Nah. The Member States of the Union will just have to pay the highway maintenance bill themselves..... ya know, like they do over in Europe. Not a big deal.
Which means we shouldn't be searched for airflights (or trains or cars) that travel internal to the U.S. and cross no borders. And yet they do it all the time.
I was caught in several of these while following I-8 from California to Texas. Most just waved me past, but one stop demanded to search my trunk. I refused. ("No warrant; no search." - ACLU of DC.) As punishment they made me stand in the hot sun for an hour & get a nasty burn. Bastards. The SA and Homeland cops think they can look anyplace they want.
I'd rather take the 1 in 1 billion risk of being blown-up in a plane, then the 1 in 100(?) odds of being Xray nude scanned or sexually groped by the government employee.
No it's because Schneier has a conflict-of-interest since he's a hostile party in an ongoing lawsuit against the TSA. It makes sense that he would be excluded.
Maybe they should get the breast-feeding woman who was locked in a glass jail for an hour (and missed her plane) to testify before Congress. Her crime? She wanted to carry milk home to her new baby.
Or Miss America who was brought to tears by the TSA groping.
Or the lady who was forced to milk herself in a public restroom, or else have her equipment seized by the TSA as "contraband". Or the "don't touch my junk" guy. Or the 3 elderly ladies who were strip-searched. Or the young woman who overheard TSA guards commenting she had a "fine body" and asking her to step through the scanner 3 times. Or..... (Just read infowars.com or RTamerica.com; it summarizes all this stuff.)
That seems a little over-the-top. Sure it strips your clothes off your body, to display a naked gray image of your breasts and penis. Sure the guards have been caught asking particular gorgeous women to step through the machine multiple times. Sure some TSA agents have posted personal notes like "Get your freak on" in lady's luggage. Sure some of those images have been leaked by those same guards to the internet......
Never mind. I guess the description was apart afterall.
Dear author: Puleeze. Science fiction (scifi) and fantasy fiction are separate genres. Everybody knows this most basic fact! To use the adjective "scifi" to describe the noun "fantasy" is Not correct. Signed,
Comic Book Guy
Most of my facebook User info is fake. Wrong birthday. Wrong location. Wrong employment. Only my name and schools are correct (so friends can find me).
There are certain suspicious people (Alexjones fans) who have accused me of being a fake person, a government or corporate spy, and so on. I can see why they think that since most of my data says things like, "Worked at Hari Seldon's Foundation" and similar nonsense. And yet these Alexjones people should know better than anyone..... putting your real data online is unwise.
It's just that in the past that information was in different locations, like the phone book (name, address, phone) or state government (birthdate, annual income), or federal government (SS number, lifetime income). Companies have always sought to find information on us, from Arbitron measuring how many people listened local stations, to Nielsen adding PeopleMeters to boxes. Now Google and Facebook are doing the same, but more directly through the net.
Victim that lost $50,000 can work through the courts, and when the courts find Righthaven has zero cash and can't return the money, shoot former CEO in head. (It's Vegas. People disappear all the time.)
According to wikiedia Righthaven owes one gentleman (a blogger) $34,000 in a court case where they lost. It would be a shame if he spent all that money defending himself, but then never sees any of it. Yet another reason I'm opposed to limited-liability corporations.
The guy has a name. When you time the first 3-4 letters of the name, google autocompletes the name with a Crime word, which links to 10,000 entries about said crime. And the HR lady who is looking at this results thinks the guy is a criminal, so she puts his resume in the reject pile.
I don't see how that is Google's fault. That's the fault of stupid HR ladies who don't know how to do a proper search (i.e. finish typing the guy's name).
I've worked Saturdays. I was paid $96 an hour for doing it (time-plus-half), so I was happy to take home the extra money.
And on those rare times when I wasn't paid, then I'd just spend the day watching Syfy.com episodes or reading an e-book (which is what I'd be doing anyway, if I were home). They can MAKE you show-up on weekends but they can't make you work, especially if you're not getting paid for it. In other words I would have taken the job and made it work for me.
Wow. Somebody who's been dupped into believing the Republican and Democrat presidents are good.
Why don't we ask the 1 million+ innocent men, women, and children that Bush and Obama have killed, and see what they think? You DO realize that Obamacare is just a giant gift to the insurance companies, giving them ~40 million new customers by mandating those uninsured persons MUST buy insurance (no wonder insurance stocks went UP after obamacare passed). Yeah he's in the pocket of the corporations. There's no doubt of that. so is Romney.
320x200 is actually TV resolution, cut in half both ways, with a border around the screen. It was used on my Atari 800 and Commodore 64 computers. When I later upgraded to the Commodore Amiga it supported the full resolution of 640x400 (border) or 704x480 (no border). This ability to broadcast tv signals directly is why the Commodore Amigas became the first multimedia computers, for doing overlays over live video or computer-generated images (Babylon 5, seaQuest, Space: A&B). And also music.
Ron Paul was busy delivering babies during the early 90s. The letters were written by some other guy who, admittedly, Paul should have been reviewing and rejecting but he was busy being a doctor.
As for his favored support among white supremacist organizations, so what? Congressman Paul also has wide-ranging support among prostitutes and black people. Does that mean Dr. Paul is a pimp to the whores, and does ghetto-rapping on the weekends? C'mon! You fail at logic Mr. AC.
>>>the theory being that it somehow costs more energy to manufacture a electric car's battery pack than it will ever save compared to an ICE engine.
According to ACEEE.org, an electric car's lifetime pollution (from manufacture to destruction) is no better than a 45mpg gasoline car. And signifigantly less clean than a 65mpg Honda Insight or 80mpg Lupo or CNG-power Civic. So your belief that electric cars are cleaner than a high-efficiency gasser is not borne out. (Unless you have solar panels on your house, and how many of us have them? Essentially zero.)
Yeah I've thought about that, but I measured my CRT at only 50 watts. Ditto the P4 (I turned-on the laptop low power mode a few years ago). The manufacturing energy & strip-mining of new materials & toxic chemicals plus shipping from the other side of the planet would far-exceed anything I would save by switching to LCD or a new iCore CPU. (Same principle applies to why I use US-manufactured incandescent bulbs not CFLs imported from non-environment-friendly China.)
Forgot to mention my phone which many of my coworkers call "ancient". I bought it in 2006 so I guess that is pretty old, but it still makes phone calls and accepts text messages, so why toss it in the trash? No reason I can think of.
So maybe it's time to amend the Constitution. "The government or its agents shall not track people's whereabouts, except when a warrant has been obtained through a judge, and supported by oath or affirmation."
Slashdot Mirror
Good thing I have access to tudou. Thanks China! ;-) Any other video sites I should check out to get around the censoring?
Nah. The Member States of the Union will just have to pay the highway maintenance bill themselves..... ya know, like they do over in Europe. Not a big deal.
Which means we shouldn't be searched for airflights (or trains or cars) that travel internal to the U.S. and cross no borders. And yet they do it all the time.
I was caught in several of these while following I-8 from California to Texas. Most just waved me past, but one stop demanded to search my trunk. I refused. ("No warrant; no search." - ACLU of DC.) As punishment they made me stand in the hot sun for an hour & get a nasty burn. Bastards. The SA and Homeland cops think they can look anyplace they want.
I'd rather take the 1 in 1 billion risk of being blown-up in a plane, then the 1 in 100(?) odds of being Xray nude scanned or sexually groped by the government employee.
No it's because Schneier has a conflict-of-interest since he's a hostile party in an ongoing lawsuit against the TSA. It makes sense that he would be excluded.
Maybe they should get the breast-feeding woman who was locked in a glass jail for an hour (and missed her plane) to testify before Congress. Her crime? She wanted to carry milk home to her new baby.
Or Miss America who was brought to tears by the TSA groping.
Or the lady who was forced to milk herself in a public restroom, or else have her equipment seized by the TSA as "contraband". Or the "don't touch my junk" guy. Or the 3 elderly ladies who were strip-searched. Or the young woman who overheard TSA guards commenting she had a "fine body" and asking her to step through the scanner 3 times. Or..... (Just read infowars.com or RTamerica.com; it summarizes all this stuff.)
That seems a little over-the-top. Sure it strips your clothes off your body, to display a naked gray image of your breasts and penis. Sure the guards have been caught asking particular gorgeous women to step through the machine multiple times. Sure some TSA agents have posted personal notes like "Get your freak on" in lady's luggage. Sure some of those images have been leaked by those same guards to the internet......
Never mind. I guess the description was apart afterall.
Well the HR ladies are still being stupid to assume the "Beck murdered girl" autofill is a legitimate lookup/result.
Dear author:
Puleeze. Science fiction (scifi) and fantasy fiction are separate genres. Everybody knows this most basic fact! To use the adjective "scifi" to describe the noun "fantasy" is Not correct.
Signed,
Comic Book Guy
Is there such a thing as paid web email?
Most of my facebook User info is fake. Wrong birthday. Wrong location. Wrong employment. Only my name and schools are correct (so friends can find me).
There are certain suspicious people (Alexjones fans) who have accused me of being a fake person, a government or corporate spy, and so on. I can see why they think that since most of my data says things like, "Worked at Hari Seldon's Foundation" and similar nonsense. And yet these Alexjones people should know better than anyone..... putting your real data online is unwise.
It's just that in the past that information was in different locations, like the phone book (name, address, phone) or state government (birthdate, annual income), or federal government (SS number, lifetime income). Companies have always sought to find information on us, from Arbitron measuring how many people listened local stations, to Nielsen adding PeopleMeters to boxes. Now Google and Facebook are doing the same, but more directly through the net.
>>>stole companies data
Stupid. He deserved to lose his money, because he's a thief.
Victim that lost $50,000 can work through the courts, and when the courts find Righthaven has zero cash and can't return the money, shoot former CEO in head. (It's Vegas. People disappear all the time.)
According to wikiedia Righthaven owes one gentleman (a blogger) $34,000 in a court case where they lost. It would be a shame if he spent all that money defending himself, but then never sees any of it. Yet another reason I'm opposed to limited-liability corporations.
You could ignore orders from RIAA. "Pay us $5000 settlement cost, or else appear in court on this date ______." Ha. Yeah right. Trashed.
The guy has a name. When you time the first 3-4 letters of the name, google autocompletes the name with a Crime word, which links to 10,000 entries about said crime. And the HR lady who is looking at this results thinks the guy is a criminal, so she puts his resume in the reject pile.
I don't see how that is Google's fault. That's the fault of stupid HR ladies who don't know how to do a proper search (i.e. finish typing the guy's name).
I've worked Saturdays. I was paid $96 an hour for doing it (time-plus-half), so I was happy to take home the extra money.
And on those rare times when I wasn't paid, then I'd just spend the day watching Syfy.com episodes or reading an e-book (which is what I'd be doing anyway, if I were home). They can MAKE you show-up on weekends but they can't make you work, especially if you're not getting paid for it. In other words I would have taken the job and made it work for me.
Wow. Somebody who's been dupped into believing the Republican and Democrat presidents are good.
Why don't we ask the 1 million+ innocent men, women, and children that Bush and Obama have killed, and see what they think? You DO realize that Obamacare is just a giant gift to the insurance companies, giving them ~40 million new customers by mandating those uninsured persons MUST buy insurance (no wonder insurance stocks went UP after obamacare passed). Yeah he's in the pocket of the corporations. There's no doubt of that. so is Romney.
320x200 is actually TV resolution, cut in half both ways, with a border around the screen. It was used on my Atari 800 and Commodore 64 computers. When I later upgraded to the Commodore Amiga it supported the full resolution of 640x400 (border) or 704x480 (no border). This ability to broadcast tv signals directly is why the Commodore Amigas became the first multimedia computers, for doing overlays over live video or computer-generated images (Babylon 5, seaQuest, Space: A&B). And also music.
Ron Paul was busy delivering babies during the early 90s. The letters were written by some other guy who, admittedly, Paul should have been reviewing and rejecting but he was busy being a doctor.
As for his favored support among white supremacist organizations, so what? Congressman Paul also has wide-ranging support among prostitutes and black people. Does that mean Dr. Paul is a pimp to the whores, and does ghetto-rapping on the weekends? C'mon! You fail at logic Mr. AC.
>>>the theory being that it somehow costs more energy to manufacture a electric car's battery pack than it will ever save compared to an ICE engine.
According to ACEEE.org, an electric car's lifetime pollution (from manufacture to destruction) is no better than a 45mpg gasoline car. And signifigantly less clean than a 65mpg Honda Insight or 80mpg Lupo or CNG-power Civic. So your belief that electric cars are cleaner than a high-efficiency gasser is not borne out. (Unless you have solar panels on your house, and how many of us have them? Essentially zero.)
Yeah I've thought about that, but I measured my CRT at only 50 watts. Ditto the P4 (I turned-on the laptop low power mode a few years ago). The manufacturing energy & strip-mining of new materials & toxic chemicals plus shipping from the other side of the planet would far-exceed anything I would save by switching to LCD or a new iCore CPU. (Same principle applies to why I use US-manufactured incandescent bulbs not CFLs imported from non-environment-friendly China.)
Forgot to mention my phone which many of my coworkers call "ancient". I bought it in 2006 so I guess that is pretty old, but it still makes phone calls and accepts text messages, so why toss it in the trash? No reason I can think of.
The courts have said you're wrong (that cameras can record you in public). Of course that works both ways, because we can record them too.
finish his thought. The RT article is clearer: "The camera can search a staggering 36 million faces in less than a second for a match of the thumbnail photo." - http://www.rt.com/news/security-camera-hitachi-million-365/
This too is worth reading "FBI would like to follow you on Facebook and Twitter": http://www.rt.com/news/fbi-social-networks-privacy-781/
In a public area.
So maybe it's time to amend the Constitution. "The government or its agents shall not track people's whereabouts, except when a warrant has been obtained through a judge, and supported by oath or affirmation."