In another thread I mentioned the insanity of moving to place with limited resources. No one wants to hear that we can't do whatever we want do, so...
In any case reverse osmosis is a wonderful thing. I have worked with residential and commercial systems. Most people I know kill their residential system due to the extremely high cost of consumables, and the fact that for every gallon you use, you are paying for at least 10. In chip fabs and the like such systems are indispensable. In commercial settings, the increase in the water bill, by a factor of 10 or 20, is often a shock to accounts payable who were not fully informed of all the costs.
I have seen the reverse osmosis kiosk sell filtered city water for a quarter a gallon, so the process is not that expensive. On solution here might be to limit the use of the traditional city water supply to certain applications, such as household and certain industrial uses, while requiring other industrial uses to pay for the reclaimed sea water. This might be cost effective if the system was set up to run on wind or solar, pump into storage tank, then provide pressure throughout the night by a gravity feed.
Ultimately the issue with RO is the major use of consumables, and dealing with the waste stream.
Back around 2000, I saw firms considering moving from location that had abundant water and power to locations that did not have abundant water and power. I thought they were crazy, but you the lemming push for everyone to herd and go over the cliff is great.
I don't know if Montana has power issues, but I do know that they felt is was worthwhile to sue Wyoming over what amounted to about 10,000 acre feet of water.
And, of course, as mentioned, if you have data. There might be a backbone, but that is like saying California had a redundant electricity grid, except for the time it did not.
not sure. I use a cookie blocker that by default rejects all cookies. I can manually accept cookies, first party cookies are pretty easy to enable, for the session or persistent. With this extension the badger complains it can't do it's job.
The difference is that the cookie software shows about 30 third party cookies for slashdot, not sure if the tracking is historical or only for a single page, but the badger shows 5. The difference is that my cookie software rejects all these third party cookies by default, which is the behavior I want, but badger requires you to move a slider and turn off each cookie individually. The setting may be able to change this, I have not looked because any use of the badger reloads the page, thus giving the website more data. In any case, the default behavior should be to reject any third party cookie
But cookies are only one way to track users. There are also things like web bugs. Badger says it only deals with tracking cookies. These are threats to privacy, but only one, and we can deal with it with existing technology. Camino, which was started 12 years ago, implemented cookie rejects several years ago.
There is also precedent, in that executives almost never go to jail for white collar crime. The company pays fines, get sued and pays damages, may even warrant government oversight, but not jail.
About the only time when this does happen is when the management is so horrible that the company goes bankrupt. these people don't go to jail for being criminals, but for being incompetent. Really, this is most criminals. Competent criminals are less likely to be caught and convicted.
And even if they are convicted, they can use their ill gained funds to reduce jail time, like Jeff Skilling.
It makes sense in a world where one assigns values corporations and does not believe in the US. This comes from the same place that the gold standard comes from. In the world as it currently exists, the United States is a meaningful and important place made up of people who select a governement. As an expression of our value, faith, and worth we put out a currency. The currency reflects the innovation of our country by expanding as the capacity of our country expands. In fact the currency expands a bit faster which puts a pressure on the people of the country to innovate, and a negative incentive to save excessively, but rather to invest in innovation.
OTOH, as stated, the gold standard ties a country to existing resources. There is an existing amount of gold, and short of governement regulation to set the value, does not reflect the innovation of a country. The gold standard insures that those with resources, in this case gold, are always going to better of than those who merely can innovate.
Likewise, the Bitcoin is independent of incumbent forces and is free to increase and decrease in value based on those who value it. By backing it with incumbent retailers, you are limiting it the values of existing commodities, rather than seeing growth in future innovation. This is very bad because future innovation almost guarantees that the value of incumbent retailers will fall, in the same way that Walmart almost put Kmart and Sears out of busines.
I do give him credit for trying to slip this by using stocks, which at least appreciate in value with innovation, instead of Gold like his father would have. The Gold Standard people just want to have King George come in a steal our stuff again.
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I don't understand. Where is the privacy if you bookmark? Is the idea to not save cookies? I use a plugin to automatically reject all cookies. Privacy mode does not prevent suites from tacking you movement and IP.
The article is pretty plain. Reprocessing is expensive and will require multinational commitments. In absence of such commitments, interim storage is the solution. Interim and longer term storage is a political decision. In the US that decision is as simple as coming up with a consensus location, condemning the land, and building a storage facility using existing technology. Since the mid 80's no republican or democratic administration has been able to make this political decision.
As much as complaints we here over regulation and government interference, modern business depends on it. For instance, the Keystone XL pipeline, or really any big project, would not be able to completed at reasonable costs without the governments ability to take land from private citizens.
We also have seen that as long as car company complies with regulation, they can kill 13 people with impunity. A chicken processor can poison hundreds of people as long as they follow regulations.
About the only thing a person can do is sue. This is why conservatives hate the courts so much.
The law says that if a abuse is suspected, it must be reported and investigation must occur. There is no abuse of state power if a child is taken away because there is significant indication that abuse occurs.
The problem here is the medical profession. They do not nearly spend enough time admitting they most administer palliatives and in many cases just choose the obvious diagnosis without really checking if it makes sense. Patients are also to blame as they believe the media, which has convinced most of us that a pill or topical solution is the answer to all our problems.
So here is a child with a problem. Doctors have 10 minutes to make a diagnosis. Parents are desperate for a solution. Parents may have caused the problem,but if the did then doctors need to treat the parents, not the child. If doctors were trained to treat patients instead of individual problems maybe they could have treated the family.
The Boston doctors appeared to be the first to look at the entire medical history, the family, and make a diagnosis. The NYT has monthly articles on patients that suffer because doctors are treating a symptom instead of the patients.
I don't if this child has a illness that is treatable by drugs or a procedure, or if the illness requires the parents to change the behavior. What is suggested by the article is past doctors have not been helping her, so with the framework of trying something new, this seems a next reasonable step.
In the first run there was little change in flow until the siphon reached 25 000 feet (37.60 kPa, 0.37 atm), when the siphon became choked with bubbles and stopped
So what we call a siphon, which is just a simple hose, does not work below a couple hundred torr. What is proved here is that a specially constructed siphon can work at low pressure. What we need to see for the gravity hypnosis is that a specially constructed siphon cannot work at low gravity.
My take on this is that as gravity pulls water down out of the exit of the siphon, creating a vacuum in the tube, that then pulls water up from the reservoir. It is a compelling and reasonable theory. More experimentation is needed.
You are paying for streaming. It is not necessarily the DRM. On Hulu it is the need to stream a bit, then make sure the user experience is interrupted for at the least the possibility of commercials. On Netflix, it is so that they can keep the price lower by not competing with people the people who are willing to pay for rental of purchase to keep a local copy.
If bandwidth cost is an issue, then perhaps the solution is to rent or purchase the content. Maybe if aero is avaible in your market, this might be an option. I don't know if they allow buffering of a whole show. Rent or purchase may be competitive depending on the data costs.
You know, it is not education. It is that too many people think that IT means you but a PC, buy a site licsense for everything MS, and the teach Office or maybe ISS.
Critical thinking skills are taught, at least at the high school level, in course most people don't want to take. History where you read and write papers on what is read. Philosophy where formal logic and general help you develop the ability to judge and make an argument. Literature where you can learn to think creatively to join ideas that were not joined before. Engineering and hard science classes where you actually can build devices. Maths where you learn the formal methods to process information.
Honestly, I see way to much time teaching MS Office and other applications. If those things need to be taught, they need to be embedded in something rigorous.This even goes for teaching coding.
Wost case scenario: when a black out occurs in NYC, 8 million people will die within the first day.
It is worst case, not probable, not something that is going to happen, not something that probably will happen, so such numbers are FUD and really are not part of the debate.
It is true that 30 years ago electronics were not so embedded in our lives. In particular the new generation does not seem to be able to solve problems for themselves. I see them on the phone having their parents solve even the most basic problems. So it may be that the kids just begin to walk into the street. More seriously, planes might fall out the sky and patients in the hospital might die.
But since much of the world is not so dependent on the electronics, I am sure that they are worried about other things, like clean water.
Keepping a notebook is critical, and for most application pen and paper is good enough. I learned that when I was young and working in small business and research. Everyone had a notebook. Some just a spiral bound notebook. Some a real research notebook. Many a Franklin planner with yearly storage cases. I myself keep many various notebooks around that I jot notes in.
Which is to say that not everyone has the same solution, and some find electronics notebooks useful. My main problem is that most electronics notebooks do not handle math and drawings will, which is what I do. I do have some stuff on electronic notebooks. Those listed are what I use. What we don't have are people who are proficient enough to teach the workflow of how to use them.
I once worked at a place where we produced a lot of waste contaminated lubricant. We securely set this barrels, and a nice guy would come by and pump it out and reprocess it and sell for whatever it could be used for. It cost the firm a bit in storage costs, but also save us a bit in waste disposal.
If you RTFA, and even the headline, there is no problem here for the brewers, except for the one example in which the waste was sold to a broker. In this case the waste would be worth less so they might not be able to get any money, so the extra $30 might be amortized over the ton of beer. This, by my calculation would add a penny or two per beer.
So the problem is the farmer. If there is demand,and assuming that giving away the waste to a broker is cheaper than landfilling it, which in my experience it is, then there will be a marginal additional cost to the farmer. For the small farmer, who can just go to the brewery and collect the waste, the cost will just be transportation and labor. We used to do this for the cash crops we grew, collect waste, bring it to the farm, compost it, and use it for free.
For bigger operations, they will have to pay a broker and processor. This is a consequence of mass produced food. We have to have extra precautions because when something does happen, no one is really held responsible.
Excel is about the only component in the MS Office suite that is still arguably superior. When it came out on the Mac almost 30 years ago it was revolutionary. And this is from someone who was quite adept at Visicalc and Quattro. OTOH, it is my wish that no one use MS Powerpoint anymore. It is dated and ugly. MS Word is truly useful in a few use cases, buy mostly it is just that people know how to use to get simple tasks done and teaching them how to complete those tasks differently is cost prohibitive.
Due to the way MS products are licensed, and the cost of training, and the fact that the average person gets confused easily with software, it is cheaper for large organizations to buy the MS products for use by the minority of users that actually need it.
if you are talking about throw away worker drones or server machines, then no. There is no data on these machine, the costs to swap them out are minimal. I recall a place that had racks of a few hundred machines, a dedicated person to swap them out, and two died a day. Putting anything but the cheapest product in there would have been a waste of money. But the data machines, those were special. Probably cost more than the combined servers the fed to.
Likewise, worker bee machines that are pretty much dumb terminals are not going to use SSD. But other machines that people actually do and store work on, that may be something different.
Look, tape is on the order of penny per gigabyte. Hard disks are somewhere between 5-10 cents a gigabyte. SSD is about 50 cents a gigabyte. Many people still back up onto hard disk even though tape is more reliable. We are going to use SSD because there are benefits that justify the order of magnitude increase.
One thing that surprises me is that every talks about Byte, but not the spin off of a great column in Byte, Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar. Circuit Cellar is a bit expensive, and very technical, but if you like really making hardware it is a must. Circuit Cellar is the part of byte that was hardware making. There was another part that review and broad industry connections, another part that was software, and of course the musings of Jerry Pournelle.
If you are into reading international English fiction, Granta is also a must have.
Charity is something you do because you believe you are wealthy enough to give someone money with no strings attached. This is what the salvation army wants you to do during Christmas. Not thinking that your money is going to be used to promote hate, teach people that science is bad, and generally ruin the minds of children. But many people still give because charity is good.
Then there is philanthropy. That occurs when people with money want to control the world. They decide what is best for everyone, and use their funds to make it happen. It is no better or worse than charity, just different.
This was not really an innovative product for the time. The Apple Newton had full network capability, for instance. I know I had it connected to the internet and think I had a basic web browser. When the internet was pushed to the public, there were a number of dedicated machines, or internet appliances, that were introduced to the market, most few have heard of because they were failures. WebTV was a big one, I only know how it worked because I had to visit a dealer to fix a bug on a website I was working on. there were others during the 2000 time frame, but mostly the technology was not there.
When I converted a family member from MS Office to Pages years ago it was a struggle. The expectation was that there was only one way for a such an application to work, and that was defined by MS Office. Everything that was different was wrong, everything that missing was a glare. I get that. Most people in the US at least were trained on MS Office and they don't know anything different. OTOH, I got through the struggles, and Pages did the job as well as anything.
I have seen a similar situations with open textbooks. I have seen lately several that have clearly used MS Word. The layout and formulas are awful. I do technical work in LaTex. Obviously, because these authors have never used anything else but MS Office, and when all one has it a hammer everything is a nail, they just assumed that MS Word is the best thing to in which to write a book.
As an aside, I did write a short, 60 pagish, book back in the late 90's. I specifically chose OO.org because it had some features at the time that made putting together such a thing very easy. Also, 10 years ago, OO.org was much better at open old MS Word files than MS Word. Ms Word is still the absolute best way to right a Memo. MS Excel is still the best spreadsheet, but it is no longer so good that it is the only choice for many projects. MS Powerpoint is the worst presentation creator that I have used. OO.org, Libreoffice is better, and Keynote used to be way better before Apple shoehorned it into the iPad and made that the official version.
MS Ofiice is the defacto format for file transfer though, and because MS is horrible at managing such a thing is becoming increasingly difficult to see such files with an MS tool.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
There is certainly a fantasy that militias are unregulated and are there to defend the local population against the government, but much like Mitt Romney and the South, the anti-federalists lost. Get over it. The amendment says 'well regulated'. As far as militias go, it did have a pretty good definition, I think it was in the Virginia charter or some other document relating to incorporation. Therefore if we did have militias, the people would have to be recorded, and there would have to be further regulation to insure that order was maintained.
Consistent with this fantasy, it would theoretically be perfectly legal for these groups to attack federal officials as was done in Waco and currently done in Nevada where a criminal has groups of militias defending his right to be a criminal. This really hurts no one because, as in Waco, if we had someone who was as forceful as Janet Reno, the feds would just go in and kill everyone and be done with. Which is really the issue here. Superior forces win. And as long as the militia can't own working tanks, or rocket propelled grenades, or tactical nuclear weapons, it is unlikely that a 'militia' is going to be anything but hamburger.,
This device detects a flash and then overcomes the image with and LED. I don't know if it every made it to market,but this is the only way I can think of to detect a camera. Detect the infrared from the active sensor, and flash a high intensity LED back. I assume that the camera using the Google Glasses uses such an active sensor.
The interactions between children are not the same as the interaction between adults. Even in high school there is judgement call. If we are honest, we admit that there are these kids running around being aggressively annoying and the solution is not only to punish the bully, but to teach the person who is being bullied how to act in civilized society. This is probably not what happened here, but the point is we don't have all the facts. It could be that it is a simple case of group aggression against a individual perceived as not having the power to stop it. The fact that the school felt they needed to protect the bullies speaks to the possibility that this was some sort of group with status and they were showing that status by bullying.
That said, bullying, especially at the high school level, is not going to be solved by inspirational PR campaigns. It is going to be solved by identify bullying as a precursor to future criminal behavior and treating it as such. Right now aggressive behavior, especially in boys, is seen as something to be cultivated. The physically strong who are willing to use their strength for evil are considered superior to those who are actually creating things and making the world a better place. As long as those who go to class and learn to be productive and informed citizens are seen as inferior to those who are merely willing to do anything to show strength, nothing will be solved.
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In any case reverse osmosis is a wonderful thing. I have worked with residential and commercial systems. Most people I know kill their residential system due to the extremely high cost of consumables, and the fact that for every gallon you use, you are paying for at least 10. In chip fabs and the like such systems are indispensable. In commercial settings, the increase in the water bill, by a factor of 10 or 20, is often a shock to accounts payable who were not fully informed of all the costs.
I have seen the reverse osmosis kiosk sell filtered city water for a quarter a gallon, so the process is not that expensive. On solution here might be to limit the use of the traditional city water supply to certain applications, such as household and certain industrial uses, while requiring other industrial uses to pay for the reclaimed sea water. This might be cost effective if the system was set up to run on wind or solar, pump into storage tank, then provide pressure throughout the night by a gravity feed.
Ultimately the issue with RO is the major use of consumables, and dealing with the waste stream.
The solution is to use less water.
I don't know if Montana has power issues, but I do know that they felt is was worthwhile to sue Wyoming over what amounted to about 10,000 acre feet of water.
And, of course, as mentioned, if you have data. There might be a backbone, but that is like saying California had a redundant electricity grid, except for the time it did not.
not sure. I use a cookie blocker that by default rejects all cookies. I can manually accept cookies, first party cookies are pretty easy to enable, for the session or persistent. With this extension the badger complains it can't do it's job. The difference is that the cookie software shows about 30 third party cookies for slashdot, not sure if the tracking is historical or only for a single page, but the badger shows 5. The difference is that my cookie software rejects all these third party cookies by default, which is the behavior I want, but badger requires you to move a slider and turn off each cookie individually. The setting may be able to change this, I have not looked because any use of the badger reloads the page, thus giving the website more data. In any case, the default behavior should be to reject any third party cookie But cookies are only one way to track users. There are also things like web bugs. Badger says it only deals with tracking cookies. These are threats to privacy, but only one, and we can deal with it with existing technology. Camino, which was started 12 years ago, implemented cookie rejects several years ago.
There is also precedent, in that executives almost never go to jail for white collar crime. The company pays fines, get sued and pays damages, may even warrant government oversight, but not jail. About the only time when this does happen is when the management is so horrible that the company goes bankrupt. these people don't go to jail for being criminals, but for being incompetent. Really, this is most criminals. Competent criminals are less likely to be caught and convicted. And even if they are convicted, they can use their ill gained funds to reduce jail time, like Jeff Skilling.
It makes sense in a world where one assigns values corporations and does not believe in the US. This comes from the same place that the gold standard comes from. In the world as it currently exists, the United States is a meaningful and important place made up of people who select a governement. As an expression of our value, faith, and worth we put out a currency. The currency reflects the innovation of our country by expanding as the capacity of our country expands. In fact the currency expands a bit faster which puts a pressure on the people of the country to innovate, and a negative incentive to save excessively, but rather to invest in innovation. OTOH, as stated, the gold standard ties a country to existing resources. There is an existing amount of gold, and short of governement regulation to set the value, does not reflect the innovation of a country. The gold standard insures that those with resources, in this case gold, are always going to better of than those who merely can innovate. Likewise, the Bitcoin is independent of incumbent forces and is free to increase and decrease in value based on those who value it. By backing it with incumbent retailers, you are limiting it the values of existing commodities, rather than seeing growth in future innovation. This is very bad because future innovation almost guarantees that the value of incumbent retailers will fall, in the same way that Walmart almost put Kmart and Sears out of busines. I do give him credit for trying to slip this by using stocks, which at least appreciate in value with innovation, instead of Gold like his father would have. The Gold Standard people just want to have King George come in a steal our stuff again.
I don't understand. Where is the privacy if you bookmark? Is the idea to not save cookies? I use a plugin to automatically reject all cookies. Privacy mode does not prevent suites from tacking you movement and IP.
Just accept out fate. Eventually everything will be lead.
The article is pretty plain. Reprocessing is expensive and will require multinational commitments. In absence of such commitments, interim storage is the solution. Interim and longer term storage is a political decision. In the US that decision is as simple as coming up with a consensus location, condemning the land, and building a storage facility using existing technology. Since the mid 80's no republican or democratic administration has been able to make this political decision.
As much as complaints we here over regulation and government interference, modern business depends on it. For instance, the Keystone XL pipeline, or really any big project, would not be able to completed at reasonable costs without the governments ability to take land from private citizens. We also have seen that as long as car company complies with regulation, they can kill 13 people with impunity. A chicken processor can poison hundreds of people as long as they follow regulations. About the only thing a person can do is sue. This is why conservatives hate the courts so much.
The law says that if a abuse is suspected, it must be reported and investigation must occur. There is no abuse of state power if a child is taken away because there is significant indication that abuse occurs. The problem here is the medical profession. They do not nearly spend enough time admitting they most administer palliatives and in many cases just choose the obvious diagnosis without really checking if it makes sense. Patients are also to blame as they believe the media, which has convinced most of us that a pill or topical solution is the answer to all our problems. So here is a child with a problem. Doctors have 10 minutes to make a diagnosis. Parents are desperate for a solution. Parents may have caused the problem,but if the did then doctors need to treat the parents, not the child. If doctors were trained to treat patients instead of individual problems maybe they could have treated the family. The Boston doctors appeared to be the first to look at the entire medical history, the family, and make a diagnosis. The NYT has monthly articles on patients that suffer because doctors are treating a symptom instead of the patients. I don't if this child has a illness that is treatable by drugs or a procedure, or if the illness requires the parents to change the behavior. What is suggested by the article is past doctors have not been helping her, so with the framework of trying something new, this seems a next reasonable step.
So what we call a siphon, which is just a simple hose, does not work below a couple hundred torr. What is proved here is that a specially constructed siphon can work at low pressure. What we need to see for the gravity hypnosis is that a specially constructed siphon cannot work at low gravity.
My take on this is that as gravity pulls water down out of the exit of the siphon, creating a vacuum in the tube, that then pulls water up from the reservoir. It is a compelling and reasonable theory. More experimentation is needed.
If bandwidth cost is an issue, then perhaps the solution is to rent or purchase the content. Maybe if aero is avaible in your market, this might be an option. I don't know if they allow buffering of a whole show. Rent or purchase may be competitive depending on the data costs.
Critical thinking skills are taught, at least at the high school level, in course most people don't want to take. History where you read and write papers on what is read. Philosophy where formal logic and general help you develop the ability to judge and make an argument. Literature where you can learn to think creatively to join ideas that were not joined before. Engineering and hard science classes where you actually can build devices. Maths where you learn the formal methods to process information.
Honestly, I see way to much time teaching MS Office and other applications. If those things need to be taught, they need to be embedded in something rigorous.This even goes for teaching coding.
It is worst case, not probable, not something that is going to happen, not something that probably will happen, so such numbers are FUD and really are not part of the debate.
It is true that 30 years ago electronics were not so embedded in our lives. In particular the new generation does not seem to be able to solve problems for themselves. I see them on the phone having their parents solve even the most basic problems. So it may be that the kids just begin to walk into the street. More seriously, planes might fall out the sky and patients in the hospital might die.
But since much of the world is not so dependent on the electronics, I am sure that they are worried about other things, like clean water.
Which is to say that not everyone has the same solution, and some find electronics notebooks useful. My main problem is that most electronics notebooks do not handle math and drawings will, which is what I do. I do have some stuff on electronic notebooks. Those listed are what I use. What we don't have are people who are proficient enough to teach the workflow of how to use them.
If you RTFA, and even the headline, there is no problem here for the brewers, except for the one example in which the waste was sold to a broker. In this case the waste would be worth less so they might not be able to get any money, so the extra $30 might be amortized over the ton of beer. This, by my calculation would add a penny or two per beer.
So the problem is the farmer. If there is demand,and assuming that giving away the waste to a broker is cheaper than landfilling it, which in my experience it is, then there will be a marginal additional cost to the farmer. For the small farmer, who can just go to the brewery and collect the waste, the cost will just be transportation and labor. We used to do this for the cash crops we grew, collect waste, bring it to the farm, compost it, and use it for free.
For bigger operations, they will have to pay a broker and processor. This is a consequence of mass produced food. We have to have extra precautions because when something does happen, no one is really held responsible.
Due to the way MS products are licensed, and the cost of training, and the fact that the average person gets confused easily with software, it is cheaper for large organizations to buy the MS products for use by the minority of users that actually need it.
Likewise, worker bee machines that are pretty much dumb terminals are not going to use SSD. But other machines that people actually do and store work on, that may be something different.
Look, tape is on the order of penny per gigabyte. Hard disks are somewhere between 5-10 cents a gigabyte. SSD is about 50 cents a gigabyte. Many people still back up onto hard disk even though tape is more reliable. We are going to use SSD because there are benefits that justify the order of magnitude increase.
One thing that surprises me is that every talks about Byte, but not the spin off of a great column in Byte, Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar. Circuit Cellar is a bit expensive, and very technical, but if you like really making hardware it is a must. Circuit Cellar is the part of byte that was hardware making. There was another part that review and broad industry connections, another part that was software, and of course the musings of Jerry Pournelle. If you are into reading international English fiction, Granta is also a must have.
Charity is something you do because you believe you are wealthy enough to give someone money with no strings attached. This is what the salvation army wants you to do during Christmas. Not thinking that your money is going to be used to promote hate, teach people that science is bad, and generally ruin the minds of children. But many people still give because charity is good.
Then there is philanthropy. That occurs when people with money want to control the world. They decide what is best for everyone, and use their funds to make it happen. It is no better or worse than charity, just different.
This was not really an innovative product for the time. The Apple Newton had full network capability, for instance. I know I had it connected to the internet and think I had a basic web browser. When the internet was pushed to the public, there were a number of dedicated machines, or internet appliances, that were introduced to the market, most few have heard of because they were failures. WebTV was a big one, I only know how it worked because I had to visit a dealer to fix a bug on a website I was working on. there were others during the 2000 time frame, but mostly the technology was not there.
I have seen a similar situations with open textbooks. I have seen lately several that have clearly used MS Word. The layout and formulas are awful. I do technical work in LaTex. Obviously, because these authors have never used anything else but MS Office, and when all one has it a hammer everything is a nail, they just assumed that MS Word is the best thing to in which to write a book.
As an aside, I did write a short, 60 pagish, book back in the late 90's. I specifically chose OO.org because it had some features at the time that made putting together such a thing very easy. Also, 10 years ago, OO.org was much better at open old MS Word files than MS Word. Ms Word is still the absolute best way to right a Memo. MS Excel is still the best spreadsheet, but it is no longer so good that it is the only choice for many projects. MS Powerpoint is the worst presentation creator that I have used. OO.org, Libreoffice is better, and Keynote used to be way better before Apple shoehorned it into the iPad and made that the official version.
MS Ofiice is the defacto format for file transfer though, and because MS is horrible at managing such a thing is becoming increasingly difficult to see such files with an MS tool.
There is certainly a fantasy that militias are unregulated and are there to defend the local population against the government, but much like Mitt Romney and the South, the anti-federalists lost. Get over it. The amendment says 'well regulated'. As far as militias go, it did have a pretty good definition, I think it was in the Virginia charter or some other document relating to incorporation. Therefore if we did have militias, the people would have to be recorded, and there would have to be further regulation to insure that order was maintained.
Consistent with this fantasy, it would theoretically be perfectly legal for these groups to attack federal officials as was done in Waco and currently done in Nevada where a criminal has groups of militias defending his right to be a criminal. This really hurts no one because, as in Waco, if we had someone who was as forceful as Janet Reno, the feds would just go in and kill everyone and be done with. Which is really the issue here. Superior forces win. And as long as the militia can't own working tanks, or rocket propelled grenades, or tactical nuclear weapons, it is unlikely that a 'militia' is going to be anything but hamburger.,
This device detects a flash and then overcomes the image with and LED. I don't know if it every made it to market,but this is the only way I can think of to detect a camera. Detect the infrared from the active sensor, and flash a high intensity LED back. I assume that the camera using the Google Glasses uses such an active sensor.
The interactions between children are not the same as the interaction between adults. Even in high school there is judgement call. If we are honest, we admit that there are these kids running around being aggressively annoying and the solution is not only to punish the bully, but to teach the person who is being bullied how to act in civilized society. This is probably not what happened here, but the point is we don't have all the facts. It could be that it is a simple case of group aggression against a individual perceived as not having the power to stop it. The fact that the school felt they needed to protect the bullies speaks to the possibility that this was some sort of group with status and they were showing that status by bullying. That said, bullying, especially at the high school level, is not going to be solved by inspirational PR campaigns. It is going to be solved by identify bullying as a precursor to future criminal behavior and treating it as such. Right now aggressive behavior, especially in boys, is seen as something to be cultivated. The physically strong who are willing to use their strength for evil are considered superior to those who are actually creating things and making the world a better place. As long as those who go to class and learn to be productive and informed citizens are seen as inferior to those who are merely willing to do anything to show strength, nothing will be solved.