These folks claiming to be "unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way" are still doing it the easy way. They want to do it the hard way? Rally a bunch of supporters and go to Parliament and MAKE them unblock it. Rouse friends and family in support of sharing of information (the BASIS OF HUMANITY) and don't let anyone forget who the bastards are that blocked it in the first place and why they should be voted out. Get some money together and run smear campaigns on the media networks if you dare.
"Oh that's too hard", yes well, that's why it's called the HARD way. "Oh, I'll just use $NEXT_ON_THE_BLOCK_LIST tool or service to get around the censorship", not only are they not doing it The hard way, they're just plain doing it wrong.
Unfortunately the only rallying most of your audience will do will be the kind that doesn't involve them getting out of their seats...
And you need to add the qualifier "in the long term" to your assertion about the "easy way" and the "hard way"... the "hard way" is easy right now and that's why it's called the "easy way".
Then maybe we need to stop listening to "think of the children" alarmists who believe that all risk can be eliminated from life. We all have to take risks with our wealth, our time, our safety, and our reputations every time we wake up in the morning.
I'm all for that, but OTOH the risk of significant brain injury from playing football seems to approach 100% for anyone who plays it for long enough, so it seems dumb to even call it a "risk" and makes your argument irrelevant.
By all means let your 8yo kid walk to school by themselves even though there is a tiny chance something bad could happen to them (the risk of shielding them from all the potential dangers of the world is far greater), but ffs don't let them play football!
Maybe easier to just make a head collision hurt a lot more in comparison to the damage done to the brain. A set of tiny spikes that rest against the scalp that hurt a lot when any pressure is applied, without causing any actual lasting injury, would suffice.
Alternatively, a painful electric charge delivery system that incapacitates all players from both teams whenever there is a head impact. Open to abuse of course (remove helmet, whack it against something hard, laugh at the resulting chaos), but could really liven up an otherwise boring game;)
You fucking idiot. We don't know where they'll be in 200 years because we're moving and they're moving, plus getting a mirror to hit a planet that far away is fucking impossible. Learn something about optics.
Seriously... that's the only hole in that little thought experiment?? You can do much better than that.
I had the same thought. A giant mirror in the middle reflecting everything (not just light). And if the planet appears 200 light years away then the mirror is 100 light years away and we are seeing ourselves 200 years ago, it should start getting noisy fairly soon!
Absolutely, I probably should have clarified that this is all for 'action'. The closer you are to a static image, the less relevant frame rate becomes. No one can tell the difference between 1fps and 600fps on a static image.
That's not quite true, although the difference is a function of what you are displaying it on. If you had a CRT refreshing the screen at 1fps it would be pretty much unwatchable as you'd notice the phosphor fade between frames even if the frames themselves were the same... for me this is true all the way up to about 80fps, and i find anything less than about 70fps distracting.
I can't even begin to think how you would make linear film work at 1fps...
I had one when i was about 4 (grommets) which was "blink and you miss it", one when I was 12 (appendix) which was followed by hours of vomiting and weeks of feeling really really sick, and one when I was about 30 (correct a deviated nasal septum and fix up some other nasal blockages) which was also followed by lots of unpleasentness. None of those would have had the general marked as "optional".
Pfff... Wuss. I had a triple-bypass with a swig of whiskey and a stick to bite on.
You had a stick? I used to dream of having a stick to bite on! I had to gnaw on my own fingers until they were nothing but bone!
Pretty much everyone's wisdom teeth are completely buried in their gums, aren't they? Mine sure as hell were, and I think one of them was growing sideways into my jaw or something.
I don't know anyone who's had any of their wisdom teeth actually erupt.
My wife got hers out and they were all through, they just needed removing because they were pushing the rest of her teeth around.
My top ones were fine because I had had some molars removed in my early teens. My bottom ones were mostly straight but still pushing on the teeth next to them. If i hadn't held my wife's hand when she was getting hers out 10 years earlier I might not have put off getting mine out for so long instead of waiting until they had pushed a hole in the tooth next to them:(
I respect the use of a general anaesthetic where they are taking most of your face apart. I'm just talking about a routine tooth extraction. My "wimp" comment was an attempt at humour - i'm terrified of general anaethetics. I had one when i was about 4 (grommets) which was "blink and you miss it", one when I was 12 (appendix) which was followed by hours of vomiting and weeks of feeling really really sick, and one when I was about 30 (correct a deviated nasal septum and fix up some other nasal blockages) which was also followed by lots of unpleasentness. None of those would have had the general marked as "optional".
I had my bottom two wisdom teeth (+1) out in the chair though. The surgeon is much more gentle when you are awake. My top two wisdom teeth haven't needed extraction as I had a few other teeth removed when I was younger so there was room for them.
Ditto for the vasectomy, although in that case it was more about that if someone is going down there with a knife then i'm watching them like a hawk:)
Basically I hate the period of feeling sick after a general, and i'm terrified of waking up in the middle of it (or alternatively, not waking up after it).
It isn't mentioned in the article but the technology isn't yet advanced enough to count the penguins while they are moving, so the satellite had to kill them all using a death ray. They hope to have this problem resolved for next years census, which is predicted to be much quicker.
I'd like to see a Titanic themed ride at Universal or whatever. Throw in some 1910s decorations. Some classical music. And then have it like a roller coaster or tower of terror but in sub zero degrees at one of the drops to simulate the ship plunging into the ocean.
I'm thinking more along the lines of a naked Kate Winslet or two.
How could Titanic be a straight up action movie, you moron?
What's worse, if they did try to turn it into an action movie it would end up being a sucky one, and geeks would have something else to complain about.
To be fair, I thought "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" was just military speak for "a building just went through my engines" and not the root cause of the actual accident.
I agree. You can't test when a piece of hardware is going to fail. I've purchased many Hard Drives for our servers, sometimes they last years, sometimes they fail after a few weeks. There is no way to tell.
TFA's idea is to figure out if the drive has already failed but doesn't know it yet.
There's also the failure curve to consider. Early life failures are typically more common than mid-life failures (over the same timeframe), so testing drives thoroughly can bring out early life failures when it's not so inconvenient (hotswap drives are great but not so great if they are hundreds of miles away)
But it's still playing the odds - you could test for a week and then have the drive fail in the first day of production use. It's still worth trying to push the odds in your favour though.
Will this movie offer anything that "Pirates of Silicon Valley" didn't? I doubt it.
I don't recall anyone uttering a phrase beginning with "Dude, where's my -" in "Pirates of Silicon Valley". If they can slip Steve Jobs saying that in the new movie then I'd watch it.
You're right. And that girl I told not to go to the frathouse dressed in that short skirt...
If she'd just listened to my good advice she wouldn't have gotten fucked while passed out.
I'm gonna have to stop you right there. A better comparison would be her going into the frathouse in a short skirt and a concealed weapon and shooting everyone who she felt threatened by, despite your warnings for her not to.
Your warnings do not oblige her to not go in, but they do provide evidence later on that she was advised of the danger and willingly placed herself into a situation where self defence might be her only option, so she can't later plead that she had no idea of the risk.
This also assumes that you knew that there were rapists living there that would present an actual danger... a vague feeling that going into such a place half naked is not a good idea might not cut it.
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"Hmm...let me try a canine-human mind meld. It's an incredibly rare psychic power possessed only by me and three other clerks at this store."
These folks claiming to be "unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way" are still doing it the easy way. They want to do it the hard way? Rally a bunch of supporters and go to Parliament and MAKE them unblock it. Rouse friends and family in support of sharing of information (the BASIS OF HUMANITY) and don't let anyone forget who the bastards are that blocked it in the first place and why they should be voted out. Get some money together and run smear campaigns on the media networks if you dare.
"Oh that's too hard", yes well, that's why it's called the HARD way.
"Oh, I'll just use $NEXT_ON_THE_BLOCK_LIST tool or service to get around the censorship", not only are they not doing it The hard way, they're just plain doing it wrong.
Unfortunately the only rallying most of your audience will do will be the kind that doesn't involve them getting out of their seats...
And you need to add the qualifier "in the long term" to your assertion about the "easy way" and the "hard way"... the "hard way" is easy right now and that's why it's called the "easy way".
Then maybe we need to stop listening to "think of the children" alarmists who believe that all risk can be eliminated from life. We all have to take risks with our wealth, our time, our safety, and our reputations every time we wake up in the morning.
I'm all for that, but OTOH the risk of significant brain injury from playing football seems to approach 100% for anyone who plays it for long enough, so it seems dumb to even call it a "risk" and makes your argument irrelevant.
By all means let your 8yo kid walk to school by themselves even though there is a tiny chance something bad could happen to them (the risk of shielding them from all the potential dangers of the world is far greater), but ffs don't let them play football!
Maybe easier to just make a head collision hurt a lot more in comparison to the damage done to the brain. A set of tiny spikes that rest against the scalp that hurt a lot when any pressure is applied, without causing any actual lasting injury, would suffice.
Alternatively, a painful electric charge delivery system that incapacitates all players from both teams whenever there is a head impact. Open to abuse of course (remove helmet, whack it against something hard, laugh at the resulting chaos), but could really liven up an otherwise boring game ;)
802.11n is only omnidirectional if you use an omnidirectional antenna, it is directional if you use a directional antenna.
Do you have an omnidirectional antenna for your laser diode?
> visible (and invisible) light has a frequency of between 400 and 800THz (800 and 375nm), which is unlicensed spectrum worldwide.
Well, that's good.
Cadbury has attempted an interesting approach to try and license some of that spectrum.
You fucking idiot. We don't know where they'll be in 200 years because we're moving and they're moving, plus getting a mirror to hit a planet that far away is fucking impossible. Learn something about optics.
Seriously... that's the only hole in that little thought experiment?? You can do much better than that.
I had the same thought. A giant mirror in the middle reflecting everything (not just light). And if the planet appears 200 light years away then the mirror is 100 light years away and we are seeing ourselves 200 years ago, it should start getting noisy fairly soon!
Absolutely, I probably should have clarified that this is all for 'action'. The closer you are to a static image, the less relevant frame rate becomes. No one can tell the difference between 1fps and 600fps on a static image.
That's not quite true, although the difference is a function of what you are displaying it on. If you had a CRT refreshing the screen at 1fps it would be pretty much unwatchable as you'd notice the phosphor fade between frames even if the frames themselves were the same... for me this is true all the way up to about 80fps, and i find anything less than about 70fps distracting.
I can't even begin to think how you would make linear film work at 1fps...
Just run this as a joint mission between the US and the EU, problem solved.
Too risky. It may just float softly to the ground. And then explode.
I had one when i was about 4 (grommets) which was "blink and you miss it", one when I was 12 (appendix) which was followed by hours of vomiting and weeks of feeling really really sick, and one when I was about 30 (correct a deviated nasal septum and fix up some other nasal blockages) which was also followed by lots of unpleasentness. None of those would have had the general marked as "optional".
Pfff... Wuss. I had a triple-bypass with a swig of whiskey and a stick to bite on.
You had a stick? I used to dream of having a stick to bite on! I had to gnaw on my own fingers until they were nothing but bone!
Pretty much everyone's wisdom teeth are completely buried in their gums, aren't they? Mine sure as hell were, and I think one of them was growing sideways into my jaw or something.
I don't know anyone who's had any of their wisdom teeth actually erupt.
My wife got hers out and they were all through, they just needed removing because they were pushing the rest of her teeth around.
My top ones were fine because I had had some molars removed in my early teens. My bottom ones were mostly straight but still pushing on the teeth next to them. If i hadn't held my wife's hand when she was getting hers out 10 years earlier I might not have put off getting mine out for so long instead of waiting until they had pushed a hole in the tooth next to them :(
I respect the use of a general anaesthetic where they are taking most of your face apart. I'm just talking about a routine tooth extraction. My "wimp" comment was an attempt at humour - i'm terrified of general anaethetics. I had one when i was about 4 (grommets) which was "blink and you miss it", one when I was 12 (appendix) which was followed by hours of vomiting and weeks of feeling really really sick, and one when I was about 30 (correct a deviated nasal septum and fix up some other nasal blockages) which was also followed by lots of unpleasentness. None of those would have had the general marked as "optional".
I had my bottom two wisdom teeth (+1) out in the chair though. The surgeon is much more gentle when you are awake. My top two wisdom teeth haven't needed extraction as I had a few other teeth removed when I was younger so there was room for them.
Ditto for the vasectomy, although in that case it was more about that if someone is going down there with a knife then i'm watching them like a hawk :)
Basically I hate the period of feeling sick after a general, and i'm terrified of waking up in the middle of it (or alternatively, not waking up after it).
Unless your Wisdom Teeth are completely buried in your gums, get them done in the dentist chair under a local and don't be a wimp.
It isn't mentioned in the article but the technology isn't yet advanced enough to count the penguins while they are moving, so the satellite had to kill them all using a death ray. They hope to have this problem resolved for next years census, which is predicted to be much quicker.
As long as no one teaches them the term "Corporate Whore," I think we'd be better off than with what we've got.
Bobo no accept campaign contribution from Exxon. Bobo represent people.
Exxon? That doesn't look like a real word...
I'd like to see a Titanic themed ride at Universal or whatever. Throw in some 1910s decorations. Some classical music. And then have it like a roller coaster or tower of terror but in sub zero degrees at one of the drops to simulate the ship plunging into the ocean.
I'm thinking more along the lines of a naked Kate Winslet or two.
For men, it has explosions, breasts, and a snobs versus the slobs storyline--think "Caddyshack on the High Seas."
See? It has everything!
And people falling from great heights and hitting stuff on the way down. Don't forget that.
How could Titanic be a straight up action movie, you moron?
What's worse, if they did try to turn it into an action movie it would end up being a sucky one, and geeks would have something else to complain about.
To be fair, I thought "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" was just military speak for "a building just went through my engines" and not the root cause of the actual accident.
How do they know it's a 'baby mammoth', rather than a 'standard elephant'?
An African Elephant? In Siberia? Pull the other one. It must be a Woolly Siberian Ice Elephant.
You need to be able to deal with loss of GPS link which means you need to have an alternate means of localisation(which is very difficult).
But very important unless you want to end up with it captured by Iran and have them claim you were spying on them.
I agree. You can't test when a piece of hardware is going to fail. I've purchased many Hard Drives for our servers, sometimes they last years, sometimes they fail after a few weeks. There is no way to tell.
TFA's idea is to figure out if the drive has already failed but doesn't know it yet.
There's also the failure curve to consider. Early life failures are typically more common than mid-life failures (over the same timeframe), so testing drives thoroughly can bring out early life failures when it's not so inconvenient (hotswap drives are great but not so great if they are hundreds of miles away)
But it's still playing the odds - you could test for a week and then have the drive fail in the first day of production use. It's still worth trying to push the odds in your favour though.
Will this movie offer anything that "Pirates of Silicon Valley" didn't? I doubt it.
I don't recall anyone uttering a phrase beginning with "Dude, where's my -" in "Pirates of Silicon Valley". If they can slip Steve Jobs saying that in the new movie then I'd watch it.
You're right. And that girl I told not to go to the frathouse dressed in that short skirt...
If she'd just listened to my good advice she wouldn't have gotten fucked while passed out.
I'm gonna have to stop you right there. A better comparison would be her going into the frathouse in a short skirt and a concealed weapon and shooting everyone who she felt threatened by, despite your warnings for her not to.
Your warnings do not oblige her to not go in, but they do provide evidence later on that she was advised of the danger and willingly placed herself into a situation where self defence might be her only option, so she can't later plead that she had no idea of the risk.
This also assumes that you knew that there were rapists living there that would present an actual danger... a vague feeling that going into such a place half naked is not a good idea might not cut it.