A buddy of mine used to wrap his electronics and papers in a condom (you can buy the ones for oral sex that come without grease/lubricant, apparently) any time we went out to sea. If it's just your cellphone in there, you can still make calls without even taking it out, it's absolutely great.
As to this spray thing, I think you are right that a watertight bubble around your cellphone is the only way to waterproof things since the moment any seawater gets it, it will rust the thing through in a couple of days or even hours. And if you dry it right away, the salt will just crystallize inside and will take just a little longer to get you.
You do realize that if you'd lived in China and tried that little joke of yours about Mao, you'd be someplace like the local Super Happy Peace and Harmony facility, crouching on the concrete floor trying to put your teeth back in.
In absolute terms, people have lots more personal freedoms in the US of A compared to China. Now if we look at the trends, that's another story...
There are laws on the books that require that telecom (and now VoIP) providers implement on-demand wiretap capability. So once your project becomes too large to fly under the radar, expect a visit.
It's not his network, it's the city's network. It's the equivalent of you being stupid enough to lock your house one day, and me "helped" you by installing new locks (and keeping the keys).
And what would happen if he got hit by the bus? He configured things without recovery passwords, bootstrap code, console access, or even saving router settings to flash.
I suspect millions' worth of hardware would have been bricked after a trivial event like a faulty power supply or a new device installation. Am I wrong with my guess? (I am not an IT person)
I think what you and the parent poster are missing is who has the burden of proof. In the US, the accuser has to prove that whatever was said was a lie (said knowingly and with malicious intent). In Britain, the default assumption is that the accused is guilty unless she can present the facts proving what she said was true.
The result is that in Britain, very rich (and very bad) people like Khalid bin Mahfouz (funds suicide bombers) and Roman Polanski (molests little girls) are able to shut up anyone trying to expose them.
I am inserting best case interpretation of Goedel's, namely that alien brains are Turing-complete and don't make mistakes. And I claim that even for such "best case" scenario we will still miss some things.
However, if such assumptions are incorrect, then it's even more cerain that intelligent beings cannot think of everything. Therefore, whether Goedel's theorems are applicable may be up for debate, but the fact that intelligent beings will miss SOME things is certain.
To paraphrase Murphy's law, shit happens. Small things like a drop of condensation bringing down a B2 stealth bomber even though the thing costs 2 Billion, with many more in R&D costs.
If our basic understanding of logic is correct, one can actually prove that one cannot think of everything that can go wrong and thus prevent shit from happening to you.
If its as well covered up as he says it is, why did they let him talk?
If there really were a conspiracy, it'd be crazy NOT to let him talk (since that's all he is doing). If they shut him up, he goes down as a martyr and gains credibility. If they let him speak, he becomes "just another nutcase" and a "proof" there really is no conspiracy.
Remember the "nutjobs" talking about the warrantless wiretapping/spying on Americans? Tens of thousands people had the facts on that "conspiracy," and all they would risk was just their job, yet it still took about 5 years for one of them to come out with proof. Imagine what the alien coverup people would risk (in theory), and the effort that would be put into keeping evidence contained (which isn't that hard to begin with: a full-body NMR/CAT scan as you exit the lab would do it).
I can give you another recent "coverup" example: consider that any nutjob is free to berate Putin in Russia. It's only the people who got the evidence that are in danger (Politkovskaya, Browder, Khodorkovsky, etc.)
Could be pretty damn efficient if it's a heat pump.
A good AC unit usually consumes less than 10 times the energy it moves (a 1 kW window unit rated for 40,000 BTUs for example), but that depends how much colder the inside needs to be compared to the outside air.
In case of CPU coolers (cooling things hotter than ambient air), one could even GENERATE electricity if the size and cost of the "cooler" is not a concern (A thick diamond heatpipe to conduct heat away to distant thermocouples is how I would do it).
1. That's just your guess. And mine is that Reagan had FTD/AD symptoms much earlier than publicly acknowledged. Not sure if we can decide here who is right.
2. Nuclear war against the Soviet Union could not have been won at the time, not without great loss of life on at least one side. We are talking about tens of millions here (NYC, London, LA, etc.). But sociopaths would probably call it a "victory" nonetheless.
Yes, Globalization is in theory very good for everyone. But what we have right now is not Globalization. Employers and businesses can move jobs and funds around in seconds, while the people get locked in ever so tightly.
The immigration restrictions are such as to prevent labor migration since this would advantage all workers. This lockdown is very bad for underpaid foreigners, but even worse for all the "overpriced" Americans who just can't compete at their standard of living (and have to lower it to match that of foreigners, instead of the reverse).
The selective pressure in this system is towards cutting income, work conditions, innovations, literacy levels, live expectancy. If these aren't falling in your country right now, you are outcompeted until you begin starving to death (at which point you start being competitive). And if the people in a particular country wise up somehow, the businesses can just move on again, in seconds. So the Globalization of today is a race to the bottom, while it could (and should) have been a rise to the top, for everyone.
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Nixon was piss-poor until well after his becoming vice-president, as his voluntarily disclosed tax returns show.
I like your idea. Let us all support killing off the Internet to save the children.
A buddy of mine used to wrap his electronics and papers in a condom (you can buy the ones for oral sex that come without grease/lubricant, apparently) any time we went out to sea. If it's just your cellphone in there, you can still make calls without even taking it out, it's absolutely great.
As to this spray thing, I think you are right that a watertight bubble around your cellphone is the only way to waterproof things since the moment any seawater gets it, it will rust the thing through in a couple of days or even hours. And if you dry it right away, the salt will just crystallize inside and will take just a little longer to get you.
You do realize that if you'd lived in China and tried that little joke of yours about Mao, you'd be someplace like the local Super Happy Peace and Harmony facility, crouching on the concrete floor trying to put your teeth back in.
In absolute terms, people have lots more personal freedoms in the US of A compared to China. Now if we look at the trends, that's another story...
Technically, if they have more Internet presence, it is us who are stuck behind their firewall.
National Security.
But how will they stop open source?
By throwing people in jail!
There are laws on the books that require that telecom (and now VoIP) providers implement on-demand wiretap capability. So once your project becomes too large to fly under the radar, expect a visit.
It's not his network, it's the city's network. It's the equivalent of you being stupid enough to lock your house one day, and me "helped" you by installing new locks (and keeping the keys).
And what would happen if he got hit by the bus? He configured things without recovery passwords, bootstrap code, console access, or even saving router settings to flash.
I suspect millions' worth of hardware would have been bricked after a trivial event like a faulty power supply or a new device installation. Am I wrong with my guess? (I am not an IT person)
Estray inway eacepay.
It's possible. Just watch how Eric Cartman did it:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103946
(If the link doesn't work select Season 5 Ep. 4. It's all legal)
Redirect his browser to an illegal porn site (with an IP-specific refresh tag), then call the FBI. BAM!
I think what you and the parent poster are missing is who has the burden of proof. In the US, the accuser has to prove that whatever was said was a lie (said knowingly and with malicious intent). In Britain, the default assumption is that the accused is guilty unless she can present the facts proving what she said was true.
The result is that in Britain, very rich (and very bad) people like Khalid bin Mahfouz (funds suicide bombers) and Roman Polanski (molests little girls) are able to shut up anyone trying to expose them.
No, to force better design adoption we really need another World War. I hear Dresden has the widest streets of any modern European city.
I am inserting best case interpretation of Goedel's, namely that alien brains are Turing-complete and don't make mistakes. And I claim that even for such "best case" scenario we will still miss some things.
However, if such assumptions are incorrect, then it's even more cerain that intelligent beings cannot think of everything. Therefore, whether Goedel's theorems are applicable may be up for debate, but the fact that intelligent beings will miss SOME things is certain.
To paraphrase Murphy's law, shit happens. Small things like a drop of condensation bringing down a B2 stealth bomber even though the thing costs 2 Billion, with many more in R&D costs.
If our basic understanding of logic is correct, one can actually prove that one cannot think of everything that can go wrong and thus prevent shit from happening to you.
If its as well covered up as he says it is, why did they let him talk?
If there really were a conspiracy, it'd be crazy NOT to let him talk (since that's all he is doing). If they shut him up, he goes down as a martyr and gains credibility. If they let him speak, he becomes "just another nutcase" and a "proof" there really is no conspiracy.
Remember the "nutjobs" talking about the warrantless wiretapping/spying on Americans? Tens of thousands people had the facts on that "conspiracy," and all they would risk was just their job, yet it still took about 5 years for one of them to come out with proof. Imagine what the alien coverup people would risk (in theory), and the effort that would be put into keeping evidence contained (which isn't that hard to begin with: a full-body NMR/CAT scan as you exit the lab would do it).
I can give you another recent "coverup" example: consider that any nutjob is free to berate Putin in Russia. It's only the people who got the evidence that are in danger (Politkovskaya, Browder, Khodorkovsky, etc.)
Sorry I meant to reply to the parent post here: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=623203&cid=24304477
My appologies if I have besmirched you somehow.
Could be pretty damn efficient if it's a heat pump.
A good AC unit usually consumes less than 10 times the energy it moves (a 1 kW window unit rated for 40,000 BTUs for example), but that depends how much colder the inside needs to be compared to the outside air.
In case of CPU coolers (cooling things hotter than ambient air), one could even GENERATE electricity if the size and cost of the "cooler" is not a concern (A thick diamond heatpipe to conduct heat away to distant thermocouples is how I would do it).
Oh please. Everyone knows it's the standard practice to store sensitive data unencrypted, on a single backup tape in your car. See here:
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/26/0115227
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/0412230&from=rss
http://cyberinsecure.com/backup-tape-with-private-details-stolen-from-greensboro-gynecology-associates/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/citigroup_lost_tape/
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=319327
http://www.cio.com/article/16133/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060208-lost-backup-tape-prompts-it.htm
Yes, all are different cases (and there are scores more)
No, you gotta go to K-street for that
1. That's just your guess. And mine is that Reagan had FTD/AD symptoms much earlier than publicly acknowledged. Not sure if we can decide here who is right.
2. Nuclear war against the Soviet Union could not have been won at the time, not without great loss of life on at least one side. We are talking about tens of millions here (NYC, London, LA, etc.). But sociopaths would probably call it a "victory" nonetheless.
Reagan was also a sociopath how believed he could win a nuclear war.
Of course, that was probably due to the advanced FTD/Alzheimers he had at the time...
How can we believe anything said about the Bible by the guy with your user ID?
You know who else could be in the minority?
1) Honest politicians
2) People with over 140 IQ
3) Anti-slavery whites in ante-bellum 19th century South
4) People voting against Bush and Obama
Just because someone is in the minority doesn't mean what they believe isn't true or at least valid at some level.
Yes, Globalization is in theory very good for everyone. But what we have right now is not Globalization. Employers and businesses can move jobs and funds around in seconds, while the people get locked in ever so tightly.
The immigration restrictions are such as to prevent labor migration since this would advantage all workers. This lockdown is very bad for underpaid foreigners, but even worse for all the "overpriced" Americans who just can't compete at their standard of living (and have to lower it to match that of foreigners, instead of the reverse).
The selective pressure in this system is towards cutting income, work conditions, innovations, literacy levels, live expectancy. If these aren't falling in your country right now, you are outcompeted until you begin starving to death (at which point you start being competitive). And if the people in a particular country wise up somehow, the businesses can just move on again, in seconds. So the Globalization of today is a race to the bottom, while it could (and should) have been a rise to the top, for everyone.