Since with browsing you're looking at general content and need time to parse the information, 6 fps should be fine. But when looking for a specific pattern match, flipping (in my interpretation: using one's thumb to control the rate at which a group of pages, held under spring like tension, is allowed to turn) is not very efficient at 6 fps as your brain can recognize the relevant information faster than that (i.e. a chart describing electrical connections).
It brings us to the classic situation of apparant speed of a computational device: can it work faster than the human brain for a specific purpose? In one case here (browsing) it has to be quicker than thought while the other (flipping for specific content) must be quicker than reaction.
In which case the internet would never have developed much past an academic novelty and defense utility for which you'd never be able to afford reasonable bandwidth to your home.
Among other reasons, I for one appreciate that the average Joe can learn a little something new, and the quality of education goes way up for those who previously lacked access. There's a decent chance we'll be able to bootstrap the education on a continent or two not to mention the impact to lower access areas within the US (and other 1st tier countries).
Oh, and you'd still be paying through the nose for long distance phone calls (the only thing that competes these days with yester-year's long distance costs are the default rates in high end hotels).
Well, from what I've been told, George Lucas' old wife helped touch up a lot of the original scripts (she actually won numerous awards for her work). Star Wars episode I was long after they were divorced, and she wasn't there to fix a lot of his mistakes.
I see. So she was the one who could write dialogue?
Got it in one.
You don't think they took time to discuss it in a committee did you?
The selection is rather limited however. If you were to do a cost per library analysis there's not much cheaper than Netflix anywhere. It really depends on what you're going for.
PS - besides, I have a feeling that Redbox's business model counts heavily on people forgetting to bring the discs back (or delay a day or two for convenience). I mean I know that's how I give extra support the local public library;)
(just kidding - it drives me way to crazy when I can't get a book due to it's delayed arrival to do that to anybody else).
Never had trouble with that. In fact one of my favorite things to do back in the old town was to pass cars in the left lane. I kept hoping I could manage either a speeding ticket or at least an official warning - wanted to frame it on the wall (maybe even talk up the cited speed).
Even a mountain bike should be able to push 30 to 35 on a flat, road bikes can do far better. Country highways are different, but in town riders should have no trouble keeping up with city speeds unless there's terrain issues (I certainly wouldn't be able to travel up a San Francisco hill at 25 mph - not even close). Mountain bikes on a sustained downhill road may actually need to worry about melting/fusing bearings (the better road bikes should be fine with a sustained 50+ mph), slow down -> freeze up -> inertia does BAD THINGS.
Bikes need to follow the same rules. That means if they can't keep up within 5 mph of the limit they should pull over, if they're holding up five or more cars and there's room to move over but they don't take it, they can be ticketed just like any motorized vehicle. The point is that (other than freeways) the rules are exactly the same (possible local exceptions may exist).
Yeah - the last town I lived in (small college type) rather seriously enforced all of the pedestrian and cyclist laws. You could bike in the center of your lane (like a cyclist is supposed to do) and cars behind would respect your space, speed, and not try to pass. You'd even be ticketed for trying the sidewalk (and definitely for stop sign/light violations & etc...).
Pedestrians could cross at a cross walk completely blind and be perfectly safe (even at jogging speeds - you have the right away after all, why should you bother looking at every "cross-street" to see if the guy with the stop sign is really going to stop?). If you tried taking the bike through a cross walk for the right-of-way, you had better have hopped off and walked it though.
Where I live now, biking in the lane, even at the speed limit, is more or less suicide. Cars will run you off the road with the assumption that you're going to slow them down. I haven't pulled my bike out in a few years for any serious means of transportation. If I want to go riding and not die it's got to start with a bike rack and using the car to get somewhere else. For people in the area who don't have the cash for a car, but can manage a bike, it's no wonder why they ignore the law and take to the sidewalks and such. Same thing for red lights - if it's visibly clear - you get across before some idiot making a right turn after the light goes green clips the back wheel off of you (since you have to ride on the shoulder not to get mowed down, obviously you would have been safer in the center of the lane where you're legally supposed to be if the laws were actually enforced).
However, you could set up a social network via an onion style system - similar to some of the marketplaces used for certain bitcoin transactions. Thus, you would have a non-centralized system which is not automatically mined for advertising data, or something easily forced to hand out information via court order (although with a social network you're still most vulnerable to the least-secure member of a circle). You could even go so far as to create a validation system for virtual identities which can't necessarily be traced back to a physical person. Although pseudo-anonymity or virtual-reputations are distinct issues from privacy control (they could be related though).
A good superconducting-wire grid could really help solve the base load generation problem. (i.e. generate on the other side of the planet, or in windy zones without transmission loss). That would of course require focusing on R&D while using economical solutions to meet current base load infrastructure expansion needs - like Billy G. is saying here.
The problem is that prior art must be submitted in a rather narrow window of "public review," otherwise I believe there's a rather high burden to claim prior art in court if you seek to have a patent overturned (i.e. which means the public needs to be actively reading every proposed patent posted online and commenting on it to count). I'm not completely up on the new revisions to US Patent law, but I think the general trend is to discourage patent invalidation based on prior art unless that prior art is submitted as a public comment before the patent is granted.
This is a benefit to the patent holder since they don't have to live in constant fear that someone down the road may pop out of the garage with grandpa's old prototype and a benefit to the public in decreased litigation (presumably). The main disadvantage is that the public needs to pay attention during the process to avoid junk hard-to-remove patents.
So even in the notebook manufacturers were unaware of the patent in progress (big assumption) and had thought notebook cooling would be covered by either prior art or an obvious clause - they, in their own best interest, should have blasted IPventure's application during the public comment phase. Personally, I think that's a burden which should be between IPventure and the USPTO, but congress is the one who dictates the rules here, and in this case it sounds like it was the big boys who weren't paying attention to the rules.
You can also directly enter the ASCII code on most keyboards (in Windows at least) by holding alt while punching in the base 10 number. For example [alt]156[/alt] yields: "£."
I don't do a lot of currencies much, so I'm not using £, ¥, etc... often, but I do use some of the Greek letters on a daily basis - particularly mu (who wants to use the letter "u" when you can use "" (230))*. "" and "ß" (224, and 225 respectively) are of occasional use. The fractions for "½", and "¼" (171, 172) sometimes come in handy too. (And back in junior high I programed the Apple || e in the library to wait about five minutes and then start printing ASCII 7 (audible beep))
So just because the key is not on the keyboard doesn't mean you can't type it without navigating the insert function in a word processor and then pasting to whatever internet forum you're posting on. I've always thought throwing in an extended ASCII into a password is also a good way around the method most brute force attacks would attempt (at least until exhausting "regular" ASCII combinations first). It'll get you into trouble if you wind up with a non-standard keyboard (some laptops are cheap that way) or one of the "virtual" keyboards some remote authentication web based servers use to attempt to get around key-logger vulnerabilities.
*Strange - in the preview mu doesn't show up as it's own character and neither does alpha, but everything else does (they all display properly in the FF text entry window). Anyone have an idea why? Is this some sort of error of the Slashdot ASCII to html unicode converter? Or is FF or Windows inputting in a "symbol" rather than the true ASCII 230? Curious and curiouser.
Still, modern currency is more backed by the economy of the governing issuer than by the fact that a government says "this is a dollar and it's worth this much." This is good because things like gold and silver have far better uses than sitting in a fort looking pretty. In essence what gives a [US] dollar it's worth is that you can use it certain regions to buy goods manufactured in that region which are of worth to you. When something like the US dollar gains defacto status as a dominant form of exchange - then you have other factors which tie in multiple economies and make things more complicated (i.e. China couldn't sell goods to the US unless they're willing to accept US dollars as payment...).
Bitcoin, not being backed by any specific economy will be subject to valuation based on what may be acquired with it
OP's point was that there WERE no Anthrax attacks. Not a single one. There was a major anthrax scare in the USA after 9/11 but there was never any actual attacks.
There were however many, many hoax attacks....what we do know is that not a single one of those "anthrax attacks" wewre genuine, they were all hoaxes...
I beg to differ, speaking for the five dead whom for obvious reasons won't be replying. There's a chance the other 17 infected who did survive may reply, but given the relative obscurity of Slashdot comments...
That's not counting other deaths such as suspected researcher Ivins who was apparently harassed to the point of suicide by the Bureau's invasive full court investigation (which never did turn up evidence more compelling than Ivins was one of dozens of people who had access to the original strain).
If the emails of "please correct this address" don't work and if you get PII like this; you can probably turn the company in for violation of state or federal laws. Especially if it's ever medical related info (HIPAA). That'll get results fast.
Perfect! Nothing like precocious highlights on every YASD, and the other questions that might come up are quite fun too.
Daddy why did you fall down the stairs while wielding a chickatrice? Daddy, why did you turn into a lizard before trying to kill the dragon? Daddy, why did that red person get a severe headache after you removed your equipment? Daddy, why are you sacrificing unicorns? Daddy, why is god punishing you?
Of course there's important life lessons that can be taught: "don't talk to strangers - they may be trying to steal the amulet back," or "drinking from public fountains might be dangerous," as well as "feed your pets or they might stop loving you," and of course "genocide is ok as long as the other guys are a really big nuisance."
Mostly, but more like Notobtaniumforverylongium. It had been predicted that Uuq (element 115) might be one "peak" on the islands of stability, but it seems that the actuality is a few elements lower. None of these talked about today should have much of a useful halflife.
Thank you for bringing that point up in the discussion. Perhaps one reason we're seeing less than the usual scientifically enlightened response in this case (comedians may respond here) is that the "tech-savvy" nerds are higher on the adoption curve for unibody phone designs (including smart phones) and also may consider brain cancer to be one of the types most detrimental to one's perceived chief asset. If so, then it's reasonable to expect that a higher level of fear than usual will be loosed among the usual present crowd.
Note that most people aren't picking up on the classification of: "might possibly be carcinogenic" and have assumed that the WHO is instead proposing an instant ban on mobile social distance-interaction.
Exactly, otherwise you've set aside the entire premises of "innocent until proven guilty."
Although there do have to be provisions to prevent harm while the decision is made by the courts (the whole idea behind setting bail or denying bail). The courts have decided that in the event that you'll do a runner or whack off another person, they can keep you in jail ("presumed innocent" of course...) until the jury hears the case out.
In the case of IP on the 'net: if you've got a new artist who's just had something start selling but is really on the brink of feeding her family - the length of a court case could force her out of the creation business and back to the supermarket checkout business. On the other hand, if a website has some legit (but borderline not-quite-infringing) business, with the way traffic and trends are set on the internet a blackout during a court case could equally tank that business.
In theory, this is where the court order will come in with an IP case. My preference is that the Judge would issue a decision based at least on part of the survivability of an artist vs a host (such that an order to suspend will occur more often in small content rather than big content cases). There should also be an automatic time-out on the suspension if legal actions do not proceed (e.g. you can't simply accuse someone of being a communist, or a witch, or an IP infringer and then leave town leaving the burden of setting the bonfire alight with the public (because defense is the burden of the right holder)). In cases of obvious infringement I'm sure the judge will make the obvious decision.
What gets interesting is the question of jurisdiction. But I'll let someone else take a stab at that one.
Yeah, but when metal spoons explodes (like they do all the time)....you can just walk over and pick up the pieces.....right then, no need to evacuate for 500 years.
You'd think so, but the real reason Area 51 was classified didn't have anything to do with the misinformation posted today. What really happened is that they decided to see the full extent of what Chuck Norris could do with a spoon (because the knife or fork were too unsporting). Let's just say it'll be quite a while before they can pick up the pieces and open that museum.
If you want to be more precise (and more expensive), you can order NRC-free isotopes from our friendly "local"* nuclear chemistry hobby shop. I think they were having some illegal harassment issues from the FBI a while back, but I haven't heard anything recently about it. Either way, you can still order and it's perfectly legal at the Federal level (might be worth a check of your local and state ordinances... and if they're not so favorable you'll need to decide if it's worth the risk of going to court to make the judges smack down completely unreasonable (from the scientific and evidence based point of view) "radiation safety" laws that tend to get passed to make some sort of impression with the voting public). They've also got some other fun items there, but not really relevant to the real concern voiced by the original question.
*Local is as local does; the "global village" if we want to dust of an archaic early internet phrase.
Yeah - sniffing would be under the category of LAN security. But if you're doing anything like password entry without a ssh terminal, vpn (encrypted), or https protocol... you hopefully don't care about that new-for-nerds-comment-aggregation site, or that bank account, or the impact of that social network - otherwise I'd hope you'd have found an alternative service provider which does care enough about you to flip that little "s" switch.
Of course it goes both ways too - just use firesheep to figure out who your security unconscious neighbors are and then knock on their door and say "hey - you wanna read this pamphlet about internet security?"
Open doesn't mean WPA2 free. Set your SSID to: "Neighbor Shared Password: 'EFF Advised' questions to me@myhouse.net" Then you'll be fine. That's a minimal tech solution - your connection to the router should be fine. You'll probably want to pay attention to LAN security, and maybe put a password on NAS or network printers - but if you have those things, it's something that should have been thought about anyway.
Or if you want double protection, get yourself a VPN service and set it up for everything in your house (automatic use) so that you'll have the defense of saying that nothing at your IP address would have been your devices. You can keep a MAC address log. Use one of the open source firmware packages developed for your router and do some serious network management (your MACs get full bandwidth - throttle others if it's a problem. Probably none of that is perfect, but it's something smart and should help if your door really does get kicked in. Use OpenDNS to make it hard for the neighbor's kids to check out things you don't want on your network (again - not perfect, but it'll keep the riff-raff down).
I'd be willing to bet that the EFF would step in if you got in trouble following their advise (presuming you don't have an unencrypted drive full of illegally-naughty things, and even then they may take a look into the search and seizure aspect). But I don't really know. I'll still find a way to get them spare change from time to time regardless though. (Humble Bundle anyone)?
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Since with browsing you're looking at general content and need time to parse the information, 6 fps should be fine. But when looking for a specific pattern match, flipping (in my interpretation: using one's thumb to control the rate at which a group of pages, held under spring like tension, is allowed to turn) is not very efficient at 6 fps as your brain can recognize the relevant information faster than that (i.e. a chart describing electrical connections).
It brings us to the classic situation of apparant speed of a computational device: can it work faster than the human brain for a specific purpose? In one case here (browsing) it has to be quicker than thought while the other (flipping for specific content) must be quicker than reaction.
Perhaps you could roll from both ends to achieve a "scrolling" look mimicking modern computer displays. It'd give a high tech feeling to your idea!
In which case the internet would never have developed much past an academic novelty and defense utility for which you'd never be able to afford reasonable bandwidth to your home.
Among other reasons, I for one appreciate that the average Joe can learn a little something new, and the quality of education goes way up for those who previously lacked access. There's a decent chance we'll be able to bootstrap the education on a continent or two not to mention the impact to lower access areas within the US (and other 1st tier countries).
Oh, and you'd still be paying through the nose for long distance phone calls (the only thing that competes these days with yester-year's long distance costs are the default rates in high end hotels).
Well, from what I've been told, George Lucas' old wife helped touch up a lot of the original scripts (she actually won numerous awards for her work). Star Wars episode I was long after they were divorced, and she wasn't there to fix a lot of his mistakes.
I see. So she was the one who could write dialogue?
Got it in one.
You don't think they took time to discuss it in a committee did you?
The selection is rather limited however. If you were to do a cost per library analysis there's not much cheaper than Netflix anywhere. It really depends on what you're going for.
PS - besides, I have a feeling that Redbox's business model counts heavily on people forgetting to bring the discs back (or delay a day or two for convenience). I mean I know that's how I give extra support the local public library ;)
(just kidding - it drives me way to crazy when I can't get a book due to it's delayed arrival to do that to anybody else).
Never had trouble with that. In fact one of my favorite things to do back in the old town was to pass cars in the left lane. I kept hoping I could manage either a speeding ticket or at least an official warning - wanted to frame it on the wall (maybe even talk up the cited speed).
Even a mountain bike should be able to push 30 to 35 on a flat, road bikes can do far better. Country highways are different, but in town riders should have no trouble keeping up with city speeds unless there's terrain issues (I certainly wouldn't be able to travel up a San Francisco hill at 25 mph - not even close). Mountain bikes on a sustained downhill road may actually need to worry about melting/fusing bearings (the better road bikes should be fine with a sustained 50+ mph), slow down -> freeze up -> inertia does BAD THINGS.
Bikes need to follow the same rules. That means if they can't keep up within 5 mph of the limit they should pull over, if they're holding up five or more cars and there's room to move over but they don't take it, they can be ticketed just like any motorized vehicle. The point is that (other than freeways) the rules are exactly the same (possible local exceptions may exist).
IANAL
Yeah - the last town I lived in (small college type) rather seriously enforced all of the pedestrian and cyclist laws. You could bike in the center of your lane (like a cyclist is supposed to do) and cars behind would respect your space, speed, and not try to pass. You'd even be ticketed for trying the sidewalk (and definitely for stop sign/light violations & etc...).
Pedestrians could cross at a cross walk completely blind and be perfectly safe (even at jogging speeds - you have the right away after all, why should you bother looking at every "cross-street" to see if the guy with the stop sign is really going to stop?). If you tried taking the bike through a cross walk for the right-of-way, you had better have hopped off and walked it though.
Where I live now, biking in the lane, even at the speed limit, is more or less suicide. Cars will run you off the road with the assumption that you're going to slow them down. I haven't pulled my bike out in a few years for any serious means of transportation. If I want to go riding and not die it's got to start with a bike rack and using the car to get somewhere else. For people in the area who don't have the cash for a car, but can manage a bike, it's no wonder why they ignore the law and take to the sidewalks and such. Same thing for red lights - if it's visibly clear - you get across before some idiot making a right turn after the light goes green clips the back wheel off of you (since you have to ride on the shoulder not to get mowed down, obviously you would have been safer in the center of the lane where you're legally supposed to be if the laws were actually enforced).
However, you could set up a social network via an onion style system - similar to some of the marketplaces used for certain bitcoin transactions. Thus, you would have a non-centralized system which is not automatically mined for advertising data, or something easily forced to hand out information via court order (although with a social network you're still most vulnerable to the least-secure member of a circle). You could even go so far as to create a validation system for virtual identities which can't necessarily be traced back to a physical person. Although pseudo-anonymity or virtual-reputations are distinct issues from privacy control (they could be related though).
A good superconducting-wire grid could really help solve the base load generation problem. (i.e. generate on the other side of the planet, or in windy zones without transmission loss). That would of course require focusing on R&D while using economical solutions to meet current base load infrastructure expansion needs - like Billy G. is saying here.
The problem is that prior art must be submitted in a rather narrow window of "public review," otherwise I believe there's a rather high burden to claim prior art in court if you seek to have a patent overturned (i.e. which means the public needs to be actively reading every proposed patent posted online and commenting on it to count). I'm not completely up on the new revisions to US Patent law, but I think the general trend is to discourage patent invalidation based on prior art unless that prior art is submitted as a public comment before the patent is granted.
This is a benefit to the patent holder since they don't have to live in constant fear that someone down the road may pop out of the garage with grandpa's old prototype and a benefit to the public in decreased litigation (presumably). The main disadvantage is that the public needs to pay attention during the process to avoid junk hard-to-remove patents.
So even in the notebook manufacturers were unaware of the patent in progress (big assumption) and had thought notebook cooling would be covered by either prior art or an obvious clause - they, in their own best interest, should have blasted IPventure's application during the public comment phase. Personally, I think that's a burden which should be between IPventure and the USPTO, but congress is the one who dictates the rules here, and in this case it sounds like it was the big boys who weren't paying attention to the rules.
The correct parody of the name is "Failbook". Everyone knows that!
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that fix for you
No they don't. Oh and if you don't agree with me I'll call Teddy R. back to quietly walk up behind you and hit you with something ;)
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Of course I'm a fan of the somewhat less predictable "funny" tag for busting up a flame war and getting a discussion back on track
You can also directly enter the ASCII code on most keyboards (in Windows at least) by holding alt while punching in the base 10 number. For example [alt]156[/alt] yields: "£."
I don't do a lot of currencies much, so I'm not using £, ¥, etc... often, but I do use some of the Greek letters on a daily basis - particularly mu (who wants to use the letter "u" when you can use "" (230))*. "" and "ß" (224, and 225 respectively) are of occasional use. The fractions for "½", and "¼" (171, 172) sometimes come in handy too. (And back in junior high I programed the Apple || e in the library to wait about five minutes and then start printing ASCII 7 (audible beep))
So just because the key is not on the keyboard doesn't mean you can't type it without navigating the insert function in a word processor and then pasting to whatever internet forum you're posting on. I've always thought throwing in an extended ASCII into a password is also a good way around the method most brute force attacks would attempt (at least until exhausting "regular" ASCII combinations first). It'll get you into trouble if you wind up with a non-standard keyboard (some laptops are cheap that way) or one of the "virtual" keyboards some remote authentication web based servers use to attempt to get around key-logger vulnerabilities.
*Strange - in the preview mu doesn't show up as it's own character and neither does alpha, but everything else does (they all display properly in the FF text entry window). Anyone have an idea why? Is this some sort of error of the Slashdot ASCII to html unicode converter? Or is FF or Windows inputting in a "symbol" rather than the true ASCII 230? Curious and curiouser.
Still, modern currency is more backed by the economy of the governing issuer than by the fact that a government says "this is a dollar and it's worth this much." This is good because things like gold and silver have far better uses than sitting in a fort looking pretty. In essence what gives a [US] dollar it's worth is that you can use it certain regions to buy goods manufactured in that region which are of worth to you. When something like the US dollar gains defacto status as a dominant form of exchange - then you have other factors which tie in multiple economies and make things more complicated (i.e. China couldn't sell goods to the US unless they're willing to accept US dollars as payment...).
Bitcoin, not being backed by any specific economy will be subject to valuation based on what may be acquired with it
OP's point was that there WERE no Anthrax attacks. Not a single one. There was a major anthrax scare in the USA after 9/11 but there was never any actual attacks. There were however many, many hoax attacks. ...what we do know is that not a single one of those "anthrax attacks" wewre genuine, they were all hoaxes...
I beg to differ, speaking for the five dead whom for obvious reasons won't be replying. There's a chance the other 17 infected who did survive may reply, but given the relative obscurity of Slashdot comments...
That's not counting other deaths such as suspected researcher Ivins who was apparently harassed to the point of suicide by the Bureau's invasive full court investigation (which never did turn up evidence more compelling than Ivins was one of dozens of people who had access to the original strain).
If the emails of "please correct this address" don't work and if you get PII like this; you can probably turn the company in for violation of state or federal laws. Especially if it's ever medical related info (HIPAA). That'll get results fast.
Perfect! Nothing like precocious highlights on every YASD, and the other questions that might come up are quite fun too.
Daddy why did you fall down the stairs while wielding a chickatrice? Daddy, why did you turn into a lizard before trying to kill the dragon? Daddy, why did that red person get a severe headache after you removed your equipment? Daddy, why are you sacrificing unicorns? Daddy, why is god punishing you?
Of course there's important life lessons that can be taught: "don't talk to strangers - they may be trying to steal the amulet back," or "drinking from public fountains might be dangerous," as well as "feed your pets or they might stop loving you," and of course "genocide is ok as long as the other guys are a really big nuisance."
Mostly, but more like Notobtaniumforverylongium. It had been predicted that Uuq (element 115) might be one "peak" on the islands of stability, but it seems that the actuality is a few elements lower. None of these talked about today should have much of a useful halflife.
Nah - it's back to Doc Brown being concerned over the future 80s because of how often Marty McFly talked about something being "heavy."
Thank you for bringing that point up in the discussion. Perhaps one reason we're seeing less than the usual scientifically enlightened response in this case (comedians may respond here) is that the "tech-savvy" nerds are higher on the adoption curve for unibody phone designs (including smart phones) and also may consider brain cancer to be one of the types most detrimental to one's perceived chief asset. If so, then it's reasonable to expect that a higher level of fear than usual will be loosed among the usual present crowd.
Note that most people aren't picking up on the classification of: "might possibly be carcinogenic" and have assumed that the WHO is instead proposing an instant ban on mobile social distance-interaction.
P.S. Please mod parent up
Exactly, otherwise you've set aside the entire premises of "innocent until proven guilty."
Although there do have to be provisions to prevent harm while the decision is made by the courts (the whole idea behind setting bail or denying bail). The courts have decided that in the event that you'll do a runner or whack off another person, they can keep you in jail ("presumed innocent" of course...) until the jury hears the case out.
In the case of IP on the 'net: if you've got a new artist who's just had something start selling but is really on the brink of feeding her family - the length of a court case could force her out of the creation business and back to the supermarket checkout business. On the other hand, if a website has some legit (but borderline not-quite-infringing) business, with the way traffic and trends are set on the internet a blackout during a court case could equally tank that business.
In theory, this is where the court order will come in with an IP case. My preference is that the Judge would issue a decision based at least on part of the survivability of an artist vs a host (such that an order to suspend will occur more often in small content rather than big content cases). There should also be an automatic time-out on the suspension if legal actions do not proceed (e.g. you can't simply accuse someone of being a communist, or a witch, or an IP infringer and then leave town leaving the burden of setting the bonfire alight with the public (because defense is the burden of the right holder)). In cases of obvious infringement I'm sure the judge will make the obvious decision.
What gets interesting is the question of jurisdiction. But I'll let someone else take a stab at that one.
Yeah, but when metal spoons explodes (like they do all the time)....you can just walk over and pick up the pieces.....right then, no need to evacuate for 500 years.
You'd think so, but the real reason Area 51 was classified didn't have anything to do with the misinformation posted today. What really happened is that they decided to see the full extent of what Chuck Norris could do with a spoon (because the knife or fork were too unsporting). Let's just say it'll be quite a while before they can pick up the pieces and open that museum.
If you want to be more precise (and more expensive), you can order NRC-free isotopes from our friendly "local"* nuclear chemistry hobby shop. I think they were having some illegal harassment issues from the FBI a while back, but I haven't heard anything recently about it. Either way, you can still order and it's perfectly legal at the Federal level (might be worth a check of your local and state ordinances... and if they're not so favorable you'll need to decide if it's worth the risk of going to court to make the judges smack down completely unreasonable (from the scientific and evidence based point of view) "radiation safety" laws that tend to get passed to make some sort of impression with the voting public). They've also got some other fun items there, but not really relevant to the real concern voiced by the original question.
*Local is as local does; the "global village" if we want to dust of an archaic early internet phrase.
Yeah - sniffing would be under the category of LAN security. But if you're doing anything like password entry without a ssh terminal, vpn (encrypted), or https protocol... you hopefully don't care about that new-for-nerds-comment-aggregation site, or that bank account, or the impact of that social network - otherwise I'd hope you'd have found an alternative service provider which does care enough about you to flip that little "s" switch.
Of course it goes both ways too - just use firesheep to figure out who your security unconscious neighbors are and then knock on their door and say "hey - you wanna read this pamphlet about internet security?"
Open doesn't mean WPA2 free. Set your SSID to: "Neighbor Shared Password: 'EFF Advised' questions to me@myhouse.net" Then you'll be fine. That's a minimal tech solution - your connection to the router should be fine. You'll probably want to pay attention to LAN security, and maybe put a password on NAS or network printers - but if you have those things, it's something that should have been thought about anyway.
Or if you want double protection, get yourself a VPN service and set it up for everything in your house (automatic use) so that you'll have the defense of saying that nothing at your IP address would have been your devices. You can keep a MAC address log. Use one of the open source firmware packages developed for your router and do some serious network management (your MACs get full bandwidth - throttle others if it's a problem. Probably none of that is perfect, but it's something smart and should help if your door really does get kicked in. Use OpenDNS to make it hard for the neighbor's kids to check out things you don't want on your network (again - not perfect, but it'll keep the riff-raff down).
I'd be willing to bet that the EFF would step in if you got in trouble following their advise (presuming you don't have an unencrypted drive full of illegally-naughty things, and even then they may take a look into the search and seizure aspect). But I don't really know. I'll still find a way to get them spare change from time to time regardless though. (Humble Bundle anyone)?