Since a CANDU (Heavy Water) reactor's fuel isn't naturally capable of going critical, couldn't that existing, tried and true design be used instead? We can fuel it with nuclear waste from American reactors, or use raw uranium ore, with no need for centrifuges or other tech that can be used to create nuclear weapons. If the cooling system fails, then you should have the backup of draining the heavy water from the reactor core, thus killing the reaction.
I'm not saying that's the only solution, I'm just saying that a known good solution that's been working for decades is probably better than a new one.
Great, so they'll protect creationists against "discrimination", but not gays. This is why I live in New York, sure we have a dysfunctional government but at least I can't be fired for being gay.
Sure they're scammers. Normal scammers try to trick you into signing a contract to give them money. Of course, they have no recourse if you sign the contract and then don't pay them, since they're breaking the law anyway. The U.S. Military wants to trick you into signing a contract to give them your life. If they succeed and you try to reneg, they can imprison or execute you (try finding that clause in any other employment contract).
Of course they're scammers, their primary targets are the young and weak-minded, just like a number of credit cards.
Aside from recruiting, they of course want to spread propaganda that the war is going well. Plus, they want to try to recover dignity after the public learned of the incredibly unethical and immoral acts they were undertaking, like the backdoor draft and the various cover-ups throughout the war. If they fail to do this, voters will be less sympathetic towards the military and they'll get less money in the future. They don't feel like men unless they get bigger and better guns every year.
The proposed solution was only intended to prevent the server from being impersonated. Of course, the issue raised by the other commenter (controlling the RNG) might be an issue. A serial key could be used in combination with RSA for a fairly secure system. To get around it, you would have to either modify the game software or the hardware, neither of which is as simple as jailbreaking the PS3. The most likely option would be for a group of people to manually crack each game. That would require torrenting 50gb games and burning them to blu-ray. It's still likely that all popular games would be pirated, but then there is no DRM system that would work perfectly.
That workaround is the simplest one for DRM to avoid. Burn a public key into the game, have the game generate a random number and send it to the server, the server must respond with that random number, signed using the private key that matches the public key in the game.
Of course, Sony doesn't seem to be competent when it comes to RSA... and there's still the fact that you should be able to modify the software to remove the DRM.
The Department of Education's responsibilities can be handled by the states. For proof look at what happened with No Child Left Behind. It was based on state tests, so states made the tests easier to avoid federal regulation of their schools. Certain states might have pretty poor education, but they should handle that, not the whole country. My state (NY) has a fairly good education system, especially at the college level. What problems that do exist could be handled by NY, especially if we stopped sending the feds $20 billion more annually than we get back.
Abolishing the DoD is probably undoable, certainly it should be cut, massively.
Besides, I can't see a clear constitutional basis for the ED. If it's commerce clause it is quite a stretch, and I see no reason why it would be "necessary and proper" if the states can handle it.
Or, they may simply shoot him. If Assange had been found by U.S. agents instead of U.K. agents do you think we ever would have heard about it? The Federal government doesn't like being embarrassed, nor do they like their secrets being released to the world. I don't doubt for a second that he would be dead if he was in U.S. hands. In fact, I'm sort of surprised he hasn't been killed already, one would think the CIA could handle an assassination....
The best argument for the prosecution to make here might be that if the U.S. wants him dead and knows where he is, then how is he still alive?
Private networks granted monopolies, tax breaks, and even direct funding by the government are not private. ISPs also don't run DNS (they might run DNS forwarders, but you can use any DNS service you want).
The Internet != ISPs. Net neutrality does mean the FCC regulating network management employed by ISPs. It has nothing to do with DNS or what customers they can have.
Maybe they just didn't make the commercial loud enough, or maybe they should make the screen flash enough to induce a seizure, then more people will buy their product!
In all seriousness, I used to work in online advertising. They don't care how many people they annoy. They don't care how many people swear off their company for all time. All they care about is the conversion rate. Sadly, even with TV, you more likely remember the blaring commercial than the normal-volume one. Though, I bet they'd find if they made the commercial very quiet that would be memorable too.
I'm going to keep saying this every time console modding comes up. (Note: I have a PS3, not an Xbox - I even have a game for the PS3... somewhere)
How about if I mod an Xbox to run Linux and install VLC, the use that to play content recorded from ATSC OTA using GB-PVR.
I have GB-PVR, it does record local channels OTA, I watch those recordings already using my PS3, though sometimes the PS3 decides that it can't handle minor errors in the recording. VLC wouldn't have that problem. Unless you want to make the claim the running VLC infringes on patents I can't see a reason why any part of that would be illegal. Plus, plenty of people already use the current gen game consoles as streaming media players. My PS3 is better with netflix and crashes less than my Popcorn Hour did, so I had a valid reason to get the console over a dedicated player - yet I have to deal with restrictions put in place to fight "evil pirates".
It doesn't hide it when the page is done loading, only when you scroll past the top of the page. If you scroll up to the top it should always show (at least it has for me on the "with Google" version for 1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2).
They had a seizure warrant issued by a court, this went through legal process. Of course, the sites in question have the right to sue. My problem though, is that this is something the U.S. would seem to have exclusive jurisdiction over. Presumably those sites are now inaccessible (at least via DNS) all over the world. But, if the site was legally operating in its own country, why should the U.S. have the right to shut it down? If a local government should have the right to do this, then shouldn't the E.U. have the same power? This can only be done because the U.S. controls ICANN.
They get breaks on property taxes for their storefronts. Amazon's storefront does need property.
It is a fact that this leads to a disparity in prices. I live in NY, so Amazon charges me tax. Nevertheless, it's certainly more attractive to order a PS3 off Newegg instead of Amazon or buying it from BestBuy. After all, when it was $400 sales tax meant a price difference of $32.
A better solution to the whole problem: reduce the number of taxes. Get rid of sales tax and collect it from income tax, NY already charges me 6.85%. For states without income tax, raise property tax. This is just another example of the internet disrupting a business model. I didn't see them complaining about mail order businesses, which had the same loophole. Sales tax is regressive anyway.
If you count emissions based on goods used rather than goods produced (i.e. the pollution generated within the country) then that net exporters that intentionally permit heavy pollution in order to encourage others to outsource to them (like China) would not be counted as causing pollution because they were exporting those goods to other countries.
Why would we reward them for harming the environment in order to improve global competitiveness? Are they somehow entitled to do so because they're poor?
Americans might buy lots of goods from polluting factories, but the Chinese government hardly deserves a pass on allowing the pollution to happen in their own borders.
Not even always then, there are various cases (e.g. video conferencing) that can suffer HORRIBLY if you happen to click on the browser on your other monitor.
RIT implemented that, it will call you, e-mail you and text you continuously. There was a false warning about someone on campus not too long ago. My phone was going crazy in the middle of the night. They claim that students can unsubscribe from it, but the truth is that only faculty can, the only choice student's get is to shut off their phone or give fake info to the school. I don't live on campus, and I haven't for years. It's basically the same form that all of their policies take.
Better yet, wait until the National Weather Service gets in on the deal, every weather alert will mean a message every hour. These will of course include "OMG It's snowing in Upstate NY, everyone panic, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!".
For that matter, as I've seen pointed out elsewhere, it's virtually impossible to get to Europe from the U.S. without flying. I was hoping to take a plane from Toronto (3 hrs away by car) but it seems that the Canadians have decided to use the strip search scanners too.
This may actually be a good thing in the long run. Changes to the language or libraries will likely be delayed, improvements will hopefully be made in the JVM.
This whole situation is basically what open source groups were warning about years ago, but now we have an open JDK. Eventually, one of two things will happen: 1) Oracle maintains control of Java in the enterprise, while an open source group maintains the Java that "everyone else" uses. The two languages will fork, leading both to a slow death. 2) Oracle will fail to keep control of Java, and everyone will end up using Java as maintained by an open source group (probably Apache). Ultimately something like the JCP will still be needed to keep enterprise involved in Java.
As a developer that works primarily in Java, I'm a bit worried. If my company sees Java as being a risk we might end up moving over to.NET, and I just detest the documentation and library design of that platform.
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Since a CANDU (Heavy Water) reactor's fuel isn't naturally capable of going critical, couldn't that existing, tried and true design be used instead? We can fuel it with nuclear waste from American reactors, or use raw uranium ore, with no need for centrifuges or other tech that can be used to create nuclear weapons. If the cooling system fails, then you should have the backup of draining the heavy water from the reactor core, thus killing the reaction.
I'm not saying that's the only solution, I'm just saying that a known good solution that's been working for decades is probably better than a new one.
Great, so they'll protect creationists against "discrimination", but not gays. This is why I live in New York, sure we have a dysfunctional government but at least I can't be fired for being gay.
Sure they're scammers. Normal scammers try to trick you into signing a contract to give them money. Of course, they have no recourse if you sign the contract and then don't pay them, since they're breaking the law anyway. The U.S. Military wants to trick you into signing a contract to give them your life. If they succeed and you try to reneg, they can imprison or execute you (try finding that clause in any other employment contract).
Of course they're scammers, their primary targets are the young and weak-minded, just like a number of credit cards.
Aside from recruiting, they of course want to spread propaganda that the war is going well. Plus, they want to try to recover dignity after the public learned of the incredibly unethical and immoral acts they were undertaking, like the backdoor draft and the various cover-ups throughout the war. If they fail to do this, voters will be less sympathetic towards the military and they'll get less money in the future. They don't feel like men unless they get bigger and better guns every year.
The proposed solution was only intended to prevent the server from being impersonated. Of course, the issue raised by the other commenter (controlling the RNG) might be an issue. A serial key could be used in combination with RSA for a fairly secure system. To get around it, you would have to either modify the game software or the hardware, neither of which is as simple as jailbreaking the PS3. The most likely option would be for a group of people to manually crack each game. That would require torrenting 50gb games and burning them to blu-ray. It's still likely that all popular games would be pirated, but then there is no DRM system that would work perfectly.
That workaround is the simplest one for DRM to avoid. Burn a public key into the game, have the game generate a random number and send it to the server, the server must respond with that random number, signed using the private key that matches the public key in the game.
Of course, Sony doesn't seem to be competent when it comes to RSA... and there's still the fact that you should be able to modify the software to remove the DRM.
New Business Model:
Crawl facebook and other sites which use this technology, grab and decrypt all such images, save them and sell a subscription to them.
Second Business Model:
Sell a hacked version of the plugin which allows you to save the image easily.
Hey, a good percentage of the public seems to think that DRM works, it's no wonder they keep coming up with stupid ideas like this....
As a Democratic voter, I would agree with that.
The Department of Education's responsibilities can be handled by the states. For proof look at what happened with No Child Left Behind. It was based on state tests, so states made the tests easier to avoid federal regulation of their schools. Certain states might have pretty poor education, but they should handle that, not the whole country. My state (NY) has a fairly good education system, especially at the college level. What problems that do exist could be handled by NY, especially if we stopped sending the feds $20 billion more annually than we get back.
Abolishing the DoD is probably undoable, certainly it should be cut, massively.
Besides, I can't see a clear constitutional basis for the ED. If it's commerce clause it is quite a stretch, and I see no reason why it would be "necessary and proper" if the states can handle it.
Or, they may simply shoot him. If Assange had been found by U.S. agents instead of U.K. agents do you think we ever would have heard about it? The Federal government doesn't like being embarrassed, nor do they like their secrets being released to the world. I don't doubt for a second that he would be dead if he was in U.S. hands. In fact, I'm sort of surprised he hasn't been killed already, one would think the CIA could handle an assassination....
The best argument for the prosecution to make here might be that if the U.S. wants him dead and knows where he is, then how is he still alive?
The entire NSF is less than .2% of the Federal Budget. The government has bigger fish to fry.
How could you list "all nightshades" and not include potatoes? Does it affect them?
Private networks granted monopolies, tax breaks, and even direct funding by the government are not private. ISPs also don't run DNS (they might run DNS forwarders, but you can use any DNS service you want).
The Internet != ISPs. Net neutrality does mean the FCC regulating network management employed by ISPs. It has nothing to do with DNS or what customers they can have.
I run MSE on my Windows XP laptop, it works fine. I have been running it for months. Are you perhaps a shill for an AV maker?
Maybe they just didn't make the commercial loud enough, or maybe they should make the screen flash enough to induce a seizure, then more people will buy their product!
In all seriousness, I used to work in online advertising. They don't care how many people they annoy. They don't care how many people swear off their company for all time. All they care about is the conversion rate. Sadly, even with TV, you more likely remember the blaring commercial than the normal-volume one. Though, I bet they'd find if they made the commercial very quiet that would be memorable too.
I'm going to keep saying this every time console modding comes up. (Note: I have a PS3, not an Xbox - I even have a game for the PS3... somewhere)
How about if I mod an Xbox to run Linux and install VLC, the use that to play content recorded from ATSC OTA using GB-PVR.
I have GB-PVR, it does record local channels OTA, I watch those recordings already using my PS3, though sometimes the PS3 decides that it can't handle minor errors in the recording. VLC wouldn't have that problem. Unless you want to make the claim the running VLC infringes on patents I can't see a reason why any part of that would be illegal. Plus, plenty of people already use the current gen game consoles as streaming media players. My PS3 is better with netflix and crashes less than my Popcorn Hour did, so I had a valid reason to get the console over a dedicated player - yet I have to deal with restrictions put in place to fight "evil pirates".
It doesn't hide it when the page is done loading, only when you scroll past the top of the page. If you scroll up to the top it should always show (at least it has for me on the "with Google" version for 1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2).
Saying that ISPs can't discriminate between traffic means just that. No exceptions.
They had a seizure warrant issued by a court, this went through legal process. Of course, the sites in question have the right to sue. My problem though, is that this is something the U.S. would seem to have exclusive jurisdiction over. Presumably those sites are now inaccessible (at least via DNS) all over the world. But, if the site was legally operating in its own country, why should the U.S. have the right to shut it down? If a local government should have the right to do this, then shouldn't the E.U. have the same power? This can only be done because the U.S. controls ICANN.
They get breaks on property taxes for their storefronts. Amazon's storefront does need property.
It is a fact that this leads to a disparity in prices. I live in NY, so Amazon charges me tax. Nevertheless, it's certainly more attractive to order a PS3 off Newegg instead of Amazon or buying it from BestBuy. After all, when it was $400 sales tax meant a price difference of $32.
A better solution to the whole problem: reduce the number of taxes. Get rid of sales tax and collect it from income tax, NY already charges me 6.85%. For states without income tax, raise property tax. This is just another example of the internet disrupting a business model. I didn't see them complaining about mail order businesses, which had the same loophole. Sales tax is regressive anyway.
If you count emissions based on goods used rather than goods produced (i.e. the pollution generated within the country) then that net exporters that intentionally permit heavy pollution in order to encourage others to outsource to them (like China) would not be counted as causing pollution because they were exporting those goods to other countries.
Why would we reward them for harming the environment in order to improve global competitiveness? Are they somehow entitled to do so because they're poor?
Americans might buy lots of goods from polluting factories, but the Chinese government hardly deserves a pass on allowing the pollution to happen in their own borders.
Not even always then, there are various cases (e.g. video conferencing) that can suffer HORRIBLY if you happen to click on the browser on your other monitor.
RIT implemented that, it will call you, e-mail you and text you continuously. There was a false warning about someone on campus not too long ago. My phone was going crazy in the middle of the night. They claim that students can unsubscribe from it, but the truth is that only faculty can, the only choice student's get is to shut off their phone or give fake info to the school. I don't live on campus, and I haven't for years. It's basically the same form that all of their policies take.
Better yet, wait until the National Weather Service gets in on the deal, every weather alert will mean a message every hour. These will of course include "OMG It's snowing in Upstate NY, everyone panic, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!".
For that matter, as I've seen pointed out elsewhere, it's virtually impossible to get to Europe from the U.S. without flying. I was hoping to take a plane from Toronto (3 hrs away by car) but it seems that the Canadians have decided to use the strip search scanners too.
This may actually be a good thing in the long run. Changes to the language or libraries will likely be delayed, improvements will hopefully be made in the JVM.
.NET, and I just detest the documentation and library design of that platform.
This whole situation is basically what open source groups were warning about years ago, but now we have an open JDK. Eventually, one of two things will happen:
1) Oracle maintains control of Java in the enterprise, while an open source group maintains the Java that "everyone else" uses. The two languages will fork, leading both to a slow death.
2) Oracle will fail to keep control of Java, and everyone will end up using Java as maintained by an open source group (probably Apache). Ultimately something like the JCP will still be needed to keep enterprise involved in Java.
As a developer that works primarily in Java, I'm a bit worried. If my company sees Java as being a risk we might end up moving over to