I know in Canada a law was upheld in or around the '30s that banned wearing a mask in order to intimidate someone. The intent of the law was to keep Klansmen from being anonymous.
(source: some documentary I watched on a history channel a few years back)
The author is Michio Kaku, one of the inventors of string theory, so he bears a hearing I've got a friend who also likes to talk about things that should be invented, he's a mechanic, so he hears a bearing. Mickeo Cashew?
So I take it I must be the last person who hasn't gotten the Firefox extension that blocks articles by Roland Piquepaille? I see nothing in the comments or the tags.
I should have recognized it from the signature link to his blog promising videos and/or photos at the end of the entry.
i wonder if the scientologists are actually creating anti-scientology fronts I read that as "anti-scientology fonts," and thought "Wow, that is some damn subtle manipulation!"
And when you can get a ship traveling sufficient close to C for this to be the case, let us know. I know a guy who's got one. He's a big fan of Tom Cruise.
If you give me enough money and sue enough of his detractors, I might even tell you who he is.
- FF2 on XP - Same with/without the &fmt=6 - IE6 on XP - Same Really? Viewing the video (with/without the &fmt=6 first), I found a quite noticeable difference using IE6/XP and SeaMonkey/XP (which should have the same engine as FF2).
In particular, note the pixelation on the dog's rear as it passes the camera at 0:03-0:04.
Actually, when the US change the time at which DST took place last year, it caused big ripples up here in Canada.
With people getting up earlier in the winter mornings, that means one less hour of sunlight to melt the ice on the roads on spring mornings. This will increase municipal road salt budgets, and will likely create more collisions.
Of course, the alternative would have been a complete paralysis of trade for a three week period because the clocks no longer synched.
There is no sense in using timezones, it just causes pain and suffering for people that talk to others in many different countries. (1) There's no incentive for the majority of people who don't talk to others in different time zones on a regular basis (different country != different time zone).
(2) The information contained in the time zone is useful when chatting online with a bunch of people in different time zones. Especially since our daily behaviour tends to be relative to our local time. Compare the difference between "oh, it's 9pm--time to put the little one to bed" and "oh, it's 03:30 UTC...". In the latter case, you would have to know what time zone the other person is in for their statement to be useful.
If you want to coordinate a meeting first thing in the morning (e.g. the equivalent of 9am local time) with someone five time zones away, you'll still have to do the conversion. With the current time zone system, though, that conversion is far more transparent.
You missed one key concept with the panopticon: the surveillance device is accessible only to authority, not to inmates. I think you're missing out on an important nuance. The panopticon was devised in the 18th Century, when the only method of surveillance required a direct line of sight.
With current technology, surveillance cameras can be on all the time, and even accessible to the public. The crucial point is that the inmates don't know when they are being monitored by the authorities. When they don't know, they must assume that they are always under surveillance, and behave accordingly.
The second important question in today's society, and with publicly accessible surveillance, is who constitutes "the authorities". It's not only the government, it's anybody who has sufficient power to control some aspect of your life (or all of it). This can include the police, it can include your boss, it can include your ISP, the DMV, or some whackjob stalker. It can include the only store for miles to get groceries.
It's not so much a matter of having something to hide, it's a matter of having someone to hide it from. The better solution to the surveillance society is not to use legislation to limit the use of power, but to prevent that power from accumulating in the first place.
But the enemy does hide among the civilians. That is not an excuse to randomly kill civilians, or to kill all civilians in a room/house because one of them is suspected (or even known) to be an enemy. If it were, we'd might as well just nuke the whole region and be done with it.
I notice a catch-22. The point is that the user types words that reCAPTCHA's OCR can't read, but reCAPTCHA has to know what the word is if the user is to be granted access.
I got "laughter" and another word. I typed the other word correctly, but "daughter" instead of laughter, and it said I was correct.
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I know in Canada a law was upheld in or around the '30s that banned wearing a mask in order to intimidate someone. The intent of the law was to keep Klansmen from being anonymous.
(source: some documentary I watched on a history channel a few years back)
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So I take it I must be the last person who hasn't gotten the Firefox extension that blocks articles by Roland Piquepaille? I see nothing in the comments or the tags.
I should have recognized it from the signature link to his blog promising videos and/or photos at the end of the entry.
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You do realize that dead people don't give a shit whether or not you visit their grave, right?
You don't *have* to go to the cemetery at all, much less put flowers and candles on people's graves.
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Airport Security.
They've got electrolytes.
It's what air travelers need.
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What, so the message is "buy MacBook Air: it'll make you so cool, they'll think you're a terrorist"?
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If you give me enough money and sue enough of his detractors, I might even tell you who he is.
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This documentary is far better, if you want to learn about Cuban medical/humanitarian aid.
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- IE6 on XP - Same Really? Viewing the video (with/without the &fmt=6 first), I found a quite noticeable difference using IE6/XP and SeaMonkey/XP (which should have the same engine as FF2).
In particular, note the pixelation on the dog's rear as it passes the camera at 0:03-0:04.
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Actually, when the US change the time at which DST took place last year, it caused big ripples up here in Canada.
With people getting up earlier in the winter mornings, that means one less hour of sunlight to melt the ice on the roads on spring mornings. This will increase municipal road salt budgets, and will likely create more collisions.
Of course, the alternative would have been a complete paralysis of trade for a three week period because the clocks no longer synched.
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(2) The information contained in the time zone is useful when chatting online with a bunch of people in different time zones. Especially since our daily behaviour tends to be relative to our local time. Compare the difference between "oh, it's 9pm--time to put the little one to bed" and "oh, it's 03:30 UTC...". In the latter case, you would have to know what time zone the other person is in for their statement to be useful.
If you want to coordinate a meeting first thing in the morning (e.g. the equivalent of 9am local time) with someone five time zones away, you'll still have to do the conversion. With the current time zone system, though, that conversion is far more transparent.
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With current technology, surveillance cameras can be on all the time, and even accessible to the public. The crucial point is that the inmates don't know when they are being monitored by the authorities. When they don't know, they must assume that they are always under surveillance, and behave accordingly.
The second important question in today's society, and with publicly accessible surveillance, is who constitutes "the authorities". It's not only the government, it's anybody who has sufficient power to control some aspect of your life (or all of it). This can include the police, it can include your boss, it can include your ISP, the DMV, or some whackjob stalker. It can include the only store for miles to get groceries.
It's not so much a matter of having something to hide, it's a matter of having someone to hide it from. The better solution to the surveillance society is not to use legislation to limit the use of power, but to prevent that power from accumulating in the first place.
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Just to be sure, we should install a camera to watch the infinite loop, too.
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Cool, it even gives you the address of the party!
Thanks, Google!
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(Because the Jeffersons was a spinoff of All in the Family, for those who are too young to get that)
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"Can you hear me explode now?"
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I notice a catch-22. The point is that the user types words that reCAPTCHA's OCR can't read, but reCAPTCHA has to know what the word is if the user is to be granted access.
I got "laughter" and another word. I typed the other word correctly, but "daughter" instead of laughter, and it said I was correct.
So where does the security come into reCAPTCHA?
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That's still a CAPTCHA, it's just not a text-based one.
And it still doesn't fix the pornbot-proxy problem.
All it does is make it harder for your real potential customers to sign on.
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Maybe, but there better not be any pirates swearing allegiance to a Flying Kimchi Monster, or there'll be hell* to pay!
(*in the form of global warming)
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