CISPA was authored by corporations, for the purpose of reigning in "pirates" and the like. Every "rights holder" in the world will become partners with the government, and search out any of us who don't comply with every draconian rule they can think up.
CISPA is most definitely unconstitutional.
Freedom of speech implies freedom to listen. Since there are more listeners than speakers the value of "listener" needs to be strongly considered in all of this.
Manipulation of bandwidth to listeners as a whole must be even handed. If a content delivery company __Your_Cable_Company__ does not throttle their content in the same way they throttle the likes of Netflix, HBO-Go, NBC, etc. they are crossing a line I do not want crossed.
If they throttle content because of a phone call from a branch of the government we have a larger problem!
There are technologies that can help. Much content from Netflix and others has a large audience and is ideal for p2p caching and bandwidth boost in the same way that bittorrent amplifies the bandwidth of a single seeding site. My DOCSIS 3 modem is an eight down four up device and could host a p2p caching service that amplifies the cross sectional bandwidth of my cable service. Xfinity is already selling "spare bandwidth" as WiFi connectivity.
My digital TV recorder and decoder uses different channels and different tricks to deliver on demand and live content. It is already one of the most serious power consumers in the house and could be replaced by a more power efficient unit that also has p2p caching abilities that utilize the multi channel bandwidth of cable coax a couple fold locally and orders of magnitude better in a community.
Sadly they are looking for a political power grabbing solution and not at a more net neutral technical solution.
It'll be interesting because they are going to be sued now for something they did and the lawyer is going to trot in the letter claiming they are a private corporation not subject to the government regulations. I have no doubt it's a very short countdown till that letter is used against them in a court case.
I can see a class action to release all arrested and convicted criminals becauses these alleged criminals violated the rights of the accused. Count to ten and the ACLU will be there.
They also do not comply with constitutional protections as a well regulated militia as they are not regulated. OK that is a different stretch but as the original article noted they cannot have it both ways.
There is also the premise by which they get paid. They may have been paid outside of the law with state and federal public funds and officials of the government and the officials of the company may find themselves sharing a cell block (I suspect a lot of them).
All actions by the officers that claim to be outside the public domain are now subject to civil action because that is how they swore and attested the legality of their actions were framed.
This is trouble and I suspect there is behind the curtain legislative contributions and lobby actions that further complicate this.
The IRS needs to serve them with a document retention order ASAP to preserve any email that shows how badly they have acted.
The actions of the EPA are unilateral and do not address the global issue set. Worse they make it harder for US companies to react even at the glacial slow rated that global climate change implies. Because they are regulatory and not legislative the entire foundation of the EPA must be demolished, both good and bad, to address problems. The EPA has no constituency to be accountable to. The EPA could well be infiltrated by foreign agents.... we are learning abut the subtle NSA plans that corrupted some of the encryption standards... foreign agents which include corporate agents cannot be dismissed out of hand.
The corporate agents like some international terrorist organizations are dispersed, work against a global plan and have no national allegiance. Some are concerned about the reach of Chinese companies into Africa and to many it appears that the wealth of African resources is highly coveted by many. The agents from China seem to be much better organized toward the economic goals of China than the Peace Core and 100 other US funded plans.
Perhaps this is a good thing.... especially in the light of Walmart's reach. So who is watching Walmart....?
Actually, this ruling doesn't really matter. You do not need to register a trademark to have a legally defensible trademark! All that was stripped was the registration, not the trademark.
Registering a trademark means you don't have to prove in court that you're the owner, That's often a big deal, but it's meaningless in this case.
The previous registration is a strong starting place to defend it going forward.
Why would anyone give SSN to AT&T? Do they also process your taxes? If not, they have no place asking or retaining this information.
Why?.... the DHS and friends have increased the information disclosure for cell phones as well as banking records....
Companies are more and more compelled to dig into you life and keep and make available to "enforcement" on demands more and more information.
We do have rather well structured standards for the management of credit card info (PCI Compliance Security Standards) but do not have equivalent standards for the information that others must gather. The good(ish) laws on disclosure are making it evident that personal data retention and access standards are needed.
They sell a service based on my power bill and my real property.... They do not compensate me... They do not ask me....
They would owe me $$$$$
The technology is OK with me modulo the remote access into a smart device inside my home. i.e. guest networks and other isolation tricks including bandwidth management is a solved problem.
However I elect to not play and have my own firewall hardware that I control....
And the one that taught you that the punctuation mark goes outside the quotation marks.
There are global differences: "Instructors in the U.S. should probably take this into account when reading papers submitted by students who have gone to school in other parts of the globe." stolen from: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu...
So you would have no problem with a school district firing every teacher that refused to teach creationism since tenure could be abused.
But that would never be the cause for termination. Tardy, dress code, poor student test scores, relentless audits in class to include remote surveillance both audio and video today.
Too many trouble makers assigned in to the class... becomes inability to manage the class. Slow duplication services... no supplies... followed by diverting of supplies without authorization from other class rooms. Meetings always at the wrong time... Slow authorization of continuing education to miss deadlines for required continuing education points...
The inverse of the slack given to winning coaches...
1) The abuses go both ways. That's why the need for tenure is in question in the first place.......
One historic reason for tenure had to do with "radical/educated opinions". Mostly this was the world of higher education where the teacher was the teacher and perhaps an authority. Some cases of tenure they do batten down the hatches and lock out new ideas -- i.e. tenure was and is the power base in higher education.
Today the teacher must teach to a syllabus and has little or no flexibility on content or approach. Today we are seeing an astounding administrative and legislative pressures to conform. There are external symptoms but it is rare or impossible for a parent to invade the information and policy bubble that is K-12 education in Amerika...
One symptom is evident in the execution of zero tolerance policies. We see arrests at public forums where a parent takes more than his permitted two minutes. We see expulsion and arrest when a child draws a picture of a weapon or just points. Hidden in all this is the reality that deviating from the prescribed plan is grounds for termination despite what tenure implies. Contracts between the union and school systems are extensive... one account on CNN noted a contract that was +1000 pages.
Note that in some parts of 'merica zero tolerance is code for intolerance in how it is enforced by narrow arrogant minds. Try and converse with educators and you get ignored or shut out.... it is perhaps the worst example of an information bubble.... It is fueled by the likes of STEM and national standardized tests. From time to time we hear of legislators defining Pi to be some silly number.
The size and budget of the national education budget is astounding and has almost no external audit control. Pay attention....
Good thing IPMI gets some attention. IPMI doesn't seem to be very reliable at all...........
Yes worthy of attention.... The interesting bit is they are built with OLD micro-controllers and designed with OLD economics.
It is clear that modern hobby and educational devices like the Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black shatter the old cost models. Same with the little Chromecast bug with a smaller yet footprint.
It is time to demand updates... and it is also important to know that a little card for very low budget can do a fine job as a firewall protection resource.... on one side of an inexpensive switch. Sadly rack hardware is much more expensive than it should be but computer hardware and software economics are so changed that "Yes worthy of attention".
We need backbone resources or other tricks... Mostly we need legal legislative backbone.
The last mile is owned by local monopolies. That is the sad reality. These local monopolies are also content service providers and do what they to do feather their own nest.
The congestion is the backbone owners and providers. Multiple issues dominate the congestion problems. Access, distance, hops and hubs.
The likes of Netflix need to embrace one or more flavors of p2p networking. A local neighborhood can cache and redeliver most video frames from a modest cache with modern crypto tools to contain theft of service.
I think the likes of Netflix would do well do develop an enhanced DOCSIS 3.x modem that also contains a p2p client/service that can recast content to other like service devices a hop or two away. It can also begin caching the top two products on a wish list.
Proxy and p2p services are underused or vastly abused.
In the states and around the world guns are pretty easy to trace. A lot of crimes are solved on ballistic evidence. 3D Printed guns do away with that.
No ballistic evidence would not go away. A printed barrel or receiver would still have unique "tool marks". Same for the firing pin.
Matching a weapon to a spent round would be the same with the interesting bit that the weapon is so fragile that the ballistics experts would want a much longer string to fire the device for a reference projectile.
Right, because computers are something you can make in your back yard. Don't be dense.
The vast majority of people lack the expertise to build or program computers which would be the actual parallel in this bizarre metaphor you've drawn up.
Not a very apt comparison, is it?
While (back in the day, and even now) building a computer from scratch requires at least an EE level of education plus a crap-ton of actual CS experience,.......
Not exactly... One has to study and apply some brain power but if you have a copy of the manual for a Motorola MC14500B you have all you need to get started and you do not need the Motorola MC14500B if you have an extra 3"x4" on your board.
Starting with a 6502 or a Z80 you have a serious leg up on building a working machine.
Today $50 gets a working machine to brag on... Raspberry-Pi or Beaglebone Black are my favorites this year. Two years back it was the pandaboard. My personal web server local name server, local NTP master (level 2-3) all run on these inexpensive credit card computers. One has a 1TB USB disk for photo backups with better economics than most cloud services.
These new 3D printers are astounding and seriously change the economics of 3D modeling... The physical strength of the plastics they use limits the results but does change things.. Some are using a spool of steel wire and a spark-arc welding process to build up very hard and strong parts.
IM not because it forces people to confront the edge-case uses of this tech. Better now than later.
The problem is that this can lead to comparing only edge cases, rather than typical cases. This can lead to situations like Germany choosing coal over nuclear in the name of environment: they compared wind power in optimal conditions to nuclear meltdown, then when real world was less than optimal defaulted to coal. Similarly, 3D printers could end up being banned due to the possibility of printing (crappy) guns with no regard to the typical case of printing artworks, spare parts or rapid prototypes.
If you look at the technology associated with steel and guns you will see the same evolution from crappy to modern sophistication.... and who knows what future sophisticated making technology might make. We are seeing modern weapons with new targeting technology that permits snipers to be effective to astounding ranges by near novices. Once the target is identified the weapon fires itself after compensation for range and other variables.
Any modern NC milling machine or lathe can build a serious weapon.
Cutting knives are still constrained by the ability to heat treat steel more than shaping the steel.
News at 11:00 but my money is on protectionist motives and generic FUD. 3d printing is just fine with me.
It's also cheaper to buy a book than a normal printer.
And a library card is cheaper yet. Libraries are one investment that pays great rewards to local towns.
Seriously in rural Kentucky and Tennessee (USA) a study was made and a mobile home with a printer+binder machine was found to be sufficiently inexpensive that the books could be given away. Apparently authors of pK-12 books were happy to work out terms but publishers were not.
The nice thing is books would get traded between neighbors and would wear out.. No need for expensive library binding services. No need to house and store... If I recall this was classic black and white typeset books not glossy color books.
The inability to share books is one of the true evils of Kindles. A child struggling to learn will not finish a book in the standard Kindle loan it time frame and the need for a reader and internet connectivity in places where cell and internet connectivity stink all conspire to further isolate the isolated.
... until Eric Holder decides to arrest him and extradite him.
Or dispatch a drone....
And it may not be EH potentially it could be some other nations drone. It need not be launched from outside. If might be launched from down the road and....
But why should the support staff waste their time repetitively answering a question that is already answered in a customer forum?
Because that's their job and the paying customers require that service as part of what they have paid for.
Well most do not pay enough to cover their demands..... Many are too lazy to read the fine manual.
However many manuals are written from the inside looking out perspective and do not help a customer outside the developers circles gain access.
One perspective is the php documentation where a well structured and well written set of documents still misses things. Their solution was a WiKi like view where comments and questions could be added and the authors would respond and at times revise the book.
There are two important types of documentation: teaching and reference. Both are hard, it is harder to address both in one document.
If you can communicate at all you have help. i.e. Your loved one can help you help. Consider that a finger is all you need for morris code and 30-60 words per min are possible. Blinking tapping..... 5wpm is very helpful.
This is a complex topic and there are as many avenues for therapy....
The most difficult aspect may be personal you may have to learn something new... think sign language if hearing was lost for example.
Note that the fine and citation is tiny compared to the impact on insurance which can change by 10x or more from one event that does not involve alcohol.
With the need of LESS law enforcement, maybe that's not such of a bad thing.
Sort of.... some equate law enforcement with traffic enforcement. Some equate the war on drugs with war...
OK OK it is true they all have laws behind them but traffic is the most profitable the safest to enforce and collect. It is also the guile and excuse to stop and search for other transgressions that trigger property forfeiture which is big $$ in some locations.
Drug enforcement is interesting because moral justitude has pushed drugs outside of the law. All commerce and money outside the law still needs law to protect from thieves etc. Law outside of the law has few options.... murder is one... and that is a massive social problem.
We as voters need to pay attention.... the observation that automated vehicles might bankrupt police departments is a hint that something is wrong in the financial structure of the system. One problem might be contracts that keep union folk on payrolls no matter the need.
Hopefully people will come to their senses and outlaw tobacco and alcohol while simultaneously legalizing marijuana.
well there someone who hasn't a clue about what the effect on an outright ban on alcohol does....ever heard of prohibition and what happened there in America??
it created a massive criminal industry along with masses of violence and death... mostly from bullets but also from VERY badly made alcohol which poisoned people.Which is to say it created FAR MORE pr4oblems than it cured... in fact it cured NONE....
so perhaps before opening your sanctimonious mouth and letting your belly rumble... know what you are talking about first.
Yes,,,, it is not that alcohol, tobacco and marijuana are bad for you (they are not good for you) the important point to keep focus on is that the war on drugs, alcohol etc is worse.
The war on drugs has turned large areas of the US into war zones and that is not a good thing.
You are making a huge financial investment in both real dollars and opportunity cost.
......snip....
OK freshman+ do get a job any job that get you up in the morning and puts some coin in your pocket.
Internships that do not pay are a scam in 99 44/100% of the cases. If you sign an NDA and assign any rights to the company they need to pay now$ or later$$$$.
Before you get much past your sophomore year do get a job in your field of study. Too many students graduate and find that the job is not what they expect. Switching majors as a junior is a lot easier then the last semester as a senior or graduate student. It may be that you will learn enough to make good decisions about electives or a minor.
So job yes. What it is, depends on where home is and what those opportunities are.
One turn on this is to get some company to finance a project that you can get done in a summer. Write up a proposal and a compensation contract and see what you can sell. As a freshman this is hard as a junior this is very possible.
This is to be expected.... what is the real scope of this?
I believe that a router on the way to a German auto maker is not targeted. OK I want to believe.
I believe that a well managed site will audit and reload software. I believe that additional system admin audits behind and in front of the hardware are justified.
For the NSA (Never Say Anything) to snoop does not bother me but they are not the only TLA in the game today.
The internet has not been friendly for a gosh long time nothing has changed.
Slashdot Mirror
CISPA was authored by corporations, for the purpose of reigning in "pirates" and the like. Every "rights holder" in the world will become partners with the government, and search out any of us who don't comply with every draconian rule they can think up.
CISPA is most definitely unconstitutional.
Freedom of speech implies freedom to listen. Since there are more listeners than speakers
the value of "listener" needs to be strongly considered in all of this.
Manipulation of bandwidth to listeners as a whole must be even handed.
If a content delivery company __Your_Cable_Company__ does not throttle
their content in the same way they throttle the likes of Netflix, HBO-Go, NBC,
etc. they are crossing a line I do not want crossed.
If they throttle content because of a phone call from a branch of the government
we have a larger problem!
There are technologies that can help. Much content from Netflix and others
has a large audience and is ideal for p2p caching and bandwidth boost in
the same way that bittorrent amplifies the bandwidth of a single seeding
site. My DOCSIS 3 modem is an eight down four up device and could host
a p2p caching service that amplifies the cross sectional bandwidth of my
cable service. Xfinity is already selling "spare bandwidth" as WiFi connectivity.
My digital TV recorder and decoder uses different channels
and different tricks to deliver on demand and live content. It is already one
of the most serious power consumers in the house and could be replaced by
a more power efficient unit that also has p2p caching abilities that utilize the
multi channel bandwidth of cable coax a couple fold locally and orders of
magnitude better in a community.
Sadly they are looking for a political power grabbing solution and not
at a more net neutral technical solution.
It'll be interesting because they are going to be sued now for something they did and the lawyer is going to trot in the letter claiming they are a private corporation not subject to the government regulations. I have no doubt it's a very short countdown till that letter is used against them in a court case.
I can see a class action to release all arrested and convicted criminals becauses these alleged criminals
violated the rights of the accused. Count to ten and the ACLU will be there.
They also do not comply with constitutional protections as a well regulated militia
as they are not regulated. OK that is a different stretch but as the original article
noted they cannot have it both ways.
There is also the premise by which they get paid. They may have been paid outside
of the law with state and federal public funds and officials of the government and the officials of the
company may find themselves sharing a cell block (I suspect a lot of them).
All actions by the officers that claim to be outside the public domain are now
subject to civil action because that is how they swore and attested the legality
of their actions were framed.
This is trouble and I suspect there is behind the curtain legislative contributions
and lobby actions that further complicate this.
The IRS needs to serve them with a document retention order ASAP to preserve
any email that shows how badly they have acted.
Winner..... China
The actions of the EPA are unilateral and do not address the
global issue set. Worse they make it harder for US companies to
react even at the glacial slow rated that global climate change
implies. Because they are regulatory and not legislative the entire
foundation of the EPA must be demolished, both good and bad, to
address problems. The EPA has no constituency to be accountable
to. The EPA could well be infiltrated by foreign agents.... we
are learning abut the subtle NSA plans that corrupted some of
the encryption standards... foreign agents which include corporate
agents cannot be dismissed out of hand.
The corporate agents like some international terrorist organizations
are dispersed, work against a global plan and have no national
allegiance. Some are concerned about the reach of Chinese companies
into Africa and to many it appears that the wealth of African resources
is highly coveted by many. The agents from China seem to be much
better organized toward the economic goals of China than the Peace Core
and 100 other US funded plans.
Perhaps this is a good thing.... especially in the light of Walmart's reach.
So who is watching Walmart....?
Actually, this ruling doesn't really matter. You do not need to register a trademark to have a legally defensible trademark! All that was stripped was the registration, not the trademark.
Registering a trademark means you don't have to prove in court that you're the owner, That's often a big deal, but it's meaningless in this case.
The previous registration is a strong starting place to defend it going forward.
A winning season -- where does that play?
Why would anyone give SSN to AT&T? Do they also process your taxes? If not, they have no place asking or retaining this information.
Why?.... the DHS and friends have increased the information disclosure for cell phones as well as banking records....
Companies are more and more compelled to dig into you life and keep and make available to "enforcement"
on demands more and more information.
We do have rather well structured standards for the management of credit card info (PCI Compliance Security Standards) but
do not have equivalent standards for the information that others must gather. The good(ish) laws on disclosure are making it
evident that personal data retention and access standards are needed.
Time to write my state and federal legislature.
They sell a service based on my power bill and my real property....
They do not compensate me...
They do not ask me....
They would owe me $$$$$
The technology is OK with me modulo the remote access into a smart device
inside my home. i.e. guest networks and other isolation tricks including
bandwidth management is a solved problem.
However I elect to not play and have my own firewall hardware that I control....
And the one that taught you that the punctuation mark goes outside the quotation marks.
There are global differences:
"Instructors in the U.S. should probably take this into account when reading papers submitted by students who have gone to school in other parts of the globe." stolen from:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu...
So you would have no problem with a school district firing every teacher that refused to teach creationism since tenure could be abused.
But that would never be the cause for termination.
Tardy, dress code, poor student test scores, relentless audits in class
to include remote surveillance both audio and video today.
Too many trouble makers assigned in to the class... becomes inability
to manage the class. Slow duplication services... no supplies...
followed by diverting of supplies without authorization from other
class rooms. Meetings always at the wrong time... Slow authorization
of continuing education to miss deadlines for required continuing
education points...
The inverse of the slack given to winning coaches...
1) The abuses go both ways. That's why the need for tenure is in question in the first place. ......
One historic reason for tenure had to do with "radical/educated opinions". Mostly
this was the world of higher education where the teacher was the teacher and
perhaps an authority. Some cases of tenure they do batten down the hatches and
lock out new ideas -- i.e. tenure was and is the power base in higher education.
Today the teacher must teach to a syllabus and has little or no flexibility on content
or approach. Today we are seeing an astounding administrative and legislative pressures
to conform. There are external symptoms but it is rare or impossible for a parent
to invade the information and policy bubble that is K-12 education in Amerika...
One symptom is evident in the execution of zero tolerance policies. We see arrests
at public forums where a parent takes more than his permitted two minutes. We see
expulsion and arrest when a child draws a picture of a weapon or just points.
Hidden in all this is the reality that deviating from the prescribed plan is grounds for
termination despite what tenure implies. Contracts between the union and school
systems are extensive... one account on CNN noted a contract that was +1000 pages.
Note that in some parts of 'merica zero tolerance is code for intolerance in
how it is enforced by narrow arrogant minds. Try and converse with educators
and you get ignored or shut out.... it is perhaps the worst example of an
information bubble.... It is fueled by the likes of STEM and national standardized
tests. From time to time we hear of legislators defining Pi to be some silly
number.
The size and budget of the national education budget is astounding and
has almost no external audit control. Pay attention....
No-one could possibly guess mine. It's Password1.
So simple, no-one could possibly pull that rabbit out of a hat.
There must be one word that tells me you told
me and I no longer have to guess. Since I no longer
have to guess I cannot guess.
I guess I should finish reading this: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/lo...
Good thing IPMI gets some attention. IPMI doesn't seem to be very reliable at all...........
Yes worthy of attention....
The interesting bit is they are built with OLD micro-controllers and designed with OLD economics.
It is clear that modern hobby and educational devices like the Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black
shatter the old cost models. Same with the little Chromecast bug with a smaller yet footprint.
It is time to demand updates... and it is also important to know that a little card for very low
budget can do a fine job as a firewall protection resource.... on one side of an inexpensive switch.
Sadly rack hardware is much more expensive than it should be but computer hardware and software
economics are so changed that "Yes worthy of attention".
We need backbone resources or other tricks...
Mostly we need legal legislative backbone.
The last mile is owned by local monopolies.
That is the sad reality. These local monopolies are
also content service providers and do what they to
do feather their own nest.
The congestion is the backbone owners and providers.
Multiple issues dominate the congestion problems.
Access, distance, hops and hubs.
The likes of Netflix need to embrace one or more
flavors of p2p networking. A local neighborhood
can cache and redeliver most video frames from a
modest cache with modern crypto tools to contain
theft of service.
I think the likes of Netflix would do well do develop
an enhanced DOCSIS 3.x modem that also contains
a p2p client/service that can recast content to other
like service devices a hop or two away. It can also
begin caching the top two products on a wish list.
Proxy and p2p services are underused or vastly abused.
In the states and around the world guns are pretty easy to trace. A lot of crimes are solved on ballistic evidence. 3D Printed guns do away with that.
No ballistic evidence would not go away.
A printed barrel or receiver would still have unique "tool marks".
Same for the firing pin.
Matching a weapon to a spent round would be the same
with the interesting bit that the weapon is so fragile that
the ballistics experts would want a much longer string
to fire the device for a reference projectile.
Right, because computers are something you can make in your back yard. Don't be dense.
The vast majority of people lack the expertise to build or program computers which would be the actual parallel in this bizarre metaphor you've drawn up.
Not a very apt comparison, is it?
While (back in the day, and even now) building a computer from scratch requires at least an EE level of education plus a crap-ton of actual CS experience,.......
Not exactly... One has to study and apply some brain power but if you have
a copy of the manual for a Motorola MC14500B you have all you need to
get started and you do not need the Motorola MC14500B if you have an
extra 3"x4" on your board.
Starting with a 6502 or a Z80 you have a serious leg up on building
a working machine.
Today $50 gets a working machine to brag on ... Raspberry-Pi or Beaglebone Black
are my favorites this year. Two years back it was the pandaboard. My personal web server
local name server, local NTP master (level 2-3) all run on these inexpensive credit card
computers. One has a 1TB USB disk for photo backups with better economics
than most cloud services.
These new 3D printers are astounding and seriously change the economics
of 3D modeling... The physical strength of the plastics they use limits the results
but does change things.. Some are using a spool of steel wire and a spark-arc
welding process to build up very hard and strong parts.
The problem is that this can lead to comparing only edge cases, rather than typical cases. This can lead to situations like Germany choosing coal over nuclear in the name of environment: they compared wind power in optimal conditions to nuclear meltdown, then when real world was less than optimal defaulted to coal. Similarly, 3D printers could end up being banned due to the possibility of printing (crappy) guns with no regard to the typical case of printing artworks, spare parts or rapid prototypes.
If you look at the technology associated with steel and guns you will see the same evolution
from crappy to modern sophistication.... and who knows what future sophisticated making
technology might make. We are seeing modern weapons with new targeting technology
that permits snipers to be effective to astounding ranges by near novices. Once the target is
identified the weapon fires itself after compensation for range and other variables.
Any modern NC milling machine or lathe can build a serious weapon.
Cutting knives are still constrained by the ability to heat treat steel more
than shaping the steel.
News at 11:00 but my money is on protectionist motives and generic FUD.
3d printing is just fine with me.
It's also cheaper to buy a book than a normal printer.
And a library card is cheaper yet. Libraries are one investment
that pays great rewards to local towns.
Seriously in rural Kentucky and Tennessee (USA) a study was
made and a mobile home with a printer+binder machine was
found to be sufficiently inexpensive that the books could be
given away. Apparently authors of pK-12 books were happy to work out
terms but publishers were not.
The nice thing is books would get traded between neighbors
and would wear out.. No need for expensive library binding
services. No need to house and store... If I recall this was
classic black and white typeset books not glossy color books.
The inability to share books is one of the true evils of Kindles.
A child struggling to learn will not finish a book in the standard
Kindle loan it time frame and the need for a reader and internet
connectivity in places where cell and internet connectivity stink
all conspire to further isolate the isolated.
... until Eric Holder decides to arrest him and extradite him.
Or dispatch a drone.... ....
And it may not be EH potentially it could be some other nations drone.
It need not be launched from outside. If might be launched from down
the road and
But why should the support staff waste their time repetitively answering a question that is already answered in a customer forum?
Because that's their job and the paying customers require that service as part of what they have paid for.
Well most do not pay enough to cover their demands.....
Many are too lazy to read the fine manual.
However many manuals are written from the inside looking out perspective
and do not help a customer outside the developers circles gain access.
One perspective is the php documentation where a well structured and well
written set of documents still misses things. Their solution was a WiKi like
view where comments and questions could be added and the authors would
respond and at times revise the book.
There are two important types of documentation: teaching and reference.
Both are hard, it is harder to address both in one document.
If you can communicate at all you have help. i.e. Your loved one can help you ..... 5wpm is very helpful.
help. Consider that a finger is all you need for morris code and 30-60 words per min are
possible. Blinking tapping
This is a complex topic and there are as many avenues for therapy....
The most difficult aspect may be personal you may have to learn
something new... think sign language if hearing was lost for example.
Note that the fine and citation is tiny compared to the impact on
insurance which can change by 10x or more from one event
that does not involve alcohol.
With the need of LESS law enforcement, maybe that's not such of a bad thing.
Sort of.... some equate law enforcement with traffic enforcement.
Some equate the war on drugs with war...
OK OK it is true they all have laws behind them but traffic is the most profitable the safest
to enforce and collect. It is also the guile and excuse to stop and search for other
transgressions that trigger property forfeiture which is big $$ in some locations.
Drug enforcement is interesting because moral justitude has pushed drugs outside
of the law. All commerce and money outside the law still needs law to protect from
thieves etc. Law outside of the law has few options.... murder is one... and that is
a massive social problem.
We as voters need to pay attention.... the observation that automated vehicles
might bankrupt police departments is a hint that something is wrong in the financial
structure of the system. One problem might be contracts that keep union folk on payrolls
no matter the need.
The war on drugs has turned large areas of the US into war zones
and that is not a good thing.
It is for the companies that are profiting by it.
Well it is more than just companies looking for profit.
It is a collection of interests that all profit one way or another
from a common outcome.
The ones that bothers me most are the morally correctitude driven folk that
want to save a soul by outlawing sin.
Hopefully people will come to their senses and outlaw tobacco and alcohol while simultaneously legalizing marijuana.
well there someone who hasn't a clue about what the effect on an outright ban on alcohol does....ever heard of prohibition and what happened there in America??
it created a massive criminal industry along with masses of violence and death... mostly from bullets but also from VERY badly made alcohol which poisoned people.Which is to say it created FAR MORE pr4oblems than it cured... in fact it cured NONE....
so perhaps before opening your sanctimonious mouth and letting your belly rumble... know what you are talking about first.
Yes,,,, it is not that alcohol, tobacco and marijuana are bad for you (they are not good for you)
the important point to keep focus on is that the war on drugs, alcohol etc is worse.
The war on drugs has turned large areas of the US into war zones
and that is not a good thing.
You are making a huge financial investment in both real dollars and opportunity cost.
OK freshman+ do get a job any job that get you up in the morning
and puts some coin in your pocket.
Internships that do not pay are a scam in 99 44/100% of the cases.
If you sign an NDA and assign any rights to the company they need to pay
now$ or later$$$$.
Before you get much past your sophomore year do get a job in your field
of study. Too many students graduate and find that the job is not
what they expect. Switching majors as a junior is a lot easier
then the last semester as a senior or graduate student. It may be that
you will learn enough to make good decisions about electives or a minor.
So job yes. What it is, depends on where home is and what those opportunities are.
One turn on this is to get some company to finance a project that you can get
done in a summer. Write up a proposal and a compensation contract
and see what you can sell. As a freshman this is hard as a junior
this is very possible.
This is to be expected.... what is the real scope of this?
I believe that a router on the way to a German auto maker is not targeted. OK I want to believe.
I believe that a well managed site will audit and reload software. I believe that additional system admin audits behind and in front of the
hardware are justified.
For the NSA (Never Say Anything) to snoop does not bother me but they are not the only TLA in the game today.
The internet has not been friendly for a gosh long time nothing has changed.