Well I think the big question is what happens in the event of a failure?
If a meteor falls from the sky there's probably nothing the car can reasonably do.
However if autocars are fitted with appropriate failsafe devices, they may become more safe in the event of an accident. Imagine it -- airbags that anticipate a crash and deploy beforehand, and cars smart enough to breakdown safely...
I don't really think we can be handcuffed for future technology because of people it might disrupt
Nobody stopped making cars because livery owners (people who rent out and care for horses) would lose their livelihood. Nobody stopped making electric lights because candle makers go out of business. Nobody stopped building computers because it would put all the accounting clerks out of business (people paid to add and subtract for businesses)
The fact of that matter is this wouldn't happen overnight. And in the years or decades it took to fully implement the system, people would have a chance to change employment. Some wouldn't go into trucking because of reduced job prospects, some would retire, and some would retrain. For some people it probably wouldn't be a happy move, but one of the basic tenants of capitalism is we value the net effect for society -- not whether one person might be unhappy about the change
The main difference is the baker does not have the capability to modify the bread in some way to prevent you from sharing it with friends and family -- or reselling.
If the baker could somehow make you buy one loaf of bread for yourself, your wive, and each of your three kids, i'm sure they would.
Goverment is of course supposed to protect us from these kind of shenanigans. Hopefully this ruling gets overturned in the supreme court.
In his book SuperFreakanomics Steven Levitt deals with just this issue.
It's actually an interesting read: if you outlaw being a prostitute there is no incentive for Johns to stop using a prostitute. To really outlaw this you'd need a form of enforcement that would stop the behavior (such as castration -- routinely find the johns and have them castrated.) In such a circumstance no one will use a prostitute.
The really funny thing in their study though is prostitutes tend not to get arrested because usually they just turn a free trick for the arresting officer to get out of jail free.
Here's an enormous sigh of relief. As a statistics professor, my #1 gripe with Open Office has been my inability to easily create an x-overbar (sample mean) character. That alone has been the reason I've had to keep booting up a copy of MS Office to edit student handouts.
Bind the "Insert Formula" to the Cntl+F key. Hit Cntl+F type x bar and hit escape. Voila! And the best part? Edit your formulas using a nice GUI and see at the bottom of the screen what you can use to type it out...
In a capitalist society we allow the market to determine the value of people. Some skill sets are scarce and command a higher premium. So because there are more people who would rather be engineers and learn how to solve problems and spend their days doing that then people willing to balance checkbooks each day, the people who balance check books get paid more.
Plus we finance guys generally know how to drive a hard bargain.:-P
Eh. Just wait till the first widely publicized case of china using these "loopholes" to steal govn't secrets. You'll see the tide changing fairly quick after that I think...
I think the point is not that people don't want to stand up for their rights, but that the police officer has the upper hand in any confrontation. They come equipped with weapons (pepperspray, tazers, guns) and if you were to ever try to defend yourself if they were in the wrong you'd still get in trouble (not guilty? trespassing. guilty? striking a police officer)
Years ago, I was walking around campus late at night. I hadn't been drinking, hadn't done anything wrong. I was just pulling an all nighter and looking for some coffee or something. So I went walking around looking for something, ANYTHING that would be open -- gas station or whatever.
A cop saw me and just decided to be a dick, or maybe he was bored. He came up to me and started asking me questions. I tried to be polite but when he asked to see my id, I said no, and he insisted. So I told him this wasn't communist russia and I could very well walk around without an id if I liked.
I ended up taking a ride in the police car that night and spending a night in jail until the judge saw me the next morning. The judge immediately let me go and I have no idea what exactly I was arrested for.
But what should I have done in that situation? When he started handcuffing me I could have refused and punched him in the face, right? But then instead of just having handcuffs on that were too tight I would probably gotten bruised and skinned my face when he pushed me to the ground.
And did the cop suffer? A lawyer told me there wasn't enough to go after the guy (I complied when arrested so wasn't exactly bruised up).
I think the whole point of my rambling is that there needs to be a way for the plebs to fight back against police who overstep their bounds, and I don't think that exists...
And FAIK maybe you don't even need to spoof the location by radio waves. Maybe you can just clip a few wires in the car or hook a neon sign transformer up to the GPS antenna to screw it up enough you'll never pay taxes...
You don't need a full blown GPS simulator for this. You need 1 person with time on their hands and enough knowledge to kludge together something in their garage that works. Then they distribute the plans, and you get smart people who know how to solder building these things. Then you get some infomercials from somebody who commercializes it and builds the unit for $0.30 in china and the damage is done...
The funny thing is you're going to get people who start screwing with their enemies using this technology. Go next to their parked car, fire up the simulator. Have the location alternate between all four corners of oregon every 30 seconds. They'll owe the cost of their car in no time...
The links from the wikipedia article aren't quite safe for work. Anyone watching the short film Der Schlangemann at work should at least turn down the volume, or not watch at all. Lucky for me my boss would probably just laugh.
You know, if you're concerned about accidentally finding something on the net that would alert your boss to the fact that you don't actually do anything, and/or get you in trouble, you could try doing some work and waiting till you get home to surf....
Besides, it's about a doll with a changeable penis size. How safe for work did you think it should be?
Actually in my case I'm an expat so I do actually have to buy DRM'd music over a service like itunes if I want to hear music from home. In theory I could go without or pay ridiculous charges to send CDs through customs, but it's not quite practical. Remember for most people NOT buying anything is not an option, so if the *AA wins and gets DRM everywhere, people won't demand their rights...
It does if you have a removable hard drive. Try it yourself. Go get iTunes, buy something -- it only costs $0.99. Plug in an external hard drive. iTunes thinks it's on a difference omputer and will ask you to authorize your computer. You'll do so, and when you turn off the hard drive (because you go) it'll ask you to authorize your computer again. Basically if it sees any change in your hardware configuration that could just be normal usage you need to reenter your password
I telecommute also, and have to remote desktop in over a VPN. If my network goes down for any reason I pretty much can't work. Yes I've got my blackberry, but it's not quite the same.
Hell, even iTunes phones home and will refuse to play anything if it can't find the server. My network goes out and I may lose my music.
So it all depends on what you're doing. It's possible you do work where you can have the net go out, but it's also possible you need the network to work like me.
I would predict that as the world gets more and more networked, you're going to have more of these network dependent apps, and less you'll be able to do offline.
I am as SOL when my internet goes out and I need to use my apps on my computer as when it goes out and I need to use the internet. As apps become more and more intertwined with the net, this will become increasingly true...
For those that don't open in Open Office I contact the sender and explain to them how they are idiots for using special fonts that most people don't have, setting margins and table widths outside of page boundaries and using tables for bizarre page placements, often leaving huge numbers of empty cells from hours of tinkering, or worst of all, leaving change tracking on so that I see bits and pieces of every document they have ever created in what should be a one page 20K company newsletter.
You must be a client. You'd find things different if your clients were the ones using the bizarre tables...
What about that Voyager episode with the guy from That 70s show as an evil time destroying madmen? That's my personal favorite. When they're done you never had a life!
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Well I think the big question is what happens in the event of a failure?
If a meteor falls from the sky there's probably nothing the car can reasonably do.
However if autocars are fitted with appropriate failsafe devices, they may become more safe in the event of an accident. Imagine it -- airbags that anticipate a crash and deploy beforehand, and cars smart enough to breakdown safely...
I don't really think we can be handcuffed for future technology because of people it might disrupt
Nobody stopped making cars because livery owners (people who rent out and care for horses) would lose their livelihood. Nobody stopped making electric lights because candle makers go out of business. Nobody stopped building computers because it would put all the accounting clerks out of business (people paid to add and subtract for businesses)
The fact of that matter is this wouldn't happen overnight. And in the years or decades it took to fully implement the system, people would have a chance to change employment. Some wouldn't go into trucking because of reduced job prospects, some would retire, and some would retrain. For some people it probably wouldn't be a happy move, but one of the basic tenants of capitalism is we value the net effect for society -- not whether one person might be unhappy about the change
The main difference is the baker does not have the capability to modify the bread in some way to prevent you from sharing it with friends and family -- or reselling.
If the baker could somehow make you buy one loaf of bread for yourself, your wive, and each of your three kids, i'm sure they would.
Goverment is of course supposed to protect us from these kind of shenanigans. Hopefully this ruling gets overturned in the supreme court.
In his book SuperFreakanomics Steven Levitt deals with just this issue. It's actually an interesting read: if you outlaw being a prostitute there is no incentive for Johns to stop using a prostitute. To really outlaw this you'd need a form of enforcement that would stop the behavior (such as castration -- routinely find the johns and have them castrated.) In such a circumstance no one will use a prostitute. The really funny thing in their study though is prostitutes tend not to get arrested because usually they just turn a free trick for the arresting officer to get out of jail free.
Here's an enormous sigh of relief. As a statistics professor, my #1 gripe with Open Office has been my inability to easily create an x-overbar (sample mean) character. That alone has been the reason I've had to keep booting up a copy of MS Office to edit student handouts.
Bind the "Insert Formula" to the Cntl+F key. Hit Cntl+F type x bar and hit escape. Voila! And the best part? Edit your formulas using a nice GUI and see at the bottom of the screen what you can use to type it out...
In a capitalist society we allow the market to determine the value of people. Some skill sets are scarce and command a higher premium. So because there are more people who would rather be engineers and learn how to solve problems and spend their days doing that then people willing to balance checkbooks each day, the people who balance check books get paid more.
:-P
Plus we finance guys generally know how to drive a hard bargain.
The cable does include directional markings.
Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer.
So, you know, the bits don't get confused and take a wrong turn. I hate it when that happens.
Look at the picture. The arrow points in both directions for the "directional markings" which is completely useless even if such a thing did matter...
So you're using Python to call R which calls Fortran and/or C? Then you could put that into parrot? Whoa... Too much abstraction man...
Eh. Just wait till the first widely publicized case of china using these "loopholes" to steal govn't secrets. You'll see the tide changing fairly quick after that I think...
LOL
I think the point is not that people don't want to stand up for their rights, but that the police officer has the upper hand in any confrontation. They come equipped with weapons (pepperspray, tazers, guns) and if you were to ever try to defend yourself if they were in the wrong you'd still get in trouble (not guilty? trespassing. guilty? striking a police officer)
Years ago, I was walking around campus late at night. I hadn't been drinking, hadn't done anything wrong. I was just pulling an all nighter and looking for some coffee or something. So I went walking around looking for something, ANYTHING that would be open -- gas station or whatever.
A cop saw me and just decided to be a dick, or maybe he was bored. He came up to me and started asking me questions. I tried to be polite but when he asked to see my id, I said no, and he insisted. So I told him this wasn't communist russia and I could very well walk around without an id if I liked.
I ended up taking a ride in the police car that night and spending a night in jail until the judge saw me the next morning. The judge immediately let me go and I have no idea what exactly I was arrested for.
But what should I have done in that situation? When he started handcuffing me I could have refused and punched him in the face, right? But then instead of just having handcuffs on that were too tight I would probably gotten bruised and skinned my face when he pushed me to the ground.
And did the cop suffer? A lawyer told me there wasn't enough to go after the guy (I complied when arrested so wasn't exactly bruised up).
I think the whole point of my rambling is that there needs to be a way for the plebs to fight back against police who overstep their bounds, and I don't think that exists...
And FAIK maybe you don't even need to spoof the location by radio waves. Maybe you can just clip a few wires in the car or hook a neon sign transformer up to the GPS antenna to screw it up enough you'll never pay taxes...
You don't need a full blown GPS simulator for this. You need 1 person with time on their hands and enough knowledge to kludge together something in their garage that works. Then they distribute the plans, and you get smart people who know how to solder building these things. Then you get some infomercials from somebody who commercializes it and builds the unit for $0.30 in china and the damage is done...
The funny thing is you're going to get people who start screwing with their enemies using this technology. Go next to their parked car, fire up the simulator. Have the location alternate between all four corners of oregon every 30 seconds. They'll owe the cost of their car in no time...
I guess it all depends who you work for and what you do....
The links from the wikipedia article aren't quite safe for work. Anyone watching the short film Der Schlangemann at work should at least turn down the volume, or not watch at all. Lucky for me my boss would probably just laugh.
You know, if you're concerned about accidentally finding something on the net that would alert your boss to the fact that you don't actually do anything, and/or get you in trouble, you could try doing some work and waiting till you get home to surf....
Besides, it's about a doll with a changeable penis size. How safe for work did you think it should be?
Actually in my case I'm an expat so I do actually have to buy DRM'd music over a service like itunes if I want to hear music from home. In theory I could go without or pay ridiculous charges to send CDs through customs, but it's not quite practical. Remember for most people NOT buying anything is not an option, so if the *AA wins and gets DRM everywhere, people won't demand their rights...
Some of us have to buy DRMd music. The new versin of iTunes is significantly more insidious with how it enforces the DRM. I have iTunes 8.
It does if you have a removable hard drive. Try it yourself. Go get iTunes, buy something -- it only costs $0.99. Plug in an external hard drive. iTunes thinks it's on a difference omputer and will ask you to authorize your computer. You'll do so, and when you turn off the hard drive (because you go) it'll ask you to authorize your computer again. Basically if it sees any change in your hardware configuration that could just be normal usage you need to reenter your password
Right, but what apps are you using?
I telecommute also, and have to remote desktop in over a VPN. If my network goes down for any reason I pretty much can't work. Yes I've got my blackberry, but it's not quite the same.
Hell, even iTunes phones home and will refuse to play anything if it can't find the server. My network goes out and I may lose my music.
So it all depends on what you're doing. It's possible you do work where you can have the net go out, but it's also possible you need the network to work like me.
I would predict that as the world gets more and more networked, you're going to have more of these network dependent apps, and less you'll be able to do offline.
I am as SOL when my internet goes out and I need to use my apps on my computer as when it goes out and I need to use the internet. As apps become more and more intertwined with the net, this will become increasingly true...
You must be a client. You'd find things different if your clients were the ones using the bizarre tables...
22 seconds here on a netbook -- Asus Aspire One running Ubuntu...
What about that Voyager episode with the guy from That 70s show as an evil time destroying madmen? That's my personal favorite. When they're done you never had a life!
I'm interested in the story of the interstate death threats. You can't unring the bell... He needs to share