The idea that the things prescribed by the "climate consensus" to do something about global warming would be an unmitigated boon in and of themselves, even without global warming, is rather more controversial than global warming itself.
It's a pretty typical side-channel attack. It's detecting the RFI emitted during computation, and using that to determine the key. So, yes, it's detecting the waves emitted by the little electrons zipping around inside the smartphone.
Government pays 100% for anyone without a job to attend university (including a dormitory and a cafeteria pass) as long as you can maintain a B average against a degree that would qualify you for a position in demand in the job market. You thereby continue to get food and shelter until such time as you're qualified to do the jobs that exist, at which point you can get a job and pay your own way.
Doesn't work. Either a large number of people could not qualify, or there wouldn't be enough jobs for those who do, or both.
Is that what you think we're giving them in this context? I'm pretty sure we and they would both be better off if their jobs were done by machines. Unemployment is a much easier problem to solve when the production of food and housing is fully automated.
If there's no work they're qualified to do which can't be done better by machine, then what items of value will they trade for the (cheap, but certainly not free) food and housing? Or is this utopia just going to be a gigantic welfare state with a few owners on top, then a small engineer class, a similarly small operator & maintainer class, and a the vast majority of people at the bottom living on the dole?
Let's suppose that some time in the next, I don't know, ten or twenty years, the combination of general purpose programmable robots and 3D printers allows you to do anything that might generally fall under the designation "manual labor" more cheaply with a machine than it costs to hire a person.
Not going to happen. It was happening, and then someone realized that there already are plenty of general-purpose programmable organic robots far more flexible than any mechanical implement likely to appear within the next 50 years. And that you can in fact maintain these robots far more cheaply than most Westerners think. Thus, Chinese manufacturing was born.
Bootstrapper, allow me to introduce you to the modern miracle of mass production. Mass production, meet bootstrapper. OK, now, break's over, mass production -- get back to work.
Slashdot USED to be the kind of place where there would be a 300+ posting arguing merits of various file systems, various features of different OSes and even if you didn't agree with a poster dammit you LEARNED because everyone brought their A games and you might even end of with some of the guys who actually wrote the thing involved in the conversation.
No, Grandpa Simpson, it never was. Perhaps you're thinking of Usenet before the Great Renaming?
This may be good for some corporate espionage. But if any hacker is doing this thinking he's going to expose the dark corporate underbelly, he's going to be disappointed.
Exactly. Spying on keystrokes during corporate meetings will reveal who is perusing porn during the meeting and who is sexting with someone not his wife, but little more. Actually listening to the meetings will simply bore the eavesdropper to death.
Agreed, there's no sanctioning here. The MPAA told the US Ambassador to Australia what it was up to -- including the fact that the MPAA was the real principal in the lawsuit despite the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft being the official one. I doubt anyone reading Slashdot is shocked in more than a Claude Raines sense about that.
The Ambassador then reported this fact to the higher-ups in Washington, DC. In the cable, he does not take a position on the case.
Why would the MPAA tell the US Ambassador what they were up to? Most likely, I'd say, because if it blew up in their face, they wanted the embassy to be able to respond sensibly, and not reflexively deny only to be made liars of. The MPAA obviously wants to remain friendly with the US State department.
Copyright isn't evil; it's just being abused heavily.
If copyright isn't evil, why does it run around wearing a Snidely Whiplash mustache and tying people to railroad tracks? OK, they're mostly neckbeards and not maidens, but still...
So, the government hasn't got the technical means to decrypt a PGP volume. Assuming that's right, then if they guy simply stays quiet and endures the inevitable abuse he'll suffer at the hands of the government, the most they can pin on him is whatever is circumstantially proven by the other evidence and perhaps disobedience. A good lawyer will probably save him quite some discomfort too.
Nope. Refusal to comply = contempt of court = they get to throw the guy in jail for the rest of his life, as long as he refuses to comply.
It's a Federal District Court decision. On issues this big, decisions don't mean much until they're at the circuit level, and they aren't at all settled until either you've got multiple circuits ruling on it and the Supreme Court's not interested, or the Supreme Court weighs in on it.
Other district court judges have ruled the other way.
1) They still have hockey 2) They're still not American (except when remonstrating with an American for using the term to mean "of or relating to the US) 3) Some of them still speak French
Sorry, my mistake, it was Bush who gave the apology, not Clinton.
Yep, and it was a half-assed BS apology... which is all China deserved, considering the whole incident was their pilot's fault.
Both President Bush and Secretary of State Powell have expressed their sincere regret over your missing pilot and aircraft. Please convey to the Chinese people and to the family of the pilot Wang Wei that we are very sorry for their loss.
Although the full picture of what transpired is still unclear, according to our information, our severely crippled aircraft made an emergency landing after following international emergency procedures. We are very sorry the entering of China's airspace and the landing did not have verbal clearance, but very pleased the crew landed safely. We appreciate China's efforts to see to the well-being of our crew.
Note that they never clearly apologized to the Chinese government for anything; in fact, the "apology" for entering Chinese airspace without clearance can easily be read as a backhanded rebuke to China for not clearing the plane to land.
How do I get 6.5% tax free? Mortgage offset account. These things are apparently a lot less common outside Australia, but basically I have a savings account which, rather than paying interest, reduces the balance used to calculate my monthly mortgage interest. Home loan interest rate is 6.5%, so that's what I effectively earn on my savings, and because it's applied as a discount, not paid as interest, it's not taxed.
People were doing this for a while in the US, but as far as I know it never really caught on. The way it was structured was as two loans, one traditional mortgage (for which this trick doesn't work) and one home equity loan. You'd have your paycheck deposited directly into the home equity account (reducing its debit balance), then pay your expenses (including the other mortgage) from that account.
In the US, the number of transfers you can make from an equity account is limited to 3 per month, I believe.... there's an easy way to work around that problem, though: You use a credit card for all your expenses in order to consolidate them.
There's other drawbacks, though; the home equity loan is variable rate, and generally much higher than a fixed-rate mortgage.
This just reminded me: I never saw any news coverage of SOPA/PIPA and the Blackout. NPR had quite a bit on it though. Did anyone see any mention of it by the for-profit news outlets?
ABC (Disney) covered it. I guess it was too big to try to sweep under the rug by ignoring it.
So, you're saying that if you and a bunch of people who think like you decided to pool some resources and hire somebody to go to DC and make sure that the staffers working for congressional reps and senators were up to speed on some complex topic that most people don't understand (the better to hope that any voting they do that might impact this thing you care about is based on actual information, and not what someone else told them)... that's dishonest?
That's what lobbying pretends to be. What lobbying really IS, at least in the case of the RIAA and MPAA, is that the lobbyists write legislation, which they then hand over to said staffers along with a check and promise for future campaign help if the congresspeople pass that legislation.
Or do you have some ingenious business plan that would recoup the $70B someone would spend on Disney, without doing the exact same things that Disney is currently doing?
Mouse-based porn marketed to baby-boomers. When every character from Jasmine to Goofy is totally and completely degraded, shut the remains of the company down.
Yeah, it's been baby steps of progress. Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Microsoft, Roku, Nintendo (etc) have all shown that inexpensive, easy-to-use, reliable, on-demand content delivery to customers televisions isn't just entirely workable, but popular.
Most of those are steps backwards. Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Microsoft -- they all PAY Hollywood. If you want Hollywood to die, you have to NOT pay them. No paid content at all. If you must watch TV, skip the commercials and lie on any survey.
Now, if you can buy a Senator or 50, you can really hurt Hollywood. Forget about copyright. Get together a bunch of ex-IRS lawyers and accountants, and write a law regulating entertainment contracts. Put "Hollywood accounting" out of business and Hollywood will vanish faster than you can say Gigli. That's how to really hurt them.
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The idea that the things prescribed by the "climate consensus" to do something about global warming would be an unmitigated boon in and of themselves, even without global warming, is rather more controversial than global warming itself.
Multitasking between various digital devices, communicating online, and watching video ARE normal social skills nowadays.
If you can work from home, you can work from Bangalore. And people working from Bangalore are cheaper.
It's a pretty typical side-channel attack. It's detecting the RFI emitted during computation, and using that to determine the key. So, yes, it's detecting the waves emitted by the little electrons zipping around inside the smartphone.
Doesn't work. Either a large number of people could not qualify, or there wouldn't be enough jobs for those who do, or both.
If there's no work they're qualified to do which can't be done better by machine, then what items of value will they trade for the (cheap, but certainly not free) food and housing? Or is this utopia just going to be a gigantic welfare state with a few owners on top, then a small engineer class, a similarly small operator & maintainer class, and a the vast majority of people at the bottom living on the dole?
Not going to happen. It was happening, and then someone realized that there already are plenty of general-purpose programmable organic robots far more flexible than any mechanical implement likely to appear within the next 50 years. And that you can in fact maintain these robots far more cheaply than most Westerners think. Thus, Chinese manufacturing was born.
Bootstrapper, allow me to introduce you to the modern miracle of mass production. Mass production, meet bootstrapper. OK, now, break's over, mass production -- get back to work.
No, Grandpa Simpson, it never was. Perhaps you're thinking of Usenet before the Great Renaming?
Exactly. Spying on keystrokes during corporate meetings will reveal who is perusing porn during the meeting and who is sexting with someone not his wife, but little more. Actually listening to the meetings will simply bore the eavesdropper to death.
Dead within a year.
Agreed, there's no sanctioning here. The MPAA told the US Ambassador to Australia what it was up to -- including the fact that the MPAA was the real principal in the lawsuit despite the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft being the official one. I doubt anyone reading Slashdot is shocked in more than a Claude Raines sense about that.
The Ambassador then reported this fact to the higher-ups in Washington, DC. In the cable, he does not take a position on the case.
Why would the MPAA tell the US Ambassador what they were up to? Most likely, I'd say, because if it blew up in their face, they wanted the embassy to be able to respond sensibly, and not reflexively deny only to be made liars of. The MPAA obviously wants to remain friendly with the US State department.
If copyright isn't evil, why does it run around wearing a Snidely Whiplash mustache and tying people to railroad tracks? OK, they're mostly neckbeards and not maidens, but still...
Nope. Refusal to comply = contempt of court = they get to throw the guy in jail for the rest of his life, as long as he refuses to comply.
When I went to school, a semester of Home Ec was compulsory. Probably more useful than the semester of geometry proofs, too.
It's a Federal District Court decision. On issues this big, decisions don't mean much until they're at the circuit level, and they aren't at all settled until either you've got multiple circuits ruling on it and the Supreme Court's not interested, or the Supreme Court weighs in on it.
Other district court judges have ruled the other way.
1) They still have hockey
2) They're still not American (except when remonstrating with an American for using the term to mean "of or relating to the US)
3) Some of them still speak French
Bonus: Evangeline Lily (who speaks French)
Looks like Canada's culture is doing just fine.
Yep, and it was a half-assed BS apology... which is all China deserved, considering the whole incident was their pilot's fault.
Note that they never clearly apologized to the Chinese government for anything; in fact, the "apology" for entering Chinese airspace without clearance can easily be read as a backhanded rebuke to China for not clearing the plane to land.
Was better back in the old days, when the lions had a share of the Christians.
People were doing this for a while in the US, but as far as I know it never really caught on. The way it was structured was as two loans, one traditional mortgage (for which this trick doesn't work) and one home equity loan. You'd have your paycheck deposited directly into the home equity account (reducing its debit balance), then pay your expenses (including the other mortgage) from that account.
In the US, the number of transfers you can make from an equity account is limited to 3 per month, I believe.... there's an easy way to work around that problem, though: You use a credit card for all your expenses in order to consolidate them.
There's other drawbacks, though; the home equity loan is variable rate, and generally much higher than a fixed-rate mortgage.
ABC (Disney) covered it. I guess it was too big to try to sweep under the rug by ignoring it.
That's what lobbying pretends to be. What lobbying really IS, at least in the case of the RIAA and MPAA, is that the lobbyists write legislation, which they then hand over to said staffers along with a check and promise for future campaign help if the congresspeople pass that legislation.
So does this mean people will start taking Immanuel Velikovsky seriously? I mean people aside from James Hogan?
Naa...
Mouse-based porn marketed to baby-boomers. When every character from Jasmine to Goofy is totally and completely degraded, shut the remains of the company down.
Most of those are steps backwards. Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Microsoft -- they all PAY Hollywood. If you want Hollywood to die, you have to NOT pay them. No paid content at all. If you must watch TV, skip the commercials and lie on any survey.
Now, if you can buy a Senator or 50, you can really hurt Hollywood. Forget about copyright. Get together a bunch of ex-IRS lawyers and accountants, and write a law regulating entertainment contracts. Put "Hollywood accounting" out of business and Hollywood will vanish faster than you can say Gigli. That's how to really hurt them.