I read a theory yesterday that under the $9 grouped pricing scheme the mail-orderers and the streamers got counted together for their streaming costs. This move will likely split people into streamers or mailers. That shrinks the pool of potential streamers which lowers their costs.
As I understand it, at least some of their contracts with the content industry force Netflix to pay some amount multiplied by the number of potential streamers. They are trying to save money here.
I'm just repeating a rumor though - so.... you know....
I can't find data for non-fatal accidents, but the NHTSA shows a perfect decline in fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled from 1994 to 2009. There was a bump up in total number of fatal crashes in the early 2000s (about the time when well phones were becoming ubiquitous), but the increase in miles driven and number of drivers still show it to be a decrease in fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.
I understand this data is for traffic fatalities (not all accidents) so factors such as improved vehicle safety features are probably a large part of the trend. I think it's telling though that if cell phones are a bad factor in driving, they aren't bad enough to cause an increase in traffic fatalities.
Huh? The AC was "ignoring the rights of those being photographed"? The AC was focusing on the installation issue for two reasons: 1) that is what the artist is being charged with and 2) he was responding directly to MichaelSmith. If the AC had mentioned the privacy concern he too would have been missing the point of the discussion.
Also, I didn't address your second point because it was too big of a straw man. Since you insist though... no one is arguing that you have legal immunity while using a public computer. That's just so far from a reasonable point that it doesn't even merit a response. If the artist had done something clearly illegal (child porn for instance) there would be no question that he had broken a law. He didn't do anything CLEARLY illegal though. Restating the AC's original point: if you have admin rights to someone else's computer and you install (benign) software on it then you are an asshole, not a criminal.
Let me summarize for you:
MichaelSmith: the artist didn't have permission to install software on the Apple computers
AC retorts: the artist had implied permission, therefore he's not in violation of section 1030 of USC 18
AAWood: 1) what about PRIVACY? and 2) are you arguing that anyone can film child porn with Apple computers?
The guy isn't in trouble for taking pictures. He is in trouble for installing software on someone else's machine. The AC was saying that Apple should have locked their computers down if they didn't want people installing software. The discussion of permission for photos misses the point of the discussion.
In that vein, FoldIt is a game where the goal is to make proteins that match target sites. Promising results get tested in labs. Same gist as what you suggest, but you get humans to play tetris instead of a computer trying random proteins.
I recently switched providers too. I hate the idea of contracts that come with "free phones". I went with cricket and have been very surprised/happy with their service. $55/month for unlimited voice/text/data ($60/month after taxes). No contract and the service has been very reliable. Not as good as Verizon was but I was paying well more with Verizon for limited talk/text and no data.
If you don't like the way that the big players treat you then put your money where your mouth is and give some of the up and comers a shot.
But I'm glad you brought up Israel. Israel is perhaps the only country more despised in the Arab world than the US, and yet Israel has never had anyone blow up an airplane. Have you ever been through Israeli airport screening? There is a very good reason for it, and it has (so far) worked flawlessly.
It sounds to me like you are using Israel as an example of why we should use the scanners. I've read in various news outlets that Isreal doesn't use the "naked scanners" because they don't work because they are ineffective and invasive. I've been through the Tel Aviv airport three times this year (and twice in through land crossings); I can say without a moment's hesitation that they are far less physically invasive than our TSA. No doubt Israeli security is very good... they absolutely do not fuck around with security, and they don't use the standard TSA tactics. That should tell you something.
I think you're right though - we should emulate Israel as they are far better at security than us. Step one: get rid of the kabuki dance and employ measures that are actually effective.
Bonus quote: "I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines (they are useless). I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747, that is why we have not put body scans our airport." - Rafi Sela, Israeli security expert who designed the security in Israel’s largest airport.
Although this thing idea is neat, there is an Israeli company that is currently selling RF tech to do the same thing. It comes in a package the size of a suitcase, and can be deployed without having to put transmitters/receivers all over the place. Check it out.
I actually applied to work for that company but wasn't smart enough. Blasted Israelis and their blasted smarter-than-me-ness.
I can't find anything official from the DHS website, but the claim seems to be that DHS can legally set up spots away from the border and act as if they are at the border for purposes of questioning and searches.
This sort of power over books should not be in the hands of any single company.
I don't mean to be snarky, but nothing is stopping you from competing against them. In fact, if Google defends itself from the lawsuits that will probably follow, they may lead the way for other companies to try to provide the same service. I, for one, look forward to having access to millions of books. If they try to do anything along the lines of censorship (like you fear) another company will swoop in and provide a better service.
Biden also had the rare luck of working across the street from a regional rail hub. Unless we all start working right next to our regional hubs (not likely) it seems to make sense that local transit has to improve a lot for the overall system to become useful.
Incidentally, I live in the DC metro area (NoVA) close to a metro station. Unless I am going to DC proper or Reagan airport I generally have to drive.
I agree that the software will tell part of the story on whether or not the device is accurate, but I'd be interested in examining the hardware too. It is easy to imagine that varying conditions (temp, humidity, altitude, exhaust, smoker lung, etc) could alter the operation of the hardware even before the software comes into play. How have these variables been neutralized? Casting doubt on the device would be easy.
Casting doubt is what the defense is interested in, but what the public should really be interested in is the test data (from an independent third party). Have they conducted appropriate tests across sufficient body types and environmental conditions? Lets see the results.
I would think evaporation would be a large consideration, no? If you go to a historically dry place and make large (shallow?) pools of water it may get quite expensive to keep filling them up.
I would think a sunny, humid, place with cheap undeveloped treeless land would be ideal. A swamp somewhere?
I wish I had saved my chat log. I had an very frustrating chat with a Dell sales associate. The price shown online was $99 for a Mini9 (at this site). Too good to be true, I know, but there it was. The site wouldn't let me check out so I opened a chat window. The person helping me couldn't confirm or deny the price and promised to call or email soon. This is what I got:
we apologize for the misinformation we are currently having error on the website. but ill make sure to let someone call you if things clear up. just log backin online to check if its still the price but i will be callig you when this is already cleared.
No further attempts to contact me. Good to see a professional interface with the customer, huh?
Hopefully no Canadian hotels hear about this and jump into the fray. Sites like couchsurfing charge a small fee for membership. Members are provided a forum to find people willing to let other users stay at their place free of charge (while on travel or whatnot). No licenses, no taxes, no government involvement whatsoever. Sounds like we need some government intervention!
...I could see a script that generates a random keyboard layout, a key-to-character chart would have to printed on the screen...
INGdirect does this with their log in. Users have a numeric password, they can enter it by: -using the mouse to click the number pad displayed on the screen, or -typing the letters that are randomly assigned to the numbers on the screen
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This would be the killer box if XMBC was rolled in. They could even team with the Boxee crew. I'd put in my preorder today.
I read a theory yesterday that under the $9 grouped pricing scheme the mail-orderers and the streamers got counted together for their streaming costs. This move will likely split people into streamers or mailers. That shrinks the pool of potential streamers which lowers their costs.
As I understand it, at least some of their contracts with the content industry force Netflix to pay some amount multiplied by the number of potential streamers. They are trying to save money here.
I'm just repeating a rumor though - so.... you know....
I can't find data for non-fatal accidents, but the NHTSA shows a perfect decline in fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled from 1994 to 2009. There was a bump up in total number of fatal crashes in the early 2000s (about the time when well phones were becoming ubiquitous), but the increase in miles driven and number of drivers still show it to be a decrease in fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.
I understand this data is for traffic fatalities (not all accidents) so factors such as improved vehicle safety features are probably a large part of the trend. I think it's telling though that if cell phones are a bad factor in driving, they aren't bad enough to cause an increase in traffic fatalities.
Huh? The AC was "ignoring the rights of those being photographed"? The AC was focusing on the installation issue for two reasons: 1) that is what the artist is being charged with and 2) he was responding directly to MichaelSmith. If the AC had mentioned the privacy concern he too would have been missing the point of the discussion.
Also, I didn't address your second point because it was too big of a straw man. Since you insist though... no one is arguing that you have legal immunity while using a public computer. That's just so far from a reasonable point that it doesn't even merit a response. If the artist had done something clearly illegal (child porn for instance) there would be no question that he had broken a law. He didn't do anything CLEARLY illegal though. Restating the AC's original point: if you have admin rights to someone else's computer and you install (benign) software on it then you are an asshole, not a criminal.
Let me summarize for you:
The guy isn't in trouble for taking pictures. He is in trouble for installing software on someone else's machine. The AC was saying that Apple should have locked their computers down if they didn't want people installing software. The discussion of permission for photos misses the point of the discussion.
... US Citizens cannot go abroad and commit crimes legal in one country that are illegal in the US...
Really? The US should put warnings on planes bound for Amsterdam then.
In that vein, FoldIt is a game where the goal is to make proteins that match target sites. Promising results get tested in labs. Same gist as what you suggest, but you get humans to play tetris instead of a computer trying random proteins.
I recently switched providers too. I hate the idea of contracts that come with "free phones". I went with cricket and have been very surprised/happy with their service. $55/month for unlimited voice/text/data ($60/month after taxes). No contract and the service has been very reliable. Not as good as Verizon was but I was paying well more with Verizon for limited talk/text and no data.
If you don't like the way that the big players treat you then put your money where your mouth is and give some of the up and comers a shot.
But I'm glad you brought up Israel. Israel is perhaps the only country more despised in the Arab world than the US, and yet Israel has never had anyone blow up an airplane. Have you ever been through Israeli airport screening? There is a very good reason for it, and it has (so far) worked flawlessly.
It sounds to me like you are using Israel as an example of why we should use the scanners. I've read in various news outlets that Isreal doesn't use the "naked scanners" because they don't work because they are ineffective and invasive. I've been through the Tel Aviv airport three times this year (and twice in through land crossings); I can say without a moment's hesitation that they are far less physically invasive than our TSA. No doubt Israeli security is very good... they absolutely do not fuck around with security, and they don't use the standard TSA tactics. That should tell you something.
I think you're right though - we should emulate Israel as they are far better at security than us. Step one: get rid of the kabuki dance and employ measures that are actually effective.
Bonus quote: "I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines (they are useless). I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747, that is why we have not put body scans our airport." - Rafi Sela, Israeli security expert who designed the security in Israel’s largest airport.
He is talking about the ridiculous "sunken cube" shape of the boxee box.
What if I vote for you?
Bah. Forgot the link
Although this thing idea is neat, there is an Israeli company that is currently selling RF tech to do the same thing. It comes in a package the size of a suitcase, and can be deployed without having to put transmitters/receivers all over the place. Check it out.
I actually applied to work for that company but wasn't smart enough. Blasted Israelis and their blasted smarter-than-me-ness.
Google will likely provide a better collaborative product within a couple years
I look for Google Wave to fill that void within 12 months.
The OP is referring to the suspicionless internal DHS (border control) check points.
* http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1804/Davidson/Davidson.html
* http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b92_1231335983
I can't find anything official from the DHS website, but the claim seems to be that DHS can legally set up spots away from the border and act as if they are at the border for purposes of questioning and searches.
This sort of power over books should not be in the hands of any single company.
I don't mean to be snarky, but nothing is stopping you from competing against them. In fact, if Google defends itself from the lawsuits that will probably follow, they may lead the way for other companies to try to provide the same service. I, for one, look forward to having access to millions of books. If they try to do anything along the lines of censorship (like you fear) another company will swoop in and provide a better service.
Punishing people for "facilitating" stuff is a slippery slope. Just saying.
Biden also had the rare luck of working across the street from a regional rail hub. Unless we all start working right next to our regional hubs (not likely) it seems to make sense that local transit has to improve a lot for the overall system to become useful.
Incidentally, I live in the DC metro area (NoVA) close to a metro station. Unless I am going to DC proper or Reagan airport I generally have to drive.
Masnick's Law! You can always see it coming from a mile.
I agree that the software will tell part of the story on whether or not the device is accurate, but I'd be interested in examining the hardware too. It is easy to imagine that varying conditions (temp, humidity, altitude, exhaust, smoker lung, etc) could alter the operation of the hardware even before the software comes into play. How have these variables been neutralized? Casting doubt on the device would be easy.
Casting doubt is what the defense is interested in, but what the public should really be interested in is the test data (from an independent third party). Have they conducted appropriate tests across sufficient body types and environmental conditions? Lets see the results.
I would think evaporation would be a large consideration, no? If you go to a historically dry place and make large (shallow?) pools of water it may get quite expensive to keep filling them up.
I would think a sunny, humid, place with cheap undeveloped treeless land would be ideal. A swamp somewhere?
I wish I had saved my chat log. I had an very frustrating chat with a Dell sales associate. The price shown online was $99 for a Mini9 (at this site). Too good to be true, I know, but there it was. The site wouldn't let me check out so I opened a chat window. The person helping me couldn't confirm or deny the price and promised to call or email soon. This is what I got:
we apologize for the misinformation we are currently having error on the website. but ill make sure to let someone call you if things clear up. just log backin online to check if its still the price but i will be callig you when this is already cleared.
No further attempts to contact me. Good to see a professional interface with the customer, huh?
Hopefully no Canadian hotels hear about this and jump into the fray. Sites like couchsurfing charge a small fee for membership. Members are provided a forum to find people willing to let other users stay at their place free of charge (while on travel or whatnot). No licenses, no taxes, no government involvement whatsoever. Sounds like we need some government intervention!
...I could see a script that generates a random keyboard layout, a key-to-character chart would have to printed on the screen...
INGdirect does this with their log in. Users have a numeric password, they can enter it by:
-using the mouse to click the number pad displayed on the screen, or
-typing the letters that are randomly assigned to the numbers on the screen
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