What I find mind-boggling is that despite hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on Medicare and Medicaid, people don't think we have socialized medicine already. We do, just a f---ed up verson of it, where people will claim permanent disability not because they can't work, but because they can't afford their health care if they do.
I wonder when we'll see a P2P virus. All it would do is install itself and quietly connect to the various P2P networks, making available for distribution any audio or video files the user has.
Doesn't Douglas Adams have prior art, with Zaphod Beeblebrox's peril-sensitive sunglasses?
"They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you."
I think the solution really needs to be a second level of patent review. The current system for initially awarding patents would remain. Anyone could challenge an as-yet unchallenged patent, which would go to a review board which could rule that the patent seems invalid or valid. If the former, the patent holder could ask for and would have to pay for a more extensive review. If that review finds the patent invalid it would formally invalidate the patent. If not, or if the review board ruled the patent seemed valid, standard court action could proceed from there.
What this would do would be to keep review costs low for patents nobody bothers to challenge or enforce, while adding a system for a more thorough review of contested patents without the expense of the court system in many cases.
Ask a kid. But there's Blockbuster, Netflix, the library, and friends as sources of movies, not to mention cable/sat/broadcast. The theater takes time, transportation costs, and hassle, limits my food choices, and has a far more limited selection. I can also invite friends over for a movie, and make it a much more social event than a theater. Compared to sailing, performance cars (or simply a new car rather than a used one), golf, or many other hobbies, a few thou on a big screen isn't that much.
Have the voter feed the card into an optical scanner. If the scanner cannot interpret the vote, it lets the user know the problem and either returns the ballot or shreds it and gives them a replacement.
The paper ballots can be randomly audited to make sure the optical count is correct.
As an example, consider how many stores have big sales after Halloween, Christmas, etc. Much of the merchandise could be saved and sold the next year at much less of a discount, but the overhead of inventory makes that not pay off.
If you just want a file server, why not a Buffalo HD-H120LAN or similar? buy.com has 'em for ~$190 after rebate, claims low power consumption and print server functionality. No mail server though.
a goal of reducing "greenhouse-gas intensity" by 18% over the next ten years... that sounds like a pretty firm statement to me.
That would be at least six years after he's out of the office. What actual policies has he pushed that would move us towards that goal? Are any of them not voluntary?
LCDs generally don't work with the shutter eyeglasses used to simulate 3-D. Given the fast response rates they give for OLED, does anyone know if there's any reason OLED screens couldn't also be used for 3-D?
I'm curious. Exactly *how* do you expect the president to get jobs back?
Stop spending $100s of billions on counterproductive wars, farm subsidies, ineffective weapons systems, etc. Oh, and stop pretending that with as much as we spend on Medicare and Medicaid, we don't already have socialized medicine; we just have a form that provides a disincentive for the LMC to work, while imposing an HR burden on every business.
Presidents can't fix the economy. But they can sure screw it up...
downloading copyrighted material that you don't have a license for *IS* illegal.
No it isn't.
I don't have a license for any music. Yet I can go to many websites and download music. It is the distributor's responsibility to make sure they have a license to distribute. Now, that doesn't give me the right to redistribute thereafter, and thus P2P apps that automatically share anything I download still would put me in legal hot water.
You cannot retrieve data that isn't there to start with.
True, but what you can do is re-interpret that data in such a way that it is easier for the human eye to pick out the patterns. Take a noisy image of some text, then run a blurring and a sharpening filter on it. You'll often find it a lot easier to read than the original. Likewise, scaled-up images "look" better if you do that same operation to them.
Commodore Anson's fleet (of the British Navy) sailed east instead of west in search of fresh provisions, only to realize their mistake after almost a week of sailing in the wrong direction. They buried almost a hundred men a day from scurvy
Slashdot Mirror
What I find mind-boggling is that despite hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on Medicare and Medicaid, people don't think we have socialized medicine already. We do, just a f---ed up verson of it, where people will claim permanent disability not because they can't work, but because they can't afford their health care if they do.
My wife even said I could.
So did mine, until she realized I would be coming back.
If you had read the article (I know, I make funny joke), you would know that the hard drive is also encrypted.
I wonder when we'll see a P2P virus. All it would do is install itself and quietly connect to the various P2P networks, making available for distribution any audio or video files the user has.
Doesn't Douglas Adams have prior art, with Zaphod Beeblebrox's peril-sensitive sunglasses?
"They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you."
I think the solution really needs to be a second level of patent review. The current system for initially awarding patents would remain. Anyone could challenge an as-yet unchallenged patent, which would go to a review board which could rule that the patent seems invalid or valid. If the former, the patent holder could ask for and would have to pay for a more extensive review. If that review finds the patent invalid it would formally invalidate the patent. If not, or if the review board ruled the patent seemed valid, standard court action could proceed from there.
What this would do would be to keep review costs low for patents nobody bothers to challenge or enforce, while adding a system for a more thorough review of contested patents without the expense of the court system in many cases.
Hope someone would integrate this in to Celestia or the other way around.
Or how about the SimGear flight simulator?
Plus how many times can you watch the same movie?
Ask a kid. But there's Blockbuster, Netflix, the library, and friends as sources of movies, not to mention cable/sat/broadcast. The theater takes time, transportation costs, and hassle, limits my food choices, and has a far more limited selection. I can also invite friends over for a movie, and make it a much more social event than a theater. Compared to sailing, performance cars (or simply a new car rather than a used one), golf, or many other hobbies, a few thou on a big screen isn't that much.
That being said, I have a 27" TV.
How thoroughly do you vet CD cracks? I'd be worried about viruses et al disguised as (or combined with) a crack.
Unless someone fills it out incorrectly.
Have the voter feed the card into an optical scanner. If the scanner cannot interpret the vote, it lets the user know the problem and either returns the ballot or shreds it and gives them a replacement.
The paper ballots can be randomly audited to make sure the optical count is correct.
I don't want my tax dollars bankrolling OSS dev efforts.
Who do you think is Diebold's (and Microsoft's) biggest customer? You're bankrolling closed source, why not buy open instead?
As an example, consider how many stores have big sales after Halloween, Christmas, etc. Much of the merchandise could be saved and sold the next year at much less of a discount, but the overhead of inventory makes that not pay off.
Check techbargains.comperiodically, the 2001FP makes frequent appearances there for a little over $700.
In the US, there are more trees now than there were a hundred, or even 200 years ago.
That's because we added Alaska and numerous other states in the intervening time. Sorry, but that statement is effectively a lie.
If you just want a file server, why not a Buffalo HD-H120LAN or similar? buy.com has 'em for ~$190 after rebate, claims low power consumption and print server functionality. No mail server though.
a goal of reducing "greenhouse-gas intensity" by 18% over the next ten years... that sounds like a pretty firm statement to me.
That would be at least six years after he's out of the office. What actual policies has he pushed that would move us towards that goal? Are any of them not voluntary?
If you're going to count the Cole, shouldn't some of those 1000 soldiers dead in Iraq count?
Really, though, the original assertion was US territory getting hit. An embassy would count technically, perhaps, but it's quite a stretch.
Coastal wind is not good in places like florida
I dunno, it was pretty darn strong about a week ago...
Check this wind study map.
Well, waddya know, in Oklahoma the wind really does "roarin' down the plains..."
LCDs generally don't work with the shutter eyeglasses used to simulate 3-D. Given the fast response rates they give for OLED, does anyone know if there's any reason OLED screens couldn't also be used for 3-D?
Sorry, should have made a proper link.
Real Slashdotters use Firefox with the plain text URL extension.
And what happens when we run out of wind...
Set up the equipment in Washington, D.C. They'll never run out of wind there...
I'm curious. Exactly *how* do you expect the president to get jobs back?
Stop spending $100s of billions on counterproductive wars, farm subsidies, ineffective weapons systems, etc. Oh, and stop pretending that with as much as we spend on Medicare and Medicaid, we don't already have socialized medicine; we just have a form that provides a disincentive for the LMC to work, while imposing an HR burden on every business.
Presidents can't fix the economy. But they can sure screw it up...
downloading copyrighted material that you don't have a license for *IS* illegal.
No it isn't.
I don't have a license for any music. Yet I can go to many websites and download music. It is the distributor's responsibility to make sure they have a license to distribute. Now, that doesn't give me the right to redistribute thereafter, and thus P2P apps that automatically share anything I download still would put me in legal hot water.
You cannot retrieve data that isn't there to start with.
True, but what you can do is re-interpret that data in such a way that it is easier for the human eye to pick out the patterns. Take a noisy image of some text, then run a blurring and a sharpening filter on it. You'll often find it a lot easier to read than the original. Likewise, scaled-up images "look" better if you do that same operation to them.
Commodore Anson's fleet (of the British Navy) sailed east instead of west in search of fresh provisions, only to realize their mistake after almost a week of sailing in the wrong direction. They buried almost a hundred men a day from scurvy
Did they bring the dirt with them on the boats?