Why are all these end users turning off the auto update features.
Because they got burned once when Windows Update started sucking a serveral Gigabyte service pack over their modem connection?
Or maybe they got tired of having to wait throught the several download a patch that has to be applied seperately and reboot cycles when all they wanted to do was check the movie schedule for the local theater?
Or maybe a social engineered malware webpage changed the settings by telling them click the link and it will double thier intenet connection speed?
Or maybe they are so burned out with having to patch their system three times a week they just don't want the bother since after all it is someone else that is going to get the virus not them?
This means there will be an extensive period of time where the vast majority of the earth's population (who perform "unskilled" labor) will be without jobs or a means of providing themselves with income. Without a massive welfare system set up to feed, clothe, house, and (re)educate these folks, there will be widespread poverty as the humans won't be able to find jobs doing anything.
There is a profit motive to reduce costs; however, markets need demand to produce a profit. If a significant proportion of the population is 'out of work', no one will be buying the products manufactured in the robotic factories. High supply and low demand means no profit. The companies with the robots will have to continually shift production to a profitable area. The cost of retooling will eventually bankrupt the smaller companies. Once that starts to happen companies will very seldom automate themselves out of a market. As the manufacturing market evolves two things will occur. The cycle of over supply will drive prices down to the point where a few specialized companies can satisfy all the populations raw material production needs and most of the population will acquire access to personal self replicating robots which can satisfy all their personal manufacturing needs.
IMHO the best welfare system is human ingenuity combined with personal responsibility. People find ways to satisfy their needs. I believe here will be a gradual shift of population from cities back to rural areas where people can engage in subsistence farming. The deployment of robotic labor will be incremental and take decades. People will invent new jobs as robots displace them in factories. Handcrafted artistic works, e.g. furniture, decorator items, real paintings (not prints), music, novels will be manufactured in home and cottage industry.
The economy as it currently exists will revert back to state similar to before the industrial revolution. In the preindustrial age people didn't work in factories and 'earn an income'. People worked at whatever tasks they could find mostly growing and harvesting basic food items. There were very few specialists that made items. People either worked at communal substance farming or starved.
In the future robots will do all the specialized jobs and the drudgework. At first there will be a technical elite that knows how to keep the robots running but eventually they will be obsolete as well. The robots will mine raw materials and manufacture their own replacements. The genera population will not have an income. Homegrown organic vegetables and 'free range' meat products will be bartered in farmers' markets. Tools and shelter will be free for the asking from the robots.
Halon is bad for the ozone layer was the reason given for its going out of use in the US. They have found out recently that it is not as bad as they though so it is starting to come back.
Being exposed to Halon is not a big deal. The OSHA exposure standard is based on exposure to Halon in a neutral environment. Being in the room with a halide gas and a large fire is the problem.
The major health risk with Halon dump extinguishers is the by products of the quenching cycle. The way halides interfere with combustion is an ionic cycle that sucks the energy out of the combustion process. The cycle is a true cycle and depends on the halides eventually returning to their original state. During the cycle you get other unstable intermediate products that are not toxic per say. They are ionicly unstable and will rip atoms out of stable molecules to get to a stable state. The hotter the fire the more of the intermediate products produce and the longer they hang around. Additionally the cycle is not 100% closed. The combustion products from the plastics in computers plus the halide gases make some bad stuff(TM) like phosgene for example.
A small fire goes out quickly, typically >30 seconds and produce little in the way of toxic by products. A big fire goes out more slowly, 3-5 minutes. Because larger fire is hotter and takes so much more time to quench, far more of the toxic by products are produced. Breathing the larger quantities of the intermediate products created by a larger fire plus toxic gas produced by the fire can cause irreparable harm to you lungs. Getting out of the room quickly is to avoid exposure to the smoke and letting the Halon do its job.
The SOP for Halon dumps was: you pull the handle the electric primary power to the room disconnects, a horn sounds, a short time, seconds, later the Halon floods the room. The delay is to let everyone leave before the flood starts. Once the fire is out and the Halon and combustion site has a chance to cool off you only have to worry about the toxic smoke from the fire. I've seen people open the door to soon after a fire, let too much of the Halon escape and have the fire rekindle.
AFAICT this is another human "click that attachment!" engineering worm. The issue really isn't Linux and Windows, it's applications and users.
We'll have this kind of stuff on Linux the day similar e-mail "click that attachment!" clients become popular on Linux and the userbase degenerates to a similar level of clubieness.
TRANSLATION: IF you use windows you are too stupid to have a computer. If you use Linux you are to smart to to use windows.
But being made up of former French colonies the Ivory Coast and Congo has suffered from French interventionism for centuries. The French never wait for consensus or UN permission before the paratroops are on the ground. They get approval after the fact by the bootlicking sycophants of the UN general assembly.
1. The French have held northeastern Africa under the boot heel of colonial rule for too long. They continually try to prop up their puppet governments to protect their interests in the diamond, pitch blend and titanium mines. You should research where the French nuclear program got its raw material.
2. It is not the French that are fighting in Liberia and Sierra Leon. It is the French Foreign Legion. The troops are not French and fight well. Too bad Foreign Legion is best known for the massacres and defeats fighting rear guard actions while their French commanders ran away.
One thing I never understood about these games is that if it is going to be over $10.00 per month, why would they still charge $50.00 for the software?
Welcome to business 101
Maybe they want a nice big front load on their investment? The life of a game is maybe 3-4 years if they can keep up the interest with âaddedâ(TM) features and expansion packs. Yes at $15 a month for maybe 48 months times the average of however many players they get to play the game through its life. That is a lot of cash. The rub is that lot of cash just covers the server and bandwidth costs plus some to keep the updates for the content and code maintenance going with a sliver of profit left over.
Think about it. How much do you pay just for your internet connection? I pay $40 a month for my cable modem. The servers have to have a connection to the net too. They have to pay by the amount of bandwidth they use and pay at a lower rate than you or I could get.but they have to pay access fees for 30,000+ users at a time for years.
SOE spent a couple of years developing the game engine, gameplay, and visual and sound content of the game. 90 percent of the cost of a good game is gameplay and content development. Gameplay means testing the balance of every aspect of the game and making tweak after tweak after tweak. This takes time and time is money. Content is paying an art department to make model after model and texture upon texture. That takes time and time is money. They have several million dollars invested in that development. Their investors want that money back plus a nice rate of return. So they ask you to shell 50 clams up front.
I just would prefer the copyright holder to be the person that CREATED it, instead of some corporationâ¦
The copyright holders are initially the persons that created the work. They sell the copyright to the material before creation via a thing called a ârecording contractâ(TM) or a âpublishing contractâ(TM) or after creation by a sales contract. If they have some leverage, they can sometimes get a contract providing for a residual off of every copy sold. If they have a lot leverage, they keep the right and only license the material for distribution. Usually they sell the rights for a fixed fee. For music, the sale usually occurs before producing the work. The right then belongs to who ever bought it. Your complaint about the creator of a work not keeping their copyrights is moot. They choose to sell the right. Your complain is really about the short sightedness of the creators not the end owners of the copyright being corporations.
BTW corporation/kÅrp-Är-Ä-shâ®n / noun. An organization formed with state governmental approval to act as an artificial person to carry on business (or other activities). QED corporations are people too.
I'm the opposite way: I ripped all my CDs to mp3s, backed 'em up on some CDs and my entertainment server, and sold the originals. Couldn't care about the art or the liner notes or the lyrics sheets. I have my music, I'm happy.
He stole the intellectual property of the artists by keeping the content after selling the disk!
To gain rights to the content you must buy the right to a copy hence the term âa copyrightâ(TM). The right has a âfair useâ(TM) aspect. Once you buy the right to a copy you own it with a limited license.
1. You have a right to protect your copy by making a or many backups but you cannot redistribute the backups.
2. You have a right to convert the copy into a more convenient format but you cannot redistribute the converted copies.
3. You have a right to give your copy away, or sell it or destroy it but you must dispose of all backups
or converted copies when you do!
What he did is the same as buying a book, then scanning all the pages and selling the book. To gain fair use rights to a book you have to own the book. All fair usage rights leave when you sell, give away, throw away your copy. To have any right to the music you must own a copy of the original media.
Not only will this kind of chip take away my ability to race my cars (again, I must state that I only race on the track), and will make my car more dangerous on the road by removing my ability to brake if necessary.
1) These chips do not control the car. They do not limit speed. They do not limit braking. They control systems âAunt Blair the blue haired wonderâ(TM) doesnâ(TM)t even know her car has. You can race your car all you want. Only the last 5-7 minutes of data are recorded. 2) You might have a five-point restraint system installed but âAunt Aunt Blair the blue haired wonderâ(TM) doesnâ(TM)t. She needs an air bag. 3) There are five inputs to the newest airbag systems.
A) engine rpm
B) wheel rpm (speedometer)
C) throttle position
D) y accelerometer perpendicular to vehicle centerline
E) x accelerometer parallel to the vehicle center line Some systems have additional sensors on the energy absorbing mounts on the bumpers. 4) You probably have one now and donâ(TM)t know it.
I was a mechanical systems designer 25 years ago and have kept up with the trades since.
I also don't like my free will being taken from me in the car.
Donâ(TM)t worry. You only think this infringes on your free will. Wait until after the 2-Fast 2-Furious crowd kills a few more people street racing and the digital drive-by-wire systems mature in 5-10 years. Then the safety freak socialist soccer moms will mandate the hands off computer-aided approach to driving. Mercedes Benz had an autopilot autonomous control equipped technology test bed car they drove from Munch to the heel of the boot of Italy sometime around 1990. The No Hands Across America project car drove over 2849 miles, achieving 98.2% autonomy (i.e. the human supervisor intervened 1.8% of the trip)in 1995.
Unfortuneately, this is not true in the lastest GM products for the US market. Most of the data loging is now in an intregrated unit with common memory space. The systems that generate the trigger events are all stand alone but the sensors that feed the digital subsystems are shared.
This system applies this much extra force in the direction you're turning the wheel. It gets tested to hell and back too.
You talking power steering? That is a hydralic feed back loop using a pilot valve in the steering box. Turning the control wheel moves the steering linkage that is built with a bit of flex in it. Deflection of the linkage moves the pilot valve. The pilot valve shuttles the control valve and moves the front wheels until the defection in the linkage centers the pilot valve. Loss of pressure in the control section or the pilot section of the system places all the load on the linkage so even with the pump dead you can still steer the car. No digital data to record.
The data is in a fixed size filo stack extending several minutes into the past. It deletes the last data point and shifts all the data down and adds the newest data point to the top of the stack. (Yes, I know it really it just moves the pointer to the tail of the stack.) It quits recording a fixed delta T after key events, like air bag deployment.
The 'live readings' are only a single data point in the stack. There is no way to positively detect most of the critical events that trigger changes in the mode of operation in a complex system from a single data point. The key events are a certain detectable profile in the historical data points. That is the reason they bothered to record them. Should the transmission shift from first to second gear at 250 wheel rpm? Maybe, maybe not; it depends on the throttle position history, engine rpm history and the history of changes in the intake vacuum.
The auto makers have been sued so many times over new technology they CYA by preserving the stack exactly as is to be able to prove their anti-lock braking or whatever sub-system worked. They use the data to show that âoeAuntie Jane missed the brake and floored the gas running over 18 people in the wedding party before smashing into the treeâ and not that âoethe anti lock brake system decided all the tires were skidding and reduced the caliper pressure while the cruise control opened the throttle causing the car to accelerate out of controlâ.
The record is the stack; the stack is the record. If you monkey with the stack as part of the termination of the recording you are potentially tampering with the evidence at a crime scene no reputable company would accept the liability for a product that does that in today litigious society. It could be just be deleted and have the same effect but you couldnâ(TM)t safely alter the record on the fly to reflect âsafe and saneâ(TM) driving.
Yeah, for about 3 weeks before an EDR modchip hits the market that reports whatever you want it to report.
IANAL but the courts will just take the fact you have a modchip as an admission of guilt or an attempt to cover up criminal activity.
This type of after market mod sounds like a bad ideaâ. The data recorded in the chip is used to control many systems including your air bag. Some of the new air bags have a high and low impact deployment modes. Doctoring the data record could:
1) Cause the airbag not to deploy when needed, killing you.
2) Cause the airbag to deploy when not needed, killing you.
[Replace airbag with transmission, brakes, anti-skid and deploy with shift, engage, engage in the above two points.]
But since the people whoâ(TM)d buy a modded chip most likely donâ(TM)t even bother with seatbelts or safe defensive style driving. These kinds of after market changes could be looked at as chlorine in the gene pool.
Foreigners grab US IT jobs because they ARE for grabs - US edu system cannot produce capable talent fast enough.
Wrong, lots of capable talent in the US, the talent just wants more money than the foreign outsource shops cost. Do you understand free market economics? Price point is everything. You sell yourself cheap so you never get laid off. I cut out the middle-man and contract directly with the customer reducing my market price-point and have more offers for work than I can service. Foreign outsource shops have lower labor costs so the work gets bid to them.
But yes, I would be surprised if it were legal to use *your* airbag module against you. That would be personal data. and should require a search warrant for something specific.
IANAL but!
Almost every thing you see in shows TV about courts of law is wrong. Almost everything you see in TV shows deals with criminal courts. Civil case law (torts) is very different set of rules.
Your right to against self-incrimination is limited to your own testimony in a criminal trial. In a case under the tort laws in most states, any data that the other side knows exist can be exposed during discovery. Additionally the standard for burden of proof to find against you shifts from beyond a reasonable doubt of guilt, in a criminal case, to simply a reasonable doubt. There is no guilt or innocents in a civil trial only 'agree to' or 'disagree with' a position. They'd just ask the judge to subpoena the recorder data as part of the evidence in the case. That you are trying to 'hide' the data by refusing to freely surrender it would also be admissible and would be used to color the jury's perception of your arguments. Enough little 'in the oppositions face' hissy fits over discovery and the judge may discharge the case and not in your favor. Enough seeming deception or secretiveness on one side and the judge or jury will discount everything that side has to say.
You might get a decreasing rate for a while but as your rate declines someone else's rate will increase. Soon the 'bad' risk drivers are all marginalize and pushed out of the insured pool because they can no longer pay the increased rate. Soon the shrinking pool of insured drivers causes a rebound in the rate. So you lose.
In many states the auto insurance business is 'no fault' i.e., your insurance pays the damages to the other driver and the other driver's insurance pays damages to you. Since bad drivers now can't afford insurance you are more likely to be stuck trying to get relief through the court and even if you win your damages how can the other driver pay? So you lose.
The some other state 'no fault' rules work like this: 1. Everyone must have insurance and everyone's rate it the same. 2. The state sets the rate based on the payout + administration costs across the state. 3. The state collects your insurance premium as part of your vehicle registration fees. Since the market forces are not present to minimize the direct costs of insurance, and since when have public programs had lower administrative costs than private sector, the premium soon reaches $3000-$5000 a year per vehicle. This means even if you can buy a $500 junker you have to pay ~$4k extra a year every year to drive it. This forces low wage earners out of the job market because they can't drive to work. So they go on the dole and you pay them to sit at home and drink beer. Or you could pay a tax for a good public transportation network that you don't use to let the low wage folks get to work to keep them off the dole but in the end you still pay. So you lose.
Accident?
Aren't guns banned in the UK? Anyone
with a gun in the UK is a criminal just for having a gun. The judge's attitude toward the criminal
seems to be "Poor, poor laddie he dinna mean to kill her. He just committed a tragic series of
voluntary criminal acts by getting a gun and loading it and then accidentally
shot her to death." Yeah, right.
This
is as bad as Tony Martin
being refused parole as 'danger to burglars'
Maybe tagging everyone is a good idea
and let's cache the data on where everyone has been for about a year. <sarcasm>Then
execute everyone that is reported to be within 500 meters at the time of death
if a death cannot be ruled as 'natural causes'.</sarcasm>
a nice $40 to $50 will rent their smart card for the day.
Why make vote fraud easier? Read up on the political machines in the big cities during the 1800's and early 1900's. That's where the phrase "You can't fight city hall" originated.
Supporting a system without clear audit trails and checks and balances is foolish. Technology isn't a hammer and this problem is a nail. The gov'ment just needs to spend enough of our money to have enough election workers available on election day and paper ballots work great. It is in the interest of the powers that be to have a system that is broken as long as it keeps them in power. Replacing the system with one more prone to abuse is stupid
With an additude like that you will end up with the government you deserve. You seem to think if someone else will sell a vote you shouldn't care. You seem to believe making it easier for political machines to buy a vote with less of a chance of getting caught is okay because "then you'll probably wind up with the government you deserve... "
What about the people that want thier vote to be meaningful and to make a difference?
Will they get what they deserve? You clearly need to rethink your position or are you for returning to the days of open graft and political corruption on a grander scale?
plastic detectors used for suprathermal electrons? They use boron plate/cylinders for the detector and a big blob of polymer for to slow the electrons down
So, if I'm prohibited to use NAT-based firewalling, who's going to take responsibility for securing my home LAN? Certainly the broadband providers don't want to get into that arena for those people paying the basic $40/mo.
Like Waffle Iron points out above, what makes you think you'll be getting broad band services at your house for $40 a month?
Get used to having this conversation:
Oh, you got your computer hacked? We can add port security and firewalling services for a nominal fee of $45 a month.
And this one:
Ya use Linux? Oh, it is not on our supported device list. You say it's not a device. I'm the communications service and I say it's not supported. Pulls your account, and adds it to the blocking list.
Just how do you detect something that does not interact much with electrons? Neutrons pass right through most geiger-muller tubes without ionizing the gas. Scintillation based detectors usually require cryogenic temperatures or large volumes to detect neutrons. This thing most likely gets x-ray, gamma and beta (if the electrons can penetrate that far) but not neutrons.
Yup all various penetrators from DU rounds. My wristwatch is a hotter radiation source. The issues with DU are due to the dust. The radioactive nature of the metal is a hysteria button used by the leftist enviro-terrorists to whip up the panic in the unwashed masses.
The dust is a mechanical poison that works much like ionic silver. Silver nitrate is just as dangerous a compound. Heavy metallic ions are bad in general. Heavy metal poisoning is bad. Cadmium, Lead, Tungsten, Polonium and Rhenium dust are just as bad. Mercury is worse. Uranium Oxide dust is non-water soluble and settles very quickly. Now if you crawl around a knocked out tank without a dust filter you'd die of silicosis faster than DU poisoning from the residue of an anti-tank munitions.
On the other hand if it is a Soviet built tank it is the Boron, Molybdenum and Osmium dust from the vaporized armor that you should worry about. It'll cut your lungs out in just a few months.
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Why are all these end users turning off the auto update features.
Because they got burned once when Windows Update started sucking a serveral Gigabyte service pack over their modem connection?
Or maybe they got tired of having to wait throught the several download a patch that has to be applied seperately and reboot cycles when all they wanted to do was check the movie schedule for the local theater?
Or maybe a social engineered malware webpage changed the settings by telling them click the link and it will double thier intenet connection speed?
Or maybe they are so burned out with having to patch their system three times a week they just don't want the bother since after all it is someone else that is going to get the virus not them?
ad infinitum, ad nauseum
dinna call me an 'Anglo' or I'll havta kick yur pur lil' pasty arse!
You say:
This means there will be an extensive period of time where the vast majority of the earth's population (who perform "unskilled" labor) will be without jobs or a means of providing themselves with income. Without a massive welfare system set up to feed, clothe, house, and (re)educate these folks, there will be widespread poverty as the humans won't be able to find jobs doing anything.
There is a profit motive to reduce costs; however, markets need demand to produce a profit. If a significant proportion of the population is 'out of work', no one will be buying the products manufactured in the robotic factories. High supply and low demand means no profit. The companies with the robots will have to continually shift production to a profitable area. The cost of retooling will eventually bankrupt the smaller companies. Once that starts to happen companies will very seldom automate themselves out of a market. As the manufacturing market evolves two things will occur. The cycle of over supply will drive prices down to the point where a few specialized companies can satisfy all the populations raw material production needs and most of the population will acquire access to personal self replicating robots which can satisfy all their personal manufacturing needs.
IMHO the best welfare system is human ingenuity combined with personal responsibility. People find ways to satisfy their needs. I believe here will be a gradual shift of population from cities back to rural areas where people can engage in subsistence farming. The deployment of robotic labor will be incremental and take decades. People will invent new jobs as robots displace them in factories. Handcrafted artistic works, e.g. furniture, decorator items, real paintings (not prints), music, novels will be manufactured in home and cottage industry.
The economy as it currently exists will revert back to state similar to before the industrial revolution. In the preindustrial age people didn't work in factories and 'earn an income'. People worked at whatever tasks they could find mostly growing and harvesting basic food items. There were very few specialists that made items. People either worked at communal substance farming or starved.
In the future robots will do all the specialized jobs and the drudgework. At first there will be a technical elite that knows how to keep the robots running but eventually they will be obsolete as well. The robots will mine raw materials and manufacture their own replacements. The genera population will not have an income. Homegrown organic vegetables and 'free range' meat products will be bartered in farmers' markets. Tools and shelter will be free for the asking from the robots.
Halon is bad for the ozone layer was the reason given for its going out of use in the US. They have found out recently that it is not as bad as they though so it is starting to come back.
Being exposed to Halon is not a big deal. The OSHA exposure standard is based on exposure to Halon in a neutral environment. Being in the room with a halide gas and a large fire is the problem.
The major health risk with Halon dump extinguishers is the by products of the quenching cycle. The way halides interfere with combustion is an ionic cycle that sucks the energy out of the combustion process. The cycle is a true cycle and depends on the halides eventually returning to their original state. During the cycle you get other unstable intermediate products that are not toxic per say. They are ionicly unstable and will rip atoms out of stable molecules to get to a stable state. The hotter the fire the more of the intermediate products produce and the longer they hang around. Additionally the cycle is not 100% closed. The combustion products from the plastics in computers plus the halide gases make some bad stuff(TM) like phosgene for example.
A small fire goes out quickly, typically >30 seconds and produce little in the way of toxic by products. A big fire goes out more slowly, 3-5 minutes. Because larger fire is hotter and takes so much more time to quench, far more of the toxic by products are produced. Breathing the larger quantities of the intermediate products created by a larger fire plus toxic gas produced by the fire can cause irreparable harm to you lungs. Getting out of the room quickly is to avoid exposure to the smoke and letting the Halon do its job.
The SOP for Halon dumps was: you pull the handle the electric primary power to the room disconnects, a horn sounds, a short time, seconds, later the Halon floods the room. The delay is to let everyone leave before the flood starts. Once the fire is out and the Halon and combustion site has a chance to cool off you only have to worry about the toxic smoke from the fire. I've seen people open the door to soon after a fire, let too much of the Halon escape and have the fire rekindle.
AFAICT this is another human "click that attachment!" engineering worm. The issue really isn't Linux and Windows, it's applications and users.
We'll have this kind of stuff on Linux the day similar e-mail "click that attachment!" clients become popular on Linux and the userbase degenerates to a similar level of clubieness.
TRANSLATION:
IF you use windows you are too stupid to have a computer. If you use Linux you are to smart to to use windows.
But being made up of former French colonies the Ivory Coast and Congo has suffered from French interventionism for centuries. The French never wait for consensus or UN permission before the paratroops are on the ground. They get approval after the fact by the bootlicking sycophants of the UN general assembly.
1. The French have held northeastern Africa under the boot heel of colonial rule for too long. They continually try to prop up their puppet governments to protect their interests in the diamond, pitch blend and titanium mines. You should research where the French nuclear program got its raw material.
2. It is not the French that are fighting in Liberia and Sierra Leon. It is the French Foreign Legion. The troops are not French and fight well. Too bad Foreign Legion is best known for the massacres and defeats fighting rear guard actions while their French commanders ran away.
But penguins eat fish. Fish eat worms. This worm eats Windows.
:P
Ehwe! Poor little worms
One thing I never understood about these games is that if it is going to be over $10.00 per month, why would they still charge $50.00 for the software?
Welcome to business 101
Maybe they want a nice big front load on their investment? The life of a game is maybe 3-4 years if they can keep up the interest with âaddedâ(TM) features and expansion packs. Yes at $15 a month for maybe 48 months times the average of however many players they get to play the game through its life. That is a lot of cash. The rub is that lot of cash just covers the server and bandwidth costs plus some to keep the updates for the content and code maintenance going with a sliver of profit left over.
Think about it. How much do you pay just for your internet connection? I pay $40 a month for my cable modem. The servers have to have a connection to the net too. They have to pay by the amount of bandwidth they use and pay at a lower rate than you or I could get.but they have to pay access fees for 30,000+ users at a time for years.
SOE spent a couple of years developing the game engine, gameplay, and visual and sound content of the game. 90 percent of the cost of a good game is gameplay and content development. Gameplay means testing the balance of every aspect of the game and making tweak after tweak after tweak. This takes time and time is money. Content is paying an art department to make model after model and texture upon texture. That takes time and time is money. They have several million dollars invested in that development. Their investors want that money back plus a nice rate of return. So they ask you to shell 50 clams up front.
I just would prefer the copyright holder to be the person that CREATED it, instead of some corporationâ¦
/kÅrp-Är-Ä-shâ®n / noun. An organization formed with state governmental approval to act as an artificial person to carry on business (or other activities). QED corporations are people too.
The copyright holders are initially the persons that created the work. They sell the copyright to the material before creation via a thing called a ârecording contractâ(TM) or a âpublishing contractâ(TM) or after creation by a sales contract. If they have some leverage, they can sometimes get a contract providing for a residual off of every copy sold. If they have a lot leverage, they keep the right and only license the material for distribution. Usually they sell the rights for a fixed fee. For music, the sale usually occurs before producing the work. The right then belongs to who ever bought it. Your complaint about the creator of a work not keeping their copyrights is moot. They choose to sell the right. Your complain is really about the short sightedness of the creators not the end owners of the copyright being corporations.
BTW corporation
I'm the opposite way: I ripped all my CDs to mp3s, backed 'em up on some CDs and my entertainment server, and sold the originals. Couldn't care about the art or the liner notes or the lyrics sheets. I have my music, I'm happy.
He stole the intellectual property of the artists by keeping the content after selling the disk!
To gain rights to the content you must buy the right to a copy hence the term âa copyrightâ(TM). The right has a âfair useâ(TM) aspect. Once you buy the right to a copy you own it with a limited license.
1. You have a right to protect your copy by making a or many backups but you cannot redistribute the backups.
2. You have a right to convert the copy into a more convenient format but you cannot redistribute the converted copies.
3. You have a right to give your copy away, or sell it or destroy it but you must dispose of all backups
or converted copies when you do!
What he did is the same as buying a book, then scanning all the pages and selling the book. To gain fair use rights to a book you have to own the book. All fair usage rights leave when you sell, give away, throw away your copy. To have any right to the music you must own a copy of the original media.
Not only will this kind of chip take away my ability to race my cars (again, I must state that I only race on the track), and will make my car more dangerous on the road by removing my ability to brake if necessary.
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1) These chips do not control the car. They do not limit speed. They do not limit braking. They control systems âAunt Blair the blue haired wonderâ(TM) doesnâ(TM)t even know her car has. You can race your car all you want. Only the last 5-7 minutes of data are recorded.
2) You might have a five-point restraint system installed but âAunt Aunt Blair the blue haired wonderâ(TM) doesnâ(TM)t. She needs an air bag.
3) There are five inputs to the newest airbag systems.
A) engine rpm
B) wheel rpm (speedometer)
C) throttle position
D) y accelerometer perpendicular to vehicle centerline
E) x accelerometer parallel to the vehicle center line
Some systems have additional sensors on the energy absorbing mounts on the bumpers.
4) You probably have one now and donâ(TM)t know it.
I was a mechanical systems designer 25 years ago and have kept up with the trades since.
I also don't like my free will being taken from me in the car.
Donâ(TM)t worry. You only think this infringes on your free will. Wait until after the 2-Fast 2-Furious crowd kills a few more people street racing and the digital drive-by-wire systems mature in 5-10 years. Then the safety freak socialist soccer moms will mandate the hands off computer-aided approach to driving. Mercedes Benz had an autopilot autonomous control equipped technology test bed car they drove from Munch to the heel of the boot of Italy sometime around 1990. The No Hands Across America project car drove over 2849 miles, achieving 98.2% autonomy (i.e. the human supervisor intervened 1.8% of the trip)in 1995.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/tjochem/www
Soon, as in the next 20 years, you will not legally be able to drive any of your modified cars over the road due to safety concerns. Get used to it.
Unfortuneately, this is not true in the lastest GM products for the US market. Most of the data loging is now in an intregrated unit with common memory space. The systems that generate the trigger events are all stand alone but the sensors that feed the digital subsystems are shared.
This system applies this much extra force in the direction you're turning the wheel. It gets tested to hell and back too.
You talking power steering? That is a hydralic feed back loop using a pilot valve in the steering box. Turning the control wheel moves the steering linkage that is built with a bit of flex in it. Deflection of the linkage moves the pilot valve. The pilot valve shuttles the control valve and moves the front wheels until the defection in the linkage centers the pilot valve. Loss of pressure in the control section or the pilot section of the system places all the load on the linkage so even with the pump dead you can still steer the car. No digital data to record.
San Peur! Cousin
The data is in a fixed size filo stack extending several minutes into the past. It deletes the last data point and shifts all the data down and adds the newest data point to the top of the stack. (Yes, I know it really it just moves the pointer to the tail of the stack.) It quits recording a fixed delta T after key events, like air bag deployment.
The 'live readings' are only a single data point in the stack. There is no way to positively detect most of the critical events that trigger changes in the mode of operation in a complex system from a single data point. The key events are a certain detectable profile in the historical data points. That is the reason they bothered to record them. Should the transmission shift from first to second gear at 250 wheel rpm? Maybe, maybe not; it depends on the throttle position history, engine rpm history and the history of changes in the intake vacuum.
The auto makers have been sued so many times over new technology they CYA by preserving the stack exactly as is to be able to prove their anti-lock braking or whatever sub-system worked. They use the data to show that âoeAuntie Jane missed the brake and floored the gas running over 18 people in the wedding party before smashing into the treeâ and not that âoethe anti lock brake system decided all the tires were skidding and reduced the caliper pressure while the cruise control opened the throttle causing the car to accelerate out of controlâ.
The record is the stack; the stack is the record. If you monkey with the stack as part of the termination of the recording you are potentially tampering with the evidence at a crime scene no reputable company would accept the liability for a product that does that in today litigious society. It could be just be deleted and have the same effect but you couldnâ(TM)t safely alter the record on the fly to reflect âsafe and saneâ(TM) driving.
Yeah, for about 3 weeks before an EDR modchip hits the market that reports whatever you want it to report.
IANAL but the courts will just take the fact you have a modchip as an admission of guilt or an attempt to cover up criminal activity.
This type of after market mod sounds like a bad ideaâ. The data recorded in the chip is used to control many systems including your air bag. Some of the new air bags have a high and low impact deployment modes. Doctoring the data record could:
1) Cause the airbag not to deploy when needed, killing you.
2) Cause the airbag to deploy when not needed, killing you.
[Replace airbag with transmission, brakes, anti-skid and deploy with shift, engage, engage in the above two points.]
But since the people whoâ(TM)d buy a modded chip most likely donâ(TM)t even bother with seatbelts or safe defensive style driving. These kinds of after market changes could be looked at as chlorine in the gene pool.
Foreigners grab US IT jobs because they ARE for grabs - US edu system cannot produce capable talent fast enough.
Wrong, lots of capable talent in the US, the talent just wants more money than the foreign outsource shops cost. Do you understand free market economics? Price point is everything. You sell yourself cheap so you never get laid off. I cut out the middle-man and contract directly with the customer reducing my market price-point and have more offers for work than I can service. Foreign outsource shops have lower labor costs so the work gets bid to them.
But yes, I would be surprised if it were legal to use *your* airbag module against you. That would be personal data. and should require a search warrant for something specific.
IANAL but!
Almost every thing you see in shows TV about courts of law is wrong. Almost everything you see in TV shows deals with criminal courts. Civil case law (torts) is very different set of rules.
Your right to against self-incrimination is limited to your own testimony in a criminal trial. In a case under the tort laws in most states, any data that the other side knows exist can be exposed during discovery. Additionally the standard for burden of proof to find against you shifts from beyond a reasonable doubt of guilt, in a criminal case, to simply a reasonable doubt. There is no guilt or innocents in a civil trial only 'agree to' or 'disagree with' a position. They'd just ask the judge to subpoena the recorder data as part of the evidence in the case. That you are trying to 'hide' the data by refusing to freely surrender it would also be admissible and would be used to color the jury's perception of your arguments. Enough little 'in the oppositions face' hissy fits over discovery and the judge may discharge the case and not in your favor. Enough seeming deception or secretiveness on one side and the judge or jury will discount everything that side has to say.
You might get a decreasing rate for a while but as your rate declines someone else's rate will increase. Soon the 'bad' risk drivers are all marginalize and pushed out of the insured pool because they can no longer pay the increased rate. Soon the shrinking pool of insured drivers causes a rebound in the rate. So you lose.
In many states the auto insurance business is 'no fault' i.e., your insurance pays the damages to the other driver and the other driver's insurance pays damages to you. Since bad drivers now can't afford insurance you are more likely to be stuck trying to get relief through the court and even if you win your damages how can the other driver pay? So you lose.
The some other state 'no fault' rules work like this: 1. Everyone must have insurance and everyone's rate it the same. 2. The state sets the rate based on the payout + administration costs across the state. 3. The state collects your insurance premium as part of your vehicle registration fees. Since the market forces are not present to minimize the direct costs of insurance, and since when have public programs had lower administrative costs than private sector, the premium soon reaches $3000-$5000 a year per vehicle. This means even if you can buy a $500 junker you have to pay ~$4k extra a year every year to drive it. This forces low wage earners out of the job market because they can't drive to work. So they go on the dole and you pay them to sit at home and drink beer. Or you could pay a tax for a good public transportation network that you don't use to let the low wage folks get to work to keep them off the dole but in the end you still pay. So you lose.
The judge called it a tragic accident.
Accident? Aren't guns banned in the UK? Anyone with a gun in the UK is a criminal just for having a gun. The judge's attitude toward the criminal seems to be "Poor, poor laddie he dinna mean to kill her. He just committed a tragic series of voluntary criminal acts by getting a gun and loading it and then accidentally shot her to death." Yeah, right.
This is as bad as Tony Martin being refused parole as 'danger to burglars'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2003/01/17/nmart17.xml
Maybe tagging everyone is a good idea and let's cache the data on where everyone has been for about a year. <sarcasm>Then execute everyone that is reported to be within 500 meters at the time of death if a death cannot be ruled as 'natural causes'.</sarcasm>
a nice $40 to $50 will rent their smart card for the day.
Why make vote fraud easier? Read up on the political machines in the big cities during the 1800's and early 1900's. That's where the phrase "You can't fight city hall" originated.
Supporting a system without clear audit trails and checks and balances is foolish. Technology isn't a hammer and this problem is a nail. The gov'ment just needs to spend enough of our money to have enough election workers available on election day and paper ballots work great. It is in the interest of the powers that be to have a system that is broken as long as it keeps them in power. Replacing the system with one more prone to abuse is stupid
With an additude like that you will end up with the government you deserve. You seem to think if someone else will sell a vote you shouldn't care. You seem to believe making it easier for political machines to buy a vote with less of a chance of getting caught is okay because "then you'll probably wind up with the government you deserve... "
What about the people that want thier vote to be meaningful and to make a difference?
Will they get what they deserve? You clearly need to rethink your position or are you for returning to the days of open graft and political corruption on a grander scale?
plastic detectors used for suprathermal electrons? They use boron plate/cylinders for the detector and a big blob of polymer for to slow the electrons down
I have ~20 lbs of DU on my desk right now and my wrist watch has a bigger effect on the geiger counter I use in the lab.
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Like I said "The dust is however a mechanical poison
So, if I'm prohibited to use NAT-based firewalling, who's going to take responsibility for securing my home LAN? Certainly the broadband providers don't want to get into that arena for those people paying the basic $40/mo.
Like Waffle Iron points out above, what makes you think you'll be getting broad band services at your house for $40 a month?
Get used to having this conversation:
Oh, you got your computer hacked? We can add port security and firewalling services for a nominal fee of $45 a month.
And this one:
Ya use Linux? Oh, it is not on our supported device list. You say it's not a device. I'm the communications service and I say it's not supported. Pulls your account, and adds it to the blocking list.
... with the rats' genetics again? I hate it. Them running around the lab at night with their big bulging heads and those little tiny hands.
(mutter, mutter, whine, mutter)
Just how do you detect something that does not interact much with electrons? Neutrons pass right through most geiger-muller tubes without ionizing the gas. Scintillation based detectors usually require cryogenic temperatures or large volumes to detect neutrons. This thing most likely gets x-ray, gamma and beta (if the electrons can penetrate that far) but not neutrons.
Yup all various penetrators from DU rounds. My wristwatch is a hotter radiation source. The issues with DU are due to the dust. The radioactive nature of the metal is a hysteria button used by the leftist enviro-terrorists to whip up the panic in the unwashed masses.
The dust is a mechanical poison that works much like ionic silver. Silver nitrate is just as dangerous a compound. Heavy metallic ions are bad in general. Heavy metal poisoning is bad. Cadmium, Lead, Tungsten, Polonium and Rhenium dust are just as bad. Mercury is worse. Uranium Oxide dust is non-water soluble and settles very quickly. Now if you crawl around a knocked out tank without a dust filter you'd die of silicosis faster than DU poisoning from the residue of an anti-tank munitions.
On the other hand if it is a Soviet built tank it is the Boron, Molybdenum and Osmium dust from the vaporized armor that you should worry about. It'll cut your lungs out in just a few months.