The problem for them is matching the data up, they will at best think you are friendless because you only ever phone your own house. The idea is to keep the data from being meaningful.
Set up a VOIP exchange at home connected to a landline. When dialing someone, phone your house landline; then use the exchange to connect via a VPN to one or multiple VOIP providers, who connect you to your recipient. This prevents meaningful metadata collection, unfortunately it does not stop tracking of the cellphone itself.
All it will do is prevent anyone who is not registered from using it, until it is reprogrammed.
If this goes through, there will be black market, which will reprogram or delete this system to make stolen weapons usable again.
All this technology is intended to do is prevent someone picking up a downed cop's/soldier's/etc gun and using it right away. The glaring problem is a well timed EMP can take out a police station and or army, if they use this.
Quick someone build a zip gun and film firing it, I want to see this senator try to ban plumbing. Unfortunately it seems law makers seem to think the only way to justify their jobs is to make more laws, rather than improve existing and remove old unnecessary ones.
What a load of bullshit. The majority of the third world doesn't have the ability to invest. Tens of millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck are lucky to have a dollar left over at the end of the month after the bills are paid and usually are in debt--they don't have the ability to invest. The middle class has a 401k with a few grand to a few tens of thousand in it, and are struggling with mortgages, car payments, tuition payments, health care payments and are one misstep from financial ruin. There are however people with so much wealth that they don't have to work a day of their lives, just have an accountant manage their money and live off the profits. These people are a tiny but very real minority who wield enormous power. They are the investor class.
Your argument makes it seem like it is impossible for anyone other than the rich to generate wealth. Sometime in the past the people that are now rich had to start at the bottom and work their way to the top. You forget the element of choice, especially when it comes to dept. Type of education really effects dept load and wages, especially currently as too many people go to university and not enough to trade school. The market for people with a generic university degree is saturated and the cost of working towards one is high. The same thing applies with a salary vs. a wage; on a wage it is possible to work weekends, holidays, and long hours to improve cash flow. Another is where you live, when renting the landowner has to make money so rent is usually a losing proposition. Buying a house on the other hand, it is very easy to buy on that is too big. Sure saving the legal fees by buying a house that you will grow into is nice, however the savings on paying off the mortgage faster, lower property taxes, lower heating bills, etc. will usually outweigh the legal fees when buying a smaller house. Buying a brand new car vs. a good used car, Starbucks vs. a coffee maker, the list goes on. There are always alternatives, you just may not like them.
I agree third world countries have it bad, until they stop having warlords, genocides,... it is kind of hard to improve their standard of living.
"So, when will Wikileaks start releasing Soviet and Communist archive material? Thats right, Assange probably doesn't consider them "bastards" to be crushed. Well, he going to Ecuador if he can, isn't he?"
Assange is retreating to Ecuador because many of those "free Western" democracies you seem so fond of have given him little choice.
Sure the country is free, until you embarrass the government. Then it becomes a police state faster than you can say donut.
I'm not saying Assange might not have legitimately got himself in trouble. As the girl getting arrested in Montreal shows, once the government and police see a person as a dissident they watch them closely. With the number of crimes that are vaguely defined, easy to make up, or just plainly something a reasonable person would not realize where a crime, it is not hard to put someone behind bars if they try.
Rather than whine and complain about how every one is bashing Apple as you have repeatedly done throughout this page consider that for n people there are n+1 different stories. Apple is known for weaponising their patents and waging war against all that would stand against them. So in this case turnabout is not fair play? Sure they updated their product line, there has been much discussion/worship/bashing of the new iproducts this is a news site, this article was posted after the various product launches.
Consider also that the people that tend to visit slashdot are usually inteligent teck savvy people, some who like Apple products and some that detest them for various reasons. The moral of the story is put some content is your posts because all you sound like is the obsessed fan boy you accuse everyone else of being.
I regret not buying my latest cellphone in Saskatchewan due to the presense of Sasktel (crown corp) a 6 Gb plan is 15$ cheaper than a 1Gb plan elsewhere in the country. Becuase they have to compete Bell and Rogers have similar prices in the province. So much for the free market there are no incentives to compete elsewhere.
I would rather have a DIY hydrojet cutter. The consumables are cheaper and it is much easier to get one powerful enough to cut metal. To cut metal with a CO2 laser requires over 1000w of power which is a very large and expensive laser.
Sure, free speach means that they can say that film is intolerant of my religion and should be banned. Just like many people can say that Islam promotes violence and intolerance and should be banned. It does not mean either will happen.
I drive a diesel Jetta that meets the target but thats beside the point. If electric cars had standardized batteries that could be easily changed than cars could be recharged by swapping batteries. This would take about the same amount of time as filling the tank. This could even be a national program with a small surcharge to replace/repair the batteries.
I don't know where you studied physics but point 3 has nothing to do with emissions. Diesel containing more energy per gallon explains why you can go further on one gallon (not really an increase in efficiency). Diesels produces more pollution due to the engine running lean, so the extra oxygen combines with nitrogen to for NOx. Diesel is more efficient because the engine has a higher compression ratio; gasoline engines are theoretically more efficient except they have to run at low pressure and the throttle wastes tons of energy.
Your last point does not hold true. Because of cracking there is no longer an incentive to sell diesel cheaply. As fuel costs increase, it becomes economically viable to crack diesel to produce gas. This raises to cost of diesel because the refineries make more money cracking it. If more vehicles used diesel this would increase the cost of diesel reducing the amount of cracking and the artificially low gas price would sky rocket.
To think Canada's biggest problem recently was someone stole our strategic reserve of maple syrup, it puts things in perspective. Thank the mounties we got it back!
Two linear filters of the same type, one rotated 90 degrees from the other will block all light that is linearly polarized. A better idea is to only sell laser pointers with a circular polarization filter and build one into the planes windows. Light usually becomes circularly polarized after it is reflected off of something (glare) so this would help the pilot in other situations. The hard part is preventing people from taking the filter out of the laser pointer.
The problem is it isn't a very good notch filter, it does not return to 100 percent transmission outside of the filter range. And it is cumulative so when you add several filters only 40 percent of all light is getting through. This is fine for day time when there is a lot of light but not for night flying. The other option is to wear one that protects from one color at night and hope that it is the right one.
I agree completely, and most likely because the previous transponder system did not have any problems with spoofing it did not receive too much attention. Any government tends to be reactionary rather than proactive. So far the only transponders that are encrypted are military Identify Friend Foe (IFF) systems for obvious reasons.
Perhaps the change in ocean currents instead of causing the change in magnetic poles is instead caused by the change in the earths magnetism. Just because something is correlated to something else does not mean it is caused by it, the opposite could be true and plenty of other relations are possible.
Apple maintains a monopoly on anything they sell. Unless cracked Mac OS X only runs on their own hardware which is always over priced. You cannot modify mac hardware other than sticking in a few ram chips. They brick unlocked iPhones, this is only one of a large amount of consumer unfriendly practices. The question is why isn't anyone boycotting them over everything else they are doing?
I think you just proved the opposite of your point. It is exactly because there are phones on the plane that you pay exorbient amounts of money to use. Seeing as most laws are made for significant political party contributors (big companies, and their lobbyists) you can see who they are really looking out for.
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The problem for them is matching the data up, they will at best think you are friendless because you only ever phone your own house. The idea is to keep the data from being meaningful.
Set up a VOIP exchange at home connected to a landline. When dialing someone, phone your house landline; then use the exchange to connect via a VPN to one or multiple VOIP providers, who connect you to your recipient. This prevents meaningful metadata collection, unfortunately it does not stop tracking of the cellphone itself.
All it will do is prevent anyone who is not registered from using it, until it is reprogrammed.
If this goes through, there will be black market, which will reprogram or delete this system to make stolen weapons usable again.
All this technology is intended to do is prevent someone picking up a downed cop's/soldier's/etc gun and using it right away. The glaring problem is a well timed EMP can take out a police station and or army, if they use this.
Quick someone build a zip gun and film firing it, I want to see this senator try to ban plumbing. Unfortunately it seems law makers seem to think the only way to justify their jobs is to make more laws, rather than improve existing and remove old unnecessary ones.
Ammonium Nitrate is explosive on it's own, it is not as effective or as easy to detonate as ANFO.
Too bad all legal streaming services are having a hard time paying the protection fees required to operate.
What a load of bullshit. The majority of the third world doesn't have the ability to invest. Tens of millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck are lucky to have a dollar left over at the end of the month after the bills are paid and usually are in debt--they don't have the ability to invest. The middle class has a 401k with a few grand to a few tens of thousand in it, and are struggling with mortgages, car payments, tuition payments, health care payments and are one misstep from financial ruin. There are however people with so much wealth that they don't have to work a day of their lives, just have an accountant manage their money and live off the profits. These people are a tiny but very real minority who wield enormous power. They are the investor class.
Your argument makes it seem like it is impossible for anyone other than the rich to generate wealth. Sometime in the past the people that are now rich had to start at the bottom and work their way to the top. You forget the element of choice, especially when it comes to dept. Type of education really effects dept load and wages, especially currently as too many people go to university and not enough to trade school. The market for people with a generic university degree is saturated and the cost of working towards one is high. The same thing applies with a salary vs. a wage; on a wage it is possible to work weekends, holidays, and long hours to improve cash flow. Another is where you live, when renting the landowner has to make money so rent is usually a losing proposition. Buying a house on the other hand, it is very easy to buy on that is too big. Sure saving the legal fees by buying a house that you will grow into is nice, however the savings on paying off the mortgage faster, lower property taxes, lower heating bills, etc. will usually outweigh the legal fees when buying a smaller house. Buying a brand new car vs. a good used car, Starbucks vs. a coffee maker, the list goes on. There are always alternatives, you just may not like them.
... it is kind of hard to improve their standard of living.
I agree third world countries have it bad, until they stop having warlords, genocides,
"So, when will Wikileaks start releasing Soviet and Communist archive material? Thats right, Assange probably doesn't consider them "bastards" to be crushed. Well, he going to Ecuador if he can, isn't he?"
Assange is retreating to Ecuador because many of those "free Western" democracies you seem so fond of have given him little choice.
Sure the country is free, until you embarrass the government. Then it becomes a police state faster than you can say donut.
I'm not saying Assange might not have legitimately got himself in trouble. As the girl getting arrested in Montreal shows, once the government and police see a person as a dissident they watch them closely. With the number of crimes that are vaguely defined, easy to make up, or just plainly something a reasonable person would not realize where a crime, it is not hard to put someone behind bars if they try.
http://rt.com/news/montreal-girl-arrested-instagram-370/
http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx
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With the number of politically minded prosecutions and arrests making the news, it is hard not to say that Western society has become a police state.
Considering my work has yet to upgrade from winxp and the most restrictive IT policy ever, yes.
Getting new software requires serveral memos, even if the software is free and the computer network is too slow and has no quality of service.
Instead we invest in $80,000+ telecom suites for our advanced telecom needs. The upside is the telephone network is great.
Rather than whine and complain about how every one is bashing Apple as you have repeatedly done throughout this page consider that for n people there are n+1 different stories. Apple is known for weaponising their patents and waging war against all that would stand against them. So in this case turnabout is not fair play? Sure they updated their product line, there has been much discussion/worship/bashing of the new iproducts this is a news site, this article was posted after the various product launches.
Consider also that the people that tend to visit slashdot are usually inteligent teck savvy people, some who like Apple products and some that detest them for various reasons. The moral of the story is put some content is your posts because all you sound like is the obsessed fan boy you accuse everyone else of being.
I regret not buying my latest cellphone in Saskatchewan due to the presense of Sasktel (crown corp) a 6 Gb plan is 15$ cheaper than a 1Gb plan elsewhere in the country. Becuase they have to compete Bell and Rogers have similar prices in the province. So much for the free market there are no incentives to compete elsewhere.
I would rather have a DIY hydrojet cutter. The consumables are cheaper and it is much easier to get one powerful enough to cut metal. To cut metal with a CO2 laser requires over 1000w of power which is a very large and expensive laser.
Sure, free speach means that they can say that film is intolerant of my religion and should be banned. Just like many people can say that Islam promotes violence and intolerance and should be banned. It does not mean either will happen.
This was my bet on the most effective way to get him out of London. Too bad Ecuador doesn't have the equipment.
You forgot that you have to be the right kind of muslim or they will also consider you evil and kill-worthy.
I drive a diesel Jetta that meets the target but thats beside the point. If electric cars had standardized batteries that could be easily changed than cars could be recharged by swapping batteries. This would take about the same amount of time as filling the tank. This could even be a national program with a small surcharge to replace/repair the batteries.
Too bad the idea is too socialist to catch on.
I don't know where you studied physics but point 3 has nothing to do with emissions. Diesel containing more energy per gallon explains why you can go further on one gallon (not really an increase in efficiency). Diesels produces more pollution due to the engine running lean, so the extra oxygen combines with nitrogen to for NOx. Diesel is more efficient because the engine has a higher compression ratio; gasoline engines are theoretically more efficient except they have to run at low pressure and the throttle wastes tons of energy.
Your last point does not hold true. Because of cracking there is no longer an incentive to sell diesel cheaply. As fuel costs increase, it becomes economically viable to crack diesel to produce gas. This raises to cost of diesel because the refineries make more money cracking it. If more vehicles used diesel this would increase the cost of diesel reducing the amount of cracking and the artificially low gas price would sky rocket.
To think Canada's biggest problem recently was someone stole our strategic reserve of maple syrup, it puts things in perspective. Thank the mounties we got it back!
Two linear filters of the same type, one rotated 90 degrees from the other will block all light that is linearly polarized. A better idea is to only sell laser pointers with a circular polarization filter and build one into the planes windows. Light usually becomes circularly polarized after it is reflected off of something (glare) so this would help the pilot in other situations. The hard part is preventing people from taking the filter out of the laser pointer.
The problem is it isn't a very good notch filter, it does not return to 100 percent transmission outside of the filter range. And it is cumulative so when you add several filters only 40 percent of all light is getting through. This is fine for day time when there is a lot of light but not for night flying. The other option is to wear one that protects from one color at night and hope that it is the right one.
I agree completely, and most likely because the previous transponder system did not have any problems with spoofing it did not receive too much attention. Any government tends to be reactionary rather than proactive. So far the only transponders that are encrypted are military Identify Friend Foe (IFF) systems for obvious reasons.
Perhaps the change in ocean currents instead of causing the change in magnetic poles is instead caused by the change in the earths magnetism. Just because something is correlated to something else does not mean it is caused by it, the opposite could be true and plenty of other relations are possible.
Apple maintains a monopoly on anything they sell. Unless cracked Mac OS X only runs on their own hardware which is always over priced. You cannot modify mac hardware other than sticking in a few ram chips. They brick unlocked iPhones, this is only one of a large amount of consumer unfriendly practices. The question is why isn't anyone boycotting them over everything else they are doing?
I think you just proved the opposite of your point. It is exactly because there are phones on the plane that you pay exorbient amounts of money to use. Seeing as most laws are made for significant political party contributors (big companies, and their lobbyists) you can see who they are really looking out for.