Any removal of energy from the environment wlll affect the environment.
Solar energy capture reduces ground heating. Hyrdo capture reduces errosion and soil redistribution. Wind capture reduces winds and associated head and moisture distribution. Wave energy capture reduces shore errosion and fine particlate distribution. Tide capture does really really small scale stuff to the earth-moon-sun relationship.
You don't get anything for free. The question is what do we accept as side effects of the energy extraction.
The science is severly limited by the fact our observable data set of worlds with life consists of a single sample.
It is vary hard to do science with a single sample.
Two Party Democracies are Bad
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The first past the post democratice system essentially forces a 2 party system so you can "win" the election. If there are N parties then they split the vote N ways, any 2 parties in a N party system can combine and gain position. By reduction you get a 2 party system if it is irreducable or 1 a party system if reducable.
Two party democracies do not represent their populace. You can't divide an entire populace into box A or box B on all issues. The two party democracy staggers back and forth from side to side never doing real compromise and never meeting in the middle. Both sides make a mess.
Hunt is more than 2D as "invisible" is a 3D parameter above the 2D rendering. Hunt has you can't see behind you as well. Hunt even has dynamic environments in that the walls can be destroyed and restored.
Hunt is VR in that you can't see behind you and you can't see others or walls unless they are in your sight line.
You could make a 3D hunt client without changing any of the network code. And even play 3D hunt with other people on 2D clients without getting any advantages or disadvantages.
really really ancient unix network multiplayer game
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The object of the game hunt is to kill off the other players. There are no rooms, no treasures, and no monsters.
Instead, you wander around a maze, find grenades, trip mines, and shoot down walls and players. The more players
you kill before you die, the better your score is. If the -m flag is given, you enter the game as a monitor (you
can see the action but you cannot play).
hunt normally looks for an active game on the local network; if none is found, it starts one up on the local host.
The location of the game may be specified by giving the host argument. This presupposes that a hunt game is
already running on that host, see huntd(6) for details on how to setup a game on a specific host. If more than one
game if found, you may pick which game to play in.
The symbols on the screen are:
-|+ walls/\ diagonal (deflecting) walls
# doors (dispersion walls)
; small mine
g large mine
: bullet
o grenade
O satchel charge
@ bomb
s small slime
$ big slime
>^v you facing right, left, up, or down
}{i! other players facing right, left, up, or down
* explosion
\|/
-*- grenade and large mine explosion/|\
---- chat was possible using other unix utilities so it was not part of the game
Land Area of the Earth: 148,940,000 km^2 Population of the Earth 7,000,000,000
Land Area Per Person: 0.02127 km2 -> 21270m^2 So approx 200m x 100m (americans read yds per person) But then there are mountains, desert, barren lands, asphalt to take into account.
Lets say 100m x 100m per person (roughly 2 football fields). That is the source of your food, your clothes,.... This is ignoring all other life as that is likely part of the food chain that feeds us. And that land is used year after year, getting less fertile, limited resources disappearing, getting smaller and smaller as more people appear.
See the elementary school teacher who used a school issued PC and accidentally shower her grade school class porn. She lost her teachers license, the school had a lot of explaining to parents to do. The anti-virus on the PC was out of date and had become infected from some other site.
Given the nature of modern parents allowing connectivity out of school is always going to be scary for teachers and schools.
What they could do is provide lessons, plans, updates and communications from the school to parents. This still has some risk of the school web-server getting owned, but is a lot less than the risk of one of many-many machines doing something wrong.
Sony is educating millions on the power of Digital Rights Management (DRM). The more educated, informed and angry people we have the better.
I am sure Sony's licensing agreement says "Sony does not have to provide anything for your money". I would love to see the lawsuits flame up over this. Of course the agreement will also say "contests to the agreement must happen in East Texas(or whichever jurisdiction is most favorable to Sony)" and that that the customer waives the right to class actions lawsuits.
If you are being shafted by Sony on this sorry, see if you can get a class action lawsuit going and buts that "customer (dis)agreement. If you are not being shafted by Sony, lets thank Sony for the education on DRM it is providing to a wide range of the public.
The procedure and House affairs committee is looking into threats posted on Youtube where a group called Anonymous promised to release personal information about Toews and his family if he didn't scrap Bill C-30, known as the lawful access or online surveillance bill.
A lot of places over there present search terms rather than URL's as references for objects. This is in the majority of advertising. It is wrong, but it is what is commonly done. They have confused address with search. And this is the result
Would you be happy if someone was issuing a new registration to your stolen car? Such that it was fully legal and usable by someone else one stolen. That is effectively what the phone carriers are doing.
The phones have the equivalent of MACaddress/VIN number and are fully traceable to individual sales by the carriers. And they should not be allowed to reconnect to any network.
People are getting assaulted for this. Anyone been killed in a cell phone theft? Charge the carrier with accomplice in the murder.
What the carriers are doing is worse than the "guy who did not know but got conned by friends into driving the getaway car".
And Facebook says you need a password to access it and the password is assigned to a user and cannot be used by anyone else. Regardless of who owns the copyright it comes down to unathorized access to copyright content.
Why does the DMCA not apply? Why are these companies all not in violation of the the DMCA. The users contents is private and password protected. The users content is copyright protected work of the user and their friends.
***ANY*** attempt to violate the users password protection would seem to me to be a violation of DMCA. Does not ANY method to break DRM include intimidation of the key holder ?
Pick one a) therapy, erasing bad memories b) therapy, implanting good memories c) health, perserving function d) personal, perserving cherished memories e) learning f) porn
The whole thing comes down to politics. School boards are elected. Higher up politicians distribute funds to school boards. There are some fairly vocal individuals who may or may not represent the majority but have the ability to stir up powerful emotions among the electorate.
Proper democracy requires an educated informed electorate to function correctly. Proper democracy does not provide a way to bootstrap the system where the fundamental requirements are lacking.
The entire book is about Ender being trained to commit GENOCIDE !!!!
He kills the kid because it is expected of him. The adults involved put both kids in that place and were expecting the outcome. Ender full understood what was happening and so did the adults and Ender was at least 3 levels of meta- into knowing that he knows that they know.....
It was a required step in the training of the worlds super commander.
Overall it is very less violent than Harry Potter, except it brings up some very big real world things like Genocide.
put the players in an environment where outside input is impossible.
Each player goes into a separate black box faraday cage. They get a touch screen display of the board the opponent is looking at. There are 3 video cameras, wathing the board, player and reverse views. The only signals going through the faraday cage are the video feeds and the board control interface.
The video feeds are out only so no problem there. The control to update the opponents move is the only feed in and the only hole in the system that needs hard monitoring.
If the ISP can detect that I am accessing stuff I should not they can just slam the door shut so I don't get it. If the ISP detects I am getting stuff I should not and does not slam the door they are complicit in the action since they are sending it to me knowing that I should not have it.
Anyone fingered by an ISP should sue them entrapment.
Great news, especially with incoming global warming. We create a power loop of LED's and tuned solar cells, such that the electrical efficiency is >100%. If the LED is 230% efficient then the solar cell needs to be around 44% or so. We don't care about waste heat as the device is actually a heat to electrical converter. So waste heat gets sucked back in. The real enegy source is the sun which heats the planet.
Yes it is on a small scale but integrated and packaged and stacked we get air conditioners that produce power.
Somehow I don't think writing a blog entry 5 years ago will qualify me as a "copyright owner" able to fire undocumented takedown notices and request unlimited statutory damages. "copyright owner" as used here means very specific media distributors. It does not mean real creators.
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Any removal of energy from the environment wlll affect the environment.
Solar energy capture reduces ground heating. Hyrdo capture reduces errosion and soil redistribution. Wind capture reduces winds and associated head and moisture distribution. Wave energy capture reduces shore errosion and fine particlate distribution. Tide capture does really really small scale stuff to the earth-moon-sun relationship.
You don't get anything for free. The question is what do we accept as side effects of the energy extraction.
The science is severly limited by the fact our observable data set of worlds with life consists of a single sample.
It is vary hard to do science with a single sample.
The first past the post democratice system essentially forces a 2 party system so you can "win" the election. If there are N parties then they split the vote N ways, any 2 parties in a N party system can combine and gain position. By reduction you get a 2 party system if it is irreducable or 1 a party system if reducable.
Two party democracies do not represent their populace. You can't divide an entire populace into box A or box B on all issues. The two party democracy staggers back and forth from side to side never doing real compromise and never meeting in the middle. Both sides make a mess.
Hunt is more than 2D as "invisible" is a 3D parameter above the 2D rendering.
Hunt has you can't see behind you as well.
Hunt even has dynamic environments in that the walls can be destroyed and restored.
Hunt is VR in that you can't see behind you and you can't see others or walls unless they are in your sight line.
You could make a 3D hunt client without changing any of the network code. And even play 3D hunt with other people on 2D clients without getting any advantages or disadvantages.
really really ancient unix network multiplayer game
----
The object of the game hunt is to kill off the other players. There are no rooms, no treasures, and no monsters.
Instead, you wander around a maze, find grenades, trip mines, and shoot down walls and players. The more players
you kill before you die, the better your score is. If the -m flag is given, you enter the game as a monitor (you
can see the action but you cannot play).
hunt normally looks for an active game on the local network; if none is found, it starts one up on the local host.
The location of the game may be specified by giving the host argument. This presupposes that a hunt game is
already running on that host, see huntd(6) for details on how to setup a game on a specific host. If more than one
game if found, you may pick which game to play in.
The symbols on the screen are: /\ diagonal (deflecting) walls /|\
-|+ walls
# doors (dispersion walls)
; small mine
g large mine
: bullet
o grenade
O satchel charge
@ bomb
s small slime
$ big slime
>^v you facing right, left, up, or down
}{i! other players facing right, left, up, or down
* explosion
\|/
-*- grenade and large mine explosion
----
chat was possible using other unix utilities so it was not part of the game
It is all theatre.
The threat theatre cast by the politicos creates the market for the TSA theatre.
You are not likely to die by terrorist act. You are more likely to die by automobile accident, heart attack, stroke ......
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
* Heart disease: 599,413
* Cancer: 567,628
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 137,353
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,842
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 118,021
* Alzheimer's disease: 79,003
* Diabetes: 68,705
* Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,692
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 48,935
* Intentional self-harm (suicide): 36,909
Official 911 death toll : 2,996 - and that does not happen every year.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_04.pdf
The 15 leading causes of death in 2010 (Table B) were as follows:
1 Diseases of heart
2 Malignant neoplasms
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4 Cerebrovascular diseases
5 Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6 Alzheimer’s disease
7 Diabetes mellitus
8 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis
9 Influenza and pneumonia
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide)
11 Septicemia
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease
14 Parkinson’s disease
Land Area of the Earth: 148,940,000 km^2
Population of the Earth 7,000,000,000
Land Area Per Person: 0.02127 km2 -> 21270m^2
So approx 200m x 100m (americans read yds per person)
But then there are mountains, desert, barren lands, asphalt to take into account.
Lets say 100m x 100m per person (roughly 2 football fields). That is the source of your food, your clothes, ....
This is ignoring all other life as that is likely part of the food chain that feeds us.
And that land is used year after year, getting less fertile, limited resources disappearing, getting smaller and smaller as more people appear.
See the elementary school teacher who used a school issued PC and accidentally shower her grade school class porn. She lost her teachers license, the school had a lot of explaining to parents to do. The anti-virus on the PC was out of date and had become infected from some other site.
Given the nature of modern parents allowing connectivity out of school is always going to be scary for teachers and schools.
What they could do is provide lessons, plans, updates and communications from the school to parents. This still has some risk of the school web-server getting owned, but is a lot less than the risk of one of many-many machines doing something wrong.
Just start a low level discussion about how there is a backdoor in Skyrim that lets you root the PS3.
Sony is educating millions on the power of Digital Rights Management (DRM). The more educated, informed and angry people we have the better.
I am sure Sony's licensing agreement says "Sony does not have to provide anything for your money". I would love to see the lawsuits flame up over this. Of course the agreement will also say "contests to the agreement must happen in East Texas(or whichever jurisdiction is most favorable to Sony)" and that that the customer waives the right to class actions lawsuits.
If you are being shafted by Sony on this sorry, see if you can get a class action lawsuit going and buts that "customer (dis)agreement. If you are not being shafted by Sony, lets thank Sony for the education on DRM it is providing to a wide range of the public.
All this while the august house of Parliament debates in committee if nasty YouTube video is a threat to the democracy.
Money is okay, but please don't annonymously make threats to release the truth, it upsets the process.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/27/pol-vic-toews-anonymous.html
The procedure and House affairs committee is looking into threats posted on Youtube where a group called Anonymous promised to release personal information about Toews and his family if he didn't scrap Bill C-30, known as the lawful access or online surveillance bill.
A lot of places over there present search terms rather than URL's as references for objects. This is in the majority of advertising. It is wrong, but it is what is commonly done. They have confused address with search. And this is the result
Whoa There. You mean have the police work. That is crazy talk.
And finding a cell phone theif would likely lead to larger crimes being solved.
Think of the paper work involed there.
Would you be happy if someone was issuing a new registration to your stolen car?
Such that it was fully legal and usable by someone else one stolen.
That is effectively what the phone carriers are doing.
The phones have the equivalent of MACaddress/VIN number and are fully traceable to individual sales by the carriers. And they should not be allowed to reconnect to any network.
People are getting assaulted for this. Anyone been killed in a cell phone theft? Charge the carrier with accomplice in the murder.
What the carriers are doing is worse than the "guy who did not know but got conned by friends into driving the getaway car".
Accomplice in theft. The phone would be useless if the carrier was not cooperating. So the carrier is adding value to and encouraging the theft.
Should be a nice massive group action lawsuit in there somewhere.
And Facebook says you need a password to access it and the password is assigned to a user and cannot be used by anyone else. Regardless of who owns the copyright it comes down to unathorized access to copyright content.
Why does the DMCA not apply? Why are these companies all not in violation of the the DMCA.
The users contents is private and password protected. The users content is copyright protected work of the user and their friends.
***ANY*** attempt to violate the users password protection would seem to me to be a violation of DMCA. Does not ANY method to break DRM include intimidation of the key holder ?
Pick one
a) therapy, erasing bad memories
b) therapy, implanting good memories
c) health, perserving function
d) personal, perserving cherished memories
e) learning
f) porn
Place your bets!!
The whole thing comes down to politics. School boards are elected. Higher up politicians distribute funds to school boards. There are some fairly vocal individuals who may or may not represent the majority but have the ability to stir up powerful emotions among the electorate.
Proper democracy requires an educated informed electorate to function correctly. Proper democracy does not provide a way to bootstrap the system where the fundamental requirements are lacking.
The entire book is about Ender being trained to commit GENOCIDE !!!!
He kills the kid because it is expected of him. The adults involved put both kids in that place and were expecting the outcome. Ender full understood what was happening and so did the adults and Ender was at least 3 levels of meta- into knowing that he knows that they know .....
It was a required step in the training of the worlds super commander.
Overall it is very less violent than Harry Potter, except it brings up some very big real world things like Genocide.
The parent should be required to read Lady Chatterly to class of 16 year olds.
They are old enough to legally have sex, they should certainly be able to read about it.
(( on another argument thread why are we so okay with violence (without the red stuff please) but not with sex which is required for out existance))
put the players in an environment where outside input is impossible.
Each player goes into a separate black box faraday cage. They get a touch screen display of the board the opponent is looking at. There are 3 video cameras, wathing the board, player and reverse views. The only signals going through the faraday cage are the video feeds and the board control interface.
The video feeds are out only so no problem there. The control to update the opponents move is the only feed in and the only hole in the system that needs hard monitoring.
If the ISP can detect that I am accessing stuff I should not they can just slam the door shut so I don't get it.
If the ISP detects I am getting stuff I should not and does not slam the door they are complicit in the action since they are sending it to me knowing that I should not have it.
Anyone fingered by an ISP should sue them entrapment.
Great news, especially with incoming global warming. We create a power loop of LED's and tuned solar cells, such that the electrical efficiency is >100%. If the LED is 230% efficient then the solar cell needs to be around 44% or so. We don't care about waste heat as the device is actually a heat to electrical converter. So waste heat gets sucked back in. The real enegy source is the sun which heats the planet.
Yes it is on a small scale but integrated and packaged and stacked we get air conditioners that produce power.
Somehow I don't think writing a blog entry 5 years ago will qualify me as a "copyright owner" able to fire undocumented takedown notices and request unlimited statutory damages. "copyright owner" as used here means very specific media distributors. It does not mean real creators.