They're assumed to know something, whether or not they really do.
Which is exactly how they want to be viewed.
Of course, that works if they want to keep enemies on their toes. It isn't so great when they get mobbed with requests for info they really don't have, since the requestors don't believe the "no" and request again, sue in court, go to their elected officials, plot against their perceived enemy, etc.
"Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water"
So there's a bit of idiocy with the person who wrote this. In reality, as you put it, 15% got the correct answer--15% did not necessarily "actually know how much of the planet is covered in water." That would imply that no one guessed. A little hypocrisy in the summary, perhaps? In the article, they put it correctly: "Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%."
EDITORS, DO YOUR JOBS. If there is a fallacy in the summary, either correct it, or DO NOT POST THE STORY.
Additionallywise, can anyone actually know the exact amount of water covering the surface? I mean, are you considered in the 47% if you're a few planck-lengths off? I guess I'm in that category, because I just said "about 73% covered"
Even if you do stop the magnetic field (it can be done, but not with a Faraday cage), your battery would be inducing regular and eddy currents in the shield, which will convert the magnetic field to useless thermal energy over time.
They can't return anything from an FOIA request if they don't have anything on you.
I had a friend who was absolutely certain that the FBI had a bunch of stuff on him. He just knew that they were keeping tabs on him so they could "do something" if he ever got out of line.
The thing is, he'd never done anything. No criminal record, no tax issues, no affiliations with any group. He had some extremely mild anti-tax and anti-bureaucracy views, but didn't even talk about them that much, and never acted on them.
So when he filed his FOIA request for all records, he got back nothing. Which made him even MORE paranoid. So he filed another one, for all surveillance tapes and records that they'd "hidden" the first time.
I think he ended up filing three or four FOIA requests, until someone from the FBI came around and explained, very carefully, that he really wasn't very interesting.
Quite an interesting post.
Unfortunately, this is the necessary result of a culture of secrecy on the part of these organizations. They're assumed to know something, whether or not they really do. And if they claim to not have the information, they're assumed to be lying about not having it. People have good reason to make these assumptions, since these agencies have a history of doing exactly this.
I stand corrected. Tuvok was in it. As I think about all the appearances (as different characters) of Tim Russ, I suspect that the original person must be the victim of DNA piracy and copying. Too bad they didn't have DRM (DNA Rights Management) in the 24th century. He can't be the only victim of 24th century identity theft...
Highly unlikely. Now if you go back into your cave and NEVER, EVER mention to any figment of the Bastard Child of Star Trek (or the fictional counterpart to Tuvok, Tim Russ) ever again, you may still be able to get into Heave (but you still won't get any virgins, or any other female, for that matter).
Yep. I'd never heard of it either. Now I've got a copy, in case anyone I know ever wants it. Thanks, Amazon.
It's a good thing DMCA takedown notices aren't applied with gag orders like "National Security" Letters.
I got the distinct impression these guys wanted exactly what happened to happen, and wanted to disavow responsibility for legal reasons. "It's not here, so don't ask". Nothing about "don't look elsewhere for it, or ask elsewhere."
The funny part is that many people like me will never have even heard of the script until Amazon made a fuss about it. I found it with a simple google search. Same with how-to instructions.
Hi, Amazon. I'd like for you to meet a very dear friend of mine, the Streisand Effect. You two are going to really get familiar with each other.
Given all the myriad dangers of space travel encountered over the past 30 years, that have been dealt with or fixed in-flight, NASA is aweful skittish these days about flying shuttles with flecks of paint missing.
Yes, I know a hydrogen leak is potentially far more serious, but that's what it seems like I hear about delaying launches.
1. I have _multiple_ active GPG keys. All Ubuntu has GPG on them by default.
2. I use TOR regularly, which uses multiple levels of encryption.
3. I use HTTPS sites regularly. Not the old dinky 40bit keys either.
4. My filesystem on my laptops are encrypted via DM_CRYPT and Luks.
5. Every machine I communicate with has SSH. Therefore, I also have encrypted data tunnels for everything.
6. I use W.A.S.T.E.
Yeah. That whole encryption thing died out a while back. Uh huh.
I thought all crime was supposed to cease in England when they banned firearms.
So, now it's knives?
Next, they will come for the pointy things.
Eventually, everyone in England will be required to be lobotomized in order to prevent anyone from taking any actions whatsoever that might be harmful to someone else.
The Clinton incident was a farce. If the American populace had one ounce of common sense, they'd have shoved the media hype down the boulevard press' throat.
He lied under oath, if he had told the truth right away he would definitely have stayed on at least until the end of his term.
Note to parent: Slick Willy did stay on until the end of his term, which ended in 2000.
Or, more likely, he doesn't want to pay for bandwidth and cpu usage for people who have nothing to do with what his server offers.
The big problem, however, with restriction-by-location is that users who are away from home but still want to check the board are going to be restricted.
Here's a solution: Only let them reguster if their IP is local. Local accessors need not be logged in, however, in order to use the site from a non-local IP, they must log in with their pre-established credentials.
It won't stop visitors to your home page, but it will cut down on a lot of other usage of your server.
other kinds of intellectual property that Congress hasn't been innovative enough to think of yet.
Holy shite. This is one of the funniest things I've seen all day! Congress being innovative? Did you hurt your brain in trying to innovate that?
Now, I know you were being funny, so I'll leave you with this: "Con-" is the opposite prefix of "Pro-", so that would technically make "Congress" the opposite of "Progress".
So? If I were to reverse engineer Windows, incorporate some of that actual code from it into my own OS (Let's call it the Z-Windowing system), and then release it as public domain, Microsoft can probably still sue me all the way into debtor's prison.
Public domain works only if you own it to begin with. If you want to claim that the gov't by default owns everything those subject to it can produce (including intellect), you may have an argument.
I highly doubt this is the case. Wouldn't you agree?
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Now Eddy's in currents too? I think I saw his couch float by back when he was in the space-time continuum.
I knew that Eddy kid was no good when he said he didn't like his teddy.
They're assumed to know something, whether or not they really do.
Which is exactly how they want to be viewed.
Of course, that works if they want to keep enemies on their toes. It isn't so great when they get mobbed with requests for info they really don't have, since the requestors don't believe the "no" and request again, sue in court, go to their elected officials, plot against their perceived enemy, etc.
And what is said in the summary:
"Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water"
So there's a bit of idiocy with the person who wrote this. In reality, as you put it, 15% got the correct answer--15% did not necessarily "actually know how much of the planet is covered in water." That would imply that no one guessed. A little hypocrisy in the summary, perhaps? In the article, they put it correctly: "Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%." EDITORS, DO YOUR JOBS. If there is a fallacy in the summary, either correct it, or DO NOT POST THE STORY.
Additionallywise, can anyone actually know the exact amount of water covering the surface? I mean, are you considered in the 47% if you're a few planck-lengths off? I guess I'm in that category, because I just said "about 73% covered"
You will see that the main use of this is to replace moving parts in computers (and apparently can act as a replacement for the transistor).
Pretty interesting stuff but I would wait for an actual tech demo, it all seems pretty pie in the sky right now.
I took from the article that the main use for this would be to replace chemical reactions in batteries.
Magnetic shielding?
A Faraday cage?
Faraday cages don't stop magnetic fields.
Even if you do stop the magnetic field (it can be done, but not with a Faraday cage), your battery would be inducing regular and eddy currents in the shield, which will convert the magnetic field to useless thermal energy over time.
They can't return anything from an FOIA request if they don't have anything on you.
I had a friend who was absolutely certain that the FBI had a bunch of stuff on him. He just knew that they were keeping tabs on him so they could "do something" if he ever got out of line.
The thing is, he'd never done anything. No criminal record, no tax issues, no affiliations with any group. He had some extremely mild anti-tax and anti-bureaucracy views, but didn't even talk about them that much, and never acted on them.
So when he filed his FOIA request for all records, he got back nothing. Which made him even MORE paranoid. So he filed another one, for all surveillance tapes and records that they'd "hidden" the first time.
I think he ended up filing three or four FOIA requests, until someone from the FBI came around and explained, very carefully, that he really wasn't very interesting.
Quite an interesting post.
Unfortunately, this is the necessary result of a culture of secrecy on the part of these organizations. They're assumed to know something, whether or not they really do. And if they claim to not have the information, they're assumed to be lying about not having it. People have good reason to make these assumptions, since these agencies have a history of doing exactly this.
It'll cost you a few trillian, no biggy.
Note to self: Get a few copies of Trillian, burn them to CD, hand them over for mucho payback!
Haha, totally is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Mine What were you saying?
I stand corrected. Tuvok was in it. As I think about all the appearances (as different characters) of Tim Russ, I suspect that the original person must be the victim of DNA piracy and copying. Too bad they didn't have DRM (DNA Rights Management) in the 24th century. He can't be the only victim of 24th century identity theft...
Highly unlikely. Now if you go back into your cave and NEVER, EVER mention to any figment of the Bastard Child of Star Trek (or the fictional counterpart to Tuvok, Tim Russ) ever again, you may still be able to get into Heave (but you still won't get any virgins, or any other female, for that matter).
I think it's really cool that the fuel is free of chemicals. So what is that, like antimatter or something?
Can't be much worse than the episode of Star Trek: TNG where the Enterprise puts into port, to have "Baryonic Matter" removed from the ship.
Yep. I'd never heard of it either. Now I've got a copy, in case anyone I know ever wants it. Thanks, Amazon.
It's a good thing DMCA takedown notices aren't applied with gag orders like "National Security" Letters.
I got the distinct impression these guys wanted exactly what happened to happen, and wanted to disavow responsibility for legal reasons. "It's not here, so don't ask". Nothing about "don't look elsewhere for it, or ask elsewhere."
From the article:
The funny part is that many people like me will never have even heard of the script until Amazon made a fuss about it. I found it with a simple google search. Same with how-to instructions.
Hi, Amazon. I'd like for you to meet a very dear friend of mine, the Streisand Effect. You two are going to really get familiar with each other.
Is it sad that even after all these years and having actually been forced to upgrade to Vista, I still think of this UAC when people talk about it?
No, because I thought of the same thing. Ipso facto, E pluribus unum, YMMV.
Given all the myriad dangers of space travel encountered over the past 30 years, that have been dealt with or fixed in-flight, NASA is aweful skittish these days about flying shuttles with flecks of paint missing.
Yes, I know a hydrogen leak is potentially far more serious, but that's what it seems like I hear about delaying launches.
Where have YOU been living?
1. I have _multiple_ active GPG keys. All Ubuntu has GPG on them by default. 2. I use TOR regularly, which uses multiple levels of encryption. 3. I use HTTPS sites regularly. Not the old dinky 40bit keys either. 4. My filesystem on my laptops are encrypted via DM_CRYPT and Luks. 5. Every machine I communicate with has SSH. Therefore, I also have encrypted data tunnels for everything. 6. I use W.A.S.T.E.
Yeah. That whole encryption thing died out a while back. Uh huh.
We Await Silent Tristero's Empire.
I thought all crime was supposed to cease in England when they banned firearms.
So, now it's knives?
Next, they will come for the pointy things.
Eventually, everyone in England will be required to be lobotomized in order to prevent anyone from taking any actions whatsoever that might be harmful to someone else.
The Clinton incident was a farce. If the American populace had one ounce of common sense, they'd have shoved the media hype down the boulevard press' throat.
He lied under oath, if he had told the truth right away he would definitely have stayed on at least until the end of his term.
Note to parent: Slick Willy did stay on until the end of his term, which ended in 2000.
Or, more likely, he doesn't want to pay for bandwidth and cpu usage for people who have nothing to do with what his server offers.
The big problem, however, with restriction-by-location is that users who are away from home but still want to check the board are going to be restricted.
Here's a solution: Only let them reguster if their IP is local. Local accessors need not be logged in, however, in order to use the site from a non-local IP, they must log in with their pre-established credentials.
It won't stop visitors to your home page, but it will cut down on a lot of other usage of your server.
other kinds of intellectual property that Congress hasn't been innovative enough to think of yet.
Holy shite. This is one of the funniest things I've seen all day! Congress being innovative? Did you hurt your brain in trying to innovate that?
Now, I know you were being funny, so I'll leave you with this: "Con-" is the opposite prefix of "Pro-", so that would technically make "Congress" the opposite of "Progress".
There, don't you feel better now?
We revise our constitution to operate thusly:
There. Problem solved.
Make 'em use text-only browsers :D
"Look mum, i'm watching Lord of The Rings in ASCII art!"
The Ralph Bakshi version, right?
Lincoln vs Booth was another classic. Too bad Lincoln brought a knife to a gun fight.
Not much of a duel. Lincoln didn't bring anything to that "fight".
I think this would be more akin to the screaming fan-girl getting a backstage pass to Hannah Montana, and Miley unexpectedly shoots her #1 fan.
Not a chance. Do you have stairs in your house?
Yes!
/me pushes self down stairs
Laws are public domain.
So? If I were to reverse engineer Windows, incorporate some of that actual code from it into my own OS (Let's call it the Z-Windowing system), and then release it as public domain, Microsoft can probably still sue me all the way into debtor's prison.
Public domain works only if you own it to begin with. If you want to claim that the gov't by default owns everything those subject to it can produce (including intellect), you may have an argument.
I highly doubt this is the case. Wouldn't you agree?
I can see a point where the United States becomes a lawsuit-based economy
Easy, clean and permanent. Lawsuit my ass, duels are the new problem solver. If it worked for guys like eastwood, bronson or ledger
Couldn't have picked some real duels, could you? You know, like Hamilton vs Burr, Jackson vs Dickinson, or Lincoln vs Shields.