Nice response. Even though he hasn't read the new text of the bill, he sounds like he's going to vote for it passing regardless. Nice touch of including a veiled threat of prosecution and of sympathizing with cp dealers.
Same story here in Edmonton. At the so-called recycle depot near where I live, I found all sorts of neat stuff. I found a couple really decent laptops which seemed the only thing wrong with them was windows got dosed up with viruses. Installed linux mint on them and gave them to my nieces.
At the time the employees didn't mind if a person grabbed a goodie here or there, but now nobody can take anything at all. All that stuff gets the cords cut off and thrown into shipping containers in the back compound. It's enough to make a geek cry seeing all that neat stuff get trashed. At least I was able to get a couple nice computers out of it while it lasted.
I'm happy to see that the CRTC has failed in their mission to shove their vision of "Canadian culture" down our throats so far. I'm even happier to see the CBC sweating as they are getting grilled by Sun News as to how they account for the billion + a year they get from taxpayers.
But I suppose since I'm not First Nations or Quebecuois, I'm just not good enough to be considered part of Canadian culture in their eyes.
If it were up to these guys, all that would be on Canadian tv would be Road To Avonlea and Corner Gas.
Lightning is actually an important source of nitrogen fixation for plants. Nitrogen oxides produced from lightning combine with atmospheric water produces nitrous and nitric acids, and when precipitated back into soil becomes a crucial nutrient source for plants worldwide.
Even better: print out an OLED screen along with a fully functional Radio Shack Color Computer. You could play Dungeons of Daggorath right on a sheet of paper.
done a study of how the ever increasing monitoring and scrutiny of employees in the workplace impacts their mental well-being? It's one thing to have security cameras watching over a store, but to have every aspect of your behavior put under a microscope and scrutinized would be stressful as hell. I remember there was an article about how in Japan some company was trying to use facial recognition software to track how much employees were smiling, and to report how much of a "happy" demeanor they presented.
Maybe just being human and having person to person contact in a company goes against the new ideas of workplace behavior. Perhaps the boss will give you happy pills to keep you from going nuts and shooting up the place if you snap. Gotta be a happy worker number 4653873...
Thanks. I suppose it just seemed to fit better in memory since there were always references of fighting the colonials, and when the modified version came out in the mid 90's, the word clone was getting to be a big buzzword with Dolly the sheep and all. I had the impression that when the new version of ANH came out, TPM was already on the drawing board, and they altered the dialog to make the storylines mesh.
Off topic, but can anyone here remember the -original- Episode 4 where Luke just gets rescued by Obi-Wan, and asks him "You fought in the Colonial Wars"? I swear that "Colonial" was the original dialog, and they changed it to"Clone" when they re-released it. I'm just going by memory here from an old VHS copy that I lost a long time ago.
Why would they even bother to pass legislation to access the information? They could simply buy the data like any other ad agency, and pay for it with tax dollars.
He may have passed away, but Jacques Cousteau still has to be included on any list of innovative, adventurous scientists. Researcher, filmmaker, deep-sea explorer, among his many accomplishments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau
If companies are concerned that fabrication contractors might be putting backdoors right onto the silicon, then maybe they should require that the masks for the chips be returned, and do random spot testing to see if they match up. Then they can be assured that the chips they had contracted out comply to their design. Obviously this wouldn't work if designing was also contracted out, though.
'Paper books are really dead — they're gone. And they're not being killed by tablets, they're creating tablets,' he says."
Which would be a historical revisionists wet dream. Books have that nasty property of not being able to be revised or deleted remotely. Once printed, they're there forever (or at least until someone rounds them up and burns them).
I'm not saying tech like this is a bad thing, but when someone says "books are dead", and tablets and e-readers are the sole future of literature, you have to wonder what color the world is through their eyes. Tech should complement the world we live in, not completely replace what they can co-exist beside. If books were to be replaced completely by tablets and e-readers, there is a whole list of nasty consequences that come to mind.
If you want to preserve your data, backup your data yourself, and keep it on its own storage medium. There seems to be a growing impetus where "cloud computing" and "thin clients" are envisioned to replace traditional architectures where data is stored and decoded by the individual who owns/created it. I'd rather store my data myself than ask permission to access it through the equivalent of a 1980's green screen dumb terminal from some corporation who's interests run contrary to mine.
"The Russians never bothered to encrypt the telemetry on their ICBM tests, because after all even assuming someone was reading it, they had no way of stopping the thing."
Back in the 70's the Soviets conducted missile tests with unencrypted telemetry, since they believed that since the testing ranges were deep within Russia the US couldn't intercept the signals. However, the States built satellites that could (Rhyolite/Aquacade), and when a couple of spies sold secrets revealing the program, the Soviets began encrypting telemetry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyolite/Aquacade
There were more details in the book An Illustrated Guide to Electronic Warfare. (I can't remember the author(s).
Why not just embed plastic pipes in the ashphalt and collect heat by circulating water? The collected heat energy could then be used to generate power, and using flexible pipes would not require a lot of changes in asphalt road engineering. In southern climates, snow coverage wouldn't be as much an issue, and it's possible that ashphalt roads could be made to last longer if some of the heat baking them under the sun was carried away to do useful work.
It's too bad that in North American culture the human body unclothed tends to be interpreted as erotic or pornographic almost exclusively. The idea of a woman breastfeeding her child being interpreted as something that must be done behind closed doors is a perverted concept in itself.
We all have the conservative religious morality cop prudes to thank for turning every aspect of the human body into something that must be covered up, only to be seen as a sinful object. Sometimes I wonder what goes through the mind of someone who becomes disturbed at seeing a woman breastfeeding her baby. Are they frustrated because they can't get a sip too?
"... will no longer be able to access their e-mail through the third party Web site. Instead, Yahoo! and other third party e-mail will be accessed directly at the MyFairPoint.net portal."
Interpretation: They are going to extensively datamine your email.
"In practice, of course, this is not really a serious proposal - it's merely a way of seeing (from the reaction) who amenable the public would be to being censored.
I believe you have hit the nail on the head with that statement, although I don't believe the "representatives" who make such proposals are in any way ignorant of the practicalities of these proposals. I've always had the thought that they already know the idea of rating systems on websites would be beyond possible to implement, since they likely have had input from consultants and experts (paid for on your dime).
The internet went from a relatively limited network between universities and research institutions to an uncontrollable behemoth where anybody, anywhere could express ideas and communicate without having to be shouting on a public pedestal for all to know who you are (and without the powers that be being able to find you and throw you into prison).
They will force ISPs to implement massive resources and blow horrendous ammounts of tax dollars on an utterly futile endeavor that nobody with any sense of rationality wants, spouting "think of the children", "stop the pedophiles", and "we must protect ourselves from the terrorists". Once that fails utterly, they will claim that the internet is too out of control, and with their brothers in arms, the media corporations, they will lobby governments to begin restructuring the fundamental premise of the internet.
The internet became this wild, unstoppable creature that couldn't be tamed, so they want to kill it and have it rise again like some twisted, neutered phoenix that will sing only their song. Freedom be damned.
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Nice response. Even though he hasn't read the new text of the bill, he sounds like he's going to vote for it passing regardless. Nice touch of including a veiled threat of prosecution and of sympathizing with cp dealers.
Same story here in Edmonton. At the so-called recycle depot near where I live, I found all sorts of neat stuff. I found a couple really decent laptops which seemed the only thing wrong with them was windows got dosed up with viruses. Installed linux mint on them and gave them to my nieces. At the time the employees didn't mind if a person grabbed a goodie here or there, but now nobody can take anything at all. All that stuff gets the cords cut off and thrown into shipping containers in the back compound. It's enough to make a geek cry seeing all that neat stuff get trashed. At least I was able to get a couple nice computers out of it while it lasted.
People who believe that if they die in a holy war they will go to heaven, are deranged.
I'm happy to see that the CRTC has failed in their mission to shove their vision of "Canadian culture" down our throats so far. I'm even happier to see the CBC sweating as they are getting grilled by Sun News as to how they account for the billion + a year they get from taxpayers.
But I suppose since I'm not First Nations or Quebecuois, I'm just not good enough to be considered part of Canadian culture in their eyes.
If it were up to these guys, all that would be on Canadian tv would be Road To Avonlea and Corner Gas.
Lightning is actually an important source of nitrogen fixation for plants. Nitrogen oxides produced from lightning combine with atmospheric water produces nitrous and nitric acids, and when precipitated back into soil becomes a crucial nutrient source for plants worldwide.
Even better: print out an OLED screen along with a fully functional Radio Shack Color Computer. You could play Dungeons of Daggorath right on a sheet of paper.
I love that machine. I still have one :)
done a study of how the ever increasing monitoring and scrutiny of employees in the workplace impacts their mental well-being? It's one thing to have security cameras watching over a store, but to have every aspect of your behavior put under a microscope and scrutinized would be stressful as hell. I remember there was an article about how in Japan some company was trying to use facial recognition software to track how much employees were smiling, and to report how much of a "happy" demeanor they presented.
Maybe just being human and having person to person contact in a company goes against the new ideas of workplace behavior. Perhaps the boss will give you happy pills to keep you from going nuts and shooting up the place if you snap. Gotta be a happy worker number 4653873...
Thanks. I suppose it just seemed to fit better in memory since there were always references of fighting the colonials, and when the modified version came out in the mid 90's, the word clone was getting to be a big buzzword with Dolly the sheep and all. I had the impression that when the new version of ANH came out, TPM was already on the drawing board, and they altered the dialog to make the storylines mesh.
Off topic, but can anyone here remember the -original- Episode 4 where Luke just gets rescued by Obi-Wan, and asks him "You fought in the Colonial Wars"? I swear that "Colonial" was the original dialog, and they changed it to"Clone" when they re-released it. I'm just going by memory here from an old VHS copy that I lost a long time ago.
Why would they even bother to pass legislation to access the information? They could simply buy the data like any other ad agency, and pay for it with tax dollars.
He may have passed away, but Jacques Cousteau still has to be included on any list of innovative, adventurous scientists. Researcher, filmmaker, deep-sea explorer, among his many accomplishments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau
If companies are concerned that fabrication contractors might be putting backdoors right onto the silicon, then maybe they should require that the masks for the chips be returned, and do random spot testing to see if they match up. Then they can be assured that the chips they had contracted out comply to their design. Obviously this wouldn't work if designing was also contracted out, though.
Which would be a historical revisionists wet dream. Books have that nasty property of not being able to be revised or deleted remotely. Once printed, they're there forever (or at least until someone rounds them up and burns them).
I'm not saying tech like this is a bad thing, but when someone says "books are dead", and tablets and e-readers are the sole future of literature, you have to wonder what color the world is through their eyes. Tech should complement the world we live in, not completely replace what they can co-exist beside. If books were to be replaced completely by tablets and e-readers, there is a whole list of nasty consequences that come to mind.
Reply: Fuck You.
Even though this was modded as funny, there should be some points for being insightful.
But just think... You could watch Family Guy in ultra hi-rez ten by thirty thousand resolution! In 3D!!!
If you want to preserve your data, backup your data yourself, and keep it on its own storage medium. There seems to be a growing impetus where "cloud computing" and "thin clients" are envisioned to replace traditional architectures where data is stored and decoded by the individual who owns/created it. I'd rather store my data myself than ask permission to access it through the equivalent of a 1980's green screen dumb terminal from some corporation who's interests run contrary to mine.
I thought Monsanto already had a patent on this particular technology.
"The Russians never bothered to encrypt the telemetry on their ICBM tests, because after all even assuming someone was reading it, they had no way of stopping the thing." Back in the 70's the Soviets conducted missile tests with unencrypted telemetry, since they believed that since the testing ranges were deep within Russia the US couldn't intercept the signals. However, the States built satellites that could (Rhyolite/Aquacade), and when a couple of spies sold secrets revealing the program, the Soviets began encrypting telemetry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyolite/Aquacade There were more details in the book An Illustrated Guide to Electronic Warfare. (I can't remember the author(s).
Why not just embed plastic pipes in the ashphalt and collect heat by circulating water? The collected heat energy could then be used to generate power, and using flexible pipes would not require a lot of changes in asphalt road engineering. In southern climates, snow coverage wouldn't be as much an issue, and it's possible that ashphalt roads could be made to last longer if some of the heat baking them under the sun was carried away to do useful work.
Oh yeah. Websense is an American company. Damn evil Americans!
We all have the conservative religious morality cop prudes to thank for turning every aspect of the human body into something that must be covered up, only to be seen as a sinful object. Sometimes I wonder what goes through the mind of someone who becomes disturbed at seeing a woman breastfeeding her baby. Are they frustrated because they can't get a sip too?
Interpretation: They are going to extensively datamine your email.
Fuck that noise. Goodbye Microsoft.
I believe you have hit the nail on the head with that statement, although I don't believe the "representatives" who make such proposals are in any way ignorant of the practicalities of these proposals. I've always had the thought that they already know the idea of rating systems on websites would be beyond possible to implement, since they likely have had input from consultants and experts (paid for on your dime).
The internet went from a relatively limited network between universities and research institutions to an uncontrollable behemoth where anybody, anywhere could express ideas and communicate without having to be shouting on a public pedestal for all to know who you are (and without the powers that be being able to find you and throw you into prison).
They will force ISPs to implement massive resources and blow horrendous ammounts of tax dollars on an utterly futile endeavor that nobody with any sense of rationality wants, spouting "think of the children", "stop the pedophiles", and "we must protect ourselves from the terrorists". Once that fails utterly, they will claim that the internet is too out of control, and with their brothers in arms, the media corporations, they will lobby governments to begin restructuring the fundamental premise of the internet.
The internet became this wild, unstoppable creature that couldn't be tamed, so they want to kill it and have it rise again like some twisted, neutered phoenix that will sing only their song. Freedom be damned.