Your assuming that we cant build a self cleaning / de-icing system. We can. Ships have centrifugal window ports (the little round windows in another window on the front of some boats/ships) to repel water with salt & grit in it without scratching the surface like a window wiper. We have developed a LOT of ways to de-ice systems. Dust can be cleared by electrostatics or with good old fashioned water.
A full self cleaning all weather (rain, hail, ice, snow, mud, dust, etc) system may be complex and little more expensive than just flat glass/plastic but is capable of being built with off the shelf technology today and further innovation will no doubt develop simpler & cheaper ways of integrating these mechanisms to make them better in the long run.
Also insert beneficial "hack" uses: Clear the road for Police Chase Clear the road for Fire Truck Clear the road for ambulance Stop car being used by gas station robber too stupid to realize the car can be controlled remotely. Auto Park, parking lots and street parking designed to advise the car of the nearest empty spot to the destination. Simple wireless traffic diversion signals for Police, Fire & Rescue Crews, Construction works, parades, protests, whatever. Need to mark a detour? Little beacon they place on the road makes sure all the cars know the road ahead is a no go zone.
Two court cases have affirmed the United Kingdom considers itself to have no jurisdiction over Sealand. The reason for this is it was OUTSIDE territorial waters when he declared it independent. The territorial waters used to be 3 miles. They are now 12miles (and with a 200mile exclusive economic zone as well, the sovereign territorial jurisdiction of which has not yet been put to any test relevant to the case of any micro nation) and Sealand is now inside the 12 mile territorial waters zone of the United Kingdom and has yet to form any kind of treaty with the Crown regarding the formal boundaries of their respective waters.
As a citizen in a country recently forced to get the giant useless shiny boxes of security theater demanded by the USA on all incoming flights. (Australia) And as someone who hopes to one day visit the USA without surrendering my life at the border and having my every movement watched like a dog you cant trust not to shit on the rug, watched just incase i "look funny" for a moment... just because i might (not planning on it, just referring to their statistical modeling that says 1 in every X thousand is %50 likely to be a terrorist prepared to push the button/pull the trigger) do something bad.
I cannot mod parent up enough (stupid lack of "+5 for the love of god do this"). Do your country and the world a favor and lean on them like a damn avalanche.
I dont know how well the "original" hacker mentality of 'everything is worth poking at' mentality would be tolerated in a state run hack team. I cant give much in the way of proof for this but this argument is based on organisational psychology vs personal psychology... but anyway
China, the USA, Russia... I would imagine that the dog tag & rank 'military' hackers are selected via a process much like test pilots (different criteria obviously)
If you show aptitude in mathematics, logic, and attention to detail, you get funneled into a program, they hone your skills and teach you computer security theory & practice much like the basics I learned in university courses. The goal of a state organisation would be a 'state hacker' who's priorities rank something like 1) the defense of the state, 2) their own life, 3) hacking I would not call these "Hackers". They are soldiers with computer security training who follow orders.
Most true to the name and tradition/ethos hackers will not have this ordering, so 'recruiting' or 'nurturing' "free range"/"wild" hackers doesnt fit well with the goals of any nation. The idea that "no your not allowed to try that" doesnt sit well with a dedicated old school type hacker. Because the first place the mind turns is 'Why?' They may decide not to do something (eg: hack a SCADA system & shut down a hospital, killing people) but this decision usually comes after they worked out how to do it anyway, just because it was there to be worked out.
'borderline brain dead' clones would also have difficulty reporting internal and subjective nervous system/perception based side effects, such as: nausea, intestinal pains, blurred vision, loss of speech, seeing sound, hearing colours, the sensation of having ones bowel sucked out the anus... pretty much all the "really wish it didnt feel so fucked up when i take this" type ones. Which makes them still in the end require real people.
From what i can tell from the view of someone outside the USA who despite so many reasons to come visit... is utterly appalled at how i will be treated crossing the border. The TSA dont seem to make any decisions. It seems to all be set by the moronic higher ups in your government.
...And then only if you sterile filters don't kill anything they are filtering out.
Ethics is like a black and white TV show... full of grey areas.
Have any of you actually been through an ethics review of any kind? You actually have to justify the use of a mouse or rat to start with, then your methods of handling, feeding, whatever restrictions your going to place on them, and to top it all off, if your going to have to kill them before they die naturally as part of your study, you have to get the method of death approved as well. And this is for a MOUSE.
People say science is cold, they are right. To do science you have to be able to decide things like 'the best way to kill X to find out Y is Z' and stand there and justify it to a panel of your peers.
This is an anti science rant. I love science... to be honest I think there needs to be more Cave Johnson type reckless & irresponsible science in-fact. But my area is more physics than medicine, where saying "why not ram this object at that one as fast as we can?" tends to be less messy.
I may not be a professional in the field of medicine. But from the simple standpoint as an educated individual, able to understand the concepts behind such things as a double blind trial & the principle of the placebo effect.
There are externally and internally induced psychological states similar to addiction, that are devoid of external chemical influence, not pre-existing conditions, but ones that can be created in an otherwise normal person, such as classic 'Stockholm syndrome'.
I wont say it is addiction but, to a person looking for "psychological addiction", it would certainly be a strong example of a externally induced state...
And all of this is in addition to the self induced psychological crutches people build as coping mechanisms, from the benign "I must have this soft toy to feel safe", to more extreme examples such as recklessly dangerous thrill seeking behavior for an adrenaline rush (without any kind of other reckless drug use, before someone suggests these types are all on a drug when they engage in such behavior.)
It may not be the same kind of physical chemical pathway/signaling threshold based dependence of things like caffeine, heroin, THC, MDMA, etc....But something very similar to 'addiction' can be purely psychological.
Its still going to wind up being a megacorp that gets the contract to build the overbloated machine to do the actual work. This is just getting the design cheap.
Which reminds me of the best skill I ever learned regarding interviews.
"Don't Panic!"
If you walk in and treat it as nothing special, don't over stress yourself, put no pressure on yourself to perform like a trained monkey, you'll be able to weed out jobs where they expect you to be a human robot & other such nasty situations you wouldn't see if you were so focused on "getting this job"
If you aren't prepared to walk out, don't walk in!
Or you could work hard... produce good work... get paid more for it... and then retire comfortably after building up sufficient savings/capital/financial independence that you feel set for retirement...
Like every other person that works for a living.
Being a creative person should != magic special income forever job. At a certain point... the scale tips, from being entitled to your fair share... to stealing from the common shared creative wealth of humanity for your own personal gain.
Why do people say taxing spending is the least fair?
If you tax spending and then provide well structured deductions & exemptions it works VERY well... look at the number of countries with a GST/VAT and how much simpler the system is.
The fairness comes into play with reductions in other taxes... you reduce the basic income taxes since they are spending everything they earn... you ramp the income taxes up so that once your into the 'i make so much i can throw it away' zone, then your losing wads to cash...
No system is foolproof or perfect... but it can be a lot better than it is.
Look at it this way... with a tax on spending... every time a trust fund brat goes on a shopping spree from her tax free trust... the government gets its fair cut.
I knew about Pete Knight, but Gordon Cooper, I had never heard of that little feat of manual piloting. Ahh the days of "The Right Stuff"
Some days i feel like more people should die trying to get up there... make it risky & dangerous & daring... a feat to even manage to get up. Maybe then people might find it more interesting & it wouldnt be like "oh, another launch... Yawn"
So far, the only drug known to treat the negative symptoms of schizophrenia is nicotine, but that can't be patented and it's of the devil so we'll pretend that research doesn't exist.
You shouldn't be surprised how stupid a collective can be. The administration of a teaching institution concerned about reputation will very simply be going "we dont want any weirdos/crackpots/crazies working here" and ignore credentials because they dont want to be the one that let something slip in, and they will always be overlooked for a "safer" candidate.
The incentive is supposed to be the desire for the world to be better, to add value to the world, the desire to have ones life be more than just yet another faceless nobody that never contributed anything to the world.
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Your assuming that we cant build a self cleaning / de-icing system.
We can.
Ships have centrifugal window ports (the little round windows in another window on the front of some boats/ships) to repel water with salt & grit in it without scratching the surface like a window wiper.
We have developed a LOT of ways to de-ice systems.
Dust can be cleared by electrostatics or with good old fashioned water.
A full self cleaning all weather (rain, hail, ice, snow, mud, dust, etc) system may be complex and little more expensive than just flat glass/plastic but is capable of being built with off the shelf technology today and further innovation will no doubt develop simpler & cheaper ways of integrating these mechanisms to make them better in the long run.
Also insert beneficial "hack" uses:
Clear the road for Police Chase
Clear the road for Fire Truck
Clear the road for ambulance
Stop car being used by gas station robber too stupid to realize the car can be controlled remotely.
Auto Park, parking lots and street parking designed to advise the car of the nearest empty spot to the destination.
Simple wireless traffic diversion signals for Police, Fire & Rescue Crews, Construction works, parades, protests, whatever. Need to mark a detour? Little beacon they place on the road makes sure all the cars know the road ahead is a no go zone.
Please RTFA.
Two court cases have affirmed the United Kingdom considers itself to have no jurisdiction over Sealand.
The reason for this is it was OUTSIDE territorial waters when he declared it independent. The territorial waters used to be 3 miles. They are now 12miles (and with a 200mile exclusive economic zone as well, the sovereign territorial jurisdiction of which has not yet been put to any test relevant to the case of any micro nation) and Sealand is now inside the 12 mile territorial waters zone of the United Kingdom and has yet to form any kind of treaty with the Crown regarding the formal boundaries of their respective waters.
As a citizen in a country recently forced to get the giant useless shiny boxes of security theater demanded by the USA on all incoming flights. (Australia)
And as someone who hopes to one day visit the USA without surrendering my life at the border and having my every movement watched like a dog you cant trust not to shit on the rug, watched just incase i "look funny" for a moment... just because i might (not planning on it, just referring to their statistical modeling that says 1 in every X thousand is %50 likely to be a terrorist prepared to push the button/pull the trigger) do something bad.
I cannot mod parent up enough (stupid lack of "+5 for the love of god do this"). Do your country and the world a favor and lean on them like a damn avalanche.
I dont know how well the "original" hacker mentality of 'everything is worth poking at' mentality would be tolerated in a state run hack team.
I cant give much in the way of proof for this but this argument is based on organisational psychology vs personal psychology... but anyway
China, the USA, Russia... I would imagine that the dog tag & rank 'military' hackers are selected via a process much like test pilots (different criteria obviously)
If you show aptitude in mathematics, logic, and attention to detail, you get funneled into a program, they hone your skills and teach you computer security theory & practice much like the basics I learned in university courses.
The goal of a state organisation would be a 'state hacker' who's priorities rank something like 1) the defense of the state, 2) their own life, 3) hacking
I would not call these "Hackers". They are soldiers with computer security training who follow orders.
Most true to the name and tradition/ethos hackers will not have this ordering, so 'recruiting' or 'nurturing' "free range"/"wild" hackers doesnt fit well with the goals of any nation.
The idea that "no your not allowed to try that" doesnt sit well with a dedicated old school type hacker. Because the first place the mind turns is 'Why?'
They may decide not to do something (eg: hack a SCADA system & shut down a hospital, killing people) but this decision usually comes after they worked out how to do it anyway, just because it was there to be worked out.
'borderline brain dead' clones would also have difficulty reporting internal and subjective nervous system/perception based side effects, such as: ... pretty much all the "really wish it didnt feel so fucked up when i take this" type ones. Which makes them still in the end require real people.
nausea, intestinal pains, blurred vision, loss of speech, seeing sound, hearing colours, the sensation of having ones bowel sucked out the anus
That's two words. /pedant
He said "a word", singular. You fail.
This is where you have to have restrictions on what the media can say around election time.
Over here, all the political ads are labeled as such.
Unfortunately your "Corp = Person" crap... and it is crap!... means over in the USA you cant seem to do this in a way that sticks.
^ This. If you read any replies. Read this one above mine.
Dont know where you get that idea... sounds very much like a tea party type member of the NRA..
When people say Libertarian it tends to bring to mind people like Benjamin Franklin in my mind. Im not from the USA either btw.
You imply the TSA make decisions.
From what i can tell from the view of someone outside the USA who despite so many reasons to come visit... is utterly appalled at how i will be treated crossing the border. The TSA dont seem to make any decisions. It seems to all be set by the moronic higher ups in your government.
Which is why i make a deliberate effort to mention the important word "ionizing" when it comes to dangerous things.
People dont learn without repetition.
...And then only if you sterile filters don't kill anything they are filtering out.
Ethics is like a black and white TV show... full of grey areas.
Have any of you actually been through an ethics review of any kind?
You actually have to justify the use of a mouse or rat to start with, then your methods of handling, feeding, whatever restrictions your going to place on them, and to top it all off, if your going to have to kill them before they die naturally as part of your study, you have to get the method of death approved as well.
And this is for a MOUSE.
People say science is cold, they are right. To do science you have to be able to decide things like 'the best way to kill X to find out Y is Z' and stand there and justify it to a panel of your peers.
This is an anti science rant.
I love science... to be honest I think there needs to be more Cave Johnson type reckless & irresponsible science in-fact.
But my area is more physics than medicine, where saying "why not ram this object at that one as fast as we can?" tends to be less messy.
I may not be a professional in the field of medicine.
But from the simple standpoint as an educated individual, able to understand the concepts behind such things as a double blind trial & the principle of the placebo effect.
There are externally and internally induced psychological states similar to addiction, that are devoid of external chemical influence, not pre-existing conditions, but ones that can be created in an otherwise normal person, such as classic 'Stockholm syndrome'.
I wont say it is addiction but, to a person looking for "psychological addiction", it would certainly be a strong example of a externally induced state...
And all of this is in addition to the self induced psychological crutches people build as coping mechanisms, from the benign "I must have this soft toy to feel safe", to more extreme examples such as recklessly dangerous thrill seeking behavior for an adrenaline rush (without any kind of other reckless drug use, before someone suggests these types are all on a drug when they engage in such behavior.)
It may not be the same kind of physical chemical pathway/signaling threshold based dependence of things like caffeine, heroin, THC, MDMA, etc. ...But something very similar to 'addiction' can be purely psychological.
Its still going to wind up being a megacorp that gets the contract to build the overbloated machine to do the actual work. This is just getting the design cheap.
Which reminds me of the best skill I ever learned regarding interviews.
"Don't Panic!"
If you walk in and treat it as nothing special, don't over stress yourself, put no pressure on yourself to perform like a trained monkey, you'll be able to weed out jobs where they expect you to be a human robot & other such nasty situations you wouldn't see if you were so focused on "getting this job"
If you aren't prepared to walk out, don't walk in!
Yes... but this is /. Where such insight no longer has a place in the summary.
Actually there was 1 case of a deliberate cure...
but well you have to get leukemia in order to be eligible... So i dont think you can really offer it to just anyone.
Or you could work hard... produce good work... get paid more for it... and then retire comfortably after building up sufficient savings/capital/financial independence that you feel set for retirement...
Like every other person that works for a living.
Being a creative person should != magic special income forever job.
At a certain point... the scale tips, from being entitled to your fair share... to stealing from the common shared creative wealth of humanity for your own personal gain.
Why do people say taxing spending is the least fair?
If you tax spending and then provide well structured deductions & exemptions it works VERY well... look at the number of countries with a GST/VAT and how much simpler the system is.
The fairness comes into play with reductions in other taxes... you reduce the basic income taxes since they are spending everything they earn... you ramp the income taxes up so that once your into the 'i make so much i can throw it away' zone, then your losing wads to cash...
No system is foolproof or perfect... but it can be a lot better than it is.
Look at it this way... with a tax on spending... every time a trust fund brat goes on a shopping spree from her tax free trust... the government gets its fair cut.
I'm pretty sure the Chinese are looking at that as well. They did announce their plans to land people on the moon a while ago.
I knew about Pete Knight, but Gordon Cooper, I had never heard of that little feat of manual piloting.
Ahh the days of "The Right Stuff"
Some days i feel like more people should die trying to get up there... make it risky & dangerous & daring... a feat to even manage to get up.
Maybe then people might find it more interesting & it wouldnt be like "oh, another launch... Yawn"
So far, the only drug known to treat the negative symptoms of schizophrenia is nicotine, but that can't be patented and it's of the devil so we'll pretend that research doesn't exist.
[Citation needed] ... id like to read that paper.
You shouldn't be surprised how stupid a collective can be. The administration of a teaching institution concerned about reputation will very simply be going "we dont want any weirdos/crackpots/crazies working here" and ignore credentials because they dont want to be the one that let something slip in, and they will always be overlooked for a "safer" candidate.
The incentive is supposed to be the desire for the world to be better, to add value to the world, the desire to have ones life be more than just yet another faceless nobody that never contributed anything to the world.