Here's just the first difference I saw after I finished replying to your post:
How many "family values" Republicans are getting busted for family violations? And how many Democrats, who don't hang neon "family values" signs around their necks to con naive family voters?
Of course there's a difference - just look at the condition the country's in compared to its condition under Democrats. Of course the difference isn't 100% - only Anonymous Republican apologist Cowards would suggest otherwise.
But that's offtopic. All I said was what any Republican would say, trying to get your vote. "The same as the Democrats" is hardly what Republicans say before the public finally catches on that they're terrible governors. Until then, Republicans are sure to say "better than the Democrats", especially when they're lying.
So? The Republican Party used to be made up of people who introduced the first income tax. There are plenty of things Republicans aren't - many of them things Republicans claim to be the only ones who are.
Republicans have also depleted the National Guard local militias who are trained and equipped to stand up to government forces. While training government forces to attack, kill and torture civilians in sub/urban as well as rural theaters.
Republicans would like nothing better than an armed American milita, easily suppressed by the Marines, to justify martial law and the roundups of liberals^Wsubversives.
The time when armed private Americans could stop government tyranny is long gone. Gun owners traded that protection for cheaper, easier commerce in hobby guns - a deal Republicans were happy to offer.
How about the bad part where Americans subsidize those 3 of America's most profitable corporations by giving them access to the PBS bandwidth? So they can charge us to watch movies the copyright should have expired on years ago, so we could keep them and share them with the rest of our American folk?
That's why using porn seekers to decode the captchas is so clever. Porn seekers won't care what "authentication" is on the captcha they decode, whether it matches the context, if it gives them porn. The porn seeker won't authenticate the captcha before decoding it.
Take the site down on DMCA violation? The site will just spring up again somewhere else. The perpetrator is already engaging in much more serious crime with the captcha decoding, and probably also copyright violation when they steal the porn they present - they probably won't also be in the business of producing porn.
Yes, the difference between threats and action is important. And the difference between a tiny percentage threatening and a substantial percentage, perhaps the majority actually attacking, changing the rules by which people live, is completely different.
It's the difference between Nazi grafitti and defaced Jewish cemeteries, and the Third Reich. The difference between vigilante threats and "mob rule" is absolutely stark.
I call that slander, libel and harassment - even assault, but not battery.
When China's "Cultural Revolution" lynched, killed and terrorized millions with physical violence at the hands of actual mobs in the streets, that was mob rule, controlled by the mafia mob running the country. Just because something isn't "mob rule", that doesn't mean I'd like it.
As for "due process rights", those are rules of the government. Kidnapping is not false imprisonment, and mass harassment is not "deprivation of due process".
I agree mostly, though I expect trial by jury to enforce community standards that are encoded into expectations under law, including proof of evidence and protecting other rights of the accused.
But I'm not sure whose behavior you mean when you say "if everyone has a "every man for himself" type mentality, well then you get the kind of behaviour you found in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina". Do you mean the behavior of the government agencies which left people to drown and fend for themselves? Or are you exaggerating the few hundred telegenic looters out of the half-million people who helped each other to safety?
More people stayed behind or returned to rescue neighbors and strangers, and even their pets, than looted. New Orleans, as usual in disasters, showed that people's natural inclination is to band together into social groups to protect each other, even when risking their lives for the material safety of strangers.
The government failure, composed of the failure of many people, most of them Republican "starve the government" corporate anarchists, supports practically everything you mention. So I'll assume that is the behavior you mean.
There's a vast gulf between harassment and lynching. And between lynching and due process of law, even vaster. These episodes lie somewhere between, at harassment. That's not "mob rule".
Troll Subject not even supported by the story. Slashdot is learning too much from the mass media.
How is that "mob" ruling anything? The people in the public investigated publicly known events. Then they used the usual power organized people have to pressure people who listen to them. Where's the "rule"? Where, indeed, is the "mob"?
That story is interesting mainly in the power regular people are accruing in China, a Communist tyranny that favors totalitarianism. I guess if you're a Chinese Communist powermonger, the Internet and people using its open society represent "mob rule', because tyrants see the world only in the simplest, most polarized power structures.
I didn't invent that crack. I read about it on the Web several years ago. It's still my favorite, and the reason I don't use captchas to protect anything.
Captchas are not hard to crack, now that someone has produced my favorite crack strategy. A "man in the middle" attack server hits pages with captcha challenges. That server advertises a "free porn" website, presenting to its human audience the captchas it hit. The porn seeking humans decode and enter the captchas, get the porn (or not), the server sends their entries to the original captcha page, and gets past them as often as humans seeking porn would. There's so many humans seeking porn that the middleman transactions happen in realtime, indistinguishable from direct human responses to the original captcha.
This is v1.0 of the Matrix, where human brains are harnessed to solve problems by a more powerful and wise, though less "intelligent" computer network.
Since you seem to be actually unable to understand even the reasons why people would use the 9/11/2001 planebombs as examples of the benefits of live telemetry, I'll explain that to you. #1: it's the plane crash that everyone in the world knows about. #2: with live audio, those planes might have been shot down; their black boxes have never been revealed, so we don't know what actions were taken which might have given us a chance to stop the crashes, or even whether there's any truth to persistent conspiracy stories.
Here's some more hints for you: even a "razor thin" 2% profit for airlines means $5B or more annually. I already described how telemetry would reduce costs in both increased safety and cheaper investigations. And of course the system should be redundant - that's part of its lesser cost than crashing.
We don't have full transcripts of the flight/ground communications on 9/11/2001: the tapes were destroyed. The only copies. And those tapes don't have all the crew communications, just the ones over the radio, which the hijackers controlled for at least part of the flight.
I'm done straightening you out. For whatever reason (none of which you've been able to cite without it fallign apart), you want us to be stuck with black boxes and crashing planes. Enough to ignore even the most obvious benefits of a better system, and the most obvious flaws of the current one. I'm done wasting my time with you.
Jack Abramoff's main gig (as far as we know so far) was lobbying for "antigambling" laws to stop new casinos from competing with his casino clients. Also under the guise of "protecting gamblers from themselves", even enlisting the most popular Christian political organizers.
Sounds like "antigambling legislation" is a bigger rigged game, a nest for money launderers, mobsters, bribers and bribees. We should protect our legislatures from themselves by keeping them out of the business. They're welcome to stay in the business of busting money launderers, mobsters, bribers/bribees and extortionists, and rehab for compulsive gamblers - but I doubt they'll be as interested in that losing game.
The noise from the fuelcell will disappear when microfluidics are used to pump the fuel and exhaust. That will also drop the size (volume), and even the weight. Though 0.792 specific gravity methanol will weigh about 792g (1.75lbs) in the liter capacity, so the total cell will probably continue to weigh about the same. Which is a lot less than the weight of 10h in electric batteries.
A really interesting gain could come from integrating the cell reservoir with the rest of the volume of the entire notebook. Fill the spaces currently filled with air with fuel (protected of course by a tough insulating/nonflammable layer), and the overall volume of the notebook could remain about the same, especially considering the airfilled shockbarrier protecting LCDs. Clever engineering could circulate the waste heat in the fuel, much as modern car fuelpumps are cooled by the gas in the tank in which they sit. Really clever engineering could harness the waste heat to circulate the fuel not just to the heat exchangers, but also through the pump, for efficiency increase (and heat reduction).
I expect that Toshiba is already testing its microfluidics version privately. PR like the BBC review will generate excitement for even a clunky first introduction. A quiet, smaller, lighter introduction will exceed those expectations and increase sales with even better reviews.
Maybe the improvements will only come out from up Toshiba's sleeve gradually. They might patent them early, then introduce them to pump their sales curves. I don't believe they will introduce a noisy fuelcell as early as 6 months from now, so they surely have more than they're demo'ing. Which gives me more confidence that they're going to pull this one off.
Now if it will just run on sake, and give massages, Toshiba will have retaken the "Personal Computer" from the dull interpreters who have made it a boring commodity.
When the telcos/cablecos can charge higher rates to other content or service providers than their own competing departments, and/or reduce the performance of those competitors over the Net, those Net operators will choke the competition out of existence.
That divide and conquer tactic has been the favorite telco strategy since forever. Remember what happened to competing DSL providers? Say goodbye to independent content/service providers.
That dodge is how Bush can appear on TV saying "this NSA program doesn't listen to your calls", because they forward your calls to another program, at the FBI (and probably elsewhere). Feel safer?
The infrastructure for investigating crashes, especially the reconstruction of the crashed plane by experts in nearby temporary sites, is extremely expensive. So is the cost of the actual crash, especially to the survivors of the victims.
How about the value of some extreme cases, like the transcripts of the 4 planebomb flights that crashed on 9/11/2001? The black boxes from the WTC site have never been reported found - live radio transcripts would add incalculable value to subsequent efforts and events. Hijackings and collisions aren't once-a-decade events, either.
The Earth and its radio spectrum are plenty large enough to carry all the data from even millions of planes. It already carries billions of phonecalls at higher data rates. The cost of a telemetry system would be much lower than its benefits. It would even deliver benefits to the world's increasingly congested ground transit, to say nothing of any eventual massive scaling of individual air transit.
You're making up cost comparisons out of nowhere. Even your lethal rates are skewed, even when they're not just theoretical (and misinterpreted). Plenty of people who die in plane crashes flew less than 1M miles. Do you really believe that no one dies until after they've take 694,000 transcontinental flights? Or that even represents a meaningful average?
I guess that if you can't figure out what an airline "panic button" would do with a live radio security system, you can't be expected to understand any aspect of this system until it's running on every flight you take.
How about they start improving safety with a steady stream of sensor telemetry from the plane to the ground network, including microphones and crew "panic buttons"? The radios could signal on several bands, to receivers including satellite and longer waves, caching data when disconnected for burst update when reconnected. Any significant outage or deviation would generate an alert.
Later they can make the signalling more than read-only. I'd prefer aircraft primarily on autopilot, with crews chatting with each other across the global skies while they monitor their own flights and each other, supported by ground crews.
Why is there ever any dependence on finding a "black box" recording after a fiery crash?
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Here's just the first difference I saw after I finished replying to your post:
How many "family values" Republicans are getting busted for family violations? And how many Democrats, who don't hang neon "family values" signs around their necks to con naive family voters?
Of course there's a difference - just look at the condition the country's in compared to its condition under Democrats. Of course the difference isn't 100% - only Anonymous Republican apologist Cowards would suggest otherwise.
But that's offtopic. All I said was what any Republican would say, trying to get your vote. "The same as the Democrats" is hardly what Republicans say before the public finally catches on that they're terrible governors. Until then, Republicans are sure to say "better than the Democrats", especially when they're lying.
So? The Republican Party used to be made up of people who introduced the first income tax. There are plenty of things Republicans aren't - many of them things Republicans claim to be the only ones who are.
"integral to the lives of a billion people" != naught
Republicans have also depleted the National Guard local militias who are trained and equipped to stand up to government forces. While training government forces to attack, kill and torture civilians in sub/urban as well as rural theaters.
Republicans would like nothing better than an armed American milita, easily suppressed by the Marines, to justify martial law and the roundups of liberals^Wsubversives.
The time when armed private Americans could stop government tyranny is long gone. Gun owners traded that protection for cheaper, easier commerce in hobby guns - a deal Republicans were happy to offer.
How about the bad part where Americans subsidize those 3 of America's most profitable corporations by giving them access to the PBS bandwidth? So they can charge us to watch movies the copyright should have expired on years ago, so we could keep them and share them with the rest of our American folk?
Republicans bring you smaller, less intrusive government and more deregulation.
" When a guy sleeps with your wife [...] the cuckholded father are the same. "
"Can you cite any credible evidence to support your claims?"
No, because I never said that. You've got me confused with someone else.
That's why using porn seekers to decode the captchas is so clever. Porn seekers won't care what "authentication" is on the captcha they decode, whether it matches the context, if it gives them porn. The porn seeker won't authenticate the captcha before decoding it.
Take the site down on DMCA violation? The site will just spring up again somewhere else. The perpetrator is already engaging in much more serious crime with the captcha decoding, and probably also copyright violation when they steal the porn they present - they probably won't also be in the business of producing porn.
Yes, the difference between threats and action is important. And the difference between a tiny percentage threatening and a substantial percentage, perhaps the majority actually attacking, changing the rules by which people live, is completely different.
It's the difference between Nazi grafitti and defaced Jewish cemeteries, and the Third Reich. The difference between vigilante threats and "mob rule" is absolutely stark.
Of course it is. Can't you tell the difference?
I call that slander, libel and harassment - even assault, but not battery.
When China's "Cultural Revolution" lynched, killed and terrorized millions with physical violence at the hands of actual mobs in the streets, that was mob rule, controlled by the mafia mob running the country. Just because something isn't "mob rule", that doesn't mean I'd like it.
As for "due process rights", those are rules of the government. Kidnapping is not false imprisonment, and mass harassment is not "deprivation of due process".
"Rules"?
I agree mostly, though I expect trial by jury to enforce community standards that are encoded into expectations under law, including proof of evidence and protecting other rights of the accused.
But I'm not sure whose behavior you mean when you say "if everyone has a "every man for himself" type mentality, well then you get the kind of behaviour you found in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina". Do you mean the behavior of the government agencies which left people to drown and fend for themselves? Or are you exaggerating the few hundred telegenic looters out of the half-million people who helped each other to safety?
More people stayed behind or returned to rescue neighbors and strangers, and even their pets, than looted. New Orleans, as usual in disasters, showed that people's natural inclination is to band together into social groups to protect each other, even when risking their lives for the material safety of strangers.
The government failure, composed of the failure of many people, most of them Republican "starve the government" corporate anarchists, supports practically everything you mention. So I'll assume that is the behavior you mean.
phone calls = torches & pitchforks?
There's a vast gulf between harassment and lynching. And between lynching and due process of law, even vaster. These episodes lie somewhere between, at harassment. That's not "mob rule".
Troll Subject not even supported by the story. Slashdot is learning too much from the mass media.
How is that "mob" ruling anything? The people in the public investigated publicly known events. Then they used the usual power organized people have to pressure people who listen to them. Where's the "rule"? Where, indeed, is the "mob"?
That story is interesting mainly in the power regular people are accruing in China, a Communist tyranny that favors totalitarianism. I guess if you're a Chinese Communist powermonger, the Internet and people using its open society represent "mob rule', because tyrants see the world only in the simplest, most polarized power structures.
Maybe Alien54 and the IHT are learning more from Xin Hua, China's official propaganda publisher, and quoting the best lessons from the New York Times.
I didn't invent that crack. I read about it on the Web several years ago. It's still my favorite, and the reason I don't use captchas to protect anything.
Captchas are not hard to crack, now that someone has produced my favorite crack strategy. A "man in the middle" attack server hits pages with captcha challenges. That server advertises a "free porn" website, presenting to its human audience the captchas it hit. The porn seeking humans decode and enter the captchas, get the porn (or not), the server sends their entries to the original captcha page, and gets past them as often as humans seeking porn would. There's so many humans seeking porn that the middleman transactions happen in realtime, indistinguishable from direct human responses to the original captcha.
This is v1.0 of the Matrix, where human brains are harnessed to solve problems by a more powerful and wise, though less "intelligent" computer network.
Since you seem to be actually unable to understand even the reasons why people would use the 9/11/2001 planebombs as examples of the benefits of live telemetry, I'll explain that to you. #1: it's the plane crash that everyone in the world knows about. #2: with live audio, those planes might have been shot down; their black boxes have never been revealed, so we don't know what actions were taken which might have given us a chance to stop the crashes, or even whether there's any truth to persistent conspiracy stories.
Here's some more hints for you: even a "razor thin" 2% profit for airlines means $5B or more annually. I already described how telemetry would reduce costs in both increased safety and cheaper investigations. And of course the system should be redundant - that's part of its lesser cost than crashing.
We don't have full transcripts of the flight/ground communications on 9/11/2001: the tapes were destroyed. The only copies. And those tapes don't have all the crew communications, just the ones over the radio, which the hijackers controlled for at least part of the flight.
I'm done straightening you out. For whatever reason (none of which you've been able to cite without it fallign apart), you want us to be stuck with black boxes and crashing planes. Enough to ignore even the most obvious benefits of a better system, and the most obvious flaws of the current one. I'm done wasting my time with you.
Jack Abramoff's main gig (as far as we know so far) was lobbying for "antigambling" laws to stop new casinos from competing with his casino clients. Also under the guise of "protecting gamblers from themselves", even enlisting the most popular Christian political organizers.
Sounds like "antigambling legislation" is a bigger rigged game, a nest for money launderers, mobsters, bribers and bribees. We should protect our legislatures from themselves by keeping them out of the business. They're welcome to stay in the business of busting money launderers, mobsters, bribers/bribees and extortionists, and rehab for compulsive gamblers - but I doubt they'll be as interested in that losing game.
"size, noise and weight"
The noise from the fuelcell will disappear when microfluidics are used to pump the fuel and exhaust. That will also drop the size (volume), and even the weight. Though 0.792 specific gravity methanol will weigh about 792g (1.75lbs) in the liter capacity, so the total cell will probably continue to weigh about the same. Which is a lot less than the weight of 10h in electric batteries.
A really interesting gain could come from integrating the cell reservoir with the rest of the volume of the entire notebook. Fill the spaces currently filled with air with fuel (protected of course by a tough insulating/nonflammable layer), and the overall volume of the notebook could remain about the same, especially considering the airfilled shockbarrier protecting LCDs. Clever engineering could circulate the waste heat in the fuel, much as modern car fuelpumps are cooled by the gas in the tank in which they sit. Really clever engineering could harness the waste heat to circulate the fuel not just to the heat exchangers, but also through the pump, for efficiency increase (and heat reduction).
I expect that Toshiba is already testing its microfluidics version privately. PR like the BBC review will generate excitement for even a clunky first introduction. A quiet, smaller, lighter introduction will exceed those expectations and increase sales with even better reviews.
Maybe the improvements will only come out from up Toshiba's sleeve gradually. They might patent them early, then introduce them to pump their sales curves. I don't believe they will introduce a noisy fuelcell as early as 6 months from now, so they surely have more than they're demo'ing. Which gives me more confidence that they're going to pull this one off.
Now if it will just run on sake, and give massages, Toshiba will have retaken the "Personal Computer" from the dull interpreters who have made it a boring commodity.
Just pay me.
When the telcos/cablecos can charge higher rates to other content or service providers than their own competing departments, and/or reduce the performance of those competitors over the Net, those Net operators will choke the competition out of existence.
That divide and conquer tactic has been the favorite telco strategy since forever. Remember what happened to competing DSL providers? Say goodbye to independent content/service providers.
"forwarded to the FBI for investigation"
That dodge is how Bush can appear on TV saying "this NSA program doesn't listen to your calls", because they forward your calls to another program, at the FBI (and probably elsewhere). Feel safer?
The infrastructure for investigating crashes, especially the reconstruction of the crashed plane by experts in nearby temporary sites, is extremely expensive. So is the cost of the actual crash, especially to the survivors of the victims.
How about the value of some extreme cases, like the transcripts of the 4 planebomb flights that crashed on 9/11/2001? The black boxes from the WTC site have never been reported found - live radio transcripts would add incalculable value to subsequent efforts and events. Hijackings and collisions aren't once-a-decade events, either.
The Earth and its radio spectrum are plenty large enough to carry all the data from even millions of planes. It already carries billions of phonecalls at higher data rates. The cost of a telemetry system would be much lower than its benefits. It would even deliver benefits to the world's increasingly congested ground transit, to say nothing of any eventual massive scaling of individual air transit.
You're making up cost comparisons out of nowhere. Even your lethal rates are skewed, even when they're not just theoretical (and misinterpreted). Plenty of people who die in plane crashes flew less than 1M miles. Do you really believe that no one dies until after they've take 694,000 transcontinental flights? Or that even represents a meaningful average?
I guess that if you can't figure out what an airline "panic button" would do with a live radio security system, you can't be expected to understand any aspect of this system until it's running on every flight you take.
How about they start improving safety with a steady stream of sensor telemetry from the plane to the ground network, including microphones and crew "panic buttons"? The radios could signal on several bands, to receivers including satellite and longer waves, caching data when disconnected for burst update when reconnected. Any significant outage or deviation would generate an alert.
Later they can make the signalling more than read-only. I'd prefer aircraft primarily on autopilot, with crews chatting with each other across the global skies while they monitor their own flights and each other, supported by ground crews.
Why is there ever any dependence on finding a "black box" recording after a fiery crash?