Letting a local government run your Internet is a stupid-bad idea.
You will see caps, filters, and all kinds of other crap. States like Arizona and Alabama have laws against sodomy. Alabama makes it illegal to own a sex toy. Let Alabama run the Internet and you'll find yourself in jail for watching MrHands.avi or WeLiveTogether.
I understand that in some places, commercial access would remain available. Just like we have toll roads and bridges today. But a good portion of the people would be forced to use a tightly regulated, government ISP.
You know, if it wasn't for that pesky 1st Amendment, we could fix a lot of the problems that people think they have.
We could limit advertisers.
We could limit hate groups.
We could stop bullies.
We could stop lobbyists.
But, alas, we are stuck with the damn thing. Ooh, have an idea. We can pass laws to limit the 1st Amendment protections in clear violation of the Constitution. And no one will have the balls to take it to the Supreme Court. And if they do, the Supreme Court *may* overturn the law but we'll have stopped literally *tens* of cyber-bullies.
After all, USians have been shitting on the 2nd Amendment for the last hundred years. It's about time the 1st gets some love too.
They (FBI?) have a database of known images. When your drive is taken, they compare the checksums of your images with the database. A tech then checks the images to see if it's the actual image. From that point, they build a folder that has the date the image was taken, the age of the subject, who took the photo; things like that.
The prosecutor will hold up a edited photo and then tell the jury the life story of the kid. How her daddy/uncle/brother abused her for years and how her life is shit because of it. Then he'll say that the defendant drives the need for that to happen.
Case. Fucking. Closed.
If they don't have positive proof of any of the subjects, they may try and bring in a doctor or image analysts.
The book isn't exactly confidential. There is a distribution list. Every Church building has three copies. There are other copies for Temples and various other leaders.
All in all, there are about 250k copies of this book provided for 10,000,000+ members.
If a member wants to discuss a point of Church business (how is the opening song selected, can we use toasted rye bread for Sacrament, could I be excommunicated for having an abortion), the member can ask their leader to show them why and how.
My guess is that they aren't filtering backbones. The equipment you'd need to filter at the OC levels would just be too expensive. They probably mandate that all ISPs install local filters. Probably at their own cost. Then, they have a political officer who comes around to check things every now and then.
Also, since the filtering is happening at lower levels, the elite can get unfiltered connections straight from the telecoms without rousing suspicion for demanding filer removal.
No confusion. In the summers in Japan, the sunrise times are between 4:30am and 5am. DST would push that back to a more reasonable 5:30~6am.
Also, with DST, you get another hour of daylight tacked on to the end of a summer day. In Japan, the summer sunset is around 7pm. It'd be nice to have sun until 8pm.
A third point to consider is that these are the hours that the sun breaks the horizon. It starts getting light as early as 3:30am and is usually completely dark by 8pm.
In short, DST is nice if you like to do things on summer afternoons.
DST seems like a pain. However, after I moved to Japan, I realized how nice it actually is. The sun coming up at 4am is not a cool thing. Makes sleeping in virtually impossible.
So, you can change the clocks, or change your schedule. Having DST ensures that everyone changes together.
Bullshit! did a show on recycling. More or less, the only recycling that matters is aluminum. All other recycling *only* works if subsides are in-place.
Most plastics can't be recycled. Type 1, 2, and 3 are *recyclable* but type 1 is the only one commonly recycled.
Most paper will degrade anyway. A lot of landfills can use this degradation to power equipment and produce electricity.
1. Scientific data belongs to the US taxpayer. Well, if NASA is doing the research, it does. There are times when the data won't be released. If the data is classified, for instance. In fact, NASA's budget is constantly replenished by the DoD. DoD pays NASA to send payloads and perform maintenance. For the most part, the data will be publicly available.
2. If I buy a server in space, it will have to down-link somewhere. The **AA can just get a court order on the down-link provider. As for NASA/Government; the DoD already have provisions in-place to deal with copyright in a slightly different way than the general public. For instance, ships at sea can legally acquire and play MPAA movies with little regards to the wishes of the MPAA. DoD clubs, bars, and restaurants routinely play RIAA music with little regards to paying royalties that civilian clubs must pay. Furthermore, it is quite common to see movie and music library servers established on most DoD installations. While not entirely legal, the **AA tolerates it.
3. US Citizens *ARE* the Government. If we want data released, it generally gets released. There are times when it is in the best interest of the Public to keep the info private. For instance, say an asteroid was 18 months away from Earth. Nothing could stop it. End of life, period. Would it be in the Public's best interest to know this? What if we discover some gluon-based super-weapon? Would you want another nuclear djinn out of the bottle?
4. Electronics vulnerable to radiation? Didn't we solve that years ago? Voyager and Pioneer seem to be doing okay so far.
5. No one has pure intentions. A good politician can make people *want* to do something for their own reasons. If you could make GWB *want* to go to Mars, would it matter why he's doing it? Just the fact that he wants to go is good enough for me.
5b. Going to the Moon to establish a base seems like a good idea to you and me. However, NASA has decided that they don't want that. I have heard that doing a Moon colony and doing a Mars colony will cost about the same. But there are some milestones that must be reached first.
5b1. We need a cheap orbiter. Space elevator seems promising. 5b2. We need a reliable habitat. Years ago, we tried sealing people in a dome in the desert. They almost died. And that was on Earth. We need a dome that can protect people and can be built quickly. 5b3. We need a way to make fuel, air, water, and food at the destination. You can't take it with you. 5b4. We need a construction platform in space. Better to build interplanetary ships in orbit vice launching them from the earth.
FOOTNOTE
The problem with money is that too few control it. We allow generations to accumulate wealth until we have 1% of the people with 99% of the money.
Also, can we honestly justify spending billions on NASA (or the DoD) when we have poverty in the US?
You don't have to give them the keys. Then again, they don't have to let you in the country. And if they do let you in, they'll probably never give the laptop back.
In any event, I read one article about a girl who did give them everything they wanted. This was years ago and she never got her laptop back anyway...
If you are relying on security through obscurity, then you'll eventually get bitten. If you are getting stupid in the club, eventually people will find out.
Not that I'm saying we should tell everyone everything; it's just that if you do something in public, people will blog it.
Also, I really don't see past drug use haunting anyone. GWB did coke and even had a DUI. No one really gives a shit. It's when a politician tries to hide that it becomes an issue.
If you are open and honest about your dealings, then you'll never get blindsided.
However, being open and honest *should* be a personal choice. If I choose to use the same screen name on 50 web sites, that's my choice. If you use an annonymizer and bugmenot, that's your choice. No one should be *forced* to lay their life book open for everyone to see...
Since this was a civil case, could he now turn the evidence over to the FBI and get the company charged under Federal Copyright laws? I'd love to see another $250,000 fine and the CEO spend a few years in jail...
The biggest problem I have with CSI is that they act like they have unlimited funds to solve a crime. Every man-hour spent on a case is billed. Every test they do costs money. At the end of the day, do you really think they'll run a $100k tab to solve the murder of a hooker or bum?
The sad fact is that after a few days, most cases are sent to the bottom of the pile. Not due to lack of evidence, but due to lack of funds.
In this particular case, the consumer would be best served by filing a Small Claims Court action. At most, the consumer lost $300.
A class action would be perfect for things like drug companies failing to test a drug and killing people. Or insurance companies dropping coverage after a disease is discovered.
However, in 99% of class-actions, the *best* situation would be to have a Federal prosecutor charge the CEO and Board Members with committing a crime. Throw their asses in jail and you'd see a lot of companies clean up real quick. As it stands, a Class Action loss is still result to appeal and the company will continue business as usual while increasing the price of the product.
Not to mention that when you try and "limit the influence of money" you will run into First Amendment problems. I'll agree that money in DC is contributing to corruption. However, the answer is not to limit the money; it's to punish the corruption.
Any time we allow our fundamental rights to be legislated away, we lose...
You do, of course, realize that the "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy? Just because we legalize A does not mean we will allow B.
For instance: Allowing gay marriage will lead to everyone in the US fucking each other in the ass.
Just because you require a RealID to purchase a powerful stimulant does not mean that you have to "card in" when you go to church/school/work/fly/etc...
Likewise, an ad hominem attack is also a logical fallacy. Just because it comes from DHS does mot mean it's a bad idea.
Not that I'm privy to the contract, but wouldn't this be a work for hire?
An event photographer tried to claim he had copyright on the photos he took. However, it turned out that this counted as a work for hire. The copyright reverted to the company.
If The People don't like the laws, they can vote for change. There is no reason that Social Security can't be added to the Constitution. Likewise, there is no reason the Second Amendment can't be repealed.
However, if the people want an Assault Weapons ban, they *must* amend the Constitution first. You cannot have a CITY restrict something explicitly granted under Federal Law.
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Letting a local government run your Internet is a stupid-bad idea.
You will see caps, filters, and all kinds of other crap. States like Arizona and Alabama have laws against sodomy. Alabama makes it illegal to own a sex toy. Let Alabama run the Internet and you'll find yourself in jail for watching MrHands.avi or WeLiveTogether.
I understand that in some places, commercial access would remain available. Just like we have toll roads and bridges today. But a good portion of the people would be forced to use a tightly regulated, government ISP.
You know, if it wasn't for that pesky 1st Amendment, we could fix a lot of the problems that people think they have.
We could limit advertisers.
We could limit hate groups.
We could stop bullies.
We could stop lobbyists.
But, alas, we are stuck with the damn thing. Ooh, have an idea. We can pass laws to limit the 1st Amendment protections in clear violation of the Constitution. And no one will have the balls to take it to the Supreme Court. And if they do, the Supreme Court *may* overturn the law but we'll have stopped literally *tens* of cyber-bullies.
After all, USians have been shitting on the 2nd Amendment for the last hundred years. It's about time the 1st gets some love too.
If you are going to pirate a movie, don't tip-toe around it. Just download the thing from the Internet.
They (FBI?) have a database of known images. When your drive is taken, they compare the checksums of your images with the database. A tech then checks the images to see if it's the actual image. From that point, they build a folder that has the date the image was taken, the age of the subject, who took the photo; things like that.
The prosecutor will hold up a edited photo and then tell the jury the life story of the kid. How her daddy/uncle/brother abused her for years and how her life is shit because of it. Then he'll say that the defendant drives the need for that to happen.
Case. Fucking. Closed.
If they don't have positive proof of any of the subjects, they may try and bring in a doctor or image analysts.
The book isn't exactly confidential. There is a distribution list. Every Church building has three copies. There are other copies for Temples and various other leaders.
All in all, there are about 250k copies of this book provided for 10,000,000+ members.
If a member wants to discuss a point of Church business (how is the opening song selected, can we use toasted rye bread for Sacrament, could I be excommunicated for having an abortion), the member can ask their leader to show them why and how.
The only problem I see with this is that people will read the 1968 version and try to compare that to today's LDS Church.
The statements in the 1999 summary seem pretty reasonable.
My guess is that they aren't filtering backbones. The equipment you'd need to filter at the OC levels would just be too expensive. They probably mandate that all ISPs install local filters. Probably at their own cost. Then, they have a political officer who comes around to check things every now and then.
Also, since the filtering is happening at lower levels, the elite can get unfiltered connections straight from the telecoms without rousing suspicion for demanding filer removal.
Might actually be a viable defense in Court. Just have your ISP tell you how much you uploaded over the period the **AA is looking at.
And, even bring in your uTorrent config files. Mine is set to upload 2X and then stop. At most, I'd be liable for distributing 2 files.
This is a case where a problem is being solved by law vice technical means.
Much like the SPAM problem, you'll never be able to legislate the Internet.
Consumers should vote with their money. If ISP#1 is throttling, then stop subscribing. No other ISPs in the area? Get satellite access.
In the mean time, engineers should start working on things like TOR, Freenet, and encryption to ensure that the content on the wires stays free.
In any event, if you allow government to make inroads into what can and can't be legislated online, pretty soon, they'll legislate everything.
This is one Pandora's Box that should not be opened.
Regardless of how they see it, there is a benefit:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=474430&cid=22633096
Curtains and shutters are nice. But how do you plan to get that extra hour of sunlight after work?
No confusion. In the summers in Japan, the sunrise times are between 4:30am and 5am. DST would push that back to a more reasonable 5:30~6am.
Also, with DST, you get another hour of daylight tacked on to the end of a summer day. In Japan, the summer sunset is around 7pm. It'd be nice to have sun until 8pm.
A third point to consider is that these are the hours that the sun breaks the horizon. It starts getting light as early as 3:30am and is usually completely dark by 8pm.
In short, DST is nice if you like to do things on summer afternoons.
DST seems like a pain. However, after I moved to Japan, I realized how nice it actually is. The sun coming up at 4am is not a cool thing. Makes sleeping in virtually impossible.
So, you can change the clocks, or change your schedule. Having DST ensures that everyone changes together.
Bullshit! did a show on recycling. More or less, the only recycling that matters is aluminum. All other recycling *only* works if subsides are in-place.
Most plastics can't be recycled. Type 1, 2, and 3 are *recyclable* but type 1 is the only one commonly recycled.
Most paper will degrade anyway. A lot of landfills can use this degradation to power equipment and produce electricity.
1. Scientific data belongs to the US taxpayer. Well, if NASA is doing the research, it does. There are times when the data won't be released. If the data is classified, for instance. In fact, NASA's budget is constantly replenished by the DoD. DoD pays NASA to send payloads and perform maintenance. For the most part, the data will be publicly available.
2. If I buy a server in space, it will have to down-link somewhere. The **AA can just get a court order on the down-link provider. As for NASA/Government; the DoD already have provisions in-place to deal with copyright in a slightly different way than the general public. For instance, ships at sea can legally acquire and play MPAA movies with little regards to the wishes of the MPAA. DoD clubs, bars, and restaurants routinely play RIAA music with little regards to paying royalties that civilian clubs must pay. Furthermore, it is quite common to see movie and music library servers established on most DoD installations. While not entirely legal, the **AA tolerates it.
3. US Citizens *ARE* the Government. If we want data released, it generally gets released. There are times when it is in the best interest of the Public to keep the info private. For instance, say an asteroid was 18 months away from Earth. Nothing could stop it. End of life, period. Would it be in the Public's best interest to know this? What if we discover some gluon-based super-weapon? Would you want another nuclear djinn out of the bottle?
4. Electronics vulnerable to radiation? Didn't we solve that years ago? Voyager and Pioneer seem to be doing okay so far.
5. No one has pure intentions. A good politician can make people *want* to do something for their own reasons. If you could make GWB *want* to go to Mars, would it matter why he's doing it? Just the fact that he wants to go is good enough for me.
5b. Going to the Moon to establish a base seems like a good idea to you and me. However, NASA has decided that they don't want that. I have heard that doing a Moon colony and doing a Mars colony will cost about the same. But there are some milestones that must be reached first.
5b1. We need a cheap orbiter. Space elevator seems promising.
5b2. We need a reliable habitat. Years ago, we tried sealing people in a dome in the desert. They almost died. And that was on Earth. We need a dome that can protect people and can be built quickly.
5b3. We need a way to make fuel, air, water, and food at the destination. You can't take it with you.
5b4. We need a construction platform in space. Better to build interplanetary ships in orbit vice launching them from the earth.
FOOTNOTE
The problem with money is that too few control it. We allow generations to accumulate wealth until we have 1% of the people with 99% of the money.
Also, can we honestly justify spending billions on NASA (or the DoD) when we have poverty in the US?
You don't have to give them the keys. Then again, they don't have to let you in the country. And if they do let you in, they'll probably never give the laptop back.
In any event, I read one article about a girl who did give them everything they wanted. This was years ago and she never got her laptop back anyway...
If you are relying on security through obscurity, then you'll eventually get bitten. If you are getting stupid in the club, eventually people will find out.
Not that I'm saying we should tell everyone everything; it's just that if you do something in public, people will blog it.
Also, I really don't see past drug use haunting anyone. GWB did coke and even had a DUI. No one really gives a shit. It's when a politician tries to hide that it becomes an issue.
If you are open and honest about your dealings, then you'll never get blindsided.
However, being open and honest *should* be a personal choice. If I choose to use the same screen name on 50 web sites, that's my choice. If you use an annonymizer and bugmenot, that's your choice. No one should be *forced* to lay their life book open for everyone to see...
Since this was a civil case, could he now turn the evidence over to the FBI and get the company charged under Federal Copyright laws? I'd love to see another $250,000 fine and the CEO spend a few years in jail...
The biggest problem I have with CSI is that they act like they have unlimited funds to solve a crime. Every man-hour spent on a case is billed. Every test they do costs money. At the end of the day, do you really think they'll run a $100k tab to solve the murder of a hooker or bum?
The sad fact is that after a few days, most cases are sent to the bottom of the pile. Not due to lack of evidence, but due to lack of funds.
In this particular case, the consumer would be best served by filing a Small Claims Court action. At most, the consumer lost $300.
A class action would be perfect for things like drug companies failing to test a drug and killing people. Or insurance companies dropping coverage after a disease is discovered.
However, in 99% of class-actions, the *best* situation would be to have a Federal prosecutor charge the CEO and Board Members with committing a crime. Throw their asses in jail and you'd see a lot of companies clean up real quick. As it stands, a Class Action loss is still result to appeal and the company will continue business as usual while increasing the price of the product.
Not to mention that when you try and "limit the influence of money" you will run into First Amendment problems. I'll agree that money in DC is contributing to corruption. However, the answer is not to limit the money; it's to punish the corruption.
Any time we allow our fundamental rights to be legislated away, we lose...
Create a script to search for ALL the possible domains.
I use it because the model manuals I use have embedded 3d graphics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2dKBYRQj68
It's nice when you can grab a part and spin it virtually to see exactly how the assembly should look.
You do, of course, realize that the "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy? Just because we legalize A does not mean we will allow B.
For instance: Allowing gay marriage will lead to everyone in the US fucking each other in the ass.
Just because you require a RealID to purchase a powerful stimulant does not mean that you have to "card in" when you go to church/school/work/fly/etc...
Likewise, an ad hominem attack is also a logical fallacy. Just because it comes from DHS does mot mean it's a bad idea.
Not that I'm privy to the contract, but wouldn't this be a work for hire?
An event photographer tried to claim he had copyright on the photos he took. However, it turned out that this counted as a work for hire. The copyright reverted to the company.
If The People don't like the laws, they can vote for change. There is no reason that Social Security can't be added to the Constitution. Likewise, there is no reason the Second Amendment can't be repealed.
However, if the people want an Assault Weapons ban, they *must* amend the Constitution first. You cannot have a CITY restrict something explicitly granted under Federal Law.