It's called a "public accommodation", and it is indeed open to the GENERAL public during business hours, unless the place is rented out. You are conflating "public" as in publicly-owned (such as sidewalks that aren't actually owned by private individuals) with "public" as in public accommodation such as privately-owned restaurants. There is not an expectation of privacy in any general area except bathrooms and marked rooms. If there was, you could be sued (or even jailed) for taking a selfie in a restaurant and picking up anyone else in the background. If you had an expectation of privacy, security cameras would be illegal (like they are in bathrooms and hotel rooms, where there's an actual expectation).
You're simply out of your mind if you think there's a general expectation of privacy in any public accommodation. There are exceptions, e.g., privately-owned places open to the public can be marked as photography-free zones, such as museums and art galleries. Public places can have private events with their own rules, including renting out a public park. Entry may come with a contract, such as sports tickets and concerts. Some public places may prohibit all recording, such as SCOTUS.
As far as photography goes, entering the general areas of a public accommodation is the same as walking down the sidewalk. The only difference is that the owner can throw you out, as long as it's not based on your race or something. A restaurant is in public, you can be recorded, and you have no "right" or expectation of privacy or "right" to the recording. The photographer, in contrast, has a "right" to record you in public (with some limitations... some states prevent surreptitious recording and some have tried to prevent sound recording, recording of boondoggle animal-cruel farms even from public places, etc, and of course if you're told by the property owner not to record, you can't -- that's what TFA is whining about, because he got thrown out for carrying a recording device.) If you have to have privacy when you dine, then you have to dine in a private room or house where others are not allowed to enter, with the curtains drawn. Or, you can dine in a bathroom or locker room. Yum.
Privacy is not the reason photojournalists cannot enter these public accommodations. It's because the business owner won't let them harass their guests, since it's bad for business. If a photographer enters or lingers after being (legitimately) denied entry, they are trespassing, and can be hauled off.
But I also know that restaurants are not public spaces. They are private and different rules apply. If they tell you you cannot photograph there, they have that right and personally I agree that they should be able to dictate that.
It is private only in that it is not owned by the state.
It is, however, public because it is open to the public and there is clearly no expectation of privacy. The only place where such an expectation exists is in the bathrooms, areas marked "private", rented rooms, and so forth.
They have every right to tell him not to photograph. In fact, they can tell him not to wear blue. Or that he smells funny so he can't come in, or basically anything that is not based on being in a protected class (including those of your state, which can be different than the civil rights act listing). And if he remains there, he's trespassing.
But I highly doubt they've ever told ANYONE taking pictures with a cellphone that they can't photograph. In fact, I would bet if someone had videorecorded with a cellphone while the guy was getting thrown out, there would've been no threats or repercussions from the restaurant whatsoever.
How do Guild Wars 2, RIFT, World of Warcraft and all the other MMORPGs stack up these days?
Plain and simply, wow has the best boss and quest mechanics, and is essentially required to be fairly balanced. Few bugs. No mmo has come close to the wealth of mechanics they have, from riding vehicles, reverse gravity, several stages of fights, dual-phases where people teleport around, special abilities gained to help defeat a boss, etc. And they have some clever people who balance things out to make sure the challenge is appropriate.
GW2 has attempted to get away from the holy trinity of tank/healer/dps, and introduced working area quests. Yes, they're not the first, but it works. It also has many exploration quests, which I find awesome. Even unmarked platform jumping challenge "quests" of sorts.
Sad to hear about lotro. But as I've always said, "The best, and the worst, thing about MMOs is the people."
Your enjoyment might hinge on having a good social construct in-game. If you're moving with your guild, move to whatever game they go to. If you're off to solo, find a game that's soloable. If you have limited playtime, find a game that you can dabble in and still be successful. But just saying "I need a game that requires more than 2 buttons" doesn't give much insight on how you actually prefer to play. There are tons of different games out there, from things like group-oriented Puzzle Pirates to soloable Asheron's Call to Star Wars to Neverwinter. But it's not possible to make a good recommendation without better info.
You might even be happy playing a single-player game, depending what you want.
Thanks Gary... so it is actually sequestering the carbon even when used as a fertilizer.
The OP was based on plants pulling carbon out of the ground in addition to the air, but it's obviously a much lower rate that doesn't creep for centuries.
10kW is essentially the "top speed", and the kWh is the "fuel economy" or more like the miles travelled. You don't have to go at top speed, and if you're going at half speed you're only putting out 5kW, but will still get the same amount of power after 2 hours instead of 1.
The fuel consumption is also important to compute cost. For the 20kW machine, it burns 50 lbs of biomass per hour, which means 50 lbs of biomass is converted to 20kW for an hour, or 50 lbs to get 20kWh. (You can probably burn this over longer times than an hour.)
That's actually a fair amount of power, and 20kWh can power several houses for that one hour. If it's linearly scalable to smaller numbers, that would be very good since a house might only use 20kWh over an entire day. It would allow someone to run solar power during the day, and this thing at night (putting out 1kW) and during rainy days, with only a small battery farm.
But there are too many unknowns in the article to make a good guess.
If you do anything with the ash, it's carbon neutral. If you use it as fertilizer, it's essentially converted into wood mass which often ends back up into the atmosphere. Subsequent usage of the fertilized wood products in the "machine" would simply harness some of the solar energy and convert it back into a neutral.
The point is that if the charcoal by-product is used in any way, it's at best carbon-neutral. The only way it's carbon-negative is if the carbon is simply buried and never used as fertilizer or anything. In theory, burying it would be the opposite of pumping up oil to burn... you can harness the energy and sequester the carbon. But it's extremely unlikely the by-product won't get burnt directly or indirectly.
Basically, it was an exercise of him trying to solve a problem by throwing me at a dartboard, instead of letting me find the solution that I was hired to do. It was not an agile programming environment, it was a PHB not knowing when to get out of the way.
The most annoying and maddening thing I've ever had to do was follow a changing spec list from a manager who thought it was some iterative process, instead of giving me an actual complete task description to work on.
Even though it was his nickel, it sucked the enjoyment out of that job.
That reminds me of when uwm went away in pref of twm. Window managers have all sorts of abilities and usu have widgets and event traps, and may have to be rewritten from the ground up to incorporate new ideas. But all is not lost, because you can usually tweak the new ones to behave like the predecessor.
As far as window managers, old is often a subset of new, so my suggestion is to spend a day to adapt some new, maintained software using its config and dotfiles to behave the way you want.
I've used this method to find celltowers closest to a house in a forest. On your cellphone, turn off GPS and google location services, and go into airplane mode.
Then turn off airplane mode and as soon as it connects try to get a fix on your position in google maps using only celltower information. Basically, it'll place you a certain distance within range of a celltower. The center of the circle is where the tower is. If you can get LOS on that tower, that will help your signal a lot. Sometimes they're even marked in google maps. You can move around the perimeter, and it may switch to a different cell indicating another tower you can use. Not all carriers use the same celltowers, either, so this has to be the same provider you have for your hotspots.
If you really want to play around to increase signal, try mounting an old satellite dish up high aiming directly at the celltower, and place the hotspot at the focal point.
A 4G repeater won't help since you'd have to place it in LOS to the tower anyway, so you might as well just place your hotspot and a wifi repeater there with a directional antenna. Wifi equipment should be cheaper and faster, too, for the infrastructure.
Way to ignore the compilation copyright. Typical "look over there" smoke and mirrors argument.
You even posted the TOS which says they can pursue copyright issues for your individual post. It is a right, as the copyright holder, you grant to them to pursue for unauthorized access to their servers. As the owner of the servers, they determine (solely) what is authorized.
Craigslist has their own copyright. While your individual article is copyrighted by you, they have a copyright (which is wholly their own of which you have no interest) in the compilation. The list is not a simple collection of facts, but rather, a collection of creative works which each individual poster has granted usage to craigslist. According to SCOTUS when referring to a trial regarding collections of material in a phone book, "copyright can only apply to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc., but not on the information itself".
That collection in itself should be sufficient, as it has tons of creative choices such as separating by cities, who posts, what topics are allowed, categories, etc... but this information itself also has creative aspects; and when you post on craigslist, you explicitly give them permission to pursue copyright infringement against "unauthorized" copying. YOU GRANT THEM THIS RIGHT as part of posting on craigslist. They get to determine whom is authorized, and a C&D clearly demonstrates that 3Tap was not authorized.
You're pretending that there are no analogies to meatspace, but you are wrong. Attaching a computer to the internet does not immediately make it "public space" as you imply, and which is the basis of all your arguments. It is still an "owned" private computer, with the computer owner deciding whom is authorized and not.
There is still a big issue when there are laws that use the same description of "authorized" or not, because it essentially allows anyone to write law in a EULA. Let's say you're trying to protect yourself from being stalked on facebook and create an alias account which is against the EULA. Suddenly, by protecting your right of privacy and freedom from stalking, you're committing a federal felony? That's bullshit. While this aspect of anyone writing felonies into their EULA needs to be fixed, the CFAA law was designed exactly for this type of thing: knowingly accessing private computers you were explicitly told are unauthorized for you to access.
The 3Tap group was attempting to benefit and monetize from a database stored on a private computer, and has clearly broken the law as the law was intended and it has broken copyright law for collections of material. It's rare that laws aren't abused to try to wriggle out some sort of bullshit charge, but this is pretty straightforward.
In the US, it is legal to make a gun. A real gun that fires real bullets (one at a time). But it is illegal to sell it, unless you're a firearms manufacturer.
Most people don't realize this, and is the heart of the 3D printed gun "controversy". The only reason it's a controversy is that most people don't know this. The ATF isn't very concerned, because the 3D printed guns will not really change the amount of guns in circulation... they're a one-off and will not last for generations, unlike a real gun.
I don't believe a gauss gun qualifies as a firearm. Thus, the laws against fully-automatic firearms (or firearms at all) don't apply, and is more akin to a BB gun, paint pellet, or airsoft gun. But this gauss gun has the potential of actually firing lethal rounds because it's not limited to the speed of expanding gases, which I find interesting.
So in all seriousness, if you're paralyzed down to your eyeballs, how can your pupils dilate/contract? That's not a nerve thing? According to TFA, the dilation shows your brain stem is intact, but that some people couldn't even move or blink their eyes for yes/no responses. If they can't move their eyes, how can the nerves dilate them? I can see the blinking being separate nerves, but would think moving and dilation and focusing would be pretty closely related? Bad assumption?
Is there a doctor in the house?
oblig TOS joke: Q. What did Captain Pike name his dog? A. "Beeeeeeeep!"
A counter example doesn't remove the correlation. Outliers always exist. There can be all sorts of violent cold places, but if warm places are more often violent (with an appropriately small p) the stats hold up.
Contracts can't override a lawful order. My thought is that they might try to charge you with something, such as hindering an investigation.
Maybe have the contract say something like "You will be charged $0.01/month if we are required to install monitoring gear" and have it show up on their bill.:)
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It's called a "public accommodation", and it is indeed open to the GENERAL public during business hours, unless the place is rented out. You are conflating "public" as in publicly-owned (such as sidewalks that aren't actually owned by private individuals) with "public" as in public accommodation such as privately-owned restaurants. There is not an expectation of privacy in any general area except bathrooms and marked rooms. If there was, you could be sued (or even jailed) for taking a selfie in a restaurant and picking up anyone else in the background. If you had an expectation of privacy, security cameras would be illegal (like they are in bathrooms and hotel rooms, where there's an actual expectation).
You're simply out of your mind if you think there's a general expectation of privacy in any public accommodation. There are exceptions, e.g., privately-owned places open to the public can be marked as photography-free zones, such as museums and art galleries. Public places can have private events with their own rules, including renting out a public park. Entry may come with a contract, such as sports tickets and concerts. Some public places may prohibit all recording, such as SCOTUS.
As far as photography goes, entering the general areas of a public accommodation is the same as walking down the sidewalk. The only difference is that the owner can throw you out, as long as it's not based on your race or something. A restaurant is in public, you can be recorded, and you have no "right" or expectation of privacy or "right" to the recording. The photographer, in contrast, has a "right" to record you in public (with some limitations... some states prevent surreptitious recording and some have tried to prevent sound recording, recording of boondoggle animal-cruel farms even from public places, etc, and of course if you're told by the property owner not to record, you can't -- that's what TFA is whining about, because he got thrown out for carrying a recording device.) If you have to have privacy when you dine, then you have to dine in a private room or house where others are not allowed to enter, with the curtains drawn. Or, you can dine in a bathroom or locker room. Yum.
Privacy is not the reason photojournalists cannot enter these public accommodations. It's because the business owner won't let them harass their guests, since it's bad for business. If a photographer enters or lingers after being (legitimately) denied entry, they are trespassing, and can be hauled off.
It is private only in that it is not owned by the state.
It is, however, public because it is open to the public and there is clearly no expectation of privacy. The only place where such an expectation exists is in the bathrooms, areas marked "private", rented rooms, and so forth.
They have every right to tell him not to photograph. In fact, they can tell him not to wear blue. Or that he smells funny so he can't come in, or basically anything that is not based on being in a protected class (including those of your state, which can be different than the civil rights act listing). And if he remains there, he's trespassing.
But I highly doubt they've ever told ANYONE taking pictures with a cellphone that they can't photograph. In fact, I would bet if someone had videorecorded with a cellphone while the guy was getting thrown out, there would've been no threats or repercussions from the restaurant whatsoever.
Can I have a job that pays no less than 1/50th of your salary please?
Me. In fact, I bet a lot of people would want that.
Plain and simply, wow has the best boss and quest mechanics, and is essentially required to be fairly balanced. Few bugs. No mmo has come close to the wealth of mechanics they have, from riding vehicles, reverse gravity, several stages of fights, dual-phases where people teleport around, special abilities gained to help defeat a boss, etc. And they have some clever people who balance things out to make sure the challenge is appropriate.
GW2 has attempted to get away from the holy trinity of tank/healer/dps, and introduced working area quests. Yes, they're not the first, but it works. It also has many exploration quests, which I find awesome. Even unmarked platform jumping challenge "quests" of sorts.
Sad to hear about lotro. But as I've always said, "The best, and the worst, thing about MMOs is the people."
Your enjoyment might hinge on having a good social construct in-game. If you're moving with your guild, move to whatever game they go to. If you're off to solo, find a game that's soloable. If you have limited playtime, find a game that you can dabble in and still be successful. But just saying "I need a game that requires more than 2 buttons" doesn't give much insight on how you actually prefer to play. There are tons of different games out there, from things like group-oriented Puzzle Pirates to soloable Asheron's Call to Star Wars to Neverwinter. But it's not possible to make a good recommendation without better info.
You might even be happy playing a single-player game, depending what you want.
Have it play against itself, then we'll see some small values of 100%.
Thanks Gary... so it is actually sequestering the carbon even when used as a fertilizer.
The OP was based on plants pulling carbon out of the ground in addition to the air, but it's obviously a much lower rate that doesn't creep for centuries.
10kW is essentially the "top speed", and the kWh is the "fuel economy" or more like the miles travelled. You don't have to go at top speed, and if you're going at half speed you're only putting out 5kW, but will still get the same amount of power after 2 hours instead of 1.
The fuel consumption is also important to compute cost. For the 20kW machine, it burns 50 lbs of biomass per hour, which means 50 lbs of biomass is converted to 20kW for an hour, or 50 lbs to get 20kWh. (You can probably burn this over longer times than an hour.)
That's actually a fair amount of power, and 20kWh can power several houses for that one hour. If it's linearly scalable to smaller numbers, that would be very good since a house might only use 20kWh over an entire day. It would allow someone to run solar power during the day, and this thing at night (putting out 1kW) and during rainy days, with only a small battery farm.
But there are too many unknowns in the article to make a good guess.
It's a 10kW system, and looks like it costs $27,000.
$27,000 / 10kW is $2.70 per watt, right? That's not less than $2/watt.
That was probably supposed to be 50 or 60 cents per kWh. 10 cents per kWh is not bad. You can probably even harness the heat from the unit, too.
If you do anything with the ash, it's carbon neutral. If you use it as fertilizer, it's essentially converted into wood mass which often ends back up into the atmosphere. Subsequent usage of the fertilized wood products in the "machine" would simply harness some of the solar energy and convert it back into a neutral.
The point is that if the charcoal by-product is used in any way, it's at best carbon-neutral. The only way it's carbon-negative is if the carbon is simply buried and never used as fertilizer or anything. In theory, burying it would be the opposite of pumping up oil to burn... you can harness the energy and sequester the carbon. But it's extremely unlikely the by-product won't get burnt directly or indirectly.
Basically, it was an exercise of him trying to solve a problem by throwing me at a dartboard, instead of letting me find the solution that I was hired to do. It was not an agile programming environment, it was a PHB not knowing when to get out of the way.
The most annoying and maddening thing I've ever had to do was follow a changing spec list from a manager who thought it was some iterative process, instead of giving me an actual complete task description to work on.
Even though it was his nickel, it sucked the enjoyment out of that job.
Modding is a rating system, not a censoring system.
Conflating the two is worthy of a (-1 Misleading).
That reminds me of when uwm went away in pref of twm. Window managers have all sorts of abilities and usu have widgets and event traps, and may have to be rewritten from the ground up to incorporate new ideas. But all is not lost, because you can usually tweak the new ones to behave like the predecessor.
As far as window managers, old is often a subset of new, so my suggestion is to spend a day to adapt some new, maintained software using its config and dotfiles to behave the way you want.
That's actually why he identified himself -- to help avoid assassination.
I've used this method to find celltowers closest to a house in a forest. On your cellphone, turn off GPS and google location services, and go into airplane mode.
Then turn off airplane mode and as soon as it connects try to get a fix on your position in google maps using only celltower information. Basically, it'll place you a certain distance within range of a celltower. The center of the circle is where the tower is. If you can get LOS on that tower, that will help your signal a lot. Sometimes they're even marked in google maps. You can move around the perimeter, and it may switch to a different cell indicating another tower you can use. Not all carriers use the same celltowers, either, so this has to be the same provider you have for your hotspots.
If you really want to play around to increase signal, try mounting an old satellite dish up high aiming directly at the celltower, and place the hotspot at the focal point.
A 4G repeater won't help since you'd have to place it in LOS to the tower anyway, so you might as well just place your hotspot and a wifi repeater there with a directional antenna. Wifi equipment should be cheaper and faster, too, for the infrastructure.
Way to ignore the compilation copyright. Typical "look over there" smoke and mirrors argument.
You even posted the TOS which says they can pursue copyright issues for your individual post. It is a right, as the copyright holder, you grant to them to pursue for unauthorized access to their servers. As the owner of the servers, they determine (solely) what is authorized.
Craigslist has their own copyright. While your individual article is copyrighted by you, they have a copyright (which is wholly their own of which you have no interest) in the compilation. The list is not a simple collection of facts, but rather, a collection of creative works which each individual poster has granted usage to craigslist. According to SCOTUS when referring to a trial regarding collections of material in a phone book, "copyright can only apply to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc., but not on the information itself".
That collection in itself should be sufficient, as it has tons of creative choices such as separating by cities, who posts, what topics are allowed, categories, etc... but this information itself also has creative aspects; and when you post on craigslist, you explicitly give them permission to pursue copyright infringement against "unauthorized" copying. YOU GRANT THEM THIS RIGHT as part of posting on craigslist. They get to determine whom is authorized, and a C&D clearly demonstrates that 3Tap was not authorized.
You're pretending that there are no analogies to meatspace, but you are wrong. Attaching a computer to the internet does not immediately make it "public space" as you imply, and which is the basis of all your arguments. It is still an "owned" private computer, with the computer owner deciding whom is authorized and not.
There is still a big issue when there are laws that use the same description of "authorized" or not, because it essentially allows anyone to write law in a EULA. Let's say you're trying to protect yourself from being stalked on facebook and create an alias account which is against the EULA. Suddenly, by protecting your right of privacy and freedom from stalking, you're committing a federal felony? That's bullshit. While this aspect of anyone writing felonies into their EULA needs to be fixed, the CFAA law was designed exactly for this type of thing: knowingly accessing private computers you were explicitly told are unauthorized for you to access.
The 3Tap group was attempting to benefit and monetize from a database stored on a private computer, and has clearly broken the law as the law was intended and it has broken copyright law for collections of material. It's rare that laws aren't abused to try to wriggle out some sort of bullshit charge, but this is pretty straightforward.
I would rather do anything at 60mph in an Abrams than those other vehicles.
In the US, it is legal to make a gun. A real gun that fires real bullets (one at a time).
But it is illegal to sell it, unless you're a firearms manufacturer.
Most people don't realize this, and is the heart of the 3D printed gun "controversy". The only reason it's a controversy is that most people don't know this. The ATF isn't very concerned, because the 3D printed guns will not really change the amount of guns in circulation... they're a one-off and will not last for generations, unlike a real gun.
I don't believe a gauss gun qualifies as a firearm. Thus, the laws against fully-automatic firearms (or firearms at all) don't apply, and is more akin to a BB gun, paint pellet, or airsoft gun. But this gauss gun has the potential of actually firing lethal rounds because it's not limited to the speed of expanding gases, which I find interesting.
AMBER alert over.
Resume your TINFOIL alert.
So in all seriousness, if you're paralyzed down to your eyeballs, how can your pupils dilate/contract? That's not a nerve thing? According to TFA, the dilation shows your brain stem is intact, but that some people couldn't even move or blink their eyes for yes/no responses. If they can't move their eyes, how can the nerves dilate them? I can see the blinking being separate nerves, but would think moving and dilation and focusing would be pretty closely related? Bad assumption?
Is there a doctor in the house?
oblig TOS joke:
Q. What did Captain Pike name his dog?
A. "Beeeeeeeep!"
A counter example doesn't remove the correlation. Outliers always exist. There can be all sorts of violent cold places, but if warm places are more often violent (with an appropriately small p) the stats hold up.
Tldr
Contracts can't override a lawful order. My thought is that they might try to charge you with something, such as hindering an investigation.
Maybe have the contract say something like "You will be charged $0.01/month if we are required to install monitoring gear" and have it show up on their bill. :)