How many people have had to contend with being on a wait list for relatively basic medical treatment, as is standard practice in the UK?
Better being on waiting list than not being able to afford it at all. How deep are your savings? When your job goes to Bangalore and you get fired, how long can you stay out of work and afford to pay your med insurance?
If you have enough money, you can afford a private clinic, that's the same as in the US. The difference is that when you don't have enough money, you aren't screwed, at least not that hard.
Electrical wiring caused more fires than all the model rockets. Why not require an electrotechnician licence for sale of copper cables thicker than say 1 mm2? Do you know how much damage a single bolt clamp that is not tightened enough can cause? Badly connected wires can kill, so banning unlicenced private possession of equipment for electrical installations makes sense. Or not?
Because of cowards like you the technicians have more difficult life, whenever they need something just a tid bit more exotic, and there is more red tape and tax-fed useless bureaucrats with self-importance delusions. And I don't even mention the impact of the War on Some Drugs on the availability of chemical equipment.:(
Fuck the society and its so-called balance. The "balance" is usually (and in technical issues always) dictated by the ones who know the least about the issues they are so eager to make decisions about.
Repucrats, or Demoblicans? Republican'ts, or Demagocrats? Or some small party with no chance of election? Shouldn't the elections offer some real choice? If so, why all the major candidates base their promises on what the public wants to hear more than on their own ideology? Why they are allowed to use the campaign to convince people to vote for them instead of just laying out who they are and let the people choose? Not only it would be more fair, but it's also likely to be cheaper.
This is why I call for a method derived from some culturally established way.
Besides, when you are inside the bank, it doesn't matter much anymore - you have to identify yourself there anyway as there are no anonymous accounts anymore.:(
Campaigning should be illegal (let's just appoint them all).
What about making it illegal for them to vote not in accord with their campaign promises? There could be instruments for that in the contract law - the campaign promises should be considered a contract with the voters to do what was promised; doing otherwise should carry hefty penalties. Breaking three promises? Farewell political career!
In Japan it is common to wear a surgical-style face mask when one has a flu. Muslim women wear scarves over heads. Various cultures have various accepted ways to cover one's face. Why not pick and use some of them as a stopgap countermeasure?
How many textbooks could be printed and how many Saturn V rockets could be cleaned for the $80 billion (or maybe much more by now) spent for a desert adventure of an aging wannabe general?
I saw the Saturn V on display in Houston, and it was impressive; an inspiring reminder of things that were and things that could be. The peeling paint and blooming rust were an allegory of the contemporary state of the space program...
But, once you decide to assemble in a public space, if such an assembly prevents the rest of the public to travel conveniently, etc., you are then imposing yourself on others.
If so, why the president can occupy public space and his supporters can be noisy and onboxious, the security roadblocks can prevent the rest of the public to travel conveniently, etc.?
Free speech does not mean you have the right to physically impede or otherwise inconvenience your fellow citizen.
It cuts both ways. The prez should either organize meetings on his own property (I think his ranch is big enough for this purpose), or the protesters should be allowed to his vicinity.
There are also devices for stripping Macrovision from the signal. As it is principially nothing more than strong pulses of whiter-than-white amplitude signal in the screen blanking interval, which confuses the automatic amplification adjustment of the video amplifier of the VCR, a circuit that forces black to the screen blank interval is the way to go. They are sold as "video stabilizers", or can be constructed often as cheap as a microcontroller and few parts around can be.
how about someone designs a dvd player which floods the disc with nitrogen while playing?
Carbon dioxide could be easier to get, as it's used in big quantities in soft drink and beer industry. Another possibility is to coat the DVD with a thin transparent layer that would protect it against the oxygen.
This is the type of stuff most of us nerds think up when we're 5 years old but we soon realize that it's not feasable and not practical and not useful unless you get billions of these beads...
$HTTP_USER_AGENT is unreliable; too many browsers are set to identify themselves as MSIE, either for privacy reason (more difficult to track an individual without cookies in an uniform sea of same browsers) or because some poorly designed webs have other browsers screwed up.
If you want at least somehow reliable stats, you have to rely on something more robust, eg. passive TCP fingerprinting; a good tool for this purpose is eg. p0f.
Brilliant writing style, elaborate sentences with excellent spelling. Subtle light style actually requiring to read the comment to recognize its intention. Vintage Adequacy-grade stuff.
Good thinking, wrong direction. Better get the Adversary addicted to the Net as it is, make it uneconomical to roll out any bigger change, and incorporate some design details that make it impossible to completely stamp out features allowing peer to peer and anonymity. Then, instead of fighting the stronger adversary without much chance to win, we just use their own resources to build a world in a world, right under their feet. Make a "forbidden" communication look too similar to a company VPN or to a banking transaction. Use the industry itself as live shield.
Don't waste resources fighting the enemy. Gain them instead by parasiting on them.
We may try to counter vague legislation with vague devices. Let's design LEGO-like modular system for just about anything, something like cheaper and smaller PC-104, with lots of very generic peripherals, optimized for both DYI and mass-manufacture. It's pretty difficult to enforce outlawing software, especially in the age of the encrypted P2P, and even more difficult if it would have to be pushed down to the level of "sneakernets". The problem here is the hardware. Let's take all the developers and universities using cheap modular systems as both the example and the hostages, and design devices so generic (with function defined by easier-to-conceal software) to be virtually impossible to effectively make illegal.
Workaround: design the copy card as a generic analog-digital in/out card with lots of uses, including serving as an interface for various lab, home-science, and home-workshop instruments. If there is any firmware on board (eg. a FPGA or a microcontroller) the functionality depends on, make it uploadable and open-source (with fully commented code, PLEASE). Put a couple ads into various hobby electronics magazines - if it will be cheap, it could sell nicely. When you are entrenched on the "legit" market, you leak a word to the "p1rate" community about the alternative uses, if they won't figure it out themselves. Voila - you snatched both the "black" and the "white" side of the market.
The future lies in generic devices with unrestricted (and, because high-enough genericity, unrestrictable) use.
R&D that goes into making that $60,000 quieter, more comfortable, etc etc, adds to the costs the corporation needs to recoup.
Why the R&D shouldn't be done by public means, eg. by universities? Then the costs will be shared by the corporations, instead of being multiplied by having to develop the same thing multiple times. Also there would be other savings on intellectual "property" lawyer staff.
(Maybe one of them needs to act as a host? But maybe this can already be electronically done by the camera's USB chip.)
Likely not. Maybe with USB-on-the-go, or how is it called, but that isn't common yet. Both GPS receivers and the cameras are the USB "clients" and can't talk with each other. However, many GPS receivers are equipped with a serial port, which makes it easy to get them talking with a microcontroller.
Being able to save the GPS coordinates and accurate time as a text tag in each photo could be very useful, or at least very cool.
I thought about it already. There is a possibility to do a minimal modification to the camera. Add the GPS receiver and a microcontroller with memory and a RTC chip as a separate unit, and tap the shutter button on the camera so every time it is pressed the add-on unit remembers the time and position and possibly also the rotation of the camera, if the shot is landscape or portrait. Then when you download the pics to the computer, you also download the data from the unit, and match them to the pics in the computer.
Adding the data into the EXIF data directly in the camera would require large modifications in its firmware, which is difficult to do. Would be cool, though.
Yes, when they're enforced by the DMCA and jail sentences for those who reverse-engineer them.
Not entirely, people just would have to take care to not publish their reverse-engineering results in a way traceable back to them. Friends in less oppressive jurisdictions, email anonymizers, anonymous networks, and pseudonymity mechanisms (to keep the reputation for next such projects) are helpful.
The programmers are too smart to be caught all. The adversary would have to go after the end users, which could alienate the customers.
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Better being on waiting list than not being able to afford it at all. How deep are your savings? When your job goes to Bangalore and you get fired, how long can you stay out of work and afford to pay your med insurance?
If you have enough money, you can afford a private clinic, that's the same as in the US. The difference is that when you don't have enough money, you aren't screwed, at least not that hard.
Because of cowards like you the technicians have more difficult life, whenever they need something just a tid bit more exotic, and there is more red tape and tax-fed useless bureaucrats with self-importance delusions. And I don't even mention the impact of the War on Some Drugs on the availability of chemical equipment. :(
Fuck the society and its so-called balance. The "balance" is usually (and in technical issues always) dictated by the ones who know the least about the issues they are so eager to make decisions about.
Repucrats, or Demoblicans? Republican'ts, or Demagocrats? Or some small party with no chance of election? Shouldn't the elections offer some real choice? If so, why all the major candidates base their promises on what the public wants to hear more than on their own ideology? Why they are allowed to use the campaign to convince people to vote for them instead of just laying out who they are and let the people choose? Not only it would be more fair, but it's also likely to be cheaper.
In many such cases it could be argued that the doctor was only an innocent bystander and the real killer was a cumulative overdose of McFood.
There are many ways to get killed (not only) in the US. Cars, guns, and terrorists are the less insidious ones.
If dual-frequency system is so significantly better, could similar approach be used to get higher precision from a dual GPS-Galileo system?
Besides, when you are inside the bank, it doesn't matter much anymore - you have to identify yourself there anyway as there are no anonymous accounts anymore. :(
What about making it illegal for them to vote not in accord with their campaign promises? There could be instruments for that in the contract law - the campaign promises should be considered a contract with the voters to do what was promised; doing otherwise should carry hefty penalties. Breaking three promises? Farewell political career!
In Japan it is common to wear a surgical-style face mask when one has a flu. Muslim women wear scarves over heads. Various cultures have various accepted ways to cover one's face. Why not pick and use some of them as a stopgap countermeasure?
It could evoke the image of a cancelled launch and emptied and dried fuel tanks...
I saw the Saturn V on display in Houston, and it was impressive; an inspiring reminder of things that were and things that could be. The peeling paint and blooming rust were an allegory of the contemporary state of the space program...
There is enough money. They are just misspent.
They don't read Slashdot.
/me ducks and covers
If so, why the president can occupy public space and his supporters can be noisy and onboxious, the security roadblocks can prevent the rest of the public to travel conveniently, etc.?
Free speech does not mean you have the right to physically impede or otherwise inconvenience your fellow citizen.
It cuts both ways. The prez should either organize meetings on his own property (I think his ranch is big enough for this purpose), or the protesters should be allowed to his vicinity.
Free Speech Zones are a dirty cheat.
There are also devices for stripping Macrovision from the signal. As it is principially nothing more than strong pulses of whiter-than-white amplitude signal in the screen blanking interval, which confuses the automatic amplification adjustment of the video amplifier of the VCR, a circuit that forces black to the screen blank interval is the way to go. They are sold as "video stabilizers", or can be constructed often as cheap as a microcontroller and few parts around can be.
Carbon dioxide could be easier to get, as it's used in big quantities in soft drink and beer industry. Another possibility is to coat the DVD with a thin transparent layer that would protect it against the oxygen.
Then we grow up.
Meanwhile, nanotechnology comes.
If you want at least somehow reliable stats, you have to rely on something more robust, eg. passive TCP fingerprinting; a good tool for this purpose is eg. p0f.
Brilliant writing style, elaborate sentences with excellent spelling. Subtle light style actually requiring to read the comment to recognize its intention. Vintage Adequacy-grade stuff.
I tried once to dial IP address on the phone. (Figured what I am doing when I reached the dot.)
Don't waste resources fighting the enemy. Gain them instead by parasiting on them.
We may try to counter vague legislation with vague devices. Let's design LEGO-like modular system for just about anything, something like cheaper and smaller PC-104, with lots of very generic peripherals, optimized for both DYI and mass-manufacture. It's pretty difficult to enforce outlawing software, especially in the age of the encrypted P2P, and even more difficult if it would have to be pushed down to the level of "sneakernets". The problem here is the hardware. Let's take all the developers and universities using cheap modular systems as both the example and the hostages, and design devices so generic (with function defined by easier-to-conceal software) to be virtually impossible to effectively make illegal.
The future lies in generic devices with unrestricted (and, because high-enough genericity, unrestrictable) use.
Why the R&D shouldn't be done by public means, eg. by universities? Then the costs will be shared by the corporations, instead of being multiplied by having to develop the same thing multiple times. Also there would be other savings on intellectual "property" lawyer staff.
Likely not. Maybe with USB-on-the-go, or how is it called, but that isn't common yet. Both GPS receivers and the cameras are the USB "clients" and can't talk with each other. However, many GPS receivers are equipped with a serial port, which makes it easy to get them talking with a microcontroller.
Being able to save the GPS coordinates and accurate time as a text tag in each photo could be very useful, or at least very cool.
I thought about it already. There is a possibility to do a minimal modification to the camera. Add the GPS receiver and a microcontroller with memory and a RTC chip as a separate unit, and tap the shutter button on the camera so every time it is pressed the add-on unit remembers the time and position and possibly also the rotation of the camera, if the shot is landscape or portrait. Then when you download the pics to the computer, you also download the data from the unit, and match them to the pics in the computer.
Adding the data into the EXIF data directly in the camera would require large modifications in its firmware, which is difficult to do. Would be cool, though.
Not entirely, people just would have to take care to not publish their reverse-engineering results in a way traceable back to them. Friends in less oppressive jurisdictions, email anonymizers, anonymous networks, and pseudonymity mechanisms (to keep the reputation for next such projects) are helpful.
The programmers are too smart to be caught all. The adversary would have to go after the end users, which could alienate the customers.
Unreliable. Relying on imprecise analog solutions in the age of $2 microcontrollers is foolish.