Sounds like a mis-interpretation of the situation. Although the idea of disabling DDC DPI calcs for single-monitor situations seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Here's the line from a recent release notes:
Changed behavior in handling information from DDC
The X server previously used DDC information to detect screen size and pitch, and compute DPI automatically, allowing fonts and other UI elements to automatically scale to appropriate sizes. This mechanism worked reasonably well for many single-monitor cases, but did not compute accurate DPI values for multi-monitor cases or less common single-display setups. Thus, this autodetection has been removed, and the X server no longer tries to compute an appropriate DPI value. All users wanting fonts, physical measurement units, and other UI elements scaled appropriately for their display (including users for whom autodetection previously worked) must now set DPI or some other scaling factor explicitly, either via the X server's -dpi option, a DPI setting in their graphical enironment, or an alternate scaling mechanism provided by their environment.
I bet you can 3D print a decent enough suppressor today, those are much harder to get a hold of than regular guns. The best ones are metal, but I bet you could design one out of plastic (maybe with water) that was good enough for 10-20 shots. That would probably be enough to foil those new "shot-spotter" systems.
I agree. This happened to me before, but it was an ear infection and I guess the doctor didn't know if it was viral or bacterial, so maybe he was just using a "shotgun technique".
Yes. I doubt that doctors are insincerely prescribing antibiotics as placebos. I expect it is more of a case of not being able to fully rule out a bacterial infection so they prescribe the anti-biotics to cover all their bases and to help the patient feel like their problems are being taken seriously.
My guess -- it is most common with ear infections for kids (which are the most common reason kids to go to the doctor). Societal pressure on mothers nowadays is super intense - it is hard for a mom to accept doing nothing but wait for the viral infection to run its course when their kid is crying all the time. And since a minority of ear infections really are bacterial, but testing for the type of infection is difficult, the doctor prescribes a mild anti-biotic (usually amoxicillin). That makes mom feel like she's done everything she can for her kid and if it really was bacterial it actually helps, if it wasn't bacterial the side-effects are rare and mild so the risk of making the kid worse is tiny. It is a win-win except for the long-term affect on rates of anti-biotic resistance.
I say this having seen my sister, a recent mother go through this stuff. Before the kid was born she was super on board with all the free-range kids type stuff, but once that baby popped out and she had to experience it first hand, it was a different story. To her credit she's been able to back off the helicopter type stuff as unavoidable accidents have happened and she saw that the kid came out fine. But the pressure from society to be a perfect mom teams up with those mom hormones and long-term thinking tends to be the loser. She still hasn't given the kid peanut butter, she's waiting to do it when she's in the lobby of the pediatrician's office - and now the research is starting to suggest the longer you wait to expose them, the more likely the kid is to develop a peanut allergy...
True, initially I was going to cite their recessed lighting products at HD that regularly sell for $25 and have been available for probably close to two years. $25 is more than $20 though and I didn't feel like it was worth arguing whether the inclusion of an entire fixture was worth at least $5.
FWIW, the Philips L-Prize bulb and its not-quite-so-efficient siblings are also in the $10-$20 range at Home Depot nowadays and are definitely on the shelves.
So what? That doesn't mean it isn't desirable to make the playing field more even.
You misunderstand - I am all in favor of leveling. What I am protesting is the idea that we should embrace a panopticon society because it will make things more level. The general public has a lot more at risk here than the powerful do - we stand to lose all privacy whatsoever, they are only going to be marginally inconvenienced at best.
then at least we can balance the scales by ensuring that we have two-way transparency between the powerful and the powerless.
That will never happen. The powerful will always have more ability and opportunity to meddle with the data than the powerless. Just look at how Dick Cheney was able to get his house blurred out of google earth. The occasional powerful dumbass will get busted to "prove" the system is fair, but the really competent criminals will skate just like they do today.
How many $20 LED lamps have you bought? How many $10 ones? ALL SHIT.
Cree makes good bulbs because they are driving demand for their LEDs - Cree and Philips are probably neck-and-neck for the lead position in the LED market.
They've got a 40-watt equivalent for $10 at Home Depot and a 60-watt for $14.
If everything each transmits one packet per minute, that turns out to be hundreds of packets per minute in total.
It appears that you lack a sense of scale here.
At a conservative throughput of 20mbps, you've got enough bandwidth to do over 2000 1K packets per SECOND. A couple of hundred packets per minute is so small as to barely even register.
Clearly every light bulb does not need to be on the internet, at least at present; it's a waste of bandwidth and merely another source of interference for existing wifi networks.
Your premise is silly. It isn't like these bulbs are chattering away - other than the occasional "I'm here" broadcast packet like once a minute or so they won't be generating any traffic unless explicitly polled.
Wireless is just the easiest way of networking them. As for "internet" why not? Once you are on a network, it is only marginally more complicated for internet control on top of the already implemented intranet control.
Programmable lighting in general is great stuff. Especially for RGB bulbs. If the risk of hacking was so over-whelming, we wouldn't put anything on the net at all. You've assumed the worst-case scenario is the baseline scenario, and that isn't a particularly useful way to do risk evaluation.
Indeed, I wish noscript would allow me to whitelist domains and even specific scripts on a per-site basis. So, for example, I could whitelist maps.google.com's use of javascript from gstatic.com but not allow any other sites, like images.google.com, to pull in javascript from gstatic.com.
I was using an indoor antenna (before the digital switch). If I remember correctly, I had channels 12, 17, 19, 20, 28, 48 and 55. Now it seems that in the digital age, digital TV users have only two stations.
Some will win, some will lose. Some are born to sing the blues. But the movie goes on and on.
Change is almost never an improvement for everybody. But while things will get worse, or at least different enough to require an effort, for a minority, most will benefit.
I know $19k sounds like a lot of money......but it's a drop in the bucket in a senate election. I think accusing him of being bought is probably tactically stupid. First, because it's probably not true.
There is more to the story. I don't have the time to dig up links, maybe someone else can. But essentially Hatch has done a 180 on copyright issues over the past decade or so. Roughly coincident with his change in attitude was the publication of a "vanity" album of him singing which was reportedly completely funded by an RIAA member publisher.
So yes, I do think it is true that he is bought and paid for in the sense that his public opinion radically changed over a relatively short period of time that involved some questionable events.
I'm sure glad that he is a senator then. I would love to see how he would feel if he was convicted in a trial and it turned out that the Judge was a high ranking member of the puppeteers of the prosecutor.
If the piratebay people were so inclined, they could probably spend a few hundred dollars and get a rebuttal run at prnewswire.com which would hit the newsdesks of pretty much all the newspapers in the country and plenty of places online.
Not to say that those newsdesks would necessarily do anything with it, but if TPB guys were clever enough they might get noticed - the news does love a good fight that involves overtly hypocritical politicians, especially when accusations of corruption are involved and the guy is a bought-and-paid for MAFIAA mouth-piece.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like a mis-interpretation of the situation. Although the idea of disabling DDC DPI calcs for single-monitor situations seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Here's the line from a recent release notes:
Changed behavior in handling information from DDC
The X server previously used DDC information to detect screen size and pitch, and compute DPI automatically, allowing fonts and other UI elements to automatically scale to appropriate sizes. This mechanism worked reasonably well for many single-monitor cases, but did not compute accurate DPI values for multi-monitor cases or less common single-display setups. Thus, this autodetection has been removed, and the X server no longer tries to compute an appropriate DPI value. All users wanting fonts, physical measurement units, and other UI elements scaled appropriately for their display (including users for whom autodetection previously worked) must now set DPI or some other scaling factor explicitly, either via the X server's -dpi option, a DPI setting in their graphical enironment, or an alternate scaling mechanism provided by their environment.
I keep repeating: when we are all in a cage, we will all be "safe".
That's when they put a tiger in the cage with us.
Fuck That Shit
What is this "long line" you have been hearing of?
It consists of X, then Wayland.
Just off the top of my head:
Y Window System - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Window_System
Berlin/Fresco - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco_(windowing_system)
Xynth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xynth
MicroXwin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroXwin
DirectFB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directfb
Mir - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(display_server)
Then there is whatever Android uses -- SurfaceFlinger?
There is no actual 3d-printing of guns, yet.
I bet you can 3D print a decent enough suppressor today, those are much harder to get a hold of than regular guns. The best ones are metal, but I bet you could design one out of plastic (maybe with water) that was good enough for 10-20 shots. That would probably be enough to foil those new "shot-spotter" systems.
Are they going to water them with Brawndo?
It's got what plants crave!
The amount of convictions or impeachments do not directly relate to the amount of perpetrations.
Especially when the system is meant to be "self-policing" - that is always a recipe for abuse or at least neglect.
If they can control meteors and fly them into earth at will, we should give them the money. I mean really, let's be realistic here.
We do not negotiate with meteorologists!
I agree. This happened to me before, but it was an ear infection and I guess the doctor didn't know if it was viral or bacterial, so maybe he was just using a "shotgun technique".
Yes. I doubt that doctors are insincerely prescribing antibiotics as placebos. I expect it is more of a case of not being able to fully rule out a bacterial infection so they prescribe the anti-biotics to cover all their bases and to help the patient feel like their problems are being taken seriously.
My guess -- it is most common with ear infections for kids (which are the most common reason kids to go to the doctor). Societal pressure on mothers nowadays is super intense - it is hard for a mom to accept doing nothing but wait for the viral infection to run its course when their kid is crying all the time. And since a minority of ear infections really are bacterial, but testing for the type of infection is difficult, the doctor prescribes a mild anti-biotic (usually amoxicillin). That makes mom feel like she's done everything she can for her kid and if it really was bacterial it actually helps, if it wasn't bacterial the side-effects are rare and mild so the risk of making the kid worse is tiny. It is a win-win except for the long-term affect on rates of anti-biotic resistance.
I say this having seen my sister, a recent mother go through this stuff. Before the kid was born she was super on board with all the free-range kids type stuff, but once that baby popped out and she had to experience it first hand, it was a different story. To her credit she's been able to back off the helicopter type stuff as unavoidable accidents have happened and she saw that the kid came out fine. But the pressure from society to be a perfect mom teams up with those mom hormones and long-term thinking tends to be the loser. She still hasn't given the kid peanut butter, she's waiting to do it when she's in the lobby of the pediatrician's office - and now the research is starting to suggest the longer you wait to expose them, the more likely the kid is to develop a peanut allergy...
True, initially I was going to cite their recessed lighting products at HD that regularly sell for $25 and have been available for probably close to two years. $25 is more than $20 though and I didn't feel like it was worth arguing whether the inclusion of an entire fixture was worth at least $5.
FWIW, the Philips L-Prize bulb and its not-quite-so-efficient siblings are also in the $10-$20 range at Home Depot nowadays and are definitely on the shelves.
So what? That doesn't mean it isn't desirable to make the playing field more even.
You misunderstand - I am all in favor of leveling. What I am protesting is the idea that we should embrace a panopticon society because it will make things more level. The general public has a lot more at risk here than the powerful do - we stand to lose all privacy whatsoever, they are only going to be marginally inconvenienced at best.
then at least we can balance the scales by ensuring that we have two-way transparency between the powerful and the powerless.
That will never happen. The powerful will always have more ability and opportunity to meddle with the data than the powerless. Just look at how Dick Cheney was able to get his house blurred out of google earth. The occasional powerful dumbass will get busted to "prove" the system is fair, but the really competent criminals will skate just like they do today.
How many $20 LED lamps have you bought? How many $10 ones? ALL SHIT.
Cree makes good bulbs because they are driving demand for their LEDs - Cree and Philips are probably neck-and-neck for the lead position in the LED market.
They've got a 40-watt equivalent for $10 at Home Depot and a 60-watt for $14.
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?356710-Cree-A19-9-5w-60w-800lm-2700K-for-13-97
If everything each transmits one packet per minute, that turns out to be hundreds of packets per minute in total.
It appears that you lack a sense of scale here.
At a conservative throughput of 20mbps, you've got enough bandwidth to do over 2000 1K packets per SECOND. A couple of hundred packets per minute is so small as to barely even register.
Clearly every light bulb does not need to be on the internet, at least at present; it's a waste of bandwidth and merely another source of interference for existing wifi networks.
Your premise is silly. It isn't like these bulbs are chattering away - other than the occasional "I'm here" broadcast packet like once a minute or so they won't be generating any traffic unless explicitly polled.
Wireless is just the easiest way of networking them. As for "internet" why not? Once you are on a network, it is only marginally more complicated for internet control on top of the already implemented intranet control.
Programmable lighting in general is great stuff. Especially for RGB bulbs. If the risk of hacking was so over-whelming, we wouldn't put anything on the net at all. You've assumed the worst-case scenario is the baseline scenario, and that isn't a particularly useful way to do risk evaluation.
"It isn't the gym that makes a difference, it is the 8 hours sitting at a desk that really makes you unhealthy."
Sounds pretty straight-forward to me. Charges of "yellow press" just sound like pedant nerdrage.
...except for those in public office and the people who paid to put them there.
well yeah, but i dont do anything illegal so i am not attracting the attention of the authorities
Right. You ain't doin nuthin wrong so you don't have anything to worry about.
Why even bother with warrants at all? The police never go after someone who has done no wrong.
Indeed, I wish noscript would allow me to whitelist domains and even specific scripts on a per-site basis. So, for example, I could whitelist maps.google.com's use of javascript from gstatic.com but not allow any other sites, like images.google.com, to pull in javascript from gstatic.com.
Lol. You are now arguing my point. Some will will some will lose.
What part of some did you fail to understand when I used the word?
In fact, the only new technology that's happened in my lifetime I can think of that inconvinienced anyone is the switch to digital TV.
Your ignorance is proof of nothing more than your ignorance.
The switch to color TV didn't cause any problems.
Uh-huh. Tell that to the people who went to the hassle of buying CBS color televisions in 1951.
The only problems caused by cell phones are now there are few pay phones left.
Right! The obsoleting of analog cellular by digital cellular didn't inconvenience anyone.
The advent of VCRs didn't harm anyone
They didn't replace prior technology either, it wasn't a change. It was something brand new.
nor PCs
Tell that to the owners of CP/M computers.
or the internet
Tell that to the people running for-pay BBSes.
Microwave ovens, cordless phones,
Funny you should mention both of those together considering how many cell phones pick up interference from older microwaves.
fuel injectors
Tell that to the thousands of mechanics who have been hurt or killed by accidental jet injection.
airbags...
Are you kidding me?
I was using an indoor antenna (before the digital switch). If I remember correctly, I had channels 12, 17, 19, 20, 28, 48 and 55. Now it seems that in the digital age, digital TV users have only two stations.
Some will win, some will lose.
Some are born to sing the blues.
But the movie goes on and on.
Change is almost never an improvement for everybody. But while things will get worse, or at least different enough to require an effort, for a minority, most will benefit.
I know $19k sounds like a lot of money... ...but it's a drop in the bucket in a senate election.
I think accusing him of being bought is probably tactically stupid. First, because it's probably not true.
There is more to the story. I don't have the time to dig up links, maybe someone else can. But essentially Hatch has done a 180 on copyright issues over the past decade or so. Roughly coincident with his change in attitude was the publication of a "vanity" album of him singing which was reportedly completely funded by an RIAA member publisher.
So yes, I do think it is true that he is bought and paid for in the sense that his public opinion radically changed over a relatively short period of time that involved some questionable events.
I'm sure glad that he is a senator then. I would love to see how he would feel if he was convicted in a trial and it turned out that the Judge was a high ranking member of the puppeteers of the prosecutor.
If the piratebay people were so inclined, they could probably spend a few hundred dollars and get a rebuttal run at prnewswire.com which would hit the newsdesks of pretty much all the newspapers in the country and plenty of places online.
Not to say that those newsdesks would necessarily do anything with it, but if TPB guys were clever enough they might get noticed - the news does love a good fight that involves overtly hypocritical politicians, especially when accusations of corruption are involved and the guy is a bought-and-paid for MAFIAA mouth-piece.