Layers. Sure, at most US military bases, you can probably sneak over the fence and walk around. Maybe even sneak into a warehouse or other empty building.
One person walking around and getting into an office building is almost certainly no problem (depending on the alert level).
But to get to the 'good stuff' you have to go through an incredible number of steps. And there is *no way* to access anything really sensitive without quite a few people knowing and challenging you.
Remember Trent Lott's remarks on Thurmond? Consider a similar scenario. Mr Public Figure makes Incendiary Remarks, but Big Media misses it entirely. Now, whether or not the scandal ever sees the light of the day might depend entirely on J Random Blogger, who was in attendance at Public Figure's speech, is able to reproduce his exact comments, which in turn might depend on JRB's being able to Blog On The Spot.
Remind me again why we are supposed to believe JRB's blog recording of the exact comments of this momentous occasion. JRB is just some random dude, whose blog spewings may or may not agree with Tiffany Anonymous Blogger's (TAB) recording of the exact comments of Public Figures speech.
Run a man over with the intent to kill, you'll face life.
errr...no.
Quite often, killing a person with your vehicle, the driver leaves the scene. And even when he is caught, getting a conviction is tough.
No one the wiser as to 'intent'. And so then it gets reduced to manslaughter, or even a misdemeanor.
No charges pending
"Robert Lassiter of Orlando drove into the riders on State Road 21 from behind, killing two and injuring four. Killed were Margaret Raynal, 31, and Doug Hill, 47. Lassiter was never charged or ticketed, something that has fed the perception that authorities do not treat cycling accidents the same as other crashes. "
Dying for Love "...was 30 years old on November 17th, 2000, when he was hit and killed by an 18-wheel truck driven by Reuben Espinosa, who has a history of violent behavior and who admitted to "playing chicken" with the cyclists."
After much pressure from the San Francisco cycling community, Espinosa, who continued to drive a truck after the incident, was finally charged with manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon.
On November 9th, Espinosa was found not guilty of manslaughter, in part because of testimony that the truck's brake lights were on at one point during the incident.
When things are ingrained in a society, and "everyone" uses it...it becomes awfully hard to bring your fellow man to task for something that might just as easily have happened to you.
Changing grades (in that school district) is punishable by detention, suspension, expulsion...at the discretion of the principal/school board.
Doing it on the teachers computer brings it up to the level of a felony. 'Altering intellectual property' or some such.
IMHO, that is not right.
Yes, the kid should obviously be punished. Does doing via the PC warrant far more severe punishment, vs doing it in a paper grade book?
Can I bring suit against any and all spam and popup purveyors? After all, they ARE altering the contents of my PC (cookies and unwanted email) without my permission.
Is a picture of a 2 year old in the bathtub on a family website 'child porn'? It IS a picture of a naked child. And some kiddie porn purveyors would salivate over it.
Yes, child porn is bad. So intensely bad that the website owners need to be hung up by their testicles, and then drawn and quartered.
But...let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. If the webhost can be identified, and the website known....why are we not going after the website owner/designer?
Could something like this be done on a laptop touchpad?
No reason why not. The Sony Vaio has a few simple gestures with its touchpad. No reason why the 'pad couldn't be bigger to accomodate whole hand gestures.
A bigger problem I've found is with different platforms. Using Opera at home, and IE at work, I'm always trying to 'rightclick-drag' to navigate. Not a real prob, just annoying.
If they just stuck a seat on it everything would be different.
And then a roof for when it rains. Oh, and side windows. Maybe a windshield.
Damn....now we have to put in some ventilation. Maybe A/C. How bout some heat for the winter?
A stereo. Damn...now we need a bigger motor to pull all this crap. And the gyros can't handle all this extra weight. Better put on two more wheels for stability.
Crap...it's raining. Need windshield wipers. And a defroster. More batteries to drive all this stuff.
Gotta beef up the frame to handle those extra batteries. And again, more motor to drive it.
Well...this is now too big and heavy to actually carry anywhere. Need a parking space for it. Might as well use the garage.
Oh, and it now costs $8500 instead of $4950. Makes that new Kia look more and more inviting.
What part of escape velocity is hard to understand?
Earth escape velocity is ~25,000 mph.
Solar escape velocity is ~93,600 mph
Newton tells us that an object will tend to travel in a straight line, unless acted upon by an external force. Such external force in this case being gravity.
50k mph is way above escape velocity for earth. The earth cannot capture that object. Tangental vectors be damned. The Sun, having a much higher gravity, is a different story. An object with a 50,000 mph initial velocity could possibly enter some highly elliptical solar orbit, but not an earth orbit.
The possibility of that object coming back around and actually hitting anything is very remote. Basically, if you somehow impart that 50k mph velocity, you end up with a comet at best. It may come back in a hundred (or thousand) years or so.
Impart a 17,000 mph initial velocity, and now we're talking about something that can possibly remain in an earth orbit.
Actually, a ball bearing moving at 50,000mph is either A. totally harmless, or B. the least of the concern.
A) if it from a terrestrial craft, harmless because 50k mph is way past escape velocity, and so would be moving away from earth, never to return.
B) the least of our concern, because, if it was coming towards the earth at that speed, it is not of terrestrial origin. The proven fact of aliens waould far outshadow the destruction of a mere spacecraft. OTOOH, it might start the first (albeit short) interplanetary war.
Your point is well taken though. A fast moving, small hard object could very easily bring down a spacecraft.
What about the people who sold him his guns? Seems to me that the weapon was at least as dangerous as the information, and each being fairly useless without the other.
Is Mercedes liable for the death of the husband whose wife killed him by running him over?
If this murder had been done with a kitchen knife, would Ginsu have been liable?
The tool he used to kill her is of far less import than the act of doing it. Someone bent on murder will use whatever is available. Gun, car, knife, golfclub, a rock.
A) How did they know about it "hours before" anyone else did? Even before it went active. Things that make you go hmmm...
B) They missed out on a prime opportunity. "HEY! There's a nasty thing happening in a few hours. Get your fix HERE before you lose all the company data!" (And you can't say we didn't warn you) Even if you blew it off and didn't apply the fix from them, you might look on them as being far more reliable. They predicted (knew) AND provided the fix beforehand. Next time, you just might go with them. "Hey...those guys were right!"
Now, it just makes them look like assholes. "Yes, we know there's a major attack coming, but we're not going to tell anyone except our more solvent customers. Everyone else can go screw themselves"
The cable and DSL companies, etc have a good size infrastructure to handle it. Fulltime staff and all that.
Done on a wireless neighborhood basis, the coop would eventually have to hire a fulltime tech or two to manage the system. Driving up the individual costs greatly.
Casing out a neighborhood for a few hours is infinitely riskier than a simple search from your living room.
No, I'm saying at the very least, some personal information should be redacted from the easily searchable public records.
I know *I* would not want my floorplans to be available through a casual online search. Or *my* financial records.
For instance...a retailer has wronged you. And you sue. In the course of the case, their lawyer enters into evidence your financial records, in an attempt to discredit you. Even though they have no case, and you win...your financial status is available to all and sundry.
Can't remember the exact town, but here in Ohio recently, there was a public outcry at Social Security numbers being posted as part of the data in divorce cases.
Now...there is zero reason for that data to be there online. The outcome of the case? Sure. The judges ruling and arguments? Sure. But not the participants SSAN. Or detailed financial records.
The city (or state, I forget which) had made a ruling that ALL court and city records must be put online. In the aftermath, they are starting to rethink this concept. If you really, really want that info, go down to the courthouse and obtain a copy.
Again...some things should be a little harder to get.
Some cities and jurisdictions are finding out that maybe not all cases and information should be easily searchable on the web.
Consider a divorce case. Names, addresses, financial records, employment records, etc, etc. Home assesment value, taxes. Now match that against the (sometimes) public bulding permits. Home floorplans and dimensions.
Armed with a little research from the comfort of his own home, a would be burgular or stalker could case the home of a recently divorced woman, figuring out vulnerable access points, when she's at work...a photo from Terraserver, and you can sometimes see fences and tree lines. Do the job with no one the wiser.
Some things should be hard to get.
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Maybe. But if it was just the guy down the street (Hey Bob..I'm having a sleepover. Can I borrow the kids?), and not King Michael...he'd be in prison so fast his feet would never hit the ground.
As a consequence most european countries have free healthcare.
God dammit!!! I am sooo tired of hearing that line.
I get it from my British wife, her parents, etc..etc.. Healthcare in Europe is NOT, repeat loudly, NOT free. The funds simply come in through a different channel.
In Europe, where do the doctors and hospitals get their money? From the govenment. Where does the government get its money? Last I looked, they get their money from taxes. Taxes which are paid by....wait for it...the taxpayers.
A sum of money is extracted from your paycheck every week, to go towards the general healthcare pot.
Almost EXACTLY the same thing happens in the US. Except that, instead of giving that sum of money to the government, we (and our employers) give it to an insurance company. Then THEY pay the doctors.
Us, as poor little worker bees, give our money to someone else to toss into a collective pot, out of which doctors, nurses, and hospitals get paid.
If Europe has found some way to actually pay a doctor without any money coming out of someones pocket...please share the secret.
Repeat after me: Healthcare in Europe is NOT free.
"In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless."
That all depends on whose posession that 'digital copy' is in.
If it is in MY posession, my dog might eat it. Or my computer/mp3 player/DVD drive might die. And I'll need the ability to make my own backup. When I want, how I want.
If it is in THEIR posession (streaming or whatever), then I'll assume they have multiple copies on various servers. BUT, then they can charge me again to watch it whenever they feel like.
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Layers. Sure, at most US military bases, you can probably sneak over the fence and walk around. Maybe even sneak into a warehouse or other empty building.
One person walking around and getting into an office building is almost certainly no problem (depending on the alert level).
But to get to the 'good stuff' you have to go through an incredible number of steps. And there is *no way* to access anything really sensitive without quite a few people knowing and challenging you.
Remember Trent Lott's remarks on Thurmond? Consider a similar scenario. Mr Public Figure makes Incendiary Remarks, but Big Media misses it entirely. Now, whether or not the scandal ever sees the light of the day might depend entirely on J Random Blogger, who was in attendance at Public Figure's speech, is able to reproduce his exact comments, which in turn might depend on JRB's being able to Blog On The Spot.
Remind me again why we are supposed to believe JRB's blog recording of the exact comments of this momentous occasion. JRB is just some random dude, whose blog spewings may or may not agree with Tiffany Anonymous Blogger's (TAB) recording of the exact comments of Public Figures speech.
"He said, she said" taken to a whole new level.
Blogging on a cell phone? Somebody's gotta be dumb enough... I hope they have air bags.
It's not their air bags that are the concern, it is the person they crash into that has the problem.
Run a man over with the intent to kill, you'll face life.
errr...no.
Quite often, killing a person with your vehicle, the driver leaves the scene.
And even when he is caught, getting a conviction is tough. No one the wiser as to 'intent'. And so then it gets reduced to manslaughter, or even a misdemeanor.
No charges pending
"Robert Lassiter of Orlando drove into the riders on State Road 21 from behind, killing two and injuring four. Killed were Margaret Raynal, 31, and Doug Hill, 47. Lassiter was never charged or ticketed, something that has fed the perception that authorities do not treat cycling accidents the same as other crashes. "
Dying for Love
"...was 30 years old on November 17th, 2000, when he was hit and killed by an 18-wheel truck driven by Reuben Espinosa, who has a history of violent behavior and who admitted to "playing chicken" with the cyclists."
After much pressure from the San Francisco cycling community, Espinosa, who continued to drive a truck after the incident, was finally charged with manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon.
On November 9th, Espinosa was found not guilty of manslaughter, in part because of testimony that the truck's brake lights were on at one point during the incident.
When things are ingrained in a society, and "everyone" uses it...it becomes awfully hard to bring your fellow man to task for something that might just as easily have happened to you.
So if I am distracted while I am driving and I accidently run over someone and they die,...
In your example, no. The difference is in intent. A driving death is a preventable 'accident'. A murder is something else entirely.
But, at the very least, you should permanently lose the priviledge of driving.
Changing grades (in that school district) is punishable by detention, suspension, expulsion...at the discretion of the principal/school board.
Doing it on the teachers computer brings it up to the level of a felony. 'Altering intellectual property' or some such.
IMHO, that is not right.
Yes, the kid should obviously be punished. Does doing via the PC warrant far more severe punishment, vs doing it in a paper grade book?
Can I bring suit against any and all spam and popup purveyors? After all, they ARE altering the contents of my PC (cookies and unwanted email) without my permission.
does this. The functionality for printing large, pagespanning spreadsheets also works for large images.
Paste the pic in, size it accordingly, adjust your margins/print area, and off you go.
Is a picture of a 2 year old in the bathtub on a family website 'child porn'? It IS a picture of a naked child. And some kiddie porn purveyors would salivate over it.
Yes, child porn is bad. So intensely bad that the website owners need to be hung up by their testicles, and then drawn and quartered.
But...let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. If the webhost can be identified, and the website known....why are we not going after the website owner/designer?
Don't just block it....put the ass in jail.
Could something like this be done on a laptop touchpad?
No reason why not. The Sony Vaio has a few simple gestures with its touchpad. No reason why the 'pad couldn't be bigger to accomodate whole hand gestures.
A bigger problem I've found is with different platforms. Using Opera at home, and IE at work, I'm always trying to 'rightclick-drag' to navigate. Not a real prob, just annoying.
I almost bought one and then I realized that I could get a bicycle for a fraction of the cost.
The question is...DID you actually get a bike, and do you ride it?
If they just stuck a seat on it everything would be different.
And then a roof for when it rains. Oh, and side windows. Maybe a windshield.
Damn....now we have to put in some ventilation. Maybe A/C. How bout some heat for the winter?
A stereo.
Damn...now we need a bigger motor to pull all this crap. And the gyros can't handle all this extra weight. Better put on two more wheels for stability.
Crap...it's raining. Need windshield wipers. And a defroster. More batteries to drive all this stuff.
Gotta beef up the frame to handle those extra batteries. And again, more motor to drive it.
Well...this is now too big and heavy to actually carry anywhere. Need a parking space for it. Might as well use the garage.
Oh, and it now costs $8500 instead of $4950. Makes that new Kia look more and more inviting.
What part of escape velocity is hard to understand?
Earth escape velocity is ~25,000 mph.
Solar escape velocity is ~93,600 mph
Newton tells us that an object will tend to travel in a straight line, unless acted upon by an external force. Such external force in this case being gravity.
50k mph is way above escape velocity for earth. The earth cannot capture that object. Tangental vectors be damned.
The Sun, having a much higher gravity, is a different story. An object with a 50,000 mph initial velocity could possibly enter some highly elliptical solar orbit, but not an earth orbit.
The possibility of that object coming back around and actually hitting anything is very remote. Basically, if you somehow impart that 50k mph velocity, you end up with a comet at best. It may come back in a hundred (or thousand) years or so.
Impart a 17,000 mph initial velocity, and now we're talking about something that can possibly remain in an earth orbit.
Actually, a ball bearing moving at 50,000mph is either A. totally harmless, or B. the least of the concern.
A) if it from a terrestrial craft, harmless because 50k mph is way past escape velocity, and so would be moving away from earth, never to return.
B) the least of our concern, because, if it was coming towards the earth at that speed, it is not of terrestrial origin. The proven fact of aliens waould far outshadow the destruction of a mere spacecraft. OTOOH, it might start the first (albeit short) interplanetary war.
Your point is well taken though. A fast moving, small hard object could very easily bring down a spacecraft.
What about the people who sold him his guns? Seems to me that the weapon was at least as dangerous as the information, and each being fairly useless without the other.
Is Mercedes liable for the death of the husband whose wife killed him by running him over? If this murder had been done with a kitchen knife, would Ginsu have been liable?
The tool he used to kill her is of far less import than the act of doing it. Someone bent on murder will use whatever is available. Gun, car, knife, golfclub, a rock.
Google recruits from the NSA, so surely they must be doing something nefarious.
hmmmm...our company has hired, into the same department, 3 ex military, all with security clearances
1 ex Navy electronics tech
1 ex USAF meteorologist
1 ex USAF weapons specialist
Therefore, we are not into market research for shampoo, but are secretly developing a "weather weapon", to be used in Naval warfare.
So obvious, it MUST be true.
A) How did they know about it "hours before" anyone else did? Even before it went active.
Things that make you go hmmm...
B) They missed out on a prime opportunity. "HEY! There's a nasty thing happening in a few hours. Get your fix HERE before you lose all the company data!" (And you can't say we didn't warn you)
Even if you blew it off and didn't apply the fix from them, you might look on them as being far more reliable. They predicted (knew) AND provided the fix beforehand. Next time, you just might go with them. "Hey...those guys were right!"
Now, it just makes them look like assholes. "Yes, we know there's a major attack coming, but we're not going to tell anyone except our more solvent customers. Everyone else can go screw themselves"
The cable and DSL companies, etc have a good size infrastructure to handle it. Fulltime staff and all that.
Done on a wireless neighborhood basis, the coop would eventually have to hire a fulltime tech or two to manage the system. Driving up the individual costs greatly.
Casing out a neighborhood for a few hours is infinitely riskier than a simple search from your living room.
No, I'm saying at the very least, some personal information should be redacted from the easily searchable public records.
I know *I* would not want my floorplans to be available through a casual online search. Or *my* financial records.
For instance...a retailer has wronged you. And you sue. In the course of the case, their lawyer enters into evidence your financial records, in an attempt to discredit you. Even though they have no case, and you win...your financial status is available to all and sundry.
Can't remember the exact town, but here in Ohio recently, there was a public outcry at Social Security numbers being posted as part of the data in divorce cases.
Now...there is zero reason for that data to be there online. The outcome of the case? Sure. The judges ruling and arguments? Sure. But not the participants SSAN. Or detailed financial records.
The city (or state, I forget which) had made a ruling that ALL court and city records must be put online. In the aftermath, they are starting to rethink this concept. If you really, really want that info, go down to the courthouse and obtain a copy.
Again...some things should be a little harder to get.
Some cities and jurisdictions are finding out that maybe not all cases and information should be easily searchable on the web.
Consider a divorce case. Names, addresses, financial records, employment records, etc, etc.
Home assesment value, taxes.
Now match that against the (sometimes) public bulding permits. Home floorplans and dimensions.
Armed with a little research from the comfort of his own home, a would be burgular or stalker could case the home of a recently divorced woman, figuring out vulnerable access points, when she's at work...a photo from Terraserver, and you can sometimes see fences and tree lines.
Do the job with no one the wiser.
Some things should be hard to get.
...I had to reboot my brain.
I want a chip to monitor and record all my memories and allow me to access them.
And then have those memories read out in court.
"Defendant! Did you or did you not exceed the speed limit on July 1 last year?"
"No!"
"hmmm...your SuperSmartMedia chip says you did. Bailiff...take him away!"
Maybe. But if it was just the guy down the street (Hey Bob..I'm having a sleepover. Can I borrow the kids?), and not King Michael...he'd be in prison so fast his feet would never hit the ground.
People who are predicting the demise of record companies say there will be no more Michael Jacksons
Unfortunately, there will always be pedophiles.
Oh...you were speaking of his musical career.
Sorry. Drive through.
As a consequence most european countries have free healthcare.
God dammit!!! I am sooo tired of hearing that line.
I get it from my British wife, her parents, etc..etc..
Healthcare in Europe is NOT, repeat loudly, NOT free. The funds simply come in through a different channel.
In Europe, where do the doctors and hospitals get their money? From the govenment. Where does the government get its money? Last I looked, they get their money from taxes. Taxes which are paid by....wait for it...the taxpayers.
A sum of money is extracted from your paycheck every week, to go towards the general healthcare pot.
Almost EXACTLY the same thing happens in the US. Except that, instead of giving that sum of money to the government, we (and our employers) give it to an insurance company. Then THEY pay the doctors.
Us, as poor little worker bees, give our money to someone else to toss into a collective pot, out of which doctors, nurses, and hospitals get paid.
If Europe has found some way to actually pay a doctor without any money coming out of someones pocket...please share the secret.
Repeat after me:
Healthcare in Europe is NOT free.
"In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless."
That all depends on whose posession that 'digital copy' is in.
If it is in MY posession, my dog might eat it. Or my computer/mp3 player/DVD drive might die. And I'll need the ability to make my own backup. When I want, how I want.
If it is in THEIR posession (streaming or whatever), then I'll assume they have multiple copies on various servers. BUT, then they can charge me again to watch it whenever they feel like.