That was my first thought too. I ran the numbers based on the summary and a 12k mi/yr average. With a car that gets 30 mpg, the annual tax comes to $74. With a car that gets 35 mpg, the tax is $63.43. With the distance based tax, the new rate is $120 or $240 per annum with the 1 and 2 cent/mi levies, respectively.
As a hypothesis, if the distance from 0 to 1 is half a wavelength, the distance from 1 to 4 is 3/2 wavelengths and the distance from 1 to 6 is 5/2 wavelengths. These distances represent the first 3 resonances of a resonant dipole antenna. In the case of an antenna, perfect would mean capturing all of the resonances and thus be optimal.
If I had mod points, I'd rate this one +1 Scary. I have a roommate that studies Human Factors Psychology, in particular driving distractions. He and his fellow researchers frequently ask intro psych classes who texts while driving, and they typically get an 80% positive result. It's here right now.
Given that gaim-encryption is currently based off of Mozilla's NSS and NSPR libraries, I think it's pretty safe to assume that the "right people" have looked at them. Most of g-e is an interfacing layer between gaim and the underlying encryption that also prevents replay attacks by inserting nonces into the stream.
Not directly, but by using the GNOME Panel Applet included with Seahorse 0.9.0 you can perform all the usual encryption operations on the contents of the clipboard. Your private key will never leave your personal comuter.
I'm a developer of Seahorse, a project that integrates encryption into the GNOME desktop. Because I have friends that use webmail almost exclusively, including another Seahorse dev, I was always being told they couldn't read or send encrypted mail. To solve that problem, I created a panel applet that is capable of performing OpenPGP operations on the text contents of the clipboard. It works with both the ctrl-c/v and the select/middle click clipboards as well as provides a(n optional) window with the encrypted or plain text for when no entry field is immediately available.
Because he had the balls to stand by what he believed in!
Actually, not so much. Copernicus' work on heliocentricity was published after his death. He was a smart man given the treatment Galileo received for advancing the same view point.
Things that are infrastructure are commonly used like public roads, parks, or schools. When they improve everyone benefits. Now suppose your office suite improves, you benefit, but it doesn't give your business a competitive edge. You have no reason to not share your personal improvements to something like a browser, office suite, or email client because there isn't any benefit to keeping them to yourself. Now suppose something like AutoCAD were open source. If your engineering firm develops new features or changes that make your drawing faster, easier to read or more efficient, you now have an advantage over your competitor by not giving them your changes.
So when Metcalfe says that proprietary software is the only way to encourage innovation, he's neglecting that the majority of open source is infrastructure type software that is required daily to get work done, but it doesn't directly affect the bottom line.
Metcalfe's a bit confused about why OSS exists. The goal of OSS is not to elminate all proprietary software, but to provide infrastructure. For instance AutoCAD will always exist, but the engineering firm that uses AutoCAD needs an office suite as much as the people that develop AutoCAD do. Thus they can use the same office suite and that's why OpenOffice, Gnome Office, and KOffice exist. They can all use commodity browsers, email clients, ftp clients, document viewers, etc ad infinitum.
You must not be a male American over 18. On or prior to one's 18th birthday we must register with Selective Service. If you want to go to college on government loans or grants, you must be registered. Thus they already have the data to draft the male half of America's youth.
"Getting GPG to work on windows requires Cygwin, which is a pain in the ass. If it doesn't work *transparently* on Windows, there'll never be a critical mass of people using it."
This is patently untrue. I downloaded the windows binaries from gnupg.org and followed the directions on enigmail.mozdev.org and had my dad encrypting email in about 15 mins. No cygwin required.
The biggest problem we encountered was his windows clock wasn't sync'd to a time server, and I had to wait to import his key because it had been created in "the future".
It's funny you mention that because on Mark Spencer's whiteboard in his office is a plan for global domination a la The Underpants Gnomes. This plan specifically mentions becoming the Napster of IP Telephony. Make it happen and Mark's dream will have come true.
This is called the fallacy of drawing the line. It's defined as: Line Drawing Fallacy: This fallacy uses false dilemmas in dealing with vague concepts: If your cannot draw a line to demarcate the edge of the concept, it is dismissed as hopelessly unclear.
In this case we can distinguish the extremes. Asking when it becomes a human only clouds the issue. I like the idea one of the other posters posited about checking for brain activity, as that's the socially accepted standard for killing/allowing someone to die (depending if you want to use an euphmism).
I'd like to take a minute and defeat the existance of order goes against entropy increasing strawman.
The laws of thermodynamics state that in a closed system, the system tends towards disorder or entropy increases. However, this allows for the possibility of the order in one section of the system increasing at the expense of another section whose order is decreasing at a rate greater than it would have had order not increased in the original section.
Philosophers have said that it's fine to make a decision about certain things, for example faith in a higher being, based on happiness; but only if one is constantly re-evaluating the evidence to check for a fact based decision.
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That was my first thought too. I ran the numbers based on the summary and a 12k mi/yr average. With a car that gets 30 mpg, the annual tax comes to $74. With a car that gets 35 mpg, the tax is $63.43. With the distance based tax, the new rate is $120 or $240 per annum with the 1 and 2 cent/mi levies, respectively.
As a hypothesis, if the distance from 0 to 1 is half a wavelength, the distance from 1 to 4 is 3/2 wavelengths and the distance from 1 to 6 is 5/2 wavelengths. These distances represent the first 3 resonances of a resonant dipole antenna. In the case of an antenna, perfect would mean capturing all of the resonances and thus be optimal.
If I had mod points, I'd rate this one +1 Scary. I have a roommate that studies Human Factors Psychology, in particular driving distractions. He and his fellow researchers frequently ask intro psych classes who texts while driving, and they typically get an 80% positive result. It's here right now.
Oh Boy
Given that gaim-encryption is currently based off of Mozilla's NSS and NSPR libraries, I think it's pretty safe to assume that the "right people" have looked at them. Most of g-e is an interfacing layer between gaim and the underlying encryption that also prevents replay attacks by inserting nonces into the stream.
Then we're killing thousands of ourselves everyday. Won't someone think of the skin cells?!?
Google Checkout anyone?
OK, can gmail do PGP?
Not directly, but by using the GNOME Panel Applet included with Seahorse 0.9.0 you can perform all the usual encryption operations on the contents of the clipboard. Your private key will never leave your personal comuter.
I'm a developer of Seahorse, a project that integrates encryption into the GNOME desktop. Because I have friends that use webmail almost exclusively, including another Seahorse dev, I was always being told they couldn't read or send encrypted mail. To solve that problem, I created a panel applet that is capable of performing OpenPGP operations on the text contents of the clipboard. It works with both the ctrl-c/v and the select/middle click clipboards as well as provides a(n optional) window with the encrypted or plain text for when no entry field is immediately available.
It was recently blogged about HERE.
I realize this isn't the cross platform solution requested, but we did receive a patch for building on Cygwin(YMMV, but patches are welcome).
Because he had the balls to stand by what he believed in!
Actually, not so much. Copernicus' work on heliocentricity was published after his death. He was a smart man given the treatment Galileo received for advancing the same view point.
No more wars, pollution and death for OIL!
Never mind that at the moment our best source of hydrogen is from hydrocarbons i.e. oil.
They are right here and here.
Things that are infrastructure are commonly used like public roads, parks, or schools. When they improve everyone benefits. Now suppose your office suite improves, you benefit, but it doesn't give your business a competitive edge. You have no reason to not share your personal improvements to something like a browser, office suite, or email client because there isn't any benefit to keeping them to yourself. Now suppose something like AutoCAD were open source. If your engineering firm develops new features or changes that make your drawing faster, easier to read or more efficient, you now have an advantage over your competitor by not giving them your changes.
So when Metcalfe says that proprietary software is the only way to encourage innovation, he's neglecting that the majority of open source is infrastructure type software that is required daily to get work done, but it doesn't directly affect the bottom line.
Metcalfe's a bit confused about why OSS exists. The goal of OSS is not to elminate all proprietary software, but to provide infrastructure. For instance AutoCAD will always exist, but the engineering firm that uses AutoCAD needs an office suite as much as the people that develop AutoCAD do. Thus they can use the same office suite and that's why OpenOffice, Gnome Office, and KOffice exist. They can all use commodity browsers, email clients, ftp clients, document viewers, etc ad infinitum.
You must not be a male American over 18. On or prior to one's 18th birthday we must register with Selective Service. If you want to go to college on government loans or grants, you must be registered. Thus they already have the data to draft the male half of America's youth.
I have mod points, but I really want to mod this +1 Scary instead of Funny.
Using Enigmail, you only have to enter your pass phrase to decrypt an email if you have it set to automatically decrypt/verify your messages.
"Getting GPG to work on windows requires Cygwin, which is a pain in the ass. If it doesn't work *transparently* on Windows, there'll never be a critical mass of people using it."
This is patently untrue. I downloaded the windows binaries from gnupg.org and followed the directions on enigmail.mozdev.org and had my dad encrypting email in about 15 mins. No cygwin required.
The biggest problem we encountered was his windows clock wasn't sync'd to a time server, and I had to wait to import his key because it had been created in "the future".
From the original text:
"[Please note: All candidates who met the criteria detailed in The Appleseed Citizens' Task Force on Fair Debates were invited to participate.]"
This was in response to Nader saying he was the first minor party candidate to be asked to participate.
*shrugs* it seems from a quick google search, this quote is rewritten in any number of forms depending on the audience and point of the speaker.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
It's funny you mention that because on Mark Spencer's whiteboard in his office is a plan for global domination a la The Underpants Gnomes. This plan specifically mentions becoming the Napster of IP Telephony. Make it happen and Mark's dream will have come true.
Yes, we call your humidex the heat index. Wind chill is wind chill.
Yeah, USA isn't really a country name perhaps, but think of us as an early form of the EU that took unity and manifest destiny to the extreme.
This is called the fallacy of drawing the line. It's defined as:
Line Drawing Fallacy: This fallacy uses false dilemmas in dealing with vague concepts: If your cannot draw a line to demarcate the edge of the concept, it is dismissed as hopelessly unclear.
In this case we can distinguish the extremes. Asking when it becomes a human only clouds the issue. I like the idea one of the other posters posited about checking for brain activity, as that's the socially accepted standard for killing/allowing someone to die (depending if you want to use an euphmism).
I'd like to take a minute and defeat the existance of order goes against entropy increasing strawman.
The laws of thermodynamics state that in a closed system, the system tends towards disorder or entropy increases. However, this allows for the possibility of the order in one section of the system increasing at the expense of another section whose order is decreasing at a rate greater than it would have had order not increased in the original section.
Philosophers have said that it's fine to make a decision about certain things, for example faith in a higher being, based on happiness; but only if one is constantly re-evaluating the evidence to check for a fact based decision.