Can we just start measuring radiation in Rads now? Sure would make things simpler to explain...
becquerels == ORads (Outbound Radiation)
sieverts == IRads (Inbound Radiation) or ARads (Absorbed Radiation)
Or just "Rads" as a general term, i.e. "the leak is dumping 20-30 billion Rads into the ecosystem / Nobody can absorb that many Rads and survive! / Background radiation at 2,500 Rads, sir."
Using terms that the layman can hardly spell, let alone understand, isn't helping to raise awareness. Kinda the opposite.
No, I don't waste time watching crime dramas and pretending they're indicative of reality, you've got me there.
They are reality. Do you think they put on a separate investigation just for the camera? I'm not talking about "Law and Order" or "CSI".
Please cite where a distinction is made that the tv shows you're talking about aren't "Law and Order" or "CSI."
PS - See what I did there?
Cogent reasoning will tell you that law enforcement is law enforcement, and no distinction is made when people give advice to not talk to the police.
Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night, I guess. I was pretty sure most people know the difference between cops, detectives, SWAT teams, etc., but I suppose you've successfully proven that assumption wrong.
From now on, I'll be sure to ask the authors of every website I ever discuss to make sure they spell out exactly how they define every little term used, just for you. Happy now?
crimes are solved by the examination of evidence, not dubious third-party accounts
Try watching some real detective shows where they follow along with a camera as (typically) murders are solved. Talking to people is crucial, and leads to non-witness evidence. You really don't know what you are talking about.
No, I don't waste time watching crime dramas and pretending they're indicative of reality, you've got me there.
Not to mention, I think you're conflating detectives with patrol officers; world of difference betwix the two.
Please cite where a distinction is made when advised not to talk to the police.
In the brains of people capable of cogent reasoning.
From your link: "If the police are talking to you, itâ(TM)s because they suspect you have committed a crime."
No, that's bullshit. They talk to lots of people to gather evidence. If nobody talked to the police, crimes wouldn't be solved.
No, that's bullshit - crimes are solved by the examination of evidence, not dubious third-party accounts. If police are relying on witnesses to actually solve cases, witnesses who may be liars, or forgetful, or bored, then they aren't doing their jobs correctly.
Not to mention, I think you're conflating detectives with patrol officers; world of difference betwix the two.
Perhaps, but if you're trying to monetize the site you're running you'd be a fool to do something that prevents a good 80-90% of people from accessing it.
Not everything is about fucking money, you soulless cretin.
No, some stuff is about making money, you retarded hippie.
Because otherwise they come off as a bunch of whiny narcissists who should be summarily ignored? That's my take, anyway.
The users really don't care how much botcrap the server takes in.
On the one hand, lol and touche.
On the other, they'll start to care when the botcrap makes the server unreachable to them; at which point they'll just start pissing and moaning again, and the cycle begins anew.
It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people capable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.
Perhaps, but if you're trying to monetize the site you're running you'd be a fool to do something that prevents a good 80-90% of people from accessing it.
"W3C has suggested other techniques such as logic puzzles, limited-use accounts and non-interactive checks to prevent abuse such as fraudulent account creation and spamming."
Its going to be far harder to make an AI that can create a decent logic puzzle as well as make it accessible and hard for computers to solve than it it to make an image and warp it a bit. I think any such puzzle will probably be worse than the audio captcha button.
Not to mention, logic puzzles are unfair to people who have trouble understanding logic; which, in my experience, is damn near the entire human race.
Just swapping one type of perceived discrimination for another.
A campaign in Australia has started to rid sites of CAPTCHA to improve accessibility for everyone.
Sure, but have they come up with or even recommended an alternative? No?
Well fuck 'em, then - I for one am pretty damn fed up with all these people and organizations who do nothing but bitch about how Item X is 'unfair' to them, AND expect someone else to come up with the solution for them.
This Apocalypse stuff is really starting to annoy me.
That I agree with, but remember, this is marketing hype. "Apocalypse" is trending pretty high right now, so it's one of the buzzwords that's en vogue. Next week it might be "Green," oh wait that was last week; thus is the mercurial nature of advertising.
Long story short, "Wearable Apocalypse Shelter" probably generates a lot more impressions than "Stupid Art Projects That Emulate Clothing"
If civilization falls, it will be gradual.
Depends on what causes the fall; an asteroid strike, fast-moving plague that wipes out 3/4 - 2/3 of the human populace, or all-out nuclear holocaust would tear down what humanity has built in a hurry. Hell, some anomalous event that completely wipes out all digitally-stored information, but doesn't touch infrastructure, would be pretty devastating to modern society.
We know about metals and melting ore to to create them. We know about magnets and how they can be used to generate electricity or using electricity to create maniacal energy. We understand that silicon has a semi-conductive state and how to arrange semi-conductors into not gates and not gates into And and Or gates and further on to a computer.
Collectively, perhaps that's true. And, presuming our civilization has a long fall that does not include destruction of knowledge (which, as any student of history can tell you, never happens; consider the Library of Alexandria, for example, which was believed to have contained the sum of human knowledge up to that point in history - burned by invading armies).
However, there are some issues. First, we should presume that any information that is stored in a purely digital format (i.e., no hard-copies, or so few hard-copies that spreading the knowledge across a vast geographic area quickly without electronic transmission would be nigh impossible) would be lost completely. Second, we should also consider that it's likely a majority of survivors would either A) not understand much of the material, and thus consider it to be more useful as fuel than as knowledge, or B) be too busy just staying alive to care how things like semi-conductors, which would not be essential to daily life, work. So, aside from the 0-day loss of all digital-only information, you'd also see a steady decrease in the amount of material available due to human nature (and, let's face it, general stupidity).
Plus, presuming the need to completely rebuild civilization from the ground up, computers are one of the last items to consider in terms of importance. So, while falling all the way back to the actual Stone Age is pretty unlikely, considering, it's not too far fetched to imagine the post-apocalyptic future as a modified reboot of the Iron Age.
It's all labels and lip service, man. Tea Party, RINO, Blue Dog... all just words meant to manipulate you and I into developing a certain attitude towards a certain philosophy; it's goddamn propaganda at it's finest, the type of shit that Goebbles would nut himself over if he'd have had access to the technology we do today.
There's only one real way to see what a candidate/representative's stances are, and it's to ignore what comes out of their mouths and focus on what their hands do (i.e., how they vote).
Is that Merkins nowadays don't think that all humans are created equal. There's Merkinland and then there's the cesspool of corruption that's the rest of us.
Rather like the Ayatollahs of Iran where they belive too that they are the only place where REAL humans live.
Therefore a spy program that may be targeting more of those Other Nonhumans (i.e. non Merkins) is not as troubling as one that targets mostly them.
Unjustified personal attacks on the American people aside, you've got it all wrong - our Constitution doesn't govern nor protect other sovereign nations. So, according to our system of governance, there's nothing wrong with spying on foreign nationals in foreign lands, whereas it's very, very much wrong to do the same to the American people.
If you would rather be under the protection of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, your nation and her people are welcome to come together and petition for statehood... not that I would necessarily recommend it nor do I think it would do you any good, given the current situation.
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled anti-American rant.
If they'd legalize drugs the bottom would fall out of the market and all the drug-funded gangs and their wars would fade away. (Or look for something else illegal to sell.)
Tax dope as high as you can without creating a black market, and use the revenue for prevention and rehab programs. And use all the money that's currently going to the DEA and prison-industrial complex for something useful.
You seem to mistakenly believe that drug prohibition has anything to do with public health.
It never has, and it never will - drug prohibition started out as a means of control, and has turned into the largest black-ops funding operation in human history. Best to keep that in mind.
I admit, I don't know nearly as much about amateur radio as I would like.
Generally, and in respect to the technologies we're discussing in this thread, the statement "encryption is illegal" is essentially true as far as I'm aware, although I probably wouldn't argue with any cited sources since, as I said, I don't know much about the topic.
You didn't look up the wiki article I linked, did you?
Unless "numbnuts" is the person I was addressing's actual name or title (or, obviously, at the beginning of a sentence), it is not a proper noun and thus, not capitalized.
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Can we just start measuring radiation in Rads now? Sure would make things simpler to explain...
becquerels == ORads (Outbound Radiation)
sieverts == IRads (Inbound Radiation) or ARads (Absorbed Radiation)
Or just "Rads" as a general term, i.e. "the leak is dumping 20-30 billion Rads into the ecosystem / Nobody can absorb that many Rads and survive! / Background radiation at 2,500 Rads, sir."
Using terms that the layman can hardly spell, let alone understand, isn't helping to raise awareness. Kinda the opposite.
No, I don't waste time watching crime dramas and pretending they're indicative of reality, you've got me there.
They are reality. Do you think they put on a separate investigation just for the camera? I'm not talking about "Law and Order" or "CSI".
Please cite where a distinction is made that the tv shows you're talking about aren't "Law and Order" or "CSI."
PS - See what I did there?
Cogent reasoning will tell you that law enforcement is law enforcement, and no distinction is made when people give advice to not talk to the police.
Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night, I guess. I was pretty sure most people know the difference between cops, detectives, SWAT teams, etc., but I suppose you've successfully proven that assumption wrong.
From now on, I'll be sure to ask the authors of every website I ever discuss to make sure they spell out exactly how they define every little term used, just for you. Happy now?
So... when is it gonna transform into a giant robot?
crimes are solved by the examination of evidence, not dubious third-party accounts
Try watching some real detective shows where they follow along with a camera as (typically) murders are solved. Talking to people is crucial, and leads to non-witness evidence. You really don't know what you are talking about.
No, I don't waste time watching crime dramas and pretending they're indicative of reality, you've got me there.
Not to mention, I think you're conflating detectives with patrol officers; world of difference betwix the two.
Please cite where a distinction is made when advised not to talk to the police.
In the brains of people capable of cogent reasoning.
Micro SD cards are already quite a bit smaller than postage stamps lol.
Are there any with a terabyte of storage space?
Bubble Memory.
Is that the kind that sells address space to bits at sub-prime rates until the whole thing collapses in on itself?
From your link: "If the police are talking to you, itâ(TM)s because they suspect you have committed a crime."
No, that's bullshit. They talk to lots of people to gather evidence. If nobody talked to the police, crimes wouldn't be solved.
No, that's bullshit - crimes are solved by the examination of evidence, not dubious third-party accounts. If police are relying on witnesses to actually solve cases, witnesses who may be liars, or forgetful, or bored, then they aren't doing their jobs correctly.
Not to mention, I think you're conflating detectives with patrol officers; world of difference betwix the two.
Well, sure, but I never so much as implied that making money from a website via increased accessibility was a universal requirement, so...
Perhaps, but if you're trying to monetize the site you're running you'd be a fool to do something that prevents a good 80-90% of people from accessing it.
Not everything is about fucking money, you soulless cretin.
No, some stuff is about making money, you retarded hippie.
That's Xenu, not Xerox.
Xenu... Xerox... Xenu-Rox?
I think you're missing the idea of what type of logic puzzles they mean.
... and here I was thinking that the last half of the statement made it pretty obvious I was being satirical.
Now, now I'm no longer sure that I was joking...
Why would they want to recommend an alternative?
Because otherwise they come off as a bunch of whiny narcissists who should be summarily ignored? That's my take, anyway.
The users really don't care how much botcrap the server takes in.
On the one hand, lol and touche.
On the other, they'll start to care when the botcrap makes the server unreachable to them; at which point they'll just start pissing and moaning again, and the cycle begins anew.
Well they did give an alternative...
"According to Hollier, a better way for everyone would be the use of emails to activate and verify users, instead of CAPTCHA"
Yea, suppose I could have clarified by adding "alternatives that aren't worse than what they're replacing," but I figured that was a given.
It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people capable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.
Perhaps, but if you're trying to monetize the site you're running you'd be a fool to do something that prevents a good 80-90% of people from accessing it.
"W3C has suggested other techniques such as logic puzzles, limited-use accounts and non-interactive checks to prevent abuse such as fraudulent account creation and spamming."
Its going to be far harder to make an AI that can create a decent logic puzzle as well as make it accessible and hard for computers to solve than it it to make an image and warp it a bit. I think any such puzzle will probably be worse than the audio captcha button.
Not to mention, logic puzzles are unfair to people who have trouble understanding logic; which, in my experience, is damn near the entire human race.
Just swapping one type of perceived discrimination for another.
A campaign in Australia has started to rid sites of CAPTCHA to improve accessibility for everyone.
Sure, but have they come up with or even recommended an alternative? No?
Well fuck 'em, then - I for one am pretty damn fed up with all these people and organizations who do nothing but bitch about how Item X is 'unfair' to them, AND expect someone else to come up with the solution for them.
This Apocalypse stuff is really starting to annoy me.
That I agree with, but remember, this is marketing hype. "Apocalypse" is trending pretty high right now, so it's one of the buzzwords that's en vogue. Next week it might be "Green," oh wait that was last week; thus is the mercurial nature of advertising.
Long story short, "Wearable Apocalypse Shelter" probably generates a lot more impressions than "Stupid Art Projects That Emulate Clothing"
If civilization falls, it will be gradual.
Depends on what causes the fall; an asteroid strike, fast-moving plague that wipes out 3/4 - 2/3 of the human populace, or all-out nuclear holocaust would tear down what humanity has built in a hurry. Hell, some anomalous event that completely wipes out all digitally-stored information, but doesn't touch infrastructure, would be pretty devastating to modern society.
We know about metals and melting ore to to create them. We know about magnets and how they can be used to generate electricity or using electricity to create maniacal energy. We understand that silicon has a semi-conductive state and how to arrange semi-conductors into not gates and not gates into And and Or gates and further on to a computer.
Collectively, perhaps that's true. And, presuming our civilization has a long fall that does not include destruction of knowledge (which, as any student of history can tell you, never happens; consider the Library of Alexandria, for example, which was believed to have contained the sum of human knowledge up to that point in history - burned by invading armies).
However, there are some issues. First, we should presume that any information that is stored in a purely digital format (i.e., no hard-copies, or so few hard-copies that spreading the knowledge across a vast geographic area quickly without electronic transmission would be nigh impossible) would be lost completely. Second, we should also consider that it's likely a majority of survivors would either A) not understand much of the material, and thus consider it to be more useful as fuel than as knowledge, or B) be too busy just staying alive to care how things like semi-conductors, which would not be essential to daily life, work. So, aside from the 0-day loss of all digital-only information, you'd also see a steady decrease in the amount of material available due to human nature (and, let's face it, general stupidity).
Plus, presuming the need to completely rebuild civilization from the ground up, computers are one of the last items to consider in terms of importance. So, while falling all the way back to the actual Stone Age is pretty unlikely, considering, it's not too far fetched to imagine the post-apocalyptic future as a modified reboot of the Iron Age.
WhatIGotYouGottaGetItPutItInYou...
That one?
It's all labels and lip service, man. Tea Party, RINO, Blue Dog... all just words meant to manipulate you and I into developing a certain attitude towards a certain philosophy; it's goddamn propaganda at it's finest, the type of shit that Goebbles would nut himself over if he'd have had access to the technology we do today.
There's only one real way to see what a candidate/representative's stances are, and it's to ignore what comes out of their mouths and focus on what their hands do (i.e., how they vote).
Is that Merkins nowadays don't think that all humans are created equal. There's Merkinland and then there's the cesspool of corruption that's the rest of us.
Rather like the Ayatollahs of Iran where they belive too that they are the only place where REAL humans live.
Therefore a spy program that may be targeting more of those Other Nonhumans (i.e. non Merkins) is not as troubling as one that targets mostly them.
Unjustified personal attacks on the American people aside, you've got it all wrong - our Constitution doesn't govern nor protect other sovereign nations. So, according to our system of governance, there's nothing wrong with spying on foreign nationals in foreign lands, whereas it's very, very much wrong to do the same to the American people.
If you would rather be under the protection of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, your nation and her people are welcome to come together and petition for statehood... not that I would necessarily recommend it nor do I think it would do you any good, given the current situation.
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled anti-American rant.
You do realize he's being satirical, no?
I figured the second paragraph was a dead giveaway.
If they'd legalize drugs the bottom would fall out of the market and all the drug-funded gangs and their wars would fade away. (Or look for something else illegal to sell.)
Tax dope as high as you can without creating a black market, and use the revenue for prevention and rehab programs. And use all the money that's currently going to the DEA and prison-industrial complex for something useful.
You seem to mistakenly believe that drug prohibition has anything to do with public health.
It never has, and it never will - drug prohibition started out as a means of control, and has turned into the largest black-ops funding operation in human history. Best to keep that in mind.
What the hell did I just read?
The reason you should Just Say NO to crack cocaine.
I admit, I don't know nearly as much about amateur radio as I would like.
Generally, and in respect to the technologies we're discussing in this thread, the statement "encryption is illegal" is essentially true as far as I'm aware, although I probably wouldn't argue with any cited sources since, as I said, I don't know much about the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun
Learn the difference, numbnuts.
Learn the difference, Numbnuts.
There, FTFY.
You didn't look up the wiki article I linked, did you?
Unless "numbnuts" is the person I was addressing's actual name or title (or, obviously, at the beginning of a sentence), it is not a proper noun and thus, not capitalized.
Thanks for playing.