It'll take'em a while to get it fully regulated and perfected, but the future is coming. Gone are the days of the high school student with a new license making a buck where a drone can do it cheaper.:|
But is he technically competent? (Was he while he was employed and is he still?) There's a significant difference between being a domain admin for a number of government contractors versus being a leading security researcher. Where is Bill Schneier on the subject? What about the thousands of other extremely competent and qualified security researches throughout the world? I'd rather read their recommendations and commentary.
I'm not saying he's an idiot, but there's a difference between having the media's attention and being competent. For evidence, I'll provide most political campaigns.
As someone who lives near Bethesda -- the city in Maryland and suburb of Washington, DC -- I'll admit, this headline caught my attention. I mean, DC is already filled with a large variety of miscreants, why anyone would want to unleash even more Hounds of Hell in this region was beyond my tiny, uncaffeinated brain.
Big sigh of relief when I figured out it was a video game. Though maybe if you named some of the creatures for certain personalities in the city, Bethesda and id could double down on their marketing.
Ask Bing the same question and you get the same results. But you can't flag them.
Google's algorithm got hacked. Good on the Creationists for getting creative. Good on Google for having a feedback mechanism to flag it.
This headline ruined my plan for how I was going to manage doing the laundry in my household for the next 30 years. Talk about depressing on a Saturday night. At least a robot could get me a beer from the fridge.
Agreed. How many snipers had this guy in their sights thinking "please don't make me shoot you." The Secret Service agent at the door did their job as did the rest of the unit.
Alternatively.. maybe congress could stop cutting their budgets and allow for some extra room. I'm sure the Congress will love the idea of cutting (pick favorite target of the majority party of either wing) to boost Secret Service spending.
What about living in a super polluted city? Apple sells equipment in China, Egypt, Mexico and South Korea. Some of those cities are terribly disgusting compared to working in a smoke filled bar. Does Apple change their warranty for those places? How long can I travel there before I void my warranty?
I agree Apple needs to look out for their employee's health by providing the appropriate equipment, but I think they also need to design equipment that can handle the normal operating environment for the customers they sell to.
For better or worse, smokers and heavily polluted cities still represent a significant source of revenue for computer companies. So long as that is the case, their products need to be designed for their customers.
Say what you want about the Bush administration, but Kyoto is not the example you want to show here. As a "binding" agreement between countries, the number of countries even coming close has been dismal.
Kyoto was initially agreed upon in 1997 [wikipedia] . In the period from 1994 - 2005 US emissions rose 20%. Admittedly this is not good, but the below countries actually signed the agreement and did worse.
Canada (+26%)
Spain (+50%)
Greece (+25%)
Ireland (+22%)
Portugal (+28%)
China (+150%)
Even CANADA's emissions rose more than the U.S.'
IMO I'm glad we didn't agree to something we didn't have any plans to actually complete.
"Right now, during the northern hemisphere's summer, the atmosphere is heating up and expanding. At the outside edge of the atmosphere, that actually means that it's getting colder because it's pushed farther out into space."
Can someone explain to me how our atmosphere can be getting "colder" at the edges? I don't think space is getting any "colder" (at least not on a scale relevant to "global warming"). And I would imagine that while the altitude that our atmosphere may change, and the temperature gradient in that atmosphere my change, I can't see how the "outside edge of the atmosphere" can get "colder".
If we limit ourselves to the West (most of North America, Western/Centra Europe and Australia), then I'll agree with the statement. But once you start looking at more of the developing countries then I think this statement is far from true. Look at places in the middle east, central asia, nearly all of Africa, and even rural america and the internet is still a long ways from being reliable with the necessary bandwidth. On top of the connections not being there, power isn't always stable, so your gateway may or may not have power today even if you do. On top of it, you start slapping a satellite gateway inbetween you and the target IP and your connection just got even worse.
Yes, connectivity is certainly getting better and companies like Inmarsat and Thuraya make their money on providing access in places where connectivity is inherently difficult, but it's still a long ways from being ubiquitous.
The scary part (IMO) is that as the more technically advanced countries become more and more web/internet reliant, the technology divide becomes that much worse for third-world/developing nations. The one laptop per child effort is something that I think will help close this gap a bit, but as the world becomes more internet driven, what good is having a laptop if you don't have sufficient connectivity to tie into it? A lot of these places are still running 64kbps. Have you _TRIED_ surfing at 64kbps these days? It sucks bad!
I'm not saying that the world isn't headed to a webbased interface, or whether or not this is a bad thing. Just saying that there is still a very large portion of the world that is a very long ways off from having sufficient internet connectivity and it certainly would be nice if people kept this in mind when they're developing applications/interfaces.
Maybe they're doing what I'm doing too. Holding off buying new music until I see what music I get for Christmas. I'd hate to buy a CD this month only to find out that my family bought it for me for Christmas.
(That said, I'm not buying CDs anymore. I'm buying the 2 songs I care about per CD from the Apple Store. But I'm not buying any more until Christmas as iTunes gift certs are #1 on my list.)
1. Humans cause global warming. 2. Earth's ice caps melt 3. Oceans rise & current flow stops. 4. World cools. 5. Ice caps grow. 6. Ice caps kick human's ass 7. No more humans = no more global warming. Problem solved. 8. Ice caps go back to normal.
Wouldn't this pose an even more harmful environmental problem upon disposal of the battery? Even now, your standard Litium, NiCad or any battery has disposal issues. Throwing them into the dumpster to go to the landfill is supposed to be a bad idea (and companies who have large volumes of batteries probably do recycle) but your average consumer doesn't.
What happens when your average consumer starts using these inplace of your standard AA's now? Is that a bigger threat to the environment? Seems the environmental impact studies will take just as long as the product development.:(
Disclaimers: 1. I understand you can use low radiation, short half-life material, but I don't know what they eventually decay to and how it compares to standard battery materials.
2. I am not a tree-hugger or any other sort of extreme environmentalist, however I acknowledge their existence and the reality of the resulting laws and policies.
3. I'm a dumb ass and could be completely wrong on all of the above.
I tried a script posted and put in some long words. The word "typographically" was almost impossible to decipher, and I even remembered the sentence I typed in. For short words, this article makes sense, but I doubt it can be upheld with longer and longer words. Could make for an interesting paper or science project.
I know the IOC is a corrupt board that imposes some pretty bad rules here and there -- especially those that make the Olympics look so commercialized -- but let's not let that ruin the experience.
I've had the opportunity to talk with a fair number of olympic hopefuls through my rowing and contacts in swimming, and the amount of personal sacrifice these guys have to go through is amazing. Let's face it, unless you're in a major sport (football, basketball, hockey, etc) then you will NOT make any money in sports. When was the last time you heard about a rower making it big? Yet, the time required to train for the olympic level, the money required to pay for coaches, leading edge equipment, and just basic life functions is high among all sports and becomes a real financial strain for families. It doesn't matter where the athlete came from -- competing at the international level is expensive and requires endorsements and a lot of hard work.
I still believe it's possible to look past the commercialism and see what's really there, a large number of athletes busting their ass so they can show that they are indeed the best in the world. Some of the technological things may be a little questionable (body suits in swimming, etc) but if you ban technology, you look technophobic, let it in and you slight the countries that don't have money for their athletes. The IOC just can't win in the public eye.
I will be watching the Olympics with great interest to see some outcomes of these questions. But I also think the athletes deserve it. If we didn't watch, then there would be no Olympics. I'll also be choosing some stores over others based on who supported the athletes. When stores like Home Depot pay fulltime wages to parttime Olympic hopefuls so they can compete, I think it's worth the few extra cents to help them out.
Say what you want about the commercialism of the Games and the corruption or short sightedness of the IOC, but let's not ignore the real reason the games exist. It's still there, you just have to focus on the goal.
Looks like Intel decided that we're out of shape and need to get a workout in. Could you imagine if you got a dual P4 -- or God forbid, a quad? Shit, you're talking over 4 pounds in heat sink alone! Let alone the power supply, sheet metal for the case, and the air conditioner to cool your room down (the heat has to go somewhere doesn't it?). Move all this stuff around a couple times and you'll be ripped!
On the other hand, I guess you could toss out the fireplace and just roast marshmallows by the warmth of your computer.
I'm pretty sure this isn't entirely possible without at least replacing the windshield. I heard somewhere that someone (a car company I believe) was experimenting with putting ceramic materials into windshields that would allow them to do the HUDs. My impression was that it was a pretty pretty difficult to throw a display on something that was already transparent. They obviously figured it out, but I'm curious how much it'll cost.
The Thermal imaging used in tanks etc I believe is is done with a ocular attachment which throws the display directly into the users eye. Significantly easier to do than to display an image on glass. (I could be wrong on this though.)
No you can't. It has to be a "Voquette Enabled" mini-disk player. Looking at a page on Voquette's site they say : "Automatically record your playlists onto Voquette enabled devices."
Kinda sucks... any one want a portable MD player? Mine's about to go onsale for about... oh, how's $240 sound? =)
The Commodore 64 had a light pen too and I used several programs that used it. Primarily cad software, but also had some games for the kids that used it too.
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It'll take'em a while to get it fully regulated and perfected, but the future is coming. Gone are the days of the high school student with a new license making a buck where a drone can do it cheaper. :|
I'm not saying he's an idiot, but there's a difference between having the media's attention and being competent. For evidence, I'll provide most political campaigns.
As someone who lives near Bethesda -- the city in Maryland and suburb of Washington, DC -- I'll admit, this headline caught my attention. I mean, DC is already filled with a large variety of miscreants, why anyone would want to unleash even more Hounds of Hell in this region was beyond my tiny, uncaffeinated brain. Big sigh of relief when I figured out it was a video game. Though maybe if you named some of the creatures for certain personalities in the city, Bethesda and id could double down on their marketing.
Ask Bing the same question and you get the same results. But you can't flag them. Google's algorithm got hacked. Good on the Creationists for getting creative. Good on Google for having a feedback mechanism to flag it.
This headline ruined my plan for how I was going to manage doing the laundry in my household for the next 30 years. Talk about depressing on a Saturday night. At least a robot could get me a beer from the fridge.
Alternatively.. maybe congress could stop cutting their budgets and allow for some extra room. I'm sure the Congress will love the idea of cutting (pick favorite target of the majority party of either wing) to boost Secret Service spending.
Crystal Light is going to sue for trademark infringement. #obligatorypun
I agree Apple needs to look out for their employee's health by providing the appropriate equipment, but I think they also need to design equipment that can handle the normal operating environment for the customers they sell to.
For better or worse, smokers and heavily polluted cities still represent a significant source of revenue for computer companies. So long as that is the case, their products need to be designed for their customers.
Even CANADA's emissions rose more than the U.S.' IMO I'm glad we didn't agree to something we didn't have any plans to actually complete.
"Right now, during the northern hemisphere's summer, the atmosphere is heating up and expanding. At the outside edge of the atmosphere, that actually means that it's getting colder because it's pushed farther out into space."
Can someone explain to me how our atmosphere can be getting "colder" at the edges? I don't think space is getting any "colder" (at least not on a scale relevant to "global warming"). And I would imagine that while the altitude that our atmosphere may change, and the temperature gradient in that atmosphere my change, I can't see how the "outside edge of the atmosphere" can get "colder".
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If we limit ourselves to the West (most of North America, Western/Centra Europe and Australia), then I'll agree with the statement. But once you start looking at more of the developing countries then I think this statement is far from true. Look at places in the middle east, central asia, nearly all of Africa, and even rural america and the internet is still a long ways from being reliable with the necessary bandwidth. On top of the connections not being there, power isn't always stable, so your gateway may or may not have power today even if you do. On top of it, you start slapping a satellite gateway inbetween you and the target IP and your connection just got even worse.
Yes, connectivity is certainly getting better and companies like Inmarsat and Thuraya make their money on providing access in places where connectivity is inherently difficult, but it's still a long ways from being ubiquitous.
The scary part (IMO) is that as the more technically advanced countries become more and more web/internet reliant, the technology divide becomes that much worse for third-world/developing nations. The one laptop per child effort is something that I think will help close this gap a bit, but as the world becomes more internet driven, what good is having a laptop if you don't have sufficient connectivity to tie into it? A lot of these places are still running 64kbps. Have you _TRIED_ surfing at 64kbps these days? It sucks bad!
I'm not saying that the world isn't headed to a webbased interface, or whether or not this is a bad thing. Just saying that there is still a very large portion of the world that is a very long ways off from having sufficient internet connectivity and it certainly would be nice if people kept this in mind when they're developing applications/interfaces.
Just my $0.03
Try:
Happily Married
Legally Drunk
Still, Dwarf Galaxy ain't bad.
Maybe they're doing what I'm doing too. Holding off buying new music until I see what music I get for Christmas. I'd hate to buy a CD this month only to find out that my family bought it for me for Christmas.
(That said, I'm not buying CDs anymore. I'm buying the 2 songs I care about per CD from the Apple Store. But I'm not buying any more until Christmas as iTunes gift certs are #1 on my list.)
Just my $0.03. Inflation's a bitch.
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Don't forget red wine helps prevent heart disease.t ifier=4422
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?iden
Now if they can figure out how smoking helps me live longer I can justify all my bad habits.
Of course the earth is self-regulating. See:
1. Humans cause global warming.
2. Earth's ice caps melt
3. Oceans rise & current flow stops.
4. World cools.
5. Ice caps grow.
6. Ice caps kick human's ass
7. No more humans = no more global warming. Problem solved.
8. Ice caps go back to normal.
See? Makes sense to me.
And I couldn't agree more.
Wouldn't this pose an even more harmful environmental problem upon disposal of the battery? Even now, your standard Litium, NiCad or any battery has disposal issues. Throwing them into the dumpster to go to the landfill is supposed to be a bad idea (and companies who have large volumes of batteries probably do recycle) but your average consumer doesn't.
:(
What happens when your average consumer starts using these inplace of your standard AA's now? Is that a bigger threat to the environment? Seems the environmental impact studies will take just as long as the product development.
Disclaimers:
1. I understand you can use low radiation, short half-life material, but I don't know what they eventually decay to and how it compares to standard battery materials.
2. I am not a tree-hugger or any other sort of extreme environmentalist, however I acknowledge their existence and the reality of the resulting laws and policies.
3. I'm a dumb ass and could be completely wrong on all of the above.
I tried a script posted and put in some long words. The word "typographically" was almost impossible to decipher, and I even remembered the sentence I typed in. For short words, this article makes sense, but I doubt it can be upheld with longer and longer words. Could make for an interesting paper or science project.
I know the IOC is a corrupt board that imposes some pretty bad rules here and there -- especially those that make the Olympics look so commercialized -- but let's not let that ruin the experience.
I've had the opportunity to talk with a fair number of olympic hopefuls through my rowing and contacts in swimming, and the amount of personal sacrifice these guys have to go through is amazing. Let's face it, unless you're in a major sport (football, basketball, hockey, etc) then you will NOT make any money in sports. When was the last time you heard about a rower making it big? Yet, the time required to train for the olympic level, the money required to pay for coaches, leading edge equipment, and just basic life functions is high among all sports and becomes a real financial strain for families. It doesn't matter where the athlete came from -- competing at the international level is expensive and requires endorsements and a lot of hard work.
I still believe it's possible to look past the commercialism and see what's really there, a large number of athletes busting their ass so they can show that they are indeed the best in the world. Some of the technological things may be a little questionable (body suits in swimming, etc) but if you ban technology, you look technophobic, let it in and you slight the countries that don't have money for their athletes. The IOC just can't win in the public eye.
I will be watching the Olympics with great interest to see some outcomes of these questions. But I also think the athletes deserve it. If we didn't watch, then there would be no Olympics. I'll also be choosing some stores over others based on who supported the athletes. When stores like Home Depot pay fulltime wages to parttime Olympic hopefuls so they can compete, I think it's worth the few extra cents to help them out.
Say what you want about the commercialism of the Games and the corruption or short sightedness of the IOC, but let's not ignore the real reason the games exist. It's still there, you just have to focus on the goal.
My $0.02 -
--Oarsman
Go USA!
Looks like Intel decided that we're out of shape and need to get a workout in. Could you imagine if you got a dual P4 -- or God forbid, a quad? Shit, you're talking over 4 pounds in heat sink alone! Let alone the power supply, sheet metal for the case, and the air conditioner to cool your room down (the heat has to go somewhere doesn't it?). Move all this stuff around a couple times and you'll be ripped!
On the other hand, I guess you could toss out the fireplace and just roast marshmallows by the warmth of your computer.
(singing) Chestnuts roasting on an open case...
I'm pretty sure this isn't entirely possible without at least replacing the windshield. I heard somewhere that someone (a car company I believe) was experimenting with putting ceramic materials into windshields that would allow them to do the HUDs. My impression was that it was a pretty pretty difficult to throw a display on something that was already transparent. They obviously figured it out, but I'm curious how much it'll cost.
The Thermal imaging used in tanks etc I believe is is done with a ocular attachment which throws the display directly into the users eye. Significantly easier to do than to display an image on glass. (I could be wrong on this though.)
You have to turn your headlights on in order to use the system, so that's not an option. (yet)
Kinda sucks... any one want a portable MD player? Mine's about to go onsale for about... oh, how's $240 sound? =)
The Commodore 64 had a light pen too and I used several programs that used it. Primarily cad software, but also had some games for the kids that used it too.
Besides.. you can get more money from the company than you can an individual.