According to a comment someone left on the site, they apparently had records for the IP address 192.168.1.1 which have since been removed. So their data collection process is probably busted. (They probably got caught in the usual trap of assuming that trackers provide an accurate list of peers, or worse still assuming that DHT does.)
Also, it appears the main ads to be unblocked so far are Sedo domain-parking ones. You know, the annoying ones you see when a domain squatter has noticed a useful website's domain has expired and decides to make a cheap buck off their traffic by sticking up a content-free page of irrelevant ads. They technically meet Adblock Plus' new definition of "acceptable ads", mostly because they don't need to draw the viewer's attention - there's nothing else on the site for them to look at!
Google ads apparently aren't unblocked (yet), but someone on Hacker News asked the developer earlier and apparently monetization is part of the plan:
I don't think that we get anything yet but we indeed hope to get some income this way to make the project sustainable. This doesn't mean that paying us is the requirement to be added to the exceptions list - the requirements a formulated here and they will probably become more precise as we gain experience (suggestions are welcome). As to Google: no, they have nothing to do with it. We didn't talk to Google, we didn't take money from them, there is no conspiracy here. We did look at Google Ads as a typical example (unblocking them is the most common request we get yet most people lack the knowledge for that) but they don't meet our requirements at the moment. Google's search ads are a different thing and they can meet our requirements depending on how the website configures them - and we did add an exception for them on one particular website.
What proportion of people that don't drink alcohol are doing it because of a health condition that prevents them from doing so, though? Correlation is not the same as causation.
Apparently they're not the only person that's been seeing this, and it sounds like the installer with Google Chrome bundled doesn't gives any option to not install it or warn you that it's going to. You're meant to download a different, non-default and somewhat hidden installer.exe from the Flash website if you don't want to end up with Google Chrome automatically installed. According to that bug report, it can even railroad you to install Chrome if you got there from a prompt in Firefox warning you that Flash is out of date!
Income tax is paid on the difference between the option price and the share price at the time you exercise your options, but you only actually see any money from them when you sell your options. So you can end up with a huge income tax bill for income you never saw a penny of. In the case of options which restrict your ability to sell the shares after exercising them, you can even end up paying income tax on income you couldn't possibly ever have seen a single penny of.
Do you believe that there is this fixed pool of wealth and that the only way for me to have more is for you to have less?
In theory that doesn't have to be true. In practice, the easiest way to get wealthy is to skim off money that would otherwise have gone to other people, whether it's through skimming people's pension schemes through excessive fees on their 401(k)'s or running pump-and-dump-style IPOs or even just getting a monopoly and charging every business in the country through the nose for your product like Microsoft did. (In fact, I think economically speaking it may well be the only way to become individually wealthy even though there's no fixed pool of wealth.)
Some are lucky, some are lucky for a decade only to be completely blindsided when the environment changes.
Some are just lucky and have been completely clueless all along. Statistically speaking, there's bound to be a few of them and there's no way to tell them apart from the genuinely skilled based on their past performance.
At least some of Apple's iPad design patents only cover the front of the device, and the front of Samsung's tablet is a lot more similar to that photo frame than it is to the iPad...
Then said airlines need to to invest in proper GPS equipment, instead of shit-ass receivers that don't know what the fuck 1575.42 MHz [wikipedia.org] means. LightSquared's licensed spectrum is 1525-1559 MHz, and GPS L1 is 1575.42 MHz.
The trouble is that there's no such thing as a perfect filter - they don't actually cut off all frequencies at the cut-off point, instead their attenuation increases as you get further from it. The unwanted LightSquared signal is so much more powerful than the GPS signals the receivers are trying to pick up that apparently at that distance it's pretty much impossible to filter it out enough to stop the remnant from overwhelming their input stages and interfering with GPS reception.
jailbreakme.com was quite complicated behind the scenes; IIRC it had a very carefully implemented exploit for a kernel-mode vulnerability that had to be crafted so as not to crash anything.
In practice it was usually more like "white men brutally kill black man for existing whilst black. Jury picked from the local population, which just happens to be entirely white, refuses to convict them of murder because they believe, contrary to the law of the land, that blacks aren't human". It is kind of a problem though.
Because you want to record a video? Pretty much all mobile phones have hardware allowing them to encode video in real time these days; some of the newer smartphones even support recording in 1080p.
He's not exactly biased, he just doesn't grasp how weird the patent situation around h.264 is. Apparently a lot of the patents are quite narrow and easy to avoid because narrow patents are easier to defend in court, and the various companies just rely on their control of the standardization process to make sure that the standard is written in such a way that it necessarily infringes their patents. On2 claim to have worked around all the patents.
Chrome of course is "secure" because it protects against malicious extensions by restricting them to the point they can't actually do a lot of things people want them to do. Talk about spin...
The key part is that the female-oriented yaoi leans strongly towards depicting skinnier, more effeminate guys, whereas bara (which is mostly aimed at gay men) tends to have men who are more muscular and chubbier. In other words, the exact opposite of your claimed evolutionary conditioning.
So basically the people watching the videos still have to pay license fees for the players they need to view them with, and the companies streaming the videos still need to pay license fees for the encoders required to produce the videos, MPEG LA have just graciously agreed not to charge a license fee for streaming them from the fee-paying encoders to the fee-paying decoders unless the end users have to pay for access.
it's called earning by working. You work and earn money and you buy your own private piece of land.
With the jobs that aren't going to exist for much longer and don't provide enough money for you to be able to do that even while they still do?
There is always a sale at the right price.
No there isn't. You're not going to be able to get land for less than the market values it at, and guess what - whilst automation is making human labour less and less valuable and in demand, land remains scarce and valuable.
The primary differences between older designs and newer designs is that newer designs have more and more passive safety features. They still work the same way: Fission converts mass into heat, heat is converted into electricity, and you have to make sure you don't generate more heat than you can remove or it gets too hot.
I'm pretty sure the details of how the fission process and the temperature of the reactor are controlled and monitored are a lot less trivial than you're implying. The reactor core is hot enough and has a high enough neutron flux that it's difficult to put any kind of sensors in the core itself. Then you've got fun things to deal with like the dimensional and structural stability of all the materials you're using; while this is a mostly solved problem these days, they're using an unusual choice of material (hafnium hydride) for the control rods because the traditional boron carbide apparently wouldn't last long enough.
As for cooling, that's not exactly trivial either. This design appears to have a particularly fiddly cooling setup; not only does it use highly reactive liquid sodium, but it's got a complex system involving different rates of coolant flow through different parts of the core which have to be adjusted at refueling time. They've dealt with the problem of loss of the primary sodium coolant by basically assuming that it can never happen! Refuelling looks to be tricky too; it uses mechanisms permanently installed in the reactor pressure vessel that are going to be inaccessible for maintenance and difficult to monitor in action. Oh, and the refuelling mechanisms have to replace the control rods once those reach the end of their life too; even using hafnium hydride they're not going to last long enough. Better hope the spares stored within the reactor vessel haven't become damaged in the same way because it's not like you're really going to be able to inspect them!
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According to a comment someone left on the site, they apparently had records for the IP address 192.168.1.1 which have since been removed. So their data collection process is probably busted. (They probably got caught in the usual trap of assuming that trackers provide an accurate list of peers, or worse still assuming that DHT does.)
Also, it appears the main ads to be unblocked so far are Sedo domain-parking ones. You know, the annoying ones you see when a domain squatter has noticed a useful website's domain has expired and decides to make a cheap buck off their traffic by sticking up a content-free page of irrelevant ads. They technically meet Adblock Plus' new definition of "acceptable ads", mostly because they don't need to draw the viewer's attention - there's nothing else on the site for them to look at!
Google ads apparently aren't unblocked (yet), but someone on Hacker News asked the developer earlier and apparently monetization is part of the plan:
I don't think that we get anything yet but we indeed hope to get some income this way to make the project sustainable. This doesn't mean that paying us is the requirement to be added to the exceptions list - the requirements a formulated here and they will probably become more precise as we gain experience (suggestions are welcome). As to Google: no, they have nothing to do with it. We didn't talk to Google, we didn't take money from them, there is no conspiracy here. We did look at Google Ads as a typical example (unblocking them is the most common request we get yet most people lack the knowledge for that) but they don't meet our requirements at the moment. Google's search ads are a different thing and they can meet our requirements depending on how the website configures them - and we did add an exception for them on one particular website.
What proportion of people that don't drink alcohol are doing it because of a health condition that prevents them from doing so, though? Correlation is not the same as causation.
Apparently they're not the only person that's been seeing this, and it sounds like the installer with Google Chrome bundled doesn't gives any option to not install it or warn you that it's going to. You're meant to download a different, non-default and somewhat hidden installer .exe from the Flash website if you don't want to end up with Google Chrome automatically installed. According to that bug report, it can even railroad you to install Chrome if you got there from a prompt in Firefox warning you that Flash is out of date!
Income tax is paid on the difference between the option price and the share price at the time you exercise your options, but you only actually see any money from them when you sell your options. So you can end up with a huge income tax bill for income you never saw a penny of. In the case of options which restrict your ability to sell the shares after exercising them, you can even end up paying income tax on income you couldn't possibly ever have seen a single penny of.
Do you believe that there is this fixed pool of wealth and that the only way for me to have more is for you to have less?
In theory that doesn't have to be true. In practice, the easiest way to get wealthy is to skim off money that would otherwise have gone to other people, whether it's through skimming people's pension schemes through excessive fees on their 401(k)'s or running pump-and-dump-style IPOs or even just getting a monopoly and charging every business in the country through the nose for your product like Microsoft did. (In fact, I think economically speaking it may well be the only way to become individually wealthy even though there's no fixed pool of wealth.)
Some are lucky, some are lucky for a decade only to be completely blindsided when the environment changes.
Some are just lucky and have been completely clueless all along. Statistically speaking, there's bound to be a few of them and there's no way to tell them apart from the genuinely skilled based on their past performance.
Apparently their SCSI implementations were often horribly, horribly broken. They've always been of dubious quality.
At least some of Apple's iPad design patents only cover the front of the device, and the front of Samsung's tablet is a lot more similar to that photo frame than it is to the iPad...
Then said airlines need to to invest in proper GPS equipment, instead of shit-ass receivers that don't know what the fuck 1575.42 MHz [wikipedia.org] means. LightSquared's licensed spectrum is 1525-1559 MHz, and GPS L1 is 1575.42 MHz.
The trouble is that there's no such thing as a perfect filter - they don't actually cut off all frequencies at the cut-off point, instead their attenuation increases as you get further from it. The unwanted LightSquared signal is so much more powerful than the GPS signals the receivers are trying to pick up that apparently at that distance it's pretty much impossible to filter it out enough to stop the remnant from overwhelming their input stages and interfering with GPS reception.
jailbreakme.com was quite complicated behind the scenes; IIRC it had a very carefully implemented exploit for a kernel-mode vulnerability that had to be crafted so as not to crash anything.
Chrome doesn't use the standalone Flash Player, it has its own, internal Flash Player, so the two downloads are totally incongruous
You're assuming that Google care that you obviously had no intention of installing or using Chrome. This is a bad assumption.
This is both a performance problem and a security problem. Even add-ons aren't yet running in separate processes.
On the other hand, plugins like Flash are run in a separate process and have been for quite a while. It does wonders for browser stability.
In practice it was usually more like "white men brutally kill black man for existing whilst black. Jury picked from the local population, which just happens to be entirely white, refuses to convict them of murder because they believe, contrary to the law of the land, that blacks aren't human". It is kind of a problem though.
Because you want to record a video? Pretty much all mobile phones have hardware allowing them to encode video in real time these days; some of the newer smartphones even support recording in 1080p.
He's not exactly biased, he just doesn't grasp how weird the patent situation around h.264 is. Apparently a lot of the patents are quite narrow and easy to avoid because narrow patents are easier to defend in court, and the various companies just rely on their control of the standardization process to make sure that the standard is written in such a way that it necessarily infringes their patents. On2 claim to have worked around all the patents.
Chrome of course is "secure" because it protects against malicious extensions by restricting them to the point they can't actually do a lot of things people want them to do. Talk about spin...
The key part is that the female-oriented yaoi leans strongly towards depicting skinnier, more effeminate guys, whereas bara (which is mostly aimed at gay men) tends to have men who are more muscular and chubbier. In other words, the exact opposite of your claimed evolutionary conditioning.
Good luck running x264 on your mobile phone, which is the platform both of those hardware encoders are targetting.
In fact, there have been submarine patent attacks on h.264 in the past, whereas WebM hasn't encountered any yet.
So basically the people watching the videos still have to pay license fees for the players they need to view them with, and the companies streaming the videos still need to pay license fees for the encoders required to produce the videos, MPEG LA have just graciously agreed not to charge a license fee for streaming them from the fee-paying encoders to the fee-paying decoders unless the end users have to pay for access.
it's called earning by working. You work and earn money and you buy your own private piece of land.
With the jobs that aren't going to exist for much longer and don't provide enough money for you to be able to do that even while they still do?
There is always a sale at the right price.
No there isn't. You're not going to be able to get land for less than the market values it at, and guess what - whilst automation is making human labour less and less valuable and in demand, land remains scarce and valuable.
Evolution has conditioned males to be attracted to thin females, while females have evolved to be attracted to heavier men.
Errrm, that fails to explain certain things. Such as, for example, all the yaoi fangirls - or indeed yaoi in general!
The primary differences between older designs and newer designs is that newer designs have more and more passive safety features. They still work the same way: Fission converts mass into heat, heat is converted into electricity, and you have to make sure you don't generate more heat than you can remove or it gets too hot.
I'm pretty sure the details of how the fission process and the temperature of the reactor are controlled and monitored are a lot less trivial than you're implying. The reactor core is hot enough and has a high enough neutron flux that it's difficult to put any kind of sensors in the core itself. Then you've got fun things to deal with like the dimensional and structural stability of all the materials you're using; while this is a mostly solved problem these days, they're using an unusual choice of material (hafnium hydride) for the control rods because the traditional boron carbide apparently wouldn't last long enough.
As for cooling, that's not exactly trivial either. This design appears to have a particularly fiddly cooling setup; not only does it use highly reactive liquid sodium, but it's got a complex system involving different rates of coolant flow through different parts of the core which have to be adjusted at refueling time. They've dealt with the problem of loss of the primary sodium coolant by basically assuming that it can never happen! Refuelling looks to be tricky too; it uses mechanisms permanently installed in the reactor pressure vessel that are going to be inaccessible for maintenance and difficult to monitor in action. Oh, and the refuelling mechanisms have to replace the control rods once those reach the end of their life too; even using hafnium hydride they're not going to last long enough. Better hope the spares stored within the reactor vessel haven't become damaged in the same way because it's not like you're really going to be able to inspect them!