You might as well blame the Orange Bowl (sponsored by FedEx) or any television network that carries FedEx commercials for inflating the cost of your package shipping. Compared to TV advertising and other sponsorhip costs, this clever little publicity tool is dirt-cheap. And it makes a neat point about how durable the boxes are.
When I ship stuff, I'd like to think it'll get there in good shape. One way I ensure this is with sturdy packaging.
OK, Now here's an independent website that shows just how sturdy FedEx packaging is in a clever way . . . What do they do? SHUT IT DOWN! Holy crap!! They should be LINKING to this guy's site. I guess lawyers wouldn't know a good idea if it was gnawing their asses off.
I think there's somethime wrong with just about everything you say . . . just a few examples:
I have no problem having my auto information on an RFID tag somewhere on the car
Why store this on the car? You've got the license plate number which could be used as an index for this information stored elsewhere for auto registration purposes.
In the idea of more security, I'd be fine with having my passport contain an RFID tag.
Why? If this info had to be stored on the passport, why not use some "contact" technology to read it -- so you know when it's being read. And what "security" purpose is served by storing this information on the passport?
[Y]ou need but be damn sure that you keep that info safe and if not, YOU are responsible for fixing the mess, not ME.
This could be its own topic. You want to have your information stored in/on your car in a fashion that can be read by anyone in the proximity of your car, and you want that to be someone else's problem to keep it secure. And if it gets out, it's someone else's problem to fix? With what? The amnesia ray?
How about this -- we ask ourselves how security is to be improved before we do something stupid, and then ask ourselves how security is weakened by doing the aforementioned stupid thing? Security is not just protection from each other, but protection from intrusive government and business. And no, we are not the government. Even if you believe that you live in a land of representative government, you are merely an element of "government".
Now, would everyone please go read Beyond Fear. Thank you.
And the C=64 has composite video out! Built-in! Just plug 'er in to the TV and go.
I do fondly remember having sing-along nights with SIDPlayer and a box of disks full of song files (SID and MUS format, of course). Those were the days . . . "I bless the RAY - YAYNS down in A - A - FRI - CA." Good times.
You could boot from a solid-state drive, and store all your media files on a noisy server somewhere else. Then your only problem is the local optical drive. You could do without the optical drive if you've already got a stand-alone DVD/etc. player, and now you're silent. I haven't tried booting from a flash drive on a windows system, but it should be possible. One of these http://www.acscontrol.com/Pages/Products/CompactFl ash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm
will turn your CF card into an IDE drive, or use an all-in-one DiscOnChip http://www.tri-m.com/products/msystems/ffd35ideplu s.html. It doesn't require drivers, so one should be able to install any OS on it.
You could even retrofit your Zalman PC, and poof! now your TiVo is the loudest thing in the living room.
I've worked on a number of embedded systems, and we've always made daylight savings an adjustable feature. After all, it varies by country (or even region) and can be changed by government mandate. And furthermore, the US has changed the definition less than 20 years ago. There is precedent for this. There really is no excuse to hard code DST.
Although I understand your rebuttals, and they are reasonable and defensible, I think the authors "miss" these technologies in the "grief" sense of the word. I.E., They "miss" the idea of a future with these technologies, or perhaps "miss" thinking of the kind of future that these ideas suggested.
For example, I remember how cool I thought the Newton was, despite its flaws. It was just fun to imagine what the future held with such digital assistants in it. The loss comes in having to change our hopes for the future.
I speak from experience here about the lack of natural light . . .
I would love to see one of these light pipes (fiber or otherwise) that could be stretched 100 feet or so. That and some industrial drilling equipment and I could get some light in my cave (really). It would really boost my morale and productivity.
I try to take breaks in the day by walking down the road to the elevator to the surface, taking the long ride up and walking out of the vestibule into the light. It's not quite the same as having some natural light in the workplace. It's perpetually twilight here.
And no, I don't work at an underground military facility or deep space simulator, the rent's just really cheap underground. But we pay for it -- it's only lunchtime and I'm burned out.
And just like tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag guns, police dogs, real guns, water cannon, etc., this device would never be used against a peaceable assembly . . .
In some (corn producing) states (like Iowa), you pay less than full price due to favorable tax laws when you buy ethanol blend.
You should have also noted that your mileage is lower in very hot weather, since your fuel expands with temperature. Unless you live in Canada, where motor fuel is sold "net" (temperature compensated to 68F/20C).
My sister ran into a similar problem getting reproductions of old photos of us as kids.
You go to a professional photographer, and the studio claims to own the copyright, cause you just paid them to shoot the photos (a service) -- prints are extra and they still own the image.
Now, if you're a photographer working at the studio, you shoot the photos, but the studio owns the copyright, cause it's "work-for-hire".
Seems to me a contradiction, unless you realize that the actual rule is "It's always owned by the Man." Then it all makes sense.
To add insult to injury, some of the studios that shot the old photos don't even exist anymore to provide prints or permission.
You can't really claim that any interaction with a company is "right" or "wrong". A company is not an ethical or moral entity, and therefore a relationship with a business cannot be evaluated with ethics or morals.
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. . . a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
In that 1952 Tex Avery classic, a character reaches into the edge of the frame to pluck a "hair" from the image. It would be sad to see this gag lost to digital restoration.
For a humorous look at the evangelical point of view, see http://landoverbaptist.org/. Make sure to listen to their sermons about science and "academialists". I wasn't sure at first that it was a joke . . . I wonder what that says about baptists in general?
Actually, most of these nutjobs have their kids in private religious schools, or worse, they "homeschool". This is actually the argument to keep government run schools out of the hands of religious nuts.
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You might as well blame the Orange Bowl (sponsored by FedEx) or any television network that carries FedEx commercials for inflating the cost of your package shipping. Compared to TV advertising and other sponsorhip costs, this clever little publicity tool is dirt-cheap. And it makes a neat point about how durable the boxes are.
FedEx is just using it to beat up on a guy they should be thanking. Sort of the "domestic violence" of copyright abuse.
When I ship stuff, I'd like to think it'll get there in good shape. One way I ensure this is with sturdy packaging.
OK, Now here's an independent website that shows just how sturdy FedEx packaging is in a clever way . . . What do they do? SHUT IT DOWN! Holy crap!! They should be LINKING to this guy's site. I guess lawyers wouldn't know a good idea if it was gnawing their asses off.
Yeah, we give, they take.
I think there's somethime wrong with just about everything you say . . . just a few examples:
I have no problem having my auto information on an RFID tag somewhere on the car
Why store this on the car? You've got the license plate number which could be used as an index for this information stored elsewhere for auto registration purposes.
In the idea of more security, I'd be fine with having my passport contain an RFID tag.
Why? If this info had to be stored on the passport, why not use some "contact" technology to read it -- so you know when it's being read. And what "security" purpose is served by storing this information on the passport?
[Y]ou need but be damn sure that you keep that info safe and if not, YOU are responsible for fixing the mess, not ME.
This could be its own topic. You want to have your information stored in/on your car in a fashion that can be read by anyone in the proximity of your car, and you want that to be someone else's problem to keep it secure. And if it gets out, it's someone else's problem to fix? With what? The amnesia ray?
How about this -- we ask ourselves how security is to be improved before we do something stupid, and then ask ourselves how security is weakened by doing the aforementioned stupid thing? Security is not just protection from each other, but protection from intrusive government and business. And no, we are not the government. Even if you believe that you live in a land of representative government, you are merely an element of "government".
Now, would everyone please go read Beyond Fear. Thank you.
I do fondly remember having sing-along nights with SIDPlayer and a box of disks full of song files (SID and MUS format, of course). Those were the days . . . "I bless the RAY - YAYNS down in A - A - FRI - CA." Good times.
You could boot from a solid-state drive, and store all your media files on a noisy server somewhere else. Then your only problem is the local optical drive. You could do without the optical drive if you've already got a stand-alone DVD/etc. player, and now you're silent. I haven't tried booting from a flash drive on a windows system, but it should be possible. One of these http://www.acscontrol.com/Pages/Products/CompactFl ash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm
will turn your CF card into an IDE drive, or use an all-in-one DiscOnChip http://www.tri-m.com/products/msystems/ffd35ideplu s.html. It doesn't require drivers, so one should be able to install any OS on it.
You could even retrofit your Zalman PC, and poof! now your TiVo is the loudest thing in the living room.
As Abe Lincoln said: "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
I've worked on a number of embedded systems, and we've always made daylight savings an adjustable feature. After all, it varies by country (or even region) and can be changed by government mandate. And furthermore, the US has changed the definition less than 20 years ago. There is precedent for this. There really is no excuse to hard code DST.
For example, I remember how cool I thought the Newton was, despite its flaws. It was just fun to imagine what the future held with such digital assistants in it. The loss comes in having to change our hopes for the future.
I wanted an electric car, too.
I work in a cave, you insensitive clod.
I would love to see one of these light pipes (fiber or otherwise) that could be stretched 100 feet or so. That and some industrial drilling equipment and I could get some light in my cave (really). It would really boost my morale and productivity.
I try to take breaks in the day by walking down the road to the elevator to the surface, taking the long ride up and walking out of the vestibule into the light. It's not quite the same as having some natural light in the workplace. It's perpetually twilight here.
And no, I don't work at an underground military facility or deep space simulator, the rent's just really cheap underground. But we pay for it -- it's only lunchtime and I'm burned out.
Lotsa folks don't even get that . . .
And just like tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag guns, police dogs, real guns, water cannon, etc., this device would never be used against a peaceable assembly . . .
In some (corn producing) states (like Iowa), you pay less than full price due to favorable tax laws when you buy ethanol blend. You should have also noted that your mileage is lower in very hot weather, since your fuel expands with temperature. Unless you live in Canada, where motor fuel is sold "net" (temperature compensated to 68F/20C).
When I first read it, I saw "Romulan" teenager.
You go to a professional photographer, and the studio claims to own the copyright, cause you just paid them to shoot the photos (a service) -- prints are extra and they still own the image.
Now, if you're a photographer working at the studio, you shoot the photos, but the studio owns the copyright, cause it's "work-for-hire".
Seems to me a contradiction, unless you realize that the actual rule is "It's always owned by the Man." Then it all makes sense.
To add insult to injury, some of the studios that shot the old photos don't even exist anymore to provide prints or permission.
You can't really claim that any interaction with a company is "right" or "wrong". A company is not an ethical or moral entity, and therefore a relationship with a business cannot be evaluated with ethics or morals.
. . . a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
If encryption software is evidence or criminal intent, then so are locks, car keys, envelopes and phone booths. Why not add doors to that list, too?
In that 1952 Tex Avery classic, a character reaches into the edge of the frame to pluck a "hair" from the image. It would be sad to see this gag lost to digital restoration.
For a humorous look at the evangelical point of view, see http://landoverbaptist.org/. Make sure to listen to their sermons about science and "academialists". I wasn't sure at first that it was a joke . . . I wonder what that says about baptists in general?
Pretty impressive in a Mein Kampf sort of way . . .