How many of those will occur before someone realizes that trying to detect a common element is not security.
Rationality hasn't slowed much less stopped the long lines, groupings, delays that people go through at airports, train stations, concerts, sporting events, etc. Expect the same kind of lines and checks at "public" events in the future. People collecting in any form is bad for the powers that be. They might start talking, or heaven forbid, exchanging ideas. For us "oldsters" who remember society in the sixties, compared to where we are now in terms of repression, it's just one more small step to get there.
Personally, I'd prefer to stop giving maternity leave to either parent. Treat pregnancy like the medical leave that it is, and stop catering to the breeders. Some of us think we have enough mouths to feed on this planet as it is.
Congratulations, now go make^H^H^H^Hlose a billion $$$!
Safeway is starting to offer this as a service; however, like WebVan, they reserve the right to substitute "equivalent" goods when they feel it's necessary.
Unless you click the "no substitutions" box on their web site. That wasn't so hard, now was it.
You've obviously never had your home broken into. You need to understand that both side manipulate and distort stats to basically feed you lies. In most cases where a home owner defends his home with a gun, he doesn't shoot anyone. A relative of mine had someone break into his home in the middle of the night. He stepped into the hallway with a 12gauge shot gun, saw the intruder in the living room and fired one round into the floor. The intruder ran. The action with the gun was never recorded by police.
So guns are to waved in front of people to scare them? That is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen modded up on this site. The only reason to draw a gun is to kill. You pull the trigger until you hear the click, as they say. Threatening with a gun is a sure way to turn a tense situation into a deadly one, and in any fight, the odds are with the professional. So your relative probably scared a teenage burglar away, when a guard dog or a proper lock on the door would have done the same thing. Or even a yell of "hey you get out of here." Unless you are guarding the crown jewels, that gun is only one accident away from taking someone's life for no purpose.
Nice bullshit story. My gunsafe unlocks with a 4 digit code. I can release the gun in under a second and it drops open to a 45 degree angle grip out so you're ready to fire. It's loaded and ready to go.
That's safe and efficient. If I had guns and kids, that's the way that I'd go. However, what's the point? Are you living in some super secret cold war spy movie? Do you have ninjas and pirates sneaking into your house in the middle of the night? No, you are just another paranoid gun owner. Using that gun to save yourself is about the same as winning the lottery. Statistically, it will never happen.
I've said it before and i'll say it again. The point of an armed populace isn't to fight an army at full strength. It's to be able to escalate domestic oppression to levels which make the government think twice, rather than sitting around and letting the secret police disappear people one at a time.
And you will be obviously wrong again. How can a few handguns make the military take notice when a well armed (AK47/grenade launcher/mortar) militia (a dozen examples in the middle east) can't stop them? Having a gun makes you "feel" like you have some power, but it's not true. The military is accountable to the government and the government only. That government is more and more under the control of the corporations. Those corporations are international, even if they have American names. See the problem?
And no, it does not run on Windows 7 with compatibility mode, and no, it does not run in Virtual PC either. Because dongle.
VM does not preclude dongle use. There are lots of network based "virtual USB" devices which work just fine. We are using them at work for a couple of different virtualized apps. P2V, network dongle, good to go.
The suspect they were trying to apprehend was shooting at them and throwing bombs at them. At that point, regardless of whether you are guilty of the crime they are arresting you for, you forfeit any right you have to stay alive.
When you try to unlawfully kill someone, they are justified in using lethal force to stop you from killing them.
Sorry to flog a dead horse, but you mean like Bush and Cheney?
Perhaps the best way is these days, to follow the constitution. 1 representative per 30,000 people.
It's doable these days - you don't have to fit all 10,000 reps in one building - we have telecommuting, after all.
This has enormous implications.
First, pay will have to be cut dramatically - I believe the original founding fathers expected politicians to sacrifice themselves for political life. We can easily do this by making their pay equal to the median of the people they represent (not the average).
The problem is that the early politicians were mostly independently wealthy. Remember where they came from. They were a bunch of high ranking Masonic idealists who had a personal interest in making their new country work. Where can you find such idealists these days? That is, who are competent and willing to dedicate their lives? I'm not seeing ANY hands raised in this crowd.
Second, corporate influence has just gone down significantly. When you have a company spending $1B on campaign contributions, that's rougly $2M per representive right now. With 10,000 of them, that's $100K apiece, or just over $3 per person they're representing. Companies wanting to buy laws suddenly have to pay a whole lot o more money. And the amount can actually be raised by individuals in the community.
The amount of money is not the problem. It's the fact that it's business as usual for the politicians. You don't get elected without the help of the rich and wealthy. They will make sure that their people are the ones who win the elections. So they need more lower paid flunkies. How does that solve anything.
Third, more local representation - because they're going to represent a smaller slice of the population, so it's a lot easier to actually see what people in the community want. And with lowered pay, they get to see the same problems everyone else in the community has.
Fourth, less whipping possible - you try keeping the entire party in line - if we assume half and half, you try keeping 5,000 people in line - it's a lot harder.
Nor does that solve anything. Every small community has their own agenda, and with all of them arguing over who's priorities are important, we'll get even less done.
No, the problem is that there is no longer any sense of work or sacrifice of personal comfort for the common good. We are a country of "us" verses "them" in everything that we do. Everything is competition, and nothing is cooperation. Hell, how many people here are big on free market competition? As long as everyone fights to can change the system so that they can personally benefit, be it through lucrative middle class tech jobs or whatever, then it will always be "us against them."
All that we can do at this point is slow the decline of this once (arguably) great nation and avoid total collapse in our lifetimes. The parallels between the US and the last days or Rome are not just a cliche. I personally find it more interesting to think about what we can form out of the rubble when we start to rebuild. How should we do it differently next time? The US system was a great improvement on the parliamentary monarchy. We saw communism torn down through corruption even faster than our system. Where did we go wrong? How did the sociopathic assholes take over, and how do we avoid that? Dunno, but food for thought.
What did we say overwhelmingly in a recent poll? Something about you should implement what the customer wants, not what the developers want? The world would be a happier place.
Or, learn how to survive on this planet before going out and colonizing another one.
It's actually quite simple. It's called negative population growth until we reach a point that we as a race are not a disastrous drain on earth's renewable resources. Try to fly that by all the breeders out there who think its their right to have multiple children and see how far you get. As long as we keep breeding like we do, we have no choice but to find new territory. And don't worry. The universe is a big place. Instead of calling people cockroaches, how about consider that our current planet is such a tiny confined area that we are only guaranteeing extermination if we stay here.
That should be "Harry Harrison's classic Bill the Galactic Hero." He also wrote Soylent Green aka Make Room Make Room, the Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other great works that should be in any true geek's collection.
These guys should have nothing to say about it. It should be the person who finds it gets naming rights, they earned it. If they want to sell their rights that should be their option too.
How does this make any sense? New planets are found because dozens of people munge data from dozens of telescopes and detectors and discover fluctuations that imply planets of certain sizes. This isn't some bearded "professor" looking through a little eye piece proclaiming "I have discovered a new planet!" That's why the astronomical community as a whole controls things like names, so everyone knows what they are talking about, especially when they re-discover the same thing, or get better data on something. There's no vanity naming any more.
You were going pretty good until your logic went out the window.
If you have the slightest wish to give government more wealth and more power e.g. to ban guns, to regulate free speech, to provide healthcare or to fix "climate change" you're out of your bloody mind! Washington DC is literally INCAPABLE of passing ANY legislation which benefits the average working American. Their stated intentions are meaningless.
So we should stop the government from doing anything "good," like limiting guns and providing health care, because they do some things that are "bad?" Those are the things that I WANT the government to be doing with my money.
My wife did Mechanical Turk for a few weeks when out of work, and oh boy. The only way to make even minimum wage is to completely game the system. It is supposed to be self quality checking, but that doesn't really work. Her work (writing in this case) was so far above the norm (she did graduate college) that it was off the scales. The max she could make doing honest work was around $3-$4 per hour. Most workers there just spam the system trying to grab jobs that are we few cents more, cut and paste some garbage, rinse and repeat. In other words, you get what you pay for.
As opposed to their somehow having managed to con local news into covering every stinking Apple Store opening even though retailers and service centers throughout Apple's history have provided the exact same services that the Apple Store provides, for the same price?
B.S. Back in the day before the Apple store, it was nearly impossible to find a "brick and mortar" retailer that was knowledgable about their Apple products. The sales people would generally steer customers to PCs, and not even mention that they sold Macs. They carried very little if any Mac software if any at all. That's why everyone ordered through catalogs over the phone, from places like MacWarehouse, or directly from Apple. This lack of a physical presence is one of the reasons that Apple opened their own stores.
But in the end, it all comes down to cost. Current Thunderbolt displays are rather expensive. Heck, I picked up a dual-link DVI monitor of the same resolution for $275 on ebay!
Because the $275 display looks like shit, kind of like this Dell monitor I have as my second display on my iMac at work. Yes, only high end stuff has Thunderbolt right now. Give it time, and it will be on the eye-numbing low end stuff too.
It's a change of business focus. The point is that they do not make any money selling consoles, and they do not make as much money as they want off of selling games. That business is dead. What he is really saying, is that they are using the console to drive their new business, where all the profits come from on-line content. In other words, their is no product without an internet connection, because the real product is network based. The console is just a way to access the content.
No, he was. As has been quite widely discussed here and elsewhere he was accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and, from what I've read, he probably was actually "guilty". And, yes, 35 years is the actual punishment. Sure, the prosecutors have discretion in prosecuting crimes, but I continue to be amazed that all of our abuse is heaped upon the prosecutors for trying to enforce a law THAT CONGRESS ACTUALLY PASSED.
As with any overly broad law, there is a certain amount of ambiguity, and any prosecutor must show discretion on how to prosecute it. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but you are not completely right.
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How many of those will occur before someone realizes that trying to detect a common element is not security.
Rationality hasn't slowed much less stopped the long lines, groupings, delays that people go through at airports, train stations, concerts, sporting events, etc. Expect the same kind of lines and checks at "public" events in the future. People collecting in any form is bad for the powers that be. They might start talking, or heaven forbid, exchanging ideas. For us "oldsters" who remember society in the sixties, compared to where we are now in terms of repression, it's just one more small step to get there.
Personally, I'd prefer to stop giving maternity leave to either parent. Treat pregnancy like the medical leave that it is, and stop catering to the breeders. Some of us think we have enough mouths to feed on this planet as it is.
No. Can we move on to real news now.
Congratulations, now go make^H^H^H^Hlose a billion $$$!
Safeway is starting to offer this as a service; however, like WebVan, they reserve the right to substitute "equivalent" goods when they feel it's necessary.
Unless you click the "no substitutions" box on their web site. That wasn't so hard, now was it.
And then the elites put themselves into gated communities with automated turrets set to kill anything that moves within range.
You mean castles with archers and moats? The image is quite appropriate.
You've obviously never had your home broken into. You need to understand that both side manipulate and distort stats to basically feed you lies. In most cases where a home owner defends his home with a gun, he doesn't shoot anyone. A relative of mine had someone break into his home in the middle of the night. He stepped into the hallway with a 12gauge shot gun, saw the intruder in the living room and fired one round into the floor. The intruder ran. The action with the gun was never recorded by police.
So guns are to waved in front of people to scare them? That is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen modded up on this site. The only reason to draw a gun is to kill. You pull the trigger until you hear the click, as they say. Threatening with a gun is a sure way to turn a tense situation into a deadly one, and in any fight, the odds are with the professional. So your relative probably scared a teenage burglar away, when a guard dog or a proper lock on the door would have done the same thing. Or even a yell of "hey you get out of here." Unless you are guarding the crown jewels, that gun is only one accident away from taking someone's life for no purpose.
Nice bullshit story. My gunsafe unlocks with a 4 digit code. I can release the gun in under a second and it drops open to a 45 degree angle grip out so you're ready to fire. It's loaded and ready to go.
That's safe and efficient. If I had guns and kids, that's the way that I'd go. However, what's the point? Are you living in some super secret cold war spy movie? Do you have ninjas and pirates sneaking into your house in the middle of the night? No, you are just another paranoid gun owner. Using that gun to save yourself is about the same as winning the lottery. Statistically, it will never happen.
I've said it before and i'll say it again. The point of an armed populace isn't to fight an army at full strength. It's to be able to escalate domestic oppression to levels which make the government think twice, rather than sitting around and letting the secret police disappear people one at a time.
And you will be obviously wrong again. How can a few handguns make the military take notice when a well armed (AK47/grenade launcher/mortar) militia (a dozen examples in the middle east) can't stop them? Having a gun makes you "feel" like you have some power, but it's not true. The military is accountable to the government and the government only. That government is more and more under the control of the corporations. Those corporations are international, even if they have American names. See the problem?
And no, it does not run on Windows 7 with compatibility mode, and no, it does not run in Virtual PC either. Because dongle.
VM does not preclude dongle use. There are lots of network based "virtual USB" devices which work just fine. We are using them at work for a couple of different virtualized apps. P2V, network dongle, good to go.
The suspect they were trying to apprehend was shooting at them and throwing bombs at them. At that point, regardless of whether you are guilty of the crime they are arresting you for, you forfeit any right you have to stay alive.
When you try to unlawfully kill someone, they are justified in using lethal force to stop you from killing them.
Sorry to flog a dead horse, but you mean like Bush and Cheney?
Perhaps the best way is these days, to follow the constitution. 1 representative per 30,000 people.
It's doable these days - you don't have to fit all 10,000 reps in one building - we have telecommuting, after all.
This has enormous implications.
First, pay will have to be cut dramatically - I believe the original founding fathers expected politicians to sacrifice themselves for political life. We can easily do this by making their pay equal to the median of the people they represent (not the average).
The problem is that the early politicians were mostly independently wealthy. Remember where they came from. They were a bunch of high ranking Masonic idealists who had a personal interest in making their new country work. Where can you find such idealists these days? That is, who are competent and willing to dedicate their lives? I'm not seeing ANY hands raised in this crowd.
Second, corporate influence has just gone down significantly. When you have a company spending $1B on campaign contributions, that's rougly $2M per representive right now. With 10,000 of them, that's $100K apiece, or just over $3 per person they're representing. Companies wanting to buy laws suddenly have to pay a whole lot o more money. And the amount can actually be raised by individuals in the community.
The amount of money is not the problem. It's the fact that it's business as usual for the politicians. You don't get elected without the help of the rich and wealthy. They will make sure that their people are the ones who win the elections. So they need more lower paid flunkies. How does that solve anything.
Third, more local representation - because they're going to represent a smaller slice of the population, so it's a lot easier to actually see what people in the community want. And with lowered pay, they get to see the same problems everyone else in the community has.
Fourth, less whipping possible - you try keeping the entire party in line - if we assume half and half, you try keeping 5,000 people in line - it's a lot harder.
Nor does that solve anything. Every small community has their own agenda, and with all of them arguing over who's priorities are important, we'll get even less done.
No, the problem is that there is no longer any sense of work or sacrifice of personal comfort for the common good. We are a country of "us" verses "them" in everything that we do. Everything is competition, and nothing is cooperation. Hell, how many people here are big on free market competition? As long as everyone fights to can change the system so that they can personally benefit, be it through lucrative middle class tech jobs or whatever, then it will always be "us against them."
All that we can do at this point is slow the decline of this once (arguably) great nation and avoid total collapse in our lifetimes. The parallels between the US and the last days or Rome are not just a cliche. I personally find it more interesting to think about what we can form out of the rubble when we start to rebuild. How should we do it differently next time? The US system was a great improvement on the parliamentary monarchy. We saw communism torn down through corruption even faster than our system. Where did we go wrong? How did the sociopathic assholes take over, and how do we avoid that? Dunno, but food for thought.
If I wanted video I'd be on Youtube.
What did we say overwhelmingly in a recent poll? Something about you should implement what the customer wants, not what the developers want? The world would be a happier place.
I'm waiting for the rest of the world to wise up and cut off the US from the Internet. Our "we control da wurld" attitude needs a serious slap down.
Or, learn how to survive on this planet before going out and colonizing another one.
It's actually quite simple. It's called negative population growth until we reach a point that we as a race are not a disastrous drain on earth's renewable resources. Try to fly that by all the breeders out there who think its their right to have multiple children and see how far you get. As long as we keep breeding like we do, we have no choice but to find new territory. And don't worry. The universe is a big place. Instead of calling people cockroaches, how about consider that our current planet is such a tiny confined area that we are only guaranteeing extermination if we stay here.
That should be "Harry Harrison's classic Bill the Galactic Hero." He also wrote Soylent Green aka Make Room Make Room, the Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other great works that should be in any true geek's collection.
These guys should have nothing to say about it. It should be the person who finds it gets naming rights, they earned it. If they want to sell their rights that should be their option too.
How does this make any sense? New planets are found because dozens of people munge data from dozens of telescopes and detectors and discover fluctuations that imply planets of certain sizes. This isn't some bearded "professor" looking through a little eye piece proclaiming "I have discovered a new planet!" That's why the astronomical community as a whole controls things like names, so everyone knows what they are talking about, especially when they re-discover the same thing, or get better data on something. There's no vanity naming any more.
You were going pretty good until your logic went out the window.
If you have the slightest wish to give government more wealth and more power e.g. to ban guns, to regulate free speech, to provide healthcare or to fix "climate change" you're out of your bloody mind! Washington DC is literally INCAPABLE of passing ANY legislation which benefits the average working American. Their stated intentions are meaningless.
So we should stop the government from doing anything "good," like limiting guns and providing health care, because they do some things that are "bad?" Those are the things that I WANT the government to be doing with my money.
This is gonna be like when we all scoffed about the iPad's potential market, isn't it?
We also scoffed at the Segway. Oh wait.
My wife did Mechanical Turk for a few weeks when out of work, and oh boy. The only way to make even minimum wage is to completely game the system. It is supposed to be self quality checking, but that doesn't really work. Her work (writing in this case) was so far above the norm (she did graduate college) that it was off the scales. The max she could make doing honest work was around $3-$4 per hour. Most workers there just spam the system trying to grab jobs that are we few cents more, cut and paste some garbage, rinse and repeat. In other words, you get what you pay for.
As opposed to their somehow having managed to con local news into covering every stinking Apple Store opening even though retailers and service centers throughout Apple's history have provided the exact same services that the Apple Store provides, for the same price?
B.S. Back in the day before the Apple store, it was nearly impossible to find a "brick and mortar" retailer that was knowledgable about their Apple products. The sales people would generally steer customers to PCs, and not even mention that they sold Macs. They carried very little if any Mac software if any at all. That's why everyone ordered through catalogs over the phone, from places like MacWarehouse, or directly from Apple. This lack of a physical presence is one of the reasons that Apple opened their own stores.
But in the end, it all comes down to cost. Current Thunderbolt displays are rather expensive. Heck, I picked up a dual-link DVI monitor of the same resolution for $275 on ebay!
Because the $275 display looks like shit, kind of like this Dell monitor I have as my second display on my iMac at work. Yes, only high end stuff has Thunderbolt right now. Give it time, and it will be on the eye-numbing low end stuff too.
It's a change of business focus. The point is that they do not make any money selling consoles, and they do not make as much money as they want off of selling games. That business is dead. What he is really saying, is that they are using the console to drive their new business, where all the profits come from on-line content. In other words, their is no product without an internet connection, because the real product is network based. The console is just a way to access the content.
And if you did trust it on a server somewhere, would that server be "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange"?
(Or are we supposed to forget that that's what "MtGOX" stands for?)
Since some people will pay $10,000 for a mint Black Lotus, it's in the same ballpark. :-)
No, he was. As has been quite widely discussed here and elsewhere he was accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and, from what I've read, he probably was actually "guilty". And, yes, 35 years is the actual punishment. Sure, the prosecutors have discretion in prosecuting crimes, but I continue to be amazed that all of our abuse is heaped upon the prosecutors for trying to enforce a law THAT CONGRESS ACTUALLY PASSED.
As with any overly broad law, there is a certain amount of ambiguity, and any prosecutor must show discretion on how to prosecute it. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but you are not completely right.
As someone with daughter that just turned two years old, meaning we now have to pay for a ticket for her to fly, this sounds like a great deal to me.
This would be something like fare plus extra for every pound over 200, not $1.99 a pound. This isn't your local deli counter.