Didn't say there was/wasn't a difference. Just wondering if there was any similar moves to restrict CB radio use, after perhaps the inevitable "eighteen wheeler mows down VW Beetle full of teenagers; trucker was talking to his old lady on CB while turning onto exit ramp" story.
The privacy guarantee means that your identifying data won't be kept in relation to your responses; the Census Bureau doesn't have (at least they're not supposed to have) a database where they can type in your name / address / social security number and pull up your race, age, number of kids, etc. This doesn't mean, of course, that those of calamitous intent can't play around with the aggregate data and make some educated guesses.
I wouldn't advocate lying and/or skipping the census on that basis however. Sure doing that might in theory help keep you one step ahead of the Man when The Hammer Comes Down; but don't start crying if in your neighborhood the classrooms become more crowded, there's less cops on the beat, the potholes seem to never get fixed, and your block always winds up getting plowed out two days after the big snowstorm.
NASA today said it upgraded the software controlling its Mars Rover Opportunity to let it make its own decisions about what items like rocks and interesting red planet formations to focus its cameras on.
Opportunity (via IM): i spy with my little eye something beginning with the letter r
JPL: rock
(sixteen minutes later)
Opportunity: right! yr turn!
JPL: ok - letter m
(sixteen minutes later)
Opportunity: u have 2 say the whole thing. u lose a turn! i would have guessed mug.
Opportunity: i spy with my little eye something beginning with the letter s.
(later that day)
Opportunity: can we stop for ice cream?
JPL: no ice cream on mars. we discussed this.
(sixteen minutes later)
Opportunity: compute 65% prob object in dist is dairy queen. c pix
JPL: object is crater edge. 5km away. 6 sols travel time min.
JPL: see crystal formations < 500m NNW. that will be fun. lets go there.
(Disclaimer: as soon as the word occurred to me I googled "wikisocial" and yep, it's in use. I'm not referring to any of them.)
A not-for-profit social network built with a "trustworthiness is our middle name" mindset would be appealing. Run by the sort of people who force you to keep a local backup of your data by default. Who take privacy seriously. Who encrypt all the data wherever possible. Who don't sell your profile info to advertisers and marketers. Who'd sooner throw all the hard drives and backup tapes into industrial shredders that turn them over to The Man. Who have a "do what ya like" attitude regarding content (within the expected no-kiddie-pron etc. limits.)
All it would take it volunteers and time. And a few million dollars for servers and bandwidth.
"My great unfulfilled ambition - to do my own amusement park - is really why I am doing Futurama. I'm not kidding. If this show takes off, I'm going to do an amusement park." - Matt Groening, Wired 7.02
That, and getting "Life In Hell" online. (For God's sake man! It's an intern, a scanner, and a Facebook page!)
"The genetic privacy risk from such profiling is virtually nil, because as yet these records include none of the health and biological data present in one’s genome as a whole."
To protest the British Empire's control and taxation of salt, Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi led a 200+ mile march to the sea, where he made an illegal batch of salt. This sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the salt laws by millions of Indians, and was a major step on the long road to the independence of India.
If the British Raj had try to ban the use of salt outright, however, I suspect Gandhi - being a devout vegetarian - would have handed out cricket bats to every available man, woman, and child and led a march straight to New Delhi.
Way back in the day hustling for temp work, typing speed counted. I used Mavis Beacon for DOS which drills you on touch typing - even using your pinky. Got up to about 70 WPM touch-typing - which means NOT looking at your fingers. (Which is why I'm taking your 90-110 WPM estimate with a grain of salt - MB will tell you what your typing speed is!)
Mavis Beacon's like Tetris - it's been around since 1987 and ported to every platform that counts. And it can teach Dvorak too.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Precursors of life off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die. - Herschel Space Observatory's last transmission before deorbiting, November 2019
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Didn't say there was/wasn't a difference. Just wondering if there was any similar moves to restrict CB radio use, after perhaps the inevitable "eighteen wheeler mows down VW Beetle full of teenagers; trucker was talking to his old lady on CB while turning onto exit ramp" story.
So how many deaths were attributed to CB radios at the height of their popularity? Is there a ban on using push-to-talk mics?
But it's full name is A Sniveling Little Rat-Faced Git.
If Jamie and Adam can't figure out what's going wrong, who can?
And if they can't figure it out, they'll pack the test Prius with C4 and hurl it into a quarry. Win-win.
We wouldn't want anything to 'appen to it.
...except me and my monkey!
The privacy guarantee means that your identifying data won't be kept in relation to your responses; the Census Bureau doesn't have (at least they're not supposed to have) a database where they can type in your name / address / social security number and pull up your race, age, number of kids, etc. This doesn't mean, of course, that those of calamitous intent can't play around with the aggregate data and make some educated guesses.
I wouldn't advocate lying and/or skipping the census on that basis however. Sure doing that might in theory help keep you one step ahead of the Man when The Hammer Comes Down; but don't start crying if in your neighborhood the classrooms become more crowded, there's less cops on the beat, the potholes seem to never get fixed, and your block always winds up getting plowed out two days after the big snowstorm.
And wow you swallow whatever your mamma spits out. Definitely living up to the C part of AC.
NASA today said it upgraded the software controlling its Mars Rover Opportunity to let it make its own decisions about what items like rocks and interesting red planet formations to focus its cameras on.
Opportunity (via IM): i spy with my little eye something beginning with the letter r
JPL: rock
(sixteen minutes later)
Opportunity: right! yr turn!
JPL: ok - letter m
(sixteen minutes later)
Opportunity: u have 2 say the whole thing. u lose a turn! i would have guessed mug.
Opportunity: i spy with my little eye something beginning with the letter s.
(later that day)
Opportunity: can we stop for ice cream?
JPL: no ice cream on mars. we discussed this.
(sixteen minutes later)
Opportunity: compute 65% prob object in dist is dairy queen. c pix
JPL: object is crater edge. 5km away. 6 sols travel time min.
JPL: see crystal formations < 500m NNW. that will be fun. lets go there.
(sixteen minutes later)
Opportunity: DQ! DQ! DQ!!1!
Beware! I near! Run Coward! RUN! RUN! RUN!
("Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING."? Yeah, well, sometimes I got my REASONS, ya f'n filter!)
Too right - a mandatory national ID that also affirms your right to leave the country strikes me as having the right karmic balance.
Kraft dinner - n. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner. National meal of Canada and salvation of that nation's poor.
Polizia: FREEZE! Up against that Wall you, and don't try anything funny!
Not to mention Paul Muni.
We'll just have one of our grad students publish a paper online on the vulnerability of your power grid and see how you like it! So there! Nyaah!
I'm surprised all the SSIDs aren't "Bruce".
(Disclaimer: as soon as the word occurred to me I googled "wikisocial" and yep, it's in use. I'm not referring to any of them.)
A not-for-profit social network built with a "trustworthiness is our middle name" mindset would be appealing. Run by the sort of people who force you to keep a local backup of your data by default. Who take privacy seriously. Who encrypt all the data wherever possible. Who don't sell your profile info to advertisers and marketers. Who'd sooner throw all the hard drives and backup tapes into industrial shredders that turn them over to The Man. Who have a "do what ya like" attitude regarding content (within the expected no-kiddie-pron etc. limits.)
All it would take it volunteers and time. And a few million dollars for servers and bandwidth.
"My great unfulfilled ambition - to do my own amusement park - is really why I am doing Futurama. I'm not kidding. If this show takes off, I'm going to do an amusement park." - Matt Groening, Wired 7.02
That, and getting "Life In Hell" online. (For God's sake man! It's an intern, a scanner, and a Facebook page!)
... than a "somebody really doesn't want to get a job and have to stop playing XBOX and WOW all day in his mum's basement" issue.
"The genetic privacy risk from such profiling is virtually nil, because as yet these records include none of the health and biological data present in one’s genome as a whole."
C'mon, you know the words, er, numbers!
pi - Kate Bush
This version only takes six minutes to sing. The extended version? You don't even want to know.
To protest the British Empire's control and taxation of salt, Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi led a 200+ mile march to the sea, where he made an illegal batch of salt. This sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the salt laws by millions of Indians, and was a major step on the long road to the independence of India.
If the British Raj had try to ban the use of salt outright, however, I suspect Gandhi - being a devout vegetarian - would have handed out cricket bats to every available man, woman, and child and led a march straight to New Delhi.
Way back in the day hustling for temp work, typing speed counted. I used Mavis Beacon for DOS which drills you on touch typing - even using your pinky. Got up to about 70 WPM touch-typing - which means NOT looking at your fingers. (Which is why I'm taking your 90-110 WPM estimate with a grain of salt - MB will tell you what your typing speed is!)
Mavis Beacon's like Tetris - it's been around since 1987 and ported to every platform that counts. And it can teach Dvorak too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_Beacon_Teaches_Typing
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Precursors of life off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
- Herschel Space Observatory's last transmission before deorbiting, November 2019
Sure I'll take that deal - WHEN YOU MAKE FIOS AVAILABLE IN MY @%&#! NEIGHBORHOOD!!!