Posts by Flybert 181 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
US citizens should push our Congress hard to restrict software patents to a 5 year length .. retroactively
IT changes too fast, and is one of the few areas left where there can be lots of future innovation and invention
Bio based / genetic and drug patents should be similarly short lived
Mechanical - Electrical REAL inventions should be cut to 10-12 year length
Copyright should be life of original author or 20 years if a corporate copyright
talking .. less able at execution and production ..
seems a bit early to get excited .. 16 cores requires a lot of overhead for communication between the cores ... what are the chances AMD can get good yields with all 16 cores working ?
3.5ghz ? .. I wouldn't count on that in quantity either ..
I recall a golf club company around 1999 cutting layers of paper with a laser, bonding them together to create prototypes for wood driver head designs
a couple of years ago seeing a method of building by laying down layers of cement to make walls ..
did not Ford have a commercial some years ago showing a laser hardened polymer part rising up from the goo tank ?
it's a great subject though .. should be brought up more often
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why the fuck can't <video> mean [DetectAnyFuckingCodec=Play] ?
that's OPEN and FREE .. let the best format win and so on into the future
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that being said, microsoft is making the smart move to support any codec in popular use, and the <video /> tag should mean play any fucking format in popular use
"notified the industry ministry that the failsafe system at the No. 2 plant stopped functioning .."
clearly not FAIL safe
the systems acted as they should have, shutting down the normal nuclear reaction, by inserting the control rods fully, which results in the fuel producing about 95% less heat .. but does stop the production of electricity from the plant
the trouble is that the 5% heat produced now needs to be drawn off by water flush, and the electrical power from the outside is cut off, so those water pumps can't run ..
They should have had a few large diesel generators available to run the water pumps and other electrical required, however it was not anticipated that the electricity from outside sources would be unavailable
there is a serious possibility of a core meltdowns
to open Chrome .. Firefox has been good but I have Chrome to check website compatibility, open that more than IE8 ..
.. once started up .. all 3 of these browsers are fast enough for me .. the trouble now in speed is sites pulling ads from the various ad servers .. some with crap response time or pulling video from amazon's overworked bandwidth .. then there are the Winblows .asp servers that are crap speed compared to most *nix / Apache set ups
it is quite unusual for an individual to have a static IP or 2, presuming you are running a webserver with it's own nameserver set ..
point is that even webservers handling 1000s of websites may have only 2 static IPs and a single mailserver handling all the @website.tld addresses
I doubt mailservers are taking even 0.5% of IPv4 addresses .. very large mailservers might be handling 100,000s of customer addresses each ..
it's perfectly standard practice to edit information towards one view or another .. and also to not mention exonerating prose in publishing .. libel and slander require a falsehood being published or spoken publicly .. the offended party can publish it's own exonerating "facts" ..
libel and slander are civil offenses .. not crimes .. and I don't think a US government entity can sue for libel nor slander .. only individuals or private associations of individuals
won't be able to extradite him, or at least he'd not be convicted of anything here .. our press is too strong and won't allow the precedent to be set, NYTimes and other republished .. and will continue .. though he was foolish to be in England, where our intelligence arms cooperate (not so) covertly
what Julian has to fear is Putin .. the one man in the world you don't want to piss off .. and he did
once the human mind decides when it has a probable answer, it can not push a button faster than about 250ms. It is not usually possible to predict when a sentence will end, introducing further lag time .. where if they text being given Watson had a "." to denote the end of the answer-statement, there would be no lag for it to start processing the totality of the clue-statement.
once Watson got to it's decision, I doubt the lag to push the button was but 10ms
Watson had an unfair advantage then, and should have had an artificial lag put in to approximate the human's lag in determining when the clue was finished and the time for a hand to respond to the human brain's signal to push the button
Without the Concorde .. the only supersonic jets are military , and from what I've heard, HuffPo types are somewhat anti-military .. subsonic jets spew out lots of CO2 as well .. thought HuffPo types weren't too happy with that either ..
anyway .. one pile of shit + one pile of shit = a bigger pile of shit
I know AOL wants to be a big content provider .. guess they didn't have the money to buy NBC .. so they went dumpster diving ..
there are still 100s using hotmail ? .. are these people having problems with their @aol accounts ?
please, is this 1999 or April 1 (?) .. people I know at microsoft don't even use hotmail ..
Firefox needs to load badly written pages from the makers of a crap browser served from the maker of crap webserver / mailserver software ?
<shakes head> .. really ?
Congress has not declared war since 1941, I think we are a long way from a declaration of Marshal Law ..
Lincoln did not end Slavery, it was ended for the entire United States by the 13th Amendment on Dec 6, 1865 when Georgia ratified .. though Pennsylvania banned it in 1780 and the importation of slaves into the United States was officially banned in 1808.
regardless, under today's circumstances and those of the foreseeable future, Corporate America (ATT, Verizon, Google) is unlikely to comply with a shutdown order of it's networks and servers, and will unlikely allow a law permitting the President that power ( as CinC )
ignore a government order and the government does not man the switches here, the military is not allowed to enforce the laws within our borders ..
"get a court order" .. and that can still be ignored and appealed
so I probably misspoke about Europe, depending on the country, that country's laws, and whether that country has the means to force compliance to turn off all the switches
quite another to shut down the 100s of multi-connected, commercially owned network, routers and DNS servers in the USA or Europe .. the Government would have a hard time even shutting down all it's connections ..
The banks would be fairly easy, basicly one network to the Fed to clear transactions, goes down occasionally as it is .. however the major commercial data centers have multiple, redundant connectivity .. there is no single nor even dual point of failure in our major cities now .. an email to your neighbor using cable connect can take hops all over the country to arrive at your DSL connect, though it may only take a few hops regionally
there is no practical reason to shut it down .. a major *cyberterrorism" attack, whatever that could be .. might target specific government-connercial systems, and those that are sensitive to national insecurity should not reside on the public internet, or be accessible-attackable anyway from the public internet
this is fucking useful .. one would think the US National Science Foundation would have statistics people capable of determining 2010 figures, which would take no more than good knowledge of basic numbers gathering and a bit of division
why even print this when the economic situation has changed so much since 2008 ?
as a USA citizen ..
the government should do proper investigation , find potential terrorists / criminals, not randomly nor always subject the citizenry to unreasonable search .. it is unreasonable to search an individual without reasonable suspicion that said individual is going to, or is in the process of committing a crime
I will not be treated as a criminal when I am not .. I will not take off my shoes so I may fly
so I will not fly .. and no airline will be getting my money
still .. a determined terrorist will find a way to kill those they wish to .. with or without your submission
you are certainly free to be sheep .. just recognize it erodes everyone's freedom to do so
the prison system scam in our country has no party .. california has the largest, most bloated, highest cost prison scam in the country, and it's state legislature has been dominated by the dems as long as I can remember
republicans and democrats are just 2 sides of the same overreaching and increasingly corporate state-ism
WebMatrix Beta 3 is only available on platforms that support Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Was interesting until that .. only use Linux / Apache / MySQL on my webserver .. don't even like to install FrontPage extensions on hosting accounts
Do people use Wordpress, Joomla, DotNukeNet on Windows Servers ?
Seems Storm of War engine and BoB are pretty close now ..
Still having great fun With IL-2 1946 4.10 and UltraPack 2.01 though ..
Gonna take a long time for BoB or anything from the SoW engine to match the depth IL-2 has ..
Helping work on WWI planes for IL-2 myself .. ( hidden forum over on SAS ) , hoping that will lead to working with SoW engine for a WWI sim by 2015 .. hahahahha
WWFlybert .. WingWalkers .. once .. always .. since 1992 ..
and I listen to Rush nearly daily .. he's great .. I'm a libertarian myself .. so Rush is just wrong on Iraq and Afghanistan IMO .. but that's ok .. Conservatives in America don't mind different views , it's the Liberals here that have to march in lock step or risk punishment by their peers ..
I prefer Walter E Williams hosting the Rush Limbaugh show .. Karl Rove was a pretty cool guest host a few weeks ago too ..
I can hear you liberal brits wincing from here .. hahahha
Cade Metz reports from San Francisco where they just re-elected Nancy Pelosi to the Senate and Jerry Brown as Governor .. not to mention Arnie as Governor before that .. and Gray Davis before that ..
So, from a San Francisco based El Reg writer, I would expect no less that Rush / Fox bashing ..
it's ok .. luser ..
It is also my right to take the thing I own and pay some one else to modify it to my liking
Prove I am using it to pirate copyright material and prosecute me, not the Xbox or PS3 repair guy, I knew upfront what was being done, I'm responsible for circumventing your "controls", not the poor worker I hired to get his hands dirty
of course it is .. just makes you look like an idiot troll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation_in_the_United_States
every state except New Hampshire .. New York state required driver wear belt first in 1984 ..
UK started a year earlier in 1983 .. most other European counties in mid 1970s
US started front seat belts required in US sold cars starting in 1963 .. shoulder+lap front and back lap belts in 1968 .. to this day several major European counties do not require their automobile manufacturers to fit safety belts, Britain among them ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation
if you look at road fatalities, USA not bad at 8.5 deaths per 1 billion vehicle-km, several Eastern European counties run 20+ to almost 40 deaths per 1 billion vehicle-km .. most Northern / Western European counties do better .. 5-6 deaths per 1 billion vehicle-km .. but I suspect it's because of low testosterone levels ;-0
while it is statistically impossible for 2/3 of people to be better than average, that does not preclude that 2/3rds or more drive fine while talking on a cell phone .. While I keep conversations short or call back when I'm stopped .. there is no good reason to ban my cell phone use .. I've not gotten a traffic violation ticket nor caused an accident in 20 years, through loud music, screaming children, eating, drinking (coffee), lighting cigarettes, smoking weed, girlfriend's non-stop blather and mobile phone use .. I can keep my primary focus on the driving .. for those that can't .. police need to witness distracted driving .. going too slow .. drifting in lanes .. etc. and ticket those people regardless of the distraction causing poor driving
1. We are at a natural peak of interglacial warmth ( means between major ice age coldest period )
and have been for about 8000 years .. this cycle is about 120,000 years and has been repeating for about 2,000,000 years .. during this 8000 years , there have been several relatively minor fluctuations .. the one that we can document as warmer than now, was the medieval warming period ...
2. We can not accurately measure CO2 levels from ice cores, because the best resolution is 300 years, and it takes 4000-6000 years to form solid ice cores, and to some degree or another, the atmosphere during those 4000-6000 years mixes with the snow / ice .. in other words, there could have been a spike of CO2 higher than today for 50 years, and you would not see it in the ice core, provided the CO2 level was lower, on average, over 300-6000 years
3. Plants .. including trees, are carbon neutral .. virtually all the CO2 plants bind up, is released back into the atmosphere over time .. either because the plant burns, or is eaten by animals, bugs, fungus, bacteria ..etc in the decay process
4. The CO2 is higher because the ocean water is warmer and cannot absorb as much CO2 .. but please note the warming is first, causing the rise in CO2, not visa versa .. please look up "Carbon Cycle of Earth"
5. It cracks me up that the "consensus" says CO2 increase is 9%-23% of global warming, and that water vapor is 50%-70% of the warming effect .. first it's funny because the range is so wide .. meaning it's very inaccurate 9 and therefore poor science ), and secondly funny because relative humidity has gone up in the same linear fashion as CO2 since 1951, yet no one is calling for water vapor reduction, or claiming said water vapor is excess man made water vapor
6. this is important .. the UN did a study covering 1990-2000 to see the effect of increased CO2 on biosphere .. and they comcluded that over those 10 years there was 7% MORE Biomass ..
.. it may very well be that we have not had massive famine any where in the world for decades, because of the CO2 increase .. because it is plant food ..and warmer land equals more crop land overall .. the CO2 and warming over the last 150 years, has been almost all a positive thing .. you can come to no other conclusion ..
more water vapor = more rain and snow .. more snow is what will cool things down and lead us into the next ice age ( we are due for it as well in the natural cycle ) .. yet the oceans take 100s of years to cool down, so the tropics will keep evaporating water vapor into the air even as snowpack and glaciers rebuild, covering what is now valuable crop land and making growing seasons shorter elsewhere ..
cold is the greater enemy of man .. 3 days of below freezing nights kills most food crops, heat, by itself does not .. remember .. colder air holds less moisture, cooler oceans evaporate less water vapor ( and absorb more CO2 ) .. so you have less rain over the remaining open land for crops and rivers, and the plant life grow less robustly with the lower CO2 levels .. which, BTW, helps it tolerate less water ..
Nature in balance :-o
I think 3 years ago, I had perhaps 65 domains ...
Down to 40 .. some sold, some expired .. I came out ok through my domain turning days, held on too long though
I'd guess they are down 25-35% from peak sales, and the growth of add-on services has slowed or is shrinking
I never use a registrars other services outside of SSL Certs .. I always can find an old coupon number for renewing at around $8.20 .. $7.25-under$10 for new domains, just have to catch it right .. no impulse buying
too many clicks to get to my domain manager, system should recognize that all my domains point to my nameservers / webhosting and not offer me all this bullshit, especially when I renew
I admire Bob's entrepreneurial talents .. He's seeing a slowdown that's not going to get better soon .. moving on to something else .. he has fun with it. Critics probably spend to much time in Sadville ..
if you wish to actually prosecute illegal and underage abuse, you'd let the ads run and do stings on those you think might involve child prostitution .. wouldn't surprise me to learn the police have used Craigslist to bust johns looking for underage sex
it certainly won't go away because they shut down Craigslist adult ads
.. a completely different animal than Rumours Mac
.. even most people my age, 57, have no clue Peter Green wrote Black Magic Woman and Fleetwood Mac recorded it before Carlos Santana became a star copying it almost note for note
I have a copy of the unofficial Pious Bird of Good Fortune, one of the best albums ever in terms of variety song to song ..
.. can not handle the over produced pop music Lindsey Buckingham crap though, not even rock and roll in my book
mcaffe has the higher name recognition with the general public these days, for good or bad, than semantec / norton, avg, avast, nod32 ...
for instance, AT&T / Yahoo DSL *offers* mcafee security suite to the point you basically have to opt out to avoid the crap ..most would likely just click the install button in the AT&T email recommending it, and it's free ..
There are a lot of free download sites that *certify* by McAfee the downloads are virus free
same with many web based email systems ( cPanel's Horde as I recall ) .. people see that McAfee name quite a bit these days ..
I don't get the logic of spending $7.68 billion ..
Has McAfee some *in* with mobile chip makers already ?
Maybe Intel is buying tech beyond just anti-malware in this
hours later and having same problem
"Threat Blocked: Exploit Link to Exploit Site ( type 1526 )"
I'd say it's AVG except it's only on the link for this particular article
for the AVG bashers .. had AVG free for almost as long as it's been around, 8-9 years I think, and haven't had an infection in all these years, and no false positives .. this might be a case of that .. but I have no clue how an internal site page here could be written in such a way that it seems to be serving an exploit ... unless ...
please check what probably is a *first* loading advert serve ..
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