Ok, people need to save more instead of spending everything they earn. That's been true for a long time. However, savings accounts earn such a low rate of return that with any inflation at all it costs money to have it in savings.
Indeed, some believe that's the aim of the government -- by destroying everyone's savings with low interest rates (which are useless since normal people can't borrow at that rate) and high inflation (which redistributes money from everyone else to the government), they achieve their aim of preventing anyone from saving money:
Apparently, winter of 2009 will be one of the coldest in the last 30 or 40 years.
So after the entire industrial sector goes bankrupt this year and stops emitting heat, cars are no longer being made (especially crap american ones), air fares become unaffordable, and the cost of energy takes a hike (assisted by environmental taxes), you think next winter might be cooler?
N.S.S.!
Just look at the weather-changes after a bank-holiday (3-day) weekend to see how we affect the local climate.
The days(fixed) in a year(fixed) are not divisible by 10 so there were days without a month.
The days in a month aren't divisible by 29.53, but that doesn't stop our current calendar from ignoring all that complexity and doing its own thing, unconcerned about correlation with actual months. Why should it be the same for years?
It might seem convenient to think that june will 'always' be summer in the north, but remember we already accept that June 21, 4000BC wasn't a solstice so actually we don't really have a correlated (calendar vs nature) year anyway.
I was going to post this too. A simple solution would be to make a passport holder that blocked the RFID signals, that you could purchase if you wanted to be sure your details weren't being scanned from afar.
So it should be OK if you could trivially clone anyone who didn't want to spend extra money protecting themself?
(scans passport) - "well, either you are who you say you are, or you're one of the 98% of americans who didn't bother to implement electromagnetic jamming on their wallets"
So is https://www.dodpke.com/InstallRoot the real location to download CaC's public key, or is that another scam (since it claims to be the defense department's CA, but their website is on a.com domain and has a self-signed key)
Unless the 2% of lost votes actually matter (e.g., the race is close, or 2% is signifant for proportional representation, or it indicates a deeper systemic problem) why do they really matter?
Because it shows that their computers can't count. Computers are supposed to be very good at counting - if they fail at something very simple like that, it means they've been programmed to incorrectly count, which would be illegal because that's election-fraud.
Here's an idea, what if the machine did not release the voting card until a vote had been properly cast. It surely can't be hard to implement in this day and age?
You're still trusting the software to do the right thing -- I can just imagine this voting machine being like trying to persuade a Mac to spit-out a CD when it's "sure" (incorrectly) that something is using it.
It seems that the [OK] [CANCEL] buttons didn't have very good feedback and they didn't work all the time, sometimes requiring multiple clicks to register, which is why some people took their cards after clicking on OK several times.
OK/Cancel buttons are a disaster-area anyway, since every OS and every application has a different idea on what order they should go in, and people get used to clicking the left/right one for OK without looking at the labels.
... I watch a DVD at someone else's place and I realize there's all kinds of wanings against copying and commercials at the beginning. At home, I just use VLC and immediatelly get the main menus.
I have long believed that those warnings only serve to make pirated copies a better-quality product, and thus more desirable.
They also make Mac OS X and Apple software less valuable, since the DVD player in Mac OS X actually implements all those "not permitted to fast-forward" menus (in stark contrast to every other software or hardware DVD player)
My worry is what the cop will do after he hears your phone click when you catch him beating the shit out of somebody. Makes it a little hard to conceal that you just caught him in action.
Or the sound that your cellphone will make when you dial 112 from your hiding-place...
Sounds like the police turned up without a warrant, asked the people running the hosting company, and they just handed it over.
Not a "freedom of speech"/"police"/"big brother" issue. More of a "watch out who hosts your servers".
If I had hosting with that company, I would remove it immediately for that.
Well yeah, hence why none of us have been doing business with Rackspace since they handed away Indymedia's servers last time. Seems to be a different hosting company this time.
The military has already begun a comprehensive policy of prohibiting these devices for this very reason after that worm went through a bunch of military systems because of infected key drives.
They seized a *mirror* of the main server (the main site is still up a running just fine), in order to try to trace the original poster
Siezing an indymedia server to find logs of people using it is like siezing a section of tarmac to find logs of people driving over it -- the information simply doesn't exist, and the police knew this before stealing the computer.
How are people supposed not to call you, if they don't have the list ? That list has to be handed out so people will skip you when you are on it.
Why not just make it a webservice? URL somesite.gov/?phone_number_to_check returns OK or DO_NOT_CALL. Easy for callcentre software to check before each phone call.
Alternatively, hand out a list of hashed phone numbers. Giving out the full plaintext list seems absolutely the *worst* way of going about it.
As others have mentioned, a plaintext list would need honeypot phone numbers and serious penalties for calling them
Even assuming they started to get a flood of content I don't see how they would deal with it. Are they really ready to fact check say 1000 pages of new content a day?
1000 pages? try 120,000 changes per day that they would need to review just to keep pace with wikipedia
I've never really considered the boot up time to be that terrible for TVs that I have turned on manually in the past. I don't consider TV that important that the difference between 2-3 seconds (LCD) and maybe 20-30 (old CRT) is at all important.
Given that people accept 10-minute bootup times on DVDs, why would they be particularly sensitive to 20-second bootup times on a television?
What's wrong with a yearly mandatory test? Fail the test either fix it and get a certificate of compliance or your heap of junk will be taken off the road, as is the case in parts of Europe.
Does this change mean that you won't be able to hear other people's emergency beacon transmissions without a special receiver? I understand that at the moment, anybody can pick them up on a normal aviation radio.
(related: does anyone actually monitor that frequency while they're flying?)
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Ok, people need to save more instead of spending everything they earn. That's been true for a long time. However, savings accounts earn such a low rate of return that with any inflation at all it costs money to have it in savings.
Indeed, some believe that's the aim of the government -- by destroying everyone's savings with low interest rates (which are useless since normal people can't borrow at that rate) and high inflation (which redistributes money from everyone else to the government), they achieve their aim of preventing anyone from saving money:
http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/2009/01/enemies-of-people.html
Apparently, winter of 2009 will be one of the coldest in the last 30 or 40 years.
So after the entire industrial sector goes bankrupt this year and stops emitting heat, cars are no longer being made (especially crap american ones), air fares become unaffordable, and the cost of energy takes a hike (assisted by environmental taxes), you think next winter might be cooler?
N.S.S.!
Just look at the weather-changes after a bank-holiday (3-day) weekend to see how we affect the local climate.
The french tried it. It failed.
The days(fixed) in a year(fixed) are not divisible by 10 so there were days without a month.
The days in a month aren't divisible by 29.53, but that doesn't stop our current calendar from ignoring all that complexity and doing its own thing, unconcerned about correlation with actual months. Why should it be the same for years?
It might seem convenient to think that june will 'always' be summer in the north, but remember we already accept that June 21, 4000BC wasn't a solstice so actually we don't really have a correlated (calendar vs nature) year anyway.
I was going to post this too. A simple solution would be to make a passport holder that blocked the RFID signals, that you could purchase if you wanted to be sure your details weren't being scanned from afar.
So it should be OK if you could trivially clone anyone who didn't want to spend extra money protecting themself?
(scans passport) - "well, either you are who you say you are, or you're one of the 98% of americans who didn't bother to implement electromagnetic jamming on their wallets"
news at #1
Slashdot, news from two months ago
So is https://www.dodpke.com/InstallRoot the real location to download CaC's public key, or is that another scam (since it claims to be the defense department's CA, but their website is on a .com domain and has a self-signed key)
More logical would be that someone used a granite rock from outer space to create stone axes and then arrange for some scientist to 'find' them.
Or that the axe was used to build the earth
You know it's the right site, because its certificate is signed by the DoD CA.
Except that CA isn't installed in any browser.
And the site to download that cert is signed by the cert itself. Security by circular reasoning.
Unless the 2% of lost votes actually matter (e.g., the race is close, or 2% is signifant for proportional representation, or it indicates a deeper systemic problem) why do they really matter?
Because it shows that their computers can't count. Computers are supposed to be very good at counting - if they fail at something very simple like that, it means they've been programmed to incorrectly count, which would be illegal because that's election-fraud.
Here's an idea, what if the machine did not release the voting card until a vote had been properly cast. It surely can't be hard to implement in this day and age?
You're still trusting the software to do the right thing -- I can just imagine this voting machine being like trying to persuade a Mac to spit-out a CD when it's "sure" (incorrectly) that something is using it.
It seems that the [OK] [CANCEL] buttons didn't have very good feedback and they didn't work all the time, sometimes requiring multiple clicks to register, which is why some people took their cards after clicking on OK several times.
OK/Cancel buttons are a disaster-area anyway, since every OS and every application has a different idea on what order they should go in, and people get used to clicking the left/right one for OK without looking at the labels.
... I watch a DVD at someone else's place and I realize there's all kinds of wanings against copying and commercials at the beginning. At home, I just use VLC and immediatelly get the main menus.
I have long believed that those warnings only serve to make pirated copies a better-quality product, and thus more desirable.
They also make Mac OS X and Apple software less valuable, since the DVD player in Mac OS X actually implements all those "not permitted to fast-forward" menus (in stark contrast to every other software or hardware DVD player)
My worry is what the cop will do after he hears your phone click when you catch him beating the shit out of somebody. Makes it a little hard to conceal that you just caught him in action.
Or the sound that your cellphone will make when you dial 112 from your hiding-place...
Sounds like the police turned up without a warrant, asked the people running the hosting company, and they just handed it over.
Not a "freedom of speech"/"police"/"big brother" issue. More of a "watch out who hosts your servers".
If I had hosting with that company, I would remove it immediately for that.
Well yeah, hence why none of us have been doing business with Rackspace since they handed away Indymedia's servers last time. Seems to be a different hosting company this time.
The military has already begun a comprehensive policy of prohibiting these devices for this very reason after that worm went through a bunch of military systems because of infected key drives.
not because of Windows then?
This happened in 2004 - FBI confiscated its servers in London (how the hell does that work, then? US law enforcement in the UK?
Maybe related to US says it has right to kidnap British citizens
They seized a *mirror* of the main server (the main site is still up a running just fine), in order to try to trace the original poster
Siezing an indymedia server to find logs of people using it is like siezing a section of tarmac to find logs of people driving over it -- the information simply doesn't exist, and the police knew this before stealing the computer.
How are people supposed not to call you, if they don't have the list ? That list has to be handed out so people will skip you when you are on it.
Why not just make it a webservice? URL somesite.gov/?phone_number_to_check returns OK or DO_NOT_CALL. Easy for callcentre software to check before each phone call.
Alternatively, hand out a list of hashed phone numbers. Giving out the full plaintext list seems absolutely the *worst* way of going about it.
As others have mentioned, a plaintext list would need honeypot phone numbers and serious penalties for calling them
Even assuming they started to get a flood of content I don't see how they would deal with it. Are they really ready to fact check say 1000 pages of new content a day?
1000 pages? try 120,000 changes per day that they would need to review just to keep pace with wikipedia
2) Protect Soldiers who under orders committed torture from retaliation
If they did that, then they are as guilty as the Nazis who did the same thing earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Defense
and be ready to boot up in a timely manner?
I've never really considered the boot up time to be that terrible for TVs that I have turned on manually in the past. I don't consider TV that important that the difference between 2-3 seconds (LCD) and maybe 20-30 (old CRT) is at all important.
Given that people accept 10-minute bootup times on DVDs, why would they be particularly sensitive to 20-second bootup times on a television?
"Let old cars die their natural death."
What's wrong with a yearly mandatory test? Fail the test either fix it and get a certificate of compliance or your heap of junk will be taken off the road, as is the case in parts of Europe.
Would improve road safety too.
You mean the US doesn't already have an MOT test?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/MOT_test
Surely that's a fundamental part of road safety? What do they have instead?
Does this change mean that you won't be able to hear other people's emergency beacon transmissions without a special receiver? I understand that at the moment, anybody can pick them up on a normal aviation radio.
(related: does anyone actually monitor that frequency while they're flying?)
I'm waiting for this news from the UK. The British decide to censor their entire internet due to one objectionable site found in another country.
Alternatively, what if someone manages to crack their network and insert a "http://*/*" into their blocklist?
FTSE drops 10 points in a day, but it's all worth it to prevent people viewing portraits of kids, right?
What, they haven't blacklisted Google yet? Children can use it to search for bad words!
How would you know?
I mean, if they transparently proxy it and only filter certain URLs (like they did to Wikipedia), then the only people who would know are Google.
And would Google publish it, if they discovered that all their UK customers suddenly had the same IP address?