If you d/led the ep of c-span with Jon you'd have heard him say that people don't get their news from him. The expectation of the writers is that people already know what's going on in the world when they tune in, or it wouldn't be funny.
I'm a die hard TDS watcher, but I was actually a bit disappointed in Jon's showing on CrossFire. He has a lot of great points, but he failed to really develop anything on the show. If you watch the Kerry interview again, you'll notice that he asks about 8 questions, and Tucker took the three that were least relevant. Instead of saying "I also asked him if he was in Cambodia, but I didn't care, cause it doesn't matter", he should have said something about the more relevant questions...or perhaps just explained why it doesn't matter.
The question is, how many 1986 930's are there and how many more are going to be produced. Eventually, just about every car is going to die, and many new cars are going to take their place.
If you increase the tax on gas, people are going to keep thinking more and more about getting a more fuel efficient vehicle, but there will always be people with more money than they can spend who won't care. Also, people that have recreational cars are going to think about buying a second car to do more of their daily driving in.
Also, if you add the gas gussler tax then people buying new cars are going to be more likely to buy a more fuel effiecient vehicle in most cases. If I had to chose between two trucks (I'm never actually buying a truck again), and one got the minimum 22 mpg and the other got 18 mpg with a $2k tax, I'm going to buy the one with the better mileage. Eventually, manufactures are going to say, I need to start building more effecient vehicles in order to keep my prices competative.
The problem that broadcasts/producers face is that people are getting used to being able to d/l for free. It gets harder and harder to convence people to go back to a paying model. The one thing companies can do is pay to have product placement in the ads. I know for season 3 of 24 Ford had a 20 minutes commercial before airing the first episode. Then all of the cars in the show (or at least most) were made by Ford. I'm sure it wasn't just a coincidence. The end result of product placement is that people can't filter out products like they can 30 second commercials, advertisers get product awareness, producers get "free" props (or rather paid for the props), and people will still enjoy free content.
That being said, I'd be willing to pay a flat fee to be able to d/l and watch shows at my convenience (and without commercials). The key for getting me to buy in would be that I'd have to have access to a lot of shows and all episodes not just what has recently aired.
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I see so many people complaining about all the crap that the MPAA, RIAA and other groups are doing with DRM and lawsuits, but all they do is complain. My solution, d/l shows while they are available and hope that eventually I can't so I stop watching. Go outside and get some exercise or read a thought provoking book. Most tv is crap and wastes my life, but I keep d/ling and watching... I feel like it's a sickness.
As for music, go check out your local scene. I'd much rather throw five bucks (tip) to some guy that's playing a good life show than buy a cd and feed the corporations more money. My room mate in college was in a band and his theory was that people should make music because they needed to do it, not because they wanted to get money.
The problem is that about.005% of the population actually knows what's going on.
I think the far more interesting way for/.ers to strike back would be to start posting lists of items that people should search for and add to their carts just to confuse the systems.
I want to know how they are going to keep track of people in buildings, and how hard it would be to block the signal. It seems to me like you could go to a movie theater and then do something to block the signal and go do whatever you want, and then go back to the theater and have a perfect alibi.
Does the protocol even have to be unbreakable in the middle? I can't imagine an ISP attempting to some simple decription on every packet that goes through and attempts to decrypt the data based on say the IP address of the destination. Then on top of that attempt to match up some sort of finger print. The QoS would be rediculously reduced.
I don't know the source, but I've been informed that the gas tax is set as a per gallon basis, because in general bigger vehicles get worse mileage, and they also cause more damage to the roads. For this reason I think the most fair thing to do would be to raise the gas tax. It would also promote use of more fuel efficient cars. I'm still driving the 13mpg truck that my parents bought for me, but one of the main points I'm going to be looking for when I buy my next car is going to be fuel efficiency.
I read (probably on/.) that Montana was looking to do the same thing, and they wanted to track the cars to make sure they only taxed people for miles driven in state. The problem with this model is that anyone who buys a car from out of state, or who drives through the state on a trip causes wear and tear on the roads, but doesn't have to pay additional taxes to repair them
Another thing to consider is the Gas Gussler tax. Currently, if you buy a CAR that gets below a certain mileage (I think 22mpg) then you have to pay some sort of tax. When the law was writen trucks were almost exclusively used for work vehicles. Now every trophy wife has to drive the biggest SUV that gets 12 mpg, but they don't have to pay the taxes. I think they need to extend the tax to all vehicles and then have companies that HAVE to have a truck file for some sort of exemption.
I think it's funny that in the interest of security they have decided that you should limit the number of possible combinations.
if you allow all upper and lower case characters, numbers and the symbols above the numbers (for simplicity) you have 26+26+10+10=72 possible characters on a 8 character password that can be any combination of those keys you have 72^8=722204136308736 combinations. If you require one symbol, one number, one upper case and one lower case...I should know how to do the math.... it's much smaller is it (8!*10+7!*10+6!*26+5!*26+72^4)=27349296?...I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
It's most important to look at what's best for the consumer. I think my iPod could be the greatest purchase I have ever made, but I only put on mp3's, because I can do whatever I want with an mp3. I can copy it between my computers, burn it to a cd, play it on my iPod or my other mp3 player. Why would I want to get material in a more restricted format?
I think the real issue is that iTunes isn't making any money for Apple, they make their money selling the iPod. If a buyer can get all their songs from iTunes and put them on a RIO, then it hurts Apple. This is a failed business model and not a failure of the free and open market.
I don't think people who are serious about racing would want to use this seeing as it would add a lot of weight to the car (real racers are very concerned with dead weight). Perhaps in the 2 Fast 2 Furious world people would use it.
I could see this being useful for painting a get-away car, but not for painting a hot car. If you are going to take the time to paint it, might as well use a paint that's not going to fall off.
Perhaps I'm paranoid, but I don't think the issue is I'm an honest person so I don't have to worry. I think the issue is what the information may be used for later. The Nazis made the Jews register, but then used the information to attempt to exterminate them. What happens when the goverment decides that it must regulate our morality even more and makes pornography illegal, then it looks through the lists of mail from porn companies and then looks up the people and goes to their home to destory the filth? What if instead of porn it's non-mainstream political content?
then again, I really don't care that much since I do almost of all of my communications online (e-mail, e-pay, e-tc.)
The thing to think about is how much it would cost to employ another person. Assuming there is a need to get about 60 hours of work done. If a company employees one person, that's one desk (floor space tends to be expensive), one license agreement for the software, one hiring cost, one training cost, one salary, one benefits, etc. If they hire a second person it costs twice as much, but will paying some overtime (if you aren't salaried) add up to all that additional time?
I have to agree with you. I think my biggest conern with RFID tags is being able to disable them when I don't want them to be transmitting. I've come up with various product ideas some of which would be able to utilize a technology like RFID, but the thing I find most important is protecting privacy of the users.
I was driving down 59 in houston and traffic was trucking at about 70 (speed limit is 60). I come over a overpass and all I see is brake lights, and so I'm driving along at about 30-40 slowing down and speeding up as we go along. Then I come over another over pass about 3-5 minutes later, and there is smoke coming out of a building fire and a firetruck. As soon as I passed the fire traffic was truckin' along again. If only the guardrail were about 8' high, people would have a lot less to look at. I also think that behind every ambulance should be a truck that has huge blinds that they erect around any sort of stalled vehicle or accident. Without rubbernecking traffic james wouldn't be nearly as bad.
I hate when I sit at a light and there is no cross traffic and it just stays red. I was thinking that adding a RFID tag to each car so that the light "knows" when people will be reaching the light and can adjust the timings to minimize the average wait time. My solution to the privacy issue was to have two or three different ID's: one for normal cars, one for emergency vehicles during an emergency, and one for emergency vehicles during normal times. The point being to change lights almost immediatly during an emergency.
I've never actually ran in a Marathon, but I'm sure if I wanted to, but didn't want to have the tag I could. I'd just sacrifice being able to know my time at each check point. That is, unless I bought a watch with a lap timer... I must say though, some friends of my families did a marathon, and it was pretty cool being able to see where they were on the course from a website. The key to this is the concent a person must give to be tracked.
I'm working on cleaning my computer of anything the RIAA has a hand in from my computer. I've been trying to d/l indie music only so that I can find new music and buy more CDs. I haven't really thought much about buying used CDs, but I might give that a try on albums that are produced under RIAA labels. If the RIAA doesn't want me seeking out their music by downloading it freely I'm going to do my best not to. I've almost completely stopped listening to the radio (weather reports and "important highway messages").
I'd really like to see an actual panel of candidates that are diverse, and not have political party affiliations. In my world people would know who the candidates they are voting for based on what they stand for not the little letter next to their name. People would have enough choice so that they could find someone that has a significan parallel to what they believe, not just two people. I hate the fact that I have to choose between my values and pick the candidate that I think agrees with me on the ones I care most about. It's a real pain when my top two values split every candidate.
It's like the South Park deal you can choose between a turd sandwich and a giant douchebag.
I have about 20 gigs of media that I've ripped. I have about 40 gigs of stuff that I have gotten from friends and downloaded. Of that I probably listen to about a gig of the media. I'm working on listening to some of the stuff I've downloaded so I can find new cds to buy. I specifically don't d/l anything I know/think is under an RIAA label because I don't want to buy any of their merchandise, so why bother to listen to it. I'm looking for independent stuff like Saddle Creek Records. I just bought $80 from Saddle Creek a week or two ago. The music is great and pure so I'll give the artist a reward, but I don't think the major labels really serve the need of the people so why give them more money?
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Why don't you just create a torrent of it ;-)
So in other words, instead of lets just try another one, he should have said, "let's just buy the congressional approval"?
I'm a die hard TDS watcher, but I was actually a bit disappointed in Jon's showing on CrossFire. He has a lot of great points, but he failed to really develop anything on the show. If you watch the Kerry interview again, you'll notice that he asks about 8 questions, and Tucker took the three that were least relevant. Instead of saying "I also asked him if he was in Cambodia, but I didn't care, cause it doesn't matter", he should have said something about the more relevant questions...or perhaps just explained why it doesn't matter.
If you increase the tax on gas, people are going to keep thinking more and more about getting a more fuel efficient vehicle, but there will always be people with more money than they can spend who won't care. Also, people that have recreational cars are going to think about buying a second car to do more of their daily driving in.
Also, if you add the gas gussler tax then people buying new cars are going to be more likely to buy a more fuel effiecient vehicle in most cases. If I had to chose between two trucks (I'm never actually buying a truck again), and one got the minimum 22 mpg and the other got 18 mpg with a $2k tax, I'm going to buy the one with the better mileage. Eventually, manufactures are going to say, I need to start building more effecient vehicles in order to keep my prices competative.
That being said, I'd be willing to pay a flat fee to be able to d/l and watch shows at my convenience (and without commercials). The key for getting me to buy in would be that I'd have to have access to a lot of shows and all episodes not just what has recently aired.
end product idea, begin rant
I see so many people complaining about all the crap that the MPAA, RIAA and other groups are doing with DRM and lawsuits, but all they do is complain. My solution, d/l shows while they are available and hope that eventually I can't so I stop watching. Go outside and get some exercise or read a thought provoking book. Most tv is crap and wastes my life, but I keep d/ling and watching... I feel like it's a sickness.
As for music, go check out your local scene. I'd much rather throw five bucks (tip) to some guy that's playing a good life show than buy a cd and feed the corporations more money. My room mate in college was in a band and his theory was that people should make music because they needed to do it, not because they wanted to get money.
well, if everyone seeds until they've uploaded between 1 to 3 times, then they aren't really sharing it with 1000 friends...just one to three =)
The problem is that about .005% of the population actually knows what's going on.
/.ers to strike back would be to start posting lists of items that people should search for and add to their carts just to confuse the systems.
I think the far more interesting way for
I want to know how they are going to keep track of people in buildings, and how hard it would be to block the signal. It seems to me like you could go to a movie theater and then do something to block the signal and go do whatever you want, and then go back to the theater and have a perfect alibi.
Does the protocol even have to be unbreakable in the middle? I can't imagine an ISP attempting to some simple decription on every packet that goes through and attempts to decrypt the data based on say the IP address of the destination. Then on top of that attempt to match up some sort of finger print. The QoS would be rediculously reduced.
I don't know the source, but I've been informed that the gas tax is set as a per gallon basis, because in general bigger vehicles get worse mileage, and they also cause more damage to the roads. For this reason I think the most fair thing to do would be to raise the gas tax. It would also promote use of more fuel efficient cars. I'm still driving the 13mpg truck that my parents bought for me, but one of the main points I'm going to be looking for when I buy my next car is going to be fuel efficiency.
I read (probably on /.) that Montana was looking to do the same thing, and they wanted to track the cars to make sure they only taxed people for miles driven in state. The problem with this model is that anyone who buys a car from out of state, or who drives through the state on a trip causes wear and tear on the roads, but doesn't have to pay additional taxes to repair them
Another thing to consider is the Gas Gussler tax. Currently, if you buy a CAR that gets below a certain mileage (I think 22mpg) then you have to pay some sort of tax. When the law was writen trucks were almost exclusively used for work vehicles. Now every trophy wife has to drive the biggest SUV that gets 12 mpg, but they don't have to pay the taxes. I think they need to extend the tax to all vehicles and then have companies that HAVE to have a truck file for some sort of exemption.
I have the feeling that would be way too combersome. Especially for 18 wheelers where time is money.
I wouldn't be as concerned about the tv going to fox news as I I would about the tv going off the tv stand.
I think it's funny that in the interest of security they have decided that you should limit the number of possible combinations. if you allow all upper and lower case characters, numbers and the symbols above the numbers (for simplicity) you have 26+26+10+10=72 possible characters on a 8 character password that can be any combination of those keys you have 72^8=722204136308736 combinations. If you require one symbol, one number, one upper case and one lower case ...I should know how to do the math.... it's much smaller is it (8!*10+7!*10+6!*26+5!*26+72^4)=27349296? ...I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
It's most important to look at what's best for the consumer. I think my iPod could be the greatest purchase I have ever made, but I only put on mp3's, because I can do whatever I want with an mp3. I can copy it between my computers, burn it to a cd, play it on my iPod or my other mp3 player. Why would I want to get material in a more restricted format?
I think the real issue is that iTunes isn't making any money for Apple, they make their money selling the iPod. If a buyer can get all their songs from iTunes and put them on a RIO, then it hurts Apple. This is a failed business model and not a failure of the free and open market.
I don't think people who are serious about racing would want to use this seeing as it would add a lot of weight to the car (real racers are very concerned with dead weight). Perhaps in the 2 Fast 2 Furious world people would use it.
I could see this being useful for painting a get-away car, but not for painting a hot car. If you are going to take the time to paint it, might as well use a paint that's not going to fall off.
Perhaps I'm paranoid, but I don't think the issue is I'm an honest person so I don't have to worry. I think the issue is what the information may be used for later. The Nazis made the Jews register, but then used the information to attempt to exterminate them. What happens when the goverment decides that it must regulate our morality even more and makes pornography illegal, then it looks through the lists of mail from porn companies and then looks up the people and goes to their home to destory the filth? What if instead of porn it's non-mainstream political content?
then again, I really don't care that much since I do almost of all of my communications online (e-mail, e-pay, e-tc.)
The thing to think about is how much it would cost to employ another person. Assuming there is a need to get about 60 hours of work done. If a company employees one person, that's one desk (floor space tends to be expensive), one license agreement for the software, one hiring cost, one training cost, one salary, one benefits, etc. If they hire a second person it costs twice as much, but will paying some overtime (if you aren't salaried) add up to all that additional time?
I have to agree with you. I think my biggest conern with RFID tags is being able to disable them when I don't want them to be transmitting. I've come up with various product ideas some of which would be able to utilize a technology like RFID, but the thing I find most important is protecting privacy of the users.
I was driving down 59 in houston and traffic was trucking at about 70 (speed limit is 60). I come over a overpass and all I see is brake lights, and so I'm driving along at about 30-40 slowing down and speeding up as we go along. Then I come over another over pass about 3-5 minutes later, and there is smoke coming out of a building fire and a firetruck. As soon as I passed the fire traffic was truckin' along again. If only the guardrail were about 8' high, people would have a lot less to look at. I also think that behind every ambulance should be a truck that has huge blinds that they erect around any sort of stalled vehicle or accident. Without rubbernecking traffic james wouldn't be nearly as bad.
I hate when I sit at a light and there is no cross traffic and it just stays red. I was thinking that adding a RFID tag to each car so that the light "knows" when people will be reaching the light and can adjust the timings to minimize the average wait time. My solution to the privacy issue was to have two or three different ID's: one for normal cars, one for emergency vehicles during an emergency, and one for emergency vehicles during normal times. The point being to change lights almost immediatly during an emergency.
I've never actually ran in a Marathon, but I'm sure if I wanted to, but didn't want to have the tag I could. I'd just sacrifice being able to know my time at each check point. That is, unless I bought a watch with a lap timer... I must say though, some friends of my families did a marathon, and it was pretty cool being able to see where they were on the course from a website. The key to this is the concent a person must give to be tracked.
I'm working on cleaning my computer of anything the RIAA has a hand in from my computer. I've been trying to d/l indie music only so that I can find new music and buy more CDs. I haven't really thought much about buying used CDs, but I might give that a try on albums that are produced under RIAA labels. If the RIAA doesn't want me seeking out their music by downloading it freely I'm going to do my best not to. I've almost completely stopped listening to the radio (weather reports and "important highway messages").
I'd really like to see an actual panel of candidates that are diverse, and not have political party affiliations. In my world people would know who the candidates they are voting for based on what they stand for not the little letter next to their name. People would have enough choice so that they could find someone that has a significan parallel to what they believe, not just two people. I hate the fact that I have to choose between my values and pick the candidate that I think agrees with me on the ones I care most about. It's a real pain when my top two values split every candidate. It's like the South Park deal you can choose between a turd sandwich and a giant douchebag.
I have about 20 gigs of media that I've ripped. I have about 40 gigs of stuff that I have gotten from friends and downloaded. Of that I probably listen to about a gig of the media. I'm working on listening to some of the stuff I've downloaded so I can find new cds to buy. I specifically don't d/l anything I know/think is under an RIAA label because I don't want to buy any of their merchandise, so why bother to listen to it. I'm looking for independent stuff like Saddle Creek Records. I just bought $80 from Saddle Creek a week or two ago. The music is great and pure so I'll give the artist a reward, but I don't think the major labels really serve the need of the people so why give them more money?