You might want to look at some of what Gary Kleck has written about the defensive uses of handguns. Personally, I feel much the same way you do, but when looked at from a societal perspective defensive gun use (and his definition of that is very specific) do more to preserve lives than take them.
How practical do you think it is to expand this sort of project to cities across the country?
Very. Chicago is, I understand, laying a massive fiber loop for just this purpose. I don't know how far advanced their scheme is though. It is interesting that cities around the country are cutting back on public services, and yet still have plenty of money to spend spying on us.
If somebody demands that you decrypt, you accidentally drop the USB drive on the floor and step on it. Or flush it down the toilet. I don't expect this to protect my data from large governments that really want it
I'd not try that in England just now, if I were you. If you don't cough up the keys it won't be the data that will need protection.
Doesn't matter. People that don't grasp the importance of data privacy (which is, unfortunately, most of us) are easily swayed by the use of the T and C words. They're just too powerful... no politician, however well-meaning, can stand up to them.
At that point, the Constitution may fail us, and we will have to turn to Congress to create rules that are better adapted for the information age.
Nonsense. The Constitution hasn't "failed us", it is our commitment to honoring its provisions that has wavered. The Constitution is just as relevant and meaningful now as it was two centuries ago. Furthermore, I would argue that it is more important than ever that we observe Constitutional law and hold our elected (and unelected!) officials accountable for their deviances from it.
So far as Congress crafting better rules for the Information Age is concerned... I'd not hold your breath. When they passed the DMCA and the Patriot Act I lost all hope of Congress ever being willing or able to legislate us out of this mess, given that they're most of the reason that we're in it.
You can get a very similar effect by placing a short U-shaped piece of solder into a 110 volt outlet and switching it on.
We used to do that in electronics class in high school. We'd kill power at the breaker panel, and since all the workbenches had multiple A.C. outlets we'd put solder in all of them. When the instructor came in he'd notice the power was off and go flip the breaker. *POW* there'd be a room-filling flash of blue-white light and there would be a dozen or more hot white balls dancing across the table tops. The breaker would immediately pop of course, after multiple short circuits. Oddly, the instructor never remembered to go check the benches first before hitting the breaker: I think he liked to watch the display too.
Still, it would be nice to see the experiment in the article run with a few hundred thousand amperes instead of only 140. And rather than using silicon wafers, use some dirt or rock from areas known to produce ball lightning. Throw some serious current at it and see what happens: silicon may or may not be a component of ball lightning but it probably isn't the only one.
Yeah, well. They don't call it Nano-Proprietary for nothing, I guess. Now, if they'd called themselves Nano-GiveAwayTheCandyStore that would be different.
Well, rights mean very little if you can't enforce them. And that really is the crux of the problem. The big music studios have the rights to their music (well, that of their captive artists, anyway.) What they've lost (and will never fully regain) is the ability to control that distribution.
Single-chip regulator solutions are available: I removed the top from a D-size lithium cell. The top quarter inch or so was just a cap, with a small circuit board beneath it. On it was an IC and a few other parts, which I assume was a charge controller.
A capacitor bank can be used to revive dead nickel-cadmium cells, so long as the reason they're dead is because of a shorted cell. A brief high-current pulse can burn the short away. I've never tried it on other types of batteries, but I've successfully recovered dead Ni-Cads that way.
Can't we all agree to measure everything in "ticks"?
I think we should measure everything in "dicks", since there's been a lot of them waving around in this thread (and around the world, for that matter) and compatibility won't matter since they're all different lengths anyway.
Well... then again, major sites such as those you mention are generally pretty application-agnostic in the mails they send. I get formatted emails from Apple, E-Bay, my bank and many others... and they all render fine in Thunderbird. I suspect this is going to be a non-issue so far as the readability of HTML mail is concerned. What will happen in terms of security for those unfortunate enough to be stuck with Outlook is another question.
Yahoo, however, is offering you a pretty valuable service (free web mail).
Web mail isn't valuable, it's a cheap commodity. Every major (and most minor) service providers offer Web mail free as part of their contract. I have several domains on different hosting providers, and they all offer ad-free Web-based email, so I have more Web mail than I can use and see no reason to pay Yahoo or anyone else. You should check: odds are your ISP or hosting service will give you for free that for which you're shelling out hard earned money to Yahoo.
I don't have enough faith to believe that her getting a ridiculous punishment overturned on appeal would happen either. Besides, unless she has substantial assets or a source of income other than teaching she'll never be able to pay her lawyers.
No, because they'll never get around to reading it.
A friend of mine, way back when he was a Boy Scout, was given a circular disc of wood and told to burn the letters "TUIT" into it. He did so, and when he asked what it meant, he was told "the next time somebody says 'they just haven't got around to it yet', he should hand them the disc and say, 'here you go'".
Actually, mass copyright infringement has the potential to bring disease and death to a number of large corporations... organizations that, frankly, we'd be better off without. In either case, it's a win-win so far as I'm concerned.
The problem is larger than simple copyright infringement: the real issue is the lengths to which these people are willing to go in order to have their way. This is not a matter of traditional copyright law, it's a matter of satisfying a group of businessmen and lawyers of the worst possible stripe. I'm not interested in appeasing a bunch of bullies: that has never worked in the past, won't work now, and won't work in the future, because (like any drug addict) they are constitutionally unable to stop themselves from taking more and more. Also much like an addict, they keep rationalizing how the damage they cause is really for the best. Congress should have put paid to their little plans a long time ago: instead they rolled over on us.
I fail to see why it is the public that must make all the accommodations here, when it comes to the nature and enforcement of copyright law. The point of copyright law was always to give us, the public, more "creative works." So... have the increases in power granted to copyright holders served that purpose? Or not? And if not... maybe that's the wrong approach.
The reality is that the studios need to accommodate us, pure and simple, find a way to make their businesses remain profitable without causing further injury to the legal fabric of our society. That, or go the way of the blacksmith.
Well, if Martin Landau had taken the role of Spock, Leonard Nimoy might have avoided typecasting and actually had a career.
I always liked the remote-controlled Moon landers they used on the show. But yes, I agree with you about him... he was also great as Rollin Hand on Mission: Impossible (ironic that Nimoy eventually replaced him there.) I've always thought Landau would have done well as Vulcan or a Romulan, much as Mark Lenard did. I'm surprised that none of the Star Trek spinoffs ever put him in a such a role.
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You might want to look at some of what Gary Kleck has written about the defensive uses of handguns. Personally, I feel much the same way you do, but when looked at from a societal perspective defensive gun use (and his definition of that is very specific) do more to preserve lives than take them.
How practical do you think it is to expand this sort of project to cities across the country?
Very. Chicago is, I understand, laying a massive fiber loop for just this purpose. I don't know how far advanced their scheme is though. It is interesting that cities around the country are cutting back on public services, and yet still have plenty of money to spend spying on us.
Moreover, is it worth the expense?
Nope.
No, their mistake was a. not knowing what they were stealing and b. not making sure they were all turned off.
If somebody demands that you decrypt, you accidentally drop the USB drive on the floor and step on it. Or flush it down the toilet. I don't expect this to protect my data from large governments that really want it
I'd not try that in England just now, if I were you. If you don't cough up the keys it won't be the data that will need protection.
Who has 40 gigs of personal data that would be encryption worthy anyways?
MP3
Doesn't matter. People that don't grasp the importance of data privacy (which is, unfortunately, most of us) are easily swayed by the use of the T and C words. They're just too powerful ... no politician, however well-meaning, can stand up to them.
At that point, the Constitution may fail us, and we will have to turn to Congress to create rules that are better adapted for the information age.
... I'd not hold your breath. When they passed the DMCA and the Patriot Act I lost all hope of Congress ever being willing or able to legislate us out of this mess, given that they're most of the reason that we're in it.
Nonsense. The Constitution hasn't "failed us", it is our commitment to honoring its provisions that has wavered. The Constitution is just as relevant and meaningful now as it was two centuries ago. Furthermore, I would argue that it is more important than ever that we observe Constitutional law and hold our elected (and unelected!) officials accountable for their deviances from it.
So far as Congress crafting better rules for the Information Age is concerned
Feinstein. Biden. 'Nuff said.
You can get a very similar effect by placing a short U-shaped piece of solder into a 110 volt outlet and switching it on.
We used to do that in electronics class in high school. We'd kill power at the breaker panel, and since all the workbenches had multiple A.C. outlets we'd put solder in all of them. When the instructor came in he'd notice the power was off and go flip the breaker. *POW* there'd be a room-filling flash of blue-white light and there would be a dozen or more hot white balls dancing across the table tops. The breaker would immediately pop of course, after multiple short circuits. Oddly, the instructor never remembered to go check the benches first before hitting the breaker: I think he liked to watch the display too.
Still, it would be nice to see the experiment in the article run with a few hundred thousand amperes instead of only 140. And rather than using silicon wafers, use some dirt or rock from areas known to produce ball lightning. Throw some serious current at it and see what happens: silicon may or may not be a component of ball lightning but it probably isn't the only one.
Then your driver gets deleted somehow. And you're stuck with no way to work.
It's even worse if your driver gets somehow deleted while you're on the road. Happens to my XP box all the time.
Yeah, well. They don't call it Nano-Proprietary for nothing, I guess. Now, if they'd called themselves Nano-GiveAwayTheCandyStore that would be different.
Well, rights mean very little if you can't enforce them. And that really is the crux of the problem. The big music studios have the rights to their music (well, that of their captive artists, anyway.) What they've lost (and will never fully regain) is the ability to control that distribution.
Single-chip regulator solutions are available: I removed the top from a D-size lithium cell. The top quarter inch or so was just a cap, with a small circuit board beneath it. On it was an IC and a few other parts, which I assume was a charge controller.
A capacitor bank can be used to revive dead nickel-cadmium cells, so long as the reason they're dead is because of a shorted cell. A brief high-current pulse can burn the short away. I've never tried it on other types of batteries, but I've successfully recovered dead Ni-Cads that way.
I don't know ... I understand that Sony will be supplying the batteries.
Can't we all agree to measure everything in "ticks"?
I think we should measure everything in "dicks", since there's been a lot of them waving around in this thread (and around the world, for that matter) and compatibility won't matter since they're all different lengths anyway.
I dunno ... I C4 of them in my charger right now.
Well ... then again, major sites such as those you mention are generally pretty application-agnostic in the mails they send. I get formatted emails from Apple, E-Bay, my bank and many others ... and they all render fine in Thunderbird. I suspect this is going to be a non-issue so far as the readability of HTML mail is concerned. What will happen in terms of security for those unfortunate enough to be stuck with Outlook is another question.
Of course there is such a thing as a free lunch, technically it is known as "YNUWAP", which means "Your Neighbor's Unsecured Wireless Access Point."
Yahoo, however, is offering you a pretty valuable service (free web mail).
Web mail isn't valuable, it's a cheap commodity. Every major (and most minor) service providers offer Web mail free as part of their contract. I have several domains on different hosting providers, and they all offer ad-free Web-based email, so I have more Web mail than I can use and see no reason to pay Yahoo or anyone else. You should check: odds are your ISP or hosting service will give you for free that for which you're shelling out hard earned money to Yahoo.
I don't have enough faith to believe that her getting a ridiculous punishment overturned on appeal would happen either. Besides, unless she has substantial assets or a source of income other than teaching she'll never be able to pay her lawyers.
No, because they'll never get around to reading it.
A friend of mine, way back when he was a Boy Scout, was given a circular disc of wood and told to burn the letters "TUIT" into it. He did so, and when he asked what it meant, he was told "the next time somebody says 'they just haven't got around to it yet', he should hand them the disc and say, 'here you go'".
Actually, mass copyright infringement has the potential to bring disease and death to a number of large corporations ... organizations that, frankly, we'd be better off without. In either case, it's a win-win so far as I'm concerned.
... have the increases in power granted to copyright holders served that purpose? Or not? And if not ... maybe that's the wrong approach.
The problem is larger than simple copyright infringement: the real issue is the lengths to which these people are willing to go in order to have their way. This is not a matter of traditional copyright law, it's a matter of satisfying a group of businessmen and lawyers of the worst possible stripe. I'm not interested in appeasing a bunch of bullies: that has never worked in the past, won't work now, and won't work in the future, because (like any drug addict) they are constitutionally unable to stop themselves from taking more and more. Also much like an addict, they keep rationalizing how the damage they cause is really for the best. Congress should have put paid to their little plans a long time ago: instead they rolled over on us.
I fail to see why it is the public that must make all the accommodations here, when it comes to the nature and enforcement of copyright law. The point of copyright law was always to give us, the public, more "creative works." So
The reality is that the studios need to accommodate us, pure and simple, find a way to make their businesses remain profitable without causing further injury to the legal fabric of our society. That, or go the way of the blacksmith.
Well, if Martin Landau had taken the role of Spock, Leonard Nimoy might have avoided typecasting and actually had a career.
... he was also great as Rollin Hand on Mission: Impossible (ironic that Nimoy eventually replaced him there.) I've always thought Landau would have done well as Vulcan or a Romulan, much as Mark Lenard did. I'm surprised that none of the Star Trek spinoffs ever put him in a such a role.
I always liked the remote-controlled Moon landers they used on the show. But yes, I agree with you about him
Now, you have to admit ... that was a good bit of subtle trivia on the GP's part. Arguably Martin Landau's finest hour.
In other words, it's not what you know but which instructors you slept with. I get it.