This is why I would look into solutions being referred to as zero-knowledge solutions.
Most people have friends or relatives. It's pretty cheap to create a zero-knowledge implementation where the only thing required is for the other party to have somewhat reliable power and an Internet connection.
Two or more parties would be involved in the initial exchange where you distribute the costs equally and receive an equal sized TrueCrypt container that is, as you would wish, encrypted data-at-rest.
Only when your machine is on does it initiate routine rsync jobs that incrementally sync your TrueCrypt container using a Shadow Copy service (If that's not possible, automatically unmounting and remounting the container does work). I find this works fairly reliably, but is rather process intensive when the containers are large. It's not unusual to take 30 minutes just to figure out what will be sent in an incremental update.
The only real advantage in this setup is encrypted data-at-rest capabilities and restoring is as simple as downloading the whole container, or driving over and copying the container locally. Anything farther than local and you are right back to where you started, which is relying on services limited by Internet bandwidth.
I've been interested in doing this for some time now. A couple of 3TB hard drives in a cheap Linux based enclosure that is plug-n-play 24/7 would allow you to create 1-10GB containers (more efficient for syncing and organization of data) that are present locally and in two remote locations. You could not have any files larger than 10GB, but do you really need to have a backup of a Bluray disc?
I figure it would allow you to restore locally very fast by copying the TrueCrypt container back to your main system and just mounting them. An added benefit is that with a half dozen people participating you could easily have 1 local/2 remote backups with a decent number of containers that are supported.
Or grab a power efficient desktop (hell, go raspberry pi if you like to tinker) and toss a linux distro on it.
I think that is the best way. You need something 24/7 that does not have its power state linked to human whims. Too many NAS units out there are crap. You have to go higher end where you are spending upwards of $1000 on the enclosure and the OS itself to get the features required.
As for myself, I would have some TrueCrypt containers that are being rsynced to a remote system. Deployment is easy since the first local sync would get the entire container and only incremental updates need to be sent across low bandwidth connections.
You don't need to do this with wireless if you are in the same neighborhood, although that does depend on the ISP. If I was in an area with shit Internet I would honestly consider getting some high end mesh networking equipment and forming a cooperative with several dozen people where only encrypted information is exchanged. Picking up a TrueCrypt container is as simple as connecting to the NAS and downloading your container.
If I did create the cooperative it would be understood that you don't need to mirror your porn archives. The entire Internet is your porn archive.
I question the wisdom of turning people's cell phones into emergency information networks like this.
Understanding myself, and user interface design, once you inundate the users with emergency messages that don't pertain to them they no longer have impact.
That is dangerous and counter productive to the goal in the first place. While it's incredibly tragic for parents to be dealing with something like that, it will just end up being ignored.
It's better for it to be rarely used at all, and with a lot more impact, than to be used often and probably ignored. I know that I ignore them at this point. Especially the ones not even in my state.
With as much money is involved, I honestly don't understand why:
1) It's not done in the cockpit glass itself. We have the tech for that. Add a couple of Kinect like sensors and you can know where the pilot is looking to adjust the display. I'm not an expert, but I think that would account for the position of the pilot's eyes and what he is actually looking at. Perhaps an overlay on the pilot's dominant eye that is always transparent and only used to detect proper viewing angles. Heck, why not use Google Glass with the ability to get precise X,Y,Z coordinates relative to the display surfaces?
2) Graceful failure. Have a reset button that cuts all power to the display systems turning the glass transparent within moments. Boot up sequences only engage small areas of the surface before activating the whole system.
3) Redundancy. Split the cockpit in two sides replicating all displays on a single side if required during disaster recovery. Add two layers of display on each side. More information can be displayed while having redundancy and graceful failure. Only 25% of the system needs to be active in order for display functions to work (although at least a specific 50% would be required for dog fighting).
If you want some trippy shit try turning on the motion blur effect in VLC media player. If you're trashed, hammered, and unsure what reality actually is after Halloween, it gets very interesting with motion blur on.
By the way, the backup for the visor failing is lift the visor and use the cockpit readouts.
Of course they did that. I don't know who would assume otherwise. Do you think, while shitting their pants, that they continued to go +1000mph without lifting their visors?
The problem still remains. In the middle of a dog fight is not where you want to have to lift your visor that gave you all those nifty capabilities. Cockpit readouts cannot replace those abilities either as the advantage is not the same. Instead of being inside the helmet they should really consider making the glass around the cockpit the interface itself. Graceful failure allows the glass to be transparent. Or they could make the glass in the visor do the same thing. Lifting not required. Worse case scenario there is a button easily accessible that cuts all power to the display systems turning them transparent more or less instantly.
Plus, imagine if Clint Eastwood in Firefox accidentally restarted the system and it wanted him to think in Chinese? I would be fucked cuz the only thing I could reliably think about in Chinese is found on a menu.
It's not so much about redundancy as it is graceful failure in situations like this.
Yeah... you keep telling yourself that. I just saw the link. Are you fucking with me?
There is NO WAY you're going to miss a 4 1/2 inch black tube sticking off your car. What are you trying to say? You fear the civil liberty issues of law enforcement spending a billion dollars shooting these things at cars just for fuck's sake?
So your fear is while you are driving they are going to tag you and infringe upon your rights? Come on. Be Serious.
They are not going to spend that kind of money doing that, and more to the point, it's a non viable tool for mass surveillance. That's all I give a shit about too. Mass surveillance is the real concern here.
How does it stick? Does it penetrate the surface with little barbs? Not likely. It might hit somebody and kill them. Take out an eye. It's probably a magnetic projectile which implies a large surface area, or some sticky ass glue.
Either way, you would have to be blind not to see it.
We already know from reports that the FBI and the cops will just put trackers on your car directly. That's done underneath the car where long term operation is more likely.
With Google's project and laws quickly coming on the books for automated transportation you're spot on.
Forget freedom or privacy anymore. The cops will be jacked in to a transportation network that will tell them where your car is at all times. It's already about that easy with a cell phone. It won't be possible to not have it either. It's by far the most logical outcome since cars communicating with other cars can dramatically increase efficiency. Meaning less traffic during rush hours. Go just a little bit further and it will make sense to send course adjustments to a car from a centralized control center that is making adjustments for city wide efficiency.
Add a coupla dashes of CISPA here and there... and voila!... The Minority Report. Just missing that whole precog thing going on.
The most hilarious part about it is that people will be twatting that they're on their way to work automatically cuz the toll booths will twat it for you:)
What on Earth is stealthy about that? It's compressed air but that does not mean you would not hear the thunk on your car. It's also on the outside of your damn car at a level that can be seen with the most inattentive of inspections. How long could it go unnoticed?
There are no civil liberty issues here at all. It's abundantly clear that it's only viable during a high speed pursuit. Civil liberties my ass. If the cops are chasing us down without due process, and we have legitimate reasons to fear them following us, we are a hell of a lot more fucked. At that point civil liberties would be a luxury.
I agree with the perp-walk. Perhaps even just 50 hours of nothing-but-no-negotiation trash pick up on the highway for 8-10 weekends.
Executives and board members tend to be douchenozzles. Make the buck stop there and I think we would be pleasantly surprised how employees and contractors would be heavily motivated by management to perform actual quality control.
Money is a poor motivator when your time is priceless. I've always said that a weekend of community service can be worse than the heftiest fine...
After all, how can you enjoy hookers & blow on your yacht when you're picking up trash along with the plebes?
Your slashdot sig is not an advertisement. Your using the same misconception as girlintraining.
Advertising is a form of communication for marketing and used to encourage, persuade, or manipulate an audience (viewers, readers or listeners; sometimes a specific group) to continue or take some new action
Email addresses, resumes, etc., are not marketing. They're only stated methods of communication. I don't feel that when I go to a website that it's advertising their address and phone number. It's informing me of it, and that is fundamentally different.
All advertising is communication for the purposes of marketing .
You have not stated a challenge in a correct fashion at all.
The true argument is here, is not whether my statements about advertising and marketing in the contemporary world are correct, but whether or not we are in agreement about what constitutes an advertisement.
With that being said, I stick to my arguments. All advertising (as I have defined it) is harmful to society and not intended to disseminate truth, objective facts, and/or non-biased data. In fact, 100% of all advertising is intended to illicit an action. This action, of course, being a profit center. Once money got involved, it grew to become the monster we have now.
You're only trying to point out that I'm speaking in absolutes. I am. Advertising will always be harmful, and evolve to be harmful, due to human nature.
1) It's human nature to grow like a parasite apparently and seek domination and extinction of all competition. In this sense, marketers have always been seeking ways to coerce, control, and mitigate obstacles.... 2) It's human nature to attempt to control your environment to your own tastes. I've yet to meet (IRL) a person that truly wants advertising in a willful way being aware of how to eradicate it from their own lives. Attempts to control the flow of information to yourself is fundamentally harmful to other humans that are attempting to do the exact same thing to you for their own purposes.
Just as the other poster said, a Red Queen Race has been in effect for quite some time now. It's effect has pervaded everything including the law.
You only need to look to legal incidents such as Sonic Blue vs. Big Entertainment to see the unconscionably offensive statements such as "not watching commercials amounted to theft of content".
This is why advertising as a concept, and how it's been implemented, has had a wholly deleterious affect on our civilization.
The only excuse trotted out time and time again is that without it capitalism would somehow fail. That's ridiculous, and information could be imparted differently. Especially with the communication resources we have at our disposal.
However, advertising has hijacked and perverted the very idea of social networking hasn't it?
Why the heck does anything need a share button? Is any statement from another "human being" now reliable at all?
Once again, any attempt by human beings to fight back was met with astroturfing. The poisoning of information flows with crap yet again.
I make this challenge to you:
Identify an example of marketing that is not negatively contributing to society in the majority of its content.
You did not listen to his argument and your definition of advertising is far to0 broad.
There's no way that using biased information can lead to better decisions than non-biased information, so advertising is always harmful
That statement is 100% true in all cases.
I have never seen advertising that contained a shred of truth. As another put it, advertising has always been about psychological manipulation of a person. This is also 100% true.
Is it advertising for me to post a resume online? No. Not if it was all factual.
Take a manufacturer's website for example. When you look at a product it of course covers the major talking points of the device itself. Already, it's many orders more informative (with non-biased information being included) than any regular advertising period.
Another important thing to note is specifications.
On what advertising, anywhere, is there an interactive tab that gives you black and white specifications? Nowhere.
So your definition is just far too broad and serves as a Straw man.
Once you have a tighter definition of just what advertising is , it's clear that he is absolutely correct. All advertising is indeed harmful, because all advertising contains only manipulative content devoid of any real truth. In fact, dissemination of truth is the last purpose of advertising.
Your warning about "black and white" thinking is really just an admonishment based on a Straw man platform you constructed and is therefore baseless itself.
Advertising is extremely harmful as a concept and you are certainly correct about one thing, a Red Queen Race.
People have fought against advertising for as long as I can remember. Advertisers fought back, and then became ever more greedy. What do we have now?
Louder commercials - This actually required laws to stop More commercials - I've seen this over 40 years now. It's more than half and TV is so toxic with overlays that it's unwatchable to anyone in my generation now. No Sanctuary tolerated, No Quarter Given - Fucking blaring advertisements at fucking gas stations! - NO PEACE ANYWHERE Regulated devices. - PUOs (Prohibited User Operations) that are protected by DRM law that mandate you MUST put up with our shit period. Draconian copyright laws - The law itself is being perverted to serve those who control content (not make it), and advertising is only a beach head unto our very way of life.
No, advertising is so harmful and toxic to the human experience that it has become an evil with its own life at this point with marketers and executives worshiping at its unholy altar to receive the blessings or more money, and the control that goes with it.
Ask yourself this: Has my life really become better due to more advertising?
You're an anonymous coward posting on a website. How on Earth are your comments any more informed or calculated than mine?
Like I said, until Boeing or Airbus actually make official statements supporting your claim, I'm going to err on the side of caution. Simply because being wrong at 35,000 feet and moving at 500+ mph is an environment extremely unforgiving of mistakes.
Ohhh, and I'm not opposed to the death sentence either.
If a Pharma exec falsifies scientific reports and commits outright fraud that causes the death of dozens of people over the period of a few years, I see no difference between him and serial killer.
Yeah, like a hell of lot more deaths. It would become far more expensive because insurance would be needed against the lawsuits.
Pharma kills enough people each year apparently playing by the rules. Yet when some get caught doing it through gross negligence and fraud, they don't get punished because of the too big to fail theory in Washington.
No, we need far more regulation of Pharma. With lengthy prison sentences for executives that are proven to knowingly put patients at risk.
I don't think they are suggesting the actual harvesting of Panda blood.
Seriously. Jesus Fucking Christ. You could put a male and female Panda in there with a bottle of Wine, Viagra, and an ounce of the finest weed, and they still won't fuck . It's a well known fact that the species is on the verge of extinction simply because they don't have a tremendous urge to procreate.
Any serious interest in this will be synthesized, and if it's required to be grown in an animal, we will probably use modified rabbits. If you look away for two seconds with those bastards, they already multiplied in the cage.
The context that we are in a metal tube flying 500+ mph at ~35k feet in the air deserves to be considered.
Apparently nobody can prove anything either way, but a smart person would err on the side of caution.
I turn off all the wireless capabilities of my devices while flying the entire time. Whatever electromagnetic radiation is being given off a PSP is short range, and not much different than a portable CD player, or DVD player. I'm not afraid of my cell phone in airplane mode. Gee, wonder why they chose that name for the function?
Wireless technologies like cell phones, Bluetooth, and wireless transmission standards are designed to saturate the spectrums they operate in. Especially, technology we have now, as that is how it obtains the speeds that it does. Cell phone technology is designed to operate up to the point of saturation as well. I have absolutely no idea how interference in those spectrums affects any equipment on a plane at all. Only the designers and manufacturers do, of which, I have not heard a peep from.
So until they say I can use the equipment that way, I'm perfectly fine leaving it shut off.
It's either that, or me saying that I'm smart and informed enough to risk a failed landing because I want my fucking Android tablet operating while we land so I can get the high score in Angry Birds.
I'm a pot smoker now if you think one or two times a year makes me a pot smoker. If you're referring to habitual use to the overall detriment of my livelihood, family, and friends, then you sound like one of those people who think legalizing gay marriage will head to marriage between men and animals.
Just because somebody has a drink once or twice a year does not, in any way, shape or form, guarantee they will become alcoholic.
Slashdot Mirror
He posts here several times an hour, every hours, 24 by 7. Unless his job is spamming out these ripoff web sites.
Dude... that's spooky. I just went and signed up to receive my first payment to my PayPal account for $78.93!
All I have to do is copy, paste, and post the same thing.
Of course I had to pay an initial $49.99 on a Russian website with questionable security, but I'm fully expecting those payments any time soon.
Btw, go to http://jobs95.com/ please. Please?
This is why I would look into solutions being referred to as zero-knowledge solutions.
Most people have friends or relatives. It's pretty cheap to create a zero-knowledge implementation where the only thing required is for the other party to have somewhat reliable power and an Internet connection.
Two or more parties would be involved in the initial exchange where you distribute the costs equally and receive an equal sized TrueCrypt container that is, as you would wish, encrypted data-at-rest.
Only when your machine is on does it initiate routine rsync jobs that incrementally sync your TrueCrypt container using a Shadow Copy service (If that's not possible, automatically unmounting and remounting the container does work). I find this works fairly reliably, but is rather process intensive when the containers are large. It's not unusual to take 30 minutes just to figure out what will be sent in an incremental update.
The only real advantage in this setup is encrypted data-at-rest capabilities and restoring is as simple as downloading the whole container, or driving over and copying the container locally. Anything farther than local and you are right back to where you started, which is relying on services limited by Internet bandwidth.
I've been interested in doing this for some time now. A couple of 3TB hard drives in a cheap Linux based enclosure that is plug-n-play 24/7 would allow you to create 1-10GB containers (more efficient for syncing and organization of data) that are present locally and in two remote locations. You could not have any files larger than 10GB, but do you really need to have a backup of a Bluray disc?
I figure it would allow you to restore locally very fast by copying the TrueCrypt container back to your main system and just mounting them. An added benefit is that with a half dozen people participating you could easily have 1 local/2 remote backups with a decent number of containers that are supported.
Or grab a power efficient desktop (hell, go raspberry pi if you like to tinker) and toss a linux distro on it.
I think that is the best way. You need something 24/7 that does not have its power state linked to human whims. Too many NAS units out there are crap. You have to go higher end where you are spending upwards of $1000 on the enclosure and the OS itself to get the features required.
As for myself, I would have some TrueCrypt containers that are being rsynced to a remote system. Deployment is easy since the first local sync would get the entire container and only incremental updates need to be sent across low bandwidth connections.
You don't need to do this with wireless if you are in the same neighborhood, although that does depend on the ISP. If I was in an area with shit Internet I would honestly consider getting some high end mesh networking equipment and forming a cooperative with several dozen people where only encrypted information is exchanged. Picking up a TrueCrypt container is as simple as connecting to the NAS and downloading your container.
If I did create the cooperative it would be understood that you don't need to mirror your porn archives. The entire Internet is your porn archive.
I question the wisdom of turning people's cell phones into emergency information networks like this.
Understanding myself, and user interface design, once you inundate the users with emergency messages that don't pertain to them they no longer have impact.
That is dangerous and counter productive to the goal in the first place. While it's incredibly tragic for parents to be dealing with something like that, it will just end up being ignored.
It's better for it to be rarely used at all, and with a lot more impact, than to be used often and probably ignored. I know that I ignore them at this point. Especially the ones not even in my state.
I think you're full of shit on this one. However, I really want to believe you, only because it would be so damn epic....
With as much money is involved, I honestly don't understand why:
1) It's not done in the cockpit glass itself. We have the tech for that. Add a couple of Kinect like sensors and you can know where the pilot is looking to adjust the display. I'm not an expert, but I think that would account for the position of the pilot's eyes and what he is actually looking at. Perhaps an overlay on the pilot's dominant eye that is always transparent and only used to detect proper viewing angles. Heck, why not use Google Glass with the ability to get precise X,Y,Z coordinates relative to the display surfaces?
2) Graceful failure. Have a reset button that cuts all power to the display systems turning the glass transparent within moments. Boot up sequences only engage small areas of the surface before activating the whole system.
3) Redundancy. Split the cockpit in two sides replicating all displays on a single side if required during disaster recovery. Add two layers of display on each side. More information can be displayed while having redundancy and graceful failure. Only 25% of the system needs to be active in order for display functions to work (although at least a specific 50% would be required for dog fighting).
If you want some trippy shit try turning on the motion blur effect in VLC media player. If you're trashed, hammered, and unsure what reality actually is after Halloween, it gets very interesting with motion blur on.
By the way, the backup for the visor failing is lift the visor and use the cockpit readouts.
Of course they did that. I don't know who would assume otherwise. Do you think, while shitting their pants, that they continued to go +1000mph without lifting their visors?
The problem still remains. In the middle of a dog fight is not where you want to have to lift your visor that gave you all those nifty capabilities. Cockpit readouts cannot replace those abilities either as the advantage is not the same. Instead of being inside the helmet they should really consider making the glass around the cockpit the interface itself. Graceful failure allows the glass to be transparent. Or they could make the glass in the visor do the same thing. Lifting not required. Worse case scenario there is a button easily accessible that cuts all power to the display systems turning them transparent more or less instantly.
Plus, imagine if Clint Eastwood in Firefox accidentally restarted the system and it wanted him to think in Chinese? I would be fucked cuz the only thing I could reliably think about in Chinese is found on a menu.
It's not so much about redundancy as it is graceful failure in situations like this.
LOL.
Yeah... you keep telling yourself that. I just saw the link. Are you fucking with me?
There is NO WAY you're going to miss a 4 1/2 inch black tube sticking off your car. What are you trying to say? You fear the civil liberty issues of law enforcement spending a billion dollars shooting these things at cars just for fuck's sake?
So your fear is while you are driving they are going to tag you and infringe upon your rights? Come on. Be Serious.
They are not going to spend that kind of money doing that, and more to the point, it's a non viable tool for mass surveillance. That's all I give a shit about too. Mass surveillance is the real concern here.
You still have to be blind to not see something stuck to your car. Especially at that height.
You gotta put your thinking cap on here.
How does it stick? Does it penetrate the surface with little barbs? Not likely. It might hit somebody and kill them. Take out an eye. It's probably a magnetic projectile which implies a large surface area, or some sticky ass glue.
Either way, you would have to be blind not to see it.
We already know from reports that the FBI and the cops will just put trackers on your car directly. That's done underneath the car where long term operation is more likely.
With Google's project and laws quickly coming on the books for automated transportation you're spot on.
Forget freedom or privacy anymore. The cops will be jacked in to a transportation network that will tell them where your car is at all times. It's already about that easy with a cell phone. It won't be possible to not have it either. It's by far the most logical outcome since cars communicating with other cars can dramatically increase efficiency. Meaning less traffic during rush hours. Go just a little bit further and it will make sense to send course adjustments to a car from a centralized control center that is making adjustments for city wide efficiency.
Add a coupla dashes of CISPA here and there... and voila! ... The Minority Report. Just missing that whole precog thing going on.
The most hilarious part about it is that people will be twatting that they're on their way to work automatically cuz the toll booths will twat it for you :)
Not to mention one very important point....
It's fired from a fucking cop car
What on Earth is stealthy about that? It's compressed air but that does not mean you would not hear the thunk on your car. It's also on the outside of your damn car at a level that can be seen with the most inattentive of inspections. How long could it go unnoticed?
There are no civil liberty issues here at all. It's abundantly clear that it's only viable during a high speed pursuit. Civil liberties my ass. If the cops are chasing us down without due process, and we have legitimate reasons to fear them following us, we are a hell of a lot more fucked. At that point civil liberties would be a luxury.
I agree with the perp-walk. Perhaps even just 50 hours of nothing-but-no-negotiation trash pick up on the highway for 8-10 weekends.
Executives and board members tend to be douchenozzles. Make the buck stop there and I think we would be pleasantly surprised how employees and contractors would be heavily motivated by management to perform actual quality control.
Money is a poor motivator when your time is priceless. I've always said that a weekend of community service can be worse than the heftiest fine...
After all, how can you enjoy hookers & blow on your yacht when you're picking up trash along with the plebes?
Your slashdot sig is not an advertisement. Your using the same misconception as girlintraining.
Advertising is a form of communication for marketing and used to encourage, persuade, or manipulate an audience (viewers, readers or listeners; sometimes a specific group) to continue or take some new action
Email addresses, resumes, etc., are not marketing. They're only stated methods of communication. I don't feel that when I go to a website that it's advertising their address and phone number. It's informing me of it, and that is fundamentally different.
All advertising is communication for the purposes of marketing .
You have not stated a challenge in a correct fashion at all.
The true argument is here, is not whether my statements about advertising and marketing in the contemporary world are correct, but whether or not we are in agreement about what constitutes an advertisement.
With that being said, I stick to my arguments. All advertising (as I have defined it) is harmful to society and not intended to disseminate truth, objective facts, and/or non-biased data. In fact, 100% of all advertising is intended to illicit an action. This action, of course, being a profit center. Once money got involved, it grew to become the monster we have now.
You're only trying to point out that I'm speaking in absolutes. I am. Advertising will always be harmful, and evolve to be harmful, due to human nature.
1) It's human nature to grow like a parasite apparently and seek domination and extinction of all competition. In this sense, marketers have always been seeking ways to coerce, control, and mitigate obstacles....
2) It's human nature to attempt to control your environment to your own tastes. I've yet to meet (IRL) a person that truly wants advertising in a willful way being aware of how to eradicate it from their own lives. Attempts to control the flow of information to yourself is fundamentally harmful to other humans that are attempting to do the exact same thing to you for their own purposes.
Just as the other poster said, a Red Queen Race has been in effect for quite some time now. It's effect has pervaded everything including the law.
You only need to look to legal incidents such as Sonic Blue vs. Big Entertainment to see the unconscionably offensive statements such as "not watching commercials amounted to theft of content".
This is why advertising as a concept, and how it's been implemented, has had a wholly deleterious affect on our civilization.
The only excuse trotted out time and time again is that without it capitalism would somehow fail. That's ridiculous, and information could be imparted differently. Especially with the communication resources we have at our disposal .
However, advertising has hijacked and perverted the very idea of social networking hasn't it?
Why the heck does anything need a share button? Is any statement from another "human being" now reliable at all?
Once again, any attempt by human beings to fight back was met with astroturfing. The poisoning of information flows with crap yet again.
I make this challenge to you:
Identify an example of marketing that is not negatively contributing to society in the majority of its content.
This is true not only for advertising.
You did not listen to his argument and your definition of advertising is far to0 broad.
There's no way that using biased information can lead to better decisions than non-biased information, so advertising is always harmful
That statement is 100% true in all cases.
I have never seen advertising that contained a shred of truth. As another put it, advertising has always been about psychological manipulation of a person. This is also 100% true.
Is it advertising for me to post a resume online? No. Not if it was all factual.
Take a manufacturer's website for example. When you look at a product it of course covers the major talking points of the device itself. Already, it's many orders more informative (with non-biased information being included) than any regular advertising period.
Another important thing to note is specifications.
On what advertising, anywhere, is there an interactive tab that gives you black and white specifications? Nowhere.
So your definition is just far too broad and serves as a Straw man.
Once you have a tighter definition of just what advertising is , it's clear that he is absolutely correct. All advertising is indeed harmful, because all advertising contains only manipulative content devoid of any real truth. In fact, dissemination of truth is the last purpose of advertising.
Your warning about "black and white" thinking is really just an admonishment based on a Straw man platform you constructed and is therefore baseless itself.
Advertising is extremely harmful as a concept and you are certainly correct about one thing, a Red Queen Race.
People have fought against advertising for as long as I can remember. Advertisers fought back, and then became ever more greedy. What do we have now?
Louder commercials - This actually required laws to stop
More commercials - I've seen this over 40 years now. It's more than half and TV is so toxic with overlays that it's unwatchable to anyone in my generation now.
No Sanctuary tolerated, No Quarter Given - Fucking blaring advertisements at fucking gas stations! - NO PEACE ANYWHERE
Regulated devices. - PUOs (Prohibited User Operations) that are protected by DRM law that mandate you MUST put up with our shit period.
Draconian copyright laws - The law itself is being perverted to serve those who control content (not make it), and advertising is only a beach head unto our very way of life.
No, advertising is so harmful and toxic to the human experience that it has become an evil with its own life at this point with marketers and executives worshiping at its unholy altar to receive the blessings or more money, and the control that goes with it.
Ask yourself this: Has my life really become better due to more advertising?
If I'm fishing in my pants to figure out what all the "fur" is about... that means I have been away from it for far too long.
Besides, that is what God created conversion programs for.
God crashed a multi-billion dollar research craft into Mars?
You're an anonymous coward posting on a website. How on Earth are your comments any more informed or calculated than mine?
Like I said, until Boeing or Airbus actually make official statements supporting your claim, I'm going to err on the side of caution. Simply because being wrong at 35,000 feet and moving at 500+ mph is an environment extremely unforgiving of mistakes.
Any observation of the animals needs to be done by hidden cameras such that they are never aware of anyone being near them
I've seen enough Japanese websites to know they have the technology, experience, and expertise to be contracted for exactly that.
Ohhh, and I'm not opposed to the death sentence either.
If a Pharma exec falsifies scientific reports and commits outright fraud that causes the death of dozens of people over the period of a few years, I see no difference between him and serial killer.
Fry the bastard.
Yeah, like a hell of lot more deaths. It would become far more expensive because insurance would be needed against the lawsuits.
Pharma kills enough people each year apparently playing by the rules. Yet when some get caught doing it through gross negligence and fraud, they don't get punished because of the too big to fail theory in Washington.
No, we need far more regulation of Pharma. With lengthy prison sentences for executives that are proven to knowingly put patients at risk.
I don't think they are suggesting the actual harvesting of Panda blood.
Seriously. Jesus Fucking Christ. You could put a male and female Panda in there with a bottle of Wine, Viagra, and an ounce of the finest weed, and they still won't fuck . It's a well known fact that the species is on the verge of extinction simply because they don't have a tremendous urge to procreate.
Any serious interest in this will be synthesized, and if it's required to be grown in an animal, we will probably use modified rabbits. If you look away for two seconds with those bastards, they already multiplied in the cage.
I was going to say much the same.
The context that we are in a metal tube flying 500+ mph at ~35k feet in the air deserves to be considered.
Apparently nobody can prove anything either way, but a smart person would err on the side of caution.
I turn off all the wireless capabilities of my devices while flying the entire time. Whatever electromagnetic radiation is being given off a PSP is short range, and not much different than a portable CD player, or DVD player. I'm not afraid of my cell phone in airplane mode. Gee, wonder why they chose that name for the function?
Wireless technologies like cell phones, Bluetooth, and wireless transmission standards are designed to saturate the spectrums they operate in. Especially, technology we have now, as that is how it obtains the speeds that it does. Cell phone technology is designed to operate up to the point of saturation as well. I have absolutely no idea how interference in those spectrums affects any equipment on a plane at all. Only the designers and manufacturers do, of which, I have not heard a peep from.
So until they say I can use the equipment that way, I'm perfectly fine leaving it shut off.
It's either that, or me saying that I'm smart and informed enough to risk a failed landing because I want my fucking Android tablet operating while we land so I can get the high score in Angry Birds.
Future?
I'm a pot smoker now if you think one or two times a year makes me a pot smoker. If you're referring to habitual use to the overall detriment of my livelihood, family, and friends, then you sound like one of those people who think legalizing gay marriage will head to marriage between men and animals.
Just because somebody has a drink once or twice a year does not, in any way, shape or form, guarantee they will become alcoholic.