Some people take offense at implying their ancestry is of apes, imagine now that it's actually a hodgepodge from all sorts of animals like ducks and sea cucumbers. . .
Does NJ have whistle blower laws? And if so, do bloggers count or would one have to go to a "reputable" news place to have a legal shield? I'm not even sure if it would apply though; you have to be somehow involved in the thing you are critiquing to be considered a whistle blower.
Heh, for a second there I thought it said gmail. ..I was somewhat curious was Google wasn't mentioned at all; figured they'd have an opinion on the matter:-p
I fail to see how a private company could ever fund such an endeavor.
Yes I agree. It seems unlikely that a corporation could do it especially with little profit motive, but China seems to be getting their rocks off lately showing us how quickly they are progressing technologically. . .
Also, since this idea is based on the DVD player having an connection to the internet, it would be pretty simple to set up the local network in a way that redirects all download attempts to a local server which just gives out 0-second spots or something.
I think what they are going to try to do is make it so the commercials are quite bearable. That way while yes, you technically could do things to avoid it, it isn't worth the 3 minutes of your time to do it, and you'd probably rather just watch the commercial. Should they be good commercials that are tailored to your interests, this may not be a bad thing, but if it's something they shove down your throat. ..expect countermeasures to be quickly developed and deployed.
Slashdot has removed a post before being it was infringing on the property rights of the church of scientology. A DMCA notice no less. In any case slashdot certainly does censor things. I didn't even see his post because it was modded so low, but that was my choice (preferences) and by a nice democratic system of moderating.
Yes, I agree. Laws and regulations are always not helpful, there must be some other way to get others to work together nicely and avoid the tragedy of commons.
Wouldn't you then have to redefine where the prime meridian is located? So not only do you have to change the timezones of everything with respect to UTC but you'd have to change the way navigation is done and shift E-W coordinates over. . .
Yes well, atleast we know this business strategy has turned a profit even if it took a while, no ??? to fill in. Seriously though, The Wizard of Oz was made in 1932 and didn't make a profit for MGM until 1976, I can't think of any other example of media with that much of a delay.
Exactly, I mean you could be at risk for liver cancer, you know how hard it is to find a match for a new liver? A genetically identical clone could eventually have the same problem though probably at a later date than you. Why would you want a genetically identical clone. ..:-p
I suppose someone super egotistical person would raise a clone of him/herself. Or if you lose a loved one this would be a way to replace them. ..scary stuff, hard to really think of a truly legitimate reason to actually need a clone. Cloning tissue or creating cloned organs by themselves however is incredibly useful, I think it's much more probable this tech will be used to make embryos which are then harvested for stem cells. Whether or not we should pursue it for that reason is worth another 500 slashdot posts:)
I asked my astronomy teacher about this in high school, apparently hydrogen is so reactive that it'll combine with atmospheric O2 before it gets high enough in the atmosphere to escape. Helium on the other hand will eventually leave earth as it has escape velocity at the temperatures at the highest level of the atmosphere.
So uh, couldn't this be routed through some sort of radio interface? With this technology and a few more that already exist, what makes it necessary for the pilot to be in the plane? Is 72ms of latency really going to make that big a difference? Enough to warrant putting a life at risk?
Personally, I don't go around to all my neighbors' houses and check up on them, to make sure they're not beating their wives or whatever. It's not my problem.
Ok, makes sense, if it doesn't affect you you let whoever is involved make the decisions and keep your nose out of it. I can certainly understand this. It isn't your duty to make sure everything is hunky dorey. However, what if it did affect you in some fashion, what if a husband beats his wife, then kills her, then moves on to his neighbor. Would you wait until he eradicated the entire neighborhood before stepping in? What if the wife doesn't have the option to leave,escape, or otherwise change the situation, would you intervene or just assume it was somehow her fault she got into that situation in the first place? What if this man's wife happened to be your employee, and while she was injured and in the hospital your company experienced losses which causes all sorts of problems for you, would you be tempted to intervene now?
It's easier to turn a blind eye to things that don't affect you. My point is that when it comes to a nation's government and how they conduct their foreign affairs, it tends to affect more nations now than it did previously, and I don't expect this trend to reverse.
I could go on and on about "put yourself in their shoes, would you want someone to step in and intervene?" but I won't unless someone cares to debate that too:-p
Precisely my point, I'm not criticizing the administration at the time, rather the public opinion on how foreign policy should be done. My argument was that if the public was ok with the US building up sooner and entering the war sooner it would have made the war shorter and possibly saved lives. ..arguably the atom bomb would have still come around at roughly the same time (which effectively ended the Asian theater) but I still don't believe in the complete isolationism proposed by the great-grandparent post.
They came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. ..
Especially nowadays when globalization is happening faster than ever, we're all pretty much entwined in some fashion. It's a complex problem but ignoring foreign affairs and hoping it won't ever affect you seems like a bad plan to me.
Lol, I seriously apologize for the WWII analogies, it's the best example I could think of, Godwin should have an affirmative defense for logical arguments that actually make sense and are on-topic versus random name-calling.
While I agree that there is plenty wrong with the war in Iraq, I don't think isolationism is the answer, we can't just ignore the entire world and think "Hey, not our problem". Didn't work very well in WWII. (No I didn't invoke Godwin the US was very much an isolationist nation back then and had we gotten into the war sooner it would have probably ended sooner.)
So, under your ideal of criminal justice I could kill someone with little consequence? That certainly lowers the bar and makes it more appealing. Say I have a girlfriend who left me for this new guy, but I know that if he were out of the picture she'd come back to me and we'd live happily ever after. You're saying I could kill this guy and do a little jail time and that'd be it. After all, I wouldn't be a danger to anyone else, it's just this one guy that I need to take care of. Imagine a society where you give every newborn a get out of jail free card for 1 murder. ..yikes.
Ok, to add a bit to your point there. The entire chassis of the car is ground. You have your battery, with two terminals. The positive terminal is connected to the electronics that need power, and the negative terminal is connected to the chassis so all you have to do is have your electronics tie down to some part of the chassis for ground instead of running two wires. This also has useful applications in terms of noise reduction but I'm not gonna get into that. You do raise an interesting point though, depending on the configuration of the panel they could ensure that the part the astronaut is working on is the same potential as the other part, eliminating the risk of electrocution. It definitely depends on the wiring of the whole thing but he could segregate the solar panels he is working on and ensure that the two (or more) pieces he is working on are at the same potential eliminating the risk of a short which could make a tool melt, etc. I dunno, they're NASA, I'm sure they know what they are doing, it'd be like me pointing out the dangers in unit conversions. . . .
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I dunno, many dogs can't tell the difference between a member of its own species and someone's leg. They still seem able to procreate.
Some people take offense at implying their ancestry is of apes, imagine now that it's actually a hodgepodge from all sorts of animals like ducks and sea cucumbers. . .
Does NJ have whistle blower laws? And if so, do bloggers count or would one have to go to a "reputable" news place to have a legal shield? I'm not even sure if it would apply though; you have to be somehow involved in the thing you are critiquing to be considered a whistle blower.
You understand that if they attack IPsec they could be in violation of the DMCA. . .:)
Heh, for a second there I thought it said gmail. . .I was somewhat curious was Google wasn't mentioned at all; figured they'd have an opinion on the matter :-p
Yes I agree. It seems unlikely that a corporation could do it especially with little profit motive, but China seems to be getting their rocks off lately showing us how quickly they are progressing technologically. . .
Also, since this idea is based on the DVD player having an connection to the internet, it would be pretty simple to set up the local network in a way that redirects all download attempts to a local server which just gives out 0-second spots or something.
.expect countermeasures to be quickly developed and deployed.
I think what they are going to try to do is make it so the commercials are quite bearable. That way while yes, you technically could do things to avoid it, it isn't worth the 3 minutes of your time to do it, and you'd probably rather just watch the commercial. Should they be good commercials that are tailored to your interests, this may not be a bad thing, but if it's something they shove down your throat. .
Slashdot has removed a post before being it was infringing on the property rights of the church of scientology. A DMCA notice no less. In any case slashdot certainly does censor things. I didn't even see his post because it was modded so low, but that was my choice (preferences) and by a nice democratic system of moderating.
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Yes, I agree. Laws and regulations are always not helpful, there must be some other way to get others to work together nicely and avoid the tragedy of commons.
Wouldn't you then have to redefine where the prime meridian is located? So not only do you have to change the timezones of everything with respect to UTC but you'd have to change the way navigation is done and shift E-W coordinates over. . .
Yes well, atleast we know this business strategy has turned a profit even if it took a while, no ??? to fill in. Seriously though, The Wizard of Oz was made in 1932 and didn't make a profit for MGM until 1976, I can't think of any other example of media with that much of a delay.
Exactly, I mean you could be at risk for liver cancer, you know how hard it is to find a match for a new liver? A genetically identical clone could eventually have the same problem though probably at a later date than you. Why would you want a genetically identical clone. . .:-p
.scary stuff, hard to really think of a truly legitimate reason to actually need a clone. Cloning tissue or creating cloned organs by themselves however is incredibly useful, I think it's much more probable this tech will be used to make embryos which are then harvested for stem cells. Whether or not we should pursue it for that reason is worth another 500 slashdot posts :)
I suppose someone super egotistical person would raise a clone of him/herself. Or if you lose a loved one this would be a way to replace them. .
Family of victim sue state and company. State and company owe millions, now require waver to drive in a state.
I asked my astronomy teacher about this in high school, apparently hydrogen is so reactive that it'll combine with atmospheric O2 before it gets high enough in the atmosphere to escape. Helium on the other hand will eventually leave earth as it has escape velocity at the temperatures at the highest level of the atmosphere.
So uh, couldn't this be routed through some sort of radio interface? With this technology and a few more that already exist, what makes it necessary for the pilot to be in the plane? Is 72ms of latency really going to make that big a difference? Enough to warrant putting a life at risk?
Personally, I don't go around to all my neighbors' houses and check up on them, to make sure they're not beating their wives or whatever. It's not my problem.
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Ok, makes sense, if it doesn't affect you you let whoever is involved make the decisions and keep your nose out of it. I can certainly understand this. It isn't your duty to make sure everything is hunky dorey. However, what if it did affect you in some fashion, what if a husband beats his wife, then kills her, then moves on to his neighbor. Would you wait until he eradicated the entire neighborhood before stepping in? What if the wife doesn't have the option to leave,escape, or otherwise change the situation, would you intervene or just assume it was somehow her fault she got into that situation in the first place? What if this man's wife happened to be your employee, and while she was injured and in the hospital your company experienced losses which causes all sorts of problems for you, would you be tempted to intervene now?
It's easier to turn a blind eye to things that don't affect you. My point is that when it comes to a nation's government and how they conduct their foreign affairs, it tends to affect more nations now than it did previously, and I don't expect this trend to reverse.
I could go on and on about "put yourself in their shoes, would you want someone to step in and intervene?" but I won't unless someone cares to debate that too
shouldn't it be:
wine WoW.exe -opengl & sleep 3600 || killall WoW.exe -9
Otherwise I could do:
ssh -lroot darthflo "killall sleep"
and then you'd be playing for hours. . mu ha ha ha. . .
Precisely my point, I'm not criticizing the administration at the time, rather the public opinion on how foreign policy should be done. My argument was that if the public was ok with the US building up sooner and entering the war sooner it would have made the war shorter and possibly saved lives. . .arguably the atom bomb would have still come around at roughly the same time (which effectively ended the Asian theater) but I still don't believe in the complete isolationism proposed by the great-grandparent post.
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They came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. .
Especially nowadays when globalization is happening faster than ever, we're all pretty much entwined in some fashion. It's a complex problem but ignoring foreign affairs and hoping it won't ever affect you seems like a bad plan to me.
Lol, I seriously apologize for the WWII analogies, it's the best example I could think of, Godwin should have an affirmative defense for logical arguments that actually make sense and are on-topic versus random name-calling.
While I agree that there is plenty wrong with the war in Iraq, I don't think isolationism is the answer, we can't just ignore the entire world and think "Hey, not our problem". Didn't work very well in WWII. (No I didn't invoke Godwin the US was very much an isolationist nation back then and had we gotten into the war sooner it would have probably ended sooner.)
So, under your ideal of criminal justice I could kill someone with little consequence? That certainly lowers the bar and makes it more appealing. Say I have a girlfriend who left me for this new guy, but I know that if he were out of the picture she'd come back to me and we'd live happily ever after. You're saying I could kill this guy and do a little jail time and that'd be it. After all, I wouldn't be a danger to anyone else, it's just this one guy that I need to take care of. Imagine a society where you give every newborn a get out of jail free card for 1 murder. . .yikes.
Ok, to add a bit to your point there. The entire chassis of the car is ground. You have your battery, with two terminals. The positive terminal is connected to the electronics that need power, and the negative terminal is connected to the chassis so all you have to do is have your electronics tie down to some part of the chassis for ground instead of running two wires. This also has useful applications in terms of noise reduction but I'm not gonna get into that. You do raise an interesting point though, depending on the configuration of the panel they could ensure that the part the astronaut is working on is the same potential as the other part, eliminating the risk of electrocution. It definitely depends on the wiring of the whole thing but he could segregate the solar panels he is working on and ensure that the two (or more) pieces he is working on are at the same potential eliminating the risk of a short which could make a tool melt, etc. I dunno, they're NASA, I'm sure they know what they are doing, it'd be like me pointing out the dangers in unit conversions. . . .
Also, if you've been using emacs, vim is worth a look. Vim is lean, well-featured, and fast.
So is MS an "OMG PONIES!~" or an "invisible pink unicorn"-like pony?
The "non-invasive" bit is probably the medical "non-invasive" in that nothing pierces the skin and nothing goes into any orifices.