I don't know about that. Google, Facebook and other services 'real names' policies are a relatively recent feature of on-line services. Back when I began setting acounts up, I used throw-away e-mail addresses, pseudonyms and other tactics which are increasingly discouraged. Having put my files and other info. out there encrypted, I feel relatively secure in knowing that all a service provider will have to sell is unintelligable binary blobs.
At some point, you may become angry enough about something to stand up and shout, too.
The trick is to get angry about something that makes a real difference. I can bitch about continental drift all I want. But nobody is going to follow my bumper sticker's advice and re-unite Pangea.
But... those are sacred boulders! They shouldn't be rolling them around willy-nilly across white man's roads. If the natives aren't going to respect every last little part of Mauna Kea, then why should we?
You have to shield everything you want to cover with an atmosphere. If you are happy living under a dome, then a much smaller magnetic field will protect against the solar winf impinging on the dome. But if you want to terraform the entire planet, you have to keep the solar wind from 'boiling off' the atmosphere even from the parts you are not living on.
I figure it will take a loop around Mars equator carrying 850 million Amperes to get something similar to Earth's magnetic field strength. Figuring a Niobium-Tin superconductor (200,000 A/cm^2 critical curent density) that would take a superconductor of about 70 cm across.
See how easy an engineering solution is. I'll leave the details to the subcontractors to work out.*
Innovation with no restraints on free markets. But when times get tough, drivers run to the applicable labor regulator and claim status as employees. Here's an idea: Drive for Uber as a contractor or get a cab license and go to work for one of the established cab companies. Under the regulator's rules.
In the bricks and mortar world, one must obtain a business license from one or more government offices. And to do so, you must provide an address as well as the identities of company owners or officers. In some jurisdictions, this is a simple task. In others, it can involve months or years of winding your way through various bureaucracies and bribe paying. Many businesses avoid setting up shop in some of the most corrupt locations. And since most licensing is largely a local issue, it isn't difficult to move across a border into an area with honest officials and streamlined permitting processes.
But the Internet is global. And there is pressure to turn ICANN and other functions over to some sort of multinational governance. So to do business on the Internet, you will effectively need 'permission' from an organization that includes every tin-pot dictator with his hand in the permitting process and bribe cash flow.
And most* Linux updaters allow the locking of individual components. So if my hardware requires some non standard tweaked up driver, I can fix it so that it won't pull down a 'standard' driver and bork my system.
*As far as I know. I've not encountered one that didn't support this level of granularity.
A friend of mine works in the disability insurance area. He described n attempt to accommodate people claiming multiple chemical sensitivity. One solution tried (and finally abandoned) was to build an apartment complex to very strict standards, eliminating volatile chemicals, paints, etc. And to institute rules against residents bringing in perfumes, soaps, and an entire range of chemicals. All of this instead of seeking out individual residences suitably isolated from neighbors and typical background chemical traces.
The residence rapidly devolved into screaming matches between the afflicted. With each sufferer accusing their neighbors of faking their sensitivity while insisting that only theirs was legitimate. It turns out that they all know subconsciously that its root cause is psychological. And so they project their behavior onto the surrounding patients.
They are dealing with an extra-legal entity who doesn't have to answer to courts or legislators. FSB, NSA. Who cares what three letters they go by. They have guns and assasins on staff. And no need to answer to anyone else.
I don't expect any corporate officers at Kaspersky (or any other company) to die for the security of my PC.
Slashdot Mirror
It's already too late for us early adopters.
I don't know about that. Google, Facebook and other services 'real names' policies are a relatively recent feature of on-line services. Back when I began setting acounts up, I used throw-away e-mail addresses, pseudonyms and other tactics which are increasingly discouraged. Having put my files and other info. out there encrypted, I feel relatively secure in knowing that all a service provider will have to sell is unintelligable binary blobs.
Yes. Previous years scores are contained in a linked list. All you have to do is ...
Sorry about that.
Should have stepped right into the Monty Python argument sketch dialog.
People can't just go running around naked, partying and trashing the neighborhood without paying the appropriate government fees.
At some point, you may become angry enough about something to stand up and shout, too.
The trick is to get angry about something that makes a real difference. I can bitch about continental drift all I want. But nobody is going to follow my bumper sticker's advice and re-unite Pangea.
How do you know you're not just as wrong now as scientists were about tectonic plate theory?
We could be. So we construct telescopes to observe and get closer to the truth.
Tomorrow you might suddenly find out the Native Americans are right after all.
If someone looks through the telescope and sees the goddess holding up a sign that says, "Get off my mountaim" we will comply.
But ... those are sacred boulders! They shouldn't be rolling them around willy-nilly across white man's roads. If the natives aren't going to respect every last little part of Mauna Kea, then why should we?
Yes. Your socks are one example.
Mine is transparent.
You have to shield everything you want to cover with an atmosphere. If you are happy living under a dome, then a much smaller magnetic field will protect against the solar winf impinging on the dome. But if you want to terraform the entire planet, you have to keep the solar wind from 'boiling off' the atmosphere even from the parts you are not living on.
Slashdot beta isn't so bad after all.
Simple. We'll make our own.
I figure it will take a loop around Mars equator carrying 850 million Amperes to get something similar to Earth's magnetic field strength. Figuring a Niobium-Tin superconductor (200,000 A/cm^2 critical curent density) that would take a superconductor of about 70 cm across.
See how easy an engineering solution is. I'll leave the details to the subcontractors to work out.*
*I used to work for Boeing. How did you guess?
Subject tested positive for a personality.
Innovation with no restraints on free markets. But when times get tough, drivers run to the applicable labor regulator and claim status as employees. Here's an idea: Drive for Uber as a contractor or get a cab license and go to work for one of the established cab companies. Under the regulator's rules.
These governments were also voted into power.
Not the bureaucracies. If France is anything like the USA, the government is like a whorehouse. We just select a new piano player every four years.
working WITH governments
But it is these very governments who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. And the bureaucracy to support it.
This is a good point.
In the bricks and mortar world, one must obtain a business license from one or more government offices. And to do so, you must provide an address as well as the identities of company owners or officers. In some jurisdictions, this is a simple task. In others, it can involve months or years of winding your way through various bureaucracies and bribe paying. Many businesses avoid setting up shop in some of the most corrupt locations. And since most licensing is largely a local issue, it isn't difficult to move across a border into an area with honest officials and streamlined permitting processes.
But the Internet is global. And there is pressure to turn ICANN and other functions over to some sort of multinational governance. So to do business on the Internet, you will effectively need 'permission' from an organization that includes every tin-pot dictator with his hand in the permitting process and bribe cash flow.
No thanks.
We need to switch
to meters from feet.
Or in tech matters
we'll surely be beat.
Burma-Shave.
Had me thinking of something completely different.
And most* Linux updaters allow the locking of individual components. So if my hardware requires some non standard tweaked up driver, I can fix it so that it won't pull down a 'standard' driver and bork my system.
*As far as I know. I've not encountered one that didn't support this level of granularity.
A friend of mine works in the disability insurance area. He described n attempt to accommodate people claiming multiple chemical sensitivity. One solution tried (and finally abandoned) was to build an apartment complex to very strict standards, eliminating volatile chemicals, paints, etc. And to institute rules against residents bringing in perfumes, soaps, and an entire range of chemicals. All of this instead of seeking out individual residences suitably isolated from neighbors and typical background chemical traces.
The residence rapidly devolved into screaming matches between the afflicted. With each sufferer accusing their neighbors of faking their sensitivity while insisting that only theirs was legitimate. It turns out that they all know subconsciously that its root cause is psychological. And so they project their behavior onto the surrounding patients.
They are dealing with an extra-legal entity who doesn't have to answer to courts or legislators. FSB, NSA. Who cares what three letters they go by. They have guns and assasins on staff. And no need to answer to anyone else.
I don't expect any corporate officers at Kaspersky (or any other company) to die for the security of my PC.