They didn't "force" electrification, instead the Government provided loans to local electrification cooperatives -- in other words, the small communities that you are talking about.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Administration
Read up on it, the situation is very analogous: large companies refusing to provide service, yet claiming the government was not allowed to compete with them or regulate them.
Here's a simple one.
Let's say you are looking for a file that has a certain string in it. (I'll use "foobar" because I'm a traditionalist.) You probably already know find . -type f -exec grep -l foobar {} \;
But the problem is, that only returns the filename, not the line matched.
You could drop the "-l", but then you only get the matching line, but not the filename. The quick way to solve the problem is to add a second file to the grep; then grep returns both the filename and the line match. In order to keep things quick and the results pure, the best file to use is/dev/null. find . -type f -exec grep foobar {}/dev/null \;
ls -l | sort -n +4 -- sorts files in size order, good for finding big files in a directory
du -s * | sort -n -- similar to above, find the biggest files & subdirectories of the current dir
du | xdu -- only when you're in X, obviously. Better grain than above, with the ability to drill down into subdirectories
I thought it was fairly well established that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping predates 9/11. The NSA was meeting with Qwest executives in February 2001, trying to pressure them into allowing it. They said no, other carriers buckled.
That's not related at all to Stephen King's attempt. He tried doing the suggested pay-by-chapter method where readers could optionally pay if they liked it, and it ended up being a waste of his time.
What's needed is a social networking site with a concept of groups as containers for acquaintances and other groups, applying permissions in the order of default-deny, groups with permission, groups denied, individuals permitted, individuals denied. THEN, when you post something, you'd be able to specify its visibility scope across those groups... possibly, even creating fake or munged entries for some groups to see in lieu of "real" entries, and NO way for acquaintances to discern which group(s) they're in, or even which groups exist at all.
LiveJournal's pretty close to that. LJ lets you define arbitrary groups of people on your "friendslist", and make posts visible to only people in those groups. The people can't tell what groups you have or what groups they are in. The one thing that keeps this from being a complete match for your requirements is that anyone can still see the list of everyone who is on your friendslist. This means even if you have (say) separate groups set up, one of which is your co-workers, and one of which is your kinky sex friends, and you only make posts appropriately locked one way or the other, your co-worker can still see you are friends with these other folk, and my aren't some of *their* journals interesting!
Some people get around that by keeping multiple LJ accounts.
We'd only be giving (on average) 50 people a year a pension. Let's say for easy math, they all live another 100 years after retiring. So at peak payout, we're paying 5000 people ~10x minimum wage; let's round up for easy math and say that's $10/hour, 2000 hours/year, or $20k/year. $20k*10*5000=1 Billion/year. When it comes to US budgets, that's not a lot. It's about $33 in taxes, per person, surely worth it to eliminate career politicians, massive "re-election" campaigns and their briberyfundraising, etc.
I've been pushing government by random lot for the last 15 years or more. What I suggest is we pick ~300 random citizens, 100 every 2 years to serve a 6 year term. They make up a unicameral parliamentary style body, who elect a prime minister from their own numbers. To try and prevent bribery, we pay them well, and at the end of their term, they get a life pension they can retire on, say 10-20x the minimum wage.
B.S. I live in New Jersey (452 people/km^2, which puts us between Japan and Korea for population density) -- in fact, I live in Hudson County (5,036/km, which puts us just behind Hong Kong on the wikipedia link). We still do not have fiber available. I've been waiting years for Verison FIOS to get to us, and I 'm still waiting.
Across the river is Manhattan island, which has a density of 27,256.9 people/km^2. I don't see cheap 100MB+ connections being generally available. It's not population density, it's the telecom industry being greedy.
I thought that the move away from realism wasn't due so much to having hit a pinnacle of realism in painting, but more as a reaction against photography, which provided cheap, easy, and quick realism. The painters then went after things the camera couldn't do.
I looked at the title and for a moment was stunned, thinking that NASA was actually working on building Project Orion. Now thers's a spaceship that really needs its shock absorbers.
I've seen cases where a car's hubcaps were blurred, presumably because the face-search-and-blur algorithm hit it. Here is one example (for street view of 116 Manhattan Ave, Jersey City, NJ, in case the link isn't right). It would be interesting to see what the face swapping software does when one of the faces is a hubcap or other inanimate object. The other question is how reversible is the face swapping techonolgy? Given the altered photo and one of the two originals, can the 2nd original be reconstructed?
One thing to help stop doctored footage is *more* cameras. If 20 different people/cameras are recording a scene, then just one person doctoring footage is insufficient.
No, no. Phase 3 will be when the RIAA succeed in bribing Congress into making copyright infringement a federal crime, and thus get to shuck off the whole lawyer expense off to the Department of Justice, who will immediately go whining to Congress to get more money to hire more agents in order to detect and prosecute more cases. And so that way our taxes will pay to defend the RIAA companies from any possible loss due to infringement, while they get to keep any profit.
I seriously hope I am wrong. But I fear I may be right.
Exactly, that is why they are so interested in turning copyright infringement into a criminal offense instead of a civil one. Then we, the taxpayers, have to pay for policing and prosecution of infringers, while they, the companies retain all the profits.
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Actually, anacdotal evidence suggests that raising a boy as a girl doesn't work.
They didn't "force" electrification, instead the Government provided loans to local electrification cooperatives -- in other words, the small communities that you are talking about. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Administration
Read up on it, the situation is very analogous: large companies refusing to provide service, yet claiming the government was not allowed to compete with them or regulate them.
Sorry, I grew up with Unix before GNU; that was not an option back then.
Because that's a GNUism I didn't know! Thanks, filed away for future use.
Here's a simple one. /dev/null. /dev/null \;
Let's say you are looking for a file that has a certain string in it. (I'll use "foobar" because I'm a traditionalist.) You probably already know
find . -type f -exec grep -l foobar {} \;
But the problem is, that only returns the filename, not the line matched. You could drop the "-l", but then you only get the matching line, but not the filename. The quick way to solve the problem is to add a second file to the grep; then grep returns both the filename and the line match. In order to keep things quick and the results pure, the best file to use is
find . -type f -exec grep foobar {}
ls -l | sort -n +4 -- sorts files in size order, good for finding big files in a directory
du -s * | sort -n -- similar to above, find the biggest files & subdirectories of the current dir
du | xdu -- only when you're in X, obviously. Better grain than above, with the ability to drill down into subdirectories
I thought it was fairly well established that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping predates 9/11. The NSA was meeting with Qwest executives in February 2001, trying to pressure them into allowing it. They said no, other carriers buckled.
Make copyright last 5 years. Then everything worthwhile will be backed up by someone who cares about it.
At $463,832 in profit on an unfinished novel, I would love to have such a "waste of time". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/07/stephen_king_reveals_the_plant/
Sometimes, though I'm not really the one who sends it. You've never had a virus or spammer forge your address as the sender?
Ah, but does it require a warrant to merely record the outside of every letter and package (to, from, postmark) and store the results in a database?
LiveJournal's pretty close to that. LJ lets you define arbitrary groups of people on your "friendslist", and make posts visible to only people in those groups. The people can't tell what groups you have or what groups they are in. The one thing that keeps this from being a complete match for your requirements is that anyone can still see the list of everyone who is on your friendslist. This means even if you have (say) separate groups set up, one of which is your co-workers, and one of which is your kinky sex friends, and you only make posts appropriately locked one way or the other, your co-worker can still see you are friends with these other folk, and my aren't some of *their* journals interesting!
Some people get around that by keeping multiple LJ accounts.
noatime includes nodiratime. nodiratime is for when you want atime on files but not dirs.
We'd only be giving (on average) 50 people a year a pension. Let's say for easy math, they all live another 100 years after retiring. So at peak payout, we're paying 5000 people ~10x minimum wage; let's round up for easy math and say that's $10/hour, 2000 hours/year, or $20k/year. $20k*10*5000=1 Billion/year. When it comes to US budgets, that's not a lot. It's about $33 in taxes, per person, surely worth it to eliminate career politicians, massive "re-election" campaigns and their briberyfundraising, etc.
I've been pushing government by random lot for the last 15 years or more. What I suggest is we pick ~300 random citizens, 100 every 2 years to serve a 6 year term. They make up a unicameral parliamentary style body, who elect a prime minister from their own numbers. To try and prevent bribery, we pay them well, and at the end of their term, they get a life pension they can retire on, say 10-20x the minimum wage.
B.S. I live in New Jersey (452 people/km^2, which puts us between Japan and Korea for population density) -- in fact, I live in Hudson County (5,036/km, which puts us just behind Hong Kong on the wikipedia link). We still do not have fiber available. I've been waiting years for Verison FIOS to get to us, and I 'm still waiting.
Across the river is Manhattan island, which has a density of 27,256.9 people/km^2. I don't see cheap 100MB+ connections being generally available. It's not population density, it's the telecom industry being greedy.
I thought that the move away from realism wasn't due so much to having hit a pinnacle of realism in painting, but more as a reaction against photography, which provided cheap, easy, and quick realism. The painters then went after things the camera couldn't do.
I looked at the title and for a moment was stunned, thinking that NASA was actually working on building Project Orion. Now thers's a spaceship that really needs its shock absorbers.
Better yet, make the fine payable to each of the persons who's personal data is revealed. They improperly let your private info out, you get $10000.
I've seen cases where a car's hubcaps were blurred, presumably because the face-search-and-blur algorithm hit it. Here is one example (for street view of 116 Manhattan Ave, Jersey City, NJ, in case the link isn't right). It would be interesting to see what the face swapping software does when one of the faces is a hubcap or other inanimate object. The other question is how reversible is the face swapping techonolgy? Given the altered photo and one of the two originals, can the 2nd original be reconstructed?
One thing to help stop doctored footage is *more* cameras. If 20 different people/cameras are recording a scene, then just one person doctoring footage is insufficient.
If Ohio State is anything like my school, you can opt out of the "Find People" just by requesting to be removed.
Ditto. My WRT54G V2 has Tomato on it, and its current uptime is 20 days, 10:21:43, and that's only because we had a power outage last month.
No, no. Phase 3 will be when the RIAA succeed in bribing Congress into making copyright infringement a federal crime, and thus get to shuck off the whole lawyer expense off to the Department of Justice, who will immediately go whining to Congress to get more money to hire more agents in order to detect and prosecute more cases. And so that way our taxes will pay to defend the RIAA companies from any possible loss due to infringement, while they get to keep any profit.
I seriously hope I am wrong. But I fear I may be right.
Exactly, that is why they are so interested in turning copyright infringement into a criminal offense instead of a civil one. Then we, the taxpayers, have to pay for policing and prosecution of infringers, while they, the companies retain all the profits.