I think this you are right and this is all setting up the future, specifically the regulation of online gambling and taxation of it. These are not easy topics considering no country owns it. But you better believe Uncle Sam wants his cut. IMO that's what this is about. That and the lobbying efforts of various casino industry groups and both right and left leaning anti-gambling groups. One hates gambling because Jesus would hate it. The other hates gambling because it provides pleasure, and leftists hate anyone getting pleasure without sharing.
People gets a bad wrap because it's both misundedrstood, as we see in examples above, and the history of the game is dubious in general. That's not today's modern poker operation, but it does have the historical image of an "outlaw" game that is hard to shake.
All Gambling is risk management. That same risk management pervades our lives, we just don't recognize it.
Myself, I got half a million hands at 100NL that say online poker is worth the risk. But freezing accounts? Yikes. I don't like to take that kind of risk and I hope they get this cleared up soon because I won't play without that guarantee. It's not too much to ask to get paid in a timely fashion with checks that actually cash.
Why is this insightful? This makes no sense. Do you understand the rules of poker? There is no house, hence there can be no house odds. The house does not play in the hand, any hand. It gets no simpler than that.
Another concern about using robotics, is that they have no conscious that can ask if a particular order is morally acceptable, but also legal in terms of warfare, as defined by modern war fighting states and their various treaties. This is why humans should always be in control, if only in regard to accepting the consequences of the machine's actions.
Chem warfare always put more fear into me. Nerve gases, if deployed by a modern capable military such as Russia, can kill you with just a skin touch. The NBC gear was very clumsy when I went through training and it hasn't changed much since AFAIK.
Simple fact is all war is hell. Maybe dying by a sword is more honorable than dying by a chem weapon, but you're still dead. War is like this - if those guys over there are trying to kill me, I'm gonna do _anything_ I can to kill them first. I'll worry about honor and glory afterwards.
Fortunately we get to pontificate in times of peace about what is "fair". Unfortunately when it all hits the fan, the gloves come off and rules about morality take a back seat to fear driven aggression.
This was the thinking behind the infamous "neutron bomb", or enhanced radiation weapon. It would be deployed in a tactical fashion to stop the massive influx of armor from Russia into Europe. They got bad PR and were never deployed, but tactical weapons with nuclear payloads, still to this day, play a key part of their defensive plans. Perhaps NATO will eventually withdraw all of their nuclear warheads, but that is doubtful as long as the threat of Russia still remains. Note also that a lot of those theater missile systems can reach well into other sensitive areas in the region.
True. But if you include the security forces surrounding installations, then women do serve in combat roles. And of course there have been well publicized accounts of women fighter pilots in the US Air Force and the Navy.
Combat roles demand a lot from a person. The question becomes - can this person carry 75lbs of gear on their back for 20Km over terrible terrain and then at the end be capable of fighting effectively? Can this person kill the enemy in a close-quarters situation? etc. It's not about sexism, it's about physical strength in the long run. Combat roles are tough on a person's body.
After I saw FPGA and Verilog right along side making your own bio-diesel I knew, this was a really eclectic group of topics being talked about. I envy you insensitive euro-bastards. Where is my hacker space festival (in the US?) All we get is lame gatherings of steam-punkers doing the cosplay thing in the desert while modding their cases/cars/bodies to look like they were built by Jules Verne.. or commercial gatherings where it's free pencils and a few days at the poker tables in the area.
Yes but one individual can talk to another and start a thread that spreads within the population, alerting them to the danger. We see this in a lot of animal species, and also in humans. For instance the dangers of climate change is being propagated through this mechanism today.
Gathering resources and returning wouldn't be worth it unless their world(s) were truly in need. But the more obvious need would be to spread their civilization and avoid extinction. Any civilization that wants to avoid extinction must move away from the star it was "born" at eventually.
It's all about the candidates. If all of the options are all you then who cares if they use e-voting? It really doesn't matter. All the choices are for your team(s).
That's how I see this debate over e-voting. Until the two party system behind it is fixed it's really not going to matter. Paper ballots can be rigged easily, there is hardly any security. Oh you got a phone bill and a state ID? well that seems legit, step into the ballot booth Mr. Popadopolis.
Those don't count, the Vic 20 came with a book of Basic programs and you copied those. Admit it!;-) My first graphical program was on the Vic 20, copied from the book that came with it. It made a wing ding fly across the screen. I miss those days, when it really didn't matter. These days I'm a pro and more concerned about things outside of actual programming like SDLC processes. It's work now.
Although the article makes allusions in the beginning to this particular wire being not on any charts, an unknown wire, the truth is they knew up front about these wires in the area (one of many in a mesh) and had been warned. That comes later in the article. Fact is, they should have known about this wire when digging.
Thanks for the link, I'm impressed they actually got decent results, even over a local network I'd be impressed frankly. It's impossible to compare a nice GPU bus to a network connection, but if it even gets remotely close I'll be very impressed.
I think this may have a future, but it's gonna be very bandwidth dependent obviously. Once the infrastructure for "huge" bandwidth is in place I think we'll see more similar things pop up.
I love how their network diagram in that article states "Low-latency HD video". As if it's a new technology. Wow, you have low-latency! I didn't even know that was out.
This is a pipe dream until they can prove this works. I want to see physical tests, not PR.
This type of issue could probably be handled by adding meta data to content/code downloaded in your browser. For instance you could tag the license as GPL/LGPL and then in the browser the user could have an option to allow/forbid this code to execute or content to display. This could also add some value on the content provider side, allowing them to add meta data license information their content.
You also may provide a signature for code signing in the same meta data.
I have no clue about the legal side of this though. Right now copyright and "digital rights" are usually implicit, being expressed on the whole in one place on a site usually.
Possibly true, I run a Debian install and it's a bit rough around the edges, but I like the support and the community around it.
I wasn't trying to be facetious as some mods must have took it, I'm being serious. Who here who has used Linux hasn't wasted time in some way or another? With Linux, the flexibility comes at the price of time consumption. Some of that is behind the scenes now via good tools now thankfully. Sure if you stay inside the lines and do the normal install it is a gravy train. But after using it for a few years and I spotted chinks in the armor where the cost was my time. I'm willing to pay that price because I get the most hackable OS on the planet with full transparency. It's second to none in that respect.
I think some of the high profile advocates would agree. With the flexibility comes a few hurdles. Will that always be the case? Ubuntu has proven, no. It is growing by leaps and bounds. But there is still a lot of work to be done.
I want simple, I don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer. I'll stick with Ubuntu.
You don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer, but you run Linux. This is the part where birds come flying out of my eyeballs like a cuckoo clock.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, no person may operate a moored balloon or kiteâ"
(1) Less than 500 feet from the base of any cloud;
(2) More than 500 feet above the surface of the earth;
(3) From an area where the ground visibility is less than three miles; or
(4) Within five miles of the boundary of any airport.
(b) Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to the operation of a balloon or kite below the top of any structure and within 250 feet of it, if that shielded operation does not obscure any lighting on the structure.
In the US one can notify the FAA of such events and they will release a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that will let them know the craft is in the area, with a description and advice. They require 24 hours notice. Every pilot in the US checks for NOTAMs along their designated flight plan and adjust accordingly. This is standard procedure before any takeoff and taught at the most basic level by flight schools before you ever leave the ground.
If you do launch _any_ craft into the air in the US it will fall under some sort of regulation that you should follow. In this case it's most likely part 101 Around the world governments have similar regulations in place.
My point? This has been done before and done right, safe procedures are in place.
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I think this you are right and this is all setting up the future, specifically the regulation of online gambling and taxation of it. These are not easy topics considering no country owns it. But you better believe Uncle Sam wants his cut. IMO that's what this is about. That and the lobbying efforts of various casino industry groups and both right and left leaning anti-gambling groups. One hates gambling because Jesus would hate it. The other hates gambling because it provides pleasure, and leftists hate anyone getting pleasure without sharing.
People gets a bad wrap because it's both misundedrstood, as we see in examples above, and the history of the game is dubious in general. That's not today's modern poker operation, but it does have the historical image of an "outlaw" game that is hard to shake.
All Gambling is risk management. That same risk management pervades our lives, we just don't recognize it.
Myself, I got half a million hands at 100NL that say online poker is worth the risk. But freezing accounts? Yikes. I don't like to take that kind of risk and I hope they get this cleared up soon because I won't play without that guarantee. It's not too much to ask to get paid in a timely fashion with checks that actually cash.
Why is this insightful? This makes no sense. Do you understand the rules of poker? There is no house, hence there can be no house odds. The house does not play in the hand, any hand. It gets no simpler than that.
Wait, what? You wrote a software package that did what? Explain this please.
Another concern about using robotics, is that they have no conscious that can ask if a particular order is morally acceptable, but also legal in terms of warfare, as defined by modern war fighting states and their various treaties. This is why humans should always be in control, if only in regard to accepting the consequences of the machine's actions.
Chem warfare always put more fear into me. Nerve gases, if deployed by a modern capable military such as Russia, can kill you with just a skin touch. The NBC gear was very clumsy when I went through training and it hasn't changed much since AFAIK.
Simple fact is all war is hell. Maybe dying by a sword is more honorable than dying by a chem weapon, but you're still dead. War is like this - if those guys over there are trying to kill me, I'm gonna do _anything_ I can to kill them first. I'll worry about honor and glory afterwards.
Fortunately we get to pontificate in times of peace about what is "fair". Unfortunately when it all hits the fan, the gloves come off and rules about morality take a back seat to fear driven aggression.
This was the thinking behind the infamous "neutron bomb", or enhanced radiation weapon. It would be deployed in a tactical fashion to stop the massive influx of armor from Russia into Europe. They got bad PR and were never deployed, but tactical weapons with nuclear payloads, still to this day, play a key part of their defensive plans. Perhaps NATO will eventually withdraw all of their nuclear warheads, but that is doubtful as long as the threat of Russia still remains. Note also that a lot of those theater missile systems can reach well into other sensitive areas in the region.
True. But if you include the security forces surrounding installations, then women do serve in combat roles. And of course there have been well publicized accounts of women fighter pilots in the US Air Force and the Navy.
Combat roles demand a lot from a person. The question becomes - can this person carry 75lbs of gear on their back for 20Km over terrible terrain and then at the end be capable of fighting effectively? Can this person kill the enemy in a close-quarters situation? etc. It's not about sexism, it's about physical strength in the long run. Combat roles are tough on a person's body.
Now you're talking. I'm gonna look into this.
After I saw FPGA and Verilog right along side making your own bio-diesel I knew, this was a really eclectic group of topics being talked about. I envy you insensitive euro-bastards. Where is my hacker space festival (in the US?) All we get is lame gatherings of steam-punkers doing the cosplay thing in the desert while modding their cases/cars/bodies to look like they were built by Jules Verne .. or commercial gatherings where it's free pencils and a few days at the poker tables in the area.
Yes but one individual can talk to another and start a thread that spreads within the population, alerting them to the danger. We see this in a lot of animal species, and also in humans. For instance the dangers of climate change is being propagated through this mechanism today.
Gathering resources and returning wouldn't be worth it unless their world(s) were truly in need. But the more obvious need would be to spread their civilization and avoid extinction. Any civilization that wants to avoid extinction must move away from the star it was "born" at eventually.
It's all about the candidates. If all of the options are all you then who cares if they use e-voting? It really doesn't matter. All the choices are for your team(s).
That's how I see this debate over e-voting. Until the two party system behind it is fixed it's really not going to matter. Paper ballots can be rigged easily, there is hardly any security. Oh you got a phone bill and a state ID? well that seems legit, step into the ballot booth Mr. Popadopolis.
Those don't count, the Vic 20 came with a book of Basic programs and you copied those. Admit it! ;-) My first graphical program was on the Vic 20, copied from the book that came with it. It made a wing ding fly across the screen. I miss those days, when it really didn't matter. These days I'm a pro and more concerned about things outside of actual programming like SDLC processes. It's work now.
Yeah man, I'm also too cool to use Visual Studio. I write all my code using a sword. I'm a bad ass.
It can also do web development using "standard asp.net", just not using the MVC framework which was new in .Net 3.5.
But they are trying to imprison the criminals also. It's hard to setup a botnet out of a federal prison.
Although the article makes allusions in the beginning to this particular wire being not on any charts, an unknown wire, the truth is they knew up front about these wires in the area (one of many in a mesh) and had been warned. That comes later in the article. Fact is, they should have known about this wire when digging.
Thanks for the link, I'm impressed they actually got decent results, even over a local network I'd be impressed frankly. It's impossible to compare a nice GPU bus to a network connection, but if it even gets remotely close I'll be very impressed.
I think this may have a future, but it's gonna be very bandwidth dependent obviously. Once the infrastructure for "huge" bandwidth is in place I think we'll see more similar things pop up.
p2p GPU processing anyone?
I love how their network diagram in that article states "Low-latency HD video". As if it's a new technology. Wow, you have low-latency! I didn't even know that was out.
This is a pipe dream until they can prove this works. I want to see physical tests, not PR.
This type of issue could probably be handled by adding meta data to content/code downloaded in your browser. For instance you could tag the license as GPL/LGPL and then in the browser the user could have an option to allow/forbid this code to execute or content to display. This could also add some value on the content provider side, allowing them to add meta data license information their content.
You also may provide a signature for code signing in the same meta data.
I have no clue about the legal side of this though. Right now copyright and "digital rights" are usually implicit, being expressed on the whole in one place on a site usually.
Possibly true, I run a Debian install and it's a bit rough around the edges, but I like the support and the community around it.
I wasn't trying to be facetious as some mods must have took it, I'm being serious. Who here who has used Linux hasn't wasted time in some way or another? With Linux, the flexibility comes at the price of time consumption. Some of that is behind the scenes now via good tools now thankfully. Sure if you stay inside the lines and do the normal install it is a gravy train. But after using it for a few years and I spotted chinks in the armor where the cost was my time. I'm willing to pay that price because I get the most hackable OS on the planet with full transparency. It's second to none in that respect.
I think some of the high profile advocates would agree. With the flexibility comes a few hurdles. Will that always be the case? Ubuntu has proven, no. It is growing by leaps and bounds. But there is still a lot of work to be done.
I want simple, I don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer. I'll stick with Ubuntu.
You don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer, but you run Linux. This is the part where birds come flying out of my eyeballs like a cuckoo clock.
That's why I posted the link to the regulation :P.
It's fairly short and covers this:
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, no person may operate a moored balloon or kiteâ"
(1) Less than 500 feet from the base of any cloud;
(2) More than 500 feet above the surface of the earth;
(3) From an area where the ground visibility is less than three miles; or
(4) Within five miles of the boundary of any airport.
(b) Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to the operation of a balloon or kite below the top of any structure and within 250 feet of it, if that shielded operation does not obscure any lighting on the structure.
In the US one can notify the FAA of such events and they will release a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that will let them know the craft is in the area, with a description and advice. They require 24 hours notice. Every pilot in the US checks for NOTAMs along their designated flight plan and adjust accordingly. This is standard procedure before any takeoff and taught at the most basic level by flight schools before you ever leave the ground.
If you do launch _any_ craft into the air in the US it will fall under some sort of regulation that you should follow. In this case it's most likely part 101 Around the world governments have similar regulations in place.
My point? This has been done before and done right, safe procedures are in place.