I'm not. But that might have something to do with the fact that I'm certified. Perhaps we've finally reached the stage that what's natural for the individual isn't healthy for the society, and vice versa.
Sure, everyone says they aren't greedy and it's the other guy that's greedy, and that it's the other guy's greed that's the problem. That's right up there with "I'm not rich, the rich are only those with more money than me."
My black neighbor drives a Mercedes, has a swimming pool, and a nicer lawn than I do.
Does he live in a black neighborhood?
I don't think you can argue that it's not a black neighborhood, it's only an argument at what radius from that center point. At d = 1 house, it sounds like it's a 100% black neighborhood.
This amendment was expected to be voted down by a large margin, which is why it was allowed to be voted on. In light of that fact, the 205 to 217 result actually makes this a significant victory for privacy advocates.
Symbolically, yes. In spirit, maybe, there might have been some pandering by the representatives. But in fact, that still means that more than half of the house doesn't think much of their constituents.
The only upside is that now we know we have at least 217 traitors in the house. Unfortunately the senate and other branches remains an unknown, but non-zero, number.
How would that even work? If you control the kernel you can have it lie and return whatever signature you want. If it tries to hash something, let it hash a copy of the signed kernel you backed up.
It doesn't matter if the encryption is solid or not. It could be a simple XOR if they wanted to. What matters is that the DMCA makes anyone who fiddles with it a criminal.
Pilots have always left the air force for private jobs. I think the issue is likely that fewer are signing up to replace them, because the news is out that pilots don't make much money.
In other news, Top Gun is the next Hollywood remake for next summer.
Sad but true. The partisan hate game, which turns good people on both sides into biased fools ensures that we cannot criticize our party even when they are wrong.
Of course we can criticize our own side. Ignore the apologists and take action during your next primary by nominating someone who would actually adhere to their oath of office.
Would you rather have a +/-0.5% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the disease, if you contract it or a tiny but non-zero% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the vaccination?
It's obvious which choice to make if the disease is all around. But if the rest of the world is already vaccinated, then there is no one to spread the disease to you and it could be a perfectly rational choice to not get vaccinated.
The choice to not get vaccinated for a particular disease should be tabled until the disease is wiped out. Thanks to these anti-vac idiots, measles still exists today, in 2013, as well as other completely preventable diseases, and that's a damn shame.
I would encourage some famous authors to setup a fiction site like the one suggested. I think that if they did it publicly, they could easily get a lot of people joining up. Go for it!
Like the one suggested? No way. Why would famous authors PAY to write stuff and have non-pro critics read it? Non-famous, but established, authors can write their next book and still make money off it. Novice authors can pay to get vanity-published and then they actually have books made, instead of an ethereal page on some literacy site, like some kind of mere fanfiction.
after all the first harry potters weren't amateur published, but as pushed books with a publisher with some faith into it to publish in that format.
besides, the quality wasn't the question here, it was if people would buy the books. that's not what was the question in if they had luck in getting the status of a famed author or not - the sales act as the indicator.
a single book though hardly serves as any indicator.. so kings bachman experiment serves more as a guide.
There were initially no Harry Potter books, plural. There was a Harry Potter book, singular. That it became a sensation and prompted additional books is purely business, all it takes is one.
The truth is, most books don't make a whole lot of money, and, in turn, most authors have real jobs (occasionally referred to as side-jobs, which is interesting when the side-job is what's making the rent and the author royalties are just covering replacing light bulbs). Having your name (aka brand) get a following attached to it is the key to making money, and the only way that's going to happen is if you have a hit.
In China, the true cost of Britain's clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale
They're being ridiculous. Nobody's forcing anyone in the UK to use rare-earth-based generators in wind turbines.
Neodymium magnets are the most powerful currently known. If each turbine uses 4400 pounds as the article suggests, just how many times more weight of ceramic magnets would have to be used to reach the same T?
Avast isn't heavy on CPU usage. It relies on fast HDD access. All antiviruses do and if it seems like they don't, they're simply not scanning as much as they should. Avast is the king resource usage vs detection rate so you should still use it.
Oh and to the couple morons above me recommending MSSE, you're completely out of touch with reality. It is the dead last worst rated antivirus in the entire world and a resource disaster. It's the last efficient scanner I've ever seen in my entire life and the disk IO is absurd.
Avast used to be good.
Then came the bloat and adverts. While the virus threat is always evolving and changing, some performance un-hancements are clearly development choices. Is there any reason, for example, to override the standard window controls with a super fancy custom rendered GUI that runs in 50x of the time of native controls? Particularly when this is a Windows application with no cross-platform needs at all? It's almost as bad as every ASUS utility GUI.
Now the standard Printing API is designed for 2d. While for some 3d printers you can translate the page break into a go up level, but not all 3d Printers work the same, so you will want an API that takes a 3d diagram then send that to the drivers to figure out how to do it. So you can take many 3d applications and print 3d stuff from it without needing your app to be particular to the 3d printer you are using.
The fascinating thing is that the material you print with makes a very big difference to how you do the printing. While most people doing 3D printing are using something like ABS, that's not really all that robust; switching to nylon gets you a much stronger result. However, using nylon (hint: the very cheapest weed whacker nylon works well, but the expensive stuff doesn't because of all the added silica) means that the print head has to run a bit hotter and the material has different physical properties. AIUI, a pattern that works well for one print material does not for another; I shudder to think what a multi-material print would be like!
You also need error correction in the drivers if you're going to do a large print...
I would expect a future 3D printer to be able to report what materials are loaded and available to the driver so the driver can then slice the 3d object (slice:3d::rasterization:2d) with the appropriate settings. The end user won't have to know what hardware-level things actually change, they'll just get their widget.
pretty much individual manufacturers have released either something that takes in a.stl file or the bots themselves consume a script called gcode - all usually slightly differently, of course.
previewing the stl files makes things easier of course I suppose..
problem is that with current machines there's not all that much dumbing down to be done - the downfall of some "prosumer" products like the stratasys mojo is that they're already too dumbed down(though that one is on purpose to use more properiaty filament) - being able to tweak fill patterns and such makes hell of a difference to the prints, and for example for repraps there's already a bunch of sw that let you load the stl, lay it on the build plate, slice it(lingo for turning it into the head movements for the machine), review that slicing and print all from one app.
so I'm a 3d printer hobbyist.. and really what it 8.1 probably brings to the table is just more included drivers for the serial port bridges used to connect almost all 3d printers.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Embrace: wrap the serial port bridge. Extend: built-in geometry slicer with some tweakable knobs, analogous to the built-in rasterization Windows already supports Extinguish: future 3d printer consortium, printers can either be Microsoft driver compatible or not, but steps will be taken to make it hard for someone using a non-blessed device on Windows.
I'm not sure if this is still true, but I do know that last week the Play store was still using HTTP downloads for the actual APK files instead of HTTPS (even though the API calls do use HTTPS). As such, even downloads from Play may be susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. I can't possibly explain it better than this group of comments:
I'm not saying it's likely - but it doesn't seem impossible either. Seeing as it will be a long time before the average Android user will be running a phone with this patch, I would call "crisis averted" too soon. Of course, we don't know if the complete HTTP download is still verified with checksum gotten from the HTTPS API, but somethow I doubt it.
A feature at the request of the NSA or your local union spook agency.
The materials gap is closing. Provided we actually get to a point where the physical properties of an additive object versus a subtractive object are no different, there won't be many compelling reasons to use subtractive anymore. At the very least, it'll be a question of whether you want to sweep up a bunch of sharp tailings every night or not.
Solve your censorship problem and you will solve a lot of your other problems. Just be prepared to see high turnover in your leadership -- something that has been needed for a very long time in the US.
Ooooh, god that's so deep and profound... yeah, it's a problem in the United States. But I can still say "fuck the United States government" without any fear and I still have unrestricted internet access to news, historical accounts and goddamn basic facts.
Because the machine is in place.
Speech is still free in the "free" world because it's now meaningless. People communicating unpopular opinions are called conspiracy nuts, even when the crazy dripping out their mouths winds up being confirmed. Free speech is now more about being able to rap about shooting cops and raping bitches than it is to discuss ideas. Hell, even political discourse is now a trench warfare of strawmen, ad hominems, and manipulated statistics.
In places where censorship is a part of daily life, words still have great power to unify and inspire... because people use them to unify and inspire. And that is what truly leads to change and can dismantle the machine.
Nothing is stopping you from choosing to pay for your own healthcare in cash, out of pocket, ye olde free-market way.
After costs have been artificially inflated to compensate for insurance contract rates being pennies on the dollar and write-offs from the uninsured-and-hell-no-not-gonna-pay-ever? No thanks.
You could argue that forcing telcos and ISPs to incorporate wiretapping equipment into their systems constitutes a quartering of government agents on private property in violation of the 3rd Amendment.
I wish I had mod points today. A beautiful comment if there ever was one.
You can get better quality 1W lasers for much less from other vendors. Wicked Lasers products are quite cheaply made, tons of complaints about them being out of spec and breaking after minutes of use.
Remember that Moto is selling ENCRYPTED radios so the pesky public cannot follow along. Which means for best results all the police in a geographic area have to play on the same team... Kind of like Windows. So now that its designed so pa is always in control, individual units can't even talk to each other... Go SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE system! At least when they had plain radios officers could communicate with somebody!
This is an old article and and old post, but this is a brilliant observation.
Security through obscurity doesn't work, and in this case, literal security.
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All people are greedy
I'm not. But that might have something to do with the fact that I'm certified. Perhaps we've finally reached the stage that what's natural for the individual isn't healthy for the society, and vice versa.
Sure, everyone says they aren't greedy and it's the other guy that's greedy, and that it's the other guy's greed that's the problem. That's right up there with "I'm not rich, the rich are only those with more money than me."
My black neighbor drives a Mercedes, has a swimming pool, and a nicer lawn than I do.
Does he live in a black neighborhood?
I don't think you can argue that it's not a black neighborhood, it's only an argument at what radius from that center point. At d = 1 house, it sounds like it's a 100% black neighborhood.
This amendment was expected to be voted down by a large margin, which is why it was allowed to be voted on. In light of that fact, the 205 to 217 result actually makes this a significant victory for privacy advocates.
Symbolically, yes. In spirit, maybe, there might have been some pandering by the representatives. But in fact, that still means that more than half of the house doesn't think much of their constituents.
The only upside is that now we know we have at least 217 traitors in the house. Unfortunately the senate and other branches remains an unknown, but non-zero, number.
How would that even work?
If you control the kernel you can have it lie and return whatever signature you want. If it tries to hash something, let it hash a copy of the signed kernel you backed up.
It doesn't matter if the encryption is solid or not. It could be a simple XOR if they wanted to. What matters is that the DMCA makes anyone who fiddles with it a criminal.
Pilots have always left the air force for private jobs. I think the issue is likely that fewer are signing up to replace them, because the news is out that pilots don't make much money.
In other news, Top Gun is the next Hollywood remake for next summer.
Sad but true. The partisan hate game, which turns good people on both sides into biased fools ensures that we cannot criticize our party even when they are wrong.
Of course we can criticize our own side. Ignore the apologists and take action during your next primary by nominating someone who would actually adhere to their oath of office.
Which brings up the real issue:
Would you rather have a +/-0.5% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the disease, if you contract it
or a tiny but non-zero% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the vaccination?
It's obvious which choice to make if the disease is all around. But if the rest of the world is already vaccinated, then there is no one to spread the disease to you and it could be a perfectly rational choice to not get vaccinated.
The choice to not get vaccinated for a particular disease should be tabled until the disease is wiped out. Thanks to these anti-vac idiots, measles still exists today, in 2013, as well as other completely preventable diseases, and that's a damn shame.
So, damaging US Federal Government Property by deliberately firing your gun at it is free speech now?
About as much as permanent domestic spy programs are authorized by interstate commerce.
I would encourage some famous authors to setup a fiction site like the one suggested. I think that if they did it publicly, they could easily get a lot of people joining up. Go for it!
Like the one suggested? No way. Why would famous authors PAY to write stuff and have non-pro critics read it? Non-famous, but established, authors can write their next book and still make money off it. Novice authors can pay to get vanity-published and then they actually have books made, instead of an ethereal page on some literacy site, like some kind of mere fanfiction.
after all the first harry potters weren't amateur published, but as pushed books with a publisher with some faith into it to publish in that format.
besides, the quality wasn't the question here, it was if people would buy the books. that's not what was the question in if they had luck in getting the status of a famed author or not - the sales act as the indicator.
a single book though hardly serves as any indicator.. so kings bachman experiment serves more as a guide.
There were initially no Harry Potter books, plural. There was a Harry Potter book, singular. That it became a sensation and prompted additional books is purely business, all it takes is one.
The truth is, most books don't make a whole lot of money, and, in turn, most authors have real jobs (occasionally referred to as side-jobs, which is interesting when the side-job is what's making the rent and the author royalties are just covering replacing light bulbs). Having your name (aka brand) get a following attached to it is the key to making money, and the only way that's going to happen is if you have a hit.
In China, the true cost of Britain's clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale
They're being ridiculous. Nobody's forcing anyone in the UK to use rare-earth-based generators in wind turbines.
Neodymium magnets are the most powerful currently known. If each turbine uses 4400 pounds as the article suggests, just how many times more weight of ceramic magnets would have to be used to reach the same T?
Avast isn't heavy on CPU usage. It relies on fast HDD access. All antiviruses do and if it seems like they don't, they're simply not scanning as much as they should. Avast is the king resource usage vs detection rate so you should still use it.
Oh and to the couple morons above me recommending MSSE, you're completely out of touch with reality. It is the dead last worst rated antivirus in the entire world and a resource disaster. It's the last efficient scanner I've ever seen in my entire life and the disk IO is absurd.
Avast used to be good.
Then came the bloat and adverts. While the virus threat is always evolving and changing, some performance un-hancements are clearly development choices. Is there any reason, for example, to override the standard window controls with a super fancy custom rendered GUI that runs in 50x of the time of native controls? Particularly when this is a Windows application with no cross-platform needs at all? It's almost as bad as every ASUS utility GUI.
Not true. Firefox + fireclam addon. Thunderbird + clamdrib (tho you have to work to find it)
That's not on-access, that's on-access-through-a-specific-application.
Why do you apologists always so desperately want the US to be compared to the greatest shits on the planet?
But if you insist: When compared to the reign of Idi Amin, Pol Pot or Hitler, the US government isn't the worst offender.
Happy now?
To be fair, the USA is only 240-something years old, so buck up, we can yet be #1, we just have to believe in ourselves and various bogeymen.
Now the standard Printing API is designed for 2d. While for some 3d printers you can translate the page break into a go up level, but not all 3d Printers work the same, so you will want an API that takes a 3d diagram then send that to the drivers to figure out how to do it. So you can take many 3d applications and print 3d stuff from it without needing your app to be particular to the 3d printer you are using.
The fascinating thing is that the material you print with makes a very big difference to how you do the printing. While most people doing 3D printing are using something like ABS, that's not really all that robust; switching to nylon gets you a much stronger result. However, using nylon (hint: the very cheapest weed whacker nylon works well, but the expensive stuff doesn't because of all the added silica) means that the print head has to run a bit hotter and the material has different physical properties. AIUI, a pattern that works well for one print material does not for another; I shudder to think what a multi-material print would be like!
You also need error correction in the drivers if you're going to do a large print...
I would expect a future 3D printer to be able to report what materials are loaded and available to the driver so the driver can then slice the 3d object (slice:3d::rasterization:2d) with the appropriate settings. The end user won't have to know what hardware-level things actually change, they'll just get their widget.
pretty much individual manufacturers have released either something that takes in a .stl file or the bots themselves consume a script called gcode - all usually slightly differently, of course.
previewing the stl files makes things easier of course I suppose..
problem is that with current machines there's not all that much dumbing down to be done - the downfall of some "prosumer" products like the stratasys mojo is that they're already too dumbed down(though that one is on purpose to use more properiaty filament) - being able to tweak fill patterns and such makes hell of a difference to the prints, and for example for repraps there's already a bunch of sw that let you load the stl, lay it on the build plate, slice it(lingo for turning it into the head movements for the machine), review that slicing and print all from one app.
so I'm a 3d printer hobbyist.. and really what it 8.1 probably brings to the table is just more included drivers for the serial port bridges used to connect almost all 3d printers.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Embrace: wrap the serial port bridge.
Extend: built-in geometry slicer with some tweakable knobs, analogous to the built-in rasterization Windows already supports
Extinguish: future 3d printer consortium, printers can either be Microsoft driver compatible or not, but steps will be taken to make it hard for someone using a non-blessed device on Windows.
I'm not sure if this is still true, but I do know that last week the Play store was still using HTTP downloads for the actual APK files instead of HTTPS (even though the API calls do use HTTPS). As such, even downloads from Play may be susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. I can't possibly explain it better than this group of comments:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3950207&cid=44220885
I'm not saying it's likely - but it doesn't seem impossible either. Seeing as it will be a long time before the average Android user will be running a phone with this patch, I would call "crisis averted" too soon. Of course, we don't know if the complete HTTP download is still verified with checksum gotten from the HTTPS API, but somethow I doubt it.
A feature at the request of the NSA or your local union spook agency.
Why does everyone somehow seem to think that additive manufacturing ("3D printing") is better than subtractive (standard CNC)?
This blog post should help out.
The materials gap is closing. Provided we actually get to a point where the physical properties of an additive object versus a subtractive object are no different, there won't be many compelling reasons to use subtractive anymore. At the very least, it'll be a question of whether you want to sweep up a bunch of sharp tailings every night or not.
Solve your censorship problem and you will solve a lot of your other problems. Just be prepared to see high turnover in your leadership -- something that has been needed for a very long time in the US.
Ooooh, god that's so deep and profound ... yeah, it's a problem in the United States. But I can still say "fuck the United States government" without any fear and I still have unrestricted internet access to news, historical accounts and goddamn basic facts.
Because the machine is in place.
Speech is still free in the "free" world because it's now meaningless. People communicating unpopular opinions are called conspiracy nuts, even when the crazy dripping out their mouths winds up being confirmed. Free speech is now more about being able to rap about shooting cops and raping bitches than it is to discuss ideas. Hell, even political discourse is now a trench warfare of strawmen, ad hominems, and manipulated statistics.
In places where censorship is a part of daily life, words still have great power to unify and inspire... because people use them to unify and inspire. And that is what truly leads to change and can dismantle the machine.
Can I get a car analogy please?
Nothing is stopping you from choosing to pay for your own healthcare in cash, out of pocket, ye olde free-market way.
After costs have been artificially inflated to compensate for insurance contract rates being pennies on the dollar and write-offs from the uninsured-and-hell-no-not-gonna-pay-ever? No thanks.
You could argue that forcing telcos and ISPs to incorporate wiretapping equipment into their systems constitutes a quartering of government agents on private property in violation of the 3rd Amendment.
I wish I had mod points today. A beautiful comment if there ever was one.
You can get better quality 1W lasers for much less from other vendors. Wicked Lasers products are quite cheaply made, tons of complaints about them being out of spec and breaking after minutes of use.
Could you provide a few leads?
Remember that Moto is selling ENCRYPTED radios so the pesky public cannot follow along. Which means for best results all the police in a geographic area have to play on the same team... Kind of like Windows. So now that its designed so pa is always in control, individual units can't even talk to each other... Go SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE system! At least when they had plain radios officers could communicate with somebody!
This is an old article and and old post, but this is a brilliant observation.
Security through obscurity doesn't work, and in this case, literal security.
I never signed a contract saying that my government has the right to revoke my ability to move about freely without a conviction or trial. Have you?
Better check those EULAs more closely...