You can't just alert the person near the "wired phone somewhere" by yelling "Fire", that's illegal in theaters...
What the hell are you talking about? It's illegal to cause a panic like that if there's no actual fire. If there's a fire, you should sure as hell yell for help!
That doesn't solve the issue of being forced to vote with a metaphorical gun-to-your-head. How can you prove that the vote was made with the absence of duress?
No, the problem (among many, many others, though I think this is the biggest) is that there's no way to provide a secret, anonymous ballot. With online voting, parties could reward those voting for them, or bosses could require that their employees vote for the "company party". Verification of a user's vote is as easy as making them log in and vote in your presence, on your computer. Hell, a company could just require that you hand over your login and vote for you. Outside of physical presence, how do you suggest these problems be worked around?
1. Identify areas where [opposing party] voters are likely to outnumber [supported party] voters. 2. DDoS routers / MITM block voting site for those areas. 3. Power.
For now, his company makes money by charging manufacturers for offering its services with their products, or from users that upgrade to extra storage. Currently most such cameras are USB-driven, but a new wave of cheap Wi-Fi models are on the way, and manufacturers like Samsung and Panasonic are putting them into TVs and other devices, mainly for motion control and video conferencing.
"USB is a sunset industry" for cameras, Arora said. He showed off a tiny wireless camera from partner Trek 2000 International, about the size of a roll of film. It sells online for about US$65, and other manufacturers will soon launch for less than $50. Unlike USB models, Wi-Fi cameras don't need to be plugged into a computer or network, and usually just require a power source, which makes them ideal for security and monitoring.
As the prices of such devices fall, manufacturers will be squeezed, and GotoCamera proposes to provide a portion of the online fees it receives back to them, a rare ongoing revenue stream he compares to disposable blades for shaving razors, that must be continually purchased.
"What we say to them is, 'Please accept that you're a commodity, and let us bring the Gillette model to you,'" Arora said.
Their primary audience seems to be camera manufacturers, not users. The indirect offer to consumers seems to be, "buy this camera at a discount and in exchange we get access to its video feed."
Which is not enough to make me buy one, but hey, maybe it's enough for others. Or it'll just be in the fine print and people won't know about it.
Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act
Well, we're boned. There aren't enough Congresspeople or Senators that would have the balls to vote against a bill titled as such, no matter what we do.
Of course, as soon as Obama is out of office, be that in one year or five, the next president can erase all that and come up with their own guidelines.
This is the problem, because the guidelines under a Republican president will be "because I say so." Guaranteed.
The first is that a veto not only would have been over ridden by both houses, but would have been EASILY over ridden.
And that's why he should have taken a page from the Bush playbook and written a line-item veto. If they had overridden that, they would have looked like dicks.
I don't like that this is the way that the game is played... but it is.
Can we get someone who will just up and say "fuck the game, this is what I believe in, take it or leave it," please? (Ron Paul is close but I disagree with some of his more extreme viewpoints, and some of the "states control everything, federal controls next to nothing" ideas as well.)
Currently I am. The main problem I have now is that they also messed with Compiz (or rather, updated it to an unstable version), causing it to randomly crash on me if I'm using it outside of Unity. (Plus Gnome 3 imitating Gnome 2 isn't quite the same thing as Gnome 2... doesn't show all the notification icons I used to have, for example.)
All I know is, I'm waiting for the reviews before updating this time. Most likely I'll be on Mint pretty soon anyway. Unity gave me a severe distaste for anything Canonical.
The gun works by listening in with a directional microphone, and then, after a short delay of around 0.2 seconds, playing it back with a directional speaker. This triggers an effect that psychologists call Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF), which has long been known to interrupt your speech (you might’ve experienced the same effect if you’ve ever heard your own voice echoing through Skype or another voice comms program). According to the researchers, DAF doesn’t cause physical discomfort, but the fact that you’re unable to talk is obviously quite stressful.
What's to prevent someone from simply speaking louder to talk over the "jammer"? Why wouldn't this be the target's first reaction? Wouldn't a delay of 0.2 seconds sound just like an echo?
There's also the fact that this is highly targeted (no shutting up entire audiences) and doesn't actually create "silence", just cacophony.
I'm buying a house right now. It's not obfuscated really. I've gotten a solid per-month, includes-everything number from my mortgage broker on demand. Of course, I worked out a budget on a spreadsheet to make absolutely sure I could afford it along with all my other expenses, so maybe I'm not the norm.
If your carrier is blocking you from checking the "unknown sources" box, you need a new carrier. (I'm doubtful such a carrier exists considering that Verizon doesn't block it and they tend to be the most overreaching, but hey, I'm open to citations.)
I stopped using and uninstalled the Facebook Android app when I saw that it was turning on my phone's GPS as soon as I opened it. Sorry, but there's no legitimate reason for the GPS to be on all the time in this app's context.
And your comment is also kind of selfish, letting others know the developer is a cheat is a good thing even if it doesn't have some immediate personal payoff it certainly helps others avoid getting cheated. But oh well eff them.
You're attributing to me words I never typed. Did I say they shouldn't give the app a bad review? No, I simply said that it doesn't solve the unfortunate user's main problem (the irreversible reduction in value of the app for which they paid), as the GP seemed to be attempting to say it did.
Thus, the app ecosystem sees shady behavior as 'damage' and 'routes' around it.
Not really. It only prevents new people from downloading that app (or at best, that developer's apps). They or another developer could absolutely repeat the whole scenario with a new app, make a buttload more money, and rinse and repeat. This is not "routing around" the problem as one would say the internet "routes around" censorship; the problem is not abated by bad reviews.
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and the full weight of the US govn't would come crashing down on the offender
Unless they're complicit, which could very well be the case.
Testing would have delayed the goal of making Michael Chertoff more money.
You can't just alert the person near the "wired phone somewhere" by yelling "Fire", that's illegal in theaters...
What the hell are you talking about? It's illegal to cause a panic like that if there's no actual fire. If there's a fire, you should sure as hell yell for help!
That doesn't solve the issue of being forced to vote with a metaphorical gun-to-your-head. How can you prove that the vote was made with the absence of duress?
No, the problem (among many, many others, though I think this is the biggest) is that there's no way to provide a secret, anonymous ballot. With online voting, parties could reward those voting for them, or bosses could require that their employees vote for the "company party". Verification of a user's vote is as easy as making them log in and vote in your presence, on your computer. Hell, a company could just require that you hand over your login and vote for you. Outside of physical presence, how do you suggest these problems be worked around?
1. Identify areas where [opposing party] voters are likely to outnumber [supported party] voters.
2. DDoS routers / MITM block voting site for those areas.
3. Power.
No, I didn't miss a step.
Excellent. I was kinda waiting for LMDE to mature. Right now all that's holding me to Ubuntu is laziness and lack of time.
For now, his company makes money by charging manufacturers for offering its services with their products, or from users that upgrade to extra storage. Currently most such cameras are USB-driven, but a new wave of cheap Wi-Fi models are on the way, and manufacturers like Samsung and Panasonic are putting them into TVs and other devices, mainly for motion control and video conferencing.
"USB is a sunset industry" for cameras, Arora said. He showed off a tiny wireless camera from partner Trek 2000 International, about the size of a roll of film. It sells online for about US$65, and other manufacturers will soon launch for less than $50. Unlike USB models, Wi-Fi cameras don't need to be plugged into a computer or network, and usually just require a power source, which makes them ideal for security and monitoring.
As the prices of such devices fall, manufacturers will be squeezed, and GotoCamera proposes to provide a portion of the online fees it receives back to them, a rare ongoing revenue stream he compares to disposable blades for shaving razors, that must be continually purchased.
"What we say to them is, 'Please accept that you're a commodity, and let us bring the Gillette model to you,'" Arora said.
Their primary audience seems to be camera manufacturers, not users. The indirect offer to consumers seems to be, "buy this camera at a discount and in exchange we get access to its video feed."
Which is not enough to make me buy one, but hey, maybe it's enough for others. Or it'll just be in the fine print and people won't know about it.
If the number of engineers stay flat, they have to offshore to keep the engineers from earning too much money.
Because we couldn't have that...?
That sounds like an awesome comic book villain.
Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act
Well, we're boned. There aren't enough Congresspeople or Senators that would have the balls to vote against a bill titled as such, no matter what we do.
Of course, as soon as Obama is out of office, be that in one year or five, the next president can erase all that and come up with their own guidelines.
This is the problem, because the guidelines under a Republican president will be "because I say so." Guaranteed.
The first is that a veto not only would have been over ridden by both houses, but would have been EASILY over ridden.
And that's why he should have taken a page from the Bush playbook and written a line-item veto. If they had overridden that, they would have looked like dicks.
I don't like that this is the way that the game is played... but it is.
Can we get someone who will just up and say "fuck the game, this is what I believe in, take it or leave it," please? (Ron Paul is close but I disagree with some of his more extreme viewpoints, and some of the "states control everything, federal controls next to nothing" ideas as well.)
Currently I am. The main problem I have now is that they also messed with Compiz (or rather, updated it to an unstable version), causing it to randomly crash on me if I'm using it outside of Unity. (Plus Gnome 3 imitating Gnome 2 isn't quite the same thing as Gnome 2... doesn't show all the notification icons I used to have, for example.)
All I know is, I'm waiting for the reviews before updating this time. Most likely I'll be on Mint pretty soon anyway. Unity gave me a severe distaste for anything Canonical.
So, here's the technical implementation:
The gun works by listening in with a directional microphone, and then, after a short delay of around 0.2 seconds, playing it back with a directional speaker. This triggers an effect that psychologists call Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF), which has long been known to interrupt your speech (you might’ve experienced the same effect if you’ve ever heard your own voice echoing through Skype or another voice comms program). According to the researchers, DAF doesn’t cause physical discomfort, but the fact that you’re unable to talk is obviously quite stressful.
What's to prevent someone from simply speaking louder to talk over the "jammer"? Why wouldn't this be the target's first reaction? Wouldn't a delay of 0.2 seconds sound just like an echo?
There's also the fact that this is highly targeted (no shutting up entire audiences) and doesn't actually create "silence", just cacophony.
I'm buying a house right now. It's not obfuscated really. I've gotten a solid per-month, includes-everything number from my mortgage broker on demand. Of course, I worked out a budget on a spreadsheet to make absolutely sure I could afford it along with all my other expenses, so maybe I'm not the norm.
If your carrier is blocking you from checking the "unknown sources" box, you need a new carrier. (I'm doubtful such a carrier exists considering that Verizon doesn't block it and they tend to be the most overreaching, but hey, I'm open to citations.)
You may want to stop ranting for a bit to notice the rush of air past your head.
I stopped using and uninstalled the Facebook Android app when I saw that it was turning on my phone's GPS as soon as I opened it. Sorry, but there's no legitimate reason for the GPS to be on all the time in this app's context.
And your comment is also kind of selfish, letting others know the developer is a cheat is a good thing even if it doesn't have some immediate personal payoff it certainly helps others avoid getting cheated. But oh well eff them.
You're attributing to me words I never typed. Did I say they shouldn't give the app a bad review? No, I simply said that it doesn't solve the unfortunate user's main problem (the irreversible reduction in value of the app for which they paid), as the GP seemed to be attempting to say it did.
Thus, the app ecosystem sees shady behavior as 'damage' and 'routes' around it.
Not really. It only prevents new people from downloading that app (or at best, that developer's apps). They or another developer could absolutely repeat the whole scenario with a new app, make a buttload more money, and rinse and repeat. This is not "routing around" the problem as one would say the internet "routes around" censorship; the problem is not abated by bad reviews.
Poor ratings do not help those who have already paid for the shadily-updated app.
Before you breaaak my backscatter X-ray machine...
OK, it doesn't quite roll off the tongue.
This should not be a surprise to anyone in the know. After all, it's coming from the man who wanted to rename the Government of Canada after himself in all official communications.
"L'état, c'est moi" indeed. Just in a bit of a Quebecois accent.
And using them as justification for increased funding into self-driving cars... Their Xanatos gambits know no bounds.