If you steal $100,000 (real dollars) of items and gold from someone in WoW, would you get arrested by the government?
From http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7865"A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software "bots" to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual possessions were then exchanged for real cash."
I would hope it involved hiring the folks who just got laid-off. They know the job, they just need the paycheck source. Hell the company could probably get them cheaper without the larbor markup.
umm, How can the bad guy read my barcode if I don't take it out of my pocket. You can't stand behind me in line and read the barcode in my passport. You can't make a device to read the barcodes on the licenses of other people in the elevator. But RFID is ripe for this. It's not a matter of cyptography, it's a matter of easy, obvious, physical control of the information.
or the radar detector, will this remain legal? Why have an RFID vs. the same info on a barcode, unless the design is to be able to read said info without your knowledge?
To clarify, my grandfather died at age 87, he got to see 4 greatgrandchildren. It's not the last 30 years that cost so much, it's the last 5 years that cost so much, and if you are running up a huge hospital tab, chances are they are a 5 years filled with struggle and pain. A person should have the option to spend there own money on extreme measures to extend their lives, that's fine. But I have a problem with people wanting to spend my money on extreme measures. And taxes or rising insurance costs count as my money.
"Your assertion that we "prop up" bodies wishing to die is assinine in the extreme. If we had taken that stance 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago, we'd never have extended the average life span by 20 years + and made the advancements in medicine we have."
And what exactly has that addition of 20 years bought us? Do people still die? Yep, life is 100% fatal. Do those extra 20 years go into longer productivity? No, people still retire at 65, but now we have a collapsing social security system and pensions are destroying Americas largest employer(GM). Is willing to accept mortality the same as putting a price on life? No, not at all. Life is precious because it ends. Someone's life is not somehow devalued by dying. My grandfather told us about his decision to accept that he was close to death, and we all respected that. We all miss him, but his death was not something to be feared or hated, it was not somehow "wrong", so it was not something to fight.
Over 75% of health care expenses (total) are at the beginning and end of life. I have no problem having Fed sponsored maternity wards, but I do have a problem with $5000-a-day geriatric care. Sure we have the tech to prop up a body that wants to die, but after the first 60 years I don't think we should. My parents are getting close to that age, and my remaining grandparents are well past it. When my grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer, leukimeia, and alzhiemers with-in one year, he made his peace and died in his own bed at home. When we as a culture accept that growing old and dying are natural and that "fighting to the end" is not always the best choice, then the costs of health care in this country can begin to return to reasonable levels.
"People have too much faith in their Governments. We, in the Western World, have become too complacent and we will lose our democratic governments one day. Not because of us minorities, but because of the great unwashed who are more concerned about wrestling and who's winning the big ball game or American Idol."
As many have said before me "With Democracy you get the Government you deserve." Which it would appear that modern man deserves a Big Brother oligarcy, thinly veiled as "freedom".
Ok I'll start a new political party. Someone please send me $10,000,000 for campaigning funds. And could someone get me an invite to membership on the Trilateral Commission.
You come up with an idea, explain what it is and get a temporary monopoly.
It used to be you come up with a device or a product, only now is it "come up with an idea". There lies the problem. A physical device is full of exact specifics, there is much work done between the idea stage and having a working device. Any idea not developed to this point is too vague and covers too much ground for society to afford to give over a monopoly. Patient your software, but every single line of code must be submitted, and that is all that is covered. That exact string of code, not the idea behind the code.
" one that we should deal with now rather than waiting for "tons of mercury" to appear in our landfills.
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Too late. All those regular size flourescent tubes have been adding much more mercury per bulb for decades. Lets face it landfills are full of nasty shit. Don't drink the water that comes out of the landfill. Don't build housing developements on top of old landfills. Don't put a landfill in a major watershed.
How do you stock up to date hardware in brick and mortar stores? I never buy from physical stores because everything is lagging 3 months behind in price and technology.
The trick is: How do you know if you have that system or not?
We, the undersigned Members of Congress, hereby request the Electoral Assistance Division of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs to send election observers to monitor the presidential election in the United States scheduled for November 2, 2004. We are deeply concerned that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy.http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx30_johnson/ HouseMembersUnitedNationsElectionMonitor.html
The US denyed the UN election oversight. So how do I know my vote means anything?
"Given security and privacy concerns in the states, how likely is this to appeal to US voters? "
For anyone to trust online voting, we would need some sort of paper trail or other form of accountibility. Can I print out a vote receipt? Not in the US. Heck the only reason that we kinda trust the voting system we have is tradition and a lack of other choice. No the two party political system here is actually reliant on the electoral college and the untrackable vote to hold their two faceted monopoly on US Government. For further reading: http://gning.org/electoral.html
As far as the conflict of interest goes, if Performics just opitmized sites to be up to the second compliant with Google's bots there would be no conflict. But "gameing the system" is what sells. CEOs and shareholders alike want an "unfair" advantage, because if it's "fair" it's not really much of an advantage it's just what the web design team should have done in the first place.
It's fun how self-evident stuff qualifies as news these days
Sadly, the news is that someone is actually doing something about the self evident problem. Better yet they are someone in a position to actually fix the problem. Imagine if all of the obvious problems in the world had similarly empowered champions to tackle them.
FTA"Music has become a commoditized item," he says. "The CD is perceived by the consumer to be a $10 item, and the manufacturers continue to release new titles at $15 to $18.98." To remedy that situation, he says he has urged labels to move to a "paperback-book model," with no-frills packages priced cheaply for most customers, and more deluxe presentations for die-hard fans."
I think the CD is a $1-3 item, because there are usually only that many songs worth buying. So I buy those 1-3 songs. Music has become commoditized, because there are few "whole works" kind of albums (ie Pink Floyd:The Wall, Holst:The Planets) more just one or two hits and some filler. but we've all said this before.
why do they need these governments to sign on? Can't they just, you know, sell them to people? Why force them (via their governments) to buy one?
I was under the impression that either the governments in question would be buying them or they would be paid for by charities. The families getting these laptops sure as hell don't have the funds to pay for them, so to the end user they will be free. That means you need some way (on site administration) for the "right" people to get the laptops, and you need a request for the charities to respond to. These two requirements are the job of the governments of the people in need.
Why on earth would I want a web connected robot in my house? Because I already have too much privacy? Because bored kids would never think to trash my house with my own robot? Why not just install webcams and tape a web controlled taser to my neck..
Mr. Button had seen the article and demanded it be taken down from the site because it was having a negative impact on dealer sales....ExpressVu wanted to keep a lid on the fact that all the MPEG-2 receivers that are being sold today will soon be totally obsolete because they're transitioning to MPEG-4.
We want free to view content, but we don't want it to be a tool of the company that pays for it via advertising. Sorry folks, that's never gonna happen.
No. We don't. It is actually written in our stated guiding priciples that we do not judge or devalue people for their sexual preference. So yes, please join us sometime. We are in New York City. http://www.fortwashingtonchurch.org/ Someone please mod the parent back up, that's not a troll, it's a question.
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I recall being mugged and/or murdered about every two weeks when I was playing EVE Online. Not a single charge filed.
If you steal $100,000 (real dollars) of items and gold from someone in WoW, would you get arrested by the government?
A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software "bots" to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual possessions were then exchanged for real cash."
From http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7865"
"You walk away rich whether you're good or bad--where can I sign up? "
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Here:http://www.hbs.edu/ or here:http://skullandcrossbones.org/articles/skull
I would hope it involved hiring the folks who just got laid-off. They know the job, they just need the paycheck source. Hell the company could probably get them cheaper without the larbor markup.
umm, How can the bad guy read my barcode if I don't take it out of my pocket. You can't stand behind me in line and read the barcode in my passport. You can't make a device to read the barcodes on the licenses of other people in the elevator. But RFID is ripe for this. It's not a matter of cyptography, it's a matter of easy, obvious, physical control of the information.
I sure can imagine trying to find someone else's car keys on Google Earth.
I wonder how "do no evil" would reconcile with making the ultimate stalker/big brother tool.
or the radar detector, will this remain legal? Why have an RFID vs. the same info on a barcode, unless the design is to be able to read said info without your knowledge?
To clarify, my grandfather died at age 87, he got to see 4 greatgrandchildren. It's not the last 30 years that cost so much, it's the last 5 years that cost so much, and if you are running up a huge hospital tab, chances are they are a 5 years filled with struggle and pain. A person should have the option to spend there own money on extreme measures to extend their lives, that's fine. But I have a problem with people wanting to spend my money on extreme measures. And taxes or rising insurance costs count as my money.
"Your assertion that we "prop up" bodies wishing to die is assinine in the extreme. If we had taken that stance 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago, we'd never have extended the average life span by 20 years + and made the advancements in medicine we have."
And what exactly has that addition of 20 years bought us? Do people still die? Yep, life is 100% fatal. Do those extra 20 years go into longer productivity? No, people still retire at 65, but now we have a collapsing social security system and pensions are destroying Americas largest employer(GM). Is willing to accept mortality the same as putting a price on life? No, not at all. Life is precious because it ends. Someone's life is not somehow devalued by dying. My grandfather told us about his decision to accept that he was close to death, and we all respected that. We all miss him, but his death was not something to be feared or hated, it was not somehow "wrong", so it was not something to fight.
Over 75% of health care expenses (total) are at the beginning and end of life. I have no problem having Fed sponsored maternity wards, but I do have a problem with $5000-a-day geriatric care. Sure we have the tech to prop up a body that wants to die, but after the first 60 years I don't think we should. My parents are getting close to that age, and my remaining grandparents are well past it. When my grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer, leukimeia, and alzhiemers with-in one year, he made his peace and died in his own bed at home. When we as a culture accept that growing old and dying are natural and that "fighting to the end" is not always the best choice, then the costs of health care in this country can begin to return to reasonable levels.
"People have too much faith in their Governments. We, in the Western World, have become too complacent and we will lose our democratic governments one day. Not because of us minorities, but because of the great unwashed who are more concerned about wrestling and who's winning the big ball game or American Idol."
As many have said before me "With Democracy you get the Government you deserve." Which it would appear that modern man deserves a Big Brother oligarcy, thinly veiled as "freedom".
Ok I'll start a new political party. Someone please send me $10,000,000 for campaigning funds. And could someone get me an invite to membership on the Trilateral Commission.
You come up with an idea, explain what it is and get a temporary monopoly.
It used to be you come up with a device or a product, only now is it "come up with an idea". There lies the problem. A physical device is full of exact specifics, there is much work done between the idea stage and having a working device. Any idea not developed to this point is too vague and covers too much ground for society to afford to give over a monopoly. Patient your software, but every single line of code must be submitted, and that is all that is covered. That exact string of code, not the idea behind the code.
I've been charging my electric toothbrush wirelessly for years. This is so not new.
" one that we should deal with now rather than waiting for "tons of mercury" to appear in our landfills. "
Too late. All those regular size flourescent tubes have been adding much more mercury per bulb for decades. Lets face it landfills are full of nasty shit. Don't drink the water that comes out of the landfill. Don't build housing developements on top of old landfills. Don't put a landfill in a major watershed.
Old enough to pay taxes should be old enough to vote.
How do you stock up to date hardware in brick and mortar stores? I never buy from physical stores because everything is lagging 3 months behind in price and technology.
The trick is: How do you know if you have that system or not?
/ HouseMembersUnitedNationsElectionMonitor.html
We, the undersigned Members of Congress, hereby request the Electoral Assistance Division of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs to send election observers to monitor the presidential election in the United States scheduled for November 2, 2004. We are deeply concerned that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy. http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx30_johnson
The US denyed the UN election oversight. So how do I know my vote means anything?
"Given security and privacy concerns in the states, how likely is this to appeal to US voters? "
For anyone to trust online voting, we would need some sort of paper trail or other form of accountibility. Can I print out a vote receipt? Not in the US.
Heck the only reason that we kinda trust the voting system we have is tradition and a lack of other choice. No the two party political system here is actually reliant on the electoral college and the untrackable vote to hold their two faceted monopoly on US Government. For further reading: http://gning.org/electoral.html
As far as the conflict of interest goes, if Performics just opitmized sites to be up to the second compliant with Google's bots there would be no conflict. But "gameing the system" is what sells. CEOs and shareholders alike want an "unfair" advantage, because if it's "fair" it's not really much of an advantage it's just what the web design team should have done in the first place.
It's fun how self-evident stuff qualifies as news these days
Sadly, the news is that someone is actually doing something about the self evident problem. Better yet they are someone in a position to actually fix the problem. Imagine if all of the obvious problems in the world had similarly empowered champions to tackle them.
FTA"Music has become a commoditized item," he says. "The CD is perceived by the consumer to be a $10 item, and the manufacturers continue to release new titles at $15 to $18.98." To remedy that situation, he says he has urged labels to move to a "paperback-book model," with no-frills packages priced cheaply for most customers, and more deluxe presentations for die-hard fans."
I think the CD is a $1-3 item, because there are usually only that many songs worth buying. So I buy those 1-3 songs. Music has become commoditized, because there are few "whole works" kind of albums (ie Pink Floyd:The Wall, Holst:The Planets) more just one or two hits and some filler. but we've all said this before.
why do they need these governments to sign on? Can't they just, you know, sell them to people? Why force them (via their governments) to buy one?
I was under the impression that either the governments in question would be buying them or they would be paid for by charities. The families getting these laptops sure as hell don't have the funds to pay for them, so to the end user they will be free. That means you need some way (on site administration) for the "right" people to get the laptops, and you need a request for the charities to respond to. These two requirements are the job of the governments of the people in need.
Why on earth would I want a web connected robot in my house? Because I already have too much privacy? Because bored kids would never think to trash my house with my own robot? Why not just install webcams and tape a web controlled taser to my neck..
Mr. Button had seen the article and demanded it be taken down from the site because it was having a negative impact on dealer sales. ...ExpressVu wanted to keep a lid on the fact that all the MPEG-2 receivers that are being sold today will soon be totally obsolete because they're transitioning to MPEG-4.
We want free to view content, but we don't want it to be a tool of the company that pays for it via advertising.
Sorry folks, that's never gonna happen.
No. We don't. It is actually written in our stated guiding priciples that we do not judge or devalue people for their sexual preference. So yes, please join us sometime. We are in New York City. http://www.fortwashingtonchurch.org/ Someone please mod the parent back up, that's not a troll, it's a question.