The're the same kind of people who outfit their base-line stock 4-banger Honda Civics with nitrous and twin turbos and then wonder why their engine blows and their clutches slip when the checkered flag drops.
This does fit for many overclockers, but not the majority. I for one overclock my devices, but I do so intelligently. You don't just jump up to 2v on your ram and hope it holds. Overclocking is a long, slow process. You take the smallest steps possible to find the limits of the hardware then stop a notch or two below that. Then you also have to make sure you have adequate cooling and stable power. I have been doing this for years, and have not had anything fail on me yet.
Just like its ok to blindly accept a EULA because the company certainly only has your best interest in mind.
Call me jaded, but I have see one too many "no strings attached" offers turn sour
Consumers are for the most part too ignorant to care about dvd based DRM.
DRM on music is enough to concern them, since many have an mp3 player they would like to use with their CD's/Downloads.
However with blu-ray disks, i cannot picture the average consumer, or even the less common nerder consumer giving a damn over the inability to copy 40gig movies to their computer or to where ever.
Put simply, don't fool yourself into wishful thinking that consumers have suddenly woken up to DRM. Its far more likely to be a more simpler reason, like the recession.
I have to agree with you. Most people that ARE copying movies around are putting them on hand-held devices to watch them. Now remind me how big the screen on an Ipod touch is again?
Why copy a 40gig movie to your player when a ~700mb copy of a Dvd looks just as good?
I'd like anyone with a minimum of imagination to think about the kind of wounds these weapons will cause. Seems horific to me.
Not to belittle your point here, but have you seen the wounds that todays weapons cause? They are already horrific. I think this is a step in the right direction because while the wounds we cause are already bad, what we need is a weapon with less collateral damage. The fact is a bullet is affected by many things, how clean your barrel is, the wind, what round you are using, etc. So when you fire it there is no guarantee you will hit what you are aiming at even IF you aim dead on. There is also the problem of a ricochet if you miss. With a laser weapon, you don't worry about wind or many other factors. Ricochet is also not a real concern.
Just think of how pathetically sad it would be if there was a insanely long uncut movie of your retarded ass sitting there for day after day after day after day wasting your useless life away in front of the absolute bottom of the barrel/mass market/Brittany Spears of MMORPGs, WoW.
I haven't tried IE8, but I uninstalled Chrome 5 minutes after installing it. It took Firefox about 20 seconds to load 8 sites, while Chrome took over a minute. If it's going to be that slow, nothing else matters.
Set a release date, claim that you have been stifled by someone in the movie industry, and then "accidentally" leak it to the pirate bay a day or so later.
Then there is always the method of naming it girl on girl xxx sex etc etc and putting it on piratebay
back in the early days of the web, if a website was 500k in TOTAL is was large. now days chewing 10 megs on a single site is nothing, most of it is ads and very little content.
I don't know where you have been, but it isn't earth. It's true that a 500k page isn't considered "massive" anymore, but it is pushing it. Depending on what kind of content your serving of course.
All of this is paid for by us, without our permission.
Funny, I never remember putting in my credit card so that I can make sure all the ads show up.
so what if a website is offering free content in exchange for banner hits, they don't ask me if i'd like to be tracked and bombarded with ads for the pleasure of it first do they,
When you are using the site, you are implicitly agreeing to that content. If you don't want to see it, or use it you DO have options. So stop whining about it and do something about it. If you don't like the content, do something about it. Remember the ONLY reason ads are on pages is because they work. People ARE clicking on them, they are buying the products. Your best bet to change this is to get off your ass and be PRO ACTIVE about it
Meanwhile, as of last week, we STILL cannot buy FIOS in Philadelphia. No matter how much I want to give Verizon my money, they just won't take it.
Where I live, I have only 1 option for internet. It is microwave broadcast. It is (supposedly) a 7Mb connect,the only thing is that after 1 gig of download they throttle you, then after 2 gig they throttle you again. I tried downloading a distro of Linux and it took me 7 days.
Did the MBTA learn a lesson here about making a mountain out of a molehill? They essentially took something that would have received almost no attention and turned it into a national news story and then publicly filed all the details in open court such that anyone with the wherewithal to defraud the MBTA now not only knew about the exploit but had the full details on how to do it.
I doubt they learned anything. If I have noticed one thing about cases like this its that they always seem to make the same mistakes. It's really just a matter (again) of people addressing the symptom, not the problem.
Actually, it's not beneficial for large numbers of single men, who necessarily have no wife at all (for each man with two wives, there is one with none, since the sex ratio in humans is very close to 1:1). There is also some evidence that having large numbers of single men contributes to violence (this should come as no surprise). Hence, polygamy probably contributes to violence.
Your making a pretty big assumption here, first I want a source on that ratio. Second even IF that ratio is correct it does not factor in straight,bi, and gay sexual orientations. What does that do to the ratio? There are also plenty of men (and women too) that have no interest in ever getting married.
I will grant you that OpenOffice may not be to the level that Office is...yet. But what do 90% of people who use office want? A program to write documents that has a spell check and possibly a grammar check. I REALLY don't feel like dropping hundreds of dollars on Office because I want to write an essay. So OpenOffice works just fine.
In most cases people are not using every little function possible. They use the basics, as in the GIMP to Photoshop comparison. I don't know how many people I know that have dropped the money on photoshop so they can change colors, crop, and resize images.
I would also like to point out that in open source(most of the time) when a project is liked, it becomes COMMUNITY driven. Which means it may not evolve in the fashion of say...Office, but instead it is evolving features that people are actually using.
My bank uses a PIN in additional to the login. This actually makes sense to me - as PINs are generally easier to remember than my 10 digits random char-lists.
Granted adding a PIN number does increase your security. While I see the security flaw of standardized security questions, what makes people think that their PIN is secure? I mean seriously its a 4-10 Digit NUMBER. Now how long exactly would it take to crack?
IMO it would be easier to put a fake reader onto a ATM so that you get the magnetic data, and then after that the rest is fairly trivial. We have a lot more security issues than most people seem to realize.
This IS an impressive feat. We may take for granted that there is a tv in every house but many of the countries that are being targeted have issues providing clean WATER. So the cheaper and more self contained these become, the better.
4. Develop a SIMPLE Operating System for it. Linux is way too big for the sort of cheap ARM chips available today. Most modern BSDs are also probably too big. Think much smaller. UNIX used to run on small machines though so it could be POSIXish.
I understand and agree with some of your comments, but this one was just ignorant. I am assuming you have never heard of the linux distros that fit on a floppy? An Example: http://www.linuxdevices.com/links/LK8414188089.html
Not only do they fit on a floppy but they typically will have a web browser, FTP,Telnet and SSH.
This isn't even a case where you can claim the DoD deserved it by leading the guy on by wearing a skimpy outfit.
You are talking about a government system that should have military grade security on it.
IMO any such system that uses weak passwords and default usernames IS the equivalent of "leading you on". No, actually it goes much farther than that, it would be the equivalent of being completely naked, in public, and doing everything but asking to be raped.
As Lew Allen proved, with his famous tests with steel spheres just a few feet from ground-zero of a nuclear test survive just fine, and they are accelerated quite briskly. This was one basis of Project Orion later on.
So he built the equivalent of a nuclear pipe bomb? So he wanted to just make really, really sure that anyone standing next to the bomb did in fact die?
Why doesn't google just put a cap on how much outbound email you can send? Say 100 / hr, 500/day? Or something along those lines? Then if you need to send more than that you could just fill outa form requesting it, then those people are on an easily monitored list. Anyone that is found spamming gets their account suspended until they can prove that they were not, in fact, spamming.
These planets are in no way Earth-like, the 'super Earth' designation is just one of planet size. They are rather small in comparison to other extra-solar planets we have discovered.
We only know of these planets from watching oscillations of the star they are around, so there is no way to determine any sort of chemical makeup of the planet. That said, at 20days for an orbit, those planets are baked dry.
Actually we can get a fairly decent idea of what the planet is composed of. Using a technique known as Absorption spectroscopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_spectroscopy) we can begin to get an idea of what the planet looks like. As the planet heats up, it releases gases and particles into its own (albeit weak) atmosphere. Using absorption spectroscopy we can find out what those gases and particles are, and from that we can infer what the crust is like.
You CAN make reliable antennas that work well out of a pringle can. Here is the link
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
However be aware that these are FAR from weather proof. Weatherproofing them should be relatively cheap, and if you don't want to do it yourself then I would recommend a directional antenna.
If you even have a "confidential handbook", you're a cult, not a religion...or maybe a good old fashioned pyramid scheme. Technically by the definition of cult all religions are one.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cult
1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
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video cards come standard overclocked now a days
No they don't.
Yes they do Same core, same ram, different speeds
The're the same kind of people who outfit their base-line stock 4-banger Honda Civics with nitrous and twin turbos and then wonder why their engine blows and their clutches slip when the checkered flag drops.
This does fit for many overclockers, but not the majority. I for one overclock my devices, but I do so intelligently. You don't just jump up to 2v on your ram and hope it holds. Overclocking is a long, slow process. You take the smallest steps possible to find the limits of the hardware then stop a notch or two below that. Then you also have to make sure you have adequate cooling and stable power. I have been doing this for years, and have not had anything fail on me yet.
Sorry, your a step behind. They have the ball rolling on this already http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png
Sometimes, there really isn't a catch.
Just like its ok to blindly accept a EULA because the company certainly only has your best interest in mind. Call me jaded, but I have see one too many "no strings attached" offers turn sour
Consumers are for the most part too ignorant to care about dvd based DRM.
DRM on music is enough to concern them, since many have an mp3 player they would like to use with their CD's/Downloads.
However with blu-ray disks, i cannot picture the average consumer, or even the less common nerder consumer giving a damn over the inability to copy 40gig movies to their computer or to where ever.
Put simply, don't fool yourself into wishful thinking that consumers have suddenly woken up to DRM. Its far more likely to be a more simpler reason, like the recession.
I have to agree with you. Most people that ARE copying movies around are putting them on hand-held devices to watch them. Now remind me how big the screen on an Ipod touch is again? Why copy a 40gig movie to your player when a ~700mb copy of a Dvd looks just as good?
I'd like anyone with a minimum of imagination to think about the kind of wounds these weapons will cause. Seems horific to me.
Not to belittle your point here, but have you seen the wounds that todays weapons cause? They are already horrific. I think this is a step in the right direction because while the wounds we cause are already bad, what we need is a weapon with less collateral damage. The fact is a bullet is affected by many things, how clean your barrel is, the wind, what round you are using, etc. So when you fire it there is no guarantee you will hit what you are aiming at even IF you aim dead on. There is also the problem of a ricochet if you miss. With a laser weapon, you don't worry about wind or many other factors. Ricochet is also not a real concern.
Just think of how pathetically sad it would be if there was a insanely long uncut movie of your retarded ass sitting there for day after day after day after day wasting your useless life away in front of the absolute bottom of the barrel/mass market/Brittany Spears of MMORPGs, WoW.
LOL, loser.
Versus say...trolling slashdot all day?
I haven't tried IE8, but I uninstalled Chrome 5 minutes after installing it. It took Firefox about 20 seconds to load 8 sites, while Chrome took over a minute. If it's going to be that slow, nothing else matters.
Maybe its time to retire that p2 300?
Set a release date, claim that you have been stifled by someone in the movie industry, and then "accidentally" leak it to the pirate bay a day or so later. Then there is always the method of naming it girl on girl xxx sex etc etc and putting it on piratebay
back in the early days of the web, if a website was 500k in TOTAL is was large. now days chewing 10 megs on a single site is nothing, most of it is ads and very little content.
I don't know where you have been, but it isn't earth. It's true that a 500k page isn't considered "massive" anymore, but it is pushing it. Depending on what kind of content your serving of course.
All of this is paid for by us, without our permission.
Funny, I never remember putting in my credit card so that I can make sure all the ads show up.
so what if a website is offering free content in exchange for banner hits, they don't ask me if i'd like to be tracked and bombarded with ads for the pleasure of it first do they,
When you are using the site, you are implicitly agreeing to that content. If you don't want to see it, or use it you DO have options. So stop whining about it and do something about it. If you don't like the content, do something about it. Remember the ONLY reason ads are on pages is because they work. People ARE clicking on them, they are buying the products. Your best bet to change this is to get off your ass and be PRO ACTIVE about it
That's nice.
Meanwhile, as of last week, we STILL cannot buy FIOS in Philadelphia. No matter how much I want to give Verizon my money, they just won't take it.
Where I live, I have only 1 option for internet. It is microwave broadcast. It is (supposedly) a 7Mb connect,the only thing is that after 1 gig of download they throttle you, then after 2 gig they throttle you again. I tried downloading a distro of Linux and it took me 7 days.
Did the MBTA learn a lesson here about making a mountain out of a molehill? They essentially took something that would have received almost no attention and turned it into a national news story and then publicly filed all the details in open court such that anyone with the wherewithal to defraud the MBTA now not only knew about the exploit but had the full details on how to do it.
I doubt they learned anything. If I have noticed one thing about cases like this its that they always seem to make the same mistakes. It's really just a matter (again) of people addressing the symptom, not the problem.
Actually, it's not beneficial for large numbers of single men, who necessarily have no wife at all (for each man with two wives, there is one with none, since the sex ratio in humans is very close to 1:1). There is also some evidence that having large numbers of single men contributes to violence (this should come as no surprise). Hence, polygamy probably contributes to violence.
Your making a pretty big assumption here, first I want a source on that ratio. Second even IF that ratio is correct it does not factor in straight,bi, and gay sexual orientations. What does that do to the ratio? There are also plenty of men (and women too) that have no interest in ever getting married.
I will grant you that OpenOffice may not be to the level that Office is...yet. But what do 90% of people who use office want? A program to write documents that has a spell check and possibly a grammar check. I REALLY don't feel like dropping hundreds of dollars on Office because I want to write an essay. So OpenOffice works just fine. In most cases people are not using every little function possible. They use the basics, as in the GIMP to Photoshop comparison. I don't know how many people I know that have dropped the money on photoshop so they can change colors, crop, and resize images. I would also like to point out that in open source(most of the time) when a project is liked, it becomes COMMUNITY driven. Which means it may not evolve in the fashion of say...Office, but instead it is evolving features that people are actually using.
My bank uses a PIN in additional to the login. This actually makes sense to me - as PINs are generally easier to remember than my 10 digits random char-lists.
Granted adding a PIN number does increase your security. While I see the security flaw of standardized security questions, what makes people think that their PIN is secure? I mean seriously its a 4-10 Digit NUMBER. Now how long exactly would it take to crack? IMO it would be easier to put a fake reader onto a ATM so that you get the magnetic data, and then after that the rest is fairly trivial. We have a lot more security issues than most people seem to realize.
This IS an impressive feat. We may take for granted that there is a tv in every house but many of the countries that are being targeted have issues providing clean WATER. So the cheaper and more self contained these become, the better.
4. Develop a SIMPLE Operating System for it. Linux is way too big for the sort of cheap ARM chips available today. Most modern BSDs are also probably too big. Think much smaller. UNIX used to run on small machines though so it could be POSIXish.
I understand and agree with some of your comments, but this one was just ignorant. I am assuming you have never heard of the linux distros that fit on a floppy? An Example: http://www.linuxdevices.com/links/LK8414188089.html Not only do they fit on a floppy but they typically will have a web browser, FTP,Telnet and SSH.
This isn't even a case where you can claim the DoD deserved it by leading the guy on by wearing a skimpy outfit.
You are talking about a government system that should have military grade security on it. IMO any such system that uses weak passwords and default usernames IS the equivalent of "leading you on". No, actually it goes much farther than that, it would be the equivalent of being completely naked, in public, and doing everything but asking to be raped.
As Lew Allen proved, with his famous tests with steel spheres just a few feet from ground-zero of a nuclear test survive just fine, and they are accelerated quite briskly. This was one basis of Project Orion later on.
So he built the equivalent of a nuclear pipe bomb? So he wanted to just make really, really sure that anyone standing next to the bomb did in fact die?
Why doesn't google just put a cap on how much outbound email you can send? Say 100 / hr, 500 /day? Or something along those lines? Then if you need to send more than that you could just fill outa form requesting it, then those people are on an easily monitored list. Anyone that is found spamming gets their account suspended until they can prove that they were not, in fact, spamming.
These planets are in no way Earth-like, the 'super Earth' designation is just one of planet size. They are rather small in comparison to other extra-solar planets we have discovered.
We only know of these planets from watching oscillations of the star they are around, so there is no way to determine any sort of chemical makeup of the planet. That said, at 20days for an orbit, those planets are baked dry.
Actually we can get a fairly decent idea of what the planet is composed of. Using a technique known as Absorption spectroscopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_spectroscopy) we can begin to get an idea of what the planet looks like. As the planet heats up, it releases gases and particles into its own (albeit weak) atmosphere. Using absorption spectroscopy we can find out what those gases and particles are, and from that we can infer what the crust is like.... but if they can hurt enough individuals, maybe other individuals will be to scared to continue to download.
Its scary to me how close this tactic is to the ideal of terrorismYou CAN make reliable antennas that work well out of a pringle can. Here is the link http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 However be aware that these are FAR from weather proof. Weatherproofing them should be relatively cheap, and if you don't want to do it yourself then I would recommend a directional antenna.