It's a de-facto monopoly for my house. Can't get DSL (too far) and can't get FIOS (too rural for Verizon's attention, I assume). Heck, I can't even get satellite because I don't have clear LOS to it!
But I trust the FCC... they say I have other solutions...
If you read TFA, the statement from the vigilante's site says that many of these cameras are not even improving safety, and are actually hindering it. This has been the case for most implementations of camera-ticketing systems all around the world. Red Light Cameras were supposed to help reduce accidents, and they did - within the intersection itself. However, it increased the number of rear-end collisions just before the intersection.
The point is - these devices are not about safety. In fact, unreasonably low speed limits (such as those in the US) are rarely followed, and have nothing to do with safety either. The repeal of the USA's NSML proved this, when the same FUD-spreaders said there would be 6000+ new deaths per year because of that repeal - it didn't happen, and today the states that set REASONABLE (higher) speed limits are actually seeing reductions in accident rates.
I applaud the retaliation, though I don't necessarily agree with the method. However, it's clear that politicians don't listen to facts anyway, so maybe this is the only way to get through to them.
Which makes me ask another question: When you speak about medical issues, you always consult experts in the field, and rely on the facts from doctors. However, when it comes to basic statistics, everyone thinks they know better and they think their "common sense" trumps the real facts. Why is it that we consult experts for certain sciences, then turn around and use "common sense" to simply ignore other scientific facts? (That's a rhetorical question...)
Wrong.
My Comcast account (and my Yahoo mail account, and my wife's Hotmail account) ALL send spam email to a junk/spam email folder. This mailbox-sorting is voluntary to the user (not forced upon the user, like the issue at hand) and does nothing to "modify packets"...
In fact, I hate it when any company decides FOR me that a certain email is spam. They don't get it right ALL the time, so I need a way to recover from their mistake.
In any case, it's not packet modification... period.
I DON'T have CTS, and I've been typing and using computers since the ZX81 as well, about 25 years ago... damn I feel old.
I can tell you that I do feel aches and pains on the top of my right hand (opposite the palm) if I am using a mouse without a wrist-pad (I am right handed)... but as soon as I use a wrist pad on the keyboard and mouse (the mouse seems to affect me more) then I am fine, and the problems completely go away.
Exactly... Firewire400 works well for video streaming from a DV cam because it has very little overhead. Even though USB2 supposedly does 480Mbps, it can't do DV because there's too much overhead.
Bottom line is, unless USB3 gets rid of the CPU dependency and overhead issues, I won't like it. Sure, with a "ten times" the performance, this won't hinder DV, but that doesn't make it good.
I hope they make it systemically-efficient, instead of just ramping clock rates to reach these speeds.
True, but there are a few issues with your statement.
First off, the argument is that if they charge a FAIR price, people would rather pay for it than pirate it. Just because someone puts the entire HBO library on the internet doesn't mean that EVERYONE will download it. At a fair price, most people would rather pay for it and get a guaranteed "good" copy of the content. Apple's iTunes has proven this fact, since they are pulling in tons of money for 99c tracks (which the industry said was too low.)
Same goes for the cable industry - the reason so many people pirated it is because it's not a fair price. I pay over $40/month for BASIC cable from Adelphia (now Comcast, so I expect the rates to increase) and I get a crappy picture that is very apparent on my EDTV. It's not a matter of local hardware (all my wires are brand new, etc)... it's crappy signal from the head-end. They admitted this on at least a few channels, but say it's out of their control... BS.
I used to have digital cable (with one of their crappy boxes) and it was no better. I would see blocking artifacts when the signal would drop all day long, and all the time. And I get to pay more for that.
If you put out a quality product at a fair price, then there won't be any problems. When you try to say that you're going to lockdown your content (which is mostly crap these days anyway) because there is no DRM... who do you think is going to be the loser there? The pirates will ALWAYS find a way to circumvent the protection... and the customers trying to be legal will run into problems because of mistakes and bugs and other dumb issues. So, you lost the pirates, and you lost your customers. It really is that simple.
So don't bother spewing forth the propaganda that the **AA has been pitching. It's not about enabling the consumer... it's about greed. Period.
We Americans would be less conditioned to reject new taxes if we had any faith that the money from these taxes wouldn't be wasted on irrelevant or unrelated things. Heck, just look at this idea - where do you think the money will come from? Likely from unrelated and irrelevant taxation of something else.
And, even if someone does the math behind it and proves it won't work, do you think the government will listen to the logic? No, they'll just go ahead and do it anyway, because the politicians "believe" in it. Just look at the idiotic change in daylight savings time. For those that didn't know, it was supposed to magically save the country some amount of energy... well, it didn't... and they were told it wouldn't (see: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070403-the- daylight-savings-change-no-savings-no-point.html
But back to the original question - it's all about conservation of energy. This energy has to come from somewhere, and it will simply come from the cars. If it's not creating drag on the cars, then it's too far away to be affected by them... in which case, it's just an array of wind turbines using the planet's natural winds.
This is an idiotic idea devised by politicians who clearly know nothing about physics or science.
Mod this parent up!
Just what I was going to say - that there is some good research out there for how the prints last with OEM vs aftermarket prints. Bottom line is that the OEM prints simply last longer.
Beyond that, there's always the concern of clogging the printers (which I can tell you my parents regularly suffer, since they try to refill.) I never buy a refill, and buy OEM, and have never had a problem. For the amount of printing I do (once a week or so) it's well worth it. I mean, I might go through a cartidge once a year... is $20 a YEAR really that big of a deal?
Sure for those who print more, this is a problem... but then maybe you should worry about the amount of money you are spending on paper, too.
how many non-muslims have tried to blow up a plane?
Well, if you define "blow up" as hijackings, in general, as this is a terrorist activity as well, then check out the list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking Ok, I know Wikis aren't the best source of accurate information, but this type of info should stand the test of legitimacy.
1958 - Cuban militants
1970 - Russian hijacking by "refuseniks"
1971 - DB Cooper (a white guy?)
1972 - Russian hijacker "Miloslav Hrabinec"
1974 - Jewish "Samuel Byck"
1977 - German Red Army Faction?
1979 - Two East Germans "Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske"
Lest anyone think that only the early hijackers were non-Muslim, the more recent events include:
1995 - Two Iranians, who were possibly later identified as working for the Mossad, which is a Jewish organization
1996 - Ethiopians
1999 - Japanese Yuji Nishizawa
2000 - A jilted husband, Augusto Lacandula, presumable Filipino.
This last one (and the Ethiopians) are pretty telling - the point is that not only terrorists are involved in hijackings and such. ANYONE can be a hijacker... not just a Muslim.
Also note, speaking as a non-white who has often been "randomly selected"... many of these hijackers were also "white"...
Too bad this kid is just another one of the brainwashed masses following the IIHS and NHTSA. The FACT is, speed does NOT "kill" as people like to simplify. This has been proven when the National speed limit was repealed. All the "speed kills" masses said we would have thousands more highway fatalities... it didn't happen, and, in fact, highway fatalities have been reducing ever since.
It just pisses me off when a kid who knows too little (and is in it for the money, as he clearly states) gets publicity for being a lemming.
Exactly... they can see how many times you have skipped during the show, but without knowing when a commercial starts and stops, it's hard to say what the viewer was actually skipping (or not skipping).
The Superbowl nipslip event was probably manually "interpreted" to see when during the show this happened. Doing this manually for all the shows on all the networks would hurt. Looks like they now have automation to do this for them.
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It's a de-facto monopoly for my house. Can't get DSL (too far) and can't get FIOS (too rural for Verizon's attention, I assume). Heck, I can't even get satellite because I don't have clear LOS to it! But I trust the FCC... they say I have other solutions...
If you read TFA, the statement from the vigilante's site says that many of these cameras are not even improving safety, and are actually hindering it. This has been the case for most implementations of camera-ticketing systems all around the world. Red Light Cameras were supposed to help reduce accidents, and they did - within the intersection itself. However, it increased the number of rear-end collisions just before the intersection.
The point is - these devices are not about safety. In fact, unreasonably low speed limits (such as those in the US) are rarely followed, and have nothing to do with safety either. The repeal of the USA's NSML proved this, when the same FUD-spreaders said there would be 6000+ new deaths per year because of that repeal - it didn't happen, and today the states that set REASONABLE (higher) speed limits are actually seeing reductions in accident rates.
I applaud the retaliation, though I don't necessarily agree with the method. However, it's clear that politicians don't listen to facts anyway, so maybe this is the only way to get through to them.
Which makes me ask another question: When you speak about medical issues, you always consult experts in the field, and rely on the facts from doctors. However, when it comes to basic statistics, everyone thinks they know better and they think their "common sense" trumps the real facts. Why is it that we consult experts for certain sciences, then turn around and use "common sense" to simply ignore other scientific facts? (That's a rhetorical question...)
Wrong. My Comcast account (and my Yahoo mail account, and my wife's Hotmail account) ALL send spam email to a junk/spam email folder. This mailbox-sorting is voluntary to the user (not forced upon the user, like the issue at hand) and does nothing to "modify packets"... In fact, I hate it when any company decides FOR me that a certain email is spam. They don't get it right ALL the time, so I need a way to recover from their mistake. In any case, it's not packet modification... period.
I DON'T have CTS, and I've been typing and using computers since the ZX81 as well, about 25 years ago... damn I feel old. I can tell you that I do feel aches and pains on the top of my right hand (opposite the palm) if I am using a mouse without a wrist-pad (I am right handed)... but as soon as I use a wrist pad on the keyboard and mouse (the mouse seems to affect me more) then I am fine, and the problems completely go away.
Exactly... Firewire400 works well for video streaming from a DV cam because it has very little overhead. Even though USB2 supposedly does 480Mbps, it can't do DV because there's too much overhead. Bottom line is, unless USB3 gets rid of the CPU dependency and overhead issues, I won't like it. Sure, with a "ten times" the performance, this won't hinder DV, but that doesn't make it good. I hope they make it systemically-efficient, instead of just ramping clock rates to reach these speeds.
True, but there are a few issues with your statement.
First off, the argument is that if they charge a FAIR price, people would rather pay for it than pirate it. Just because someone puts the entire HBO library on the internet doesn't mean that EVERYONE will download it. At a fair price, most people would rather pay for it and get a guaranteed "good" copy of the content. Apple's iTunes has proven this fact, since they are pulling in tons of money for 99c tracks (which the industry said was too low.)
Same goes for the cable industry - the reason so many people pirated it is because it's not a fair price. I pay over $40/month for BASIC cable from Adelphia (now Comcast, so I expect the rates to increase) and I get a crappy picture that is very apparent on my EDTV. It's not a matter of local hardware (all my wires are brand new, etc)... it's crappy signal from the head-end. They admitted this on at least a few channels, but say it's out of their control... BS.
I used to have digital cable (with one of their crappy boxes) and it was no better. I would see blocking artifacts when the signal would drop all day long, and all the time. And I get to pay more for that.
If you put out a quality product at a fair price, then there won't be any problems. When you try to say that you're going to lockdown your content (which is mostly crap these days anyway) because there is no DRM... who do you think is going to be the loser there? The pirates will ALWAYS find a way to circumvent the protection... and the customers trying to be legal will run into problems because of mistakes and bugs and other dumb issues. So, you lost the pirates, and you lost your customers. It really is that simple.
So don't bother spewing forth the propaganda that the **AA has been pitching. It's not about enabling the consumer... it's about greed. Period.
We Americans would be less conditioned to reject new taxes if we had any faith that the money from these taxes wouldn't be wasted on irrelevant or unrelated things. Heck, just look at this idea - where do you think the money will come from? Likely from unrelated and irrelevant taxation of something else.
- daylight-savings-change-no-savings-no-point.html
And, even if someone does the math behind it and proves it won't work, do you think the government will listen to the logic? No, they'll just go ahead and do it anyway, because the politicians "believe" in it. Just look at the idiotic change in daylight savings time. For those that didn't know, it was supposed to magically save the country some amount of energy... well, it didn't... and they were told it wouldn't (see: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070403-the
But back to the original question - it's all about conservation of energy. This energy has to come from somewhere, and it will simply come from the cars. If it's not creating drag on the cars, then it's too far away to be affected by them... in which case, it's just an array of wind turbines using the planet's natural winds.
This is an idiotic idea devised by politicians who clearly know nothing about physics or science.
Mod this parent up! Just what I was going to say - that there is some good research out there for how the prints last with OEM vs aftermarket prints. Bottom line is that the OEM prints simply last longer. Beyond that, there's always the concern of clogging the printers (which I can tell you my parents regularly suffer, since they try to refill.) I never buy a refill, and buy OEM, and have never had a problem. For the amount of printing I do (once a week or so) it's well worth it. I mean, I might go through a cartidge once a year... is $20 a YEAR really that big of a deal? Sure for those who print more, this is a problem... but then maybe you should worry about the amount of money you are spending on paper, too.
I used to have a few of the old http://www.radioshack.com/ kits that served me pretty well. They have a newer version of my old one here: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?produc tId=2102913&cp=2032062.2032398.2032405&parentPage= family and from the reviews, it seems to be pretty good. The "details" of the listing at the site seems to tout a good manual, too, written by the author referenced in the previous post...
how many non-muslims have tried to blow up a plane? Well, if you define "blow up" as hijackings, in general, as this is a terrorist activity as well, then check out the list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking Ok, I know Wikis aren't the best source of accurate information, but this type of info should stand the test of legitimacy. 1958 - Cuban militants 1970 - Russian hijacking by "refuseniks" 1971 - DB Cooper (a white guy?) 1972 - Russian hijacker "Miloslav Hrabinec" 1974 - Jewish "Samuel Byck" 1977 - German Red Army Faction? 1979 - Two East Germans "Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske" Lest anyone think that only the early hijackers were non-Muslim, the more recent events include: 1995 - Two Iranians, who were possibly later identified as working for the Mossad, which is a Jewish organization 1996 - Ethiopians 1999 - Japanese Yuji Nishizawa 2000 - A jilted husband, Augusto Lacandula, presumable Filipino. This last one (and the Ethiopians) are pretty telling - the point is that not only terrorists are involved in hijackings and such. ANYONE can be a hijacker... not just a Muslim. Also note, speaking as a non-white who has often been "randomly selected"... many of these hijackers were also "white"...
Too bad this kid is just another one of the brainwashed masses following the IIHS and NHTSA. The FACT is, speed does NOT "kill" as people like to simplify. This has been proven when the National speed limit was repealed. All the "speed kills" masses said we would have thousands more highway fatalities... it didn't happen, and, in fact, highway fatalities have been reducing ever since. It just pisses me off when a kid who knows too little (and is in it for the money, as he clearly states) gets publicity for being a lemming.
Exactly... they can see how many times you have skipped during the show, but without knowing when a commercial starts and stops, it's hard to say what the viewer was actually skipping (or not skipping). The Superbowl nipslip event was probably manually "interpreted" to see when during the show this happened. Doing this manually for all the shows on all the networks would hurt. Looks like they now have automation to do this for them.