How do they know its your pic? Nobody pays attention to copyright laws, even though its technically a violation to upload someone elses pic as your own.
Lets say you attend your church's party first, you could probably collect a pix of every conceivable ballot (depending on how narrow minded your fellow church members are), then upload whichever is appropriate for work. I suppose if the stereotypical neocon CEO demands everyone vote rmoney, and he gets 50 pix of Rmoney ballots ALL BIT FOR BIT IDENTICAL then he's probably gonna flip his lid, but...
Our local ballots are utterly anonymous optical scan things. I suppose if there's a/.er out there where ballots need a photocopy printed onto them of your drivers license, then that could be a problem...
Either way you can sell your vote twice, and thats fraud and will be prosecuted and legislated against. Just like selling your car or house twice to two people. There are plenty of verifiable non-fraudulent ways to sell your vote, mostly involving absentee voting by mail that have nothing to do with cameras. The only reason to photograph your live in person ballot is because you're planning to commit fraud ripping off the guy who bought your vote by asking for a new ballot.
See, its the bad guys who want to take pix of their ballots, to collect money.
If the parties trusted each other better, they could share lists of who they bought votes from, and in a bipartisan manner break their kneecaps or whatever. But its simpler just to tell the Sheriff (who probably is a R) that anyone taking a pix is probably selling their vote to at least two parties, so go get em
or more likely: "Since you can prove you voted ${candidate}, I'll give you ${thing}"
Also clogging the courts up with civil lawsuits where the plaintiff sounds something like this "Well, yes I did get fired after getting to work late 3 times after 2 written warnings, but they REALLY only fired me because I posted my ballot showing I voted for "O" and the restaurant owner is a born again neocon christian." Repeat until nausea sets in and the courts are clogged. Anytime some goof ball does something "wrong" and the opponents can prove they voted for different candidates, they'll be dirtbags trying to muddy the waters by dragging election fraud and intimidation into an otherwise straightforward civil suit. All citizens are better off if its illegal to have "proof" of who you voted for.
which splits a laser down to multiple different optical frequencies
No no no thats just WDM for DWDM. Imagine a piece of glass fiber with prisms on each end and separate red, green, blue, etc lasers and detectors. They (can) operate completely independently. You can do the same thing with RF and NTSC signals... its call old fashioned analog cable TV.
OOFDM is like hyper close packed DWDM and usually made out of different tech. Some games are played to eliminate ISI and crosstalk, assuming the gear is working properly, perfectly linear, etc. Maybe a cruddy analogy would be kinda like two voice signals in one DSB carrier, or another cruddy analogy is its plain ole DSL FDM except coordinated so the FDM slices don't/can't interfere with each other and the leading O means its optical.
For RF this is "old" stuff like from the 90s. For optical this is pretty impressive and new. Same concept just a couple orders of magnitude higher frequency.
HA HA yeah maybe thats in the grant proposal as a goal, or its low cost compared to installing another length of fiber... Its not gonna be low cost as in I could do it in my basement using parts from an old laser printer, or you'll be buying a fiber "ethernet switch" using it for $9.95. It is probably going to be lower-cost compared to any previous design, which IS cool.
The $35 in extra cost turns into $130 at the consumer level. That's actually pretty much right for a manufactured good
Oh, you were so close to being correct, and then missed.
The reason its so close is middlemen. If it costs a farmer 10 cents more to grow an apple, that doesn't mean YOU pay the food store 10 cents more, it means the wholesaler gets 2*10 cents = 20 cents more, the distributor/franchise operator gets 2*20 cents = 40 cents more, the store needs to charge twice invoice on average to keep the lights on, etc, so you pay 2*40 cents = 80 cents more at the store.
Its not quite so bad with market leading electronics, but its bad. I can totally see if a battery costs $4 more, the retail price after layers and layers of middlemen could very well increase $13.
The price at a direct mfgr store goes up because the resellers demand it contractually in order to stock it, Walmart would never carry the kindle if amazon could undercut it every time, so the price, even online, reflects the maximum amount of middleman profiteering via any channel. Mandatory minimum pricing and all that. Yes apple.com probably COULD sell it for only $35 more, but walmart etc would freak out and sue them, so they have to sell it for $130 more.
I purchased a joystick a few months ago and tried out some space and flight sims. EVE was a huge disappointment.
Did you try lunar flight? Its a relatively cheap steam game with real newtonian physics (not the psuedo submarine like freespace or descent or eve). Learning curve is a bit steep, but the first time I successfully landed on a distant base I was pretty pleased with my piloting skills. You really need two sticks, one for rotation and one for translation.
If its part of the ROM like the facebook app on my phone, just release a new ROM without it and it disappears. I sincerely wish this would happen...
On the other hand, if it was merely downloaded, they can't easily wipe it. I'm told google kicked the developer of "amuse" out of the program and removed the app from the store so it can't be downloaded... although my installs on devices continue to work, I can't install "amuse" on new devices (And I don't use it enough to care, much)
Your local papers will probably have endorsements and explain why.
Finally a/. post with the correct answer. If the police chief endorses a judge in a newspaper story I won't vote for that judge, don't want a cooperative relationship between judicial and executive. They're supposed to be checks and balances on each other, not gang up together against the population (us).
Also loudmouthed local political party hacks can't keep their mouths shut about who they like. Formal endorsements, informal suggestions, sample ballots. So vote based on that if you're a party member, or vote against the goals of one of the parties, etc.
So much of the time people run opposed that it usually doesn't matter anyway. If there's only one candidate for assistant vice treasurer of the dog pound, well, I guess she's gonna win. This happens a lot with the local school board, who apparently aren't stupid enough to get an uprising resulting in them getting kicked out. Also local aldermen, our doesn't do much which is exactly what we all want, so he runs unopposed every time since the late 90s.
Basically, its Wisconsin, but with a couple more feet of lake effect snow, and the eyesore / mindsore of Detroit. Wisconsin has a couple neighborhoods in Milwaukee and Racine and to a lesser extent Madison that you need to stay away from and those neighborhoods drag our demographic stats down, but at least we don't have an entire city as a sacrifice zone (although Milwaukee is getting worse every decade). I believe Wisconsin has something like 10 lakes for every 1 lake in Michigan.
You can get the best of both worlds by living in the U.P.
Also the midwest is very cheap, which is great if you have a decent job. You'll get offered about 25% less than a sand state salary. Don't worry about it... my house costs about 1/10th of the equivalent in Mountain View, although the crime rate here is lower and we have better schools and no traffic/commute problems. Your average computer grunt in the midwest has roughly the same quality of life / lifestyle as a sand state executive.
Culturally / Racially its about 90% like being in the German Black Forest except we speak English. I kid you not. Lots of old German guys with carpentry stuff in their garage like my neighbor and pristine front lawns and little old ladies baking pies and stuff. Lots of tourist traps and ethnic food restaurants. There's so many German restaurants in WI they don't even consider German to be ethnic food, everybody, even the illegals, eats brats and saurkraut and and drinks weiss beer.
Also see the three month long summer festival season in Milwaukee. Not my thing, but millions will crowd the lakefront every year to drink $8 beers and peoplewatch.
From a religious standpoint its not like the "south" at all. We have lots of Lutherans who behave in a much more civilized manner than the stereotypical southern state evangelical.
The obvious reason for designing an intentionally high maintenance weapon is expensive ongoing service contracts, the "prevent arms from falling into the wrong hands" is just the straw dog to get it to pass and make some dough.
If you really wanted a solution to the "prevent falling into wrong hands" problem, you'd produce about 100 times as many SAMs as you "need" but 99 of them are booby trapped with bad source code in the guidance computer or intentionally faulty whatevers in the innards, so they intentionally don't work. Then use the usual crypto channels to distribute, perhaps in real time, which serial numbers actually work to "our guys". OR certain serial numbers work on certain GPS distributed UTC dates and they rotate every week/month/whatever.
Launching a SAM against a.mil aircraft and missing is usually a career ending mistake as the AC and its friends take great offense at such activities and vaporize the launcher. So odds are 99/100 that its about as effective as a parachute flare and somewhat less than 1 in 100 that it'll actually blow up a plane. With those odds you're better off throwing rocks than stealing SAMs.
All missiles and rockets are already serial number tracked thru the whole supply chain and down to the individual issued to soldiers, and there exists a great crypto infrastructure, so...
Hostile to expensive workers. Combine with the notorious inability to evaluate programmer productivity, and...
how grandpa can't understand iPhones, Linux, or the cloud
I'm technically old enough to be a grandpa, in fact in the inner city I'd almost certainly be one by now (its a cultural thing, "my people" tend to get married a bit older, vs some cultures its all about the teenage/highschool pregnancy, etc) The funny part is despite my apparently grandfatherly age I've been there the whole time for all three examples, and that's not even all that unusual. Great grandma might have some issues, but not my generation.
Now pick a fad that I am the wrong age for social reasons, that I intentionally skipped because I thought it was dumb, like SMS text messaging, or twitter, or myspace, then you've possibly got a point...
Its a very elaborate grow house. I hope they consulted with the experts in the field, the weed growers. Its always funny watching people in the field pretend those black sheep don't exist, tip toe around the whole topic, but everyone knows the black sheep are the ones keeping the hydroponic stores alive so the hippies can pretend the tomato growers are the only farmers doing work in the field. Disclaimer, I grow basil, oregano (really) and mint at my house for cooking. Basil butter on toast... mmmm. I recommend avoiding globe basil, that stuff is a PITA to harvest. Experience shows that one mint plant produces enough leaves for two mint juleps every two weeks, your production may vary of course. The oregano mostly ends up in oregano butter also, on toast or whatever.
Sand states only. In the midwest, eh, its just another major blizzard, nothing we can't handle about twice a winter.
Three weeks isn't even all that much food. I probably have that much just in the chest freezer. No point buying burger meat for $5/lb when I can buy 10 pounds at $2/lb when its on sale, etc. No point buying 1 pound of white rice for $5 when I can buy 25 pounds for like $10 and being white rice it lasts forever.
Other than 30 acres that sounds like most remote telecom sites I've visited. Bonus points for having to fiddle with the machines at 2am because a laser burned out or a dexcs card fried.
Which codecs is Mr Perens referring to which are standard, and yet secret ("this closed codec was the first time that we had a technology that we weren't allowed to understand and to build by ourselves")?
He's talking about Dstar from Icom using the AMBE codec. A cool and interesting mode. Totally non-free of course. Technically you can implement the data side without the speech codec if you want, but the voice mode is more popular. Its standard in that if you wanna buy off the shelf appliance-style ham radio gear to do digital voice, this is it, aside from some experimental mototurbo and trunking implementations.
I believe the codec is a product of DVSI. What Icom and the equipment owners intend to do if DVSI goes rogue or closes up shop is not apparent, superficially the answer seems to be "give up". Thats what happens when you base a business on someone elses proprietary software... its risky.
Bruce is slightly in error about "build by ourselves". You can build/steal/reverse engineer/replicate/copy ABME in your basement all you want. You just can't sell it. Its kind of like SSB, where the 1923 patent held the technology back for quite awhile. Someday AMBE will be off patent and "free-ish" at which point it'll be rather popular. I was fooling around with the idea of crossing a T2S with a dictionary of AMBE data. So your speech to text hears me say "uh" and the dictionary of AMBE data says that "uh" is bitstream 10101010 or whatever, ditto the opposite direction. Totally illegal to redistribute until the patent runs out, but an interesting and obvious idea none the less. I "know of" dstar repeaters that fool around with recording the bitstream and playing it back bit for bit to make announcements rather than recording and injecting audio for announcements or just not doing announcements.
Finally a subjective opinion is G.729 is terrible voice quality and is just as patented and licensed as AMBE its just that AMBE crushes it in subjective testing. Its kinda like "why use microsoft Bob if you can use XP instead..."
I think the patent free codec he's talking about is CODEC2
There's many groups of users. No reason to focus on just on noobs, or just tablet users, or just... well just anything.
That's an annoying general trait that I've seen over 20 years of free software use.. the only group that "deserves" ease of use is noobs. Well, no, not really. Also everyone is not going to be a noob forever. Probably we'll have "ease of use for noobs" as a community accomplishment right about the time the last noob disappears.
All software does not have to be noob compatible. Doesn't mean noobs shouldn't have software, or they shouldn't have an upgrade path, just, literally, not all software has to be noobfocus.
I'd love to see more non-noobfocus ease of use software, because thats stuff I'd actually use, not stuff I'd evangelize.
Now wait a second here. What is there in the GPL that prevents a business from using GPL'd code? Nothing. Not by places that never redistribute GPL code containing software, not by places that redistribute GPL code as long as they follow some ridiculously simple social rules.
You need to be very specific when talking about licensing stuff. No replacing specific verbs with just "doin something"
I've made fat stacks of cash off businesses using GPLed code perfectly legally and following the very simple licensing rules.
First, build up the organizational infrastructure with something like a skilled trades program for IT apprenticeship, journeymen, masters. Its more like "data-" plumbing than anything else, right down to the plumbers crack when pulling cable under the desks.
You may find with an organized training and licensing and certification system, you don't need the overhead of a workplace union. Or maybe you will after all. Regardless, don't put the cart before the horse, do the pre-reqs first.
Re: ODB-II readers, I bought one a decade ago for $100 and it still works fine. Its not like you have to buy another every time you fix something, or you have to buy another every time you buy a new car. Works just as well on my 97 Saturn as my wifes new(er) prius. Now a hardware code scanner is something like $50. Or you can borrow the one at autozone for free, assuming you buy parts from that autozone.
Mysteriously, the biggest whiners about a $50 code reader always: 1) Remember code scanners used to cost $750 back in '96 so they demand over and over that they must still be unaffordable today. 2) invariably have $20K in snap on tools, so its not like they're poor. Trade in your seventh gold plated unused metric torx socket set and buy a code reader with the dough. 3) have a garage full of weird specialty tools like the weird wrench that can only be used to set the ignition points on a '72 Saab and other than that its a really expensive paperweight, but go bonkers about buying a code reader that can be used on any car sold in the USA from 96-present.
I mean really, its about as generic and universal as a voltmeter now. Its not 1995 anymore and the skys not gonna fall and its not a big deal.
It'll cost $20 to get a dongle and download "torque" from the app store and for the next decade or so you'll be able to scan cars to find the exact broken part. Compared to the parts cost alone of $30 for an O2 sensor its hard to get all agitprop about ODB-II.
LOL talk to the automotive industry about that. Weld the case shut so you can't swap out the battery or HD/SSD and its guaranteed trash in a couple years.
I read your comment three times and I still can't figure out what it has to do with the automotive industry.
I'm perfectly happy with my 1987 commuter car. Its just a chariot to haul me around so don't guilt trip me with style changes. I would never pay a repeating fee for that hardware because it was basically good enough if left to myself. Yet I have to keep on buying new cars because the industry prefers that I do so. Detroit in the 70s used to value engineer cars to self destruct in about 2 years, but the japanese competition eventually forced them to make them last 10-15 years, regardless of the actual lifespan the rule remains, you WILL have to buy a new car on the manufacturers defined schedule unless you go to heroic "collector/hobbiest" extremes.
This is a bit different than (a part of) the furniture market. I honestly have no idea how old this cedar blanket storage chest is. The hinges look almost homemade, but the very few nails and screws look machine made. I know for a fact its over 100 years old, thats only 1912 and my GGrandparents had it in their house at that time, but how much older than 1912, I donno. I understand walmart particle board "furniture" is made to fall apart quickly to encourage repeat sales. At least for some furniture you cannot charge a repeating fee.
Other areas of study are constantly rewriting entire portions of themselves - primarily in the science and tech fields.
No they are not, at least the majority of them at entry level. Not much has changed in newtonian mechanics for the 1st semester physics students in a long time. Ditto second semester basic electronics, maxwell's equations remain the same...
Very little has changed in sorting algorithms in Knuth, although trendy language flavor-of-the-month is changed on a scheduled regular basis. Ditto basic crypto math hasn't changed much in decades, although individual applications of the math occasionally appear.
There's a pretty narrow wedge which is shrinking between "old stuff for the noobs thats never gonna change" and "we don't have textbooks, just recently published papers in the field, because the field is too new for a text"
I don't think there is such a thing as "basic molecular biology". That lives in the narrow and shrinking wedge with physics books like Gravitation by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler... which curiously because of low demand in the field is also older than I am... We're already in the situation where the highest end stuff tends to be old, vs yet another intro to 101 survey class text being released every year.
I'm thinking ultra casual to get the couch potatoes to participate. Not familiar with Insanity. The customers are the advertisers and they'll want lots of viewers not just a few hard core viewers.
This week ten physical fitness trainers get a minute each to individually motivate nationwide live viewers to do jumping jacks in front of their kinect, least response gets kicked off the show, next week, nine trainers compete to get the most pushups or whatever. Like I wrote, sounds dumb and the pr0n analogy would be much more fun, but I could imagine it not failing completely as an exercise reality "show".
You'd actually need to act out the crime scene in some way.
No problemo. Makes a cooler story/project anyway. Off the shelf commercial boxed games like "how to host a murder". Add some now 75% off Halloween makeup and props for extra realism.
Assuming they monitor continuously, or don't store -n- forward, or statistically sample. Just checking once for a short period of time isn't going to help.
If I were a kinect game designer, purely from a gameplay standpoint, I would bury in the fine print that I "could" download live video solely to improve my image cap and game play design. I mean, why not, as long as theoretically it for good not evil, at least thats the initial plan? Kinda like telco employees monitoring calls for echo and noise, at least theoretically not caring what the phone calls were discussing. Or rather than random stat samples, what if the monitoring only happens if the player has a crazy high (cheating) or crazy low (buggy software) score? These scenarios are perfectly valid possible non-tinfoil hat non-1984 quality assurance quality control reasons.. which probably can't be implemented because of 1984 / tinfoil hat fears. The only question is if the fears are appropriate or not (I vote yes), and how widespread it already is or not (I suspect no, but as an art project it would be "funny").
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make sure to send your pic
How do they know its your pic? Nobody pays attention to copyright laws, even though its technically a violation to upload someone elses pic as your own.
Lets say you attend your church's party first, you could probably collect a pix of every conceivable ballot (depending on how narrow minded your fellow church members are), then upload whichever is appropriate for work. I suppose if the stereotypical neocon CEO demands everyone vote rmoney, and he gets 50 pix of Rmoney ballots ALL BIT FOR BIT IDENTICAL then he's probably gonna flip his lid, but...
Our local ballots are utterly anonymous optical scan things. I suppose if there's a /.er out there where ballots need a photocopy printed onto them of your drivers license, then that could be a problem...
Either way you can sell your vote twice, and thats fraud and will be prosecuted and legislated against. Just like selling your car or house twice to two people. There are plenty of verifiable non-fraudulent ways to sell your vote, mostly involving absentee voting by mail that have nothing to do with cameras. The only reason to photograph your live in person ballot is because you're planning to commit fraud ripping off the guy who bought your vote by asking for a new ballot.
See, its the bad guys who want to take pix of their ballots, to collect money.
If the parties trusted each other better, they could share lists of who they bought votes from, and in a bipartisan manner break their kneecaps or whatever. But its simpler just to tell the Sheriff (who probably is a R) that anyone taking a pix is probably selling their vote to at least two parties, so go get em
or more likely: "Since you can prove you voted ${candidate}, I'll give you ${thing}"
Also clogging the courts up with civil lawsuits where the plaintiff sounds something like this "Well, yes I did get fired after getting to work late 3 times after 2 written warnings, but they REALLY only fired me because I posted my ballot showing I voted for "O" and the restaurant owner is a born again neocon christian." Repeat until nausea sets in and the courts are clogged. Anytime some goof ball does something "wrong" and the opponents can prove they voted for different candidates, they'll be dirtbags trying to muddy the waters by dragging election fraud and intimidation into an otherwise straightforward civil suit. All citizens are better off if its illegal to have "proof" of who you voted for.
which splits a laser down to multiple different optical frequencies
No no no thats just WDM for DWDM. Imagine a piece of glass fiber with prisms on each end and separate red, green, blue, etc lasers and detectors. They (can) operate completely independently. You can do the same thing with RF and NTSC signals... its call old fashioned analog cable TV.
OOFDM is like hyper close packed DWDM and usually made out of different tech. Some games are played to eliminate ISI and crosstalk, assuming the gear is working properly, perfectly linear, etc. Maybe a cruddy analogy would be kinda like two voice signals in one DSB carrier, or another cruddy analogy is its plain ole DSL FDM except coordinated so the FDM slices don't/can't interfere with each other and the leading O means its optical.
For RF this is "old" stuff like from the 90s. For optical this is pretty impressive and new. Same concept just a couple orders of magnitude higher frequency.
The wikipedia article is not so bad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiplexing
low-cost off-the-shelf components
HA HA yeah maybe thats in the grant proposal as a goal, or its low cost compared to installing another length of fiber... Its not gonna be low cost as in I could do it in my basement using parts from an old laser printer, or you'll be buying a fiber "ethernet switch" using it for $9.95. It is probably going to be lower-cost compared to any previous design, which IS cool.
The $35 in extra cost turns into $130 at the consumer level. That's actually pretty much right for a manufactured good
Oh, you were so close to being correct, and then missed.
The reason its so close is middlemen. If it costs a farmer 10 cents more to grow an apple, that doesn't mean YOU pay the food store 10 cents more, it means the wholesaler gets 2*10 cents = 20 cents more, the distributor/franchise operator gets 2*20 cents = 40 cents more, the store needs to charge twice invoice on average to keep the lights on, etc, so you pay 2*40 cents = 80 cents more at the store.
Its not quite so bad with market leading electronics, but its bad. I can totally see if a battery costs $4 more, the retail price after layers and layers of middlemen could very well increase $13.
The price at a direct mfgr store goes up because the resellers demand it contractually in order to stock it, Walmart would never carry the kindle if amazon could undercut it every time, so the price, even online, reflects the maximum amount of middleman profiteering via any channel. Mandatory minimum pricing and all that. Yes apple.com probably COULD sell it for only $35 more, but walmart etc would freak out and sue them, so they have to sell it for $130 more.
I purchased a joystick a few months ago and tried out some space and flight sims. EVE was a huge disappointment.
Did you try lunar flight? Its a relatively cheap steam game with real newtonian physics (not the psuedo submarine like freespace or descent or eve). Learning curve is a bit steep, but the first time I successfully landed on a distant base I was pretty pleased with my piloting skills. You really need two sticks, one for rotation and one for translation.
Depends how they put it there in the first place.
If its part of the ROM like the facebook app on my phone, just release a new ROM without it and it disappears. I sincerely wish this would happen...
On the other hand, if it was merely downloaded, they can't easily wipe it. I'm told google kicked the developer of "amuse" out of the program and removed the app from the store so it can't be downloaded... although my installs on devices continue to work, I can't install "amuse" on new devices (And I don't use it enough to care, much)
Your local papers will probably have endorsements and explain why.
Finally a /. post with the correct answer. If the police chief endorses a judge in a newspaper story I won't vote for that judge, don't want a cooperative relationship between judicial and executive. They're supposed to be checks and balances on each other, not gang up together against the population (us).
Also loudmouthed local political party hacks can't keep their mouths shut about who they like. Formal endorsements, informal suggestions, sample ballots. So vote based on that if you're a party member, or vote against the goals of one of the parties, etc.
So much of the time people run opposed that it usually doesn't matter anyway. If there's only one candidate for assistant vice treasurer of the dog pound, well, I guess she's gonna win. This happens a lot with the local school board, who apparently aren't stupid enough to get an uprising resulting in them getting kicked out. Also local aldermen, our doesn't do much which is exactly what we all want, so he runs unopposed every time since the late 90s.
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Its a popular genre... we could post different links to remakes for hours, probably.
Basically, its Wisconsin, but with a couple more feet of lake effect snow, and the eyesore / mindsore of Detroit. Wisconsin has a couple neighborhoods in Milwaukee and Racine and to a lesser extent Madison that you need to stay away from and those neighborhoods drag our demographic stats down, but at least we don't have an entire city as a sacrifice zone (although Milwaukee is getting worse every decade). I believe Wisconsin has something like 10 lakes for every 1 lake in Michigan.
You can get the best of both worlds by living in the U.P.
Also the midwest is very cheap, which is great if you have a decent job. You'll get offered about 25% less than a sand state salary. Don't worry about it... my house costs about 1/10th of the equivalent in Mountain View, although the crime rate here is lower and we have better schools and no traffic/commute problems. Your average computer grunt in the midwest has roughly the same quality of life / lifestyle as a sand state executive.
Culturally / Racially its about 90% like being in the German Black Forest except we speak English. I kid you not. Lots of old German guys with carpentry stuff in their garage like my neighbor and pristine front lawns and little old ladies baking pies and stuff. Lots of tourist traps and ethnic food restaurants. There's so many German restaurants in WI they don't even consider German to be ethnic food, everybody, even the illegals, eats brats and saurkraut and and drinks weiss beer.
Also see the three month long summer festival season in Milwaukee. Not my thing, but millions will crowd the lakefront every year to drink $8 beers and peoplewatch.
From a religious standpoint its not like the "south" at all. We have lots of Lutherans who behave in a much more civilized manner than the stereotypical southern state evangelical.
The obvious reason for designing an intentionally high maintenance weapon is expensive ongoing service contracts, the "prevent arms from falling into the wrong hands" is just the straw dog to get it to pass and make some dough.
If you really wanted a solution to the "prevent falling into wrong hands" problem, you'd produce about 100 times as many SAMs as you "need" but 99 of them are booby trapped with bad source code in the guidance computer or intentionally faulty whatevers in the innards, so they intentionally don't work. Then use the usual crypto channels to distribute, perhaps in real time, which serial numbers actually work to "our guys". OR certain serial numbers work on certain GPS distributed UTC dates and they rotate every week/month/whatever.
Launching a SAM against a .mil aircraft and missing is usually a career ending mistake as the AC and its friends take great offense at such activities and vaporize the launcher. So odds are 99/100 that its about as effective as a parachute flare and somewhat less than 1 in 100 that it'll actually blow up a plane. With those odds you're better off throwing rocks than stealing SAMs.
All missiles and rockets are already serial number tracked thru the whole supply chain and down to the individual issued to soldiers, and there exists a great crypto infrastructure, so...
hostile to older workers.
Hostile to expensive workers. Combine with the notorious inability to evaluate programmer productivity, and ...
how grandpa can't understand iPhones, Linux, or the cloud
I'm technically old enough to be a grandpa, in fact in the inner city I'd almost certainly be one by now (its a cultural thing, "my people" tend to get married a bit older, vs some cultures its all about the teenage/highschool pregnancy, etc) The funny part is despite my apparently grandfatherly age I've been there the whole time for all three examples, and that's not even all that unusual. Great grandma might have some issues, but not my generation.
Now pick a fad that I am the wrong age for social reasons, that I intentionally skipped because I thought it was dumb, like SMS text messaging, or twitter, or myspace, then you've possibly got a point...
Its a very elaborate grow house. I hope they consulted with the experts in the field, the weed growers. Its always funny watching people in the field pretend those black sheep don't exist, tip toe around the whole topic, but everyone knows the black sheep are the ones keeping the hydroponic stores alive so the hippies can pretend the tomato growers are the only farmers doing work in the field.
Disclaimer, I grow basil, oregano (really) and mint at my house for cooking. Basil butter on toast... mmmm. I recommend avoiding globe basil, that stuff is a PITA to harvest. Experience shows that one mint plant produces enough leaves for two mint juleps every two weeks, your production may vary of course. The oregano mostly ends up in oregano butter also, on toast or whatever.
We've lost that toughness somehow.
Sand states only. In the midwest, eh, its just another major blizzard, nothing we can't handle about twice a winter.
Three weeks isn't even all that much food. I probably have that much just in the chest freezer. No point buying burger meat for $5/lb when I can buy 10 pounds at $2/lb when its on sale, etc. No point buying 1 pound of white rice for $5 when I can buy 25 pounds for like $10 and being white rice it lasts forever.
Other than 30 acres that sounds like most remote telecom sites I've visited. Bonus points for having to fiddle with the machines at 2am because a laser burned out or a dexcs card fried.
Which codecs is Mr Perens referring to which are standard, and yet secret ("this closed codec was the first time that we had a technology that we weren't allowed to understand and to build by ourselves")?
He's talking about Dstar from Icom using the AMBE codec. A cool and interesting mode. Totally non-free of course. Technically you can implement the data side without the speech codec if you want, but the voice mode is more popular. Its standard in that if you wanna buy off the shelf appliance-style ham radio gear to do digital voice, this is it, aside from some experimental mototurbo and trunking implementations.
I believe the codec is a product of DVSI. What Icom and the equipment owners intend to do if DVSI goes rogue or closes up shop is not apparent, superficially the answer seems to be "give up". Thats what happens when you base a business on someone elses proprietary software... its risky.
Bruce is slightly in error about "build by ourselves". You can build/steal/reverse engineer/replicate/copy ABME in your basement all you want. You just can't sell it. Its kind of like SSB, where the 1923 patent held the technology back for quite awhile. Someday AMBE will be off patent and "free-ish" at which point it'll be rather popular. I was fooling around with the idea of crossing a T2S with a dictionary of AMBE data. So your speech to text hears me say "uh" and the dictionary of AMBE data says that "uh" is bitstream 10101010 or whatever, ditto the opposite direction. Totally illegal to redistribute until the patent runs out, but an interesting and obvious idea none the less. I "know of" dstar repeaters that fool around with recording the bitstream and playing it back bit for bit to make announcements rather than recording and injecting audio for announcements or just not doing announcements.
Finally a subjective opinion is G.729 is terrible voice quality and is just as patented and licensed as AMBE its just that AMBE crushes it in subjective testing. Its kinda like "why use microsoft Bob if you can use XP instead..."
I think the patent free codec he's talking about is CODEC2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec2
http://codec2.org/
doing different things.
There's many groups of users. No reason to focus on just on noobs, or just tablet users, or just ... well just anything.
That's an annoying general trait that I've seen over 20 years of free software use.. the only group that "deserves" ease of use is noobs. Well, no, not really. Also everyone is not going to be a noob forever. Probably we'll have "ease of use for noobs" as a community accomplishment right about the time the last noob disappears.
All software does not have to be noob compatible. Doesn't mean noobs shouldn't have software, or they shouldn't have an upgrade path, just, literally, not all software has to be noobfocus.
I'd love to see more non-noobfocus ease of use software, because thats stuff I'd actually use, not stuff I'd evangelize.
I usually want businesses to use my code
Now wait a second here. What is there in the GPL that prevents a business from using GPL'd code? Nothing. Not by places that never redistribute GPL code containing software, not by places that redistribute GPL code as long as they follow some ridiculously simple social rules.
You need to be very specific when talking about licensing stuff. No replacing specific verbs with just "doin something"
I've made fat stacks of cash off businesses using GPLed code perfectly legally and following the very simple licensing rules.
First, build up the organizational infrastructure with something like a skilled trades program for IT apprenticeship, journeymen, masters. Its more like "data-" plumbing than anything else, right down to the plumbers crack when pulling cable under the desks.
You may find with an organized training and licensing and certification system, you don't need the overhead of a workplace union. Or maybe you will after all. Regardless, don't put the cart before the horse, do the pre-reqs first.
Re: ODB-II readers, I bought one a decade ago for $100 and it still works fine. Its not like you have to buy another every time you fix something, or you have to buy another every time you buy a new car. Works just as well on my 97 Saturn as my wifes new(er) prius. Now a hardware code scanner is something like $50. Or you can borrow the one at autozone for free, assuming you buy parts from that autozone.
Mysteriously, the biggest whiners about a $50 code reader always:
1) Remember code scanners used to cost $750 back in '96 so they demand over and over that they must still be unaffordable today.
2) invariably have $20K in snap on tools, so its not like they're poor. Trade in your seventh gold plated unused metric torx socket set and buy a code reader with the dough.
3) have a garage full of weird specialty tools like the weird wrench that can only be used to set the ignition points on a '72 Saab and other than that its a really expensive paperweight, but go bonkers about buying a code reader that can be used on any car sold in the USA from 96-present.
I mean really, its about as generic and universal as a voltmeter now. Its not 1995 anymore and the skys not gonna fall and its not a big deal.
It'll cost $20 to get a dongle and download "torque" from the app store and for the next decade or so you'll be able to scan cars to find the exact broken part. Compared to the parts cost alone of $30 for an O2 sensor its hard to get all agitprop about ODB-II.
You can't charge a repeating fee for hardware.
LOL talk to the automotive industry about that. Weld the case shut so you can't swap out the battery or HD/SSD and its guaranteed trash in a couple years.
I read your comment three times and I still can't figure out what it has to do with the automotive industry.
I'm perfectly happy with my 1987 commuter car. Its just a chariot to haul me around so don't guilt trip me with style changes. I would never pay a repeating fee for that hardware because it was basically good enough if left to myself. Yet I have to keep on buying new cars because the industry prefers that I do so. Detroit in the 70s used to value engineer cars to self destruct in about 2 years, but the japanese competition eventually forced them to make them last 10-15 years, regardless of the actual lifespan the rule remains, you WILL have to buy a new car on the manufacturers defined schedule unless you go to heroic "collector/hobbiest" extremes.
This is a bit different than (a part of) the furniture market. I honestly have no idea how old this cedar blanket storage chest is. The hinges look almost homemade, but the very few nails and screws look machine made. I know for a fact its over 100 years old, thats only 1912 and my GGrandparents had it in their house at that time, but how much older than 1912, I donno. I understand walmart particle board "furniture" is made to fall apart quickly to encourage repeat sales. At least for some furniture you cannot charge a repeating fee.
Other areas of study are constantly rewriting entire portions of themselves - primarily in the science and tech fields.
No they are not, at least the majority of them at entry level. Not much has changed in newtonian mechanics for the 1st semester physics students in a long time. Ditto second semester basic electronics, maxwell's equations remain the same...
Very little has changed in sorting algorithms in Knuth, although trendy language flavor-of-the-month is changed on a scheduled regular basis. Ditto basic crypto math hasn't changed much in decades, although individual applications of the math occasionally appear.
There's a pretty narrow wedge which is shrinking between "old stuff for the noobs thats never gonna change" and "we don't have textbooks, just recently published papers in the field, because the field is too new for a text"
I don't think there is such a thing as "basic molecular biology". That lives in the narrow and shrinking wedge with physics books like Gravitation by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler ... which curiously because of low demand in the field is also older than I am... We're already in the situation where the highest end stuff tends to be old, vs yet another intro to 101 survey class text being released every year.
I'm thinking ultra casual to get the couch potatoes to participate. Not familiar with Insanity. The customers are the advertisers and they'll want lots of viewers not just a few hard core viewers.
This week ten physical fitness trainers get a minute each to individually motivate nationwide live viewers to do jumping jacks in front of their kinect, least response gets kicked off the show, next week, nine trainers compete to get the most pushups or whatever. Like I wrote, sounds dumb and the pr0n analogy would be much more fun, but I could imagine it not failing completely as an exercise reality "show".
You'd actually need to act out the crime scene in some way.
No problemo. Makes a cooler story/project anyway. Off the shelf commercial boxed games like "how to host a murder". Add some now 75% off Halloween makeup and props for extra realism.
Assuming they monitor continuously, or don't store -n- forward, or statistically sample. Just checking once for a short period of time isn't going to help.
If I were a kinect game designer, purely from a gameplay standpoint, I would bury in the fine print that I "could" download live video solely to improve my image cap and game play design. I mean, why not, as long as theoretically it for good not evil, at least thats the initial plan? Kinda like telco employees monitoring calls for echo and noise, at least theoretically not caring what the phone calls were discussing. Or rather than random stat samples, what if the monitoring only happens if the player has a crazy high (cheating) or crazy low (buggy software) score? These scenarios are perfectly valid possible non-tinfoil hat non-1984 quality assurance quality control reasons.. which probably can't be implemented because of 1984 / tinfoil hat fears. The only question is if the fears are appropriate or not (I vote yes), and how widespread it already is or not (I suspect no, but as an art project it would be "funny").