First criminals, then kids. They'll start on employees next, move it up to registered drivers, you'll see.
I have no problem with criminal being taged. I find it funny that people are even thinking that public shool childern have any rights of their own. I went to public school. Did I have the right to freely speak to those I wanted to? Nope. Did I have the right to associate with those I wanted to? Nope. Did I get to decide any of the classes or subject matter that I was going to learn? Not until high school. K through junior high you didn't get any choices in the matter. (Opps, I was slightly wrong. You could chose to be in band or a sports program in junior high.) Did I have the right to bear arms? Nope. Did they at a minium teach arms safety classes? Nope. Did they know where I was at any given time of the day? Yes, between 7:30 - 4:00 they had an excellent idea of where 90%-95% of the student population was. I'm supposed to be worried that the government knows where I am? Give me a break. College I was given slightly more freedom. But I was still a slave to routine. I had to be in my dorm to sleep, at the classes that I picked though half the course load was general requirements that seemed like a rehash of highschool. I had limited movement. I either could ride to Walmart with friends or return home on the weekend with friends. The only other spots in college that I was were: the 3 computer labs and the food court. I could have easily been tracked without my knowing about it. Or with my knowledge. My dorm actually had keys. Most had ID scanners, the food court had ID scanner, the lib. had ID scanners. So college the one place most of the populace may be given the chance to learn concepts that may make it want to oppose the government. I was tracked more often.
Lets see. Get out of college and get regular employment. I have a home now. 90% of my time could be tracked by me coming from home to work and then at the end of the day going from work to home. My wife picks up most of the food. I go to maybe 5 different places for lunch. I am very easily tracked. Oh, I forgot to mention that now I have an ID card that is required to open most doors at the office. The funny part is my office has a lock and I have a key. I don't have to swipe an ID going through the main entrance. They still know where I'm at through. Cameras in the elevators and at the entrance.
Why should I be worried? They could easily already be tracking me. I don't take random paths to places and any way I only have a handful of places that I'd be.
You are compelled by law to attend school. Most can't afford to NOT go to government school. Now the government is tagging people like animals.
I don't see a huge demand by "the people" to repeal mandated education. If the government didn't do it, the odds are most of the country wouldn't bother. Sad but true.
Actually, I wouldn't mind having public schools be a simple fee based system and every sealth tax "for education" repealed. If education costs X, I want to know how much X is. I don't want X to be some random percentage of my Y salary that I have no I idea how much it is. Do you know how much of your sales tax, federal taxes, state taxes, and local taxes go into "education" of either yourself, your spouse, or your childern? I certainly don't.
I don't know if it's particularly the Chinese, but there are serious proposals to site major telescopes at Dome A in the not-so-far future. Thin, still cold dry air makes for excellent seeing in the visible and IR and the cold is a positive advantage for IR work, since it reduces thermal IR in the environment.
It's not the world's easiest spot to ship to (no FedEx service, even) or build at, but it's cheaper than the South pole of the moon, or Earth-Sun L2, which are suggested alternatives.
Talk about the absolute worst research place. Could you imagine being assigned out there for a few years?
This, my friends, is why the human race is doomed. Here on slashdot, where we care more about science than most people, all some people can think about is how a new technological advancement can facilitate the transmission of market-research-constructed-SitComs or advertisements for the latest yuppie gizmo to their home.
This is why we need a sitcom "Losers in Space" about some guys floating around in a space ship limited to the solar system. (It would most likely be best to be either a mining ship or a transport.) (Think Red Dwarf) We need to forget about star trek at the moment and more about space crawling. We don't even have long term orbital monitoring of all our known plantery bodies and paths of all large asteriods mapped out. Those are the only two short range goals that I'd like NASA to achieve.
light is not restricted to the visible light we can see. radio waves are a form of light. so is infared. gamm radiation, microwaves, etc.
Shh, you aren't supposed to be giving out this top secret/. only information. Remember, this information is restricted to the general public for their own good. It's not like it's taught in public school. (sarcasm implied)
In what world do drug addicts have the intelligence, financial means, and patience to do the ridiculous things you suggest?
Hey, I think you are over looking all those smart rich folks that happen to have drug habits. I wouldn't know if they have patience, but if they have the ability to be wealthy, then they most likely do. I wouldn't be worried about this type of criminial mugging me since he most likely makes 10 times as much money as I do. I'd be worried that he is a supplier that could sell imported drugs that have been "verified" to be "good," but aren't. I'd bet that guy could make a few million of that. Why bother mugging people? It is dangerous and low profit.
We need global unions. We need to make sure that those Indian, Chinese, Eastern European, and African programmers are paid exactly the same as US programmers with the same quailty of benefits.
It really won't work with tech unions though. There are not enough unionized tech people. It could work in other industries though.
A windmill doesn't keep air from flowing even at the surface, it just slows it and disturbs it a little. Kind of like a tree. Are trees bad, too?
There is just no way we could build enough windmills to affect the Earth's climate.
Um, don't trees effect climate change? I remember some people celebrate a "tree day" where you go out and plant a tree. This is supposed to do good things for the environment. (I honestly doubt it does much though.) Actually, trees would most likely have much greater impact on the climate. Why? Because trees change the air content. Trees absorb H2O and CO2 and release O2 and growth for the tree.
Who needs good public schools or child healthcare... we're go'na have mother f***'n space lasers!
Now, if anyone tries to have a gay marriage, they'll be fired upon from the United Defense death star orbiting above.
Ever read the Gor novels? That's basically what they did. Their issue wasn't gay marriages, it was developing any tech. that those who controlled the orbital lasers didn't like. How would you feel walking around with clubs and swords, because you'd get vaporized if you built anything better?
No. In each industry there are only a few companies. The economy is based on 40000% markups, a regular campaign of vigorous layoffs, and constant blatantly manipulative advertising.
Don't give away those last few trade secrets we still have!
We need better solar energy collection. Why re-invent the wheel? We do not really need another fusion generating source in this solar system. We need to figure out how to harness all that wasted energy that is being sent out to all those other stars. I've heard that the sun puts out enough energy in 1 sec to power our whole civilization for thousands of years. We just need to figure out how to harness that damned energy without a huge solar panel. We need to develop the tech to gather that energy. Think some type of energy funneling field. IF we could send out a constellation of sat. that redirect all the solar energy in a given area to a more compact usable form, we wouldn't need anything else.
O.k. say Fossil Fuels will get use 50 years. Say tradional nuclear will get us and additional 120 years. Don't you think with 170 years that we might be able to build a space based power source of some sort?
The article states that Nintendo is slapping down a company that is pirating its older inventory. You know those controllers that you plug into the A/V that let you play a few simple games? Some company decided to put Mario and Donkey Kong in theirs without paying Nintendo any money. Of course, Nintendo is going to be upset.
I noticed today that it's very cold. I am also blaming Bill Clinton for the coming of winter. While I am at it I think I should also blame Bill Clinton for the darkness. Oh yea also for the rain and that itching in my left butcheek. That's Clinton's fault too.
Hey, just be happy he didn't seduce your wife and/or girl friend.
Once upon a time there were technicians that could take any piece of consumer electronics, and given a good repair manual, trouble shoot the problem and replace the offending component.
This creates a monopoly of sorts - since repair is impossible, the manufacturer has sole control over their product, so their profit margin increases. It behooves them to create products that cannot be repaired.
I thought it was always like this. I've never see people repair any consumer electronics. What really comes to mind is children's toys. It may be possible to repair one, but it isn't typically economical to do so. When the toy costs between $10-$20 and to tech. to repair it would cost at a min. $20 an hour for an hour min. (I'd guess most likely $50 for most things.) Repairing anything in our current electronic society is impossible to most of the cizitens. This is a very dangerous state of affairs.
What if all new electornics that cost under $30 had a failure circuit that would automatically disable the device after about 2-3 years of operation? How long would it take for anyone to catch it? What possible recourse would most people have if the man. warranty was 90 days or 1 year?
I'm real curious about the laws concerning this. It's true that it doesn't leave damage, but still, you're trespassing on someone's property with light.
I'd have to say that I'd sue them if was my property. These people are violating someone else's First admendment rights! If I don't put a message or ad. of some sort on my building, that is a message! They are changing the message that other people's buildings present to the public. These people are fanatics that to be slapped with a large trespassing fine at a minimum and defacing private property. I hate small but shouting groups trampling over every one's rights.
Personnally, I was hoping Sony was going to make the PS2 nice cheap compact computer. They just needed to sell a keyboard & mouse upgrade with a USB thumbdrive to save files to. They could then try and get SUN to partner with them and sell a PS2 version of Star Office.
It would be a pain in the butt to change out discs for each program, but PS2 users are used to that already.
Of course, I doubt you could pull the requisite 15W to power brake lights from a firewire port.:P
All that just means it's time for autofirewire edition... that doesn't sound very good. Let's make that autoiwire, nah that sounds dorky. Let's just like IEEE come up with and addition to the 1394 standard to include high Watt devices... It'll be IEEE 1394b or something.
Between the need to keep myself safe from injustice by documenting/recording everything, and massive invasion of privacy by documenting/recording everything...
Can someone reason me out of this conundrum? Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too?
Yeap, just think of it this way. You aren't going to be invading your own privacy. You will want everything recording so that you will recall it better. It only is an invasion of privacy if some one else has any access to the data. Therefore we need data privacy laws that state that one's data may not be used against them in the court of law. This would solve most issues. The negative is that most or all "computer crimes" would become invasion of privacy issues.
When I begged my mom to buy me a leisure suit larry when I was like 15 she sould read the box and say no, this is smut. I don't know why we can't live with that in today's protectionist world...
Short answer is we have complaining idiot parents. People that would have bought you the leisure suit and given it to you as a birthday present. Then after you've played it for 3-6 months, they'd complain because they walked into the room and saw one screen shoot that they didn't like. They'd ground you for a week and after it was done, you'd go back to playing the game. These people shouldn't be allowed to influence any law makers. I about to say breed, but their children know that they are crazy.
It would make an o.k. action flick with lots of guns and explosions. Plot? Who needs a stinking plot? Doom isn't an RPG. Think what they did with that Final Fantasy movie. Doom has the right plot for hollywood... They can change anything they want to make it work. They can kill off any characters they introduce. It could be a horror movie or an action flick.
I find that when we have the temp lowered from 82 F to 78 F we work more. When the temperature is 82 F, all we do is complain about how hot it is. Once upon a time it was 68 F in here, we were very productive then. We had to be or we'd start to chill.
3 Customer C has their image locked down to Office 97 because of various (no doubt valid) MS problems. Users are unable to handle incoming documents written in later versions of Word. IS has no solution apart from waiting until 2006 for a company-wide upgrade. (Yet, strangely enough, the IT dude has Office 2003 on his OWN desktop)
I can tell you why. Here I get e-mails from managers that can't open a doc usually a corel document. I covert it for them. (Our managers all have OfficeXP though so they can all do this themselves. I just get stuck with it.) They all have CDRs and they e-mail 600k powerpoint files to burn to CD.
Are you suggesting that all non-Americans be tagged and our thousands of miles of coast line be dotted every few hundred feet with RFID scanners?
Yes, because if there is one thing the government is good at, it would be respecting peoples privacy and safeguarding personal information.
Wouldn't it be more likely for them to implant all the "legal US taxpaying residents" (whomever they judge that to be?) Then put readers in all government assistance offices, hospitals, jails, and random "public" places. If you don't have a chip, you get picked up exiled or disappeared.
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First criminals, then kids. They'll start on employees next, move it up to registered drivers, you'll see.
I have no problem with criminal being taged. I find it funny that people are even thinking that public shool childern have any rights of their own. I went to public school. Did I have the right to freely speak to those I wanted to? Nope. Did I have the right to associate with those I wanted to? Nope. Did I get to decide any of the classes or subject matter that I was going to learn? Not until high school. K through junior high you didn't get any choices in the matter. (Opps, I was slightly wrong. You could chose to be in band or a sports program in junior high.) Did I have the right to bear arms? Nope. Did they at a minium teach arms safety classes? Nope. Did they know where I was at any given time of the day? Yes, between 7:30 - 4:00 they had an excellent idea of where 90%-95% of the student population was. I'm supposed to be worried that the government knows where I am? Give me a break. College I was given slightly more freedom. But I was still a slave to routine. I had to be in my dorm to sleep, at the classes that I picked though half the course load was general requirements that seemed like a rehash of highschool. I had limited movement. I either could ride to Walmart with friends or return home on the weekend with friends. The only other spots in college that I was were: the 3 computer labs and the food court. I could have easily been tracked without my knowing about it. Or with my knowledge. My dorm actually had keys. Most had ID scanners, the food court had ID scanner, the lib. had ID scanners. So college the one place most of the populace may be given the chance to learn concepts that may make it want to oppose the government. I was tracked more often.
Lets see. Get out of college and get regular employment. I have a home now. 90% of my time could be tracked by me coming from home to work and then at the end of the day going from work to home. My wife picks up most of the food. I go to maybe 5 different places for lunch. I am very easily tracked. Oh, I forgot to mention that now I have an ID card that is required to open most doors at the office. The funny part is my office has a lock and I have a key. I don't have to swipe an ID going through the main entrance. They still know where I'm at through. Cameras in the elevators and at the entrance.
Why should I be worried? They could easily already be tracking me. I don't take random paths to places and any way I only have a handful of places that I'd be.
You are compelled by law to attend school. Most can't afford to NOT go to government school. Now the government is tagging people like animals.
I don't see a huge demand by "the people" to repeal mandated education. If the government didn't do it, the odds are most of the country wouldn't bother. Sad but true.
Actually, I wouldn't mind having public schools be a simple fee based system and every sealth tax "for education" repealed. If education costs X, I want to know how much X is. I don't want X to be some random percentage of my Y salary that I have no I idea how much it is. Do you know how much of your sales tax, federal taxes, state taxes, and local taxes go into "education" of either yourself, your spouse, or your childern? I certainly don't.
I don't know if it's particularly the Chinese, but there are serious proposals to site major telescopes at Dome A in the not-so-far future. Thin, still cold dry air makes for excellent seeing in the visible and IR and the cold is a positive advantage for IR work, since it reduces thermal IR in the environment.
It's not the world's easiest spot to ship to (no FedEx service, even) or build at, but it's cheaper than the South pole of the moon, or Earth-Sun L2, which are suggested alternatives.
Talk about the absolute worst research place. Could you imagine being assigned out there for a few years?
I can just see porn folks saving all their images in at this rez. It would prevent copying of their data.
Hard drive and RAM makers will love this as well. It will drive demand for larger disk drives and more RAM.
This, my friends, is why the human race is doomed. Here on slashdot, where we care more about science than most people, all some people can think about is how a new technological advancement can facilitate the transmission of market-research-constructed-SitComs or advertisements for the latest yuppie gizmo to their home.
This is why we need a sitcom "Losers in Space" about some guys floating around in a space ship limited to the solar system. (It would most likely be best to be either a mining ship or a transport.) (Think Red Dwarf) We need to forget about star trek at the moment and more about space crawling. We don't even have long term orbital monitoring of all our known plantery bodies and paths of all large asteriods mapped out. Those are the only two short range goals that I'd like NASA to achieve.
light is not restricted to the visible light we can see. radio waves are a form of light. so is infared. gamm radiation, microwaves, etc.
/. only information. Remember, this information is restricted to the general public for their own good. It's not like it's taught in public school. (sarcasm implied)
Shh, you aren't supposed to be giving out this top secret
In what world do drug addicts have the intelligence, financial means, and patience to do the ridiculous things you suggest?
Hey, I think you are over looking all those smart rich folks that happen to have drug habits. I wouldn't know if they have patience, but if they have the ability to be wealthy, then they most likely do. I wouldn't be worried about this type of criminial mugging me since he most likely makes 10 times as much money as I do. I'd be worried that he is a supplier that could sell imported drugs that have been "verified" to be "good," but aren't. I'd bet that guy could make a few million of that. Why bother mugging people? It is dangerous and low profit.
We need global unions. We need to make sure that those Indian, Chinese, Eastern European, and African programmers are paid exactly the same as US programmers with the same quailty of benefits.
It really won't work with tech unions though. There are not enough unionized tech people. It could work in other industries though.
A windmill doesn't keep air from flowing even at the surface, it just slows it and disturbs it a little. Kind of like a tree. Are trees bad, too?
There is just no way we could build enough windmills to affect the Earth's climate.
Um, don't trees effect climate change? I remember some people celebrate a "tree day" where you go out and plant a tree. This is supposed to do good things for the environment. (I honestly doubt it does much though.) Actually, trees would most likely have much greater impact on the climate. Why? Because trees change the air content. Trees absorb H2O and CO2 and release O2 and growth for the tree.
Who needs good public schools or child healthcare... we're go'na have mother f***'n space lasers!
Now, if anyone tries to have a gay marriage, they'll be fired upon from the United Defense death star orbiting above.
Ever read the Gor novels? That's basically what they did. Their issue wasn't gay marriages, it was developing any tech. that those who controlled the orbital lasers didn't like. How would you feel walking around with clubs and swords, because you'd get vaporized if you built anything better?
No. In each industry there are only a few companies. The economy is based on 40000% markups, a regular campaign of vigorous layoffs, and constant blatantly manipulative advertising.
Don't give away those last few trade secrets we still have!
We need better solar energy collection. Why re-invent the wheel? We do not really need another fusion generating source in this solar system. We need to figure out how to harness all that wasted energy that is being sent out to all those other stars. I've heard that the sun puts out enough energy in 1 sec to power our whole civilization for thousands of years. We just need to figure out how to harness that damned energy without a huge solar panel. We need to develop the tech to gather that energy. Think some type of energy funneling field. IF we could send out a constellation of sat. that redirect all the solar energy in a given area to a more compact usable form, we wouldn't need anything else.
O.k. say Fossil Fuels will get use 50 years. Say tradional nuclear will get us and additional 120 years. Don't you think with 170 years that we might be able to build a space based power source of some sort?
The article states that Nintendo is slapping down a company that is pirating its older inventory. You know those controllers that you plug into the A/V that let you play a few simple games? Some company decided to put Mario and Donkey Kong in theirs without paying Nintendo any money. Of course, Nintendo is going to be upset.
I noticed today that it's very cold. I am also blaming Bill Clinton for the coming of winter. While I am at it I think I should also blame Bill Clinton for the darkness. Oh yea also for the rain and that itching in my left butcheek. That's Clinton's fault too.
Hey, just be happy he didn't seduce your wife and/or girl friend.
Once upon a time there were technicians that could take any piece of consumer electronics, and given a good repair manual, trouble shoot the problem and replace the offending component.
This creates a monopoly of sorts - since repair is impossible, the manufacturer has sole control over their product, so their profit margin increases. It behooves them to create products that cannot be repaired.
I thought it was always like this. I've never see people repair any consumer electronics. What really comes to mind is children's toys. It may be possible to repair one, but it isn't typically economical to do so. When the toy costs between $10-$20 and to tech. to repair it would cost at a min. $20 an hour for an hour min. (I'd guess most likely $50 for most things.) Repairing anything in our current electronic society is impossible to most of the cizitens. This is a very dangerous state of affairs.
What if all new electornics that cost under $30 had a failure circuit that would automatically disable the device after about 2-3 years of operation? How long would it take for anyone to catch it? What possible recourse would most people have if the man. warranty was 90 days or 1 year?
I'm real curious about the laws concerning this. It's true that it doesn't leave damage, but still, you're trespassing on someone's property with light.
I'd have to say that I'd sue them if was my property. These people are violating someone else's First admendment rights! If I don't put a message or ad. of some sort on my building, that is a message! They are changing the message that other people's buildings present to the public. These people are fanatics that to be slapped with a large trespassing fine at a minimum and defacing private property. I hate small but shouting groups trampling over every one's rights.
Personnally, I was hoping Sony was going to make the PS2 nice cheap compact computer. They just needed to sell a keyboard & mouse upgrade with a USB thumbdrive to save files to. They could then try and get SUN to partner with them and sell a PS2 version of Star Office.
It would be a pain in the butt to change out discs for each program, but PS2 users are used to that already.
Of course, I doubt you could pull the requisite 15W to power brake lights from a firewire port. :P
All that just means it's time for autofirewire edition... that doesn't sound very good. Let's make that autoiwire, nah that sounds dorky. Let's just like IEEE come up with and addition to the 1394 standard to include high Watt devices... It'll be IEEE 1394b or something.
I give up. I'm not in marketing.
Between the need to keep myself safe from injustice by documenting/recording everything, and massive invasion of privacy by documenting/recording everything...
Can someone reason me out of this conundrum? Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too?
Yeap, just think of it this way. You aren't going to be invading your own privacy. You will want everything recording so that you will recall it better. It only is an invasion of privacy if some one else has any access to the data. Therefore we need data privacy laws that state that one's data may not be used against them in the court of law. This would solve most issues. The negative is that most or all "computer crimes" would become invasion of privacy issues.
When I begged my mom to buy me a leisure suit larry when I was like 15 she sould read the box and say no, this is smut. I don't know why we can't live with that in today's protectionist world...
Short answer is we have complaining idiot parents. People that would have bought you the leisure suit and given it to you as a birthday present. Then after you've played it for 3-6 months, they'd complain because they walked into the room and saw one screen shoot that they didn't like. They'd ground you for a week and after it was done, you'd go back to playing the game. These people shouldn't be allowed to influence any law makers. I about to say breed, but their children know that they are crazy.
It would make an o.k. action flick with lots of guns and explosions. Plot? Who needs a stinking plot? Doom isn't an RPG. Think what they did with that Final Fantasy movie. Doom has the right plot for hollywood... They can change anything they want to make it work. They can kill off any characters they introduce. It could be a horror movie or an action flick.
I find that when we have the temp lowered from 82 F to 78 F we work more. When the temperature is 82 F, all we do is complain about how hot it is. Once upon a time it was 68 F in here, we were very productive then. We had to be or we'd start to chill.
3 Customer C has their image locked down to Office 97 because of various (no doubt valid) MS problems. Users are unable to handle incoming documents written in later versions of Word. IS has no solution apart from waiting until 2006 for a company-wide upgrade. (Yet, strangely enough, the IT dude has Office 2003 on his OWN desktop)
I can tell you why. Here I get e-mails from managers that can't open a doc usually a corel document. I covert it for them. (Our managers all have OfficeXP though so they can all do this themselves. I just get stuck with it.) They all have CDRs and they e-mail 600k powerpoint files to burn to CD.
Are you suggesting that all non-Americans be tagged and our thousands of miles of coast line be dotted every few hundred feet with RFID scanners?
Yes, because if there is one thing the government is good at, it would be respecting peoples privacy and safeguarding personal information.
Wouldn't it be more likely for them to implant all the "legal US taxpaying residents" (whomever they judge that to be?) Then put readers in all government assistance offices, hospitals, jails, and random "public" places. If you don't have a chip, you get picked up exiled or disappeared.
We're in the run up to an election in the US. It's all the candidates hot air...
Does that mean if we join that Kyoto thingy, we'd have to have our elections once a decade to meet emissions requirements?