I think even the most rabid authoritarian would be happy to tax the meat without worrying too much about who eats it.
Why stop there, if you can squeeze more from the same meat, without a sweat? You see, there's a "justification" for that: use the meat together with fats and its becoming "unhealthy". The same with smoking. I'm sure the tobacco farmers pay their taxes and the ciggies manufacturer pays much more only because they produce something for "slow self poisoning - resulting in increased cost the social health services" (not that the extra collected money are guaranteed to be used for public health services anyway).
Things have gotten so bad I'm wearing security breeches and suspenders!
It's getting expensive already, eh?
"You were private by default and public by effort. Nowadays, you're public by default and private by effort," says Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
And more importantly, we need laws that help track down the source of identity theft so I can hold such companies accountable. Something like any company who collects personal information on American citizens must register with some federal bureau and list what they collect. Victims of identity theft should be able to request what information any company in the list has on them, as well as a list of when, how, and to whom it was disclosed.
Yeap, definitely. Is a win-win situation: an overzealous bureaucrat (say, in "Homeland security dept"?) will know where to go for extra information on you without spending too much of your tax.
Except... it may be you to spend your money on lawyers - if you'll be permitted to have one - but the govt and data miners will be in the win.
Here's how to target ads to people.... if the website is about flying small prop planes, present ads about small prop planes. If it's a fishing website, advertise a fishing pole.
Keep what safe? the info which is readily available from a plethora of companies which will find you, track you, inform of others of your credit rating.
Security, as always, is a matter of the cost of obtaining the info - given enough money/time budget nothing is secure. But... in a real world, the budget is inherently limited The higher the cost for "them" (interested of getting the info), the lower the cost for me to protect the info. Seems like the balance is now shifted towards "them". The way TFA (which quotes somebody else) puts it: "You were private by default and public by effort. Nowadays, you're public by default and private by effort," says Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
So what you're saying is: if someone killed one of your relatives but the cops had only inconclusive circumstantial evidence that limited the suspects to 5 people, you would be against taking their fingerprints because it's just an accusation not a conviction.
“Better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer” - William Blackstone Blackstone ratio would say: yes, unless you suspect that more than 10 persons conspired to and committed the felony, you should refrain in causing an innocent to suffer.
But, in the modern world, that's antiquated, who the fsck still study it? Now it is all about the cost of justice: and this until it is no longer about the justice but only about the cost. The more the population grow or the cost raises, the more expandable the individuals and the quality of justice, right? For "the better good", right? (dystopian SF topic: let's outsource the judicial court to lower cost geographies).
It's Economics 101. People won't pay for what they can get for free, unless there's a substantial convenience or hassle-avoidance (legal, malware) factor thrown in. They talk about supporting open source and musicians who offer free downloads, but that's all it is - lip service. Oh, and "I once donated $20, or was it $50, no it was definitely $100 to such and such a musician". Yeah, so maybe you did. A long time ago.
So dam'd sure, are you? I just donated to the Trumpet author 5 mins ago... couldn't afford to pay for it at those times but I'm glad the story was posted on/.
This is where we are down to, with this copyright/intellectual property shit. this is ridiculous. someday, someone will be able to claim 'rights' in the arrangement that someone's crap makes when out of their ass.
Why are the keys copyrighted? Are they an expression of artistic creation?
Mars may not be the best place for humans to go. Mercury for example looks positively inviting in comparison to Mars.
My apologies to throw in some facts on to your dreams, but I wouldn't call Mercury "more inviting". Atmosphere - 1 nanoPascal (blown away by solar wind), a magnetic field at 1% the terrestrial one => very little protection against hard radiation With an eccetric orbit, the Sun's radiation intensity is between 4.59 and 10.61 times the level on the Earth orbit (on the surface of Mercury, the Sun looks on average almost three times as big as it does from Earth).
Not having a significant atmosphere, there are no chances for aero-breaking. The delta-v between the orbital-speed is 18 km/s that need to be lost for reaching a transfer orbit. Even more, a space vehicle will fall into the Sun's gravitational well, requiring another huge delta-v to compensate if you want to avoid a crash-landing - a trip alone (not even landing) to Mercury requires more rocket fuel than to escape the solar system. Solar-sails you say? Heck, how long can one afford to keep a maned space vehicle in a radiation 5-10 times more virulent than on Earth orbit. Bigger shields you say? Errr.... more rocket fuel to escape the Earth gravitation, I ask?
Heck, even if I would be to accept the idea of Mercury being more inviting, I wonder if we currently afford to give course to the invitation. Cost per kilogram of dead matter transported to:
1. the surface of Mars - US$309,000 2. a fly-by followed by orbiting Mercury (but not landing on it) - US$878,000 (Messenger mission cost/spacecraft mass).
BTW - the orbital insertion of the Messenger spacecraft around Mercury is expected in about 8 days from now (on March 17, 2011 after 6.5 years from its launch) - fingers crossed.
I just put an aluminum can in the regular trash, ran the tap needlessly while I brushed my teeth, put a new piece of paper through the shredder, and replied to you all just to chap your ass.:-)
A promising start... but call me back when you'll be wasting 10000 pounds/day worth of al-cans/water/paper.
Last time I heard about it, the scientists were having troubles themselves with a bunch of politicians promoting fact-free science... unless the said politicians will do nothing to adjust the law of gravitation, I don't see how NASA can mars to march and up Uranus (errrr.. whatever...)... Newton, "the founding father", wrote that law pretty harsh... without relaxing it the gravitation well is deep enough to require some non-trivial budget.
Because not everyone on Slashdot has the passion and dreams of an accountant!
Are you sure you don't make a confusion between "passion" and "approval"?
I agree that is their business/money indeed. But agreeing with "it's their business" and agreeing that the endeavor is somehow useful are two different things. And it just happens that I have enough passion to ignore the "Their money, so STFU" position of the GP and express my personal point of view of disapproval. And no, I'm not an accountant, my disapproval comes from an engineering/pragmatic point of view: there are plenty other problems, "juicy"/challenging enough for an engineer's mind, and spending 10000 quid/day strikes me as wastage. Their right to waste their money, but I also feel I'm well enough in my right to consider this a waste and say it so on/. Sound passionate enough to you?
Crime and Punishment is a fantastic book.
If you want something to put you to sleep, try a math book (not saying math is uninteresting, merely that READING a math theory book is mind-numbing).
Happens exactly the opposite for me. With maths, I found myself trying to almost construct a visual interpretation behind the math theory. In regards with Crime and Punishment.... I reckon that my empathic abilities suck.
Izambard Kingdom Brunel didn't have to build the Great Eastern or the Clifton Suspension bridge, arguably these feats of engineering weren't required. However the act of building them is the essence of engineering itself. Its about pushing boundries with the materials at your disposal and doing things that can't be done.
Except that what he built was used by others directly. Do you think, once it has been built, you'll be able to use the Bloodhound yourself together with thousands others?
Your vote is for mediocrity. Duly noted.
Please drive through. Nothing to see, for you.
My vote is against waste at big scale: a 10000 quid/day can create many exceptional things. Nothing to see for me, indeed: the waste guarantees there are no chances.
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Nah, 007 can't be taken seriously. Anyway, here's the scene
I think even the most rabid authoritarian would be happy to tax the meat without worrying too much about who eats it.
Why stop there, if you can squeeze more from the same meat, without a sweat?
You see, there's a "justification" for that: use the meat together with fats and its becoming "unhealthy". The same with smoking. I'm sure the tobacco farmers pay their taxes and the ciggies manufacturer pays much more only because they produce something for "slow self poisoning - resulting in increased cost the social health services" (not that the extra collected money are guaranteed to be used for public health services anyway).
Things have gotten so bad I'm wearing security breeches and suspenders!
It's getting expensive already, eh?
"You were private by default and public by effort. Nowadays, you're public by default and private by effort," says Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
And more importantly, we need laws that help track down the source of identity theft so I can hold such companies accountable. Something like any company who collects personal information on American citizens must register with some federal bureau and list what they collect. Victims of identity theft should be able to request what information any company in the list has on them, as well as a list of when, how, and to whom it was disclosed.
Yeap, definitely. Is a win-win situation: an overzealous bureaucrat (say, in "Homeland security dept"?) will know where to go for extra information on you without spending too much of your tax.
Except... it may be you to spend your money on lawyers - if you'll be permitted to have one - but the govt and data miners will be in the win.
Here's how to target ads to people.... if the website is about flying small prop planes, present ads about small prop planes. If it's a fishing website, advertise a fishing pole.
And if it is /.?
Keep what safe? the info which is readily available from a plethora of companies which will find you, track you, inform of others of your credit rating.
Security, as always, is a matter of the cost of obtaining the info - given enough money/time budget nothing is secure. But... in a real world, the budget is inherently limited
The higher the cost for "them" (interested of getting the info), the lower the cost for me to protect the info. Seems like the balance is now shifted towards "them". The way TFA (which quotes somebody else) puts it: "You were private by default and public by effort. Nowadays, you're public by default and private by effort," says Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
So what you're saying is: if someone killed one of your relatives but the cops had only inconclusive circumstantial evidence that limited the suspects to 5 people, you would be against taking their fingerprints because it's just an accusation not a conviction.
“Better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer” - William Blackstone
Blackstone ratio would say: yes, unless you suspect that more than 10 persons conspired to and committed the felony, you should refrain in causing an innocent to suffer.
But, in the modern world, that's antiquated, who the fsck still study it?
Now it is all about the cost of justice: and this until it is no longer about the justice but only about the cost. The more the population grow or the cost raises, the more expandable the individuals and the quality of justice, right? For "the better good", right?
(dystopian SF topic: let's outsource the judicial court to lower cost geographies).
Yes, the arguments are holier than Swiss cheese, but there it is...
Holy smoke!!! What church are you frequenting?
It's Economics 101. People won't pay for what they can get for free, unless there's a substantial convenience or hassle-avoidance (legal, malware) factor thrown in. They talk about supporting open source and musicians who offer free downloads, but that's all it is - lip service. Oh, and "I once donated $20, or was it $50, no it was definitely $100 to such and such a musician". Yeah, so maybe you did. A long time ago.
So dam'd sure, are you? I just donated to the Trumpet author 5 mins ago... couldn't afford to pay for it at those times but I'm glad the story was posted on /.
Before power-cycling, try a three-fingers-salute.
Convert it to Base 4 and I garner it's in our genetic code! Can they stop you from having a copy of your genetic code?
No, but seems that they can patent it.
This is where we are down to, with this copyright/intellectual property shit.
this is ridiculous. someday, someone will be able to claim 'rights' in the arrangement that someone's crap makes when out of their ass.
Why are the keys copyrighted? Are they an expression of artistic creation?
Aren't they rather a "trade secret"?
I wonder how one might start a competitor of Wikipedia, which was [u]explicitly inclusionist[/u]?
There is one already
Mars may not be the best place for humans to go. Mercury for example looks positively inviting in comparison to Mars.
My apologies to throw in some facts on to your dreams, but I wouldn't call Mercury "more inviting".
Atmosphere - 1 nanoPascal (blown away by solar wind), a magnetic field at 1% the terrestrial one => very little protection against hard radiation With an eccetric orbit, the Sun's radiation intensity is between 4.59 and 10.61 times the level on the Earth orbit (on the surface of Mercury, the Sun looks on average almost three times as big as it does from Earth).
Not having a significant atmosphere, there are no chances for aero-breaking. The delta-v between the orbital-speed is 18 km/s that need to be lost for reaching a transfer orbit. Even more, a space vehicle will fall into the Sun's gravitational well, requiring another huge delta-v to compensate if you want to avoid a crash-landing - a trip alone (not even landing) to Mercury requires more rocket fuel than to escape the solar system. Solar-sails you say? Heck, how long can one afford to keep a maned space vehicle in a radiation 5-10 times more virulent than on Earth orbit. Bigger shields you say? Errr.... more rocket fuel to escape the Earth gravitation, I ask?
Heck, even if I would be to accept the idea of Mercury being more inviting, I wonder if we currently afford to give course to the invitation. Cost per kilogram of dead matter transported to:
1. the surface of Mars - US$309,000
2. a fly-by followed by orbiting Mercury (but not landing on it) - US$878,000 (Messenger mission cost/spacecraft mass).
BTW - the orbital insertion of the Messenger spacecraft around Mercury is expected in about 8 days from now (on March 17, 2011 after 6.5 years from its launch) - fingers crossed.
I just put an aluminum can in the regular trash, ran the tap needlessly while I brushed my teeth, put a new piece of paper through the shredder, and replied to you all just to chap your ass. :-)
A promising start... but call me back when you'll be wasting 10000 pounds/day worth of al-cans/water/paper.
Scientists Give NASA Planetary Marching Orders
Seriously? Did they provide the budget as well?
Last time I heard about it, the scientists were having troubles themselves with a bunch of politicians promoting fact-free science... unless the said politicians will do nothing to adjust the law of gravitation, I don't see how NASA can mars to march and up Uranus (errrr.. whatever...) ... Newton, "the founding father", wrote that law pretty harsh... without relaxing it the gravitation well is deep enough to require some non-trivial budget.
Given the assumed 3D capabilities (everything is better in 3d, right?), will the new console be called XBox 4PI or just XSphere?
Because not everyone on Slashdot has the passion and dreams of an accountant!
Are you sure you don't make a confusion between "passion" and "approval"? /. Sound passionate enough to you?
I agree that is their business/money indeed. But agreeing with "it's their business" and agreeing that the endeavor is somehow useful are two different things. And it just happens that I have enough passion to ignore the "Their money, so STFU" position of the GP and express my personal point of view of disapproval.
And no, I'm not an accountant, my disapproval comes from an engineering/pragmatic point of view: there are plenty other problems, "juicy"/challenging enough for an engineer's mind, and spending 10000 quid/day strikes me as wastage. Their right to waste their money, but I also feel I'm well enough in my right to consider this a waste and say it so on
Would love to hear more candid thoughts from people who held/are holding similar positions.
The leaked State dept cables are quite candid, you know? Maybe by reading them, you'll discover which of them (if any) catalyzed the uprisings?
Crime and Punishment is a fantastic book.
If you want something to put you to sleep, try a math book (not saying math is uninteresting, merely that READING a math theory book is mind-numbing).
Happens exactly the opposite for me. With maths, I found myself trying to almost construct a visual interpretation behind the math theory. In regards with Crime and Punishment.... I reckon that my empathic abilities suck.
To go under radar?
You mean: travel faster that the cops handling a radar gun? Doesn't required supersonic speed to do it, you know?
Izambard Kingdom Brunel didn't have to build the Great Eastern or the Clifton Suspension bridge, arguably these feats of engineering weren't required. However the act of building them is the essence of engineering itself. Its about pushing boundries with the materials at your disposal and doing things that can't be done.
Except that what he built was used by others directly. Do you think, once it has been built, you'll be able to use the Bloodhound yourself together with thousands others?
Making a vehicle go faster than the speed of sound doesn't involve just one big engine as you say it, but a host of others.
If "Making a vehicle go faster than the speed of sound" is your goal, I'm sure there are ways to achieve it cheaper than using a rocket.
It's their money, their hobby, their time. It's nobody else's business.
If it's nobody's business (and it is wrong that I'm expressing my opinion, because it's not my business) why it is then posted on /.?
Your vote is for mediocrity. Duly noted. Please drive through. Nothing to see, for you.
My vote is against waste at big scale: a 10000 quid/day can create many exceptional things. Nothing to see for me, indeed: the waste guarantees there are no chances.