Perhaps then it is also time to mandate DRM+CHIP+NFC style weapons that can only be fired by a particular soldier and not by others (thereby limiting the black market for weapons) and only fired at other identified combatants (thereby limiting civilan casualties). I heared Pie Sky Arms Corp is working on such guns...
More likely it would stimulate black markets with provision of hacks for weapons. In addition to weapons. Also in military situations why shouldn't the "enemy" attempt to identify as "civilian"/"friendly" or try to get your forces to fight each other. It's also going to render camouflage rather useless if every soldier has an IFF transponder they cannot switch off. The whole thing could make for an interesting plot of a sci-fi novel or be useful for a writers guide such as "Throwing Lead".
Really it doesn't make sense. You can have teachers and students members of the same sports and social clubs, teachers who are after hours coaches, teachers who are members of guides and scouts.
You also have situations students and teachers are close relatives. The way this is generally addressed is by people wearing different "hats" even having different "identities" depending on circumstances at the time. This is something most people are able to do without even being especially aware that they are doing this. But it's something "social media" (possibly deliberatly) dosn't appear to understand very well. Note that in the first two examples it is possible for a "student" to be senior to the "teacher" within the club. Even for the two roles to be reversed.
If you RTFA, you will see that it is not a huge problem -- a couple dozen "incidents," many of which seem to have been entirely online anyway (as opposed to a teacher trying to arrange for sex). On the other hand, teachers and students texting and talking on the phone seems to be a much bigger problem (more incidents and possibly more serious incidents), and the city has not addressed that in this update to the rules.
Thing is that inappropriate behavior between students and teachers has been going on long before such machines were invented. Even modern incidents do not always telephones and/or social media. This is an issue of human behavior, rather than technology. Even where nothing sexual is involved such "fraternization" can have fatal consequences.
If BART says they're going to turn off the cell service, just phone in a bomb threat saying that there's a bomb that will explode if the service is turned off.
Just about any terrorist can make a bomb threat. Even those incapable of making and delivering an actual bomb.
Only the pilot in command should have his hand on the stick; so linking the two together wouldn't have any of the problems you raise.
I suspect you mean "Pilot FLYING". The "Captain" (or "Senior Captain) is still "Pilot in Command" even if her or she spends the entire flight as "Pilot Not Flying"/"Pilot Monitoring"...
If I have a billion self replicating programs, and randomly change the object code in all of them every second, they all won't suddenly die, but I will see the entire population gradully LOSE information and thus FUNCTION. Beneficial mutations are possible, but will be far outweighed by the gradual increased disorder.
In terms of biological evolution loss can a beneficial mutation. e.g. animals which live in constantly dark caves losing sight, pigmentation, etc.
in case someone is wondering, apparently the.nz officials failed to serve the company mega upload with a notice - a notice that would have probably allowed their lawyers to fight. furthermore it seems the intent of the american officials was to sue the individuals who had assets in megaupload for conspiracy instead of suing megaupload.
Effectivly this appears to be a creative way of "piercing the corporate veil". I wonder if others, in both the US and NZ, will attempt this. If nothing else it appears to be a very effective technique of "corporate assassination"
These companies serve as an example how US government can overthrow newly elected governments because some US corporation requests it.
Also examples of how this kind of thing isn't "new". The US Government acting on behalf of supposedly "private business" goes back at least as far as the late 19th century.
The US government very likely didn't follow procedure, as we see here. Do you not see how dangerous this is to allow them to do as they please? Whatever you think of Kim and Megaupload, think of yourself and others first. If they can do this to him, they can do this to anyone. They can ruin anyone's business. That's not good.
In practice they are likely to be highly selective in doing this kind of thing. It's not like we will see Microsoft, Sony or even the MPAA "taken out" next week.
Agreed, but this is where the cause becomes important, because if it's natural (and not caused by CO2) then reducing our output of CO2 is not going to lessen the change, so spending any money doing that is counter-productive (as opposed to, for instance, raising the standard of living in developing countries so they reduce their birth rate and eventual resource usage, which is going to be beneficial regardless of the causes of climate change).
It gets even dafter when you consider that a "wind farm" can have a higher "carbon footprint" than a coal fired power station. When measured per unit of electricity fed into the grid. Once all factors, including manfacture, transport, maintainance, backup generating capacity, etc are considered. If the aim were to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation then building lots of nuclear power stations would be the simplist and most obvuious approach. Then there's the whole "carbon trading" nonsense.
If the climate was going to change in a way that was bad for humans, but for natural reasons. We would still need to adapt to the change, or lessen it if possible. If the climate changes because we changed it, we still need to adapt to the change or lessen it if possible.
The interesting thing is that history and archeology tells us that cooling (especially the end of a warm period) tends to be the "bad for humans" climate change.
As I said to someone else, back when the Lite-Brite Mooninites panicked the Boston Police, the first rule of making a bomb, is to not make it look like a bomb.
That's more a rule for "bomb deployment". When it comes to making one a good first rule is "Find some fool to do it":)
If I was a hiring manager, I would actually hire the employee who used their real name and had flame wars, possible hate speech or racist posts--as long as it wasn't illegal content. The reason would be that they clearly had nothing to hide, in comparison to the other job candidate who may have done the same thing but hides behind a pseudonym. I would just, as part of the job orientation, remind all hired employees that if they post online while at work, they represent the company, and don't mention the company when posting outside of working hours.
Even the concept of a "real name" is rather less simple than it first appears. Plenty of people use different names in different contexts, Some people are virtually never known by the name on their birth certificate.
These are the same people who bombard the FCC the moment Janet Jackson flashes a boob but have no problem with hours of people being shot to death on TV.
Or a sport so dangerous the players need to wear what amounts to body armour with serious injuries not being exactly uncommon even then...
I wonder if there's any (rational) basis for exempting games with an "EC rating". Especially if there are examples of such games which are "violent" in some way or other...
Not correct, Zaentz really owns "Hobbit" US trademark, not only one but in multiple categories (besides the usual stuff also including rare things like "Play houses", "Storage sheds").
Trademarks are also ment to be specific to geography as well as type of business. The US and UK are different countrys. (Regardless of what Barack and Dave might like to think.) Maybe whoever owns the trademark on movies in Monaco should sue Hollywood...
Okay, I understand the difference. But deduplication -- as I already explained -- does not address the real issue, if by "deduplication" you mean they simply remove files with identical CRCs or a similar method. Because I could put my movie in a.zip file, with a text file included, and thus the CRC would no longer be useful for that purpose.
Also can you ensure that it is impossible two non identical files (of the same size) to have the same CRC? It's certainly possible have the same "content" in two files which would fail any kind of mechanical equality test.
During the time the Nazis were in power, you had to be a member of the Nazi party just to have a job, so technically every working german at the time was a Nazi. So it makes it confusing to disentangle the real Nazis who did all the horrible things and the ones that just said they were 'Nazi' just to keep a job.
Much the same happens anywhere you have a totalitarian political system. e.g. in Iraq with the Ba'ath Party.
Perhaps languages are different in this regard, although I have to admit I personally learned more about foreign languages than from any other book after I picked up a comparative grammar of six languages designed for language instruction that was published in the 1860s.
If anything languages are far more likely to have changed in 150 years than mathematics.
The current trend is the opposite, make voting harder, close voting stations. In minority communities, in the name of stopping the nearly nonexistant problem of individual voter fraud creating ID requorements which have a small impact on middle class voters but create complex and expensive barriers to the poor who can't afford the $25 to get an ID from motor vehicles.
Isn't this a variation on the theme of "gerrymandering". There's also the issue of using what is in effect a "machine operator's permit" for something which has nothing to do with operating said machine.
My house wasn't designed to float on a cushion of air, but I'm certain that if you filled the crawlspace with 0.7 psi of air, it would float by the buoyancy against the underside of the floors
More likely you'd break your house. Since by doing so you've completly changed how forces are acting on the structure. Instead of an air cushion it would be better off to apply thrust only to the parts of the house usually in contact with the foundations.
If I were designing the house to float, I'd give it a flat bottom.
With a slab foundation and designed to distribute its weight evenly over the base.
Seems like it would require an awful lot of force just to float a small house.
The other problems include: Lifting it without doing damage to the structure/contents Needing to accuratly land the house back on its foundations. How well it copes with vertical movement of the ground. What happens in the case of ground liquifaction.
Seriously folks, you have to Google them.
One basic summary of them is that you can issue an ASBO to stop someone from doing something *that isn't a crime*, if they then break the order, then *that is a crime* and you can arrest and jail them.
The irony here is that they are apparently being applied to try and encourage "anti-social behaviour".
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Perhaps then it is also time to mandate DRM+CHIP+NFC style weapons that can only be fired by a particular soldier and not by others (thereby limiting the black market for weapons) and only fired at other identified combatants (thereby limiting civilan casualties). I heared Pie Sky Arms Corp is working on such guns...
More likely it would stimulate black markets with provision of hacks for weapons. In addition to weapons.
Also in military situations why shouldn't the "enemy" attempt to identify as "civilian"/"friendly" or try to get your forces to fight each other. It's also going to render camouflage rather useless if every soldier has an IFF transponder they cannot switch off.
The whole thing could make for an interesting plot of a sci-fi novel or be useful for a writers guide such as "Throwing Lead".
Really it doesn't make sense. You can have teachers and students members of the same sports and social clubs, teachers who are after hours coaches, teachers who are members of guides and scouts.
You also have situations students and teachers are close relatives. The way this is generally addressed is by people wearing different "hats" even having different "identities" depending on circumstances at the time. This is something most people are able to do without even being especially aware that they are doing this. But it's something "social media" (possibly deliberatly) dosn't appear to understand very well.
Note that in the first two examples it is possible for a "student" to be senior to the "teacher" within the club. Even for the two roles to be reversed.
If you RTFA, you will see that it is not a huge problem -- a couple dozen "incidents," many of which seem to have been entirely online anyway (as opposed to a teacher trying to arrange for sex). On the other hand, teachers and students texting and talking on the phone seems to be a much bigger problem (more incidents and possibly more serious incidents), and the city has not addressed that in this update to the rules.
Thing is that inappropriate behavior between students and teachers has been going on long before such machines were invented. Even modern incidents do not always telephones and/or social media.
This is an issue of human behavior, rather than technology. Even where nothing sexual is involved such "fraternization" can have fatal consequences.
If BART says they're going to turn off the cell service, just phone in a bomb threat saying that there's a bomb that will explode if the service is turned off.
Just about any terrorist can make a bomb threat. Even those incapable of making and delivering an actual bomb.
Only the pilot in command should have his hand on the stick; so linking the two together wouldn't have any of the problems you raise.
I suspect you mean "Pilot FLYING". The "Captain" (or "Senior Captain) is still "Pilot in Command" even if her or she spends the entire flight as "Pilot Not Flying"/"Pilot Monitoring"...
If I have a billion self replicating programs, and randomly change the object code in all of them every second, they all won't suddenly die, but I will see the entire population gradully LOSE information and thus FUNCTION. Beneficial mutations are possible, but will be far outweighed by the gradual increased disorder .
In terms of biological evolution loss can a beneficial mutation. e.g. animals which live in constantly dark caves losing sight, pigmentation, etc.
in case someone is wondering, apparently the .nz officials failed to serve the company mega upload with a notice - a notice that would have probably allowed their lawyers to fight. furthermore it seems the intent of the american officials was to sue the individuals who had assets in megaupload for conspiracy instead of suing megaupload.
Effectivly this appears to be a creative way of "piercing the corporate veil". I wonder if others, in both the US and NZ, will attempt this.
If nothing else it appears to be a very effective technique of "corporate assassination"
Two companies popped into my head: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
Not that these are the only possible examples.
These companies serve as an example how US government can overthrow newly elected governments because some US corporation requests it.
Also examples of how this kind of thing isn't "new". The US Government acting on behalf of supposedly "private business" goes back at least as far as the late 19th century.
The US government very likely didn't follow procedure, as we see here. Do you not see how dangerous this is to allow them to do as they please? Whatever you think of Kim and Megaupload, think of yourself and others first. If they can do this to him, they can do this to anyone. They can ruin anyone's business. That's not good.
In practice they are likely to be highly selective in doing this kind of thing. It's not like we will see Microsoft, Sony or even the MPAA "taken out" next week.
Remember who was in charge when this happened and vote accordingly next election.
Do the RIAA and MPAA even have elections?
Plenty of those affected will have no right to vote in either the USA or New Zealand in any case.
Agreed, but this is where the cause becomes important, because if it's natural (and not caused by CO2) then reducing our output of CO2 is not going to lessen the change, so spending any money doing that is counter-productive (as opposed to, for instance, raising the standard of living in developing countries so they reduce their birth rate and eventual resource usage, which is going to be beneficial regardless of the causes of climate change).
It gets even dafter when you consider that a "wind farm" can have a higher "carbon footprint" than a coal fired power station. When measured per unit of electricity fed into the grid. Once all factors, including manfacture, transport, maintainance, backup generating capacity, etc are considered. If the aim were to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation then building lots of nuclear power stations would be the simplist and most obvuious approach.
Then there's the whole "carbon trading" nonsense.
If the climate was going to change in a way that was bad for humans, but for natural reasons. We would still need to adapt to the change, or lessen it if possible. If the climate changes because we changed it, we still need to adapt to the change or lessen it if possible.
The interesting thing is that history and archeology tells us that cooling (especially the end of a warm period) tends to be the "bad for humans" climate change.
As I said to someone else, back when the Lite-Brite Mooninites panicked the Boston Police, the first rule of making a bomb, is to not make it look like a bomb.
:)
That's more a rule for "bomb deployment". When it comes to making one a good first rule is "Find some fool to do it"
If I was a hiring manager, I would actually hire the employee who used their real name and had flame wars, possible hate speech or racist posts--as long as it wasn't illegal content. The reason would be that they clearly had nothing to hide, in comparison to the other job candidate who may have done the same thing but hides behind a pseudonym. I would just, as part of the job orientation, remind all hired employees that if they post online while at work, they represent the company, and don't mention the company when posting outside of working hours.
Even the concept of a "real name" is rather less simple than it first appears. Plenty of people use different names in different contexts, Some people are virtually never known by the name on their birth certificate.
These are the same people who bombard the FCC the moment Janet Jackson flashes a boob but have no problem with hours of people being shot to death on TV.
Or a sport so dangerous the players need to wear what amounts to body armour with serious injuries not being exactly uncommon even then...
I wonder if there's any (rational) basis for exempting games with an "EC rating". Especially if there are examples of such games which are "violent" in some way or other...
Not correct, Zaentz really owns "Hobbit" US trademark, not only one but in multiple categories (besides the usual stuff also including rare things like "Play houses", "Storage sheds").
Trademarks are also ment to be specific to geography as well as type of business. The US and UK are different countrys. (Regardless of what Barack and Dave might like to think.)
Maybe whoever owns the trademark on movies in Monaco should sue Hollywood...
Okay, I understand the difference. But deduplication -- as I already explained -- does not address the real issue, if by "deduplication" you mean they simply remove files with identical CRCs or a similar method. Because I could put my movie in a .zip file, with a text file included, and thus the CRC would no longer be useful for that purpose.
Also can you ensure that it is impossible two non identical files (of the same size) to have the same CRC?
It's certainly possible have the same "content" in two files which would fail any kind of mechanical equality test.
During the time the Nazis were in power, you had to be a member of the Nazi party just to have a job, so technically every working german at the time was a Nazi. So it makes it confusing to disentangle the real Nazis who did all the horrible things and the ones that just said they were 'Nazi' just to keep a job.
Much the same happens anywhere you have a totalitarian political system. e.g. in Iraq with the Ba'ath Party.
Perhaps languages are different in this regard, although I have to admit I personally learned more about foreign languages than from any other book after I picked up a comparative grammar of six languages designed for language instruction that was published in the 1860s.
If anything languages are far more likely to have changed in 150 years than mathematics.
The current trend is the opposite, make voting harder, close voting stations. In minority communities, in the name of stopping the nearly nonexistant problem of individual voter fraud creating ID requorements which have a small impact on middle class voters but create complex and expensive barriers to the poor who can't afford the $25 to get an ID from motor vehicles.
Isn't this a variation on the theme of "gerrymandering".
There's also the issue of using what is in effect a "machine operator's permit" for something which has nothing to do with operating said machine.
My house wasn't designed to float on a cushion of air, but I'm certain that if you filled the crawlspace with 0.7 psi of air, it would float by the buoyancy against the underside of the floors
More likely you'd break your house. Since by doing so you've completly changed how forces are acting on the structure. Instead of an air cushion it would be better off to apply thrust only to the parts of the house usually in contact with the foundations.
If I were designing the house to float, I'd give it a flat bottom.
With a slab foundation and designed to distribute its weight evenly over the base.
To move a large amount of air requires a large compressor. This is usually powered by electricity. Power often fails in earthquakes
.....or does the system come with an instant start generator.
Hope they remembered to add flexible connectors for all the utilities when they fitted this system.
Even an "instant start" generator is going to take several seconds to start. So you are going to need a big UPS.
Seems like it would require an awful lot of force just to float a small house.
The other problems include:
Lifting it without doing damage to the structure/contents
Needing to accuratly land the house back on its foundations.
How well it copes with vertical movement of the ground.
What happens in the case of ground liquifaction.
Seriously folks, you have to Google them.
One basic summary of them is that you can issue an ASBO to stop someone from doing something *that isn't a crime*, if they then break the order, then *that is a crime* and you can arrest and jail them.
The irony here is that they are apparently being applied to try and encourage "anti-social behaviour".