I can't help but believe what you found were honeypots designed to accumulate data on people interested in bitcoin. I am sure your IP was logged and is in some database somewhere.
God knows how many databases my IP got in when I was searching for cracks and hacking tools about ten years ago when I got quite interested in the hacking scene as a result of catching a virus and was insanely curious on just how they did that.. I ran across lots and lots of sites which looked good from the search engine, but when I got there, there was nothing of value. Meaningless drivel and a lot of links to yet more meaningless drivel... or like an old saying "lots of twisty passages" that go nowhere.
Your post describes exactly why I went into Engineering. Its the thing I seemed I was programmed to do since I came out of my mama's womb. Everyone seems like they have this thing for what they find fun to do. Designing electronic gadgets is mine.
A stint in Aerospace removed a heck of a lot of drive out of me. Applying modern management methods to artistic types burns them out damn fast.
Currently, I am working in another little startup. If I had any significant bills to pay or had a family to support, I would be in dire financial straits. I would earn more spendable money being a greeter in Wal-Mart, but I would not enjoy standing eight hours a day robotically saying "Welcome to Wal-Mart" to everyone as well as inspecting every shopping cart that tripped their Sensormatic EAS system.
Sitting in a cubicle trying to implement my designs is not my idea of fun. I am a lab rat. I hate cubicles. I hate ties and dress codes. I hate meetings - if you have anything to say, drop by for a chat - but this thing of requiring me to drop everything and show up somewhere at a fixed time is ridiculous. Its a bad design. Kinda like me memory-mapping I/O ports right in the middle of a memory space currently used by a memory chip.
That was my greatest disappointment when the new wave of management overran the small business I used to work for. Thank goodness I was paid well there before the management coup because we had a lot of successful products to sell. I do not know a single one of the creative types that were able to stand up to the modern management methods. But the stockholders seemed to love them. Pure case of "tragedy of the commons" if you ask me. Destruction of our future product stream for a short term benefit of hyping the sales and profit of our existing line. It seems only people overly concerned with profit, and not design quality, rank that as being so damned important.
I would say if someone else is paying for your study, go for it. A lot of corporations - especially in the Military-Industrial Complex - justify their bid on the amount of credentialed and degreed personnel they are placing on the customer project. Whether or not these people are internally driven to do the technical part of the job seems to be of little importance to the management team. They want certs to sell.
If you are thinking of getting into debt for this, please oh please think twice. My own experience shows there is a terrific glut of very highly qualified "do-ers" out there already. The de-industrialization of America has left cadres of engineering types left over from the hey-days of the 60's on the streets.
As America, banker to the world, transitions from a manufacturing based economy to a service based economy, it seems to me the best jobs are to be found in services catering to helping others comply with government mandates. Every new law passed mandating compliance with some government requirement is a gold-mine for those prepared to assist existing businesses in complying with it. Legalized extortion. While the government holds the gun on the business, you go for their wallet.
I think you are pretty close stating religion as the cause; from what I see every war that has ever been waged has been a banker's war... over who owns what.
In the early Bible days, it was over who had dominion over the tax paying / tithing populace.
Every war I have studied was over who had rights to tax others. Right now it seems the America is being allowed by the world bank to run rampant with bad money policy because our armed forces enforce the banking elite's ownership claims. Our government seems to have been sold to the bankers. And as long as money can buy enforcement of claims, bankers will continue printing it.
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I would have thought petroleum, neodymium, platinum, and other rare industrial catalysts would be a far better investment than gold. In and of itself, gold is a rather useless metal; structurally its crap. Its one saving grace is that it is very resistant to corrosion. But then, so are a lot of other far more abundant materials. We seem to have earmarked it as a "store of wealth" over the ages only because someone could not print up a pile of it on a whim.
If you were on the Titanic in its final moments, what would be worth more - a satchel filled with gold? A bag of diamond jewelery? A big old stryofoam cooler box with a broken lid?
Frankly, it surprises me other countries would hang onto a US dollar as an investment, and only accept it as a medium of exchange to quickly buy something else of real intrinsic value. I think of the dollar as more of a copper transmission line for wealth - not a battery - because the dollar as leaky as hell. Its printed on demand in reckless abandon, created from nothing, and in and of itself not worth the paper its printed on. It seems a game of musical chairs, and whoever is holding the dollar when the music stops leaves the room - broke.
When all is said and done, it seems the only investment that survives is the ability to physically intimidate and coerce people - and a people trained and intimidated enough to take it. aka "He who has the gun soon has the gold and the gun."
My take is if she may well patent it as an UNDERWATER communication medium.
The "talk on a beam of light" has been a popular science fair project since LED's and photodiodes became available.
Nothing new, but the idea of having divers being able to communicate underwater, voice or texts, seems useful. You wanna text someone? Use your flashlight. Light him up. The light contains the message.
Do not forget that there are still lots of ways to get all the parallel I/O pins you want on a tablet... run a USB link to an Arduino.
No sense much trying to do a lot of numerical heavy lifting with an Arduino. It simply does not have the horsepower or memory for it. It can act as an intermediary between a tablet which has all sorts of horsepower, and a platform controlling motors and reading sensors.
If the application is quite menial ( say datalogging ), an Arduino can handle it quite nicely on its own when coupled with appropriate storage blocks - but in and of itself, just maintaining a FAT filesystem alone would be difficult for an Arduino, yet a piece of cake for a Raspberry Pi.
I am presently building with an Arduino platform and note I am taking a significant amount of its resources just to deal with two rotary quadrature encoders and two LCD displays.
I am aiming for absolute simplicity. I need lots of low speed I/O and bit-banging special protocols more than anything else ( and I can get it via Arduino's I2C bus ). I will continue with this, but if there is any significant numerical analysis or display, its going to have to partner with something else to do the heavy stuff.
As it is, I intend to use a Parallax Propeller chip if I exceed Arduino's capacity, as most of my needs are menial bit-banging protocols to interface old technologies to newer stuff - and I want it all done in parallel so I do not have interrupt, timing and latency issues. The Propeller chip has eight cores, running in parallel, so each core can be tasked with an individual menial thingie ( UART, SPI, I2C, video, audio, DMX lighting, whatever ), and they will run in parallel without contention or timing issues from waiting for the program counter to be handed to them.
A Raspberry Pi would do everything. But then, sometimes a hand calculator comes in handy when you don't want to launch a fullbore compiler to evaluate some mathematical thingie you dream up.
I see a Raspberry Pi ideal for those places you would normally put a full-fledged tablet in... say an interactive kiosk with full display and TCP/IP networking. It has the horsepower to do darned near anything. And lots of hardware I/O as a bonus, where the Arduino solution involves channeling everything from the tablet through the USB bus or network link ( YellowJacket, DiamondBack, or similarly equipped Arduino ).
I guess one of the things I would like to see most is some sort of interface which would adapt to any LCD display out there and let me drive it with the Raspberry Pi output, as there always seems to be some defunct LCD display somewhere that I could repurpose.
This reminds me of a question I got in high school physics... Consider how much insight my teacher had. I still remember his lesson.
You have a fine barometer. Very accurate. We need to ascertain the height of this building. How should we proceed?
The first answer of course had to do with barometric pressure and elevation - and was dismissed as we studied inaccuracies of measurement.
Maybe measure the height of the barometer, hold it outside and see how long of shadow it cast, then measure the shadow of the building.... kid got a round of applause.
Another kid: call up the guy who built the building and tell him he can have a fine barometer if he will tell us how high the building is...
Another kid: Toss the barometer off the top of the building and time it until it crashes to the ground, then using the formulas for gravitation and velocity, calculate the distance...
All in all there must have been a unique way every student in that class came up with to somehow measure the height of the building with the barometer.
Only one of them had to do with the proper use of the barometer.
The rest of it had to do with THINKING.
I will always remember Dr. Horn for that.
It was teachers like Dr. Horn that got me ready for what I would see in the real world.
If you want some more detailed explanation, I would suggest reading about what Craig Venter's take on it is. He is one of the principal researchers on the Human Genome Project, and has taken the time to write a book for the layman to grasp the magnificence of what he has found.
I can definitely see where we are primed to be vulnerable to a socially engineered phone call. Piss off a customer, he calls up the chain of command and we have to answer for having poor social skills. Gotta please everyone or we lose our job.
All someone has to do is mimic someone important, and he gets anything he wants. I think all of have had the experience of "doing the right thing", or following your instincts of common sense, then paying dearly for doing so.
There is another kind of phone call that I find extremely frustrating... yet I know no way to deal with it - as any attempt to stop them will result in me losing my job.
Its social calls.
Everything is humming along, then my cohort's phone rings.
"Hello, honey... uh huh,,, uh-huh...uh-huh...be right there."
I gotta go.,
The rest of the day is shot. I can't say a word. Its the phone. That was an important call.
They are all important calls - and they arrive several times a day.
Annoys the hell out of me - but then I am single and do not have that kind of responsibility. Matter of fact I do not have a cellphone and rarely answer the land line I have because it is so abused by telemarketers.
A machine takes the call and I check it occasionally to see if anything actually meaningful came in, which is quite rare.
Take this with a grain of salt, as I am also one of those INTP perfectionist types.
Right now, I am developing a product personally to have manufactured and sold. I have another guy with me, also laid-off aerospace, who is really good with low-level precision analog and networking. I think we have quite a viable product - it will be open source, and we intend to earn our keep by supporting it and building custom stuff for it.
This can be done from anywhere.
So far, New Zealand looks promising... but before we try to go anywhere, we want to make sure we have a viable economic engine running so we will be productive citizens for anyone taking us in. The last thing I want to do is show up at any nations doorstep with an empty plate.
Its only a matter of time though unless there is a major world war between China/Russia and the USA. Its not the USA that is the problem, rather it appears to be the British bankers now control the politicians ( and the US military ) in order to enforce their ownership claims on everything. Debt is running rampant. There seems to be no fiscal responsibility among the leading elite. I am of the belief that the French way of resetting the pareto curve is inevitable. Just like a social relaxation oscillator, inequities build up over time and periodically reset.. and it appears time is getting ripe for a system breakdown and restart.
Yes. I am afraid. I feel as if I am standing too close to the terminals of a big power transformer, knowing the breakdown voltage of air, and feeling the pull of the electrostatic forces against my hair, smelling the ozone as the field tears nearby oxygen molecules asunder - and knowing what will happen once the arc strikes.
Rosa Parks, a black person in the state of Alabama in the USA, deliberately disobeyed an order from a bus driver that she had to sit in a section of the bus reserved for black people. This was during a time when race segregation in the Southeast portion of the USA was rampant.
She deliberately defied authority. In front of everybody.
Others saw and her action was a call for others to take action as well... and things changed.
A lot of us are doing this today - just flat defying authority when we perceive the underlying cause is simply not just. Just as in what this topic is discussing... do people have a right to charge for taxpayer funded work?
It is the populace's way of trying to communicate with lawmakers over laws perceived to be unjust - so lawmakers now are faced with trying to enforce the bad law.
Mea culpa. You are right. I skimmed the summary and jumped to conclusions. I am so used to my government making laws protecting special interest groups, then ignoring the big guys when they game the system.
I find it hard to take law seriously when it seems like only the losers obey it, while winners circumvent it. It seems like there is a lot of "diplomatic immunity" going on, where what is illegal for one guy is OK for the other guy, especially when our government passes favorable tax treatment for owning stuff rather than doing stuff. Makes us all greedy little suns-of-beaches.
What you observe is exactly what I am referring to.... the majority of people being mindless sheep that follow any leader.
If these people get pissed off enough to put down their Hollywood drivel and sports and supervise those who control their lives - things will happen.
Yes, I said "supervise". Those people are elected. We pulled the levers that put them in office. They are beholden to US, yet we let them go willy-nilly and run their own show. I, for one, am highly disappointed with the performance of our so-called leaders.
You, like I, have been around long enough to see that way too many people do whatever the microphone-men tell them to do. And they wonder why they are treated like cattle.
If the electorate of this nation wake up in time, this mess can still be cleaned up in the election booth.
If they don't, it will be far messier. Riots. A lot of blood will get spilled.
If they piss off enough people, throw the bums out!
Don't blame them for taking advantage of a free taxpayer provided lunch.. its the electorate who are asleep at the switch and tolerate it. Its HIGH time we organized ourselves and get a government in place which represents the electorate, not just the special interest groups.
They will try to keep their stuff secret, just as a kiddie porn collector will do. Its up to the voters to DEMAND open government, and be willing to quickly expel via recall any politician who promised lipservice then fails to deliver.
Yup... all of us make mistakes from time to time. You caught one. Congrats. This one thankfully did not lead to a ton of twisted metal and injuries.
I try not to make mistakes, Inevitably, given my best intentions, I screw up now and then, and when I do, its usually a whopper.
I have seen enough distracted people with a car full of interrupting annoyances ( aka kids, noisy wives, and cellphones ) that I am learning to trust a machine to do it right. I learned long ago a sewing machine could make a helluva lot better stitch than I can.
Anyone have a pointer to the algorithm? I am suspecting some matrix operator that looks at each pixel and its neighbors.
To me, there seems to be plenty if information on recorded video, as it contains previous as well as future frames that should contain sufficient information to provide considerable clarification of a present image frame. Anyone have info on anyone doing this?
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I can't help but believe what you found were honeypots designed to accumulate data on people interested in bitcoin. I am sure your IP was logged and is in some database somewhere.
God knows how many databases my IP got in when I was searching for cracks and hacking tools about ten years ago when I got quite interested in the hacking scene as a result of catching a virus and was insanely curious on just how they did that.. I ran across lots and lots of sites which looked good from the search engine, but when I got there, there was nothing of value. Meaningless drivel and a lot of links to yet more meaningless drivel... or like an old saying "lots of twisty passages" that go nowhere.
I believe you are doing what we all should be doing.
Find our niche. Do it for yourself. Build your own dream - not slave away at minimum wage building someone else's dream.
This wage-slave thingie is as bad as prostitution.
My respects to you, Sir.
You provide a service to the community that is far more valuable than most.
Your post describes exactly why I went into Engineering. Its the thing I seemed I was programmed to do since I came out of my mama's womb. Everyone seems like they have this thing for what they find fun to do. Designing electronic gadgets is mine.
A stint in Aerospace removed a heck of a lot of drive out of me. Applying modern management methods to artistic types burns them out damn fast.
Currently, I am working in another little startup. If I had any significant bills to pay or had a family to support, I would be in dire financial straits. I would earn more spendable money being a greeter in Wal-Mart, but I would not enjoy standing eight hours a day robotically saying "Welcome to Wal-Mart" to everyone as well as inspecting every shopping cart that tripped their Sensormatic EAS system.
Sitting in a cubicle trying to implement my designs is not my idea of fun. I am a lab rat. I hate cubicles. I hate ties and dress codes. I hate meetings - if you have anything to say, drop by for a chat - but this thing of requiring me to drop everything and show up somewhere at a fixed time is ridiculous. Its a bad design. Kinda like me memory-mapping I/O ports right in the middle of a memory space currently used by a memory chip.
That was my greatest disappointment when the new wave of management overran the small business I used to work for. Thank goodness I was paid well there before the management coup because we had a lot of successful products to sell. I do not know a single one of the creative types that were able to stand up to the modern management methods. But the stockholders seemed to love them. Pure case of "tragedy of the commons" if you ask me. Destruction of our future product stream for a short term benefit of hyping the sales and profit of our existing line. It seems only people overly concerned with profit, and not design quality, rank that as being so damned important.
I would say if someone else is paying for your study, go for it. A lot of corporations - especially in the Military-Industrial Complex - justify their bid on the amount of credentialed and degreed personnel they are placing on the customer project. Whether or not these people are internally driven to do the technical part of the job seems to be of little importance to the management team. They want certs to sell.
If you are thinking of getting into debt for this, please oh please think twice. My own experience shows there is a terrific glut of very highly qualified "do-ers" out there already. The de-industrialization of America has left cadres of engineering types left over from the hey-days of the 60's on the streets.
As America, banker to the world, transitions from a manufacturing based economy to a service based economy, it seems to me the best jobs are to be found in services catering to helping others comply with government mandates. Every new law passed mandating compliance with some government requirement is a gold-mine for those prepared to assist existing businesses in complying with it. Legalized extortion. While the government holds the gun on the business, you go for their wallet.
I can't help but wonder how many of these "security updates" are little more than replacement backdoors to replace the ones that have been discovered.
Anyone watching what happened must be aware the Japanese took one helluva hit.
I, for one, am extremely impressed with the Japanese, making do despite such a setback.
My take: Salute them and cut them some slack. A lot of slack.
I think you are pretty close stating religion as the cause; from what I see every war that has ever been waged has been a banker's war... over who owns what.
In the early Bible days, it was over who had dominion over the tax paying / tithing populace.
Every war I have studied was over who had rights to tax others. Right now it seems the America is being allowed by the world bank to run rampant with bad money policy because our armed forces enforce the banking elite's ownership claims. Our government seems to have been sold to the bankers. And as long as money can buy enforcement of claims, bankers will continue printing it.
I notice bitcoin mining is attracting a lot of attention from China.
Here are 1200 vendors selling hardware processors designed specifically to mine bitcoins
I would have thought petroleum, neodymium, platinum, and other rare industrial catalysts would be a far better investment than gold. In and of itself, gold is a rather useless metal; structurally its crap. Its one saving grace is that it is very resistant to corrosion. But then, so are a lot of other far more abundant materials. We seem to have earmarked it as a "store of wealth" over the ages only because someone could not print up a pile of it on a whim.
If you were on the Titanic in its final moments, what would be worth more - a satchel filled with gold? A bag of diamond jewelery? A big old stryofoam cooler box with a broken lid?
Frankly, it surprises me other countries would hang onto a US dollar as an investment, and only accept it as a medium of exchange to quickly buy something else of real intrinsic value. I think of the dollar as more of a copper transmission line for wealth - not a battery - because the dollar as leaky as hell. Its printed on demand in reckless abandon, created from nothing, and in and of itself not worth the paper its printed on. It seems a game of musical chairs, and whoever is holding the dollar when the music stops leaves the room - broke.
When all is said and done, it seems the only investment that survives is the ability to physically intimidate and coerce people - and a people trained and intimidated enough to take it. aka "He who has the gun soon has the gold and the gun."
My take is if she may well patent it as an UNDERWATER communication medium.
The "talk on a beam of light" has been a popular science fair project since LED's and photodiodes became available.
Nothing new, but the idea of having divers being able to communicate underwater, voice or texts, seems useful. You wanna text someone? Use your flashlight. Light him up. The light contains the message.
Wow! Thanks for the reply!
Do not forget that there are still lots of ways to get all the parallel I/O pins you want on a tablet... run a USB link to an Arduino.
No sense much trying to do a lot of numerical heavy lifting with an Arduino. It simply does not have the horsepower or memory for it. It can act as an intermediary between a tablet which has all sorts of horsepower, and a platform controlling motors and reading sensors.
If the application is quite menial ( say datalogging ), an Arduino can handle it quite nicely on its own when coupled with appropriate storage blocks - but in and of itself, just maintaining a FAT filesystem alone would be difficult for an Arduino, yet a piece of cake for a Raspberry Pi.
I am presently building with an Arduino platform and note I am taking a significant amount of its resources just to deal with two rotary quadrature encoders and two LCD displays.
I am aiming for absolute simplicity. I need lots of low speed I/O and bit-banging special protocols more than anything else ( and I can get it via Arduino's I2C bus ). I will continue with this, but if there is any significant numerical analysis or display, its going to have to partner with something else to do the heavy stuff.
As it is, I intend to use a Parallax Propeller chip if I exceed Arduino's capacity, as most of my needs are menial bit-banging protocols to interface old technologies to newer stuff - and I want it all done in parallel so I do not have interrupt, timing and latency issues. The Propeller chip has eight cores, running in parallel, so each core can be tasked with an individual menial thingie ( UART, SPI, I2C, video, audio, DMX lighting, whatever ), and they will run in parallel without contention or timing issues from waiting for the program counter to be handed to them.
Andre LaMothe has developed a "Chameleon" board combining an Arduino with a Propeller chip if you want to explore this avenue.
A Raspberry Pi would do everything. But then, sometimes a hand calculator comes in handy when you don't want to launch a fullbore compiler to evaluate some mathematical thingie you dream up.
I see a Raspberry Pi ideal for those places you would normally put a full-fledged tablet in... say an interactive kiosk with full display and TCP/IP networking. It has the horsepower to do darned near anything. And lots of hardware I/O as a bonus, where the Arduino solution involves channeling everything from the tablet through the USB bus or network link ( YellowJacket, DiamondBack, or similarly equipped Arduino ).
I guess one of the things I would like to see most is some sort of interface which would adapt to any LCD display out there and let me drive it with the Raspberry Pi output, as there always seems to be some defunct LCD display somewhere that I could repurpose.
Maybe something down the lines of this
This reminds me of a question I got in high school physics... Consider how much insight my teacher had. I still remember his lesson.
You have a fine barometer. Very accurate. We need to ascertain the height of this building. How should we proceed?
The first answer of course had to do with barometric pressure and elevation - and was dismissed as we studied inaccuracies of measurement.
Maybe measure the height of the barometer, hold it outside and see how long of shadow it cast, then measure the shadow of the building.... kid got a round of applause.
Another kid: call up the guy who built the building and tell him he can have a fine barometer if he will tell us how high the building is...
Another kid: Toss the barometer off the top of the building and time it until it crashes to the ground, then using the formulas for gravitation and velocity, calculate the distance...
All in all there must have been a unique way every student in that class came up with to somehow measure the height of the building with the barometer.
Only one of them had to do with the proper use of the barometer.
The rest of it had to do with THINKING.
I will always remember Dr. Horn for that.
It was teachers like Dr. Horn that got me ready for what I would see in the real world.
If you want some more detailed explanation, I would suggest reading about what Craig Venter's take on it is. He is one of the principal researchers on the Human Genome Project, and has taken the time to write a book for the layman to grasp the magnificence of what he has found.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Speed-Light-Double-Digital/dp/0670025402
This book was released October 17, just a few days ago...
I can definitely see where we are primed to be vulnerable to a socially engineered phone call. Piss off a customer, he calls up the chain of command and we have to answer for having poor social skills. Gotta please everyone or we lose our job.
All someone has to do is mimic someone important, and he gets anything he wants. I think all of have had the experience of "doing the right thing", or following your instincts of common sense, then paying dearly for doing so.
There is another kind of phone call that I find extremely frustrating... yet I know no way to deal with it - as any attempt to stop them will result in me losing my job.
Its social calls.
Everything is humming along, then my cohort's phone rings.
"Hello, honey... uh huh,,, uh-huh...uh-huh...be right there."
I gotta go.,
The rest of the day is shot. I can't say a word. Its the phone. That was an important call.
They are all important calls - and they arrive several times a day.
Annoys the hell out of me - but then I am single and do not have that kind of responsibility. Matter of fact I do not have a cellphone and rarely answer the land line I have because it is so abused by telemarketers.
A machine takes the call and I check it occasionally to see if anything actually meaningful came in, which is quite rare.
Take this with a grain of salt, as I am also one of those INTP perfectionist types.
On top of that, we place multiple antennas quite some distance apart, and compare the signals received by all.
The signals emanating from a point far, far, far away will correlate out with time shifts in order of the distance each antenna is from the source.
At higher frequencies, the resolution of this technique is amazing.
I am definitely considering that.
Right now, I am developing a product personally to have manufactured and sold. I have another guy with me, also laid-off aerospace, who is really good with low-level precision analog and networking. I think we have quite a viable product - it will be open source, and we intend to earn our keep by supporting it and building custom stuff for it.
This can be done from anywhere.
So far, New Zealand looks promising... but before we try to go anywhere, we want to make sure we have a viable economic engine running so we will be productive citizens for anyone taking us in. The last thing I want to do is show up at any nations doorstep with an empty plate.
Its only a matter of time though unless there is a major world war between China/Russia and the USA. Its not the USA that is the problem, rather it appears to be the British bankers now control the politicians ( and the US military ) in order to enforce their ownership claims on everything. Debt is running rampant. There seems to be no fiscal responsibility among the leading elite. I am of the belief that the French way of resetting the pareto curve is inevitable. Just like a social relaxation oscillator, inequities build up over time and periodically reset.. and it appears time is getting ripe for a system breakdown and restart.
Yes. I am afraid. I feel as if I am standing too close to the terminals of a big power transformer, knowing the breakdown voltage of air, and feeling the pull of the electrostatic forces against my hair, smelling the ozone as the field tears nearby oxygen molecules asunder - and knowing what will happen once the arc strikes.
Rosa Parks, a black person in the state of Alabama in the USA, deliberately disobeyed an order from a bus driver that she had to sit in a section of the bus reserved for black people. This was during a time when race segregation in the Southeast portion of the USA was rampant.
She deliberately defied authority. In front of everybody.
Others saw and her action was a call for others to take action as well... and things changed.
A lot of us are doing this today - just flat defying authority when we perceive the underlying cause is simply not just. Just as in what this topic is discussing... do people have a right to charge for taxpayer funded work?
It is the populace's way of trying to communicate with lawmakers over laws perceived to be unjust - so lawmakers now are faced with trying to enforce the bad law.
Mea culpa. You are right. I skimmed the summary and jumped to conclusions. I am so used to my government making laws protecting special interest groups, then ignoring the big guys when they game the system.
I find it hard to take law seriously when it seems like only the losers obey it, while winners circumvent it. It seems like there is a lot of "diplomatic immunity" going on, where what is illegal for one guy is OK for the other guy, especially when our government passes favorable tax treatment for owning stuff rather than doing stuff. Makes us all greedy little suns-of-beaches.
Someone lobbied for this.
Tax havens designed to assist wealthy individual taxpayers have thrived for years, with the blessings of Congress.
Why should copyright havens be any different, as long as Congress approves?
Here's some available today...
http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=camera+glasses&catId=0
Opportunist:
What you observe is exactly what I am referring to.... the majority of people being mindless sheep that follow any leader.
If these people get pissed off enough to put down their Hollywood drivel and sports and supervise those who control their lives - things will happen.
Yes, I said "supervise". Those people are elected. We pulled the levers that put them in office. They are beholden to US, yet we let them go willy-nilly and run their own show. I, for one, am highly disappointed with the performance of our so-called leaders.
You, like I, have been around long enough to see that way too many people do whatever the microphone-men tell them to do. And they wonder why they are treated like cattle.
If the electorate of this nation wake up in time, this mess can still be cleaned up in the election booth.
If they don't, it will be far messier. Riots. A lot of blood will get spilled.
That's why we have elections.
If they piss off enough people, throw the bums out!
Don't blame them for taking advantage of a free taxpayer provided lunch.. its the electorate who are asleep at the switch and tolerate it. Its HIGH time we organized ourselves and get a government in place which represents the electorate, not just the special interest groups.
They will try to keep their stuff secret, just as a kiddie porn collector will do. Its up to the voters to DEMAND open government, and be willing to quickly expel via recall any politician who promised lipservice then fails to deliver.
Would it be better for this whole nation to be riddled with disease carriers? Including those who prepared your food?
I take my cats to the vet for the same reason.
Yup... all of us make mistakes from time to time. You caught one. Congrats. This one thankfully did not lead to a ton of twisted metal and injuries.
I try not to make mistakes, Inevitably, given my best intentions, I screw up now and then, and when I do, its usually a whopper.
I have seen enough distracted people with a car full of interrupting annoyances ( aka kids, noisy wives, and cellphones ) that I am learning to trust a machine to do it right. I learned long ago a sewing machine could make a helluva lot better stitch than I can.
Anyone have a pointer to the algorithm? I am suspecting some matrix operator that looks at each pixel and its neighbors.
To me, there seems to be plenty if information on recorded video, as it contains previous as well as future frames that should contain sufficient information to provide considerable clarification of a present image frame. Anyone have info on anyone doing this?