Kickstarter is better for businesses because they can raise money without incurring debt or selling equity. The consumer takes the initial risk AND pays for the end product. Back in the good old days, if I invested money in a successful business I would get equity or interest income in return. Now I get a poster.
If every tax-avoiding individual/corporation posted a YouTube video flaunting all of the wealth they retained from legal tax avoidance, this might actually provoke a reaction from voters and a response from politicians. Intentional overpayment by any one entity (even Google) will not make any difference to public finances, and will only mollify the public and discourage reform. If Schmidt is in favor US tax reform, he is doing a great job. Now he just needs to get this story on the Google News front page, but good luck cracking that algorithm.
What's actually stopping them ripping out the hum entirely and replacing it with the hum of any arbitrary period of time?
It's not quite so easy to remove noise of this nature, especially if it exists across a broad frequency range. Professional recording engineers have been trying to remove noise from old recordings for decades, and it always has a noticeable effect on the music. I am no sound engineer, but I suspect that this is for two reasons: 1) the presence of the noise destroys some of the musical content, so removing the noise will leave a sonic hole in the recording which cannot be filled because the original musical content has been lost, and 2) our methods are simply not sophisticated enough to remove noise without also removing some music at the same time. I am using "noise" and "music" in this example, but this applies equally well to "hum" and "non-hum" in these police recordings. It is likely that removing a hum would leave a "ghost" fingerprint on the recording, especially if the hum exists at the same frequencies as human speech. TFA states that the frequency is 50Hz which is quite low (less than one octave above the lowest note on a piano), but there may be overtones that extend into the range of the human voice. Just as a trained musical recording engineer can tell if noise reduction techniques have been used on a recording, so a trained forensic expert could most likely tell that noise reduction techniques have been used on a police recording.
Now, if you could make a recording without ANY noise whatsoever, it would be trivial to add falsified noise in later. It might also be possible to add a loud falsified noise that would completely cover up a softer authentic noise. However, it would probably be easy to establish the expected noise level based on the known location of the recording.
For an excellent account of how a lack of privacy destroys socialization see "The Nazi Seizure of Power" by William Sheridan Allen. By subsuming all private social organizations under the Party's banner, the Nazis actually destroyed the social fabric of Germany. Although it seems counterintuitive at first, by destroying privacy you also destroy solidarity. Okay, so I'm proving Godwin's law, but it really is an excellent book!
A lot of other people can do the same job, and they will accept a low wage. Food is even more important than tech, but farm laborers make much less than tech workers.
Over the last several years, Microsoft has done much to close the gap in terms of performance, stability and security. What do you see as Ubuntu/Linux's primary selling points on the desktop now, as opposed to the early years of the Ubuntu project when Windows had significant problems in these areas?
I would love to disagree with you, but you're absolutely right. I could say that all of your problems have easy fixes, but they are only easy to me because I have already spent tons of time learning how to fix them. I switched to Linux back in 2004, when it really was better than Windows in many important ways. I had to spend a ton of time learning how to solve problems, but it was worth it to avoid Windows. Now, in 2012, Windows has solved its major issues while Linux has failed to progress much beyond where it was in 2004. I use Windows on all the workstations in my office, and it has been rock-solid for 5 years so far. I cannot remember one BSOD in that entire time. Performance, usability, and stability are all great. So the benefits of using Linux, for the average user, are becoming smaller and smaller compared to Windows. I have, however, migrated my office server to Linux because it handles backups and other server-type tasks in a more mature way. Let's hope it's as solid as our old Windows XP server, which ran without incident for 7 years.
Of course, MS has destroyed usability with Windows 8, but Linux desktops have all done the same thing with Unity etc.
I play FTL and Minecraft, both of which run natively on Linux. I do have a Windows HDD lying around with some shooters on it, but I haven't used it in months. If I ever get a hankering for Windows-only games, I'll just pop that HDD in my SATA dock, then boot back into Linux for everything else.
The website is promoting a graphic novel called "The Hinterland" about the artist/author's friendship with McAfee. Why would McAfee name his fugitive blog after a graphic novel? In addition, the post "Watchfulness" seems to border on the absurd, claiming that McAfee skulked around his property in disguise observing the police, who were actively searching for him at the time. He claims to have used several different disguises: "one day selling tamales and burritos that I had purchased wholesale from a real vendor, on another pretending to be a drunk German tourist with a partially bandaged face and wearing speedo swimming trunks and a distasteful, oversized Hawaiian shirt and yelling loudly at anyone who would listen – “Leck mich um ausch!”." If he actually hid from the police by wandering around his own property in a speedo yelling at people in German, then more power to him. But I don't believe it.
Schoenberg also lays out a theory of the development of the major scale based on "harmonicity" of overtones (as TFA puts it), in one of the first chapters of this book. He defines dissonance as combinations of tones which deviate from the natural pattern of overtones. This is interesting because it derives an aesthetic preference (consonance) from a natural phenomenon (the overtone series); this study appears to support his hypothesis. As the first commenter has already noted, this hypothesis goes back at least to Plato.
This is why Dante placed pride at the lowest level on the mountain of purgatory. In order to even begin to deal with your other faults, you have to conquer your pride enough to be able to see them.
I am a small business owner, writing this on my office computer running Windows XP. It has been completely stable and reliable for the last 4 years since I bought it, not "crashing" once, which is more than I can say for my Linux box at home. I will, however, be upgrading within a year because support is ending. We even have a "server" running XP which my father set up about 10 years ago, and which is still going strong, running 24/7 with no downtime that I can remember. I tried to replace it with a Linux box running Debian squeeze last week, but I got a kernel panic within 6 hours while running the first backup with duplicity. Go figure.
Yes, if you are staying in a city then a budget carrier like Virgin Mobile will be best in terms of price and service. I'm still paying $25/month, and I never have any reception problems in or around my city. When I go hiking in the woods I get no reception, but that is not a problem for me. Of course, if you need to have the latest, greatest phone and the best coverage outside of cities, then Virgin Mobile is a terrible choice. Unsurprisingly, it depends on your budget and your needs.
The lack of a helmet also helps to limit risky behavior.
By this logic, we should put small bombs on bicycles which explode if a crash is detected, assuring death to the cyclist. Everybody would be really careful then!
This drive's weight and its mass will be different due to the buoyancy of the helium in a sealed container. I wonder if the drives contain 690 grams of mass, or if their weight is the same as a non-buoyant 690-gram object (i.e. 6.77 newtons at sea level on Earth). The implication seems to be that the helium-filled drives contain more than 690 grams of mass, but weigh the same as a 690-gram object.
In my experience it's not necessary to use a fancy, expensive chair for a standing desk, since you will not be sitting in it for long stretches. I have been using a standing desk for over a year, and I sit on a tall wooden stool with a wooden back whenever my feet get tired. I find it helpful to rest my feet on an elevated surface (I use my desktop mini-tower) when sitting.
"Elsewhere it has been argued with success that Noah maintained the largest repository of animal DNA ever assembled in his "Ark". Researchers have concluded that Noah's greatest contribution was not the ark that he built with alien assistance but the monumental task of cloning every animal from the DNA samples which he saved and protected on the ark.
Interestingly, research has come to light in recent years that relates this cloning operation to the story of Ham and the uncovering of Noah's nakedness after Noah became drunk. Alternate theories abound. However students of scripture, archaeology, and crypto-history alike are coming to some definite conclusions about just what really happened to Noah and Ham after the flood.
Scholars working from papyrus and copper scrolls found at Qumran, Masada, and Megiddo had been able to piece together a basic account of just exactly what happened.
Noah was not cultivating grapes to get drunk. Noah was operating a sophisticated scientific operation designed to reconstitute animals from the DNA samples he posessed. Ham was a necessary participant. Through an ingenious scientific process lost to history. Ham would seed the DNA into Noah's body. Noah acted as an incubator for the animal zygotes until they reached a certain level of development. At that point they would be transferred to the uterus of a cow or antelope.
At any one time, a hundred or more zygotes were living free in Noah's abdomen. It was Ham's job to "impregnate" Noah with the cloned embryos as each batch was ready. What was unknown to Noah however was that Ham had saved DNA from a dubious source prior to the flood.
Prior to the flood, Ham had been in a homosexual relationship with a member of the Nephilim, the giants in the land for which God sent the flood in the first place. The Nephilim were fallen from heaven along with their leader Satan. Ham combined the DNA from himself and this Nephilim and produced a clone. This clone he introduced into the body of Noah. This is the sin of Ham.
No one is quite sure where these desendents are today. Several races have been accused of being the descendants of Ham over the years. Anyone from the blacks of Africa to the Jews of Germany. One thing is certain, the Nephilim still exist in a mutated form in our world today.
Most people who own houses already have people living there for free. They are called children. If you don't know how to do anything except live in someone else's house for free, you are a child: grow up.
The liability for a loss should fall on the party who is best able to protect against that loss. In the case of data security, the user is best able to secure her data. A software developer cannot control what type of data a user chooses to interface with its products. In this way, developers are similar to landlords. A landlord is not responsible for the property you bring into its building, because it cannot control what that property is. Instead, tenants are expected to get insurance on their own property based on its value. Similarly, data security liability will vary based on the type and amount of a user's data, not based on the type of software they are using. Insurance should be provided by insurance companies, not by software developers.
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Kickstarter is better for businesses because they can raise money without incurring debt or selling equity. The consumer takes the initial risk AND pays for the end product. Back in the good old days, if I invested money in a successful business I would get equity or interest income in return. Now I get a poster.
If every tax-avoiding individual/corporation posted a YouTube video flaunting all of the wealth they retained from legal tax avoidance, this might actually provoke a reaction from voters and a response from politicians. Intentional overpayment by any one entity (even Google) will not make any difference to public finances, and will only mollify the public and discourage reform. If Schmidt is in favor US tax reform, he is doing a great job. Now he just needs to get this story on the Google News front page, but good luck cracking that algorithm.
What's actually stopping them ripping out the hum entirely and replacing it with the hum of any arbitrary period of time?
It's not quite so easy to remove noise of this nature, especially if it exists across a broad frequency range. Professional recording engineers have been trying to remove noise from old recordings for decades, and it always has a noticeable effect on the music. I am no sound engineer, but I suspect that this is for two reasons: 1) the presence of the noise destroys some of the musical content, so removing the noise will leave a sonic hole in the recording which cannot be filled because the original musical content has been lost, and 2) our methods are simply not sophisticated enough to remove noise without also removing some music at the same time. I am using "noise" and "music" in this example, but this applies equally well to "hum" and "non-hum" in these police recordings. It is likely that removing a hum would leave a "ghost" fingerprint on the recording, especially if the hum exists at the same frequencies as human speech. TFA states that the frequency is 50Hz which is quite low (less than one octave above the lowest note on a piano), but there may be overtones that extend into the range of the human voice. Just as a trained musical recording engineer can tell if noise reduction techniques have been used on a recording, so a trained forensic expert could most likely tell that noise reduction techniques have been used on a police recording.
Now, if you could make a recording without ANY noise whatsoever, it would be trivial to add falsified noise in later. It might also be possible to add a loud falsified noise that would completely cover up a softer authentic noise. However, it would probably be easy to establish the expected noise level based on the known location of the recording.
For an excellent account of how a lack of privacy destroys socialization see "The Nazi Seizure of Power" by William Sheridan Allen. By subsuming all private social organizations under the Party's banner, the Nazis actually destroyed the social fabric of Germany. Although it seems counterintuitive at first, by destroying privacy you also destroy solidarity. Okay, so I'm proving Godwin's law, but it really is an excellent book!
At least we're not Anonymous Cowards!
A lot of other people can do the same job, and they will accept a low wage. Food is even more important than tech, but farm laborers make much less than tech workers.
Over the last several years, Microsoft has done much to close the gap in terms of performance, stability and security. What do you see as Ubuntu/Linux's primary selling points on the desktop now, as opposed to the early years of the Ubuntu project when Windows had significant problems in these areas?
I would love to disagree with you, but you're absolutely right. I could say that all of your problems have easy fixes, but they are only easy to me because I have already spent tons of time learning how to fix them. I switched to Linux back in 2004, when it really was better than Windows in many important ways. I had to spend a ton of time learning how to solve problems, but it was worth it to avoid Windows. Now, in 2012, Windows has solved its major issues while Linux has failed to progress much beyond where it was in 2004. I use Windows on all the workstations in my office, and it has been rock-solid for 5 years so far. I cannot remember one BSOD in that entire time. Performance, usability, and stability are all great. So the benefits of using Linux, for the average user, are becoming smaller and smaller compared to Windows. I have, however, migrated my office server to Linux because it handles backups and other server-type tasks in a more mature way. Let's hope it's as solid as our old Windows XP server, which ran without incident for 7 years.
Of course, MS has destroyed usability with Windows 8, but Linux desktops have all done the same thing with Unity etc.
I play FTL and Minecraft, both of which run natively on Linux. I do have a Windows HDD lying around with some shooters on it, but I haven't used it in months. If I ever get a hankering for Windows-only games, I'll just pop that HDD in my SATA dock, then boot back into Linux for everything else.
The website is promoting a graphic novel called "The Hinterland" about the artist/author's friendship with McAfee. Why would McAfee name his fugitive blog after a graphic novel? In addition, the post "Watchfulness" seems to border on the absurd, claiming that McAfee skulked around his property in disguise observing the police, who were actively searching for him at the time. He claims to have used several different disguises: "one day selling tamales and burritos that I had purchased wholesale from a real vendor, on another pretending to be a drunk German tourist with a partially bandaged face and wearing speedo swimming trunks and a distasteful, oversized Hawaiian shirt and yelling loudly at anyone who would listen – “Leck mich um ausch!”." If he actually hid from the police by wandering around his own property in a speedo yelling at people in German, then more power to him. But I don't believe it.
...that those dollars should not have been spent in vain!
Schoenberg also lays out a theory of the development of the major scale based on "harmonicity" of overtones (as TFA puts it), in one of the first chapters of this book. He defines dissonance as combinations of tones which deviate from the natural pattern of overtones. This is interesting because it derives an aesthetic preference (consonance) from a natural phenomenon (the overtone series); this study appears to support his hypothesis. As the first commenter has already noted, this hypothesis goes back at least to Plato.
I second this, the Zebra F-301 has been my favorite pen since high school. It seems to satisfy all of your critera, and is cheap to boot.
This is why Dante placed pride at the lowest level on the mountain of purgatory. In order to even begin to deal with your other faults, you have to conquer your pride enough to be able to see them.
I am a small business owner, writing this on my office computer running Windows XP. It has been completely stable and reliable for the last 4 years since I bought it, not "crashing" once, which is more than I can say for my Linux box at home. I will, however, be upgrading within a year because support is ending. We even have a "server" running XP which my father set up about 10 years ago, and which is still going strong, running 24/7 with no downtime that I can remember. I tried to replace it with a Linux box running Debian squeeze last week, but I got a kernel panic within 6 hours while running the first backup with duplicity. Go figure.
Yes, if you are staying in a city then a budget carrier like Virgin Mobile will be best in terms of price and service. I'm still paying $25/month, and I never have any reception problems in or around my city. When I go hiking in the woods I get no reception, but that is not a problem for me. Of course, if you need to have the latest, greatest phone and the best coverage outside of cities, then Virgin Mobile is a terrible choice. Unsurprisingly, it depends on your budget and your needs.
The lack of a helmet also helps to limit risky behavior.
By this logic, we should put small bombs on bicycles which explode if a crash is detected, assuring death to the cyclist. Everybody would be really careful then!
True, it's a purely academic point, but the fact remains: someone is wrong on the internet!
This drive's weight and its mass will be different due to the buoyancy of the helium in a sealed container. I wonder if the drives contain 690 grams of mass, or if their weight is the same as a non-buoyant 690-gram object (i.e. 6.77 newtons at sea level on Earth). The implication seems to be that the helium-filled drives contain more than 690 grams of mass, but weigh the same as a 690-gram object.
In my experience it's not necessary to use a fancy, expensive chair for a standing desk, since you will not be sitting in it for long stretches. I have been using a standing desk for over a year, and I sit on a tall wooden stool with a wooden back whenever my feet get tired. I find it helpful to rest my feet on an elevated surface (I use my desktop mini-tower) when sitting.
Here's irrefutable proof from fundamentalforms:
"Elsewhere it has been argued with success that Noah maintained the largest repository of animal DNA ever assembled in his "Ark". Researchers have concluded that Noah's greatest contribution was not the ark that he built with alien assistance but the monumental task of cloning every animal from the DNA samples which he saved and protected on the ark.
Interestingly, research has come to light in recent years that relates this cloning operation to the story of Ham and the uncovering of Noah's nakedness after Noah became drunk. Alternate theories abound. However students of scripture, archaeology, and crypto-history alike are coming to some definite conclusions about just what really happened to Noah and Ham after the flood.
Scholars working from papyrus and copper scrolls found at Qumran, Masada, and Megiddo had been able to piece together a basic account of just exactly what happened.
Noah was not cultivating grapes to get drunk. Noah was operating a sophisticated scientific operation designed to reconstitute animals from the DNA samples he posessed. Ham was a necessary participant. Through an ingenious scientific process lost to history. Ham would seed the DNA into Noah's body. Noah acted as an incubator for the animal zygotes until they reached a certain level of development. At that point they would be transferred to the uterus of a cow or antelope.
At any one time, a hundred or more zygotes were living free in Noah's abdomen. It was Ham's job to "impregnate" Noah with the cloned embryos as each batch was ready. What was unknown to Noah however was that Ham had saved DNA from a dubious source prior to the flood.
Prior to the flood, Ham had been in a homosexual relationship with a member of the Nephilim, the giants in the land for which God sent the flood in the first place. The Nephilim were fallen from heaven along with their leader Satan. Ham combined the DNA from himself and this Nephilim and produced a clone. This clone he introduced into the body of Noah. This is the sin of Ham.
No one is quite sure where these desendents are today. Several races have been accused of being the descendants of Ham over the years. Anyone from the blacks of Africa to the Jews of Germany. One thing is certain, the Nephilim still exist in a mutated form in our world today.
MLH "
There you have it: the case for paleocloning.
Clear works for sunscreen. We're blocking non-visible wavelengths, after all.
Most people who own houses already have people living there for free. They are called children. If you don't know how to do anything except live in someone else's house for free, you are a child: grow up.
The liability for a loss should fall on the party who is best able to protect against that loss. In the case of data security, the user is best able to secure her data. A software developer cannot control what type of data a user chooses to interface with its products. In this way, developers are similar to landlords. A landlord is not responsible for the property you bring into its building, because it cannot control what that property is. Instead, tenants are expected to get insurance on their own property based on its value. Similarly, data security liability will vary based on the type and amount of a user's data, not based on the type of software they are using. Insurance should be provided by insurance companies, not by software developers.
...capable of shooting at least one standard .22 caliber bullet...
Even if the gun explodes, you'll still get off at least one round.