Actually, Gore did not claim to have invented the internet. He mis-worded a statement that he wrote a bill to provide funding for the invention of Internet2 which is used for academic reasons.
So please stop quoting something that never happenned. I think we get enough of that from the media.
Without commenting on the morality of gambling laws, it's
interesting to note that many states consider betting so immoral that they not only
prohibit private gambling organizations, but thoughtfully provide their own.
With Lotto, the profits go to supporting education and social programs in the government. Casinos in Las Vegas, CT, NJ, etc. go to the benefit of the casino owner.
True. But by using just that section of law, then the police could tap every phone in the country and target whomever they wanted without a court order.
The reason why this is illegal is because they are thus spying on everyone, regardless of whether or not it will be used in court. Imagine technology like this being used in Nazi Germany. Holy hell would resistence not stand a chance.
I know thats an extreme example, but its best to understand power limitations in extreme situations. Then you can see how power is abused.
Because they are still restricted by law. Civil rights groups have sued to make the details of Carnivore public. As a result, the FBI was ordered to have an independent review of the system.
They already tried to go behind everyones back when they claimed it was the "Internet equivalent of a wire tapping". I know you see this as a blatently false statement.
You're missing my point. The restrictions on Carnivore are based on what the Constitution allows (in theory).
If they're using this against foreign nationals as well, then they'd be alotting them the same rights as American citizens. That is of course, unless Carnivore has the ability to not play by the rules.
I take his statement practically as admittion that Carnivore does not play by the rules.
While thats true, you can still hook up a machine at the uplink level for an ISP and be able to "see" traffic. Technically this can be done. Whether its a violation of peoples rights or not is in an extremely gray area. It scares me that the FBI would invade such an area.
Carnivore is used in sensitive criminal and foreign intelligence investigations.
Interesting... so when they conduct foreign intelligence investigations, they must provide the target with the same rights as an American citizen? What a load of crap!
I never said these people were inferior. I was making the point that they are in a dirty business that screws people for a living. I've experienced it myself. What I've also experienced is how many 30 y/o middle management people are making 200k+ working for Cigna, etc. who are buying big-ass houses which they wouldn't be doing before HMO's came about.
Insurance companies only care about profit. Thats the bottom line these days. 10 Years ago it was not like that. Profit _IS_ important, but to the extent that the organization needs to survive.
Many important people left the industry when they saw health insurance go from an industry for people to an industry for profit. Just look at the stock value for Cigna and how that changed in the early 90's when HMO's came about.
As for your job being inferior; I don't care what you do for a living. However if you're in the business of screwing over old ladies who need a new liver or an old man who needs a new heart, you can burn.
I've witnessed this. I have connections. I know how and when this happenned to the health care industry.
Well its worse than that. HMO's are still expensive. They don't pass down the savings to the people; they pocket it. The entire US needs to do what Minnesota has done: Ban for profit HMO's. Its that simple. Then when you need a liver transplant, you'll actually have a chance of getting one, instead of getting caught up in the red tape until you die.
Ok, so you an insurer. You can either screen people for genetic disorders and reject them accordingly, or you could not and take the monetary penalties for it. I'll screen people, thanks.
Unfortunately where does this stop? Do we screen people for asthma? cancer? predispositions to heart disease? What if they could screen someone and tell if they'll be a smoker or permiscuous and possibly get a deadly STD? Where does it stop? It doesn't. You either not do it at all, or it will eventually dominate. Look at HMO's and the way they've raped the health care industry. Before HMO, health care was not just about profit; it was about people. HMO's came along and made the bottom line profit. Go to Hartford CT, and look at all the 30y/o management majors making a butt-load of money working for the health care industry. They're making money off of denying people the right to live comfortably.
No, you can't tack. Tacking with a sailboat uses the force of the water to keep it bouyant and at an angle. In space you don't have that force because its space. The only way you could "tack" is if you have thrust. In that case, you might as well not use a magnetic field since it would be an opposing force. The thrust you would need to generate to tack would produce an unoptimal usage of resources to get where you wanted to go.
As for using an "unbalanced" magenetic field, well that would just cause you to spin and move in the direction of the wind.
Good question. Whats even cooler though is how they can use the same propulsion system to stop. If they're traveling towards another star, they can gradually reduce the field in such a way that it'd bring them to a stop in just the right place. If the field was too strong, then they'd stop somewhere a little further than halfway, and if it wasn't strong enough, then they'd never stop.
What I don't understand is why people find this a potential for violating privacy. Did you know that it is illegal to tap a public phone because the possibility that someone other than the target may pick up the phone and make a call? Carnivore taps all the phones, listens to all the conversations and determines if the user is the target.
Obviously this is an analogy, but its a pretty accurate one.
To be one of the people responsible for destroying the rights of every American citizen (including your own)?
And how do you explain the legality of snooping through the email of potentially thousands of people to extract the evidence on a specific individual? How is this different from tapping every public payphone in a city to get at one drug dealer?
He could also be stating it from a commercial aspect. RH is a significant figure on the commercial aspect of OSS. Whether they were the first or not, I don't know.
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Actually, Gore did not claim to have invented the internet. He mis-worded a statement that he wrote a bill to provide funding for the invention of Internet2 which is used for academic reasons.
So please stop quoting something that never happenned. I think we get enough of that from the media.
Without commenting on the morality of gambling laws, it's
interesting to note that many states consider betting so immoral that they not only
prohibit private gambling organizations, but thoughtfully provide their own.
With Lotto, the profits go to supporting education and social programs in the government. Casinos in Las Vegas, CT, NJ, etc. go to the benefit of the casino owner.
True. But by using just that section of law, then the police could tap every phone in the country and target whomever they wanted without a court order.
The reason why this is illegal is because they are thus spying on everyone, regardless of whether or not it will be used in court. Imagine technology like this being used in Nazi Germany. Holy hell would resistence not stand a chance.
I know thats an extreme example, but its best to understand power limitations in extreme situations. Then you can see how power is abused.
Why couldn't they just go behind everyone's back?
Because they are still restricted by law. Civil rights groups have sued to make the details of Carnivore public. As a result, the FBI was ordered to have an independent review of the system.
They already tried to go behind everyones back when they claimed it was the "Internet equivalent of a wire tapping". I know you see this as a blatently false statement.
You're missing my point. The restrictions on Carnivore are based on what the Constitution allows (in theory).
If they're using this against foreign nationals as well, then they'd be alotting them the same rights as American citizens. That is of course, unless Carnivore has the ability to not play by the rules.
I take his statement practically as admittion that Carnivore does not play by the rules.
While thats true, you can still hook up a machine at the uplink level for an ISP and be able to "see" traffic. Technically this can be done. Whether its a violation of peoples rights or not is in an extremely gray area. It scares me that the FBI would invade such an area.
Carnivore is used in sensitive criminal and foreign intelligence investigations.
Interesting... so when they conduct foreign intelligence investigations, they must provide the target with the same rights as an American citizen? What a load of crap!
I never said these people were inferior. I was making the point that they are in a dirty business that screws people for a living. I've experienced it myself. What I've also experienced is how many 30 y/o middle management people are making 200k+ working for Cigna, etc. who are buying big-ass houses which they wouldn't be doing before HMO's came about.
Insurance companies only care about profit. Thats the bottom line these days. 10 Years ago it was not like that. Profit _IS_ important, but to the extent that the organization needs to survive.
Many important people left the industry when they saw health insurance go from an industry for people to an industry for profit. Just look at the stock value for Cigna and how that changed in the early 90's when HMO's came about.
As for your job being inferior; I don't care what you do for a living. However if you're in the business of screwing over old ladies who need a new liver or an old man who needs a new heart, you can burn.
I've witnessed this. I have connections. I know how and when this happenned to the health care industry.
Nope, that was Lockheed Martin.
Next flaimebait.
Well its worse than that. HMO's are still expensive. They don't pass down the savings to the people; they pocket it. The entire US needs to do what Minnesota has done: Ban for profit HMO's. Its that simple. Then when you need a liver transplant, you'll actually have a chance of getting one, instead of getting caught up in the red tape until you die.
Ok, so you an insurer. You can either screen people for genetic disorders and reject them accordingly, or you could not and take the monetary penalties for it. I'll screen people, thanks.
Unfortunately where does this stop? Do we screen people for asthma? cancer? predispositions to heart disease? What if they could screen someone and tell if they'll be a smoker or permiscuous and possibly get a deadly STD? Where does it stop? It doesn't. You either not do it at all, or it will eventually dominate. Look at HMO's and the way they've raped the health care industry. Before HMO, health care was not just about profit; it was about people. HMO's came along and made the bottom line profit. Go to Hartford CT, and look at all the 30y/o management majors making a butt-load of money working for the health care industry. They're making money off of denying people the right to live comfortably.
A means by representing information and commands using the symbols '1' and '0' represented as a measure of electrical voltage.
It has an infinite maximum resolution.
;)
If I remember correctly, resolution should be at minimum the wavelength of light in the visible spectrum (although it varies).
The only way you can move with solar wind (without thrust in another direction) would be in the direction of the solar wind.
No. The operator does not have access to that information.
No, you can't tack. Tacking with a sailboat uses the force of the water to keep it bouyant and at an angle. In space you don't have that force because its space. The only way you could "tack" is if you have thrust. In that case, you might as well not use a magnetic field since it would be an opposing force. The thrust you would need to generate to tack would produce an unoptimal usage of resources to get where you wanted to go.
As for using an "unbalanced" magenetic field, well that would just cause you to spin and move in the direction of the wind.
... or like running out of gas in the middle of the extra-solar space. yuck yuck!
Good question. Whats even cooler though is how they can use the same propulsion system to stop. If they're traveling towards another star, they can gradually reduce the field in such a way that it'd bring them to a stop in just the right place. If the field was too strong, then they'd stop somewhere a little further than halfway, and if it wasn't strong enough, then they'd never stop.
... Find is _ONLY_ a potential for violating privacy, rather than a blatent violation.
What I don't understand is why people find this a potential for violating privacy. Did you know that it is illegal to tap a public phone because the possibility that someone other than the target may pick up the phone and make a call? Carnivore taps all the phones, listens to all the conversations and determines if the user is the target.
Obviously this is an analogy, but its a pretty accurate one.
To be one of the people responsible for destroying the rights of every American citizen (including your own)?
And how do you explain the legality of snooping through the email of potentially thousands of people to extract the evidence on a specific individual? How is this different from tapping every public payphone in a city to get at one drug dealer?
Sam Adams.... mmmm beer.
He could also be stating it from a commercial aspect. RH is a significant figure on the commercial aspect of OSS. Whether they were the first or not, I don't know.
Just my $0.02
I think there should be a
Or GeoCities, or any other website that allows you to publish via a web brower.
Next thing to be patented is a system to store information dynamicly in something called a "table".