Outlaw the practice as an invasion of privacy or DMCA violation? Pass opt in laws? Demand phones that won't reveal any personal information? Apps that sense attempt and block them, or spoof random mac addresses? Personal jammers? Shop online? Picket the store?
The Ph.D took longer than expected, so before finishing me and three others
Ph.Ds generally do take a bit longer than expected when one starts in the 4th grade. But if he had waited until he had mastered the 6th grade, his editing task would have been so much easier.
You seriously can't be proposing a speaker phone as a replacement for a bluetooth!??
Why do you think everyone around you needs to hear BOTH sides of your pathetic the conversation about picking up a dozen eggs, and when are you going to clean up your room?
There is nothing wrong with bluetooth, its very handy, you can answer a phone call without taking the phone out of your pocket and exposing it to snatch-and-run artists, or having to do something as douche bag as turning on the speaker phone in public.
And explain how I am going to drag the person on the other end of the phone into the store with me when they are 3 states away, and stuck in their office?
And assuming the phone isn't in your pocket or purse.
OTOH, if I want directions to the shoe department at some big box store, being able to follow an arrow on my phone is probably more useful than asking some snooty clerk. But I'll be damned if I'm installing one app per store, so they better get their act together and find one opt-in solution.
Shopping will be an event to put on facial makeup. Black lines for beneath the eyes and above the eyebrows (I think a tube of black lipstick will do nicely).
Why inconvenience yourself by leaving your phone at home, when you can just avoid those store that use this tech?
If I get a text message when I walk into a store I will never set foot in that store again. There are plenty of on-line shops that sell the same thing. I don't like busybody sales clerks hovering over my shoulder while I shop and I sure as hell don't expect to put up with some computer doing the same thing.
We only get the "paper" edition on Sundays, but I read the digital version (as they refer to it) daily. I was going to give up the print version completely; however there's essentially no cost advantage in doing so. Oh well, having newspaper around occasionally turns out to be useful, anyway.
I don't find a lot of cost advantage in giving up the print version, but there is certainly a convenience advantage to having the digital version delivered to your device. You also don't end up with the 50% instant throw-away advertising sections in most Digital editions.
I've found the "Very Lengthy Reports" are seldom worth reading.
Most of them are simply historical rehashes and interview material loaded with selected and often biased viewpoints, all tossed in to increase bulk and the appearance of gravitas without actually adding much real or new information. Once you get past a certain size you end up seeing more bias creep into the story, mostly that of the reporter.
That coupled with wild inaccuracies introduced by journalism majors, (that even a brief glance through Wikipedia would have avoided) make these long articles seldom worth the time. Very occasionally you will find a reporter worth their salt, and when you do, you remember their name.
But the on-line versions of articles in papers that actually produce long articles are never limited by column inches, and you will often find MORE content on line than in print, but it won't be of any better quality.
These longer stories only make sense in the Weekly Newspaper (Sunday issues usually) or Magazine format and are a hold over from when people could only afford one news source. In the digital age, when you can check several sources (even remote ones), gather the facts from several sources, weed out the bias, (or introduce alternate biases, as the case may be) and get past the journalism major pulp fiction found in these encyclopedic length articles.
In bulk, you can buy a DVD for less than the price of postage. (Sub 15 cents in industrial quantities),
In the quantities that netflix uses it would make more sense to burn disks on demand, and have a peel off top bar code that would destroy the disk when peeled off. You could put those in one envelope, and trash the DVDs.
It hardly makes sense for them to handle DVDs upon return, clean, Sort, and repackage them for shipment. Way too labor intensive.
Don't think that I haven't thought of that, someone could have taken those three discs home Saturday and watched them Saturday night and all day Sunday and then put them back in spare mailers in the mail Monday and so they arrived on Tuesday.
Someone who actually has a job wouldn't spend that much time watching YOUR movies. If you cam out out your mom's basement once in a while you could have a job too.
I put 5 DVD's in the mail slot at the post office and on Monday two were received by Netflix and the other three didn't get there until Tuesday.
Oh, NOes! A whole (half) day for non-timesensitive shipment! Big Post Office problem!! Call your congressman!
You have no idea whether these arrived or not. Far more likely the netflix low-lifes on the shipping dock were on a smoke break and didn't get that box of returned scanned on that shift.
If special handling is required, and special treatment is offered to NetFlix Red mailers, and all of that for a reduced fee (the same as a first class letter) it sounds to me like Gamefly had a significant case. (And the fact that the Post Office is knuckling under would seem to support that).
If the NetFlix mailer is so inconsequential and light weight and offers so little protection for the contents that it requires special handling, it is clearly rate-abuse. They should have never been given special handling and let the chips fall where they may. Or maybe those "chips" foul the automated sorted machines so badly that the Post Office was forced to hand sort them. (In which case they should have rejected them, but probably didn't feel they had the clout).
Well the course-ware they plan to use is also available on Android (most of it anyway). You have to did deep in the course-ware website to see the Android availability, but it is there.
With Android's market share in tablets exceeding Apple by a wide margin you would expect that this emphasis on Apple will wane. (Assuming of course that Apple doesn't have a significant interest in Pearson).
You design the mechanism so that it is physically impossible for the software to do something dangerous. In the case of Therac-25, there should have been a mechanical interlock that cut power to the radiator when the shield was not in place. In the case of the needle sticking robot, you use an actuator with a stroke of, say, 5mm. Then there there is no way it could "jab through your arm". You also use a weak actuator, that doesn't have enough physical strength to push into bone, even when given full power. You put a spring-loaded (not software controlled) sheath over the needle, so the needle is never exposed unless it is pressed against skin. You design the hardware assuming the software is malicious. You design away any way you can think of for the software to do harm.
Then you design the software assuming the all the mechanical interlocks have failed, and use sensors to double check everything.
Exactly. But you also make the output of the sensor system visible to the human attendant (who will be there anyway), and provide them a safety override switch, for when the needle breaks off in the patients arm due to a flinch or for what ever reason.
Come to think of it, maybe just providing the human with the sensor system may yield better results, and probably provide faster service in a wider variety of situations.
Unless you envision this as a self service device, you are going to have a nurse there anyway. Drawing blood is not all that dissimilar from any other use of needles for intravenous injections, transfusions or drips, other than that its in and out relatively quickly. So maybe a wearable sensor system would be more appropriate.
Holy crap that is expensive. $968 per iPad. Considering how good a Nexus 7 is I can't understand the thinking here.
And you thought Apple was giving all those computers to schools in the 80's and 90's out of good will? This is what happens when those kids grow up and become teachers and run for School Board seats.
Given that the courseware is available on more than one platform, they should just give each kid a voucher, and let the vendor's compete.
That was then. This is now. The bleeding hearts wouldn't let little Juan languish in fourth grade just because his older gang-banger brother sold Juan's ipad.
It's pretty tricky, really. You have to simulate at least 4 satellites' signals, compensating for their orbital movement at the position where you want to tell your target it's located.
But its just numbers and time. That's all the GPS receiver knows about. It knows nothing actual orbits or movements. Just precise time and epheremis numbers. The signals would be trivial to generate with a computer.
GPS jammers are even easier. I was approaching a tractor trailer in Utah one moment, and the next the GPS was in a "Recalculating" frenzy and I was jumping from Montana to Iowa and points in between. After I was half a mile away from the rig everything was back to normal. Apparently some long-haul truckers don't like to be tracked. The thing was, the GPS didn't say it lost signal, it indicated I was suddenly in specific locations hundreds of miles away.
And you know what? That entire problem was solved by putting locks on the door. For the 110% solution, the Feds no longer tell people to comply with hijacker's demands.
Except now the feds are back on the Be Sheep and Run Away kick.
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Lol. Post your pictures and photos of your mom and dad and girl friend, and maybe I'll believe you.
Outlaw the practice as an invasion of privacy or DMCA violation?
Pass opt in laws?
Demand phones that won't reveal any personal information?
Apps that sense attempt and block them, or spoof random mac addresses?
Personal jammers?
Shop online?
Picket the store?
Small town kids are so cute.
Let me know when you save up enough money to visit the big city son, I'll take you to some stores you'll have to dial 911 just to get out of.
Thought the same thing....
The Ph.D took longer than expected, so before finishing me and three others
Ph.Ds generally do take a bit longer than expected when one starts in the 4th grade.
But if he had waited until he had mastered the 6th grade, his editing task would have been so much easier.
Good gawd, Rage Much?
You seriously can't be proposing a speaker phone as a replacement for a bluetooth!??
Why do you think everyone around you needs to hear BOTH sides of your pathetic the conversation about picking up a dozen eggs, and when are you going to clean up your room?
There is nothing wrong with bluetooth, its very handy, you can answer a phone call without taking the phone out of your pocket and exposing it to snatch-and-run artists, or having to do something as douche bag as turning on the speaker phone in public.
And explain how I am going to drag the person on the other end of the phone into the store with me when they are 3 states away, and stuck in their office?
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And assuming the phone isn't in your pocket or purse.
OTOH, if I want directions to the shoe department at some big box store, being able to follow an arrow
on my phone is probably more useful than asking some snooty clerk. But I'll be damned if I'm installing
one app per store, so they better get their act together and find one opt-in solution.
Shopping will be an event to put on facial makeup. Black lines for beneath the eyes and above the eyebrows (I think a tube of black lipstick will do nicely).
Why inconvenience yourself by leaving your phone at home, when you can just avoid those store that use this tech?
If I get a text message when I walk into a store I will never set foot in that store again. There are plenty of on-line
shops that sell the same thing. I don't like busybody sales clerks hovering over my shoulder while I shop and I sure
as hell don't expect to put up with some computer doing the same thing.
We only get the "paper" edition on Sundays, but I read the digital version (as they refer to it) daily. I was going to give up the print version completely; however there's essentially no cost advantage in doing so. Oh well, having newspaper around occasionally turns out to be useful, anyway.
I don't find a lot of cost advantage in giving up the print version, but there is certainly a convenience advantage to having the digital version delivered to your device. You also don't end up with the 50% instant throw-away advertising sections in most Digital editions.
Badger jizz. I can do calculus, kinematics and statistics. My kids can barely count to twenty.
Your fault.
I've found the "Very Lengthy Reports" are seldom worth reading.
Most of them are simply historical rehashes and interview material loaded with selected and often biased viewpoints, all tossed in to increase bulk and the appearance of gravitas without actually adding much real or new information. Once you get past a certain size you end up seeing more bias creep into the story, mostly that of the reporter.
That coupled with wild inaccuracies introduced by journalism majors, (that even a brief glance through Wikipedia would have avoided) make these long articles seldom worth the time. Very occasionally you will find a reporter worth their salt, and when you do, you remember their name.
But the on-line versions of articles in papers that actually produce long articles are never limited by column inches, and you will often find MORE content on line than in print, but it won't be of any better quality.
These longer stories only make sense in the Weekly Newspaper (Sunday issues usually) or Magazine format and are a hold over from when people could only afford one news source. In the digital age, when you can check several sources (even remote ones), gather the facts from several sources, weed out the bias, (or introduce alternate biases, as the case may be) and get past the journalism major pulp fiction found in these encyclopedic length articles.
In bulk, you can buy a DVD for less than the price of postage. (Sub 15 cents in industrial quantities),
In the quantities that netflix uses it would make more sense to burn disks on demand, and have a peel off top bar code that would destroy the disk when peeled off. You could put those in one envelope, and trash the DVDs.
It hardly makes sense for them to handle DVDs upon return, clean, Sort, and repackage them for shipment. Way too labor intensive.
Don't think that I haven't thought of that, someone could have taken those three discs home Saturday and watched them Saturday night and all day Sunday and then put them back in spare mailers in the mail Monday and so they arrived on Tuesday.
Someone who actually has a job wouldn't spend that much time watching YOUR movies. If you cam out out your mom's basement once in a while you could have a job too.
(I know, right? What was I thinking...).
I put 5 DVD's in the mail slot at the post office and on Monday two were received by Netflix and the other three didn't get there until Tuesday.
Oh, NOes! A whole (half) day for non-timesensitive shipment! Big Post Office problem!! Call your congressman!
You have no idea whether these arrived or not.
Far more likely the netflix low-lifes on the shipping dock were on a smoke break and didn't get that box of returned scanned on that shift.
Then Netflix will just start using UPS or Fedex. If it costs the same, why use USPS when the others offer better service?
Maybe the answer to your question is that IT DOES NOT COST THE SAME?
Netflix is getting a 44 cent rate, the same as a letter. Lets see you get that from UPS or FedeX.
If special handling is required, and special treatment is offered to NetFlix Red mailers, and all of that for a reduced fee (the same as a first class letter) it sounds to me like Gamefly had a significant case. (And the fact that the Post Office is knuckling under would seem to support that).
If the NetFlix mailer is so inconsequential and light weight and offers so little protection for the contents that it requires special handling, it is clearly rate-abuse. They should have never been given special handling and let the chips fall where they may. Or maybe those "chips" foul the automated sorted machines so badly that the Post Office was forced to hand sort them. (In which case they should have rejected them, but probably didn't feel they had the clout).
Well the course-ware they plan to use is also available on Android (most of it anyway). You have to did deep in the course-ware website to see the Android availability, but it is there.
With Android's market share in tablets exceeding Apple by a wide margin you would expect that this emphasis on Apple will wane. (Assuming of course that Apple doesn't have a significant interest in Pearson).
You design the mechanism so that it is physically impossible for the software to do something dangerous. In the case of Therac-25, there should have been a mechanical interlock that cut power to the radiator when the shield was not in place. In the case of the needle sticking robot, you use an actuator with a stroke of, say, 5mm. Then there there is no way it could "jab through your arm". You also use a weak actuator, that doesn't have enough physical strength to push into bone, even when given full power. You put a spring-loaded (not software controlled) sheath over the needle, so the needle is never exposed unless it is pressed against skin. You design the hardware assuming the software is malicious. You design away any way you can think of for the software to do harm.
Then you design the software assuming the all the mechanical interlocks have failed, and use sensors to double check everything.
Exactly.
But you also make the output of the sensor system visible to the human attendant (who will be there anyway), and provide them a safety override switch, for when the needle breaks off in the patients arm due to a flinch or for what ever reason.
Come to think of it, maybe just providing the human with the sensor system may yield better results, and probably provide faster service in a wider variety of situations.
Unless you envision this as a self service device, you are going to have a nurse there anyway. Drawing blood is not all that dissimilar from any other use of needles for intravenous injections, transfusions or drips, other than that its in and out relatively quickly. So maybe a wearable sensor system would be more appropriate.
The fact suck a craft is ready tells you there has been a good amount of sneaking around on the moon.
I'll have you know that sentence hurt my brain.
Even putting "such" in place of "suck" makes for little improvement.
Holy crap that is expensive. $968 per iPad. Considering how good a Nexus 7 is I can't understand the thinking here.
And you thought Apple was giving all those computers to schools in the 80's and 90's out of good will?
This is what happens when those kids grow up and become teachers and run for School Board seats.
Given that the courseware is available on more than one platform, they should just give each kid
a voucher, and let the vendor's compete.
c: All of the above
That was then. This is now.
The bleeding hearts wouldn't let little Juan languish in fourth grade just because his older gang-banger brother sold Juan's ipad.
If you don't think encryption helps, you are doing it wrong.
ITAR simply requires State-Side storage. It doesn't have to be secure from the NSA, in fact they would probably object if it was.
There is SpiderOak, which is US based, but they don't have the ability to decrypt your data, all decryption is done at the client.
It's pretty tricky, really. You have to simulate at least 4 satellites' signals, compensating for their orbital movement at the position where you want to tell your target it's located.
But its just numbers and time. That's all the GPS receiver knows about. It knows nothing actual orbits or movements. Just precise time and epheremis numbers.
The signals would be trivial to generate with a computer.
GPS jammers are even easier. I was approaching a tractor trailer in Utah one moment, and the next the GPS was in a "Recalculating" frenzy and I was jumping from Montana to Iowa and points in between. After I was half a mile away from the rig everything was back to normal. Apparently some long-haul truckers don't like to be tracked. The thing was, the GPS didn't say it lost signal, it indicated I was suddenly in specific locations hundreds of miles away.
And you know what? That entire problem was solved by putting locks on the door. For the 110% solution, the Feds no longer tell people to comply with hijacker's demands.
Except now the feds are back on the Be Sheep and Run Away kick.