Imagine if every RFID scanner incorporated a unique RFID which another scanner can scan. Then the scanner's scanner can scan your scanner and avert your scanner scam.
Then their scanner has an RFID chip in it too, so we can use another scanner to scan for the scanners which are scanning for our scanners (which we've cloaked in tinfoil). It's scanner proliferation, baby.
True - perhaps 100% true - and we could both end up being proven right simultaneously. I was thinking mainly about gained knowledge...
Propaganda is here to stay. Critical thinking is a necessary survival skill (to separate truth from untruth) - and all the more as the sheer volume of information available ramps up.
According to Van Allen, the ISS will have cost 80 billion dollars when it is completed, but I doubt it will benefit humanity any more than even the tiny positive aspect of the Iraq war.
Your opinion notwithstanding, all of the benefits of the Apollo program were not evident while the program was underway. It is far too early to judge the ISS's full "benefit" to humanity.
But I guess that this is the moderation system that we get stuck with when anyone who's been on the site for a while and posts regularly is banned from moderating.
Thank you, in all seriousness. I've been trying and trying to figure out what the hell I did wrong...
Last month my karma rolled over to 'Excellent,' I always metamod - and I haven't seen a mod point in months. Yet the relevant FAQ seems to say that no one with sufficiently positive karma is banned from moderating. Even asking about it approximates whining about it, but I'm mostly trying to understand the lay of the land, here - really.
One precaution (escrow) doesn't preclude the other (keeping cloer tabs on sellers). When you can't safely use a company's services without employing another company's services, that just might flag a fundamental problem... Buyers have been burned by bad excrow services before this. While there's no reasonable expectation that any transaction will be "bulletproof", even users doing their best to minimize the risks deserve better from an auction service than the events here - a scofflaw exploiting the automated system's vulnerabilities to continue bilking more and more suckers for extended periods of time.
Another respondent shifted the blame entirely - The problem here is that sellers are realizing that a lot of buyers are "greedy"... - and that's nothing new. A brick-and-mortar marketplace where it was comparatively easy to fleece the gullible would not be tolerated. The size of an auction service's user base doesn't absolve them of the responsibility to be aggressive and proactive, in concert with buyers exhibiting a minimum of prudence, to keep more of the wolves outside of the henhouse.
I've been [surprised | ignorant | both] that no "major" artist with principles has initiated this yet. It worked for the original United Artists principals, to get their work distributed. The sheer magnitude of the starpower involved was too great to ignore...
I'm always hesitant to buy a new music CD now because of the DRM that might be lurking there. The upside, I guess, it that I'm motivated to tell anyone who'll listen of the possibility there's a hidden surprise on newer major-label releases. Go go word-of-mouth.
People always say, "a light plane? I'd never go up in one of those things." But it's not the plane I'm worried about, it's that pilot who has 100hrs and thinks he's the shit.
Heh. This reminds me - I'm a skydiver, and a common opinion among the really experienced "poobahs" is that students aren't nearly as dangerous as people with a few hundred jumps... who think they're more skilled than they really are, and have stopped asking questions...
Bzzzzt - whois.sc just displayed the wrong expiration date for the first domain I looked up. I don't need that much excitement, especially on a Tuesday.
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Thank you !! You said it so well. I definitely lean to the right on most things (Churchill was right, about ideology changing as one gets older!), do not think GWB is thoroughly diabolical - and I do not want it made easier for those in power to find out what books all citizens - including the non-terrorists - are checking out or buying. Internet access is, potentially, a different matter (but at least one can take steps to preserve some anonymity - and others have pointed out that P2P networks are full of books anyway)... but the masses' willingness to allow what we read to be subject to analysis, all in the name of "safety", is thoroughly astounding.
You don't have to be a liberal to be wary of giving new powers to the government.
It's like watching a train wreck in slow-motion, and "It's for our own good"...
At best, you really need to do some research. Another poster skillfully took you to task about most of the other points - but the very first sentence of your post is false, false, false. Some of those held incommunicado for over 2 years and not yet charged are American citizens. Since the time of Lincoln the same course has been followed - when there was probable cause to deprive an American citizen of his freedom, the established process was followed, charges were filed and legal representation was permitted! But this hideous new precedent has already been established - and tolerated. There are few thoughts more chilling to me than the powers-that-be imprisoning whoever they want, for whatever reason they want, in direct contradiction to longstanding principles of American law... yet here we are, seeing no sustained outrage of the citzenry, much less our so-called "elected representatives".
Are we so anti-Microsoft that we'll settle for clunkier software without complaint, just because it's not made by Microsoft?
Who's "settling"? Interesting bit of spin, there. Is any browser code static?
But despite that - the answer depends on one's view of the market leader, right? Are we so anti-Walmart that we'll settle for higher prices without complaint (at other stores), just because they're not Walmart?
Certainly there are other pragmatic concerns when spending an employer's money (a 'free' browser can demand stunning ongoing costs!) but yeah, there is still a time and place for putting up with inconvenience and even extra expense if events seem to warrant it. The past and present actions of a DOJ-emasculating monopolist, whose valuation has considerable effect on the US economy, might concievably raise a sufficient level of personal disgust.
At its extreme, the PC fear of being viewed as anti-anything encourages people to use or buy what 'most everyone else is - sometimes despite clear drawbacks, and questionable values being exhibited by the maker of said market-leader product.
Anyway - sure, there are times where following one's conscience will result in the use of "clunkier" products. Making personal choices to do what one sees as "the right thing" is sometimes going to be inconvenient, or worse. That's an inevitable result of people actually thinking for themselves. The "easier way" usually isn't.
Heh ! Good stuff (though - more 'Insightful' mods than 'Funny' ?)
It's only a matter of time, then, before...
M$ VisionStatement2006
Minimum requirements: 512MB RAM / 240MB disk space / ActiveX 7 or greater / Net connectivity (for surreptitious registration and Passport signup) Compatibility: M$ Project XP and M$ PowerPoint XP Outlook and Hotmail . ..
Technology is not a firm requirement for writing to be "sci-fi". It's very much in the background in some of LeGuin's work (and, arguably, Asimov's "Nightfall"), and all but absent in some new wave classics.
Knight's definition said it "means what we point to when we say it." About half the definitions on this page don't seem to mention technology at all.
The US is mandated to pay 25% of the UN's US$1.2 billion annual budget.
Well, it seems equitable that the US should get one-quarter of the influence, then. Codependent pushover Mare'kins...
Seriously - Mabu, why did you respond to "the US pays for..." with "The US is mandated to pay..." ? Aren't the amount paid and the amount "mandated" the same thing, or are some mandates ignored by some bad ol' nations...? (As a bad example, foreign debt repayments are not the most reliable thing in the world, after all.)
"Funding" and "budget" aren't really synonyms either, in real life, but I'll take it you're using them as if they are.
My employer pays for a dedicated ISDN line for some employees (and checks the logs scrupulously for banned, non-work related use).
Since they're already excruciatingly strict about OT, most of my unit could have no better inducement to turn their pagers off and refuse to answer their cell phones altogether, than some nimrod trying to charge us for being contacted off-hours about work stuff. We're not salaried or contracted, 24/7 coverage was not a condition of employment when we were hired - and it's annoying enough to do things on our own time without getting anything for it. Having to pay for our "leashes" would be near to the last straw.
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Imagine if every RFID scanner incorporated a unique RFID which another scanner can scan. Then the scanner's scanner can scan your scanner and avert your scanner scam.
Then their scanner has an RFID chip in it too, so we can use another scanner to scan for the scanners which are scanning for our scanners (which we've cloaked in tinfoil).
It's scanner proliferation, baby.
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Nah. Well, if they;d never existed, it would've been the Beast or somebody else.
DRM was inevitable.
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True - perhaps 100% true - and we could both end up being proven right simultaneously.
I was thinking mainly about gained knowledge...
Propaganda is here to stay. Critical thinking is a necessary survival skill (to separate truth from untruth) - and all the more as the sheer volume of information available ramps up.
<grrr>
According to Van Allen, the ISS will have cost 80 billion dollars when it is completed, but I doubt it will benefit humanity any more than even the tiny positive aspect of the Iraq war.
Your opinion notwithstanding, all of the benefits of the Apollo program were not evident while the program was underway.
It is far too early to judge the ISS's full "benefit" to humanity.
(Or the Iraq war.)
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...explained by wonton greed.
Darn it - now I'm hungry.
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For those of us who own or have owned motorcycles, it's too late already.
HAND.
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But I guess that this is the moderation system that we get stuck with when anyone who's been on the site for a while and posts regularly is banned from moderating.
Thank you, in all seriousness. I've been trying and trying to figure out what the hell I did wrong...
Last month my karma rolled over to 'Excellent,' I always metamod - and I haven't seen a mod point in months. Yet the relevant FAQ seems to say that no one with sufficiently positive karma is banned from moderating. Even asking about it approximates whining about it, but I'm mostly trying to understand the lay of the land, here - really.
"At least I'm not the only one," etc. etc.
<grrr>
One precaution (escrow) doesn't preclude the other (keeping cloer tabs on sellers). When you can't safely use a company's services without employing another company's services, that just might flag a fundamental problem...
Buyers have been burned by bad excrow services before this. While there's no reasonable expectation that any transaction will be "bulletproof", even users doing their best to minimize the risks deserve better from an auction service than the events here - a scofflaw exploiting the automated system's vulnerabilities to continue bilking more and more suckers for extended periods of time.
Another respondent shifted the blame entirely - The problem here is that sellers are realizing that a lot of buyers are "greedy"... - and that's nothing new. A brick-and-mortar marketplace where it was comparatively easy to fleece the gullible would not be tolerated.
The size of an auction service's user base doesn't absolve them of the responsibility to be aggressive and proactive, in concert with buyers exhibiting a minimum of prudence, to keep more of the wolves outside of the henhouse.
<grrr>
Looks like it's well past time for eBay to have human beings vet all sellers hawking stuff over, oh, $1K.
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I've been [surprised | ignorant | both] that no "major" artist with principles has initiated this yet.
It worked for the original United Artists principals, to get their work distributed. The sheer magnitude of the starpower involved was too great to ignore...
I'm always hesitant to buy a new music CD now because of the DRM that might be lurking there. The upside, I guess, it that I'm motivated to tell anyone who'll listen of the possibility there's a hidden surprise on newer major-label releases. Go go word-of-mouth.
<grrr>
People always say, "a light plane? I'd never go up in one of those things." But it's not the plane I'm worried about, it's that pilot who has 100hrs and thinks he's the shit.
Heh.
This reminds me - I'm a skydiver, and a common opinion among the really experienced "poobahs" is that students aren't nearly as dangerous as people with a few hundred jumps... who think they're more skilled than they really are, and have stopped asking questions...
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...Compared, obviously enough, to "how it's done" by the market-leader.
Not a big fan of autonomy, perhaps?
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Bzzzzt - whois.sc just displayed the wrong expiration date for the first domain I looked up. I don't need that much excitement, especially on a Tuesday.
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the Nigerian department responsible for economical and financial crime
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Naaah, too easy.
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Reported abuses of the Act?
How ridiculous , bunky !
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If you are doing something that requires you to hide it from the government, your breaking the law, and deserve to be caught.
Sodomy.
All voluntary privacy is illegal, huh?
If you're an American - what is wrong with you?!?
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Thank you !! You said it so well.
I definitely lean to the right on most things (Churchill was right, about ideology changing as one gets older!), do not think GWB is thoroughly diabolical - and I do not want it made easier for those in power to find out what books all citizens - including the non-terrorists - are checking out or buying.
Internet access is, potentially, a different matter (but at least one can take steps to preserve some anonymity - and others have pointed out that P2P networks are full of books anyway)... but the masses' willingness to allow what we read to be subject to analysis, all in the name of "safety", is thoroughly astounding.
You don't have to be a liberal to be wary of giving new powers to the government.
It's like watching a train wreck in slow-motion, and "It's for our own good"...
<grrr>
At best, you really need to do some research.
Another poster skillfully took you to task about most of the other points - but the very first sentence of your post is false, false, false. Some of those held incommunicado for over 2 years and not yet charged are American citizens.
Since the time of Lincoln the same course has been followed - when there was probable cause to deprive an American citizen of his freedom, the established process was followed, charges were filed and legal representation was permitted!
But this hideous new precedent has already been established - and tolerated. There are few thoughts more chilling to me than the powers-that-be imprisoning whoever they want, for whatever reason they want, in direct contradiction to longstanding principles of American law... yet here we are, seeing no sustained outrage of the citzenry, much less our so-called "elected representatives".
<grrr>
Are we so anti-Microsoft that we'll settle for clunkier software without complaint, just because it's not made by Microsoft?
Who's "settling"? Interesting bit of spin, there. Is any browser code static?
But despite that - the answer depends on one's view of the market leader, right?
Are we so anti-Walmart that we'll settle for higher prices without complaint (at other stores), just because they're not Walmart?
Certainly there are other pragmatic concerns when spending an employer's money (a 'free' browser can demand stunning ongoing costs!) but yeah, there is still a time and place for putting up with inconvenience and even extra expense if events seem to warrant it. The past and present actions of a DOJ-emasculating monopolist, whose valuation has considerable effect on the US economy, might concievably raise a sufficient level of personal disgust.
At its extreme, the PC fear of being viewed as anti-anything encourages people to use or buy what 'most everyone else is - sometimes despite clear drawbacks, and questionable values being exhibited by the maker of said market-leader product.
Anyway - sure, there are times where following one's conscience will result in the use of "clunkier" products. Making personal choices to do what one sees as "the right thing" is sometimes going to be inconvenient, or worse. That's an inevitable result of people actually thinking for themselves.
The "easier way" usually isn't.
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You may be filtering out AC posts, but for once here's a gem responding just to you.
And, I'll add, you said
The eWeek article says "Mozilla flaw," not "Windows flaw."
This is your attempt at humor, right?
Do you work for eWeek - or just let their headline writers do your thinking for you?
Sheesh.
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Heh !
.
Good stuff (though - more 'Insightful' mods than 'Funny' ?)
It's only a matter of time, then, before...
M$ VisionStatement2006
Minimum requirements:
512MB RAM / 240MB disk space / ActiveX 7 or greater / Net connectivity (for surreptitious registration and Passport signup)
Compatibility:
M$ Project XP and M$ PowerPoint XP
Outlook and Hotmail
. .
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...and if the password you entered in the login screen was also the password which opened the key, you could keep it secure as well.
Uh, no.
Think "key logger".
<grrr>
Technology is not a firm requirement for writing to be "sci-fi". It's very much in the background in some of LeGuin's work (and, arguably, Asimov's "Nightfall"), and all but absent in some new wave classics.
Knight's definition said it "means what we point to when we say it." About half the definitions on this page don't seem to mention technology at all.
<grrr>
The US is mandated to pay 25% of the UN's US$1.2 billion annual budget.
Well, it seems equitable that the US should get one-quarter of the influence, then.
Codependent pushover Mare'kins...
Seriously - Mabu, why did you respond to "the US pays for..." with "The US is mandated to pay..." ?
Aren't the amount paid and the amount "mandated" the same thing, or are some mandates ignored by some bad ol' nations...?
(As a bad example, foreign debt repayments are not the most reliable thing in the world, after all.)
"Funding" and "budget" aren't really synonyms either, in real life, but I'll take it you're using them as if they are.
<grrr>
My employer pays for a dedicated ISDN line for some employees (and checks the logs scrupulously for banned, non-work related use).
Since they're already excruciatingly strict about OT, most of my unit could have no better inducement to turn their pagers off and refuse to answer their cell phones altogether, than some nimrod trying to charge us for being contacted off-hours about work stuff. We're not salaried or contracted, 24/7 coverage was not a condition of employment when we were hired - and it's annoying enough to do things on our own time without getting anything for it. Having to pay for our "leashes" would be near to the last straw.
<grrr>