As someone who lives an hour and a half from the canadian border, I can assure you that is not true.
Then you should know better. US Citizens entering Canada need a valid passport or birth certificate. Those are *Canada's* requirements, too. (How come no one screams 'gestapo' when Canada does it?) You need a passport to return to the US though. The rules were temporarily eased but I believe WHTI (Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative) is in full force currently.
Anyway we're bring passports when snowmobiling on the border this winter. Wont bother me a bit either.
I'd get one of those cheapo walmart linux boxes...
Absolutely. Just take the time to chuck all the fans and swap in ball bearing fans for the junk sleeve bearings that come with it. Otherwise it'll be down in 6 months of 24x7 uptime.
Has anyone actually been in it? Probably not many of you that are slamming it. When all I saw was the photo's of the outside, I just laughed. Pretentious crap I thought. But I go there every month or two now for MIT functions, and the place is pretty neat inside. Its interesting, its fun, its surprising, and best of all it always makes you think. "How the hell did they build that?", "Is that an inside wall or outside wall?", "What do you call that shape?", or, like everyone else, "Can I find my way back from the men's room if I have another martini?" You can look at something 20 feet away and have no idea how to get there.
Flaws aside, I really enjoy going there, and for no other reason than its a fun building. If you cant have fun with a building at MIT than where else? If a cube farm at Lockheed is your idea if Utopia, then hey, the Stata Center isnt your kind of place. Then again if you think New York City streets are great because they're so practical and symmetrical, then Boston streets will have you gnawing on your own nose after a few hours. Maybe the Stata Center reflects the city its in just fine.
And as for MIT 'deciding' on it, I'm pretty sure Ray Stata had something to say about what kind of building they built with his money in his name. Ray usually has some pretty strong sentiments about stuff. And seeing as one of his wafer fabs is half a block from there Im guessing he was pretty active in the planning stages.
ICANN already does suspend domains. Go look at Line9.com... Someone filed a complaint with ICANN against them for listing a fake address and a phone number of 555-555-5555. Now they have no web nor email, and since they were ruthlessly paranoid about keeping their phone numbers unlisted Im guessing the business is more or less closed. I'm guessing ICANN or their registrar tried reasonably hard to contact them, but with bogus data in whois what could they do?
With 12 systems running 24x7 my power bill takes a pretty good hit. But every time I think about reducing it, it occurs to me that every watt consumed ends up as heat, and I heat 9 months of the year this far north, and since I heat with electric, its a wash. Cut computers, more baseboard heating, same btu's and same electric bill. If I could switch to more efficient heating system then CPU efficiency might matter, but right now I cant see how it helps. Instead all I care about is MIPS per BUCK (everything is relatively quite these days).
Do you have zero reading comprehension? Are you a knee-jerk brain-dead lemming? I mean, since you've lapsed into the name-calling thing. From TFA:
"Mr Justice Barton was at pains to point out that the "apocalyptic vision" presented in the film was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change."
... and from the Register...
The judge said Mr Dimmock has "substantially won" the case. He found that "but for the new guidance note, the film would have been distributed in breach of sections 406 and 407 of the 1996 Education Act". These sections cover political indoctrination and the treatment of political issues in schools.
I been here long enough to know how this works at Slashdot: even if you agree with global warming but disagree with even the slightest errata in the science, you have to be killed before the 'cancer' of free thinking can spread. Your rabid off-topic name-calling reply does more to discredit global warming activists than any facts I could dig up, so thanks for your help!
Too bad though that everything you said is right. But quoting me sermons from wikipedia that global warming is real is really offtopic. Nothing you said factually contradicts anything I said. It was banned, and no one will post a link to the definition of "banned" because, well, shit, thats what it means. It was embarrassing to Gore. It was. And the day before his prize and all. I didnt say GW is a myth, though you automatically assume I am because, well, Im not sure why.
But its all beside the point. What pisses me off about "Inconvenient Truth" isnt that its wrong (its not), or alarmist (Gore admits it is), or one sided (Gore claims thats intentional). Its that every intentional inaccuracy fuels the people who claim there is no global warming. And if you assume as I do that Gore is a pretty smart guy, the inaccuracies have to be intentional. So sure, yeah, my headline is a troll in that regard. But only because so many people really enjoy being trolled on the subject, and really enjoy killing supposed heretics.
Inflammatory? On Slashdot?? How shocking!!! Not on Slashdot where only rational discussion takes place.
Yeah I thought about the word "banned" before I wrote it. Probably longer than you thought about your whole post. Does "not allowed to be shown without material specifically dispelling its inaccuracies" mean "banned". If you love Lord Al then it doesn't, I'm sure. I think it does. Banned with conditions is still banned.
I notice too that the *only* people modding me down are using "overrated" so they wont get metamoderated as an obvious "-1 disagree". Fucking cowards.
A little embarrassing that "An Inconvenient Truth" was banned in schools in Britain for its inaccuracies. The judge said it met the criteria for political indoctrination.
Yeah bullshit right back atcha, baby. If republicans are business whores that makes dems no less whorish either. Lets check opensecrets.org for a summary, shall we? For all candidates in the 2004 election cycle, Bush raised $2.9M from PACS, or about 1%. Kerry took $375k or 0% from PACS, so good for him. But for Bush it was ONLY ONE PERCENT. That's either the cheapest political buyout of all time, or its bullshit.
But PACS dont generally get involved in presidential races (probably because they fear/. will find out). So lets look at the top ten contributers since 1989 when reporting laws took effect (in order spent):
Muncipal Employees Union 98% democrat
AT&T 56% republican
Nat Assn Realtors 53% republican
Teachers Union 93% democrat
Bar Association 90% democrat
IBEW (union) 98% democrat
Goldman Sachs 62% democrat
Laborers Union 92% democrat
Service Employees union 96% democrat
Carpenters union 90% democrat
So, we have the telco's and realtors with a slight bias towards the right, and we have labor, banks and lawyers solidly behind the dems. Personally Id rather be whored out to realtors and telcos than the theiving unions and lawyers.
I think it is undeniable that the USA and Microsoft are exploiting Latin America.
By that you mean they make money there? Or do you mean that every other country doing business in South America is motivated by philanthropy? Fortunately China's aggressive investment in Central and South America is all about them 'giving back to the community', right?
Just so you know where *I* stand, I think South America is doing well exploiting *us*. Nothing in history is as unifying as declaring a common enemy, and you're all smart enough to draw the obvious inferences. Casting us in that role (whether deserved or not) has well suited every corrupt tin-horn dictator like Chavez. Handing out free AK47's to his supporters to repel an farcical US invasion might be a good thing if you're a supporter, but to a small business owner facing down an armed horde of the poor bent on nationalizing your inventory, maybe not so good.
I dont care for much of Microsoft's tactics any more than the next geek, but gleefully crowing over every petty nationalist squabble involving them is absurdly naive. Ecuador and Venezuela embracing Linux dont make their governments any less corrupt or self-serving.
Reading up on the IFR reactors, it always sounded like a magic bullet. Not only does it make its own fuel, but it eats waste from the others and renders it relatively non-toxic. The closed fuel cycle and on-site reprocessing reduce the security and transportation problems. I haven't heard any real criticism of the technology, and it's champions certainly sound like believers. I'd love to see us restart the prototype at least. If it works we should build a few hundred just to try it out.
Why skip a chance to make this political, so I'll note that Clinton killed the program under pressure from Kerry. Although it's also notable that a very large number of senior Democratic senators were strong backers. Does Obama have a position on nuclear power?
According to the supporting text (pun intended) the cable is mandated by his insurance carrier and is not assisting the flight at all.
Then again I have a poster from the mid 80's claiming he was a less than a year from mass production. Except that his 80's version looked cooler. Judging by his flight videos he hasnt even begun to address feedback systems to provide stability, and since those arent that complicated in the engine configuration shown, he has engine control problems. You cant stabilize something like that by controlling engine RPM, which is apparently what he's doing. What morons keep investing in his company after 40 years of hype?????
Actually I think the dealer is just plain exceptional, even among Mercedes dealers. And I think the SL is a really well-built car. Ive owned ML's and now a GL, and they are not the same. They are still a Mercedes, great engineering, the GL is a rocket-sled of an SUV and a blast to drive, but they have all liked to visit the shop a little too often. The dealership's service makes it painless, and all warranty stuff so no big deal. But the SL (made in Germany) just seemed to be fault-proof. Maybe I was lucky but I never met an SL owner that had a different story. Driving one for two years broke my interest in cars: if I cant have an SL then I'll keep driving my auction beater cars until I can (my wife wont let me drive her GL).
I agree. And I take that into consideration. But these guys are looking for popular press and attention without publishing details. It isnt how credible professionals act. Your anonymous posting doesnt help either. Lacking other information, Im judging them by what they have chosen to put forward, and its amateurish. My suggestion is to withhold judgment.
Whipping slashdot into a frenzy behind a bit of shallow pseudoscience has become pretty formulaic, and is a lot more common than *realized* security breaches. Hey, color me cynical.
I was going to guess this 'research' was funded by TI until I looked at the slides and the summary and realized what a bunch of amateurish crap they were. Putting the researcher's faces into all the car pictures was probably a Big Fun for them but doesnt do a lot for their credibility. Aggressively trying to get into the popular press before releasing their paper for peer review is sensationalism. And some of their conclusions a bullshit: "Once we have found the key, we can deactivate the alarm and drive away with your car" is patently false, and "Soon cryptographers will soon all be driving expensive cars" is just childish. This is also happening a week after Microchip's national conference, which may not be a coincidence.
Maybe Keeloq is broken and maybe it isnt but I think I'll wait for the paper and see what Microchip's response is before I assume these clowns are anything more than attention whores.
Especially if they're european cars, which are more expensive to fix.
My used Mercedes SL500 was not only the fastest car Ive ever driven but the least expensive to maintain. A good dealership thats obsessive about treating their customers well knows to keep repair visits and costs to a minimum. Add to that the SL series was well engineered, well constructed and had 10 years of continuous improvement built in.
Most dealerships would get snippy if you complain about a slight tire noise that happens only between 125 and 130 mph, instead of replacing 4 tires under warranty:-)
I guess I forgot the tag... never post before the 3rd espresso... but still: the market isnt just a prediction market, its also a prediction/prediction market, where short term gamers bet on how other players will react, with a positive feedback cycle that amplifies movement. The meta-prediction and the feedback make it vulnerable to manipulation. A sufficiently elegant prediction and manipulation strategy could make a lot (make that a **lot**) of money, and whom but the NSA has that kind of analytical power, and since the result would be effectively a broad tax offset by greater overall wealth (due to higher prices) and a slight inflation (due to inflated PE's), that a program administrator or congressional oversight committee might think it was more clever than underhanded.
But mostly I was trying to be funny. No mod points for me I guess...
Ive always secretly believed that the NSA had this figured out decades ago, and has been quietly gaming the stock markets to fund its expansion. Thats why market volatility has increased dramatically. *Sure* those acres of supercomputer arrays are all doing code-breaking...
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Then you should know better. US Citizens entering Canada need a valid passport or birth certificate. Those are *Canada's* requirements, too. (How come no one screams 'gestapo' when Canada does it?) You need a passport to return to the US though. The rules were temporarily eased but I believe WHTI (Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative) is in full force currently.
Anyway we're bring passports when snowmobiling on the border this winter. Wont bother me a bit either.
You cant appeal a guilty plea.
Flaws aside, I really enjoy going there, and for no other reason than its a fun building. If you cant have fun with a building at MIT than where else? If a cube farm at Lockheed is your idea if Utopia, then hey, the Stata Center isnt your kind of place. Then again if you think New York City streets are great because they're so practical and symmetrical, then Boston streets will have you gnawing on your own nose after a few hours. Maybe the Stata Center reflects the city its in just fine.
And as for MIT 'deciding' on it, I'm pretty sure Ray Stata had something to say about what kind of building they built with his money in his name. Ray usually has some pretty strong sentiments about stuff. And seeing as one of his wafer fabs is half a block from there Im guessing he was pretty active in the planning stages.
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Yes it does. Thats exactly what it means. Get over it.
With 12 systems running 24x7 my power bill takes a pretty good hit. But every time I think about reducing it, it occurs to me that every watt consumed ends up as heat, and I heat 9 months of the year this far north, and since I heat with electric, its a wash. Cut computers, more baseboard heating, same btu's and same electric bill. If I could switch to more efficient heating system then CPU efficiency might matter, but right now I cant see how it helps. Instead all I care about is MIPS per BUCK (everything is relatively quite these days).
"Mr Justice Barton was at pains to point out that the "apocalyptic vision" presented in the film was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change."
The judge said Mr Dimmock has "substantially won" the case. He found that "but for the new guidance note, the film would have been distributed in breach of sections 406 and 407 of the 1996 Education Act". These sections cover political indoctrination and the treatment of political issues in schools.
I been here long enough to know how this works at Slashdot: even if you agree with global warming but disagree with even the slightest errata in the science, you have to be killed before the 'cancer' of free thinking can spread. Your rabid off-topic name-calling reply does more to discredit global warming activists than any facts I could dig up, so thanks for your help!
Too bad though that everything you said is right. But quoting me sermons from wikipedia that global warming is real is really offtopic. Nothing you said factually contradicts anything I said. It was banned, and no one will post a link to the definition of "banned" because, well, shit, thats what it means. It was embarrassing to Gore. It was. And the day before his prize and all. I didnt say GW is a myth, though you automatically assume I am because, well, Im not sure why.
But its all beside the point. What pisses me off about "Inconvenient Truth" isnt that its wrong (its not), or alarmist (Gore admits it is), or one sided (Gore claims thats intentional). Its that every intentional inaccuracy fuels the people who claim there is no global warming. And if you assume as I do that Gore is a pretty smart guy, the inaccuracies have to be intentional. So sure, yeah, my headline is a troll in that regard. But only because so many people really enjoy being trolled on the subject, and really enjoy killing supposed heretics.
Yeah I thought about the word "banned" before I wrote it. Probably longer than you thought about your whole post. Does "not allowed to be shown without material specifically dispelling its inaccuracies" mean "banned". If you love Lord Al then it doesn't, I'm sure. I think it does. Banned with conditions is still banned.
I notice too that the *only* people modding me down are using "overrated" so they wont get metamoderated as an obvious "-1 disagree". Fucking cowards.
A little embarrassing that "An Inconvenient Truth" was banned in schools in Britain for its inaccuracies. The judge said it met the criteria for political indoctrination.
But PACS dont generally get involved in presidential races (probably because they fear /. will find out). So lets look at the top ten contributers since 1989 when reporting laws took effect (in order spent):
Muncipal Employees Union 98% democrat
AT&T 56% republican
Nat Assn Realtors 53% republican
Teachers Union 93% democrat
Bar Association 90% democrat
IBEW (union) 98% democrat
Goldman Sachs 62% democrat
Laborers Union 92% democrat
Service Employees union 96% democrat
Carpenters union 90% democrat
So, we have the telco's and realtors with a slight bias towards the right, and we have labor, banks and lawyers solidly behind the dems. Personally Id rather be whored out to realtors and telcos than the theiving unions and lawyers.
Just so you know where *I* stand, I think South America is doing well exploiting *us*. Nothing in history is as unifying as declaring a common enemy, and you're all smart enough to draw the obvious inferences. Casting us in that role (whether deserved or not) has well suited every corrupt tin-horn dictator like Chavez. Handing out free AK47's to his supporters to repel an farcical US invasion might be a good thing if you're a supporter, but to a small business owner facing down an armed horde of the poor bent on nationalizing your inventory, maybe not so good.
I dont care for much of Microsoft's tactics any more than the next geek, but gleefully crowing over every petty nationalist squabble involving them is absurdly naive. Ecuador and Venezuela embracing Linux dont make their governments any less corrupt or self-serving.
Hey, it took millions of Egyptians to built the Great Myriads, and if they want to noun them thats there write.
Why skip a chance to make this political, so I'll note that Clinton killed the program under pressure from Kerry. Although it's also notable that a very large number of senior Democratic senators were strong backers. Does Obama have a position on nuclear power?
Sure but how will they handle the recall when the Moon People find out there is lead in the red paint?
You're absolutely right. They dole out grant money based on what they *want* to see scrolling by the CNN ticker.
Then again I have a poster from the mid 80's claiming he was a less than a year from mass production. Except that his 80's version looked cooler. Judging by his flight videos he hasnt even begun to address feedback systems to provide stability, and since those arent that complicated in the engine configuration shown, he has engine control problems. You cant stabilize something like that by controlling engine RPM, which is apparently what he's doing. What morons keep investing in his company after 40 years of hype?????
Actually I think the dealer is just plain exceptional, even among Mercedes dealers. And I think the SL is a really well-built car. Ive owned ML's and now a GL, and they are not the same. They are still a Mercedes, great engineering, the GL is a rocket-sled of an SUV and a blast to drive, but they have all liked to visit the shop a little too often. The dealership's service makes it painless, and all warranty stuff so no big deal. But the SL (made in Germany) just seemed to be fault-proof. Maybe I was lucky but I never met an SL owner that had a different story. Driving one for two years broke my interest in cars: if I cant have an SL then I'll keep driving my auction beater cars until I can (my wife wont let me drive her GL).
Whipping slashdot into a frenzy behind a bit of shallow pseudoscience has become pretty formulaic, and is a lot more common than *realized* security breaches. Hey, color me cynical.
Maybe Keeloq is broken and maybe it isnt but I think I'll wait for the paper and see what Microchip's response is before I assume these clowns are anything more than attention whores.
Most dealerships would get snippy if you complain about a slight tire noise that happens only between 125 and 130 mph, instead of replacing 4 tires under warranty :-)
But mostly I was trying to be funny. No mod points for me I guess...
Ive always secretly believed that the NSA had this figured out decades ago, and has been quietly gaming the stock markets to fund its expansion. Thats why market volatility has increased dramatically. *Sure* those acres of supercomputer arrays are all doing code-breaking...