In the larger context, it has achieved one of the highest murder rates and the highest saturation of arms in any Western nation...
Gun related violence in the US is actually extremely rare outside of (mostly) poor urban neighborhoods. I have never met anyone who has even met anyone who has even witnessed any sort of gun related violence. I live in a major metropolitan area and know plenty of people who own guns, also. Don't let Hollywood fool you, there aren't high speed car chases with guns ablazing all the time in the US.
[In Canada] Of course, our mainstream media isn't in bed with the IP-based conglomerates to the same degree as yours are. Um, the media is an IP-based conglomerate.
Get different socks for different occasions and color code them. Keep the colors as different as possible and phase the summer/winter socks into storage as the seasons change. I'm down to four sock types (different colors, different shapes, one set always in storage). Pairing is a breeze.
...why not build satellites with standard self-destruct for cases like this? First, a self destruct mechanism would add mass to the satellite, which takes mass away from other gear you'd like to add.
Secondly, if your satellite is not functioning, like this one, how would you activate the self-destruct mechanism?*
A possible third is security. What if "the enemy" were to get a hold of the self-destruct codes for all of our satellites? Shooting down a satellite with a missile is a much more costly and traceable event than sending out a radio signal and quietly killing them as they pass overhead.
*I can think of ways to do this, with pressure and temperature sensors to detect a decayed orbit or an entirely redundant receiver and power supply, but you're really adding mass here. For the extra mass to launch or the reduced capability of the satellite, it may be cheaper to just shoot down birds that don't work.
The prohibition on ex-post facto laws means something cannot be retroactively made illegal; it can, however, be made retroactively legal. That interpretation doesn't come directly from the constitution, though. It comes from Calder v. Bull. The findings of past Supreme Courts can be overturned. I don't see how restricting the definition of ex post facto to criminal cases and claiming that it only applies to punishing past actions (not granting retroactive immunity) makes sense. If the consequences of an action can be retroactively changed then nobody can predict the legal consequences of an action. That doesn't lead to any sort of stable society.
No, this is a completely legitimate response that should be brought up every time a (n abusive) monopoly is held up as the end result of, or a typical manifestation of, capitalism. All too often predatory or government-mandated monopolies are used as an example of why capitalism is an undesirable system. The premise (that monopolies exist in a healthy capitalistic system) is false and continually repeating it just discourages rational thought about different economic systems. The same thing continually happens when the Soviet Union is held up as a functional socialist system. In fact, the Soviet Union example has led to the term "socialism" being a pejorative in the United States, even though the US is very socialist in many ways (eg granting unnatural monopolies).
I'm surprised that ScentCone brought this up and then seemed to forget it, but a shotgun loaded with slugs is essentially a rifle. You have a single, large, heavy "bullet" traveling relatively slowly (compared to a high power rifle). The range and accuracy are low compared to a rifle, but it allows police to carry a single long barreled weapon that can be used for multiple situations (even for "non lethal" uses). With the large "caliber" and high mass (and low velocity) of a 12 gauge slug, you would kill the tiger without having to worry about overpenetration. Though if you missed, bystanders would get hurt.
Why? I mean... isn't that all you need? Or do people do things with IM that I don't do?
I'm not really into IM, but I imagine he's looking for the ability to have one address that anyone can IM him at, instead of needing an AIM address, an MSN address, a GTalk address, an ICQ address, and so on. That way anyone, on any IM network, can reach any other person. By using one protocol, XMPP in this case, all of the networks can be merged into one.
How much do you wanna bet that NSI is more than happy to sell the domain to the different IP? Better than that, when you search for it they begin advertising it as for sale. They're perfectly willing to sell it to anybody, as long as they're the ones selling it.
So you are saying that, unless something is offerred for sale at some arbitrarily "fair" price, it's a market failure? These "compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan" are not available through legal (they claim) channels, though, at any price. The only way to obtain a product that, as the industry describes it, is a music fan's dream is through the black market. That sounds like a market failure to me.
...the writer/publisher make out because they're paid even though they don't have to produce any physical books.
If there are no physical books, why would you need a publisher? Pay an editor a one-time fee to edit and a designer (or whatever the equivalent is) to lay out the text into ebook form (though the author could do this himself). Screw giving the rights to a publisher if you'll not be printing real books.
The UK Government already have this covered, by making it a criminal offence not to hand over your keys. Don't worry, I'm sure the US will catch up soon, as obviously only criminals have something to hide...
That actually sounds like a reasonable solution. As long as they don't require you to give them your keys from the very beginning (before you've been accused of a crime), taking them during legal process seems fair. If you're keeping secrets from the court during your own trial, you'd better be hiding your guilt.
If they want a database of all of the citizenry's keys, so they can sift through email at their leisure, that's too far. Getting keys during a trial is just as reasonable as asking for safe combinations and such. IIRC, refusing to hand over the combination to a safe during your trial (if it's relevant) is a criminal offense too. ("I don't remember" may be in a gray area, though)
I'm not seeing how WHOIS is really helping you out here at all. With regard to the cable modem kid or the people looking at your cartoons, you're just using reverse DNS. WHOIS will only give you the cable company or school's contact information. In your search for botted computers, reverse DNS will give you the company's name and their site will have contact information.
I'm not seeing the compelling argument here. It seems like you really like reverse DNS queries. Who doesn't? A legit operation will have contact information on their site. A shady operation will have phony information or use a "privacy service". A small-time hosted operation will have a hosting service that will respond to DMCA complaints, etc (anyway, it's the hosting service you want to contact about a compromised computer, not the domain owner).
I still have yet to hear a good argument for publishing WHOIS information. The best I've heard is that it could make it easier to get in touch with the right person inside of a corporation if the need arises. That's not guaranteed, though, and it shouldn't be too hard to get to that person through the main switchboard/operator/secretary. It still doesn't account for turnover, duty reassignment, people on vacation, whatever.
WHOIS, as it is now, is an unnecessary and outdated system.
EDGE and 3G can fit in a small phone. My Nokia 6120c has both GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA and switches between them easily. I'm not sure what the battery life issues with 3G are supposed to be, either. This phone with bluetooth always on, occasional calls, occasional data, and constant application use lasts easily as long as any of my other non-smartphones. It easily outlasts my laptop battery when used as a bluetooth tethered modem, also.
Bremsstrahlung is only a problem when using dense shielding materials (like lead). If you're shielding from betas with plastic or skin, you don't get sudden braking and hence don't get x-ray production. If lead were a major component in laptop batteries, I think that they'd be unpopular for other, non-radioactive reasons. Anyway, you'll not be doing much damage with a 5 keV electron. The majority of the bremsstrahlung produced by these electrons is around 100 eV or lower (extreme UV to soft X-rays) and there isn't much of it produced.
I'm having a hard time seeing what incentive they would have to make a phone besides using it for data mining. That's what Google does. They collect information about you and send you targeted advertisements. It's how they make their money. They've done that with every service they've offered.
Exactly what do you propose their motivation is here? You seem to be implying that with this GPhone, Google breaks with all of its previous history for some mysterious reason.
I know that there's not much love for it floating around, but it's odd that you didn't mention "Gattaca", which is wholly and specifically about this particular topic. It's taken a step further with genetic engineering of the new births, but the ubiquitous DNA database and fast sequencing aspects are tackled (as well as any Hollywood movie will tackle them).
The good news is that 94% of every human being who has ever lived is now dead. If it makes you feel any better, it's really closer to 50%, and most of those people were douchebags. That's an interesting thought. The quickest answer I could find was this Google Answers answer (a wonder, since I searched on Google!).
I believe that a lot of the issue with scratches deals with the nature of the scratches themselves. A razor scratch may be easier to cope with than a wide rough scrape. Also, the scratch issue is just getting worse. IIRC, most of the copy protection schemes work by messing around with the CD's error correction data. So "protected" discs may actually be more fragile and sensitive to scratches than Red Book CDs.
I've grown fairly productive with the use of three monitors, one of which is rotated to portrait mode. I can read a paper on the portrait display (with the whole page displayed at once), write on the second and be constantly distracted by Slashdot on the third. My productivity has never been better!
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In the larger context, it has achieved one of the highest murder rates and the highest saturation of arms in any Western nation...
Gun related violence in the US is actually extremely rare outside of (mostly) poor urban neighborhoods. I have never met anyone who has even met anyone who has even witnessed any sort of gun related violence. I live in a major metropolitan area and know plenty of people who own guns, also. Don't let Hollywood fool you, there aren't high speed car chases with guns ablazing all the time in the US.Who pays for the energy used to charge the vehicles? This would also amount to another "subsidy" for the trucking industry.
Get different socks for different occasions and color code them. Keep the colors as different as possible and phase the summer/winter socks into storage as the seasons change. I'm down to four sock types (different colors, different shapes, one set always in storage). Pairing is a breeze.
...why not build satellites with standard self-destruct for cases like this? First, a self destruct mechanism would add mass to the satellite, which takes mass away from other gear you'd like to add.Secondly, if your satellite is not functioning, like this one, how would you activate the self-destruct mechanism?*
A possible third is security. What if "the enemy" were to get a hold of the self-destruct codes for all of our satellites? Shooting down a satellite with a missile is a much more costly and traceable event than sending out a radio signal and quietly killing them as they pass overhead.
*I can think of ways to do this, with pressure and temperature sensors to detect a decayed orbit or an entirely redundant receiver and power supply, but you're really adding mass here. For the extra mass to launch or the reduced capability of the satellite, it may be cheaper to just shoot down birds that don't work.
He has a series of Youtube videos where he shows it off and attempts to explain it.
No, this is a completely legitimate response that should be brought up every time a (n abusive) monopoly is held up as the end result of, or a typical manifestation of, capitalism. All too often predatory or government-mandated monopolies are used as an example of why capitalism is an undesirable system. The premise (that monopolies exist in a healthy capitalistic system) is false and continually repeating it just discourages rational thought about different economic systems. The same thing continually happens when the Soviet Union is held up as a functional socialist system. In fact, the Soviet Union example has led to the term "socialism" being a pejorative in the United States, even though the US is very socialist in many ways (eg granting unnatural monopolies).
I'm surprised that ScentCone brought this up and then seemed to forget it, but a shotgun loaded with slugs is essentially a rifle. You have a single, large, heavy "bullet" traveling relatively slowly (compared to a high power rifle). The range and accuracy are low compared to a rifle, but it allows police to carry a single long barreled weapon that can be used for multiple situations (even for "non lethal" uses). With the large "caliber" and high mass (and low velocity) of a 12 gauge slug, you would kill the tiger without having to worry about overpenetration. Though if you missed, bystanders would get hurt.
I'm not really into IM, but I imagine he's looking for the ability to have one address that anyone can IM him at, instead of needing an AIM address, an MSN address, a GTalk address, an ICQ address, and so on. That way anyone, on any IM network, can reach any other person. By using one protocol, XMPP in this case, all of the networks can be merged into one.
Ignoring the whole issue of fair use here...
~$1 goes to the writer
~$1 goes to the publisher
~$1 goes to the download provider
...the writer/publisher make out because they're paid even though they don't have to produce any physical books.
If there are no physical books, why would you need a publisher? Pay an editor a one-time fee to edit and a designer (or whatever the equivalent is) to lay out the text into ebook form (though the author could do this himself). Screw giving the rights to a publisher if you'll not be printing real books.That actually sounds like a reasonable solution. As long as they don't require you to give them your keys from the very beginning (before you've been accused of a crime), taking them during legal process seems fair. If you're keeping secrets from the court during your own trial, you'd better be hiding your guilt.
If they want a database of all of the citizenry's keys, so they can sift through email at their leisure, that's too far. Getting keys during a trial is just as reasonable as asking for safe combinations and such. IIRC, refusing to hand over the combination to a safe during your trial (if it's relevant) is a criminal offense too. ("I don't remember" may be in a gray area, though)
I'm not seeing the compelling argument here. It seems like you really like reverse DNS queries. Who doesn't? A legit operation will have contact information on their site. A shady operation will have phony information or use a "privacy service". A small-time hosted operation will have a hosting service that will respond to DMCA complaints, etc (anyway, it's the hosting service you want to contact about a compromised computer, not the domain owner).
I still have yet to hear a good argument for publishing WHOIS information. The best I've heard is that it could make it easier to get in touch with the right person inside of a corporation if the need arises. That's not guaranteed, though, and it shouldn't be too hard to get to that person through the main switchboard/operator/secretary. It still doesn't account for turnover, duty reassignment, people on vacation, whatever.
WHOIS, as it is now, is an unnecessary and outdated system.
Really. Don't be too specific when discussing technology in your writing. Nothing is more boring than a dated speculative technology novel.
EDGE and 3G can fit in a small phone. My Nokia 6120c has both GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA and switches between them easily. I'm not sure what the battery life issues with 3G are supposed to be, either. This phone with bluetooth always on, occasional calls, occasional data, and constant application use lasts easily as long as any of my other non-smartphones. It easily outlasts my laptop battery when used as a bluetooth tethered modem, also.
Bremsstrahlung is only a problem when using dense shielding materials (like lead). If you're shielding from betas with plastic or skin, you don't get sudden braking and hence don't get x-ray production. If lead were a major component in laptop batteries, I think that they'd be unpopular for other, non-radioactive reasons. Anyway, you'll not be doing much damage with a 5 keV electron. The majority of the bremsstrahlung produced by these electrons is around 100 eV or lower (extreme UV to soft X-rays) and there isn't much of it produced.
I'm having a hard time seeing what incentive they would have to make a phone besides using it for data mining. That's what Google does. They collect information about you and send you targeted advertisements. It's how they make their money. They've done that with every service they've offered.
Exactly what do you propose their motivation is here? You seem to be implying that with this GPhone, Google breaks with all of its previous history for some mysterious reason.
I know that there's not much love for it floating around, but it's odd that you didn't mention "Gattaca", which is wholly and specifically about this particular topic. It's taken a step further with genetic engineering of the new births, but the ubiquitous DNA database and fast sequencing aspects are tackled (as well as any Hollywood movie will tackle them).
... Foxit Reader is pretty good. (and fast!)
I believe that a lot of the issue with scratches deals with the nature of the scratches themselves. A razor scratch may be easier to cope with than a wide rough scrape. Also, the scratch issue is just getting worse. IIRC, most of the copy protection schemes work by messing around with the CD's error correction data. So "protected" discs may actually be more fragile and sensitive to scratches than Red Book CDs.
Actually none of them lost any money at all in the process. They simply failed to make money that they (felt they) were entitled to.
I've grown fairly productive with the use of three monitors, one of which is rotated to portrait mode. I can read a paper on the portrait display (with the whole page displayed at once), write on the second and be constantly distracted by Slashdot on the third. My productivity has never been better!