Bill C-61 (separate from this proposed legislation) would make it illegal to use a proxy or any other means of obfusctation on the internet.
Your ISP will have a log of everything you've ever done, everything you've ever looked at, every post, and it will all be tied into your real life name and address forever.
Everything. And this law would force them to hand it to any police officer for any reason. Did you make a video of them tazing a Polish man? Well, if you don't want your browsing history on the first page of the Globe and Mail, you're going to destroy the only copy.
At home, I have a reasonable expectation of privacy. I don't expect that at work.
Not if we tell them it's an election-worthy issue. If all of us go to our local constituency offices during the break and tell them "this has to be defeated at any cost", then they'll go back to Ottawa in October with the message that this has to go.
Or, explain it this way: C60 / 61 + this proposal + ACTA = 18-35 demographic.
No, it's not. It's just copypasta, bland and generic; the verbal equivalent of iceberg lettuce on white bread.
The original poster commented that "Things like Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq War, this TSA bullshit and countless others simply do not happen in other countries."
That's clearly a false statement, but in calling it either false or stupid or even "incomprehensibly wrong" does not do anything to promote your point of view. We could use the UK CCTV network as a counterpoint to the TSA bullshit; the Iraq War can be held against countless examples, of which the first I can think of is China's occupation of Tibet and desire for Taiwan; Torture is used throughout human history to get information out of people, famously the WWII-era Japanese.
Now, when you're comparing the US - the great and shining beacon of freedom and justice - to the UK, China, and Japan before 1945, then you've got some serious issues with your quality control department.
But simply saying "you're so wrong it makes my head hurt" is just lazy copypasta hinging on religious rhetoric.
First of all, you will not be as successful in your career if you aren't socially adept. I'm an Engineer, and I spend about 50% of my time at work doing social things - meetings, proposals, talking to vendors, working with technicians, technologists, and tradespersons. Another 30% of my time is shopping - procuring parts, calling suppliers, etc. Most of the rest is inspecting drawings, and I'd say that at a max, 1% is technical work that I learned at school and I give that to co-op students.
Second, you will not be successful in your career if you do nothing but that all the time. A tagline I saw here was, "would you trust a brain surgeon that tinkered on animals for fun in his spare time?" There are very good suggestions in this thread, and you should start a "down tools" policy at home. NO CODING. Make dinner for yourself to start. Learn to play a musical instrument and join a community band (some offer free lessons to beginner players.). Take up a sport where you work with other people.
The good news is that, in DnD terms, CHA is a stat that can be faked and it gains by use. The more you fake it, the less you have to fake it because you'll actually get better at the social aspects of interpersonal relationships.
I am married and have two kids, for what that's worth.
I read that PDF - when was it written, 1955? Carnal knowledge? Sodomy? What?
I work on Naval vessels, and that requires a NATO security clearance. That's because - surprise - they don't want just anybody looking at the weapons systems. Some of that stuff is of vital importance to the military. THey want to keep it there and not give the bad guys leverage on me. The idea is that if I participate in one of those activities and Someone From Asia finds out, they might pop over to my house for a visit.
"Hey, Beardo. It sure would be a shame if your boss found out about your DUI... or that carnal knowledge. Can you copy document 1992FITH-559G for me? It's not even Classified. Anyway, see you tomorrow."
It seems antiquated at best, but there's SOME logic to what they're going for. I'm not saying it's current, but it's the Federal Government. They move S.L.O.
(The W. is in processing and will be sent after approval from the joint committee on W approval.)
This is the first things I thought of - mark it as something else.
"Fibre cable x21-45. Carries: CCT footage of parking lots A-F in Sector 7."
Make two physically separate redundant feeds. The other one is marked with something like "Library Interconnect".
Then if either line gets cut at some point, have a couple of guys in a van show up, act like a regular repair crew, and fix the line quickly. Trust me, I've worked as a Civil Engineering Assistant, and they don't care what's in the line, just that there's a line. If you hit something that isn't on the map, they are going to find it and trace it no matter how long it takes. It'll be in a pipe. You can run a 60Hz powerline into the pipe and read the path from the surface. Maybe it's fibre this time -- maybe it's the water main or black water, or WCS -- both at the same time. The point is if you don't file your plans the town will send a poor fucking co-op student out there to mark the fucking thing on the map.
Then - bam - your secret line is on the maps in the Town Hall marked as "unknown line".
You'll never get a flying car. At least not in our lifetimes.
It's not for technical reasons - the technology is there. You could, assuming enough capital, get a flying car (or, if you prefer, a drivable airplane).
The problem is with meatbag incompetence. Most people have trouble driving in two dimensions; tens of thousands of Americans die in car accidents. (I'm not looking this up; I think it's 85k, but it's late and I'm tired.) 3D would be beyond the abilities of most drivers.
Cheap, readily available airborne vehicles would be carnage. That's why we won't see it happen.
Electricity works perfectly well as a heat source.
I've saved thousands of dollars heating my house with forced air electric. I had an oil furnace that was replaced with a 20kW electric furnace. The upgrade was $5k; I've saved that much in the last 3 years. My electrical bill is $1500 a year, and bear in mind that's with all the TV, computer, appliance, dryer, etc use. It's for a single-family, detached building.
Ahah, you thought you were being funny, but I don't have a sense of humour.
You can get a bunch of batteries and connect them to a solar array. With the right equipment and the proper installation, your power bill can drop in half easily. (Batteries are essentially capacitors.)
Note that if you do this wrong, you can end up increasing your medical bills, so seek professional guidance.
This isn't perfectly accurate, but it's probably good enough. (No offence is meant.)
Power factor:
When you put electricity through an object, some part of it will get used up. If you have a simple load like a resistor, it will use it up linearly.
No loads in real life are linear. Let's take a motor. It's got lots of coils of wire to make it spin. The coils create a magnetic field. The creation of the magnetic field makes the current slow down, so the current starts to lag the voltage. Not all coils of wire are motors, and you don't actually require the coil to get an "inductive load".
On the other side, if you have a gap in the line, you end up slowing down the voltage. You generally get those with capacitors.
The amount of slowdown is called "phase shift". Don't ask why that happens: you'd probably get a Nobel prize if you managed to figure it out. Just accept that it does.
If you're really good, you can design a circuit where the slowed current and the slowed voltage can line up again.
Let's go back to the motor example. Big factories use lots of motors, and there's no reason for them to have capacitors to compensate. In comes the power company, who then has to deal with these strange phase differences on their lines. They charge more money based on the power factor. Low power factor fucks up their calculations, so they charge more for it. A hell of a lot more.
Calculating the power factor requires some vector analysis. Basically, you draw a bunch of lines at angles and then add them up. If you're running a power factor of.50, then 50% of the power you're using isn't being measured by the power company's basic meters. That pisses them off. One they find you, they'll make you pay for all that power.
That's what I always said was the problem in the first place: incandescent bulbs are perfect light sources.
1. In the winter, they heat your house. 2. In the summer when it's hot, you don't use them as much because it's light out. 3. When they die, there's some glass and some metal, both of which can be recycled. 4. They are cheap to make, cheap to buy, and don't use any exotic materials.
Okay, but everyone gets 3 tries, and you only have to roll 10 or better, and if anyone in your party is still conscious, then you're back up to full health at the end of the fight.
I have every DnD 4e PDF book. I downloaded all of them without paying for them.
I regularly run a DnD campaign, I'm a DCI member, I run RPGA events, etc. I do own the 4e PHB, but that's because I damaged one at a store and felt obligated to the store owner.
Here's why I pirated all those books, and why I am going to pirate the rest of them:
Because fuck you, Wizards of the Coast, fuck you. When you brought out 4e, it was supposed to be a self-contained series of books. There were three books - the DM guide, the Player's Handbook, and the Monster Manual. I pre-ordered them from my local store (significantly more than at Amazon, but I wanted to support my local store.) and was ready to try out the new system. I was ready to pitch all my dead tree 3.5 books to see what you'd learned from 3 and 3.5.
Then you wanted $15/month to access your online content.
Then you announced that there were more CORE books coming out. There's a release party every month now. Twelve books a year? Are you insane?
Then you killed the SRD.
You see me as a cash cow. Fuck you. I'm not paying you a thousand dollars to get all the books when the full set was supposed to be a hundred - or just fifty online.
If you had released all this content as one package and said, "this is fourth edition", I would have bought the set.
You're liars, you're fuckups, and I do not reward incompetence with my cash.
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Bill C-61 (separate from this proposed legislation) would make it illegal to use a proxy or any other means of obfusctation on the internet.
Your ISP will have a log of everything you've ever done, everything you've ever looked at, every post, and it will all be tied into your real life name and address forever.
Everything. And this law would force them to hand it to any police officer for any reason. Did you make a video of them tazing a Polish man? Well, if you don't want your browsing history on the first page of the Globe and Mail, you're going to destroy the only copy.
At home, I have a reasonable expectation of privacy. I don't expect that at work.
Not if we tell them it's an election-worthy issue. If all of us go to our local constituency offices during the break and tell them "this has to be defeated at any cost", then they'll go back to Ottawa in October with the message that this has to go.
Or, explain it this way:
C60 / 61 + this proposal + ACTA = 18-35 demographic.
No, it's not. It's just copypasta, bland and generic; the verbal equivalent of iceberg lettuce on white bread.
The original poster commented that "Things like Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq War, this TSA bullshit and countless others simply do not happen in other countries."
That's clearly a false statement, but in calling it either false or stupid or even "incomprehensibly wrong" does not do anything to promote your point of view. We could use the UK CCTV network as a counterpoint to the TSA bullshit; the Iraq War can be held against countless examples, of which the first I can think of is China's occupation of Tibet and desire for Taiwan; Torture is used throughout human history to get information out of people, famously the WWII-era Japanese.
Now, when you're comparing the US - the great and shining beacon of freedom and justice - to the UK, China, and Japan before 1945, then you've got some serious issues with your quality control department.
But simply saying "you're so wrong it makes my head hurt" is just lazy copypasta hinging on religious rhetoric.
Thanks, nobody uses a computer for drafting. I can't see any reason to keep a key THAT I USE EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR HOURS ON END.
I meant to shout that last bit.
Replacement KB: $10
Replacement touch screen: $700
Any other questions?
First of all, you will not be as successful in your career if you aren't socially adept. I'm an Engineer, and I spend about 50% of my time at work doing social things - meetings, proposals, talking to vendors, working with technicians, technologists, and tradespersons. Another 30% of my time is shopping - procuring parts, calling suppliers, etc. Most of the rest is inspecting drawings, and I'd say that at a max, 1% is technical work that I learned at school and I give that to co-op students.
Second, you will not be successful in your career if you do nothing but that all the time. A tagline I saw here was, "would you trust a brain surgeon that tinkered on animals for fun in his spare time?" There are very good suggestions in this thread, and you should start a "down tools" policy at home. NO CODING. Make dinner for yourself to start. Learn to play a musical instrument and join a community band (some offer free lessons to beginner players.). Take up a sport where you work with other people.
The good news is that, in DnD terms, CHA is a stat that can be faked and it gains by use. The more you fake it, the less you have to fake it because you'll actually get better at the social aspects of interpersonal relationships.
I am married and have two kids, for what that's worth.
I kept getting mine about 11 months after I bought a new car, so the timing was particularly good. I imagine that's the person that they're targeting.
No, I did not fall for the ads because I don't press buttons when some computer calls me.
That's why I open the door with my dick.
Some days, I only make it through by imagining that some women don't wash their hands.
Giggity.
Because lots of men don't wash their hands, and it grosses people out that they've doubled the chances of spreading swine flu.
That's still true. They don't much care what you've done, it what you'd do to keep it secret.
"Porn? Yeah, it's not just me keeping a $9billion a year industry afloat." doesn't give Them anything against you.
"OH MY GOD DON'T TELL MY WIFE!" will preclude your clearance PDQ.
I read that PDF - when was it written, 1955? Carnal knowledge? Sodomy? What?
I work on Naval vessels, and that requires a NATO security clearance. That's because - surprise - they don't want just anybody looking at the weapons systems. Some of that stuff is of vital importance to the military. THey want to keep it there and not give the bad guys leverage on me. The idea is that if I participate in one of those activities and Someone From Asia finds out, they might pop over to my house for a visit.
"Hey, Beardo. It sure would be a shame if your boss found out about your DUI... or that carnal knowledge. Can you copy document 1992FITH-559G for me? It's not even Classified. Anyway, see you tomorrow."
It seems antiquated at best, but there's SOME logic to what they're going for. I'm not saying it's current, but it's the Federal Government. They move S.L.O.
(The W. is in processing and will be sent after approval from the joint committee on W approval.)
This is the first things I thought of - mark it as something else.
"Fibre cable x21-45. Carries: CCT footage of parking lots A-F in Sector 7."
Make two physically separate redundant feeds. The other one is marked with something like "Library Interconnect".
Then if either line gets cut at some point, have a couple of guys in a van show up, act like a regular repair crew, and fix the line quickly. Trust me, I've worked as a Civil Engineering Assistant, and they don't care what's in the line, just that there's a line. If you hit something that isn't on the map, they are going to find it and trace it no matter how long it takes. It'll be in a pipe. You can run a 60Hz powerline into the pipe and read the path from the surface. Maybe it's fibre this time -- maybe it's the water main or black water, or WCS -- both at the same time. The point is if you don't file your plans the town will send a poor fucking co-op student out there to mark the fucking thing on the map.
Then - bam - your secret line is on the maps in the Town Hall marked as "unknown line".
C let me buy a house and a car.
I've saved thousands of lives with C.
I love C... and come to think of it, I've spent more time with it than I have with my wife.
Those exceptions are specifically legal in Canada.
These lawyers don't have a legal leg to stand on and will end up being heavily drubbed by a judge.
Thank you. I was going to say the same thing - Hulu doesn't work in Canada.
You'll never get a flying car. At least not in our lifetimes.
It's not for technical reasons - the technology is there. You could, assuming enough capital, get a flying car (or, if you prefer, a drivable airplane).
The problem is with meatbag incompetence. Most people have trouble driving in two dimensions; tens of thousands of Americans die in car accidents. (I'm not looking this up; I think it's 85k, but it's late and I'm tired.) 3D would be beyond the abilities of most drivers.
Cheap, readily available airborne vehicles would be carnage. That's why we won't see it happen.
Electricity works perfectly well as a heat source.
I've saved thousands of dollars heating my house with forced air electric. I had an oil furnace that was replaced with a 20kW electric furnace. The upgrade was $5k; I've saved that much in the last 3 years. My electrical bill is $1500 a year, and bear in mind that's with all the TV, computer, appliance, dryer, etc use. It's for a single-family, detached building.
Ahah, you thought you were being funny, but I don't have a sense of humour.
You can get a bunch of batteries and connect them to a solar array. With the right equipment and the proper installation, your power bill can drop in half easily. (Batteries are essentially capacitors.)
Note that if you do this wrong, you can end up increasing your medical bills, so seek professional guidance.
This isn't perfectly accurate, but it's probably good enough. (No offence is meant.)
Power factor:
When you put electricity through an object, some part of it will get used up. If you have a simple load like a resistor, it will use it up linearly.
No loads in real life are linear. Let's take a motor. It's got lots of coils of wire to make it spin. The coils create a magnetic field. The creation of the magnetic field makes the current slow down, so the current starts to lag the voltage. Not all coils of wire are motors, and you don't actually require the coil to get an "inductive load".
On the other side, if you have a gap in the line, you end up slowing down the voltage. You generally get those with capacitors.
The amount of slowdown is called "phase shift". Don't ask why that happens: you'd probably get a Nobel prize if you managed to figure it out. Just accept that it does.
If you're really good, you can design a circuit where the slowed current and the slowed voltage can line up again.
Let's go back to the motor example. Big factories use lots of motors, and there's no reason for them to have capacitors to compensate. In comes the power company, who then has to deal with these strange phase differences on their lines. They charge more money based on the power factor. Low power factor fucks up their calculations, so they charge more for it. A hell of a lot more.
Calculating the power factor requires some vector analysis. Basically, you draw a bunch of lines at angles and then add them up. If you're running a power factor of .50, then 50% of the power you're using isn't being measured by the power company's basic meters. That pisses them off. One they find you, they'll make you pay for all that power.
Does that help?
That's what I always said was the problem in the first place: incandescent bulbs are perfect light sources.
1. In the winter, they heat your house.
2. In the summer when it's hot, you don't use them as much because it's light out.
3. When they die, there's some glass and some metal, both of which can be recycled.
4. They are cheap to make, cheap to buy, and don't use any exotic materials.
What do I know? I'm just an EE.
Okay, but everyone gets 3 tries, and you only have to roll 10 or better, and if anyone in your party is still conscious, then you're back up to full health at the end of the fight.
No, really, that's how 4e works.
I have every DnD 4e PDF book. I downloaded all of them without paying for them.
I regularly run a DnD campaign, I'm a DCI member, I run RPGA events, etc. I do own the 4e PHB, but that's because I damaged one at a store and felt obligated to the store owner.
Here's why I pirated all those books, and why I am going to pirate the rest of them:
Because fuck you, Wizards of the Coast, fuck you. When you brought out 4e, it was supposed to be a self-contained series of books. There were three books - the DM guide, the Player's Handbook, and the Monster Manual. I pre-ordered them from my local store (significantly more than at Amazon, but I wanted to support my local store.) and was ready to try out the new system. I was ready to pitch all my dead tree 3.5 books to see what you'd learned from 3 and 3.5.
Then you wanted $15/month to access your online content.
Then you announced that there were more CORE books coming out. There's a release party every month now. Twelve books a year? Are you insane?
Then you killed the SRD.
You see me as a cash cow. Fuck you. I'm not paying you a thousand dollars to get all the books when the full set was supposed to be a hundred - or just fifty online.
If you had released all this content as one package and said, "this is fourth edition", I would have bought the set.
You're liars, you're fuckups, and I do not reward incompetence with my cash.
Nah, it's two different camps.
It's probably the same groups who believe in security by obscurity vs. security by approach.
Nope, I did get a first post while logged in once; there's no achievement for it.
I'm posting to se