Why not just tell the feds about a way that terrorists could send their encoded messages over the internet and just put the idea in a few public forums, so we know that the idea is publicly known and could be getting used by (GASP) terrorist networks.
The idea... Put the addresses of all of your cell members on the internet, so that the spam harvesters get the address, and then BL hires Ralsky and other spammers through some front to send email (with a hidden message) to his entire list. The feds can no longer tell which receiver of the email was the intended one, and have no idea how to pursue this primary recipient of the email. Spam has no become a possible channel for terrorist communications, and Ashcroft will have it made illegal...
I know it is a stretch, but so is most of the crap that Ashcroft wants done.
Seriously, I know that it is not just nerds who get pissed off by spam, I wonder how many organized crime participants are pissed off enough about spam that they would put out a hit, or at least threaten him in ways that those of us without connections can't...
Could you make a case for entrapment? This sounds very similar to putting a kid in a candy store and telling him to to take any, then leaving, only to go watch the room on a survailance camera with a cop in the next room.
Who the hell came up with the idea to put the bandwidth controls on the users end of the conection, in fact in hardware the user may own? It sounds like asking for trouble to me...
I assume you are talking about depo. It is nice for all the reasons you mentioned, but there is one important thing that is not there...
Decades of data. No studies on the long term effects of not having a period have ever been performed, the uterine lining is supposed to be flushed regularly, no body knows what leaving it in there like that does to the long term health of the uterus.
I don't think that this is supposed to serve as a theft deterrent, think of the value of having frequent updates of exact position of each vehicle in a fleet, of say... taxi's, law enforcement or other emergency personnel, or trucks for companies that do a lot of over the road shipping. This has "dispatch manager's best friend" written all over it
LoJack does well enough for theft deterrence/recovery, I don't think they are trying to compete in that market...
I live right on (.1 mi from door to trail) an old railroad track->bike trail in Connecticut, it is wonderful (I recently did my first marathon, almost all of my training was on this trail). If they had a shower anywhere within 2 miles of where I work, I would bike to work whenever there is no snow.
The sad part is, I know lots of people in this situation (would bike to work, but...), most of them who don't work with me, and do have access to a shower, are terrified (rightly so) of the damn drivers. I think it would help most if they built small gravel or asphalt trails that mirrored all major commuter corridors, throughout the country, and more bike lanes on secondary roads. This would not only get people off the roads, but it would reduce heart disease and many other nasty things associated with being fat and lazy.
Lets face it, most people are so stubborn that they will not schedule their commute so that they can use mass transit that leaves the station less frequently than once every 5 minutes. The only way to get people off the roads is to provide easier non-mass-transit ways to get around.
I agree that there is certainly a diference in the level of importance in your two groupings, but that doesn't mean that the second group is not worthy. While I don't activly fight for the stuff in the later group, I am really glad that there are people who do. If people didn't care about the latter group, the only people who had enough money to donate money to help the former group would be executives of corporate giants. The later group is really about not allowing the little guy to be reduced to the status of corporate america's bitch.
...is disregarded by motorists but should not be used on sidewalks...
I feel really sorry for the first guy who runs into me ridding one of these things because he was riding it on the sidewalk at 10+MPH and stopped paying attention because he saw some hottie. I will beat the s#!7 out of him!
On the plus side, your comment made me realize possible positive side effects of this toys popularity... Maybe they will Segway lanes and the cyclists can use them...
Of coarse they are "investigating the issue", I am sure they are "investigating the issue", I am sure that they are "investigating" every "issue" that has ever been submitted... When someone asks about that issue.
Even if they are actually investigating it, are they really WORKING on it (read large team of experienced programmers familiar with the code), or are they just working on it (a single pimple faced intern coming up with ideas that his manager shoots down without consideration)?
It has been shown that massive attention is the only way to get action from the Redmond Giant, so... the messenger should not be shot.
I agree with you about the sweaty thing being a nice aspect, but what I whish we would do is, instead of making ways for us to get around without sweating, why don't we make it more convenient to clean up after getting sweaty? I live 12 miles from where I work, in Connecticut, so I know about traffic, and it is this traffic that makes me wish I could ride my bike to work, but being the profuse sweater that I am, I could not got to work once I got to work (did that make sense?) There is a company health club (really big company...) but it is 2.5 miles from my desk. If one of the bathrooms in my building (or even anywhere near my building) had a shower, I would ride my bike to work whenever there is no snow on the ground... but instead I sit in traffic getting pissed off, just like everyone else, and then I spend an hour exercising after I get home. Doesn't make much sense, does it?
How did this get labeled off topic? Anyway, I think it is relevant, so...
It has gyroscopes inside so it can tell what it's orientation is, when the rider leans in any direction he applies a torque to the machine using his weight. This torque is the control input for the vehicle, and onboard computer translates that into different voltages for the two motors (one on each side). The same computers (with the gyroscopes, again) makes sure the machine 'keeps it's balance'. It is really an overpriced simple control system with a couple motors and some gyros...
However, combined with whitelists this could be quite useful. Bayesian filters to filter out spam, except for whitelisted spam. Eg mailing lists of advertisements you sign up to being whitelisted could be effectively. I suppose that when you sign up to a mailing list that would normally be recognized as spam, when it sends a confirmation e-mail your client could recognize it and ask if you want to add it to your whitelist.
This is unnecessary, due to the wonder of the Bayesian filter. When you train your Bayesian filter for YOUR email, it will learn what lists you subscribe to, and even what topics you care about. I am sure that my filter would allow just about anything related to running through, since I receive a lot of valid commercial email about local road races and running catalogs, no need to whitelist stuff.
I agree with you, I think that physically kicking their ass, may not be a good idea (as much as I would love to hold them down while they recieve a good beating).
Why don't all the script kiddies out there put their DDOS to good use and choke the pipe of those who choke ours? It would even make the cost of being a spam friendly ISP a little higher, and push the cost of spamming up...
I don't speak for any group, but here is what I would do...
I would start to tax coorporations and individuals in similar manors so that the little guy, the driving force behind the economy, has more money to spend to keep the economy going. Right now coorporate tax law dictates that coorporations do not pay income tax, they pay a profit tax, in other words, no increase in net worth, no taxes. Even a small coorporate income tax would provide enough government revenue to reduce the tax burden on the american consumer, and stimulate the economy. This would also make it much more difficult for companies to dodge their financial obligations to the government (see what Marvel is doing to Stan).
You make it sound like the gov is a business charging a use fee for foo. Where did you get that idea? Taxes can be doled out in just about anyway the gov wants, they are our elected representatives... so we have representation. All I have heard about is that we are free from taxation without representation, not freedom from taxation for the use of stuff that isn't public.
The truth is, as long as we elect people who want to tax the internet, they can.
There is even recent research
that even suggests that children exposed to pets (and the inherent uncleanlyness) have lower incidence of asthma and allergies down the road.
So you want to leave it up to a librarian to decide that, for instance, 'this girl is too young to be looking up information on birth control'? Besides, the girl would probably never ask because they would be too embarrassed. Then she goes out and makes whoopee, which she is too young to do anyway and gets knocked up... This is only one example, there are many more...
These filters don't only hide inappropriate material, they hide embarrassing, appropriate material.
We just need to face the fact that the only viable filter is a concerned parent, the filtering technology will never be as good as that, and has a long way to go before it even comes close!
Then the problem with that is that it is up to the librarian to decide what is legitimate. That brings the librarian's personal values into the mix, they should be irrelevant.
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Why not just tell the feds about a way that terrorists could send their encoded messages over the internet and just put the idea in a few public forums, so we know that the idea is publicly known and could be getting used by (GASP) terrorist networks.
The idea...
Put the addresses of all of your cell members on the internet, so that the spam harvesters get the address, and then BL hires Ralsky and other spammers through some front to send email (with a hidden message) to his entire list. The feds can no longer tell which receiver of the email was the intended one, and have no idea how to pursue this primary recipient of the email. Spam has no become a possible channel for terrorist communications, and Ashcroft will have it made illegal...
I know it is a stretch, but so is most of the crap that Ashcroft wants done.
Seriously, I know that it is not just nerds who get pissed off by spam, I wonder how many organized crime participants are pissed off enough about spam that they would put out a hit, or at least threaten him in ways that those of us without connections can't...
IUDs are bad! A lot of women have been killed by them, I don't want an ISD (Inter Scrotal Device)
IANAL but...
Could you make a case for entrapment? This sounds very similar to putting a kid in a candy store and telling him to to take any, then leaving, only to go watch the room on a survailance camera with a cop in the next room.
Who the hell came up with the idea to put the bandwidth controls on the users end of the conection, in fact in hardware the user may own? It sounds like asking for trouble to me...
I assume you are talking about depo. It is nice for all the reasons you mentioned, but there is one important thing that is not there...
Decades of data. No studies on the long term effects of not having a period have ever been performed, the uterine lining is supposed to be flushed regularly, no body knows what leaving it in there like that does to the long term health of the uterus.
...this when I submitted the story, but I had not found it yet at the time...
I don't think that this is supposed to serve as a theft deterrent, think of the value of having frequent updates of exact position of each vehicle in a fleet, of say... taxi's, law enforcement or other emergency personnel, or trucks for companies that do a lot of over the road shipping. This has "dispatch manager's best friend" written all over it
LoJack does well enough for theft deterrence/recovery, I don't think they are trying to compete in that market...
I live right on (.1 mi from door to trail) an old railroad track->bike trail in Connecticut, it is wonderful (I recently did my first marathon, almost all of my training was on this trail). If they had a shower anywhere within 2 miles of where I work, I would bike to work whenever there is no snow.
The sad part is, I know lots of people in this situation (would bike to work, but...), most of them who don't work with me, and do have access to a shower, are terrified (rightly so) of the damn drivers. I think it would help most if they built small gravel or asphalt trails that mirrored all major commuter corridors, throughout the country, and more bike lanes on secondary roads. This would not only get people off the roads, but it would reduce heart disease and many other nasty things associated with being fat and lazy.
Lets face it, most people are so stubborn that they will not schedule their commute so that they can use mass transit that leaves the station less frequently than once every 5 minutes. The only way to get people off the roads is to provide easier non-mass-transit ways to get around.
They can tell you to leave, but they can't sue you for being there...
Could someone list the 9? I want to thank them...
I agree that there is certainly a diference in the level of importance in your two groupings, but that doesn't mean that the second group is not worthy.
While I don't activly fight for the stuff in the later group, I am really glad that there are people who do.
If people didn't care about the latter group, the only people who had enough money to donate money to help the former group would be executives of corporate giants.
The later group is really about not allowing the little guy to be reduced to the status of corporate america's bitch.
...is disregarded by motorists but should not be used on sidewalks...
I feel really sorry for the first guy who runs into me ridding one of these things because he was riding it on the sidewalk at 10+MPH and stopped paying attention because he saw some hottie. I will beat the s#!7 out of him!
On the plus side, your comment made me realize possible positive side effects of this toys popularity... Maybe they will Segway lanes and the cyclists can use them...
Of coarse they are "investigating the issue", I am sure they are "investigating the issue", I am sure that they are "investigating" every "issue" that has ever been submitted... When someone asks about that issue.
Even if they are actually investigating it, are they really WORKING on it (read large team of experienced programmers familiar with the code), or are they just working on it (a single pimple faced intern coming up with ideas that his manager shoots down without consideration)?
It has been shown that massive attention is the only way to get action from the Redmond Giant, so... the messenger should not be shot.
I agree with you about the sweaty thing being a nice aspect, but what I whish we would do is, instead of making ways for us to get around without sweating, why don't we make it more convenient to clean up after getting sweaty? I live 12 miles from where I work, in Connecticut, so I know about traffic, and it is this traffic that makes me wish I could ride my bike to work, but being the profuse sweater that I am, I could not got to work once I got to work (did that make sense?) There is a company health club (really big company...) but it is 2.5 miles from my desk. If one of the bathrooms in my building (or even anywhere near my building) had a shower, I would ride my bike to work whenever there is no snow on the ground... but instead I sit in traffic getting pissed off, just like everyone else, and then I spend an hour exercising after I get home. Doesn't make much sense, does it?
How did this get labeled off topic? Anyway, I think it is relevant, so...
It has gyroscopes inside so it can tell what it's orientation is, when the rider leans in any direction he applies a torque to the machine using his weight. This torque is the control input for the vehicle, and onboard computer translates that into different voltages for the two motors (one on each side). The same computers (with the gyroscopes, again) makes sure the machine 'keeps it's balance'. It is really an overpriced simple control system with a couple motors and some gyros...
It's also the most overhyped and overpriced toy ever, and I'm kicking myself for posting it since that just contributes to the problem.
Why did you post it then?
Really though, if you want to get around in areas that a car is not practical, use a bicycle, or walk, and get some exercise while you're at it...
However, combined with whitelists this could be quite useful. Bayesian filters to filter out spam, except for whitelisted spam. Eg mailing lists of advertisements you sign up to being whitelisted could be effectively. I suppose that when you sign up to a mailing list that would normally be recognized as spam, when it sends a confirmation e-mail your client could recognize it and ask if you want to add it to your whitelist.
This is unnecessary, due to the wonder of the Bayesian filter. When you train your Bayesian filter for YOUR email, it will learn what lists you subscribe to, and even what topics you care about. I am sure that my filter would allow just about anything related to running through, since I receive a lot of valid commercial email about local road races and running catalogs, no need to whitelist stuff.
I agree with you, I think that physically kicking their ass, may not be a good idea (as much as I would love to hold them down while they recieve a good beating).
Why don't all the script kiddies out there put their DDOS to good use and choke the pipe of those who choke ours?
It would even make the cost of being a spam friendly ISP a little higher, and push the cost of spamming up...
Interesting thought, but they would have to have a large sample of YOUR valid email to train on...
I don't speak for any group, but here is what I would do...
I would start to tax coorporations and individuals in similar manors so that the little guy, the driving force behind the economy, has more money to spend to keep the economy going. Right now coorporate tax law dictates that coorporations do not pay income tax, they pay a profit tax, in other words, no increase in net worth, no taxes. Even a small coorporate income tax would provide enough government revenue to reduce the tax burden on the american consumer, and stimulate the economy. This would also make it much more difficult for companies to dodge their financial obligations to the government (see what Marvel is doing to Stan).
You make it sound like the gov is a business charging a use fee for foo. Where did you get that idea? Taxes can be doled out in just about anyway the gov wants, they are our elected representatives... so we have representation. All I have heard about is that we are free from taxation without representation, not freedom from taxation for the use of stuff that isn't public.
The truth is, as long as we elect people who want to tax the internet, they can.
Would you have a problem with the gov telling all libraries that recieve funding that they may not shelve certain books?
Also, blocking sites from libraries does restrict the sites author from free speech, he is now only able to speak to those who can afford a computer.
There is even recent research that even suggests that children exposed to pets (and the inherent uncleanlyness) have lower incidence of asthma and allergies down the road.
So you want to leave it up to a librarian to decide that, for instance, 'this girl is too young to be looking up information on birth control'? Besides, the girl would probably never ask because they would be too embarrassed. Then she goes out and makes whoopee, which she is too young to do anyway and gets knocked up... This is only one example, there are many more...
These filters don't only hide inappropriate material, they hide embarrassing, appropriate material.
We just need to face the fact that the only viable filter is a concerned parent, the filtering technology will never be as good as that, and has a long way to go before it even comes close!
Then the problem with that is that it is up to the librarian to decide what is legitimate. That brings the librarian's personal values into the mix, they should be irrelevant.