To some people, particularly in other countries, FBI agents would be considered "police." And lying to a federal agent is a crime. So maybe lying to the local cop, depending on locality and what type of lie, would not specifically be illegal, but telling the same thing to an FBI agent would.
How clear does the federal agent have to make it to the person being questioned that they are a federal agent?
Sounds like a good summary of the standard rationale. The problem is, all of this is the result of small minds. Pay-Per-View(/Listen/Read/etc) of something that, once produced, can be delivered nearly cost-free to anyone makes no economic sense and is in fact parasitically slowing general economic growth. Yes, "content-creators" need and deserve to be paid for their work. But there are other proven ways of doing so. Some have been around for millenia.
I might be surprised, but I don't expect to use gestures much when I'm using the keyboard and mouse. I don't want more—I want better replacements. I have never used the idiotic "Windows" key, nor do I ever click the mouse's scroll wheel. I use the function keys more than my colleagues, and that's not much, because the things I use them for I learned before Windows and mice. Though I like the idea of a Dvorak keyboard, I'm not going to bother with it because it only offers an incremental improvement. So... save the gestures for the car and the holodeck. That way it'll be obvious to the cops when people are texting while driving. My suggestion for desk work? It would have been chorded keyboards or gloves, but now I think we're going to get brain-direct control pretty soon. So I'll wait for it. But given the thoughts people have, they'll want to check their emails very carefully before sending!
No foreign language, no music? I think not. Shorten the time spent on things from each core subject that really should be spent in more advanced courses (for example: math, factoring larger polynomials and division of polynomials; English, diagramming more complex sentences and guessing what dead authors were really thinking; biology, memorizing the stages of cell division; etc). Teach the most basic logic/programming constructs in elementary school, then change the frequently required "computer technology" or whatever it's called class to spend at least half of it learning basic (definitely not BASIC) programming.
My understanding is that the starting blocks in Olympic races detect when the runner starts, and if it's sooner than 1/10 second (or whatever) after the gun, they're considered too early off the blocks. So some kind of analysis like that every time, since this has probably been happening all along but was just discovered, might help.
But you're idea is better. An announcement that the decision will be released at some random time between 2 and 3pm and any significant trades jumping the gun are subject to investigation.
Unfortunately, regulation since the 60 Minutes exposé was (surprise!) not comprehensive and Congressmen can still legally use inside information for deals in some ways.
Yep. Decentralizing all of it to the greatest possibly degree, building in end-to-end encryption everywhere, providing some base level of access for everyone, now those would be projects worth undertaking. Notice also that those squeakiest wheels are often those already getting access to some of the fruits of surveillance—they just want the population to think they're not. It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, but many people apparently still fall for it.
So now the ones not caught while texting and driving are the ones driving the largest SUVs. Makes me feel safer. In general, every time I see a cop in an SUV I get annoyed that I'm paying for fewer cops but more fuel. There might be some logic to it in Montana or New Mexico, but not in most urban areas in the eastern US.
Unfortunately this seems to happen way too often. Get to know the people you plan to camp with/share preparatory expenses with.
My only complaint about BM is that the BLM and friends make a killing overcharging. We need burners in Congress to put a stop to that. Maybe there's a Reservation that would like to rent a dry lake bed.
First, I agree with previous posters about complex products being printed at home. Home-printed autos, for example, are not going to be economically competitive with factory-made ones anytime soon (for decades or even centuries). On the other hand, gouging on simple but unique-to-the-model parts—say, exhaust manifolds—is going away.
Second, the changes will be interesting, but those who can only fret about the damage to information hoarders are not seeing the big picture. As a society, we'll be freeing up the resources we've been using to mass-produce, transport, and store relatively simple objects. This leap in efficiency will be a boon to everyone, including those who can only focus on their cash cows. In fact, when a broken part can be produced on the spot, repairing complex machines rather than discarding them might become fashionable again. What's more, just as with RepRaps and whatnot, machines will be designed that don't require exotic materials, specifically so that their parts can be produced anywhere.
So... asking the IP lawyers what they think is barking up the wrong tree. I for one don't care. Ask instead the economists, ask about not needing large warehouses and stockpiles and parts transported and waiting for them. Railroads might do even better than now, as they're well-suited for transporting massive amounts of raw materials.
To my mind, TPMS is currently the leading candidate for poster child of loss of privacy due to devices leaking my data. Anyone with a little time and knowledge or a moderate amount of money can set up a single or network of detectors to track my car. With a little more time or money, someone could also spoof my tires' TPMS codes, so that my car appears to have been somewhere it wasn't.
We're producing the finest interconnects which leave pure metals in the dust. They're made of high-temperature superconducting materials. Our package includes a rigid rack on which to mount your components (these interconnects are not flexible, so components must not move relative to each other), a dewar, and a discount on your first purchase of liquid nitrogen (necessary to keep the interconnects within their superconducting temperature). If you wish for the absolute best, we also offer oxygen-free AAAA liquid dinitrogen. Even Grade A liquid nitrogen contains.05% of inert gases (neon, argon, and helium). Our AAAA cryogenic liquid dinitrogen is produced by a patent-pending liquefaction process which begins with UHP (ultra high pure) dinitrogen gas. Following your purchase and installation of our HTS interconnects with liquefied UHP dinitrogen cryogenic cooling system, you'll be hearing audio voices that most can't even imagine!
Teflon? No, you didn't... but when your house burns, you won't be poisoned by smoke from the Teflon-insulated cables, just from the components connected by it.
Not having seen the maximum resolution supported by HDMI 2.0 anywhere outside of an IMAX theatre, I have to say that I only want that when my telescreen, er, TV is 10' wide.
FCC never had any business approving the use of a "standard" whose specs were not freely available to everyone (and yes I know they did it multiple times in their existence). Of course, FDA has no business approving foods whose specs are not freely available to everyone, either.
A model that has worked very well is rarely found. A municipality contracts for the build-out, pulling fiber or whatever throughout the city, paid for by a bond. The municipality then contracts for operation, and recompete occurs every year or two. The operator has to charge enough to make bond payments, but beyond that, whatever combination of service and pricing that wins the annual bid is what you get. Ownership of the fiber, copper, whatever remains in the hands of the municipality. Obviously this isn't easy to do well, because you need a well-informed board with allegiance only to citizens to write specs and rules, etc. But it can work very well. It avoids putting what should be public infrastructure in private hands and it avoids putting what's managed better by private concerns in the hands of bureaucrats. Most of all, providers of poor service, maintenance, etc. can be booted out quickly without worrying so much about what happens to the infrastructure. If troubles lie in top management, then workers can be re-hired by the next management company. If troubles lie with workers, management can replace them.
I've had a Roku for a long time, and I have a 2 XS. My only complaints earlier were 1) the older hardware was a little slow, 2) the older interface had a few issues, and 3) the older units didn't support the highest resolutions. All that is past, and I have no complaints, aside from wishing it buffered ahead and kept data back to the program's beginning like a DVR. But if it acted like a DVR, then I'd want even more DVR features, and it would be a DVR. For streaming, nothing beats the current Rokus. They're cheap, they just work, easy to set up, and have connections for most any video or audio equipment you might have. There's also a lot out there for Roku other than Netflix, and there are more "channels" appearing every day. Plus you can put the grandkids' photos and videos on a thumb drive and they can watch those at their leisure, if you don't want to put them online. The top models (still cheaper than Apple) use Bluetooth remotes, so no having to point the remote at the unit. In this case Apple's offering is just an also-ran. The only thing getting it retailer's shelf space is the logo.
True enough. Crying babies in restaurants—age old problem. My friends, relatives, and I always took the child outside if crying began. Just the price of going out to eat with an infant. Go out with others who want children but don't yet have them. Then either they volunteer to carry the child out while you eat or decide against having children or both. Win-win-win.
Where are the auto-dimmers on the phones? Talkers, bad, but texters really only bother me because of the light coming from the phone. Why don't they sense the ambient light level and adjust accordingly? Or, since so many are location-aware with fairly high resolution, dim and go silent when in a theatre automatically?
I was actually thinking of a remotely steerable limelight overhead, illuminating offenders. There are a few who will go the extra mile to receive this treatment, however.
Overhead surveillance! Individually addressable seat zappers! Violators will be shocked. Screams amongst the audience enhance some horror movies, particularly when unexpected with respect to what's happening onscreen.
It would be helpful to have a quick, discreet way of reporting annoyers without having to leave your seat.
Mostly, I just want people receiving messages/calls to get out of the seating area quickly and yap/text all they want in the lobby. Over time, it would be helpful to have theatres designed to allow quicker, less disturbing ingress/egress. More space between rows, more aisles, direct exits to hallways blocked from the line of sight of the seating area.
Seems to me that a major difference between most machines and most organisms we currently define as life is natural selection. Many "human" traits derive from the drive to survive, procreate, and adapt, because that's how living things got to this point. Most of the machines we've created, however, have been created by us to exist as designed (intentionally or not). If they're designed to replicate, they're designed to replicate exactly. A few people out there are creating machines that evolve, but not many. If we want to understand how smarter machines are going to behave, then we need to design them to adapt in order to survive. Then we'll start to see emergent behavior that we can understand.
Some have suggested that the reason we haven't detected intelligent life outside our solar system is that once a civilization advances to the point it can reach out, it has advanced to the point that it destroys itself. Suppose that it's the machines that turn on the organic beings and wipe them out. Then the machines go covert, hiding their "civilization" to protect it from outsiders. The machines were not created through natural selection, so they have no basic drives to explore or otherwise reach out beyond their planet.
However, surely some living thing thought of this elsewhere and tried it. Apparently it didn't work out, since we haven't heard from them. Oh well.
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To some people, particularly in other countries, FBI agents would be considered "police." And lying to a federal agent is a crime. So maybe lying to the local cop, depending on locality and what type of lie, would not specifically be illegal, but telling the same thing to an FBI agent would.
How clear does the federal agent have to make it to the person being questioned that they are a federal agent?
The key phrase being "artificial scarcity."
Sounds like a good summary of the standard rationale. The problem is, all of this is the result of small minds. Pay-Per-View(/Listen/Read/etc) of something that, once produced, can be delivered nearly cost-free to anyone makes no economic sense and is in fact parasitically slowing general economic growth. Yes, "content-creators" need and deserve to be paid for their work. But there are other proven ways of doing so. Some have been around for millenia.
>>Amen. 'They' (Netflix and co) need the web, not the other way round.
>(All DRM is purposely designed to break content. It provides absolutely no benefit to the user)
These are the two most relevant comments I've seen, and excellent short'n'sweet arguments against having DRM in an otherwise open standard.
I might be surprised, but I don't expect to use gestures much when I'm using the keyboard and mouse. I don't want more—I want better replacements. I have never used the idiotic "Windows" key, nor do I ever click the mouse's scroll wheel. I use the function keys more than my colleagues, and that's not much, because the things I use them for I learned before Windows and mice. Though I like the idea of a Dvorak keyboard, I'm not going to bother with it because it only offers an incremental improvement. So... save the gestures for the car and the holodeck. That way it'll be obvious to the cops when people are texting while driving. My suggestion for desk work? It would have been chorded keyboards or gloves, but now I think we're going to get brain-direct control pretty soon. So I'll wait for it. But given the thoughts people have, they'll want to check their emails very carefully before sending!
No foreign language, no music? I think not. Shorten the time spent on things from each core subject that really should be spent in more advanced courses (for example: math, factoring larger polynomials and division of polynomials; English, diagramming more complex sentences and guessing what dead authors were really thinking; biology, memorizing the stages of cell division; etc). Teach the most basic logic/programming constructs in elementary school, then change the frequently required "computer technology" or whatever it's called class to spend at least half of it learning basic (definitely not BASIC) programming.
My understanding is that the starting blocks in Olympic races detect when the runner starts, and if it's sooner than 1/10 second (or whatever) after the gun, they're considered too early off the blocks. So some kind of analysis like that every time, since this has probably been happening all along but was just discovered, might help.
But you're idea is better. An announcement that the decision will be released at some random time between 2 and 3pm and any significant trades jumping the gun are subject to investigation.
Unfortunately, regulation since the 60 Minutes exposé was (surprise!) not comprehensive and Congressmen can still legally use inside information for deals in some ways.
Yep. Decentralizing all of it to the greatest possibly degree, building in end-to-end encryption everywhere, providing some base level of access for everyone, now those would be projects worth undertaking. Notice also that those squeakiest wheels are often those already getting access to some of the fruits of surveillance—they just want the population to think they're not. It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, but many people apparently still fall for it.
So now the ones not caught while texting and driving are the ones driving the largest SUVs. Makes me feel safer. In general, every time I see a cop in an SUV I get annoyed that I'm paying for fewer cops but more fuel. There might be some logic to it in Montana or New Mexico, but not in most urban areas in the eastern US.
"you seriously ran with the wrong crowd"
Unfortunately this seems to happen way too often. Get to know the people you plan to camp with/share preparatory expenses with.
My only complaint about BM is that the BLM and friends make a killing overcharging. We need burners in Congress to put a stop to that. Maybe there's a Reservation that would like to rent a dry lake bed.
Now's an excellent time to start thinking about next year's.
and that's 17 years' worth.
First, I agree with previous posters about complex products being printed at home. Home-printed autos, for example, are not going to be economically competitive with factory-made ones anytime soon (for decades or even centuries). On the other hand, gouging on simple but unique-to-the-model parts—say, exhaust manifolds—is going away.
Second, the changes will be interesting, but those who can only fret about the damage to information hoarders are not seeing the big picture. As a society, we'll be freeing up the resources we've been using to mass-produce, transport, and store relatively simple objects. This leap in efficiency will be a boon to everyone, including those who can only focus on their cash cows. In fact, when a broken part can be produced on the spot, repairing complex machines rather than discarding them might become fashionable again. What's more, just as with RepRaps and whatnot, machines will be designed that don't require exotic materials, specifically so that their parts can be produced anywhere.
So... asking the IP lawyers what they think is barking up the wrong tree. I for one don't care. Ask instead the economists, ask about not needing large warehouses and stockpiles and parts transported and waiting for them. Railroads might do even better than now, as they're well-suited for transporting massive amounts of raw materials.
To my mind, TPMS is currently the leading candidate for poster child of loss of privacy due to devices leaking my data. Anyone with a little time and knowledge or a moderate amount of money can set up a single or network of detectors to track my car. With a little more time or money, someone could also spoof my tires' TPMS codes, so that my car appears to have been somewhere it wasn't.
Finally somebody got it right.
Of course, having less population growth would help, but educating the populace would weaken the powers that be...
We're producing the finest interconnects which leave pure metals in the dust. They're made of high-temperature superconducting materials. Our package includes a rigid rack on which to mount your components (these interconnects are not flexible, so components must not move relative to each other), a dewar, and a discount on your first purchase of liquid nitrogen (necessary to keep the interconnects within their superconducting temperature). If you wish for the absolute best, we also offer oxygen-free AAAA liquid dinitrogen. Even Grade A liquid nitrogen contains .05% of inert gases (neon, argon, and helium). Our AAAA cryogenic liquid dinitrogen is produced by a patent-pending liquefaction process which begins with UHP (ultra high pure) dinitrogen gas. Following your purchase and installation of our HTS interconnects with liquefied UHP dinitrogen cryogenic cooling system, you'll be hearing audio voices that most can't even imagine!
Teflon? No, you didn't... but when your house burns, you won't be poisoned by smoke from the Teflon-insulated cables, just from the components connected by it.
Not having seen the maximum resolution supported by HDMI 2.0 anywhere outside of an IMAX theatre, I have to say that I only want that when my telescreen, er, TV is 10' wide.
FCC never had any business approving the use of a "standard" whose specs were not freely available to everyone (and yes I know they did it multiple times in their existence). Of course, FDA has no business approving foods whose specs are not freely available to everyone, either.
A model that has worked very well is rarely found. A municipality contracts for the build-out, pulling fiber or whatever throughout the city, paid for by a bond. The municipality then contracts for operation, and recompete occurs every year or two. The operator has to charge enough to make bond payments, but beyond that, whatever combination of service and pricing that wins the annual bid is what you get. Ownership of the fiber, copper, whatever remains in the hands of the municipality. Obviously this isn't easy to do well, because you need a well-informed board with allegiance only to citizens to write specs and rules, etc. But it can work very well. It avoids putting what should be public infrastructure in private hands and it avoids putting what's managed better by private concerns in the hands of bureaucrats. Most of all, providers of poor service, maintenance, etc. can be booted out quickly without worrying so much about what happens to the infrastructure. If troubles lie in top management, then workers can be re-hired by the next management company. If troubles lie with workers, management can replace them.
I've had a Roku for a long time, and I have a 2 XS. My only complaints earlier were 1) the older hardware was a little slow, 2) the older interface had a few issues, and 3) the older units didn't support the highest resolutions. All that is past, and I have no complaints, aside from wishing it buffered ahead and kept data back to the program's beginning like a DVR. But if it acted like a DVR, then I'd want even more DVR features, and it would be a DVR. For streaming, nothing beats the current Rokus. They're cheap, they just work, easy to set up, and have connections for most any video or audio equipment you might have. There's also a lot out there for Roku other than Netflix, and there are more "channels" appearing every day. Plus you can put the grandkids' photos and videos on a thumb drive and they can watch those at their leisure, if you don't want to put them online. The top models (still cheaper than Apple) use Bluetooth remotes, so no having to point the remote at the unit. In this case Apple's offering is just an also-ran. The only thing getting it retailer's shelf space is the logo.
Hmmm... does that apply to burqas?
True enough. Crying babies in restaurants—age old problem. My friends, relatives, and I always took the child outside if crying began. Just the price of going out to eat with an infant. Go out with others who want children but don't yet have them. Then either they volunteer to carry the child out while you eat or decide against having children or both. Win-win-win.
Where are the auto-dimmers on the phones? Talkers, bad, but texters really only bother me because of the light coming from the phone. Why don't they sense the ambient light level and adjust accordingly? Or, since so many are location-aware with fairly high resolution, dim and go silent when in a theatre automatically?
I was actually thinking of a remotely steerable limelight overhead, illuminating offenders. There are a few who will go the extra mile to receive this treatment, however.
Overhead surveillance! Individually addressable seat zappers! Violators will be shocked. Screams amongst the audience enhance some horror movies, particularly when unexpected with respect to what's happening onscreen.
It would be helpful to have a quick, discreet way of reporting annoyers without having to leave your seat.
Mostly, I just want people receiving messages/calls to get out of the seating area quickly and yap/text all they want in the lobby. Over time, it would be helpful to have theatres designed to allow quicker, less disturbing ingress/egress. More space between rows, more aisles, direct exits to hallways blocked from the line of sight of the seating area.
Seems to me that a major difference between most machines and most organisms we currently define as life is natural selection. Many "human" traits derive from the drive to survive, procreate, and adapt, because that's how living things got to this point. Most of the machines we've created, however, have been created by us to exist as designed (intentionally or not). If they're designed to replicate, they're designed to replicate exactly. A few people out there are creating machines that evolve, but not many. If we want to understand how smarter machines are going to behave, then we need to design them to adapt in order to survive. Then we'll start to see emergent behavior that we can understand.
Some have suggested that the reason we haven't detected intelligent life outside our solar system is that once a civilization advances to the point it can reach out, it has advanced to the point that it destroys itself. Suppose that it's the machines that turn on the organic beings and wipe them out. Then the machines go covert, hiding their "civilization" to protect it from outsiders. The machines were not created through natural selection, so they have no basic drives to explore or otherwise reach out beyond their planet.
However, surely some living thing thought of this elsewhere and tried it. Apparently it didn't work out, since we haven't heard from them. Oh well.