Someone steals your phone. The cell phone company already knows the ESN, even if it uses a different SIM card. So, they look at the data, track the criminal, and report to authorities. That's about the best I've gotten. It also strikes me as interesting that this data is possible solely from the ESN, and why companies don't track stolen cell phones more often. The damn things are homing devices, why the hell are they so easy to steal?
I think its funny that the Scopes trial was also in Tennessee. At least this time, if the wording is what it seems, they can't punish teachers for teaching evolution.
I think that some of us do notice. However a lot of the most fascinating ones are ones that terrify people. Look at MRSA and other treatment resilient bacteria. They're the only things that cycle through generations fast enough for most of humanity to notice that they're changing; plus they have a profound impact on our health. I personally think they're incredibly fascinating.
I agree with you OP. Sadly while mankind is responsible for a LOT of extinctions that happen, we're not the sole cause. Natural selection implies that something has to be selected against. We can save some things, but not everything. So, lets triage our efforts on the ones that have the most sense. Also, pandas are stupid and made of poop.
Nice sarcasm. Seriously though, the main point is the rapidly increasing rate of change in the magnetic pole. Since we've noticed the increase, it seems like we've entered an active period through the pacific.
Just curious, does anyone think that the rapid increase in the rate of the magnetic pole's change could have something to do with this? The pole is created by the iron core of the earth, so theoreticaly if that liquid is rearranging, wouldn't the plates on top (more or less like ice cubes on water) be shuffling a bit to relocate? I can only imagine the closeness of the moon last month helped amplify things. Thoughts?
Honestly this is stupid. It's going to make transporting goods extremely expensive, driving the prices of everything up - including things that the government buys. On a side note, I really wish the country would loosen up on drug laws; the whole war on drugs thing really is starting to hamstring our economy. The revenue we'd make off of taxes is astronomical if we taxed them (even just minor ones such as cannabis), and the money we'd save on prisons is just as big (a significant of prison inmates across all tiers of the prison system are nonviolent minor drug offenders). Further, industrial hemp is a fantastic crop, its hardy, prolific, and easy to grow in the US (it was so plentiful and hard to kill it got its nickname, "weed"). Its effectively banned in the US. Pair that with effective, fact-based drug education (not the reefer-madness inspired DARE program) and I honestly don't see that many problems really coming from it.
Google red light camera funding, or police quotas. Most places won't admit that they exist, but they'll get close enough to say "higher numbers are better." Quite simply the government wants that money. Its also why many towns have "special event" ticketing procedures when its heavy tourist season. It may not be an election point, but it DOES help fund a lot of our government.
It is, but the earth above it is cooler so it should cool before it hits the top. Operative word: should. My bigger concern would be hitting large pockets of gas.
I actually saw a pretty cool article about this some time ago; what is the minimum needed number of people to keep the species going without causing inter-marriage and inter-breeding to cause defects. I wish I could find it.
There is too much genetic diversity and geographic separation of human populations for a virus to wipe them all out. Even in the middle of some of the worst of plagues some people were immune.
True, Madagascar will close its borders at the first sign of trouble./pandemic joke
We could also demonstrate that democracy is fundamentally flawed for this very reason. Heck, Athens, the supposed model for western democracy, fell to shambles because its representative democracy didn't work; everyone was out under the 30 Tyrants. This culminated in the trial and execution of Socrates. The same thing happened in Rome, and is chronicled in Satire X by Juvenal. Basically the people are letting bad people run things, and voting won't fix it because we're just going to vote in more easily corruptable people. The only way to fix it is to reboot, and start from scratch. And I'm doubting that will happen. So, since fixing the ship won't happen (though it IS noble to try), your real choices are to jump overboard, or help throw more fuel on the fire.
In the 3GPP/IMS/PacketCable 3.0 specs they're trying to do just that. Honestly a lot of the technology is still in development, but it is where things are headed. It allows for better scaling since companies that focus on features/applications can do just that, while the companies that provide infrastructure can scale each of their components separately without having to constantly rebuild their application systems or rely on soft switch upgrades (in pre-3GPP/IMS deployments) to scale upwards. Sadly a lot of companies are still using legacy infrastructure which depends on soft-switches for everything.
Agreed. As I mentioned earlier, I think the biggest giveaways would be layer 5 protocols (SIP sticks out since it relies heavily on IP addresses, and its notorious for not working well with NAT), and content that can't normally be displayed on a device (such as streaming video, flash, etc).
Yup, because if they start filtering traffic, I'm pretty sure that gets rid of their safe harbor status, doesn't it? Although it would be pretty trivial to have whatever is handling the tethering do some deep packet inspection/manipulation but I don't know if an iphone can handle that kind of processing at line speed. All AT&T can monitor is the packets. So, here are the places I could see them getting detected:
Shoddy NAT implementation
User agent strings
Layer 5 protocols (for instance SIP, which would have the original IP hidden in it because it doesn't play well with NAT)
Nothing will happen to support the revolts in Bahrain. Its the dock for an entire US fleet, which is critical to our operations in the middle east. If the current regime falls, its very likely their replacement won't be friendly towards US interests. The same thing happened during the first gulf war; the US urged the population of Iraq to rise up. We didn't expect them to actually do it, and when they did we realized there was a very good chance whoever they placed in charge wouldn't be friendly to our interests. So, we suddenly pulled out all of our troops and left the country in broken shambles. Even worse is the fact that if Bahrain falls, Iran has a very good chance of invading, since historically they have laid claim to the area (kind of like Iraq does with Kuwait). So, no UN resolutions will be seen against the Bahrain gov't - the US security council seat would block it.
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Someone steals your phone. The cell phone company already knows the ESN, even if it uses a different SIM card. So, they look at the data, track the criminal, and report to authorities. That's about the best I've gotten. It also strikes me as interesting that this data is possible solely from the ESN, and why companies don't track stolen cell phones more often. The damn things are homing devices, why the hell are they so easy to steal?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
You'd be surprised, that's how most carriers are implementing it. A lot of carriers use IPv6 to the home, and then everything behind that is IPv4.
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2+2 can also equal 3, for some values of 2.
I think its funny that the Scopes trial was also in Tennessee. At least this time, if the wording is what it seems, they can't punish teachers for teaching evolution.
I think that some of us do notice. However a lot of the most fascinating ones are ones that terrify people. Look at MRSA and other treatment resilient bacteria. They're the only things that cycle through generations fast enough for most of humanity to notice that they're changing; plus they have a profound impact on our health. I personally think they're incredibly fascinating.
I agree with you OP. Sadly while mankind is responsible for a LOT of extinctions that happen, we're not the sole cause. Natural selection implies that something has to be selected against. We can save some things, but not everything. So, lets triage our efforts on the ones that have the most sense. Also, pandas are stupid and made of poop.
Nice sarcasm. Seriously though, the main point is the rapidly increasing rate of change in the magnetic pole. Since we've noticed the increase, it seems like we've entered an active period through the pacific.
Just curious, does anyone think that the rapid increase in the rate of the magnetic pole's change could have something to do with this? The pole is created by the iron core of the earth, so theoreticaly if that liquid is rearranging, wouldn't the plates on top (more or less like ice cubes on water) be shuffling a bit to relocate? I can only imagine the closeness of the moon last month helped amplify things. Thoughts?
Honestly this is stupid. It's going to make transporting goods extremely expensive, driving the prices of everything up - including things that the government buys. On a side note, I really wish the country would loosen up on drug laws; the whole war on drugs thing really is starting to hamstring our economy. The revenue we'd make off of taxes is astronomical if we taxed them (even just minor ones such as cannabis), and the money we'd save on prisons is just as big (a significant of prison inmates across all tiers of the prison system are nonviolent minor drug offenders). Further, industrial hemp is a fantastic crop, its hardy, prolific, and easy to grow in the US (it was so plentiful and hard to kill it got its nickname, "weed"). Its effectively banned in the US. Pair that with effective, fact-based drug education (not the reefer-madness inspired DARE program) and I honestly don't see that many problems really coming from it.
Google red light camera funding, or police quotas. Most places won't admit that they exist, but they'll get close enough to say "higher numbers are better." Quite simply the government wants that money. Its also why many towns have "special event" ticketing procedures when its heavy tourist season. It may not be an election point, but it DOES help fund a lot of our government.
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300 Celsius? That's almost as hot as a pizza oven. I can't imagine how they're going to find tools that can function at that temperature.
Obviously, you make them out of pizza. Problem solved!
However you must understand that there will be a tremendous amount of upwards pressure in the shaft.
Giggity.
It is, but the earth above it is cooler so it should cool before it hits the top. Operative word: should. My bigger concern would be hitting large pockets of gas.
I actually saw a pretty cool article about this some time ago; what is the minimum needed number of people to keep the species going without causing inter-marriage and inter-breeding to cause defects. I wish I could find it.
There is too much genetic diversity and geographic separation of human populations for a virus to wipe them all out. Even in the middle of some of the worst of plagues some people were immune.
True, Madagascar will close its borders at the first sign of trouble. /pandemic joke
The stigma of being a "confidential informant" is quite hazardous. Why do you think there's a Witness Protection Program?
We're not talking about the mafia. This is a dumbass script kiddie.
The problem is sometimes, we are talking about the mafia.In this case you're correct, its just a script kiddie, but not always.
We could also demonstrate that democracy is fundamentally flawed for this very reason. Heck, Athens, the supposed model for western democracy, fell to shambles because its representative democracy didn't work; everyone was out under the 30 Tyrants. This culminated in the trial and execution of Socrates. The same thing happened in Rome, and is chronicled in Satire X by Juvenal. Basically the people are letting bad people run things, and voting won't fix it because we're just going to vote in more easily corruptable people. The only way to fix it is to reboot, and start from scratch. And I'm doubting that will happen. So, since fixing the ship won't happen (though it IS noble to try), your real choices are to jump overboard, or help throw more fuel on the fire.
In the 3GPP/IMS/PacketCable 3.0 specs they're trying to do just that. Honestly a lot of the technology is still in development, but it is where things are headed. It allows for better scaling since companies that focus on features/applications can do just that, while the companies that provide infrastructure can scale each of their components separately without having to constantly rebuild their application systems or rely on soft switch upgrades (in pre-3GPP/IMS deployments) to scale upwards. Sadly a lot of companies are still using legacy infrastructure which depends on soft-switches for everything.
Agreed. As I mentioned earlier, I think the biggest giveaways would be layer 5 protocols (SIP sticks out since it relies heavily on IP addresses, and its notorious for not working well with NAT), and content that can't normally be displayed on a device (such as streaming video, flash, etc).
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Nothing will happen to support the revolts in Bahrain. Its the dock for an entire US fleet, which is critical to our operations in the middle east. If the current regime falls, its very likely their replacement won't be friendly towards US interests. The same thing happened during the first gulf war; the US urged the population of Iraq to rise up. We didn't expect them to actually do it, and when they did we realized there was a very good chance whoever they placed in charge wouldn't be friendly to our interests. So, we suddenly pulled out all of our troops and left the country in broken shambles. Even worse is the fact that if Bahrain falls, Iran has a very good chance of invading, since historically they have laid claim to the area (kind of like Iraq does with Kuwait). So, no UN resolutions will be seen against the Bahrain gov't - the US security council seat would block it.