To be fair, public education varies a LOT by location. States, cities, and counties have a lot of power of schools and their funding. I grew up in south central Wisconsin, and we have some top notch public schools here. Unfortunately, my experiences seem to be much more of an exception than the norm.
It's not like there is much of anything a student can do in those situation. So the only thing a drill will test is the students fear reaction. Running, cowering, crying, self-defecation, etc... The ONLY outcome this exercise could ever lead to is mentally scaring the youth, and embarrassing them in front of their peers, instructors, and the public. See if these kids ever trust a teacher, or any education employee ever again.
"Google is still free to implement these measures, they are just not forced to do it. "
Actually, they probably are not free to do so. Sure, they could attempt to do so, but as soon as it effects the bottom line, the board of directors would squeal and the stock holders would force them to give up the practice in favor of their legally obligated profit.
For get "Do No Evil", as soon as they became publicly traded their motto changed to "Share Holders' Bitch"
It will help non-regenerative breaking vehicles more. The goal being to improve traffic flow by reducing bunching and breaking on major roads. For a typical non-hybrid/electric car, hitting the breaks on interstate is a complete was of energy. Reducing the number of times a car has to decelerate/accelerate will directly improve the energy consumption rate. For a hybrid/electric though, hitting the breaks only wastes a portion of the energy (the waste to heat and max efficiencies of the system and storage). So reducing the number of times a hybrid has to decelerate/accelerate will improve energy consumption, but it will reduce the energy recouped from breaking, so the net outcome is a smaller benefit than what the non-hybrid vehicle saw.
And I wouldn't generalize that all high efficiency vehicle drivers are gentle drivers. I have a turbo diesel and I love it. More fuel and environmentally friendly than comparable powered gas engines, and I drive it hard. Even with spirited driving I still get better gas mileage (44mpg) than most cars in its segment. And there is a Prius driver I see occasionally on my drive home that has no problem cruising at 80mph.
The nature of hybrids means they are already recouping a lot of the wasted energy from slowing a car. That would make me expect that hybrids would receive less of an energy conservation boost from intelligent controls, but that they would be able to break later and still retain the same performance that conventional engines with intelligence have. So the net energy consumed would be (roughly) the same over all, but Hybrids could drive faster.
My memory has faded a bit since that happened, but I think he got 10 years in a prison up on the mainland. And Japanesse prisons are significantly less pleasant than the Brig from what I hear.
He was hardly an isolated incident unfortunately. The list of horrendous acts drunken members of the military have done in Okinawa is rather staggering. It was with good reason that the protesters were at our gates.
Once when I was in the military, stationed in Okinawa, we had a situation. The political environment wasn't exactly good for us right then, a drunk Marine had hit and run a local Prom Queen, we had a few large groups of protesters at the base gates, and it looked like the newly elected official for the island was going to push for moving the Marines out of Japan. So anyways, on night while walking home from the base PX (err, a mall for ya civies) I saw a bulging cardboard box sitting by a mail box in front of one of the Barracks (it caught my eye, but it was a ways off). When I got to my barracks I told the Duty that there was a box by the mail box in front of the other barracks. It was like hot potato. Given the social/political climate at the time, it very well could have been a bomb, and no one wanted to be the one to go poking at it first. After way to much drama, I wound up going back out with a budy to look at it.
It was a pair of boots in the box.
I still don't know who the clown was who left his boots in a box by the mail, but it had the Duty on the verge of calling the MPs, Hazmat, and the OOD.
Point being, sometimes innoculous crap is just that. The bitch of it though, is that some times it isn't.
So in an effort to curb CAMCORDER pirated videos, they are getting rid of previews which will generate word of mouth, reviews, and more sales?!? It's not like we're talking about copied DVDs, or direct rips with full Dolby 7.1 surround sound, we're talking about PoC hand held camera recordings with a single audio channel, wiggling around through out the movie, with people blocking a chunk of the screen and audience noise over the movie...
I hate to break it to them, but anyone who is watching a copy of a movie from that medium was not in a position to actually buy a ticket or DVD.
Friends of toilets everywhere are protesting to day in a unified show of compassion asking for the freeing of million of household toilets today. "We've crapped on our receptive friends long enough! Lets spare them any more of this inhuman suffering!" said one protester. Another activist recounted a story in which her former boyfriend urinated not only in the toilet, but on the rim as well.
"I wrote them about the maddening lack of 'Check all' function, and the fact that when you start checking emails one by one, if you miss by a few pixels - it will select that one email, and lose all your other selections."
Uh, there is and always has been a 'check all' button. it's right at the top of the mail list. It does clear your check-selections IF you click on the line for the email, but not the check box as it loads that email into the preview pane. Does it do that if you don't have the preview pane up?
"This pretty much makes Live Hotmail completely unusable to anyone who needs to delete a bunch of spam emails (and with Hotmail, you get a LOT of spam.)"
I would hardly call a minor bug when you miss-click a "completely unusable" issue. Also, I have no idea what YOU are doing to get so much spam, but it isn't MS's fault. I get maybe 3-8 spams a week on my hotmail account, and they all get stuck straight in the 7-day auto-delete junk mail folder. I don't have to delete them, I just let them sit in there and they delete themselves.
I'm not sure if I like the new interface or not, but it's still a good free email service.
"Sprint Nextel makes a fairly compelling case that a greater good would be served if the FCC would stop enabling such tardiness."
So, what exactly do they mean by 'Greater Good'? So far as I can tell the greater good in this case is a larger profit for Sprint Nextel, less revenue for the school district, and higher taxes for land owners. What goodness am I suppose to be excited about?
The big issue I see is that a corporation does not have rights. Verizon does NOT have a right to free speech. Employees of Verizon do have that right, but the company itself does not. That means that when records are turned over there is a name attached to the transaction, 1 person (or a board) is responsible for exercising the right of free speech.
It's a States Rights issue. This is just another example of the federal government sticking its nose into the affairs of states.
I'm all for the Feds mandating interstate standards, but there is no reason for them to take the place of our perfectly capable state governments.
And beyond that, if there is a federally mandated ID, how long until it will become required to show it upon request by any agent of the government? How much longer until anyone who doesn't have one is thrown in jail for not having one? "Papers please."
Remember, we live in the United States of America, not the Republic of America or Bushland for that matter.
And their own justice department! Even if they found themselves guilty they could sentence themselves to back massages at the Playboy mansion. That'd teach those no-good pirates!
16 pair hex is only what like 12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities (minus one) so yeah, brute forcing it will take a while (a long while), but if you aren't looking for 1 key, you're looking for ANY key, how many keys are there? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? Then it's just a matter of finding the most efficient way possible to attempt the decrypt and check for success.
Again, this is waaay out of my specialty so I'm completely just theory crafting here, but it seems as though cracking any single key will work with any HD-DVD that was produced prior to the key being revoked. If we assume that there are 1000 valid keys, you would need to be able to attempt 5 million decrypts a second to break a key each year. That's well beyond any single user's ability, but if a person were to rent out a bot net for some distributed computing... they might be able to pull that off.
Although I'm still betting on an un-revokable hack like the one posted earlier this week.
That would be true if no key were ever cracked again, but what are the odds of that? Assuming that one key is cracked every year, and that each key cracked will unlock all HD-DVDs created prior to that date but not any of the HD-DVDs created after that date, the AACS is still losing in the long run as their total investment into the DRM solution is rendered useless every year.
What is significantly more likely is that a total-unrevokable circumvention will be created rendering the entire DRM worthless sometime in the near future. Give it a few months to mature and the black market HD-DVD sales will be just as high as the VHS/DVD sales.
Dear Congressman,
We appreciate your concern for our educational environment. We also appreciate your attempts to aid us by offering to legislate our educational programs. We will be sure to share the knowledge of your offer with our students, alumni, faculty, supporters, and local media members to bring forth more exposure of the proposed legislation and support for it. Hopefully, we can work together to find a solution where the Congress can fully shape the moral quality of our students.
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To be fair, public education varies a LOT by location. States, cities, and counties have a lot of power of schools and their funding. I grew up in south central Wisconsin, and we have some top notch public schools here. Unfortunately, my experiences seem to be much more of an exception than the norm.
-Rick
It's not like there is much of anything a student can do in those situation. So the only thing a drill will test is the students fear reaction. Running, cowering, crying, self-defecation, etc... The ONLY outcome this exercise could ever lead to is mentally scaring the youth, and embarrassing them in front of their peers, instructors, and the public. See if these kids ever trust a teacher, or any education employee ever again.
-Rick
another veto... or is that a line signature?
Either way, it's not going to have an effect on the current President.
-Rick
Well there's your problem! What the heck are you doing trying to print from MY browser?
-Rick
"Google is still free to implement these measures, they are just not forced to do it. "
Actually, they probably are not free to do so. Sure, they could attempt to do so, but as soon as it effects the bottom line, the board of directors would squeal and the stock holders would force them to give up the practice in favor of their legally obligated profit.
For get "Do No Evil", as soon as they became publicly traded their motto changed to "Share Holders' Bitch"
-Rick
It will help non-regenerative breaking vehicles more. The goal being to improve traffic flow by reducing bunching and breaking on major roads. For a typical non-hybrid/electric car, hitting the breaks on interstate is a complete was of energy. Reducing the number of times a car has to decelerate/accelerate will directly improve the energy consumption rate. For a hybrid/electric though, hitting the breaks only wastes a portion of the energy (the waste to heat and max efficiencies of the system and storage). So reducing the number of times a hybrid has to decelerate/accelerate will improve energy consumption, but it will reduce the energy recouped from breaking, so the net outcome is a smaller benefit than what the non-hybrid vehicle saw.
And I wouldn't generalize that all high efficiency vehicle drivers are gentle drivers. I have a turbo diesel and I love it. More fuel and environmentally friendly than comparable powered gas engines, and I drive it hard. Even with spirited driving I still get better gas mileage (44mpg) than most cars in its segment. And there is a Prius driver I see occasionally on my drive home that has no problem cruising at 80mph.
-Rick
The nature of hybrids means they are already recouping a lot of the wasted energy from slowing a car. That would make me expect that hybrids would receive less of an energy conservation boost from intelligent controls, but that they would be able to break later and still retain the same performance that conventional engines with intelligence have. So the net energy consumed would be (roughly) the same over all, but Hybrids could drive faster.
-Rick
My memory has faded a bit since that happened, but I think he got 10 years in a prison up on the mainland. And Japanesse prisons are significantly less pleasant than the Brig from what I hear.
He was hardly an isolated incident unfortunately. The list of horrendous acts drunken members of the military have done in Okinawa is rather staggering. It was with good reason that the protesters were at our gates.
-Rick
Once when I was in the military, stationed in Okinawa, we had a situation. The political environment wasn't exactly good for us right then, a drunk Marine had hit and run a local Prom Queen, we had a few large groups of protesters at the base gates, and it looked like the newly elected official for the island was going to push for moving the Marines out of Japan. So anyways, on night while walking home from the base PX (err, a mall for ya civies) I saw a bulging cardboard box sitting by a mail box in front of one of the Barracks (it caught my eye, but it was a ways off). When I got to my barracks I told the Duty that there was a box by the mail box in front of the other barracks. It was like hot potato. Given the social/political climate at the time, it very well could have been a bomb, and no one wanted to be the one to go poking at it first. After way to much drama, I wound up going back out with a budy to look at it.
It was a pair of boots in the box.
I still don't know who the clown was who left his boots in a box by the mail, but it had the Duty on the verge of calling the MPs, Hazmat, and the OOD.
Point being, sometimes innoculous crap is just that. The bitch of it though, is that some times it isn't.
-Rick
"prohibitions on the spread of false information...."
I smell a veto coming!
-Rick
And all of the actors form War of the Worlds would be locked up...
And yet it still wouldn't make us any more safe from a real terrorist attack. Huh.
-Rick
So in an effort to curb CAMCORDER pirated videos, they are getting rid of previews which will generate word of mouth, reviews, and more sales?!? It's not like we're talking about copied DVDs, or direct rips with full Dolby 7.1 surround sound, we're talking about PoC hand held camera recordings with a single audio channel, wiggling around through out the movie, with people blocking a chunk of the screen and audience noise over the movie...
I hate to break it to them, but anyone who is watching a copy of a movie from that medium was not in a position to actually buy a ticket or DVD.
-Rick
Friends of toilets everywhere are protesting to day in a unified show of compassion asking for the freeing of million of household toilets today. "We've crapped on our receptive friends long enough! Lets spare them any more of this inhuman suffering!" said one protester. Another activist recounted a story in which her former boyfriend urinated not only in the toilet, but on the rim as well.
-Rick
"I wrote them about the maddening lack of 'Check all' function, and the fact that when you start checking emails one by one, if you miss by a few pixels - it will select that one email, and lose all your other selections."
Uh, there is and always has been a 'check all' button. it's right at the top of the mail list. It does clear your check-selections IF you click on the line for the email, but not the check box as it loads that email into the preview pane. Does it do that if you don't have the preview pane up?
"This pretty much makes Live Hotmail completely unusable to anyone who needs to delete a bunch of spam emails (and with Hotmail, you get a LOT of spam.)"
I would hardly call a minor bug when you miss-click a "completely unusable" issue. Also, I have no idea what YOU are doing to get so much spam, but it isn't MS's fault. I get maybe 3-8 spams a week on my hotmail account, and they all get stuck straight in the 7-day auto-delete junk mail folder. I don't have to delete them, I just let them sit in there and they delete themselves.
I'm not sure if I like the new interface or not, but it's still a good free email service.
-Rick
"Sprint Nextel makes a fairly compelling case that a greater good would be served if the FCC would stop enabling such tardiness."
So, what exactly do they mean by 'Greater Good'? So far as I can tell the greater good in this case is a larger profit for Sprint Nextel, less revenue for the school district, and higher taxes for land owners. What goodness am I suppose to be excited about?
-Rick
The big issue I see is that a corporation does not have rights. Verizon does NOT have a right to free speech. Employees of Verizon do have that right, but the company itself does not. That means that when records are turned over there is a name attached to the transaction, 1 person (or a board) is responsible for exercising the right of free speech.
-Rick
Immediately, it's a States Rights issue. In the near future it will become a human rights issue.
-Rick
It's a States Rights issue. This is just another example of the federal government sticking its nose into the affairs of states.
I'm all for the Feds mandating interstate standards, but there is no reason for them to take the place of our perfectly capable state governments.
And beyond that, if there is a federally mandated ID, how long until it will become required to show it upon request by any agent of the government? How much longer until anyone who doesn't have one is thrown in jail for not having one? "Papers please."
Remember, we live in the United States of America, not the Republic of America or Bushland for that matter.
-Rick
Huh, I must have fat fingered something. I just stuck 32^16 into Google and got 32^16 = 1.20892582 × 10^24
Thanks for the catch, that would indeed raise the calcs per second significantly.
-Rick
If that were the case then I think BayOfPigs.com would have been much more appropriate.
-Rick
And their own justice department! Even if they found themselves guilty they could sentence themselves to back massages at the Playboy mansion. That'd teach those no-good pirates!
-Rick
16 pair hex is only what like 12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities (minus one) so yeah, brute forcing it will take a while (a long while), but if you aren't looking for 1 key, you're looking for ANY key, how many keys are there? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? Then it's just a matter of finding the most efficient way possible to attempt the decrypt and check for success.
Again, this is waaay out of my specialty so I'm completely just theory crafting here, but it seems as though cracking any single key will work with any HD-DVD that was produced prior to the key being revoked. If we assume that there are 1000 valid keys, you would need to be able to attempt 5 million decrypts a second to break a key each year. That's well beyond any single user's ability, but if a person were to rent out a bot net for some distributed computing... they might be able to pull that off.
Although I'm still betting on an un-revokable hack like the one posted earlier this week.
-Rick
"And I am fairly certain the AACS LA would not license any players designed so sloppily that they would store their keys in an external flash ROM."
You happen to remember the first key broken on DVDs?
-Rick
That would be true if no key were ever cracked again, but what are the odds of that? Assuming that one key is cracked every year, and that each key cracked will unlock all HD-DVDs created prior to that date but not any of the HD-DVDs created after that date, the AACS is still losing in the long run as their total investment into the DRM solution is rendered useless every year.
What is significantly more likely is that a total-unrevokable circumvention will be created rendering the entire DRM worthless sometime in the near future. Give it a few months to mature and the black market HD-DVD sales will be just as high as the VHS/DVD sales.
-Rick
Dear Congressman,
We appreciate your concern for our educational environment. We also appreciate your attempts to aid us by offering to legislate our educational programs. We will be sure to share the knowledge of your offer with our students, alumni, faculty, supporters, and local media members to bring forth more exposure of the proposed legislation and support for it. Hopefully, we can work together to find a solution where the Congress can fully shape the moral quality of our students.
Thank you,
youradouchebag
-Rick