Any time you rent someone else's property you are responsible for it.
Doesn't matter if it was a car or a lawn mower or a cable box. If its lost/destroyed, they can't rent it out to anyone else till they buy a new one, and since it was in your hands at the time it was lost you get to buy the new one for them. You agreed to that in writing.
How did you achieve an age sufficient to be turned loose on the internet without discovering this fact? Does your mom know you are using the net?
So wouldn't this be a moving mesh network? I assume there would be issues if you're connected to a taxi that then moved out of range.
Yes, the story clearly states is is a Mesh Network structure. It seems to me they would be counting on the moving portions to be able to contact residential base stations and or custom towers for their feed, and to re-transmit a wifi signal.
This is going to be disruptive to residential users in a big way. Most modern WIFI Access Points select the best signal channel to avoid congestion. With buses and parked rentals showing up all the time this congestion avoidance is going to be working overtime. (Each change of channel is accompanied with a service drop for associated devices, so most routers do this only when the load is low).
Rental cars tend to be better maintained than average, and they tend to be newer than average, usually no more than 2 or 3 years old.
I'm sure Comcast wouldn't choose to use Joe's Rent-a-Wreck as one of their providers. If your experience is as you indicate, you need to start renting from a reputable company.
I also don't see the rationale for having WIFI transmitters on 30 rented cars parked in hotel lots or near conference centers.
[A moving AP] throws off your coverage mapping and disconnects people
If anything, Wi-Fi on buses appears intended to serve Xfinity Internet subscribers who commute to and from work on a bus. The passengers and access point are moving, all right, but their velocities differ by no more than 3 mph. Are you saying it disconnects the passengers or the bystanders?
Because of the way this Comcast wifi proposal works, YES, it disconnects people sitting in restaurants, or park benches or those changing buses as each bus runs by.
Remember this is part of a bigger proposal, that if you allow your Comcast connection to be used by others, you in turn will get to use any Comcast access point. Which means your phone, tablet, etc will log on automatically to the best signal. The disruption this could cause if you work near a busy bus line as buses run by your window every 5 minutes would be a mess.
Besides, just how reliable is wifi on a moving bus going to be? Even 3G or LTE feeds aren't that stable when driving around.
What else could be sent out to the plate? Advertising, updated registration. Those are a given. Some people would be on board with that.
What about when they start sending out updates that say "Stolen". People still on board? Probably. "Pedophile"? Still on the bus folks? "Tax Evader"? Crowd thinning a bit? "Prior DWI"? Anyone? Anyone? Bueler? "Parking Violation"? Lonely in here...
Or what if the advertising just offends you. Not going anywhere near political or religious issues, but something like Drink Pepsi, when you are a Coke fan?
And of course what about when they are hacked (as they most certainly will be), and you start getting scrolling hate speech that gets you gunned down while driving through the 'hood.
There are other mail systems that do this as well, such as setting up your Gmail account to pop your mail off of other servers. Of course you have to tell them the login and password. But it is a discrete step in the case of Gmail and you are warned about exactly what is going on.
With BBM, its unclear, glossed over, or mentioned in one of those click-through pages that nobody reads, or perhaps not mentioned at all. That might have been ok in the days when RIM was holding out against government spying, but those days are long gone.
I used to just delete spam but one day I went through a whole bunch of them and clicked on unsubscribe. The amount of spam went down to almost nothing. Totally worth the 15 min of effort. Legitimate companies (who make up most of the spam I get these days) honor unsubscribe requests, the illegitimate ones will not care about any anti-spam laws anyway.
Perhaps things have changed. But probably that only works with companies you actually signed up with yourself at one time.
The bulk of spam is something you've never signed up for, and historically unsubscribing simply got your address passed on to someone else who would start sending you spam. You might be surprised how often this is still the case. I will occasionally signup for some temporary thing with a unique name and see how far it spreads.
With Spamassassin or gmail filtering my mail these days I get very little spam.
The spam bin is chock full, but I never look in there. It purges itself after a few days. I seriously don't even look any more.
All those millions of dollars of missed business due to false positives never showed up, and all the fear mongering about not daring to arbitrarily delete spam turned out to be nonsense.
That isn't to say that rooftop PV is a bad idea: just that subsidising it is not a good way for government to spend their clean-energy money.
But it might be that subsidizing it is a good idea in some locations, such as where bringing in commercial power is very expensive, or is likely to involve gas fired or diesel generation. Also in very rural areas, or where the current system is already overloaded, or where ever there is likely to be public spending for additional infrastructure.
Things like new schools or other large public buildings, built at tax payer expense, could and probably should get subsidized solar roof tops, because that type of structure ends up being all public tax money anyway.
Also if the government is subsidizing home cooling/heating loads for low income people, its a simple dollars and sense (see what I did there?) calculation to see if it would ever pay out. (The likelihood of the household being off the dole before the installation is paid off).
Still you have to wonder about the maintenance of rooftop solar, and the risk of Joe Sixpack trying to "fix it".
Drive your car down the road, and your exhaust is always hotter than the ambient. Run your exhaust thru this device, and you can recapture some of that existing loss to power your car's Air Conditioning.
Still, you can't rationally take the position that all advancement in medical science must be blocked because there is a potential for the pertinent information to be misused.
Think about what you are suggesting here. Condemning someone to a life of violence (to say nothing about their victims) because you purposely avoided looking for a cure?
Is that the approach we took with AIDS? Drug addiction? Heart disease? Typhoid?
Surely it must be possible to work on both problems at once, in the Law and the Lab?
The local weatherman has a computer that they use to access NOAA data. Maybe a barometer hanging on the wall. That's about it. They have become rip and read jockeys just like the news guys.
As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.
The problem is not you getting results and taking care of them accordingly. It's everyone else that gets their hands on the results and treats your kids like second class citizens.
I could have enough faith in a person to do the former. I lack sufficient faith in society to not do the latter.
Can you provide examples where this is currently happening? Is it common to be turned down for a job because of a medical issue as a youth? I just don't see this happening much. Not being able to pass a physical is the closest thing you see for some types of employment.
Its a tiny tiny place. 100 to 150 people maximum occupation at any given time. It was occupied for 700 years. It was NOT built as a defensive fortress. There is little to suggest it was EVER under attack. Roughly half of the spaces were Kivas (religious buildings).
There was no huge war here. It was never conquered, simply abandoned.
Have you been anywhere else in north america? Its a big continent. You should get out and see it sometime. Yo
I'm reminded of the parody video from The Onion (I think) where you had a jock who was killing the misfits at his high school so that they wouldn't snap and create another columbine.
Well if you think "misfits" aren't already subject to extra scrutiny these days you would be wrong.
School administration, teachers, counselors are all getting training in this. And its more an more evident that even other students are starting to look out for certain types.
So far, the merely odd or quirky kids have not been caught up in this to a great deal, but it still does happen, especially to guys who go goth.
I would expect that knowledge of biological markets that might be discovered would be welcome, by parents and perhaps the people having them. If you know about a predisposition to heart disease you can take extra care. If you are exceptionally predisposed to breast cancer you can guard against that, and take extreme steps. (Jolie).
As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.
Does that take into account that the weather has changed due to climate change (global warming) and these rare events will become more probable in this new climate?
Maybe you should visit the source, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies http://www.giss.nasa.gov/ and see if you think this particular branch of NASA is soft pedaling global warming.
It's been James E. Hansen personal pulpit for the last 30 years.
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So what?
Read your service agreement.
Any time you rent someone else's property you are responsible for it.
Doesn't matter if it was a car or a lawn mower or a cable box. If its lost/destroyed, they can't rent it out to anyone else till they buy a new one, and since it was in your hands at the time it was lost you get to buy the new one for them. You agreed to that in writing.
How did you achieve an age sufficient to be turned loose on the internet without discovering this fact? Does your mom know you are using the net?
No thank you.
So wouldn't this be a moving mesh network?
I assume there would be issues if you're connected to a taxi that then moved out of range.
Yes, the story clearly states is is a Mesh Network structure.
It seems to me they would be counting on the moving portions to be able to contact residential base stations and or custom towers for their feed, and to re-transmit a wifi signal.
This is going to be disruptive to residential users in a big way.
Most modern WIFI Access Points select the best signal channel to avoid congestion. With buses and parked rentals showing up all the time this congestion avoidance is going to be working overtime. (Each change of channel is accompanied with a service drop for associated devices, so most routers do this only when the load is low).
Rental cars tend to be better maintained than average, and they tend to be newer than average, usually no more than 2 or 3 years old.
I'm sure Comcast wouldn't choose to use Joe's Rent-a-Wreck as one of their providers. If your experience is as you indicate, you need to start renting from a reputable company.
I also don't see the rationale for having WIFI transmitters on 30 rented cars parked in hotel lots or near conference centers.
[A moving AP] throws off your coverage mapping and disconnects people
If anything, Wi-Fi on buses appears intended to serve Xfinity Internet subscribers who commute to and from work on a bus. The passengers and access point are moving, all right, but their velocities differ by no more than 3 mph. Are you saying it disconnects the passengers or the bystanders?
Because of the way this Comcast wifi proposal works, YES, it disconnects people sitting in restaurants, or park benches or those changing buses as each bus runs by.
Remember this is part of a bigger proposal, that if you allow your Comcast connection to be used by others, you in turn will get to use any Comcast access point. Which means your phone, tablet, etc will log on automatically to the best signal. The disruption this could cause if you work near a busy bus line as buses run by your window every 5 minutes would be a mess.
Besides, just how reliable is wifi on a moving bus going to be? Even 3G or LTE feeds aren't that stable when driving around.
What else could be sent out to the plate?
Advertising, updated registration. Those are a given. Some people would be on board with that.
What about when they start sending out updates that say "Stolen". People still on board? Probably.
"Pedophile"? Still on the bus folks?
"Tax Evader"? Crowd thinning a bit?
"Prior DWI"? Anyone? Anyone? Bueler?
"Parking Violation"? Lonely in here...
Or what if the advertising just offends you. Not going anywhere near political or religious issues, but something like Drink Pepsi, when you are a Coke fan?
And of course what about when they are hacked (as they most certainly will be), and you start getting scrolling hate speech that gets you gunned down while driving through the 'hood.
Exactly.
And its been this way since dirt.
There are other mail systems that do this as well, such as setting up your Gmail account to pop your mail off of other servers. Of course you have to tell them the login and password. But it is a discrete step in the case of Gmail and you are warned about exactly what is going on.
With BBM, its unclear, glossed over, or mentioned in one of those click-through pages that nobody reads, or perhaps not mentioned at all. That might have been ok in the days when RIM was holding out against government spying, but those days are long gone.
Wasn't there a story recently on using the AIDS virus to induce dna changes in every cell?
Could that be sufficiently precise?
Correct.
Ant that is why TFA itself says
Will individuals see an effect once the new law is in force? Probably not.
All this means is that Canadians won't spam (if the law is enforced).
In real life, you still have to take out the garbage and recycling.
But in digital life, computers do that for me.
Why would I spend one minute evaluating spam, when Google or Spam Assassin can do it for me?
I used to just delete spam but one day I went through a whole bunch of them and clicked on unsubscribe. The amount of spam went down to almost nothing. Totally worth the 15 min of effort. Legitimate companies (who make up most of the spam I get these days) honor unsubscribe requests, the illegitimate ones will not care about any anti-spam laws anyway.
Perhaps things have changed. But probably that only works with companies you actually signed up with yourself at one time.
The bulk of spam is something you've never signed up for, and historically unsubscribing simply got your address passed on
to someone else who would start sending you spam. You might be surprised how often this is still the case. I will occasionally
signup for some temporary thing with a unique name and see how far it spreads.
With Spamassassin or gmail filtering my mail these days I get very little spam.
The spam bin is chock full, but I never look in there. It purges itself after a few days. I seriously don't even look any more.
All those millions of dollars of missed business due to false positives never showed up, and all the fear mongering about not daring to arbitrarily delete spam turned out to be nonsense.
That isn't to say that rooftop PV is a bad idea: just that subsidising it is not a good way for government to spend their clean-energy money.
But it might be that subsidizing it is a good idea in some locations, such as where bringing in commercial power is very expensive, or is likely to involve gas fired or diesel generation. Also in very rural areas, or where the current system is already overloaded, or where ever there is likely to be public spending for additional infrastructure.
Things like new schools or other large public buildings, built at tax payer expense, could and probably should get subsidized solar roof tops, because that type of structure ends up being all public tax money anyway.
Also if the government is subsidizing home cooling/heating loads for low income people, its a simple dollars and sense (see what I did there?) calculation to see if it would ever pay out. (The likelihood of the household being off the dole before the installation is paid off).
Still you have to wonder about the maintenance of rooftop solar, and the risk of Joe Sixpack trying to "fix it".
Net energy loss is what you already have today.
Drive your car down the road, and your exhaust is always hotter than the ambient.
Run your exhaust thru this device, and you can recapture some of that existing loss to power your car's Air Conditioning.
This isn't the only research looking for such technology:
http://phys.org/news/2011-05-high-performance-bulk-thermoelectrics.html
I don't recall anything significant 10 years ago, but CalTech had improvements in Peltiers reported just last year:
http://phys.org/news/2011-05-high-performance-bulk-thermoelectrics.html
Still, you can't rationally take the position that all advancement in medical science must be blocked because there is a potential for the pertinent information to be misused.
Think about what you are suggesting here. Condemning someone to a life of violence (to say nothing about their victims) because you purposely avoided looking for a cure?
Is that the approach we took with AIDS? Drug addiction? Heart disease? Typhoid?
Surely it must be possible to work on both problems at once, in the Law and the Lab?
The local weatherman has a computer that they use to access NOAA data. Maybe a barometer hanging on the wall. That's about it. They have become rip and read jockeys just like the news guys.
As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.
The problem is not you getting results and taking care of them accordingly. It's everyone else that gets their hands on the results and treats your kids like second class citizens.
I could have enough faith in a person to do the former. I lack sufficient faith in society to not do the latter.
Can you provide examples where this is currently happening? Is it common to be turned down for a job because of a medical issue as a youth? I just don't see this happening much. Not being able to pass a physical is the closest thing you see for some types of employment.
I've been to Mesa Verde.
Its a tiny tiny place. 100 to 150 people maximum occupation at any given time.
It was occupied for 700 years. It was NOT built as a defensive fortress. There is little to suggest it was EVER under attack. Roughly half of the spaces were Kivas (religious buildings).
There was no huge war here. It was never conquered, simply abandoned.
Have you been anywhere else in north america? Its a big continent. You should get out and see it sometime. Yo
Biomarkers and "predispositions" to behaviors are going to be used to pre-judge individuals. This is inevitable.
Or to get early treatment, or preventative genetic repairs.
What track record are you speaking of?
I'm reminded of the parody video from The Onion (I think) where you had a jock who was killing the misfits at his high school so that they wouldn't snap and create another columbine.
Well if you think "misfits" aren't already subject to extra scrutiny these days you would be wrong.
School administration, teachers, counselors are all getting training in this. And its more an more evident that even other students are starting to look out for certain types.
So far, the merely odd or quirky kids have not been caught up in this to a great deal, but it still does happen, especially to guys who go goth.
I would expect that knowledge of biological markets that might be discovered would be welcome, by parents and perhaps the people having them. If you know about a predisposition to heart disease you can take extra care. If you are exceptionally predisposed to breast cancer you can guard against that, and take extreme steps. (Jolie).
Oddly enough, the aids virus is now being used to deliver "genetic fixes" to repair or compensate certain genetic defects and even fight http://www.examiner.com/article/science-fiction-aerosol-delivery-of-an-engineered-virus-halts-lung-cancer-progression-mice>cancer.
As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.
Does that take into account that the weather has changed due to climate change (global warming) and these rare events will become more probable in this new climate?
Depends on how you calculate probable.
Storms are actually predicted to be fewer in number, but more intense. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/features/201303_storms/
Maybe you should visit the source, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies http://www.giss.nasa.gov/ and see if you think this particular branch of NASA is soft pedaling global warming.
It's been James E. Hansen personal pulpit for the last 30 years.
It could have been a leak in the liquid cooling used in the space suit.
I'm sorry, but you can't equate a tiny part time skirmish between tribes a major war no matter how much you hyperventilate.