Freedom of speech does not cover shouting fire in a crowded theatre. Freedom of speech does not cover incitement to violence.
Oddly enough, falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater is from a court case about inciting peace (voicing opposition to a military draft) not being covered as free speech.
A private taxi will get you where you're going way faster than even the most efficient municipal public transit, though at greater cost.
Unless you're in, say, San Francisco at rush hour, and where you want to go is directly along a subway route. Hell, you could often walk or bike faster than a taxi in some cities. Similarly, I found taking the train into New York City from Poughkeepsie (Metro North, municipal public transit) far faster than driving in or taking a taxi would have been to reach Grand Central Terminal.
That said, I agree in principle, the private single-person option will often be superior, primarily because the service is personalized. I just like noting that public transit is often a very good option in many cities, and where it isn't, it's often a chicken/egg problem of "It could be good if more people used it, allowing the number of routes to be increased, and reducing wait times by having more vehicles out, but people won't use it unless it is already good."
My low-end apartment in Texas has both a programmable timer thermostat for the A/C + heating (you need to manually switch modes, it's not a maintain-comfort-zone type system, but you can set it with Wake/Leave/Return/Sleep times and a temperature to maintain until the next time as a weekly schedule, and override as needed), and a Heat-Now / Off-Peak / Vacation-mode button for the water heater. The water heater switch is somehow wired into the local grid, since it also recognizes various holidays (including the crazy floating / observed ones) as being different from normal weekdays (which I think means it'll maintain hot water during otherwise Peak hours, though I usually don't change my usage much).
Indirect Artillery-style Over-The-Horizon firing, with no anti-missile counter measures available to stop it? Being able to spread the acceleration along the barrel instead of requiring a single big explosion might be an advantage somewhere as well (presumably in materials engineering required). Also possibly useful for the rail-gun style underwater shots, where lasers are ineffective, though I'm not sure on the advantage over torpedoes -- possibly speed?
Alternative solution: Get society to stop being so puritanical that blackmail is possible for otherwise innocuous and harmless actions. This also has a bonus effect of eliminating blackmail as a lever for corruption. Additional bonus: when applied to members of congress, eliminates bribery as a method for corruption. In fact, most if not all corruption requires secrecy.
That is, instead of advocating for privacy, advocate for complete and extreme transparency.
Your analogy is a little off -- 4G LTE is not the road (a government maintained piece of central infrastructure available to the public equally), it's closer to the engine (a specific technology that had non-trivial engineering problems that needed to be handled before it could be created). 3G is just a slower engine (also still covered by patents) that also works on the same road (the internet) eventually.
This is what I see you saying: Apple sues because Samsung copies their style : Ford sues GM because they altered the look of gauges on the dashboard on their vehicle to improve the aesthetics and match consumer expectations of UI. This is ok according to you.
Samsung sues because someone uses their hardware technology : GM sues Ford because they use a new more efficient engine that GM spent years designing and getting through regulatory bodies and accepted as a standard and Ford refuses to pay for the license. This is ridiculous according to you.
Those are your claims, as I see them in your post. Am I misinterpreting something there?
The main worry then is who gets to determine what constitutes "intent to cause harm" -- the original case was about handing out an anti-draft flier during World War I. Speaking out against government war policy was an intent to cause harm (to the government's policies). It was later overturned, but still a good cautionary tale regarding censorship.
I'm assuming you're talking about the desktop software and not the store, if that's the case....
Yes, the software, the one you were previously required to use (wifi updates is a recent thing... and still technically requires iTunes to be on the network as well).
1. I listen to music via Rhapsody, Pandora
Pandora is a streaming service, so that's fine as long as you have an internet connection (which I usually don't when I'm bothering to use my iPad)... but how did you get your music into Rhapsody (I don't know that particular app, so this is a serious question)?
2. I buy e-books via Amazon and read them with the Kindle app
Valid enough if you get all you e-books there, but what if you wanted to read them in a different app (e.g. Stanza)? Additionally, purchasing via Amazon to the Kindle App is within the Walled Garden style -- you're using an app to obtain directly from a specific in-app source. What if you bought them on your own, outside of the device (e.g. Drive-Thru RPG/Comics), or had them from an older device in a format incompatible with Kindle or iBooks?
3. I stream movies to my devices via Plex, Netflix, Amazon Instant, Crackle, etc.
Again, streaming is fine if you have an internet connection for it. And, technically, all of that is staying inside the walled garden, using the app to obtain things for you directly, not use data you already have from another source on the device.
4. I backup my phone via iCloud 5. I upgrade my phone over Wifi 6. I buy apps on the phone 7. I buy music on my phone.
All staying inside the walled garden, which I've said works fine.
That says more about you, than the phone...easiest way is to e-mail it to yourself, use DropBox, or use iTunes.
Sending via e-mail -- fails in so many ways (large files, large numbers of files, still already need the app installed to use though at least you could have them and pick the app later). I will also note that I didn't even have e-mail set up at the time (it was my first time using the iPad I'd won), and I didn't bother adding it until much later as it didn't have 3G (so no permanent data source) and generally when I was in range of wifi, I was also in range of a normal computer to use or I could use my phone instead. DropBox -- why should I need to use an external file storage system when the device is directly connected to the computer where the files are? Sure, it would have worked if I was already using DropBox, I suppose, but this is more of an example of exactly what I'm saying: the default Apple-given method is so bad you'd want to go find a different one. iTunes -- yeah, and how well did that work out? That was the entire point of my story, it was a non-obvious methodology. How dare I think it'd be as easy as, say, dragging files onto the device's storage and accessing them there?
" Nope. Apparently that only applies to the iBooks program, so it has to be in the Apple format already. I"
My problem with iProducts is that iTunes is malware, as far as I'm concerned, and Apple expects you to do just about everything through iTunes.
I've found ways around it, eventually, but doing something as simple as importing e-books I'd bought well before the iPhone existed took multiple hours to figure out (for a device marketed as "simple to use, UI-is-everything, it just works"). I tried to add them as "Books" to the device. Nope. Apparently that only applies to the iBooks program, so it has to be in the Apple format already. I tried drag-and-drop. Nope. I looked for other ways to get them onto the device within iTunes and didn't see anything obvious. I ended up using Calibre, a third-party program, to import the books to Stanza. And then discovered that if I wanted to test out a competing e-Book reader app, I need to import the books again, because there's absolutely no data sharing between apps. That's also what clued me in to how to add things in iTunes -- you need to have the app installed first, and import it straight to a specific app.
If you're willing to do everything inside the Walled Garden, sure it works. As soon as you want to step outside, even for data, it's not quite so easy, and can often be quite a hassle.
The Commonwealth Saga includes the concept of perpetual regeneration / rejuvenation, and envisions what the human race would like like in a society where old age is no longer a threat to health and life (along with cloning and some other anti-death insurance extras).
Technically true. Instead, they give the computers to the move production company to use as props, possibly along with other products to various individuals in the system to ensure those props might "accidentally" find their way onto the set without being modified, and have the logo displayed prominently in a couple shots. Also, Apple will do a cross-promotion deal and feature the movie trailer somewhere in return for some screen time. They're also willing to allow for product use without major (or even minor, usually) strings attached, which can make a big difference (and reduces legal costs). But just because the payment is hidden (whether I pay you or reduce your costs is a matter of perspective -- end result is pretty much the same), that doesn't mean it isn't (in some sense) paid for somewhere, and having the systems available for use in movies and shows is definitely in the Apple marketing budget.
That's not due to Hollywood being fanboys. That's all paid-for advertising. Apple pays those shows and movies for product placement. Pretty much anytime you see a real product in a show, it's paid-for product placement.
It would help to know your geographic region. I'll give you Denmark and theUnited States. I specifically chose normal news sites, rather than eco- or cycling-specific news sources, but there's a lot more out there on similar sorts of movements in many municipalities across several nations, including moves to create pedestrian and cyclist only downtown regions.
I don't even know how to express auto-transactions per year in a life-time chance per person. Here, try something like this:
(~40k people / year) / (~310M total population) * (~78 years life expectancy) = ~1% lifetime chance for an auto fatality, or 1 in 100
I also tried it as (1 - ((~40k people / year) / (~310M total population)) )^78 = ~98.9% chance to not die each year for 78 years, which is once again ~1%, or 1 in 100. I think the original number is technically correct, though I won't claim to be the best at probabilities in math, especially with this sort of strange semi-malleable data set, and it really isn't terribly accurate in the end due to the number of changes that will occur over that lifetime... Anyway, how about a 1 in 7750 chance per year? That matches your ~40k fatalities (which I'm assuming is yearly), and the ~310 million current U.S. population.
Pfft, I'm CS. I'm well aware that Linux is (usually) written in C. If I were an EE, I'd probably actually know more about the hardware end. I only care about the algorithm's correctness, not where it runs. I figured things loaded from disk (e.g. the Linux kernel) were loaded by something (e.g. bootstrap code embedded into the hardware, which loads the BIOS from the ROM, which loads the kernel), and that something that could be lower level (e.g. below your Ring 0 - the hardware logic the CPU does when it reads machine code from the registers, which might be complex enough that someone might want to write it in C and let the computer work out how to create the logic gates on the silicon). Of course, I might be mis-remembering what my EE friends said, but it wouldn't surprise me that there was a lower level than the kernel for code to run on, since I know the OSI model has 1.5 layers below the OS kernel.
C Code is Code. It can run higher, equal, or even possibly a little lower level than the kernel (a BIOS could be technically written in C, for example). Most Emebedded C code would run directly on the hardware without any OS or Kernel in between. So no, he's not a computer guy. He's an Electrical Engineer guy, which you are apparently not.
On the contrary, I'm in favor of requiring the warrant for this. I'm saying the argument that privacy is necessary because there is currently danger in the release of SSN, CC#, and so on is security through obscurity. That's not a good argument for needing to retain privacy.
So you're saying you advocate security through obscurity, rather than making the systems that use that information more secure by design such that I could publish those things and not worry?
Linux Live CDs using RAM Disks have been around for quite some time. No permanent storage required. I'm sure you could manage something similar, but allow for some local storage of documents, or allow USB drives for users.
Yes, it can be used for subscriptions (up to a year at a time - you choose how long a given number is valid, between 2 and 12 months). It also has a capped amount of cash associated with it (that you set when creating a new number), so even if the site you're buying from isn't on the level, you'd still only be at risk of losing whatever amount you expected to be paying (until fraud protections kick in), rather than suddenly having your card unusable until you can get the charges reversed.
What we need is a number that can be given out but links to one merchant only. So if these numbers are retrieved by a third party damage is limited as they can only be used on the original site, and it would be trivial to revoke them when the intrusion was discovered.
I know everyone hates on Bank of America, but they have exactly that. It's the main reason I didn't cancel my account there (during all of the other recent issues they've had) - the ShopSafe system they have for their CCs is pretty amazing. You generate a new CC# for online purchases. Once it has been used once, it's linked to that merchant, and will fail if any other merchant attempts to use it (which can be a bit of a hassle on occasion -- Amazon is not the same as Amazon Kindle is not the same as Amazon Marketplace, even if all of those are in a single account system from my perspective -- also fails if the merchant ever randomly changes their listed name or accounts on their end).
I won't defend anything else they may or may not do, since I barely touch most of their services, but as a basic direct-deposit-account-and-credit-card service they've been pretty good for me and the ShopSafe option is pretty cool (and likely patented or something which would explain no other institution managing to do it).
Obama, like Clinton, are 2 of the very few US presidents who came from *nothing* families
"Nothing" families don't send their kids to the most expensive private schools in the state, the way Obama's grandparents (who raised him after his mother's death) were able to do.
Unless said kids can earn a scholarship. That does happen, on occasion. I don't think Obama has seen fit to release his records on the matter (a cursory google search certainly didn't turn anything factual up, just some debunked rumors), but it certainly seems possible he might have earned an academic scholarship, along with possibly some race-based ones. He might even have fulfilled some Affirmative Action / Diversity type quota.
Actually, thinking it over a bit more, I personally know some "nothing" families that certainly managed to send some of their kids to excellent schools, including Harvard and MIT. So yeah, I'll just call that bullshit as a generalization on principle -- anyone becoming President is already an exception to the rule, and a good education, especially in that era, was easily within reach of anyone with the drive and basic intellectual attributes to get there.
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Sadly, no. RIAA is protected from itself, since it only goes after people unable to afford to defend themselves.
Freedom of speech does not cover shouting fire in a crowded theatre.
Freedom of speech does not cover incitement to violence.
Oddly enough, falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater is from a court case about inciting peace (voicing opposition to a military draft) not being covered as free speech.
A private taxi will get you where you're going way faster than even the most efficient municipal public transit, though at greater cost.
Unless you're in, say, San Francisco at rush hour, and where you want to go is directly along a subway route. Hell, you could often walk or bike faster than a taxi in some cities. Similarly, I found taking the train into New York City from Poughkeepsie (Metro North, municipal public transit) far faster than driving in or taking a taxi would have been to reach Grand Central Terminal.
That said, I agree in principle, the private single-person option will often be superior, primarily because the service is personalized. I just like noting that public transit is often a very good option in many cities, and where it isn't, it's often a chicken/egg problem of "It could be good if more people used it, allowing the number of routes to be increased, and reducing wait times by having more vehicles out, but people won't use it unless it is already good."
My low-end apartment in Texas has both a programmable timer thermostat for the A/C + heating (you need to manually switch modes, it's not a maintain-comfort-zone type system, but you can set it with Wake/Leave/Return/Sleep times and a temperature to maintain until the next time as a weekly schedule, and override as needed), and a Heat-Now / Off-Peak / Vacation-mode button for the water heater. The water heater switch is somehow wired into the local grid, since it also recognizes various holidays (including the crazy floating / observed ones) as being different from normal weekdays (which I think means it'll maintain hot water during otherwise Peak hours, though I usually don't change my usage much).
What would a big gun on a ship really do though?
Indirect Artillery-style Over-The-Horizon firing, with no anti-missile counter measures available to stop it? Being able to spread the acceleration along the barrel instead of requiring a single big explosion might be an advantage somewhere as well (presumably in materials engineering required). Also possibly useful for the rail-gun style underwater shots, where lasers are ineffective, though I'm not sure on the advantage over torpedoes -- possibly speed?
Alternative solution: Get society to stop being so puritanical that blackmail is possible for otherwise innocuous and harmless actions. This also has a bonus effect of eliminating blackmail as a lever for corruption. Additional bonus: when applied to members of congress, eliminates bribery as a method for corruption. In fact, most if not all corruption requires secrecy.
That is, instead of advocating for privacy, advocate for complete and extreme transparency.
Your analogy is a little off -- 4G LTE is not the road (a government maintained piece of central infrastructure available to the public equally), it's closer to the engine (a specific technology that had non-trivial engineering problems that needed to be handled before it could be created). 3G is just a slower engine (also still covered by patents) that also works on the same road (the internet) eventually.
This is what I see you saying:
Apple sues because Samsung copies their style : Ford sues GM because they altered the look of gauges on the dashboard on their vehicle to improve the aesthetics and match consumer expectations of UI. This is ok according to you.
Samsung sues because someone uses their hardware technology : GM sues Ford because they use a new more efficient engine that GM spent years designing and getting through regulatory bodies and accepted as a standard and Ford refuses to pay for the license. This is ridiculous according to you.
Those are your claims, as I see them in your post. Am I misinterpreting something there?
The main worry then is who gets to determine what constitutes "intent to cause harm" -- the original case was about handing out an anti-draft flier during World War I. Speaking out against government war policy was an intent to cause harm (to the government's policies). It was later overturned, but still a good cautionary tale regarding censorship.
I'm assuming you're talking about the desktop software and not the store, if that's the case....
Yes, the software, the one you were previously required to use (wifi updates is a recent thing... and still technically requires iTunes to be on the network as well).
1. I listen to music via Rhapsody, Pandora
Pandora is a streaming service, so that's fine as long as you have an internet connection (which I usually don't when I'm bothering to use my iPad)... but how did you get your music into Rhapsody (I don't know that particular app, so this is a serious question)?
2. I buy e-books via Amazon and read them with the Kindle app
Valid enough if you get all you e-books there, but what if you wanted to read them in a different app (e.g. Stanza)? Additionally, purchasing via Amazon to the Kindle App is within the Walled Garden style -- you're using an app to obtain directly from a specific in-app source. What if you bought them on your own, outside of the device (e.g. Drive-Thru RPG/Comics), or had them from an older device in a format incompatible with Kindle or iBooks?
3. I stream movies to my devices via Plex, Netflix, Amazon Instant, Crackle, etc.
Again, streaming is fine if you have an internet connection for it. And, technically, all of that is staying inside the walled garden, using the app to obtain things for you directly, not use data you already have from another source on the device.
4. I backup my phone via iCloud
5. I upgrade my phone over Wifi
6. I buy apps on the phone
7. I buy music on my phone.
All staying inside the walled garden, which I've said works fine.
That says more about you, than the phone...easiest way is to e-mail it to yourself, use DropBox, or use iTunes.
Sending via e-mail -- fails in so many ways (large files, large numbers of files, still already need the app installed to use though at least you could have them and pick the app later). I will also note that I didn't even have e-mail set up at the time (it was my first time using the iPad I'd won), and I didn't bother adding it until much later as it didn't have 3G (so no permanent data source) and generally when I was in range of wifi, I was also in range of a normal computer to use or I could use my phone instead. DropBox -- why should I need to use an external file storage system when the device is directly connected to the computer where the files are? Sure, it would have worked if I was already using DropBox, I suppose, but this is more of an example of exactly what I'm saying: the default Apple-given method is so bad you'd want to go find a different one. iTunes -- yeah, and how well did that work out? That was the entire point of my story, it was a non-obvious methodology. How dare I think it'd be as easy as, say, dragging files onto the device's storage and accessing them there?
" Nope. Apparently that only applies to the iBooks program, so it has to be in the Apple format already. I"
iBooks supports the ePub format and PDFs
You know there's a lot of other formats, right?
My problem with iProducts is that iTunes is malware, as far as I'm concerned, and Apple expects you to do just about everything through iTunes.
I've found ways around it, eventually, but doing something as simple as importing e-books I'd bought well before the iPhone existed took multiple hours to figure out (for a device marketed as "simple to use, UI-is-everything, it just works"). I tried to add them as "Books" to the device. Nope. Apparently that only applies to the iBooks program, so it has to be in the Apple format already. I tried drag-and-drop. Nope. I looked for other ways to get them onto the device within iTunes and didn't see anything obvious. I ended up using Calibre, a third-party program, to import the books to Stanza. And then discovered that if I wanted to test out a competing e-Book reader app, I need to import the books again, because there's absolutely no data sharing between apps. That's also what clued me in to how to add things in iTunes -- you need to have the app installed first, and import it straight to a specific app.
If you're willing to do everything inside the Walled Garden, sure it works. As soon as you want to step outside, even for data, it's not quite so easy, and can often be quite a hassle.
The Commonwealth Saga includes the concept of perpetual regeneration / rejuvenation, and envisions what the human race would like like in a society where old age is no longer a threat to health and life (along with cloning and some other anti-death insurance extras).
Technically true. Instead, they give the computers to the move production company to use as props, possibly along with other products to various individuals in the system to ensure those props might "accidentally" find their way onto the set without being modified, and have the logo displayed prominently in a couple shots. Also, Apple will do a cross-promotion deal and feature the movie trailer somewhere in return for some screen time. They're also willing to allow for product use without major (or even minor, usually) strings attached, which can make a big difference (and reduces legal costs). But just because the payment is hidden (whether I pay you or reduce your costs is a matter of perspective -- end result is pretty much the same), that doesn't mean it isn't (in some sense) paid for somewhere, and having the systems available for use in movies and shows is definitely in the Apple marketing budget.
That's not due to Hollywood being fanboys. That's all paid-for advertising. Apple pays those shows and movies for product placement. Pretty much anytime you see a real product in a show, it's paid-for product placement.
It would help to know your geographic region. I'll give you Denmark and theUnited States. I specifically chose normal news sites, rather than eco- or cycling-specific news sources, but there's a lot more out there on similar sorts of movements in many municipalities across several nations, including moves to create pedestrian and cyclist only downtown regions.
I don't even know how to express auto-transactions per year in a life-time chance per person. Here, try something like this:
(~40k people / year) / (~310M total population) * (~78 years life expectancy) = ~1% lifetime chance for an auto fatality, or 1 in 100
I also tried it as (1 - ((~40k people / year) / (~310M total population)) )^78 = ~98.9% chance to not die each year for 78 years, which is once again ~1%, or 1 in 100. I think the original number is technically correct, though I won't claim to be the best at probabilities in math, especially with this sort of strange semi-malleable data set, and it really isn't terribly accurate in the end due to the number of changes that will occur over that lifetime... Anyway, how about a 1 in 7750 chance per year? That matches your ~40k fatalities (which I'm assuming is yearly), and the ~310 million current U.S. population.
Pfft, I'm CS. I'm well aware that Linux is (usually) written in C. If I were an EE, I'd probably actually know more about the hardware end. I only care about the algorithm's correctness, not where it runs. I figured things loaded from disk (e.g. the Linux kernel) were loaded by something (e.g. bootstrap code embedded into the hardware, which loads the BIOS from the ROM, which loads the kernel), and that something that could be lower level (e.g. below your Ring 0 - the hardware logic the CPU does when it reads machine code from the registers, which might be complex enough that someone might want to write it in C and let the computer work out how to create the logic gates on the silicon). Of course, I might be mis-remembering what my EE friends said, but it wouldn't surprise me that there was a lower level than the kernel for code to run on, since I know the OSI model has 1.5 layers below the OS kernel.
C Code is Code. It can run higher, equal, or even possibly a little lower level than the kernel (a BIOS could be technically written in C, for example). Most Emebedded C code would run directly on the hardware without any OS or Kernel in between. So no, he's not a computer guy. He's an Electrical Engineer guy, which you are apparently not.
On the contrary, I'm in favor of requiring the warrant for this. I'm saying the argument that privacy is necessary because there is currently danger in the release of SSN, CC#, and so on is security through obscurity. That's not a good argument for needing to retain privacy.
So you're saying you advocate security through obscurity, rather than making the systems that use that information more secure by design such that I could publish those things and not worry?
Linux Live CDs using RAM Disks have been around for quite some time. No permanent storage required. I'm sure you could manage something similar, but allow for some local storage of documents, or allow USB drives for users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD
Linux Live CDs using RAM Disks have been around for quite some time. No permanent storage required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD
Yes, it can be used for subscriptions (up to a year at a time - you choose how long a given number is valid, between 2 and 12 months). It also has a capped amount of cash associated with it (that you set when creating a new number), so even if the site you're buying from isn't on the level, you'd still only be at risk of losing whatever amount you expected to be paying (until fraud protections kick in), rather than suddenly having your card unusable until you can get the charges reversed.
What we need is a number that can be given out but links to one merchant only. So if these numbers are retrieved by a third party damage is limited as they can only be used on the original site, and it would be trivial to revoke them when the intrusion was discovered.
I know everyone hates on Bank of America, but they have exactly that. It's the main reason I didn't cancel my account there (during all of the other recent issues they've had) - the ShopSafe system they have for their CCs is pretty amazing. You generate a new CC# for online purchases. Once it has been used once, it's linked to that merchant, and will fail if any other merchant attempts to use it (which can be a bit of a hassle on occasion -- Amazon is not the same as Amazon Kindle is not the same as Amazon Marketplace, even if all of those are in a single account system from my perspective -- also fails if the merchant ever randomly changes their listed name or accounts on their end).
I won't defend anything else they may or may not do, since I barely touch most of their services, but as a basic direct-deposit-account-and-credit-card service they've been pretty good for me and the ShopSafe option is pretty cool (and likely patented or something which would explain no other institution managing to do it).
"Nothing" families don't send their kids to the most expensive private schools in the state, the way Obama's grandparents (who raised him after his mother's death) were able to do.
Unless said kids can earn a scholarship. That does happen, on occasion. I don't think Obama has seen fit to release his records on the matter (a cursory google search certainly didn't turn anything factual up, just some debunked rumors), but it certainly seems possible he might have earned an academic scholarship, along with possibly some race-based ones. He might even have fulfilled some Affirmative Action / Diversity type quota.
Actually, thinking it over a bit more, I personally know some "nothing" families that certainly managed to send some of their kids to excellent schools, including Harvard and MIT. So yeah, I'll just call that bullshit as a generalization on principle -- anyone becoming President is already an exception to the rule, and a good education, especially in that era, was easily within reach of anyone with the drive and basic intellectual attributes to get there.
How are you going to buy ice cream online?
Yes, how would you do that?