Pet peeve of mine, a TAX CUT is a LOWERING of taxes. A decrease in the rate of increase IS NOT A CUT. If taxes go up 3 percent instead of 5, IT IS STILL AN INCREASE.
I disagree on sellers liable for selling to uninfomed buyers. How exactly am I supposed to tell if someone is stupid or malicious? If I lie or mislead about what a product can do or what it contains, or how it works, I'm ok with that. Put how am I supposed to guess that someone will buy my toaster and fill it with napalm and ignite it in a movie theater?
For dietary supplements, I would say treat them as drugs in that the drug company that makes them must prove them safe, not that the government has to prove them dangerous, as is now the case.
Government people have the right to look at your data. But, after one year, the person whose privacy was violated needs to be informed of who looked at your data, from what government agency, and why. Lawsuits are permitted for abuse.
Inventions, knowledge, and data developed with tax payer money should be available to the tax payer without having to pay a company again. Will need restrictions for national security and privacy.
No more patent trolls, patent owners must actually make what they patent.
No more submarine patents, date of effectiveness should be that of original filing.
Patent submitters must pay proportional to the number of claims that they make.
No more patenting mathamatical functions like exclusive or.
Patent holders may lose patents if they fail to disclose prior art.
I guess the folks that defined dark as the new light (How many Microsoft engineers dues it take to change a light bulb? None: they just define dark as the new standard) are happy working at Apple now.
I myself would rather people not use this old stuff as all it does is jam the airways.
I'd have a good laugh to think that these blokes are surveying the environment to count the "illegal" access points, and they count more "access points" then there are people from all the SSID's that fakeap is sending out.
Years ago Dilbert had a strip where they outsourced to country A, who outsourced to company B, and so forth until it was eventually outsourced back to themselves. Its finally happened:-)
Hm, how about practice on space junk now in orbit around earth? Less distance means you need less precise aim, and you start making a dent in all the junk in orbit. In addition you don't have to wait until there is something in range to practice.
The device works by replaying your voice with a slight delay. I envision a counter device that will play white noise, or maybe eventually even record your own voice and cancel out the remote delayed voice so that you never hear it.
By the same argument you could say that all the geosynchronous satellites are running in tandem with each other, so they must be spying on each other. While it is possible, I'd say a more likely reason is that whatever the two of them are doing up there, they are observing the same areas around the world.
The article I read, which was many years ago, long before the internet, said that the mask was normally clear, but turned opaque when it sensed a nuclear flash, and then turned back when it was over. The test subject said it was so fast he didn't even know that it worked at first. Therefore the user would have normal vision, but all the high power flashes would be blocked.
If I remember correctly, air force pilots used to have special googles that could turn opaque very rapidly to protect the pilots' eyes from optical damage from nuclear blasts. I wonder if such technology could be adapted to protect against such light dazzler devices.
Hm, I sense an aftermarket for infrared filters.
I also wonder how long before hackers start leaving infrared transmitters all over the place to annoy anyone with an iphone.
If there is or may be a problem, then develop a standard for both the electronic device maker and the navigation system maker can work with.
I'm sick and tired of airplane makers saying that everyone must shut down all possible electronic devices or the airplane will crash into the ocean
Does that include pace makers?
How about artificial limbs that are electrically powered?
Navigation systems should be defined to work with a given amount of noise on various frequency bands.
It is not reasonable in today's world to design a system that assumes that the only RF transmitter for 100 miles around is the proper transmitter.
Think of what a terrorist could do if they find such a vulnerability that can let them remotely down an airplane.
Conversely, electronic device makers must start shielding their equipment and start certifying that they meet this same standard.
I've seen too many devices that have the EMF of a telsa coil and wipe out any other wireless device within 30 feet.
One device was not even a wireless device. It was a street light that ran on 2.4Ghz, and wiped out WiFi whenever it was on.
I think it would be interesting to compare brain scans of different factions of computer programmers. Any number of programmer religious wars: vi vs emacs, Unix vs Windows, GUI vs CLI, indenting with blanks vs tabs, C vs Perl vs Ruby vs.Net vs Python vs JavaScript.
At an old job I did a number of upgrades to office equipment. Some of the office equipment was so old I took parts I retired from my home system and put them into the work ones.
I've added memory, replaced hard drives, added a NIC so I could do testing on an isolated segment that I controlled, even added an internal fan to help cool off a system that was always overheating.
I rescued systems that were to be tossed because "they are too old to run the operating system" (they thought Linux was an application) for test DNS, NTP and other servers.
Sometimes its just easier to bring stuff in from home than trying to fight through the procurement process.
Wow, in my college and post college days I used that protocol in so many places and so many ways I can't even begin to count.
That was a very conservative protocol that was able to go through almost anything.
One time I had it go from a portable computer over a modem connection to an Equinox data switch to an AT&T 3b5 Unix, to a cu back to the Equinox (to change the speed from 300 baud to 9600 baud) to an IBM 7171 protocol converter to an IBM 4361.
And it could actually transfer files.
Another time I had to stress test a DECNET terminal simulator on a Sun (the old version would fail in the middle of the day on the busiest of days)
So I used kermit to connect to host1, then to host 2, back to host 1, back to host 2, I think something like 40 times.
Then I did a file transfer through all the connections.
It worked.
A few months ago on Nova there was a segment on using a magnetic non neutonian fluid in a shock absorber. It was paired with acceleration sensors. The idea
was when an em field was off, the fluid had a low viscosity and allowed the shock to move freely. When you turned the EM field on, the viscosity increased, thus
making the shocks stiffer.
My question is, if this person was a suicide bomber, why trigger remotely? Seems to me there would be fewer things to go wrong if you have a deadman switch in your hand.
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Pet peeve of mine, a TAX CUT is a LOWERING of taxes. A decrease in the rate of increase IS NOT A CUT. If taxes go up 3 percent instead of 5, IT IS STILL AN INCREASE.
I disagree on sellers liable for selling to uninfomed buyers. How exactly am I supposed to tell if someone is stupid or malicious? If I lie or mislead about what a product can do or what it contains, or how it works, I'm ok with that. Put how am I supposed to guess that someone will buy my toaster and fill it with napalm and ignite it in a movie theater?
For dietary supplements, I would say treat them as drugs in that the drug company that makes them must prove them safe, not that the government has to prove them dangerous, as is now the case.
Government people have the right to look at your data. But, after one year, the person whose privacy was violated needs to be informed of who looked at your data, from what government agency, and why. Lawsuits are permitted for abuse.
Inventions, knowledge, and data developed with tax payer money should be available to the tax payer without having to pay a company again. Will need restrictions for national security and privacy.
No more patent trolls, patent owners must actually make what they patent.
No more submarine patents, date of effectiveness should be that of original filing.
Patent submitters must pay proportional to the number of claims that they make.
No more patenting mathamatical functions like exclusive or.
Patent holders may lose patents if they fail to disclose prior art.
I guess the folks that defined dark as the new light (How many Microsoft engineers dues it take to change a light bulb? None: they just define dark as the new standard) are happy working at Apple now.
I myself would rather people not use this old stuff as all it does is jam the airways. I'd have a good laugh to think that these blokes are surveying the environment to count the "illegal" access points, and they count more "access points" then there are people from all the SSID's that fakeap is sending out.
What we need are a few people to run the 'fakeap' program to create thousands of "access points" for them to chase :-).
Years ago Dilbert had a strip where they outsourced to country A, who outsourced to company B, and so forth until it was eventually outsourced back to themselves. Its finally happened :-)
Hm, how about practice on space junk now in orbit around earth? Less distance means you need less precise aim, and you start making a dent in all the junk in orbit. In addition you don't have to wait until there is something in range to practice.
Like the recent faster than light that turned out to be a loose cable, lets see if others can duplicate those results.
The device works by replaying your voice with a slight delay. I envision a counter device that will play white noise, or maybe eventually even record your own voice and cancel out the remote delayed voice so that you never hear it.
By the same argument you could say that all the geosynchronous satellites are running in tandem with each other, so they must be spying on each other. While it is possible, I'd say a more likely reason is that whatever the two of them are doing up there, they are observing the same areas around the world.
The article I read, which was many years ago, long before the internet, said that the mask was normally clear, but turned opaque when it sensed a nuclear flash, and then turned back when it was over. The test subject said it was so fast he didn't even know that it worked at first. Therefore the user would have normal vision, but all the high power flashes would be blocked.
If I remember correctly, air force pilots used to have special googles that could turn opaque very rapidly to protect the pilots' eyes from optical damage from nuclear blasts. I wonder if such technology could be adapted to protect against such light dazzler devices.
Its the perfect setup for a Star Wars joke.
Hm, I sense an aftermarket for infrared filters. I also wonder how long before hackers start leaving infrared transmitters all over the place to annoy anyone with an iphone.
If there is or may be a problem, then develop a standard for both the electronic device maker and the navigation system maker can work with. I'm sick and tired of airplane makers saying that everyone must shut down all possible electronic devices or the airplane will crash into the ocean Does that include pace makers? How about artificial limbs that are electrically powered? Navigation systems should be defined to work with a given amount of noise on various frequency bands. It is not reasonable in today's world to design a system that assumes that the only RF transmitter for 100 miles around is the proper transmitter. Think of what a terrorist could do if they find such a vulnerability that can let them remotely down an airplane.
Conversely, electronic device makers must start shielding their equipment and start certifying that they meet this same standard. I've seen too many devices that have the EMF of a telsa coil and wipe out any other wireless device within 30 feet. One device was not even a wireless device. It was a street light that ran on 2.4Ghz, and wiped out WiFi whenever it was on.
I think it would be interesting to compare brain scans of different factions of computer programmers. Any number of programmer religious wars: vi vs emacs, Unix vs Windows, GUI vs CLI, indenting with blanks vs tabs, C vs Perl vs Ruby vs .Net vs Python vs JavaScript.
Sounds like the Cone of Silence from Get Smart. Lets just hope it works better :-)
At an old job I did a number of upgrades to office equipment. Some of the office equipment was so old I took parts I retired from my home system and put them into the work ones. I've added memory, replaced hard drives, added a NIC so I could do testing on an isolated segment that I controlled, even added an internal fan to help cool off a system that was always overheating. I rescued systems that were to be tossed because "they are too old to run the operating system" (they thought Linux was an application) for test DNS, NTP and other servers. Sometimes its just easier to bring stuff in from home than trying to fight through the procurement process.
Wow, in my college and post college days I used that protocol in so many places and so many ways I can't even begin to count. That was a very conservative protocol that was able to go through almost anything. One time I had it go from a portable computer over a modem connection to an Equinox data switch to an AT&T 3b5 Unix, to a cu back to the Equinox (to change the speed from 300 baud to 9600 baud) to an IBM 7171 protocol converter to an IBM 4361. And it could actually transfer files. Another time I had to stress test a DECNET terminal simulator on a Sun (the old version would fail in the middle of the day on the busiest of days) So I used kermit to connect to host1, then to host 2, back to host 1, back to host 2, I think something like 40 times. Then I did a file transfer through all the connections. It worked.
A few months ago on Nova there was a segment on using a magnetic non neutonian fluid in a shock absorber. It was paired with acceleration sensors. The idea was when an em field was off, the fluid had a low viscosity and allowed the shock to move freely. When you turned the EM field on, the viscosity increased, thus making the shocks stiffer.
My question is, if this person was a suicide bomber, why trigger remotely? Seems to me there would be fewer things to go wrong if you have a deadman switch in your hand.