There are limits to this method, but it does have some possible implementations. Maybe we'll use directional optical links to and from satellites that need huge amounts of data transferred (Hubble/spy/moon colony).
Also, this is a cool breakthrough for the sake of science and progress in general. Though I normally join in cynicism, I can actually see some benefits in this experiment.
If he technically did the right thing, he wouldn't be technically looking at jail time.
Yes, because we all know that the right and moral thing is to avoid jail time and obey the law. *cough*HarrietTubman*cough*Ghandi*cough*Milosevich*cough*
It's not about selling or limiting people, but making things traceable. If you can see that spams originate from any particular branching of invite groups, you can tell that spammers control those accounts.
Lawmakers are incompetent and unable to adjust to the realities of day-to-day changes in spam techniques.
I just with Gmail would go back to the "Invite only" approach, with SMS as a secondary measure, along with a remote possibility of snail-mail to cover everyone else. Unless we all use OpenID or some other general log-in function, small sites would be screwed by this approach.
Well, we don't need a "stupid people" lobby, but rather a "general populous" lobby. Oh, there's some organizations of that sort, but they end up serving their own particular ends when it comes down to it. I like some things the ACLU has done, but not others.
Say, for example, Bill A comes up for a vote in the House of Representatives. It's a FISA or Patriot-Act type bill, and is being supported by every big business out there, and most lobby groups that have called then up. Individuals are ignored on a mass basis yet again, as is usual. While constituent voting has an influence on politicians, it's quickly forgotten mid-term. Lobbyists, as evidenced in this link, overwhelm the politicians' general sensibilities. So, we need a way to remind these politicians who they're representing. My answer is individual lobbyist efforts.
Imagine that a large number of people individually tell their individual representatives that if the Rep votes the correct way, the individual would donate toward that Rep's campaign fund. Also, the individual vows that they will remember the voting record for the individual bill when re-election time comes around. If something like this happens on a large enough scale, then the powerful monopolies would lose quite a bit of power and influence in government.
I'm sure that it could be set up as a classic PAC, with the only goal of forwarding information to and money from individuals as they request it.
Wow, your insight has educated me, and let me know how ignorant I was about the vast benefits of having images plastered in places where I want to look for something else!
In light of your wisdom, next week I plan on posting a semi-transparent image across my car windshield, small versions on my glasses, and a few more on a couple rotating lampshades, so that images scroll across my living room at home, and cubicle at work.
I wish Ubuntu would do this, instead of having that ugly orange bird looking thing by default. Ugh. That's the first thing I change on any new system; all my backgrounds are plain black.
I suppose I'm thinking super long term, when coal and oil are scarce, and most energy is from renewable sources. Just think, a large cloud-mass over the southwest could put us in a temporary energy crisis.
I usually think so long term, I wonder where we'll be getting things like lubrication oils (large hydrocarbons are hard to come by), and I even calculated that if we fueled our cars with hydrogen, and lost 10% of that hydrogen to the atmosphere never to return, how long much water we would lose over the years compared to the volume of the oceans, and how the surface level would be affected. Anyway, it's going to be interesting to see.
Realistically, part of the problem is load balancing. While solar might be particularly well suited to covering energy needs when air conditioners kick in during the summer, what happens when we plug in our electric cars at night, or rely on electric heat when natural gas and propane prices go even higher?
Perhaps we can use the limited information over power to load balance car charging during night hours, but even then we will either need nukes/coal, or invest in some highly expensive solar storage solutions (molten sodium, batteries, capacitors, flywheels, whatever). I think we're able to produce enough domestic power in the US to meet all our needs in the future, but the load balancing is what I think will be the most interesting thing to watch in the future.
They'll claim that there will still be "radio" on the internet offered from regular radio stations. However, that is only a gimmick and advertising to promote another separate business (the original radio station), and means that an entire industry is being destroyed.
This move makes no sense other than to "test the waters" to see how far they can push business before they go bust.
If Congressmen start getting theirs, and their kids' laptops and iPods searched at the border for copyright violations, and summarily sued... or maybe to expedite this, a hacker illegally breaks into their systems and posts proof of their hypocrisy to the world.
I am not condoning the second method, however, and do not have anything resembling the skill to do so. (Please don't arrest me Republican Overlords!)
Then we'll just have to disguise packets as images or something goofy.
I can just just imagine some OSS p2p project hiding encoding amongst (the appropriate in this case) hello.jpg being sent back and forth between distributed clients.
When my brother was in college (late '80s), BMG would run the "12 CDs for the price of 1" deal constantly across college campuses (plus 3 more for signing up someone else). They knew that the kids didn't have the money to pay full price, and that they could start them using their CD distribution model for the rest of their lives. Even for a college kid, CDs for less than $2 each is bearable. I doubt however that in this day and age they'd want to bother with lugging 100 plastic discs around, but that's not the issue anyway.
I'm a more recent collegiate, and still visit friends on campus on occasion. I have never EVER seen those deals advertised on campus, even before Napster came out while I was in the dorms.
I'd like to say they've given up on the market, but then their constant suing doesn't make sense. It's truly a mystery to me what they're thinking.
To prevent unknown organizations from stacking the deck in favor of one party. For example, foreigners are not allowed to donate to parties, but if they could donate to citizens who donate to parties, it amounts to the same thing. If we didn't have that law, we'd have complete and utter corruption... kind of like Mexico where the biggest advertising budget always wins, and the biggest budget is supplied by the richest donators or candidates.
A company/CEO can give millions to politicians and get plenty of influence.
Each person and organization is allowed to donate only a certain amount. I believe it was about $2300 during the primaries for any given candidate, for example. They can, however, us all of their own money they want (like Mitt Romney did).
Compared to that, this would seem pretty much small-fry.
Not when you know the law, and have the masses behind you.
You think the best way to deal with a corrupt system is to encourage citizens to start bribing representatives? YES! They're already being bribed, so we might as well be the bribers.
How about trying to REDUCE corruptuion? We're not talking about illegal corruption, but rather what entities have more sway over politicians. Besides, reducing corruption is such a blase' idea that it's crazy to make a blanket statement about it.
I propose state funding of political parties at a FIXED level, and mandatory prison sentences for anyone caught donating. That would require removing the First Amendment, and that's a much worse idea. Besides, I don't want my taxpayer dollars to fund only what the Government says is to be funded, like it is now. Oh, you didn't know that McCain is taking only Gov't money for his campaign after the RNC? Or that for a party to get that money offer they're required to already be a "major" party by capturing a certain percentage of the vote in the previous election, basically slanting the entire process toward a default two party system? Jeez kid, wake the fuck up.
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Duh, use Killbox instead. Not all programs can be end-tasked.
both Presidential candidates
You mean Barr and Baldwin? To me, the rest don't matter anyway.
My contention is that there is no war, unless declared. War is over after a peace treaty is signed, a country overtaken, or surrender accepted.
There's a reason we have a "Declaration of War." To make things like this legal in a time of War.
Ironically, ole Bushie would have had his way a lot more if he'd gone through the correct channels initially.
I wasn't joking. My grandmother (RIP) once said, "Kids shouldn't ride bikes while the sun's going down. They know old people can't see them!"
I agree. While neat, these systems are just more information for old people to ignore, or worse, be distracted by.
There are limits to this method, but it does have some possible implementations. Maybe we'll use directional optical links to and from satellites that need huge amounts of data transferred (Hubble/spy/moon colony).
Also, this is a cool breakthrough for the sake of science and progress in general. Though I normally join in cynicism, I can actually see some benefits in this experiment.
Yes, because we all know that the right and moral thing is to avoid jail time and obey the law. *cough*HarrietTubman*cough*Ghandi*cough*Milosevich*cough*
It's not about selling or limiting people, but making things traceable. If you can see that spams originate from any particular branching of invite groups, you can tell that spammers control those accounts.
Lawmakers are incompetent and unable to adjust to the realities of day-to-day changes in spam techniques.
I just with Gmail would go back to the "Invite only" approach, with SMS as a secondary measure, along with a remote possibility of snail-mail to cover everyone else. Unless we all use OpenID or some other general log-in function, small sites would be screwed by this approach.
Hrm, maybe that's a good argument for OpenID.
Well, we don't need a "stupid people" lobby, but rather a "general populous" lobby. Oh, there's some organizations of that sort, but they end up serving their own particular ends when it comes down to it. I like some things the ACLU has done, but not others.
Say, for example, Bill A comes up for a vote in the House of Representatives. It's a FISA or Patriot-Act type bill, and is being supported by every big business out there, and most lobby groups that have called then up. Individuals are ignored on a mass basis yet again, as is usual. While constituent voting has an influence on politicians, it's quickly forgotten mid-term. Lobbyists, as evidenced in this link, overwhelm the politicians' general sensibilities. So, we need a way to remind these politicians who they're representing. My answer is individual lobbyist efforts.
Imagine that a large number of people individually tell their individual representatives that if the Rep votes the correct way, the individual would donate toward that Rep's campaign fund. Also, the individual vows that they will remember the voting record for the individual bill when re-election time comes around. If something like this happens on a large enough scale, then the powerful monopolies would lose quite a bit of power and influence in government.
I'm sure that it could be set up as a classic PAC, with the only goal of forwarding information to and money from individuals as they request it.
Wow, your insight has educated me, and let me know how ignorant I was about the vast benefits of having images plastered in places where I want to look for something else!
In light of your wisdom, next week I plan on posting a semi-transparent image across my car windshield, small versions on my glasses, and a few more on a couple rotating lampshades, so that images scroll across my living room at home, and cubicle at work.
I wish Ubuntu would do this, instead of having that ugly orange bird looking thing by default. Ugh. That's the first thing I change on any new system; all my backgrounds are plain black.
I won't bring them on planes for fear of the DHS confiscating my stuff for no reason.
Don't worry, this guy's a known troll.
I suppose I'm thinking super long term, when coal and oil are scarce, and most energy is from renewable sources. Just think, a large cloud-mass over the southwest could put us in a temporary energy crisis.
I usually think so long term, I wonder where we'll be getting things like lubrication oils (large hydrocarbons are hard to come by), and I even calculated that if we fueled our cars with hydrogen, and lost 10% of that hydrogen to the atmosphere never to return, how long much water we would lose over the years compared to the volume of the oceans, and how the surface level would be affected. Anyway, it's going to be interesting to see.
That's friggin' awesome! I doubt it'd work as well away from big lakes, or in areas where the ground leaks too much.
Realistically, part of the problem is load balancing. While solar might be particularly well suited to covering energy needs when air conditioners kick in during the summer, what happens when we plug in our electric cars at night, or rely on electric heat when natural gas and propane prices go even higher?
Perhaps we can use the limited information over power to load balance car charging during night hours, but even then we will either need nukes/coal, or invest in some highly expensive solar storage solutions (molten sodium, batteries, capacitors, flywheels, whatever). I think we're able to produce enough domestic power in the US to meet all our needs in the future, but the load balancing is what I think will be the most interesting thing to watch in the future.
But how could you place a nuclear power plant in a desert without a river to cool it?
If they'd played Civ3, they'd know this already. They'd also realize that Solar plants give you a 50% bonus, and nuke plants give you a 150% bonus.
They'll claim that there will still be "radio" on the internet offered from regular radio stations. However, that is only a gimmick and advertising to promote another separate business (the original radio station), and means that an entire industry is being destroyed.
This move makes no sense other than to "test the waters" to see how far they can push business before they go bust.
If Congressmen start getting theirs, and their kids' laptops and iPods searched at the border for copyright violations, and summarily sued... or maybe to expedite this, a hacker illegally breaks into their systems and posts proof of their hypocrisy to the world.
I am not condoning the second method, however, and do not have anything resembling the skill to do so. (Please don't arrest me Republican Overlords!)
Then we'll just have to disguise packets as images or something goofy.
I can just just imagine some OSS p2p project hiding encoding amongst (the appropriate in this case) hello.jpg being sent back and forth between distributed clients.
Can't you see it now? Goatse saves the world!
When my brother was in college (late '80s), BMG would run the "12 CDs for the price of 1" deal constantly across college campuses (plus 3 more for signing up someone else). They knew that the kids didn't have the money to pay full price, and that they could start them using their CD distribution model for the rest of their lives. Even for a college kid, CDs for less than $2 each is bearable. I doubt however that in this day and age they'd want to bother with lugging 100 plastic discs around, but that's not the issue anyway.
I'm a more recent collegiate, and still visit friends on campus on occasion. I have never EVER seen those deals advertised on campus, even before Napster came out while I was in the dorms.
I'd like to say they've given up on the market, but then their constant suing doesn't make sense. It's truly a mystery to me what they're thinking.
Uh, what's the point of these laws?
To prevent unknown organizations from stacking the deck in favor of one party. For example, foreigners are not allowed to donate to parties, but if they could donate to citizens who donate to parties, it amounts to the same thing. If we didn't have that law, we'd have complete and utter corruption... kind of like Mexico where the biggest advertising budget always wins, and the biggest budget is supplied by the richest donators or candidates.
A company/CEO can give millions to politicians and get plenty of influence.
Each person and organization is allowed to donate only a certain amount. I believe it was about $2300 during the primaries for any given candidate, for example. They can, however, us all of their own money they want (like Mitt Romney did).
Compared to that, this would seem pretty much small-fry.
Not when you know the law, and have the masses behind you.
BWahahahahahahahahahhHAahaAHAHaHAAHA
How fucking naive are you?
You think the best way to deal with a corrupt system is to encourage citizens to start bribing representatives? YES! They're already being bribed, so we might as well be the bribers.
How about trying to REDUCE corruptuion? We're not talking about illegal corruption, but rather what entities have more sway over politicians. Besides, reducing corruption is such a blase' idea that it's crazy to make a blanket statement about it.
I propose state funding of political parties at a FIXED level, and mandatory prison sentences for anyone caught donating. That would require removing the First Amendment, and that's a much worse idea. Besides, I don't want my taxpayer dollars to fund only what the Government says is to be funded, like it is now. Oh, you didn't know that McCain is taking only Gov't money for his campaign after the RNC? Or that for a party to get that money offer they're required to already be a "major" party by capturing a certain percentage of the vote in the previous election, basically slanting the entire process toward a default two party system? Jeez kid, wake the fuck up.