Cat chow, for one. Cat count as obligate carnivores. They have zero need for sugar in their diet - They can't taste it), they can't even properly metabolize it. Bad for them. They do, however, have a high need for fat and protein.
And it pisses me off every time I go shopping for cat chow that I have to pay literally twice as much to get cat food that doesn't have 15-25% added carbs in it. Cat food should not have any carbs, except what comes incidental to whatever kind of horse they use as the basic ingredient. And you think you can't go wrong buying tinned more-or-less fresh meat for fluffy? Nope. Many brands even add sugar to that.
Actually, you have to pay almost 2x as much to get decent cat food. Anything you're likely to find in a walmart, kroger, or other supermarket as far as pet food goes is pretty much like taking your kids to mcdonald's three meals a day. At least they eat ~20% less of the good stuff, so that offsets the extra cost a bit. Compare the ingredients of something like Iams cat food (which most people seem to think is "good") with something like Wellness Core (which actually is good).
Even at 2x the cost, a cat doesn't eat *that* much - skip Starbuck's 2 or 3 times a month, and you've made up the difference.
Seriously? There are already at least 2 published standards that can be used with little concern over being cracked any time soon when used properly. Theres absolutely no indication that SMIME or PGP are broken when using the proper algorithm and key sizes.
I think the point is that encryption is useless against someone that can say, "give us the key or we'll dissappear you."
OTOH, regulations can be used for evil, to lock out competition and fix prices for example.
The taxi drivers assert that this is a safety matter. They claim that without well regulated taxi service people are going to get hurt riding in cars driven by who knows whom.
I honestly can't say which of either taxi drivers or random ride share people are a greater threat. I just know the GP wasn't wrong pointing out that this brand new 'outrage' has its basis in regulation, whether the little statist neck beards around here like it or not.
Well, maybe our licensing standards for drivers are too low. Likewise for vehicle maintenance standards. IMO, if they're too dangerous of a driver/car to have a passenger with them, I don't want them on the road with me AT ALL. So lets fix our lax standards for everyone, and this will be a non-issue.
Actually, I would think the courts taking this route would simply encourage researchers to publish first, ask questions later, rather than risk being gagged.
It's standard practice, when publishing about security flaws, to alert the producer of the products affected before doing so openly, only publishing when a) the hole is patched, or b) if they are ignoring the issue and refusing (or at least taking too long) to fix it.
If they have not given the manufacturer a reasonable amount of time to fix the problem, I can understand why they're being censored - it's unnecessarily dangerous. However, if this is simply the manufacturer trying even harder to pretend the problem doesn't exist, I would of course object strenuously, and support publishing the hole because that will not only force them to get a fix out ASAP, but will punish them for taking so long.
And, while TFA doesn't say either way on the issue, I would expect the latter, not the former.
It won't matter friend as the PTB has learned they have another "mother may I" magic word that works even better than terrorist, and that is pedo. If you think the whole "peed on a bush and became a sex offender" bit is bad you should look at the CP laws and how vaguely they have been written. According to a friend that works in the state crime lab you could draw a stick figure and stick a label under it saying "nekkid 10 year old" and be looking at several years in prison and otherwise sane people will happily let the feds have ANY power they ask for just by invoking the "for the children" meme, hell we've seen otherwise rational people on this very site willing to ignore any and all violations of privacy if it was "to stop teh pedos".
Exactly... My tinfoil hat says that this would be really useful for dealing with people like Snowden. Can't find a woman that will claim he raped her? No problem, just use his credentials to post child porn somewhere. Congrats! You now have a blank check to do anything you want, and remove all public support for them in the process.
In my wildest conspiracy theories, the English Monarchy and other old money global illuminati types (Bush's?) purposefully had the well blown to punish America for stopping Keystone XL.
In my wildest conspiracy theories, the very rich and mighty are still people and fuck up often. The only difference is that they consider some millions of dollars and a few dead peons to just be the expected cost of doing business.
They suggest that the creatures might wedge themselves between the trunk of a palm tree and the base of its leaves, then use the strength and flexion of their muscular spine to force open this crevice, revealing insect larvaeâ"a food source that other animals can't access."
Yeah.. it could be that. Or, "ZOMFG WHAT IS THAT!?" (stomp) "ITS NOT DYING! DAMN YOU EVOLUTION... Daaaaaamn yoooouuuuuuu...."
As someone who's had pet rats before, I can totally believe that quote. If I was sitting on the floor, and he wanted to get on the other side of my leg, for example, he'd go UNDER it. Never mind that there was zero space, he'd just wedge his nose under, heave my leg off the floor, and keep going like that until he could squeeze through. They're quite strong that way.
This is going to catch on. Stupid ideas always do.
Perhaps it might be stupid from a usefulness perspective, but it would almost be worth doing just for the awesome potential to assign snarky labels to all sorts of places.:)
And by the way, if you just indiscriminately vote out incumbents every cycle, you'll never get anyone good in office. You'll just get wave after wave of naive freshmen, easily exploited by lobbyists.
Then I'll start the Boot & Shoot party. Boot the incumbents and shoot the lobbyists.
It's all political BS. Lifetime healthcare costs for smokers are similar to non-smokers. Smokers tend to die younger, and lung cancer is an average-cost way to die.
But those who do die from lung cancer tend to stop paying premiums.
They also usually stop requiring care before they get too old, and really start costing a ton to maintain.
I predict this guy will be sued out of existence shortly.
By claiming the app marks "dangerous" gun owners, he's making claims that would probably be libellous in almost all cases (but IANAL).
Not to mention the first person to get burgled, then discover their house is marked in his app will probably sue, also. And also not to mention the victims/families if the guns stolen in such a case are used in a crime.
Agreed. Yet, I live in a democracy, and this is the way to go. If it works out as you depict, I will have a last option: go into politics myself *shudder*
The problem with this is that both the government and the media are controlled by the same moneyed interests. Any "normal person" that tried to get into a position of power in order to fix things in favor of the public would be publicly destroyed. The only people that can more or less avoid that fate are the ones that aspired to high office since childhood, and never put a foot wrong (IOW, exactly the people that you DON'T want in power), or the ones already in bed with the aforementioned moneyed interests.
Every minor indiscretion, Facebook pic of you with an adult beverage, off-color YouTube video you watched, porn site you visited, etc. would all be dredged up and spun to make you look like a monster (and we now know the government probably actually knows all that stuff).
Jury selection for his trial might be interesting though. There's enough people that think he's a hero that it would be virtually guaranteed some of them would be called. Some of them might actually be inspired to stick their own neck out and say whatever's necessary to get on the jury and vote not guilty.
That's assuming he's not just shuffled off to Gitmo and never heard from again, of course.
No no no. People still need the ability to call 911.
Pretty sure we there was a time, not long ago where we were able to go out without constant ability to dial 911. If there is an emergency then you can easily go to the counter and have the staff call.
I don't think we should be blocking or jamming the cell signals, but not because of emergency calls. This is a social problem, not a technical one, and just disabling the devices won't address the real problem. Single the people out, bring the lights up enough so that they're not anonymous and are embarrassed, and kick them out. (with a flogging down in front first, preferably)
Actually, it would be interesting to know if those ANPR cameras can see outside of the visible spectrum. You could then have a "blank" plate in the rear window (or just at the side of the road, for mobile systems) that accomplishes the same thing.
Nice. Your former employer filled undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all) with cement. You worked for the same breed of dumbasses who tore down a Mayan temple to make road gravel.
Is government a pain in the ass? Yes. Do the overreact? All the time. Why? Because of people doing stuff like what you just described.
And once news gets around of this incident, the same thing will start happening in Canada. Most people can't afford to pour thousands of dollars down a hole - they'll get absolutely no benefit from the expenditure. If people have a choice between doing the right thing and going bankrupt, or quietly covering/disposing of the evidence, what do you think most people will do? If the state is going to require that sort of expensive investigation, then they need to pay for it.
I'd assume passenger cars using this would sill have batteries. If the system can provide enough juice to run the car and charge the battery, you don't actually need the system on 100% of the roads. What about just putting it in front of intersections in the city where cars sit for several minutes?
If it doesn't kick in until 30+ MPH, then most likely the trucks will keep their diesels (maybe reconfigured as a diesel/electric series hybrid, or something), so they use the powered rails when possible, and their own engines otherwise.
Either way, it's a bonus you can use when it's there, but not strictly necessary.
If it starts out not requiring any internet connection, and you never update it, it won't get any more restrictive.
It simply won't be given an option by some of us -- my next console will never see a network, because it's not like I trust Sony either. But the next XBox is definitely not something I'll even consider.
That will work until you can't run any new games because they start requiring at least a certain version of the system software.
The imbalance of power does. Giving the cops a headcam should be enough reason not to have to confiscate everyone's phone now.
Actually, what I'd like to see is a service that you can dial that simply picks up and starts recording, and makes the recording accessible to you online (identified by caller ID, so you don't have to do anything but dial out initially).
Then it won't matter if they confiscate the phone (and could be very interesting if they don't shut it off right away...).
The bad ones have "Are you sure?" The awful ones have "Don't ask this again." The good ones have "Undo."
And just how do you undo a hard drive format? Or a CNC operation? Or some industrial control operation that's blown up half your factory?
Some things don't just need "Are you sure? Yes/No," but a "Type 'I understand that clicking Yes will result in blah, blah and blah.' in the box below, then click Yes to continue.":P
Except it hasn't. There's a reason why empathy and altruism exist, and both have shown positive correlation with the ability of the species to survive.
*Species* yes, individuals, not as much. In our species, anyway, empathy and altruism might help the group, but you notice the successful *individuals* are often the ruthless ones.
There is also no need for QR codes to be used, thats another example of naive use. It would actually be vastly more efficient to encode the data differently, but, encoding in such ways as to not be easily detected and removed by youtube could be tricky. However, if you could find a way to minimally disguise the data so it just looks like hours of terribly boring video (like, video of your pet fish)....
Shit you could probably just keep re-uploading the same fish video with differently encoded data and new names....nobody is going to examine hours of fish swimming to determine where the loop is or whether the two videos are of the same loop.
Or you could just train your fish to swim to the right, unless the tank is electrified, then swim left, conveniently encoding whatever you need.
Just do as much as it takes to get the job done successfully, and move on to the next thing.
VERY few people have the luxury of the time to spend to tweak and get everything perfect and "just so".
I'm like the OP in that most of what I turn out is correct and consistent in all details. It doesn't take me any longer than the people that turn out "it works, but it's not pretty (especially if it has to be modified later)," and takes less time later since it's understandable and maintainable.
Cleaning up crappy work, however, takes way longer than doing it neatly or sloppily the first time through.
I find that the cause of this is usually people that don't bother to think any farther ahead than just finishing the job at hand, while I think about what's going to happen in 6 months when this needs to be changed.
Everything we do has to be peer-reviewed, so the way I deal with it is to simply not approve anything that doesn't meet my standards, and help the person to understand why. Usually, if the person in question has half a brain, they'll catch on eventually.
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Cat chow, for one. Cat count as obligate carnivores. They have zero need for sugar in their diet - They can't taste it), they can't even properly metabolize it. Bad for them. They do, however, have a high need for fat and protein.
And it pisses me off every time I go shopping for cat chow that I have to pay literally twice as much to get cat food that doesn't have 15-25% added carbs in it. Cat food should not have any carbs, except what comes incidental to whatever kind of horse they use as the basic ingredient. And you think you can't go wrong buying tinned more-or-less fresh meat for fluffy? Nope. Many brands even add sugar to that.
Actually, you have to pay almost 2x as much to get decent cat food. Anything you're likely to find in a walmart, kroger, or other supermarket as far as pet food goes is pretty much like taking your kids to mcdonald's three meals a day. At least they eat ~20% less of the good stuff, so that offsets the extra cost a bit. Compare the ingredients of something like Iams cat food (which most people seem to think is "good") with something like Wellness Core (which actually is good).
Even at 2x the cost, a cat doesn't eat *that* much - skip Starbuck's 2 or 3 times a month, and you've made up the difference.
Seriously? There are already at least 2 published standards that can be used with little concern over being cracked any time soon when used properly. Theres absolutely no indication that SMIME or PGP are broken when using the proper algorithm and key sizes.
I think the point is that encryption is useless against someone that can say, "give us the key or we'll dissappear you."
OTOH, regulations can be used for evil, to lock out competition and fix prices for example.
The taxi drivers assert that this is a safety matter. They claim that without well regulated taxi service people are going to get hurt riding in cars driven by who knows whom.
I honestly can't say which of either taxi drivers or random ride share people are a greater threat. I just know the GP wasn't wrong pointing out that this brand new 'outrage' has its basis in regulation, whether the little statist neck beards around here like it or not.
Well, maybe our licensing standards for drivers are too low. Likewise for vehicle maintenance standards. IMO, if they're too dangerous of a driver/car to have a passenger with them, I don't want them on the road with me AT ALL. So lets fix our lax standards for everyone, and this will be a non-issue.
Actually, I would think the courts taking this route would simply encourage researchers to publish first, ask questions later, rather than risk being gagged.
It's standard practice, when publishing about security flaws, to alert the producer of the products affected before doing so openly, only publishing when a) the hole is patched, or b) if they are ignoring the issue and refusing (or at least taking too long) to fix it.
If they have not given the manufacturer a reasonable amount of time to fix the problem, I can understand why they're being censored - it's unnecessarily dangerous. However, if this is simply the manufacturer trying even harder to pretend the problem doesn't exist, I would of course object strenuously, and support publishing the hole because that will not only force them to get a fix out ASAP, but will punish them for taking so long.
And, while TFA doesn't say either way on the issue, I would expect the latter, not the former.
It won't matter friend as the PTB has learned they have another "mother may I" magic word that works even better than terrorist, and that is pedo. If you think the whole "peed on a bush and became a sex offender" bit is bad you should look at the CP laws and how vaguely they have been written. According to a friend that works in the state crime lab you could draw a stick figure and stick a label under it saying "nekkid 10 year old" and be looking at several years in prison and otherwise sane people will happily let the feds have ANY power they ask for just by invoking the "for the children" meme, hell we've seen otherwise rational people on this very site willing to ignore any and all violations of privacy if it was "to stop teh pedos".
Exactly... My tinfoil hat says that this would be really useful for dealing with people like Snowden. Can't find a woman that will claim he raped her? No problem, just use his credentials to post child porn somewhere. Congrats! You now have a blank check to do anything you want, and remove all public support for them in the process.
In my wildest conspiracy theories, the English Monarchy and other old money global illuminati types (Bush's?) purposefully had the well blown to punish America for stopping Keystone XL.
In my wildest conspiracy theories, the very rich and mighty are still people and fuck up often. The only difference is that they consider some millions of dollars and a few dead peons to just be the expected cost of doing business.
FTFY...
They suggest that the creatures might wedge themselves between the trunk of a palm tree and the base of its leaves, then use the strength and flexion of their muscular spine to force open this crevice, revealing insect larvaeâ"a food source that other animals can't access."
Yeah.. it could be that. Or, "ZOMFG WHAT IS THAT!?" (stomp) "ITS NOT DYING! DAMN YOU EVOLUTION... Daaaaaamn yoooouuuuuuu...."
As someone who's had pet rats before, I can totally believe that quote. If I was sitting on the floor, and he wanted to get on the other side of my leg, for example, he'd go UNDER it. Never mind that there was zero space, he'd just wedge his nose under, heave my leg off the floor, and keep going like that until he could squeeze through. They're quite strong that way.
This is going to catch on. Stupid ideas always do.
Perhaps it might be stupid from a usefulness perspective, but it would almost be worth doing just for the awesome potential to assign snarky labels to all sorts of places. :)
And by the way, if you just indiscriminately vote out incumbents every cycle, you'll never get anyone good in office. You'll just get wave after wave of naive freshmen, easily exploited by lobbyists.
Then I'll start the Boot & Shoot party. Boot the incumbents and shoot the lobbyists.
But those who do die from lung cancer tend to stop paying premiums.
They also usually stop requiring care before they get too old, and really start costing a ton to maintain.
I predict this guy will be sued out of existence shortly.
By claiming the app marks "dangerous" gun owners, he's making claims that would probably be libellous in almost all cases (but IANAL).
Not to mention the first person to get burgled, then discover their house is marked in his app will probably sue, also. And also not to mention the victims/families if the guns stolen in such a case are used in a crime.
Agreed. Yet, I live in a democracy, and this is the way to go. If it works out as you depict, I will have a last option: go into politics myself *shudder*
The problem with this is that both the government and the media are controlled by the same moneyed interests. Any "normal person" that tried to get into a position of power in order to fix things in favor of the public would be publicly destroyed. The only people that can more or less avoid that fate are the ones that aspired to high office since childhood, and never put a foot wrong (IOW, exactly the people that you DON'T want in power), or the ones already in bed with the aforementioned moneyed interests.
Every minor indiscretion, Facebook pic of you with an adult beverage, off-color YouTube video you watched, porn site you visited, etc. would all be dredged up and spun to make you look like a monster (and we now know the government probably actually knows all that stuff).
Jury selection for his trial might be interesting though. There's enough people that think he's a hero that it would be virtually guaranteed some of them would be called. Some of them might actually be inspired to stick their own neck out and say whatever's necessary to get on the jury and vote not guilty.
That's assuming he's not just shuffled off to Gitmo and never heard from again, of course.
No no no. People still need the ability to call 911.
Pretty sure we there was a time, not long ago where we were able to go out without constant ability to dial 911. If there is an emergency then you can easily go to the counter and have the staff call.
I don't think we should be blocking or jamming the cell signals, but not because of emergency calls. This is a social problem, not a technical one, and just disabling the devices won't address the real problem. Single the people out, bring the lights up enough so that they're not anonymous and are embarrassed, and kick them out. (with a flogging down in front first, preferably)
Actually, it would be interesting to know if those ANPR cameras can see outside of the visible spectrum. You could then have a "blank" plate in the rear window (or just at the side of the road, for mobile systems) that accomplishes the same thing.
Nice. Your former employer filled undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all) with cement. You worked for the same breed of dumbasses who tore down a Mayan temple to make road gravel.
Is government a pain in the ass? Yes. Do the overreact? All the time. Why? Because of people doing stuff like what you just described.
And once news gets around of this incident, the same thing will start happening in Canada. Most people can't afford to pour thousands of dollars down a hole - they'll get absolutely no benefit from the expenditure. If people have a choice between doing the right thing and going bankrupt, or quietly covering/disposing of the evidence, what do you think most people will do? If the state is going to require that sort of expensive investigation, then they need to pay for it.
complete with all the limitation thereof.
No, you're just not being creative enough.
I'd assume passenger cars using this would sill have batteries. If the system can provide enough juice to run the car and charge the battery, you don't actually need the system on 100% of the roads. What about just putting it in front of intersections in the city where cars sit for several minutes?
If it doesn't kick in until 30+ MPH, then most likely the trucks will keep their diesels (maybe reconfigured as a diesel/electric series hybrid, or something), so they use the powered rails when possible, and their own engines otherwise.
Either way, it's a bonus you can use when it's there, but not strictly necessary.
Yes, but it wasn't right under their nose, so it's understandable they missed it.
If it starts out not requiring any internet connection, and you never update it, it won't get any more restrictive.
It simply won't be given an option by some of us -- my next console will never see a network, because it's not like I trust Sony either. But the next XBox is definitely not something I'll even consider.
That will work until you can't run any new games because they start requiring at least a certain version of the system software.
Brilliant...
So instead of being merely distracted by sending a txt, the idiots will be REALLY distracted trying to circumvent the restrictions to send a txt...
The imbalance of power does. Giving the cops a headcam should be enough reason not to have to confiscate everyone's phone now.
Actually, what I'd like to see is a service that you can dial that simply picks up and starts recording, and makes the recording accessible to you online (identified by caller ID, so you don't have to do anything but dial out initially).
Then it won't matter if they confiscate the phone (and could be very interesting if they don't shut it off right away...).
Disclaimer: I live in a one-party state.
The bad ones have "Are you sure?" The awful ones have "Don't ask this again." The good ones have "Undo."
And just how do you undo a hard drive format? Or a CNC operation? Or some industrial control operation that's blown up half your factory?
Some things don't just need "Are you sure? Yes/No," but a "Type 'I understand that clicking Yes will result in blah, blah and blah.' in the box below, then click Yes to continue." :P
Except it hasn't. There's a reason why empathy and altruism exist, and both have shown positive correlation with the ability of the species to survive.
*Species* yes, individuals, not as much. In our species, anyway, empathy and altruism might help the group, but you notice the successful *individuals* are often the ruthless ones.
There is also no need for QR codes to be used, thats another example of naive use. It would actually be vastly more efficient to encode the data differently, but, encoding in such ways as to not be easily detected and removed by youtube could be tricky. However, if you could find a way to minimally disguise the data so it just looks like hours of terribly boring video (like, video of your pet fish)....
Shit you could probably just keep re-uploading the same fish video with differently encoded data and new names....nobody is going to examine hours of fish swimming to determine where the loop is or whether the two videos are of the same loop.
Or you could just train your fish to swim to the right, unless the tank is electrified, then swim left, conveniently encoding whatever you need.
Just do as much as it takes to get the job done successfully, and move on to the next thing.
VERY few people have the luxury of the time to spend to tweak and get everything perfect and "just so".
I'm like the OP in that most of what I turn out is correct and consistent in all details. It doesn't take me any longer than the people that turn out "it works, but it's not pretty (especially if it has to be modified later)," and takes less time later since it's understandable and maintainable.
Cleaning up crappy work, however, takes way longer than doing it neatly or sloppily the first time through.
I find that the cause of this is usually people that don't bother to think any farther ahead than just finishing the job at hand, while I think about what's going to happen in 6 months when this needs to be changed.
Everything we do has to be peer-reviewed, so the way I deal with it is to simply not approve anything that doesn't meet my standards, and help the person to understand why. Usually, if the person in question has half a brain, they'll catch on eventually.