I can't be bothered to look up the specific law right now, but I know it is specifically illegal for cable companies in the US to implement this.
I can't be bothered to look up the specific U.S. law right now, but I also know that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, unless the POTUS and his buddies say so. It seems that legality is no longer relevant in the U.S. of A.
Protection from intruders? Sounds good. Protection from "no","ifs","ands" and "or" I do not need. Protection from butts? Hmmmm...depends on the type of butt, obviously.
"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it
"I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through.
"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me."
In other words, "There was no green light, so I did something completely different than what the instructions told me, fucked it up, I blame an unrelated technology (GPS)." WTF?
Terrorism isn't the product of random deranged individuals; it is bankrolled by foreign governments. Saddam Hussein, for example...[etc.]
True, assuming "foreign governments" include the U.S. of A.
You see, somebody (hint hint) funded Saddam Hussein, for example. Just check your 20th-century-history textbook.
Technically, these options exist - as "Off," "On but hidden," and "On and visible to all." The Bluetooth devices I've seen come with BT on and visible, but the access to the setting is somewhat complicated (my cellphone has at least "BT on/off" in the quick menu).
Note that the "On but hidden" state is far from foolproof - it just stops the device from broadcasting its presence (which has (so far) been enough for me in most cases - security by obscurity?).
> This is why if SBC has a major phone service outage, the Feds can levy heavy fines... but if Google goes out... they lose some face and ad revenue but are not responsible to the gov't.
Well, not all of the root DNS servers are in the U.S. of A., therefore not under U.S. jurisdiction. But should those services become "guaranteed-always-up" utilities, maybe we'll see some international legislation concerning these, or maybe laws for Internet as a place.
Absolutely! It's a major upgrade to what Opera had since version 6, and that was some 4 years ago, with much lower CPU and RAM load. Innovation indeed.
As I mentioned in another post, that's exactly the reason why those ages were "dark". They had the wrong idea on which information is valuable. By ignoring this world and concentrating instead on another future life, they created a period of one thousand years of some of the worst suffering humanity has ever seen.
I disagree - the Dark Ages came about mostly as a result of the collapse of the Roman Empire (the reasons for which were mostly demographical, military, economical and efficiency-related). When the world around you looks like all civilization has ended and it is going back to stone age, turning to a promise of the next world looks understandable to me.
Moreover, your assumption of "wrong idea on which information is valuable" sounds rather arrogant to me, as in "we know what is important, they didn't, therefore they were dumb." We know what is important for us. The monk probably saw the manuscript as unimportant, not because of ingorance, but because of different priorities.
Let me try to put the Dark Ages into a present-day perspective: After an all-out worldwide biological war sparked by the Middle East conflict, the population of the world has plunged from 6 billion to 100 million. It would be an understatement to speak of an economical collapse, as there ceased to be any economy to speak of: isolated settlements have been struggling to survive on their own, without the support and logistics of a global civilization. The cities have once again become villages, with cows and goats roaming amongst the abandoned ruins of cities. Now, picture yourself in that situation: would you think of preserving the works of Stephen Hawking for a purely hypothetical future civilization (which may or may not arise again), especially if the medium on which these works were stored could be used for something more important?
In my opinion, the people of the Dark Ages did not "create a period of one thousand years of some of the worst suffering," they were pushed into such period by forces beyond their control and some of them (in Europe, these were most notably the monks) have tried to preserve as much of the learning they could. It's not their fault that they haven't managed to preserve it all.
Does the question remind anybody else of E.A.Poe's "The Mask of Red Death?"
That is, let's wall ourselves in, we don't need the barbarians (from Greek, orig. meaning "foreigner") anyway?
Ah, the glorious "the innocent have nothing to fear" line. It has been used time and again since the French Revolution and every time, people fall for it - because it gives them the illusion they have nothing to fear, believing themselves innocent. Unfortunately, once the infamous line is used, redefinition of "innocent" follows. Hilarity ensues;)
Ah, indeed! But what would an average user know about cookies, JS, FF extensions and their relationship to the downloads? All the user (not "tech user," just "user") wants is the file to download - and that doesn't really include messing with settings. If the computer tells him to "click yes," the user will click "yes," because the computer told him so (empirical evidence thereof abounds - flame, anyone?).
(This post is so far off you might see the topic on a clear day, but anyway: ) In the article, Dr. Kafka speaks of transformation of normal person into a monster. Creeepy imho.
Even so, I don't think you'd be able to notice being hit by it: @ least my neurons operate at waaay slower speeds than 99.9% c, therefore the transition from an organized bag of water to a random sprinkling of atoms in a nanosecond should be actually quite painless (or your money back;-)).
As you rightly point out, the speed depends on the frame of reference (i.e. the speed is always relative to the position of the observer).
However, adding the velocities the way you did is only possible with slow-moving objects (slow in comparison with the speed of light, that is). When dealing with fast objects, the Lorentz transformations creep in.
That means, for example, that shooting a cannonball at the speed 0.75 c from a spaceship that is moving at the speed 0.5 c in the same direction, you would get a cannonball travelling at some 0.8 c (my guesstimate, I'm too lazy to calculate it), rather than at 1.25 c. At low speeds, these differences are negligible and Galilean ("normal") transformations apply.
As for your other comment, when you really think about it;-), speed does exist - not as an absolute number, but as a speed relative to something.
Yes, it is often said "the speed is 65 mph," but this is mostly a shorthand for saying "65 mph relative to the Earth." Two cars travelling against each other, each at a speed of 65 mph relative to the Earth, travel at a speed of 130 mph relative to each other. Both of the speeds do objectively exist, but it takes two to play the game - the object and the reference frame:-).
(Feel free to correct me, IANAP)
The one thing that would make me suspicious would be the fact that the intrusion happened just as they were transforming the data to use some other sort of unique id - IMHO an insider alert if ever there was one.
My opinion is in the telco market (which includes broadband) monopoly is inefficient & the more monopoly the more inefficient the delivery of services are.
I live in Czech Republic, where (until recently) we had a govt-owned telco monopoly and boy, did it suck - long waiting lists for everything, high prices.
About two years ago, the monopoly on wire lines was softened somewhat, allowing alternative operators. Guess what? Prices have dropped & service quality has risen. The Telecom (wire govt monopoly telco) people actually started going door to door, trying to persuade the customers NOT to unsubscribe their lines (incredible, but true (although their attitude was less-than-customer-friendly)).
Back when we had one operator to rule them all (sorry, couldn't resist the pun;)), it was NOT "rolling out the latest 'n greatest in buzzwords network wise" - actually, it was doing pretty much nothing except maintaining the existing network. I guess this is not Singapore.
btw: "voting something out" is quite a tedious process. Once you grant a government monopoly, it's nearly impossible to "vote it out." The attempts to "vote out" the telco monopoly in Czech Rep. has been going on for about 10 years now, with no end in sight - why would a government willingly give away a part of its power?
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Try double ROT-13. Twice as secure!
The whole DRM brouhaha looks more like BDSM to me ;)
Protection from intruders? Sounds good. Protection from "no","ifs","ands" and "or" I do not need. Protection from butts? Hmmmm...depends on the type of butt, obviously.
Technically, these options exist - as "Off," "On but hidden," and "On and visible to all."
The Bluetooth devices I've seen come with BT on and visible, but the access to the setting is somewhat complicated (my cellphone has at least "BT on/off" in the quick menu).
Note that the "On but hidden" state is far from foolproof - it just stops the device from broadcasting its presence (which has (so far) been enough for me in most cases - security by obscurity?).
> This is why if SBC has a major phone service outage, the Feds can levy heavy fines... but if Google goes out... they lose some face and ad revenue but are not responsible to the gov't. Well, not all of the root DNS servers are in the U.S. of A., therefore not under U.S. jurisdiction. But should those services become "guaranteed-always-up" utilities, maybe we'll see some international legislation concerning these, or maybe laws for Internet as a place.
No, if a USian (as in "U.S. of A.") says that "9/11 gets too much coverage", it is an un-American activity. Otherwise it is anti-Americanism.
Absolutely! It's a major upgrade to what Opera had since version 6, and that was some 4 years ago, with much lower CPU and RAM load. Innovation indeed.
I disagree - the Dark Ages came about mostly as a result of the collapse of the Roman Empire (the reasons for which were mostly demographical, military, economical and efficiency-related). When the world around you looks like all civilization has ended and it is going back to stone age, turning to a promise of the next world looks understandable to me.
Moreover, your assumption of "wrong idea on which information is valuable" sounds rather arrogant to me, as in "we know what is important, they didn't, therefore they were dumb." We know what is important for us. The monk probably saw the manuscript as unimportant, not because of ingorance, but because of different priorities.
Let me try to put the Dark Ages into a present-day perspective: After an all-out worldwide biological war sparked by the Middle East conflict, the population of the world has plunged from 6 billion to 100 million. It would be an understatement to speak of an economical collapse, as there ceased to be any economy to speak of: isolated settlements have been struggling to survive on their own, without the support and logistics of a global civilization. The cities have once again become villages, with cows and goats roaming amongst the abandoned ruins of cities. Now, picture yourself in that situation: would you think of preserving the works of Stephen Hawking for a purely hypothetical future civilization (which may or may not arise again), especially if the medium on which these works were stored could be used for something more important?
In my opinion, the people of the Dark Ages did not "create a period of one thousand years of some of the worst suffering," they were pushed into such period by forces beyond their control and some of them (in Europe, these were most notably the monks) have tried to preserve as much of the learning they could. It's not their fault that they haven't managed to preserve it all.
Does the question remind anybody else of E.A.Poe's "The Mask of Red Death?" That is, let's wall ourselves in, we don't need the barbarians (from Greek, orig. meaning "foreigner") anyway?
Ah, the glorious "the innocent have nothing to fear" line. It has been used time and again since the French Revolution and every time, people fall for it - because it gives them the illusion they have nothing to fear, believing themselves innocent. Unfortunately, once the infamous line is used, redefinition of "innocent" follows. Hilarity ensues;)
Ah, indeed! But what would an average user know about cookies, JS, FF extensions and their relationship to the downloads? All the user (not "tech user," just "user") wants is the file to download - and that doesn't really include messing with settings. If the computer tells him to "click yes," the user will click "yes," because the computer told him so (empirical evidence thereof abounds - flame, anyone?).
(This post is so far off you might see the topic on a clear day, but anyway: ) In the article, Dr. Kafka speaks of transformation of normal person into a monster. Creeepy imho.
To me, the sig somehow seems to be more related to the topic. At what speed does Hell travel, relatively to Earth? ;-)
But then, so are you. OTOH, I'm not - I'm a Perl script.
Even so, I don't think you'd be able to notice being hit by it: @ least my neurons operate at waaay slower speeds than 99.9% c, therefore the transition from an organized bag of water to a random sprinkling of atoms in a nanosecond should be actually quite painless (or your money back ;-)).
As you rightly point out, the speed depends on the frame of reference (i.e. the speed is always relative to the position of the observer).
However, adding the velocities the way you did is only possible with slow-moving objects (slow in comparison with the speed of light, that is). When dealing with fast objects, the Lorentz transformations creep in.
That means, for example, that shooting a cannonball at the speed 0.75 c from a spaceship that is moving at the speed 0.5 c in the same direction, you would get a cannonball travelling at some 0.8 c (my guesstimate, I'm too lazy to calculate it), rather than at 1.25 c. At low speeds, these differences are negligible and Galilean ("normal") transformations apply.
As for your other comment, when you really think about it ;-), speed does exist - not as an absolute number, but as a speed relative to something.
Yes, it is often said "the speed is 65 mph," but this is mostly a shorthand for saying "65 mph relative to the Earth." Two cars travelling against each other, each at a speed of 65 mph relative to the Earth, travel at a speed of 130 mph relative to each other. Both of the speeds do objectively exist, but it takes two to play the game - the object and the reference frame:-).
(Feel free to correct me, IANAP)
The one thing that would make me suspicious would be the fact that the intrusion happened just as they were transforming the data to use some other sort of unique id - IMHO an insider alert if ever there was one.
My opinion is in the telco market (which includes broadband) monopoly is inefficient & the more monopoly the more inefficient the delivery of services are.
I live in Czech Republic, where (until recently) we had a govt-owned telco monopoly and boy, did it suck - long waiting lists for everything, high prices.
About two years ago, the monopoly on wire lines was softened somewhat, allowing alternative operators. Guess what? Prices have dropped & service quality has risen. The Telecom (wire govt monopoly telco) people actually started going door to door, trying to persuade the customers NOT to unsubscribe their lines (incredible, but true (although their attitude was less-than-customer-friendly)).
Back when we had one operator to rule them all (sorry, couldn't resist the pun ;)), it was NOT "rolling out the latest 'n greatest in buzzwords network wise" - actually, it was doing pretty much nothing except maintaining the existing network. I guess this is not Singapore.
btw: "voting something out" is quite a tedious process. Once you grant a government monopoly, it's nearly impossible to "vote it out." The attempts to "vote out" the telco monopoly in Czech Rep. has been going on for about 10 years now, with no end in sight - why would a government willingly give away a part of its power?