I believe it. Having broken into my own car, and friends cars, it took me a lot longer, but ive seen an experienced person open a car door with a slim jim (not recomended on newer cars with air bags in the door)...its fast. (I have also seen them fumble and nearly fail....)
Hell a friend of mine that used to steal cars when he was younger locked himself out of his... and I had to help him break into it, with hardly any tools in sight. Took us nearly an hour and, in the end, we used a long stick (yes stick, like off a tree) to hit the door open button, through a crack we wedged open in the door jam with other sticks.
Once you are inside well.... its just a matter of popping out the ignition lock cylinder with a screw driver on many cars (I know a few that wont work at all on...like my old buick that basically had a resistor built into the key that it would read)
So the vast majority of cars are... a bit easier to steal than these BMWs.
well actually this is a very real and meaningful security step.... for which the mid 1990s is desperately calling and asking if we would like to let them have.
seriously, you are spot on. This is just an excuse for lock in. What year is it? 2012? When was the last serious "boot sector virus"?
Not to say it doesn't happen....however the serious win from this technology can only be had if the owner of the machine gets to set the key and sign his own boot images. Then you are talking about some serious win.
Without that though, the only protection you are getting is from random boot sector re-writing malware.... which generally has easier ways to perform its task.
However vendors are getting protection from competition.... protection they only get by keeping the keys to themselves and refusing real benefit of the technology from the system owner.
The thing with practical implications is.... the theory has been around for a while. If there was any practical implication of the higgs boson existing then there would be an easier way to test... you simply do whatever it is that the theory predicts, yet other theories don't. If it works, then you have a data point validating the theory and an extra nail in the coffin of others. If it fails, then you have the opposite.
The problem here is that there are no practical implications, to the point that, the only way to devise a test involved miles of underground tunnel and huge, expensive, very precise equipment....and it doesn't get much less practical than that.
> What ****ing planet is this person from?! It is NOT COLD in San > Diego at the moment at any time of day.
answer: San diego
I assume you don't know many people in hot climates. I used to chat with some people in Florida. Every year they would be talking about how cold it is and needing to "bundle up" because its so cold..... then I would check and it would be just under 70 F down there... while I am going outside with the wind whipping 20 F air at me.
as hard as I am on the military and people who join it (also not a fan, on various levels), I mostly agree, but am of two minds.
I can excuse the soldiers for being so callous and dealing with a stressful situation to the bvest of their abilities. I understand their role.
However, they are not the only actors or the only ones with a role. I think its disgusting that situations like this come up. Situations like this are the result of war, so I think its entirely right that we see it, and that many of us have our stomachs turned by the terrible situation.
The most vital importance is that people see war for what it really is, and hopefully, learn to support it and call for it less. Because the only way to avoid putting soldiers in those situations is to avoid what causes them.
I see, so its not abusing the trust people put in doctors that is the problem, its being truthful about it that is the problem?
Frankly, i think Doctors, of all professions, should be held to a higher standard than that. They take an oath, and to setup a clinic for the purpose of abusing trust to betray the confidentiality of their patients for ANY REASON, they are doing humanity a disservice.
This man deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail, as does any doctor engaged in similar activities. Its good that this mans name has been released, and let it be a lesson to all doctors who would think to betray their patients.
> That would to me seem the least of the problem. The whole > finding out you (might) have a terminal illness while alone in > your bathroom might cause some issues. I know I'd probably be > a tad upset.
except you probably shouldn't be. The number of people without HIV dwarfs the population with it enough that there are many many more false positives than true positives, even with a very low false positive rate.
So even if you test positive, you are actually far more likely to be one of the people who got a false positive than a true positive.
Just thought of one more thing. Docs aside, I really didn't like the use of terminal blocks to make the shielded wire to motor connection, so I actually used some of the large molex that you see on PC power supplies.
It is a bit expensive but a number of parts are upgraded from the cheap options that people say you can source for half the total cost. Brass bushings instead of PLA, linear rod instead of tool rod, Really nice compact extruder with a metal gear box on the stepper, pre-cut jig for checking the frame geometery.... and of course shielded wire for motor hookups.
Its a great kit if you are willing to pay a bit more for the convinence of having it all put together, and the upgrades there (including a tube that can be used for either a bowden extruder or a filiment guide).
A few bits could have been documented better, would have saved me some time. I highly recomend getting some 1/4" or so thick window glass (8"x8") and some binder clips to mount (plenty of pics online) then cover that with Kapton.
The mistake that cost me the most time was not using seperate nuts for tensioning the bed springs and adjusting the bed level. Once I found a video online that showed it done properly, it was an easy fix. first upgrade I recomend is M4 thumbwheels for the bed leveling nuts.
I also just uploaded my own design for a jig to mount a dial gauge indicator on the rods to check the bed level.... I recomend a dial guage and this jig: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26031
Yup. I just setup a 3d printer from a kit, but the one I put together can be had, already set up, for $1200, which is $100 cheaper than they want.... plus, uses simple filiment rolles, and I am printing beautifully with those cheap $35/kg PLA rolls.
Can't blame them, I guess, for trying to get people to agree to a lock in for convinenece.... especially since there is no real need for anyone with a normal 3d printer to ever pay the premium to support their vendor.
That said, I will take a bit more manual work for the cheaper filiment.
I actually tracked down who probably stole some bitcoins once. Yes it can be done, however, there are caveats, and they pretty much require the person to have been careless.
The problem is that the account numbers, unlike IPs, are not assigned. They are generated, by the client. A client may generate as many accounts as he likes. How do you track down a random number to the person who generated it?
Yes, you can see the transactions.... you can see both randomly generated numbers but... you don't know who is on each end. Then you have splits of value where the amount goes to two or more accounts (common as the default client generates a new address to send change back to, each time)
For example, when I did it, there was an address the stolen coins came from, and they were sent directly to another account, along with several others. For various reasons relating to how all this came about, I knew that the destination address was connected to an anonymous coin laundering service. No point chasing it forwards from there, as it would have been an unholy mess.... but I knew enough about how it worked to know that the inputs were going to all be the same person or group.... and there were multiple inputs to the address....
So a few quick websearches found that the owner had mixed his coins and one of the addresses was listed in some online posts. A bit more searching found that the person in question fancied himself a hacker. Talking to the person who lost the coins confirmed that the person I trakced down was known to him and considered a likely culprit already.
So can it be done? Yup it can... but its some work, and its often quite hard.
Perhaps, and I would like to think I would feel the same way. However, none of us has more money than god and a desperate need for a new liver either.
I suspect its a lot easier to get over those feelings, or at least be willing to deal with them, when you have the opportunity and need to do something about it...and a lot easier to moralize about it when you have neither.
It is only a legitimate safety concern if it actually impacts safety in a meaningful way, not an entirely theoretical way. Driving is a lot more than raw reaction time.... in fact, I would argue that if you are driving such that your raw reaction time is the difference between being alive or dead, then you have already fucked up.
So yes DRUNK driving a safety concern? Sure. However, lumping people with miniscule amounts of alcohol in their system with people who are actually drunk? Thats about the perception of doing something about safety, because taking those people off the road isn't going to help.
Worst than that, it makes a mockery of safety and makes it look foolish.
That certainly seems to be the opinion of some of the justuces. Look at the "Stolen Valor" decisions today and Kagen's dissent, where she advises congress how they could route around the technical restrictions and craft a law to do the same thing.
So yah, this is constitutionally protected, but we can work around that old trash.
The problem is you are making a HUGE logical leap from deviations in lab tests for reaction ability to driving ability, a far more complex task with many more factors involved. Its just plain not relevant.
I don't drink, so honestly, I don't pay as close attention to alcohol as pot. Look at the UK Highway Safety Study for a perfect example. They found...yes... raw response tests did show impairment...measurable... but that the difference between users who used the drug and non-users who were not using it, did not translate onto road tests in the actual population under consideration.
So what you are saying is...this is some sort of religious conviction of yours? Because, I am of the opinion that the limits have been set so ridiculously low in some places that the law is a joke....a bad joke.
But hey, who cares that some studies even showed a person to be more safe after one drink. This isn't about safety, its about the perception of safety.
Nope, as others have pointed out, a set of multiple humans still contains "a human", and multiple times.
However... what is harm? Do we mean just physical harm? Emotional harm? If a robot does a job that a human used to do, has he harmed that human? If he dispenses a drug to a human that has side effects, is that harm?
What if he witnesses a human using a drug with side effects, or which has a main effect which is considered harmful? What action is he required to take?
A better example.... I grab a knife and slash at my own throat, how much force may the robot use to stop me? If I resist his attempt to stop me, may he continue to increase the force used until I cannot resist? Even if that damages my arm?
I have a robotic vacuume cleaner. What role should it play if my wife and I end up in a physical altercation? Must it be outfit with equipment that serves no other purpose than to be useful in such situations?
My take on this.... Azimov had an interesting idea and its a good starting point for a discussion but.... its unrealistically high level to be useful. I don't mean to say that this is a totally useless discussion at all, i think we should have it, but, right off the bat I think we need to narrow the scope down to be reasonable.
I think we need to bring in the concept of ownership. These are not autonomous roboits. They are owned by an indivudual for his personal use. Forget "do no harm to any human". The robot should engender the trust of its authorized operator, and it should, to the best of its abilities, not betray that trust.
I think that is a far more realistic starting point. Trust is really where the real issues are. a person trusts his smart phone to keep safe his list of contacts, to store his pictures and data. To keep them only for his eyes and the eyes of those that he authorizes.
Well the thing is, this isn't about jobs. I fully expect someone with as much money as him to want to do whatever is in his power to get himself a replacement liver....even breaking the law. I dunno about you, but I put my own health above the law and if some law was standing in the way of what I saw as something that would allow me to live longer or live normally longer, guess what, I would probably do it too.
Thats why, the rules are not for the patients, they are for the doctors, the people who make the decisions. They are the one who have final say, and the ones who need to be above reproach. This deal stinks.
It wouldn't stink so much if he paid a normal market value, or if it was a direct transfer from one wealthy man to a surgeon who did a procedure for him, after the fact. However, it was at a low price, through a shady llc, and not just the surgeon who performed the operation but, one who ultimately decided who gets what.
Just as a judge should recuse himself from a case that he is too connected with to appear impartial, this man should have avoided taking advantage of a deal that casts such obvious doubt on his impartiality.
Whether or not his motives were pure, he is tainted by the form of this deal, the whole LLC business says to me that somebody was doing something shady, though, it was probably just jobs and his accountants using some tactic to save money.
All in all... its not impossible that the doctor is telling the truth but, I think the investigation is entirely warranted, because it certainly looks shady.
I don't see timeline unless I click on my own profile to look at it like someone else would. This generally makes me pretty happy. Not sure how that happened except I setup timeline in that period where I was supposed to be able to set it up and mess with it "before making it live" then...never made it live after I fixed all the privacy settings again.
Anyway, I see the option to change my public email, but mine was never changed. I have facebook.com available but, it was still set to my normal email as of a few minutes ago.
OMG I never considered this before but.... this could be used as a sort of jake maneuver. What if you strung along like 6 or 8 of these guys at once, and had them all send to the same address.... oh this could be fun,....
Having done it on one or two occasions, it is quite a bit of fun, and doesn't take that much time. An occasional quick email, some time chatting on IM while doing other things. It doesn't take much to keep them baited.
Also they send you things. Usually fake money orders, of course, and that must cost them even more. Sure not much, and I bet the postage isn't much either but...every packet counts.
The main thing I found myself having to do was resist my impulse to help them. Its so tempting to correct their english, but the last thing I want to do is help them seem more legitimate to the next guy.
Or own the (non-revokable) media upon which the bits of information, which can be translated into the music, reside. Own all the licenses you want, no license or lack thereof will stop me from reading the bits on my media.
Personally, I am torn. I like owning the media, because then I know it can't be revoked. I know, within my ability to keep drives spinning and backups working, the only way I am going to lose my ability to hear what i want to hear (read what i want to read, see what i want to see) is if I remove it.
Companies can go out of business. ISPs can decide to change plans and start charging for banwidth. Bad decisions get made (like the Amazon 1984 debacle) etc. Owning the media and controlling the system which stores and serves them up is the only way I can be sure that its really there when I want it.
That said, I can see why people like the streaming model, hell, I use the streaming services these days, and haven't touched my old MP3 collection in years but... I know its there somewhere....I know I CAN go back any time when those services are down.
The issue is, I have never found a good way of making my collection available to me wherever I am. What I want is streaming, I want streaming to my phone, to my laptop, but I want it from my systems. I don't want it enough to really spend a lot of time on it, but, that is what I would prefer in an ideal world.
Unpredictable? That may have worked before 1918 but, by the time prohibition ended in 33, it should have been blatantly obvious what the results are.
also i question the "best of intentions". The intention to limit someone elses behaviour is not "the best of intentions". a condescending "we know better than you whats good for you" attitdue is not "the best of intentions" its the worst of intentions. It is the intention to force your way of life on another, and should be treated as such.
Also, I think there is something to be said, in the political world, for consequences for actions. This is why politics is one of the few places where I do actually support punishment based on the effect rather than intention.
They say an engineer who designs a bridge is responsible for the lives of every person who crosses it. His design, followed by the careful followthrough of the builders, is what allows people to safely cross and they trust him. If he does a sloppy job and people die because of it...thats on his head.
Politicians decisions effect WAY more people than even engineers designing buildings and bridges. They should be MORE personally responsible. Politics is the only area where I support the death penalty.
Linux will get malware when? Ha, we have had malware for years, haven't you ever heard of emacs? It is a nearly fullly functional trojan OS disguised as a shitty text editor. This is nothing new for us.
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I believe it. Having broken into my own car, and friends cars, it took me a lot longer, but ive seen an experienced person open a car door with a slim jim (not recomended on newer cars with air bags in the door)...its fast. (I have also seen them fumble and nearly fail....)
Hell a friend of mine that used to steal cars when he was younger locked himself out of his... and I had to help him break into it, with hardly any tools in sight. Took us nearly an hour and, in the end, we used a long stick (yes stick, like off a tree) to hit the door open button, through a crack we wedged open in the door jam with other sticks.
Once you are inside well.... its just a matter of popping out the ignition lock cylinder with a screw driver on many cars (I know a few that wont work at all on...like my old buick that basically had a resistor built into the key that it would read)
So the vast majority of cars are... a bit easier to steal than these BMWs.
well actually this is a very real and meaningful security step.... for which the mid 1990s is desperately calling and asking if we would like to let them have.
seriously, you are spot on. This is just an excuse for lock in. What year is it? 2012? When was the last serious "boot sector virus"?
Not to say it doesn't happen....however the serious win from this technology can only be had if the owner of the machine gets to set the key and sign his own boot images. Then you are talking about some serious win.
Without that though, the only protection you are getting is from random boot sector re-writing malware.... which generally has easier ways to perform its task.
However vendors are getting protection from competition.... protection they only get by keeping the keys to themselves and refusing real benefit of the technology from the system owner.
The thing with practical implications is.... the theory has been around for a while. If there was any practical implication of the higgs boson existing then there would be an easier way to test... you simply do whatever it is that the theory predicts, yet other theories don't. If it works, then you have a data point validating the theory and an extra nail in the coffin of others. If it fails, then you have the opposite.
The problem here is that there are no practical implications, to the point that, the only way to devise a test involved miles of underground tunnel and huge, expensive, very precise equipment....and it doesn't get much less practical than that.
> What ****ing planet is this person from?! It is NOT COLD in San > Diego at the moment at any time of day.
answer: San diego
I assume you don't know many people in hot climates. I used to chat with some people in Florida. Every year they would be talking about how cold it is and needing to "bundle up" because its so cold..... then I would check and it would be just under 70 F down there... while I am going outside with the wind whipping 20 F air at me.
as hard as I am on the military and people who join it (also not a fan, on various levels), I mostly agree, but am of two minds.
I can excuse the soldiers for being so callous and dealing with a stressful situation to the bvest of their abilities. I understand their role.
However, they are not the only actors or the only ones with a role. I think its disgusting that situations like this come up. Situations like this are the result of war, so I think its entirely right that we see it, and that many of us have our stomachs turned by the terrible situation.
The most vital importance is that people see war for what it really is, and hopefully, learn to support it and call for it less. Because the only way to avoid putting soldiers in those situations is to avoid what causes them.
I see, so its not abusing the trust people put in doctors that is the problem, its being truthful about it that is the problem?
Frankly, i think Doctors, of all professions, should be held to a higher standard than that. They take an oath, and to setup a clinic for the purpose of abusing trust to betray the confidentiality of their patients for ANY REASON, they are doing humanity a disservice.
This man deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail, as does any doctor engaged in similar activities.
Its good that this mans name has been released, and let it be a lesson to all doctors who would think to betray their patients.
Yes but now there is a documented, irrefutable evidence that yes, indeed, this stuff happens.
It is hard to argue credibly that its BS when it happens. They are not spinning BS now, they are telling the documented truth.
> That would to me seem the least of the problem. The whole
> finding out you (might) have a terminal illness while alone in
> your bathroom might cause some issues. I know I'd probably be
> a tad upset.
except you probably shouldn't be. The number of people without HIV dwarfs the population with it enough that there are many many more false positives than true positives, even with a very low false positive rate.
So even if you test positive, you are actually far more likely to be one of the people who got a false positive than a true positive.
Just thought of one more thing. Docs aside, I really didn't like the use of terminal blocks to make the shielded wire to motor connection, so I actually used some of the large molex that you see on PC power supplies.
I aborted that, am running without the shilded wire for now (its still a bit of a mess but printing beautiofully anyway). So I decided to break down and place a mouser order for some of these:
http://www.molex.com/molex/products/datasheet.jsp?part=active/0430250408_CRIMP_HOUSINGS.xml
of the appropriate size, and their mating parts/pins etc, and then I will finish making my wiring pretty.
I put together the MakrerGear kit: http://www.makergear.com/products/3d-printers
It is a bit expensive but a number of parts are upgraded from the cheap options that people say you can source for half the total cost. Brass bushings instead of PLA, linear rod instead of tool rod, Really nice compact extruder with a metal gear box on the stepper, pre-cut jig for checking the frame geometery.... and of course shielded wire for motor hookups.
Its a great kit if you are willing to pay a bit more for the convinence of having it all put together, and the upgrades there (including a tube that can be used for either a bowden extruder or a filiment guide).
A few bits could have been documented better, would have saved me some time. I highly recomend getting some 1/4" or so thick window glass (8"x8") and some binder clips to mount (plenty of pics online) then cover that with Kapton.
The mistake that cost me the most time was not using seperate nuts for tensioning the bed springs and adjusting the bed level. Once I found a video online that showed it done properly, it was an easy fix. first upgrade I recomend is M4 thumbwheels for the bed leveling nuts.
I also just uploaded my own design for a jig to mount a dial gauge indicator on the rods to check the bed level.... I recomend a dial guage and this jig: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26031
Yup. I just setup a 3d printer from a kit, but the one I put together can be had, already set up, for $1200, which is $100 cheaper than they want.... plus, uses simple filiment rolles, and I am printing beautifully with those cheap $35/kg PLA rolls.
Can't blame them, I guess, for trying to get people to agree to a lock in for convinenece.... especially since there is no real need for anyone with a normal 3d printer to ever pay the premium to support their vendor.
That said, I will take a bit more manual work for the cheaper filiment.
I actually tracked down who probably stole some bitcoins once. Yes it can be done, however, there are caveats, and they pretty much require the person to have been careless.
The problem is that the account numbers, unlike IPs, are not assigned. They are generated, by the client. A client may generate as many accounts as he likes. How do you track down a random number to the person who generated it?
Yes, you can see the transactions.... you can see both randomly generated numbers but... you don't know who is on each end. Then you have splits of value where the amount goes to two or more accounts (common as the default client generates a new address to send change back to, each time)
For example, when I did it, there was an address the stolen coins came from, and they were sent directly to another account, along with several others. For various reasons relating to how all this came about, I knew that the destination address was connected to an anonymous coin laundering service. No point chasing it forwards from there, as it would have been an unholy mess.... but I knew enough about how it worked to know that the inputs were going to all be the same person or group.... and there were multiple inputs to the address....
So a few quick websearches found that the owner had mixed his coins and one of the addresses was listed in some online posts. A bit more searching found that the person in question fancied himself a hacker. Talking to the person who lost the coins confirmed that the person I trakced down was known to him and considered a likely culprit already.
So can it be done? Yup it can... but its some work, and its often quite hard.
Perhaps, and I would like to think I would feel the same way. However, none of us has more money than god and a desperate need for a new liver either.
I suspect its a lot easier to get over those feelings, or at least be willing to deal with them, when you have the opportunity and need to do something about it...and a lot easier to moralize about it when you have neither.
It is only a legitimate safety concern if it actually impacts safety in a meaningful way, not an entirely theoretical way. Driving is a lot more than raw reaction time.... in fact, I would argue that if you are driving such that your raw reaction time is the difference between being alive or dead, then you have already fucked up.
So yes DRUNK driving a safety concern? Sure. However, lumping people with miniscule amounts of alcohol in their system with people who are actually drunk? Thats about the perception of doing something about safety, because taking those people off the road isn't going to help.
Worst than that, it makes a mockery of safety and makes it look foolish.
That certainly seems to be the opinion of some of the justuces. Look at the "Stolen Valor" decisions today and Kagen's dissent, where she advises congress how they could route around the technical restrictions and craft a law to do the same thing.
So yah, this is constitutionally protected, but we can work around that old trash.
The problem is you are making a HUGE logical leap from deviations in lab tests for reaction ability to driving ability, a far more complex task with many more factors involved. Its just plain not relevant.
I don't drink, so honestly, I don't pay as close attention to alcohol as pot. Look at the UK Highway Safety Study for a perfect example. They found...yes... raw response tests did show impairment...measurable... but that the difference between users who used the drug and non-users who were not using it, did not translate onto road tests in the actual population under consideration.
So what you are saying is...this is some sort of religious conviction of yours? Because, I am of the opinion that the limits have been set so ridiculously low in some places that the law is a joke....a bad joke.
But hey, who cares that some studies even showed a person to be more safe after one drink. This isn't about safety, its about the perception of safety.
Nope, as others have pointed out, a set of multiple humans still contains "a human", and multiple times.
However... what is harm? Do we mean just physical harm? Emotional harm? If a robot does a job that a human used to do, has he harmed that human? If he dispenses a drug to a human that has side effects, is that harm?
What if he witnesses a human using a drug with side effects, or which has a main effect which is considered harmful? What action is he required to take?
A better example.... I grab a knife and slash at my own throat, how much force may the robot use to stop me? If I resist his attempt to stop me, may he continue to increase the force used until I cannot resist? Even if that damages my arm?
I have a robotic vacuume cleaner. What role should it play if my wife and I end up in a physical altercation? Must it be outfit with equipment that serves no other purpose than to be useful in such situations?
My take on this.... Azimov had an interesting idea and its a good starting point for a discussion but.... its unrealistically high level to be useful. I don't mean to say that this is a totally useless discussion at all, i think we should have it, but, right off the bat I think we need to narrow the scope down to be reasonable.
I think we need to bring in the concept of ownership. These are not autonomous roboits. They are owned by an indivudual for his personal use. Forget "do no harm to any human". The robot should engender the trust of its authorized operator, and it should, to the best of its abilities, not betray that trust.
I think that is a far more realistic starting point. Trust is really where the real issues are. a person trusts his smart phone to keep safe his list of contacts, to store his pictures and data. To keep them only for his eyes and the eyes of those that he authorizes.
Well the thing is, this isn't about jobs. I fully expect someone with as much money as him to want to do whatever is in his power to get himself a replacement liver....even breaking the law. I dunno about you, but I put my own health above the law and if some law was standing in the way of what I saw as something that would allow me to live longer or live normally longer, guess what, I would probably do it too.
Thats why, the rules are not for the patients, they are for the doctors, the people who make the decisions. They are the one who have final say, and the ones who need to be above reproach. This deal stinks.
It wouldn't stink so much if he paid a normal market value, or if it was a direct transfer from one wealthy man to a surgeon who did a procedure for him, after the fact. However, it was at a low price, through a shady llc, and not just the surgeon who performed the operation but, one who ultimately decided who gets what.
Just as a judge should recuse himself from a case that he is too connected with to appear impartial, this man should have avoided taking advantage of a deal that casts such obvious doubt on his impartiality.
Whether or not his motives were pure, he is tainted by the form of this deal, the whole LLC business says to me that somebody was doing something shady, though, it was probably just jobs and his accountants using some tactic to save money.
All in all... its not impossible that the doctor is telling the truth but, I think the investigation is entirely warranted, because it certainly looks shady.
I don't see timeline unless I click on my own profile to look at it like someone else would. This generally makes me pretty happy. Not sure how that happened except I setup timeline in that period where I was supposed to be able to set it up and mess with it "before making it live" then...never made it live after I fixed all the privacy settings again.
Anyway, I see the option to change my public email, but mine was never changed. I have facebook.com available but, it was still set to my normal email as of a few minutes ago.
OMG I never considered this before but.... this could be used as a sort of jake maneuver. What if you strung along like 6 or 8 of these guys at once, and had them all send to the same address.... oh this could be fun,....
Having done it on one or two occasions, it is quite a bit of fun, and doesn't take that much time. An occasional quick email, some time chatting on IM while doing other things. It doesn't take much to keep them baited.
Also they send you things. Usually fake money orders, of course, and that must cost them even more. Sure not much, and I bet the postage isn't much either but...every packet counts.
The main thing I found myself having to do was resist my impulse to help them. Its so tempting to correct their english, but the last thing I want to do is help them seem more legitimate to the next guy.
Or own the (non-revokable) media upon which the bits of information, which can be translated into the music, reside. Own all the licenses you want, no license or lack thereof will stop me from reading the bits on my media.
Personally, I am torn. I like owning the media, because then I know it can't be revoked. I know, within my ability to keep drives spinning and backups working, the only way I am going to lose my ability to hear what i want to hear (read what i want to read, see what i want to see) is if I remove it.
Companies can go out of business. ISPs can decide to change plans and start charging for banwidth. Bad decisions get made (like the Amazon 1984 debacle) etc. Owning the media and controlling the system which stores and serves them up is the only way I can be sure that its really there when I want it.
That said, I can see why people like the streaming model, hell, I use the streaming services these days, and haven't touched my old MP3 collection in years but... I know its there somewhere....I know I CAN go back any time when those services are down.
The issue is, I have never found a good way of making my collection available to me wherever I am. What I want is streaming, I want streaming to my phone, to my laptop, but I want it from my systems. I don't want it enough to really spend a lot of time on it, but, that is what I would prefer in an ideal world.
Unpredictable? That may have worked before 1918 but, by the time prohibition ended in 33, it should have been blatantly obvious what the results are.
also i question the "best of intentions". The intention to limit someone elses behaviour is not "the best of intentions". a condescending "we know better than you whats good for you" attitdue is not "the best of intentions" its the worst of intentions. It is the intention to force your way of life on another, and should be treated as such.
Also, I think there is something to be said, in the political world, for consequences for actions. This is why politics is one of the few places where I do actually support punishment based on the effect rather than intention.
They say an engineer who designs a bridge is responsible for the lives of every person who crosses it. His design, followed by the careful followthrough of the builders, is what allows people to safely cross and they trust him. If he does a sloppy job and people die because of it...thats on his head.
Politicians decisions effect WAY more people than even engineers designing buildings and bridges. They should be MORE personally responsible. Politics is the only area where I support the death penalty.
Linux will get malware when? Ha, we have had malware for years, haven't you ever heard of emacs? It is a nearly fullly functional trojan OS disguised as a shitty text editor. This is nothing new for us.