People don't like to obey laws, especially laws that put arbitrary limits on what they can do with their own property. In other words, if my car can go 120 MPH, I should be able to drive 120 MPH, and fuck the law for telling me that I can't. (Instead of chasing speeders, cops could bust people for driving 67 MPH in the left lane
If my car can go 5mph.. I should be allowed to drive 5mph in the left lane.. and fuck the law for telling me I can't.
Maybe you should look up what Tragedy of the Commons means. Roads are an example of it, because people will always put their individual interests above society's interests. If there were no roadlaws, intersections would quickly grind to deadlock since no one would yield. The laws are in place so everyone can take advantage of the PUBLIC resource in a relatively safe manner.
It's funny that you say arbitrary limits on what people do with their property is wrong... but at the end you try to put your arbitrary limits.
Have you ever considered that the people may not be "sheep"-ish to stand up for their right to privacy, but instead genuinely don't mind if the ISP's spy on them. Because that's a pretty big assumption in your argument.
Err man-in-the-middle attacks don't work because A and B don't know C is there... but because A thinks that C is B and because B thinks C is A. Your post describes why eavesdropping can't happen, but eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks are completely different.
What's stopping C from pretending to be B. If B can send back to A the parity bits without looking at them, so can C. A will say "Phew thank god that didn't get intercepted" (although B never received it at this point).
If C has the data it can generate a quantum stream that contains that data (it may not be the same in the quantum layer as the one intercepted, but it represents the same data). B will happily receive that quantum stream from C (thinking it was A) and send back the parity bits. To which C can respond "Phew thank god that didn't get intercepted" to B and still be telling the truth.
You're looking at it like AB (that's eavesdropping), but a man-in-the-middle attack looks like AC, CB. To stop this, they need a way to identify the person they're communicating with is in fact the person they think it is.
Yes there are bad genes. The ones specifically unable to sustain life.
I would say its a fair argument to argue that children should be allowed to be born with genetic disorders. However if they're (for example) going to need to be hooked up to a dialysis machine twice a day for the rest of their life are these genes worth propogating.
From an inhuman and for the future human race perspective... We should let all genes have a chance, but also let them naturally fail where they happen to do so.
I agree completely... This is not something that can be fixed with federal mandates or by just throwing money at it. The problem is the huge bureaucracy involved in the school system.
We take the teachers union to seriously. Instead of testing the students to measure results for a school district we should be rating teachers. Afterall by measuring the student we're bringing in thousands of external variables (parents involvement in teaching, students willingness to learn, etc). But the teachers union screams bloody murder anytime it's mentioned we should test/rate them.
We take the Political Correctness to seriously. Women Studies is not a degree, try to work in the field of Women's Studies and that should be obvious. Sure, you may get hired as a teacher, or the government may hire you but there's no place for you in the private sector. I'm picking on one major but there's many of them. Any major that isn't aimed towards a job at the private sector shouldn't be offered as a major in college (minors are fine).
We take sports to seriously. Funding for REAL education should not be diverted to sports, or building sports facilities. In fact all extra-curricular's should not be causing diverting of funds. These funds can be gathered privately or under a seperate budget item. But money budgetted for education should be spent on education.
At the price we pay per student, we could cut it in half per student to send them to private school. Where does all the waste in public school go? Adminstrators and Bureaucracy. The more federalized it gets, the more adminstrators we need.
Finally we're to afraid to deal with the troublemakers. A student shouldn't be allowed to interfere with others learning. If necessary seperate them into two classes, those being babysitted and those being taught. No parent wants to realize their child isn't going to get the best education. But they shouldn't be forced to impose this interference on other's children. Either shape up or ship out.
It's really weird. The estate tax has been decreasing since 2001, when some tax law changes were passed, and will in fact be zero in 2010. However, in 2011 the changes will sunset and the estate tax will return to its original level. So, it hasn't actually been done away with.
That's going to be a popular year to die.
But this also gives those 20 yr old women married to rich 80 year old men a reason to want to keep them alive longer.;)
Imagine you're in a swivel chair (or don't imagine if you actually are) and suppose you want to spin, but you're not allowed to touch anything around you, not even the floor. You could kick off the legs of the chair right?
Now suppose that floor actually wasn't there to hold the legs still. It's relatively intuitive to imagine what'd happen, the legs would start spinning really fast the way you pushed them, and the body of the chair would slowly spin the way you intended. That's the idea behind gyroscopes. The gyroscope (the legs of the chair) gives something to push off of, the conservation of angular momentum is maintained but you're seperating into two locations and only one really matters (your body). You could care less which way the gyroscope rotates.
I suggest you spin in your chair for a while to help figure this out. If your boss asks what you're doing, just tell him you're simulating a gyroscopic failure.
Now if you want to simulate another gyroscope failing, you'd have to rely on thrusters. Just get a fire extinguisher and sit back in your chair and...
New space sims are very unlikely for one simple reason... they more or less require a (good) joystick and most computers aren't equipped with joysticks. And why should people buy one now, many games don't even support joysticks properly. Consoles (and price) spurred the movement to replace joysticks with gamepads.
That said some arcade style space-shooters are fun and work with a mouse... but you lose a lot of the control (for example freelancer had no rotation in the roll axis).
Until all those dozen of endusers connects to download that gig of stuff..
It doesn't matter if its same server or another server, the net effect is their bandwidth can be abused.
I'm assuming they'll put bandwidth limits like most free webservers do. Which is why when people tried to use those free webbriefcases for piracy it failed miserably.
You're missing the point.. with this new invention 10 bits can be used to store 1024 pieces of information.
As you say information=bits... so those 1024 bits of information can be used to store 16 million-google-google-googles (the number not the search engine) pieces of information.
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So you'd support the freedom to have "consensual" sex with a 6 year old? Do you think anyone should be allowed to own nuclear weapons? Should I be free to drink and drive?
Your freedoms should end when they threaten someone elses freedoms (whether intentional or not). Furthermore certain protections should be made for those that can't protect themselves.
And yes science can be to rational (to most people) in opposition to emotional response.
Animal Research, rationally it's an effective means of testing. The most rational way to discipline children would be brainwashing. To truly figure out the effects of cold on the human body, the rational way to do is to test it on humans. Rationally research data should be freely published even if it was research commited through acts of genocide.
Or any engineer, programmer, economist, accountant, or any other job that requires a business degree. How about graphic artists, how bout regular artists; Ecologists (the kind that actually does the research instead of making up conclusions) Navigators/Pilots; Loan Officers; Policy Makers; Staticians... Landscapers (How would you do efficient sprinklers without even basic geometry.. or even calculate area); Architects; Doctors...
Some basic algebra and geometry would even make drivers (taxis, limos etc) jobs easier.
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But just wait to the dark side gets split into chaotic good (where p2p is allowed but no spam) and chaotic evil (no restrictions)!
And it'll keep splitting and splitting until we're not dealing anymore with a few individual networks but a bunch of single computer networks hooked up to one giant... umm internetwork.
Isn't this slightly similar to what happened with AOL, Prodigy, Compuserv and most of the early networks offering access to internet.
trains and planes take fee paying customers, who are putting their lives in the hands of the driver/pilot of that vehicle.
And everytime you get on the road your life is in the hand of EVERY other driver... and vice versa. If you're driving unsafely you should be held accountable for it.
I'd go stronger then this, I think eventually there should be cameras along every stretch of road. If you speed by even 2mph it'll give you a tick... don't come to complete stop, another tick. Tailgating, reckless driving, running red lights will give many ticks. Then at the end of the month, they send you a summary of your driving offenses, if they're kept below a certain number they forgive you. Otherwise they fine you or put your license on probation.
The problem is people have begun to think that driving unsafely is a right. Whenever some new technology comes out to help catch offenders, they dislike the technology. This is because they've gotten to use to impossible enforcement by highway patrol. No matter how hard they try they can't stop every speeder and the people realize this. You can't deter someone with.0001 odds of a really bad event, but you can deter them with a.5 odd of a medium event.
Granted if that was to happen, some laws may need to change, as well as the signage.
Not only would it be cheaper (and safer to humans) to run an incenerator on a huge rock with no atmosphere (just as long as the material you wanted to "burn" provided its own oxygen supply, or was destructable when HUGE doses of radiation are applied to it)
Why ship it to the moon to incinerate it... you could just nudge it out of earth's orbit and let the sun pull it the rest of the way in and it'll be vaporized. I imagine there are side effects of using the sun as a dump (maybe increasing the mass and gravitational forces would disrupt planets orbits??) but I think throwing even the whole earth into the sun would have so little relative effect it'd be like pissing in the ocean.
"When a deaf person is feeling lonely they might decide to call a phone entertainment line, man or woman, having to type this in, and say what the deaf person types."
And if there's no authentication a hearing person could then just use the TTY to call themselves and make the relay operator play the part of the phone entertainer. For all those narcissists to have phonesex with themselves.
Sex is the biological distinction between male and female. I.e. If it has a penis its male. When classifying babies you classify them on sex.
The difference with gender is it refers to the identity of the person (see how def 2 refers to society/culture). It has to do with the traditional roles society has associated with being male or female. This is going to sound sexist but this is what western traditionalists think:
A male is supposed to be Strong, not show feelings, not ask for help, independent, work hard, and tend towards things that represent power (heavy machinery/cars, politics, lawyers).
Females are supposed to show feelings, be in groups, enjoy cooking/cleaning/sewing, wear dresses, raise a family, and tend towards things that are nurturing (homemaker, nurse, teacher).
Hence when you think gender you shouldn't think male/female, but masculine/feminine. Therefore gender can't be determined at birth (unless there's some effeminate gene for males). So the article should of said sex instead of gender.
Imagine a Feminine/Masculine continuum and Sex being a single bit based on DNA. Very much like there's a conservative/liberal continuum for politics, and a single bit for party affiliation. If someone's marked Republican, you generally associate them as being to the right, but that's not always the case (moderates etc). This is also the case with gender/sex, such as a Drag Queen would be far to the Feminine side of continuum, but remain Male (sexually).
Granted a lot of people use sex and gender interchangibly, even the dictionary put it in a third definition. But this is mostly because people are afraid to say the word sex (it's taboo!) so they use the next closest word.
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Local communities don't have the bargaining power to require the cable company to unbundle. How could a city of 2000 force Comcast to change it's business plan... Comcast would give the finger and drop service to the town. It'd be the same for any of the large companies (Because one town is a drop in the bucket compared to the risk of changing business models)
But suppose a small cable company came in to offer the plan... One of the big ones would buy it out and cancel that subscription plan...
The only way individual cities can gain that bargaining power, would be to form a city union, where they all acted together for issues to big to tackle individually. Kind of like a larger form of government... maybe like a federal government?
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People don't like to obey laws, especially laws that put arbitrary limits on what they can do with their own property. In other words, if my car can go 120 MPH, I should be able to drive 120 MPH, and fuck the law for telling me that I can't. (Instead of chasing speeders, cops could bust people for driving 67 MPH in the left lane
If my car can go 5mph.. I should be allowed to drive 5mph in the left lane.. and fuck the law for telling me I can't.
Maybe you should look up what Tragedy of the Commons means. Roads are an example of it, because people will always put their individual interests above society's interests. If there were no roadlaws, intersections would quickly grind to deadlock since no one would yield. The laws are in place so everyone can take advantage of the PUBLIC resource in a relatively safe manner.
It's funny that you say arbitrary limits on what people do with their property is wrong... but at the end you try to put your arbitrary limits.
Have you ever considered that the people may not be "sheep"-ish to stand up for their right to privacy, but instead genuinely don't mind if the ISP's spy on them. Because that's a pretty big assumption in your argument.
Err man-in-the-middle attacks don't work because A and B don't know C is there... but because A thinks that C is B and because B thinks C is A. Your post describes why eavesdropping can't happen, but eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks are completely different.
What's stopping C from pretending to be B. If B can send back to A the parity bits without looking at them, so can C. A will say "Phew thank god that didn't get intercepted" (although B never received it at this point).
If C has the data it can generate a quantum stream that contains that data (it may not be the same in the quantum layer as the one intercepted, but it represents the same data). B will happily receive that quantum stream from C (thinking it was A) and send back the parity bits. To which C can respond "Phew thank god that didn't get intercepted" to B and still be telling the truth.
You're looking at it like AB (that's eavesdropping), but a man-in-the-middle attack looks like AC, CB. To stop this, they need a way to identify the person they're communicating with is in fact the person they think it is.
Yes there are bad genes. The ones specifically unable to sustain life.
I would say its a fair argument to argue that children should be allowed to be born with genetic disorders. However if they're (for example) going to need to be hooked up to a dialysis machine twice a day for the rest of their life are these genes worth propogating.
From an inhuman and for the future human race perspective... We should let all genes have a chance, but also let them naturally fail where they happen to do so.
I agree completely... This is not something that can be fixed with federal mandates or by just throwing money at it. The problem is the huge bureaucracy involved in the school system.
We take the teachers union to seriously. Instead of testing the students to measure results for a school district we should be rating teachers. Afterall by measuring the student we're bringing in thousands of external variables (parents involvement in teaching, students willingness to learn, etc). But the teachers union screams bloody murder anytime it's mentioned we should test/rate them.
We take the Political Correctness to seriously. Women Studies is not a degree, try to work in the field of Women's Studies and that should be obvious. Sure, you may get hired as a teacher, or the government may hire you but there's no place for you in the private sector. I'm picking on one major but there's many of them. Any major that isn't aimed towards a job at the private sector shouldn't be offered as a major in college (minors are fine).
We take sports to seriously. Funding for REAL education should not be diverted to sports, or building sports facilities. In fact all extra-curricular's should not be causing diverting of funds. These funds can be gathered privately or under a seperate budget item. But money budgetted for education should be spent on education.
At the price we pay per student, we could cut it in half per student to send them to private school. Where does all the waste in public school go? Adminstrators and Bureaucracy. The more federalized it gets, the more adminstrators we need.
Finally we're to afraid to deal with the troublemakers. A student shouldn't be allowed to interfere with others learning. If necessary seperate them into two classes, those being babysitted and those being taught. No parent wants to realize their child isn't going to get the best education. But they shouldn't be forced to impose this interference on other's children. Either shape up or ship out.
Oh ya.. teachers unions are evil.
It's really weird. The estate tax has been decreasing since 2001, when some tax law changes were passed, and will in fact be zero in 2010. However, in 2011 the changes will sunset and the estate tax will return to its original level. So, it hasn't actually been done away with.
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That's going to be a popular year to die.
But this also gives those 20 yr old women married to rich 80 year old men a reason to want to keep them alive longer.
It's fine bureacracy, afterall they quickly scheduled the meeting to schedule the spacewalk... it will be in err "several weeks"
Imagine you're in a swivel chair (or don't imagine if you actually are) and suppose you want to spin, but you're not allowed to touch anything around you, not even the floor. You could kick off the legs of the chair right?
Now suppose that floor actually wasn't there to hold the legs still. It's relatively intuitive to imagine what'd happen, the legs would start spinning really fast the way you pushed them, and the body of the chair would slowly spin the way you intended. That's the idea behind gyroscopes. The gyroscope (the legs of the chair) gives something to push off of, the conservation of angular momentum is maintained but you're seperating into two locations and only one really matters (your body). You could care less which way the gyroscope rotates.
I suggest you spin in your chair for a while to help figure this out. If your boss asks what you're doing, just tell him you're simulating a gyroscopic failure.
Now if you want to simulate another gyroscope failing, you'd have to rely on thrusters. Just get a fire extinguisher and sit back in your chair and...
New space sims are very unlikely for one simple reason... they more or less require a (good) joystick and most computers aren't equipped with joysticks. And why should people buy one now, many games don't even support joysticks properly. Consoles (and price) spurred the movement to replace joysticks with gamepads.
That said some arcade style space-shooters are fun and work with a mouse... but you lose a lot of the control (for example freelancer had no rotation in the roll axis).
This is the same thing that destroyed mech games.
You have exceeded your (daily/hourly) quota of bandwidth (for this account/from this IP/etc)
Google may have the storage but it doesn't have the bandwidth to handle hundreds of thousands of people downloading ISOs from their server at once.
Until all those dozen of endusers connects to download that gig of stuff..
It doesn't matter if its same server or another server, the net effect is their bandwidth can be abused.
I'm assuming they'll put bandwidth limits like most free webservers do. Which is why when people tried to use those free webbriefcases for piracy it failed miserably.
You think that's bad? I read plant the same way.. and I also read redhead as redwood...
I got to sexily dressed before a red flag went up.
You're missing the point.. with this new invention 10 bits can be used to store 1024 pieces of information.
As you say information=bits... so those 1024 bits of information can be used to store 16 million-google-google-googles (the number not the search engine) pieces of information.
But it'd require 128bit addressing.. ick..
If you're worried about your passwords, you can use my service to store them:
Simply email me all your login/passwords with a short descrip of each. If you ever need them again just email me and I'll give them back. It only costs a nominal fee which will automatically be transfered from your bank account (No Signing up necessary!)
So you'd support the freedom to have "consensual" sex with a 6 year old?
Do you think anyone should be allowed to own nuclear weapons?
Should I be free to drink and drive?
Your freedoms should end when they threaten someone elses freedoms (whether intentional or not). Furthermore certain protections should be made for those that can't protect themselves.
And yes science can be to rational (to most people) in opposition to emotional response.
Animal Research, rationally it's an effective means of testing.
The most rational way to discipline children would be brainwashing.
To truly figure out the effects of cold on the human body, the rational way to do is to test it on humans.
Rationally research data should be freely published even if it was research commited through acts of genocide.
Or any engineer, programmer, economist, accountant, or any other job that requires a business degree. How about graphic artists, how bout regular artists; Ecologists (the kind that actually does the research instead of making up conclusions) Navigators/Pilots; Loan Officers; Policy Makers; Staticians... Landscapers (How would you do efficient sprinklers without even basic geometry.. or even calculate area); Architects; Doctors...
Some basic algebra and geometry would even make drivers (taxis, limos etc) jobs easier.
Except I did send it to you! Your ISP must of filtered it out as spam!
But just wait to the dark side gets split into chaotic good (where p2p is allowed but no spam) and chaotic evil (no restrictions)!
And it'll keep splitting and splitting until we're not dealing anymore with a few individual networks but a bunch of single computer networks hooked up to one giant... umm internetwork.
Isn't this slightly similar to what happened with AOL, Prodigy, Compuserv and most of the early networks offering access to internet.
trains and planes take fee paying customers, who are putting their lives in the hands of the driver/pilot of that vehicle.
.0001 odds of a really bad event, but you can deter them with a .5 odd of a medium event.
And everytime you get on the road your life is in the hand of EVERY other driver... and vice versa. If you're driving unsafely you should be held accountable for it.
I'd go stronger then this, I think eventually there should be cameras along every stretch of road. If you speed by even 2mph it'll give you a tick... don't come to complete stop, another tick. Tailgating, reckless driving, running red lights will give many ticks. Then at the end of the month, they send you a summary of your driving offenses, if they're kept below a certain number they forgive you. Otherwise they fine you or put your license on probation.
The problem is people have begun to think that driving unsafely is a right. Whenever some new technology comes out to help catch offenders, they dislike the technology. This is because they've gotten to use to impossible enforcement by highway patrol. No matter how hard they try they can't stop every speeder and the people realize this. You can't deter someone with
Granted if that was to happen, some laws may need to change, as well as the signage.
my intuition would say that if it takes 30km/s for Earth orbit, that slowing down to 29km/s would be enough so that it'd eventually spiral into sun?
What happens to such an object slowed down to 18km/s, does it take a more elliptical orbit then the earth?
Not only would it be cheaper (and safer to humans) to run an incenerator on a huge rock with no atmosphere (just as long as the material you wanted to "burn" provided its own oxygen supply, or was destructable when HUGE doses of radiation are applied to it)
Why ship it to the moon to incinerate it... you could just nudge it out of earth's orbit and let the sun pull it the rest of the way in and it'll be vaporized. I imagine there are side effects of using the sun as a dump (maybe increasing the mass and gravitational forces would disrupt planets orbits??) but I think throwing even the whole earth into the sun would have so little relative effect it'd be like pissing in the ocean.
"When a deaf person is feeling lonely they might decide to call a phone entertainment line, man or woman, having to type this in, and say what the deaf person types."
And if there's no authentication a hearing person could then just use the TTY to call themselves and make the relay operator play the part of the phone entertainer. For all those narcissists to have phonesex with themselves.
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Sex is the biological distinction between male and female. I.e. If it has a penis its male. When classifying babies you classify them on sex.
The difference with gender is it refers to the identity of the person (see how def 2 refers to society/culture). It has to do with the traditional roles society has associated with being male or female. This is going to sound sexist but this is what western traditionalists think:
A male is supposed to be Strong, not show feelings, not ask for help, independent, work hard, and tend towards things that represent power (heavy machinery/cars, politics, lawyers).
Females are supposed to show feelings, be in groups, enjoy cooking/cleaning/sewing, wear dresses, raise a family, and tend towards things that are nurturing (homemaker, nurse, teacher).
Hence when you think gender you shouldn't think male/female, but masculine/feminine. Therefore gender can't be determined at birth (unless there's some effeminate gene for males). So the article should of said sex instead of gender.
Imagine a Feminine/Masculine continuum and Sex being a single bit based on DNA. Very much like there's a conservative/liberal continuum for politics, and a single bit for party affiliation. If someone's marked Republican, you generally associate them as being to the right, but that's not always the case (moderates etc). This is also the case with gender/sex, such as a Drag Queen would be far to the Feminine side of continuum, but remain Male (sexually).
Granted a lot of people use sex and gender interchangibly, even the dictionary put it in a third definition. But this is mostly because people are afraid to say the word sex (it's taboo!) so they use the next closest word.
Gender Roles
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Local communities don't have the bargaining power to require the cable company to unbundle. How could a city of 2000 force Comcast to change it's business plan... Comcast would give the finger and drop service to the town. It'd be the same for any of the large companies (Because one town is a drop in the bucket compared to the risk of changing business models)
But suppose a small cable company came in to offer the plan... One of the big ones would buy it out and cancel that subscription plan...
The only way individual cities can gain that bargaining power, would be to form a city union, where they all acted together for issues to big to tackle individually. Kind of like a larger form of government... maybe like a federal government?