I beg to differ. The tablet is the key to the paperless office that people have been talking about for years now. While it makes little sense for a stationary position where you're in the same cubicle for the majority of the day it is a convenient reference source that for technicians, great for presentations, and great for throwing into a briefcase for use with a remote desktop application instead of traveling with a laptop.
Tablets are not new but they are finding real places in business. Their niche is much harder to see than in the consumer market that is all.
The founders (at least Robert Shapiro) are lawyers so there is at least some basis for these to be legit. I've used Legal Zoom in the past and it appears they do have lawyers, either in house or contracted, for each state but I can't speak from a position of authority on how their company is structured.
The reason I hadn't moved back to Debian (I was there before Ubuntu) was because I liked many of the things Ubuntu had done that weren't always compatible with Debian and the more "complete" out of the box experience for desktop users. If that's changing then there is definitely a reason for me to explore Debian again.
Two main ways it works and I'll try to post a reference or two at the bottom but basically there are several forms of mercury. Some of which are highly toxic and some that are basically inert. The mercury in a CFL is actually bound to the glass over the life of the bulb. CFL's generally contain about 4mg of mercury (some are as low as 1mg but my numbers all assume 4mg) about 10% of remains unconstrained. If you recycle the bulb properly there is little to no environmental release of that mercury.
The largest difference though it when you consider the source of the electricity powering the bulb. As I said YMMV but in the U.S. the average mercury emission is about.012mg/kWh. Over the life of a bulb (about 8000 hours for a CFL) that amounts quite a bit. There is about a 4mg per bulb advantage to the CFL. If 100% of the mercury remained toxic and you used a bulb with 4mg it would only be about 0.3mg better to use the CFL. That also doesn't account for other pollutants that may be released with the extra electricity.
If mercury in CFL's is a concern it may be heartening for you to know that using a CFL actually causes less mercury to be released into the environment over the lifetime of the bulb. That is also if you throw it in the trash and DO NOT recycle it. YMMV depending upon the exact source of your electricity but that holds true for the average bulb using average electricity in the United States.
Strangely this is one of the clearest cut uses of the commerce clause I've seen recently. They're regulating the efficiency of products sold across state lines. In theory (theory because I doubt it will ever be put into practice) if these bulbs were made in State A and only sold in State A then the feds would have much less to say.
Of course Article 1 Section 8 probably could be argued to apply as well.
I liked Ubuntu and have used it since they're second or third release. Unfortunately they've moved in a different direction from what I would like and with GNOME seemingly following suit I have started exploring the other options out there. I have a fairly short list of requirements (apt and not RHEL based). It really seems that I keep coming back to Ubuntu or a flavor there of. I'm not a huge KDE fan but I'm starting to realize that the parts I don't like are minor additions that are easily replaced. I personally find their networking and package management defaults lacking.
My conclusion has been that Ubuntu is still my default install of choice, I just unfortunately have to "fix" it, no matter what flavor I choose.
I know for you it is a matter of semantics but there are ways to make those same types of lights more efficient. So restricting one of the most inefficient and wasteful uses of electricity isn't a bad thing, it saves money and resources and decreases pollution. Of course if you actually knew anything about what you were talking about beyond one tiny nugget of (mis)information you would already know that.
The difference here at least is it looks like they navigate the phone system and stay on hold for you as opposed to directly dialing an agent. The visual directory as part of VOIP may be nice especially in an enterprise environment where they're not trying to screen people into hanging up.
While being a typical anarchist dream that from chaos will rise a better order the very idea would be nigh on impossible for a government to accomplish much less a group such as LulSec. I don't think you quite realize how many different places consumer debt is reported to outside a company much less how many different places it is tracked internally. That is all before they look at risk mitigation or selling the debt...
Without judging your ideas or goals I think you need to find a different method to accomplish them.
It seems I hit a nerve but CFTM addressed most of your post allowing to me to address the one very minor point you raised that had some merit but had almost absolutely nothing to do with my post.
A DDoS attack exposes a weakness, not necessarily a security vulnerability. You'll notice I used weakness in my post as well as calling some of their attacks irrelevant. Perhaps I should have been more clear.
The DDoS attacks, which are a very small part of what they have done, are stupid, pointless, and don't really accomplish much of value other than generate publicity. Exposing the security vulnerabilities of multiple organizations by most accounts has taken significant amounts of skill. I'm glad they're exposing these vulnerabilities, if not necessarily how, because it means these places have likely already been compromised before by people with more sinister motives.
So you effectively took a couple minor actions by the group and extrapolated it to mean that nothing they could do would take skill or have meaning.
That would be vastly beyond their ability to accomplish. They may be able to erase a record in one place but they would have to have complete control over the entire network, including back-ups (on-line, off-line, on-site, and remote), as well as physical access to all of the paper work (which is required to exist in a hard copy or ROM state). So not only is that well beyond their capabilities but it would effectively destroy the foundations of large parts of the economy as you arbitrarily remove balance from the system.
Being Robin Hood is great in theory but can cause tremendous damage if done on any sort of scale.
While you're vision is pretty this whole thing will have to get much bigger much more damaging if you think you can drive back corporate and government control of the networks. Especially when you consider who OWNS the wires (tubes if you will) that these networks run on. What percentage of the connections are owned by the corporations and government you're advocating against?
The free internet we grew up with no longer exists and hasn't existed for years. You are just now beginning to see through the veil. Geek shall inherit the earth the same way every generation has, by becoming "The Man" and holding the chains that bind.
Hack the Planet is a pretty ideal but it is too little too late, and it might have always been.
If there is no skill in what they do then what does that say about the companies and organizations that they're compromising?
1) They're exposing weaknesses (some of which are irrelevant) in organizations and their security. Which if it takes no skill then what they hell are they paying the "security" guys for? 2)They're doing it in a highly visible and sensationalistic way.
I think they will accomplish more to getting IT security taken seriously than any other method to date has. I don't necessarily like their methods or how they choose they're targets but I think they will be quite successful at scaring the pants out of complacent or ignorant CEOs. It honestly sounds to me like you're angry that they're doing it and you aren't, either because you can't or they're doing it better.
No they won't unfortunately. Those guys died off a long time ago since they were told all they had to do was die basically. The ones that are left are jaded and lack the fanatical conviction to just die already.
1) Freakonomics is a collections of observations on a subject. 2) Economy is a complex system 3) Donald Duck would be a particular specimen 4) Ornithology is a field of study
Now I think I get what you were TRYING for but you obviously don't understand the basic concepts much less how they relate to each other.
Next time try something along the lines of Freakonomics is to Economics as the Origin of Species is to Biology. That comparison would at least be apples to apples (though a bit exaggerated obviously) as opposed to comparing watermelons to motorcycles.
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I thought it was a clever attempt at humor... then I realized that timothy would have to be really bad at math for that...
I beg to differ. The tablet is the key to the paperless office that people have been talking about for years now. While it makes little sense for a stationary position where you're in the same cubicle for the majority of the day it is a convenient reference source that for technicians, great for presentations, and great for throwing into a briefcase for use with a remote desktop application instead of traveling with a laptop.
Tablets are not new but they are finding real places in business. Their niche is much harder to see than in the consumer market that is all.
The founders (at least Robert Shapiro) are lawyers so there is at least some basis for these to be legit. I've used Legal Zoom in the past and it appears they do have lawyers, either in house or contracted, for each state but I can't speak from a position of authority on how their company is structured.
The reason I hadn't moved back to Debian (I was there before Ubuntu) was because I liked many of the things Ubuntu had done that weren't always compatible with Debian and the more "complete" out of the box experience for desktop users. If that's changing then there is definitely a reason for me to explore Debian again.
Two main ways it works and I'll try to post a reference or two at the bottom but basically there are several forms of mercury. Some of which are highly toxic and some that are basically inert. The mercury in a CFL is actually bound to the glass over the life of the bulb. CFL's generally contain about 4mg of mercury (some are as low as 1mg but my numbers all assume 4mg) about 10% of remains unconstrained. If you recycle the bulb properly there is little to no environmental release of that mercury.
The largest difference though it when you consider the source of the electricity powering the bulb. As I said YMMV but in the U.S. the average mercury emission is about .012mg/kWh. Over the life of a bulb (about 8000 hours for a CFL) that amounts quite a bit. There is about a 4mg per bulb advantage to the CFL. If 100% of the mercury remained toxic and you used a bulb with 4mg it would only be about 0.3mg better to use the CFL. That also doesn't account for other pollutants that may be released with the extra electricity.
While not necessarily an unbiased source they're numbers can be verified independently:
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf
If mercury in CFL's is a concern it may be heartening for you to know that using a CFL actually causes less mercury to be released into the environment over the lifetime of the bulb. That is also if you throw it in the trash and DO NOT recycle it. YMMV depending upon the exact source of your electricity but that holds true for the average bulb using average electricity in the United States.
Strangely this is one of the clearest cut uses of the commerce clause I've seen recently. They're regulating the efficiency of products sold across state lines. In theory (theory because I doubt it will ever be put into practice) if these bulbs were made in State A and only sold in State A then the feds would have much less to say.
Of course Article 1 Section 8 probably could be argued to apply as well.
I liked Ubuntu and have used it since they're second or third release. Unfortunately they've moved in a different direction from what I would like and with GNOME seemingly following suit I have started exploring the other options out there. I have a fairly short list of requirements (apt and not RHEL based). It really seems that I keep coming back to Ubuntu or a flavor there of. I'm not a huge KDE fan but I'm starting to realize that the parts I don't like are minor additions that are easily replaced. I personally find their networking and package management defaults lacking.
My conclusion has been that Ubuntu is still my default install of choice, I just unfortunately have to "fix" it, no matter what flavor I choose.
Or most of the 2010+ Ford Fusions... Of course that transmission was a joint venture with GM.
And from my limited experience with the Rangers the manuals hold up pretty well.
Hey maybe he'll get lucky and the engine will be rock solid... The transmission on the other hand...
I know for you it is a matter of semantics but there are ways to make those same types of lights more efficient. So restricting one of the most inefficient and wasteful uses of electricity isn't a bad thing, it saves money and resources and decreases pollution. Of course if you actually knew anything about what you were talking about beyond one tiny nugget of (mis)information you would already know that.
That makes correcting the flaws in humanity they represent relatively easy. Take away their food.
Cue Florian trying to spin this with more blatant lies and misinformation!
Imagine how much more bandwidth they could oversell! Just imagine the possibilities! It's a win-win!
The difference here at least is it looks like they navigate the phone system and stay on hold for you as opposed to directly dialing an agent. The visual directory as part of VOIP may be nice especially in an enterprise environment where they're not trying to screen people into hanging up.
Those must be dentures then!
While being a typical anarchist dream that from chaos will rise a better order the very idea would be nigh on impossible for a government to accomplish much less a group such as LulSec. I don't think you quite realize how many different places consumer debt is reported to outside a company much less how many different places it is tracked internally. That is all before they look at risk mitigation or selling the debt...
Without judging your ideas or goals I think you need to find a different method to accomplish them.
It seems I hit a nerve but CFTM addressed most of your post allowing to me to address the one very minor point you raised that had some merit but had almost absolutely nothing to do with my post.
A DDoS attack exposes a weakness, not necessarily a security vulnerability. You'll notice I used weakness in my post as well as calling some of their attacks irrelevant. Perhaps I should have been more clear.
The DDoS attacks, which are a very small part of what they have done, are stupid, pointless, and don't really accomplish much of value other than generate publicity. Exposing the security vulnerabilities of multiple organizations by most accounts has taken significant amounts of skill. I'm glad they're exposing these vulnerabilities, if not necessarily how, because it means these places have likely already been compromised before by people with more sinister motives.
So you effectively took a couple minor actions by the group and extrapolated it to mean that nothing they could do would take skill or have meaning.
It doesn't. There is probably more and better sources that mysteriously got left out of the summary per usual practice.
That would be vastly beyond their ability to accomplish. They may be able to erase a record in one place but they would have to have complete control over the entire network, including back-ups (on-line, off-line, on-site, and remote), as well as physical access to all of the paper work (which is required to exist in a hard copy or ROM state). So not only is that well beyond their capabilities but it would effectively destroy the foundations of large parts of the economy as you arbitrarily remove balance from the system.
Being Robin Hood is great in theory but can cause tremendous damage if done on any sort of scale.
While you're vision is pretty this whole thing will have to get much bigger much more damaging if you think you can drive back corporate and government control of the networks. Especially when you consider who OWNS the wires (tubes if you will) that these networks run on. What percentage of the connections are owned by the corporations and government you're advocating against?
The free internet we grew up with no longer exists and hasn't existed for years. You are just now beginning to see through the veil. Geek shall inherit the earth the same way every generation has, by becoming "The Man" and holding the chains that bind.
Hack the Planet is a pretty ideal but it is too little too late, and it might have always been.
If there is no skill in what they do then what does that say about the companies and organizations that they're compromising?
1) They're exposing weaknesses (some of which are irrelevant) in organizations and their security. Which if it takes no skill then what they hell are they paying the "security" guys for?
2)They're doing it in a highly visible and sensationalistic way.
I think they will accomplish more to getting IT security taken seriously than any other method to date has. I don't necessarily like their methods or how they choose they're targets but I think they will be quite successful at scaring the pants out of complacent or ignorant CEOs. It honestly sounds to me like you're angry that they're doing it and you aren't, either because you can't or they're doing it better.
There are only two states with more gay couples than Texas so...
No they won't unfortunately. Those guys died off a long time ago since they were told all they had to do was die basically. The ones that are left are jaded and lack the fanatical conviction to just die already.
You fail in so many ways.
1) Freakonomics is a collections of observations on a subject.
2) Economy is a complex system
3) Donald Duck would be a particular specimen
4) Ornithology is a field of study
Now I think I get what you were TRYING for but you obviously don't understand the basic concepts much less how they relate to each other.
Next time try something along the lines of Freakonomics is to Economics as the Origin of Species is to Biology. That comparison would at least be apples to apples (though a bit exaggerated obviously) as opposed to comparing watermelons to motorcycles.