What i can see happening is some Family Man getting into a meeting with a bunch of local folks and cutting a deal that goes like:
1 You don't shoot my people and make sure that that IED [redacted] doesn't get used on the roads we need (and will be building) 2 as we get the stuff mined and processed you get a cut of X% 3 my people of course will be helping you get rid of your "problems"
THe Sco Group is now a smoking crater rundown of the different cases
NOVELL V TSCOG: Goes to Novell (this is the basis for the rest of the Litigation Lotto) TSCOG V IBM : the case that started it all WAIVED BY ORDER OF NOVELL (IBM does get the counter claims) SUSE V TSCOG (arbitration): Rendered Moot (lack of grounds) The Sco Group bankruptcy Chapter 11: to be converted to Chapter 7 (a chunk of the money is now owed to NOVELL)
(the various smaller bit cases are now also Mooted)
If there was say 3 or 4 ATT sized providers then it would make sense for each one to have a Single Signon so that you could login and receive all the benefits of being a customer of %Network%
need to make a call on your phone?? %Network has a tower in range close to a %Network wifi hotspot ?? your call will be routed by way of the hotspot Wanna watch a movie ?? slot your %Network FlashKey type your PIN and go for it
How many of us would pay US$120 to US$$250 a month (depending on how long a contract you want to sign) to get 720 degree data coverage??
"Congress shall make no law... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
1 change the rules involved so that if a recording is not available the cops "lose" 2 require that any recording to be used as evidence (if provided to the police) have a copy given to the person that did the recording 3 require that the officer involved personally replace any video equipment and media that gets damaged during an arrest (replacement cost not depreciated cost or wholesale cost)
of course if you wanted to get a smaller set of data to work with you could just break the print down into a vector image and then run your hash on that (this would also solve the problem of rotated prints and the print size changing (a kids print is smaller than an adults print most of the time)
we laugh at this slapstick type stuff because nobody got very hurt (much, most of the time)
i would put bets that folks that could pull off WHY SO SERIOUS during a real disaster are say 1 in 200,000 worldwide (which means that The Joker has roughly 29 "friends")
Merge a Sun "blackbox" with a support trailer and then figure out a way to transport it to some deep area in South Africa. rig the trailer as a datacenter/ sat com link and then tell like everybody that you have FREE PORN (donations accepted of course)
You off a Howler monkey during a test you just need to do your report (necropsy ect) and get another monkey
Off a human during a test and you have 1 a much larger report 2 a very detailed autopsy 3 a report to Legal to make sure your "assets" are covered 4 a possible lawsuit from the next of kin 5 it gets a bit harder to get more humans when you have a track record of offing your volunteers
I think that most of the 50 states have solved the "non driving ID" thing in the same fashion
1 id cards are almost the same as a drivers license but are marked "Identification card" and also have the text "Not For vehicle operation" on the back side
2 to help solve another problem if you are below drinking age your card is portrait style and not landscape (and you have a red or yellow frame on your mugshot)
and besides when it counts the folks that want to know can just scan the datablock and check
and get banned from any and all stores for even trying this.
How exactly are you going to buy 200 phones when most stores won't sell you more than say 6 without tripping fraud/dealer warnings??
(and if you say i will just go from store to store: well the second RadioShack you hit will call their DM and then a DO NOT SELL order gets emailed out and i would bet that a phone call will be placed to the BestBuy in the area to get them to lock out also and the Officemax ect...)
the trick is if somebody has a plan and wants to have a go at it they can (other than BP who would be on the hook anyway). You do the math and you decide to do it.
The US needs to basically say "If you have the needed stuff and can give us a plan you get to keep any oil you recover" and then cut the spill area into grid squares and say okay you say you can clean XK gallons so you can use these grid squares and you have these squares ect.
BP of course can buy the oil from the various folks at whatever price or maybe have their own folks scooping up oil.
Well they are FIRING some of them...
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The person at the top of this mess in the US gov (the director of mineral resources) got invited to resign (and did). Im sure that a few of the others are going to follow her example.
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What i can see happening is some Family Man getting into a meeting with a bunch of local folks and cutting a deal that goes like:
1 You don't shoot my people and make sure that that IED [redacted] doesn't get used on the roads we need (and will be building)
2 as we get the stuff mined and processed you get a cut of X%
3 my people of course will be helping you get rid of your "problems"
actually as a business you can spin up a SecondLife type Server with a minimum of effort
you will need
1 a web server with MYSQL support
2 a copy of OpenSim
3 a few graphics types to create content
and im sure they can come up with the tools needed
THe Sco Group is now a smoking crater rundown of the different cases
NOVELL V TSCOG: Goes to Novell (this is the basis for the rest of the Litigation Lotto)
TSCOG V IBM : the case that started it all
WAIVED BY ORDER OF NOVELL (IBM does get the counter claims)
SUSE V TSCOG (arbitration): Rendered Moot (lack of grounds)
The Sco Group bankruptcy Chapter 11: to be converted to Chapter 7 (a chunk of the money is now owed to NOVELL)
(the various smaller bit cases are now also Mooted)
it would be a shame if 30,000 pissed off geeks were to hit it (or do any number of "interesting" things to it)
[Picture of nice store front] This is your webstore
[Picture of smoking hole] This is your webstore on Slashdot
i would bet that about 40% of the folks that hear my domain being spoken will
1 spell it with 4 Ws three for the www and then one in laUrence
2 put it as a dot com not a dot org (i currently don't own the dot com)
because of 2 things
1 "Everybody" spells laurence as lawrence
2 "Everybody" knows that the Internets sites all end in dot com
You would most likely have somehow trashed your cornea to even have this kind of thing an option.
If there was say 3 or 4 ATT sized providers then it would make sense for each one to have a Single Signon so that you could login and receive all the benefits of being a customer of %Network%
need to make a call on your phone?? %Network has a tower in range
close to a %Network wifi hotspot ?? your call will be routed by way of the hotspot
Wanna watch a movie ?? slot your %Network FlashKey type your PIN and go for it
How many of us would pay US$120 to US$$250 a month (depending on how long a contract you want to sign) to get 720 degree data coverage??
Back In the day a miscalibrated machine could get somebodies legs/arms/neck broken
"Of course, I suppose the first rule of memes on slashdot, should be that you don't break the third wall and talk about memes on slashdot."
err that would be FOURTH WALL not third and if you need it in the future
http://www.instantsfun.es/csi (bunches more buttons on that site)
have they considered this bit of law??
"Congress shall make no law ... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
this fails on these grounds.
1 change the rules involved so that if a recording is not available the cops "lose"
2 require that any recording to be used as evidence (if provided to the police) have a copy given to the person that did the recording
3 require that the officer involved personally replace any video equipment and media that gets damaged during an arrest (replacement cost not depreciated cost or wholesale cost)
the violation is Driving While Colored aka DWC (the funny part is you can be cited for DWC even if you are no where s near an actual car)
of course if you wanted to get a smaller set of data to work with you could just break the print down into a vector image and then run your hash on that (this would also solve the problem of rotated prints and the print size changing (a kids print is smaller than an adults print most of the time)
we laugh at this slapstick type stuff because nobody got very hurt (much, most of the time)
i would put bets that folks that could pull off WHY SO SERIOUS during a real disaster are say 1 in 200,000 worldwide (which means that The Joker has roughly 29 "friends")
Merge a Sun "blackbox" with a support trailer and then figure out a way to transport it to some deep area in South Africa. rig the trailer as a datacenter/ sat com link and then tell like everybody that you have FREE PORN (donations accepted of course)
You off a Howler monkey during a test you just need to do your report (necropsy ect) and get another monkey
Off a human during a test and you have
1 a much larger report
2 a very detailed autopsy
3 a report to Legal to make sure your "assets" are covered
4 a possible lawsuit from the next of kin
5 it gets a bit harder to get more humans when you have a track record of offing your volunteers
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
seriously do you think its the daleks or cybermen thats at fault??
I think that most of the 50 states have solved the "non driving ID" thing in the same fashion
1 id cards are almost the same as a drivers license but are marked "Identification card" and also have the text
"Not For vehicle operation" on the back side
2 to help solve another problem if you are below drinking age your card is portrait style and not landscape
(and you have a red or yellow frame on your mugshot)
and besides when it counts the folks that want to know can just scan the datablock and check
and you would be getting these authenticated to a network how??
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Potato-Chips/Detail.aspx
that would be a base version feel free to hack as required
and get banned from any and all stores for even trying this.
How exactly are you going to buy 200 phones when most stores won't sell you more than say 6 without tripping fraud/dealer warnings??
(and if you say i will just go from store to store: well the second RadioShack you hit will call their DM and then a DO NOT SELL order gets emailed out and i would bet that a phone call will be placed to the BestBuy in the area
to get them to lock out also and the Officemax ect...)
the trick is if somebody has a plan and wants to have a go at it they can (other than BP who would be on the hook anyway). You do the math and you decide to do it.
The US needs to basically say "If you have the needed stuff and can give us a plan you get to keep any oil you recover" and then cut the spill area into grid squares and say okay you say you can clean XK gallons so you can use these grid squares and you have these squares ect.
BP of course can buy the oil from the various folks at whatever price or maybe have their own folks scooping up oil.
The person at the top of this mess in the US gov (the director of mineral resources) got invited to resign (and did). Im sure that a few of the others are going to follow her example.