Ideally, this would be used to more fairly bill customers - those who do nothing but check their e-mail once a week would pay next to nothing, and those that are downloading the internet would pay close to what businesses pay for a dedicated line.
But, I'm guessing they'll just charge us more, and charge the 5% a helluva lot more.
It's been a while since I took chemistry, but "oxidized" means increasing in oxidation number. (Doesn't have anything to do with oxygen.) I forget all the things that oxidation number thingy, but gaining an electron is one of them. So, they're similar.
Would someone knowledgable tell me if all ionization is oxidization?
How did this get modded off-topic? Hell if I knew before reading this post why Telstra supposedly had a free download area, that you Aussies are stuck with "metered" conections, that they're a monopoly, etc, etc... It's directly related to what parent posts were discussing
If you were the one who did the original breaking and figured everything out.
If you're some kind of script kiddie using said programatic ingenuity without any comprehension or understanding, you are most definitely not a hacker.
Crackers are the Bards making "Use Magic Device" checks. Hackers are the Wizards with ranks in "Craft Wondrous Item." Oh wait, that didn't involve cars...
We have 70 years of known reserves of Uranium. Sure it's finite, but we have a lot of it lying around before we actually have to go look for some.
Uranium is fairly plentiful (35x as much as silver, if that means anything) and dumping the waste in a mountain or a "salt silo" works just as fine as dumping trash in a landfill does. As for safety, I don't recall any meltdowns happening lately.
Compare that with wind power - nobody wants the towers in their yard, it's more inconsistent than solar power, only feasible in some special geographic areas, can have a negative net energy production when you factor in the cost to produce the actual tower and turbine, slaughters birds and airborne children, and requires a huge amount of land area to replace any meaningful wattage.
If you have one company who holds copyright to a significant fraction of our current culture [...] To endorse such laws is selling out ourselves, our children and our culture.
Goodness! You don't get to take something for free 'cuz you decided it was "culture."
What if I think that your "books, scripts & music" are "culture"? Or have you not made enough culture to justify me stealing it from you?
People are entitled (God, how I hate that word) to do as they want with the works of their mind. It shouldn't matter how many works they have, how valuable they are perceived to be, nor how many people use them.
Use tax money to make a transfer payment* to all people based on how bad their genes are. (e.g., You're genetically predisposed to suck at basic math --> $50,000 at age 18.)
So... I should pay people ridiculous salaries because a test says they fail at life? I at least expect them to be unwed with two or three dozen children first - show some effort!
So some consumers who went out and purchased a "Vista Capable" computer and then later bought Vista Home Premium when it came out suddenly discovered they couldn't use Vista Home Premium on their "Vista Capable" computer.
Sigh. You get what you pay for.
The problems people are complaining of? Trusting Microsoft's marketing director (who corrected his mistake about the meaning of "capable") and expecting leetness from the cheapest PC you can buy from Dell.
That little prick [Mozart] was writing operas by the time he was 4 years old. How much "tremendous and sustained effort" can a 4 year-old have made?
The article isn't saying that everyone is born with the same intellect - the article is saying that everyone can develop their intellect through "tremendous and sustained effort."
If Mozart had been a lazy SOB and retired at age 4, and I hadn't been a lazy SOB, the article suggests that I could lap Mozart despite starting much lower than him.
And who is to blame for that? Consumers/Corporate buyers?
You may find the headlong trend towards buying new computers slowing quite a bit. You only really need so much horsepower to edit a document or twiddle numbers in a spreadsheet
You see, the system works, and it's called "capitalism." Demand for the next widget is slowing because existing widgets work just fine. Supply adjusts, prices stabalize, yadda yadda yadda.
Point is, in a capitalist system, you can't waste something valuable for long - somebody's going to go broke.
You should consider loving your democracy (and caring for it) instead of hating it
Please don't confuse my dislike for a bloated and wasteful government with "hating democracy." Remember that our founding fathers had a healthy distrust of both government and democracy - they went through the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution to cripple the former, and we are a "democratic republic" (not a democracy!) to prevent what they called the "tyranny of the majority."
Government, by it's nature, is not democratic. Your participation is mandatory - that's why "civil disobedience" works, and that's why nice men with guns put you in jail for not paying taxes or following laws.
Businesses, on the other hand, spend millions each year for the privilege of securing an opportunity to ask for your money. The 51% of people who drink Coke can never force you to drink Pepsi; the 51% of people who want to bilk "the rich" come up with ideas like the Alternative Minimum Tax.
The fact that politicians can be bought says more about the pros^H^H^H^Hpolitician than it does the buyer, and I have a larger pittance of sympathy for the lobbyists than I do the lobbied. A bussiness' existence depends on their lobbying efforts - if they don't convince a congressman they have a right to exist, they'll be regulated out of existence to appease people like you, or someone more successful at gaming the system than they.
You should love the people who work hard everyday to make your lifestyle possible instead of hating them.
Cable companies "colluding" with local governments is another example of how government needs to be removed from the equation, not added.
Cable companies lobbying for "must-carry" laws to hinder satellite TV is also an example of why government needs to be removed.
So is "a lot of other voters hate cable companies." If the government would stop regulating which company can stab which other company in the back, we'd have a lot less problems with superinfluential cable companies.
In other news, Microsoft will announce the licensing LANCOR keyboard input-method technology that is scheduled to be included in future versions of Windows
Lol. SCO joke? Whoosh? None of the above? Haven't slept yet...
Except that they're not exactly without regulation.
How many municipalities decided that cable networks competing for the same neighborhood would be "wasteful" and only allow one or two companies to provide service?
Competition = good. Except that it's illegal in some places. I wonder why prices are high.
I think he was saying that his videocard is unstable unless he overclocks it
And I'm saying that's stupid. Overclocking something does not make it more stable. And makes it liable to overheat, stop functioning, wear out faster, melt, misbehave, shut down, cause blue screens, etc.
Gratuitous car analogy: If your car is shaking itself to pieces at 5 miles an hour in the parking lot, don't "overclock" your Jalopy to 80 mph on the freeway. Unless you despise existence.
Then we can further complicate the question: suppose that you die due to reasons unrelated to teleportation. And you last used a teleporter about a year back, but the teleporter saved your "pattern"-- so your grieving loved ones are able to "recreate" you, exactly as you were when you came out the teleporter-- the only difference is that you'd be confused as to how a year had passed since you'd gone in, and everyone else has memories of you during that time that you didn't experience. Is that you? Or not?
Well, there was that one TNG episode where Scotty put himself into statis by loading himself into the transporter buffer of a crashed starship. Also, it's apparently a good way to keep coffee fresh, which I suppose is incredibly important because it's not like you can just replicate yourself a cup whenever you want.
What I don't get is why they never replicated people by "transporting" them from the buffer more than once.
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Ideally, this would be used to more fairly bill customers - those who do nothing but check their e-mail once a week would pay next to nothing, and those that are downloading the internet would pay close to what businesses pay for a dedicated line.
But, I'm guessing they'll just charge us more, and charge the 5% a helluva lot more.
Shouldn't that be ionized [not oxidized]?
It's been a while since I took chemistry, but "oxidized" means increasing in oxidation number. (Doesn't have anything to do with oxygen.) I forget all the things that oxidation number thingy, but gaining an electron is one of them. So, they're similar.
Would someone knowledgable tell me if all ionization is oxidization?
How did this get modded off-topic? Hell if I knew before reading this post why Telstra supposedly had a free download area, that you Aussies are stuck with "metered" conections, that they're a monopoly, etc, etc... It's directly related to what parent posts were discussing
.NET / Silverlight?
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If you were the one who did the original breaking and figured everything out.
If you're some kind of script kiddie using said programatic ingenuity without any comprehension or understanding, you are most definitely not a hacker.
Crackers are the Bards making "Use Magic Device" checks. Hackers are the Wizards with ranks in "Craft Wondrous Item." Oh wait, that didn't involve cars...
Please look at the definition of hack and how it's different from cracking
For those who hate reading: A hack is pretty much a clever trick. A crack is something that does all that security breaking stuff.
Just try and watch that show and find a single line that doesn't make you cringe. Go on, I dare you.
"Don't thank me, thank the moon's graviational pull!"
Oh, wait, wrong show.
And you're still right...
We have 70 years of known reserves of Uranium. Sure it's finite, but we have a lot of it lying around before we actually have to go look for some.
Uranium is fairly plentiful (35x as much as silver, if that means anything) and dumping the waste in a mountain or a "salt silo" works just as fine as dumping trash in a landfill does. As for safety, I don't recall any meltdowns happening lately.
Compare that with wind power - nobody wants the towers in their yard, it's more inconsistent than solar power, only feasible in some special geographic areas, can have a negative net energy production when you factor in the cost to produce the actual tower and turbine, slaughters birds and airborne children, and requires a huge amount of land area to replace any meaningful wattage.
I'd rather have nuclear.
If you have one company who holds copyright to a significant fraction of our current culture [...] To endorse such laws is selling out ourselves, our children and our culture.
Goodness! You don't get to take something for free 'cuz you decided it was "culture."
What if I think that your "books, scripts & music" are "culture"? Or have you not made enough culture to justify me stealing it from you?
People are entitled (God, how I hate that word) to do as they want with the works of their mind. It shouldn't matter how many works they have, how valuable they are perceived to be, nor how many people use them.
The Republican policy is "Screw the poor, gays should be hung, we don't need fiscal responsibility, let's invade Iran."
"Believing that looting and class warfare are fundamentally wrong" != "screw the poor"
"Pandering to whatever some target demographic thinks" != "gays should be hung"
"Bush halving the budget deficit" != "we don't need fiscal responsibility"
"Hmm, they have nukes" != "let's invate Iran."
And anyone who thinks Hillary Clinton is "Republican" is obviously an empoverished warmongering homosexual budget-buster.
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Just kidding.
The other plate doesn't store a 'charge', it is magnetized or demagnetized, much like bits on a hard drive.
Magnetic charge?
20% is generally the difference between the $1000 CPU and the $200 CPU.
MS-DOS started out as essentially a copy of CP/M-86, and he also pointed out that CP/M is open-source and should be findable.
Use tax money to make a transfer payment* to all people based on how bad their genes are. (e.g., You're genetically predisposed to suck at basic math --> $50,000 at age 18.)
So... I should pay people ridiculous salaries because a test says they fail at life? I at least expect them to be unwed with two or three dozen children first - show some effort!
So some consumers who went out and purchased a "Vista Capable" computer and then later bought Vista Home Premium when it came out suddenly discovered they couldn't use Vista Home Premium on their "Vista Capable" computer.
Sigh. You get what you pay for.
The problems people are complaining of? Trusting Microsoft's marketing director (who corrected his mistake about the meaning of "capable") and expecting leetness from the cheapest PC you can buy from Dell.
That little prick [Mozart] was writing operas by the time he was 4 years old. How much "tremendous and sustained effort" can a 4 year-old have made?
The article isn't saying that everyone is born with the same intellect - the article is saying that everyone can develop their intellect through "tremendous and sustained effort."
If Mozart had been a lazy SOB and retired at age 4, and I hadn't been a lazy SOB, the article suggests that I could lap Mozart despite starting much lower than him.
And who is to blame for that? Consumers/Corporate buyers?
You may find the headlong trend towards buying new computers slowing quite a bit. You only really need so much horsepower to edit a document or twiddle numbers in a spreadsheetYou see, the system works, and it's called "capitalism." Demand for the next widget is slowing because existing widgets work just fine. Supply adjusts, prices stabalize, yadda yadda yadda.
Point is, in a capitalist system, you can't waste something valuable for long - somebody's going to go broke.
You should consider loving your democracy (and caring for it) instead of hating it
Please don't confuse my dislike for a bloated and wasteful government with "hating democracy." Remember that our founding fathers had a healthy distrust of both government and democracy - they went through the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution to cripple the former, and we are a "democratic republic" (not a democracy!) to prevent what they called the "tyranny of the majority."
Government, by it's nature, is not democratic. Your participation is mandatory - that's why "civil disobedience" works, and that's why nice men with guns put you in jail for not paying taxes or following laws.
Businesses, on the other hand, spend millions each year for the privilege of securing an opportunity to ask for your money. The 51% of people who drink Coke can never force you to drink Pepsi; the 51% of people who want to bilk "the rich" come up with ideas like the Alternative Minimum Tax.
The fact that politicians can be bought says more about the pros^H^H^H^Hpolitician than it does the buyer, and I have a larger pittance of sympathy for the lobbyists than I do the lobbied. A bussiness' existence depends on their lobbying efforts - if they don't convince a congressman they have a right to exist, they'll be regulated out of existence to appease people like you, or someone more successful at gaming the system than they.
You should love the people who work hard everyday to make your lifestyle possible instead of hating them.
Cable companies "colluding" with local governments is another example of how government needs to be removed from the equation, not added.
Cable companies lobbying for "must-carry" laws to hinder satellite TV is also an example of why government needs to be removed.
So is "a lot of other voters hate cable companies." If the government would stop regulating which company can stab which other company in the back, we'd have a lot less problems with superinfluential cable companies.
In other news, Microsoft will announce the licensing LANCOR keyboard input-method technology that is scheduled to be included in future versions of Windows
Lol. SCO joke? Whoosh? None of the above? Haven't slept yet...
Except that they're not exactly without regulation.
How many municipalities decided that cable networks competing for the same neighborhood would be "wasteful" and only allow one or two companies to provide service?
Competition = good. Except that it's illegal in some places. I wonder why prices are high.
help me understand how it simply farming the request to an external app, where the external app has the security problem, is a firefox problem?
Not a "Firefox Problem" per se, but surely an exploit that works on t3h f0x but not on IE is newsworthy.
I think he was saying that his videocard is unstable unless he overclocks it
And I'm saying that's stupid. Overclocking something does not make it more stable. And makes it liable to overheat, stop functioning, wear out faster, melt, misbehave, shut down, cause blue screens, etc.
Gratuitous car analogy: If your car is shaking itself to pieces at 5 miles an hour in the parking lot, don't "overclock" your Jalopy to 80 mph on the freeway. Unless you despise existence.
Then we can further complicate the question: suppose that you die due to reasons unrelated to teleportation. And you last used a teleporter about a year back, but the teleporter saved your "pattern"-- so your grieving loved ones are able to "recreate" you, exactly as you were when you came out the teleporter-- the only difference is that you'd be confused as to how a year had passed since you'd gone in, and everyone else has memories of you during that time that you didn't experience. Is that you? Or not?
Well, there was that one TNG episode where Scotty put himself into statis by loading himself into the transporter buffer of a crashed starship. Also, it's apparently a good way to keep coffee fresh, which I suppose is incredibly important because it's not like you can just replicate yourself a cup whenever you want.
What I don't get is why they never replicated people by "transporting" them from the buffer more than once.