Did you even notice that most of these laser were pointed at the biggest part of the aircraft and not the cockpit? The pilots are also probably using very expensive visors and cameras to see where they are going and not actually looking out the window. You are comparing military aircraft to civilian aircraft. Not a valid comparison.
They could no longer enforce the rules and companies could do anything they wanted. Do you really see a good outcome there? The SEC is not there to directly protect people from risk. It is about information and rules. Without the SEC the following things can happen. 1. This year we don't want to have a AGM. (We want to stay in power. We have your money what do we care what you think?) 2. This year we won't produce an annual report. (Profits are down and we don't want investors to see that). 3. Those voting shares you bought are now non-voting shares. 4. Those 2 million shares that you thought bought 51% of the company? I forgot to tell you about the 4 million shares I just created and gave to myself. 5. Insider trading? What's that? He's my friend and I will tell him anything I want. 6. Lets sell the company for half the share price. (Lets not mention the millions the other company is giving the board) 7. Lets force our stock price down so we board members can do puts and make some cash. Without equity shares being strongly regulated many bad things can happen. Without the shares being registered the SEC can not regulate them.
Crowd funding sites are completely different than securities transactions. With crowd funding you are purchasing something (sometimes that something is just a good feeling) and once the crowd funding campaign is over you have no financial relationship with the company. With a security transaction you are purchasing part of the equity in the company. The value of this equity can go up and down depending on what the company does. It is a long term investment where the actual value is only realized when the securities are sold. A lot can happen between the time of purchase and the time of sale and it is very important that the SEC is there to make sure everything is above board.
Maybe you need to take a broader view of the world. Just because it is not a problem for you does not mean it is not a problem for many other people. Try to put yourself in the position of someone where it does matter.
CanHasDIY is under investigation for child pornography. It does not matter if all allegations prove false your handle is still associated with child pornography. It comes down to harm. Which would cause more harm secrecy or false association? I just pointed out both issues. I don't have the answers.
On one hand keeping the wiretaps secret harms transparency and hides abuses.
On the other hand it keeps the names of people under investigation private. Would you really want to other people to know that the police were tapping your phone? A conclusion many may draw is that you have done something wrong.
Reality trumps your utopia. Say I have a store that is open 7 days a week 12 hours a day and I need 2 people on at all times. That means three shifts (one being a split shift) will cover one day. Three full time employees will cover 5 days. How do I cover those other 6 shifts in the last two days? The only way my business can operate is with 3 full time employees working 5 shifts a week and 3 working part time at two shifts a week. Closing down two days a week is not a viable option.
If I had to hire all 6 at full time that would increase my wage expense by 43%. That could easily close a business.
The grid is a few inches thick and mostly of glass. I bet they are relying heavily on the underlying material to support the grid. Considering the panel is easily removable I doubt the connections between the panels are very strong.
My commute in my car is 10 minutes. By bus it would be 40 minutes plus a 5 minute walk, often in the rain. That is an extra hour and ten minutes a day if I rode the bus. I used to work in the suburbs. I missed a bus one night. It took me over three hours to do what would be a 30 minute drive. Another time I needed to go to a suburb on a Sunday. It would have been a 35 minute drive but it was a 2 hour bus trip. Buses run infrequently to keep riders per bus up and make it look good but they also waste a lot of people's time waiting for those infrequent buses.
Have you ever seen a road that is perfectly flat for any reasonable distance? There are hills and valleys everywhere and on every hill there will be small edged that stick up. The edges will cause roughness and driving noise. They will also cause impacts that may greatly shorten the life of the panels.
What happens if the initial failure is in the structure supporting the panel? How easy and fast would that be to fix? With a conventional road it would require dumping gravel in the hole tamping it down and covering it with asphalt. I think the process would be much more complex and expensive with the panel system.
Who decides what is "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant"?
The Court points out that the data subject may address such a request directly to the operator of the search engine (the controller) which must then duly examine its merits. Where the controller does not grant the request, the data subject may bring the matter before the supervisory authority or the judicial authority so that it carries out the necessary checks and orders the controller to take specific measures accordingly.
Google would be required to rule on the voracity of the request or defend themselves in court. Do you really think that is Google's job?
The main stupidity of this ruling is that it says that posting the information is OK.
The AEPD rejected the complaint against La Vanguardia, taking the view that the information in question had been lawfully published by it.
but Google has to remove references to it.
On the other hand, the complaint was upheld as regards Google Spain and Google Inc
So it is OK to post the information but not OK to facilitate the information being found. I find those positions in opposition.
Someone want to head the FCC? Lets erase all information about their involvement in the internet industry. Don't want to look biased toward the service providers. Someone wants to join an agriculture commission? Lets erase all information about their involvement in PITA. Don't want to look biased against the meat industry. Want to run for school board? Lets erase those annoying paedophilia convictions.
when it comes to ruining an innocent person's life.
There is a balance between privacy and the public's need to know. While we need to protect the innocent people we also can not allow guilty people to hide in plain sight.
Roads are not flat. I realize that is an extreme example but roads are not always completely flat. They go over hills, through valleys and weather causes them to buckle slightly. All that has to happen is for an edge of one of these panels to come up a bit and you get a permanent bump in the road. Conventional roads can handle this as the bump just wears or is ground down and the road is fine again. With these panels any protruding edges would receive stresses at different angles and be prone to breakage. To fix it would require the road bed to be re-built. Going over crests will be an issue as the road will curve. A major cost in construction will be making the road bed rigid enough to not move and displace the panels. Add that to the cost of the panels, electrical connections, de-icing power costs, etc and you get a very expensive road.
The biggest difference is in repairing road surfaces. When conventional roads get bumpy we can lust add another layer of asphalt to even it out. This can be done a few times before we need to rebuild. With those panels we would have to re-build every time the road bed went out of alignment.
I like the statements about panel replacement being so easy. Potholes are generally caused by the road bed failing causing a failure in the road surface. Replacing a panel, as easy as it might be, will not fix the underlying issue and the new panel will fail quickly.
These panels may be useful for sidewalks and parking lots in certain areas that do not have extreme weather but I doubt they will be useful for roads or highways.
That is a myth. The main reason very old glass is generally thicker at the bottom is that the manufacturing process produced glass with a thicker edge and was installed with that thicker edge at the bottom. It did not flow that way it was installed that way.
What Dr. Neuman and Labino is saying and is that if glass flowed, all the glass that comprised antique windows should be thicker at the bottom, but we know that is just not true.
I was curious so I added up all the crowd funding levels for this project. I came up with some interesting numbers. 1. The sum of all funding levels is $1.37M and not $1.75M. Where does the other $400K come from? 2. 80% of the contributors gave $50 or less resulting in 35% of the contributions. 3. 1.2% of the contributors gave $300 or more resulting in 22% of the contributions.
I wonder how many of those big contributors have a stake in the business and want to make it look good.
The police are not directly controlling your vehicle. What I was trying to get at is that even the trains in a simplified, controlled environment are occasionally overridden by people.
Where's the data on that as I've seen tons of data that say the car was autonomous 99% of the time.
If there are tons of data then where is it?
they've allowed Nevada and a couple other states to implement driverless vehicles.
Nevada's regulations require two people in the test cars at all times. One person is behind the wheel, while the other person monitors a computer screen that shows the car's planned route and keeps tabs on roadway hazards and traffic lights.
Nevada has licensed a test vehicle that must have people in it to take over in case something bad happens. That is far from licensing a driverless vehicle. There is no State in the US that will allow a self driving car without a qualified driver behind the wheel. All the permits are for testing only with a driver behind the wheel. Even the States don't think it is reliable enough yet.
That is single car on a well marked, closed track going in one direction. Driving is not the problem. Dealing with other things (people, vehicles, animals, potholes, rocks, etc) on the road is the problem.
You've got to remember that these systems can react on timescales that make you look frozen in time
Reaction is not the only factor. Anticipation and prediction are very important as well and computers a crappy at that.
It certainly can tell the difference between a child and a mailbox.
References please
infra-red signature
Google car does not have IR sensors.
There are in fact manual cars that already do this as a driver warning aid.
They detect movement but rely on the human to identify the object, predict movement and compensate. Movement detection is simple. The rest is much more difficult.
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Did you even notice that most of these laser were pointed at the biggest part of the aircraft and not the cockpit? The pilots are also probably using very expensive visors and cameras to see where they are going and not actually looking out the window. You are comparing military aircraft to civilian aircraft. Not a valid comparison.
But practically? Not very likely
It has happened
If the SEC lost their enforcement powers
They could no longer enforce the rules and companies could do anything they wanted. Do you really see a good outcome there?
The SEC is not there to directly protect people from risk. It is about information and rules. Without the SEC the following things can happen.
1. This year we don't want to have a AGM. (We want to stay in power. We have your money what do we care what you think?)
2. This year we won't produce an annual report. (Profits are down and we don't want investors to see that).
3. Those voting shares you bought are now non-voting shares.
4. Those 2 million shares that you thought bought 51% of the company? I forgot to tell you about the 4 million shares I just created and gave to myself.
5. Insider trading? What's that? He's my friend and I will tell him anything I want.
6. Lets sell the company for half the share price. (Lets not mention the millions the other company is giving the board)
7. Lets force our stock price down so we board members can do puts and make some cash.
Without equity shares being strongly regulated many bad things can happen. Without the shares being registered the SEC can not regulate them.
Crowd funding sites are completely different than securities transactions. With crowd funding you are purchasing something (sometimes that something is just a good feeling) and once the crowd funding campaign is over you have no financial relationship with the company. With a security transaction you are purchasing part of the equity in the company. The value of this equity can go up and down depending on what the company does. It is a long term investment where the actual value is only realized when the securities are sold. A lot can happen between the time of purchase and the time of sale and it is very important that the SEC is there to make sure everything is above board.
I take it you are perfect. Do you blame the police when someone gets murdered?
Maybe you need to take a broader view of the world. Just because it is not a problem for you does not mean it is not a problem for many other people. Try to put yourself in the position of someone where it does matter.
Sure. Screw them, they're idiots.
Those "idiots" might not hire you, vote for you, etc. When your life is ruined due to an investigation you will sing a different tune.
CanHasDIY is under investigation for child pornography. It does not matter if all allegations prove false your handle is still associated with child pornography. It comes down to harm. Which would cause more harm secrecy or false association? I just pointed out both issues. I don't have the answers.
There are people who assume if someone is being investigated they must have done something wrong. You can't please everyone.
On one hand keeping the wiretaps secret harms transparency and hides abuses.
On the other hand it keeps the names of people under investigation private. Would you really want to other people to know that the police were tapping your phone? A conclusion many may draw is that you have done something wrong.
and all jobs must be hired full time,
Reality trumps your utopia. Say I have a store that is open 7 days a week 12 hours a day and I need 2 people on at all times. That means three shifts (one being a split shift) will cover one day. Three full time employees will cover 5 days. How do I cover those other 6 shifts in the last two days? The only way my business can operate is with 3 full time employees working 5 shifts a week and 3 working part time at two shifts a week. Closing down two days a week is not a viable option.
If I had to hire all 6 at full time that would increase my wage expense by 43%. That could easily close a business.
The grid is a few inches thick and mostly of glass. I bet they are relying heavily on the underlying material to support the grid. Considering the panel is easily removable I doubt the connections between the panels are very strong.
My commute in my car is 10 minutes. By bus it would be 40 minutes plus a 5 minute walk, often in the rain. That is an extra hour and ten minutes a day if I rode the bus. I used to work in the suburbs. I missed a bus one night. It took me over three hours to do what would be a 30 minute drive. Another time I needed to go to a suburb on a Sunday. It would have been a 35 minute drive but it was a 2 hour bus trip. Buses run infrequently to keep riders per bus up and make it look good but they also waste a lot of people's time waiting for those infrequent buses.
If I can afford a car I will be driving a car.
A glassblower has the ability to manipulate the glass not define what it is. Would you rely on a welder to define what a plasma is?
Have you ever seen a road that is perfectly flat for any reasonable distance? There are hills and valleys everywhere and on every hill there will be small edged that stick up. The edges will cause roughness and driving noise. They will also cause impacts that may greatly shorten the life of the panels.
What happens if the initial failure is in the structure supporting the panel? How easy and fast would that be to fix? With a conventional road it would require dumping gravel in the hole tamping it down and covering it with asphalt. I think the process would be much more complex and expensive with the panel system.
It is an amorphous solid and therefore viscosity is irrelevant and is neither a matrix or a matrix or a liquid but a third normal state of matter.
Who decides what is "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant"?
The Court points out that the data subject may address such a request directly to the operator of the search engine (the controller) which must then duly examine its merits. Where the controller does not grant the request, the data subject may bring the matter before the supervisory authority or the judicial authority so that it carries out the necessary checks and orders the controller to take specific measures accordingly.
Google would be required to rule on the voracity of the request or defend themselves in court. Do you really think that is Google's job?
The main stupidity of this ruling is that it says that posting the information is OK.
The AEPD rejected the complaint against La Vanguardia, taking the view that the information in question had been lawfully published by it.
but Google has to remove references to it.
On the other hand, the complaint was upheld as regards Google Spain and Google Inc
So it is OK to post the information but not OK to facilitate the information being found. I find those positions in opposition.
only a fool would criticize privacy.
Someone want to head the FCC? Lets erase all information about their involvement in the internet industry. Don't want to look biased toward the service providers.
Someone wants to join an agriculture commission? Lets erase all information about their involvement in PITA. Don't want to look biased against the meat industry.
Want to run for school board? Lets erase those annoying paedophilia convictions.
when it comes to ruining an innocent person's life.
There is a balance between privacy and the public's need to know. While we need to protect the innocent people we also can not allow guilty people to hide in plain sight.
Roads are not flat. I realize that is an extreme example but roads are not always completely flat. They go over hills, through valleys and weather causes them to buckle slightly. All that has to happen is for an edge of one of these panels to come up a bit and you get a permanent bump in the road. Conventional roads can handle this as the bump just wears or is ground down and the road is fine again. With these panels any protruding edges would receive stresses at different angles and be prone to breakage. To fix it would require the road bed to be re-built. Going over crests will be an issue as the road will curve. A major cost in construction will be making the road bed rigid enough to not move and displace the panels. Add that to the cost of the panels, electrical connections, de-icing power costs, etc and you get a very expensive road.
The biggest difference is in repairing road surfaces. When conventional roads get bumpy we can lust add another layer of asphalt to even it out. This can be done a few times before we need to rebuild. With those panels we would have to re-build every time the road bed went out of alignment.
I like the statements about panel replacement being so easy. Potholes are generally caused by the road bed failing causing a failure in the road surface. Replacing a panel, as easy as it might be, will not fix the underlying issue and the new panel will fail quickly.
These panels may be useful for sidewalks and parking lots in certain areas that do not have extreme weather but I doubt they will be useful for roads or highways.
That is a myth. The main reason very old glass is generally thicker at the bottom is that the manufacturing process produced glass with a thicker edge and was installed with that thicker edge at the bottom. It did not flow that way it was installed that way.
What Dr. Neuman and Labino is saying and is that if glass flowed, all the glass that comprised antique windows should be thicker at the bottom, but we know that is just not true.
Windows don't have to deal with frost heaves.
I was curious so I added up all the crowd funding levels for this project. I came up with some interesting numbers.
1. The sum of all funding levels is $1.37M and not $1.75M. Where does the other $400K come from?
2. 80% of the contributors gave $50 or less resulting in 35% of the contributions.
3. 1.2% of the contributors gave $300 or more resulting in 22% of the contributions.
I wonder how many of those big contributors have a stake in the business and want to make it look good.
I bought a 2D Postscript printer around 1984 and I can assure you that I did not spend $850,000 on it.
Here's the good news: You can't make a 3D-printed gun with your run-of-the-mill 3D printer. You need a DMLS machine, which costs around $850,000.
They don't have police where you are?
The police are not directly controlling your vehicle. What I was trying to get at is that even the trains in a simplified, controlled environment are occasionally overridden by people.
Where's the data on that as I've seen tons of data that say the car was autonomous 99% of the time.
If there are tons of data then where is it?
they've allowed Nevada and a couple other states to implement driverless vehicles.
Nevada licensed a test vehicle with some very strict conditions;
Nevada's regulations require two people in the test cars at all times. One person is behind the wheel, while the other person monitors a computer screen that shows the car's planned route and keeps tabs on roadway hazards and traffic lights.
Nevada has licensed a test vehicle that must have people in it to take over in case something bad happens. That is far from licensing a driverless vehicle. There is no State in the US that will allow a self driving car without a qualified driver behind the wheel. All the permits are for testing only with a driver behind the wheel. Even the States don't think it is reliable enough yet.
That is single car on a well marked, closed track going in one direction. Driving is not the problem. Dealing with other things (people, vehicles, animals, potholes, rocks, etc) on the road is the problem.
You've got to remember that these systems can react on timescales that make you look frozen in time
Reaction is not the only factor. Anticipation and prediction are very important as well and computers a crappy at that.
It certainly can tell the difference between a child and a mailbox.
References please
infra-red signature
Google car does not have IR sensors.
There are in fact manual cars that already do this as a driver warning aid.
They detect movement but rely on the human to identify the object, predict movement and compensate. Movement detection is simple. The rest is much more difficult.