Aren't there laws or court rulings in the USA regarding people's library and video rental history privacy? Hopefully those extend to book and magazine-buying as well...
And when big-box retailers form subsidiaries to manage all that precious data, and those subsidiaries mysteriously get mismanaged to the point they get reorganized regularly, voiding all privacy promises each time, where will you shop? If B&N gets away with it, I expect Wal-Mart and Best Buy to quickly farm out all customer data collection to a "separate" company, i.e. "Wal-Mart Consumer Interaction Contractor" and "Best Buy Communications, Inc."
If Borders had saved all customer's credit card numbers, the buyer of that hard drive isn't obligated by certain rules about what they can do with the information?
This is an asset they wanted, that was attached to a promise (contract) - basically a liability attached to the asset. Bankruptcy is often used to restructure debt, but this obligation/liability is an intrinsic part of the asset. Better that data be destroyed than transferred apart from the promises of privacy that made the collection of it possible int he first place. If the separation of the data from the privacy policy is allowed, I can see it quickly getting abused.
They are trying to find something that Hydrogen dissolves into for better storage density at low pressure than pure hydrogen? The same way acetylene is stored dissolved in acetone? (Acetylene will auto-react at relatively low pressures, so it can't just be shoved into a bottle the way propane can.) Rather than a solid, can someone refresh my memory on what liquids Hydrogen can dissolve in?
Also, the points about just combining the hydrogen with carbon are valid - for use with current production/storage/usage methods, i.e. the whole fucking system we currently use.
Finally, I will take this opportunity to point out again that when talking about alternative fuels, it is much easier/cheaper/more efficient to produce diesel substitutes than to produce gasoline substitutes. Ethanol fuel from corn is a scam, (bio)diesel is the future.
Many washing machines have direct drive (no transmission gearing). The different parts of the wash cycle sound very different, as the motor speed varies.
A low explosive is still an explosive. Detonation or supersonic shock wave is a symptom of a high explosive. A rapid deflagration can still be an explosion.
More likely, any time a crime has occurred with no suspects, the first order of business for the police will be to round up everyone the cameras could identify from the area. They will be treated as suspects rather than potential witnesses.
Also, expect to see troling operations: "We don't have any reports of a crime happening, but we see this guy walking through the area a lot, and don't know why." - so the police will pry into people's private lives, just out of curiousity. Keeping track of your habits could quickly identify who you associate with, your political leanings, your religion, etc., none of which the government has any business collecting except in the course of an actual investigation into an actual crime.
Agencies have gotten into trouble in the past for keeping files on law-abiding citizens, filming peaceful rallies to identify "ringleaders" and supporters, with no evidence of any crime having occurred. This isn't a "what if," this has already happened.
And don't forget, high-up politicians would never abuse the intel they can get from agencies, especially not for personal gain or political advantage, except in the real world where it has happened time and time again.
Expanding video surveillance, and allowing police broad access to private security feeds, just lets them get away with it.
How much does it cost to actually get a patent through the system? Sounds like the "first to file" system gives advantage to big companies with big legal departments, at the expense of the garage tinkerer with something actually novel.
This is more like "we don't have the source code for the versions of the software prior to 1990, so obviously we can't know what programs back then actually looked like."
Autonomous robots, of course. Otherwise if you allow r/c it just becomes another battlebots fad. How are we going to prevent the problems that have led stock-car racing to become so rule-bound and anything-but-stock?
Might I refer you to Herbert's concept of the "Bureau of Sabotage." An independent agency that has as its mission to weaken any government/agency/corporation that becomes too powerful.
No, you'll be found to have invoked the "go fuck yourself" clause of the ticket contract (as backed by federal law) and now owing them $100,000 "civil remedy" and an apology. Contract also stipulates binding arbitration on site, (right next to the airport chapel) and the debt will survive bankruptcy. Congratulations, now the airline owns you.
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Aren't there laws or court rulings in the USA regarding people's library and video rental history privacy? Hopefully those extend to book and magazine-buying as well...
And when big-box retailers form subsidiaries to manage all that precious data, and those subsidiaries mysteriously get mismanaged to the point they get reorganized regularly, voiding all privacy promises each time, where will you shop? If B&N gets away with it, I expect Wal-Mart and Best Buy to quickly farm out all customer data collection to a "separate" company, i.e. "Wal-Mart Consumer Interaction Contractor" and "Best Buy Communications, Inc."
If Borders had saved all customer's credit card numbers, the buyer of that hard drive isn't obligated by certain rules about what they can do with the information?
This is an asset they wanted, that was attached to a promise (contract) - basically a liability attached to the asset. Bankruptcy is often used to restructure debt, but this obligation/liability is an intrinsic part of the asset. Better that data be destroyed than transferred apart from the promises of privacy that made the collection of it possible int he first place. If the separation of the data from the privacy policy is allowed, I can see it quickly getting abused.
They are trying to find something that Hydrogen dissolves into for better storage density at low pressure than pure hydrogen? The same way acetylene is stored dissolved in acetone? (Acetylene will auto-react at relatively low pressures, so it can't just be shoved into a bottle the way propane can.) Rather than a solid, can someone refresh my memory on what liquids Hydrogen can dissolve in?
Also, the points about just combining the hydrogen with carbon are valid - for use with current production/storage/usage methods, i.e. the whole fucking system we currently use.
Finally, I will take this opportunity to point out again that when talking about alternative fuels, it is much easier/cheaper/more efficient to produce diesel substitutes than to produce gasoline substitutes. Ethanol fuel from corn is a scam, (bio)diesel is the future.
Many washing machines have direct drive (no transmission gearing). The different parts of the wash cycle sound very different, as the motor speed varies.
A low explosive is still an explosive. Detonation or supersonic shock wave is a symptom of a high explosive. A rapid deflagration can still be an explosion.
Doped means it's a significant portion of the chemical stoichiometry of the assembly
Where can you find this definition of doped?
More likely, any time a crime has occurred with no suspects, the first order of business for the police will be to round up everyone the cameras could identify from the area. They will be treated as suspects rather than potential witnesses.
Also, expect to see troling operations: "We don't have any reports of a crime happening, but we see this guy walking through the area a lot, and don't know why." - so the police will pry into people's private lives, just out of curiousity. Keeping track of your habits could quickly identify who you associate with, your political leanings, your religion, etc., none of which the government has any business collecting except in the course of an actual investigation into an actual crime.
Agencies have gotten into trouble in the past for keeping files on law-abiding citizens, filming peaceful rallies to identify "ringleaders" and supporters, with no evidence of any crime having occurred. This isn't a "what if," this has already happened.
And don't forget, high-up politicians would never abuse the intel they can get from agencies, especially not for personal gain or political advantage, except in the real world where it has happened time and time again.
Expanding video surveillance, and allowing police broad access to private security feeds, just lets them get away with it.
Some air rifles are used to hunt big game. Just because.
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For even more interesting (and educational/historical) reading, look into the air rifles carried by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Yet another use for Great Stuff expanding foam. Also good for sirens and tailpipes.
So all those misattributed song files on napster were really.... DRM?
Shows patent office is broken.
How much does it cost to actually get a patent through the system? Sounds like the "first to file" system gives advantage to big companies with big legal departments, at the expense of the garage tinkerer with something actually novel.
And yet it isn't hard to find examples of patents issued for devices that violate the laws of thermodynamics.
That alone ought to be enough to invalidate a significant portion of the patents on the books today.
Maybe he was good at picking stock photos?
He didn't say just how much frog DNA they had to use to fill in the gaps....
This is more like "we don't have the source code for the versions of the software prior to 1990, so obviously we can't know what programs back then actually looked like."
Autonomous robots, of course. Otherwise if you allow r/c it just becomes another battlebots fad. How are we going to prevent the problems that have led stock-car racing to become so rule-bound and anything-but-stock?
I'm not familiar with triathlons etc., but surely you could have worked in a steroid or doping reference?
Might I refer you to Herbert's concept of the "Bureau of Sabotage." An independent agency that has as its mission to weaken any government/agency/corporation that becomes too powerful.
It is good to have aspirations.
So, be a corporation?
No, you'll be found to have invoked the "go fuck yourself" clause of the ticket contract (as backed by federal law) and now owing them $100,000 "civil remedy" and an apology. Contract also stipulates binding arbitration on site, (right next to the airport chapel) and the debt will survive bankruptcy. Congratulations, now the airline owns you.