Einstein never said [faster than light travel] was impossible. When corrected by idiots, the original idiots look more plausible. You should keep your incorrect corrections to yourself, furthers your cause farther than you opening up your mouth.
On a colony ship. Take 100,000 years to cross a few thousand light years. With automation and high-latency communications, you'll arrive at your destination 1000 years behind the civilization you left, unless the colony ship "evolves" at the same or faster rate than "home".
Explosives scanners are inconsistently used, and only used in a manner that makes things go slower, not faster.
And keys are legal to take on to a plane, but will set off the current detectors. I never said you ban anyone that sets off the detector, but inspect them better. If your box is sealed and locked, then you should be able to show it as such. Just like you showed your firearms when checking in. It's all part of the process.
So you have a 10% false positive rate. That's astronomically high, yet would still be better than what we have now. Put those 10% through the standard line, and send the other 90% on their way with no screening. You get better security than today, and shorter lines than today.
The metal detectors are the problem. You have to load all your stuff through the X-ray, and take your shoes off. The view of the extras is the problem, not the metal detector itself. You can't keep your belt on, or bag with you because it'll set off the metal detector. That's why the separate scan for bags came out. So they could look for guns without using a metal detector. They were not designed to look for bombs, though now they are better able to do so.
They should stop looking for metal. Today, there's no metal that can hijack a plane, without explosives (sometimes contained in firearms). Let on knives, tweezers and such. Just set up multiple explosives detectors around the airport, with silent alarms that trigger a review by a large centralized observation center. Facial recognition on the hits, and have them pulled aside when they go through the security line. The security line has people walk through a bottle-neck manned explosives detector. The previous triggers will be flagged, scanned at the higher-quality individual tester, and searched further, if warranted. Everyone else gets to see the theater to feel safe, and the line moves much faster. No xray of bags, No shoes off. Just walk slowly, one at a time, through a bomb detector. Quicker and more secure. Assuming the bomb detector makers aren't a bunch of frauds.
They don't have any shortage of ideas that will work. They have a shortage of ideas that work and make them look good.
They should use "big data" to profile. Not "race" and such, but note that every 9/11 terrorist used the same types of tickets and same types of boarding. Of course, the weakness is that you can't find what you aren't looking for, but that's true anyway.
Speed up lines? Drop the baggage check. Buy more explosives checkers, and get ones so sensitive they'll detect the explosives inside a firearm cartridge loaded inside a gun. Don't look for the metal. Look for the cartridge. Don't look for knives.
If we can't get explosives detectors that work, then pick 10% of the people in the line, and completely bypass checks on them. No terrorist would plan, hoping they'd make it though, so the deterrent would still be there, but the speed would increase.
The TSA knows this. The TSA doesn't want to do this. The TSA has thousands of ideas that will cut the time. They want ones that keep up the theater, "no bombs allowed" while they miss almost all in tests.
The creatures that eat them, do so only in low numbers. The plants they pollinate are pollinated by other insects. They are an unneeded creature. Complete destruction of all mosquitoes could cause some local ecological pressures in some areas, but if all blood sucking mosquitoes were destroyed, the population of those is much smaller. This has been studied. The military did when they targeted elimination of mosquitoes around military bases. Not strictly required by US law (the military doesn't have to comply with the EPA in foreign countries), but did anyway. They aren't the only study I've seen about eradication of mosquitoes, but they all seem to come to the same conclusion.
They have. The mosquitos that draw mammalian blood do not exclusively form the food of any creature. The effect would be no worse than if pizza stopped existing. Sure, some people eat more of it that others. But everyone that eats it, in any amount, can replace it with something sufficiently similar, even if less convenient and tasty.
There are very few similar blood suckers that would look to fill the niche. The only unintended consequence that could have an issue is if there are pressures for other animals to inhabit the area that couldn't because of the mosquitos. I for one welcome our capybara overlords. The creatures that eat mosquitoes all also eat similar insects. There may be some pressures on them as their food changes, but the unintended consequences have been well studied, and mostly dismissed.
Anyone with any sense already knows what the OS is,
Yeah, the OS is TouchWiz. Oh sure, *you* might know that it's based on Android, but most people don't.
Though it's good for Android that nobody knows. TouchWiz is horrible. Followed closely by Emotion. Sony's is pretty bad, but HTC and Oppo get it right. Sense and ColorOS are the only two I've used that are better than stock Android. TouchWiz and Emotion are worse. Sony's is close enough I'll be generous and call it a tie.
Samsung's plan was always to have TouchWiz build an ecosystem of TouchWiz only applications in their Samsung-only store to be able to take on Android with Android. But even as the #1 selling Android, nobody liked their ecosystem.
The problem is that people that would grudgingly vote for Kang over Kodos, end up joining the campaign for Kang, to ensure the defeat of Kodos, despite hating both candidates. If those with no great love for their candidate would just shut up and get out of the way, we'd not end up in the situation we are in, with the two most hated candidates in US history up against each other.
The icon tells you the extension type. Anyone who knows what the extensions mean knows that an EXE icon next to CelebrityNudes.PDF means "don't open". The problem it solved by hiding is that nobody looked at the extension before clicking anyway. So it was a horrible thing, that's no worse than the previous thing.
The problem is that there isn't GPS to cover. If every link you hovered over that "looked" like a URL, but had an underlying URL that didn't match were highlighted in red, that would be better. But because so many things have redirects, cross site ads and things, nobody wanted to let the unwashed masses know what a real mess the Internet is. So we get everything cleaned, hidden, and looking nice, even when everyone's doing worst practices all day long.
As for Fraud, you are stepping into a whole new area of legal space. Yes, we all pretty much have the same laws. It is a state crime, not civil.
Nope. Same coin. Perhaps separate side. Since we are all in agreement that US law doesn't protect dumb consumers that make a bad choice, lets look at fraud. The seller encourages a bad choice. I think it would be safe to say that fraud is universally illegal. The only question is where one draws the line between civil and criminal, and victim-blaming. In Nigeria, 419 scams are legal, because the law explicitly blames the victim. So the scammers craft their scams to make sure the scam is legal. That practice is universal, the only difference is that 419 isn't in line with the opinions of those around the world.
In the US, caveat emptor is the chant/mantra of scammers. About the only thing that doesn't apply to is drugs. Drugs are banned by law from making unsubstantiated claims. But they are about the only thing. for everything else, you ar allowed to lie to sell your wares. The burden of proof is on the "foolish individuals" who made mistakes listening to you. The law doesn't protect you. But the law allows you to try to recover a loss.
If you walked into Best Buy and walked to the computer section and asked a worker "Will this computer play Crysis at 120 fps? And the worker said, "Yes it will, it's got a great video card that will play Crysis at 120 fps." You buy it. You take it home. You load up Crysis. It plays at 60 FPS, but no better. What are your options? Hope they take back the return? After all, an untruth for financial gain is fraud. Does it matter if it's a store with a less liberal return policy than Best Buy? A guy who built it in his garage? Does it matter if the garage-builder is an LLC?
Even on Craigslist, if that person sells more than X (10?) cars a year, he is considered a business. He can't fraud people and must pay taxes on profits etc.
Granted if you send someone 10k instead of 1k, a normal person can't reverse it without the other party.
Right. Your $9,000 is gone. And you have to sue to get it back. Most of the rest of the world would prosecute the receiver's refusal to return what isn't theres as fraud or theft. So you just give back that which isn't yours. Unless you are in the US.
What are you taking about? There are plenty of consumer protection laws.
Great, so if you buy a car off Craigslist, and turns out the car was a lemon and the seller knew and didn't disclose, do you have any option other than sue? No? Then there are no consumer protection laws. P.S. You'll lose the lawsuit, after spending more than the car was worth pursuing it. Most of the rest of the world, the fraud by the seller would be proseuted as such, so you wouldn't have to sue, and the burden of prosecution is born by the state, not the little guy.
that there exist "some" consumer protection laws doesn't mean they are anything like anywhere else in the world.
As for ACH having to be set up, to send someone money, it's as easy as trading bank account numbers, and sending it. Transfers are live, same bank, or next day for other bank. And 100% safe. Faster and cheaper than ACH or a "wire transfer". You can pay bills, people, and such like that. Much better than the US system. But the US hates progress. That means they weren't perfect yesterday.
In the US, the consumer protections are almost non existent. Fraud is often legal, under the banner "caveot emptor". Most of the world isn't the same. Here, if someone sends you $1,000,000 by accident, the bank will reverse it, and if you spent it, that's theft. Everyone uses bank transfers for everything. Nobody writes checks, and most stores won't take them.
I've set it up so the CxO staff used encryption and never knew what it was. Though it did get turned off eventually, as their friends didn't know what to do with all the stuff at the end. Seamless, since about 1998, if you know about this stuff.
You've obviously never played World of Warcraft (at least, not in the last 3 years). WoW buffers gameplay. That makes it jumpy sometimes, but you can do it. Just because you can't think of how, doesn't make it impossible.
I bought a gaming laptop that looked like a regular laptop. They didn't sell, and were quickly canceled. Gamers like the gamer-laptop look. A high-end graphics card in a boring laptop doesn't sell. How can you show off your stuff, if it doesn't scream "look at me"?
The thumb-cock in movies is a dramatic feature. They'll show a Glock, without an external hammer, then in the closeup, show a hammer cock. And a revolver with a hard pull will need just as much every time. Fanning the gun is real (cocking the hammer with the palm of the off-hand for rapid revolver fire), but so inaccurate it's something you'll only see in movies.
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Einstein never said [faster than light travel] was impossible. When corrected by idiots, the original idiots look more plausible. You should keep your incorrect corrections to yourself, furthers your cause farther than you opening up your mouth.
On a colony ship. Take 100,000 years to cross a few thousand light years. With automation and high-latency communications, you'll arrive at your destination 1000 years behind the civilization you left, unless the colony ship "evolves" at the same or faster rate than "home".
Explosives scanners are inconsistently used, and only used in a manner that makes things go slower, not faster.
And keys are legal to take on to a plane, but will set off the current detectors. I never said you ban anyone that sets off the detector, but inspect them better. If your box is sealed and locked, then you should be able to show it as such. Just like you showed your firearms when checking in. It's all part of the process.
So you have a 10% false positive rate. That's astronomically high, yet would still be better than what we have now. Put those 10% through the standard line, and send the other 90% on their way with no screening. You get better security than today, and shorter lines than today.
The metal detectors are the problem. You have to load all your stuff through the X-ray, and take your shoes off. The view of the extras is the problem, not the metal detector itself. You can't keep your belt on, or bag with you because it'll set off the metal detector. That's why the separate scan for bags came out. So they could look for guns without using a metal detector. They were not designed to look for bombs, though now they are better able to do so.
Double vacuum sealed drugs can still be sniffed out by dogs.
They should stop looking for metal. Today, there's no metal that can hijack a plane, without explosives (sometimes contained in firearms). Let on knives, tweezers and such. Just set up multiple explosives detectors around the airport, with silent alarms that trigger a review by a large centralized observation center. Facial recognition on the hits, and have them pulled aside when they go through the security line. The security line has people walk through a bottle-neck manned explosives detector. The previous triggers will be flagged, scanned at the higher-quality individual tester, and searched further, if warranted. Everyone else gets to see the theater to feel safe, and the line moves much faster. No xray of bags, No shoes off. Just walk slowly, one at a time, through a bomb detector. Quicker and more secure. Assuming the bomb detector makers aren't a bunch of frauds.
They don't have any shortage of ideas that will work. They have a shortage of ideas that work and make them look good.
They should use "big data" to profile. Not "race" and such, but note that every 9/11 terrorist used the same types of tickets and same types of boarding. Of course, the weakness is that you can't find what you aren't looking for, but that's true anyway.
Speed up lines? Drop the baggage check. Buy more explosives checkers, and get ones so sensitive they'll detect the explosives inside a firearm cartridge loaded inside a gun. Don't look for the metal. Look for the cartridge. Don't look for knives.
If we can't get explosives detectors that work, then pick 10% of the people in the line, and completely bypass checks on them. No terrorist would plan, hoping they'd make it though, so the deterrent would still be there, but the speed would increase.
The TSA knows this. The TSA doesn't want to do this. The TSA has thousands of ideas that will cut the time. They want ones that keep up the theater, "no bombs allowed" while they miss almost all in tests.
The creatures that eat them, do so only in low numbers. The plants they pollinate are pollinated by other insects. They are an unneeded creature. Complete destruction of all mosquitoes could cause some local ecological pressures in some areas, but if all blood sucking mosquitoes were destroyed, the population of those is much smaller. This has been studied. The military did when they targeted elimination of mosquitoes around military bases. Not strictly required by US law (the military doesn't have to comply with the EPA in foreign countries), but did anyway. They aren't the only study I've seen about eradication of mosquitoes, but they all seem to come to the same conclusion.
Zero. Next question?
They have. The mosquitos that draw mammalian blood do not exclusively form the food of any creature. The effect would be no worse than if pizza stopped existing. Sure, some people eat more of it that others. But everyone that eats it, in any amount, can replace it with something sufficiently similar, even if less convenient and tasty.
There are very few similar blood suckers that would look to fill the niche. The only unintended consequence that could have an issue is if there are pressures for other animals to inhabit the area that couldn't because of the mosquitos. I for one welcome our capybara overlords. The creatures that eat mosquitoes all also eat similar insects. There may be some pressures on them as their food changes, but the unintended consequences have been well studied, and mostly dismissed.
Anyone with any sense already knows what the OS is,
Yeah, the OS is TouchWiz. Oh sure, *you* might know that it's based on Android, but most people don't.
Though it's good for Android that nobody knows. TouchWiz is horrible. Followed closely by Emotion. Sony's is pretty bad, but HTC and Oppo get it right. Sense and ColorOS are the only two I've used that are better than stock Android. TouchWiz and Emotion are worse. Sony's is close enough I'll be generous and call it a tie.
Samsung's plan was always to have TouchWiz build an ecosystem of TouchWiz only applications in their Samsung-only store to be able to take on Android with Android. But even as the #1 selling Android, nobody liked their ecosystem.
The problem is that people that would grudgingly vote for Kang over Kodos, end up joining the campaign for Kang, to ensure the defeat of Kodos, despite hating both candidates. If those with no great love for their candidate would just shut up and get out of the way, we'd not end up in the situation we are in, with the two most hated candidates in US history up against each other.
The icon tells you the extension type. Anyone who knows what the extensions mean knows that an EXE icon next to CelebrityNudes.PDF means "don't open". The problem it solved by hiding is that nobody looked at the extension before clicking anyway. So it was a horrible thing, that's no worse than the previous thing.
The problem is that there isn't GPS to cover. If every link you hovered over that "looked" like a URL, but had an underlying URL that didn't match were highlighted in red, that would be better. But because so many things have redirects, cross site ads and things, nobody wanted to let the unwashed masses know what a real mess the Internet is. So we get everything cleaned, hidden, and looking nice, even when everyone's doing worst practices all day long.
As for Fraud, you are stepping into a whole new area of legal space. Yes, we all pretty much have the same laws. It is a state crime, not civil.
Nope. Same coin. Perhaps separate side. Since we are all in agreement that US law doesn't protect dumb consumers that make a bad choice, lets look at fraud. The seller encourages a bad choice. I think it would be safe to say that fraud is universally illegal. The only question is where one draws the line between civil and criminal, and victim-blaming. In Nigeria, 419 scams are legal, because the law explicitly blames the victim. So the scammers craft their scams to make sure the scam is legal. That practice is universal, the only difference is that 419 isn't in line with the opinions of those around the world.
In the US, caveat emptor is the chant/mantra of scammers. About the only thing that doesn't apply to is drugs. Drugs are banned by law from making unsubstantiated claims. But they are about the only thing. for everything else, you ar allowed to lie to sell your wares. The burden of proof is on the "foolish individuals" who made mistakes listening to you. The law doesn't protect you. But the law allows you to try to recover a loss.
If you walked into Best Buy and walked to the computer section and asked a worker "Will this computer play Crysis at 120 fps? And the worker said, "Yes it will, it's got a great video card that will play Crysis at 120 fps." You buy it. You take it home. You load up Crysis. It plays at 60 FPS, but no better. What are your options? Hope they take back the return? After all, an untruth for financial gain is fraud. Does it matter if it's a store with a less liberal return policy than Best Buy? A guy who built it in his garage? Does it matter if the garage-builder is an LLC?
Even on Craigslist, if that person sells more than X (10?) cars a year, he is considered a business. He can't fraud people and must pay taxes on profits etc.
consumer protection and tax law are unrelated.
Granted if you send someone 10k instead of 1k, a normal person can't reverse it without the other party.
Right. Your $9,000 is gone. And you have to sue to get it back. Most of the rest of the world would prosecute the receiver's refusal to return what isn't theres as fraud or theft. So you just give back that which isn't yours. Unless you are in the US.
What are you taking about? There are plenty of consumer protection laws.
Great, so if you buy a car off Craigslist, and turns out the car was a lemon and the seller knew and didn't disclose, do you have any option other than sue? No? Then there are no consumer protection laws. P.S. You'll lose the lawsuit, after spending more than the car was worth pursuing it. Most of the rest of the world, the fraud by the seller would be proseuted as such, so you wouldn't have to sue, and the burden of prosecution is born by the state, not the little guy.
that there exist "some" consumer protection laws doesn't mean they are anything like anywhere else in the world.
As for ACH having to be set up, to send someone money, it's as easy as trading bank account numbers, and sending it. Transfers are live, same bank, or next day for other bank. And 100% safe. Faster and cheaper than ACH or a "wire transfer". You can pay bills, people, and such like that. Much better than the US system. But the US hates progress. That means they weren't perfect yesterday.
In the US, the consumer protections are almost non existent. Fraud is often legal, under the banner "caveot emptor". Most of the world isn't the same. Here, if someone sends you $1,000,000 by accident, the bank will reverse it, and if you spent it, that's theft. Everyone uses bank transfers for everything. Nobody writes checks, and most stores won't take them.
I've set it up so the CxO staff used encryption and never knew what it was. Though it did get turned off eventually, as their friends didn't know what to do with all the stuff at the end. Seamless, since about 1998, if you know about this stuff.
Anyone with a vehicle deliberately modified to be louder than stock is hated. I don't care if they are on a Harley, or in a Honda.
You've obviously never played World of Warcraft (at least, not in the last 3 years). WoW buffers gameplay. That makes it jumpy sometimes, but you can do it. Just because you can't think of how, doesn't make it impossible.
I bought a gaming laptop that looked like a regular laptop. They didn't sell, and were quickly canceled. Gamers like the gamer-laptop look. A high-end graphics card in a boring laptop doesn't sell. How can you show off your stuff, if it doesn't scream "look at me"?
The thumb-cock in movies is a dramatic feature. They'll show a Glock, without an external hammer, then in the closeup, show a hammer cock. And a revolver with a hard pull will need just as much every time. Fanning the gun is real (cocking the hammer with the palm of the off-hand for rapid revolver fire), but so inaccurate it's something you'll only see in movies.
Grumpy Cat exists solely because the owner of the cat took and published photos they owned the copyright to.