Well said. The act of uploading recorded events makes the recorder/uploader a journalist. The media is the message, and the message defines a journalist?
What a crock. Someone who merely uploads recorded events (like a blog) is no more a journalist than someone who changes the oil in his car is a mechanic or someone who assembles his Ikea furniture is an Engineer.
If Bill Gates and Steve Balmer can lie in court without getting charged, why not the rest of us?
If George Bush can lie and have hundreds of thousands of innocent people killed as aa result, why not the rest of us?
As an aside, why isn't that asshead being impeached? They tried to get Clinton impeached and all he did as pork his intern. I guess the moral standards have been lowered somewhat.
And to make sure that happens I will fearlessly vote Republican! No matter how many fake - I mean justified! - wars they start. We need all that oil back in Texas under Christian control where it belongs!
Yes, yes. Blah blah. Heard it all before. Big brother government is spending billions to figure out what brand of corn I buy and will shoot me in my sleep when they do.
Wrong. Firing a device upon a car, when there is no search warrant, and no probable cause is a failure of my rights under the Constitution, as this is an unwarranted search.
I cannot see how this could possibly be called an illegal search - or search at all. The only thing it could possibly be is tracking, which is not really illegal.
G3 class PowerPCs can be flown, that's 300Mhz or so.
Yes a G3 class processor is flown, but not at 300MHz - that's the terrestrial version (the PPC 750). The space version is radiation hardened by derating the clock to 166MHz, and removing the off board cache. As a result, the effective speed is about the same as a Pentium.
The shuttle used hand woven magnetic core memory until 1990.
It's obselete crap, even after the 1990 upgrade. It was designed in the 60s and the only reason it wasn't decomissioned 3 decades ago was political, no one wanted to admit they dumped billions of dollars down the toilet.
You should really research things before placing an opinion. It would really reduce the amount of bullshit you write.
You can't really fly anything beyond Pentium class of processor because you get radiation upsets. Even at that you have to disable the cache. The shuttle uses proven technology, which is by necessity older, because the computers have to be fault tolerant.
No the shuttle and station run on older stuff because those processors are radiation immune, and they are critical systems that cannot crash. The laptops are for everyday work that do not interface to the shuttles systems. If they crash from the radiation, the astronauts simply put it aside and grab another one.
For all we know it was an amazingly good design. Amazing enough that they evolved both flight and brain power, increased their scientific knowledge sufficiently enought to design spacecraft and left the planet with all the other dinosaurs. Explains the sudden dissapearance perfectly well.
Sarcasm on: Yeah, NASA has no experience working with complexity. The Apollo spacecraft and the Space Shuttle are just so primitive compared to a new Ford truck with Microsoft auto software.
Let's compare..
The Apollo on board computer had a grand total of 4k of memory. That included the guidance system to land on the moon. I doubt Microsoft could write 'hello world' in 4k.
The space shuttle has 10 milliion lines on code in the onboard computers, and has enough smarts to land from orbit completely automated.
Ford and Microsoft's software, called 'Sync' allows drivers to make hands-free phone calls, listen to music on digital media players and have cell phone text messages read aloud. Hardly in the same class of complexity.
If the service is in the Beta phase it's Label. If it's in Alpha, it would be tag.
No, a 'Label' is a piece of paper or some other tangible medium with information on it that is firmly affixed to an item (like the Dell label on my monitor). A tag is the same thing, but instead of being attached directly on the product it it only partially attached such that it 'hangs off', such as the tag on my matress, or on the ear of the deer in my backyard that the environmentalist relased..
I always get a kick out of how blindly everyone around here thrashes conservatives and praises liberals. I'm a liberal myself, but I don't pretend for one second that the liberal politicians or groups are any "better" or "worse" than their conservative counterparts; even independents have their problems.
Yes they are all corrupt or unethical in some manner.
The difference as I see it is republicans screw over the entire US population and selective populations of other countries that happen to have something they want, while Democrats just screw interns.
But this is exactly what happens with global warming, kooks get quoted as dissenting voices. So the public thinks there's lots of "problems" with it.
This is why the creationist funamentalist kooks should never be allowed on the news. They are by far in the vast minority of public opinion, so they are obviously wrong and should be ingored.
But the press should give unbiased representation to both sides, so that people can draw their own conclusions - it's their job. Can you imagine the flak if a reporter did a science story then said "While the conclusion is obvious to over 99% of the population, some crackpots still disagree. We searched hard to find one such moron with a dissenting view and here he is. Sir, are you on crack or just plain stupid?"
Ok, so we have new islands from globabl warming. That's great! Why not get the people that had to leave their homes because their island sunk, to move to these new islands? No problem!
Ok, lets do this another way. Think of a lightning strike - because of the finite speed of light, when you see the flash the lightning has already occured so you are seeing something that has already happened - the past. But accorning to your logic, you are seeing the present, not the past, since you are perceiving it in the hear and now.
Now, several seconds later you hear the thunder. That sound is also from the past, from the same exact event in time as the flash of light. But according to your logic that sound is happening now. Therefore the only conclusion you can make with your logic is that the sound and light are two separate events since you perceived them at two different times.
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I think your geek status on Slashdot went down a bit as soon as you said 'wife'
Let me guess... You own a gun, a pickup truck and a hound dog. There's probably another car up on blocks in front of your trailer too, isn't there?
Clinton was not impeached - he was cleared.
I would say killing innocent people is the most heinous thing anyone can do.
If George Bush can lie and have hundreds of thousands of innocent people killed as aa result, why not the rest of us?
As an aside, why isn't that asshead being impeached? They tried to get Clinton impeached and all he did as pork his intern. I guess the moral standards have been lowered somewhat.
Still not illegal to follow someone in a public place. Therefore no warrant is needed, even if a different technology is used.
You know, this whole graphics argument is getting Wii-lly Wii-diculous..
And to make sure that happens I will fearlessly vote Republican! No matter how many fake - I mean justified! - wars they start. We need all that oil back in Texas under Christian control where it belongs!
Yes, yes. Blah blah. Heard it all before. Big brother government is spending billions to figure out what brand of corn I buy and will shoot me in my sleep when they do.
There are drugs you can take for that paranoia...
I cannot see how this could possibly be called an illegal search - or search at all. The only thing it could possibly be is tracking, which is not really illegal.
and by the time that happens, the criminal is long gone.
That's called stalking which IS illegal - nothing else anyone here said is or should be illegal though.
You should really research things before placing an opinion. It would really reduce the amount of bullshit you write.
You can't really fly anything beyond Pentium class of processor because you get radiation upsets. Even at that you have to disable the cache. The shuttle uses proven technology, which is by necessity older, because the computers have to be fault tolerant.
No the shuttle and station run on older stuff because those processors are radiation immune, and they are critical systems that cannot crash. The laptops are for everyday work that do not interface to the shuttles systems. If they crash from the radiation, the astronauts simply put it aside and grab another one.
For all we know it was an amazingly good design. Amazing enough that they evolved both flight and brain power, increased their scientific knowledge sufficiently enought to design spacecraft and left the planet with all the other dinosaurs. Explains the sudden dissapearance perfectly well.
Let's compare..
The Apollo on board computer had a grand total of 4k of memory. That included the guidance system to land on the moon. I doubt Microsoft could write 'hello world' in 4k.
The space shuttle has 10 milliion lines on code in the onboard computers, and has enough smarts to land from orbit completely automated.
Ford and Microsoft's software, called 'Sync' allows drivers to make hands-free phone calls, listen to music on digital media players and have cell phone text messages read aloud. Hardly in the same class of complexity.
No, a 'Label' is a piece of paper or some other tangible medium with information on it that is firmly affixed to an item (like the Dell label on my monitor). A tag is the same thing, but instead of being attached directly on the product it it only partially attached such that it 'hangs off', such as the tag on my matress, or on the ear of the deer in my backyard that the environmentalist relased..
Yes they are all corrupt or unethical in some manner.
The difference as I see it is republicans screw over the entire US population and selective populations of other countries that happen to have something they want, while Democrats just screw interns.
This is why the creationist funamentalist kooks should never be allowed on the news. They are by far in the vast minority of public opinion, so they are obviously wrong and should be ingored.
But the press should give unbiased representation to both sides, so that people can draw their own conclusions - it's their job. Can you imagine the flak if a reporter did a science story then said "While the conclusion is obvious to over 99% of the population, some crackpots still disagree. We searched hard to find one such moron with a dissenting view and here he is. Sir, are you on crack or just plain stupid?"
Ok, so we have new islands from globabl warming. That's great! Why not get the people that had to leave their homes because their island sunk, to move to these new islands? No problem!
The centennial coins from 1967 had a different set of animals - dove, rabbit, mackerel (fish), wilcat, wolf and goose.
Here's a site with more than you've ever wanted to know about Canadian coins over tbe years: http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/coins.html
Ok, lets do this another way. Think of a lightning strike - because of the finite speed of light, when you see the flash the lightning has already occured so you are seeing something that has already happened - the past. But accorning to your logic, you are seeing the present, not the past, since you are perceiving it in the hear and now.
Now, several seconds later you hear the thunder. That sound is also from the past, from the same exact event in time as the flash of light. But according to your logic that sound is happening now. Therefore the only conclusion you can make with your logic is that the sound and light are two separate events since you perceived them at two different times.