Appear middle eastern. Or Mexican, Or Indian. Hell anything..
Right, that must be why there are tracking devices on the cars of all the illegal aliens that live around here.
Seriously, if you believe the guy in this story gained the attention of several police officers and two tracking devices because his skin was brown and he had a beard you are hopelessly naive.
The guy was running drugs or guns or money to garner that much attention.
That is only if they drop out of the race, or don't run again. So long as they finish their campaign and run for office the entire time, they get to pocket what is left over. That money is used to repay a candidate for any expenses they occured directly. The rest stays in an account for their next campaign bid. Or they donate the remainder to the party and get a tax write-off for the donation.
According to the FEC, if a candidate for federal office (a presidential hopeful, say) loses and is a congressperson, he or she can roll over unused money into a re-election kitty. They can also repay themselves for personal funds used during the campaign up to a certain amount, depending on the race and when those funds were used. They can contribute the dollars to a charity. Candidates may also return money to contributors, but determining who gets how much is a delicate operation avoided by most, if not all, candidates. For local elections, state rules vary.
“The rule is that [campaign donations] can’t be used for personal use,” says FEC spokesperson Bob Biersack.
Much cheaper to just run a Federal Department of Turkey Farms.
Pay them well. Give them desks and titles. Just don't let them do anything real. It would provide a career path for all branches of government, somewhere you could sent promote your useless employees and community organizers.
Best if these farms were located well away from the seat of government, perhaps in Golgafrincham, Wyoming. No actual animals would be involved.
>So while an charging station placed exactly half-way between LA and San Francisco would be of limited utility to some Tesla owners, it would serve most buyers of the Model S sedan...
Really? Most buyers purchase this car for that particular route? Even prior to the charging station being deployed?
This car is still a toy for those with more money than brains. Touting a charging station on a single route does nothing to fix that.
You almost sound like an old GM commercial. When the others were bragging about their fuel economy GM was bragging on how far you can go on a tank of gas AKA bad fuel economy but much bigger tanks.
OLD GM Commercial?
GM and others are STILL running this kind of commercial today. Its like they still don't understand that Miles per Gallon (KM/liter) is the only measure that makes any sense. I've been yelling at the TV for years, but it doesn't do any good.
Oh, and don't get me started on "Professional Driver on a Closed Course"....
A hundred miles is an hour an half if you follow the speed limits. We typically stop somewhere for lunch on long trips and swap drivers. Any other stop is just to see the sights, not to fill the gas tank, and certainly not to stand around for 30 minutes while the batteries recharge.
SUBPOENA nets them nothing when Spideroak does not have the decryption keys. The encryption methodology is clearly specified on the website. 2048 bit RSA and 256 bit AES.
The de-duplication in only between your own files not other people's files.
Granted you have no control over the reliability of the physical plant thr cloud operator uses. But as an offsite backup and transfer mechanism clouds are really quite good.
Services like SpiderOak, https://spideroak.com/ where the coud operator couldn't decrypt your data even with a court order provide as much protection as you can realistically expect when asking someone else to hold your data.
I would think a device that's worn like a wristwatch has a better chance of working.
Or a pendant on a neck strap, and maybe a retired Surgeon General to shill for it?
But these will never go mainstream. The pendant or the watch can stay with you, and you only need one. If you build it into clothing, you need dozens for every user, one for every garment. How can you make money selling ONE to a customer?
Even small credit unions have credit cards and you can get cash at hundreds of thousands of Co-Op networked ATMs. Most of the time the Credit unions even pay the ATM fees.
Checks you say.... I haven't written one of those in months.
It wasn't done before because it takes time and resources to implement, not because it's not obvious. This is the kind of thing that should be copyrightable, which it is automatically, but not patentable.
Well to the extent that business methods are patent-able, (and apparently they are almost everywhere and have been in US since inception), I think you are wrong about this. (Yes I did see your "should" in there).
Its not a matter of time and money. Any first year programmer can add this to the Gift Card Tracking Database, once its been dreamed up, designed, rendered to specifications, etc.
Its coming up with the IDEA, building a method, making it easy for the purchaser to impose restrictions, and enforcing those restrictions at point of sale when the card is used.
Its complex, and non-trivial. Further its NOT been attempted before (allegedly), so its novel and not obvious.
I understand your argument is about what SHOULD be, but that is a matter of opinion, not law. From where I sit (IANAL) this seems to meet the conditions for patent-ability.
This is where governments are demanding access. They are not worried that Ford or Boeing or Tata Motors employees are plotting terror events. They are worried about consumer devices running on Rim's own network and servers.
If you are unaware of this, you haven't been paying attention.
Well if it were OBVIOUS then why was it not done before?
Seriously this is rather new, I'm not aware of anything quite like it. Imagine taking a class at a UNI, and the enrollment fees include a giftcard for the required text book. Making the giftcard specific to a given book would be great for this.
But funding your child's Kindle purchases would seem to be the focus of this.
If the ship doesn't let off helium, how does it come down?
Inside the envelope are two air chambers called ballonets, one forward and one aft. They can be pumped up with air from the outside or allowed to deflate as the helium expands and contracts. Since air is heavier than helium, inflating or deflating the ballonets will add or subtract weight from the nose or tail, thus trimming the ship. Using the pilot controlled rudder and elevators the ship can fly up or down in the ocean of air and maintain its proper envelope pressure without having to drop ballast or valve off helium.
Actually the helium shortage is strictly a manufactured shortage, created by the US Government when they (principally the Navy) decided blimps were not its platform of choice. The Government decided to dump its huge reserve of helium at submarket prices, and as such nobody bothers to extract helium from all the natural sources where is has historically been obtained.
Government passed a law shutting down the helium reserve. The law stipulates that the US National Helium Reserve, which is kept in a disused underground gas field near Amarillo, Texas – by far the biggest store of helium in the world – must all be sold off by 2015, irrespective of the market price.
There could still be as much helium produced today as ever, were it not for cheap government surplus sales, as it is, nobody bothers to extract it.
The most valuable resource a retired GEO satellite has is not the stuff in the satellite, but the position it occupies. The best solution is to build an attachable thruster as a secondary payload, and use it to nudge the satellite into interplanetary orbit so the new satellite can take it's place....
Exactly. Where are my mod points when I need them!!
The physical material in the satellite costs a few dollars. The rest of the cost is the cost of employment of large numbers of highly paid technicians on earth. As such any savings in trying to repair these things is elusive at best, and, given the nature of government programs probably impossible.
Better DARPA should invent cheap technology packages that can be launched by the hundreds latch onto or snag these dead birds and de-orbit them freeing their slot in GEO, and preventing them from joining the the ever growing space junk yard. Just a small tug that would set them on a slow path toward re-entry and burn up.
Well for me its all bad. For one, i refuse to get a Google+ account, so if I'm forced to do this, I wont use reader anymore.
I'm of the Same opinion. I never used the social aspects of Google Reader anyway, but I use the Reader part all the time. If that breaks, I'm off to any one of dozen other feed aggregators.
But the revised summary indicates Reader will stay around, and without that social layer on top it will actually serve its intended purpose better.
True, fake is perhaps harsh, but that wasn't my words, I was quoting from the links.
When most people look into Facebook names they judge them to be fake if the are obvious fakes, like Slardy Bartfast or some such. Anything that looks plausible is counted as a real name. When a more detailed analysis is done, its found that most are pseudonyms or nic names with insufficient data to identify the person unless you personally know them and / or recognize a picture.
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Appear middle eastern. Or Mexican, Or Indian. Hell anything. .
Right, that must be why there are tracking devices on the cars of all the illegal aliens that live around here.
Seriously, if you believe the guy in this story gained the attention of several police officers and two tracking devices
because his skin was brown and he had a beard you are hopelessly naive.
The guy was running drugs or guns or money to garner that much attention.
That is only if they drop out of the race, or don't run again. So long as they finish their campaign and run for office the entire time, they get to pocket what is left over. That money is used to repay a candidate for any expenses they occured directly. The rest stays in an account for their next campaign bid. Or they donate the remainder to the party and get a tax write-off for the donation.
http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2008/11/04/what-happens-to-leftover-campaign-money/
Your own citation refutes what you say:
According to the FEC, if a candidate for federal office (a presidential hopeful, say) loses and is a congressperson, he or she can roll over unused money into a re-election kitty. They can also repay themselves for personal funds used during the campaign up to a certain amount, depending on the race and when those funds were used. They can contribute the dollars to a charity. Candidates may also return money to contributors, but determining who gets how much is a delicate operation avoided by most, if not all, candidates. For local elections, state rules vary.
“The rule is that [campaign donations] can’t be used for personal use,” says FEC spokesperson Bob Biersack.
Much cheaper to just run a Federal Department of Turkey Farms.
Pay them well. Give them desks and titles. Just don't let them do anything real.
It would provide a career path for all branches of government, somewhere you could sent promote your useless employees and community organizers.
Best if these farms were located well away from the seat of government, perhaps in Golgafrincham, Wyoming. No actual animals would be involved.
>So while an charging station placed exactly half-way between LA and San Francisco would be of limited utility to some Tesla owners, it would serve most buyers of the Model S sedan...
Really? Most buyers purchase this car for that particular route? Even prior to the charging station being deployed?
This car is still a toy for those with more money than brains. Touting a charging station on a single route does nothing to fix that.
You almost sound like an old GM commercial. When the others were bragging about their fuel economy GM was bragging on how far you can go on a tank of gas AKA bad fuel economy but much bigger tanks.
OLD GM Commercial?
GM and others are STILL running this kind of commercial today. Its like they still don't understand that Miles per Gallon (KM/liter) is the only measure that makes any sense. I've been yelling at the TV for years, but it doesn't do any good.
Oh, and don't get me started on "Professional Driver on a Closed Course" ....
"Say what" was exactly my reaction.
Small bladder syndrome I suspect.
A hundred miles is an hour an half if you follow the speed limits. We typically stop somewhere for lunch on long trips and swap drivers. Any other stop is just to see the sights, not to fill the gas tank, and certainly not to stand around for 30 minutes while the batteries recharge.
Not in the slightest. In capitalism the right man for the job is always the cheapest one, in a meritocracy it is the most valuable one.
Capitalism weighs both cost AND benefits.
Meritocracy, cares nothing about costs and simply assumes benefits.
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SUBPOENA nets them nothing when Spideroak does not have the decryption keys.
The encryption methodology is clearly specified on the website. 2048 bit RSA and 256 bit AES.
The de-duplication in only between your own files not other people's files.
Depends on what you mean by security.
Granted you have no control over the reliability of the physical plant thr cloud operator uses.
But as an offsite backup and transfer mechanism clouds are really quite good.
Services like SpiderOak, https://spideroak.com/ where the coud operator couldn't decrypt your data even with a court order provide as much protection as you can realistically expect when asking someone else to hold your data.
when there are many people whos vital signs are directly impacted by EM radiation
The mind boggles!!!
I'm pretty sure they all live out side of AT&Ts coverage area.
I would think a device that's worn like a wristwatch has a better chance of working.
Or a pendant on a neck strap, and maybe a retired Surgeon General to shill for it?
But these will never go mainstream.
The pendant or the watch can stay with you, and you only need one. If you build it into clothing, you need
dozens for every user, one for every garment. How can you make money selling ONE to a customer?
Even small credit unions have credit cards and you can get cash at hundreds of thousands of Co-Op networked ATMs.
Most of the time the Credit unions even pay the ATM fees.
Checks you say.... I haven't written one of those in months.
More likely Math Noise.
Without patterns you don't have music, you simply have noise.
It wasn't done before because it takes time and resources to implement, not because it's not obvious. This is the kind of thing that should be copyrightable, which it is automatically, but not patentable.
Well to the extent that business methods are patent-able, (and apparently they are almost everywhere and have been in US since inception), I think you are wrong about this. (Yes I did see your "should" in there).
Its not a matter of time and money. Any first year programmer can add this to the Gift Card Tracking Database, once its been dreamed up, designed, rendered to specifications, etc.
Its coming up with the IDEA, building a method, making it easy for the purchaser to impose restrictions, and enforcing those restrictions at point of sale when the card is used.
Its complex, and non-trivial. Further its NOT been attempted before (allegedly), so its novel and not obvious.
I understand your argument is about what SHOULD be, but that is a matter of opinion, not law. From where I sit (IANAL) this seems to meet the conditions for patent-ability.
If you use your own BES, perhaps.
But most consumers don't.
See:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/12/blackberry-idUSN1213222020100812
This is where governments are demanding access. They are not worried that Ford or Boeing or
Tata Motors employees are plotting terror events. They are worried about consumer devices
running on Rim's own network and servers.
If you are unaware of this, you haven't been paying attention.
Well if it were OBVIOUS then why was it not done before?
Seriously this is rather new, I'm not aware of anything quite like it. Imagine taking a class at a UNI, and the enrollment fees include a giftcard for the required text book. Making the giftcard specific to a given book would be great for this.
But funding your child's Kindle purchases would seem to be the focus of this.
That and encrypt every message.
It probably is taking this long distributing all the backdoor decryption keys to the various governments around the world.
Actually, Goodyear Blimps do not drop ballast or vent helium.
http://www.goodyearblimp.com/faqs/faqs_construction.html#air
If the ship doesn't let off helium, how does it come down?
Inside the envelope are two air chambers called ballonets, one forward and one aft. They can be pumped up with air from the outside or allowed to deflate as the helium expands and contracts. Since air is heavier than helium, inflating or deflating the ballonets will add or subtract weight from the nose or tail, thus trimming the ship. Using the pilot controlled rudder and elevators the ship can fly up or down in the ocean of air and maintain its proper envelope pressure without having to drop ballast or valve off helium.
Well look at the bright side, being solar powered, we know this craft won't be used by the fly by night airways.
As for steam engine airplanes, they've been around for over a hundred years according to wikipedia.
YouTube of one in action here, from 1933.
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/14/steam-powered-airplane/
No one has really tried using modern steam technology using modern materials in quite a while.
Um, no. None of those things are bullshit.
Are you sure?
The helium crisis is largely caused by a cost cutting move by congress, not an actual shortage.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-the-world-is-running-out-of-helium-2059357.html
Actually the helium shortage is strictly a manufactured shortage, created by the US Government when they (principally the Navy) decided blimps were not its platform of choice. The Government decided to dump its huge reserve of helium at submarket prices, and as such nobody bothers to extract helium from all the natural sources where is has historically been obtained.
Government passed a law shutting down the helium reserve. The law stipulates that the US National Helium Reserve, which is kept in a disused underground gas field near Amarillo, Texas – by far the biggest store of helium in the world – must all be sold off by 2015, irrespective of the market price.
There could still be as much helium produced today as ever, were it not for cheap government surplus sales, as it is, nobody bothers to extract it.
See article here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-the-world-is-running-out-of-helium-2059357.html
The most valuable resource a retired GEO satellite has is not the stuff in the satellite, but the position it occupies. The best solution is to build an attachable thruster as a secondary payload, and use it to nudge the satellite into interplanetary orbit so the new satellite can take it's place....
Exactly. Where are my mod points when I need them!!
The physical material in the satellite costs a few dollars. The rest of the cost is the cost of employment of large numbers of highly paid technicians on earth. As such any savings in trying to repair these things is elusive at best, and, given the nature of government programs probably impossible.
Better DARPA should invent cheap technology packages that can be launched by the hundreds latch onto or snag these dead birds and de-orbit them freeing their slot in GEO, and preventing them from joining the the ever growing space junk yard. Just a small tug that would set them on a slow path toward re-entry and burn up.
Well for me its all bad. For one, i refuse to get a Google+ account, so if I'm forced to do this, I wont use reader anymore.
I'm of the Same opinion. I never used the social aspects of Google Reader anyway, but I use the Reader part all the time.
If that breaks, I'm off to any one of dozen other feed aggregators.
But the revised summary indicates Reader will stay around, and without that social layer on top it will actually serve its intended purpose better.
True, fake is perhaps harsh, but that wasn't my words, I was quoting from the links.
When most people look into Facebook names they judge them to be fake if the are obvious fakes, like Slardy Bartfast or some such.
Anything that looks plausible is counted as a real name. When a more detailed analysis is done, its found that most are pseudonyms or nic names with insufficient data to identify the person unless you personally know them and / or recognize a picture.
Can you imagine any amount of money that would induce Tommy Lee Jones (or any one else) to play Gaddafi the hunted man in the middle of a rebellion?