Make white headphones with a built in mic and answer button.
iPod becomes a bluetooth headset for your phone in the other pocket.
Now imagine:
Kelvin listens to music on ipod. *ring ring* Kelvin clicks button on headphone cord. Kelvin carries a conversation with Judy without ever reaching for his cellphone or taking off his white headphones. Kelvin arrives at hot dog stand. Kelvin puts Judy on hold so she can listen to his iPod while he orders a chilidog.
Okay that last part might be a little excessive... But this isn't all that much of a stretch. White headphone style cell headsets are already on the market!
#The first time the rebels went to an army town and took out a couple dozen military family homes the army would crumble faster than you can imagine. Collateral damage is supposed to be for the enemy, not for the soliders families.
# The first time the soliders bank accounts went into overdraw because payroll is disrupted and/or checks bounce the ranks would be decimated. Both from financial constraints and from morale issues.
I can't speak for the army, but as a former US Marine, I can tell you that there is no quicker way to get yourself annihilated. Killing families is just going to incite anger. Marines fight for Marines, no one else. I imagine soldiers are similar.
Disrupt paychecks? FYI, paychecks for junior grade servicemembers are for booze, hookers, and playstation games. All you are going to get is a lot of pissed off men with rifles. How about instead you try to disrupt the logistics train; oh wait, that'd take a hell of a lot more effort.
# The first time a unit is actually ordered and purposefully told to attack a rioting/rebellious crowd. Nothing kills morale more than taking out the people you are sworn to protect - not by accident, or lack of training, but by explicit command. All the laws and procedures setup now would be chucked out the window in a full style reveloutionary counter-action. Picking sides will halve, or quarter, the ranks.
You might have something with this. US Servicemembers are men (and women) of honor. However, It'd have to escalate quite a bit before lethal force would be required. Actually, faced with the situation I'd find it rather funny watching the crowd on their asses in super-slime engulfed in CS gas. Where's your gas mask?
The problem with your analysis is that you define a soldier as a version of you with a rifle. This is not the case. Today's military is an all volunteer force. Men and women take the titles of Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine because they are motivated to action. You're not dealing with conscripts or mercenaries.
To quote my Drill Instructor from boot camp, "The Marine Corps is a dictatorship designed to defend a democracy." Even in today's connected world, a military is a military. Servicemembers have a drastically different set of social obligations than the average citizen. Don't underestimate the mind-control, those helmets aren't made of tinfoil.
This is the same reason why Americans have crappy public transportation. Now I can watch as in 10 years our consumer internet infrastructure becomes a third rate shit hole.
Mac OS X has X11 if you choose to install it with the BSD subsystem. Terminal, yep. If you want to go IDE-less you can use GCC on the command line. Fink! Download Fink Commander for hundreds of 1-click compile and install OSS. BBEdit is a nice editor.
Personally I like XCode. I do most of my coding in it. I don't really like the SCM support, but svn on the command line works fine. C++ development is fine; you can use the Carbon API.
For my school Java projects I work in Eclipse. Which, incidentally, works just fine also.
I was, up until recently, a cashier for a fairly large retailer (31 stores nationally; our store did ~$250k daily [non-sale] gross volume). Day in and day out I would get people using credit cards with no signature on the panel (roughly 40%). Some of these cards were years old and never signed. I used to ask for an ID when I got one. Recently though I became jaded with the quality of people I worked with and subsequently lost all interest in performing my duties any better than the people around me. With my lack of respect for my coworkers and superiors went most of my motivation to keep the customers secure. The last few weeks as a cashier it was my personal mantra that if the customer was too stupid to sign their card, then I would not require them to. All I needed to perform my duties to the bare minimum and not get fired was to get some configuration of ink on the bottom line of my receipts.
On the odd occasion that a customer would challenge me as to why I did not ask for an ID I would proceed to humiliate them in front of as many people as I could manage without drawing managerial attention. It would go something like this:
[me]Please sign here. *points to sig line*
[JAC]Aren't you going to ask for my ID?
[me]Why?
[JAC]Well, you looked the back of my card and you obviously found it blank.
[me, getting louder now]I figured you just didn't want to have to sign.
[JAC]I left it blank so that people would ask for ID.
[me, readying my pen to sign the card]Oh, you do realize that ANYBODY can sign a blank card and subsequently sign a piece of paper to match.
[JAC]No!
[me]Or, did you not notice this text here RIGHT ABOVE the signature panel that says "NOT VALID UNLESS SIGNED"???
[JAC]But-
[me]Do you want a bag??....Sir..
Of course, some would sign their card and some would just take the plastic bag and run. All in all I find it abysmal how even the general public has no concern for their own security when it comes to these things. It is my opinion that the reason credit card fraud is becoming more of an issue is because banks are advertising it more. And if they are spending money advertising your security and trying to raise awareness then they are definitely losing enough to fraud to make it worth their while.
Ultimately, I've found that if I wanted to lead a life of crime there's no one stopping anybody past a few small measures.
scribble "CID" or some such nonsense on stolen card.
print fake DL on glossy photo paper stock.
insert fake DL into cheap wallet with clear plastic window *insert must be tight to prevent easy removal*
use stolen card on purchases sub $500; complain vehemently if asked to remove fake ID from crappy wallet.
fence tainted goods for cash or better swag
Profit!
Stand around at register when transaction takes longer than 45 seconds; supervisor or manager may approach
Get taken down by Store Loss Prevention and Local Police
Go to Jail.
Don't steal. You may find it so easy that it becomes an addiction. That's when you get caught. Remember: This is your asshole before prison: *; This is your asshole after prison: O.
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Now imagine:
Kelvin listens to music on ipod. *ring ring* Kelvin clicks button on headphone cord. Kelvin carries a conversation with Judy without ever reaching for his cellphone or taking off his white headphones. Kelvin arrives at hot dog stand. Kelvin puts Judy on hold so she can listen to his iPod while he orders a chilidog.
Okay that last part might be a little excessive... But this isn't all that much of a stretch. White headphone style cell headsets are already on the market!
Damn. I need a patent.
So... this is gonna run all my IBM DOS/360 software right?
Disrupt paychecks? FYI, paychecks for junior grade servicemembers are for booze, hookers, and playstation games. All you are going to get is a lot of pissed off men with rifles. How about instead you try to disrupt the logistics train; oh wait, that'd take a hell of a lot more effort.
You might have something with this. US Servicemembers are men (and women) of honor. However, It'd have to escalate quite a bit before lethal force would be required. Actually, faced with the situation I'd find it rather funny watching the crowd on their asses in super-slime engulfed in CS gas. Where's your gas mask?
The problem with your analysis is that you define a soldier as a version of you with a rifle. This is not the case. Today's military is an all volunteer force. Men and women take the titles of Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine because they are motivated to action. You're not dealing with conscripts or mercenaries.
To quote my Drill Instructor from boot camp, "The Marine Corps is a dictatorship designed to defend a democracy." Even in today's connected world, a military is a military. Servicemembers have a drastically different set of social obligations than the average citizen. Don't underestimate the mind-control, those helmets aren't made of tinfoil.
This is the same reason why Americans have crappy public transportation. Now I can watch as in 10 years our consumer internet infrastructure becomes a third rate shit hole.
WxWidgets sucks on the Mac. Sure it'll compile, but don't expect anything to work.
Mac OS X has X11 if you choose to install it with the BSD subsystem. Terminal, yep. If you want to go IDE-less you can use GCC on the command line. Fink! Download Fink Commander for hundreds of 1-click compile and install OSS. BBEdit is a nice editor.
Personally I like XCode. I do most of my coding in it. I don't really like the SCM support, but svn on the command line works fine. C++ development is fine; you can use the Carbon API.
For my school Java projects I work in Eclipse. Which, incidentally, works just fine also.
On the odd occasion that a customer would challenge me as to why I did not ask for an ID I would proceed to humiliate them in front of as many people as I could manage without drawing managerial attention. It would go something like this:
Of course, some would sign their card and some would just take the plastic bag and run. All in all I find it abysmal how even the general public has no concern for their own security when it comes to these things. It is my opinion that the reason credit card fraud is becoming more of an issue is because banks are advertising it more. And if they are spending money advertising your security and trying to raise awareness then they are definitely losing enough to fraud to make it worth their while.
Ultimately, I've found that if I wanted to lead a life of crime there's no one stopping anybody past a few small measures.
- scribble "CID" or some such nonsense on stolen card.
- print fake DL on glossy photo paper stock.
- insert fake DL into cheap wallet with clear plastic window *insert must be tight to prevent easy removal*
- use stolen card on purchases sub $500; complain vehemently if asked to remove fake ID from crappy wallet.
- fence tainted goods for cash or better swag
- Profit!
- Stand around at register when transaction takes longer than 45 seconds; supervisor or manager may approach
- Get taken down by Store Loss Prevention and Local Police
- Go to Jail.
Don't steal. You may find it so easy that it becomes an addiction. That's when you get caught. Remember: This is your asshole before prison: *; This is your asshole after prison: O.From the article: "generated a lot of confusion"... Yeah, seriously.
Do other search engines even crawl google's cache?
Why does this even matter?