Sorry, but every thing you posted agrees with my statements. Even the parts you highlighted about general searching. So it looks like YOU lose this one.
As for strip searching, it happens every single day in every single county lockup. You get your jump suit and you change into it under the watchful eye of a deputy. Its not random, its policy. It might be delayed if your alledged crime is such that you will make bail.
I think the good professor needs to get out in the real world.
I think your math is a bit off. First you need several dozen more 9s after the decimal. Second you are conflating percentage of accuracy with the number of permutations of DNA available in the population.
Pretty big difference between being searched and having your DNA profile scanned and put into a database indefinitely (where it can functionally stay indefinitely whether you're convicted, never prosecuted, or even if you've been found innocent).
Playing the devils advocate here...:
Its not that much different than having your finger prints taken upon arrest when you think of it. And all such fingerprints go to the data base whether you are convicted or not.
If there is a difference, its largely one of perception.
Police actually don't need a warrant to search someone upon arrest. Nor do you have the right to refuse a search upon arrest. You can be searched for weapons, drugs, stolen property, etc without a warrant whenever the arrest takes place without a warrant.
It law doesn't extend to bodily fluids, but the cops wanted to push the envelope, and this law allowed them to do so, until now.
Once convicted and sentenced to any correctional institution, all bets are off. The rules of the DOC are incorporated in every sentence of incarceration.
The riots have gone way past the involvement of a "bunch of thieves". Have you even looks at the photos and the size of the crowds?
This rioting is something Britain has not seen in recent years. It is a totally new expression of anger from what sociologists would call the "underclass." That said, there are familiar elements in the build-up to last night's anarchy that might help you understand it a little.
If they weren't copying features how could they claim standardization? He really can't have it both ways.
The four mainstream browser engines all have pretty much the same customer-facing capabilities. They differ in the back ends.
Is that such a bad idea? Perhaps Mr Nightingale would want Ford to use a joy stick instead of copying every one else's steering wheel, and floor pedals? Maybe elevators should respond to foot stomping rather than have buttons? Voice command of camera's instead of shutter buttons?
That you can find an obscure site that works only in a specific browser, means nothing. What about all the Firefox specific pages out there? Or the addons that ONLY work with Firefox?
Then there is that pesky Chrome License which is, - wait, MORE permissive than Firefox's!!!
The site you mention was NOT written by google contrary to your assertion. And Chrome is open source.
I have no problem with browsers stealing features from one another as Nightingale seems to lament. In fact he can't cling to standards and abhor copying features and maintain a straight face.
I'm waiting eagerly for Firefox to catch up to and surpass Chrome again. I enjoy the leap-frog game played by these companies. I use them both. Its just that, today, chrome is my favorite and does more for me than Firefox.
The brits are forever preaching to the US about how this type of mob violence, and how it never happens in Britain (ignoring history) and how British police are for the most part unarmed. All the while their country is slipping into a technological dictatorship where taking a picture of a landmark gets your camera seized.
Now the authorities raise the SAME alarm as Mubarac in Egypt, Gaddafi in Lybia, and Assad in Syria. We are probably hours away from the British government suspending texting services and perhaps even cell service in the affected areas, just as was attempted in those countries. (Meanwhile, I suspect the Police CCTV system (if still operational) is recording everything in hi-def.)
That the riots are all in defense of a drug dealer is ridiculous. Its long past that.
The largely docile british citizen in some of these areas is probably reaching the breaking point, and has had enough of a government more interested in stepping on their necks than helping them prosper. Meanwhile the upper crust in the rest of the country is clucking and tsk tsk-ing and sending in more police. What's next? Importing advisers from Syria? Shooting in the streets?
Holding out till the market is desperate and prices are so high you have no hope of intelligent management of the scarce resource hasn't always worked out the way people expect either.
RC aircraft are also restricted to ceiling height, location of use, and size/weight as I recall. The idea being to keep them small enough not to do much damage when they crash, EVEN if they crash into an airplane.
Commercial use of these things would quickly escalate such that you couldn't pick your nose in public with out 3 news drones recording the fact, and they would start posing a serious threat to safety around news worth events as a couple dozen news organizations rush camer drones to the site, all jockeying for the best camera angle.
These regs were in place BEFORE 9/11 and I can't imagine them getting any looser.
You are presuming that heat would be extracted from the house during the day. But that is not always necessary, and as you suggest, not very efficient.
An external solar collector working at temperatures much higher than would be comfortable is actually more efficient. Roof mounted collection, and underground storage may be able to collect enough in summer to cover a month or two of fall heating. With such a setup, you can pick a phase change material based on its storage capacity, and be less constrained by picking one that has its phase change in the human comfort zone.
Phase change applications were fairly commonly installed in houses back in the late 70s. Usually a liquid to gel phase change but some were liquid to solid.
The problem then as now, was finding something that changed at the desired temperature, because any time you have to concentrate the heat to reach the the temperature where phase change occurred you lost much if not all of advantage of using these materials. (You essentially ended up running a air-source heat pump to concentrate hot house air into the material).
Being able to set the phase change point is all well and good if it works, and you can plan AHEAD to have your building to be at certain temperature, or can use the material to collect direct solar radiation.
By the way, there is nothing that says a phase change necessarily makes for a "lot of extra thermal capacitance". Its true of water, (something like an 80 fold increase in heat/per-weight-unit going from ice to water or back, IIRC), but not all materials have this property. Presumably materials selected for this use would be good at this. This was not the case back in the day when I last worked with phase change material for residential use. It was pathetic compared to water.
The story here is that a major publication like the Economist is taking that stance. When it's a bunch of nerds in an online forum whining about it, nothing will ever change. When it hits the mainstream, the politicians have to take notice.
Interestingly enough, the DOJ is sticking its nose into the patent trolling arena. Some press reports indicate that the DOJ is asking explicitly if the patent portfolios are going to be used to go after Android. Others suggest the DOJ already realizes the arms race in acquiring huge patent arsenals to challenge virtually ANY emerging technology is counter productive to the very reason patents were created in the first place, and may be contemplating anti-trust action.
If true, or even if it appears to be true, this sets a new tone in Washington. The current mess is starting to have significant effect on the economy, and the idea that Apple might be blocked from importing their own iPhones due to (alleged) patent violations is probably the trigger for this. Apple has a lot of friends in the current administration.
The best that could be hoped for in the current mess is that the DOJ will put its weight behind forced licensing (in return for a patent, the patent holder must license at reasonable rates; no more arbitrary blocking). The only way that more-or-less obsolete patent libraries from bankrupt companies like Nortel are worth 4 billion dollars is due to the potential for blocking competitors from producing anything. If the patents had any commercial value, Nortel would't be bankrupt.
However, I doubt forced licensing will happen. There appears little legal foundation to impose that.
Further, no administration is likely to change the patent laws any time soon. It would be all out war to attempt that.
The rantings of the Economist aside, in the short term the most likely outcome is anti-trust action to prevent that construction of yet more huge patent libraries.
I believe the justification for this is that they don't want genetically modified crops escaping to the wild in case they have some adverse effects. It's a happy coincidence for the companies that make the seeds, but there is some non-evil logic to it as well..
Actually no, making plants grown from hybrid seed sterile has been used long before there was genetic modification*. Seed companies been seeking that trait to protect their patented seed lines since the 30s.
* Genetic modification has been going on via the much slower means since human kind started in agriculture.
Maybe a dumb question, but do RF sinks like this act like 'black holes' for radio waves, affecting the reception quality within a kind-of 'event horizon' vicinity (maybe even requiring more power at the transmitter) ?
I don't think you can measure the effect at the transmitter of generating a wave that was otherwise destined to be absorbed by the surroundings or dissipated into space vs being detected on an antenna.
Perhaps a log floating on a pond into which you throw a rock blocks the ripple and creates a lee, and perhaps a lillypad in that lee bobs less, bit it makes no difference to the stone you throw unless your primary aim was to ripple that particular lillypad.
I suppose you could totally mask the intended receiver (TV aerial) of that TV signal by wrapping it in these paper antennas. But the energy was already expended sending the wave. The transmitter won't need more power if that signal gets absorbed by the buildings or by the paper antenna. The antenna can only capture the energy already impinging upon it from the signal. It can't pull any more from the transmitter.
Because it seems like if you want to power these things, they need to use power from a radio source. Which doesn't make them green at all.
The radio source is there all the time anyway, It is there for other uses.
But as should be obvious, the vast majority of radio waves are never used, being disparate over vast distances or absorbed by the earth itself. Utilizing this "wasted" energy costs nothing, because we are already emitting that energy, and utilizing it costs no more. At the emitter you can't measure if a radio wave hits one antenna or a million antennas. Its no different to you as the sender of that wave.
So by using freely available wasted energy these devices obviate the need for ANOTHER power source and are therefor green.
So they plan to make their shit service even worse?
No, they are making it better.
As soon as they get rid of the guys pulling 30 to 100 gig a month there will be some bandwidth for the rest of us.
Yes, we would all like a 3g network that could be used like a cable modem, but the the fact of the matter is that wireless is more constrained for bandwidth than wireline, and even wireline is getting caps.
Yes it would be nice if unlimited meant truly unlimited, but we are all adult enough to realize that was never the case in any market for any commodity at any time in the history of earth. There are always limits.
The reasonable expectation was always around 5 gig a month.
This is where everyone jumps in and claims that when they said unlimited they are bound to that and should support it. Well, guess what, they still do support it. It will just flow slower. You can still get as much as you want across your unlimited 3g plan, its just that you won't want to anymore.
The idea that on demand TV and streaming media should all go to the internet was ill-conceived and is proving inconvenient for both wired and wireless usage. There is a reason multicast was invented.
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Sorry, but every thing you posted agrees with my statements. Even the parts you highlighted about general searching. So it looks like YOU lose this one.
As for strip searching, it happens every single day in every single county lockup. You get your jump suit and you change into it under the watchful eye of a deputy. Its not random, its policy. It might be delayed if your alledged crime is such that you will make bail.
I think the good professor needs to get out in the real world.
But again, charging does not necessarily require a warrant.
I assure you you will get a cavity search upon being sent to jail after an arrest.
How about your finger prints, Do you think they need a warrant for those too?
I think your math is a bit off.
First you need several dozen more 9s after the decimal.
Second you are conflating percentage of accuracy with the number of permutations of DNA available in the population.
Pretty big difference between being searched and having your DNA profile scanned and put into a database indefinitely (where it can functionally stay indefinitely whether you're convicted, never prosecuted, or even if you've been found innocent).
Playing the devils advocate here...:
Its not that much different than having your finger prints taken upon arrest when you think of it. And all such fingerprints go to the data base whether you are convicted or not.
If there is a difference, its largely one of perception.
This had nothing to do with homes or cars. It had to do with mouth swabs.
Clearly if you are arrested you are going to be searched (cloths, body and cavities) regardless of whether there is a warrant or not.
Police actually don't need a warrant to search someone upon arrest. Nor do you have the right to refuse a search upon arrest.
You can be searched for weapons, drugs, stolen property, etc without a warrant whenever the arrest takes place without a warrant.
It law doesn't extend to bodily fluids, but the cops wanted to push the envelope, and this law allowed them to do so, until now.
Once convicted and sentenced to any correctional institution, all bets are off. The rules of the DOC are incorporated in every sentence of incarceration.
The riots have gone way past the involvement of a "bunch of thieves". Have you even looks at the photos and the size of the crowds?
This rioting is something Britain has not seen in recent years. It is a totally new expression of anger from what sociologists would call the "underclass." That said, there are familiar elements in the build-up to last night's anarchy that might help you understand it a little.
My sentiments exactly.
If they weren't copying features how could they claim standardization? He really can't have it both ways.
The four mainstream browser engines all have pretty much the same customer-facing capabilities. They differ in the back ends.
Is that such a bad idea? Perhaps Mr Nightingale would want Ford to use a joy stick instead of copying every one else's steering wheel, and floor pedals? Maybe elevators should respond to foot stomping rather than have buttons? Voice command of camera's instead of shutter buttons?
Little one sided don't you think?
That you can find an obscure site that works only in a specific browser, means nothing. What about all the Firefox specific pages out there? Or the addons that ONLY work with Firefox?
Then there is that pesky Chrome License which is, - wait, MORE permissive than Firefox's!!!
The site you mention was NOT written by google contrary to your assertion. And Chrome is open source.
I have no problem with browsers stealing features from one another as Nightingale seems to lament. In fact he can't cling to standards and abhor copying features and maintain a straight face.
I'm waiting eagerly for Firefox to catch up to and surpass Chrome again. I enjoy the leap-frog game played by these companies. I use them both. Its just that, today, chrome is my favorite and does more for me than Firefox.
Someone please mod parent up to 11.
The brits are forever preaching to the US about how this type of mob violence, and how it never happens in Britain (ignoring history) and how British police are for the most part unarmed. All the while their country is slipping into a technological dictatorship where taking a picture of a landmark gets your camera seized.
Now the authorities raise the SAME alarm as Mubarac in Egypt, Gaddafi in Lybia, and Assad in Syria. We are probably hours away from the British government suspending texting services and perhaps even cell service in the affected areas, just as was attempted in those countries. (Meanwhile, I suspect the Police CCTV system (if still operational) is recording everything in hi-def.)
That the riots are all in defense of a drug dealer is ridiculous. Its long past that.
The largely docile british citizen in some of these areas is probably reaching the breaking point, and has had enough of a government more interested in stepping on their necks than helping them prosper. Meanwhile the upper crust in the rest of the country is clucking and tsk tsk-ing and sending in more police. What's next? Importing advisers from Syria? Shooting in the streets?
Um, not using a resource makes it not a resource.
Holding out till the market is desperate and prices are so high you have no hope of intelligent management of the scarce resource hasn't always worked out the way people expect either.
Drones can fly significantly higher than RC planes or helicopters, and have a greater likelihood of interfering with air traffic.
Drones ARE RC planes.
Don't confuse military drones with those used by newscorp. They used the md4-1000.
http://www.microdrones.com/produkt-md4-1000-industrie-en.php
climb rate 7,5m/s *
cruising speed 15.0m/s *
Peak thrust 118N
empty weight 2650g
recommended payload 800g
maximum payload 1200g
maximum take-off weight 5550g
portability arms foldable
dimensions 1030 mm from rotor shaft to rotor shaft
flight time up to 70 minutes (dep. on load/wind/battery) *
battery 22.2V, 6S2P 12.2Ah or 6S3P 18.3Ah LiPo
RC aircraft are also restricted to ceiling height, location of use, and size/weight as I recall. The idea being to keep them small enough not to do much damage when they crash, EVEN if they crash into an airplane.
Commercial use of these things would quickly escalate such that you couldn't pick your nose in public with out 3 news drones recording the fact, and they would start posing a serious threat to safety around news worth events as a couple dozen news organizations rush camer drones to the site, all jockeying for the best camera angle.
These regs were in place BEFORE 9/11 and I can't imagine them getting any looser.
You are presuming that heat would be extracted from the house during the day. But that is not always necessary, and as you suggest, not very efficient.
An external solar collector working at temperatures much higher than would be comfortable is actually more efficient. Roof mounted collection, and underground storage may be able to collect enough in summer to cover a month or two of fall heating. With such a setup, you can pick a phase change material based on its storage capacity, and be less constrained by picking one that has its phase change in the human comfort zone.
Considering that such materials were commonly sold for residential housing use back in the 70s and 80s, I'd say you were spot on.
2001: http://www.toolbase.org/Technology-Inventory/HVAC/phase-change-materials
1999: http://freespace.virgin.net/m.eckert/index.htm
1998: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040603198003682
1997: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890496000726
Nothing new here.
Phase change applications were fairly commonly installed in houses back in the late 70s. Usually a liquid to gel phase change but some were liquid to solid.
The problem then as now, was finding something that changed at the desired temperature, because any time you have to concentrate the heat to reach the the temperature where phase change occurred you lost much if not all of advantage of using these materials. (You essentially ended up running a air-source heat pump to concentrate hot house air into the material).
Being able to set the phase change point is all well and good if it works, and you can plan AHEAD to have your building to be at certain temperature, or can use the material to collect direct solar radiation.
By the way, there is nothing that says a phase change necessarily makes for a "lot of extra thermal capacitance". Its true of water, (something like an 80 fold increase in heat/per-weight-unit going from ice to water or back, IIRC), but not all materials have this property. Presumably materials selected for this use would be good at this. This was not the case back in the day when I last worked with phase change material for residential use. It was pathetic compared to water.
The story here is that a major publication like the Economist is taking that stance. When it's a bunch of nerds in an online forum whining about it, nothing will ever change. When it hits the mainstream, the politicians have to take notice.
Interestingly enough, the DOJ is sticking its nose into the patent trolling arena. Some press reports indicate that the DOJ is asking explicitly if the patent portfolios are going to be used to go after Android. Others suggest the DOJ already realizes the arms race in acquiring huge patent arsenals to challenge virtually ANY emerging technology is counter productive to the very reason patents were created in the first place, and may be contemplating anti-trust action.
If true, or even if it appears to be true, this sets a new tone in Washington. The current mess is starting to have significant effect on the economy, and the idea that Apple might be blocked from importing their own iPhones due to (alleged) patent violations is probably the trigger for this. Apple has a lot of friends in the current administration.
The best that could be hoped for in the current mess is that the DOJ will put its weight behind forced licensing (in return for a patent, the patent holder must license at reasonable rates; no more arbitrary blocking). The only way that more-or-less obsolete patent libraries from bankrupt companies like Nortel are worth 4 billion dollars is due to the potential for blocking competitors from producing anything. If the patents had any commercial value, Nortel would't be bankrupt.
However, I doubt forced licensing will happen. There appears little legal foundation to impose that.
Further, no administration is likely to change the patent laws any time soon. It would be all out war to attempt that.
The rantings of the Economist aside, in the short term the most likely outcome is anti-trust action to prevent that construction of yet more huge patent libraries.
I believe the justification for this is that they don't want genetically modified crops escaping to the wild in case they have some adverse effects. It's a happy coincidence for the companies that make the seeds, but there is some non-evil logic to it as well. .
Actually no, making plants grown from hybrid seed sterile has been used long before there was genetic modification*. Seed companies been seeking that trait to protect their patented seed lines since the 30s.
* Genetic modification has been going on via the much slower means since human kind started in agriculture.
So... he basically gave him a slap on the wrist. Yeah, that'll teach him.
I'm pretty unimpressed with Judges giving meaningless tongue lashing to paid flack lawyers as if it will matter.
Cite them in contempt. (personally, no part of which can be paid by the government,) and fine the DOJ huge contempt fees as well.
Nothing else matters. I guarantee you this lawyer and his staff are laughing over martinis about this.
Citation needed.
Mechanism needed.
Maybe a dumb question, but do RF sinks like this act like 'black holes' for radio waves, affecting the reception quality within a kind-of 'event horizon' vicinity (maybe even requiring more power at the transmitter) ?
I don't think you can measure the effect at the transmitter of generating a wave that was otherwise destined to be absorbed by the surroundings or dissipated into space vs being detected on an antenna.
Perhaps a log floating on a pond into which you throw a rock blocks the ripple and creates a lee, and perhaps a lillypad in that lee bobs less, bit it makes no difference to the stone you throw unless your primary aim was to ripple that particular lillypad.
I suppose you could totally mask the intended receiver (TV aerial) of that TV signal by wrapping it in these paper antennas.
But the energy was already expended sending the wave. The transmitter won't need more power if that signal gets absorbed by the buildings or by the paper antenna. The antenna can only capture the energy already impinging upon it from the signal. It can't pull any more from the transmitter.
Because it seems like if you want to power these things, they need to use power from a radio source. Which doesn't make them green at all.
The radio source is there all the time anyway, It is there for other uses.
But as should be obvious, the vast majority of radio waves are never used, being disparate over vast distances or absorbed by the earth itself. Utilizing this "wasted" energy costs nothing, because we are already emitting that energy, and utilizing it costs no more. At the emitter you can't measure if a radio wave hits one antenna or a million antennas. Its no different to you as the sender of that wave.
So by using freely available wasted energy these devices obviate the need for ANOTHER power source and are therefor green.
If you make a contract for a 20-kilowatt grid connection, you can pull 20 kilowatts 24/7, all year long.
20kw is not the same as unlimited.
Since you can't fathom that basic fact, the rest of your rant is not worth responding to.
So they plan to make their shit service even worse?
No, they are making it better.
As soon as they get rid of the guys pulling 30 to 100 gig a month there will be some bandwidth for the rest of us.
Yes, we would all like a 3g network that could be used like a cable modem, but the the fact of the matter is that
wireless is more constrained for bandwidth than wireline, and even wireline is getting caps.
Yes it would be nice if unlimited meant truly unlimited, but we are all adult enough to realize that was never the case in any market for any commodity at any time in the history of earth. There are always limits.
The reasonable expectation was always around 5 gig a month.
This is where everyone jumps in and claims that when they said unlimited they are bound to that and should support it.
Well, guess what, they still do support it. It will just flow slower. You can still get as much as you want across your
unlimited 3g plan, its just that you won't want to anymore.
The idea that on demand TV and streaming media should all go to the internet was ill-conceived and is proving inconvenient for both wired and wireless usage.
There is a reason multicast was invented.