What illegal activities are you so desperate to hide?
If you have nothing to hide then you have no problem. If you're surfing kiddy porn then you get what you deserve.
If you go to places like Tor or Darknet then be prepared for additional scrutiny of your traffic. I've read some of the oddest, whackiest things about how subtly related information has resulted in law enforcement successfully prosecuting people who think VPN and other obfuscating services will hide their activities on the net.
Cheesybagel- you sir are a moron.
You've failed to notice that to get to where we are now we've decimated 70% of fish stocks, 20% of arable land and 30% of potable water. We made our last billion people in 12 years and in the first three decades of this century the global population will increase 50% (source: UN global population forecast). We are now consuming non-renewable resources faster than at any time in history. By then 2050, 40% of us will be elderly. Under those circumstances the global economy will look a lot like Japan has been for the past two decades. Moribund. Some things for you to google are peak water, peak phosphorus and aquifer depletion. While I might sound like it I am not a rabid greenie. We have much to curse Al Gore for. The world is being shown the pretty bunch of flowers (AGW) while the elephant in the room (Global Population) tiptoes behind a curtain. The global economy becomes a pile of steaming turds if it is not growing continuously at roughly 3%. Well mate, let me tell you that 3% interest compounded annually looks pretty bad for us in terms of energy consumption in short order. Even 1.5% (an unprecedented 50% growth reduction) becomes a fearfully large number in 200 years. And last time I checked we can't make socks that last more than a couple years let alone a generation ship or FTL so the real story is: Hope for the best, Plan for the worst.
Has the world changed because of ANY novel you say? Are you REALLY REALLY sure you can back that argument 100%?
Let me try a few examples of Novels that changed the world on you:
Various Artists: The Bible (My argument: a work of fiction, ergo a novel)
Various Artists: The Koran (My argument: a work of fiction, ergo a novel)
Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon (When you cast an idea like this into the minds of many many people it has a big influence)
Jules Verne: 20000 leagues under the sea (portraying a submarine as more than just a two-man temporary transport but as a place to live and work) The world would certainly be different without modern submarines)
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (We will one day have much to curse Al Gore for)
Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto (Surely you can't argue that the popularisation of Communism didn't change the world. Again, in my opinion virtually a novel when it was published...
Animats,
You need to go back and study your Tesla 101. He already knew it would work due to the experimentation he did at Colorado Springs. Power transmission over tens of miles was demonstrated using Tesla magnifying transmitters and far, far less power than was planned to be broadcast at Wardenclyffe. He determined the resonant frequency of the atmosphere by working out that the electrical interference from lightning discharge grew stronger and weaker with distance from the observer LIKE A WAVEFORM. The receiver is actually the true genius behind the whole shebang. It's barely more than a pair of copper coils tuned to the specific resonant frequency of the transmitter. Ergo he didn't NEED anything "new" on the receive side. A more elegant receiver you will never see in your life. Try this for size:
http://www.teslasociety.com/teslarec.pdf
The biggest problems with his plan were:
1. How to monetise it. Bigger customers could have their own metered receiver. Today you could "charge" large groups of people via something similar to taxation but back then not everyone even had electricity. Also, doesn't stop people in other countries stealing your power either. But imagine how much effort and resource this tech would have saved the world.
2. Massive interference and unintended discharge. Back in 1900 this wasn't too big an issue. Today loading megawatts into the atmosphere would be a big problem because none of our electrical/electronic devices are shielded well enough for it. IF that whole industry had grown up in that environment then we'd be just fine today, but as anyone who runs their own hobby magnifying transmitter knows you keep the bloody thing well away from any electronics! Shielding everything we have now is not an option. During the Colorado Springs experiments, electrical discharges were seen from plumbing 24 miles from the transmitter and some horses went nuts because power was received through their shoes!
3. Does the cost of wireless transmission losses outweigh the cost of poles/wires and substations? Maybe one day the cost of copper will be so high that we have no choice but to go wireless.
Spending trillions of dollars attempting to limit carbon emissions is a total waste of time. The elephant in the room which very few seem to have woken up to yet is that if you postulate that carbon emissions are due to human activity then treating the symptom (carbon emission) is pointless without addressing the cause: Overpopulation. Why? Well here is a fact: According to the UN, mean global population will increase 50% in the first three decades of this century (and you should see their high estimates!). So how are you going to hold down energy consumption or emissions to "2000" levels when population increases 50%? Even if all those new people are the rudest of subsistence farmers burning cow chips for heat we are still in deep deep trouble. It's in fact a cataclysmic problem that those people will come from Africa, China and India becasue a) they have the WORST pollution laws and b) they are teflon when it comes to emissions targets. Don't give me that energy use per capita crap. The world only cares about total emissions, not emissions per head in some particular zone. This is the disaster that governments have oyu buying in to: emissions trading schemes and other stupid propoganda that makes it MORE expensive to produce a unit of output in a place with far better energy intensity and pollution control and instead shifts that production to countries with crap pollution laws that are building coal power stations hand over fist. The ass-backwardness of it boggles the mind! Did you know that coal consumption increased 25% in the past 10 years- nearly ALL of that consumption in china. Who totally denies any responsibility for controlling carbon emissions. What's worse, for every erg of power the "developed" nations do not consume, the "developing" nations will eagerly snap up, thankful that we haven't forced the prices any higher. After all, they have the right to enjoy the same living standards as we do. So Here I am in Australia, watching the most insane carbon trading scheme being born, while our exports of coal increase exponentially. Doesn't it scare you that the people running our countries are so blind? It should.
So lets get away from carbon emissions for a moment and tackle more important issues. To get where we are today we have destroyed 30% of a potable water and 20% of our arable land. We have eaten 50% of our fish stocks. The latter is forecast to have totally collapsed by 2050. Wasting our time and resources on carbon emissions will only mean that we lurch from crisis to crisis all caused by overpopulation. We are decimating the environment at a faster rate than any time in history. Until we start to seriously tackle the problem of overpopulation we don't have a hope in hell of ever succeeding at anything else.
Get a grip people. It's coming in our lifetimes.
Don't believe me, check out peak water and peak phosphorus on wiki. Google global population forecast. And think for yourself for a change.
I spent several days with a high end MP3 player and some very high end sound isolation earbuds- not the rubbish Ipods and "comes with the product" speakers. I tested three versions of encoding: MP3@192kbps, MP3@320kbps and FLAC. I tested this across all styles of music using multiple EQ settings on the player. The conclusion I came to is that I could definitely hear the difference between 192 and 320kbps MP3. However, I could not hear the difference between 320 and FLAC. My personal conclusion was that the best thing Joe average can do if you want to improve listening quality is buy some decent headphones. The ones I bought cost $500 and are worth every cent. Sound isolation is not for everyone but by god does it make a difference to audio quality. The extra storage space required for FLAC is a waste compared to what (if any) incremental improvement in sound quality people with better ears than mine may detect. This proposal by Apple is just a means to milk more money from fools. And it will most likely work.
We trialled daylight savings for a year or two and ultimately voted against it. Result: crap patches from Microsoft and every calendar and blackberry going out of whack at least twice. Be prepared for all your scheduled appointments to be incorrect for a while- or worse, duplicated! Don't do it- the extra daylight will fade the curtains faster.
As others have suggested- simply changing the workday makes a lot more sense... except if you've got a public transport system to run...
Y'know perhaps if you had done some research and not selected one of the most inflexible readers (One could almost say the Ipod of ebook readers) on the market you might have a different view of ebooks. I have a sony PRS- I have never bought anything from whatever the Sony store is called. The vast majority of my books are non-DRM and I've never hacked them. Most of the books I have bought have either been in bundles of 3-5 books (a series) for 10-20 bucks or single novels for $5 or less. If you are silly enough to HAVE to buy new releases when they come out then you get what you deserve. After all, there is hardly a lack of decent material to read... even in ebook format. I certainly haven't seen a book for sale in Borders for $1 or $2 have you? I used to have hundreds of books. Now I have a reader which has a couple hundred on it and a thumb drive. Moving house is so much easier! Try living in Australia where a new release fiction in parer costs $20-25.
Let's not put the cart before the horse eh? I think you need to worry more about finding and decoding their signals before composing any of your own. As others have said, our signals are already out there, so any ET within 100ly potentially already knows how tasty we are.
I disagree. While I would not wish to live in such a society, a lot of what the book conveyed would be very relevant and useful to an overpopulated and resource constrained society. Do you want to know more?
"The Report concluded that the deaths of the 9500 native birds in December 2006 and March 2007 resulted from lead poisoning from Magellan Metals lead carbonate concentrate which had been handled by the Esperance Port Authority from April 2005 until March 2007. A quarter of the children under 5 years of age that were tested showed a blood lead level over 5 g/dL. Whilst this is not as high as other communities affected by lead pollution, it certainly shows an impact from lead contamination."
The culprit proved to be train shipments of lead carbonate that were uncovered combined with windy weather that made the lead airborne.
Might be worth checking the dead birds for lead poisoning.
"The Report concluded that the deaths of the 9500 native birds in December 2006 and March 2007 resulted from lead poisoning from Magellan Metals lead carbonate concentrate which had been handled by the Esperance Port Authority from April 2005 until March 2007. A quarter of the children under 5 years of age that were tested showed a blood lead level over 5 g/dL. Whilst this is not as high as other communities affected by lead pollution, it certainly shows an impact from lead contamination."
This is an Australian state government. What's worse it's the NSW state government. The problem is further exacerbated by it being TRANSPORT related. The end result will be that somehow $350 million will be spent before the whole thing will be abandoned as a bad idea.
You may already be studying creationism. It's called Religious Studies. Taking valuable time away from science classes to examine an argument between a very small section of science and religion is clearly detrimental to students. So make religious studies mandatory in junior high and teach whatever the hell you want in it but don't take time out of the core learning subjects. And most certainly DO NOT compare it to science because it has absolutely nothing to do with science. I hated sport so back at high school and generally avoided participating whenever possible. Outside school I was very fit and used to do plenty of hiking and swimming. I was put into a remedial sports class which took up one of my maths lessons every week. At the time I thought that was a great lark and boy do I regret that now!
Africa is not Europe or America, and unlike you these people don't have squat. Barely enough to eat let alone buy fly screens and treat their livestock so that they are not also a disease vector. Your comment (very likely incorrectly) gives me the impression that you don't think we need to do anything about malaria at all- hence my hasty "beat you to a pulp" comment, for which I apologize!
Whoever made the "I'd go out on a limb" comment, I'd very much like to saw that limb off and beat you to a pulp with it. Here's the second sentence on wiki about Malaria:
Each year, there are approximately 350–500 million cases of malaria,[1] killing between one and three million people, the majority of whom are young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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What illegal activities are you so desperate to hide? If you have nothing to hide then you have no problem. If you're surfing kiddy porn then you get what you deserve. If you go to places like Tor or Darknet then be prepared for additional scrutiny of your traffic. I've read some of the oddest, whackiest things about how subtly related information has resulted in law enforcement successfully prosecuting people who think VPN and other obfuscating services will hide their activities on the net.
Cheesybagel- you sir are a moron. You've failed to notice that to get to where we are now we've decimated 70% of fish stocks, 20% of arable land and 30% of potable water. We made our last billion people in 12 years and in the first three decades of this century the global population will increase 50% (source: UN global population forecast). We are now consuming non-renewable resources faster than at any time in history. By then 2050, 40% of us will be elderly. Under those circumstances the global economy will look a lot like Japan has been for the past two decades. Moribund. Some things for you to google are peak water, peak phosphorus and aquifer depletion. While I might sound like it I am not a rabid greenie. We have much to curse Al Gore for. The world is being shown the pretty bunch of flowers (AGW) while the elephant in the room (Global Population) tiptoes behind a curtain. The global economy becomes a pile of steaming turds if it is not growing continuously at roughly 3%. Well mate, let me tell you that 3% interest compounded annually looks pretty bad for us in terms of energy consumption in short order. Even 1.5% (an unprecedented 50% growth reduction) becomes a fearfully large number in 200 years. And last time I checked we can't make socks that last more than a couple years let alone a generation ship or FTL so the real story is: Hope for the best, Plan for the worst.
Has the world changed because of ANY novel you say? Are you REALLY REALLY sure you can back that argument 100%? Let me try a few examples of Novels that changed the world on you: Various Artists: The Bible (My argument: a work of fiction, ergo a novel) Various Artists: The Koran (My argument: a work of fiction, ergo a novel) Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon (When you cast an idea like this into the minds of many many people it has a big influence) Jules Verne: 20000 leagues under the sea (portraying a submarine as more than just a two-man temporary transport but as a place to live and work) The world would certainly be different without modern submarines) Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (We will one day have much to curse Al Gore for) Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto (Surely you can't argue that the popularisation of Communism didn't change the world. Again, in my opinion virtually a novel when it was published...
Animats, You need to go back and study your Tesla 101. He already knew it would work due to the experimentation he did at Colorado Springs. Power transmission over tens of miles was demonstrated using Tesla magnifying transmitters and far, far less power than was planned to be broadcast at Wardenclyffe. He determined the resonant frequency of the atmosphere by working out that the electrical interference from lightning discharge grew stronger and weaker with distance from the observer LIKE A WAVEFORM. The receiver is actually the true genius behind the whole shebang. It's barely more than a pair of copper coils tuned to the specific resonant frequency of the transmitter. Ergo he didn't NEED anything "new" on the receive side. A more elegant receiver you will never see in your life. Try this for size: http://www.teslasociety.com/teslarec.pdf The biggest problems with his plan were: 1. How to monetise it. Bigger customers could have their own metered receiver. Today you could "charge" large groups of people via something similar to taxation but back then not everyone even had electricity. Also, doesn't stop people in other countries stealing your power either. But imagine how much effort and resource this tech would have saved the world. 2. Massive interference and unintended discharge. Back in 1900 this wasn't too big an issue. Today loading megawatts into the atmosphere would be a big problem because none of our electrical/electronic devices are shielded well enough for it. IF that whole industry had grown up in that environment then we'd be just fine today, but as anyone who runs their own hobby magnifying transmitter knows you keep the bloody thing well away from any electronics! Shielding everything we have now is not an option. During the Colorado Springs experiments, electrical discharges were seen from plumbing 24 miles from the transmitter and some horses went nuts because power was received through their shoes! 3. Does the cost of wireless transmission losses outweigh the cost of poles/wires and substations? Maybe one day the cost of copper will be so high that we have no choice but to go wireless.
Gubbermint - Organised Crime. Tell me there is a difference?
To get troops into combat cheap. Just scale up for 250 pound payloads and you're done. Heinlein did something _similar_ in starship troopers.
That's why the Google mantra is "Do No Evil" (and get caught) while the Oracle Mantra is "Be The Evil"
Of course watching football causes brain damage.
Spending trillions of dollars attempting to limit carbon emissions is a total waste of time. The elephant in the room which very few seem to have woken up to yet is that if you postulate that carbon emissions are due to human activity then treating the symptom (carbon emission) is pointless without addressing the cause: Overpopulation. Why? Well here is a fact: According to the UN, mean global population will increase 50% in the first three decades of this century (and you should see their high estimates!). So how are you going to hold down energy consumption or emissions to "2000" levels when population increases 50%? Even if all those new people are the rudest of subsistence farmers burning cow chips for heat we are still in deep deep trouble. It's in fact a cataclysmic problem that those people will come from Africa, China and India becasue a) they have the WORST pollution laws and b) they are teflon when it comes to emissions targets. Don't give me that energy use per capita crap. The world only cares about total emissions, not emissions per head in some particular zone. This is the disaster that governments have oyu buying in to: emissions trading schemes and other stupid propoganda that makes it MORE expensive to produce a unit of output in a place with far better energy intensity and pollution control and instead shifts that production to countries with crap pollution laws that are building coal power stations hand over fist. The ass-backwardness of it boggles the mind! Did you know that coal consumption increased 25% in the past 10 years- nearly ALL of that consumption in china. Who totally denies any responsibility for controlling carbon emissions. What's worse, for every erg of power the "developed" nations do not consume, the "developing" nations will eagerly snap up, thankful that we haven't forced the prices any higher. After all, they have the right to enjoy the same living standards as we do. So Here I am in Australia, watching the most insane carbon trading scheme being born, while our exports of coal increase exponentially. Doesn't it scare you that the people running our countries are so blind? It should. So lets get away from carbon emissions for a moment and tackle more important issues. To get where we are today we have destroyed 30% of a potable water and 20% of our arable land. We have eaten 50% of our fish stocks. The latter is forecast to have totally collapsed by 2050. Wasting our time and resources on carbon emissions will only mean that we lurch from crisis to crisis all caused by overpopulation. We are decimating the environment at a faster rate than any time in history. Until we start to seriously tackle the problem of overpopulation we don't have a hope in hell of ever succeeding at anything else. Get a grip people. It's coming in our lifetimes. Don't believe me, check out peak water and peak phosphorus on wiki. Google global population forecast. And think for yourself for a change.
I spent several days with a high end MP3 player and some very high end sound isolation earbuds- not the rubbish Ipods and "comes with the product" speakers. I tested three versions of encoding: MP3@192kbps, MP3@320kbps and FLAC. I tested this across all styles of music using multiple EQ settings on the player. The conclusion I came to is that I could definitely hear the difference between 192 and 320kbps MP3. However, I could not hear the difference between 320 and FLAC. My personal conclusion was that the best thing Joe average can do if you want to improve listening quality is buy some decent headphones. The ones I bought cost $500 and are worth every cent. Sound isolation is not for everyone but by god does it make a difference to audio quality. The extra storage space required for FLAC is a waste compared to what (if any) incremental improvement in sound quality people with better ears than mine may detect. This proposal by Apple is just a means to milk more money from fools. And it will most likely work.
We trialled daylight savings for a year or two and ultimately voted against it. Result: crap patches from Microsoft and every calendar and blackberry going out of whack at least twice. Be prepared for all your scheduled appointments to be incorrect for a while- or worse, duplicated! Don't do it- the extra daylight will fade the curtains faster. As others have suggested- simply changing the workday makes a lot more sense... except if you've got a public transport system to run...
Y'know perhaps if you had done some research and not selected one of the most inflexible readers (One could almost say the Ipod of ebook readers) on the market you might have a different view of ebooks. I have a sony PRS- I have never bought anything from whatever the Sony store is called. The vast majority of my books are non-DRM and I've never hacked them. Most of the books I have bought have either been in bundles of 3-5 books (a series) for 10-20 bucks or single novels for $5 or less. If you are silly enough to HAVE to buy new releases when they come out then you get what you deserve. After all, there is hardly a lack of decent material to read... even in ebook format. I certainly haven't seen a book for sale in Borders for $1 or $2 have you? I used to have hundreds of books. Now I have a reader which has a couple hundred on it and a thumb drive. Moving house is so much easier! Try living in Australia where a new release fiction in parer costs $20-25.
Let's not put the cart before the horse eh? I think you need to worry more about finding and decoding their signals before composing any of your own. As others have said, our signals are already out there, so any ET within 100ly potentially already knows how tasty we are.
I disagree. While I would not wish to live in such a society, a lot of what the book conveyed would be very relevant and useful to an overpopulated and resource constrained society. Do you want to know more?
Haha - the pole shift wiki article you linked to is about rapid shift of the rotational axis of the Earth NOT the magnetic axis!!!
"The Report concluded that the deaths of the 9500 native birds in December 2006 and March 2007 resulted from lead poisoning from Magellan Metals lead carbonate concentrate which had been handled by the Esperance Port Authority from April 2005 until March 2007. A quarter of the children under 5 years of age that were tested showed a blood lead level over 5 g/dL. Whilst this is not as high as other communities affected by lead pollution, it certainly shows an impact from lead contamination."
The culprit proved to be train shipments of lead carbonate that were uncovered combined with windy weather that made the lead airborne. Might be worth checking the dead birds for lead poisoning. "The Report concluded that the deaths of the 9500 native birds in December 2006 and March 2007 resulted from lead poisoning from Magellan Metals lead carbonate concentrate which had been handled by the Esperance Port Authority from April 2005 until March 2007. A quarter of the children under 5 years of age that were tested showed a blood lead level over 5 g/dL. Whilst this is not as high as other communities affected by lead pollution, it certainly shows an impact from lead contamination."
This is an Australian state government. What's worse it's the NSW state government. The problem is further exacerbated by it being TRANSPORT related. The end result will be that somehow $350 million will be spent before the whole thing will be abandoned as a bad idea.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire.... the A-Team.
The Australian education system would display the same amount of sense. The things that teachers are NOT allowed to tell parents here is insane.
Fault Tolerance - at least in the market leading VMware world requires thick provisioning.
You may already be studying creationism. It's called Religious Studies. Taking valuable time away from science classes to examine an argument between a very small section of science and religion is clearly detrimental to students. So make religious studies mandatory in junior high and teach whatever the hell you want in it but don't take time out of the core learning subjects. And most certainly DO NOT compare it to science because it has absolutely nothing to do with science. I hated sport so back at high school and generally avoided participating whenever possible. Outside school I was very fit and used to do plenty of hiking and swimming. I was put into a remedial sports class which took up one of my maths lessons every week. At the time I thought that was a great lark and boy do I regret that now!
Google Engineer Decries Inadequacy of Own Brain. This article was obviously brought to us by the good folks at The Onion.
Africa is not Europe or America, and unlike you these people don't have squat. Barely enough to eat let alone buy fly screens and treat their livestock so that they are not also a disease vector. Your comment (very likely incorrectly) gives me the impression that you don't think we need to do anything about malaria at all- hence my hasty "beat you to a pulp" comment, for which I apologize!
Whoever made the "I'd go out on a limb" comment, I'd very much like to saw that limb off and beat you to a pulp with it. Here's the second sentence on wiki about Malaria: Each year, there are approximately 350–500 million cases of malaria,[1] killing between one and three million people, the majority of whom are young children in sub-Saharan Africa.