Since at least 40 years it's possible to get Disulfiram implanted into your body to get the very same effect. In some countries this is even done by court order. http://www.alustonhealth.com/disulfiram-implants
Several Polish movies contain scenes of someone cutting out their Disulfiram implants (trade name: Esperal) in order to have a drink. For instance (mildly NSFW): http://youtu.be/BbFWIBxtLaQ?t=1m20s
You mean something like SideWiki provided by Google Toolbar? Features like this have been around for ages, I can distinctly remember installing a toolbar that did something simmilar in 1999. The problem is - you really don't want to know the thoughts of people who have only this in common with you, that they visited the same page. Unfortunately, most of the people who use the internet are either illiterate, stupid or both. Example: comments on YouTube, if you find one that is useful or at least vaguely coherent, please let me know.
WW2 German instructional films about destroying tanks, McGyver style, are on YouTube. It is quite impressive, how a well trained infantry could rip through unprotected tanks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZKbD2Turo&feature=related
Of course the Soviets did not need movies for that, as this joke illustrates:
- Vasiliy Ivanovich, enemy tanks are attacking! - Take the grenades from the shelf, Petka. Some time later. - Whew! We've beaten them back! - Good, Petka. Now, put the grenades back to the shelf.
I find it very funny, that a believer in UFOs decided to post about what is fringe and what is not.
In this case there are no "fringe" arguments - any and all travesties commited by the troops in Iraq should be mentioned - time and time again.
The truth is that the war in Iraq was caused by the US. Therefore, the US cannot just brush away accusations of civilian deaths by saying "well, it's a warzone". It is a warzone only because the US made it so, and therefore it should now accept the responsibility and admit to the real number of casualties caused.
Human nature is hell, but when you provoke a war, don't pretend that it's not your fault when all hell breakes loose.
A reasonable person should gladly accept as many restrictions that are not applicable to them, if it means the reduction in the restrictions that are.
In your example, a reasonable person would accurately identify the restriction on hot dogs as most problematic, and could try to swap it out for two other restrictions that are not applicable to them, i.e. ask the court to lift the ban on eating hot dogs and replace it with restriction on playing golf and owning race horses. The judge would probably think that those two restrictions are more severe (since he probably spends more time playing golf than eating hot dogs) and accept your trade.
IAAL, and I managed to have the judge reduce the fine imposed on my client in exchange for restricting his right to work in a managerial position for two years - for a guy, who is a janitor, I'd say it was a good deal.
If you live in the US, EU or any other so-called developed country, last time I checked there were thousands of people waiting to get a visa or a green card to come and work for you. All you need to do is be less selfish and let them in - much cheaper than breeding and educating your own kids.
So - no, people who just want to satisfy their own biological need of reproduction should not get any additional privileges.
I'm not sure if it was reported in English, but that's how it happened:
In Lodz there are no advanced systems that change the traffic lights. The system that got hacked was basicaly a device that allowed the tram to go left or right on a one way track (most tram tracks are one way).
So to derail a tram, that kid moved the track after the first car in a tram was pass the junction. This way he was able to send the first car in a tram left, and a second one right - a derailing.
Changing junctions when no tram was passing is not a problem - tram operator will just switch it to the direction he wants to go. The security flaw was that it was possible to switch a junction while a tram was on it.
The way you propose to set it up, it wuold become trivial to pay people for votes. You could actualy get a receipt proving that your money was well spent.
I can see the project simmilar to Amazon's mechanical turk on some offshore server - input your serial number now, and if after the votes are published it turnes out to be candidate X, you get some cash...
Besides, if this is suposed to be truely anonymous, what is to stop someone from claiming that he had a different serial number and so his vote was miscounted? I can see a great new area for demagoguery right there.
You cannot fix procedural problems by simply blaming the unfortunate person who was executing the procedure. The entire patent system is flawed - it is not a random failure, it is just an outcome of an incorrect system.
Unless it was supposed to work that way - but then why pay anyone for examining the patents before they are filed? Maybe the Patent Office should just be a kind of notary who only records when someone came up with the idea, just to give him or her the legal basis for later defending his or her rights, but does not examine whether the idea is original.
You're right. This time will come. Whats even better, it is closer in some countries than in others. In Poland for example, copyright on music ends after 25 years, and music becomes public domain. You can already buy CDs with old Led Zeppelin or Jethro Tull songs. There is some lobbying going on to change that law to make it 50 years, but for now it is possible to have a radio playing very good non-copyright music.
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No need, now the police will report you, as soon as Google shows them the data. The sad part is, that this is not an "In Soviet Russia..." joke.
Since at least 40 years it's possible to get Disulfiram implanted into your body to get the very same effect. In some countries this is even done by court order.
http://www.alustonhealth.com/disulfiram-implants
Several Polish movies contain scenes of someone cutting out their Disulfiram implants (trade name: Esperal) in order to have a drink. For instance (mildly NSFW): http://youtu.be/BbFWIBxtLaQ?t=1m20s
Did people claim to be doing things in "Paper Space" when they first started writing letters back and forth?
No, they called it a republic of letters, but the concept was very similar to cyberspace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Letters
You mean something like SideWiki provided by Google Toolbar? Features like this have been around for ages, I can distinctly remember installing a toolbar that did something simmilar in 1999. The problem is - you really don't want to know the thoughts of people who have only this in common with you, that they visited the same page. Unfortunately, most of the people who use the internet are either illiterate, stupid or both. Example: comments on YouTube, if you find one that is useful or at least vaguely coherent, please let me know.
WW2 German instructional films about destroying tanks, McGyver style, are on YouTube. It is quite impressive, how a well trained infantry could rip through unprotected tanks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZKbD2Turo&feature=related
Of course the Soviets did not need movies for that, as this joke illustrates:
- Vasiliy Ivanovich, enemy tanks are attacking!
- Take the grenades from the shelf, Petka.
Some time later.
- Whew! We've beaten them back!
- Good, Petka. Now, put the grenades back to the shelf.
Please, do tell, how do you determine if Perl has been encrypted with rot13?
It still works, and usually it even does the same thing, only with better syntax. I'm pretty sure that rot-13 encryption is a stage of Perl debugging.
As for dangerous domains - you forgot ".sh". Sites from this domain could do rm -rf before you click "back".
I find it very funny, that a believer in UFOs decided to post about what is fringe and what is not.
In this case there are no "fringe" arguments - any and all travesties commited by the troops in Iraq should be mentioned - time and time again.
The truth is that the war in Iraq was caused by the US. Therefore, the US cannot just brush away accusations of civilian deaths by saying "well, it's a warzone". It is a warzone only because the US made it so, and therefore it should now accept the responsibility and admit to the real number of casualties caused.
Human nature is hell, but when you provoke a war, don't pretend that it's not your fault when all hell breakes loose.
And even as far as warzone behaviour goes, the US' is pretty extreme. Read the Guardian article about US troops shooting up the British - on a regular basis. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/american-troops-friendly-fire-iraq
A reasonable person should gladly accept as many restrictions that are not applicable to them, if it means the reduction in the restrictions that are.
In your example, a reasonable person would accurately identify the restriction on hot dogs as most problematic, and could try to swap it out for two other restrictions that are not applicable to them, i.e. ask the court to lift the ban on eating hot dogs and replace it with restriction on playing golf and owning race horses. The judge would probably think that those two restrictions are more severe (since he probably spends more time playing golf than eating hot dogs) and accept your trade.
IAAL, and I managed to have the judge reduce the fine imposed on my client in exchange for restricting his right to work in a managerial position for two years - for a guy, who is a janitor, I'd say it was a good deal.
If you live in the US, EU or any other so-called developed country, last time I checked there were thousands of people waiting to get a visa or a green card to come and work for you. All you need to do is be less selfish and let them in - much cheaper than breeding and educating your own kids.
So - no, people who just want to satisfy their own biological need of reproduction should not get any additional privileges.
I'm not sure if it was reported in English, but that's how it happened:
In Lodz there are no advanced systems that change the traffic lights. The system that got hacked was basicaly a device that allowed the tram to go left or right on a one way track (most tram tracks are one way).
So to derail a tram, that kid moved the track after the first car in a tram was pass the junction. This way he was able to send the first car in a tram left, and a second one right - a derailing.
Changing junctions when no tram was passing is not a problem - tram operator will just switch it to the direction he wants to go. The security flaw was that it was possible to switch a junction while a tram was on it.
The way you propose to set it up, it wuold become trivial to pay people for votes. You could actualy get a receipt proving that your money was well spent. I can see the project simmilar to Amazon's mechanical turk on some offshore server - input your serial number now, and if after the votes are published it turnes out to be candidate X, you get some cash... Besides, if this is suposed to be truely anonymous, what is to stop someone from claiming that he had a different serial number and so his vote was miscounted? I can see a great new area for demagoguery right there.
You cannot fix procedural problems by simply blaming the unfortunate person who was executing the procedure. The entire patent system is flawed - it is not a random failure, it is just an outcome of an incorrect system.
Unless it was supposed to work that way - but then why pay anyone for examining the patents before they are filed? Maybe the Patent Office should just be a kind of notary who only records when someone came up with the idea, just to give him or her the legal basis for later defending his or her rights, but does not examine whether the idea is original.
You're right. This time will come. Whats even better, it is closer in some countries than in others. In Poland for example, copyright on music ends after 25 years, and music becomes public domain. You can already buy CDs with old Led Zeppelin or Jethro Tull songs. There is some lobbying going on to change that law to make it 50 years, but for now it is possible to have a radio playing very good non-copyright music.