at present AT&T is shielded by a federal law they wrote themselves
So they will just write another law. Do you really think that will be a problem for them to get a "children's internet safety" law passed. The government has been practically wetting themselves wanting a seemingly legal way to inspect all internet traffic, this is the opportunity. Nevermind "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" because this a non-government entity.
Is an automated drilling/mining/processing plant. There are mineral deposits up there.
The minerals might be useful locally but helium3 is what would really be harvested from a lunar mining colony. Solar power would be plentiful for fueling the base, but the Helium3 would pay for it, by being a new fuel source. Profitable is better than cheap.
My music video of Naruto set to Linkin Park is obviously original!
The majority of the anime mashup music videos are crap and don't really "inject original contribution" but there are some that are quite well done. The problem with having a requirement of "something that truly injects some degree of original contribution" is that what qualifies is entirely subjective. What is a subtle but relevant addition to some kid making a video might just be worthless crap to a sixty year old judge. Artistic tastes are to vague to be a part of the law.
This is s sign that both employers and employees have bought into the hierarchal structure of business a little too much. The employer is hiring you to do a task not purchasing your mind, body, and soul. Yet all to often that's what they are given, so all too often that's what they expect. i.e. How often is a boss who is a complete dick called "sir" or "Mr." and treated with deference? Are Unions the only people left who really understand and act on the fact that the bossman needs the employees more than the employees need him? Yes, "employees" is plural on purpose. My employer is quite right to monitor and judge the output and quality of my work, and when applicable to monitor how I effect the public image of the company and the work environment for my fellow employees. None of that includes my heart rate or my general state of health. I'm already being forced to contend with a nanny government, I don't need a nanny work environment as well.
So 100k guys told their wives that they were going to the CES and went to the Porn Awards. The other 44k didn't know about them until the last day of CES.
Just because humans can adapt to abysmal environments it doesn't mean that we should be made to.
Made to? You are being held captive? If you find your job or workplace to be abysmal, then leave. If you need a very quite peaceful place to work happily and productively that's fine, look for that in your next job. Please don't sit around bitching impotently in the breakroom about how the boss is such a evil task master. It makes work unpleasant for everyone else. While you are looking for your new job you might start with these companies. I understand that the have really good bread and water, and they pad the desk shackles.
No a senior machinist is too busy milling custom parts on a mill or teaching someone how to use the metal lathe. They are being a machinist. Some of the guys would keep frequently used blueprints in one of the drawers in their tool chests, but that's about all the paperwork they ever would keep track of. Obviously you have never worked on a production floor. Only an fool of a business owner would take someone with decades of skill with tools and move them to a desk.
Hell I'm a CPA with a Masters and 30 years experience and I still don't have an office.
With 30 years experience I'm sure you know this, but for everyone new to the idea: Offices are only for people who have a business need to have private meetings. No one else needs an office, that's just a waste of space and roadblock to collaboration. I used to work on a production floor where some of the senior machinists made more that the managers in their offices. Skilled workers don't have a need for an office so they don't get one, while even very junior company infrastructure types (management, HR, etc.) frequently need to be able to shut the door and have a discussion with someone.
well right now, the cattle are being fed corn, which isn't being turned into bio-diesel either. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to establish a suitable ratio of # of buffalo to acres of switchgrass, that you could have both it the same place, if there herd gets too big just send a few more to market.
if we made giant algae pools on the surface of the oceans to make bio-diesel
We have pretty much done most of the damage that will be done buy making the prairies into farmland, why would we destroy the ecosystem of thousands of acres of ocean as well? The only real reason we have been using corn, is that there is so damn much corn sitting around this country because of the ridiculous corn subsidies. Maybe if switchgrass becomes the new cash crop those subsidies will shrike in favor of the new fuel source. If much of the mid-west becomes switchgrass farms we be restoring that land to a semi-natural state. Seeing a buffalo meat is popular and healthier than beef, if there were combined bio-diesel/buffalo ranch we could have a commercially viable tallgrass prairie. That would be a potentially huge step in this country learning how to co-exist harmoniously with nature.
they would by definition be reflecting the people who voted for them.
The people who voted for them and the people they represent are not one in the same. If a district is gerrymandered so that 60% of the district always votes the party line up, then 40% of the voters are denied accurate representation. Then you will have a congressman looking to keep the party line voters on the hook instead of looking after the best interests of whatever town or county that their district covers most of. The incumbent of a custom designed district will only have to concentrate on the one issue that is the common denominator of the chosen demographic, nothing else is really needed to solidify the next election. The rest of their congressional attention can got towards various lobbists. In short gerrymandering exacerbates the problems we already have in Congress, it strengthens the incumbent's position based on something other than the quality of governance they provide. This is why crap like abortion and gay marriage are so frequently big political talking points, because they polarized the voters and are non-issues to the corporate interests.
So where does the power go, that doesn't make it into the device? In this day and age of energy efficiency and conservation, this seems a step backwards. Maybe that energy is slowly heating the room or maybe it's slowly increasing my risk for cancer, but either way if the vast majority of the power isn't going into the device it's being wasted. Tis tech might have some specific applications where the wirelessness is of true overall benefit, but everyday hand held devices aren't it. As global energy demands continue to grow using something like this to charge your cellphone will become a hallmark of bourgeois ass-hattery.
So the next question would seem to be: Can enough of these be installed on a single plant to reclaim a significant amount of fuel? If there are 100 of these put on a single plant will we still get 2.5 gal per CR5, and is there enough space (88 m2 per unit)for the necessary solar furnace requirements for large numbers of CR5 units? After than I would be curious to know what the CO2 density is needed for these to function efficiently. I'm thinking in terms of just installing them the open air in cities like LA and Mexico City and Beijing where the pollution tends to get trapped and concentrated.
I work with heavy machinery interacting with actors on stage in a live performance, if made that level of mistake someone would be injured or get killed. Yes, I would get fired and my career as an automation specialist would be over. So while I have made errors, I correct them or at least make them safe before there are ill effects. At times that has meant stopping the live performance. But I recognize the potential damage I could do and treat my job accordingly. Is that too much to as from someone who's job has a massive effect on individuals lives everyday, and set precedent for judgments in the future?
And like all other "collector's items" CDs cost too much for what they are. My grandmother collects plates that you can't eat off of, but they have pretty pictures and they break easily, just like CD cases. Sure there will continue to be a niche market, but right now CDs make about as much sense as buying VHS tapes or floppy disks.
can a lawyer be disbarred in the US for "mispeaking" under oath and saying something untrue about the legality of a defendant's conduct
While we are on it, can the Judge be dismissed, seeing as it is the Judge's responsibility to keep the jury properly informed about the law. From a website about jury duty: "It is your duty to accept what the Judge says about the laws to be applied to the case, whether you agree or disagree with the law." Now if the judge failed to correct the "misspeaking" of the Sony attorney, they the Judge implied that the Sony attorney was in fact correct, demonstrating gross incompetence on the part of the Judge as well. They should both be disbarred.
"But the design philosophy they took is the wrong one. Look at the complexity behind these things!"
Do you really think that the designers at Diebold are stupid? I don't. I think the unnecessary complexity is purposeful. Much like modern legislation, if you make it a bloated hypercomplex thing, it's much easier to hide and manupulate things in there. Now of course this sounds like conspiracy theory, but there is another very simple thing that occurred to me in the first ten seconds of reading the article. "Why was there only one tally server doing the counting? Why not enter the information into each of two or more separate tally servers? Would that expose even more "errors"? Tallying votes securely should not be a difficult thing. Here on slashdot there have been dozens of well thought out ways to do that. The only reason that makes any sense for Diebold's "blunders" is that they are not actually trying to count the votes securely and accurately. So while some may say: "Don't attribute to malice what can be more more easily explained by stupidity." I'm saying that multi-million dollar high profile contracts like these are not engineered by teams of incompetent fools. This cannot be attributed to stupidity, other than using Diebold or ESS machines in the first place.
With the advent of the cell phone cam, have you noticed the ever increasing number of police brutality videos? When a cop is caught breaking the law, do the other police officers maintain their vow to uphold the law or do they react like thugs in a turf war? This is a fundamental problem if we are truely a nation of free men who consent to being governed for the common good. If we are just a oligarchy with a happy facade then it's just the truth showing through.
"It's critical that we retain the right to record, videotape or photograph the police while they're on duty. Not only for symbolic reasons (when agents of the state can confiscate evidence of their own wrongdoing, you're treading on seriously perilous ground), but as an important check on police excesses."http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284075,00.html
Because the senator's buddies aren't interested in a mark up reselling barcode readers ($80), when they can markup RFID readers.($1700) Besides RFID is so much more tech heavy it's gotta be better. Better security theater that is. Joe Sixpack will be terribly impressed that there is a computer-thingy in his passport.
"the vast, vast majority of successful, professional musicians and writers and visual artists spend a decade or more building up that "critical mass" of an audience"
I'm a stagehand in NYC. I've seen and worked for/with plenty of artists both famous and unknown in the last decade. I've never met one that struggled for years and years and then suddenly took off because of some piece they did years in the past. Years of struggle then something they try in a new direction and achieve success, sure; but never off of old stale works. As worldwide self promotion becomes easier this become even more true as you no longer have to live in a major city to get exposure.
"if someone sits down to write the Great American Novel, and it takes them a few years "
As fare as authors go, I only know one, but he doesn't widely share his work until it's done. There is no need to copyright a manuscript that is half finished unless you are already a successful author, who would see it that would steal it? So I'm not saying "if you can't make a profit from day one, go fuck yourself "I'm saying "if it's not profitable by day 1000, it's a hobby." The amount of time I've seen wasted by people who can't seem to accept that is really kinda sad.
An individual who is trying to market it without the help of a corporation will likely need to rely heavily on word-of-mouth advertising, which will be slower than a nationwide advertising campaign.
Maybe word of mouth used to be slower, but it doesn't take that long for a new hot clip to rise to the top of the YouTube charts. Try a few weeks. "The Blair Witch Project" is one of the few independent hits it recent history and it didn't take them more than five years from idea to millionaire. Any "artist" who is still trying to hawk 5 year old goods isn't gonna make it anyhow. Yes they might have to try for more than five years to get their break, but if they aren't producing new and better works regularly then their art will never become a livelihood.
The libertarian idea is the "your money will soon be our responsibility, because it will soon be our money"
I think you might be confusing libertarian and liberal. Libertarian's and more along the line of "You got scammed? Haha. Noob. I guess you'll pay more attention next time, won't you." Conversely liberals tend to want to regulate everything (including your money) to make the world "fair".
Ah. The key concept here is real vs. pretend life. Pretend life is not something that is suddenly new with the advent of online gaming or even with computers at all. People have been having pretend adventures and tragedies for most of recorded history. One of the big reasons for this is because it's a great way to learn. Now the seemingly "new" complication of the involvement of real money is minor, perhaps trivial. Here's why: anyone who is investing in Linden Dollars is doing so from a home with an internet connection. So they aren't homeless and they aren't having to spend every spare dime on food. They are in fact spending the money on entertainment. Yes there are people who are making a real world living by supplying and enhancing that entertainment, but that too is a trade that is thousands of years old. So what we have is a situation where someone may spend some money on entertainment and not get nearly so much entertainment as they should have for their money. Haven't we all seen "Phantom Menace", good they we are all familiar with the sensation. I saw "Phantom Menace" in the theater, and I was out $12, I wasn't entertained but I did learn that the new Star Wars trilogy wasn't going to be as good as the first. Now the lady in the article, she's out $144. I wonder how much she has dumped into the State Lottery? Or miracle diets pills? Or any other thing that promises a dream? Maybe she in place of that dream she has got a lesson, the other purpose of entertainment.
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at present AT&T is shielded by a federal law they wrote themselves
So they will just write another law. Do you really think that will be a problem for them to get a "children's internet safety" law passed. The government has been practically wetting themselves wanting a seemingly legal way to inspect all internet traffic, this is the opportunity. Nevermind "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" because this a non-government entity.
'm curious about the monitor software. Will it have options to shutdown internet access based on time frames and activity?
How about by user? I'm thinking of parents that will now have to settle agruements between siblings: "Moooomm! Jonny used up all the internet."
Is an automated drilling/mining/processing plant. There are mineral deposits up there.
The minerals might be useful locally but helium3 is what would really be harvested from a lunar mining colony. Solar power would be plentiful for fueling the base, but the Helium3 would pay for it, by being a new fuel source. Profitable is better than cheap.
My music video of Naruto set to Linkin Park is obviously original!
The majority of the anime mashup music videos are crap and don't really "inject original contribution" but there are some that are quite well done. The problem with having a requirement of "something that truly injects some degree of original contribution" is that what qualifies is entirely subjective. What is a subtle but relevant addition to some kid making a video might just be worthless crap to a sixty year old judge. Artistic tastes are to vague to be a part of the law.
This is s sign that both employers and employees have bought into the hierarchal structure of business a little too much. The employer is hiring you to do a task not purchasing your mind, body, and soul. Yet all to often that's what they are given, so all too often that's what they expect. i.e. How often is a boss who is a complete dick called "sir" or "Mr." and treated with deference? Are Unions the only people left who really understand and act on the fact that the bossman needs the employees more than the employees need him? Yes, "employees" is plural on purpose.
My employer is quite right to monitor and judge the output and quality of my work, and when applicable to monitor how I effect the public image of the company and the work environment for my fellow employees. None of that includes my heart rate or my general state of health. I'm already being forced to contend with a nanny government, I don't need a nanny work environment as well.
So 100k guys told their wives that they were going to the CES and went to the Porn Awards. The other 44k didn't know about them until the last day of CES.
Just because humans can adapt to abysmal environments it doesn't mean that we should be made to.
Made to? You are being held captive? If you find your job or workplace to be abysmal, then leave. If you need a very quite peaceful place to work happily and productively that's fine, look for that in your next job. Please don't sit around bitching impotently in the breakroom about how the boss is such a evil task master. It makes work unpleasant for everyone else. While you are looking for your new job you might start with these companies. I understand that the have really good bread and water, and they pad the desk shackles.
No a senior machinist is too busy milling custom parts on a mill or teaching someone how to use the metal lathe. They are being a machinist. Some of the guys would keep frequently used blueprints in one of the drawers in their tool chests, but that's about all the paperwork they ever would keep track of. Obviously you have never worked on a production floor. Only an fool of a business owner would take someone with decades of skill with tools and move them to a desk.
Hell I'm a CPA with a Masters and 30 years experience and I still don't have an office.
With 30 years experience I'm sure you know this, but for everyone new to the idea: Offices are only for people who have a business need to have private meetings. No one else needs an office, that's just a waste of space and roadblock to collaboration. I used to work on a production floor where some of the senior machinists made more that the managers in their offices. Skilled workers don't have a need for an office so they don't get one, while even very junior company infrastructure types (management, HR, etc.) frequently need to be able to shut the door and have a discussion with someone.
well right now, the cattle are being fed corn, which isn't being turned into bio-diesel either. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to establish a suitable ratio of # of buffalo to acres of switchgrass, that you could have both it the same place, if there herd gets too big just send a few more to market.
if we made giant algae pools on the surface of the oceans to make bio-diesel
We have pretty much done most of the damage that will be done buy making the prairies into farmland, why would we destroy the ecosystem of thousands of acres of ocean as well? The only real reason we have been using corn, is that there is so damn much corn sitting around this country because of the ridiculous corn subsidies. Maybe if switchgrass becomes the new cash crop those subsidies will shrike in favor of the new fuel source. If much of the mid-west becomes switchgrass farms we be restoring that land to a semi-natural state. Seeing a buffalo meat is popular and healthier than beef, if there were combined bio-diesel/buffalo ranch we could have a commercially viable tallgrass prairie. That would be a potentially huge step in this country learning how to co-exist harmoniously with nature.
they would by definition be reflecting the people who voted for them.
The people who voted for them and the people they represent are not one in the same. If a district is gerrymandered so that 60% of the district always votes the party line up, then 40% of the voters are denied accurate representation. Then you will have a congressman looking to keep the party line voters on the hook instead of looking after the best interests of whatever town or county that their district covers most of. The incumbent of a custom designed district will only have to concentrate on the one issue that is the common denominator of the chosen demographic, nothing else is really needed to solidify the next election. The rest of their congressional attention can got towards various lobbists. In short gerrymandering exacerbates the problems we already have in Congress, it strengthens the incumbent's position based on something other than the quality of governance they provide. This is why crap like abortion and gay marriage are so frequently big political talking points, because they polarized the voters and are non-issues to the corporate interests.
So where does the power go, that doesn't make it into the device? In this day and age of energy efficiency and conservation, this seems a step backwards. Maybe that energy is slowly heating the room or maybe it's slowly increasing my risk for cancer, but either way if the vast majority of the power isn't going into the device it's being wasted. Tis tech might have some specific applications where the wirelessness is of true overall benefit, but everyday hand held devices aren't it. As global energy demands continue to grow using something like this to charge your cellphone will become a hallmark of bourgeois ass-hattery.
So the next question would seem to be: Can enough of these be installed on a single plant to reclaim a significant amount of fuel? If there are 100 of these put on a single plant will we still get 2.5 gal per CR5, and is there enough space (88 m2 per unit)for the necessary solar furnace requirements for large numbers of CR5 units? After than I would be curious to know what the CO2 density is needed for these to function efficiently. I'm thinking in terms of just installing them the open air in cities like LA and Mexico City and Beijing where the pollution tends to get trapped and concentrated.
I work with heavy machinery interacting with actors on stage in a live performance, if made that level of mistake someone would be injured or get killed. Yes, I would get fired and my career as an automation specialist would be over. So while I have made errors, I correct them or at least make them safe before there are ill effects. At times that has meant stopping the live performance. But I recognize the potential damage I could do and treat my job accordingly. Is that too much to as from someone who's job has a massive effect on individuals lives everyday, and set precedent for judgments in the future?
And like all other "collector's items" CDs cost too much for what they are. My grandmother collects plates that you can't eat off of, but they have pretty pictures and they break easily, just like CD cases. Sure there will continue to be a niche market, but right now CDs make about as much sense as buying VHS tapes or floppy disks.
can a lawyer be disbarred in the US for "mispeaking" under oath and saying something untrue about the legality of a defendant's conduct
While we are on it, can the Judge be dismissed, seeing as it is the Judge's responsibility to keep the jury properly informed about the law. From a website about jury duty: "It is your duty to accept what the Judge says about the laws to be applied to the case, whether you agree or disagree with the law." Now if the judge failed to correct the "misspeaking" of the Sony attorney, they the Judge implied that the Sony attorney was in fact correct, demonstrating gross incompetence on the part of the Judge as well. They should both be disbarred.
that attorney should be fired for gross incompetence.
I think you mean disbarred, nationally and permanently. Fired would probably include some sort of golden parachute payoff of a few million.
"But the design philosophy they took is the wrong one. Look at the complexity behind these things!"
Do you really think that the designers at Diebold are stupid? I don't. I think the unnecessary complexity is purposeful. Much like modern legislation, if you make it a bloated hypercomplex thing, it's much easier to hide and manupulate things in there. Now of course this sounds like conspiracy theory, but there is another very simple thing that occurred to me in the first ten seconds of reading the article. "Why was there only one tally server doing the counting? Why not enter the information into each of two or more separate tally servers? Would that expose even more "errors"? Tallying votes securely should not be a difficult thing. Here on slashdot there have been dozens of well thought out ways to do that. The only reason that makes any sense for Diebold's "blunders" is that they are not actually trying to count the votes securely and accurately. So while some may say: "Don't attribute to malice what can be more more easily explained by stupidity." I'm saying that multi-million dollar high profile contracts like these are not engineered by teams of incompetent fools. This cannot be attributed to stupidity, other than using Diebold or ESS machines in the first place.
Because the senator's buddies aren't interested in a mark up reselling barcode readers ($80), when they can markup RFID readers.($1700) Besides RFID is so much more tech heavy it's gotta be better. Better security theater that is. Joe Sixpack will be terribly impressed that there is a computer-thingy in his passport.
"the vast, vast majority of successful, professional musicians and writers and visual artists spend a decade or more building up that "critical mass" of an audience"
I'm a stagehand in NYC. I've seen and worked for/with plenty of artists both famous and unknown in the last decade. I've never met one that struggled for years and years and then suddenly took off because of some piece they did years in the past. Years of struggle then something they try in a new direction and achieve success, sure; but never off of old stale works. As worldwide self promotion becomes easier this become even more true as you no longer have to live in a major city to get exposure.
"if someone sits down to write the Great American Novel, and it takes them a few years "
As fare as authors go, I only know one, but he doesn't widely share his work until it's done. There is no need to copyright a manuscript that is half finished unless you are already a successful author, who would see it that would steal it?
So I'm not saying "if you can't make a profit from day one, go fuck yourself "I'm saying "if it's not profitable by day 1000, it's a hobby." The amount of time I've seen wasted by people who can't seem to accept that is really kinda sad.
An individual who is trying to market it without the help of a corporation will likely need to rely heavily on word-of-mouth advertising, which will be slower than a nationwide advertising campaign.
Maybe word of mouth used to be slower, but it doesn't take that long for a new hot clip to rise to the top of the YouTube charts. Try a few weeks. "The Blair Witch Project" is one of the few independent hits it recent history and it didn't take them more than five years from idea to millionaire. Any "artist" who is still trying to hawk 5 year old goods isn't gonna make it anyhow. Yes they might have to try for more than five years to get their break, but if they aren't producing new and better works regularly then their art will never become a livelihood.
The libertarian idea is the "your money will soon be our responsibility, because it will soon be our money"
I think you might be confusing libertarian and liberal. Libertarian's and more along the line of "You got scammed? Haha. Noob. I guess you'll pay more attention next time, won't you." Conversely liberals tend to want to regulate everything (including your money) to make the world "fair".
Ah. The key concept here is real vs. pretend life. Pretend life is not something that is suddenly new with the advent of online gaming or even with computers at all. People have been having pretend adventures and tragedies for most of recorded history. One of the big reasons for this is because it's a great way to learn. Now the seemingly "new" complication of the involvement of real money is minor, perhaps trivial. Here's why: anyone who is investing in Linden Dollars is doing so from a home with an internet connection. So they aren't homeless and they aren't having to spend every spare dime on food. They are in fact spending the money on entertainment. Yes there are people who are making a real world living by supplying and enhancing that entertainment, but that too is a trade that is thousands of years old. So what we have is a situation where someone may spend some money on entertainment and not get nearly so much entertainment as they should have for their money. Haven't we all seen "Phantom Menace", good they we are all familiar with the sensation. I saw "Phantom Menace" in the theater, and I was out $12, I wasn't entertained but I did learn that the new Star Wars trilogy wasn't going to be as good as the first. Now the lady in the article, she's out $144. I wonder how much she has dumped into the State Lottery? Or miracle diets pills? Or any other thing that promises a dream? Maybe she in place of that dream she has got a lesson, the other purpose of entertainment.