Just to add another 'real christian' post, I'd like to say this:
I worship in a community of people who (I believe) largely think very much like PD, one of the things we believe very strongly is "Jesus came to take away our sins, not our brains". We laugh at people who don't "believe" in evolution, or other aspects of science, and struggle as a community to decide how to treat people who love one another across gender boundaries.
Christians aren't all the nutballs downtown shouting repent or asking for your money on television. If you want to pay PD a real compliment (and respect his opinions) do some reading on liberal churches, or maybe even drop by one and ask some questions. I think you'll continue to be suprised.
-Zipwow
* Where are these liberal churches? Churches vary greatly even within a denomination, but starting with something like the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) rather than "Jim-bob's Bible church" will help. I'm an ELCA member, and a good indicator of liberal churches is the "Reconciled in Christ" program, which indicates acceptance as full members (and NOT the repentance-required type of acceptance) of gay and lesbian members. There's a list here
Maybe the Left doesn't respond that way because it's an insult.
I don't understand how the supporters of "recognized Civil Unions but banned gay marriage" fail to see that they separate but equal institutions. And we've been over separate but equal before.
If you don't want to marry gay people in your church, that's fine, but I'd rather you didn't prohibit what I can do in mine.
-Zipwow
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It's not perfect, it will certainly not be used by everyone. Still it's something you can do defensively, especially if you're serving mpegs of your latest case mod or bear attack or whatever.
-Zipwow
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See other posts... Google's IPO is going to be Dutch Auction style, not "buddies of the investment bank" style. This will be done on the internet, and anyone can particpate.
I think being liable for your opponent's legal costs (up to some reasonable amount) might help. Consider this:
The two outcomes of fighting in court for a defendant *before* cost sharing in the RIAA case are:
win, and be bankrupt from legal fees lose, and be bankrupt from charges
*with* cost sharing, the scenario becomes:
win, and be out only your time lose, and be bankrupt from charges *and* legal fees.
Bankrupt is still bankrupt. Your credit history is ruined, but your debts are absolved, but at least you've got a possibility of a good outcome. I've never been through bankruptcy, so there may be provisions I'm unaware of. The only one I do know is about student loans (bankruptcy doesn't get out of those).
An interesting suggestion for cost sharing I've heard is that if you lose, you have to pay the opponent what you spent on your own defense. It's got problems (your friend does it for free, etc), but I thought it was an interesting suggestion.
For those posters saying, "You're in public, why care?", I'd like to point out this part of the article:
A 911 dispatcher is alerted if the car is stolen or is the subject of a "be on the lookout" warning.(emphasis mine)
Exactly what does it take to be on the 'special monitoring' list? There are already protections about in what ways you can be harassed by following and surveillance, but they aren't mentioned by this article. My pessimism suspects that they aren't considered by the system.
This automated system is akin to having a police officer in each location with a camera, whose sole responsibility is to record license plates. How would you feel about living in that society?
Even if it takes a warrant to be put on this 'lookout' list, do you really trust giving up the rest of this data for the "three months" they'll allegedly have it? Who is allowed to access it while it's there? What kind of accesses are allowed? Where is the line between privacy and security? To take it a step further, how would you feel about having your every move within the whole town recorded?
I'd say that this system has too much potential for abuse.
Perhaps all the/.'ers realized that the first time some operator made a mistake, flagging a deaf school adminstrator buying laptops perpahs, that they'd be in violation of the federal law applying to these operators?
Disabled people using this system have (and should have) the same expectation of privacy that normally-abled people do.
That is to say, unless a warrant has been already served for the purpose of tapping the line, no part of the call will be monitored or recorded. This is the expectation guaranteed by the law for everyone.
This system for the deaf requires an actual *person* to be involved in the process, as well as special equipment. The law protects the deaf user, requiring that the assisting person conduct themselves in specific ways, specifically regarding their memory of the call as inadmissable in court, and unusable for any purpose. This assures the deaf user the same expectation of privacy as the hearing user.
It's all about equality. Now, if you're willing to give up *your* expectation of privacy in order to fix this system, that's another discussion altogether.
If it isn't mentioned in the article, can you point out where it is mentioned? The thing I'm seeing pictures of here doesn't look like it has any kind of digital viewfinder apart from some glass. The specifications list a "2 element optical viewfinder" which I think equates to "glass and mirrors".
Could you double-tube the tubes that actually go through the case? First put larger, solid, no-hole tubes through the case, attachted to the case itself. Then set the perforated hamster-tubes inside those.
To clean, remove and clean the hamster-tubes as normal, and use rag-on-a-string to clean the regular pipes. Or make them removable too, whichever.
Actually, it would be really amusing to do this in a fishtank.
I don't think that problem applies here, because the CDs aren't so special that they're the *only* thing that works with this burner, or that they don't work in the 2 zillion CD players already out there.
The people considering buying this burner with its 'etching' ability aren't constrained by the decisions that other people make. This makes their decision all about value, and not about speculation.
Isn't one problem with this approach that the "average person" label is really a moving target?
I'm trying to decide if I can blame people for putting their cat in a microwave oven, if nobody has yet seen a microwave oven. I mean, if I turn the electric stove on real low, everything's fine...
I'm not saying that you can sue people who sell toothpicks, I'm just saying that defining that "average person" is a really difficult thing.
Does muscle really "turn into" fat? I know we all say that, but I don't think the cells really change from being muscle cells to fat cells. It seems that way, probably, because when you burn less calories (less muscle) but still eat the same, you gain fat (new cells).
From that description, I don't see how losing muscle or stopping running is different...
You've got a great point here. Some of the things that treadmills with a heart monitor do is make sure that your heart rate stays in the correct range. Varying the terrain and chasing dogs could help you get to the correct heart rate. Paper throwing and navigation complexity could increase for each level, rather than physical difficulty.
His name was Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, and they're awesome. You have to remind yourself of the time period when you see them, or you'll instinctively think they're more modern:
I was looking for just this info, since I'm a speakeasy customer (and fan.. that tells you something about their service). Can you tell me where you found this?
I found a clause in their TOS along the lines of, "If you're consuming excessive bandwidth that is affecting our service or equipment, we will ask you to stop", but no numbers or anything...
Since you're answering questions, do you know what happened to the entwives? I thought the description of trolls as twisted entwives made a lot of sense, since they're missing and all.
Just to be snarky, I wonder if there's a ceiling to how high you can go for the round-the-world attempt. If you've got a working suborbital spaceship, it would be amusing to make an orbital spaceship* and say, "Yeah, we went around ten or fifteen times on one tank of gas. It was a big tank, tho."
-Zipwow
* I know, I know, orbit is waaay different than straight up, straight back. Its just an amusing thought...
The US military will be out of Iraq by the election,
Which election? The 2050 election?
I'll be suprised if we're out of Iraq in two administrations. And, frankly, if we are out by the election, I think we'll have left a lot of citizens in the lurch.
Ahhh, the key here is that you can't influence the behavior of either photon, you have to let them make their own random choice, and measure that. That inability to influence the choice nixes any transmitting of information.
But, since they always make the *same* random choices, you can interpret those as a one-time pad, and use that for encrypting some message you send via regular channels. (right?)
So the answer to my original question is no, even if its reprhased to ask about encryption rather than communication. You can't modify the pairs, so the set of random choices will be different (unless you're really, really lucky).
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Just to add another 'real christian' post, I'd like to say this:
I worship in a community of people who (I believe) largely think very much like PD, one of the things we believe very strongly is "Jesus came to take away our sins, not our brains". We laugh at people who don't "believe" in evolution, or other aspects of science, and struggle as a community to decide how to treat people who love one another across gender boundaries.
Christians aren't all the nutballs downtown shouting repent or asking for your money on television. If you want to pay PD a real compliment (and respect his opinions) do some reading on liberal churches, or maybe even drop by one and ask some questions. I think you'll continue to be suprised.
-Zipwow
* Where are these liberal churches? Churches vary greatly even within a denomination, but starting with something like the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) rather than "Jim-bob's Bible church" will help. I'm an ELCA member, and a good indicator of liberal churches is the "Reconciled in Christ" program, which indicates acceptance as full members (and NOT the repentance-required type of acceptance) of gay and lesbian members. There's a list here
Maybe the Left doesn't respond that way because it's an insult.
I don't understand how the supporters of "recognized Civil Unions but banned gay marriage" fail to see that they separate but equal institutions. And we've been over separate but equal before.
If you don't want to marry gay people in your church, that's fine, but I'd rather you didn't prohibit what I can do in mine.
-Zipwow
It's not about the editors, it's about the authors. You, as an author, can use the freecache service by using their style links in your pages. It doesn't cost you anything to do it, and it's pretty easy to do.
It's not perfect, it will certainly not be used by everyone. Still it's something you can do defensively, especially if you're serving mpegs of your latest case mod or bear attack or whatever.
-Zipwow
See other posts... Google's IPO is going to be Dutch Auction style, not "buddies of the investment bank" style. This will be done on the internet, and anyone can particpate.
More details are here
-Zipwow
I think being liable for your opponent's legal costs (up to some reasonable amount) might help. Consider this:
The two outcomes of fighting in court for a defendant *before* cost sharing in the RIAA case are:
win, and be bankrupt from legal fees
lose, and be bankrupt from charges
*with* cost sharing, the scenario becomes:
win, and be out only your time
lose, and be bankrupt from charges *and* legal fees.
Bankrupt is still bankrupt. Your credit history is ruined, but your debts are absolved, but at least you've got a possibility of a good outcome. I've never been through bankruptcy, so there may be provisions I'm unaware of. The only one I do know is about student loans (bankruptcy doesn't get out of those).
An interesting suggestion for cost sharing I've heard is that if you lose, you have to pay the opponent what you spent on your own defense. It's got problems (your friend does it for free, etc), but I thought it was an interesting suggestion.
-Zipwow
Exactly what does it take to be on the 'special monitoring' list? There are already protections about in what ways you can be harassed by following and surveillance, but they aren't mentioned by this article. My pessimism suspects that they aren't considered by the system.
This automated system is akin to having a police officer in each location with a camera, whose sole responsibility is to record license plates. How would you feel about living in that society?
Even if it takes a warrant to be put on this 'lookout' list, do you really trust giving up the rest of this data for the "three months" they'll allegedly have it? Who is allowed to access it while it's there? What kind of accesses are allowed? Where is the line between privacy and security? To take it a step further, how would you feel about having your every move within the whole town recorded?
I'd say that this system has too much potential for abuse.
-Zipwow
Perhaps all the /.'ers realized that the first time some operator made a mistake, flagging a deaf school adminstrator buying laptops perpahs, that they'd be in violation of the federal law applying to these operators?
Nah, that can't be it.
-Zipwow
Disabled people using this system have (and should have) the same expectation of privacy that normally-abled people do.
That is to say, unless a warrant has been already served for the purpose of tapping the line, no part of the call will be monitored or recorded. This is the expectation guaranteed by the law for everyone.
This system for the deaf requires an actual *person* to be involved in the process, as well as special equipment. The law protects the deaf user, requiring that the assisting person conduct themselves in specific ways, specifically regarding their memory of the call as inadmissable in court, and unusable for any purpose. This assures the deaf user the same expectation of privacy as the hearing user.
It's all about equality. Now, if you're willing to give up *your* expectation of privacy in order to fix this system, that's another discussion altogether.
-Zipwow
Or maybe it was a press release?
There are options that don't come from the receivers in your tinfoil hat.
-Zipwow
But what would they plug their USB camera into?
-Zipwow
-Zipwow
Could you double-tube the tubes that actually go through the case? First put larger, solid, no-hole tubes through the case, attachted to the case itself. Then set the perforated hamster-tubes inside those.
To clean, remove and clean the hamster-tubes as normal, and use rag-on-a-string to clean the regular pipes. Or make them removable too, whichever.
Actually, it would be really amusing to do this in a fishtank.
-Zipwow
I don't think that problem applies here, because the CDs aren't so special that they're the *only* thing that works with this burner, or that they don't work in the 2 zillion CD players already out there.
The people considering buying this burner with its 'etching' ability aren't constrained by the decisions that other people make. This makes their decision all about value, and not about speculation.
-Zipwow
Isn't one problem with this approach that the "average person" label is really a moving target?
I'm trying to decide if I can blame people for putting their cat in a microwave oven, if nobody has yet seen a microwave oven. I mean, if I turn the electric stove on real low, everything's fine...
I'm not saying that you can sue people who sell toothpicks, I'm just saying that defining that "average person" is a really difficult thing.
-Zipwow
A better argument of fakery would be that nobody at JPL has a manicure like that...
(kidding!)
-Zipwow
Does muscle really "turn into" fat? I know we all say that, but I don't think the cells really change from being muscle cells to fat cells. It seems that way, probably, because when you burn less calories (less muscle) but still eat the same, you gain fat (new cells).
From that description, I don't see how losing muscle or stopping running is different...
-Zipwow
You've got a great point here. Some of the things that treadmills with a heart monitor do is make sure that your heart rate stays in the correct range. Varying the terrain and chasing dogs could help you get to the correct heart rate. Paper throwing and navigation complexity could increase for each level, rather than physical difficulty.
Prop-cycle was a pretty reasonable game, too.
I'm all for it, sign me up!
-Zipwow
His name was Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, and they're awesome. You have to remind yourself of the time period when you see them, or you'll instinctively think they're more modern:
http://www.ummagurau.com/art/russia/
I was looking for just this info, since I'm a speakeasy customer (and fan.. that tells you something about their service). Can you tell me where you found this?
I found a clause in their TOS along the lines of, "If you're consuming excessive bandwidth that is affecting our service or equipment, we will ask you to stop", but no numbers or anything...
-Zipwow
I think the OP meant just making a mechanical bit that looked like the Turk, just as a joke. No person involved.
-Zipwow
I'm reminded of KC Royals owner Ewing Kauffman in the early 70's.
I should point out at this point that the Royals were very competitive, mostly due to the money that Kauffman was putting into the club.
Anyway, the story goes that one reporter asked him if he was worried about the amount of money he was losing by owning the Royals. His reply?
"Yeah, I can probably only afford to do this another fifteen or twenty years."
If Paul Allen wants it to work, it works. That's what being in the "top 5 richest..." list is about.
-Zipwow
Since you're answering questions, do you know what happened to the entwives? I thought the description of trolls as twisted entwives made a lot of sense, since they're missing and all.
-Zipwow
Just to be snarky, I wonder if there's a ceiling to how high you can go for the round-the-world attempt. If you've got a working suborbital spaceship, it would be amusing to make an orbital spaceship* and say, "Yeah, we went around ten or fifteen times on one tank of gas. It was a big tank, tho."
-Zipwow
* I know, I know, orbit is waaay different than straight up, straight back. Its just an amusing thought...
Which election? The 2050 election?
I'll be suprised if we're out of Iraq in two administrations. And, frankly, if we are out by the election, I think we'll have left a lot of citizens in the lurch.
-Zipwow
(*does some reading*)
Ahhh, the key here is that you can't influence the behavior of either photon, you have to let them make their own random choice, and measure that. That inability to influence the choice nixes any transmitting of information.
But, since they always make the *same* random choices, you can interpret those as a one-time pad, and use that for encrypting some message you send via regular channels. (right?)
So the answer to my original question is no, even if its reprhased to ask about encryption rather than communication. You can't modify the pairs, so the set of random choices will be different (unless you're really, really lucky).
Right?
-Zipwow