1) You are correct in that Joe Sixpack probably has little to fear. Not nothing, but not much*. If you are likely to be 'up to' something, you know who you are. And you are in the minority.
2) The something that you might be 'up to' does not necessarily have to be criminal or terrorist. Local LE, the FBI (and very probably the CIA, NSA and othet TLAs) are perfectly willing to sell information about VIPs to competitors or investors wishing to get inside information on business deals.
If I'm going to the movies or the store, I'll bring my cell phone with me. No problem if you want to know what show I'm watching. But if I'm going to meet with some start up business about venture capital funding, the phone stays home. And the cars stay home. I don't need the local busybodies knowing what I'm up to or who I'm speaking to. And local/federal LE agencies are well known for their people moonlighting and feeding their pals intelligence on who's up to what.
* All you Joe Sixpacks need to worry about your insurance company counting the number of times you visit the liquor store in the event they want to jack up your rates.
To the university administration. Having the textbook publishers manage online homework/exam submission systems is the camel's nose under the tent. This is what the school is supposed to do, not the publisher.
Once these systems are in place, they will diminish the value added by the school, allowing professors to work directly with publishers and eventually push the traditional institutions out of the educational loop. Perhaps this is where education is headed. And if this is the case, lets get it over with now. Cut the university out of the loop. Have the professors deal directly with the publishers who issue certificates of course completion. But then why are we paying tuition?
Nobody is proposing a solution with that level of finality. What we are saying is; like your car, there are times that you can't pass a safety inspection. We've tried asking nicely, but some people just won't get those brake lights fixed. So, we're having it impounded. You can have it towed to a repair shop, get it fixed and be on your way. And only be out a few hundred dollars.
... is the need to maintain sufficient internal pressure to sustain human life without being too stiff to work in for long periods. Suits made more skin tight are the current area of research. That seems to be what MIT is working on.
I'd like to see some work along the lines of a smart G suit type garment that can sense the occupant's movements and compensate by reshaping itself dynamically. Probably something based on artificial muscle fibers rather than compressed air.
If you expand the survey to include tablets and other mobile devices (what increasing numbers of people are using as their primary computing device), Android looks pretty respectable. Its behind iOS on tablets, but still making a respectable showing. Its ahead of iOS on phones. Windows mobile variants are down in the noise.
Corporations shouldn't be allowed to acquire other corporations anyway. After all, they are people. And President Lincoln said people shouldn't own other people.
Goddamn you are stupid. People like you arguing against useful improvements have held back Seattle's transit system
There's more to the region than just Seattle. But shhhh! Don't tell the mayor's office or King County (Seattle's lap dog) that people want to go somewhere other than downtown Seattle to work or shop.
the boondoggle know as the tunnel, does nothing except bypass downtown,
Again. There are other places on earth than downtown Seattle. People going downtown can use surface streets. The tunnel is for the people who want to get around it.
Well, if you live in Seattle, that's done by design.
The local politicians in a conspiracy with downtown developers and car-haters have made traffic hell. It has gotten so bad that the commute from one of its major suburbs to the East (across two floating bridges) reversed about a decade or so ago. Now, people leave the city for jobs on the East side (Microsoft, Google and others). And the highway department (under pressure from Seattle politicians) has never switched the reversible lanes to reflect the realities of the morning and evening traffic jams. Cars are evil. Cars take people where they want to go. Not where the city planners want to send them.
Likewise, our public transportation systems are being designed to funnel commuters into the city and back out again, as if nothing else exists in the surrounding areas. Light rail that was proposed to serve other city centers and shopping districts (Lynnwood, Everett, Southcenter, etc.) was killed off in favor of a system carefully engineered to bypass everything except downtown Seattle. An abandoned railroad right of way paralleling I-405, serving Eastside communities, is being carved up and handed off for various alternate uses rather than converted to mass transit use. Because it doesn't feed downtown Seattle. And, under the control of downtown politicians, tax money can only be spent to aim commuters at their own downtown area.
Its called a self fulfilling prophecy. When your developers pour their money into downtown real estate, you have to strangle all the alternatives to ensure their return on investment. Regardless of what the people want. So, pretty soon, sheeple just give up and go where they are hearded.
In other words: Cities are great for younger people. Cheap younger people. Once your employees start to get some experience and demand higher wages, they'll leave own their own for jobs in better environments. And you won't get sued for age discrimination by firing them.
Is this one of these apps that restarts itself every time the file system changes? Like when a background process appends to a log or something like that.
You might have to start your system in a maintenance mode and skip starting all background processes. Or mount this drive under another system as a data drive.
A) it's a tiny effect that wouldn't matter much at that magnitude
Exactly. If it were even proportional to 1/R^2 neutrino flux, gravity intensity or whatever, we'd have seen fluctuating isotope decay rates due to the earth's elliptical orbit years ago. And people would have correlated the orbit to decay rate data.
Its similar to the phenomena of
time dilation at speeds approaching c. Its interesting and actually measuring it supports some interesting new theories. But it won't get me out of any speeding tickets.
I'm not worried. If this effect is based on solar neutrino flux or some such thing, what would that have to be to change radio carbon dating to give an earth age of 6000 years vs 4.5 billion? And then, what would the effect of the level of solar activity resulting in that neutrino flux do to life on earth? Probably fry it to a cinder.
If the effect exists, it is probably operating on the parts per million level. Which wouldn't do more than knock a few years off the age of Lucy.
Although it would be easier to jailbreak OSX than iOS, turning OSX into the same sort of walled garden that iOS is would stop most people from trying. Particularly developers for corporate customers, where the fear of legal repercussions would be a major roadblock.
Its a nice BSD implementation and I'm sure I could drag my tools and apps over from Linux. But I fear the day that OSX becomes iOS and the ghost of Steve Jobs closes the garden gate.
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1) You are correct in that Joe Sixpack probably has little to fear. Not nothing, but not much*. If you are likely to be 'up to' something, you know who you are. And you are in the minority.
2) The something that you might be 'up to' does not necessarily have to be criminal or terrorist. Local LE, the FBI (and very probably the CIA, NSA and othet TLAs) are perfectly willing to sell information about VIPs to competitors or investors wishing to get inside information on business deals.
If I'm going to the movies or the store, I'll bring my cell phone with me. No problem if you want to know what show I'm watching. But if I'm going to meet with some start up business about venture capital funding, the phone stays home. And the cars stay home. I don't need the local busybodies knowing what I'm up to or who I'm speaking to. And local/federal LE agencies are well known for their people moonlighting and feeding their pals intelligence on who's up to what.
* All you Joe Sixpacks need to worry about your insurance company counting the number of times you visit the liquor store in the event they want to jack up your rates.
You had to bring that character up near election time, didn't you?
To the university administration. Having the textbook publishers manage online homework/exam submission systems is the camel's nose under the tent. This is what the school is supposed to do, not the publisher.
Once these systems are in place, they will diminish the value added by the school, allowing professors to work directly with publishers and eventually push the traditional institutions out of the educational loop. Perhaps this is where education is headed. And if this is the case, lets get it over with now. Cut the university out of the loop. Have the professors deal directly with the publishers who issue certificates of course completion. But then why are we paying tuition?
... and let root sort them out.
Nobody is proposing a solution with that level of finality. What we are saying is; like your car, there are times that you can't pass a safety inspection. We've tried asking nicely, but some people just won't get those brake lights fixed. So, we're having it impounded. You can have it towed to a repair shop, get it fixed and be on your way. And only be out a few hundred dollars.
... is the need to maintain sufficient internal pressure to sustain human life without being too stiff to work in for long periods. Suits made more skin tight are the current area of research. That seems to be what MIT is working on.
I'd like to see some work along the lines of a smart G suit type garment that can sense the occupant's movements and compensate by reshaping itself dynamically. Probably something based on artificial muscle fibers rather than compressed air.
If you expand the survey to include tablets and other mobile devices (what increasing numbers of people are using as their primary computing device), Android looks pretty respectable. Its behind iOS on tablets, but still making a respectable showing. Its ahead of iOS on phones. Windows mobile variants are down in the noise.
So, we need to throw the Obama administration out and vote one in that will look out for the rights of the electorate first.
Like Romney ....... Nah. Mr LBO from Bain Capital isn't going to do any better.
What about bringing an antitrust suit as a civil class action? And name the FCC as a defendant/co-conspirator in the antitrust action?
The only two things you need in life:
WD40 to make things go.
Duct tape to make them stop.
If you guys have any thoughts or ideas or brilliant schemes on what we can do, let us know.
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I'm sorry. But it clearly states "No user serviceable parts inside". By removing the cover, you have voided the warranty.
Besides, you can't return it. You've bent it.
Well, they sure screwed that up. Yes, totally screwed up.
As conglomerates like Comcast gobble up content providers like NBC,
So, stop them.
Corporations shouldn't be allowed to acquire other corporations anyway. After all, they are people. And President Lincoln said people shouldn't own other people.
Goddamn you are stupid. People like you arguing against useful improvements have held back Seattle's transit system
There's more to the region than just Seattle. But shhhh! Don't tell the mayor's office or King County (Seattle's lap dog) that people want to go somewhere other than downtown Seattle to work or shop.
the boondoggle know as the tunnel, does nothing except bypass downtown,
Again. There are other places on earth than downtown Seattle. People going downtown can use surface streets. The tunnel is for the people who want to get around it.
For my own education please elaborate on how
you have to drive
automagically translates to
soul to be crushed.
Well, if you live in Seattle, that's done by design.
The local politicians in a conspiracy with downtown developers and car-haters have made traffic hell. It has gotten so bad that the commute from one of its major suburbs to the East (across two floating bridges) reversed about a decade or so ago. Now, people leave the city for jobs on the East side (Microsoft, Google and others). And the highway department (under pressure from Seattle politicians) has never switched the reversible lanes to reflect the realities of the morning and evening traffic jams. Cars are evil. Cars take people where they want to go. Not where the city planners want to send them.
Likewise, our public transportation systems are being designed to funnel commuters into the city and back out again, as if nothing else exists in the surrounding areas. Light rail that was proposed to serve other city centers and shopping districts (Lynnwood, Everett, Southcenter, etc.) was killed off in favor of a system carefully engineered to bypass everything except downtown Seattle. An abandoned railroad right of way paralleling I-405, serving Eastside communities, is being carved up and handed off for various alternate uses rather than converted to mass transit use. Because it doesn't feed downtown Seattle. And, under the control of downtown politicians, tax money can only be spent to aim commuters at their own downtown area.
Its called a self fulfilling prophecy. When your developers pour their money into downtown real estate, you have to strangle all the alternatives to ensure their return on investment. Regardless of what the people want. So, pretty soon, sheeple just give up and go where they are hearded.
Until you get a life.
In other words: Cities are great for younger people. Cheap younger people. Once your employees start to get some experience and demand higher wages, they'll leave own their own for jobs in better environments. And you won't get sued for age discrimination by firing them.
Is this one of these apps that restarts itself every time the file system changes? Like when a background process appends to a log or something like that.
You might have to start your system in a maintenance mode and skip starting all background processes. Or mount this drive under another system as a data drive.
A) it's a tiny effect that wouldn't matter much at that magnitude
Exactly. If it were even proportional to 1/R^2 neutrino flux, gravity intensity or whatever, we'd have seen fluctuating isotope decay rates due to the earth's elliptical orbit years ago. And people would have correlated the orbit to decay rate data.
Its similar to the phenomena of time dilation at speeds approaching c. Its interesting and actually measuring it supports some interesting new theories. But it won't get me out of any speeding tickets.
It doesn't matter. Anything that gives them an opportunity to attack science will be used. It doesn't matter if it makes sense.
Science is flexible. Theories change to adapt to new data. That's why it works and dogma out of a 250 year old Bible doesn't.
I'm not worried. If this effect is based on solar neutrino flux or some such thing, what would that have to be to change radio carbon dating to give an earth age of 6000 years vs 4.5 billion? And then, what would the effect of the level of solar activity resulting in that neutrino flux do to life on earth? Probably fry it to a cinder.
If the effect exists, it is probably operating on the parts per million level. Which wouldn't do more than knock a few years off the age of Lucy.
That day will never come.
Are you sure about that? Apple has never reversed direction before?
Although it would be easier to jailbreak OSX than iOS, turning OSX into the same sort of walled garden that iOS is would stop most people from trying. Particularly developers for corporate customers, where the fear of legal repercussions would be a major roadblock.
Drink through a straw.
BS, the only banking records that were handed over were to accounts controlled by American citizens.
Without warrants. No person or company, either foreign or domestic, has any business handing records over to US law enforcement without a warrant.
And those were only demanded because Switzerland was known to be aiding and abetting US citizens evading US taxes.
So, get a warrant.
Its a nice BSD implementation and I'm sure I could drag my tools and apps over from Linux. But I fear the day that OSX becomes iOS and the ghost of Steve Jobs closes the garden gate.