Governments are by definition power. They aren't a reading society.
You spend two years serving. Not as a zombie, not as a brainwashed monkey. You could ring the bell and leave at any time during your service. Even active military could resign before a drop, and the only punishment was the loss of the vote and full citizenship.
You simply did a necessary job and proved you could understand the need to put the welfare of your fellow wo/men over your own. The very opposite of Ayn Rand's sloppy love letters to sociopaths. The job could be anything that was sometimes dangerous, unpleasant, but necessary and no one would want to do.
The situation in the novel described a spacefaring society that had actual, real, gosh-darned alien races that were attacking the Terrans, so a military was warranted.
Semantics was one of Heinlein's passions. The idea that the word "fascist" would lose its actual meaning would sadden and infuriate, but not surprise him. That he would be called one would earn the mouth-breather a well-earned verbal beatdown. The man was the opposite of a fascist. Infuriating.
The point that is eternally missed is that the required service *did not have to be military service*. For those who could not or would not serve in a defense capacity, there were other jobs to do in endless other capacities. After all, everyone isn't a potential martial artist aged 18. The idea is you put yourself in service to your society. The other main idea is that people do not value what they do not earn and perceive to be worthless: the right to vote. Which today is abundantly clear, given the small percentage who bother to vote.
Ive's design department is controlling their R&D. Not good. And I don't think they care much about their Mac line, no matter what they say. They've enough money to do ANYTHING, and they just keep hoarding. Their headquarters looks *inward*, and has finite room. They have no imagination. And they're contemptuous of the poor - no other way to say it. It's a world of millionaires that don't want to pay taxes. They don't even care about the stockholders.
I believe Apple is becoming a capital holding company that happens to dabble in computing.
Ive's ongoing mania for thinness led to this. There's no room for more battery because he wanted to shave 3 millimeters off the thickness of the laptop. If they added a whole *centimeter* to the case depth, there'd be enough battery for days. Ives is crippling all the devices, and no one can tell him to stop-certainly not the users. Who asked for thinness? Like robot cars and connectivity for my toaster, I don't recall asking for this.
An AI can't make mistakes, and only ignorant Luddites with severe paranoia issues would retard process and a better world without human error and the terrible death tolls that follow when doctors are texting or drunk or... Oh wait. That's self-driving cars. Only SDCs are perfect, I guess, though one would think SD AI doctors would be far better than humans, given the premise of SDCs. If you trust an AI to drive a car, you should trust it to diagnose your cancer. Mistakes on either's part will kill you.
I've tried pairing my phone to Ford cars, and it never works. It pairs, but then: zilch. It thinks it's a music player of some sort. Phone doesn't function through the car. I always carry - YES - a 3.5 audio cable and connect the phone through the headphone jack to hear music. Even THAT fails and I have to reboot the system to make it work. This among many other common failures of simple gadgets make me laugh to see self-driving cars - we are no where near ready for that level of complexity. In the real world, these toys crash constantly.
Odd. The same comments they made could be applied to self-driving cars, which will certainly be far more buggy than the infotainment screen. Only the SDCs could actually kill you. Why people think the music player would naturally be a piece of useless crap code while the car will be an AI marvel far better than human drivers... explain this to me...
Now for the comments about paranoia, stupidity, Ludditism...
This is going to be a bloody lesson in hubris. Not that believers will look. SD cars already have been in plenty of accidents; it's just our rules for finding fault were written with humans in mind. The car that hits another car is almost always at fault, per human rules, and the SDs are being hit, so therefore no "mistakes" are tallied. Further investigation would be made by the SD car company, which is biased to not find error. The problem is robots can drive so stupidly that a normal human will hit the SDC, and suck up the blame. The real stats are being fudged.
But the audio adapter dongle requires software keys that only Apple can provide. And can withdraw. So, it is DRM that hasn't been switched on. Yet. Don't give the monkeys the keys to the banana plantation. This leaves the key in the lock for future implementation. Don't give them a lock, or a key. Audio is all that is left for us now.
The servers DO have to be paid for. Making millions in revenue is not the same as millions in profit. Not that that will be mentioned. How can we arrest people in the Ukraine? Ah, I remember. We sanctioned trade to the Ukraine until they signed our IP treaty.
If the phone systems of the 1800s had gone with that logic, they would have been within their "rights" to hire monitors to listen in on "their" phone wires to see if anyone was dirty-talking on "their" property, and ban them from using "their" phone wires.
This is raw material in free orbit, a gift from the gods of space and time. We dig in and smelt and melt and build like mad. Building in free fall makes endless sense.
I can only add to this back-and-forth that the paper in question has been peer reviewed. You all are not dealing with Shawyer's self-published non-reviewed paper here. This is physics, an actual hypothesis. Those of you who disagree have to consider that your comprehension of photon-photon "annihilation" and momentum conservation might be flawed. In any case, we have a way forward; all the previous negative responses had in common (endlessly) was the fact that physics had to be completely wrong for a resonant cavity drive to provide propellantless propulsion. Now we have a way in which EM drives do not violate physics. And - it's emminently testable. Even if Shawyer is completely valueless here, he might have triggered a new way of thinking about momentum transfer, a hack in the universe we can use for propulsion. We need one badly.
Length, not weirdness, is the key to uncrackablity. For easy remembering, embed a simple password in a hell of a long string of repeating characters broken up by odd interruptions of non-repeaters. For instance:
=-4=-=-(repeat lots)=-=-yourpassphraseorword=-(repeat lots)=-88=- (repeat lots) -=- is bloody impossible to crack with any tables.
Most people think password breaking is like the way people crack safes. One spin, crack, another spin, crack, until the code is broken. Password crackers have *no way of knowing* if they are hot or cold. They must guess the entire string at one go. That means length, not oddness, is the primary defense. You can have a simple one word password.... if you embed it in a string of simple and easy to remember character repetitions (broken at random intervals by a deal breaker to foil crackers trying for character padding repetition guesses). Steve Gibson came up with it, and it works, if the site allows for long passwords.
If someone bugged your keyboard, all bets are off, of course.
Note: Slashdot's filter error won't let me type repeating characters.
Incredible things will be done in medicine, but sadly, not in the US. We're too "ethical". Which means centuries of delays, and research locked up behind pay walls.
"If the proposed law was in effect, what would they do instead?"
Talk to each other someplace like public restrooms, where cameras and mics are illegal. Or write on stuff we call "paper" and give the "paper" to each other.
Why does everyone think you need a computer to talk?
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Governments are by definition power. They aren't a reading society.
You spend two years serving. Not as a zombie, not as a brainwashed monkey. You could ring the bell and leave at any time during your service. Even active military could resign before a drop, and the only punishment was the loss of the vote and full citizenship.
You simply did a necessary job and proved you could understand the need to put the welfare of your fellow wo/men over your own. The very opposite of Ayn Rand's sloppy love letters to sociopaths. The job could be anything that was sometimes dangerous, unpleasant, but necessary and no one would want to do.
The situation in the novel described a spacefaring society that had actual, real, gosh-darned alien races that were attacking the Terrans, so a military was warranted.
Semantics was one of Heinlein's passions. The idea that the word "fascist" would lose its actual meaning would sadden and infuriate, but not surprise him. That he would be called one would earn the mouth-breather a well-earned verbal beatdown. The man was the opposite of a fascist. Infuriating.
Did ANY of you ever bother to read the damned book?
The point that is eternally missed is that the required service *did not have to be military service*. For those who could not or would not serve in a defense capacity, there were other jobs to do in endless other capacities. After all, everyone isn't a potential martial artist aged 18. The idea is you put yourself in service to your society. The other main idea is that people do not value what they do not earn and perceive to be worthless: the right to vote. Which today is abundantly clear, given the small percentage who bother to vote.
Ive's design department is controlling their R&D. Not good. And I don't think they care much about their Mac line, no matter what they say.
They've enough money to do ANYTHING, and they just keep hoarding. Their headquarters looks *inward*, and has finite room. They have no imagination. And they're contemptuous of the poor - no other way to say it. It's a world of millionaires that don't want to pay taxes. They don't even care about the stockholders.
I believe Apple is becoming a capital holding company that happens to dabble in computing.
Anything we can? That would be a good answer. They keep. Controlling. Everything.
Ive's ongoing mania for thinness led to this. There's no room for more battery because he wanted to shave 3 millimeters off the thickness of the laptop. If they added a whole *centimeter* to the case depth, there'd be enough battery for days. Ives is crippling all the devices, and no one can tell him to stop-certainly not the users. Who asked for thinness? Like robot cars and connectivity for my toaster, I don't recall asking for this.
An AI can't make mistakes, and only ignorant Luddites with severe paranoia issues would retard process and a better world without human error and the terrible death tolls that follow when doctors are texting or drunk or ... Oh wait. That's self-driving cars. Only SDCs are perfect, I guess, though one would think SD AI doctors would be far better than humans, given the premise of SDCs. If you trust an AI to drive a car, you should trust it to diagnose your cancer. Mistakes on either's part will kill you.
I've tried pairing my phone to Ford cars, and it never works. It pairs, but then: zilch. It thinks it's a music player of some sort. Phone doesn't function through the car. I always carry - YES - a 3.5 audio cable and connect the phone through the headphone jack to hear music. Even THAT fails and I have to reboot the system to make it work. This among many other common failures of simple gadgets make me laugh to see self-driving cars - we are no where near ready for that level of complexity. In the real world, these toys crash constantly.
Odd. The same comments they made could be applied to self-driving cars, which will certainly be far more buggy than the infotainment screen. Only the SDCs could actually kill you. Why people think the music player would naturally be a piece of useless crap code while the car will be an AI marvel far better than human drivers... explain this to me...
Now for the comments about paranoia, stupidity, Ludditism...
This is going to be a bloody lesson in hubris. Not that believers will look. SD cars already have been in plenty of accidents; it's just our rules for finding fault were written with humans in mind. The car that hits another car is almost always at fault, per human rules, and the SDs are being hit, so therefore no "mistakes" are tallied. Further investigation would be made by the SD car company, which is biased to not find error. The problem is robots can drive so stupidly that a normal human will hit the SDC, and suck up the blame. The real stats are being fudged.
Seriously, a dentist is a messy job, but DAMN they get paid.
I hope you don't mind me stealing this.
But the audio adapter dongle requires software keys that only Apple can provide. And can withdraw. So, it is DRM that hasn't been switched on. Yet.
Don't give the monkeys the keys to the banana plantation.
This leaves the key in the lock for future implementation. Don't give them a lock, or a key. Audio is all that is left for us now.
The servers DO have to be paid for. Making millions in revenue is not the same as millions in profit. Not that that will be mentioned.
How can we arrest people in the Ukraine? Ah, I remember. We sanctioned trade to the Ukraine until they signed our IP treaty.
If the phone systems of the 1800s had gone with that logic, they would have been within their "rights" to hire monitors to listen in on "their" phone wires to see if anyone was dirty-talking on "their" property, and ban them from using "their" phone wires.
This is raw material in free orbit, a gift from the gods of space and time. We dig in and smelt and melt and build like mad. Building in free fall makes endless sense.
I can only add to this back-and-forth that the paper in question has been peer reviewed. You all are not dealing with Shawyer's self-published non-reviewed paper here. This is physics, an actual hypothesis. Those of you who disagree have to consider that your comprehension of photon-photon "annihilation" and momentum conservation might be flawed. In any case, we have a way forward; all the previous negative responses had in common (endlessly) was the fact that physics had to be completely wrong for a resonant cavity drive to provide propellantless propulsion. Now we have a way in which EM drives do not violate physics. And - it's emminently testable. Even if Shawyer is completely valueless here, he might have triggered a new way of thinking about momentum transfer, a hack in the universe we can use for propulsion. We need one badly.
Length, not weirdness, is the key to uncrackablity. For easy remembering, embed a simple password in a hell of a long string of repeating characters broken up by odd interruptions of non-repeaters. For instance:
=-4=-=-(repeat lots)=-=-yourpassphraseorword=-(repeat lots)=-88=- (repeat lots) -=-
is bloody impossible to crack with any tables.
Most people think password breaking is like the way people crack safes. One spin, crack, another spin, crack, until the code is broken. Password crackers have *no way of knowing* if they are hot or cold. They must guess the entire string at one go. That means length, not oddness, is the primary defense. You can have a simple one word password.... if you embed it in a string of simple and easy to remember character repetitions (broken at random intervals by a deal breaker to foil crackers trying for character padding repetition guesses). Steve Gibson came up with it, and it works, if the site allows for long passwords.
If someone bugged your keyboard, all bets are off, of course.
Note: Slashdot's filter error won't let me type repeating characters.
As you mention the capability, Amazon will have to take it off sale. DMCA.
Mentioning this may place you in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You're disseminating knowledge concerning digital lock overrides.
Incredible things will be done in medicine, but sadly, not in the US. We're too "ethical". Which means centuries of delays, and research locked up behind pay walls.
Yet the bombers used burner phones. Didn't work.
"If the proposed law was in effect, what would they do instead?"
Talk to each other someplace like public restrooms, where cameras and mics are illegal.
Or write on stuff we call "paper" and give the "paper" to each other.
Why does everyone think you need a computer to talk?
They've cameras on all the payphones I see. What payphones are left.