Just have drivers self report it and make it one of the things that gets verified in the event of an audit. Make the fines and fees exactly the same as if the person had cheated on their taxes some other way. If a car is sold, have a way for the buyer and seller to, independently of each other, submit the mileage at the time of sale and if there's a significant discrepancy have the new owner take it down to the DMV within 30 days to have someone there record it.
Honestly, I don't have any problem with a per mile tax but I have a huge, huge issue with any kind of device being placed on my car. Not only is it an incredibly invasive invasion of privacy, it's also way more expensive and complex than any taxing method should be.
FTL combined with time dilation, which we know empirically to be accurate, means that a round trip message can arrive back at it's start before the message is sent. And do note that this holds true even if your method of FTL involves 'shortcuts', as long as a message effectively travels faster than light, ships at relativistic velocities can be be used to send the message back before it left.
Why this is the case is a bit hard to explain in a slashdot comment, I'd recommend looking here or searching google for "why does FTL imply time travel" or something similar.
Ha, if the NSA needs the computing power they could go to IBM and say "How would you like the awesome PR opportunity of letting us borrow one of your blue gene clusters for a few months? You can't tell anyone about it now, but we'll let you mention it to the press in not more than 10 years. Deal?" If you were in charge of doling out computer time on one of the top 500 supercomputers and were offered the opportunity to try and decrypt those disks can you honestly say you wouldn't do it?
Anyone got the numbers on how long a top 10 supercomputer would take to decrypt a strong encryption scheme? I suspect it's still in the realm of 10s of years, but this is the kind of thing that someone just might be willing to say lets try it anyway and maybe we'll get lucky.
No pictures released because by most reports it was at least one, possibly two, shots to the head with an assault rifle. There are several reasons that you wouldn't want to show that picture. First, it wouldn't prove anything, because he almost certainly wouldn't be recognizable. Second, you'll just piss off his allies even more. Third, it's just plain gory, they want to let people celebrate the guy is gone, not be reminded just how violent an end he came to (not that there aren't many, many people around the world who would be happy about that).
Sorry? What exactly did Saddam and Iraq have to do with the 'War on Terror'? I mean, other than pissing off the fundamentalist Muslims even more than before.
So, reading your quote it sounds more like Lincoln's ax than an amazingly durable machine. You might swap out every individual element over the course of 10 years, replace the fans once or twice, and the power supply a couple times, but by the summaries logic, it's still the same heat pump.
Did you follow the link? No, I thought not. If you had you would have seen that Forbes (kind of a common resource for investors) was the first ones to break this story, not some random tech website. Anyone tracking their investments (which should be anyone who directly manages their own) already knows about this, and the effect has been zilch. Investors don't wait a month for the dust to settle, the markets work in minutes, not weeks.
If you're so sure that that the price is going to drop, why don't you set up a short sale on the stock and make a few bucks off of everyone else's lack of information?
Ha, you overestimate how much people care, investors and customers alike.
TomTom is down a whopping 0.8% on the day and over the past 5 days it's up 1.2%. There was a large selloff yesterday morning (presumably the information first became public overnight?) but the price quickly recovered.
While I agree with you, your explanation leaves open the possibility of me creating an app store and calling it "Apps" (tm) and successfully defending that trademark. And while I think that a store called "Apps" is more unique than one called "App Store", I still don't think it should be a trademark-able name; but that's just my opinion.
While it's true that without copyright the paywall and exclusivity agreements wouldn't work, that doesn't change the fact that the paywall and exclusivity are at the heart of the problem. Fixing this hugely important issue is something that can be accomplished almost overnight by those that it affects directly, the scientists and engineers whose work is being locked up. As opposed to copyright reform which is a political nightmare and actually quite a divisive issue for many people.
If you bring your shiny new ball over to a friends house and they're being a total dick and hogging the ball and not letting anyone else, including you, play with it why on Earth would you keep bringing every shiny new ball you get to that guy's house? The problem isn't that no one can make a million copies of the ball, the problem is that you keep giving this jerk your new toys. Take your ball home, if you can get it away from him, and find a friend who is willing to play nice. And definitely keep any new toys you get in the future away from the asshole.
The other guy also truncates the record to a reasonable size, something like 250 entries total (between cell and wifi). Honestly, keeping a cache of the last one or two hundred locations seems reasonable to improve performance. Keeping a cache of the last several thousand locations seems like... well, like a lawsuit waiting to happen if nothing else.
The android version is limited to 50 and 200 entries for the cell and wifi tables respectively. Still not cool, obviously, but at least there is a sane limit on how much data is kept. Compare this to the iPhone caches that have been shown to contain thousands of entries over a many month time frame. You can argue that it's only a matter of degree, but there are valid use cases for caching location data, it's all a question of how much data is collected and how long it remains.
I'm going to trust a government agency (especially one which has a vested interest in spying on us) to come up with a universal ID scheme which is secure, private, and actually works -- and doesn't have back doors?
Nope.
The DHS would not have access to any DB of online transactions (because there wouldn't be one). No government organization would be in charge of handing out IDs (this job would be done by an array of, presumably for profit, business entities). The businesses which did hand out the IDs would not be informed of where, when, or how you use them, the IDs themselves are the authentication (basically how secureIDs work). If you don't trust those safegaurds, there's nothing preventing you from getting multiple IDs from multiple providers so that no single business had all your information (although, again, they don't get any information other than what you explicitly give them when ordering your ID).
The internet ID is just a framework. Standardizing the authentication system so that a single ID that you get from one party can be used across the entire internet without sending any information between sites. It's nothing like what the internet speculation thought it was going to be. There's no central DB for the information. There's no cross communication between entities. Even if the Government got a warrant to look at your transactions, they'd still have to go to each website they want information from and request them one by one, just as things are today.
Having more energy available in a larger spectrum means that having more pigments might payoff. Plants on earth absorb in the red and blue ranges, adding a third pigment to absorb green generally seems to cost more energy than is gained (remember, it takes energy, materials, and space to construct those pigments). If you have two stars with different spectral signatures, there's a larger energy payoff by having a larger diversity of pigments, and a larger diversity of pigments means more frequencies absorbed, making the plants black or grey in color.
Because "regular price" for many blu-ray movie is $29.99 compaired to $17.99 for a DVD. The only times I buy blu-ray over DVD are for action movies that I really enjoyed (and that the improved picture quality is actually noticeable) or deep discount sales when I can get them for under $15.
Doesn't change the fact that if you give them the ability to grow enough food for themselves (and their village, city or region) then they will have enough to eat. It would almost certainly be easier to solve the problem by redistributing where the food that is currently grown ends up, but only if you can convince everyone to play well together, and decades of effort by tens of thousands of people hasn't been enough to make that happen. So why not try something else? Give them the tools to make their lives better on their own terms, rather than just trying to hand them the solution to their problems.
I can't help but thinking that this equipment would just be stolen by the guys with guns though, exactly the same way so much foreign aid is stolen out of the hands of those that need it most. People say stabilize the countries before you worry about feeding everyone, but I suspect reality would make it at least as hard to do things in that order as it is to do it in the other. Unstable governments cause starving populations, but starving populations also cause unstable governments; trying to solve either problem in isolation from the other one is just going to put fuel on the fire.
Why do I have a sinking feeling, without even clicking the link, that this points to one of the classic gross out pictures, probably goatse.
A) First post within seconds of the article going live. B) Link obfuscated using a URL shortener C) User has a history of one comment, including this one D) Username is of the theme Slash'X' which has been posting a goatse link in every article lately
I await other people clicking the link to see if I'm right, I don't have tinyurl set to preview pages and I'm at work, so I won't be taking the risk.
So... you're saying that according to the bible there was a point when everyone on the planet spoke the same language and then something changed and different languages developed. Ignoring details like time, location, towers to heaven, and god's holy wrath; I'd say the bible got the broad strokes of the truth right, even if only by accident.
The attack was a zero day attack, Adobe didn't know the vulnerability existed until the attack was discovered. They are now patching said attack on day 4. Saying that Adobe is patching a zero day attack 4 days after it was discovered doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
And he's right. You think every Opera is a beautiful work of art? Every painting and sculpture? Of course not, we just remember the good 10% so much more than the 90% that was crap. The problem is that sci-fi classics quickly and quietly get put into a different genre so that they can be safely ignored as examples of good sci-fi.
If the legal system were a piece of software, every hacker in the world would cringe in fear and disgust and insist on a rewrite. The crackers would have a field finding and exploiting every vulnerability under the sun to their own ends. And the original writers of the code would be well aware that the code was too convoluted and complex to be efficiently maintained, but they'd gladly take your money and resources in exchange for token efforts at improving it.
You barely even hear about disasters in the Midwest because people in the Midwest tend to dig their way out of the rubble and get on with things. We had a 1000 year flood a few years ago in my city, with water levels 25 feet above the flood plain. We're talking a flood so catastrophically large that the evacuation orders had to be given in terms of "if you can see the water from your property, you should evacuate" because no one had ever bothered drawing up flood maps for the water being that high. So, can you tell me where I'm from without looking it up online?
The national news casters barely even commented on the flood, they were too busy being amazed that stores weren't being looted, emergency crews were prepared, and the general public, while upset that the levees failed, were actually reasonable enough to realize that the levees were never designed for a flood of that magnitude.
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Just have drivers self report it and make it one of the things that gets verified in the event of an audit. Make the fines and fees exactly the same as if the person had cheated on their taxes some other way. If a car is sold, have a way for the buyer and seller to, independently of each other, submit the mileage at the time of sale and if there's a significant discrepancy have the new owner take it down to the DMV within 30 days to have someone there record it.
Honestly, I don't have any problem with a per mile tax but I have a huge, huge issue with any kind of device being placed on my car. Not only is it an incredibly invasive invasion of privacy, it's also way more expensive and complex than any taxing method should be.
unique (adj)
Being the only one of its kind;
unequaled,
Of a rare quality;
Unusual
There is more than one definition of unique. Something needs not be the only example of something to be unique.
FTL or causality. Pick one and only one.
FTL combined with time dilation, which we know empirically to be accurate, means that a round trip message can arrive back at it's start before the message is sent. And do note that this holds true even if your method of FTL involves 'shortcuts', as long as a message effectively travels faster than light, ships at relativistic velocities can be be used to send the message back before it left.
Why this is the case is a bit hard to explain in a slashdot comment, I'd recommend looking here or searching google for "why does FTL imply time travel" or something similar.
Ha, if the NSA needs the computing power they could go to IBM and say "How would you like the awesome PR opportunity of letting us borrow one of your blue gene clusters for a few months? You can't tell anyone about it now, but we'll let you mention it to the press in not more than 10 years. Deal?" If you were in charge of doling out computer time on one of the top 500 supercomputers and were offered the opportunity to try and decrypt those disks can you honestly say you wouldn't do it?
Anyone got the numbers on how long a top 10 supercomputer would take to decrypt a strong encryption scheme? I suspect it's still in the realm of 10s of years, but this is the kind of thing that someone just might be willing to say lets try it anyway and maybe we'll get lucky.
No pictures released because by most reports it was at least one, possibly two, shots to the head with an assault rifle. There are several reasons that you wouldn't want to show that picture. First, it wouldn't prove anything, because he almost certainly wouldn't be recognizable. Second, you'll just piss off his allies even more. Third, it's just plain gory, they want to let people celebrate the guy is gone, not be reminded just how violent an end he came to (not that there aren't many, many people around the world who would be happy about that).
Sorry? What exactly did Saddam and Iraq have to do with the 'War on Terror'? I mean, other than pissing off the fundamentalist Muslims even more than before.
So, reading your quote it sounds more like Lincoln's ax than an amazingly durable machine. You might swap out every individual element over the course of 10 years, replace the fans once or twice, and the power supply a couple times, but by the summaries logic, it's still the same heat pump.
Did you follow the link? No, I thought not. If you had you would have seen that Forbes (kind of a common resource for investors) was the first ones to break this story, not some random tech website. Anyone tracking their investments (which should be anyone who directly manages their own) already knows about this, and the effect has been zilch. Investors don't wait a month for the dust to settle, the markets work in minutes, not weeks.
If you're so sure that that the price is going to drop, why don't you set up a short sale on the stock and make a few bucks off of everyone else's lack of information?
Ha, you overestimate how much people care, investors and customers alike.
TomTom is down a whopping 0.8% on the day and over the past 5 days it's up 1.2%. There was a large selloff yesterday morning (presumably the information first became public overnight?) but the price quickly recovered.
Except that Apple did not create the term App, it has been used for decades to refer to pieces of software.
While I agree with you, your explanation leaves open the possibility of me creating an app store and calling it "Apps" (tm) and successfully defending that trademark. And while I think that a store called "Apps" is more unique than one called "App Store", I still don't think it should be a trademark-able name; but that's just my opinion.
While it's true that without copyright the paywall and exclusivity agreements wouldn't work, that doesn't change the fact that the paywall and exclusivity are at the heart of the problem. Fixing this hugely important issue is something that can be accomplished almost overnight by those that it affects directly, the scientists and engineers whose work is being locked up. As opposed to copyright reform which is a political nightmare and actually quite a divisive issue for many people.
If you bring your shiny new ball over to a friends house and they're being a total dick and hogging the ball and not letting anyone else, including you, play with it why on Earth would you keep bringing every shiny new ball you get to that guy's house? The problem isn't that no one can make a million copies of the ball, the problem is that you keep giving this jerk your new toys. Take your ball home, if you can get it away from him, and find a friend who is willing to play nice. And definitely keep any new toys you get in the future away from the asshole.
The other guy also truncates the record to a reasonable size, something like 250 entries total (between cell and wifi). Honestly, keeping a cache of the last one or two hundred locations seems reasonable to improve performance. Keeping a cache of the last several thousand locations seems like... well, like a lawsuit waiting to happen if nothing else.
The android version is limited to 50 and 200 entries for the cell and wifi tables respectively. Still not cool, obviously, but at least there is a sane limit on how much data is kept. Compare this to the iPhone caches that have been shown to contain thousands of entries over a many month time frame. You can argue that it's only a matter of degree, but there are valid use cases for caching location data, it's all a question of how much data is collected and how long it remains.
I'm going to trust a government agency (especially one which has a vested interest in spying on us) to come up with a universal ID scheme which is secure, private, and actually works -- and doesn't have back doors?
Nope.
The DHS would not have access to any DB of online transactions (because there wouldn't be one). No government organization would be in charge of handing out IDs (this job would be done by an array of, presumably for profit, business entities). The businesses which did hand out the IDs would not be informed of where, when, or how you use them, the IDs themselves are the authentication (basically how secureIDs work). If you don't trust those safegaurds, there's nothing preventing you from getting multiple IDs from multiple providers so that no single business had all your information (although, again, they don't get any information other than what you explicitly give them when ordering your ID).
The internet ID is just a framework. Standardizing the authentication system so that a single ID that you get from one party can be used across the entire internet without sending any information between sites. It's nothing like what the internet speculation thought it was going to be. There's no central DB for the information. There's no cross communication between entities. Even if the Government got a warrant to look at your transactions, they'd still have to go to each website they want information from and request them one by one, just as things are today.
Having more energy available in a larger spectrum means that having more pigments might payoff. Plants on earth absorb in the red and blue ranges, adding a third pigment to absorb green generally seems to cost more energy than is gained (remember, it takes energy, materials, and space to construct those pigments). If you have two stars with different spectral signatures, there's a larger energy payoff by having a larger diversity of pigments, and a larger diversity of pigments means more frequencies absorbed, making the plants black or grey in color.
Because "regular price" for many blu-ray movie is $29.99 compaired to $17.99 for a DVD. The only times I buy blu-ray over DVD are for action movies that I really enjoyed (and that the improved picture quality is actually noticeable) or deep discount sales when I can get them for under $15.
Doesn't change the fact that if you give them the ability to grow enough food for themselves (and their village, city or region) then they will have enough to eat. It would almost certainly be easier to solve the problem by redistributing where the food that is currently grown ends up, but only if you can convince everyone to play well together, and decades of effort by tens of thousands of people hasn't been enough to make that happen. So why not try something else? Give them the tools to make their lives better on their own terms, rather than just trying to hand them the solution to their problems.
I can't help but thinking that this equipment would just be stolen by the guys with guns though, exactly the same way so much foreign aid is stolen out of the hands of those that need it most. People say stabilize the countries before you worry about feeding everyone, but I suspect reality would make it at least as hard to do things in that order as it is to do it in the other. Unstable governments cause starving populations, but starving populations also cause unstable governments; trying to solve either problem in isolation from the other one is just going to put fuel on the fire.
And again, SlashX troll attemts the Goatse link. You really are the worst troll ever.
Why do I have a sinking feeling, without even clicking the link, that this points to one of the classic gross out pictures, probably goatse.
A) First post within seconds of the article going live.
B) Link obfuscated using a URL shortener
C) User has a history of one comment, including this one
D) Username is of the theme Slash'X' which has been posting a goatse link in every article lately
I await other people clicking the link to see if I'm right, I don't have tinyurl set to preview pages and I'm at work, so I won't be taking the risk.
So... you're saying that according to the bible there was a point when everyone on the planet spoke the same language and then something changed and different languages developed. Ignoring details like time, location, towers to heaven, and god's holy wrath; I'd say the bible got the broad strokes of the truth right, even if only by accident.
The attack was a zero day attack, Adobe didn't know the vulnerability existed until the attack was discovered. They are now patching said attack on day 4. Saying that Adobe is patching a zero day attack 4 days after it was discovered doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Sturgeon's Law:
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
And he's right. You think every Opera is a beautiful work of art? Every painting and sculpture? Of course not, we just remember the good 10% so much more than the 90% that was crap. The problem is that sci-fi classics quickly and quietly get put into a different genre so that they can be safely ignored as examples of good sci-fi.
If the legal system were a piece of software, every hacker in the world would cringe in fear and disgust and insist on a rewrite. The crackers would have a field finding and exploiting every vulnerability under the sun to their own ends. And the original writers of the code would be well aware that the code was too convoluted and complex to be efficiently maintained, but they'd gladly take your money and resources in exchange for token efforts at improving it.
You barely even hear about disasters in the Midwest because people in the Midwest tend to dig their way out of the rubble and get on with things. We had a 1000 year flood a few years ago in my city, with water levels 25 feet above the flood plain. We're talking a flood so catastrophically large that the evacuation orders had to be given in terms of "if you can see the water from your property, you should evacuate" because no one had ever bothered drawing up flood maps for the water being that high. So, can you tell me where I'm from without looking it up online?
The national news casters barely even commented on the flood, they were too busy being amazed that stores weren't being looted, emergency crews were prepared, and the general public, while upset that the levees failed, were actually reasonable enough to realize that the levees were never designed for a flood of that magnitude.