These things are stuck on with huge neodymium magnets. The glue holding the magnet to the device is weaker than the magnetic attachment. The college kid who was being tracked still has the magnet stuck to his car's frame - it won't come off.
If you've been following Wired's blogs on the topic you'd know that the FBI has received cartoonishly anti-Islamic training and has gone full McCarthy on the US' Islamic population, down to infiltrating Islamic college groups and mosques. Most hilariously, one group of Muslims called the FBI on their own informant sent to infiltrate a mosque because they thought he could be a terrorist.
For just $1b you can give them each $1k. Seems like a decent bonus and it will buy some good PR. For $10b they could each get $10k - and Apple would still have $88b left.
Imagine if phone calls could be as free and open as email. If you could just pick up a phone, call anyone anywhere in the world on any device for as long as you want at no cost.
It's real. There are open VoIP protocols that allow this such as SIP and IAX. If they became popular the POTS and cellular telephony industries would be destroyed, and those are massive cash cows. Have you seen the profit margins telcos bring in for these services? In some case, such as SMS, they're basically charging you money for an infinite resource that only requires initial setup costs.
So those open VoIP technologies will be fought tooth and nail by the telcos. They are an existing, clear existential threat to their industry. But they'll gladly take the practically nonexistent operating costs of VoIP for relatively insane fees, in the form of things like Vonage VoIP service. That would be the best of both worlds, they'd love that.
No but seriously any corporation can claim ownership of anything on Youtube. I could write, perform and record an original song, and some sleazebag could claim ownership of it, present ads over it, and make money from it, and I could go pound sand unless I want to (and have the money and time to) lawyer up. That's why I'll never upload anything to Youtube, Tribler is better as it is uncontrollable, in fact I've just decided that I'm going to close my YouTube account.
Even ignoring that, a motion sensor is a better solution. Saves energy and reduces light pollution, has the security advantages of visible light (bystanders could see burglars) and draws attention to movement better than a flashlight, and better than the changeless always on/nightvision solutions.
Dimming the lights seems like the worst solution too. I wonder how much it would cost to install sensors to detect traffic and flip on the lights only ahead of individual cars. The downside would be bulb wear, flipping lights on and off increases the wear on incandescent and flourescent bulbs.
For a sensor maybe just have a small computer with object recognition every few hundred feet. Detecting headlights should be easy so they could be spaced far apart on the straights.
It benefits pedestrians much more than drivers, but the lights make it easier for drivers to see where they're going too. Without street lights, the area outside of where your headlights land will be dark if there's a moon, or a pitch-black void if it's a moonless night, vs. with street lights where the whole road is lit up.
Climate change is not a binary condition (even if going out of the "optimal range" is, if we can quantify it). It's true that even if we stopped burning fossil carbon after lunch today there would still be some change (everything projected from to-date emissions), but because it's changed from the pre-industrial state is no excuse to continue releasing fossil carbon rampantly. The more change we cause the harder it will be to adapt to and/or reverse the condition, and at a certain point we may reach a catastrophic and practically irreversible condition, such as a mass extinction of marine life due to ocean acidification, or a runaway methane clathrate release. Also keep in mind that we don't want the rate of climate change to outpace our ability to deal with it.
Reducing fossil carbon release doesn't require decreasing society's tech base and burning more fossil fuels won't help us adapt to, or geo-engineer our way out of global warming in any way. If anything preparing for global warming will improve tech and better prepare us for the future, instead of complacently resting on our fossil fuel reserves that we can never get back.
So in other words, it destroyed their civilization.
"Killed off" is mostly incorrect (I doubt their societal collapse was bloodless...especially considering they liked to sacrifice people to the gods when times were hard) but the point stands.
Also centralization and organization are more efficient and cheaper per-person...I think you mean urbanization which requires high resource concentration. I could call your post propaganda over this minor wording error but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
You're right about me not being well read in the Scriptures. However, I didn't say the BIBLE was urging these evangelicals to believe this stuff; i don't know where it comes from. Just flipping through cable TV shows and hearing all these "preachers" yell (I guess this is something, that if you truly believe in, can't be talked about quietly) about being prepared for the Rapture makes me wonder; what happens when the Rapture doesn't come?
It's yet another facet of evangelical Christian culture that doesn't come from the Bible, like hating homosexuals (the only anti-homosexuality in the Bible is in the old testament book of Leviticus, the book packed chock-full of batshit insanity that all the nastiest quotes come from), but there is definitely some feeling among them that if Israel isn't kept secure there "won't be anywhere for Jesus to park his sleigh" when the end-times comes around.
I think there is some feeling, never spoken outright but always implied, that they can "bring about the rapture" as well, in fact there is a lot of concern about the number of evangelicals in control of the nukes in the USAF because of this, it's pretty scary, not unlike the situation with the Unitologists in Dead Space...
Another fun fact: In some purpose-built drag cars (like funny cars) you can't see much of the road in front of you (due to a combination of low seating and massive engine & intake scoop), drivers steer using tall landmarks and the drag strip walls for reference 8-(
If any of the urbexers are reading this, here's how you can re-establish contact with your friends anonymously:
1. Set up a Tor node and torchat on your home computer.
2. Create instructions for your friends on how to set up a Tor node and torchat, and through Tor with a locked-down browser, put it online. Putting it on your own.onion hosting and using a tor2web URL would be best so that you can take it down later, but Pastebin could do if you're not that good with computers. If you use Pastebin be sure to include your Tor hidden service name (chat username).
3. Now all you have to do is get this document to your friends. At a time when you are normally sleeping, leave the house wearing a hoodie and gloves (through an exit where CCTVs can't see you, don't make it possible to pin down where you came from), leave your cell phone at home and turned on. Do not take your car. You can take public transportation if you pay with cash. Use a pay phone as far as convenient from your house to call your friends. Mask your voice and don't give names. Just tell them to write down a website and visit it. Leave a voicemail if they aren't there or hang up on you thinking it's a prank.
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Dunno about that but when I play Arkham City as Catwoman I have a semi the entire time
I mean that could be downright dangerous for teenage boys. They should have a warning on that game about erections lasting longer than 4 hours...
..brought to you by: Coal! America's power source."
That one cracks me up every time.
THIS
It seems you still need a warrant for that in the US. Officially, as far as we know, anyways.
These things are stuck on with huge neodymium magnets. The glue holding the magnet to the device is weaker than the magnetic attachment. The college kid who was being tracked still has the magnet stuck to his car's frame - it won't come off.
If you've been following Wired's blogs on the topic you'd know that the FBI has received cartoonishly anti-Islamic training and has gone full McCarthy on the US' Islamic population, down to infiltrating Islamic college groups and mosques. Most hilariously, one group of Muslims called the FBI on their own informant sent to infiltrate a mosque because they thought he could be a terrorist.
Number of Foxconn employees: 1m
For just $1b you can give them each $1k. Seems like a decent bonus and it will buy some good PR. For $10b they could each get $10k - and Apple would still have $88b left.
It'll be the fastest 33 minutes and 20 seconds you've ever spent online!
They have a business motive to do this.
Imagine if phone calls could be as free and open as email. If you could just pick up a phone, call anyone anywhere in the world on any device for as long as you want at no cost.
It's real. There are open VoIP protocols that allow this such as SIP and IAX. If they became popular the POTS and cellular telephony industries would be destroyed, and those are massive cash cows. Have you seen the profit margins telcos bring in for these services? In some case, such as SMS, they're basically charging you money for an infinite resource that only requires initial setup costs.
So those open VoIP technologies will be fought tooth and nail by the telcos. They are an existing, clear existential threat to their industry. But they'll gladly take the practically nonexistent operating costs of VoIP for relatively insane fees, in the form of things like Vonage VoIP service. That would be the best of both worlds, they'd love that.
My psychic comedy powers fortell the future once more!
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No but seriously any corporation can claim ownership of anything on Youtube. I could write, perform and record an original song, and some sleazebag could claim ownership of it, present ads over it, and make money from it, and I could go pound sand unless I want to (and have the money and time to) lawyer up. That's why I'll never upload anything to Youtube, Tribler is better as it is uncontrollable, in fact I've just decided that I'm going to close my YouTube account.
Yep the correct answer is TOR/I2P/VPN. Good work AC, too bad it got pushed down so far.
Electric cars? Some form of energy storage?
Even ignoring that, a motion sensor is a better solution. Saves energy and reduces light pollution, has the security advantages of visible light (bystanders could see burglars) and draws attention to movement better than a flashlight, and better than the changeless always on/nightvision solutions.
Dimming the lights seems like the worst solution too. I wonder how much it would cost to install sensors to detect traffic and flip on the lights only ahead of individual cars. The downside would be bulb wear, flipping lights on and off increases the wear on incandescent and flourescent bulbs.
For a sensor maybe just have a small computer with object recognition every few hundred feet. Detecting headlights should be easy so they could be spaced far apart on the straights.
I always wondered if libertarians would have us all drive offroad rigs over mud trails to get around.
Now I know.
It benefits pedestrians much more than drivers, but the lights make it easier for drivers to see where they're going too. Without street lights, the area outside of where your headlights land will be dark if there's a moon, or a pitch-black void if it's a moonless night, vs. with street lights where the whole road is lit up.
They were intended for humid/tropical locations near the equator, which is most of the inhabited areas.
Climate change is not a binary condition (even if going out of the "optimal range" is, if we can quantify it). It's true that even if we stopped burning fossil carbon after lunch today there would still be some change (everything projected from to-date emissions), but because it's changed from the pre-industrial state is no excuse to continue releasing fossil carbon rampantly. The more change we cause the harder it will be to adapt to and/or reverse the condition, and at a certain point we may reach a catastrophic and practically irreversible condition, such as a mass extinction of marine life due to ocean acidification, or a runaway methane clathrate release. Also keep in mind that we don't want the rate of climate change to outpace our ability to deal with it.
Reducing fossil carbon release doesn't require decreasing society's tech base and burning more fossil fuels won't help us adapt to, or geo-engineer our way out of global warming in any way. If anything preparing for global warming will improve tech and better prepare us for the future, instead of complacently resting on our fossil fuel reserves that we can never get back.
The biosphere sure is, human civilization, not so much. There is an optimum range for human civilizations.
Who said it was fixed?
So in other words, it destroyed their civilization.
"Killed off" is mostly incorrect (I doubt their societal collapse was bloodless...especially considering they liked to sacrifice people to the gods when times were hard) but the point stands.
Also centralization and organization are more efficient and cheaper per-person...I think you mean urbanization which requires high resource concentration. I could call your post propaganda over this minor wording error but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
You're right about me not being well read in the Scriptures. However, I didn't say the BIBLE was urging these evangelicals to believe this stuff; i don't know where it comes from. Just flipping through cable TV shows and hearing all these "preachers" yell (I guess this is something, that if you truly believe in, can't be talked about quietly) about being prepared for the Rapture makes me wonder; what happens when the Rapture doesn't come?
It's yet another facet of evangelical Christian culture that doesn't come from the Bible, like hating homosexuals (the only anti-homosexuality in the Bible is in the old testament book of Leviticus, the book packed chock-full of batshit insanity that all the nastiest quotes come from), but there is definitely some feeling among them that if Israel isn't kept secure there "won't be anywhere for Jesus to park his sleigh" when the end-times comes around.
I think there is some feeling, never spoken outright but always implied, that they can "bring about the rapture" as well, in fact there is a lot of concern about the number of evangelicals in control of the nukes in the USAF because of this, it's pretty scary, not unlike the situation with the Unitologists in Dead Space...
The UK has plenty of them too, far more than Canada.
Another fun fact: In some purpose-built drag cars (like funny cars) you can't see much of the road in front of you (due to a combination of low seating and massive engine & intake scoop), drivers steer using tall landmarks and the drag strip walls for reference 8-(
If any of the urbexers are reading this, here's how you can re-establish contact with your friends anonymously:
1. Set up a Tor node and torchat on your home computer.
2. Create instructions for your friends on how to set up a Tor node and torchat, and through Tor with a locked-down browser, put it online. Putting it on your own .onion hosting and using a tor2web URL would be best so that you can take it down later, but Pastebin could do if you're not that good with computers. If you use Pastebin be sure to include your Tor hidden service name (chat username).
3. Now all you have to do is get this document to your friends. At a time when you are normally sleeping, leave the house wearing a hoodie and gloves (through an exit where CCTVs can't see you, don't make it possible to pin down where you came from), leave your cell phone at home and turned on. Do not take your car. You can take public transportation if you pay with cash. Use a pay phone as far as convenient from your house to call your friends. Mask your voice and don't give names. Just tell them to write down a website and visit it. Leave a voicemail if they aren't there or hang up on you thinking it's a prank.