"Hovering at 20 to 50 feet puts you in the "deadman's curve" - it's a combination or airspeed (0 knots) and altitude (20 to 50 feet) at which a safe autorotation is not possible. So if the engine quits, you're dead."
So when a government asks, it's considered involuntary because they are legally obligating its use for a non-SS purpose. But when commercial corporations do it, it's considered "voluntary" because you can always take your business elsewhere. But now that ALL businesses ask for it, there really isn't anywhere else to go. I guess I would not call that illegal, then, but requiring it as a condition of doing business does seem rather contrary to the idea of "voluntary".
I used to work for Safeway, and whenever someone wrote a check, we always had to ask for their SSN to help us verify. "But what", I asked, "happens if they don't want to provide it?" Answer? "Nothing." So we were asking for something even though it wasn't required, and getting away with it, because the natural response when asked is to assume it IS required. I'm not even clear how the SSN is supposed to help Safeway verify anything about the check itself, and even if it does, is that more valuable to the customer than their own privacy?
So, I just took to asking for it and saying "you don't' have to":D
Anonymous Coward wrote in response to a suggestion that the operator of an Internet radio station that is not a day job might be able to avoid the minimum royalty by playing only Free music:
Nobody makes music free, son.
SOMEONE stole it from my music empire.
And give me back those electrons you stole from my computer!
Are you referring to the mathematical near-certainty that a song's hook will inevitably match that of at least one of the millions of songs in BMI and ASCAP's repertory? Or the precedent set in Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music that accidentally copying the hook of a song heard a half-decade ago is just as much a copyright infringement as what happens in the warez scene? Or both?
Yes, you're correct. Specifically, he's referring to the often-cited example of the hook formed by an instrument tuned to produce a "whooshing" sound effect; this has been infringed upon repeatedly by Slashdot community-based artists shamelessly ripping each other off. Of course that, too, belongs somewhere in BMI / ASCAP's repertoire, and anyone employing the "whoosh!" sound in an online performance is therefore subject to royalty collection by SoundExchange on behalf of independent Slashdot artists everywhere. This is but one commonly known example of the electrons that have been stolen from Anonymous Coward's (TM) computer and music empire.
So it is or is not illegal? You seem to be saying it's illegal to use it as an ID, but then you're also saying that commercially, it's not illegal ("few prohibitions"). Can you explain what you mean?
Incredibly unlikely?? It's one in freaking three. 999999999 means only 1,000 million possible numbers, if the geographic coding didn't exist and the group coding didn't remove many numbers from the available number space, making things much, much worse. For a population of 300 million...
By my count, if there is no checking, the probability of collisions is incredibly high.
Mycroft was referring to "the combination of name and number", not the number by itself. It would be rather unlikely to have the same name b>and the same number. Additionally, they do check for collisions (or at least try to). They don't just throw the dice and give it to you, come what may; they give out numbers with the expectation it that it has never been used before. It is intended to be a unique key, not only a hash to be used in conjunction with one's name... however, it is fast becoming that way because despite best intentions, the numbers are not entirely unique. Due to various causes, such as simple incompetence, identity theft, mistakes by the SSA or by people themselves when they fill out applications, and unavoidable collisions when the same number is assigned at the same time, it is possible for people to be given the same SSN. And you are right that there aren't nearly enough of them to be useful even if this weren't true.
If I recall, Symantec's Norton Removal Tool does this... I think it uses a CAPTCHA of some sort as well. But it has been over a year since I last ran the tool, so I could be wrong...
Surprisingly this has yet to pick up major coverage in the press.
The BBC is covering it here, and adds that China has accused Google of spreading pornography. This comes as China is requiring all new computers to come with "Green Dam" filtering software.
We should also address the major reason for the growing demand for energy. That reason is overpopulation. However, no American politician has the guts to touch that topic. It is too closely tied to illegal immigration.
Overpopulation in North-East US, Western Europe and Japan is not due to immigration. Most of the people living there are breed and born there. The major reason for growing demand for energy is not overpopulation - it is technological development. In the West as well as in the developing world.
You are aware that Japan's population is declining at a rather alarming rate, right?
They ALL speak with one voice. You'll NEVER hear one say that 2+2=5.
You've never taken a discrete mathematics course, have you?
If 2+2=5, then 6>8
I'll never forget walking into class hearing this assertion. An assertion that, we came to learn, is considered true... for the simple reason that the claimed relationship is unfalsifiable. Without messing with the numbering system, you will never be able to make a test case where 2+2 DOES equal five, so you can't know whether such an accomplishment would make 6 greater than 8 or not.
<pedant> I know this statement doesn't actually say that 2+2=5, nor does it say that 6>8. It does however claim a relationship between the two that is unprovable but also unfalsifiable, so by default it's considered "true". It's basically taking binary IF/THEN statements and applying the logic to relationships. You can accept cases where (false/true) implies true [aka "if the sky is currently blue (T), then gravity is 9.8 m/s^2 (T)" or "if the sky is pink with yellow and green leopard spots (F), then Obama is president (T)")], and you can even accept false implies false ["if Linux has 90% desktop OS market share (F), then SCO created Linux (F)"], but you can only disprove an asserted relationship by finding a case where true implies false. In other words, you will have to wait until Linux actually reaches 90% market share (T), and then see that SCO still did not create Linux (F)
AKA - "Well, we can't disprove it so it must be true."
The 1st step to cripple enemy networks is convince them that something unsecure is the most secure system of the planet. That is really a subtle plan, but surely will work.
At least a few with loud enough voices to get into the newspapers have a problem with it. Whether that means anything demographically significant enough to put a stop to it though is anyone's guess. It is true that there is a cultural expectation that other people avert their eyes from "private" areas, even when viewable from the street. It's also true that Google's been a bit hamfisted when it comes to the occasional cultural faux pas. For these reasons, Google Street View has a bit of an intrusive image, since it allows others the ability to see into windows without the repercussions of actually being there, losing face, getting reported to the police as a suspicious person, etc. However, I have also met some people that think it's worth the price to be able to see the streets you wish to visit beforehand. It makes giving directions a lot easier...and you can find out what places there are to eat before you get there. Additionally, Google blurs out faces automatically and also offers the ability to request one's home to be excluded from the service.
I'm grossly generalizing based on anecdotes, (and I wish I had some real data on this topic...I wonder if there has been polling on this?) but it seems to me the older generation places more of an emphasis on privacy, while the younger generation is more likely to be impressed by the convenience and utility of it. Of course, the former perspective seems to make it into the news more often...
These puny specimens are not worthy of such honor. If you want a giant spider overlord truly worthy of being welcomed, you should consider the one presently attacking Tokyo.
I usually take "you can correct me" to mean "if my claim is wrong, please debunk it". I don't think GP was asking you to prove his point so much as he was inviting you to enlighten/overrule him if he was wrong.
Semantics aside, I agree with your suspicion. And let me take the opportunity to say, I've always enjoyed reading your submissions to Slashdot and your comments as well.
A destructive pest enjoys something that happens to be produced by niggers! It dislikes something that was produced by white people! Coincidence? I think not.
Now THAT'S racist.
Because no white (or any other ethnicity) person has ever created a rap song/album.
It's because of comments like yours, that parent is +5 Funny.
(In case you haven't noticed, the parent comment doesn't contain words such as "white" or "black". It's funny how he could make all your stereotypes fill in the blanks at once with just two words.)
This is pretty funny in itself when you realize what the person you were accusing of harboring stereotypes was actually responding to. Try looking at the conversation more closely before making bad assumptions. Parent in this case was not +5 Funny, parent was a clearly racist -1 Anonymous troll which you probably did not see. GRANDparent was +5 Funny.
Parent has been modded down, but this is actually insightful (albeit off topic, sorry for the rant), and dangerously accurate of a lot of Christians I know (being a dissalusioned one myself) The ones who stay in the Christian cliques, sending their kids to Christian Schools and only listening/reading their Christian media, yet are so outspoken on secular world issues, without it seems, ever having been in it.
Uh, as far as I can tell parent has not been modded at all. He or she simply posted as Anonymous, which means their default moderation is 0.
Back on topic though: being a Christian myself, I'm not particularly fond of the Christian walled garden approach to life. It creates a dangerous disconnection between the "faithful" and the world they say they want to change for the better. How disturbing it is to first intentionally make oneself ignorant about things outside the garden, and then blindly try to influence them.
Uh... Aren't they forgetting the inconvenient slowness of the speed of light?
Unless they solve the FTL comms problem...
Using quantum entanglement, that may not be so far off. If it turns out information can be transmitted near-instantaneously, telepresence could become a reality. Available bandwidth would only be limited by our capacity to create and address these particles and how fast we can read and write to them.
I highly doubt they will be transporting the heat directly. The article says the heat will be generating 9 megawatts, so I gather they are converting the excess heat to electricity and adding it to the grid; it will be used however the grid distributes it. In winter, heat. In summer, A/C. And lights, TV, ovens, computers...
Here's a wild and crazy idea. You could disable the Google Updater Service via Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services. I know.... I know.... radical, but it actually works. Imagine that.
Yeah, good luck with that. Every time I do that, some time later it gets magically reset to "enabled", usually around the next time you install anything that decides to bundle itself with the updater, but sometimes even without that trigger. I haven't been able to figure out precisely when or how, but it keeps getting changed back and I'm rather pissed at Google about it.
This action communicates an attitude of "I'll take what I want when I need it, and that's the price of using Google software." I hope some sensible person will decide that's not what they want to communicate to their customers. I tried providing feedback, but interestingly they have shut down what until now was the only forum for submitting suggestions and concerns.
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"Hovering at 20 to 50 feet puts you in the "deadman's curve" - it's a combination or airspeed (0 knots) and altitude (20 to 50 feet) at which a safe autorotation is not possible. So if the engine quits, you're dead."
http://www.marialanger.com/2008/04/27/the-deadmans-curve/
...but we are talking about hovering at 1 km...
By your logic...
I think you're making a false assumption here.
So when a government asks, it's considered involuntary because they are legally obligating its use for a non-SS purpose. But when commercial corporations do it, it's considered "voluntary" because you can always take your business elsewhere. But now that ALL businesses ask for it, there really isn't anywhere else to go. I guess I would not call that illegal, then, but requiring it as a condition of doing business does seem rather contrary to the idea of "voluntary".
:D
I used to work for Safeway, and whenever someone wrote a check, we always had to ask for their SSN to help us verify. "But what", I asked, "happens if they don't want to provide it?" Answer? "Nothing." So we were asking for something even though it wasn't required, and getting away with it, because the natural response when asked is to assume it IS required. I'm not even clear how the SSN is supposed to help Safeway verify anything about the check itself, and even if it does, is that more valuable to the customer than their own privacy?
So, I just took to asking for it and saying "you don't' have to"
Anonymous Coward wrote in response to a suggestion that the operator of an Internet radio station that is not a day job might be able to avoid the minimum royalty by playing only Free music:
Nobody makes music free, son.
SOMEONE stole it from my music empire.
And give me back those electrons you stole from my computer!
Are you referring to the mathematical near-certainty that a song's hook will inevitably match that of at least one of the millions of songs in BMI and ASCAP's repertory? Or the precedent set in Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music that accidentally copying the hook of a song heard a half-decade ago is just as much a copyright infringement as what happens in the warez scene? Or both?
Yes, you're correct. Specifically, he's referring to the often-cited example of the hook formed by an instrument tuned to produce a "whooshing" sound effect; this has been infringed upon repeatedly by Slashdot community-based artists shamelessly ripping each other off. Of course that, too, belongs somewhere in BMI / ASCAP's repertoire, and anyone employing the "whoosh!" sound in an online performance is therefore subject to royalty collection by SoundExchange on behalf of independent Slashdot artists everywhere. This is but one commonly known example of the electrons that have been stolen from Anonymous Coward's (TM) computer and music empire.
So it is or is not illegal? You seem to be saying it's illegal to use it as an ID, but then you're also saying that commercially, it's not illegal ("few prohibitions"). Can you explain what you mean?
Oh dear...bad formatting. Sorry!
Incredibly unlikely?? It's one in freaking three. 999999999 means only 1,000 million possible numbers, if the geographic coding didn't exist and the group coding didn't remove many numbers from the available number space, making things much, much worse. For a population of 300 million...
By my count, if there is no checking, the probability of collisions is incredibly high.
Mycroft was referring to "the combination of name and number", not the number by itself. It would be rather unlikely to have the same name b>and the same number. Additionally, they do check for collisions (or at least try to). They don't just throw the dice and give it to you, come what may; they give out numbers with the expectation it that it has never been used before. It is intended to be a unique key, not only a hash to be used in conjunction with one's name... however, it is fast becoming that way because despite best intentions, the numbers are not entirely unique. Due to various causes, such as simple incompetence, identity theft, mistakes by the SSA or by people themselves when they fill out applications, and unavoidable collisions when the same number is assigned at the same time, it is possible for people to be given the same SSN. And you are right that there aren't nearly enough of them to be useful even if this weren't true.
If I recall, Symantec's Norton Removal Tool does this... I think it uses a CAPTCHA of some sort as well. But it has been over a year since I last ran the tool, so I could be wrong...
The BBC is covering it here, and adds that China has accused Google of spreading pornography. This comes as China is requiring all new computers to come with "Green Dam" filtering software.
We should also address the major reason for the growing demand for energy. That reason is overpopulation. However, no American politician has the guts to touch that topic. It is too closely tied to illegal immigration.
Overpopulation in North-East US, Western Europe and Japan is not due to immigration. Most of the people living there are breed and born there. The major reason for growing demand for energy is not overpopulation - it is technological development. In the West as well as in the developing world.
You are aware that Japan's population is declining at a rather alarming rate, right?
They ALL speak with one voice. You'll NEVER hear one say that 2+2=5.
You've never taken a discrete mathematics course, have you?
If 2+2=5, then 6>8
I'll never forget walking into class hearing this assertion. An assertion that, we came to learn, is considered true... for the simple reason that the claimed relationship is unfalsifiable. Without messing with the numbering system, you will never be able to make a test case where 2+2 DOES equal five, so you can't know whether such an accomplishment would make 6 greater than 8 or not.
<pedant> I know this statement doesn't actually say that 2+2=5, nor does it say that 6>8. It does however claim a relationship between the two that is unprovable but also unfalsifiable, so by default it's considered "true". It's basically taking binary IF/THEN statements and applying the logic to relationships. You can accept cases where (false/true) implies true [aka "if the sky is currently blue (T), then gravity is 9.8 m/s^2 (T)" or "if the sky is pink with yellow and green leopard spots (F), then Obama is president (T)")], and you can even accept false implies false ["if Linux has 90% desktop OS market share (F), then SCO created Linux (F)"], but you can only disprove an asserted relationship by finding a case where true implies false. In other words, you will have to wait until Linux actually reaches 90% market share (T), and then see that SCO still did not create Linux (F)
AKA - "Well, we can't disprove it so it must be true."
+5 Funny? This sounds eerily insightful to me...
At least a few with loud enough voices to get into the newspapers have a problem with it. Whether that means anything demographically significant enough to put a stop to it though is anyone's guess. It is true that there is a cultural expectation that other people avert their eyes from "private" areas, even when viewable from the street. It's also true that Google's been a bit hamfisted when it comes to the occasional cultural faux pas. For these reasons, Google Street View has a bit of an intrusive image, since it allows others the ability to see into windows without the repercussions of actually being there, losing face, getting reported to the police as a suspicious person, etc. However, I have also met some people that think it's worth the price to be able to see the streets you wish to visit beforehand. It makes giving directions a lot easier...and you can find out what places there are to eat before you get there. Additionally, Google blurs out faces automatically and also offers the ability to request one's home to be excluded from the service.
I'm grossly generalizing based on anecdotes, (and I wish I had some real data on this topic...I wonder if there has been polling on this?) but it seems to me the older generation places more of an emphasis on privacy, while the younger generation is more likely to be impressed by the convenience and utility of it. Of course, the former perspective seems to make it into the news more often...
Google photos raise privacy issues in Japan
Google crosses line with controversial old Tokyo maps (not quite related, but interesting nonetheless...)
Some Japanese concerned about Google Street View
Group demands shutdown of Google Street View Japan
More sensational news from Japan about the dangers of Google Street View
Eh... sorry for the double post. Slashdot was giving all kinds of server errors and I figured both of them were a lost cause.
These puny specimens are not worthy of such honor. If you want a giant spider overlord truly worthy of being welcomed, you should consider the one presently attacking Tokyo.
These puny specimens are not worthy of overlordship, especially when compared to the giant spider currently attacking Tokyo.
I usually take "you can correct me" to mean "if my claim is wrong, please debunk it". I don't think GP was asking you to prove his point so much as he was inviting you to enlighten/overrule him if he was wrong.
Semantics aside, I agree with your suspicion. And let me take the opportunity to say, I've always enjoyed reading your submissions to Slashdot and your comments as well.
A destructive pest enjoys something that happens to be produced by niggers! It dislikes something that was produced by white people! Coincidence? I think not. Now THAT'S racist.
Because no white (or any other ethnicity) person has ever created a rap song/album.
It's because of comments like yours, that parent is +5 Funny.
(In case you haven't noticed, the parent comment doesn't contain words such as "white" or "black". It's funny how he could make all your stereotypes fill in the blanks at once with just two words.)
This is pretty funny in itself when you realize what the person you were accusing of harboring stereotypes was actually responding to. Try looking at the conversation more closely before making bad assumptions. Parent in this case was not +5 Funny, parent was a clearly racist -1 Anonymous troll which you probably did not see. GRANDparent was +5 Funny.
claiming that most people don't use that much in a year is ridiculous and uninformed.
44GB/7=100-120MB?
Let me guess: you went to a public school in the United States?
At least we cover reading comprehension in our schools.
Parent has been modded down, but this is actually insightful (albeit off topic, sorry for the rant), and dangerously accurate of a lot of Christians I know (being a dissalusioned one myself) The ones who stay in the Christian cliques, sending their kids to Christian Schools and only listening/reading their Christian media, yet are so outspoken on secular world issues, without it seems, ever having been in it.
Uh, as far as I can tell parent has not been modded at all. He or she simply posted as Anonymous, which means their default moderation is 0.
Back on topic though: being a Christian myself, I'm not particularly fond of the Christian walled garden approach to life. It creates a dangerous disconnection between the "faithful" and the world they say they want to change for the better. How disturbing it is to first intentionally make oneself ignorant about things outside the garden, and then blindly try to influence them.
Uh... Aren't they forgetting the inconvenient slowness of the speed of light? Unless they solve the FTL comms problem...
Using quantum entanglement, that may not be so far off. If it turns out information can be transmitted near-instantaneously, telepresence could become a reality. Available bandwidth would only be limited by our capacity to create and address these particles and how fast we can read and write to them.
Of course, that's a big "if"...
So is it measuring just the heat output? Or does that include transmission costs as well?
I highly doubt they will be transporting the heat directly.
The article says "district heat". That means they are transporting the heat directly as a utility. It's a somewhat common setup in much of Europe.
Oh really? Wow. I'd never heard of that before; thanks for telling me. What does the 9 megawatts statistic mean then? What is that measuring?
I highly doubt they will be transporting the heat directly. The article says the heat will be generating 9 megawatts, so I gather they are converting the excess heat to electricity and adding it to the grid; it will be used however the grid distributes it. In winter, heat. In summer, A/C. And lights, TV, ovens, computers...
Here's a wild and crazy idea. You could disable the Google Updater Service via Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services. I know.... I know.... radical, but it actually works. Imagine that.
Yeah, good luck with that. Every time I do that, some time later it gets magically reset to "enabled", usually around the next time you install anything that decides to bundle itself with the updater, but sometimes even without that trigger. I haven't been able to figure out precisely when or how, but it keeps getting changed back and I'm rather pissed at Google about it.
This action communicates an attitude of "I'll take what I want when I need it, and that's the price of using Google software." I hope some sensible person will decide that's not what they want to communicate to their customers. I tried providing feedback, but interestingly they have shut down what until now was the only forum for submitting suggestions and concerns.