We're walking dead anyway, so the only question is really whether you're better off dead now or dead later. For some people the net experience is unlikely to be favourable (in case they are even capable of experiencing positives). They could conceivably be better off doing a lot of drugs, but sometimes there's just no point in delaying the inevitable.
Of course, since the purpose of the GM in the case of roundup resistant strains is to be able to bathe the GM plants in roundup, it could be argued that only the GM corn will give you roundup related cancer, the non-resistant corn would be dead long before you could eat it.
IPv6 doesn't force you to use the autoconfig addresses, so with strategic use of shortening the addresses and assigning easy ones they're not really that much more difficult to remember than v4 addresses if you really insist on avoiding dns.
You can get away with something like 2002:0ca5:01f3:1::1 which means you'll basically just have to remember your routing prefix and then whatever addresses you decide yourself.
Of course, unless one happens to be one of those people talking out of their ass, there's nothing preventing the combination of the activities. No break needed, problem solved.
Of course, that's assuming that the employee is the one who wants to visit the bathroom for a potty break. Once the employee starts using a potty at his desk for his potty breaks I'd wager visiting the bathroom will quickly become part of the actual job...
Unfortunately it doesn't seem that new, there's also the judge Chris Hensen who happened to be running a commercial anti-piracy together with the council for the plaintif while deciding that links to TPB should be blocked.
Frankly I suspect it's rare with members of the various parts of the judicial system in the field of IP who do not have significant financial interest in enforcing IP. Whether it's revolving door interest or more blatant abuses the field of government granted monopolies has always been lucrative for those on the inside, which probably makes the field very attractive for those with slightly lower ideals than what could be expected in a judiciary.
As with alcohol and narcotics, the result of banning is massive financing of the illicit industries. IE, the ban on cp is what actually creates a huge profit incentive where there may have been little to none before. Non-payers reduce that financial incentive.
The only sort of coherent argument for banning possession that I've heard is that the existence of the images themselves can in some cases conceivably be traumatic for those exploited, and thus can be regarded as some form of perpetuation of the abuse. Whether that is enough to make up for the general damage caused by the moral panic (teenagers criminalized for messaging eachother, pure fiction or art getting caught up in it, possibly creating stronger financial incentives for pure for-profit production, etc) is debatable.
Except, of course, the entity may very well be direct and up-front, provide you with a signed statement and then store your sample in secret without your permission anyway.
Once you've provided them with the sample you have no control over what they do with it in secret.... and having read about some real quality DNA labs the chances are they'll put your sample in the same testtube they ran the suspect sample in without washing it between. Or the same lab tech sneezed at both the suspect sample and yours. Weird how your sample matched, huh?
More or less. Several prominent advocates of circumcision, such as John Harvey Kellog, liked the idea that it would reduce masturbation (especially if the pain was remembered!).
The medical benefits are dubious, particularly as there are indications that any reduction in male infection rates are outweighed by increased rates of female infection rates. Either way condoms and HPV vaccinations are far, far, far, far more effective and appropriate.
Actually, SAAB isn't anywhere near the biggest industry in Sweden. Volvo (the swedish truck and heavy machinery part, not the ex-Ford now chinese car part) is the largest (by turnover) and Ericsson by stock value. SAAB was very small by comparison even before getting the treatment by GM.
Comparing with California is also a bit unfair as California would have the 9th highest GDP in a world were it a standalone country. The Swedish GDP is, for example, larger than that of North Carolina, Massachusets, Washington, in fact, larger than all but nine of the US states.
You're thinking of a Sweden that no longer exists (if it ever did). The last decade has seen Sweden handing over people to CIA rendition flights straight to torture, implementing laws they've been told to by the US, etc. The claim has been that there have been trade threats, but frankly I believe it's more about the ambitions of the politicians and civil servants as any trade action would drag the EU into it.
The current generation of Swedish politicians are corrupt cowards and they'll bend over to get a treat.
Sweden assisted the US in extrajudicial rendition and had police turn over two egyptian guys straight to the CIA for transport to torture. The Swedish minister of 'Justice' at the time, Thomas Bodström, who most likely knew about and ok'd the illegal rendition at the time coincidentally runs a law firm together with the representative of the women who brought the allegations.
Not to say that it's a conspiracy, but one can understand why there's a certain reluctance to trust Sweden. It's become a banana republic complicit in torture run by a frat club of criminals.
LTO tapes have a durability of about 300 whole passes. Hard disks and SSD's have several orders of magnitude better durability. Note that the poster is trying to use it as active storage, not as archive material.
And frankly, even for archive material I'd trust an offline stored disk for as long as I would a tape (a 30 year stored tape reader would suffer from the same mechanical issues that a disk might after such storage). Either way, you're better off using online maintained redundant storage than hoping anything stuck in a dump'n'forget archive will actually be readable once you want to read it.
Did most of it, could probably have done all of it. As far as I can recall I didn't actually encrypt, but if I had needed encryption the obvious solution would have been to, you know, encrypt. All of the claims are just obvious combinations of prior art or minor variations on things that have been done for decades.
Of course, one doesn't expect the employees of the PTO to actually have been out of their basement for a few decades. Or have access to anything but a library from the early seventies.
I did most of that in the ninetees with the CODA filesystem and netbooted clients. I have to agree with pointyhat, there's nothing new in the patent for anyone who's had any interest in implementing anything like it at some point in the last two decades..
Technically you don't even need a tracker anymore as magnet links are enough for distributed hash tables, and magnet links can easily be distributed anywhere, while DHT is a builtin component of the transfer network. TPB already operates that way and would work fine on Tor (as far as I know there could already be several such tor sites, can't say I've checked).
After that it'll probably go to i2p or turn over to the various f2f networks available. Sharing technology is already several generations ahead. The only question is really how far the pressure will go to push people towards an utterly unmonitorable network.
Of course, ending up with an evolved completely opaque network has advantages once We The People will be forced to start lining people up against the wall.
I saw the same thing with departments buying their own equipment, both in a 100k+ employee corporation and in university departments. The timeframe would have been approximately 1985-1995.
Yep, this is starting to reek of yes-men and greed, not necessarily a good foundation for great movies. Jackson has performed well this far so I'm hoping, but this is where I start tuning down my expectations.
Personally, I'd rank some things like income, job or assets as more important than working knowledge of exponentials for a loan applicant. But apparently it's not needed if the lender is an expert in algebra. Then they can put the loans in a pool, divide it into tranches according to formulas, sell them off to funds at various risk and return levels, insure it accoring to further formulas and profit is plenty.
Confusing mathematical models for reality can arguably be considered a large part of the whole recent financial mess. If you need to understand any form of advanced mathematics to qualify for a loan or understand exactly how it will affect you economically you're operating on far too thin margins or you need a bank that actually understands and can explain what they're offering.
Actually, it means you can't post personal stuff, as you'd find that employers would refrain from hiring people for everything from their political view through religion to sexual preferences, medical issues or even hobbies. In fact, a whole lot of things that _shouldn't_ be a problem are far more likely to be a problem than some bad behaviour.
Then one'd try and fail to rectify those issues by a vast and comprehensive anti-discrimination law(book), while internet asshats plead tourettes and keep trolling.
Banning anonymous speech mostly bans speech that shouldn't be banned.
If lack of facebook would start getting used for profiling you can be sure that people like Breivik would have a facebook account spouting exactly the same vapid, inane nothing that most 'active' facebookers do. Which is not a criticism against active facebookers, because they're saying exactly the appropriate thing in a public social situation where 'all your friends are', as the lowest common non-offensive denominator among any persons group of friends, relatives, aquaintances and coworkers is basically limited to cute pictures of cats and the like.
Hopefully, when facebook gets replaced, it will be with distributed systems that might actually serve some useful social purpose beyond exchanges of kitten pics.
There are certainly times when I want to be advertised to. Place an ad on a price comparison site in the form of your price and what you're selling and I'll certainly find that valuable. Or get your product reviewed in a magazine or by some consumer testing site. Even brand advertisements hold some interest when I'm shopping or researching things I'm in the market for.
However, advertising on facebook is akin to some asshat barging into a conversation I'm having with a friend in a bar and trying to sell something.
It doesn't matter if he knows everything about me, he can't sell me on anything but having the proprietor kicking him out for bothering the customers.
Consumer profiling isn't worth anywhere near its hype. Knowing someone's interest is useless without being able to target when they're interested in the specific thing, and there are already much better ways to target temporally by simply targetting interest sites, magazines, searches and consumer info/pricing sites.
With facebook, the one thing you can be pretty sure of is that the viewer isn't currently engaged in shopping.
The least painful way to resolve the problem would be to cut working time (perhaps linked to unemployment), effectively a division of labour rather than division of the fruits of labour. As long as competition is maintained (anything out of a fully automated self-replicating production chain will fall towards a price of zero) and work-per-person is scaled as redundancy increases wages and prices should continue in some form of equilibrium until we pass a singularity point.
Failing to divide labour as automation overtakes first most then all human capacity is likely to result in social collapse as the inequalities will result in eventual outright warfare.
Once the phone is big enough that I have to have a pocket for it (which usually means you need a jacket or shirt pocket as it'll break in jeans) I might as well take the biggest screen real estate/battery life that fits comfortably.
However, if someone could actually come up with a decent looking useful wearable phone (wrist or dogtag, for example, phone _only_, if that's what it takes), that's a device I would sometimes find useful as well. Because, as you say, 2.5x1 inch is annoying enough. Maybe they could stick a gsm chip in the Pebble.
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We're walking dead anyway, so the only question is really whether you're better off dead now or dead later. For some people the net experience is unlikely to be favourable (in case they are even capable of experiencing positives). They could conceivably be better off doing a lot of drugs, but sometimes there's just no point in delaying the inevitable.
Of course, since the purpose of the GM in the case of roundup resistant strains is to be able to bathe the GM plants in roundup, it could be argued that only the GM corn will give you roundup related cancer, the non-resistant corn would be dead long before you could eat it.
IPv6 doesn't force you to use the autoconfig addresses, so with strategic use of shortening the addresses and assigning easy ones they're not really that much more difficult to remember than v4 addresses if you really insist on avoiding dns.
You can get away with something like 2002:0ca5:01f3:1::1 which means you'll basically just have to remember your routing prefix and then whatever addresses you decide yourself.
Of course, unless one happens to be one of those people talking out of their ass, there's nothing preventing the combination of the activities. No break needed, problem solved.
Of course, that's assuming that the employee is the one who wants to visit the bathroom for a potty break. Once the employee starts using a potty at his desk for his potty breaks I'd wager visiting the bathroom will quickly become part of the actual job...
Unfortunately it doesn't seem that new, there's also the judge Chris Hensen who happened to be running a commercial anti-piracy together with the council for the plaintif while deciding that links to TPB should be blocked.
Frankly I suspect it's rare with members of the various parts of the judicial system in the field of IP who do not have significant financial interest in enforcing IP. Whether it's revolving door interest or more blatant abuses the field of government granted monopolies has always been lucrative for those on the inside, which probably makes the field very attractive for those with slightly lower ideals than what could be expected in a judiciary.
As with alcohol and narcotics, the result of banning is massive financing of the illicit industries. IE, the ban on cp is what actually creates a huge profit incentive where there may have been little to none before. Non-payers reduce that financial incentive.
The only sort of coherent argument for banning possession that I've heard is that the existence of the images themselves can in some cases conceivably be traumatic for those exploited, and thus can be regarded as some form of perpetuation of the abuse. Whether that is enough to make up for the general damage caused by the moral panic (teenagers criminalized for messaging eachother, pure fiction or art getting caught up in it, possibly creating stronger financial incentives for pure for-profit production, etc) is debatable.
Except, of course, the entity may very well be direct and up-front, provide you with a signed statement and then store your sample in secret without your permission anyway.
Once you've provided them with the sample you have no control over what they do with it in secret. ... and having read about some real quality DNA labs the chances are they'll put your sample in the same testtube they ran the suspect sample in without washing it between. Or the same lab tech sneezed at both the suspect sample and yours. Weird how your sample matched, huh?
More or less. Several prominent advocates of circumcision, such as John Harvey Kellog, liked the idea that it would reduce masturbation (especially if the pain was remembered!).
The medical benefits are dubious, particularly as there are indications that any reduction in male infection rates are outweighed by increased rates of female infection rates. Either way condoms and HPV vaccinations are far, far, far, far more effective and appropriate.
The irony of your comment is palpable considering that Hamas is a government...
Actually, SAAB isn't anywhere near the biggest industry in Sweden. Volvo (the swedish truck and heavy machinery part, not the ex-Ford now chinese car part) is the largest (by turnover) and Ericsson by stock value. SAAB was very small by comparison even before getting the treatment by GM.
Comparing with California is also a bit unfair as California would have the 9th highest GDP in a world were it a standalone country. The Swedish GDP is, for example, larger than that of North Carolina, Massachusets, Washington, in fact, larger than all but nine of the US states.
You're thinking of a Sweden that no longer exists (if it ever did). The last decade has seen Sweden handing over people to CIA rendition flights straight to torture, implementing laws they've been told to by the US, etc. The claim has been that there have been trade threats, but frankly I believe it's more about the ambitions of the politicians and civil servants as any trade action would drag the EU into it.
The current generation of Swedish politicians are corrupt cowards and they'll bend over to get a treat.
Sweden assisted the US in extrajudicial rendition and had police turn over two egyptian guys straight to the CIA for transport to torture. The Swedish minister of 'Justice' at the time, Thomas Bodström, who most likely knew about and ok'd the illegal rendition at the time coincidentally runs a law firm together with the representative of the women who brought the allegations.
Not to say that it's a conspiracy, but one can understand why there's a certain reluctance to trust Sweden. It's become a banana republic complicit in torture run by a frat club of criminals.
LTO tapes have a durability of about 300 whole passes. Hard disks and SSD's have several orders of magnitude better durability. Note that the poster is trying to use it as active storage, not as archive material.
And frankly, even for archive material I'd trust an offline stored disk for as long as I would a tape (a 30 year stored tape reader would suffer from the same mechanical issues that a disk might after such storage). Either way, you're better off using online maintained redundant storage than hoping anything stuck in a dump'n'forget archive will actually be readable once you want to read it.
Did most of it, could probably have done all of it. As far as I can recall I didn't actually encrypt, but if I had needed encryption the obvious solution would have been to, you know, encrypt. All of the claims are just obvious combinations of prior art or minor variations on things that have been done for decades.
Of course, one doesn't expect the employees of the PTO to actually have been out of their basement for a few decades. Or have access to anything but a library from the early seventies.
I did most of that in the ninetees with the CODA filesystem and netbooted clients. I have to agree with pointyhat, there's nothing new in the patent for anyone who's had any interest in implementing anything like it at some point in the last two decades..
Technically you don't even need a tracker anymore as magnet links are enough for distributed hash tables, and magnet links can easily be distributed anywhere, while DHT is a builtin component of the transfer network. TPB already operates that way and would work fine on Tor (as far as I know there could already be several such tor sites, can't say I've checked).
After that it'll probably go to i2p or turn over to the various f2f networks available. Sharing technology is already several generations ahead. The only question is really how far the pressure will go to push people towards an utterly unmonitorable network.
Of course, ending up with an evolved completely opaque network has advantages once We The People will be forced to start lining people up against the wall.
I saw the same thing with departments buying their own equipment, both in a 100k+ employee corporation and in university departments. The timeframe would have been approximately 1985-1995.
Yep, this is starting to reek of yes-men and greed, not necessarily a good foundation for great movies. Jackson has performed well this far so I'm hoping, but this is where I start tuning down my expectations.
Personally, I'd rank some things like income, job or assets as more important than working knowledge of exponentials for a loan applicant. But apparently it's not needed if the lender is an expert in algebra. Then they can put the loans in a pool, divide it into tranches according to formulas, sell them off to funds at various risk and return levels, insure it accoring to further formulas and profit is plenty.
Confusing mathematical models for reality can arguably be considered a large part of the whole recent financial mess. If you need to understand any form of advanced mathematics to qualify for a loan or understand exactly how it will affect you economically you're operating on far too thin margins or you need a bank that actually understands and can explain what they're offering.
Actually, it means you can't post personal stuff, as you'd find that employers would refrain from hiring people for everything from their political view through religion to sexual preferences, medical issues or even hobbies. In fact, a whole lot of things that _shouldn't_ be a problem are far more likely to be a problem than some bad behaviour.
Then one'd try and fail to rectify those issues by a vast and comprehensive anti-discrimination law(book), while internet asshats plead tourettes and keep trolling.
Banning anonymous speech mostly bans speech that shouldn't be banned.
If lack of facebook would start getting used for profiling you can be sure that people like Breivik would have a facebook account spouting exactly the same vapid, inane nothing that most 'active' facebookers do. Which is not a criticism against active facebookers, because they're saying exactly the appropriate thing in a public social situation where 'all your friends are', as the lowest common non-offensive denominator among any persons group of friends, relatives, aquaintances and coworkers is basically limited to cute pictures of cats and the like.
Hopefully, when facebook gets replaced, it will be with distributed systems that might actually serve some useful social purpose beyond exchanges of kitten pics.
There are certainly times when I want to be advertised to. Place an ad on a price comparison site in the form of your price and what you're selling and I'll certainly find that valuable. Or get your product reviewed in a magazine or by some consumer testing site. Even brand advertisements hold some interest when I'm shopping or researching things I'm in the market for.
However, advertising on facebook is akin to some asshat barging into a conversation I'm having with a friend in a bar and trying to sell something.
It doesn't matter if he knows everything about me, he can't sell me on anything but having the proprietor kicking him out for bothering the customers.
Consumer profiling isn't worth anywhere near its hype. Knowing someone's interest is useless without being able to target when they're interested in the specific thing, and there are already much better ways to target temporally by simply targetting interest sites, magazines, searches and consumer info/pricing sites.
With facebook, the one thing you can be pretty sure of is that the viewer isn't currently engaged in shopping.
The least painful way to resolve the problem would be to cut working time (perhaps linked to unemployment), effectively a division of labour rather than division of the fruits of labour. As long as competition is maintained (anything out of a fully automated self-replicating production chain will fall towards a price of zero) and work-per-person is scaled as redundancy increases wages and prices should continue in some form of equilibrium until we pass a singularity point.
Failing to divide labour as automation overtakes first most then all human capacity is likely to result in social collapse as the inequalities will result in eventual outright warfare.
Once the phone is big enough that I have to have a pocket for it (which usually means you need a jacket or shirt pocket as it'll break in jeans) I might as well take the biggest screen real estate/battery life that fits comfortably.
However, if someone could actually come up with a decent looking useful wearable phone (wrist or dogtag, for example, phone _only_, if that's what it takes), that's a device I would sometimes find useful as well. Because, as you say, 2.5x1 inch is annoying enough. Maybe they could stick a gsm chip in the Pebble.