The reality is that in such a world the government would have privacy and the rest of us would have none
I agree, and I think this is the way its already going. It doesn't take much to see that "privacy", along with "rights", is a commodity only available to those that can afford it, or know the right people. Everyone else just gets stood on.
The basis behind this is the fact that certain microwave frequencies are the same as the natural frequency of water molecules, causing them to vibrate more, and thus raising the average kinetic energy (read: temperature).
However, as has already been noted, the specific heat capacity of water is reasonably high, and it would take a lot more than 4W and/or 3 minutes to heat an egg by any (easily) measurable amount.
BT is costing them a large amount of money so they start to throttle it.
So while trying to defend the actions of the ISPs you have just said that they aren't marketing their services right... You see, accounts with higher transfer limits/faster connections COST MORE. What the ISPs are actually doing is NOT providing the service they have sold you. If you are allowed 60GB/month, and can't actually get 60GB a month down your connection, then they are mis-representing their product. In the exact same sense that if you are paying for a 2048 kbps connection, and can't transfer at 2048 kbps (or thereabouts, giving a little leeway for overheads).
At its most basic, these actions are blatant theft - they are taking your money, and not giving you what you paid for.
OSGi allows networked devices to be managed from anywhere in the world, while allowing software to be installed, updated or removed on the fly while the device is operating
So if the source code is available for anyone to analyse, AND the software can be updated on-the-fly... what makes this effective?
Why does everyone keep assuming terrorists are stupid? Attacks don't succeed through stupidity, they succeed through ingenuity. Look at the source, find a hole, "fix" the software, detonate a WMD...
Thats one of those borderline between Funny and Insightful comments. Unfortunately, its very true - AOL users are the perfect people to target with spam, because the average AOL user is the kind that will click any link and run any attachment in an e-mail. So yes, its worth the spammers paying for thise "priviledge" because they will most likely get a better clickthrough rate with those than with users of any other single provider.
... I hope the RIAA get a really embarrasing and well publicised dressing down.
Yes, we could hope that. The same way we hope for it every other time they do something REALLY stupid. Instead they will most likely drop charges, pay fees, and make up some story about how they were the "good guys" in all this allowing this person to not be financially ruined. If it was a normal person bring a claim against the defendant, it would be thrown out, but the RIAA keeps a few people in the legal system employed with the number of high-profile cases they keep bringing, so it isn't in their (the court's) best interest to publically humiliate one of their sources of work.
In a fair world this would be subject to a painful (for the RIAA) counter-suit. But then again, in a fair world you wouldn't have corporations running around bankrupting whoever they felt like just to make an example of them in the first place.
Looks like the original paper is sensationalist too, if you stop and think long enough to remember that visible light is part of the EM spectrum too. What are they going to do, figure out a way of cancelling out or disrupting all light that an "enemy" is using? Seriously, I would expect a little more accuracy in these "recommendations". Well, maybe not.
I have to say, I also have had very little in the way of spam in the past couple of years. Its mostly just a case of learning not to put your email address all over the damn place. Actually, the only spam I have had in the past year is people on MSN deciding to use my address for their annoying crappy "Sign up for this free service by referring 10 friends" things.
I thought that too, was going to post that until I saw someone already had... Makes you wonder whether it was a mis-quote by Wired, or if the person in question was just high at the time:D
whereas it takes a huge dump in memory on my PC and slows everything else down.
To be completely honest, that sounds like most of Windows to me... One of the things I have noticed through all the years I've used it is that even without a crash you need to reboot it periodically to clear out the RAM, because it DOESN'T GIVE IT BACK! Or use some 3rd-party app that has a 50/50 chance of either cleaning the RAM or crashing something you are running because Windows just sticks crap wherever it feels like it.
Sounds kind of like the way it treats disk space - just sticks a file in the MIDDLE (not the beginning) of the BIGGEST gap it can find. And then provides a defrag tool that works only 10% of the time - the rest of the time it either NEVER finishes, or crashes, causing some nice corruption. Yay for Windows!
I'm not stressed - I dropped Windows like a bad habit 5 months ago.
I would agree - I am happy that I've been using Linux-only long enough to (almost) honestly say "I don't know - I don't use Windows" when someone asks me something. I use Gentoo too (that was strange to type) and yeah, sometimes things don't work just right - but the beauty of it is that most things can be fixed because you can find out what the hell went wrong. Try getting useful information from a Windows application crash (excluding those that are cross-platform FOSS with decent debugging practices):P
Hell yes its stressful when it "just crashes" for no apparent reason, without the damn courtesy to give a debug output! Yet more evidence that Windows is marketed to morons _
Wow, looks like all the grumpy mods ran out of points before you posted this - earlier you would have been modded "Troll":P
I would agree, up to a point, however I would be more inclined to say "stupid users affected by viruses". Stupid users are cross-platform compatible, and all that, however Windows really does thrive on a lack of education - the whole MS ploy (if their interface is anything to go by) is that "You don't need to know how to use a computer to use Windows!"
As long as you have a decent pop-up blocker, not to mention a browser that DOESN'T install every little thing the website wants it to (IE 5.5 anyone?). Otherwise its another trip to the land of "Out of memory" as all that malware eats your soul!
Flamebait, troll... who gives a f**k today? There are plenty of almost-identical posts on this thread where one is modded troll and the other insightful.
Anyone for a case of MUI (Modding Under Influence)? I guess they will just blame it on the most recent Windows crash, or some Windows user from Marketing complaining that Spider Solitare "Won't Work (tm)".
Actually, its funny you mention that - its one of the more common defenses I give when someone mentions violent games. Its an excellent way to remove stress/anger/frustration/homocidal tendancies, without having a potentially damaging verbal and/or physical explosion at someone you live or work with.
Violent video games don't kill people - people dropped on their head at birth and given access to firearms kill people!
These guys are facing 5 years prison for this. What sort of punishments would these dudes be receiving if they had sold modded Xboxen with no pre-loaded games? Or what if they had sold the 77 games on DVD-R, without also providing the mod-chips and hard-drives?
More to the point, that sentance shows how messed up the legal system (not justice system, that doesn't actually exist) is. People get more time for pissing off the big companies than they do for manslaughter, rape, and even murder in some cases. Face it, the companies own the people.
This is one of those "I wish you could mod a comment up to +6, Insightful" comments. Its stupid to what lengths people will go to defend their viewpoint that a vote that isn't for one of the 2 main parties is a wasted vote. In its current form of people being convinced that is the case, it isn't really democracy at all. I would say only 2 types of votes are wasted - those not cast, and those cast without sincerity. Voting for the lesser of too evils is a waste - democracy isn't about "winning", its about the composition of the government reflecting the views of the population.
Also, for ANYONE of the mentality of "its just one vote, it doesn't matter", you do not understand democracy at all. If 50 million people say the same thing, thats about 1/3 of your voters NOT voting for who they agree with (based on the population of the US).
I hear you - we are so (apparently) hell-bent on condemning death as a bad thing, and trying to stop anything from dying, that we completely miss the whole natural way of things. Everything that lives dies, and a large proportion of living things (with the exception of most plants, of course) live by killing other living things.
And then there is the issue of natural deaths. Our determination to save so many people is ultimately becoming our destruction, as world population rockets, and the gene pool weakens. Without sounding harsh, maybe it isn't such a bad thing that people with hereditary degenerative diseases die early, before they reproduce. Its called survival of the fittest.
Just don't get me started on euthenasia - If your quality of life is ridiculously low, and the ones that love you can see that, and you have told them before that you wouldn't want to be 'alive' like that, they should be allowed to assist your death. I know thats what DNR orders are for, in a way, but not everbody had that foresight...
IPv4 and IPv6 are layer 3 protocols, meaning that they are independant of layer 2 (the link layer, network cards)
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Wow! Thats almost as easy as string manipulation in C!
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I'm afraid that until people like IPB, and phpBB, and phpNuke, and all those get their acts together, it's quite possibly just wishful thinking... That or maybe someone will set a trend by doing something bold like actually changing a few servers, and giving customers the choice.
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I agree completely - There is nothing more irritating than trying to write something that would benefit from features in PHP5, for example decent SQLite support, but not being able to because the script in question needs to be deployed on the 'average' (read: stone age) webservers. For the most part, things written in PHP4 work in PHP5, however the big scripts are sloppy in places, and as a result don't work in PHP5. And of course most of the webhosts' customers want to be able to run such scripts. So we are all stuck with PHP4, unless we are writing something that is only going to be deployed on a server we have control over.
Roll on PHP6 and its even longer list of problems for webhosts!
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The reality is that in such a world the government would have privacy and the rest of us would have none
I agree, and I think this is the way its already going. It doesn't take much to see that "privacy", along with "rights", is a commodity only available to those that can afford it, or know the right people. Everyone else just gets stood on.
How about reducing dupes...
Not at all.
The basis behind this is the fact that certain microwave frequencies are the same as the natural frequency of water molecules, causing them to vibrate more, and thus raising the average kinetic energy (read: temperature).
However, as has already been noted, the specific heat capacity of water is reasonably high, and it would take a lot more than 4W and/or 3 minutes to heat an egg by any (easily) measurable amount.
BT is costing them a large amount of money so they start to throttle it.
So while trying to defend the actions of the ISPs you have just said that they aren't marketing their services right... You see, accounts with higher transfer limits/faster connections COST MORE. What the ISPs are actually doing is NOT providing the service they have sold you. If you are allowed 60GB/month, and can't actually get 60GB a month down your connection, then they are mis-representing their product. In the exact same sense that if you are paying for a 2048 kbps connection, and can't transfer at 2048 kbps (or thereabouts, giving a little leeway for overheads).
At its most basic, these actions are blatant theft - they are taking your money, and not giving you what you paid for.
Why does everyone keep assuming terrorists are stupid? Attacks don't succeed through stupidity, they succeed through ingenuity. Look at the source, find a hole, "fix" the software, detonate a WMD...
Thats one of those borderline between Funny and Insightful comments. Unfortunately, its very true - AOL users are the perfect people to target with spam, because the average AOL user is the kind that will click any link and run any attachment in an e-mail. So yes, its worth the spammers paying for thise "priviledge" because they will most likely get a better clickthrough rate with those than with users of any other single provider.
In a fair world this would be subject to a painful (for the RIAA) counter-suit. But then again, in a fair world you wouldn't have corporations running around bankrupting whoever they felt like just to make an example of them in the first place.
I for one welcome our new Corporate Overlords! Oh, they aren't new...
Looks like the original paper is sensationalist too, if you stop and think long enough to remember that visible light is part of the EM spectrum too. What are they going to do, figure out a way of cancelling out or disrupting all light that an "enemy" is using? Seriously, I would expect a little more accuracy in these "recommendations". Well, maybe not.
I have to say, I also have had very little in the way of spam in the past couple of years. Its mostly just a case of learning not to put your email address all over the damn place. Actually, the only spam I have had in the past year is people on MSN deciding to use my address for their annoying crappy "Sign up for this free service by referring 10 friends" things.
I thought that too, was going to post that until I saw someone already had... Makes you wonder whether it was a mis-quote by Wired, or if the person in question was just high at the time :D
Sounds kind of like the way it treats disk space - just sticks a file in the MIDDLE (not the beginning) of the BIGGEST gap it can find. And then provides a defrag tool that works only 10% of the time - the rest of the time it either NEVER finishes, or crashes, causing some nice corruption. Yay for Windows!
I'm not stressed - I dropped Windows like a bad habit 5 months ago.
I would agree - I am happy that I've been using Linux-only long enough to (almost) honestly say "I don't know - I don't use Windows" when someone asks me something. I use Gentoo too (that was strange to type) and yeah, sometimes things don't work just right - but the beauty of it is that most things can be fixed because you can find out what the hell went wrong. Try getting useful information from a Windows application crash (excluding those that are cross-platform FOSS with decent debugging practices) :P
Hell yes its stressful when it "just crashes" for no apparent reason, without the damn courtesy to give a debug output! Yet more evidence that Windows is marketed to morons _
Wow, looks like all the grumpy mods ran out of points before you posted this - earlier you would have been modded "Troll" :P
I would agree, up to a point, however I would be more inclined to say "stupid users affected by viruses". Stupid users are cross-platform compatible, and all that, however Windows really does thrive on a lack of education - the whole MS ploy (if their interface is anything to go by) is that "You don't need to know how to use a computer to use Windows!"
As long as you have a decent pop-up blocker, not to mention a browser that DOESN'T install every little thing the website wants it to (IE 5.5 anyone?). Otherwise its another trip to the land of "Out of memory" as all that malware eats your soul!
Flamebait, troll... who gives a f**k today? There are plenty of almost-identical posts on this thread where one is modded troll and the other insightful.
Anyone for a case of MUI (Modding Under Influence)? I guess they will just blame it on the most recent Windows crash, or some Windows user from Marketing complaining that Spider Solitare "Won't Work (tm)".
Actually, its funny you mention that - its one of the more common defenses I give when someone mentions violent games. Its an excellent way to remove stress/anger/frustration/homocidal tendancies, without having a potentially damaging verbal and/or physical explosion at someone you live or work with.
Violent video games don't kill people - people dropped on their head at birth and given access to firearms kill people!
51. Use it as a hockey puck (preferably if it belongs to someone listening to mass-produced (c)rap)
This is one of those "I wish you could mod a comment up to +6, Insightful" comments. Its stupid to what lengths people will go to defend their viewpoint that a vote that isn't for one of the 2 main parties is a wasted vote. In its current form of people being convinced that is the case, it isn't really democracy at all. I would say only 2 types of votes are wasted - those not cast, and those cast without sincerity. Voting for the lesser of too evils is a waste - democracy isn't about "winning", its about the composition of the government reflecting the views of the population.
Also, for ANYONE of the mentality of "its just one vote, it doesn't matter", you do not understand democracy at all. If 50 million people say the same thing, thats about 1/3 of your voters NOT voting for who they agree with (based on the population of the US).
I hear you - we are so (apparently) hell-bent on condemning death as a bad thing, and trying to stop anything from dying, that we completely miss the whole natural way of things. Everything that lives dies, and a large proportion of living things (with the exception of most plants, of course) live by killing other living things.
And then there is the issue of natural deaths. Our determination to save so many people is ultimately becoming our destruction, as world population rockets, and the gene pool weakens. Without sounding harsh, maybe it isn't such a bad thing that people with hereditary degenerative diseases die early, before they reproduce. Its called survival of the fittest.
Just don't get me started on euthenasia - If your quality of life is ridiculously low, and the ones that love you can see that, and you have told them before that you wouldn't want to be 'alive' like that, they should be allowed to assist your death. I know thats what DNR orders are for, in a way, but not everbody had that foresight...
Yeah. Thats actually what they are selling their music with. It distracts from the "music".
IPv4 and IPv6 are layer 3 protocols, meaning that they are independant of layer 2 (the link layer, network cards)
Wow! Thats almost as easy as string manipulation in C!
I'm afraid that until people like IPB, and phpBB, and phpNuke, and all those get their acts together, it's quite possibly just wishful thinking... That or maybe someone will set a trend by doing something bold like actually changing a few servers, and giving customers the choice.
I agree completely - There is nothing more irritating than trying to write something that would benefit from features in PHP5, for example decent SQLite support, but not being able to because the script in question needs to be deployed on the 'average' (read: stone age) webservers. For the most part, things written in PHP4 work in PHP5, however the big scripts are sloppy in places, and as a result don't work in PHP5. And of course most of the webhosts' customers want to be able to run such scripts. So we are all stuck with PHP4, unless we are writing something that is only going to be deployed on a server we have control over.
Roll on PHP6 and its even longer list of problems for webhosts!