Absolutely. Until money flows out of corporate coffers over this systemetic abuse, Until people go to jail over this systemetic abuse, the rest is just white-wash. Punish people who do bad things. Punish people who enable the doing of bad things, the popular legal phrase is 'conspiricy to commit...' and 'providing material support to...'
Actually that has happenned before. These things come in two classes, simple heat makers, and much more complex electricity generators. A space mission with one of the more complex electricity generators had trouble in the early stages of flight, the rocket was blown up, and later nasa went to the ocean floor, retrieved device, fixed its fittings, and flew it on another mission. The crash and bad things happen secnario is not a reality.
I say, just make sunrise 6am everywhere. We did not have the technology to do this in pre-industrial times, but we did do this in ancient times, and we can do it again.
It would maximize light saving, it would maximize night availability, and only result in the fact that it is a different time in EVERY town in the world just about.
So what, it would just require some websites where you could enter where you are, where they are, and know the time and time-diff. If I'm in Michigan and you are in Alabama. Sometimes I ahead of you, sometimes you are ahead of me. Sweet!
I only fly a 172, but this seems dubious to me. The altitude of a plane is detected through a tiny-passive pnuematic system. Basically it measures the presure outside and adjusts for a manually set adjustment. The altitude of the the plane is controlled through a big-strong hydraulic system that sits behind an electronic controller that makes well measured choices about controlling the airplane. This controller is very aware of avoiding sudden/abrupt changes at altitude and speed. The idea that the altitude control system would do a sudden jerk on the controls while at altitude and speed, enough to hurt people, ney even enough to spill a drink, is unexpected by me. However, the idea that someone climbing in/out of a pilot/co-pilot seat could bump/fall-on the wheel, that seems possible.
BTW. Sorry for you instant news people, but Most Nations NTSB's are very well diliberated bodies. I would generally ignore anything except a final report on an incident, and those normally take a year. They are very thorough, and generally can be taken at face value, assuming you have the expertise to actually read the report.
Let's say you are shopping in a used store, perhaps books.
You could scan the UPC on a used book, compare it to the numerous sites that buy books from consumers , like http://www.betterworld.com/buyback.aspx , and also scan the sell side of the site , and know if you are getting a good deal and how much you might be able to sell the book for when you are done with it.
This kind of data access gives massive benifits to the consumer. It could work for books, cars maybe (vin#?), furniture?, clothes?, all kinds of stuff.
btw: Android is a spooky name, it's gotta go. Secratary, Drone, Blib (short for web librarian), so many easy to make, cool, sexy, and fun names.:-)
I also like http://www.270towin.com/ Click on states and turn them red and blue. You can have your own prediction.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/ Is an easy place to get lots of poll data, so you can decide which states are clicked red and blue easy.
btw: If you follow the poll data for the other 49, ignore the VA&NH poll data and call VA red (reasonable considerring history), and NH red (weak, but not silly)
You can get a tie. 269-269. It's very close right now.
California has 55 EVs, so with a proporational system, each 2% shift in the voting would effect one elector.
I have long said a proportional system should be in use.
I don't support popular vote schemes, since it would encourage states to increase total votes in mal-ways. Hey, lets allow anyone over 13 vote for president, that will increase our importance and get more coverage. And why not paroled felons. And hey, let's let people register and vote the same day. And lets not require any real proof of eligibility. And lets never check for double voting. And people that don't vote, don't matter with a popular only system. So if a blizzard hits, you don't matter. In a EC system, you count wether you vote or not. Which with the slave roots of the country, and the 3/5ths rule, and wide variation by state as to who could vote, the population-driven/EC system allowed PEOPLE to matter and not encourage compitetion in open voting rules.
I agree. The real problem with ipv6 is that it is just plain not good enough of an improvement to bother with the trouble of doing a change. We only want to take the risk of changing something as fundemental as ipv4 to get something truely needed or widely and strongly desired. This is a wonderful case of we won't buy until it has something truly useful. Hey, we did the Kaminski-DNS thing. Look how hard it was to do that, and how important it was, AND how controversial it was. ipv4-replacement should be at least an order of magnitude more hard, so it needs to deliever at least as important of an improvement.
I WANT MORE THAN MORE-ADDRESSES WITH THE NEXT CHANGE. I WANT SOMETHING THAT WORKS BETTER. GIVE ME AT LEAST ONE AWESOME FEATURE TO CHASE!
1. Never play 'hide-the-fact' when you seek to decieve, always play 'control-the-arguement'.
Comcast should have never used lies and ultimately 'hide-the-fact' as part of their throttleing of P2P traffic. Ultimately, 'hide-the-fact' is weak because some revalition will knock down everything you said and did.
I hope these liars get stung, and stung hard.
2. The arguement should be, and should ALWAYS have been that 'we DO throttle, and we throttle to ACHIEVE nuetrality.'
i.e. if one protocol takes up too much of the bandwidth, the others are squeazed out. Inorder to protect the smaller protocols, we DID throttle the biggest one in a manner suffiecient to allow the others to exist.
See what a nice ARGUEMENT that is. Don't ever play 'hide-the-fact', it's a loser's strategy.
I concur. If you want to be reasonable, you should compare the fuel effiecieny of a bus/big-rig to a airplane if you want to look at different decades and improvements over long timescales. You really need vechicles with ruffly similiar uses.
Nuclear works fine for the 340hr (~2weeks) long nights on the moon.
That's a VERY long time to run on batteries.
Also, if you don't bother with much shielding (i.e. only in the direction of the other equipment), nuclear-fission is actually pretty light.
When I first heard what the rogue-SF-admin had done, I was very negative on his actions.
Now, that once again, and now at least for the third time, I hear of absolute stupidity and ineptness on the group at sf, I am certain the so called rogue was right on the ball from the beginning.
I've been watching seasonal maps for a while now, and I can tell you that the problem with the NW-passage is NOT in the Bafflin Sea, but in the Beaufort sea, specifically in the passage of the Prince Patrick Island-Banks Island Gap. Partly due to not having a more-northerly source of ice, The Bafflin Sea is plenty clear plenty of the year.
From the marsrovers.nasa.gov website: As of sol 1634 (Aug. 7, 2008), Spirit's total odometry remained at 7,528.0 meters (4.7 miles). As of sol 1598 (July 22, 2008), Opportunity's total odometry was 11,725.96 meters (7.29 miles).
From Wiki and numerous other sources: The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometers (26 miles 385 yards) that is usually run as a road race.
As you can see, neither rover has even travelled a 1/2 Marathon.
snick,;-P
but, wow, that's alot of driving to do 40-240M miles from home.
RE: It's a slippery slope to be sure, but where should the buck stop?
If someone steals something from me, whether held in trust for another or my property, and does something bad with said property, it is the STEALER who should be criminally punished.
However, depending upon the arangments with the owner, if I'm holding something in trust for another, I could see that other person should have a right to persue me if I failed to protect the property in a reasonable manner.
Re: "Not as cool as if a planet had actually been there, but refutations are science, too, right?"
Actually, refutations are MORE important than findings. The degree in which we can trust science from a particular field is directly coorilated to how freely one scientist can dispute the findings of another. The REAL value comes from propping up the refuters.
You are really just commenting on the fact that the concept of super-high-level amateur sport is impractical. And to most of the rest of us, the objective is dubious. We CAN let people who make it thier young life's work to be excellent have a chance to make money for being excellent and still compete and continue to demonstrate their abilities.
Measure the average | median size of a house. Wow its going up up up. Measure the average | median life span. up up up Measure the average | median access to info locally | globabal. up up up Measure car safety. ibid Measure [choose your favorite]. ibid.
How do people come up with this declining std of living arg? Certainly not by measureing the effort it would take to produce an equivilant access to life style from year to year.
until you can come up with some solid numbers that measure how its harder to live a 50s, 70s lifestyle than it is now, please stop saying std of living is going down.
Did you know that cars made in the 70s and earlier, lasted 3-5 yrs and were very unstable(spinout) on snow and ice? (I drove one of those THINGS called a car, you are so lucky to have never experienced that!) Did you know that in the 60s and earlier, it cost so much to communicate to people 50+ miles away it required a hand written letter that cost about 1/2hr's pay and took weeks to get a response. (they don't call it SNAIL mail for nothing) Oh, and pre 80s airconditioning, what a joke. And the cost, wow. and rabbit ears, eek and fast food didn't stop being lame until at least the 90s oh, and coats, lot's of $$$ for dead animal or cold all the time.
It doesnot even require instruments to verify the earth is positively (roundishly/ball-like) curved. All that is required is a medium-large body of water and tall objects (mountains, skyscrappers) on each side.
If you look accross the water from the bottom, you can see a portion of the objects on the other side. As, you go higher, you can see more. And if you look carefully, you can see a portion of the lake but not all the way to the other side at certain heights.
These results require a positive curvature to the surface of the lake/sea.
If you use some instruments, you could eventually measure that this curvature is nearly equal in all directions accross all bodies of water. Leading to a spherical result.
Now the weird but true part. I still don't understand why this was not understood in antiquity. Once again, to see that the curvature is positive does not require ANY instruments.
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Absolutely. Until money flows out of corporate coffers over this systemetic abuse, Until people go to jail over this systemetic abuse, the rest is just white-wash. Punish people who do bad things. Punish people who enable the doing of bad things, the popular legal phrase is 'conspiricy to commit ...' and 'providing material support to ...'
Actually that has happenned before. These things come in two classes, simple heat makers, and much more complex electricity generators. A space mission with one of the more complex electricity generators had trouble in the early stages of flight, the rocket was blown up, and later nasa went to the ocean floor, retrieved device, fixed its fittings, and flew it on another mission. The crash and bad things happen secnario is not a reality.
Although it has been sudjested that this was ben franklin's idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
I say, just make sunrise 6am everywhere.
We did not have the technology to do this in pre-industrial times, but
we did do this in ancient times, and we can do it again.
It would maximize light saving, it would maximize night availability,
and only result in the fact that it is a different time in EVERY town in the world
just about.
So what, it would just require some websites where you could enter where you are, where they are,
and know the time and time-diff. If I'm in Michigan and you are in Alabama. Sometimes I ahead of
you, sometimes you are ahead of me. Sweet!
Perfect time for everyone.
And two chickens in every pot! :-()
http://www.betterworld.com/list.aspx?SearchTerm=Bruce+Schneier
and save the planet while you save your a**
http://www.betterworld.com/custom.aspx?f=impact :-)
Oh yeah,
It would need an exception for anonymous emailing directed at adults.
I've been in development for 20yrs, and I love busted ideas from the C-level.
They come so fraught with issues.
And the dance continues,
Well one would hope that the law would have registration requirement, so that offenders would be required to register each new address.
Also, one would hope that the law would make it a crime to falsely register an address.
I only fly a 172, but this seems dubious to me.
The altitude of a plane is detected through a tiny-passive pnuematic system. Basically it measures the presure outside and adjusts for a manually set adjustment. The altitude of the the plane is controlled through a big-strong hydraulic system that sits behind an electronic controller that makes well measured choices about controlling the airplane. This controller is very aware of avoiding sudden/abrupt changes at altitude and speed. The idea that the altitude control system would do a sudden jerk on the controls while at altitude and speed, enough to hurt people, ney even enough to spill a drink, is unexpected by me. However, the idea that someone climbing in/out of a pilot/co-pilot seat could bump/fall-on the wheel, that seems possible.
BTW. Sorry for you instant news people, but Most Nations NTSB's are very well diliberated bodies. I would generally ignore anything except a final report on an incident, and those normally take a year. They are very thorough, and generally can be taken at face value, assuming you have the expertise to actually read the report.
Let's say you are shopping in a used store, perhaps books.
You could scan the UPC on a used book, compare it to the numerous sites that buy books from consumers
, like http://www.betterworld.com/buyback.aspx
, and also scan the sell side of the site
, and know if you are getting a good deal and how much you might be able to sell the book for when you are done with it.
This kind of data access gives massive benifits to the consumer. It could work for books, cars maybe (vin#?), furniture?, clothes?, all kinds of stuff.
btw: Android is a spooky name, it's gotta go. Secratary, Drone, Blib (short for web librarian), so many easy to make, cool, sexy, and fun names. :-)
I also like http://www.270towin.com/
Click on states and turn them red and blue. You can have your own prediction.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Is an easy place to get lots of poll data, so you can decide which states are clicked red and blue easy.
btw:
If you follow the poll data for the other 49, ignore the VA&NH poll data and call VA red (reasonable considerring history), and NH red (weak, but not silly)
You can get a tie. 269-269. It's very close right now.
California has 55 EVs, so with a proporational system, each 2% shift in the voting would effect one elector.
I have long said a proportional system should be in use.
I don't support popular vote schemes, since it would encourage states to increase total votes in mal-ways. Hey, lets allow anyone over 13 vote for president, that will increase our importance and get more coverage. And why not paroled felons. And hey, let's let people register and vote the same day. And lets not require any real proof of eligibility. And lets never check for double voting. And people that don't vote, don't matter with a popular only system. So if a blizzard hits, you don't matter. In a EC system, you count wether you vote or not. Which with the slave roots of the country, and the 3/5ths rule, and wide variation by state as to who could vote, the population-driven/EC system allowed PEOPLE to matter and not encourage compitetion in open voting rules.
On a serious note. You're right. It is a good day! :-)
I agree.
The real problem with ipv6 is that it is just plain not good enough of an improvement to bother with the trouble of doing a change. We only want to take the risk of changing something as fundemental as ipv4 to get something truely needed or widely and strongly desired. This is a wonderful case of we won't buy until it has something truly useful. Hey, we did the Kaminski-DNS thing. Look how hard it was to do that, and how important it was, AND how controversial it was. ipv4-replacement should be at least an order of magnitude more hard, so it needs to deliever at least as important of an improvement.
I WANT MORE THAN MORE-ADDRESSES WITH THE NEXT CHANGE.
I WANT SOMETHING THAT WORKS BETTER.
GIVE ME AT LEAST ONE AWESOME FEATURE TO CHASE!
thank you for your time. :-)
95% of YN dialog boxes HAVE to be clicked YES or else something adverse happens.
They pop, we say yes.
True malware attackes no matter what you say, so why would you believe its warnings?
Where is real peer review in this world? Where is the scientific method?
Try this for a study.
Clicking Yes will make this box go away forever.
Clicking No will earn you $5.
I'll bet most users will still click yes. :-)
1. Never play 'hide-the-fact' when you seek to decieve, always play 'control-the-arguement'.
Comcast should have never used lies and ultimately 'hide-the-fact' as part of their throttleing of P2P traffic.
Ultimately, 'hide-the-fact' is weak because some revalition will knock down everything you said and did.
I hope these liars get stung, and stung hard.
2. The arguement should be, and should ALWAYS have been that 'we DO throttle, and we throttle to ACHIEVE nuetrality.'
i.e. if one protocol takes up too much of the bandwidth, the others are squeazed out. Inorder to protect the smaller protocols, we DID throttle the biggest one in a manner suffiecient to allow the others to exist.
See what a nice ARGUEMENT that is. Don't ever play 'hide-the-fact', it's a loser's strategy.
I concur. If you want to be reasonable, you should compare the fuel effiecieny of a bus/big-rig to a airplane if you want to look at different decades and improvements over long timescales. You really need vechicles with ruffly similiar uses.
Nuclear works fine for the 340hr (~2weeks) long nights on the moon. That's a VERY long time to run on batteries. Also, if you don't bother with much shielding (i.e. only in the direction of the other equipment), nuclear-fission is actually pretty light.
When I first heard what the rogue-SF-admin had done, I was very negative on his actions.
Now, that once again, and now at least for the third time, I hear of absolute stupidity and ineptness on the group at sf, I am certain the so called rogue was right on the ball from the beginning.
I've been watching seasonal maps for a while now, and I can tell you that the problem with the NW-passage is NOT in the Bafflin Sea, but in the Beaufort sea, specifically in the passage of the Prince Patrick Island-Banks Island Gap. Partly due to not having a more-northerly source of ice, The Bafflin Sea is plenty clear plenty of the year.
From the marsrovers.nasa.gov website:
As of sol 1634 (Aug. 7, 2008), Spirit's total odometry remained at 7,528.0 meters (4.7 miles).
As of sol 1598 (July 22, 2008), Opportunity's total odometry was 11,725.96 meters (7.29 miles).
From Wiki and numerous other sources:
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometers (26 miles 385 yards) that is usually run as a road race.
As you can see, neither rover has even travelled a 1/2 Marathon.
snick, ;-P
but, wow, that's alot of driving to do 40-240M miles from home.
Only One Way Has Been Demontrated To Work.
Ink on Paper. (Stone is not going to work in a time cap)
Its not eco-popular. Its just real, baby.
Its the only technology where someone stored info and someone else,
picked up the media,
and retrieved the info 25yr,50yr,100yr,1000yr+ later.
The ONLY one.
Sorry.
p.s.
If you are going to use barcode, include a spec in natural-language(english) on how to read barcode.
RE: It's a slippery slope to be sure, but where should the buck stop?
If someone steals something from me, whether held in trust for another or my property, and does something bad with said property, it is the STEALER who should be criminally punished.
However, depending upon the arangments with the owner, if I'm holding something in trust for another, I could see that other person should have a right to persue me if I failed to protect the property in a reasonable manner.
Re: "Not as cool as if a planet had actually been there, but refutations are science, too, right?"
Actually, refutations are MORE important than findings.
The degree in which we can trust science from a particular field is directly coorilated to how freely one scientist can dispute the findings of another. The REAL value comes from propping up the refuters.
Viva la scienctific-principal :Me
You are really just commenting on the fact that the concept of super-high-level amateur sport is impractical. And to most of the rest of us, the objective is dubious. We CAN let people who make it thier young life's work to be excellent have a chance to make money for being excellent and still compete and continue to demonstrate their abilities.
I'm tired of this falling std. of living stuff.
Measure the average | median size of a house. Wow its going up up up.
Measure the average | median life span. up up up
Measure the average | median access to info locally | globabal. up up up
Measure car safety. ibid
Measure [choose your favorite]. ibid.
How do people come up with this declining std of living arg?
Certainly not by measureing the effort it would take to produce an equivilant access to life style from year to year.
until you can come up with some solid numbers that measure how its harder to live a 50s, 70s lifestyle than it is now, please stop saying std of living is going down.
Did you know that cars made in the 70s and earlier, lasted 3-5 yrs and were very unstable(spinout) on snow and ice? (I drove one of those THINGS called a car, you are so lucky to have never experienced that!)
Did you know that in the 60s and earlier, it cost so much to communicate to people 50+ miles away it required a hand written letter that cost about 1/2hr's pay and took weeks to get a response. (they don't call it SNAIL mail for nothing)
Oh, and pre 80s airconditioning, what a joke. And the cost, wow.
and rabbit ears, eek
and fast food didn't stop being lame until at least the 90s
oh, and coats, lot's of $$$ for dead animal or cold all the time.
It doesnot even require instruments to verify the earth is positively (roundishly/ball-like) curved.
All that is required is a medium-large body of water and tall objects (mountains, skyscrappers) on each side.
If you look accross the water from the bottom, you can see a portion of the objects on the other side.
As, you go higher, you can see more. And if you look carefully, you can see a portion of the lake but not all the way to the other side at certain heights.
These results require a positive curvature to the surface of the lake/sea.
If you use some instruments, you could eventually measure that this curvature is nearly equal in all directions accross all bodies of water. Leading to a spherical result.
Now the weird but true part.
I still don't understand why this was not understood in antiquity.
Once again, to see that the curvature is positive does not require ANY instruments.