There was that crash in I don't remember where, but it was on video flipping end over end, about half the people died. That plane completely lost the hydraulics, and was flown, and very difficultly, by varying the speed of the engines to make turns (astoundingly clever). Anyhoo, that system might have spelled certain doom for them.
And, come to think about it, a possible exploit. Disable the hydraulics (how, I don't know), then fly the plane straight thru the soft wall, no problem, the computer will lamely try to change the rudder and so on, sorry Charlie.
1. Audio would discriminate against the deaf, so more million$ for greedy bastard lawyers and assholeriffic blind people who hire them.
2. Actually, the graphics are specifically designed to be difficult to read by OCR. Typically they are black and white with many stray marks to mislead the OCR, or are a "negative", where the letters are formed not by marks, but by a lack of marks in a certain area, or by any number of other clever methods.
3. Audio would be much tougher to add "noise" to to make recognition troublesome, although speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition of the entire dictionary has a long way to go still. (But you can do it quite well if you restrict the word set to a few dozen or so.) So maybe audio of rare words might not be so tough.
4. Audio also has the problem that people would have to spell the word on their own, which they would mess up easily. For the visual picture, they only have to copy it.
5. Two methods to cover both blind and deaf would allow two posibilities for page scrapers to automate registrations, halving the liklihood of preventing such an attack. Each additional method would decrease the security further.
> Most blind people are lonely and cut off as it > is. Where's your compassion?
Strangely, it disappeared when lawyers representing them start talking about how we must pay them and their clients money for asinine stuff. Compassion? Hell, it's bordering Euthanasia at the moment.
> Because the guy really is a dumbass. Fucking > ivory tower capitalists.......Now let me get back to my computer developed with tens of billions of dollars of private, greed-driven funds so I can download songs created by others that I shouldn't have to pay for, so I'm not gonna.
Now who's greedy? I'm telling ya, you guys can't handle the truth held up to your face.
It's bad form to reply to your own, to do it twice is really bad.
However, what's the third possibility? A political ass like Drumlin in "Contact"? Ellie could and should have pounded Palmer (well, philosophically, I mean, not just physically) by pointing out how the aliens might be able to read his phony, lying, power-hungry mind and see how shitty our officials are.
We distinguish them over here, too. They are two continents that happened to be named for the same guy. (Trivia note to Americans: The continent you're standing on is also known as Columbia. Hence, the space shuttle, the Columbian Broadcasting Company, British Columbia, etc. etc. etc.)
I had a British guy try to explain it to me once, but even he didn't know it completely.
In America, it's nice and easy to understand. You have the Federal government, and then the states, all on the same level, and then local governments, all creations of the states.
In Britain, it's different. The UK in the UN is not the same as the UK in the Commonwealth, which is not the same as the UK in the EU. It's like an onion. Peel off one layer, and you lose Isle of Man(n?) Peel off another, and you lose another island. Peel off another, and you lose Scotland. Peel another, and you lose Wales. London government is not a creation of the English Parliament. Police are sort of their own thing left over from antiquity, etc. etc. etc.
I read a book from the '70's that went into this. Technically, Canada must get permission from the English Parliament before any changes to whatever passes for a constitution up there, but needless to say they don't do that in reality.
For those in America who don't know, Europeans typically pay about the equivalent of a modern day 19" color TV per year per TV in their household for the right to have and watch that TV.
Quite a shocking idea, that you have to pay to watch broadcast TV.
Imagine...Slashdot opens an office in Europe. Someone criticizes you over there. They have to publish your link to your response. You respond with http://goatse.cx, and Slashdot legally has to publish a working link because that is a valid response to someone verbally attacking you!
I read a few years ago that in Germany, you couldn't even mention a competing product in your advertisement, at least by saying how and why yours is better.
Pssst! Cooperation is competition between larger groups or vs. reality!
But don't let that get in the way of good socialist philosophising.
Besides, the second part to "cooperation is better" is "cooperation is better, so you will cooperate with us on what we want to do and how we want to do it or we will kill you".
I.e. Cooperation is competition -- between one group with a power hungry leader and a smaller group trying to live by themselves. Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner, "cooperation", you know.
It's not looking good for the U.S. China and the U.S. are heading in opposite directions, economically.
China, being 4x the population of the U.S., only needs half our productivity to have 2x our economic strength. China is loosening up for business, while the U.S. is slapping ever more regulations and roadblocks on ours.
Can't smoke in restaraunts. Can't build here with out a $30k "study" and lots of luck. Get sued for $1 million because someone had a pr0n on their e-mail. Get sued for another because someone wiped out on your snowy sidewalk in the 20 minutes between when it snowed and when you noticed for shovelling. Get sued for another million because you were standing there when a fleeing suspect drove into you and your head went through the windshield to where they were driving and injured their body.
I don't know if it takes more fuel to warm them up than to let them idle for hours (doesn't sound reasonable) but it certainly can be hard to start them, especially when cold. And being large engines, well, remember that starting an engine is the worst thing you can do because for the first few seconds, there's very little if any oil up in the cylinder area, so most of the wear and tear is in those first few seconds.
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There was that crash in I don't remember where, but it was on video flipping end over end, about half the people died. That plane completely lost the hydraulics, and was flown, and very difficultly, by varying the speed of the engines to make turns (astoundingly clever). Anyhoo, that system might have spelled certain doom for them.
And, come to think about it, a possible exploit. Disable the hydraulics (how, I don't know), then fly the plane straight thru the soft wall, no problem, the computer will lamely try to change the rudder and so on, sorry Charlie.
Exactly!
"GOD DAMN IT! It's routing us right back into the tornado!"
> It's not illegal to discriminate against stupid
> people. At least, not yet.
Actually, it is. That's what the minimum wage law is about.
And no, this is not a troll.
> Hellen keller is scooting around in her grave
Somehow the name "Hellen Keller" and the phrase "fire up the lawyers!" don't go together so well.
You blind people in support of this should feel very bad and ashamed. I hope that's not many of you.
1. Audio would discriminate against the deaf, so more million$ for greedy bastard lawyers and assholeriffic blind people who hire them.
2. Actually, the graphics are specifically designed to be difficult to read by OCR. Typically they are black and white with many stray marks to mislead the OCR, or are a "negative", where the letters are formed not by marks, but by a lack of marks in a certain area, or by any number of other clever methods.
3. Audio would be much tougher to add "noise" to to make recognition troublesome, although speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition of the entire dictionary has a long way to go still. (But you can do it quite well if you restrict the word set to a few dozen or so.) So maybe audio of rare words might not be so tough.
4. Audio also has the problem that people would have to spell the word on their own, which they would mess up easily. For the visual picture, they only have to copy it.
5. Two methods to cover both blind and deaf would allow two posibilities for page scrapers to automate registrations, halving the liklihood of preventing such an attack. Each additional method would decrease the security further.
> Most blind people are lonely and cut off as it
> is. Where's your compassion?
Strangely, it disappeared when lawyers representing them start talking about how we must pay them and their clients money for asinine stuff. Compassion? Hell, it's bordering Euthanasia at the moment.
> Because the guy really is a dumbass. Fucking ...Now let me get back to my computer developed with tens of billions of dollars of private, greed-driven funds so I can download songs created by others that I shouldn't have to pay for, so I'm not gonna.
> ivory tower capitalists....
Now who's greedy? I'm telling ya, you guys can't handle the truth held up to your face.
It's bad form to reply to your own, to do it twice is really bad.
However, what's the third possibility? A political ass like Drumlin in "Contact"? Ellie could and should have pounded Palmer (well, philosophically, I mean, not just physically) by pointing out how the aliens might be able to read his phony, lying, power-hungry mind and see how shitty our officials are.
'sides. Any nerd worth their salt knows the movers and shakers in space are the do-it-yourself-types. Ever read Robert A. Heinlein?
I mean, duh!
Or should that be...doh?
> Millionaires represent humanity?
As opposed to what socialist nonsense?
Homer Simpson, "averagenaut"?
(Oh, and thanks for the setup. I'd have posted your comment anon just so I could post this reply. But I knew someone would come thru!)
So are the first words in English sentences as well as proper nouns, If you Get my meaning, Technical Boy.
> you are charged a monthly fee and can keep the
> rentals indefinitely without late fees.
So it differs from a tax-funded library only in that you can return it any time instead of waiting for the amnesty?
OOPS, I meant Columbian Broadcasting Service. CBC is of course Canadian BC.
We distinguish them over here, too. They are two continents that happened to be named for the same guy. (Trivia note to Americans: The continent you're standing on is also known as Columbia. Hence, the space shuttle, the Columbian Broadcasting Company, British Columbia, etc. etc. etc.)
I had a British guy try to explain it to me once, but even he didn't know it completely.
In America, it's nice and easy to understand. You have the Federal government, and then the states, all on the same level, and then local governments, all creations of the states.
In Britain, it's different. The UK in the UN is not the same as the UK in the Commonwealth, which is not the same as the UK in the EU. It's like an onion. Peel off one layer, and you lose Isle of Man(n?) Peel off another, and you lose another island. Peel off another, and you lose Scotland. Peel another, and you lose Wales. London government is not a creation of the English Parliament. Police are sort of their own thing left over from antiquity, etc. etc. etc.
I read a book from the '70's that went into this. Technically, Canada must get permission from the English Parliament before any changes to whatever passes for a constitution up there, but needless to say they don't do that in reality.
For those in America who don't know, Europeans typically pay about the equivalent of a modern day 19" color TV per year per TV in their household for the right to have and watch that TV.
Quite a shocking idea, that you have to pay to watch broadcast TV.
Actually, that's not too far from the truth.
Imagine...Slashdot opens an office in Europe. Someone criticizes you over there. They have to publish your link to your response. You respond with http://goatse.cx, and Slashdot legally has to publish a working link because that is a valid response to someone verbally attacking you!
Actually, no one here disagrees with you. We're just on a not-quite-so-angled downward slide as Europe.
A corporation is derived of individuals, from whom those rights come. That you are a business doesn't mean someone can shut you up.
I read a few years ago that in Germany, you couldn't even mention a competing product in your advertisement, at least by saying how and why yours is better.
Pssst! Cooperation is competition between larger groups or vs. reality!
But don't let that get in the way of good socialist philosophising.
Besides, the second part to "cooperation is better" is "cooperation is better, so you will cooperate with us on what we want to do and how we want to do it or we will kill you".
I.e. Cooperation is competition -- between one group with a power hungry leader and a smaller group trying to live by themselves. Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner, "cooperation", you know.
It's not looking good for the U.S. China and the U.S. are heading in opposite directions, economically.
China, being 4x the population of the U.S., only needs half our productivity to have 2x our economic strength. China is loosening up for business, while the U.S. is slapping ever more regulations and roadblocks on ours.
Can't smoke in restaraunts. Can't build here with out a $30k "study" and lots of luck. Get sued for $1 million because someone had a pr0n on their e-mail. Get sued for another because someone wiped out on your snowy sidewalk in the 20 minutes between when it snowed and when you noticed for shovelling. Get sued for another million because you were standing there when a fleeing suspect drove into you and your head went through the windshield to where they were driving and injured their body.
We are currently hopeless.
I don't know if it takes more fuel to warm them up than to let them idle for hours (doesn't sound reasonable) but it certainly can be hard to start them, especially when cold. And being large engines, well, remember that starting an engine is the worst thing you can do because for the first few seconds, there's very little if any oil up in the cylinder area, so most of the wear and tear is in those first few seconds.
Same here with my Dodge Ram. Two, no, three summers ago now, when gas was pushing $2.30 in the midwest, a fill up was about $70.
Thank god I lived only 5 minutes from work at that time. I did the equivalent of only one and a half fill ups the whole summer.
> No more having to call the dispatcher every 8
> hours on ho shots
I KNEW you guys had hookers at the truck stops!
I just didn't think it was so organized.