Like goodman said above.. I give these kiosks a one-day life expectancy at best. The human- and tool-accessible bits, that is. Wireless and Bluetooth node might not be such a bad idea.
They're a big thing here in Nawth Ca'lina where we have literally thousands of poultry and hog factories. And a hell of a lot of animal abuse too, by the way.
I have serious problems with the Homeland Security Gestapo, as well as the "Patriot Act" itself (the name having made me suspicious right from the start).
However this furor about drivers licenses, ID, the demand for anonymity in all we say and do.. they're losing me on this. I've carried "Federal ID" (US Army ID cards, dependent and then GI) for almost all my life. Never had an issue, never a problem. I _liked_ the feeling of "Oh, okay, you're a good guy!" I'd always get whenever I showed it.
I _like_ the Feds (or whoever) keeping a record of who flies where, even who talks to whom! Red light cameras at intersections? No problem, HOORAY in fact. Security cameras in businesses and other locations? Fine by me! Dash cams everywhere? All right!
Why no worries? Because, usually, I am NOT a criminal, I am NOT hiding my location or activities. You got an issue with that? Tch.
They can use MY name, address and registration number! Saves me having to buy or build, when I can just have someone else's lost drone or aircraft given to me:-)
Heinlein? Get away from the teenage novels, skip the later incestuous ones, and scratch your eyes out before watching the Starship Troopers movie. But definitely, MOST definitely, read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."
I'm sorry, but it does make some sense. Except I live in one of those little Nawth Ca'lina towns, and even one as small as mine wouldn't be exactly "surrounded", no matter how many solar farms you made.
Still, that argument makes a LOT more sense for the decision they made. Too bad we didn't hear of that instead of the asinine moronic mouth breathers that hit the news.
I would have absolutely, positively have signed up for that job.. if it weren't perhaps the most boring job in the entire world.
Could I have turned the key.. knowing it was already too late, millions were already going to die and I'd just add (uselessly, I must agree) to the butcher's bill?
Sure. You betcha. If nothing else than to go down on record, "You Communist sons of b*tches, we TOLD you we'd do this. But noooo..."
I'm very glad this discovery is coming along, and hope it gets out on the market quickly (and at a reasonable price).
I had the personal experience of knowing an individual who could feel pain well enough.. but couldn't identify from the pain where the injury was! He happened to be a Montagnard, Nott, the M-79 gunner on my recon team in Vietnam (long long ago).. but I suppose that's neither here nor there. I saw him get injured several times and it was always the same thing. It usually took a couple of seconds; his expression would show pain and discomfort; and he'd start checking out his body to see what was hurt. Usually he couldn't pin it down until he found the bleeding part (first time I saw it), or found a joint wasn't working properly or would generate higher pain levels when used.
He lived with it just fine, but I found it curious to say the least.
I thought that 10% R&D cost figure was hugely inaccurate (given a recent presentation to my Rotary Club by a Pfizer sales rep). But apparently it's not far off at all!
What possible rational, justifiable reason could you have to point an extremely powerful laser at the sky all the time? Unless you're using it in conjunction with a very sophisticated observatory, that is, and those all have FAA danger zones.
It's odd that Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/ hasn't gotten involved with this. They do all sorts of projects that involve humans categorizing or analyzing images, some quite complicated. I don't know if THIS particular project can be simplified enough for the average Joe to work with, but it might be worth a try.
It's been going on for over a year now, if you want to consider Gamergate as the "start" of this crap. How much longer do you want to wait before stopping these bullies?
If the Washington Post's article's details are correct, this was NOT a bombing gone awry. It was artillery rounds (and possibly 40mm cannon fire) from an AC-130 Spectre, a gunship that's been in use since the Vietnam era. They're usually pinpoint accurate, every round is fired with an eyeball targetting via low-vision video, and there'll be full video tape of the entire action.
Doesn't make it any nicer, doesn't make it any less of a screw-up (in fact, more so). Lots of videos online of Spectre working out in Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
The hospital should consider itself lucky: those hits were probably only 105mm howitzer rounds. If they'd been multiple thousand pounders, the catastrophe and casualties would've been even greater.
Of course if the Post is wrong and this was NOT an AC-130.. never mind.
"Then if you go upstream you can see who that person's boss was...and see if testing happened...and, if testing didn't happen. So you can go from the bottom up to nail everyone."
Oh yeah, like that's gonna happen. Admittedly it would be easier than chasing down decisions in (1) crappy bank and investment fund decisions, (2) not sending aid to the US Consulate in Libya, (3) the Enron California power scam.. and any number of other catastrophes. Actual people hardly ever get punished in these things, and that's too bad.
At least that peanut butter CEO might be getting actual jail time; that's nice.
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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for scandalous and funny nose art (on bombers especially). And outrageous military patches.
This one is great, and I think the whole issue is funnier than hell. I'm glad the background information has been released.
How about if I trademark "Bite Me, Sony!" ??
Like goodman said above .. I give these kiosks a one-day life expectancy at best. The human- and tool-accessible bits, that is. Wireless and Bluetooth node might not be such a bad idea.
They're a big thing here in Nawth Ca'lina where we have literally thousands of poultry and hog factories. And a hell of a lot of animal abuse too, by the way.
http://www.theatlantic.com/hea...
I have serious problems with the Homeland Security Gestapo, as well as the "Patriot Act" itself (the name having made me suspicious right from the start).
However this furor about drivers licenses, ID, the demand for anonymity in all we say and do .. they're losing me on this. I've carried "Federal ID" (US Army ID cards, dependent and then GI) for almost all my life. Never had an issue, never a problem. I _liked_ the feeling of "Oh, okay, you're a good guy!" I'd always get whenever I showed it.
I _like_ the Feds (or whoever) keeping a record of who flies where, even who talks to whom! Red light cameras at intersections? No problem, HOORAY in fact. Security cameras in businesses and other locations? Fine by me! Dash cams everywhere? All right!
Why no worries? Because, usually, I am NOT a criminal, I am NOT hiding my location or activities. You got an issue with that? Tch.
They can use MY name, address and registration number! Saves me having to buy or build, when I can just have someone else's lost drone or aircraft given to me :-)
Heinlein? Get away from the teenage novels, skip the later incestuous ones, and scratch your eyes out before watching the Starship Troopers movie. But definitely, MOST definitely, read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."
Yep, it'll never get better than "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."
Although I shudder to think of all the very bad Russianesque accents :-)
I'm sorry, but it does make some sense. Except I live in one of those little Nawth Ca'lina towns, and even one as small as mine wouldn't be exactly "surrounded", no matter how many solar farms you made.
Still, that argument makes a LOT more sense for the decision they made. Too bad we didn't hear of that instead of the asinine moronic mouth breathers that hit the news.
I would have absolutely, positively have signed up for that job .. if it weren't perhaps the most boring job in the entire world.
Could I have turned the key .. knowing it was already too late, millions were already going to die and I'd just add (uselessly, I must agree) to the butcher's bill?
Sure. You betcha. If nothing else than to go down on record, "You Communist sons of b*tches, we TOLD you we'd do this. But noooo ..."
I'm very glad this discovery is coming along, and hope it gets out on the market quickly (and at a reasonable price).
I had the personal experience of knowing an individual who could feel pain well enough .. but couldn't identify from the pain where the injury was! He happened to be a Montagnard, Nott, the M-79 gunner on my recon team in Vietnam (long long ago) .. but I suppose that's neither here nor there. I saw him get injured several times and it was always the same thing. It usually took a couple of seconds; his expression would show pain and discomfort; and he'd start checking out his body to see what was hurt. Usually he couldn't pin it down until he found the bleeding part (first time I saw it), or found a joint wasn't working properly or would generate higher pain levels when used.
He lived with it just fine, but I found it curious to say the least.
I thought that 10% R&D cost figure was hugely inaccurate (given a recent presentation to my Rotary Club by a Pfizer sales rep). But apparently it's not far off at all!
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/s...
Pfizer (a big R&D spender) probably continues to cut back from their 2011 13.5% R&D budget, so 10% might not be so far off after all.
What possible rational, justifiable reason could you have to point an extremely powerful laser at the sky all the time? Unless you're using it in conjunction with a very sophisticated observatory, that is, and those all have FAA danger zones.
So .. in small words .. what's the point?
What is the use of these things?
It's odd that Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/ hasn't gotten involved with this. They do all sorts of projects that involve humans categorizing or analyzing images, some quite complicated. I don't know if THIS particular project can be simplified enough for the average Joe to work with, but it might be worth a try.
It's been going on for over a year now, if you want to consider Gamergate as the "start" of this crap. How much longer do you want to wait before stopping these bullies?
Damn it! I _really_ wanted that Nobel Prize! Now you've gone and spoiled it :-(
Hear hear! I will NOT tolerate ads online, and I certainly won't tolerate them on my own damned PC desktop.
Can one spell "sublimation", hmmm?
If the Washington Post's article's details are correct, this was NOT a bombing gone awry. It was artillery rounds (and possibly 40mm cannon fire) from an AC-130 Spectre, a gunship that's been in use since the Vietnam era. They're usually pinpoint accurate, every round is fired with an eyeball targetting via low-vision video, and there'll be full video tape of the entire action.
Doesn't make it any nicer, doesn't make it any less of a screw-up (in fact, more so). Lots of videos online of Spectre working out in Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
The hospital should consider itself lucky: those hits were probably only 105mm howitzer rounds. If they'd been multiple thousand pounders, the catastrophe and casualties would've been even greater.
Of course if the Post is wrong and this was NOT an AC-130 .. never mind.
"Then if you go upstream you can see who that person's boss was...and see if testing happened...and, if testing didn't happen. So you can go from the bottom up to nail everyone."
Oh yeah, like that's gonna happen. Admittedly it would be easier than chasing down decisions in (1) crappy bank and investment fund decisions, (2) not sending aid to the US Consulate in Libya, (3) the Enron California power scam .. and any number of other catastrophes. Actual people hardly ever get punished in these things, and that's too bad.
At least that peanut butter CEO might be getting actual jail time; that's nice.
More interesting / scary stuff out there. Esp. about Intacash:
http://www.getoto.net/noise/ta...
And how to do the checking yourself:
http://networktoolbox.de/check...
The British Empire learned this long long long ago. Read your Kipling and quit wasting our time.
This is the same state described here, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Amazing! I'm wondering if they added something to the drinking water .. or took something away!
(who had some damned wise things to say about a LOT of stuff .. curiously enough even the LHC:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."