Not exactly....The FCC is about to auction off all the analog broadcast TV bandwidth when all stations go digital in early 2009. The bandwidth avoidance that these internet boxes will have to do will be greatly reduced when all the analog TV is gone.
+5 Interesting??? Jeez....Maybe this is one position that I actually agree with Bush on....living forever (or trying to) is ridiculous. Like someone else stated before, the real conundrum is the social liability that old people have on the world. It's one thing to live forever, but if you do so for 50 years after being a socially productive member of society for only 65, then the economy quickly becomes unsustainable and healthcare costs crush the country. If you can keep the ratio of productive years to retired years constant, then sure....live to be 200, just don't expect to retire until you're 150.
We'd all better hope that the carbon trapped in easy-to-get spots is pretty much insignificant atmosphere-wise, 'cause the cat's out of the bag, and it's not going to stop being pumped till it's gone.
I think that "hoping" that there isn't enough carbon in the ground to screw up the atmosphere isn't exactly the best solution to the problem. We already know that there is enough carbon in the ground to have massive climate shifts. We need to be proactively seeking a solution to this issue and not passively hoping that this will all pass.
And "foreign oil" is not the big issue here. The issue is how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere every day, which the burning of every hydrocarbon (synthetic or not) contributes to. This technology gives us a carbon-free energy delivery device that doesn't require costly pressurized tanks, filling stations, etc. Hell, you could buy a bag of these pellets at safeway. The delivery bag could then double as the waste bag for the alumina sludge. We could offset the extra costs of this method by not having to have special stores (gas stations) dedicated to delivering us this stuff. This is great tech that could have a lot of potential.
The big telco and cable companies will no doubt try and stop, hinder, or at least stall these smaller content and voip services as long as they can. It's all a revenue thing. They have a lot of money invested in equipment that delivers content the old way, and some little company comes along and uses the net to deliver the same service at a fraction of the cost. This sets a much lower price for the service that is not sustainable by the big telcos. They will fight tooth and nail to keep the old service (and the old price point) as long as they can.
It is unfortunate since the cable companies are in the best position to make internet TV work properly by setting up the network properly. Distributed servers that would keep only single streams of channels on the big backbones and would contain all the on demand material. They'll just never do it anytime soon since they would basically have to buy new equipment and offer the same service for cheaper.
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Emphasis mine. They could literally sue you for using Linux at home, just like the RIAA sues people for having downloaded music on their computer. I have to agree that this is not their intent, though. They want to scare enterprise users away from OSS since they are loosing ground there.
I think the tagline "Towel-Heads Are Stupid - Izlam Is A Fake Religion" is a pretty good giveaway.....not to mention the "Rapture Index" right under the terrorist threat advisory.....
The point of this article is to bring attention to the racket that is the security industry. We are sold products that are inherently insecure and then need to have special software bought for them to prevent bots, spyware, viruses, etc. The OS/computer companies save money on shoddy RnD and the security companies make money selling us stuff to "fix" it.
I liken this to the financial institutions now selling us "Identity Theft Protection" which is basically insurance from themselves. They make it so damn easy to take out credit cards with just a few pieces of information....nobody has to see a picture ID, nothing is done in person....all so the credit card companies can save money by having everything done by mail. Then when identity theft becomes a huge problem, instead of changing the policy for getting a card, they decide to suck more money out of the consumer by offering "protection" from a problem that they created. Might as well be the mafia going door to door selling "protection"....
Agreed.....you should watch (if you haven't already) the film Shattered Glass. It's the true story of a young writer in the 90's that became a staff writer at the New Republic magazine and for a large portion of his articles (like half) he either partially or completely made up the stories. Pretty interesting material about the checks and balances that exist (and don't exist) in the journalism field......
If you can find some evidence of other problems this guy had in school then I'll take that into consideration. Right now, you have nothing to back up the claim that: "Almost certainly this guy had a history and the video game aspect has been brought to the foreground by journalists for some other reason." Yeah, it's possible....maybe even probable.....but nobody has any info on that so I think it's premature to state that nobody should take this article seriously.
I forget the actual numbers, but the idea was really to simplify the procedure. It's more important to get blood flowing through the heart than do the breaths, so this way inexperienced people spend less time fumbling around with the breaths and more time pumping.
Well, first I want to say that I think the GP post and your post seem to be on the same page....perhaps the sarcasm didn't come quite through in the GP
Second, while I do agree with all the federal laws that you present in your post, I think that federal laws should be implemented much more carefully than some of them are. I agree with the GP when he says that sometimes we are fifty states, and sometimes we are one country. The federal government needs to understand this, and understand that letting the states have rights and come up with different solutions to a problem can be a good testing ground for a future federal law. It's when the feds hastily pass laws or are allowed to change laws rapidly (like the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 which pretty much lets a few people change the laws on substances at will) that the states rightfully start crying out for states rights if they have a better solution to a broken law.
When looking at this situation in hindsight, it seems like "How the hell did the cops let this guy commit more murders two hours after killing people in a dormitory? Wouldn't they have shut down the school if they knew there was a crazy gunman on the loose?"
Well, I have to come to the cops defense and say no, since the first shootings took place on the other side of campus in a dorm and was an isolated incident involving two people being murdered. Trying to forget about the horror of the other 30 people being killed in the classroom, why would the police shut down the entire campus because of this incident at the dorm? What reason would they have to believe that this guy was going to kill more people? I'll bet the first murders were personal....an act of rage.....and the guy just snapped at the reality of what he had just done and went crazy.....thinking he had nothing left to loose.
That campus is huge with thousands of students....the size of a small town. What makes people think that after two students are killed in their dorm, the correct (or even feasible) police reaction is to put cops in every classroom in every building on campus? And collect that many officers in two hours?
It's absolutely horrible that this happened, and we can all sit around and think of ways that the cops could've prevented this, but hindsight is 20/20 and I don't think that the police responded grossly incorrect given the situation at hand at 7:15am. Trying to blame this on the cops is not the right solution......giving love and support to the people affected by this is. My heart goes out to you all.
The system turns off when you're set up for landing: slow speed, wheels down, flaps down.
Well, there's the terrorist workaround. Pretend to land.....crash the plane. A system like this, while very elegant and sophisticated, is designed with a "good faith" effort from the pilot in mind. It assumes that you are not trying to crash the plane, but perhaps just making an error.
... don't disable it, just co-opt it! You don't even need to be ON the plane to crash it into a target.
True....but the idea of this system is that it can only be activated from the plane and once activated it can't be disabled from the plane. For terrorists to remotely hijack a plane they would have to have someone on the plane to trigger the system. The question is whether or not they could remotely hijack a plane from the cabin, thus circumventing all the cockpit security enhancements. I think that scenario is more likely since a powerful enough radio transmitter on the plane could easily override anything air traffic control could put out.
The second law of thermodynamics disagrees. Heat moves from hot things to cold things, not the other way. In order for heat to flow from the outside of the beer cooler to the inside, the outside would have to be hotter than the inside. If the inside was hotter, heat would flow out, not in.
Yes, but this is not just a thermodynamics problem because of the radiation from the sun. The temperature of the earth is much hotter than the temperature of outer space surrounding it, just like a cooler or a car can get much hotter than the ambient temperature of the air because the sun is heating it faster than it can radiate heat out. A good model of the earth would be a clear cooler (the earth's atmosphere) and black beer cans (like Guiness or something). The sun would heat up the beer cans directly, and the cooler would keep the heat from escaping. Put that in the sun and it'll get much hotter than the ambient air.
I would say that "no law respecting an establishment of religion" gives you the freedom to criticize a religion. If you did not have that freedom then there would be laws respecting that religion.
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I can see a return on investment for this discovery....sell it to Good Vibrations as a space-age dildo
Not exactly....The FCC is about to auction off all the analog broadcast TV bandwidth when all stations go digital in early 2009. The bandwidth avoidance that these internet boxes will have to do will be greatly reduced when all the analog TV is gone.
I'm an apple user and I thought this was funny....but if this guy did own an apple he probably wouldn't have made a website that looks like s**t.
+5 Interesting??? Jeez....Maybe this is one position that I actually agree with Bush on....living forever (or trying to) is ridiculous. Like someone else stated before, the real conundrum is the social liability that old people have on the world. It's one thing to live forever, but if you do so for 50 years after being a socially productive member of society for only 65, then the economy quickly becomes unsustainable and healthcare costs crush the country. If you can keep the ratio of productive years to retired years constant, then sure....live to be 200, just don't expect to retire until you're 150.
I think that "hoping" that there isn't enough carbon in the ground to screw up the atmosphere isn't exactly the best solution to the problem. We already know that there is enough carbon in the ground to have massive climate shifts. We need to be proactively seeking a solution to this issue and not passively hoping that this will all pass.
And "foreign oil" is not the big issue here. The issue is how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere every day, which the burning of every hydrocarbon (synthetic or not) contributes to. This technology gives us a carbon-free energy delivery device that doesn't require costly pressurized tanks, filling stations, etc. Hell, you could buy a bag of these pellets at safeway. The delivery bag could then double as the waste bag for the alumina sludge. We could offset the extra costs of this method by not having to have special stores (gas stations) dedicated to delivering us this stuff. This is great tech that could have a lot of potential.
The big telco and cable companies will no doubt try and stop, hinder, or at least stall these smaller content and voip services as long as they can. It's all a revenue thing. They have a lot of money invested in equipment that delivers content the old way, and some little company comes along and uses the net to deliver the same service at a fraction of the cost. This sets a much lower price for the service that is not sustainable by the big telcos. They will fight tooth and nail to keep the old service (and the old price point) as long as they can.
It is unfortunate since the cable companies are in the best position to make internet TV work properly by setting up the network properly. Distributed servers that would keep only single streams of channels on the big backbones and would contain all the on demand material. They'll just never do it anytime soon since they would basically have to buy new equipment and offer the same service for cheaper.
From the USPTO:
Emphasis mine. They could literally sue you for using Linux at home, just like the RIAA sues people for having downloaded music on their computer. I have to agree that this is not their intent, though. They want to scare enterprise users away from OSS since they are loosing ground there.
I think the tagline "Towel-Heads Are Stupid - Izlam Is A Fake Religion" is a pretty good giveaway.....not to mention the "Rapture Index" right under the terrorist threat advisory.....
Who cares about IBM.....I'm on a MacIntel now.....
The point of this article is to bring attention to the racket that is the security industry. We are sold products that are inherently insecure and then need to have special software bought for them to prevent bots, spyware, viruses, etc. The OS/computer companies save money on shoddy RnD and the security companies make money selling us stuff to "fix" it.
I liken this to the financial institutions now selling us "Identity Theft Protection" which is basically insurance from themselves. They make it so damn easy to take out credit cards with just a few pieces of information....nobody has to see a picture ID, nothing is done in person....all so the credit card companies can save money by having everything done by mail. Then when identity theft becomes a huge problem, instead of changing the policy for getting a card, they decide to suck more money out of the consumer by offering "protection" from a problem that they created. Might as well be the mafia going door to door selling "protection"....
Agreed.....you should watch (if you haven't already) the film Shattered Glass. It's the true story of a young writer in the 90's that became a staff writer at the New Republic magazine and for a large portion of his articles (like half) he either partially or completely made up the stories. Pretty interesting material about the checks and balances that exist (and don't exist) in the journalism field......
If you can find some evidence of other problems this guy had in school then I'll take that into consideration. Right now, you have nothing to back up the claim that: "Almost certainly this guy had a history and the video game aspect has been brought to the foreground by journalists for some other reason." Yeah, it's possible....maybe even probable.....but nobody has any info on that so I think it's premature to state that nobody should take this article seriously.
What we really need to solve this is more hammer carry permits.....
We can't just depend on the fact that the maintenance guy is around or there's someone putting bars on the windows....
Yeah....well I'll bet that organized crime rings make more money per employee than Apple does too.
I forget the actual numbers, but the idea was really to simplify the procedure. It's more important to get blood flowing through the heart than do the breaths, so this way inexperienced people spend less time fumbling around with the breaths and more time pumping.
Yes, like in Canada.
Well, first I want to say that I think the GP post and your post seem to be on the same page....perhaps the sarcasm didn't come quite through in the GP
Second, while I do agree with all the federal laws that you present in your post, I think that federal laws should be implemented much more carefully than some of them are. I agree with the GP when he says that sometimes we are fifty states, and sometimes we are one country. The federal government needs to understand this, and understand that letting the states have rights and come up with different solutions to a problem can be a good testing ground for a future federal law. It's when the feds hastily pass laws or are allowed to change laws rapidly (like the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 which pretty much lets a few people change the laws on substances at will) that the states rightfully start crying out for states rights if they have a better solution to a broken law.
Of course, they wouldn't have known that the pages were stuck together unless they opened the motion.
When looking at this situation in hindsight, it seems like "How the hell did the cops let this guy commit more murders two hours after killing people in a dormitory? Wouldn't they have shut down the school if they knew there was a crazy gunman on the loose?"
Well, I have to come to the cops defense and say no, since the first shootings took place on the other side of campus in a dorm and was an isolated incident involving two people being murdered. Trying to forget about the horror of the other 30 people being killed in the classroom, why would the police shut down the entire campus because of this incident at the dorm? What reason would they have to believe that this guy was going to kill more people? I'll bet the first murders were personal....an act of rage.....and the guy just snapped at the reality of what he had just done and went crazy.....thinking he had nothing left to loose.
That campus is huge with thousands of students....the size of a small town. What makes people think that after two students are killed in their dorm, the correct (or even feasible) police reaction is to put cops in every classroom in every building on campus? And collect that many officers in two hours?
It's absolutely horrible that this happened, and we can all sit around and think of ways that the cops could've prevented this, but hindsight is 20/20 and I don't think that the police responded grossly incorrect given the situation at hand at 7:15am. Trying to blame this on the cops is not the right solution......giving love and support to the people affected by this is. My heart goes out to you all.
Not to mention the fact that Vista users have to reload the pages they are looking at every time IE crashes or they have to reboot.
Well, there's the terrorist workaround. Pretend to land.....crash the plane. A system like this, while very elegant and sophisticated, is designed with a "good faith" effort from the pilot in mind. It assumes that you are not trying to crash the plane, but perhaps just making an error.
... don't disable it, just co-opt it! You don't even need to be ON the plane to crash it into a target.True....but the idea of this system is that it can only be activated from the plane and once activated it can't be disabled from the plane. For terrorists to remotely hijack a plane they would have to have someone on the plane to trigger the system. The question is whether or not they could remotely hijack a plane from the cabin, thus circumventing all the cockpit security enhancements. I think that scenario is more likely since a powerful enough radio transmitter on the plane could easily override anything air traffic control could put out.
Yes, but this is not just a thermodynamics problem because of the radiation from the sun. The temperature of the earth is much hotter than the temperature of outer space surrounding it, just like a cooler or a car can get much hotter than the ambient temperature of the air because the sun is heating it faster than it can radiate heat out. A good model of the earth would be a clear cooler (the earth's atmosphere) and black beer cans (like Guiness or something). The sun would heat up the beer cans directly, and the cooler would keep the heat from escaping. Put that in the sun and it'll get much hotter than the ambient air.
Hmmmmm.....I totally agree with everything up until the 'getting wood for heating' part. Burning wood is an extremely polluting way to generate heat.
I would say that "no law respecting an establishment of religion" gives you the freedom to criticize a religion. If you did not have that freedom then there would be laws respecting that religion.