All the posts here are focusing on defeating the script with technological measures. But basically:
1. You get to read wired for free 2. You get to copy sections of their articles and post them to your own blogs 3. All wired gets is increased chance of attribution (you could still delete the link after pasting) and anonymous statistics on which portions of their stuff people found interesting.
This is much less invasive than paywalls, disabled mouse right clicks or excessive popup/over/under ads. In fact, if you are cool with google analyzing your goat pr0n queries, you should be cool with that because only someone else's thoughts are captured rather than yours. If we want to enjoy good quality free stuff on the web, we should learn to live at least with moderate wishes of its creators.
Why do you think the child's reaction was in any way related to you? He probably didn't consider the possibility of getting lost until you asked the question and ran to his mother in order to avoid really getting lost. Most small children are also shy and avoid strangers without really fearing them (although the evolutionary origin of this shyness is most probably to avoid harm).
Since when is forcing children to parade naked in front of (mostly) non-pedophile strangers considered acceptable in a civilized society? Is it somehow made better by the fact that adults are also forced to parade naked?
Child porn laws need to differentiate between images of voluntarily nude children in the bathtub and children forced to show their privates to strangers so that they can fly to visit grandma.
We are 6.7 billion and counting. Japan itself has 1/3 of US population in an area of a single state. If they want more people, all they need is issue some immigrant visas to residence of somewhat less affluent (but not necessarily dirt poor/crime riden) countries. The way the world is now there is absolutely no reason to push any woman to have more children.
So what's wrong with the current scheme of having a communication device wired to your apartment and backed up by batteries in power failures and that lets 911 dispatchers send someone to your place for help? You will anyway still have power and internet wiring at home. You would think in an emergency it would be permissible to send a strong analog signal on either to communicate.
The rest of your question is based on a situation that will have ceased to exist by the time I drop VOIP.
Great, 50 to 300 meter accuracy in 2D. So helpful when you are dying on the floor in a high-rise apartment building and paramedics are breaking all doors to figure out where the heck you are.
Cell Phones are unaffected by all but the longest term power outages
This is certainly true in my house in SF bay area. There is no AT&T signal anyway, so my phone will not become any more useless in a disaster, even I forget to charge it or the nearest tower is damaged.
A standard "10 minute" computer UPS can keep a cable (or DSL) modem, home router, and VOIP appliance running for hours
Do all Internet infrastructure providers between you and 911 dispatch have UPS/generator solutions to keep running for hours? Is your own UPS any good 3 years after it's installed?
there are a fairly limited number of emergencies that will render you able to dial 911, able to survive until help arrives, but completely unable to speak. It's not impossible, but hardly a common occurrence.
Actually its pretty hard to die quickly. Weather is bleeding, head injury, stroke, poisoning or drug/alcohol overdose, you will likely suffer confusion and pass out hours before you are beyond some chance of survival with modern medical care. Even heart attacks don't commonly result in instant cardiac arrest. Just grabbing the phone and dialing 3 digits is a lot more doable than waiting for dispatcher to pick up and telling your address.
Well, they will not be very confused if AT&T just comes and replaces their local exchange with a version that still serves the same wiring in their homes with the same phone numbers, but handles outbound communication through Internet.
Are you sure your kids will ever be able to use cell phone or VOIP reliably when the power is out and/or injured to the point of being unable to speek or under duress and told not to?
Make sure I can still call a frigging ambulance when the electricity is out to my house and their local DSL box. This should include powering and charging cordless phone base and receiver typically used with VOIP for a few days. And that I can just dial and hang up and have someone local check out my house/apartment, not just give highway patrol my phone number or at most the broad area that GPS suggested.
I still don't like the concept that my 911 or other calls can be disabled by a new worm attacking the unpatched windows idiots, but I am not sure what AT&T can do about that, given that they don't control most of Internet's core infrastructure.
Ah, but practically speaking snow cover will be established during 5 months of subzero temperatures cloud seeding or not. So what remains is raise in temperature from phase transition of lots of water and a heavy cloud cover that keeps the heat from dissipating. Look at thermometer sometime - it gets 10C warmer in 20 minutes once heavy snowfall starts.
Russia is reverting to its industry-over-humans ways. Sure road cleaning might cost a bit, but who would to spend 5 months with subfreezing temperatures but no snow (which would accidentally raise temperatures a bit). No snowmen, no snowballs, no sledding, no respite from pollution by covering up the accumulated gunk with white? And in spring city landscaping will suffer from lack of moisture in soil.
But it only comes in an rpm with redhat-specific dependencies, so it doesn't work on my somewhat less common distribution. Why can't they just provide a mostly-static binary like Opera does?
Nope, terrorists are NECESSARILY stupid, otherwise they would be negotiators. What did Bin Laden achieve by 9/11? We went from hands-off approach to Taliban to toppling the government of what he considered to be the only true Islamic country. You just don't stop the country with one of the world's largest armies by hijacking airplanes or even detonating a couple of dirty bombs. If anything, in the later case we are likely to just forget about laws and nuke the whole middle east.
So yes, security theater may well work to turn back jihad wannabes who hope to ride to their 40 virgins with flaming underwear. The only thing is that airplane travel is getting so complicated that our family just might stop flying for leisure. Perhaps we need some more intimidating but less inconvenient measures. Like a guy with a gun and in army/police uniform seating on each flight but no disassembling your belongings into a million pieces in security lines.
Work in any big company. When releases come out once per year, there is a pretty long time between emergencies. Plus managers are likely to have children and so are sympathetic to 9-5 workday.
It's still a great field with good salary, sane work hours and prospects for advancements. It's just not as compelling as during dot com boom. Women should stop making excuses and go into any good field they like.
Get this right: I don't think the goverment has any business knowing what particular books I bought, or which medicines. What I pay for is my business. THAT I pay someone for something, however, is not entirely our own business.
How do you propose enforcing this in an absolute fashion - the government knows I bought a book, but not that I bought it in Karl Max bookstore on the street corner or on a particular day when it can be inferred what purchase was made?
What if you don't have an immediate access to electrons. Like say you are in one of the holes in AT&T data coverage that Verizon likes to show on a map? We still need a good old way to arrange offline money transfer between two people.
You are contradicting yourself. The unique property of cash is that the government doesn't need to know that you bought some communist books in Barnes and Nobles or that you arranged a private business transaction to voluntary introduce a mind-altering substance into your body. They are still free to jail you if you resort to violence as a result of getting stoned or your ideology. Something tells me that Britain's effort to mandate electronic payments is precisely to track thought crime and precrime.
Not every business is a nationwide chain. Any two people can use a cheque for a transaction without paying a transaction fee or going through inconvenience of setting up a credit card processing service. If I have personal means to verify your trustworthiness I may accept your check regardless of your eligibility to get a credit card. And a pen works just fine when there is no possibility of a network connection to process a card. Just because something works for Wall mart doesn't mean that a street cornet vendor or a one-off private seller should be denied additional options.
If enough people are missing a feature in 1.1.0 release, someone will take the source and add it. As for any product and platform, development is a matter of supply and demand. It could be that physical media like DVDs is simply on the way out and most Mac users are happy with Quicktime player to watch H.264 torrents.
Actually it would be useful to whatever person besides the mother is most likely to be present at delivery time, weather or not that man, woman or child is genetically related to the baby. But as it happens, I am the biological father and yes I am pretty sure, so let's not start with every slashdotter claiming the honors.
We'll be long gone - either in spacial or temporal sense - in a tiny fraction of that time. Even if there are no asteroid impact, killer viruses and so on, we will eventually deplete all natural resources - including ones need to make solar cells and wind turbines - and release enough long-lasting pollutants to make life unsustainable. So, an interesting astronomical curiosity, but no impact on our distant descendants. Now lets go work on being gone spacialy.
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All the posts here are focusing on defeating the script with technological measures. But basically:
1. You get to read wired for free
2. You get to copy sections of their articles and post them to your own blogs
3. All wired gets is increased chance of attribution (you could still delete the link after pasting) and anonymous statistics on which portions of their stuff people found interesting.
This is much less invasive than paywalls, disabled mouse right clicks or excessive popup/over/under ads. In fact, if you are cool with google analyzing your goat pr0n queries, you should be cool with that because only someone else's thoughts are captured rather than yours. If we want to enjoy good quality free stuff on the web, we should learn to live at least with moderate wishes of its creators.
Why do you think the child's reaction was in any way related to you? He probably didn't consider the possibility of getting lost until you asked the question and ran to his mother in order to avoid really getting lost. Most small children are also shy and avoid strangers without really fearing them (although the evolutionary origin of this shyness is most probably to avoid harm).
Since when is forcing children to parade naked in front of (mostly) non-pedophile strangers considered acceptable in a civilized society? Is it somehow made better by the fact that adults are also forced to parade naked?
Child porn laws need to differentiate between images of voluntarily nude children in the bathtub and children forced to show their privates to strangers so that they can fly to visit grandma.
We are 6.7 billion and counting. Japan itself has 1/3 of US population in an area of a single state. If they want more people, all they need is issue some immigrant visas to residence of somewhat less affluent (but not necessarily dirt poor/crime riden) countries. The way the world is now there is absolutely no reason to push any woman to have more children.
So what's wrong with the current scheme of having a communication device wired to your apartment and backed up by batteries in power failures and that lets 911 dispatchers send someone to your place for help? You will anyway still have power and internet wiring at home. You would think in an emergency it would be permissible to send a strong analog signal on either to communicate.
The rest of your question is based on a situation that will have ceased to exist by the time I drop VOIP.
Great, 50 to 300 meter accuracy in 2D. So helpful when you are dying on the floor in a high-rise apartment building and paramedics are breaking all doors to figure out where the heck you are.
Cell Phones are unaffected by all but the longest term power outages
This is certainly true in my house in SF bay area. There is no AT&T signal anyway, so my phone will not become any more useless in a disaster, even I forget to charge it or the nearest tower is damaged.
A standard "10 minute" computer UPS can keep a cable (or DSL) modem, home router, and VOIP appliance running for hours
Do all Internet infrastructure providers between you and 911 dispatch have UPS/generator solutions to keep running for hours? Is your own UPS any good 3 years after it's installed?
there are a fairly limited number of emergencies that will render you able to dial 911, able to survive until help arrives, but completely unable to speak. It's not impossible, but hardly a common occurrence.
Actually its pretty hard to die quickly. Weather is bleeding, head injury, stroke, poisoning or drug/alcohol overdose, you will likely suffer confusion and pass out hours before you are beyond some chance of survival with modern medical care. Even heart attacks don't commonly result in instant cardiac arrest. Just grabbing the phone and dialing 3 digits is a lot more doable than waiting for dispatcher to pick up and telling your address.
Well, they will not be very confused if AT&T just comes and replaces their local exchange with a version that still serves the same wiring in their homes with the same phone numbers, but handles outbound communication through Internet.
Are you sure your kids will ever be able to use cell phone or VOIP reliably when the power is out and/or injured to the point of being unable to speek or under duress and told not to?
Make sure I can still call a frigging ambulance when the electricity is out to my house and their local DSL box. This should include powering and charging cordless phone base and receiver typically used with VOIP for a few days.
And that I can just dial and hang up and have someone local check out my house/apartment, not just give highway patrol my phone number or at most the broad area that GPS suggested.
I still don't like the concept that my 911 or other calls can be disabled by a new worm attacking the unpatched windows idiots, but I am not sure what AT&T can do about that, given that they don't control most of Internet's core infrastructure.
Ah, but practically speaking snow cover will be established during 5 months of subzero temperatures cloud seeding or not. So what remains is raise in temperature from phase transition of lots of water and a heavy cloud cover that keeps the heat from dissipating. Look at thermometer sometime - it gets 10C warmer in 20 minutes once heavy snowfall starts.
Russia is reverting to its industry-over-humans ways. Sure road cleaning might cost a bit, but who would to spend 5 months with subfreezing temperatures but no snow (which would accidentally raise temperatures a bit). No snowmen, no snowballs, no sledding, no respite from pollution by covering up the accumulated gunk with white? And in spring city landscaping will suffer from lack of moisture in soil.
But it only comes in an rpm with redhat-specific dependencies, so it doesn't work on my somewhat less common distribution. Why can't they just provide a mostly-static binary like Opera does?
Nope, terrorists are NECESSARILY stupid, otherwise they would be negotiators. What did Bin Laden achieve by 9/11? We went from hands-off approach to Taliban to toppling the government of what he considered to be the only true Islamic country. You just don't stop the country with one of the world's largest armies by hijacking airplanes or even detonating a couple of dirty bombs. If anything, in the later case we are likely to just forget about laws and nuke the whole middle east.
So yes, security theater may well work to turn back jihad wannabes who hope to ride to their 40 virgins with flaming underwear. The only thing is that airplane travel is getting so complicated that our family just might stop flying for leisure. Perhaps we need some more intimidating but less inconvenient measures. Like a guy with a gun and in army/police uniform seating on each flight but no disassembling your belongings into a million pieces in security lines.
Work in any big company. When releases come out once per year, there is a pretty long time between emergencies. Plus managers are likely to have children and so are sympathetic to 9-5 workday.
It's still a great field with good salary, sane work hours and prospects for advancements. It's just not as compelling as during dot com boom. Women should stop making excuses and go into any good field they like.
Get this right: I don't think the goverment has any business knowing what particular books I bought, or which medicines. What I pay for is my business. THAT I pay someone for something, however, is not entirely our own business.
How do you propose enforcing this in an absolute fashion - the government knows I bought a book, but not that I bought it in Karl Max bookstore on the street corner or on a particular day when it can be inferred what purchase was made?
What if you don't have an immediate access to electrons. Like say you are in one of the holes in AT&T data coverage that Verizon likes to show on a map? We still need a good old way to arrange offline money transfer between two people.
You are contradicting yourself. The unique property of cash is that the government doesn't need to know that you bought some communist books in Barnes and Nobles or that you arranged a private business transaction to voluntary introduce a mind-altering substance into your body. They are still free to jail you if you resort to violence as a result of getting stoned or your ideology. Something tells me that Britain's effort to mandate electronic payments is precisely to track thought crime and precrime.
Not every business is a nationwide chain. Any two people can use a cheque for a transaction without paying a transaction fee or going through inconvenience of setting up a credit card processing service. If I have personal means to verify your trustworthiness I may accept your check regardless of your eligibility to get a credit card. And a pen works just fine when there is no possibility of a network connection to process a card. Just because something works for Wall mart doesn't mean that a street cornet vendor or a one-off private seller should be denied additional options.
Quicktime has no problem playing AVI files. Just install DivX/Theora/whatever plugins to handle the video format.
If enough people are missing a feature in 1.1.0 release, someone will take the source and add it. As for any product and platform, development is a matter of supply and demand. It could be that physical media like DVDs is simply on the way out and most Mac users are happy with Quicktime player to watch H.264 torrents.
Actually it would be useful to whatever person besides the mother is most likely to be present at delivery time, weather or not that man, woman or child is genetically related to the baby. But as it happens, I am the biological father and yes I am pretty sure, so let's not start with every slashdotter claiming the honors.
We'll be long gone - either in spacial or temporal sense - in a tiny fraction of that time. Even if there are no asteroid impact, killer viruses and so on, we will eventually deplete all natural resources - including ones need to make solar cells and wind turbines - and release enough long-lasting pollutants to make life unsustainable. So, an interesting astronomical curiosity, but no impact on our distant descendants. Now lets go work on being gone spacialy.