and to create a "delivery system" rather than a "networking system" (4MBits down, 256kbits up, anyone?)
what do you mean by this. unfortunately i don't completely understand why ISPs have the skewed up/down caps, but i always assumed it had everything to do with the size of the pipe and the nature of data transfer for typical home users, ie, surfing is mostly down, so they skew the download/upload rates to maximize potential use. is this wrong?
While I agree, I might add that it sounds as if he doesn't agree with the actual design of the ISS either. Too bad NASA is so political - a lot more could get done.
Especially since the bucks responsible for upgrading the levee system were PERSONALLY slashed from the budget and diverted to Iraq - which in itself was a fucking moronic operation.
Good job - you've attributed the disaster to Bush. As if the levee problem manifested itself in the last 4 years, during which time Bush was in office. As if the levees could have been fixed with the money from the 2005 budget that Bush PERSONALLY slashed.
I don't consider myself an apologist, and you probably don't consider yourself a conspiracy theorist. I guess that my assumption isn't that there's some sort of ulterior motive behind things like this. There was a bunch of yelling and screaming when the Patriot Act came about - life as we know it is over. Well, now that we're a few years in, can you honestly say it has affected your life? I just refuse to believe that the politicians are sitting in a room rubbing their hands together with a devilish grin as they brainstorm as to how they're gonna fuck with the commoners.
Just a couple of the steps in stopping attacks is finding out who did them (since the groups don't always take responsibility), what they did, and how they did them. Having another resource of information is extremely valuable.
You can already be highly tracked the way it is if you're using a cell phone or even credit/debit cards. And it's not really any different - it can be abused too. Is it? Probably not. Same with subway cameras.
So in contrast, should we ban cameras or monitoring equipment of any type in public? Are cameras in police cars reducing your freedom? Red light cameras? Cameras in ATMs? Security cameras in retail establishments? Roadside emissions sampling? Traffic congestion cameras? Tourists taking pictures? How about a private pilot flying over and taking a picture of your neighborhood?
Definitely one of my pet peeves too. Last time I was at the airport, I was the first person to the conveyor. I parked myself a few feet downstream of the chute, then stood 6 or 8 ft back. Before the crowd even got thick, someone parked their ass right in front of me. Probably the same person that drives/follows people walking to their car in a parking lot, then hold everyone up while they wait for the person to get into their car and leave instead of just grabbing the empty spot 5 cars down.
That was 1 of the issues - how much of the underside can be scanned. The bigger issue was fixing a hole once it was found. I think they still haven't found a way to fix big holes.
Great advice, but there's an exception to every rule. I worked for free (while employed full-time elsewhere) as my first step into the contracting world. There were really 2 reasons for it - 1) to give my first client a chance for me to prove my abilities, and 2) for me to learn the language that I was programming for him:) That was almost 2 yrs ago, and you're right - I'll never do it again. But I'm still with this client, have since quit my original full-time job, and am working full-time with him.
You gotta admit, though, for someone still wet behind the ears, that kind of confident attitude may be hard to sincerely come by.
Toys with non replaceable batteries? Have you been to a toys r us recently? All sorts of kids toys come with no replaceable batteries.
But how many of them are $500 toys? I think that's one of the main contentions in the argument. If it were a $25 toy, no one would have any heartburn over it. But who wants to shell out several hundred dollars every year or two for an mp3 player?
18 months > 500 charges assuming 1 charge per day. Therefore, it seems they got their use out of it.
Nice assumption, and I'd agree with you for the folks who did get their allotted 500 charges, but I'd venture to say that most people weren't charging every day and fell far short of 500 charges- do they have a legitimate gripe?
Good points. I don't like the freeloading aspect of class action suits either, but had Apple handled the claims differently up front, they prolly could've avoided the mess.
I had a similar train of thought with the CD price-fixing lawsuit a few years back. Everyone lined up to get their $8 check or whatever it was because somehow the recording industry twisted their arms to buy overpriced CDs.
I understand your points (and agree to an extent) - it would be interesting to see what "costs" were actually incurred. However, you know that after expenses they still cleared a large pile of cash - they wouldn't have settled otherwise. I know this isn't a very popular opinion on/. but 2.7million is not all that much compared to some previous class action settlements...
Why wouldn't this be available from a non-portable source first, ie, a unit that broadcasts a signal from my computer at home? I'd bet the vast majority of people spend > 95% of their time within 30 miles of home, so why not just let me buy something that will sit at home that I can pick up in the car, at the office, or wherever. Then, a couple years down the road, sell me the portable version.
you do have a right to travel - whether that be by foot, car, or you could even fly your own plane. oh wait, you wanna fly on mine? fair enough, here are my rules.
it is a violation of your rights to make you present identification
so i suppose you also consider it a violation of your rights to have to get an id in the first place? well, go get your picket sign. i'm uh.... right behind you.
this is the same argument about the lady in florida that wanted her face concealed on her driver's license. there is no RIGHT to drive, it's a priviledge. if you want to drive, you've got a few rules to comply with, which includes an aptitude test, which i'm sure stomps on the rights of the mentally challenged. and it's the same argument as the lady who wanted in the PRIVATE gold club in augusta. somehow she thought that her rights were being violated.
4 or 5 years ago, there were commercials on the radio from the BSA about turning in your employer for using pirated software...haven't heard these for quite a while now. Maybe their marketing budget has been reduced, but with piracy being touted as such a problem, why aren't they still making a stink? And where are the war stories about siezed equipment and audits?
Except your number is off by a factor of 2000 (lbs not tons) and only about 250k lbs actually makes it to orbit (as someone who formerly worked SSP and now ISS).:) Not to discount your point though - isn't bureacracy great?
No, it didn't go over my head. I fully understand that the perpetrator pretended to be a 'valid' customer, and began harvesting data. What you fail to understand is that Choicepoint may be sued into oblivion by people whose data has been compromised. Choicepoint may lose customers because they no longer see CP as competent, many of whom have probably given CP financial info, like credit card numbers, for their monthly billing. Not to mention, there's more than a handful of people that will refuse business with a CP customer because they don't understand the situation, but would rather avoid CP altogether. So, once again, CP does have an incentive to protect this info. It's pretty irresponsible to ASSume they just don't care.
There is no incentive for those businesses to keep the data safe.
No incentive?! There's a HUGE stack of negative PR that says you're wrong. Granted, Choicepoint may or may not have considered this before hand, but they've been raked over the coals over this issue (justifyably so). I'd bet that nearly every customer of Choicepoint is wondering if their data is safe.
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and to create a "delivery system" rather than a "networking system" (4MBits down, 256kbits up, anyone?)
what do you mean by this. unfortunately i don't completely understand why ISPs have the skewed up/down caps, but i always assumed it had everything to do with the size of the pipe and the nature of data transfer for typical home users, ie, surfing is mostly down, so they skew the download/upload rates to maximize potential use. is this wrong?
While I agree, I might add that it sounds as if he doesn't agree with the actual design of the ISS either. Too bad NASA is so political - a lot more could get done.
Reminds me of the guy who worked in the pickle factory and just couldn't resist the urge to stick his dick in the pickle slicer.
So one day, he did it.
Turns out, he got fired. So did the pickle slicer.
Especially since the bucks responsible for upgrading the levee system were PERSONALLY slashed from the budget and diverted to Iraq - which in itself was a fucking moronic operation.
Good job - you've attributed the disaster to Bush. As if the levee problem manifested itself in the last 4 years, during which time Bush was in office. As if the levees could have been fixed with the money from the 2005 budget that Bush PERSONALLY slashed.
I don't consider myself an apologist, and you probably don't consider yourself a conspiracy theorist. I guess that my assumption isn't that there's some sort of ulterior motive behind things like this. There was a bunch of yelling and screaming when the Patriot Act came about - life as we know it is over. Well, now that we're a few years in, can you honestly say it has affected your life? I just refuse to believe that the politicians are sitting in a room rubbing their hands together with a devilish grin as they brainstorm as to how they're gonna fuck with the commoners.
Just a couple of the steps in stopping attacks is finding out who did them (since the groups don't always take responsibility), what they did, and how they did them. Having another resource of information is extremely valuable.
You can already be highly tracked the way it is if you're using a cell phone or even credit/debit cards. And it's not really any different - it can be abused too. Is it? Probably not. Same with subway cameras.
So in contrast, should we ban cameras or monitoring equipment of any type in public? Are cameras in police cars reducing your freedom? Red light cameras? Cameras in ATMs? Security cameras in retail establishments? Roadside emissions sampling? Traffic congestion cameras? Tourists taking pictures? How about a private pilot flying over and taking a picture of your neighborhood?
Ease up on the tinfoil.
Definitely one of my pet peeves too. Last time I was at the airport, I was the first person to the conveyor. I parked myself a few feet downstream of the chute, then stood 6 or 8 ft back. Before the crowd even got thick, someone parked their ass right in front of me. Probably the same person that drives/follows people walking to their car in a parking lot, then hold everyone up while they wait for the person to get into their car and leave instead of just grabbing the empty spot 5 cars down.
I've seen women whistled at, leered at, propositioned, insulted and degraded by complete strangers. I've never had a woman do that to me...
;)
Do you really need this one explained to you?
Actually, it typically lands in the Indian Ocean (it doesn't completely burn up), but you're correct otherwise.
Just because debris falls doesn't mean that it hits the shuttle. And if it's observed, they'll at least know it needs to be fixed.
Politics is what put JSC in Houston. Geography by way of physics is what put KSC in Florida.
That was 1 of the issues - how much of the underside can be scanned. The bigger issue was fixing a hole once it was found. I think they still haven't found a way to fix big holes.
Great advice, but there's an exception to every rule. I worked for free (while employed full-time elsewhere) as my first step into the contracting world. There were really 2 reasons for it - 1) to give my first client a chance for me to prove my abilities, and 2) for me to learn the language that I was programming for him :) That was almost 2 yrs ago, and you're right - I'll never do it again. But I'm still with this client, have since quit my original full-time job, and am working full-time with him.
You gotta admit, though, for someone still wet behind the ears, that kind of confident attitude may be hard to sincerely come by.
escape velocity? i don't recall any shuttle reaching that... ;) otherwise, great post!
Toys with non replaceable batteries? Have you been to a toys r us recently? All sorts of kids toys come with no replaceable batteries.
But how many of them are $500 toys? I think that's one of the main contentions in the argument. If it were a $25 toy, no one would have any heartburn over it. But who wants to shell out several hundred dollars every year or two for an mp3 player?
18 months > 500 charges assuming 1 charge per day. Therefore, it seems they got their use out of it.
Nice assumption, and I'd agree with you for the folks who did get their allotted 500 charges, but I'd venture to say that most people weren't charging every day and fell far short of 500 charges- do they have a legitimate gripe?
Good points. I don't like the freeloading aspect of class action suits either, but had Apple handled the claims differently up front, they prolly could've avoided the mess.
I had a similar train of thought with the CD price-fixing lawsuit a few years back. Everyone lined up to get their $8 check or whatever it was because somehow the recording industry twisted their arms to buy overpriced CDs.
I understand your points (and agree to an extent) - it would be interesting to see what "costs" were actually incurred. However, you know that after expenses they still cleared a large pile of cash - they wouldn't have settled otherwise. /. but 2.7million is not all that much compared to some previous class action settlements...
I know this isn't a very popular opinion on
But that doesn't justify it. At all.
...then why didn't you submit the story?
Why wouldn't this be available from a non-portable source first, ie, a unit that broadcasts a signal from my computer at home? I'd bet the vast majority of people spend > 95% of their time within 30 miles of home, so why not just let me buy something that will sit at home that I can pick up in the car, at the office, or wherever. Then, a couple years down the road, sell me the portable version.
you do have a right to travel - whether that be by foot, car, or you could even fly your own plane. oh wait, you wanna fly on mine? fair enough, here are my rules.
it is a violation of your rights to make you present identification
so i suppose you also consider it a violation of your rights to have to get an id in the first place? well, go get your picket sign. i'm uh.... right behind you.
this is the same argument about the lady in florida that wanted her face concealed on her driver's license. there is no RIGHT to drive, it's a priviledge. if you want to drive, you've got a few rules to comply with, which includes an aptitude test, which i'm sure stomps on the rights of the mentally challenged. and it's the same argument as the lady who wanted in the PRIVATE gold club in augusta. somehow she thought that her rights were being violated.
4 or 5 years ago, there were commercials on the radio from the BSA about turning in your employer for using pirated software...haven't heard these for quite a while now. Maybe their marketing budget has been reduced, but with piracy being touted as such a problem, why aren't they still making a stink? And where are the war stories about siezed equipment and audits?
Except your number is off by a factor of 2000 (lbs not tons) and only about 250k lbs actually makes it to orbit (as someone who formerly worked SSP and now ISS). :) Not to discount your point though - isn't bureacracy great?
No, it didn't go over my head. I fully understand that the perpetrator pretended to be a 'valid' customer, and began harvesting data. What you fail to understand is that Choicepoint may be sued into oblivion by people whose data has been compromised. Choicepoint may lose customers because they no longer see CP as competent, many of whom have probably given CP financial info, like credit card numbers, for their monthly billing. Not to mention, there's more than a handful of people that will refuse business with a CP customer because they don't understand the situation, but would rather avoid CP altogether. So, once again, CP does have an incentive to protect this info. It's pretty irresponsible to ASSume they just don't care.
There is no incentive for those businesses to keep the data safe.
No incentive?! There's a HUGE stack of negative PR that says you're wrong. Granted, Choicepoint may or may not have considered this before hand, but they've been raked over the coals over this issue (justifyably so). I'd bet that nearly every customer of Choicepoint is wondering if their data is safe.