Normally I wouldn't bother replying to someone who considers me stupid for having a different opinion but WTF...
From an article on solar power:
"...By the late 1970s, Exxon, Mobil, Arco, and other oil companies had bought out many patents for the photovoltaic cells that collect sunlight and convert it to electricity, prompting consumer watchdogs like Ralph Nader to sound the alarm that companies with vested interests in "hard" energy were in position to smother "soft" innovations. An investigation by the Center for Renewable Resources, an environmental advocacy group, found no evidence of a systematic oil industry effort to suppress solar power, but those involved in the alternative energy movement knew the energy industry was worried about the sun's potential..."
Tell me that Big Oil wasn't trying to stifle anything...
From the same article:
"Even after the oil crisis, most federal research targeted nonrenewable energy sources. According to a recent analysis by the Congressional Research Service, 77 cents of every energy research dollar from 1973 to 1997 went to nuclear and fossil fuels. Only 14 cents went to alternative energy, and the remaining 9 cents supported energy conservation."
Another article states:
"Despite being relegated to the back burner by both government and industry, small-scale technologies are viable and continue to develop."
"Although many congressional leaders are now calling for immediate action to reduce gasoline prices, they have blocked efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce oil consumption. In the last two years, Congress has significantly under-funded the Administration's proposals to:
Fund research for energy conservation, solar and renewable energy, by 20% less than requested in FY 2000,or $273 million for FY' '99 and 2000;
Provide tax efficient vehicles and other products, the use of renewable energy, and clean renewable electricity production, by 98% less than requested in FY 2000, and by 100% less than in FY '99, when Congress provided no funding. Those decreases represent $7.1 billion for the two years, and;
There was an effort made in the Senate last year led by Sen. Jim Jeffords (R-VT) to add $62 million to solar and renewable energy programs, but it was defeated."
Very true... but it's not the people's unwillingness to give up on oil. It's been the oil companies in the past and even still, lobbying the governments to stiffle alternate energy source research because it would drive them out of business. Funds for research into these alternate energies are greatly limited by these efforts of the patrolium companies. We could be and should be many years ahead with solar and nuclear and the like technologies if it were not for the greed of these companies.
...about 2 months ago at a visualization conference in Boston. You can get these in a touch panel as well. Great for heads-up-display interaction. Also, depending on how hard you press you can send the windows between the front and back pannel. Beats minimizing your window when you don't need it for a moment but would still like to see information displayed on it.
...the article didn't say anything about putting the UltimateTV technology into the Xbox. It just said they were moving people around to other Microsoft groups instead of axing the whole lot of them.
He's not going to defend the owner of microsoftsucks.com, but he will give you microsoft.comsucks.net for free. Which he will defend since he owns the comsucks.net domain. He would be a brave sole to defend all the "sucks" sites out there for free...
Question though, the article states that "Harvilla promises to fight the owner's case in court. '...and we have the resources to fight a case, where (siteowners) don't...' but I didn't see where it said he would do that for free... I assume (like everyone else here) that he would since he is the true owner of the name but where's he getting the $$$ to do this? Wouldn't he be to preoccupied making the cash with other cases to devote productive free time to this cause?
I interned at the company I currently work for while I was in college. We usually got together Wednesday through Sunday to do something. Wednesday was ladies night at a local bar, Thursday was wing night at another bar, Friday and Saturday usually depended on where a good band was playing and Sunday a bunch of us would get together for a movie or something. What was cool was the group that usually went out ranged from 10-20 people. About half were interns and the rest were full time people from here.
I left after graduation to work for a major player in the industry. I kind of expected the same kind of social situation when I got there. I figured 50 new hires starting, all straight out of college, not ready to wind down yet... Boy was I mistaken... There were a few people that would get together weekly to play drinking games at someone's house and once in a while we could organize a larger group for a road trip to 6 Flaggs or something but wow! What lamers!
I left and returned here after about a year and a half. Partly because the social situation sucked and partly because the work here is much cooler. The group here that goes out is a little smaller. Some have gotten married since before, others have left but we still do wings on Thursday and Clubs Friday and Saturday. We have a mailing list at yahoo we use to organize events which now has grown to about 40 members and is no longer limited to just this company but others around town.
The company I work for does R&D in Virtual Reallity (among other things). Which is way cool. The company is very laid back. I play bass in a metal band and was hired w/ long ass hair. (Well, not ass hair... you know what I mean:-) The hair's gone now but that should give an idea of the atmosphere around here.
I try to keep up on topics like this but unfortunately, I don't always have the time.:-(
My question is, has anyone ever done a study on how much more SPAM there would be without things like MAPS & ORBS? Are they really that effective? I still get an insane amount of spam from *insert random chars here*@msn.com. But then they are not really geared to block that kind of SPAM. Or are they?
This is an invasion of our privacy. No one is going to let anyone snoop around on our hard drives without our permission. They might as well say they give them permission to enter my home uninvited and dig around in my underwear drawer.
I doubt they would be very discriminating if they were actually able to do this. Besides the fact that I rip my own CD's, I play in a band and we do our recording using free ProTools and other programs. Not that I would be stupid enough to not back up my work but wouldn't something like this enable them to leave a trojan behind that just goes around deleting mp3s. I doubt they would actually check every mp3 for some fingerprint that indicates it is copyrighted. If they went around and started to delete some of my shit, I think I'd get pretty pissed!
Since we do our own recording, it doesn't cost us anything but our time. But it is a lot of time... I would value in excess of $5000. And would I be able to sue... Hell no. I don't have that kind of money laying around for lawyers...
God, I'm scared now! Doesn't this constitue terrorism?
Is it possible to successfully convince lawmakers that mandatory backdoors in encryption software will never work? To me, ideas like this are just absurd. Just like gun control laws. They have absolutly no effect on criminals and only serve to hurt law abiding citizens. Just as the gun control laws are not going to prevent a criminal from obtaining a gun, government backdoors are not going to prevent the bin Ladin's out there from using strong encryption. While a criminal mind is at work, they are not going to stop and say, "Gee we better not break the law and use the encryption that the U.S. government has a key to and we better post our images with the 'this image contains a secret message' label."
These displays are bulky, heavy and take up way too much room. Something like this plasma display would be great. Unfortunately, they still don't have the refresh rate to do stereo very well yet.:-(
"If cryptography is outlawed only the outlaws will have cryptography."
Outlawing encryption is not going to stop people from using it for some malicious purpose. Outlawing guns is not going to stop armed robbery. Outlawing nuclear technology is not going to stop the bomb.
It really doesn't matter what you create/invent/discover scientifically or technologically, people will find a way to use it to kill people. And the governments of the world are the biggest example of this. One of the first applications of a new technology is how can it be applied to the military. I mean, what was one of the first uses of nuclear technology?
What is the question here? Should we not perform any scientific research? Should we not improve our technology? Or, if we do, should we just not share it with anyone? (Including ourselves, there are of course spies and criminals among us.) If that's the case, how could anyone benefit from it?
To not strive forward with technology because evil-doers might use it is absurd! Even though technology is used by a select few to harm others, the benefits far outweigh the unfortunate "evil that men do."
War. Here. Against us. Here's what's gonna happen. We are gonna find out who did this and fuck their shit up. That will be done over there (wherever they are). The existing terrorist cells here in the states are going to retalliate and start fucking shit up here. This is not going to be the end at all. If anyone thinks that a few campaigns over seas is going to stop anything, they are very naive. We are just at the beginning... and this will be fought here.
Dude, get over your damn self. Considering the situation, Bush did an excellent job. A war has broken out on our soil for Christ's sake! Wake up! The people needed to hear from our Commander in Chief. His speach might have been short but it was not useless and unempathetic. That speach wasn't intended to provide us with useful information or a plan of attack. It was intended to let us all know that the president was aware of this situation and starting procedures to handle things. BTW, every president has read off a teleprompter or some equivalent. You get up in front of the entire country after a situation like this, compose yourself and ad-lib a speech that tries to console the American public and not sound like an idiot. You've got to sound like you know what you are talking about. Here's a thought... next time a terrorist attacks us, let's make sure they warn us in advance so the President can have time to rehearse his speech.
I think the RIAA is at fault for recording and selling music. After all, if they didn't record it, it would never have made it to MP3.com, never been downloaded, and never been posted to Napster.
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From an article on solar power:
"...By the late 1970s, Exxon, Mobil, Arco, and other oil companies had bought out many patents for the photovoltaic cells that collect sunlight and convert it to electricity, prompting consumer watchdogs like Ralph Nader to sound the alarm that companies with vested interests in "hard" energy were in position to smother "soft" innovations. An investigation by the Center for Renewable Resources, an environmental advocacy group, found no evidence of a systematic oil industry effort to suppress solar power, but those involved in the alternative energy movement knew the energy industry was worried about the sun's potential..."
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http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA00/sola
Tell me that Big Oil wasn't trying to stifle anything...
From the same article:
"Even after the oil crisis, most federal research targeted nonrenewable energy sources. According to a recent analysis by the Congressional Research Service, 77 cents of every energy research dollar from 1973 to 1997 went to nuclear and fossil fuels. Only 14 cents went to alternative energy, and the remaining 9 cents supported energy conservation."
Another article states:
"Despite being relegated to the back burner by both government and industry, small-scale technologies are viable and continue to develop."
Read more...
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/ 04/mm0492_07.html.
"Although many congressional leaders are now calling for immediate action to reduce gasoline prices, they have blocked efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce oil consumption. In the last two years, Congress has significantly under-funded the Administration's proposals to:
There was an effort made in the Senate last year led by Sen. Jim Jeffords (R-VT) to add $62 million to solar and renewable energy programs, but it was defeated."
http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlands/arctic/crudeb
I could supply more but I don't want to do anymore research for you.
Very true... but it's not the people's unwillingness to give up on oil. It's been the oil companies in the past and even still, lobbying the governments to stiffle alternate energy source research because it would drive them out of business. Funds for research into these alternate energies are greatly limited by these efforts of the patrolium companies. We could be and should be many years ahead with solar and nuclear and the like technologies if it were not for the greed of these companies.
...about 2 months ago at a visualization conference in Boston. You can get these in a touch panel as well. Great for heads-up-display interaction. Also, depending on how hard you press you can send the windows between the front and back pannel. Beats minimizing your window when you don't need it for a moment but would still like to see information displayed on it.
You are right. Spoke too soon... My bad. :(
Busted! Reading Slashdot with Internet Exploiter! For shame! :)
Seems that BHO is a Micro$oft technology. Yet another reason to stay away from IE. God, thank you for bessing us with this.
... per SLOC or per unit copy licensed?
This is just like when they say 10 percent of the U.S. poplulation wasn't counted on the last census. Now, how do they know that!
Who are these people? Where did they go to school?
Damnit, now where did I put that wet noodle!
...the article didn't say anything about putting the UltimateTV technology into the Xbox. It just said they were moving people around to other Microsoft groups instead of axing the whole lot of them.
Question though, the article states that "Harvilla promises to fight the owner's case in court. '...and we have the resources to fight a case, where (siteowners) don't...' but I didn't see where it said he would do that for free... I assume (like everyone else here) that he would since he is the true owner of the name but where's he getting the $$$ to do this? Wouldn't he be to preoccupied making the cash with other cases to devote productive free time to this cause?
...our cryptography professor encrypted all our homework assignments. We'd have to decipher the text and then answer the questions.
I left after graduation to work for a major player in the industry. I kind of expected the same kind of social situation when I got there. I figured 50 new hires starting, all straight out of college, not ready to wind down yet... Boy was I mistaken... There were a few people that would get together weekly to play drinking games at someone's house and once in a while we could organize a larger group for a road trip to 6 Flaggs or something but wow! What lamers!
I left and returned here after about a year and a half. Partly because the social situation sucked and partly because the work here is much cooler. The group here that goes out is a little smaller. Some have gotten married since before, others have left but we still do wings on Thursday and Clubs Friday and Saturday. We have a mailing list at yahoo we use to organize events which now has grown to about 40 members and is no longer limited to just this company but others around town.
The company I work for does R&D in Virtual Reallity (among other things). Which is way cool. The company is very laid back. I play bass in a metal band and was hired w/ long ass hair. (Well, not ass hair... you know what I mean :-) The hair's gone now but that should give an idea of the atmosphere around here.
My question is, has anyone ever done a study on how much more SPAM there would be without things like MAPS & ORBS? Are they really that effective? I still get an insane amount of spam from *insert random chars here*@msn.com. But then they are not really geared to block that kind of SPAM. Or are they?
This is an invasion of our privacy. No one is going to let anyone snoop around on our hard drives without our permission. They might as well say they give them permission to enter my home uninvited and dig around in my underwear drawer.
I doubt they would be very discriminating if they were actually able to do this. Besides the fact that I rip my own CD's, I play in a band and we do our recording using free ProTools and other programs. Not that I would be stupid enough to not back up my work but wouldn't something like this enable them to leave a trojan behind that just goes around deleting mp3s. I doubt they would actually check every mp3 for some fingerprint that indicates it is copyrighted. If they went around and started to delete some of my shit, I think I'd get pretty pissed!
Since we do our own recording, it doesn't cost us anything but our time. But it is a lot of time... I would value in excess of $5000. And would I be able to sue... Hell no. I don't have that kind of money laying around for lawyers...
God, I'm scared now! Doesn't this constitue terrorism?
Is it possible to successfully convince lawmakers that mandatory backdoors in encryption software will never work? To me, ideas like this are just absurd. Just like gun control laws. They have absolutly no effect on criminals and only serve to hurt law abiding citizens. Just as the gun control laws are not going to prevent a criminal from obtaining a gun, government backdoors are not going to prevent the bin Ladin's out there from using strong encryption. While a criminal mind is at work, they are not going to stop and say, "Gee we better not break the law and use the encryption that the U.S. government has a key to and we better post our images with the 'this image contains a secret message' label."
These displays are bulky, heavy and take up way too much room. Something like this plasma display would be great. Unfortunately, they still don't have the refresh rate to do stereo very well yet. :-(
Just my 2 cents...
Outlawing encryption is not going to stop people from using it for some malicious purpose. Outlawing guns is not going to stop armed robbery. Outlawing nuclear technology is not going to stop the bomb.
It really doesn't matter what you create/invent/discover scientifically or technologically, people will find a way to use it to kill people. And the governments of the world are the biggest example of this. One of the first applications of a new technology is how can it be applied to the military. I mean, what was one of the first uses of nuclear technology?
What is the question here? Should we not perform any scientific research? Should we not improve our technology? Or, if we do, should we just not share it with anyone? (Including ourselves, there are of course spies and criminals among us.) If that's the case, how could anyone benefit from it?
To not strive forward with technology because evil-doers might use it is absurd! Even though technology is used by a select few to harm others, the benefits far outweigh the unfortunate "evil that men do."
A war? Where? Against who?
War. Here. Against us. Here's what's gonna happen. We are gonna find out who did this and fuck their shit up. That will be done over there (wherever they are). The existing terrorist cells here in the states are going to retalliate and start fucking shit up here. This is not going to be the end at all. If anyone thinks that a few campaigns over seas is going to stop anything, they are very naive. We are just at the beginning... and this will be fought here.
Dude, get over your damn self. Considering the situation, Bush did an excellent job. A war has broken out on our soil for Christ's sake! Wake up! The people needed to hear from our Commander in Chief. His speach might have been short but it was not useless and unempathetic. That speach wasn't intended to provide us with useful information or a plan of attack. It was intended to let us all know that the president was aware of this situation and starting procedures to handle things. BTW, every president has read off a teleprompter or some equivalent. You get up in front of the entire country after a situation like this, compose yourself and ad-lib a speech that tries to console the American public and not sound like an idiot. You've got to sound like you know what you are talking about. Here's a thought... next time a terrorist attacks us, let's make sure they warn us in advance so the President can have time to rehearse his speech.
I just received a corporate email that states the pentagon was hit. It just says an explosion and doesn't go into much detail.
I think the RIAA is at fault for recording and selling music. After all, if they didn't record it, it would never have made it to MP3.com, never been downloaded, and never been posted to Napster.
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Deja News was doing this a year ago.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/18/2122249.sht
I'm just surprized it took Micro$oft so long to come up with this idea...
I wonder... does Deja/Google hold a patent on this??