Just as "soft" science can't find clear 100% correct answers, the "hard" science can't even figure out the real world to the degree that we can understand math or computer science.
I could know everything there is to know in science; but I'd still know relatively nothing.
1) Make the usual formula film that appeals the the lowest common denominator around the world only exploiting the minimum elements to justify using the franchise. Include a few cameos from the old if anything so those actors can help promote the film.
2) Append to the formula a fan/geek consultant to remove the unforgivable elements and fabricate excuses.
3) Scatter references to fan favorites to raise their nostalgia level every few minutes in order to overpower their defenses.
Action movie set in the future. Not science fiction.
1) Open Source. Its our money, the software should belong to us.
2) The government has computers and a need for software and support of that software. Its already a big target for attacks, their experiences could benefit all of us.
No need to impose or advertise it; vendors would bundle it and/or customize it.
PS: A representative democracy can do anything it wants within the bounds of its Constitution even being able to change that Constitution itself.
This is corporatism. More people will start to WAKE UP as they see that the people don't really have representation.
MegaCorps get our representation with hardly any taxation. Win-Win for them. Nothing new here except we have 1 man trying to do something illustrating just how bad it is to even more people.
Over 60% of the real US economy is SMALL BUSINESS and they pay their fair share of taxes! Its unfair that the weaker businesses bear the burden while the mega corps bribe and sucker people into letting them cheat on their taxes.
History is not on the side of Reaganomics; sucker.
Yeah, the rich should pay nothing...
The USA's economic religion is what is causing the fall of the USA; its an implosion and half the nation is suckered into screwing themselves.
The COST OF LABOR is greater in the USA than the legitimate corporate taxes. They will continue to outsource. These mega "US" corporations are multinational and really have no loyalty to the USA or any other nation. Most do not need to exist. I for one would be ok with slower technological progress if we didn't allow corps to get big enough to buy off the government that regulates them (and by extension never be too big to fail.)
Corporations are created by government and owe their existence to it; there is no reason limitations can not be placed upon large corps so they can not move out. Germany for example, makes corps leaving pay back the benefits and welfare they get from the government... Which makes it extremely difficult to leave without going broke.
I can't believe how well the powerful corporate forces in the USA can manipulate the public so well. It makes you think representative democracy is dead or at least dying as the most dangerous science continues to progress: Psychology.
The banks run the show; they get what they want falling just short of causing riots and even have the gall to undo the housing bill from last week that addressed what EVERYBODY WAS SAYING (except most politicians on either side-- help the home owners don't reward the crooks. Many can now afford their house at its more realistic value. If you think poor minorities caused this mess then you are not smart enough.sorry.)
Now we get to see how corporatist the USA really is-- FINALLY somebody doing the public's will and making "tough" decisions that wouldn't be so hard if the government wasn't broken. Couldn't pick a better time to fix these problems and yet we end up with MORE OF THE SAME. Just watch as this one just barely fails like the rest.
Teaching is a problem because human learning isn't understood. Measurement is not understood either.
Education is NOT business. Only a fool applies business to education (and there are lots of them in recent years.) Just because you went to school doesn't make you an expert on education and just because you can procreate doesn't make you an expert in child development. I'm not a doctor because I've been sick... Politicians are especially bad when it comes to this problem.
Law of human nature: any measurement system will be hacked and exploited. The more rigid the system the more attack vectors-- "letter of the law" is a perfect example.
A few Ideas:
A HUMAN evaluation by a panel of 3 educators will beat a paper graduation exam easily.
Break up subjects MORE and try to eliminate the stigma / attachment to GRADE LEVELS. Some kids should be doing a heavy math sequence BEFORE english, etc. Why should everybody be forced to fit into the same mold?? The larger the school, the more alternatives should be provided; there is more than 1 way to teach something.
School Psychologist. Emotional issues are the #1 problem in education by far. (Lack of proper parenting aside...)
Child development and physiology. Not tradition. Being labeled BAD or SLOW does not help anymore than picking on a fat kid helps them lose weight. Young children wake up sooner; playtime IS development.
History. The modern world was created by people using OLD SCHOOL education without technology or involving the legal system. Learning math with an abacus or slide rule may be highly beneficial for a large number of people.
Parent Grading? Factor in the parents, if anything to help the system-- but it could put pressure on parents; who will have a harder time claiming their brat is perfect when they themselves rank poorly. (school psychologist??)
Dog Training. Ever try it? Big part of it is training THE OWNER. Its for dogs but not for kids?
No performance pay. It encourages exploits more than bragging your server is unhackable at defcon. Bad Apples shouldn't sour the whole bunch. There will ALWAYS be some corruption and there will ALWAYS be some bad educators (plus 1 style doesn't fit all.) Transferring teachers is already done - sometimes they shape up when moved around.
Culture. Sports team success impacts the college's state funding. I rest my case.
Gasoline takes a lot to refine and collect but it is cheap because the energy is free; you can't recycle anything - that is the problem. Duuuuh, right back at you?
Entirely devoid of value? Try that last line. google flow batteries and see how the things are in use and have losses around 90%. I bet that we expend at least 10% of oil just refining and transporting it as gas. Its related to your post on how batteries all suck; this is a battery that does not suck, but its not portable.
ok more literal:
Propane is fuel container exchange in use today. not a new idea.
Batteries are different and have their downsides; but they are sustainable and if we replace them like we do propane tanks we can use them without inventing the super battery; plus lower initial costs for introduction and upgrades. I'd rather SWAP my "tank" all the time than have a combustion engine.
It demoralizes people when the system doesn't work which for MANY people causes them to participate LESS. Electronic voting adds to this as well as all the 1 day juggling game.
Setting TESTS to limit voting is fundamentally undemocratic! There has to be as low a barrier as humanly possible in order to uphold the fundamental ideals of representative democracy. Its that simple.
We've had poll taxes, poll tests, bureaucratic games, indirect poll taxes, poor physical access, computer skills, reading skills (legal skills,) etc. a HUGE list of illegal, intellectually dishonest, and immoral acts that have been done and CONTINUE to be done.
I think the voting system is severely flawed and a proper system would never have allowed computers in the 1st place. Its a manifestation of a bigger problem; people get hung up on the symptoms far too much. Problem is that nearly every voting system around the world is DEFINED and REGULATED by the politicians the existing system produces.
Vote by mail does not protect identity as well and has many more attack vectors for privacy.
Mailed votes here are not even counted unless the margin is close enough to trigger it (which is reasonable; but you don't feel like your voted counted.)
Mailed votes HAVE been lost; as well as turned up with discrepancies that draws their validity into question.
Far less important things are justified for national holidays. Voting is most important.
Actually, a Voting WEEK would be a far better alternative. Can't get people to volunteer? Well, then democracy doesn't matter enough to them and despotism is around the corner.
The USA squandered many of its resources and doesn't manage the ones it has left properly either (including the exploited external resources the USA has had working control over for decades.)
The USA mismanaged so much that its no surprise other nations ignore their "advice."
That last Bond movie should have been about Lithium instead of privatizing water!
Most realistic Bond movie ever! Somebody who can actually READ must have written that film; as opposed to previous Bond toons - which could have been done by an illiterate adult virgin who watched too many cartoons and movies from the 50s.
Having slaughtered that sacred cow, I will say the old Bond-Toons have their place in entertainment. "The Bond Identity" movies are Bond in name only.
(Ok, I'm reaching here-- but ideas in the movie are new to many Americans. baby steps...)
I'm sure a study could be done and I know there are already studies similar enough to prove a significant number would MISREAD the paper trail. I've seen ones on how people see something that is NOT there because they expect something else; its more than your think and increases with being tired etc.
These people are not "crazy" or stupid. Its also unfair to blame lazy people who wouldn't make an effort to verify or bother to fight it and revote (since many people vote AGAINST somebody, make the errors for the 3rd party when you hack it.) No discrimination. period.
WTF is it with not having a legit DAY OFF? Its unfair to hard working TIRED people who don't want to fight their boss. Officially, you can not be punished...We all know how little those laws really work. It has to be worth the effort/risk/loss beyond just the time involved to vote let alone figure out who to vote for with a pathetic media, less free time, and no newspaper.
If you think voting should "filter" people out, then you should be arguing something else.
I am not surprised by the TROLL, if you contain too many ideas in a posting you are bound to hurt the posting. Especially if you try to be as short as possible on each concept.
To clarify:
Open Source can have a business model, but it is not based upon production but upon a service; therefore, it does not make I.P. money.
I am not for extreme consumption simply to compensate for the fact we can't restrain our reproduction. Its the larger issue nobody will talk about but is at the heart of the panic to create and protect job markets to fulfill an increasing demand (aside from the rich and powerful maintaining their power.)
You give them a huge advantage just by starting from the perspective that it is property. Characterizing the intangible as tangible.
The system was created more reasonably for the purposes of promoting the betterment of society; it has only drifted further from that with time... In addition, much of the "products" have become largely vapid if not harming society (Monsanto or large NiMH batteries for example.)
Music existed before copyright law. Open Source exists without profit. Books are better on paper for most people. Films existed before VHS and BETA. Shakespeare existed before Film and made a living. Inventors existed before patents; universities and the military discovered MOST our technology from outside the "I.P." mentality.
Corporatism means government protecting business from progress and its customers; at its own request. Did the trains stop cars? What about the ICEMAN? What about the Whip makers? They have been reduced to supplying niche markets... Record Producers are dated ("Record" in the title should be a give away.)
Beside all that, are our lives actually all that greater from all these things they claim wouldn't have existed without I.P? I love some music, but I could have lived without it; possibly better.
Beyond all of this, the world is overpopulated and we must create over-consumption in order to provide employment for so many people. So we engineer a society who's primary function is consumption (demand side, not supply.) I've heard to maintain an EU quality lifestyle the world can only handle 2 billion people.
Society subjectively defines the lines that should not be crossed; apparently, this society has decided the lines for Nazi's is different from our own side.
Soldiers lose their lives for useless causes, missions, or by accident-- that is reality! It is the risk they take. One can only hope their bad luck results in something worthwhile. Most people die for nothing and some of them are soldiers.
I can not see why consequences less than death are so horrible we can not dish it out to even well intentioned grunts. Obviously, if you place yourself in a double-bind situation you risk two bad outcomes; but it can be worth the risk. (If politicians had real risk would most the cowards we have today even have tried to get in office?)
The EV1 didn't contribute much of anything. Tesla's electronics are nice but they don't either.
The physics and electronics used at the heart of the problem is not real innovation its just educated application of existing knowledge. Its just smart to use 3 phase 400+V mass produced motors with modern electronic power conversion that isn't more breakthrough than the power conversion used in modern welding equipment.
There will be future progress like picking better motor size to power ratios for the best voltage etc. but outside of new electronics technology, nothing that new. The real space for actual invention is in power storage itself. Now somebody could use flywheels for storage and beat out batteries for decades to come and it would be "new" except that there were buses generations ago that did just that...
The market's model has room for real innovation as well; a per-mile model or battery swap stations. Your "battery" now is a liquid you pour into a tank after going an equally LIMITED range.
FYI: Electric cars have LESS parts to break and LESS to wear out. At least by not using wheel hub motors the electric motor will last...
Obama has hardly been in office and amazingly I even ran into a moron who still thought bush was president.
Obama used the lack of info about him to his advantage and used the appearance of common sense reason (which didn't exist for 8 years.) This caused the public to apply their own reason to fill in the gaps; therefore making Obama the most appealing candidate possible to them. (That is, unless you hate your own positions.)
People should scream on this; but I'm not so clear on what is going on here. Obama is clever in how he times info dumps and intentional leaks (which controls the situation.) I find this info breaking at the WORST TIME and getting so much coverage to be uncharacteristic. I'm waiting to see what is afoot. If Obama personally wanted to push this he'd do the usual news dump on friday under the cover of some bigger news.
Run the CAPTCHA on a java applet! This imposes a time delay for each attempt! (plus the bots have to install java.)
Make it a complex applet that does encryption and uses that DRM that microsoft uses to steal our own monitors away from us... Don't have DisplayPort? then your a bot... can't stand waiting a minute for the applet to load? then your a bot... come back a week later after giving up (because you didn't want to install java) then you are human.;-)
I won't touch their "meat" because it has to much cow fecal matter in it.
Only grade A meat for me.
Don't turn science into a religion.
Just as "soft" science can't find clear 100% correct answers, the "hard" science can't even figure out the real world to the degree that we can understand math or computer science.
I could know everything there is to know in science; but I'd still know relatively nothing.
1) Make the usual formula film that appeals the the lowest common denominator around the world only exploiting the minimum elements to justify using the franchise. Include a few cameos from the old if anything so those actors can help promote the film.
2) Append to the formula a fan/geek consultant to remove the unforgivable elements and fabricate excuses.
3) Scatter references to fan favorites to raise their nostalgia level every few minutes in order to overpower their defenses.
Action movie set in the future. Not science fiction.
1) Open Source. Its our money, the software should belong to us.
2) The government has computers and a need for software and support of that software. Its already a big target for attacks, their experiences could benefit all of us.
No need to impose or advertise it; vendors would bundle it and/or customize it.
PS: A representative democracy can do anything it wants within the bounds of its Constitution even being able to change that Constitution itself.
This is corporatism. More people will start to WAKE UP as they see that the people don't really have representation.
MegaCorps get our representation with hardly any taxation. Win-Win for them. Nothing new here except we have 1 man trying to do something illustrating just how bad it is to even more people.
Over 60% of the real US economy is SMALL BUSINESS and they pay their fair share of taxes! Its unfair that the weaker businesses bear the burden while the mega corps bribe and sucker people into letting them cheat on their taxes.
History is not on the side of Reaganomics; sucker.
Yeah, the rich should pay nothing...
The USA's economic religion is what is causing the fall of the USA; its an implosion and half the nation is suckered into screwing themselves.
The COST OF LABOR is greater in the USA than the legitimate corporate taxes. They will continue to outsource. These mega "US" corporations are multinational and really have no loyalty to the USA or any other nation. Most do not need to exist. I for one would be ok with slower technological progress if we didn't allow corps to get big enough to buy off the government that regulates them (and by extension never be too big to fail.)
Corporations are created by government and owe their existence to it; there is no reason limitations can not be placed upon large corps so they can not move out. Germany for example, makes corps leaving pay back the benefits and welfare they get from the government... Which makes it extremely difficult to leave without going broke.
I can't believe how well the powerful corporate forces in the USA can manipulate the public so well. It makes you think representative democracy is dead or at least dying as the most dangerous science continues to progress: Psychology.
The banks run the show; they get what they want falling just short of causing riots and even have the gall to undo the housing bill from last week that addressed what EVERYBODY WAS SAYING (except most politicians on either side-- help the home owners don't reward the crooks. Many can now afford their house at its more realistic value. If you think poor minorities caused this mess then you are not smart enough.sorry.)
Now we get to see how corporatist the USA really is-- FINALLY somebody doing the public's will and making "tough" decisions that wouldn't be so hard if the government wasn't broken. Couldn't pick a better time to fix these problems and yet we end up with MORE OF THE SAME. Just watch as this one just barely fails like the rest.
We switched 1 pig for another.
Who would be Snowball?
Teaching is a problem because human learning isn't understood. Measurement is not understood either.
Education is NOT business. Only a fool applies business to education (and there are lots of them in recent years.) Just because you went to school doesn't make you an expert on education and just because you can procreate doesn't make you an expert in child development. I'm not a doctor because I've been sick... Politicians are especially bad when it comes to this problem.
Law of human nature: any measurement system will be hacked and exploited. The more rigid the system the more attack vectors-- "letter of the law" is a perfect example.
A few Ideas:
A HUMAN evaluation by a panel of 3 educators will beat a paper graduation exam easily.
Break up subjects MORE and try to eliminate the stigma / attachment to GRADE LEVELS. Some kids should be doing a heavy math sequence BEFORE english, etc. Why should everybody be forced to fit into the same mold?? The larger the school, the more alternatives should be provided; there is more than 1 way to teach something.
School Psychologist. Emotional issues are the #1 problem in education by far. (Lack of proper parenting aside...)
Child development and physiology. Not tradition. Being labeled BAD or SLOW does not help anymore than picking on a fat kid helps them lose weight. Young children wake up sooner; playtime IS development.
History. The modern world was created by people using OLD SCHOOL education without technology or involving the legal system. Learning math with an abacus or slide rule may be highly beneficial for a large number of people.
Parent Grading? Factor in the parents, if anything to help the system-- but it could put pressure on parents; who will have a harder time claiming their brat is perfect when they themselves rank poorly. (school psychologist??)
Dog Training. Ever try it? Big part of it is training THE OWNER. Its for dogs but not for kids?
No performance pay. It encourages exploits more than bragging your server is unhackable at defcon. Bad Apples shouldn't sour the whole bunch. There will ALWAYS be some corruption and there will ALWAYS be some bad educators (plus 1 style doesn't fit all.) Transferring teachers is already done - sometimes they shape up when moved around.
Culture. Sports team success impacts the college's state funding. I rest my case.
Point was not literally... ug
Gasoline takes a lot to refine and collect but it is cheap because the energy is free; you can't recycle anything - that is the problem. Duuuuh, right back at you?
Entirely devoid of value? Try that last line. google flow batteries and see how the things are in use and have losses around 90%. I bet that we expend at least 10% of oil just refining and transporting it as gas. Its related to your post on how batteries all suck; this is a battery that does not suck, but its not portable.
ok more literal:
Propane is fuel container exchange in use today. not a new idea.
Batteries are different and have their downsides; but they are sustainable and if we replace them like we do propane tanks we can use them without inventing the super battery; plus lower initial costs for introduction and upgrades. I'd rather SWAP my "tank" all the time than have a combustion engine.
Don't throw stones when your windows are made of glass.
Resource management advice isn't something the USA has the credentials on. I figured I'd trigger flag wavers.
It demoralizes people when the system doesn't work which for MANY people causes them to participate LESS. Electronic voting adds to this as well as all the 1 day juggling game.
Setting TESTS to limit voting is fundamentally undemocratic! There has to be as low a barrier as humanly possible in order to uphold the fundamental ideals of representative democracy. Its that simple.
We've had poll taxes, poll tests, bureaucratic games, indirect poll taxes, poor physical access, computer skills, reading skills (legal skills,) etc. a HUGE list of illegal, intellectually dishonest, and immoral acts that have been done and CONTINUE to be done.
I think the voting system is severely flawed and a proper system would never have allowed computers in the 1st place. Its a manifestation of a bigger problem; people get hung up on the symptoms far too much. Problem is that nearly every voting system around the world is DEFINED and REGULATED by the politicians the existing system produces.
Vote by mail does not protect identity as well and has many more attack vectors for privacy.
Mailed votes here are not even counted unless the margin is close enough to trigger it (which is reasonable; but you don't feel like your voted counted.)
Mailed votes HAVE been lost; as well as turned up with discrepancies that draws their validity into question.
Far less important things are justified for national holidays. Voting is most important.
Actually, a Voting WEEK would be a far better alternative. Can't get people to volunteer? Well, then democracy doesn't matter enough to them and despotism is around the corner.
Batteries do not suck. They are different.
If gasoline was SOLID, you'd swap out your tank.
If gas had less energy density, you'd have a bigger tank and smaller range.
If gasoline was a GAS it would be in changeable pressure tanks like propane.
Gas engines are horribly wasteful while most batteries are also highly wasteful.
FYI: A Flow Battery is not portable but does not waste energy; its a really great battery that is being used for solar and wind power.
The USA squandered many of its resources and doesn't manage the ones it has left properly either (including the exploited external resources the USA has had working control over for decades.)
The USA mismanaged so much that its no surprise other nations ignore their "advice."
That last Bond movie should have been about Lithium instead of privatizing water!
Most realistic Bond movie ever! Somebody who can actually READ must have written that film; as opposed to previous Bond toons - which could have been done by an illiterate adult virgin who watched too many cartoons and movies from the 50s.
Having slaughtered that sacred cow, I will say the old Bond-Toons have their place in entertainment. "The Bond Identity" movies are Bond in name only.
(Ok, I'm reaching here-- but ideas in the movie are new to many Americans. baby steps...)
I'm sure a study could be done and I know there are already studies similar enough to prove a significant number would MISREAD the paper trail. I've seen ones on how people see something that is NOT there because they expect something else; its more than your think and increases with being tired etc.
These people are not "crazy" or stupid. Its also unfair to blame lazy people who wouldn't make an effort to verify or bother to fight it and revote (since many people vote AGAINST somebody, make the errors for the 3rd party when you hack it.) No discrimination. period.
WTF is it with not having a legit DAY OFF? Its unfair to hard working TIRED people who don't want to fight their boss. Officially, you can not be punished...We all know how little those laws really work. It has to be worth the effort/risk/loss beyond just the time involved to vote let alone figure out who to vote for with a pathetic media, less free time, and no newspaper.
If you think voting should "filter" people out, then you should be arguing something else.
I am not surprised by the TROLL, if you contain too many ideas in a posting you are bound to hurt the posting. Especially if you try to be as short as possible on each concept.
To clarify:
Open Source can have a business model, but it is not based upon production but upon a service; therefore, it does not make I.P. money.
I am not for extreme consumption simply to compensate for the fact we can't restrain our reproduction. Its the larger issue nobody will talk about but is at the heart of the panic to create and protect job markets to fulfill an increasing demand (aside from the rich and powerful maintaining their power.)
I.P. is propaganda plain and simple.
You give them a huge advantage just by starting from the perspective that it is property. Characterizing the intangible as tangible.
The system was created more reasonably for the purposes of promoting the betterment of society; it has only drifted further from that with time... In addition, much of the "products" have become largely vapid if not harming society (Monsanto or large NiMH batteries for example.)
Music existed before copyright law.
Open Source exists without profit.
Books are better on paper for most people.
Films existed before VHS and BETA.
Shakespeare existed before Film and made a living.
Inventors existed before patents; universities and the military discovered MOST our technology from outside the "I.P." mentality.
Corporatism means government protecting business from progress and its customers; at its own request. Did the trains stop cars? What about the ICEMAN? What about the Whip makers? They have been reduced to supplying niche markets... Record Producers are dated ("Record" in the title should be a give away.)
Beside all that, are our lives actually all that greater from all these things they claim wouldn't have existed without I.P? I love some music, but I could have lived without it; possibly better.
Beyond all of this, the world is overpopulated and we must create over-consumption in order to provide employment for so many people. So we engineer a society who's primary function is consumption (demand side, not supply.) I've heard to maintain an EU quality lifestyle the world can only handle 2 billion people.
Society subjectively defines the lines that should not be crossed; apparently, this society has decided the lines for Nazi's is different from our own side.
Soldiers lose their lives for useless causes, missions, or by accident-- that is reality! It is the risk they take. One can only hope their bad luck results in something worthwhile. Most people die for nothing and some of them are soldiers.
I can not see why consequences less than death are so horrible we can not dish it out to even well intentioned grunts. Obviously, if you place yourself in a double-bind situation you risk two bad outcomes; but it can be worth the risk. (If politicians had real risk would most the cowards we have today even have tried to get in office?)
If ending the ponzi scheme you were roped into, screwed you worse than the procrastination keeping the ponzi scheme going - would you take the losses?
If you could prolong it beyond your lifetime would you take the loss?
The EV1 didn't contribute much of anything. Tesla's electronics are nice but they don't either.
The physics and electronics used at the heart of the problem is not real innovation its just educated application of existing knowledge. Its just smart to use 3 phase 400+V mass produced motors with modern electronic power conversion that isn't more breakthrough than the power conversion used in modern welding equipment.
There will be future progress like picking better motor size to power ratios for the best voltage etc. but outside of new electronics technology, nothing that new. The real space for actual invention is in power storage itself. Now somebody could use flywheels for storage and beat out batteries for decades to come and it would be "new" except that there were buses generations ago that did just that...
The market's model has room for real innovation as well; a per-mile model or battery swap stations. Your "battery" now is a liquid you pour into a tank after going an equally LIMITED range.
FYI: Electric cars have LESS parts to break and LESS to wear out. At least by not using wheel hub motors the electric motor will last...
"A Hybrid is like a mermaid. When you want a fish you get a woman and when you want a woman you get a fish."
-unknown
Obama has hardly been in office and amazingly I even ran into a moron who still thought bush was president.
Obama used the lack of info about him to his advantage and used the appearance of common sense reason (which didn't exist for 8 years.) This caused the public to apply their own reason to fill in the gaps; therefore making Obama the most appealing candidate possible to them. (That is, unless you hate your own positions.)
People should scream on this; but I'm not so clear on what is going on here. Obama is clever in how he times info dumps and intentional leaks (which controls the situation.) I find this info breaking at the WORST TIME and getting so much coverage to be uncharacteristic. I'm waiting to see what is afoot. If Obama personally wanted to push this he'd do the usual news dump on friday under the cover of some bigger news.
Run the CAPTCHA on a java applet!
This imposes a time delay for each attempt! (plus the bots have to install java.)
Make it a complex applet that does encryption and uses that DRM that microsoft uses to steal our own monitors away from us... Don't have DisplayPort? then your a bot... can't stand waiting a minute for the applet to load? then your a bot... come back a week later after giving up (because you didn't want to install java) then you are human. ;-)