Actually, there are interesting parallels... when flying internationally, you try to catch a nap, only to have the attendants come by at the most inopportune times to offer you a snack/pillow/etc. By the time you land, you're generally suffering sleep deprivation. You then complete your business, and attempt to get back on your flight, still not having recovered from sleep deprivation and jet lag -- and are confronted with the TSA.
It's not as severe as the SPE, but the general traits reflected in the prisoners and wardens have disturbing parallels... and could explain why some passengers freak out in an airport for apparently very little reason (not speaking the language probably doesn't help things).
Dinosaurs != reptiles. However, I've seen a lot of birds hereabouts who would like to submit that they're pretty darn closely related to dinosaurs.
Maybe non-resistant species died off due to the dinosaur equivalent of an avian flu, and the rest adapted/mutated? The impact event likely hastened this process by completely eliminating species who couldn't adapt quickly enough... leaving us with quickly adapting species that continued to adapt to compete with the uprising of mammalian and insectoid species.
I always wonder at the fact that flying relatives survived, but marine relatives didn't -- and reptiles did.
Of course, the issue here is that the museum didn't own this, so it wasn't theirs to give to the garbage company in the first place. It was a NASA exhibit.
I'd be pretty annoyed if I loaned a labeled collection of some sort to somebody, they had an accident, tossed it out, someone else found it, and nobody told me.
Did NASA claim the insurance money? If not, they probably have a right to it. If they've already claimed for loss however, I don't see how they then have the right to just go back and take it... it's already been compensated for, eminent domain or no.
One day big media will understand that they need us more than we need them. Take away my movies, video games and music (that part would suck) and I wouldn't be too happy but I would eventually find something else to do. Occasionally I come across someone that doesn't watch tv and they seem happy. My friend Chris told me that he couldn't imagine being glued to the tv again. Fuck big media.
Big Media already understands all this... however, being Big Media, they control what the majority of people think, and have their hands on the demographic and statistical data that shows them what they can do that will give them the most advantage while pissing off the smallest proportion of potential customers. Being someone who is technologically savvy and a free thinker, you're likely sitting on the border of being in the "unprofitable" portion of society to them.
There's a reason Big Media has invested heavily in blog hosting systems, etc, and it's not because they want information to be free.
If the evidence is faulty then you can sue them over it and can possibly win in court. The ISP's will get a lot of negative publicity and customers will switch to a competitor who doesn't cut them off for no reason. Problem solved.
You do realize how silly this sounds, right? The companies listed hold a cartel on high speed internet access in most markets where they operate. They get a lot of negative publicity, and people will switch to... nobody. Because nobody in that list will sell them a subscription, as the sort of customer who gets cut off is a money loser for all of them anyway.
You can let the public use your property for free, but if people start doing illegal things on it, then you can be held liable. Even if there was people are accessing your Internet to do criminal activities, you have 6 notifications that it is being done and you need to secure your internet before any action is taken.
This I agree with. "securing your network" might not be "preventing external access" -- it might be placing sane firewall rules in place to prevent abuse of your service. Even some simple QoS filtering at your router would probably do the trick. Blacklisting MACs that attempt to saturate your bandwidth would likely take care of most of the rest. If it doesn't, this likely takes you only to strike 4, and you then need to think about switching providers, or limiting your WiFi.
This assumes you can tell you're not talking to an actual person. A good interface on top of Watson should be almost indistinguishable from a person following a script. Personally, I dislike talking to script readers and tend to escalate anyway... and Watson should be able to escalate to a person as easily as a script reader.
It also appears to have brainwashed people into believing that Socialism is some sort of monster that comes in the night and takes away your capitalist and democratic privileges. The fact is that if the Government is collecting taxes, they're either socialist, or they're taking money from the people for next to no benefit. The US military, for example, is a socialist edifice -- the US hires a standing army to protect the citizens, and collects money from said citizens in a tiered fashion to pay for the system. If people truly fear and loathe socialism, they should push the government to disband the standing army and revert to defense by militias. Get them to cut off subsidies to specific industries (like corn growers) while they're at it.
To play salesman's advocate, it IS possible that Best Buy is getting ripped off on their cable prices, either upon purchase, or at the list price provided to managers. Likely the reason they removed the cheap cables from the store was kickbacks from the main supplier -- so the cable actually lists at an extravagant price (meaning the salesperson needs to upsell from $20 to make a profit) but the chain itself gets some of that money back (free shipping, no questions asked return policy, order credits, etc).
There are plenty of myths regarding dirty power... when I refreshed myself on how AC, AC/DC conversion, stepping transformers, power grids, etc. actually operate, the differences between copper and aluminium wiring, and had a peek inside some of these "filtering" power bars, I realized something: Most power filter bars have absolutely nothing to do with dirty power.
When you get a power bar, there are basically 6 types: 1) straight parallel splitter 2) splitter with fuse (spike/groundfault suppression) 3) splitter with surge suppression (fuse plus small capacitor array) 4) splitter with surge and brownout suppression (fuse plus large capacitor array) 5) splitter with dirty filter (fuse, large capacitor array, and non-stepping transformer) 6) UPS (fuse, battery-backed capacitor array, and optional non-stepping transformer)
What most people end up spending $30-80 on is #3. These are often sold by the retailers as "power filters," but the packaging is usually pretty explicit, at least in the paper insert, as to what they protect.
Since most modern houses have some groundfault suppression built in to the wiring, and many have a non-stepping transformer at the fuse box, "dirty" power, where the AC is not at an even frequency, duration and amplitude, is only an issue if you have something noisy plugged into your internal circuit (cheap microwaves for example). The ground fault circuit takes care of most grounding issues, leaving you with the issue of power surges.
Now, beyond this, you usually have another layer of protection in digital devices: the AC/DC converter. If this is a discount device built in to your hardware, in a brick on the cable, or in a wall wart, you can actually be ADDING noise to your house circuit, and providing your electronics with a poor DC feed. If these are high quality, they will introduce minimal noise to the circuit and will normalize most noise coming into the device from the circuit.
The only place you really really have to worry about line noise is when you're getting a direct AC feed into an electronic device, which is extremely rare (most digital electronics are 5v or 12vDC, not 120 or 240vAC).
I always figured they let people in, but stuck them on a watch list based on the answer, and used their result to deport people who provably lied about it.
You're right. We should outlaw breast feeding. All children should be taken from their parents at birth and raised in kid-farms so that they will all be equally fucked up.
Or, conversely, allow for equal access breastfeeding and insist that all parents be trained to properly raise their children if they don't want them sent off to a kid farm.
Or we could go in the initial vein of the GGGP's argument, and realize that a balance needs to be struck, or admit that the system is broken no matter how you try to patch it, and we should attempt to make it better instead of grousing about what's bad.
it's a way for the rich to destroy the meritocracy: they have the benefit of not needing money to survive
I would argue that anything else (regulations, unions, wage laws) is a way for the poor to destroy self-sufficiency.
The GP was talking about rich kids who depend on their parent's wealth using their dependency on their parents to under-bid poorer people. I'd say they're destroying self-sufficiency just as much as anyone else who is being propped up via legislation -- maybe moreso, as their prop is largely unregulated.
Wow... HR needs an extern with an English or Communications major to go through and re-write the descriptions in proper English. I realize this might have been a rush job, but such write-ups reflect poorly on the entire USPTO. The write-ups should be held to the same level of excellence as patents undergoing the review process.
Paypal gets away with it by not being a financial institution in most places it does business -- it has none of the protections, etc. that financial institutions have. This in turn means any money you pay to paypal for the privelege of them paying most of it to someone else is not protected, and can vanish, with your only recourse being a) to sue the company for recompense or b) to cancel your business contract with them.
I do believe that the EU is an exception to this however; the PayPal Europe agreementd probably don't have that wording.
This is true, but Visa and MasterCard are more equall than others in this equation... which is why when Russia set out to create their own credit network and lock out Viisa and Mastercard, the US government stepped in, and the Russian rules were changed. End result? A lot of patently illegal transactions in Russia (illegal in Russia, not just the rest of the world) get brokered via Visa and Mastercard. Fake antivirus software and fake medicine are two examples of this. Visa and Mastercard are blatantly looking the other way while billions of dollars in illicit funds are being transferred via these methods, and yet deny access to their network for a single client handling a small volume is at odds with the US government.
I see this as a conflict of morals, and a conflict of operating practices. They shouldn't be allowed to have it both ways, with the deciding factors being the amount of money they make on the deal and whether the most powerful government in the world requests they stop/don't stop dealing with a customer.
Of course, me ranting about this isn't going to change it. I hope the EU has the guts to do so.
Indeed... an interesting implant would be something that triggers the running reflex when a certain sound sequence (gunshot) is heard. This would give sprinters a definite edge.
I'm sure the same concept could be applied to many other fields where a certain reaction to specific stimulus is required to be as fast as possible.
That works fine if the stick only advertises itself as removable storage... what happens if it pretends to be an input device with a pre-programmed set of actions? These DO exist. If you plug a USB stick into a USB slot, it could be acting as any sort of device that can use USB. Keyboard, mouse, camera, bluetooth dongle, 802.11 dongle, etc. As long as your system already has the appropriate generic driver to handle it, it could be almost anything under the hood.
It seems to me that OSes should pop up a dialog when a USB device is plugged in, that displays what features the device is advertising, and allows you to OK each service you want accessible from that device on that OS, signing them so that you never get prompted for them again in the future. Should be extremely easy to add to any modern OS, as the OS already has to enumerate the features anyway. This would also mean that if your Android device got compromised and a special driver was installed that turned it into a stealth interface device when you plugged it into your PC, the PC would alert you that a new feature was detected, and did you want to enable it....
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a Facebook Pariah... I'm also a Golf Pariah, and not being on the links on weekends has affected me just as much as not being on Facebook... pretty much not at all. People who are truly my friends have many many other ways to contact me. If they can't be bothered, then I've got plenty of other things to do with my time.
OK... your HOA forbids solar panels. Do they specify panels? Because solar arrays come in many forms, panels only being one of them. It's possible that solar window arrays or solar roofing arrays or solar sheets would not run afoul of your HOA, even though people might grouse about some of the options enough to re-word the bylaws.
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Actually, there are interesting parallels... when flying internationally, you try to catch a nap, only to have the attendants come by at the most inopportune times to offer you a snack/pillow/etc. By the time you land, you're generally suffering sleep deprivation. You then complete your business, and attempt to get back on your flight, still not having recovered from sleep deprivation and jet lag -- and are confronted with the TSA.
It's not as severe as the SPE, but the general traits reflected in the prisoners and wardens have disturbing parallels... and could explain why some passengers freak out in an airport for apparently very little reason (not speaking the language probably doesn't help things).
Dinosaurs != reptiles.
However, I've seen a lot of birds hereabouts who would like to submit that they're pretty darn closely related to dinosaurs.
Maybe non-resistant species died off due to the dinosaur equivalent of an avian flu, and the rest adapted/mutated? The impact event likely hastened this process by completely eliminating species who couldn't adapt quickly enough... leaving us with quickly adapting species that continued to adapt to compete with the uprising of mammalian and insectoid species.
I always wonder at the fact that flying relatives survived, but marine relatives didn't -- and reptiles did.
Of course, the issue here is that the museum didn't own this, so it wasn't theirs to give to the garbage company in the first place. It was a NASA exhibit.
I'd be pretty annoyed if I loaned a labeled collection of some sort to somebody, they had an accident, tossed it out, someone else found it, and nobody told me.
Did NASA claim the insurance money? If not, they probably have a right to it. If they've already claimed for loss however, I don't see how they then have the right to just go back and take it... it's already been compensated for, eminent domain or no.
One day big media will understand that they need us more than we need them. Take away my movies, video games and music (that part would suck) and I wouldn't be too happy but I would eventually find something else to do. Occasionally I come across someone that doesn't watch tv and they seem happy. My friend Chris told me that he couldn't imagine being glued to the tv again. Fuck big media.
Big Media already understands all this... however, being Big Media, they control what the majority of people think, and have their hands on the demographic and statistical data that shows them what they can do that will give them the most advantage while pissing off the smallest proportion of potential customers. Being someone who is technologically savvy and a free thinker, you're likely sitting on the border of being in the "unprofitable" portion of society to them.
There's a reason Big Media has invested heavily in blog hosting systems, etc, and it's not because they want information to be free.
If the evidence is faulty then you can sue them over it and can possibly win in court. The ISP's will get a lot of negative publicity and customers will switch to a competitor who doesn't cut them off for no reason. Problem solved.
You do realize how silly this sounds, right? The companies listed hold a cartel on high speed internet access in most markets where they operate. They get a lot of negative publicity, and people will switch to... nobody. Because nobody in that list will sell them a subscription, as the sort of customer who gets cut off is a money loser for all of them anyway.
You can let the public use your property for free, but if people start doing illegal things on it, then you can be held liable. Even if there was people are accessing your Internet to do criminal activities, you have 6 notifications that it is being done and you need to secure your internet before any action is taken.
This I agree with. "securing your network" might not be "preventing external access" -- it might be placing sane firewall rules in place to prevent abuse of your service. Even some simple QoS filtering at your router would probably do the trick. Blacklisting MACs that attempt to saturate your bandwidth would likely take care of most of the rest. If it doesn't, this likely takes you only to strike 4, and you then need to think about switching providers, or limiting your WiFi.
This assumes you can tell you're not talking to an actual person. A good interface on top of Watson should be almost indistinguishable from a person following a script. Personally, I dislike talking to script readers and tend to escalate anyway... and Watson should be able to escalate to a person as easily as a script reader.
It also appears to have brainwashed people into believing that Socialism is some sort of monster that comes in the night and takes away your capitalist and democratic privileges. The fact is that if the Government is collecting taxes, they're either socialist, or they're taking money from the people for next to no benefit. The US military, for example, is a socialist edifice -- the US hires a standing army to protect the citizens, and collects money from said citizens in a tiered fashion to pay for the system. If people truly fear and loathe socialism, they should push the government to disband the standing army and revert to defense by militias. Get them to cut off subsidies to specific industries (like corn growers) while they're at it.
To play salesman's advocate, it IS possible that Best Buy is getting ripped off on their cable prices, either upon purchase, or at the list price provided to managers. Likely the reason they removed the cheap cables from the store was kickbacks from the main supplier -- so the cable actually lists at an extravagant price (meaning the salesperson needs to upsell from $20 to make a profit) but the chain itself gets some of that money back (free shipping, no questions asked return policy, order credits, etc).
There are plenty of myths regarding dirty power... when I refreshed myself on how AC, AC/DC conversion, stepping transformers, power grids, etc. actually operate, the differences between copper and aluminium wiring, and had a peek inside some of these "filtering" power bars, I realized something:
Most power filter bars have absolutely nothing to do with dirty power.
When you get a power bar, there are basically 6 types:
1) straight parallel splitter
2) splitter with fuse (spike/groundfault suppression)
3) splitter with surge suppression (fuse plus small capacitor array)
4) splitter with surge and brownout suppression (fuse plus large capacitor array)
5) splitter with dirty filter (fuse, large capacitor array, and non-stepping transformer)
6) UPS (fuse, battery-backed capacitor array, and optional non-stepping transformer)
What most people end up spending $30-80 on is #3. These are often sold by the retailers as "power filters," but the packaging is usually pretty explicit, at least in the paper insert, as to what they protect.
Since most modern houses have some groundfault suppression built in to the wiring, and many have a non-stepping transformer at the fuse box, "dirty" power, where the AC is not at an even frequency, duration and amplitude, is only an issue if you have something noisy plugged into your internal circuit (cheap microwaves for example). The ground fault circuit takes care of most grounding issues, leaving you with the issue of power surges.
Now, beyond this, you usually have another layer of protection in digital devices: the AC/DC converter. If this is a discount device built in to your hardware, in a brick on the cable, or in a wall wart, you can actually be ADDING noise to your house circuit, and providing your electronics with a poor DC feed. If these are high quality, they will introduce minimal noise to the circuit and will normalize most noise coming into the device from the circuit.
The only place you really really have to worry about line noise is when you're getting a direct AC feed into an electronic device, which is extremely rare (most digital electronics are 5v or 12vDC, not 120 or 240vAC).
In summary, techies don't like it when people use buzzwords to cloud the issues.
Watch out they'll make it illegal soon. And soon only criminals will run bind.
The rest will run djbdns.
I always figured they let people in, but stuck them on a watch list based on the answer, and used their result to deport people who provably lied about it.
The last time I checked, if you were applying for permanent residency in the US, the questionnaire had a line that asks,
"Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"
I haven't seen it recently, but I'm thinking it is about time for them to replace this with,
"Are you, or have you ever been or supported, a member of a terrorist organization?"
I think you missed his point that terrorists are the new communists.
You're right. We should outlaw breast feeding. All children should be taken from their parents at birth and raised in kid-farms so that they will all be equally fucked up.
Or, conversely, allow for equal access breastfeeding and insist that all parents be trained to properly raise their children if they don't want them sent off to a kid farm.
Or we could go in the initial vein of the GGGP's argument, and realize that a balance needs to be struck, or admit that the system is broken no matter how you try to patch it, and we should attempt to make it better instead of grousing about what's bad.
it's a way for the rich to destroy the meritocracy: they have the benefit of not needing money to survive
I would argue that anything else (regulations, unions, wage laws) is a way for the poor to destroy self-sufficiency.
The GP was talking about rich kids who depend on their parent's wealth using their dependency on their parents to under-bid poorer people. I'd say they're destroying self-sufficiency just as much as anyone else who is being propped up via legislation -- maybe moreso, as their prop is largely unregulated.
Wow... HR needs an extern with an English or Communications major to go through and re-write the descriptions in proper English. I realize this might have been a rush job, but such write-ups reflect poorly on the entire USPTO. The write-ups should be held to the same level of excellence as patents undergoing the review process.
Paypal gets away with it by not being a financial institution in most places it does business -- it has none of the protections, etc. that financial institutions have. This in turn means any money you pay to paypal for the privelege of them paying most of it to someone else is not protected, and can vanish, with your only recourse being a) to sue the company for recompense or b) to cancel your business contract with them.
I do believe that the EU is an exception to this however; the PayPal Europe agreementd probably don't have that wording.
This is true, but Visa and MasterCard are more equall than others in this equation... which is why when Russia set out to create their own credit network and lock out Viisa and Mastercard, the US government stepped in, and the Russian rules were changed. End result? A lot of patently illegal transactions in Russia (illegal in Russia, not just the rest of the world) get brokered via Visa and Mastercard. Fake antivirus software and fake medicine are two examples of this. Visa and Mastercard are blatantly looking the other way while billions of dollars in illicit funds are being transferred via these methods, and yet deny access to their network for a single client handling a small volume is at odds with the US government.
I see this as a conflict of morals, and a conflict of operating practices. They shouldn't be allowed to have it both ways, with the deciding factors being the amount of money they make on the deal and whether the most powerful government in the world requests they stop/don't stop dealing with a customer.
Of course, me ranting about this isn't going to change it. I hope the EU has the guts to do so.
Indeed... an interesting implant would be something that triggers the running reflex when a certain sound sequence (gunshot) is heard. This would give sprinters a definite edge.
I'm sure the same concept could be applied to many other fields where a certain reaction to specific stimulus is required to be as fast as possible.
That works fine if the stick only advertises itself as removable storage... what happens if it pretends to be an input device with a pre-programmed set of actions? These DO exist. If you plug a USB stick into a USB slot, it could be acting as any sort of device that can use USB. Keyboard, mouse, camera, bluetooth dongle, 802.11 dongle, etc. As long as your system already has the appropriate generic driver to handle it, it could be almost anything under the hood.
It seems to me that OSes should pop up a dialog when a USB device is plugged in, that displays what features the device is advertising, and allows you to OK each service you want accessible from that device on that OS, signing them so that you never get prompted for them again in the future. Should be extremely easy to add to any modern OS, as the OS already has to enumerate the features anyway. This would also mean that if your Android device got compromised and a special driver was installed that turned it into a stealth interface device when you plugged it into your PC, the PC would alert you that a new feature was detected, and did you want to enable it....
Ba-dum Zynga!
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a Facebook Pariah...
I'm also a Golf Pariah, and not being on the links on weekends has affected me just as much as not being on Facebook... pretty much not at all. People who are truly my friends have many many other ways to contact me. If they can't be bothered, then I've got plenty of other things to do with my time.
OK... your HOA forbids solar panels. Do they specify panels? Because solar arrays come in many forms, panels only being one of them. It's possible that solar window arrays or solar roofing arrays or solar sheets would not run afoul of your HOA, even though people might grouse about some of the options enough to re-word the bylaws.