I'm not on his list so I don't know how it actually operates, but there's a lot of variation in these things. I've opted in to lists that don't provide a real opt-out, or in other ways don't comply with the old can-spam guidelines. I usually see this from foreign companies, which will require me to log in to an account on their website to get off the mailing list. Those get the spam button, every time, no questions asked.
Spamhaus does BL domains for no apparent reason, though. We're talking about properly configured mail servers, no open relays, no backscatter, appropriate DNS, with opt-in recipients only and working, simple unsub options right in every email. It is not a perfect service. My experience correlates with his on this though, in that you can have yourself removed pretty easily the first time.
This all ignores a pretty simple issue, though. it's easy to be too optimistic about the reliability of email delivery. It has never been great, there are no simple (and free) solutions, and things like this are going to happen. It's not because the providers are evil or conspiring to keep you from getting your job done, but because they're trying to make an implicit trust system usable over the internet.
And unfortunately, smtp implementations are not going to change in a way that fix all the present shortcomings.
discourse could be curtailed in forums and the like
Well, I'll hope that day isn't today and ask... what database? What information? Has the criteria for action against a citizen changed? Is this actually a free pass for surveillance of any kind, or granting access to a specific database that already exists (and is known to us)? Maybe the difference doesn't matter, but I'd like to know.
the personal information of all U.S. citizens will be available for casual perusal
This is really vague and the article is paywalled. At the risk of sounding too reserved, I'd kinda like to know what we're talking about here.
Some universities will take an associates as part of a transfer compact agreement to knock out the 2 years of bullshit gened's everyone has to take. I don't know that the school he used would qualify.
I have a community college up the street from me that's much larger, nicer, and well funded than many universities in the country, and it starts at about $110 per credit hour. So it's a great way to knock out all the garbage a university makes you do just for added revenue, but on the cheap, with a much higher quality education than you were going to get in a lecture hall of 8,000 sleeping students and a disgruntled professor.
I'd say we all know far too little to judge one slashdotters life situation with any real certainty.
But back on topic, EST/ECT does still work for a lot of people, and considerable work has been done to make the process less barbaric. This sounds like a very benign version of that.
Here's an interesting TED talk on severe depression and electroshock, from someone that was fortunate enough to benefit from it...
congratulations on devoting your time & money on doing something useless, thanks for sharing!
They're using a keyboard they like, where previously they could not. And in the abstract, they found a problem and solved it... which is reason enough for a hobby project.
No, he's saying he wants people to be accountable for their actions.
You're already responsible for your actions behind the wheel. The question is, do we have such a problem with holding people accountable that we really need this? Will it solve a huge problem, so significant that it warrants the nationwide deployment of a device like this? Is that the only intended or likely use of these?
And how mandatory is this? Can I decide to rip this widget out of my car? Would the car continue to operate? Will all cars have it, by whim of transportation safety authorities? Would removing it constitute prima facie evidence that I was at fault, should I be involved in an accident?
And to be clear, I really don't give a damn what other countries are comfortable with, with regard to monitoring of their citizenry, driving or otherwise. If this is about how we're going to live then it's our responsibility to consider it carefully in that context.
And for the record, I'm both proud and amazed that the obvious, juvenile innuendo in my former statement didn't occur to me till I hit submit. But that's over with now.:)
Though I'd say the last part is manageable. They're the ones that sound really crazy, and aren't apologetic about it. I get the impression those ones really believe their own crazy-talk.
So your choices in politicians end up being "batshit crazy" or "shifty SOB liar".
Well, it's not like this would be the only place we've ever presented historical places or material of controversial significance. Hell, I think the Smithsonian has the Enola Gay on display.
It's pretty standard practice to preserve and present the history, and let people philosophize on the subject however they will. Just don't bulldoze major historical places because it has to do with a (maybe) touchy subject. That's juvenile at best, and you don't get to change your mind about it later.
It says these require one pilot. It looks like attendants make about $40/hr. Google says the fuel cost in a 777 is about $10,000/hr. and I'm going to guess the maintenance on these is somewhere south of a commercial airliner.
So I'm guessing the labor cost isn't really that big of an issue, even if the flight time is 4x's as long. Obviously I haven't seen actual operating expenses on the non-existent craft we're talking about... so I'm just speculating.
According to the wiki entry this is more of a technology demonstrator, with a number of much larger, practical models in the works. 20, 60 and 500 ton capacity, and can be converted to carry people.
At 120 knots, they're not fast, but if the cost works out that you can take a longer, more comfortable flight, more like traveling by large boat, some might prefer it over a traditional flight for vacation destinations and such.
It's not something I've thought a lot about, but I wonder how that might happen. I guess that's what fiction is good for.
Star Trek obviously looked at it the other way, where the technology removed the issue of wealth distribution entirely. For a social class to maintain exclusive control of a technology with a low barrier to ownership would be pretty difficult, I'd think. For instance I'm trying to imagine our world, but where only a few, very wealthy people could maintain exclusive ownership and use of our (very common, primitive, and inexpensive) 3d printers.* Seems impossible.
Obviously an assumption there is that the devices themselves are simple, inexpensive, and the materials they consume are abudant. Interesting to think about, though.
You might be right... they do have historical context, having lived through the cold war and all.
But then do we keep revisiting this (otherwise very obvious) thing for the benefit of those very, very naive children and teens? I think most people just don't care, and we do it because we want to vent.
I don't know about all that. If you asked my parents, who can barely send email, if the internet is truly anonymous and outside the grasp of various nations' surveillance, they'd laugh at the question.
It seems more likely that we regularly submit, read, and comment on these things because it's our way of bitching about it. Which I suppose is reason enough on its own.
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I'm not on his list so I don't know how it actually operates, but there's a lot of variation in these things. I've opted in to lists that don't provide a real opt-out, or in other ways don't comply with the old can-spam guidelines. I usually see this from foreign companies, which will require me to log in to an account on their website to get off the mailing list. Those get the spam button, every time, no questions asked.
Spamhaus does BL domains for no apparent reason, though. We're talking about properly configured mail servers, no open relays, no backscatter, appropriate DNS, with opt-in recipients only and working, simple unsub options right in every email. It is not a perfect service. My experience correlates with his on this though, in that you can have yourself removed pretty easily the first time.
This all ignores a pretty simple issue, though. it's easy to be too optimistic about the reliability of email delivery. It has never been great, there are no simple (and free) solutions, and things like this are going to happen. It's not because the providers are evil or conspiring to keep you from getting your job done, but because they're trying to make an implicit trust system usable over the internet.
And unfortunately, smtp implementations are not going to change in a way that fix all the present shortcomings.
discourse could be curtailed in forums and the like
Well, I'll hope that day isn't today and ask... what database? What information? Has the criteria for action against a citizen changed? Is this actually a free pass for surveillance of any kind, or granting access to a specific database that already exists (and is known to us)? Maybe the difference doesn't matter, but I'd like to know.
the personal information of all U.S. citizens will be available for casual perusal
This is really vague and the article is paywalled. At the risk of sounding too reserved, I'd kinda like to know what we're talking about here.
Air force uses their space drone for testing and spying? I'd say his speculation is so likely as to be nearly assumed.
I'm not quite so sure about the bacon deliveries.
It's may not be worthless.
Some universities will take an associates as part of a transfer compact agreement to knock out the 2 years of bullshit gened's everyone has to take. I don't know that the school he used would qualify.
I have a community college up the street from me that's much larger, nicer, and well funded than many universities in the country, and it starts at about $110 per credit hour. So it's a great way to knock out all the garbage a university makes you do just for added revenue, but on the cheap, with a much higher quality education than you were going to get in a lecture hall of 8,000 sleeping students and a disgruntled professor.
So if he's halfway to a bachelors for $3k...
Just something to consider.
I know we're off topic here, but that hasn't been my experience, with an S2 skyrocket. I can scroll through it all just fine.
Works in both stock browser and dolphin, running on ics.
I'd say we all know far too little to judge one slashdotters life situation with any real certainty.
But back on topic, EST/ECT does still work for a lot of people, and considerable work has been done to make the process less barbaric. This sounds like a very benign version of that.
Here's an interesting TED talk on severe depression and electroshock, from someone that was fortunate enough to benefit from it...
http://www.ted.com/talks/sherwin_nuland_on_electroshock_therapy.html
congratulations on devoting your time & money on doing something useless, thanks for sharing!
They're using a keyboard they like, where previously they could not. And in the abstract, they found a problem and solved it... which is reason enough for a hobby project.
Now go away, troll.
No, he's saying he wants people to be accountable for their actions.
You're already responsible for your actions behind the wheel. The question is, do we have such a problem with holding people accountable that we really need this? Will it solve a huge problem, so significant that it warrants the nationwide deployment of a device like this? Is that the only intended or likely use of these?
And how mandatory is this? Can I decide to rip this widget out of my car? Would the car continue to operate? Will all cars have it, by whim of transportation safety authorities? Would removing it constitute prima facie evidence that I was at fault, should I be involved in an accident?
And to be clear, I really don't give a damn what other countries are comfortable with, with regard to monitoring of their citizenry, driving or otherwise. If this is about how we're going to live then it's our responsibility to consider it carefully in that context.
Your kind are getting really annoying.
And for the record, I'm both proud and amazed that the obvious, juvenile innuendo in my former statement didn't occur to me till I hit submit. But that's over with now. :)
Hey! That one 8" floppy in the back of the storage closet is feeling totally forgotten and passed-over right now.
Too true.
Though I'd say the last part is manageable. They're the ones that sound really crazy, and aren't apologetic about it. I get the impression those ones really believe their own crazy-talk.
So your choices in politicians end up being "batshit crazy" or "shifty SOB liar".
Inception!
Sorry, it was that or "yo dawg, I heard you like AC's".
Click the link that says "parent" and the world will make sense again.
Well, it's not like this would be the only place we've ever presented historical places or material of controversial significance. Hell, I think the Smithsonian has the Enola Gay on display.
It's pretty standard practice to preserve and present the history, and let people philosophize on the subject however they will. Just don't bulldoze major historical places because it has to do with a (maybe) touchy subject. That's juvenile at best, and you don't get to change your mind about it later.
It says these require one pilot. It looks like attendants make about $40/hr. Google says the fuel cost in a 777 is about $10,000/hr. and I'm going to guess the maintenance on these is somewhere south of a commercial airliner.
So I'm guessing the labor cost isn't really that big of an issue, even if the flight time is 4x's as long. Obviously I haven't seen actual operating expenses on the non-existent craft we're talking about... so I'm just speculating.
According to the wiki entry this is more of a technology demonstrator, with a number of much larger, practical models in the works. 20, 60 and 500 ton capacity, and can be converted to carry people.
At 120 knots, they're not fast, but if the cost works out that you can take a longer, more comfortable flight, more like traveling by large boat, some might prefer it over a traditional flight for vacation destinations and such.
Nah, those were just illustrative dots where samples were taken!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/29/hoax_site_says_nasa_s_curiosity_rover_found_plastic_beads_on_mars.html
I don't know that we should be calling it a suicide mission though. It's a "return trip to earth in your lifetime is very unlikely" mission.
I'll check a few of them out. Thanks for the heads-up.
It's not something I've thought a lot about, but I wonder how that might happen. I guess that's what fiction is good for.
Star Trek obviously looked at it the other way, where the technology removed the issue of wealth distribution entirely. For a social class to maintain exclusive control of a technology with a low barrier to ownership would be pretty difficult, I'd think. For instance I'm trying to imagine our world, but where only a few, very wealthy people could maintain exclusive ownership and use of our (very common, primitive, and inexpensive) 3d printers.* Seems impossible.
Obviously an assumption there is that the devices themselves are simple, inexpensive, and the materials they consume are abudant. Interesting to think about, though.
* patent jokes aside
Seeing as you've been on slashdot a while, I'd expect you to recognize "angry agreement points" when you see them.
They just haven't gotten around to adding "+1 What He Said!" yet. ;)
Neither seems right to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNpZbgIeqxk
You might be right... they do have historical context, having lived through the cold war and all.
But then do we keep revisiting this (otherwise very obvious) thing for the benefit of those very, very naive children and teens? I think most people just don't care, and we do it because we want to vent.
I don't know about all that. If you asked my parents, who can barely send email, if the internet is truly anonymous and outside the grasp of various nations' surveillance, they'd laugh at the question.
It seems more likely that we regularly submit, read, and comment on these things because it's our way of bitching about it. Which I suppose is reason enough on its own.
Yeah, it seems relying on the real entertainment value and general quality of your games for reliable revenue is somewhat passe.
Nowadays you just make careful judgements about which walled gardens you do business in. ;)