I love Feynman. Truly one of the greatest minds of the century, and he wasn't just smart about physics. His insights in any of his published works are worth reading: Not only does he have a great sense of humor, but he's interested in EVERYTHING, and he's able to write in ways that laymen can easily understand, while not overstating his own knowledge of the subject at hand.
Also, how many of those are PERMANENT disbarments? Like was stated, the ten year injunction disbarment was considered very severe, let alone making it permanent. Now I'm not saying that he would have gotten BACK in after ten years, but making it permanent is saying that they believe there is no hope he will ever reform his ways. I believe THAT'S what makes this extraordinary.
I just filled a 150 gig velociraptor with OS/programs. I may be a little out of the ordinary, but programs, especially games, are starting to stack up space wise. I have a few that top the 10gb mark, and at least one that tops 20. When you're eating space like that, the SSD sizes that are coming out right now just don't cut it. (I know, I know, I could just uninstall some stuff... but I like having all of them on hand in case I get a bug at 2 in the morning and have to play THIS GAME!:) )
As some on above here pointed out... that type of action doesn't look to be garnering this type of response. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/31/scant-coverage-of-obama-assassination-plot-irresponsible-or-cautious/
Or maybe its just party politics at play again? I hope to god that its not, and its just stupid people. Party politics is destructive enough, when you take it to this level, its not about the party overall, its about how long you can abuse until you have a revolution.
True story. I was felt better after the DNC (I live in Denver) when there were no major altercations. As a matter of fact, Obama staffers stopped an impending one between some vets and the police. Now we look at the Republican side and... not so good. I'm not saying that its the Republicans fault, but they shouldn't have let it happen, and they should be trying to stop it now if they didn't know (I would bet money they knew). Well, I was thinking I would be voting Obama, and McCain's VP choice further solidified that... and now, its pretty much 100%.
Yes, but who decides what's "high priority" going from the consumer to the cloud? I pay for a 6mbit line every month, and I expect to be able to use it the way I see fit. What makes your 6mbit line so special that your traffic gets precedence over mine? We're paying the same amount, shouldn't we get the same service, no matter WHAT we're transferring?
In addition to all of this, he's also (and more importantly, imo) spreading details about the dirty and questionably or purely illegal tricks the RIAA are using. This information is useful to ANYONE that has been accused by the RIAA, and I for one am glad to know that we have people that are willing to share as much information about the situation as they can.
Hey, words all have to start out somewhere, and being created by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century isn't too bad a place to begin, in my humble opinion.
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I've said it before and will say it again: I don't think that the common person will ever have access to I2. It was designed and built to provided high quality, high bandwidth connections for research purposes. Any piggy backing by other applications and uses is incidental, and if it were to interfere with the academic work that I2 is used for, I'm reasonably sure it would be stopped.
Now, I'm not saying that everything that makes I2 so great WON'T come to the general consumer... but it won't come in the form of I2. The academics will never give up the highly regulated, and quite frankly, incredibly important tool that they have in I2, nor should they.
By everything that you've said, Shakespeare was a hopeless illiterate. Without him, the modern vocabulary would be significantly smaller, as well as totally lacking in contractions. Changes in grammar do not happen over night, the majority of the populace doesn't wake up one morning and say, 'Oh, I think we should all talk like this today.' It has to start somewhere. Anyways, you're the one that started arguing in circles, pretty much ignoring the arguments provided against you in order to drive home your supposed point that this was WRONG. Well, scratch the circles, actually, you're just arguing like a brick wall, everything just bounces off.
If a game forces you to spend hours doing tasks a bot CAN do, then it's crap Do you have any idea how sophisticated these bots can be? WoW is not a simple game, and there are a HUGE number of situations that can arise. These bots can handle 99% of them, from simple grinds to pvp to complex simulations of human behavior to make it appear that you are NOT botting. According to you, every game ever created is crap, because the level of sophistication of these bots is such that they can do anything that we can do. I mean, come on, its a bloody AI, its DESIGNED to emulate us in undetectable ways, OF COURSE IT CAN DO WHAT WE CAN DO IN THE GAME. Thats what it was MADE for!
Also, I don't understand how you would create a game with no grind. Every game is a grind of SOME sort, even your general FPS... you go for hours, and go through the same set of motions in order to achieve, in the end, a pointless goal. Thats no different than, say, rolling a toon on an MMO, and running around repeating basically the same moves in order to level it? I argue that, in the end, there is none.
What makes a good game is the balance of the grind with the reward gained. This is where the MMO grind differs from other types of games, since there is much more time invested, the reward has to be that much larger. This usually comes in the form of bettering your character; for the many people that like MMOs this is generally a good reward, but for some people its just not the right reward. Does this make the game crap? Not at all. It just means that some people won't enjoy it, as the reward is not to their liking, while some people will love it, because they are satisfied with the reward.
Anyways, what I'm saying is two fold: The bots are designed mimic human behavior, the fact that they can complete this behavior is a retarded argument AGAINST a game, and just because you think a grind is crappy doesn't mean that everyone else does... I mean, 10 million people like the reward at the end enough that they are willing to play through the grind... and many of them enjoy it, some of them even play BECAUSE of the grind.
Lots of good responses above me, but another problem is thus: There are 10 million subscribers to World of warcraft. There are a very small percentage that bot, but even they dwarf the number of GMs that patrol each server. And most of the time, those GMs are busy helping people with bugs/issues. It can take upwards of 6-8 hours for a GM to reach your ticket, depending on the server load and the severity of the issue. In that time, smart botters will have changed locations/stopped botting/what have you that makes it look like they are NOT botting. And, like was said above me, Glider can auto respond to a pretty good variety of questions, and makes sense doing it 95+% of the time. So sure, you might catch some stupid botters in that time... but 3 years into the game, theres not many stupid botters left around anyways.
Well, I'm from Denver, Colorado, and I had no problems with misunderstandings... but maybe they just went over my head.
On another note, I LOVE Gaiman, and I can see only good for him coming out of this initiative... although I do kinda wish they had release Neverwhere, as I think its a slightly better book:)
How is this not useful? You know that in the not too distant future, all of these things are probably going to be pretty common in new houses, because they make things easier and faster, and thats what people want. The people doing this now are exposing flaws in ideas that would have to be taken care of before they would be viable in the market. While a lot of these flaws may seem to be self evident, I would bet you that most of them would be ignored if NOT for people like this guy, trying them... and, sadly enough, people like YOU ripping on them for trying something interesting. Besides, if they have fun doing it, then WHY DO YOU CARE? Its THEIR leisure, and THEIR idea of fun... and I can sure as hell think of worse things they could be doing instead.
As to your bullet points (which seem to be the major sticking points to most people here...)
1. Place a low power, shielded reader in a specific place on the door (only facing outside, if that what you want). This means that the door won't unlock till you wave the tag past a small area around and near the reader. Hence, the door only unlocks when you want it to, not any time you are around.
2. Include a replaceable, rechargeable battery to the reader. Allow it to charge when the powers on. If the power goes off, make sure its a good enough battery that it can run for, oh, say 24 hours. Or more, I guess you could upgrade it to whatever you wanted, really. And since the house is wired anyways, its not like it would be that hard to rig something that would report when your battery was dead, so you could replace it.
3. As was stated before, there is no research showing it causes cancer IN HUMANS. And the data from the mice it was tested on showed percentages of 1-2%... not a large percentage, and I'm sure that some easy monitoring could determine if you are one of the few that it did affect, IF it does. And hell, as was also pointed out before, who says you have to get an implant? Put it in a ring or a necklace or a bracelet... it would still be faster and easier, without the implant!
That takes care of your three main concerns, the others being personal prejudice that I can't do much about. And to the people who point out the case of the stolen finger and the car thieves, an RFID tag can be implanted ANYWHERE. The reader can also be placed just about anywhere. So how is a thief going to know where yours is? Besides, its not like you can pick up a house and take it away... so after you break in once, what use is there to being able to break in again and again? If you're using the RFID tag as a means of breaking in, I'm pretty sure when the person goes missing, or turns up dead or whatever, you lose that route of entry... and if you're not, then the RFID has NO effect on the situation at all!
While I know you're all Microsoft haters, bear with me for a minute. This sounds a lot like this Photosynth demonstration. The relevant part of the video starts at about 3:50, but the whole video is really interesting and I would suggest watching it.
While I agree with your final conclusion, gross stereotypes help no one. Are there left wingers who want to shut everyone up? Yes. Are there right wingers that want to shut everyone up? Yes. Do they comprise the entirety of those that hold beliefs on either side? Hell no. Theres always going to be some wackos out there that believe that people need to be regulated, but they are spread across ALL demographics, and saying that "new-liberal types want to shut up conservative speakers" does everyone a disservice by giving people the ability to dismiss concerns with this kind of censor ship by point to one nut and saying "all those people that believe like him want to shut people up!" Kinda repetitive here, but meh, control of expression and speech for purely political reasons disgusts me WHEREVER I find it, no matter who is doing it.
While they might have helped, the origination of their reason for doing so was STILL the comic in question. I would say that still qualifies as single handed. Now, if both xkcd AND Language Log had boosted the search, but for different reasons, then you would be right, imo.:)
While I do agree with you, I don't think that someone carrying out these actions because they cared about the students would start with suspensions and harsh warnings, but would probably try to talk to the kids individually about drinking habits and even privacy concerns about posting things like this on a public site.
As to the poster above me, the article does not state that all the kids in question had signed such and agreement, only the athletes, and even then, the lacrosse player points out that at least a few of the pictures were taken before he played lacrosse and signed said agreement. So, for those students that signed the paper, if the pictures can be shown to have been taken after the agreement was made, sure, I agree with you... but for the others? Theres no excuse, imo.
That is frightfully akin to a "guilty until proven innocent" method of thought, just like the administrators in this case. While they do have pictures, its also very clear that pictures can be changed, drinks may not have an alcohol in them, and a whole host of other circumstances that lead to the party involved being innocent. In fact, I would think that, while the evidence may be strong, it is not overwhelming, and you would be hard pressed to prove the guilt of anyone merely by the pictures in question. Since, in this country, we attempt to use the opposite mantra of "innocent until proven guilty," thats a pretty big deal, imho. (IANAL, just my 2 cents)
You are still ignoring the question that has been brought up again and again in these discussions. Did the administrator have the power to punish a student for an activity not sanctioned by, held in, or related to the school in any way? I think its pretty clear cut that, as long as the student was not drunk at the school, this is an incident where the administrator is clearly overstepping the bounds of their disciplinary powers. He does NOT have the power to punish a student for a crime outside his jurisdiction, no matter what the student did. It doesn't matter that the kid is a liar, or that he was doing something illegal. Theres no bitching there, just common sense.
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I love Feynman. Truly one of the greatest minds of the century, and he wasn't just smart about physics. His insights in any of his published works are worth reading: Not only does he have a great sense of humor, but he's interested in EVERYTHING, and he's able to write in ways that laymen can easily understand, while not overstating his own knowledge of the subject at hand.
Also, how many of those are PERMANENT disbarments? Like was stated, the ten year injunction disbarment was considered very severe, let alone making it permanent. Now I'm not saying that he would have gotten BACK in after ten years, but making it permanent is saying that they believe there is no hope he will ever reform his ways. I believe THAT'S what makes this extraordinary.
It can be the number one seller, and still be way off what it would have been selling. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.
not trying to troll, but more information would be useful :)
I just filled a 150 gig velociraptor with OS/programs. I may be a little out of the ordinary, but programs, especially games, are starting to stack up space wise. I have a few that top the 10gb mark, and at least one that tops 20. When you're eating space like that, the SSD sizes that are coming out right now just don't cut it. (I know, I know, I could just uninstall some stuff... but I like having all of them on hand in case I get a bug at 2 in the morning and have to play THIS GAME! :) )
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-protest28-2008aug28,0,2351344.story Sorry, no FUD here.
As some on above here pointed out... that type of action doesn't look to be garnering this type of response. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/31/scant-coverage-of-obama-assassination-plot-irresponsible-or-cautious/ Or maybe its just party politics at play again? I hope to god that its not, and its just stupid people. Party politics is destructive enough, when you take it to this level, its not about the party overall, its about how long you can abuse until you have a revolution.
True story. I was felt better after the DNC (I live in Denver) when there were no major altercations. As a matter of fact, Obama staffers stopped an impending one between some vets and the police. Now we look at the Republican side and... not so good. I'm not saying that its the Republicans fault, but they shouldn't have let it happen, and they should be trying to stop it now if they didn't know (I would bet money they knew). Well, I was thinking I would be voting Obama, and McCain's VP choice further solidified that... and now, its pretty much 100%.
Yes, but who decides what's "high priority" going from the consumer to the cloud? I pay for a 6mbit line every month, and I expect to be able to use it the way I see fit. What makes your 6mbit line so special that your traffic gets precedence over mine? We're paying the same amount, shouldn't we get the same service, no matter WHAT we're transferring?
Google: still trying to prove that big companies don't HAVE to be evil!
In addition to all of this, he's also (and more importantly, imo) spreading details about the dirty and questionably or purely illegal tricks the RIAA are using. This information is useful to ANYONE that has been accused by the RIAA, and I for one am glad to know that we have people that are willing to share as much information about the situation as they can.
Hey, words all have to start out somewhere, and being created by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century isn't too bad a place to begin, in my humble opinion.
I've said it before and will say it again: I don't think that the common person will ever have access to I2. It was designed and built to provided high quality, high bandwidth connections for research purposes. Any piggy backing by other applications and uses is incidental, and if it were to interfere with the academic work that I2 is used for, I'm reasonably sure it would be stopped. Now, I'm not saying that everything that makes I2 so great WON'T come to the general consumer... but it won't come in the form of I2. The academics will never give up the highly regulated, and quite frankly, incredibly important tool that they have in I2, nor should they.
Possibly the best nerf locks post in existence :D
By everything that you've said, Shakespeare was a hopeless illiterate. Without him, the modern vocabulary would be significantly smaller, as well as totally lacking in contractions. Changes in grammar do not happen over night, the majority of the populace doesn't wake up one morning and say, 'Oh, I think we should all talk like this today.' It has to start somewhere. Anyways, you're the one that started arguing in circles, pretty much ignoring the arguments provided against you in order to drive home your supposed point that this was WRONG. Well, scratch the circles, actually, you're just arguing like a brick wall, everything just bounces off.
Lots of good responses above me, but another problem is thus: There are 10 million subscribers to World of warcraft. There are a very small percentage that bot, but even they dwarf the number of GMs that patrol each server. And most of the time, those GMs are busy helping people with bugs/issues. It can take upwards of 6-8 hours for a GM to reach your ticket, depending on the server load and the severity of the issue. In that time, smart botters will have changed locations/stopped botting/what have you that makes it look like they are NOT botting. And, like was said above me, Glider can auto respond to a pretty good variety of questions, and makes sense doing it 95+% of the time. So sure, you might catch some stupid botters in that time... but 3 years into the game, theres not many stupid botters left around anyways.
Well, I'm from Denver, Colorado, and I had no problems with misunderstandings... but maybe they just went over my head. On another note, I LOVE Gaiman, and I can see only good for him coming out of this initiative... although I do kinda wish they had release Neverwhere, as I think its a slightly better book :)
How is this not useful? You know that in the not too distant future, all of these things are probably going to be pretty common in new houses, because they make things easier and faster, and thats what people want. The people doing this now are exposing flaws in ideas that would have to be taken care of before they would be viable in the market. While a lot of these flaws may seem to be self evident, I would bet you that most of them would be ignored if NOT for people like this guy, trying them... and, sadly enough, people like YOU ripping on them for trying something interesting. Besides, if they have fun doing it, then WHY DO YOU CARE? Its THEIR leisure, and THEIR idea of fun... and I can sure as hell think of worse things they could be doing instead.
As to your bullet points (which seem to be the major sticking points to most people here...)
1. Place a low power, shielded reader in a specific place on the door (only facing outside, if that what you want). This means that the door won't unlock till you wave the tag past a small area around and near the reader. Hence, the door only unlocks when you want it to, not any time you are around.
2. Include a replaceable, rechargeable battery to the reader. Allow it to charge when the powers on. If the power goes off, make sure its a good enough battery that it can run for, oh, say 24 hours. Or more, I guess you could upgrade it to whatever you wanted, really. And since the house is wired anyways, its not like it would be that hard to rig something that would report when your battery was dead, so you could replace it.
3. As was stated before, there is no research showing it causes cancer IN HUMANS. And the data from the mice it was tested on showed percentages of 1-2%... not a large percentage, and I'm sure that some easy monitoring could determine if you are one of the few that it did affect, IF it does. And hell, as was also pointed out before, who says you have to get an implant? Put it in a ring or a necklace or a bracelet... it would still be faster and easier, without the implant!
That takes care of your three main concerns, the others being personal prejudice that I can't do much about. And to the people who point out the case of the stolen finger and the car thieves, an RFID tag can be implanted ANYWHERE. The reader can also be placed just about anywhere. So how is a thief going to know where yours is? Besides, its not like you can pick up a house and take it away... so after you break in once, what use is there to being able to break in again and again? If you're using the RFID tag as a means of breaking in, I'm pretty sure when the person goes missing, or turns up dead or whatever, you lose that route of entry... and if you're not, then the RFID has NO effect on the situation at all!
While I know you're all Microsoft haters, bear with me for a minute. This sounds a lot like this Photosynth demonstration. The relevant part of the video starts at about 3:50, but the whole video is really interesting and I would suggest watching it.
While I agree with your final conclusion, gross stereotypes help no one. Are there left wingers who want to shut everyone up? Yes. Are there right wingers that want to shut everyone up? Yes. Do they comprise the entirety of those that hold beliefs on either side? Hell no. Theres always going to be some wackos out there that believe that people need to be regulated, but they are spread across ALL demographics, and saying that "new-liberal types want to shut up conservative speakers" does everyone a disservice by giving people the ability to dismiss concerns with this kind of censor ship by point to one nut and saying "all those people that believe like him want to shut people up!" Kinda repetitive here, but meh, control of expression and speech for purely political reasons disgusts me WHEREVER I find it, no matter who is doing it.
While they might have helped, the origination of their reason for doing so was STILL the comic in question. I would say that still qualifies as single handed. Now, if both xkcd AND Language Log had boosted the search, but for different reasons, then you would be right, imo. :)
While I do agree with you, I don't think that someone carrying out these actions because they cared about the students would start with suspensions and harsh warnings, but would probably try to talk to the kids individually about drinking habits and even privacy concerns about posting things like this on a public site. As to the poster above me, the article does not state that all the kids in question had signed such and agreement, only the athletes, and even then, the lacrosse player points out that at least a few of the pictures were taken before he played lacrosse and signed said agreement. So, for those students that signed the paper, if the pictures can be shown to have been taken after the agreement was made, sure, I agree with you... but for the others? Theres no excuse, imo.
That is frightfully akin to a "guilty until proven innocent" method of thought, just like the administrators in this case. While they do have pictures, its also very clear that pictures can be changed, drinks may not have an alcohol in them, and a whole host of other circumstances that lead to the party involved being innocent. In fact, I would think that, while the evidence may be strong, it is not overwhelming, and you would be hard pressed to prove the guilt of anyone merely by the pictures in question. Since, in this country, we attempt to use the opposite mantra of "innocent until proven guilty," thats a pretty big deal, imho. (IANAL, just my 2 cents)
You are still ignoring the question that has been brought up again and again in these discussions. Did the administrator have the power to punish a student for an activity not sanctioned by, held in, or related to the school in any way? I think its pretty clear cut that, as long as the student was not drunk at the school, this is an incident where the administrator is clearly overstepping the bounds of their disciplinary powers. He does NOT have the power to punish a student for a crime outside his jurisdiction, no matter what the student did. It doesn't matter that the kid is a liar, or that he was doing something illegal. Theres no bitching there, just common sense.