at some altitude your right to that airspace ends, and I don't think the legal definition is "shotgun range"
The current solution of picking an arbitrary altitude to define what is/isn't trespass does not address the problem of "spying", clearly most people think that google earth is not "spying". Drones are viscerally different from government satellites with telescopes, drones are live and "in your face", there is no way of knowing who is operating it, or what is in its payload. Blasting it with a shotgun may not be legal or even reasonable, but it is certainly understandable and excusable.
Way back in the 70's I was peppered with birdshot that bounced of an internal wall (wooden panel), the pellets travelled less than 10 meters in total, they had lost so much energy by the time they got to me that they didn't even break the skin. Outside a shotgun is lethal under ~50 meters, a.22 rifle 100-150 meters, a 303 ~5km. My own experience living in the Aussie bush (where shooting rabbits for dog food was the norm) says that with a bit of common sense you really only need worry about high power rifles hitting something you can't already see.
A Civil trial over the amount of $20 can go before a jury
Not really, most western nations have "small claims" courts where the claim is heard by a magistrate or a government mandated arbirator, many of those courts also have a minimum damage limit, IIRC here in Oz it's $100. Aside from that, post-trauma financial revenge on the company who (deliberately or negligently) replaced your child's arms with flippers, is not adequate compensation. Nothing is.
The FDA plays a critical international role in assessing drugs and food additives before flippers start appearing in their users offspring, but the organisation itself is infamously inefficient and often seen as ineffective. IMO the central role the FDA fills would be better filled by a UN backed institution such as WHO or similar. It would be funded by the drug manufacturers and nations who used it, nations would institute their own laws based on the (public domain) findings / recommendations (and any other data they think is pertinent). Personally I would like to see all drugs decriminalised, with the caveat that the "first do no harm" pledge still means that only robustly tested drugs can be legally prescribed by a qualified doctor.
The aviation industry and many other industries manage to efficiently apply strict and effective procedures to mundane things like aircraft maintenance and public water treatment, the pharmaceutical industry could do the same thing if the "corporate will" to protect the pharmaceutical industry's users was stronger than their competitive instincts toward each other.
No economy, not even primitive bartering economies, can exist without law. Specifically property law.
BTW: Russia/USSR has never been a "socialist state" in any meaningful sense of the term. Yes it labeled itself "socialist", in much the same way as the present day "Democratic republic of Congo" labels itself "democratic".
The universe itself is trying to kill you, it's how you respond that counts. For example I wouldn't be surprised if a dedicated scientist who thought he was dying in agony from his frog find, started typing up his journal submission to Nature before he passed out.
Excellent distinction, one of those things I have never noticed but as soon as I read it, it was "obvious". An exception might be jellyfish who regularly use their stingers for both purposes, jellyfish stingers are more like a tiny speargun than a needle or a spine.
More likely you are using BT for legal purposes without realising it, for example,eg: my WoT game client uses bittorrent for updates and installs, windows 10 has an option to use BT for auto updates. In other words BT is basically the industry standard for remote updates/installs.
Feynman, who worked on the Bomb, suffered psychological problems after the bomb was dropped, at first he celebrated the bombing of Hiroshima with every one else on the project but quickly became angry at himself for "not noticing" the goal of the project had changed. The original (and rational) goal was to develop a bomb before Hitler did, ending the war with Japan did not come up until after Germany had already surrendered. He also had just lost his wife, he fell into a deep nihilism, he became convinced that planning for tomorrow was futile because it was all going to be vaporised. There's an interview with him discussing this on YouTube, I leave it as an exercise for the reader to find it.
Conveniently forgetting Stalin and his camps were a major part of the allied forces? It was called the Russian front and it was the most brutal and inhumane battle fields of the war, both to their own people and to the enemy. Fact is all sides act like barbarians in all out war, none can hold their head high, the firebombing of Dresden and other European cities and the nukes on Japan were truly barbaric acts, purposefully designed to kill large numbers of civilians, each of these events slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians in a very short time. The fact that the other side perpetrated barbaric acts such as the Burma railway, and gas chambers, is not a valid excuse.
Sounds familiar:) I notice I do it more often than I did 20yrs ago. Some say it's old age but I think it's probably due to regularly working on multiple VM's via a laptop as opposed to the old days of a stand alone dev box sitting under the desk.
A colleague and I once found a hardware bug that affected ~2000 motorola modems that we were using for a (1990's) mobile app. The problem was the modem became "emotionally attached" to the first tower it found and refused to talk to any other tower even when its original partner was well out of range and other towers were within easy reach. Tough one to crack for a couple of software guys, took a couple of weeks and a trip to Queensland.
Yes, early days of MSVC (v1.52 on win 3.1 IIRC) was one of my most memorable bugs. It appeared in a new release of our app where a counter was incrementing by 2's and severely screwing up a job dispatch system servicing 6000 telco workers. Running the code in the debugger we watched as the counter jumped by two as we stepped thru a single line i++ statement. Sure enough when we opened it up in assembly we found an extra INC op? I rebuilt to binary using the same build tag and environment, the bug disappeared? It wasn't a particularly difficult bug to fix, but the fact that we couldn't reproduce it from source and never found a better explanation than "cosmic ray" or "Microsoft, pfft", is why it has stuck in my mind for 20yrs.
Disclaimer: I currently manage a large and ancient cvs repository, over the last decade or so I have constructed and maintained an automated build system for about a dozen active projects and a couple of dozen legacy versions that services a team of 25-30 devs plus offshore subcontractors. I have had similar head banging moments wrt compiler optimizations. What I have learned from those experiences is that optimisation often has no noticeable impact on the end customer, so unless a developer can convince me that a specific optimization is critical to an application's performance, I always have them turned off and ask our devs to do likewise.
David Attenborough tells a wonderful story about his early days at the BBC. He had bought two pack horses on location for 30 shillings because he could not find a guide who had enough of their own horses to service the crew. When he was done with the horses he gave them away (to the guide I assume). Back in London he got a call from the BBC accounting office querying the two horses on his expense claim. The accountant was demanding to know where the horses were located because they were now "BBC property" and would appear as such in an audit. Attenborough responded with "Madam, we ate them", which as it turned out were the magic accounting words that turn an asset into a consumable.
The moral of the story is; if you are ever on safari and need to claim some pack mules, either bring them back with you or describe them as "breakfast" on the expense claim..
Depending on where you live the law usually makes room for justifiable assault, even justifiable homicide but the bar for "justifiable" is set usually quite high.
Anecdotal example: My brother-in-law arrived at the scene of an accident near his home, a car full of young guys had run a red light and t-boned his wife's car, fortunately nobody was hurt and the incident was caught on a red light camera. He approached the cop who was talking to the other driver and then without any warning 'king-hit' the other driver square in the face. The young man fell on his arse and started bleeding. Apparently he had been telling the cop how the "stupid old slut" in the other car had caused the accident. The cop's response was brilliant, he said something like - "I heard what he said, but you can't do that in front of me. Again".
Greed is a problem when others are denied their fair share. G. Gekko's psychopathic (but brilliant) speech used positive examples of greed, such as "greed for knowledge", in order to convince his audience that all greed is good.
the law seems to be "whatever the fuck the police say it is until a court tells them otherwise".
Yes, it has always worked that way, an arrest is not a conviction, it's an unproven claim. Body/car cams on cops may weed out some of the bad apples but here in Oz the cops are on the whole are decent people doing a dirty job and it should be noted that the vast majority of the body cam videos show citizens behaving badly and cops behaving with self-restraint and caution.
Having said that, when the cop's political masters start outfitting police stations like they do a military base and promote the regular use of guerilla tactics such as "no knocks" and swat teams in a residential setting, you are a fair way down the road to a police state, which is an entirely different thing to a police force. As the Stanford prison experiments so vividly demonstrated humans very rapidly descend into a violent master/slave relationship if the environment they find themselves in meets certain criteria (eg: Abu Ghraib, Nazi Germany).
It's a very deep seated behaviour in humans, we all have a ruthless dictator and a cowering slave with us just waiting for the right environmental triggers to emerge. Religious people have called it "good" and "evil" for millennia but incorrectly blamed it on angels and demons (as opposed to the naturally evolved behaviour of our species). Other than being aware we are all susceptible we can't do much to avoid such behaviour in ourselves, but we can set up political and social systems that discourage such environments from forming in the first place. The fact the US still embraces the death penalty and has such a high number of prisoners compared to the rest of the planet, is IMO a 'canary in the coal mine' for the emergence of a police state, statistically speaking the canary is dangling from its perch by one leg.
Capitalism has several logical impossibilities embedded in it that don't make sense to anyone but an economist, aside from "perfect information" we also have invalid assumptions like "rational actors" and "infinite growth".
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at some altitude your right to that airspace ends, and I don't think the legal definition is "shotgun range"
The current solution of picking an arbitrary altitude to define what is/isn't trespass does not address the problem of "spying", clearly most people think that google earth is not "spying". Drones are viscerally different from government satellites with telescopes, drones are live and "in your face", there is no way of knowing who is operating it, or what is in its payload. Blasting it with a shotgun may not be legal or even reasonable, but it is certainly understandable and excusable.
Way back in the 70's I was peppered with birdshot that bounced of an internal wall (wooden panel), the pellets travelled less than 10 meters in total, they had lost so much energy by the time they got to me that they didn't even break the skin. Outside a shotgun is lethal under ~50 meters, a .22 rifle 100-150 meters, a 303 ~5km. My own experience living in the Aussie bush (where shooting rabbits for dog food was the norm) says that with a bit of common sense you really only need worry about high power rifles hitting something you can't already see.
...we start lists at zero around here.
0 - Prevention is preferable to cure, avoid giving your PC the power to crash your life in the first place.
A Civil trial over the amount of $20 can go before a jury
Not really, most western nations have "small claims" courts where the claim is heard by a magistrate or a government mandated arbirator, many of those courts also have a minimum damage limit, IIRC here in Oz it's $100. Aside from that, post-trauma financial revenge on the company who (deliberately or negligently) replaced your child's arms with flippers, is not adequate compensation. Nothing is.
The FDA plays a critical international role in assessing drugs and food additives before flippers start appearing in their users offspring, but the organisation itself is infamously inefficient and often seen as ineffective. IMO the central role the FDA fills would be better filled by a UN backed institution such as WHO or similar. It would be funded by the drug manufacturers and nations who used it, nations would institute their own laws based on the (public domain) findings / recommendations (and any other data they think is pertinent). Personally I would like to see all drugs decriminalised, with the caveat that the "first do no harm" pledge still means that only robustly tested drugs can be legally prescribed by a qualified doctor.
The aviation industry and many other industries manage to efficiently apply strict and effective procedures to mundane things like aircraft maintenance and public water treatment, the pharmaceutical industry could do the same thing if the "corporate will" to protect the pharmaceutical industry's users was stronger than their competitive instincts toward each other.
Uhh, their parents would have sued the company out of existence
Parents are upset because their newborn has fucking flippers, money and revenge won't fix that.
file as a corporation, and they are completely shielded from personal responsibility for their actions
Nice rant, but that's not what "limited liability" means
No economy, not even primitive bartering economies, can exist without law. Specifically property law.
BTW: Russia/USSR has never been a "socialist state" in any meaningful sense of the term. Yes it labeled itself "socialist", in much the same way as the present day "Democratic republic of Congo" labels itself "democratic".
The universe itself is trying to kill you, it's how you respond that counts. For example I wouldn't be surprised if a dedicated scientist who thought he was dying in agony from his frog find, started typing up his journal submission to Nature before he passed out.
Excellent distinction, one of those things I have never noticed but as soon as I read it, it was "obvious". An exception might be jellyfish who regularly use their stingers for both purposes, jellyfish stingers are more like a tiny speargun than a needle or a spine.
Barney voice: "Buuuurp, I don't get it, the frog is green, Moe is yellow?
More likely you are using BT for legal purposes without realising it, for example,eg: my WoT game client uses bittorrent for updates and installs, windows 10 has an option to use BT for auto updates. In other words BT is basically the industry standard for remote updates/installs.
Seriously? You're arguing the Japanese version of Dad's Army were non-civilians? With a straight face and links?
Feynman, who worked on the Bomb, suffered psychological problems after the bomb was dropped, at first he celebrated the bombing of Hiroshima with every one else on the project but quickly became angry at himself for "not noticing" the goal of the project had changed. The original (and rational) goal was to develop a bomb before Hitler did, ending the war with Japan did not come up until after Germany had already surrendered. He also had just lost his wife, he fell into a deep nihilism, he became convinced that planning for tomorrow was futile because it was all going to be vaporised. There's an interview with him discussing this on YouTube, I leave it as an exercise for the reader to find it.
Conveniently forgetting Stalin and his camps were a major part of the allied forces? It was called the Russian front and it was the most brutal and inhumane battle fields of the war, both to their own people and to the enemy. Fact is all sides act like barbarians in all out war, none can hold their head high, the firebombing of Dresden and other European cities and the nukes on Japan were truly barbaric acts, purposefully designed to kill large numbers of civilians, each of these events slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians in a very short time. The fact that the other side perpetrated barbaric acts such as the Burma railway, and gas chambers, is not a valid excuse.
Got any salsa to go with that giant chip on your shoulder?
crash..debug..crash..debug
Mumble, mumble,...@#$!...what moron wrote this code!
Scroll...mumble...scroll..
Oh, I did,...let me read that again.
A friend of mine once described the above phenomena as "source code is like shit, you can't smell your own"
Sounds familiar :)
I notice I do it more often than I did 20yrs ago. Some say it's old age but I think it's probably due to regularly working on multiple VM's via a laptop as opposed to the old days of a stand alone dev box sitting under the desk.
A colleague and I once found a hardware bug that affected ~2000 motorola modems that we were using for a (1990's) mobile app. The problem was the modem became "emotionally attached" to the first tower it found and refused to talk to any other tower even when its original partner was well out of range and other towers were within easy reach. Tough one to crack for a couple of software guys, took a couple of weeks and a trip to Queensland.
Yes, early days of MSVC (v1.52 on win 3.1 IIRC) was one of my most memorable bugs. It appeared in a new release of our app where a counter was incrementing by 2's and severely screwing up a job dispatch system servicing 6000 telco workers. Running the code in the debugger we watched as the counter jumped by two as we stepped thru a single line i++ statement. Sure enough when we opened it up in assembly we found an extra INC op? I rebuilt to binary using the same build tag and environment, the bug disappeared? It wasn't a particularly difficult bug to fix, but the fact that we couldn't reproduce it from source and never found a better explanation than "cosmic ray" or "Microsoft, pfft", is why it has stuck in my mind for 20yrs.
Disclaimer: I currently manage a large and ancient cvs repository, over the last decade or so I have constructed and maintained an automated build system for about a dozen active projects and a couple of dozen legacy versions that services a team of 25-30 devs plus offshore subcontractors. I have had similar head banging moments wrt compiler optimizations. What I have learned from those experiences is that optimisation often has no noticeable impact on the end customer, so unless a developer can convince me that a specific optimization is critical to an application's performance, I always have them turned off and ask our devs to do likewise.
David Attenborough tells a wonderful story about his early days at the BBC. He had bought two pack horses on location for 30 shillings because he could not find a guide who had enough of their own horses to service the crew. When he was done with the horses he gave them away (to the guide I assume). Back in London he got a call from the BBC accounting office querying the two horses on his expense claim. The accountant was demanding to know where the horses were located because they were now "BBC property" and would appear as such in an audit. Attenborough responded with "Madam, we ate them", which as it turned out were the magic accounting words that turn an asset into a consumable.
The moral of the story is; if you are ever on safari and need to claim some pack mules, either bring them back with you or describe them as "breakfast" on the expense claim..
Depending on where you live the law usually makes room for justifiable assault, even justifiable homicide but the bar for "justifiable" is set usually quite high.
Anecdotal example: My brother-in-law arrived at the scene of an accident near his home, a car full of young guys had run a red light and t-boned his wife's car, fortunately nobody was hurt and the incident was caught on a red light camera. He approached the cop who was talking to the other driver and then without any warning 'king-hit' the other driver square in the face. The young man fell on his arse and started bleeding. Apparently he had been telling the cop how the "stupid old slut" in the other car had caused the accident. The cop's response was brilliant, he said something like - "I heard what he said, but you can't do that in front of me. Again".
Why would you deliberately remove a pleasurable experience from your life, are you Catholic?
evil lives at the extremes
Wish I had mod points.
Greed is a problem when others are denied their fair share. G. Gekko's psychopathic (but brilliant) speech used positive examples of greed, such as "greed for knowledge", in order to convince his audience that all greed is good.
the law seems to be "whatever the fuck the police say it is until a court tells them otherwise".
Yes, it has always worked that way, an arrest is not a conviction, it's an unproven claim. Body/car cams on cops may weed out some of the bad apples but here in Oz the cops are on the whole are decent people doing a dirty job and it should be noted that the vast majority of the body cam videos show citizens behaving badly and cops behaving with self-restraint and caution.
Having said that, when the cop's political masters start outfitting police stations like they do a military base and promote the regular use of guerilla tactics such as "no knocks" and swat teams in a residential setting, you are a fair way down the road to a police state, which is an entirely different thing to a police force. As the Stanford prison experiments so vividly demonstrated humans very rapidly descend into a violent master/slave relationship if the environment they find themselves in meets certain criteria (eg: Abu Ghraib, Nazi Germany).
It's a very deep seated behaviour in humans, we all have a ruthless dictator and a cowering slave with us just waiting for the right environmental triggers to emerge. Religious people have called it "good" and "evil" for millennia but incorrectly blamed it on angels and demons (as opposed to the naturally evolved behaviour of our species). Other than being aware we are all susceptible we can't do much to avoid such behaviour in ourselves, but we can set up political and social systems that discourage such environments from forming in the first place. The fact the US still embraces the death penalty and has such a high number of prisoners compared to the rest of the planet, is IMO a 'canary in the coal mine' for the emergence of a police state, statistically speaking the canary is dangling from its perch by one leg.
Capitalism has several logical impossibilities embedded in it that don't make sense to anyone but an economist, aside from "perfect information" we also have invalid assumptions like "rational actors" and "infinite growth".