(Intro note - XKCD is speeding up communication by giving us handy memes!) I agree with the poster below that if the authorities decided to do their thing, we do really have to watch out for the five dollar wrench effect. Encrypted email? "Give us the key". Some double-blind unknown and unknowable key, on both sides? The "what are you hiding" crowd is having a disturbing influence lately.
That's the downside of the "leverage the genius" effect of the new internet - it used to be any old state police force couldn't solve some things, but now they just have to refer it to "Cyril at the NSA" who will do some wizardry like "Schrodinger-Cat's Smile Analysis to boundary define what must be the same message covered by two different keys" or something coupled with Looping It Through Jones the Cyber-Dolphin" to crack it open anyway.
Maybe this is just a newcomer's view of the middleware level of open source, but it seemed a lot of the connecting functionality of that ecosystem has odd names - I can almost see some semi-intelligent script framework being called Sodium or something. So this update would be "Sodium Tetrachloride" - Na Tcl !
Bringing our favorite subject, copyright into the game, what is the transaction that results from a "pirrrrrrate" downloading a movie? Is it "a sale with a deferred payment"? Will we see the copyight swat team busting us up for an uncollected sales tax?
Yep, authentic webmistressrachel, none of that pseudoepigraphical tripe that you see propounded by any old weasel tongued heretic! However, there seem to be a couple of apocryphal texts in the complete works of AC, which according experts in webmistressrachel studies, share enough similarities to lend credence to the theory that these partially anonymous works may in fact be her. According to a quick search of "Internetocanonical" works by webmistressrachel, Google apparently lists no such texts according to the criteria of a direct match upon the author's nom de plume & !slashdot.
The simple explanation is "Play a game of Asteroids and go get it", the fancy phrasing is that the adjustments needed to get the boosters are still less than 1 big tank from earth, because the bad part of them is getting them out of the main earth field.
I still believe we're too busy squabbling and not trying hard enough like we were in the 1960's when we felt it counted for real. Now we have the comps but we got lazy.
"Streaming on the go" is a sham. Buy it once then load it onto your Device. With modern capacities, you can hold 40 hours of TV is you scrunch it enough.(If not today, try next year - concept holds.)
It rarely makes logical sense to only receive a 1-shot usage vs a saved usage of media. This whole streaming thing is the ultimate sham.
ISP's LOVE streaming media! Then they can hold you slavering at the bit for your one new episode per day.
Weird thing - music can be played over and over, I don't know many people who watch a tv episode more tha twice (once for the overall, once for the awesome scenes).
"just having someone write some code to let the car's laptop automatically process and run the plate on every car they pass."
They're just on the verge of it though. I know I saw a story recently about either a proposed or prototype system of this. It was going on about how officers can only run X per hour, the auto system runs 10 times that etc.
Meanwhile nice catch on a cute loophole funneling info through private companies to get around retention lengths.
I swear this stuff is a game that requires gamer-style combo thinking. They could email the stuff somewhere, then use that 6 month email rule they've been proposing to get it back!
See, that's supposed to be what the web is good at - connecting dots to better promote education. (Wasn't that the story we just saw on Internet2?)
However the funny part is the social networking gang is doing a good job of distracting us from actually doing this work.
I agree with you, the loop is starting to close though, initial vehement denials are starting to loop back. I remarked elsewhere this is among the first time *they* (instead of us) are proudly(!) admitting scope-slipperiness. That can't go on forever - the tension is building.
Dang Internets and the lack of voice nuance... I can't tell if you're doing satire or if you believe your last line.
Meanwhile, this is newsworthy because we've seen part 1 of this charade for a decade now... "We need a Billion Dollars to fight one Afghani guy and his ten friends!"
This time they're actually admitting "Hey look, our billion dollar toys are fun! And so is power."
I mentioned fuel in another post, but it's also important here - stage the supplies in a big string all headed to Mars and then shepherd them at the end. It's all about the fleet approach - not some huge single-fail ship but a lot of auxilliary resource vessels with less sophistication just to haul big supplies.
What if it's miserable as all get out - you start with an athlete and end up with a 40 year old nursing home resident - "It's just a man/woman". Before all the shocked people chime in, the value of a person is horribly flexible - it can take tons of work to train up someone, and then they can still get on the wrong side of luck.
I'm pretty sure "carry our own fuel" is fine - but you plan for fuel boosts along the way like a giant video game. It's all about staging. The docking tech is a little weird but it has to be "relatively easy" to make the docking interface. Then you launch up a bunch of fuel cargo ships and park them all in orbit. Once you think you have enough, you string them all out in a row at intervals. Then you just 1-UP your way to Mars.
Bonuses for multiplexing the types of energy - part solar, part stored fuel, debris gathering maybe for a ballast dump twice per route to save fuel on a course correction.
The bigger thing is we absolutely have to quit squabbling among ourselves and get a grip because it will take the resources of at least two nations to pull it off.
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A real pro would be able to do it based on this comment of yours.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2031640&cid=35457796
Metamod 30 posts in 6 batches of five per day maturely mostly modding up, except for a goatse down, without playing games and you'll get some soon.
**AA vs. Tim Berners-Lee. Round 1 Fight!
New Zealand!
France!
USA!
UK!
Sweden!
China!
As early as 1990 people were role playing virtual marriages on AOL in the Red Dragon Inn.
Let's back WAY up.
Facebook as a BANK?!
How wrong is THAT?
"FaceBook. The bank that Likes you."
(Intro note - XKCD is speeding up communication by giving us handy memes!) I agree with the poster below that if the authorities decided to do their thing, we do really have to watch out for the five dollar wrench effect. Encrypted email? "Give us the key". Some double-blind unknown and unknowable key, on both sides? The "what are you hiding" crowd is having a disturbing influence lately.
That's the downside of the "leverage the genius" effect of the new internet - it used to be any old state police force couldn't solve some things, but now they just have to refer it to "Cyril at the NSA" who will do some wizardry like "Schrodinger-Cat's Smile Analysis to boundary define what must be the same message covered by two different keys" or something coupled with Looping It Through Jones the Cyber-Dolphin" to crack it open anyway.
Maybe this is just a newcomer's view of the middleware level of open source, but it seemed a lot of the connecting functionality of that ecosystem has odd names - I can almost see some semi-intelligent script framework being called Sodium or something. So this update would be "Sodium Tetrachloride" - Na Tcl !
Okay, let me spin this into the twilight zone!
Bringing our favorite subject, copyright into the game, what is the transaction that results from a
"pirrrrrrate" downloading a movie? Is it "a sale with a deferred payment"? Will we see the copyight swat team busting us up for an uncollected sales tax?
Yep, authentic webmistressrachel, none of that pseudoepigraphical tripe that you see propounded by any old weasel tongued heretic! However, there seem to be a couple of apocryphal texts in the complete works of AC, which according experts in webmistressrachel studies, share enough similarities to lend credence to the theory that these partially anonymous works may in fact be her. According to a quick search of "Internetocanonical" works by webmistressrachel, Google apparently lists no such texts according to the criteria of a direct match upon the author's nom de plume & !slashdot.
My installer says nothing below win 7 is supported either - are they already leaving Vista in the lurch?
Is no one going to mention destruction of company property = firing?
We can fight to have pockets of open. Hopefully about 1000 academic articles and 1000 drugs and 1000 genomes to study.
(Starting small)
I don't quite buy "complicated".
The simple explanation is "Play a game of Asteroids and go get it", the fancy phrasing is that the adjustments needed to get the boosters are still less than 1 big tank from earth, because the bad part of them is getting them out of the main earth field.
I still believe we're too busy squabbling and not trying hard enough like we were in the 1960's when we felt it counted for real. Now we have the comps but we got lazy.
What if Social Security Numbers + the Person's name were a Copyrighted Work? That would be the legal protection that would scare snarks!
"Streaming on the go" is a sham. Buy it once then load it onto your Device. With modern capacities, you can hold 40 hours of TV is you scrunch it enough.(If not today, try next year - concept holds.)
It rarely makes logical sense to only receive a 1-shot usage vs a saved usage of media. This whole streaming thing is the ultimate sham.
Good, so I'm not the only one to notice this??
ISP's LOVE streaming media! Then they can hold you slavering at the bit for your one new episode per day.
Weird thing - music can be played over and over, I don't know many people who watch a tv episode more tha twice (once for the overall, once for the awesome scenes).
Nah, they're equally desirable because they're less likely to be tech savvy so they won't notice suble abuses as fast.
"just having someone write some code to let the car's laptop automatically process and run the plate on every car they pass."
They're just on the verge of it though. I know I saw a story recently about either a proposed or prototype system of this. It was going on about how officers can only run X per hour, the auto system runs 10 times that etc.
Meanwhile nice catch on a cute loophole funneling info through private companies to get around retention lengths.
I swear this stuff is a game that requires gamer-style combo thinking. They could email the stuff somewhere, then use that 6 month email rule they've been proposing to get it back!
See, that's supposed to be what the web is good at - connecting dots to better promote education. (Wasn't that the story we just saw on Internet2?)
However the funny part is the social networking gang is doing a good job of distracting us from actually doing this work.
I agree with you, the loop is starting to close though, initial vehement denials are starting to loop back. I remarked elsewhere this is among the first time *they* (instead of us) are proudly(!) admitting scope-slipperiness. That can't go on forever - the tension is building.
Dang Internets and the lack of voice nuance...
I can't tell if you're doing satire or if you believe your last line.
Meanwhile, this is newsworthy because we've seen part 1 of this charade for a decade now ... "We need a Billion Dollars to fight one Afghani guy and his ten friends!"
This time they're actually admitting "Hey look, our billion dollar toys are fun! And so is power."
Obligatory!
"Don't you know who I am? I'm the Zuckernaut, bitch!"
I mentioned fuel in another post, but it's also important here - stage the supplies in a big string all headed to Mars and then shepherd them at the end. It's all about the fleet approach - not some huge single-fail ship but a lot of auxilliary resource vessels with less sophistication just to haul big supplies.
What if we split these two?
What if it's miserable as all get out - you start with an athlete and end up with a 40 year old nursing home resident - "It's just a man/woman". Before all the shocked people chime in, the value of a person is horribly flexible - it can take tons of work to train up someone, and then they can still get on the wrong side of luck.
But what if it's worth it?
I'm pretty sure "carry our own fuel" is fine - but you plan for fuel boosts along the way like a giant video game. It's all about staging. The docking tech is a little weird but it has to be "relatively easy" to make the docking interface. Then you launch up a bunch of fuel cargo ships and park them all in orbit. Once you think you have enough, you string them all out in a row at intervals. Then you just 1-UP your way to Mars.
Bonuses for multiplexing the types of energy - part solar, part stored fuel, debris gathering maybe for a ballast dump twice per route to save fuel on a course correction.
The bigger thing is we absolutely have to quit squabbling among ourselves and get a grip because it will take the resources of at least two nations to pull it off.
Sorry, you fail. Ron Jeremy copyrighted that line of script.