How so? Netboot is like a mix of a fat and thin-client, of sorts. A server loads the OS on a local machine from a preconfigured image. I don't see how Google's patent is any different than delivering BIOS updates to routers and media centers.
And they are making millions doing it. You really should try it instead of breaking the internet.
Pffbtt... Typical astroturfing I'd expect from a PRMan. No really, you can't break the internet, but you can break a monolithic business model. Pirating isn't the cause of the artists getting the short end of the stick anymore than the consumer getting it. It's the fault of all the board members, middle management, lawyers, and promoters that take a majority of the artists' profits while reducing consumer choice and the quality of the product. Downhill Battle has been faithfully uncovering the egregious excesses of the corporate owners and used to have some nice infographics breaking up the profits by percentages (I tried to find some as they don't appear to be hosted on their site, anymore). I don't know how many studies I've seen that show pirating causes more purchases and how many years, end-to-end, the music and movie industry have made record profits. Do they really expect me to believe that pirating a movie takes away from the profits (read: wages) that the set employees make? Hell no, because set employees (makeup, special effects, lighting, sound) don't get royalties! It's the worst junk propaganda I've seen in years. I find it ironic, yet fitting, that a Youtube user was blocked from displaying a MPAA Public Service Announcement on the grounds that NBC/U owns the copyright.
The Copyfight has reached a point where I only want to pay the artist, directly. I loved the idea Radiohead used for "In Rainbows" as they received all the money donated (minus PayPal or the credit gateway fees). I'd like to just give bands cash, from my hand, so they get it all..... no middle-man making money, even if it's just 2-5 percent. If anything, maybe Flattr can start gaining traction as a way to say 'thanks' to all the wonderful artists who give their work away on YouTube and Vimeo for free. Hopefully musicians aren't constrained from putting some sort of donation/appreciation link on their websites by a contract; and without giving a dime back to their publisher (of whom should be so grateful they are representing such talent!). When it comes down to it, I want to really own the music or media I purchase. I don't want to wake up to find out Amazon or Apple has deleted something from one of many devices I own (e.g., Amazon: George Orwell's "1984"; Apple: Siri app pre 4s).
I found a study ("Meh. The Irrelevance of Copyright in the Public Mind" by Brett Lunceford & Shane Lunceford) about the public's seeming irreverence to copyright (I have a feeling there are segments of the population that pirate music just to spite the corporate oligarchy). They think this indifference has existed since recording instruments were mass-produced. It's not as if people were even consciously aware they were breaking any laws back then. If anything, I bet more than a few musicians and would-be corporate overlords that had a reel-to-reel back in the 50s made illegal recordings to share with their friends. I remember a friend of my father who made copies of Laserdiscs onto VCR tapes and gave them to his friends --and he even made simple short movies taking choice scenes from movies much like I added Simpsons or Ren and Stimpy soundclips between songs on my mix-tapes. I think it's simple.... reducing the choice of the consumer to use the media they purchase reduces creativity (and commerce), overall. Until then, people will always find a way to circumvent any roadblocks; real or perceived.
It still does. The electorate just willfully and purposefully chooses to ignore them in favor of the guys with the flagpins, white teeth, perfect hair and the massive budgets.
Tell that to the people that still don't think Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 Federal elections were statistic anomalies. IIRC, there's at least one MIT statistician that believes Florida's outcome in 2000 was statistically impossible (specifically, regarding the 'hanging chad' problem). In my mind, until there's a fully-auditable papertrail after a voter makes their choice, I'll consider the fact that I (nor anyone else) don't really has a choice.
...and yet people will still vote for Obama. Oh, I forgot. Romney doesn't care for the little guy.
REALLY? That's your argument against a two-party system that has acted like a one-party system since the 1980s? I'd say it's been that way since the formation of the Federal Reserve, but I can say since Reagan's terms, from my own observations. Jello Biafra has always called both parties Republicrats. That people think they have choice is the real illusion.
If your meat does not have fat, you are going to have to figure out how you're going to get fat into your diet.
You'll also end up suffering mental disorders due to fat nutrient deficiency over time.
That is absolutely not true. But let's skip that for a second, and address it as if it were true.
Those problems can be solved by efficiently and economicallyenriching the food with fats. Notice the words "efficiently and economically". This is a problem we can solve much better than our predecessors. There are quite a few sources of fat that are relatively cheap to mass produce - flax seeds, jojoba, algae, fruit seeds (from which oil is currently extracted for addition to pet food/animal fodder), palm kernels, grasses seeds, hemp seeds, plant roots. Many vegetable things that are not considered edible can be processed to extract edible oils.
This is true, but why is it true? You're going to need the right kinds of fat, mostly the ones that most Americans don't get. Most Americans have a diet way too rich in saturated fat and not enough of the healthy fats known as essential fatty acids (Omega-3 and Omega-6). There also appears to be evidence that a diet high in saturated fat can cause cancer tumors to resist treatment whereas a diet low in saturated fat seems to slow or even retard growth. Also, the brain needs a diet with the proper ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6 EFAs to properly function. Hemp seeds are one of the few foods known with this proper ratio.
The proportions of linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid in one tablespoon per day (15 ml) of hempseed oil easily provides human daily requirements for EFAs. Unlike flaxseed oil, hempseed oil can be used continuously without developing a deficiency or other imbalance of EFAs. This has been demonstrated in a clinical study, where the daily ingestion of flaxseed oil decreased the endogenous production of GLA.[6]Source
I'm a huge proponent of hemp seed (for food and fuel), alfalfa (one of the most nutrient-dense foods that helps create and preserve topsoil), and algae (also incredibly nutrient-dense with a lot of protein). I just wish more knew about these wonderful foods.
I like how you post as an AC --something that can't be done on Facebook or most social networks. I'm glad that/. gives everyone that option, even if it makes trolling possible. I don't think that any company should be held responsible for comments posted on their site, though. If it was revealed that a Facebook employee was making harassing comments to a user, using company tools, and maybe on company time, maybe they could hold some burden of the guilt.
To me, the 'responsibility' issue is why so many problems seem to exist... Rarely, it seems, does anyone want to acknowledge their error and take responsibility for their actions when something goes bad (BP? Halliburton? Transocean? Who's to blame when they all point the finger at the others??). I am an advocate of personal responsibility, but until more individuals (at the executive level) are held accountable for the havoc their corporation's actions/policies cause, I don't see anything changing soon. Congress seems intent on giving the corporations every tool they need to enforce their will over all.
Bajillions of people use Safari on iOS because it's what's on their iDevice.
And bajilIions of people used IE because it was on their computer. I switched to Atomic Web browser right after I got my iPhone because its feature set was richer than Safari's. It annoys me because I can't set it as the default browser. Apple also annoys me because I could have a free browser rather than a pay-for one if they would allow Firefox inside their walled garden. Dammit. I've definitely lost my evangelical spirit I once had for Apple since they dropped 'Computer' from their name. I think they have, too.
It depends on how willing the state and local governments are to creating a culture of startups, especially technically-minded ones. When Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico, he signed an initiative to entice film producers to move there with lucrative tax rebates that rivaled other states. Since Martinez has taken office, she's done much to dismantle what Richardson and Johnson built. I'm on a listserv with many New Mexico producers and directors that have watched and acted against her backward actions with moderate success. In reality, if any industry wants to be recognized, they must inform the policymakers that their business is a positive economic force ford the local and state government.
They're a commercial enterprise making their money off profiting from the private data of others. I've had libertarians proclaim the company to be an example of the value of the free market, but I consider them an example of how a private company will manage to find something valuable about others and get money for it with a higher cost than you might realize.
M.T. Anderson envisioned a fairly dystopian society where everyone receives an implant at birth. While the book was a simple and fun read, the implications of such tech were definitely scary. http://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763622591 ("Feed" by M.T. Anderson).
**spoiler alert** - The scary part of the story involved a character who was hacked into (more like, was given some malware) and many physical problems arose as a result.
If the iPhone 5 doesn't sell as anticipated, what will they blame it on? I'm not bashing Apple, per se, but the entire concept of product anticipation driving earnings. I have an iPhone 4 and don't plan on getting a new one, much less continuing the service. It's too damn expensive to justify over $100/mo bill when I don't have reliable work. I can reuse an old clamshell for $35/mo at Cricket and keep only the functionality I really need; the cellphone. For those that really need some app on a smartphone, I totally understand.
As a Dem, I can say we _know_ Obama sucks and we aren't expecting any difference after the election.
We vote for him because Romney means we'd lose everything; the middle class would cease to exist and businesses would take over every aspect of our lives. So Obama is the lesser of two evils.
It's not the definition of insanity, as you put it, it's picking how you want to get screwed the least. I hate that Obama is doing all this Bush-esque stuff, but I know Romney would do it much worse.
OR as a good friend used to put it, "The Democrats will screw things up, but the Republicans will do it faster."
If there's just a GPU check, perhaps the Mac Pro 8-core with a GeForce 8800 GT would make the cut. The Early 2008 Mac Pro comes with that option, too and it made the cut. If there's just a GPU check, it would be conceivable that you could put a Radeon 5770 in a Mac Pro 1,1 and 10.8 would install.
My only concern is what happens if the sensors are covered with some sort of muck/filth? Does the software test each sensor (I'd assume it would) to make sure they are working at an optimal level and inform the driver if they're not? If a sensor does go bad (or the camera), would the driver still be able to drive the car to a repair shop?
In theory, you can tell your client to download the.torrent file and join the swarm without allowing it to download any of the associated files. You might do this to harvest addresses from other clients or to otherwise monitor the torrent.
It's pretty suspicious behavior, but merely being in a big blob of chattering IPs doesn't necessarily indicate that yours has specifically done anything criminal.
If this is the case, I'd have to say this technique of harvesting IP addresses would make the person/company just as liable to infringement as all the other people connected to the swarm. After all, how did the **AA agents get the IP addresses in the first place? I'm assuming they hired a company to harvest addresses to popular torrents so they could get IPs of all the Does, bring them to court and profit... maybe.
But YOU are not interacting with other people, your computer or bit-torrent program is interacting with other computers/bit-torrent programs.
I think this is a little closer to the truth. You can't control who you connect with... Bittorent chooses who you connect with.
My main concern with the 'swarm' argument is this: If I configure my client to only send and receive encrypted data, there stands a chance I may not get one byte of data unless some of the people in the swarm have their client configured similarly.
Therefore, I think the real question is, "If someone connects to a swarm and only gets an incomplete file (or not even a byte of it), are they liable in any way?
... then you might as well try a non-intrusive treatment like a patch first and only go for surgery if the patch doesn't kill the cancer.
I'd rather try what Rick Simpson says cured his BCC. Once it was known many of his friends were cured of various ailments (by applying or consuming the hemp oil) he had to leave Canada to avoid incarceration. Check out the Video Library on his site for more info on this banned cure. No, I have not tried it as I've not had the need (yet), but there is a ton of evidence that the source plant has amazing healing qualities and has been used for over 5000+ years by modern man for myriad uses.
This is the link for the video I saw that made me even more aware of this plant's awesome powers.
Personally, I'd rather not use radioactive 'anything' since there's more than enough ambient radiation to deal with --just before confirming this post, I noticed he's making mention how useful hemp oil is in alleviating (or protecting from) the damage from high-level radiation poisoning right on the Phoenix Tears homepage.
No it isn't, it's like a government who has so much contempt for you, and thinks you're so stupid that you'll actually accept a double-speak reply that base and condescending as remotely acceptable.
I think they mean the recording portion doesn't turn on unless the sensing portion detects a gunshot. A poorly worded sentence, to be sure. It's like your TV - even when your TV is "off", the small component that listens for your remote is still on.
I think the 'saving' of the always-on recording doesn't get saved unless it 'hears' the sound it's supposed to. After all, how the heck is it supposed to record something after it happened? All this makes me wonder if more of these audio devices (and CCTV) will be destroyed/hunted by local criminals; if so, will that spur a new market for camouflaged devices?
It's terrorism, plain and simple. When a group of people think that burning down a forest is the best way to protest a new lodge at the Vail resort in Colorado.. or paint baby seals in Alaska red so their furs become worthless (and so is their only defense; a good camouflage) or causes some sort of damage to the very thing they are supposed to be protecting makes no sense to me. It's terrorism to me because they are not on my side, even if I agree that a clean earth is a healthy earth. I think that the tactic the Sea Shepherd uses by simply 'getting in-between' is a useful tactic where no one (or creature) is harmed, but when people start shooting and jumping on the other person's ship to fight (and possibly to sabotage it), that's not good.
The word 'anarchism' is used my the mainstream media to dissuade a generation from practicing what that term really means -although many here were probably self-professed anarchists (till they had to be home for the night; parents, gf, wife).
I have a feeling that until we can all learn to live with each other (and ourselves, in some cases) and show that respect, daily (thus ending wars and many isms), we won't even be able to treat the planet and it's creatures with the same respect.
"They don't know what to say. They don't know what to do."
That was true before porn and video games....
There was always porn in print-form. I'm sure there's more than a few on Slashdot that remember finding someone's porn stash... maybe your father's, even. They were the most important 'documents' you probably owned and stashed away so deeply that no one could find them.. or probably just between your mattresses.
Then came the Internet and all one had to do was find a folder that no one would go into, probably something like "2001 Quarterly Results" or "First Presbyterian Bake Sale Recipes" to deposit the porn you downloaded --then put that folder in the System Folder.
[jailbreak] - slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content
WTF?
More like: slang for the ability to download and run unsigned apps because Apple just didn't like that app (or developer) for whatever unexplained reason -this after extensive costs in dollars and time.
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netboot is different.
How so? Netboot is like a mix of a fat and thin-client, of sorts. A server loads the OS on a local machine from a preconfigured image. I don't see how Google's patent is any different than delivering BIOS updates to routers and media centers.
And they are making millions doing it. You really should try it instead of breaking the internet.
Pffbtt... Typical astroturfing I'd expect from a PRMan. No really, you can't break the internet, but you can break a monolithic business model. Pirating isn't the cause of the artists getting the short end of the stick anymore than the consumer getting it. It's the fault of all the board members, middle management, lawyers, and promoters that take a majority of the artists' profits while reducing consumer choice and the quality of the product. Downhill Battle has been faithfully uncovering the egregious excesses of the corporate owners and used to have some nice infographics breaking up the profits by percentages (I tried to find some as they don't appear to be hosted on their site, anymore). I don't know how many studies I've seen that show pirating causes more purchases and how many years, end-to-end, the music and movie industry have made record profits. Do they really expect me to believe that pirating a movie takes away from the profits (read: wages) that the set employees make? Hell no, because set employees (makeup, special effects, lighting, sound) don't get royalties! It's the worst junk propaganda I've seen in years. I find it ironic, yet fitting, that a Youtube user was blocked from displaying a MPAA Public Service Announcement on the grounds that NBC/U owns the copyright.
The Copyfight has reached a point where I only want to pay the artist, directly. I loved the idea Radiohead used for "In Rainbows" as they received all the money donated (minus PayPal or the credit gateway fees). I'd like to just give bands cash, from my hand, so they get it all..... no middle-man making money, even if it's just 2-5 percent. If anything, maybe Flattr can start gaining traction as a way to say 'thanks' to all the wonderful artists who give their work away on YouTube and Vimeo for free. Hopefully musicians aren't constrained from putting some sort of donation/appreciation link on their websites by a contract; and without giving a dime back to their publisher (of whom should be so grateful they are representing such talent!). When it comes down to it, I want to really own the music or media I purchase. I don't want to wake up to find out Amazon or Apple has deleted something from one of many devices I own (e.g., Amazon: George Orwell's "1984"; Apple: Siri app pre 4s).
I found a study ("Meh. The Irrelevance of Copyright in the Public Mind" by Brett Lunceford & Shane Lunceford) about the public's seeming irreverence to copyright (I have a feeling there are segments of the population that pirate music just to spite the corporate oligarchy). They think this indifference has existed since recording instruments were mass-produced. It's not as if people were even consciously aware they were breaking any laws back then. If anything, I bet more than a few musicians and would-be corporate overlords that had a reel-to-reel back in the 50s made illegal recordings to share with their friends. I remember a friend of my father who made copies of Laserdiscs onto VCR tapes and gave them to his friends --and he even made simple short movies taking choice scenes from movies much like I added Simpsons or Ren and Stimpy soundclips between songs on my mix-tapes. I think it's simple.... reducing the choice of the consumer to use the media they purchase reduces creativity (and commerce), overall. Until then, people will always find a way to circumvent any roadblocks; real or perceived.
It still does. The electorate just willfully and purposefully chooses to ignore them in favor of the guys with the flagpins, white teeth, perfect hair and the massive budgets.
Tell that to the people that still don't think Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 Federal elections were statistic anomalies. IIRC, there's at least one MIT statistician that believes Florida's outcome in 2000 was statistically impossible (specifically, regarding the 'hanging chad' problem). In my mind, until there's a fully-auditable papertrail after a voter makes their choice, I'll consider the fact that I (nor anyone else) don't really has a choice.
...and yet people will still vote for Obama. Oh, I forgot. Romney doesn't care for the little guy.
REALLY? That's your argument against a two-party system that has acted like a one-party system since the 1980s? I'd say it's been that way since the formation of the Federal Reserve, but I can say since Reagan's terms, from my own observations. Jello Biafra has always called both parties Republicrats. That people think they have choice is the real illusion.
There are good arguments for and against manmade global warming, and personally I think there is no such thing as MMGW.
Remind us again what the 'good' arguments against it are...?
The guy with tiger's blood would probably say otherwise... Then again, who knows what he will say next.
If your meat does not have fat, you are going to have to figure out how you're going to get fat into your diet.
You'll also end up suffering mental disorders due to fat nutrient deficiency over time.
That is absolutely not true. But let's skip that for a second, and address it as if it were true.
Those problems can be solved by efficiently and economicallyenriching the food with fats. Notice the words "efficiently and economically". This is a problem we can solve much better than our predecessors. There are quite a few sources of fat that are relatively cheap to mass produce - flax seeds, jojoba, algae, fruit seeds (from which oil is currently extracted for addition to pet food/animal fodder), palm kernels, grasses seeds, hemp seeds, plant roots. Many vegetable things that are not considered edible can be processed to extract edible oils.
This is true, but why is it true? You're going to need the right kinds of fat, mostly the ones that most Americans don't get. Most Americans have a diet way too rich in saturated fat and not enough of the healthy fats known as essential fatty acids (Omega-3 and Omega-6). There also appears to be evidence that a diet high in saturated fat can cause cancer tumors to resist treatment whereas a diet low in saturated fat seems to slow or even retard growth. Also, the brain needs a diet with the proper ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6 EFAs to properly function. Hemp seeds are one of the few foods known with this proper ratio.
The proportions of linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid in one tablespoon per day (15 ml) of hempseed oil easily provides human daily requirements for EFAs. Unlike flaxseed oil, hempseed oil can be used continuously without developing a deficiency or other imbalance of EFAs. This has been demonstrated in a clinical study, where the daily ingestion of flaxseed oil decreased the endogenous production of GLA.[6] Source
I'm a huge proponent of hemp seed (for food and fuel), alfalfa (one of the most nutrient-dense foods that helps create and preserve topsoil), and algae (also incredibly nutrient-dense with a lot of protein). I just wish more knew about these wonderful foods.
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I like how you post as an AC --something that can't be done on Facebook or most social networks. I'm glad that /. gives everyone that option, even if it makes trolling possible. I don't think that any company should be held responsible for comments posted on their site, though. If it was revealed that a Facebook employee was making harassing comments to a user, using company tools, and maybe on company time, maybe they could hold some burden of the guilt.
To me, the 'responsibility' issue is why so many problems seem to exist... Rarely, it seems, does anyone want to acknowledge their error and take responsibility for their actions when something goes bad (BP? Halliburton? Transocean? Who's to blame when they all point the finger at the others??). I am an advocate of personal responsibility, but until more individuals (at the executive level) are held accountable for the havoc their corporation's actions/policies cause, I don't see anything changing soon. Congress seems intent on giving the corporations every tool they need to enforce their will over all.
Bajillions of people use Safari on iOS because it's what's on their iDevice.
And bajilIions of people used IE because it was on their computer. I switched to Atomic Web browser right after I got my iPhone because its feature set was richer than Safari's. It annoys me because I can't set it as the default browser. Apple also annoys me because I could have a free browser rather than a pay-for one if they would allow Firefox inside their walled garden. Dammit. I've definitely lost my evangelical spirit I once had for Apple since they dropped 'Computer' from their name. I think they have, too.
'nuff said!
It depends on how willing the state and local governments are to creating a culture of startups, especially technically-minded ones. When Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico, he signed an initiative to entice film producers to move there with lucrative tax rebates that rivaled other states. Since Martinez has taken office, she's done much to dismantle what Richardson and Johnson built. I'm on a listserv with many New Mexico producers and directors that have watched and acted against her backward actions with moderate success. In reality, if any industry wants to be recognized, they must inform the policymakers that their business is a positive economic force ford the local and state government.
On this very day, two years ago, the Koch bothers both scoffed at the news: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/167253/global-warming-undeniable-report-says?sbsrc=thisday
They're a commercial enterprise making their money off profiting from the private data of others. I've had libertarians proclaim the company to be an example of the value of the free market, but I consider them an example of how a private company will manage to find something valuable about others and get money for it with a higher cost than you might realize.
So, I take it you don't have a /. account, either?
M.T. Anderson envisioned a fairly dystopian society where everyone receives an implant at birth. While the book was a simple and fun read, the implications of such tech were definitely scary. http://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763622591 ("Feed" by M.T. Anderson). **spoiler alert** - The scary part of the story involved a character who was hacked into (more like, was given some malware) and many physical problems arose as a result.
If the iPhone 5 doesn't sell as anticipated, what will they blame it on? I'm not bashing Apple, per se, but the entire concept of product anticipation driving earnings. I have an iPhone 4 and don't plan on getting a new one, much less continuing the service. It's too damn expensive to justify over $100/mo bill when I don't have reliable work. I can reuse an old clamshell for $35/mo at Cricket and keep only the functionality I really need; the cellphone. For those that really need some app on a smartphone, I totally understand.
As a Dem, I can say we _know_ Obama sucks and we aren't expecting any difference after the election.
We vote for him because Romney means we'd lose everything; the middle class would cease to exist and businesses would take over every aspect of our lives. So Obama is the lesser of two evils.
It's not the definition of insanity, as you put it, it's picking how you want to get screwed the least. I hate that Obama is doing all this Bush-esque stuff, but I know Romney would do it much worse.
OR as a good friend used to put it, "The Democrats will screw things up, but the Republicans will do it faster."
If there's just a GPU check, perhaps the Mac Pro 8-core with a GeForce 8800 GT would make the cut. The Early 2008 Mac Pro comes with that option, too and it made the cut. If there's just a GPU check, it would be conceivable that you could put a Radeon 5770 in a Mac Pro 1,1 and 10.8 would install.
My only concern is what happens if the sensors are covered with some sort of muck/filth? Does the software test each sensor (I'd assume it would) to make sure they are working at an optimal level and inform the driver if they're not? If a sensor does go bad (or the camera), would the driver still be able to drive the car to a repair shop?
In theory, you can tell your client to download the .torrent file and join the swarm without allowing it to download any of the associated files. You might do this to harvest addresses from other clients or to otherwise monitor the torrent.
It's pretty suspicious behavior, but merely being in a big blob of chattering IPs doesn't necessarily indicate that yours has specifically done anything criminal.
If this is the case, I'd have to say this technique of harvesting IP addresses would make the person/company just as liable to infringement as all the other people connected to the swarm. After all, how did the **AA agents get the IP addresses in the first place? I'm assuming they hired a company to harvest addresses to popular torrents so they could get IPs of all the Does, bring them to court and profit... maybe.
But YOU are not interacting with other people, your computer or bit-torrent program is interacting with other computers/bit-torrent programs.
I think this is a little closer to the truth. You can't control who you connect with... Bittorent chooses who you connect with.
My main concern with the 'swarm' argument is this: If I configure my client to only send and receive encrypted data, there stands a chance I may not get one byte of data unless some of the people in the swarm have their client configured similarly.
Therefore, I think the real question is, "If someone connects to a swarm and only gets an incomplete file (or not even a byte of it), are they liable in any way?
... then you might as well try a non-intrusive treatment like a patch first and only go for surgery if the patch doesn't kill the cancer.
I'd rather try what Rick Simpson says cured his BCC. Once it was known many of his friends were cured of various ailments (by applying or consuming the hemp oil) he had to leave Canada to avoid incarceration. Check out the Video Library on his site for more info on this banned cure. No, I have not tried it as I've not had the need (yet), but there is a ton of evidence that the source plant has amazing healing qualities and has been used for over 5000+ years by modern man for myriad uses.
This is the link for the video I saw that made me even more aware of this plant's awesome powers.
Personally, I'd rather not use radioactive 'anything' since there's more than enough ambient radiation to deal with --just before confirming this post, I noticed he's making mention how useful hemp oil is in alleviating (or protecting from) the damage from high-level radiation poisoning right on the Phoenix Tears homepage.
No it isn't, it's like a government who has so much contempt for you, and thinks you're so stupid that you'll actually accept a double-speak reply that base and condescending as remotely acceptable.
I don't think they 'think' the majority is stupid, I think they know. http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/06/19/1742236/us-students-struggle-with-reasoning-skills
I think they mean the recording portion doesn't turn on unless the sensing portion detects a gunshot. A poorly worded sentence, to be sure. It's like your TV - even when your TV is "off", the small component that listens for your remote is still on.
I think the 'saving' of the always-on recording doesn't get saved unless it 'hears' the sound it's supposed to. After all, how the heck is it supposed to record something after it happened? All this makes me wonder if more of these audio devices (and CCTV) will be destroyed/hunted by local criminals; if so, will that spur a new market for camouflaged devices?
It's terrorism, plain and simple. When a group of people think that burning down a forest is the best way to protest a new lodge at the Vail resort in Colorado.. or paint baby seals in Alaska red so their furs become worthless (and so is their only defense; a good camouflage) or causes some sort of damage to the very thing they are supposed to be protecting makes no sense to me. It's terrorism to me because they are not on my side, even if I agree that a clean earth is a healthy earth. I think that the tactic the Sea Shepherd uses by simply 'getting in-between' is a useful tactic where no one (or creature) is harmed, but when people start shooting and jumping on the other person's ship to fight (and possibly to sabotage it), that's not good.
The word 'anarchism' is used my the mainstream media to dissuade a generation from practicing what that term really means -although many here were probably self-professed anarchists (till they had to be home for the night; parents, gf, wife).
I have a feeling that until we can all learn to live with each other (and ourselves, in some cases) and show that respect, daily (thus ending wars and many isms), we won't even be able to treat the planet and it's creatures with the same respect.
"They don't know what to say. They don't know what to do."
That was true before porn and video games....
There was always porn in print-form. I'm sure there's more than a few on Slashdot that remember finding someone's porn stash... maybe your father's, even. They were the most important 'documents' you probably owned and stashed away so deeply that no one could find them.. or probably just between your mattresses.
Then came the Internet and all one had to do was find a folder that no one would go into, probably something like "2001 Quarterly Results" or "First Presbyterian Bake Sale Recipes" to deposit the porn you downloaded --then put that folder in the System Folder.
Who's got time for that stuff when there's so much to do on Slashdot??
[jailbreak] - slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content
WTF?
More like: slang for the ability to download and run unsigned apps because Apple just didn't like that app (or developer) for whatever unexplained reason -this after extensive costs in dollars and time.