Commerce spent which I believe was at least $40 million. The links I provided in my other reply show 7 to 1 in September and 4 to 1 in Senate TOTAL and 2:1 in house TOTAL.
Foreign influences? Yeah, thats the GOP, not the Dems. The Chamber of Commerce has foreign members and because there is no more reporting laws thanks to the CU ruling, we'll never know.
In the California Governor race Meg Whitman spent 142 million dollars!! Brown spent 25 million. 142 million for a governor seat? Unheard of. Luckily for California, Brown won. I guess you can't buy every election.
Linda McMahon spent over $46 million of her family's fortune in an unsuccessful effort to replace retiring Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd.
Feingold's loss in Wisconsin? Johnson, ignoring all the help from the PACs, spent $8 million of his own personal fortune. Feingold spent 1/4 that.
7 to 1 in September, then later in the year it almost evened up to 40% spent was for democrats.
Then the totals for ALL races in House it was 2:1 and total for ALL senate races 4:1 - So yes A HUGE SPENDING SPREE BY GOP PACS. Just not 7-1 outside of September:
Toss in the Citizens United ruling that removed most campaign finance reforms and how the GOP outspent the Dems 7 to 1, and, well, you'll figure out where and who paid for all those negative ads. Unfortunately, most swing voters get their politics from attack ads from TV and nowhere else. Idiocracy is real for them, but with reforms we could at least keep the worst off TV, now with the CU ruling anything goes.
I think your comment is the accepted convention wisdom, which will get play in every office and news outlet in America, but its pretty wrong.
First off, the appeal to the wisdom of crowds is faulty. If this was just a warning to Democrats then why was someone like Russ Feingold, a well-loved non-partisan who has been fighting the good fight for Wisconsin for a long time, ousted by a high-school drop-out who married into money and had no platform other than "Lets fix things with Tea Party principles." No plan to cut entitlement programs, no plan to cut military, and really no concrete plan at all. He's the epitome of the empty suit millionaire who will vote in anything to help his other millionaire friends.
The message you won't be hearing is about the Citizens United ruling which led to unrestrained campaign spending this year. The Dems were outspent 7 to 1. That's right, 7 to 1. This election was shamelessly bought. Oh, and Feingold was a big supporter of campaign finance reform which the CU ruling nullified and suddenly he's gone. Seems to me that he's gone because Wall Street wanted him gone. The negative ads that ran in Wisconsin were of a scale never seen before by groups like "Moms for American Business" and other groups that never have to reveal who they are or where their money comes from. Funny that.
Yes, jobs and economies are important, but Americans also know that when Obama took office the jobs we were losing were around 800k a month. Now we are gaining at least 60k in jobs a month. Americans know that Bush and his cronies brought us to this level, but they voted in R and Tea Party regardless - because they get their views and opinions from TV commercials and media outlets legitimizing the Tea Party. Suddenly they were told that economy isn't good for them, and death panels are coming, and Obama isn't a citizen, and Reid/Pelosi are liberals and fat cat Wall Street gangsters who want to give your home to a random Mexican family, etc.
In short, this was the first election with unrestricted spending in a long time - the results - corporatists with no concrete positions who are selling out their constituents as we speak. Turns out campaign finance reforms are important. The conservative majority in SCOTUS gave the GOP this election with its CU ruling. Any other analysis really takes backseat to how the CU ruling sold out this election.
I fight fud with facts:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/10/java-a-gift-to-exploit-pack-makers/
Java is a risk and isn't worth installing let alone running as a plugin on a browser.
Err, Java VMs from Sun have had several long periods of zero-days. Its not secure software. Forcing it on end users is a liability and poor practice.
>They are suing Google for infringing on their patent.
Err, yeah that suddenly makes it better? Oracle is being overly litigious. Its no coincidence that Apple gave up on its own VM short after this lawsuit. Not to mention if this patent was valid, which I doubt, why didn't Sun sue? That's right because Sun was a responsible company.
I see FUD here and its from you. Face it, Oracle killed Java, everyone is scared of being sued by them and their VMs are total shit software that are responsible for over 50% of browser based malware from analysis of various "crimepack" malware stats.
Yeah, that would be nice. Its not just the admin stuff, its that Java VMs are notorious security risks. I think asking someone to install one is unacceptable nowadays. Write natively or
Rewrite the wizards. Don't push Java. Ideally, Java should be a server-side technology and not yet another exploitable hole for end user's browsers. Both Sun and Oracle seem unable to secure it and now are suing anyone with their own implementation. As a compromise I'd love to see Java install without web browser plugins by default.
Naww, EU regulators just have more teeth and US "regulators." The 'anything goes' version of American capitalism is sub-optimal.
I saw it and about halfway through I took off my glasses for a moment and was blown away at how bright and vibrant the colors were without the 3D glasses. The rest of the movie felt like I was watching through this dark lens that completely hurt the aesthetic quality of the movie. Since then I've been avoiding 3D movies. They're just too dark and that tradeoff isn't worth it.
I'll consider 3D great when it doesn't dim the movie by 50%. Its really incredible how this technology has gone mainstream when it has so many issues. I absolutely can't stand watching a dim movie. All the vibrant colors are suddenly gone, everything looks muddled, and for what? For some hokey 3D effect? I feel sorry for the guys doing the color work. Their contributions are more or less tossed out the window for the sake of 3D.
I also don't like that if I'm seeing an imax showing then i must sit in the middle or else suffer through multiple ghosting issues.
I think the tech is appropriate for children's movies or nature documentaries, but not for general releases.
Naww, I think the translation is "Sure, you can use HTML5 for videos of your cat and basic apps, but if you're a commercial video publisher you'll love our built-in DRM, robust playback controls, dynamic quality change based on bandwidth/congestion, etc and other features. HTML5 isnt a threat because we're more focused on Hulu and Netflix, not your grandma's blog about baking." Adobe has the same attitude along with "oh btw, here's a script that provides fallback to Flash if your browser doesnt support 5 or whichever codec it wants to use."
These companies are generating good PR by playing up HTML5 while they are working on their own monopolizing strategies (itunes lockin, app stores, DRM support, etc). In fact HTML5 makes a lot of these companies happy because when pressed by regulators or by critics they can say "Oh course there's competition in this market. Look at HTML5! We're hardly monopolizing." Which is what MS says about linux, open office, chrome, etc.
That was a reference to religious warfare that is crippling the mideast and Africa, as well as a commentary on terrorism justified with religion. Not to mention how often pro-war jingoism is also tied up in religion.
Good point, but sign language would be unambiguous as we'd see letters, words, meaning, etc. What we have here is highly ambiguous. Its a hand in a certain position. Occam's razor suggests this is just a person holding a showl funny.
If this video showed a keypad, dialing, etc then it would be comparable to your example, but it doesn't. Its just an artifact that looks kinda sorta like something we use nowadays the same way Christians find Jesus images on potato chips or how a water stain on a bridge near my home is considered a miracle. Its just meaningless simulacrum.
The problem with this and most claims of the paranormal is that people just don't understand how common coincidences are. The woman in that film is just holding her hand coincidentally like the modern cellphone.
What's funny is that this was never noticed before because cell phones never looked like that until fairly recently. If it was 1983 then that wouldn't look like a phone at all, it would look like a woman holding her scarf funny because cell phones were twice to three times the size with big honking antennas. Or if it was 2030 it wouldn't look like a phone at all, we'd probably just have them implanted into our bodies.
This is an old sci-fi trope which I like to call the "unsophisticated sophisticate." A time traveler would of course know not to use a piece of technology like that in public or even possess it, but audiences like the idea of "Aha! I caught the time traveler because I'm smart and the traveler is dumb or careless!" We see this also when aliens step out of their spaceships and die from the common cold or future archeologists can't fathom what a 'car' is or when aliens land and don't know what love is, etc. In other words, conspiracy theories not only exploit of ignorance but more so our vanity. It makes us feel good to "know whats really going on" or feel superior to threatening things. Unfortunately, humans seem drawn to feel good bullshit and sometimes go to war about said bullshit.
And what phone will you get exactly? Apple is a much larger patent abuser than MS. HTC and the rest also engage in this level of abuse. The abuse is industry wide. I'm just not seeing MS as particularly evil here. Heck, Apple just shutdown a company making magsafe compatible chargers. How could that possibly be a threat to them? But they do have a patent on "magnet on power cord" and enforce it.
The real issue is why does MS get a write-up on Slashdot and Apple and the rest don't? How much is Google and the rest paying for rights to do multi-touch on mobile because of Apple's very flimsy patent? How many lawsuits does Apple have currently going on against all the major players in the industry? Lots.
The entire patent system needs an overhaul. Blaming MS isn't helping. If anything they're patent arsenal is used more for defense than offense compared to most companies. Of course, there will be no reform. Politics in the US has taken a turn for the pro-business hard right. Any reform will be seen as "socialist" or somesuch. Unless MS, Apple, and Google come out publically against patents and start buying legislation to reform them, then it'll never happen. Ah, life in a plutocracy!
The difference here is that gmail and facebook are two very different applications. Facebook relies on a lot of client-side caching (html pages, photos, graphics, flash objects, etc) while gmail is mostly dynamic and does a lot of heavy lifting on the client side. With SSL enabled the clients won't cache anything and mixing http and https objects throws a security error on one or more of the major browsers. I'm sure Facebook can force SSL but end users won't like the diminished performance and if Facebook mixes items then end users will complain or freak out when their browser warns them about it.
I think the browser makers need to address this. I don't see why we shouldn't cache SSL items. They can simply be cached in an encrypted volume using the SSL key. That's probably less of a performance hit than going back on the network and re-requesting all those objects.
>Seriously, who is going to launch a nuclear weapon anyway? It's like committing suicide.
Ignoring WWII, lets look at the cold war. During the Cuban Missile Crisis the Politburo and high-level party members were clamoring for war with the US to the point where Khrushchev made loud patriotic pro-war statements in public to appease them and privately with the US was doing his best to avoid a nuclear war. Turns out a group mentality can culminate into in irrational act like nuclear war. Not to mention the US was considering a pre-emtive strike early during the cold war with the assumption that it could wipe out the USSR but only lose half its own cities.
Consider smaller modern powers like Iran, Pakistan, or North Korea. If felt like their regime was going to collapse and their leaders killed or sent to the Hague, why not launch for revenge? Its not like dictators or theocrats are known to be especially rational or compassionate. Most likely we'll see nuclear war in the mideast sooner than later. I'd be willing to bet within 20 years.
>You really should be migrating off of Comcast
So the local telco monopoly is somehow better than the local cable monpoly? Err, seriously? I have dozens of AT&T horror stories and only a couple Comcast ones. Just getting AT&T installed anywhere is this Kafkaesque experience of dealing with multiple departments, multiple liars, multiple lazy no shows, etc who when instructed basic things "This is a new condo, thus you'll need to do more than just terminate at the demarc outside" they just pass the work onto other departments who just pass it back while you're taking off work waiting for them to do anything. With Comcast you deal with a much smaller bureaucracy.
I'm not even going to go into how Comcast business services sells me a 40mbps line for $99 and when I call support I get an American who either knows his shit or will connect me to someone who does without protest. Last time I called about the local telco, I got passed around to something like 4 or 5 departments before anyone even knew what a PTR record was. My first call to Comcast about PTR changes? "Sure, I can do that for you."
I'm not sure why there's this default love of the local telco, but its a bunch of shit. In many markets Comcast is the superior product, and by a long shot.
What do we know about the historical Jesus? Most likely a homosexual rabbi who associated with prostitutes and who went against the power structures of his time - various religious sects and the state. I wouldn't call a outspoken heathen who attacks people in temples in fits of rage a saint. The religious whitewashing of his life, is of course saintly, but that's a teleological argument: Jesus was saintly because he was Jesus. The historical Jesus was quite the attention seeking rabble-rouser. He's more Louis Farrakan than Mother Theresa.
More info here. Taco should just hire me.
To be fair, they're using MS's protected mode which IE uses and from what I've gathered there haven't been any exploits that break through it. Please note add-ons do not run in protected mode, so if something is targeting your Java or Adobe Reader then those run normally.
Protected mode allows very limited access to the OS and forces a broker process to handle anything that interacts with the user's system. Yes, its hackable like most things in life, but its a pretty smart design that I think will limit exploits on the Adobe product. The downside is that its only Vista/7 (?) and it doesn't address the fatal mistakes Adobe is making - allowing javascript by default and using a piss poor updater. Adobe should really just shift to using MS's Windows Update and be done with it.
Right now Java and Adobe Reader/Pro/Standard are the two most exploited apps according to Brian Krebs. Shifting to X should help end users keep their systems safe.
>It is simply the lightest sports car chassis available (the Lotus Elise) loaded with 7000 laptop batteries.
There's a bit more to it than that, at least according to Tesla motors:
In fact, we recently counted how many parts the two cars shared and the total number was under 7% by parts count. If you were to analyze it by parts value, the number would be even smaller.
So you could say that the Tesla is similar to a Lotus Elise, except it has a totally different drivetrain , body panels, aluminum tub, rear sub-frame, brakes, ABS system, HVAC and rear suspension. The Tesla also neglects to carry over the gas tank, emissions equipment and exhaust. If you were to try to convert an Elise to a Tesla and started throwing away parts that aren't carried over what you would basically be left with a windshield, dashboard (complete with airbags!), front wishbones and a removable soft top.
For comparison, Lamborghini cars share upwards of ten percent of their parts content with Audi cars. I can only guess what the number is between Ford cars and their high end Aston Martin and Jaguar brands.
>There are plenty of good opportunities for conspiracy theorists on this one...
Because 10 year old engineering and electric car tech is just too old to shoehorn into a new model? Or that its market suicide if they go with 10 year old tech? Or that its cheaper/better to have Tesla do the work? No need for conspiracy here.
>"had the bomb contained a black hole or killer vampire ghost" and be about as scary.
The site that wrote this article is io9.com, which has weekly pieces on proof of UFOs or how the Bigfoot film is proof of Sasquatch. There's nothing sadder than a sci-fi fan who can't tell reality from fiction.
>It wasn't a case of one lone guy staving off a nuclear strike while his superiors yelled for launch (as happened in the Soviet Union).
There's not much collaboration on that story btw, and just like the cases in the US its most likely that he had a level or two above him to actually make the decision. Not to mention the incentive this guy has on selling himself as the future of humanity. Unfortunately, memes travel because theyre dramatic, not honest.