and despite what most pundits seem to think, the Internet has not made a dent in library popularity. My own library is busier every year (measured by people in the building and by circulation statistics).
Is that because you are circulating books or because you are now a "media center", otherwise known as a free movie rental store. Our local "library" is really just a place where people go to use free internet or to rip DVDs or CDs on their laptops at this point.
On and AR-15/M-16/M4 platform the Lower reciever(sic) simply holds the trigger mechanism thats it. There is no safety issue. IF the trigger mechanism malfunctions then the gun just wont fire thats all. Its the upper reciever that you have to worry about on these platforms.
That's not completely true. The buffer tube also screws into the lower receiver. A failure of this while cycling could be bad.
I assume that various state sponsored agencies provide you with their "research" tools and ask that you not detect them with your products nor should you interfere with their operation. To what extent does this happen, to what degree are you "asked" to comply, and to what degree are you forbidden to discuss this topic? Do you, or if you had the opportunity to do so without repercussions would you offer a version of your products that identified and disabled this spyware?
"When other health device companies sell data they won't let you see, why spend your money with a company you can't trust? With MedicalCompany, your data is your own."
But in order to be profitable you would have to charge more for your services that Medtronic. At that point you become "out of network" for the insurance providers and the government programs that care only about the least expensive service. Your health insurance company does not care what the service provider does with your data. In fact, they are probably one of the customers buying your medical data so they know if they want to continue covering you next year. Don't like it? Choose to self-insure. Good luck with that.
Cheap? I'm old enough to remember the electric company giving out free lightbulbe(sic) in exchange for your burnt-out ones. It encouraged electricity use.
I guess it all comes full circle. My electric company gives out new CFLs to its customers.
-At different heights. Barometer readings are useless without knowing your altitude, and GPS is extremely poor at moment-to-moment altitude data; you have to collect a fair number of points over at least a couple of minutes. Do they perform this calibration?
Could you do a Lat/Long lookup to obtain a "good enough" altitude for the measurement? Hopefully GPS is better at these readings.
If you want to get a feel for what it's like to be an independent game developer, check out the movie Indie Game. Quite interesting and a bit frightening in some ways, particularly in how emotionally invested these guys are in their games.
"I wanted to combine two things that I really love: Building and riding motorcycles and trashing wireless networks," Andzakovic told delegates at Kiwicon 6.
There were two evil brothers who were rich and used their money to hide their ways from the public eye. They even attended the same church and looked to be perfect Christians.
Then, their pastor retired, and a new one was hired. Not only could he see right through the brothers' deception, but he also spoke well and true, and the church started to swell in numbers. A fundraising campaign was started to build a new assembly.
All of the sudden, one of the brothers died. The surviving brother sought out the new pastor the day before the funeral and handed him a check for the amount needed to finish paying for the new building.
"I have only one condition," he said. "At his funeral, you must say my brother was a saint." The pastor gave his word and deposited the check.
The next day, at the funeral, the pastor did not hold back. "He was an evil man," he said. "He cheated on his wife and abused his family." He went on in this vein for a small time, and the surviving brother was clearly fuming in his seat.
"But," the pastor concluded, "compared to his brother, he was a saint!"
What do they mean by useless? Windows wouldn't boot? or did the computers explode, or did the virus flash the bios with garbage, even then you could resolder a new bios chip on! Would be hard to make multiple computers completely useless!
No, it cleaned off all of the crapware, adware and browser taskbars. The computers were finally able to boot into windows quickly, thus rendering them immediately useless.
It's only pretending to sell me something on a permanent basis that is yanked or made useless because you kill the mothership that pisses me off. There's a reason we have sales, the full and permanent passing of property. Today the trend is more and more that we "sell" you things, but with all sorts of strings attached we can yank at any moment. That sucks.
Which is different than a car in what way? They can stop making replacement parts for your particular make/model any time they wish and it that part breaks, you are SOL unless you can find a working one in a junkyard.
Captains of industry that should be smarter than that also buy into that kind of nonsense.
These are the same captains of industry that have their administrative assistants print out their emails so that they can read them and hand write a reply. The admin then dutifully types the reply email from the notes. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
The people who actually run the company (president, CEO, CFO, etc.) are required to act in the best interests of the owners.
Please provide a citation for this. I keep hearing this over and over. How are they "required"? Is there a law that says they must act this way or is is simply how the stockholders expect the C*Os to behave?
The real trick is that the gov can track video receiving equipment (by the frequencies they use to decode the video)
What is this some Michael Bay "the signal that hacked your network" shit? How could they detect a passive receiver?
I don't know about applying this to video but this is definitely real and is how LEOs detect radar detectors in states that ban them. This
wikipedia article has a description of how it works. The short form is that radar detectors use superheterodyne receivers to detect the radar signal. These receivers are a lot more cost effective than trying to process the actual radar signal. Superheterodyne receivers need a local oscillator. This oscillator is not shielded so it leaks signal and that signal can be detected. Here is a good block diagram of the receiver. The local oscillator at the bottom is what leaks detectable signal.
The other question is whether this would be detectable in reality. We are talking about a very low power signal if it even exists. This is not something you could build an "anti signal" missile around. At best you might be able to have boots on the ground with a portable detector to figure out if someone in a particular location was actively watching a video signal. Or they could just be watching a youtube video.
They're security theater, with the intent to aggravate thieves into not even trying to steal.
Actually I think it's more like trying to get them to steal from the guy down the street rather than you. Similar to the theory that you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy.
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and despite what most pundits seem to think, the Internet has not made a dent in library popularity. My own library is busier every year (measured by people in the building and by circulation statistics).
Is that because you are circulating books or because you are now a "media center", otherwise known as a free movie rental store. Our local "library" is really just a place where people go to use free internet or to rip DVDs or CDs on their laptops at this point.
Good for them. Maybe they can use this to finally get the Osprey to fly as well.
SOME people are the problem, and SOME people are the solution
and SOME people are part of the precipitate.
On and AR-15/M-16/M4 platform the Lower reciever(sic) simply holds the trigger mechanism thats it. There is no safety issue. IF the trigger mechanism malfunctions then the gun just wont fire thats all. Its the upper reciever that you have to worry about on these platforms.
That's not completely true. The buffer tube also screws into the lower receiver. A failure of this while cycling could be bad.
I assume that various state sponsored agencies provide you with their "research" tools and ask that you not detect them with your products nor should you interfere with their operation. To what extent does this happen, to what degree are you "asked" to comply, and to what degree are you forbidden to discuss this topic? Do you, or if you had the opportunity to do so without repercussions would you offer a version of your products that identified and disabled this spyware?
"When other health device companies sell data they won't let you see, why spend your money with a company you can't trust? With MedicalCompany, your data is your own."
But in order to be profitable you would have to charge more for your services that Medtronic. At that point you become "out of network" for the insurance providers and the government programs that care only about the least expensive service. Your health insurance company does not care what the service provider does with your data. In fact, they are probably one of the customers buying your medical data so they know if they want to continue covering you next year. Don't like it? Choose to self-insure. Good luck with that.
Cheap? I'm old enough to remember the electric company giving out free lightbulbe(sic) in exchange for your burnt-out ones. It encouraged electricity use.
I guess it all comes full circle. My electric company gives out new CFLs to its customers.
-At different heights. Barometer readings are useless without knowing your altitude, and GPS is extremely poor at moment-to-moment altitude data; you have to collect a fair number of points over at least a couple of minutes. Do they perform this calibration?
Could you do a Lat/Long lookup to obtain a "good enough" altitude for the measurement? Hopefully GPS is better at these readings.
Here is a good video of a talk given by Dr. Hinton about Restricted Boltzman Machines. It is a very promising technique for deep learning strategies.
If you want to get a feel for what it's like to be an independent game developer, check out the movie Indie Game. Quite interesting and a bit frightening in some ways, particularly in how emotionally invested these guys are in their games.
They may be able to stop adblock, but good luck trying to outlaw a hosts file.
How does that block advertising that comes from a CDN such as Akamai?
"I wanted to combine two things that I really love: Building and riding motorcycles and trashing wireless networks," Andzakovic told delegates at Kiwicon 6.
Guy sounds like a douche if you ask me.
The Evil Brothers
There were two evil brothers who were rich and used their money to hide their ways from the public eye. They even attended the same church and looked to be perfect Christians.
Then, their pastor retired, and a new one was hired. Not only could he see right through the brothers' deception, but he also spoke well and true, and the church started to swell in numbers. A fundraising campaign was started to build a new assembly.
All of the sudden, one of the brothers died. The surviving brother sought out the new pastor the day before the funeral and handed him a check for the amount needed to finish paying for the new building.
"I have only one condition," he said. "At his funeral, you must say my brother was a saint." The pastor gave his word and deposited the check.
The next day, at the funeral, the pastor did not hold back. "He was an evil man," he said. "He cheated on his wife and abused his family." He went on in this vein for a small time, and the surviving brother was clearly fuming in his seat.
"But," the pastor concluded, "compared to his brother, he was a saint!"
Unless she plans on flipping burgers she better get use to badges and logins.
Even that won't work. Every fast food joint I've ever been in requires the employees to wear name tags.
For your own sake, please get a (w/l)ife.
I like the implication that the two are mutually exclusive.
First off, that is an ugly web site.
I totally agree. Or did you mean the second link?
Throwing a computer into the mix and using new words doesn't change the underlying philosophical debate, and certainly won't ever bring it to an end.
True, but apparently it does mean that I can patent it!
What do they mean by useless? Windows wouldn't boot? or did the computers explode, or did the virus flash the bios with garbage, even then you could resolder a new bios chip on! Would be hard to make multiple computers completely useless!
No, it cleaned off all of the crapware, adware and browser taskbars. The computers were finally able to boot into windows quickly, thus rendering them immediately useless.
It's only pretending to sell me something on a permanent basis that is yanked or made useless because you kill the mothership that pisses me off. There's a reason we have sales, the full and permanent passing of property. Today the trend is more and more that we "sell" you things, but with all sorts of strings attached we can yank at any moment. That sucks.
Which is different than a car in what way? They can stop making replacement parts for your particular make/model any time they wish and it that part breaks, you are SOL unless you can find a working one in a junkyard.
Captains of industry that should be smarter than that also buy into that kind of nonsense.
These are the same captains of industry that have their administrative assistants print out their emails so that they can read them and hand write a reply. The admin then dutifully types the reply email from the notes. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
The people who actually run the company (president, CEO, CFO, etc.) are required to act in the best interests of the owners.
Please provide a citation for this. I keep hearing this over and over. How are they "required"? Is there a law that says they must act this way or is is simply how the stockholders expect the C*Os to behave?
The real trick is that the gov can track video receiving equipment (by the frequencies they use to decode the video) What is this some Michael Bay "the signal that hacked your network" shit? How could they detect a passive receiver?
I don't know about applying this to video but this is definitely real and is how LEOs detect radar detectors in states that ban them. This wikipedia article has a description of how it works. The short form is that radar detectors use superheterodyne receivers to detect the radar signal. These receivers are a lot more cost effective than trying to process the actual radar signal. Superheterodyne receivers need a local oscillator. This oscillator is not shielded so it leaks signal and that signal can be detected. Here is a good block diagram of the receiver. The local oscillator at the bottom is what leaks detectable signal.
The other question is whether this would be detectable in reality. We are talking about a very low power signal if it even exists. This is not something you could build an "anti signal" missile around. At best you might be able to have boots on the ground with a portable detector to figure out if someone in a particular location was actively watching a video signal. Or they could just be watching a youtube video.
They're security theater, with the intent to aggravate thieves into not even trying to steal.
Actually I think it's more like trying to get them to steal from the guy down the street rather than you. Similar to the theory that you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy.
I don't know why people who don't know this want to comment as if they are an authority. Total FUD.
You must be new here.
That Winamp which has become increasingly bloated and laggy as well? Go AIMP2 and never look back ;)
Fortunately WinAmp 2.91 still runs just fine.