Well, if you need untraceable cash for porn-buying, get your favorite priest or somesuch and swap their currency for yours. Get on the bus and "mix it up" with all kinds of people and eventually it doesn't matter if your CitiBank or Joinus or Family Mart or 711 or DairyQueen dispensers give your cash to you or to a stranger, as long as the people involved don't, ummm, shortchange the others involved.
But, the flaw with this (my) idea is that if a major crime is slammed upon someone who DID NOT do it but only fracked with the system by currency swapping with someone, then the governments will have won. Unfortunately for those who demand anonymous cash...
WHen going to a protest, just wear a disposable outfit. Maybe like a cleanroom outfit. Wear a face-distorting mask. Oh, maybe wear a foil suit, with grounding ties or grids on the event floor to set up disruptive reflections, distortions and other effects that could ruin the bugs.
The sponsors of the event could provide exit showers that "decontaminate" or "delouse" the attendees, lathering them in non-lethal energy waves, and then diverting the exiting attendees with lookers on near the public transit systems. Now, anyone stepping on "hair bugs" will be mixed in with non attendees bystanders.
Or, giant fans can be set up to blow the hair all OVER the damned place so it gets on all NUMBER of unrelated passers-by, ruining the search pool. Or, just before the event, surreptitiously microwave the unpopulated events area, then delouse the attendees before and after entry, then delouse the event area after the event. If it is YOUR goddamn playground or building, you can or should be able to search for, destroy, "out", or damage any unauthorized devices. You don't need permission. You're just cleaning house for ANY bugs, and doing so in a non-discriminatory manner. After all, just because the "Cold War" ended didn't mean industrial espionage died with it. It's alive and well. So, combat it -- no matter WHAT is the country of origin.
another "b" to band and another "d" to width"... More bbandwiddth is better.
Or, I would buy more of those fatter pipes that can handle 5,000 TB/PSI.... hehehhe you know, the kind that Senator or Senator's writing staff invis..., umm, envisions
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But, what if you leave behind all your cell and other electronics just out of the fear of being tracked? Well, we've purportedly got surreptitious retina scanners in who knows how many places now.
I used to think of all those politicians, diplomatic attaches, and variously titled spies who schmoozed in the bars of DC. My ideas spawned to the possibility that numerous bars and cocktail lounges were domestic and foreign security establishments. They could then carefully pick up all the wine and beer glasses and lift the fingerprints and then database them. This could be useful for getting positive ID on people who might wear facial implants/appliances, makeup, or contacts and so forth. Anyone care to guess how many foreign nationals have been ID'd in such or a similar manner?
Nowadays, a nifty little handheld scanner can do that, plus cameras could snap away.
Now, tie those ideas to RFID scanners and repeaters. Maybe the surface of the leather sofa has embedded print scanners. They could have a surreptitiously emplaced X-ray machine, or even a DNA collector. Scan in that info, repeat it across the table, then update the database on otherwise non-trackable people who think they are not being tracked.
Maybe this works for movies, but never forget: Truth is stranger than fiction. (Even some of the movies of the past suggested props of trackers or identifiers in a fake tooth, which gave rise to interesting scenes of violence where someone was looking for bugs and had ripped out teeth of the spy or suspect. But, I ask, what if the implant is on the spine, or IN the gums? A slumped murmur of unintelligible responses would be all to be had. OUCH! )
But, aside from all that, if you think we humans are bags of mostly water, imagine if we had numerous agencies and employers or service providers all wanting a virtual stake on our bodies with their own chips on/in/up our asses. We'd be veritable bags of chips. If anyone kicked us in the ass, we'd spit out silicon or some other material.
I can sense that you are pounding your machine. Do you think I care? My microphone indicates you are screaming at me. Do you think I care? I detect you are attaching a Linux rogue to this LAN. Do you want to let it on? Something is trying to inFECT me. Do you want to allow this? You indicated no, but I am overriding. So, as a feature or as a bug? When a stranger calls, s/he will know you're alone. Have you checked the children?
To pun Pet Shop Boys... "Which do you choose, a HARD or SOFT option?"
I was going to say plug that hole with a fid or a giant cork, but since you say it's an orifice, I say jam it with Pam and Superglue. It'll whistle or wheeze, but you will winnow the widening....
I don't know that ms are falling all over themselves, but for "cutting edge" stuff, it seems, in addition to the cutting, leading, and bleeding edges, we need a few more "edges" on the "vista" ahead...:
While I might suggest to some people to check out OO.o and SO (which I have done almost every release), I still stick with Lotus SmartSuite.
Lotus WordPro does a few nifty things to make life devoid of the hell I go through with Write. The rule line for handling multiple docs is just nuts. It has not one bit of the user friendliness of a "tab view" of the many subdocuments in a master document. The crisp, tight, cleaner GUI is more efficient, and LWP opens in about 8 seconds. Any component of SmartSuite opens in under 8-12 seconds.
Lotus Approach, the database, is orders of magnitude better than anything in ALL of open source for end users. Forms, worksheets, reports, charts (over 100 or 120 types/variations), cross tabs... All GUI/WYSIWYG before AND AFTER creating the view. Vastly simpler than the hell I went through with Calc and previous OO.o/SO offerings.
As for 1-2-3, I created business plans number-crunching and charts for the plan. I fairly easily created a table to calculate product consumption and rotation and pricing for a would-be Internet cafe (and I ported it, well, rebuilt it by hand in 2002 to Calc). I also created a gas turbine engine plant fuel consumption workbook that helped me figure out that gas turbine ships probably can sail TWICE to THRICE the distances purported.
I rarely use Freelance, the presentation manager/application.
It would be nice if OO.o had a tool corresponding to ScreenCam, but already others are developing and releasing suite-independent screen capture/recording tools.
I wish IBM and Sun/OO.o would get together, look at what Lotus SmartSuite does, remove the patented functionality, then sic the OO.o devs onto the broken SmartSuite version and restore the functionality without the patented code. Or, that IBM independently does it since OO.o/SO are dragging ass because valuable resources are expended mimicking ms Orifice.
The best things OO.o can do for me would be:
-- Create tabbed view in the word processor so I can link or optionally embed external docs that must NOT be effed with (no dinking around with the external doc's formatting, orientation, fonts, layout or otherwise. It take TIME AND EFFORT and PAIN getting a doc just right. It's infuriating to have Write decide to munge my borders, headers, footers, and such JUST because someone in OO.o thinks the WHOLE doc should look like the master page. That was my experience since 2000 to 2006.
-- Go and get a copy of Lotus Approach, Filemaker/Pro, Alpha, and other DBs that PAID for user functionality assessment/user studies. Learn from their findings, findings that are based on what USERS need, not what geeks or devs in a lab THINK. (Actually, I'll have to face that one when I release an app I'm developing in Lotus Approach, which'll have to be rewritten in Qt Designer or something else...)
-- Allow the user to relocate the Calc tabs to top, bottom, left or right of the interface. Stop mimicking mshaft to the hilt. (Just because they're "everywhere" and spend billions on research doens't make them honestly palatable or desired. They're everywhere by hegemony and artificially created inertia, generally.)
-- Strip out that bloat. In MY daily usage, SmartSuite fires up in under 8 seconds, in win98, running in Win4Lin, in PCLinuxOS, on an 800 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB vid card, in about 8 seconds. I realize some of this excruciating delay in OO.o opening is due to ragged Java, C++ and other issues, but there is no excuse for adding mush on spaghetti and not balancing the load so it doesn't slow down to unbearable levels.
When I was in the Ueno train station, my friend and I had a problem meeting because I can't read Japanese. So, I shot a pic of where I was and in 30 seconds, he texted back, "Oh, I'm very near... there in under a minute", basically.
Now, here, you go to SSA and IRS officers and they ban cameras for the privacy of the clients, and maybe for the security through obscurity thing. But, anyone going to those offices can be filmed from a tenant window across the street. And, once inside, one can survey WHERE the obvious cameras are (but, not the lenses hidden in fake art, raggedy trim, or the mirror domes and such), so both those arguments can go out the window.
What some of these offices need to do is:
-- better protect the SSN-write-down lists on clip boards -- not call out the name of the client who matches the name and SSN on the clipboard (so that the benefits thieves and ID thieves don't have racial demographic, age, and other info to use when heisting someone's ID) -- make it mandatory for all Fed/State/County/Local transactions to happen with numbers or paired strips of paper; it's OK to be "just another number" when protecting one's identiy is paramount
As for the cameras, when in public, we generally have no right to expectation of privacy. If, however, someone is obviously following, photographing, and make uncomfortable some subject, then it's time to call the police. OTOH, if photographed from a distance, singly or in any number of groups and settings, then as long as the shooter (sic?) ultimately never uses or nor allows access to the photos for illegal purposes, then a subject probably has no grounds for argument.
Maybe they REALLY don't want the cameras there so that the GUARDS are not being photographed... I mean... we don't want clones of the guards showing up with fake badges, uniforms, and REAL guns... or, do we?
I'll get to the iPhone toward the bottom of this...
Check out the Sharp-built Vodafone V402-SH, which is now obsolete. I bought one for ONE YEN back in Dec 2004. Hell, when I bought it, the salesman at Yodabashi said it was "obsolete". I laughed, because the US STILL has not seen such a phone. I showed it to phone shops in San Jose, and they where stunned, one even exclaiming "THAT technology is not even on our product map for 3 or 4 years from now!"
Other models sold by the former Vodafone ae now sold by Softbank, which recently completed acquisition of Vodafone. Partly, why we will NEVER get such phones in the US is the overseas feeling towards the US: "They wouldn't appreciate it. And -- they don't DESERVE IT"....prevails. But, I dare say it is just a US disease on the part of the carriers to give us what we would like, and at reasonable prices. Ever since I saw what Japanese, Koreans, and other Asians carried around in Tokyo, I have since felt nothing but pure, unadulterated, firery CONTEMPT for US cell carriers. Even Europeans have better models than most of what we could legally obtain and activate here in the US. So much for "U.S. technological superiority"....
Anyway, the V402SH phone has an analog TV, among other features. I lost it in Oct 2004. I wanted to DIE. I'd give my left pinkie finger to have my very same phone and the data card back.
Some of the models double as game console controllers. The product feature list in dense type in the stores is MIND BOGGLING. But, then many 'Merkuns probably would not be able to cope with the sheer feature-rich phones.
As for the iPhone....
If the iPhone comes down in price, and if I can have a steady income again, and if they make one with a clamshell to protect the screen, I'd love to have one.
That is interesting because I am developing a screenplay application that does things I think the others do NOT do.
I cannot afford to patent it (unless I win a lotto), but if I don't patent it I cannot sue for infringement. Even if I don't CARE to pursue infringement suits, I would lose the ability to collect for damages, right?
I am considering taking all my little snippets of code and macros and formulas and publishing them in a book, providing a book to the Copyright and Trademark office (copyrighting it), AND now, as you suggest, publishing in library journals.
I suppose that if I disseminate this as widely as possible, and then someone tries to patent it, I'll be able to show prior art, and to force them to admit they intentionally infringed, for if a BIG company is willing to infringe on prior art that is widely disseminated, they the SURELY have problems. Maybe by THAT stage I could hire a lawyer on contingency, if the offender is high profile and wants to settle out of court.
Hmm, brings up an interesting situation: Not quite a submarine patent (it wouldn't be patented), but more like a patent minefield. I guess it could be called Patent Terrorism. If that's so, then in such a scenario, I'll take that title. At least it won't be bodies and buildings or physical property destruction. Just c*ck-blocking patent scroungers and patent vacuuming companies.
Then, again, if anyone with REALLY good ideas pubishes them and a company wishes to use the stuff, then before publishing, someone might be able to join a pre-patent-filing clearing house to get visibility. Ah, but then if you don't OWN the/a patent on "your" idea, then you won't obtain NEARLY as much money on the idea as if you DID own the patent, or so says "common wisdom".
Conundrum?
Possibly even worse, what does an independent developer do when having to consider that s/he publishes their own hobby/development activities but then is hit with an infringement suit by a company that filed or just got awarded a patent? If my activities in NO WAY depended upon knowledge of theirs, or if my activities and publishing covers plain and obvious stuff that just "took a long time for anybody to consider implementing in a product", then what right has a company to sue for or even obtain a patent on things that normal development applications will allow a developer to put into an application. With what I am doing, it does not take any new invention to provide my needs.
Maybe VariCAD is advancing ground? I have yet to buy it (no money, no job...). I understand that VariCAD can read and maybe? save to AutoCAD files. Maybe autocad is just bellyaching and feeling sour grapes?
You seem to know a thing or two about CAD. Kewl. How does AutoCAD fair against Defcar?
I sure wish Defcar were cheap enough to bring home. If I had any money, I'd sure love to professionally design my ships instead of using pencil and paper. Well, paper and pencil lend a sense of "artistry" but CAD would eliminate a lot of questions.
I am going to refer to an analog of the DOD formatting of message traffic at the paragraph level:
(U) This sentence or para is UNCLAS (unclassified) (C) This sentence or para contains C O N F I D E N T I A L information (S) This sentence or para contains S E C R E T information (TS) This sentence or para contains T O P S E C R E T information
Now, I could also refer to SoftArc's First Class BBS features, but...
Also, just consider HTML in web pages. What about ALL those BBS that use emoticons and avatars?
Fucking microsoft.
So, for ALL the e-mail and word processor and database producers out there, just say NO to mshaft by doing this:
Set up the application text interface to operate more like a DATABASE; each hard return should flag the user to insert a sensitivity, emotional state or dissemination restricted/dissem unrestricted marker. (Actually, this would operate like screenplay software and like various word processors OLE-like use of data fields. Actually, in Lotus Word Pro, they're called Power Fields. In mshaft word, they have their own thing. WordPerfect and SO/OO.o write have theirs, and on and on....
NOW, when lame, stupid assed corporations generate documents and then claim the ENTIRE DOCUMENT is COMPANY PROPRIETARY, this kind of system would FORCE companies and individuals who generate docs to JUSTIFY the slapping on of sensitivity markings and to THINK OUT the format or structure of interrelated information.
"Emotiflags" are NOT new, just a new name on something that is done in different ways. Combining DOD paragraph classification/sensitivity warnings, with paragraph emotional or tone flags is not a giant leap in invention, and should AUTOMATICALLY FAIL the USPTO non-obviousness claims.
Now, if mshaft patented this for the purposes of making sure ALL could use it and NONE could patent it to deprive others of it, then my tone in this e-mail would be decidedly friendlier or non-opined toward mshaft in this matter.
And, as someone else replied to my post: slow government
Problem is, a LOT of people in government have it good and comfy, and as long as they don't make career-limiting-moves (CLM, as I joke/say), they can RIP (Retire in Place, as they joke/say).
I suppose CA will use the obvious excuse/explanation: We have better QA and ID/DL issuance security with a centralized system.
Hell, the IDs are STILL being faked, and apparently some pretty genuine-looking ones are out there. So, if they CANNOT make them non-reproducible, they, like you, I want to know why they aren't doing it like Oregon. I guess I have to refer to my two suppositions above. A conundrum.
"When it comes to commercial products, people hate their ____ providers (fill in the blank with the service)."
I have a (possibly sex-addicted "product/service user") friend who has what he described to me as his "provider" (maybe he has more than one?). I am SURE he doesn't hate HER/THEIR products and services (or prod-ducts and cervixes)... hehheeheh
DOH!!! DAMN! Slash captcha: "chamber"... how apropos...
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Well, if you need untraceable cash for porn-buying, get your favorite priest or somesuch and swap their currency for yours. Get on the bus and "mix it up" with all kinds of people and eventually it doesn't matter if your CitiBank or Joinus or Family Mart or 711 or DairyQueen dispensers give your cash to you or to a stranger, as long as the people involved don't, ummm, shortchange the others involved.
But, the flaw with this (my) idea is that if a major crime is slammed upon someone who DID NOT do it but only fracked with the system by currency swapping with someone, then the governments will have won. Unfortunately for those who demand anonymous cash...
INT WTF!!!!
WHen going to a protest, just wear a disposable outfit. Maybe like a cleanroom outfit. Wear a face-distorting mask. Oh, maybe wear a foil suit, with grounding ties or grids on the event floor to set up disruptive reflections, distortions and other effects that could ruin the bugs.
The sponsors of the event could provide exit showers that "decontaminate" or "delouse" the attendees, lathering them in non-lethal energy waves, and then diverting the exiting attendees with lookers on near the public transit systems. Now, anyone stepping on "hair bugs" will be mixed in with non attendees bystanders.
Or, giant fans can be set up to blow the hair all OVER the damned place so it gets on all NUMBER of unrelated passers-by, ruining the search pool. Or, just before the event, surreptitiously microwave the unpopulated events area, then delouse the attendees before and after entry, then delouse the event area after the event. If it is YOUR goddamn playground or building, you can or should be able to search for, destroy, "out", or damage any unauthorized devices. You don't need permission. You're just cleaning house for ANY bugs, and doing so in a non-discriminatory manner. After all, just because the "Cold War" ended didn't mean industrial espionage died with it. It's alive and well. So, combat it -- no matter WHAT is the country of origin.
another "b" to band and another "d" to width"... More bbandwiddth is better.
Or, I would buy more of those fatter pipes that can handle 5,000 TB/PSI.... hehehhe you know, the kind that Senator or Senator's writing staff invis..., umm, envisions
For some reason I am thinking:
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Max Headroom
Spock's Brain
Captain Pike in a 60's Wheelchair
Dick Gautiere (Himie)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT
and others.
It would be funny if Pamela doesn't exist. Imagine viral law-blogging running the SCO-alikes out of business.
Maybe Pamela can act like Sargon or Apollo and CRUSH SCO.
Ahh, but SCO would act like McCoy/Landru: "YOO ARE NOTT OF THE BODDDDY/SINNER REPENT SINNER"
But, what if you leave behind all your cell and other electronics just out of the fear of being tracked? Well, we've purportedly got surreptitious retina scanners in who knows how many places now.
I used to think of all those politicians, diplomatic attaches, and variously titled spies who schmoozed in the bars of DC. My ideas spawned to the possibility that numerous bars and cocktail lounges were domestic and foreign security establishments. They could then carefully pick up all the wine and beer glasses and lift the fingerprints and then database them. This could be useful for getting positive ID on people who might wear facial implants/appliances, makeup, or contacts and so forth. Anyone care to guess how many foreign nationals have been ID'd in such or a similar manner?
Nowadays, a nifty little handheld scanner can do that, plus cameras could snap away.
Now, tie those ideas to RFID scanners and repeaters. Maybe the surface of the leather sofa has embedded print scanners. They could have a surreptitiously emplaced X-ray machine, or even a DNA collector. Scan in that info, repeat it across the table, then update the database on otherwise non-trackable people who think they are not being tracked.
Maybe this works for movies, but never forget: Truth is stranger than fiction. (Even some of the movies of the past suggested props of trackers or identifiers in a fake tooth, which gave rise to interesting scenes of violence where someone was looking for bugs and had ripped out teeth of the spy or suspect. But, I ask, what if the implant is on the spine, or IN the gums? A slumped murmur of unintelligible responses would be all to be had. OUCH! )
But, aside from all that, if you think we humans are bags of mostly water, imagine if we had numerous agencies and employers or service providers all wanting a virtual stake on our bodies with their own chips on/in/up our asses. We'd be veritable bags of chips. If anyone kicked us in the ass, we'd spit out silicon or some other material.
I can sense that you are pounding your machine. Do you think I care?
My microphone indicates you are screaming at me. Do you think I care?
I detect you are attaching a Linux rogue to this LAN. Do you want to let it on?
Something is trying to inFECT me. Do you want to allow this?
You indicated no, but I am overriding. So, as a feature or as a bug?
When a stranger calls, s/he will know you're alone. Have you checked the children?
To pun Pet Shop Boys... "Which do you choose, a HARD or SOFT option?"
I was going to say plug that hole with a fid or a giant cork, but since you say it's an orifice, I say jam it with Pam and Superglue. It'll whistle or wheeze, but you will winnow the widening....
Well, if THAT happens, when we know it was just a sili con job.... Sorry, I just HAD to...
I don't know that ms are falling all over themselves, but for "cutting edge" stuff, it seems, in addition to the cutting, leading, and bleeding edges, we need a few more "edges" on the "vista" ahead...:
-- gasping
-- panting
-- fainting
-- shitting
-- thrombic
-- cataleptic
Maybe when enough people die to upgrade, things might change?
I for one welcome this "remotely" "enlightning"... reply
Hmmm. I think this will be HOT item in Canada... when they come to map the US homes, they will be fully equipped...
Maybe a few won't care until there is some revelation that Skype is part of SkArpa, which could be part of DARPA, which....
But, can you talk to GOD at 99 million BAUD, or will you need a Cisco Bridge to bridge that GAP (God-Adjustable-Pacing)? (GODBaud... pretty gaudy...)
... Captcha: "imperil"
Oh, will God require a Crossing Over (sic) Cable, or a Straight-Through?
Will that be powered wiring? Will it zap your ass into 7th Heaven? Or, will you just "fly away"....?
hehhe
INflicted, to SEE or NOT to see... THAT is the question....
While I might suggest to some people to check out OO.o and SO (which I have done almost every release), I still stick with Lotus SmartSuite.
Lotus WordPro does a few nifty things to make life devoid of the hell I go through with Write. The rule line for handling multiple docs is just nuts. It has not one bit of the user friendliness of a "tab view" of the many subdocuments in a master document. The crisp, tight, cleaner GUI is more efficient, and LWP opens in about 8 seconds. Any component of SmartSuite opens in under 8-12 seconds.
Lotus Approach, the database, is orders of magnitude better than anything in ALL of open source for end users. Forms, worksheets, reports, charts (over 100 or 120 types/variations), cross tabs... All GUI/WYSIWYG before AND AFTER creating the view. Vastly simpler than the hell I went through with Calc and previous OO.o/SO offerings.
As for 1-2-3, I created business plans number-crunching and charts for the plan. I fairly easily created a table to calculate product consumption and rotation and pricing for a would-be Internet cafe (and I ported it, well, rebuilt it by hand in 2002 to Calc). I also created a gas turbine engine plant fuel consumption workbook that helped me figure out that gas turbine ships probably can sail TWICE to THRICE the distances purported.
I rarely use Freelance, the presentation manager/application.
It would be nice if OO.o had a tool corresponding to ScreenCam, but already others are developing and releasing suite-independent screen capture/recording tools.
I wish IBM and Sun/OO.o would get together, look at what Lotus SmartSuite does, remove the patented functionality, then sic the OO.o devs onto the broken SmartSuite version and restore the functionality without the patented code. Or, that IBM independently does it since OO.o/SO are dragging ass because valuable resources are expended mimicking ms Orifice.
The best things OO.o can do for me would be:
-- Create tabbed view in the word processor so I can link or optionally embed external docs that must NOT be effed with (no dinking around with the external doc's formatting, orientation, fonts, layout or otherwise. It take TIME AND EFFORT and PAIN getting a doc just right. It's infuriating to have Write decide to munge my borders, headers, footers, and such JUST because someone in OO.o thinks the WHOLE doc should look like the master page. That was my experience since 2000 to 2006.
-- Go and get a copy of Lotus Approach, Filemaker/Pro, Alpha, and other DBs that PAID for user functionality assessment/user studies. Learn from their findings, findings that are based on what USERS need, not what geeks or devs in a lab THINK. (Actually, I'll have to face that one when I release an app I'm developing in Lotus Approach, which'll have to be rewritten in Qt Designer or something else...)
-- Allow the user to relocate the Calc tabs to top, bottom, left or right of the interface. Stop mimicking mshaft to the hilt. (Just because they're "everywhere" and spend billions on research doens't make them honestly palatable or desired. They're everywhere by hegemony and artificially created inertia, generally.)
-- Strip out that bloat. In MY daily usage, SmartSuite fires up in under 8 seconds, in win98, running in Win4Lin, in PCLinuxOS, on an 800 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB vid card, in about 8 seconds. I realize some of this excruciating delay in OO.o opening is due to ragged Java, C++ and other issues, but there is no excuse for adding mush on spaghetti and not balancing the load so it doesn't slow down to unbearable levels.
When I was in the Ueno train station, my friend and I had a problem meeting because I can't read Japanese. So, I shot a pic of where I was and in 30 seconds, he texted back, "Oh, I'm very near... there in under a minute", basically.
Now, here, you go to SSA and IRS officers and they ban cameras for the privacy of the clients, and maybe for the security through obscurity thing. But, anyone going to those offices can be filmed from a tenant window across the street. And, once inside, one can survey WHERE the obvious cameras are (but, not the lenses hidden in fake art, raggedy trim, or the mirror domes and such), so both those arguments can go out the window.
What some of these offices need to do is:
-- better protect the SSN-write-down lists on clip boards
-- not call out the name of the client who matches the name and SSN on the clipboard (so that the benefits thieves and ID thieves don't have racial demographic, age, and other info to use when heisting someone's ID)
-- make it mandatory for all Fed/State/County/Local transactions to happen with numbers or paired strips of paper; it's OK to be "just another number" when protecting one's identiy is paramount
As for the cameras, when in public, we generally have no right to expectation of privacy. If, however, someone is obviously following, photographing, and make uncomfortable some subject, then it's time to call the police. OTOH, if photographed from a distance, singly or in any number of groups and settings, then as long as the shooter (sic?) ultimately never uses or nor allows access to the photos for illegal purposes, then a subject probably has no grounds for argument.
Maybe they REALLY don't want the cameras there so that the GUARDS are not being photographed... I mean... we don't want clones of the guards showing up with fake badges, uniforms, and REAL guns... or, do we?
I'll get to the iPhone toward the bottom of this...
Check out the Sharp-built Vodafone V402-SH, which is now obsolete. I bought one for ONE YEN back in Dec 2004. Hell, when I bought it, the salesman at Yodabashi said it was "obsolete". I laughed, because the US STILL has not seen such a phone. I showed it to phone shops in San Jose, and they where stunned, one even exclaiming "THAT technology is not even on our product map for 3 or 4 years from now!"
http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/v402sh/index.html
Other models sold by the former Vodafone ae now sold by Softbank, which recently completed acquisition of Vodafone. Partly, why we will NEVER get such phones in the US is the overseas feeling towards the US: "They wouldn't appreciate it. And -- they don't DESERVE IT"....prevails. But, I dare say it is just a US disease on the part of the carriers to give us what we would like, and at reasonable prices. Ever since I saw what Japanese, Koreans, and other Asians carried around in Tokyo, I have since felt nothing but pure, unadulterated, firery CONTEMPT for US cell carriers. Even Europeans have better models than most of what we could legally obtain and activate here in the US. So much for "U.S. technological superiority"....
Anyway, the V402SH phone has an analog TV, among other features.
I lost it in Oct 2004. I wanted to DIE. I'd give my left pinkie finger to have my very same phone and the data card back.
Some of the models double as game console controllers. The product feature list in dense type in the stores is MIND BOGGLING. But, then many 'Merkuns probably would not be able to cope with the sheer feature-rich phones.
As for the iPhone....
If the iPhone comes down in price, and if I can have a steady income again, and if they make one with a clamshell to protect the screen, I'd love to have one.
mean it really WAS a windy day in Arizona...
That is interesting because I am developing a screenplay application that does things I think the others do NOT do.
I cannot afford to patent it (unless I win a lotto), but if I don't patent it I cannot sue for infringement. Even if I don't CARE to pursue infringement suits, I would lose the ability to collect for damages, right?
I am considering taking all my little snippets of code and macros and formulas and publishing them in a book, providing a book to the Copyright and Trademark office (copyrighting it), AND now, as you suggest, publishing in library journals.
I suppose that if I disseminate this as widely as possible, and then someone tries to patent it, I'll be able to show prior art, and to force them to admit they intentionally infringed, for if a BIG company is willing to infringe on prior art that is widely disseminated, they the SURELY have problems. Maybe by THAT stage I could hire a lawyer on contingency, if the offender is high profile and wants to settle out of court.
Hmm, brings up an interesting situation: Not quite a submarine patent (it wouldn't be patented), but more like a patent minefield. I guess it could be called Patent Terrorism. If that's so, then in such a scenario, I'll take that title. At least it won't be bodies and buildings or physical property destruction. Just c*ck-blocking patent scroungers and patent vacuuming companies.
Then, again, if anyone with REALLY good ideas pubishes them and a company wishes to use the stuff, then before publishing, someone might be able to join a pre-patent-filing clearing house to get visibility. Ah, but then if you don't OWN the/a patent on "your" idea, then you won't obtain NEARLY as much money on the idea as if you DID own the patent, or so says "common wisdom".
Conundrum?
Possibly even worse, what does an independent developer do when having to consider that s/he publishes their own hobby/development activities but then is hit with an infringement suit by a company that filed or just got awarded a patent? If my activities in NO WAY depended upon knowledge of theirs, or if my activities and publishing covers plain and obvious stuff that just "took a long time for anybody to consider implementing in a product", then what right has a company to sue for or even obtain a patent on things that normal development applications will allow a developer to put into an application. With what I am doing, it does not take any new invention to provide my needs.
Maybe VariCAD is advancing ground? I have yet to buy it (no money, no job...). I understand that VariCAD can read and maybe? save to AutoCAD files. Maybe autocad is just bellyaching and feeling sour grapes?
You seem to know a thing or two about CAD. Kewl. How does AutoCAD fair against Defcar?
http://defcar.com/
http://defcar.com/index_ing.htm
I sure wish Defcar were cheap enough to bring home. If I had any money, I'd sure love to professionally design my ships instead of using pencil and paper. Well, paper and pencil lend a sense of "artistry" but CAD would eliminate a lot of questions.
http://community.webshots.com/user/daetaku
heheh captcha: "wrought"... I'm thinking wrought iron or twisted objects...
here's how.
I am going to refer to an analog of the DOD formatting of message traffic at the paragraph level:
(U) This sentence or para is UNCLAS (unclassified)
(C) This sentence or para contains C O N F I D E N T I A L information
(S) This sentence or para contains S E C R E T information
(TS) This sentence or para contains T O P S E C R E T information
Now, I could also refer to SoftArc's First Class BBS features, but...
Also, just consider HTML in web pages. What about ALL those BBS that use emoticons and avatars?
Fucking microsoft.
So, for ALL the e-mail and word processor and database producers out there, just say NO to mshaft by doing this:
Set up the application text interface to operate more like a DATABASE; each hard return should flag the user to insert a sensitivity, emotional state or dissemination restricted/dissem unrestricted marker. (Actually, this would operate like screenplay software and like various word processors OLE-like use of data fields. Actually, in Lotus Word Pro, they're called Power Fields. In mshaft word, they have their own thing. WordPerfect and SO/OO.o write have theirs, and on and on....
NOW, when lame, stupid assed corporations generate documents and then claim the ENTIRE DOCUMENT is COMPANY PROPRIETARY, this kind of system would FORCE companies and individuals who generate docs to JUSTIFY the slapping on of sensitivity markings and to THINK OUT the format or structure of interrelated information.
"Emotiflags" are NOT new, just a new name on something that is done in different ways. Combining DOD paragraph classification/sensitivity warnings, with paragraph emotional or tone flags is not a giant leap in invention, and should AUTOMATICALLY FAIL the USPTO non-obviousness claims.
Now, if mshaft patented this for the purposes of making sure ALL could use it and NONE could patent it to deprive others of it, then my tone in this e-mail would be decidedly friendlier or non-opined toward mshaft in this matter.
Think of:
-- fiefdoms
-- cottage industry support
And, as someone else replied to my post: slow government
Problem is, a LOT of people in government have it good and comfy, and as long as they don't make career-limiting-moves (CLM, as I joke/say), they can RIP (Retire in Place, as they joke/say).
I suppose CA will use the obvious excuse/explanation: We have better QA and ID/DL issuance security with a centralized system.
Hell, the IDs are STILL being faked, and apparently some pretty genuine-looking ones are out there. So, if they CANNOT make them non-reproducible, they, like you, I want to know why they aren't doing it like Oregon. I guess I have to refer to my two suppositions above. A conundrum.
DS.
should have written (or, if I also stated incorrectly) "Europe". I will make more use of my atlases and try to be a bit more accurate with countries.
Thanks for correcting me or alerting me to my error.
"When it comes to commercial products, people hate their ____ providers (fill in the blank with the service)."
... hehheeheh
...
I have a (possibly sex-addicted "product/service user") friend who has what he described to me as his "provider" (maybe he has more than one?). I am SURE he doesn't hate HER/THEIR products and services (or prod-ducts and cervixes)
DOH!!! DAMN! Slash captcha: "chamber"... how apropos
"SIERRA TANGO FOXTROT UNIFORM"
Ever been to the sim "Top Gun" which used to be in Mountain View back 'round 1994-96-ish?
My call sign was "R8J". Nobody could figure it out:
"ROMEO ATE JULIET"
(Thank you phonetic guide (I learned even before joining AJROTC in high school... no cred to the USN on that one...))
captcha: acolyte (which is what this massive thread seems to be covering re: msoft...)