Twaddle. Terrorists don't need to "win". They just like fucking people over. If the US had ignored the middle east in the first place, then there would be no problem now. Instead there is a long history of the US interfering in others affairs to suit their own interests. Oil is just one example. I don't think the terrorists see much of the oil revenue, so bankruptcy for their home nations won't do anything but piss them off even more. The terrorists are the top of a pyramid of opinion, disposing of them doesn't fix the underlying problem. It's easy to give your life to an ideal when you have fuck all. If the powers that be stopped using nation against nation like pawns in their power grab, there would be a lot less trouble in the world. BTW, there is more than 1 group of terrorists, and sometimes they are called freedom fighters. Only disinterested parties refuse to see the distinction. I am regarded as a terrorist if I want to take a flight, or visit my government buildings. I have never harmed anyone or destroyed anything, so why do I get treated like that ? The only real distinction between a terrorist and anybody else, is whether the person is armed. Plenty of "terrorists" go about their daily business unarmed. If the surveillance trend continues, I may well have to resort to more public shows of dissent, just to get my point across. If I destroy a few CCTV cameras with explosives, I'm pretty sure the incumbent govt. will describe me as a terrorist and denounce my ideas as such, but they would, wouldn't they. They may even be correct for such a futile show of resistance on my part. But if I found myself in a world like the Minority Report describes, I would definitely not be in the silent majority. Government is a convenience not a doctrine. In short, stop using the word terrorist, because you don't know what it means. It does not necessarily mean somebody has to die to make a point, just that they are in fear of that happening. Fear has a great way of concentrating the mind. Sometimes that's useful, otherwise why would the govt. use it ? Back on topic, while better materials help in the quest for fusion reactors, I think the high temperatures are not the biggest issue, radiation is bigger. If they invented steel that could reflect the radiation back into the reaction that would be useful, and we wouldn't have to dispose of the reaction vessel as waste after a relatively short period.
Superstition is only an attempt to explain an otherwise unknowable effect. It does not mean that the effect is imagined. The cats didn't learn anything to do with invisible men in the sky, they learned that action A leads to result B. That is all. Superstition is when you try to explain result B by using the invisible man in the sky as the reason. Your last statement shows why superstition has persisted. Society needs ways to communicate ideas, and in the absence of real science, how do you communicate that performing action A is bad for you. Any humans natural reaction is to ask why. Lacking scientific method, how do you answer that in a manner that will travel to the whole of society. You concoct an irrefutable story that people will remember easily. OK, it's not accurate, but as long as it has the desired effect, it does the job. See Religion.
Exactly. I watched a BBC program about global warming last week, where the well meaning and apparently ill-qualified scientist presenting made several glaring scientific errors. The most laughable was when he described the Keeling curve. All very interesting, up until he summed up the segment by saying that now that Keeling had taken measurements of the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere over a long period, we now had irrefutable proof that humans caused global warming. Absolute bollocks. All Keeling had done was show that CO2 over time had increased in the atmosphere. The cause of that increase had not been established, so using a set of measurements to attribute a cause is unforgivable. It makes me sick. Of course the rest of the program was spent building on that fallacious argument to prove the agenda. How is the general public supposed to understand science when even the most vocal proponents twist the evidence to fit their opinion ? Note that I am not siding with AGW or the sceptics here, I am just pointing out the misinformation and bad scientific methods used to illustrate the issues to the public.
I don't remember the last time I HAD to reboot my FC4 box. Whereas my XP box quite regularly requires a reboot just to clear the cruft. Also, virtually all the software I use auto-saves at small intervals, so I wouldn't lose much. And simply logging out and back in again restarts X for my user. Not to mention that if X does lock up, I can probably ssh in and kill it remotely. All this "push for the desktop" stuff is getting boring. The aforementioned FC4 box used to be FC2, then upgraded (not reinstalled) to FC3 then to FC4. Things have changed in the layout of newer releases, so it's not worth upgrading it further without a full wipe and reinstall, which it doesn't need. It runs fine, AS A DESKTOP MACHINE, thanks for asking. I work on it everyday without issue. I design circuits for electronics on it, I run VMs on it, and I even post to slashdot on it. It also doubles as my media server and web server for when I'm away and need files from it. It seems to me that the Desktop most M$ shills are looking for is the one that plays video games, not the one that actually does any proper work.
I was with you up until the "motor cycle isn't as safe as a car" shit. I don't think anybody ever claimed it was, and it isn't relevant anyway. It's a damn sight safer than flying the shuttle, but I guess you don't agree.
I stopped being a mechanic when I got tired of the spanner slipping off a nut causing me to punch the chassis while I was freezing my balls off on my back under a car in the shitty yard. The money was shit too.
This says more about those people than it does about email. If they can't keep focussed on a subject without their mind wandering off because of incoming mail, then they need other remedies. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you must. Honestly people complain about all the demands on their time, and then deliberately put themselves in situations that increase those demands. Sounds to me like they are engineering an excuse to do less work.
I agree, and significantly that's why I stopped buying CDs. I am a fan of Pink Floyd, the real Floyd, before Roger Waters left. Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here. All of those albums were works of art, designed to be listened to in their entirety. But what happened on CD ? They put audible breaks in between the tracks. Ruined it completely for me, I may as well have recorded each track individually myself and slapped them together to form an album. Strangely enough, I can do that now and I make a better job of it than the official labels do. This phenomenon is not unique to CDs either. Watching a movie on TV has got to be a pain these days due to the incessant ad breaks. You can't build an atmosphere and immerse the viewer in a situation when the dialogue switches to overly loud irrelevant material every 20 minutes. That's why I record things I want to see and rip the ads out - to restore the natural flow of the original work. I no longer have to keep the remote in my hand so I can rapidly turn the sound down to reasonable levels, I can sit back and absorb. Can you imagine a book where every 20 pages a loudspeaker erupts telling you that you're paying too much for car insurance ?
But everybody on Limewire isn't doing what safenet are doing, They are not able to either. It's one thing to keep logs of ip addresses, it's quite another to force ISPs to hand over user details based on those ip addresses. Your average user doesn't have that capability. Come on, tell me my name and address, my ip is 86.153.73.150 I'm waiting...
I'll just add that a "standard" does not imply that every device must use the same way of doing things, or that complying with a standard implies quality. There is a thing called British Standards in the UK, where if you pass inspection and auditing you can use this accreditation on your sales literature. Sounds good, until you realise that all the standard means is that whatever you do, you always do it the same way. So you could make utter crap, but as long as you do it the exact same way every time, you can get the BSI accreditation.
Time - that would be the point. You would spend less time clogging the pipe for other people, so more would get done. Instead of waiting for a file to download, you would get it quicker and be using it sooner, thereby saving time. More would be getting done. So the ISPs *would* be giving you faster speeds. Oblig. car analogy : Why would we waste money building 6 lane highways, when you are only going to use it to get to work the same every day. Answer - because *everybody* gets there quicker. It's a sign of the ridiculous notion that more bandwidth means more usage. Why ? If I can transmit a packet 100 times faster than before, it doesn't mean that I have to make more packets to use that extra 99% capacity up. In fact speed would help to generate more capacity by leaving more time for other users. Remember them - the other people who might want to use the same lines ? Of course not, it's all me, me, me. It's interesting that this story comes after the one about efficiency, which is doing more with less, but when it comes to the net, people just want more and fuck the efficiency. Can you imagine a situation where a city improves the water infrastructure to allow for growth, and the existing residents decide to leave the taps running all day because now they can ? I know that I would prefer faster speeds over an increase in my cap. I know what waiting time costs. I wouldn't just slam on a few HD movie downloads to use the extra bandwidth, any more than I go surfing youtube while waiting for a linux iso to download. It's counter-productive.
Rubbish. BT never laid any fibre to consumer premises. Private cable companies did, but mainly when new estates were built in the 60's and 70's. So BT couldn't even have checked for fibre as it wasn't part of their network. And in the early days of ADSL, BT was the only game in town.
If you consider the news about Fannie/Freddie then from this side of the pond it looks like "action" was taken to prevent any further bad American debt. If the LSE was running, billions would have flowed out of the UK into the US. Either way, I consider it lucky. So what if somebody doesn't make their trading bonus, we're talking about the stability of nations.</paranoia>
What is now Pakistan was in prehistoric times the Indus Valley civilization (c. 2500 - 1700 B.C.). A series of invaders - Aryans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and others - controlled the region for the next several thousand years. Islam, the principal religion, was introduced in 711. In 1526, the land became part of the Mogul Empire, which ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to the mid-18th century. By 1857, the British became the dominant power in the region. With Hindus holding most of the economic, social, and political advantages, the Muslim minority's dissatisfaction grew, leading to the formation of the nationalist Muslim League in 1906 by Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876 - 1949). The league supported Britain in the Second World War while the Hindu nationalist leaders, Nehru and Gandhi, refused. In return for the league's support of Britain, Jinnah expected British backing for Muslim autonomy. Britain agreed to the formation of Pakistan as a separate dominion within the Commonwealth in Aug. 1947, a bitter disappointment to India's dream of a unified subcontinent. Jinnah became governor-general. The partition of Pakistan and India along religious lines resulted in the largest migration in human history, with 17 million people fleeing across the borders in both directions to escape the accompanying sectarian violence.
My bold. That reads to me like certain powerful Muslims asked for the partition. But then how would you know, you're only half Afghani.
I used to use ebuyer for lots of parts, but as they grew their service started to suck. It got to the stage where I couldn't buy anything from them without a 50% chance it would be bad. So I now have ebuyer in my hosts file pointing to localhost with a rewrite rule pointing to this statement:
WARNING
Everytime you buy from Ebuyer you end up regretting it !
You do realise that since 2001, you have had to fight for refunds with a total value of over £1000 !
Oh, and you can't do client-side prediction in real-world telepresence. I wouldn't want to be in the room when someone was operating a remote machine with high latency.
Home viewed movies were big business due to VHS, so DVD was a hit. Movies aren't an expanding market anymore, and what they do make is usually crap. If there was compelling content, then HD would take off.
In my experience of a Sony Vaio, they run just fine. I bought one in 2001 and it's still running after being lugged around the world, living in a truck, being dropped etc. The only bit that doesn't work is the pc card slot, as I dropped it while I had a wifi adapter in it. The socket was ripped right off the mainboard but the laptop runs fine. Amusingly, it has an AMD 1GHz speedstep cpu which was quite quick at the time, and now the speeds are coming back my way. I wouldn't sell it for anything - its been a lot of places I have and never let me down.
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Twaddle.
Terrorists don't need to "win". They just like fucking people over. If the US had ignored the middle east in the first place, then there would be no problem now. Instead there is a long history of the US interfering in others affairs to suit their own interests. Oil is just one example.
I don't think the terrorists see much of the oil revenue, so bankruptcy for their home nations won't do anything but piss them off even more. The terrorists are the top of a pyramid of opinion, disposing of them doesn't fix the underlying problem. It's easy to give your life to an ideal when you have fuck all. If the powers that be stopped using nation against nation like pawns in their power grab, there would be a lot less trouble in the world.
BTW, there is more than 1 group of terrorists, and sometimes they are called freedom fighters. Only disinterested parties refuse to see the distinction. I am regarded as a terrorist if I want to take a flight, or visit my government buildings. I have never harmed anyone or destroyed anything, so why do I get treated like that ? The only real distinction between a terrorist and anybody else, is whether the person is armed. Plenty of "terrorists" go about their daily business unarmed. If the surveillance trend continues, I may well have to resort to more public shows of dissent, just to get my point across. If I destroy a few CCTV cameras with explosives, I'm pretty sure the incumbent govt. will describe me as a terrorist and denounce my ideas as such, but they would, wouldn't they. They may even be correct for such a futile show of resistance on my part. But if I found myself in a world like the Minority Report describes, I would definitely not be in the silent majority. Government is a convenience not a doctrine.
In short, stop using the word terrorist, because you don't know what it means. It does not necessarily mean somebody has to die to make a point, just that they are in fear of that happening. Fear has a great way of concentrating the mind. Sometimes that's useful, otherwise why would the govt. use it ?
Back on topic, while better materials help in the quest for fusion reactors, I think the high temperatures are not the biggest issue, radiation is bigger. If they invented steel that could reflect the radiation back into the reaction that would be useful, and we wouldn't have to dispose of the reaction vessel as waste after a relatively short period.
Superstition is only an attempt to explain an otherwise unknowable effect. It does not mean that the effect is imagined.
The cats didn't learn anything to do with invisible men in the sky, they learned that action A leads to result B. That is all. Superstition is when you try to explain result B by using the invisible man in the sky as the reason.
Your last statement shows why superstition has persisted. Society needs ways to communicate ideas, and in the absence of real science, how do you communicate that performing action A is bad for you. Any humans natural reaction is to ask why. Lacking scientific method, how do you answer that in a manner that will travel to the whole of society. You concoct an irrefutable story that people will remember easily. OK, it's not accurate, but as long as it has the desired effect, it does the job.
See Religion.
Here is the program on the BBCs website.
Exactly.
I watched a BBC program about global warming last week, where the well meaning and apparently ill-qualified scientist presenting made several glaring scientific errors. The most laughable was when he described the Keeling curve. All very interesting, up until he summed up the segment by saying that now that Keeling had taken measurements of the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere over a long period, we now had irrefutable proof that humans caused global warming.
Absolute bollocks. All Keeling had done was show that CO2 over time had increased in the atmosphere. The cause of that increase had not been established, so using a set of measurements to attribute a cause is unforgivable.
It makes me sick.
Of course the rest of the program was spent building on that fallacious argument to prove the agenda. How is the general public supposed to understand science when even the most vocal proponents twist the evidence to fit their opinion ? Note that I am not siding with AGW or the sceptics here, I am just pointing out the misinformation and bad scientific methods used to illustrate the issues to the public.
I don't remember the last time I HAD to reboot my FC4 box. Whereas my XP box quite regularly requires a reboot just to clear the cruft. Also, virtually all the software I use auto-saves at small intervals, so I wouldn't lose much. And simply logging out and back in again restarts X for my user. Not to mention that if X does lock up, I can probably ssh in and kill it remotely.
All this "push for the desktop" stuff is getting boring. The aforementioned FC4 box used to be FC2, then upgraded (not reinstalled) to FC3 then to FC4. Things have changed in the layout of newer releases, so it's not worth upgrading it further without a full wipe and reinstall, which it doesn't need. It runs fine, AS A DESKTOP MACHINE, thanks for asking. I work on it everyday without issue. I design circuits for electronics on it, I run VMs on it, and I even post to slashdot on it. It also doubles as my media server and web server for when I'm away and need files from it.
It seems to me that the Desktop most M$ shills are looking for is the one that plays video games, not the one that actually does any proper work.
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I was with you up until the "motor cycle isn't as safe as a car" shit.
I don't think anybody ever claimed it was, and it isn't relevant anyway. It's a damn sight safer than flying the shuttle, but I guess you don't agree.
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You speak Welsh !
I stopped being a mechanic when I got tired of the spanner slipping off a nut causing me to punch the chassis while I was freezing my balls off on my back under a car in the shitty yard.
The money was shit too.
This says more about those people than it does about email. If they can't keep focussed on a subject without their mind wandering off because of incoming mail, then they need other remedies. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you must. Honestly people complain about all the demands on their time, and then deliberately put themselves in situations that increase those demands. Sounds to me like they are engineering an excuse to do less work.
I agree, and significantly that's why I stopped buying CDs. I am a fan of Pink Floyd, the real Floyd, before Roger Waters left. Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here. All of those albums were works of art, designed to be listened to in their entirety. But what happened on CD ? They put audible breaks in between the tracks. Ruined it completely for me, I may as well have recorded each track individually myself and slapped them together to form an album. Strangely enough, I can do that now and I make a better job of it than the official labels do.
This phenomenon is not unique to CDs either. Watching a movie on TV has got to be a pain these days due to the incessant ad breaks. You can't build an atmosphere and immerse the viewer in a situation when the dialogue switches to overly loud irrelevant material every 20 minutes. That's why I record things I want to see and rip the ads out - to restore the natural flow of the original work. I no longer have to keep the remote in my hand so I can rapidly turn the sound down to reasonable levels, I can sit back and absorb. Can you imagine a book where every 20 pages a loudspeaker erupts telling you that you're paying too much for car insurance ?
But everybody on Limewire isn't doing what safenet are doing, They are not able to either. It's one thing to keep logs of ip addresses, it's quite another to force ISPs to hand over user details based on those ip addresses. Your average user doesn't have that capability. ...
Come on, tell me my name and address, my ip is 86.153.73.150
I'm waiting
I'll just add that a "standard" does not imply that every device must use the same way of doing things, or that complying with a standard implies quality.
There is a thing called British Standards in the UK, where if you pass inspection and auditing you can use this accreditation on your sales literature.
Sounds good, until you realise that all the standard means is that whatever you do, you always do it the same way. So you could make utter crap, but as long as you do it the exact same way every time, you can get the BSI accreditation.
Time - that would be the point. You would spend less time clogging the pipe for other people, so more would get done. Instead of waiting for a file to download, you would get it quicker and be using it sooner, thereby saving time. More would be getting done. So the ISPs *would* be giving you faster speeds.
Oblig. car analogy : Why would we waste money building 6 lane highways, when you are only going to use it to get to work the same every day. Answer - because *everybody* gets there quicker. It's a sign of the ridiculous notion that more bandwidth means more usage. Why ? If I can transmit a packet 100 times faster than before, it doesn't mean that I have to make more packets to use that extra 99% capacity up. In fact speed would help to generate more capacity by leaving more time for other users. Remember them - the other people who might want to use the same lines ? Of course not, it's all me, me, me.
It's interesting that this story comes after the one about efficiency, which is doing more with less, but when it comes to the net, people just want more and fuck the efficiency. Can you imagine a situation where a city improves the water infrastructure to allow for growth, and the existing residents decide to leave the taps running all day because now they can ?
I know that I would prefer faster speeds over an increase in my cap. I know what waiting time costs. I wouldn't just slam on a few HD movie downloads to use the extra bandwidth, any more than I go surfing youtube while waiting for a linux iso to download. It's counter-productive.
Rubbish. BT never laid any fibre to consumer premises. Private cable companies did, but mainly when new estates were built in the 60's and 70's. So BT couldn't even have checked for fibre as it wasn't part of their network. And in the early days of ADSL, BT was the only game in town.
If you consider the news about Fannie/Freddie then from this side of the pond it looks like "action" was taken to prevent any further bad American debt. If the LSE was running, billions would have flowed out of the UK into the US.
Either way, I consider it lucky. So what if somebody doesn't make their trading bonus, we're talking about the stability of nations.</paranoia>
I, for one, am curious about the effects of moving all this CO2 into the oceans. Surly this will not be without it's consequences.
Have you never heard of limestone ? Guess how it was formed.
They got divided by the British empire over the ambiguous decision of calling the zone with mostly Muslims "Pakistan".
ORLY ?
What is now Pakistan was in prehistoric times the Indus Valley civilization (c. 2500 - 1700 B.C.). A series of invaders - Aryans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and others - controlled the region for the next several thousand years. Islam, the principal religion, was introduced in 711. In 1526, the land became part of the Mogul Empire, which ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to the mid-18th century. By 1857, the British became the dominant power in the region. With Hindus holding most of the economic, social, and political advantages, the Muslim minority's dissatisfaction grew, leading to the formation of the nationalist Muslim League in 1906 by Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876 - 1949). The league supported Britain in the Second World War while the Hindu nationalist leaders, Nehru and Gandhi, refused. In return for the league's support of Britain, Jinnah expected British backing for Muslim autonomy. Britain agreed to the formation of Pakistan as a separate dominion within the Commonwealth in Aug. 1947, a bitter disappointment to India's dream of a unified subcontinent. Jinnah became governor-general. The partition of Pakistan and India along religious lines resulted in the largest migration in human history, with 17 million people fleeing across the borders in both directions to escape the accompanying sectarian violence.
My bold.
That reads to me like certain powerful Muslims asked for the partition. But then how would you know, you're only half Afghani.
So I now have ebuyer in my hosts file pointing to localhost with a rewrite rule pointing to this statement
WARNING
Everytime you buy from Ebuyer you end up regretting it !
You do realise that since 2001, you have had to fight for refunds with a total value of over £1000 !
On your head be it !
Oh, and you can't do client-side prediction in real-world telepresence. I wouldn't want to be in the room when someone was operating a remote machine with high latency.
So surgery is right out then ?
Do you mean the frequency is increasing ?
Aah, the scientific illuminati of slashdot.
Home viewed movies were big business due to VHS, so DVD was a hit. Movies aren't an expanding market anymore, and what they do make is usually crap.
If there was compelling content, then HD would take off.
In my experience of a Sony Vaio, they run just fine. I bought one in 2001 and it's still running after being lugged around the world, living in a truck, being dropped etc. The only bit that doesn't work is the pc card slot, as I dropped it while I had a wifi adapter in it. The socket was ripped right off the mainboard but the laptop runs fine.
Amusingly, it has an AMD 1GHz speedstep cpu which was quite quick at the time, and now the speeds are coming back my way. I wouldn't sell it for anything - its been a lot of places I have and never let me down.
goatses boyfriend ?
A Faraday cage needs the cage and the object to be electrically separated. Otherwise, you just gave your device a big antenna.