Hmm, that's odd. I got PADI certified (Open Water) a little over a year ago, and we did a Emergency Swimming Ascent without air as part of our certification. The feeling of the air expanding in your lungs on the way up was pretty cool. However, we were definately told to ascend slower than our bubbles, not faster.
IANAL but, The meaning of "unreasonable" in my opinion takes into consideration the government interest as well as the type of search. This is why police are able to break into a house without obtaining a warrant if they have reason to believe that someone is in imminent danger.
Yes they can break in, and search for the person presumed to be in danger. But, if they happen to see some contraband while inside, it is not admissable evidence. Right to search without a warrant is usually limited to probable cause or consent. In the air travel case, they have none of the three.
It's my understanding that blocking email from IPs that are part the DUL will only block email from people that are running *their own* SMTP server off of their dial up connection. Since most (I'd guess well over 95% of the people that use dial up) people use their ISP's SMTP server to send email, this should not block much useful email.
I believe that there is a misconception herein. You state that by your guess, over 95% of dialup users use their ISPs mail server. I think your guess is rather high, but it is close enough to be useful. However, given that this remaining 5% is tech savvy enough to run their own mail servers, I suspect they also send more legitimate e-mail than your average user. An oft quoted figure on university campuses is that 10% of the people use 90% of the available resources. Could not the same thing be happening here? Second this is/. after all, I expect a large majority of the population here runs, or has run, their own mail servers. There are many reasons to do so. Security, Control, Convenience. And if it breaks, you not only have the ability but also the permission to fix it. Or, maybe you simply assume that if someone uses dial-up and runs a mail server, they just must not send out "useful" email.
Well, a march they would probably ignore, like most other marches. But if every tech worker in the country (or even just the concerned ones) went on a strike, even just for a week, they would feel that. If the geeks are afraid of the implications of technology, maybe the lay people should be too!
"However, it has a huge advantage in accuracy of authenticating the owner of the account. I will submit that it is far more difficult to forge a fingerprint than it is to forge a signature (usually the only authentication system used to validate a credit card purchase)."
Well, I don't know where you live, but around here the don't even bother checking the signature. Seriously, my two roomates and I have proved this several times. We have receipts where we signed for each other, used stupid names (I can show you more than one thing bought with Santa Clause's signature), etc. Never had a clerk even look twice. Same thing goes with checks, but those a a little harder to get ahold of.
Which brings up the entire discussion of humour and humanity and diversity. Just because you don't find it funny, doesn't mean nobody else finds it funny. Or do you subscribe to a universal humour scale, whereby everything is judged?
Well, I did some more digging, and found this at HavenCo's website: "All of our contracts give HavenCo the right to cancel at will if the customer's web site or service is endangering our access to Internet connectivity, " While this was referring to spam, it does give them an out for cutting off accounts that piss off too many people.
Well, contrary to popular belief, some people actually use AOL for the extra content/features. You know, the stuff they advertise, the stuff they started with. Remember back when it was AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy? That's the kind of content I'm talking about. The kind some people with a different ISP even pay to use. Yes, as an ISP they are hugely over-priced and provide poor service, but not everyone uses them as just an ISP. Get off your fsckin' high horse and think for a minute.
Well then, sounds like a good use for the services of our friends at HavenCo, doesn't it? A quote from their AUP: "Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues; child pornography is the only content explicitly prohibited"
So, they explicitly allow this type of service, and claim they are not worried about the results of angering certain people in the process.
While I know that the entire/. community, and most geek-types in general, automatically question the IQ of anyone using AOL, it has its place. Some users want the simplest, most user friendly, shortest learning curve, approach to things possible. They think AOL fits this bill. Anyway, my mother used AOL for a while, just until her free hours ran out though. And yes, she got billed for things she "ordered" from them. And yes, I would swear under oath that she didn't click the wrong button.
OK, I'm a day late, but I couldn't resist biting on this idiotic argument.
Comfort has nothing to do with contentment. Comfort is physical, contentment emotional.
Your primitive man isn't miserable becuase he hasn't ever heard of a couch. But once he does, his contentment drops. As that stays down (by not getting a couch) his happiness begins to drop. If he finally gets a couch, his contentment shoots back up, and eventually brings his happiness with it. But, in addition, his comfort rises because of the couch allowing him to sit properly.
While it is true that his contentment is the same Before Couch and After Couch, his happiness will be slightly higher AC, and his comfort will definately be higher AC.
As far as I have heard, Microsoft came out with two original ideas. The talking paper clip and Microsoft BOB. I don't know if you ever heard of Bob, but as I understood it was almost another version of Windows. Failed miserably, disapeared within months.
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Hmm, that's odd. I got PADI certified (Open Water) a little over a year ago, and we did a Emergency Swimming Ascent without air as part of our certification. The feeling of the air expanding in your lungs on the way up was pretty cool. However, we were definately told to ascend slower than our bubbles, not faster.
IANAL but,
The meaning of "unreasonable" in my opinion takes into consideration the government interest as well as the type of search. This is why police are able to break into a house without obtaining a warrant if they have reason to believe that someone is in imminent danger.
Yes they can break in, and search for the person presumed to be in danger. But, if they happen to see some contraband while inside, it is not admissable evidence. Right to search without a warrant is usually limited to probable cause or consent. In the air travel case, they have none of the three.
It's my understanding that blocking email from IPs that are part the DUL will only block email from people that are running *their own* SMTP server off of their dial up connection. Since most (I'd guess well over 95% of the people that use dial up) people use their ISP's SMTP server to send email, this should not block much useful email.
/. after all, I expect a large majority of the population here runs, or has run, their own mail servers. There are many reasons to do so. Security, Control, Convenience. And if it breaks, you not only have the ability but also the permission to fix it.
I believe that there is a misconception herein. You state that by your guess, over 95% of dialup users use their ISPs mail server.
I think your guess is rather high, but it is close enough to be useful.
However, given that this remaining 5% is tech savvy enough to run their own mail servers, I suspect they also send more legitimate e-mail than your average user. An oft quoted figure on university campuses is that 10% of the people use 90% of the available resources. Could not the same thing be happening here?
Second this is
Or, maybe you simply assume that if someone uses dial-up and runs a mail server, they just must not send out "useful" email.
Well, a march they would probably ignore, like most other marches. But if every tech worker in the country (or even just the concerned ones) went on a strike, even just for a week, they would feel that. If the geeks are afraid of the implications of technology, maybe the lay people should be too!
"However, it has a huge advantage in accuracy of authenticating the owner of the account. I will submit that it is far more difficult to forge a fingerprint than it is to forge a signature (usually the only authentication system used to validate a credit card purchase)."
Well, I don't know where you live, but around here the don't even bother checking the signature. Seriously, my two roomates and I have proved this several times. We have receipts where we signed for each other, used stupid names (I can show you more than one thing bought with Santa Clause's signature), etc. Never had a clerk even look twice. Same thing goes with checks, but those a a little harder to get ahold of.
Which brings up the entire discussion of humour and humanity and diversity. Just because you don't find it funny, doesn't mean nobody else finds it funny. Or do you subscribe to a universal humour scale, whereby everything is judged?
Well, I did some more digging, and found this at HavenCo's website:
"All of our contracts give HavenCo the right to cancel at will if the customer's web site or service is endangering our access to Internet connectivity, "
While this was referring to spam, it does give them an out for cutting off accounts that piss off too many people.
Well, contrary to popular belief, some people actually use AOL for the extra content/features. You know, the stuff they advertise, the stuff they started with. Remember back when it was AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy? That's the kind of content I'm talking about. The kind some people with a different ISP even pay to use.
Yes, as an ISP they are hugely over-priced and provide poor service, but not everyone uses them as just an ISP.
Get off your fsckin' high horse and think for a minute.
Well then, sounds like a good use for the services of our friends at HavenCo, doesn't it?
A quote from their AUP:
"Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues; child pornography is the only content explicitly prohibited"
So, they explicitly allow this type of service, and claim they are not worried about the results of angering certain people in the process.
While I know that the entire /. community, and most geek-types in general, automatically question the IQ of anyone using AOL, it has its place. Some users want the simplest, most user friendly, shortest learning curve, approach to things possible. They think AOL fits this bill.
Anyway, my mother used AOL for a while, just until her free hours ran out though. And yes, she got billed for things she "ordered" from them. And yes, I would swear under oath that she didn't click the wrong button.
OK, I'm a day late, but I couldn't resist biting on this idiotic argument.
Comfort has nothing to do with contentment. Comfort is physical, contentment emotional.
Your primitive man isn't miserable becuase he hasn't ever heard of a couch. But once he does, his contentment drops. As that stays down (by not getting a couch) his happiness begins to drop. If he finally gets a couch, his contentment shoots back up, and eventually brings his happiness with it. But, in addition, his comfort rises because of the couch allowing him to sit properly.
While it is true that his contentment is the same Before Couch and After Couch, his happiness will be slightly higher AC, and his comfort will definately be higher AC.
As far as I have heard, Microsoft came out with two original ideas. The talking paper clip and Microsoft BOB. I don't know if you ever heard of Bob, but as I understood it was almost another version of Windows. Failed miserably, disapeared within months.