People need to stop feeding the patent trolls. People should not pay trolls a dime. In fact, people should be counter suing trolls and get the DOJ involved in this to nail their filthy hides to the underside of the bridge as a warning to other would be patent trolls. Write your Congressional critters and sign this petition:
The school board is going to be faced with very expensive legal fees and lose. This will get challenged and their claim to ownership of student works will be thrown out. Hopefully the school board will be forced to pay the legal fees of the kids and a class action lawsuit will be brought against the school board heaping on more costs so that nobody else tries this. Copyright law is pretty clear that the creator of the work is the copyright owner unless explicitly otherwise agreed. Students are minors and can't agree to this.
No, I enjoy my modern conveniences. You just don't like the ones I like and I'm happy to have you stay in the city. Please!
Jobs are a poor excuse for cities in these modern times - T.e.l.e.c.o.m.m.u.t.e.
I'm fully aware of Pol Pot. I'm quite studied in history. An enjoyable pass time since I don't waste my time on TV, Opera, bars and other time suckers. You're welcome to them. It's a pretty free country.
What would help with this is if it were very easy to prioritize and censor traffic on the Guest connection.
Guests may access email, web pages with blocking of domains, etc. Much like Parental Controls.
Guests gets the lowest priority. Bandwidth priority first goes to the official users of a network.
Guests may not have more than X bandwidth and may not download files larger than N. A fairly simple way to kill copyright violation downloads for the most part.
This would let people check their email, do a quick look up on a web page sort of thing but not be abusive of a network.
Minerals like gold which have useful, functional purposes might finally drop to reasonable levels so we can use them more in industry rather than governments, corporations and individuals hoarding them for monetary value.
"Living in dense cities makes for certain efficiencies: being able to walk or take mass transit to work, living in buildings with (at least potentially) efficient HVAC systems, and more."
None of these are valid justifications for cities.
Transportation: I can and do walk, rarely needing a vehicle. No need for mass transport either. I live on a farm and work there as well as in the forest. No need to drive. I often go months without getting in a car or truck.
Efficient HVAC: Our high thermal mass, well insulated home is far more efficient requiring far less energy for heating than city buildings and it requires no cooling. It also doesn't affect the local or distant environments.
Cities stink, are filthy dirty, centers of disease and filled with vermin of both the four legged, six legged and two legged sort. Cities can't produce their own food or fuel and they can't get rid of their own wastes. Studies show that they are black holes, blemishes on the environment, soaking up the resources and polluting thousands of square miles around them.
The only question is where else do we put all those people?
The cloud service provider isn't the worry. They couldn't care less. It's the government I'm concerned about. They do care and they have a history of spying and want the right to do so.
The internet is a postcard. Don't store or transmit anything you don't want seen.
This is the classic over education problem. Just because they are a collage graduate doesn't mean they are worth hiring for anything. They may not even be qualified to do ditch digging or accounting. However, they are probably eminently qualified to become politicians.
You would be better off creating your own job. Don't go work for a company. Don't waste time on further education. Start programming, start producing products, start solving problems for people. Don't be a Dilbert. Be a creator.
Apparently the people proposing this sort of thing lack the imagination to understand how many trees are in the forest.
Even if they only tagged a few trees like this figuring to seed the forest with trackers there is still the problem that this is easily hacked against. Anyone who's spending the money to cut illegal trees and haul them away (very expensive) will simply hire a good hacker to hack the trackers before the loggers hack the trees out.
I have all the data to figure out the question on how much wood but haven't done it yet. I would guess about $30,000 in wood to build all the forms, scaffolding, braces and walers. All of it is reusable and in fact some of it has already been used in building two other projects including our house:
Decades ago I dreamed up the idea of 3D printing buildings - I was an engineer involved with laser printing and I was also pouring concrete on the side for our own projects using a pump truck. Great tool. I fantasized about how to get the material coming out of the nozzle to harden quickly enough to 3D print in big droplets an entire building. Never did that though I did do some work on the chemistry and materials that would have been needed.
For our projects we've just gone the molding route - e.g., build big molds, pour in liquid stone (concrete) with fiber reinforcing (steels already in place) and let it harden.
I still think that 3D printing of buildings would be a great way to do it. With our molding we build all our conduit and plumbing right into the walls, floors and ceilings. With 3D printing one could do even better. The building could be a giant machine, the wiring could be printed.
I bet we'll see that within a century on mass scale.
What I like about masonry is that the buildings are so permanent, low maintenance and energy efficient. Fire proof too - that's really nice.
That cost is your problem. Not mine. I did not ask my doctor to switch to electronic records. They shouldn't be charging an arm and a leg for me to get a copy of my own records. They don't do this for the paper records, only the last years that are in electronic form.
3D printing buildings is a cool idea. It can be done in masonry, that is to say fiber reinforced concrete, which would produce low cost, high mass, highly energy efficient buildings. I just did one like this but poured it rather than 3D printing it. Sort of the same thing. 1.6 million pounds of concrete later we have a super insulated building that is built as bottles within bottles for extreme energy efficiency. In our case it is an on-farm USDA inspected slaughterhouse and butcher shop for our family farm.
I developed many of the techniques when we built our house in a similar manner. Prior to that we did even smaller models as animal shelters and desktop models. All along I fancied that much of this could be done just like 3D printing. The pumper we use is not all that different.
Or Vermont. Vermont has possibly the highest rate of gun ownership in the USA. Vermont has the least restrictive gun laws in the USA. You don't need a permit to buy a gun, own a gun, use a gun or even for concealed carry. It's written right into the Vermont Constitution even more strongly than the 2nd Amendment just to make this clear.
Yet, despite all those gun toting Vermonters we also have the lowest absolute and lowest per capita rates of gun crimes and gun violence here in Vermont.
Meanwhile, the states that have the highly restrictive gun laws have the highest rates of gun crimes.
Ergo, restrictive gun laws obviously cause gun crimes.
Now, you can argue that because Vermont is so rural and there are so few people we have more space to get away from each other and not get on each other's nerves. That right there is not an argument for gun laws but rather an argument that the problem is cities and people.
Obviously what we need are laws that outlaw cities.
A year or so ago our doctor switched over to electronic records. Now they want $75 per person for us to get a copy of our records as an administrative fee. All they need to do is print the records off of the computer. Minimal labor, minimal cost, not even very many pages. They're just using the fact that they're now electronic records as a means to collect more fees. It is greed on the doctor's part, plain and simple.
Java has a bad history. I disabled it on all of our machines years ago due to problems like this and the fact that so much poorly written Java code sucks CRU wasting computer resources and slowing down machines. I would recommend never using Java. I don't run into any situations that require it so there is no point in bothering to risk it.
I would love to be able to reach up and press onscreen buttons. A touch screen would be more efficient than using the mouse at times. This doesn't mean it is an either or proposition. One can have a touch screen, a mouse and a keyboard. What I would dearly love is if my iPad docked with my MacBookPro as the screen. That would be very useful.
This is not a big deal. Those of us who live in the north country deal with this every year. We have evolved social methods for handling the lack of sunlight. The further north you go the greater the effect. Much like travel to Mars. In a space ship they can do the same sorts of things. One modern solution is as simple as using lights of the proper spectrum and intensity. Widely used. Not a big deal.
About 48,000 people a year die of influenza. She is in the position to be a super carrier, picking it up from a patient and transmitting it on to many other people. It is in appropriate for her to be a nurse if she refuses to prevent the transmission of disease to patients. She should move into an isolated administrative role well away from other people at best. Firing is appropriate.
Blah. Ugh. Lab grown meats are produced in chemicals that I don't want to be eating. It takes more energy to produce lab grown meat. It is worse for the environment than the grand efficiency of pasture raised meats. Lab grown meats are about centralized control by a few big corporations and government bodies. They're not healthy. They're garbage.
Ownership and the transfer of said ownership is a fundamental flaw in eBooks that keeps me from buying them in most situations.
When I buy a paper book I own it. I can read it. I can reread it. I can lend it to a friend. I can give it to a friend. Or a stranger. I can sell the book on ebay or what ever. I can cut out the pages and use them for wall paper. If I die my books are part of my estate and pass to my kin.
When I buy an eBook I don't own it. Not according to the publishers. I am only licensing it. I can't lend it to a friend. I can't give it to a friend or anyone else. I can't sell the book on ebay or anywhere else. I can't cut and paste the book onto my wall, legally. If I die my children can't inherit my eBooks. eBooks suck for these reasons. Most of this has to do with greed on the part of the publishers.
When they solve the rights of ownership issue then eBooks will be more interesting.
A tablet is a fine computer for consuming information and researching things.
Tablets fall down when it comes to creating content but I expect they'll improve at that.
You can get a keyboard for an iPad - there are many third party alternatives and the official Apple wireless keyboard. I have the Apple version for use with my iPad and it's great. However I still use my MacBookPro for most creative work. For reading on the go or in bed I prefer the iPad.
They used to say they were using taxes to modify people's behavior to get them to do better things. The whole Sin Tax idea. Now they're taxing good behavior too. In other words, they're just plain greedy.
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Nice to hear more people saying this. Time to eliminate the patent system completely. It's too broken to be fixed.
People need to stop feeding the patent trolls. People should not pay trolls a dime. In fact, people should be counter suing trolls and get the DOJ involved in this to nail their filthy hides to the underside of the bridge as a warning to other would be patent trolls. Write your Congressional critters and sign this petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-patent-trolls-pay-all-costs-associated-their-frivolous-lawsuits-if-they-lose/gWPpVYMt
The school board is going to be faced with very expensive legal fees and lose. This will get challenged and their claim to ownership of student works will be thrown out. Hopefully the school board will be forced to pay the legal fees of the kids and a class action lawsuit will be brought against the school board heaping on more costs so that nobody else tries this. Copyright law is pretty clear that the creator of the work is the copyright owner unless explicitly otherwise agreed. Students are minors and can't agree to this.
No, I enjoy my modern conveniences. You just don't like the ones I like and I'm happy to have you stay in the city. Please!
Jobs are a poor excuse for cities in these modern times - T.e.l.e.c.o.m.m.u.t.e.
I'm fully aware of Pol Pot. I'm quite studied in history. An enjoyable pass time since I don't waste my time on TV, Opera, bars and other time suckers. You're welcome to them. It's a pretty free country.
What would help with this is if it were very easy to prioritize and censor traffic on the Guest connection.
Guests may access email, web pages with blocking of domains, etc. Much like Parental Controls.
Guests gets the lowest priority. Bandwidth priority first goes to the official users of a network.
Guests may not have more than X bandwidth and may not download files larger than N. A fairly simple way to kill copyright violation downloads for the most part.
This would let people check their email, do a quick look up on a web page sort of thing but not be abusive of a network.
Minerals like gold which have useful, functional purposes might finally drop to reasonable levels so we can use them more in industry rather than governments, corporations and individuals hoarding them for monetary value.
"Living in dense cities makes for certain efficiencies: being able to walk or take mass transit to work, living in buildings with (at least potentially) efficient HVAC systems, and more."
None of these are valid justifications for cities.
Transportation: I can and do walk, rarely needing a vehicle. No need for mass transport either. I live on a farm and work there as well as in the forest. No need to drive. I often go months without getting in a car or truck.
Efficient HVAC: Our high thermal mass, well insulated home is far more efficient requiring far less energy for heating than city buildings and it requires no cooling. It also doesn't affect the local or distant environments.
Cities stink, are filthy dirty, centers of disease and filled with vermin of both the four legged, six legged and two legged sort. Cities can't produce their own food or fuel and they can't get rid of their own wastes. Studies show that they are black holes, blemishes on the environment, soaking up the resources and polluting thousands of square miles around them.
The only question is where else do we put all those people?
The cloud service provider isn't the worry. They couldn't care less. It's the government I'm concerned about. They do care and they have a history of spying and want the right to do so.
The internet is a postcard. Don't store or transmit anything you don't want seen.
This is the classic over education problem. Just because they are a collage graduate doesn't mean they are worth hiring for anything. They may not even be qualified to do ditch digging or accounting. However, they are probably eminently qualified to become politicians.
You would be better off creating your own job. Don't go work for a company. Don't waste time on further education. Start programming, start producing products, start solving problems for people. Don't be a Dilbert. Be a creator.
Apparently the people proposing this sort of thing lack the imagination to understand how many trees are in the forest.
Even if they only tagged a few trees like this figuring to seed the forest with trackers there is still the problem that this is easily hacked against. Anyone who's spending the money to cut illegal trees and haul them away (very expensive) will simply hire a good hacker to hack the trackers before the loggers hack the trees out.
So what plant is worth all this technology? Hmm... I'll bet it is a Weed...
I have all the data to figure out the question on how much wood but haven't done it yet. I would guess about $30,000 in wood to build all the forms, scaffolding, braces and walers. All of it is reusable and in fact some of it has already been used in building two other projects including our house:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/cottage
seven years ago.
Decades ago I dreamed up the idea of 3D printing buildings - I was an engineer involved with laser printing and I was also pouring concrete on the side for our own projects using a pump truck. Great tool. I fantasized about how to get the material coming out of the nozzle to harden quickly enough to 3D print in big droplets an entire building. Never did that though I did do some work on the chemistry and materials that would have been needed.
For our projects we've just gone the molding route - e.g., build big molds, pour in liquid stone (concrete) with fiber reinforcing (steels already in place) and let it harden.
I still think that 3D printing of buildings would be a great way to do it. With our molding we build all our conduit and plumbing right into the walls, floors and ceilings. With 3D printing one could do even better. The building could be a giant machine, the wiring could be printed.
I bet we'll see that within a century on mass scale.
What I like about masonry is that the buildings are so permanent, low maintenance and energy efficient. Fire proof too - that's really nice.
That cost is your problem. Not mine. I did not ask my doctor to switch to electronic records. They shouldn't be charging an arm and a leg for me to get a copy of my own records. They don't do this for the paper records, only the last years that are in electronic form.
3D printing buildings is a cool idea. It can be done in masonry, that is to say fiber reinforced concrete, which would produce low cost, high mass, highly energy efficient buildings. I just did one like this but poured it rather than 3D printing it. Sort of the same thing. 1.6 million pounds of concrete later we have a super insulated building that is built as bottles within bottles for extreme energy efficiency. In our case it is an on-farm USDA inspected slaughterhouse and butcher shop for our family farm.
See: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/butchershop
I developed many of the techniques when we built our house in a similar manner. Prior to that we did even smaller models as animal shelters and desktop models. All along I fancied that much of this could be done just like 3D printing. The pumper we use is not all that different.
Or Vermont. Vermont has possibly the highest rate of gun ownership in the USA. Vermont has the least restrictive gun laws in the USA. You don't need a permit to buy a gun, own a gun, use a gun or even for concealed carry. It's written right into the Vermont Constitution even more strongly than the 2nd Amendment just to make this clear.
Yet, despite all those gun toting Vermonters we also have the lowest absolute and lowest per capita rates of gun crimes and gun violence here in Vermont.
Meanwhile, the states that have the highly restrictive gun laws have the highest rates of gun crimes.
Ergo, restrictive gun laws obviously cause gun crimes.
Now, you can argue that because Vermont is so rural and there are so few people we have more space to get away from each other and not get on each other's nerves. That right there is not an argument for gun laws but rather an argument that the problem is cities and people.
Obviously what we need are laws that outlaw cities.
A year or so ago our doctor switched over to electronic records. Now they want $75 per person for us to get a copy of our records as an administrative fee. All they need to do is print the records off of the computer. Minimal labor, minimal cost, not even very many pages. They're just using the fact that they're now electronic records as a means to collect more fees. It is greed on the doctor's part, plain and simple.
Java has a bad history. I disabled it on all of our machines years ago due to problems like this and the fact that so much poorly written Java code sucks CRU wasting computer resources and slowing down machines. I would recommend never using Java. I don't run into any situations that require it so there is no point in bothering to risk it.
I would love to be able to reach up and press onscreen buttons. A touch screen would be more efficient than using the mouse at times. This doesn't mean it is an either or proposition. One can have a touch screen, a mouse and a keyboard. What I would dearly love is if my iPad docked with my MacBookPro as the screen. That would be very useful.
This is not a big deal. Those of us who live in the north country deal with this every year. We have evolved social methods for handling the lack of sunlight. The further north you go the greater the effect. Much like travel to Mars. In a space ship they can do the same sorts of things. One modern solution is as simple as using lights of the proper spectrum and intensity. Widely used. Not a big deal.
About 48,000 people a year die of influenza. She is in the position to be a super carrier, picking it up from a patient and transmitting it on to many other people. It is in appropriate for her to be a nurse if she refuses to prevent the transmission of disease to patients. She should move into an isolated administrative role well away from other people at best. Firing is appropriate.
Blah. Ugh. Lab grown meats are produced in chemicals that I don't want to be eating. It takes more energy to produce lab grown meat. It is worse for the environment than the grand efficiency of pasture raised meats. Lab grown meats are about centralized control by a few big corporations and government bodies. They're not healthy. They're garbage.
Ownership and the transfer of said ownership is a fundamental flaw in eBooks that keeps me from buying them in most situations.
When I buy a paper book I own it.
I can read it.
I can reread it.
I can lend it to a friend.
I can give it to a friend. Or a stranger.
I can sell the book on ebay or what ever.
I can cut out the pages and use them for wall paper.
If I die my books are part of my estate and pass to my kin.
When I buy an eBook I don't own it.
Not according to the publishers.
I am only licensing it.
I can't lend it to a friend.
I can't give it to a friend or anyone else.
I can't sell the book on ebay or anywhere else.
I can't cut and paste the book onto my wall, legally.
If I die my children can't inherit my eBooks.
eBooks suck for these reasons.
Most of this has to do with greed on the part of the publishers.
When they solve the rights of ownership issue then eBooks will be more interesting.
A tablet is a fine computer for consuming information and researching things.
Tablets fall down when it comes to creating content but I expect they'll improve at that.
You can get a keyboard for an iPad - there are many third party alternatives and the official Apple wireless keyboard. I have the Apple version for use with my iPad and it's great. However I still use my MacBookPro for most creative work. For reading on the go or in bed I prefer the iPad.
They used to say they were using taxes to modify people's behavior to get them to do better things. The whole Sin Tax idea. Now they're taxing good behavior too. In other words, they're just plain greedy.