It is probably pretty easy to 'justify' this type of national security corporate espionage in the name of national security. This type of corporate espionage was probably able to help us create the Stuxnet virus as that used vulnerabilities in some pretty specific hardware to do it's job and the companies themselves are not always going to help out the US Government, especially if they are a foreign entity. So they could easily say there is a national security need for this type of information collection as it could be used for similar reasons, though there are plenty of other reasons I'm sure we could come up with to 'justify' it too. I mean, this is a country where we are able to 'justify' the need to collect everyone's phone call information even with nothing to show for it.
If these jokes are as funny as party book jokes from the 70's and computation power doubles every 18 months, it won't be long before we see the arrival of a quality Louis MB comedy routine.
Turing surely shouldn't be the only one. But he's a damn good catalyst to get things going to pardon everyone prosecuted under such an unjust law. Do you think this would be brought up at Slashdot (or elsewhere) if the article said 'We need to Pardon Bob Smith for having committed the crime of being gay'?
Yeah, that's why I think runaway slaves should be and forever will be looked upon poorly. I mean, they knew what they were doing was against the law. Harriet Tubman was just a lawbreaker and enabler for those criminals, plain and simple.
And Rosa Parks was just a troublemaker who deserved to go to jail.
And those stupid interracial couples daring to love each other when the laws clearly stated that wasn't allowed. Don't you know two consenting adults can't just go around having sex with whomever they want and think that the government shouldn't be punishing you for it.
(sorry I don't know British equivalents though I am sure there are plenty)
So should we also require that they record 2 years worth of our voice conversations as well? How is recording the content of a text message different than recording the content of a voice call, other than that one requires more space.
Heck, who needs laws anyway, the NSA is probably doing both ways already anyway.
I went to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for ME (they have an aerospace option, which I didn't take). What was great about their program is that you have to do mandatory co-ops. You go to school for 5 years instead of the normal 4, but over a year of that time is spent working for other companies. And you have to hunt for the jobs and apply for them just as you would for any normal job after graduation. Even though it is tough sometimes to find a place to co-op that you want and who wants you in the end it is worth it for the experience of the job hunt and quite frankly it pays much better than most summer jobs you'd find (unpaid internships aren't allowed). And since classes are designed so you don't just co-op during the summer you may have a better chance at getting an internship in the Fall, Winter or Spring at a desired company since you won't be competing with so many other applicants during the Summer.
While I did find a co-op at an Aerospace company and I was excited to get it, please remember that you may not enjoy all of the types of jobs that those companies offer. The co-op I did there was more related to Manufacturing engineering, so quality control and processes and lots of tedium. No better way to find out what areas of your field you DON'T want to do than to spend a few months actually doing it.
Experience is key to finding out what you really like to do but it doesn't have to be all on-the-job training. Be sure to look for hands-on extra-curriculars that a school offers, not just courses you may think will interest you. Again, I know I'm pimping RIT, but they have an Aero Club that does more than just make simple RC model airplanes (they've sent stuff to space!), but also have clubs for other Mechanical enthusiasts like Formula-1 and FIRST Robotics that often can consume large portions (sometimes too much) of your free time.
And remember, if you aren't happy at one school there is no shame in transferring. Don't force yourself to stay at a school you hate just because you feel like you have to finish what you started.
I'm pretty sure this is an old idea. I believe they even had this type of station shown in that great show 'Beyond 2000'. But they did clarify 'FIRST OF ITS KIND', so of course its the first of its kind based on all the criteria which only fit this particular deployment.
I think id be a little scared of a completely automatic landing without human assistance. Does anyone know if auto-landing is even something that is done with any regularity today? And if it were that easy, that will certainly take a lot of the drama out of the multitude of movies where they have the video game addicts landing planes safely.
And besides, most hijackings involve landing a plane safely and not crashing it, with the exception of one single event. So i'd say that it is a bit of overkill to be doing that anyway.
I think that non-DRM music will help boost sales tremendously. I also think that since its going to be open mp3's, there will be a lot more sharing of this purchased music with friends and family. While I don't think that's a problem, even if music sales increase by a significant amount, the RIAA will still say these mp3's are allowing too much piracy. It's a no-win situation in their minds. Music is meant to be shared, not hoarded. If nobody gets a chance to hear your music, then its tough to know you want to buy that music. I don't know why the music industry cannot understand this.
Yeah, the HD industry really needs to stop doing this. I mean, with Terabit drives, you are going to be loosing huge percentages due to that stupid 1000 = 1024 logic they have. 1000 GB is going to end up really being closer to 930 GB
So, how about if I decide instead of just looking at you for a short period I decide to watch you and follow you around everywhere you are in public? I mean, you are in a Public space, so I have the right to follow you around everywhere you go. And heck, why look at you from a distance, instead I'll just follow you one step behind you so I can watch every detail of what you are doing. Do you not think you would be able to file some sort of harassment suit against me even though all I was doing was simply following you around everywhere you went in public, or get some sort of restraining order to prevent me from being so near you? There is certainly differences between casual observations and direct watching, recording, archiving of everything you do.
Because I believe there is a difference between being observed by people and having all of your actions being automatically watched recorded and analyzed.
And as you add more and more cameras, you are going to be invading on private spaces as cameras won't be able to distinguish between what is public and what is private. In Britain already there have been 'peeping tom' cases with cctv's. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseys ide/4609746.stm
You have the right to be secure in your persons, and I would say that filming me and tracking me in public everyplace I go is a pretty unreasonable search of my persons. If you are detained by an officer, he cannot search your persons without probable cause. So perhaps we should stop filming everybody first before probable cause is obtained.
Why not move one step further. Everyone should be mandated to have a GPS unit physically attached to their bodies this way if there is a crime committed, everyones GPS unit can be reviewed to see who was in the vicinity, and not just the innacurate GPS capabilities that cell phones afford, but real US Military grade stuff so you can tell where people are to within inches. And why not have this GPS unit also take audio so we can review that and why not take some video snapshots every second as well so it can be correlated with the GPS.
And then, instead of only reviewing things after a crimes committed, lets have people watching all the video feeds live to make sure that you aren't doing anything wrong, and then have speakers on those cameras to yell at you
And you know what, these things work so great in public, why not start videoing and otherwise tracking people inside of their own homes, cuz as you probably know thats where a big percentage of crimes are committed.
Cuz as everyone knows, if you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear, especially those with way more power and influence than you as they are the least likely to abuse anything.
I built a robot with a partner in Robotics class in college a couple years ago. It was an omni-directional six-legged walking robot. Instead of turning per-se, its legs would change position to re-orient its front position, so it essentially always walked forward. It used a sonar sensor to avoid objects and surpassed our expectations. It was a lot of fun to build, and considering a 50-dollar budget we did well. Fortunately my partner worked at a metal stamping place for a co-op and the class had plenty of spare parts, so we didn't even spend much of the budget. There's a video of it up on youtube, which we were required to make as part of the class, though we did overdramatize a bit for what was required in a demo video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOODDmS2V40
1. Focus on Genectic Engineering. If we can GM ourselves, we should be able to have people who are GM'ed enough to withstand anything we can throw at ourselves.
2. If God truly has a plan for us, then obviously he won't let us all die so do whatever you want. Unless his plan is to let us all die, in which case there's not really anything we can do to stop it. So just have faith, that always works out well doesn't it? Why actively do something when simply believing things will be OK is good enough?
I am currently working with one of the RFID companies that is "working" with walmart on the actual implementation of RFID. Let me tell you that there is no foreseable ROI in the near future. Currently at a cost of about 25 cents a tag, it is much too expensive to be worth it for anyone. The technology is in its infancy so there are so many problems we have encountered so far.
One of the problems is the tags. Not only do they cost so damn much, but they are also not very high quality. There's a feature called "locking" which allows you to set a number on the tag and not allow it to change, but when using this we have too high a failure rate to be effective (10-30% depending on the tag type). So we had to turn off the locking, meaning its much easier to change the unique number associated with the tags (which will be a problem when tags hit the retail sector) and now we only get around a 1-2% failure rate. But when doing high volumes, even this small percent is expensive to deal with.
Another is the hardware. Part of the tag writing problems we have seen may be due to the tags and/or the reader/writer units. But right now, some tags get created and written to with no problems, but when they go by a reader, the reader just does not see a number on that tag, meaning as i said before its either a bad tag or some sort of incompatibility/problem with the reader unit. Currently we are trying to get the tags applied cost effectively, but unfortunately its pretty much boiling down to using people to grab tags from a RFID printer and hand-apply everything.
We have also been having trouble verifying all the product on a pallet, and certainly cannot expect to read 100% of product 100% of time. Some product is easy to see, but depending on the density/material in the materials on the pallet, it can be very difficult to read many of the tags.
Software is another hinderance. While the company i have been working with has had its large share of problems in the last few months, they are getting better, but still are not perfect. And unless things work perfect, it can cause so many problems. One small chink in the software can make it inoperable (essentially crashing the software a-la Windows), but the software is slowly getting more and more stable.
The fact that Walmart madated this is certainly causing issues, especially for smaller companies and products that companies make almost no money on anyway. For us, we have a very expensive product so tagging at the case level is not too big a deal (it still has/will cost us millions of dollars to do), but just remember theres lots of companies that make almost no profit on the case level and that 25 cents for a tag eats pretty much all of their profits. RFID isn't going away, theres just too much potential. RFID can certainly work as a technology, as seen in the success of toll-tags like EZ-Pass and Smart-Tag. And many of these problems would have arisen anyway in the future, its just that the Walmart mandate basically caused the problems to happen faster.
actually, linux is technically worth more than 3.51256x winxp because sco is basically charging that much since some of their code is used in linux, and im sure theres so much more to linux than what sco allegedly has contained in linux. so its really much more than 3.51256 times more valuable.
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It is probably pretty easy to 'justify' this type of national security corporate espionage in the name of national security. This type of corporate espionage was probably able to help us create the Stuxnet virus as that used vulnerabilities in some pretty specific hardware to do it's job and the companies themselves are not always going to help out the US Government, especially if they are a foreign entity. So they could easily say there is a national security need for this type of information collection as it could be used for similar reasons, though there are plenty of other reasons I'm sure we could come up with to 'justify' it too. I mean, this is a country where we are able to 'justify' the need to collect everyone's phone call information even with nothing to show for it.
If these jokes are as funny as party book jokes from the 70's and computation power doubles every 18 months, it won't be long before we see the arrival of a quality Louis MB comedy routine.
... http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/01/1427226/public-domain-prosthetic-hand Yes. The answer is yes.
Turing surely shouldn't be the only one. But he's a damn good catalyst to get things going to pardon everyone prosecuted under such an unjust law. Do you think this would be brought up at Slashdot (or elsewhere) if the article said 'We need to Pardon Bob Smith for having committed the crime of being gay'?
Yeah, that's why I think runaway slaves should be and forever will be looked upon poorly. I mean, they knew what they were doing was against the law. Harriet Tubman was just a lawbreaker and enabler for those criminals, plain and simple. And Rosa Parks was just a troublemaker who deserved to go to jail. And those stupid interracial couples daring to love each other when the laws clearly stated that wasn't allowed. Don't you know two consenting adults can't just go around having sex with whomever they want and think that the government shouldn't be punishing you for it. (sorry I don't know British equivalents though I am sure there are plenty)
So should we also require that they record 2 years worth of our voice conversations as well? How is recording the content of a text message different than recording the content of a voice call, other than that one requires more space. Heck, who needs laws anyway, the NSA is probably doing both ways already anyway.
Great, way to make the game orders of magnitude longer.
I guess Amazon is just a One Click Pony.
I went to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for ME (they have an aerospace option, which I didn't take). What was great about their program is that you have to do mandatory co-ops. You go to school for 5 years instead of the normal 4, but over a year of that time is spent working for other companies. And you have to hunt for the jobs and apply for them just as you would for any normal job after graduation. Even though it is tough sometimes to find a place to co-op that you want and who wants you in the end it is worth it for the experience of the job hunt and quite frankly it pays much better than most summer jobs you'd find (unpaid internships aren't allowed). And since classes are designed so you don't just co-op during the summer you may have a better chance at getting an internship in the Fall, Winter or Spring at a desired company since you won't be competing with so many other applicants during the Summer. While I did find a co-op at an Aerospace company and I was excited to get it, please remember that you may not enjoy all of the types of jobs that those companies offer. The co-op I did there was more related to Manufacturing engineering, so quality control and processes and lots of tedium. No better way to find out what areas of your field you DON'T want to do than to spend a few months actually doing it. Experience is key to finding out what you really like to do but it doesn't have to be all on-the-job training. Be sure to look for hands-on extra-curriculars that a school offers, not just courses you may think will interest you. Again, I know I'm pimping RIT, but they have an Aero Club that does more than just make simple RC model airplanes (they've sent stuff to space!), but also have clubs for other Mechanical enthusiasts like Formula-1 and FIRST Robotics that often can consume large portions (sometimes too much) of your free time. And remember, if you aren't happy at one school there is no shame in transferring. Don't force yourself to stay at a school you hate just because you feel like you have to finish what you started.
The 'Colbert Nation' is a bit bigger than the 'Perens Nation' so I think that you are going to be rather unsuccessful in your venture.
I'm pretty sure this is an old idea. I believe they even had this type of station shown in that great show 'Beyond 2000'. But they did clarify 'FIRST OF ITS KIND', so of course its the first of its kind based on all the criteria which only fit this particular deployment.
Because nerds just have to be right.
I think id be a little scared of a completely automatic landing without human assistance. Does anyone know if auto-landing is even something that is done with any regularity today? And if it were that easy, that will certainly take a lot of the drama out of the multitude of movies where they have the video game addicts landing planes safely. And besides, most hijackings involve landing a plane safely and not crashing it, with the exception of one single event. So i'd say that it is a bit of overkill to be doing that anyway.
I think that non-DRM music will help boost sales tremendously. I also think that since its going to be open mp3's, there will be a lot more sharing of this purchased music with friends and family. While I don't think that's a problem, even if music sales increase by a significant amount, the RIAA will still say these mp3's are allowing too much piracy. It's a no-win situation in their minds. Music is meant to be shared, not hoarded. If nobody gets a chance to hear your music, then its tough to know you want to buy that music. I don't know why the music industry cannot understand this.
Yeah, the HD industry really needs to stop doing this. I mean, with Terabit drives, you are going to be loosing huge percentages due to that stupid 1000 = 1024 logic they have. 1000 GB is going to end up really being closer to 930 GB
So, how about if I decide instead of just looking at you for a short period I decide to watch you and follow you around everywhere you are in public? I mean, you are in a Public space, so I have the right to follow you around everywhere you go. And heck, why look at you from a distance, instead I'll just follow you one step behind you so I can watch every detail of what you are doing. Do you not think you would be able to file some sort of harassment suit against me even though all I was doing was simply following you around everywhere you went in public, or get some sort of restraining order to prevent me from being so near you? There is certainly differences between casual observations and direct watching, recording, archiving of everything you do.
Because I believe there is a difference between being observed by people and having all of your actions being automatically watched recorded and analyzed. And as you add more and more cameras, you are going to be invading on private spaces as cameras won't be able to distinguish between what is public and what is private. In Britain already there have been 'peeping tom' cases with cctv's. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseys ide/4609746.stm
You have the right to be secure in your persons, and I would say that filming me and tracking me in public everyplace I go is a pretty unreasonable search of my persons. If you are detained by an officer, he cannot search your persons without probable cause. So perhaps we should stop filming everybody first before probable cause is obtained.
Why not move one step further. Everyone should be mandated to have a GPS unit physically attached to their bodies this way if there is a crime committed, everyones GPS unit can be reviewed to see who was in the vicinity, and not just the innacurate GPS capabilities that cell phones afford, but real US Military grade stuff so you can tell where people are to within inches. And why not have this GPS unit also take audio so we can review that and why not take some video snapshots every second as well so it can be correlated with the GPS. And then, instead of only reviewing things after a crimes committed, lets have people watching all the video feeds live to make sure that you aren't doing anything wrong, and then have speakers on those cameras to yell at you And you know what, these things work so great in public, why not start videoing and otherwise tracking people inside of their own homes, cuz as you probably know thats where a big percentage of crimes are committed. Cuz as everyone knows, if you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear, especially those with way more power and influence than you as they are the least likely to abuse anything.
I built a robot with a partner in Robotics class in college a couple years ago. It was an omni-directional six-legged walking robot. Instead of turning per-se, its legs would change position to re-orient its front position, so it essentially always walked forward. It used a sonar sensor to avoid objects and surpassed our expectations. It was a lot of fun to build, and considering a 50-dollar budget we did well. Fortunately my partner worked at a metal stamping place for a co-op and the class had plenty of spare parts, so we didn't even spend much of the budget. There's a video of it up on youtube, which we were required to make as part of the class, though we did overdramatize a bit for what was required in a demo video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOODDmS2V40
1. Focus on Genectic Engineering. If we can GM ourselves, we should be able to have people who are GM'ed enough to withstand anything we can throw at ourselves. 2. If God truly has a plan for us, then obviously he won't let us all die so do whatever you want. Unless his plan is to let us all die, in which case there's not really anything we can do to stop it. So just have faith, that always works out well doesn't it? Why actively do something when simply believing things will be OK is good enough?
I am currently working with one of the RFID companies that is "working" with walmart on the actual implementation of RFID. Let me tell you that there is no foreseable ROI in the near future. Currently at a cost of about 25 cents a tag, it is much too expensive to be worth it for anyone. The technology is in its infancy so there are so many problems we have encountered so far.
One of the problems is the tags. Not only do they cost so damn much, but they are also not very high quality. There's a feature called "locking" which allows you to set a number on the tag and not allow it to change, but when using this we have too high a failure rate to be effective (10-30% depending on the tag type). So we had to turn off the locking, meaning its much easier to change the unique number associated with the tags (which will be a problem when tags hit the retail sector) and now we only get around a 1-2% failure rate. But when doing high volumes, even this small percent is expensive to deal with.
Another is the hardware. Part of the tag writing problems we have seen may be due to the tags and/or the reader/writer units. But right now, some tags get created and written to with no problems, but when they go by a reader, the reader just does not see a number on that tag, meaning as i said before its either a bad tag or some sort of incompatibility/problem with the reader unit. Currently we are trying to get the tags applied cost effectively, but unfortunately its pretty much boiling down to using people to grab tags from a RFID printer and hand-apply everything.
We have also been having trouble verifying all the product on a pallet, and certainly cannot expect to read 100% of product 100% of time. Some product is easy to see, but depending on the density/material in the materials on the pallet, it can be very difficult to read many of the tags.
Software is another hinderance. While the company i have been working with has had its large share of problems in the last few months, they are getting better, but still are not perfect. And unless things work perfect, it can cause so many problems. One small chink in the software can make it inoperable (essentially crashing the software a-la Windows), but the software is slowly getting more and more stable.
The fact that Walmart madated this is certainly causing issues, especially for smaller companies and products that companies make almost no money on anyway. For us, we have a very expensive product so tagging at the case level is not too big a deal (it still has/will cost us millions of dollars to do), but just remember theres lots of companies that make almost no profit on the case level and that 25 cents for a tag eats pretty much all of their profits. RFID isn't going away, theres just too much potential. RFID can certainly work as a technology, as seen in the success of toll-tags like EZ-Pass and Smart-Tag. And many of these problems would have arisen anyway in the future, its just that the Walmart mandate basically caused the problems to happen faster.
actually, linux is technically worth more than 3.51256x winxp because sco is basically charging that much since some of their code is used in linux, and im sure theres so much more to linux than what sco allegedly has contained in linux. so its really much more than 3.51256 times more valuable.