precisely. Have a script create multiple companies, randomly named, and move your files across companies every split second. Pure genious. Wish it was easy to implement =/
Contrast that with trains which have inconvenient stops located miles-apart,
It's called biking to station. Solves this problem. If you can't bike, parking lots at the train station would also help.
only serve a few people within walking distance of those stops This is no different than the fiber optic problem: yes, we can put fiber for a place where 10 thousand people live, but not door-to-door. We can build trains to neighbourhoods, but some people will have to solve their last mile on their own.
, do not allow any flexibility (i.e. work late on urgent projects), and provide no method to carry 6-7 bags of this week's groceries home from the store.
I do not advocate dumping the car completely. I advocate that car usage should be reduced, mostly to situations where public transport does not cut. You don't have urgent projects everyday (unless your workplace has terrible project management), and you don't really need to buy groceries everyday.
So please, use transport for your everyday commute, and keep the car for tourism, night/weekend-shopping, visiting friends, etc. If your kid's school offer school buses, then by all means use them - it helps a lot teaching kids some independence.
Hell even an Amish-style horse-and-buggy is more convenient than a train.
Hello Mr. Strawman. Y'know, one has to agree with Amish philosophy... at least they aren't ruining the environment.
Seconded. Totally feasible. Not just for dense areas like NYC, but also for more sprawled urban areas.
As I said in the other discussion, it is possible to decently serve less populated areas: have smaller buses driving around neighborhoods, and leaving people right next to the train station. You don't even need a train or full blown subway for the main trunk, actually: you just need some form of reliable, segregated transport, such as a bus running on an exclusive corridor or segregated tram.
A brazilian city named Curitiba did that and it worked wonders. There, you pay one ticket to get in the first bus, and you may switch to larger buses at special stations, without paying again. Many brazilian towns have bus corridors too but, lacking fare integration, most of them require neighborhood buses to go all the way to downtown - effectively clogging the corridor. Not surprisingly, Curitiba is the brazilian city where public transport is most used as means of commuting - and notice that Curitiba is NOT a poor city by brazilian standards.
Granted, Curitiba (and other brazilian capitals) is a dense city, but this model could work for the pathological american suburban areas. 30-minute interval buses (for a 15 minute one way trip, this requires one single bus!) in the neighborhood, taking people to and from heavier transits. Buses are flexible and cheap enough for low demand areas like that, and also would hardly suffer from congestion on those typically empty streets.
However, as some posters mentioned elsewhere, the service must be available later in the evening, maybe at larger intervals, otherwise people with different schedules will stick to their cars. Cheap parking at those intermediate stations would help a lot too.
But it is possible to decently serve less populated areas: have smaller buses driving around neighborhoods, and leaving people right next to the train station. You don't even need a train or full blown subway for the main trunk, actually: you just need some form of segregated transport, such as a bus running on an exclusive corridor. A brazilian town named Curitiba did that and it worked wonders. There, you pay one ticket to get in the first bus, and you may switch to larger buses at special stations, without paying again. Many brazilian towns have bus corridors but, lacking fare integration, in most of them your neighborhood bus goes all the way to downtown - effectively clogging the corridor.
Granted, Curitiba (and other brazilian capitals) is a dense city, but this model could work for the pathological american suburban areas. 30-hour interval buses (for a 15 minute one way trip, this requires one single bus!) in the neighborhood, taking people to and from heavier transits. But, as some posters mentioned elsewhere, the service must be available later in the evening, otherwise people won't use if they might have different schedules.
Yeah, it's totally fair to have cash-paying people subsidize card charges related to other people's purchases. I really hope your sarcasm mark was around the wrong paragraph.
Yes you are correct. I tend to believe conscience is some sort of emergent super-structure that derives from a combination of states of physical stuff, but I have no way assuring we are not in a Descartes' hell. Heck, I can't even tell if my conscience is indeed mine - for all I know, we could all be the same conscience with multiple viewports to the physical reality.
My point with non-clones is that, at the moment natural fertilization occurs, an unique DNA instance is "having its first chance". If you alter it to keep brain from developing, you're effectively barring that DNA instance from ever becoming something.
When you clone someone, it is like your giving their DNA instance a second chance. Considering that DNA propagation is ultimately what drives evolution, cloned individuals' DNA instances would have a fine advantage if said individuals were to reach reproductive age. That reminds me of a movie, "Code 46", where cloned individuals became a public health problem, as they raised the possibilities of accidental in-breeding.
That said, I would have no problems in creating non-brained clones, pending some final confirmation that the brain is really "everything that matters". This confirmation is a religious or philosophical problem, to which I see no solution.
Why? No brain, no suffering. Also, you're not barring an potentially interesting DNA instance from ever randomly developing that specific way again - after all, it is already a clone of some DNA instance.
I could be wrong, but there is nothing keeping OpenID admins from faking your login and telling site A they are you. OpenID is not reasonable for banking applications. But anyways, internet banking has been so fucked up for so long that I can see crap like that coming.
Also, proper security for online banking should never require kludges like Java Applets or client-side "security checkers", as I have seen in my country's banking.
A login page should be a very normal login page, followed by a One Time Pad request (alternatively, OTP could be requested only for non-idempotent transactions). This is simply the best solution - any bank that neglects that is stupid. OTP can be implemented in various ways... digital keyfobs are surely the best, but even a sheet of paper with a table of codes will do the trick.
Hate to reply myself, but I wasn't clear: we'd be seeing cancer in younger population because everyone would be exposed to the source. Of course, one could argue the old would have accumulated more radiation thru time.
My point is... if all the radiation/communists/transgenics/insert-modern-thing-here were to blame, we'd be seeing a lot of cancer in YOUNG population. Now, I could be wrong and have no data do support me, but I believe that is not the case.
Except that Patagonia does not belong to Brazil, but rather to Argentina and Chile.
But I understand your mistake, since "rain forest" usually equates to the Amazon basin. I have never hear the term "Patagonian Rain Forest" before. Maybe there is something fishy with this summary?
Well, the name-vote thing is already possible, if you consider that a poll worker has to punch your number in the control terminal before the machine allows you to vote. As I mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, nothing short of the convoluted three-ballot system proposed by a security guru sometime ago can stop this.
Additionally, it should be mentioned that poll workers are randomly chosen from the population, and each section has at least 3 on duty at a given time. It is unlikely they will have the same political leaning, mostly because our political scenario is far more scattered, with some 5+ relevant parties, as opposed to the US bipartidarism.
Besides, the voting procedure makes it really hard for poll workers to cast phantom votes. The machine has two terminals: the one we saw in the linked simulation and another one for control. The voting procedure is the following
you are only allowed to vote at a specific place, called a "section", which is usually a small classroom at a school (near to your home) containing one single ballot (if you're out of town, you have to "justify" your absence, by showing up at special sections.
you arrive, give your electoral title. A worker looks for your name in a book that lists all voters from that section, in order to make sure you're voting in the right place (you're not allowed to vote outside your section). In some places, those books have a picture of the voter.
you sign this book
the next worker punches your number in the control terminal and reads your name out loud and you can now vote
after you vote, your electoral title is returned, among with "i voted this election" receipt, which you will need in the future to prove you have voted regularly
For someone to "stuff a ballot", they would have to use the number of someone allowed to vote on that section and, considering voting is mandatory, this would fail when the actual voter showed up.
As others said, this system is NOT perfect and, short of the convoluted three-ballot system some security guru proposed, no voting system is. At least in my town, results are really matching exit polls and polls before the election. Of course, votes for city representative are not polled, so nasty stuff could be going on there, but this is rather unlikely.
Some people can't read in Brazil, and they are allowed to vote. It is far easier for them to remember a number (2-digit for mayor, 5-digit for city representative). After you punch the numbers, a picture of the candidate is shown. If it was not the candidate you wanted, you can correct your vote (orange button). If it is right, you confirm it (large green button).
One thing I would like to see in the future is some apt-like repository for commonly used javascript libraries. E.g., if I use Yahoo! js libs, the page would just ask for whatever lib version it was designed for, and the browser would load it from a local repository. Some libs are huge, and there should be no need for downloading it again and again from different sites.
Of course, this could be done today by simply point the src attribute in your script tag to yahoo's repository, but this would not be good on yahoo's bandwidth. Also, this would require some standarization across multiple browsers, which is something we know is not happening any time soon.
NAT is not a firewall! One could easily have a public automated parking equipment on a public routable IP address BEHIND a proper firewall. People like to equate NATs to firewalls. They are not the same thing.
But yeah, this whole problem could be solved for the time being by freeing up the ridiculous portion of address space reserved for just a couple of companies.
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As odd as it may sound, some German beer brands are sold in plastic bottles. They taste like crap, but they do exist.
precisely. Have a script create multiple companies, randomly named, and move your files across companies every split second. Pure genious. Wish it was easy to implement =/
Contrast that with trains which have inconvenient stops located miles-apart,
It's called biking to station. Solves this problem. If you can't bike, parking lots at the train station would also help.
only serve a few people within walking distance of those stops
This is no different than the fiber optic problem: yes, we can put fiber for a place where 10 thousand people live, but not door-to-door. We can build trains to neighbourhoods, but some people will have to solve their last mile on their own.
, do not allow any flexibility (i.e. work late on urgent projects), and provide no method to carry 6-7 bags of this week's groceries home from the store.
I do not advocate dumping the car completely. I advocate that car usage should be reduced, mostly to situations where public transport does not cut. You don't have urgent projects everyday (unless your workplace has terrible project management), and you don't really need to buy groceries everyday.
So please, use transport for your everyday commute, and keep the car for tourism, night/weekend-shopping, visiting friends, etc. If your kid's school offer school buses, then by all means use them - it helps a lot teaching kids some independence.
Hell even an Amish-style horse-and-buggy is more convenient than a train.
Hello Mr. Strawman. Y'know, one has to agree with Amish philosophy... at least they aren't ruining the environment.
Seconded. Totally feasible. Not just for dense areas like NYC, but also for more sprawled urban areas.
As I said in the other discussion, it is possible to decently serve less populated areas: have smaller buses driving around neighborhoods, and leaving people right next to the train station. You don't even need a train or full blown subway for the main trunk, actually: you just need some form of reliable, segregated transport, such as a bus running on an exclusive corridor or segregated tram.
A brazilian city named Curitiba did that and it worked wonders. There, you pay one ticket to get in the first bus, and you may switch to larger buses at special stations, without paying again. Many brazilian towns have bus corridors too but, lacking fare integration, most of them require neighborhood buses to go all the way to downtown - effectively clogging the corridor. Not surprisingly, Curitiba is the brazilian city where public transport is most used as means of commuting - and notice that Curitiba is NOT a poor city by brazilian standards.
Granted, Curitiba (and other brazilian capitals) is a dense city, but this model could work for the pathological american suburban areas. 30-minute interval buses (for a 15 minute one way trip, this requires one single bus!) in the neighborhood, taking people to and from heavier transits. Buses are flexible and cheap enough for low demand areas like that, and also would hardly suffer from congestion on those typically empty streets.
However, as some posters mentioned elsewhere, the service must be available later in the evening, maybe at larger intervals, otherwise people with different schedules will stick to their cars. Cheap parking at those intermediate stations would help a lot too.
But it is possible to decently serve less populated areas: have smaller buses driving around neighborhoods, and leaving people right next to the train station. You don't even need a train or full blown subway for the main trunk, actually: you just need some form of segregated transport, such as a bus running on an exclusive corridor. A brazilian town named Curitiba did that and it worked wonders. There, you pay one ticket to get in the first bus, and you may switch to larger buses at special stations, without paying again. Many brazilian towns have bus corridors but, lacking fare integration, in most of them your neighborhood bus goes all the way to downtown - effectively clogging the corridor.
Granted, Curitiba (and other brazilian capitals) is a dense city, but this model could work for the pathological american suburban areas. 30-hour interval buses (for a 15 minute one way trip, this requires one single bus!) in the neighborhood, taking people to and from heavier transits. But, as some posters mentioned elsewhere, the service must be available later in the evening, otherwise people won't use if they might have different schedules.
Yeah, because March 14th will always be on Saturdays.
Yeah, Apple should implement stereo bluetooth, just like they did with the iPhone. No, wait, they didn't.
Not really. Interestellar travel, is hardly rewarding from an economic standpoint. SeeKrugman's work.
Not really. Interestellar travel, is hardly rewarding from an economic standpoint. See Krugman's work.
Yeah, it's totally fair to have cash-paying people subsidize card charges related to other people's purchases. I really hope your sarcasm mark was around the wrong paragraph.
Yes you are correct. I tend to believe conscience is some sort of emergent super-structure that derives from a combination of states of physical stuff, but I have no way assuring we are not in a Descartes' hell. Heck, I can't even tell if my conscience is indeed mine - for all I know, we could all be the same conscience with multiple viewports to the physical reality.
My point with non-clones is that, at the moment natural fertilization occurs, an unique DNA instance is "having its first chance". If you alter it to keep brain from developing, you're effectively barring that DNA instance from ever becoming something.
When you clone someone, it is like your giving their DNA instance a second chance. Considering that DNA propagation is ultimately what drives evolution, cloned individuals' DNA instances would have a fine advantage if said individuals were to reach reproductive age. That reminds me of a movie, "Code 46", where cloned individuals became a public health problem, as they raised the possibilities of accidental in-breeding.
That said, I would have no problems in creating non-brained clones, pending some final confirmation that the brain is really "everything that matters". This confirmation is a religious or philosophical problem, to which I see no solution.
Why? No brain, no suffering. Also, you're not barring an potentially interesting DNA instance from ever randomly developing that specific way again - after all, it is already a clone of some DNA instance.
yo dawg, I heard you like blackholes, so I put a blackhole inside your blackhole so you can be sucked while you suck
I could be wrong, but there is nothing keeping OpenID admins from faking your login and telling site A they are you. OpenID is not reasonable for banking applications. But anyways, internet banking has been so fucked up for so long that I can see crap like that coming.
Also, proper security for online banking should never require kludges like Java Applets or client-side "security checkers", as I have seen in my country's banking.
A login page should be a very normal login page, followed by a One Time Pad request (alternatively, OTP could be requested only for non-idempotent transactions). This is simply the best solution - any bank that neglects that is stupid. OTP can be implemented in various ways... digital keyfobs are surely the best, but even a sheet of paper with a table of codes will do the trick.
Hate to reply myself, but I wasn't clear: we'd be seeing cancer in younger population because everyone would be exposed to the source. Of course, one could argue the old would have accumulated more radiation thru time.
My point is... if all the radiation/communists/transgenics/insert-modern-thing-here were to blame, we'd be seeing a lot of cancer in YOUNG population. Now, I could be wrong and have no data do support me, but I believe that is not the case.
Correlation does not imply causation. IMO, growing cancer rates can be attributed to the aging population.
Except that Patagonia does not belong to Brazil, but rather to Argentina and Chile.
But I understand your mistake, since "rain forest" usually equates to the Amazon basin. I have never hear the term "Patagonian Rain Forest" before. Maybe there is something fishy with this summary?
Well, the name-vote thing is already possible, if you consider that a poll worker has to punch your number in the control terminal before the machine allows you to vote. As I mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, nothing short of the convoluted three-ballot system proposed by a security guru sometime ago can stop this.
Additionally, it should be mentioned that poll workers are randomly chosen from the population, and each section has at least 3 on duty at a given time. It is unlikely they will have the same political leaning, mostly because our political scenario is far more scattered, with some 5+ relevant parties, as opposed to the US bipartidarism.
Besides, the voting procedure makes it really hard for poll workers to cast phantom votes. The machine has two terminals: the one we saw in the linked simulation and another one for control. The voting procedure is the following
worker looks for your name in a book that lists all voters from that section, in order to make sure you're voting in the right place (you're not allowed to vote outside your section). In some places, those books have a picture of the voter.
For someone to "stuff a ballot", they would have to use the number of someone allowed to vote on that section and, considering voting is mandatory, this would fail when the actual voter showed up.
As others said, this system is NOT perfect and, short of the convoluted three-ballot system some security guru proposed, no voting system is. At least in my town, results are really matching exit polls and polls before the election. Of course, votes for city representative are not polled, so nasty stuff could be going on there, but this is rather unlikely.
Some people can't read in Brazil, and they are allowed to vote. It is far easier for them to remember a number (2-digit for mayor, 5-digit for city representative). After you punch the numbers, a picture of the candidate is shown. If it was not the candidate you wanted, you can correct your vote (orange button). If it is right, you confirm it (large green button).
The ballots are not connected to the Internet. Voting data is transported on flash cards or floppy disks.
One thing I would like to see in the future is some apt-like repository for commonly used javascript libraries. E.g., if I use Yahoo! js libs, the page would just ask for whatever lib version it was designed for, and the browser would load it from a local repository. Some libs are huge, and there should be no need for downloading it again and again from different sites.
Of course, this could be done today by simply point the src attribute in your script tag to yahoo's repository, but this would not be good on yahoo's bandwidth. Also, this would require some standarization across multiple browsers, which is something we know is not happening any time soon.
NAT is not a firewall! One could easily have a public automated parking equipment on a public routable IP address BEHIND a proper firewall. People like to equate NATs to firewalls. They are not the same thing.
But yeah, this whole problem could be solved for the time being by freeing up the ridiculous portion of address space reserved for just a couple of companies.