Visible is by no means low, in fact its the peak. BUT the numerical integral of IR looks way larger than the numerical integral of visible.
dark collectors help, because thats like getting an extra free 25% heat intake. But fussing around pre-existing roofs to lower heat intake by less than 25% is possibly not good engineering sense, if it causes problems, death rates due to roof work, leaks can be very expensive, etc. Given a choice of light or dark shingle, it seems the light is a no-brainer, but fussing around with paints on existing structures is not so certain.
Unlikely that having a black roof actually helps out your house at all. Anecdotal evidence, having a black car in the winter never made it any easier to start, and the cab was never any warmer. However, having a black car in the summer? Much hotter in the cab.
Anecdotal evidence, parents white RV hotter than hell in the summer, flaming red car also hotter than hell, not much temperature difference. IR adsorption / emittance coefficients don't have much to do with apparent visual eye brightness. Shiny metal is often an excellent IR absorber.
Also, lets face it, this is Clinton here, remember his behavior around interns while in office? When he's talking about spreading white stuff on the roof, he's not exactly talking about home depot products here, that's all I really need to say... He probably told his pickup line to some floozy journalist who doesn't even understand what he's talking about, and next thing you know we have a/. story about green energy savings or something completely unrelated to what he said.
The way to do it is not to assume it'll be in the news for one day, maybe for a month people will do it, and then back to American Idle.
The way to do it is to create a federal, state, and local bureaucracy of roof painting enforcement, to require city building permits (with inspections) for all exterior painting. This I suppose requires govt oversight at all levels to license painters, and of course trainers of painters, and trainers of trainers of painters. Create a couple federal jobs programs to funnel money from the govt to campaign contributors while almost accidentally having a couple disadvantaged youth paint a roof or two as a side effect. Remove federal highway funding from any state that does not force its cities building codes to be modified. Then too we need a national census with hired workers to verify roof painting status. And a federal dept to collect all utility records from all americans to analyze for the white roof savings, and to do paramilitary operations on grow ops. People that want "normal" shingles or historical shingles will have to sneak them across the Canadian border, just like people that want real toilets do now. That is a realistic conspiracy theory.
There's a product for this. It's designed to go over asphalt shingle and they call it... wait for it... "roof coating". Here's a link to the manufacturers' trade group: http://www.roofcoatings.org/wcc.html.
How long before we here the politicians whining that Clinton's trying to outlaw roof shingles or make everyone replace their roof.
It costs about $10 to $15 per gallon, and covers about 100 sq feet.. So its going to cost me about a months electric bill to paint it on. At a 10% savings it'll pay for itself, at about 3 months of summer per year, in about 4 years. That skips a whole lot of accounting "net present value of the money vs the loan interest rate vs a typical rate of return of my favorite PRPFX mutual fund". Also skips the cost of labor and the environmental cost of making the goop itself. The problem is the stuff HD sells is warranted at 7 years, and everything there is very optimistic as you know.
So its probably not an economic success in most of the country, especially not CHC or NYC as the x-prez claimed. In FL TX AZ or the reconquista areas of CA, it probably makes economic sense.
My crappy slashdot car analogy is the internal state of my car is almost infinitely complicated, O2 sensor levels and thermostat bypass fractions. But you could theoretically compute an algebraic equation that boils down to can I drive 400 miles on a tank of gas? The answer at the end is, is the engine running or not, just one binary bit. All the hidden internal variables and states, zillions of them, like coolant temp, O2 loop state, etc, all collapse down to one bit. Its not really important what the internal state is when the engine shuts off, or if it shut off because the O2 loop leaned out of spec, or the fuel pump control loop when haywire when it sucked air, or...
So, a 1024 qubit computer has 2^1024 internal variables all of a vaguely analog complex number value, and those 2^1024 values collapse down to a mere 1024 bits when you factor my RSA key... There's a darn near infinite number of possible values that collapse down to 1024 bits and you randomly get one of them.
Quantum internet, really? Will I be eating Quantum pop tarts while I surf Quantum porn?
It will almost certainly be the marketing term of the decade.
Much as I had "turbo sunglasses" in the 80s, because nothing says glare reduction than an turbocharger, and I bought a nano "i-pod" some years ago, i- as in internet when ironically its probably the only piece of consumer end-user electronics apple sold that decade without a web browser.
I'm sure I'll see stickers to put on my quantum computer that somehow make it faster, and quantum tennis shoes, RSN.
For a closer to home example, compare the activity level and product sales for ham radio "2M" 144 MHz and "70cm" 432 MHz bands which have more or less world-wide allocations, vs the 222 MHz band which has much less use and almost no retail available equipment because its mostly a USA only band.
I'm guessing the the political decision makers, and the commentators, don't know anything about RF, or pretty much don't know much at all other than where their paycheck comes from.
With virtually zero cost of reproduction, and an ongoing payment stream to authors (and their publishers etc.), I wonder if this could be a viable model.
I think you pretty much just described Oreilly's Safari service. Was a customer mid-last decade, liked it, but didn't use it enough to justify the cost. You'd think they'd prefer half the revenue at half the price from a very light user, to none of the revenue at full price, but... Anyway, is Safari still around?
Again, you missed the GPs point. Not ALL textbooks are going to be useful. There's a lot of terrible texts out there that don't address topics that are useful for everyday use. They might be interesting to some as an intellectual exercise but textbooks should have some component of use or at least interest.
If you went to school to get training, instead of an education, like a very expensive vo-tech school, then you're not going to like educational subjects. If you graduated but can't stand anything other than your major, you failed those classes, even if thru grade inflation "everyone got an A just for showing up" or whatever.
Most of this countries restaurant meals have been at McDonalds. That doesn't mean the concept of a five star restaurant cannot exist, or that no restaurants make food better than dog food, or that restaurant experiences cannot be worthwhile.
The problem with terrible texts isn't people don't want to keep them. The problem with terrible texts is they should never have been required to begin with.
Most libraries have maximum loan times of 3 weeks and then you have to bring them back. Sometimes they let you (automatically) renew the book, but if somebody has it reserved, you often don't have that option. Libraries would not give you the option of keeping a text book for the entire semester.
How long does it take you to run off a couple photocopies? Used to be a stereotypical "early morning hangover" activity in the early 90s.
And if you are going to Pay $150.00 for a text book where during the class you have read 3 chapters in it. (50 pages) on a topic that you are not interested in but needed to take the class to graduate.
Hmm. $150 / 50 pages is $3 per page. Can you find a photocopier that charges less than $3 per page? Just sayin.
The "one guy buys it and we all share it" does not scale for multiple readings. The "one guy buys it and we all photocopy it" did scale. You can even illegally sell photocopies of the relevant chapters for perhaps twice the cost of photocopying and everyone still comes out ahead (well, not the greedy publishers, or the kick back powered profs, but no loss there).
Also I had a prof who collected a $20 bill from each student at the start of class to defer his extensive photocopying costs, and then provided hundreds, maybe thousands of photocopies of the best parts of all the best books. Probably pushed the limits of "fair use" to say the least. Everyone loved that arrangement.
I am to the point that I buy what I think I'll need, and ignore the rest, or occasionally will meet up with several other students the first day of class and split the cost of 1 book to share. I fail to see how this is a bad idea.
Believe it or not, a quarter century ago the strategy employed was to photocopy entire books if the publisher tried to charge more per page than the cost per photocopier page. If the prof was part of the kickback, perhaps by being an author, etc, then they got real pissed off. On the other hand if it was the profs' boss who got the kickback, the prof would high-5 you for sticking it to the man. The cost of copying has exploded upward from that 3 cents/page, but then again the price of textbooks has also exploded, hasn't it?
I doubt you reference ALL of them. Books relevant to your major/career should probably be bought and kept, but there were dozens of books (each costing $100+) that I have absolutely no use for: math, chemistry, english, history, stat, etc. None of these are relevant to my major/career and I'd opt for a more entertaining book on a rainy day.
Disagree strongly in theory, agree strongly in practice.
The old liberal arts idea was the "great books curriculum" where everyone had a common liberal arts canon of education. Everyone should have read at least Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and probably should own a copy if they're wealthy / cultured enough.
For financial reasons those books have been replaced in the sciences with "C++ in 24 hours for noobs professorial financial kickback edition new for 2011 obsolete in 2012" which invalidates both the common canon concept, and the "great books should be great" concept.
It would be very much like the philosophy department replacing Plato with the second Matrix movie, as long as they get a kickback.
Another example, you are not educated WRT history if you have read at least some of Gibbon's decline and fall. An educated person simply should own a copy of Gibbon. I do. However, your university history class will probably not require you to read Gibbon, you'll probably get stuck with "crappy flash in the pan (c) 2010 ancient history by mr forgettable" where mr forgettable's publisher provided the prof or dept head with a rather healthy kickback, your loss. And that book may as well be turned into cigarette paper once you're done with the class.
I don't know IT enough to know the classics, although I suspect Brooks would qualify. In CS I would think Knuth is obviously canon. The Little Schemer series is probably canon. I do know that someone who never read Knuth or Brooks does not really know as much as they think they do about computers.
It boils down to a collision between "great books" and corruption.
Dpends on your field, I think. I still have my old computer programming textbooks from university, but that's more due to nostalgia than anything else. Especially for things like languages that significantly over time (such as java), keeping old books is pointless.
Syntax of fast moving targets yes. Concepts, no. Knuth is still good stuff.
Basically old IT books are about as valuable as old IT software and hardware. On the other hand, old CS books are still valuable.
What's the point of naming it Telex? Are they trying to make it hard for end-users to find information about it or do they want the end-users searches to look anonymous with a known term?
The point is to signal that they're noobs hence not to be trusted with sensitive traffic.
I've got an idea, how about freenet and/or i2p? That might work. With namecoins for domain registration? Naah I'll never get that past the NiH filter.
My favorite part about freenet and i2p is "recently" at least on headless linux boxes, they could be installed together, but having made the mistake of being implemented in Java, one sort-required a very specific version of the official sun JRE and the other required another specific version of the openjdk runtime. Way to go, java guys, love that write-once run-everywhere ^H^H run-nowhere architecture.
If I recall correctly, its primary claim to fame in the 80s was having both a decent zmodem download client built in, and zmodem autostart. Also I liked its phonebook menu, which neatly held all the BBSes I called. And it had a nice redialer.
It was pretty much the ideal terminal program in the pre-windows era.
Procomm was about as good, and had a nicer scripting language, but they wanted a huge amount of money for it.
This reminds me more of the robotic training devices used in one of the Dune books ("Children of Dune", maybe). Alia trains with one on the highest setting, which was supposed to have been pretty impressive, if I remember right (read it 30 years ago, or so).
And much later on, the Idaho gholas maxed it out on a regular basis too, etc etc
These "video games" can be harder than you think. It ain't Donkey Kong anymore.
Donkey Kong was not watered down, nor most FPS. Other than grindfest MMORPGs (is there any other kind?) games have not been watered down into "everyone's a winner" yet. Give them time, the same poison that ruined baseball will eventually spread to Halo; everyone will "win the game".
The prior probability that a traveler is a 'person of interest' is less than 1/100,000.
That high? Maybe in the general population 1 in 100,000 are being oppressed by the govt. Think about it, if you know that you'll be oppressed, you wouldn't go to the airport...
So either most of the people being oppressed are innocent thus not expecting to be oppressed, or are too stupid to accomplish anything evil, in which case they're also irrelevant.
Is it even possible to accomplish anything with a system like that?
The other problem with 1 in 100,000 being oppressed is that my local "big" airport processes about that many people per day. And there's a lot of days per decade. But much less than one 9/11 per decade. So, almost all of the people being oppressed basically almost never do anything wrong. So why bother offending and angering everyone?
You don't need a license to drive a car. You need a license to drive a car on a PUBLIC ROAD. You have an inherent right to drive. When you want to drive in a public place, you have to prove that you meet certain standards for the safety of other public road users (thus the driving test). A license is not a "gift" from the government, it is in fact a responsibility that the government has ensured you are a safe vehicle operator. Eventually this has turned into
an identification card, which if you think about it is pretty weird.
I have had numerous government licenses over the years, amateur radio license, student pilot license (which at that time was just an instructor signed 3rd class med cert), fishing license, parking permit at govt facility, a security pass at an army base, and none of them had the overhead of being "identification".
Probably time to separate the concept of driver license and id card.
Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian and US navies to repel Somali pirates who are threatening one of the world's key climate monitoring programs.... The instruments,... are programmed to submerge
Not seeing the problem here. Make them big, really F-ing big, like mil-surp naval submarine big. Wrap with flypaper. Any pirate who wants to touch a submerging sub covered with flypaper is welcome to try it. In fact I double dog dare them, just like kids licking a flagpole in the winter...
I "won". BUT, I could have "won" even if I doggy paddled the 100 and did it in 10 minutes because of the way the age groups worked.
Everyone gets a trophy. My kids have not won anything, but do have a stack of trophies and ribbons.
Coming home with my ribbon for "First Place" my Mom was soooooo proud. I explained why I didn't give a shit. She said, "But you still won!" and loved to show my "First Place" ribbon to family. When she did that, I wanted to die of embarrassment because it wasn't a "win" to me - I got it on a technicality and BFD!
I guess I can see how people get the win at any cost mentality, but I don't understand how it can be satisfying.
It isn't. My kids simply don't care about their stack of trophies and ribbons more than an hour after they get them. Despite all the talk about this being a sports obsessed overcompetitive nation, we are at least officially trying our formal best to destroy that competitive spirit.
On the other hand, my son is extraordinarily proud of his video game accomplishments... probably because they're the most "real" form of competition he will likely every have, at least until he's much older.
I gather it's some sort of "sports" thing. Surely if you don't want your whole life dictated by them, you just don't need to play their game?
Find a different game to play. One that's fun, and doesn't require you to sign yourself up to a life of servitude.
Sorry, but as a parent I can objectively say that even little league has become kind of "office-spaced" or "dilbert-ified". Check out some individual field/facility rules for compulsory volunteering, scheduling, etc.
Americans use their talents and skills to organize all the fun out of any group activity; Sport, business, hobby, anything.
I understand that we have to have rules to that the schools with the most money do not get the best players by giving them the best... drugs.
Perhaps you were working at the wrong lab? The chemistry labs were the worst, I swear all those guys did all day at internship lab rat jobs was manufacture smoking implements out of the glassware. You'd think with the money they got, they could buy professionally mfgrd devices, but no.... I was not part of that scene, but the kids in that scene spent an inordinate amount of time at the beginning and end of each year, discussing which summer internships and which lab jobs were the "best". I can't blame them, you take "the best and brightest" kids and assign them beaker washing duties for 3 months, they're going to fill their brains up with something...
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True but integrate the area under a solar radiance spectrum..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Spectrum.png
Visible is by no means low, in fact its the peak. BUT the numerical integral of IR looks way larger than the numerical integral of visible.
dark collectors help, because thats like getting an extra free 25% heat intake. But fussing around pre-existing roofs to lower heat intake by less than 25% is possibly not good engineering sense, if it causes problems, death rates due to roof work, leaks can be very expensive, etc. Given a choice of light or dark shingle, it seems the light is a no-brainer, but fussing around with paints on existing structures is not so certain.
Unlikely that having a black roof actually helps out your house at all. Anecdotal evidence, having a black car in the winter never made it any easier to start, and the cab was never any warmer. However, having a black car in the summer? Much hotter in the cab.
Anecdotal evidence, parents white RV hotter than hell in the summer, flaming red car also hotter than hell, not much temperature difference. IR adsorption / emittance coefficients don't have much to do with apparent visual eye brightness. Shiny metal is often an excellent IR absorber.
Also, lets face it, this is Clinton here, remember his behavior around interns while in office? When he's talking about spreading white stuff on the roof, he's not exactly talking about home depot products here, that's all I really need to say... He probably told his pickup line to some floozy journalist who doesn't even understand what he's talking about, and next thing you know we have a /. story about green energy savings or something completely unrelated to what he said.
I could probably put a white tarp over it in Summer and pull it off int he Winter, it might even stop the moss growing on the shingles.
aluminum foil ... lowers your summer cooling bill, prevents govt mind control waves, and stops cancer causing cellphone radiation. And, its shiny!
I can already picture the HGTV commercial...
The way to do it is not to assume it'll be in the news for one day, maybe for a month people will do it, and then back to American Idle.
The way to do it is to create a federal, state, and local bureaucracy of roof painting enforcement, to require city building permits (with inspections) for all exterior painting. This I suppose requires govt oversight at all levels to license painters, and of course trainers of painters, and trainers of trainers of painters. Create a couple federal jobs programs to funnel money from the govt to campaign contributors while almost accidentally having a couple disadvantaged youth paint a roof or two as a side effect. Remove federal highway funding from any state that does not force its cities building codes to be modified. Then too we need a national census with hired workers to verify roof painting status. And a federal dept to collect all utility records from all americans to analyze for the white roof savings, and to do paramilitary operations on grow ops. People that want "normal" shingles or historical shingles will have to sneak them across the Canadian border, just like people that want real toilets do now. That is a realistic conspiracy theory.
There's a product for this. It's designed to go over asphalt shingle and they call it ... wait for it ... "roof coating". Here's a link to the manufacturers' trade group: http://www.roofcoatings.org/wcc.html.
How long before we here the politicians whining that Clinton's trying to outlaw roof shingles or make everyone replace their roof.
It costs about $10 to $15 per gallon, and covers about 100 sq feet.. So its going to cost me about a months electric bill to paint it on. At a 10% savings it'll pay for itself, at about 3 months of summer per year, in about 4 years. That skips a whole lot of accounting "net present value of the money vs the loan interest rate vs a typical rate of return of my favorite PRPFX mutual fund". Also skips the cost of labor and the environmental cost of making the goop itself. The problem is the stuff HD sells is warranted at 7 years, and everything there is very optimistic as you know.
So its probably not an economic success in most of the country, especially not CHC or NYC as the x-prez claimed. In FL TX AZ or the reconquista areas of CA, it probably makes economic sense.
How would one read the output of a quantum computer if they quantum state changes upon observation? Wouldn't it just spit out random numbers?
One term to google for is decoherence.
The two paragraph wikipedia answer is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Operation
The multi-page answer at quantiki is at:
http://www.quantiki.org/wiki/Basic_concepts_in_quantum_computation#Decoherence_and_recoherence
My crappy slashdot car analogy is the internal state of my car is almost infinitely complicated, O2 sensor levels and thermostat bypass fractions. But you could theoretically compute an algebraic equation that boils down to can I drive 400 miles on a tank of gas? The answer at the end is, is the engine running or not, just one binary bit. All the hidden internal variables and states, zillions of them, like coolant temp, O2 loop state, etc, all collapse down to one bit. Its not really important what the internal state is when the engine shuts off, or if it shut off because the O2 loop leaned out of spec, or the fuel pump control loop when haywire when it sucked air, or...
So, a 1024 qubit computer has 2^1024 internal variables all of a vaguely analog complex number value, and those 2^1024 values collapse down to a mere 1024 bits when you factor my RSA key... There's a darn near infinite number of possible values that collapse down to 1024 bits and you randomly get one of them.
Quantum internet, really? Will I be eating Quantum pop tarts while I surf Quantum porn?
It will almost certainly be the marketing term of the decade.
Much as I had "turbo sunglasses" in the 80s, because nothing says glare reduction than an turbocharger, and I bought a nano "i-pod" some years ago, i- as in internet when ironically its probably the only piece of consumer end-user electronics apple sold that decade without a web browser.
I'm sure I'll see stickers to put on my quantum computer that somehow make it faster, and quantum tennis shoes, RSN.
For a closer to home example, compare the activity level and product sales for ham radio "2M" 144 MHz and "70cm" 432 MHz bands which have more or less world-wide allocations, vs the 222 MHz band which has much less use and almost no retail available equipment because its mostly a USA only band.
I'm guessing the the political decision makers, and the commentators, don't know anything about RF, or pretty much don't know much at all other than where their paycheck comes from.
With virtually zero cost of reproduction, and an ongoing payment stream to authors (and their publishers etc.), I wonder if this could be a viable model.
I think you pretty much just described Oreilly's Safari service. Was a customer mid-last decade, liked it, but didn't use it enough to justify the cost. You'd think they'd prefer half the revenue at half the price from a very light user, to none of the revenue at full price, but ... Anyway, is Safari still around?
Again, you missed the GPs point. Not ALL textbooks are going to be useful. There's a lot of terrible texts out there that don't address topics that are useful for everyday use. They might be interesting to some as an intellectual exercise but textbooks should have some component of use or at least interest.
If you went to school to get training, instead of an education, like a very expensive vo-tech school, then you're not going to like educational subjects. If you graduated but can't stand anything other than your major, you failed those classes, even if thru grade inflation "everyone got an A just for showing up" or whatever.
Most of this countries restaurant meals have been at McDonalds. That doesn't mean the concept of a five star restaurant cannot exist, or that no restaurants make food better than dog food, or that restaurant experiences cannot be worthwhile.
The problem with terrible texts isn't people don't want to keep them. The problem with terrible texts is they should never have been required to begin with.
Most libraries have maximum loan times of 3 weeks and then you have to bring them back. Sometimes they let you (automatically) renew the book, but if somebody has it reserved, you often don't have that option. Libraries would not give you the option of keeping a text book for the entire semester.
How long does it take you to run off a couple photocopies? Used to be a stereotypical "early morning hangover" activity in the early 90s.
And if you are going to Pay $150.00 for a text book where during the class you have read 3 chapters in it. (50 pages) on a topic that you are not interested in but needed to take the class to graduate.
Hmm. $150 / 50 pages is $3 per page. Can you find a photocopier that charges less than $3 per page? Just sayin.
The "one guy buys it and we all share it" does not scale for multiple readings. The "one guy buys it and we all photocopy it" did scale. You can even illegally sell photocopies of the relevant chapters for perhaps twice the cost of photocopying and everyone still comes out ahead (well, not the greedy publishers, or the kick back powered profs, but no loss there).
Also I had a prof who collected a $20 bill from each student at the start of class to defer his extensive photocopying costs, and then provided hundreds, maybe thousands of photocopies of the best parts of all the best books. Probably pushed the limits of "fair use" to say the least. Everyone loved that arrangement.
I am to the point that I buy what I think I'll need, and ignore the rest, or occasionally will meet up with several other students the first day of class and split the cost of 1 book to share. I fail to see how this is a bad idea.
Believe it or not, a quarter century ago the strategy employed was to photocopy entire books if the publisher tried to charge more per page than the cost per photocopier page. If the prof was part of the kickback, perhaps by being an author, etc, then they got real pissed off. On the other hand if it was the profs' boss who got the kickback, the prof would high-5 you for sticking it to the man. The cost of copying has exploded upward from that 3 cents/page, but then again the price of textbooks has also exploded, hasn't it?
I doubt you reference ALL of them. Books relevant to your major/career should probably be bought and kept, but there were dozens of books (each costing $100+) that I have absolutely no use for: math, chemistry, english, history, stat, etc. None of these are relevant to my major/career and I'd opt for a more entertaining book on a rainy day.
Disagree strongly in theory, agree strongly in practice.
The old liberal arts idea was the "great books curriculum" where everyone had a common liberal arts canon of education. Everyone should have read at least Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and probably should own a copy if they're wealthy / cultured enough.
For financial reasons those books have been replaced in the sciences with "C++ in 24 hours for noobs professorial financial kickback edition new for 2011 obsolete in 2012" which invalidates both the common canon concept, and the "great books should be great" concept.
It would be very much like the philosophy department replacing Plato with the second Matrix movie, as long as they get a kickback.
Another example, you are not educated WRT history if you have read at least some of Gibbon's decline and fall. An educated person simply should own a copy of Gibbon. I do. However, your university history class will probably not require you to read Gibbon, you'll probably get stuck with "crappy flash in the pan (c) 2010 ancient history by mr forgettable" where mr forgettable's publisher provided the prof or dept head with a rather healthy kickback, your loss. And that book may as well be turned into cigarette paper once you're done with the class.
I don't know IT enough to know the classics, although I suspect Brooks would qualify. In CS I would think Knuth is obviously canon. The Little Schemer series is probably canon. I do know that someone who never read Knuth or Brooks does not really know as much as they think they do about computers.
It boils down to a collision between "great books" and corruption.
Dpends on your field, I think. I still have my old computer programming textbooks from university, but that's more due to nostalgia than anything else. Especially for things like languages that significantly over time (such as java), keeping old books is pointless.
Syntax of fast moving targets yes. Concepts, no. Knuth is still good stuff.
Basically old IT books are about as valuable as old IT software and hardware. On the other hand, old CS books are still valuable.
What's the point of naming it Telex? Are they trying to make it hard for end-users to find information about it or do they want the end-users searches to look anonymous with a known term?
The point is to signal that they're noobs hence not to be trusted with sensitive traffic.
I've got an idea, how about freenet and/or i2p? That might work. With namecoins for domain registration? Naah I'll never get that past the NiH filter.
My favorite part about freenet and i2p is "recently" at least on headless linux boxes, they could be installed together, but having made the mistake of being implemented in Java, one sort-required a very specific version of the official sun JRE and the other required another specific version of the openjdk runtime. Way to go, java guys, love that write-once run-everywhere ^H^H run-nowhere architecture.
That and my first Windows-based dial-up client was called Telex. Trademark Infringement? ;-)
No, it was probably called Telix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telix
If I recall correctly, its primary claim to fame in the 80s was having both a decent zmodem download client built in, and zmodem autostart. Also I liked its phonebook menu, which neatly held all the BBSes I called. And it had a nice redialer.
It was pretty much the ideal terminal program in the pre-windows era.
Procomm was about as good, and had a nicer scripting language, but they wanted a huge amount of money for it.
This reminds me more of the robotic training devices used in one of the Dune books ("Children of Dune", maybe). Alia trains with one on the highest setting, which was supposed to have been pretty impressive, if I remember right (read it 30 years ago, or so).
And much later on, the Idaho gholas maxed it out on a regular basis too, etc etc
These "video games" can be harder than you think. It ain't Donkey Kong anymore.
Donkey Kong was not watered down, nor most FPS. Other than grindfest MMORPGs (is there any other kind?) games have not been watered down into "everyone's a winner" yet. Give them time, the same poison that ruined baseball will eventually spread to Halo; everyone will "win the game".
The prior probability that a traveler is a 'person of interest' is less than 1/100,000.
That high? Maybe in the general population 1 in 100,000 are being oppressed by the govt. Think about it, if you know that you'll be oppressed, you wouldn't go to the airport...
So either most of the people being oppressed are innocent thus not expecting to be oppressed, or are too stupid to accomplish anything evil, in which case they're also irrelevant.
Is it even possible to accomplish anything with a system like that?
The other problem with 1 in 100,000 being oppressed is that my local "big" airport processes about that many people per day. And there's a lot of days per decade. But much less than one 9/11 per decade. So, almost all of the people being oppressed basically almost never do anything wrong. So why bother offending and angering everyone?
You don't need a license to drive a car. You need a license to drive a car on a PUBLIC ROAD. You have an inherent right to drive. When you want to drive in a public place, you have to prove that you meet certain standards for the safety of other public road users (thus the driving test). A license is not a "gift" from the government, it is in fact a responsibility that the government has ensured you are a safe vehicle operator. Eventually this has turned into
an identification card, which if you think about it is pretty weird.
I have had numerous government licenses over the years, amateur radio license, student pilot license (which at that time was just an instructor signed 3rd class med cert), fishing license, parking permit at govt facility, a security pass at an army base, and none of them had the overhead of being "identification".
Probably time to separate the concept of driver license and id card.
Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian and US navies to repel Somali pirates who are threatening one of the world's key climate monitoring programs. ... The instruments, ... are programmed to submerge
Not seeing the problem here. Make them big, really F-ing big, like mil-surp naval submarine big. Wrap with flypaper. Any pirate who wants to touch a submerging sub covered with flypaper is welcome to try it. In fact I double dog dare them, just like kids licking a flagpole in the winter...
I "won". BUT, I could have "won" even if I doggy paddled the 100 and did it in 10 minutes because of the way the age groups worked.
Everyone gets a trophy. My kids have not won anything, but do have a stack of trophies and ribbons.
Coming home with my ribbon for "First Place" my Mom was soooooo proud. I explained why I didn't give a shit. She said, "But you still won!" and loved to show my "First Place" ribbon to family. When she did that, I wanted to die of embarrassment because it wasn't a "win" to me - I got it on a technicality and BFD!
I guess I can see how people get the win at any cost mentality, but I don't understand how it can be satisfying.
It isn't. My kids simply don't care about their stack of trophies and ribbons more than an hour after they get them. Despite all the talk about this being a sports obsessed overcompetitive nation, we are at least officially trying our formal best to destroy that competitive spirit.
On the other hand, my son is extraordinarily proud of his video game accomplishments... probably because they're the most "real" form of competition he will likely every have, at least until he's much older.
I gather it's some sort of "sports" thing. Surely if you don't want your whole life dictated by them, you just don't need to play their game?
Find a different game to play. One that's fun, and doesn't require you to sign yourself up to a life of servitude.
Sorry, but as a parent I can objectively say that even little league has become kind of "office-spaced" or "dilbert-ified". Check out some individual field/facility rules for compulsory volunteering, scheduling, etc.
Americans use their talents and skills to organize all the fun out of any group activity; Sport, business, hobby, anything.
I understand that we have to have rules to that the schools with the most money do not get the best players by giving them the best... drugs.
Perhaps you were working at the wrong lab? The chemistry labs were the worst, I swear all those guys did all day at internship lab rat jobs was manufacture smoking implements out of the glassware. You'd think with the money they got, they could buy professionally mfgrd devices, but no.... I was not part of that scene, but the kids in that scene spent an inordinate amount of time at the beginning and end of each year, discussing which summer internships and which lab jobs were the "best". I can't blame them, you take "the best and brightest" kids and assign them beaker washing duties for 3 months, they're going to fill their brains up with something...