Weird - I am in the US, and feel we ARE trying to control the internet and everything on it, like forcing US copyright law on the world, as in SOPA/PIPA and ACTA, insisting on tax breaks for the rich (which means more taxes for the poor and middle class), attempts at a flat tax to abolish the IRS (all of which are a tax increase for the poor/middle class), etc. Other laws like COPA, and the DMCA attempt to dictate world internet policy. The FCC chairman seems to want all internet to be metered and charged like long distance calls and billed by usage (and wow - talk about regressive... I'm less at odds with usage billing if it is reasonable, but look at what Verizon Wireless and AT&T is charging for tiny amounts of data and I'm absolutely offended).
Not sure about multiple VPNs, but I have coworkers that were able to connect to my work VPN just fine from their hotels when in China. A proxy would work, as well, but you'd want to use https for an encrypted connection. Either way requires a certificate, and the only free way to do that that I know of is create a self-signed certificate and give your browsers exceptions (I haven't looked into this in years, maybe there are free options).
Also AFAIK tourist visas don't stop you from doing business at home, you just can't do business in/with the country you are in. If the original poster is correct and I am wrong, I know of hundreds of people that have broken various laws, including me, by replying to business emails on vacation in foreign countries (when you're the first point of contact and nobody else can do what you do, there rarely is a true vacation).
Like anything, in the short term it will be more expensive. In the long term, we get replicators. This sort of thing would really be good for my old vegan roommate, who every once in a while had to have bacon, but otherwise was faithful to being a vegan. If the bacon was printed, and no matter what the price, I know she'd definitely feel morally better if it weren't from a dead animal.
As a warning, some of the virus fake antivirus installers, you don't want to click the close box or anything else, you need to kill the browser or ignore the popup, as every button including the X will install the virus fake antivirus software, as happened to my wife. This installed at least 7 new viruses and a rootkit that were not yet cataloged by the antivirus vendor (as well as 35 known viruses after the rootkit disabled AV, which I was able to remove using a Linux liveCD) and I reported them because I am very skilled at computer forensics and hand repairing infected machines from years of practice and some professional work at it (which just told me I really didn't want to do that for a living).
So you have a fair way to enforce abortion rights that every state agrees on? This seems to be a political swing issue for many people, and I'd personally like to see it out of federal politics, because I know far too many Republicans that vote Republican on that issue alone, despite fundamentally disagreeing with every other policy (some of these people are multiple years on welfare, and will likely lose benefits under Romney). I can understand why you don't want to give states jurisdiction over a woman's uterus though - my state will most likely become a no abortion state, even though people like me think women should have at least some choice (especially early in a pregnancy).
And banks essentially own the federal reserve and can just print money to pay for the FDIC, so it is money from nothing and really falls on the taxpayer's back as the currency deflates and prices inflate. Gotta hand it to JP Morgan, he knew how to screw the common man while blinding them to the fact they were being raped. His work with De Beers creating a diamond monopoly and then selling a worthless rock as a wedding necessity was genius. Rockefeller too - first he bails out the banks in 1907, then creates a bank that can print money from nothing, is privately owned by banks, and has no effective government regulation.
For a different perspective, my wife works in the health care insurance industry. She backs Obama in every way except health care, which she considers an atrocity, costing thousands of jobs (think underwriters, which are now irrelevant) and stifling the insurance industry by limiting profits and causing investors to bail out. Many insurers have shut down rather than abide by the law. Less choices, more regulation. The worry I'd have about a national broadband network is similar, as government run monopolies like the post office are bloated bureaucratic entities. Also note that my voting does not reflect my wife's - if you can't balance your checkbook, you will never get my vote. Neither Obama nor Romney has shown any inclination to do this, and they are driving the world bank to adopt the renminbi [Chinese yuan] or something similar. How patriotic will you be when you have to buy money with a communist dictator [Mao] printed on it just to make international transactions?
Not that I like my personal broadband choices, as Comcast (an over-expensive government regulated monopoly that has the highest prices of alternatives that need to compete such as DirectTV or DISH) has a stake in all except CenturyLink, which is pretty damn big itself. As of 2 years ago, I can get Clear WiMax, but that is partially Comcast owned.
That said, I can understand Woz's frustration - I need to pay a regulated monopoly for any reasonably fast service (max is still 7Mbit for any alternative to Comcast, with a reasonably expected ~5Mbit actual speed, where Comcast can reach 100, albeit over token ring, so it depends on neighborhood load, and that is for a tightly packed first ring suburb with more than 50000 residents, but few businesses).
I have a friend that has a personal account and a pseudonym for her pen name as a published author. She absolutely does not want her real name and pen name combined, and only a few people know both (I've known it since I dated her best friend in high school).
What was probably meant is Light Water Reactor (LWR), which covers both PWRs and BWRs, and there is some semi-informed indications in there, as well - India is actually working on a thorium powered LWR, which is just as unsafe as typical LWRs. China is working on a LFTR, which can't melt down and has other inherent advantages like burning almost all of its fuel with little and short lived waste. The US continues to dump massive amounts of money (almost 1 trillion dollars last I checked) into Fast Breeder Reactors, which also are inherently unsafe, but maximize neutron efficiency (generate more power per fission). The sad thing is, the estimated cost to build a prototype LFTR is... 5 million dollars - less than a coal plant.
Thorium is an alpha emitting metal, not a salt. Perhaps you're thinking of the Fluoride salt used in liquid metal reactors (which can burn Thorium or Uranium).... or Potassium Iodide, as TheLink suggested (used to treat radiation exposure), lol.
True enough, and the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) was dissolved for the same problem the NRC is in today - they are in bed with the industry. Even in the mid-1980s, the industry considered the NRC a rubber stamp of approval for whatever they wanted to do, and it was proven before congress... and they did nothing about it. Gotta love regulatory commissions that exist strictly to deter other forms of reactors being implemented.
Of course, there is nothing better for asking for a raise than leverage, and having another job offer is great leverage. Every time my company seems threatened by losing talented workers to other companies, they offer the person more to stay.
By the time you get to be a chef, you've probably got a good handle on how to make a lot of different things and don't need a recipe. I'm not a chef, but I can bake most pastries, breads, and pizza dough without a recipe and often don't even measure ingredients. A recipe is often bad - it gives you an idea, but it takes experience to know when a dough is too hard or soft, for instance, and that may be due to, say, eggs being slightly larger or smaller than the ones in the recipe.
I've also gotten to the point where I brew beer without a recipe, though I'm still a bit of a novice on all grain brews and look up timings. What's really funny is my beers have been a huge hit, even among non beer drinkers and I tend to make low hop brews (but even my 60 IBU ESB was a hit). My summer Saison was destroyed at a party in 30 minutes, and that was about 32 IBU (and 9% alcohol). A friend who loves hoppy brews brought a 90IBU IPA and still had half a 5 gallon keg left at the end of that party.
Yeah, but that isn't really Apple's fault - the recording industry is to blame - they demand DRM and single device installs as a condition for the music being sold on iTunes, and by sold I mean licensed for one user to listen to. The artist(s) that played on the recording usually don't even have the rights to the song - they require a (sometimes implicit) clause in their contract giving them a reciprocal license to perform it. I've never signed one with an implicit license (and my lawyer ensured it was in there), but I assume that it would put the recording artist at risk.
The license you get is for one copy of the song for one person to listen to. The physical media is not licensed - you can do whatever you want with it. US federal law gives you the right to make a single backup on any media you choose, unless the media is encrypted, in which case the DMCA gets in the way (which is why decryption copying of DVD and Blu-Ray, aka ripping, is illegal in the USA). Any additional people listening to the song hits an iffy situation - fair use vs public display - the latter you are supposed to pay for with a license. Playing covers at a party could easily be construed as a public display, and I did that without paying the RIAA tax, but I should have (not that I would have - I was broke and made little money or no for those gigs - I'm just giving the lay of the law).
None of the schools I attended had air. Summer school was always miserably hot (90-100F/upper 30s C wasn't uncommon), and we used fans and lots of water to get through it. That said, I never had summers off until Jr High School, though I went to camps that were essentially educational in Jr High (music, computer, etc). In Sr High I worked menial jobs during the summer so I could afford car insurance and gas during the school year. Had to learn how to seriously squirrel away money because my parents wouldn't let me work during the week during the school year and wouldn't let me have a balance on my credit card. Probably the best money lesson I ever learned. Wish I could teach the US government that.
Seriously, IPA is predominantly a recent fad. The reason India Pale Ales were created was so that they would survive the trip from Britain to India without refrigeration. Hops traditionally were used as a preservative - in fact, many beers brewed for immediate consumption didn't use them at all. Hops became more common for flavoring beer in the 1800s.
Oh, and to the pine needle flavor below, that was not an uncommon flavoring. There are still Belgian beers that have been brewed for hundreds of years that use them (some don't use hops, either).
You'd be surprised at how useful servers with GPUs are these days. When you're talking about clients like iPad and android devices, often the rendering is done server side and then sent to the client. A (CAD related) product I work on renders thumbnails using a server GPU. There is also a game service that does all rendering server side and sends it to a display (often a TV).
Depends on your BIOS protection, but yeah, if I do a complete wipe, I fdisk the drive (or gparted or whatever tool I have handy). There are also a couple of options if you don't wipe, like overwriting BIOS with the latest vendor BIOS (in most cases it will be out of date, anyway) - this often resets any changes to defaults, though some vendors these days have a non-default settings cache that doesn't get overwritten. Otherwise you could go do some MBR forensics, which is a lot of fun (er, not).
With fake AV, don't discount unpatched exploits - my wife's XP box got infected by fake Antivirus a couple of years ago and it installed itself without any interaction, even though the system was patched to the latest. When it popped up asking to install, I said task kill the browser and saw that she did, even with the OK/Cancel that all just install no matter which you click (and the X as well), but apparently the virus had already backdoored the installer and kicked itself off. It also grabbed several as-yet-unknown viruses before she was able to shut the machine down. I passed 35 unidentified rootkit and virus files and respective registry keys to the antivirus vendor resulting in 4 new virus variants (but no new strains), all of which were patched in the AV software the next day (and kudos to Trend Micro for getting a fast fix - I don't know for sure it was because of my sending it in, but I do know the viruses I found were in the new definitions). That one didn't come with a rootkit, but she got rootkitted once with an unknown rootkit as well, though that was entirely her fault (I sent that one to someone... I think MalwareBytes, which had not found it, but I saw its registry entry and typing the first few letters and tab auto-completed it in system32, so I knew it was hidden and used Linux to get it off - I didn't check to see if they patched it in, but I'm guessing they did).
Personally, I usually do it the hard way, starting with downloading the latest Linux-based live-rescue CD from an antivirus vendor. I then search the entire operating system by date for files modified, especially the system/system32 (or anything under Windows) directories, clean registry entries (often they try to start files that have been removed by antivirus), check the hosts file, check the browser's redirect entries in the registry, and after reboot into Windows, check the firewall and antivirus settings. I then do a port scan and a security check from my laptop (I've got pro tools for this from work, but I'm sure there are free tools) and then after reconnecting it to the internet, packet scan it for an hour or so to see if any. I have never seen a virus change the timestamp, but maybe now that I've mentioned it they will.
actually, they are all supposed to degenerate into anarchy, and always seem to degenerate to police state. And by anarchy, I mean no government, but an economic system in place and otherwise utopia.
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Weird - I am in the US, and feel we ARE trying to control the internet and everything on it, like forcing US copyright law on the world, as in SOPA/PIPA and ACTA, insisting on tax breaks for the rich (which means more taxes for the poor and middle class), attempts at a flat tax to abolish the IRS (all of which are a tax increase for the poor/middle class), etc. Other laws like COPA, and the DMCA attempt to dictate world internet policy. The FCC chairman seems to want all internet to be metered and charged like long distance calls and billed by usage (and wow - talk about regressive... I'm less at odds with usage billing if it is reasonable, but look at what Verizon Wireless and AT&T is charging for tiny amounts of data and I'm absolutely offended).
Not sure about multiple VPNs, but I have coworkers that were able to connect to my work VPN just fine from their hotels when in China. A proxy would work, as well, but you'd want to use https for an encrypted connection. Either way requires a certificate, and the only free way to do that that I know of is create a self-signed certificate and give your browsers exceptions (I haven't looked into this in years, maybe there are free options).
Also AFAIK tourist visas don't stop you from doing business at home, you just can't do business in/with the country you are in. If the original poster is correct and I am wrong, I know of hundreds of people that have broken various laws, including me, by replying to business emails on vacation in foreign countries (when you're the first point of contact and nobody else can do what you do, there rarely is a true vacation).
Did you RTFA or even the headline? Their goal is to ultimately make meat, and leather is just a step to getting there.
Like anything, in the short term it will be more expensive. In the long term, we get replicators. This sort of thing would really be good for my old vegan roommate, who every once in a while had to have bacon, but otherwise was faithful to being a vegan. If the bacon was printed, and no matter what the price, I know she'd definitely feel morally better if it weren't from a dead animal.
As a warning, some of the virus fake antivirus installers, you don't want to click the close box or anything else, you need to kill the browser or ignore the popup, as every button including the X will install the virus fake antivirus software, as happened to my wife. This installed at least 7 new viruses and a rootkit that were not yet cataloged by the antivirus vendor (as well as 35 known viruses after the rootkit disabled AV, which I was able to remove using a Linux liveCD) and I reported them because I am very skilled at computer forensics and hand repairing infected machines from years of practice and some professional work at it (which just told me I really didn't want to do that for a living).
So you have a fair way to enforce abortion rights that every state agrees on? This seems to be a political swing issue for many people, and I'd personally like to see it out of federal politics, because I know far too many Republicans that vote Republican on that issue alone, despite fundamentally disagreeing with every other policy (some of these people are multiple years on welfare, and will likely lose benefits under Romney). I can understand why you don't want to give states jurisdiction over a woman's uterus though - my state will most likely become a no abortion state, even though people like me think women should have at least some choice (especially early in a pregnancy).
And banks essentially own the federal reserve and can just print money to pay for the FDIC, so it is money from nothing and really falls on the taxpayer's back as the currency deflates and prices inflate. Gotta hand it to JP Morgan, he knew how to screw the common man while blinding them to the fact they were being raped. His work with De Beers creating a diamond monopoly and then selling a worthless rock as a wedding necessity was genius. Rockefeller too - first he bails out the banks in 1907, then creates a bank that can print money from nothing, is privately owned by banks, and has no effective government regulation.
New? It has been the model since Reagan in 1980.
I haven't read TFA, but I expect Romney's space program to include a long distance starship to head to Kolob to visit Mormon God.
At least Mormons aren't Scientologists - I probably won't have to fear for my life for that previous statement, which I really meant in jest.
For a different perspective, my wife works in the health care insurance industry. She backs Obama in every way except health care, which she considers an atrocity, costing thousands of jobs (think underwriters, which are now irrelevant) and stifling the insurance industry by limiting profits and causing investors to bail out. Many insurers have shut down rather than abide by the law. Less choices, more regulation. The worry I'd have about a national broadband network is similar, as government run monopolies like the post office are bloated bureaucratic entities. Also note that my voting does not reflect my wife's - if you can't balance your checkbook, you will never get my vote. Neither Obama nor Romney has shown any inclination to do this, and they are driving the world bank to adopt the renminbi [Chinese yuan] or something similar. How patriotic will you be when you have to buy money with a communist dictator [Mao] printed on it just to make international transactions?
Not that I like my personal broadband choices, as Comcast (an over-expensive government regulated monopoly that has the highest prices of alternatives that need to compete such as DirectTV or DISH) has a stake in all except CenturyLink, which is pretty damn big itself. As of 2 years ago, I can get Clear WiMax, but that is partially Comcast owned.
That said, I can understand Woz's frustration - I need to pay a regulated monopoly for any reasonably fast service (max is still 7Mbit for any alternative to Comcast, with a reasonably expected ~5Mbit actual speed, where Comcast can reach 100, albeit over token ring, so it depends on neighborhood load, and that is for a tightly packed first ring suburb with more than 50000 residents, but few businesses).
I have a friend that has a personal account and a pseudonym for her pen name as a published author. She absolutely does not want her real name and pen name combined, and only a few people know both (I've known it since I dated her best friend in high school).
What was probably meant is Light Water Reactor (LWR), which covers both PWRs and BWRs, and there is some semi-informed indications in there, as well - India is actually working on a thorium powered LWR, which is just as unsafe as typical LWRs. China is working on a LFTR, which can't melt down and has other inherent advantages like burning almost all of its fuel with little and short lived waste. The US continues to dump massive amounts of money (almost 1 trillion dollars last I checked) into Fast Breeder Reactors, which also are inherently unsafe, but maximize neutron efficiency (generate more power per fission). The sad thing is, the estimated cost to build a prototype LFTR is... 5 million dollars - less than a coal plant.
Thorium is an alpha emitting metal, not a salt. Perhaps you're thinking of the Fluoride salt used in liquid metal reactors (which can burn Thorium or Uranium).... or Potassium Iodide, as TheLink suggested (used to treat radiation exposure), lol.
True enough, and the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) was dissolved for the same problem the NRC is in today - they are in bed with the industry. Even in the mid-1980s, the industry considered the NRC a rubber stamp of approval for whatever they wanted to do, and it was proven before congress... and they did nothing about it. Gotta love regulatory commissions that exist strictly to deter other forms of reactors being implemented.
Which surprised me - you could say hypercard sent to a remote display is MUCH prior art.
Of course, there is nothing better for asking for a raise than leverage, and having another job offer is great leverage. Every time my company seems threatened by losing talented workers to other companies, they offer the person more to stay.
By the time you get to be a chef, you've probably got a good handle on how to make a lot of different things and don't need a recipe. I'm not a chef, but I can bake most pastries, breads, and pizza dough without a recipe and often don't even measure ingredients. A recipe is often bad - it gives you an idea, but it takes experience to know when a dough is too hard or soft, for instance, and that may be due to, say, eggs being slightly larger or smaller than the ones in the recipe.
I've also gotten to the point where I brew beer without a recipe, though I'm still a bit of a novice on all grain brews and look up timings. What's really funny is my beers have been a huge hit, even among non beer drinkers and I tend to make low hop brews (but even my 60 IBU ESB was a hit). My summer Saison was destroyed at a party in 30 minutes, and that was about 32 IBU (and 9% alcohol). A friend who loves hoppy brews brought a 90IBU IPA and still had half a 5 gallon keg left at the end of that party.
Yeah, but that isn't really Apple's fault - the recording industry is to blame - they demand DRM and single device installs as a condition for the music being sold on iTunes, and by sold I mean licensed for one user to listen to. The artist(s) that played on the recording usually don't even have the rights to the song - they require a (sometimes implicit) clause in their contract giving them a reciprocal license to perform it. I've never signed one with an implicit license (and my lawyer ensured it was in there), but I assume that it would put the recording artist at risk.
The license you get is for one copy of the song for one person to listen to. The physical media is not licensed - you can do whatever you want with it. US federal law gives you the right to make a single backup on any media you choose, unless the media is encrypted, in which case the DMCA gets in the way (which is why decryption copying of DVD and Blu-Ray, aka ripping, is illegal in the USA). Any additional people listening to the song hits an iffy situation - fair use vs public display - the latter you are supposed to pay for with a license. Playing covers at a party could easily be construed as a public display, and I did that without paying the RIAA tax, but I should have (not that I would have - I was broke and made little money or no for those gigs - I'm just giving the lay of the law).
None of the schools I attended had air. Summer school was always miserably hot (90-100F/upper 30s C wasn't uncommon), and we used fans and lots of water to get through it. That said, I never had summers off until Jr High School, though I went to camps that were essentially educational in Jr High (music, computer, etc). In Sr High I worked menial jobs during the summer so I could afford car insurance and gas during the school year. Had to learn how to seriously squirrel away money because my parents wouldn't let me work during the week during the school year and wouldn't let me have a balance on my credit card. Probably the best money lesson I ever learned. Wish I could teach the US government that.
Seriously, IPA is predominantly a recent fad. The reason India Pale Ales were created was so that they would survive the trip from Britain to India without refrigeration. Hops traditionally were used as a preservative - in fact, many beers brewed for immediate consumption didn't use them at all. Hops became more common for flavoring beer in the 1800s.
Oh, and to the pine needle flavor below, that was not an uncommon flavoring. There are still Belgian beers that have been brewed for hundreds of years that use them (some don't use hops, either).
You'd be surprised at how useful servers with GPUs are these days. When you're talking about clients like iPad and android devices, often the rendering is done server side and then sent to the client. A (CAD related) product I work on renders thumbnails using a server GPU. There is also a game service that does all rendering server side and sends it to a display (often a TV).
Depends on your BIOS protection, but yeah, if I do a complete wipe, I fdisk the drive (or gparted or whatever tool I have handy). There are also a couple of options if you don't wipe, like overwriting BIOS with the latest vendor BIOS (in most cases it will be out of date, anyway) - this often resets any changes to defaults, though some vendors these days have a non-default settings cache that doesn't get overwritten. Otherwise you could go do some MBR forensics, which is a lot of fun (er, not).
With fake AV, don't discount unpatched exploits - my wife's XP box got infected by fake Antivirus a couple of years ago and it installed itself without any interaction, even though the system was patched to the latest. When it popped up asking to install, I said task kill the browser and saw that she did, even with the OK/Cancel that all just install no matter which you click (and the X as well), but apparently the virus had already backdoored the installer and kicked itself off. It also grabbed several as-yet-unknown viruses before she was able to shut the machine down. I passed 35 unidentified rootkit and virus files and respective registry keys to the antivirus vendor resulting in 4 new virus variants (but no new strains), all of which were patched in the AV software the next day (and kudos to Trend Micro for getting a fast fix - I don't know for sure it was because of my sending it in, but I do know the viruses I found were in the new definitions). That one didn't come with a rootkit, but she got rootkitted once with an unknown rootkit as well, though that was entirely her fault (I sent that one to someone... I think MalwareBytes, which had not found it, but I saw its registry entry and typing the first few letters and tab auto-completed it in system32, so I knew it was hidden and used Linux to get it off - I didn't check to see if they patched it in, but I'm guessing they did).
Personally, I usually do it the hard way, starting with downloading the latest Linux-based live-rescue CD from an antivirus vendor. I then search the entire operating system by date for files modified, especially the system/system32 (or anything under Windows) directories, clean registry entries (often they try to start files that have been removed by antivirus), check the hosts file, check the browser's redirect entries in the registry, and after reboot into Windows, check the firewall and antivirus settings. I then do a port scan and a security check from my laptop (I've got pro tools for this from work, but I'm sure there are free tools) and then after reconnecting it to the internet, packet scan it for an hour or so to see if any. I have never seen a virus change the timestamp, but maybe now that I've mentioned it they will.
He is an idiot - we all know the flying spaghetti monster created us; there is unfalsifiable evidence of it, though we reject that dogma.
actually, they are all supposed to degenerate into anarchy, and always seem to degenerate to police state. And by anarchy, I mean no government, but an economic system in place and otherwise utopia.