I think it comes down to stop wasting time and money on the conservation of energy and start making more of it, lots more of it. Nuclear power is the only currently viable method that does not significantly contribute to global warming etc etc etc. If we start making lots of electricity and make it cheap everything else will come to use it. Oil was cheap for a long time that's why we used it for energy. Show me 1 cent a kwh electricity and you can bet everybody with switch.
I'm really not sure why this is so hard. A simple display terminal where to users votes (let the parties haggle over layout, yes it does matter but it's a political issue) that prints out a filled out ballot that's human and machine readable and maybe even tallies things internally. Human checks over what the machine did and deposits into traditional locked box with observers from at least two political party's watching it. Have the human readable version be authoritative and the official count. Give the TV people results once the poles are closed.
Sure it would be nice if we had a complicated system where users can check how there vote was counted etc, but the crux of this "improvement" was for disable access to the system. With above system you do not even have to get rid of the old units just add a few of these for the handicap line since it's output could be the same form as the existing methods.
Replace "attempt to buy" with a "get a court order" (or whatever flimsy paperwork the FBI is giving out because our fearless leader says it's good thats an entirely different point) throw in a gag order. Hell simplify the whole process and have them sign a signing cert to make a NSA CA legit in most browsers.
The SSL cert process is broken by design because stopping MITM attacks is hard. It's also only a tech good for commercial encryption if a power government wants to subvert it it will. Military grade encryption still involves layers of guys with guns to move the keys around and protect them. If a company wants something better than commercial grade it needs to run it's own chain of CA's. It's never going to stop a governmental attack as only guns or obscurity and the people willing to use them can do that.
Funny I see a lot of SSD's getting pushed by the likes of EMC to service Oracle and similar enterprise apps. SSD's have incredible numbers of IOP's and inside SAN enclosures the draw backs of wear can be mitigated though preventive maintenance.
Funny if I want to turn off the power to a building I would pull the meter in an emergency, it's generally located outside the dwelling so the meter reader can get to it and verify it has not been tampered with. This has the added benefit of visible overhead lines running to it. The last thing I want to do in a fire is start assuming that all the power goes though something.
One of the DMCA's issues is unlike when law enforcement gets a court order for something and you can charge them reasonable fees to provide that as a third party they just expect the ISP's to foot the bill. This makes sense since the media companies bought and paid for that POS legislation.
Your breaking the golden rule in America at least if you want people to use public transport it has to be faster than driving or driving has to be priced out of that segment. In my area there is a commuter train within 5 miles of my house with bus service within a half mile but no commuter uses it an instead drives 30-45 minutes to the main line into NYC. They do this because the 30 miles by train takes an hour since we have stops ever few miles and a 60 mph speed limit on the train, the train also runs in a loop so its 2 hours wait if you miss the train.
It sounds like you have a gripe with cars and sprawl. All electric units can push the pollution to the manufacturing and power generation where nukes and good design can help out. For those that do not care to live in dense urban settings for various reasons we will never be efficient to serve with current methods of public transportation.
Funny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shifting the 9th circuit court seems to disagree with you. The DMCA has yet to be tested vs space shifting as the MPAA has not tried to go down that route yet as there audio counterpart get the hat handed to them when they tried. I keep seeing people thing if you do something with something you bought that the company does not like then it's against the law.
Consider that you can get a blue ray drive for a PC rip the content off to a in home server and play it back via a number of methods in everything from the original res down to ipod. The only optical media drive I've had in my entertainment center for the better part of a decade is a USB attached computer drive that automatically rips / converts / slices and dices whatever you put into it. The media cartels might not like it but physical media is dying as it's pointless. I would rather have my media collection live on a bunch of raid drive in the basement server and on backup tapes, than sitting in my living room. Though I also think TV's should be mounted behind a mirror rather than displayed.
Extended service plans are great for laptops as they will fail. I got a new ibook out of apple since it failed under the 3 year contract I had. They offered to upgrade me at no cost to the current version of the same so nearly 3 years later I got a new unit. They also let me new service plan and transferred over the remaining time from the old unit.
Desktops generally don't need this it's a rare component that fails unless it's getting lugged around from apartment to apartment etc.
I've had non-compete clauses thrown in and don't have a problem with them but I add in the requirement for them to continue paying me through the end of them. People do not seem to think they can negotiate there employment contract yet I've never had much of an issue doing so. To some extent it shows your perspective new bosses your not a push over and that you have some business savvy. I do the same thing for required on call time etc.
Brownie points with the parole board. Alternative sentences like probation, half way houses, rehab, military service etc. Lesser Charges.
The point being is we should not give people that might have the resources to defend themselves a massive disparity in the amount of time they might face. I didn't say I had a solution I just see it as a problem related to our justice system. I've seen teenage kids get offers for 18 months vs 40 years for cc fraud. As a tack on stop the practice of letting informants commit crimes; in the case of that kid it was an adult drug dealer/user that taught teenage kids how to commit cc fraud then turned them in as get out of jail free cards. Would you want to risk your life hoping to make an entrapment defense stick?
Fired? Try turning in the bad cops can lead to a perp killing a cop and then getting shot by the bad cops. These are guys with guns and little restraint.
Yawn so after the fact and when people made a stink about it they promised to not prosecute, but still think the law allows for it. Wake me when the cop faces criminal charges for obstructing the rights of citizens to record all civil servants while performing there duties. For bonus points wake me when you can not face more time for going to trial than taking the plea deal.
Unfortunately you can still get a perfectly legit SSL cert from multiple trusted CA's for just about anything. For most vendors it's just a matter of getting a reseller account and them moving the validation requirements to you.
Now now leave the 20 something and teen males alone it gives us heavy armor combat guys somebody stupid enough to think they can take on a guy in articulated plate mail.
Back on topic western martial arts can be fun and a good workout, plate mail is not the lightest thing in the world ya know.
Na if they actually work for the gov they are generally union and have seniority rights you can lay them off but they can go take the same job (system engineer 4 for example) elsewhere in the gov of anybody with less time in than them. Getting rid of one of these guys requires the willpower to actually get them fired with cause.
Actually CC companies make a lot of money on charge backs. There is an approx $30 fee that goes along with each one and it's for the full amount so they keep there original 1-5% fee as well. As vendors have more charge backs they even up the percentage they pay on all transactions. People with cards and the merchants are the only people that pay in the CC system the banks and CC companies just make money with no risk.
OK we have a problem it's not really oil but we need cheap to free energy. Look at it this way most 3rd world countries want to have an American or eu standard of living, and there is no way without destroying/subjugating them you can stop them from trying to get there since it's driven by the desire to have your children better off than you were. What does that boil down to energy use per capita. At present fission is our only known method to get that energy without oil. Other methods are fine spend plenty of time researching them etc etc etc. But start building hundreds of cookie cutter fission based power stations.
A little over your price range but I've purchased several Xerox Phaser 6120's for 300 delivered to me door. Compared to that brother it's got color and it is postscript and networked. Even can accept an internal hard drive for fonts etc.
Yup and if they feel like filing a law suit they could show standing. The point is you send an email to a support dept that looks like lunatic raving it gets silently deleted no reason to encourage the wacko no reason t bother the tier 3 guys with it. A reasonably written letter via the mail could have elicited the desired response those normally get read by somebody that does not have a performance review tied to how many ticketed processed per day vs how many rework requests.
I remember working at a streaming media startup and a Tiger nail bitter was our first live event. 8 Years ago that was 24gb a sec and the average bit rate was 368kbs if I remember correctly. There is a lot more bandwidth now than then. The fun part was running the logs and associating the AS and often the big company associated with it, there seemed to be a lot of people with comfy offices a lot of bandwidth and a love of golf back then.
Ive worked with the FBI on cp bites at the ISP end for the most part unless there is money involved they don't care/have the time to deal with it. They start taking money and now there is a trail to get to a real person not a random anon proxy etc layers. I've had to look at bits of it for TOS complaints and some is disgusting and we referred to the FBI most was questionable a lot of parents that should protect there pictures a bit more, teenagers etc.
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Today go down to my local grocery store scan and bag things as I go, a quick swipe or wave of a rfid CC on the way out.
Today I can order my grocery's online, and have them delivered to a cooler on my back porch so they are just there when I get home.
These are just two of the things I can do today I would home in 40 years I would hope a robotic car can deliver it and put it away in my house.
I think it comes down to stop wasting time and money on the conservation of energy and start making more of it, lots more of it. Nuclear power is the only currently viable method that does not significantly contribute to global warming etc etc etc. If we start making lots of electricity and make it cheap everything else will come to use it. Oil was cheap for a long time that's why we used it for energy. Show me 1 cent a kwh electricity and you can bet everybody with switch.
I'm really not sure why this is so hard. A simple display terminal where to users votes (let the parties haggle over layout, yes it does matter but it's a political issue) that prints out a filled out ballot that's human and machine readable and maybe even tallies things internally. Human checks over what the machine did and deposits into traditional locked box with observers from at least two political party's watching it. Have the human readable version be authoritative and the official count. Give the TV people results once the poles are closed.
Sure it would be nice if we had a complicated system where users can check how there vote was counted etc, but the crux of this "improvement" was for disable access to the system. With above system you do not even have to get rid of the old units just add a few of these for the handicap line since it's output could be the same form as the existing methods.
Replace "attempt to buy" with a "get a court order" (or whatever flimsy paperwork the FBI is giving out because our fearless leader says it's good thats an entirely different point) throw in a gag order. Hell simplify the whole process and have them sign a signing cert to make a NSA CA legit in most browsers.
The SSL cert process is broken by design because stopping MITM attacks is hard. It's also only a tech good for commercial encryption if a power government wants to subvert it it will. Military grade encryption still involves layers of guys with guns to move the keys around and protect them. If a company wants something better than commercial grade it needs to run it's own chain of CA's. It's never going to stop a governmental attack as only guns or obscurity and the people willing to use them can do that.
Funny I see a lot of SSD's getting pushed by the likes of EMC to service Oracle and similar enterprise apps. SSD's have incredible numbers of IOP's and inside SAN enclosures the draw backs of wear can be mitigated though preventive maintenance.
Funny if I want to turn off the power to a building I would pull the meter in an emergency, it's generally located outside the dwelling so the meter reader can get to it and verify it has not been tampered with. This has the added benefit of visible overhead lines running to it. The last thing I want to do in a fire is start assuming that all the power goes though something.
One of the DMCA's issues is unlike when law enforcement gets a court order for something and you can charge them reasonable fees to provide that as a third party they just expect the ISP's to foot the bill. This makes sense since the media companies bought and paid for that POS legislation.
Your breaking the golden rule in America at least if you want people to use public transport it has to be faster than driving or driving has to be priced out of that segment. In my area there is a commuter train within 5 miles of my house with bus service within a half mile but no commuter uses it an instead drives 30-45 minutes to the main line into NYC. They do this because the 30 miles by train takes an hour since we have stops ever few miles and a 60 mph speed limit on the train, the train also runs in a loop so its 2 hours wait if you miss the train.
It sounds like you have a gripe with cars and sprawl. All electric units can push the pollution to the manufacturing and power generation where nukes and good design can help out. For those that do not care to live in dense urban settings for various reasons we will never be efficient to serve with current methods of public transportation.
Funny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shifting the 9th circuit court seems to disagree with you. The DMCA has yet to be tested vs space shifting as the MPAA has not tried to go down that route yet as there audio counterpart get the hat handed to them when they tried. I keep seeing people thing if you do something with something you bought that the company does not like then it's against the law.
Consider that you can get a blue ray drive for a PC rip the content off to a in home server and play it back via a number of methods in everything from the original res down to ipod. The only optical media drive I've had in my entertainment center for the better part of a decade is a USB attached computer drive that automatically rips / converts / slices and dices whatever you put into it. The media cartels might not like it but physical media is dying as it's pointless. I would rather have my media collection live on a bunch of raid drive in the basement server and on backup tapes, than sitting in my living room. Though I also think TV's should be mounted behind a mirror rather than displayed.
Extended service plans are great for laptops as they will fail. I got a new ibook out of apple since it failed under the 3 year contract I had. They offered to upgrade me at no cost to the current version of the same so nearly 3 years later I got a new unit. They also let me new service plan and transferred over the remaining time from the old unit.
Desktops generally don't need this it's a rare component that fails unless it's getting lugged around from apartment to apartment etc.
I've had non-compete clauses thrown in and don't have a problem with them but I add in the requirement for them to continue paying me through the end of them. People do not seem to think they can negotiate there employment contract yet I've never had much of an issue doing so. To some extent it shows your perspective new bosses your not a push over and that you have some business savvy. I do the same thing for required on call time etc.
Off the top of my head:
Brownie points with the parole board.
Alternative sentences like probation, half way houses, rehab, military service etc.
Lesser Charges.
The point being is we should not give people that might have the resources to defend themselves a massive disparity in the amount of time they might face. I didn't say I had a solution I just see it as a problem related to our justice system. I've seen teenage kids get offers for 18 months vs 40 years for cc fraud. As a tack on stop the practice of letting informants commit crimes; in the case of that kid it was an adult drug dealer/user that taught teenage kids how to commit cc fraud then turned them in as get out of jail free cards. Would you want to risk your life hoping to make an entrapment defense stick?
Fired? Try turning in the bad cops can lead to a perp killing a cop and then getting shot by the bad cops. These are guys with guns and little restraint.
Yawn so after the fact and when people made a stink about it they promised to not prosecute, but still think the law allows for it. Wake me when the cop faces criminal charges for obstructing the rights of citizens to record all civil servants while performing there duties. For bonus points wake me when you can not face more time for going to trial than taking the plea deal.
Unfortunately you can still get a perfectly legit SSL cert from multiple trusted CA's for just about anything. For most vendors it's just a matter of getting a reseller account and them moving the validation requirements to you.
Now now leave the 20 something and teen males alone it gives us heavy armor combat guys somebody stupid enough to think they can take on a guy in articulated plate mail.
Back on topic western martial arts can be fun and a good workout, plate mail is not the lightest thing in the world ya know.
Na if they actually work for the gov they are generally union and have seniority rights you can lay them off but they can go take the same job (system engineer 4 for example) elsewhere in the gov of anybody with less time in than them. Getting rid of one of these guys requires the willpower to actually get them fired with cause.
Actually CC companies make a lot of money on charge backs. There is an approx $30 fee that goes along with each one and it's for the full amount so they keep there original 1-5% fee as well. As vendors have more charge backs they even up the percentage they pay on all transactions. People with cards and the merchants are the only people that pay in the CC system the banks and CC companies just make money with no risk.
OK we have a problem it's not really oil but we need cheap to free energy. Look at it this way most 3rd world countries want to have an American or eu standard of living, and there is no way without destroying/subjugating them you can stop them from trying to get there since it's driven by the desire to have your children better off than you were. What does that boil down to energy use per capita. At present fission is our only known method to get that energy without oil. Other methods are fine spend plenty of time researching them etc etc etc. But start building hundreds of cookie cutter fission based power stations.
A little over your price range but I've purchased several Xerox Phaser 6120's for 300 delivered to me door. Compared to that brother it's got color and it is postscript and networked. Even can accept an internal hard drive for fonts etc.
Yup and if they feel like filing a law suit they could show standing. The point is you send an email to a support dept that looks like lunatic raving it gets silently deleted no reason to encourage the wacko no reason t bother the tier 3 guys with it. A reasonably written letter via the mail could have elicited the desired response those normally get read by somebody that does not have a performance review tied to how many ticketed processed per day vs how many rework requests.
I remember working at a streaming media startup and a Tiger nail bitter was our first live event. 8 Years ago that was 24gb a sec and the average bit rate was 368kbs if I remember correctly. There is a lot more bandwidth now than then. The fun part was running the logs and associating the AS and often the big company associated with it, there seemed to be a lot of people with comfy offices a lot of bandwidth and a love of golf back then.
Ive worked with the FBI on cp bites at the ISP end for the most part unless there is money involved they don't care/have the time to deal with it. They start taking money and now there is a trail to get to a real person not a random anon proxy etc layers. I've had to look at bits of it for TOS complaints and some is disgusting and we referred to the FBI most was questionable a lot of parents that should protect there pictures a bit more, teenagers etc.
You do understand that 110ms jump is going from the US to europe?