The amount of effort it would take to track someone via the transmitter in one of their (presumably many shoes) is ridiculous compared to the amount of effort involved in shall we say more traditional methods of stalking.
Well, that's if you want to track someone with their Nike shoes. But what prevents you from taking the transmitter, slipping it into someone's backpack, and then track them? Similarly, you may not necessarily need to know where exactly the person currently is, but just want to know when that person comes into a certain area. Imagine you want to break into someone's dorm room, but don't want to get caught in the act, and also need to make sure the person isn't home.
On the other hand, this could have some good uses too! You could unlock your car if the sensor is in range, and lock it if it isn't, for instance.
Ah, what you say is correct, if the networks would benefit from more accurate tracking. From what I understand of the cable business, its at least just as likely that media companies get paid more for their commercial spaces than they are worth, as it is that they get paid less.
I think media companies were faced with significant costs at high risks with the potential to eventually make less money, because advertisers finally realize that people don't watch adds.
What we were missing was competition, instead, we had a lot of companies that were happy with what they had. This is typical in an industry with high barriers of entry.
I wonder how long it will take the media companies to realize that they can play targeted adds personalized to each viewer, based on what videos they have watched lately, for instance. At that point, there would be a lot more value for the advertisers, and they would pay more! This could in the end result in more online content with fewer adds, and commercials that actually matter to you!
The first and best source for a lot of people to learn English around the world, is through English software. That happens to be a Microsoft product more often than not. From there, people start playing games, read web pages, or interact with other communication tools, usually in the same language as the operating system.
While I agree that this applies more to English than in many other cases, I still think that having a friend with an OS in a different language might intrigue me into learning that language, maybe even get started by using that computer.
And instead we should look at your perfect role models, and ignore everything else? I agree that we shouldn't assume that every religious person is like the one described in the story. I also belief that religious organizations should work more towards a world where science and religion can co-exist.
Then, we would have fewer people reading stories like this, and thinking that all religion must be like this. Then we'll also be able to have a school system that can accept (not necessarily teach) both religion and science.
And most of all, then we'll finally have children that can make their own choices!
So this, like many other toppics like this, raises the question: The FCC only has so much juresdiction. Would this apply to webpages that are hosted in the US? How about webpages that are being viewed in the US? Or what if they are hosted and vewed outside the US, but go through some wire in the US (or even worse, some satelite above the US...) Of course, you could always regulate businesses and the way they do business in the US, but that shouldn't really be the FCCs responsibility. Not to mention that a business on the Net isn't just in the "US", especially if it sells ideas, information, or services, which are non-physical things that don't always cross borders and such. It'll be interesting how this will play out in the next couple of years.
You also picked devices that already sit next to outlets in most cases, anyways. This is a lot more useful for monitoring devices, mobile devices (not just cell phones and such, but also mechanical things like romba, robots, and forklifts), and a whole new generation of new devices that weren't possible before. One thing that comes to mind is a coffee cup warmer (I know they exist with wires/batteries, but its not quite the same convenience/service that way).
You should get out of your room more often. There are many other devices that use electricity other than your computer! Give it a try, it's not as scary as it may look!
With the naked eye, if you are standing on the moon? Or from the space station? From the video, it looks like its visible by SATELITES with LENSES from outer space. And its nothing new that you can read the logo of any truck, roof top, or other area since decades!
think of DDR (dance dance revolution) when they first looked at their webpage? Immagine dialing your buddy by making some dance moves! Now mouse gestures are to web browsing as dancing is to calling your buddy!
I wish you were right... Just last week, my co worker and roommate that grew up in in a family that is heavily leaning towards the democratic party, and is a democrat himself, argued that they found weapons of mass distractions, and labeled me an extremist for only following the news I like.
While I was in college, 99% of my friends argued for hours against me, claiming that there is absolutely no doubt that Saddam has WMDs, is actively developing more WMDs, and is planning on using them at the first chance. Those were people that I thought were the bright sight, the glimmer of hope for reasonging and understanding...
I speak like this mostly in regards to my peers, in their early twenties. I hope that they will learn as they grow older, or some of the mistakes Europe has experienced 50 years ago, will repeat themselves in 50 years from now.
On the one side, people's learnings are shielded and limmited by the media. The exposure to critical news is very carefully screened, as the article above points out. On the other hand, I belief in the power of the Internet, and its influence of the free flow of information. As long as the Internet remains free, there is hope.
Yes, there are the primaries and the caucasus, where each party votes for a candidate to be nominated to run for the party as the presidential candidate. However, if the party doesn't endorse the candidate, they have no chance. So its a few people influenced by a few groups that get to say who runs in the primaries and caucasus.
So while those few people can't dictate who'll be the next president, they can make sure that the pool of 2 to 3 serious and up to 5 outsider candidates at a minimum meet their requirements.
From there, the public then gets to SELECT their parties candidate, and then at the presidential level, they get to SELECT their president.
I agree that popular support is a necessity to become president in the US, but it is the groupthink, powerful interest groups, and the media that makes it very possible to gain that popular support if you have the means (power) to do so.
For example, the former CEO of General Electric is looking to buy some major newspapers in Boston. Wouldn't surprise me if he's going to run for office in 6 to 8 years.
Your comment makes sense, because the roots of the US "democracy" are still visible today, and if you look closely, you will always see a "democracy." But its the big picture that will show you that we are closer to a monarchy than a democracy.
I'm German, and have been living in the US for 9 years. The day I came here, I noticed what you said, and I am reminded of it everywhere I go in the US. And yes, 9 years ago Clinton was in power, and I was afraid of the groupthink mentality then too.
However, the one thing that makes the US more of a monarchy than a democracy, is that you have the son of a former president as the commander in chief. And the wife of another former president is looking to run for president at the next election.
The US is not a democracy in the terms of people CHOOSE their leaders, its a democracy in the terms of people THINK they choose their leaders.
And if you get to know the political system in the US a bit closer, it becomes clear that the choices people think they have, are actually very carefully screened and selected by the most powerful parties in the country. This opens the door wide for a puppet government, where the president is a prominent public figure, and the policy is done by players in the background. Look for Cheyney to run for President in 2 years!
I once IMed my windows password to a friend. I used to have a screen saver password, that I had just recently turned off. When I got back to my computer, my screens were on power save mode, and I was used to just moving my mouse, and typing in the password. Instead, I typed the password in an IM window, that happened to be in focus.
I have also seen some people in my high school steal the bios password, by swapping key boards between two adjacent PCs. While one was waiting for the password to be entered, the other one was already running, with notepad open. When the teacher came to type in the password, he just thought the computer was broke and assigned the student to a different computer. Needless to say that ALL the bios passwords were the same in the entier school. It didn't take long for someone to install remote controle devices on the teachers PCs, as well as set up servers to host games in the janator's closets.
During college, I did on site tech support. While I was working on probably over a thousand machines over that timeperiod, I've guessed a couple of windows passwords, and it's not like I was trying every time. Sometimes you can pick up quite a bit in a brief conversation and a couple of questions. (Do you have pets, when's your birthday,...).
Question: If they already have a satelite uplink, why do they need to provide that processing power locally? This raises the question of what the whole purpose behind this black box is, if you already have access to the internet, which allows you to place data centers appart from your regular operations.
The only advantage I can see is that this is the easiest way to provide one standard solution to many different customers. They get to own/lease their equipment, and know they don't have to share it with anyone else. None of thoise points apply to the military however.
Even so gas sales are not elastic instantly, they do have elasticity over time. For example, gas milage is the number one consideration for new car purchases in the US!
If you broaden your vision to outside the US, it's been very important for a long time, and as you can see by other comments here, people tend to use public transportation or car pooling more readily if gas prices are higher.
You are correct that consumption of gas is not very elastic.
However, the price of gas is determined by its opportunit cost. If demand/prices for other oil derivatives increase, so will the price for gas. Otherwise, refineries would make more of those other products to maximize profit, and then there would be a shortage of gas, which then would result in higher prices.
In the end, if demand outpaces supply, it will increase in high prices. The reason why supply does not hold pace with demand is because of lack of investment. The investment is lacking because of little competition.
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On the other hand, this could have some good uses too! You could unlock your car if the sensor is in range, and lock it if it isn't, for instance.
Write a slashdot storry about his friends blogs. Once they are slashdotted, he won't be able to access them, and that should stop the giggeling.
Ah, what you say is correct, if the networks would benefit from more accurate tracking. From what I understand of the cable business, its at least just as likely that media companies get paid more for their commercial spaces than they are worth, as it is that they get paid less.
I think media companies were faced with significant costs at high risks with the potential to eventually make less money, because advertisers finally realize that people don't watch adds.
What we were missing was competition, instead, we had a lot of companies that were happy with what they had. This is typical in an industry with high barriers of entry.
I wonder how long it will take the media companies to realize that they can play targeted adds personalized to each viewer, based on what videos they have watched lately, for instance. At that point, there would be a lot more value for the advertisers, and they would pay more! This could in the end result in more online content with fewer adds, and commercials that actually matter to you!
I beg to differ!
The first and best source for a lot of people to learn English around the world, is through English software. That happens to be a Microsoft product more often than not. From there, people start playing games, read web pages, or interact with other communication tools, usually in the same language as the operating system.
While I agree that this applies more to English than in many other cases, I still think that having a friend with an OS in a different language might intrigue me into learning that language, maybe even get started by using that computer.
And instead we should look at your perfect role models, and ignore everything else?
I agree that we shouldn't assume that every religious person is like the one described in the story.
I also belief that religious organizations should work more towards a world where science and religion can co-exist.
Then, we would have fewer people reading stories like this, and thinking that all religion must be like this. Then we'll also be able to have a school system that can accept (not necessarily teach) both religion and science.
And most of all, then we'll finally have children that can make their own choices!
Without my glases, I thought your title read "Where the hell is Karl?"
Where is "here"? Can't you just try to be at least a bit more specific?
So this, like many other toppics like this, raises the question:
The FCC only has so much juresdiction. Would this apply to webpages that are hosted in the US? How about webpages that are being viewed in the US? Or what if they are hosted and vewed outside the US, but go through some wire in the US (or even worse, some satelite above the US...)
Of course, you could always regulate businesses and the way they do business in the US, but that shouldn't really be the FCCs responsibility. Not to mention that a business on the Net isn't just in the "US", especially if it sells ideas, information, or services, which are non-physical things that don't always cross borders and such.
It'll be interesting how this will play out in the next couple of years.
You also picked devices that already sit next to outlets in most cases, anyways. This is a lot more useful for monitoring devices, mobile devices (not just cell phones and such, but also mechanical things like romba, robots, and forklifts), and a whole new generation of new devices that weren't possible before. One thing that comes to mind is a coffee cup warmer (I know they exist with wires/batteries, but its not quite the same convenience/service that way).
You should get out of your room more often. There are many other devices that use electricity other than your computer! Give it a try, it's not as scary as it may look!
With the naked eye, if you are standing on the moon? Or from the space station? From the video, it looks like its visible by SATELITES with LENSES from outer space. And its nothing new that you can read the logo of any truck, roof top, or other area since decades!
think of DDR (dance dance revolution) when they first looked at their webpage? Immagine dialing your buddy by making some dance moves! Now mouse gestures are to web browsing as dancing is to calling your buddy!
Live 80 years or so compfortable and warm, than freezing for 90 years or so!
This is a line from the computergame Aqua Nox.
I wish you were right...
Just last week, my co worker and roommate that grew up in in a family that is heavily leaning towards the democratic party, and is a democrat himself, argued that they found weapons of mass distractions, and labeled me an extremist for only following the news I like.
While I was in college, 99% of my friends argued for hours against me, claiming that there is absolutely no doubt that Saddam has WMDs, is actively developing more WMDs, and is planning on using them at the first chance. Those were people that I thought were the bright sight, the glimmer of hope for reasonging and understanding...
I speak like this mostly in regards to my peers, in their early twenties. I hope that they will learn as they grow older, or some of the mistakes Europe has experienced 50 years ago, will repeat themselves in 50 years from now.
On the one side, people's learnings are shielded and limmited by the media. The exposure to critical news is very carefully screened, as the article above points out. On the other hand, I belief in the power of the Internet, and its influence of the free flow of information. As long as the Internet remains free, there is hope.
Yes, there are the primaries and the caucasus, where each party votes for a candidate to be nominated to run for the party as the presidential candidate.
However, if the party doesn't endorse the candidate, they have no chance. So its a few people influenced by a few groups that get to say who runs in the primaries and caucasus.
So while those few people can't dictate who'll be the next president, they can make sure that the pool of 2 to 3 serious and up to 5 outsider candidates at a minimum meet their requirements.
From there, the public then gets to SELECT their parties candidate, and then at the presidential level, they get to SELECT their president.
I agree that popular support is a necessity to become president in the US, but it is the groupthink, powerful interest groups, and the media that makes it very possible to gain that popular support if you have the means (power) to do so.
For example, the former CEO of General Electric is looking to buy some major newspapers in Boston. Wouldn't surprise me if he's going to run for office in 6 to 8 years.
Your comment makes sense, because the roots of the US "democracy" are still visible today, and if you look closely, you will always see a "democracy." But its the big picture that will show you that we are closer to a monarchy than a democracy.
I'm German, and have been living in the US for 9 years. The day I came here, I noticed what you said, and I am reminded of it everywhere I go in the US. And yes, 9 years ago Clinton was in power, and I was afraid of the groupthink mentality then too.
However, the one thing that makes the US more of a monarchy than a democracy, is that you have the son of a former president as the commander in chief. And the wife of another former president is looking to run for president at the next election.
The US is not a democracy in the terms of people CHOOSE their leaders, its a democracy in the terms of people THINK they choose their leaders.
And if you get to know the political system in the US a bit closer, it becomes clear that the choices people think they have, are actually very carefully screened and selected by the most powerful parties in the country. This opens the door wide for a puppet government, where the president is a prominent public figure, and the policy is done by players in the background. Look for Cheyney to run for President in 2 years!
I once IMed my windows password to a friend.
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I used to have a screen saver password, that I had just recently turned off. When I got back to my computer, my screens were on power save mode, and I was used to just moving my mouse, and typing in the password. Instead, I typed the password in an IM window, that happened to be in focus.
I have also seen some people in my high school steal the bios password, by swapping key boards between two adjacent PCs. While one was waiting for the password to be entered, the other one was already running, with notepad open. When the teacher came to type in the password, he just thought the computer was broke and assigned the student to a different computer. Needless to say that ALL the bios passwords were the same in the entier school. It didn't take long for someone to install remote controle devices on the teachers PCs, as well as set up servers to host games in the janator's closets.
During college, I did on site tech support. While I was working on probably over a thousand machines over that timeperiod, I've guessed a couple of windows passwords, and it's not like I was trying every time. Sometimes you can pick up quite a bit in a brief conversation and a couple of questions. (Do you have pets, when's your birthday,
I think he was looking for answers, not more questions!
Question: If they already have a satelite uplink, why do they need to provide that processing power locally? This raises the question of what the whole purpose behind this black box is, if you already have access to the internet, which allows you to place data centers appart from your regular operations.
The only advantage I can see is that this is the easiest way to provide one standard solution to many different customers. They get to own/lease their equipment, and know they don't have to share it with anyone else. None of thoise points apply to the military however.
Or better yet, 50,000 installs of Vista crashed so badly, they weren't even able to send the crash reports!
Even so gas sales are not elastic instantly, they do have elasticity over time. For example, gas milage is the number one consideration for new car purchases in the US!
If you broaden your vision to outside the US, it's been very important for a long time, and as you can see by other comments here, people tend to use public transportation or car pooling more readily if gas prices are higher.
You are correct that consumption of gas is not very elastic.
However, the price of gas is determined by its opportunit cost. If demand/prices for other oil derivatives increase, so will the price for gas. Otherwise, refineries would make more of those other products to maximize profit, and then there would be a shortage of gas, which then would result in higher prices.
In the end, if demand outpaces supply, it will increase in high prices. The reason why supply does not hold pace with demand is because of lack of investment. The investment is lacking because of little competition.