The futures market idea is interesting, but it only works when a large number of people have enough information to at least have some opinion.
With terrorists attacks, only a select group of people would have valid information, namely terrorists and people connected to (or monitoring) them.
If a system wasn't totally anonymous, then no sane person 'in the loop' would ever make a bet, because they would be immediately arrested after an attack.
If a system WAS anonymous, then you have much larger problems, mainly a terrorism business model. It's quite simple.
1) Plan a terrorist attack
2) Bet your attack will happen
3) Attack
4) Profit
So now not only do we have insane terrorists trying to do shit, but all kinds of criminals. There are a lot more bad people in the world who love money then love Allah, and a lot of smart ones too, just look at some of the stuff the Columbian drug cartels have done so far, like data mining phone records to find out who had been informing on them since.
Also, in order to sell futures, you need to list the price. This means all the information collected by the system is known to terrorists as well as the government, so terrorists can check to see how well they've been keeping secrets.
In general, letting people profit off death and destruction is a bad idea.
I know that a lot of people have been complaining that people complaining about the government terrorism futures market are idiots, because they're just being emotional about something that could theoretically help fight terrorism or whatever
But the futures market thing really is a bad Idea, and not because it's 'immoral' but because it can provide direct financial support to terrorists. All the terrorists need to do is bet on their own activities. In fact, it could cause a lot more terrorism as real criminal gangs get into terrorism as a way of more money. Imagine if the resources of a Columbian drug cartel applied to terrorism. Not good.
And plus, terrorist's true plans aren't known to that many people. Unless betting could be totally anonymous, no one who actually knew anything would place any bets.
What's wrong with using an open-source codec? Or are there any good ones out yet? It'd be nice if the Chinese gov simply paid some coders to work on OSS video codecs. I mean not to troll or anything but OSS is compatible with the communist ethic...
This type of tech would be great for terrorists to plan attacks. All you'd need is something like this, some simple trig, and a morter and you be able to get pretty good target accuracy.
I guess they've been working on this tech for quite a while. I remember seeing such a system on 321-contact or something like that when I was a little kid
It's a 2d field. You've got your Liberal Totalitarians like Mao and Stalin, and you got your conservative ones like Hitler.
On the other side you've got libertarian/anti-totalitarian. The libertarian party is pretty much on the right side, I guess you could say some of the radical free love, free drug type hippies would be on the libertarian left.
those are the extremes of course, Bush is pretty much in the totalitarian/right corner, and Rosen was in the totalitarian/left side.
The whole 'liberal/conservative' thing isn't really that important. The real issue is how totalitarian/libertarian you are. Rosen was on the left, but massively totalitarian. This guy's got to be pretty totalitarian if he's going to be running the RIAA too. That's all that really matters.
I'm pretty centrist on the right/left scale, maybe more to the left, but I hate totalitarians. Honestly the totalitarian/libertarian scale is a lot more important to me, which is why I hate bush so much
Heh, interesting that you would mention that, kind troll. Since coincidentally, Frist is actively supporting a constitutional amendment to officially ban gay marriage.
Even more interesting, since Hilary Rosen was a huge dyke. And no I'm not just trolling, Rosen was actually an out of the closet lesbian.
It's going to suck for them when Howard Dean throws Gee Duhbya out on his ass along with the republican majorites in the house and senate next year.
But no one ever said that the RIAA was very forward thinking.
(Seriously though, aren't republicans basically the antithesis of everything the American music industry stands for? Does this mean we're going to see less sex, drugs, and black people on mtv?)
PS: knowing how to spell doesn't help you much if you don't know how to think. Hint, think about pyramid schemes and why they always fail, and then think a little about SSI. Think about accountability and efficiency, and then think a little about Medicare.
If you really did know how to 'think' you'd understand why SSI is not the same thing is a pyramid scheme. (I'm not going to defend SSI, because it's stupid, but none the less, it's not a pyramid scheme)
And 'gettho'? Geez man, my spelling isn't so hot either but I at least try to use a spellchecker when I'm trying to sound intelligent.
Using adaptive optics, Astronomers have been able to take pictures from earth that rival Hubble article. A newer space telescope could probably do better, but for now hubble isn't really that important.
Wtf, slashdotters bitch about patents constantly, but me pointing out this idiotic one (a lot more idiotic then most of the patent bitching) gets modded as 'troll'. What the fuck ever. There is absolutely nothing non-obvious about a 'narrow car' with a low center of gravity. Christ.
At the moment, however, U.S. Patent No. 6,328,121 (Ultra-Narrow Automobile Stabilized with Ballast) is causing a jam in front of Spokane's Northtown Mall. Traffic stops, drivers gawk.
Holy fuck, they got a patent for a car that's narrow! It's like a regular car, but narrow. Wow that's so fucking novel!
Oh but it's got a low center of gravity too?! No one ever would have thought of that...
OK, so the KDE project started Kontact, which merges KMail, KOrganizer, KNotes, and KAddressBook. I was just at the Kontact web site and it doesn't mention Kolab. My thought was that Kroupware was supposed to merge at some point with Kontact, is this true? But Kolab screenshots look different than Kontact's. Is this going into KDE?
Seriously, what is the deal with starting every KDE based app, and lots that aren't with a K? I mean, first of all what does a groupware app have to do with KDE? And secondly, it's just an idiotic name!
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The futures market idea is interesting, but it only works when a large number of people have enough information to at least have some opinion.
With terrorists attacks, only a select group of people would have valid information, namely terrorists and people connected to (or monitoring) them.
If a system wasn't totally anonymous, then no sane person 'in the loop' would ever make a bet, because they would be immediately arrested after an attack.
If a system WAS anonymous, then you have much larger problems, mainly a terrorism business model. It's quite simple.
1) Plan a terrorist attack
2) Bet your attack will happen
3) Attack
4) Profit
So now not only do we have insane terrorists trying to do shit, but all kinds of criminals. There are a lot more bad people in the world who love money then love Allah, and a lot of smart ones too, just look at some of the stuff the Columbian drug cartels have done so far, like data mining phone records to find out who had been informing on them since.
Also, in order to sell futures, you need to list the price. This means all the information collected by the system is known to terrorists as well as the government, so terrorists can check to see how well they've been keeping secrets.
In general, letting people profit off death and destruction is a bad idea.
I know that a lot of people have been complaining that people complaining about the government terrorism futures market are idiots, because they're just being emotional about something that could theoretically help fight terrorism or whatever But the futures market thing really is a bad Idea, and not because it's 'immoral' but because it can provide direct financial support to terrorists. All the terrorists need to do is bet on their own activities. In fact, it could cause a lot more terrorism as real criminal gangs get into terrorism as a way of more money. Imagine if the resources of a Columbian drug cartel applied to terrorism. Not good. And plus, terrorist's true plans aren't known to that many people. Unless betting could be totally anonymous, no one who actually knew anything would place any bets.
I mean, don't we already have things like 'discount' cards and that kind of thing?
What's wrong with using an open-source codec? Or are there any good ones out yet? It'd be nice if the Chinese gov simply paid some coders to work on OSS video codecs. I mean not to troll or anything but OSS is compatible with the communist ethic...
This type of tech would be great for terrorists to plan attacks. All you'd need is something like this, some simple trig, and a morter and you be able to get pretty good target accuracy.
. A program called Fabric would allow a user to drag windows to the side of the computer screen, where they would turn into small icons.
My god, this will revolutionize the world we live in!
I guess they've been working on this tech for quite a while. I remember seeing such a system on 321-contact or something like that when I was a little kid
I know people lay on the OSS propaganda thick around here, but to say india has AIDS because they buy microsoft crap? What the fuck ever.
It's a 2d field. You've got your Liberal Totalitarians like Mao and Stalin, and you got your conservative ones like Hitler.
On the other side you've got libertarian/anti-totalitarian. The libertarian party is pretty much on the right side, I guess you could say some of the radical free love, free drug type hippies would be on the libertarian left.
those are the extremes of course, Bush is pretty much in the totalitarian/right corner, and Rosen was in the totalitarian/left side.
The whole 'liberal/conservative' thing isn't really that important. The real issue is how totalitarian/libertarian you are. Rosen was on the left, but massively totalitarian. This guy's got to be pretty totalitarian if he's going to be running the RIAA too. That's all that really matters.
I'm pretty centrist on the right/left scale, maybe more to the left, but I hate totalitarians. Honestly the totalitarian/libertarian scale is a lot more important to me, which is why I hate bush so much
Heh, interesting that you would mention that, kind troll. Since coincidentally, Frist is actively supporting a constitutional amendment to officially ban gay marriage.
Even more interesting, since Hilary Rosen was a huge dyke. And no I'm not just trolling, Rosen was actually an out of the closet lesbian.
It's going to suck for them when Howard Dean throws Gee Duhbya out on his ass along with the republican majorites in the house and senate next year.
But no one ever said that the RIAA was very forward thinking.
(Seriously though, aren't republicans basically the antithesis of everything the American music industry stands for? Does this mean we're going to see less sex, drugs, and black people on mtv?)
Fucking slashdot, the hid the post you replied to, and made it seem like you were replying to me... bleh.
wtf are you talking about 'Natalie's Hot Grits'?
PS: knowing how to spell doesn't help you much if you don't know how to think. Hint, think about pyramid schemes and why they always fail, and then think a little about SSI. Think about accountability and efficiency, and then think a little about Medicare.
If you really did know how to 'think' you'd understand why SSI is not the same thing is a pyramid scheme. (I'm not going to defend SSI, because it's stupid, but none the less, it's not a pyramid scheme)
And 'gettho'? Geez man, my spelling isn't so hot either but I at least try to use a spellchecker when I'm trying to sound intelligent.
Yeah, not like the shining examples of Amtrak, Worldcom, and Enron.
Heh, Amtrack is a government project...
Using adaptive optics, Astronomers have been able to take pictures from earth that rival Hubble article. A newer space telescope could probably do better, but for now hubble isn't really that important.
People should be able to sell rights to their post-mortem organs, and their non-vital organs like kidnies. Honestly I don't see what the big deal is.
The fact that a company makes money does not mean it's well run from a professional standpoint.
Wtf, slashdotters bitch about patents constantly, but me pointing out this idiotic one (a lot more idiotic then most of the patent bitching) gets modded as 'troll'. What the fuck ever. There is absolutely nothing non-obvious about a 'narrow car' with a low center of gravity. Christ.
So why does it need to go from 0-60 in four seconds and top out at 130?
To make it fun to drive
At the moment, however, U.S. Patent No. 6,328,121 (Ultra-Narrow Automobile Stabilized with Ballast) is causing a jam in front of Spokane's Northtown Mall. Traffic stops, drivers gawk.
Holy fuck, they got a patent for a car that's narrow! It's like a regular car, but narrow. Wow that's so fucking novel!
Oh but it's got a low center of gravity too?! No one ever would have thought of that...
("MySQL? Aww, what a cute name. Now go get us something that sounds professional." I've heard that. Literally. Twice.
Of course, they were right. MySQL isn't 'professional' It's great for hobbyist websites, but that's about it.
OK, so the KDE project started Kontact, which merges KMail, KOrganizer, KNotes, and KAddressBook. I was just at the Kontact web site and it doesn't mention Kolab. My thought was that Kroupware was supposed to merge at some point with Kontact, is this true? But Kolab screenshots look different than Kontact's. Is this going into KDE?
Koh kmy kod!
Seriously, what is the deal with starting every KDE based app, and lots that aren't with a K? I mean, first of all what does a groupware app have to do with KDE? And secondly, it's just an idiotic name!