Then please do something about corporate personhood and lobbying, since that is why your dream hasn't come true. The peace corps will not make any money for the pharma, seed, etc corporations.
I think that, at the very least, numbers 3, 5, and 6 should be left to states. Under our current "Super-Strong executive branch-style" gov't, it may be easy to lose sight of states' rights and the true role of the federal gov't.
Recall the small town in Utah that protested about how much money and equipment it was provided for the War on Terror- they had a tiny population and were in the middle of nowhere. Run fiber to every home, for example, and watch the taxpayers scream about stories of 50 million fiber trunks "to nowhere".
What? I think you're creating a strawman with your 'tech X' argument.
Try this: Tech X is created. Company A and B compete to create the best and cheapest device that uses tech X,... These products are Y and Z.
Tech Y and Z are created and basically do the same thing, but a little differently....
And you get the point.
The trouble is defining "technology X." Is "the wireless transfer of data" tech X? Or is "a method utilising inductive coil to power device and transfer data across short distance" Tech X? If it is the former, then 802.11x, bluetooth, walkie-talkies, remote controls, IRD, etc are all part of the same Standards War. OTOH if the latter is true, then kudos to sony for creating something useful.
If I understand correctly, this device uses an inductive coil to transmit power and data, not an RF frequency antenna. The two devices, although not physically touching, would be electrically paired, and very close. 3 cm seems like the very upper range for this to work. A device powerful enough to power one of these sony devices, as well as communicate with it, would be very noticeable (especially when all the lights dim when it's turned on).
Again, this device does not use RF, at least not in a way that would be useful to eavesdroppers. It is 'wired' to the computer in the same way that the DC portion of a wall-wart transformer is wired to the AC part (or the high voltage AC is wired to the low voltage, i guess would be more correct).
You're probably right. There are probably puppets on/.
However, your diatribe sounded frighteningly orwellian. If we KNEW for a fact which posters were owned by corps, then you would have a point. But you don't know. Since you don't know, you are basically saying that everyone who doesn't agree with the slashdot meme MUST be an astroturfer who needs to be looked down upon. If a person thinks that IP should be treated as a tangible asset, they are an astroturfer, not someone with an opinion. Or if someone supports closed-source software for whatever reason, they must be ASTROTURFERS! For Micro$oft! Eeek.
Slashdot is about hearing different opinions on issues (for me, at least). I wouldn't come here if every +5 insightful post simply boiled down to, "Yeah, me too, I agree."
Train tracks are more complicated than you might think. For starters, curves, switches, tunnels, cities etc all have their own speed limit. A switch that would be almost unnoticeable at 10 mph might derail a train going 50 mph. The system (in the U.S. the system is computerized and run from a central office) plans for the different speeds and makes everything work smoothly. The conductor should probably apply emergency brakes in this type of situation, and that perhaps could have been what caused the derailment.
Off topic, but some of us would argue that you are setting up a strawman argument w.r.t. the friend who sold the joints. Some of us would say that she did not commit a crime, and thus comparing her 'offense' to this guy's actual crime would be as senseless as comparing country music to baroque paintings.
When people make these arguments, they need to understand that: No, selling pot is NOT worse than destroying records. She might be in jail longer than someone convicted of manslaughter. That doesn't make pot worse than manslaughter, it means that we have a broken legal system. And that is a discussion that should happen, but it won't anytime soon.
That plan would work very well were it not for the value that most of us put on human life. I don't think that it's fascist or totalitarian at all to save people from themselves every once in a while; e.g., improved labels on food and medication, seatbelts in cars, traffic signals, building codes, etc...
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I dunno, I didn't think that transistors were very hard to understand. I have some background in chemistry, which helped, but the valve analogy works fine for lay people. I could probably explain the actual working concepts to most of my friends, but I want to keep them.
I am surprised that the USAF (my boss) hasn't fielded these on our c-17/c-130/c-5 fleet. I have flown into and out of combat zones in 130's and 17's, and we have had some very close calls. Some aircraft (civilian IL-76) in the same area were shot down, killing hundreds, but you'll never hear about it on the news.
If the air force is not using these, then I doubt their efficacy. And for the record, money is NO problem in the air force.
Synthetic fuels might work. You don't need crude oil to produce gasoline/JP-8.
In the not-so-distant future, aircraft could be powered by lasers based on the ground or in space. The losses from energy conversion might be made up by the efficiency of the aircraft not carrying its fuel supply with it.
>>>How would it get that data if it were on a separate network?
The same way your TV gets data from the broadcast center, or your XM radio gets data from the satellite, or your Weather Underground widget gets weather values from the radar station up the road from your house.
It would not be hard to set up an IR connection to transmit the data, but more than likely the data comes from its own gps device that is only connected to the IFE network.
Or how about this- the network that controls the engines and flight surfaces is hardware locked between Tx and Rx, and that control system is physically separate from the air data and gps network, which is distinct from the landing gear systems, etc.
How are you going to hack into the aircraft control network through a TV with no buttons on it? How are you going to input a password of f8&Y)mWW1 using a keypad that is all numbers?
You are not allowed to use a mobile phone if it is emitting RF radiation. You may use it in "airplane mode." It has nothing to do with hacking.
We'd all look a lot smarter if we waited for more details about this situation before we start badmouthing the engineers. This is a new airframe with new bugs to work out. It could be something as innocuous as the two networks sharing a +12V power bus, or maybe it's something more serious, like a web interface to the cockpit. I don't know. I do know that the FAA takes part in all aspects of aircraft design, and if they hadn't spotted this weakness in the planning and design phases, I'm sure it can't be too catastrophic.
You can get on a plane with as much liquid as you want- it just needs to be purchased after the security checkpoint. Stuff you buy in the concourse is ok to fly with.
In the U.S. at least, you can now fly with lighters (and matches).
You had to "turn on your laptop"? I don't know where you were, or if you made that up, but I do a lot of flying, much of it international, and I've never had to do anything with my laptop other than scanning it separately.
No one is taking your laptop away. The FAA is looking into a possible security issue. It will likely be fixed with a simple TCTO and that will be that.
You know, I hate to respond to your post in two separate responses, but I missed part of what you said in my earlier response. Sorry...
>>Two prayers three months apart. Two answers on the same exact day of the prayers. It was a coincidence I couldn't ignore. This is the basis of my faith.
Can I ask how many of your prayers went _unanswered_ during those three months? Not to be a dick or anything, but you sound like the people who claim that seatbelts claim more lives than they save, or that their grandpa lived until he was 100 and he smoked, so smoking is ok.
You completely ignore every single refutation to your belief until you find one piece of corroborating evidence, and then you shout VICTORY! God is great!
You asked about having an open mind... Well, I would have to wonder what your own response would be.
>>I've read slashdot for a long time. And the one thing that irritates me the most is the hatred everyone has towards religion and god. Post after post moderated to +5 insightful for saying "it's stupid to believe in god". What happened to open-minded?
Most people on/. are of a scientific mindset. They hear an assertion and respond, "Show me evidence. Prove it." Conversely, many of us will change our views on a topic (eventually) based on new evidence contrary to our previous beliefs. These are the foundation to science itself, which has proven very useful for the last thousand years.
Asking a person like this (from now on referred to as "me") to suspend requirements for evidence and logical explanations- why, that would be like asking me to pretend that red was green, or that unconstitutional laws are constitutional because they protect children, etc. You are asking me to suspend disbelief in favor of completely arbitrary and nonsensical systems.
If I was open-minded to zombie-jesus-type religions, complete with obedience to 2k year old written doctrine... Then I might be the kind of person who would believe a president based on appeal to authority, or believe that socialized health care is evil based on straw-man arguments, or that Godsmack is a good band just because it's been crammed into my ear a thousand times. I might begin to lose what you might call 'critical thinking' or self-determination. I might become susceptible to all the things about american society that my scientist brain has been observing and loathing since I realized that political power lies in emotion and not facts.
I feel like I'd be a cross between the "Math is hard" Barbie and a Big Mac- Willfully ignorant, bland, fat, and useless to society.
Don't take this as an ad hominem. Atheism and religion are NOT two sides of the same coin. As has been said before, coin-collecting is a hobby; 'not-collecting-coins' is not a hobby. Atheism is NOT a religion. Most of all, atheists are tired of having their lives run by people who DO believe in a man in the sky, and it makes us fucking miserable.
>>nowhere in the koran does it say killing innocents is ok
It depends on how you define innocent.
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161
Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme. - Sura 2:193 and 8:39
It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. - 8:67Fight those who believe neither in God nor the Last Day, nor what has been forbidden by God and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are People of the Book, until they pay the tribute and have been humbled. - 9:29
IX. 5-6: Kill those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them.
Qur'an:48:16 "Say (Muhammad) to the wandering desert Arabs who lagged behind: 'You shall be invited to fight against a people given to war with mighty prowess. You shall fight them until they surrender and submit. If you obey, Allah will grant you a reward, but if you turn back, as you did before, He will punish you with a grievous torture."
I have trouble painting an entire religion with such a bloody picture, but I also have trouble with apologists/sophists who make islam out to be an entirely peaceful philosophy. While I think that most anti-islam sentiment is old-fashioned racism hiding behind more academic arguments, islam should not be immune to the scrutiny and criticism given to christianity or scientology. I'm ok with a person having a deep, rewarding relationship with certain chemicals in their brain, but religion itself is becoming more counter-productive to progress by the day.
I think that people are getting upset because he basically just called all Mac users grandmas and graphic designers, which he meant in a derogatory way.
Look, my grandma can't even dial a phone without assistance, so can we please stop arguing about what her OS of choice would be? Saying that something is ready for the grandma masses is a thinly-veiled way of saying that the people who are best suited for a particular OS are infirm and confused.
And as for graphic designers... I've been hearing the "Macs are good for graphics and stuff, but nothing else" line for 10 years now, mostly from people who haven't used an Apple computer since the IIe. You're right- there are a few less games ported to OS X. Some day, when you grow up, you'll realize that some people use computers to get work done, not to waste time.
I totally support the whole Linux/gnu 'movement,' but some people's time is more valuable than the price/PITA ratio of linux right now.
>>Just as a side-bar, how many of the errrr... ZERO terrorist attacks in the last couple of years would this measure have prevented?
This new traffic signal is lame. How many of the errr... ZERO traffic accidents at this intersection in the last couple of years would this 'traffic signal' have prevented?
I don't like the gov't any more than you do, but please, in the name of FSM, make logical argument whens protesting the man. You cannot prove a negative. kthxbye
Really? I thought that Europe was basically drunk for a few centuries during the middle ages.
Also, smart people wrote the history. The stars, the bright lights, of history- they are the ones we hear about. The "scientists" that you talk about were the aristocracy throughout history, not the working man.
People have more access to higher education now (worldwide) than ever. If people want to use their degree to watch American Idol, more power to them.
Read some Aristophanes- change the names and places and film it as a sitcom. Same stuff, different era.
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Then please do something about corporate personhood and lobbying, since that is why your dream hasn't come true. The peace corps will not make any money for the pharma, seed, etc corporations.
-b
I think that, at the very least, numbers 3, 5, and 6 should be left to states. Under our current "Super-Strong executive branch-style" gov't, it may be easy to lose sight of states' rights and the true role of the federal gov't.
Recall the small town in Utah that protested about how much money and equipment it was provided for the War on Terror- they had a tiny population and were in the middle of nowhere. Run fiber to every home, for example, and watch the taxpayers scream about stories of 50 million fiber trunks "to nowhere".
-b
Whoa, there. The New Republic is a neo-con magazine now? Have you ever read it?
Are you talking about Kirchick's article? Way to slam an entire middle-left institution based on one writer's editorializing.
Oh, and they're not just on online magazine; they publish twice monthly. And you might like it.
-b
What? I think you're creating a strawman with your 'tech X' argument.
Try this:
Tech X is created. Company A and B compete to create the best and cheapest device that uses tech X,... These products are Y and Z.
Tech Y and Z are created and basically do the same thing, but a little differently....
And you get the point.
The trouble is defining "technology X." Is "the wireless transfer of data" tech X? Or is "a method utilising inductive coil to power device and transfer data across short distance" Tech X? If it is the former, then 802.11x, bluetooth, walkie-talkies, remote controls, IRD, etc are all part of the same Standards War. OTOH if the latter is true, then kudos to sony for creating something useful.
-b
If I understand correctly, this device uses an inductive coil to transmit power and data, not an RF frequency antenna. The two devices, although not physically touching, would be electrically paired, and very close. 3 cm seems like the very upper range for this to work. A device powerful enough to power one of these sony devices, as well as communicate with it, would be very noticeable (especially when all the lights dim when it's turned on).
Again, this device does not use RF, at least not in a way that would be useful to eavesdroppers. It is 'wired' to the computer in the same way that the DC portion of a wall-wart transformer is wired to the AC part (or the high voltage AC is wired to the low voltage, i guess would be more correct).
-b
You're probably right. There are probably puppets on /.
However, your diatribe sounded frighteningly orwellian. If we KNEW for a fact which posters were owned by corps, then you would have a point. But you don't know. Since you don't know, you are basically saying that everyone who doesn't agree with the slashdot meme MUST be an astroturfer who needs to be looked down upon. If a person thinks that IP should be treated as a tangible asset, they are an astroturfer, not someone with an opinion. Or if someone supports closed-source software for whatever reason, they must be ASTROTURFERS! For Micro$oft! Eeek.
Slashdot is about hearing different opinions on issues (for me, at least). I wouldn't come here if every +5 insightful post simply boiled down to, "Yeah, me too, I agree."
-b
Train tracks are more complicated than you might think. For starters, curves, switches, tunnels, cities etc all have their own speed limit. A switch that would be almost unnoticeable at 10 mph might derail a train going 50 mph. The system (in the U.S. the system is computerized and run from a central office) plans for the different speeds and makes everything work smoothly. The conductor should probably apply emergency brakes in this type of situation, and that perhaps could have been what caused the derailment.
-b
Off topic, but some of us would argue that you are setting up a strawman argument w.r.t. the friend who sold the joints. Some of us would say that she did not commit a crime, and thus comparing her 'offense' to this guy's actual crime would be as senseless as comparing country music to baroque paintings.
When people make these arguments, they need to understand that: No, selling pot is NOT worse than destroying records. She might be in jail longer than someone convicted of manslaughter. That doesn't make pot worse than manslaughter, it means that we have a broken legal system. And that is a discussion that should happen, but it won't anytime soon.
-b
That plan would work very well were it not for the value that most of us put on human life. I don't think that it's fascist or totalitarian at all to save people from themselves every once in a while; e.g., improved labels on food and medication, seatbelts in cars, traffic signals, building codes, etc...
-b
I dunno, I didn't think that transistors were very hard to understand. I have some background in chemistry, which helped, but the valve analogy works fine for lay people. I could probably explain the actual working concepts to most of my friends, but I want to keep them.
-b
I am surprised that the USAF (my boss) hasn't fielded these on our c-17/c-130/c-5 fleet. I have flown into and out of combat zones in 130's and 17's, and we have had some very close calls. Some aircraft (civilian IL-76) in the same area were shot down, killing hundreds, but you'll never hear about it on the news.
If the air force is not using these, then I doubt their efficacy. And for the record, money is NO problem in the air force.
-b
Synthetic fuels might work. You don't need crude oil to produce gasoline/JP-8.
In the not-so-distant future, aircraft could be powered by lasers based on the ground or in space. The losses from energy conversion might be made up by the efficiency of the aircraft not carrying its fuel supply with it.
-b
>>...and associated from people who want to do us harm...
Canada? You do realize that Canada is the U.S.'s number one supplier of oil, right? Followed by Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria?
-b
>>>How would it get that data if it were on a separate network?
The same way your TV gets data from the broadcast center, or your XM radio gets data from the satellite, or your Weather Underground widget gets weather values from the radar station up the road from your house.
It would not be hard to set up an IR connection to transmit the data, but more than likely the data comes from its own gps device that is only connected to the IFE network.
Or how about this- the network that controls the engines and flight surfaces is hardware locked between Tx and Rx, and that control system is physically separate from the air data and gps network, which is distinct from the landing gear systems, etc.
How are you going to hack into the aircraft control network through a TV with no buttons on it? How are you going to input a password of f8&Y)mWW1 using a keypad that is all numbers?
-b
You are not allowed to use a mobile phone if it is emitting RF radiation. You may use it in "airplane mode." It has nothing to do with hacking.
We'd all look a lot smarter if we waited for more details about this situation before we start badmouthing the engineers. This is a new airframe with new bugs to work out. It could be something as innocuous as the two networks sharing a +12V power bus, or maybe it's something more serious, like a web interface to the cockpit. I don't know. I do know that the FAA takes part in all aspects of aircraft design, and if they hadn't spotted this weakness in the planning and design phases, I'm sure it can't be too catastrophic.
-b
You can get on a plane with as much liquid as you want- it just needs to be purchased after the security checkpoint. Stuff you buy in the concourse is ok to fly with.
In the U.S. at least, you can now fly with lighters (and matches).
You had to "turn on your laptop"? I don't know where you were, or if you made that up, but I do a lot of flying, much of it international, and I've never had to do anything with my laptop other than scanning it separately.
No one is taking your laptop away. The FAA is looking into a possible security issue. It will likely be fixed with a simple TCTO and that will be that.
Settle down.
-b
Ideas like the big band theory and evolution are accepted and taught at catholic institutions...
Man, I'm sorry- I agree with your post and everything- but that was the funniest typo I've seen all day.
J.C. and his Big Band play "Once, twice, three times a savior" tonight at the Odeon.
-b
You know, I hate to respond to your post in two separate responses, but I missed part of what you said in my earlier response. Sorry...
>>Two prayers three months apart. Two answers on the same exact day of the prayers. It was a coincidence I couldn't ignore. This is the basis of my faith.
Can I ask how many of your prayers went _unanswered_ during those three months? Not to be a dick or anything, but you sound like the people who claim that seatbelts claim more lives than they save, or that their grandpa lived until he was 100 and he smoked, so smoking is ok.
You completely ignore every single refutation to your belief until you find one piece of corroborating evidence, and then you shout VICTORY! God is great!
You asked about having an open mind... Well, I would have to wonder what your own response would be.
-b
>>I've read slashdot for a long time. And the one thing that irritates me the most is the hatred everyone has towards religion and god. Post after post moderated to +5 insightful for saying "it's stupid to believe in god". What happened to open-minded?
/. are of a scientific mindset. They hear an assertion and respond, "Show me evidence. Prove it." Conversely, many of us will change our views on a topic (eventually) based on new evidence contrary to our previous beliefs. These are the foundation to science itself, which has proven very useful for the last thousand years.
Most people on
Asking a person like this (from now on referred to as "me") to suspend requirements for evidence and logical explanations- why, that would be like asking me to pretend that red was green, or that unconstitutional laws are constitutional because they protect children, etc.
You are asking me to suspend disbelief in favor of completely arbitrary and nonsensical systems.
If I was open-minded to zombie-jesus-type religions, complete with obedience to 2k year old written doctrine... Then I might be the kind of person who would believe a president based on appeal to authority, or believe that socialized health care is evil based on straw-man arguments, or that Godsmack is a good band just because it's been crammed into my ear a thousand times. I might begin to lose what you might call 'critical thinking' or self-determination. I might become susceptible to all the things about american society that my scientist brain has been observing and loathing since I realized that political power lies in emotion and not facts.
I feel like I'd be a cross between the "Math is hard" Barbie and a Big Mac- Willfully ignorant, bland, fat, and useless to society.
Don't take this as an ad hominem. Atheism and religion are NOT two sides of the same coin. As has been said before, coin-collecting is a hobby; 'not-collecting-coins' is not a hobby. Atheism is NOT a religion. Most of all, atheists are tired of having their lives run by people who DO believe in a man in the sky, and it makes us fucking miserable.
-b
>>nowhere in the koran does it say killing innocents is ok
It depends on how you define innocent.
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161
Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme. - Sura 2:193 and 8:39
It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. - 8:67Fight those who believe neither in God nor the Last Day, nor what has been forbidden by God and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are People of the Book, until they pay the tribute and have been humbled. - 9:29
IX. 5-6: Kill those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them.
Qur'an:48:16 "Say (Muhammad) to the wandering desert Arabs who lagged behind: 'You shall be invited to fight against a people given to war with mighty prowess. You shall fight them until they surrender and submit. If you obey, Allah will grant you a reward, but if you turn back, as you did before, He will punish you with a grievous torture."
I have trouble painting an entire religion with such a bloody picture, but I also have trouble with apologists/sophists who make islam out to be an entirely peaceful philosophy. While I think that most anti-islam sentiment is old-fashioned racism hiding behind more academic arguments, islam should not be immune to the scrutiny and criticism given to christianity or scientology. I'm ok with a person having a deep, rewarding relationship with certain chemicals in their brain, but religion itself is becoming more counter-productive to progress by the day.
-b
>>takes into account the fact that a single download of a Linux distro is often installed on more than one computer.
To be fair, the same thing can be said for Windows.
-b
I think that people are getting upset because he basically just called all Mac users grandmas and graphic designers, which he meant in a derogatory way.
Look, my grandma can't even dial a phone without assistance, so can we please stop arguing about what her OS of choice would be? Saying that something is ready for the grandma masses is a thinly-veiled way of saying that the people who are best suited for a particular OS are infirm and confused.
And as for graphic designers... I've been hearing the "Macs are good for graphics and stuff, but nothing else" line for 10 years now, mostly from people who haven't used an Apple computer since the IIe. You're right- there are a few less games ported to OS X. Some day, when you grow up, you'll realize that some people use computers to get work done, not to waste time.
I totally support the whole Linux/gnu 'movement,' but some people's time is more valuable than the price/PITA ratio of linux right now.
-b
>>Just as a side-bar, how many of the errrr... ZERO terrorist attacks in the last couple of years would this measure have prevented?
This new traffic signal is lame. How many of the errr... ZERO traffic accidents at this intersection in the last couple of years would this 'traffic signal' have prevented?
I don't like the gov't any more than you do, but please, in the name of FSM, make logical argument whens protesting the man. You cannot prove a negative. kthxbye
-b
Really? I thought that Europe was basically drunk for a few centuries during the middle ages.
Also, smart people wrote the history. The stars, the bright lights, of history- they are the ones we hear about. The "scientists" that you talk about were the aristocracy throughout history, not the working man.
People have more access to higher education now (worldwide) than ever. If people want to use their degree to watch American Idol, more power to them.
Read some Aristophanes- change the names and places and film it as a sitcom. Same stuff, different era.
-b
Can I buy pot from you?