- depending on who's calling perform any of these behaviors:
* ring, vibrate or ignore the call
Many phones have been doing this for a while. Just set a custom ring tone for each caller in your phone book. There are 'ring tones' that just vibrate the phone and should already come with it.
In the US, airlines charge non-trivial sums of money if your checked in luggage ways more than 50lbs (domestic, I think). Yet they don't care whether the passenger weights 150lbs or 250lbs.
And I believe passenger weight does affect the airplane's fuel consumption, handling, etc.... I've been on commercial flights where they asked some (incidentally overweight) people to move to the other side of the plan to balance it. (It was a small commuter plane that wasn't very full).
At the risk of triggering a massive wave of eating disorders, I would love to see tax rebates and insurance discounts for normal-weight people here...
Heck, such a plan in the US might even lower energy consumption as it might encourage people to walk a bit more. They also wouldn't need to run the air conditionner so cold if they had a bit less 'insulation' on themselves.
They way they do things already with behavior observation is probably the best possible approach because that way they do not target any particular nationality or race, and even false positives mean you get a chance to calm someone down upset about something that might be abusive to the airline crew.
Which behavior is more suspicious:
1) A 25 yr old Muslim dressed in traditional clothing praying to Allah as they board the plane.
2) A 25 yr old Catholic praying the Rosary praying as they board the plane.
In terms of behavior, they are pretty much the equivalent. However, I strongly doubt they have an equal probabilty of suspicion.
Even with the current system, my bet is that #1 gets "detained" while #2 gets a reassuring smile.
Races & Nationalities still get targeted because many are biased...
The Amish-American farmers that I live next door to don't seem to be having any problems. (Probably because they choose to use "open source" corn seeds, rather than patented Microsoft....er, Monsanto seeds.)
If the Amish have the source code to (compiled) DNA, then hats off to them!
I believe God violates OSS by not including source code in every life form. He only distributes the executables which manage to modify their binaries at runtime. (I contend that DNA is more similar to machine instructions and/or settings [data, not instructions] rather than open-source).
I, for one, think we should go after the All Mighty Smiter...
When the Red Army Faction assassinated Alfred Herrhausen in 1989, they used a photocell trigger to set off an "IED" in a bicycle bag. It was a superbly precise job which targeted the actual position in the car occupied by Herrhausen.
Fast forward to now. One might scan the sensors on a target vehicle as it drives a common route, emplace IEDs on multiple routes, and break out the popcorn (or pita as the case may be) until the target drives by. This would be ideal for political hits where the target uses a specific armored vehicle.
Sounds like a real PITA for that bicyclist and Alfred...
They've found evidence of healing from the cranial modifications and they've found the tools used - superior to anything less than modern surgical steel... Also, the Neolithic people were bigger on stealing magic for their own use than destroying it.
Advanced medical technology? Magic? These don't seem to go together...
In this country we limit the rights of certain people... such as minors and felons, people who we as an ordered society have deemed either not yet mature enough to handle the responsibility or have shown themselves to be irresponsible through the commission (and conviction) of a very serious crime.
The same thing is seen when the United States (and others) try to stop other countries from developing/processing nuclear weapons. We don't do it arbitrarily and say "Nyeh, we want to be the only ones with the bomb"... instead we do it to generally unstable nations who are less likely to act responsibly with it.
You mean like when someome uses a lead pipe to kill someone? We take away their right to freedom for a while since they didn't use their former right in a responsible way...
Despite the number of countries now with nuclear capability, only 1 country has ever used this technology in an 'irresponsible' way.
So Who is being responsible????
Even worse, the offender was never punished and the world knows it!
In their (MS's) defense, I used to do that kind of thing back then too, (dumping memory structures straight to files instead of using extensible, documented formats), but then again I was 15 years old (in 1995) and still learning C.
Except for the "1995" part, wasn't that pretty much how Microsoft got started?
To be big enough to suck the earth in from the inside, they'd need a pretty powerful gravitational field - anything lab produced would just disapate as it starves to death (earthly material is not dense enough to grow it substantially).
Someone might find a way around that eventually. [A similar argument might have been made at one time for what we now call the 'Atomic Bomb'].
Moreover, you actually can see a black hole behind you in an accelerating reference frame, and it even exudes Hawking radiation. This latter effect is explained by the Unruh effect.
This sounds like a scene from Jurassic Park.
Your in a spaceship, looking in the rear-view-mirror. You see the black hole behind you.. Then you exclaim, "Uh... Ruh--Ruh---Run for your livveeess!!!!!!"
Yes but to be fair there is a difference between a 2.45Ghz microwave oven amplitude at 500W (if we use the classical wave point of view) and a small wifi transmitter around the same frequency at only 2W. Not as much energy is being transmitted from the cell phone so the term "microwave" can be misleading to someone automatically associating it with an oven and the inherent dangers.
Question: How far and how long would stand from an operating microwave oven (facing you with its door open) so that your gonads don't get damaged? Would you feel safe for 1 second exposure at 10 feet?
I agree, the power levels in Wifi are very small. But for some, this will go hours/day for decades... Anyway, the heat and pressure from the laptop are probably worse than the Wifi...
I'm skeptical about these statistics: 500 tumour patients and 1300 control subjects can't really support a probability of 0.003% and 0.0045% for each outcome, can they?
That's the beauty of statistics. These numbers can support any outcome you want......if you're willing to accept any degree of confidence.
They could poll one million people. They still can't guarantee talking on a cell phone will be 10X MORE DEADLY (yes backwards) than car crashes. However, the probability of it being worse is very very very very very small with such a large dataset.
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I remember having similar thoughts when ActiveX was promoted for client-side use in webpages.
Everything went downhill from there...
- depending on who's calling perform any of these behaviors:
* ring, vibrate or ignore the call
Many phones have been doing this for a while. Just set a custom ring tone for each caller in your phone book. There are 'ring tones' that just vibrate the phone and should already come with it.
In the US, airlines charge non-trivial sums of money if your checked in luggage ways more than 50lbs (domestic, I think). Yet they don't care whether the passenger weights 150lbs or 250lbs.
And I believe passenger weight does affect the airplane's fuel consumption, handling, etc.... I've been on commercial flights where they asked some (incidentally overweight) people to move to the other side of the plan to balance it. (It was a small commuter plane that wasn't very full).
At the risk of triggering a massive wave of eating disorders, I would love to see tax rebates and insurance discounts for normal-weight people here...
Heck, such a plan in the US might even lower energy consumption as it might encourage people to walk a bit more. They also wouldn't need to run the air conditionner so cold if they had a bit less 'insulation' on themselves.
What happens when you import:
"Smith","John","703-555-5555"
Does it behave nicer?
Parent makes a good point...
A true nerd would build a robot to kiss a girl...
The Laurentide Ice Sheet broke away and in the course of a few days the oceans rose over 100 feet.... There was a flood, but did God do it? no.
Oh yeah? Well who broke the ice sheet? Perhaps "HE" didn't want to own up to it!!
Lol!
They way they do things already with behavior observation is probably the best possible approach because that way they do not target any particular nationality or race, and even false positives mean you get a chance to calm someone down upset about something that might be abusive to the airline crew.
Which behavior is more suspicious:
1) A 25 yr old Muslim dressed in traditional clothing praying to Allah as they board the plane.
2) A 25 yr old Catholic praying the Rosary praying as they board the plane.
In terms of behavior, they are pretty much the equivalent. However, I strongly doubt they have an equal probabilty of suspicion.
Even with the current system, my bet is that #1 gets "detained" while #2 gets a reassuring smile.
Races & Nationalities still get targeted because many are biased...
Amazing... Companies can thrive by suing those who increase their sales!
It should be "FiberPorn!".
That's what any community network is going to be used mainly for...
It might even keep some regular!
The Amish-American farmers that I live next door to don't seem to be having any problems. (Probably because they choose to use "open source" corn seeds, rather than patented Microsoft....er, Monsanto seeds.)
If the Amish have the source code to (compiled) DNA, then hats off to them!
I believe God violates OSS by not including source code in every life form. He only distributes the executables which manage to modify their binaries at runtime. (I contend that DNA is more similar to machine instructions and/or settings [data, not instructions] rather than open-source).
I, for one, think we should go after the All Mighty Smiter...
You don't have an MX (DNS) record for your domain!
Without designating where the mail should go, you won't get much (if any).
Mail servers *do not* use ordinary "A" type DNS records for email!
Are you even running a SMTP server? It doesn't look like it...
When the Red Army Faction assassinated Alfred Herrhausen in 1989, they used a photocell trigger to set off an "IED" in a bicycle bag. It was a superbly precise job which targeted the actual position in the car occupied by Herrhausen.
Fast forward to now. One might scan the sensors on a target vehicle as it drives a common route, emplace IEDs on multiple routes, and break out the popcorn (or pita as the case may be) until the target drives by. This would be ideal for political hits where the target uses a specific armored vehicle.
Sounds like a real PITA for that bicyclist and Alfred...
They've found evidence of healing from the cranial modifications and they've found the tools used - superior to anything less than modern surgical steel ... Also, the Neolithic people were bigger on stealing magic for their own use than destroying it.
Advanced medical technology? Magic? These don't seem to go together...
For every 11-year-old network admin there are 4 11 year old hackers inflating their reading grades. It's like a microcosm of the real world
Are you related to those guys who tried to hold up a bank and wrote the hold-up note on the back of their own personal check?
In this country we limit the rights of certain people... such as minors and felons, people who we as an ordered society have deemed either not yet mature enough to handle the responsibility or have shown themselves to be irresponsible through the commission (and conviction) of a very serious crime.
The same thing is seen when the United States (and others) try to stop other countries from developing/processing nuclear weapons. We don't do it arbitrarily and say "Nyeh, we want to be the only ones with the bomb"... instead we do it to generally unstable nations who are less likely to act responsibly with it.
You mean like when someome uses a lead pipe to kill someone? We take away their right to freedom for a while since they didn't use their former right in a responsible way...
Despite the number of countries now with nuclear capability, only 1 country has ever used this technology in an 'irresponsible' way.
So Who is being responsible????
Even worse, the offender was never punished and the world knows it!
Did you put your swap partition, /tmp, /var/log, or /var/tmp areas on the flash disk? That would be a good way to kill it quickly...
Also installing/running something like Gentoo on flash wouldn't be pretty...
There is also a "noatime" option to filesystem mounts that prevents the filesystem from being modified on every *read*.
The buyer? Well, he dresses all in white, has a big white beard, talks out of burning bushes...
An old guy dressing in white, playing with fire, and hiding in bushes, sounds more like a mentally disturbed person than the almighty Creator.
That or Moses spent a little too much time in the sun...
In their (MS's) defense, I used to do that kind of thing back then too, (dumping memory structures straight to files instead of using extensible, documented formats), but then again I was 15 years old (in 1995) and still learning C.
Except for the "1995" part, wasn't that pretty much how Microsoft got started?
They haven't advanced from that point by much....
non-lethal technologies such as microwave heating.
I think many a feline would disagree about the non-lethality of a microwave oven.
He was buying, waiting for the share price to plunge, and then selling. Doesn't that mean he was selling lower than he bought? How did he make money?
They're called PUTS dammit!
To be big enough to suck the earth in from the inside, they'd need a pretty powerful gravitational field - anything lab produced would just disapate as it starves to death (earthly material is not dense enough to grow it substantially).
Someone might find a way around that eventually. [A similar argument might have been made at one time for what we now call the 'Atomic Bomb'].
Let's just hope they don't..
Moreover, you actually can see a black hole behind you in an accelerating reference frame, and it even exudes Hawking radiation. This latter effect is explained by the Unruh effect.
This sounds like a scene from Jurassic Park.
Your in a spaceship, looking in the rear-view-mirror. You see the black hole behind you.. Then you exclaim, "Uh... Ruh--Ruh---Run for your livveeess!!!!!!"
Yes but to be fair there is a difference between a 2.45Ghz microwave oven amplitude at 500W (if we use the classical wave point of view) and a small wifi transmitter around the same frequency at only 2W. Not as much energy is being transmitted from the cell phone so the term "microwave" can be misleading to someone automatically associating it with an oven and the inherent dangers.
Question: How far and how long would stand from an operating microwave oven (facing you with its door open) so that your gonads don't get damaged? Would you feel safe for 1 second exposure at 10 feet?
I agree, the power levels in Wifi are very small. But for some, this will go hours/day for decades... Anyway, the heat and pressure from the laptop are probably worse than the Wifi...
I'm skeptical about these statistics: 500 tumour patients and 1300 control subjects can't really support a probability of 0.003% and 0.0045% for each outcome, can they?
...if you're willing to accept any degree of confidence.
That's the beauty of statistics. These numbers can support any outcome you want...
They could poll one million people. They still can't guarantee talking on a cell phone will be 10X MORE DEADLY (yes backwards) than car crashes. However, the probability of it being worse is very very very very very small with such a large dataset.
*cough*ARP poisoning*cough*
:->
That's why real geeks know by heart their ISP's
1) Gateway IP address
2) Gateway MAC address
3) Subnet Mask
4) DNS IP address
5) DNS MAC address [if on local subnet]
6) DHCP Server MAC Address
Anything less is just being careless