From your link: "U.S. vs Davis goes onto to state '[an administrative search is allowed if] no more intrusive or intensive than necessary, in light of current technology, to detect weapons or explosives, confined in good faith to that purpose, and passengers may avoid the search by electing not to fly.'"
So, is the answer to this Ask Slashdot: Elect not to use that form of transportation (or at least that particular station) that day?
That seems almost too simple. Can one really just say, "Okay, if you need to search me in order for me to get on this train, then I'll just leave the station?" That's been my plan, but I haven't had the opportunity to try it out, thankfully.
Great point. Also, as Martin Luther King and Gandhi both said: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.If 2/3s of the people are spying on and hacking the other 2/3s of the world, who's not getting spied on?:-/
Actually, the people who made Minority Report (the movie, not the story) got their idea for the way it would look and be used from an actual project: http://oblong.com
From the page:
The similarity is no coincidence: one of Oblong's founders served as science advisor to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT.
Isn't this pretty much why RMS argues against using the phrase "open source"?
IIRC, his point was basically that "free software" allows you to study, modify, and use the software. Open source, on the other hand, means just that; the source is there for you to look at, but different licenses have different restrictions on the use and modification of the code.
Disadvantage of Rockbox is that it has to reverse engineer the software to make use of the hardware, which is hard and which will probably mean they will never quite get the same quality of utilization of the available hardware (battery life, switching between songs, loading etc).
I've used Rockbox on a Sansa e250 for at at least a year now, and I've found that, compared to the stock firmware, everything is more efficient. I get longer play-time out of the battery, updating the database is faster, finding songs in general if faster, and there is no pause in playback when a song ends.
But, as was mentioned before, creating playlists on the fly is not the most convenient thing in the world. It is functional, though.
I know this is OT, but I couldn't help it.
Guns are only made to shoot people (and antique cans). You have clearly grown up in a big city.
Why isn't manufacturing, promoting and selling guns considered "encouraging illegal (and immoral) behavior"? All of these reasons for using a gun are neither immoral nor illegal: stopping a rape, downing a dog that's attacking a child, hunting for food, target practice, protecting livestock, defending your land... I could go on. So why again would gun manufacturers be considered encouraging illegal behavior?
I have personally never seen a gun ad that said anything to the effect of: "Need to get your boomstick off? Try a Remington 700 VTR."
You accept the call in your office, have your conversation, then TRANSPARENTLY switch the call to your cellphone, continue talking there, without ever dropping the call. You take your train home and reach your house just as your cellphone battery is dying. You then transparently transfer the call to your home phone number, and continue to talk there. The whole time, the call was never dropped, nor did you ever lose connection.
This apparently isn't designed to replace cell phones or land lines. From what I understand from TFA:
1. Give GrandCentral all your phone numbers (Home, Cell, Work, etc.)
2. Tell GrandCentral when you will be around each phone
3. Tell all your contacts you have a new phone number, and give them your GrandCentral one
4a. Someone calls at a time which you told GrandCentral you would be at work, so your work phone rings.
4b. Someone calls when you're on your lunch break, out of the office, and your cell phone rings.
4c. Someone calls when you're at home, and both your cell phone and land-line ring.
4... Repeat for whatever configuration you have set up.
From TFA:
With GrandCentral, you get:
All your calls through a single number. Add your other numbers to your GrandCentral account and then make your own rules for how and when your phones ring.
All your voicemails in one place, saved for as long as you want. If you don't answer a GrandCentral call, your callers will be sent to your GrandCentral voicemail. You can then check messages by calling your GrandCentral number, by logging into your account, or by checking the GrandCentral notification email.
Handy features that work the same way across all your phones:
*ListenIn as callers leave you a message
* Record calls on the fly so you never have to fumble for a pen again
* Switch phones mid-call without your caller knowing
* Block annoying callers at will
* Record custom greetings for different caller or groups of callers
Later in TFA:
To use GrandCentral, you just need a touch-tone phone and a Flash-enabled browser. Visit the About Adobe Flash Player page to find your version of Flash or confirm that your already downloaded it.
Also this:
Note: GrandCentral won't charge you for these calls; however, if you use a cell phone, regular cell phone airtime charges may apply Sorry for so many quotes, but if people won't look at the website they're commenting on, perhaps they'll read this...;)
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PETA might have something to say about this.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Ammonium nitrate?
From your link:
"U.S. vs Davis goes onto to state '[an administrative search is allowed if] no more intrusive or intensive than necessary, in light of current technology, to detect weapons or explosives, confined in good faith to that purpose, and passengers may avoid the search by electing not to fly.'"
So, is the answer to this Ask Slashdot: Elect not to use that form of transportation (or at least that particular station) that day?
That seems almost too simple. Can one really just say, "Okay, if you need to search me in order for me to get on this train, then I'll just leave the station?" That's been my plan, but I haven't had the opportunity to try it out, thankfully.
Instead of being from a B-movie, it's the winner of Popular Science's "Best of What's New 2008": http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/
Great point. Also, as Martin Luther King and Gandhi both said: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.If 2/3s of the people are spying on and hacking the other 2/3s of the world, who's not getting spied on? :-/
http://oblong.com
From the page:
The similarity is no coincidence: one of Oblong's founders served as science advisor to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT.
I've always wondered where rave culture came from.
Isn't this pretty much why RMS argues against using the phrase "open source"?
IIRC, his point was basically that "free software" allows you to study, modify, and use the software. Open source, on the other hand, means just that; the source is there for you to look at, but different licenses have different restrictions on the use and modification of the code.
In RMS's own words: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
OSI's definition of Open Source: http://opensource.org/docs/osd
Disadvantage of Rockbox is that it has to reverse engineer the software to make use of the hardware, which is hard and which will probably mean they will never quite get the same quality of utilization of the available hardware (battery life, switching between songs, loading etc).
I've used Rockbox on a Sansa e250 for at at least a year now, and I've found that, compared to the stock firmware, everything is more efficient. I get longer play-time out of the battery, updating the database is faster, finding songs in general if faster, and there is no pause in playback when a song ends. But, as was mentioned before, creating playlists on the fly is not the most convenient thing in the world. It is functional, though.
I have personally never seen a gun ad that said anything to the effect of: "Need to get your boomstick off? Try a Remington 700 VTR."
You accept the call in your office, have your conversation, then TRANSPARENTLY switch the call to your cellphone, continue talking there, without ever dropping the call. You take your train home and reach your house just as your cellphone battery is dying. You then transparently transfer the call to your home phone number, and continue to talk there. The whole time, the call was never dropped, nor did you ever lose connection.
You are correct, sir. How did I miss that!?!1. Give GrandCentral all your phone numbers (Home, Cell, Work, etc.)
2. Tell GrandCentral when you will be around each phone
3. Tell all your contacts you have a new phone number, and give them your GrandCentral one
4a. Someone calls at a time which you told GrandCentral you would be at work, so your work phone rings.
4b. Someone calls when you're on your lunch break, out of the office, and your cell phone rings.
4c. Someone calls when you're at home, and both your cell phone and land-line ring.
4... Repeat for whatever configuration you have set up.
From TFA: With GrandCentral, you get:
All your calls through a single number. Add your other numbers to your GrandCentral account and then make your own rules for how and when your phones ring.
All your voicemails in one place, saved for as long as you want. If you don't answer a GrandCentral call, your callers will be sent to your GrandCentral voicemail. You can then check messages by calling your GrandCentral number, by logging into your account, or by checking the GrandCentral notification email.
Handy features that work the same way across all your phones:
*ListenIn as callers leave you a message
* Record calls on the fly so you never have to fumble for a pen again
* Switch phones mid-call without your caller knowing
* Block annoying callers at will
* Record custom greetings for different caller or groups of callers
Later in TFA: To use GrandCentral, you just need a touch-tone phone and a Flash-enabled browser. Visit the About Adobe Flash Player page to find your version of Flash or confirm that your already downloaded it.
Also this: Note: GrandCentral won't charge you for these calls; however, if you use a cell phone, regular cell phone airtime charges may apply
Sorry for so many quotes, but if people won't look at the website they're commenting on, perhaps they'll read this...
According to Ray Kurzweil (in his book "The Singularity is Coming"), sometime in the mid 2040's.