Without the shade, you get roofs and attic spaces that easily heat up to over 100 degrees and don't cool until 6-7 hours after nightfall.
Let's not forget all those highways we've covered the planet with. It's not like they're black and turning 100% of the inicident sunlight into heat or anything. Global Warming, anyone? oy.
Historically, keys have been used for one thing and one thing alone: to prevent the intrusion of an unauthorized party. A password is nothing more than a key which you keep in your head.
Never in history has this EVER been the case, except in the situations like elite clubs that have a big metal door with the little window and the man who says "What's the password, jack?" And in situations like that, the bouncer probably knows you and remembering the password isn't *as* important.
Imagine if you needed a password to enter and start your car, and the manufacturer forced you to change that password every month. The idea is completely ludicrous and would never be accepted by society, which is why society (the masses) have such a problem with passwords--they get in the way.
The month just started. I bet somebody out there had a forced password change and forgot their new password and had to call down to IT and say "Guys, what is my new password?" and provide his name, address, Employee ID number, and so forth. He might lose 30 minutes, an hour, maybe two hours getting things straightened out depending on how tight security is and whether or not the security guy is in his office, etc.
Forgetting is one of the easiest things in the world to do. As a matter of fact, there is current research which states that the brain very actively forgets things (the dozens of cars you pass on the freeway, the color of every leaf on a tree, etc) because the sheer volume of information is so overwhelming. Filing away a very abstract and intangible string of random characters--that they don't associate with anything more than a one-second experience prior to being able to do their job--and then FORGETTING that string, is one of the easiest things a person could possibly do. There is no scent, sound, sight, or anything to prompt its rememberance, it's simply an abstract and cryptic jumble of letters and numbers that you have to remember or you're fired. (well not always, but sometimes!)
The point is, "passwords" need to be replaced by "keys"... Everyone has a USB pen drive now, somebody just needs to come up with a standard for security keyfiles and then the possessor of the key is the one who gets inside. Changing the lock would be easy too, as a good network administrator could just set a day for everyone to plug in their key in order to have their security data updated, or whatever.
It's technologically feasible, it's already done in some places, but the current limiting factor is cost. If you didn't need to implement anything more than a software solution, then cost comes down to man-hours and man-hours comes down to: open source.
Those high-pressure butane "torch" cigarette lighters can reach temperatures exceeding 1200 degrees celsius. The melting point of steel is, however, around 1350 degrees celsius. So you might be able to heat up the cable real nice before snipping it, possibly making the cutting easier. That is, unless the cable is made of something like Aluminum, which melts at 660 deg C.
You know society has taken a turn for the worst when you need to write down what you're thinking about when you've thought about it so that you can ensure that nobody else claims you've never thought about it.
Why don't we just go one step further and make mind-reading a mandatory skill? ugh.
Death penalty? Death of whom--the corporation or the CEO? What about the CEO's personal assistant? Ok, so a tobacco company is found to be killing off people, and a court says so. Do you just dissolve the company and put 60,000 people out of work?
As long as the economy of our country is the ruler by which we measure ourselves, then the corporations will still win. Period. When the bottom line becomes less about money and more about something more profound or worthwhile than money, then the accountability you're talking about would be reasonable. Until that day comes however (which it shan't, because the people in power are insecure, greedy, selfish motherfuckers) we're at the mercy of the corporations.
Who defines "useful knowledge"... you? god? the president? I can't believe you got modded insightful after saying something like that. I might read about gardening online and you might read about cars, and we both might believe that the other is wasting the resources of the internet, but that doesn't make either of us right.
You can transmit power as well as signals without wire. Really, all a singal is, is waveform-modified electromagnetic radiation. Radio transmission towers have their outputs measured in Watts, computers have their power consumption measured in, you guessed it, watts. Whether it's induction or using RF technology to energize the chips, it's entirely feasible *and* possible.
I'm all for doing away with the motherboard and the wires all together anyhow. And jumpers too, I hate those little bastards.
I never took a proper typing class but I can exceed 90 WPM with my own personal typing style. Much like having accented speech or walking with an unusual gait, I have a particular typing style. It isn't touch typing so much as "knowing where the keys are" and "knowing where my fingers are"... it can be problematic on ergonomic keyboards, but otherwise all is well.
I picked up on typing in chatrooms.
Find a chatroom on a topic you enjoy so you're forced to engage in conversation. When typing is the only way to get the satisfaction you're after, you'll find yourself a far better typist as time goes on.
The point is: typing is something you can learn as you go, while basic computer knowledge (the ON button, the difference between a Macintosh and a PC, etc) provides a much better foundation for computer usage. The computer is just a tool--do you want to know how it works so that you can adapt it to your needs, or do you want to only know how to do certain specific things with it so that it is otherwise completely useless? I think that if there were a stronger base of computer users who had this general knowledge, people would be less apprehensive with regard to technology, because more people would have a brother or a cousin or an uncle who had the basic know-how and could make those that lacked even the basics feel comfortable.
"automobile" implies "gas-powered vehicle" though it shouldn't and doesn't have to.
Solar cars, solar stirling cars, electric cars, biodiesel cars, high-tension spring and clockwork powered cars, flywheel-powered cars; there's really no reason to limit yourself to gas-powered vehicles other than cost. I mean, everyone wants to do things cheaply, and sometimes cheapest is not best. We should be looking into these other types of mobility (and we probably would if anything were to happen to our oil supply) and hopefully power generation in general so as to improve our energy independence and futher identify the USA as a nation of pioneers.
As far as pedestrians are concerned: I don't care if it's tunnels or bridges, but they deserve one or the other for their own safety--cost be damned (fsck all you cheapskates).
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preface: I'm from the US. "the country" / "the government" / etc = "the US [whatever]"
1. There isn't money in a cure. 20 years of drug therapy and pills that cost $800/month = $192,000. Unless you can convince people and insurance companies to shell out $192K per patient cured, you can't sell the cure. Take into consideration again that a good number of the people who have cancer can barely afford their monthly medication, and unless medicare/social security/etc were willing to pay for curing people, the drug companies would not be able to make a buck on it. But the drugs, subsidized monthly with a small stipend from the government, are easily paid for. ISPs know this better than anyone: it's all about residual income. One-time fees, even if quite large, are nowhere near as essential to maintaining a business as is repeat business. So in short, I believe that you're incorrect.
2. As stated in the article, Mad Cow isn't a viral or bacterial infection and therefore it cannot be fought with traditional weapons. Speaking of traditional, a very common treatment for a multitude of illnesses: penicillin comes from a mold. a MOLD. How expensive is it to culture mold? Well it'll cost you one moist loaf of bread. Ensuring that proteins don't become prions (much as normal cells don't become cancerous) is an all together different matter. The amount of money that goes into R&D wouldn't be realised if there was a simple cure like penicillin or some of the other inexpensive cures of the past. The only organization that would be able to back the creation of a cure for these complex and nontraditional ailments would be a financially stable government. Whether ours or theirs or somebody else's, government-backed research and government-backed vaccination regimens have more promise than corporate-backed ones. When the dominant ideal is that of survival and not the bottom line, then we'll see some real progress.
3. no way to really respond to this. If there is a cure it's held close and is only known of by a few people. I bet their families don't get cancer either (ahem), which renders your point somewhat moot.
4. There's only one thing investors like: a return on their investment. If we'll go to war (ie, put human lives at stake) over oil instead of biting the cost bullet and building a decent national electric infrastructure, then it should be made blatantly obvious to you that there ARE those who are willing to choose the almighty buck over the almighty human life. If we had a better power system here in the USA we could more-seriously consider things like, say, electric cars.
There's a difference between "repeal" and "wait until it expires." It has to do with the immediacy with which the abuses of power are halted. The poster to which you respond might be full of something, but it isn't shit.
Ok, how about this: end the war on drugs. We spend billions ($40B) every year and get nowhere in that department; I know this, I participate in this war regularly. All drugs, whether they're illicit or they're for headaches or erectile enhancement, should be inspected by the FDA and given a class or ranking based upon the hazard to life involved in consuming that item. There would be a class set aside for drugs which modify your behaviors such that their ingestion would make you hazardous to others, ie: it would inhibit driving a vehicle or operating a forklift, but could still be enjoyed in the right circumstances (comfort of your own home, etc)
The DEA would be dissolved and their records and files all absorbed by the FDA, and all of the DEA's knowledge would go towards helping the FDA to understand all foods and drugs in a fashion suitable for making health recommendations to the public. All criminals in prison on adult drug charges (possession, distribution, cultivation) would be released from prison. When it comes down to it, we should be able to put whatever we want in any one of our respective holes as often as we wish as long as we're not impinging on somebody else's way of life.
So with the DEA gone and the drug tsar no longer pulling down a fat check every year, we divert the money to NASA. But you take it one step further... you take all the information from the DEA and the FDA and channel it to biologists at NASA. I dare you to tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't jump on a chance to smoke some weed from space. MOONWEED for christ's sake! "Moonweed, made by scientists at NASA. On store shelves now! note: FDA Class XYZ substance." Sales of moonweed would more than support NASA for the forseeable future. Even if the markets were open and everyone could grow their own, I'm pretty sure NASA could still make bank in the moonweed department.
mile stretch? no problem. mile on a non-circular track? now we're talking. How about a mile on a random course over rough terrain? ok, NOW we're talking. That's something that's worth a reward.
I'm a little confused about your reasoning. It runs slow on current hardware because it's a graphically intensive game... what's your point? Who is your complaint with, carmack or the video card makers?
Do you remember when free web-based email didn't exist and many families all shared one email address? That phenomenon alone should highlight that an e-mail address is not one's identity.
You can liken it to a physical address ("Where do you live?" != "Who are you?") or a phone number ("How may I reach you?" != "Who are you?") but the point is that an email address is not any single person's identity.
Software companies know that their products are, currently, used for more than one year after purchase. I work as an in-home computer technician, and I still encounter people running Windows 98. If it were more or less guaranteed that they (Microsoft) would get repeat buyers year after year, I could see them dramatically reducing their prices. I mean, a copy of Win98 cost ~$100 when it came out. If you spread that over 6 years, that's $16/year. Even spread over four years, $25 a year isn't that bad for Windows, aye? If they added regular security/usability updates and whatnot, like releasing yearly service packs so people would always want a new license instead of trying open source or reinstalling an old version without the one-year limitation.
Pricing is indeed a big issue. Expensive software causes, as you mention, piracy. It also causes people to form (or join) open source development projects in order to create free software. All of these things damage the commercial software industry. I'm not against free software, I'm just saying that free software and piracy are damaging to the commercial software industry.
UltraEdit is extremely useful. When I was in the habit of doing more coding, I used it daily. I managed to get my company to pay for the license for me, but I still made sure it got paid for. And for every reason you highlighted: it works, it isn't bloated, it's stable, it gets bugfixed, and it's cheap.
Something involving the interruption of an election or some type of marshall-law abuse of the patriot act or the like. There are already a myriad of cases where non-terrorists are being prosecuted as if they were, thanks to the patriot act.
I agree with your scenario though, I can see a state militia standing up for the right to elect a new leader who isn't a total moron.
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Without the shade, you get roofs and attic spaces that easily heat up to over 100 degrees and don't cool until 6-7 hours after nightfall.
Let's not forget all those highways we've covered the planet with. It's not like they're black and turning 100% of the inicident sunlight into heat or anything. Global Warming, anyone? oy.
Historically, keys have been used for one thing and one thing alone: to prevent the intrusion of an unauthorized party. A password is nothing more than a key which you keep in your head.
... Everyone has a USB pen drive now, somebody just needs to come up with a standard for security keyfiles and then the possessor of the key is the one who gets inside. Changing the lock would be easy too, as a good network administrator could just set a day for everyone to plug in their key in order to have their security data updated, or whatever.
Never in history has this EVER been the case, except in the situations like elite clubs that have a big metal door with the little window and the man who says "What's the password, jack?" And in situations like that, the bouncer probably knows you and remembering the password isn't *as* important.
Imagine if you needed a password to enter and start your car, and the manufacturer forced you to change that password every month. The idea is completely ludicrous and would never be accepted by society, which is why society (the masses) have such a problem with passwords--they get in the way.
The month just started. I bet somebody out there had a forced password change and forgot their new password and had to call down to IT and say "Guys, what is my new password?" and provide his name, address, Employee ID number, and so forth. He might lose 30 minutes, an hour, maybe two hours getting things straightened out depending on how tight security is and whether or not the security guy is in his office, etc.
Forgetting is one of the easiest things in the world to do. As a matter of fact, there is current research which states that the brain very actively forgets things (the dozens of cars you pass on the freeway, the color of every leaf on a tree, etc) because the sheer volume of information is so overwhelming. Filing away a very abstract and intangible string of random characters--that they don't associate with anything more than a one-second experience prior to being able to do their job--and then FORGETTING that string, is one of the easiest things a person could possibly do. There is no scent, sound, sight, or anything to prompt its rememberance, it's simply an abstract and cryptic jumble of letters and numbers that you have to remember or you're fired. (well not always, but sometimes!)
The point is, "passwords" need to be replaced by "keys"
It's technologically feasible, it's already done in some places, but the current limiting factor is cost. If you didn't need to implement anything more than a software solution, then cost comes down to man-hours and man-hours comes down to: open source.
So get crackin', guys and girls.
Those high-pressure butane "torch" cigarette lighters can reach temperatures exceeding 1200 degrees celsius. The melting point of steel is, however, around 1350 degrees celsius. So you might be able to heat up the cable real nice before snipping it, possibly making the cutting easier. That is, unless the cable is made of something like Aluminum, which melts at 660 deg C.
You know society has taken a turn for the worst when you need to write down what you're thinking about when you've thought about it so that you can ensure that nobody else claims you've never thought about it.
Why don't we just go one step further and make mind-reading a mandatory skill? ugh.
Death penalty? Death of whom--the corporation or the CEO? What about the CEO's personal assistant? Ok, so a tobacco company is found to be killing off people, and a court says so. Do you just dissolve the company and put 60,000 people out of work?
As long as the economy of our country is the ruler by which we measure ourselves, then the corporations will still win. Period. When the bottom line becomes less about money and more about something more profound or worthwhile than money, then the accountability you're talking about would be reasonable. Until that day comes however (which it shan't, because the people in power are insecure, greedy, selfish motherfuckers) we're at the mercy of the corporations.
extremely well-put. Internet Addiction is just an extremely strong case of anti-boredom.
Who defines "useful knowledge" ... you? god? the president? I can't believe you got modded insightful after saying something like that. I might read about gardening online and you might read about cars, and we both might believe that the other is wasting the resources of the internet, but that doesn't make either of us right.
The system could be inductively charged.
You can transmit power as well as signals without wire. Really, all a singal is, is waveform-modified electromagnetic radiation. Radio transmission towers have their outputs measured in Watts, computers have their power consumption measured in, you guessed it, watts. Whether it's induction or using RF technology to energize the chips, it's entirely feasible *and* possible.
I'm all for doing away with the motherboard and the wires all together anyhow. And jumpers too, I hate those little bastards.
I never took a proper typing class but I can exceed 90 WPM with my own personal typing style. Much like having accented speech or walking with an unusual gait, I have a particular typing style. It isn't touch typing so much as "knowing where the keys are" and "knowing where my fingers are" ... it can be problematic on ergonomic keyboards, but otherwise all is well.
I picked up on typing in chatrooms.
Find a chatroom on a topic you enjoy so you're forced to engage in conversation. When typing is the only way to get the satisfaction you're after, you'll find yourself a far better typist as time goes on.
The point is: typing is something you can learn as you go, while basic computer knowledge (the ON button, the difference between a Macintosh and a PC, etc) provides a much better foundation for computer usage. The computer is just a tool--do you want to know how it works so that you can adapt it to your needs, or do you want to only know how to do certain specific things with it so that it is otherwise completely useless? I think that if there were a stronger base of computer users who had this general knowledge, people would be less apprehensive with regard to technology, because more people would have a brother or a cousin or an uncle who had the basic know-how and could make those that lacked even the basics feel comfortable.
I'm sure those stores have licensing agreements with the various production studios.
"automobile" implies "gas-powered vehicle" though it shouldn't and doesn't have to.
Solar cars, solar stirling cars, electric cars, biodiesel cars, high-tension spring and clockwork powered cars, flywheel-powered cars; there's really no reason to limit yourself to gas-powered vehicles other than cost. I mean, everyone wants to do things cheaply, and sometimes cheapest is not best. We should be looking into these other types of mobility (and we probably would if anything were to happen to our oil supply) and hopefully power generation in general so as to improve our energy independence and futher identify the USA as a nation of pioneers.
As far as pedestrians are concerned: I don't care if it's tunnels or bridges, but they deserve one or the other for their own safety--cost be damned (fsck all you cheapskates).
preface: I'm from the US. "the country" / "the government" / etc = "the US [whatever]"
1. There isn't money in a cure. 20 years of drug therapy and pills that cost $800/month = $192,000. Unless you can convince people and insurance companies to shell out $192K per patient cured, you can't sell the cure. Take into consideration again that a good number of the people who have cancer can barely afford their monthly medication, and unless medicare/social security/etc were willing to pay for curing people, the drug companies would not be able to make a buck on it. But the drugs, subsidized monthly with a small stipend from the government, are easily paid for. ISPs know this better than anyone: it's all about residual income. One-time fees, even if quite large, are nowhere near as essential to maintaining a business as is repeat business. So in short, I believe that you're incorrect.
2. As stated in the article, Mad Cow isn't a viral or bacterial infection and therefore it cannot be fought with traditional weapons. Speaking of traditional, a very common treatment for a multitude of illnesses: penicillin comes from a mold. a MOLD. How expensive is it to culture mold? Well it'll cost you one moist loaf of bread. Ensuring that proteins don't become prions (much as normal cells don't become cancerous) is an all together different matter. The amount of money that goes into R&D wouldn't be realised if there was a simple cure like penicillin or some of the other inexpensive cures of the past. The only organization that would be able to back the creation of a cure for these complex and nontraditional ailments would be a financially stable government. Whether ours or theirs or somebody else's, government-backed research and government-backed vaccination regimens have more promise than corporate-backed ones. When the dominant ideal is that of survival and not the bottom line, then we'll see some real progress.
3. no way to really respond to this. If there is a cure it's held close and is only known of by a few people. I bet their families don't get cancer either (ahem), which renders your point somewhat moot.
4. There's only one thing investors like: a return on their investment. If we'll go to war (ie, put human lives at stake) over oil instead of biting the cost bullet and building a decent national electric infrastructure, then it should be made blatantly obvious to you that there ARE those who are willing to choose the almighty buck over the almighty human life. If we had a better power system here in the USA we could more-seriously consider things like, say, electric cars.
I think we just slashdotted Silicon Graphics.
There's a difference between "repeal" and "wait until it expires." It has to do with the immediacy with which the abuses of power are halted. The poster to which you respond might be full of something, but it isn't shit.
Ok, how about this: end the war on drugs. We spend billions ($40B) every year and get nowhere in that department; I know this, I participate in this war regularly. All drugs, whether they're illicit or they're for headaches or erectile enhancement, should be inspected by the FDA and given a class or ranking based upon the hazard to life involved in consuming that item. There would be a class set aside for drugs which modify your behaviors such that their ingestion would make you hazardous to others, ie: it would inhibit driving a vehicle or operating a forklift, but could still be enjoyed in the right circumstances (comfort of your own home, etc)
The DEA would be dissolved and their records and files all absorbed by the FDA, and all of the DEA's knowledge would go towards helping the FDA to understand all foods and drugs in a fashion suitable for making health recommendations to the public. All criminals in prison on adult drug charges (possession, distribution, cultivation) would be released from prison. When it comes down to it, we should be able to put whatever we want in any one of our respective holes as often as we wish as long as we're not impinging on somebody else's way of life.
So with the DEA gone and the drug tsar no longer pulling down a fat check every year, we divert the money to NASA. But you take it one step further... you take all the information from the DEA and the FDA and channel it to biologists at NASA. I dare you to tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't jump on a chance to smoke some weed from space. MOONWEED for christ's sake! "Moonweed, made by scientists at NASA. On store shelves now! note: FDA Class XYZ substance." Sales of moonweed would more than support NASA for the forseeable future. Even if the markets were open and everyone could grow their own, I'm pretty sure NASA could still make bank in the moonweed department.
mile stretch? no problem. mile on a non-circular track? now we're talking. How about a mile on a random course over rough terrain? ok, NOW we're talking. That's something that's worth a reward.
So, you're saying...we cook ourselves.
What food have you had lately that beheld that convenience?
Charlie Rose will be on at midnight for the Seattle, WA area, on KCTS channel 9.
I just looked it up for my own edification, thought I'd share.
I'm a little confused about your reasoning. It runs slow on current hardware because it's a graphically intensive game... what's your point? Who is your complaint with, carmack or the video card makers?
so roughly 23 times the clock speed and 48 times the ram. That does seem a little ... excessive.
it just makes them paranoid--so they do their job four times as well.
Do you always obey the law?
Laws are made-up rules based on observations. Laws aren't reality, man. Just because we haven't seen it yet doesn't mean we can't do it.
Also, as a minor addition to this...
Do you remember when free web-based email didn't exist and many families all shared one email address? That phenomenon alone should highlight that an e-mail address is not one's identity.
You can liken it to a physical address ("Where do you live?" != "Who are you?") or a phone number ("How may I reach you?" != "Who are you?") but the point is that an email address is not any single person's identity.
Software companies know that their products are, currently, used for more than one year after purchase. I work as an in-home computer technician, and I still encounter people running Windows 98. If it were more or less guaranteed that they (Microsoft) would get repeat buyers year after year, I could see them dramatically reducing their prices. I mean, a copy of Win98 cost ~$100 when it came out. If you spread that over 6 years, that's $16/year. Even spread over four years, $25 a year isn't that bad for Windows, aye? If they added regular security/usability updates and whatnot, like releasing yearly service packs so people would always want a new license instead of trying open source or reinstalling an old version without the one-year limitation.
Pricing is indeed a big issue. Expensive software causes, as you mention, piracy. It also causes people to form (or join) open source development projects in order to create free software. All of these things damage the commercial software industry. I'm not against free software, I'm just saying that free software and piracy are damaging to the commercial software industry.
UltraEdit is extremely useful. When I was in the habit of doing more coding, I used it daily. I managed to get my company to pay for the license for me, but I still made sure it got paid for. And for every reason you highlighted: it works, it isn't bloated, it's stable, it gets bugfixed, and it's cheap.
I have a similar notion.
Something involving the interruption of an election or some type of marshall-law abuse of the patriot act or the like. There are already a myriad of cases where non-terrorists are being prosecuted as if they were, thanks to the patriot act.
I agree with your scenario though, I can see a state militia standing up for the right to elect a new leader who isn't a total moron.