Uh, I hate to break it to you, but the English have a whole lot more experience pissing on and pissing off the rest of the world. Theirs started in the Age of Exploration and ended in the fifties. By contrast, ours didn't really start until the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, and didn't commit in earnest until after World War II...
...I've become increasingly used to insanity when it comes to the court and advancing technology. Next you'll tell me that the court will find that it's unconstitutional to collect certain kinds of data without a warrant...
If you want news and articles, honestly Yahoo's News is not too bad. It's about the only thing going left under a Yahoo URL that's worth using, and I find it to be better than Google News.
And as sad as this is, there are lots of Youtube channels dedicated to geeky subjects that I sometimes learn things from before they appear on Slashdot or other sites.
For discussion, no idea what to say. It appears that you're stuck here.
Because the submitter doesn't know how to do it right, and the "editors" don't know how to do their job. What else do you expect from Slashdot?
I used to expect a lot more from Slashdot, but now that none of the old-guard are left it's steadily and inexorably slipping in the same fashion that kuro5hin, The Register, and other tech sites have slipped.
In case you didn't know, there are holding companies buying up forums, news sites, aggregators, etc. At this point half-a-dozen automotive forums that I've used are now under one company, and that company milks the forums for advertising revenue without really policing the forums for abuse anymore. Since those forums lack a community-policing method like Slashdot and a few others there's very little to stop the race to the bottom as suddenly off-topic discussions, especially politics, come to pollute the original purpose with garbage that has nothing to do with cars.
These companies often don't advertise that they're in charge of so many forums, but some like The HAMB do. I encourage people to leave forums that head down this route, it's the only way to let these companies know that we don't appreciate what they're doing. Unfortunately that's probably a losing battle as there are a lot more users to replace those that walk away.
I use a Sun Type 6, an Apple G3 104 key, a Dell standard 104 key, and a Dell D520 all at work, a Gateway 2000 "Anykey", a Dell D410, a Gearhead wireless with trackpad all at home. Each keyboard has variations in at least two of Ctrl, Alt, backslash, backspace, pgup, pgdn, window, menu, Fn, the arrangement of the F-keys, the arrow keys, or some other thing.
And I can go seamlessly from keyboard to keyboard. Any nerd worth his chops should also be able to do this.
Yeah, the article writer lost me with "And let's be honest here. Caps Lock is a fantastic key. It's cruise control for cool. It's probably the best key on the keyboard." I'm sorry, but I use capslock so seldomly that I could easily do without it, and since my first keyboard placed control there anyway I've already gotten used to change in that space.
Correct, the expectation was that he had more stolen merchandise in his apartment, and since images of the items for sale on Craigslist lacked visible serial numbers it was not possible to compare them.
Also more importantly, the burglaries in the neighborhood stopped cold after his arrest, which provides more credence that he was more involved than having unknowingly bought stolen goods to resell.
If there is so much 'evidence' as you say, it seems obtaining a warrant would be trivial.
Unfortunately you are incorrect.
Several neighbors had their houses burglarized. One neighbor found their TV for sale on Craigslist. They called the police in the city that the burglary took place in, that city PD had him contact the seller, that was a mile and a half over just into an adjacent city, so it was set up with that adjacent city's PD to meet the seller. Unfortunately the seller came out of his apartment with the hot TV, not letting anyone inside to see all of the other stuff that he had listed on CL. Despite arresting him with stolen merchandise they could not get a warrant to search his apartment.
I do not think that this was right, but it does demonstrate that it is not always possible to get a warrant even when the circumstances should be blindingly obvious.
I think that a warrant should be necessary to search someone's cellphone at any time, not just at arrest. Traffic stops, border entry, "immigration checkpoints", any reason. Mind you, if someone has been arrested and the investigation and charges against them indicate either conspiracy (like the fence for the stolen TV) or multiple perpetrators then it probably should be shall-issue for warrants for communications devices, but if a crime doesn't meet that standard then it should be much harder to get a warrant.
what if I failed to come to complete stop at a sign?
That would be a civil traffic offense, not even a petty criminal offense. Granted, you're still subject to the same conditions as any other Terry Stop...
Well, the downside is that to get to the court in the first place there has to be a lawsuit, and that can take years and could be a problem if lower courts rule that only a narrow scope of affected individuals can file the suit.
In my opinion, any taxpayer living in the area whose revenue provides the bulk of funding to the school that feels that their money is being abused should have grounds to sue, but I expect that the court would narrow it from that.
I needed an air compressor shack. I like Doctor Who. I built an air compressor shack in the shape of an 85%-scale TARDIS over several weeks, starting with raw lumber and only the most rudimentary of plans.
I needed an enclosure to protect my outdoor bench grinder from the elements while it's not in use. I disassembled an old barbecue grille, installed a worktop, and put the grinder inside under the lid.
I needed a cover for my outdoor-stored hydraulic press. I went through my piles of scrap lumber and put one together.
Your citations for things like building furniture for personal use don't really help me appreciate the term "Maker", as building things at home is what normal non-wealthy people often did until the developments of the Industrial Revolution and Consumer Culture. People switched to buying prefinished goods because they liked the simplicity of not having to work to put these things together themselves.
Building a table, however noble, probably doesn't save the environment or the economy any more than sourcing a table from somewhere else. It's probably a lesser table than buying a craftsman-made table built by hand in your area, and given the benefits of mass-production, it might actually be better for the environment to produce tens of thousands of tables in a factory that can better handle its waste products than you'll get at home. So don't kid yourself, you built your table at home because you wanted to.
Personally, I buy or scavenge a lot of used things. The aforementioned compressor was used. The grille that became the grinder enclosure was being thrown out by a neighbor, it was in the bulk-pickup pile in the alley. The wood used for the cover on the hydraulic press was a remnant from building a garden shed. Many of the computers at home were from the local college surplus or from other used sources. I could probably make the argument that reusing things is even better for the environment than building new things.
And now we're starting to get into the "you're the product" stage of Google. Google Shopping now is a pay-for-inclusion system, and soon Maps may head that direction.
I guess that the $64,000 question is how far will it go before either Google stops pushing it, or before they find that they have competitor that outperforms them and resists a purchase attempt...
I'm thinking that in situations where it's totally impractical to have something more, like for a special-forces team that needs to go somewhere just under the surface to avoid detection but has no need to go deep, it would probably work quite well.
Who knows? Perhaps that James Bond scuba mouthpiece thing could actually be made to exist someday.
I've always considered "Maker" to mean something roughly equivalent to "hobbyist".
Look at the way that you write it. "Maker" with a capital letter, "hobbyist" without.
"I'm a hobbyist" expresses that one is not a professional.
"I'm a Maker" implies that there's something more than being a hobbyist, and is something of a title. Worse, it's borderline doublespeak in that most "Makers" couldn't actually make something to save their lives.
I suppose that when it comes down to it, the very term itself is what I find offensive, as I'm offended by serious pretend that things are better or more capable than they are. In the same sense that it's not necessarily the tools that Harbor Freight sells that are offensive (cheap tools are cheap tools, after all), but selling them with brands like "Pittsburgh" and "Chicago" and "US General" offends me when traditional tools named after an American city or town were called that because that town was where they were made.
Importantly, if there's little to no dissolved air in the water, there's no air to breathe as there's nothing to extract. Sea conditions that kill fish and other marine life would be just as deadly to someone using this technology.
We were still using predominately virgin steel in the '40s, so the costs for this material by weight was probably not significantly different than for other forms of steel from the manufacturer. As the raw steel smelter was selling right to the government or to the durable-goods manufacturer, whatever their price was, should be fairly close.
"Makers" in my view are predominately a bunch of wannabes; excited and enthusiastic but lacking in real capabilities. They may have an idea for something, but often they have no idea how to go about designing and building it, have to rely on the manufacturing expertise and trades of others, and yet think that they're really accomplishing something.
This is only going to be worse in medical spheres. "People" shouldn't play with nuclear materials, if they're serious about it then once they've received formal training they should form a legal entity in the form of a company, follow basic handling and exposure rules, and conduct thoughtfully designed experiments to determine the outcomes. We learned about playing with nuclear materials in the form of deaths of many, many people that didn't know about the dangers; I expect any random untrained person to be just as bad today.
As for myself, I'm not a "Maker". I have a workshop, I work on things. Sometimes my friends come over and help, sometimes I go over to their workshops to help them. I know that I'm not saving the world when I work on something, and very likely what I'm working on will only benefit me or my household. I'm not deluding myself that somehow my tinkering or puttering around will affect anyone besides myself. Applying a label besides "hobbyist" is stupid. If people want to learn how to build or modify things, then start by tinkering and don't throw stupid labels on it like it actually means something, it doesn't mean squat.
I think the point of using radio is for air-gapped PCs that are air-gapped for security. This would preclude using regular computer networking methods.
"The Internet is a great way to get on the 'net." --Senator Bob Dole, during the 1996 Presidential Campaign
"Those Internets" --President George W. Bush
These are men that either campaigned for or held the top elected office in this country, and they really had very little clue as to what the Internet was or how it could be used. To an extent Dole can get a pass, as in 1996 very few people, relatively speaking, used the Internet commercially, but by the time that Bush-43 was president this should have been sorted out.
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Uh, I hate to break it to you, but the English have a whole lot more experience pissing on and pissing off the rest of the world. Theirs started in the Age of Exploration and ended in the fifties. By contrast, ours didn't really start until the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, and didn't commit in earnest until after World War II...
...I've become increasingly used to insanity when it comes to the court and advancing technology. Next you'll tell me that the court will find that it's unconstitutional to collect certain kinds of data without a warrant...
Good thing that I got sick over my two weeks off for the winter holidays then!
If you want news and articles, honestly Yahoo's News is not too bad. It's about the only thing going left under a Yahoo URL that's worth using, and I find it to be better than Google News.
And as sad as this is, there are lots of Youtube channels dedicated to geeky subjects that I sometimes learn things from before they appear on Slashdot or other sites.
For discussion, no idea what to say. It appears that you're stuck here.
C*nt Lickers Anonymous?
(censored to hopefully avoid tripping various workplace filters)
I used to expect a lot more from Slashdot, but now that none of the old-guard are left it's steadily and inexorably slipping in the same fashion that kuro5hin, The Register, and other tech sites have slipped.
In case you didn't know, there are holding companies buying up forums, news sites, aggregators, etc. At this point half-a-dozen automotive forums that I've used are now under one company, and that company milks the forums for advertising revenue without really policing the forums for abuse anymore. Since those forums lack a community-policing method like Slashdot and a few others there's very little to stop the race to the bottom as suddenly off-topic discussions, especially politics, come to pollute the original purpose with garbage that has nothing to do with cars.
These companies often don't advertise that they're in charge of so many forums, but some like The HAMB do. I encourage people to leave forums that head down this route, it's the only way to let these companies know that we don't appreciate what they're doing. Unfortunately that's probably a losing battle as there are a lot more users to replace those that walk away.
I use a Sun Type 6, an Apple G3 104 key, a Dell standard 104 key, and a Dell D520 all at work, a Gateway 2000 "Anykey", a Dell D410, a Gearhead wireless with trackpad all at home. Each keyboard has variations in at least two of Ctrl, Alt, backslash, backspace, pgup, pgdn, window, menu, Fn, the arrangement of the F-keys, the arrow keys, or some other thing.
And I can go seamlessly from keyboard to keyboard. Any nerd worth his chops should also be able to do this.
Yeah, the article writer lost me with "And let's be honest here. Caps Lock is a fantastic key. It's cruise control for cool. It's probably the best key on the keyboard." I'm sorry, but I use capslock so seldomly that I could easily do without it, and since my first keyboard placed control there anyway I've already gotten used to change in that space.
I thought it was because some idiot switched their comma and period keys...
*cough*laptop*cough*
Correct, the expectation was that he had more stolen merchandise in his apartment, and since images of the items for sale on Craigslist lacked visible serial numbers it was not possible to compare them.
Also more importantly, the burglaries in the neighborhood stopped cold after his arrest, which provides more credence that he was more involved than having unknowingly bought stolen goods to resell.
Unfortunately you are incorrect.
Several neighbors had their houses burglarized. One neighbor found their TV for sale on Craigslist. They called the police in the city that the burglary took place in, that city PD had him contact the seller, that was a mile and a half over just into an adjacent city, so it was set up with that adjacent city's PD to meet the seller. Unfortunately the seller came out of his apartment with the hot TV, not letting anyone inside to see all of the other stuff that he had listed on CL. Despite arresting him with stolen merchandise they could not get a warrant to search his apartment.
I do not think that this was right, but it does demonstrate that it is not always possible to get a warrant even when the circumstances should be blindingly obvious.
I think that a warrant should be necessary to search someone's cellphone at any time, not just at arrest. Traffic stops, border entry, "immigration checkpoints", any reason. Mind you, if someone has been arrested and the investigation and charges against them indicate either conspiracy (like the fence for the stolen TV) or multiple perpetrators then it probably should be shall-issue for warrants for communications devices, but if a crime doesn't meet that standard then it should be much harder to get a warrant.
That would be a civil traffic offense, not even a petty criminal offense. Granted, you're still subject to the same conditions as any other Terry Stop...
Well, the downside is that to get to the court in the first place there has to be a lawsuit, and that can take years and could be a problem if lower courts rule that only a narrow scope of affected individuals can file the suit.
In my opinion, any taxpayer living in the area whose revenue provides the bulk of funding to the school that feels that their money is being abused should have grounds to sue, but I expect that the court would narrow it from that.
I needed an air compressor shack. I like Doctor Who. I built an air compressor shack in the shape of an 85%-scale TARDIS over several weeks, starting with raw lumber and only the most rudimentary of plans.
I needed an enclosure to protect my outdoor bench grinder from the elements while it's not in use. I disassembled an old barbecue grille, installed a worktop, and put the grinder inside under the lid.
I needed a cover for my outdoor-stored hydraulic press. I went through my piles of scrap lumber and put one together.
Your citations for things like building furniture for personal use don't really help me appreciate the term "Maker", as building things at home is what normal non-wealthy people often did until the developments of the Industrial Revolution and Consumer Culture. People switched to buying prefinished goods because they liked the simplicity of not having to work to put these things together themselves.
Building a table, however noble, probably doesn't save the environment or the economy any more than sourcing a table from somewhere else. It's probably a lesser table than buying a craftsman-made table built by hand in your area, and given the benefits of mass-production, it might actually be better for the environment to produce tens of thousands of tables in a factory that can better handle its waste products than you'll get at home. So don't kid yourself, you built your table at home because you wanted to.
Personally, I buy or scavenge a lot of used things. The aforementioned compressor was used. The grille that became the grinder enclosure was being thrown out by a neighbor, it was in the bulk-pickup pile in the alley. The wood used for the cover on the hydraulic press was a remnant from building a garden shed. Many of the computers at home were from the local college surplus or from other used sources. I could probably make the argument that reusing things is even better for the environment than building new things.
Shouldn't the opening of the Biology workbook alone be enough to get this squashed?
Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner!
And now we're starting to get into the "you're the product" stage of Google. Google Shopping now is a pay-for-inclusion system, and soon Maps may head that direction.
I guess that the $64,000 question is how far will it go before either Google stops pushing it, or before they find that they have competitor that outperforms them and resists a purchase attempt...
I'm thinking that in situations where it's totally impractical to have something more, like for a special-forces team that needs to go somewhere just under the surface to avoid detection but has no need to go deep, it would probably work quite well.
Who knows? Perhaps that James Bond scuba mouthpiece thing could actually be made to exist someday.
Look at the way that you write it. "Maker" with a capital letter, "hobbyist" without.
"I'm a hobbyist" expresses that one is not a professional.
"I'm a Maker" implies that there's something more than being a hobbyist, and is something of a title. Worse, it's borderline doublespeak in that most "Makers" couldn't actually make something to save their lives.
I suppose that when it comes down to it, the very term itself is what I find offensive, as I'm offended by serious pretend that things are better or more capable than they are. In the same sense that it's not necessarily the tools that Harbor Freight sells that are offensive (cheap tools are cheap tools, after all), but selling them with brands like "Pittsburgh" and "Chicago" and "US General" offends me when traditional tools named after an American city or town were called that because that town was where they were made.
Importantly, if there's little to no dissolved air in the water, there's no air to breathe as there's nothing to extract. Sea conditions that kill fish and other marine life would be just as deadly to someone using this technology.
We were still using predominately virgin steel in the '40s, so the costs for this material by weight was probably not significantly different than for other forms of steel from the manufacturer. As the raw steel smelter was selling right to the government or to the durable-goods manufacturer, whatever their price was, should be fairly close.
Or in other words, whoever smelt it, dealt it...
"Makers" in my view are predominately a bunch of wannabes; excited and enthusiastic but lacking in real capabilities. They may have an idea for something, but often they have no idea how to go about designing and building it, have to rely on the manufacturing expertise and trades of others, and yet think that they're really accomplishing something.
This is only going to be worse in medical spheres. "People" shouldn't play with nuclear materials, if they're serious about it then once they've received formal training they should form a legal entity in the form of a company, follow basic handling and exposure rules, and conduct thoughtfully designed experiments to determine the outcomes. We learned about playing with nuclear materials in the form of deaths of many, many people that didn't know about the dangers; I expect any random untrained person to be just as bad today.
As for myself, I'm not a "Maker". I have a workshop, I work on things. Sometimes my friends come over and help, sometimes I go over to their workshops to help them. I know that I'm not saving the world when I work on something, and very likely what I'm working on will only benefit me or my household. I'm not deluding myself that somehow my tinkering or puttering around will affect anyone besides myself. Applying a label besides "hobbyist" is stupid. If people want to learn how to build or modify things, then start by tinkering and don't throw stupid labels on it like it actually means something, it doesn't mean squat.
I think the point of using radio is for air-gapped PCs that are air-gapped for security. This would preclude using regular computer networking methods.
Sounds to me like they're risking running afoul of racketeering and extortion laws. I hope that they push the issue that far, it'd be fun to watch.
"The Internet is a great way to get on the 'net." --Senator Bob Dole, during the 1996 Presidential Campaign
"Those Internets" --President George W. Bush
These are men that either campaigned for or held the top elected office in this country, and they really had very little clue as to what the Internet was or how it could be used. To an extent Dole can get a pass, as in 1996 very few people, relatively speaking, used the Internet commercially, but by the time that Bush-43 was president this should have been sorted out.