Perhaps allow private tracking beacons to be used as evidence for search warrants (not for anything else, because you could do all kinds of bad stuff by faking the location of certain items) and then have a law that sets out a massive punishment for faking location info for this purpose (I don't think inaccuracy will be a problem for long). Problem solved?
I always wondered if these tracking solutions were worth anything, I should have known it was too good to be true...that was my idea for securing a valuable car as well, crap...
The researchers describe in the paper that the new frog has a distinctive croak, quite different from the two existing species of leopard frogs on the East Coast.
Does it say "cruak" instead of "croak?" Perhaps the species originated elsewhere in New York...
RFIDs harder to forge? Only if they're active RFIDs and are tamper-proofed. If they're passive, it would be like a very affordable and convincing organic-display license plate.
As for RFIDs in passports, they'd have to outlaw RFID-blocking wallets and folders.
With Smart Grid technology they'll know when you're charging an electric car, and maybe they can get it's serial and do a lookup on an insurance industry database to see if it's insured.
This is why laws need to be revised with changes in technology. What's expensive today is dirt-cheap and everywhere tomorrow. I'm sure the idea of having a policeman with ability to instantly recognize and communicate license plate numbers in a crow's nest on every lamppost seemed insane just a few decades ago.
Makes you think, you could make good money as a fuel reseller with a pickup truck modified to act as a stealth fuel truck. Charge a delivery fee on top of the gas price (or get creative if you're an evil bastard...poor people are easy to screw for extra cash, ask telecoms) and you're set.
I'd say put a turtle top with blacked-out windows on the pickup, hiding a massive fuel tank (use a Serious Business pickup with plenty of hauling power like a Hilux or Dodge 3500). Set up en electric fuel pump that fills the carrying tank from the vehicle's stock tank, and a pump coming from the carrier tank to fill vehicles with. To take on massive amounts of fuel discreetly, transfer most fuel from stock tank to carrier tank, fill up, drive to next gas station and repeat. Maybe run the transfer pump for a set amount of time during fill-up to take an extra 10gal of gas or something, and say you "got the extended tank option" if anybody asks.
Oh an inherently regressive consumption tax, that's a great idea. You know just making middle & lower class Americans poorer than the Chinese through taxation won't bring the jobs back.
THIS. If you changed my Linux PC's kernel for a BSD kernel I might not even notice. Take away the GNU toolset & desktop apps and it's changed beyond recognition.
Li'l whitey get accused of downloading shitty crap Says he neva listen to no muthafuckin' rap Buys his CDs like a good li'l homey Realized what evil suits doin' with his precious money
You are wrong, but at the same time it's true that unlimited isn't truly unlimited. Here's how it works.
Say you're on a "true unlimited" monthly data plan, and you get a download speed of 100kbps. You're actually buying 1 month's worth of data @ 100kbps, or about 259gb. Now that number is not infinity but that's what people expect when you say unlimited - unlimited data at the advertised speed, the only limitation being time itself. If you offer a 100kbps plan that doesn't let you download 259gb per month, and call it unlimited, that's when people will feel that they've been lied to. There is not only the natural limitation of time, but also you're not delivering the advertised speed.
Technically true but you could call it a network in the same sense as the "tor network" or "i2p network."
So they could download a bunch of.torrent files off of popular sites that are using popular trackers and snoop into those, but there's no way they can see everything.
Yep that's what they do. Not hard to write a scraper to download all torrents from a tracker index site.
When I checked my IP (untraceably of course) when news of the site hit Slashdot, it showed just a few torrents, about half of which I had actually downloaded. Mind you the box that was on the IP at the time was seeding over 600 torrents. It uses a variety of blocklists including many of the bluetack lists.
Slashdot Mirror
I worked in a cubicle right next to a big laser printer for about a year :-(
Perhaps allow private tracking beacons to be used as evidence for search warrants (not for anything else, because you could do all kinds of bad stuff by faking the location of certain items) and then have a law that sets out a massive punishment for faking location info for this purpose (I don't think inaccuracy will be a problem for long). Problem solved?
I always wondered if these tracking solutions were worth anything, I should have known it was too good to be true...that was my idea for securing a valuable car as well, crap...
I'd gladly take the false 911 charges over being robbed and possibly killed.
LOL nice XD I'll have to remember that.
You're really not gonna like this:
http://www.wallcoo.net/car/Trucks/images/Tank_Truck_Fuel_Truck.jpg
It gets worse:
http://www.tieman.com.au/assets/image/773807359_Fule-1344424255_9_TripleRoadTrainHW%5B1%5D.jpg
WARNING massive time destroyer!
Nobody said the truck itself wasn't insured, you pay for the insurance with the money you get from reselling gas!
The researchers describe in the paper that the new frog has a distinctive croak, quite different from the two existing species of leopard frogs on the East Coast.
Does it say "cruak" instead of "croak?" Perhaps the species originated elsewhere in New York...
RFIDs harder to forge? Only if they're active RFIDs and are tamper-proofed. If they're passive, it would be like a very affordable and convincing organic-display license plate.
As for RFIDs in passports, they'd have to outlaw RFID-blocking wallets and folders.
With Smart Grid technology they'll know when you're charging an electric car, and maybe they can get it's serial and do a lookup on an insurance industry database to see if it's insured.
This is why laws need to be revised with changes in technology. What's expensive today is dirt-cheap and everywhere tomorrow. I'm sure the idea of having a policeman with ability to instantly recognize and communicate license plate numbers in a crow's nest on every lamppost seemed insane just a few decades ago.
Makes you think, you could make good money as a fuel reseller with a pickup truck modified to act as a stealth fuel truck. Charge a delivery fee on top of the gas price (or get creative if you're an evil bastard...poor people are easy to screw for extra cash, ask telecoms) and you're set.
I'd say put a turtle top with blacked-out windows on the pickup, hiding a massive fuel tank (use a Serious Business pickup with plenty of hauling power like a Hilux or Dodge 3500). Set up en electric fuel pump that fills the carrying tank from the vehicle's stock tank, and a pump coming from the carrier tank to fill vehicles with. To take on massive amounts of fuel discreetly, transfer most fuel from stock tank to carrier tank, fill up, drive to next gas station and repeat. Maybe run the transfer pump for a set amount of time during fill-up to take an extra 10gal of gas or something, and say you "got the extended tank option" if anybody asks.
$500 one-time to save $500-$1k per car per year (if you're lucky)? One giant petrol tank please!
Oh an inherently regressive consumption tax, that's a great idea. You know just making middle & lower class Americans poorer than the Chinese through taxation won't bring the jobs back.
Lawyers don't want to create more of their own kind, they already do a lot to artificially limit the supply of lawyers to keep their pay high.
THIS. If you changed my Linux PC's kernel for a BSD kernel I might not even notice. Take away the GNU toolset & desktop apps and it's changed beyond recognition.
They turned me into a newt!
(I got better.)
After I eat at a celebration, I know I do.
Li'l whitey get accused of downloading shitty crap
Says he neva listen to no muthafuckin' rap
Buys his CDs like a good li'l homey
Realized what evil suits doin' with his precious money
You are wrong, but at the same time it's true that unlimited isn't truly unlimited. Here's how it works.
Say you're on a "true unlimited" monthly data plan, and you get a download speed of 100kbps. You're actually buying 1 month's worth of data @ 100kbps, or about 259gb. Now that number is not infinity but that's what people expect when you say unlimited - unlimited data at the advertised speed, the only limitation being time itself. If you offer a 100kbps plan that doesn't let you download 259gb per month, and call it unlimited, that's when people will feel that they've been lied to. There is not only the natural limitation of time, but also you're not delivering the advertised speed.
He seemed so shocked when I stepped sideways to avoid him when he was glad-handing at the local GO-train station during the last election.
Hahaha nice B-)
Hahaha, just checked again and they say the current IP for the same box "is in the clear!" XD
Technically true but you could call it a network in the same sense as the "tor network" or "i2p network."
So they could download a bunch of .torrent files off of popular sites that are using popular trackers and snoop into those, but there's no way they can see everything.
Yep that's what they do. Not hard to write a scraper to download all torrents from a tracker index site.
When I checked my IP (untraceably of course) when news of the site hit Slashdot, it showed just a few torrents, about half of which I had actually downloaded. Mind you the box that was on the IP at the time was seeding over 600 torrents. It uses a variety of blocklists including many of the bluetack lists.