All the workers need to know is how to look up the correct Process and follow their check list. The Process will cover all scenarios and situations imaginable and should never be deviated from.
"...I replied, "it's a new system they've installed called Manna. It manages the store."
"How so?"
"It tells me what to do through the headset."
"Who, the manager?"
"No, it's a computer."
He looked at me for a long time, "A computer is telling you what to do on the job? What does the manager do?"
"The computer is the manager. Manna, manager, get it?"
"You mean that a computer is telling you what to do all day?", he asked.
"Yeah."
"Like what?"
I gave him an example, "Before you got here, I was taking out the trash. Manna told me how to do it."
"What did it say?"
"It tells you exactly what to do. Like, It told me to get four new bags from the rack. When I did that it told me to go to trash can #1. Once I got there it told me to open the cabinet and pull out the trash can. Once I did that it told me to check the floor for any debris. Then it told me to tie up the bag and put it to the side, on the left. Then it told me to put a new bag in the can. Then it told me to attach the bag to the rim. Then it told me to put the can back in and close the cabinet. Then it told me to wipe down the cabinet and make sure it's spotless. Then it told me to push the help button on the can to make sure it is working. Then it told me to move to trash can #2. Like that."
He looked at me for a long time again before he said, "Good Lord, you are nothing but a piece of a robot. What is it saying to you now?"
"It just told me I have three minutes left on my break. And it told me to smile and say hello to the guests. How's this? Hi!" And I gave him a big toothy grin.
"Yesterday the people controlled the computers. Now the computers control the people. You are the eyes and hands for this robot....."
It is not durable in a practical sense because it relies on a global P2P network to work. Governments have taken their countries off the internet before. How do you spend your bitcoins during civil unrest when you can't access the network?
How do you access your bank account via an ATM when the connection is down? Oh Noes! Any type of money accessed via ATMs and Debit/credit cards is not... um, money?
It is also vulnerable to a 51% attack, which is well within the technological capabilities of many governments.
Get back to me one you figure out what would happen if one group help the majority of US Dollars (or any money)
It is not convenient because it relies on both parties having setup a bitcoin wallet and having an internet connection
A wallet is trivial to set up. And who doesn't have internet access these days?
If I want to buy a used car for 3 ounces of gold, all I have to do is hand the seller the gold and they can verify firsthand that it is real and then I get the title to the car.
That is not convenient because it relies on both parties having setup gold testing equipment. Oh, and don't you need to go online (or to the DMV) to register the transfer?
I've gone to estate sales where there was no cellular or other data service and was not aware of this beforehand. Someone trying to buy via Bitcoin would be SOL, people using gold, silver, or paper money would go on with business as usual.
Where are you buying land that there is no cell service? (Note: not at the property itself, but at the real estate office (or whatever) where you buy it).
So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'?
After the buyer has both paid for and taken delivery of the item.
You must own a business.
So, what you're saying is, the business can take my money, 'ship' the product (Ground, of course), then, on the last day before it's delivered, cancel the shipping and have it returned to them, all that time keeping my money in their bank accounts, earning them interest, and only then refund me? Bull.
On the other hand... if the price said $3000, BUT the cash register rings up $300, they need not honor the $300 price: if the clerk catches the error, before finalizing the transaction. If the clerk doesn't catch the error --- tells the customer this is what their price is: then the deal is final after the customer pays.
Similarly IF THE WEBSITE advertises $1000, but when you got to checkout, your total shows $100. The customer should expect the store won't honor the $100 price; if their online shopping cart disagrees with the advertised price.
So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'? When they say 'thanks for your order', and email you a confirmation? (That's what I'd say.) Or when they actually ship? Or when you get the order delivered?
You're talking about the BandAid method. BandAids come with "Sterility Guaranteed unless opened" printed on them. Of course, you can't check to see if they're sterile without opening them, and then they are no longer guaranteed to be sterile.
Unless they're magic, they have to get energy from somewhere for all that shuffling.
Exactly.
For zombies to move, their muscles must be working. For their muscles to work, they must have a source of energy. Absent 'magic', that source of energy is blood sugar and oxygen, which needs to be delivered to the muscles by the circulatory system. This means zombies have hearts that beat, lungs that breathe, and blood that flows. (So, basically, aren't they are still alive?) So shooting them Not in the head would still result in blood loss (zombies don't perform First Aid on themselves), and would result in 'killing' them. This also means that zombies need to eat something, otherwise they'd all be dead due to starvation in a few weeks. (no food= no blood sugar= no muscles moving)
This is why the 'infected' type zombies are more logical than the original 'magical dead coming back to un-life' zombies.
When a new expensive electric vehicle catches fire, it is news. Maybe not stop-the-presses news, but news nonetheless.
Yup. Comes down to observer bias, just like nuclear energy. A nuke plant has an accident that results in a tiny leak of radioactive steam (resulting in exactly 0 deaths)? OH NOES!! THE WURST THING EVAR!!!!! But if a coal power plant spits out literally TONS of CO2, ash, soot (and even radioactive isotopes that were in the coal!), and that's a "Meh".
FBI will have a new addition to their "uniform" - alpaca socks. And they can also buy absurd amounts of quality coffee. This is actually it, there is nothing else you can use your bitcoins for.
DUI, per se, that is, driving with a BAC over a certain number, is not harmful. Getting into an accident is harmful. And there is some evidence that people who DUI have a higher chance of getting into accidents.
Of course, there is just as much evidence that being fat/out of shape due to poor eating/exercising habits is harmful. For instance, it takes real time and money to send an ambulance out when you get a heart attack (caused by cholesterol caused by poor eating). Government mandated diets and exercise regimens for everyone!! And the cops should have the right to warrantlessly search your kitchen to make sure you don't have unhealthy food!
Streaming means you are at the mercy of the provider. If they determine it is not profitable enough to carry a particular show/movie, then you lose access to it. Probably forever.
At least if you "hoard" it, you have a local copy you can watch whenever.
Oh, I always change my mind when presented with irrefutable evidence such as "That sucks" or "shitty idea". I do my best to ignore things like 'arguments', 'reasoning' or 'logic'- those only serve to inflame the situation.
"The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain."
A hacked server might result in the revocation of the certification (and thus the UN-certification of all the emails sent by it), but the company can simply re-certify (with a new key pair).
And of course nobody can spoof an email header or perform a Joe Job.
What's what the Public-key cryptography is for. No email can pretend to be from your server, unless it has an encrypted header encrypted with your private key. Which is, you know, private.
These are just two obvious holes. There are certainly more.
What a well-thought-out and detailed response. I particularly like that way you went into detail on every point you raised, weighing the pros and the cons.
Long story short, everyone who wants to send Certified mail has to be 'certified' by their ISP. (UN-certified mail would still be possible, if you wish.) Getting certified is nothing more than providing enough information to positively identify you, and costs a nominal fee. In return, you create a public/private key pair, and give the public one to the certifier. The private key goes into your email server, which adds some headers to each outgoing email. One of these is encrypted with the private key. When someone with a certification-compliant email program receives a certified email, the program reads the headers, connects to the certifer's certification server, and downloads the public key. It then uses the public key to decrypt the encrypted header. If successful, it proves that email came from the specified server, and no one else.
If you get spam, your email client has a big 'report certified spam' button. Click it, and an email is auto-launched to the certifier of the sender. The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain.
If, OTOH, the sender does not reply, then the certifier revokes their certification, and from that moment on, all their (the senders) emails are UN-certified.
What if a Certifier themselves is 'evil'? Well, it's certainly possible to have blacklists like they do now, but, instead of blacklisting IP addresses, which get re-assigned and cause trouble for their new owners, it would be evil Certifiers that get listed and blocked. Eventually, it'll reach a point where any spam that is sent out will get the sender 'de-certified' almost immediately. That means everyone else probably never ends up seeing the spam at all (depending on how their clients handle un-certified emails. Most people will probably auto-trash them.)
However, white lists are still possible. If you like getting emails from a certain un-certified sources, just white-list them, and you'll continue to get them. You can also use challenge-response or keyword set-ups for people sending you un-certified email.
TL;DR: By proving who sent the email (or, more precisely, which server did), Email Certification can hold the server owner responsible. If they send spam, they get de-certified, which means in all likely hood, they lose the ability to email anyone at all. Spammers who can't get certified can't send emails anyone will see.
At the same time, if the job will take an hour when proper safety measures are followed but if you take more than 45 minutes, you're fired, the fault lies with management. It's not uncommon for employers to pay lip service to safety but then structure things to assure it will be ignored.
A simple letter/email to your boss with pointing this out ("safe practices take one hour, minimum, you say it must be done in 45minutes- are you telling me to be unsafe?"), and requesting a (written) response usually sort these matters out. None but the stupidest manager will put their job on the line by stating in writing that you must not follow standard safety practices. And the ones that do... you sue.
It would be frankly impossible to do Ringworld without doing some serious wordsmithing. It is not a book that lends itself well to story telling.
Why not? It actually fits a standard formula: A group of people is gathered, have some friction, agree to get along, travel to a distant place, get in some adventures, overcome obstacles, and free themselves from trouble.
Any weirdness (aliens, future tech, etc) can be either explained with brief voice-overs by Louis, or via added dialog.
Or the time travelling incest w/ your mom or your different gendered twin clones?
Futurama did both of those, I think. I know for sure that Fry slept with his grandmother, and is his own grandfather. If a kids cartoon can do it, why can't a serious adult movie??
when they try to make a movie version of books like that, they royally fuck them up.
Yes, they do. Which is why I'd like it to be done by an... independent movie company? Indie? Whatever.
You really think Hollywood would give fair treatment to, for instance, the open relationships and line marriages in Heinlein's books? Not a chance.
Why not? I mean, look at the bad press Enders Game is getting, because the author is allegedly anti-gay. You'd think a story by an author who wasn't anti-anything* would do well.
Or use of of the already existing plots? There are literally dozens of sci-fi books I'd LOVE to see on the big screen. Heinlein's The Moon is A Harsh Mistress or Stranger In A Strange Land. Niven's Ringworld, or any of his Known Space stories. Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept, or Incarnations of Immortality series.
Yes, Hollywood has done a few. Starship Troopers and The Puppet Masters by Heinlein, for example. But they did them... WRONG.
Slashdot Mirror
"two way stop"
The North-South road doesn't need to stop, but the bike is approaching on the East-West road, which does need to stop.
In other words, paying significantly more than min wage, using local labor, and paying CEOs peanuts... DOESN'T WORK.
Thanks for confirming that.
All the workers need to know is how to look up the correct Process and follow their check list. The Process will cover all scenarios and situations imaginable and should never be deviated from.
Sounds like Manna.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
"...I replied, "it's a new system they've installed called Manna. It manages the store."
"How so?"
"It tells me what to do through the headset."
"Who, the manager?"
"No, it's a computer."
He looked at me for a long time, "A computer is telling you what to do on the job? What does the manager do?"
"The computer is the manager. Manna, manager, get it?"
"You mean that a computer is telling you what to do all day?", he asked.
"Yeah."
"Like what?"
I gave him an example, "Before you got here, I was taking out the trash. Manna told me how to do it."
"What did it say?"
"It tells you exactly what to do. Like, It told me to get four new bags from the rack. When I did that it told me to go to trash can #1. Once I got there it told me to open the cabinet and pull out the trash can. Once I did that it told me to check the floor for any debris. Then it told me to tie up the bag and put it to the side, on the left. Then it told me to put a new bag in the can. Then it told me to attach the bag to the rim. Then it told me to put the can back in and close the cabinet. Then it told me to wipe down the cabinet and make sure it's spotless. Then it told me to push the help button on the can to make sure it is working. Then it told me to move to trash can #2. Like that."
He looked at me for a long time again before he said, "Good Lord, you are nothing but a piece of a robot. What is it saying to you now?"
"It just told me I have three minutes left on my break. And it told me to smile and say hello to the guests. How's this? Hi!" And I gave him a big toothy grin.
"Yesterday the people controlled the computers. Now the computers control the people. You are the eyes and hands for this robot....."
Bitcoin fails 1, 3, 5, and 7.
It is not durable in a practical sense because it relies on a global P2P network to work. Governments have taken their countries off the internet before. How do you spend your bitcoins during civil unrest when you can't access the network?
How do you access your bank account via an ATM when the connection is down? Oh Noes! Any type of money accessed via ATMs and Debit/credit cards is not... um, money?
It is also vulnerable to a 51% attack, which is well within the technological capabilities of many governments.
Get back to me one you figure out what would happen if one group help the majority of US Dollars (or any money)
It is not convenient because it relies on both parties having setup a bitcoin wallet and having an internet connection
A wallet is trivial to set up. And who doesn't have internet access these days?
If I want to buy a used car for 3 ounces of gold, all I have to do is hand the seller the gold and they can verify firsthand that it is real and then I get the title to the car.
That is not convenient because it relies on both parties having setup gold testing equipment. Oh, and don't you need to go online (or to the DMV) to register the transfer?
I've gone to estate sales where there was no cellular or other data service and was not aware of this beforehand. Someone trying to buy via Bitcoin would be SOL, people using gold, silver, or paper money would go on with business as usual.
Where are you buying land that there is no cell service? (Note: not at the property itself, but at the real estate office (or whatever) where you buy it).
So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'?
After the buyer has both paid for and taken delivery of the item.
You must own a business.
So, what you're saying is, the business can take my money, 'ship' the product (Ground, of course), then, on the last day before it's delivered, cancel the shipping and have it returned to them, all that time keeping my money in their bank accounts, earning them interest, and only then refund me? Bull.
On the other hand... if the price said $3000, BUT the cash register rings up $300, they need not honor the $300 price: if the clerk catches the error, before finalizing the transaction. If the clerk doesn't catch the error --- tells the customer this is what their price is: then the deal is final after the customer pays.
Similarly IF THE WEBSITE advertises $1000, but when you got to checkout, your total shows $100. The customer should expect the store won't honor the $100 price; if their online shopping cart disagrees with the advertised price.
So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'? When they say 'thanks for your order', and email you a confirmation? (That's what I'd say.) Or when they actually ship? Or when you get the order delivered?
You're talking about the BandAid method. BandAids come with "Sterility Guaranteed unless opened" printed on them. Of course, you can't check to see if they're sterile without opening them, and then they are no longer guaranteed to be sterile.
Unless they're magic, they have to get energy from somewhere for all that shuffling.
Exactly.
For zombies to move, their muscles must be working. For their muscles to work, they must have a source of energy. Absent 'magic', that source of energy is blood sugar and oxygen, which needs to be delivered to the muscles by the circulatory system. This means zombies have hearts that beat, lungs that breathe, and blood that flows. (So, basically, aren't they are still alive?) So shooting them Not in the head would still result in blood loss (zombies don't perform First Aid on themselves), and would result in 'killing' them. This also means that zombies need to eat something, otherwise they'd all be dead due to starvation in a few weeks. (no food= no blood sugar= no muscles moving)
This is why the 'infected' type zombies are more logical than the original 'magical dead coming back to un-life' zombies.
When a new expensive electric vehicle catches fire, it is news. Maybe not stop-the-presses news, but news nonetheless.
Yup. Comes down to observer bias, just like nuclear energy. A nuke plant has an accident that results in a tiny leak of radioactive steam (resulting in exactly 0 deaths)? OH NOES!! THE WURST THING EVAR!!!!! But if a coal power plant spits out literally TONS of CO2, ash, soot (and even radioactive isotopes that were in the coal!), and that's a "Meh".
FBI will have a new addition to their "uniform" - alpaca socks.
And they can also buy absurd amounts of quality coffee. This is actually it, there is nothing else you can use your bitcoins for.
Lies.
http://usebitcoins.info/
There are thousands of businesses that accept Bitcoins.
DUI, per se, that is, driving with a BAC over a certain number, is not harmful. Getting into an accident is harmful. And there is some evidence that people who DUI have a higher chance of getting into accidents.
Of course, there is just as much evidence that being fat/out of shape due to poor eating/exercising habits is harmful. For instance, it takes real time and money to send an ambulance out when you get a heart attack (caused by cholesterol caused by poor eating). Government mandated diets and exercise regimens for everyone!! And the cops should have the right to warrantlessly search your kitchen to make sure you don't have unhealthy food!
Streaming means you are at the mercy of the provider. If they determine it is not profitable enough to carry a particular show/movie, then you lose access to it. Probably forever.
At least if you "hoard" it, you have a local copy you can watch whenever.
Pulling his gun out and threatening Trayvon with it wouldn't leave any marks.
Oh, I always change my mind when presented with irrefutable evidence such as "That sucks" or "shitty idea". I do my best to ignore things like 'arguments', 'reasoning' or 'logic'- those only serve to inflame the situation.
I see you've never had your server compromised.
"The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they
did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain."
A hacked server might result in the revocation of the certification (and thus the UN-certification of all the emails sent by it), but the company can simply re-certify (with a new key pair).
And of course nobody can spoof an email header or perform a Joe Job.
What's what the Public-key cryptography is for. No email can pretend to be from your server, unless it has an encrypted header encrypted with your private key. Which is, you know, private.
These are just two obvious holes. There are certainly more.
Actually, they're not holes at all.
When a flash mob forms and disrupts all the robots at once,
http://www.larryniven.net/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml
What a well-thought-out and detailed response. I particularly like that way you went into detail on every point you raised, weighing the pros and the cons.
Just switch over to Email Certification.
Long story short, everyone who wants to send Certified mail has to be 'certified' by their ISP. (UN-certified mail would still be possible, if
you wish.) Getting certified is nothing more than providing enough information to positively identify you, and costs a nominal fee.
In return, you create a public/private key pair, and give the public one to the certifier. The private key goes into your email server, which
adds some headers to each outgoing email. One of these is encrypted with the private key. When someone with a certification-compliant email
program receives a certified email, the program reads the headers, connects to the certifer's certification server, and downloads the public
key. It then uses the public key to decrypt the encrypted header. If successful, it proves that email came from the specified server, and no one
else.
If you get spam, your email client has a big 'report certified spam' button. Click it, and an email is auto-launched to the certifier of the
sender. The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they
did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain.
If, OTOH, the sender does not reply, then the certifier revokes their certification, and from that moment on, all their (the senders) emails are
UN-certified.
What if a Certifier themselves is 'evil'? Well, it's certainly possible to have blacklists like they do now, but, instead of blacklisting IP
addresses, which get re-assigned and cause trouble for their new owners, it would be evil Certifiers that get listed and blocked.
Eventually, it'll reach a point where any spam that is sent out will get the sender 'de-certified' almost immediately. That means everyone else
probably never ends up seeing the spam at all (depending on how their clients handle un-certified emails. Most people will probably auto-trash
them.)
However, white lists are still possible. If you like getting emails from a certain un-certified sources, just white-list them, and you'll
continue to get them. You can also use challenge-response or keyword set-ups for people sending you un-certified email.
TL;DR:
By proving who sent the email (or, more precisely, which server did), Email Certification can hold the server owner responsible. If they send
spam, they get de-certified, which means in all likely hood, they lose the ability to email anyone at all. Spammers who can't get certified
can't send emails anyone will see.
At the same time, if the job will take an hour when proper safety measures are followed but if you take more than 45 minutes, you're fired, the fault lies with management. It's not uncommon for employers to pay lip service to safety but then structure things to assure it will be ignored.
A simple letter/email to your boss with pointing this out ("safe practices take one hour, minimum, you say it must be done in 45minutes- are you telling me to be unsafe?"), and requesting a (written) response usually sort these matters out. None but the stupidest manager will put their job on the line by stating in writing that you must not follow standard safety practices. And the ones that do... you sue.
But on which paper is the solution to the problem of nuclear waste material?
The Yucca Mountain storage facility's operating documents
Basically, find a place many miles away from anyone, a place that's geologically stable, and bury that shit.
The old corny response is that given a penguin is a bird, and a bird can fly, therefore a penguin can fly.
Well, of course, if you start with faulty premises, you'll reach a faulty conclusion.
It would be frankly impossible to do Ringworld without doing some serious wordsmithing. It is not a book that lends itself well to story telling.
Why not? It actually fits a standard formula: A group of people is gathered, have some friction, agree to get along, travel to a distant place, get in some adventures, overcome obstacles, and free themselves from trouble.
Any weirdness (aliens, future tech, etc) can be either explained with brief voice-overs by Louis, or via added dialog.
Or the time travelling incest w/ your mom or your different gendered twin clones?
Futurama did both of those, I think. I know for sure that Fry slept with his grandmother, and is his own grandfather. If a kids cartoon can do it, why can't a serious adult movie??
when they try to make a movie version of books like that, they royally fuck them up.
Yes, they do. Which is why I'd like it to be done by an... independent movie company? Indie? Whatever.
You really think Hollywood would give fair treatment to, for instance, the open relationships and line marriages in Heinlein's books? Not a chance.
Why not? I mean, look at the bad press Enders Game is getting, because the author is allegedly anti-gay. You'd think a story by an author who wasn't anti-anything* would do well.
*well, sexually speaking.
Or use of of the already existing plots? There are literally dozens of sci-fi books I'd LOVE to see on the big screen. Heinlein's The Moon is A Harsh Mistress or Stranger In A Strange Land. Niven's Ringworld, or any of his Known Space stories. Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept, or Incarnations of Immortality series.
Yes, Hollywood has done a few. Starship Troopers and The Puppet Masters by Heinlein, for example. But they did them... WRONG.