After seeing how Fox can absolutely murder excellent shows with their weekly schedule ramdomizing game (Futurama, Firefly, etc), I'd MUCH rather see Futurama get picked up by Comedy Central, or Cartoon Network than back on Fox.
Screw you Fox, you blew it.
Apparently the reason the original post contains a photo unrelated to the story in any way is that the ACTUAL photo that goes with the story looks like a sloppy pile of garbaged stacked with the care of an autistic child told to put away his toys before he can have cake.
I guess Canadians define the words "free" and "right" differently than Americans. In America "free" doesn't mean "taxed through the ass to pay for" and "right" doesn't mean "something someone else has to give me".
The first thing we could do to solve the health care crisis, is stop using the word "crisis".
Factually, about 16 percent of the population doesn't have health insurance. Some percentage of them are VOLUNTARILY without insurance, choosing not to pay for it because they are young and healthy (and arguably stupid). Some other percentage are between jobs or coverage periods.
Some remainder amount are involuntarily without coverage...except that doesn't mean "without healthcare". That's the suggestion we're supposed to believe, but it's a lie.
If you lined up the 100 staunchest supporters of nationalized healthcare from this thread, and quized them, I bet you'd find about 99 people saying they're very happy with their OWN healthcare, but are worried about other people.
The fact is, the VAST majority of Americans have healthcare insurance, and are very satisfied with it. I'm not sure how you consider that system to be broken without betraying and underlying agenda or ignorance.
Very valid point. The ROI is directly dependent on the expense it's replacing. California and Florida have the shortest ROI on home solar due to their combination of high electricity prices, large governmental subsidies, and sunlight density.
If oil went up to $500 a barrel tomorrow, the ROI on solar becomes VERY interesting even in sunlight poor areas.
As an interesting perspective, the proposed $700 billion bailout currently under consideration by the government would fund 100% of home solar power needs for 35 million US homes.
you, and many others, managed to miss the point entirely.
That being that it's difficult to get excited over new breakthroughs in photovoltaic panels, when exciting breakthrough are announced ever few months never to be heard about again once the ooh's and aaah's quiet down.
Want to impress me? Actually PRODUCE the stuff.
cool? yes, but only in the most esoteric sense. I've said MANY times before, fantastic new photovoltaic technology is announced every 6 months or so, NONE of it ever reaches the market.
Call me when the ROI on home solar breaks the 20 year mark in my area. Right now it's almost 100 years.
"Speed-Demon is not the first speed monitor, but it is the first product that tracks speed only when drivers exceed a limit that parents or someone else can set, instead of tracking speed and location all the time. "
so what he's invented is a "policy" not a new product. Wow, bar is set pretty low for inventions these days. I set up an inbox rule to delete mail from my ex girlfriend, should I alert the media?
according to accident statistics, talking to other people in the car is the #2 cause of driver distraction accidents. Second only to rubbernecking at stuff outside the car.
cell phones barely make the list. According to anecdotal evidence, they're the #1 cause of "almost had an accident", but for real accidents they barely make the list.
I'm a long way from an apple fanboy, but I do own an iPod and think it's the worst MP3 player I've ever owned for a variety of reasons, but this is just outright bullshit.
My iPod is jammed to the max with music that I've bought online, and not one single song is from the iTunes store.
Now if they wanted to say the iTunes store should be required to sell music in formats that non Apple players could use, then that might make a shred of sense, but this is just weird.
This reminds me of another "high tech" building here in Seattle.
A friend of mine bought a condo in this new building that was so high tech it had a palm scanner to gain access to the lobby. The only problem was bums keps urinating on it and shorting it out. So they put a keypad access cover over the palm scanner and issued all the residents pins.
Eventually everyone got tired of having to enter a pin, just to use a buggy palm scanner and they hired a doorman.
well, if you're talking less than 20 hard drives total, something just aint right. If you're talking about more than 100, then it's something you just have to live with. somewhere in the middle, I'd start paying attention to what make/model of drives were failing.
In other news it was recently discovered that security devices known as "keys" , commonly used in doors, cars and padlocks, can be duplicated using specialized machinery.
There is apparently a sub-industry in this country devoted to no other purpose than producing duplicates of these "keys". Congress is investigating and considering making "key duplication" technologs punishable under the DMCA.
Seriously though, why is this interesting? Ok, so you can make a mold of a finger that has fingerprints on it. Is that in some way surprising to someone? Does any method of defeating security that involves having access to the original key (finger) for an extended period of time really concern anyone?
Why this is on slashdot I don't really care, but why did this get published in the first place, anywhere??
What does this have to do with cameras, or ipods, or anything of the sort? This is a security issue that has existed since the dawn of the idea of computer security.
Whether it's taking a reel of paper tape out the door with you, or bluetooth copying data to your cell phone what's the freaking difference?
This article reads like a writer just discovered that you can put data other than music on a camera and thinks he's found some kind of espionage loophole. I thought the article was going to be about taking pictures of sensitive data, but it turned out to be even dumber than that.
hey, I didn't say I believed it.
In fact, I have no reason to believe I myself have a soul. And I can't be anymore than 48% evil, which in my opinion means I'm mostly good.
Most of the people here seem to have missed the point. This is not a product for you guys sitting in your mom's basement in the dark. This is for people who actually leave the house and do things called "activities".
Personally, I've been waiting on the Oakley Thump to come down in price to a level that didn't make me laugh. These may just be a good alternative.
What are they good for? well, bike riding, jogging, yard work...all of the things I like to have music for. I've developed a real distaste for having my earphones forcible jerked out of my head every few minutes since the cord has a magical property to entangle in things it had no reason to.
Are they ugly? Sure they are. Which of you was trying to make a fashion statement with your MP3 player in the first place?
Ever seen the faces on the post office wall? Or on the side of a milk carton? Or mug shots or headshots used in a pictorial line up or even a real line up?
Ok, I gotta ask.
What the hell are you talking about? What does any of that have to do with face transplants?
Are you suggesting criminals would use this to hide from prosecution? Not only is the appearance change likely to be minimal (since the bone structure is the same), but nothing stops them from having plastic surgery RIGHT NOW.
You sound like one of those nuts who thinks cloning should be illegal because they won't have souls and will be evil.
Considering that forensic anthropologists and pathologists recreate facial structures from bare skulls all the time, I think it's safe to say that the overlying skin plays far less of a part than the bone structure.
Pigmentation and texture may be different, and some fatty deposits may change, but overall the person should look pretty much the same. Or at least as "same" as a person who gains/loses a lot of weight.
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wouldn't be the first industry a union rode into oblivion by refusing to accept the inevitable changes brought by technology.
they had me at shutting down the presses.
After seeing how Fox can absolutely murder excellent shows with their weekly schedule ramdomizing game (Futurama, Firefly, etc), I'd MUCH rather see Futurama get picked up by Comedy Central, or Cartoon Network than back on Fox. Screw you Fox, you blew it.
Apparently the reason the original post contains a photo unrelated to the story in any way is that the ACTUAL photo that goes with the story looks like a sloppy pile of garbaged stacked with the care of an autistic child told to put away his toys before he can have cake.
I guess Canadians define the words "free" and "right" differently than Americans. In America "free" doesn't mean "taxed through the ass to pay for" and "right" doesn't mean "something someone else has to give me".
The first thing we could do to solve the health care crisis, is stop using the word "crisis". Factually, about 16 percent of the population doesn't have health insurance. Some percentage of them are VOLUNTARILY without insurance, choosing not to pay for it because they are young and healthy (and arguably stupid). Some other percentage are between jobs or coverage periods. Some remainder amount are involuntarily without coverage...except that doesn't mean "without healthcare". That's the suggestion we're supposed to believe, but it's a lie. If you lined up the 100 staunchest supporters of nationalized healthcare from this thread, and quized them, I bet you'd find about 99 people saying they're very happy with their OWN healthcare, but are worried about other people. The fact is, the VAST majority of Americans have healthcare insurance, and are very satisfied with it. I'm not sure how you consider that system to be broken without betraying and underlying agenda or ignorance.
How DARE you suggest that OS's be judged on usefulness rather than synthetic benchmarks!!! Do you know where you are? This...is...SLASHDOT!!!
like I said, call me when that happens.
Very valid point. The ROI is directly dependent on the expense it's replacing. California and Florida have the shortest ROI on home solar due to their combination of high electricity prices, large governmental subsidies, and sunlight density. If oil went up to $500 a barrel tomorrow, the ROI on solar becomes VERY interesting even in sunlight poor areas. As an interesting perspective, the proposed $700 billion bailout currently under consideration by the government would fund 100% of home solar power needs for 35 million US homes.
you, and many others, managed to miss the point entirely. That being that it's difficult to get excited over new breakthroughs in photovoltaic panels, when exciting breakthrough are announced ever few months never to be heard about again once the ooh's and aaah's quiet down. Want to impress me? Actually PRODUCE the stuff.
cool? yes, but only in the most esoteric sense. I've said MANY times before, fantastic new photovoltaic technology is announced every 6 months or so, NONE of it ever reaches the market. Call me when the ROI on home solar breaks the 20 year mark in my area. Right now it's almost 100 years.
wow, it really is invisible. and all it took was developing a new definition of the word "invisible".
If you read the article:
"Speed-Demon is not the first speed monitor, but it is the first product that tracks speed only when drivers exceed a limit that parents or someone else can set, instead of tracking speed and location all the time. "
so what he's invented is a "policy" not a new product. Wow, bar is set pretty low for inventions these days. I set up an inbox rule to delete mail from my ex girlfriend, should I alert the media?
cell phones barely make the list. According to anecdotal evidence, they're the #1 cause of "almost had an accident", but for real accidents they barely make the list.
Soon MS bashing will be 3rd or 4th post on every thread...then where will Slashdot be?
I'm a long way from an apple fanboy, but I do own an iPod and think it's the worst MP3 player I've ever owned for a variety of reasons, but this is just outright bullshit.
My iPod is jammed to the max with music that I've bought online, and not one single song is from the iTunes store.
Now if they wanted to say the iTunes store should be required to sell music in formats that non Apple players could use, then that might make a shred of sense, but this is just weird.
A friend of mine bought a condo in this new building that was so high tech it had a palm scanner to gain access to the lobby. The only problem was bums keps urinating on it and shorting it out. So they put a keypad access cover over the palm scanner and issued all the residents pins.
Eventually everyone got tired of having to enter a pin, just to use a buggy palm scanner and they hired a doorman.
well, if you're talking less than 20 hard drives total, something just aint right. If you're talking about more than 100, then it's something you just have to live with. somewhere in the middle, I'd start paying attention to what make/model of drives were failing.
if you have a couple of drives fail a year you have something wrong. fix it. I'd start with the power supply.
There is apparently a sub-industry in this country devoted to no other purpose than producing duplicates of these "keys". Congress is investigating and considering making "key duplication" technologs punishable under the DMCA.
Seriously though, why is this interesting? Ok, so you can make a mold of a finger that has fingerprints on it. Is that in some way surprising to someone? Does any method of defeating security that involves having access to the original key (finger) for an extended period of time really concern anyone?
What does this have to do with cameras, or ipods, or anything of the sort? This is a security issue that has existed since the dawn of the idea of computer security.
Whether it's taking a reel of paper tape out the door with you, or bluetooth copying data to your cell phone what's the freaking difference?
This article reads like a writer just discovered that you can put data other than music on a camera and thinks he's found some kind of espionage loophole. I thought the article was going to be about taking pictures of sensitive data, but it turned out to be even dumber than that.
hey, I didn't say I believed it. In fact, I have no reason to believe I myself have a soul. And I can't be anymore than 48% evil, which in my opinion means I'm mostly good.
Personally, I've been waiting on the Oakley Thump to come down in price to a level that didn't make me laugh. These may just be a good alternative.
What are they good for? well, bike riding, jogging, yard work...all of the things I like to have music for. I've developed a real distaste for having my earphones forcible jerked out of my head every few minutes since the cord has a magical property to entangle in things it had no reason to.
Are they ugly? Sure they are. Which of you was trying to make a fashion statement with your MP3 player in the first place?
What the hell are you talking about? What does any of that have to do with face transplants?
Are you suggesting criminals would use this to hide from prosecution? Not only is the appearance change likely to be minimal (since the bone structure is the same), but nothing stops them from having plastic surgery RIGHT NOW.
You sound like one of those nuts who thinks cloning should be illegal because they won't have souls and will be evil.
Considering that forensic anthropologists and pathologists recreate facial structures from bare skulls all the time, I think it's safe to say that the overlying skin plays far less of a part than the bone structure. Pigmentation and texture may be different, and some fatty deposits may change, but overall the person should look pretty much the same. Or at least as "same" as a person who gains/loses a lot of weight.