It is possible to effectively jam a single communicating device, with a very small near field transmitter stuck directly on top of the device's antenna.
Say, a small 1/4 wavelength coil, stuck to the antenna. When calculated over any appreciable distance, the output of the jammer will be at or below normal noise floor, since it attenuates quickly, and is fairly low power to start with. The detection system simply won't find it unless it is right on top of it.
However, because it is right on top of the antenna it is intended to jam, there is very low resistance to the coupling of both antennas, allowing the very low power device to effectively smash the fidelity of the larger device, rendering it inoperable.
An adhesive antenna coil with a small organic film capacitor and a diode inside it would be adequate to jam many of the more problematical devices in question. They could even derive the power required to operate directly from the antenna they are jamming. A simple act of nondestructive sabotage.
Tape it over the antenna coil, and walk away. Problem solved.
Does not jam cellphones in movie theaters, but that isn't the intention here.
This is a classic application of the prisoner's dillema.
Both prisoners stand to gain the best possible outcome for both involved, by not assisting the authorities in investigating them. The authorities incentivize both prisoners in secret, to rat out the other. If one rats, he gets a reduced sentence, and the other gets prosecuted more viggorously, by being charged with more crimes. If neither prisoner rats, the authorities have to drop the major part of the case, and give both prisoners reduced sentences. If the prisoners both rat each other out, both will do hard time.
In this case, we are the prisoners. Choosing to capitulate with the obtrusive video monitoring by our state and corporate officials, is ratting each other out. Collectively engaging in riggorous disobedience is refusal to comply with the demand to rat each other out.
If more people disobey than capitulate, the penalties associated with disobedience cannot be sensibly enforced; there simply wouldn't be any employees left, even if they went full on H1B. Thus, your argument that "those of us with jobs to lose " should, and would rat everyone else out, only shows you are willfully complicit, and will end up servicing the panopticon. Willingly.
In reality, you have more to gain by encouraging everyone to disobey, because it makes it impossible to enforce punishment for the crime, AND it disrupts the power grab of the panopticon.
But don't let little things like that influence your fear based decision making.
(And this stupid IME on this phone copes with changes in process focus by simply discarding keypresses-- for whole words at a time. Please ignore the clear obviousness of missing words in the above. They do not reflect on my ability to construct proper sentences. Samsung simply decided that making sure the alert bar getting focus to tell me that the local file scanner completed successfully was substantially more important than proper fidelity from the IME.)
I realize that there is a disproportionate number of person on slashdot that give exceptional levels of percieved value to the "correct" employment of language, structure, and punctuation; however, the purpose of language is to convey information and ideas. The purpose of spelling, grammatical, and syntax rules is to fascilitate that objective. Obcessive fixation over the use or lack of use of minutia relating to those aspects of communication, to the point where it causes a deficit in effective communication, is self defeating and irrational.
If you difficulty in comprehending what I had written, such as if I had used ambiguous kanguage that could potentially have many and possibly conflictory meanings, you would have a legitimate complaint. However, the spelling of a word that you clearly were able to interpret correctly, desite the misspelling, is not sufficient grounds to make such a complaint. You did not have any difficulty in comprehending what was written. You may wish for me to use more widely established spellings in the future, and you may well ask that I do so, but fixation on the misspelling to the point where you refuse to engage in the communication process over the incongruity, such as your statement directly indicates, is simply incompatible with the objective goal of communication. Communication exists to transmit ideas. Rules and syntax exist to facilitiate that exchange. Nothing more. They do not exist as a metric by which to judge the merit of the information exchanged, and any attempt to do so is a misuse of that feature.
No. It does not matter how convienient a metric it may be percieved to be. If you are going to be riggorous about the mechanics of linguistic exchange, then don't be hipocritical about it by bastardizing the rules yourself.
The whole "personal jammer" thing is a non-starter. Jammers are indescriminate, and the usual rhetoric used to make them illegal will apply.
Take for instance, with personal cellphone jammers. They are illegal in the united states, specifically cited by the FCC. The reason, is that they disrupt vital comminications infrastructure, and can therefor prevent expedient deployment of emergency services, an other vital services that rely on the availability of that communication medium.
In the case of the surveylance industry, the argument can be made that cameras make the community safer, by helping law enforcement to identify and rapidly locate dangerous criminals, and that disrupting this system places the community at greater risk.
Those are totally specious arguments in most of the applied settings they would be used in, but that doesn't matter. Think of it as a horrible cousin to the "think of the children!" Rhetoric. Or, maybe the "interstate commerce" doctrine.
Personal jamming tech is a nonstarter for legal defense against ubiquitous tracking and surveylence.
About the only thing left, then, is relentless use of it anyway, as a dedicated civil disobedience movement. Yes, that means pleading guilty to the charge in court when arrested, as per the proper use of civil disobedience as a tactic. You want to swamp the justice system with burdensome numbers of people to incarcerate, with a near 100% recidivism rate.
It has to cost them far more money than their corporate puppeteers make from the mandatory protection and employment of the surveylence. It has to do this consistently, and without fail.
Otherwise, there will always be the profit motive, and the corruption that money has on government, and the surveylence state will persist.
If that is intended to be inflamatory, you fail. People with asperger syndrome can't help the way they are, anymore than people without it can help the way they are.
There are many kinds of people in this world. If somebody is incapable of dealing with that, the negative consequences are entirely their own. I may well have asperger syndrome. That does not bother me. If so, its just a part of who and what I am, like my ethnicity, or my gender. Why would I be upset about either of those things? The implication itself is absurd. Likewise, why would I be angry over being accused of having asperger syndrome? It is equally absurd.
Thanks for playing AC, but you need to polish up your trolling skills.
Failing that, you could fill the bottle with clear acrylic or epoxy resin instead of either, and it will NEVER freeze. it's a tad expensive but the resulting bottles wont explode when heated, wont spring leaks, freeze, etc.
I realize you are an AC, but try to avoid calling people assholes, please?
Starcraft is one of those games that you MUST get good at quickly, if you intend to survive against other human players, and sometimes, even the computer AI.
In my case, I got particularly good at thwarting nuke strikes as Protoss, by trial and error, and lots of hard luck. We used to play it over the local LAN after hours at work against the boss. That bastard ALWAYS played terran, and would spam production of nuke silo addons. (Litterally, he would built a terran command center, then build the addon, then launch the command center, move it, and build another nuke addon, ad nauseum. By the end of it all, he would have several nuke silos lying in wait, then just spam the living shit out of nukes. Getting a carrier produced in time to effectively deal with him and his little game of human hopscotch was practically impossible. Instead, methods of dealing with his ghosts became essential. High power detectors cost a fortune in the protoss build tree, so I had to become more inventive.
After having my ass served to me on a glowing nuclear hotplate I dont know how many times, I learned the lesson about detectors and learned it well. A scout ship is piddly weak, but is enough to alert you where the hidden nuke bastard is beaming you from, so you can go own their asses with some disposable zealots. The scoutship cant see the ghost unaided, and needs the unarmed observer drone to make the announcement. Just have them on a continuous circular rotation around your outpost, and you will be fine.
Usually, when my boss would try for the nuke and always get bitchslapped, he would try to take out the observers and scoutships with far more powerful valkyries, followed quickly by heavy cruisers as soon as he was able. I learned that deploying some dragoons worked well against the valkyries, and that I could often lure his valkyries in near my fortress harrassment plasma turrets if I lured them in. By the time he had battle cruisers, I had carriers full of fighters.
It was always a battle of speed against the man. Protoss are heavy hitters, but everything is slow to build, and expensive. You HAVE to memorize the tech tree to play them effectively. It's just the way it is.
As for claming that noobyness is a good excuse for not having detection, that only applies to noobs. If you are an experienced enough player to be bumrushing with protoss headfirst straight to carriers, VS human nukes and ghosts, you are well beyond the noob stage, and should probably know better.
Me? I know better than to play starcraft as an online multiplayer game, especially given my woirk hours. The ONLY people that would be on would be Koreans. I dislike stereotypes, but those kids are BRUTAL. I play to have fun, not have 3ms of error make or break a game.:D You want to talk about memorizing tech trees, those kids have it DOWN. LOL.
You only need about 4 observers, and 2 scouts. (Don't need a corsair.) Those are in the same tech tree as protoss carrier. Combined, you can spot and harrass the enemy ghosts. The observers and scout ships are produced at the protoss observatory, not the spaceport (IIRC.. been a long time.) The observatory is a prereq for the spaceport. It will cost you a few hundred minerals and a few hundred vespene gas to produce them. You can have them building at the same time you are deploying the spaceport.
Yes, but assasinating the ghost beaming the target designator can often save your ass. *always* have anti-cloak detection systems with an effective range large enough to reveal enemy ghosts! Always!
(Flying observers work very well here. Set them on continuous patrol. If the enemy player aggressively tries to eliminate them, you know they are planning to nuke, and can pre-empt the strategy. Coupling the observers with some low level flying harrasment craft will give you the "engaged the enemy" alert, pinpointing the location for you. This lets you kill the ghost quickly.)
That's what glue traps are good for. You can buy those now, at 2 to 5 dollars a pop, and have something going "right now! OMG WTFBBQ BUGS IN MY BRAINS ARGHBRBL!", and then have very inexpensive bean leaves shortly thereafter.
Compared, over the same time interval, the bean solution is radically less expensive. You trade on convenience.
The world isn't perfect, and you have to make choices. That's just life. Making "good" choices is more tricky.
While I've never endured bedbugs, I have endured a massive flea infestation. (Mice brought them in.) The kind where every inch of you gets bitten relentlessly. I perfectly understand the need for immediacy. I don't however, allow that to overrule my sense of rationality. Make a plan, stick to it. Satisfy your mind by keeping track of progress indicators. It works.
Amusing that you would post such a strawman after quoting the whole post.
If it was too long for you to handle reading it, such that you needed to interject something that was never said, and was actively hinted at about intrinsic failures in the pirate distribution model, then I really feel sorry for you. I really do.
Here, let's try it again.
1) piracy happens when the costs (both subjective and monetary) exceed those of the pirate offer.
2) piracy has endemic problems with the quality and suitability of the wares it offers, and this problem cannot be efficiently solved.
3) offering a superior product at a competative price will radically reduce piracy to acceptable levels.
4) piracy cannot be wholly eliminated from this market.
Together? Your petard is a pitiful strawman, and only indicates that you stopped reading and that your brain turned off. A defective heart drug (like those sold by scammers, along with fake viagra and pals) is considerably less safe and convenient than a real drug, with real controls, and real testing. The only reason why the scam "medicine" sells, is because the costs of the real drug are inflated above the ideal market price. (No, "ideal" does not mean "makes profit". "Ideal" as in, "ideal intersection of supply and demand curves". In other words, it is the pricepoint at which the producer breaks even, and the public is content to buy without looking elsewhere.)
So, next time, try to actually READ the wall of text, M'kay?
Kidney beans sprout after 3 to 8 days, giving access to 2 seed leaves.
After 14 days, they will have the 2 seed leaves, and 5 to 8 trifolate adult plant leaves, if left to their own devices.
After 20 days, they should have between 15 and 20 adult leaves, and the seed leaves will have wilted and fallen away. Flowers begin to show.
Plant continues to grow, flower, spread, and produce immature bean pods up until 80 days time. That is when mature bean pods appear. Flowers and mature pods will coexist on the plant. In a climate controlled and well lit area, beans are ever bearing as long as mature pods are picked daily.
The bush will be bigger than a 55 gallon barrel long before this time, and be covered in leaves. About 4 weeks after germination, the bush will be producing leaves at an alarming rate. (1 bush.) Continual harvesting of leaves is easily possible at that point. 10 plants would easily give enough leaves to surround a bed daily.
Since it is a plot that resembles a log graph, and you want leaves "right now!", but also need many leaves later, I would suggest this process:
Plant 200 beans, spray the "pots" with peroxide before planting. After 5 to 8 days, you should have around 400 seed leaves. Harvest the leaves fro 3/4 of the plants. Leave them on the floor (sb around 300 leaves, each leaf about 4x4 inches for a good healthy bean. That's about 100 square feet of coverage.) Leave the leaves for a few days before disposing of them, to get the most out of them. They should last at least 3 to 4 days before drying out, and will continue to catch bedbugs over that time. The remaining 50 plants or so should have several primary leaves by then (3 to 4 per plant, in addition to the 2 now very large seed leaves.) Pick the seed leaves from all plants (100 leaves) and 1 to 2 adult leaves, depending on how many are on the plant. Don't take more than half. That should again cover your floor for several days if you leave them down. After that time, there should be close to 10 leaves per plant, and they should be getting quite large. Fully harvest 2/3 of the plants to thin them out in your potting room, and keep those leaves down for several days. By that time, there should be 20 to 50 leaves per plant. Take about a third of the leaves from each plant, and give them a weak fertilizer. (Weak!) This should give you another 3 to 4 days of leaves on the foor if you leave them down. After that time, there should be well over 100 leaves per plant, and should be blooming. There should be about 16 plants in your potting room. You may need to move them to bigger pots. (I presume using plastic or styrofoam cups to start them in. Something disposable and cheap. After this point, use real flowerpots.) Continue with the 1/3 leaf harvest every 3 to 4 days average. By the end of the 4th week since germination, the bushes should be big enough to harvest every other night. By the end of the 8th week, you can probably harvest 300 leaves per 16 plants daily. (18 leaves per plant) assuming you keep feeding it a very weak fertilizer every week.
While it takes time to start the process, the bean plants will continue to grow and make leaves year round as long as they are given enough light, space, and kept warm, and will grow to enormous sizes. 16 plants will eventiall take over an entire room without effort.
Keeping them alive will keep you supplied in bedbug killing leaves purpetually. And supply beans to eat after 80 days.
This goes well with an assertion I have held about piracy for years.
It goes something like this:
Producers control supply, and have a "target" price they wish to meet. This could be perfectly sensible, or it could be inflated in a fashion that would make even the debiers diamond cartel blush. Does not matter. They control the supply, and have a target price.
Because they control supply, they restrict the supply until demand for the product permits them to reach that target.
Piracy happens when:
The hidden and intrinsic costs of piracy are less than the inflationary costs induced by restricting supply, via puncturing the producer's stranglehold over the supply.
Thus, piracy rate is a fundemental feature of the modern information economy. It shows, without bias, how artificially stacked the target price is against what the natural market price is. It is every bit as useful as tracking wages, tracking unemployment, or tracking free time.
The problem, is that you whave whole sections of the economy that are propped up by the wholesale control over supply. Without being propped up above the true market ideal price, and enforced via artificial scarcity, the product is simply not profitable to produce. (At least in some circumstances.) The market really does not fucking care about that. The price is inflated, and piracy rate consistently indicates that fact.
Piracy, being a fundemental feature of the information economy, (owing to the nearly free cost of duplication and distribution that can be employed), should not be seen as "the boogey man" of content producers. They would be much better served to simply accept piracy to be as inevitable as a rainy day is, and instead focus on how their business can cope with the presense of piracy in the market.
Again, piracy occurs when the implicit and explicit costs of piracy are less than the costs of legal purchase. Those costs are NOT all monetary.
1) downloading a bulk pack of episodes takes time. 2) the download saturates the download pipe, preventing the downloader from doing other things, like playing games online. 3) the download could be broken, encoded poorly, be in the wrong language, have hardcooked subtitles in chinese, etc. 4) the download could contain malicious software 5) you could be sued for many millions of dollars per file downloaded.
People are willing to put up with a pretty significant amount of crap, if the inconvenience cost of the legal distribution method is less inconvenient than the illegal method.
This is why there was a HUGE reduction in "illegal MP3 activity" when iTunes hit the stage, and went DRM-free. While iTunes is FAAR from perfect, and clearly does not nor is meant to, service everyone-- it does present a significantly "easier" and "cheaper" alternative to the illegal alternatives, that is usually much safer as well. (Some argument can be made about the quality and nature of the iTunes client software that are noteworthy in that dept, but this is slashdot, and I am sure you already know.)
Likewise, when Netflix came on the scene, there was a HUGE reduction in illegal movie activity.
The reason, in both instances: the cost of the legal offering came down significantly, both in terms of monetary value, and in terms of inconvenience. They both presented an option that was "simply better."
The inconvenience costs of the pirate distribution system are endemic, and can't easily or sensibly be removed. Some pirate distribution systems have tried to deal with that problem through exclusivity, like demonoid, but that only compartmentalizes the problem, and imposes another inconvenience to the pirate distribution model-- namely, now you also have to be invited to pirate, rather than simply participate. (If you can become a member to the sanitized secret pirate social club, the benefits become obvious, but the initial obstacle cannot be less than the trouble associated with the consequences of working with the rabble they keep out. Virus whores, porn re
Beans grow fast enough that they are often used in school science activities in gradeschool.
Seriously, at the most extreme, you will get two seed leaves per bean in 6 days. You will get around 6 to 10 leaves per bean in 12 days.
Be sure to mist the potting soil with medicine cabinet grade peroxide in a spraybottle at planting time. This will prevent white mold in the pot, and give much better yeilds.
If you can't wait 6 days for the leaves, set out the glue boards while you wait. You can get those immediately at the store, and will hold you over until then.
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This is an easy mistake to make.
The reality is that pockets on women's clothing are often tiny, or outright missing. This is why women carry purses, and why they constantly ask male friends/lovers to hold things for them. This is because female clothing is tailored to accentuate the curvature of the female anatomy, and pockets distract from this effect. Take note the next time you go clothing shopping with the girlfriend. While she's in the changing room, just look casually at the clothing there in the lady's section. You will note that slack pants almost never have pockets of any kind, and female jeans tend to have oddly shaped or diminutive pockets. Skinny jeans especially.
Clothing designers (cough) design clothes (for skeletons) this way on purpose. They expect that the woman will have a matching handbag to match "her outfit." This is *why* women have 50 purses, and insist that they need to buy a new one every time they get a new outfit.
Seriously, you'd have trouble getting an ipod mini into the pockets on women's skinny jeans. Forget about getting a 7in tablet in there.
(Having 2 sisters sucked big time while growing up.)
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Agreed. I'd be willing to pay considerably more, and would consider it a major point of sale feature. It would mean I wouldn't be at the mercy of the device maker for firmware updates, at the very least. (A vanilla build of android from source is practically garanteed to work if all device drivers are in mainline kernel. If push came to shove, I could roll my own damned update.)
At this point I seriously wonder why there aren't people clamoring to produce fully open hardware SoC solutions for this market. Even lower powered devices on obsolete fab processes would be very desirable given the lockouts presented by the major players. A shiny toy is worthless if you can't actually use it.
The only thing I can come up with for why this hasn't happened is the employment of thermonuclear patent portfolios. Again, refusal to hold a patent bomb would further influence my purchase choice. Combined, i'd be willing to pay over 200$ more. (But I must have BOTH features. Mainline support, and peace of mind for not supporting the patent madness.)
Seriously. Show me a device that does both of those things, and can actually fit in a pocket, and I will buy it.
To get near 100% CO2 in the bag, just visit a grocier or gas station that sells dry ice, then, when you bag and vac the mattress, just pack the naked dry ice block in with the plastic, with said valve.
The vac just makes sure the ambient oxygen levels are low to begin with.
This doesn't solve the problem with the bugs being in places other than the mattress though. Like roaches, they infest walls and crawlspaces.
Some form of natural predator insect would be advantageous, in conjunction with mechanical removal methods, like the traps.
1) you grow them, genius. Beans will sprout any season, if you start them indoors. a 1lb bag of kidney beans costs a few dollars. You can get a surprising number of leaves from that. Dry beans are available year round.
2) You dont burn them silly. You stuff them into the dumpster out back. Be sure to take pictures of the bugs for facebook.
3) While I admit that sneaking living plants into a hotel is going to be a difficult prospect, you can get a very similar effect by using glue boards. More expensive by far than kidney bean leaves, but more easily transported, and with a longer shelf life. You can get them in "Enormous" sizes. Failing that, you can always Make your own.
Again, take pictures of all the trapped bedbugs for facebook, then dispose of the bugs in the big dumpster behind the hotel.
If that is what you call "Diplomacy", i'd hate to see what you call being petulant.
The fact that other forms of negotiation have failed are exactly why peace talks MUST go forward. If your REAL goal really *IS* trying to secure a mutually beneficial relationship with another, then using passive aggressive and outright childish tactics while presenting an aire of civility only sours the situation, and is disadvantageous to any such goal.
The mere fact that the US even considered putting something so clearly spiteful on the reasons to cancel list, indicates bad faith on the part of the US, and justifies Putin's rather wild accusations about US malfeasance concerning the missile defense system, which is what the whole snit that Obaminator's visit was all about. ---Supposedly.
"If you wont play MY way, I'll take MY ball and GO HOME!" is not a "Negotiation tactic." It's a petulant ultimatum.
At this point, I think Putin should up the ante, and tell the US that it wont get another chance at a peace summit for another decade, if it cant grow the fuck up.
Is president Obama going to throw a little temper tantrum too? Perhaps stamp his little feet, and hold his breath until he turns purple? --Maybe he will tell his mommy, or the secret service!
Seriously. Tactics like this (Cancelling a peace negotiation summit, over ASYLUM being GRANTED!) only serve to clearly demonstrate that Obama was never interested in peaceful relations with Russia, only with getting its way. All it does is say loud and clear to Putin that his distrust of the US missile infrastructure being constructed in the middle east is indeed a threat to russian national security, that the US is unwilling to have to compromise on anything.
If they cant play by their rules, they will stop their feet, cry, and go home.
If I owned a botnet, I would dedicate a tiny portion of the swarm's resources to simply doing an http get request for some arbitrary file from a list of know triggers, and doing everything in my power to both route the request over a comcast owned link, and suppress the popup on the zombie.
The goal? Create as much noise in the line as possible to make the effort futile. (As a botnet operator, I would have incentive to make deep packet inspection as undesirable as possible.)
It wouldn't take much. Just pull a few bytes of an MP3 here, poke an illegal video server there, and just discard the replied datagrams (occasionally pull a whole fle, just to make it hard to filter). Wait some configurable time variable, then do it again with a different random file. Make it look like piracy is radically out of control, and totally discredit any metrics they collect from deep packet snooping.
Because this is slashdot, and reading the article is an anathema!:D
They are still just trading a more complex charger for the improved conductor efficiency. It means adding expensive high yeild lytic caps to the resonator circuit to keep it stable, otherwise the power delivered by the coils to the charger would be unstable, and destroy batteries.
I am sure that whoever they have working on this knows all about such things, but I still raise an eyebrow over the potential for nuking magstrips, and possibly frying FM radios.
What!? Read the article!? Sir, do you know what site this is!? (/joke)
In seriousness though, 20khz at 200A is enough to wipe magnetic strips in the wallets of pedestrians, and possibly to energize braces in people's mouths. (The metals used do leave ion concentrations in the saliva, making the mouth into a lytic cap, with the braces as the pickup and dielectric.) The concrete will be somewhat paramagnetic, but probably not enough to prevent the field from reaching up pretty high above the roadbed.
I sure hope they aren't installing it in areas where pedestrian traffic will be high. The potential for nuked credit cards opens a big legal liability.
This wll clearly be a municpial service, and thus paid for by the public coffer. Eg, paid for by taxes, on a bulk use model.
In other words, based on use history over several years, and combined with census data to track changes of use over time, the civic planners can estimate power use on a yearly granularity, and amortize. Some months will draw less power, others more. They base the yearly tax burden on the averaged load per year, adjusted for projected trends in use.
Tradgedy of the commons by abusing the roadbed as a free* powerline just causes the tax rate to increase, and the anomalous use pattern metrics will alert civic planners to the activity if it is very serious.
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Not entirely true.
It is possible to effectively jam a single communicating device, with a very small near field transmitter stuck directly on top of the device's antenna.
Say, a small 1/4 wavelength coil, stuck to the antenna. When calculated over any appreciable distance, the output of the jammer will be at or below normal noise floor, since it attenuates quickly, and is fairly low power to start with. The detection system simply won't find it unless it is right on top of it.
However, because it is right on top of the antenna it is intended to jam, there is very low resistance to the coupling of both antennas, allowing the very low power device to effectively smash the fidelity of the larger device, rendering it inoperable.
An adhesive antenna coil with a small organic film capacitor and a diode inside it would be adequate to jam many of the more problematical devices in question. They could even derive the power required to operate directly from the antenna they are jamming. A simple act of nondestructive sabotage.
Tape it over the antenna coil, and walk away. Problem solved.
Does not jam cellphones in movie theaters, but that isn't the intention here.
This is a classic application of the prisoner's dillema.
Both prisoners stand to gain the best possible outcome for both involved, by not assisting the authorities in investigating them. The authorities incentivize both prisoners in secret, to rat out the other. If one rats, he gets a reduced sentence, and the other gets prosecuted more viggorously, by being charged with more crimes. If neither prisoner rats, the authorities have to drop the major part of the case, and give both prisoners reduced sentences. If the prisoners both rat each other out, both will do hard time.
In this case, we are the prisoners. Choosing to capitulate with the obtrusive video monitoring by our state and corporate officials, is ratting each other out. Collectively engaging in riggorous disobedience is refusal to comply with the demand to rat each other out.
If more people disobey than capitulate, the penalties associated with disobedience cannot be sensibly enforced; there simply wouldn't be any employees left, even if they went full on H1B. Thus, your argument that "those of us with jobs to lose " should, and would rat everyone else out, only shows you are willfully complicit, and will end up servicing the panopticon. Willingly.
In reality, you have more to gain by encouraging everyone to disobey, because it makes it impossible to enforce punishment for the crime, AND it disrupts the power grab of the panopticon.
But don't let little things like that influence your fear based decision making.
(And this stupid IME on this phone copes with changes in process focus by simply discarding keypresses-- for whole words at a time. Please ignore the clear obviousness of missing words in the above. They do not reflect on my ability to construct proper sentences. Samsung simply decided that making sure the alert bar getting focus to tell me that the local file scanner completed successfully was substantially more important than proper fidelity from the IME.)
I realize that there is a disproportionate number of person on slashdot that give exceptional levels of percieved value to the "correct" employment of language, structure, and punctuation; however, the purpose of language is to convey information and ideas. The purpose of spelling, grammatical, and syntax rules is to fascilitate that objective. Obcessive fixation over the use or lack of use of minutia relating to those aspects of communication, to the point where it causes a deficit in effective communication, is self defeating and irrational.
If you difficulty in comprehending what I had written, such as if I had used ambiguous kanguage that could potentially have many and possibly conflictory meanings, you would have a legitimate complaint. However, the spelling of a word that you clearly were able to interpret correctly, desite the misspelling, is not sufficient grounds to make such a complaint. You did not have any difficulty in comprehending what was written. You may wish for me to use more widely established spellings in the future, and you may well ask that I do so, but fixation on the misspelling to the point where you refuse to engage in the communication process over the incongruity, such as your statement directly indicates, is simply incompatible with the objective goal of communication. Communication exists to transmit ideas. Rules and syntax exist to facilitiate that exchange. Nothing more. They do not exist as a metric by which to judge the merit of the information exchanged, and any attempt to do so is a misuse of that feature.
No. It does not matter how convienient a metric it may be percieved to be. If you are going to be riggorous about the mechanics of linguistic exchange, then don't be hipocritical about it by bastardizing the rules yourself.
The whole "personal jammer" thing is a non-starter. Jammers are indescriminate, and the usual rhetoric used to make them illegal will apply.
Take for instance, with personal cellphone jammers. They are illegal in the united states, specifically cited by the FCC. The reason, is that they disrupt vital comminications infrastructure, and can therefor prevent expedient deployment of emergency services, an other vital services that rely on the availability of that communication medium.
In the case of the surveylance industry, the argument can be made that cameras make the community safer, by helping law enforcement to identify and rapidly locate dangerous criminals, and that disrupting this system places the community at greater risk.
Those are totally specious arguments in most of the applied settings they would be used in, but that doesn't matter. Think of it as a horrible cousin to the "think of the children!" Rhetoric. Or, maybe the "interstate commerce" doctrine.
Personal jamming tech is a nonstarter for legal defense against ubiquitous tracking and surveylence.
About the only thing left, then, is relentless use of it anyway, as a dedicated civil disobedience movement. Yes, that means pleading guilty to the charge in court when arrested, as per the proper use of civil disobedience as a tactic. You want to swamp the justice system with burdensome numbers of people to incarcerate, with a near 100% recidivism rate.
It has to cost them far more money than their corporate puppeteers make from the mandatory protection and employment of the surveylence. It has to do this consistently, and without fail.
Otherwise, there will always be the profit motive, and the corruption that money has on government, and the surveylence state will persist.
If that is intended to be inflamatory, you fail. People with asperger syndrome can't help the way they are, anymore than people without it can help the way they are.
There are many kinds of people in this world. If somebody is incapable of dealing with that, the negative consequences are entirely their own. I may well have asperger syndrome. That does not bother me. If so, its just a part of who and what I am, like my ethnicity, or my gender. Why would I be upset about either of those things? The implication itself is absurd. Likewise, why would I be angry over being accused of having asperger syndrome? It is equally absurd.
Thanks for playing AC, but you need to polish up your trolling skills.
isopropanol does not freeze unless you count "Temperatures found at the south pole, or on mars" as being a sensible design concern.
Freezing and flashpoints of isopropanol + water solutions
Failing that, you could fill the bottle with clear acrylic or epoxy resin instead of either, and it will NEVER freeze. it's a tad expensive but the resulting bottles wont explode when heated, wont spring leaks, freeze, etc.
I realize you are an AC, but try to avoid calling people assholes, please?
Starcraft is one of those games that you MUST get good at quickly, if you intend to survive against other human players, and sometimes, even the computer AI.
In my case, I got particularly good at thwarting nuke strikes as Protoss, by trial and error, and lots of hard luck. We used to play it over the local LAN after hours at work against the boss. That bastard ALWAYS played terran, and would spam production of nuke silo addons. (Litterally, he would built a terran command center, then build the addon, then launch the command center, move it, and build another nuke addon, ad nauseum. By the end of it all, he would have several nuke silos lying in wait, then just spam the living shit out of nukes. Getting a carrier produced in time to effectively deal with him and his little game of human hopscotch was practically impossible. Instead, methods of dealing with his ghosts became essential. High power detectors cost a fortune in the protoss build tree, so I had to become more inventive.
After having my ass served to me on a glowing nuclear hotplate I dont know how many times, I learned the lesson about detectors and learned it well. A scout ship is piddly weak, but is enough to alert you where the hidden nuke bastard is beaming you from, so you can go own their asses with some disposable zealots. The scoutship cant see the ghost unaided, and needs the unarmed observer drone to make the announcement. Just have them on a continuous circular rotation around your outpost, and you will be fine.
Usually, when my boss would try for the nuke and always get bitchslapped, he would try to take out the observers and scoutships with far more powerful valkyries, followed quickly by heavy cruisers as soon as he was able. I learned that deploying some dragoons worked well against the valkyries, and that I could often lure his valkyries in near my fortress harrassment plasma turrets if I lured them in. By the time he had battle cruisers, I had carriers full of fighters.
It was always a battle of speed against the man. Protoss are heavy hitters, but everything is slow to build, and expensive. You HAVE to memorize the tech tree to play them effectively. It's just the way it is.
As for claming that noobyness is a good excuse for not having detection, that only applies to noobs. If you are an experienced enough player to be bumrushing with protoss headfirst straight to carriers, VS human nukes and ghosts, you are well beyond the noob stage, and should probably know better.
Me? I know better than to play starcraft as an online multiplayer game, especially given my woirk hours. The ONLY people that would be on would be Koreans. I dislike stereotypes, but those kids are BRUTAL. I play to have fun, not have 3ms of error make or break a game. :D You want to talk about memorizing tech trees, those kids have it DOWN. LOL.
You only need about 4 observers, and 2 scouts. (Don't need a corsair.) Those are in the same tech tree as protoss carrier. Combined, you can spot and harrass the enemy ghosts. The observers and scout ships are produced at the protoss observatory, not the spaceport (IIRC.. been a long time.) The observatory is a prereq for the spaceport. It will cost you a few hundred minerals and a few hundred vespene gas to produce them. You can have them building at the same time you are deploying the spaceport.
There is no excuse for not having detection.
Yes, but assasinating the ghost beaming the target designator can often save your ass. *always* have anti-cloak detection systems with an effective range large enough to reveal enemy ghosts! Always!
(Flying observers work very well here. Set them on continuous patrol. If the enemy player aggressively tries to eliminate them, you know they are planning to nuke, and can pre-empt the strategy. Coupling the observers with some low level flying harrasment craft will give you the "engaged the enemy" alert, pinpointing the location for you. This lets you kill the ghost quickly.)
That's what glue traps are good for. You can buy those now, at 2 to 5 dollars a pop, and have something going "right now! OMG WTFBBQ BUGS IN MY BRAINS ARGHBRBL!", and then have very inexpensive bean leaves shortly thereafter.
Compared, over the same time interval, the bean solution is radically less expensive. You trade on convenience.
The world isn't perfect, and you have to make choices. That's just life. Making "good" choices is more tricky.
While I've never endured bedbugs, I have endured a massive flea infestation. (Mice brought them in.) The kind where every inch of you gets bitten relentlessly. I perfectly understand the need for immediacy. I don't however, allow that to overrule my sense of rationality. Make a plan, stick to it. Satisfy your mind by keeping track of progress indicators. It works.
Amusing that you would post such a strawman after quoting the whole post.
If it was too long for you to handle reading it, such that you needed to interject something that was never said, and was actively hinted at about intrinsic failures in the pirate distribution model, then I really feel sorry for you. I really do.
Here, let's try it again.
1) piracy happens when the costs (both subjective and monetary) exceed those of the pirate offer.
2) piracy has endemic problems with the quality and suitability of the wares it offers, and this problem cannot be efficiently solved.
3) offering a superior product at a competative price will radically reduce piracy to acceptable levels.
4) piracy cannot be wholly eliminated from this market.
Together? Your petard is a pitiful strawman, and only indicates that you stopped reading and that your brain turned off. A defective heart drug (like those sold by scammers, along with fake viagra and pals) is considerably less safe and convenient than a real drug, with real controls, and real testing. The only reason why the scam "medicine" sells, is because the costs of the real drug are inflated above the ideal market price. (No, "ideal" does not mean "makes profit". "Ideal" as in, "ideal intersection of supply and demand curves". In other words, it is the pricepoint at which the producer breaks even, and the public is content to buy without looking elsewhere.)
So, next time, try to actually READ the wall of text, M'kay?
Kidney beans sprout after 3 to 8 days, giving access to 2 seed leaves.
After 14 days, they will have the 2 seed leaves, and 5 to 8 trifolate adult plant leaves, if left to their own devices.
After 20 days, they should have between 15 and 20 adult leaves, and the seed leaves will have wilted and fallen away. Flowers begin to show.
Plant continues to grow, flower, spread, and produce immature bean pods up until 80 days time. That is when mature bean pods appear. Flowers and mature pods will coexist on the plant. In a climate controlled and well lit area, beans are ever bearing as long as mature pods are picked daily.
The bush will be bigger than a 55 gallon barrel long before this time, and be covered in leaves. About 4 weeks after germination, the bush will be producing leaves at an alarming rate. (1 bush.) Continual harvesting of leaves is easily possible at that point. 10 plants would easily give enough leaves to surround a bed daily.
Since it is a plot that resembles a log graph, and you want leaves "right now!", but also need many leaves later, I would suggest this process:
Plant 200 beans, spray the "pots" with peroxide before planting. After 5 to 8 days, you should have around 400 seed leaves. Harvest the leaves fro 3/4 of the plants. Leave them on the floor (sb around 300 leaves, each leaf about 4x4 inches for a good healthy bean. That's about 100 square feet of coverage.) Leave the leaves for a few days before disposing of them, to get the most out of them. They should last at least 3 to 4 days before drying out, and will continue to catch bedbugs over that time. The remaining 50 plants or so should have several primary leaves by then (3 to 4 per plant, in addition to the 2 now very large seed leaves.) Pick the seed leaves from all plants (100 leaves) and 1 to 2 adult leaves, depending on how many are on the plant. Don't take more than half. That should again cover your floor for several days if you leave them down. After that time, there should be close to 10 leaves per plant, and they should be getting quite large. Fully harvest 2/3 of the plants to thin them out in your potting room, and keep those leaves down for several days. By that time, there should be 20 to 50 leaves per plant. Take about a third of the leaves from each plant, and give them a weak fertilizer. (Weak!) This should give you another 3 to 4 days of leaves on the foor if you leave them down. After that time, there should be well over 100 leaves per plant, and should be blooming. There should be about 16 plants in your potting room. You may need to move them to bigger pots. (I presume using plastic or styrofoam cups to start them in. Something disposable and cheap. After this point, use real flowerpots.) Continue with the 1/3 leaf harvest every 3 to 4 days average. By the end of the 4th week since germination, the bushes should be big enough to harvest every other night. By the end of the 8th week, you can probably harvest 300 leaves per 16 plants daily. (18 leaves per plant) assuming you keep feeding it a very weak fertilizer every week.
While it takes time to start the process, the bean plants will continue to grow and make leaves year round as long as they are given enough light, space, and kept warm, and will grow to enormous sizes. 16 plants will eventiall take over an entire room without effort.
Keeping them alive will keep you supplied in bedbug killing leaves purpetually. And supply beans to eat after 80 days.
This goes well with an assertion I have held about piracy for years.
It goes something like this:
Producers control supply, and have a "target" price they wish to meet. This could be perfectly sensible, or it could be inflated in a fashion that would make even the debiers diamond cartel blush. Does not matter. They control the supply, and have a target price.
Because they control supply, they restrict the supply until demand for the product permits them to reach that target.
Piracy happens when:
The hidden and intrinsic costs of piracy are less than the inflationary costs induced by restricting supply, via puncturing the producer's stranglehold over the supply.
Thus, piracy rate is a fundemental feature of the modern information economy. It shows, without bias, how artificially stacked the target price is against what the natural market price is. It is every bit as useful as tracking wages, tracking unemployment, or tracking free time.
The problem, is that you whave whole sections of the economy that are propped up by the wholesale control over supply. Without being propped up above the true market ideal price, and enforced via artificial scarcity, the product is simply not profitable to produce. (At least in some circumstances.) The market really does not fucking care about that. The price is inflated, and piracy rate consistently indicates that fact.
Piracy, being a fundemental feature of the information economy, (owing to the nearly free cost of duplication and distribution that can be employed), should not be seen as "the boogey man" of content producers. They would be much better served to simply accept piracy to be as inevitable as a rainy day is, and instead focus on how their business can cope with the presense of piracy in the market.
Again, piracy occurs when the implicit and explicit costs of piracy are less than the costs of legal purchase. Those costs are NOT all monetary.
1) downloading a bulk pack of episodes takes time.
2) the download saturates the download pipe, preventing the downloader from doing other things, like playing games online.
3) the download could be broken, encoded poorly, be in the wrong language, have hardcooked subtitles in chinese, etc.
4) the download could contain malicious software
5) you could be sued for many millions of dollars per file downloaded.
People are willing to put up with a pretty significant amount of crap, if the inconvenience cost of the legal distribution method is less inconvenient than the illegal method.
This is why there was a HUGE reduction in "illegal MP3 activity" when iTunes hit the stage, and went DRM-free. While iTunes is FAAR from perfect, and clearly does not nor is meant to, service everyone-- it does present a significantly "easier" and "cheaper" alternative to the illegal alternatives, that is usually much safer as well. (Some argument can be made about the quality and nature of the iTunes client software that are noteworthy in that dept, but this is slashdot, and I am sure you already know.)
Likewise, when Netflix came on the scene, there was a HUGE reduction in illegal movie activity.
The reason, in both instances: the cost of the legal offering came down significantly, both in terms of monetary value, and in terms of inconvenience. They both presented an option that was "simply better."
The inconvenience costs of the pirate distribution system are endemic, and can't easily or sensibly be removed. Some pirate distribution systems have tried to deal with that problem through exclusivity, like demonoid, but that only compartmentalizes the problem, and imposes another inconvenience to the pirate distribution model-- namely, now you also have to be invited to pirate, rather than simply participate. (If you can become a member to the sanitized secret pirate social club, the benefits become obvious, but the initial obstacle cannot be less than the trouble associated with the consequences of working with the rabble they keep out. Virus whores, porn re
Beans grow fast enough that they are often used in school science activities in gradeschool.
Seriously, at the most extreme, you will get two seed leaves per bean in 6 days. You will get around 6 to 10 leaves per bean in 12 days.
Be sure to mist the potting soil with medicine cabinet grade peroxide in a spraybottle at planting time. This will prevent white mold in the pot, and give much better yeilds.
If you can't wait 6 days for the leaves, set out the glue boards while you wait. You can get those immediately at the store, and will hold you over until then.
This is an easy mistake to make.
The reality is that pockets on women's clothing are often tiny, or outright missing. This is why women carry purses, and why they constantly ask male friends/lovers to hold things for them. This is because female clothing is tailored to accentuate the curvature of the female anatomy, and pockets distract from this effect. Take note the next time you go clothing shopping with the girlfriend. While she's in the changing room, just look casually at the clothing there in the lady's section. You will note that slack pants almost never have pockets of any kind, and female jeans tend to have oddly shaped or diminutive pockets. Skinny jeans especially.
Clothing designers (cough) design clothes (for skeletons) this way on purpose. They expect that the woman will have a matching handbag to match "her outfit." This is *why* women have 50 purses, and insist that they need to buy a new one every time they get a new outfit.
Seriously, you'd have trouble getting an ipod mini into the pockets on women's skinny jeans. Forget about getting a 7in tablet in there.
(Having 2 sisters sucked big time while growing up.)
Agreed. I'd be willing to pay considerably more, and would consider it a major point of sale feature. It would mean I wouldn't be at the mercy of the device maker for firmware updates, at the very least. (A vanilla build of android from source is practically garanteed to work if all device drivers are in mainline kernel. If push came to shove, I could roll my own damned update.)
At this point I seriously wonder why there aren't people clamoring to produce fully open hardware SoC solutions for this market. Even lower powered devices on obsolete fab processes would be very desirable given the lockouts presented by the major players. A shiny toy is worthless if you can't actually use it.
The only thing I can come up with for why this hasn't happened is the employment of thermonuclear patent portfolios. Again, refusal to hold a patent bomb would further influence my purchase choice. Combined, i'd be willing to pay over 200$ more. (But I must have BOTH features. Mainline support, and peace of mind for not supporting the patent madness.)
Seriously. Show me a device that does both of those things, and can actually fit in a pocket, and I will buy it.
You are overthinking the problem.
To get near 100% CO2 in the bag, just visit a grocier or gas station that sells dry ice, then, when you bag and vac the mattress, just pack the naked dry ice block in with the plastic, with said valve.
The vac just makes sure the ambient oxygen levels are low to begin with.
This doesn't solve the problem with the bugs being in places other than the mattress though. Like roaches, they infest walls and crawlspaces.
Some form of natural predator insect would be advantageous, in conjunction with mechanical removal methods, like the traps.
1) you grow them, genius. Beans will sprout any season, if you start them indoors. a 1lb bag of kidney beans costs a few dollars. You can get a surprising number of leaves from that. Dry beans are available year round.
2) You dont burn them silly. You stuff them into the dumpster out back. Be sure to take pictures of the bugs for facebook.
3) While I admit that sneaking living plants into a hotel is going to be a difficult prospect, you can get a very similar effect by using glue boards. More expensive by far than kidney bean leaves, but more easily transported, and with a longer shelf life. You can get them in "Enormous" sizes. Failing that, you can always Make your own.
Again, take pictures of all the trapped bedbugs for facebook, then dispose of the bugs in the big dumpster behind the hotel.
If that is what you call "Diplomacy", i'd hate to see what you call being petulant.
The fact that other forms of negotiation have failed are exactly why peace talks MUST go forward. If your REAL goal really *IS* trying to secure a mutually beneficial relationship with another, then using passive aggressive and outright childish tactics while presenting an aire of civility only sours the situation, and is disadvantageous to any such goal.
The mere fact that the US even considered putting something so clearly spiteful on the reasons to cancel list, indicates bad faith on the part of the US, and justifies Putin's rather wild accusations about US malfeasance concerning the missile defense system, which is what the whole snit that Obaminator's visit was all about. ---Supposedly.
"If you wont play MY way, I'll take MY ball and GO HOME!" is not a "Negotiation tactic." It's a petulant ultimatum.
At this point, I think Putin should up the ante, and tell the US that it wont get another chance at a peace summit for another decade, if it cant grow the fuck up.
Is president Obama going to throw a little temper tantrum too? Perhaps stamp his little feet, and hold his breath until he turns purple?
--Maybe he will tell his mommy, or the secret service!
Seriously. Tactics like this (Cancelling a peace negotiation summit, over ASYLUM being GRANTED!) only serve to clearly demonstrate that Obama was never interested in peaceful relations with Russia, only with getting its way. All it does is say loud and clear to Putin that his distrust of the US missile infrastructure being constructed in the middle east is indeed a threat to russian national security, that the US is unwilling to have to compromise on anything.
If they cant play by their rules, they will stop their feet, cry, and go home.
This is the fucking pinnacle of childishness.
If I owned a botnet, I would dedicate a tiny portion of the swarm's resources to simply doing an http get request for some arbitrary file from a list of know triggers, and doing everything in my power to both route the request over a comcast owned link, and suppress the popup on the zombie.
The goal? Create as much noise in the line as possible to make the effort futile. (As a botnet operator, I would have incentive to make deep packet inspection as undesirable as possible.)
It wouldn't take much. Just pull a few bytes of an MP3 here, poke an illegal video server there, and just discard the replied datagrams (occasionally pull a whole fle, just to make it hard to filter). Wait some configurable time variable, then do it again with a different random file. Make it look like piracy is radically out of control, and totally discredit any metrics they collect from deep packet snooping.
Because this is slashdot, and reading the article is an anathema! :D
They are still just trading a more complex charger for the improved conductor efficiency. It means adding expensive high yeild lytic caps to the resonator circuit to keep it stable, otherwise the power delivered by the coils to the charger would be unstable, and destroy batteries.
I am sure that whoever they have working on this knows all about such things, but I still raise an eyebrow over the potential for nuking magstrips, and possibly frying FM radios.
What!? Read the article!? Sir, do you know what site this is!? (/joke)
In seriousness though, 20khz at 200A is enough to wipe magnetic strips in the wallets of pedestrians, and possibly to energize braces in people's mouths. (The metals used do leave ion concentrations in the saliva, making the mouth into a lytic cap, with the braces as the pickup and dielectric.) The concrete will be somewhat paramagnetic, but probably not enough to prevent the field from reaching up pretty high above the roadbed.
I sure hope they aren't installing it in areas where pedestrian traffic will be high. The potential for nuked credit cards opens a big legal liability.
This wll clearly be a municpial service, and thus paid for by the public coffer. Eg, paid for by taxes, on a bulk use model.
In other words, based on use history over several years, and combined with census data to track changes of use over time, the civic planners can estimate power use on a yearly granularity, and amortize. Some months will draw less power, others more. They base the yearly tax burden on the averaged load per year, adjusted for projected trends in use.
Tradgedy of the commons by abusing the roadbed as a free* powerline just causes the tax rate to increase, and the anomalous use pattern metrics will alert civic planners to the activity if it is very serious.