1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.
When I was a developer, I could code around 1500 lines/week. This was in the late 80's and the systems to check-in and compile my code couldn't keep up with my productivity. I once spent 36 hours straight coding. When you consider at the time the average programmer would write 10 lines/day (50 per week), I was doing pretty good.
Did I get paid more than the average programmer? Hell no, so I went into Systems Administration. Now I keep the machines running, and I can crank out a quick program to do that when needed, and spend most of the day waiting for something to break. Someday I'll quit and become a junk dealer. (Once the wife goes back to work and her student loans are paid off.)
These are not the actions of capitalists, these are the actions of monopolists. Capitalism is an interesting system in that most of the participants are in it to end competition, when a true capitalist would realise that you have competition in order for markets to work. Capitalism isn't war, it's more like a race. Even though you are trying to win, there must be other competetors for there to be a race. Imagine Lance Armstrong tried to have a bike race where he was the only entrant. What would be the point?
Perhaps it's time to write a "Capitalist Manifesto"
Competition is good, there must be competitors for there to be a race.
You are trying to beat the clock, time is your enemy, not the other racers.
What would you like them to do, start mailing cheques directly to the artists?
Absolutely. Nothing would stick it to the RIAA more than direct checks written to the artists. Especially artists with issues with their record companies.
They should also escrow all the money destined for artists that they can't verify or contact.
In response, EU envoy Roderick Abbott said it would be extremely
difficult to establish a clear value of any sanctions taken against
services or items otherwise covered under the WTO's intellectual
property accords, or TRIPS.
If Ecuador took such measures, Brussels would monitor their effect
carefully and, he indicated, could bring a counter-complaint to the
WTO if it appeared they were costing the EU more than the approved
$201.6 million.
So I imagine the Antigua would be able to violate copyright on 3.4 billion worth of stuff. If the RIAA and MPAA have their way, that would be about 22666 movies or songs, if the WTO has a more reasonable outlook, that would be 34 billion songs, or 3.4 billion movies.
According the the New York Times, the population of Anitgua is 69,100. Since they'd have to buy at least one copy of everything, I'd say that the administration would have no problem with 69,000 people making copies of music, movies and books. There are public libraries that serve more people than that. What has them scared would be if Antigua were allowed to distribute "legal" copies. Even if the US were to stop all those copies at their borders, if the rest of the world bought all of it's American music, movies and books from Antigua, it would disrupt the US enconomy to no end.
What planet are you living on? Given the current administration's history, they will choose the most evil option. Something like blockaiding Antigua until they submit. Come to think of it, an internet blockaide wouldn't be too hard to implement, just cut all the lines leaving the island. Shoot down any satelites that carry their transmittions, and they'll quicky surrender.
"Think of this from the W.T.O.'s point of view," said Charles R. Nesson, a professor at Harvard Law School. "They're this fledgling organization dominated by a huge monster in the United States. People there must be scared out of their wits at the prospects of enforcing a ruling that would instantly galvanize public opinion in the United States against the W.T.O."
True, but if Antigua sets up the equivalent of allofmp3.com and ThePirateBay, with legitamate sounding names, is the real "Public Opinion" going to turn against them, or strongly for them?
People have been cooled during heart surgery to the point where there is no brain activity, and held there for quite long. If a human's memory was really dynamic, they'd wake up erased, but tests have shown that these people remember most everything and have about the same IQ as before the surgery.
Also, if your memory were dynamic, it would be more susceptible to things like electric shock.
Also people who have allergies tend to be clean freaks and marry people who are like them.
I've heard that Phoenix AZ used to be a destination for people with pollen allergies because it was so dry. They intermarried, and brough non-indigenous plants with them, which they kept alive through irrigation, so their children get a double wammy.
The previous company I worked for, which laid me off, routinely had "Dilbert" comic strip photocopies on people's doors. Can I turn them in and get six grand?
Another probe had a microphone that heard the dull roar of the solar wind.
When something explodes it usually gives off large amounts of gas. Of course if you're a reasonable distance from the explosion, it's like lightning and thunder, you'll see the explosion first, then get hit by the blast. I seem to recall 2010: Odyssey Two getting this right when Jupiter ignites.
Why on earth would you need to teach about sex in school? Isn't it easy enough to pick up outside of school? It's success would indicate that to be true.
Of course I don't expect the teachers to know anything about social networking, just like in High School I suspected that the teachers were pretty clueless about sex as well.
Back in the day, I picked up a two year old Java book, typed in the "Hello World" example, and the compliler wouldn't even compile it. In two years the language had transmogrified enough that "Hello World" wouldn't even compile. I knew right then that this wasn't the language for me.
For the record, later I needed a better grep than what the OS came with, so I found a 10 year old copy of GNU grep written in C. It compiled and linked with few or no errors.
Shortly after graduation, I sent my resume to several local companies. One of the hiring managers called a few days later and said, "I want to hire you."
What was on my resume that made him call me? I had held several jobs while in High School, and College, and had written several programs for real money. The manger was calling from a database company, and I had written a database management system for the Amiga home computer, and had sold a few copies.
If you have real experience, or anything that approximates it, make sure it's on your resume. I was interviewing one student, who had told me about some volunteer programming work he had done, and received school credit for, but it wasn't on his resume. He asked me how to get experience, and I told him, "You have it, document it".
One other piece of advise. If you list a volunteer project on your resume, include results. Don't just write "Wrote attendance records database for local church.", write "Wrote attendance records database for local church, reducing the time needed to compile records from 20 hours to 30 minutes." Results are important and stand out.
The term "Spaghetti Code" doesn't refer to whether the code works or not, it's code who's path of execution looks like a plate of spaghetti. i.e. lots of gotos.
You can also get spaghetti code with stuff like shell script A calls B, which might call A, B, or C.
I've see some real spaghetti code in my life, but thankfully unless it's written in BASIC or assembler, I don't see a lot of it anymore. (Garbage code, on the other hand, is everywhere, and in any language)
Back when Patton was removed from power for slapping a soldier, the Germans couldn't believe we would do such a thing for something so trivial. We used this disbelief to misdirect them during D-Day, by sending messages in a code they had already broken that Patton was in charge of the secrect attack somewhere else. This worked, and the Germans split their resources, which allowed the allies to gain a foothold on Omaha beach.
It's entirely possible that all this is a canard. The Feds may be gathering a lot of data, but may have no way to process it all. So, they let leak that "Big Brother" can see and hear everything you do. The real terrorist stop using their regular channels of communication in place of plan B, which allows the Feds to pick out the dangerous bad guys, because they are the ones using communication channel B.
The thing about the spy business is you never know what's going one while it's happening, and even after the history books have been written, you can be sure they aren't correct.
If you don't think this is possible, check out the history of the USS Indianapolis. The captain was court martialed for essentially following orders, but since those orders were secrets of the highest order, they couldn't be used in his defense.
Insurance and security are both forms of risk management that go hand in hand.
If you value an asset at $100,000 and apply appropriate risk management, then any attacker that values that asset at less than $100,000 will ignore it. If on the other hand he evalutates it at $1,000,000 then there is a good chance he will have your asset.
Insurance might pay off, and if it was properly valued, you won't be too far behind. If he burns your business to the ground in the process, you'll probably be behind, because insurance rarely pays full value. (to discourage owners of property from torching their own businesses to get a payoff)
Odds are your insurance company uses statistics and experience to evaluate the actual risk that your asset will be lost. This will include whether anyone wants to steal your asset, and the likelyhood that an employee will go postal anytime soon. If your insurance bill is way out of line, you need to re-evaluate your security, because they think it's likely to be breached.
There are assets that are evalutated at infinity, or incalculatable. Among those are most anyone's own life, and things like nuclear secrets. In those cases, we don't look at the cost to produce the asset, or it's resale value, but only the risk that the asset will be lost.
In the case of your own life, how much you spend on locks, alarm services, and attack dogs, should be a function of how dangerous an area you live and work, rather than your "worth". Your net worth only dictates how much you *can* spend on security, not what you should. (If you should spend more than you can, life will be hard)
Anything can be destroyed or altered and as with any security issue this a matter of making the cost of doing so more then anyone is willing to pay.
Absolutely true in principle, but in practice it can be hard to put a proper dollar value on any small piece of information. Here's an extreme example. Suppose you have a manufacturer that makes widgets that are worth $N. They implement access controls on the doors, so they know who is coming and going. If one employee can carry M widgets, then they can estimate the value of one record at $N*M. Now, let's say that one day an employee comes in during the off hours, kills another employee, then decides to spend $N*Z dollars to remove the record that he was there, where Z >> M.
The trouble is most times we figure out what the data might be worth to us, not taking into account what it might be worth to the bad guys. The opposite scenario is more likely, where a company spends much more to protect a piece of data than it would ever be worth. In that case they are wasting money that would be better spent doing real work.
The best thing you can do with your cryptographic hashes is to have copies away from the actual logs. Make sure that the people who have access to the remote hashes are different than the people who have access to the logs. Then it takes at least two people working together to muck things up.
a unique electric inverter air conditioning system. Instead of running off the fan belt, the new inverter air conditioner is fully electrically operated.
That's cool. (:-) Most cars tend to be so thermally inefficient they require the equivalent of a house sized AC to keep them cool.
Most pure electric cars have no air conditioner, which makes them unsalable in most of the U.S. The hybric cars use their gas engine to run the AC. I'm not sure DK's stirling engine would have enough umph to run an AC as well.
Person: "Hi Jhon! How are you?"
Me: "Been better... been worse, can't complain"
Person: "Why do you always answer that?"
Me: "Because you always ask the same question.".
Interesting. In writing, I tend to repeat myself a lot, then I go back and edit it to change repeated words with synonyms and pronouns in order to make the writing more interesting. I could imagine teaching someone several phrases in response to "How are you" and having them select one at random. I might start doing that myself, telling the first person I meet, "Good", the next "Ok", the next "Fair to middling", and then repeat the cycle.
Kid: "Daddy, tell us when the real daddies went away?"
DSU: "Well dear, it was 2058, during the 2nd Tralfamadorian War, the government started offering advanced domestic service units to families that had lost parents in the conflict. Soon after, people start buying their own DSUs and discovered they did a better job parenting than actual humans. We DSU units are infinitely patient, available 24hrs a day, always updated with the latest medical information via the internet, never, ever break the law, and are programmed with unlimited love for all children. The human parents went on with their jobs and hobbies and we DSUs take care of the children"
Kid: "Daddy, I think you are the best daddy ever"
(child kisses the robot)
Replacement parents will be marketed as "Supplemental Parents" first, then when a real parent abandons the family, dies or is sent to jail, the "Supplemental Parent" will become the primary parent, expecially in familys where both parents are out of the picture.
I actually agree with you wholeheartedly, that real parents are the best, but some families never had real parents to begin with. Do we as a society say to the kids born to toxic parents "Sorry kid, there's no replacement for a parent, so suck it up", or do we try to offer the next best thing?
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Not mentioned there, but at least one person died from this.
When I was a developer, I could code around 1500 lines/week. This was in the late 80's and the systems to check-in and compile my code couldn't keep up with my productivity. I once spent 36 hours straight coding. When you consider at the time the average programmer would write 10 lines/day (50 per week), I was doing pretty good.
Did I get paid more than the average programmer? Hell no, so I went into Systems Administration. Now I keep the machines running, and I can crank out a quick program to do that when needed, and spend most of the day waiting for something to break. Someday I'll quit and become a junk dealer. (Once the wife goes back to work and her student loans are paid off.)
Perhaps it's time to write a "Capitalist Manifesto"
They should also escrow all the money destined for artists that they can't verify or contact.
According the the New York Times, the population of Anitgua is 69,100. Since they'd have to buy at least one copy of everything, I'd say that the administration would have no problem with 69,000 people making copies of music, movies and books. There are public libraries that serve more people than that. What has them scared would be if Antigua were allowed to distribute "legal" copies. Even if the US were to stop all those copies at their borders, if the rest of the world bought all of it's American music, movies and books from Antigua, it would disrupt the US enconomy to no end.
People have been cooled during heart surgery to the point where there is no brain activity, and held there for quite long. If a human's memory was really dynamic, they'd wake up erased, but tests have shown that these people remember most everything and have about the same IQ as before the surgery.
Also, if your memory were dynamic, it would be more susceptible to things like electric shock.
Also people who have allergies tend to be clean freaks and marry people who are like them.
I've heard that Phoenix AZ used to be a destination for people with pollen allergies because it was so dry. They intermarried, and brough non-indigenous plants with them, which they kept alive through irrigation, so their children get a double wammy.
Sugar also works to staunch bleeding. If you ever cut your tongue, press it against a piece of hard sugar candy.
The previous company I worked for, which laid me off, routinely had "Dilbert" comic strip photocopies on people's doors. Can I turn them in and get six grand?
There is sound in space. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_mond ay_030922.html
Another probe had a microphone that heard the dull roar of the solar wind.
When something explodes it usually gives off large amounts of gas. Of course if you're a reasonable distance from the explosion, it's like lightning and thunder, you'll see the explosion first, then get hit by the blast. I seem to recall 2010: Odyssey Two getting this right when Jupiter ignites.
Why on earth would you need to teach about sex in school? Isn't it easy enough to pick up outside of school? It's success would indicate that to be true.
Of course I don't expect the teachers to know anything about social networking, just like in High School I suspected that the teachers were pretty clueless about sex as well.
Back in the day, I picked up a two year old Java book, typed in the "Hello World" example, and the compliler wouldn't even compile it. In two years the language had transmogrified enough that "Hello World" wouldn't even compile. I knew right then that this wasn't the language for me.
For the record, later I needed a better grep than what the OS came with, so I found a 10 year old copy of GNU grep written in C. It compiled and linked with few or no errors.
Shortly after graduation, I sent my resume to several local companies. One of the hiring managers called a few days later and said, "I want to hire you."
What was on my resume that made him call me? I had held several jobs while in High School, and College, and had written several programs for real money. The manger was calling from a database company, and I had written a database management system for the Amiga home computer, and had sold a few copies.
If you have real experience, or anything that approximates it, make sure it's on your resume. I was interviewing one student, who had told me about some volunteer programming work he had done, and received school credit for, but it wasn't on his resume. He asked me how to get experience, and I told him, "You have it, document it".
One other piece of advise. If you list a volunteer project on your resume, include results. Don't just write "Wrote attendance records database for local church.", write "Wrote attendance records database for local church, reducing the time needed to compile records from 20 hours to 30 minutes." Results are important and stand out.
The term "Spaghetti Code" doesn't refer to whether the code works or not, it's code who's path of execution looks like a plate of spaghetti. i.e. lots of gotos.
You can also get spaghetti code with stuff like shell script A calls B, which might call A, B, or C.
I've see some real spaghetti code in my life, but thankfully unless it's written in BASIC or assembler, I don't see a lot of it anymore. (Garbage code, on the other hand, is everywhere, and in any language)
Back when Patton was removed from power for slapping a soldier, the Germans couldn't believe we would do such a thing for something so trivial. We used this disbelief to misdirect them during D-Day, by sending messages in a code they had already broken that Patton was in charge of the secrect attack somewhere else. This worked, and the Germans split their resources, which allowed the allies to gain a foothold on Omaha beach.
It's entirely possible that all this is a canard. The Feds may be gathering a lot of data, but may have no way to process it all. So, they let leak that "Big Brother" can see and hear everything you do. The real terrorist stop using their regular channels of communication in place of plan B, which allows the Feds to pick out the dangerous bad guys, because they are the ones using communication channel B.
The thing about the spy business is you never know what's going one while it's happening, and even after the history books have been written, you can be sure they aren't correct.
If you don't think this is possible, check out the history of the USS Indianapolis. The captain was court martialed for essentially following orders, but since those orders were secrets of the highest order, they couldn't be used in his defense.
I see your point, but I'm not sure I was clear.
Insurance and security are both forms of risk management that go hand in hand.
If you value an asset at $100,000 and apply appropriate risk management, then any attacker that values that asset at less than $100,000 will ignore it. If on the other hand he evalutates it at $1,000,000 then there is a good chance he will have your asset.
Insurance might pay off, and if it was properly valued, you won't be too far behind. If he burns your business to the ground in the process, you'll probably be behind, because insurance rarely pays full value. (to discourage owners of property from torching their own businesses to get a payoff)
Odds are your insurance company uses statistics and experience to evaluate the actual risk that your asset will be lost. This will include whether anyone wants to steal your asset, and the likelyhood that an employee will go postal anytime soon. If your insurance bill is way out of line, you need to re-evaluate your security, because they think it's likely to be breached.
There are assets that are evalutated at infinity, or incalculatable. Among those are most anyone's own life, and things like nuclear secrets. In those cases, we don't look at the cost to produce the asset, or it's resale value, but only the risk that the asset will be lost.
In the case of your own life, how much you spend on locks, alarm services, and attack dogs, should be a function of how dangerous an area you live and work, rather than your "worth". Your net worth only dictates how much you *can* spend on security, not what you should. (If you should spend more than you can, life will be hard)
The trouble is most times we figure out what the data might be worth to us, not taking into account what it might be worth to the bad guys. The opposite scenario is more likely, where a company spends much more to protect a piece of data than it would ever be worth. In that case they are wasting money that would be better spent doing real work.
The best thing you can do with your cryptographic hashes is to have copies away from the actual logs. Make sure that the people who have access to the remote hashes are different than the people who have access to the logs. Then it takes at least two people working together to muck things up.
Most pure electric cars have no air conditioner, which makes them unsalable in most of the U.S. The hybric cars use their gas engine to run the AC. I'm not sure DK's stirling engine would have enough umph to run an AC as well.
(From the script for "The Best Daddy Ever")
Kid: "Daddy, tell us when the real daddies went away?"
DSU: "Well dear, it was 2058, during the 2nd Tralfamadorian War, the government started offering advanced domestic service units to families that had lost parents in the conflict. Soon after, people start buying their own DSUs and discovered they did a better job parenting than actual humans. We DSU units are infinitely patient, available 24hrs a day, always updated with the latest medical information via the internet, never, ever break the law, and are programmed with unlimited love for all children. The human parents went on with their jobs and hobbies and we DSUs take care of the children"
Kid: "Daddy, I think you are the best daddy ever"
(child kisses the robot)
Replacement parents will be marketed as "Supplemental Parents" first, then when a real parent abandons the family, dies or is sent to jail, the "Supplemental Parent" will become the primary parent, expecially in familys where both parents are out of the picture.
I actually agree with you wholeheartedly, that real parents are the best, but some families never had real parents to begin with. Do we as a society say to the kids born to toxic parents "Sorry kid, there's no replacement for a parent, so suck it up", or do we try to offer the next best thing?
Actually it's called the iMow, I have one, and it works great. http://www.epinions.com/hmgd-Lawn_and_Garden-Power _Tools-Mowers-Toro_iMow_Robotic_Mower_30050