I've patented the creation of music by interpreting electrical signals sent to an amplification device from a guitar.
Seriously, what the hell is this crap? Making music that is somehow based off of DNA. "The song you created starts with a "D", and DNA starts with the same letter, therefore you are guilty of copyright infringement". Or, "This techno beat seems to follow a pattern and DNA has a pattern, therefore we're going to sue you".
There's 2 things you can throw into a proposed law/patent application to make it work. One is words related to terrorists "preventing TERROR/AL QUIEDA!/BOMB/FREEDOM/etc", the second is science words which people don't understand.
It's not necessarily a double standard. Microsoft is viewed as a huge evil corporation because it uses a huge amount of questionably legal and just shitty tactics. Blizzard is not. Thus, blizzard is viewed as a cooperation using bittorrent to distribute a widely wanted file whereas Microsoft is viewed as trying to cut costs by forcing users to distribute the data themselves.
There's obviously more too it than this. I honestly don't know how you got modded up to +4, because you didn't really do anything except flame the other guy.
Regardless, the people in America are generally pretty fucking stupid and will buy whatever the hell the companies are marketing. If they advertise 3-year-old technology as "CUTTING EDGE! BUY NOW!!", then the people tend to believe that the advertisers are selling cutting-edge technology.
People in America are willing to put up with this insane amount of bullshit whereas they aren't in other countries like Japan.
That would be a great analogy if we were talking about ATMs instead of slot machines. But we aren't.
The slot machine says "Put some money in the slot, pull the lever, and you might win a whole lot more than you put in." Thus, a slot machine giving away money is doing exactly what it's designed to do.
An ATM says "Put in your card and PIN, and you can take out as much money as you have previously put in, no more". Thus, an ATM giving away money is obviously an error.
There's one huge problem you seem to have completely left out of your post. YOU CAN'T BUY EXPLOSIVES WITHOUT PROPER LICENSING/PERMITS/ETC. And as someone said, this course doesn't give you a license to posses/obtain explosives. (I don't believe you can even hold said license until you're 18 anyway.)
But you know what, let's pretend that explosives are widely available. You have two cases: Case 1: Kids have explosives. Kids do not go to this course and thus have no training. They play with explosives and blow themselves up.
Case 2: Kids have explosives. Kids go to this course and thus DO have training. They know how to safely use them and thus don't end up killing themselves.
Attempting to restrict information is never a good idea if that same information is already available in any form. For example, all of this information is already in a book or on the Internet somewhere. Restricting it just leaves an aura of curiosity around it.
I don't understand your argument of "The safety training these kids get will be unlikely to stick". Why would the safety training not stick? I find it interesting that a lot of people are willing to believe that kids immediately think that being safe is bad or "uncool". The belief that kids won't be safe simply because it involves safety is completely unfounded and more likely a result of your own fear than anything else.
Yeah. When you combine handwriting recognition with a password, the handwriting recognition suddenly becomes as secure as a standard password. Excellent idea, have you considered a patent application?
Greasy fingerprints aren't a non-issue. Fingerprints on my current monitor are bad enough. I hate it when people touch my monitor to show me something. Now imagine a monitor where there are fingerprints EVERYWHERE on it because it's a touchpad and you end up with the most glary monitor you could possibly imagine. I don't want to have to carry around a spray bottle and some paper towels with my laptop.
That doesn't work. You obviously don't actually have any knowledge of how a car works or how car thieves steal cars.
The steering column has a lock that you have to somehow break. Also, what wires do you cross? Are you expecting to open a panel to find two neatly stripped ends of wire laying about ready for you to touch them and override the ignition system?
"I have the right to find out who you are and confront you about it." No, you do not. You have to right to say whatever you want in response. Just because I say something does not give you the right to determine who I am through any means that would otherwise be unlawful.
The "easy way out" remark was made because the UW is giving into the RIAA which is using questionably unlawful means to obtain information about UW's students. It is not unreasonable to expect the college to protect your rights when someone is trying to violate them through the college itself.
That's because the second amendment hasn't yet been incorporated into the states. Thus, the federal government can NOT prohibit you from having weapons (maybe the nuclear and other really fucking dangerous stuff) but the states can have whatever gun control laws they want.
The ACLU doesn't recognize the second amendment as an individual right because it isn't.
They probably cost more to maintain but they'll be more efficient so they won't work as long. When you take into account that you don't have to worry about any human rights or safety regulations (I.E. OSHA, minimum break times, etc.) for robots, they're probably far cheaper. You also don't have to worry about fights, injuries, lawsuits (well, maybe from protesters claiming you're stealing jobs, but that's another story), people not showing up for work due to sickness or laziness, etc. This means you can hire fewer managers which cuts costs further.
As an added bonus, they're shiny and make a really cool "whirrrrr" sound. And that's what really matters, isn't it?
"The company attaches a paint gun to mark the car". Right, because no one who is talking on there cell phone is going to be freaked out when their car suddenly gets shot by a paintball or two.
Seriously though, if someone shoots your car with a paint gun you're probably going to get freaked out "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT KA-THUD?!?! DID I HIT SOMEONE?!?". Seems to me that this would just serve to create more accidents.
The article wasn't too specific but I hope they plan on removing this from the final system if it ever is implemented.
"Did they remove all oils and greases from the computer first? Did they take steps to prevent any from contacting the water? Also, you should be using deionized water for that experiment, not ordinary distilled or even RO water -- those still have too many ions in them. In order to properly clean the computer, you'd have to rinse with DI water, immerse in an ultrasonic cleaner with DI water, and then rinse again. At a minimum. And then you'd have to take steps to make sure it didn't get dirty during reassembly. Not clean room level steps, but assembling it in your average living room probably isn't a good idea."
They didn't take any of those steps. This is exactly why I pointed out this experiment. The same thing applies to the computer keyboard. In order to rinse it with water you would first have to clean the thing, which somewhat defeats the purpose.
The mythbusters showed that the toilet seat actually has very little bacteria compared to every other surface they tested (bathroom floor, kitchen floor, kitchen table, etc.) Thus, the problem that "keyboards contain more bacteria than most toilet seats doesn't really matter very much.
Furthermore, the amount of bacteria doesn't really have anything to do with how healthy the surface is. Most dairy products have insane amounts of bacteria, but it's all bacteria that isn't harmful to humans. The bacteria you'll find in the toilet is probably more harmful than the greater amount of bacteria in your mouth.
That's because they boards aren't powered when they're washed.
Keyboards are dishwasher safe in the same way that flash drives or these printed circuit board are dishwasher safe.
If they can physically survive being immersed in water (I.E. they don't contain stuff that will dissolve) then the water won't destroy them.
The problem occurs when the keyboard is powered. The water will short every connection in the board and that will cause a very large problem. Someone will probably mention that you could use distilled water to clean it because distilled water won't conduct electricity. However, one website tried running a computer while it was immersed in distilled water. It worked for about 5 minutes and then the water started to dissociate and it shorted the machine out.
Bottom line, if you want to wash your keyboard then just make sure it's dry before you try to use it.
I did read the article. It was the Microsoft blog. And they went on about how it's a security feature. I got the quote I used in my previous post FROM THE ARTICLE. I suppose there were two articles and I did read the second one.
The only problem is that it's a lot harder to put this into production than any software Easter egg. A pinball game requires some software that you can embed in whatever application you happen to be working on. Replacing the hologram that's going to be placed on every single windows CD is a lot harder. You don't just change a few lines of code, you have to order/manufacture holograms that aren't to spec. I believe that costs a whole lot of money. I think if this was an Easter egg, we'd have already heard about a ton of people being fired from Microsoft.
"The images are less than 1mm in size and are not visible to the naked eye, so must be viewed using optical magnification."
So why bother with them then? Seriously, let's say that I wanted to know if someone was selling me a counterfeit vista disc. I look on the back and there's nothing there, how do I know whether or not the watermark is there?
Completely fucking worthless.
The Colbert report mentioned one guy a few weeks ago. he was pissed off about his electrical bill being 3 times higher than the year before so he paid the $500 bill in pennies. (It cost him an extra $50 in postage, but it was worth it).
I believe Colbert said "Way to stick it to the man! Or more specifically, the employee working for that man that has to count all those pennies"
Oh yeah, Google is really insecure. I mean come on, they've had a whole 0 leaks in the last decade alone. That's almost a measurable increase from previous times.
Seriously though, with a new "Thousands of credit card/social security numbers released by company XYZ" story every other week, how did Google score this low? Seems to me there's more at play here than facts and studies. Perhaps Google indexed one of their "confidential" pages they put on their server and didn't realize was on the Internet until Google indexed it.
Oh right, that's a good point. We should help deny access to the internet for all people in third world countries because some (maybe even a majority, but not all) people will use it to scam us here in the first world countries.
Your comment shows nothing more than your want to put your convenience (not being forced to delete spam) before the education (The educational material available on the internet) of children in third world countries.
The answer to spam is not bombing Nigerian ISPs but is instead the development of better spam-prevention algorythms. Who will write these algorythms? Perhaps some kid with one of these OLPC computers, in a third world country.
"They just have to prove you wanted one and were capable of obtaining it." Apparently your argument is that the cops just have to ask you "Have you ever wanted a fake ID and do you have a printer?" and if you say "yes" then you can be thrown in jail.
I've been hoping the RIAA would do something big enough that would force people to start boycotting them/sending shit tons of angry letters to their government representatives. This hasn't happened because 99% of the population doesn't know what the RIAA is, much less what it's doing.
People WILL notice when all of the good music disappears from Internet radio though. Seriously, what artist is going to allow their music to be played when they know that someone else will be taking their profit? None of them.
Thus: 1. The good music goes away 2. People complain 3. ??? 4. No more profit
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I've patented the creation of music by interpreting electrical signals sent to an amplification device from a guitar.
Seriously, what the hell is this crap? Making music that is somehow based off of DNA. "The song you created starts with a "D", and DNA starts with the same letter, therefore you are guilty of copyright infringement". Or, "This techno beat seems to follow a pattern and DNA has a pattern, therefore we're going to sue you".
There's 2 things you can throw into a proposed law/patent application to make it work. One is words related to terrorists "preventing TERROR/AL QUIEDA!/BOMB/FREEDOM/etc", the second is science words which people don't understand.
It's not necessarily a double standard. Microsoft is viewed as a huge evil corporation because it uses a huge amount of questionably legal and just shitty tactics. Blizzard is not.
Thus, blizzard is viewed as a cooperation using bittorrent to distribute a widely wanted file whereas Microsoft is viewed as trying to cut costs by forcing users to distribute the data themselves.
There's obviously more too it than this. I honestly don't know how you got modded up to +4, because you didn't really do anything except flame the other guy.
Regardless, the people in America are generally pretty fucking stupid and will buy whatever the hell the companies are marketing. If they advertise 3-year-old technology as "CUTTING EDGE! BUY NOW!!", then the people tend to believe that the advertisers are selling cutting-edge technology.
People in America are willing to put up with this insane amount of bullshit whereas they aren't in other countries like Japan.
That would be a great analogy if we were talking about ATMs instead of slot machines. But we aren't.
The slot machine says "Put some money in the slot, pull the lever, and you might win a whole lot more than you put in." Thus, a slot machine giving away money is doing exactly what it's designed to do.
An ATM says "Put in your card and PIN, and you can take out as much money as you have previously put in, no more". Thus, an ATM giving away money is obviously an error.
How is one person with a fast Internet connection proof that fiber networks are cost effective?
There's one huge problem you seem to have completely left out of your post. YOU CAN'T BUY EXPLOSIVES WITHOUT PROPER LICENSING/PERMITS/ETC. And as someone said, this course doesn't give you a license to posses/obtain explosives. (I don't believe you can even hold said license until you're 18 anyway.)
But you know what, let's pretend that explosives are widely available. You have two cases:
Case 1:
Kids have explosives. Kids do not go to this course and thus have no training. They play with explosives and blow themselves up.
Case 2:
Kids have explosives. Kids go to this course and thus DO have training. They know how to safely use them and thus don't end up killing themselves.
Attempting to restrict information is never a good idea if that same information is already available in any form. For example, all of this information is already in a book or on the Internet somewhere. Restricting it just leaves an aura of curiosity around it.
I don't understand your argument of "The safety training these kids get will be unlikely to stick". Why would the safety training not stick? I find it interesting that a lot of people are willing to believe that kids immediately think that being safe is bad or "uncool". The belief that kids won't be safe simply because it involves safety is completely unfounded and more likely a result of your own fear than anything else.
Yeah. When you combine handwriting recognition with a password, the handwriting recognition suddenly becomes as secure as a standard password. Excellent idea, have you considered a patent application?
Greasy fingerprints aren't a non-issue. Fingerprints on my current monitor are bad enough. I hate it when people touch my monitor to show me something. Now imagine a monitor where there are fingerprints EVERYWHERE on it because it's a touchpad and you end up with the most glary monitor you could possibly imagine. I don't want to have to carry around a spray bottle and some paper towels with my laptop.
That doesn't work. You obviously don't actually have any knowledge of how a car works or how car thieves steal cars.
The steering column has a lock that you have to somehow break. Also, what wires do you cross? Are you expecting to open a panel to find two neatly stripped ends of wire laying about ready for you to touch them and override the ignition system?
"I have the right to find out who you are and confront you about it."
No, you do not. You have to right to say whatever you want in response. Just because I say something does not give you the right to determine who I am through any means that would otherwise be unlawful.
The "easy way out" remark was made because the UW is giving into the RIAA which is using questionably unlawful means to obtain information about UW's students. It is not unreasonable to expect the college to protect your rights when someone is trying to violate them through the college itself.
That's because the second amendment hasn't yet been incorporated into the states. Thus, the federal government can NOT prohibit you from having weapons (maybe the nuclear and other really fucking dangerous stuff) but the states can have whatever gun control laws they want.
The ACLU doesn't recognize the second amendment as an individual right because it isn't.
They probably cost more to maintain but they'll be more efficient so they won't work as long. When you take into account that you don't have to worry about any human rights or safety regulations (I.E. OSHA, minimum break times, etc.) for robots, they're probably far cheaper. You also don't have to worry about fights, injuries, lawsuits (well, maybe from protesters claiming you're stealing jobs, but that's another story), people not showing up for work due to sickness or laziness, etc. This means you can hire fewer managers which cuts costs further.
As an added bonus, they're shiny and make a really cool "whirrrrr" sound. And that's what really matters, isn't it?
Because "do no evil" does not mean "Let other companies infringe on our patents".
"The company attaches a paint gun to mark the car".
Right, because no one who is talking on there cell phone is going to be freaked out when their car suddenly gets shot by a paintball or two.
Seriously though, if someone shoots your car with a paint gun you're probably going to get freaked out "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT KA-THUD?!?! DID I HIT SOMEONE?!?". Seems to me that this would just serve to create more accidents.
The article wasn't too specific but I hope they plan on removing this from the final system if it ever is implemented.
"Did they remove all oils and greases from the computer first? Did they take steps to prevent any from contacting the water? Also, you should be using deionized water for that experiment, not ordinary distilled or even RO water -- those still have too many ions in them. In order to properly clean the computer, you'd have to rinse with DI water, immerse in an ultrasonic cleaner with DI water, and then rinse again. At a minimum. And then you'd have to take steps to make sure it didn't get dirty during reassembly. Not clean room level steps, but assembling it in your average living room probably isn't a good idea."
They didn't take any of those steps. This is exactly why I pointed out this experiment. The same thing applies to the computer keyboard.
In order to rinse it with water you would first have to clean the thing, which somewhat defeats the purpose.
The mythbusters showed that the toilet seat actually has very little bacteria compared to every other surface they tested (bathroom floor, kitchen floor, kitchen table, etc.) Thus, the problem that "keyboards contain more bacteria than most toilet seats doesn't really matter very much.
Furthermore, the amount of bacteria doesn't really have anything to do with how healthy the surface is. Most dairy products have insane amounts of bacteria, but it's all bacteria that isn't harmful to humans. The bacteria you'll find in the toilet is probably more harmful than the greater amount of bacteria in your mouth.
That's because they boards aren't powered when they're washed.
Keyboards are dishwasher safe in the same way that flash drives or these printed circuit board are dishwasher safe.
If they can physically survive being immersed in water (I.E. they don't contain stuff that will dissolve) then the water won't destroy them.
The problem occurs when the keyboard is powered. The water will short every connection in the board and that will cause a very large problem. Someone will probably mention that you could use distilled water to clean it because distilled water won't conduct electricity. However, one website tried running a computer while it was immersed in distilled water. It worked for about 5 minutes and then the water started to dissociate and it shorted the machine out.
Bottom line, if you want to wash your keyboard then just make sure it's dry before you try to use it.
I did read the article. It was the Microsoft blog. And they went on about how it's a security feature. I got the quote I used in my previous post FROM THE ARTICLE. I suppose there were two articles and I did read the second one.
The only problem is that it's a lot harder to put this into production than any software Easter egg.
A pinball game requires some software that you can embed in whatever application you happen to be working on. Replacing the hologram that's going to be placed on every single windows CD is a lot harder.
You don't just change a few lines of code, you have to order/manufacture holograms that aren't to spec. I believe that costs a whole lot of money. I think if this was an Easter egg, we'd have already heard about a ton of people being fired from Microsoft.
"The images are less than 1mm in size and are not visible to the naked eye, so must be viewed using optical magnification."
So why bother with them then? Seriously, let's say that I wanted to know if someone was selling me a counterfeit vista disc. I look on the back and there's nothing there, how do I know whether or not the watermark is there?
Completely fucking worthless.
The Colbert report mentioned one guy a few weeks ago. he was pissed off about his electrical bill being 3 times higher than the year before so he paid the $500 bill in pennies. (It cost him an extra $50 in postage, but it was worth it).
I believe Colbert said "Way to stick it to the man! Or more specifically, the employee working for that man that has to count all those pennies"
Oh yeah, Google is really insecure. I mean come on, they've had a whole 0 leaks in the last decade alone. That's almost a measurable increase from previous times.
Seriously though, with a new "Thousands of credit card/social security numbers released by company XYZ" story every other week, how did Google score this low? Seems to me there's more at play here than facts and studies. Perhaps Google indexed one of their "confidential" pages they put on their server and didn't realize was on the Internet until Google indexed it.
Oh right, that's a good point. We should help deny access to the internet for all people in third world countries because some (maybe even a majority, but not all) people will use it to scam us here in the first world countries.
Your comment shows nothing more than your want to put your convenience (not being forced to delete spam) before the education (The educational material available on the internet) of children in third world countries.
The answer to spam is not bombing Nigerian ISPs but is instead the development of better spam-prevention algorythms. Who will write these algorythms? Perhaps some kid with one of these OLPC computers, in a third world country.
You are an idiot.
"They just have to prove you wanted one and were capable of obtaining it."
Apparently your argument is that the cops just have to ask you "Have you ever wanted a fake ID and do you have a printer?" and if you say "yes" then you can be thrown in jail.
He said "All ESCAPE signs" Not "all signs". Furthermore, only illuminating the nearest escape signs presents a problem if that one route is blocked.
I've been hoping the RIAA would do something big enough that would force people to start boycotting them/sending shit tons of angry letters to their government representatives. This hasn't happened because 99% of the population doesn't know what the RIAA is, much less what it's doing.
People WILL notice when all of the good music disappears from Internet radio though. Seriously, what artist is going to allow their music to be played when they know that someone else will be taking their profit? None of them.
Thus:
1. The good music goes away
2. People complain
3. ???
4. No more profit