To my understanding (admittedly limited and IANOL), in states such as Louisiana with for-profit prisons, a prisoner is "paid" $2-$3 worth of "commisary credit" for a days work in whatever factory/call-centre/sweatshop is set up. Working for this is further incentivized by the loss of "privileges" (ie: not being in solitary) for those who refuse.
This explains why a kid caught with 2 joints worth of pot got 13 years.
Many people view the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" as a basically factual account of the early years of Apple and MS. As one of the folks portrayed, is this an accurate perception?
Yes, it would be. They have a legal sanction to be invasive pricks. An excessive force charge may be applicable, but I think your chances of a successful prosecution are about the same as an Abu Graib inmate charging a guard.
There is a long standing bug with Crysis 2 1.9 patch (the one you need for DX 11 and HD add-on content), that breaks the ability to load saved games. This is particularly true for folks using Windows 7 64 bit.
Am I the only one that finds it a little shady that they gave up support of 2 in less than a year, never fixed the broken patch, and now expect people to pay another $50-60 for part 3?
OK, I'll grant that the film wasn't great. That said, the core ideas were excellent. I don't think I have seen a single movie yet that lived up to a P.K. Dick short story, let alone novel. (possible exception for Scanner Darkly - and they even messed that one up). Anyone know who has the film rights to "Man in the High Castle?
Thank you, I was racking my poor caff-deprived brain trying to remember which cyber-punk novel first did this (Burning Chrome? Mona Lisa Overdrive?), I knew it was Gibson and I read it ages ago. Kudos on your recall.
It isn't even that they are anti-science per se, but more that they are anti-dissemination of truths revealed by science. They aren't stifling the research so much as muzzling the researchers.
Just where did you get those salaries? Commuter pilots in the US have been known to start as low as 19,000/year (less than a manager at Taco Bell, accordign to M. Moore).
use solar sails to "brake" the velocity of the asteroid, dropping it into lunar orbit. The use the same tech to "melt" (smelt) the metals in a solar furnace (concave mirrors are SO useful). Also - grab a big hunk of ice and do the same thing - water is a bitch to boost out of the gravity well.
BIS servers are run by the service providers, (Rogers, AT&T, Telus, etc) All RIM really runs is the NOC which handles the switching from the BES to the carrier.
RIM does not have "Magic Keys" the encryption handshake has always, and continues to be, carried out when the HH is activated on the BES. It's like asking for the "master algorithm" to PGP or Trillian - it is in large part random, and has something to do with huge primes.
Sorry you are wrong, kinda. BIS ain't BES. BIS service connects you to your Gmail or HOtmail or whatever POP/IMAP account through your service provider.
BES service uses higher encryption, and connects your device via the carrier to your own corporate BlackBerry Server which expands and decrypts the email and forwards it to your messaging server (Exchange, Domino, or GroupWise)or compresses and encrypts from the message server and forwards off to the HH.
At no point is are those messagesx decryptable by RIM or anyone else (without spending way to many CRAY-years per message). There is a header that RIMs NOC uses to determine which carrier to hand off the encrypted data to, and which HH the carrier should send it to.
BlackBerry's are capable of AES and 3DES encryption.
sorry, could have sworn i saw a comment in the thread about using the sail itself to capture reaction mass. That made me think to the ram. The ultimate use of these, of course, would be to add drag to a couple of comets (say one nickle-iron and the other H2O), and drop them into near-lunar orbit for processing (I would have said near-earth, but the idea of that would freak some people out), you could even use a sail as the mirror for the solar kiln to melt the ore.
For those about to ask - the reason you want to use this meathod to get water to your workers is the insane amout of money it costs to boost the stuff from our gravity well. One litre = one kilo, cost vary from USA, Athena 2 (2065kg to LEO): $11622 per kg to Russia, Shtil (430kg to LEO): $465 per kg, but I wouldn't trust to low-ball offer.
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To my understanding (admittedly limited and IANOL), in states such as Louisiana with for-profit prisons, a prisoner is "paid" $2-$3 worth of "commisary credit" for a days work in whatever factory/call-centre/sweatshop is set up. Working for this is further incentivized by the loss of "privileges" (ie: not being in solitary) for those who refuse. This explains why a kid caught with 2 joints worth of pot got 13 years.
Well... up here (Canada) that may be, but in many of the states in the U.S. keeping people locked up makes profit for the private prison systems.
Do they even teach Orwell's 1984 in schools any more?
And next week the chocolate ration will be increased from 5 grams to 3. Remember: War is peace, Freedom is slavery, and Ignorance is strength.
The shade of Asimov raises his head..... Does this seem a little like Psychohistory to anyone else? Where's the Mule?
Many people view the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" as a basically factual account of the early years of Apple and MS. As one of the folks portrayed, is this an accurate perception?
Or BES Express - less IT Policies, but it is FREE!
Yes, it would be. They have a legal sanction to be invasive pricks. An excessive force charge may be applicable, but I think your chances of a successful prosecution are about the same as an Abu Graib inmate charging a guard.
There is a long standing bug with Crysis 2 1.9 patch (the one you need for DX 11 and HD add-on content), that breaks the ability to load saved games. This is particularly true for folks using Windows 7 64 bit. Am I the only one that finds it a little shady that they gave up support of 2 in less than a year, never fixed the broken patch, and now expect people to pay another $50-60 for part 3?
OK, I'll grant that the film wasn't great. That said, the core ideas were excellent. I don't think I have seen a single movie yet that lived up to a P.K. Dick short story, let alone novel. (possible exception for Scanner Darkly - and they even messed that one up). Anyone know who has the film rights to "Man in the High Castle?
Right you are, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers and the court decision about the incident
Isn't that kinda what wikileaks is supposed to be?
Thank you, I was racking my poor caff-deprived brain trying to remember which cyber-punk novel first did this (Burning Chrome? Mona Lisa Overdrive?), I knew it was Gibson and I read it ages ago. Kudos on your recall.
It isn't even that they are anti-science per se, but more that they are anti-dissemination of truths revealed by science. They aren't stifling the research so much as muzzling the researchers.
I'm out of points, some one mod parent up +Insightful
Just where did you get those salaries? Commuter pilots in the US have been known to start as low as 19,000/year (less than a manager at Taco Bell, accordign to M. Moore).
hardly, you are probably too young to remeber ASCII graphics - http://www.google.ca/images?q=ascii+art&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=xXCBTI-PFsufnAft2ZB_&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDYQsAQwAw but there was porn in the text based interwebz
If you want safety and security - use a BlackBerry. Just ask India!
use solar sails to "brake" the velocity of the asteroid, dropping it into lunar orbit. The use the same tech to "melt" (smelt) the metals in a solar furnace (concave mirrors are SO useful). Also - grab a big hunk of ice and do the same thing - water is a bitch to boost out of the gravity well.
BIS servers are run by the service providers, (Rogers, AT&T, Telus, etc) All RIM really runs is the NOC which handles the switching from the BES to the carrier.
RIM does not have "Magic Keys" the encryption handshake has always, and continues to be, carried out when the HH is activated on the BES. It's like asking for the "master algorithm" to PGP or Trillian - it is in large part random, and has something to do with huge primes.
Sorry you are wrong, kinda. BIS ain't BES. BIS service connects you to your Gmail or HOtmail or whatever POP/IMAP account through your service provider. BES service uses higher encryption, and connects your device via the carrier to your own corporate BlackBerry Server which expands and decrypts the email and forwards it to your messaging server (Exchange, Domino, or GroupWise)or compresses and encrypts from the message server and forwards off to the HH. At no point is are those messagesx decryptable by RIM or anyone else (without spending way to many CRAY-years per message). There is a header that RIMs NOC uses to determine which carrier to hand off the encrypted data to, and which HH the carrier should send it to. BlackBerry's are capable of AES and 3DES encryption.
sorry, could have sworn i saw a comment in the thread about using the sail itself to capture reaction mass. That made me think to the ram. The ultimate use of these, of course, would be to add drag to a couple of comets (say one nickle-iron and the other H2O), and drop them into near-lunar orbit for processing (I would have said near-earth, but the idea of that would freak some people out), you could even use a sail as the mirror for the solar kiln to melt the ore. For those about to ask - the reason you want to use this meathod to get water to your workers is the insane amout of money it costs to boost the stuff from our gravity well. One litre = one kilo, cost vary from USA, Athena 2 (2065kg to LEO): $11622 per kg to Russia, Shtil (430kg to LEO): $465 per kg, but I wouldn't trust to low-ball offer.
I believe the term you are struggling for is Bussard Ram - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet