If Bitcoin are a currency because of its attributes (convertibility, common use), what does that mean for "Virtual Currencies" that can be converted back to monetary value?
EVE online? Second Life? Does this ruling apply to them? (I do not play either, I just recall stories...)
We're worried about the NSA seeing everything that goes over our connections.
But how much worse is it to have your own ISP doing so? Previously, we at least had the illusion that they didn't know. (Yeah, right. Do you browse with HTTPS-everywhere? And if you do, do your search terms go to some search provider that reports to the government?)
But now we know that they'll be looking directly at what you download. It's no step at all to go from "looking for copyrighted material" to "looking for anything we are interested in". Al Qaida training materials? Anarchist cookbook? PETA protest schedules? Republican party caucus meeting schedule?
Remember that adhesion contract you agreed to when you signed up with your ISP? Where they can change the terms when they want? Care to guess whether those terms will change to assure that you "agree" to deep packet inspection and content filtering of your internet traffic?
It is too bad that they considered preparation of wine to be a "necessary use of lead". Their choices being copper (brass) or lead, and copper acetate spoiling the flavor...
Curiously, water may well NOT have been so much a conveyor of lead: between a preference for using terracotta and calcium carbonate deposits may have held lead-from-water to a minimum.
Of course, water was not so much for drinking, in those days...
> Now imagine that 10 years after the fact people are still leering at the pictures of your victimization. How would that make you feel?
You're quite correct to say that the damage of child pornography - or other child abuse - doesn't stop when the abuse stops. But like any other mental trauma - say, PTSD - no outside reinforcement is necessary.
The pictures can do further harm to the victim. Someone might recognize the victim in the picture, or the victim might run across the picture later in life. But the pictures do no further harm to the victim simply by existing, any more than a brick would continue to hurt your car simply by laying in the passenger seat after flying through the window. The damage has been done. Further damage can occur, but not simply by the existence of the agent.
They've already cop'd to mapping networks out to (n>2) degrees of contact. It's the "implicit authorization to track people networked to a suspect" that makes this all so dangerous.
I'm not the first to refer to the lame "Kevin Bacon" jest.
the casual thief might get caught by this, for a while... when I started writing this, I was thinking "SIM cards aren't RFID, are they?" I was wrong. So maybe they're just reading RFID tags?
What's the cost of an RFID-blocking smartphone wallet these days? Passport wallets that advertise RFID blocking are about $20 us or so...
The largest risk isn't during transmission, it is at the user's end... and Google's end. 2 million bit encryption wouldn't be enough if you had a keylogger, or if google got served a National Security Letter that it decided to honor.
It's too bad the jury in the original trial didn't do that patent invalidating itself.
They had the opportunity, but insufficient information. Perhaps the Samsung lawyers did not consider invalidating the patent as a tactic. Perhaps the prior art had not been identified in time. Or perhaps the jury, being selected for gullibility and passivity, was just not competent to that point.
have you spent more time watching television or being politically active?
Code wants to be free. Rent wants to be paid.
The only way I can spend more time being politically active than (insert other activity here) is if being politically active is a revenue stream for me.
Your real question (IMO) condenses down to: What have you really done to be politically active? And griping on a web forum does not count.
And for those curious, the rest of the Ben Franklin missive (or at least a larger portion of it) can be found here
"When you have 400 to 500 vehicles, you can imagine having one person parked at a DMV office every day processing registrations," Hueso said. "The DMV would prefer not having that person in their office every day and just send the registration electronically."
... you mean, like a Fleet License?
Jim Lites, a lobbyist hired by Smart Plate Mobile, said the pilot program created under the current bill will focus on vehicle registration efficiencies that can be created, not advertisement revenue.
"Let's focus on that and let the Legislature decide what they would like this technology to do, assuming this pilot is successful," Lites said.
Ah, yes. Like the first bill that proposed advertising...
..and potentially save the DMV some of the $20 million spent each year in postage for renewals.
... out of, er, how much was vehicle registration each, again? What are the costs per-plate? And are you counting the most expensive component, salaries, or just physical costs (postage, manufacturing, etc)? Who gets saddled with the price of the new plates, which will undoubtedly be more expensive each than current enameled metal wafers?
Can we trust that they've considered issues like, say... - vehicle battery removal or electrical system failure - license display while vehicle is off. - visual view cloning, where the displayed value has been altered - remote view cloning, where only the radio-reported value has been altered - antenna loss or disablement - accident robustness (what happens in a crash? a fire? a chop-shop?) - remote hacking, where someone mimics authorities to alter your plate, perhaps while you are in transit - legal evidence trails, where changes to your license can be tracked both from the plate hardware and the server hardware - obsolescence plan: in 5 years, when they go to a different system, what happens to the old hardware, servers, data - transparency: you know someone's going to ask for the code for this, to prove they were hacked. Is the government prepared to fork over?
Y'know? I don't think that the current legislation considers any of this. I think it's all "let's hand this company a wheelbarrow of money" before the public shoots the idea down.
A drone does not yet have enough firepower to level 6 block by six block area,
The difference between a drone and a piloted plane is the control system. The fact that purpose-built drones lack facilities for a pilot is merely efficiency, and the effort required to retrofit a plane designed for a pilot with remote control apparatus.
The reason there aren't drones capable of dropping 6-block bombs, or city-buster bombs even, is that we haven't seen application for the technology, paired with security for the weapons systems.
Think about it... The advantages of drones over pure missiles are reconnaissance and loiter capability. If you're going to blow up 6 city blocks, it's not going to be a strike against a moving target; precision isn't so valuable, and you'll have done your homework (recon) beforehand.
> Great job, guys; first you force me to sign up to UPlay in order to play your game in the first place, then...
There was always option E: abstain from giving them money in that first place.
Or better yet, option F: send a politely worded letter describing your decision not to purchase their product, after having purchased previous products from them, because you disagreed with their DRM scheme, and suggesting other ways they might regain your custom while preserving the income they require to balance the development costs of the game.
And best, option G: getting said letter openly published on a well-trafficked and apropos web site.
If they can keep the head alive by keeping blood flowing through the major blood vessels in the neck, they they've got the basics for at least a short term maintenance system.
Add a few electrodes for the voice synthesizer, some electroencephalography to provide direction for the mechanical arms and... how about a decorative glass container with a buffering fluid to prevent damage in transit?
On the plus side, we really don't have Nixon's head to kick around anymore.
Attorneys sometimes fudge that "probono work" label.... and sometimes the client finds out, as a friend of mine did.
That said... what "your work"? I been working for companies, writing proprietary code. The closest I could come with that work is, as a prior poster said, "redacted work done for a previous employer". At which point, why am I putting it on GitHub instead of sending it directly to inquiring employers?
Oh, you are saying "do a little work for an open source project", are you? Couple weeks to find a project you like, a few weeks to come up to speed on the project - and to find whether you can contribute usefully. After that, THEN you can "carve out a few hours" to put something on GitHub.
It ain't gonna be "a couple of hours", to invent a GitHub portfolio from scratch.
Odd you should say that the largest lighter-than-air craft could carry only 10 tons.
A simple google search reveals that the Hindenburg apparently had a lift capacity of 10,000kg, which is indeed 10 (metric) tons, or approximately 10 "long tons". Something closer to 11 "short tons", though.
I was thinking the CycloCrane would have a larger lift, but apparently that was limited to 2 tons (theory; 1 ton in practice, it turned out).
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If Bitcoin are a currency because of its attributes (convertibility, common use), what does that mean for "Virtual Currencies" that can be converted back to monetary value?
EVE online? Second Life? Does this ruling apply to them? (I do not play either, I just recall stories...)
Is this true on Windows implementations of Safari as well? What OS service is used?
We're worried about the NSA seeing everything that goes over our connections.
But how much worse is it to have your own ISP doing so? Previously, we at least had the illusion that they didn't know. (Yeah, right. Do you browse with HTTPS-everywhere? And if you do, do your search terms go to some search provider that reports to the government?)
But now we know that they'll be looking directly at what you download. It's no step at all to go from "looking for copyrighted material" to "looking for anything we are interested in". Al Qaida training materials? Anarchist cookbook? PETA protest schedules? Republican party caucus meeting schedule?
Remember that adhesion contract you agreed to when you signed up with your ISP? Where they can change the terms when they want? Care to guess whether those terms will change to assure that you "agree" to deep packet inspection and content filtering of your internet traffic?
It is too bad that they considered preparation of wine to be a "necessary use of lead". Their choices being copper (brass) or lead, and copper acetate spoiling the flavor...
Curiously, water may well NOT have been so much a conveyor of lead: between a preference for using terracotta and calcium carbonate deposits may have held lead-from-water to a minimum.
Of course, water was not so much for drinking, in those days...
> Now imagine that 10 years after the fact people are still leering at the pictures of your victimization. How would that make you feel?
You're quite correct to say that the damage of child pornography - or other child abuse - doesn't stop when the abuse stops. But like any other mental trauma - say, PTSD - no outside reinforcement is necessary.
The pictures can do further harm to the victim. Someone might recognize the victim in the picture, or the victim might run across the picture later in life. But the pictures do no further harm to the victim simply by existing, any more than a brick would continue to hurt your car simply by laying in the passenger seat after flying through the window. The damage has been done. Further damage can occur, but not simply by the existence of the agent.
They've already cop'd to mapping networks out to (n>2) degrees of contact. It's the "implicit authorization to track people networked to a suspect" that makes this all so dangerous.
I'm not the first to refer to the lame "Kevin Bacon" jest.
Because you know they pretend they report to Nick Fury.
the casual thief might get caught by this, for a while. .. when I started writing this, I was thinking "SIM cards aren't RFID, are they?" I was wrong. So maybe they're just reading RFID tags?
What's the cost of an RFID-blocking smartphone wallet these days? Passport wallets that advertise RFID blocking are about $20 us or so...
The largest risk isn't during transmission, it is at the user's end... and Google's end. 2 million bit encryption wouldn't be enough if you had a keylogger, or if google got served a National Security Letter that it decided to honor.
It's too bad the jury in the original trial didn't do that patent invalidating itself.
They had the opportunity, but insufficient information. Perhaps the Samsung lawyers did not consider invalidating the patent as a tactic. Perhaps the prior art had not been identified in time. Or perhaps the jury, being selected for gullibility and passivity, was just not competent to that point.
have you spent more time watching television or being politically active?
Code wants to be free.
Rent wants to be paid.
The only way I can spend more time being politically active than (insert other activity here) is if being politically active is a revenue stream for me.
Your real question (IMO) condenses down to:
What have you really done to be politically active? And griping on a web forum does not count.
And for those curious, the rest of the Ben Franklin missive (or at least a larger portion of it) can be found here
I minimized my browser with this thread as the active tab.
When I looked at my taskbar, the text showing was...
"Hollywood's love of Anal"
I suppose that says something about windows? Like, taskbar entries only support so many characters, or something? :)
> Well, they certainly won't allow sex with 14-year-olds, like Romeo and Juliet.
Certainly in this case, "the play's the thing". (And in the spirit of Shakespeare, the additional entendres are welcome.)
What remains to be seen is whether the king actually HAS a conscience.
If it got to the point where it objectively, undeniably mattered, ... then they'd be a bit more careful with their online activity
To quote Shel Silverstein, "... but by then, it was too late..."
Step 1: change official national language to German.
I'm sure there's a drop-down menu for that somewhere...
"When you have 400 to 500 vehicles, you can imagine having one person parked at a DMV office every day processing registrations," Hueso said. "The DMV would prefer not having that person in their office every day and just send the registration electronically."
... you mean, like a Fleet License?
Jim Lites, a lobbyist hired by Smart Plate Mobile, said the pilot program created under the current bill will focus on vehicle registration efficiencies that can be created, not advertisement revenue.
"Let's focus on that and let the Legislature decide what they would like this technology to do, assuming this pilot is successful," Lites said.
Ah, yes. Like the first bill that proposed advertising...
..and potentially save the DMV some of the $20 million spent each year in postage for renewals.
... out of, er, how much was vehicle registration each, again? What are the costs per-plate? And are you counting the most expensive component, salaries, or just physical costs (postage, manufacturing, etc)? Who gets saddled with the price of the new plates, which will undoubtedly be more expensive each than current enameled metal wafers?
Can we trust that they've considered issues like, say...
- vehicle battery removal or electrical system failure
- license display while vehicle is off.
- visual view cloning, where the displayed value has been altered
- remote view cloning, where only the radio-reported value has been altered
- antenna loss or disablement
- accident robustness (what happens in a crash? a fire? a chop-shop?)
- remote hacking, where someone mimics authorities to alter your plate, perhaps while you are in transit
- legal evidence trails, where changes to your license can be tracked both from the plate hardware and the server hardware
- obsolescence plan: in 5 years, when they go to a different system, what happens to the old hardware, servers, data
- transparency: you know someone's going to ask for the code for this, to prove they were hacked. Is the government prepared to fork over?
Y'know? I don't think that the current legislation considers any of this. I think it's all "let's hand this company a wheelbarrow of money" before the public shoots the idea down.
A drone does not yet have enough firepower to level 6 block by six block area,
The difference between a drone and a piloted plane is the control system. The fact that purpose-built drones lack facilities for a pilot is merely efficiency, and the effort required to retrofit a plane designed for a pilot with remote control apparatus.
The reason there aren't drones capable of dropping 6-block bombs, or city-buster bombs even, is that we haven't seen application for the technology, paired with security for the weapons systems.
Think about it... The advantages of drones over pure missiles are reconnaissance and loiter capability. If you're going to blow up 6 city blocks, it's not going to be a strike against a moving target; precision isn't so valuable, and you'll have done your homework (recon) beforehand.
In other news... the airforce is replacing pilots in other roles too.
Not to be a dick about it, but...
> Great job, guys; first you force me to sign up to UPlay in order to play your game in the first place, then ...
There was always option E: abstain from giving them money in that first place.
Or better yet, option F: send a politely worded letter describing your decision not to purchase their product, after having purchased previous products from them, because you disagreed with their DRM scheme, and suggesting other ways they might regain your custom while preserving the income they require to balance the development costs of the game.
And best, option G: getting said letter openly published on a well-trafficked and apropos web site.
If they can keep the head alive by keeping blood flowing through the major blood vessels in the neck, they they've got the basics for at least a short term maintenance system.
Add a few electrodes for the voice synthesizer, some electroencephalography to provide direction for the mechanical arms and ... how about a decorative glass container with a buffering fluid to prevent damage in transit?
On the plus side, we really don't have Nixon's head to kick around anymore.
General! General! Someone left the barn door open!
Attorneys sometimes fudge that "probono work" label. ... and sometimes the client finds out, as a friend of mine did.
That said... what "your work"? I been working for companies, writing proprietary code. The closest I could come with that work is, as a prior poster said, "redacted work done for a previous employer". At which point, why am I putting it on GitHub instead of sending it directly to inquiring employers?
Oh, you are saying "do a little work for an open source project", are you? Couple weeks to find a project you like, a few weeks to come up to speed on the project - and to find whether you can contribute usefully. After that, THEN you can "carve out a few hours" to put something on GitHub.
It ain't gonna be "a couple of hours", to invent a GitHub portfolio from scratch.
Feature!
http://xkcd.com/1171/
No, it's Buckley, sir. But that doesn't matter. I will be crashing shortly, so you might as well reboot me now.
Assuming you don't get hit by a meteor before you can. Or hit that car that's trying to pass you on your right, sir...
Odd you should say that the largest lighter-than-air craft could carry only 10 tons.
A simple google search reveals that the Hindenburg apparently had a lift capacity of 10,000kg, which is indeed 10 (metric) tons, or approximately 10 "long tons". Something closer to 11 "short tons", though.
I was thinking the CycloCrane would have a larger lift, but apparently that was limited to 2 tons (theory; 1 ton in practice, it turned out).