Saying "the citizens are powerless until money is gotten out of politics" is a red herring. Money, at the end of the day, can't buy you votes without the assent of sheep who vote for whoever has the shiniest TV ad. Money only buys votes with an uneducated electorate.
If voters really wanted to do something about this, they could.
Could you not still spoof the encrypted signals by time-delaying them, without bothering with the decryption?
GPS is just a bunch of clocks, no? Just record the encrypted signals and play them back with time delays (of a fraction of a second) at higher power designed to give false position readings.
There are so many things a terror group could do if they really wanted to. They called out the Department of Homeland Security yesterday because someone left a Chinese takeout box on a Metrobus, for fuck's sake. It would be very, very easy to create a DoS condition among the anti-"terrorism" agencies...
An American citizen told the rest of the American citizens (and, by extension) the world what their government was up to.
Suppose he goes to (say) Ecuador. So now the American government wants to use force against any American who wants to engage in mutually-beneficial trade with an Ecuadorian, to the mutual harm of both? Neither of them has anything to do with geopolitics -- they just want to trade bananas for tractors, or whatever it is, and really wish their governments would fuck right off and let them do it.
We have governments because they're supposed to make our lives better, but how is this wankery good for anyone?
What it was was a thing typed in haste that I figured folks would understand -- you're right in that there is no uniform standard for charging Android devices. But most of them use those ubiquitous MicroUSB cables, and that's what I meant.
There are lots of "third-party" Android chargers out there -- ordinary MicroUSB things. If "counterfeit" (i.e. non-Samsung, or whatever) chargers were a problem, wouldn't this happen all the time with Androids?
Sounds like Apple is just taking advantage of the opportunity to scare people into paying the Apple Tax.
Idiot administrators, bureaucrats, and politicians are certainly a problem that needs to be addressed (and I've seen a ton of them). But one of the biggest problems -- at least at my mother's former school and in her district -- (and this is from firsthand observation) is idiot teachers. The union defends their jobs with great ardor, and won't even bear the suggestion that they might be part of the problem. The union sticks up for all of their members, of course. Sometimes they defend good teachers against administrators who get in their way. But they also defend idiots against the few good administrators who want to get rid of them, and there are few worse things for a kid's education than an idiot in the classroom: a good teacher with a terrible administration can still get something done.
Perhaps the union in your mother's district is more benign and the teacher population is on the whole a lot better. This is just my experience with one district.
They probably did some religious music (the Vivaldi Gloria is a common one for high school/middle school choirs), simply because the history of choral music is so heavily associated with the Church. It's an interesting dilemma for myself and other atheist choral singers, but there's really no tension in the choral world between people who are religious (and who treat the music as an expression of religion, in part) and those of us who see it as mythology.
I worked for a public school years ago for a semester.
They wanted me to use my personal laptop, which was fine with me, so I asked them if I could connect it to their network. They said yes, so I plugged it into the Ethernet jack. There was no DHCP. I went to check one of the other computers, and they had statically-assigned IP addresses. I asked the school IT person if I could have an IP address, and she said "You have to go through central office to get an email account." I said "I don't want email; I want an IP address." She again said something about email, and clearly didn't know what an IP address was.
So I plugged in my laptop and fired up a packet sniffer to find an unassigned one, and noted in passing that I'd have been able to read the principal's email had I chosen to.
These are not the kind of people who are going to get video analytics anywhere close to right.
Texas education will surprise you, apparently. I know a choral conductor who recent took a job at a small Texas college. I asked her how many students were there, and she said "Oh, about 600". It's not a dedicated music college, so I expressed my surprise, and asked her if she could form a decent choir out of a student body of 600.
She said "Ah, but they're 600 Texans." Apparently music education is emphasized quite a lot in Texas K-12 schools, and far more students leave school knowing how to sing than in other states.
No, you're not. You're not making ex post facto laws, laws which make something illegal retroactively. Child abuse has always been illegal; grandparent is just saying that refusing your child vaccination should be considered child abuse.
I lived for a while in Tucson. Pretty much anyone who's outdoors in the desert much is likely to get it; in most people there are either no symptoms or flu-like symptoms. My PhD advisor had to have major surgery, and in the pre-surgery physical they found some characteristic scar tissue in his lungs and commented that he'd had valley fever at some point; he had no idea.
I'm pretty sure I had it; I got an unexplained very high fever and "flu-like" muscle pains along with a cough, but no sinus congestion at the end of my first year there.
Isn't this viewpoint as sad testament as to the state of the land of the free?
In a civilised country the populace shouldn't feel that they need to carry a weapon when walking the streets to be safe.
I believe that its better to not have the need to carry than to carry just in case.
All true. It *is* a sad statement about what Atlanta has become. But until that gets fixed, grandparent has three choices: not go out at night, to public property where he or she has the legal right to be, and be cowed by the thugs; go out at night, and risk getting robbed or hurt; or show a willingness to defend him- or herself.
Okay, what's wrong with "grey market" (or whatever you want to call them) taxis?
A guy has a car and would like some money. Another guy has some money and would like a ride. They trade, and now both are better off than they were before. What's wrong with this?
If it routes around traffic incidents, then it'll be useless in Washington DC.
I don't want my phone to die with an error to the effect of "Unable to find path from Washington to Baltimore avoiding traffic incident WASHINGTON_BELTWAY_CLUSTERFUCK".
Now if it would automatically warn of known speed traps...
It seems to be a symptom of some underlying pathology in a democracy when so much effort is put into protecting the head of government. At least in the ideal it doesn't matter who is president; they're ultimately a representative of the popular will and, to first order, one will do just as well as the next. There is even ideological continuity, since the vice president is selected by the president (you couldn't shoot Bush to end the Iraq war, since then you'd get Cheney). Historically assassinations have had little effect on the policy course of the nation. From the perspective of the citizenry, getting a president shot is really not all that big of a deal -- we just elect a new one and go about our way. This isn't saying that we should have no security around POTUS, but it seems rather disingenuous to pay for massive security for him, with its huge cost and disruption to people's lives, when that money, invested in health care or education or police presence in the worst neighborhoods, would reduce the death rate far more than the reduction in the (already small) assassination rate provided by the presidential security apparatus.
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Saying "the citizens are powerless until money is gotten out of politics" is a red herring. Money, at the end of the day, can't buy you votes without the assent of sheep who vote for whoever has the shiniest TV ad. Money only buys votes with an uneducated electorate.
If voters really wanted to do something about this, they could.
Could you not still spoof the encrypted signals by time-delaying them, without bothering with the decryption?
GPS is just a bunch of clocks, no? Just record the encrypted signals and play them back with time delays (of a fraction of a second) at higher power designed to give false position readings.
There are so many things a terror group could do if they really wanted to. They called out the Department of Homeland Security yesterday because someone left a Chinese takeout box on a Metrobus, for fuck's sake. It would be very, very easy to create a DoS condition among the anti-"terrorism" agencies...
An American citizen told the rest of the American citizens (and, by extension) the world what their government was up to.
Suppose he goes to (say) Ecuador. So now the American government wants to use force against any American who wants to engage in mutually-beneficial trade with an Ecuadorian, to the mutual harm of both? Neither of them has anything to do with geopolitics -- they just want to trade bananas for tractors, or whatever it is, and really wish their governments would fuck right off and let them do it.
We have governments because they're supposed to make our lives better, but how is this wankery good for anyone?
What it was was a thing typed in haste that I figured folks would understand -- you're right in that there is no uniform standard for charging Android devices. But most of them use those ubiquitous MicroUSB cables, and that's what I meant.
There are lots of "third-party" Android chargers out there -- ordinary MicroUSB things. If "counterfeit" (i.e. non-Samsung, or whatever) chargers were a problem, wouldn't this happen all the time with Androids?
Sounds like Apple is just taking advantage of the opportunity to scare people into paying the Apple Tax.
Yes. And Kansas City is actually in Missouri. But some things are sensible: Texarkana is a city on the border of Texas and Arkansas.
Idiot administrators, bureaucrats, and politicians are certainly a problem that needs to be addressed (and I've seen a ton of them). But one of the biggest problems -- at least at my mother's former school and in her district -- (and this is from firsthand observation) is idiot teachers. The union defends their jobs with great ardor, and won't even bear the suggestion that they might be part of the problem. The union sticks up for all of their members, of course. Sometimes they defend good teachers against administrators who get in their way. But they also defend idiots against the few good administrators who want to get rid of them, and there are few worse things for a kid's education than an idiot in the classroom: a good teacher with a terrible administration can still get something done.
Perhaps the union in your mother's district is more benign and the teacher population is on the whole a lot better. This is just my experience with one district.
They probably did some religious music (the Vivaldi Gloria is a common one for high school/middle school choirs), simply because the history of choral music is so heavily associated with the Church. It's an interesting dilemma for myself and other atheist choral singers, but there's really no tension in the choral world between people who are religious (and who treat the music as an expression of religion, in part) and those of us who see it as mythology.
Yes, they were. This was in '04, granted. But yes -- they were using hubs.
Grandparent mentions three things hurting education and gets +5; I mention a fourth and get modded down. Interesting.
(I say this based on my mother's experience as a career teacher, fyi -- I'm no conservative blowhard.)
Then you aren't paying well-qualified science and math teachers enough.
Supply and demand...
I worked for a public school years ago for a semester.
They wanted me to use my personal laptop, which was fine with me, so I asked them if I could connect it to their network. They said yes, so I plugged it into the Ethernet jack. There was no DHCP. I went to check one of the other computers, and they had statically-assigned IP addresses. I asked the school IT person if I could have an IP address, and she said "You have to go through central office to get an email account." I said "I don't want email; I want an IP address." She again said something about email, and clearly didn't know what an IP address was.
So I plugged in my laptop and fired up a packet sniffer to find an unassigned one, and noted in passing that I'd have been able to read the principal's email had I chosen to.
These are not the kind of people who are going to get video analytics anywhere close to right.
You forgot teachers' unions, who are also doing a fine job of it.
Texas education will surprise you, apparently. I know a choral conductor who recent took a job at a small Texas college. I asked her how many students were there, and she said "Oh, about 600". It's not a dedicated music college, so I expressed my surprise, and asked her if she could form a decent choir out of a student body of 600.
She said "Ah, but they're 600 Texans." Apparently music education is emphasized quite a lot in Texas K-12 schools, and far more students leave school knowing how to sing than in other states.
No, you're not. You're not making ex post facto laws, laws which make something illegal retroactively. Child abuse has always been illegal; grandparent is just saying that refusing your child vaccination should be considered child abuse.
No, I think you mean:
The trouble is that the damn snowbirds show up and then hide in air conditioned houses. It was either the fungus or come up with sneakier snakes.
I lived for a while in Tucson. Pretty much anyone who's outdoors in the desert much is likely to get it; in most people there are either no symptoms or flu-like symptoms. My PhD advisor had to have major surgery, and in the pre-surgery physical they found some characteristic scar tissue in his lungs and commented that he'd had valley fever at some point; he had no idea.
I'm pretty sure I had it; I got an unexplained very high fever and "flu-like" muscle pains along with a cough, but no sinus congestion at the end of my first year there.
All true. It *is* a sad statement about what Atlanta has become. But until that gets fixed, grandparent has three choices: not go out at night, to public property where he or she has the legal right to be, and be cowed by the thugs; go out at night, and risk getting robbed or hurt; or show a willingness to defend him- or herself.
Okay, what's wrong with "grey market" (or whatever you want to call them) taxis?
A guy has a car and would like some money. Another guy has some money and would like a ride. They trade, and now both are better off than they were before. What's wrong with this?
Either Jesus will come back and end everything before climate change makes a difference, or God will never let us hose His perfect creation.
The trouble is, there are folks in Congress who believe this and set policy based on it...
I think the point is that the boundary between the ice and the rock is below sea level.
If it routes around traffic incidents, then it'll be useless in Washington DC.
I don't want my phone to die with an error to the effect of "Unable to find path from Washington to Baltimore avoiding traffic incident WASHINGTON_BELTWAY_CLUSTERFUCK".
Now if it would automatically warn of known speed traps...
A bit OT, but:
It seems to be a symptom of some underlying pathology in a democracy when so much effort is put into protecting the head of government. At least in the ideal it doesn't matter who is president; they're ultimately a representative of the popular will and, to first order, one will do just as well as the next. There is even ideological continuity, since the vice president is selected by the president (you couldn't shoot Bush to end the Iraq war, since then you'd get Cheney). Historically assassinations have had little effect on the policy course of the nation. From the perspective of the citizenry, getting a president shot is really not all that big of a deal -- we just elect a new one and go about our way. This isn't saying that we should have no security around POTUS, but it seems rather disingenuous to pay for massive security for him, with its huge cost and disruption to people's lives, when that money, invested in health care or education or police presence in the worst neighborhoods, would reduce the death rate far more than the reduction in the (already small) assassination rate provided by the presidential security apparatus.