I wasn't necessarily talking a physical cell. Laptop manufacturers sell 3 cell, 4 cell, 6 cell, 9 cell, etc.. batteries all for the same laptop. That doesn't mean those batteries all have different voltages. I'm not even sure that the cells that dell, etc.. advertise even correspond to actual cells. The point is that you could run a laptop for a few minutes on a couple plain 9 volt batteries and have all the rest of the space for your devious plans.
Rates are based primarily on number of miles driven which is already included in most insurance. I can see the rates being higher for someone who drives more (or possibly for someone who does more risky behavior if you can prove taxi driving is more risky) but there is no reason their COVERAGE should be required to be higher. If a motorist is only required to have 10k of coverage for hitting a pedestrian then why should a taxi be required to have more?
so your ok with with a non taxi taxi hitting your car and then the they get to use EULA to get out of paying the cost to fix it? or what about if it was your kid that got killed and you where stuck with the bills?
What difference does it make whether it is a taxi or a private car? A taxi shouldn't be required to have more collision insurance for external collisions than any other car. You MIGHT be able to argue that they need more coverage for passengers but it makes no sense to require them to have higher coverage for external collisions just because they are a taxi.
The first flight I took after 9/11 I remember seeing postal boxes where you could mail confiscated items back to yourself if you accidently brought something that wasn't allowed. Sadly I haven't seen these in recent flights. The TSA should be required to mail high value items back to you and should destroy (not resell) other confiscated items.
The TSA is probably thinking that if the battery in your gadget doesn't work, it might not actually be a battery...so, just to be on the safe side....
Security theatre at its best. It would be almost as easy to replace all but one cell with something else. That way the laptop still boots up and can operate fine for 5 minutes or so. This solves nothing.
There is very little reason that you would need to watch an entire movie to tag it properly. If nothing else you would probably be watching the movie in fast-forward. The movie itself does a pretty good job of doing a summary. Amazon turk or the netflix feedback would be a decent way to get short feedback from people who have actually seen the movie. My guess is that this position is more of a "scan the movie really quick" type job and/or taking user generated data and creating proper tags from it. You are not going to get to watch movies for 8 hours a day and only report on those 4-6 movies.
If the email contained credit card numbers and such and you don't want to go to jail then $1000 is fairly generous. You could possibly figure out how to sell it on the black market but most people are not willing to break the law and risk jail time especially if their identity is already known. Now, on the other hand, if it's stuff that I could sell to a newspaper about corruption then I would probably be willng to sell it to the highest bidder.
I agree. I think the most reasonable action is to try to contact the owner of this email address and explain the situation. Maybe give him $1000 to sign a retroactive non-disclosure agreement. Odds are it's just a random normal person that would gladly take $1000 to keep quiet. I get confidential emails for a large company that has a similiar domain to one I own all the time. I probably average about 20 a day. I sometimes notify them but I mostly just delete them and move on with my day. I sometimes feel bad as many of them are things like "I didn't receive my shipment" but it's no different than it going into a black hole elsewhere and never getting read.
And it annoys the hell out of normal hearing people, especially those living close to an intersection. Please, there's enough noise as it is.
If it's too quiet to be heard inside of a car then it definitely will be too quite to be heard inside your house quite a bit further away. This seems like a non-problem though. put it in a tube, use visors, use a polarized cover, put it on the post before they enter the street, put it low to the ground and angled up, put it 20 ft high and angled down. We have plenty of solutions for allowing only the pedestrian to easily see it.
In order to see a real change you really need a few "killer apps". i.e. some dishes that are significantly easier, better, faster if prepared using this new oven. A single incredible dish that can only be cooked in this new oven would be a start but I'm not sure very many people would buy an oven for a single dish. The microwave became popular because it was faster than the oven for a whole range of things.
If we're talking plastic water bottles, I've seen them in streams after a couple years. They definitely start to fall apart a bit. The question is: Do they dissolve completely into something harmless or do they like sand just become very small easily digestible pieces and are they still dangerous once they are microscopic specs?
I couldn't help but read this article and think about the dismal state of batteries if being able to charge your cellphone in the park is necessary. I want a SMARTphone that I can be on all day and never goes dead as long as I charge it every night. The old non-smartphones could go a week between charges, now most cellphones can't even last a full day so things like randomly located 3rd party "charging ports" are considered a useful feature. Battery life is hurting innovation. We need to work to fix this.
It's also not just a legal matter. Performing experiments on humans without their consent is immoral.
So is it immoral when walmart puts poptarts on the endcap or different colored bubblegum in the impulse aisle? They are trying to see if they can manipulate you into buying more product. Stores even experiment in different colors. Some stores want you to stay longer so they use happy colors. Other stores want you to leave quickly to make room for the next customer so they use sad colors. They are altering the moods of their customers too and again, without consent. I don't know what the threshold should be but most companies do minor A/B testing all the time which affects their customers moods and psychology.
Yes, it's fairly complicated but if they are going to take away the "non-commercial use" safe harbor then they should create some other basic safe harbors. Something like "more than 1 mile away from nearest airport and 100 meters away from nearest house and less than 100 meters in the sky" would be a safe start. There should be a quick/easy way to make sure you're legal or at least a cheap/easy way to be approved so that you can do "reasonable" stuff without requiring an expensive permit. Flying by camera seems a perfectly reasonable thing for a hobbiest to want to do. They shouldn't need to get a full blown pilot's license and FAA permission to do it if they follow proper precautions.
I've always assumed this might be how the real universe works. Atoms only exist upon detailed inspection. If noone is using a powerful microscope, no need to populate that detail. The moon only physically existed once we landed on it and most of the stars will never need to physically exist. It makes the whole "universe is a simulation" much more computationally feasible. It might even be able to explain things like the double slit experiment and definitely helps explain why we seem to be alone.
I was hoping it would show the fields and the difference, such as between CompSci with and without degree. Not. It is CompSci degree vs Burger King? Well, duh...
The data you're wanting is mostly there. They are calling it the "ability premium". You should basically be able to look at the difference between the "corrected" and "uncorrected" values to get a general idea of what a degree is actually worth in a given field.
The "corrected" is "this is how much the degree is worth if we take in to account that some people able to get a degree don't".
We could start by requiring mandatory reporting to a central agency and then a way for that central agency to send a unsubscribe back to the data collector.
A government website where you can log in and see any place your name, social, phone number, etc.. is being used and a way to opt-out would be great. I'm still getting mail from people who haven't lived in my house for 5+ years.
I think the 2 big problems with this plan is: 1) Do we really want another giant government program/website. 2) Sometimes the information collected is incomplete. Sometimes they only have a phone number, sometimes only an address, maybe just an email, sometimes less than that. So you would need a secure way to verify a phone number, an address, and a social at a bare minimum.
It does seem crazy that stuff gets out and there is no way to recall your information. I have facebook friends who are now dead and yet their page is still active, people can still post to them, etc...
And that receiving and carrying it separately for each customer (using a separte tiny antenna and cheap-in-quantity integrated circuit digital radio receiver) was a transparent workaround that attempted to use an interpretation of the letter of the law to violate its intent).
In other words, you're saying they broke the law by complying with the law.
Too bad they can't apply the "attempted to use an interpretation of the letter of the law to violate its intent" to get all the thousands of companies that do this daily (like google/apple/starbucks/etc... shell corporations to avoid taxes) Fortune 500 companies have teams of lawyers to do just this. They try to figure out how to be legal while bypassing the intent of the law.
Is the money collected in person? Or does the spot holder wait for a specific license plate? Either way, a sting operation should be easy enough to set up. The spots are physically in SF so I don't think they can ban the app but they can certainly fine people for using this app or any other method to require money in order vacate a spot.
but rather "self-giving" to create buzz and give the impression of legitimacy. I doubt very seriously that most of that $500,000 they've raised on this particular campaign is real.
Kickstarter takes 5% and credit card processing takes about another 5% so it would take about $50k to self-fund a project to a half million dollars. That's not counting that you need the $500k to give yourself. Not impossible but a pretty expensive cost for a scam. They could always cancel or reduce their pledge before the funding deadline but this would be easy to spot and self-funding is against kickstarter rules.
But the numbers, even though yes they are non-zero, are so tiny as to be useless.
I remember making a batteryless FM radio receiver as a kid. If you can build a radio that is powerful enough to be able to hear it then a batteryless locator tag is definitely in the plausable category. Google "batteryless FM receiver". There are plenty of schematics for working radios that don't require a power source other than the FM signal.
I also lived in a dorm in college where you could hear the local station thru your speakers with the radio unplugged. People would leave their radios on with the volume turned down just so they wouldn't hear it.
Whether this particular kickstarter is valid is the only real question. Creating a locator tag that doesn't require a battery should in theory be completely possible.
I probably use firebug at least once a month to delete a random misbehaving element or otherwise "fix" a broken 3rd party webpage I am trying to view. I use it constantly for work but it's suprising how often I find it useful for making a 3rd party website more usable.
Perhaps to keep drones safe as well, we should keep the risk with the pilot -- if you crash a drone, the penalty is the same as if you were inside the plane you were remotely piloting (penalty up to and including death).
The pilot needs to be on the hook, not the company employing the pilot, the manufacturer of the drone, or anyone else.
Yeah, that'll work for about a year until amazon runs out of minimum wage employees to pilot their drones because they've all been sentenced to death.
There are no regulations yet developed for UAV airworthiness. They must be held to the same standards and regulations as other digital fly by wire aircraft. None of htem are currently close. None have real triple redundant computers, etc...
Not the same standard but appropriate standards. Everyone knows a 10 ton airplane crashing into a building is a major safety problem whether there are passengers or not. A 200 lb aircraft is probably just as much as a problem if it happens to hit a person. On the other hand if you have a 20 lb aircraft with a safety chute that can be deployed to land gracefully on failure then it's probably ok. They either need to be designed to not fail (triple redundant, etc) or designed so that when they fail that they are not a hazard to innocent bystanders.
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I wasn't necessarily talking a physical cell. Laptop manufacturers sell 3 cell, 4 cell, 6 cell, 9 cell, etc.. batteries
all for the same laptop. That doesn't mean those batteries all have different voltages. I'm not even sure that the
cells that dell, etc.. advertise even correspond to actual cells. The point is that you could run a laptop for a
few minutes on a couple plain 9 volt batteries and have all the rest of the space for your devious plans.
Rates are based primarily on number of miles driven which is already included in most insurance.
I can see the rates being higher for someone who drives more (or possibly for someone who does
more risky behavior if you can prove taxi driving is more risky) but there is no reason their
COVERAGE should be required to be higher. If a motorist is only required to have 10k of coverage
for hitting a pedestrian then why should a taxi be required to have more?
so your ok with with a non taxi taxi hitting your car and then the they get to use EULA to get out of paying the cost to fix it? or what about if it was your kid that got killed and you where stuck with the bills?
What difference does it make whether it is a taxi or a private car? A taxi shouldn't be required to have more collision insurance
for external collisions than any other car. You MIGHT be able to argue that they need more coverage for passengers but it makes
no sense to require them to have higher coverage for external collisions just because they are a taxi.
The first flight I took after 9/11 I remember seeing postal boxes where you could mail confiscated items back to
yourself if you accidently brought something that wasn't allowed. Sadly I haven't seen these in recent flights.
The TSA should be required to mail high value items back to you and should destroy (not resell) other confiscated
items.
The TSA is probably thinking that if the battery in your gadget doesn't work, it might not actually be a battery...so, just to be on the safe side....
Security theatre at its best. It would be almost as easy to replace all but one cell with something else.
That way the laptop still boots up and can operate fine for 5 minutes or so. This solves nothing.
There is very little reason that you would need to watch an entire movie to tag it properly.
If nothing else you would probably be watching the movie in fast-forward.
The movie itself does a pretty good job of doing a summary. Amazon turk or the netflix
feedback would be a decent way to get short feedback from people who have actually seen
the movie. My guess is that this position is more of a "scan the movie really quick" type job
and/or taking user generated data and creating proper tags from it. You are not going to
get to watch movies for 8 hours a day and only report on those 4-6 movies.
If the email contained credit card numbers and such and you don't want to go to jail then $1000 is fairly generous.
You could possibly figure out how to sell it on the black market but most people are not willing to break the law and
risk jail time especially if their identity is already known. Now, on the other hand, if it's stuff that I could sell to a
newspaper about corruption then I would probably be willng to sell it to the highest bidder.
I agree. I think the most reasonable action is to try to contact the owner of this email address and explain the situation.
Maybe give him $1000 to sign a retroactive non-disclosure agreement. Odds are it's just a random normal person
that would gladly take $1000 to keep quiet. I get confidential emails for a large company that has a similiar domain
to one I own all the time. I probably average about 20 a day. I sometimes notify them but I mostly just delete them
and move on with my day. I sometimes feel bad as many of them are things like "I didn't receive my shipment" but
it's no different than it going into a black hole elsewhere and never getting read.
And it annoys the hell out of normal hearing people, especially those living close to an intersection. Please, there's enough noise as it is.
If it's too quiet to be heard inside of a car then it definitely will be too quite to be heard inside your house quite a bit further away.
This seems like a non-problem though. put it in a tube, use visors, use a polarized cover, put it on the post before they enter the
street, put it low to the ground and angled up, put it 20 ft high and angled down. We have plenty of solutions for allowing only the
pedestrian to easily see it.
In order to see a real change you really need a few "killer apps". i.e. some dishes that are significantly easier, better, faster
if prepared using this new oven. A single incredible dish that can only be cooked in this new oven would be a start but I'm not
sure very many people would buy an oven for a single dish. The microwave became popular because it was faster than the
oven for a whole range of things.
If we're talking plastic water bottles, I've seen them in streams after a couple years.
They definitely start to fall apart a bit. The question is: Do they dissolve completely
into something harmless or do they like sand just become very small easily digestible
pieces and are they still dangerous once they are microscopic specs?
I couldn't help but read this article and think about the dismal state of batteries if being able to charge
your cellphone in the park is necessary. I want a SMARTphone that I can be on all day and never goes
dead as long as I charge it every night. The old non-smartphones could go a week between charges,
now most cellphones can't even last a full day so things like randomly located 3rd party "charging ports"
are considered a useful feature. Battery life is hurting innovation. We need to work to fix this.
It's also not just a legal matter. Performing experiments on humans without their consent is immoral.
So is it immoral when walmart puts poptarts on the endcap or different colored bubblegum in the impulse aisle?
They are trying to see if they can manipulate you into buying more product. Stores even experiment in different colors.
Some stores want you to stay longer so they use happy colors. Other stores want you to leave quickly to make room
for the next customer so they use sad colors. They are altering the moods of their customers too and again, without
consent. I don't know what the threshold should be but most companies do minor A/B testing all the time which affects
their customers moods and psychology.
Yes, it's fairly complicated but if they are going to take away the "non-commercial use" safe harbor then they
should create some other basic safe harbors. Something like "more than 1 mile away from nearest airport
and 100 meters away from nearest house and less than 100 meters in the sky" would be a safe start.
There should be a quick/easy way to make sure you're legal or at least a cheap/easy way to be approved so
that you can do "reasonable" stuff without requiring an expensive permit. Flying by camera seems a
perfectly reasonable thing for a hobbiest to want to do. They shouldn't need to get a full blown pilot's
license and FAA permission to do it if they follow proper precautions.
I've always assumed this might be how the real universe works.
Atoms only exist upon detailed inspection. If noone is using a powerful microscope, no need to populate that detail.
The moon only physically existed once we landed on it and most of the stars will never need to physically exist.
It makes the whole "universe is a simulation" much more computationally feasible. It might even be able to explain
things like the double slit experiment and definitely helps explain why we seem to be alone.
I was hoping it would show the fields and the difference, such as between CompSci with and without degree. Not. It is CompSci degree vs Burger King? Well, duh...
The data you're wanting is mostly there. They are calling it the "ability premium".
You should basically be able to look at the difference between the "corrected" and "uncorrected" values
to get a general idea of what a degree is actually worth in a given field.
The "corrected" is "this is how much the degree is worth if we take in to account that some people able to get a degree don't".
We could start by requiring mandatory reporting to a central agency and then a way for that central agency to send a
unsubscribe back to the data collector.
A government website where you can log in and see any place your name, social, phone number, etc.. is being used
and a way to opt-out would be great. I'm still getting mail from people who haven't lived in my house for 5+ years.
I think the 2 big problems with this plan is:
1) Do we really want another giant government program/website.
2) Sometimes the information collected is incomplete. Sometimes they only have a phone number, sometimes only an
address, maybe just an email, sometimes less than that. So you would need a secure way to verify a phone number,
an address, and a social at a bare minimum.
It does seem crazy that stuff gets out and there is no way to recall your information. I have facebook friends
who are now dead and yet their page is still active, people can still post to them, etc...
In other words, you're saying they broke the law by complying with the law.
Too bad they can't apply the "attempted to use an interpretation of the letter of the law to violate its intent" to get all the
thousands of companies that do this daily (like google/apple/starbucks/etc... shell corporations to avoid taxes)
Fortune 500 companies have teams of lawyers to do just this. They try to figure out how to be legal while bypassing
the intent of the law.
Is the money collected in person? Or does the spot holder wait for a specific license plate?
Either way, a sting operation should be easy enough to set up. The spots are physically
in SF so I don't think they can ban the app but they can certainly fine people for using this app
or any other method to require money in order vacate a spot.
but rather "self-giving" to create buzz and give the impression of legitimacy. I doubt very seriously that most of that $500,000 they've raised on this particular campaign is real.
Kickstarter takes 5% and credit card processing takes about another 5% so it would take about $50k to self-fund a project to a half million dollars.
That's not counting that you need the $500k to give yourself. Not impossible but a pretty expensive cost for a scam.
They could always cancel or reduce their pledge before the funding deadline but this would be easy to spot and self-funding is against kickstarter rules.
But the numbers, even though yes they are non-zero, are so tiny as to be useless.
I remember making a batteryless FM radio receiver as a kid. If you can build a radio that is powerful enough
to be able to hear it then a batteryless locator tag is definitely in the plausable category. Google
"batteryless FM receiver". There are plenty of schematics for working radios that don't require a power source
other than the FM signal.
I also lived in a dorm in college where you could hear the local station thru your speakers with the radio unplugged.
People would leave their radios on with the volume turned down just so they wouldn't hear it.
Whether this particular kickstarter is valid is the only real question. Creating a locator tag that doesn't require
a battery should in theory be completely possible.
I probably use firebug at least once a month to delete a random misbehaving element or otherwise "fix" a broken 3rd party webpage I am trying to view.
I use it constantly for work but it's suprising how often I find it useful for making a 3rd party website more usable.
*ALL* Species, without exception, adapt to their environment or go extinct. That is how they survive.
FTFY
Perhaps to keep drones safe as well, we should keep the risk with the pilot -- if you crash a drone, the penalty is the same as if you were inside the plane you were remotely piloting (penalty up to and including death).
The pilot needs to be on the hook, not the company employing the pilot, the manufacturer of the drone, or anyone else.
Yeah, that'll work for about a year until amazon runs out of minimum wage employees to pilot their drones because they've all been sentenced to death.
There are no regulations yet developed for UAV airworthiness. They must be held to the same standards and regulations as other digital fly by wire aircraft. None of htem are currently close. None have real triple redundant computers, etc...
Not the same standard but appropriate standards. Everyone knows a 10 ton airplane crashing into a building is a major safety problem
whether there are passengers or not. A 200 lb aircraft is probably just as much as a problem if it happens to hit a person. On the
other hand if you have a 20 lb aircraft with a safety chute that can be deployed to land gracefully on failure then it's probably ok.
They either need to be designed to not fail (triple redundant, etc) or designed so that when they fail that they are not a hazard to
innocent bystanders.