But for now, we have a magic cloning ray which only works for artistic taxy cars... so scarcity is still an issue.</i>
<p>Scarcity is an issue for some things, but not Artistic Taxy Cars. Seeing as we figured out out to eliminate physical scarcity for ATC's, its reasonable that we will figure out how to eliminate it for other items too. Its not so far fetched that we will eventually eliminate physical scarcity for all goods and services. Seeing this now as a strong possibility in the not-so-distant future, we should be thinking about and making laws that will work in a society unbound by physical scarcity.
<p>We should NOT be trying to perpetuate the physical scarcity economic model when it is evident that it is a square hole and we are working with some round pegs. While it could be done to some extent, its obvious to many people that it is less than optimal. They recognize that they are unable to access some resources for no apparent reason other than greed. And in a world with dwindling scarcity, why should we perpetuate a system which encourages greed?
<p>And people relies on its creativity and intellectual work to solve it.
It is up to the author of a book to decide if they want to print it or they want the scribes to duplicate it by hand. Nobody IMO has the right to take a scroll made by a scribe and make thousand of press copies of it without author permission.
Weird, I made almost this exact same post, right down to artificial scarcity and nanoreplication, on a mailing list, and nobody got it. They said, nanotechnology? What? Thats silly, we don't have that, we don't have to worry about that.
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If you set up a network so you had to log in, and you couldn't get other peoples IP's until they gave them to you, you know what you'd have?
AIM.
Only decentralized and open source. IRC is the original instant message client, the main problem is its annoying tendancy to give people your IP address. If it didn't do that it would work very well as the back end for an AIM workalike. Scalability and reliablity improvments would be nice, but not necessary.
I heard a similar story, only it was a microphone in the typewriting device (an IBM model?). The trick was to identify the distinct sound made each time the mechanism made selecting the letters. I seem to remember that it was one of those ball type or something where it had to manipulate some mechanics to bring the correct letter around to the paper, so they had enough mechanical sound to work with. Pretty clever if its true.
I was hoping for some support for the theory of replusive gravity. That is, that things are being bombarded by some sort of gravity particle all the time, which tends to push them away. Normally the bombardment is balanced, in open space you feel little effect. However, the particles are absorbed a bit by mass, creating a gravitational shadow. As you near a dense object, more particles are shielded by that object, so you are pushed more strongly toward it by the particles still pushing you from the other side.
This has some obvious implications, such as what happens when all particles are shielded from one side. Much like adding light filters in front of a lamp, once you block all the light, adding more filters doesn't make the shadow any darker.
There is also a limit to the distance these particles will travel, and that simulations of this effect help to explain the structure and movement of galaxies. In the smale scale it behaves pretty much the same way as an attractive force would, but at large scales different effects become evident.
I wish I could find the link, there were some interesting points made, particularly in the simulations that helped to explain large structures.
The obvious solution is to create a very small keyboard wedge, similar to the KeyGhost, but much thinner. Obviously anyone who pulls out their keyboard plug to check would find it easily (unless it were made truely tiny, maybe <1mm thick), BUT, unless the target hacker happened to be dissassembling his computer, he probably would not notice it for quite some time.
Hell, even a regular keyghost would probably go unnoticed until he happened to look behind the computer. I'm fairly security aware, and I strip and rebuild my systems as often as a typical hacker, but I don't go checking for key loggers every time I type in my pass phrase.
I believe there is some body of evidence that suggests that children having sex with adults can indeed lead to emotional damage later on. Indeed, this may well be wholly or partly cultural
Perhaps its more about the child being forced by an adult (often a trusted adult) to do something they don't want to do (repeatedly), and then threatened (not necessarily overtly) by said trusted adult if they don't keep quite about it.
Probably a big part of the problem is that the child can easily be pressured into cooperating, as they naturally feel subordinate to the adult, and so are unlikely to reject advances. I don't see there being any way around that.
However, I'm speaking in terms of pre-adolescent children. People reaching sexual maturaty are more likely to be in control of themselves and able to choose their encounters, but most are less capaible than an adult, although they probably would not admit this to themselves, which could possible get them into a worse situation.
I'm no psycologist though.
I've never really encountered a taboo about dicussing why pedophilia is bad, or what exactly constitutes pedophilia. Discussing why its GOOD would tend to draw some attention though:)
We could also touch on the porn side of the issue. Should looking at pornographic (that is images depicting overtly sexual situations, not just nudes) pictures of under-age models be illegal? What if they are simply fictional illistrations? Computer models? Extremely realistic computer models? Computer generated movies?
At what point does such porn change from being a release to something that encourages actual physical acts? Should kiddie porn retain the completely taboo status it has in the USA and be eradicated in all forms? Or is that sort of zero tolerance policy unjust and unrealistic?
Yet again, we see lawmakers with absolutely no vision. Why do we need laws specificly about music on the internet? The issue being addressed is not specific to music or the internet, its about easy, fair use duplication and access to information. They should be generalizing the problem and writing a tool that can be applied to multiple problems of the same class (say, duplication of books, paintings, sculpture, 3D CAD-CAM models (which in the future will be easily reproduced at home with 3D plotters and etc)).
But no, we have application specific laws, every time a new problem pops up we have to either rewrite or copy and modify. We end up with lots of application specific laws that have to be individually updated as the political and social climate change. Totally not designed for the maintainance phase.
Sure seems like it would take a hell of a lot of powder to soak up enough of the water in those clouds to have much of an impact. To be cost effective the powder would have to be incredibly cheap, and then you still need planes to dump the stuff over the clouds.
Maybe it could work, but I'm very skeptical that it would have much of an impact unless it was applied very early in the formation of a storm system, and as another poster noted, very much of that would probably have some environmental consequences.
If you can't find an air rifle, freeze a few cans until the contents are all solid, then run them through a bandsaw and make nice little pancakes of frozen shaving cream. Peel off the metal rings and put the cream disks in a bag with a block of dry ice. Stroll through the parking lot on a hot day and slip them into the windows of all the cars with their windows rolled down a bit. Or drop 10-15 cans worth into one car.
No, I haven't done this, but I have some friends who have.
Same goes for forest fires. The forests were fine for millions of years without us running around putting out fires. Now we just let fuel build up until we get these super-fires we've been seeing in the last few years.
I'd rather they quit spending money on fire-jumpers and just make those people who build their house in the woods pay for fire insurance.
So, if its a 'trade secret' but not marked as such, and I release it, can I be prosecuted?
IMO, the whole deal of 'trade secrets' is stupid, you shouldn't get any kind of legal protection (other than copyright) for secret documents. They are protected BY BEING SECRET, if it gets out, it ain't SECRET anymore. If you want legal protection, get a patent.
Quite simple, they would have explained that he got hostile while they were attempting to execute a search, that he shot an agent, and was then killed.
You'd think that someone with a laptop containing evidence that could convict them would not leave it lying around unattended long enough for anyone to install a keylogger. What a dumbass.
The valves described are only kind of like one door on one pyramid. There are about 40 stone pyramids in Egypt and most don't have any features like their valves/doors.
Correct, they think that only the Great pyramid was a pump.
Hmm, I've never had any trouble soldering 1 mm pitch surface mount parts. 2mm really isn't challenging at all. No microscope needed, its really quite simple. Just lightly flux the pads, put the part in position, tack down the legs on the opposite corners by pressing the new, conical tip of your 15-30W iron down on them for a moment to melt the tining. This will hold the part in place while you quickly solder each pin. Only use enough solder to hold it down, you shouldn't see much solder at all. If your board isn't tinned, put a thin coating of solder on each pad, then flux lighly again (using too much flux will make it all look crappy). If you do it right you won't need any more solder.
For finer pitched parts you generally have to flux lightly, get a big glob of solder on the iron, then drag it across the correctly positioned pins. The solder will heat the pins, which are very tiny so they heat almost instantly, and wick under. The solder mask tends to repel the solder, so you usually don't get solder bridges. When you do its easy to remove them. Takes practice, but done correctly you can do a 100+ pin chip in less than a minute or two.
One of the more interesting points made in the above article is about the construction of doors. What we think of as doors, they say, are really lousy examples of doors. You would think that the designers of the pyramid could also design some pretty good doors to keep tomb raiders out, but whats there (or rather, was there), doesn't really appear to have been designed to keep people out. However, if you view them as valves instead of doors, their effectivness becomes more apparent. There are also what appear to be one way valves, a stone ball sitting in a funnel-like structure in a vertical passageway. Water goes up, but not down.
Additonally, there is no evidence that anyone was ever entombed in the structure, nor is there any treasure, as was found in other pyramids (which have a different structure from the Great Pyramid).
They do make a plausable case, I'm curious to see how far they get with their scale model. I do wish they'd post a 3D animated model of the passageways in the Great Pyramid illistrating its functioning as a pump.
The operating principle is similar to that of the Ragged Chute Compressed Air Plant (no, as tempting as it sounds, thats not a goats.cx link, thats really what its called!) which has been in operation for over 70 years, generating highly compressed air using a very simple and clever method.
Even if Gore was the only one who stood to gain anything, Bush stood to loose alot. While he personally probably didn't have anything to do with vote counting, his less scrupious supporters realized that Gores supporters, who had nothing to loose by stuffing boxes probably would, so they would have to do the same to maintain the advantage.
I personally feel that the results fell below the noise floor (which is no doubt higher than they think) and flipping a fair coin would have been a better way to decide in Florida.
Anyway, it doesn't matter any more, nobody important is likely to loose a job over it and Bush was made president. We should take it as a lesson to improve voting practices.
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But for now, we have a magic cloning ray which only works for artistic taxy cars ... so scarcity is still an issue.</i>
<p>Scarcity is an issue for some things, but not Artistic Taxy Cars. Seeing as we figured out out to eliminate physical scarcity for ATC's, its reasonable that we will figure out how to eliminate it for other items too. Its not so far fetched that we will eventually eliminate physical scarcity for all goods and services. Seeing this now as a strong possibility in the not-so-distant future, we should be thinking about and making laws that will work in a society unbound by physical scarcity.
<p>We should NOT be trying to perpetuate the physical scarcity economic model when it is evident that it is a square hole and we are working with some round pegs. While it could be done to some extent, its obvious to many people that it is less than optimal. They recognize that they are unable to access some resources for no apparent reason other than greed. And in a world with dwindling scarcity, why should we perpetuate a system which encourages greed?
<p>And people relies on its creativity and intellectual work to solve it.
It is up to the author of a book to decide if they want to print it or they want the scribes to duplicate it by hand. Nobody IMO has the right to take a scroll made by a scribe and make thousand of press copies of it without author permission.
Weird, I made almost this exact same post, right down to artificial scarcity and nanoreplication, on a mailing list, and nobody got it. They said, nanotechnology? What? Thats silly, we don't have that, we don't have to worry about that.
If you set up a network so you had to log in, and you couldn't get other peoples IP's until they gave them to you, you know what you'd have?
AIM.
Only decentralized and open source. IRC is the original instant message client, the main problem is its annoying tendancy to give people your IP address. If it didn't do that it would work very well as the back end for an AIM workalike. Scalability and reliablity improvments would be nice, but not necessary.
I heard a similar story, only it was a microphone in the typewriting device (an IBM model?). The trick was to identify the distinct sound made each time the mechanism made selecting the letters. I seem to remember that it was one of those ball type or something where it had to manipulate some mechanics to bring the correct letter around to the paper, so they had enough mechanical sound to work with. Pretty clever if its true.
I was hoping for some support for the theory of replusive gravity. That is, that things are being bombarded by some sort of gravity particle all the time, which tends to push them away. Normally the bombardment is balanced, in open space you feel little effect. However, the particles are absorbed a bit by mass, creating a gravitational shadow. As you near a dense object, more particles are shielded by that object, so you are pushed more strongly toward it by the particles still pushing you from the other side.
This has some obvious implications, such as what happens when all particles are shielded from one side. Much like adding light filters in front of a lamp, once you block all the light, adding more filters doesn't make the shadow any darker.
There is also a limit to the distance these particles will travel, and that simulations of this effect help to explain the structure and movement of galaxies. In the smale scale it behaves pretty much the same way as an attractive force would, but at large scales different effects become evident.
I wish I could find the link, there were some interesting points made, particularly in the simulations that helped to explain large structures.
The obvious solution is to create a very small keyboard wedge, similar to the KeyGhost, but much thinner. Obviously anyone who pulls out their keyboard plug to check would find it easily (unless it were made truely tiny, maybe <1mm thick), BUT, unless the target hacker happened to be dissassembling his computer, he probably would not notice it for quite some time.
Hell, even a regular keyghost would probably go unnoticed until he happened to look behind the computer. I'm fairly security aware, and I strip and rebuild my systems as often as a typical hacker, but I don't go checking for key loggers every time I type in my pass phrase.
Perhaps its more about the child being forced by an adult (often a trusted adult) to do something they don't want to do (repeatedly), and then threatened (not necessarily overtly) by said trusted adult if they don't keep quite about it.
Probably a big part of the problem is that the child can easily be pressured into cooperating, as they naturally feel subordinate to the adult, and so are unlikely to reject advances. I don't see there being any way around that.
However, I'm speaking in terms of pre-adolescent children. People reaching sexual maturaty are more likely to be in control of themselves and able to choose their encounters, but most are less capaible than an adult, although they probably would not admit this to themselves, which could possible get them into a worse situation.
I'm no psycologist though.
I've never really encountered a taboo about dicussing why pedophilia is bad, or what exactly constitutes pedophilia. Discussing why its GOOD would tend to draw some attention though :)
We could also touch on the porn side of the issue. Should looking at pornographic (that is images depicting overtly sexual situations, not just nudes) pictures of under-age models be illegal? What if they are simply fictional illistrations? Computer models? Extremely realistic computer models? Computer generated movies?
At what point does such porn change from being a release to something that encourages actual physical acts? Should kiddie porn retain the completely taboo status it has in the USA and be eradicated in all forms? Or is that sort of zero tolerance policy unjust and unrealistic?
Look, you can't go around asking people to defend their positions logically like that. They are likely to hurt their little brains.
But no, we have application specific laws, every time a new problem pops up we have to either rewrite or copy and modify. We end up with lots of application specific laws that have to be individually updated as the political and social climate change. Totally not designed for the maintainance phase.
Maybe it could work, but I'm very skeptical that it would have much of an impact unless it was applied very early in the formation of a storm system, and as another poster noted, very much of that would probably have some environmental consequences.
No, I haven't done this, but I have some friends who have.
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/s1634.htm
I'd have to agree.
Same goes for forest fires. The forests were fine for millions of years without us running around putting out fires. Now we just let fuel build up until we get these super-fires we've been seeing in the last few years.
I'd rather they quit spending money on fire-jumpers and just make those people who build their house in the woods pay for fire insurance.
Thats what the NRA is all about. Funny though, most people bitch about them being so hard-line.
Ha, as if most Office users could find any document not stored in either 'my documents' or 'c:\' ??
What if the virus first filters out all paragraphs or sentances containing 'trade' and 'secret' before sending the document?
So, if its a 'trade secret' but not marked as such, and I release it, can I be prosecuted?
IMO, the whole deal of 'trade secrets' is stupid, you shouldn't get any kind of legal protection (other than copyright) for secret documents. They are protected BY BEING SECRET, if it gets out, it ain't SECRET anymore. If you want legal protection, get a patent.
Obviously, because other cultures recognize that giving the creator of a work rights to it is something worthwhile.
All rights are created by social contract, the only innate property 'rights' you have are what you can secure by force.
Quite simple, they would have explained that he got hostile while they were attempting to execute a search, that he shot an agent, and was then killed.
You'd think that someone with a laptop containing evidence that could convict them would not leave it lying around unattended long enough for anyone to install a keylogger. What a dumbass.
Correct, they think that only the Great pyramid was a pump.
Hmm, I've never had any trouble soldering 1 mm pitch surface mount parts. 2mm really isn't challenging at all. No microscope needed, its really quite simple. Just lightly flux the pads, put the part in position, tack down the legs on the opposite corners by pressing the new, conical tip of your 15-30W iron down on them for a moment to melt the tining. This will hold the part in place while you quickly solder each pin. Only use enough solder to hold it down, you shouldn't see much solder at all. If your board isn't tinned, put a thin coating of solder on each pad, then flux lighly again (using too much flux will make it all look crappy). If you do it right you won't need any more solder.
For finer pitched parts you generally have to flux lightly, get a big glob of solder on the iron, then drag it across the correctly positioned pins. The solder will heat the pins, which are very tiny so they heat almost instantly, and wick under. The solder mask tends to repel the solder, so you usually don't get solder bridges. When you do its easy to remove them. Takes practice, but done correctly you can do a 100+ pin chip in less than a minute or two.
One of the more interesting points made in the above article is about the construction of doors. What we think of as doors, they say, are really lousy examples of doors. You would think that the designers of the pyramid could also design some pretty good doors to keep tomb raiders out, but whats there (or rather, was there), doesn't really appear to have been designed to keep people out. However, if you view them as valves instead of doors, their effectivness becomes more apparent. There are also what appear to be one way valves, a stone ball sitting in a funnel-like structure in a vertical passageway. Water goes up, but not down.
Additonally, there is no evidence that anyone was ever entombed in the structure, nor is there any treasure, as was found in other pyramids (which have a different structure from the Great Pyramid).
They do make a plausable case, I'm curious to see how far they get with their scale model. I do wish they'd post a 3D animated model of the passageways in the Great Pyramid illistrating its functioning as a pump.
The operating principle is similar to that of the Ragged Chute Compressed Air Plant (no, as tempting as it sounds, thats not a goats.cx link, thats really what its called!) which has been in operation for over 70 years, generating highly compressed air using a very simple and clever method.
Even if Gore was the only one who stood to gain anything, Bush stood to loose alot. While he personally probably didn't have anything to do with vote counting, his less scrupious supporters realized that Gores supporters, who had nothing to loose by stuffing boxes probably would, so they would have to do the same to maintain the advantage.
I personally feel that the results fell below the noise floor (which is no doubt higher than they think) and flipping a fair coin would have been a better way to decide in Florida.
Anyway, it doesn't matter any more, nobody important is likely to loose a job over it and Bush was made president. We should take it as a lesson to improve voting practices.
One group is suggesting that they used water power for some of this stuff: The Pharaoh's Pump
With all that hemp around, its suprising they ever did anything but raid the pantry.