Some guy in Japan patented one before Kamen, but just didn't have the foresight/money to patent the device in the U.S. So, I'd encourage anyone who has the desire to do this much work to go for it with no sense of guilt whatsoever. Kamen is just a hack as far as I'm concerned. Personally, I don't see how it received a patent in the first place. It just looks too much like the standard "inverted broomstick" controller that shows up in so many electrical engineering senior design projects, if it even rates that high these days.
Also, wrt price, alot of the materials this guy used, such as extruded aluminum rail and L brackets are great for prototyping, but expensive. With a welder and some cheap steel tubing, you could save mucho dinero. Probably, if it weren't for the patent protection, some industrious guy could crank these out of his basement for a total material cost of less that $1000/ea. If you can't tell, I also have a bit of mild contempt for Kamen, so take this for what it is.
At $29,935, the base Guardian would be $735 more expensive than the 2002 Ford Explorer XLT, the model on which the Guardian was based
They just took a Ford off the shelf, complained about the bumpers, asked for a stronger roof, and demanded some annoying features like a seat belt chime that won't shut up. If they were serious about this, they could open up a customization shop that converts your stock Explorer into a super fly street-cruising Guardian.
Worried about that roof? No problemo, we'll just bolt in a roll cage.
Ride too high? We can fix that with our customized lowering kit.
Visibility a problem? You'll be pimpin' with a flip-flop paint job and optional neon running lights. And with our Audio Impact(tm) option, other motorists will hear you before they see you.
Fuel economy? A twin turbo kit will give you better fuel mileage and much more power.
Truth is, there's a huge aftermarket for trucks, and yes, the Explorer is a truck. People are already free to add all the features they are willing to buy. But most people don't want/need all those features. And they don't want the government to force them to buy the features, either.
After the first eight examples arrived at Holbert's race shop in August 1988, the feds came to inspect them. They found what appeared to be street-legal examples with leather interiors and leather-covered roll bars. The only apparent concessions to race trim were roll-up windows and deletion of air conditioning and radio. Suspecting duplicity on Porsche's part, the inspectors refused to authorize importation.
It really does sound a lot like the same trim that a Ford Mustang Cobra "R" model comes in. And all these elite toys are going to do less ecological damage in one year than a single NASCAR event. Now, add up how much money was spent to jump through the beaurocratic hoops, convert that to gallons of gasoline, and you'll see that less energy would have been wasted if only the regulators had made an exemption up front.
What would prevent using the GPS without a warrant, and simply not crediting its use?
The answer lies in the question, and it is accountability. A law enforcement office should be required to account for how many of these devices they have, and the whereabouts of said devices at all times.
Also, this technology could police itself. Because it is a GPS beacon, a third-party law enforcement agency at say, state or federal level, could monitor the location of every GPS beacon used by local law enforcement agencies. This would provide a "paper trail" on all such devices and defence attorneys could subpeona the watchdog agency to make certain there was no unauthorized usage by the locals.
Of course, it'll never be able to catch the police using privately-purchased GPS beacons to tag suspects (and they could easily skim money from drug busts), but GPS could be used on all their other toys, too, so it does show promise as a technology to limit abuse of rights by law enforcement agencies.
Because Titan changes both spatially and temporally based on observations of its atmosphere, speculation of what drives these variations derives from the moon's high content of methane and other organic building blocks."
nano thermometers from a magnesium oxide nanotube filled with liquid gallium
And you still have to build interface hardware/circuitry to read the tiny things. Why can't they just keep it simple and bond two dissimilar metals together to make a thermocouple junction? Thermocouples have a wide temperature range, too.
And it will probably be the technician who removed them and not the manager who ordered it done.
Nah, that's what unions are for. All the really big companies have them.
I wouldn't be surprised, though, if it were just one of the VPs coming in to show off to his friends. There was probably even a sticky-note on the controls saying "Hey Bob, I borrowed your bolts. Whatever you do, don't tip the thing over!"
All this talk about cryptography sure is sexy, but how about something practical, like a computer monitor with resolution so high you can't even see the pixels? I want a screen that is indistinguishable from a sheet of paper.
Maybe so, but he still won't talk. All our one-time pads are equiped with a special cyanide-filled tooth to bite down on, just in case they are captured.
When running either Spybot or AdAware (can't remember which right now), it detected spyware on my machine that was implanted when I installed a wireless mouse and keyboard from Logitech. So, those are the dangers we face now. Every time we add a peripheral to our machines, we could unwittingly be installing a trojan program. Probably, there was mention of the trojan somewhere in the EULA, but I personally take this as an act of aggression by the device manufacturer.
Most consumers aren't interested in learning what genetic flaw is going to kill them. Chances are, they already know (you do have parents and grandparents, don't you?). What Joe Sixpack really cares about is "has she been cheating on me" and "is that rugrat mine?"
Think about it, a cheap and dirty Home Paternity Test could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in diapers, food, clothes, educational expenses, and eventually, a messy divorce. And if it comes in the form of a stick I can pee on, so much the better.
It's all about stopping theft. You didn't really believe all that safety nonsense, did you? That's just to placate the plebes. Turns out, train theft is rampant in India, and GPS is the only practical way to track the locomotives to the chop shops.
I just wanted to second your emotion. This was entirely my experience with English professors in college. They spend too much time criticizing ideas that don't agree with their social and political sensibilities.
Because of the personal nature that such writing often takes, the end result is degrading and dehumanizing to the student. It's little more than a power-trip for the teachers, who are determined to exercise dominance over others the only way they know how. In other social contexts, this would be viewed as abuse, but for some reason we tolerate it here.
Any tools that inject some objectivity into the process are welcomed by me. It's about time.
I don't think the government much likes the idea of you transferring files anonymously, either. After all, you might be a terrorist. It would be ironic if the end result of this were that individuals could communicate anonymously and privately in any nation except the United States.
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Oh yeah, that's brilliant. The only human life left on the planet will be colicky babies and Sterno-drinking winos.
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Some guy in Japan patented one before Kamen, but just didn't have the foresight/money to patent the device in the U.S. So, I'd encourage anyone who has the desire to do this much work to go for it with no sense of guilt whatsoever. Kamen is just a hack as far as I'm concerned. Personally, I don't see how it received a patent in the first place. It just looks too much like the standard "inverted broomstick" controller that shows up in so many electrical engineering senior design projects, if it even rates that high these days.
Also, wrt price, alot of the materials this guy used, such as extruded aluminum rail and L brackets are great for prototyping, but expensive. With a welder and some cheap steel tubing, you could save mucho dinero. Probably, if it weren't for the patent protection, some industrious guy could crank these out of his basement for a total material cost of less that $1000/ea. If you can't tell, I also have a bit of mild contempt for Kamen, so take this for what it is.
Will Slashdot please turn in they guy beneath my threshold that posted the goatsex ascii porn?
Well, they didn't design anything.
At $29,935, the base Guardian would be $735 more expensive than the 2002 Ford Explorer XLT, the model on which the Guardian was based
They just took a Ford off the shelf, complained about the bumpers, asked for a stronger roof, and demanded some annoying features like a seat belt chime that won't shut up. If they were serious about this, they could open up a customization shop that converts your stock Explorer into a super fly street-cruising Guardian.
Worried about that roof? No problemo, we'll just bolt in a roll cage.
Ride too high? We can fix that with our customized lowering kit.
Visibility a problem? You'll be pimpin' with a flip-flop paint job and optional neon running lights. And with our Audio Impact(tm) option, other motorists will hear you before they see you.
Fuel economy? A twin turbo kit will give you better fuel mileage and much more power.
Truth is, there's a huge aftermarket for trucks, and yes, the Explorer is a truck. People are already free to add all the features they are willing to buy. But most people don't want/need all those features. And they don't want the government to force them to buy the features, either.
After the first eight examples arrived at Holbert's race shop in August 1988, the feds came to inspect them. They found what appeared to be street-legal examples with leather interiors and leather-covered roll bars. The only apparent concessions to race trim were roll-up windows and deletion of air conditioning and radio. Suspecting duplicity on Porsche's part, the inspectors refused to authorize importation.
It really does sound a lot like the same trim that a Ford Mustang Cobra "R" model comes in. And all these elite toys are going to do less ecological damage in one year than a single NASCAR event. Now, add up how much money was spent to jump through the beaurocratic hoops, convert that to gallons of gasoline, and you'll see that less energy would have been wasted if only the regulators had made an exemption up front.
The point he was making was that any substance known to man "has the capability to cause death or serious injury"
So basically, the law, as written, is unenforceable and everyone prosecuted under it will win on appeal.
Taht's cool as hlel.
What would prevent using the GPS without a warrant, and simply not crediting its use?
The answer lies in the question, and it is accountability. A law enforcement office should be required to account for how many of these devices they have, and the whereabouts of said devices at all times.
Also, this technology could police itself. Because it is a GPS beacon, a third-party law enforcement agency at say, state or federal level, could monitor the location of every GPS beacon used by local law enforcement agencies. This would provide a "paper trail" on all such devices and defence attorneys could subpeona the watchdog agency to make certain there was no unauthorized usage by the locals.
Of course, it'll never be able to catch the police using privately-purchased GPS beacons to tag suspects (and they could easily skim money from drug busts), but GPS could be used on all their other toys, too, so it does show promise as a technology to limit abuse of rights by law enforcement agencies.
Woohoo! Thanks. :)
I was quite amazed to receive a personal reply to my letter, typewritten but signed by hand.
Wow, so you actually have a Teller number of 1 ?
If you would only be so kind as to reply to my reply, then I could boast a Teller number of 2.
Because Titan changes both spatially and temporally based on observations of its atmosphere, speculation of what drives these variations derives from the moon's high content of methane and other organic building blocks."
I'm 78% methane, myself.
22% other.
nano thermometers from a magnesium oxide nanotube filled with liquid gallium
And you still have to build interface hardware/circuitry to read the tiny things. Why can't they just keep it simple and bond two dissimilar metals together to make a thermocouple junction? Thermocouples have a wide temperature range, too.
play the "brown note" ?
Didn't he used to play the handyman on One Day at a Time?
And it will probably be the technician who removed them and not the manager who ordered it done.
Nah, that's what unions are for. All the really big companies have them.
I wouldn't be surprised, though, if it were just one of the VPs coming in to show off to his friends. There was probably even a sticky-note on the controls saying "Hey Bob, I borrowed your bolts. Whatever you do, don't tip the thing over!"
Is that so wrong?
All this talk about cryptography sure is sexy, but how about something practical, like a computer monitor with resolution so high you can't even see the pixels? I want a screen that is indistinguishable from a sheet of paper.
You can still brute-force a one-time pad.
Maybe so, but he still won't talk. All our one-time pads are equiped with a special cyanide-filled tooth to bite down on, just in case they are captured.
When running either Spybot or AdAware (can't remember which right now), it detected spyware on my machine that was implanted when I installed a wireless mouse and keyboard from Logitech. So, those are the dangers we face now. Every time we add a peripheral to our machines, we could unwittingly be installing a trojan program. Probably, there was mention of the trojan somewhere in the EULA, but I personally take this as an act of aggression by the device manufacturer.
Most consumers aren't interested in learning what genetic flaw is going to kill them. Chances are, they already know (you do have parents and grandparents, don't you?). What Joe Sixpack really cares about is "has she been cheating on me" and "is that rugrat mine?"
Think about it, a cheap and dirty Home Paternity Test could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in diapers, food, clothes, educational expenses, and eventually, a messy divorce. And if it comes in the form of a stick I can pee on, so much the better.
Have your orgasm now!
It's all about stopping theft. You didn't really believe all that safety nonsense, did you? That's just to placate the plebes. Turns out, train theft is rampant in India, and GPS is the only practical way to track the locomotives to the chop shops.
I just wanted to second your emotion. This was entirely my experience with English professors in college. They spend too much time criticizing ideas that don't agree with their social and political sensibilities.
Because of the personal nature that such writing often takes, the end result is degrading and dehumanizing to the student. It's little more than a power-trip for the teachers, who are determined to exercise dominance over others the only way they know how. In other social contexts, this would be viewed as abuse, but for some reason we tolerate it here.
Any tools that inject some objectivity into the process are welcomed by me. It's about time.
I don't think the government much likes the idea of you transferring files anonymously, either. After all, you might be a terrorist. It would be ironic if the end result of this were that individuals could communicate anonymously and privately in any nation except the United States.
Oh yeah, that's brilliant. The only human life left on the planet will be colicky babies and Sterno-drinking winos.