Re:Who has the balls to fly a computer-flown plane
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I wasn't talking about computer controlled planes. If it's a plane, even a single person unit, it's not efficient, and you have all the issues of scheduling.
I'm talking about single-unit pods being transported over rail lines across the country or even in place of current commuter trains.
Theoretically, you could get across the country pretty quickly in a system like this. It could accelerate slowly, up to a constant speed of 300-500 mph or so. True, a plane will go 800mph, but you have the drawback of having to make the plane's schedule, a 2 hour wait at the airport, and any layovers or transfers that might be required.
It could easily be entirely computer controlled, and safe. Something like this would be at small risk of terrorists, as hijacking or crashing into buildings isn't possible. If someone managed to destroy a track, or damage the computer system, the pods would simply stop.
The primary reason that mass transportation used a large single unit to transport a large quantity of people was that it required only a few people (pilots/conductors) to direct the vehicle. This was far cheaper than transporting a few people at a time.
Nowadays, we have the technology to direct the vehicle with computers. We could create something like a cross-country monorail system that ran small computer-controlled vehicles. You get to the station when you want, you immediately hop into the first available pod, punch in your target station, and it goes right away.
Yeah, something like this would be incredibly expensive to build, but really cheap to use. Like the difference between sending your files by postal mail versus using the internet.
Transporting shipments would be quicker and cheaper too.
True, it probably wouldn't work for travelling overseas. But you could use the high-speed pod system to get to the coast, and take a plane overseas.
Here in Chicago, the Metra train system wants $1.1 billion to add a train line from Joliet to O'Hare. An overhead pod system might actually cheaper, and far more useful. There's no chance of it with Metra though. They build what they know.
Not necessarily a bad thing. Instead of a salary, you get a piece of the pie. With 70% of the revenue being split up among the developers, it could be lucrative.
But note that the primary benefit is breaking into the industry. It's extremely hard to get a game programming position without experience.
I'd consider it, but I haven't done any development for linux.
As stated, this information can only be requested by law enforcement, and trust me, law enforcement officials don't get off of from violating your privacy and requesting it just for kicks.
Tell that to all the libraries that were getting requests for borrowing habits.
Tell that to the bookstores that have been fighting the police attempts to see purchases.
It happens far more often that you'd think.
Also, This doesn't help anyone who's gotten defrauded. They still have the same issues that had before. All this does is allow the police to check for potential criminals.
Unfortunately, everyone's a criminal in the eyes of the police, except other cops.
As an aside, I was visiting a friend who was in county after being arrested, well before his court case. He hadn't been convicted yet. I was trying to get his signature for a check he'd received, so that I could get him bail. The problem was that I'd visited him the weekend before (6 days previous), and the jail allowed one visit per week. I begged the officer to allow me to get the signature anyway. He stated "If I do YOU a favor, I have to do favors for ALL THE OTHER CONVICTS in here."
He equated me with a convict. I was flabbergasted so much that I couldn't respond.
I much prefer the other way of doing business than what sounds suspiciously like fascism.
If I sell something fraudulently, there is recourse for the buyer. I'm really not liking the idea that if I create an auction or browse for a product, that I could be investigated without real cause.
Some might say that you shouldn't mind if you haven't done anything illegal. To those I say, then you won't mind if the police come search your house regularly either.
They are actively looking for suspicious behavior, alerting the cops, and suggesting that a subpeona might be in order if the cops want to see the paypal records.
What really bothers me is that Ebay also "constructs comprehensive simulated histories, including simulated feedbacks, all for the sake of incriminating those suspected of theft".
Makes me glad I closed my account with them in 98 or 99 after they decided that users who clicked off all offers for spam didn't mean it.
I make full rebuilds of my projects regularly as well rather than depending on incremental builds. What I meant was that the entire project seems to consist of all the pieces, from notepad.exe to the kernel itself.
So a webserver is blocked, and you're ok with that.
Who tells the isp that they can remove the block when the "child porn" site is removed? I fear that even years later, certain ip addresses will be blocked even after they aren't owned by those same server sites, much less the particular web sites.
Who defines the site as child porn? Does it have to be actually even porn, or involving children, or can the state simply decide that the site is unacceptable and should be blocked? Is there any judicial review involved, or is there some beaurocrat who makes the decision?
At least if the web site itself is shut down, there had to be some judicial review of some kind. With blocking, the web site might not even know to take it to court.
He licenses everything else out to other companies.
The company that makes the segway makes nothing else.
Personally, I think the think might be great fun, but I've got a few problems with it.
It's too expensive for what it does. I can't see spending 5 grand on something like that, even if it's great fun. I can't use it to get to the office even in the best of weather (30+ miles). If I both lived downtown and worked downtown, I might use it if it weren't so expensive. But the subway is far cheaper.
Since I live out in the suburbs, I couldn't even use it to go to the grocery store. I could get TO the grocery store, but I doubt if I'd be allowed inside with it. I'd be afraid it would get stolen if I left it outside.
The limited distance isn't as much of a problem for most, I suspect. Anyone going more than 11 miles will probably drive anyway. What would be far better than extending the distance is if it were far lighter, and folded up into a backpack. Then I could use it to go the 15 blocks from the office and carry it onto the train.
I wonder if there might be a reverse of this sound that would calm people down.
It seems like if there are sounds that amplify emotions, there should be sounds that diminish emotions.
That would be great for places where riots or brawls break out. Instead of spraying pepper-spray at the crowd a few days ago, the Epitome security guards could have just played the calming infrasounds.
I know someone who, in a criminal trial, was convinced by his lawyer to sign his property over to his wife and plead guilty even to a charge that was patently false. The guy went to jail, and later found out that his wife married the lawyer.
What I guess I didn't understand is that the router sends all it's traffic along one route.
I had the idea that each router knows the destination of a packet and just sends it along the least congested route, regardless of the other packets from the same source.
From what I've been reading here, the first router picks the route for all the traffic from my system, and doesn't change the route unless something fails.
I started using turbotax because I farked up once in a while. Just stupid errors, but it happens. With 4 or 5 forms just for the federal, it's easy to make a stupid mistake.
After I received a note from the state revenue service telling me my expected return would actually be considerably lower than I thought, (due to an error like that), I switched to using software.
Haven't had a problem like that since, and it saved me a few hours not having to verify that I didn't miswrite my ssn somewhere, that all the calculations were correct, and that everything I wrote was legible.
I've had to redo more than a few forms because I wrote something in the wrong place by mistake, or forgot to include an amount when doing the forms. Had to go back and redo those forms, which meant I had to redo other forms. Pain in the butt.
Of course, as of yesterday, I've switched to taxcut because I spent all of saturday trying to get turbotax's update program to work.
The other problems with this analogy are that the commons can be increased, without limit (theoretically), albeit at cost and time; and that if the commons are overgrazed, demand will die off from lack of availability without actually killing anyone off. (who wants to play quake 2 on the net when the lag is several minutes?)
I'm not talking about a legal secretary advising anyone. I'm simply suggesting having one look over your documents and tell you what the court will need.
As I recall, some legal secretaries (or something) offered a service like this, to do basic legal secretary work that didn't actually require lawyers. Unfortunately, the lawyers felt threatened and put them down.
I wasn't trying to suggest that lexis-nexis shouldn't make money from their work.
I'm just suggesting that if L/N won't sell to libraries or individuals, or if the price is high, then other companies might have a market.
In addition, it might be that courts will start to scan every case themselves, and others could offer software to collect and search these things without converting them to a Lexis-Nexis format.
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I wasn't talking about computer controlled planes. If it's a plane, even a single person unit, it's not efficient, and you have all the issues of scheduling.
I'm talking about single-unit pods being transported over rail lines across the country or even in place of current commuter trains.
Theoretically, you could get across the country pretty quickly in a system like this. It could accelerate slowly, up to a constant speed of 300-500 mph or so. True, a plane will go 800mph, but you have the drawback of having to make the plane's schedule, a 2 hour wait at the airport, and any layovers or transfers that might be required.
It could easily be entirely computer controlled, and safe. Something like this would be at small risk of terrorists, as hijacking or crashing into buildings isn't possible. If someone managed to destroy a track, or damage the computer system, the pods would simply stop.
The cnn article is simply hogwarts...I mean hogwash. Unfortunately, a lot of people won't clue into that.
Bigger trains...bigger plains....it's frustrating.
The primary reason that mass transportation used a large single unit to transport a large quantity of people was that it required only a few people (pilots/conductors) to direct the vehicle. This was far cheaper than transporting a few people at a time.
Nowadays, we have the technology to direct the vehicle with computers. We could create something like a cross-country monorail system that ran small computer-controlled vehicles. You get to the station when you want, you immediately hop into the first available pod, punch in your target station, and it goes right away.
Yeah, something like this would be incredibly expensive to build, but really cheap to use. Like the difference between sending your files by postal mail versus using the internet.
Transporting shipments would be quicker and cheaper too.
True, it probably wouldn't work for travelling overseas. But you could use the high-speed pod system to get to the coast, and take a plane overseas.
Here in Chicago, the Metra train system wants $1.1 billion to add a train line from Joliet to O'Hare. An overhead pod system might actually cheaper, and far more useful. There's no chance of it with Metra though. They build what they know.
The link describes how the credit card fraud perpetrated by hackers, and theoretically Al Qaida, was done via hacking.
I no longer have any respect for cnn. Al-Quida financed himself, and presumably the 9/11 actions, by credit card fraud? Give me a break.
This is the sort of reason why people have a wacky idea of hackers, and getting caught reading 2600 can get you in trouble.
Not necessarily a bad thing. Instead of a salary, you get a piece of the pie. With 70% of the revenue being split up among the developers, it could be lucrative.
But note that the primary benefit is breaking into the industry. It's extremely hard to get a game programming position without experience.
I'd consider it, but I haven't done any development for linux.
As stated, this information can only be requested by law enforcement, and trust me, law enforcement officials don't get off of from violating your privacy and requesting it just for kicks.
Tell that to all the libraries that were getting requests for borrowing habits.
Tell that to the bookstores that have been fighting the police attempts to see purchases.
It happens far more often that you'd think.
Also, This doesn't help anyone who's gotten defrauded. They still have the same issues that had before. All this does is allow the police to check for potential criminals.
Unfortunately, everyone's a criminal in the eyes of the police, except other cops.
As an aside, I was visiting a friend who was in county after being arrested, well before his court case. He hadn't been convicted yet. I was trying to get his signature for a check he'd received, so that I could get him bail. The problem was that I'd visited him the weekend before (6 days previous), and the jail allowed one visit per week. I begged the officer to allow me to get the signature anyway. He stated "If I do YOU a favor, I have to do favors for ALL THE OTHER CONVICTS in here."
He equated me with a convict. I was flabbergasted so much that I couldn't respond.
I much prefer the other way of doing business than what sounds suspiciously like fascism.
If I sell something fraudulently, there is recourse for the buyer. I'm really not liking the idea that if I create an auction or browse for a product, that I could be investigated without real cause.
Some might say that you shouldn't mind if you haven't done anything illegal. To those I say, then you won't mind if the police come search your house regularly either.
They are actively looking for suspicious behavior, alerting the cops, and suggesting that a subpeona might be in order if the cops want to see the paypal records.
What really bothers me is that Ebay also "constructs comprehensive simulated histories, including simulated feedbacks, all for the sake of incriminating those suspected of theft".
Makes me glad I closed my account with them in 98 or 99 after they decided that users who clicked off all offers for spam didn't mean it.
I think perhaps I wasn't clear.
I make full rebuilds of my projects regularly as well rather than depending on incremental builds. What I meant was that the entire project seems to consist of all the pieces, from notepad.exe to the kernel itself.
So a webserver is blocked, and you're ok with that.
Who tells the isp that they can remove the block when the "child porn" site is removed? I fear that even years later, certain ip addresses will be blocked even after they aren't owned by those same server sites, much less the particular web sites.
Who defines the site as child porn? Does it have to be actually even porn, or involving children, or can the state simply decide that the site is unacceptable and should be blocked? Is there any judicial review involved, or is there some beaurocrat who makes the decision?
At least if the web site itself is shut down, there had to be some judicial review of some kind. With blocking, the web site might not even know to take it to court.
Is there any
He licenses everything else out to other companies.
The company that makes the segway makes nothing else.
Personally, I think the think might be great fun, but I've got a few problems with it.
It's too expensive for what it does. I can't see spending 5 grand on something like that, even if it's great fun. I can't use it to get to the office even in the best of weather (30+ miles). If I both lived downtown and worked downtown, I might use it if it weren't so expensive. But the subway is far cheaper.
Since I live out in the suburbs, I couldn't even use it to go to the grocery store. I could get TO the grocery store, but I doubt if I'd be allowed inside with it. I'd be afraid it would get stolen if I left it outside.
The limited distance isn't as much of a problem for most, I suspect. Anyone going more than 11 miles will probably drive anyway. What would be far better than extending the distance is if it were far lighter, and folded up into a backpack. Then I could use it to go the 15 blocks from the office and carry it onto the train.
Yikes.
I figured someone here would post about MS recompiling 50 million lines of code every day.
Does this mean they update each program source every day? The kernel, as well as each of the dlls? It seems like overkill.
Or at least it seems like major code bloat. Perhaps it's too much in the OS itself.
Doesn't linux separate the file system from the user interface? Seems there has to be a better way than the way MS does it.
I didn't know he played the piano!
Was ally mcbeal in the audience?
I wonder if there might be a reverse of this sound that would calm people down.
It seems like if there are sounds that amplify emotions, there should be sounds that diminish emotions.
That would be great for places where riots or brawls break out. Instead of spraying pepper-spray at the crowd a few days ago, the Epitome security guards could have just played the calming infrasounds.
Just wait until the Palladium(tm) chip is in place! Then we don't have to worry about cc fraud ever again either.
Woo hoo!
I'm just wondering where they will attach the chip on my credit card though.
That's true with lawyers too.
I know someone who, in a criminal trial, was convinced by his lawyer to sign his property over to his wife and plead guilty even to a charge that was patently false. The guy went to jail, and later found out that his wife married the lawyer.
Just goes to show you can't win either way.
What I guess I didn't understand is that the router sends all it's traffic along one route.
I had the idea that each router knows the destination of a packet and just sends it along the least congested route, regardless of the other packets from the same source.
From what I've been reading here, the first router picks the route for all the traffic from my system, and doesn't change the route unless something fails.
There's a finite limit to land, especially available for grazing.
I used to do my taxes entirely by hand.
I started using turbotax because I farked up once in a while. Just stupid errors, but it happens. With 4 or 5 forms just for the federal, it's easy to make a stupid mistake.
After I received a note from the state revenue service telling me my expected return would actually be considerably lower than I thought, (due to an error like that), I switched to using software.
Haven't had a problem like that since, and it saved me a few hours not having to verify that I didn't miswrite my ssn somewhere, that all the calculations were correct, and that everything I wrote was legible.
I've had to redo more than a few forms because I wrote something in the wrong place by mistake, or forgot to include an amount when doing the forms. Had to go back and redo those forms, which meant I had to redo other forms. Pain in the butt.
Of course, as of yesterday, I've switched to taxcut because I spent all of saturday trying to get turbotax's update program to work.
Didn't the courts state that in the last few years?
Publishers include them anyway, in the hope of fooling people.
The other problems with this analogy are that the commons can be increased, without limit (theoretically), albeit at cost and time; and that if the commons are overgrazed, demand will die off from lack of availability without actually killing anyone off. (who wants to play quake 2 on the net when the lag is several minutes?)
I'm confused too.
The article states that computers test the routes, and pick the least congested route to use. Thus, it slows everything down for everyone.
What should it do? Pick the MOST congested route?
Either I'm just confused, the author didn't understand the situation correctly, or the whole thing is BS.
No no no.
I'm not talking about a legal secretary advising anyone. I'm simply suggesting having one look over your documents and tell you what the court will need.
As I recall, some legal secretaries (or something) offered a service like this, to do basic legal secretary work that didn't actually require lawyers. Unfortunately, the lawyers felt threatened and put them down.
I wasn't trying to suggest that lexis-nexis shouldn't make money from their work.
I'm just suggesting that if L/N won't sell to libraries or individuals, or if the price is high, then other companies might have a market.
In addition, it might be that courts will start to scan every case themselves, and others could offer software to collect and search these things without converting them to a Lexis-Nexis format.