Bay Village (and the 440 Area Code) is way to the north, closer to Cleveland. It's actually on Lake Erie. I doubt that he commutes 2 hours to work in Colombus every day.
I think people are taking the whole "global test" thing a little too literally. It's not like were gonna print up a questionnaire and pass it out to world leaders.
The way I interperted "global test" was more along the lines of carefully thinking out our actions and basically putting ourselves in the rest of the world's shoes. "How will the Arab world react if we do X? What if we do Y? And what about the Chinese?" The Global Test is more of an abstract concept than a strictly defined set of rules. Sure, for things that don't require immediate action, we should most definately get the input of foreign leaders.
And that's just the problem. I don't think Bush & co. have been taking seriously any of the input from the rest of the world.
Bah. I don't need Slashdot to tell me that Bush lied. I knew it all along. Back when the whole Iraq thing was starting, I was saying they are full of shit.
Face it, Bush was going to war because he wanted to go to war, period. When the UN voted against invasion, he basically gave them the finger and went in anyway. (What would happen if a country other than the US did the same thing? That country would probably be a giant hole in the ground right now.) Now look at the mess we have. We haven't accomplished a damned thing over there other than making the Arab popluation hate us even more.
It really hit home last week during the debate. Kerry said something along the lines of "what we decide to do has to pass the 'global test,'" which I thought is indeed very true. As soon as he said that, Bush got pissed. It just highlighted the fact that Bush & co. couldn't give a shit less about what the rest of the world thinks. They are gonna do what they want to do and no one is going to get in their way.
It's time to get real, guys. Every decsion you make has a global impact and you better damn well think about how the rest of the world is going to react to your decisions if you are truely concerned with making the world a better place in the long run.
You're being sarcastic, but what I don't understand is how they straight-up lied about WMDs and whatnot (and knew about it), yet not a damned thing is happening about it. Clinton gets a BJ, and everyone starts screaming "won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?!?" So I have to ask, what's really more important?
And yet people still want to vote for W. I just don't get it.
This is a Federal District Court. They don't deal with "your fance is on my property." That's for local/state courts. A Federal District covers a few states, not a small area.
Fast and free. I've never seen an outage in the years I've been using it. At only 921 users, it's pretty small, but that's nice. You can update via a URL so you can just call wget from a script. They allow you to either have them host the DNS (yourname.fdns.net has an A record that points to the address you specify) or you can host the DNS yourself and do subdomains. (yourname.fdns.net delegates to your DNS server)
The problem with this logic is it assumes the citizens aren't paying for the "free" wireless via taxes.
You're paying for the infastructure with your taxes. You're not really paying for service, per se, becuase service would include support. You pay for the trasportation infastructure (roads) with taxes. The government doesn't have a number you can call when you are lost and need directions. (That would be support.) You buy a map or pay for a third-party service (AAA, OnStar). Yes, you can call the police for "support" for certain things on roadways, but you pay taxes for that too.
If the government offers a "free" wireless solution that everyone pays for with taxes (no opt-out), then it will undercut every other commercial wireless provider effectively driving them out of business in that market.
Not necessarily. Make me want to pay you for service rather than using the public one. Maybe the municipal service is 802.11b and it is crowded. (Slow!) You could operate an 802.11g service on a different channel. Your service would be attractive becuase the technology is not only faster, but there won't be as many people using it. Plus I will have someone to call if I do need support.
Just becuase the government operates a service doesn't mean private companies can't compete. Look at the BBC in the UK. If you have a TV, you have to pay the licence fee, which supports the BBC. However, this hasn't stopped commercialbroadcasters from setting up shop and staying in the market.
First of all, why would a city government offering free wireless even have tech support??? If you can't figure out how to pop in a 802.11 card and connect to "CityWireless" that's your problem-- you get what you pay for!
Second, there is no law forcing you to use the government-sponsored wireless connectivity. If you don't want them to have "easier access" to your internet data, connect a VPN or SSH session back to your box at home. Problem solved.
I'm not going to pay Verizon $80 a month so I can check my mail and browse Slashdot from the park when the city could put up a public AP that would cost me nothing.
A little app that might be worth a shot is DVTS. The purpose of this suite is to encapsulate DV streams into IP packets. (I've used it before with a SD camera, it's actually pretty cool. Firewire in one computer, out the Ethernet to another, and out of that computer's Firewire.) It has a tool called dvsave that basically dumps the DV stream to your hard drive. Whether or not this app would work with HDTV, I really have no idea since I've never really looked in to HDTV or how it works.
I've personally enjoyed owning tube amps on and off - the sound warmth, whether it be psychological or real, is definitely different then solid state amps.
I'd say one could compare spam to P2P music downloading.
When Napster became big, the RIAA shut it down. But then 3 more P2P apps popped up to fill that void. Then the RIAA tried to shut them down. Rinse and repeat, there's now 64 different filesharing apps just for Windows.
Now look at spam. Every time the FTC or whatever government agency shuts down a spammer, how many more will pop up to fill the void?
Free music or free money. There's a risk with both -- getting sued by the RIAA or having the Federal government on your ass.
What we really need to do is figgure out how to make it so that spam isn't profitable. Ever.
I can understand six figure rewards for those on the ten most wanted list, but for spammers?
Surely there are things that money could be better spent on. Like say, the implementation of a new email protocol. Or (gasp!) things like Social Security or education.
What are you smoking, DVDs don't come close to broadcast signal quality, which is still the stardard television displays are built too. DVDs were created to do away with VCRs not broadcast television.
Plus your TV has a limited number of phospors on each line. But the signal from the Television camera is not phosphor limited so it is a pure analog horizontal slice, only limited in information by the broadcast frequency. Many devices such as picture capture cables make use of this extra undisplayable information to create higher res (horizontally) images.
-1, Wrong.
Broadcast will have a width of no more than 720 pixels or so. It will have no more than around 530 pixels of height, depending on who you ask. Period. And what the hell are you talking about with phosphors? Your TV can have thousands of phosphors on a line, but it won't make a shit of difference. The information just isn't there in the signal. For the ten millionth time: you can't create quality (more pixels) from nothing! Gah. DVDs are just an MPEG-2 stream. Encode it to any pixel resolution you'd like.
DVDs nowhere near ANALOG BROADCAST quality?!? I'm laughing my ass off as I write this!
That ISA thing is scary, especially if it would get into the hands of the "won't somebody please think of the children" people.
Then how long before some asshat hacks the wireless transmitters and sets a road's "speed limit" to 15? With mandatory ISA, that would make for quite a few pissed off drivers.
I wish I had the points to mod you up. You make very valid points that the zealots just don't want to hear.
I hear about Linux exploits just as often as Windows exploits. There's kernel exploits that can get a remote user root. But it always gets brushed off as not a big deal, because hey, there's gonna be a patch out in a few days, right?
Sure, but the serious Windows exploits usually have a patch out in a few days too. It's just a matter of the responsible persons getting it installed.
Linux or Windows, if you don't take steps to be secure, you're gonna get 0wn3d. And that's the problem-- most Windows users don't even understand the fundamental problem, much less why they should install these updates. This is why I think SP2 is a move in the right direction with Windows Update automatically downloading and updating by default. I just fear the day someone cracks Windows Update and has it distribute their new l33t worm...
Finally, they could stop over at the Windows dev group and explain to them that I should not have to notify Windows of my intention to disconnect my fully hotswappable device.
Why must you notify? To sync and dismount the filesystem.
Windows doesn't care about it too much anymore (I can just pull out my USB key drive and it doesn't say a thing) since write caching is usually disabled for USB devices, but if you do turn caching on, you'll need to dismount your "fully hotswappable" device.
On topic, when are we going to see improvements in the laptop pointing arena? My touchpad is great, but I wonder if there's anything better out there...
But that was in the days where you could measure the game's pixels on the theater's screen with a ruler. With today's high-res games, it would be more entertaining.
Not to mention that in 1993, it was mostly only kids with (a) no car and (b) no cash who played Nintendo. Now you have gamers that can drive themselves to the theater and plop down a few bucks.
Well that's odd, half of my post disappeared. (haha, I put < instead of <... duh)
I meant:
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But if I put in a 257+ color image....
I wasn't talking about LZW losslessly compressing at <=256 colors, I was talking about the GIF format being lossy at >256 colors, which is what pretty much everything is now.
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Hayes was stepping down Oct 1. Why he's still there, I don't know. (Or is Slashdot posting weeks-old news again? No, couldn't be!)
Bay Village (and the 440 Area Code) is way to the north, closer to Cleveland. It's actually on Lake Erie. I doubt that he commutes 2 hours to work in Colombus every day.
The way I interperted "global test" was more along the lines of carefully thinking out our actions and basically putting ourselves in the rest of the world's shoes. "How will the Arab world react if we do X? What if we do Y? And what about the Chinese?" The Global Test is more of an abstract concept than a strictly defined set of rules. Sure, for things that don't require immediate action, we should most definately get the input of foreign leaders.
And that's just the problem. I don't think Bush & co. have been taking seriously any of the input from the rest of the world.
Face it, Bush was going to war because he wanted to go to war, period. When the UN voted against invasion, he basically gave them the finger and went in anyway. (What would happen if a country other than the US did the same thing? That country would probably be a giant hole in the ground right now.) Now look at the mess we have. We haven't accomplished a damned thing over there other than making the Arab popluation hate us even more.
It really hit home last week during the debate. Kerry said something along the lines of "what we decide to do has to pass the 'global test,'" which I thought is indeed very true. As soon as he said that, Bush got pissed. It just highlighted the fact that Bush & co. couldn't give a shit less about what the rest of the world thinks. They are gonna do what they want to do and no one is going to get in their way.
It's time to get real, guys. Every decsion you make has a global impact and you better damn well think about how the rest of the world is going to react to your decisions if you are truely concerned with making the world a better place in the long run.
And yet people still want to vote for W. I just don't get it.
This is a Federal District Court. They don't deal with "your fance is on my property." That's for local/state courts. A Federal District covers a few states, not a small area.
Linky... be careful with that!
Fast and free. I've never seen an outage in the years I've been using it. At only 921 users, it's pretty small, but that's nice. You can update via a URL so you can just call wget from a script. They allow you to either have them host the DNS (yourname.fdns.net has an A record that points to the address you specify) or you can host the DNS yourself and do subdomains. (yourname.fdns.net delegates to your DNS server)
You're paying for the infastructure with your taxes. You're not really paying for service, per se, becuase service would include support. You pay for the trasportation infastructure (roads) with taxes. The government doesn't have a number you can call when you are lost and need directions. (That would be support.) You buy a map or pay for a third-party service (AAA, OnStar). Yes, you can call the police for "support" for certain things on roadways, but you pay taxes for that too.
Not necessarily. Make me want to pay you for service rather than using the public one. Maybe the municipal service is 802.11b and it is crowded. (Slow!) You could operate an 802.11g service on a different channel. Your service would be attractive becuase the technology is not only faster, but there won't be as many people using it. Plus I will have someone to call if I do need support.
Just becuase the government operates a service doesn't mean private companies can't compete. Look at the BBC in the UK. If you have a TV, you have to pay the licence fee, which supports the BBC. However, this hasn't stopped commercial broadcasters from setting up shop and staying in the market.
Second, there is no law forcing you to use the government-sponsored wireless connectivity. If you don't want them to have "easier access" to your internet data, connect a VPN or SSH session back to your box at home. Problem solved.
I'm not going to pay Verizon $80 a month so I can check my mail and browse Slashdot from the park when the city could put up a public AP that would cost me nothing.
A little app that might be worth a shot is DVTS. The purpose of this suite is to encapsulate DV streams into IP packets. (I've used it before with a SD camera, it's actually pretty cool. Firewire in one computer, out the Ethernet to another, and out of that computer's Firewire.) It has a tool called dvsave that basically dumps the DV stream to your hard drive. Whether or not this app would work with HDTV, I really have no idea since I've never really looked in to HDTV or how it works.
Funny, that's not what the good people over at the RIAA/MPAA have been telling me...
I think that says it all. The box you have now works just fine, so why ditch it for a less flexable consumer-grade router?
Do any of those Linksys boxes have ssh? Nope. Stick with the PC.
When Napster became big, the RIAA shut it down. But then 3 more P2P apps popped up to fill that void. Then the RIAA tried to shut them down. Rinse and repeat, there's now 64 different filesharing apps just for Windows.
Now look at spam. Every time the FTC or whatever government agency shuts down a spammer, how many more will pop up to fill the void?
Free music or free money. There's a risk with both -- getting sued by the RIAA or having the Federal government on your ass.
What we really need to do is figgure out how to make it so that spam isn't profitable. Ever.
Surely there are things that money could be better spent on. Like say, the implementation of a new email protocol. Or (gasp!) things like Social Security or education.
-1, Wrong.
Broadcast will have a width of no more than 720 pixels or so. It will have no more than around 530 pixels of height, depending on who you ask. Period. And what the hell are you talking about with phosphors? Your TV can have thousands of phosphors on a line, but it won't make a shit of difference. The information just isn't there in the signal. For the ten millionth time: you can't create quality (more pixels) from nothing! Gah. DVDs are just an MPEG-2 stream. Encode it to any pixel resolution you'd like.
DVDs nowhere near ANALOG BROADCAST quality?!? I'm laughing my ass off as I write this!
Well, except for last year's Super Bowl halftime show...
This is ridiculous. The MPAA is sending off threatening legal letters to anyone who might even look suspicious.
Thank you, DMCA!
Then how long before some asshat hacks the wireless transmitters and sets a road's "speed limit" to 15? With mandatory ISA, that would make for quite a few pissed off drivers.
I hear about Linux exploits just as often as Windows exploits. There's kernel exploits that can get a remote user root. But it always gets brushed off as not a big deal, because hey, there's gonna be a patch out in a few days, right?
Sure, but the serious Windows exploits usually have a patch out in a few days too. It's just a matter of the responsible persons getting it installed.
Linux or Windows, if you don't take steps to be secure, you're gonna get 0wn3d. And that's the problem-- most Windows users don't even understand the fundamental problem, much less why they should install these updates. This is why I think SP2 is a move in the right direction with Windows Update automatically downloading and updating by default. I just fear the day someone cracks Windows Update and has it distribute their new l33t worm...
Why must you notify? To sync and dismount the filesystem.
Windows doesn't care about it too much anymore (I can just pull out my USB key drive and it doesn't say a thing) since write caching is usually disabled for USB devices, but if you do turn caching on, you'll need to dismount your "fully hotswappable" device.
On topic, when are we going to see improvements in the laptop pointing arena? My touchpad is great, but I wonder if there's anything better out there...
Not to mention that in 1993, it was mostly only kids with (a) no car and (b) no cash who played Nintendo. Now you have gamers that can drive themselves to the theater and plop down a few bucks.
I meant:
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But if I put in a 257+ color image....
I wasn't talking about LZW losslessly compressing at <=256 colors, I was talking about the GIF format being lossy at >256 colors, which is what pretty much everything is now.
I wasn't talking about LZW losslessly compressing at 256 colors, which is what pretty much everything is now.