What I don't understand is how law enforcement ever solved any crimes at all before the digital world?
With a warrant, they could wiretap phones and plant listening devices.
...so, for example, when Canadian law enforcement was investigating the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985 (killing 329) they leaned heavily on wiretaps of phone conversations.
With encrypted phone calls and encrypted text messages the investigation would likely have stalled as there would be no way to listen in on the perpetrators.
I remember speaking with an economist years ago who said if you wanted to eliminate crime nearly overnight just make the largest bill $10. Very difficult for Tony Soprano to transact crime if $50,000 was a half-a-million pieces of paper.
Some of the the upper estimates for sea level rise are 6 feet. So we either build levees or move people to higher ground. Why are we still wringing our hands and trying to convince every last person to agree? I want to see a plan and then progress on building levees.
Keep in mind levees don't make a lick of difference if the land underneath is porous and the water table rises.
This is the issue with Miami - It would be like building a levee on a sponge floating in a bowl of water. Won't help.
Tie the content's geo-stamp to the billing address of the account's credit card. Sure, some users can jump through the hoops of getting a foreign card, but most won't bother.
Maybe you're new, but those two things alone have never won ANY wars.
Depends what the objective is. If you take out their air force, navy, and missile launchers then you effectively prevent their ability wage war on anyone. You don't actually have to invade.
These comments are so depressing. Someone is helping hungry kids eat, have somewhere to sleep and get medical attention and all the top voted comments are THE TEST SCORES ARE FAKE, KIDS CHEAT MONEY WASTED.
Man, America sucks sometimes. Take care of your KIDS for christsakes.
This is made worse by the fact that kids, often, lose interest in their new toys by the next day.
As a parent of a 5 and 7-year-old this is somewhat true, yes. The exception that causes parenting stress is apps on tablets. My kids *never* grow tired of them. They would play them day after day after day if I let them. My son has been playing Angry Birds for two years and would play tomorrow if I would let him.
We buy them all this physical stuff, when all they want is a tablet and apps.
Taking guns away from honest citizens helps them how?
Same way it does in Japan, Australia and pretty much every other first world nation that's not the USA: It reduces the number of guns in circulation, making it less likely you (or your little kids) will be shot.
One thing I don't understand about modern naval warfare: Couldn't you just send 50 cruise missiles in skimming across the wavetops and take a ship like this out? Or a few ballistic missiles raining down from above at hypersonic speeds? Can these ships really defend against an attack like that?
I've got a gig of data. If I'm trying to watch a YouTube video and the WiFi is crappy, I don't switch over to cellular - I watch it later, when I have better WiFi. I sure as heck don't want to eat into my gig to watch the latest Star Wars Trailer supercut.
Just make lots and lots of these. Get a Sharpie. Label each of them with things like TAX DOCUMENTS, ACCOUNT NUMBERS, and definitely lots of them labelled PORN COLLECTION. Drop them in hotels, restaurants, restrooms, subways, bus stops, just leave them all over town. Hilarity ensues!
Linked story doesn't say how much it costs to make one of these, but lets say $15 each. Assuming 'lots and lots' is 100, then your prank is going to cost you $1500.
What a waste of money. Use that $1500 to buy a plane ticket to London instead and go have a vacation.
I get why some people might 'work' for no money - Ability to be on a Starship, for example. However, in the Star Trek universe we also see people working as waiters etc. Why would they do those jobs, as opposed to just moving into a holodeck?
According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, a government agency, the number of homicides in Australia did increase slightly in 1997 and peaked in 1999, but has since declined to the lowest number on record in 2007, the most recent year for which official figures are available.
One thing that was cool about my TRS-80 Model I (and indeed of most PCs 35 years ago) was it booted straight into a BASIC interpreter. You cold literally start typing BASIC - And many of us did.
The last 15 years of superhero comic book adaptions has proved otherwise
Unlike Serentiy, Veronica Mars et al, these films were targeted at a wide audience - Not just the geek market, which is what a D&D movie would have to go after.
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What I don't understand is how law enforcement ever solved any crimes at all before the digital world?
With a warrant, they could wiretap phones and plant listening devices.
...so, for example, when Canadian law enforcement was investigating the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985 (killing 329) they leaned heavily on wiretaps of phone conversations.
With encrypted phone calls and encrypted text messages the investigation would likely have stalled as there would be no way to listen in on the perpetrators.
Better yet, make cash go away.
I remember speaking with an economist years ago who said if you wanted to eliminate crime nearly overnight just make the largest bill $10. Very difficult for Tony Soprano to transact crime if $50,000 was a half-a-million pieces of paper.
Some of the the upper estimates for sea level rise are 6 feet. So we either build levees or move people to higher ground. Why are we still wringing our hands and trying to convince every last person to agree? I want to see a plan and then progress on building levees.
Keep in mind levees don't make a lick of difference if the land underneath is porous and the water table rises.
This is the issue with Miami - It would be like building a levee on a sponge floating in a bowl of water. Won't help.
what exactly can even the media giants do?
Tie the content's geo-stamp to the billing address of the account's credit card. Sure, some users can jump through the hoops of getting a foreign card, but most won't bother.
Maybe you're new, but those two things alone have never won ANY wars.
Depends what the objective is. If you take out their air force, navy, and missile launchers then you effectively prevent their ability wage war on anyone. You don't actually have to invade.
I'm guessing you mean a nuclear war, because invading Best Korea would certainly not take a few days.
Even with conventional weapons, the west could eliminate their navy and air force in very short order.
These comments are so depressing. Someone is helping hungry kids eat, have somewhere to sleep and get medical attention and all the top voted comments are THE TEST SCORES ARE FAKE, KIDS CHEAT MONEY WASTED.
Man, America sucks sometimes. Take care of your KIDS for christsakes.
So it is acceptable to you that the destitute of India get ZERO connectivity, as opposed to a free walled garden? On principle, of course.
Now, do you see what the problem with what you proposed is?
I'd spend my time writing another reply, but in that time another dozen american toddlers would be SHOT, because FREEDOM.
Gun nut assholes letting your CHILDREN die for christssakes. Get your shit together, America. You're an embarrassment.
This is made worse by the fact that kids, often, lose interest in their new toys by the next day.
As a parent of a 5 and 7-year-old this is somewhat true, yes. The exception that causes parenting stress is apps on tablets. My kids *never* grow tired of them. They would play them day after day after day if I let them. My son has been playing Angry Birds for two years and would play tomorrow if I would let him.
We buy them all this physical stuff, when all they want is a tablet and apps.
Agreed. I actually enjoyed the John Carter movie.
And I like "Howard the Duck."
Taking guns away from honest citizens helps them how?
Same way it does in Japan, Australia and pretty much every other first world nation that's not the USA: It reduces the number of guns in circulation, making it less likely you (or your little kids) will be shot.
I don't understand this hatred of the appearance of wind turbines. I think they look very striking.
One thing I don't understand about modern naval warfare: Couldn't you just send 50 cruise missiles in skimming across the wavetops and take a ship like this out? Or a few ballistic missiles raining down from above at hypersonic speeds? Can these ships really defend against an attack like that?
Certainly not adopting procedures from countries that do deal with terrorism successfully.
Generally the countries that deal with this successfully do so with a much higher level of citizen surveillance than many of us would find acceptable.
This is Slashdot. Any discussion of electric cars must include these obligatory posts -
"My daily commute is 762 miles. Therefore, electric cars are useless to anyone and everyone."
(Variation also acceptable: "Twice a year I drive 600 miles to Phoenix. Therefore, electric cars are useless to anyone and everyone.")
"My electric power comes from coal, therefore all electric cars are more polluting than my Grandpa's 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass."
Interestingly enough, most commercial planes can't measure how much fuel they're carrying
Of course they can. Here are some examples of the gauges on a 737 -
http://www.b737.org.uk/fuel.ht...
The Gimli Glider ran out of fuel because the gauges weren't working and they messed up the manual calculations.
Nonsense.
I've got a gig of data. If I'm trying to watch a YouTube video and the WiFi is crappy, I don't switch over to cellular - I watch it later, when I have better WiFi. I sure as heck don't want to eat into my gig to watch the latest Star Wars Trailer supercut.
Is there anything Americans aren't terrified of today?
Guns.
Drones must be registered, but unlike in other nations, it's societally acceptable that wingnuts can purchase a gun and then shoot innocent children.
Because FREEDOM.
Just make lots and lots of these. Get a Sharpie. Label each of them with things like TAX DOCUMENTS, ACCOUNT NUMBERS, and definitely lots of them labelled PORN COLLECTION. Drop them in hotels, restaurants, restrooms, subways, bus stops, just leave them all over town. Hilarity ensues!
Linked story doesn't say how much it costs to make one of these, but lets say $15 each. Assuming 'lots and lots' is 100, then your prank is going to cost you $1500.
What a waste of money. Use that $1500 to buy a plane ticket to London instead and go have a vacation.
I get why some people might 'work' for no money - Ability to be on a Starship, for example. However, in the Star Trek universe we also see people working as waiters etc. Why would they do those jobs, as opposed to just moving into a holodeck?
> the homicide rate in Australia is almost exactly the same before and after the ban.
This has been well debunked.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/...
According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, a government agency, the number of homicides in Australia did increase slightly in 1997 and peaked in 1999, but has since declined to the lowest number on record in 2007, the most recent year for which official figures are available.
The places with the highest rates of gun violence all have bans on guns
Incorrect. Places like Japan, Australia, Canada, UK, on and on all have strict gun control laws and very low rates of gun violence.
One thing that was cool about my TRS-80 Model I (and indeed of most PCs 35 years ago) was it booted straight into a BASIC interpreter. You cold literally start typing BASIC - And many of us did.
Kids today.
Now get off my lawn.
The last 15 years of superhero comic book adaptions has proved otherwise
Unlike Serentiy, Veronica Mars et al, these films were targeted at a wide audience - Not just the geek market, which is what a D&D movie would have to go after.