If you want to know results, try Venezuela. A year ago, they removed the guns from private citizen's hands because of escalating violence. Their crime rate is now 1/1000 (yes, ten cubed) what it was before the gun ban.
They removed some small percentage of arms from the hands of citizens, mostly to prevent overthrow of Chavez, and since he is dead, nobody cares any more. Other than that your claim is totally bogus.
Went really well for the NSA too. Another one they missed. No doubt it will be time to beg congress for more money to redouble their effort. I'm sure we will all feel safer then./s
I've noticed several such huge leaps in efficiency in solar cells, many claiming as much as 50% increase. Some are probably impossible to manufacture, others are mutually exclusive, but take as a whole if you combined them all you would think we were asymptotically approaching 100% efficiency.
Yet even the best hover under 45% efficiency. While that is nothing to sneeze at, commercially available solar cells (as of 2006) and system technology leads (at best) to system efficiencies between 5 and 19%.
Indeed any good Patent Agent or Attorney likely will tell you to not even think about searching around for other things like what you think you've invented. This is because you are obligated to provide anything relevant you find to the Patent Office in the form of an Information Disclosure Statement
Actually the law obligates you to search around, due diligence, and any attorney suggesting you do otherwise is a quack and a charlatan. Failure to cite obvious and relevant patents, easily found from common sources (which, these days includes google) is evidence of an intent to obtain a patent fraudulently. See 37 C.F.R. 1.56. And run away from any lawyer that tells you otherwise.
Can they still use the USENET using an IBM PC Compatible?
Only Mennonites do that any more.
You might be closer than you think to the ways cults are started.
Some borderline Luddite over bearing parent imposes a rule that if something was good enough for their parents its good enough for their children, and another oddball sect is born.
These are all fun thought experiments, and maybe some people want to try it out, but purposely crippling your children's education and ability to function in the world in which they will have to survive is something akin to child abuse if you ask me. The only good part about it is the child is sure to rebel, and the parent's cockamamie ideas will extinguish as soon as the kid leaves home.
On the other hand, there is always a risk that these mildly wacky ideas take on the mantle of religion. The exhortation that Women should be modest grew to into the current belief that women should be chattel in the muslim world simply because someone in a position of religious authority said it should be so.
The two shows I saw just had the guys and a drummer, and the drummer didn't stay on stage for the whole show. At the other show there was a gal on the sax, but only for a couple of songs.
These people should not be answering questions from rank newbies. They have day jobs, and spend a hell of a lot of time maintaining the software. They just don't have enough hours in the day to handle questions from every passing neophyte.
In well written english, with screenshots and everything.
Exactly. The handbook is awesome. (I didn't even need to use it to get up and running because bsdinstall (the installer) is pretty self explanitory to anyone who has been around any nix systems for a while.) You will want a copy of the manual somewhere handy
I haven't touched FreeBSD in years, but recently wanted to play with it again. It was awesomely well documented, both with a manual and several guides, not to mention a zillion Google Hits. I didn't need to bug anyone about any thing, because all the answers were at my finger tips. It was actually a very easy install. I added XFCE4 just to see how well that worked, and it was quite nice.
If someone gets turfed from the mailing list, its because they joined the WRONG mailing list. Start asking for beginner help on the Linux Kernel Mailing List list and see how warmly you are received.
But installing version 9 was very easy. There is no reason to avoid FreeBSD if you like messing around with different OSs. Learning is not detrimental to your health.
I can imagine your parties, you cranking up the volume so you can 1) impress everyone with your sound system 2) inflict your perfectly horrible taste in music on each of your guests.
While at the same time your guests are all shouting at the top of their lungs just to be heard over the din of your speakers. If you weren't so conceited about your musical tastes you might realize your guests actually had something interesting to say.
The majority of people don't just want "good enough" music -- they want a "name brand." So they can "look cool" by listening to them.
Really? How do you "look cool" listening to something on earbuds?
You can't possibly "look cool" by listening to something unless you are inflicting your tastes on others, because in the earbud world, nobody knows if your listening to a pod cast, or Beethoven, or some indie band, or just have the ear buds in so that you don't have to talk to the morons sitting beside you on the plane.
You might look cool leaving your vinyl collection or CD stack laying around, but nobody is going to browse your smartphone and cast judgement.
Likewise, the $100/hour studio's extra quality doesn't help when some moron will crank all the knobs to 11 and compress it to hell to produce the master. Then it will be played through cheap earbuds. Now that DIY recording is becoming practical, the old way isn't looking so good. It can produce better results but typically doesn't even though it always costs more.
The fact that you can produce mediocre quality in his bedroom using digital equipment does not mean the death of quality.
The cost of a quality piece of music, simply means that someone with a better understanding of the process, and slightly better tools, and a desire to produce a quality product, will take the time to do so. But that doesn't mean a full recording studio, 47 musicians, 5 bodies in the control room.
It means one or two dedicated people using slightly (and I do means SLIGHTLY) better computers with more skill will still find enough of a market for their recordings or appearances to pay their bills, and stay in business, long after the crap churning artists move on to day jobs. A few will find success in music, but most will take up farming (or whatever).
This is an age old story: Just look at the crapbands you knew in high school, annoying the neighbors practicing in their garage every Saturday. If you are like most people you don't know a single one of these clowns that even bothers to pick up an instrument today. They were never good enough to bother listening to. Even the vocalists sucked.
Perhaps Artists will appear on stage with boat load of synthesizers and stacks of keyboards, and (hopefully) not a real instrument anywhere in sight. You won't be able to tell if you are hearing a recording or they are playing any of it live, and you probably won't care. Tangerine Dream made a lot of money in appearances with seldom a real instrument appearing on the stage.
That's not necessarily what they collect. In fact its almost certain that they collect everything the transponder can deliver.
You get anonymous data. The police and state patrol probably get ALL the data, and they may save it for a lot longer than you might imagine. Unless you wrote the software handling the readers you aren't in a position to know what is happening.
Its simply not worth the effort to chase a 50cent or 2 dollar toll, especially if the plate readers indicate an out of state plate. Locals might get their plate read by automated plate readers and sent automated bills in some jurisdictions.
Washington State tolls at highway speed, none of those silly easy-pass cattle chutes, and it was found by scoff-laws who refused to sign up for a pass, that they read your plate at speed as well.
Still, they aren't going to chase you across the country for 2 bucks.
I've rarely lived anywhere that had toll roads or toll bridges, but when I have and had to use them (like when moving all over creation after Katrina), I just paid cash.
To me, it was worth the little extra they charged to keep from being tracked every time I crossed the bridge, etc.
Next time you pull up to the toll plaza, pay attention to the license plate readers.
On that thought: as soon as I renew my passport, I'm getting one of the aluminum card/passport holders/wallets. Having RFIDs about all kinds of data available out in the open is nuts. Yes, I'm aware of LPSs, facial recognition from video, but those are still a lot harder to do than just reading an RFID.
The State Department says your RIFD enabled passport can't be read unless the passport is opened:
Skimming.” We use an embedded metallic element in our passports. One of the simplest measures for preventing unauthorized reading of e-passports is to add RF blocking material to the cover of an e-passport. Before such a passport can be read, it has to be physically opened. It is a simple and effective method for reducing the opportunity for unauthorized reading of the passport at times when the holder does not expect it.
With any Android phone having NFC capabilities, and a free app from the Google Market,you can prove that to be another government big lie. So the shielded holder might be a good idea.
Myself, I already know the transponder # is thrown out, making the trip anonymous. These anonymous trips are used to plan transportation improvements. That's all.
You know this how? Because they told you that was what the plan said 10 years ago when they set it up? What about that telephone call from the Police Commissioner to the head of DOT that never made it to the files?
And the more people belittle "See Something Say Something posters" and adopt the attitude of never ever talking to the police the sooner our streets look like Beirut, or Syria, or Baghdad.
Yeah, sure, okay. If you're sitting next to your computer, then yeah, maybe you notice. How about the hundreds of millions of drives that are sitting in a rack somewhere, and will only see a human being twice: Once when it gets installed in the rack, and then only when it stops working for whatever reason and a tech is sent out to replace it.
Hmm, my drives send me emails when they start having problems. (And having gotten one of these emails a few years after setting up the drive initially, I was shocked to find it the email arrived in plenty of time. I pleasantly surprised to find the drive and all data still intact, and had time to swap a replacement into the raid).
Why don't you find out how this is handled by people who actually have hundreds of drives to deal with. If you let them fail before servicing them you are doing it wrong.
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If you want to know results, try Venezuela. A year ago, they removed the guns from private citizen's hands because of escalating violence. Their crime rate is now 1/1000 (yes, ten cubed) what it was before the gun ban.
They removed some small percentage of arms from the hands of citizens, mostly to prevent overthrow of Chavez, and since he is dead, nobody cares any more. Other than that your claim is totally bogus.
But then, posting as AC, its what we all expect.
Went really well for the NSA too. /s
Another one they missed. No doubt it will be time to beg congress for more money to redouble their effort.
I'm sure we will all feel safer then.
I've noticed several such huge leaps in efficiency in solar cells, many claiming as much as 50% increase.
Some are probably impossible to manufacture, others are mutually exclusive, but take as a whole if you combined them all you would think we were asymptotically approaching 100% efficiency.
Yet even the best hover under 45% efficiency.
While that is nothing to sneeze at, commercially available solar cells (as of 2006) and system technology leads (at best) to system efficiencies between 5 and 19%.
Phew, that had me confused for a minute.
Indeed any good Patent Agent or Attorney likely will tell you to not even think about searching around for other things like what you think you've invented. This is because you are obligated to provide anything relevant you find to the Patent Office in the form of an Information Disclosure Statement
Actually the law obligates you to search around, due diligence, and any attorney suggesting you do otherwise is a quack and a charlatan.
Failure to cite obvious and relevant patents, easily found from common sources (which, these days includes google) is evidence of an intent to obtain a patent fraudulently. See 37 C.F.R. 1.56. And run away from any lawyer that tells you otherwise.
Only Mennonites do that any more.
You might be closer than you think to the ways cults are started.
Some borderline Luddite over bearing parent imposes a rule that if something was good enough for their parents its good enough for their children, and another oddball sect is born.
These are all fun thought experiments, and maybe some people want to try it out, but purposely crippling your children's education and ability to function in the world in which they will have to survive is something akin to child abuse if you ask me. The only good part about it is the child is sure to rebel, and the parent's cockamamie ideas will extinguish as soon as the kid leaves home.
On the other hand, there is always a risk that these mildly wacky ideas take on the mantle of religion.
The exhortation that Women should be modest grew to into the current belief that women should be chattel in the muslim world simply because someone in a position of religious authority said it should be so.
Actually, when you dig into it, New Zealand didn't ban software patents after all. It was covered here on Slashdotsome eeweeks ago.
The two shows I saw just had the guys and a drummer, and the drummer didn't stay on stage for the whole show. At the other show there was a gal on the sax, but only for a couple of songs.
Everything you say is true.
These people should not be answering questions from rank newbies. They have day jobs, and spend a hell of a lot of
time maintaining the software. They just don't have enough hours in the day to handle questions from every passing neophyte.
There are other mailing lists for this.
Apparently you missed http://www.freebsd.org/handbook
In well written english, with screenshots and everything.
Exactly. The handbook is awesome. (I didn't even need to use it to get up and running because bsdinstall (the installer) is pretty self explanitory to anyone
who has been around any nix systems for a while.) You will want a copy of the manual somewhere handy
I haven't touched FreeBSD in years, but recently wanted to play with it again. It was awesomely well documented, both with a manual and several guides, not to mention a zillion Google Hits. I didn't need to bug anyone about any thing, because all the answers were at my finger tips. It was actually a very easy install.
I added XFCE4 just to see how well that worked, and it was quite nice.
If someone gets turfed from the mailing list, its because they joined the WRONG mailing list. Start asking for beginner help on the Linux Kernel Mailing List list and see how warmly you are received.
But installing version 9 was very easy. There is no reason to avoid FreeBSD if you like messing around with different OSs. Learning is not detrimental to your health.
How is a synthesizer not a "real" instrument?
Oh, come on, there is no need to pick a fight over a single word. You knew perfectly well what I meant.
Tall about self absorbed!
I can imagine your parties, you cranking up the volume so you can 1) impress everyone with your sound system 2) inflict your perfectly horrible taste in music on each of your guests.
While at the same time your guests are all shouting at the top of their lungs just to be heard over the din of your speakers.
If you weren't so conceited about your musical tastes you might realize your guests actually had something interesting to say.
Your are guessing I "you don't know anything about the electronic music scene" based on what?
The fact that I cited a group that was doing that before you were born?
The majority of people don't just want "good enough" music -- they want a "name brand." So they can "look cool" by listening to them.
Really? How do you "look cool" listening to something on earbuds?
You can't possibly "look cool" by listening to something unless you are inflicting your tastes on others, because in the earbud world, nobody knows if your listening to a pod cast, or Beethoven, or some indie band, or just have the ear buds in so that you don't have to talk to the morons sitting beside you on the plane.
You might look cool leaving your vinyl collection or CD stack laying around, but nobody is going to browse your smartphone and cast judgement.
Likewise, the $100/hour studio's extra quality doesn't help when some moron will crank all the knobs to 11 and compress it to hell to produce the master. Then it will be played through cheap earbuds. Now that DIY recording is becoming practical, the old way isn't looking so good. It can produce better results but typically doesn't even though it always costs more.
The fact that you can produce mediocre quality in his bedroom using digital equipment does not mean the death of quality.
The cost of a quality piece of music, simply means that someone with a better understanding of the process, and slightly better tools, and a desire to produce a quality product, will take the time to do so. But that doesn't mean a full recording studio, 47 musicians, 5 bodies in the control room.
It means one or two dedicated people using slightly (and I do means SLIGHTLY) better computers with more skill will still find enough of a market for their recordings or appearances to pay their bills, and stay in business, long after the crap churning artists move on to day jobs. A few will find success in music, but most will take up farming (or whatever).
This is an age old story:
Just look at the crapbands you knew in high school, annoying the neighbors practicing in their garage every Saturday. If you are like most people you don't know a single one of these clowns that even bothers to pick up an instrument today. They were never good enough to bother listening to. Even the vocalists sucked.
Perhaps Artists will appear on stage with boat load of synthesizers and stacks of keyboards, and (hopefully) not a real instrument anywhere in sight. You won't be able to tell if you are hearing a recording or they are playing any of it live, and you probably won't care. Tangerine Dream made a lot of money in appearances with seldom a real instrument appearing on the stage.
You failed to read exemption "e" in your own link.
Since we are talking toll plazas, and since easy-pass is given a pass, you can bet they share it with the NSA, and police.
So you say.
That's what they give you.
That's not necessarily what they collect. In fact its almost certain that they collect everything the transponder can deliver.
You get anonymous data. The police and state patrol probably get ALL the data, and they may save it for a lot longer than you might imagine. Unless you wrote the software handling the readers you aren't in a position to know what is happening.
Its simply not worth the effort to chase a 50cent or 2 dollar toll, especially if the plate readers indicate an out of state plate.
Locals might get their plate read by automated plate readers and sent automated bills in some jurisdictions.
Washington State tolls at highway speed, none of those silly easy-pass cattle chutes, and it was found by scoff-laws who refused to sign up for a pass, that they read your plate at speed as well.
Still, they aren't going to chase you across the country for 2 bucks.
I've rarely lived anywhere that had toll roads or toll bridges, but when I have and had to use them (like when moving all over creation after Katrina), I just paid cash.
To me, it was worth the little extra they charged to keep from being tracked every time I crossed the bridge, etc.
Next time you pull up to the toll plaza, pay attention to the license plate readers.
Except that the focus of DOTs these days is no longer to improve or increase traffic flow, it is to reduce traffic.
The assumption that no nefarious motivation is in play is quaint and charming, but no longer warranted in the modern era.
On that thought: as soon as I renew my passport, I'm getting one of the aluminum card/passport holders/wallets. Having RFIDs about all kinds of data available out in the open is nuts. Yes, I'm aware of LPSs, facial recognition from video, but those are still a lot harder to do than just reading an RFID.
The State Department says your RIFD enabled passport can't be read unless the passport is opened:
Skimming.” We use an embedded metallic element in our passports. One of the simplest measures for preventing unauthorized reading of e-passports is to add RF blocking material to the cover of an e-passport. Before such a passport can be read, it has to be physically opened. It is a simple and effective method for reducing the opportunity for unauthorized reading of the passport at times when the holder does not expect it.
With any Android phone having NFC capabilities, and a free app from the Google Market ,you can prove that to be another government big lie.
So the shielded holder might be a good idea.
But Which LPSs are you aware of?
Myself, I already know the transponder # is thrown out, making the trip anonymous. These anonymous trips are used to plan transportation improvements. That's all.
You know this how?
Because they told you that was what the plan said 10 years ago when they set it up?
What about that telephone call from the Police Commissioner to the head of DOT that never made it to the files?
And the more people belittle "See Something Say Something posters" and adopt the attitude of never ever talking to the police the sooner our streets look like Beirut, or Syria, or Baghdad.
Yeah, sure, okay. If you're sitting next to your computer, then yeah, maybe you notice. How about the hundreds of millions of drives that are sitting in a rack somewhere, and will only see a human being twice: Once when it gets installed in the rack, and then only when it stops working for whatever reason and a tech is sent out to replace it.
Hmm, my drives send me emails when they start having problems. (And having gotten one of these emails a few years after setting up the drive initially, I was shocked to find it the email arrived in plenty of time. I pleasantly surprised to find the drive and all data still intact, and had time to swap a replacement into the raid).
Why don't you find out how this is handled by people who actually have hundreds of drives to deal with.
If you let them fail before servicing them you are doing it wrong.
Look into: man 8 smartd