If a bunch of strangers with nifty gadgets, who are clearly inept at all the skills you've developed to be successful at living your life well came in and gently explained how they're sure that 90% of everything you think you know is wrong, and how you'll never be able to have the really nifty ones of their gadgets, you might decide you'd rather go somewhere you could finish living the life you had planned for rather than having the life of an ineffective primitive adjunct to 200 million people who (from your point of view) couldn't tell their ass from a hole in the ground, except there's 200 million of them, so they apparently don't have to.
Y'know, I didn't read about the deaths of individuals in the article, but rather the decline of populations. It could be that people died, but it could also be that they left the former population group and moved somewhere further away from the nosy intruders. In particular, I could see people wanting to leave if the population was discovered in fairly close proximity to an operation that was converting forest to farmland or making a road that vehicles started using on a regular basis. When the population is at pre-rebound minimum, probably the only people left are the ones that are willing to deal with a life that includes regular contact with "civilization."
For repair purposes, I can see people with skill at operating 3d printers and scanners providing replacement part services to people who (paid or unpaid) fix things for the local portion of a massive audience. In particular 3d printed parts could be useful when the repair person finds that the problem is a broken or worn piece of plastic, like a plastic gear with a broken tooth, or a plastic key with a broken stem on a remote that got dropped. Much of the time it will be cheaper to just replace the entire device, but sometimes people will value fixing the item they're comfortable with, and fabricating a custom replacement part that's no longer otherwise manufactured will be just the thing. The electromechanical door locking mechanism on my 22 year old car is like this. A replacement mechanism isn't available, and I can still lock the car mechanically, but it's always annoying that one worn custom plastic gear keeps me from being able to lock it with the remote fob.
innovation and all that, which is what patents were supposed to support.
I don't think that's the case. Patents were supposed to motivate people to reveal their trade secrets
by creating a way they could generate income from licensing them after the revelation. I think applying
a "who cares if they keep the method a secret" test to requests for software patents would solve a
lot of what's wrong with the current situation.
As I understand it, airlines can't avoid the TSA regulating their airports owing to the ownership of the land on which the airports are found. Amtrak has had much better success at throwing the TSA out from time to time because they own the land on which they operate. On a number of occasions, I rode the Saab 340 from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor without the benefit of the TSA. That's a long flight with a short runway. If there's over 100k people who want to fly and can't, perhaps there's becoming enough of a market that someone (say, with Al Maktoum family kind of money) could build a small network of small airports and start No Security Theater Airlines. I imagine that if they get rid of the dehumanizing scans and let you lock your valuables in secure checked bags, they'd get a lot more customers than just "no fly list" people.
When I look at that list, I start to think that "living fossils" have large repetitive genomes. I looked up an article on the mitochondrial genome of the chambered nautilus, and I got the impression that more than anticipated repetition was found.
I'm sure these aren't actually Spetsnaz, but really just Chechens pretending to be Spetsnaz. Sending a detachment would be a disproportionate response. But, were the Ukrainians to request help with their problems stemming from these inexplicable Chechen incursions, perhaps the CIA could supply them with apropos satellite imaging data. After all, they have enough to deal with already, without their situation being taken advantage of by terrorists.
That whole rig looks quite expensive. I wouldn't have commented if it didn't. The manufacturing process for the glass fibers used for this project had to be custom designed, and isn't going to have close to the economics of scale that photovoltaic manufacturing gets. I have a feeling that the biggest problem with supplying a waste treatment facility equipped with photovoltaics is the difficulty in forcing the poor people to use the electricity for processing waste.
A battery and a resistance heater aren't exactly limited to being 1st world technology these days. Solar electric panels may be challenging to manufacture, but the cost is no longer huge and continues to fall rapidly, and they are simple to install. Fiber optic cables used in a design where "packing them tightly without melting was a challenge that required a lot of direct work with materials manufacturers" aren't something that will be locally sourced in 3rd world countries either.
I never think of bald eagles as a symbol people paint. I think of them as those birds in Dutch Harbor that take over dumpster diving from the seagulls during wintertime.
I wish DIN would make a standard specification for cordless power tool battery attachment. It'd be nice to be able to interchange brands with batteries and tools.
When I think about this, I think that people who don't trust software with code contributions from people in export ban countries might also not want to trust software with bugs, since people in export ban countries could exploit those bugs, regardless of the bugs' origin. One might argue that really skillfully created problems would have the ability to preferentially go unnoticed by the validation process, but problem creators with that skill level would also have the skill to spoof the origin of their contributions.
Only the final validation contributions should be of concern in relation to contributions from export ban countries. The process that removes problems induced by errors (stupidity) ought to be good enough catch the ones induced by malice as well.
It could be possible to make them go away. Set up a web page that publishes whatever anyone sends and forgets the source. It'll be too full of crap for most people to ever want to read it, but once the stuff bound by the confidentiality agreement is there, all those formerly bound have plausible denyability for having been the one to reveal it. It'd be sort of like wikileaks without a review or filtering process. The only problem would be that you'd probably need to have the server functioning autonomously and in orbit to prevent governments from shutting it down.
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If a bunch of strangers with nifty gadgets, who are clearly inept at all the skills you've developed to be successful at living your life well came in and gently explained how they're sure that 90% of everything you think you know is wrong, and how you'll never be able to have the really nifty ones of their gadgets, you might decide you'd rather go somewhere you could finish living the life you had planned for rather than having the life of an ineffective primitive adjunct to 200 million people who (from your point of view) couldn't tell their ass from a hole in the ground, except there's 200 million of them, so they apparently don't have to.
Y'know, I didn't read about the deaths of individuals in the article, but rather the decline of populations. It could be that people died, but it could also be that they left the former population group and moved somewhere further away from the nosy intruders. In particular, I could see people wanting to leave if the population was discovered in fairly close proximity to an operation that was converting forest to farmland or making a road that vehicles started using on a regular basis. When the population is at pre-rebound minimum, probably the only people left are the ones that are willing to deal with a life that includes regular contact with "civilization."
For repair purposes, I can see people with skill at operating 3d printers and scanners providing replacement part services to people who (paid or unpaid) fix things for the local portion of a massive audience. In particular 3d printed parts could be useful when the repair person finds that the problem is a broken or worn piece of plastic, like a plastic gear with a broken tooth, or a plastic key with a broken stem on a remote that got dropped. Much of the time it will be cheaper to just replace the entire device, but sometimes people will value fixing the item they're comfortable with, and fabricating a custom replacement part that's no longer otherwise manufactured will be just the thing. The electromechanical door locking mechanism on my 22 year old car is like this. A replacement mechanism isn't available, and I can still lock the car mechanically, but it's always annoying that one worn custom plastic gear keeps me from being able to lock it with the remote fob.
If you like reading about physics, this article might be of interest to you.
innovation and all that, which is what patents were supposed to support.
I don't think that's the case. Patents were supposed to motivate people to reveal their trade secrets by creating a way they could generate income from licensing them after the revelation. I think applying a "who cares if they keep the method a secret" test to requests for software patents would solve a lot of what's wrong with the current situation.
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I may have an idea for a new "ride sharing" app.
So then, maybe a non-airline, a plane chartering cooperative with a website that coordinates TSA-free travel interests.
As I understand it, airlines can't avoid the TSA regulating their airports owing to the ownership of the land on which the airports are found. Amtrak has had much better success at throwing the TSA out from time to time because they own the land on which they operate. On a number of occasions, I rode the Saab 340 from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor without the benefit of the TSA. That's a long flight with a short runway. If there's over 100k people who want to fly and can't, perhaps there's becoming enough of a market that someone (say, with Al Maktoum family kind of money) could build a small network of small airports and start No Security Theater Airlines. I imagine that if they get rid of the dehumanizing scans and let you lock your valuables in secure checked bags, they'd get a lot more customers than just "no fly list" people.
selling mice and keyboards.
Should you wish to avoid
putting gas in your car
having to use an actual physical key to unlock a door or
having to push a lawn mower to cut the grass
It isn't that hard to do.
or accumulated baggage from a long trip, but I think the extra baggage might possibly become extra tools under certain circumstances
When I look at that list, I start to think that "living fossils" have large repetitive genomes. I looked up an article on the mitochondrial genome of the chambered nautilus, and I got the impression that more than anticipated repetition was found.
In a similar example when Apple pulled the 500px Photo App "the company was informed of the removal just a few moments before it was pulled from the store," certainly not given months to defend it. In an effort to help Apple with their priorities, here's a link to the 50+ Best Apps for Watching Porn on iPhone.
I'm sure these aren't actually Spetsnaz, but really just Chechens pretending to be Spetsnaz. Sending a detachment would be a disproportionate response. But, were the Ukrainians to request help with their problems stemming from these inexplicable Chechen incursions, perhaps the CIA could supply them with apropos satellite imaging data. After all, they have enough to deal with already, without their situation being taken advantage of by terrorists.
That whole rig looks quite expensive. I wouldn't have commented if it didn't. The manufacturing process for the glass fibers used for this project had to be custom designed, and isn't going to have close to the economics of scale that photovoltaic manufacturing gets. I have a feeling that the biggest problem with supplying a waste treatment facility equipped with photovoltaics is the difficulty in forcing the poor people to use the electricity for processing waste.
A battery and a resistance heater aren't exactly limited to being 1st world technology these days. Solar electric panels may be challenging to manufacture, but the cost is no longer huge and continues to fall rapidly, and they are simple to install. Fiber optic cables used in a design where "packing them tightly without melting was a challenge that required a lot of direct work with materials manufacturers" aren't something that will be locally sourced in 3rd world countries either.
I never think of bald eagles as a symbol people paint. I think of them as those birds in Dutch Harbor that take over dumpster diving from the seagulls during wintertime.
When I look at the photo of this thing, a solar-electric panel with a battery and a heating element doesn't seem more resource hungry.
I wish DIN would make a standard specification for cordless power tool battery attachment. It'd be nice to be able to interchange brands with batteries and tools.
Don't think of it as inconvenience. Think of it as a nice excuse to spend a little time outside NJ.
I was thinking they could sell it to China, but leasing for a fee sounds better.
speaks to this issue. Here's a link, and here's their link to the essay.
When I think about this, I think that people who don't trust software with code contributions from people in export ban countries might also not want to trust software with bugs, since people in export ban countries could exploit those bugs, regardless of the bugs' origin. One might argue that really skillfully created problems would have the ability to preferentially go unnoticed by the validation process, but problem creators with that skill level would also have the skill to spoof the origin of their contributions.
IRS agents are armed.
I believe that when the IRS has need of armed agents, they send the FBI.
Only the final validation contributions should be of concern in relation to contributions from export ban countries. The process that removes problems induced by errors (stupidity) ought to be good enough catch the ones induced by malice as well.
It could be possible to make them go away. Set up a web page that publishes whatever anyone sends and forgets the source. It'll be too full of crap for most people to ever want to read it, but once the stuff bound by the confidentiality agreement is there, all those formerly bound have plausible denyability for having been the one to reveal it. It'd be sort of like wikileaks without a review or filtering process. The only problem would be that you'd probably need to have the server functioning autonomously and in orbit to prevent governments from shutting it down.