It looks quite clever on first glance, but I think he is fooling himself. The bottom shaft is going to get pushed in the opposite direction with as much force and speed as the top shaft pushes out. That means it will take just as much energy to drive the bottom shaft as it does the top shaft. If the bottom shaft is even slightly weaker than the top shaft, it will slip into reverse which means the car won't go forward at all. If you lock the bottom shaft in place, it won't require active energy but you don't get any "gear changing" benefit. Now if you drive both shafts at the same power level, you could use the same mother to drive both shafts with some clever gearing, but you'd be once again stuck with a constant gear ratio but you've got an awfully complex contraption. To change the RPM of the bottom shaft with relationship to the top shaft, you'd need a traditional gear system which defeats the whole purpose.
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Where this guy is fooling himself is in his thinking that the energy required to drive the bottom shaft is only a small percentage of the energy used in driving the main shaft. But that would violate Newton's third law of physics.
MySpace was dominating the social networking world, but the site design and the custom profiles were obnoxious. The owner of MySpace would brag about broken features like and say "it'll be fixed when it's fixed". Facebook came out with barely any users but quickly took over because they had a better user interface. This open source project could very well do the same thing, or it can force Facebook to adjust and reform for the better. Either way, the project will be a success.
No it didn't, there was no policy. What kind of an idiot writes a policy with mayor-only permissions? He pulled this Mayor-only excuse from his a$$.
Read what the juror said. He said Childs had already given the COO access to the system before. He only had a problem giving access after he found out that he was getting reassigned. So he gave a bad username and password to his boss, the COO, and HR despite the fact that police had already been called to the meeting. Then emailed everyone laughing at them that they can't get in the next day. The cops tried to solve this as an employer/employee issue and then Childs withdrew $10K and left for Nevada the day before his arrest.
This guy was a true piece of work. It's a classic case of an IT employee trying to lock out his employers and it gives us all a bad name. This business that it's his management's fault for giving him too much slack is no excuse. I was given a lot of freedom to act and design when I worked in a similar role and I saw that as a privilege that I earned.
In fact, most things are not explicitly stated in policy and that's where common sense and the chain of command comes into play. So long as the superior is not asking the employee to do something clearly illegal or unethical, that employee has the choice to comply or face termination. They also have to release control of any company property.
This is so that a person working for the San Francisco federal building can't demand to see President Obama to settle any workplace dispute. You can't say, I'm only going to give access to President Obama just because you feel that the entire chain of command is incompetent. You pull that in the military during war time and they shoot you for that. You are allowed to refuse immediate orders from direct superiors and go above their heads if you have a problem with the order, but you can't refuse the entire chain of command short of the President.
Just imagine if every IT employee pulled the "I'll only give the keys to the Mayor". Sure you can do that, but it comes with a 5-year prison term. This wasn't just the boss, but the boss' boss and his boss.
Are you saying Terry Childs doesn't know who his boss' boss is or who the CIO or CEO is in his company? You're suggesting the Limo driver doesn't know the father who hired him? This *is* the "FATHER" showing up along with the police who surely would have demanded proof of ownership of the car. And don't try to tell me he thought it was fake police officers throwing him in a fake prison cell and that he hired a fake lawyer to defend him from a fake trial that led to a fake 5-year sentence in a fake prison cell. So stop giving me your fake arguments.
In all honesty, kids don't need more encouragement to game. Yes I'm a parent, but I'm young enough to still be a gamer and trust me, I didn't/don't need more encouragement.
Let's imagine a limo driver refused to hand over the keys of the car to a 19 year kid who is prone to fast driving. But the kid doesn’t like that driver so he gets his father to fire the limo driver, but the driver refuses to hand the keys over to the father. The father fires the driver and hires a new limo driver, but the original driver even refuses to hand the keys to the new limo driver. At that point the limo driver has effectively commandeered a car that does not belong to him which makes him legally and morally wrong. It doesn’t matter if a few Internet geeks cheer him on as someone who “stuck it to the man” because if they were in a similar situation, they would go to jail too and I would convict them if I were on the jury.
There was a woman who worked (for San Francisco I think) on night shifts. She would come in and punch in, go home and sleep, come back in pajamas to punch in during break, then come back to clock out. She did this for several years. Of course the real question is that if no one missed her all those years, does the city really need this position in the first place.
Oh but there already is a great pay day for school. It's the greatest pay day of all and we're talking about 6-figure jobs that involve relatively easy work. The problem is delayed gratification and most people want their gratification now. They prefer the instant gratification of watching TV, playing with the computer, being cool with the other kids, etc.
Story starts off with "Then one day Ethan's mother made him a bold offer. If he could go a full month without watching any TV, she would give him $200". But then the kid went out and bought himself another TV. Great, now you've got an even bigger problem.
I'm a parent of two and I have a much better solution. I simply tell my kids that if they don't turn that TV off when I tell them to, their TV privilege is revoked for a week. If that doesn't work (and it's never failed me), there's always a good old fashion swat on the rear. I also don't buy any kind of TV service so it makes it much easier to control how much TV the kids watch. There's no computers in their room so they're not in there by themselves playing with the computer all day. It's absolutely amazing how well this works and how much cheaper it is. Only in America are parents so stupid to have to bribe their kids.
You can actually by Wi-Fi blocking paint and window film. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=45. It's not cheap for a whole house, but that's his problem due to an imaginary ailment.
A high powered 2.4 GHz microwave beam shined at you that would induce 1000W/kg would probably be felt because your flesh would rapidly heat up. So anyone can detect RF at sufficient power levels. The problem is that a cell tower would likely cause a few nanowatts to a few milliwatts of heating energy per kg and nobody can detect this.
I've never bought into the type of pessimistic view of technology that Bill Joy espouses. I think it's a terrible form of self hate among some technologists. If these technology inventors really feel the way they feel, they should stop inventing things. Taken to the most extreme, they become crazed Ted Kaczynski type killers.
Major problem with your logic is that any harm you can do to others they can do to you and very possibly worse. It follows the flawed conspiracy theory that corporations hire people to assassinate people. But if that were true, why aren't we seeing more deaths to important corporate people or politicians or their families? Assassins work for relatively cheap compared to Stanford graduates and it's very affordable to corporations but why aren't they doing it? Why aren't wealthy people paying off assassins much less on an institutionalized level?
Couple reasons for this. Even mobsters who have murdered people eventually have families they care about and they eventually go legit (e.g., Las Vegas). They trade in their assassins for Public Relations, Marketing, Engineers, Lawyers, Lobbyists, etc even though all of these professions are more expensive than some meat head that knows how to off people. Now if mobsters default to this kind of behavior, what are the odds of someone who grew up shielded from violence, who has even more to lose in life playing this dangerous game?
The outcome that you're suggesting would never be permitted on a societal level in a democracy. The disadvantaged will always outvote you.
"The American dream you describe assumes that with hard work anyone can succeed."
I am sorry that I actually believe this due to the fact that I am an immigrant and never learned the entitlement mindset.
"The worst-case of the society I am describing is one without that possibility. It is utterly unmeritocratic: no matter how hard you work, you would be unable to succeed because you were genetically inferior. You fail because you simply aren't smart enough, or haven't enough stamina, or lack the inbuilt emotional intelligence or what have you. The elite would be like an entrenched aristocracy, except instead of being merely more wealthy, they would also be physically and mentally privileged - and they would pass those advantages on to their offspring. Those advantages could be insurmountable."
Has this ever *not* been the case throughout the world? Women for example will rarely mate with someone shorter than themselves. Women look for mates that can provide security (or at least the best they can attract). Men look for healthy (beautiful) looking women. Would you rather turn this upside down? I've personally seen this kind of nonsense in communist China where janitors were given the title of professor or doctor while the professors were drowned and doctors were sent to work the fields. I've personally suffered from this kind of upside-down society as have millions of other Chinese people
Technology is actually the great equalizer as the cost of technology comes down. When in the history of man kind could anyone publish written or video content to the entire world on a shoestring budget? If humans could buy technology to improve themselves - and businesses will strive to ensure that the masses could afford the technology while still earning a healthy profit - it would equalize the difference.
People can afford to be different today and I don't see any problem with it. I don't hate wealthy people because they can afford nice cars, attain beautiful women (often more than one), and receive more specialized care. I see nothing wrong with their success and I hope to be one of those people someday. What I would hate is for someone like you to tell me that I can't strive to differentiate because it might upset a few people and make them envious.
You're saying socialism is being able to go on the dole but still make a pretty decent living. What you really mean is that socialism is communism living off of the fat of capitalism. It "works" in Sweden with a horrendous tax load on the working people of Sweden. But even then, the Swedes have had the benefit of a relatively homogenous society with some core values like not getting on the dole just because you can. This is becoming problematic for them as more imigrants are going into the country without those same values.
The difference is that people willingly work for their bosses and they can always get a different job or just quit. In a socialist nation, you have no choice.
Feeding the kids "elevator music" is like shining sunlight on vampires, except it isn't so much that they're offended by the music or sounds but rather the association with old people. When they become "old people" themselves, they get over it. I hated watching ice skating and dancing as a boy and loved the A-team. By the time I got to my late teens, I couldn't stand the A-team (or shows like it) and I began to love artistic things and plays with more plot. The point is that people change dramatically as they mature.
Classical music when live is even more dynamic than it is on the highest end speaker system. That's because you have 100 simultaneous devices generating sound and it is quite exhilarating whereas 100 instruments coming out of 2 speakers is garbled. The problem is that classical music e.g., 1812 Overture presents some extreme engineering challenges to sound systems in that it produces extreme clipping/distortion in just about any speaker system especially when the cannon go off.
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It looks quite clever on first glance, but I think he is fooling himself. The bottom shaft is going to get pushed in the opposite direction with as much force and speed as the top shaft pushes out. That means it will take just as much energy to drive the bottom shaft as it does the top shaft. If the bottom shaft is even slightly weaker than the top shaft, it will slip into reverse which means the car won't go forward at all. If you lock the bottom shaft in place, it won't require active energy but you don't get any "gear changing" benefit. Now if you drive both shafts at the same power level, you could use the same mother to drive both shafts with some clever gearing, but you'd be once again stuck with a constant gear ratio but you've got an awfully complex contraption. To change the RPM of the bottom shaft with relationship to the top shaft, you'd need a traditional gear system which defeats the whole purpose.
. Where this guy is fooling himself is in his thinking that the energy required to drive the bottom shaft is only a small percentage of the energy used in driving the main shaft. But that would violate Newton's third law of physics.
MySpace was dominating the social networking world, but the site design and the custom profiles were obnoxious. The owner of MySpace would brag about broken features like and say "it'll be fixed when it's fixed". Facebook came out with barely any users but quickly took over because they had a better user interface. This open source project could very well do the same thing, or it can force Facebook to adjust and reform for the better. Either way, the project will be a success.
Ever wonder why all the android workers in Ghost in the Shell have 20 fingers for speed typing? Wouldn't a USB or BlueTooth interface be faster?
It's the absolute worse bloat/security nightmare.
this sucks.
http://www.formortals.com/terry-childs-network-admin-convicted/
No it didn't, there was no policy. What kind of an idiot writes a policy with mayor-only permissions? He pulled this Mayor-only excuse from his a$$.
Read what the juror said. He said Childs had already given the COO access to the system before. He only had a problem giving access after he found out that he was getting reassigned. So he gave a bad username and password to his boss, the COO, and HR despite the fact that police had already been called to the meeting. Then emailed everyone laughing at them that they can't get in the next day. The cops tried to solve this as an employer/employee issue and then Childs withdrew $10K and left for Nevada the day before his arrest.
This guy was a true piece of work. It's a classic case of an IT employee trying to lock out his employers and it gives us all a bad name. This business that it's his management's fault for giving him too much slack is no excuse. I was given a lot of freedom to act and design when I worked in a similar role and I saw that as a privilege that I earned.
In fact, most things are not explicitly stated in policy and that's where common sense and the chain of command comes into play. So long as the superior is not asking the employee to do something clearly illegal or unethical, that employee has the choice to comply or face termination. They also have to release control of any company property.
This is so that a person working for the San Francisco federal building can't demand to see President Obama to settle any workplace dispute. You can't say, I'm only going to give access to President Obama just because you feel that the entire chain of command is incompetent. You pull that in the military during war time and they shoot you for that. You are allowed to refuse immediate orders from direct superiors and go above their heads if you have a problem with the order, but you can't refuse the entire chain of command short of the President.
Just imagine if every IT employee pulled the "I'll only give the keys to the Mayor". Sure you can do that, but it comes with a 5-year prison term. This wasn't just the boss, but the boss' boss and his boss.
Are you saying Terry Childs doesn't know who his boss' boss is or who the CIO or CEO is in his company? You're suggesting the Limo driver doesn't know the father who hired him? This *is* the "FATHER" showing up along with the police who surely would have demanded proof of ownership of the car. And don't try to tell me he thought it was fake police officers throwing him in a fake prison cell and that he hired a fake lawyer to defend him from a fake trial that led to a fake 5-year sentence in a fake prison cell. So stop giving me your fake arguments.
Or the "I pooped everyday badge"?
In all honesty, kids don't need more encouragement to game. Yes I'm a parent, but I'm young enough to still be a gamer and trust me, I didn't/don't need more encouragement.
Let's imagine a limo driver refused to hand over the keys of the car to a 19 year kid who is prone to fast driving. But the kid doesn’t like that driver so he gets his father to fire the limo driver, but the driver refuses to hand the keys over to the father. The father fires the driver and hires a new limo driver, but the original driver even refuses to hand the keys to the new limo driver. At that point the limo driver has effectively commandeered a car that does not belong to him which makes him legally and morally wrong. It doesn’t matter if a few Internet geeks cheer him on as someone who “stuck it to the man” because if they were in a similar situation, they would go to jail too and I would convict them if I were on the jury.
There was a woman who worked (for San Francisco I think) on night shifts. She would come in and punch in, go home and sleep, come back in pajamas to punch in during break, then come back to clock out. She did this for several years. Of course the real question is that if no one missed her all those years, does the city really need this position in the first place.
Oh but there already is a great pay day for school. It's the greatest pay day of all and we're talking about 6-figure jobs that involve relatively easy work. The problem is delayed gratification and most people want their gratification now. They prefer the instant gratification of watching TV, playing with the computer, being cool with the other kids, etc.
Story starts off with "Then one day Ethan's mother made him a bold offer. If he could go a full month without watching any TV, she would give him $200". But then the kid went out and bought himself another TV. Great, now you've got an even bigger problem.
I'm a parent of two and I have a much better solution. I simply tell my kids that if they don't turn that TV off when I tell them to, their TV privilege is revoked for a week. If that doesn't work (and it's never failed me), there's always a good old fashion swat on the rear. I also don't buy any kind of TV service so it makes it much easier to control how much TV the kids watch. There's no computers in their room so they're not in there by themselves playing with the computer all day. It's absolutely amazing how well this works and how much cheaper it is. Only in America are parents so stupid to have to bribe their kids.
You can actually by Wi-Fi blocking paint and window film. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=45. It's not cheap for a whole house, but that's his problem due to an imaginary ailment.
A high powered 2.4 GHz microwave beam shined at you that would induce 1000W/kg would probably be felt because your flesh would rapidly heat up. So anyone can detect RF at sufficient power levels. The problem is that a cell tower would likely cause a few nanowatts to a few milliwatts of heating energy per kg and nobody can detect this.
I've never bought into the type of pessimistic view of technology that Bill Joy espouses. I think it's a terrible form of self hate among some technologists. If these technology inventors really feel the way they feel, they should stop inventing things. Taken to the most extreme, they become crazed Ted Kaczynski type killers.
Major problem with your logic is that any harm you can do to others they can do to you and very possibly worse. It follows the flawed conspiracy theory that corporations hire people to assassinate people. But if that were true, why aren't we seeing more deaths to important corporate people or politicians or their families? Assassins work for relatively cheap compared to Stanford graduates and it's very affordable to corporations but why aren't they doing it? Why aren't wealthy people paying off assassins much less on an institutionalized level?
Couple reasons for this. Even mobsters who have murdered people eventually have families they care about and they eventually go legit (e.g., Las Vegas). They trade in their assassins for Public Relations, Marketing, Engineers, Lawyers, Lobbyists, etc even though all of these professions are more expensive than some meat head that knows how to off people. Now if mobsters default to this kind of behavior, what are the odds of someone who grew up shielded from violence, who has even more to lose in life playing this dangerous game?
The outcome that you're suggesting would never be permitted on a societal level in a democracy. The disadvantaged will always outvote you.
"The American dream you describe assumes that with hard work anyone can succeed."
I am sorry that I actually believe this due to the fact that I am an immigrant and never learned the entitlement mindset. "The worst-case of the society I am describing is one without that possibility. It is utterly unmeritocratic: no matter how hard you work, you would be unable to succeed because you were genetically inferior. You fail because you simply aren't smart enough, or haven't enough stamina, or lack the inbuilt emotional intelligence or what have you. The elite would be like an entrenched aristocracy, except instead of being merely more wealthy, they would also be physically and mentally privileged - and they would pass those advantages on to their offspring. Those advantages could be insurmountable."
Has this ever *not* been the case throughout the world? Women for example will rarely mate with someone shorter than themselves. Women look for mates that can provide security (or at least the best they can attract). Men look for healthy (beautiful) looking women. Would you rather turn this upside down? I've personally seen this kind of nonsense in communist China where janitors were given the title of professor or doctor while the professors were drowned and doctors were sent to work the fields. I've personally suffered from this kind of upside-down society as have millions of other Chinese people
Technology is actually the great equalizer as the cost of technology comes down. When in the history of man kind could anyone publish written or video content to the entire world on a shoestring budget? If humans could buy technology to improve themselves - and businesses will strive to ensure that the masses could afford the technology while still earning a healthy profit - it would equalize the difference.
People can afford to be different today and I don't see any problem with it. I don't hate wealthy people because they can afford nice cars, attain beautiful women (often more than one), and receive more specialized care. I see nothing wrong with their success and I hope to be one of those people someday. What I would hate is for someone like you to tell me that I can't strive to differentiate because it might upset a few people and make them envious.
You're saying socialism is being able to go on the dole but still make a pretty decent living. What you really mean is that socialism is communism living off of the fat of capitalism. It "works" in Sweden with a horrendous tax load on the working people of Sweden. But even then, the Swedes have had the benefit of a relatively homogenous society with some core values like not getting on the dole just because you can. This is becoming problematic for them as more imigrants are going into the country without those same values.
The difference is that people willingly work for their bosses and they can always get a different job or just quit. In a socialist nation, you have no choice.
It's just about getting on disability in Sweden. They're the laughing stocks of the world to buy into this kind of fraud.
Feeding the kids "elevator music" is like shining sunlight on vampires, except it isn't so much that they're offended by the music or sounds but rather the association with old people. When they become "old people" themselves, they get over it. I hated watching ice skating and dancing as a boy and loved the A-team. By the time I got to my late teens, I couldn't stand the A-team (or shows like it) and I began to love artistic things and plays with more plot. The point is that people change dramatically as they mature.
Classical music when live is even more dynamic than it is on the highest end speaker system. That's because you have 100 simultaneous devices generating sound and it is quite exhilarating whereas 100 instruments coming out of 2 speakers is garbled. The problem is that classical music e.g., 1812 Overture presents some extreme engineering challenges to sound systems in that it produces extreme clipping/distortion in just about any speaker system especially when the cannon go off.