If some of your kids start making paper airplanes, LET THEM... in fact. ENCOURAGE such students to make paper and/or model DRONES... and - the best - to be Aeronautical Engr's:-)
and be very PUBLIC about WHY you're doing so...then, watch - as their owner / operator / industry groups LOBBY the Gov't...strong & hard - to bring REASON back into transport security.
Maybe they'll call for Evidence-Based decision-making:
Only where there's EVIDENCE that it's protectively more than BULLYING & / or HARASSING of (you name it: beautiful women, minorities, the meek, other low-hanging- fruit, etc....pick your cause)...
only then... does it get to happen.
If not, transport users get to re-write the TSA rulebook BACK to the Happy Days of, say, the early 1960's or whenever.:-)
Left to itself, the Gov't is sure to drag us - kicking & screaming - into some Sci-Fi horror show... in which people live in fear OF THE SECURITY TEAMS, rather than the "TERRORISTS" who may come, if the Sec Teams aren't permitted to harass us!
According to BetterPlace.com's Shai Agassi, Denmark offers each of its car-buyers an Intelligence test, when they go to buy a car:
1. The tax on a NON-Zero-Emission (eg, petro-fueled) car is (he said: 60%). A $100,000 gas-powered car will cost you $160,000.
Those, who fail the test (presumably, buying a non-electric car) have to move to Norway!:-)
(I hope that tax applies also that to the purchase of used petroleum-powered cars!)
The rest of the motivation to move to a 100% Electric Car comes from BetterPlace, itself, eg, when it costs LESS to buy one than it costs to buy a petrol'-powered counterpart... very soon now. (Sell yours today; if he's right, it value will drop to next to nil soon!)
Aussie might not have laws like NZ's [yet], but sometimes they don't NEED such laws...
One person - from Overseas - was sharing his I'net feed with a house mate UNTIL he received a "We see you've been downloading someone else's IP." eMail from his ISP. So afraid that a prosecution (eg, for IP theft, or whatever the crime is in AU) would adversely affect an upcoming decision on Permanent Residence, that they STOPPED sharing their I'net feed.
I HAPPEN TO KNOW that the Overseas guy kept the router set to use only WAP security... Why, they never told us...:-/
So, nothing stops you from sending copies of LINKS to anyone you think might like to download some NAP books...
nor should you have any problems publishing web pages of just titles, links (to NAP's site, for each book) & maybe review comments on some or all of the listed books.
- lower download data costs, & - they'd have another form of feedback on how popular each title is
(eg, by the # of [seeds &] peers each attracts, & for how long...)
(Of course, in time, they'll still need to be the main source... so, it could be a short-term savings.)
PS If they don't... perhaps people will soon start put together packages of NAP books, for BT distrib'n...?
Last time I checked, the Subj site & a few related ones STILL offered "command-prompt" (a,k,a. shell access) to the Internet, eg for students & others (eg, some disabled or on dial-up lines) with need or interest in accessing the 'Net in similar ways.
Still, it was nice to be reminded of earlier times...:-)
Haven't we have enough "next big things" (that often weren't so hot after all... with tiny screens to squint at, etc.), already?
Let's focus a moment on UK's freezing weather, AU's flooding in Queensland, & USA's Eastern Seaboard - to name a few spots with "Climate Change" screaming at us...
Let's push for & (and, when we get the happy chance to...)...buy Electric Cars in 2011 or ASAP.
Bumper-Sticker Idea: " Next year in an All Electric car! "
In the UK, BT actually encouraged people to share their broadband accounts, eg, so BT wouldn't have to add as much infrastructure each year.
(It's a bit like power generators encouraging folks to generate power locally, eg, with their own wind or PV gear & buying their power during peak-load- ing periods.)
Very sensible!
Perhaps, someday, WiMAX boxes will get as cheap as today's home routers, so you'll be able to share a fast NBN account with some neighbors.
If not WiMAX, then something similar - maybe even better - may come out, that will help you enjoy a few "fast enough" access roads to the Internet "super highway" as we used to call it when it first arrived.;-)
I think you'll find a "Family First" MP will take-over the position of Atkinson on this issue; being an important independent with power to decide other issues when the major parties are locked-up, Family Firsters will have to be "bribed" - now & then - with silly restrictions, like the one affecting games, just like they've got the Rudd gov't backing a costly but useless mandatory Internet filter.
I'd like to know: WHO is getting all the $$$ that pays for its roll-out...?
Hosting services to use custom software that has NO means of modifying web content that's visible or accessible to users of the web site or those who would infect it.
(Of course, they'd have to provide OTHER means for Developers to upload / chance their web site contents, but ones that are much more secure than what got hit here.)
Perhaps the only way (other than with physical access to web hosting servers) to add/modify content would be via a "call-back" system:
1. Developers lodges callback URL when setting-up a hosting service account
2. When a change to content is needed, Developer lodges a Change Request
3. Hosting service uses lodged callback URL to set up a VNP to Developer
4. Developer makes changes via VPN
5. Change process produces a Content Checksum (CC)
6. Developer saves CC & can later use it to check a site's content for hacks
If I get this article's point, the cost of the system's solar paneling would rise, since more area would be needed.
Now, the making of solar panels already use up more energy than they're able to produce in their lifetimes... wny make the energy (& $) cost any greater.
Can the same effect be had, eg, from arranging mirrors to beam sunlight in from different angles, as the sun moves?
For Unintended Acceleration of some of your vehicles, I would suggest that you investigate each of the following conditions, as possible causes:
1. Strong radio transmissions (eg, from adjacent / nearby Police car, Ambulance or mobile Amateur Radio station(s), some of which can emit ~100 watts of RF power, if necessary to maintain comms with others in their nets) can affect some cars' microprocessors.
2. I've seen warning / disclaimers on CPU & MPU documentation, to the effect that their manufacturers do NOT warrant their products for any systems / applications (eg, pacemakers or, I would suppose, automobile / engine control, etc.), that could cause death or injury to humans.
Perhaps, despite the best intentions of the makers of MPU's used in Toyota's vehicles, some will "just get stuck" and (I presume) need to be reset by a watch-dog timer / circuit.
This kind of thing happens all too often in the PC world, and could possibly happen (if less often) in auto. / engine systems.
3. If no other causes prove to solve these mysteries, I would might begin to suspect some form of misguided, rumor-based collusion, on the part of disgruntled individuals (eg, due to the Chapter 11 filing of General Motors, in recent year(s)), or others pursuaded by reports
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HF, VHF, UHF, SHF, or where, in [the radio portion of] the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
Maybe: All of the above?
Or, now that I have no length limit to my line:
Funded by NASA => owned by US Gov't AND also public domain
So, what's the problem... It never said NOT Public Domain. :-)
Eg:
If some of your kids start making paper airplanes, LET THEM... :-)
in fact. ENCOURAGE such students to make paper and/or
model DRONES... and - the best - to be Aeronautical Engr's
and be very PUBLIC about WHY you're doing so ...then, watch - as their owner / operator / industry groups ...strong & hard - to bring REASON back
LOBBY the Gov't
into transport security.
Maybe they'll call for Evidence-Based decision-making:
Only where there's EVIDENCE that it's protectively more ...pick your cause)...
than BULLYING & / or HARASSING of (you name it:
beautiful women, minorities, the meek, other low-hanging-
fruit, etc.
only then... does it get to happen.
If not, transport users get to re-write the TSA rulebook BACK :-)
to the Happy Days of, say, the early 1960's or whenever.
Left to itself, the Gov't is sure to drag us - kicking & screaming
- into some Sci-Fi horror show... in which people live in fear
OF THE SECURITY TEAMS, rather than the "TERRORISTS"
who may come, if the Sec Teams aren't permitted to harass us!
According to BetterPlace.com's Shai Agassi, Denmark offers each of its car-buyers an Intelligence test, when they go to buy a car:
1. The tax on a NON-Zero-Emission (eg, petro-fueled) car is (he said: 60%). A $100,000 gas-powered car will cost you $160,000.
Those, who fail the test (presumably, buying a non-electric car) have to move to Norway! :-)
(I hope that tax applies also that to the purchase of used petroleum-powered cars!)
The rest of the motivation to move to a 100% Electric Car comes from BetterPlace, itself, eg, when it costs LESS to buy one than it costs to buy a petrol'-powered counterpart... very soon now. (Sell yours today; if he's right, it value will drop to next to nil soon!)
My first impression: Lousy whale icon. :-(
My 2nd: Gosh, that location-pin looks like a bloody harpoon! :-(
You might as well ask which religion is the best one.
Oh, Judaism, clearly.
Please, please, please tell me that there is a programming language named Judaism!
Not yet AFAIK, but NLP may be close to what I think you're looking for.
(Neural Linguistic Programming)
Sturdy, pocket-size compact with 1-lens-fits-most needs, GPS, etc.
$210-250, incl S&H, from Hong Kong [via eBay].
We love eBooks, but need ways to compare, before buying any book... Suggestions?
Not Pig Latin (but, for some, I see the pun might work...)
I was thinking of that other YouTube vid... of two babies chatting away, with all the body language needed to communicate well.
Aussie might not have laws like NZ's [yet], but sometimes they don't NEED such laws...
One person - from Overseas - was sharing his I'net feed with a house mate UNTIL he received a "We see you've been downloading someone else's IP." eMail from his ISP. So afraid that a prosecution (eg, for IP theft, or whatever the crime is in AU) would adversely affect an upcoming decision on Permanent Residence, that they STOPPED sharing their I'net feed.
I HAPPEN TO KNOW that the Overseas guy kept the router set to use only WAP security... Why, they never told us... :-/
So, nothing stops you from sending copies of LINKS to anyone you think might like to download some NAP books...
nor should you have any problems publishing web pages of just titles, links (to NAP's site, for each book) & maybe review comments on some or all of the listed books.
That's freedom enough for me!
- lower download data costs, &
- they'd have another form of feedback on how popular each title is
(eg, by the # of [seeds &] peers each attracts, & for how long...)
(Of course, in time, they'll still need to be the main source... so, it could be a short-term savings.)
PS If they don't... perhaps people will soon start put together packages of NAP books, for BT distrib'n...?
Sure one on Chem Lab safety & another on how to use & care for lab animals (& I've only been looking for 9 min's...)
Last time I checked, the Subj site & a few related ones STILL offered
"command-prompt" (a,k,a. shell access) to the Internet, eg for students
& others (eg, some disabled or on dial-up lines) with need or interest
in accessing the 'Net in similar ways.
Still, it was nice to be reminded of earlier times... :-)
So, was this item "product placement" (ie, sponsored by Apple?)
Nokia n800 (or similar had Skype with video, per Skype.com)
I'm suprised that some post-3000 series Sony PSP didn't do it.
Any netbook will do it, too.. and for much less $$$ to Apple... :-)
PS Aussie SkypePhones (v. 1) could only do voice + messaging.
Anybody know about Sweden's?
Haven't we have enough "next big things" (that often weren't so hot after all... with tiny screens to squint at, etc.), already?
Let's focus a moment on UK's freezing weather, AU's flooding in Queensland, & USA's Eastern Seaboard - to name a few spots with "Climate Change" screaming at us...
Let's push for & (and, when we get the happy chance to...) ...buy Electric Cars in 2011 or ASAP.
Bumper-Sticker Idea: " Next year in an All Electric car! "
In the UK, BT actually encouraged people to share their broadband accounts,
eg, so BT wouldn't have to add as much infrastructure each year.
(It's a bit like power generators encouraging folks to generate power locally,
eg, with their own wind or PV gear & buying their power during peak-load-
ing periods.)
Very sensible!
Perhaps, someday, WiMAX boxes will get as cheap as today's home routers,
so you'll be able to share a fast NBN account with some neighbors.
If not WiMAX, then something similar - maybe even better - may come out, ;-)
that will help you enjoy a few "fast enough" access roads to the Internet
"super highway" as we used to call it when it first arrived.
Finns are known to be intelligent & NEUTRAL. I respect the Finns highly!
By contrast, Aussies & Kiwis are known to be under the thumbs of -dim- governments.
Australia is dumb enough to continue to follow USA into war (to reduce unemployment?)
rather than think of smarter ways to solve its problems.
At least New Zealand is smart enough to think more highly of its people than to
be a pawn on a US chessboard (read: Iraq & Afghanistan).
I think you'll find a "Family First" MP will take-over the position of Atkinson on this issue; being an important independent with power to decide other issues when the major parties are locked-up, Family Firsters will have to be "bribed" - now & then - with silly restrictions, like the one affecting games, just like they've got the Rudd gov't backing a costly but useless mandatory Internet filter.
I'd like to know: WHO is getting all the $$$ that pays for its roll-out...?
Hosting services to use custom software that has NO means of modifying web content
that's visible or accessible to users of the web site or those who would infect it.
(Of course, they'd have to provide OTHER means for Developers to upload / chance
their web site contents, but ones that are much more secure than what got hit here.)
Perhaps the only way (other than with physical access to web hosting servers) to
add/modify content would be via a "call-back" system:
1. Developers lodges callback URL when setting-up a hosting service account
2. When a change to content is needed, Developer lodges a Change Request
3. Hosting service uses lodged callback URL to set up a VNP to Developer
4. Developer makes changes via VPN
5. Change process produces a Content Checksum (CC)
6. Developer saves CC & can later use it to check a site's content for hacks
Q.E.D.
If I get this article's point, the cost of the system's solar paneling would rise, since more area would be needed.
Now, the making of solar panels already use up more energy than they're able to produce in their lifetimes...
wny make the energy (& $) cost any greater.
Can the same effect be had, eg, from arranging mirrors to beam sunlight in from different angles, as the sun moves?
Mirrors are far cheaper to make (in energy & $'s)
Dear Toyota
For Unintended Acceleration of some of your vehicles, I would suggest that you investigate each of the following conditions, as possible causes:
1. Strong radio transmissions (eg, from adjacent / nearby Police car, Ambulance or mobile
Amateur Radio station(s), some of which can emit ~100 watts of RF power, if necessary to maintain comms with others in their nets) can affect some cars' microprocessors.
2. I've seen warning / disclaimers on CPU & MPU documentation, to the effect that their manufacturers do NOT warrant their products for any systems / applications (eg, pacemakers or, I would suppose, automobile / engine control, etc.), that could cause death or injury to humans.
Perhaps, despite the best intentions of the makers of MPU's used in Toyota's vehicles, some will "just get stuck" and (I presume) need to be reset by a watch-dog timer / circuit.
This kind of thing happens all too often in the PC world, and could possibly happen (if less often) in auto. / engine systems.
3. If no other causes prove to solve these mysteries, I would might begin to suspect some form of misguided, rumor-based collusion, on the part of disgruntled individuals (eg, due to the Chapter 11 filing of General Motors, in recent year(s)), or others pursuaded by reports
From the prices, alone, I'd say this printer is a bu consumer of... cash... :-/
So, they ARE smarter than older adults, after all, ie, if they're doing more than report on last night's big date's moves & responses... :-/
Why the H#LL aren't more of us using Internet, eg, to find & join (or invest in) innovative projects to help solve Global Warming / Climate Change?!?