That's all good and great for urban and suburban areas, but most of the United States hasn't become urban sprawl yet. There are still vast tracts of land that are used mainly for agriculture.
With an extra dollar surcharge on fuel, how do farmers, many of whom already live on tight budgets, afford fuel to raise crops? You can't feasibly add mass transit systems to the countryside, so how do people get around?
LOL....Seriously now, if I was the MPAA, my first job would be to hire DVD Jon, make him sign an NDA, and then put him to work cracking the DRM.
But if the industry was smart, they would realize that people like to share and make the DRM fairly "loose" and allow people to burn it so they wouldn't have to worry about people cracking the DRM and illegally sharing movies.
Or maybe just accept that you were stupid to leave your network wide open to any and all computers that care to connect to it and leave the poor schmuck alone.
What? In America? That would mean the person would have to accept responsibility for being a dumbass. Can't have that when its easier to blame the other person.
and thanks to the supreme court, I will NEVER have a choice for high speed access.
You always have a choice. If you don't like what your cable company gives you, you can get DSL. If you don't like either options, you can pay to have fiber run to your house.
At one point in the past year, I was looking at building my own PVR, and I did some research to price out how much it would cost.
Building it from scratch and using the cheapest parts available, I figured I could do it for about $900 if I include the DVD burner.
Oh...my bad. I must've been reading into it too much. I figured there was another site where microsoft made patches available besides WindowsUpdates. Sorry.
Even though there are some security alerts with Firefox, I believe the program is simply more secure for one reason - it isn't integrated into the Kernel. The exploits you may face will do some damage, no doubt, but they won't have access to anything important, especially if you are running in User Mode.
So they got the source code...but they can't take the knowledge out of his head. The same author can easily put that knowledge to work and develop a new program that can defeat the new protection.
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I wish I could be as optimistic as you. I do. However, I think that the market suppliers, in this case, can't be trusted. If the market doesn't support this type of measure, you can bet that the companies will lobby the government to make this mandatory instead of giving the customers what they want.
It isn't just the hardware manufacturers that we need to be concerned about, either. If the government gets involved or changes are made to TCP/IP, non-TCPA systems might not be allowed on the Internet.
One good thing, though, is that I haven't seen Cisco's name on the list of companies that support this TCPA. Since they produce most of the hardware that powers the Internet, there is still hope that most of the world will remain free of this draconian measure.
Not pathetic. One bad experience is all it takes to turn you off to a product forever.
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Honestly, I don't know. However, there are numbers that say that will take less energy to produce biodiesel than it would to produce petroleum-based Diesel. The sources that I have found on this issue are:
Since biodiesel can be described as 'carbon neutral' then any CO2 emissions associated with it must come from a source outside that of combustion of the fuel.
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Not necessarily... it just has to be cheap enough to be practical. If they can make it cheap/economical enough to compete with today's mined oil, then there is no need to wait for some future "peak event".
How hard and how expensive is it to produce vegetable oil? Like biodiesel, its an alternative to petroleum and completely biodegradable.
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That's all good and great for urban and suburban areas, but most of the United States hasn't become urban sprawl yet. There are still vast tracts of land that are used mainly for agriculture.
With an extra dollar surcharge on fuel, how do farmers, many of whom already live on tight budgets, afford fuel to raise crops? You can't feasibly add mass transit systems to the countryside, so how do people get around?
At first I thought you were crazy when you said that coal power has radioactive byproducts. But you were right.
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But for every one you get rid of, five more will pop up.
LOL....Seriously now, if I was the MPAA, my first job would be to hire DVD Jon, make him sign an NDA, and then put him to work cracking the DRM.
But if the industry was smart, they would realize that people like to share and make the DRM fairly "loose" and allow people to burn it so they wouldn't have to worry about people cracking the DRM and illegally sharing movies.
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Or maybe just accept that you were stupid to leave your network wide open to any and all computers that care to connect to it and leave the poor schmuck alone.
What? In America? That would mean the person would have to accept responsibility for being a dumbass. Can't have that when its easier to blame the other person.
and thanks to the supreme court, I will NEVER have a choice for high speed access.
You always have a choice. If you don't like what your cable company gives you, you can get DSL. If you don't like either options, you can pay to have fiber run to your house.
At one point in the past year, I was looking at building my own PVR, and I did some research to price out how much it would cost. Building it from scratch and using the cheapest parts available, I figured I could do it for about $900 if I include the DVD burner.
Or the episode where he kicked his mom into a collapsing bubble universe.
If you want to support an artist, go see them in concert and buy a T-shirt. That is how they make most of their money.
or by just strapping it to the asteroid with some long rope.
Rope? That's so 20th Century. A true astronaut would use duct tape to keep his machines down.
In my experience, being yourself works wonderfully IF, and only IF, you're willing to open up just a little bit and socialize.
Currently, wanting it illegal and making it illegal are, thankfully, two different things.
Oh...my bad. I must've been reading into it too much. I figured there was another site where microsoft made patches available besides WindowsUpdates. Sorry.
Um...no offense, but you really didn't answer my question. I asked where these could be found....not if they existed. I guess I will just google it.
Even though there are some security alerts with Firefox, I believe the program is simply more secure for one reason - it isn't integrated into the Kernel. The exploits you may face will do some damage, no doubt, but they won't have access to anything important, especially if you are running in User Mode.
Just out of curiousity, and I know this is a little offtopic, but where are the most important patches and security updates located?
Knoppix?? That boots from the CD and completely bypasses the hard drive, so they would have no way to load a keystroke logger.
So they got the source code...but they can't take the knowledge out of his head. The same author can easily put that knowledge to work and develop a new program that can defeat the new protection.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you. I do. However, I think that the market suppliers, in this case, can't be trusted. If the market doesn't support this type of measure, you can bet that the companies will lobby the government to make this mandatory instead of giving the customers what they want.
It isn't just the hardware manufacturers that we need to be concerned about, either. If the government gets involved or changes are made to TCP/IP, non-TCPA systems might not be allowed on the Internet.
One good thing, though, is that I haven't seen Cisco's name on the list of companies that support this TCPA. Since they produce most of the hardware that powers the Internet, there is still hope that most of the world will remain free of this draconian measure.
Not pathetic. One bad experience is all it takes to turn you off to a product forever.
Honestly, I don't know. However, there are numbers that say that will take less energy to produce biodiesel than it would to produce petroleum-based Diesel. The sources that I have found on this issue are:
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http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/02-0
http://www.bebioenergy.com/biodiesel.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel#Efficiency
That is partially true. Anything that runs on petroleum-based Diesel fuel can easily run on bioDiesel or vegetable oil with little to no conversion.
From:http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/ 02-03/biofuels/why_lca.htm
Since biodiesel can be described as 'carbon neutral' then any CO2 emissions associated with it must come from a source outside that of combustion of the fuel.
Not necessarily... it just has to be cheap enough to be practical. If they can make it cheap/economical enough to compete with today's mined oil, then there is no need to wait for some future "peak event".
How hard and how expensive is it to produce vegetable oil? Like biodiesel, its an alternative to petroleum and completely biodegradable.